MSNBC Reporter Asks Rubio: ‘Do You Have A Lead Foot?'

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, the network’s political correspondent Kasie Hunt touted a clip of her pressing Florida Senator Marco Rubio over a handful of traffic tickets: “I have to ask you, there was a New York Times report about your collection of speeding tickets. Do you have a lead foot?”
Kyle Drennen
June 8th, 2015 10:36 AM

NYT Heralded Phony Memoir on NYC's 'Retrograde,' Anti-Feminist Women

Primates of Park Avenue is a new memoir by Wednesday Martin that purports to examine and explain the preposterously well-off women of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, much like Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees. Martin's prominent pre-publication essay in the New York Times mocked those "poor little rich women" for betraying feminism by being "dependent and comparatively disempowered." Times…
Clay Waters
June 8th, 2015 8:45 AM

ABC Family, TLC Producing Summer Reality TV Promoting Transgenderism

Because even after the Caitlyn Jenner publicity push, we just haven’t heard enough about that tiny fraction of the population struggling against biology and reality, TLC and ABC Family are producing shows promoting transgender activists and their conversion experiences. ABC Family’s Becoming Us is scheduled to premiere tonight, focusing on a teenager whose parents have recently divorced. As if…
MRC Culture Staff
June 8th, 2015 7:23 AM

Halperin: Stop Complaining About NYT Rubios' Tickets Story, Hypocrites

In a contest for the most consistent media fool of the year, Bloomberg's Mark Halperin would be an early favorite to take the top prize for 2015. This year, Halperin has already had at least three instances of outrageous hackery. As will be seen, for sheer hypocrisy, his most recent is arguably his worst.
Tom Blumer
June 7th, 2015 11:57 PM

Straw-Man Argument at Houston Chron: Frackers Want 'No Regulations'

After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft report on Thursday declaring that, in his own words, "The government has no public safety justification to ban" hyrdraulic fracturing, or fracking, Houston Chronicle business writer Chris Tomlinson falsely claimed that the industry believes it "needs no regulation." Tomlinson formerly toiled at the Associated Press, and it shows. One…
Tom Blumer
June 7th, 2015 10:12 PM

On His New Show, FNC’s Gutfeld Zings Jon Stewart: ‘Edgy’ is Not Risky

The second edition of FNC’s new show starring funny man Greg Gutfeld will run Sunday night, reminding me he ended his inaugural show last Sunday by taking on the “vacuous” who “pawn stupid stuff as cool” and create the “snickering dismissal of an intellectual class trained by the Comedy Central applause sign.”

Brent Baker
June 7th, 2015 9:15 PM

Networks Mostly Skipped Hillary's Texas Speech on Voting Rights

Hillary Clinton’s failure to engage in any press interviews may have led to a near-blackout on her speech at Texas Southern University on Thursday accusing the Republicans of voter suppression. ABC, CBS, and NBC all ignored the story until Sunday – when CBS took it up on Face the Nation. The PBS NewsHour gave it one sentence on Thursday night, and on Friday they set up Mark Shields to accuse…
Tim Graham
June 7th, 2015 6:47 PM

Lefty Writer: ‘Much Truth’ to Idea MSM Want to ‘Take Down’ Hillary

Never mind the vast right-wing conspiracy, suggests Michael Tomasky in the June 25 New York Review of Books. What Hillary Clinton needs to concern herself with are 1) a possible vast mainstream-media conspiracy and 2) her and her husband’s propensity for shadiness and avarice. In a nearly 3,800-word article that’s ostensibly a review of Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash but in classic NYRB fashion…
Tom Johnson
June 7th, 2015 5:20 PM

Immigration Poll Results Ignored on Spanish Nets

New polling showing high levels of dissatisfaction with the Obama administration’s handling of federal immigration policy, as well as majority support for doing “a lot” more to reduce illegal immigration, has so far been ignored by the nation’s top Spanish-language television networks.
Ken Oliver-Méndez
June 7th, 2015 3:55 PM

Cosmo Editor Admits Her Magazine Engages In ‘Liberal Cheerleading’

During a discussion on CNN’s Reliable Sources about whether or not women’s magazines were biased in favor of Hillary Clinton, Cosmopolitan editor Joanna Coles admitted that her magazine engages in “liberal cheerleading.” Coles claimed her magazine was “very interested in the issues around politics and how they impact our readers” which include “do they have access to contraception and God forbid…
Jeffrey Meyer
June 7th, 2015 2:39 PM

WashPost: 'Many Americans' Love Jenner, Right Wing Is 'Apocalyptic'

The media’s glorification of Bruce Jenner’s sexual confusion would not be complete without an attack on conservative voices. Enter the Washington Post’s national political reporter Robert Costa and national political correspondent Philip Rucker, who do their best to portray conservatives as “apocalyptic” fear mongers losing touch with reality. On Friday’s front page, the Post reported “…
Bryan Ballas
June 7th, 2015 2:12 PM

Lindsey Graham: America's Polarized, and It's All Hannity's Fault

America is in deep trouble.  And it’s all Sean Hannity’s fault. So says newly minted GOP presidential candidate and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.  Said Senator Graham in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, as reported here in the Washington Examiner
Jeffrey Lord
June 7th, 2015 1:45 PM

Lefty Robert Reich: Disclosure A ‘Key Vulnerability’ for Hillary

On Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary for Bill Clinton, surprisingly criticized Hillary Clinton over her foundations’s donation issues and insisted “full disclosure is a key vulnerability” for her candidacy.
Jeffrey Meyer
June 7th, 2015 12:27 PM

Lanny Davis Whines About 'Media Frenzy' Over Hillary Clinton

When they can't go directly after something a Republican or conservative candidate says, the establishment press attempts to make a big deal out of dumb things their aides utter or publish. Leftist apparatchiks usually have no such worries. The latest example of an item which would be prominently in the news if a Republican or conservative had written something equally dense comes from Lanny…
Tom Blumer
June 7th, 2015 10:40 AM