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Comic Ricky Gervais: ‘Cancel Culture’ a ‘New, Weird Sort of Fascism'
July 15th, 2020 9:00 AM
Being a comedian is one of the most dangerous occupations during these days of political correctness. That’s the message from English comic Ricky Gervais, who is on a crusade against the “cancel culture” -- which he describes as a “new, weird sort of fascism” -- by defending free speech wherever he can.
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CNN Ignores High COVID Countries to Make U.S. Look Worst
May 28th, 2020 8:14 PM
As the official coronavirus death toll reached 100,000 on Wednesday, CNN hosts Brooke Baldwin and Don Lemon both cherry-picked data to misleadingly suggest that the pandemic has hit the United States harder than any other country as the two used charts contrasting the U.S. only to countries that have had death rates on the low side.
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Amanpour Admits UK's National Health Does Not Prevent Racial Disparity
May 21st, 2020 9:38 PM
On Wednesday's Amanpour & Co. show on PBS and CNN International, as host Christiane Amanpour spoke with Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project about racial disparities in Covid-19 deaths in the U.S., Amanpour surprisingly admitted that the UK's National Health Service has not prevented a similar disparity there after Hannah-Jones claimed that racism has prevented universal health care…
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Amanpour and Goodwin Cheer Higher Taxes and Increased 'Welfare State'
May 14th, 2020 5:30 PM
On Friday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, host Christiane Amanpour and former NBC presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke favorably of higher taxes on the wealthy in the U.S. and the increased welfare state in Britain that came about post-World War II.
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NY Times Scribe Gets Admonished by His Own Paper for Too Much Opinion
May 14th, 2020 12:22 PM
On Tuesday's Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International, New York Times health and science reporter Donald McNeil insisted Centers for Disease Control boss James Redfield should just resign. Even the Times issued a statement saying that was too much opinion.
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Flashback: VE Day -- What Unconditional Victory Looked Like
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May 7th, 2020 4:30 PM
These are dispiriting days, marked by confusion, fear and very real heartbreak, compounded by misinformation and severe partisanship. People are weary of cowering at home as their livelihoods evaporate, sick of panic and doomsaying and being told their liberty can be forfeited for an emergency that will go on indefinitely if allowed to. So maybe VE Day on May 8 should mean a little more to us…
Twitter Rep Avoids Question About Potentially ‘Deleted’ Trump Tweets
April 30th, 2020 4:42 PM
Twitter does not seem to have a direct answer as to whether or not it has reduced visibility for President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Twitter’s U.K. Head of Government, Public Policy and Philanthropy, Katy Minshall, was asked by MP Clive Efford if the company “often take[s] action against tweets from the president of the United States?” She seemed unable to answer the question in an April 30…
Today’s Americans and Yesteryear’s Americans
April 29th, 2020 10:57 PM
Dr. Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written two articles relevant to today's society. Last October he published, "Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants," and he recently wrote, "Is America a Roaring Giant or Crying Baby?"…
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MSNBC's Reid Wrongly Claims Europe Handling Pandemic Better Than US
April 28th, 2020 12:56 PM
On Sunday's AM Joy show on MSNBC, as she spoke with several medical doctors about the coronavirus pandemic, host Joy Reid claimed that countries with universal health care are handling the crisis better than the U.S., and even asserted that America's "former allies" in Europe are, "quite frankly, having better outcomes than we are." Reid made this claim in spite of the fact that per capita deaths…
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Shills for Biden: MSNBC Touts Misleading Anti-Trump Ad as 'All True'
April 22nd, 2020 11:46 AM
On Monday's Deadline: White House on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace was joined by fellow ex-Republican Steve Schmidt to laud a misleading new ad by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden which attacks President Donald Trump's response to the pandemic. Without doing any critical analysis of the ad, Wallace declared that "it's all true," and Schmidt, after calling the ad "entirely true," went on…
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PBS's Woodruff: 'How Many Lives Were Lost' Because of Trump's 'Delay'?
April 18th, 2020 10:58 PM
There's a reason why Donald Trump hasn't granted an interview to PBS since he announced his run for president in 2015. That reason came out in a contentious PBS NewsHour interview on Friday with Vice President Mike Pence. It's nothing like the softness Woodruff has offered Hilllary Clinton. She asked Pence "How many lives do you believe were lost as a result of the delay by this administration…
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BBC Touts Editor Charging Trump with 'Crime Against Humanity' on WHO
April 15th, 2020 12:35 PM
On Wednesday, Stephen McDonell, the BBC’s China correspondent, approvingly tweeted out the latest anti-Trump rant from Richard Horton: "The Editor of the Lancet (one of the world's oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals) has just said on the BBC that the #USA pulling funding from the @WHO right now is a 'crime against humanity'."
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Nets Misleadingly Claim U.S. Leads World in COVID-19 Deaths
April 12th, 2020 11:11 PM
After the officially confirmed number of deaths caused by coronavirus in the United States passed the official number for Italy on Saturday, the evening networks rushed to questionably portray the U.S. as having the highest number of deaths without mentioning that the number of fatalities in China is believed to be higher. The networks also failed to put into context that most countries in…
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MSNBC Wrongly Hints UK's NHS Handling COVID-19 Better Than U.S.
April 4th, 2020 5:00 PM
On Saturday's AM Joy on MSNBC, host Joy Reid and fellow MSNBC host Ali Velshi pushed for a British-style national health care system during the coronavirus pandemic even though there are reports that the country's National Health Service (NHS) has fared poorly during the current crisis. In fact, if one crunches the numbers, the overall per capita death rate from COVID-19 has been substantially…
