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AP: 17 Year-old Shot by Police, in U.S. For 12 Years, Is a 'Refugee'
Most readers here are by now painfully familiar with how miserable mainstream media reporting on police shootings of criminals can be.
That said, the Associated Press's headline writers and reporter Lindsay Whitehurst have lowered the bar even further in their coverage of the shooting of a 17 year-old who was beating a man "near a homeless shelter" in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Samantha Bee Whacks Scarborough for Daring to Urge Hillary to Smile
Entertainment Weekly reports that TBS Full Frontal “comedian” Samantha Bee unleashed her feminist rage at MSNBC host Joe Scarborough because he tweeted like some kind of thug that Hillary should smile after her primary wins on Tuesday. The magazine reported “some Twitter users pointed out that telling a woman to smile is a common refrain heard from street harassers.”
“Smile,” he wrote on Twitter…
Fusion Plays Up Dolores Huerta’s Anti-GOP Demagoguery
In an interview with Fusion’s Daniel Rivero, Hillary Clinton supporter Dolores Huerta went into her now typical “full smear” mode, maligning the entire GOP presidential field and comparing Donald Trump to the long-deceased former racist and segregationist, George Wallace.
Desperate for Millennial Votes, Clinton Guest Stars on Raunchy Sitcom
How do you make a raunchy show that features pegging and bestiality as major plot points even more offensive? Have Clinton guest star. No, not the alleged rapist and serial philanderer, Bill Clinton, but the one who stood by him all these years and is now running for president.
ABC’s ‘Blackish’ Explains the ‘Caucasian Curse’
According to ABC, racism is funny, so long as you’re making fun of white people.
As Income Gains Almost Evaporate, AP Is Rooting For Higher Inflation
The government's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that consumer prices fell 0.2 percent in February.
Lower prices should be good news, right? Wrong, at least according to Martin Crutsinger at the Associated Press. Crutsinger's Wednesday dispatch also managed to ignore the fact that even the supposedly low inflation seen during the past 12 months has eaten up most of workers' very…
Networks Censor El Chapo Gun Being Linked to Fast and Furious
On Wednesday night, the top English broadcast networks and Spanish-language network Univision failed to cover news that the Justice Department had finally confirmed that a gun in possession of the now-captured Mexican drug lord El Chapo was linked to the scandal-ridden Operation Fast and Furious.
CNN: 'Hillary Can't Kill Coal; It's Already Dying' (Because of Obama)
In a Monday afternoon post which gets close to taking pleasure in the serious economic decline in the heart of the coal mining industry in West Virginia, CNN Money's Patrick Gillespie observed, based on Hillary Clinton's recent remarks about coal miners' jobs, that she "has no love for coal companies."
But in Gillespie's world, what Mrs. Clinton said doesn't matter, because "Clinton won't have…
Iran's Missiles and the Nuclear Deal
It seems like only yesterday -- and in diplomatic terms it was -- that the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress were assuring us the nuclear deal with Iranwas something to celebrate, as one might laud the winning of a Nobel Peace Prize.
Networks Paint Garland as ‘Moderate,’ Plead with GOP to Consider Him
The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC on Thursday night insisted President Barack Obama’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, is nothing but a “moderate” and personally pleaded with Republicans to consider placing him on the Court. While two networks mentioned comments made by Vice President Joe Biden back in 1992 about Court appointments, none of them made light of the…
CNN's Toobin: GOP Blocking Garland Over 'Power,' Not 'Principle'
Appearing on Wednesday's Wolf show to discuss President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland for the U.S. Supreme Court, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin characterized Republican resistance to confirming him as not being about "principle," but "power" instead.
Lefty Writer: Trump’s a ‘Toilet of a Man,’ and GOP Base Loves It
Daily Kos writer Hunter is amazed at the ongoing failure of supposedly influential Republicans to understand that as far as the party base is concerned, Donald Trump’s “racism and sexism and conspiracy theories” are features, not bugs. The peg for Hunter’s Monday post was a new TV ad from the GOP-friendly Our Principles PAC which quotes a slew of the degrading comments Trump has made about women…
Totenberg: GOP Messaged Will Move SCOTUS Nomination After Election
On today's With All Due Respect, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg broke some news, saying she thought President Obama "got a message from Republicans via backchannels that they would probably move this [Supreme Court] nomination after the presidential election."
Let's game-plan this out. If it means that Senate Republicans would move to confirm President Obama's pick of Merrick…