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Ben Ferguson Dismantles Ivanka Trump Pay-for-Play Accusations
December 22nd, 2016 12:20 AM
The liberal media had been trying to make a lot of hay out of accusations that the Trump family had tried to sell access to themselves and their president-elect father. So far such concerns seem to have little merit since all of the instances pointed to by accusers have not actually happened. But that didn’t stop it from being a topic of conversation on CNN’s OutFront on Wednesday. “This has been…
AP Map Falsely Claims Electoral College Unfairness to Dems
December 21st, 2016 5:44 PM
In a separate post critiquing Associated Press reporter Stephen Ohlemacher's Monday evening and Tuesday morning dispatches on President-Elect Donald Trump's Electoral College victory, I noted that Ohlemacher gave undue ink and bandwidth to no more than 1,500 to 2,100 protesters in states Trump won who urged Republican electors not to carry out their Constitutional duty. Ohlemacher believed that…
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NBC, CBS Seize on Clinton Team Blasting ‘Unjustified’ FBI Search
December 21st, 2016 3:36 PM
On Wednesday, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning jumped on a former Hillary Clinton campaign official blasting the FBI investigation into her e-mail scandal as an “intrusion into the election” that was “utterly unjustified” and touted Bill Clinton blaming the “bogus e-mails” for her loss.
A Sisterhood Divided: ‘Pantsuit Nation’ Book Fractures Feminist Camp
December 21st, 2016 3:20 PM
Pantsuit Nation—the secret Facebook group for first hopeful, then grieving, Hillary fan girls—has inspired an upcoming book based on members’ stories. However, when founder Libby Chamberlain excitedly broke the literary news, it sparked immediate division in the feminist camp.
Dubious AP Claim: 'Thousands' of Protesters Tried to Sway GOP Electors
December 21st, 2016 1:01 PM
As one would expect, there is plenty to criticize in Stephen Ohlemacher's Monday evening coverage of Donald Trump's achievement of an Electoral College majority earlier in the day.
This post will concentrate on Ohlemacher's questionable counting of "protesters." A separate post looks at a very revealing failure in the wire service story's photo collection, in a graphic showing how the…
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Scarborough: Clintons Must 'Get Out of the Way' After Election Loss
December 20th, 2016 6:57 PM
MSNBC's Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough hammered Bill Clinton on Tuesday regarding a number of comments the former Democratic president had made blaming “angry white men” and other external factors for GOP candidate Donald Trump's win over his Democratic rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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ABC, NBC Ignore: More Electors Defected from Clinton Over Trump
December 20th, 2016 11:58 AM
With calls to dismantle the electoral college, while simultaneously clinging to it as their last vestige of hope, liberals across the country hoped to use the system they hated to overturn the election in Hillary Clinton’s favor Monday. Not only did that not happen, more “faithless electors” actually changed their votes away from Clinton. Yet you might’ve missed that if you watched the morning…
KC Star Pretends There's Only One Rumor of Elector Death Threats
December 19th, 2016 11:58 PM
News travels slowly into the Kansas City metropolitan area — or at least into the newsroom at the Kansas City Star.
On Friday, the paper's Dave Helling produced a 950-word writeup on Monday's Electoral College voting. With all of the widely published news about Republican electors receiving death threats, all Helling had to report was a rumor: "One spouse of a Missouri elector claimed to know of…
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SNL Predicts 2017 Doomsday: ‘Probably Never Be Another Christmas Eve'
December 19th, 2016 2:49 PM
This weekend, with Christmas and the meeting of the Electoral College just around the corner, SNL released three aptly timed and culturally relevant sketches. As per usual, the videos glorified Obama, bashed Trump and intimated that catastrophe will strike on January 21.
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GMA Gushes Over 'Hunger Games' Actress's Whiny Post-Election Rant
December 19th, 2016 12:19 PM
Monday on ABC’S Good Morning America, host Michael Strahan sat down with actress Jennifer Lawrence, best known for her role in the kids’ science fiction film series The Hunger Games, to plug her new film Passengers. But talk was light on the actual film and heavy on Lawrence’s political activism. After the actress defended her political commentary on being a “role model” for young girls, Strahan…
NPR Anchor Inskeep Praises Obama as a 'Cool Guy...Cool Every Time'
December 18th, 2016 3:43 PM
NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep celebrated his tenth high-profile interview with Barack Obama on Friday’s broadcast by acting as he always does: like a helpful public affairs staffer at the White House. Inskeep went on CNN on Friday morning to explain just how cool the president is, but he’s passionate when necessary.
Variety Movie Critic Trashes D'Souza Film as a Worst Film of 2016
December 17th, 2016 8:49 PM
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday put a gauzy movie about the Obamas’ first date among her ten best movies of 2016. Now in Variety, film critic Owen Gleiberman singled out Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary Hillary’s America in his five worst movies of 2016. "You've got to say this for the right-wing firebrand-turned-documentary filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza: A few years back, he looked like an…
Chelsea Handler Rips White Female Trump Voters for ‘Self-Mutilation’
December 15th, 2016 2:21 PM
Comedian Chelsea Handler, an advocate for “women supporting women,” is at it again – criticizing the great culprits behind Donald Trump’s victory. (White women, of course.) In an essay penned for Arianna Huffington’s new health site, Thrive Global, Handler attacked those who take their rights for granted and bow to their male overlords. “Specifically,” she posited, “the 53% of all white female…
CNN.com: Electoral College Is 'Democracy's Ugliest Anachronism'
December 15th, 2016 11:39 AM
A Thursday op-ed on CNN.com outlined a proposal to "not only...end a Trump administration, but also to eradicate democracy's ugliest anachronism -- the Electoral College." Scott Piro hoped against hope that a group of Trump electors would switch their vote to Hillary Clinton, in order to gain "the bipartisan support needed to legislate it [the Electoral College] out of existence." Piro contended…