Scarborough Slams Evangelicals For 'Bizarre, Bizarre, Bizarre' Concern About Abortion.  On today's [2/5/2021] Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough slammed evangelicals for their focus on abortion.  No fewer than four times, Scarborough called evangelicals' concern about abortion "bizarre."  All this arose in the context of the show opening by contrasting President Biden's National Prayer Breakfast remarks yesterday with those by President Trump a year ago.  It's true that Biden's remarks were more conventionally appropriate.  But which "brilliant" aide thought it was a good idea to have an unusually frail and subdued Biden say, "we need to lean on each other, lift one another up?

CNN's Jeff Zucker Announces 'New and Expanded Race Team'.  CNN's Jeff Zucker on Monday [7/13/2020] sent out a memo announcing a "new and expanded race team" as part of the network's broader effort to ensure race coverage remains a "permanent part of our journalism."  The CNN Worldwide president sent a memo to staff on Monday detailing the "new and expanded" race team, which he said will ensure that race coverage continues to be a permanent part of their newsroom.

Netflix Airs 'Salute to Abortion;' Host Declares: 'God Bless Abortions!"  On Sunday [7/8/2018], Netflix aired a "Salute to Abortion," hosted by "comedian" Michelle Wolf, who closed the segment with a star-spangled, flag-waving, drum corps declaration:  "God bless abortion!"  On her weekly Netflix program, "The Break with Michelle Wolf," Wolf used Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's announced retirement to tout abortion rights and demean pro-life Americans, [...]

Google Bans Pro-Life Ads Ahead of Ireland Vote to Legalize Abortion.  As the vote on abortion quickly approaches in Ireland, another online media giant has decided to ban all ads related to the referendum.  Google no longer will run ads related to the Irish abortion vote on its search site or YouTube, according to the Irish Independent.  Google said the policies will apply to ads from both sides of the abortion debate; but when LifeNews searched Google for ads just prior to its new policy taking effect, it found only one ad — a pro-life ad — when it searched "Ireland abortion referendum" and "Ireland 8th amendment"  The ad is for the Love Both campaign, a coalition of Irish pro-life groups working to defend unborn babies' rights in the country.

Mainstream media heralds book depicting Santa Claus as a gay black man.  Mrs. Claus is now a mister in a new gay-themed Christmas storybook for children that has CNN and the rest of the Mainstream Media all aflutter.  "Santa's Husband" tells the story of a black Kris Kringle and his white husband living in holy matrimony at the North Pole.  I don't mean to curdle your egg nog, but the storybook was written for children as young as four-years-old.

Words matter:  The media's use of 'anti-abortion' to describe the March for Life is willful deception.  The outlets that decided to cover the march [1/27/2017] at all used phrases like "anti-abortion" and "abortion opponents" to advance the progressive pro-choice narrative that pro-life individuals are enemies of women's rights, and therefore human rights.

Liberal Media Bend Over Backwards To Avoid Describing March For Life As Pro-Life.  Liberal media outlets bent over backwards to avoid describing the March for Life as pro-life, relying exhaustively on terms like "anti-abortion" or "abortion opponents" to describe the hundreds of thousands of pro-life marchers in Washington, D.C. on Friday [1/27/2017].  "Anti-Abortion Groups Hold Triumphant Rally After Obama Years" was how the Associated Press titled its coverage of the march, later referring to the pro-life marchers as a "politically ascendant anti-abortion movement."

Transgender Regret Is Real Even If The Media Tell You Otherwise.  When Carol Costello, CNN reporter, interviewed me in June on the subject of Olympian, trans-Jenner, she couldn't help beginning with a false narrative that only 2 percent regret of transgender have regrets.  That is, the media's propensity to fluff over the regret statistics.  Early in the interview, she made the statement, "We have researched... and we found a recent Swedish study that found only 2.2 percent of transgenders, male and female, suffered from sex change regret."  Costello is a bright reporter.  That it is why it was so puzzling she would use her interview of me to misinform her audience, unless the intent was to diminish and dismiss reports of sex change regret among the transgender population.

After Firing Curt Schilling for Transgender Comments, ESPN Hires LGBT Activist Abby Wambach.  Curt Schilling's politics got him fired from ESPN.  Abby Wambach's politics didn't prevent her from getting hired.  And neither did her recent DUI arrest, which resulted in a guilty plea less than a month ago and admissions of past marijuana and cocaine use.  ESPN hired Wambach to analyze soccer at the Olympics, and venture into more contentious matters with "Outside the Lines" and on a planned podcast called "Fearless Conversation with Abby Wambach," a program the AP describes as one in "which she promises won't shy away from controversy."

CNN Asks Activist Behind Planned Parenthood Videos if He's a 'Violent Extremist'.  In an interview with the Center for Medicial Progress' David Daleiden, CNN's New Day host Alisyn Camerota asked the activist behind the undercover Planned Parenthood videos to respond to criticism he was a "violent extremist."  "Your critics — critics of your organization I should say — say that you're not journalists as you purport to be on your website, but rather you're violent extremists," Camerota said to Daleiden.

The Editor says...
The abortion "doctors" are tearing babies apart and selling the pieces, and the guy who goes undercover to document this practice is accused of being a "violent extremist."  That's a textbook case of liberal media bias.

Geraldo Rivera Frets Planned Parenthood Scandal 'Might Put an End' to 'Garbage' Used to 'Be the Cure for Cancer'.  On Tuesday's [7/28/2015] edition of The Five on the Fox News Channel (FNC), liberal panelist Geraldo Rivera defended Planned Parenthood in wake of the video scandal concerning body parts from aborted babies, fretting that it "might put an end to the harvesting of what would be garbage" that "may" help contribute to a "cure for cancer" or "heart disease."

The Editor says...
Chopping up babies to cure cancer is lower than even the sickest cancer patient would stoop, even if there were the slightest connection, which there isn't.

CNN's Camerota Downplays Baby Organ Harvesting Outrage; Suggests Price Fixing.  On Tuesday's [7/28/2015] New Day, CNN's Alisyn Camerota made no mention of the outrage over Planned Parenthood varying its abortion techniques in order to preserve unborn babies' organs for medical research, as was revealed in two undercover videos.  Instead, Camerota zeroed in on "these representatives from Planned Parenthood negotiating" over prices for these organs.  She even touted how the "exchange of fetal tissue... obviously, does a lot of good.  There's a lot of research — cures for diseases that come from it."  [Video clip]

As Media Scolds America on Race, Less Than 5% of Reporters are Black.  If you were to listen only to the nation's old media establishment you'd think that they are the arbiters of race in America today, you'd think that that they know how to fix the "endemic racism" infesting our country.  Yet, reality proves that the media is more "racist" than the rest of America, at least if you measure racism by "balance" in minority versus majority in the old media's pool of employees.

We Must Stop the Media From Silencing Your Voice on Marriage.  If there's one thing the Supreme Court accomplished last Friday (besides unleashing cultural chaos on America), it was ending the liberal media's charade.  Whatever scrap of journalistic impartiality existed flew out the courtroom window Friday when the press decided five justices not only invented a right to same-sex marriage but to censorship, too. [...] After years of trying to drive out debate, the liberal media are using the cloak of the court to do it.  Desperate to take away the voice of Christians at the public table, the left is already on the march to undermine the very freedom that gives breath to the speech it now enjoys.

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Now's the Time To End Tax Exemptions for Religious Institutions.  The Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage makes it clearer than ever that the government shouldn't be subsidizing religion and non-profits.

The Silencing: Paper Will Limit Anti-Gay Marriage Op-Eds.  The editorial board of PennLive/The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. is taking a hardcore stance against those who disagree with the Supreme Court ruling to legalize gay marriage.  "As a result of Friday's ruling, PennLive/The Patriot-News will no longer accept, nor will it print, op-Eds and letters to the editor in opposition to same-sex marriage," they declared.  After receiving strong pushback, the newspaper's editorial board, which is overseen by Editorial Page Editor John Micek, quickly revised its policy.  Freedom of speech will be allowed — but only for a "limited" period of time.

Caitlyn Jenner Brought Out the Left's 'Speech Police' in Full Force.  Of all the many aspects of the "Caitlyn" Jenner story which bother conservatives, the one which causes me the most agitation is how the liberal "thought police" have attempted to censor any debate over the many issues related to this extraordinary tale.  It's not just that the vast majority of media coverage has been overwhelmingly celebratory.  That alone is annoying by default.  What is flat-out scary is that the many forces of the left have used media intimidation and political correctness to enforce the notion that enthusiastically honoring Jenner's transformation is the only acceptable reaction.

The 'Trans-jennering' of Reality TV.  Public Relation hacks behind the international debut of 'Caitlyn' Jenner didn't do it to better the lives of the few and far between transexuals living in fear of being discovered.  They did it for the mega millions that would soon be pouring into their bank accounts.  The neon light advance of 'Caitlyn' as the "new norm" was not for all the guys in hiding waiting to become dolls.  That's just the sugar-spin for the fairytale the mainstream media would have us swallow whole.

It's Not Hateful To Point Out Bruce Jenner Isn't A Woman.  Of all the trends currently working their way through journalism, there is perhaps none so baffling as the media's indulgence in the transgender narrative.  Journalists appear to have acquiesced to this ideology en masse.  No less a formidable source than the "AP Stylebook" declared a few years ago that Associated Press employees are to use "the pronoun preferred by the individuals" in cases where confusion may arise. [...] Journalists should not buy into this.  Simply as a matter of factual accuracy, it is nonsensical:  if tomorrow I declared myself head of the executive branch of the U.S. government, for instance, the AP would not suddenly be required to call me President Payne.

WashPost Whines for Wyoming Woman Who Drove 400 Miles for an Abortion.  To liberal media outlets, the saddest thing about abortion is how women seeking to terminate their baby may have to drive more than 20 minutes to a clinic.  The Washington Post on Thursday [5/7/2015] offered a 2,390-word opus on a woman named Emily [last name sympathetically withheld] who procured an abortion in Missoula, Montana, driving 407 miles from Wyoming.  The headline was "The long drive to end a pregnancy."  The story took up two entire inside pages with a page of scenic color pictures along the drive, but no people in them.

Feminist Media Hail Satanists for Deeming Abortion a 'Religious Belief'.  The pro-abortion media crowd is embracing new ally in their fight:  Satanists.  "Mary" from Missouri is hoping to bypass her state's 72-hour abortion waiting period by citing "sincerely held religious beliefs" — as a Satanist.  The Friendly Atheist blog broke the story of how the Satanic Temple plans to aid a woman it calls Mary who believes in its "tenets."  The media followed suit, from a Think Progress editor expressing "love," to a Salon editor concluding, "[R]eligious exemption laws are maybe cool when Satanists use them to get abortions."

NBC Champions Children's Gender Confusion.  On April 21 and 22, NBC ran a two-part series revolving around "transgender" children that featured its correspondent Kate Snow interviewing Pediatrician Michelle Forcier, associate professor of pediatrics at Brown University Alpert.  Forcier was honored by "The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health" as its "Hump Day Hero," and who advocates early puberty interventions of kids who think they should be the opposite sex.

Liberal media struggles to find name for dismemberment abortions.  Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas signed a law banning dismemberment abortions.  The problem?  The liberal media can't figure out a way to report it.  The Associated Press writes:  "Kansas governor signs nation's 1st ban on abortion procedure."  Procedure?  What kind of procedure?  Why so vague?  Meanwhile, the Huffington Post, always the master propagandists, wrote, "Kansas Becomes First State To Ban Common Form Of Abortion."  Why is the only feature they were able to use to describe it "common"?  Well, I think they want us to think "we don't know what kind of abortion it is, but if it's common, how bad can it be?"  But still, they can't really talk about what it is, because it's so grisly, to break a baby up into pieces, that they know to describe it would be to lose readers' sympathy.

NYTimes Hypocrisy: It Denounces Corporate Speech in Citizens United, Cheers When Against Indiana.  When the issue was the Citizens United ruling and the resulting ability of corporations to directly spend money on political advertising, well the Times worried about the supposed corrupting influence of the practice and the drowning out of the common man's voice, which is not amplified by hordes of corporate cash. But fast-forward to this week and it's a far different story.

The Left wages total war; and then plays victim.  On one side is the CEO of the world's largest company, the president of the United States and a growing chunk of the Fortune 500.  On the other side is a solo wedding photographer in New Mexico, a 70-year-old grandma florist in Washington and a few bakers.  One side wants the state to conscript the religious businesswomen and men into participating in ceremonies that violate their beliefs.  The other side wants to make it possible for religious people to live their own lives according to their consciences.  Yet somehow, the Left and most of the mainstream press paint the current skirmishes over religious liberty as conservative offensives.

Hey Media, 'Religious Freedom' Is a Real Thing.  Why is it that the media regularly adorns the term "religious freedom" with superfluous quotation marks but not terms like "environmentalist" or "civil rights" or "marriage equality" — or any other of the many debatable issues of American political discourse?  Well, maybe unbiased journalists feel a responsibility to intimate to readers that religious freedom is considered a dubious assertion by one side of the debate.  And this would be a reasonable editorial decision if it were employed consistently.  It's not.  What's more likely is that editors and journalists consider the term "religious freedom" dubious because anything that strikes them as "discriminatory" or stands in way of "progressive" moral aims is by default illegitimate.

MSNBC's Conflict of Interest: Al Sharpton.  [Scroll down]  Sharpton is "rewarded with invitations to White House Super Bowl parties, where he laughs it up with the president," is a "special host to the president" and "provides the president with protection from his critics in the African-American community," reports the Times.  And, according to Politico, he vacationed at Valerie Jarrett's condo in Martha's Vineyard, close to where the President was staying with his family.

The 'Transgender Tipping Point' to Censorship.  Now that our cultural elites feel they have sufficiently educated the public on the virtues of gays and lesbians, it's time to drill down to the next level.  Here comes transgenderism.  Time magazine placed "Orange Is the New Black" star Laverne Cox (born Charles Cox) on the cover as the face of "The Transgender Tipping Point:  America's Next Civil Rights Frontier."  Cox wrote on Facebook that the Time cover was a wonderful present on her birthday, and "I realize this is way bigger than me and about a tipping point in our nation's history where it is no longer acceptable for trans lives to be stigmatized, ridiculed, criminalized and disregarded."

Skid Roe.  "The abortion rate in the United States dropped to its lowest point since the Supreme Court legalized the procedure in all 50 states, according to a study suggesting that new, long-acting contraceptive methods are having a significant impact in reducing unwanted pregnancies," the Washington Post reports, leaping to conclusions right in the lead paragraph.  The impulse behind that leap is understandable. Journalists are attracted to cause-and-effect explanations because they make storytelling easier, and in this case the causal explanation bolsters the cause of the group doing the study:  the Alan Guttmacher Institute, research arm of Planned Parenthood.

If You Don't Want to Pay for Abortion Pills You're a Secessionist?  So says legal scholar Garrett Epps in The Atlantic.  Alarmed by the Supreme Court's recent stay in the Little Sisters of the Poor and Hobby Lobby cases, Mr. Epps actually writes this: [...]

Daily Texan Student Reporter Uses 'Pro-abortion' Label in Story; Editors Scrub Term After Uproar.  A reporter for The Daily Texan, the student newspaper for the University of Texas, got it right when calling abortion supporters what they are — "pro-abortion" — five times in an article about a counter-demonstration held during the annual pro-life Texas Rally for Life on January 24. [...] But she infuriated those who support abortion but who strangely aren't proud of it.

MSNBC Showcases Six Pro-Choice Guests, Zero Pro-Lifers on Roe v. Wade Anniversary.  The annual March for Life took place yesterday in our nation's capital, and MSNBC marked the occasion by inviting a slew of pro-choice guests onto its daytime programming to slime the pro-life movement without giving any pro-lifers a chance to respond.  Between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Wednesday [1/22/2014], MSNBC featured six pro-choice guests and zero pro-life guests.

The Mass Murderer Who Didn't Make the Mass Media.  Relatively few people wish to commit mass murder on the scale of Gosnell — that's the good news.  The bad news is that the vast ranks of newspaper publishers, TV executives, editors, news producers, radio assignment editors, and reporters somehow reached an instant, near universal consensus that a man who may well be America's all-time champion mass murderer isn't a story at all, never mind one to hold the front page for — because they didn't see him as a murderer; they saw him as a "choice-provider" who got a little out of hand.

The Gosnell silence: Murder, abortion and the media.  In Philadelphia, a doctor is on trial for the gruesome murders of eight people inside his low-rent office.  A former assistant testified that she personally witnessed the physician commit at least 30 murders.  Most of the patients were "beheaded," another assistant said, adding that there was "blood all over the place."  If you have not heard of this doctor's trial for committing a terrifying, decades-long string of serial killings, there is a reason.  He is an abortionist.

We've forgotten what belongs on Page One.  Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page.  The revolting revelations of Gosnell's former staff, who have been testifying to what they witnessed and did during late-term abortions, should shock anyone with a heart.

Dead silence.  The [Kermit Gosnell] trial is receiving intensive coverage in Philadelphia and across the conservative press and Web sites.  But national networks and newspapers?  Not so much.  The reason seems obvious: Much of our press corps skews to one side on abortion.  So even though what Gosnell is charged with is closer to infanticide — an unlicensed abortionist profiting mightily by killing the newborn babies of poor, minority women — somehow it's not news.

Byron York: 'Media Bias' [is] Keeping Reporters From Covering McConnell Bugging Story.  When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) asked the FBI to investigate how a recording of a private meeting at his campaign headquarters in Kentucky was secretly made and then released to Mother Jones, the reaction from Washington DC political reporters was curious, to say the least.

Rep. Chris Smith: 'If Gosnell Had Shot Seven Infants with an AR-15, It Would Be National News'.  Thanks to conservative new media, the Kermit Gosnell trial is finally part of the national dialog.  But before the mainstream press got around to doing their job, ten congressmen took to the floor of the House to protest the lack of media attention being paid to the horrifying story.  One such congressman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), contrasted the abortionist's trial to another ongoing narrative that the media covers obsessively:  gun control.

Media Acknowledge Blowing Gosnell Story, Pledge Extensive Coverage.  Something truly remarkable happened yesterday [4/12/2013].  After days and weeks of pushing by New Media and social media, the mainstream media have not only admitted that they should have covered the ongoing capital murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell; they have promised to immediately remedy that mistake.

Media Ignore Domestic Terrorist Conviction of Gay-Rights Activist.  How many stories have you seen on the broadcast networks or cable networks — any of the networks — about the first-ever domestic terrorism conviction in our nation's capital?  Is same-sex marriage such a politically correct issue that no one wants to inform the public when a gay-rights political activist shoots someone in an attempted mass-murder?

NBC Accused of Pushing Abortion Through 'Parenthood' Episode.  NBC is being accused of engaging in some pro-abortion propaganda with its latest episode of Parenthood.  The hourlong NBC drama that aired Tuesday night featured teenage girl Amy (Skyler Day) aborting her fetus at a pristine Planned Parenthood clinic while boyfriend Drew (Miles Heizer) sat nervously in a waiting room.

Piers Morgan Takes Aim at the Bible.  You've got to hand it to bloviating Brit Piers Morgan.  While he got most of the facts wrong in his recent targeting of the Second Amendment, it hasn't stopped him from moving on to even more formidable targets.  Such as the Bible.  He says the book is "inherently flawed" — and needs to be amended.  Piers handed down his decree while interviewing Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren on the December 24th "Piers Morgan Tonight."  Yes, on Christmas Eve.

CNN's Piers Morgan: Amend the Bible to Embrace Homosexuality.  CNN host Piers Morgan, who is already facing angry deportation calls from thousands of Americans over his attacks on the Second Amendment, is calling for a gay marriage amendment to the Bible, Townhall.com reports.  During a discussion on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Christmas Eve with megachurch pastor Rick Warren, Morgan argued that there needs to be an "amendment to the Bible" for same-sex marriage.

The Editor says...
This sounds like an oblique admission that homosexuality is incompatible with Biblical teaching.  But Mr. Morgan has chosen to defend homosexuality and enter in to a quixotic contest with the Bible.

Piers Morgan: How About We Amend the Bible.  CNN host Piers Morgan, who is already facing angry deportation calls from 75,000 Americans over his attacks on the Second Amendment (and no, England doesn't want him back), is calling for a gay marriage amendment to the Bible.

CNN's Morgan: Amend The Bible.  Piers Morgan has done it again, this time saying that both the Bible and the U.S. Constitution are "inherently flawed" and need new "amendments."  During Morgan's Monday, December 24 broadcast of his cable spectacle, CNN's British import once again attacked America's most deeply held principles by slaming both the Constitution and the Bible.

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2015 by Andrew K. Dart