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Boosting Bush: Liberal Media Pushes Jeb to Whack Conservatives
Jeb Bush’s entry into the 2016 GOP primary race hands the liberal media an establishment candidate that they enjoy using as a tool to whack conservatives. Bush’s stances on immigration, Common Core and other issues have drawn praise from the likes of Chris Matthews who cooed: “He wants to run on his own terms. He’s not going to become a wacko bird. He’s not going to join the clown car...he…
June 15th, 2015 9:48 AM
Hillary Aide Denies Mook Lied About Her Untrustworthiness
First, polls show Americans don't think Hillary is trustworthy. Then her campaign manager denies that such polls exist. Then her pollster denies that the campaign manager didn't tell the truth about it. Not exactly a formula to build trust.
On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocked Robby Mook for having, as our Jeff Meyer reported, denied the undeniable, claiming on yesterday's Face the…
June 15th, 2015 9:39 AM
NYT: Sanders an Authentic 'Real Deal,' Just Like Lesbian Musical
Patrick Healy penned a theatrical tribute to hard-left Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders thatappeared in the New York Times Sunday Review: "Can America Back an Underdog? Broadway Did." Healy, a former political reporter, eagerly sold socialist Sanders as a scrappy underdog, just like the musical Fun Home. Healy even contradicted his own previous Obama reporting to make his odd…
June 15th, 2015 9:25 AM
Notable Quotables: Exposing Rubio’s Notorious Criminal Past
This week, the New York Times sinks its investigative teeth into Marco Rubio, and makes the bombshell discovery that the GOP presidential candidate had four traffic tickets in a 17-year span.
Meanwhile, MSNBC host Chris Matthews pops up on NBC's Meet the Press to absurdly declare Hillary Clinton a "centrist," and that "most Democrats are not lefties," while Newsweek smears that Oklahoma City…
June 15th, 2015 9:05 AM
Press Takes Artificially Pumped Retail Sales Growth As Gospel
On Thursday, the Census Bureau's report on May retail sales said that seasonally adjusted sales came in 1.2 percent higher than April. The press almost universally cited that result as demonstrating that the economy's rough patch earlier this year is likely over.
Yours truly and the contrarians at Zero Hedge both noted that the result is highly suspect, and doesn't adequately reflect the raw…
June 14th, 2015 11:41 PM
NY Times Editorial Regurgitates Obama Attack on Obamacare 'Cynics'
The New York Times might resent the impression that they merely recycle and re-sell warmed-over Obama talking points, but James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal displayed the echo under the headline “Our Fearless Independent Press.”
June 14th, 2015 10:13 PM
WashPost's 'Synthetic' Claim: 1994 Connecticut Gun Law Saved Lives
On Friday, the Washington Post's Jeff Guo hyped a study published in the American Journal of Public Health by four people with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study contends that "Connecticut’s handgun permit-to-purchase law (passed in 1994) was associated with a subsequent reduction in homicide rates" involving firearms.
Readers wondering if there is a connection to…
June 14th, 2015 9:56 PM
Bill Maher Actually Wants ISIS to Capture Baghdad. Yes, Really.
Careful what you wish for, Bill Maher, lest you give off the impression of indifference to genocide.
Never one to shy away from the outrageous or asinine, the liberal comic said something on his HBO show Friday night that qualifies as both.
June 14th, 2015 7:48 PM
CNN's Hill: NAACP Leader Pretending to Be Black is 'White Privilege'
On Friday's Anderson Cooper 360, during a discussion of revelations that Spokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal is a white woman who has spent years pretending to be black, liberal CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill oddly asserted that her actions constitute "the ultimate exercise in white privilege."
Ironically, after enumerating several reasons why blacks may want to pretend to be white for gain…
June 14th, 2015 7:43 PM
Sarandon So Excited 'By the Fluidity of Gender That's Happening'
Actress Susan Sarandon has long lurched to the radical left, so maybe it’s not surprising that she would express excitement at the Trans-sexual revolution under way. She told Oprah Winfrey that she’s all for this “gender fluidity” trend in identity politics.
"I'm so excited these days by the fluidity of gender that's happening," she said on the show Oprah’s Master Class. "I think once all those…
June 14th, 2015 5:30 PM
CNN Anchor: ‘I Misspoke’ Calling Dallas Gunman ‘Courageous and Brave’
On Sunday, CNN’s Fredericka Whitfield claimed that she merely “misspoke” when she called the gunman in the Dallas Police Department attack “very courageous and brave,” but fell short of actually apologizing for her comments.
June 14th, 2015 2:56 PM
Hugh Hewitt Presses Bill Daley Over Hillary’s E-Mail Server
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt provided some much needed balance to the show’s political panel when he pressed Bill Daley, President Obama’s former Chief of Staff, over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server.
June 14th, 2015 1:48 PM
Blogger: If You’re Educated, Scott Walker Probably Hates You
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature may soon weaken protections for tenured professors in the state’s university system. Talking Points Memo editor and publisher Marshall believes that Gov. Scott Walker’s enthusiastic support for tenure reform is “driven in part by right-wing ideology and in part by the palpable animus Walker himself holds to people who managed to get an education.”…
June 14th, 2015 12:33 PM
Clinton Campaign Manager: ‘No Poll Shows Voters Don’t Trust’ Her
On Sunday’s Face the Nation, Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, hilariously told CBS’s John Dickerson “no poll shows that voters don’t trust Hillary” despite numerous recent polls that show just the opposite.
June 14th, 2015 11:41 AM