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The 'What Difference Does It Make?' Award for Denying Clinton Scandals
This week, NewsBusters is presenting the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2015,” our annual awards for the year’s worst journalism. Today, the “What Difference Does It Make?” Award for denying Hillary’s scandals. Winner: ABC chief anchor and longtime Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos, who treated author Peter Schweizer as a hostile witness during an interview about…
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Cuomo Echoes Trump: Hillary 'Very Low Energy' In Newspaper Interview
About the last person you'd expect to have a Vulcan mind meld with Donald Trump is Chris Cuomo. But at a time when the focus is Star Wars, Cuomo went Star Trek today, sounding much like Trump in his description of Hillary Clinton. Trump of course made the phrase "low-energy" famous as he repeatedly battered Jeb Bush with it. Recently, Trump took a similar tack with Hillary, saying she lacked the…
A Revolt Against Islamic Indoctrination
At the same time that schools are censoring "Silent Night" from being sung at their annual "holiday" concerts, others are forcing students to pay homage to Muhammad. Regarding the latter, when a teacher at Riverheads High School in Virginia assigned students to practice calligraphy by writing, "There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah," the school district defended the…
'Historic' Climate Accord in Paris? Media Hype Skips the 'Hard Part'
James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal had some fun with the liberal praise for the latest global-warming accord in Paris, which was uniformly described as “historic.” For example he noticed this from Elizabeth Kolbert for The New Yorker: “The climate accord approved in Paris over the weekend has, justifiably, been described as ‘historic.’ It represents the most significant step forward since…
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Christmas Shopping Funny Video: ‘As Seen on TV’ Products
An amusing video collection as we enter the last shopping day before Christmas: From ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live last week, clips from some of the wackiest product offers in TV ads. Kimmel dubbed it the “As Seen on TV Gift Guide” with the “must-see items of 2015.”
WashPost Front Page: 'The Quiet Impact of Obama's Christian Faith'
Within hours of sliming Ted Cruz’s daughters as cartoon monkeys, The Washington Post presses were churning out Wednesday’s front page. At the top, it read “The quiet impact of Obama’s Christian faith.
Next to the story came this summary: "President Obama, who did not grow up in a religious household, has relied on his Christian faith in trying to bring civility to the nation’s political debates…
IBD Decries Media Blackout of FitzGibbon Sex Harassment Scandal
On Monday, I posted on the virtually complete lack of establishment press interest in the story of Trevor FitzGibbon, the former owner of far-left PR firm FitzGibbon Media. Fitzgibbon folded on Thursday after allegations of serial sexual harassment and sexual assault were reported in the Huffington Post. From there, the establishment press did virtually nothing with the story.
It will surprise…
WRONG: As Xmas Shopping Disappoints, AP Claims 'Cheap Is the New Chic'
The desperation is palpable at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, over how the Christmas shopping season is going.
Having appearently learned something contrary to the "consumers will catch up with their spending" we've been hearing from the National Retail Federation and others so far, AP Business Writer Joyce M. Rosenberg shifted gears and decided that consumers are spending…
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Cuomo: 'White Kid' But Not 'Brown' Muslim Can Bring Clock to School
Near the end of Wednesday's New Day on CNN, during a segment about the top five stories on social media for 2015, co-host Chris Cuomo oddly declared that, "despite all the stats about Christian terrorists," if a "white kid" had brought a homemade clock to school, unlike a "brown" Muslim kid like Ahmed Mohamed, there would have been no assumption that it was actually a bomb.
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CNN, MSNBC Rush to Excuse Cruz Cartoon; 'Dangerous' Girls Were in Ad
After the Wednesday editions of CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today attempted to excuse the Washington Post cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as moneys, various hosts and guests throughout the day on CNN and MSNBC followed suit by chiding the “weird” and “controversial” Cruz for sending out fundraising e-mails related to the smear and “not reacting kindly” to cartoonist Ann Telnaes’s latest…
Festivus Open Thread: Air Your Grievances
As we all know from Seinfeld, December 23 is the date in which a thoroughly frustrated Frank Costanza invented Festivus, a bare-bones non-commercial holiday "for the rest of us." One of the Festivus festivities is the Airing of Grievances, so have at it people.
What? NYT’s Source for Calling Trump Racist: Al Sharpton
Liberal blinders fastened tight, the New York Times set up inflammatory race-baiter turned MSNBC host Al Sharpton as an arbiter of someone else’s racism on Tuesday’s front page. Maggie Haberman and Steve Eder’s report, “Trump’s Rise Divides the Black Celebrities He Calls His Friends,” is just the latest in a depressing series of Sharpton suckups from the New York Times. The Times has taken…
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ABC: GOP Like 'Annoying, Jealous Boyfriend' for Wanting Hillary Emails
The same George Stephanopoulos who gave $75,000 to Hillary Clinton hosted the political segment of ABC’s The Year: 2015, where jokes about conservatives got ugly but jokes about Hillary were off limits. After running the usual criticisms of Trump’s campaign, ABC brought in comedian and former Current TV personality Brett Erlich to bring some “humor” to the segment. When the topic of Hillary’s…
AP Continues to Push Bogus 'New Normal' Benchmark For New-Home Sales
The Census Bureau reported today that new-home sales in November came in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 490,000. That was a 4.3 percent increase over October, but it only occurred because October was revised steeply downward by 25,000 to 470,000; August and September were also revised slightly downward. Actual sales were 34,000, the highest November figure during the Obama era but lower…
