Irony Alert: NYT Sounds Page One Alarm Conservative Bias

Irony alert: Fear of conservative media bias made the front page of the New York Times. The front-page story in Saturday’s edition. featured media reporter Sydney Ember taking another bite out of Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns local television stations in many markets: “TV Titan’s Tilt On the News Roils Its Staff.” The Times, you see, is worried about political bias – not the obvious…
Clay Waters

Bill Clinton Authoring Suspense Novel with James Patterson

Since the November election left him with little influence to peddle, Bill Clinton has once again turned to peddling fiction. On May 8, it was announced that James Patterson and former President Clinton are co-authoring a thriller, “The President is Missing.”  
Sarah Croft

The New Yorker's Impeachment Jokes Look Like Fake News on Facebook

Your average liberal journalist isn't going to think The New Yorker magazine when it comes to fake-news sites on Facebook. But my wife hopped in the car yesterday and asked, in a please-shoot-this-down tone: "Trump didn't really say that if I'm impeached, I'll have the greatest ratings ever." My first reply -- not kidding -- was "that sounds like Andy Borowitz and his brand of humor/hate at the…
Tim Graham

Writer: MSNBC Boss Prefers the ‘Mushy Center’ to Profitable Liberalism

For a real-life example of how to succeed in business without really trying, check out the “Lean Forward” channel, suggests The Week’s Ryan Cooper. Cooper asserts that MSNBC is “attempting to ditch its entire brand as a liberal network just as it is starting to pay off handsomely,” and indicated that the driving force behind the ditchery is Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC.
Tom Johnson

Liberal Schumer’s New Film Not Feminist-y Enough, Critics Cry

Hollywood's highest profile feminist gets smacked around by film critics for some surprising reasons. It isn’t easy being a woke celebrity. You try. And you try. Yet it’s never good enough. Katy Perry attempts to turn her grrrl power shtick into a political movement and gets popped by a withering op-ed in The Daily Beast.
Christian Toto

ABC's Despicable Decision to Cancel ‘Last Man Standing’

On Thursday, ABC cancelled the Tim Allen sitcom Last Man Standing, which had been running on the network for six seasons. During the 2012 election, ABC censored a joke on the show calling then-president Barack Obama a communist. And now ABC has cancelled Last Man Standing allegedly because of a dispute by the show’s distributor 20th Century Fox.  
Matt Norcross

NY Times Uses Obscure Story to Show Inspirational JFK Some Love

Friday’s New York Times featured an obscure bit of history of interest to liberal Kennedy devotees, including perhaps Times reporter Matthew Haag, who used the hook to hang up some seriously starry-eyed hagiography in his news story, “Sounds of a Young Kennedy In a Harvard Classroom."
Clay Waters

Bozell & Graham Column: The Fake News of 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Liberals are hailing a new Hulu series called The Handmaid's Tale, based on a loopy 1985 novel by Canadian radical feminists Margaret Atwood. In this dystopian America, America is turned into a theocracy where women have been denied all rights, including to read. Liberals call it "very timely." This is why conservatives tend to laugh when liberals rail against the scourge of “fake news.” There is…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham

NBC Frets Trump Admin Getting Tougher on Criminals, Reversing Obama

On Friday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Hallie Jackson filed a report that focused on concerns by liberals about Attorney General Jeff Sessions giving orders for federal prosecutors to charge criminals with the aim to give tougher punishments, reversing former President Barack Obama's trend toward releasing criminals and seeking softer charges.
Brad Wilmouth

Late-Night Comedians Only Use McCabe's Testimony to Mock Trump 'BS'

Some network newscasts, like NBC Nightly News, almost completely avoided the testimony of acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, skipping over how he put a severe crimp in anti-Trump narratives -- insisting the FBI's Russia probe was "adequately resourced" and that it hasn't been suppressed or impeded in any way. The late-night comedians were also allergic to those clips, but Trevor Noah was the most…
Tim Graham

Dana Milbank Unleashes Petulant Fury Upon Rod Rosenstein

Waaaaah! Dana Milbank is really really angry at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and if he doesn't do just want Dana wants him to do then he will be shunned by liberals forever and ever. Milbank went into full petulant fury mode on this topic in his May 12 Washington Post column in which he angrily declares how betrayed he feels over the fact that Rosenstein did not follow the approved…
P.J. Gladnick

ESPN's Political Insistence Is Truly 'Outside the Lines' of Fairness

Long-time ESPN veterans and untouchable survivors of multiple layoffs, Jeremy Schaap and Bob Ley say sticking to sports will not work in the modern world of sports. Ley also says, according to Travis Waldron of The Huffington Post, that those who say ESPN is too political are hypocrites.
Jay Maxson

Obama Slams Lunch Critics: They Want to Keep 'Kids Eating Crap'

An impassioned Michelle Obama slammed President Trump’s efforts to roll back some of the regulations on school lunches she started as First Lady. Obama stated bluntly that critics to her healthy lunch program simply “don’t care about your kid.” 
Kristine Marsh

These Mother’s Day Ads Celebrate a Trait All Moms Share

Moms wear so many hats, but there’s a quality they all share: strength. In their Mother’s Day ads, two brands heartwarmingly highlighted this trait. 
Sarah Stites