Conservative Comic Doesn’t Play By PC Rules
The fast-talking comic's banter made him a viral video star. His 2015 "Unapologetically Southern" rebel yell cemented his status as a YouTube powerhouse. That doesn't mean his rants are a one-way street.
Woke SI Reveres Blackballed QB Kaepernick, Making U.S. ‘Better Place’
Sports Illustrated magazine fawned over Colin Kaepernick after the magazine awarded him its 2017 Muhammad Ali Legacy Award. Eleven pages of the December 11 print magazine were devoted to worship of the out-of-work quarterback. SI writer Michael Rosenberg was positively reverent in his article “Truth Teller," which avoided the word "flag," the very thing Kaepernick was protesting, while hailing…
More Fake News at CNN: Cooper Shows Wrong Photo for Trump Press Aide
CNN is on a bad streak of faking news. Coming out of the Manu Raju mess, Thursday night’s Anderson Cooper 360 was displaying a quote from Trump press aide Raj Shah….but the picture on screen was Rajiv Shah, an administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development under Obama. His Twitter is also Raj Shah, but he's now president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Surely CNN doesn’t want to…
Bozell & Graham Column: Don't Cry for Al Franken
Senator Al Franken, Comedian of Minnesota, was pressed by a majority of Senate Democrats to resign in the wake of a growing pile of accusations of grabbing women in sexual ways. When the number of accusers reached a critical mass,“They turned on one of their party’s most popular figures with stunning swiftness,” reported The Washington Post. That’s a pretty dramatic decline from the heights…
Study: Hillary Might Be POTUS If Not for the New York Times
News stories might have cost Hillary Clinton the presidency, but they were real stories from Manhattan, not fake stories from Macedonia. That’s the major takeaway from a new content analysis of media coverage of the 2016 campaign that the Columbia Journalism Review published on Tuesday.
Kaiser Health Network: Going Part-Time to Get Obamacare No Big Deal
An article published at the Kaiser Health News website earlier this week showed how skyrocketing Obamacare premiums have caused one married woman to switch from full-time employment to part-time. The article identified something the establishment press almost never does, namely the specific dollar amount of an Obamacare premium. But reporter Rachel Bluth was untroubled by the implication that…
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Mika Questions Honesty of Franken Accusers, Wonders ‘If It Happened’
On Friday’s Morning Joe, the MSNBC show’s hosts and guests spent most of their broadcast mourning the announced resignation of Minnesota Senator Al Franken from Congress in the wake of over half a dozen allegations of sexual assault against him. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, MSNBC’s liberal morning pundits went to extraordinary lengths to cast doubt on the women who have accused Franken…
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MSNBC Touts GOP Guest Who Switched to Democratic Party
On Friday's Velshi and Ruhle show, MSNBC co-hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle gave a forum to frequent MSNBC guest Kurt Bardella -- known for being a Republican who trashes his right-leaning former client Breitbart News -- so that he could discuss his decision to finally officially switch to the Democratic party.
NYT: ‘Stern’ Stand on ‘Hero’ Franken Puts Dems on 'Moral High Ground'
The New York Times is still trying to spin the congressional sex scandals in the Democrats’ direction, as demonstrated in three stories Friday virtually bragging that their stand on Franken will put them on the “unassailable” “high ground” for Campaign 2018. The paper frantically spun for the party of Bill Clinton on a day when a presidential hopeful for 2020 was resigning in disgrace: "Democrats…
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NBC’s Engel: Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’ About ‘Faith and Justice’
For the third day in a row, NBC’s Today turned to Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Richard Engel to provide the latest Palestinian talking points denouncing President Trump’s decision to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Reporting from the city once again on Friday, Engel warned of an “Israeli crackdown” against violent “day of rage” protests being encouraged by Palestinian…
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Oops: CNN Botches Date, Importance of Trump/WikiLeaks E-Mail [UPDATED]
With the publication of a Friday afternoon story on The Washington Post’s website, CNN was dealt another embarrassing blow to its credibility thanks to a significant error in the date of a September 2016 e-mail to then-candidate Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and others in their orbit about a WikiLeaks document dump.
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Pathetic: GMA Only Spends Two Seconds on Franken Resignation
If you blinked during ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday, you literally may have missed the morning show’s reporting on the resignation of Minnesota Senator Al Franken. That’s because the coverage of the prominent Democrat stepping down over numerous sexual harassment allegations lasted only two seconds. That’s not exaggeration, a two-second mention of Franken’s name was all the broadcast could…
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Surprise: CBS Calls Out the Hypocrisy of Sanders on Govt Shutdown
You don’t see that very often. The journalists at CBS This Morning on Thursday grilled socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, hitting the progressive over hypocrisy relating to a possible government shutdown. On the issue of Sanders and Al Franken, the co-hosts called him out on his flip flopping.
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Matthews Implies Trump’s Jerusalem Move Could Cause Another Benghazi
A day after President Trump’s announcement that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews declared in a “raw” prediction to Politico’s Susan Glasser that the move could lead to another Benghazi attack and thus the deaths of innocent Americans.
