Bill Press: No free pass for Carson
This week the world will watch the fourth Republican presidential primary debate for the 2016 contest, and it’s finally time to boot Ben Carson off the stage. We already knew he had little experience...
View ArticleBill Press: What the debates teach us
Political junkies were in heaven. Last week afforded a rare opportunity to see all 15 viable candidates for president — minus ultra-low-polling Lindsey Graham, George Pataki and Jim Gilmore — strut...
View ArticleBill Press: Climate change is real
The evidence is clear — just look around you. Temperatures are getting hotter and hotter. October 2015 was the hottest October on record, the sixth straight month to set record temperatures. Scientists...
View ArticleBill Press: All talk on terror and guns
Boy, that was close. For a while, gun nuts with the National Rifle Association in Congress were worried. After last Wednesday’s massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., it looked like they might finally...
View ArticleBill Press: Shining a spotlight on media
How times have changed. When I began my journalism career at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, there were nine reporters in the investigative journalism department. When I left nine years later, there were...
View ArticleBill Press: RIP for the GOP
Many seasoned political commentators agree: Take a good look at today’s Republican Party. The way things are going, before too long, it won’t exist anymore. That’s not good. It’s not good for the...
View ArticleBill Press: Battle of the billionaires?
Wall Street executives are nervous — not just about the Chinese economy but here at home, and the battle for 2016 looks stacked against them.On the Democratic side, the senator from Wall Street is...
View ArticleBill Press: Obama let us down
As an out-of-body experience, it’s hard to beat: Sitting on the couch watching the Sunday morning shows, when suddenly you hear Chuck Todd and George Stephanopoulos hammer Bernie Sanders about a blurb...
View ArticleBill Press: Who's the real liberal — Clinton or Sanders?
For both parties, the 2016 presidential primary has proven unusual in more ways than one. There have been more candidates than ever before, more outsiders leading the pack, more focus on personalities...
View ArticleBill Press: Sanders: Still in it to win it
There’s no other way to slice it: Hillary Clinton had a big win in Nevada on Feb. 20. After getting shellacked in New Hampshire’s primary, and barely eking out a victory in the Iowa caucuses, she...
View ArticleBill Press: Media is wrong: Dem race isn't over
First rule of politics: The media always gets it wrong. After Hillary Clinton lost the New Hampshire primary by 22 points, most political reporters opined it would soon be all over for Queen...
View ArticlePress: Who is to blame? Donald Trump
It’s as old as the proverbs. Hosea 8:7: “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” It’s a lesson you’d think Donald Trump would have learned a long time ago, since he says the Bible is...
View ArticleBill Press: The GOP: Funny and very, very sad
Breaking News: The Republican Party is in complete disarray. It would be funny, watching the GOP implode, were it not so sad. No matter how hard Republicans try, they just can’t get their story...
View ArticleBill Press: Media missing the boat on Bernie
Bernie Sanders was the big winner in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state on March 26, but you could sum up the media coverage in one sentence: “Bernie Sanders won three states on Saturday but he...
View ArticlePress: Bigotry in the bathroom
There are a lot of Bruce Springsteen fans in North Carolina. A lot of disappointed Springsteen fans, perhaps, but also proud Springsteen fans. They are proud that their favorite music hero made the...
View ArticlePress: Release the 9/11 papers
First they released the Pentagon Papers. Then they released the Panama Papers. And now they should release the Sept. 11 Papers, which may be the most explosive of all.As first reported by “60 Minutes,”...
View ArticlePress: What Bernie wants
Here’s one thing I don’t understand about the 2016 presidential race: Why is the media so determinately anti-Bernie Sanders? The Vermont senator is the most unexpected, most interesting, most...
View ArticlePress: It's time to end Nerd Prom
OK, everybody — breathe a sigh of relief. We survived another White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But before we rush on to the next one, can’t we all agree that this event is out of control...
View ArticlePress: Never Trump, not ever
If you want some idea of the damage Donald Trump could do to this country as president, consider this: As presumptive nominee of the GOP for less than a week, he’s already managed to split the...
View ArticlePress: Forget about GOP unity in 2016
Last Thursday’s showdown between Donald Trump and Paul Ryan received more media coverage than any summit since Ronald Reagan met with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Yet seldom has so much been made...
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