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Salon Spins Sanders Rape Article: Satire of 'Heteronormativity'!
The socialists at Salon.com are desperately responding to the creepy Bernie Sanders 1972 article about male and female rape fantasies. It’s satire, you haters! Katie McDonough explains“It’s an attempted critique of heteronormativity — a clumsy and weird-as-hell attempted critique of heteronormativity.”
Sanders is apparently excused for this gaffe by his record of supporting anti-rape bills,…
May 29th, 2015 2:17 PM
NYT Religious Hypocrisy on Display: Again Runs Profane Virgin Mary Pic
The New York Times' hypocrisy regarding displays of "offensive" religious imagery runs unabated, as shown in a Friday article on the sale of Chris Ofili's controversial painting "The Holy Virgin Mary," which shows the Virgin clotted with elephant dung -- accompanied by a photograph of the painting, despite the paper's smug declaration after the Charlie Hebdo massacre that it would not reprint a…
May 29th, 2015 1:44 PM
Adorable! Chris Pratt Teaches 2-Year-Old Son Pledge of Allegiance
One famous Hollywood celebrity is sharing his American pride – in a touching dad-to-son kind of way.
For Memorial Day, actor Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), taught his 2-year-old son Jack the Pledge of Allegiance – and captured the moment on camera. The May 27 Facebook video, with almost 2 million views and more than 85,000 likes, shows the two saying the pledge in front…
May 29th, 2015 11:38 AM
Strange New Respect: NYT Gets Left-Wing Religion Over Nun's 'Activism'
After hailing the Marxist-flavored brand of "liberation theology" Catholicism in Latin America on its front page May 24, the New York Times demonstrated more strange new respect for religion of the left-wing variety, with an adulatory profile of Sister Megan Rice, imprisoned for breaking into a uranium-enriching facility and splattering the building "with blood and antiwar slogans," which the…
May 29th, 2015 11:15 AM
Waste Management CEO: Recycling Unprofitable, So ‘People Don’t In
Executive tells CNBC WM halted investment in recycling two year ago.
May 29th, 2015 10:51 AM
Amanda Marcotte: Duggar Scandal Contains Lesson For GOP
In a Tuesday post for Slate, lefty pundit Marcotte explored the religious right’s fascination with (and perhaps exploitation of) the Duggar family and how it might change in light of the Josh Duggar sexual-abuse scandal. “The Duggars' [religious] extremism elicited admiration and maybe a little envy among the ranks” of Christian conservatives, Marcotte commented, “but perhaps now Republicans will…
May 29th, 2015 10:46 AM
Katrina Vanden Heuvel Suggests Money in Politics Is Racist
Appearing on the Thursday edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel suggested that money in politics is discriminatory toward African-Americans: “Fifty years ago, African-Americans were discriminated against by poll taxes, literacy tests. Today, the skyrocketing costs of campaigns, including the super PACs you mentioned, these billionaires, have made everyday Americans…
May 29th, 2015 10:44 AM
Schieffer: Most Info People Have is ‘Wrong’; Slams Money in Politics
As CBS This Morning gave retiring Bob Schieffer a glowing send-off on Friday, the longtime Face the Nation moderator ripped the current media landscape: “Well, it's been turned upside down....we now don't know where people get their news, but what we do know is they're bombarded with information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most of the information is wrong and some of it wrong on purpose.”
May 29th, 2015 10:40 AM
Mika Muzzles Talk of Sanders Writing That Women Fantasize About Rape
Willie Geist wondered out loud what would happen to a Republican candidate who had written that women fantasize about being raped--and Joe Scarborough questioned whether he would he still be in the race.
But when it's a candidate for the Dem presidential nomination who had written those words, well, that's a different story. On today's Morning Joe, when Scarborough raised the matter of Bernie…
May 29th, 2015 9:53 AM
Lena Dunham Whines About Nudity, and Her 'Guantanamo' of Social Media
For its June 5 magazine issue, The Hollywood Reporter features a story on “Six of TV’s most provocative female comedians” that discussed everything from sexism, sex scenes, and pay equality.
With the likes of HBO star Lena Dunham and Comedy Central star Amy Schumer being two of the six comedians, it’s a safe bet to say the story would be a raunchy one. They didn’t disappoint. “I stopped wearing…
May 29th, 2015 8:52 AM
Yahoo Columnist: 'Hillary Clinton's Not Like the Rest of Us? Good!'
Former Newsweek and New York Times writer Matt Bai has a column at Yahoo spinning furiously against anyone suggesting the Clintons are too wealthy to be in touch with those “everyday Americans.” His headline was frank: “Hillary Clinton’s not like the rest of us? Good!”
May 28th, 2015 10:50 PM
‘Non-Partisan’ Activist Lets Loose Anti-Republican Rage on MundoFox
Pro-amnesty activist Jorge Mario Cabrera, spokesman for an ostensibly non-partisan, non-profit organization in Los Angeles, let loose with full-throated partisan rage on MundoFox, in reaction to the latest federal court ruling blocking implementation of President Obama’s Executive Amnesty for upwards of five million unauthorized immigrants currently living in the country.
“The reason why we are…
May 28th, 2015 10:10 PM
NBC Continues Media Push Blaming Flooding in Texas on Climate Change
Continuing the media narrative that climate change is the cause of flooding in Texas, NBC Nightly News did its part on Thursday night in not only accomplishing that but also linking climate change to the drought in California and a “weather whiplash” that’s being seen across the country. Anchor Lester Holt began by observing “[t]he relentless rain, while enormously destructive, seemed to have…
May 28th, 2015 9:42 PM
FLASHBACK | Chris Matthews: Hillary Should Tap Gov. Kasich For Veep
Reposted today (February 17, 2016) in light of Chris Matthews's one-on-one interview with Kasich on tonight's Hardball.
Chris Matthews has already scripted his dream scenario for the post-convention portion of the 2016 presidential race. Hillary Clinton is up 5 to 10 points in the polls and she selects, as a gracious move to prove she's about bringing all Americans together, Gov. John Kasich (R-…
May 28th, 2015 8:49 PM