Rachel Maddow: Delusional GOP Needs to Believe in ‘Fake’ Reagan

Liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne on Monday delighted in mocking the affinity conservatives have for Ronald Reagan, dismissing his record as “fake.” Promoting Dionne’s new book, Maddow introduced, “Ronald Reagan's real record has been submarined and all of his faults and compromises have been ascribed to other people and not to him.” 
Scott Whitlock
January 19th, 2016 4:27 PM

Daily Beast: Criticism of Fox’s ‘Lucifer’ Is ‘Faith-Based Noise’

A twist on the old idea of Satan is coming to your living room this month from Fox, and if that bothers you, you’ll get no sympathy from The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast’s Matthew Paul Turner dismissed those who have criticized Lucifer the new Fox primetime show premiering on January 25.
Mairead McArdle
January 19th, 2016 3:08 PM

CNN Hounds Pataki on Cruz: Didn't He 'Smear' 'Regular New Yorkers'?

CNN's Alisyn Camerota pressed former New York Governor George Pataki on Tuesday's New Day over Ted Cruz's "New York values" attack on Donald Trump. Camerota noted how Pataki asserted that Cruz "was obviously referring to the liberal values of New York politicians," but wondered, "Wasn't he also talking about...regular New Yorkers?" When the Republican politician denied this was the case, the…
Matthew Balan
January 19th, 2016 2:50 PM

Bring Back the Jokes: 'Weiner' Documentary to Be Released

Just when you thought all those Weiner jokes of a few years ago had finally petered out... They're coming back!!! Comedians around the country will be overjoyed to know that there will be new life in the Weiner jokes that practically write themselves with the upcoming release of Weiner the documentary. Although most of us will relish the thought of yet more Weiner laughs, there are some who will…
P.J. Gladnick
January 19th, 2016 12:14 PM

Univision Buys Stake In The Onion, Massively Upgrades News Division

Someitmes art imitates life, and sometimes real life imitates The Onion. In the case of Univision, art and life and self-parody have now come full circle.  Univision has purchased a minority stake in Onion Inc. to "court younger consumers."
Jorge Bonilla
January 19th, 2016 11:55 AM

Gawker On ‘13 Hours’: Its ‘Moral Landscape…Is Poisonous’

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is, of course, part of the Bible Belt. Nonetheless, according to Christopher Hooks, another faith flourishes there: “It’s also a place that’s responsible in large part for the rise of the new civic religion built around the worship of the most lethal among us.” Hooks, an Austin-based journalist, was one of about 30,000 persons who attended last week’s world premiere of…
Tom Johnson
January 19th, 2016 11:49 AM

Chelsea Handler Amazed Racists Aren’t Just ‘Dumb’ Southerners

Appearing on Tuesday’s NBC Today to promote her new documentary series on Netflix, left-wing comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler highlighted the topic of one episode: “...you think you know about racism and then you delve into it and you kind of realize how little you do know and then how embarrassed you are about how little you know. And how embarrassing people in this country are when…
Kyle Drennen
January 19th, 2016 11:38 AM

ABC Touts Michael Moore: ‘Arrest’ GOP Governor for Poisoning City

Good Morning America’s journalists on Tuesday couldn’t help but push far-left politics into the story of Flint, Michigan’s contaminated water supply. While talking about the emergency situation and the protests against Republican Governor Rick Snyder, reporter Alex Perez casually mentioned, “And one of the city's most famed sons, filmmaker Michael Moore, calling for the governor of Michigan to be…
Scott Whitlock
January 19th, 2016 11:32 AM

Mark Levin Shoots Back at Matthews Insult: 'I Find Him to Be a Puke'

The Right Scoop reported on how Mark Levin responded on his radio show last night to our item on the breaking insults of Chris Matthews, who responded to NBC's Katy Tur raising his name with "Oh my God, Mark Levin is one of the most distasteful human beings out there."  Levin replied "I find him to be a puke. There they are, spending time with Saturday Night Live, about Ted Cruz looking like he’…
Tim Graham
January 19th, 2016 10:11 AM

What the Liberal Media Won’t Tell You: Hillary Bullied Bill’s Victims

What the liberal media have routinely failed to do, since the 1990s, is tell their audiences how Hillary Clinton was not some innocent bystander, but was just as guilty in attacking those women who could’ve been a threat to their rise to power.   
Geoffrey Dickens
January 19th, 2016 10:00 AM

Robert Gates Carpet Bombs the Presidential Field!

Wow! That was Mika Brzezinski's repeated reaction to Robert Gates' amazingly frank take on the presidential field. Appearing on today's Morning Joe, the former Defense Secretary shot down all contenders mentioned, dumped on two who have not yet entered the race, and retroactively knocked President Obama for always thinking he was the smartest guy in the room.  Here was Gates' rap on various…
Mark Finkelstein
January 19th, 2016 9:56 AM

Klein, Hayes Lament Hillary’s Sometimes Too Wonky for Voters to Grasp

Discussing the fallout of Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s All In, host Chris Hayes and Vox Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein lamented that Clinton’s “tremendous command and mastery” of subject material when working with colleagues hasn’t exactly shown through to voters as she’s “seemed paralyzed by her knowledge of how many ways a straightforward position can get…
Curtis Houck
January 19th, 2016 12:14 AM

AP Fails to Report: 93 Pct. of U.S. Counties Haven't Fully Recovered

On Wednesday, Amber Phillips at the Washington Post's The Fix blog impressively took President Obama to task for his over-the-top bragging about the nation's mediocre (and likely getting worse) economy. She noted that "the biggest knock on the Obama economy ... is that the recovery has been very good for the wealthy and certain sectors and not so much for the middle class and everyone else." Hear…
Tom Blumer
January 18th, 2016 11:58 PM

'Billions' Serves Up Lib Stereotypes with a Healthy Side of Dominatrix

A strong indicator that the plot of your show might be a tad underwhelming is when you feel compelled to make your opening scene an orgy of sadomasochistic torture. I won’t describe it. Just watch, if you dare.
Dylan Gwinn
January 18th, 2016 11:51 PM