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Word Tricks on MSNBC, Obeidallah: 'No Such Thing as Radical Islam'
July 20th, 2015 9:23 PM
On Friday's The Ed Show on MSNBC, during a discussion of conservative criticism of President Barack Obama for not using the words "radical Islam" in the aftermath of the shooting rampage in Chattanooga, Tennessee, liberal comedian and Daily Beast columnist Dean Obeidallah tried to misdirect the conversation with a debate over definitions of words as he asserted that "there is no such thing as…
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MTV Bullies Kids to Tears to Raise Awareness For ‘White Privilege'
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July 20th, 2015 4:16 PM
MTV wants white kids to feel bad about being white – and the media love it.

Daily Beast Carps It Was 'Extremist' Who Made PP Sting Video
July 16th, 2015 5:03 PM
If you can't counter the message, character-assassinate the messenger. That, apparently, is Daily Beast writer Samantha Allen's tack regarding the sting video wherein a Planned Parenthood official discusses selling aborted-baby body parts above break-even rates to medical researchers.

'When Will the Catholic Church Stop Firing Gays?' Daily Beast Whines
July 10th, 2015 5:08 PM
"Far from becoming more open, the Catholic Church is doubling down on its homophobia," groused the liberal website Daily Beast.

Daily Beast Attacks Post-Abortion Counseling
July 6th, 2015 4:37 PM
To the abortion absolutists of the left, it isn’t enough that a woman kill off the life inside of her. She then has to be happy about it. Case-in-point, liberal journalist Samantha Allen attacking post-abortion counseling in her recent piece for the Daily Beast.

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CNN's Avlon: Clinton the 'Most Liberal' Dem Nominee Since McGovern
July 2nd, 2015 1:36 PM
Appearing on Thursday's New Day, liberal CNN political analyst John Avlon asserted that Hillary Clinton would be "the most liberal nominee of the Democratic party since George McGovern" during a discussion of socialist Bernie Sanders's success in attracting large crowds of left-wing supporters as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination.

Daily Beastie Cries 'Treason' and 'Terrorism' on Conservative Justices
June 28th, 2015 7:19 PM
When the Left erupted in outrage over the Supreme Court decision on campaign financing in Citizens United, they never thought their resistance to the result could be described as “treason.” But that’s not the way they’re playing on the new gay-pleasing decisions.
At The Daily Beast, contributor and gay activist Jay Michaelson asked “Did The Four Dissenting Justices In Gay Marriage Case Just…

Daily Beast Pundit: Scalia ‘Farted’ His Dissent in Obamacare Case
June 27th, 2015 12:38 AM
Conservatives are accustomed to admiring the work and deploring the politics of artists like Bruce Springsteen and Stephen King. Michael Tomasky wrote Thursday that some liberals have had roughly similar feelings about Antonin Scalia, but that’s over now because of Scalia’s dissent in King v. Burwell, which was devoid of the justice’s usual “writerly flair and intellectual acumen.”
“It long ago…

CNN's Avlon: Obama is 'Prophet Figure' Who 'Presages' a Changing US
June 26th, 2015 2:09 PM
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, during a discussion of whether it has been a "defining week" for the Obama presidency, CNN commentator and Daily Beast editor John Avlon declared that President Obama has been a "prophet figure" who "presages" the political implications of the nation's "changing demographics."
Shorter Daily Beast: Roberts Ruling in Burwell Was Conservative
June 25th, 2015 6:16 PM
The Supreme Court's opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts in the King v. Burwell case was classic conservative judicial philosophy, argues the Daily Beast's Jay Michaelson.

Lefty Pundit: Gowdy Committee ‘Urinating on the Grave’ of Amb. Stevens
June 18th, 2015 10:58 AM
In a Wednesday column, Tomasky alleged that the “real job” of the House select committee looking into the September 2012 Benghazi attack is “to get [Hillary] Clinton” and declared that “this ‘investigation’ now constitutes openly and defiantly urinating on the grave of Amb. [Chris] Stevens.” Tomasky commented that Trey “Gowdy’s investigators have come up empty on the consular attack itself, but…

Daily Beast Writer Worries Dolezal Harming Transgender Rights Push
June 16th, 2015 6:45 PM
I have to admit, watching liberals divide into two mutually-exclusive camps over the Rachel Dolezal "transracial" nonsense is kinda fun. Samantha Allen of the Daily Beast comes down squarely on the side that attacks Dolezal's actions as inexcusable, in no small part because it may be "damaging" the push for cultural normalization of transgenderism.

Daily Beast Critic: 'Jurassic World' Has 'Backward Sexual Politics'
June 15th, 2015 4:08 PM
Marlow Stern at the Daily Beast, who reviewed Jurassic World on June 10, must be absolutely furious.
The Steven Spielberg-produced movie just had "the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time." Not bad for a film Stern panned as "A Big, Dumb, Sexist Mess." — with heavy emphasis on the "sexist" part.

Lefty Writer: ‘Victimhood’ Key to Becoming a ‘Conservative Folk Hero’
June 9th, 2015 10:10 PM
How do you become a “conservative folk hero”? It helps a great deal if you believe, and your fellow right-wingers believe, that liberals are picking on you, contended The Daily Beast’s Ana Marie Cox in a Saturday column.
Cox defined conservative folk heroes as celebrities or demi-celebrities “whose fame is not dependent on a celebrity-generating skill (acting, singing) but on a set of beliefs.”…