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HuffPost: How NBC Execs Quashed Farrow's Weinstein Scoop
The Huffington Post has a new article on how NBC executives quashed Ronan Farrow's Harvey Weinstein story by freelance reporter Yashar Ali and Lydia Polgreen, the site's executive editor. Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham responded by tweeting "Becoming more and more clear that what happened at NBC is straight-up journalistic malpractice." The HuffPost suggested cowardice at NBC…
October 11th, 2017 11:11 PM
'Empire' Celebrates Coming Out Day With Dad Apologizing for Hate
October 11 was hyped on Twitter as “National Coming Out Day,” because declaring the type of sex you like is now worthy of a whole day of celebration. With this in mind, the latest episode of Fox’s Empire had its own National Coming Out Day highlight with a special scene between record label CEO Lucious (Terrence Howard) and his gay son Jamal (Jussie Smollett).
October 11th, 2017 11:00 PM
Nets Yawn as Federal Prosecutors Rest Case in Menendez Bribery Trial
Justice Department prosecutors rested their case against Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez on Wednesday, much to the silence of the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC). With dozens of charges against him, prosecutors allege Menendez and his associate Dr. Salomon Melgen were responsible for an expansive quid-pro-quo scheme that spanned years. The case had all the hallmarks of a spicy…
October 11th, 2017 9:30 PM
Obama Lied. My FOURTH Health Plan Died.
Cue the funeral bagpipes. My fourth health insurance plan is dead. Two weeks ago, my husband and I received yet another cancellation notice for our private, individual health insurance coverage. It's our fourth Obamacare-induced obituary in four years. Our first death notice, from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, arrived in the fall of 2013. The insurer informed us that because of "changes from…
October 11th, 2017 9:07 PM
Our Broken Moral Compasses
As George Orwell said, "some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." Many stupid ideas originate with academics on college campuses. If they remained there and didn't infect the rest of society, they might be a source of entertainment, much in the way a circus is. Let's look at a few stupid ideas peddled by intellectuals.
October 11th, 2017 9:05 PM
GQ Writer: To Placate Trump, ESPN Fed Hill to Wolves
Gentlemen's Quarterly writer Drew Magary demonstrated he can go toe-to-toe with his GQ rage mate Keith Olbermann when it comes to pumping out vile, frothing outrage. Magary cranked up the venom flow to the extreme max in his tirade on how ESPN fed anchor Jemele Hill to the wolves when it suspended her. He insinuates that the liberal sports network is following the wishes of President Trump and…
October 11th, 2017 7:35 PM
MSNBC's Wallace & Jordan Fret Trump Winning on NFL & National Anthem
On Tuesday's Deadline: White House, MSNBC Republicans Nicolle Wallace and Elise Jordan were leaning left on the issue of NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem as they fretted over the NFL caving in to President Donald Trump's complaints on the issue.
October 11th, 2017 7:34 PM
Awkward: Lauer Thanks Farrow for Weinstein Story He Covered 'For NBC'
Amidst the NBC News controversy of declining to support contributor Ronan Farrow’s bombshell story on Harvey Weinstein, NBC’s Today co-host Matt Lauer praised Farrow on Wednesday for working on it at NBC but failing to disclose the network’s refusal to publish it (hence why it went to The New Yorker).
October 11th, 2017 7:21 PM
NY Times Announces Addition of First ‘Gender Editor’ to Its Staff
Here’s another entry for the “Just When You Thought You’d Seen It All Department.” On Tuesday, The New York Times proclaimed that the newspaper had hired a “gender editor” whose task is to “re-imagine the news through an inter-sectional lens.” Jessica Bennett, a former editor for Newsweek magazine and author of Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, was motivated to apply…
October 11th, 2017 6:27 PM
GOP Character Thinks Existence of Uninsured 'Made Up By Liberal Media'
In its October 10 episode, "Jeremy & Anna's Meryl Streep Costume Party," The Mindy Project on Hulu saw one of the doctors of Shulman and Associates, Jody Kimball-Kinney (Garret Dillahunt), tapping into his altruistic side. After being shamed by a woman who runs a free clinic, he finds the practice's old bus and starts offering certain types of healthcare free-of-charge to women who otherwise…
October 11th, 2017 5:52 PM
Liberal Dying Husk Time Magazine to Slash Circulation
Time magazine executives on Wednesday announced plans to slash circulation of the liberal dinosaur. According to USA Today, the magazine “will have its weekly circulation reduced by one-third, to two million copies.”
October 11th, 2017 5:42 PM
Here We Go Again: Another Misleading Gun Control Segment on Al Punto
As sure as water is wet and the sun rises in the east, Univision's Jorge Ramos will have a segment on gun control in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting incident. Per this sad custom, arguments will be laid out based on gross misrepresentations of fact. The most recent edition of the activist-anchor's weekly Al Punto show was no exception.
October 11th, 2017 4:44 PM
Rolling Stone: Clean Power Rollback Not Very Consequential, But Deadly
Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor Jeff Goodell seems to have trouble with logic in addition to his disdain for coal power. In, “Scott Pruitt Can’t Stop the Death of Big Coal,” Goodell claimed that without the EPA’s Clean Power Plan — an Obama “accomplishment” — coal is still “a dead industry walking.”
October 11th, 2017 4:26 PM
Morning Joe Calls for Crippling U.S.’s Nuclear Defense Capabilities
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough continued on his crusade against Trump by calling for Republicans on Capitol Hill to consider taking potentially unconstitutional legislative action that would seriously hinder President Trump’s power to command America’s nuclear defense forces. In so doing, Joe painted Trump as a genocidal maniac on the brink of destroying the whole world.
October 11th, 2017 4:06 PM