Reacting to Rachel Dolezal’s interview with MSNBC during which the former Spokane NAACP president claimed to identify as black, CNN discussed the merits of such a statement. On Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield, Charles Blow of the New York Times and cultural critic Michaela Angela Davis dismissed the idea that Dolezal could identify as black on the basis of white privilege.
Davis asserted that…
Yet again, MSNBC has revived the narrative that Hillary Clinton is good at dealing with the press and answering questions. In recent weeks, this argument has been made several times by media members looking to downplay the former First Lady’s seeming reluctance to take any questions.
Making an appearance on The Rachel Maddow Show last night, Andrea Mitchell talked up Hillary as being “so good…
Transgenderism is so yesterday. It’s time to “discuss” transracial issues! That, of course, according to a guest on the June 15 edition of MSNBC’s NewsNation. Tamron Hall invited Earl Hutchinson – a radio host and prominent author on racial issues – to the program to chat about the still unfolding story surrounding Rachel Dolezal, the now former head of the Spokane NAACP who lied about being…
The June 10 edition of The Last Word featured all the predictable elements of a liberal media discussion on abortion. Host Lawrence O’Donnell invited Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, former Democratic congressman Barney Frank, and the New York Times’ Jeremy Peters to the program to bash the Republican “war on women.” The discussion concerned a proposed 20-week abortion ban that’s…
On the June 10 edition of MSNBC Live, Thomas Roberts chose to highlight a non-scientific poll that showed several Republican candidates for president polling behind Voldemort from Harry Potter. The segment was based on a Washington Post survey and story that was highlighted by fellow Newsbusters blogger Matthew Balan.
Carrying on the media’s continued effort to poke at Christians, Conan O’Brien cracked a joke, suggesting that evangelicals’ supposed intolerance of gay people may be coming to an end: “Across the country, some evangelical groups are starting to take a second look at the Bible’s stance on gay people. Yeah, they're taking a second look at it. They're noting that if you count Joseph and God, Jesus…
CNN’s Newsroom with Carol Costello analyzed Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush's trip to Europe and campaign shakeup, and couldn't help but put a negative spin on it.
In the wake of President Obama’s comments at the G7 summit where he expressed confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold the federal subsidies in ObamaCare, hosts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discussed the fallout for the president and Republicans after the Court decides King v. Burwell later this month. Of course, Heilemann confirmed all of Obama’s questionable statements by relying on…
Following this past weekend’s ‘Roast and Ride’ in Iowa for the Republican presidential candidates, Seth Meyers took to mocking the entire event and the GOP contenders for “making lame pig puns.”
After playing clips from Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, and Iowa senator Chuck Grassley making various pig references, Meyers shouted: “Yikes! Can no one make a joke without falling back on a pig pun?…
The liberal media virtually never recognize the glaringly obvious fact that the Democratic Party has moved far to the left in recent years. Almost without exception, they harp on the idea that the Republicans have shifted to the right, while suggesting that the Democrats are in mainstream.
However, on the June 8 edition of Wolf, CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger noted that “it won’t…