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WashPost Hails UMC Pastor Sleeping in Tent to Support Gay Marriage
April 6th, 2016 10:43 PM
The front-page of Wednesday’s local section in The Washington Post featured a large photo and glowing article touting a United Methodist Church pastor’s nationwide protest by camping out in front of churches ahead of the UMC global conference that will feature a vote to support gay marriages.

Left's Unreported Belief: High Job-Killing Minimum Wages Are Okay
April 6th, 2016 9:24 PM
Perhaps this is why the press has been reluctant to cite economists who are predicting that sharp increases in state minimum wages like the $15-per-hour minimums just passed in California and New York will reduce employment: They're with many of their lefty brethren who don't care whether jobs are lost. So they must believe that no one else should care either.
At the Washington Post's WonkBlog…

WashPost Writer Admits To 'Raising' Her Cats 'Gender-Neutral'
April 5th, 2016 5:15 PM
It's fair to conclude that when an article's title carries the preface "don't laugh," what follows could easily be ridiculed. Lauren R. Taylor's Tuesday online blog item for the Washington Post certainly fits that bill, as the title continued that she has "a serious reason for raising my cats gender-neutral." Taylor revealed how she once accidentally called her two female cats "boys," and used…

WashPost Plays Up Study Tying 'Racial Prejudice' With Gun Rights
April 4th, 2016 5:02 PM
The Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham devoted a Monday item to trumpeting the study of two Illinois political scientists, which supposedly determined that "racial prejudice could play a significant role in white Americans' opposition to gun control." Ingraham spotlighted that the professors "found that whites were significantly less likely to support gun control measures when they had…

Reid Told Candidate 'Muslim Cannot Win' Election: Will Nets Report?
March 29th, 2016 6:57 PM
A Muslim Democrat running for a Nevada seat in the U.S. House of Representatives supposedly received some stunning advice during a private meeting with retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid: “You should not run for this office” because “a Muslim cannot win this race.”
According to an article by David Farenthold, who covers Congress for the Washington Post, Jesse Sbaih -- an immigrant from…

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Nets Censor Two Reports on Investigation into Hillary's E-Mail Server
March 28th, 2016 8:28 PM
On Monday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC found it pertinent to keep their viewers in the dark of stories from the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post that each provided new information on the massive scale of the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server scandal as she continues her presidential campaign.

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ABC’s Kimmel Parody Ad Claims Cruz ‘Almost Exactly the Same’ as Trump
March 24th, 2016 2:05 PM
Well that didn’t take long. After Cruz’s strong comments condemning Islamic terrorism Tuesday, the media seemed to be following the same teleprompter in making endless comparisons to Trump. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! also jumped on the bandwagon with a parody ad, narrated by an eerily realistic Mitt Romney impersonator, who claimed Cruz was “almost exactly the same [as Trump] but without the steaks…

NPR Offers 'Trump Training' to Help Reporters Deal With Violence
March 23rd, 2016 6:26 PM
There's no doubt that the current presidential campaign has been more antagonistic than previous contests for the White House, and as a result, one national news organization is taking action to train its correspondents in “hostile environment awareness.”
According to an article by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi, the National Public Radio system has sent its political reporters to…

A Liberal Garland for Garland
March 22nd, 2016 10:21 PM
Whenever I hear the words "centrist" or "moderate," especially when they come from The New York Times and The Washington Post, the words "liberal" and "cover-up" immediately come to mind.

WaPo Writer Quickly Uses Brussels Attacks as Platform to Slam Trump
March 22nd, 2016 12:54 PM
The terror bombings in Brussels occured at about 3:00 AM EDT. Therefore Washington Post writer Philip Bump had only about a couple of hours after he woke up today to use these acts of terrorism as a platform to rapidly type up an article about his real obsession in this matter, Donald Trump, when it was posted at 9:25 AM EDT. You will search his story in vain for any expression of sympathy for…

Discovery News Frets: 'Will the US Ruin Cuba's Nature?'
March 21st, 2016 5:17 PM
Eric Niiler boosted environmentalists' concerns about Cuba in a Monday item for Discovery News. The journalist pointed out how "the time-warp nature of Cuba's Cold War-era embargo with the United States (sic) has....kept developers from exploiting the island's natural resources." He also spotlighted how "many conservationists worry the political thaw between Washington and Havana could bring a…

WP Critic: Elton Ballads ‘Authoritarian Hold Music' at Trump Rally
March 18th, 2016 11:01 AM
Did you realize Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” could be “weaponized” to instigate violence and that Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” was “authoritarian hold music” similar to Adolf Hitler? If not, then you just aren’t listening, man. Washington Post music critic Chris Richards made the front page of the Style section with “And the Bland Played On.” The original online headline to the post was kookier: “…

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MSNBC's Matthews: GOP Blocking Garland a 'Boot' to Obama's Face
March 17th, 2016 5:05 PM
Referring to GOP senators vowing to not hold hearings for President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, MSNBC's Chris Matthews suggested racism may be to blame. "Do you think this is another one of those boots in the face of the president on the racial front?" the Hardball host asked African-American White House correspondent April Ryan on the March 16 edition of the…

WashPost Kicks Dirt on Grave: Nancy Reagan 'Just Said No on HIV/AIDS'
March 14th, 2016 11:35 AM
The Washington Post “Fact Checker” should really be turned on his own newspaper. Post writer Dan Zak penned a nasty-gram trashing the recently deceased Nancy Reagan, with this headline on the front of the Style section. “How Nancy Reagan just said no on HIV/AIDS.” Then there was the online headline: “On drugs, Nancy Reagan just said no. On AIDS, she said nothing.”
Zak implied that somehow Mrs.…