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The 7th Annual Fake News Awards

11th February 2024

OffGuardian.

And now, from a deep underground military base on the other side of the flat Earth, it’s time for the 7th Annual Fake News Awards!

How did the disinformation specialists of the mockingbird media lie to the public this year? What rich, creamery nothingburgers did they use to whip the public into hysteria over matters of no consequence whatsoever? And what real scandals of earthshaking importance did they ignore? And who will walk away with the most coveted Dino of them all: the Fake News Story of the Year?

Find out in this face-meltingly, apocalyptically horrifying extravaganza of media mendacity known as the Fake News Awards!

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Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane

11th February 2024

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Reporters at The Guardian never tire of demonizing fossil fuels. In its latest salvo, the newspaper –  funded in part by the green-billionaire Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – published a January 25 hit piece on the Propane Education and Research Council. PERC, funded by the U.S. propane industry, is a nonprofit that provides propane safety and training programs and invests in research and development of new propane-powered technologies. PERC, its critics charge, is “greenwashing” by downplaying “the full climate impacts of propane” and marketing it as “clean” energy. The Guardian article claims that PERC “has invested millions in a multiyear strategy to rebrand propane from what it’s called a ‘dirty fossil fuel’ to a so-called clean energy source.”

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The ‘High IQ’ of Murder

11th February 2024

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Nazism is a political meme which has been securely packaged up and filed under ‘Far Right: Conservative’, and is wheeled out whenever the left wants to shut down debate or dialogue or sling the ‘racist’ epithet against their opponents.

But whilst conservatives may want to preserve cultural integrity and Judeo-Christianity in particular, they have not generally indulged in mass murder and slavery as have the Left.

This ‘right-wing’ filing is wrong, but has caused mayhem for the last 70 years. It is a superlative opportunity for projection and, as conservatives nearly always fall for it, too, it has become a major suppressor of conservative cultural policy.

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Weaponizing ‘The Science’

10th February 2024

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And there you have it….California passed a law that threatens the professional license of any medical professional who shares their professional opinion or any information that contradicts a “contemporary scientific consensus”. It is considered “false” because it contradicts the current consensus. And in this case about a topic that has a lot of controversy and a broad range of opinion.

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Black Lives Matter and Black Lives Murdered

10th February 2024

Steve Sailer.

The first time the New York Times ever mentioned the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in its history going back to 1851 was August 21, 2014, twelve days after Michael Brown’s death at Ferguson, MO. Since then, it has run 5,915 more articles with the phrase “Black Lives Matter.”

As you can see, there were two eras in which Black Lives Matter was ascendant: 2015-2016 (the Ferguson Effect), after which Soros and other smart money funders let it slowly fizzle, followed by the utter insanity of 2020-21 (the Floyd Effect), after which, I’m guessing, the Biden White House got the word through to the NYT than it was no longer in the Democratic Party’s electoral best interests to continue harping on BLM.

For reasons utterly baffling to the New York Times, this barrage of concern for black lives led to a big boost in black deaths in BLM Era I and then a huge boost in black deaths in BLM Era II. It’s almost as if the cops got the message that the Establishment didn’t want them to hassle as many black drivers for driving badly, so they didn’t. In turn, blacks drove worse, died more in car crashes, and carried more illegal handguns when they went out, which led to more blacks shooting more blacks.

 

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New York Magazine Fantasizes in Extreme Detail About Trump’s Life in Federal Prison

8th February 2024

Newsbusters.

In the sad annals of Trump Derangement, perhaps the bizarre vengeance porn fantasies of New York magazine’s Ankush Khardori stands alone in coming from a very very dark place. The typical sufferer of TDS might hope for the imprisonment of Donald Trump and leave it at that.

In the case of Khardori he went full mental jacket on Monday in that magazine’s Intelligencer section with an over-3500-word diatribe dripping with Trump hate in which he fantasized in extreme detail what imprisonment for the President would look like as you can see in this unhinged missive “What Happens, Exactly, If Trump Is Sentenced to Prison?” [Image is also their imagination.]

Above Khardori’s overlong rant disguised as an article is a fantasy picture of Trump’s Bureau of Prisons identity card. Khardouri even has Trump’s future prison picked out for him which he describes in excruciating detail. As you read these asylum worthy Khardori rants that follow you can almost hear echoes  from one of the most famous of The Far Side cartoons screaming “Just Plain Nuts!”

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Stop Dunking on Trump Supporters

7th February 2024

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Why have so many American leftists spent the last nine years dunking on Donald Trump’s supporters instead of seeking to understand them? With Trump likely to become the Republican nominee in this year’s US presidential election, it’s a question worth asking.

In many online spaces, Trump supporters are routinely dismissed as cult members and white supremacists consumed with misogyny. In the best case, the idea goes, they want to take America back to the 1950s. In the worst case, they want to demolish our liberal democracy altogether and replace it with either fascism or theocracy.

Of course, there are radicals and bigots in all political movements. But the idea that these intellectual pathologies extend to Trump’s entire voting base is inaccurate and unhelpful. Moreover, these attitudes only seem to further energize Trump’s supporters, who’ve come to believe (not unreasonably) that they’re despised by American “elites.”

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Biden Calls Up Fake Story—Again

4th February 2024

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Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, all from Georgia, were killed in a drone strike by Iran-backed forces on January 28. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and members of Congress were first to call the families. Parents were told they needed to fill out special paperwork to get a call from the president, whose initial statement mentioned none of the victims. When Biden finally called on January 30, he told the parents of Kennedy Sanders that “My son spent a year in Iraq; that’s how I lost him.” Actually it wasn’t.

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Capitalization Wars Come to Our Courts

4th February 2024

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Equality under the law is a bedrock principle of our country.

But sadly, it’s fallen out of fashion, with many calling for “equity”—the favoring of certain racial or ethnic groups—instead of equality.

This toxic ideology has infused our culture and our courts in many ways, both large and small.

Once neutral areas like procedural and grammatical rules are being weaponized to subtly (or maybe not so subtly) advance the radical equity-over-equality agenda.

To this end, it has become fashionable for writers in both popular culture and the courts to treat and write about people differently based on their race. Many likely don’t even realize they’re doing it and probably (albeit mistakenly) believe they are being good grammarians and following the proper rules.

 

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CBS, NBC Censor DOJ Probe into The Squad’s Cori Bush for Alleged Misuse of Donor Money

1st February 2024

Newsbusters.

Between Tuesday and Wednesday, CBS and NBC have ignored their announcement of a Justice Department probe into far-left Congresswoman and Squad member Cori Bush (D-MO) on their flagship morning and evening newscasts. The probe, which reportedly concerns using campaign funds to pay her now-husband to be her bodyguard, is a scandal that could be used against her fellow Democrats, so CBS and NBC made sure to bury it.

The only segment came on Wednesday’s Good Morning America with a very short, 58-second report on the ABC News program.

If she had been a Republican, of course….

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CNN Tries To Get NATO Chief To Denounce Trump, He Praises Him Instead

31st January 2024

Newsbusters.

On Sunday, ABC’s Martha Raddatz tried and failed to get Gen. Charles Brown to attack Donald Trump as he tries to pull a Grover Cleveland and return to the presidency. On Wednesday, it was CNN’s Poppy Harlow’s turn to try to get someone to denounce Trump. However not only did Harlow, like Raddatz, fail, but NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg actually had positive things to say about Trump.

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The Scapegoating of Derek Chauvin

31st January 2024

The American Mind.

n a previous article (Part I) I described the parade of evidence proving that George Floyd died of cardiopulmonary arrest resulting from his rampant drug use, heart disease, enlarged heart, and edematous lungs. I also showed how prosecutors knew that Officer Chauvin’s knee did not restrict the passage of air to Floyd’s lungs. This fact was not in dispute—the medical examiner testified that he informed prosecutors there was no physical evidence of asphyxiation.

Notwithstanding this evidence, the legacy media manufactured the narrative that Officer Chauvin killed Floyd by asphyxiating him: a patently false narrative nicely encapsulated in memetic and opportunistic “I can’t breathe” T-shirts and “8 minutes, 46 seconds” ball caps. This rhetoric implied that responding officers’ use of force was unlawful. As I show below, this view is entirely false, though it made for effective propaganda.

Responding officers (including Officer Chauvin, who arrived several minutes into the ordeal) handled Floyd’s arrest in a professional, dispassionate, and lawful manner. They managed to deescalate a tense and dangerous situation involving an erratic, powerful, and intoxicated suspect amidst an increasingly hostile and dangerous mob. They should be commended for their work. The bodycam footage proves it.

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Garry ‘Doonesbury’ Trudeau Is ‘Patient Zero’ of Trump Derangement Syndrome

31st January 2024

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Filling a role he carved out for himself since the Nixon days ,,, which is why Doonesbury appears on the Opinion pages rather than with the rest of the comics.

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Yet Another Example of Why Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund One-Sided, Woke Public Broadcasting

30th January 2024

The Foundry.

A conservative president or Congress that does not defund public broadcasting does not understand what the moment requires—or, in the parlance of the day, they don’t know what time it is.

Across the board, government must stop funding services set up with taxpayer money ostensibly to serve all Americans, but which cater only to one side.

NPR is a prime example of this asymmetry. And because of its visibility, it’s a good candidate for the first symbolic act of resolve by new leadership.

Don’t hold your breath.

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Thought for the Day

29th January 2024

PU Press.

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ABC Praises Non-Republicans Voting in GOP Primaries Against Trump

24th January 2024

Newsbusters.

With CNN exit polls suggesting that upwards of 70 percent of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s support in New Hampshire came from people who were not registered Republicans, on Tuesday night, ABC praised that effort on their streaming service ABC News Live. Network reporter Eva Pilgrim lauded those voters for understanding how important their duty was and was excited about other open primaries like those in South Carolina and 11 Super Tuesday states.

Minutes after the polls closed, Pilgrim lionized those non-Republican voters as people on a mission, who understood the assignment, and could decide the entire Republican race.

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Donald Trump, Racist?

24th January 2024

Power Line.

It is no secret that the New York Times is an arm of the Democratic Party, but this piece–a news story in the paper’s U.S. Politics section, not an op-ed–illustrates how far over the edge the Times has gone.

The theme of the article is that Donald Trump is a racist:

Donald J. Trump first established his connection with the largely white Republican base more than a decade ago by stoking discomfort with the election of Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president — the beginning of the so-called birther movement.

It was Obama who claimed to have been born in Kenya. That is what his official biography said for more than a decade. If he had been born in Kenya, he would not be a “natural born Citizen” and thus ineligible to be president. Trump was wrong because Obama lied; he actually was born in Honolulu. But the controversy over his citizenship had nothing to do with his race.

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The Media Begged for Local Investment in Journalism. Then a Conservative Bought the Baltimore Sun.

23rd January 2024

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For years, the mainstream media consensus was that the Baltimore Sun needed a local buyer to restore the storied newspaper to greatness. The fate of journalism—if not American democracy—was said to be at stake.

Then, earlier this month, a wealthy local media executive bought the Sun from its hedge-fund owner. He pledged to grow the paper by investing more in “community news and investigations,” the Sun reported.

And yet, journalists and news outlets overwhelmingly reacted to the news not with joy, but rather with dismay. MSNBC host Alex Wagner last week characterized the development as “extremely dangerous to our democracy.”

In the Narrative media, ‘our democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

Really, there’s no pleasing some people.

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David Frum and the Axis of Errors

21st January 2024

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Writing in The Atlantic, David Frum, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and cheerleader for endless wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Global War on Terror, warns us that if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election NATO will be wrecked, our allies around the world will suffer “potential disaster,” and “above all” Ukraine will be left to the mercy of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Given Frum’s track record of advice about wars, one wonders why anyone would take his advice.

Frum takes credit for Bush’s phrase the “axis of evil” to describe Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

Frum’s advice about war should be labeled the “axis of error.”

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Some Cheese for Wagner and Stelter’s WHINE About Sale of Baltimore Sun

18th January 2024

Newsbusters.

On MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, viewers were subjected to several painful minutes of self-indulgent whining over the purchase of The Baltimore Sun by David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting Group. Media don’t especially appreciate losing control of an outlet.

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Democrats (and Their MSM Lackeys) “Forgot to Get The Facts” Over Texas Illegal Immigrant Drownings, Abbott Says

17th January 2024

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My, what a surprise.

Contrary to allegations leveled by a Democrat Congress member and the Biden administration, the Texas Military Department (TMD) asserted on Jan. 14 that the bodies of one adult woman and two children had already been recovered from the river by Mexican authorities before Border Patrol agents requested access to a fenced-off 2.5-mile stretch of the southern border in Eagle Pass on Jan. 12.

TMD, which runs the National Guard, provided additional details about the incident in an updated statement on Jan. 14, once again calling the allegations “wholly inaccurate.”

“At the time that Border Patrol requested access, the drownings had occurred, Mexican authorities were recovering the bodies, and Border Patrol expressed these facts to the TMD personnel on site,” the TMD stated on Jan. 14.

Democrats lie. It’s what they do. (And they complain about Trump?)

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How College-Educated Republicans Learned to Love Trump Again

14th January 2024

New York Times.

The odds of the NYT writing anything intelligent about either ‘rich Republicans’ or Trump is vanishingly small. Still, it’s good to know what the Uniparty’s propaganda arm is thinking.

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“It Just Sort Of Appeared” – Fauci Comes Clean Over ‘Science-less’ Six-Foot-Distancing Rule

14th January 2024

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You still bump into the stickers from time to time: “Six Feet of Distance.” It’s weird and anachronistic at this point. No one pays any attention anymore. Still it would be nice to know where this came from. Oddly, we don’t really know.

There was very little ‘science’ behind the panicked response to COVID by all levels of government employees.

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NASA: No Evidence of Drug Use at Elon Musk’s SpaceX

12th January 2024

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American ‘journalism’: More interested in Elon Musk’s use of drugs than Hunter Biden’s.

No wonder the country’s in bad shape.

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Here We Go: Michelle Obama Says She’s “Terrified” of Trump Winning

9th January 2024

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Michelle Obama has said that she is kept awake at night by the thought of Donald Trump winning in 2024, in comments have already led to speculation that she could replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.

And she has every right to be, since Donald Trump as President would put another nail in the coffin of the race-hustler industry, of which she and her husband are poster children.

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DIE Another Day

8th January 2024

ZMan has some fun.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the massive food fight that erupted among the worst people over how the allegedly best people cheat like crazy. Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard, was supposed to be a proof of concept for the egalitarian blank slate religion of the Cloud People. In reality she was as synthetic as their empathy for people of color. Claudine Gay was a modern lawn jockey. Instead of standing on their lawn with a lantern, she held up her diplomas.

Then we have Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund guy who started this when Gay made unpleasant noises about Israel. He first threatened to withdraw funding and when that did not work, he went after her credentials. In a world of credentialism this was a declaration of war on the system. Soon the internet dug into Gay’s background and found examples of alleged plagiarism. Harvard then demoted her to being a million dollar a year political science instructor.

In response, MIT decided to get into the fight, and they leaked dirt to Business Insider about Ackman’s wife, who supposedly had a cut and paste problem too. It is ironic that people who are immune to the charge of hypocrisy thought they could use the charge of hypocrisy against people famously immune from the charge of hypocrisy. It is an example of how the hive mind operates. Once Ackman was declared outside the hive, he was no different from Trump or Hitler to the hive.

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Saturday Night Drive-By: Citing Anonymous Sources, WSJ Smears Musk As Drug Abuser

7th January 2024

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The Wall Street Journal fired some serious shots at Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday night, dropping a lengthy hit piece accusing him of illegal drug use to an extent that has worried executives and board members while potentially jeopardizing Musk’s various federal government contracts.

The article relies heavily on anonymous sources, described, for example,” as “people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it.”

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FLASHBACK: The Liberal Media’s War Against the ’95 Gingrich Majority

7th January 2024

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This week in 1995, a new GOP-controlled Congress was sworn in to office, the first time since the early 1950s that Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. The sweeping conservative victory in the 1994 midterms had shocked liberals, but within weeks the media elite were fully engaged in disparaging the new majority as mean-spirited, racist, dumb and dangerous.

Journalists zeroed in on the incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich, caricaturing him as a “Scrooge” and “the Gingrich who stole Christmas” (Newsweek) for suggesting modest reductions in the rate at which federal spending would grow in the future. Time’s Jack E. White approvingly relayed one Democratic Congressman’s smear that Gingrich’s plan would “actually cause black children to starve.”

Writing in Rolling Stone, PBS’s William Greider branded Gingrich “a world-class demagogue” engaged in “rancid populism.” NBC’s Bryant Gumbel cued up House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt to expound on his description of Gingrich and his “ilk” as “trickle-down terrorists who base their agenda on division, exclusion and fear.” The Los Angeles Times wrote that “from the bottom of the income ladder, the prospect of the Republican revolution is chilling.”

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Watch: NBC Reporter Triggered Into Histrionics As Ramaswamy Nails Race-Baiting ‘Gotchas’

5th January 2024

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Vivek Ramaswamy has done it again – running circles around corporate media hacks whose brains simply don’t have the same gear.

And so, they melt down…

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AP Frames LGBTQ School Shooter as a Victim

5th January 2024

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The shooting at Perry High School in Iowa claimed the life of a sixth grader and injured several others.

It quickly emerged that the now deceased shooter, 17-year-old Dylan Butler, had a social media footprint showing he identified as trans nonbinary.

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Pouncing? Yes, But Also Seizing: GOP Gets Credit for Resignation of Harvard University’s Plagiarist President

3rd January 2024

The Other McCain does a victory lap.

See? It was a “disingenuous line of questioning” that provoked the Harvard president to defend the right of students to call for the genocide of Jews, and “thanks to the right,” the video went viral.

You’re welcome, America. To quote Treacher’s Law: “When a Republican screws up, that’s the story. When a Democrat screws up, the Republicans’ reaction is the story.” When the media tries to make the story about Republicans “seizing” and “pouncing” on a controversy, you know it’s about maintaining a narrative in which the GOP is always the villain, no matter how egregious the Democrat behavior in question may be. Hunter Biden makes millions of dollars peddling his father’s influence to shady foreigners, but if you watch CNN, the story is about how those mean Republicans are taking advantage of Hunter’s “struggles” with addiction.

“Republicans claim victory for Harvard president’s resignation” is the Politico headline, which is their way of telling their readership that this is a very bad thing those mean Republicans have done. Ed Driscoll at Instapundit has compiled a stack of reactions to the Harvard scandal.

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ABC Skips Damning Border Report, but TX Gov Is ‘Cruel and Inhumane’

30th December 2023

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A new ICE report released on Friday revealed a whopping 6.2 million migrants have been released from federal custody, but ABC’s Good Morning America on Saturday acted as if the true hardship was the few thousand migrants recently bused to New York City, twice conveying the Democratic spin that Texas Governor Greg Abbott was guilty of “cruel and inhumane politics.”

If New York City finds a few thousand people overwhelming, what about border states that have had to deal with multiple millions of migrants every year since Joe Biden became President?

ABC’s opening tease showed their focus was limited to the concerns of Democratic mayor now inconvenienced by the faraway border crisis. Fill-in co-host Stephanie Ramos: “Migrant crisis: The pleas for help from mayors in major cities overwhelmed by busloads of asylum seekers, turning to the federal government for support, with the Texas governor accused of cruel and inhumane politics; his response this morning.”

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Media Blames Christmas Massacre of Nigerian Christians on ‘Climate Crisis’

28th December 2023

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An attack on Christians in Nigeria over Christmas has left nearly 200 people dead. While Muslim herders are thought to be behind the violence, some major media outlets have blamed climate change for the killings, appearing to downplay existing religious conflicts.

The massacre took place on Christmas Eve in 26 different villages across the central Plateau state in the country’s interior. Locals said that bands of men armed with guns and machetes attacked villagers, killing 198 and wounding a further 300 in some of the worst anti-Christian violence seen in Nigeria in years, according to the Catholic News Agency.

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TIN FOIL HATS: The View’s 6 Craziest Conspiracy Theories of 2023

26th December 2023

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ABC’s The View is not known for rational and measured conversations, so for this retrospective of The View’s antics in 2023, you’re advised to get multiple rolls of tin foil! Throughout the year, the liberal ladies have floated all sorts of harebrained, truly bonkers, and rather laughable accusations and theories about everything from Republican ninjas planting drugs to presidential candidates using body doubles.

And what makes their insane accusations even worse is the fact that The View is under the ABC News umbrella.

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WORST OF 2023: Damn Those Conservatives Award

26th December 2023

Newsbusters.

Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2023 into eight additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Jihadist Journalism Award for Helping Hamas; The Damning Florida’s Dictator Award; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

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Watch: CNN Caught Editing RFK Jr Speech to Mislead Viewers

23rd December 2023

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When he appeared on CNN last week, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confronted with a video from one of his speeches — a video CNN clipped to convey a false impression that he had compared Covid restrictions to conditions in Nazi Germany.

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FLASHBACK: How the Media Covered the Demise of the U.S.S.R

23rd December 2023

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It was 32 years ago — on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991 — that the world rejoiced at the final dissolution of the Soviet Union after seven decades in which the totalitarian communist state inflicted war, poverty and despair on its own people and the rest of the world.

The end had been in sight since communist hardliners failed in their coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev four months earlier. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and throngs of ordinary citizens stood against the coup, and Gorbachev was freed after 48 hours of house arrest. Following the coup, power quickly flowed from the communist party and the central Soviet government to the U.S.S.R.’s 15 individual republics, of which Russia was by far the largest.

For a world that had for decades feared the Cold War might lead to a global thermonuclear apocalypse, this was the best possible outcome — for the long-suffering people of the now-defunct Soviet Union, as well as those in the free nations they threatened. But some in the media refused to blame the communist system for its failures, even as they treated Gorbachev, the last communist, better than his Western counterparts and his anti-communist successors.

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Broadcast Journalists Watch in Horror As Texas Protects Its Border

21st December 2023

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Broadcast networks are still angry about a bill signed into law Tuesday by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, which empowers state and local law enforcement to arrest and deport illegal aliens.

This is the second round of whining we’ve seen in response to this law; the first bout came when the Texas legislature passed the bill several weeks ago. At that time, the common refrain from talking heads was that the bill necessarily would lead to “racial profiling” and “discrimination.”

Broadcast reporters this week raised that same objection, while also touting pending litigation by outraged open borders advocacy groups (which they described as “civil rights” organizations).

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Christmas Gifts: Newest Target of Climate Alarmists

21st December 2023

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People need to realize the Left is using the alleged “existential” threat of global warming to wage war against liberty, against the Western world’s (not China’s) economy, and against joy.

The automobile, that magnificent enhancement to human freedom and joy, is a target of the Left.

The idea that individuals should be able to go where they want when they want in their own car is anathema to the Left. It provides way too much individual liberty.

Ideally, almost no one should own a car. We should all aspire to live in a high-rise apartment building in a major metropolis and use public transportation, ride bicycles, or walk. If for some reason we have to travel a longer distance, let us say to conservative relatives who selfishly own their own homes in the suburbs, we can use public transportation, and if none is available, we can use Uber or Lyft.

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CDC Admits No Data Support Advice To Take Mpox, Influenza, And COVID Shots Together

21st December 2023

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged there is no data supporting the co-administration of vaccines for mpox, COVID-19, and influenza, in contradiction of advice a top agency official gave to the public.

“There are no data on administering JYNNEOS vaccine at the same time as other vaccines,” the CDC said.

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The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Worst Quote of the Year

18th December 2023

Newsbusters.

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2023 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Joe Scarborough! The MSNBC host won for his absurd and dire prediction that if Donald Trump wins re-election he will “imprison” and “execute” his political opponents. The former Republican Congressman, on the November 21 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe also claimed that the federal judiciary was the “only thing that stood between” Trump and “the destruction of American democracy” when he was in office.

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Wikipedia Does Fire Drill To Downplay Harvard’s Gay Plagiarism/Antisemitism Scandal

18th December 2023

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Wikipedia’s woke editors are scrambling to downplay recent scandals involving Harvard President Claudine Gay.

In recent days, editors have removed mention of the allegations from the intro to her article, eliminated detailed descriptions of the alleged plagiarism, and have attempted to minimize Gay’s handling of antisemitism on campus, Breitbart reports.

A fight over Harvard’s page ensued as well, with one attempt to mention Gay’s controversy rejected by editor Samuel Klein, who previously served on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, which governs Wikipedia. He argued that the content was ‘undue,’ and suggested an alternative version which essentially avoided Gay’s issues.

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Thought for the Day

16th December 2023

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ABC Plays ‘Guess the Race’ in Report on Sexual Predator Loose in Arizona

14th December 2023

Newsbusters.

If ABC News is going to spend precious newscast time on a sex predator that tried to grab and do God-knows-what to three female students on separate occasions, then wouldn’t it be worthwhile to provide viewers with as much information as possible on the suspect so people know what to look for? It appears not.

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Libs Face Narrative Collapse After Supreme Court Accepts Case That Could Demolish Entire Basis for Jan. 6 Prosecutions

13th December 2023

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The US Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear an appeal from a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant which will highlight a law used to charge hundreds of people in connection with that fateful day.

The case will decide whether defendant Joseph Fischer can be charged under a 2002 law which stemmed from the Enron collapse which makes it a crime to obstruct or impede an official proceeding (like pulling a fire alarm to delay a vote?). The law has been invoked against Trump, along with 327 Capitol riot defendants – which an appeals court said the government could continue to invoke.

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Canadian Human Rights Commission Labels Christmas Celebration “Discrimination Grounded In Colonialism”

12th December 2023

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Part of the ongoing invasion of the woke movement involves regular attempts to undermine Christian holidays as “problematic” and archaic. Leftists argue that increasing diversity (mostly through open border policies or illegal immigration) requires increasing inclusion at the national level. Meaning, it is not for immigrants to adapt to the west, the west must adapt to them. National celebrations like Christmas are therefore a representation of “discrimination” because they are being given preference over minority holidays.

This was the message given by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) in a paper published under the radar in October. The treatise on “Religious Intolerance” was then condemned in a motion unanimously adopted on Nov. 30 by the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the Canadian Parliament. The paper cited Christianity’s two biggest holy days (Christmas and Easter) as examples of “present-day systemic religious discrimination” linked to colonialism because they are statutory holidays in Canada.

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Al Gore’s Tiresome Crusade: So Long, So Wrong

11th December 2023

Watts Up With That.

Check out AlGore’s carbon footprint sometime.

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Trump Voters Are America Too

8th December 2023

The Atlantic.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “If Trump Wins,” a project considering what Donald Trump might do if reelected in 2024.

Reality is what hangs around even if you don’t believe in it.

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UN Climate Summit Includes Session On ‘Responsible Yachting’

6th December 2023

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“It just goes to show you that, at a time when these people are talking about telling poor countries to switch over to renewable energy, and people are starving, we also have folks driving the climate movement hosting ‘environmentally-friendly yachting’ panels,” Dan Kish, a senior research fellow for the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s absolutely classic… they tell everyone else to sacrifice while they host discussions on ‘sustainable yachting’ among themselves.”

 

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Thought for the Day

26th November 2023

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