NY Mag Falsely Claims Rape Is a Pre-Existing Condition In AHCA

May 5th, 2017 8:44 PM
Early Thursday morning, New York Magazine published an online item which claimed that "rape is a pre-existing condition" under the health care bill which has passed in the House. As Reason.com noted, "None of this is true. Like, not even a little bit." That appears not to be the point, though. The point of engaging in such irresponsibility appears to have been to get it out there so that at least…
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Cinco de Mayo Hit Job on Trump, Courtesy of Univision & Telemundo

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May 5th, 2017 7:32 PM
Univision and Telemundo almost never miss a chance to pummel President Trump, so it comes as little surprise that both top domestic Spanish-language television networks made a big deal out of the fact that the President, on a day when he had three other major public events (National Day of Prayer, House passage of Obamacare repeal and replace and the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Coral Sea),…

The People vs. the Press

May 5th, 2017 4:24 PM
President Trump and I have something in common. We were both invited to last Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner and we declined. The president wasn't interested in hearing himself mocked by an industry that holds him to a different standard than his predecessor and I wasn't interested in hearing the predictable jokes denigrating all things Republican, conservative and Fox News.

Journos Trash Ivanka Trump and New Book: ‘Rachel Dolezal of Feminism’

Culture
May 5th, 2017 3:49 PM
Ivanka Trump’s new book – Women Who Work – came out on May 2, and media responses have been virulently critical, overtly political, or both. The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino labelled the read a “painfully oblivious book for basically no one,” while New York Times’ Jennifer Senior called it a “strawberry milkshake of inspirational quotes.” Here, we've collected some of the harshest Twitter reactions…
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Tur, Making Things Up: Claims ObamaCare Is Failing Because of the GOP

May 4th, 2017 11:58 PM
MSNBC’s Katy Tur has a long list of gaffes involving an apparent inability to recall recent political history, all while getting into arguments with Republican congressmen. The latest installment of this saga occurred when she was filling in for Chuck Todd has the moderator of MTP Daily Thursday evening. This time, she got into an argument with Republican Congressman Chris Collins over what was…
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Nets Come Out Strong Against ObamaCare Repeal Passed By House

May 4th, 2017 10:05 PM
House Republicans and President Donald Trump took a large step in their efforts to repeal and replace the failing ObamaCare system on Thursday. In a very tight vote, Republicans passed their health care legislation and handed the bill off to the Senate. “But lawmakers voted without the final bill ever being scored, as they say in Washington,” announced ABC Anchor David Muir at the start of World…

AP Tries to Cast Trump As Hypocrite Over Separate Regulatory Issues

May 4th, 2017 5:37 PM
The Associated Press's descent into an ever more reflexively anti-Donald Trump, anti-conservative outlet which disguises itself as a wire service continues. On Tuesday (apparently updated sometime on Wednesday, based on its current "Yesterday" label), the AP's Marcy Gordon used a shopworn argument that a Republican or conservative who generally supports reducing government regulations and red…
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O'Reilly Amnesia? Stelter Agrees With Hannity, Opposes Ad Boycotts

May 4th, 2017 5:28 PM
CNN media reporter Brian Stelter offered a mysterious utterance in a segment on Colbert's crude penis-holster joke against the president on Thursday's New Day, proclaiming his public agreement with Sean Hannity. He insisted: "I've never said those words before."  But he came out against boycotts of Colbert's advertisers. Are you kidding? This comes just days after CNN's Media Unit pestered Bill…

Celeb Blames Trump for Dental Problems: ‘Pay My Bill, POS POTUS’

Culture
May 4th, 2017 3:28 PM
Feeling ill? Go ahead and blame Donald Trump. On Wednesday evening, celebrity Chrissy Teigen took to Twitter with complaints of jaw ache, and quickly noted where culpability for the ailment lay. 
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CBS Complains GOP Wasn’t ‘Modest’ in Health Care Win; Touts Angry Dems

May 4th, 2017 3:26 PM
Seconds after the Republican House of Representatives finally passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), CBS News did their best  on Thursday to tout Democratic concerns, pro-ObamaCare protesters, and hypocritically chide Republican supporters for not being “modest” in their massive legislative achievement. 
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Vile Colbert Doubles Down on Trump Attack, ‘I Don't Regret That’

May 4th, 2017 1:03 AM
After angering many well-mannered Americans and seeing the #FireColbert hashtag go viral over a two day period, so-call comedian Stephen Colbert started off The Late Show on Wednesday by doubling down on his low-brow “humor.”  “I don't regret that,” he told his audience. The outcry Colbert was defying stemmed from an angry and curse-filled tirade that he leveled against President Trump Monday…
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ABC Hammers FBI Director Comey, Push that He Swayed Election

May 3rd, 2017 10:16 PM
FBI Director James Comey went before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday where he was grilled by partisan Democrats about his supposed influence in Hillary Clinton’s defeat. Of the Big Three Networks ABC appeared to be the most irate over Comey’s sworn testimony.  “Comey, animated in his answers, facing questions about whether his decision just 11 days before the election affected the…
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David Axelrod Tells Hillary Clinton: ‘It’s Time to Move on’

May 3rd, 2017 5:57 PM
David Axelrod, who served as a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, had harsh words for former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while a guest on the Cable News Network’s New Day program on Wednesday morning.

Touchy CNN Refuses to Air Trump Ad That Puts 'FAKE NEWS' on Screen

May 3rd, 2017 11:53 AM
Politico reports CNN refused to accept an ad from the Trump for President campaign unless they remove a “fake news” graphic over the faces of liberal media stars. After listing several accomplishments, from Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to approving the Keystone pipeline, the ad’s narrator charges “You wouldn’t know it from watching the news,” with the words FAKE NEWS over images of Andrea…