Hillary Gives Chocolate to 'Cooperative,' 'Wonderful' Press; Skips Q's
In her latest attempt on Thursday afternoon to dodge questions from her press corps in extending her streak of days without a press conference to 264 days, Hillary Clinton tried some chocolate from a local store after blasting Donald Trump and the despicable alt-right movement and implored the employees to feed the assembled press because they’re “so wonderful, so cooperative, [and] so…
Curtis Houck
Clinton Campaign Seeks 'Correction' of AP Tweet on Her Meetings
In one of the latest developments regarding the Associated Press article that claims more than half of the people who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money to the Clinton Foundation, the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign has called on the AP to change the tweet promoting the article.
The initial posting reads: “BREAKING: AP analysis: More than half those…
Randy Hall
Hulu Series' Reagan Character Sings 'I Ignored AIDS'
The Hulu original Difficult People, starring Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner, got political in episode 7 of the second season. The pair concoct a plan to make a historical musical like the Broadway smash “Hamilton,” name it “Carter,” and yet somehow manage to find a way to bash President Ronald Reagan.
Alexa Moutevelis
NY Times Celebrates Sex-Toy Anti-Gun Protest at Univ. of Texas
Self-impressed with its own cultivated “weirdness,” the college town of Austin, Texas, is a blue redoubt in a red state, so it’s no surprise that some students vulgarly protested the state’s concealed-carry law, which now allows concealed handguns to be carried on campus. New York Times reporter Dave Philipps couldn’t get enough of it, celebrating the protest in Thursday’s edition: “Texas…
Clay Waters
PolitiFact Laughably Denies $400 Million to Iran Was 'Ransom'
Early in August it was revealed that the U.S. secretly airlifted $400 million dollars to Iran on the same day that it released four of its U.S. hostages, back in January. As soon as the highly-suspicious details came out, conservatives noted the exchange certainly looked like a ransom payment. Donald Trump thought the same thing and called it that at a rally on August 21. For that obvious…
Kristine Marsh
'Hardball': Clinton Foundation Q's Are Political; Donors Are Friends!
The panic on the faces of Clinton Foundation defenders grew more palpable on Wednesday night as the questions surrounding donors having meetings with Hillary Clinton’s State Department remained a part of the news cycle, so it was up to liberal journalists like Andrea Mitchell and MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews to defend and deflect these concerns as merely “political” ploys by Republicans.
Curtis Houck
Federalist: Politico Attack on GOPer Is ‘What’s Wrong With Media'
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway on Tuesday nailed exactly what’s wrong with a profanity-laced exchange between a Republican congressional candidate and a smug Politico journalist. Writer Marc Caputo has been praised for releasing on YouTube his phone conversation with the GOP’s Dan Bongino.
Scott Whitlock
NBC & CBS Help Hillary Defend Clinton Foundation
After all three network morning shows promoted the Clinton campaign’s attempt to discredit criticism of the Clinton Foundation on Wednesday, on Thursday, both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning kept providing the Democratic nominee with a megaphone to defend the family charity and dismiss accusations of corruption.
Kyle Drennen
Nets Upset Over Trump’s ‘Bigot’ Attack; Yawn at Hillary on 'Hate'
The networks on Thursday erupted as Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “bigot.” But these journalists didn’t appear outraged as the Democrat called out the businessman’s “hate.” On CBS This Morning, Norah O’Donnell trumpeted, “Donald Trump is taking name calling new a new level. He called Hillary Clinton a bigot last night in Jackson, Mississippi.”
Scott Whitlock
When Was Neutrality Ever Really 'An Option' For Jorge Ramos?
If these "Stuff Jorge Ramos Says" posts seem repetitive, it is because it is unprecedented for a national news anchor to go on the record with his opinions of a presidential candidate (published on multinational platforms), because the establishment media has aided and abetted this break with longstanding tradition, and because it is important to create preserve -consistent with the mission of…
Jorge Bonilla
Chestfeeding: Cosmo Reports from New Trans Frontier
It’s back to school time, so here’s your new vocab word from the PC lexicon: “chestfeeding.”
What? You’ve never even heard of it? Well, Cosmo’s Kathryn Lindsay is willing to give you a pass. “If it's new to you,” she wrote in an August 24 article, “that's understandable — it's not something typically talked about in mainstream pregnancy circles.”
Sarah Stites
Sellers Pushes Blame for Black Poverty from Dems to GOP Legislatures
Appearing as a panel member on Thursday's CNN New Day, when challenged with the fact that many cities where much of the black population live in poverty have been controlled by Democrats for many decades, liberal CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers tried to push blame onto "Southern legislatures" in "red states" -- all of which are currently Republican-controlled -- for black poverty.
Brad Wilmouth
Soros Actually Gave $1.5 Mil to Cover Up Planned Parenthood Scandal
It’s no secret that liberal billionaire George Soros is one of Planned Parenthood’s biggest donors. Now leaked documents show that the horrific videos uncovering the abortion mill’s baby parts trade only encouraged his foundation to give more.
Katie Yoder
Nighly News to the Left of Morning Joe in Latest on Clinton Scandal
Early Wednesday morning, Nicholas Fondacaro at NewsBusters noted how the NBC Nightly News spent Tuesday evening defending Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation in the wake of an Associated Press report showing that "At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or…