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Classless, Clueless: NYT's Paul Krugman Exploits Tragedy Once Again

By Clay Waters | May 31, 2015, 9:48 PM EDT

The New York Times classless liberal columnist Paul Krugman has a reputation for exploiting tragedy for partisan gain, and did so again in a Sunday afternoon blog post about former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who is accused of using hush mone ...

Merry Christmas, Hopelessly Split GOP! NY Times Somehow Spins Crime Issue as Republican Problem

By Clay Waters | December 25, 2014, 10:49 PM EST

A Christmas Day article in the New York Times by Jonathan Martin and Ashley Parker left no doubt which party they would leave a lump of coal for: "Law and Order Issues, Once G.O.P.'s Strength, Now Divide the Party. " As usual, the paper imp ...

Impunity: WashPost Blogger Implies Gabby Giffords PAC Can't Possibly Run 'Mean' Campaign Ads

By Tim Graham | September 27, 2014, 5:06 PM EDT

Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple seems to be placing himself in the Gabby Giffords Can Do No Wrong camp. One post this week carried the headline “Politico: Gabby Giffords ‘gets mean.’ Really?” Wemple ripped into an Alex Isenstadt Politico piece o ...

Gabby Giffords Fires Gun for First Time Since Being Shot

By Noel Sheppard | July 2, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) fired a gun Monday for the first time since she was shot in January 2011. As odd as it might seem, she did this as she and her husband Mark Kelly set off on their "Rights and Responsibilities" bus ...

The Washington Post Doesn't Really Believe in Oprah's Outreach to Conservatives

By Tim Graham | June 3, 2013, 7:42 AM EDT

The Washington Post offered a roundup of commencement speech wisdom on the front of Saturday’s Style section. It started with Oprah Winfrey urging the graduates of Harvard to think broadly enough to “have more face-to-face conversations with people you ma ...

Eleanor Clift: Newtown Families and Gabby Giffords Will Be More Powerful Than the NRA

By Noel Sheppard | April 13, 2013, 4:46 PM EDT

"The Newtown families and Gabby Giffords are in the gun debate to stay, and over time their voices will be more powerful than the NRA." So said Newsweek's Eleanor Clift during the predictions segment on PBS's McLaughlin Group Friday (v ...

Chris Wallace to Gabby Giffords' Husband: Background Check Didn't Prevent Wife's Shooting

By Noel Sheppard | March 31, 2013, 2:40 PM EDT

The gun-hating media are convinced that background checks are the panacea that will prevent mass shootings in the future. Don't include Chris Wallace amongst them for on the most recent installment of Fox News Sunday, the host told gun control activi ...

Fairness: Gun Control Advocates Get Five Times More Coverage on CNN's The Situation Room

By Matt Hadro | January 31, 2013, 1:07 PM EST

Viewers who tuned in to Wednesday's The Situation Room were bombarded with over five times as much coverage of gun control advocates than of the lone gun rights advocate Newt Gingrich. Host Wolf Blitzer tossed plenty of softball questions to gun cont ...

New York Times Again Unfairly Slams Sarah Palin for Giffords's Shooting

By Clay Waters | January 17, 2013, 12:12 PM EST

New York Times reporter Peter Baker explored the metaphorical challenges of the gun debate: " In Debate Over Curbing Gun Violence, Even Language Can Be Loaded." It was a politically balanced, if perhaps oversensitive, analysis, until an unfair r ...

CNN Hypes Gabby Giffords' Push for New Gun Laws

By Matt Hadro | January 8, 2013, 4:02 PM EST

CNN did its best to promote former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' push for stricter gun laws on Tuesday. Correspondent David Mattingly even highlighted the large "donate" button on the website of Giffords' new political action commi ...

NBC's Guthrie Pushes Gun Control in Interview With Husband of Gabrielle Giffords

By Kyle Drennen | November 9, 2012, 11:09 PM EST

At the end of a Friday interview with Mark Kelly, former astronaut and husband of former Congresswoman Gabrille Giffords, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie made sure to bring up the favorite liberal talking point of the need for more gun control: "...yo ...

Gabby Giffords Shooter Jared Loughner Gets Seven Life Sentences

By Noel Sheppard | November 8, 2012, 5:59 PM EST

Jared Lee Loughner, the man that shot former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) in a Tucson shooting rampage in January 2011, was given seven life sentences without the ability of parole Thursday. Victims and their relatives including Giffo ...

Chris Matthews: 'I'm With' Obama 'Putting the Knife In' Romney On 'Outsourcing'

By Noel Sheppard | June 18, 2015, 5:38 PM EDT

Remember all those demands for civility in politics after the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January, 2011? On Tuesday's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews said, "I’m with' [the Obama campaign] putting the ...

CNN Gives Last-Minute Platform to Dem Candidate for Gabby Giffords' Seat

By Matt Hadro | June 12, 2012, 5:36 PM EDT

On the night before the special election in Arizona to fill former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' seat, CNN's Piers Morgan gave some last-minute positive airtime to Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate. He hosted both the candidate ...

CNN Urges Gabby Giffords' Husband to Run for Congress

By Matt Hadro | January 27, 2012, 6:33 PM EST

Former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords retired from office a year after suffering a gunshot wound to the head, and CNN is already goading her husband to replace her in Congress. Since Democrats wanted him to run for Giffords' seat, CNN wa ...