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UNBELIEVABLE! Police Org Says FB Rejected Ad Honoring Brave Officer
August 2nd, 2021 5:01 PM
The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police said it was “flabbergasted” after Facebook rejected an ad recognizing its Officer of the Year award recipient, according to the organization.
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MSNBC Lets Chicago Mayor BLAME TRUMP for City’s Soaring Gun Violence
July 14th, 2020 5:03 PM
The media continues to tread lightly around Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, carefully avoiding criticizing the The media continues to tread lightly around Democrat mayors and governors, carefully avoiding criticizing or blaming them for any problems their city or state faces. On MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was not only given a pass for…
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After Weekend of Gun Violence, CNN Is Going Soft on Democrat Mayors
July 6th, 2020 8:58 PM
As gun violence increased dramatically over the weekend – especially in Chicago – CNN did stories, but they went soft on blaming Democrat mayors or suggesting they’re failing their citizens.
Bozell & Graham Column: Parental Nightmares in Public Schools
August 17th, 2019 6:21 AM
Public schools are reopening for business across America, meaning it’s time to get back to reading, writing, arithmetic….and revolution. As usual in matters such as these, California is leading the way. On the first day of classes at Denair Middle School near Modesto a science teacher handed out worksheets from a transgender advocacy group titled “The Gender Unicorn” asking students about their…
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MSNBC's Lui Lauds Strict Illinois Gun Laws Even Though Murder High
February 17th, 2019 4:12 PM
On Saturday's MSNBC Live, weekend anchor Richard Lui provided an unchallenged forum for 17-year-old Houston city council candidate Marcel McClinton to advocate for more gun control. The MSNBC host also suggested that Illinois is better off than Texas because it has more stringent gun laws and a higher grade from an anti-gun group, but he did not notice that the murder rate for Illinois in recent…
New Bill Would Require Social Media Background Checks for Gun Permits
February 8th, 2019 11:50 AM
Illinois Democrats proposed a new bill that would allow police to examine social media history to decide whether people can buy guns. Conservatives at HotAir compared it to the pre-crime strategy deployed in the movie Minority Report.
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Fox Picks Up Story of Dem Candidate Comparing Trump to Osama bin Laden
August 31st, 2018 4:24 PM
Brent Scher at the Washington Free Beacon reported on Thursday that the Democratic candidate in the sixth Congressionial district of Illinois, Sean Casten, declared in a Q&A about gun violence at schools that President Trump had a lot in common with Osama bin Laden, who ordered the 9/11 attacks....and that Trump's young-male voters are like al-Qaeda recruits.
NY Times Uses 'Bait Truck' in Chicago to Play Anti-Cop Race Card
August 26th, 2018 2:03 PM
New York Times reporter Emma Fitzsimmons wrote “Outrage Over a Sting in a Poor Chicago Neighborhood,” using the story of a “bait truck” that resulted in a few arrests to play the anti-law enforcement race card: "Even in a city rife with distrust of law enforcement, residents were shocked by the sting operation: A tractor-trailer filled with Nike sneakers parked in an impoverished neighborhood on…
Luis Gutiérrez se retira del Congreso: No se le va a extrañar
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November 30th, 2017 3:58 PM
Luis Gutiérrez, el congresista por Illinois que en una ocasión comparó al terrorista convicto de las FALN Oscar López Rivera con George Washington y quien describió el asesinato de Kate Steinle por un indocumentado como “una cosa pequeña”, ha anunciado su retiro del Congreso de los Estados Unidos.
NY Times Goes Giddy Over Sight of Obama Reporting for Jury Duty
November 9th, 2017 4:21 PM
On top of the big stories? Demonstrating just how much the press misses President Obama, New York Times reporter Mitch Smith reported the big news that “Obama Reports for Jury Duty, to Chicago’s Delight (Spoiler: He Was Not Chosen).” And to the delight of Smith as well, judging by the unjournalistic giddiness that ensued over Obama, the "Harvard-educated constitutional scholar," deigning to mix…
NPR Affiliate Touts Claim Vouchers Would Send IL Back to 'Segregation'
August 10th, 2017 2:03 PM
On Wednesday, NPR’s Illinois affiliate WGLT promoted a claim without pushback by a McLean County, IL superintendent named Mark Daniel that, if the state passed a school vouchers program, the Land of Lincoln would plunge back half a century into “segregation.” Illinois is in a heated battle led by Republican Governor Bruce Rauner to enact a voucher program to allow students to succeed, individuals…
Bizarre WaPo Story Tries to Blame Righty Radio for Scalise Shooting
July 9th, 2017 4:04 PM
The blogosphere erupted in a collective roar at Washington Post reporter Peter Holley's bizarre attempt to blame the shooting of Republicans and their security guards in Alexandria, Virginia on conservative talk radio. Holley's cockeyed conspiracy theory was that the shooter, James Hodgkinson, may have listened to local senior-citizen radio host Bob Romanik back in Belleville, Illinois. The…
Initial AP Coverage of Facebook Torture Avoids Almost All Details
January 5th, 2017 11:19 AM
The Associated Press's initial Wednesday evening report on the horrific beating and torture of a mentally handicapped 18 year-old in Chicago is woefully and predictably weak.
A comparison of what Fox 32 in Chicago was reporting at the time of AP's story will demonstrate how much the wire service chose to ignore.
Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, Paul Ryan…Barack Obama?
November 25th, 2016 9:36 PM
It’s fair to say that from 2007 through 2010, the mere words “Speaker Pelosi” gave many NewsBusters readers the willies. If some lefty activists and enough voters get their way, you’ll have the chance to hear a lot of “Speaker Obama.” On Wednesday, Ben Mathis-Lilley of Slate discussed and endorsed a Change.org petition calling on Barack Obama to run for the House of Representatives in 2018 from…
