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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was interrupted in spectacular fashion during a San Francisco press conference Monday by an angry group of immigration activists. But one of the Big Three broadcast networks decided to completely ignore the scene, despite a history of covering similar anti-Trump interruptions. The dependably liberal ABC’s “World News Tonight” skipped the story, while rivals CBS and NBC properly covered the event. “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt called it a “chaotic scene,” while “CBS Evening News” anchor Anthony Mason said Pelosi was “shouted down.” Both of ABC’s rivals aired video of Pelosi’s press conference getting interrupted...

The numbers don't lie. Across the entertainment industry, viewers and fans are tuning out. It's no coincidence ratings are cratering as unhinged celebrities crank up their anti-Trump and anti-American antics. Pro tip, Tinseltownies: Swapping your jazz hands for middle fingers and waving resistance fists at your customer base is bad for business. Let us count the waning ways. Emmy emetics. Who wanted to see smirking Stephen Colbert lead a cast of Botoxed starlets and men in hot pants, handing out TV industry awards to diamond-draped elites hoisting up their gilt statues as emblems of victory on behalf of the hegemonically...

Even by President Donald Trump’s standards of aggressive bombast and hyperbole, his speech to the United Nations on Tuesday was a stunner. He overtly threatened to wipe out North Korea, a country of 25 million people. Trump and North Korean President Kim Jong Un have been trash-talking for some time now about North Korea’s aggressive pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. But Trump raised the ante in his U.N. speech when he said that the “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself.” Just prior to that statement Trump said, “The United States has great strength and patience,...

Making American great again, in the view of the man who made that phrase a campaign slogan, means making the world understand that America is redefining the way it is seeking out that greatness. That means absorbing the boasts, name-calling, and contradictions embedded in President Trump’s first address to the United Nations. In a speech aimed at his own base as much as anything else, Trump delivered harsh warnings as well as complaints aimed at Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and Islamic terrorists. What the United Nations has not been about is such explicit tough-guy talk, reminiscent of Trump campaign rallies...

Journalism is in crisis. After some much-needed self-examination, however, reporters are finally beginning to figure out why many Americans are souring on their industry: They’ve been too critical of the Democratic Party. The trend was evident in 2016, when media outlets decided to focus on Hillary Clinton’s corruption, favor trading, and subsequent cover-up attempts. As any journalism professor could tell you, the purpose of reporting is to answer basic questions, like Who? What? When? Where? Why? And does this story help bolster the chances of the Democratic Party’s candidate or not? New York Times reporter Amy Chozick, who covered Clinton...

The Democratic Coalition filed a complaint with the Office of Government Ethics alleging that Presidential Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' suggestion that ESPN host Jemele Hill's tweet labeling the President "a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself with other white supremacists" might be a "fireable offense," broke the law. Democratic Coalition chairman Jon Cooper insisted that "we cannot ignore the sinister implications of what the Trump Administration has done here. Mrs. Sanders contends she is entitled to express her opinion about the outrageous comments of Ms. Hill, but clearly her statement was intended to intimidate ESPN into firing one...

Well, it looks like Hillary Clinton is moving onto the latest offensive in her rampage against those who she feels contributed to her defeat in the 2016 election: the media. At Recode in May, a tech conference in California, she said that the media covered her emails like it was Pearl Harbor. She also says that the press didn’t do their jobs last year, and that they “can’t bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump, from providing him free airtime to giving my emails three times more coverage that all the issues affecting people’s lives combined.”Seriously, lady—weren’t...

Black Trump supporter Diante Johnson attended the ‘mother of all rallies’ in Washington D.C. Saturday with hundreds of other Trump supporters to celebrate American patriotism. CNN interviewed Johnson and asked him about Trump supporters wearing ‘No White Guilt’ t-shirts. As soon as Johnson said white Americans shouldn’t feel guilty for what their ancestors did, CNN cut the feed. Interesting. Of course CNN has to whip up racial tension. Instead of seeing Diante Johnson as an American who supports President Trump while enjoying fellowship with other Americans, they attempt to divide. “I have seen some shirts here today, I think one...

Right near the beginning of the 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, host Stephen Colbert hauled former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer out on-stage to declared that the CBS broadcast show would have “the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period — both in person and around the world.”

Newsmax has dropped a bombshell story about the credibility of the key accuser against former Fox host Bill O’Reilly. Had it not been for the allegations by Perquita Burgess, O’Reilly might not have been fired. But as it turns out, Burgess has an arrest for a false allegation in her past. Burgess did not complain to the network at the time and O’Reilly said the charges were false. Newsmax found two documents that called her credibility into question. The first was a police report concerning a fight with her boyfriend where she called them reporting he hit her in the...

On August 21, the Great American Eclipse passed over a wide swath of the United States, crossing 14 states, and all but overwhelming the cable-news and broadcast landscape. The eclipse, after all, was a perfect television story: an uncontroversial natural wonder that could bring huge audiences together. On the set of the Today show at 30 Rockefeller Center, co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer were ready to capitalize on the cosmic, collective event. They welcomed onto the set NBC weather anchor Dylan Dreyer and their recently hired megastar colleague Megyn Kelly. The mood was festive and light. Guthrie was dressed...

"The deeply entrenched establishment refuses to step down and is attempting to overturn the 2016 election. They've joined forces with the media to pump out fake news and sabotage President Trump," says former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as he launches his new, "America F1rst Action Superpac." Promising to "challenge the fake news head-on, report the truth about president Trump's accomplishments and fight for the agenda you voted for," Lewandowski is making a nationwide appeal to loyal Trump supporters, Conservatives and Make America Great Again devotees to join him in this epic battle with the Deep State and compliant Media. He...

Video at link of two anchors about to have a heart attack.

The Brooke Baldwin mammary mess is just another example of how liberals leverage their ability to create new rules out of thin air as a means of asserting their power over us normals. What was A-OK yesterday is now forbidden, and what was forbidden yesterday is now mandatory. Their goal is to keep our heads spinning and paralyze us with fear, like nearsighted corporals caught in a minefield and terrified that if we take one wrong step we will detonate a concealed wrongthink booby-trap. They want us living in fear of their fussy wrath, and that is precisely why it...

The website FreeRepublic.com earns a spot in The website FreeRepublic.com earns a spot in Keith Olbermann's "Worst Persons in the World" segment after waiting all of three days to step in and take action on a message board thread making racist comments about the Obama family, after a photo of daughter Malia wearing a T-shirt with a peace sign on it was released. after waiting all of three days to step in and take action on a message board thread making racist comments about the Obama family, after a photo of daughter Malia wearing a T-shirt with a peace sign...

From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song.But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation. And so, after a half-century reign that propelled him into...

<p>Yes, the press secretary is better at her job. But that is bad news for the rest of us.</p> <p>The face of the White House press operation has already undergone several iterations, with each embodying the administration in their own special way. First was Sean Spicer, who exemplified the administration’s comfort with telling bald lies and being openly hostile toward the news media. Then came Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci, who was Donald Trump’s vulgarity incarnate. Now we have Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose style as press secretary is less shrill than Spicer, and less pelvic-thrusting bravado a la The Mooch. But that’s what makes her the most insidious of them all.</p>

The president of John Jay College said she was “shocked” to hear the “abhorrent” anti-cop statement spewed by a professor at her school and immediately suspended him. “I am appalled that anyone associated with John Jay, with our proud history of supporting law enforcement authorities, would suggest that violence against police is ever acceptable,” John Jay president Karol Mason said about professor Michael Isaacson. Police union wants professor fired over 'dead cop' tweets Police union wants professor fired over 'dead cop' tweets Mason said that threats were made to the members of the college in the wake of his comment...

CNN's Brooke Baldwin can act all shocked at Fox Sports Net's Clay Travis and his clumsy introduction of female attributes in a sports discussion, but the entertainment industry still lives by the "sex sells" credo. There is no other reason why it's so in-your-face, especially during sports programming, punctuated by male enhancement commercials during breaks in the action. Given her faux outrage, Baldwin would be the last to admit that the young men seen during daytime viewing hours are cast to appeal to the bored housewife, home alone during the day. Nah, it's easier to act all shocked while working...

CNN has interviewed dictators Robert Mugabe and Bashar al Assad. It has interviewed former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. But it this week banned me from hiring its Washington studio to talk to Milo Yiannopoulos out of concern for its staff. I asked Milo why he was even worse than Mugabe. From our chat on The Bolt Report: (video at link)