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Daily Kos’s Post-Election Rant: ‘I Feel the Hatred Flowing Through Me’
After more than three weeks, Markos Moulitsas’s fury over the election result remains piping hot, so the Daily Kos founder and publisher served it up on Wednesday. “If I was a Jedi Knight, I’d be a Sith Lord today, because I feel the hatred flowing through me,” acknowledged Kos. “But contrary to Star Wars lore, I’ve decided it’s not a bad thing…One only has to look at the GOP to see how unbridled…
December 1st, 2016 8:46 PM
Beastie Boy Donating Money From Vegan Shoe Sales to Planned Parenthood
Liberals often have a difficult time understanding the concept of irony, as clearly demonstrated by Adam Horovitz, who was called “Ad-Rock” or “King Ad-Rock” when he performed with the Beastie Boys “hip-hop” band. While supporting the humane treatment of animals, Horovitz strongly believes in “a woman's right to choose” the inhumane abortion of unborn children. Yes, he opposes the slaughter of…
December 1st, 2016 6:54 PM
NY Times Scowls at NC's 'Sore Loser,' Avoids Recount for Hillary
Our friend Brent Scher at the Washington Free Beacon noted that the New York Times editorial board has a funny double standard on recounts: North Carolina’s Republican governor Pat McCrory is a pathetic whiner to contest the results, but recounts for Hillary don’t require comment...except for a Monday grumblefest titled “Donald Trump’s Lies About the Popular Vote.”
Green Party presidential…
December 1st, 2016 6:14 PM
CNN's Costello Worries About 'Cost' of Carrier Deal; 'Slippery Slope'
On Thursday's CNN Newsroom, Carol Costello hyped the possible impact to taxpayers for President-Elect Donald Trump's role in getting Carrier to stay in Indiana: "Donald Trump delivering on his vow to save Carrier jobs, and his economic team says it will deliver a lot more — but at what cost?" Costello brought on two Trump critics from both sides of the aisle, but didn't bring on any supporters.…
December 1st, 2016 6:05 PM
CNN Uses Distorted Flynn Clip, Then Complains Fox Used Edited Obama
On Thursday's New Day on CNN, during a pre-recorded segment with several Donald Trump supporters, CNN's Alisyn Camerota brought up a clip of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn discussing radical Islam in which it appeared that he was claiming Islam in general is a "cancer." As previously documented by NewsBusters, over the past few weeks, CNN has taken clips from two of Flynn's speeches -- omitting…
December 1st, 2016 5:51 PM
NY Times Downplays Trump’s ‘Small’ Carrier Deal, Others Say 'Victory'
More than a month before Donald Trump takes office, he saved 1,000 manufacturing jobs. But the very anti-Trump New York Times gratuitously downplayed that news. According to the Dec. 1, Wall Street Journal, Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence struck a deal with Carrier Corporation that stopped the company from moving 1,000 manufacturing jobs from Indiana to Mexico.
December 1st, 2016 4:51 PM
Media Silence: NYC Abortion Rate Is 60% of Birth Rate
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly released its latest Abortion Surveillance report for 2013. That is a year remembered by the pro-life movement for the trial and conviction of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. But even that can’t push the liberal media to report the CDC’s grave numbers.
December 1st, 2016 4:24 PM
Van Jones Walks Back Election Night ‘White-lash’ Rant on The View
After having a meltdown election night on CNN, political commentator and former Obama staffer Van Jones tried to walk back the extreme tone of his previous comments on Thursday’s The View. Prompted by co-host Whoopi Goldberg, Jones explained that by blaming the election of Trump on a “white-lash” he wasn’t actually calling all Trump voters white racists. “It would be unfair to the Trump voters…
December 1st, 2016 3:59 PM
Fallon Warns Trump Cabinet Pick Would ‘Gut the Education System’
In an unusually nasty attack from Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night, the late-night comedian went after President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, philanthropist Besty DeVos: “But this has some people upset, I heard that Donald Trump's pick for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, never went to public school and has never even worked for public schools. People are…
December 1st, 2016 3:47 PM
Dictionary Sites Pick 'Word of the Year' Focused on Anti-Trump Bias
Each year Dictionary.com and Oxford Dictionaries pick a Word of the Year that “embodies a major theme resonating deeply in the cultural consciousness over the prior 12 months.” Of all the words they could have chosen, this year, influenced by the presidential election, the words “xenophobia” and “post-truth” were given the star treatment.
Both dictionary organizations chose their specific words…
December 1st, 2016 3:09 PM
Disgusting: Colbert Makes Vulgar Sex Joke About Romney-Trump Dinner
CBS’s Late Show host Stephen Colbert took another turn into the gutter on Wednesday night to the glee of his liberal audience as he joked that Mitt Romney consuming frog legs while having dinner the evening prior with President-elect Donald Trump “taste[d] a little bit like Trump's balls” and so began a brief rift joking Romney had performed oral sex on Trump.
December 1st, 2016 3:07 PM
BBC Reporter Huffs: Trump Fans ‘Don’t Have Much Respect’ for the Press
BBC World News America’s Washington correspondent Katty Kay doesn’t appreciate the low regard Trump fans have for the press. Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Thursday, Kay lamented that the President-elect “certainly feels the freedom to go around [reporters]", complaining, “his supporters would probably agree with that strategy because they don't have much respect for the media anyway.”
December 1st, 2016 2:00 PM
Nets: Trump ‘Under Fire’ for ‘Pirate Yacht’ of ‘Wealthiest Cabinet'
On Thursday, all three network morning shows recited the same liberal, class-warfare attack lines in response to President-elect Donald Trump nominating billionaire Wilbur Ross for Commerce Secretary and Wall Street executive Steve Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary, fretting that the picks would create the “wealthiest cabinet in history.”
December 1st, 2016 12:20 PM
Gay Writer Rips BuzzFeed for 'Dangerous' Anti-Christian 'Hit Piece'
When BuzzFeed’s Kate Arthur published a story taking aim at pro-traditional marriage supporters, gay writer Brandon Ambrosino fired back with an eloquent Washington Post op ed defending ideological diversity.
December 1st, 2016 12:16 PM