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Kansas City Star Publishes Article Demanding Chiefs Replace Butker With a Woman

20th May 2024

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You can’t make this shit up.

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Regime Media Unable to Say Morehouse Grads TURNED THEIR BACKS at Biden

19th May 2024

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The Regime Media, which at one time falsely foisted “Don’t Say Gay” upon the American public in protest of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, now suddenly find themselves in a similar pickle thanks to President Joe Biden’s commencement address at Morehouse College.

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Newly Released Testimony From Former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins Confirms That Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx Did Not Base the Pandemic-Era Six-Foot Social Distancing Rule on Science

18th May 2024

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After not-so cleverly trying and failing to get Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from important Supreme Court cases related to January 6, the left and the media have moved on to try to not-so cleverly get Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself based on a photo of an upside-down flag outside his home that was said to show support for the rioters. On Saturday’s Good Morning America, ABC White House correspondent MaryAlice Parks omitted key details from Alito’s side of the story as she also hyped that even the appearance of bias can undermine the Court’s credibility.

It was ABC’s second day in a row of echoing the smear and co-host Whit Johnson showed the picture and introduced Parks by noting, “This morning Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under fire. The New York Times obtaining this photo of an American flag flying upside down reportedly at Alito’s home in the days just after the January 6th riot. ABC’s White House correspondent, MaryAlice Parks, joins us now from Washington with more. MaryAlice, good morning.”

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The Times Threatens the Supreme Court

18th May 2024

Power Line.

The New York Times believes that by right, it should have the Supreme Court in its pocket–as, to be fair, it did for quite a few years. So it is doing all it can to discredit the Court’s new conservative majority. It has directed its attacks mostly toward Justice Clarence Thomas, against whom the Times has levied baseless charges of ethics violations.

Yesterday the Times went after Justice Samuel Alito, probably the Court’s most conservative member. For what? “At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display.”

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Building a MAGA Paradise in Arkansas

17th May 2024

Politico.

They say that like it was a bad thing….

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BBC Runs Hit Piece on Slovakian Prime Minister Hours After He’s SHOT in Assassination Attempt

16th May 2024

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There is a time and place to be critical of a political leader if you are a news organization. However, the time to be critical of such a person is most definitely NOT just hours after an assassination attempt in which such a person lies in a hospital in critical condition from multiple bullet wounds. And yet the BBC, with the soul of a ghoul, went ahead on Wednesday and did just that hours after the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot multiple times.

BBC Prague correspondent Rob Cameron somehow thought the very day of Fico being the gravely wounded victim of an assassination attempt would be a good time to write up this hit piece, “How Robert Fico rose to dominate Slovak politics.”

First came the smear in Cameron’s story followed by a medical description of the one he just smeared just a sentence earlier.

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HAMAS MEDIA: CBS Evening News Observes ‘Nakba Day’

16th May 2024

Newsbusters.

As pertains to the ongoing war in Gaza, CBS News continues to solidify its reputation as the most pro-Hamas among the networks. A brief report on the Biden administration’s request for new military assistance for Israel quickly turned into an opportunity to echo pro-Palestinian points and observe “al-Nakba”, which loosely translates to “Catastrophe Day”

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2024 Presidential Debate Host ABC News Falsely Casts Biden as Issuing Debate Challenge

16th May 2024

Newsbusters.

The Regime Media kicked off their respective evening newscasts by hyping the upcoming presidential debates, which were just agreed to by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. But ABC News, aggressively Biden-servile and an announced debate host, chose to disinform the public by insisting on casting Biden as the one who challenged Trump to a debate, when the record reflects the exact opposite.

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We Regret To Inform You All That CNN Is Still Performing Dramatic Readings Of Trump Trial Transcripts

15th May 2024

Newsbusters.

Generally speaking, CNN’s coverage of the so-called Trump “hush money” trial has taken such an onanistic turn that reasonable people may question whether Jeffrey Toobin is now in charge of the once-revered Cable News Network. The most ridiculous iteration of this coverage? Dramatic readings of the trial transcripts.

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Network PM Newscasts AVOID NYC Mayor Adams’ Racist ‘Swimmers’ Remarks

15th May 2024

Newsbusters.

The evening network newscasts leave us, once again, to imagine what coverage might have been had a Republican elected official attested to migrants making great lifeguards due to their being “excellent swimmers”, as did New York Mayor Eric Adams. The wild stereotyping and casual racism are all there for the taking but the networks took a pass, leaving reasonable individuals to conclude that there’s a (D)ifference in how such stories are covered.

But you knew that.

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How Michael Cohen’s past lies make him a more credible witness

15th May 2024

MSNBC.

You can’t make this stuff up.

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‘He’d Be So Rattled’: Kimmel and Meyers Dream of Trolling Trump at Trial

14th May 2024

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Obviously they know even less about Trump than they do about reality.

Trump would rip them each a new asshole and wouldn’t even need to slow down to do it.

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NPR Loves Far-Left Tik-Tok Effort to Punish Celebrities for SILENCE on Gaza

12th May 2024

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Chloe Veltman, a correspondent on National Public Radio’s “Culture Desk” who last year celebrated the “Nation’s first ‘drag laureate,'” is still guarding the far-left ramparts of U.S. culture for NPR with Saturday’s “The Met Gala has fueled backlash against stars who are silent about the Gaza conflict.”

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CBS’s Robert Costa Begs Bill Maher to Stop Mocking Lefties, Just Mock Republicans

12th May 2024

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CBS reporter Robert Costa put together a puffball interview for HBO Real Time host Bill Maher on their show Sunday Morning. They let him claim he’s not ideological and didn’t laugh when he said “I speak for the normies. I speak for that vast middle that is tired of the partisanship. I don’t want to hate half the country, and I don’t hate half the country.” Bill Maher represents the “vast middle,” the “normies”? Conservatives across America would make a face at that. At bottom, Maher is a bit of shock jock, so that when Democrats are in power he’s going to mock them as well, just as he suggested on Friday night that the Democrats “blew it” in all their legal warfare on Trump. What was amazing in this profile was Costa imploring Maher to lay off mockery of the Left, just shine the spotlight on the right-wingers!

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FLASHBACK: When ABC News Buried Top Anchor’s Ethical Scandal

12th May 2024

Newsbusters.

Nine years ago this week, ABC News was roiled by a journalistic scandal: Their top political anchor had refused to disclose his big dollar contributions to the Clinton Foundation at the same time he used ABC’s airwaves in an attempt to discredit an anti-Clinton author, an obvious favor to the just-launched Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.

Yet after a few days of bad headlines, and a pair of on-air apologies, George Stephanopoulos simply resumed covering politics as if nothing had happened. ABC’s casual attitude matched the blind eye the network had turned to the anchor’s obvious bias over two decades as a pundit, correspondent and anchor.

George Stephanopoulis played the role of Michael J. Fox in the Clinton administration.

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Desperate NY Times: Valid Soros Criticism Equals ‘Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes’

11th May 2024

Newsbusters.

The Times spent some 3,500 words and used Artificial Intelligence and four staffers (Karen Yourish, Danielle Ivory, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, and Alex Lemonides) to try to paint the GOP as the true anti-semitic party.

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ABC’s Mary Bruce Invents Weird New ‘Anti-Semitic Trope’ With Which To Smear Trump

10th May 2024

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In what appears to be a desperate attempt to shield President Joe Biden from the fallout of his decision to block munitions shipments to Israel, ABC Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce has crafted a strange new “antisemitic trope” with which to smear former President Donald Trump. Watch as Bruce uncorks this so-called trope during her coverage of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza: MARY BRUCE: Tonight, many Republicans now accusing Biden of abandoning a critical ally, including Donald Trump, who today repeated an anti-semitic trope questioning Jewish voters who stand by the president.

Apparently ‘questioning’ Jews who support Biden is ‘antisemitic’.

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‘Word Salad’: Andrew Huberman’s Cannabis Misinformation Slammed by Experts

9th May 2024

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Whom do you think is more likely to lie about cannabis use: A PhD in neuroscience and associate professor of neurobiology at Stanford Medical School, or Rolling Stone magazine?

The question pretty much answers itself.

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Here’s What Biden Admin Apologists Aren’t Telling You About Jobless Rate

9th May 2024

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Americans consistently voice their disapproval on the state of the economy in recent polls, largely because of the stratospheric cost of living. But apologists for the Biden administration point to the low unemployment rate of 3.9% in April as proof of the economy’s strength.

Yet this is a hollow talking point, since the real unemployment rate is likely between 6.5% and 7.7%.

The unemployment rate is the percentage of people in the labor force who don’t have a job. That means the unemployment rate can change if either the number of people unemployed or the total size of the labor force changes.

The shocking reality is that somewhere between 4.7 million and 7 million people who aren’t working today are not included when calculating the unemployment rate. That artificially reduces the figure.

The reason these millions of Americans are uncounted began with the events of 2020.

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Seven Blatant Biden LIES ABC, CBS, NBC Refuse to Report

9th May 2024

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It’s not just the gaffes that keep coming, it’s also the lies! President Joe Biden can barely open his mouth without a blatant falsehood falling out.

He dropped multiple fibs in just one Howard Stern Show appearance late last month.

Did ABC, CBS or NBC fact check any of them? Of course not!

 

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CBS Only Network to Report Indictment of Laken Riley’s Killer

9th May 2024

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The murder of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley shook the nation, and hammered home the real dangers to which the nation became exposed when the border was flung open on January 20th, 2021. The media has been reluctant to cover the story because it casts Democrats (generally) and President Joe Biden (specifically) in a very bad light. That reluctance continues to this day.

CBS Evening News was the only national network newscast to report on the indictment of the illegal alien that murdered Laken Riley.

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Trump Tax Cut Extension Cost Swells to $3.8 Trillion, CBO Warns

8th May 2024

Bloomberg.

Translation: “Since the government intends to keep spending like drunken sailors, we need higher taxes to make things look better than they are. Trump’s tax cuts interfere with that, so we’ll blame him for what it basically our fault.”

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CBS’s Latest Trump Smear Unraveled in Less Than a Week

8th May 2024

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journalism, is that their Trump Derangement Syndrome drives them to say things that are easily debunkable or quickly proven wrong.

Take, for example, CBS’s Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes. During her report last week fretting the effect the pro-Hamas campus protests might have upon President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, she threw in a 15-second non-sequitur accusing former President Donald Trump of making an “unfounded claim about campus demonstrators”- a fancier and more succinct “without evidence”. We flagged it the time, and memorialized it via X in anticipation of the inevitable:

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Biden’s Lapdog: Emails Expose YouTube as White House’s Gold Standard of Censorship

7th May 2024

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YouTube, the famous video-sharing platform, was shockingly co-opted by the Biden White House to become the gold standard of censorship.

On May 1, the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Weaponization of Government Subcommittee released a voluminous report exposing lengthy correspondence between the White House and Facebook, YouTube and Amazon.

YouTube’s team was particularly receptive to the demands of the administration and was touted by Biden officials as an exemplar to prod other companies, specifically Facebook.

 

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MSNBC Airs Threat to Possible Trump Veeps: You Could End Up Being Executed!

7th May 2024

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The liberal media isn’t waiting for Donald Trump to announce his running mate before going on the attack. MSNBC has aired a pre-emptive strike on all the potential VP candidates. And not only did it contain a vitriolic denunciation of them, but it also included a not-so-veiled threat of the most ominous sort.

 

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Al Gore, Statesman?

6th May 2024

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This year’s recipients were the usual mixed bag, but I want to focus specifically on Gore. This is what Gore’s citation says:

Al Gore is a former Vice President, United States Senator, and member of the House of Representatives. After winning the popular vote, he accepted the outcome of a disputed presidential election for the sake of our unity. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for his bold action on climate change.

Let’s dissect that: “After winning the popular vote…” This is completely irrelevant. The “popular vote” does not elect the president. The point is to emphasize what follows: “…he accepted the outcome of a disputed presidential election for the sake of our unity.” That is what Richard Nixon did, but not Al Gore. Gore went to court to challenge George W. Bush’s victory in Florida. After Gore lost in the trial court–correctly–four partisan Florida Supreme Court justices tried to steal the election for their man by purporting to award him Florida’s electoral votes. That triggered a further appeal. Gore fought for the presidency until the last dog was hung in the U.S. Supreme Court. And even thereafter, he claimed that he was the rightful winner, as have many Democrats ever since 2000.

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What Word the Media Refuses to Use for the College Riots: Insurrection

4th May 2024

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On January 6, 2021, tens of thousands of Americans descended on Washington to protest the counts and Covid-related conditions of the 2020 election. A riot took place at the US Capitol. Over 1,200 people were arrested and more than 460 were incarcerated. The coverage of that day in the mainstream media is typified by headlines like this from the New York Times, Forbes and Washington Post.

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‘It’s F****** Scary,’ De Niro Compares Trump to Hitler on MSNBC

4th May 2024

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For some reason, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle decided to interview actor Robert De Niro on the Thursday edition of The 11th Hour. On multiple occasions, De Niro would compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and himself and his compatriots to Jews in Nazi Germany, claiming “it’s [bleep] scary.”

Ruhle wondered, “What do you say to those who say, ‘I don’t like the guy, but I’m going to vote for him.’ What’s your message to them?” De Niro claimed that “I don’t understand it. I don’t think they understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president.”

 

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ABC Claims UCLA Mob Was ‘Largely Peaceful’ While They Gassed Police

2nd May 2024

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CNN proved themselves to be biased fools in the summer of 2020 when they claimed the Black Lives Matter Riots were “fiery but mostly peaceful.” Well, ABC News told them to hold their beer Thursday morning as they had correspondent Trevor Ault assert that the anti-Semitic/pro-Hamas encampment at UCLA was “largely peaceful” with no sign of “fighting back” against police while admitting that they were throwing stuff and using fire extinguishers to gas them.

The California Highway Patrol crackdown on the UCLA encampment, where they employed Nazi-style tactics against the Jews on campus, was already underway as ABC’s Good Morning America came on the air at 7:00 a.m. and was the first story they got to.

Ault was live on the scene where he reported “So far, we haven’t seen a lot of physical resistance other than standing their ground.” But he did admit: “If anything, we’ve seen a few demonstrators who were throwing bottles, tossing water, and you actually at some points see some smoke that we believe is from fire extinguishers.”

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Big Three Networks Ignore Hearing Exposing Biden Cabinet Member: She Did What?

2nd May 2024

Newsbusters.

After a brutal hearing exposed connections between activist groups and a Biden cabinet official, all three major networks ignored the revelations in their coverage.

During an April 30 hearing before the House Committee on Natural Resources, Capital Research Center President Scott Walter and The Daily Signal Managing Editor Tyler O’Neil hammered Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and her department over damning allegations.

According to Walter, at the center of the allegations is that Haaland’s daughter Somah Haaland is a member of the radical environmentalist group Pueblo Action Alliance (PAA) which is plagued with communist connections. Even worse, Walter asserted that Deb Haaland has other connections to the PAA and that the group influences the policies of the Department of the Interior.

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The In-depth Story Behind the 97% of Scientists Climate Myth

1st May 2024

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Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound origins and fundamental inaccuracy, even dishonesty, of the claim that 97% of scientists, or “the world’s scientists”, or something agree that climate change is man-made, urgent and dangerous.

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The White House Correspondents Host a Biden Rally

1st May 2024

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It was remarkable breaking news, occurring live on CNN. The White House Correspondents Association hosted a dinner and a Biden for President rally broke out.

It’s only natural that CNN loves live coverage of the White House Correspondents Dinner, where the anti-Trump media celebrate themselves for how essential they are to preserving democracy and how valiantly they warn Americans that Donald Trump is democracy’s antonym.

President Biden’s speech made some jokes about his age – it’s that safe spot where all the late-night comedians go. But he also showed nastiness: “Yes, age is an issue. I’m a grown man running against a six-year-old.” They loved that joke on CNN.

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NBC Does Another Bidenomics-Related Story With No Mention of Biden or Bidenomics

30th April 2024

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If you watch closely, a new theme is emerging among the corporate media: the publication of stories related to the economy which describe something that is worse now than four years ago due to Bidenomics, without ever mentioning President Biden or Bidenomics. The most recent example comes via NBC News in a report on the current advantages of renting versus home ownership.

 

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Pelosi Accuses MSNBC Host of Being ‘Apologist’ for Trump

29th April 2024

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Sharper than a serpent’s tooth….

Frog, meet scorpion.

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If You Want People To Have Babies You’re Now “Far Right”

29th April 2024

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A report published by Politico claims that wanting the human race to reproduce is now a “far right” position to take.

I don’t want people to have babies.

I want Republicans to have babies.

Democrats can go extinct for all I care.

UPDATE: Babies Are Just Future Fascists

 

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REVISIONIST HISTORY: CBS Sunday Morning Sugarcoats Dan Rather’s Legacy

29th April 2024

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Mr. “Fake But Accurate”.

On CBS This Morning, correspondent Lee Cowan ran a lifetime achievement profile of disgraced anchor Dan Rather that seemed weirdly valedictory. But the profile omitted the most significant detail of Rather’s legacy at CBS.

Watch as Cowan and Rather whitewash the document controversy that led to Rather’s downfall at CBS, and established him as the father of Fake News- as aired on CBS Sunday Morning on Sunday, April 28th, 2024.

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NERD PROM 2024: Biden Commands the Regime Media to Regime Harder

29th April 2024

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As he closed his remarks to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, also known as Nerd Prom, President Joe Biden directed the media to lean further in his direction in covering the 2024 presidential election.

 

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Misinformation Has Created an Alternative World for Some Americans

29th April 2024

CNN.

By ‘misinformation’, of course, they mean ‘anything that doesn’t follow the Narrative’.

Proof: CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Reports from the Fringe in “MisinfoNation: The Trump Faithful” for The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper

 

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FLASHBACK: Lib Reporters Championed ’06 Illegal Immigrant Protests

28th April 2024

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Eighteen years ago this week, the liberal networks donated their airwaves to the cause of protesters seeking to kill a bill which would have increased the federal government’s ability to enforce immigration laws. The May 1, 2006 protests were part of a wave of activism that spring sponsored by left-wing groups aimed at derailing GOP efforts to curb illegal immigration — even as polls at the time showed four out of five Americans (81%) thought illegal immigration was “out of control.”

 

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MSNBC Bites Biden From The Left For Failing To Pack The Supreme Court

28th April 2024

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On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend, hosts and guests alike bemoaned Biden’s failure to seek to pack the Supreme Court.

Their comments came in response to oral arguments at the Court this past week on the case regarding Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. The panel expressed fears that the Court might expand presidential immunity — if not to the extent of the right to assassinate political rivals, as Trump’s lawyer suggested could be an immune act.

Co-host Alicia Menendez teed up the packing notion, saying that in light of what happened in the Court last week, clearly something “structural”–packing or court “reform” is necessary.

 

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JournoList 2

27th April 2024

Power Line.

Commentary in the liberal press is so uniform that you wonder whether reporters and commentators have coordinated their coverage, down to the word and the phrase. Well, they have, of course. You remember JournoList, where, years ago, reporters would gather to coordinate their pro-Democrat, anti-Republican stories. JournoList supposedly disbanded after it came to light, but I assume it more likely just went underground.

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The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco

27th April 2024

The New Republic.

To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.

Who are you going to believe regarding the quality of Srinivasan’s thought?

  • Some scribbler (Gil Duran is a San Francisco journalist who previously served as editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee and The San Francisco Examiner) for a demonstrably biased Narrative Media outlet?
  • ‘Influential Silicon Valley billionaires’, most of whom have demonstrated their mental acuity over decades?

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Ex-NBC Disinformation Reporter Is the New CEO of the Onion

26th April 2024

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No, that headline is not satire. Ex-NBC disinformation reporter Ben Collins announced on his Twitter account on Thursday that he is the new CEO of The Onion. It’s a fitting end for both parties as they tailspin into the depths of bitter politics.

Before he was suspended by NBC for having an unprofessional obsession with Elon Musk, he was on the network’s disinformation and extremism beat, which was exclusively focused on the right side of the political spectrum. Collins’s shtick was to find the most outrageous things coming from the internet and pretend that they represented all conservatives. For example, he declared that Kanye West’s anti-Semitism was within the Republican Party’s Overton Window.

Does anybody even read The Onion any more?

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Seven Brand New Biden Gaffes ABC, CBS, NBC Are Hiding

26th April 2024

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You know, as they do.

The Biden gaffes keep coming and the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) keep ignoring them.

If Donald Trump or any Republican president was committing mistakes at the rate Biden is, you can bet network reporters and anchors would jam their broadcasts with their bloopers, but it’s not so for President Joe Biden.

In just the past week, he’s insulted Jews, middle-class Americans, and caused a minor international incident with his bumbling statements.

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WHAT? Threats Against Jews Disappear From Pro-Hamas Protest Coverage

24th April 2024

Newsbusters.

The evening network newscasts are barely into their second weeknight covering the violent, pro-Hamas protests outside Columbia University and throughout college campuses across the nation, and there is already a discernible shift in their coverage. Direct threats against Jewish students have all but disappeared from coverage.

Somebody got to the media, plain and simple. Just yesterday, newscasts were reporting on the young girl that stood in front of a group of Jewish counter protesters while holding a sign that read “Al Qassam’s next targets”. Today, those very real, tangible, and unresolved threats hung in the air as each of the networks reported nearly exclusively from the protesters’ perspective.

 

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Scientific American Claims It Is “Misinformation” That There Are Just Two Sexes

24th April 2024

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Scientific American has published a piece claiming that “misinformation,” such as the notion that there are only two sexes, is “being used against transgender people” and in order to target “gender-affirming medical care.”

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Hard to Believe: Google Spreads Climate Propaganda on Earth Day

24th April 2024

Newsbusters.

Leftist Google displayed its search engine bias yet again on “Earth Day” with a specialized logo and promotion of climate alarmist propaganda.

Users going to Google’s search engine on April 22 noticed a doodle specially designed for Earth Day. Clicking on the doodle brought up biased information on alleged “climate change progress” and “climate justice.” This aligns with Google’s previous history of censoring content that doesn’t support a climate hysteria narrative.

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The Times Weighs In

22nd April 2024

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Check out this headline from today’s New York Times, on the criminal trial that is under way in Manhattan: “Will a Mountain of Evidence Be Enough to Convict Trump?” I understand that readers of the Times tune in mainly to get their daily dose of Trump-hate, but is the Times even pretending to be a newspaper anymore?

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London Museum’s ‘LGBTQ Audio Guide’ Wrongly Claims British Monarch Was “Person Of Colour”

22nd April 2024

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The audio guide is being used in the Queen’s House in Greenwich, a publicly funded part of Royal Museums Greenwich.

A section of the guide references a large golden sculpture of Queen Charlotte, claiming: “Queen Charlotte, the nation’s first royal person of colour.”

The guide then states “Yep, you heard me. The insecure white boys writing history conveniently forget to mention that bit, because… well, structural racism.”

King George III’s wife was Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. She was whiter than Megan Markle, and Megan Markle has about as much ‘colour’ as Taylor Swift.

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Official Temperature Data Isn’t ‘Data’ At All

21st April 2024

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Even before our first surface stations report in 2009, The Heartland Institute led the way in reporting on problems with the surface temperature record.

We have highlighted how the surface station record did not correspond to the temperatures recorded by global satellites and weather balloons, two alternative temperature data sources whose data sets closely track each other. Heartland has repeatedly exposed instances in both the United States and abroad where official agencies tamper with past temperature data at pristine stations, adjusting it to appear cooler than what was actually recorded, while adjusting recent temperatures upward. We were all over the adjustments made by corrupt NOAA scientists in 2015 before the Paris climate treaty negotiations—mixing data from unbiased ocean buoys with heat-biased temperature measurements taken from ships’ engine water intake inlets, which made it appear the ocean was suddenly warming faster than before.

Also, first, foremost, and most forcefully, we independently documented the serious problems with the official surface temperature record arising from the fact that the vast majority of temperature stations are poorly sited. Stations fail NOAA’s own standards for quality, unbiased stations in reporting temperatures skewed by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.

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