ABC: Star Wars Day Gets 6X Coverage of Lowest Unemployment Since 2000

The force might have been with ABC on May 4, but interest in the U.S. labor market certainly wasn’t. That night World News Tonight with David Muir spent a meager 15 seconds announcing the April jobs report which showed the lowest unemployment rate since 2000. That 3.9 percent was what other journalists called a “wow number” that could even help re-elect President Donald Trump.
Julia A. Seymour
May 7th, 2018 8:21 AM

Ramos to O'Rourke: Isn't Ted Cruz A Race-Traitor?

Once again, Univision's Jorge Ramos goes to a favorite trope of his- suggesting that Hispanics who don't follow ideological suit are race-traitors.
Jorge Bonilla
May 7th, 2018 7:30 AM

FNC's Huntsman Hits Pro-Life Guest from the Left on Abortion

For a news network that is often caricatured as right wing, Fox News Channel peppered a pro-life guest with an awful lot of questions that were skeptical of Iowa's new law that bans abortion at about six weeks pregnancy. In fact, Fox and Friends Sunday co-host Abby Huntsman even cited one poll alleging a majority of Americans want most abortions to be legal, and did not mention that other…

Brad Wilmouth
May 7th, 2018 7:23 AM

Media Ignore Anti-NRA Dallas Organizer's Violent Criminal Past

Once again, protests against the NRA at its annual convention, this time in Dallas, have been pathetic. Turnout has been "shockingly small." One event had "maybe 100 (people), half of whom were journalists." An actress involved in the protest movement attended — accompanied by allegedly armed security guards, who illegally "chase(d) Texans out of a public park simply because they asked if she…
Tom Blumer
May 7th, 2018 6:04 AM

‘Family Guy’ Lampoons Millennials in Just the Right Way

The May 6 episode of Fox’s Family Guy titled “HTTPete” took great pleasure in lampooning a favorite target – Millennials. In order to reverse lagging sales, Peter Griffin’s employer realizes he must reach out to Millennials to capture their market.
Karen Townsend
May 7th, 2018 2:30 AM

'Political Bully' Calls Refugees 'Gangsters & Thugs on 'Madam Sec'

Well, this is a timely coincidence. Within a week of the Trump administration announcing that it will end the 1999 temporary protected status for Hondurans, CBS’s Madam Secretary features the Secretary of State fighting for refugee status of Honduran children against a "political bully." I guess the show has more foresight than I thought, though still not enough to let their Hillary icon or…
Lindsay Kornick
May 7th, 2018 1:51 AM

Daily News Attacks 'Church of the Gun' Attendees at NRA Convention

On the occasion of the annual NRA convention, in Dallas, New York Daily News sports writer Mike Lupica charges that President Donald Trump and his NRP friends are now living in fear of the high school students advocating against the Second Amendment. Without once mentioning mental health as a major cause in mass shootings, Lupica attacked Trump, Vice-president Mike Pence and congregants of the "…
Jay Maxson
May 6th, 2018 9:36 PM

At Convention, NRATV Mocks CNN Apple Ads: 'This Is a Bitter Lemon'

Andrew Kugle at the Washington Free Beacon reported the NRATV channel had great fun with CNN's pompous apple-and-banana commercials at the NRA convention in Dallas. On Friday, Washington Post reporter Seung Min Kim tweeted a video clip of the CNN mockery.
Tim Graham
May 6th, 2018 7:12 PM

NYT Makes Page 1 Tribute to 'Maverick' McCain vs. Trump, 'Hard-Right'

The front of Sunday’s New York Times featured political reporter Jonathan Martin’s tribute to the ailing Sen. John McCain: “At Home, McCain Shares Memories and Regrets.” It has some charming moments, but comes off hypocritical, given the paper’s back and forth feelings for McCain, praising him when he was a threat to more conservative Republicans during the 2008 party primaries, condemning him…
Clay Waters
May 6th, 2018 6:37 PM

Slate, With Unemployment Rate at 3.9 Percent: It's 'Meaningless'

You had to figure that a left-leaning journalist somewhere would denigrate Friday's news that the nation's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell below 4 percent for the first time since 2000. Jordan Weissmann, in a Slate.com column beginning with a headlined contention that "The Unemployment Rate Is Meaningless," came through.
Tom Blumer
May 6th, 2018 4:46 PM

Pro-Gun CNN Guest Complains Host Failed to Challenge Anti-Gun Kasky

On New Day Sunday, CNN did something it does not typically do in that it actually allowed a pro-gun guest to be on and argue against the type of gun control pushed by liberal activists. Although Georgia gun dealer Hal Shouse was allowed to complain to CNN host Christi Paul about her failure to challenge anti-gun activist Cameron Kasky the day before, the segment also suffered from audio…
Brad Wilmouth
May 6th, 2018 3:59 PM

CNN Declares 'Day 470' of White House ‘Credibility Crisis’, Not Media

It’s well known that CNN senior media reporter Brian Stelter is no fan of President Trump. He even goes as far as to question’s the President’s mental stability and was overjoyed when the rest of the media were pushing their hot takes too. During Sunday’s Reliable Sources, he opined about how the White House was in day 470 of what he called a “credibility crisis.” And despite how the show is…
Nicholas Fondacaro
May 6th, 2018 2:24 PM

Rabble Rousers in Puerto Rico Dominate May Day Coverage

From coast to coast, along with everywhere else the American flag flies, May Day is typically an occasion for protest marches by leftists and assorted malcontents. That was certainly the case this year in the U.S. Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico, where protesters (accompanied by unrepentant convicted domestic terrorist Oscar López Rivera) were the focus of attention by both Univision and…
MRC Latino Staff
May 6th, 2018 1:32 PM

AP's Scott Bauer Fails to ID Party of Dem Charged in Racial Incident

Despite relatively recent Associated Press Stylebook changes mandating that elected officials' political party "should be routinely included" in stories about them, the wire service appears to be backsliding. On Saturday, I noted the wire service's failure – before being shamed into a partial remedy — to tag DC politicians engaged in public anti-Semitic outbursts and conspiracy theories as…
Tom Blumer
May 6th, 2018 12:56 PM