Sean Spicer: Media Still Disrespecting Trump, Cheering On Democrats

Incoming press secretary Sean Spicer told Joe Concha of The Hill that the media are still not treating President-elect Donald Trump with respect, and insisted the media continue to cheer on Democrats without shame.   “There's some positive aspects here and there, but largely it still continues to not treat him with the respect that he deserves,” Spicer said. Meanwhile, “There are countless…
Tim Graham

Meteorologist: Climate Change and Trump Have Driven Me to Therapy

Meteorologist Eric Holthaus, who has appeared a couple of times on these pages in the past (more on that shortly), is in therapy. Well, okay, lots of people are. But get a load of what has driven Holthaus into therapy: "I know many ppl feel deep despair about climate, especially post-election." And it's because of this, "There are days where I literally can't work," and "We don't deserve this…
Tom Blumer

TV Critic Slams CBS Show as 'Xenophobic Trash' for the 'Trump Era'

CBS isn't conservative or pro-Trump in any way in its news programming, but Hollywood Reporter TV critic Daniel Fienberg is accusing CBS of entertainment programming "perfectly tailored for the Trump era." The show is Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, a spinoff of the successful (and violent) FBI drama. Fienberg slammed it in a feature on the "Worst TV of 2016."
Tim Graham

Thrush, NYT's New Democratic 'Hack' Lectures Trump on 'Intimidation'

Journalist Glenn Thrush, who recently took his Democratic partisanship from Politico to the New York Times, filed “Trump Finds That Attack-Dog Strategy Has Its Limits” for Saturday’s New York edition. The news media was not at all happy with Donald Trump Twitter mockery of liberal Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, and Thrush piled on Trump. Thrush is a self-described “hack” for the failed Clinton…
Clay Waters

AP: Will Trump Ruin Mood at Golden Globes?

 Yes, Donald Trump has the power to ruin a major awards ceremony without even being there. According to the Associated Press, the mood of the Golden Globes ceremony which takes place on Sunday could be ruined by Trump simply due to the fact that he won the election. Dozens of high paid celebrities are in danger of having being completely bummed out simply by the existence of Trump as you can see…
P.J. Gladnick

CNN Touts Liberal Women Marching on DC Pretending to Be Non-Partisan

On Friday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, host Costello devoted a four-minute segment to a pair of liberal women who are hoping to get 200,000 women to march in D.C. on Donald Trump's first day in office as President  Even though the group is obviously left-wing, not only were there no ideological labels used to describe their views, but they were even allowed to promote themselves as if they…
Brad Wilmouth

NYT’s Ongoing Adulation of Michelle's ‘'Mom in Chief’ Normalcy'

The New York Times continued its embarrassing idolization of departing first lady Michelle Obama, but this time without even the excuse of arts page placement: White House reporter Julie Hirschfeld Davis gushed over the first lady's last public remarks in Saturday's “In Emotional Finale, First Lady Says, ‘I Hope I’ve Made You Proud."
Clay Waters

NBC Gets Intel Report Before Trump

Donald Trump asked the right question in this tweet:“How did NBC get "an exclusive look into the top secret report he (Obama) was presented?" Who gave them this report and why? Politics!” Exactly. But buckle in. This is what the Trump White House - or any GOP White House that is elected to change the way government is run - will face.
Jeffrey Lord

Nation Columnist: Media Stumped By ‘Compulsive Liar’ Trump

Bill Clinton was, in the words of one of his competitors for the 1992 Democratic nomination, “an unusually good liar,” but for Eric Alterman, a critical mass of mendacity in presidential politics didn’t develop until 2016. Alterman thinks it explains the mainstream media’s response to POTUS-elect Donald Trump. “Mainstream journalists are used to collaborating with politicians to tell the truth a…
Tom Johnson

Dear Whoopi: Yes, Hollywood Targets Conservatives

Here's a quick list for The View host of times Hollywood blacklisted conservatives. Whoopi Goldberg thinks it’s pure “BS” that conservatives don’t get a fair shake in Hollywood. And, for a change, she made some sound arguments to back up her thinking this week on The View.
Christian Toto

Here's the Most Outrageously Liberal Quotes in Primetime TV, Part II

In my previous installment chronicling 2016's most outrageous instances of liberal bias in scripted primetime television, I talked about how some entertainment programming from the broadcast networks often featured some of the most in-your-face political lectures Hollywood puts out. 
Matt Norcross

PBS's Mark Shields Scolds Trump for Daring to Mock Chuck Schumer

On Friday's week-in-review segment on the PBS NewsHour, everyone was disparaging Donald Trump -- anchor Judy Woodruff, liberal analyst Mark Shields, and pseudo-conservative David Brooks. They mocked Trump as childish for calling Sen. Charles Schumer the "head clown" of the Democrats. Shields weirdly lectured: "Chuck Schumer is a proud and able and dedicated and skillful leader, and you don’t want…
Tim Graham

Shhh! Six Months After Brexit Vote, UK 'Has World's Top Economy'

In June, when UK voters decided to leave the European Union in the "Brexit" referendum, the U.S. press told the American people that the UK economy would suffer greatly as a result. Moody's economist and max Hillary Clinton contributor Mark Zandi predicted that it would be "going down the rabbit hole." At CBS News, Mellody Hobson said that "they're acting as if a recession is a foregone…
Tom Blumer

Bozell & Graham Column: Freedom of Association Is Great...For Liberals

The secular-Left website Slate recently warned on Twitter that “’Religious Freedom’ legislation will be everywhere in 2017.” “Religious Freedom” is in scare quotes, a warning that deplorables will use that thing called “religion” as their “weapon of choice” in the coming assault on the “LGBTQ” community. The same website is celebrating a petition urging the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to reverse its…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham