PBS Highlights Rohingya Girl Refugee Refusing Abortion for ‘My Child’

It’s not everyday the media tell stories like this, but PBS just did: Rehana, a pregnant girl refugee, is refusing abortion despite her husband abandoning her. On April 25, PBS NewsHour continued its coverage of the Rohingya “crisis,” which others say amounts to genocide.
Katie Yoder
April 26th, 2018 4:25 PM

NYT: Kanye's ‘Mental Stability’ Up for Debate After Pro-Trump Tweets

Employing unprofessional speculation, reporters Katie Rogers and Joe Coscarelli hinted in the New York Times that famously flaky rapper Kanye West’s Twitter admiration, if not full support, for President Trump was related to incipient mental illness: "In a string of tweets that seemed to outrage and concern his fans, Mr. West tried to defend his admiration for the president from “the mob” of…
Clay Waters
April 26th, 2018 3:50 PM

Joy Behar to Dr. Phil: Isn't Trump Grooming Macron Like an Orangutan?

Psychologist and talk-show host Dr. Phil McGraw was the big guest on The View on Thursday, and they began by suggesting it's unfair to try and diagnose Kanye West with mental illness based on his new pro-Trump tweets. But then, that "comedian" Joy Behar asked Dr. Phil if Trump's "bromance" with French prime minister Emmanuel Macron resembled the behavior of an orangutan. So Dr. Phil diagnosed…
Tim Graham
April 26th, 2018 3:50 PM

SHOCK: Ruhle Frets ‘Capitalist’ Voters Will Reject ‘Far Left’ Dems

In a stunning departure from MSNBC’s normally steadfast adherence to Democratic Party talking points, on her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show on Thursday, anchor Stephanie Ruhle actually grilled Democratic Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz over his party’s obsession with impeaching President Trump and questioned whether “centrist” “capitalist” voters would really vote for “far left” Democrats in the November…
Kyle Drennen
April 26th, 2018 3:41 PM

Anthony Bourdain Thrills Lib Journos with Tales from West Virginia

It’s always fun when cosmopolitan progressives done their pith helmets, grab their notebooks and head off study the fabled natives of the American interior -- that vast, dark blank space between NY and LA.
Matt Philbin
April 26th, 2018 2:49 PM

Reps. Goodlatte, Smith Cite MRC Censorship Report 4 Times in Hearing

The Media Research Center’s extensive report about online censorship is already having an impact. The analysis on how social media platforms silence conservatives was referenced four times during a key House Judiciary Committee Hearing on April 26, 2018.    
Corinne Weaver
April 26th, 2018 1:35 PM

ABC's McCain Blasts Joy Behar’s Nasty Melania Joke: ‘So Mean!’

Joy Behar took a nasty shot at Melania Trump on Thursday’s The View and token conservative Meghan McCain fired back, deriding her liberal co-host as “so mean.” The women were discussing the latest on Stormy Daniels. Behar mocked: “Today is Melania's birthday. Happy birthday, Melania.” 
Scott Whitlock
April 26th, 2018 1:16 PM

MSNBC's Ruhle Frets Trump Appointing Too Many Conservative Judges

On Wednesday's MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle, host Ruhle worried that President Donald Trump is appointing too many "white male judges" from the conservative Federalist Society who will be on the courts "forever," during a discussion of rapper Meek Mill's release from prison.
Brad Wilmouth
April 26th, 2018 1:15 PM

Lemon: Many 'Wondering' If Pro-Trump Kanye 'Cares About Black People'

On Wednesday's CNN Tonight, anchor Don Lemon hosted a segment to discuss the fact that rapper Kanye West has received criticism for praising President Donald Trump. The CNN host even alluded to West's history of accusing President George W. Bush of not caring about black Americans to then suggest that now West may not "care about black people."
Brad Wilmouth
April 26th, 2018 1:07 PM

Kanye’s Pro-Trump Twitterstorm Proves Lib Insanity

Regardless of how you feel about Kanye West’s music or often reckless bravado, you have to admit, he really does a good job of riling people up. This time, the rap superstar has decided to go for the jugular, and divorce himself from the narrative of the mainstream left, all by mentioning a mere camaraderie with President Donald Trump.
Gabriel Hays
April 26th, 2018 12:46 PM

GMA Hosts Plead for NFL Team to Sign Kaepernick

Following a full report on Thursday touting secret audio tapes of an October 2017 NFL meeting to discuss the League’s handling of national anthem protests, the hosts of ABC’s Good Morning America pleaded for a team to sign the player at the center of the controversy, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Kyle Drennen
April 26th, 2018 12:04 PM

Rep. Blackburn: ‘Ban’ on Pro-Life Ad Threatened My ‘Freedom of Speech'

Even though social media platforms are run by private companies, the First Amendment should apply to them in some fashion, suggests one congresswoman. In the April 26 committee hearing on “Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms,” House Representative Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., spoke out about her own personal experience with conservative censorship on social media.  
Corinne Weaver
April 26th, 2018 11:40 AM

Carlson Rips NBC For Defending Reid's 'Crock' About Being Hacked

On his Wednesday evening Fox News show, Tucker Carlson scorched MSNBC's Joy Reid, described at the New York Times in February as a "Heroine of the Resistance," for claiming that 12 year-old posts at her now-defunct blog were somehow retroactively hacked to make her look even more bigoted against homosexual behavior than the posts she admitted to writing in 2007-2009 back in December.
Tom Blumer
April 26th, 2018 10:20 AM

Education Publication Proves Media Duped By Fake Student Loan Expert

Drew Cloud was a prolific writer specializing in student loan issues, founder of the Student Loan Report, and “a source for news on the student loan industry, financial aid, and scholarships.” Media relied on him for sensational surveys about student debt issues and quoted him often. Except Cloud didn’t exist.
Paul Wilson
April 26th, 2018 10:14 AM