Morning Joe: Blocking Abortion Law Upheld ‘Integrity’ of Supreme Court

On Friday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe was relieved by the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily block a Louisiana law that would require abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges. Host Joe Scarborough hailed Chief Justice John Roberts for siding with liberals to impose a stay on the policy until a final ruling was handed down, declaring the move maintained the “integrity” of the high…
Kyle Drennen
February 8th, 2019 5:10 PM

Geraldo Rivera Fawns Over AOC's ‘Idealistic,’ ‘Aspirational’ Socialism

Less than a day after Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced her “Green New Deal” to the public, reaction to her proposal has been sharply divided between conservatives and liberals, a fact that was reflected in Friday morning’s edition of the Fox & Friends program. While the three co-hosts expressed deep skepticism about the project, their guest -- and liberal Fox News contributor…
Randy Hall
February 8th, 2019 5:00 PM

NYT Goes Easy on Wacky Green Deal: ‘Liberal Ambition...Breathtaking'

The New York Times deemphasized the truly ridiculously implausible and radical proposals in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez six-page “Green New Deal” when it gave it front-page play Friday: “Unveiling a ‘Green New Deal,’ And Ambition on a Vast Scale.” Instead of showing skepticism, the reporters gave the plan points for ambition and used euphemisms to describe the outlandish proposals: "Liberal…
Clay Waters
February 8th, 2019 4:02 PM

‘Chicago PD' Once Again Features Corrupt, Racist Cops

It's a somewhat regular script these days. Two white police officers stop a vehicle occupied by two black men driving down a city street, within the speed limit, for no apparent reason. The black driver of the car ends up getting killed by a white cop. To complicate matters, the other black man in the car is a Chicago cop working undercover to bust up a heroin ring. The February 6 episode of NBC’…
Karen Townsend
February 8th, 2019 3:57 PM

Twitter CEO Dorsey: We Can’t Afford to Be 'Neutral' Anymore

Twitter has rescinded and apologized for many of its bans and suspensions of conservative users, calling those decisions “mistakes.” But they might not have been mistakes after all. In an interview with podcaster Sam Harris on February 5, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was grilled about the way “Twitter reliably lands on one side of the political divide.” Harris questioned Dorsey about Twitter’s…
Corinne Weaver
February 8th, 2019 3:43 PM

ABC Thrusts Sexist 'Art' at Ivanka: ‘How Does It Make You Feel?'

ABC on Friday thrust a sexist, bizarre “art” project at Ivanka Trump and demanded to know “how does it make you feel?” Unsurprisingly, she didn’t like it. In an interview for Good Morning America, Abby Huntsman tried to thrust a picture of a 16-year-old model vacuuming up crumbs. 
Scott Whitlock
February 8th, 2019 1:25 PM

Nets Hype Supreme Court Halting Louisiana Abortion Regulations

On Friday, all three network morning shows eagerly touted the Supreme Court temporarily blocking a Louisiana law set to go into effect that would require abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges. The same hosts and correspondents that breathlessly hyped the “big story” completely ignored an extreme late-term abortion law being passed in New York State just two weeks ago.
Kyle Drennen
February 8th, 2019 12:44 PM

Concha RIPS Chuck Todd for Not Fact-Checking AOC on Green New Deal

Our friend Joe Concha with The Hill was in rare form on Friday’s Fox & Friends, ripping everyone from Chuck Todd for not fact-checking Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) about the Green New Deal to late night comics for their refusal to lampoon her to the double standard regarding the scandals rocking the three state-wide Democrats in Virginia.
Curtis Houck
February 8th, 2019 12:23 PM

New Bill Would Require Social Media Background Checks for Gun Permits

Illinois Democrats proposed a new bill that would allow police to examine social media history to decide whether people can buy guns. Conservatives at HotAir compared it to the pre-crime strategy deployed in the movie Minority Report.
Alexander Hall
February 8th, 2019 11:50 AM

Chuck Todd Gushes Over ‘Smart,’ ‘Impressive’ Ocasio-Cortez

Not to gratuitously insult Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but she has to be one of the, um, most lightly-informed pols in a long time to wander onto the national stage. But that didn't stop Chuck Todd from lavishing praise on her. Discussing his just-concluded interview with Ocasio-Cortez with fellow MSNBC host Ari Melber, Todd found reason to variously describe her as thoughtful, refreshing,…
Mark Finkelstein
February 8th, 2019 10:02 AM

‘Abolish Billionaires’ Says NY Times Opinion Columnist

If progressives get their way, it won’t matter how “f---ing bad” Bruno Mars and Travie McCoy want to be billionaires.They won’t be, and neither will anyone else. Now that democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and others are publicly declaring “billionaires are bad” and a system that allows billionaires to exist is “wrong,” the far lefties in the news media are daring to…
Julia A. Seymour
February 8th, 2019 10:00 AM

Cuomo: Dead Americans 'Convenient' for Republicans to Push Border Wall

Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida appeared on Cuomo Prime Time Thursday evening to give his side of the story, after CNN spent all day demonizing him as trying to throw out a Parkland victim’s father at a hearing about illegal immigration. Gaetz slammed CNN for deceptively editing the encounter and the heated conversation culminated in Cuomo losing his cool, accusing Republicans of wanting…
Kristine Marsh
February 8th, 2019 9:26 AM

Media Jump on Trump Misspeaking at Prayer Breakfast, Bury Abortion

President Trump spoke about important topics to our country like abortion, adoption and religious liberty at the National Prayer Breakfast, but his critics instead focused on a word slipup to bash and mock him on Thursday.
Alexa Moutevelis
February 8th, 2019 9:20 AM

PolitiFact Checked Trump Almost 25 Times More Often Than Nancy Pelosi

Since President Trump's State of the Union is a "Super Bowl for fact checkers" (says Brian Stelter), PolitiFact has re-posted this unintentionally funny article on their homepage: "PolitiFact is not biased -- here's why." In fact, in 2017 and 2018, Donald Trump was fact-checked 297 times -- almost 25 times as often as Nancy Pelosi (12 times).
Tim Graham
February 8th, 2019 8:26 AM