Politico
Politico Frets That Rubio Is Tweeting From GOP 'Part of the Bible'
July 11th, 2017 11:36 AM
Marco Rubio has committed a new sin in the eyes of the liberal media. The Florida Senator has been tweeting from the “most Republican Part of the Bible.” Politico on Sunday concluded that Proverbs is the GOP-friendly part of the Gospel.
Priebus Still on the Job: The Fake News of a White House Shakeup
July 5th, 2017 9:36 PM
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner underlined how the media turned out to be wrong again -- projecting that chief of staff Reince Priebus would be bounced from the White House. Bedard cited a June Politico report headlined "Trump gives Priebus until July 4th to clean up White House," noting "That story was picked up by dozens of media outlets."
A Media Outlet Finally Asks: Has SPLC ‘Jumped the Shark?’
Culture
June 28th, 2017 4:14 PM
Finally, someone in the establishment media is acknowledging that the Southern Poverty Law Center has a credibility problem. Politico writer Ben Schreckinger raised the issue in a long piece posted June 28 titled “Has a Civil Rights Stalwart Lost its Way?”
Media Mislead: Trump's Travel Ban Victory Is 'Limited,' 'Partial'
June 26th, 2017 11:58 PM
The latest episode in the Trump administration's long-running legal battle to impose a temporary ban on travel from several nations concluded on Monday. Its result, as described by National Review's David French, was that "in a per curiam ruling, the Supreme Court restored the vast majority of the Trump administration’s temporary travel ban — including the temporary ban on refugee entry." Much of…
Politico Writer: Hooray for Obviously Biased Journalism!
June 26th, 2017 8:18 PM
Hoorah for biased journalism! The election of Donald Trump as president has sent us liberals so over the edge that we can no longer pretend to even tolerate him. Not only will our coverage of him and Republicans be biased but we shall openly embrace the fact that we are biased.
Huh? Did I somehow manage to overhear an inebriated journalist who had a bit too much to drink to the extent that the…
Press Ignoring Anti-Violence Backlash as Factor in GA-06 Outcome
June 22nd, 2017 11:55 PM
With so much attention focused on the meaning of the results of Sixth District Congressional special election in Georgia, the establishment press has not looked into what happened to pre-election polls which showed Democrat Jon Ossoff ahead of Republican Karen Handel by as many as seven points less than two weeks before Tuesday's election. Though it may partially have been yet another in a…
Daughter of Brian Williams On Politics: ‘Who Do I Charm or Bully?’
Culture
June 21st, 2017 12:57 PM
Allison Williams, former star of Lena Dunham’s politically charged TV show Girls, apparently doesn’t want to get political herself. However, she will admit that the Trump administration gives her a sense of “fascination -- and fear.”
According to POLITICO editor Carrie Budoff Brown, Williams, the daughter of MSNBC anchor Brian Williams, takes a page out of her father’s book by staying away from…
AP Pretends Handel Kept Her Distance From Trump
June 21st, 2017 12:07 PM
It only took four sentences for Bill Barrow and Kathleen Foody at the Associated Press to serve up a howler in their attempt to minimize the national significance of Republican Karen Handel's victory over Democrat Jon Ossoff in Tuesday evening's Sixth District congressional election in Georgia. Their report's fourth sentence claimed that the winner's victory speech "thank you to Trump was…
Politico Awards Participation Trophy to Liberal Senate Loser
June 19th, 2017 4:19 PM
Whenever the mainstream media awards a participation trophy to the loser of an election, it is sure bet they are awarding it to a Democrat. Such was the case with the June 17 Politico which awarded a participation trophy to Jason Kander who lost the 2016 U.S. Senate race from Missouri. No matter. As far as Politico is concerned he was really a winner as you can see from their title, How Jason…
Politico Columnist: ‘Getting Shot Is No Big Deal in America’
June 16th, 2017 4:05 PM
Tragedy is painful, but it sometimes has the side benefit of bringing people together during a time of crisis. However, Politico columnist Roger Simon declared his intent to refrain from such action with a hit piece for the Chicago Sun Times on Attorney General Jeff Sessions in which he also decided that it would be appropriate to make light of the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise.
Politico: Obama Brought Politics to Locker Rooms
Culture
June 8th, 2017 7:47 PM
Former President Barack Obama isn’t just a cool sports fan. Among his greatest contributions are giving professional athletes a voice and politicizing locker rooms, too. That’s the Kool-Aid Politico Magazine writer Ben Strauss is offering to his politics lite audience.
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Politico and AJC Skip Dem Screw Up in Georgia Race
June 7th, 2017 2:13 PM
Candidate struck dumb by opponent's question. Would that not strike you as a dramatic moment in a political debate? You probably would agree and so do most media outlets that reported on the June 6 debate between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff running in the June 20 special election for Georgia's 6th Congressional District. In fact many reports headlined the moment that Ossoff was asked by Handel…
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Buzzfeed's Ben Smith: Journalists Aren't 'Political Activists'
May 6th, 2017 10:42 AM
In a segment on media bias on his Wednesday evening Fox News show, there was an interesting juxtaposition between host Tucker Carlson's short opening flashback to a conversation with Reuters reporter and White House Correspondents Association President Jeff Mason at Reuters and the live conversation he had with Buzzfeed Editor Ben Smith. Smith incredibly insisted that "people don't get into the…
Politico Warns: 'The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think'
April 25th, 2017 7:46 PM
Politico's magazine published an article with a surprising title: “The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think.” Jack Shafer and Tucker Doherty began with the 2016 election results, which was “not just as an embarrassment for the press but as an indictment. In some profound way, the election made clear, the national media just doesn’t get the nation it purportedly covers.”
The writers know they are…
