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Dave Barry on CNN: Trump's On TV 'More Than the GEICO Gecko'
Humorist Dave Barry hammered the media on Wednesday's New Day for their "daily obsession with Donald Trump: "We keep asking why he's doing so well — and he's on TV all the time. He's on more than the GEICO gecko." When CNN's Alisyn Camerota defended the press coverage of Trump by using his front-runner status, Barry countered that "you can't deny the incredible impact...at this point, Kim…
Not News: Economy's Wholesale Sales at a Four-Year Low
Actual sales at the wholesale level in January, as reported today by the Census Bureau, fell sharply from December. That's to be expected. But this time was different — really different, because the drop was to a level lower than January 2012, i.e., four years ago.
Four press outlets which covered today's release either missed (or ignored) this shocking news. They only told readers about what…
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Terrorists Kill Nuns at Nursing Home in Yemen; Networks Out To Lunch
As of Tuesday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the attack by suspected ISIS gunmen in Aden, Yemen on Friday which left 16 people dead — including four nuns of Mother Teresa's order — at a nursing home. According to a Friday article by the New York Times, the deceased Nobel Peace Prize winner founded the home, which was "one of several care facilities in…
Obamacare Medicaid Clawback: Shocking Because the Press Has Ignored It
Beginning early in 2014, shortly after its initial disastrous rollout, there has been a virtual blackout on anything resembling negative coverage of the "Affordable Care Act," aka Obamacare.
It hasn't been due to a lack of horror stories: plan cancellations, shocking rate increases, shrunken provider networks, co-ops going out of business, etc. It's because the nation's establishment press has…
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Favoritismo pro-aborto a plena vista en Univisión
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Al cubrir los argumentos del caso Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ante la Corte Suprema, la cadena hispanoparlante de más prestigio en la nación le dio bastante tiempo a manifestantes y políticos que están a favor del aborto, mientras le daba apenas 17 segundos de su cobertura a las opiniones antiabortistas.
Not News: Food Stamps Is Now Our Guaranteed Income Program
Since the economy finally began consistently regaining jobs in early 2010, the establishment press has had a consistent, predictable and annoying reporting (and non-reporting) pattern.
It starts with the Friday morning jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at or near the beginning of the month. Virtually without fail, it has spit out positive and sometimes even very positive seasonally…
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Pro-Choice Favoritism In Full View On Univision
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While covering the Supreme Court arguments for Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the nation’s top-ranked Spanish-language television newscast gave ample time for pro-choice politicians and protesters to state their case, all while giving pro-life advocates only 17 seconds of their coverage.
Obama Labor Dept. Rule May Curtail Financial Advice Talk on AM Radio
Score another blow for (allegedly) "unintended consequences."
A proposed 33-page rule applying to investment advisers emanating from the Department of Labor would redefine the fiduciary relationship between investment advisers and their clients investing for retirement, which is the predominant objective of most investors. According to the Wall Street Journal, the rule "could be released as soon…
Press Euphoria Over Jobs Report Blows Off Lower Hourly Pay, Earnings
The press is mostly thrilled over yesterday's Employment Situation Summary from the government, which reported that the unemployment rate stayed at 4.9 percent and that the economy added 242,000 seasonally adjusted payroll jobs. President Barack Obama took the opportunity to take what CNBC's Jeff Cox described as "a victory lap ... in Friday remarks to the media."
Well, why not? Obama was secure…
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Cruz: Media Must Expose the ‘60 Years of Failed' Policies in Detroit
In another notable moment from Thursday’s Fox News Channel GOP debate where a candidate invoked the liberal media and their failed agenda, Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) railed against the failed liberal policies that have led to the decline of Detroit that’s been allowed to drag on for well over half a century.
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Univisión y Telemundo omiten el rechazo de Trump a respaldos racistas
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La falsa descripción de Donald Trump como racista sigue a toda marcha en Univisión y Telemundo.
Good Grief: AP Report on Car Sales Says Buyers Were 'Giddy'
To believe what the Associated Press's Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin wrote yesterday about February's auto sales, you have to believe that last month's car buyers were either: "a) affected with vertigo; dizzy"; or b) "frivolous and lighthearted; impulsive; flighty."
That's because they claimed that in February, "consumers - giddy from Super Bowl ads - returned to showrooms after a snowy January…
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Trump's Rejection of Racist Endorsers Omitted on Univision, Telemundo
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The portrayal of Donald Trump as a racist continues full bore on Univision and Telemundo.
NYT Faults Hillary for Libya 'Rush' to War -- A War It Pushed Hard For
The failures of liberal internationalism meets the New York Times’ liberal hypocrisy on interventionism, in an enormous front-page Sunday story on Hillary Clinton’s decision to bomb Libya, and the catastrophic results:“The Libya Gamble,” by Jo Becker and Scott Shane. But left out of the thousands of words: How the New York Times itself aggressively pushed war in Libya hard on its news pages,…
