WashPost 'Fact-Checks' Trump's Obama Economy Charts: Facts Win, 9-0

June 4th, 2016 9:03 PM
Philip Bump and the Washington Post have apparently had a couple of pretty bad days. The Post had to endure having to cover, and cover for, an absolutely awful jobs report released Friday morning. That news made their beloved Dear Leader, who had just celebrated the allegedly wonderful economic accomplishments seen during his presidency on Wednesday, look quite foolish. Never fear: By Paragraph 4…

NYT Sees Trump Threat to 1st Amend., Downplays Speech Squelching in CA

June 4th, 2016 7:31 PM
What’s the real danger to the First Amendment? Trump! the New York Times shouts in its Saturday lead. Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak gathered up opinions from left and right for “Trump Declarations Seen As Threat to Rule of Law -- Scholars Finds Disregard for Constitutional Rights in Remarks That Raise Alarm." Yet after going after Trump for disrespecting the First Amendment, another story on…

Pew's Middle-Class Study Pretends Obama-Era Trend Started in 2000

June 3rd, 2016 10:51 PM
A Pew Research report published three weeks ago on America’s Shrinking Middle Class presented a fundamentally misleading narrative which the press was only too eager to relay and continues to use, namely that the middle class has been seriously shrinking since the turn of the century. Christopher Rugaber at the Associated Press typified the initial press coverage, writing: "In nearly one-quarter…

Bozell Praises Tapper for Exposing State Dept's Lies in Video Scandal

June 3rd, 2016 3:17 PM
In a statement released Friday afternoon, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell commended CNN's Jake Tapper for running "the risk of ruining" his career to demand "accountability from the State Department" in light of "four separate lies told by the State Department" concerning the Iran nuclear deal and subsequent scrubbing of video from a press briefing.

Levin Cites NewsBusters in Ripping Obama as ‘Most Vicious, Vile' POTUS

June 3rd, 2016 1:16 PM
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin began his show on Thursday night by citing a Wednesday post from this writer about President Obama gushing over PBS’s “civility” to set up his opening monologue that included him referring to the President as having “been the most vicious, vile, attack President that I can think of.”

NYT Blames Trump for Not Condemning Violence Against Own Supporters

June 3rd, 2016 12:13 PM
New York Times coverage of the anti-Trump violence committed by left-wingers outside a Trump rally in San Jose was distinctly underwhelming, with reporter Alan Rappeport having the gall to blame Trump for failing to condemn the violence instigated by anti-Trump protesters, while letting the Clinton campaign pose as above it all.

Univision Misrepresents Ties To New RNC Hispanic Media Boss

Latino
June 3rd, 2016 12:04 AM
Sometimes, you can just look at a story as it unspools and know, instinctively, that the corrupt establishment media is going to find a way to embarrass itself. Univision is no different, the latest proof of that coming via the network's brazen material misrepresentation of its former relationship with the RNC's new Director of Hispanic Media, Helen Aguirre-Ferré.
Video

Matthews Hails ‘Exquisitely Written’ ‘Masterpiece’ Hillary Speech

June 2nd, 2016 4:47 PM
Hardball host Chris Matthews received the first take on MSNBC after Hillary Clinton’s Thursday afternoon foreign policy speech and the faithful subject oozed that “it was a masterpiece” that was “very well constructed” and “exquisitely written.” Minutes later, Matthews received an assist from former McCain/Palin adviser and political analyst Nicolle Wallace as she stated that Clinton “just nailed…

A Story You Won't See: Venezuela’s Maduro Feels The Bern

Latino
June 2nd, 2016 3:01 PM
Curiously, America’s top Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo have so far failed to inform their viewers that socialist Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has issued a ringing endorsement of the presidential candidacy of his comrade in the United States, Bernie Sanders.
Video

CBS, NBC Maintain Blackout on Deleted State Dept. Vid; ABC, CNN Cover

June 2nd, 2016 1:39 PM

CBS This Morning and NBC's Today on Thursday followed in the footsteps of their networks' newscasts the previous evening in failing to cover the State Department's Wednesday admission about an intentional edit of an online video posting of a 2013 briefing. To their credit, ABC's GMA aired a news brief on the controversy on Thursday. CNN's AC360 devoted a full report to the revelation on…

WashPost's Gearan Boosts Hillary's 'National Security' Speech

June 2nd, 2016 9:13 AM
Demonstrating a remarkable ability to ignore the obvious, Anne Gearan at the Washington Post, covering plans by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton to deliver "a major foreign policy address" on Thursday, wrote that "National-security issues offer Clinton a way to play up her experience in contrast to (Donald) Trump." To make that laugh-out-loud clause appear credible, Gearan,…
Video

Assisted Suicide Cause Gets Boost from Jorge Ramos

Latino
June 2nd, 2016 8:30 AM
Univision’s Jorge Ramos showed his pro-assisted suicide colors during a recent interview with a terminally-ill cancer patient in Puerto Rico who is seeking to end his life on his own terms.
Video

CNN, FNC Laud MRC Studies on Election, Chicago vs. Gorilla Coverage

June 1st, 2016 8:24 PM
In just over the last 24 hours, the Media Research Center fetched two mentions on both CNN and the Fox News Channel (FNC) with the latter network devoting a segment to a study by MRC Culture’s Katie Yoder comparing network coverage of the Cincinnati gorilla shooting versus the latest violence in Chicago.

Bozell: Telemundo debe disculparse por montar escenas anti-Trump

June 1st, 2016 1:51 PM
El presidente del Centro de Investigación Mediática (MRC, por sus siglas en inglés), Brent Bozell, exigió hoy que Telemundo pida disculpas de inmediato al aspirante presidencial republicano Donald Trump y que despida al camarógrafo y a cualquier otro involucrado en un incidente en el cual se montó una escena en San Diego durante una visita de campaña de Trump la semana pasada.