PolitiFact Rates DeSantis 'Mostly False' For True Statement About CRT

August 15th, 2023 10:25 AM

Florida Governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis recently declared that “we’ve eliminated Critical Race Theory in our K through 12 schools.” It was a rather simple statement, but was true, but yet, PolitiFact's Samantha Putterman still rated it “mostly false” on Monday.

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PBS Warns GOP Trying To 'Reinstitute Many Of The Barriers' To Voting

August 10th, 2023 10:30 AM

For the latest installment of their documentary series, The Human Footprint, PBS took a look at the history of cotton from both a political and scientific perspective. On the former, host and evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton warned that there attempts to “reinstitute many of the barriers that long kept African-Americans from wielding political power.”

LA Times: Remote Work Helps Employees Avoid Racism at the Office

August 9th, 2023 12:23 AM

You can't make this up. The LA Times may have won this week's gold medal in the woke olympics by publishing this opinion article. Under the title, "Remote work gave them a reprieve from racism. They don’t want to go back" business reporter Samantha Masunaga (who also predictably has pronouns in her Twitter bio) tries to make the case that remote work helps employees…

You Won't Believe the NY Times Double Standard on 'Racist' Provocation

August 7th, 2023 6:46 AM

The New York Times looked ridiculous in several articles on alleged racism and "vigilantism." Jason Aldean's song "Try That In a Small Town" never mentioned race, but was somehow a call to racist violence. But a South African leader chanted "Kill the Boer!" -- an explicit call to violence against white South Africans -- and the Times pooh-poohed it as a "far right" conspiracy…

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CBS Runs Puff Piece On Far-Left Barbara Lee's Senate Campaign

August 5th, 2023 11:16 AM

For Friday’s CBS Mornings, guest host Natalie Morales shared a recent interview she did with California Rep. and Senate candidate Barbara Lee. The segment covered everything from Lee’s views on race to abortion to the war in Afghanistan, but one thing that remained constant throughout was Morales’s cheerleading of the far-left Lee.

Column: Republican Racism 'Weaponized' Kamala Harris?

August 2nd, 2023 9:11 AM

One of the most annoying ploys of liberal journalists is to advise Republicans that the truly wise path in politics is to surrender to liberals on everything, and the dumbest path is to oppose them emphatically.

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CNN's Hunt Sneers: FL Education Attacks Came from GOP, Not The Media

July 30th, 2023 1:25 PM

During Sunday's edition of CNN's State of the Union, fill-in anchor Kasie Hunt sneered at Republican 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy when he pointed out that this manufactured controversy surrounding Florida educational standards requiring students be taught that slaves benefitted from slavery was simply media spin. He made the wise observation that people should read the…

Media Attack Florida Education Rules, Whitewash Dems' Race History

July 29th, 2023 4:00 PM

Ya can’t make it up. 

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MSNBC's Reid: 'You Can't Even Say Slavery Was Bad Now In The GOP'

July 27th, 2023 11:21 PM

The vile, bigoted MSNBC host Joy Reid flung another smear against the Republican Party during Thursday night’s The ReidOut. During a discussion about the ongoing hoax in the leftist media that Florida is teaching children that slaves benefited from slavery, the racist MSNBC host cried to faux Republican Michael Steele that “you can't even say slavery was bad now in the Republican…

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CNN Accuses DeSantis Of Trying 'To Soften The Brutality' Of Slavery

July 27th, 2023 4:35 PM

Late Wednesday night saw people close to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defend the state’s new history guidelines on slavery by pointing out that the Advanced Placement course that the media demanded the state adopt has very similar standards. However, Thursday’s viewers of CNN News Central were not informed of these latest developments as host Jim Sciutto conducted a softball interview…

Kentucky Nurses Take Mandated Training: 'White Silence is Racist'

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July 26th, 2023 3:03 PM

Nurses in Kentucky were forced to take a training course developed by the Kentucky Nurses Association (KNA), and mandated by the Kentucky Board of Nursing, in order to “recognize the history of racism in healthcare,” The Washington Examiner …

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MSNBC And CNN Claim Biden Is Protecting Emmett Till's Legacy From GOP

July 25th, 2023 2:20 PM

ABC was not the only network to try to tie Tuesday’s establishment of an Emmett Till monument to Republicans. CNN and MSNBC also got in on the act with wild and evidence-free declarations about how President Biden is protecting Till’s legacy from Republicans and how such brutal murders still occur today.

PolitiFact Defends Harris On Florida's 'Offensive' History Standards

July 25th, 2023 12:00 PM

PolitiFact waded into the controversy surrounding Florida’s new history standards by rating Vice President Kamala Harris “mostly true” for her statement that the state is teaching “enslaved people benefited from slavery.” To reach such a conclusion the trio of Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa, Louis Jacobson, and Amy Sherman had to tie themselves into a giant pretzel by simply downplaying evidence…

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PANTS ON FIRE: ABC Ties Emmett Till Lynching to DeSantis, FL Education

July 25th, 2023 11:32 AM

ABC chief White House correspondent and Biden apple polisher Mary Bruce leveled an scurrilous insinuation and lie during Tuesday’s Good Morning America as, not only did she mention Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) Florida Board of Education in the same breath as the horrific lynching of Emmett Till, but she suggested President Biden declaring three Till sites a national monument would…