Dem's Job Creation Talking Point Reveals PolitiFact's Double Standards

March 22nd, 2024 11:47 AM

Professional fact-checkers love to add context to their articles to argue why the claim made by whoever they are checking is more complicated than the claimant is suggesting. This can also be evidence of double standards.

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FLASHBACK: The 20 Most INSANE Quotes From Hollywood’s Elite

March 10th, 2024 12:00 PM

Tonight is Hollywood’s biggest night, the 96th Academy Awards,  so it’s a good time to dig out the absolute worst quotes we’ve collected over the years from the “stars,” as they championed their favorite liberal politicians and badmouthed conservatives.

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CNN Blames Reagan, Bush, And Trump For 'Why Iran Hates America'

February 27th, 2024 1:24 PM

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria hosted a Sunday special documentary entitled Why Iran Hates America where he ultimately homed in on three Republican presidents: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. There is a fine line between explaining Iran’s position and uncritically regurgitating it and Zakaria failed to appreciate the difference as he omitted key information and contradicted…

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Morning Joe Suggests GOP Tries To 'Gerrymander' Presidential Elections

February 27th, 2024 12:40 PM

On Morning Joe, Eugene Robinson, MSNBC's chief political analyst, suggests that Republicans try to overcome their loss of the popular vote in presidential elections by "gerrymander[ing] the hell out of everything, to try to build an advantage." But 48 out of 50 states, representing 98.3% of the 538 Electoral College votes, award all their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular…

Trump’s Map to the White House

February 5th, 2024 10:34 AM

In 2020, Joe Biden won three states by less than 1 point: Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin. If Donald Trump can flip these three in November — he took them all in 2016 — he’ll be back in the White House this time next year. Can he do it? First he has to hold every state he won last time. Trump’s narrowest victory was in North Carolina, where his margin was a little more than 1.3%. His home state…

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FLASHBACK: The Media’s Nasty Attacks on Florida’s Katherine Harris

November 25th, 2023 8:50 AM

Twenty-three years ago, November 2000, the liberal media unleashed their full fury on Florida’s Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, for following the election laws of her state as well as various court rulings to certify George W. Bush as the winner of her state’s electoral votes in the disputed 2000 presidential election.

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'Facts Matter,' Cruz Battles Maher on Left's Election Denialism

November 11th, 2023 9:56 AM

Sen. Ted Cruz took his book tour to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday where, after some mutual backscratching with the eponymous host, the duo battled it out on the left’s history of election denialism, specifically the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

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Scarborough Gaffe: 80 Is Too Old To Be Campaign Aide, But President?

October 1st, 2023 9:40 PM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough suggests that being 80 is too old to be a competent worker on Joe Biden's campaign. He failed to recognize the implication. If 80's too old to be a campaign worker, it's way too old for someone, like Biden, to run the country!

FLASHBACK: When Dan Rather’s Partisan Corruption Caught Up With Him

September 9th, 2023 8:45 AM

This month, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will honor ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather, exactly 19 years after Rather’s most corrupt act as a journalist, his attempted an election-year hit job on then-President George W. Bush.

Media Spare Biden Bad Press Over Maui Blunders; Savaged Bush in ’05

August 26th, 2023 8:50 AM

The media's kid-gloves treatment of Joe Biden after his inept response to the horrific Maui firestorm on August 8 stands in stark contrast to the withering attacks unleashed against then-President George W. Bush in the wake of the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.

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CNN Denies Democrats Protested Recent Republican-Won Elections

August 4th, 2023 8:28 PM

Friday morning’s coverage of former President Trump’s most recent indictment for the election charges included a segment on CNN News Central where anchor Kate Bolduan discussed former Vice President Mike Pence’s [R-IN] involvement and opinions on the case with his former chief of staff, Marc Short. During this interview, Bolduan asked Short about recent growing distrust in the…

Flashback: Big Media’s Big Double-Standard on SCOTUS Blockbusters

June 24th, 2023 8:35 AM

A look back at four of the biggest Supreme Court cases of the past 25 years shows when liberals win a big victory, the media joyfully celebrate the “historic” final word. But when conservatives win a case, journalists fulminate about a discredited Court and lecture that the ruling has forever damaged the Court’s credibility and legitimacy.

Soft vs. Hard Bigotry With the Ladies of ‘The View’

June 12th, 2023 9:41 AM

When George W. Bush was running for president in 2000, he spoke to the NAACP’s 91st annual convention where he coined the phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” By that he meant the attitude held by some that if one is Black, it automatically means they should not be expected to achieve much in life because so many start off in circumstances that are difficult, if not impossible, to…

With the Debt Limit, It’s the Same Old Song

May 3rd, 2023 1:54 PM

The very term “debt limit” makes a mockery of any kind of responsible budgeting. Each time the government reaches the “limit” it gets raised with the familiar scenarios that include threats of a government shutdown (an idea that increasingly appeals to some conservatives) and the claim that the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. is at stake. We have faith and credit? Who knew?