Hypocrisy, thy name is Matthews
MSNBC personality Chris Matthews is an unabashedly biased television host and promoter of all things Democrat, but he found something he liked about the Trump family recently.
When the presumptive Republican presidential nominee entered a venue for a victory speech, he was accompanied by his wife, Melania, a former model.
“Did you see her walk?” Matthews, who has repeatedly criticized Trump for his sexist remarks, said of Mrs. Trump. “Runway walk. My God is that good. I could watch that runway show.”
The MSNBC personality was off camera when he made the remarks, but his mic was unexpectedly live.
Brian Williams, anchoring coverage of the primary election, quickly announced a commercial break.
Variety called the liberal host on the hypocrisy, noting how he had been critical of Trump’s “sexist policies and lack of respect for women’s right.”
A spokesperson for Mrs. Trump took it a bit further.
“Melania Trump is an accomplished businesswoman and entrepreneur in her own right,” the spokesperson said, “achieving tremendous success in a variety of industries, including an illustrious modeling career, as well as being a dedicated wife and mother. It is unfortunate to see the continuous inaccuracies and misrepresentations made by the media of Mrs. Trump as anything less than the independently successful woman that she is.”
A last liberal plug before you leave
As if students at most universities haven’t been deeply indoctrinated in liberal-think by the time they’re ready for graduation, four out of five top universities invited liberal speakers to speak at commencement exercises, according to Campus Reform.
Using U.S. News & World Report’s list of top 100 universities, the organization sought to determine the political leanings of the various speakers.
For 50 of the universities, either the speaker hadn’t been announced or could not be matched with a particular ideological leaning. That’s the good news.
The bad news is 40 of the 50 remaining speakers espouse a liberal philosophy, while only 10 could be called conservative.
Looking a little closer, the survey found eight of the top-rated 10 schools listed by the magazine will have liberal speakers, and two will entertain non-ideological folks. Among the eight Ivy League schools, five will have liberal voices and three non-ideological voices.
The highest-rated school to invite a conservative speaker was No. 25 University of Southern California, which will hear – if enough hate is not generated to make him decline – Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison.
Ethics? What ethics?
The White House recently invited six television anchors for an interview with President Barack Obama, and they all work in markets represented by a vulnerable United States Republican senator.
The anchors, per the administration, apparently had one stipulation. One of the questions they had to ask, according to Cincinnati’s WKRC-TV anchor Cammie Dierking, was about the president’s recent pick for the United States Supreme Court, Merrick Garland.
The idea, of course, is that the reporters would return with their softball interviews, including the question about the nominee, in the hopes of embarrassing the Republican senators, who are not planning to take a vote on the nominee until at least after the November election.
“I’m really kind of surprised by the access we’ve been granted by the White House,” Dierking said in her report, hinting at but not mentioning the fact the Obama White House has been the least transparent administration in modern history. Even the left-leaning traditional media has carped about the lack of access.
But when the administration wants a favor, well, that’s a different story.
Stating the obvious
The president of CNN recently admitted what middle America has known for years – the news network has been a wee bit too liberal.
You think?
In order to combat that fact, network President Jeff Zucker said it had added “many more middle-of-the-road conservative voices to an already strong stable of liberal voices.”
When the conservative voices were added, the network’s ratings among 25-to-54-year-olds, its target demographic, more than doubled to 435,000 viewers.
“I think it was a legitimate criticism of CNN that it was a little too liberal,” Zucker was quoted as telling The Wall Street Journal. “And I think that we are a much more-balanced network and, as a result, a much more inviting network to a segment of the audience that might not have otherwise been willing to come here.”
A representative for competitor Fox News, which has been on top of the cable news network ratings for years, sniffed at the ratings increase.
“CNN has been languishing in the basement so long that they consider getting to the ground level in an election year a wild success,” an unnamed spokeswoman said. “That speaks volumes about [owner] Time Warner’s low expectations.”