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NPR's Toothless Debate Fact Check Ignores Hillary Gun-Death Hyperbole
The fact-checking of presidential debates by NPR remains uneven. At the last Republican debate, NPR assigned three reporters to “correct” four GOP claims. On Sunday night, NPR assigned only Danielle Kurtzleben to assess one claim, by Hillary Clinton, and she asserted it was pretty much okay.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press fact check found Mrs. Clinton made a claim about gun deaths that was "…
Media Pushback Against Invoking 'No-Go Zones' Ensues
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple and certain "I walked through Bedford Stuy alone" reporters are contending that, in Wemple's words, "the term 'no-go zone' is best left in retirement." No sir, it needs to be defined appropriately, then used when appropriate.
Avoiding use of the term enables a dangerous detachment from reality. There is already quite a surplus of that. Patrick J. McDonnell at…
CNN's Kayyem Frets Barring Refugees Makes ISIS Mad, 'Helps' the Right
Appearing as a guest on Monday's CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, CNN National Security Analyst Juliette Kayyem used tortured liberal logic to argue that, if the U.S. bars immigrants from Muslim countries, that it would actually make America less safe, not only because it "helps" the "right wing" in Europe, but also because it "gives a sentiment or a statement to ISIS that we are what they think we…
NYT Weighs in On Atrocities in Paris, But Most Hostile to 'Far Right'
The New York Times editorial page got around to dealing with the Islamic atrocities in Paris in its lead editorial on Monday, but it was the "xenophobia" of "far-right" extremism in Europe that came in for the most hostility. The same day, Paul Krugman, classless as ever, asserted that "climate change" was a greater threat than Islamic terrorism. And a report from Poland pitted security against "…
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Mika Attacks ‘Hateful’ ‘Stupid’ GOPers Opposing Syrian Refugees
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, co-host Mika Brzezinski went off on a number of governors who have vocally expressed their opposition to allowing Syrian refugees into their state without a proper vetting process, calling their views “hateful” and “stupid.”
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Barnicle Frets Creating NATO Force Would Fuel ISIS Recruitment
If Mike Barnicle were around at the beginning of WWII, perhaps he would have written "we better not fight back. It might make Hitler mad."
On today's Morning Joe, the cringing former Boston Globe columnist, second-guessing a united front against terrorism, worried "wouldn't . . . creating a NATO force just add fuel to the recruiting fever that ISIS employs within Europe?" Maybe Mike should…
MSNBC Guest: 'Shameful' for US to Bar Refugees, Will 'Earn' 'Hatred'
Daily Beast Foreign Editor Christopher Dickey made another MSNBC appearance on Monday afternoon, this time on MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts, where he again went after the "right wing" over negative reaction to taking in Muslim refugees in the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks. He also declared that it was "shameful" that some U.S. politicians are pressuring against Syrian refugees being…
Cruz Pushes Back Against 'Fact-Checker'; Democratic Party IS Shrinking
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz pushed back against a "ridiculous" Politifact post which labeled his true claim that the Democratic Party is shrinking as "mostly false."
Politifact's Emma Hinchliffe had to go back 11 years to a now-irrelevant time period to unsuccessfully attempt to refute Cruz's inconvenient truth, citing Gallup poll figures from 2004.…
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Last Week, HuffPost's Stein Said Guns a Greater Threat In US Than ISIS
Here's a recent interview that looks sillier after the Paris attacks. Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe on November 11, liberal Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein attempted to lecture Senator Lindsey Graham about the threat posed by ISIS and wildly asserted that gun violence in America was a greater threat than terrorists.
“There are vastly more people in this country who die from guns than from…
Dartmouth's Official Student Paper Downplays BLM Library Disruption
The Dartmouth calls itself "the student newspaper of Dartmouth College and the campus’s only daily," and, begun in 1799, is America's oldest college newspaper. It also appears to be a great training ground for journalists who write stories which bury and downplay the lede and cover up key facts when correctly prioritizing and presenting a story would make favored groups look bad.
The Dartmouth…
Only NBC's Jackson Notes New Hampshire's Dem Gov Says 'No' to Refugees
All three of the major broadcast networks' evening newscasts tonight covered the largely-Republican pushback against President Obama's plan to move 10,000 Syrian refugees on to American soil. But only NBC's Hallie Jackson noted that the move by state governors was bipartisan, with first-in-the-nation primary host New Hampshire's Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) objecting to the Obama administration placing…
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Matthews: FDR Didn't Pin Mussolini on Catholics, Don't Blame Islam Now
2015 is drawing to a close, so unless some dark horse comes out of absolutely nowhere, Chris Matthews is a mortal lock for the DisHonor award for the year's worst analogy. On this evening's Hardball, Matthews argued that we shouldn't blame Islam for ISIS terrorist attacks since, after all, FDR, despite despising Mussolini, "never declared war on the Catholics."
Just a little difference: Italian…
AP Complains State Dept. Dragging Feet on Clinton E-mails; Nets Ignore
In a federal court filing earlier today, the Associated Press news wire blasted the Obama/Kerry State Department for dragging their feet as regards releasing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's e-mails.
Liberal HuffPo Correspondent Doubts Dem Candidates Fiscal Policy
Jonathan Cohn is the reliably liberal senior national correspondent for the Huffington Post. Therefore, one must take notice when he subjected the fiscal policy answers of the Democrat presidential candidates to a robust vetting after their Saturday debate and found them quite wanting. Cohn's problem is he thinks the candidates should be honest about having to increase taxes. You really expect…
