Press Minimizes Exposure of Hillary Ridiculing Sanders Supporters

October 3rd, 2016 9:29 PM
The press is going to extraordinary lengths to minimize the visibility of Hillary Clinton's damaging and disparaging February remarks at a fundraiser about how Bernie Sanders' supporters "are living in their parents’ basement," and how half of them don't know what ('just like Scandinavia') means" — stereotyping digs which don't survive even the most rudimentary efforts at fact-checking.

Press Mostly Ignores Story of 19 Dead Registered to Vote in Virginia

October 2nd, 2016 6:02 PM
The left continues to insist that voter fraud is a myth, specifically that "voter fraud is very rare, voter impersonation is nearly non-existent," and that "most allegations of fraud turn out to be baseless." Part of the support system for that insistence comes from the press, where reports of election fraud routinely get ignored or downplayed.
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MRC’s Graham Questions NYT’s Motives in Publishing Trump Tax Docs

October 2nd, 2016 2:47 PM
The Media Research Center’s Tim Graham appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday to discuss The New York Times’ recent article featuring leaked information about Donald Trump’s taxes. Even though the information is striking, Graham took issue with the Times’ motives for writing the way they did, “They have the anonymous tax expert on the front page of the paper today say he benefited from his…

NY Times: Now That Trump Is Up in Ohio, It's 'Fading on Electoral Map'

October 1st, 2016 1:29 PM
On Thursday, in a story which made the front page of Friday's print edition, Jonathan Martin at The New York Times reported that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is "effectively acknowledging how difficult they think it will be to defeat Donald J. Trump" in Ohio.
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Press Yawns, Santelli Goes Off as Fed Wants to Be Able Buy Stocks

September 30th, 2016 10:17 PM
On Thursday, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen suggested in a videoconference call, as translated into plain English by the Wall Street Journal, that "there could be benefits to allowing the central bank to buy stocks as a way to boost the economy in a downturn."
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AL.com and AP Imply Clinton Vocally 'Denied' 1978 Rape

September 29th, 2016 11:02 AM
In a narrow sense, the item discussed here really shouldn't be newsworthy, because it's based on history which has for all practical purposes long been settled. But now that it's being treated as news, let's look into the can of worms at least two media outlets have chosen to open, perhaps without fully grasping the consequences of their doing so. Leada Gore, an AL.com reporter who says she's "…
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Dean Pushes Trump 'Using Coke?' Harder; Cillizza Wants More of It

September 28th, 2016 5:42 PM
During Monday night's presidential debate, former DNC chairman and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean tweeted: "Notice Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?" Even the tabloid site TMZ described Dean's tweet as a "low blow." Unbowed, Dean doubled down at MSNBC on Tuesday, to the point where a clearly uncomfortable Kate Snow tried to maneuver him into backing away a bit. He wouldn't, which…
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AP Buries Obama's Use of Pseudonym to E-Mail Hillary's Private Server

September 26th, 2016 7:36 PM
Never let it be said that the folks at the Associated Press aren't on top of the news, making sure that readers as well as subscribers who use AP copy in their radio and TV broadcasts learn the most important developments of the day. That's sarcasm, folks. Friday evening, in a story primarily about the FBI's grant of immunity to longtime Hillary Clinton assistant Cheryl Mills, the AP's Michael…

USA Today Suspends Glenn Reynolds Following Charlotte-Related Tweet

September 24th, 2016 3:45 PM
On Wednesday, in response to news that violent people the press insists on describing as "protesters" in Charlotte were stopping traffic on Interstate 277, University of Tennessee law professor and Instapundit founding blogger Glenn Reynolds retweeted a related story with three words of advice: "Run them down." As a result, Twitter, which continues to allow the existence of and continued postings…

NY Times Headline, Seven Months Late: Venezuela 'Buying U.S. Oil'

September 23rd, 2016 11:37 PM
The absurd headline at a September 20 story at the New York Times is a sight to behold: "How Bad Off Is Oil-Rich Venezuela? It’s Buying U.S. Oil." As formulated, the headline is clearly meant to communicate something that is supposedly a surprising new development in that country, which, thanks to 17 years of Bolivarian socialist rule, has turned into a financially destitute humanitarian…

WashPost Op-Ed Writer Shames Her Teenage Boys For Non-PC Beliefs

September 22nd, 2016 3:24 PM
The last thing teenaged kids need is their mother to shame them on the Internet — and as part of her making a living, no less. But that's what's apparently been going on for some time with feminist writer Jody Allard and her two teenaged sons, currently 16 and 18. Her most recent callout came a week ago at the Washington Post, where she sharply criticized them — even though she weakly allowed…

NY Times: 'Dread' That Hillary Might Lose; No Mention of 'Deplorables'

September 18th, 2016 2:06 PM
In an extended Friday writeup which appeared on Page A9 in its print edition, Matt Flegenheimer at the New York Times appeared to be preparing the paper's left-wing audience for what was supposedly unthinkable just a month ago: The possibility that Hillary Clinton might lose the presidential election. The theme, as would be expected, was how Mrs. Clinton could "actually blow this." Since…
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Kaepernick Effect? Week 1 NFL Ratings Down Significantly from 2015

September 15th, 2016 12:54 PM
One of the great mysteries surrounding the controversy over San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision to sit (or kneel) through the National Anthem at the beginning of his team's games (while wearing socks during practices depicting police as pigs) has been the National Football League's nonchalant response. Perhaps the league thought that the matter would blow over in a week…

WashPost Hillary Conspiracy Theory: Putin and/or Trump Poisoned Her

September 14th, 2016 7:57 AM
Neal Gabler, who for decades has claimed that the press is consistently biased — against the left! — typed up a 1,000-word screed which appeared at Reuters Tuesday afternoon decrying what he described as "sub-news," and how it has been irresponsibly "driving the (Hillary) Clinton health rumors." Gabler describes "sub-news" as "a pipeline of effluvium that flows beneath the mainstream news and…