NYT's Hulse Again Sees GOP Doom, This Time for SCOTUS Stance
New York Times congressional reporter Carl Hulse damned with faint praise Republican majority leader Sen. Mitch McConnell in “McConnell Bets That Impasse on Court Now Helps G.O.P. Later.” Hulse characterized McConnell as “so crafty” while loosely wondering “what’s in his head?” as “far right politicians” praise McConnell for his stance on blocking any Supreme Court nominee from President Obama.…
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FNC’s Watters Discovers People Abducted By Aliens Back Trump
FNC’s Jesse Watters went to the International UFO Congress gathering in Scottsdale, Arizona a couple of weeks ago – and discovered those who’ve had alien encounters support Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders.
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CNBC Alters Transcript of John Harwood Question About Hillary's Email
Last Friday Nicholas Fondacaro presented us with Hillary Clinton's unintentionally hilarious response to a John Harwood email question by claiming, "“I've been the most transparent public official in modern times, as far as I know.” However, when one checks the CNBC page "16 questions for Hillary Clinton," both the question and the laughable answer are gone despite the fact that it was the most…
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Dem Candidates Finally Asked About Abortion, Nets Yawn
Despite Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton being asked about abortion for the first time during a town hall on Fox News Monday night, on Tuesday morning, none of the network morning shows bothered to highlight the hardline positions of both Democratic candidates on the issue.
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ABC, NBC Hype Comparing Trump to Hitler, the Nazis
Both ABC and NBC on Tuesday hyped the comparison of Donald Trump to the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie noted that the businessman has asked crowds to take a loyalty oath. Reporter Peter Alexander reminded, “One prominent Jewish leader comparing the loyalty gesture from the Trump audience to a Nazi salute.” Guthrie pressed, “I wonder how you feel about that comparison and…
Bozell & Graham Column: ISIS and Christian Genocide
It's in part a lack of resources overseas and part simple disinterest at home, but the American news media act seemingly are out of the business of covering international news, and one of the most neglected international stories is the attempt by ISIS to exterminate and persecute Christians wherever they are.
Instead, our media obsess over the faintest hint of domestic “Islamophobia.” A few…
People Mag Covers Surrogate-Mom Nightmares, Including Abortions
The March 14 edition of People magazine carries a surprising article – at least if you’re used to People promoting issues like assisted suicide. The headline was “Surrogacy Nightmare: Whose Babies Are They?”
The subheadline, next to a photo of a very pregnant blonde in a wicker chair, was “Melissa Cook agreed to be a surrogate mom. But then the biological father asked the she abort one of the…
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Scarborough Snaps at Wallace: 'Get Your Rubio Badge Off, Okay?'
As Don Imus might say, there was a "tension convention" on the set of today''s Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace got into it over Marco Rubio's future. Scarborough repeatedly argued that Rubio should get out before the Florida primary, or risk ruining his political future. Wallace made the case that Rubio has the right to remain in as much as Kasich, both their strategies being to…
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Bee: Romney Gave Anti-Trump Speech After 'Soiling His Temple Garments'
For the second week in a row, TBS’s Full Frontal host Samantha Bee resorted to childish toilet humor to attack conservatives and Republicans with Monday night’s installment featuring Bee predicting that Mitt Romney “soil[ed] his temple garments at the thought of brokered convention” before his anti-Trump speech on Thursday.
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FNC’s Bret Baier Hammers Hillary on Her E-Mails, Disarray in Libya
The Fox News Channel and Special Report host Bret Baier finally received their first chance in the 2016 election to extensively question Hillary Clinton through their Democratic Town Hall on Monday and, put simply, Baier did not waste the roughly 30 minutes of airtime as he posed hard questions on Libya and her private e-mail server scandal.
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Rubio Comms Director Unloads on CNN After Post on Rubio Quitting Race
Less than an hour after CNN published an article by special correspondent Jamie Gangel alleging that top Marco Rubio advisers are pushing for him to drop out before the March 15 Florida primary, Rubio communications director Alex Conant took to CNN’s The Situation Room to excoriate the outlet for its “utter nonsense” and “fiction” that didn’t even seek public comment from the campaign.
Ezra Klein: Conservatism Was a Lot Better in Nancy Reagan’s Day
Vox editor-in-chief Klein doesn’t often look back fondly at the good old days of the conservative movement, but he did so in a Sunday post inspired by the death of Nancy Reagan. Klein thinks conservatism was at its best in the 1980s, for which he gives considerable credit to the First Couple of the era.
Klein wrote that the “political genius” of the Reagans “was to shape the pessimistic, angry…
Not News: Food Stamps Is Now Our Guaranteed Income Program
Since the economy finally began consistently regaining jobs in early 2010, the establishment press has had a consistent, predictable and annoying reporting (and non-reporting) pattern.
It starts with the Friday morning jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at or near the beginning of the month. Virtually without fail, it has spit out positive and sometimes even very positive seasonally…
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Stahl Applauds Nancy Reagan Not Having President Promote Social Issues
Offering her memories of the late Nancy Reagan on Monday’s CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes correspondent and former White House reporter Lesley Stahl voiced her approval for how the late First Lady often pushed husband and President Ronald Reagan “to stop talking as much as he was on the social issues” like the abortion and the Second Amendment.
