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NY Times 'Scoop' Exposes 17 Traffic Tickets for Marco Rubio and Wife
GOP consultant Rick Wilson tweeted a critique of The New York Times on Friday morning: “So we've already reached the bottom of the oppo barrel, have we?” On their First Draft blog, reporters Alan Rappaport and Steve Eder have reported that Sen. Marco Rubio and his wife Jeannette have 17 traffic citations between them over the last 18 years.
Mrs. Rubio was tagged for 13 out of the 17. Is this…
June 5th, 2015 10:16 AM
Olbermann Named Ted Cruz 'Worst Person in the Sports World'
On his ESPN 2 show, Keith Olbermann decided to mix politics and sports when he named Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz as his “Worst Person in the Sports World.” This alone makes no sense, as Cruz has nothing to do with the “sports world,” but it’s Keith Olbermann – nothing really makes sense when it comes to him.
Olbermann decided to take issue with a harmless joke Cruz told when…
June 5th, 2015 7:23 AM
Nets Omit Stories on Illegals Getting Back Taxes, EPA Fracking Study
In Thursday’s edition of stories ignored by the top English and Spanish networks, the six of them declined to report that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has admitted that illegal immigrants could apply for back taxes under President Obama’s amnesty plan as well as a report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that fracking does not harm drinking water.
June 4th, 2015 11:01 PM
NYT Pushes 'Income Inequaity' Obsession in Polls, on Front Page
Another day, another batch of poll results from the New York Times pushing a liberal issue. Yesterday it was campaign finance. Thursday's front page brought the paper's latest installment of the paper's ongoing obsession with "income inequality," "Inequality Troubles Americans Across Party Lines, a Poll Finds," with special pressure on what it would mean for the Republicans in 2016.
June 4th, 2015 10:34 PM
ABC, NBC Give Meager Coverage to Rick Perry’s 2016 Presidential Launch
Former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry announced a second presidential campaign on Thursday afternoon, but viewers on the Thursday evening network newscasts may have missed the news altogether if not careful since the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC gave Perry less than a minute and a half of combined airtime.
June 4th, 2015 8:52 PM
Immigration Advocates Frightened By Little Ol' Me
Third World immigration advocates Frank Sharry, Ali Noorani and Marc Andreessen aren't shy about rushing to the press with pabulum quotes about how wonderful immigration is, but they don't want to debate me, even to lie about all those benefits.
They don't want you to think about immigration at all.
June 4th, 2015 8:41 PM
Matthews Omits How Clinton Dem Rival Chafee Signed Voter ID Into Law
For the second night in a row, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews treated viewers to biased coverage of voting rights issues, amplifying Hillary Clinton's attack on the GOP in regards to voter ID laws and early-voting changes enacted at the state level. Oddly enough, however, Matthews failed to note that liberal Rhode Island, where Democratic primary rival Lincoln Chafee was recently governor,…
June 4th, 2015 8:40 PM
ESPN Defends Decision to Give Award to Caitlyn Jenner for 'Courage'
Perhaps you've seen it -- the photo of Noah Galloway, a double-amputee veteran of the Iraq war and crowd-pleasing contestant on Dancing With the Stars, with this caption -- "Caitlyn Jenner won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. The runner up was this guy: Army Veteran Noah Galloway, who lost an arm and leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq, and now competes in Crossfit events, runs marathons, and competed…
June 4th, 2015 7:49 PM
Fmr. NYTer Cohen: Is Wagner's MSNBC Show a 'Wing of Fox News'?
Taking umbrage with Alex Wagner's mockery of Lincoln Chafee for announcing he wants to take the U.S. into the metric system if he's elected president, former New York Times ethics columnist Randy Cohen playfully griped that the MSNBC host's program was at risk of being a virtual "wing of Fox News."
June 4th, 2015 7:12 PM
Geller Colleague Slams CNN For ‘Targeting’ Her And Not Radical Islam
After an interview of Pam Geller on New Day on Thursday, CNN’s At This Hour followed up with a testy interview of Geller’s colleague Robert Spencer, who ripped the media for their unwillingness to confront radical Islam: "They are trying to say you have to do what we say, you have to not do what we want, and do what we want, and if you do not, we will kill you. And the mainstream media, including…
June 4th, 2015 5:22 PM
Daily Beast Notes Black Chicago Pastor Slamming Democrats' Failures
Kudos to the Daily Beast for spotlighting an interesting story that most of the rest of the liberal media will no doubt ignore.
June 4th, 2015 5:18 PM
Andrea Mitchell Trashes Perry Moments Before He Announces 2016 Bid
During live coverage on Thursday just moments before former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his 2016 presidential run, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell preemptively dismissed his candidacy: “Why does Rick Perry think that the second time around will work given pretty much a disastrous campaign last time?”
June 4th, 2015 5:16 PM
Sally Kohn Wants Daughter to 'Copy Caitlyn Jenner's Femininity'
Caitlyn Jenner wins out over Kim Kardashian in femininity, according to one media pundit.
The CNN political commentator and Daily Beast writer stated “I Want My Daughter to Copy the Caitlyn Jenner Model of Femininity” – “not the Kardashian one” – in the headline of a June 3 piece for Elle. Kohn “imagine[d] a day” where parents would “counsel” their little boys and girls to “be more like Caitlyn…
June 4th, 2015 3:32 PM
Daily Beast Celebrates 'Triumph' of 'Samoa's Caitlyn'
On Tuesday, The Daily Beast talked with Jaiyah Saelua, a transgender men’s World Cup soccer player for American Samoa who has styled himself the ‘Samoan Caitlyn.” What the Daily Beast terms Saelua’s “triumph” turns out to be two unrelated events he personally did nothing to bring about: Sepp Blatter, the corrupt head of FIFA, stepped down, and Bruce Jenner now calls himself Caitlyn.
June 4th, 2015 2:25 PM