Matthews Blames the Victim: AFDI 'Caused' Attack in Garland, Texas

Taking a classic blame-the-victim posture on his May 4 Hardball program, host Chris Matthews joined terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann in blaming The American Freedom Defense Initiative for the would-be terror attack at the Garland, Texas, event on Sunday.
Ken Shepherd
May 4th, 2015 10:25 PM

Nets Downplay 2016 GOP Presidential Announcements of Carson & Fiorina

Following the announcements from Republicans Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina that they will each be running for president, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC showed no interest in giving extensive time to either candidate during their Monday evening newscasts with a combined one minute and 10 seconds of news briefs devoted to the new 2016 candidates. Clocking in with the least amount of time was…
Curtis Houck
May 4th, 2015 9:56 PM

Salon Writer: Candidate Carson Will ‘Make…a Fool of Himself’

Salon’s Jim Newell doesn’t think Ben Carson will be the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, but he doesn’t see him as a garden-variety wanna-be. Rather, Newell believes that Carson is likely to incur one “spectacular humiliation” after another on the campaign trail. In a Monday article, Newell contended that the “free-flowing style [Carson] showed at the [2013] National Prayer Breakfast has…
Tom Johnson
May 4th, 2015 9:18 PM

MSNBC Pundit Suggests Ben Carson an Affirmative-Action Case

According to MSNBC pundit Michelle Bernard -- best known at NewsBusters perhaps because of her insistence that there is a "war on black boys" in America -- savaged newly-announced GOP presidential aspirant Dr. Ben Carson tonight by alleging his success is all owed to "affirmative action." She also suggested that he's a disgrace to his enslaved ancestors and to the black community in Baltimore,…
Ken Shepherd
May 4th, 2015 8:47 PM

Newsweek Weirdly Ties Pope's Defense of Marriage to Supreme Court Case

Taylor Wofford spotlighted how Pope Francis "publicly affirmed his stance on so-called traditional marriage between men and women" in a Wednesday item for Newsweek. Wofford did his best to indicate that the pontiff was commenting about the recent oral arguments on same-sex "marriage" at the Supreme Court: "Though he made no specific mention of the case before the court during his daily general…
Matthew Balan
May 4th, 2015 6:43 PM

At AP, 1.9 Percent 2nd-Quarter Growth Would Be 'A Significant Rebound'

At the Associated Press today, Martin Crutsinger's coverage of the Census Bureau's March Factory Orders report admitted that a leading economic forecasting firm currently believes that the economy will grow at an annualized rate of just 1.9 percent in the second quarter. Despite the fact that just about everyone who is anyone had until very recently been saying that the figure will be 3 percent…
Tom Blumer
May 4th, 2015 6:14 PM

'Progressive Men's Magazine' Adds HIV-Positive Blood to Ink on Cover

A Vienna-based magazine that calls itself Vangardist -- and a “progressive men’s magazine” -- is seeking to renew interest in the rise of HIV and AIDS around the world this week by printing a select number of magazine covers using ink infused with HIV-infected blood. The 3,000 copies of the publication's special edition also features stories of "HIV heroes" at a time when the editors say too…
Randy Hall
May 4th, 2015 6:02 PM

Andrea Mitchell: Group Targeted By Terrorists Is 'Bizarre,' 'Hateful'

Andrea Mitchell opened her show on Monday by immediately insisting that an organization, targeted by Muslim gunmen in Texas on Sunday, was both "hateful" and "bizarre." Talking to journalist Ayman Mohyeldin, she fretted, "Do we know anything more about this, frankly bizarre, draw-the-prophet gathering? Is this the first time they've ever held something like this?" 
Scott Whitlock
May 4th, 2015 5:43 PM

CNN Touts 'Hate Group' Claim Against Group Targeted in Texas Attack

On Monday's New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota played up how the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the group targeted by two suspected Islamists in Texas a "hate group." Camerota underlined that "other people say" that Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is "even a hate group, and that they're vehemently anti-Islam....They talk about Islam, and they talk about it with…
Matthew Balan
May 4th, 2015 5:31 PM

‘Comedy’: Amy Schumer Compares Birth Control to Gun Rights

Birth control shouldn’t be controlled, according to Amy Schumer’s new ad.  Amy Schumer’s “Ask if birth control is right for you” ad premiered during the third season of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer on April 21 – but is just starting to go viral on social media. The ad follows Schumer as she asks everyone from her boss to strangers on the street for permission to buy birth control, and…
Katie Yoder
May 4th, 2015 4:23 PM

Ben Carson to Media: You Have 'Sacred Position,' 'Don't Abuse It'

In declaring his presidential candidacy on Monday, Dr. Ben Carson took the liberal media to task: "You know, the media, the press, is the only business in America that is protected by our constitution.... It was because our founders envisioned a press that was on the side of the people, not a press that was on the side of the Democrats or the Republicans....And this is a direct appeal to media:…
Kyle Drennen
May 4th, 2015 4:10 PM

MSNBC’s Roberts Lets SPLC’s Potok Compare AFDI to Klan

In the wake of an attempted mass shooting at a free speech event hosted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) in Texas, on Monday MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts hosted Mark Potok of the far left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and allowed him to equate them with a “Klan group that decides to hold a cartoon contest satirizing black people.” 
Jeffrey Meyer
May 4th, 2015 3:18 PM

New Anti-American Show Praised by USA Network President

Craving an anti-American show where the “elites” are playing ‘god’ without permission? Look no further than Mr. Robot, a drama set to premiere on USA starting June 24, 2015. “Sometimes I dream of saving the world,” the protagonist mused in one of several promotional clips for the show, “Saving everyone from the Invisible Hand - the top 1 percent of the best that play ‘god’ without permission.…
Aly Nielsen
May 4th, 2015 2:27 PM

Nets on TX Shooting: Event Hosted By 'Notorious' 'Anti-Muslim Group'

After armed gunmen opened fire at a free speech event in Texas on Sunday, all three networks on Monday chided the sponsor organization as "notorious" or "controversial." The American Freedom Defense Initiative created a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad and while ABC's Good Morning America covered the details of the attack, co-host George Stephanopoulos wondered: "How about the event itself…

Scott Whitlock
May 4th, 2015 12:19 PM