Blogger: Before Trump, There Was Bush 41’s ‘Race-Baiting on Steroids'
October 31st, 2016 5:58 PM
George H. W. Bush apparently won’t vote for Donald Trump and reportedly “harbors a deep disgust” for him. Still, according to The Washington Monthly’s D. R. Tucker, the “race-baiting on steroids” of Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign paved the way for Trump’s current approach. Tucker was referring to two television ads: the so-called Willie Horton ad, from a pro-Bush PAC, and the Bush campaign’s “…
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RNC Spokesman Rips Media ‘Running to Defense’ of Hillary
October 31st, 2016 4:31 PM
Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer blasted the liberal media effort to spin the latest chapter in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal as a controversy for FBI director James Comey: “...this is what perplexes me...frankly, [about] the questions today. The burden seems to be on Director Comey....the reality is that…
Immigration Is Expanding the Government’s Size
October 31st, 2016 2:04 PM
A country can cut the size of government for years, even as its economy grows. Canada’s economy grew substantially after it slashed government spending in the 1990s, and it continued to reduce government spending as a share of its economy for years, taking government spending down from 53% in 1992 to 39% in 2007. Similarly, government spending fell by 15% of GDP in Sweden between 1993 and 2001…
CNN Fail: Now-Fired Brazile Shared More Questions with Clinton Camp
October 31st, 2016 1:12 PM
On Monday, WikiLeaks released its latest batch of hacked e-mails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and provided another case of collusion between the campaign and the news media as now-interim DNC chair and recently-axed CNN political commentator Donna Brazile shared additional town hall questions in advance with the Clinton campaign while Clinton was running against socialist Bernie…
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Mediaite: CNN Falsely Claimed Trump Encouraged Voter Fraud [UPDATED]
October 31st, 2016 11:05 AM
On Sunday night, Justin Baragona at Mediaite caught CNN red-handed nine days before the election in the highly unprofessional act of fabricating claims that Donald Trump told a Colorado rally that they should vote repeatedly on Election Day.
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Mika and Joe Scorch Hillary, Her Friends in the Media Over Spin
October 31st, 2016 10:26 AM
Monday morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, a mortified Mika Brzezinski went after Democrats who are now treating FBI Director James Comey as the devil personified, and came perilously close to delivering a mea culpa for her harsh criticisms of Republicans who support Republican nominee Donald Trump.
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CBS’s ‘Madam Secretary’ Politicizes NFL and Violates Hatch Act
October 31st, 2016 2:01 AM
In Sunday night’s Madam Secretary on CBS, the episode titled “The Dissent Memo” shows a flagrant violation of the Hatch Act while politicizing the NFL. A two-for-one! Madam Secretary Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) a.k.a. Madam Hillary is sent to Cleveland to help put President Dalton on the ballot as a third party candidate and that requires a change in that state’s election law. So, the Secretary…
The NYT Watergate Double Standard with Social Media's FBI Coverage
October 30th, 2016 11:05 PM
The more things change the more they stay the same. Let’s begin with a specific Sunday. October 21, 1973. The three tier headline of The New York Times, all in capital letters, covered the entire top of the paper in true banner style. It read as follows: NIXON DISCHARGES COX FOR DEFIANCE; ABOLISHES WATERGATE TASK FORCE; RICHARDSON AND RUCKELSHAUS OUT
New Republic Writer: Trump, Pro-Lifers Prone to Simplistic Thinking
October 30th, 2016 6:10 PM
Generally, pro-lifers support Donald Trump not because they believe he’s truly one of them, but because he’s clearly preferable to Hillary Clinton. Sarah Jones, however, claims Trump is “the candidate the pro-life movement deserves.” That’s not meant as a compliment to either Trump or pro-lifers. Jones wrote that “Trump understood that he simply needed to repeat a few pieces of boilerplate in…
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NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Is Distraught Over Comey Letter to Congress
October 30th, 2016 5:39 PM
Following the recent discovery of e-mails, possibly pertinent to the Hillary Clinton private server investigation on a device belonging to Anthony Weiner, FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress Friday to inform them. Beyond the waves that the letter created, it appears to have left NBC’s reporter and Clinton super-fan Andrea Mitchell distraught. She lashed out on Sunday's Meet the…
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MRC’s Noyes on Media Attacks on Comey: ‘We've Seen this Play Before’
October 30th, 2016 12:33 PM
The Media Research Center’s Rich Noyes appeared on Fox and Friends Sunday, where he called out the liberal media for journalists “willing to step forward and carry some of that water” for the Hillary Clinton campaign’s push back of FBI Director James Comey. “Unless you think he's lying about the timeline he explained in his letter to congress, he was briefed about this and felt the need to…
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Sharpton: Our Poll-Watchers ‘Nonpartisan' Protectors,Trump’s ‘Illegal'
October 30th, 2016 11:25 AM
With the election fast approaching, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has stepped up his call for his supporters to become poll watchers to watch for, and document, illegal activity. He even has set up a page on his website for people to sign up. But MSNBC’s Al Sharpton has had it with Trump’s call for poll-watchers, claiming they are there to intimidate minorities. “How concerned are you…
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Van Jones Sees 'Treason,' 'Tyranny' If GOP Obstructs a Prez Clinton
October 29th, 2016 11:25 PM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, far left CNN political commentator Van Jones made his latest venture into hyperbole as he claimed that congressional Republicans would be committing "treason" if they keep their promises to "obstruct" Hillary Clinton's agenda if she is elected President. And, even though the federal government exists as three branches for the…
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CBS Spotlights Comey's 'Critic,' Omits His Democratic Past
October 29th, 2016 10:16 PM
Jeff Pegues touted one of James Comey's "critics" on Friday's CBS Evening News, after the FBI director wrote to Congress that new e-mails related to Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private server had been uncovered in an unrelated investigation. Pegues underlined that "the timing of today's revelation has angered some former Department of Justice employees," and quoted from one such individual's…