Magazines
Time Magazine 'Madly' Botches White House-Russia Parody Cover
May 20th, 2017 2:38 PM
Time Magazine's May 29 cover features a purported parody of the U.S. White House turning red and well towards being transformed into what the illustrator believes is "the Kremlin." This is supposed to show just how creative and conscientious these folks are. What it really shows is the opposite.
AP Howler: 'Many' Faced 'Insurmountable' Voting Barriers in Wisconsin
May 11th, 2017 7:57 PM
Desperate to make a case that voter-ID laws kept "many" people who should be allowed to vote from casting ballots in Wisconsin in November, two reporters at the Associated Press claimed "it is not hard to find" examples of Badger State residents who were "turned away." Left unexplained is how reporters Christina A. Cassidy and Ivan Moreno apparently could only identify four people out of hundreds…
AP 'Fact-Check' Goes Entirely After GOP, Misleads on Jobs
May 9th, 2017 10:55 PM
The Associated Press had a variety of howlers from Democrats and leftists it could have included in its May 8 (update on May 9) "fact check" roundup based on events of the past week. As those who have watched the wire service's conduct since the 2016 election campaign could have predicted, it included none, and instead solely went after the Trump administration and GOP politicians on nine…
Google and Facebook Are Now Driving the ‘News’ Media Cart
May 8th, 2017 11:45 AM
Our recurring joke - that is itself a ceaselessly recurring joke - is when we mention the “Media-Left,” we always follow it with “please pardon the redundancy.” The Media-Left merger is now seamless. I could hand you a New York Times article and a Daily Kos article - and you would be hard pressed to determine which is which (aside from the latter’s propensity for profanity).
As Rush Limbaugh…
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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CNN's Zucker: Fox News Is 'State-Run TV,' Decries 'Fake News' Term
May 1st, 2017 10:23 PM
In an 18-minute Friday interview on the New Yorker Radio Hour, CNN President Jeffrey Zucker contended that "Fox News ... is state-run TV," that "MSNBC has become the opposition," and that "CNN is seeking the truth." Yes, he really said that. Zucker also doesn't like the term "fake news" any more — even though his network was one of the earliest post-election promoters of the term when they…
Journos Respond Harshly, Profanely to Stephens' First NY Times Column
April 29th, 2017 12:30 PM
On Friday (appearing in Saturday's print edition), the New York Times published its first column by Bret Stephens, the former Wall Street Journal columnist recently hired as a "conservative" voice. Its theme was that the political "hyperbole" about climate change doesn't match the underlying science — even if one trusts the underlying science. That alone was enough to send journalists into…
Prof at The Nation: CO2 'Far More Deadly' Than Assad's Chem Weapons
April 23rd, 2017 6:57 PM
On the day after Earth Day's "March for Science," it seems appropriate to point to a column by University of Michigan History Professor Juan Cole in The Nation, a far-far-left publication considered a credible and authoritative go-to-source by the liberal intelligentsia. On April 18, Cole, echoing statements made during their final years in power by Barack Obama and his administration's officials…
Fleischer Excoriates Liberal Media for Being 'Too Far' Out of Touch
April 17th, 2017 11:13 AM
Former George W. Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer gave a great interview to The Hill’s Joe Concha posted Sunday in which he slammed the liberal media for their bias “particularly on social issues” and proving daily how they’re too disconnected from their audiences. On media bias itself, Fleischer said “there’s no question about it” as the media have “an inherent bias toward conflict…
Popular Mechanics Bashes Former CIA Director, Author Over EMP Threat
Business
April 7th, 2017 4:05 PM
Popular Mechanics downplayed the potential devastation of a North Korean electromagnetic pulse attack calling one former CIA director’s take “not realistic.”
Ambassador R. James Woolsey (and former CIA director) co-wrote an opinion piece for The Hill on March 29, arguing that “the press and public officials ignore or under-report” the threat of an EMP attack by North Korea.
Crass Liberal Comedian Makes ‘World Leader' List; Guess Who’s Absent
March 24th, 2017 1:12 PM
Fortune Magazine published its annual and seemingly arbitrary list of the top fifty world leaders online Thursday, and as per usual, liberal politics were at play. In 2015 and 2016, the sister magazine of Time honored Black Lives Matter activists as “extraordinary” people who “transformed business, philanthropy and government.” This year, fiercely anti-conservative and vulgar comedian Samantha…
Elle Unloads on Kellyanne Conway's 'Mendacious, Loquacious Assault'
March 23rd, 2017 7:09 PM
The women's magazine Elle is carrying a weird negative profile of White House Kellyanne Conway. The subhead to Tish Durkin's profile reads "For many Kellyanne Conway was a shock, invented out of whole cloth (and the tweets of her client. But her mendacious, loquacious assault on liberalism has been more than 20 years in the making." To trash Conway the hardest, Durkin turned to the liberal media…
Popular Science Claims Climate Change Will Force People to Michigan
Business
March 23rd, 2017 2:35 PM
The Michigan tourism board must be gleeful since Popular Science made over-the-top climate predictions that could send people packing for the Wolverine state. MLive reported the PopSci story and video on March 22, with the headline “Everyone will move to Michigan in 2100 due to climate change ...” The current Michigan population is about 10 million, so adding about another 308 million might make…
Time.com Promotes Donna Brazile's Lame 'Regret'
March 23rd, 2017 9:00 AM
What do you do if you wish to help someone who wants to pretend they've apologized but who also wishes to perpetuate her lies about what she did? Well, if the person involved is a longtime Democratic Party operative like Donna Brazile and you're running Time.com, you let her bury her "regret" without a genuine apology deep inside a column conveniently released on a Friday afternoon in the middle…