NBC Finally Mentions McCabe Criminal Referral, Only Gives 9 Seconds

After news broke Thursday afternoon that the FBI Inspector General was recommending the Justice Department file criminal charges against the Bureau’s fired deputy director, Andrew McCabe, NBC Nightly News completely ignored the major development. On Friday, NBC’s Today show wasn’t much better, only managing nine seconds of coverage to the story, just a single sentence.
Kyle Drennen
April 20th, 2018 11:29 AM

NYT Gushes Over Hannity-Exposing Kimba Wood vs. 'Right-Wing Media'

Thursday’s New York Times featured some unseemly gushing over Democratic Judge Kimba Wood, whose decision outed Fox News host Sea Hannity as a client of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, under a headline showcasing extraneous praise for Wood: “On Bench for Cohen Case: ‘The Judicial Equivalent of Teddy Roosevelt." Reporters Alan Feuer and Benjamin Weiser opened by irresponsibly lumping in the…
Clay Waters
April 20th, 2018 9:08 AM

GOP Senator Calls Out Cuomo's 'Gotcha' Question On Support for Trump

During Thursday's edition of New Day, co-host Chris Cuomo gleefully announced that “roughly two dozen Republican Senators and Members of Congress told CNN they're not ready to back their party's standard bearer.” In other words, they have not explicitly endorsed President Trump for re-election in 2020. He then asked Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin whether or not he supported President…
Ryan Foley
April 20th, 2018 6:15 AM

NBC Comedy: Unborn Child a ‘Parasite,’ Like ‘a Bag of Garbage’

NBC’s comedy Superstore joined the ranks of other Hollywood shows that devalue unborn human life, likening a preborn baby to a “horrible parasite eating and pissing inside” of the surrogate mother and comparing him/her to a “bag of garbage” who should “figure out its own gender.”
Dawn Slusher
April 20th, 2018 1:25 AM

'Scandal' Ends 7 Season Run Praising 'Black Power' and Gun Control

After seven seasons, ABC’s Scandal has finally aired its last episode. Over the course of 124 episodes, the Shonda Rhimes-produced series has pretty much covered every aspect of the liberal agenda. However, as the finale proves, there’s always time to squeeze in a little more, especially when it comes to knocking white male privilege and promoting gun control. I guess it’s better to go out with…
Lindsay Kornick
April 20th, 2018 12:55 AM

Maddow Accuses Comey of Casting ‘Aspersions’ on AG Lynch’s Reputation

The second high-profile stop for former FBI Director James Comey on his book tour Thursday was MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Just as the show began, the White House released all of the memos Comey kept on his interactions with the President to Congress (and then they leaked), so the interview was dominated by softball questions mostly stemming from those. But as the show was wrapping up, Maddow…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 20th, 2018 12:44 AM

Is ‘Old-fashioned’ Returning?

"It's a modern changing world, Everything is moving fast. But when it comes to love I like, What they did in the past." -- The Everly Brothers, 1962. Call me old-fashioned -- and I've been called worse -- but do I sense the possible end to the sexual revolution, which exploded in the '60s and whose fallout continues today.
Cal Thomas
April 19th, 2018 11:29 PM

‘Hardball’ Guest Laments McCabe Referral Is Diversion from Mueller

Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude appeared to complain during Thursday’s Hardball that, along with new demands from Republican congressmen for documents from the Clinton e-mail investigation, the FBI Inspector General’s criminal referral concerning former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was part of an “assault” on Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Curtis Houck
April 19th, 2018 11:21 PM

ESPN's Bryant: Statistical Analysis in Baseball 'Equivalent of Racism'

Major League Baseball just observed the 71st anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the race barrier, but little has changed since 1947 when he endured appalling racism. ESPN's Howard Bryant claims that if Robinson was still alive today, "He would be facing the same sort of vitriol that Colin Kaepernick is facing today." Bryant made these and other pointed remarks about race on The Sporting Life…
Jay Maxson
April 19th, 2018 10:19 PM

What? Matthews Links Lefty Parkland Kids to American Revolution

Throughout Thursday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews teased a “Let Me Finish” commentary to end the show about the 243rd anniversary of the start of the American Revolution with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. However, such sanity quickly eroded as Matthews linked the actions and ideals fought on that idea to the anti-gun, far-left Parkland students.
Curtis Houck
April 19th, 2018 10:01 PM

NBC Ignores McCabe’s Criminal Referral, ABC and CBS Downplay

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s retirement went from bad to worse on Thursday as the Bureau’s Inspector General brought his case to federal prosecutors with a criminal referral. McCabe was fired in March after an IG investigation found he had lied to investigators about leaks to the press during the Clinton e-mail investigation. When it came to reporting the damning news that evening,…
Nicholas Fondacaro
April 19th, 2018 9:30 PM

AP Pretends That New Cuban President Was 'Elected'

The Associated Press and many of the AP's colleagues in the establishment press have had a nearly 60-year romance with Cuba's brutal communist regime. They have frequently regaled readers with the island nation's "free healthcare" and "free education," as if that makes up for the fact that the typical Cuban subsists on far less than the $2 a day the international community considers extreme…
Tom Blumer
April 19th, 2018 5:08 PM

PolitiFact Whacks Scott Walker: Facts Correct, But You're 'Half True'

One of the most annoying tendencies of "Fact Checkers" is to claim that (a) the facts at issue are true and (b) it's still wrong somehow. Take PolitiFact Wisconsin's Tom Kertscher judging Republican Gov. Scott Walker as "Half True" while he's factually correct. He was half-false by claiming credit, when his reforms are a "contributing factor." But PolitiFact ruled liberal Democrat Gov. Andrew…
Tim Graham
April 19th, 2018 5:07 PM

ABC Hypes ‘Television Trailblazer’s’ Gun Control and Abortion Lobbying

In a bit of self promotion and ideological promotion, ABC’s Nightline on Wednesday night hyped the season finale of Scandal. Co-host Juju Chang hailed star Kerry Washington’s Democratic advocacy: “But while she keeps her personal life personal, she does speak out publicly about issues like gun control and women's rights.
Scott Whitlock
April 19th, 2018 4:49 PM