The Manure-Spreaders of Media Sensationalism
January 30th, 2019 2:29 PM
Here we go again. If you think the manure-spreaders of sensationalism who masquerade as ethical practitioners of journalism learned anything from last week's MAGA-bashing Covington Catholic High School hoax, I have three words for you: Ha, ha, ha. On Tuesday morning, uncorroborated claims by actor Jussie Smollett that he was the victim of a “brutal” hate crime by Trump supporters in Chicago went…
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Mis-Covering the Covington Kids: The Eight Worst Media Reactions
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January 30th, 2019 10:49 AM
It used to be that journalists didn’t need fire safety seminars to know they could get burned publishing stories that lacked facts or context. But when the original, deceptively edited video of Nathan Phillips and the Covington kids emerged, the press swaddled itself in oily rags, grabbed a Zippo and went full “Johnny Human Torch.”
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Without Evidence, MSNBC Pushes Claim Chicago Attackers Wore MAGA Hats
January 29th, 2019 4:33 PM
Empire star Jesse Smollett was brutally attacked early Tuesday morning in Chicago in what police have suggested could be deemed a hate crime due to Smollett being gay with the assailants allegedly hurling homophobic and racist slurs. However, two claims that has not yet been substantiated were that the alleged perpetrators either wore Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats or shouted “this is MAGA…
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Scarborough: Never Once Heard Trump Say Anything Racially Insensitive'
January 29th, 2019 10:55 AM
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says, "we [gestures toward Mika] saw him for 12 years behind closed doors. Never, ever, once—I'll say under oath, I'll put into an affidavit—never once heard him say anything close to being racially insensitive. Never once!"
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Vega Tears Into Brokaw for Hispanics Remark, Shrugs at Racist GOP Part
January 28th, 2019 10:23 AM
ABC was the only network Monday morning to report on Tom Brokaw’s comments that offended both the right and left on Meet the Press Sunday. During a discussion on the border wall, Brokaw argued Hispanics needed to do a better job assimilating, and said Republicans didn’t want interracial marriages. That second part didn’t faze ABC, but the first part made anchor Cecilia Vega very upset.
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All-Female CNN Panel Defends, Praises AOC as ‘The Ideal Anti-Trump’
January 27th, 2019 4:21 PM
While all but ignoring the liberal media’s massive screw-up with the smearing of the Covington Kids, CNN media reporter and “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter took time out of the show to tout how Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez utilized social media to spread her falsehoods and socialist propaganda. And, of course, the all-female liberal panel was happy to oblige by singing…
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Brokaw Claims GOPers Tell Him They’re Not Fans of ‘Brown Grandbabies’
January 27th, 2019 1:37 PM
In another iteration of the liberal media’s suggestion that support for the border wall was driven primarily by racism, longtime NBC newsman Tom Brokaw appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press and claimed Republicans have told him they’re not enthusiastic about the idea of having “brown grandbabies”.
NBC News Op-Ed Slams Covington Kids: MAGA Hats 'Spoke Hate'
January 24th, 2019 3:44 PM
NBC News’s Think opinion website was plastered with hateful op-eds against the right Thursday targetting everyone from the Covington kids to Karen Pence. The Guardian’s Noah Berlatsky revealed the media's end game in his op-ed for the site, mainly that the truth of what occurred doesn't really matter--this was all about the Make America Great Again hat students were wearing.
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MRC’s Bozell: ‘Very Bad People’ in Media Are Attacking Covington Kids
January 24th, 2019 12:16 AM
In a Wednesday appearance on Fox News @ Night, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell blasted the “very bad people” in the liberal media whose false reporting have put the lives of the Covington Kids in danger.
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MSNBC: If You Wear a MAGA Hat You're 'Inviting' a 'Confrontation,' KKK
January 23rd, 2019 2:51 PM
Princeton professor and professional race-baiter for MSNBC Eddie Glaude spoke with host Craig Melvin on MSNBC Live Wednesday morning to bash the Covington kids as symptoms of white privilege. Yes, getting your name, image, school and family smeared all over television and online, while receiving death threats is apparently a symptom of “white privilege,” or at least that’s what Glaude tried to…
NYT Plays Dumb on MAGA Teen School's Blackout Game, Hits Right to Life
January 23rd, 2019 7:24 AM
New York Times religion reporter Elizabeth Dias went to Kentucky to see how the locals were handling the unearned vitriol aimed at their sons at Covington Catholic High School after the viral video of the infamous confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial, for Tuesday’s “A Digital-Era Frenzy Sweeps Up a School Steeped in Tradition.” While the mainstream media has been forced to back off their more…
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CNN's Cuomo Bashes Covington Kids as ‘Victims of Their Own Choices’
January 23rd, 2019 12:27 AM
Demonstrating that he had no problem with picking on children, CNN’s raging Chris Cuomo ended Tuesday’s Prime Time by taking shots at the Covington Kids by suggesting they were “victims of their own choices”. While chiding the students for wearing MAGA hats, Cuomo also proved his willingness to disregard the truth and peddled the lies of agitator Nathan Phillips. Cuomo aided in pushing provably…
Leftist Rage at David Brooks for Defending Covington Catholic Students
January 22nd, 2019 10:09 PM
Did columnist David Brooks put his New York Times gig at risk on Monday? Most people at liberal mainstream media outlets that have reported on the incident in Washington D.C. on Friday involving the Covington Catholic high school students, after having been made aware of the longer video and more facts about what actually happened, seem to be using the weasel type of position of saying something…
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Bullies: NBC Takes Swings at Covington Kids; Lets Phillips Scold Them
January 22nd, 2019 8:50 PM
Continuing to treat them like little Klansmen, NBC Nightly News added to their disgusting coverage of the Covington Kids Tuesday night by taking repeated shots at them even though new video had vindicated them. And despite being a proven liar, the network allowed agitator Nathan Phillips to scold the kids and suggest they should be sentenced to “some kind of sensitivity training” or “cultural…