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Column: Connecticut School Blocks Conservative Websites; Liberal Ones
As most kids are screaming "School's out for summer," 18-year-old high-school student Andrew Lampart is still trying to figure out why his school's Internet service blocked him from gathering conservative facts for his side of the argument on his school debate team.
Andrew told Fox News, "I knew it was important to get facts for both sides of the case." But when he tried to do an Internet…
June 23rd, 2014 9:51 PM
MSNBC's Matthews on Hillary: 'Let Her Be a Little Elitist!'; Sang Diff
"If she's a little elitist, let her be a little elitist!" MSNBC's Chris Matthews insisted of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a June 23 Hardball segment on a Washington Post front-pager on how Hillary "Clinton's rarefied life could be a liability in [her 2016 presidential] campaign."
"Why do people want to be fooled?!" Matthews groused moments earlier to his guests Nia-Malika…
June 23rd, 2014 8:57 PM
‘Big Three’ Networks Ignore Supreme Court Ruling on EPA’s Emissi
On Monday, June 23, the Supreme Court ruled that while the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to mandate emissions controls on power-plants, it went too far in claiming the power to regulate smaller emitters.
Despite the major ruling, none of the network evening newscasts, ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley and NBC Nightly News, covered the…
June 23rd, 2014 8:33 PM
ABC Continues to Cheerlead For Mormon Activist: ‘Urged The Mormon Ch
Once again, ABC News is promoting an outspoken activist within the Mormon Church, Kate Kelly who was excommunicated from the church for actively lobbying for the inclusion of female priests within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
On Monday June 23, ABC’s Mara Schiavocampo played up how "After being tried in absentia by an all-male panel, this afternoon, Kate Kelly got the…
June 23rd, 2014 7:30 PM
CNN's Pereira Swoons Over President Obama's Parental Advice to Kate Bo
CNN's Michaela Pereira gushed over President Obama on Monday's New Day, after co-anchor Kate Bolduan asked for "any best advice for first-time parents" (Bolduan is pregnant with her first child): "Getting parental advice from the President of the United States – fantastic." Pereira complimented Bolduan for her question: "Well done getting a little advice from the President, too. I like that…
June 23rd, 2014 6:18 PM
Column: The Difference Between Republicans and Democrats
It is a line I have used to open speeches on the lecture circuit for years and it never fails to get a laugh: "I'm happy to be here tonight from Washington, D.C., where the only politicians with convictions are in prison."
That's only partially true. Democrats have convictions. They know what to do with power when they get it and how to isolate, even punish, any member of their party who…
June 23rd, 2014 6:05 PM
New York Times Again Soft-Pedals Allegations of Extremism in Islamic S
The "Memo from Birmingham" in Monday's New York Times, "Reading, Writing and Allegations," by reporter Katrin Bennhold, partially whitewashed the problem of Islamic separatism and possible tolerance for extremism at a high school in Birmingham, England.
Bennhold, playing lightly over allegations against Park View School, strove to make a recent UK government investigation sound ludicrous and…
June 23rd, 2014 5:58 PM
Joy Reid Alludes To Inherent Republican Racism
Joy Reid has never been afraid of stating her true opinion of the Republican Party. On the June 23 edition of her eponymous program The Reid Report, the MSNBC host invited colleague Chris Hayes of All In With Chris Hayes to talk about his newest segment, “Behind The Color Line,” which investigated de facto segregation in American schools.
When Hayes told Reid that this segregation was…
June 23rd, 2014 5:20 PM
NBC's Chelsea Clinton: I Don't Care About Money, and 'I Will Always Wo
Thank goodness for Mommy's magic cattle futures!
Erstwhile NBC correspondent Chelsea Clinton claims that try as she might, she just can't make herself care about money. In an interview with the UK's Telegraph the multi-millionaire says, "I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t." Lucky for her, she doesn't have to. Like her famous mother who, in…
June 23rd, 2014 5:11 PM
Sharyl Attkisson on C-SPAN: Team Obama 'Has Perfected The Stall, The D
Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson -- who recently left CBS News and accused the outlet of a reticence to criticize the Obama administration -- appeared on C-SPAN's Q&A Sunday evening to discuss her forthcoming book Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington.
Attkisson, who recently joined the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal website as a…
June 23rd, 2014 4:44 PM
MSNBC Host Compares Wal-Mart Wage Earners with Civil Rights Marchers
MSNBC has been covering President Obama’s White House Summit on Working Families intently thus far today, and the trend continued on the June 23 edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports. Guest host Peter Alexander brought on Charmaine Givens-Thomas to discuss her efforts in petitioning President Obama to set up a meeting with Wal-Mart workers to highlight low wages, inequality, and the lack of…
June 23rd, 2014 4:30 PM
Mika Brzezinski Rudely Rejects Financial Journalist’s Explanation of
MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski piled on to left-wing media attacks against Walmart on June 23, and rejected a fellow journalist’s explanation of how economics works.
The New York Times’ liberal columnist Timothy Egan attacked Walmart’s labor practices on June 19 calling the company America’s “most despised retailer.” That column resonated with Brzezinski who couldn’t resist…
June 23rd, 2014 4:07 PM
On J-Lo’s Lewd New Album, Sex isn’t Selling
The musical wreckage that is Jennifer Lopez’s latest album is one thing; the cultural wreckage that “A.K.A” reflects is another altogether.
J-Lo has risen from the American Idol judges’ table, but her attempt to regain her ‘Jenny From The Block’ glory days has taken a face plant on the pavement. According to ShowBizz 411, the album has only sold 30-35,000 copies during its debut week.
June 23rd, 2014 3:53 PM
Angry Bill Maher: Obama's 'Done Fantastic,' 'Racist' Tea Party Shows
Liberal comic Bill Maher appeared on Monday's The View and was touted by the hosts as the "kind of guest we like around here because he will tear into any hot topic and he does not hold back.” Unsurprisingly Maher praised the "fantastic" Obama and slammed the "racist" Tea Party.
The hosts tossed Maher questions about guns, Hillary Clinton, PETA, and President Obama’s job performance and he…
June 23rd, 2014 3:34 PM