'Scream Queens' Takes a Stab at Hannity, Warren, Trump's Hair, Obama

Culture
December 7th, 2016 1:01 AM
The newest episode of Fox’s Scream Queens, titled “Rapunzel, Rapunzel,” did a whole lot of political name-dropping on Tuesday night.
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Michael Moore: GOP Congress will Pass 'Onslaught' of 'Suffering'

December 7th, 2016 12:58 AM
CNN political commentator Van Jones hosted a special town hall event titled The Messy Truth Tuesday night, to talk about how “both parties kind of suck.” During the forum, he admitted that there was an elitist vein running through the Democratic Party, and that many rust belt voters supported Donald Trump because their harsh economic reality. But the constructive conversation turned dark at the…
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Nets Can't Decide on Air Force One Contract Numbers, Smear Trump

December 6th, 2016 10:30 PM
Despite recent revelations that the Pentagon may have been hiding $125 billion in wasteful spending, the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) all knocked President-Elect Donald Trump Tuesday for tweeting his disapproval of the $4 billion price tag of two new presidential aircraft. “President-Elect Donald Trump's sparking a new controversy over Air Force One after once again, taking to social…

Evidente la disonancia cognitiva en Al Punto

Latino
December 6th, 2016 10:27 PM
Queda claro que muchos en Univision aún tratan de procesar lo que ocurrió el mes pasado. Esto fue muy evidente en la más reciente edición de Al Punto, donde tanto al anfitrión como al invitado se les hizo difícil entender el desenlace de las pasadas elecciones.

CNN Gives 36 Minutes in Less Than a Day to Previewing Neo-Nazi Speech

December 6th, 2016 10:19 PM
In this week’s edition of the liberal media normalizing the abhorrent “alt-right” and neo-Nazi movement led by Richard Spencer, CNN dedicated 36 minutes and 46 seconds over the course of 24 hours on Monday and Tuesday to previewing a Spencer speech at Texas A&M University despite correctly emphasizing he has a “hate-filled mission.”
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Trevor Noah: Don't Fear Donald Trump, Be Scared of His 'Enablers'

December 6th, 2016 6:35 PM
During Monday night's edition of The Daily Show on the Comedy Central cable television channel, host Trevor Noah slammed Donald Trump for making “outlandish” comments on the Twitter website, but the comedian saved his harshest criticisms for the GOP president-elect's “enablers” who worry that Trump is being “too casual with the highest office in the land.” “If you're one of those people who…

NY Times: 'Spontaneous' Hillary Sightings 'A Political Salve'

December 6th, 2016 6:21 PM
At the New York Times on Friday, Amanda Hess regaled readers over how the "spontaneous" and "chance" sightings of Hillary Clinton since Election Day have made Mrs. Clinton "a new folk hero." Her virtual hagiography even made it to Page C1 of the paper's Saturday print edition. There's more sap in Hess's writeup than one could likely collect from all of the trees in the wooded areas in which Mrs.…

Who's More 'Authoritarian'? Trump or Media That Want Him to Shut Up?

December 6th, 2016 5:30 PM
After Trump's thank-you rally in Cincinnati, CNN's Dana Bash complained. “There were lots of divisive comments, especially and unfortunately about the press, which I wish he would stop doing." CNN's Brian Stelter said his anti-media remarks make him an "authoritarian." But which is more authoritarian? A president that criticizes the press? Or a press that insists that the president must shut up…
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Cognitive Dissonance on Display at Al Punto

Latino
December 6th, 2016 5:19 PM
It is clear that many at Univision are still trying to process what happened last month. This much was evident on the most recent edition of the network's weekly public affairs program, Al Punto, as both host and guest struggled to understand the outcome of the election.

NPR Lets 'Anti-Poverty' Activists Lament Carson Pick; Omits Obama Ties

December 6th, 2016 5:15 PM
NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday touted how many "anti-poverty advocates across the political spectrum" are now "worried" after President-Elect Donald Trump picked Dr. Ben Carson to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Correspondent Pam Fessler spotlighted how "advocates fear the worst — that it will lead to deep cuts in programs to reduce homelessness, and to subsidize affordable…

Slate Writer: Megyn Kelly Feeds ‘Red Meat to Her White Base’

December 6th, 2016 4:28 PM
Megyn Kelly is a journalist, but she’s also a sort of actress, suggested Isaac Chotiner in a Monday review of her new book, Settle for More. To Chotiner, Kelly’s a conservative who plays a nonpartisan on TV. She has “done her best to cloud her real agenda.” And it’s worked: she has “wide-ranging respect and admiration among a press corps generally (and rightly) suspicious and dismissive of Fox…

NYT’s Rutenberg, in Panic, Warns of Putin-Style Thuggery Dawning

December 6th, 2016 4:19 PM
We’re just a few steps away from Putin-style reign in America under the Trump regime, New York Times media reporter Jim Rutenberg implied in his “Mediator” column on the front of Monday’s Business Day: “From Russia Comes a Warning for Americans.” Rutenberg used Tolokonnikova, who has also attacked Trump, to make dubious parallels between the Russian media situation and America’s: “...as an…
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Whoopi Claims No One in the Media Fact-Checked Trump

December 6th, 2016 3:26 PM
Tuesday on The View, the panel discussed “fake news” and how Trump has contributed to the proliferation of “fake news” and the consequential distrust in the media. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg then made the ludicrous claim that the media gave Donald Trump a free pass and never called him out for making false statements.“There was no one saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute. That’s not true, you can’t say that…

Dean Cain Tells Hollywood to Put on Their 'Big Boy Pants'

Culture
December 6th, 2016 2:49 PM
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign received unprecedented Hollywood support, from super PACs to TV shows, to social media, to concert endorsements. But actor Dean Cain warned celebrities, “Be careful about the things you say and vilifying the other side because it can come back to bite you.” On “Fox & Friends” on December 6, Cain, who stars in the film about convicted abortionist Kermit…