Showtime Comedy Mocks Lord's Prayer, Flouts Decency in Second Episode

SMILF oozed onto the scene last week in its Showtime premiere that discouraged prayer and encouraged gross immorality and, well, was just gross. In the second episode, "1,800 Filet-o-Fishes & One Small Diet Coke," on November 12, we have more of the same.
Amelia Hamilton
November 13th, 2017 1:07 PM

NBC’s Today Kicks Off Biden 2020 Campaign With Fawning Fanfare

Beginning a book tour for his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad, former Vice President Joe Biden was treated to softball questions from the hosts and a live studio audience on Monday's NBC Today. During the more than 20 minutes of glowing coverage, Biden was repeatedly pressed on whether he was running for president in 2020. The cast of the morning show was giddy at the prospect.
Kyle Drennen
November 13th, 2017 11:50 AM

GQ Names Kaepernick ‘Citizen of the Year.’ Seriously.

GQ is, I guess, a men’s magazine. Or, it’s a magazine for men who like $1,600 leather tote bags and $200 velvet pants. Anyway, GQ clearly digs jerks. Why else would it give Keith Olbermann a web show? And why else would it put Colin Kaepernick on the cover as “Citizen of the Year?”
Matthew Philbin
November 13th, 2017 11:11 AM

MSNBC's Reid Still Thinks 17 Agencies Backed Russia Election Report

With Twitter doubling its character limit to 280 from 140, the establishment press can now cram twice as much fake news into a single tweet. MSNBC's Joy Reid did exactly that in a Saturday morning tweet by mischaracterizing the scope of the intelligence community's assessment of "Malicious Cyber Activity" relating to the 2016 presidential election, and by falsely claiming that President Trump…
Tom Blumer
November 13th, 2017 10:35 AM

Jorge Ramos to Host New 'Voice of Resistance' Series on Fusion

In keeping with the network's self-proclaimed brand as the "voice of the resistance" to the duly elected government of the United States, Fusion, the English-language sister network to Univision, is debuting this week a new show laughlingly titled "Real America with Jorge Ramos."
Jorge Bonilla and Ken Oliver-Méndez
November 13th, 2017 10:09 AM

Chuck Todd Gets Off Easy on Hosting Parties for Democrats

On November 7, the NPR talk show 1A interviewed Meet the Press host Chuck Todd and his executive producer, John Reiss. The most notable part of the interview came when Todd was asked about the audience getting the impression that politicians and the media get "super incestuous" in politicians and the media going to all the same parties. Host Joshua Johnson asked Todd "How do you keep yourself an…
Tim Graham
November 13th, 2017 7:35 AM

Fox’s ‘Family Guy’ Perfectly Mocks PC Social Justice Warriors

In the November 12 episode of Fox’s Family Guy, titled “The D in Apartment 23,” when Brian, the Griffin family dog, and Stewie visit the Quahog University Library, they see a student protest on campus so they stop by. Mocking Millennials perfectly, a student tells Brian that they have gathered to demand the university president be fired. His offense? He didn’t overreact when the word “weird” was…
Karen Townsend
November 12th, 2017 11:50 PM

‘The Simpsons’ Insults Conservatives, Emasculates Homer for Politics

In the November 12 episode of Fox’s The Simpsons Marge Simpson decides to run for Mayor of Springfield after being the victim of Mayor Quimby’s misogynist attitude. In order to boost her polling numbers, no shot is left untaken by her campaign.
Karen Townsend
November 12th, 2017 9:45 PM

CNN Media Panel: ‘Negative Partisan’ Media a Problem from the Right

During Brian Stelter’s Sunday morning media sermon on CNN’s Reliable Sources, he and his panel of media critics decried what they called "negative partisan" media and blamed it for dividing the country. Sounds pretty accurate, right? But according to them most of the blame for a divided country rested on the shoulders of conservative and right-leaning media outlets.
Nicholas Fondacaro
November 12th, 2017 6:44 PM

Raddatz Promises to Discuss Menendez Trial, Only Gives It 16 Seconds

ABC’s Martha Raddatz was on a mission against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore on Sunday. After decrying skeptical Alabama voters, she grilled White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway during This Week on whether Moore should step aside. Conway called Raddatz out and pointed to the media’s double standard on ethics and failing to adequately report the corruption trial of Democratic New Jersey…
Nicholas Fondacaro
November 12th, 2017 2:10 PM

Not News: Reductions in U.S. CO2 Emissions Dwarf the Rest of the World

The establishment press is making a big deal out of the fact that President Trump has not been and will not be personally invited to a climate summit in Paris in December. Both the media and the folks running the summit, where the utterly unoriginal theme is "Make Our Planet Great Again," should be thanking the U.S. for its outsized contribution — but to be clear, unnecessary, given that the link…
Tom Blumer
November 12th, 2017 1:32 PM

NYT Won’t Stop Bashing Brexit for Hate Crimes, Islamophobia, Etc...

The New York Times is still finding ways to stay on the snobbish losing side against the popular movement for national sovereignty known as Brexit, by relating any violent crime against an immigrant or Muslim to the U.K’s June 2016 vote to withdraw from the European Union. Reporter David Kirkpatrick made Saturday’s front page by tying Brexit to “Islamophobia” in a sympathetic profile of a mosque…
Clay Waters
November 12th, 2017 12:51 PM

ABC’s Raddatz Disgusted By Skeptics of Allegations Against Roy Moore

Last week, The Washington Post reported that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore allegedly pursued relationships with teenagers when he was in his 30s and that he allegedly molested a 14-year-old girl. And while many believed the claims, others took them with a grain of salt, citing the timing as suspicious. On Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Martha Raddatz used her analysis to express her…
Nicholas Fondacaro
November 12th, 2017 10:29 AM

David Brooks: 'Tolerance of Bill Clinton' Made Harassment Easier?

New York Times columnist David Brooks appeared on the PBS talk show Charlie Rose on Friday night to discuss populism and how the “party stained by Trump” tries to “erase that stain.” Brooks openly declared Trump is a “destroyer” of the Republican Party. But in minute 23, Rose asked about sexual harassment. Brooks talked about how The New Republic had a “little ruckus” over in-house complaints…
Tim Graham
November 12th, 2017 8:54 AM