ABC gushed over the Empire star Jussie Smollett and the alleged hate crime he claimed to be a victim of. But recent reporting from ABC7, their local affiliate in Chicago, suggested that Smollett may have collaborated with others to stage the attack because he allegedly was being written off the show.
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New TBS Comedy Mocks God as Lazy, Inept and “Incredibly Needy”
If the approximately 5,892,643 other attempts by Hollywood to mock and criticize God weren’t enough, TBS’s new comedy Miracle Workers, which premiered on February 12, has just given us one more vehicle that does just that.
MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt Quits His “Bulls**t” Podcast
Steve Schmidt has been reminded what it’s like to be a Republican. The former GOP operative, who spent most of his time as an MSNBC analyst bashing the Republican Party, recently quit his own “bulls***” podcast after the show’s co-host grilled him on supporting a third party candidate.
Netflix Pays Through the Nose for a Film Celebrating Ocasio-Cortez
Netflix paid the most ever offered for a documentary at a festival — a whopping $10 million.
SB Nation Heralds Super “Social Justice” Bowl: Kaepernick’s Everywhere
Social justice warriors won’t admit it, but pro football has moved beyond Kaepernick, the social media-sniping hater of cops, former National Anthem kneeler, lover of communist Cuba and American freedom-denier.
MIT Study Attacks Fox News as “Not to Be Trusted”
The schools and studies that are shaping technology’s approach to fake news and censorship are biased in favor of the left.
Hollywood Quick to Blame Trump Supporters for Alleged Hate Crime Against Liberal Actor
TV news Wednesday morning continued reporting on the alleged hate crime against black, gay Empire actor Jussie Smollett by Trump supporters. Despite Chicago P.D. stating that they have scoured through hundreds of hours of security camera footage and haven’t come up with any evidence supporting Smollett’s claims, Hollywood rushed to blame President Trump and the right for the attack.
CNN Town Hall with Kamala Fields No Questions from the Right
In all, there were 16 questions posed to Harris from the audience and all but two of them came from purely leftist positions. The remaining two came from a neutral position with none from the right.
NY Times Slams “Fringe” Ginni Thomas Promoting Conspiracy Theories in White House
New York Times political reporters Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni clearly objected to President Trump meeting with “hard-right” activists led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in Sunday’s “Trump Is Said to Have Met Wife of Justice and Activities.”.…A relentlessly hostile tone pervaded the piece, which evidently came courtesy of a few unhappy White House staffers.
Sean Spicer Says Media Make Press Briefing a Circus of B-Rate Reporters
During an appearance on Fox News, former Press Secretary Sean Spicer stated that the administration made the right call on limited press briefings because the media turn them “into a circus” that has created “a bunch of YouTube stars that were B-rate reporters.”
Bullies: NBC Takes Swings at Covington Kids and Lets Phillips Scold Them
Continuing to treat them like little Klansmen, NBC Nightly News added to their disgusting coverage of the Covington Kids Tuesday night by taking repeated shots at them even though new video had vindicated them
Searing Fox Nation Documentary Exposes Dan Rather’s Fraud in “The Birth of Fake News”
Sketchy, unreliable, and downright fake news predates the 2016 presidential election. And now, one of the most infamous examples is fully exposed in a Fox Nation streaming documentary. “Black Eye: Dan Rather and the Birth of Fake News” is a 93 minute investigation of the former CBS News host and his 2004 quest to take down George W. Bush.
7 Horrific Crimes by Illegal Immigrants That Network News Buried
Includes the beheading of a senior citizen and the suffocation of elderly patients.
CBS Tries to Shame Karen Pence for Working at Christian School
“Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen, has returned to teaching at a Christian school in Virginia where gay students and gay teachers are not welcome,” anchor Jeff Glor announced with a disapproving tone. As he began his report, correspondent Chip Reid seemed to be in dismay by the school’s stance on homosexuality.
3 Broadcast Networks Trashed Trump with 90% Negative Spin in 2018
The tone of coverage remains incessantly hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (excluding neutral statements), matching the historically bad press that we documented in 2017. Yet despite the media’s obvious disapproval, public opinion of the President actually improved slightly during 2018.
PC Mouthpiece Bill Maher Hilariously Called Out in Hollywood Billboards
It turns out there are still a few good-humored, politically-incorrect folks in Hollywood after all. Over the weekend, lefty-bashing street artist provocateurs publicly slammed HBO’s Bill Maher with a satirical billboard depicting him not as the thought leader he imagines himself to be, but as a rote purveyor of mainstream liberal propaganda.
CNN’s Stelter Complains That Media Aren’t Talking About Russia Enough
CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday complained — with a straight face — that some in the news media were not spending enough time covering the Russian collusion narrative.
Cable News Repeats Myth That Illegals Commit Fewer Crimes Than US Citizens
Between Monday evening and Wednesday morning, a significant number of journalists and regular commentators across CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox News have cited claims from a handful of flawed studies claiming that illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than do American citizens.
NBC’s Seth Meyers Jokes About Americans Murdered by Illegal Aliens
Late Night host Seth Meyers’ Twitter account sent out a tweet mocking the victims of illegal alien crime, after President Trump’s primetime address on the border.
Christian Bale Thanks Satan for Giving Him the Inspiration to Play Satan at Golden Globes
Along with thanking Satan for inspiration, he also mused about playing Senator Mitch McConnell as the next in a series of “charisma-free assholes.”…So, the awards season is off on and running. Hopefully political snark will be kept to a minimum but we can see that the standard pet projects will continue to be mentioned.
NewsBuster Staffer Locked from Twitter for Mocking Drunk Don Lemon
NewsBusters Analyst Nicholas Fondacaro was briefly suspended from Twitter on January 2 after posting a tweet with a story criticizing CNN anchor Don Lemon. The story in question described Lemon as “salivating” over Nancy Pelosi becoming speaker of the House. For hinting that Don Lemon was drunk on New Year’s Eve, Fondacaro was considered to be violating one of the 10 categories that he clearly didn’t violate. The account was restored late yesterday.
Where Are Media Demands for Democrats to Cooperate with Trump?
Democrats take control of the House of Representatives today, but you don’t hear journalists instructing them to “show that they can govern” by finding ways to “compromise” with President Trump, as you do when Republicans are poised to gain power.
CNN Plays Shutdown Sob Stories
It’s not hard to imagine federal workers are concerned about the length of the current shutdown. But CNN’s New Day Saturday really larded up the airwaves with Twitter sob stories, and then let a federal employee union leader claim one worker can’t afford a tombstone for his wife now.
Tracking the Media’s Hate for Conservatives in 2018: The Year in Review
In 2018 there was a torrent of ugliness directed at conservatives. For example: Vice President Mike Pence was disgustingly derided as a “dangerous” Christian with a “mental illness” on ABC’s The View.