New Yorker's Idea of Cute? Holocaust-Denying Ahmadinejad as Sports Fan

A light satirical article that serves to flatter its Holocaust-denying subject was posted at The New Yorker and in the October 29 print edition, under the headline “Mahmoud from Tehran,” by Zach Helfand, who writes about sports for the magazine. “Mahmoud” would be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president of Iran, murderous tyrant and Holocaust denier who has picked up a weird hobby of tweeting about…
Clay Waters
October 30th, 2018 8:37 AM

Anti-Trump and Anti-GOP: How TV News Is Spinning the Midterms

With just one week to go before the 2018 midterm elections, the broadcast networks are heavily spinning their campaign coverage against the Republicans, even as President Trump’s campaign activities have received more airtime than all of the individual Senate, House, and gubernatorial contests combined.
Rich Noyes
October 30th, 2018 8:00 AM

Goldberg: FNC Triggers 'Bible-Readers' With Talk of Immigrant Leprosy

On Morning Joe, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic says "I note for the record that they're [Fox News] talking about leprosy. Which I think is interesting, because leprosy, of course, is the most famous disease in the Bible. And I think they are trying to actually trigger people who are Bible-readers, who are religious people."
Mark Finkelstein
October 30th, 2018 7:19 AM

Is Michael Bloomberg a Centrist? The Washington Post Can Pretend

At this point, is Michael Bloomberg really anywhere near the center? The Washington Post pretended it was so on Sunday in a Michael Scherer article titled "A political aberration courts the Democratic nomination." To be a stitch to the right of today's Democratic Party is not the "center," just like being a stitch to the right of the ultraliberals in Manhattan is not the "center." 
Tim Graham
October 30th, 2018 7:17 AM

Hollywood Preaches Gun Control While Showcasing Violence on TV

Hollywood loves to lecture us on gun control but their shows are littered with violence, even normalizing school shootings and murder. This fall tv season has been no different with many shows showcasing gun violence while at the same time preaching gun control. Here are a few examples:
Rachel Peterson
October 30th, 2018 7:00 AM

Tapper Lets Ioffe Claim Trump ‘Radicalized’ ‘More People than ISIS’

CNN host Jake Tapper has a pretty bad habit of sitting back and letting leftist guests get away with saying some really radical stuff. Earlier this year, Tapper let Parkland student Cameron Kasky attack Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) by equating him to the kid that shot up his school. Now, during Monday’s edition of The Lead, Tapper took the same approach as GQ magazine correspondent Julia Ioffe…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 30th, 2018 1:02 AM

CBS Comedy: Racial Profiling 'Still an Everyday Thing'

On Monday night, The Neighborhood on CBS aired its 5th episode. In this installment, the Johnsons went over to the Butlers' for a game night which soon turned into a political platform for social justice warriors.
Annie Piper
October 30th, 2018 12:26 AM

Schmidt: NewsBusters Has ‘Blood On Their Hands’ for Radicalization

According to the rage-fueled tirade of MSNBC faux Republican strategist Steve Schmidt during Monday’s edition of All In, presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, the President, “Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh, and Breitbart, and NewsBusters, and Judicial Watch, and all the rest of them, have blood on their hands for the incitements that they have made that have triggered and radicalized these crazy…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 29th, 2018 11:30 PM

FNC Touts Armed Customer Who Defended McDonald's from Gunman

On Monday morning, Fox and Friends took the time to run two briefs informing viewers of a man who heroically defended himself and his children after a gunman opened fire at an Alabama McDonald's restaurant.At 8:40 a.m. Eastern, news reader Jillian Mele began:
Brad Wilmouth
October 29th, 2018 9:49 PM

Nets Disregard Florida GOP HQ Getting Shot Up, Opt to Bash Trump

It's hypocrisy of a very dangerous variety. For a week, the liberal media have been railing against President Trump, claiming he was the one responsible for the violence and death in recent days. Yet when the Volusia County Florida Republican Party headquarters was sprayed with bullets Sunday night, none of the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) cared enough to mention it during their Monday…
Nicholas Fondacaro
October 29th, 2018 9:36 PM

Will Media Notice O’Rourke’s Strange Claim About His Mother?

Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke has touted the fact that he is supported by his own mother. He has falsely claimed that she was a “lifelong Republican” before his candidacy. But as CNN points out, his mother has actually “voted in Democratic primaries in 15 of the last 17 primary elections she has participated” in, including Democratic presidential primaries “in 2000, 2008, 2012,…
Hans Bader
October 29th, 2018 9:29 PM

The Undefeated Endorses Idea of Segregated Baseball Team

Much has been said in recent years (including charges of racism) about the declining number of African-Americans playing Major League Baseball (note photo of Yankees' CC Sabathia, right, and teammate in photo). The Undefeated sports blog is running a story about a former MLB manager suggesting a hair-brained idea to change that―an all-black team. William C. Rhoden, author of the story, calls it a…
Jay Maxson
October 29th, 2018 8:13 PM

Citizenship Requirement Skirted in GOTV Effort on Hispanic Media

In more than 30 states, the percentage of adult Latinos who are U.S. citizens and thus eligible to vote in the country’s mid-term congressional elections falls within the 40-55% range. In other words, any honest voter mobilization effort among the U.S. Hispanic population should be clear about the uniform U.S. citizenship requirement for voting in federal elections, and avoid making generalized…
Kathleen Krumhansl and Ken Oliver-Méndez
October 29th, 2018 6:51 PM

MSNBC Puzzled by ‘Beto Paradox’: ‘Energy’ Not Translating to Votes

On his 3:00 p.m. ET hour show on Monday, MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi eagerly touted the “real possibility” that Texas Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke “could win a shocking upset next Tuesday” against incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz. However, in the segment that followed, the host worried that all the “national attention” O’Rourke was receiving from the media wasn’t translating into…

Kyle Drennen
October 29th, 2018 6:17 PM