Mark Ruffalo Tweets Out The Nation: 2nd Amendment Not for Individuals
December 4th, 2015 3:33 PM
In response to the San Bernardino shootings on Friday, leftist actor Mark Ruffalo, best known for playing the Hulk in The Avengers movies, tweeted “Begin again…The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun” and an image and link from the article of the same name from The Nation. The article Ruffalo tweeted is about why District of Columbia v. Heller was ruled…
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CNN's Zakaria Hypes U.S.'s 'Extraordinary Ease' in Purchasing Guns
December 3rd, 2015 6:56 PM
On Thursday's Wolf program, CNN's Fareed Zakaria touted "the extraordinary ease with which people can obtain these extraordinarily destructive weapons." Zakaria played up that "these stories of gun violence really do...alarm the rest of the world....With gun violence, the United States is essentially alone in the world. There is no other country that has anything remotely approaching the kind of…
Media, Politicians Mock Prayer After Shooting: ‘F**k Your Prayers’
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December 3rd, 2015 12:22 PM
Immediately following the shooting in San Bernardino yesterday, many people offered up their prayers for the victims and their family members. In response, many liberal journalists and politicians took to Twitter to mock prayer as “ineffective” and called for conservatives to “shut up.”
Dan Rather Urges for Gun Control After Shooting; ‘Terrorized' by Guns
December 2nd, 2015 8:12 PM
Since he’s been off of network TV for over a decade, disgraced former CBS News anchor Dan Rather took to Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday to call for the pass of gun control legislation to combat the claim that the U.S. is being “terrorized daily by gun violence” akin to how the U.S. “spend[s] trillions to defend ourselves” from “foreign terrorists.”
Media Blame Conservatives, NRA Before Knowing Anything About Shooting
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December 2nd, 2015 4:39 PM
On Wednesday, another mass shooting occurred in San Bernardino, CA, at a social care center for people with developmental disabilities. Before police had even identified the shooter, liberal journalists on Twitter came to their own conclusions: It must be a crazy right-winger. Without a second thought, they blamed conservatives, the GOP and the NRA for the shooting.
Journalists Freak Out on Twitter: Pro-Lifers 'Want to Kill' Women
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December 1st, 2015 11:53 AM
After a gunman entered a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs on Black Friday, wounding nine people and killing another three, journalists were quick to blame conservatives, Fox News and the pro-life movement for the violent tragedy.
The knee-jerk reaction for more gun control was implicitly there, but the media went even further this time, demanding the censorship of pro-life speech.…
Suspended CNN Reporter Appears to Have Coordinated Tweets w/State Dept
November 24th, 2015 11:38 PM
Thanks to some fabulous work by American Commitment’s Phil Kerpen digging through on Tuesday e-mails from Clinton State Department staffer Philippe Reines, he found that suspended CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott had communicated with Reines on multiple occasions to the point of taking marching orders over what she tweeted.
NYT Tripped By Stray Cat; Uses Modified Obama Photo in Krugman Column
November 24th, 2015 11:46 AM
On Monday, the New York Times inadvertently created the latest cat photo to go viral. The newspaper posted a blog entry from liberal columnist Paul Krugman, and included what it thought was the famous photo of President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other high-ranking administration officials watching the feed from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. However, it was actually a…
CNN Suspends Reporter for Biased Twitter Post on House Refugee Vote
November 19th, 2015 8:08 PM
Politico's Hadas Gold revealed on Thursday that CNN suspended correspondent Elise Labott for two weeks, after she decried the 289 to 137 vote on Syrian refugees by the House of Representatives: "House passes bill that could limit Syrian refugees. Statue of Liberty bows head in anguish".
CNN Reporter: 'Statue of Liberty Bows Head in Anguish' After Vote
November 19th, 2015 3:56 PM
CNN correspondent Elise Labott bemoaned that the House of Representatives voted to "to intensify security screenings of Syrian refugees and suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 of them in the next year," as Reuters reported on Thursday. In a Thursday post on Twitter, Labott linked to her network's reporting on the 289 to 137 vote, and added her own over-the-top commentary: "House passes bill…
Two Paris Terrorists Lived in Supposedly Mythical Belgian 'No-Go Zone'
November 15th, 2015 10:03 PM
Shortly after the Charlie Hebdo Islamic terrorist murders in Paris in January, the establishment press attacked those who dared to state something quite obvious about "no-go zones" in parts of Europe, i.e., that they exist. The media summarily and unilaterally declared that "no-go zones" were a myth propagated by the likes of Fox News, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, longtime terror expert…
Chad Henderson Walls Off Twitter Account After NewsBusters Criticism
November 14th, 2015 10:56 PM
We'll have to live without Chad Henderson's tweets for the time being. Once again, Henderson, as he did in 2013, has taken his Twitter account private, limiting it to "confirmed followers." This time he likely did so in reaction to a NewsBusters post earlier this afternoon by P.J. Gladnick.
Henderson first gained notoriety during the initial Obamacare sign-up process in late 2013 when he claimed…
Lying Obamacare Poster Boy Now Politicizing Paris Attacks
November 14th, 2015 3:44 PM
Remember the Obamacare poster boy, Chad Henderson, best known to the world for lying about enrolling in Obamacare? Since the mainstream media liked him he was able to slide on his lie and portray himself as some sort of laid back happy-go-lucky guy. However, as we shall see, he has a highly political dark side which surfaced again today by politicizing the Paris attacks with an incredibly…
Canadian Columnist Slams 'Selfish' Believers for Praying for Paris
November 13th, 2015 7:41 PM
Doug Saunders, a leftist international-affairs columnist for Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, attacked the many people on Twitter who were calling for prayers for the citizens of Paris in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the French capital on Friday evening.