Brad Wilmouth
bradwilmouth | February 17, 2020
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog On Friday night, CNN host Don Lemon devoted his show to two stories arguing that President Donald Trump is responsible for inspiring some Americans to show bigotry toward others. But the same show ignored an actual violent attack on a group of Donald Trump supporters that occurred more than a week ago in which perpetrator Gregory Timm admitted to…
bradwilmouth | February 16, 2020
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog On Sunday's State of the Union show on CNN, as fill-in host Dana Bash interviewed Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar, instead of pressing her on whether she really is a "moderate" as many journalists have described her, the CNN host hit her from the left on whether she was too touch on criminals as a prosecutor, and invited her be critical…
bradwilmouth | February 16, 2020
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog On Saturday evening, MSNBC Live host Richard Lui presided over an all-liberal panel discussion of reports that ICE will be sending special agents into sanctuary cities to arrest illegal aliens that are taking refuge there. Lui described the move as a "new threat" to illegal immigrants, and his guests declared that President Donald Trump wants to "…
bradwilmouth | February 14, 2020
Just days after being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, radio host Rush Limbaugh -- who has a decades-long record of bigotry against blacks, women and the LGBTQ community -- attacked Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg because Buttigieg is gay. RUSH LIMBAUGH: How's this going to look -- 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband on stage next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump? What's…
bradwilmouth | February 14, 2020
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog For much of Thursday, a number of CNN hosts fretted over conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh musing about the possibility that some Democrats are afraid that gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg would be a weak general election candidate against a more masculine President Donald Trump. Host Jake Tapper accused Limbaugh of having a long…
bradwilmouth | February 13, 2020
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog In response to reports that a part of Antarctica recently reached a record high temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit, some media outlets descended into climate alarmism as they sloppily reported the findings. But, as pointed out at ClimateDepot, climate skeptic Jim Steele this week wrote up a piece debunking claims that the occurrence is a sign of…
bradwilmouth | February 11, 2020
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog On Tuesday afternoon, CNN host Brianna Keilar picked up on the heckler who shouted at President Donald Trump during the State of the Union Address, and gave him a forum to complain about how the President has handled the gun control issue. Setting up her interview with Fred Guttenberg -- a gun control activist who lost his daughter in the Parkland…
bradwilmouth | February 11, 2020
JOE LOCKHART, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Exactly what's going on right now is what should be going on. We're going to find out who can throw a punch, who can take a punch, and we're going to take the strongest candidate on the field. My worry about Senator Sanders is very specific to the numbers. He doesn't represent a majority of the Democratic party. The Democratic party is a center-left party…