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Libtalker Thom Hartmann on Guns: If Confronted By Armed Intruder, Run!
Through the vitriol of another tiresome debate on gun control -- or "common sense gun safety legislation" as liberals have taken to robotically mouthing instead -- it is refreshing when a left winger blurts out his or her actual, underlying view on the issue. Such was the case earlier this week with Thom Hartmann, who hosts one of the top-rated programs on that lifeless moonscape known as…
October 17th, 2015 9:37 PM
Salon Writer: To Get a Gun, You Should Have to Take a Bullet
D. Watkins has written at Salon.com for about 1-1/2 years.
In his previous columns, he has shown that he fits right in with the "white privilege and oppression of blacks explains everything" crowd. Friday (HT Twitchy), he went into uncharted territory, seriously suggesting that no American should be able to own a gun until they "know the pain of getting hit" (bolds are mine):
October 17th, 2015 8:17 PM
Spinning for Dems, NYT's Healy Accuses GOP of Sounding 'Dark Notes'
Reporter Patrick Healy made the front of Friday's New York Times marveling at how differently Republicans and Democrats see America, in "One Nation, Under Debate. Or Are There 2?" Healy, who is hypersensitive to the political strengths of Hillary Clinton, portrayed the Republican presidential field as dour and negative, while his strange choice of cultural commentators for a political story --…
October 17th, 2015 5:34 PM
Maddow Producer: Investigate the Benghazi Committee’s ‘Farce’
Michael Kinsley’s second-best-known contribution to political discourse, trailing only the “Kinsley gaffe,” is his observation that “the scandal isn't the illegal behavior -- the scandal is what's legal.” In a Thursday post, Steve Benen, a producer for MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show and the primary writer for the TRMS blog, sought to apply Kinsley’s wisdom to the congressional inquiry into the…
October 17th, 2015 4:45 PM
CNN's Don Lemon Denies Media Bias Exists -- But Our Tapes Don't Lie
On the site of the Las Vegas debate on Tuesday, new MRCTV correspondent Brittany M. Hughes asked CNN primetime host Don Lemon if the media tilts left. He made faces like the question was preposterous, and denied any such thing. "People see what they want to see." It's the latest version of "Bias is in the eye of the beholder."
So MRCTV followed up with a collection of CNN clips from our archives…
October 17th, 2015 4:41 PM
Cooper Regrets He Handed the 'Damn E-mails' Question to Bernie
Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple reported Friday that in a chat with former New York Times television reporter Bill Carter on the SiriusXM show “The Bill Carter Interview,” CNN host Anderson Cooper confessed that he shouldn’t have handed Bernie Sanders his pro-Hillary “damn-emails” moment.
“I wish I had brought in one other candidate before I went to Sanders on the email thing because I…
October 17th, 2015 1:36 PM
MSNBC Uses Discredited Map Showing 'Palestine' Land Shrinkage
Based on a map presented during a recent MSNBC broadcast, I'm left wondring why there's all this hand-wringing over a "two state solution" in the Middle East.
After all, according to that MSNBC map and the host of the program involved, "Palestine" has been around for almost 70 years, existing since 1946 (HT Sooper Mexican at the Right Scoop):
October 17th, 2015 12:29 PM
By Jumping in, Biden Might Free Obama to Release the Hounds on Hillary
The conventional wisdom is that Joe Biden has been staying on the sidelines, waiting to see how bad the email scandal gets for Hillary. But while that might be true, consider that Biden need not just be a passive player in the game. There is a plausible theory by which Biden's entry into the race by its very fact would increase the odds of Hillary encountering legal travails.
One reason that…
October 17th, 2015 12:12 PM
Alex Wagner Slams Fiorina for Tapping 'Xenophobic, Nativist' Voters
On Thursday’s Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the host played a clip of Carly Fiorina pushing back at a voter criticizing American Muslims by insisting “We judge people as individuals.” Even as O’Donnell thought she was providing a lesson for Donald Trump, former MSNBC host Alex Wagner wanted to deny her any credit as long as she's somehow comparable to George Wallace (a Democrat) and still…
October 17th, 2015 10:37 AM
Bozell & Graham Column: A New History on Reagan's 'Last Act'
Craig Shirley has already written two terrific history books about Ronald Reagan, chronicling the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns. Now he has delivered the trifecta: Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan.
After spending considerable time at the Reagan Library and conducting interviews with those who knew Reagan best, Shirley presents a narrative about Reagan’s…
October 17th, 2015 7:55 AM
As 'Truth' Debuts, NYT Coverage of the Saga Contains Very Little of It
As I noted on Friday, the New York Times has become the de facto head cheerleader for Truth, the movie which purports to tell the story behind CBS News's 60 Minutes report on President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard service in the early 1970s aired in September 2004.
The Old Gray Lady has hosted a TimesTalk video in which one of the film's lead actors, Robert Redford as Dan Rather,…
October 17th, 2015 1:02 AM
CNN's Sciutto Frets Israelis Are Shooting 'Unarmed Protesters'
On Friday's Wolf show on CNN, during an interview with Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer, substitute host Jim Sciutto cited a quote from State Department Spokesman John Kirby accusing Israeli security forces of using "excessive force" against Palestinians as he charged that Israelis have been using "live fire" to shoot at "unarmed protesters."
October 16th, 2015 10:47 PM
Margaret Cho Says Death for Dog Abuse: 'Michael Vick is F---ing Dead!'
Just a few weeks ago, comedian Margaret Cho ranted on Twitter in defense of Planned Parenthood that “God created abortion” and “It's not a child -- it's a bunch of cells. And the definition of 'child' is not yours to decide. It's the woman's.”
But in the October 25 edition of People magazine, Cho expressed her desire to kill molesters and animal abusers like Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback…
October 16th, 2015 10:45 PM
Maine Food Stamp Enrollment Declines; AP Ignores Work Requirement
A week ago (late on a Friday afternoon, naturally), the Obama administration released food stamp enrollment figures for July. Despite millions of Americans finding work during the past several years, the data continued a national trend of little to no meaningful decline in enrollment.
Seasonally adjusted Household Survey employment is now 148.8 million, slightly above its prerecession November…
October 16th, 2015 10:03 PM