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Larry Wilmore Insists ‘Thug’ Is the New ‘N-Word’
On Wednesday night, Comedy Central host Larry Wilmore went to great lengths to promote the idea that calling rioters in Baltimore thugs was just a socially acceptable way of using the “n-word.” The Nightly Show comedian began is commentary by playing several edited clips of different people referring to the Baltimore rioters as thugs, including President Obama, which Wilmore took great offense to…
April 30th, 2015 11:31 AM
PunditFact Calls Accurate Claim on Clinton Foundation 'Mostly False'
If Rush Limbaugh told his audience that the sun rose in the east today, it seems that PunditFact, an arm of Politifact, would find a way to determine that he wasn't telling the truth.
That's pretty much what you have to conclude from the web site's laughable evaluation of Limbaugh's true assertion that "The Federalist reports only 15 percent of the money donated to the Clinton Family Foundation…
April 30th, 2015 11:06 AM
Nets Tout Socialist Sanders in 2016 Race, NBC Skips Left-Wing Label
On Thursday, all three network morning shows noted independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders entering the 2016 presidential race as a Democrat. However, NBC's Today left out any mention of the self-described socialist's radical left-wing views.
April 30th, 2015 11:03 AM
Bloomberg Promotes $100M LGBT Funding Event
Liberals who habitually decry all the money in politics may want to turn their attention to Dallas today. That’s where a secretive meeting of millionaires and billionaires is convening and planning how to deploy $100 million over the next decade to influence American politics.
Closed to the press and public, the exclusive, invitation-only event includes the famous and not-so-famous, just so long…
April 30th, 2015 10:06 AM
Poll: Just 2% of Young Americans Trust Media to ‘Do the Right Thing’
A new poll from Harvard University’s Institute of Politics has some alarming findings about the trustworthiness of the American media. Among adults aged 18-29, the poll found that just 12 percent believe the media "do the right thing."
April 30th, 2015 9:44 AM
Scarborough: Howard Dean the 'New England Version of Carville'
How did Howard Dean go from vivid voice of the New Left to political hack defending Hillary Clinton at all costs? Joe Scarborough called Dean on it today, telling Howard he had become the "New England version of James Carville."
Dean, on today's Morning Joe, dismissed the latest Washington Post story suggesting possible financial improprieties at the Clinton Foundation as "a breathless piece of…
April 30th, 2015 9:13 AM
Media Still Ooze at 'Stunning' and 'Effortlessly Chic' Michelle Obama
It may be the “fourth quarter” of the Obama presidency, but the flower-petal patrol around First Lady Michelle Obama isn’t slowing down. Wednesday’s USA Today carried a flashy photo montage titled “SPRING FORWARD WITH MICHELLE.”
“On the heels of a stunning turn by the first lady at the celeb-laden White House Correspondents’ Dinner, USA Today’s Andrea Mandell takes a look at the effortlessly…
April 30th, 2015 9:02 AM
Marc Lamont Hill: Police Officers Are ‘an Occupying Force in the Hood'
Late Wednesday on CNN Tonight, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill verbally attacked police officers once again as he decried the notion that there are only a few “bad apples” in law enforcement and that the police instead serve as “an occupying force in the hood.” Two nights earlier he hailed the violence on the streets of Baltimore as “uprisings” against “police terrorism” instead of riots.
April 30th, 2015 7:15 AM
MSNBC's Hall Lets Guest Compare Gays to Interned Japanese-Americans
While covering the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall hosted GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis and Josh Schiller, one of the lawyers responsible for overturning voter-approved homosexual marriage bans in California and Virginia.
Hall sat silently as Schiller compared his gay plaintiffs as "targeted minorities" that somehow resemble Japanese-Americans rounded up…
April 30th, 2015 6:56 AM
NewsBusted: Hillary's Family Tree Tall Tale
"Hillary Clinton recently said all her grandparents were immigrants, but records show only one came to America as a child. Sadly, none of Hillary’s grandparents lived to see what a magnificent liar she has become." -- Jodi Miller, NewsBusted.
April 30th, 2015 12:18 AM
Networks Dodge and Downplay Poor Economic News, Break in IRS Scandal
In the Wednesday edition of bias by omission, five of the English and Spanish network evening newscasts again refused to report on a troubling sign for the U.S. economy while all six omitted any mention of a new development in the IRS scandal. After completely ignoring the story all together Wednesday morning, the CBS Evening News stepped up to mention that the U.S. economy has screeched to a…
April 30th, 2015 12:09 AM
Obama Lawyer Admits Tax Status of Churches 'an Issue' in Marriage Case
Add the following to the "you will be made to care" stories Erick Erickson at RedState began to recognize several years ago.
Those who think that legalizing same-sex "marriage" won't affect them should have received a wake-up call on Tuesday during arguments at the Supreme Court over inventing a constitutional right for two people of the same sex to have such an arrangement. Most of them didn't…
April 30th, 2015 12:04 AM
Fortune: Orioles Revenue Losses From Baltimore Unrest 'Chump Change'
Fortune magazine would have you know that the Baltimore Orioles monetary hit from the unrest in Baltimore is "likely to be relative chump change considering the big money it make over the entire season, including from television."
April 29th, 2015 9:30 PM
Not News: Duncan Threatens to 'Step In' Over Common Core Test Opt-Outs
Well, this is awkward — or rather, it would be if the press cared about the federally-driven tyranny which is in the process of capturing the nation's public and private K-12 schools.
Common Core's proponents have insisted and still insist that "it was and will remain a state-led effort" (italics is theirs). Yet when faced with the "problem" of too many parents opting out of its intrusive…
April 29th, 2015 9:27 PM