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Saints Player Dumped Off CNN As He Discusses Ferguson Facebook Post
A week ago, New Orleans Saints tight end Benjamin Watson put up a Facebook post reacting to events in Ferguson, Missouri. It has generated an astonishing 825,000 likes and 458,000 shares as of 1 PM ET today.
As will be seen later, CNN's print report on Watson's post by Steve Almasy treated the player's references to sin, Jesus Christ, and the Gospel as if they were potentially toxic.…
December 1st, 2014 2:44 PM
NFL’s Watt: Cops, Firemen Never Get ‘Enough Thanks
Forget the Rams stunt, this Texan does credit to
pro football.
December 1st, 2014 2:36 PM
The 7 Craziest Things Chris Rock Told New York Magazine
Chris Rock used to be a funny actor and stand-up comic. But in recent years he’s seems to have taken on the role of full-time apologist for President Obama, his failing policies and the ideology that informs them. The effect on Rock, as an interview on New York magazine's Vulture site reveals, isn’t funny. Bizarre and sad, but not funny.
Here are seven of the craziest things Rock said in the…
December 1st, 2014 1:50 PM
Networks Obsess Over GOP Staffer 'Cyber Bullying' Obama Daughters
Between Sunday and Monday, all three broadcast networks devoted full reports to a Republican congressional staffer criticizing the Obama daughters on her personal Facebook page. On ABC's Good Morning America on Sunday, host Dan Harris proclaimed: "The online outrage over an attack on President Obama's daughters. A Republican congressional staffer posting a rant on Facebook about the way Sasha and…
December 1st, 2014 1:08 PM
WashPost Can't Find One Angry Driver In a Protester-Caused Traffic Jam
The Washington Post claims to be a newspaper that can find and report the conflict in today’s public square. But the Post and cub reporter T. Rees Shapiro couldn’t find one angry person who was delayed for half an hour by a human chain of protesters across Interstate 395 in Washington, DC.
Shapiro could only find people who thought it laudable, reasonable, or even a learning experience:
December 1st, 2014 12:48 PM
The 7 Dumbest Things Chris Rock Told Vulture Magazine Yesterday
The black comic used the Ferguson situation to chime in on race and Republicans.
December 1st, 2014 12:39 PM
Yawn: ABC, NBC Ignore Latest ObamaCare Stumble
ObamaCare has yet another problem, but one wouldn't know it from the networks. ABC and NBC on Monday ignored a new Washington Post report finding that small businesses are not embracing the President's health care law. CBS This Morning covered the story, but only for a scant 15 seconds.
December 1st, 2014 12:11 PM
The Media Messes Up the Lede
As we’ve often discussed, the Tech World Media is just as hopelessly Leftist and lost as the broader Jurassic Press. They so often get it so very wrong - often because their absurd political perspective warps their alleged “reporting.”
Saturday gave us two additional exquisite examples - one each in Politico (henceforth Pathetico) and The Hill.
December 1st, 2014 10:36 AM
Scarborough Rips Media 'Cowards' Spewing 'BS' About Ferguson
As Seton Motley, the former MRCer now head of Less Government said in bringing Joe Scarborough's comments to our attention: "credit when it's due." Because the Morning Joe host had the guts today to speak truth to MSM power, including people at his own network, over the liberal media's cowardly, misleading coverage of Ferguson.
Scarborough tied the media's misinformation to the decision of five…
December 1st, 2014 8:53 AM
MRC's Notable Quotables: No Charges in Ferguson = Grand Jury 'Failure'
After the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, chooses not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, NBC's Brian Williams dubs them "a failure," while as rioters burn buildings in Ferguson, Time magazine posts an essay: "In Defense of Rioting."
December 1st, 2014 8:44 AM
NPR Still Pushing the 'Red Scare' -- With Actual Communists
The leftist phrase “Red scare” is meant to imply a political paranoia that caused people to be falsely charged with communist espionage. But even today, leftist media outlets like National Public Radio use “Red scare” even as they admit the people involved were communists trying to aid the Soviet Union.
On Saturday’s Weekend Edition, NPR anchor Scott Simon proved again that they never tire of…
December 1st, 2014 7:31 AM
CNN 'Breaks' Months-Old News About Brown Family's 'Expert'
The establishment press's performance in Ferguson has certainly been disgraceful, especially its role in turning one local death into a national obsession.
One element of that buildup involves Shawn Parcells, one of two men hired by the family of Michael Brown, the 18 year-old man who was killed in an altercation with Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in early August, to look into his death…
November 30th, 2014 11:56 PM
Obama Mocks Chuck Todd Book: 'He's Just Sad'
It was Small Business Saturday yesterday – and to show appreciation to small businesses (the same businesses he’s helped to quell growth or put out of business thanks to his “Affordable Care Act”), Obama took his daughters, Malia and Sasha, shopping at the liberal Politics & Prose book store in Washington, DC (owned by two former Washington Post reporters).
November 30th, 2014 11:11 PM
Melinda Gates Lies to Time: Our Foundation Doesn't Fund Abortion
Melinda Gates is the ideal philanthropist in the eyes of the liberals at Time magazine – after all, she and her husband Bill Gates became Time’s Persons of the Year...about the same time they gave Time money for a health summit. Anyhow, Melinda was recently honored with the “Ten Questions” interview with Belinda Luscombe in Time’s December 1 and 8 issue.
They promoted “The philanthropist on the…
November 30th, 2014 9:56 PM