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Fox says that the First Amendment limits the FCC from considering whether its news coverage of Donald Trump’s false election claims should play a role in the license renewal of its Philadelphia station.

In a filing this week, Fox Television Station attorneys argued against a petition brought by the Media and Democracy Project, a challenge led in part by former Fox executive Preston Padden. The public interest group is seeking an evidentiary hearing on the license renewal of Wtxf-tv, or Fox 29 on the basis of that the company “lacks the character to remain a licensee.”

The Fox attorneys wrote that such a hearing “for the first time in history, have the Commission adjudicate a broadcast license renewal on the basis of cable network content, in violation of the First Amendment and the authority delegated to the Commission by Congress.” Despite the revelations from the Dominion defamation case, the Fox...

This is the season of political town halls, but there’s one on Monday evening that is garnering some attention in the media pundit class: An event featuring Sen. Joe Manchin (D-wv) and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman designed to promote the group No Labels.

The streamed event from Saint Anselm College in Manchester, Nh, is designed to outline a No Labels policy agenda as the group looks to get behind a third-party presidential ticket, focused on the idea that there is a “common sense” bipartisan solution to political polarization.

Kevin Cirilli, correspondent for Scripps News and former chief Washington correspondent for Bloomberg Television, is serving as moderator of the event. He is not affiliated with No Labels.

No Labels has had plenty of pushback from Democrats, who see such a third-party bid as hurting Joe Biden’s reelection chances more than it would a Republican nominee, potentially returning Donald Trump to the White House.

Tucker Carlson — who was booted from Fox News in April — has made a serious pile of cash practicing what I like to call the conventional wisdom of the counterintuitive take. His worldview can be whittled down to this: everything you ever heard is wrong. And I mean everything. (He still believes the English alphabet has 26 letters but give him time.)

Last night, he began the Twitter phase of his lucrative career. Carlson was broadcasting from an undisclosed man cave of a studio — complete with unfinished wood and fishing rods that clashed with his preppy tie and blue blazer attire. It made him look like the country club money man wandering into a meeting of the Secret Society of Maladjusted Lunkheads who all loom right off-camera.

He then provided his rote 10-minute grocery list of Greenwald-meets-Greene grievances. It’s not clear if the speech was preplanned or tied to the news...

CNN has set a May premiere date for the final installment of its “Decades Series,” TheWrap can reveal exclusively.

“The 2010s,” which will premiere Sunday, May 7 at 9 p.m. Et., explores the decade that gave us Instagram, most of President Barack Obama’s administration, marriage equality, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and Trumpism, per the official logline.

The seven part series will feature archival footage and interviews with cultural staples during the decade, including EP Tom Hanks, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Benny Blanco, Bill Kristol, David Remnick, Este Haim, Finneas, Fiona Hill, Jemele Hill, Lena Waithe, Maggie Haberman, Rami Malek, Reince Priebu, Vince Gilligan and Ted Sarandos.

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Donald Trump Jr. was called out for a video he posted last week encouraging supporters to buy 70 Bibles in an effort to “save America.”

The video, posted to Twitter on Dec. 30, featured the former president’s son talking over swelling, orchestral music.

“Guys, with American Judeo-Christian values under attack, there can be no better time than to re-up our commitment to America and to the Christian values that this country was founded on,” Trump Jr. said. “Go check out the We The People Bible, made in America, printed in America, assembled in America. You’re going to love it, and I think the people in your life probably need it too.”

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The Bible is being sold on the We The People website, which is affiliated with the Trump Organization, and is advertised as being “ideal for the patriots who believe it...

President Donald Trump criticized elephant hunting as a “horror show” in a new tweet suggesting that he plans to reverse his administration’s recent decision to lift a 2014 ban on big-game trophy hunting in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

After first announcing the move last Wednesday, Trump faced extreme backlash from politicians, environmentalists and elephant lovers — including accusations that the decision was motivated by his sons Eric and Donald Jr., who are both avid hunters.

Amid the criticism, Trump hinted at a reversal in a tweet Sunday night.

“Big-game trophy decision will be announced next week but will be very hard pressed...

President Donald Trump isn’t just known for his tweets, but also, his manner of tweeting. He’s got a distinct voice, and favorite words that he loves to sprinkle throughout his 140 characters. The word that’s most synonymous with Trump? The label that’s become his go-to insult?

Sad.

Trump doesn’t hesitate to label something sad. In fact, he says it rather often, in both a serious way (when something actually brings him sorrow) or as an insult (when it’s a synonym for pathetic). By our count, he’s said it 64 times on Twitter alone. These are the people,...

Bill Kristol told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC earlier this afternoon that President Trump's U.N. speech was "more normal" than he would have expected.

Right-leaning Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol has been a longtime Never Trump-er. But following the announcement of the transgender military ban, Kristol ratcheted up his criticism to a whole new level.

President Donald Trump once again provided the fireworks this holiday weekend, taking his feud with CNN to WWE-levels after tweeting out a clip of him body-slamming the news network to the ground. And much like his “Lyin” Ted Cruz and “Crooked” Hillary Clinton digs, Trump added his patented linguistic ingenuity, with the hashtags #FraudNewsCNN and #Fnn accompanying his tweet. #FraudNewsCNN #Fnn pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017 Also Read: Conservative Commentator Bill Kristol Likens Trump Presidency to Fall of Roman Empire The President’s latest bout with CNN stems from the network’s retraction of a story...

Conservative analyst and commentator Bill Kristol said on Sunday that President Trump’s anti-Trump video tweet was “recapitulating the decline and fall of Rome.” Earlier Sunday, Potus tweeted a Reddit video clip altering a 2007 clip from Wrestlemania of the president and body-slamming and punching WWE CEO Vince McMahon, but with McMahon’s face replaced by a CNN logo. The tweet has evoked harsh criticism from both sides of the aisle for its violent and angry imagery aimed at the press, which is referred to as the “fourth estate” of the government. “The speed with which we’re recapitulating the decline and fall of Rome.

Donald Trump kicked off Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend by criticizing civil-rights icon and John Lewis and accusing him of “all talk ” and “no action or results.”

In a Twitter rant on Saturday, the President-elect said that the Georgia congressman should spent more time trying to fix his “horrible,” “crime-infested” district rather than “falsely complaining” about results of the 2016 presidential election.

Lewis, a Democratic representative and former “freedom rider,” has a long history of political action. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, he marched with Dr. King during the peaceful 1965 voting rights protest on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,...

George Clooney is weighing in on the current political climate in the United States, and arguing that what the country needs right now is unity. "I feel as if we need to get away from the divisiveness that we're stuck in right now and the fear that we're playing off of," the Money Monster actor tells Chris Wallace on this Sunday's episode of Fox News Sunday. Growing up as a Democrat in conservative Kentucky, Clooney says he witnessed his share of political divisiveness. "But it wasn't as contentious and there wasn't the idea that once one party got power that...

George Clooney is weighing in on the current political climate in the United States, and arguing that what the country needs right now is unity. "I feel as if we need to get away from the divisiveness that we're stuck in right now and the fear that we're playing off of," the Money Monster actor tells Chris Wallace on this Sunday's episode of Fox News Sunday. Growing up as a Democrat in conservative Kentucky, Clooney says he witnessed his share of political divisiveness. "But it wasn't as contentious and there wasn't the idea that once one party got power that...

National Review columnist David French is not running for president as a third-party candidate, despite Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol hinting that he would have a good chance at stealing conservative votes from Donald Trump. “Here is a sentence I never thought I’d type: After days of prayer, reflection, and serious study of the possibilities, I am not going to run as an independent candidate for president of the United States,” French wrote on Sunday night. French says he gave it “serious thought,” but ultimately decided that he’s not the right candidate. “I’m on record saying that Mitt Romney could win,...

A group of anti-Trump Republicans is uniting for a last-ditch effort to draft an independent candidate who can keep Donald Trump out of the White House. According to a report by the Washington Post, the group — which includes commentators William Kristol and Erick Erickson, as well as strategists Mike Murphy, Stuart Stevens and Rick Wilson — is essentially looking for someone (anyone) who can get just enough votes to stop both Trump and Hillary Clinton from getting the required 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the presidency. If that happens — and that’s a big if — the House of Representatives would choose...

FiveThirtyEight founder and editor in chief Nate Silver famously predicted all 50 states of the 2012 election — but when it came to predicting Donald Trump’s chances, he wasn’t so accurate. He’s not the only one. Political pundits, newscasters and celebrities have doubted Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy back on on June 16, 2015. They have called him everything from a “comical figure” to a “blowhard” and compared him at times to Hitler. Also Read: 'Apprentice' Contestants Bash Donald Trump at Manhattan Press Conference Those who doubted Trump include Glenn Beck, Rachel Maddow, Stuart Stevens, Cenk Uygur, Sam Stein, Bill Kristol,...

Maybe he should’ve told the cops, “This isn’t the Wookiee you’re looking for.” A man dressed as “Star Wars” character Chewbacca was arrested in Ukraine and fined after illegally campaigning for Darth Vader, the Irish Examiner reports. The man had shown up at a polling station in Odessa to stump for Darth Vader as a mayoral candidate. Unfortunately, Ukraine law prohibits campaigning during election day. Also Read: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Trailer Prompts Conservative Pundit Bill Kristol to Defend Empire The unnamed faux Wookiee didn’t go down without a fight — video of the arrest shows...

Wondering what conservative commentator Bill Kristol thinks about the Galactic Empire of “Star Wars”? After the final trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was released on Tuesday, the Weekly Standard editor and frequent TV guest fired up his Twitter account to declare himself pro-Empire. “No objective evidence Empire was ‘evil.’ A liberal regime w meritocracy, upward mobility. Neocon/reformicon in spirit,” Kristol tweeted in response to a joke by right-leaning New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. Also Read: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Trailer: Social Media Impact by the Numbers Kristol added, “Needless to say, I was rooting for the Empire from the.

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Homeland Season 5 premieres with Carrie out of the CIA game and living in Germany. Nothing bad could happen there, right?

This review contains spoilers.

5.1 Separation Anxiety

Nowadays, beginning a new season of Homeland is a bit like starting over with an anthological show. Similar to American Horror Story and True Detective, the later seasons of Homeland rarely enjoy major or direct connective tissue from year-to-year other than Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin’s reliably stellar performances; every season is a new topical, “ripped from the headlines” threat, and each do-over mostly dismisses story threads from the previous year.

For example: whatever happened to Javadi after he became the CIA’s mole in Iran? Also, what effect did Saul being a hostage have on his getting a new job at the CIA (where he is apparently back in a command position)? Also, are we ever going to find...

The historic nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran dominated media coverage Tuesday, as pundits fell along ideological lines in support of and opposition to the tentative agreement. President Obama spoke this morning, claiming the deal will halt Iran’s nuclear weapons development in exchange for the repeal of economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic. The responses have been predictably strong on both sides. Here are the five biggest jaw droppers. Also Read: New Hearing for Imprisoned Washington Post Correspondent Held in Iran 1. America has hit rock bottom The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, known in media and political...

Since I started compiling Outrage Watch -- HitFix's "(almost) daily rundown of all the thing folks are peeved about in entertainment" -- I've never been faced with a shortage of things to write about. There's a lot of anger out there! At times so much that it can feel overwhelming. Other times, I just have to laugh at the sheer inanity of the things people manage to work themselves up over. Of the stories I highlight, I would say a good 75 percent represent examples of righteous outrage -- i.e. scorn directed at legitimate targets. And the other 25? The phrase "pick your battles" comes to mind here, and indeed, sometimes it seems the level of anger is blown out of all proportion to the target in question. As we look back on the winter of 2015, below you can find my roundup of 13 of the wackiest, most overblown controversies of the year so far.

Welcome to the March 10, 2015 edition of Outrage Watch, HitFix's (almost) daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Today's top story: seems Madonna is having her Patricia Arquette moment. “Gay rights are way more advanced than women’s rights," said the superstar in a new interview with Out magazine. She added: "It’s moved along for the gay community, for the African-American community, but women are still just trading on their ass. To me, the last great frontier is women. Women are still the most marginalized group." Uh-oh. "Dating Tupac — and Basquiat — doesn’t make you an authority on the black experience, and being interviewed in Out doesn’t make you intimate with the gay one," snipes Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams. "Madonna’s words stall progress for all social movements when she turns the fight for equality into a competition," gripes Carbonated.tv's Jessica Renae Buxbaum.

Welcome to the March 11, 2015 edition of Outrage Watch, HitFix's (almost) daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Today's top story: Stay the hell away from the "Breaking Bad" house, you delinquents. "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan opened the most recent edition of the "Better Call Saul" podcast by making a plea for "jackoffs" to please stop throwing pizzas and causing general mayhem at Walter White's TV house in Albuquerque. "Lately we're hearing from [the woman that lives there] that folks are wandering onto her property and they are being rude to her when she comes out...and they're throwing pizzas on roofs and stuff like that. Let me tell you something, there is nothing funny or original or cool about throwing pizza on this woman’s roof.” Added Banks, who plays grizzled hitman Mike Ehrmantraut: "And if I catch you doing it, I will hunt you down." Be afraid, Albuquerque youths.

In “there’s hope for humanity after all” news of the day, the University of Oklahoma is shutting down it’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter after a video of the frat singing a racist chant surfaced, sparking The Nightly Show‘s Larry Wilmore to comment on the events. In “just kidding, I spoke too soon” news of the day, the panelists over at Morning Joe blamed the incident on rap music.

Yeah, you read that right. Mika Brzezinski and crew, along with Bill Kristol, spent yesterday morning’s segment discussing Waka Flocka Flame‘s decision to cancel his performance for the disgraced fraternity. Rather than commending his decision, the panelists dug into his lyrics, pointing out the profanity, including his use of the N-word, as the reason why so many white kids feel like it’s Ok to use racial slurs. One panelist even went so far as to generalize...

In “there’s hope for humanity after all” news of the day, the University of Oklahoma is shutting down it’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter after a video of the frat singing a racist chant surfaced, sparking The Nightly Show‘s Larry Wilmore to comment on the events. In “just kidding, I spoke too soon” news of the day, the panelists over at Morning Joe blamed the incident on rap music.

Yeah, you read that right. Mika Brzezinski and crew, along with Bill Kristol, spent yesterday morning’s segment discussing Waka Flocka Flame‘s decision to cancel his performance for the disgraced fraternity. Rather than commending his decision, the panelists dug into his lyrics, pointing out the profanity, including his use of the N-word, as the reason why so many white kids feel like it’s Ok to use racial slurs. One panelist even went so far as to generalize...

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan called out her newspaper's coverage of the violence in Iraq on Saturday, observing that the Times was not giving enough of a platform to anti-war viewpoints. “Many readers have complained to me that The Times is amplifying the voices of hawkish neoconservatives and serving as a megaphone for anonymously sourced administration leaks, while failing to give voice to those who oppose intervention,” Sullivan said. Also read: Katrina vanden Heuvel Rips Bill Kristol on ‘This Week': ‘You Should Enlist in the Iraqi Army’ (Video) Sullivan and an assistant went back and reviewed the paper's coverage thus far.

ABC's Sunday talk show “This Week” erupted in an intense showdown between “The Nation” editor Katrina vanden Heuvel and conservative panelist Bill Kristol over what should be done over growing sectarian violence in Iraq. Vanden Heuvel suggested Kristol suit up for war if he is so gung-ho about taking further military action. Also read: Megyn Kelly Calls Out Dick Cheney for Failing on Iraq in Intense Interview (Video) “There is no military solution to Iraq,” she said. “And I have to say, sitting next to Bill Kristol, man — I mean, the architects of catastrophe that have cost this country trillions of dollars,...

The Morning Joe crew beat up on Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-ky), who defeated his tea party rival Matt Bevin in the Gop primary Tuesday night. Host Joe Scarborough and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol argued that the Republican Party was acting as if it had already trounced its Democratic opponents, and were failing to put forward actual policies that might win new voters.

ABC News president Ben Sherwood made it official this morning, announcing Mara Schiavocampo has joined ABC News as a New York-based correspondent. Schiavocampo, who’d been with NBC since 2007, becoming Early Today anchor in ’10 and also anchoring MSNBC’s First Look, left that network in December. At ABC News she will be a New York-based correspondent reporting on all platforms. One day earlier, George Stephanopoulos announced on This Week that Bill Kristol, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, had joined ABC News as a contributor. Kristol’s decade-long contributor relationship with Fox News ended last summer — owing to a cooling of his relationship with Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, or rather because Fnc made a lot of changes and no longer needed his services and there was no cooling at all, depending on your source. From ABC News president Ben Sherwood’s note to staff about Schiavocampo: Mara...

While discussing the suspension of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson for his comments in a GQ interview published last week, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol denounced political correctness' "lynch mob" mentality, which he linked to the firing of PR executive Justine Sacco for a tweet about race, AIDS and Africa that went viral while Sacco was on an international flight Friday.

On Tuesday night’s Crossfire on CNN, Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart and The Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol squared off over the issue of a recent framework reached with Iran designed to halt their progress towards acquiring a nuclear weapon. Beinart went after Kristol for his hawkish “track record” and insisted that he and others like him “tried to learn a lesson” from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes does not recall a specific or negative incident with former Fnc contributor Bill Kristol, “doesn’t have an issue with him,” and the reason Kristol ended his decade-long run as Fnc contributor this past summer was owing to the network having “made a lot of changes,” Fox News said this morning. This, in response to a report in Politico that Kristol, the editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, left his Fox News contributor gig two years after he and Ailes got into a disagreement that had a cooling effect on their relationship. Related: Jon Stewart To Fox News Channel: “Go Fuck Yourself”: Video The report cited anonymous sources, who told columnist Dylan Byers that Ailes had asked Kristol in 2011 to take a negative stance toward “a certain individual” because Ailes wanted to “give that person a bad reputation.” That resulted in “coolness” between the two men,...

On Wednesday, actor and Up Late with Alec Baldwin host-to-be Alec Baldwin let loose on MSNBC stablemate Morning Joe, guest William Kristol, and host Joe Scarborough, in a series of tweets. The famously Twitter-intemperate Baldwin appears to have been informed of the rule against saying what you think of Joe Scarborough out loud, though, because the tweets have all been deleted, notably without an apology.

In an appearance on C-span on Monday, Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, scolded President Barack Obama for what reports suggest was his hands-off approach to the ongoing crisis in Benghazi on the night of an attack on that city's American consulate. “I am willing to say that he did not behave as a President of the United States should have behaved that night,” Kristol said.

On Fox News Sunday this morning, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol defended former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from partisan political attacks over the tragedy in Benghazi, while also urging non-partisan investigations into that incident and the IRS' targeting of conservative groups during the 2012 election. Kristol denounced American Crossroads' anti-Hillary ads, asking "What is the point of that?" and calling them "ridiculous."...

A panel debate on Fox News Sunday between Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and former Rep. Jane Harman (D-ca) exploded over the nature of the threat posed by militant Islamic radicals and whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing are representative of that threat. They battled over whether Dzokhar Tsarnaev deserves due process in an American court without being declared an enemy combatant in the war on terror.

Appearing on the Christian Broadcasting Network this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-ky) said something that is likely to continue the distancing of himself from the staunch neoconservative types like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer who have actively blasted the senator for civil libertarian views. Speaking with Cbn's David Brody, Paul said that Republicans and evangelical Christians too often seem eager to go to war.

During a panel discussion on Fox News Sunday regarding the upcoming budget cuts in the sequester, The Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol tore into both Congressional Republicans and Democrats for their disingenuous political posturing. He said that the cuts are irresponsible and will negatively impact America’s ability to meet its present military commitments overseas. Kristol called both party’s political posturing around the sequester “pathetic.”...

Whether through true insight or base survival instinct, a handful of Republicans have recently engaged in some admirable introspection regarding their resounding Election Night defeat. While the Romney/Ryan ticket has individually popped up to blame the whole thing on dark people and their young accomplices, people like William Kristol and Gov. Bobby Jindal have begun to see the light.

The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol joined Bret Baier's panel on Monday to discuss the debate over tax rates as Congress approaches the so-called fiscal cliff. Very much in line with the comments he made yesterday, Kristol said Republicans shouldn't be picking a fight against raising taxes on the wealthy. It's a "mistake," he said, urging a look at the bigger picture.

Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, appeared on Fox News Channel where he was asked about charges made by conservatives that the political press is more willing to criticize Mitt Romney for his misstatements than they are for President Barack Obama. Kristol said that conservatives run the risk of cheapening their message by focusing solely on Obama’s gaffes and not his policy. He says that substance will be how voters make their ultimate decision.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that Mitt Romney should "not apologize" for describing nearly half of all Americans as people "dependent on government" who are unable to take "personal responsibility for their lives."

The billionaire business magnate added that the presidential nominee had "probably [said] what he means.”

“We’ve seen enough apologizing already,” Trump said on NBC's "Today" show, the Washington Post notes.

“He cannot apologize. What he said is probably what he means and, he did say [it was] inartfully stated. The fact is he cannot apologize, he is going for those independents; he won’t get the votes of a lot of people he’s discussing, and if you’re not going to get the votes, let’s go on with it, but do not apologize," Trump added.

Trump's comments defending the Republican presidential nominee have come at a time when such support is proving scarce.

Earlier this year, Romney had...

On Monday, Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol appeared on Fox News Channel where he discussed a joint editorial published over the weekend, along with fellow Weekly Standard editor Stephen F. Hayes, in which they recommend Gop presidential candidate Mitt Romney "go for gold" and select either Rep. Paul Ryan (R-wi) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-fl) to be the Republican's vice presidential nominee. Kristol said that he expects the vice presidential pick to be announced on Thursday in preparation for a bus tour which will take the 2012 Gop ticket to a number of battleground states.

Bill Kristol advised Mitt Romney to err on the side of disclosure on Fox News Sunday today, recommending that the Republican presidential candidate release more tax returns, as well as coming up with a stronger defense of his time at Bain Capital. He said the Romney campaign should accept that they're going to get hit over the returns and then change the dynamic of the campaign with a big speech about capitalism.

There was some confusion last week over the Mitt Romney campaign's reaction to the Supreme Court health care ruling, including some mixed messages over the health care mandate being upheld as a tax. The panel piled on the Romney camp for the confusion, with Bill Kristol and Juan Williams saying that conservatives are frustrated with Romney for not getting tougher in his election fight against President Obama.

With the jobs numbers released Friday providing little good news for anyone, Fox News Sunday guest host John Roberts asked today why President Obama is still leading Mitt Romney in key battleground states. Bill Kristol attributed the trend to Romney not being able to provide a clear alternative to what Obama is doing, and said the Republican campaign should be worried about being behind at this point.

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s host of Hardball, Chris Matthews, delved into why he believes the prospect of Mitt Romney as president is something to “fear,” because he believes the former Massachusetts governor is not all that interested in politics or the issues that motivate political commentators. Matthews says that he doubts that if Romney were not running for President that he would be consuming political debate by “watching this network at night.” Furthermore, Matthews says that Romney is a “useful tool” for Republican opinion leaders like Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist or Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol.

Bill Kristol advised both campaigns in this presidential race to keep the focus squarely on the issues and not all the nonsense and tiny controversies that have plagued much of the campaign so far. Remember, we're at a point in the race where people are playing the "Omigod The President Ate A Poor Defenseless Puppy" card and the campaigns are bitterly arguing about which candidate is more out-of-touch.

Liberal bias in the media? Not so, says Fair. The left-leaning media watchdog (formal name: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), claims that Sunday morning news are “failing miserably” at booking diverse guests, politically speaking. In looking at Face the Nation on CBS, ABC’s This Week, Fox News Sunday, and NBC’s Meet the Press (moderator David Gregory pictured, right) from June 2011 to February 2012, Fair found that 86 percent of guests in one-on-one interviews were male, 92 percent were white, and 70% of the guests with avowed ties to a particular political party identified as Republican. Said Peter Hart, who authored the report,...