Mainstream Media Scream: Epic CNN Rant on Fox ‘Propagandists,’ Trump

Archive, from July through December 2017, of the Washington Examiner’s weekly Mainstream Media Scream posts by Paul Bedard, which are based upon a recommendation from the MRC’s Brent Baker who also provides an explanation for each one.

Brent Baker
December 18th, 2017 5:14 PM

Furious Joe: Fox News Trying to Create Another ‘Timothy McVeigh’

On Monday’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough and his band of liberal misfits devoted a full segment of the show’s second hour to accusing Fox News journalists of trying to “inspire hatred that will lead to the killing of Americans.” How is Fox supposedly doing this? Well, in the minds of Scarborough and his fellow MSNBC pundits, Fox News hosts and guests who have compared Special Counsel…
Chris Reeves
December 18th, 2017 4:53 PM

Here’s Six Kooky Moments from MSNBC’s 2017 Most Interesting List

On Sunday night, MSNBC host and serial liar Brian Williams co-hosted an MSNBC special on 2017's most interesting people and things with former McCain campaign official-turned-MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace. Given both of their records, it didn’t disappoint in churning out head-scratching selections and crazy quotes on everyone from Republican Senator Bob Corker (Tenn.) to Robert Mueller and even a…
Curtis Houck
December 18th, 2017 3:58 PM

Why Hollywood's Anita Hill Commission's a Joke: People Believed Thomas

The Hollywood elite’s announcement over the weekend that it has created a commission to end sexual harassment in their industry – chaired by Anita Hill -- is the latest genuflection toward the secular saint they have created. Hollywood has made two TV-movies siding with Hill’s unproven version of events, Showtime’s Strange Justice (1999) and HBO’s Confirmation (2016). The media elite now tells…
Tim Graham
December 18th, 2017 3:44 PM

Bozell Calls for Independent Review of Sexual Misconduct at NBC

RESTON, VA -- Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell released the following statement today calling on NBC to hire an independent investigator to review its culture of sexual misconduct following new claims against MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. According to a report by the Daily Caller, NBC paid one of Matthew’s former producers $40,000 after she filed a sexual harassment complaint against…
NB Staff
December 18th, 2017 3:28 PM

NYT 'News'? ‘Senator’s Star Shines as Nation Unites Behind Her Cause'

The New York Times penned an earnest hymn to the Democrats’ latest feminist presidential hope, the newly “progressive” heroine Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Shane Goldmacher, recently of Politico, and Matt Flegenheimer, a familiar byline at NewsBusters, launched Gillibrand’s potential 2020 campaign (joining previous Times feminist presidential hopefuls, Sen. Kamala Harris and…
Clay Waters
December 18th, 2017 3:19 PM

Eminem Raps About Throwing Ivanka in The Trunk of His Car

Will masquerading as “woke” and anti-Trump hide the fact that Eminem is a sexist entertainer hell bent on perpetuating the war on women? The rapper seems to think so. Even though Eminem may pretend to be woke by slamming Trump on his new album, Revival, he still falls into his routine of making violent and misogynist comments directed towards women.  
Corinne Weaver
December 18th, 2017 2:24 PM

UPDATE: Lin-Manuel’s Lies about Trump Get Acritical Forum on Telemundo

Broadway musical star Lin-Manuel Miranda continues to inject abject, over-the-top partisan politics into his post-Hurricane María relief efforts for Puerto Rico, and the liberal media just keep lapping it up, failing to challenge or call him out on any of his demonstrably false, hyper-partisan statements.
Kathleen Krumhansl and Ken Oliver-Méndez
December 18th, 2017 2:22 PM

Ohio Paper Whines National Christmas Concert Is Too Christmas-y

Christmas concerts aren’t supposed to be all about Christmas. And if they are, well, they’re just too predictable -- at least according to one entertainment critic, who’s complaining that a concert was exactly what it said it would be.
Katie Yoder
December 18th, 2017 1:59 PM

Ruhle: 'Income Inequality Is the Biggest Issue That Plagues' U.S.

On Monday's MSNBC Live, host Stephanie Ruhle -- also a business correspondent for NBC -- was inserting a left-leaning view of economics into the discussion of the Republican tax cut plan as she proclaimed that "income inequality is the biggest issue that plagues this nation -- one of the biggest issues." Right-leaning MSNBC contributor Bret Stephens had a mixed view of the plan as liberal…
Brad Wilmouth
December 18th, 2017 1:41 PM

Liberal ESPN President Resigns Because of Substance Abuse

The scandal-plagued sports network ESPN is suffering another blow -- the resignation of its left-wing president. John Skipper, described in the Washington Post as a “gangly, Southern hippie,” announced his decision to resign as president of ESPN and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks on Monday, December 18. He cited a “substance addiction” as the main reason for his resignation.
Corinne Weaver
December 18th, 2017 1:28 PM

Daily Caller: Sarsour Enabled Sexual Assault, Hounded Victim For Years

The Women's March movement has a big problem on its hands. So does the establishment press, which has given it fawning coverage ever since its marches in Washington and other cities in January. The press owes its readers and viewers responsible coverage of a credible charge of enabling sexual assault which has been made against the movement's most visible leader. In a lengthy item posted at…

Tom Blumer
December 18th, 2017 1:16 PM

Christian Bale: U.S. ‘Bigotry’ in My Western Is ‘Relevant' to Today

The British-born Christian Bale appeared on CBS This Morning, Monday, to sneer that the American “genocide” and “bigotry” featured in his new western film is “relevant” to what’s going on today in the country. Regarding his movie Hostiles, Bale lamented that the film, set in 1892, has “become surprisingly, sadly relevant, more so since we stopped filming, you know, in terms of... some of…
Scott Whitlock
December 18th, 2017 1:15 PM

Media Execs Tap Anita Hill to Lead Sexual Harassment Commission

Even with their industry embroiled in numerous sexual harassment scandals, the CEOs of major media companies still stuck to their liberal agenda as they announced on Saturday that a new Sexual Harassment Commission would be chaired by discredited Clarence Thomas accuser Anita Hill.
Kyle Drennen
December 18th, 2017 11:22 AM