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Media Echo Dems, Cry 'Abortion Snag' in Sex Trafficking Victims Bill
Well, an issue doesn’t get much clearer than this; according to pro-life group Students for Life of America, the Senate is debating “Taxpayer Funded Abortion vs. Victims of Sex Trafficking.”
The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, a bipartisan-supported anti-human trafficking bill authored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), faced backlash on March 10 from Democrats because of a provision…
March 12th, 2015 2:55 PM
Rapper Method Man on Ferguson Cops Being Shot: ‘You Reap What You Sow’
On Thursday, rapper Method Man spoke to MSNBC’s Tamron Hall about the shooting of two Ferguson police officers, and argued that the DOJ report “kind of played into this and these things shouldn't be happening, but you reap what you sow in a sense.”
March 12th, 2015 2:54 PM
'Unexpected' and Buried News at Bloomberg: Feb. Retail Sales Plunge
Less than five hours after its release, the government's news that retail sales fell by 0.6 percent in February — compared to a 0.3 percent increase expected by economists and analysts — is buried way down (about 6-8 screens, depending on your computer) on the home page of Bloomberg News, where the focus is supposed to be on developments in business and the economy.
Instead, the web site's main…
March 12th, 2015 2:30 PM
A Week Later: Networks Continue to Use Debunked 'Hands Up Don’t Shoot'
After two police officers in Ferguson, Mo. were shot by protesters in the early hours March 12 following the announced resignation of Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson, the media has been complicit in continuing to spread false information on the Michael Brown case.
Ferguson protesters’ “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” chant was officially debunked as false by the DOJ March 5, yet the networks have…
March 12th, 2015 2:17 PM
CNN's David Gergen 'Can't Remember' Anyone Undermining a President
Now that Hillary Clinton has finally revealed that she broke e-mail protocol for the sake of convenience, CNN can now direct the nation’s fury toward the evil Republicans who sent a letter to the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism, explaining that President Obama’s deal is as constitutionally strong as Iran’s sincerity in cultivating nuclear energy.
Enter CNN’s David Gergen, who, despite…
March 12th, 2015 1:35 PM
Time's New Cover Gives Hillary's Silhouette Horns
Time magazine decided to tweak the most devoted Hillary Clinton fans again (remember the "provocative" high heel cover?), but this time it looks like they're playing Satanic games with the Democratic frontrunner:
Time knows very well what they're doing when the juxtapose people under their iconic M. In 2013, they posted a piece titled "33 Time Magazine Covers That Appeared To Give People Horns."
March 12th, 2015 12:23 PM
Climate Depot’s Morano: Vice Manipulated Ice Interview
Climate skeptics or realists are so often ignored or taken out of context by the news media it’s no longer shocking, but that doesn’t make it any less egregious.
On March 6, HBO’s Vice focused its entire program on melting ice in Antarctica. Marc Morano was quoted in the episode, but says his interview was mishandled. Vice is the same media group that embedded a reporter with ISIS and sponsored…
March 12th, 2015 11:38 AM
Fox News Exposes Possible 'Criminal Case' in Clinton E-Mail Scandal
ABC and CBS on Wednesday night and Thursday morning minimized their coverage for Hillary Clinton's still-ongoing e-mail scandal. It was left to Fox's Megyn Kelly to report that "the potential criminal case against Hillary Clinton may have gotten a whole lot stronger." She informed viewers, "We are told that every employee leaving the State Department, every one, must sign the OF-109 form."
March 12th, 2015 11:38 AM
NBC Covers 'New Fallout' in Hillary E-Mail Scandal; ABC, CBS Give Secs
Keeping up the pressure on Hillary Clinton on Thursday, NBC's Today was the only network morning show to provide a full report on the latest developments in the e-mail scandal still swirling around the 2016 Democratic contender. ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning had already moved on, each offering only seconds-long news briefs on the controversy.
March 12th, 2015 11:37 AM
Halperin: Hillary 'Evaded Deftly' Enough for Scandal to 'Go Away'
The political writing team of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin came on Charlie Rose’s PBS show, on Tuesday, to dissect Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal press conference and while the two were mostly critical, Halperin was definitely the softer of the two as he thought Hillary could escape yet another scandal: “I think her performance today is enough to have Democrats come back into her corner...…
March 12th, 2015 11:02 AM
Eugene Robinson Smears GOP: Iran Sounds Like ‘Voice of Reason’
Speaking to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, on Wednesday night Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson attacked the GOP for sending a letter to Iran expressing their opposition to a proposed nuclear deal between the United States and Iran. Robinson argued the Iranians “sound like a voice of reason in this whole thing by saying, you know, this whole thing is silly, we're not paying any attention to…
March 12th, 2015 10:57 AM
Jon Stewart Ain't Buying Hillary's Characteristic E-Mail Dissembling
It's one thing to mock the presumptive Democrat nominee for president a year and a half from the election. Let's see where the left's leading court jester stands when it actually matters.
Still, it is surely worrisome to Hillary Clinton's apologists that Jon Stewart is among her growing legion of skeptics after Clinton's attempt to clear the air about her private email account for official…
March 12th, 2015 10:03 AM
NY Daily News: Brian Williams' Ego Ruined Local TV Show
We already know that suspended NBC News anchor Brian Williams was plugging his daughter's Peter Pan special to his listeners. However, what you may not know is that, according to the New York Daily News, Williams was also actively working against a local New York news shows because he did not want it so close to his network broadcast.
March 12th, 2015 10:01 AM
CBS’s Nancy Cordes Uncritically Quotes Iran’s Ayatollah
On Thursday’s CBS This Morning, reporter Nancy Cordes concluded a fairly balanced report over the battle between members of Congress and the White House surrounding nuclear negotiations with Iran by uncritically quoting the Supreme Leader of Iran slamming the GOP letter to his country as “ridiculous, disgusting, and gross.”
March 12th, 2015 9:48 AM