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Joe Scarborough Wonders If President Is Illiterate: ‘Can’ Trump Read?
In the wake of the immense political conflagration that Michael Wolff’s upcoming book Fire and Fury has caused, Thursday’s Morning Joe was almost entirely consumed by discussion of all its salacious claims and their implications for the Trump White House. Even though multiple guest panelists on the show admitted to the shaky factual foundation for Wolff’s book and the unproven nature of many of…
January 4th, 2018 5:02 PM
MSNBC: ‘Narrative’ of Unverified Trump Book ‘Has Already Taken Hold'
At the top of her show on Thursday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell was giddy as she declared that Michael Wolff’s salacious and unverified tell-all book about the Trump administration must have the White House “completely rattled.” Even as she admitted that all the details may not be true: “It’s hard to know what is actually fact and what isn’t, a lot is in quotations.”
January 4th, 2018 4:27 PM
Death No Escape from NYT Bias: Castro Treated Better Than Mormon Head
More proof that the New York Times’ political bias extends into death. The latest hostile treatment of a figure who ran afoul of the liberal line on social issues appeared Thursday, in an obituary of the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church). Thomas Monson received less sympathetic treatment than did ruthless longtime Communist dictator, Fidel Castro.
January 4th, 2018 4:07 PM
Planned Parenthood Thanks 34 Entertainers in New Report
Planned Parenthood and Hollywood have long joined forces. And now, the abortion giant is using its latest annual report to boast of the entertainment industry’s support. According to America’s largest abortion provider, “entertainment stands with Planned Parenthood.” As proof, Planned Parenthood’s 2016 – 2017 report listed an album to which entertainers donated various tracks.
January 4th, 2018 4:00 PM
CNN Promotes Partisan ‘American Women’ While Iran Protests Are Ignored
Timing is everything, and if you’re going to argue that American women are oppressed by the current administration, the patriarchy, the wage gap, or ponying up for their own birth control, try not to do it while women are very publicly facing actual oppression of the jailing-beating-shooting variety.
January 4th, 2018 3:53 PM
Katy Tur: ‘Remarkable That We’re’ Discussing Trump’s ‘Mental State'
Though MSNBC journalists have admitted that much of a new anti-Donald Trump book may not be true, it’s still enough to spark a new conversation over whether the President is mentally ill. On Thursday, Katy Tur pivoted from the book to the crazy Trump theme: “Isn't it remarkable that we're talking about the President's mental state and asking honest questions about his mental state? You also have…
January 4th, 2018 3:43 PM
We Have Lost a Friend
WASHINGTON -- My friend and colleague Donald Rieck, president of The American Spectator Foundation, died late last week in an automobile accident. He leaves two charming and very young children. He also leaves many friends throughout the conservative movement and shocked colleagues at The American Spectator. He was 50 years old.
January 4th, 2018 1:56 PM
Dangers of Government Control
We are a nation of 325 million people. We have a bit of control over the behavior of our 535 elected representatives in Congress, the president and the vice president. But there are seven unelected people who have life-and-death control over our economy and hence our lives -- the seven governors of the Federal Reserve Board. The Federal Reserve Board controls our money supply. Its governors are…
January 4th, 2018 1:52 PM
MSNBC: Even If ‘Not All’ of Trump Book Is True, ‘Spirit Is’ Accurate
Close enough. That’s the assessment from MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle in regard to the new book featuring incendiary quotes from ex-White House official Steve Bannon. Ruhle, like other liberal journalists, suddenly is fascinated with Bannon. She enthused on Thursday, “He was one of the most senior people in the White House, a close adviser to the President, and this book takes us inside.”
January 4th, 2018 12:30 PM
WashPost Media Reporter: Trump-Book Author Accused of Inventing Quotes
On the front of Thursday's Style section, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a piece on blazing-hot author Michael Wolff and his Trump book Fire and Fury. The headline was "A whale of a Trump tale, but is it fishy?" Inside, the headline is "Wolff made up quotes, some of his sources say."
January 4th, 2018 12:07 PM
NBC: New ‘Post’ Movie ‘Very Timely’ With ‘Our Press Under Siege’
In a fawning interview with the stars of The Post, on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie gushed over Hollywood’s latest love letter to the liberal media: “The movie is getting great reviews. And for something that took place 45 years ago, it feels like it could have been ripped right out of a newspaper today. Very timely.”
January 4th, 2018 12:06 PM
The Nation: Without Kaepernick, Local Economies Were Gutted
None of the NFL's communities have applied for federal disaster funding yet, but progressive lion Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, claims the refusal to sign Colin Kaepernick to a pro football contract has brought these cities to economic ruin. He blames Kaepernick's lost season on right-wing, billionaire team owners who bank-rolled Donald Trump into the Oval Office.
January 4th, 2018 12:00 PM
‘Dunkirk’ Companion Book: Nazis Wanted to ‘Make Germany Great Again’
Liberals love to congratulate themselves for being “on the right side of history,” while of course, consigning conservatives to the “wrong side.” But history takes its sweet time unfolding, and liberals are an impatient lot. So they like to retrofit existing history, demanding that people and events be judged according to their modern progressive pieties, and lumping conservatives in with…
January 4th, 2018 10:41 AM
Colbert Buys Ad, Begs Trump to Pick Him for 'Fakies' Media Awards
While most of the media recoils at being called “fake news” by President Trump, CBS’s late night comedian Stephen Colbert begged the president to let him be called the “most dishonest” and “most corrupt” member of the media, on his show Wednesday night.
January 4th, 2018 10:03 AM