PBS’s Abortion Expert BUNGLES: ‘Hyde Amendment...a 19th-Century Law'

January 22nd, 2024 10:29 PM

On Saturday’s edition of PBS News Weekend, the abortion expert relied upon by PBS, professor Mary Ziegler, made an embarrassing flub of a basic fact, apparently confusing the Hyde Amendment of 1976, which outlawed federal funding for abortion, to the Comstock Act of 1873, making Ziegler just over a century off. Ziegler, professor at the University of California-Davis Law School, was…

Trump Defends CNBC’s Cramer from Woke Twitter Mob, Says ‘No Pandering’

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September 16th, 2020 2:52 PM

CNBC’s Jim Cramer may have made a Freudian slip yesterday when he called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “Crazy Nancy” to her face on live TV. He has since apologized. But the Twitter woke mob had smelled blood. In response to Cramer’s gaffe, blue check marks all over the Twitterverse were either blowing their collective gaskets or calling for Cramer’s head to be served up on the proverbial silver…

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Top 10 WORST Paul Krugman Tweets of 2020 … So Far

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June 24th, 2020 3:20 PM

If you think New York Times economist Paul Krugman’s op-eds are bad, his Twitter account is even worse. It’s a collection of babble, not the commentary of a Nobel Laureate.

GAFFE: Rick Wilson Lashes Out at Domino’s for Thanking McEnany in 2012

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June 16th, 2020 10:18 AM

This is not how you Twitter, Rick. Never-Trumper “Republican political strategist” Rick Wilson committed a massive gaffe on Twitter. He continued a seemingly insatiable obsession with trying to ding President Donald Trump’s administration at every turn, even if doing so makes him look foolish.