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Not the Whole Picture: ABC Trumpets FBI Crime Stats as Boon for Kamala
September 24th, 2024 12:16 PM
On Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir felt compelled to double down on his fake fact check of former President Trump from the September 10 debate by touting a new FBI report claiming “a dramatic drop in violent crime” and contrary to what voters feel. But, as per the great John Lott Jr. of Crime Prevention Research Center, it’s not as simple as the pro-Kamala Harris…
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CNN Cues Up McCabe, Democrat to Argue Against Arming School Teachers
March 30th, 2023 10:42 AM
On Monday afternoon, in the aftermath of the school shooting in Nashville, CNN was promoting precisely the opposite of what would likely provide better protection for schools as law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe argued against arming school teachers.
Kessler Admittedly Uses Faulty Data to Dismiss Good Guys With Guns
January 31st, 2023 1:17 PM
In a supposed “fact-check” on Tuesday, Washington Post editor and “fact checker” Glenn Kessler published an analysis to tackle the understood notion that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. But the piece, titled “What’s more common: A ‘good guy’ without a gun — or with one?”, muddied the waters and argued that the data is incomplete and inconclusive.
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CNN's Santorum Schools Van Jones on Higher Crime by Illegal Immigrants
January 31st, 2018 8:54 PM
On Tuesday night, during a discussion after President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, liberal CNN contributor Van Jones insisted that illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than the general population as right-leaning CNN contributor Rick Santorum cited a recent study by John Lott finding that illegal immigrants in Arizona commit crimes at twice the rate of the general…
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Remove Couric's Misleading Interviews, 'Fed Up' Distributor Demands
June 9th, 2016 7:08 PM
Just one day after Fed Up, the 2014 documentary on obesity and the food industry produced and narrated by Yahoo! Global News Anchor Katie Couric was criticized for “deceptive editing,” the Weinstein Company – which is the film's distributor – called for two interviews to be taken down from the YouTube website where the movie is available for viewing.
According to an article by Stephen…
CNN's Costello Badgers Pro-Gun Guest, But More Polite to Gun Critic
December 3rd, 2015 8:09 PM
CNN host Carol Costello showed a blatant double standard in her treatment of a pro-gun guest in contrast with a gun control advocate on Thursday's CNN Newsroom between two segments featuring gun expert John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center -- author of More Guns, Less Crime -- and Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
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CBS Pushes Gun Control as 'Public Health Issue' Like Seat Belts
August 28th, 2015 2:11 AM
On Thursday, the CBS Evening News seized on the deadly shooting of two local news reporters in Roanoke, Virginia to promote the idea that gun control should be treated like “a public health issue” akin to seat belts, airbags, and anti-smoking campaigns. In a tease early on in the program, fill-in anchor Maurice DuBois explained that “[s]ome public health officials say gun violence, just like car…
Preelection FBI Study Team Admits Media Distorted It — 6 Months Later
June 13th, 2015 1:18 PM
In late September 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released "A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States, 2000-2013." To say the least, the report's issuance, timed six weeks before the midterm elections, and its topic ("a specific type of shooting situation law enforcement and the public may face") were curious. Given the press's inclination to sensationalize and…
Gruesome Opportunist Piers Morgan Promotes New Gun Control Book Just T
September 20th, 2013 12:57 PM
The announcement for Piers Morgan's new book, Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney, states that the liberal host of a Cable News Network weeknight program “is one of the most talked-about, controversial figures in the media today.” Even though Morgan has been engaged in a years-long crusade to implement extreme gun-control laws, neither he nor his publisher, Simon &…
Ann Coulter Column | John Lott: America's Most Feared Economist
May 1st, 2013 6:44 PM
You can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as "discredited." Ask Sen. Ted Cruz. But no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John Lott, author of the groundbreaking book "More Guns, Less Crime."
Lott's economic analysis of the effect of concealed-carry laws on violent crime is the most…
Piers Morgan Shushes Gun Rights Advocate: 'I Suggest You Keep Quiet
February 28th, 2013 6:25 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan bullied gun rights advocate John Lott on his Wednesday night show, repeatedly interrupting him and lecturing him. At one point Morgan told his guest, "I'm going to keep talking, so I suggest you keep quiet."
This is typical Morgan behavior towards gun rights advocates, as he sets up a "debate" but proceeds to badger his guest as much as possible. An exasperated Lott asked…
Latest Ed Schultz Whopper: 'We've Never Had a Civilian Stop a Shooting
January 11th, 2013 6:57 PM
The hits keep coming from libtalker Ed Schultz, who's kicking off the new year on a roll. First week into 2013, Schultz insisted that Bill Clinton was never tried in the Senate after he was impeached by the House. Schultz followed with the laughable claim that gun laws in Chicago, a city with some of the nation's toughest restrictions on firearms, "don't even exist." (audio clip after page…
Soledad O'Brien Bullies Gun Rights Activist; 'Your Position Completely
December 17th, 2012 3:54 PM
CNN's Soledad O'Brien interrupted, bullied, and dismissed guest John Lott on Monday's Starting Point when Lott argued in favor of less gun laws. "[Y]our position completely boggles me, honestly. I just do not understand it," the liberal journalist lectured Lott after he cited statistics supporting his position.
O'Brien sidestepped his facts and condescended to his position from the beginning…
NY Congressman Calls NRA 'Enablers of Mass Murder
December 15th, 2012 9:57 AM
Friday's horrible massacre at a Connecticut elementary school has predictably fired up the left in this country to call for tighter gun restrictions as they blame the event on pro-Second Amendment advocates.
Possibly the worst example of this came Friday evening on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight when Democratic New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler disgracefully said, "We have a lobby, the…
