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‘The Simpsons’ Mocks 'Corporate Tax Cuts,' Lies About Health Care
For the second time in three episodes, The Simpsons attacked President Donald Trump's tax cuts and pushed for government subsidized health insurance in season 30 episode 23, titled “Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion,” which aired on Sunday night.
May 12th, 2019 9:04 PM
NBC Highlights Colorado Sheriffs Against More Gun Control
On Sunday evening, the NBC Nightly News actually ran a balanced report on gun control which included the views of sheriffs who preside over Second Amendment "sanctuary counties" who refuse to enforce new gun control laws. Fill-in host Kate Snow set up the report: "An intense debate over gun laws in this counry reignited last week after a deadly shooting at a school in Colorado. Well, that same…
May 12th, 2019 8:32 PM
Holy 90s! Fugees Rapper Charged in Foreign Donations Scandal
Allegations of foreign meddling in our elections and obstruction of justice are not always recognized as Huge News -- especially when it's about Asian donors meddling on behalf of Barack Obama in 2012. AP reports that Pras Michel -- a founding member of the 1990s hip hop group the Fugees -- has been charged in a campaign finance conspiracy with fugitive Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho.
May 12th, 2019 8:12 PM
NPR Hothead Suggests Impeaching Trump for Putting Kids in 'Cages'
On Sunday's Up with David Gura on MSNBC, during a discussion of the possibility of impeaching President Donald Trump, NPR's Maria Hinojosa suggested that he be impeached for separating illegal immigrant families and putting children in "cages," characterizing it as an "abuse of power," even though she has herself admitted that the Obama administration did similar things. In fact, she did so more…
May 12th, 2019 6:48 PM
NYT Sees Fascism in Europe: 'Nihilism,' 'Meanness,' Opposing Food Cops
Perhaps wary of Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, international reporters at the New York Times are seeing the “far right” everywhere, in unlikely guises, such as supporting being allowed to eat and drink whatever one likes without government interference. The paper filed an odd story: “Finland’s Right Appeals to Voters With a Nihilistic View on Climate.” In Italy, it found "a far-right attempt to…
May 12th, 2019 3:42 PM
Bernstein: Only a 'Miracle' Can Save Trump from Criminal Prosecution
For the final guest of CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources”, host and media janitor Brian Stelter brought on CNN political analyst and Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein to sing the media’s praises and rail against the President. According to Bernstein’s rambling, Trump was “the most authoritarian president in our history” who got his “Roy Cohn” in Attorney General William Barr, and only something “…
May 12th, 2019 3:02 PM
Gutfeld Rips NYT for Trying to Make an Old Trump Story a New Scandal
After The New York Times published their story last week about President Trump losing $1 billion in the 80s and 90s, did you feel like you already knew about that? So did everyone else, because Trump’s financial problems during that time were well documented. So, during his late Saturday night show, Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld ripped into the Times for trying to drop “a bombshell…
May 12th, 2019 10:28 AM
Snopes.com Rushes to Defend Ilhan Omar AND Whack Babylon Bee Again
Snopes.com doubled down on two of their regular themes on Thursday: defending Rep. Ilhan Omar and attacking the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee. Snopes insisted no one would be able to figure out Omar didn't say "If Israel is so innocent, they why do they inisist on being Jews?"
May 12th, 2019 6:59 AM
Joy Reid: During Bush Era, We Were 'Starving' GITMO Prisoners
On her MSNBC show, Joy Reid claims that during the Bush era, "we were . . . starving people in Guantanamo." MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance then accuses President Trump of having pardoned a former Army officer, convicted of killing a suspected al Qaeda terrorist, for purposes of "greenlighting actual offenses by people who support their side."
May 11th, 2019 11:01 PM
Maher Calls Trump and Fox News 'The Axis of Evil in the World Now'
On Real Time Friday, host Bill Maher closed his satirical segment “New Rules” by urging First Lady Melania Trump to dump the President, arguing that her doing so would enable President Trump to “implode on his own.” Maher also encouraged Rupert Murdoch’s wife, Jerry Hall, to do the same before describing Fox News as an “axis of evil” and comparing the Trump base to “an army of brain-dead zombies…
May 11th, 2019 7:04 PM
Bethany Mandel Nails an Abortion Point on Liberal NPR
National Public Radio has been rotating pundits for its Week In Politics roundup in recent months on its evening newscast All Things Considered. Sitting in the "David Brooks chair" on Friday was writer Bethany Mandel (@Bethanyshondark on Twitter). It's encouraging when the conservative half of a public-broadcasting panel actually sounds like a conservative.
May 11th, 2019 6:39 PM
Rush Limbaugh BLASTS Liberal Newspaper’s Hate for Tiger Woods
In one of the most bigoted editorials imaginable, the Baltimore Sun blasted Tiger Woods for visiting the White House to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump. And fittingly, Rush Limbaugh took note. The Medal of Freedom has a long and proud history. It was established in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy, replacing an earlier Medal of Freedom initiated by President Harry…
May 11th, 2019 4:00 PM
New York Slimes: Damien Cave Slams Murdoch-Driven, Alt-Right Extremism
As Australia’s election looms, the New York Times’ Australia bureau chief Damien Cave is spreading opposition research for the liberals in “Toxic Speech Derails Politicians in Australia. Some Call It Progress.” Cave, paranoid as ever about racism in conservative politics, managed to string together some tasteless social media posts into a general condemnation of conservative politics worldwide,…
May 11th, 2019 3:06 PM
Journalism Is Full of Alarmist Clickbait
Much of journalism is now alarmist clickbait or fearmongering. To attract viewers and readers, reporters make it seem like Nazis and white supremacists are everywhere. Daniel Greenfield provides an example taken from a much larger essay by a liberal mother whose 13-year-old son had temporarily drifted into the alt-right after being targeted by sexist administrators in his public school (they…
May 11th, 2019 2:30 PM