Atlantic’s Trump-Hating Contributor Also Hits Press for Overreaction
The October 2017 issue of The Atlantic was devoted to “The Trump Presidency – A Damage Report,” part of which has already been covered at Newsbusters. Editor Jeffrey Goldberg introduced the issue’s theme in his opening Editor’s Note, “The Autocratic Element,” while one of his contributors also blamed the liberal press for (in Bob Woodward’s phrase) “binge-drinking the anti-Trump Kool-Aid.”
Clay Waters
Superman Saves Illegal Immigrants From Armed White Man in New Comic
Superman, who is also known as “The Man of Steel,” has been fighting for “Truth, Justice and the American Way” since he was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school students living in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933. The iconic super-hero debuted in Action Comics #1, which was cover-dated June 1938. Cut to Action Comics #987, which was released on Wednesday, September 13.
Randy Hall
CBS on Amazon Spiking One-Star Hillary Reviews: ‘Wow’
Two out of the three networks on Thursday night and Friday morning yawned at Amazon’s BLATANT censorship of negative reviews for Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened. Only CBS This Morning noticed — with a scant 27 seconds of coverage — that the website is wiping out one star reviews.
Scott Whitlock
Huh? MSNBC and BBC: Vietnam Is ‘Temple of Capitalism’ and U.S. Values
On Friday's Morning Joe, Katty Kay, English anchor for BBC World News America, came to the baffling conclusion that Vietnam is “a temple of capitalism and commitment to all of the things that Americans hold dear,” and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns seemed to agree.
Chris Reeves
Fireworks: Ferguson Battles Stacked Liberal CNN Panel Over ESPN's Hill
Late Thursday’s CNN Tonight featured the liberal media’s continued hysteria with supposed White House authoritarianism toward the press and the politicization of sports through the lens of the anti-Trump tweets by fellow leftist/ESPN host Jemele Hill. Conservative talk radio host Ben Ferguson admirably took on the both deranged and pointed remarks from devoted liberals panelists in host Don Lemon…
Curtis Houck
CNN’s Harlow Encourages De Niro to Bash ‘Disgusting’ Divisive Trump
During a Friday morning exclusive interview with Robert De Niro, CNN’s Poppy Harlow prodded the politically outspoken, liberal actor to bash President Trump. While the premise of the interview was based of the actor’s charitable work rebuilding the Caribbean island of Barbuda, which was devastated by Hurricane Irma last week, Harlow quickly turned the conversation to politics, inviting the actor…
Kristine Marsh
Netflix’s ‘BoJack Horseman’ Exploits Fracking and Mass Shooting in Sea
Season Four of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman, the animated adult sitcom about a washed-up ‘90’s television star, debuted on September 8th. The fantasy rich series focuses on hot button issues, including fracking and mass shootings this season.
Karen Townsend
Mexican Movie Director: Trump Election Shows America Has 'Cancer'
Mexican director Guillermo del Toro hopes his new movie The Shape of Water – a love story “between a woman and a sea monster being held captive by the U.S. government” [??] -- will help repair a “broken political system” after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. “It’s like a cancer. We have a tumor now," he said. "That doesn’t mean the cancer started with that tumor. It was…
Melissa Mullins
Reporter Frustrated Floridians Not Buying Climate and Hurricane Hype
Why, oh why, can't you Florida yahoos accept that Hurricane Irma was caused by global warming? That was the desperate but condescending attitude of the UK Guardian reporter Ed Pilkington in his September 11 article about Hurricane Irma which expressed surprise that (GASP!) Floridians did not buy into the global warming dogma as the cause of the storm. His condescension begins with the title of…
P.J. Gladnick
Retired Baseball Star Damon Tells ESPN to Stick to Sports
Retired baseball player Johnny Damon helped the Yankees and Red Sox win world championships, and he was always a positive and quotable athlete. Today on Fox & Friends he advised ESPN to stick to sports -- a phrase the network loves to hate.
Jay Maxson
NYT: Comedy Central Says Conservatives Don’t Believe in ‘Reality’
Comedy Central has always tried to capitalize on mocking conservative audiences. Stephen Colbert’s old show, based on Bill O’Reilly, and Broad City, worshipping Hillary and bleeping out Trump’s name, are just prime examples. But in an interview with The New York Times, it seems like the outlet is going a step further. Its new show, The Opposition, a spinoff of The Daily Show, is a satire based…
Corinne Weaver
Whoopi Suggests Antifa Was Made Up by the Right So They Could Complain
Charlottesville was back on the hot topics table at ABC’s The View, September 15, one month to the day after violence broke out on the campus of the University of Virginia. But instead of thought-provoking conversation on the serious issue, as usual, conspiracy theories about the right was the prevailing opinion expressed at the table by the liberal hosts. Whoopi Goldberg had the most mind-…
Kristine Marsh
Morning Joe: Time to Put ‘Right-Wing Media’ 'Out of Business'
On Thursday's Morning Joe, former senior campaign strategist of the unsuccessful 2008 Presidential campaign of John McCain and current MSNBC Political Analyst Steve Schmidt decided to tap deep into his political bloodlust. He labeled those who support deporting “dreamers” as “extreme,” purveyors of “cruelty,” and “loons screaming out there on the fringes” who are “gonna have no impact.”
Chris Reeves
Hippie Singer David Crosby Trashes ‘Imbecile’ ‘Orange Nightmare’ Trump
On the September 13, edition of his PBS show, Tavis Smiley invited on singer David Crosby and the '60s era hippie trashed Donald Trump as an “imbecile” and “orange nightmare.”