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ABC Again Ditches East Palestine, Gives Half the Time of CBS, NBC

February 17th, 2023 4:38 PM

On Tuesday, NewsBusters released a study on the broadcast network coverage of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment that showed, since officials lifted an evacuation order on the evening of February 8 through the morning of February 14, ABC had ignored it on their flagship morning and evening newscasts while CBS and NBC had spent only one minute and 42 seconds on what’s become an…

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Networks Abandoned Ohio Train Disaster Despite Continued Fallout

February 14th, 2023 11:58 AM

The data of network coverage from the East Palestine, Ohio trail derailment tells the story of an incurious media who were too eager to declare the issue resolved.

Why Does Our Government Need So Many Guns?

August 25th, 2022 11:37 AM

“Astanding military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison. Conspiracy theories sometimes have at least a thread of truth in them, which is what makes them valid to some on the far right. One of those theories is that the federal government is not on their side. Concern has been raised in conservative circles about the hiring of…

Does the Constitution Need to Be Amended?

July 11th, 2022 11:42 AM

This Fourth of July, watching people fight over what the Constitution means, I ask people, if you could change the Constitution, what would you change? “The forefathers knew what they were doing,” said one woman. But the Constitution originally accepted slavery. It's good that we can amend it. So what should we change? “Add a balanced budget amendment,” suggests Glenn Beck.

Best Pride Month Ever

July 6th, 2022 2:51 PM

In 279 B.C., at the Battle of Asculum, King Pyrrhus of Epirus beat the Roman Republican armies. Pyrrhus poured his forces into the battle against the Roman might, overwhelmed them, and crushed them. Pyrrhus lost most of his troops, many of his top generals and several friends, but he won the day. Unfortunately for Pyrrhus, Rome had reserve forces. Pyrrhus had none. "If I achieve such a victory…

NYT Hates Court EPA Ruling: A ‘Civilized Society’ Without Regulation?

July 2nd, 2022 10:10 PM

The front of Friday’s New York Times featured dismayed coverage of another conservative-pleasing ruling from the Supreme Court, this one reining in the Environmental Protection Agency. First up, legal reporter Charlie Savage’s “E.P.A. Ruling Is Milestone in Long Pushback to Regulation of Business.” 

Supreme Court beat reporter Adam Liptak also made his opinion clear in Friday’…

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ABC Whines SCOTUS Is Making Congress Do Its Job With EPA Ruling

June 30th, 2022 7:43 PM

In their final release of rulings for the session Thursday, the Supreme Court scored a massive blow to the unbridled, bureaucratic regulatory state. Once more, the Conservative Justices came together and ruled the infamous Environmental Protection Agency could not exercise unlimited executive authority and Congress needed to pass legislation allowing them to act. This caused outrage on the…

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MSNBC Freaks Out, Claims Court Removed 'Right to a Livable Planet'

June 30th, 2022 4:25 PM

To react to the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v. EPA that the executive branch can’t regulate carbon emissions at power plants without Congressional authorization, Katy Tur Reports guest host Yasmin Vossoughian welcomed radical climate scientist Michael Mann to accuse the “reactionary, activist” Court of taking away the right to a livable planet.

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CNN MELTS DOWN Over EPA Ruling, Insists SCOTUS Is Hurting the Planet

June 30th, 2022 3:06 PM

Along with their comrades over on MSNBC, CNN became unmoored Thursday morning in their reactions to the Supreme Court dealing a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority in regulating greenhouse gas emissions, arguing the Court doesn’t want to save Earth by “addressing climate change” and leveled “a blow” to the “administrative state.”

JunkScience.com Founder Promises to Sue Biden EPA

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June 30th, 2021 12:15 PM

JunkScience.com founder Steve Milloy ripped President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency for filling a core committee with compromised eco-partisans. The junk science buster is vowing to sue the Biden administration as a result.

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Joy Behar Frets 'Dire Situation' if Trump Wins; No Clean Air or Water!

March 3rd, 2020 1:35 PM
The hosts of The View continued campaigning for Joe Biden on Tuesday’s show, while worrying that a candidate like Bernie Sanders becoming the nominee could sink the Democrats’ chances of winning back the White House. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg grumbled that she wanted the swamp and bureaucratic institutions “back” in Washington, and her fellow co-host Joy Behar went apocalyptic, claiming that…
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MSNBC Freaks Out Over EPA Chief Rejecting Climate Hysteria

March 22nd, 2019 5:45 PM
During Friday’s 1:00 p.m. ET hour, MSNBC anchors Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi were aghast at Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler dismissing climate change fearmongering in a recent interview with CBS News. The hosts denounced his comments and even brought on former Obama administration EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to blast him.

Really, NYT? Desperate Paper Links ‘Trump County’ to Child Cancer

January 4th, 2019 1:44 PM
The New York Times Thursday ran a long investigative piece by climate reporter Hiroko Tabuchi, “E.P.A. Retreat Leaves Wound In Small Town.” The online headline made it political: “A Trump County Confronts the Administration Amid a Rash of Child Cancers.” It’s the old “cancer cluster” concept that alarmist reporters use to push business regulations or in this case protect regulations from repeal,…
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CNN Frets EPA Head's Ties to Coal, 'Climate Change Denier' Inhofe

December 9th, 2018 9:50 PM
On Sunday evening, CNN Newsroom ran a full report in which correspondent Drew Griffin bemoaned EPA acting head Andrew Wheeler's efforts to cut regulations, as well his past ties to the coal industry and his work for Republican Senator James Inhofe, whom Griffin derided as a "climate change denier."