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Hollywood Elites Blame 'White Supremacy' as Motive of CO Shooter
Culture
March 23rd, 2021 10:56 PM
The liberal Hollywood elite took to Twitter to prematurely pronounce the motive behind the Boulder, CO shooting as “White supremacy.” Unfortunately for them, the alleged killer is not white.
‘Sorry for the Collateral Damage’; Reid Speaks Out on Deranged Posts
June 1st, 2018 3:18 PM
On Friday afternoon, MSNBC and their AM Joy host Joy Reid released separate statements days after more old blog posts surfaced from Reid’s now-defunct site ReidBlog. They ranged from encouraging readers to watch a 9/11 truther documentary to comparing Republican Senator John McCain (AZ) to the Virginia Tech shooter.
Study: Media Coverage Spurs Mass Shootings
Culture
August 4th, 2016 3:33 PM
Next time there’s a mass shooting along the lines of Sandy Hook or Charleston – to say nothing of Jihadi massacres like Orlando – and the media are blaming everyone but the shooter, remember that they themselves may be plenty culpable.
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Black Cop Character Destroys Black Lives Matter With Simple Question
Culture
July 11th, 2016 1:44 AM
After a brutal evening in Dallas, Texas, where five law enforcement officers were murdered while protecting a Black Lives Matters protest, TNT’s Murder in the First delivered a poignant reminder that all lives matter. In the episode “Black and Blue,” Inspector Terry English, a black cop with ten years service with the San Francisco Police Department is facing growing pressure from the public to…
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CNN's Burnett: Rep. Grayson's Pro-Gun Control Point is 'Right'
June 13th, 2016 12:24 PM
Erin Burnett revealed her pro-gun control bias on a special edition of her CNN show on Sunday. Rep. Alan Grayson used the terrorist attack in Orlando to push for a new ban on military-style, semi-automatic firearms: "If somebody like him had nothing worse to deal with than a Glock pistol — which was his other weapon today — he might have killed three or four people, and not fifty. It's way too…
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Gleefully Admits To Using Edited Video To Smea
February 27th, 2013 12:27 PM
MSNBC’s propensity to selectively edit video to smear conservatives has reached a new low. Speaking on her self-titled show on February 21, host Rachel Maddow openly admitted to playing edited footage of Senator John McCain to smear the Arizona Republican.
Speaking last week, Maddow aired footage of McCain addressing a constituent whose son was killed last year at a movie theater in Aurora,…
CNN's Savidge, Guests Gang Up on Supporter of Concealed Carry on Campu
February 21st, 2011 7:02 PM
On Monday's Newsroom, CNN's Martin Savidge teamed up with guests Rachel Sklar and Nick Ragone to oppose a proposed bill in Texas that would allow college students with concealed carry permits to carry handguns on campus. Savidge only had conservative talk show host Ben Ferguson on to voice his support for the bill during the segment, who faced off against the three.
The anchor brought on…
CNN's Toobin: President Obama is 'Against Gun Control
January 12th, 2011 9:16 AM
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin falsely claimed on Tuesday's Parker-Spitzer that Barack Obama is "against gun control." Toobin also seemed to lament that the conservative position on the Second Amendment has become the "conventional wisdom" in politics: "This is how much gun control has fallen off the map politically- that the idea that more guns will mean more protection is widely believed" [audio…
Pentagon Rescinds Franklin Graham’s Invitation, Al Sharpton is Welco
April 23rd, 2010 10:21 AM
The Pentagon rescinded the invitation of evangelist Franklin Graham to speak at its May 6 National Day of Prayer event because of complaints about his previous comments about Islam. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation expressed its concern over Graham's involvement with the event in an April 19 letter sent to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. MRFF's complaint about Graham, the son of…
Media Hype College Dems Barred from Liberty U., Ignore Pa. College Nix
June 4th, 2009 5:14 PM
On May 22 of 2009, the Liberty University College Democrats were widely reported to have been shut down by the school’s administration. These reports came across a broad spectrum of media – a search of LexisNexis for the terms “College Democrats” and “Liberty University” from May 20 through today turns up 72 results. Among these results are 35 newspaper articles (among them, the Washington Post…
ABC News Puts Gun Dealer in Cross Hairs
April 25th, 2008 8:35 AM
If you are a major network and want to 'target' gun owners and gun dealers in a story, what would you do? Why you would write a story about a gun dealer offering a steep discount on firearms for college students, and then only interview the dealer and those who oppose his business and his special offer.According to an ABC News story covering Eric Thompson, owner of TGSCOM Inc., Thompson is "…
CNN Popping Off About Guns
February 18th, 2008 11:33 AM
Every event is a chance for the media to spin. CNN twisted the latest college shooting to blame it on business, instead of a crazed killer.On the Feb. 17 "American Morning," Veronica De La Cruz showed how two Web sites, operated by "the same owner," sold products to the shooters in both the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University tragedies. She said it was "pretty shocking to figure this…
Knight Column: New Study Exposes Anti-gun Bias in Media
August 29th, 2007 4:36 PM
On Tuesday, Jesse Jackson, the Brady bunch -- not the TV folk but the anti-gun lobby -- and other liberal activists rallied against “the national scourge of illegal guns” in cities around the nation. The networks ignored the event, probably because turnout was so embarrassingly low. The Chicago Tribune reported that “about 200” piled out of three buses in Lake Barrington, Illinois, the Chicago-…