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Joe Concha:  According to Grabien Media, Since Sunday, Word 'Racist' [has been] Said on CNN, MSNBC More than 2,200 Times.  There is an actual number around this that since Sunday [7/14/2019] according to gradient [sic] media, the word racist has been said on CNN and MSNBC alone, more than 2200 times.  I don't even know if that is physically or magnetically possible, but that is what has been happening this weekend the myopic focus completely.  [Video clip]

Greg Gutfeld Mocks CNN, MSNBC for 1,100 Uses of 'Racist' in Two Days on Trump.  On Tuesday night's episode of The Five, Fox News pundit Greg Gutfeld mocking the collective mass hysteria of CNN and MSNBC over President Trump's latest tweets against radical first-term Congresswomen.  Gutfeld summarized the hysterics to a T with a simple word count:  "We are reaching peak racism right now.  CNN and MSNBC, according to The Hill this morning, had said the word racist 1,100 times.  That was this morning [7/16/2019] since Sunday [7/14/2019].  Ok, so today's Tuesday... I think when it's 1,100 times by Tuesday afternoon, I'd call that maybe an overreaction.  It's hysterical and it's hysteria."

Media coverage of Hurricane Barry was the real disaster.  There will be no media awards for Al Roker or the Washington Post in recognition of their coverage of Hurricane Barry.  At least if the people living in New Orleans have a say in the matter.  The weekend weather event, fortunately, was nowhere nearly as bad as was predicted in some media accounts.  That's a good thing.  The bad thing, though, is the over-hyped media coverage of Tropical Storm Barry that briefly became Hurricane Barry (a Category 1 storm) before it returned to being a tropical storm.  Barry made landfall Saturday at Intracoastal City, about 160 miles west of New Orleans.  Unfortunately, to read or listen to media coverage, you would have heard calls for mass evacuation in New Orleans, well outside of where the storm hit.  The word "evacuation" has its own connotations for residents on the Gulf Coast and it is not a word to be used lightly.  For a television weather forecaster to suggest such an action when the local authorities are not calling for it, the situation can turn unnecessarily dangerous.

Power Outage in New York — Dramatic Media — Rest of Country 'Meh'.  Fox News talking hair Leland Vitter uses his best dramatic voice, channels his inner Shep, and proclaims the end of the known universe is nigh, because the power went out in a part of Manhattan, New York City.

Could I have some news with my emotions, please?  Emotion now blankets the media landscape like an infant's crib at bedtime.  Google "Shepard Smith emotional," and up come nearly 3 million results, many of them focused on the Fox anchor's recent visceral response to immigrant suffering.  A search of "Rachel Maddow crying" delivers more than 1 million offerings, many for the MSNBC host's reaction to border detentions and the Mueller report.  "Brooke Baldwin tears" uncovers nearly 2 million entries for the CNN reporter's reaction to a variety of news events.  They are not alone.  Contemporary culture trusts feelings over facts, rewards heated emotion — tears or anger — and rejects medium cool.  The effect on journalism is unmistakable.  And a lot of the blame can be placed on those all-too-common twin devils:  television and the internet.

Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout horns.  The Washington Post on Thursday [6/20/2019] published a story suggesting that the use of mobile devices is causing young people to sprout horns from their skulls.  But a look at the scientific data behind the story finds that such a splashy takeaway is tenuous at best — and atrocious reporting at worst.  The Post's story was primarily based on a study published back in February 2018 by two Australian researchers.  It earned fresh attention last week after being mentioned in a BBC feature on how modern life is supposedly transforming the human skeleton.  The study was published in Nature's open source journal Scientific Reports, which is supposedly peer-reviewed.  But the study has significant limitations and flaws, and the Post breezed over them for a sensationalized story.

No, Teen Vogue, you should not promote prostitution as a career choice.  The Internet is a crazy place, made crazier with a desire from many platforms to be shocking just to get readership.  Clickbait headlines and outrageous, negative stories complete with aggressive phrases like "owned" and "called out" litter websites and their corresponding social media accounts, which all do their best to out-shock each other to capture readers' limited attention.  While this insanity is definitely detrimental to our health as a society, it deserves even more scrutiny when directed at children.

Arsenic found in bottled water sold at Whole Foods, Walmart, Target.  When you pay premium prices, you expect a premium product — but that's not necessarily the case with bottled water.  California nonprofit Center for Environmental Health has revealed that water bottle brands Peñafiel, owned by Keurig Dr. Pepper, and Starkey, owned by Whole Foods, contain levels of highly toxic arsenic that are above the legal limit. [...] Other symptoms of arsenic poisoning include stomach pain and nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, numbness, even paralysis or blindness.

The Editor says...
This is nothing but alarmism, brought to you by an environmental activist group and gladly passed along by the New York Post.  There's not enough arsenic in bottled water to give anyone arsenic poisoning.  The "legal limit" for arsenic content in bottled water is probably so low that it's easy to exceed that limit.

No, Your Kid Isn't Growing Horns Because Of Cellphone Use.  This week, the Washington Post grabbed plenty of attention for a story that claimed that kids are actually growing "horns" because of cell phone use.  The story, which leans on 2016 and 2018 research out of Australia, was cribbing off of [a] more nuanced piece by the BBC on how skeletal adaptation to modern living changes are kind of a thing.  The Post's more inflammatory take was accompanied by a wide variety of other stories proclaiming that today's children are growing horns and bone spurs because they use their [...] cellphones too much!

ABC's '08 Prediction:  NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015.  New York City underwater?  Gas over $9 a gallon?  A carton of milk costs almost $13?  Remember when that happened on June 12, 2015?  No?  This was the wildly-inaccurate world of 2015 predicted by ABC News 11 years ago this week.  Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.  The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015.  One carton of milk is $12.99."  (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.)  Another clip featured this prediction for 2015 "Gas reached over $9 a gallon."  (In reality, gas cost an average of $2.75 four years ago.)

Paper to staff:  Use 'climate crisis' ... 'change' is 'too gentle'.  Staff at the Guardian newspaper of London, England, has been directed to address "global warming" more aggressively and use "climate crisis" or "climate emergency" instead of "climate change," which it considers "too passive and gentle."

The Media Press Dems for Impeachment Porn.  [This article examines] the motivation of the media as they continue to peddle impeachment.  They know it would be political suicide for the Democrats because only a minority of voters supports removing the President, yet they crave the countless clicks and eyeballs the circus would inevitably produce.  But the Democratic leadership, their antipathy for the President notwithstanding, is loath to take the leap just to provide impeachment porn for the media.

Climate change scare stories reach the point of psychological terrorism.  The corporate media cartels have become hubs of hatred and "journo-terrorism" that targets the psyche of the masses.  The quack science hoax of so-called "climate change" is used to terrorize the public into believing that their planet will somehow be destroyed by carbon dioxide — the very molecule that has been rapidly re-greening the Earth over the past four decades, according to NASA.  Now, a new round of "science" has been studying the mental stress of the victims of this psychological terrorism pushed by the dishonest media, and they've reached an even more bizarre conclusion.  Scientists now claim that climate change is causing "mental anguish" among humans.  Seriously.  Of course, the real source of the mental anguish is the lies and panic propaganda of the corporate media and the pathetic scientific establishment which has figured out that if you want more government grant money, you have to conduct "research" that identifies some new crisis to be blamed on climate change.  In fact, the very phrase "climate change" isn't scary enough yet to achieve the desired goal of mass mental terrorism, so media outlets around the world are now ordering their obedient writers to start using the phrase "climate crisis."

The hoax and due diligence.  Nothing illustrates the decline of serious journalism more than the fact that many of the major media, particularly CNN and MSNBC, have participated (and to some extent continue to participate) in massive hoaxes which would have been easily disproved with basic due diligence.  The first and least important hoax was that of Michael Avenatti.  He appeared on CNN and MSNBC more than 100 times where he was touted as an expert on many things, particularly the alleged misdeeds of President Trump.  Fawning hosts on these networks even referred to him as presidential material — yet he was nothing more than a conman.  He now faces about 400 years in prison if he is convicted on the many charges in several different courts.

Jussie Smollett [is] just a symptom of the fake outrage disease.  Remember folk expressions about the wisdom of being careful?  "Look before you leap."  "Measure twice, cut once."  "Don't go off half-cocked."  All of this should go double for online culture.  Instead lives are being destroyed over misleading, unfair or just plain false accusations.  People are being turned into public enemies or even fired after being framed for racism, homophobia or other perceived social crimes.  Others are casting themselves as victims of hate in order to line their pockets.  These days anyone with a phone in his hand can be P.T. Barnum.  And people who congratulate themselves for being unusually tolerant, kind-hearted and impervious to misinformation are the leaders of frenzied online mobs who are pitchforking innocent people.  Fake news is bad enough.  Fake outrage is even worse.

Climate hysteria.  The UK Guardian Newspaper decided that you're not sufficiently alarmed about climate doom.  Climate change is no longer the term of choice with the Guardian and other news outlets.  Get ready to hear the newly invented terms, "climate emergency," "climate crisis," "climate breakdown," and "global heating."  By the way, when did it become the job of a news organization to hype public concern over an issue instead of just reporting the facts?

Will the Media Ever Pay a Price For Its Irresponsibility?  [Michael] Avenatti was entirely the creation of the media, right down to the idea, which CNN and MSNBC took seriously, that he could be a presidential candidate in 2020.  It is emerging now that the media knew first hand that Avenatti is a first class jerk, from the outrageous and rude way he treated the low- and mid-level media people (producers, etc) he dealt with in his nonstop media campaign.  But because he was saying what the media wanted to hear (Trump is a horrible human being), the media were willing overlook all of the slime this reptile was leaving in media green rooms and on TV sets.

Democrats Claim 'Constitutional Crisis,' Media Repeat It 386 Times.  Evidently Democrats need only utter the words "constitutional crisis" for the media to report it as fact.  Watch cable "news" these days, and you'll surely see talking heads parroting the Democratic line that the Trump administration's noncompliance with House Committee subpoenas amounts to a constitutional crisis.  While a small handful of analysts and guest legal scholars disagree, TV hosts continue to push the idea uncritically, with some even urging the alleged crisis be used as grounds for impeachment.  MRC analysts looked at all coverage on broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) and liberal cable (CNN, MSNBC) networks from May 8 to 12, finding 386 utterances of the term "constitutional crisis" by hosts, analysts, or guest journalists.  This count did not include cases in which the term was used by political partisans, such as members of Congress, former administration officials, or Democratic and Republican strategists.

Children Have to Listen to Fake News, Too, and It's Not Good for Them.  [Scroll down]  Kids are being propagandized about the ticking climate clock in school, on TV, and everywhere on social media.  It just doesn't help when the parents are scared, too.  A 40-year-old Salt Lake City mother said the release of the U.N.'s latest climate report caused her three teenage daughters a severe emotional crisis.  "There was a lot of crying.  They told me, 'We know what's coming, and it's going to be really rough.'"  Because mom believes it, too, there's not much help she can offer.  "I want to have hope," she said, "but the reports are showing that this isn't going to stop, so all we can do is cope."  I don't believe that these children are really studying climate reports; it's the media's hysterical coverage that's upsetting them.

CNN's Jim Acosta Makes A Fool Of Himself At The WH Medal Of Freedom Ceremony.  CNN's Jim Acosta is in a running gun battle with April Ryan for the worst White House reporter currently on the beat.  Acosta's self-aggrandizement and constant editorializing in briefings have become the butt of jokes everywhere.  His false sense of grandeur has led him to write a book proclaiming how dangerous it is to "tell the truth" in America.  Because Acosta's life is so harrowing.

Scarborough: 'History Has Chosen' the Dem Party to 'Stand Up and Defend the Rule of Law'.  As President Donald Trump continues to spar with House Democrats over subpoenas, MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough applauded Democrats, saying that "history has chosen" their party to "stand up and defend the rule of law" in America.  Scarborough said that as a former Republican, it makes him "sad" to see the GOP "breaking the law."  "You can look at all of the document requests that they've ignored," Scarborough outlined.  "They're in contempt of Congress."

What did she say that isn't absolutely true?
What strange personification:  Does History take a vote, or what does it take to make up History's mind?

Parts of the American Media Are Willfully Twisting News to Stoke Racial Tension.  President Trump is cheering on someone who has not only supported the President, but withstood an online campaign of harassment for doing so.  The media would prefer to make this a race issue and fan the flames of racial tension.  It is unfortunate.

MSNBC Reporter Sticks A Mic In Robert Mueller's Face After Easter Services.  MSNBC reporter Mike Viqueira confronted Robert Mueller with a microphone and camera crew after the former special counsel exited Easter Sunday [4/21/2019] church services with his wife.

CBS Incites Violence Against Political Opponents.  "It's time to punch a few Nazis."  It's hard to shock me, but I was shocked by the trailer for CBS's "The Good Fight." [...] Promoting violence in the abstract is not illegal.  According to the Supreme Court case Brandenburg v. Ohio, speech is legal unless it "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."  The trailer showed an unprovoked assault against a real person.  It told viewers it is time to punch Nazis.  If this isn't a call to violence — at least against Richard Spencer — what is?  If the show had named almost anyone else, there would surely be criminal charges.  While we are to attack "neo-Nazis," communists or non-white extremists are apparently off limits.

Mainstream Media's Worshipping of Michael Avenatti.  Remember celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, the man who represented porn star Stormy Daniels?  Well, the media's favorite guest is back in the news after being indicted on 36 charges Thursday [4/11/2019].  Two hundred fifty-four — that's how many times Avenatti was featured on major TV networks in one year, according to NewsBusters.  CNN alone featured Avenatti a staggering 121 times.  Now he has been charged with numerous crimes, including tax evasion, fraud, and stealing money from clients — including scamming a paraplegic man out of a $4 million settlement.

Media exaggerate impact of US-Mexico border closure.  Let's hope that President Trump's "one-year warning" issued to Mexico Thursday to halt the flood of illegal drugs and migrants entering the U.S. — or face a border closure and new tariffs — will influence Mexico to make some real changes.  Unfortunately, the media's continual exaggerations of the dangers of closing the border may give Mexico the idea that the U.S. lacks the willpower to carry through on the president's threat.  If Mexican leaders conclude Trump is bluffing, there will be little reason for them to change their behavior.

Media ignore border debacle to feed us avocado stories.  Here at the Mexican border in San Diego, the local television press is always looking for ways to Get Trump.  The illegal immigrant sob stories aren't working all that much anymore.  So now they're reporting on President Trump's threatened border shutdown over it as a matter of the price of avocados in San Diego. [...] Obviously, the intent is to create a unified voice to whip up opposition to Trump's vow to shut the U.S.-Mexican border on public hysteria grounds, supposedly because we San Diegans just can't possibly live without our guac and margaritas, we're too la-la over here, and someone messing with our avocado supply should be enough to trigger the fury of Surfer Dude Nation.

Press goes Code Avocado against Trump.  How can you take seriously an occupation that repeatedly dives off the deep end over the tiniest of items?  Avocado sales in the United States are a little more than $2 billion a year.  In a $20 trillion dollar economy, that is 1% of 1% of all activity.  Mexico's $1.2 trillion economy will not suffer much either.  While shutting the border would be a hardship for avocado growers, open borders cost hundreds of Americans their lives every year.  But thanks to the media savvy of Steve Barnard, president and chief executive of Mission Produce, the largest distributor and grower of avocados in the world, the press is on a mission to save avocados, not American lives.

The Mueller-Industrial Complex Collapses.  So much media is premediated now, it's almost impossible to find something whose payload isn't partly composed of practice for future events.  Most of the time, nobody even notices this phenomenon.  Premediation works because it homes in on natural anxieties or desires amplified by the hyper-mediated ecosystem in which television, smartphones, social media, and all the rest rot and reanimate.  Whom should I consider voting for in the next election?  Am I going to die if I board a plane?  Those are questions whose future answers seem to demand consideration today.

CBS & NBC Cheer Student Climate Strike, Warn 'Future Might Not Exist'.  On Thursday [3/14/2019] and Friday, CBS This Morning and NBC's Today show celebrated left-wing student activists around the world preparing to walk out of their classrooms to "demand action on climate change."  The CBS report took a particularly dark turn as correspondent Tony Dokoupil warned of "a future that might not even exist" for the young protesters.  "Groups of students across America say they will skip class tomorrow for the first national school strike over climate change," co-host Gayle King proudly announced on Thursday's CBS This Morning.  "Tomorrow's protests are planned in more than 130 U.S. cities and about 90 countries worldwide," she added.

Study: White People Responsible for Blacks' and Latinos' Higher Exposure to Pollution.  A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that white people contribute more to pollution than black and Latino people, but the latter suffer from it more than the white polluters.  "The air that Americans breathe isn't equal," USA Today says in its report on the study.  "Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately breathe air that's been polluted by non-Hispanic whites, according to a study," USA Today says.  "This new research quantifies for the first time the racial gap between who causes air pollution — and who breathes it."

Rebuttal:
Who Declared this to Be Crazy Week?  There are so many things stupidly wrong with this whole story that I don't even know where to begin.  First, this study, and many others like it, anchor their alarm on the supposed fact that particulate pollution causes about 42,000 premature deaths in the U.S. every year.  Though the EPA relies on this figure, the epidemiology behind it is very weak.  But without this scary statistic, a lot of regulations would fail even the most generous cost-benefit test.  Second, particulate levels have been falling fast for the last 25 years, and will continue to fall in the future.  Most studies such as this one are relying on obsolete data.  What this means is that most black and Hispanic Americans, even in the places that still have the highest air pollution levels like the Los Angeles basin, are breathing air today that is lower in ambient pollution than white people inhaled 20 years ago.  Don't expect NPR or anyone else to put it in perspective this way.  They've got an agenda and a narrative that needs to be kept up.

Alabama Tornado Victims Ask Trump To Sign Bibles; Meltdown Ensues.  Another day, another obtuse, ridiculous meltdown in the media over something Donald Trump did.  This time we head to Alabama, in the wake of dozens of deaths and hundreds who lost everything due to a vicious string of tornadoes. [...] This kind of petty craziness, played on a loop daily by our media, is why Trump has a much better shot of winning in 2020 than he otherwise would have.

American Air Is Clean And Getting Cleaner.  [A]ir quality is very good pretty much everywhere in the United States.  This fact stands in stark contrast to utterly absurd claims in the media, such as blaming air pollution for killing 155,000 Americans.  Why is there such a disconnect between reality and what the media say?  Because bad news is intrinsically more interesting than good news.  It's the same reason that murder and violence grab top headlines, even though both are near historic lows. [...] Air pollution is not a problem in the United States.  It is a problem in Europe, and it is a monumental problem in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Media Hypes Roger Stone 'Revelation' That Has Been Public For A Year.  News outlets and media pundits on Friday [2/15/2019] seized on a court filing in the special counsel's case against Roger Stone that referred to communication the longtime Trump confidant had with WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, the group of alleged Russian operatives suspected of stealing Democrats' emails during the 2016 campaign.  The court filing, which was touted as new, bombshell evidence by numerous news sources, including CNN and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, may be less than meets the anti-Trump eye.

Let's Chill about Hate Crimes.  "Jussie Smollett, one of the stars of the television show 'Empire,' was attacked in Chicago by 2 assailants who yelled racial and homophobic slurs," tweeted the New York Times on January 29.  Mark the tone of absolute certainty about an unconfirmed claim.  Many other news outlets took the same tack.  "Celebrities, lawmakers rally behind Jussie Smollett in wake of brutal attack," reported ABC News.  "Jussie Smollett Performs at Troubadour Just Days After Chicago Attack: 'I Had to Be Here Tonight'" read a Los Angeles Times headline.  Many commenters linked the alleged attack to larger alleged sicknesses:  "The racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is far-right America's endgame," tweeted GQ, in a sentiment echoed by many others.

Bezos vs. the Enquirer Could Be a Watershed.  What to make of the battle between Jeff Bezos and the National Enquirer, which we will delight in calling the affair of Bezos, Pecker and de Becker?  Under any circumstance, the world's richest man cheating on his wife with a sexy helicopter pilot, supported by racy texts and photos, would be a story for the National Enquirer.  Tasteful Americans may wish it weren't so, but Mr. Bezos is a public figure in the Supreme Court's definition.

WaPo Spends $5.2M on Vanity Ad in [the] Wake of 1,200 Media Layoffs.  After some 1,200 people lost their media jobs last week, the far-left Washington Post spent $5.2 million to run a vanity ad during the Super Bowl.  You have to watch the Post ad to understand just how vacuous it is.  What we have here is the highest form of propaganda narrated by a Big Movie Star (Tom Hanks), produced only to give you a chronic case of the FeelSoGoodz.

The MAGA-phobic manure-spreaders of media sensationalism.  [Scroll down]  Question:  How many racist, homophobic menaces wander around the upscale Streeterville neighborhood of liberal Chicago at 2 a.m. carrying rope and bleach, yelling about "MAGA country?"  Question:  How many racist, homophobic menaces have ever heard of "Empire," could recognize Jussie Smollett, or know or care anything about his sexuality?  Despite TMZ's claim that Smollett had the "hell beat outta him" and attackers "broke his ribs" plus subjected him to a chemical attack, an ambulance was not called and he instead "self-transported" to the hospital.  CWB Chicago, a local public safety watchdog site, reported on police dispatch records documenting that Smollett's friend "Frank" refused EMS services for Smollett; no mention of bleach was made; "no or minor injury" was observed; and "officers never sent a 'flash; message with offender descriptions to field units."

An example of news media sensationalism:
It Could Take Joshua Tree 300 Years to Recover From the Government Shutdown.  Though the government shutdown may have ended last Friday [1/25/2019], Joshua Tree National Park will be feeling the ruinous effects of it for hundreds of years.  Throughout the duration of the shutdown, which lasted a record-long 35 days, national parks greatly suffered: human waste piled up, lands were littered with trash, and some campgrounds and other public areas even closed to visitors, as the parks weren't adequately staffed to stay open.  It wasn't until after Joshua Tree closed on January 2, though, that humans became excessively reckless, during which they off-roaded, graffittied rocks, started campfires in illegal areas, and cut down protected trees.

The Editor says...
Sounds like a wee bit of an exaggeration.  Human waste does not stick around for 300 years.  Neither does litter.  Neither do tire tracks.  But aside from that, the obvious solution is to privatize the park.  (By the way, graffiti is not a verb.  Neither is off-road.)  But this whole story seems very far-fetched.  Were a bunch of anarchist maniacs taking advantage the government shutdown, during which they could enter the unattended national parks and spread garbage and feces everywhere?  Sounds like a false flag to me:  Somebody went into the park and trashed it, in order to make the "government shutdown" as ghastly as possible — something that must be avoided at all cost — when in reality very few people outside of a 200-mile radius from Washington DC even noticed the five-week shutdown.

The Famed 'Doomsday Clock' Is Little More Than A Liberal Angst Meter.  When the Doomsday Clock launched in 1947, the initial setting was seven minutes to midnight.  Since then, it's gone up and down.  The furthest it got from doomsday was 17 minutes in 1991.  But it's clear from its movements over the past seven decades that the Doomsday Clock is more about politics than any sort of scientific measure of the risk of nuclear annihilation.  After all, the Clock routinely counted down after a Republican wins the White House, and ticked up when Democrats reclaim the presidency.

Apocalypse Creep.  Nothing says "end of the world" like a big fake clock.  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists gave its annual Doomsday Clock presentation on Thursday [1/24/2019] and announced that it's still two minutes to midnight.  Last year, the group of 15 scholars and scientists moved the phony minute hand of fate 30 seconds closer to Armageddon, from two-and-a-half minutes to midnight to its present setting, 11:58 pm sharp.  By the Bulletin's logic, we're as close to the end as we've ever been.  The whole thing is adorably retro.

How the media convinces us we're all outraged — even when no one cares.  Lazy media reporters who are too lazy to even actually speak to people anymore are instead constructing Potemkin Villages of fake hate, fake disgust and fake outrage.  They're Contemptkin Villages.  No one really lives there.  The laziest hacks can build them using tweets, even tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts.  Somehow these hacks are employed at places like the BBC and the [New York] Times. [...] Shameless online editors today figure that readers will click through to anything that is supposedly making anyone mad.  And if the underlying story doesn't actually contain any evidence that anyone has blown his lid, too late!  Made ya click.

Government shutdown lessons — We could take a chainsaw to so much of government.  This government shutdown is now longer than any in history.  The media keep using the word "crisis."  "Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!" says The Washington Post.  "Pain spreads widely."  The New York Times headlined, it's all "just too much!"  But wait.  Looking around America, I see people going about their business — families eating in restaurants, employees going to work, children playing in playgrounds, etc.  I have to ask:  Where's the crisis?

Media's anti-Trump addiction amps up the outrage and fuels the public's suspicion.  Alas, much of today's political journalism has fallen into advocacy, intentionally inflammatory, using or omitting selective details, quotes and background to make a case against President Donald Trump.  The criticism generally centers on something he did or said he would do — or something someone, usually unidentified, said he might do or is considering possibly doing.  And then in a kind of staged Kabuki dance, journalists run to gather reaction from waiting opponents who provide a predictably outraged quote calling for counteraction.  Yes, this president's name boosts ratings and clicks from both sides.  But the media's addiction to anything Trump lets this president manipulate them, which he does skillfully.  It squeezes out other important news.  And it denies Americans a set of generally-accepted facts to debate, merely providing fodder for an anti-Trump agenda and more argumentative ammo for both sides.

How many times have the media predicted doom because of Trump, and how many times have they been dead wrong?  On Thursday [1/10/2019], there was a screaming headline on Drudge saying, "Doomsday."  The article was from NBC News, and the source of the doomsday report was the ever reliable Mark Zandi of Moody's.  The purpose of the report was not to be objective news, because anyone with a brain knows that the shutdown will end soon.  The purpose was to scare the public, tamp down economic growth, and destroy Trump.

Sorry, I Don't Feel Sorry For Furloughed Feds.  Now that the nation has heard the President explain how he wants to address our immigration crisis, and we have all enjoyed the comic relief offered by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in lieu of a serious response, the media have launched a propaganda campaign they hope will pull the Democrats from the ditch they have driven into regarding "the wall."  But our friends in the Fourth Estate are approaching the project in a manner that merely highlights how divorced they are from the world beyond the Beltway.  Their primary focus involves the heartrending human tragedy of... idle bureaucrats.

The Media Was Still Unglued in 2018.  The comparisons to dictators (especially Hitler) were once shocking, but no longer.  These smears arrive almost daily.  Take perpetually malcontent Steve Schmidt lecturing on MSNBC. Trump "creates a mass sense of victimization amongst his base," he said.  "And then he asserts extraordinary claims of power to protect the victims from the scapegoated populations and the nefarious conspiracy.  That is fundamentally illiberal, deeply un-American, and, frankly, could be straight out of Munich circa 1928."  Then there's the racial panic.  "Killing black people is an old American tradition, but it is experiencing a revival in the Trump era," wrote New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.  Trump & Co. is responsible for encouraging the murder of blacks?  O-o-K.  Krugman wrote this junk after a lone gunman killed two African-Americans at a supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky.  Any terrible event can be quickly blamed on Trump.

Chuck Todd's Perpetual Hype Machine: 'What If the President IS the Crisis?'.  Meet the Press host Chuck Todd has proclaimed he thinks NBC and MSNBC are a very "fact-based environment," unlike Fox News.  But his opening to his show on Sunday sounded like a dramatic editorial, underlining all of Trump's problems with Republican leaders and conservative radio and TV hosts, throwing together the shutdown, the resignation of the defense secretary, and the stock market decline into one grand opinionated summary:  [Video clip]

Flashback: Media Silence After Obama Fires General Mattis Without Even a Call.  The liberal media and DC establishment suffered a complete meltdown on Thursday [12/20/2018] after the sudden resignation by Secretary of Defense James Mattis.  Talk of impeachment, coups, and suicide abound over fears that Mattis was the last 'adult' keeping President Trump in check.  Mattis resigned as Trump moved to assert mastery over his presidency this week in key areas after nearly two years on the job.

Recap and overview of the Jim Acosta tantrum:
Profiles in Absurdity:  Jim Acosta as First Amendment 'Hero'.  The underlying facts are by now well-known:  The insufferable Acosta, surely the most obnoxious "correspondent" ever to hold a White House press pass — a dubious distinction in a competition that includes Sam Donaldson (ABC) and the late Helen Thomas (UPI), among others — had his credentials suspended after a particularly abrasive encounter with President Trump at a November 7 presser.  In a widely publicized incident, Acosta harangued at length, refused to relinquish the microphone when directed to do so, and pushed away a young female intern who was trying to pass the mic to another reporter.  White House press passes have always been viewed as discretionary and subject to regulation, in order reasonably to limit the size of the press pool and ensure proper decorum.  Reporters are expected to be courteous and to exhibit professional behavior.  The attention-seeking Acosta, as is his custom, was grandstanding at the press conference, and breached longstanding protocols by insisting on arguing disrespectfully with the president.  For this, his "hard pass" — necessary to gain entrance to the White House — was temporarily suspended.  CNN was not barred from the White House; only Acosta was.

Like Drug Addicts, Reporters Demean Themselves For Just One More Trump Story.  But, it's not enough.  It's not getting them the high they want.  The high they crave.  The traffic, the clicks, the views, the response... none of it is the same.  There's gotta be a stronger dose somewhere.  So, when it comes time to cover the funeral of the former president, they seek out something stronger.  Trump is sitting by the Obamas and the Clintons!  He's not reciting the Creed!  He is doing this or not doing that!  And in the process, the funeral is no longer about George H.W. Bush.  It is about Trump.  It's wrong.  They know it's wrong.  They can't help themselves, though.  They are addicts.

A little hysteria can make the news go down.  The mainstream/legacy/hothouse media has been rubbing sticks together for months, trying to start a fire under the White House to frighten the administration into abolishing fossil fuels before Christmas.  Hysteria used to be the sworn enemy of newspapers.  (Television, not so much.)  Now everyone manufactures it.  Helene Cooper of The New York Times thinks it's OK to spread a little hysteria because becoming "hysterical" is the right and proper response.

Trump hatred fueled media's yearlong obsession with Avenatti and Stormy.  2018 was the year the mainstream media willingly handed whatever was left of their credibility and dignity over to an aging porn star/stripper and her odious, ethically challenged attorney. [...] At one point, Mr. Avenatti had become such a fixture on certain cable networks that it almost appeared he had joined the prime-time lineup.  Analysts at the Media Research Center categorized his appearances on CNN over a two-month period.  The results are as startling as they are embarrassing.

Another nothing-burger?  Catherine Herridge breaks down Michael Cohen's guilty plea 'bombshell'.  Early Thursday morning word broke that President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen had pleaded guilty to lying to Congress during its investigation into possible Russian collusion.  Following the announcement, the perpetually hysterical left broke into cheers of gleeful applause over the belief that the president would soon be the next one to be indicted.

Trump has the goods on Democrats.  CNN was so excited on June 6, 2017.  Jim Comey was going to testify in Congress in two days.  The fired FBI director would start the ball rolling on the impeachment of the Orange Man.  The cable outlet posted a story, "Comey expected to refute Trump."  Wolf Blitzer cranked up his self-righteousness to Pope Level.  CNN attached a countdown-to-Comey clock to its chyron.  Then Comey released his opening statement to the public a day early.  Blitzer dialed down his attitude to DMV clerk.  The countdown clock disappeared.  The story was downgraded to "Comey unlikely to judge on obstruction."

Jim Acosta Will Only Behave When There's A Democrat In The White House.  President Donald Trump says he's drafting rules of decorum for White House reporters in the wake of the lawsuit involving CNN's aggressively misbehaving reporter Jim Acosta.  Funny how unruly press behavior never comes up when a Democrat is president.

White House has to tell reporters how to act like adults.  Sarah Sanders today issued rules of conduct for White House reporters.  Everyone in the press room should be embarrassed because like kindergartners, they have to be told to share the microphone and take turns asking questions.  These geniuses brought this nonsense on because they were too pathetically lame to tell Jim Acosta to sit down and shut up.  Instead, their self-important White House Correspondents Association issued a statement of support, "Journalists may use a range of approaches to carry out their jobs and the WHCA does not police the tone or frequency of the questions its members ask of powerful senior government officials, including the President.  "Such interactions, however uncomfortable they may appear to be, help define the strength of our national institutions.  We urge the White House to immediately reverse this weak and misguided action."

CNN Requests Emergency Hearing After Trump Warns Acosta's Press Pass in Jeopardy Again.  CNN host Brian Stelter reports that the White House may once again revoke White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a judge ruled to reinstate the "hard pass" last week.  The network has asked for an emergency hearing in response to the threat.  "Friday's court ruling means that a temporary restraining order is in effect for 14 days.  But W.H. officials sent Acosta a letter stating that his press pass is set to be suspended again once the restraining order expires," Stelter tweeted late Sunday [11/18/2018].

The Editor says...
The suspension of a press pass for a single ill-behaved reporter is not an emergency.

White House Notifies CNN Journalist Jim Acosta of Rules to Permanently Revoke "Hard Pass".  The White House sent a letter to CNN narrative engineer Jim Acosta notifying him his pass granting him temporary access to the White House grounds could be suspended after a temporary restraining order runs its course.

Acosta decision could make it easier for White House to kick reporters out.  In short, the judge said to the White House:  You can't throw out a reporter without going through a process.  But if you go through a process — which you, the White House, can design — then you can throw the reporter out.  In the end, it could be that Kelly's ruling will make it easier for the White House to oust reporters in the future — and to make the decision stick.

Jim Acosta is smug, and no court ruling changes that.  CNN's Jim Acosta scored some court points with a ruling that orders the White House to give back his press pass, at least for the time being.  But he still presents as a smug elitist.  He presented as an out-of-touch elitist the day he jerked away from the arm of the reaching White House intern — the day he refused to cede the microphone and cede the floor and cede his time to the many other journalists who were patiently waiting to pose questions to the president.

Jim Acosta and the Hubris of Celebrity Journalism.  When do Jim Acosta's 15 minutes of fame expire?  Has there ever been anyone less deserving of the spotlight who has managed to hog it quite so thoroughly as CNN's White House show horse?  Most recently, on Nov. 7, Acosta gave President Trump a moral lecture in the form of a loaded "question" about why Trump called the migrant "caravan" an "invasion."  According to Acosta, it is not an invasion because the migrants were hundreds of miles away, and besides, the migrants aren't going to be "climbing over walls and so on."  One week later, as we all know, members of the caravan (and of course it's not really a "caravan") were sitting astride the border wall and invading U.S. territory.  So much for Acosta's credibility.  Mind you, the president answered Acosta's "When are you going to stop beating your wife?" question, and acknowledged that he and the reporter have a difference of opinion about what an invasion is, but Acosta was pressing his left-wing agenda and not actually trying to elicit information with his "fake question."

Acosta Gets His Press Pass Back, But Trump Is the Real Winner.  It would be the easiest thing in the world for the White House to turn Acosta into a non-entity, just another cable-news squawker tut-tutting the president's decisions into a camera from the White House lawn.  Call on him, give him bland answers to his silly questions, and move on.  Or don't call on him at all!  Instead, time after time, Trump and press secretary Sarah Sanders have allowed Acosta to harrumph them into tiffs that become news stories in themselves.  Last Friday's foolishness, with Acosta white-knuckling the mic and Trump shouting and that poor intern visibly wishing she'd taken some other gig, was just the latest, greatest example.  Why?  Because the White House loves it when Acosta is in the spotlight.  He's the perfect foil to Trump, the perfect face for the administration's constant campaign against the "fake news media."

Trump everyone's hard passes then.  A federal judge today [11/16/2018] ordered President Trump to restore Jim Acosta's hard pass access to the White House despite Acosta's belligerence at a press conference.  Just about every media outlet who gets hard passes sided with Acosta. [...] Revoke all the hard passes.  Make them stand in line each day with every other reporter from outlets not so privileged seeking access.  The press wants to play hardball, so play hardball.  Why give them this privilege when they hate him?

Everyone Is Wrong About The Jim Acosta, White House Battle.  Jim Acosta is a pundit who works for CNN.  He was credentialed to attend White House press briefings, which he routinely used as opportunities to share his personal political views and animosity toward President Donald Trump.  The situation with Acosta, who is known as a shameless grandstander who seeks personal attention rather than a journalist who seeks to cover the news, came to a head last week when he repeatedly violated decorum at the White House by offering personal opinions in the place of actual questions, fighting with the president, interrupting the president, and belligerently refusing to return the White House microphone to a staff member.

Levin: 'No reporter has a constitutional right' to be in the White House.  Tuesday [11/13/2018] on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin called out the ridiculous stunt of CNN's lawsuit against the Trump administration over the antics of reporter Jim Acosta.  "The purpose of a presidential press conference is to allow as many reporters as possible to ask pertinent questions, and for the president to answer them.  In other words, a press conference is for the American people.  One of the difficulties the other members of the press and the president are having communicating with each other ... is Jim Acosta.  When Jim Acosta disrupts the press conference, monopolized the time, and basically gives his political opinions about a president who he constantly calls a liar, we learn nothing," Levin said.

Trump White House Responds to Judge's Ruling that CNN's Jim Acosta Has Right to Disrupt White House Pressers.  On Friday morning [11/16/2018] a federal judge ruled that the Trump White House must restore jackass Jim Acosta's hard press pass.  This is unbelievable.  In any other business this jackass would be fired — at CNN he is defended in court.

CNN's Acosta stopped being a journalist long ago.  Invariably, [Jim] Acosta makes his interactions with Trump all about himself.  The fact that the CNN reporter had his press credentials pulled — even if only temporarily — will surely feed the legend and perhaps add a couple of zeros to his speaking fee or a future book deal.  Still, Acosta deserved the rebuke.  He was arrogant, rude and sanctimonious.  He was sent to cover the story, and he made himself the story.  He was supposed to ask questions, but instead he tried to "challenge" the president about the refugee caravan.  He asked several questions, instead of one.  And when he got answers, he rejected them.

When reporters stick together — as a mob.  [Scroll down]  Acosta wasn't there to ask questions.  He was there to lecture and make accusations, as were they all.  But Acosta's disrespect and contemptuousness is special... especially obnoxious.  He is a hothead and, knowing his act, why he gets a front row seat at these briefings would be my first question.  He is no reporter, but rather a Resist Trump community organizer.

Progressive Politics Are Not Really Progressive.  When CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta stages his periodic psychodramatic shout-downs of Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Donald Trump, he is no Edward R. Murrow bucking Joe McCarthy, but rather he is one-upping his progressive like-minded journalists, virtue-signaling to his CNN liberal audience, and scoring career chits with his left-wing bosses and employers.

Jim Acosta isn't disliked because of his 'hard questions' but because he doesn't ask any real ones.  There are a lot of ways to describe what CNN's Jim Acosta does when he shows up for a White House press briefing or a press conference with President Trump: stunt, showboat, grandstand.  But you cannot say he's there to ask "hard questions," as the New York Times characterized his routine in an editorial Thursday [11/8/2018].

Fearmongering on the Left Has Been Ignored in 2018 Coverage.  A CNN screen graphic bluntly asked on the morning of Tuesday's midterms elections, "Will fear win?" I think the answer is "yes," but not necessarily for the same reasons as the Chyron With Attitude.  CNN was referring to President Donald Trump's aggressive rhetoric against illegal immigration, sending troops to the border, and warning of the consequences of Democratic victories in the 2018 elections.  It wasn't alone in portraying the race as Democrats Vs.  The Fearmongerers.  The Washington Post reported Sunday that Trump is "painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign's final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty."

Senate report paints devastating profile of Justice Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick.  A new Senate committee report questions the credibility of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's three main accusers, dishing out the worst criticism at gang-rape accuser Julie Swetnick.  The 400-page report by the Judiciary Committee's Republican staff paints a devastating portrait of Ms. Swetnick.  She made the most sensational charges of the women accusers and won airtime on national TV.  The report depicts her as dangerous, a serial complainer, a liar, mentally unstable and cruel toward her parents.  It turns out that in one of Ms. Swetnick's previous sexual harassment complaints she was represented by Debra Katz, the Democratic-connected attorney who took the case of Christine Blasey Ford.  The Palo Alto, California, psychologist emerged as the first accuser of Justice Kavanaugh, who ultimately won Senate confirmation on Oct. 5 to the Supreme Court.

Democrats have intentionally divided the country and stoked fear among the public for a very long time.  Democrats have always tried to scare the people on food stamps, Medicare, social security and Medicaid.  Republicans want to starve children.  Democrats support Iran that spreads terrorism and pledges death to Israel and death to America.  Democrats are the ones who support Louis Farrakhan, not Republicans.  Democrats are the ones that had the KKK leader as an honorable leader in the Senate for years, not Republicans.  Democrats are the ones that pushed the fictional "hands up don't shoot" narrative to gin up racial hate and hate towards cops, not Republicans.  Who knows how many deaths and how much violence that caused.  Democrats are the ones who created a fictional dossier to destroy a political opponent and used the Justice Department to spy on them.  The person that shot up the Jews in Pittsburgh hates Trump yet somehow the media blames Trump.  The media has supported Democrats no matter what they say or do and now they are willing enablers and participants in seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans no matter how much propaganda they have to spread.

'Nothing to Gain,' Kavanaugh Accuser Raises Nearly $1 Million.  During the crucible of Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats repeatedly asserted that Christine Blasey Ford had "nothing to gain" by coming forward with her explosive accusation of attempted rape against the Supreme Court nominee.  "You had absolutely nothing to gain by bringing these facts to the Senate Judiciary Committee," Sen. Dick Durbin said during her testimony last month.  This sentiment was echoed by other Democrats, who presented it as evidence that Ford was telling the truth.  "I want to thank you," added California Sen. Kamala Harris, "because you clearly have nothing to gain for what you have done."  In fact, Ford stands to gain some $1 million and counting from national crowdfunding campaigns launched by friends and other supporters, while she is said to be fielding book offers.

Avenatti's media honeymoon is over following Kavanaugh accuser backlash.  No private citizen has enjoyed more free airtime on two-thirds of the major cable news networks than Michael Avenatti has in 2018.  Tune in to CNN and there's a decent chance you'll find him there.  If he isn't on CNN, there's an equally good chance he'll be on MSNBC.

Are We on the Verge of Civil War?  The internet and social media often descend into an electronic lynch mob.  In a nanosecond, an insignificant local news story goes viral.  Immediately hundreds of millions of people use it to drum up the evils or virtues of either progressivism or conservatism.  Anonymity is a force multiplier of these tensions.  Fake online identities provide cover for ever greater extremism — on the logic that no one is ever called to account for his or her words.  Speed is also the enemy of common sense and restraint.  Millions of bloggers rush to be the first to post their take on a news event, without much worry about whether it soon becomes a "fake news" moment of unsubstantiated gossip and fiction.

CNN's Jake Tapper Dedicates Segment to Trump's Penis.  CNN aired a segment about Stormy Daniels' new book that described what Donald Trump's genitals looks like on The Lead with Jake Tapper Tuesday [9/18/2018].

Weather Channel Defends Reporter Mocked for 'So Dramatic' Hurricane Florence Coverage.  The Weather Channel is defending one of their own after a video of Hurricane Florence coverage went viral.  The video, uploaded to Twitter, shows Weather Channel meteorologist and reporter Mike Seidel bracing in the wind during a live shot in Wilmington, NC.  As he is struggling to keep his footing, two people walk behind him showing no signs of struggle.  Twitter was not impressed.

Hilarious video shows journalist 'bravely' reporting on Hurricane Florence — until two men in shorts casually stroll past.  A Weather Channel reporter looked to have played up the drama and severity of Hurricane Florence in a hilarious video that has been circulating on Twitter.  Weather Channel reporter Mike Seidel was shooting a live segment in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday [9/14/2018] as winds barreled around him.  In the clip, Seidel appears to brace his feet deeper into the grass so that he won't go with the wind.

Teens Stroll Past Reporter Who Can Barely Stand in Raging Winds.  Weather Channel correspondent Mike Seidel in Wilmington, North Carolina, looks like he's gallantly fighting the raging winds as he courageously reported live from Hurricane Florence on Friday [9/14/2018].  "This is about as nasty as it's been," Seidel said dramatically.  Shortly after he made the comment, two teens in shorts are seen in the background strolling along, taking cell phone photos, having no problem at all. [...] As an aside, did you notice how the media now counts homes without power?  They don't count homes, they estimate the number of people who might be in a home and multiple [sic] it by the actual homes.

Media Hype:  Mueller Probe 'Bombshell' Turns Out To Be Major Dud.  According to various mainstream media figures this week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was all but certain to drop a bombshell Friday [8/31/2018] that would shake Washington, D.C., to its core.  It didn't happen.  NBC's Meet the Press host Chuck Todd on Thursday kicked off the Mueller "bombshell" frenzy, warning viewers that Friday could go down in history as a turning point in the Russia investigation.

The 'Echo Chamber' Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's A Fact.  When I finally got to the end of a supposed blockbuster piece by the New Yorker's Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow regarding a dark conspiracy theory that had been spreading within the Trump White House, I was struck by two things:  1) the innocuousness of the memo in question, and 2) how the basis of the memo was plainly true.  The piece, in fact, goes a long way in substantiating the memo's contention about the media, allowing former Obama administration officials and their allies to offer ludicrous claims without even a scintilla of journalistic skepticism.

After Trump's "Worst Week" his approval plummets — I mean, barely changes.  The convictions of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen had #TheResistance giddy with excitement.  This was the end.  He's a gonner.  WORST WEEK EVER. [...] The NBC/WSJ polls is almost exactly what Rasmussen finds as of August 24, 2018, 46% approval.  On August 24, 2010, Obama had a 45% approval rating according to Rasmussen.  So despite a massively negative media environment for Trump and a massively positive media environment for Obama, Trump's approval rating is the same as Obama at a similar time in his presidency.

Liberal media's desperate push for Trump impeachment may actually hurt Democrats.  The liberal news media have a new favorite word to use when discussing President Trump:  impeachment.  For example, MSNBC and CNN reporters, anchors and guests said "impeach," "impeachment" or some other form of the word on the cable news channels an incredible 222 times between 6 a.m. and 11:59 p.m.  Wednesday [8/22/2018].  And of course, they talked about possible impeachment other days as well, and newspapers and websites were also filled with impeachment speculation.  Most Democrats in Congress and their leaders are shying away from talking about impeachment before the November midterm elections — but that's not stopping the anti-Trump media.

All the Talk About Impeaching the President Is Nonsense.  The television-news media desperately need to fill twenty-four hours every day in order to sell advertising to support their stations, their management, their employees, and their negotiated settlements and non-disclosure-agreement pay-outs to women whom they must silence after one or another of their male employees has violated them. [...] So the television-news media have to keep the money pouring in.  Same with the print media.  They need to grab your attention and hold it all day and night, every day. [...] So they have to figure out how to keep the ratings up.  They love a murder — oh, how they love a murder!  Especially of a young pretty White girl.  That grabs the attention of everyone:  men, women, liberals, conservatives, young, and old. [...] Even an isolated unsolved murder of a single young White woman gets the media exercised into a frenzy:  Jonbenet Ramsey, Elizabeth Short, Chandra Levy, Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbets.  The Seedier Media obsess over these individual murders round-the-clock until it emerges that the murderer was an illegal alien.

Summertime and the media are embarrassing — from hating America to loving Antifa.  In the space of one week, the press downplayed a Democrat governor saying America "was never that great" and watched as the governor's brother/CNN anchor defended Antifa.  Another CNN commentator bashed America and mocked a conservative while she told of the discrimination her disabled son faced.  And former CIA director John Brennan, now an NBC national security analyst, recanted his claim that President Donald Trump committed treason and spent the week whining about losing his security clearance.

CNN's Philip Mudd Tells Paris Dennard to 'Get Out' for Telling the Truth.  CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd exploded at conservative CNN contributor Paris Dennard on Friday evening when Dennard made the completely factual claim that former government officials with security clearance can land top D.C. jobs.  Mudd and Dennard were debating on Anderson Cooper 360°, guest-hosted by Jim Sciutto, over the question of whether President Donald Trump had been right to revoke the security clearance of former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan.

Newsroom commando Ralph Peters cashiers [him]self.  This weekend, retired lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters went on CNN's dubiously titled Reliable Sources and, in the presence of the show's serially unreliable host, Brian Stelter, and all those unfortunate souls in airport waiting areas across the nation being force-fed this liberal Sunday-morning drivel, cashiered himself.  It appears that fulminating Trump Derangement Syndrome brought this former Fox News military analyst to perform this sad ceremony. [...] As a combat veteran, which Peters is not, I have to wonder if this sneering, whiny-voiced news show commando has a clue as to how many millions of his military family he has just branded as destructive, vengeful, racist couch-potato anarchists, followers of a false messiah and derelict in our oaths to the Constitution.  It is a fact that a substantial majority of military personnel, whether active-duty, retirees, or veterans, are conservative in their politics, so Peters had to know he was spitting in the faces of millions of his former comrades.

Enemies of the People.  [T]here is a certain equanimity that comes with realizing that so many of the daily crises are not crises at all, and that so much of the media screaming is like visiting an ice cream store — each day a different flavor, but all the same basic product ready to kill you if you don't control the portions, the frequency...

How Far Will the Left Go?  All the Way.  [Scroll down]  Each day brings a new outrage, a development enthusiastically promulgated by a brain-dead media that thinks a headline must contain the words "sparks outrage" or "comes under fire," to be newsworthy.  The foxes of anger and resentment have been set among the hens of political cohesion, and every day the squawking grows louder — as it will until that day comes when there are no more hens left to lay the eggs.

As the Swamp Turns.  It never ends, does it?  The daily cable-news soap opera installment.  A new crisis every day.  Sex.  Money.  Secret tapes.  A stripper whose upper torso gives new meaning to the term Silicon Valley.  And then her media-frenzied lawyer steeped in his own fun-to-watch divorce.  Bring out the popcorn.  Pull out some Raisinets.  Refill the Coke and Pepsi.  Sneak in a few plastic straws.  Another day's episode of "As the Swamp Turns."  Children separated from their parents.  Parents sent back with their children — and then telling the authorities:  "Naah, we'll go back, but leave the kids separated here."  Kids who do not even belong to the parents.  Russians — even red-headed Reds.  Secret courts.  Spies.  Married paramours exchanging mysterious messages:  "Andy."  "Secret plans."  An "Insurance Policy."  Smells at a Virginia Walmart.  Secret tape recordings.  The only thing missing is the "other woman" with the unwanted and hidden pregnancy, suddenly revealed — and the drama of whose baby it is.  Enter Bill Clinton!

The Conspiracy Theory That Ate New York.  This is the helpful illustration that New York Magazine published to help readers understand its convoluted — and, needless to say, #FakeNews — cover story alleging a Trump-Putin plot that began in... 1987.  Before the Soviet Union fell.  Before Putin had assumed any sort of true power.

What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit.  When Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin ended their joint press conference in Helsinki, the punditocracy predictably swarmed all over it like ants around a pile of crumbs.  Was Trump winking at Putin?  Did he really say he believes Putin more than he believes Robert Mueller about whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election?  Former Gus Hall enthusiast John Brennan, off his meds again, tweeted that the presser was "treasonous."  Professional chatterer Anderson Cooper said it was "perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit."  Every phrase, every gesture of the event will be picked apart and second-guessed to death in the next few days.

The Jim Jordan Hit Job Implodes:  Ohio State Held Hearing on Reputed Sex Abuser in... 1997.  I did some research on the story alleging that our warrior patriot, Rep. Jim Jordan was aware that his wrestling team members were being molested and did nothing about it. [...] We all have the facts and know that Rep. Jordan is not guilty of this allegation.

How to Read the News:  A Guide for Truth-Seekers.  The recent MSM and celebrity hysteria about the illegal immigrant children being separated from their alleged parents would have had some impact with voters had not the truth been exposed in the Internet on unbiased websites and twitter posts.  Those pictures of immigrant children sleeping in cages brought tears (crocodile?) to MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, who apparently failed to note that these heartbreaking photos were taken in 2014 during the Obama administration.  The detention center used by the Trump administration was a far cry from Obama's if one viewed them on one of the more credible news sites like Breitbart.com.

The Zombie Media.  Journalism schools do not teach journalism anymore.  They teach persuasive storytelling.  They teach the Machiavellian black art of propaganda.  Like most black arts, left-wing "journalism" relies heavily on its own peculiar dogma of magical rites and incantations.  To shut down Herman Cain in 2012, our leftist adversaries invented (or at least exaggerated) the ever popular sex scandal — the trusted and true kill shot they have used to assassinate troublesome public figures for decades.  Republicans nailed by a weeping and well paid accuser have typically curled into the fetal position and faded away.

Chris Matthews Urges Communist Revolution to Stop Supreme Court.  So the Chris Matthews [plan] is for the Democrats to declare a Communist revolution, call in the Russians for help, start executing their own people for being insufficiently left-wing, go down to defeat, flee the country while kidnapping a bunch of children and stealing all the gold?  Actually I think that is their plan.

Journalists circulate conspiratorial claims against DHS Doc claiming it has Nazi code.  Multiple journalists circulated a conspiracy theory on Twitter that a document from the Department of Homeland Security contained a Nazi code Thursday [6/28/2018]. [...] The tweets reference a press release from DHS titled "We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again" and was released in February, garnering little attention until recently.

Ex-CNN producer blasts Jim Acosta for 'self-serving antics'.  A former CNN producer took to Twitter on Friday [6/29/2018] to blast Jim Acosta, the network's White House correspondent, for what he called Acosta's "self-serving antics," saying they "give all good journalists a bad name."  The posts by Steve Krakauer, a former senior digital producer for the network who is now is a top executive at Commerce House, a Dallas-based advertising firm, were prompted by a question that Acosta shouted to President Donald Trump on Friday [6/29/2018] during a White House event on the economy and tax cuts.

Immigration 'crisis' brought to you by the Media Matrix.  Starting a week ago Friday, the media discovered (surprise!) that the Trump White House is taking a hard line on illegal immigration — and the pharisees of CNN and MSNBC began dressing themselves in sackcloth and ashes to impress us with the sincerity of their shock and dismay at finding out that children coming across the border illegally are separated from the adults who accompanied them (not necessarily their parents).  Honestly, if you need a give-away (a "tell" as they say in poker) that the left-wing media is conspiring to damage this president, all you need to do is click back and forth between CNN and MSNBC for about three hours.  If every time you turn on one of these channels they are parroting the same story back at you with different talking heads pouring ashes on each other and cursing Trump, then you know you are in the middle of a feeding frenzy.

Delusion About Detentions:  On Family Separation at the Border.  Upstanding journalists, their fellow right-minded pundits, and progressive elected official friends are outraged!  According to them, the Trump Administration's approach to immigration enforcement is cruel, un-American, inhumane, barbaric, and even medically dangerous. [...] The problem is the facts are at odds with the conventional media interpretation of existing legal precedent, prior administrations' practices, and even relevant federal statutes.  You know, the law.  But being wrong on the facts has never stopped the media and their useful idiots in the commentariat from maligning the Trump Administration unfairly to suit their agenda.  Now they're shrieking about "baby jails."  It's insane.

News Fatigue?  Join the Club.  A Pew Research study recently found that nearly 7 in 10 Americans suffer from "news fatigue" — a phenomenon even more pervasive among Republicans.  The survey focused on the volume as much as the quality of the offerings.  But why wouldn't the public be emotionally expended from the anger and accusations, bullying and backbiting, "fake news" and "fact checks," insults and innuendo, posturing and protests, threats and trolling, and virtue-signaling and violent rhetoric and imagery spewed from every direction today?

The Editor says...
Whenever a big furor suddenly and simultaneously appears on every television "news" channel, there's a reason for it.  It is almost always a manufactured crisis designed to displace some other story.  The "anchor baby prison" and "kids in cages" hype is a false description of conditions that are nothing new.  The same laws and policies have been in place for months and years.  The reason all this is now front and center is that Donald Trump's popularity is steadily increasing — now surpassing that of Barack H. Obama — and it appears that he is about to single-handedly end the Korean War.  That is an accomplishment that must not be allowed to stay in the hourly news cycle if the news media's preferred party is to have any power.

Desperately Seeking Supremacists.  Talia Lavin is (or was, at last word) a fact-checker for the New Yorker.  She achieved overnight Twitter-fame by accusing an ICE agent of being a white supremacist. [...] Part of the story, I think, is that the Left is hard up for white supremacists.  Liberals talk about them all the time, but to the best of my knowledge, I have never met one.  Have you?  Liberals need to come up with someone other than Richard Spencer; hence the eagerness to libel a heroic ICE employee.

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New Yorker staffer resigns after falsely accusing ICE agent of having Nazi tattoo.  The fact-checker for the New Yorker who mistook a Marine veteran's tattoo for a Nazi symbol has resigned, saying the "small mistake" has ruined her life.  Talia Lavin is out of a job following her June 18 tweet that caused mass outrage.  "I feel like I made a small mistake and it's destroyed my life," she told New York Magazine's The Cut.  Lavin's since-deleted tweet was about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Justin Gaertner, whom she falsely accused of having a tattoo of the Nazis' Iron Cross.

Drive-By Media Bombarding Americans With 'Manufactured Crises' to Distract from IG Report, Robust Economy.  The liberal media has been manufacturing crises ad-infinitum to divert the public's attention away from the Trump administration's tremendous achievements and the Democratic establishment's corruption, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh warns.

The Astonishing Silliness of CNN.  The good people at CNN can do what they want, but this blatant chyron-splaining sends a rather clear and unfortunate message:  that they think their audience is daft and incapable of figuring things out for themselves.  CNN is frequently breathless when no one should be breathless, which would be kind of exhausting, if anyone cared.  Take this headline from the network's website this week:  "The 45 Most Astonishing Lines from Donald Trump's Nashville Speech."

Lost Children?  Detention Cages?  Baby Prison Bus?  Trump's Critics Will Believe Anything.  Over the long weekend, President Trump's critics were in a sputtering rage over his supposedly losing 1,500 illegal immigrant children, sticking them in cages, and putting others on specially equipped prison buses.  Turns out, it was all 100% bogus.

Mainstream Media's Credibility Problem Is Of Their Own Making.  So, not only are the mainstream media biased, they're also incompetent.  Headlines and scandalous snippets that the news shows can flash on chyrons trump facts, and they are what is important to the mainstream media.  They eschew fact checking in favor of sensational headlines.  They create salacious news narratives, meant not to inform but to sell advertising.

The Firesign Theater Media.  The "mainstream media" (CNN, MSNBC, the three networks, the major newspapers, et al.) are so consumed by Trump hysteria that it places them squarely in this Firesign Theater zone.  Nicholas Kristof and his wife talk about the president in bed.  Brian Stelter describes himself as "Trump addicted."  Any psychiatrist can tell you that monomaniacal, pathological hatred has its surreal aspects.  Trump as the great white (orange?) whale and the media as Captain Ahab.  MSNBC's exegesis of the importance of the Mueller investigation in its various guises is a good example of this "Credo quia absurdum" (I believe because it is absurd) approach.  Rachel Maddow, Stephanie Ruhle, and Chris Hayes constantly strain to outdo themselves with conspiracy theories.  One would think there were more Russians involved with the Trump campaign than populate the pages of War and Peace.  More entertaining are the nightly shouting matches on Don Lemon's CNN show.

Mueller Year One:  The Real Heroes in Journalism.  CNN won an award for its January 2017 report about President-elect Trump being briefed on the bogus Steele dossier.  While we now know the story was improperly leaked by former Director of National Intelligence (and virulent Trump foe) James Clapper to shotgun the Trump-Russia collusion plotline days before the inauguration — and the celebrated CNN reporters did little more than regurgitate talking points spoon-fed to them by political operatives (one is known to have close ties to Fusion GPS) — the network was applauded for its "depth of reporting."

Estimate:  Cable News Nets Have Given Michael Avenatti $175 Million Worth Of Airtime.  [Scroll down]  Another thing:  He's doing it with no help from Fox.  If I'm not mistaken, the only FNC show he's been on is Shannon Bream's in March.  He was, allegedly, scheduled on Martha MacCallum's show recently but canceled at the last minute.  Tucker Carlson invited him on but Avenatti told his producer that he only wants to do Hannity's show, an obviously deliberate slight to Carlson.  (Or is it a compliment, with Avenatti suspecting he'd have a harder time outmaneuvering Tucker in an interview?)  Whether he's avoiding Fox because he's wary of the hostile reception he'd get there or because he's building a brand as a #Resistance hero and wants viewers to identify him with anti-Trump CNN and MSNBC, the fact remains that he's somehow achieved cable ubiquity without any exposure on the most highly rated cable news network in the country.

Court Documents Show Porn Star Lawyer Reported $8 Million Windfall in Feb.  When he Took on Stormy.  The Michael Avenatti Files — How did a bankrupt attorney come across $8 million after picking up porn star client Stormy Daniels?  Porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti is a huge hit with the Democrat-media complex.  The attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels has held 108 interviews on cable news outlets MSNBC and CNN since March 7th.

2018: When Orwell's 1984 Stopped Being Fiction.  When I trained as a journalist, we reserved a "Revealed" or an "Exposed" for those special occasions when we were able to bring to the reader information those in power did not want known.  These were the rare moments when as journalists we could hold our heads high and claim to be monitoring the centres of power, to be fulfilling our sacred duty as the fourth estate.  But today's Guardian's "exclusive" story "Revealed:  UK's push to strengthen anti-Russia alliance" is doing none of this.  Nothing the powerful would want hidden from us is being "revealed". No one had to seek out classified documents or speak to a whistleblower to bring us this "revelation".  Everyone in this story — the journalist Patrick Wintour, an anonymous "Whitehall official", and the named politicians and think-tank wonks — is safely in the same self-congratulatory club, promoting a barely veiled government policy: to renew the Cold War against Russia.

CNN Hosts Porn Star's Lawyer Michael Avenatti 59 Times in Less Than Two Months.  CNN has exhibited a fetish for the Stormy Daniels story, particularly for her Trump-smacking lawyer, Michael Avenatti.  In less than two months (from March 7 to April 30), Avenatti has been a guest on CNN a total of 59 times — an average of more than once per day.  MRC analysts combed through transcripts of all of CNN's 2018 coverage looking for references to interviews with Avenatti, and then double-checked using our video archive.  Since Avenatti's first appearance on March 7, he has been interviewed on CNN a whopping 59 times, more than one-third of which (19) were with Anderson Cooper — who, of course, interviewed Stormy Daniels on CBS's 60 Minutes back in March.

Black Coffee:  The Starbucks Story Is Trash.  This is a country of 325-million people.  If two guys getting tossed out of a coffee shop is news, then things in Donald Trump's America must be going [very] well.  But if the story were only meaningless trash, it would just be typical of American journalism.  But it's pernicious trash meant to advance a false left-wing narrative, which is — oh yeah! — typical of American journalism.

CNN's dicey interview with student on lockdown after Maryland school shooting.  CNN engaged a student to pass along casualty stats from a school shooting, even though the student himself made clear that his own familiarity with the details was limited.  And then, when police showed up to escort him and his classmates from the school, CNN asked him to stay on the line, presumably to get a guided audio tour of the aftermath.

A User's Guide To Media Coverage Of Political Protests.  Liberal protests are newsworthy because they're disruptive; conservative protests are too orderly to be worth discussing.  The news angle with the gun protests was the disobedience involved in walking out, something to be celebrated.  Leftist protests demand police activity because leftists break stuff, and they demand to be arrested because it somehow makes them heroic.  One hundred thousand conservatives could show up on the National Mall in our nation's capital and not leave behind so much as a candy wrapper on the ground.  Bo-ring.

The 'scandal' of Perla Morales-Luna's arrest is fake news.  The arrest of Perla Morales-Luna on March 3 in San Diego is an absolute nonscandal.  Yes, at first glance the video looks a little concerning.  It shows a mother being separated from her screaming family as Customs and Border Patrol officers struggle to put her in the back of a vehicle.  But only at first glance.  Because if you watch again you'll see that the CBP officers use proportionate force and good efficiency in getting Morales-Luna off the street and into custody.  That's the best way to ensure no one is harmed and the situation isn't escalated unnecessarily.  Moreover, the CBP wasn't simply detaining Morales-Luna because she was just a random illegal immigrant.

Nikolas Cruz Is the Result of 'It Takes a Village'.  Does everyone see what the Democrats have done?  They've pitted children against us, thereby mainstreaming and normalizing child exploitation.  What the Democrats did to Parkland student Emma Gonzalez was as sickening a display as any I've ever witnessed.  They coaxed an understandably distraught child to spew one debunked Democrat lie after another — and, of course, plenty of invective toward President Trump.  David Hogg, a 17-year-old Parkland student, asked on CNN:  "If you can't get elected without taking money from child murderers, why are you running?"  Normal question from a 17-year-old, right?  Wondering aloud if he came up with that question all on his own, with such emotionally vivid lingual sophistication and political acumen, must make me a grumpy old gun nut who thinks our youth are stupid.

The Portraits and the Obama Reality Distortion Field.  [T]he Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. [...] This isn't journalism.  It's not a free press.  It's a bunch of cult members rushing out to explain that the flawed thing is flawless.  You're the flawed one for not seeing its gloriousness.  All hail the beloved leader.

Joe Concha:  Media's Trump Anger Mostly 'Performance Art at This Point'.  After it was made public that President Trump had requested the Pentagon to plan a military parade through Washington, DC, there was a steady stream of forceful condemnation of the President in which they claimed he was imitating foreign dictators.  And in an appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight Thursday [2/8/2018], Hill media reporter Joe Concha knocked them for playing up their outrage and playing to an audience.

CNN: Undetected Asteroids Could Threaten Earth During Government Shutdown.  Two CNN correspondents claimed during an episode of The Lead with Jake Tapper that an asteroid could potentially threaten the Earth if the government shutdown continues.  CNN correspondent Tom Foreman recalled the time NASA could not monitor "potentially dangerous asteroids" for over two weeks, implying that NASA would not be able to prevent an asteroid attack if it hit Earth while the government shut down.

TV crew busted trying to sneak fake bomb into airport.  Seven members of a cable TV crew were arrested at Newark Airport on Thursday [1/18/2018] after trying to film themselves passing a fake explosive device through a security checkpoint and onto a plane, according to reports.  The crew was working for the cable network CNBC, according to nj.com.  The fake explosive device was in a carry-on bag and never made it past security, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Michael McCarthy said.  "They failed, were caught and were arrested on multiple charges," he said, without elaborating on the charges.

CNN's Sanjay Gupta Diagnoses Donald Trump With Heart Disease.  Wednesday [1/17/2018] on CNN's "New Day," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the network's chief medical correspondent, proclaimed that based on President Donald Trump's coronary calcium scores going back to the previous decade, Trump has heart disease.  Gupta's diagnosis came a day after Trump's doctor, Navy Rear Adm. Dr. Ronny Jackson, offered his assessment of Trump's health at a White House press briefing.

Armchair diagnosis of a patient he has never examined:
Sanjay Gupta:  By all standards, Trump has heart disease.  CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, said Wednesday that he believes tests reveal that President Trump has heart disease.  Gupta said dating back to 2009, Trump started to have "these tests that are actually looking for the presence of calcium in the blood vessels that lead to the heart."  "Steadily, up until just this past week when he had it performed again, those numbers have gone up," he said.  "When they get to a certain range ... that means he has heart disease."

Leftist Toilet Mouths Condemn Trump as They Corrupt Nation.  President Trump denies having used a vulgar term last Thursday [1/11/2018] to describe dysfunctional Third World countries.  Yet there's no denying that the leftist media, believing he did, responded by repeatedly disgorging the term in a childish orgy of decadence.  Of course, the media no doubt think they're damaging Trump — but they're actually damaging society.  Let's be clear:  Leftists certainly object to the substance of Trump's comments, that we shouldn't continually absorb poor, unskilled, often functionally illiterate and unassimilable people from Third World nations.  But they also object to his alleged style, labeling as obscene the use of s-hole (toilet) to describe such places.  So to show us how bad such language is, the Crude News Network (CNN), for example, used it at least 36 times on Thursday.  It's sort of like inveighing against animal abuse and then bludgeoning dozens of dogs to death on air to prove your point.

CNN Leaps Into The Toilet:  Network Aired 195 Uses of 'S***hole' on Friday.  In the contest for Most Offended News Network after President Trump reportedly referred to African nations as "s***hole" countries, CNN wins hands down.  NewsBusters staff combed through CNN transcripts on Nexis for the S-hole word in the 24 hours of January 12 — the first full day after The Washington Post reported the controversy — and found CNN staffers and CNN guests uncorked the profanity 195 times in one day.  That doesn't count Saturday, Sunday or Monday.  They could be headed for 1,000 by now.  It also doesn't count the amount of time they put the S-word on screen (sometimes twice, as you can see on Cuomo's temporary prime time show.)  Compare that to Fox News Channel.  Their curse count was zero.  FNC told staff and guests not to say it.

Revealed:  Trump guzzles Diet Coke.  [Scroll down]  If not for Fox News we'd be totally in the dark, about everything, and it was from there that I first heard about CNN's alarming report:  [Something important?]  No, not exactly.  Rather, it's been reported, first from The New York Times, that Trump likes Diet Coke.  Wait — it gets worse.  He guzzles down a dozen a day.  So given such a scoop, CNN could not resist breaking it at around the same time that [a terrorist attack] was going on at Port Authority.  New Yorkers were running for their lives... but first things first; Trump is a glutton for Diet Coke

What Were the Motives of the Port Authority Bomber?  What were the motives of Ayaked Ullah, the Port Authority bomber in yesterday's attack?  There are many news headlines that address the issue, and they advance differing theories, each of them presented as fact.

CNN Promotes 'White Nonsense Roundup:' White Liberals Who Save Victimized People Of Color On Social Media.  In a piece titled "These are your white allies on Facebook," CNN enthusiastically introduces us to a group called "White Nonsense Roundup" (WNR).  Essentially, the group of roughly 100 "white ally" volunteers take turns swooping in to save African American people (already suffering from the "emotional labor" of systemic racism) from social media arguments when issues of race arise.  You know, because these white liberals are "woke" enough to recognize their inherent sin of whiteness and, apparently along with CNN, think people of color need white people to fight their social media battles for them.

New York Times forced to heavily amend another supposed K.T. McFarland 'scoop'.  The New York Times got ahead of itself again with yet another supposedly hot scoop involving former deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland, the Russians and the 2016 presidential election.  The story, now titled "McFarland's Testimony About Russia Contacts Is Questioned," reported originally that an email sent by the former Trump transition official indicated she lied to Congress this summer when she was questioned about disgraced Gen. Michael Flynn's communications with the Russians.  The article has been heavily amended since publication so that it is now mostly innuendo.  The initial references to the emails have been removed, and the story now leans mostly on Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., who only questions whether McFarland was forthright in her testimony.

How D.C. political assassins use media to oust Rex Tillerson.  If several major media outlets are to be believed, at least two senior administration officials say Chief of Staff John Kelly has drawn up a plan to replace Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who would be replaced by Sen. Tom Cotton by year's end or soon after.  The Washington media lap up these anonymous leaks like starving kittens.  Personnel contests, like shallow election horse race stories, are easy to do, appear to contain drama and inside info and elevate the reporter to someone-in-the-know.  The fundamental problem with these self-serving reports is the sources are unknown, so news consumers cannot judge their trustworthiness and motivations.  Which, of course, is the point of hiding their identities.  Consumers must trust the reporters and media outlets, a dubious act in this era of rampant Trump antipathy.  The New York Times started this latest Tillerson-is-a-goner meme.

Unhinged coverage of Trump is hurting the media.  Not only is everything (still) hyper-politicized, but the lines between news media, lifestyle media and flat-out activism have faded into irrelevance.  On Wednesday [11/22/2017], the lead story in Teen Vogue, next to stories about how "I Will Never Use Regular Soap Again After THIS $6 Foam Body Wash" and "Everyone Basically Wore Lingerie to the VS Fashion Show After Party," was this screaming headline:  "The United States Voted 'No' on an Anti-Nazi UN Resolution."  It ran over a terrifying picture of crowds carrying banners, some featuring swastikas, with smoke in the background suggesting a terror attack.  Only when you click through do you discover that there is no news here whatsoever:  The US votes against this meaningless, nonbinding UN gambit every year because the US has this thing called the First Amendment.  President Obama's appointees also opposed the resolution.

A Year to be Thankful For.  I'm thankful my fears about Donald Trump seem to have been unfounded.  Not a fascist.  Not a secret liberal.  Not an incompetent.  ISIS is defeated.  GDP at 3% plus.  Some 60 great originalist judges nominated.  Regulations cut back at an amazing rate.  Our lying leftist press humiliated and discredited.  I'm thankful because, whenever I get tired of watching an America in crisis, all I have to do is turn off the mainstream news and America is not in crisis anymore.  In fact, America is doing quite well.

Whittle: The News Media Knows How To Stop These Massacres, But Refuses To Do It.  In his latest video, conservative commentator Bill Whittle discusses the most effective way to end the surge of mass murders that America has suffered in the last twenty years — and it's one that falls squarely at the feet of the national news media.  Citing forensic psychologist Park Dietz, who has studied mass murderers extensively, Whittle contends that we've seen a wave of mass shootings like Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs because the media insists on providing 24/7 coverage of the tragedies, turning suicide massacres into a chance for glory for the sociopaths carrying out the heinous acts.

The Puerto Rican Genocide That Wasn't.  The death toll in Puerto Rico currently stands at 48.  Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20.  As we approach October 20, the death toll from the hurricane is a lot less than the death toll from the deadliest month in Chicago.  Despite media arm waving, with only 117 people not accounted for, the actual death toll in Puerto Rico isn't likely to rise very much.  And even a death toll of 48 was only achieved by listing people who died of heart attacks and other medical problems that could not be treated because of hurricane damage.  It's unknown whether some of them might have lived without the hurricane.  It's guesswork.  The previous, incomplete death toll showed that the actual hurricane seemed to have only killed 19 people.  2 suicides were also attributed to the hurricane.  As were respiratory failures "indirectly linked" to the hurricane.  But the media has been working hard to inflate the death toll.  "We'll probably never know exactly how many people died," the Washington Post speculates.  "Hurricane Maria likely killed more people than Puerto Rico says," the Daily News ghoulishly insists.

No, Mr. Krugman, There is Not a Cholera Outbreak in Puerto Rico.  Yesterday [9/30/2-17], liberal pundit and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman incorrectly tweeted that cholera, a deadly bacterial disease caused by unsanitary water, had resurfaced in Puerto Rico. [...] Then moments later, he corrected himself with a follow up tweet. [...] You will notice his fake news has amassed thousands of retweets and favorites, while his correction has not.

Hurricane Irma And How The Left Has Politicized Even The Weather.  A number of years ago, I sat down with the general manager of a major television news station.  He told me that in their own survey, viewers tuned in for "weather first, sports second, and news last."  Therefore he stressed, weather forecasters were the "cash cow" of the station.  He further explained that much of television weather forecasting was a "sham."  He said that decades ago, they would give a "one-day" forecast.  But then Station B across town went to a "two-day" forecast.  So then they countered with a "three-day" forecast," until everyone went to the "useless seven-day" forecasts.  He emphasized that it was all done for reasons of competition and ratings and that with a "seven-day" forecast, the station and the networks were playing viewers for "fools," because they normally "couldn't even get the forecast for tomorrow correct."

While People Die, Washington Post Obsesses Over Melania Trump's Shoes.  Searching for a scandal the way a crackhead hunts for crack, the media decided that the real story of the natural disaster ought to be Melania Trump's shoes.  Because that is what the media is now.  Melania Trump wore high heels while getting on Air Force One.  The media howled that she was heading to a flood zone while wearing high heels.  Never mind that she was still far from the zone and was just boarding a plane.  Then she landed in Texas, wearing sneakers.  And that was also bad.

Between alt-right and 'antifa,' media still manages to be worse.  The only people dumber than the Neanderthals and Brass Knuckle Draggers are the insufferably tedious referees known as the Stupid Media who shape the country as a barking mad carnival, whipping up hysteria for every armed showdown.

CBS News joins O.J. Simpson on the hunt for the real killers.  In the wake of O.J. Simpson's parole last week, CBS News has a story today titled "Who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman?" Curiously, the story doesn't attempt to answer that question.  Instead, the entire premise of the story is that the investigation into the murders is officially still open in Los Angeles.

Worst media moments of the week:  NY Mag climate screed wins!  [Scroll down]  "There are now, trapped in Arctic ice, diseases that have not circulated in the air for millions of years," goes one of the milder passages.  It was so bad that climate alarmist and hockey stick creator Michael Mann teamed up with two others to write a response, arguing, "Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial."  Mann and his compatriots criticized the New York Mag piece as painting, "an overly bleak picture, arguing that climate change could render the Earth uninhabitable by the end of this century."  They also called it out for errors.  Mann made an interesting comment that seems to go right over the head of eco-journalists, explaining, "fear does not motivate, and appealing to it is often counter-productive."  Yet fear is about 99.99 percent of all media climate catastrophe coverage.

"The more it sensationalizes the commonplace, the more boring its coverage becomes."
The Media's Endless Anti-Trump Show Trial.  It is a measure of the anti-Trump media's stupidity and malpractice that the phrase "breaking news" now elicits eye rolls.  The media's "breaking news" about Trump is rarely breaking or news.  It is usually recycled and old — some stale piece of information, relating to a practice both parties long ago adopted, that is sensationalized and dished up as novel.  Into this category falls much of its breathless "Trump-Russia" coverage, including its all-hands-on-deck stories about Donald Trump Jr.

The media's mass hysteria over 'collusion' is out of control.  Hysteria among the media and Trump opponents over the prospect of "collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin may have hit its crescendo this week.  That's right:  The wailing from the media and their allies about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with some "Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer" (whatever that means) may be the last gasp of this faux scandal.  Good riddance.  Predictably, the New York Times started the ball rolling with front-page coverage, going so far as to argue, "The accounts of the meeting represent the first public indication that at least some in the campaign were willing to accept Russian help."  As if this were some breakthrough moment.  The Times followed up with a headline yesterday [7/10/2017] that the meeting request and subject matter discussed in the prior story were transmitted to Trump Jr. via an email. [...] The Times is so desperate to move the story that the meeting's arrangement over email is being made into Page 1 news.

What counts as treason differs depending on the letter after your name.  In 2012, Obama met with Russia and said he would be more flexible if he was re-elected.  The media and Democrats had no problem.  There were no investigations and no spying on Obama looking for collusion.  The Clintons, the Clinton Foundation, and their close associates got huge amounts of money from foreign governments including Russia.  In return, Russia got uranium, some of which it transferred to Iran.  There were no investigations by the FBI; Democrats and the media didn't care.  Kickbacks for uranium to the enemy looks like actual treason. [...] But Donald Jr. had a ten-minute meeting where he thought he might get dirt on Hillary in which he got nothing and gave nothing in return, and he and his father are essentially accused of treason.

Byron York:  Trump-Russia investigation takes sharp turn toward the dumb.  What a mess for the White House.  And all for nothing.  When the meeting actually happened, at Trump Tower on June 9, there was a reason Jared Kushner left after a few minutes and Paul Manafort spent the whole time staring at his phone.  The "Crown prosecutor" of Russia — there is no such position — was actually a shady lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, who had no "official documents" to offer but wanted to harangue Trump Jr. about U.S. sanctions on Russia.  Trump Jr. quite reasonably saw there was nothing there and cut the meeting off after about 20 minutes.  But in a capital consumed with Trump and Russia, the revelations, first reported in the New York Times and then substantiated by Trump Jr. himself, blew up into the Scandal That Ate Cable TV.

Some subways are literally held together with zip ties.  At more than $1 million per subway car, you'd think they'd be held together with something more than zip ties. [...] An MTA spokeswoman said Wednesday that the zip tie was being used as a temporary fastener to attach a cable to the new R186 cars while a special part is being made.  She added that the cable is attached another way, and the zip tie is just a back-up.

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The article immediately above, as you can see from the two sentences excerpted above, is an example of self-contradictory sensationalism.

NYT's Latest Trump Story Follows A Familiar Pattern Of Breathlessly Reporting Routine Procedures.  The establishment media's hysteria is once again in high gear after news that members of the Trump transition team were ordered to preserve documents and other materials pertinent to the investigation into Russian interference of the election.  Trump's transition team's counsel, issuing a memo to satisfy routine requirements in any investigation, hardly called for the tone and seriousness with which it was reported.  The New York Times asserts that the request "illustrated the seriousness of the inquiry" conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller, and how "deeply they are delving" into President Donald Trump's activities.  Such rhetoric follows a longstanding pattern of the establishment media's propensity to overreact to even the most routine circumstances with anything related to the president.  The Washington Post's Tom Nichols says that media personnel "seem determined to overreact on even ordinary matters."

Winners and Losers from Comey Hearing.  Mainstream media cable networks like CNN had countdown clocks.  Broadcast networks covered the hearing as if it would go down as one of the most seminal events in the history of the country.  "Never Trump" Republicans were getting ready to be used as the mainstream media's useful idiots and get their predictable television hits and quotes in mainstream media publications.  Left-wing Democrats were dreaming of drafting articles of impeachment.  They lionized Comey as their hero who would help them destroy Trump once and for all.  Not so fast.

I think they do this intentionally.
Grrr 59% say news media make them angry, dissatisfied.  Nearly six in 10 Americans are upset with the news media, claiming in a new poll that it makes them angry and dissatisfied.

CNN Goes Bonkers:  Spends 10 Hours on Comey Before a Single Word of Testimony.  Former FBI Director James Comey has not said a single word in public, but the liberal media have been salivating for days over his upcoming testimony on Thursday.  Case in point:  from noon on Thursday (June 1) when the date for the testimony was set, until noon today (June 7), CNN has already devoted more than 10 hours of coverage to testimony that has yet to even occur.

The Media Is Now Leaking Classified Info Just Because They Feel Like It.  This morning, The New York Times brought us another breathtaking exposé of classified national security information that is really important for the public to know because... um, well, because they just kind of felt like it.  The story is about a contractor for an international shipping company who was captured and held hostage by rebels in Yemen before being released last year.  Without the man's permission or cooperation, The New York Times gives details of his capture and imprisonment, his name, his age, his exact job description with the shipping company, and the location where his wife and children lived at the time (none of which I will repeat here). [...] The whole report is inexplicable, and you get the sense that the reporters just wanted to tell a splashy, thriller-like story.  Except that there's a larger pattern:  it has become acceptable to open the floodgates of classified information because Trump.

The News Is Propaganda.  Non-stop distractions are deliberately used by those in power as instruments of policy for the purpose of preventing people from paying attention to reality.  Propaganda is used by those in power to manipulate language, thought, and opinion in a way that causes the progression from thought to action artificially.  When the public is reduced to a state where people no longer care about the truth and are unaware of what that truth even is, propaganda takes hold and shows them what to do. [...] Under the conditions in which we find ourselves living crisis to crisis, there can be no thought as the steady stream of propaganda is fed to us in the form of "news" that never strays from a certain narrative.

The Anonymous Sources Of Washington Post And CNN Fake News.  Media fake news is everywhere.  No, the new health care bill does not treat rape as a pre-existing condition and Republicans did not celebrate its passage with beer.  The latest media outrage is driven by a Washington Post story about intelligence disclosures based on claims by anonymous sources.  The Post's big hit pieces are mainly based on anonymous sources.  Its latest hit piece runs a quote from, "a former senior U.S. official who is close to current administration officials."  That's an anonymous source quoting hearsay from other anonymous sources.  This isn't journalism.  It's a joke.

Anonymous Nation:  America's Papers of Record Have Turned into Tabloids.  Donald Trump made a name for himself in part by regularly appearing on the cover of New York City tabloids in the 1980s and 1990s.  Fast forward to 2017, and the guy is now president, still appearing on the cover of various grocery store check-out scandal sheets — like the New York Times and the Washington Post.  Journalists from these institutions conduct their reporting like they're covering Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's divorce.

Hysteria, overblown hooey part of the fake news cycle.  Turns out Mr. Trump is a germaphobe and wasn't in that Russian hotel room.  The bust of Martin Luther King is still in the Oval Office.  He didn't abandon conservatives by naming his sister to the Supreme Court.  Mr. Trump's Tower — and people involved in his campaign — were, in fact, surveilled.  Slowly, agonizingly, Truth becomes very inconvenient for all these people predicting Mr. Trump's certain demise.  In the end, they are all left clinging to the smallest Styrofoam shard of their original story, bobbing in the harsh sea of Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome.

How many buzzwords can the liberal media write in one sentence?  I was reading a very poorly written Los Angeles Times article about North Carolina legislators introducing a bill to define marriage as between a man and a woman, and I was surprised to read the following sentence:  ["]Opponents of the legislation castigated it as an unnecessary step that will stoke division in a state still reeling from the fallout of a controversial bill regulating which bathrooms transgender people can use.["]  I have rarely seen a sentence so sensationalistically, so chock-full of so many liberal buzzwords.  The over-dramatization of facts makes this news article read like an action thriller.

Trump's Budget is an Attack On the Bureaucratic State.  So according to journalists, Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts are "big," "deep," "dramatic," "massive," and so on.  With each breathless adjective — often coupled with excellent verbs like "gut" and "slash" — they add to the apocalypticism that's engulfed the Left.  "Reading through the Trump budget," tweeted The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, "I feel as the Romans must have felt in 456 AD as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages."  Vox claimed that the budget plan is a proposal to "dramatically remake the federal government."  If only.  In perspective, all of this melodrama is over probably less than 1 percent of the national budget.

Fake News Frenzy — Remember the Great Black Church Burning Hoax?  The recent "fake news" about bomb threats at Jewish Community Centers and desecration of Jewish cemeteries recalls a much earlier chapter in the history of Fake News — the Black Church Burnings of the 1990s.  Bomb threats phoned in to Jewish Community Centers across the country caused a spasm of "Trump is not denouncing these fast enough" tweets.  At around the same time, there were multiple cases of reported desecration of Jewish cemeteries, including the toppling of tombstones.  All this was presumed to be part of an imagined Trump Effect: [...] When Trump suggested that some of these might be typical Hate Hoaxes, he was denounced for that, too.  Well, it turned out that many bomb threats could be traced to one black disgruntled reporter (Juan Thompson) who was attempting to lay the blame on his white girlfriend.

ICE Calls Out CNN, NBC, Etc., For "False, Dangerous & Irresponsible" Fake News Reporting.  President Trump told a gathering of news media yesterday, namely the Mainstream Media that is not accustomed to having its status questioned, that they were constantly perpetrating fakes news to create an intended reaction from the American people.  ICE, the nation's largest immigration enforcement agency, just did the very same thing, calling out the media for its fabricated/highly slanted coverage of recent immigration raids and reminding everyone that under previous administration these raids were far more numerous — and the media then said NOTHING.

ICE: Raid reports fake news, Obama grabbed 350% more.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pushing back hard on media reports that President Trump has unleashed a mean-spirited national raid on immigrants, noting that it rounded up over 350 percent more during one sweep under former President Obama.  In a series of tweets, ICE called the reports, in the Washington Post and elsewhere, "dangerous and irresponsible."  The agency this week said that had made 683 arrests of mostly criminal illegal immigrants, or those with multiple cases against them beyond illegally crossing the border.

NBC News Spreads Fear, Lies With "Ghost Gun" Fake News.  Here's the thing: former ATF agent Rick Vasquez and Jeff Rossen are boldly and directly lying to the viewers/readers of NBC News.  I know this from firsthand experience, as I've built semi-automatic firearms from the ground up, including AR-15s and an AKM.  You cannot buy "all the parts" for any firearm online and simply slap the pieces together to build a functioning firearm as they mislead viewers, and this is a very easy claim to debunk.  Every firearm made or imported into the United States has a part of the frame or receiver that the ATF recognizes as the actual firearm that carries the serial number.  All the other pieces are just parts.

Iceberg Story, Slim.  In the post-November 8 universe, one man's fake news is another man's vitally important scoop.  The third-most emailed article in today's [2/7/2017] New York Times is surely both things depending on who's reading it. [...] Here's the gist of it:  A crack is growing in the Larson C Ice Shelf, "in an area already vulnerable to warming temperatures" and may soon create a very large iceberg. [...] This is literally a story about an iceberg that could form — and then do no appreciable damage.  And lest you think there's any new information here, the Times reports that scientists have been monitoring the thing since 2014.

NBC's Holt Lectures Viewers on the Meaning of the Statue of Liberty.  With the debate over the legality of President Donald Trump's immigration and travel ban still raging Monday evening [1/30/2017], NBC broadcasted their Nightly News program "from the shadow of the Statue of Liberty" accompanied by a lecture from anchor Lester Holt. [...] But neither ABC nor CBS treated it as a time to seemingly pontificate about the morality of the issue, let alone march out to the Statue of Liberty and use it as a prop.

Trump's Reassertion of Common Sense is a shattering experience for death-wish liberals, bishops, and RINOs.  The grandstanding hysteria over Trump's travel ban on people coming from seven terrorist countries falls into the category of sound and fury signifying nothing, save the persistence of death-wish liberalism in our politics.  It happened so "abruptly," harrumphed the chattering class.  Really?  Trump has only been talking about the ban for over a year.  People in those countries had since his victory in November time to "prepare" for it.  Besides, since when has it been a constitutional right for peoples residing in terrorist hotbeds to travel inconvenience-free to America?

The Famed 'Doomsday Clock' Is More Like A Liberal Angst Meter.  When the Doomsday Clock launched in 1947, the initial setting was seven minutes to midnight.  Since then, it's gone up and down.  The furthest it got from doomsday was 17 minutes in 1991.  The closest was 2 minutes to midnight in 1953.  But it's clear from its movements over the past seven decades that the Doomsday Clock is more about politics than any sort of scientific measure of the risk of global nuclear war.  After all, it has routinely counted down after a Republican wins the White House, and ticked up when Democrats reclaim the presidency.

Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can.  As chance would happen, many of the people upset by the presidency of Donald Trump took to the streets of Washington today [1/20/2017] to express their displeasure with the new administration.  Shortly after Trump was sworn in, a large march organized by the DisruptJ20 protest group set out from Union Station to McPherson Square, where it is holding a large rally.  When the march passed by 13th and K streets, Northwest, some in in the demonstration broke away and started throwing newspaper boxes, garbage cans, and other objects in middle of K Street and set them on fire, using Trump T-shirts as kindling.  And as any event involving the combination of garbage, fire, and a large crowd — coupled with its convenient location right outside the office of a major news organization — does, the small blaze caught the attention of seemingly every reporter within sprinting distance.

No, Trump's Dismissal of Obama's Ambassadors Is Not an Unprecedented Crisis.  President-elect Donald Trump's order for all politically-appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day is "breaking with decades of precedent by declining to provide even the briefest of grace periods," according to the New York Times.

The Election Was Not Hacked.  Despite the histrionic claims of the press, the election was not hacked.  The Democratic National Committee's lousy IT security allowed someone to access their emails which were then leaked.  Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta fell for an age-old phishing scam that was as believable as getting millions of dollars from a Nigerian prince.  Using the spotty media understanding of cybersecurity, they can claim that the DNC and Hillary's campaign were "hacked," but the election decisively was not.  And the press knows it.  In order to "hack" an election, a nefarious group would have to inltrate the voting systems of 50 states, plus DC and territories.  All of these systems are unique, with completely different architecture, ballot formats, tabulation processes, etc., etc.  This did not happen.  In fact, some hackers tried breaking into a few different states' systems weeks before the election, were quickly identied, and prevented from doing so.

'Russian hackers' penetrate US power grid with 'outdated Ukrainian malware'.  A Vermont utility sounded the alarm after finding malware code on a laptop that the FBI and DHS had touted as associated with Russian hackers.  However, cybersecurity specialists say the code came from an outdated Ukrainian hacking tool.

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This is one of the biggest mountains ever made out of a newsroom molehill.  Utility companies don't transact their business or control the power grid with laptop computers.  In any event, the presence of malware on one computer doesn't mean that any other computer was affected — or even the one with malware.  This story is a whole lot of nothing, probably intended to make Russia look like a villain, at a time when president-elect Trump is showing he's far more capable of dealing with Russia than Barack H. Obama ever was.

Russian Hacking Malware Found on Vermont Utility Computer.  Malware associated with Russian hackers was found on a computer belonging to a utility company in Vermont, according to the company.  After being alerted last night by the Department of Homeland Security about malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, Russia's hacking campaign against U.S. political institutions, Burlington Electric Department performed a scan, the utility said in a statement.  "We acted quickly to scan all computers in our system for the malware signature.  We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization's grid systems," the statement said.  "We took immediate action to isolate the laptop and alerted federal officials of this finding."

Washington Post Publishes False News Story About Russians Hacking Electrical Grid.  The [Washington] Post [12/30/2016] story was titled, "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, officials say."  The story said, "A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a Vermont utility, according to U.S. officials."  The Post published the story before being able to get comment from the two utility companies in Vermont.  The Burlington Electric Department would end up putting out a statement showing the premise of The Washington Post story as being untrue.

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Wait, Never Mind, Russia's Not Trying to Destroy Vermont After All.  Hey, remember that ominous Washington Post story about Russia hacking a Vermont electrical company, and the scary warnings from Vermont Democrats that Vladimir Putin was attempting to shut down the grid in the middle of winter?  This morning [1/3/2017] the Post reports, "Whoops!"

Vt. utility not specifically targeted for hack, official says.  Federal investigators have found no information suggesting this city's electric utility was specifically targeted after Burlington officials found malicious software linked to Russian hackers on a department laptop, the utility's general manager said Saturday [12/31/2016].  Evidence of Internet traffic associated with Grizzly Steppe, a notorious Russian distributor of malware, was disturbing but did not pose a threat to Burlington Electric Department's highly computerized grid or its customers, said Neale Lunderville, general manager of the city-owned utility.  The stealth software, isolated on the one laptop, was discovered Friday [12/30/2016] as part of ongoing routine vigilance.

The Great Hacking of Vermont's Electrical Grid That Never Happened.  For starters, the computer that had the malware was an employee's laptop, and it was never connected to the Vermont electrical grid itself.  Vermont had not been specifically targeted, and the Post's original headline — "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont, U.S. officials say" — was false.  The statement from Burlington Electric Department General Manager Neale F. Lunderville not-so-subtly urges the media covering this news to get their facts straight: [...]

Washington Post corrects story on Vermont utility breach.  The Washington Post has corrected a story that originally said Russian hackers penetrated the U.S. electric grid by breaching a utility company in Vermont.  "An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid.  Authorities say there is no indication of that so far.  The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid," an editor's note attached to the original article said.  The original story was published Friday, one day after the Obama administration announced new sanctions against Russia for its cyber activities.

Washington Post retracts story about Russian hack at Vermont utility.  The Washington Post has retracted its story about Russian hackers penetrating the nation's electricity grid with a virus found in a Burlington, Vt., electric company laptop.  "Authorities say there is no indication of that so far [that Russians had penetrated the US electric grid]," according to an editor's note attached to a corrected version of the story on the paper's website.  "The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid," the editor's note read.

These Are the Media's Top Ten Embarrassments of the Year.  According to the major networks, Fidel was awesome, Hillary rallies are the best, and white people ruined America.

The Scourge of Dumb News.  Media is a product.  Firms that provide this product are servicing a need, and we'd only be kidding ourselves to claim news consumers desire only to be informed.  This isn't a matter of simple bias confirmation.  News outlets have begun to cater not just to partisans but the minimally informed for whom fleeting and shareable controversies provide a sense of feeling informed. [...] "Fake news" is a real problem, but it attracts a credulous audience because news consumers have been primed to expect emotional satisfaction from the news.

12 Fake News Stories from the Mainstream Media.  [For example,] Dateline NBC rigs a truck to explode:  In 1993, NBC News delivered a historic public apology for staging the test crash of a General Motors pickup truck for the Dateline NBC program.  The reporters wanted to demonstrate that gas could leak from the truck's fuel tank and cause a dangerous fire after a crash, so they rigged it with explosives. [...] Dateline NBC was far from the only example of dubious product-safety reporting.  It wasn't even the first time a vehicle was rigged to explode for a major network consumer report.

Amanpour: Media Should Fight Trump Because He Might Start Putting Us In Cages.  CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour urged journalists Tuesday night to protect their profession from the "existential threat" of President-elect Donald Trump, who she implied might try to put the media in "cages."  Citing Trump's tweet about the media "inciting" some of the protests against him following the election, Amanpour warned gravely of authoritarian leaders who dismantle the free press and imprison journalists.

Corporate Media Berating Fake News Should Look In Mirror.  The corporate media has been abuzz recently about the surge of fake news stories tainting our digital ether, cautioning consumers against being conned by those pushing fantastical falsehoods online.  The glaring problem with this:  the messenger.  As reflective as the Democratic (and Republican) establishment should be in the aftermath of the Trump-nado that swept itself into the White House, the elites in our media should be looking themselves in the mirror morning, noon, and night, perhaps more than any other institution in the U.S.  Complacent for decades in a system of its own tone-deaf creation, political media elites have long operated by chasing the "horse race" of he-said, she-said politics — or in Trump's case, he-tweeted, she-tweeted.

Trump Sticks with People Who Stuck by Him, Media Bewildered.  As soon as the news broke that President-elect Trump had named Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist, the media began acting as if he'd just freed Charles Manson and given him the launch codes.  After helping Trump win in states where Republicans have sought nothing but moral victories for decades, Bannon seemed like a perfectly logical choice to keep close in an advisory capacity.

The Misinformation Age.  Consumers of mass media are not seeking to be informed, because they assume it is all nonsense.  They just want to be entertained.  It's probably why Trump is one nominee and Clinton is the other.  Everyone is looking forward to the brash bully tearing into the corrupt old cow.  It may be awful for the country, but it will make good TV.

Obama's legacy:  Dead cops.  [Scroll down]  For one thing, if Obama did his homework at all, he would know that what appears to be an explosion of killings-by-police is actually just an explosion of media hype on the rare occasions when it happens, often without any of the context that would help people explain why a certain thing happened.  A responsible president would urge people to wait for the facts and recognize that even though they can make mistakes, police officers have dangerous, difficult and crucially important job such that they do not deserve to be painted with a broad brush as a bunch of racists.

CNN's Liberal Meltdown:  Brexit Means 'Xenophobia,' 'White Identity' Win.  Liberal CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour suffered an epic meltdown on Thursday night [6/23/2016] as it became clear that Britain was asserting its national sovereignty and voting to leave the European Union.  The sneering Amanpour repeatedly derided it as an example of "xenophobia" and "white identity" politics.  Early in the evening, with the result still in doubt, Amanpour told Anderson Cooper:  "A lot of the Leave movements are led by the hard-right, very, very xenophobic, anti-immigrant, very populist, nationalist, white identity politics."  Later, as reality set in, the journalist referenced the current issue of The Economist and raged, "This marks a victory for the kind of economic nationalism, to quote this article here, for the kind of xenophobia, that will imperil the liberal world order that has guaranteed western prosperity and stability since World War II."

'This is the end': Media hysterical over Brexit.  Reporters around the world were left terrified, heartbroken and angry over the vote in the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union.  "No words.  The dream is over.  Britain has voted to fall into the sea.  This is the end," Fusion's Felix Salmon opined on social media.  "I despair.  This is not my England."  "I feel like there's been a death in the family.  There needs to be some kind of funeral," he added.

My Shared Shame: The Media Helped Make Trump.  Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump's rise on the Republican Party's toxic manipulation of racial resentments over the years.  But we should also acknowledge another force that empowered Trump:  Us.  I polled a number of journalists and scholars, and there was a broad (though not universal) view that we in the media screwed up.  Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both.

Hillary's Really Bad Week No One Heard About because Guess Who.  Hillary Clinton had a gaffe-filled, staggeringly bad week last week.  It started with her politicizing Nancy Reagan's funeral and ending with more explosive allegations that her informal adviser Sidney Blumenthal had directly cut and pasted classified intelligence into an unsecured personal e-mail account.  But you wouldn't know it from media campaign coverage, which has been far more occupied with the GOP primary and the escalation of violent incidents at rallies.

Of Course Whites Commit Most Of The Crime In Fargo You Idiots.  It's time for another fantastically stupid "exclusive" news story from the folks at Fargo-based television news station Valley News Live.  Their big revelation?  White people commit most of the crime in Fargo.  A city where, according to the U.S. Census, is 90.2 percent white.

The myth of the cop killing 'epidemic'.  To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport.  Except that these homicidal goons are wearing the blues and badges of American police departments.  It's the narrative that's given rise to the protest movement Black Lives Matter and to a growing public mistrust of the police in general.  From Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., to the recent shooting of a middle-aged woman and a teen in Chicago, the body count seemingly keeps rising, exacerbating racial tensions and keeping the nation on edge.  And each incident is breathlessly reported by a media determined to show that America remains deeply, irredeemably racist.  Problem is, it's simply not true.

5 Devastating Facts About Black-on-Black Crime.  The mainstream American media is, again, happily hitting the Black Lives Matter crack pipe in its pernicious pursuit of high ratings. [...] [T]he ugly truth behind #BlackLivesMatter is that black people killing other black people does nothing to advance its political power in the same way that one white cop killing a black criminal can.  Despite the media's overindulgence on white cops killing blacks, there is still a far-larger amount of black bodies being sent to morgues by black killers.  Here's five devastating facts, liberals can't deny, that prove it.

The System Worked, So Why The Protests In Chicago?  The truth is the awful death is demeaned by another outbreak of the nation's protest industry, one that unfortunately doesn't move itself overseas.  The telling tip-off is the presence of Jesse Jackson.  Or Al Sharpton.  And protest leaders' choice of target, in this case a nationally familiar tourist area that — Oh, look! — is handy to all the local TV newsrooms.  And it piggybacks on a traditionally slow news day's fascination with holiday shoppers.  A perfect public-relations storm for protesters.

Don't Believe the Media!  You must keep in mind that the media industry is exactly that; an industry.  They must make greater and greater profits to satisfy their stockholders.  Dramatic reports of a child that is shot by another child increase ratings much more than reporting that 28 women used a gun to fight off rape today and every day, for that matter (the national average).  A heart rending image of a mother who just lost a child to a drive-by shooting drives ratings much higher than a dry report that violent crime is down in states with the least amount of gun control.  The simple fact is that violence sells! [...] Splashier news makes for more profit.  You can't blame someone for wanting to make more money, even if you disagree with how they do it.  So, it is imperative that you remember that those in control of the media have their own agenda and that agenda does NOT serve YOUR best interest.  Since violence sells and legal unrestricted gun ownership reduces violence, it is in the media's business interest to promote restrictions on legal gun ownership.

Media Coverage Foments Copycat Suicides, Including Mass-Shooter Suicides.  Earlier this year, the deranged 26-year-old gunman who snuffed out the lives of nine innocent human beings before taking his own life on the campus of Umpqua Community College provided some real insight into the minds of the young men involved in what is a disturbing — and growing — trend in America:  mass-shooter suicides.  And that's what these are, these mass shootings.  They are suicides that would not be big national stories without a body count that included innocents killed in movie theaters, churches, schools.  And, to judge from the shooter's words, they are mass shootings that might not have happened at all had there been no prospect of mass-media coverage.

No, You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day.  If there is one health myth that will not die, it is this:  You should drink eight glasses of water a day.  It's just not true.  There is no science behind it.  And yet every summer we are inundated with news media reports warning that dehydration is dangerous and also ubiquitous.  These reports work up a fear that otherwise healthy adults and children are walking around dehydrated, even that dehydration has reached epidemic proportions.  Let's put these claims under scrutiny.

The Plight of the Unarmed Perp.  This is the point I really want to make: the constant emphasis on police shootings of unarmed men that we see in the press is, for the most part, crazy.  If you are a perp, or a suspect, or an inoffensive person walking down the street, you may be unarmed, but the police officer is not.  Nor, in most cases, will he have any immediate way to know whether you are armed or not.  If you attack him, what do you expect him to do?  Challenge you to an arm-wrestling match?  He is entitled to use deadly force to defend himself.  Attacking a police officer rarely ends well.  Likewise with fleeing a police officer who is ordering you to stop.  If there is a problem here, it does not demand a thorough revamping of American police practices.  Rather, it suggests that those who have influence with a small demographic group — 6% of the population, according to the Post — impress upon them that they should not attack police officers under any circumstances, and if told to stop, they should stop.  If they put their hands up, they are not going to get shot.

Priceless Liberal reactions to allegedly violent black burglar shot by police.  We don't know all the facts.  Maybe he fought with the cops and they shot him in self defense.  Maybe he didn't fight at all and they still shot him.  What we do know, however, is that he rammed a dealership with his car and started to deface the cars in the lot.  He wasn't shot walking home from the library; he was shot while committing an act of violence and destruction of property.

Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed College Football Player.  Officers were responding to a burglary call about 1 a.m. Friday [8/7/2015] in Arlington when they discovered someone had driven a vehicle through a front window of the Classic Buick GMC, according to a statement from the Arlington Police Department.  The statement said police approached the suspect and a struggle ensued.  At some point during the struggle, an officer shot Taylor.

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Why is the perpetrator identified, every time this story comes up, as a football player?  What difference does it make if he plays football?  He certainly wasn't playing football in the closed showroom of a car dealership well after midnight.  The clear implication is that the liberal press considers football players to be on a plane above all others.

In Zimbabwe, We Don't Cry for Lions.  When I turned on the news and discovered that the messages were about a lion killed by an American dentist, the village boy inside me instinctively cheered:  One lion fewer to menace families like mine.  My excitement was doused when I realized that the lion killer was being painted as the villain.  I faced the starkest cultural contradiction I'd experienced during my five years studying in the United States.  Did all those Americans signing petitions understand that lions actually kill people?  That all the talk about Cecil being "beloved" or a "local favorite" was media hype?

Nets Spend 30 Minutes on Lion; Censor Abortion Videos.  The broadcast news shows covered Cecil the lion more in one day than they spent on the Planned Parenthood videos in two weeks — and that discrepancy only continues to grow.  In two days, ABC, NBC and CBS have spent 30 minutes, 1 second on Cecil, a famed African lion shot by an American dentist.  But anchors couldn't spare nearly as much time for the videos exposing Planned Parenthood's harvesting of aborted baby parts.  Since the release of the Center for Medical Progress' first video two weeks ago, the networks have spent only 11 minutes, 13 seconds on the story.

World Explodes over Dead Lion, Ignores Planned Parenthood.  On Tuesday [7/28/2015], the world lost its collective mind — whatever is left of it, anyway — when media discovered the identity of the killer of a Zimbabwean named Cecil.  Cecil is a lion.  Cecil, a lion, was by most accounts "one of Africa's most famous lions."  Cecil, incredibly, was famous for being a lion, not for curing cancer, although you wouldn't know that by the media coverage.  The man who shot Cecil, a lion, to death is Dr. Walter Palmer, a big game hunter who allegedly paid $55,000 for a big game permit.  He hired a guide, who lured Cecil, a lion, out from a protected area, where Cecil, a lion, then met his end.

The War on Black People in South Carolina: the First Casualty is Truth.  Mass murder was not enough.  Not for the army of reporters who soon after the South Carolina killings surrounded this truth with a bodyguard of lies.  The shooting was part of a pattern of white on black violence wildly out of proportion, journalists told us over and over.  The tragedy also reminded many scribes of the so-called epidemic of arson against black churches in the 1990s.  Neither of which are true.

If You're Going To Fake A Rape, Remember To Take Off Your Fitbit.  Technology can be a useful tool for the rape hoaxer, but inevitably it leads to the hoaxer's downfall.  Social media can catapult a mattress-carrying liar all the way to the State of the Union Address, but then her text-message record can show her for the fraud she is.  (And if she subsequently decides to post amateur porn online, well... )  A once-respected magazine can put a rape hoaxer in the headlines, but then a handful of bloggers questioning the story can bring it all crashing down.

ABC's '08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015.  New York City underwater?  Gas over $9 a gallon?  A carton of milk costs almost $13?  Welcome to June 12, 2015.  Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago.  Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.  The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015.  One carton of milk is $12.99."  (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.)  Another clip featured this prediction for the current year:  "Gas reached over $9 a gallon."  (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)

Media distorts Bibi's statements, then claims he's walking them back.  The distortion of Benjamin Netanyahu's pre-election statements on a two-state solution and Arab voting was a classic Obama and media distortion.  If you take the actual text of Netanyahu said, he never ruled out a two-state solution and never discouraged Arab voting.  But those were the headlines and the foaming-at-the mouth hyperbole, fomented by the Obama administration in numerous anonymous statements to the media.

58,000 children 'abducted' a year: yet another fishy statistic.  [Scroll down]  In other words, these numbers come from an era that predates the wide use of mobile phones, which allow parents to keep much closer track of their children, or the creation of the Amber alerts (which are also on phones, in Facebook news feeds and so forth).  There is an update in the works but the results will not be released until sometime later this year.  So, first off, you see this is an estimate, based on a survey, not based on actual incidents.  NBC News claimed this was FBI data, which makes it sound like actual reports, but instead this was simply derived from a study conducted by academicians for the Justice Department.

NBC Devotes Nearly Four Minutes to Dress Debate, Seconds to Clinton Corruption.  On Friday [2/27/2015], NBC finally noticed the corruption scandal swirling around Hillary Clinton.  However, the coverage on the Today show was relegated to a 49-second mention within a story slamming Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.  By contrast, the morning show devoted 3 minutes 56 seconds to a social media debate about the color of a dress.

Another Bogus Academic Study Creates Bogus Headlines.  Thanks to the Washington Post, we have new entry in what is surely the fastest-growing industry in academia: bogus studies that purport to show there is no difference between black and white rates of crime. [...] This latest headline from the Post tells a shocking story:  "Black teens who commit a few crimes go to jail as often as white teens who commit dozens."  Or it would be shocking if it were true.  But it is not.

Reporter is Maced After Storming a Police Station with Protesters.  If you run with radicals, expect to be treated like them.  You storm a police headquarters and you get maced for being part of the mob.  Oh, boo hoo!  This reporter should not have expected anything less.  He's lucky he didn't get shot.

CBS: Voter ID Laws Are Like Violent Attacks on Blacks at Selma.  The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday [12/15/2014] compared the violent, bloody attacks on African Americans during civil rights marches in 1965 to voter ID laws passed by various states in the last few years.

The great campus rape hoax.  Americans have been living through an enormously sensationalized college rape hoax, but as the evidence accumulates it's becoming clear that the entire thing was just a bunch of media hype and political opportunism.  No, I'm not talking about the Rolling Stone's lurid and now-exploded fraternity gang-rape story.  Whatever the truth behind that story, it's now clear that basically nothing that Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely told us happened, actually happened.  But the hoax is much bigger than one overwrought and perhaps entirely fictional tale of campus goings-on.

Hysterical Media Tell Us to Calm Down.  In the past week, The New York Times has ridiculed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie for having "fed panic" by ordering quarantines for health workers arriving from Ebola-plagued countries.  [...] I haven't noticed any panic.  If you want panic, review media coverage of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.  That hair-on-fire coverage was based entirely, it turns out, on the media's gullibly swallowing inaccurate accounts of the incident.  For decades liberals have terrified soccer moms about a slew of imaginary terrors:  global warming, Alar on apples, breast implants, heterosexual AIDS, nuclear war, and Republicans taking away their birth control.

Ebola and the Media's Multiple Personality Disorder.  While The Daily Mail suggests that terrorists could transform the virus into a weapon, The Daily Beast declares that the "Ebola Panic Is Worse Than the Disease."  Fox raises the specter of illegal immigrants bringing the virus over the border, and MSNBC assures us that the authorities have things in hand.  One outlet asks an author of medical thrillers to speculate about the ways the threat might mutate into something more frightening; another declares that we're watching an "epic, epidemic overreaction."  Wait, sorry:  Did I say that was "another" outlet?  Actually, those last two both came from CNN.

Media Should Stop Lecturing Americans About Their Ebola Concerns.  The very moment that the news was confirmed about Dr. Ebola, various reporters started telling everyone to calm down.  But nobody was panicking.  I mean, expressing interest in an unbelievably deadly disease that has spread quickly is not panicking.  Panicking is loading up your car like a prepper who just won the Lottery and heading to your cabin in West Virginia.  I mean, maybe there's someone who has done just that.  But there is no evidence that we have any serious problem with people panicking.

Race-Baiting CNN Falls For Another Trayvonesque Hoax.  Desperate to frame the shooting death of Michael Brown in racial terms, CNN has bitten hard on what appears to be faked evidence.  The network did the same thing during the Trayvon Martin case.

Ebola Optics and Questionable MSM Smiley Narratives.  Conservatives can be forgiven if, after having carefully reflected upon a sampling of MSM Ebola narratives, they conclude that something seems a bit askew.  Certain optics and associated stories appear to put a giant smiley face on the Ebola situation.  Nothing to worry about here.  Move along.  However, certain omissions raise troubling questions in regard to what we have been told — especially when the omissions are conjoined with scientific findings on Ebola. [...] The MSM is obviously populated by many people whose mouths are as big as their brains are tiny.  It is therefore no surprise that many such people do not know how to recognize when a question is really statistical in nature and, if it is, how to analyze it.

About That 'World-Ending' Solar Storm....  News of a devastating solar storm 'just missing' Earth in 2012 made the rounds last week.  Turns out that storm was nowhere near us, and similar storms have happened before.

Taliban sets oil tankers on fire in Afghanistan.  Television footage showed black smoke billowing above the site of the attack, with the charred wreckage of dozens of trucks scattered around a vast parking space.  The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the trucks carried fuel intended for U.S.-led NATO forces.

The Editor says...
The sensational headline would lead most readers to believe that somebody had set fire to two or more ocean-going oil tankers.  In reality, only a few thousand gallons of oil — in ordinary trucks — appear to be involved.

The new oil crisis: exploding trains.  Communities throughout the U.S. and Canada are waking up to the dark side of North America's energy boom:  Trains hauling crude oil are crashing, exploding and spilling in record numbers as a fast-growing industry outpaces the federal government's oversight.

The Editor says...
The article immediately above is one of those "We need more legislation" commercial for Big Government.  Big Oil is outrunning "the federal government's oversight."  Railroad companies apparently don't care if trains derail, you see, but if the government takes over, there will never be another train wreck.

U.S. passenger jet nearly collided with drone in March: FAA.  An American Airlines Group Inc aircraft almost collided with a drone above Florida earlier this year, a near-accident that highlights the growing risk from rising use of unmanned aircraft, the U.S. air safety regulator said.

The Editor says...
Don't be deceived by the sensational headline.  It was a small plane, a small drone, no collision, very small story.

Barbara Walters is TV personality, not a journalist.  Walters broke into the media business as a behind-the-scenes writer at NBC, eventually working her way up to be co-host of "Today."  She entered the network news world with no journalistic credentials, a fact that bothered the grizzled news veterans of the day.  She made history in 1976 when ABC hired her to be the first woman to co-anchor a network evening newscast.  The gimmick of hiring a "Today" host to do a serious newscast never worked.  Walters had built her career as a morning gabber, and that didn't translate to the serious news anchor desk.

Dateline producer suing NBC.  Women working at NBC's Dateline show are regularly asked to pose as 'sexual bait' for stories about prostitution, sex trafficking, and sexual deviants according to a female producer who is now suing the network.  New York-based Kimberly Lengle, 33, says she quit the program last April after a senior HR director failed to follow-up on her complaints about the practice.

Logic Gets Sucked into the Polar Vortex.  North America is presently experiencing the kind of abnormally cold temperatures that can wreak havoc on computer climate models.  The mainstream media is overflowing with headlines about coldness raging unexpectedly across Canada in January, Jack Frost nipping at people's noses, and other signs of the Apocalypse.  Naturally, then, it was only a matter of time before these media outlets — aka the global Ministry of Propaganda — let the other shoe drop, and explained how all this routine winter weather is the result of man-made global warming, and therefore can only be halted by international totalitarianism.

Obama portrayed as victim.  Some may think reporters and editors are simply clumsy or indifferent writers, and sometimes they are.  But much of the time they choose their words (and photos) with exquisite and subtle care.  They also realize that most people only look at the headlines and photos of most articles, and that those are therefore the most important elements, and that even people who do read the article often read only the first few paragraphs.

The media war over George W. Bush's stent.  From Benghazi to the health of former President George W. Bush, wild unsubstantiated assertions by the news media take the place of real reporting.  Fox News is left to set the record straight, yet frequently it doesn't get the credit it deserves.  The stent placement in President Bush's coronary artery is the latest example of the world of Fox News versus wild speculation.

Media Coverage of Benghazi Leans Toward Political Theater.  First, we learned from the Obama Administration that it was a YouTube video that sparked the protests — a false narrative gladly perpetuated by the media as long as possible.  Currently, the media and the administration are pushing the story that attempts to investigate Benghazi constitute a Republican vendetta, the perpetuation of a "phony scandal" to incite the populace against the President and former Secretary of State — and presidential hopeful — Hillary Clinton.  To this end, it is not surprising that key details of the recent congressional hearings on Benghazi went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media.

Art Horn Letter to Connecticut State Department of Agriculture.  Hurricane Sandy was not a "Super Storm".  This label was assigned by the news media.  Those who called Sandy a Super Storm did so because they liked the sound of "Super Storm."  Having worked in television news rooms for 25 years I am well acquainted with these exaggerations.  The term "Super Storm Sandy" sounds much more dramatic than "Sandy is a category one Hurricane on a scale of one to five" which is what it was.

Breaking News! Seventh First Climate Refugees Discovered!  BBC, your climate reporting is pathetic.  Doesn't anyone there think to check up on some dewy-eyed reporter gushing on about the tragic fate of the latest batch of pseudo-refugees?  Missing the facts in this story would have been understandable a decade ago, but in 2013, you guys are a running joke.

The Media's Moral Decline: Standards, Story Selection Now Tabloids On Steroids.  For those who don't live in New York and aren't familiar with the Daily News, it should be noted that while it sometimes reads like a tabloid, it is a legitimate news source and is mentioned in the same breath as The News York Times and New York Post one of the city's top newspapers.  In fact, the Daily News has won ten Pulitzers and is the fourth-most circulated newspaper in the United States.  To that end, these headlines aren't too different than what we see dominating national or local cable news today, and by extension (since we cover this stuff), Mediaite as well.

An Abortionist's Unglamorous Victims.  He's allegedly killed more people than Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy combined, but most Americans have never heard of him. [...] We have wall-to-wall coverage of Jodi Arias, a lone nut who admits to killing her boyfriend in Arizona, but a blackout on Kermit Gosnell.  And why wouldn't we?  The Arias trial involves nude pictures, kinky sex, and an attractive woman.

The 10 Absolute Worst Media Reactions To The Boston Marathon Bombings.  In the media business, what's the one thing you can consistently expect from reporters, pundits, "experts," and anchors on the day of a major news event?  Speculation.  Wild, unabashed speculation.  Oftentimes, their conjecture is based on their own political beliefs and agendas.  And this can lead to some particularly ugly comments while the wounds are still fresh during major tragedies like the Newtown and Aurora massacres... and Monday's Boston marathon bombings.

The Media's Privacy War.  Sensationalizing the news and publicizing the story non-stop allows advertisers to count on human nature.  The public tunes in and/or buys the newspaper.  Media networks bet that if you get hooked on the drama, the personalities of the reporters, you will keep watching or buying the particular outlet for your news.  High viewership and readership increases the likelihood of advertising sales.  The media wages a privacy war for money.

Woodward-Sperling Flap May Turn Tide.  The more superficial the brouhaha the bigger its impact.  What public figures say is more important than what they do, because cable TV and political blogs can cover a mud fight more cheaply and more easily than they can a real story.

Geraldo Rivera and Common Decency.  There are those who will dismiss Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera's announcement that he is considering running for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2014 as a Republican as just one more publicity stunt in a career replete with them.  Rivera's public record is mixed, as it has combined serious advocacy on a number of issues with the sort of foolish excess that has given a bad name to tabloid journalism.  If people think of him more as a celebrity than a journalist, it is his own fault and not something that he has seemed to mind very much.

The media love maniacs.  The same media that pointedly ignore frequent life-saving defensive uses of firearms consistently pours hours and days and weeks of attention upon the latest maniac who chooses a firearm as his tool of mass murder, so that the next potential insane villain cannot fail to notice the easy path to fame and immortality that the misuse of a gun can bring.  But the greatest fame will only attach if they can beat the previous body-count record, a number constantly and loudly broadcast, so that no one can fail to hear it.  The message to the unstable is clear:  Come on, you crazy guys, can't you at least murder your way to thirty?

Newtown is the Latest Example of Media Overkill.  On behalf of all us, I beg the media:  Please go away.  Please stop cold calling my friends who live in Sandy Hook for potential news nuggets.  Please stop harassing people like my mother as they leave funerals.  Please stop parking on people's lawns without permission.

CBS presents hype as news.  Does anyone remember when CBS used to be a respected news organization that did its own research — or at least quoted independent experts?  Or even conducted interviews?  When it comes to health and science news, alas, it seems like they've been reduced to rewriting alarmist or sensationalist press releases.

The 'Screw Science' Media and Super Storm Sandy.  When science departs from the scary-story script, journalists are the first to dismiss its importance.

"The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

— David Brinkley *    

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2019 by Andrew K. Dart

News Media Dishonesty
  ... aside from the specific cases cited above and elsewhere.

Overview and recap articles:

The Best Of CNN 2018.  CNN's version of "news" has become outright parody so many times in 2018 it was difficult to keep track of.  Thankfully, Mark Dice has done just that with a "Best of CNN" video that lays out just how idiotic the Establishment Media now is as they get completely lost within their own anti-Trump hysteria.  Anyone who still considers CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, etc., actual news needs to get their collective heads examined.  It's globalist propoganda — all of it.  [Video clip]

Who Watches the Media Watchdogs?  Who was it that told America Al Gore won the 2000 election?  Who told us the Fort Hood shooter wasn't an Islamist terrorist?  Who told us a meek and mild Michael Brown was shot with his hands up, begging to surrender?  Who told us CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood front in the U.S., is a "civil rights organization"?  Who is still telling us that after 9-11, there was a violent "backlash" against Muslims in America?  Who told us climate change is settled science?  Who ducked the story about abortionist Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia slaughterhouse?  Who told us all the troubles in the Middle East are caused by Israel?  Who told us that Robert Mueller's list of indictments proves Trump colluded with Russia?  Who told us it was Trump who initiated the "policy" of family separation at the southern border?  Who ran a fake magazine cover to show Trump looming over a crying Honduran toddler?

Hall Monitor Nation.  The media relentlessly lied to the public about Hillary's health, denouncing conservatives as "conspiracy theorists" for mentioning it.  Then an alert citizen with an iPhone captured Hillary having to be carried to her car at the 9/11 memorial service in 2016.  Mainstream media outlets painted a cherubic picture of Michael Brown after he was fatally shot by Missouri.  He was a "gentle giant," gunned down like a dog as he plaintively cried, "Hands up! Don't shoot!"  HEY!  Wait a second!  How did that video get out of Brown manhandling a tiny Indian man while robbing a convenience store?  That should have been suppressed like the Broaddrick interview!  Would we ever have known about Monica Lewinsky, but for the Drudge Report publishing the blockbuster story that Newsweek had killed?  Currently, the establishment media are in a rage that the public has found out about the modern genocide being waged against white South African farmers.

The 2018 Breitbart News Fake News Awards.  Until you actually take the time to research the amount of lies and lies and lies the establishment media deliberately spread, you can't begin to fathom just how bad things are.  By the time I was done going through the entire year, I literally, no joke, had 11 pages of headlines to choose from for these awards.

Timely news and commentary:

Lack of Bigotry in America Forces Media to Invent 'The Hoaxtroversy'.  If racism in America was anywhere as serious as the fake news media claims, would they have had to fabricate all these massive lies over the past few years?  The media told us the Hispanic George Zimmerman was white.  They hoaxed us with the KKKids from KKKovington High School, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," and Duke lacrosse.  Each one of those phony hysterias blew up in the media's lying face, so now they have changed tactics.  Rather than invent massive national hoaxes to smear America and Americans as small-minded bigots, they have turned to the "Hoaxtroversy," they have begun to fabricate meme-like controversies, and still they are forced to lie.

GOP Candidate Gets Ridiculed For Deciding His Reputation And Livelihood Are More Important Than Building Some SJW's Self Esteem.  Mike Pence made quite a splash shortly after assuming office when it was revealed, via a Washington Post profile of Karen Pence, that he had a policy of not being alone or socializing outside of work with female staff.  In 2002, Mike Pence told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won't attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either.  This, as mamy recognized, is simply good common sense that had been called the "Billy Graham Rule," having its genesis in the "Modesto Manifesto" that governed the actions of pastors affiliated with Graham's evangelical movement.

Mississippi politician tells female reporter she can't interview him unless she's with a man.  A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor told a female reporter that he couldn't be interviewed by her unless she was accompanied by a male colleague — later claiming that he was following "the Billy Graham Rule."  "We just wanted to keep things professional," said GOP hopeful Robert Foster in a radio interview on Tuesday [7/8/2019].  The female reporter, Larrison Campbell of Mississippi Today, had been asking to go on a "ride along" with Foster when his campaign director reportedly refused on his behalf.

WATCH CNN Try To Shame Underdog Republican Candidate Who Wouldn't Grant Access To Female Reporter.  CNN's New Day John Berman tried to shame an underdog Republican candidate, Robert Foster because he wouldn't grant a Mississippi reporter access to him for an interview when they were alone.  Foster explained very eloquently why he felt the need to ask Mississippi Today reporter Larrison Campbell to bring someone along with her for the interview if they were going to have one.  Larrison made a massive deal about it, and the story wound up on CNN.  Larrison also embellished the story that she had been barred from Foster's campaign because she is a woman.  It turns out that Foster was smart in decision making if Campbell felt she had to grow this request into a scandal for the Republican candidate.

Media Magic — How a Democrat Pedophile Became a 'Trump Scandal'.  [Scroll down]  As stories go, a child sex case involving a Palm Beach billionaire was pretty big.  It was covered in the British press, in Florida media, at The New York Post, and at Fox News.  Bill O'Reilly led with the story on his Fox News show.  But CNN and MSNBC did not breathe a word about a Democratic prosecutor refusing to hold a Democratic child rapist accountable.

Corporate Media Push Trump-Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracy Theories Without Evidence.  The establishment media is attempting to link President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein without any evidence connecting him to the underage sex trafficking case against the billionaire hedge fund manager.  Immediately following a Daily Beast report revealing Epstein's Saturday day arrest, a handful of news figures and outlets posted social media posts and stories painting a picture that the wealthy investor's arrest was bad news for President Trump — with one editor even going as far to suggest he could be directly implicated in the case.

Did someone mention Jeffrey Epstein?

Who Really Believes Biden Can Beat Trump?  According to a new Washington Post-ABC poll, however, if the 2020 election were held today, Biden would beat President Trump by 10 points.  If this inspires skepticism, it won't be ameliorated by the finding in the same survey that Trump's approval rating is at the highest point of his presidency.  The new poll found that 47 percent of registered voters say they approve of Trump compared to 42 percent in April.  Meanwhile, Biden's lead among the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination is dwindling.

Media Predictions of "Tiny Crowd" For Trump July 4 Speech Proven Spectacularly Wrong.  The media ran headlines right up to the day of President Trump's July 4 speech predicting only a "tiny crowd" would show up.  How spectacularly wrong they were. [...] In reality, photos from the event show crowds stretching the full length of the national mall.

8 Times The Media Said There Was No Crisis At The Southern Border.  Now that media-savvy congressional Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have brought attention to the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border caused by Congress's refusal to fix our exploited immigration laws, political pundits are having to eat their own words from just a few months ago claiming that the border crisis was manufactured by President Trump as a political stunt.  Last week, before President Trump departed for the G20 Summit in Japan, he told reporters on the White House lawn that his critics are now seeing he was right all along.

Tragic Photo Undermines Media Credibility on 'Manufactured Crisis' at Border.  Townhall put together a montage insisting not only that Trump had made up a "manufactured crisis" but outright lied that there was a crisis at the border in the first place.  The clip begins with CNN's Don Lemon asking:"This last ditch effort to persuade Americans that there is a crisis at the border - did it work?["] [...] In April, The Media Research Center's Bill D'Agostino put together a montage of media figures finally admitting that it was a crisis.  Over at Fox, Tucker Carlson put together his own montage of mainstream liberal media acolytes insisting as follows: [...] Doubtless there's more of this kind of utter wrong-headed frothing denial out there in the media.

Biden's Mythical Mass of Support.  Something very strange is going on with our news media, as it covers the state of the 2020 campaign.  Donald Trump, according to the big news outlets (CNN, the New York Times, ABC, the Washington Post, and their brethren), is on the ropes.  The polls from these same news outlets show him losing by catastrophic margins to virtually every Democratic candidate.  Even Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who is polling at 2 percent among Democrats, would defeat Trump in every key state.  Joe Biden — according to the polls and the pundits — would crush Trump even in the reddest of the red states.  Forget the Midwest — Biden is so wildly popular, even Texas is now out of reach for the GOP.  Quinnipiac says Biden will squash Trump like a bug in Florida — 50 percent to 41 percent.  In fact, another Quinnipiac poll reports a tsunami of Bidenophilia is sweeping the nation from coast to coast.  "Joe Biden is ahead by landslide proportions," says Quinnipiac.

The Editor says...
The news media thrive on neck-and-neck horse races, where the lead changes every hour, depending on who's speaking.  An impending landslide doesn't compel you to tune in every day to learn the latest details.  Sensationalism sells advertising.

Trump: Smarter Than The Experts.  Remember the bold predictions made by the New York Times' economist and resident expert, Paul Krugman?  The Nobel Prize winning economist said that the economic fallout of a Donald Trump presidency would be severe and widespread, predicting that it could "plunge the world into recession."  He penned his view in an opinion piece published the day after the election.  Calling Trump both "ignorant and irresponsible," he said that his election would be the "mother of all adverse effects."  He warned that the new administration could quickly undo the progress that markets had made in the eight years since the financial crisis.  He was wrong.  The Trump economy continues setting records.  Employment, real wages, consumer confidence, all moving ever higher.  We wait in vain for a correction or apology from Krugman or the Times.  They rarely find room to share the good economic news with their shrinking readership.  The truth does indeed die in darkness.

New York Times Reporter Falsely Labels Segregationist Senators Republicans.  Appearing Thursday [6/20/2019] on CNN Newsroom, New York Times national political reporter Astead Herndon falsely labeled segregationist Democrat senators whom former Vice President Joe Biden praised for their "civility" Republicans.  The day prior, MSNBC host Kasie Hunt made the same error by misidentifying Sens. James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA). She has since issued a correction, while Herndon has yet to follow suit.

How Dangerous is Fake News?  Did you know that last week two hundred illegal immigrants originating from the Congo, that were picked up by border patrol agents, have tested positive for the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus or that a company whistleblower announced that YouTube has been placing millions of subliminal anti-Trump messages in a variety of videos?  You most certainly did not.  But nearly every American has heard of President Donald Trump colluding with Russia and calling all Mexicans rapists or of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulting women even though these events never took place and were concocted out of thin air.

Turns Out The Reported Racist Delay Of Harriet Tubman's $20 Note Was Fake News.  A few weeks ago, it was announced that a new $20 bill graced by Harriet Tubman wouldn't be shown in 2020.  This set off a wave of condemnation and claims of racism backed by absolutely no evidence.  We are supposed to believe that Trump dislikes non-whites so much that he personally intervened in the situation and delayed the project. [...] Now, more details are coming out and as per usual, there's a lot more to the story and none of it involves Donald Trump at all.

Irish bar debunks fake news that Don Jr. and Eric Trump skipped out on bill.  Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, the eldest sons of the president, were targeted by fake news after a recent bar crawl where they picked up the tabs of their fellow patrons.  A Saturday [6/8/2019] story from The Daily Beast was published with the headline "Eric and Donald Trump Jr.  Still Have Not Paid Irish Bar Tab."  While leftists made the story go viral and immediately used the headline to trash the Trump family some more, the whole thing was complete and utter nonsense.  Reporter Arthur Schwartz almost immediately jumped at The Daily Beast and the authenticity of their story.

EPA Admin Rips Journalist For Misleading Tweet: 'Most Reporters Are Lazy'.  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler ripped into a Yahoo News reporter in a Friday interview over a tweet he believed took remarks he made out of context.  Yahoo national correspondent Alexander Nazaryan tweeted Monday [6/3/2019] that Wheeler had said during a National Press Club event that "'The media does a disservice to the American public' by reporting on global warming." [...] But in the full quote in the article, Wheeler didn't actually say the press did a disservice by "reporting on global warming," full stop, but for not also reporting on the strides the country had made.  "The media does a disservice to the American public, and sound policymaking, by not informing the public of the progress this nation has made," he said.

NPR says babies aren't babies until they're born.  [Scroll down]  Doctors and nurses describe "how your baby grows and develops" during the first — and each subsequent — trimester for parents who are expecting.  They do not typically refer to "your fetus."  During ultrasounds nurses don't point to the screen and say, "Look at that thing there, your fetus is a boy!"  (Nor do they say, "I'm arbitrarily assigning the gender 'boy' to your fetus").

Pew: Fake News Tops Terrorism, Violent Crime, Climate Change as 'Very Big Problem in Country Today'.  "Made-up news/info" is considered a major problem by more adults in the U.S. than concerns like terrorism, violent crime, and climate change, results of a nationwide Pew Research Center study released Wednesday [6/5/2019] show.  Half (50%) of U.S. adults polled called fake news and information "a very big problem in the country today," compared to only 34% who cited terrorism:
  •   Made-up News/Info: 50%
  •   Violent Crime: 49%,
  •   Climate Change: 46%
  •   Racism: 40%
  •   Illegal Immigration: 38%
  •   Terrorism: 34%
  •   Sexism: 26%
About two-thirds of adults said that fake news and information has "a big impact" on Americans' confidence in government (68%) and creates "a great deal of confusion" about the basic facts of current events and issues.

Poll: Majority says mainstream media publishes fake news.  Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the mainstream press is full of fake news, a sentiment that is held by a majority of voters across the ideological spectrum.  According to data from the latest Harvard-Harris poll, which was provided exclusively to The Hill, 65 percent of voters believe there is a lot of fake news in the mainstream media.  That number includes 80 percent of Republicans, 60 percent of independents and 53 percent of Democrats.  Eighty-four percent of voters said it is hard to know what news to believe online.

Politico Wrongly Tried to Claim a Pastor Apologized for Praying for President Trump.  I won't blame Krystal Campos, the reporter, because I don't know if she gets to assign her own titles.  But it is pretty shocking that anyone could read David Platt's letter to his congregation and take it as an apology.  All he did was explain to the congregation how it came to be that the President showed up unexpectedly.

Anti-Trump Traitors Rip Blindfold Off Lady Justice.  [President] Trump brought back jobs that Obama decreed were gone forever.  Black, Hispanic, and female unemployment are at historic lows.  Trump pulled us out of bad deals with foreign governments.  Thanks to Trump eliminating absurd regulations and oppressive taxes, businesses are coming home to America building factories.  The average American wage is $27 per hour.  Americans are enjoying an economic boom.  All this incredible good news is for the most part being hidden from Americans.  Instead, Democrats, fake news media, Hollywood, and social media flood the airwaves with their lie that Trump is horrible for America.

Trump-McCain Tarpgate: Yet Another Outrage That Wasn't.  By the time I learn enough about the latest current-events kerfuffle to realize I don't care, it turns out to be [nonsense] anyway.  And so it is with the outrage du jour:  Tarpgate. [...] Now, it's not exactly a secret that John McCain hated Trump's guts, and the feud has continued even after McCain's death.  Trump still badmouths a corpse, much to the delight of Trump's biggest fans.  So this story sounds plausible.  It sounds like something Trump would do, and something Trumpkins would defend.  But does that mean it actually happened?  Sure, it confirms my prejudices, but does that mean it's true?  It's starting to sound like maybe it isn't.

'Mainstream' media has a new fact-checking standard: 'Kinda plausible'.  [E]ven if you instill in your kids your conservative, pro-America, constitutional values, they are going be inundated with Left-wing pabulum, propaganda, and disinformation virtually every moment of their higher education experience.  Case in point:  One professor, Ian Bremmer, a geopolitical analyst, journalist, and cable news regular, actually attributed a 'quote' about North Korea to POTUS Donald Trump that was 100 percent made up, but posted on Twitter as though it was real — and then he actually defended his actions and his lie.

He Finally Admits He's Not a Reporter:  In New Book, Jim Acosta Insists 'Neutrality' Doesn't Work in the Age of Trump.  Jim Acosta is the worst "reporter" in the history of network news.  I say that not as a conservative, but as someone who believes in "news."  The title of Jim's upcoming book says it all:  Enemy of the People:  A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.  That reveals he has no understanding of what a reporter is.

Impeach or get off the pot, Democrats.  The same people who never met a constitutional amendment they didn't want to weaken or destroy will now act as if a middling procedural showdown is the next Watergate.  Mainstream media stories about Nadler's fishing expeditions have already framed Democrats as stewards of law and order, forced into impeachment by inflexible Republicans.

No Room for Honesty.  Listen to various abortion activists and Hollywood-faded stars and you might be under the impression that Georgia, Alabama and other states have just passed laws that could give women the death penalty for having abortions.  In fact, some news outlets have run stories that these states would arrest women for having abortions.  Sadly, at a time when the news media and progressive activists lament the President's dubious relationship with the truth, these are not just misstatements but outright lies.  Last week, Alabama passed a law that would prohibit abortion except for situations where the mother's own life is at risk.  News outlets faithfully reported that under this law, women could be jailed for having an abortion.

Dear Media:  Women Made the Alabama Abortion Law Happen.  Twenty-five white males are responsible for Alabama's new abortion legislation, according to the news media.  But, if Americans look more closely, they'll find that's a blatant miscalculation.  Women — pro-life women — are the driving force.  The "Alabama Human Life Protection Act," or HB 314, considers abortion and abortion attempts felony offenses, except in cases where it's done "to prevent a serious health risk to the unborn child's mother."  The law acknowledges that women are victims of abortion and "will not be held criminally culpable or civilly liable."  On Wednesday, HB 314, which was sponsored by a woman, was signed into law by another woman.  But rather than dwell on the oddity of pro-life women, the media blamed another group:  white men.

The credentialed media's creeping attempts to normalize 'transgenderism'.  It was not so long ago that the credentialed media referred to the person now going by the name Chelsea Elizabeth Manning as a 'transgender woman,' formerly known as Bradley Manning.  In an act of unbelievable stupidity, the government, under President Barack Obama, did not challenge Mr Manning's filing legally to change his name to Chelsea, though at least the government didn't attempt the idiocy of transferring him to a women's prison.  President Obama commuted the remainder of Mr Manning's prison sentence just before he left office.  Even in those stories of the past, the credentialed media chose to use the feminine pronouns to refer to Mr Manning, something with which I disagreed, and something which this site does not do.  But in the [Washington] Post's current article, Mr Manning's 'transgenderism' is never mentioned, nor that he was known as Bradley Manning when he committed his crimes.

Should Journalists Go to Jail for Spreading Russia Lies?  As a First Amendment maximalist, I am inclined to reply an automatic "no" to my own headline — should journalists go to jail for spreading Russia lies?  But a penalty of some kind, indeed a serious one, should certainly be levied for misinforming the public on the most important subject of our day, which has happened repeatedly over the last few years concerning the Russia probe.  And when these prevarications can be shown to have been deliberate, to have been done knowingly, difficult as that may be to prove, the line to sedition may have been crossed and there is an argument the reporters involved should face legal consequences.  They should also be fired.

Man sentenced in burning of church painted with 'Vote Trump'.  A member of an African American church in Mississippi has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for burning the church, which was also spray painted with "Vote Trump" a week before the 2016 presidential election.

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That headline is misleading, because the AP left out several important details.  The whole thing was a fake hate crime.  He was a black criminal trying to cover his tracks.  It had nothing to do with voting for Trump.

Don't Believe the Headlines:  Mueller Said Barr Memo Was Accurate.  The internet is currently buzzing over allegations that Attorney General William Barr mischaracterized the Mueller report from none other than Robert Mueller himself. [...] These headlines all suggest some sinister attempt by Attorney General Barr to mislead the public about the Mueller report in his four-page memo on the report's findings.  But, when you actually read beyond the headlines you'll discover that the media is doing all the misleading here.

An 8-Year Media Lie About How the Syrian War Started is Finally Exposed.  The media insists on the right to fact check conservatives and erase them from social media, but fails at the most elementary fact checking when it comes to its own stories.

How Pseudo Events Are Used by Media to Manufacture Controversy.  The public was lied to for close to two years by legacy news outlets and public figures with claims there was "evidence" that the Trump administration colluded with Russia.  Contrary to their claims, the Mueller report showed there was no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia.  The report showed that all those rumors of evidence and all those claims of anonymous sources were lies.  What's important to remember is that for these outlets and public figures, facts don't matter.  What matters is how they can twist the facts to keep the public misled and distracted in order to keep their false narratives alive.

Media Caught Selectively Editing AGAIN — Record Your Interviews!  It seems that the media can't be trusted, they need to be watched.  And you can help us watch them.  If you've been witness to interviews with the media, deceptively editing your remarks we want to hear from you.

Thirdhand Hearsay Story Says Mueller Prosecutors Had the Goods on Trump to Charge Obstruction.  [Scroll down]  This violates almost every rule set out by Perry Bacon of FiveThirtyEight in "When To Trust A Story That Uses Unnamed Sources."  It is attributed to only two people, and even then, it is a third-party recollection of a conversation in which the reporter did not participate.  Given the sourcing, the quotes are virtually impossible to verify — another tipoff that a story probably is not true.  The third-hand sources are identified only as "former Mueller prosecutors," which means the story runs up against Bacon's recommendation that "specifics matter" when identifying anonymous sources.  Waas claims the Mueller team prosecutors "would have advocated" that Trump face federal criminal charges for obstruction.

BBC and Attenborough Accused of Fake News Misinformation on 'Climate Change:  The Facts'.  The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has made a formal complaint to the BBC about the series of gross inaccuracies in its recent documentary Climate Change:  The Facts.  As wags have quipped, the programme presented by Sir David Attenborough was so riddled with errors it really should have been called Climate:  Change The Facts.  Now the GWPF has written to the BBC Complaints department listing just a few of them.

American Ignorance.  Because I dig deeper than most people I can usually sort out the facts from the fake.  One thing I've learned over time is that the progressive left does not engage in truth nor does it traffic in honor.  The left wants to totally remake our laws, our society and our Constitution into something our founders never intended them to be. [...] Some citizens get news secondhand from friends, family or work associates.  They see headlines on social media and online service providers like AOL.  If they watch news at all they might tune into the local news or sometimes CNN.  Too many people will take what they hear as true.  They won't doubt it because after all it's being broadcast by national news organizations and those organizations certainly wouldn't report something that wasn't true, would they?

Trump Opponents Never Tire of Losing.  Meanwhile the media, having learned nothing from the ratings hit they absorbed due to their sloppy and often dishonest reports about the Russia hoax, are already parroting Democratic talking points on obstruction of justice.  That they're already carrying water for people like Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff suggests that they may well destroy what little public trust they still enjoy.  Journalist Glenn Greenwald, by no means a conservative, is stunned by the media reaction to Mueller's report:  "Pretending they got it right is just worsening the problem."

Netflix series challenged on claim that climate change causes cliff-diving walruses.  A new Netflix documentary series that features disturbing footage of walruses plunging off a cliff to their deaths — a phenomenon attributed by the filmmakers to climate change — has sparked a fact-check backlash by critics questioning whether the animals were actually fleeing polar bears or drones.  Leading the pushback is Canadian zoologist Susan Crockford, who said Netflix's "Our Planet" is misleading the public about the massive gathering of walruses on the rocky beach, known as a haulout, and the footage showing walruses falling from a steep ledge.  She blasted claims by series narrator David Attenborough during the episode as "contrived nonsense" and "Attenborough's tragedy porn."

Watch Former Fed Prosecutor Smash Anti-Trump Commentator's Biased Version Of "Truth".  What is going on within the far left media is appalling.  They are taking lies and calling them truths and taking truths and calling them lies and then taking honest public servants and calling them dishonest when their positions don't support the anti-Trump agenda.  America needs more people like [Joe] diGenova to stand up to this dangerous and deceptive hypocrisy that infects nearly every facet of the media today.

What's the Next Fake News?  It now transpires that the cheating and collusion was done by the FBI, working in cahoots with Hillary's campaign, and The New York Times and The Washington Post knew it but chose instead to write the very opposite, that it was the Russkies and Trump.  Mueller even told them so during the investigation, but they chose the big lie instead.  This should have been a death blow for the reputation of any newspaper, but if one watches zombie and sci-fi programs on television all day and night, as Americans tend to do, how on earth can they recognize fake news when they see it?  Everything Trump said or did these past two years sparked an avalanche of thunderous denunciations from both reporters and editorial writers.  Reporters wrote editorials and writers simply lied and presented theories as facts, and they continue to do so.

Media pulled off big con with Russia collusion story.  The whole thing was one giant lie.  And everybody peddling it — from House Democrat leaders, to Senate Democrats running for president, to the Senate Republican who reported the whole thing in the first place, to the roaring lions of the Great White Media — knew it was a lie. [...] Now that he is in the White House, President Trump has carried on delivering on issues that regular Americans actually care about.  But the press ignores all of those issues.  All they care about is the Russia collusion hoax.

Russian 'Collusion's' Greatest Hits.  From late 2015 until April 2019, the media, the Left, and the Obama administrative state hierarchy warned us nonstop that candidate, president-elect, and inaugurated President Trump "colluded" with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, to assemble a suspect cabinet, and to rule in treasonous fashion in the interests of Vladimir Putin.  The former head of the CIA and the director of national intelligence were birthed as permanent analysts at MSNBC and CNN to sermonize — with wink-and-nod assurances that their past billets and security clearances substantiated their authority — that the treasonous Trump would likely be impeached, indicted, or quit.  A mostly progressive team of lawyers, with an unlimited budget, no restrictions on time, and with enormous legal powers found all of that to be a lie.

Stolen Archives Show the True History of Russia Collusion.  [Scroll down]  How can anyone take these clowns in the media seriously?  One day, they are literally censoring one of the pre-eminent experts on Russia in the entire world, telling him he's insane to warn about collusion with Russia; the next, they want to put Trump in jail with no evidence.  Was Russiagate some sick Freudian projection?  Or even deflection?

AOC Isn't Even a Good Environmentalist.  Every Dem presidential candidate has endorsed the Green New Deal.  The media has covered what should be laughable notions like no automobiles, regulating diet and eliminating cows, with all the gravitas of innovations in heart surgery.  They cover it like it's a real thing and more, they paint anyone critical of the ideas as bigoted, closed minded, old-fashioned climate deniers and anti-science crazies.  Yes, that's an inversion of the truth, but that's how it's covered.

National Reckoning, My Eye.  The media has managed to impose a kind of groupthink that tells us that America is rife with racism and bigotry, but looking around and watching television, the only racism I seem to notice nowadays is the one against whites who go to church and raise law-abiding families.  Watch any Netflix or Amazon series and you'll see what I mean.  (Better not watch it, actually.)  The priest is always a pervert, the religious families are selling drugs on the sly, and all cops and soldiers are rapists, racists, and bigots.  All criminals are white, blond, and sporting Nazi tattoos.  Well, you know the rest.  Political correctness and diversity training have now become standard, and lockstep conformity is the order of the day.

Mom Catches CBS Using Image of Her Vaccine-Injured Child, Falsely Claiming Measles Caused It.  For months now, the Free Thought Project has been reporting on the hype and utter hysteria being pushed by the government and the media alike in regards to the 2019 measles situation.  It started in January as mainstream media and social media giants began begging for the government to silence those who advocate for vaccine safety and it came to a head on Tuesday as New York began force vaccinating citizens and charging those who resisted it with a crime.

Photographer of Starving Polar Bear Admits 'Climate Change' Image Was 'Misleading'.  A starving polar bear, rummaging for food in empty cans, in an ice-free landscape, with a caption that reads:  "This is what climate change looks like."  And she blames people for taking the iconic image 'literally'?  How else were people supposed to take this heart-wrenching but deceptive image?

National Geographic photog admits viral 'climate change' image of starving polar bear was misleading.  National Geographic contributing photographer and speaker Cristina Mittermeier acknowledged Thursday that her now-viral photographs of a starving polar bear went "too far" in linking the bear's condition to the effects of climate change.  In an article for National Geographic, Ms. Mittermeier wrote that she and photographer Paul Nicklen, who recorded video of the bear, were "on a mission to capture images that communicate the urgency of climate change"

More about polar bears.

Duplicity:
Mainstream media outlets change their tune on border crisis amid illegal immigration surge.  Months after repeatedly dismissing and mocking President Trump's claim of a national emergency at the Southern U.S. border, the mainstream media are grappling with reality, with no less than The New York Times declaring the border crisis at "breaking point."  Yet as recently as February, a New York Times fact-checker of Trump's State of the Union speech tweeted:  "President Trump described illegal border crossings as a 'urgent national crisis.'  This is false."

Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes.  House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday [4/8/2019], alleging that one of the news agency's reporters conspired with a political operative to derail Nunes' oversight work into the Hillary Clinton campaign and Russian election interference.  The filing, obtained by Fox News, came a day after Nunes, R-Calif., revealed he would send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week concerning purported surveillance abuses by federal authorities during the Russia probe, false statements to Congress and other matters.

Devin Nunes Files $150M Defamation Lawsuit Over 'Cocaine, Prostitutes' Story.  On Monday, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) filed a defamation lawsuit against The McClatchy Company, Liz Mair, and Mair Strategies, focusing on a May 2018 article that attempted to connect Nunes to allegations of a salacious event involving cocaine and prostitutes.  The article also cast aspersions on Nunes' investigation of alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Russia.  He is demanding $150 million and more.  "McClatchy succeeded in linking the cocaine/sex-fueled 'fundraiser' with 'prostitutes' to Nunes.  The defamatory meaning of the article was clearly understood by all who read and saw McClatchy's publication," the lawsuit reads.

Democrats and toxic media at their worst.  The left and its compliant media are willfully reporting false news to the American people.  Whether it is a symptom of mass hysteria that is the genesis for this confirmation bias-style reporting or an intentional maneuver to spread anti-Trump propaganda, its effect is toxic and pernicious.  The report comes in the form of a tweet making its way through the Twitter-sphere in which a user named Mark Elliott has posted a video of Donald Trump who he contends is referring to migrants at the border as "animals." [...] The president's words were clearly relating to the murderous gang MS-13 and not innocent migrants.  The exchange first became a controversy last year when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi mischaracterized the remarks.

Vox Writer Praises Progressives for Misleading Americans on Tax Cuts.  Vox writer Matthew Yglesias praised progressive groups for misleading Americans about their taxes Monday [4/8/2019].  In a tweet, Yglesias praised the "messaging success" over President Donald Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  The president signed the bill into law in December 2017.  At the time, then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said the bill would save families making $73,000 per year more than $2,000.  "[P]rogressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes," Yglesias said.

Are Far-Right Extremist Crimes on the Rise?  No.  Despite the media coverage [...] far-right extremist crimes are not on the rise.  The number of crimes ascribed to the far-right has been holding steady since the 1970s. [...] Maybe the goal is to turn mainstream conservatives into "far-right" extremists?

Democrats and Media Fall For Old, Deceptively Edited Clip of Trump on MS-13.  Democrats and members of the establishment media fell for a viral clip purporting that President Donald Trump called asylum seekers "animals" on Friday at an immigration roundtable.  In reality, the clip in question is from an event in May 2018 when the president was clearly referring to members of the MS-13 gang as "animals."  At the time, CSPAN posted a deceptively edited clip that cut out someone else's remark about MS-13 that the president responded to, making it sound like Trump was talking about immigrants more generally.

Why do the least-bright people rise to the top?  For over two years, we have been tormented or delighted, depending on one's political preference, by the opinions and or declarations avowing President Trump's guilt with regard to collusion with Russia.  It was all a made-up scam from the beginning, but the media and the leftist loons have beaten this dead horse relentlessly in the fervid hope it would see Trump forced from the office he legitimately won.  Our horrific media who has long worked hand in glove with the Democrats, has spent hundreds of hours, over 500,000 columns, articles and op-eds asserting Trump's guilt.  It was all a hoax from the outset, fabricated within a few days of Hillary 's loss to Trump.  Most of those who got on board the Russia collusion hoax knew it was a lie from day one.  But they embraced the lie wholeheartedly.

Science: Teen Vogue Declares There Is No Such Thing As Biological Sex Because Reasons.  Teen Vogue has a long history of promoting transgenderism in harmful and objectively false ways.  That includes celebrating the child abuse of a 9-year-old boy whose parents allow him to believe he's a girl named Lactatia.  Ever the trailblazer, Teen Vogue put out a video proclaiming that there is no such thing as biological sex because nothing matters anymore.

Mueller the Boy Scout.  The media swore up and down that there had been "collusion" between the Trump campaigns and Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton and fail to put a Clinton on the throne of America.  Now, please bear in mind, that there never was any evidence of such collusion.  Plus, no one knew what it would look like if it had existed.  Would it be mountains of newsprint saying how great Trump was, coming from pro-Russian media here?  No such things ever were seen.  Could it have been some major peace move in Ukraine by Russia contingent upon Trump winning?  We never saw any sign of that either.  Could it have been an immense contribution from the Russian gold hoard to the Trump campaign?  No hint of that either.  So, then what was it?  Those of us raised to be skeptical of the media/leftist axis since the successful media coup against Richard Nixon in Watergate saw right through the whole thing.  Watergate was media hysteria over basically nothing.  So was the Trump/Russia collusion, as we saw it and heard it.

Media amplified Schiff's voice, shouted down the truth.  The whole point of the so-called "Fourth Estate" — that unofficial, quasi-fourth branch of government — is to mercilessly hound politicians from their comfortable lairs of mendacity.  Unless, apparently, those politicians are lying about Mr. Trump and spinning fairy tale yarns about prostitutes in Moscow hotel rooms, secret liaisons in Prague that never happened, and chance bar meetings in the Seychelles.  No one has been given more airtime and ink to spread his lies than Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and chief prevaricator.  That anyone this dishonest is allowed to hold a position of such importance and power in Congress tells you all you need to know about Washington these days.

Can the Media Ever Earn Back Our Trust?  After it was revealed on Sunday that the two-year investigation conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the finger pointing began.  This time, the national media was under the microscope.  It's one thing to hear baldly partisan idiocy from the opposing political party and its candidates — we expect that.  It's another thing altogether when crazed accusations are being spewed by the press 24/7/365 as if they're fact.

Naming And Shaming : The Absolutely Worst Reporters on The Russian Collusion Conspiracy Theory.  Attorney General Bill Barr revealed this weekend that special counsel Robert Mueller did not find that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, dealing a hefty blow to a large swath of the media.  Perhaps most damaged were the individual anchors and reporters who bet their careers on proving that President Donald Trump conspired with a foreign power to steal an election.  These journalists authored fake stories, gave breathless coverage to the alleged scandal and ultimately misled the public.

BBC Ordered to Pay Damages for Fake News About Trump and Ukraine President.  The BBC was ordered to pay damages after the far-left outlet published fake news claiming Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko "authorized" an illegal payment of $400,000 to Michael Cohen for additional face time during a June 2017 meeting with President Trump.  "We apologize to Mr. Poroshenko for any distress caused and have agreed to pay him damages, legal costs and have participated in a joint statement in open court," the BBC's said in a written apology published Thursday [3/28/2019].

A Primer in "Ventriloquist Journalism".  Most "mainstream" journalists are not merely biased, but have a narrative story line in mind when they begin "reporting," so that when they call you on the phone, they aren't looking for actual information and perspective — they are looking for a specific quote to drop in their story that fits their narrative.  The point is:  when you deal with the media, it is not just their innate liberalism you need to be on guard for — you need to keep in mind that they already have their story written. [...] Stan Evans had a typically great label for this:  he called it "ventriloquist journalism."  Reporters have in mind a specific quote they'd like to have from you, and have developed great skill in teasing it out of people.  Think of it as just one aspect of fake news.

Rep. Brooks: 'Fake News Media...Perpetrated the Biggest Political Lie' in American History.  In remarks on the House floor about the Mueller report and the "fake news media" that spread unfounded claims for two-plus years about Russia-Trump campaign collusion, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said the accusations against Trump were "nothing but a Big Lie!" He also compared the liberal media to the National Socialist propaganda organs that operated in Nazi Germany, spreading half-truths and lies to demonize their political opponents.  "For more than two years, Socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies — CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, and countless others — have perpetrated the biggest political lie, con, scam and fraud in American history," said Rep. Brooks on March 25.

What Price Maddow?  Right now, left-leaning mainstream media is getting flogged, and they deserve it for their dishonest reporting on the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory.  Mass firings and a month of apologies by Jeff Zucker and Rachel Maddow would not be sufficient to mend the harm these organizations have done to America's trust in news reporting.  But the folks who truly deserve to be put in their place and totally humiliated are the viewers of these pretend news shows.  At what point do the Wellesley and Williams-educated elites look in the mirror and accept the fact that they have been taken for fools?  They have enabled progressive media to manufacture rotten journalism.  They never turned the channel.

From Trayvon to RussiaGate:  No Media Reckoning, Only Denial and Tragedy.  [A] gander at the media's horror show of a rap sheet over the last five or so years helps to explain why denial is their only option at this point:
  •   Trayvon Martin Murdered By Racist White Man
  •   Michael Brown Yelled "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" Before Racist Cop Murdered Him
  •   Brett Kavanaugh:  Serial Rapist
  •   Trump Ordered His Attorney to Lie
  •   The Racist White Boys from Covington High School
  •   Trump Can't Defeat Hillary
  •   Trump Is a Russian Manchurian Candidate

CNN Continues to Lie About Charlottesville in Attempt to Connect Donald Trump to New Zealand Attack.  As Breitbart News has explained repeatedly, and as CNN's own coverage at the time showed, Trump used the phrase "very fine people" to describe non-violent protesters on either side of the debate over a Confederate statue — and specifically excluded the neo-Nazis, whom he "condemned totally."  Yet for the past several weeks, CNN has reported that Trump was referring to neo-Nazis as "very fine people" in Charlottesville.  CNN is now using the Charlottesville lie to implicate Trump in the terror attacks against two mosques in New Zealand on Friday.

14 Media Outlets Spread Hoax About Trump Calling for Violence During Breitbart News Interview.  Outside of the usual-usual fake news to damage Trump and to distract from their failing Russia Collusion Hoax, the media's propaganda effort here is to make Trump pay a political price for daring to sit down with an alternative news outlet like Breitbart News and to warn other politicians not to violate the rules about who is "supposed" to be allowed to hold high-profile interviews.  In this particular case, because the president said nothing wrong in his interview with us, the media have been forced to invent something.

Media Magic:  How a Democrat Pedophile Became a 'Trump Scandal'.  As stories go, a child sex case involving a Palm Beach billionaire was pretty big.  It was covered in the British press, in Florida media, at The New York Post and at Fox News.  Bill O'Reilly led with the story on his Fox News show.  But CNN and MSNBC did not breathe a word about a Democratic prosecutor refusing to hold a Democratic child rapist accountable.  Epstein had given more than $145,000 to Democratic candidates and causes, including Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer.  He was a big Israel backer.  Bill Clinton and Democratic activist Ron Burkle were frequent guests on Epstein's private plane, dubbed the "Lolita Express." [...] But recently, the very news outlets that spiked any news about this case for the past 13 years are suddenly hot on the trail of Jeffrey Epstein.  Why the newfound sense of decency?  The answer is:  Because they found a Trump connection.

NYT Says Border at 'Breaking Point' 1 Month After 'Fact Check' Claimed No Emergency.  One month after claiming there is "no emergency" at the border, the far-left New York Times now concedes the border is at a "breaking point."  In real time, as President Trump gave his State of the Union speech last month, the Times branded the president a liar over his claim that there is an "urgent national crisis" at our border.

Newsrooms that rushed to report tax refunds were smaller this year go silent on IRS data showing refunds have increased.  Tax refunds are up from where they were this time last year by 1.3 percent following the fourth week of the 2019 filing season, according to new Internal Revenue Service data.  To be more specific, the average tax refund has increased to $3,143 from $3,103 last February, according to cumulative statistics comparing the 2018 and 2019 filing seasons.  Oddly enough, certain newsrooms have responded to this development with total silence.  I say "odd," because it was just a few weeks ago that these same newsrooms rushed to report that tax refunds were smaller this year, suggesting either implicitly or explicitly that the decrease was tied to the Republican Party's tax reform bill.

The Climate Scare:  Ever More Shrill, Ever Less Serious.  The Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives!  And, for their first act, how about some scary "climate" hearings?  The New York Times, of course, takes the occasion to run a big front-page story with the headline (in the print edition — online is different) "2018 Continues Warming Trend, As 4th Hottest Year Since 1880."  Let's apply a little critical analysis.  The Times adorns their article with a huge temperature graph, covering the period 1880 to 2018, that goes across two-thirds of the top of the front page.  The overall trend looks up at first glance.  But on not-very-much-closer inspection, it is obvious that 2017 was down from 2016, and 2018 was down from 2017.  How exactly does that constitute 2018 "continu[ing the] warming trend"?  I would have said that the last two years in a row down is the opposite of "continuing the warming trend," but what do I know?

The Resistance is Everything They Accuse Trump of Being.  In classic KGB style, Obama's administration deployed our nation's intelligence agencies to infiltrate and spy on their political opponents. Using paid informants — believed to include, at minimum, Joseph Mifsud, Stefan Halper, Henry Greenberg and Felix Sader — the political appointees heading our FBI and CIA attempted to entrap Trump's campaign with monetary enticements and promises of Russian kompromat on Hillary Clinton. [...] While these outrages have gone on, our very own American Pravda — the Democrat's mouthpieces in the mainstream media — have published a steady stream of disinformation and propaganda designed to turn reality on its head and portray Trump as Vladimir Putin's puppet instead of the target of Soviet-inspired tactics employed by Obama's police state.

What's Worse Than Fake News?  Hypothetical news.  The other day all the major new outlets were covering a story about Elizabeth Warren saying on the campaign trail in Iowa that Donald Trump "might not even be a free person" but rather in jail at the time of the 2020 Presidential election.  Call this phenomenon the "hypothetical news."  Donald Trump might launch a preemptive nuclear attack on North Korea.  Donald Trump might withdraw from NATO.  Donald Trump might fire his Chief of Staff.  Donald Trump might be crazy.  More subtle examples of hypothetical news are:  there is "widespread concern on Wall Street" that Donald Trump might fire Fed Chairman Powell; or "White House sources say" that Donald Trump is considering firing Fed Chairman Powell.

A New Low in Media Lies from the Miami Herald.  It's commonplace and universal: if you're a dissident from the Leftist agenda, you're not going to get fair, accurate, or honest treatment from establishment media reporters.  But in this hit piece on Hallandale Beach Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub, who called Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib a "Hamas-loving anti-Semite" who might "become a martyr and blow up Capitol Hill," Sarah Blaskey of the Miami Herald hits a new low even for Leftist "journalists," whose integrity was already a notch below that of child molesters, and provides a textbook example of how those "journalists" distort the facts, libel people, and lie outright in order to manipulate the public into believing what they want them to believe.

100,000 Supporters Turn Out for Annual March for Life — USA Today Reports 'More Than a Thousand,' CNN and MSNBC Completly Ignore It.  An estimated 100,000 people — including Vice President Mike Pence — gathered in DC on Friday for the annual March for Life.  The media, as always, is either outright ignoring the massive march or severely downplaying the impressive size of the crowd.

The 'Trump Hid His Meetings with Putin' Stories Begin to Unravel.  On Sunday [1/13/2019], the mainstream media launched a new ploy to promote their Trump-Russia collusion narrative with a story that first appeared in the Washington Post titled "Officials in dark on Putin talks."  A similar piece was published in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, titled "Trump didn't use notetakers at Putin/ Meeting."  Cable-news networks and Democratic congressmen claim these stories indicate that President Trump held secret discussions with Russian president Putin that were revealed to no one.  For example, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) told CNN on Sunday that the U.S. government "does not know" what Trump and Putin discussed.  It is now clear that these stories were misleading, if not mostly false.

The FBI Counterintelligence Operation into Donald Trump Did Not Start After Comey Firing.  Against the backdrop of a New York Times article attempting to justify the FBI opening a counterintelligence operation against Donald Trump the current narrative du-jour is to claim the investigation was considered as an outcome of the firing of James Comey in 2017.  This is factually false.  FBI Director James Comey outlined the specifics of when the counterintelligence operation began during his March 20, 2017 testimony.

Brandon Darby:  Propaganda About Border Mostly from Mainstream Media.  Many mainstream news outlets appear to be purposely and dishonestly overlooking key facts about the U.S.-Mexico border region in order to push a false narrative about a safe border.  Breitbart Border and Cartel Chronicles Director Brandon Darby took on the recent reporting by CNN's Jim Acosta and some social media postings by Texas Democrat Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, where they try to claim the border is safe.

My Eye on 'Black Eye'.  The new Fox Nation subscription service posted the documentary Black Eye:  Dan Rather and the Birth of Fake News at 6:00 a.m. (Eastern) this morning [1/10/2019].  The documentary revisits the Rathergate scandal from its origin in the 2000 presidential campaign to the 2015 film Truth and slightly beyond.  I have now watched the documentary and want to offer a few notes with my impressions on it for what they may be worth. [...] I hope Power Line readers will view the documentary.  It memorializes an important piece of history that has already receded into the mists of the ancient past.

NYT Uses Tiny New Mexico Town to Claim There's No Border Crisis.  Somewhere along the United States' 2,000-mile border with Mexico is a town unconcerned by what President Donald Trump has called a border "crisis," and the New York Times is on it.  "On the Border, Little Enthusiasm for a Wall: 'We Have Other Problems That Need Fixing,'" the Times reported.  The source for this claim is not polling data, but rather interviews primarily with residents of the tiny town of Columbus, N.M.  Columbus is home to residents who see little issue with their proximity to the border.  The Times identified at least one citizen who seemed to wish there were more illegal immigration, not less.

When media are quiet about financial news, you know the economy's strong.  We were told the market was going down because of Trump's trade policies, because he was chewing out the Fed for raising rates too rapidly, and because of the government shutdown.  I am having trouble finding where the media and other Democrats are giving Trump credit for the market rising around 10% since December 24.  Why has the market reversed itself for now?  Here are a few hints:  sales during the Christmas season were up over 5%, over 300,000 jobs were created in December, and job gains were revised upward in both October and November.  Wages went up 3.2% year over year, the fastest growth in a long time, and gains are especially being helped on the lower end of the scale.  There continue to be more job openings than job-seekers.  It is obvious that a strong economy does not fit the Democrat agenda, so it is downplayed.

Why Fact Checking Is A Joke.  As soon as President Donald Trump's speech ended, the liberal talking points were spewing on the cable news networks disguised as "fact checking."  Armed with press releases from the Democratic National Committee, the talking heads universally focused on the small stuff to avoid admitting the inconvenient truths leftists avoid like the plague — illegal immigration hurts Americans.  Democrats don't care.  To leftists, individuals are disposable.  Why would they be bothered by a Ronil Singh if they don't care about the 100 million dead their totalitarian philosophy is responsible for?  One more body on the pile of bodies isn't going to bother people unbothered by the existence of the pile in the first place.  But political points had to be scored, the liberal narrative had to be advanced.  Enter the official "fact checkers."

Seattle TV Station Fires Staffer Who Doctored Trump Speech Video.  A Seattle television station fired a staffer for allegedly doctoring footage of President Trump's speech Tuesday evening — making it appear that that Trump's tongue was drooping out of his mouth and his skin color to be bright orange.  A side-by-side comparison of the speech that aired live on CNN Tuesday night [1/8/2019] versus what was broadcast later on FOX Q13 shows the video manipulation.  The differences were spotted by political observers, resulting in the station terminating the employee.

Trump tongue trick lands Seattle TV station Q13 FOX in hot water; editor fired.  A staffer at local Fox affiliate Q13 has been fired after the station aired what appears to be a doctored video of President Donald Trump's Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office.  The video was changed to make it look as if Trump was sticking his tongue out languidly between sentences.  In addition, the colors in the video look more saturated, leading the president's skin and hair to appear orange.

Seattle News Room Intentionally Manipulated Video of President Trump for Broadcast.  A statement from Fox affiliate Q13 in Seattle appears to confirm that a news video editor intentionally manipulated video feed from the public address of President Trump.  "In a statement, Q13 noted that the video editor responsible has been placed on leave pending an internal investigation."

The Only Privilege in America is Liberal Privilege.  Item:  Catherine Blasey Ford's cock-and-bull story about being assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh nearly half a century ago when they were both teenagers.  Do not try this tactic if you are a conservative woman attacking a liberal Supreme Court nominee.

Caught On Video:  Fake News Media Fabricating "Trump Border Crisis.".  We all know so much of what passes for "news" these days is little more than manufactured propaganda ejected daily from the bowels of the Establishment Media to splatter across the nation's television, computer, and phone screens, but it's always fun to catch them in the act and that's exactly what the following video does.  Watch as media photographers stage a scene of a little girl and her father attempting to climb over a supposed border fence.  [Video clip]

Media's '19th nervous breakdown,' as Trump fulfills another campaign promise.  How many times can the news media falsely and hysterically sound the apocalypse alarm?  Besides being 100 percent wrong on the election of Donald Trump in 2016, their fear-mongering predictions of doom and condemnation have been wrong on any number of other Trump policies, initiatives and personnel moves.  Those include last year's tax cuts, eliminating the ObamaCare individual mandate, North Korea, moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the falsely named "Muslim travel ban," employment and manufacturing increases, Department of Veterans Affairs reform, NATO's financial accountability, two Supreme Court justices, and repudiation of the Iran nuclear "deal."

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?  Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.  In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered.  Digital advertisers tend to want two things:  people to look at their ads and "premium" websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host them.  The two schemes at issue in the case, dubbed Methbot and 3ve by the security researchers who found them, faked both.

After Fake News Reports, Media Now Claim Trump's Christmas Visit to U.S. Troops Was Obvious.  On Wednesday morning [12/26/2018], media outlets were running the story that President Donald Trump had failed to visit U.S. troops at Christmastime.  By Wednesday afternoon, the media claimed Trump had made his visit to a war zone obvious in advance.  In between, media outlets that had earlier trumpeted Trump's supposed non-visit to the troops were spinning the news that he had, in fact, visited by noting that it was his first visit to a war zone since taking office.  Left-wing Salon.com, for example, reported initially that Trump had failed to visit the troops during Christmastime, then changed its story and headline, but retained the anti-Trump spin.

I thought fraud in reporting was done for.  I was wrong.  The [Jack] Kelley scandal, like the 2003 revelation of Jayson Blair's frauds at the New York Times, disproved my belief that Stephen Glass's fakes at the New Republic (in the 1990s, when I was the magazine's editor) might be the last.  Surely computer-aided fact-checking would deter fraud, I thought.  However, the unmasking of Der Spiegel's erstwhile ace, Claas Relotius, as a phony on Dec. 20, mere days after he collected his fourth German Reporter Prize, shows yet again that my hope was naive.  Reporters keep inventing stories and getting prizes for them.  What's going on?

Der Spiegel star reporter Claas Relotius fabricated stories for years.  The German weekly Der Spiegel, one of the top-selling publications in Europe, is reeling from a scandal that revealed that a star reporter has reportedly faked stories for years.  Many of the faked stories written by Claas Relotius were centered in the United States or in the Middle East.  So far, Der Spiegel editors said Wednesday, they had found that Relotius "made up stories and invented protagonists" in at least 14 of the 60 stories examined so far.  But they said the investigation is only beginning.  The editors said they were "astounded and sad" by the discovery, which they called "a low point in Der Spiegel's 70-year history."

Disgraced German journalist now suspected of charity scam.  An award-winning German magazine writer who resigned in disgrace for making up stories is suspected of embezzling cash he collected on behalf of children orphaned by the war in Syria, according to his former employer.  Der Spiegel said Sunday [12/23/2018] it had uncovered information that Claas Relotius allegedly solicited contributions after writing an article about Syrian urchins living on the streets of Turkey — but directed donations to his own bank account.

Fake News, Fake Rednecks.  Award-winning German alleged reporter Claas Relotius — he was named CNN's Journalist of the Year in 2014 — has just been unmasked as a rank fabulist after it was revealed that he fabricated large sections of at least 14 articles since 2011 — most significantly, a 2017 piece about Trump voters in rural Minnesota that turns out to have been a largely fact-free hit piece designed to appeal to the confirmation bias of media elites who regard rural white Americans as hateful, toothless retardates.  The article appeared in Der Spiegel — one of Europe's highest-circulation and most respected publications.  With a fact-checking staff of 70, this saga is being depicted as Europe's biggest media scandal since 1983's "Hitler Diaries" debacle.

Plausible Lies.  The case of Claas Relotius, Der Spiegel and the town of Fergus Falls, Minnesota has become notorious.  Der Spiegel, Europe's most widely-read news source, fired Relotius, one of Germany's most honored journalists, when it came to light that he had made up facts in a number of articles he wrote for the magazine.

Der Spiegel to run 23-page special on reporter who faked stories.  The German news weekly Der Spiegel is to publish a 23-page special report on how one of its award-winning reporters faked stories for years and dealt a blow to media credibility.  Claas Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting making up stories and inventing protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the magazine's print and online editions.  Since the scandal was revealed by the magazine on Wednesday, other mainstream German outlets including Die Welt and Die Zeit, which once used Relotius as a freelancer, have also begun poring through articles that he wrote for them.

Don't Let the Media Convince You the USA is Dangerous For Journalists.  The narrative began when Time magazine decided to dedicate its person of the year to "The Guardians," a group of reporters best known by member Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident murdered by the Saudi Arabian government.  Other outlets picked up on Times' lead, as nonprofit Reporters Without Borders added the U.S. onto its list of countries most deadliest for journalists for the first time ever — joining Mexico and Syria.  Reuters decided to bury the true reason for why the U.S. had an inordinate amount of journalists die in 2018 in the eight paragraph of its Tuesday report: the tragic slaying of five employees at the Capital Gazette's offices in Annapolis, Maryland, in June.  Two were killed in weather-related incidents.

Time Magazine and the Manipulation and Abuse of Truth.  After taking note of the same thing Scott had observed — Time had literally called Obama Obi-Wan Kenobi, the heroic Jedi knight from Star Wars, while disdaining Trump as a demagogue leading a pack of racists and misogynists — I went on to take note of exactly when this kind of disconnect between Americans and media elites began to seriously surface.  I traced it back to the in-the-day famous speech of President Richard Nixon's number two, Vice President Spiro Agnew.  Agnew had ventured into the American heartland — Des Moines, Iowa — on November 13, 1969.

Electoral Fraud: the Real Record.  When Donald Trump was running for office, he raised the issue of fraudulent votes.  As with everything else Trump has said, it was instantly attacked and ridiculed by the media.  Since then, the idea has been dismissed by MSM journalists who have insisted that there have not been any cases of illegal voting.  Recently, though, the novel possibility of fraudulent votes in favor of a Republican candidate has made the MSM do a 180 while reiterating that such things have never happened favoring Democratic candidates.  As with many other topics, MSM journalists have blatantly lied.

Media Conventional Wisdom On The Russia Investigation Is Uninformed And Idiotic.  Jim VandeHei of Axios claimed to sum up on Sunday "what we already now know" about Robert Mueller's findings in the Russia probe.  His next claim was even more robust.  "What we already now know is highly damning and highly detailed."  If you want to — and I quote — "go deeper," you can click a button that gives you "460 words" of how what we know is highly damning and highly detailed.  It is, of course, not even close to either of those things.  But it's worth looking at to see how some D.C. figures are easily spun into thinking — or claiming to think — that things for which there is no evidence have "highly detailed" evidence.

Bush 41's death reveals the truth: the only kind of Republicans the media likes are dead ones.  Today we will hear most of the media talk about George H.W. Bush in a flattering manner, as they should.  They also acted as if they loved Reagan and McCain when they died — even as they sought to destroy them when they ran for office.  The playbook is always the same.  Democrats, including most of the media, pretend they love Republicans when they die after they trashed them when they ran and lived.

Pittsburgh - we need to talk.  Just because someone from ABC-TV, NBC-TV or CBS-TV sticks a microphone in your face, and asks your opinion about the Tree of Life murder, or how you feel about Trump, or the Pirates, or the Steelers, remember, this is still a free country.  You don't have to answer.  Most of the time, you will look silly.  You will make the news, and if this is what you want, beware, you will go on record as being a loudmouthed idiot.  Even if you speak carefully and intelligently, know that back in the editing room they can, and do, cut you to pieces, so whatever your message was, it is no more.

DHS Secretary Issues Statement, Correcting False Media Accounts at Southern U.S. Border.  [Scroll down]  [Quoting Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen] "Fifth, we cannot confirm the backgrounds and identities of all caravan members which possess a national security and public safety risk to our country.  However, at this point we have confirmed that there are over 600 convicted criminals traveling with the caravan flow.  This includes individuals known to law enforcement for assault, battery, drug crimes, burglary, rape, child abuse and more.  This is serious.  Additionally, Mexico has already arrested 100 caravan members for criminal violations in Mexico.["]

Avis Rental Car Returned With Ballots, Media Narrative Claims 'Suspicious Package'.  In what appears to be a massive cover up, a Democrat, Broward County employee returned a rental car to the Fort Lauderdale Airport with two boxes of provisional ballots in the trunk.  However, the media is not reporting that, but following a "suspicious package" narrative as the airport was shut down last night after the discovery.  Laura Loomer reported images of the boxes and the Avis employee who found them.  The highly leftist Broward County Sheriff's Office shut down a portion of the Fort Lauderdale airport after the boxes of ballots were reported.  They called it a "suspicious package" and brought in the bomb squad to "investigate," shutting down the airport for hours.  Literally every local news media outlet has parroted the line of the "suspicious package."  "Only a few conservative outlets even mentioned that the package was actually two boxes of provisional ballots from Broward County."

Democrats Freak: Obama Can't Fill Arena & Loses Control In Wild-Eyed Shrieking Rant.  Barack Obama was supposed to be the Democratic messiah, bringing on the big blue wave.  But, the Obama of 2008 and 2012 is gone, and the truth is, he can't fill arenas.  The former president was just caught on video with white hair, sunken eyes, and a shrill voice that often cracked and stuttered terribly while speaking.  Well, we just discovered what Barack and the Democrats are trying so hard to hide.  Something stinks when it comes to Democratic rallies.  In fact, there is something they can't deny.  Even their number one guy, Barack Obama, is having a [difficult] time filling up a venue.  Instead, the mainstream media has to take photos at certain vantage points to give the impression there are tens of thousands in attendance.

When Media Foist False Narratives to Sow Social Discord, They Indeed Are the Enemy of the People.  A maniacal dirtbag murdered eleven Jews in Pittsburgh.  In time, perhaps after a decade or two of ACLU appeals, he will be electrocuted, injected, hanged, or hopefully all three.  The dirtbag hated Jews, and he likewise hated President Trump.  President Trump responded to the news immediately with profoundly sensitive and healing words aimed at condemning anti-Semitism and at comforting and consoling the Jewish community. [...] And then came the sowers of social discord to destroy the moment.  The Left Media would not allow the President that moment to heal and unify.  Instantly, they brought in one Left-Democrat anti-Trump "analyst" after another to blame Mr. Trump for the attack.  They never blamed President Jimmy Carter's anti-Jewish rhetoric for the 1977 Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel synagogue shooting in St. Louis.  Nor Bill Clinton for the 1994 Brooklyn Bridge shootings of yeshiva students that included the murder of Ari Halberstam.  Nor Clinton's rhetoric for the 1999 Granada Hills Jewish Community Center shooting in Los Angeles.  Nor Obama for the deadly 2009 Holocaust Museum shooting in Washington, D.C.  Nor Obama for the 2014 Overland Park Jewish Community Center shootings in Kansas City that murdered three.  But this time — with the same social dynamics as the others — they tried blaming the President.  By sowing social discord with outright absolute falsehoods at a time that called for healing, the Left Media indeed were acting as enemy of the people.

Caravan migrants different, more violent, than previous migrant groups [according to the] U.S. military.  To hear the press and its narrative allies tell it, the Honduras migrant caravan is little more than thousands of mothers and toddlers spontaneously fleeing violence in their home countries.  The flight is little different from that seen in previous caravans.  Any concern about crime or violence is a "scare tactic," or "lying," or "racism," and there's no evidence any of the migrants are criminals.  President Trump's warnings about the matter are simply "factually wrong."  Actually, a different picture is emerging.  Specifically, signs are mounting that far from the exodus being a Madonna-and-child in flip flops narrative, the military-aged unemployed males dominating this wave of caravans are far more violent than reported.  That's not a scare story from some rightwing militia group, but the actual view of the U.S. military, whose 5,000-plus troops have been dispatched to meet the caravans and keep them from storming the U.S. border and entering the U.S. illegally as they already did in Mexico.  Asked if the dispatch was all a border stunt by a reporter, Secretary of Defense Gen. Jim Mattis icily replied:  "We don't do stunts in this department.  Thank you."

Obama Can't Fill High School Gym in Milwaukee — But Daily Beast Hack Claims Line Was Mile Long!  Former President Obama was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Friday [10/26/2018] and he couldn't fill a high school gymnasium.  But this didn't stop a far left Daily Beast hack from claiming the line was a mile long to get into the event!  Never trust the liberal media.  Never!

Fact-Checkers Without Evidence.  As the media continues its precipitous decline in public approval and credibility, one small bastion still retains a semi-sacred status:  Fact-checkers.  Even more than "journalists" fact-checkers claim to be above the fray, depicting themselves as sticking to the "cold hard facts" while leaving their opinions at the door.  Of course, this is meant to cover up the fact that almost invariably they inject their opinions into various matters while projecting a false narrative that their work emanates from some higher authority that must be believed, much like a college professor who thinks he must not be questioned by mere students.

Christina Blasey Ford's Polygraph Was [Suspicious].  The fact that Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers refused to release the results of her polygraph exam until the day before her testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month caused some suspicion.  And when we finally got a look at them, a lot of Judge Kavanaugh's supporters were confirmed in their suspicions. [...] Even if Ford's exam had been entirely on the up and up, despite the credence most people give them, polygraph tests are something of a joke among serious research psychologists.  The American Psychological Association will tell anyone who cares to listen (which unfortunately isn't many) that "most psychologists and other scientists agree that there is little basis for [their] validity."  The APA has such a dim view of the procedure in part because, though research indicates that a polygraph exam can detect deception better than chance, there's still a significant likelihood of error.  And doing better than flipping a coin isn't all that great when someone's reputation is on the line.

Lawsuit may help explain remains of 63 fetuses found in Detroit funeral home.  When their daughter died 27 minutes after her birth in December 2014, a Detroit couple donated the infant's remains for medical research.  Four years later, Rachel Brown and Larry Davis don't know what happened to Alayah's tiny body.  They're plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed earlier this year that may help explain how the remains of 63 fetuses were discovered by police Friday [10/19/2018] in boxes and freezers at Perry Funeral Home at Warren and Trumbull on Detroit's west side.

The Editor says...
Please note that if a baby lived 27 minutes, he or she was no longer a fetus.  Thus the media's description of "63 fetuses" is dishonest.

Nine Lies the Media Are Telling You About Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test.  Spreading lies to benefit the Democrat Party is what the establishment media do.  For example, over the weekend, NBC News fabricated the lie that President Trump gushed over Confederate General Robert E. Lee.  This was a deliberate lie to smear Trump as racist, and it was only corrected by NBC after the lie had run its course.  Over the same weekend, CNN crafted its own lie to make Donald Trump Jr. look racist.  The media lie.  And then the media lie some more.  And now the media are lying about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her debacle of a DNA test.  These are lies of omission and commission, but they are still lies because the media are desperate to mislead and deceive.

Kavanaugh's confirmation smoked out the journo-activists.  "The racist history of Chevy Chase, home to power players like Brett Kavanaugh," read the headline on a story on the Washington Post on Sept. 29.  The hint, of course, is that Kavanaugh helped make it racist, moved there because it was racist, or helped make it more racist once he was there.  "As late as 1976," the Post said, "the New York Times noted that the Chevy Chase Club golf course and country club ... whose members include Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — allowed 'black skinned members of the diplomatic corps' but not black Americans, inside its doors."  But in 1976, neither Roberts nor Kavanaugh belonged to the club or lived in Washington.  Kavanaugh, then aged 11, lived with his parents in Maryland.  Neither lived in Chevy Chase until it became a heavily liberal enclave.

Weather Channel defends reporter captured swaying in Florence winds as 2 people walk behind him.  As Hurricane Storm Florence lashed through the Carolinas with howling winds and heavy rain, one reporter was captured attempting to keep it together as winds appeared to lash at him, but was mocked when two people were seen walking behind him with little difficulty.  The viral video, which has more than 13.6 million views, showed Weather Channel correspondent Mike Seidel in Wilmington, North Carolina, trying to fight the heavy wind as he reported live from the storm on Friday [9/14/2018].

Media pretend left-wing mobs of protesters aren't really mobs.  Journalists spent last week rewriting history as it happened and denying the thuggery of left-wing protests.  It was like watching a reality TV version of "1984."  President Trump helped get the show rolling when he called left-wing protesters "an angry mob" and Republicans and conservative groups picked up the term.  It was repeated in several videos and in a key GOP commercial that highlighted scenes of violence.  The scenes in the commercial included:  the rioting and arson that took place protesting President Trump's inauguration; attacks on Trump campaign events; harassment of members of Congress; and protesters pounding on the Supreme Court doors to object to the Senate confirmation of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  This was all more than the media could stand and they spent the week trying to disprove reality.

Confirmation bias:  Brett Kavanaugh and the major media's worst moment.  We are now at the unsuccessful conclusion of a four-week-long effort by certain media organizations to prove Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a violent sexual predator and a lying alcoholic.  The reckless and grossly irresponsible scramble by the New Yorker, NBC News, the New York Times, and others to make Kavanaugh into a monster produced some of the worst journalism of the Trump era to date — and that's a pretty high bar.  There were plenty of minor fouls, including when the Times assigned a news story on Kavanaugh to a magazine opinion writer who openly opposed his nomination.  Others were much greater, including when NBC published an anonymously written letter alleging (with zero corroboration) that Kavanaugh was observed by an anonymous woman in 1998 to have pushed another anonymous woman.

Evil, Disgusting USA Today Article Hideously Lies About Judge Kavanaugh.  A USA Today hit piece, dated September 29, insinuated Brett Kavanaugh was a child molester.  The disgusting, outrageous attacks by the leftist media have reached a new low, even for them.  The title of the article is:  USA Today hit piece says Kavanaugh should 'stay off basketball courts when kids are around'.  The evil author is Donovan Slack.  He actually put his name on the piece accusing the judge of being a pedophile.  Outside of murder, that was the only thing left to the hideous leftists in the media.  This is literally a replay of the Salem Witch Trials.  They are destroying him as much as anyone they might like to kill.  They edited out several paragraphs but the entire article should have been trashed with an apology.  The article was presented as news, not opinion, and seemed to destroy his reputation and his ability to coach basketball.

NY Times removes key language helpful to Kavanaugh from article about Yale accuser Ramirez.  On Sunday night, September 23, 2018, The New Yorker published an article about accusations by Deborah Ramirez, a former Yale classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  The authors were Ronan Farrow and Jane Meyer.  The New Yorker article noted, deep into the article, that Ramirez's accusations were not corroborated by any witnesses with first hand knowledge, and that Ramirez herself had gaps in memory that were cleared up only after 6 days of thinking about it and consulting with lawyers.  The NY Times covered the story, and had language in its September 23 about Ford testifying that was extremely helpful to Kavanaugh's defense.  The language was added in an evening edit.

Character Assassins in the Fake News Media.  The Left's lack of respect for democratic principles, for political "others," their readiness to employ gutter tactics and mangle the truth, has spread from the Communist fringe publications of the 1960s — like The Nation, and the Daily Worker — to so-called mainstream publications like the Huffington Post, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

New Yorker Publishes Accusation Containing ZERO Evidence to Support, and 100% of Evidence To Refute.  [Scroll down]  Really, no need to go further.  Why?  Because despite their search, and discussions with "dozens" of potential witnesses... "The magazine contacted several dozen classmates of Ramirez and Kavanaugh regarding the incident"[. T]he New Yorker was unable to find a single witness to corroborate the story being made by the accuser.  None.  Not a single confirming witness to back up the claim.

McConnell Blasts Democrats From Senate Floor Over "Orchestrated Hit" — Says Kavanaugh Will Be Voted On.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats and their 11th hour "me too" ambush from the Senate floor Monday afternoon [9/24/2018].  McConnell said the resistance has become a smear campaign aided and abetted by members of the U.S. Senate.

Brett Kavanaugh Defies 'Grotesque Character Assassination' from the Left.  Supreme Court Nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh responded to the latest allegations of sexual misconduct on Monday [9/24/2018] by denouncing them as smears.  "These are smears, pure and simple.  And they debase our public discourse," he wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.  "But they are also a threat to any man or woman who wishes to serve our country.  Such grotesque and obvious character assassination — if allowed to succeed — will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions from service."  Kavanuagh's letter expressed frustration with his delayed confirmation vote despite repeating his willingness to testify about the accusations from Christine Ford and a second "uncorroborated" report in the New Yorker.

This Kavanaugh furor:  How to execute an attempted political homicide.  As soon as Judge Brett Kavanaugh's once-anonymous accuser started stalling for time over testifying, you knew another sexual assault allegation was in the works.  Sure enough, a New Yorker story dropped Sunday night, when news competition would be minimal.  It's possible we'll have yet another tardy "revelation" before Thursday's scheduled appearances before the Senate Judiciary Committee, so desperate are opponents of the judge and President Trump.

Media Continues Its Slow Suicide.  After reviewing last week's news coverage, I would encourage President Trump to come up with a more accurate taunt than "fake news."  Maybe "garbage news." [...] But "fake news" is tame in light of the media's misleading, destructive, and willfully ignorant reporting last week that was intended further to inflame a divided body politic.  Some of the lowlights featured MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough, claiming Trump has done more damage to the country than the 9/11 terrorists; the editorial board of a major newspaper blaming Trump for Hurricane Florence; the wholesale acceptance of a highly flawed paper about hurricane deaths used to bash the president; and a despicable crusade not just to quash Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, but to destroy his reputation and damage his young family.

The New York Times issues major correction to Kavanaugh sexual assault story.  It's one thing to misspell a name or get a specific date wrong.  It's another thing entirely to report that a supposed witness to a sexual assault says he remembers it happening when he has said the exact opposite.  For an example of the latter, we turn to the New York Times, which published a report Tuesday titled, "Christine Blasey Ford Wants F.B.I. to Investigate Kavanaugh Before She Testifies."

Egg on Their Faces:  New York Times Retracts False Nikki Haley Smear.  On Thursday [9/13/2018], the New York Times — America's newspaper of record — published a disgusting false smear against U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.  The original article suggested Haley was responsible for spending $52,701 on curtains for the UN ambassador's house in New York City, when in reality the decision to purchase the curtains was made under former president Barack Obama.  The Times appended a correction at the top of the article, altered the headline, and removed the photo of Nikki Haley.  "Nikki Haley's View of New York Is Priceless.  Her New Curtains? $52,701." the original headline screamed, complete with a featured picture of Haley at the United Nations.  The original version of the article is unavailable, but a screenshot captured by the Washington Post's Aaron Blake revealed that the Times had substantially altered the article after receiving hefty criticism.

Fake News collapses on NYT.  The Obama administration ordered $52,701 worth of curtains for the apartment the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  To put that in perspective, the West Virginia Legislature impeached the entire state Supreme Court for wasting $32,000 to buy a couch.  So how did the New York Times report this Obama scandal?  "Nikki Haley's View of New York Is Priceless.  Her Curtains?  $52,701."  After Fox News pointed out the headline drapes do not match the rug of facts, the Times demoted the headline to "State Department Spent $52,701 on Curtains for Residence of U.N. Envoy."  Nope, nope, nope.  Nikki Haley did not build this.  Obama did.

New York Times Spreads Fake News About Nikki Haley's $52,701 Curtains.  A New York Times headline attacks UN Ambassador Nikki Haley's extravagant curtains, even though the Obama administration ordered them in 2016.  The fake news headline snarks, "Nikki Haley's View of New York Is Priceless.  Her Curtains? $52,701."  [...] The word "spent" is crucial, however, because after five whole paragraphs describing Haley's "spectacular views" in her leased $58,000 a month "full-floor penthouse, with handsome hardwood floors covering large open spaces stretching nearly 6,000 square feet," the Times at long last reveals the truth:  The Obama administration ordered those $52,701 curtains.  What's more the Obama administration chose the $58,000 per month penthouse.

NYT smears Nikki Haley over Obama's $53,000 UN curtains purchase.  Lacking a catch of late, the New York Times decided to pull a Scott Pruitt on United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, accusing her of being Extravagance Woman, a regular Stateside Imelda, based on a $53,000 purchase of customized and mechanized curtains for her United Nations apartment. [...] Turns out the fancy curtain order was the work of Samantha Power, President Obama's former U.N. ambassador, who, when she wasn't busy unmasking Americans to learn all about what was going on in the Trump campaign (or maybe handing her password out, given the quantity of such unmaskings under her name), was also busy getting the decorating in — status stuff, like self-opening curtains, the better to impress the Harvard and NGO crowds who undoubtedly would come by to visit.  And it was President Obama who approved the purchase.

The Truth About TIME's 'Underpaid Teachers' Story.  "I Work 3 Jobs And Donate Blood Plasma to Pay the Bills.  This Is What It's Like to Be a Teacher in America," reads the cover of TIME Magazine this week — and the story is going viral.  I haven't been able to scroll through a social media feed without seeing someone linking to the article — which features the stories of a handful of allegedly struggling teachers. [...] While I'm all for paying certain teachers more, TIME's piece doesn't make a convincing case for that.  In fact, the TIME article doesn't do anything other than prove life is hard, given that all of the teachers profiled in the piece earn incomes above that of the average American.

Media pounce on conservatives and weaponize bias against Trump.  Anti-Trump news organizations continued to attack the president this past week on many fronts, including for what CNN Senior Political Analyst John Avlon called "a real culture of corruption."  In reality, Avlon should have been describing the state of journalism.  CNN, that stalwart of James Earl Jones voiceovers, has no room to point fingers.  It got caught believing another phony story about President Trump and is too stubborn and woke to admit it.  (Sort of like when three CNN investigative journalists had to resign in 2017, except then the network admitted they were wrong.)  Meanwhile, NBC is facing allegations from a former top producer that executives actively interfered in reporting on allegations of sexual misconduct against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.  And The New York Times has become increasingly obvious about the word play it injects into news stories, so its left-wing agenda remains intact.

Ohr speaks! (Behind closed doors).  You can almost smell the fear in the Get Trump camp that Bruce Ohr might be the thread that could be pulled to unravel the conspiracy of high-ranking officials to spy on the Trump campaign and then, after the election, put into action the "insurance policy" Peter Strzok mentioned to his mistress (and co-worker) Lisa Page in an August 2016 text message, to remove a duly elected president from office.  The New York Times, which serves as a pilot fish for the rest of the media, has been working hard to minimize the damage he might do.  On August 17, as Ohr's name was being introduced to inhabitants of the MSM bubble thanks to a threat by President Trump to remove his security clearance, the Times outright lied about his position in the Department of Justice, calling him a "midlevel" official in the DOJ.  This lie was picked up and repeated in many other articles and was used on cable news reports extensively, thereby falsely branding him as a minor player caught up and persecuted by Trump and anyone else paying attention.

South Africans Push Back Against Lying American Media — White Farmers Getting Killed Daily.  Residents of South Africa are creating videos backing up US President Donald Trump's claims that white farmers in South Africa are being murdered.  In riveting firsthand testimony uploaded to Twitter Monday [8/27/2018], several South Africans pushed back against the mainstream media, testifying violence against whites is on the rise.

CBS Rewrites History:  The Polls Weren't Wrong in 2016.  CBS attempted to rewrite history on Monday with This Morning co-host Norah O'Donnell and network Director of Elections Anthony Salvanto declaring that the polls in 2016 weren't wrong.  That might be a surprise to anyone who trusted the numbers in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.  Helping Salvanto promote his new book on polling, O'Donnell wondered:  "People said that proved that the polls were wrong.  But were they?"  "No," he declared.  O'Donnell cheered the revisionist history:  "Yes, thank you!  Anthony, explain to everybody!"  Using the benefit of hindsight, Salvanto lectured:  "All the signs were there."

Charlottesville and Masked Antifa:  The Fake News Media as Enemy of the People.  By now we all know that the White Racist Nazis who were expected in their thousands by the Seedier Media arrived few in number, but a ton of masked Antifa Nazis showed up.  To the degree (i) that "The People" benefit when White Racist Nazis remain few in number; (ii) that "The People" are hurt when the media go out of their way to inflate the numbers of White Racist Nazis in a self-serving coordinated media frenzy to increase numbers of White Racist Nazi demonstrators for more interesting television that leads to better ratings and increased advertising revenue; and (iii) that such fake news build-ups for days leading up to the Charlottesville anniversary actually threaten to draw more White Racist Nazis and to threaten the civil order... the Fake News Media indeed proved themselves to be the Enemy of the People.

Transgender 'Woman' Kills Her Own Grandmother With A Knife, Media Decides She's A 'Man'.  When is a transgender woman not a woman?  Apparently, when she kills her own grandmother, at which point "she" magically returns to being a "he"!

No sympathy for a lying press.  It's difficult to take the media's claims about attacks on the press seriously when they're constantly gaslighting the country. [...] Over and over again the press asserts that something is true, even though you saw with your own eyes that it's not.

The Media Are Hiding Their Knowledge and Duplicity.  We shared a discussion thread several months ago about how the media are enmeshed within the story of the DOJ and FBI corruption.  However, only recently did we discover the media engagements were not just pervasive, they were/are participatory.  As a consequence the same media cannot reasonably report on any aspect of the story without exposing their own duplicity; their only choice is to double down on lies they helped create and promote.

Media Rewrite History To Credit Obama Instead Of Trump.  The stronger the economy gets under President Trump, the more desperate his critics are to hand credit over to Obama.  Even if that entails changing the past.

Journalists used to fight fake news; today they pretend it doesn't exist.  The credibility of newspapers and of journalism in general depend on our ability to get the story right in the first place, and to admit our mistakes promptly in the second place. [...] Unfortunately, it seems that some big-name journalists today consider themselves and their chosen profession above reproach.  When President Trump calls them out for publishing fake news, they merely put their thumbs in their ears and shout back petulantly "NOT FAKE NOT FAKE!" no matter how obvious it is to an objective observer that it was indeed fake.  A prime example of that occurred last Sunday morning when President Trump's tweet about the Trump Tower meeting held by Don Jr. in 2016 was widely trumpeted as some kind of new (and damning) revelation when actually the president had said the exact same thing (in virtually the same words) a year earlier.

Enemies of the People?  The modern era of fake news began with George W. Bush's election in 2000.  In September 2004, less than two months before the Bush-Kerry election, the high priest of fake news — Cronkite's successor, Dan Rather — aired a 60 Minutes report which contended that President Bush got into the Texas Air National Guard because of political influence and that his officer evaluation reports gave him high marks despite his shirking of his duty.  This was an obvious attempt to damage Bush's candidacy and interfere in the election.  Within hours of the report, it became entirely clear that Rather's report was based entirely on forged documents.  CBS and Rather later issued a half-apology.  Such "reports," attempting interference in elections, has become the norm for the American media and most of the world's.

More about Rathergate.

Media Outlets Hype Trump Tweet As New Admission — Forget He Said The Same Thing Last Year.  Media outlets botched another Trump-Russia story on Sunday [8/5/2018].  President Donald Trump sent out a tweet Sunday morning defending his son Donald Trump Jr.'s decision to take a July 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. [...] The vast majority of reporting on the president's tweet portrayed it as a significant admission.  The Associated Press reported that Trump "appeared to change his story" and sent out a news alert to that effect.

Levin: 'The media won't address its own unprofessionalism'.  Thursday [8/2/2018] on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin called out the media for reporting more on themselves than on legitimate news, and claiming that they are "under attack."  "The media keep reporting on the media, have you noticed that? ... The media have abandoned a pretense of seeking objectivity for ideological activism, progressivism ... they're devouring what they self-servingly claim to defend," Levin said.  [Audio clip]

The media whips up hatred among classes, races, religions, and exactly two sexes.
  •   The media constantly publish stories showing that white people are racist.  In the past 48 hours alone, the New York Times has published stories showing that white people are racist in hotels and at public swimming pools. [...] Nearly every day, the media write an article that reads, "White people are racist in [kind of place or circumstance]."  This repeated emphasis whips up racial resentment and encourages violence against white people.
  •   Not a day goes by without some gleeful account of how the non-white population of America is increasing, eagerly looking forward to the day when whites are in the minority.  This "in your face, white people!" mentality stirs up understandable resentment among white Americans.
  •   We are constantly told by the media to hate the rich, that if they have a lot of money, they must not have earned it legitimately, that "their" money should be "our" money.  The resentment built up by this kind of storyline encourages lawmakers to enact theft by higher taxation.
  •   Women are constantly told that most men are rapists or harassers who don't respect them.  Women are encouraged to turn against men and see rape in every dorm room and every janitor closet.
  •   We are repeatedly told that the police are racist.

Freeing People from Left-Wing Lies.  Because real people don't tell big lies, they assume that others won't, either.  Hence, when Hitler, or the WaPo, repeats big lies over and over, people tend to end up believing them so long as they don't hear any contradictory voices.  That's why so many Americans think abortion is legal only in the first trimester or for the hard cases when in fact it's legal for any reason at any time during a pregnancy.  That's why so many Americans think Trump somehow colluded with Russia even though there is not a shred of evidence to indicate that.  That's why so few Americans know that Carter Page, the supposed Russian spy targeted by the FISA warrant, helped the FBI sting to capture Russian spies in 2013.  Clearly, the media have to work hard to hide that from the bubble people they're trying to fool.  That's why few Democratic voters know that the NYT has armed guards to protect its newsroom even as it says making it harder for average citizens to have guns is a good thing.

Do Fake News and Corruption Change How We Think?  The release this week of the redacted Carter Page FISA warrant has generated metric tons of fake news and confirmed just how corrupt our institutions are. [...] At this point, the press has all but dropped any pretense of objectivity and is peddling outright (and obvious) lies.  John Hinderaker at PowerLine described the reporting as "a vendetta", but I am not sure he went far enough by simply calling out the Associated Press.  It was not only the that AP ran a fake news story but the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and even the Weekly Standard published stories suggesting the warrant as released contradicts Rep. Devin Nunes's blistering memo from earlier this year.

'It's complete fiction': US Defense Secretary Mattis says an 'exclusive' ABC News report about American plans to bomb Iran was made up.  US Defense Secretary General James Mattis has dismissed as 'fiction' an Australian media report claiming American forces were prepared to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities as early as next month.  A bewildered Mattis was quizzed by US reporters in Washington DC on Friday [7/27/2018] about the ABC report.  The 'exclusive' report quoted unnamed senior Australian government figures and claimed Australian defence facilities would likely play a role in identifying targets in Iran.

The truth about 'Fake News'.  Janet Cooke is a prime example of why the Pulitzer Prize has essentially become worthless.  She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for a sob story written for The Washington Post, but the story was later discovered to have been completely fabricated.  While Cooke subsequently returned the Pulitzer, she remains the only one who has.  Flash back to the New York Times Moscow correspondent reporter Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer in 1932 for a series of reports about the Soviet Union, 11 of them were published in June 1931.and completely denied the widespread famine (1932-1933) in the USSR, most particularly the mass starvation in Ukraine.

The Associated Press Lies About The FISA Application.  The Associated Press carries on a daily vendetta against the Trump administration, systematically misleading the American people in articles that appear in hundreds or thousands of newspapers.  Thus, it is no surprise that the AP's story on DOJ's FISA application dump is nothing but Democratic Party spin.

Deep Fake News.  The Brookings Institution warns that "fact checking" will become a lot harder in the 21st century as artificial intelligence becomes better at producing "deep fake news" creating counterfeits so good they are difficult to distinguish from the Real McCoy.  "Because the algorithms that generate the fakes continuously learn how to more effectively replicate the appearance of reality, deep fakes cannot easily be detected by other algorithms — indeed, in the case of generative adversarial networks, the algorithm works by getting really good at fooling itself."  The technology to fake videos, photographs and sound clips is now so good even Hollywood is increasingly using digital actors.  Moreover artificial intelligence can weave these fakes into a superficially self-consistent universe of lies creating a false narrative whose fraudulence can only be exposed by painstaking comparison to reality.

Mainstream Media On Their Last Legs.  What happens when the entire industry that is devoted to educating the public is doing so with a clear political slant, despite their claims of objectivity?  What ensues is an absolute lack of trust, and the ensuing panic from those that are most responsible for it.  You see more and more hands grasping for fewer straws.  You get the people who are supposed to be informing the republic choosing to denigrate and blatantly insult the American public, because they've lost their ability to do what they should be doing.

The Next American Revolution: #WalkAway.  My first inkling that Donald Trump might actually become President came about mid-evening on election night, 2016, when I switched to MSNBC to look at that infallible barometer of Republican success at the ballot box, the expressions of the "journalists" reporting the returns.  The first face I saw was that of Chuck Todd, who was frowning at a map of Wisconsin and maundering about Milwaukee. [...] His fear was well-founded.  Those Milwaukee precincts were emblematic of a nationwide phenomenon that contributed in no small part to Trump's victory — African-American enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton was tepid at best.  Both the Democrats and the "news" media have ignored this reality.  Their willful ignorance allows them to claim, as the brainiacs at Vox put it, "Trump won because of racial resentment."  Never mind that Hillary Clinton is conspicuously caucasian and that white turnout has remained relatively stable since 2004.

Mainstream Media Blame Donald Trump for Maryland Newspaper Shooter.  Several members of the mainstream media blamed President Donald Trump for a suspect who allegedly killed five journalists on Thursday [6/28/2018] and reportedly had a longstanding dispute with the newspaper dating back to before Trump even declared his candidacy for the Oval Office.  Per several reports, authorities late Thursday identified [...] the shooter who allegedly opened fire on the news staff of Maryland's The Capital-Gazette newspaper.  It came out shortly thereafter that [he] had a longstanding battle with the newspaper dating back nearly a decade [...]

Trump [is] Blamed for Death of Reporters.  Did Media Blame Obama for Cop Killers?  A man with a long-standing beef against the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper Capital Gazette entered the paper's headquarters with a shotgun and murdered five staffers.  It represents the deadliest attack on U.S. reporters in modern history.  Before learning about the suspect's mental issues and his long-standing feud with the newspaper, some in the media blamed President Donald Trump.  After all, critics said, Trump routinely denounces "fake news" as an existential threat to our republic.  Connect the dots, they said.  Blame Trump!  CNN aired a montage of Trump's attacks on the media.  Rob Cox, a Reuters editor, tweeted:  "This is what happens when @RealDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people.  Blood is on your hands, Mr. President."  Another reporter, who later resigned, even falsely tweeted that the shooter was wearing a MAGA cap.  How do you get that wrong?

Is the First Amendment an Excuse for SLOPPY, AWFUL Journalism?  As most people know, once speech is "constitutionalized" by discussing public figures, public officials or matters of public concern, the aggrieved party must prove that the publication was issued with "actual malice", defined as "knowing falsity or reckless disregard for the truth."  Understanding the "knowing falsity" prong is simple.  If a publication invented a defamatory allegation out of thin air, they're likely to be ruled against.  Most media entities in that situation will argue in court that the statement isn't really defamatory or isn't really about the complainant.  More often than not when the press loses attempts to have a case dismissed on those grounds they write a check to make the problem go away.  The "reckless disregard" prong is much more difficult to navigate.

Journalists 'Fraudulently' Posed as Translators at Migrant Center, Say Feds.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said "several journalists" claimed to be translators in order to gain access to illegal immigrants being processed by Border Patrol agents after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico.  Two were identified as journalists by officials and turned away.  However, a third successfully gained entry on Tuesday [6/26/2018] and made their way "fraudulently" into the processing center during a time scheduled for attorney-client privileged meetings, CBP officials stated.

Reporter resigns after false tweet that Maryland shooting suspect had MAGA hat.  A reporter in Springfield, Mass., resigned from his job Friday [6/29/2018] after posting a Twitter message falsely stating that Maryland shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos had brought a "Make America Great Again" hat to the office of the Capital Gazette.  Conor Berry, who wrote for the Republican, tweeted an image of a MAGA hat Thursday, and suggested that Ramos had left it behind at the Gazette office after allegedly killing five Gazette employees.

The Editor says...
The only thing missing from this story is a follow-up article two days later in which the central figure says, "Can't you take a joke?"  But there's nothing in the initial coverage of this story that would indicate Mr. Ramos was trying to be funny.  Well, good luck in the used car business.  I mean, now that you're washed up in journalism, what else can you do with a journalism degree?

Reuters editor apologizes, could be disciplined after blaming Capital Gazette shooting on Trump.  A top editor at Reuters apologized on Thursday night [6/28/2018] after blaming President Trump for the deadly Capital Gazette shooting in a now-deleted tweet that was sent during a "state of emotional distress," but he might still be disciplined by the international news service.  Reuters Breakingviews Editor Rob Cox admitted that he "responded emotionally and inappropriately" after being called out for jumping to conclusions prior to the facts emerging.  Police said the suspected gunman, eventually identified as Jarrod W. Ramos, targeted the newspaper after a lengthy feud regarding a 2012 defamation lawsuit.  "This is what happens when [President] Trump calls journalists the enemy of the people.  Blood is on your hands, Mr. President.  Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul," Cox wrote in the deleted tweet, according to TheWrap.

Reporter Who Falsely Claimed Annapolis Shooter Wore MAGA Hat Resigns.  A reporter at a Massachusetts-based newspaper resigned Friday [6/29/2018] after falsely claiming in a tweet Thursday that the man who killed five employees at the Capital Gazzete newspaper left a "Make America Great Again" hat at the crime scene.  "Shooter who killed 4 people at Annapolis newspaper dropped his #MAGA hat on newsroom floor before opening fire," Conor Berry, a reporter at The Republican in Springfield, Mass., wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

Massachusetts Reporter Resigns After Suggesting Killer Was Trump Supporter.  A Massachusetts newspaper reporter has resigned after falsely suggesting the perpetrator of the deadly shooting at a Maryland newspaper was wearing a President Donald Trump-inspired "Make America Great Again" hat.  The Republican newspaper in Springfield reports Conor Berry has apologized for tarnishing the "good work of fair-minded journalists everywhere" in his Friday resignation letter.  Berry tweeted an image of the familiar red hat and suggested 38-year-old Jarrod Ramos had dropped a similar one on The Capital Gazette's newsroom floor before opening fire and killing five people Thursday.  The tweet has since been taken down.

Levin: The media 'create their own reality'.  LevinTV host Mark Levin began his radio show Friday evening [6/22/2018] discussing how the media have inserted ideological progressivism into their news reporting.  "They create their own reality.  And in this case, it's a progressive reality," Levin said of the media.  "And they push it out as news."  He recommended the book The Image:  A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, by the late historian Daniel Boorstin, to explain how the news media attempt to indoctrinate the public.

7 Recent Lies From Media On Emotion-Driven Immigration Debate.  Democrats and the mainstream media continued to destroy any remaining credibility they have left with their recent hysteria surrounding the debate on illegal immigration as they pushed lie after lie in their attempts to emotionally manipulate voters.  Before jumping into the lies and false information that the media and Democrats have injected into the American public, it's important to note the timeline of events that led up to the creation of this current news cycle.  The current news cycle on the poor treatment of illegal immigrants began in late May when people like former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau tweeted out an article from 2014 and falsely insinuated that it was the Trump administration that was responsible for it.

Lying Democrat, Lying MSM on the Border Crisis.  The entire crisis is a lie.  The media is lying! [...] NBC News is reporting nothing but fake news, claiming the President has caused a crisis at the border.  There is a crisis but it is because 50,000 illegal aliens are caught coming through each month and that doesn't count all the illegals not caught.  Tens of thousands of children as young as 4 years of age are being sent alone with cartels by their abusive parents.

ABC Fake News:  "Manafort Pleads Guilty To Five Charges of Manslaughter".  Earlier today [6/20/2018] ABC News broadcast a fake news banner claiming Paul Manafort pleads guilty to five charges of manslaughter.

Fake News and Immigration.  Unfortunately, Fake News is alive and all too well.  This was witnessed in spades this past week as the Fake News media lied through its fangs about the president on immigration.  The Fake Newsies, at least 90% of whom are Democratic Party operatives, waxed hysteria over the separation of Hispanic children from their immigrant parents, i.e. those who entered America illegally through the southern border.  Of course, the blame for all of this was laid at the feet of the president, who was excoriated by his political enemies in Washington D.C. and their apologists and fellow partisans in the Fake News industry for his "zero tolerance" policy.  By now, any remotely honest observer of the political scene should know that the truth is profoundly otherwise than what fake journalists and commentators would have us think.

Thoughts on Crying Babies, Dying Babies, and Media Deception.  The technique is proven and effective.  Put a moving, highly effective, propagandistic photo on the front page (or cover) of your story.  Cause a moral outrage in the public.  Then, several days (or even weeks) later, print a retraction somewhere in the middle of your publication where few will find it:  "We regret publishing a picture with a misleading caption."  It works like a charm!

Here Are The Photos Of Obama's Illegal Immigrant Detention Facilities The Media Won't Show You.  The media and political class become more and more outraged over the Trump administration's decision to detain and prosecute immigrants illegally crossing the border.  Lost in the debate is any acknowledgment that President Obama's administration also used detention facilities.  Current U.S. immigration laws, when enforced, have the consequence of temporarily separating adults who arrive with children into separate detention facilities in order to prosecute the adults.  The policy of prosecuting immigrants for crossing the border illegally has been in place for multiple administrations.  The Obama administration prosecuted half a million illegal immigrants and similarly separated families in the process.  So did the Bush administration.

Trump Speaks, The Media Lies, And The Artist Of The Deal Makes His Move.  The media lies.  That's why there are sites like RedState.  If you could simply turn on the television and trust what you heard, we would be unnecessary.  The same goes for much of the supposed news sources online.  For examples of this, look no further than coverage of the border family separation issue.  Among the mainstream news organizations, there seems to be no adherence to any notion of truth; there is only the media against Trump, which is oftentimes the media against truth.

No child should be used as a protest prop.  Actor Ron Perlman earned nearly 8,000 retweets when he posted a picture of a small crying child in a cage with the words "Trump, Sessions, McConnell, Ryan, this is on YOU!"  When multiple people responded with a link to Snopes informing him that the photo was a fake, and actually of a child at a protest, Perlman tweeted back:  "Maybe it's you!  Maybe you're fake."  The photo told a story he wanted to tell, and the fact that it wasn't real was irrelevant.  As of Thursday, the photo remained up on Perlman's page.  It's what used to be called "fake but accurate" but today goes by President Trump's preferred term, "fake news."  It's just too good to check.

IG Report:  FBI Officials Accepted Bribes From Media.  On Page Xii of the IG report the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) highlights numerous FBI officials who accepted bribes from multiple media outlets including: "tickets to sporting events", "golf outings", "drinks and meals" as well as exclusive invitations and admission to "nonpublic social events".

50 Media Mistakes in the Trump Era:  The Definitive List.  We the media have "fact-checked" President Trump like we have fact-checked no other human being on the planet — and he's certainly given us plenty to write about.  That's probably why it's so easy to find lists enumerating and examining his mistakes, missteps and "lies."  Our repeat mistakes involve declaring that Trump's claims are "lies" when they are matters of opinion, or when the truth between conflicting sources is unknowable; taking Trump's statements and events out of context; reporting secondhand accounts against Trump without attribution as if they're established fact; relying on untruthful, conflicted sources; and presenting reporter opinions in news stories — without labeling them as opinions.

As Snopes 'Debunks' Child Trafficking Camp, 160 Kids as Young as 3 Rescued in Georgia.  A massive sting operation carried out by the FBI in metro Atlanta captured dozens of child traffickers and rescued 160 children who had been forced into sex slavery by their captors.  This news comes as Snopes and the other ostensible arbiters of truth distort information claiming that similar trafficking is taking place in Arizona.  Illustrating the massive scope of the sting, called Operation Safe Summer, it was a collaborative effort between the FBI and 38 other law enforcement agencies from six metro counties.

Bay of Pics:  Media fakery targets Trump with photos of Obama-era child trafficking.  Over the Memorial Day weekend, photos of Central American children at a U.S. holding facility began to appear online.  Democrats and their media allies quickly hailed the pics as the latest exhibit of anti-Trump hysteria.  "Look at these photos," Linda Sarsour tweeted.  "Speechless," tweeted Antonio Villaraigosa, former Los Angeles mayor and candidate for governor of California.  "This is not who we are as a nation." [...] Trouble was, the story was from 2014, long before the Trump administration.  Likewise, As Saagar Enjeti noted in the Daily Caller, the detention center photos "stem from a 2014 Arizona Central story showing migrant children in steel cages.  The cages were implemented at the height of the Central American migrant crisis under the Obama administration."

Left buys into fake news about Martha Stewart refusing Trump pardon.  So did Martha Stewart refuse President Trump's pardon of her, on a maliciously prosecuted insider stock trading case, based on her progressive views?  Nope, not to anyone's knowledge.  But a satirical news site put that out there and sure enough, out on Twitter and elsewhere, much of the left bit into the fake news and passed it around.  Obviously, the satirists knew the left would believe it.

Did the Feds Lose 1,475 Migrant Children?  That's what you would conclude from this USA Today opinion piece headlined, "The feds lost — yes, lost — 1,475 migrant children."  It's a piece that's a pretty good example of how "fake news" works — there's some factual basis for the claim, but it's exaggerated or misunderstood, and then fed into the maw of the perpetual outrage cycle, in this case about the alleged extreme carelessness and heartlessness of the Trump administration toward migrant children.  Some background:  As we all know, in recent years there has been a flood of "unaccompanied children" (UAC) showing up at the border.  The U.S. government attempts to unite UAC with a parent or close relative in the U.S.  The HHS program to do this is longstanding and long pre-dated the Trump administration.  Given the size of the migrant flow, the scale of this task is enormous.

Media Spreads Two New Lies Aimed At Smearing ICE, Trump.  Multiple journalists, activists, and former Obama administration officials spread blatant falsehoods during Memorial Day weekend aimed at smearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Trump administration.  The first false claim involved a news report showing photos of children in detention centers lying on floors that CNN's Hadas Gold, former Obama official Jon Favreau, Shaun King, and Linda Sarsour all shared and promoted as being recent when, in fact, the photos were from 2014, during the Obama administration.

The Latest Whopper — The FBI Was Actually Trying to 'Protect Trump'.  The Deep State has been weaving its own tangled web of Russian collusion for the past two years beginning with Russia supposedly hacking the 2016 election, creating the electoral outcome they desired.  It has since morphed into Trump colluding with the Russians, despite zero proof on the one-year anniversary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's free-for-all investigation by his merry band of partisan Democrats.  It's now to the point that Mueller's team is investigating anyone in Trump's circle who ever ate a bowl of borscht or drank a sip of Russian vodka.  At a time when this couldn't get any more ridiculous, look no further than the Washington Post for a version of "can you top this?"

Who's An Animal?  Scarcely a day goes by without the news media lying about the president and his administration.  No wonder trust in the press is at an all-time low.  It should be.

Why the left buys into every anti-Israel smear.  Eight armed Hamas terrorists fought Israeli troops last Monday [5/14/2018].  All were killed — then counted in the day's death toll of "60 protesters."  Hamas itself identified 50 of the 60 "martyrs" as Hamas members and admitted to "terminological deception," because it was deploying "peaceful resistance bolstered by a military force."  The widespread condemnations of Israel caused by characterizing those 50 violent fence-invaders as "peaceful" suggests how Palestinians are playing so many for dupes.  Reporters love playing the "peaceful, oppressed protesters-of-color" against "the armed, white, persecuting soldiers" card (even though there are many dark-skinned Israelis and light-skinned Palestinians; the conflict is national not racial).  Images of flak-jacketed Israeli soldiers and injured Palestinians trigger waves of simplistic stereotypes.  Suddenly, the Palestinians are Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi and Black Lives Matter all in one.

Liberal Lies And Slanders Are A Slippery Slope To Trouble.  [Scroll down]  It's a bad faith strawman strategy, and it often manifests itself in the New Obtuseness, the stubborn insistence that what someone just said is something entirely different than what he actually said.  It's basically fancy lying.  The New Obtuseness was in full effect recently when Trump called MS-13 dirtbags "animals."  Despite the video of him discussing these evil gangbanging scum, the liberals and their media windowlickers insisted that he was calling all illegal aliens "animals."  And they knew it wasn't true — they just lied, knowingly and intentionally.  They do it all the time.  We, presumably, are supposed to disbelieve our own lying eyes and ears.

Anatomy of a Smear:  How the Media Created a Malicious Lie About Trump's 'Animals' Comment.  On Wednesday afternoon [5/16/2018], President Donald Trump hosted a "California sanctuary state roundtable" discussion at the White House.  Infamously, he referred to violent MS-13 gang members as "animals."  Americans wouldn't get that impression from reading Thursday's headlines, however.  "Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants 'Animals' in Rant," screamed The New York Times's Julie Hirschfeld Davis.  Her article referenced MS-13 only once, buried as an aside in the third paragraph:  "He exhorted his administration to 'do much better' in keeping out undesirable people, including members of transnational gangs like MS-13."  USA TODAY ran with the headline "Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants:  'These aren't people.  These are animals.'"  To their credit, Gregory Corte and Alan Gomez included a bit more context than The New York Times did.  Even so, MS-13 did not come up until the fourth paragraph, and the opening sentence suggested that the president was "calling undocumented immigrants 'animals.'"

CNN Says There Have Been 22 School Shootings This Year.  That's A Lie.  CNN used the following parameters for their count:
  •   A shooting that involved at least one person being shot (not including the shooter)
  •   A shooting that occurred on school grounds
  •   We included grades K through college/university level
  •   We included gang violence, fights and domestic violence
  •   We included accidental discharge of a firearm as long as the first two parameters are met
So, in other words, not mass shootings; not even purposeful shootings; not even shootings involving children.  If a gang member shot another gang member on school grounds during the summer, this would count as a school shooting.  If a wife shot a husband at a school, they counted it.

White House Correspondents' Association Exposed Regularly Spends About 85% of WHCD Revenue on Annual Party, Not Scholarships.  The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) has long-cited its scholarships for aspiring journalists to justify the tax-exempt charitable status of its blow-out, televised annual dinner, but only a small fraction of the IRS-designated 501(c)(3) organization's fundraising is awarded to students.  Last year, just 13.4 percent of the White House Correspondents' Dinner's revenue went to scholarships.

Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans.  One Problem:  He's Not Real.  Drew Cloud is everywhere.  The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe,, and CNBC, and is a fixture in the smaller, specialized blogosphere of student debt. [...] After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Cloud's existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake.  "Drew Cloud is a pseudonym that a diverse group of authors at Student Loan Report, LLC use to share experiences and information related to the challenges college students face with funding their education," wrote Nate Matherson, CEO of LendEDU.  Before that admission, however, Cloud had corresponded at length with many journalists, pitching them stories and offering email interviews, many of which were published.

Fake News Takes Down Another Good Man:  Dr. Ronny Jackson Resigns as White House Doctor After Liberal Lies.  Democrat Senator Jon Tester led the charge last week spreading false rumors against Trump VA pick Admiral Ronny Jackson.  Tester played point man to smear and slander Admiral Jackson with false allegations of inappropriate behavior.  Admiral Jackson withdrew his nomination after the false allegations were released and shared widely by the liberal mainstream media.  The Secret Service later came out and said the allegations were completely false.

Who Was Worse — Michelle Wolf or Her Audience?  [Scroll down]  It's the Golden Age of Leaking, not Journalism. [...] The role of the press in the whole Christopher Steele dossier business would simply be nauseating if it weren't sinister.  When the full story of the suborning of the FISA court in an attempt to bring down a sitting president is finally fully revealed, the despicable role of the press, how they allowed themselves to be used, even encouraged it, will be uncomfortably evident.

The New York Times' Hatchet Job On Devin Nunes Is Riddled With Errors.  Jason Zengerle publicly announced his profile of Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., in today's [4/29/2018] New York Times Sunday Magazine with the snarky tweet, "My latest for the @NYTmag on Devin Nunes, who's been propagating, not to mention falling for, conspiracy theories since before the Deep State was even in a gleam in Donald Trump's eye."  It's an accurate summation of the hit he attempted to place on Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).  The only problem is the case he attempts to make is riddled with errors and full of embarrassing and deliberate material omissions.

Leftist Propaganda Thwarts Unity.  In Nazi Germany, the people believed, right up to the bitter end, that they were going to win the war.  They did so because all the news they got was from state-controlled media.  In North Korea, until very recently, most people thought that, even though they were starving to death, the people in South Korea had it much worse.  Once again, they believed so because the state controlled the media and fed them lies.  Only with the availability of illegal cell phones from China did the people start to learn just how good life was elsewhere.  During the Cold War, citizens of the Soviet Union believed that Americans lived in poverty.  After all, didn't all the papers say so?  Today in America, we have a similar situation.

Don't Be Misled by the Media, Cuba Isn't Changing.  After the nominal change in Cuba's leadership, the New York Times managed to come out with the most New York Times headline ever:  "More Black Officials in Power in Cuba as Leadership Changes."  The Los Angeles Times demanded that as Castro era "ends" in Cuba, so should the U.S. embargo.  NPR followed hopefully, and Buzzfeed provided a romanticized photo spread.  Reading such affectionate and hopeful portrayals might make one want to believe that Cuba really is currently undergoing a transformation that will define its future.  I hate to shatter that optimism, but Cuba isn't changing, and American policymakers and media really shouldn't be so naïve and optimistic about it.

The New York Times Best-Seller List:  Another Reason Americans Don't Trust The Media.  About half the American people do not believe the mainstream media tell the truth.  They believe the media are more interested in promoting their left-wing views than reporting the truth. [...] In order to think it is mere coincidence, you have to believe The New York Times more than reality itself, which about half the country seems to.  While The Times occasionally lists conservative books and, very rarely, religious books, after comparing the list and the BookScan list, the Observer concluded in 2016:  "If you happen to work for The New York Times and have a book out, your book is more likely to stay on the list longer and have a higher ranking than books not written by New York Times employees. ... If you happen to have written a conservative-political-leaning book, you're more likely to be ranked lower and drop off the list faster than those books with a more liberal political slant."  In other words, The New York Times best-seller list is not a best-seller list — which even The New York Times once acknowledged.

Caravan?  What Caravan?  As everyone knows, a "caravan" of more than 1,000 Hondurans is making its way North through Mexico toward the United States.  This caravan had sought, and drawn, a great deal of publicity before President Trump began talking about it. [...] Weirdly, the liberal media pretended to have no idea what the President was talking about.

A Tale of Black Racism.  The Philly media, like the media elsewhere, makes much of gentrification.  Philadelphians are forever hearing about what a social evil it is. [...] Constantly propagating notions such as white supremacy, white privilege, gentrification, and others, the media creates a kind of toxic intellectual air.  Unhappy people breathe it in, and the result is all sorts of mad beliefs.  It is as if being white guaranteed a middle-class existence.  It is as if being black meant that personal failure is not even a possibility; in place of it there is always some white discrimination or other.

77% believe the media lies.  "More than 3-in-4 Americans believe that traditional major TV and newspaper media outlets report Fake News, including 31% who believe this happens regularly and 46% who say it happens occasionally.  The 77% who believe fake news reporting happens at least occasionally has increased significantly from 63% of the public who felt that way last year," Monmouth University reported.  That is a fundamental threat to our republic.  The media keeps telling us we need informed voters — and then it misinforms voters.  Repeatedly.

Poll: 77 Percent Believe Traditional Media Guilty of Fake News.  According to a survey by the Monmouth University Polling Institute, the vast majority of Americans believe that mainstream media outlets report "fake news."  A whopping 77 percent of over 800 respondents relayed their distrust for major news organizations in both television and print — a marked increase from the 63 percent that was already skeptical a year ago.  Of those, 31 percent believe it to be a regular occurrence, while 46 percent see it as a more occasional issue.

You've Been Hoodwinked. (Perhaps.).  My friends on the far left are convinced that Sinclair anchors reading a national promo is Hitler-esque Orwellian brainwashing.  My friends on the far right are happy and hopeful that Sinclair might, indeed, be pushing conservative views.  Those in the middle don't care or seem to think it's much ado about nothing.

The Herd Media Stampedes Sinclair.  In an unguarded moment during the 2016 campaign, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski remarked that it is "our job," not Trump's, to "control exactly what people think."  The Sinclair Broadcast Group referenced that line in its promo.  But the news accounts of the phony controversy over the promo never mention that Brzezinski did in fact make that outrageous comment.  Unless I missed it, Brzezinski herself didn't acknowledge the reference to the comment she made.  Gripping her chair like a Victorian fainting couch, Brzezinski found the promo "frightening."  But beneath the hysterical blather was nothing more than the hurt feelings of an exposed liberal propagandist.  Sinclair had nailed her and she didn't like it.  It is rich farce to see the herd media stampeding Sinclair for refusing to join it.  How dare Sinclair read its own script and not ours!  That's the demand implicit in the media's temper tantrum, all while journalists pontificate about the importance of a "free press."

The Knee-Jerk Liberals Spit At Sinclair.  [Scroll down]  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamelessly lectured that it is like the days of Pravda in the Soviet Union:  "A national broadcasting system that is shoving propaganda down local anchors' throats straight from the pen of somebody who's a Trump acolyte," he stated hysterically, "is really, really chilling."  Chilling?  This man appears on a national broadcasting system pushing propaganda daily.  A network whose motto in former President Obama's years was "Lean Forward" (which sounded like former Communist Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward) and that passes judgment on propaganda is why networks like Sinclair have emerged.  On HBO, John Oliver denounced Sinclair anchors as sounding like "members of a brainwashed cult."  So, exactly how do anchors of news or entertainment shows across the country deliver their reports?  Oliver doesn't have a script?

The Editor says...
This story is about a corporate-mandated editorial that was supposed to run on every station owned by Sinclair.  It appears that each station put its most trusted news anchors on camera and had them read the prescribed script.  Dave Chiselface and Suzie Plastique make a lot of money, and they'll read whatever they're told to read — with a smile.  Any resemblance to sincerity is the product of Dave and Suzie's acting skills.  It's a story about media dishonesty only because it's an editorial comment disguised as a promo, and because the typical viewer doesn't know that all the other TV stations owned by the same company are airing the same editorial.

News Anchors At Sinclair Owned Stations Caught Reading From Same Corporate Mandated Script.  Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns nearly 200 local television stations across the country as well as a wide variety of other assets in radio and online media, is under scrutiny this morning after video emerged of local anchors at a number of the stations it owns reading what appears to be a corporate-prepared script that touches on the whole so-called "fake news" phenomenon.

Brilliant Agitprop Outlines Modern Media.  [Video clip]

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Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script.  It may not have seemed strange to individual viewers.  But Timothy Burke, the video director at Deadspin, had read a report last month from CNN, which quoted local station anchors who were uncomfortable with the speech.  Mr. Burke tracked down the Sinclair affiliates and found when they had aired what he called a "forced read."

Sociologist: Less Than 10 Percent Of March For Our Lives Participants Were Children.  A sociologist on MSNBC threw cold water on all the media's claims that the March For Our Lives protests were spontaneous and led by the nation's children during a "Morning Joe" segment on Monday [3/26/2018].  University of Maryland sociologist Dana Fisher conducted a study of the demographics of Saturday's march in Washington, D.C., and discovered that only less than 10 percent of those in the crowd were under the age of 18.  While Fisher tried to make it sound like these individuals were all potential voters, it is likely that many of those who showed up were simply run-of-the-mill liberal activists.

A User's Guide To Media Coverage Of Political Protests.  [L]iberal protests are somehow not political.  When co-host Meghan McCain stated the facts on these marches on "The View" — a show that advocates passing gun control legislation and sticking it to the National Rifle Association — Whoopi Goldberg was outraged.  She said:  "Let's stick to what this particular march is today. ... It's not political."  What will Whoopi claim next?  That "The View" isn't political either?  The Women's March organizers of this walkout wanted to protest not just gun violence but also racism, police brutality and how "the United States has exported gun violence through imperialist foreign policy to destabilize other nations."  That's superpolitical.

The Corporate War on Free Speech.  [T]his same media weren't nearly as shrill about the fact that an alleged Black Lives Matter supporter blew away five cops in Dallas in 2016.  This was after BLM-inspired rioting and beatings across the country that were based on dubious half-truths peddled by the same media about a series of incidents that turned out to be much more complicated once the facts slowly leaked out.  Hands up, don't shoot?  He was just buying Skittles?  He couldn't breathe, even though he was able to say he couldn't breathe eleven times?  Assigning guilt is a slippery and often slimy business, but one might plausibly argue that the way the mainstream media has purposely sculpted sensational racial narratives has in some way led to, or at least enabled, acts of violence and even murder.  Despite — or maybe even because of — all that, corporate media stand firmly and proudly behind groups such as Black Lives Matter.

The Fake Leading the Fake.  Are we watching what's left of Western civilization drive itself nuts?  Not just Trump, but a whole cast of strange Washington figures daily appear on TV, saying the most astonishing things.  Even the subject matter of public discourse has gone weird.  Shrillness and hysteria are the order of the day.  Every statement is shouted in capital letters.  Nor is there any harbor to be found in social media, only more paranoia — amplified by Russian trolls admired perhaps by fake rental followers from India.  There is even fake music.  The watchers have been contaminated.  Newsweek has been accused of falsifying their audience traffic.  It is now a case of the fake following the fake.

Sharyl Attkisson Explains the Origins of the 2016 'Fake News' Narrative.  In a Tedx Talk at the University of Nevada a couple of weeks ago (watch the video below) investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson revealed the origins of the "fake news" narrative that was aggressively pushed by the liberal media and Democrat politicians during the 2016 election, and how it was later flipped by President Donald Trump.  Attkisson pointed out that "fake news" in the form of tabloid journalism and false media narratives has always been around under different names.  But she noticed that in 2016, there seemed to be a concerted effort by the MSM to focus America's attention on the idea of "fake news" in conservative media.  That looked like a propaganda effort to Attkisson, so she did a little digging and traced the new spin to a little non-profit called "First Draft," which, she said, "appears to be the about the first to use 'fake news' in its modern context."

The Editor says...
I don't know what Tedx is.  Nor do I care.

Fake News Flashback:  CNN Declared Trump 'Bonkers' for Saying Clinton, Dems Behind Dossier.  Writing for the far-left CNN back in October, Chris Cillizza declared President Donald Trump "bonkers" and "crazy" for suggesting what turned out to be 100 percent true:  that the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, the FBI, and Russia, were all behind what is known as the "Russian dossier."

Muslim gets life for killing Denver transit guard who was also a pastor.  Despite the evidence, the media refuses to headline their articles with the truth.  That's why they are rightfully called fake news.  CBS and many others titled it "Ex-soldier" instead of "Muslim jihadist."

Confronting Leftist Lies.  Movies and TV shows are no longer mindless entertainment.  Ninety-nine percent of what comes out of Hollywood is lies; designed to seduce Americans into embracing Leftists' ungodly agenda.  Hollywood relentlessly demonizes Christians, America, mainstream Americans, and Trump. [...] The 6 o'clock news was on the TV in the background while I was chatting with a relative at his home Folks, it was a truly painful experience.  Every news story was liberal spin and/or lies.  Programming after the news was seductive liberal propaganda.  I watched my relatives unknowingly soaking in all the Leftist beautifully presented excrement.

The Nunes Memo: Just an Opening Act.  Wonder of wonders, the liberal press, long opposed to prior restraint when it comes to publishing material on American intelligence, is howling about the release of the Intelligence Committee memo.  They're suddenly concerned, we're supposed to believe, about damage to national security and the institutional well-being of the FBI.  Democrats and their media allies, notes Roger Simon, have pushed themselves into a corner.  They can't decide whether the best approach is to insist that the memo is a "nothing-burger" or a mortal danger to the country.

Journalism is Dead.  This week we saw a perfect example of how corrupt journalism has become.  There was an opportunity to report the news and journalists and their fellow travelers in the pundit class balked.  While that wasn't unusual, what was is how they did it in the lead up to the news, not bothering to wait until they'd seen what they were attempting to discredit. [...] The lying by Democrats in the lead up to the memo's release wasn't surprising, nor was the complicity of journalists in spreading that lie.  What was is how there was virtually no curiosity or interest in the memo and its contents in the days leading to its release from the people whose job it is supposed to be to convey information to the public.  All journalists did was attempt to taint it's release so as to foster disinterest in it in their audience when they could finally see it.

Transcript Shows The Daily Beast Peddled Fake News About Devin Nunes.  Once again, reporters got burned by believing anonymous Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.  Betsy Woodruff and Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast credulously believed their "sources familiar with the exchange," who said Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, refused to deny he had coordinated with the White House when putting together a memo alleging surveillance and law enforcement abuses at the FBI.  In fact, Nunes explicitly denied the charge before shutting down the line of questioning in order to provide other members who were not trying to hijack the hearing time to get actual committee business done.

The Tet Offensive Revisited:  Media's Big Lie.  Josef Goebbels called it the Big Lie, the deliberate misrepresentation of facts and reality in order to achieve a political objective.  It's been part and parcel of the New World Disorder we've lived under for the past century, ever since Vladimir Lenin first used a Big Lie to disguise his seizure of power from Russia's post-czar provisional government in November 1917, by telling the Russian people he was preventing a coup not perpetrating one.  America's first major encounter with the Big Lie, with all its disastrous consequences, started 50 years ago today, when the American mainstream media — CBS and the other networks, plus the New York Times and the Washington Post — decided to turn the major Communist Tet offensive against U.S. forces and South Vietnam on January 30, 1968, into an American defeat, rather than what it actually was:  a major American victory.

"I love Trump for being frank with Africans".  Conan O'Brien went to a resort in Haiti to prove it is not a [bad] country.  The people who live there know better than the tourists.  Conan's trip was too clever by half.  Inadvertently, he showed himself as a white guy millionaire with a Harvard degree sipping an adult beverage from some sort of coconut shell — while nearby, one million native people are still without sewers eight years after the earthquake.  How is this different from the colonialism Haitians overthrew 227 years ago?

Media lying about McConnell to help save face for Chuck Schumer.  Chuck Schumer has a huge problem, and his friends in the mainstream media are pitching in to help — with lies.  Now that he has caved in on the Schumer Shutdown, the radicals who dominate his party are angry and demanding protection for the DACA illegal aliens, and Schumer has promised to oppose funding the border wall that he had earlier discussed supporting in return for action in DACA.  But instead of reporting on the disarray among the Democrats, the narrative just has to be that the evil Republicans engaged in perfidy.

Poll Shows Public Waking Up to Media Lies About GOP Tax Plan.  Now that a little thing called economic reality has overtaken months of dishonest media reporting about the Republican tax bill signed into law by President Trump last month, a plurality of 47 percent support the bill, while only 34 percent remain opposed.  This is a huge (and predicable) turnaround when compared to those polls released in the heart of the media campaign to kill the tax bill.

Bloomberg wins Fake News of the week.  Bloomberg broke a story just as the New York Stock Exchange began trading on Wednesday [1/10/2018]:  ["]China Weighs Slowing or Halting Purchases of U.S. Treasuries["]  The story turned out to be the latest in a string of Fake News reports by a news organization owned by Mike Bloomberg, whose opposition to President Trump knows no bounds[.]  Bloomberg's anger at Trump has rendered his company unreliable when it comes to financial news.

Poor Hillary Clinton.  Until 2016, none had thought to make it an issue of gender, largely because one gender had been shared by all comers.  But in 2016, that was changed by the serious entry of Hillary Clinton, who managed to lose to Donald Trump against all odds.  Afterward, she blamed her female sex for the loss, after first blaming FBI Director James Comey. [...] Recent history is rife with examples of people whose very rough treatment (by Hillary's allies) make her tribulations seem tame.  In 2012, Mitt Romney, a Dudley Do-Right if ever there was one, was slammed by the press and the Democrats as a sadist (for transporting his dog on the roof of his car); as a bully (for cutting the hair of a classmate in prep school); as a murderer (for causing the wife of a worker to expire from cancer); as dismissive of females (for using the phrase "binders of women" to refer to resumes given to him by people as possible candidates for government jobs).

New York Times Gets the Facts Wrong on Land Mines.  According to the Times, 8,605 people were injured or killed in 2016 by land mines and "other booby-trap explosives."  Well, 8,605 is the ICBL's headline figure, no doubt about that.  But were all those people actually injured or killed by land mines?  Absolutely not.  If you turn to page 57 of the ICBL's report, you'll find that only 732 people were injured or killed by an anti-personnel land mine, another 495 by an anti-vehicle mine, and another 538 by an "unspecified" mine.  That's 1,765 people, not 8,605.  The Times says that casualties to land mines are rising.  But the ICBL's report says that in 2015, 2,002 people were injured or killed by these kinds of mines.  So casualties are actually down by 237, not up.

The History of Fake News in the United States.  Fake news isn't suddenly ruining America, but putting government in charge of deciding what news is fake will.  In the wake of President Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election, numerous media outlets ran stories claiming that many websites had published false stories that helped Trump beat Hillary Clinton.  Since then Left-leaning opinion writers have called for a solution to this alleged epidemic.  The New York Times reported last January that Silicon Valley giants Facebook and Google will team up with legacy media outlets to fact-check stories and curtail the proliferation of "fake news."  However, intentionally misleading news has been around since before the invention of the printing press.

Alarmed by fake news, states push media literacy in schools.  Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction.

Half of all Americans believe the media make up anti-Trump stories.  Nearly half of all Americans believe media outlets fabricate negative stories about President Trump, according to a new survey.  Forty-four percent of respondents in the 2017 Poynter Media Trust Survey say the media invent "fake news" to make the president look bad.  Of that cohort, 24 percent say negative stories about Mr. Trump are made up "about half of the time"; 14 percent "most of the time"; and 6 percent "all of the time."  Seventy-seven percent of that cohort are Trump supporters, and 74 percent are Republicans.

CNN is a race-baiting, anti-Trump network.  Leave it to the mainstream media to concoct some sort of wild-eyed theory that President Trump's promise to say "Merry Christmas" is some sort of coded language for white nationalism and white supremacy.  CNN host Don Lemon was among the most high-profile mainstream media minions to advance the race-baiting narrative.

Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award 2017.  How can a writer sitting at home, whether in Beirut or London, possibly get the full picture using a computer or a telephone for his or her information?  The Independent's Mideast correspondent, Bethan McKernan, is based in Beirut.  The overwhelming majority of her articles about Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Turkey, Libya, and the Gulf states in 2017 had Beirut datelines.

MSNBC's Katy Tur Wrongly Claims Trump Hasn't Had a Press Conference Lately.  Pam Key at Breitbart reported that Friday on MSNBC, host Katy Tur said it was "laughable" that President Donald Trump had only had one solo press conference in his first year.  "He's been dodging questions from the press for months now, really.  He hasn't had a press conference since what, February?" she asked NBC's Kristen Welker.  "That is laughable.  It's laughable, Kris, that the president can't stand in front of the press and take questions from the press."  This is self-evidently untrue.

The Death Of Science Journalism.  There was a time when Americans trusted the news.  How times have changed.  According to Gallup, Americans' trust in the media has fallen from 72% in 1976 to 32% in 2016.  The partisan divide is striking:  Trust among Democrats (51%) is higher than among Independents (30%) and Republicans (14%).  When asked their opinion of the honesty and ethics of various professions, journalists perform rather poorly, ranking below chiropractors and bankers and just above lawyers.  The partisan divide is easy to explain.  Among journalists, Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 4 to 1.  It's naive to believe that such a partisan imbalance has no effect on the tone or quality of press coverage.  However, it is doubtful that fact alone accounts for the widespread distrust of journalists.  After all, among scientists, Democrats outnumber Republicans by 9 to 1, but the public still respects them.  So, what's going on?  In a word:  Lying.  Many journalists have an ideological axe to grind, and if the truth is on their side, great.  If not, who cares?  Instead of the "L-word," civilized people are supposed to use euphemisms, such as "one-sided" or "not the whole story."  But let's put the faux propriety aside.  Purposefully presenting only half the story is a form of lying.

Five ways the media tries to convince us tax cuts are bad.  To hear the media tell it, tax cuts are Bad For You and you won't like the result.  Pay no attention to the fact that the cost of living is up, the government is bigger, incomes have stagnated, large corporations are no longer creating jobs, and the U.S. hasn't had a major tax cut since 1986.  Somehow, we are all supposed to believe tax cuts which put more of our own money in our pockets, will make us miserable.  It's the most fallacious collection of up-is-down arguments ever assembled.

NY Times Reports Obama Only Told 18 Falsehoods During Entire Presidency.  A recent New York Times analysis claims that over his eight years in office, former President Barack Obama only told 18 distinct lies.  The Times set out to compare the trustworthiness of Obama compared to President Donald Trump.  "In his first 10 months in office, [Trump] has told 103 separate untruths, many of them repeatedly.  Obama told 18 over his entire eight-year tenure," the piece reads.  On the list are some of Obama's most well-known whoppers, including "If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan," and that he "didn't set a red line" on Syria's use of chemical weapons.  By contrast, fact-checker Politifact ruled that over the course of his presidency, Obama made 43 "false" statements and 48 "mostly false" statements.  Politifact also identified 7 "pants on fire" statements, which are falsehoods that are "not accurate and make a ridiculous claim."

Fake Truth.  Last week, ABC News erroneously reported that Michael Flynn, in a supposed new role of cooperation with the prosecution, was prepared to testify that Trump, while still a candidate, ordered him improperly to contact (and, by inference, to collude with) Russian government officials.  For a while, the startling news sent the stock market into a fall of over 300 points.  Was the purported pro-business Trump agenda shortly to be derailed by "proof" of a possible impeachable offense?  A little while later, however, ABC was forced to retract that story, to suspend Brian Ross (the reporter involved), and to offer a correction that Trump actually had been president-elect at the time of the contact and completely within his elected purview to reach out to foreign governments.

Because they won't do it themselves...
Trump is cleaning up journalism.  The first ten days of December have seen:
  [#1] ABC News's Brian Ross lie about General Flynn's plea bargain.
  [#2] Reuters and Bloomberg News report on an imaginary subpoena of Trump's records at a German bank.
  [#3] CNN lie about Donald Trump Junior being tipped off about a WikiLeaks.
  [#4] David Weigel of the Washington Post lie about the size of the crowd at a Trump rally.
Liars all of them.  Byron Tau of the Wall Street Journal tweeted:  "CNN corrects its earlier report, which appears to be an honest error from two excellent reporters."

CNN: False Reporting is the New Normal.  The fact is, the media is not trying to report the news, they are trying to control the narrative.  They know that even false reporting puts a certain line of thinking in the minds of the audience.  Even lies can get people to think what you want them to think, if you apply it properly.

All The Proof You'll Ever Need That America's Media Really Are 'Fake News'.  There need be no doubt anymore:  America's mainstream news media hypes fake news — and that's a fact.  This past week was disastrous for the press.  A slew of fake stories rained down, pushed by anxious anchormen placed in powerful posts.  And we want to note before we go on, that ALL of this happened in a single week. [...] On Saturday [12/9/2017], a Washington Post reporter tweeted out a photo of a rally Trump was holding in Florida, which showed a half-empty Pensacola Bay Center.  But the photo was taken long before the president spoke — when the entire arena was packed to the gills.

Wow!  Trump fights back, forces public apology from Washington Post writer for fake news.  [Dave] Weigel, for those who do not remember, was a central figure in JournOlist, the invitation-only online conspiracy among progressive journalists to manipulate news coverage in their favor.  He was allowed to resign from the Washington Post for that activity, only to be hired back in 2015, once that paper become the political tool of the world's richest (or second or third richest — depending on Amazon's daily stock price) man, Jeff Bezos.  This is the capstone for a catastrophic week for Trump's opponents in the mainstream media, forced to withdraw and apologize for multiple stories attacking the POTUS.

Trump Blasts WaPo's Dave Weigel After Reporter Heckles Him with Fake Photo.  The context here is crucially important:  [#1] The photo Weigel published was taken before the Trump rally began.  And, as you will see below, Weigel knew he was publishing a photo not taken during the actual rally.  [#2] Weigel, who identifies as an objective reporter, is not only publishing a misleading photo, but the link at the top of his now-deleted tweet proves that he is responding directly to one of Trump's tweets — in other words, he is publicly heckling the president personally.  [#3] By responding directly to the president in this way, Weigel is openly taunting Trump, even going so far as to troll the president with his own "packed to the rafters" comment.  Even if the photo had been a legitimate representation of the crowd-size, directly jeering the president in this way is still outrageous behavior from anyone who describes himself as a legitimate journalist.

'They all knew': Media elites roared in laughter at obscene 2008 'roast' sending up Matt Lauer's office sexcapades.  Embattled NBC executives have been falling over themselves, insisting they had no idea about Matt Lauer's pervy past.  But if anyone doubts that New York's media elite was aware of Lauer's reputation, they should look no further than a top-secret "roast" of Lauer that took place in October 2008.  The notorious event — now legendary in New York media circles — pushed the outer limits of sexist, racist, homophobic and obscene jokes — and left little doubt that Lauer's colleagues knew NBC's biggest star had a troubled marriage and a wandering eye.

Brian Ross Should Be Fired.  It's a classic journalistic mistake to try and be first to report something before it's verified.  But in the Trump era, when liberals believe the president is a uniquely dangerous threat to America — and even the world — any news that could lead to speculation about Trump's impeachment or resignation is like catnip.  Journalists are prone to overhype anything that could spell "The End."  This suspension might have been an adequate punishment ... if Ross hadn't already made a long line of whoppers.

Brian Ross's Jackknife on the Information Superhighway.  The advertised rage among executives at ABC is hard to take seriously.  Ross, after all, has long been paid by them to slap together politically useful smears.  They are just upset that he got caught on this one.  Were they not in an optics war with Trump, they wouldn't have punished him at all.  To understand the hackish and biased culture at ABC from which a rodent like Ross emerged, all one has to do is watch the hysterically jubilant treatment The View gave his "breaking news."  That moment deserves a special place in the annals of media jackassery.  A producer, in mid-show, momentously brought the report out to its cackling host Joy Behar, who read it like a telegram announcing the end of World War II.  After she tremulously read the report aloud, she threw it up in the air like confetti as the other panelists hooted with delight.

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ABC News is not on the Information Superhighway.  ABC News is part of the old business-route highway that stops every two minutes for advertising, and only delivers news at a pace determined by ABC News, not by you.  The Information Superhighway bypasses ABC News, for the most part, enabling you to find as much information in five minutes as ABC News dribbles out in a day.

Media meltdown and the damage it does to democracy.  Relying on the supposedly respectable news media would have left you believing that the FBI found President Trump urging national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact Russia during the campaign (it didn't), that Trump national security aide K.T. McFarland wrote that Russia threw the election to Trump (she didn't), and that Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, blasted sick, poor children as slackers (he didn't).  These false or misleading stories, all of which, not coincidentally, disparaged Republicans, were parroted and retweeted and broadcast by countless reporters before being completely debunked.  Countless readers and viewers still don't realize that the stories produced by this sloppy reporting are false.

Sick and Tired of Schumer and Others Continually Lying about Tax Cuts and Debt.  What makes me sicker is that almost all reporters just repeat Schumer's talking points as if they are factual.  They repeat the outright lies over and over again, and then after indoctrinating the readers with pure garbage, they take a poll of fewer than 1,000 people, skewed with more Democrats than Republicans, to show that the people aren't in favor of reform.  Then they run the poll results as if they are somehow factual news.  Reporters should be truly ashamed of themselves for pushing an agenda instead of ever even considering reporting actual results of previous tax cuts.

The Mainstream Media Doesn't Deserve Our Respect or Our Trust.  You mainstream media hacks want trust and respect?  Maybe you shouldn't Tweet out instructions to contact Senators to defeat the tax bill like the New York Times just did.  Maybe you should stop covering for the off-camera leering and grabbing and pinching of the talking heads who excoriate Trump for misogyny.  Maybe you should stop hiring journalists who are ex-Obama flunkies.  Maybe you shouldn't email offers of assistance to Democrat campaigns.  Maybe you should stop lying to us.

ABC's Brian Ross again under fire for explosive error on Trump, Flynn.  ABC's famously error-prone chief investigative correspondent, Brian Ross was at it again on Friday when the network was forced to issue an embarrassing correction when Ross botched a bombshell "exclusive" about retired general Michael Flynn.  An ABC spokesperson declined to comment on whether Ross will be disciplined.  He has not been sanctioned for past errors.  Ross's report, delivered live to ABC stations during a "special report" on Friday, said that Flynn would testify that Donald Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy while he was still a candidate — which raised the specter of impeachment and sent the Dow careening down.

ABC News suspends Brian Ross for 4 weeks over erroneous Flynn story.  ABC News announced Saturday [12/2/2017] that it has suspended investigative reporter Brian Ross for four weeks without pay after Ross was forced to correct a bombshell on-air report about Michael Flynn.  "We deeply regret and apologize for the serious error we made yesterday.  The reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during the special report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process," ABC said in a statement.

ABC News corrects bombshell Flynn report.  ABC News on Friday evening [12/1/2017] corrected an explosive special report that aired in the morning saying that Donald Trump, as a candidate for president, had asked Michael Flynn to make contact with Russians.  During "World News Tonight," ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross said the source who had provided the initial information for his story later told him that it was as president-elect, not as a candidate, that Trump asked Flynn to contact the Russians.

Flashback: Brian Ross Had To Apologize For Report Suggesting Mass Shooter Was Tea Party Member.  ABC News' Brian Ross made a serious error in reporting on Friday [12/1/2017] when he claimed that Michael Flynn was set to testify that then-candidate Donald Trump told him to contact Russian officials.  After waiting the entire day, ABC News issued a major retraction on the report as it was discovered that is was not in fact candidate Donald Trump who told Flynn to contact Russian officials but president-elect Trump that instructed him to do so.  ABC News significantly downplayed the serious mistake in reporting, calling the retraction merely a "clarification."

ABC's Brian Ross Entirely Misleads All Media on Flynn Story — ABC Desperately Backtracks.  You might remember ABC's Brian Ross for previously making the absurd on-air claim that Colorado mass shooter James Holmes was a Tea Party member.  He completely made up the story, and later apologized.  Well, today [12/1/2017] ABC News Brian Ross again appeared directly on ABC World News to break a story claiming that candidate Donald Trump told campaign adviser Michael Flynn to make contact with Russians.

The Democratic Party Is Dead.  For years, we have been hearing that the Republican Party was on the ropes: when Bill Clinton won in 1992 and 1996; when Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012; when the tea party launched in 2009; when Texas Senator Ted Cruz and company shut down the federal government for a few days in 2013.  (Remember when we were told that voters were going to "punish" Republicans in 2014? Yeah, that was right before they handed the GOP control of the House and Senate.)  When Donald Trump roared into the primaries in 2015 and knocked out his more — shall we say — traditional GOP rivals one by one, and even (perhaps especially) since Donald Trump's election, the media's go-to narrative has been how the Republican Party is fragmented and crumbling.  Now we know that it's the Democratic Party that's rotting from within.

Video on the Media Lies and Misinformation on Sutherland Springs Shooting.  Steven Crowder does a good job in dissecting the media's willful ignorance about the Sutherland Springs mass killing and citizen intervention.  [Video clip]

Gunfight, Home Invader Killed, Headline:  Victim Identified.  Many self defense shootings are not reported in the media.  Many are not entered as justified homicides in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR).  A self defense shooting, which included a justified homicide, occurred in the 800 block of Waugoo Avenue, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin,at night, on November 5th, 2017.  The initial reporting did not include any indication this was a justified self defense shooting.

The Actual 2016 FBI Report on "Russian Hacking" Does Not Show What Media Claim It Does.  Last year against the backdrop of President Obama's sanctions announcement against Russia, we closely reviewed the "Russian Malicious Cyber Activity — Joint Analysis Report".  This December 2016 intelligence report is the report where the media talking points "17 intelligence agencies agreed" and the Russian "hacking of the election" began.  The report was released to coincide with President Obama kicking out Russian diplomats as punishment for the content therein.  Everyone talks about this report, yet almost no-one talking about it has actually read it.

MSNBC Panel Falsely Claims Heroic Neighbor Didn't End Texas Shooter's Rampage.  On Tuesday's episode of Meet the Press Daily, panelist Yamiche Alcindor and host Chuck Todd incorrectly said Stephen Willeford did not exchange fire with the Texas church shooter or end his attack.  "When I was watching President Trump today, and he was making his argument that [the shooter] was essentially stopped by someone with a gun, I thought he killed himself," Yamiche Alicindor, a national reporter for the New York Times, said.  "There was not a big gun fight, and he was not stopped.  There needs to be a fact check on how it was stopped."  "Right," Chuck Todd responded.  "The narrative with Mike Huckabee and the president is a little bit off the rails."  The facts show that Stephen Willeford did exchange gunfire with the Texas gunman as his attack was still preceding.  The story of Farida Brown, as told to the Washington Post by her son David Brown, makes it clear that at least some of the survivors of the attack credit Willeford with saving their lives.

How Leftism Makes Us Stupid.  Perhaps the worst thing about having an exclusively leftist media is that it makes all of us, right and left, stupider.  Take for example that media's reaction to the latest Islamist terror attack in Manhattan.  Evil loser Sayfullo Saipov follows the ISIS playbook by driving a rented van over innocent civilians, killing eight.  He jumps out of the van shouting "Allahu Akbar!" (Allah is the greatest) and later tells police he's glad about what he did and requests an ISIS flag in his hospital room.  In reporting the event, CNN Crime and Justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz refused to share the police description of the killer after he was caught.  Because he's a journalist, and the last thing we want is to have journalists going around giving people information!  CNN's Jake Tapper responded to news of the loser's Arabic shout by remarking inanely that Allahu Akbar is "sometimes said under the most beautiful of circumstances, and too often we hear it being said in moments like this."  He later clarified that he was referring to beautiful circumstances like weddings and births.  Yeah, what if the guy had been waving a Confederate flag?  They wear those at some weddings too. [...] None of which is to make fun of a tragedy, of course, but only of the absurd reaction of the leftist press.

Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls.  Jenna Abrams was a popular figure in right-wing social media circles.  Boasting nearly 70,000 followers, Abrams was featured in numerous news articles during the 2016 election, spotlighted by outlets as varied as USA Today, the Washington Post, the BBC, and Yahoo!  Sports. [...] But Abrams never existed.  According to information released by House Democrats earlier this week, Abrams was one of more than 2,750 fake Twitter accounts created by employees at the Internet Research Agency, a "troll farm" funded by the Russian government based in St. Petersburg.

More Fake News From the New York Times.  The New York Times had two veteran reporters working overtime on Friday night after the representative of a respected conservative publication testified before the House Intelligence Committee.  Literally.  The piece by Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman was posted at 7:32 pm on Friday night [10/27/2017].  It's brief and breathless.  And embarrassingly dishonest.  The Times is practiced to deceive.  It contorts language and chronology to present information in a way so as to not inform, to misinform.

Poll: Plurality Of Americans Believes Media Makes Up Stories About Trump.  On the one hand, it's an amazing testament to how far public trust in the media has fallen that more Americans than not believe they're publishing false stories about the president.  On the other hand, how is this number not 100 percent?  It's not a matter of opinion.  The media does, in fact, sometimes publish honest-to-goodness fake news about Trump and his orbit.

Media Dishonesty Gives Trump Legitimate Talking Points.  If you listen to the media today, you'd be hard pressed to know that President Trump both complying with the law and with a court decision.  The media would prefer to make this all about dismantling Obamacare and ignore the fact President Obama had no constitutional authority to do what he did.  When the President blasts fake news, this is what he is talking about and this gives his supporters ample room to ignore the President's more outlandish attacks against the press.

Trump EPA to propose repealing Obama's climate regulation: document.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan — the Obama administration's centerpiece regulation to fight climate change — and plans to solicit input on a rule to replace it, according to an EPA document seen by Reuters.

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This article is accompanied by a photograph (left) which appears to be a photo of an industrial plant of some sort, with the dishonest caption, "Smoke is released into the sky at a refinery in Wilmington, California March 24, 2012."  The "smoke" being released is obviously water vapor, since it appears to be absorbed into the surrounding atmosphere within a few seconds of its release.  The contrast on the photo appears to have been enhanced to make the emission appear to be black as it leaves the vent, but smoke doesn't turn white and then disappear within a few seconds.  This appears to me to be a shamelessly dishonest attempt to make harmless vapor look like smoke.

Trump Fulfills Campaign Pledge on Contraception Mandate.  [Scroll down]  Today [10/6/2017], Trump made good on that pledge when his administration issued a new rule that will exempt organizations whose owners or shareholders harbor religious or moral objections to paying for certain types of birth control via health plans.  It goes without saying, of course, that this new rule is being grotesquely misrepresented by Obamacare apologists in the legacy "news" media.  The Washington Post, for example, reported the regulatory change under the following misleading headline:  "Trump administration narrows Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate."

Is Any Part Of The Russia Election Hacking Story True?  In June, Samuel Liles, the Department of Homeland Security's acting director of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis Cyber Division, told Congress that "the Russian government tried to hack election-related computer systems in 21 states."  Then, earlier this month, the election hacking story made headlines again when DHS officials notified state officials in 21 states about the attempts to breach their voter registration systems.  This sparked renewed outrage from Democrats about how the election results had been "hacked" by Russia.  But then the story started to fall apart, when Wisconsin and California said DHS was wrong about their systems being targeted.  California found that Russia hadn't scanned its Secretary of State website at all.

Facebook admits it promoted fake Vegas massacre stories.  Facebook admitted Monday [10/2/2017] that its system automatically promoted stories that falsely identified the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre.  The social network said links from websites such as The Gateway Pundit and others were posted and spread across their site Sunday night.  The stories claimed the shooter was an "anti-Trump" Democrat and displayed pictures of a man who is not identified as a suspect.

Not Real News:  A look at what didn't happen this week.  A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week.  None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media.  The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: [...]

Don't Fall for Jimmy Kimmel's Cheap Zero-Sum Emotionalism.  In recent months, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has taken to scaremongering his audience with well-worn Democratic Party talking points regarding health care insurance policy.  Between yuks, he occasionally accuses Republicans of being would-be baby killers, which is treated as an important political development because, well, Jimmy Kimmel is famous.  This week, the comedian was back to explain why the new Graham-Cassidy Republican "repeal" bill is bad news.  There were only two things wrong with his monologue:  Almost everything he said was either completely untrue or highly misleading, and his simplistic emotional appeal was completely disconnected from the real world.

Trump, racism, and the media's obsession.  If it weren't for their sick obsession with race, the national media would have next to nothing to talk about.  The October issue of The Atlantic magazine features a long essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates on President Trump being "The First White President," a lament about the shame Americans should feel in electing a white man after a black one.  It's been heralded by Coates' media peers as a "blockbuster" and something to "admire," since it goes on and on about racism and nothing else.  Legitimate reasons voters had for choosing Trump are legion (the suffocating politically-correct culture, immigration, Hillary Clinton's laugh) but Coates chalked up the entire 2016 outcome to white racists and Trump's whole agenda to bigotry.

Horsepucky News Courtesy of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.  Remember, there are trillions of dollars at stake and all of the vested financial interests, writ large, have positioned themselves to do anything possible to draw down the support for President Trump's 'America-First' agenda.  Don't kid yourselves or sell your intelligence short; it ain't about Donald Trump per se, the opposition is against the policies of President Donald Trump.  Trump's 'America-First' policies are adverse to the interests of multinational corporations and the multinational financial institutions who underwrite those corporations.

European Commissioner the Wall Street Journal Cited Says Story Entirely False.  European Commission's Miguel Arias Canete denies ever telling the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. was changing the Trump administration position on Paris Climate Treaty.

NBC News Incorrectly Labels Menendez a Republican Before Correcting Article Hours Later.  NBC News published an article Wednesday incorrectly labeling Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), currently in federal court on bribery charges, a Republican.  NBC styled Menendez as a Republican in the lede of the article, then confusingly labeled him a Democrat at the end of the introductory paragraph, the Daily Caller reported.  The article appears to be a wire from the Associated Press, but the original piece on the AP's website does not feature the mistake, suggesting it was added in by NBC.

If the Media Doesn't Tell the Truth, What Use Is It?  Yesterday [8/30/2017], Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller posted a story:  "Bill And Hillary Clinton Finally Sell Hamptons Mansion."  Only one problem:  Bill and Hillary didn't actually own the mansion.  Follow the link, and you get to the real story:  the Hamptons mansion that Bill and Hillary have rented in the past has been on the market and under contract for two years, and the sale finally closed.  There are lots of things that you could say about this — like observing that it's cool how people who were flat broke in 2000 can afford $150,000 a month rent for a summer place — but you can't honestly say "the Clintons finally sell their mansion."  This is why God made the passive voice:  you write a headline like the Free Beacon did — "Clinton Hamptons 'Summer Vacation Rental' Sells For $29 Million."

Left-Wing Outlets Spread False Story Claiming GOP Official Turned Down Disaster Aid.  A number of left-wing outlets spread a false story claiming Texas Republican Secretary of State Rolando Pablos turned down aid in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and instead requested prayers.  The story appears to have spread from one sentence in an article from Canada's CBC News.  The story referenced an offer from the Canadian province of Quebec to send Texas "equipment and crews to help restore power and to provide blankets, beds, pillows and hygienic products."

Media & Politicians Admitting They Lied About Russia.  It has been nearly three weeks since The Nation pushed an explosive memo from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity into mainstream consciousness with an article detailing the evidence that the DNC leaks last year could not have been the result of a Russian hack.  By continuing to ignore it, the US intelligence community and all the pundits and politicians who have advanced the Russian hacking narrative are tacitly admitting that they lied.

CNN's Republican Pundit Gave Thousands of Dollars to Dems, Including the Chairwoman of the DNC.  It turns out CNN's spokeswoman for Republicans is not as Republican as you might think.  Ana Navarro, who has been the perpetual presence as the "Republican" on many panels across the news spectrum, has donated thousands of dollars over the past two decades to some of the most controversial and partisan leaders of the Democratic Party, a new report finds.

It's time to chill the "free press".  Allowing Sarah Palin to continue her libel lawsuit against the New York Times "would chill expression by journalists who want to draw connections and inferences," Noah Feldman wrote in a column for Bloomberg News.  That is an excellent idea, because increasingly people in the press show a constant, malicious, and reckless disregard for the truth.  In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner killed a federal judge and five others, and severely wounded Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.  Democratic Party operatives spread the lie that a map targeting Giffords in the last election inspired the carnage.  However, Loughner did not vote in that election.  He is psychotic.  But the press keeps spreading this lie.

Field Report From The Left-Wing Violence in Arizona.  Today, the following morning, I open the Arizona Republic to see the headline "VIOLENCE ERUPTS!" with a picture of one sad [chump] on his knees in front of lines of police.  This apparently happened after the rally.  Wait, "VIOLENCE ERUPTS?"  No it didn't.  Nothing "erupted."  Protesters became violent.  There was no violence at all on the part of the Trump supporters.  None.  This is another example of fake news at its best, failing to even follow basic journalistic (and writing) rules of active voice in which a subject — the protesters — cause the action-eruption.  And the sad little Fake News media continues to whine about how it is treated.

Reuters deletes FALSE tweet mislabeling Antifa as 'peaceful protesters'.  Reuters had to delete a tweet that whitewashed the violence of the anti-Trump Antifa protesters when people noticed that they called them "peaceful protesters."

The media lies about the Boston rally.  The Boston rally was a watershed event.  But not in the way the mainstream media has been portraying it, as a bold stand against white supremacy in the wake of Charlottesville.  Rather, it demonstrates the power of propaganda to foment mass hysteria and mob rule.  Reality no longer matters.  For the media refuses to report this seminal truth:  There were no white supremacists or neo-Nazis.  None.  Not even one.  Instead, they engaged in a massive disinformation campaign that spurred over 40,000 "antifascists" to descend upon Boston Common.  The alt-left's goal: to counter-demonstrate against an alleged "white nationalist" rally.  Yet, what they were protesting was the very opposite.  The Free Speech rally had nothing to do with white supremacy or the Ku Klux Klan — never mind the violence in Charlottesville.

Colin Kaepernick — History's Hero?  The National Football League's preseason is underway, and national anthem-hating quarterback Colin Kaepernick still doesn't have an NFL job.  One can easily identify the liberal journalists by their anguish over this so-called injustice.  You can also identify them by their dishonest arguments.

The media couldn't be more blatant in distorting Trump's words on Charlottesville.  Has the media ever so deliberately and consistently misinterpreted what a president said?  It certainly seems as if the media finally found its proof that President Trump is a racist. [...] Does the press just think that no one will look at what Trump actually said?  For those who do look at the original interview and Trump's multiple, clear statements on the matter, the media risks losing what little credibility it still has.

'Freedom of the Press' Doesn't Mean What You Think.  Progressive propaganda, relying on misdirection, misinterpretation, and outright falsehoods, permeates American life and touches or taints every topic.  The corporations that produce mass entertainment and news, the government bureaucracies that shape and fund education, the schools from kindergarten to college, and the tech firms that control the flow of information and ideas, are all subject to a groupthink that, for all intents and purposes, brooks absolutely no dissent from Leftist dogma.

The Media Lied About The Leaked Google Memo.  If all you do is get your news from the establishment media, you'd be under the impression that former Google engineer James Damore is a dangerous bigot who hates women and minorities.  As reports of the so-called "anti-diversity" leaked memo from Google surfaced on the Internet, journalists exposed their preconceptions and bias with misleading headlines and equally biased stories.

Leftover Libels of Sebastian Gorka Served Up at Rolling Stone.  As Joel Pollak reports in Breitbart this morning [8/11/2017], Rolling Stone magazine has refried and repackaged the whole range of lies — comprehensively refuted — against White House adviser Sebastian Gorka.  The left-wing media keeps setting a new bar for chutzpah.  Central to the Stone story is an attempt to tar Dr. Gorka with guilt by association with right-wing political parties in Hungary, where he was active between 2000 and 2008.  "Gorka served as adviser to [Hungary's prime minister Viktor] Orbán," the article states, "who's been called a 'neo-fascist dictator' by Sen. John McCain."  As it happens, the left-wing Jewish news site The Forward offered this allegation in the form of a doctored tape of a 2006 Hungarian television interview with Dr. Gorka.  That brought the full interview to light — and the full interview shows Dr. Gorka denouncing Orbán for exploiting popular unrest for nefarious purposes.  Sebastian Gorka was not Orbán's "adviser," but a principled and uncompromising critic.

Rolling Stone Collects Every Lie About Sebastian Gorka in One Place.  Bob Dreyfuss's profile of White House aide Sebastian Gorka in Rolling Stone is an impressive feat of scholarship, compiling every lie about the former Breitbart News editor in one place.  It is a useful service for the ideologically addled and the functionally illiterate, who like their propaganda served straight-up, undiluted by the cold ice water of reality.  Students of cheap partisan smear jobs need look no further, for Rolling Stone has perfected the genre.  Dreyfuss does not seem to have done any original research, but recycles work done by other hacks — without, of course, bothering to provide his readers with any of the defenses that arose in their wake.

On Gorka, the crazy left declares war.  [Scroll down]  So we learn that Gorka's degree isn't good enough, as if that is the best criterion for judging whether someone is suitable for executing policy.  To support this, we learn he got into a scrap with an obnoxious little academic troll with a wounded bloated ego named Smith.  We read a real whopper of an unsubstantiated claim, from some little known associate professor, accusing Gorka of plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, with absolutely no substantiation — and substantiation would be very easy.  (The funniest part of these whinings in this pattern of argument is from an earlier article in Newsweek, which claims that since Gorka never submitted an article to some obscure academic journal called "Terrorism and Political Violence," he can't possibly be of any consequence.)  We see name-calling.  We see mangled facts and repackaged narratives.  Let's look at some of those.

Scientists call out New York Times for incorrect claim about climate report.  Scientists appear to have debunked The New York Times' claim it was leaked a secret, gloomy climate change report which it published amid fears President Trump would suppress it.  On Monday [8/7/2017], The New York Times published a story saying there are concerns that the Trump administration could suppress what's known as the National Climate Assessment, a project of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.  The story, titled "Scientists fear Trump will dismiss blunt climate report," said the draft report "has not yet been made public" but "a copy of it was obtained by The New York Times."

Fake News A US Media Speciality.  All of the lies leading to the death of millions told by the criminal Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes were transparent.  The US media could easily have exposed them and saved the lives of millions of peoples [sic] and saved seven countries from destruction in whole or part.  But the presstitutes cheered on the gratuitous and criminal destruction of countries and peoples.

The Left is Already Preparing Tomorrow's Fake News.  The American Left has relied on its mastery of the media — enthusiastically aided and abetted by the 90% of national political journalists today that are progressives of one stripe or another — for its political power for decades.  Ever since the 1950s, the left has been deliberately creating events in order to attract media attention that pushes a narrative confirming the justice of their demands.  It learned that the new medium of television was perfect for creating artificial dramas that would sway support its way. [...] It has worked on issue after issue.  And here we are today with transgender bathrooms and other ornaments of the progressive worldview imposed on the public.

Democrats, ABC, NBC Attack Christian Non-Profit as an 'Anti-LGBT Hate Group'.  Last week, Democrats and two mainstream media outlets branded Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal nonprofit which has won seven Supreme Court cases in seven years, an "anti-LGBT hate group."  Worse, this "hate" designation comes from a terror-linked organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  ADF has demanded an apology and attacked this "media malpractice."  "Why is ABC and NBC willing to promote propaganda and cut and paste the Southern Poverty Law Center press release?" Kristen Waggoner, a senior vice president at ADF, asked Tucker Carlson on Fox News Friday night.  "Americans are losing trust in the media for this very reason."

ABC News:  Christians who defend religious liberty are 'hate group'.  Alliance Defending Freedom is demanding a retraction and apology from ABC News after reporters smeared one of the nation's most respected religious liberty law firms as a 'hate group.'  ABC News reporters Pete Madden and Erin Galloway wrote a scathing report on a speech Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered behind closed doors at the Summit on Religious Liberty at the Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point, California.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Dangerous Joke.  The Southern Poverty Law Center, the "civil rights watchdog group" that ABC and NBC so prominently cite, has become a dangerous joke.  It's a joke because the very idea that Christians are members of a "hate group" merely because they advocate for orthodox Christian principles and the liberty to live those principles is so intellectually and ideologically bankrupt that it's barely worth addressing.

The Left Media's Extraordinary Popular Delusions.  The Clinton campaign came up with their Trump-colluded-with-Russia meme about twenty-four hours after the election results were verified.  It was nonsense then as it is today, but the left's mental distress has become so grievous that they no longer can be called rational or even sane.  After eight months of wild speculation and various investigations, absolutely nothing has been unearthed that indicates in any way that the Trump campaign, least of all Trump himself, colluded with Russia to affect the outcome of the election. [...] The last eight and a half years have proven to the American people that the Democrat left and the media are two parts of the same criminal enterprise that feed each other's addiction to power.

Stupid Hostile Media.  President Donald Trump drives people crazy.  Especially those in the media.  They hate him so much, they leap on every anti-Trump rumor.  The Federalist's Jordyn Pair points out that the press repeatedly told us that a dozen Trump administration members were about to be fired, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Press Secretary Sean Spicer and strategists Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner.  Months later, all still work for or with the administration.

How to manufacture a scandal.  Another piece falls into place, of a mosaic in which Democrats set out in 2016 to create a false appearance of collusion between President Trump and Russia.  It's pretty devious.

The Media Perpetuated A Clinton Lie For 9 Months.  What It Means For The Russia Narrative.  When Hillary Clinton claimed "17 intelligence agencies" agree on Russian meddling in the third presidential debate, a host of media outlets including The New York Times rated the claim as 100 percent true.  Nine months later, those same outlets say the stat is obviously false, and there's been a "simple" explanation as to why all along.  A closer look at how the claim survived and thrived over those nine months reveals a startling lack of skepticism in the press when it comes to the Russia narrative.  The truth is the great majority of the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community had nothing to do with the investigation and made no judgments about the matter.

The Washington Post Offers Up A Textbook Case Of Garbage, Biased Journalism.  One might be shocked back into a coma to learn James Hodgkinson was not an angry conservative, but instead was an angry Bernie Sanders supporting, Occupy Wall Street guy who favored watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, hated Donald Trump and who shot up a Republican congressional baseball practice, shooting Republicans, including Republican Representative Steve Scalise.  If the story were only about Romanik and didn't mention Hodginkson, it would be a run-of-the-mill profile about some local AM shock-jock and a pretty good one at that.  It is interesting to see the kind of influence local talk shows have just like local newspapers and local television news.  But what editor at the Washington Post allowed Holley to link Hodgkinson to a right-wing radio talk show host without even confirming he ever listened to the show?

Washington Post article linking Scalise shooter to conservative radio host sparks online outrage.  The Washington Post struck out with many on social media over an article that appears to blame a right-wing Illinois shock jock for the Virginia shooting rampage by a Trump-hating, Bernie Sanders volunteer who targeted Republicans during a baseball practice.  The lengthy piece takes aim at the foul-mouthed Bob Romanik, who spews invective on the AM dial from a studio in Belleville, Ill., shooter James Hodgkinson's hometown.  "What's the point of this?" Buzz Feed political reporter Katherine Miller asked on Twitter.  "The shooter hated Trump and there's no indication in the story he listened to this pro-Trump host."

Death spiral TV news lies to fool advertisers.  The Wall Street Journal just accused major television networks of using deception to goose ratings that include deliberately misspelling the names of the news shows.  Sounds like fraud to me.  Unlike their cable brethren, the broadcast newsers seem to be losing customers.  I say seem because we have no way of telling as they have so gamed the ratings system that no honest person can say how many people watch them.

In TV Ratings Game, Networks Try to Dissguys Bad Newz from Nielsen.  Boosting TV ratings is easy for networks that don't mind playing dumb.  In a game largely sanctioned by TV-ratings firm Nielsen, television networks try to hide their shows' poor performances on any given night by forgetting how to spell.  That explains the appearance of "NBC Nitely News," [...]

Democracy Dies Due To Journalists' Lies.  One of CNN's reporters complained that the president had the audacity to take questions in Poland from a reporter who had applied for a job with the Trump Administration.  Please pay no attention to the actual number of reporters who went to work for Barack Obama and those who did not but chose to carry his water for him.  After the election, the media pushed out the story that Russia had stolen the election for President Trump.  One newspaper claimed Russia had hacked the American power grid.  That story had to be retracted. [...] In February, the Associated Press ran a story that President Trump intended to mobilize the National Guard to round up illegal aliens.  The story was not true, but just about every major media outlet ran with it.  In May, the media claimed the GOP had trucked in beer to congress to celebrate repealing Obamacare.  That was not true either.

Polish president knocks 'fake news' over wife's Trump handshake.  Polish President Andrzej Duda ripped "fake news" reports that his wife snubbed President Trump for a handshake during Trump's visit to Poland on Thursday [7/6/2017].  In a tweet, Duda confirmed that both he and his wife shook hands with the president and urged his followers to "fight fake news" together.

Fake Ratings:  Networks Dishonestly Inflate Evening News Numbers...by Misspelling.  Now we know that advertisers and the public are being supplied fake ratings by the same broadcasters who so often deliver fake news.  A Thursday morning [7/6/2017] Wall Street Journal dispatch by Joe Flint reports that the broadcast networks routinely inflate their reported evening news audiences.  They hide low-performing evening audiences by — get this — "forgetting how to spell."  No wonder the networks are so obsessed with "hacking."  In the ratings game, what could be described as a form of it — modifying (the results generated by) "a computer program in a skillful or clever way" — has become a routine industry practice.

Fake News:  Journalists Invent 'Super Awkward' Handshake Snub of Trump.  In the latest example of fake news, journalists on Thursday hyperventilated about a dramatic snub of Donald Trump by Poland's first lady.  Agata Kornhauser-Duda, it seemed, refused to shake the hand of the President.  Except, that's not what happened.  Mere seconds after shaking Melania Trump's hand, Kornhauser-Duda and the President shared a warm embrace.

Mainstream Media Promotes Death & Mayhem While Accusing POTUS Trump Of "Inciting Violence".  President Trump re-tweeted an amusing CNN-WWF parody video that had him pummeling the fake news network and the liberal media is now losing their minds over it claiming the president is "inciting violence."  This is the same media that assisted in the cover-up of Obama-era scandals like Fast and Furious, the secret drone bombing program, the ISIS fiasco, dealings with Iran, the atrocities in Libya, Syria, and on and on and on.  And let us not forget this was the same media that actively encouraged the violence in Ferguson, Baltimore, Dallas etc.

NBC Decries Rise of Conservative Media for Creating Polarized Country, No Mention of MSNBC.  What NBC's Willie Geist spun as a rundown of the political echo chambers in America on Sunday Today [7/2/2017], quickly devolved into a condemnation of the rise of conservative media.  "Fake news is a favorite term, as you know, of President Trump.  What you consider real and fake in many cases has become a question of where you're sitting and who you're listening to," declared Geist at the start of the segment.  He ignored the fact that the term was first used to describe stories about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

Associated Press Corrects Big Falsehood In Four Trump-Russia Reports.  The Associated Press "clarified" a false claim it's been running in stories about President Trump and Russia on Friday, conceding in a release it's not the case that 17 intelligence agencies "agreed" on the hacking narrative.  The correction to four reports on Trump and Russia comes the same day The New York Times issued a similar correction to a Maggie Haberman report.  Both TheNYT and the AP now say the claim they've been floating for months is incorrect.

If the Media Wants to Win Back Public Trust, It Can Start Reporting Truthfully on Immigration.  [Scroll down]  A large reason there is such a gulf between what happens and what journalists report is that many journalists see themselves as "protectors of the truth," as illustrated by NBC News host Chuck Todd.  The truth is their truth, stemming from an ideology that does not permit any contradictions or contrasting points of view to get a fair hearing.  While some Americans may turn to media figures for affirmation of beliefs already deeply held, I wager most Americans don't turn to Chuck Todd, or any other media figure for "the truth." Instead, they want reporters to accurately report facts, such as what the director of ICE actually said about immigration law enforcement.  Instead, what we see from too many reporters is the insertion of their own deeply held beliefs in place of facts on the ground.  When a reporter refers to an illegal alien as an "undocumented immigrant" this is an attempt to deny the criminal act of illegal immigration.

TwitterAudit Reports CNN Has 17 Million Fake Twitter Followers.  Of CNN's millions of followers on their verified Twitter account, over 17 million or 48 percent are fake, according to TwitterAudit.  According to TwitterAudit, the site determines the quality and score of real and fake followers by taking "a sample of up to 5000 (or more, if you subscribe to Pro) Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower.  This score is based on number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends."

ABC/Disney Co.  Settles $1.9 Billion BPI Defamation Lawsuit — "Pink Slime" Case.  The civil trial began June 5th and ABC legal executives must have see the writing on the wall as the initial $1.9 billion in damages could have potentially tripled under South Dakota law (treble damages) to $5.7 billion if they allowed the three week trial to continue.  The actual defamation settlement is undisclosed.  However, at the point of settlement all reasonable assumptions must be that BPI was well positioned to win far more than the initially demanded settlement amount of $1.9 billion.

Levin on CNN: They're Not a News Organization Anymore.  On his nationally syndicated radio show Tuesday [6/27/2017], host Mark Levin criticized CNN, saying the network has "sold out" and is "not a news organization anymore."  "CNN, in my view right now, is in a state of complete disintegration," said Mark Levin.  "It won't show up right away on their ratings, but it will eventually show up.  They truly do run with phony stories.  They have prostituted themselves.  They have sold out.  They are not a news organization anymore."  Levin's comments came after CNN published, then redacted a story linking a Trump surrogate to a Russian investment fund, prompting the resignation of three CNN employees.

A Brief History of 'Fake News'.  Disinformation is false information spread deliberately to deceive and cause chaos.  Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking defector from the Soviet bloc explained in his book Disinformation that the ultimate measure of success for disinformation was when the major organs of the media coud be tricked into unknowingly propagating deliberate falsehoods.  But the Russians are far from the only ones practicing disinformation designed against political systems.  The current investigations of alleged "Russian collusion" on Capitol Hill are the result of a disinformation campaign that was begun by the Democratic Party and continued when the mainstream media were fooled into publicizing the accusations as fact. [...] Disinformation only works if people refuse to think or find it easier not to.  I ask all to please think about what is being laid in front of you and see if it makes sense.

Mediaite Tried So Hard To Make A Black Intern Look Like A White Supremacist.  The congressional intern Mediaite cast as a white supremacist Wednesday [6/21/2017] is actually black, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  Nate Washington is a black conservative attending Western Kentucky University and is a former intern of Republican Sen. Tom Cotton.

ABC Reaches Settlement in 'Pink Slime' Suit.  ABC said it reached a settlement in a closely scrutinized lawsuit filed against it by a South Dakota meat producer over ABC News reports that led to critics labeling one of the company's products "pink slime." [...] Financial terms of the settlement could not be immediately learned.

The Incomplete Media Narrative about a Murdered Muslim Girl.  "Muslim Teen Kidnapped and Brutally Murdered in Virginia:  This Is Terrorism" read a headline from Affinity magazine.  Actress and producer Mindy Kaling also decried the murder on Facebook as "another innocent Muslim person targeted for their faith."  The Atlantic then ran a profile, "'Muslims Feel Under Siege'" highlighting Islamophobia around Ramadan.  Many stories used Hassanen's murder as a lede to foray into a greater narrative about the collective crisis of violence against Muslims.  But then actual facts and details around the case emerged.  First, the Fairfax County Police Department publicly ruled out a hate crime as a motive, announcing that they were looking more closely into extreme road rage.  Then, the Daily Caller reported that the murderer, Darwin Martinez Torres, was an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, with ICE confirming that it had issued a detainer request against him.  Reports subsequently emerged that Torres, who has a girlfriend and son, barely speaks English and required the use of a translator following his arrest.

Democrats are incapable of learning from Georgia Special Election loss.  As I often do on election nights when Democratic disappointment is likely to be highest, I watched MSNBC.  First I watched Rachel Maddow, then Lawrence O'Donnell.  The MSNBC coverage was nothing short of delusional.  The "a loss is really a win" approach was pervasive.  Hope sprang eternal.  Maddow in particular continued to spin Trump Russia conspiracy theories.  O'Donnell went on and on about how the Republican healthcare bill would be the doom of Republicans.  A phrase used frequently on O'Donnell's show was that this was an "ominous win" for Republicans because the margin was lower than when Tom Price won — ignoring that the Republican outperformed Trump's win.

James T. Hodgkinson:  Just Another Well-Intentioned Progressive.  Have you followed the drift of the Mainstream Media (MSM) as to what provoked James T. Hodgkinson to attempt the massacre of the Republican baseball team as it practiced in Alexandria, Virginia last week?  Not the Democratic team, not the Washington Nationals team, but the Republican team.  Well, it was not necessarily Hodgkinson's politics we are told.  After all, his politics were pretty much mainstream progressive.  According to the MSM, it was "a Volatile Home Life in Illinois."  That is the way the New York Times put it on the newspaper's front page Sunday [6/18/2017].  Strong drink was alluded to.  Anger and violence were also mentioned as features in Hodgkinson's rural Illinois home. [...] Yet as I say the MSM is soft-pedaling this lunatic's politics, and I can see why.  There was nothing particularly unusual about them.

Hardly Walt's Disney.  [Y]ou may remember a series of reports in March of 2012 that aired on ABC, "World News Tonight" about a meat company called Beef Products Inc (BPI).  The company was a vendor for restaurants such as McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King.  The story prominently featured "pink slime".  In fact, the reporter said, "pink slime" over 350 times during the reporting.  The reporter was referring to what the ground beef looked like during a cleaning process of the meat.  It is completely legal and sanitary.  As you can imagine, the story did not look good for BPI or its customers.  Because of the stories, BPI lost customers, and revenue decreased by 80 percent.  The company was also forced to close 75 percent of their processing plants.  There's only one problem.  It might not have even been true.  As a result, BPI decided to take action and sue ABC and Disney for defamation.  Disney countered with "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech" in the First Amendment.  It doesn't appear be going the way Disney wants.  The lawsuit has moved forward and opening statements began this past Monday [6/12/2017] in South Dakota.  The case has the potential to be the largest defamation case in U.S. history, worth an estimated $5.7 billion.

Journalism is dead; whatever these guys are doing isn't journalism.  What do all of these stories have in common?  They're completely unsourced.  No names.  No real people.  Just claims that come from, in order, "two administration officials and three outside advisers familiar with the matter," an anonymous tweeter who set up a dummy Twitter account, and "a Downing Street adviser."  None of the latest stories have anyone on the record making the accusations.  Instead, the "news" sites that posted the stories — Politico, the Daily Mail and the Guardian — simply make the surprising claims and cite anonymous sources.  The subjects of the anonymous slurs have no recourse whatsoever, no right to face their accusers, no way to fight back.  The accusation streams out onto the internet, where it lives forever — whether it's true or not.

Nets Blackout the Radical Leftist History of NSA Leaker Reality Winner.  Not long after top-secret documents from the National Security Agency made their way onto the internet news site The Intercept on Monday, the Justice Department arrested NSA contractor Reality Winners.  The 25-year-old veteran worked on a military base in Georgia, but online she had a long history of being heavily Anti-Trump, an apparent social justice warrior, and a supporter of Iran over the U.S. During their evening broadcasts, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) either played down her political attitudes, or outright ignored them as they reported on what she did.  During his report on NBC Nightly News, Justice Correspondent Pete Williams passed along her family's claim that "she wasn't highly political," and Anchor Lester Holt claimed her "motive is a mystery."  But in reality, Winner was anything but silent about her political views.

From Fake News to Fake Polls.  The media blob is making much of a Washington Post/ABC News poll that finds the public by a 2 to 1 margin opposes President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord: [...] You need to click through to the actual poll questions to see what [an incompetent] poll it is.  The poll only asked five questions. [...] Conspicuously missing are any questions about whether people support appropriations for wealth transfers from the U.S to developing nations that the Paris Accord included (and into which Obama tossed $1 billion)?  No questions, also, about whether people are willing to pay higher energy costs for an agreement that will make no difference to the planet's temperature 80 years from now, according to the EPA's own models.

Examples of fake news?  How much time you got?  White House press secretary Sean Spicer finally lost it this week trying to correct the endless torrent of bogus news stories being churned out daily by the alt-left media. [...] Spicer had been lecturing the press corps about all their "anonymous sources" and the fictionalized stories "that are absolutely false ... narratives that are wrong ... fake news."  He was directing his remarks at a reporter from the Associated Press — you know, the organization that falsely reported in February that Trump was planning to use "100,000 National Guard troops" to round up "millions" of illegal aliens.  "When you see stories get perpetrated that are absolutely false," Spicer told the crack AP scribe, "that is troubling, and he (the president) is rightly concerned."  So a Democrat operative from the Clinton News Network asked Spicer for an example.

Heroin dealers deserve prison, not sympathy.  The deadly poison that is heroin made its way to your small town from Mexico, where it was grown and processed, later to be trafficked to your neighborhood where its target customers were someone's children, parents, brothers and sisters.  But right now, when you open the newspaper or turn on the television, you learn that the person that brought the drugs into your neighborhood, which ultimately made their way to your child, is considered by many in both the media and the public to be a "non-violent, low-level drug offender."

NYT's Jonathan Martin Steals Photo From Another Journalist, Lies About Where He Got It.  The New York Times has been holding up the torch for truth in the age of fake news and alternative facts — but one of its political reporters, Jonathan Martin, has no qualms in weaving a few alternative facts of his own.  After he lifted a photograph from another journalist and presented it without attribution, Martin doubled down on his lie and claimed he had no idea it was the other journalist's photo.

The CIA and the MSM: 50 Facts the World Needs to Know.  Since the end of World War Two the Central Intelligence Agency has been a major force in US and foreign news media, exerting considerable influence over what the public sees, hears and reads on a regular basis.  CIA publicists and journalists alike will assert they have few, if any, relationships, yet the seldom acknowledged history of their intimate collaboration indicates a far different story — indeed, one that media historians are reluctant to examine.

How to Read the Newspaper.  The Associated Press has bias problems and some notable competency problems, and, like any organization that does any substantive reporting, it makes errors.  But it does not, for the most part, traffic in fiction. [...] Television has a somewhat worse record.  Dan Rather infamously attempted to derail the presidential campaign of George W. Bush by publishing a report, derived from fake documents, that Bush had been deficient in his military service, and that his superior officers had been pressured to cover up his shortcomings.  This was the event that really launched modern blogging as we know it, as dozens of critics ranging from politicos to typography experts showed that Rather's reporting was based on a fabrication, despite CBS News's strident defense of his work.  But it was not the first episode of its kind:  Dateline NBC had previously used incendiary devices to rig a Chevrolet truck to explode in a story purporting to demonstrate its unsafe gas-tank design.  There have been others.

NYT's Comey Memo Story Doesn't Pass Smell Test.  The New York Times reported on Tuesday that President Trump allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.  The source of the allegation is a memorandum, revealed by an anonymous source, allegedly prepared by Comey regarding a meeting in the Oval Office the day after Flynn was forced to resign for misleading the Vice-President.  While the headline is sensational, The New York Times's report is self-contradictory at times, conflicts with statements made on-the-record and under oath, overhypes the substance of the memorandum, and is irreconcilable with other information in the public record.

Eight Lies the MSM Told About Comey Firing.  Over the last week or so the media has breathlessly reported on every little whisper that has escaped from Washington, D.C. and for the most part — much of what they've told us has been wrong.  Sadly, this is a common refrain from today's media who can't seem to get out of their own way and constantly seem to be tripping over their own failures and falsehoods.  It's almost as if the media has an agenda that they are trying to promote and they are willing to sacrifice their reputation if it means pushing that agenda forward.  In their attempts to use the Comey story to undermine the Trump administration they've sacrificed every iota of reputation and been unmasked as the biased hypocrites we've always suspected them to be.

The Media Finally Admit Obamacare Is Collapsing.  [Scroll down]  If Obamacare had actually been "working" for all those years, it would not have suddenly collapsed.  In reality, the implosion of the "Affordable Care Act" began when it was originally implemented.  Moreover, the partisan reporters and editors of the legacy media certainly knew it was a disaster by 2013, when more than five million Americans lost their insurance coverage and Healthcare.gov exploded on the launch pad.  They could not, however, report the truth, because there was no plausible way to blame its failure on the Republicans.

The AP Attacks Voter ID.  The Associated Press is generally a mouthpiece for Democratic Party talking points.  That is the case as to voter ID, as this rather pathetic piece shows:  "In Wisconsin, ID law proved insurmountable for many voters." [...] The obvious question is:  how many?  The reporter now tells us that the number of people who didn't vote because they lacked proper ID is "unknown."  The article identifies exactly four.

Trump Is Not Shutting Down the EPA's Data Service.  A contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency who was "devastated" by Hillary Clinton's election loss was the source for a false story stating that the agency is shutting down its climate data service.  The EPA's Open Data service, where users can look up EPA facilities in their area and view pollution graphs, will continue to operate, despite several news reports to the contrary.  Bernadette Hyland, a contractor who has access to the Open Data website, was quoted in several publications, including the Independent, which falsely claimed "Donald Trump is to completely shut down one of the government's most important data services."

Media Lies Exposed:  Antifa Thug Girl Was Using Glass Bottles as Weapons Before Punch.  As many of you readers will recall, we've been all over the antifa girl who got rocked at the Berkeley protests this past weekend.  We had her fake name (Louise Rosealma) listed in the big article, but her real name is Emily Rose Marshall.  Every since she got smacked, the media has been working overtime to make this little terrorist into some kind of martyr.  Virtue signallers like Raheem Kassam and Brandon Darby, people who this publication normally respects, have been crying about never hitting a woman, under any circumstances.  The latter camp is [mistaken] on this issue, but the media is outright malicious.

CNN's Fareed Zakaria:  Were Obama Still President, He Would Have Ordered "Similar If Not Identical" Strike In Syria.  CNN's Fareed Zakaria discusses his experience with "Trump derangement syndrome," where people's hatred and anger towards the president is so intense that it impairs their judgment.  He talks about Obama speechwriters attacking Trump for doing exactly what President Obama would have done in Syria.

Republican wins.  NYT declares victory for Democrats.  From the Washington Examiner:  "Republican Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson and Libertarian Chris Rockhold Tuesday night [4/11/2017] to keep the state's 4th congressional district in GOP hands."  Republican Estes 52.5%, Democrat Thompson 45.7%.  A 6.8-point win.  Ho-hum.  But Nate Cohn of the New York Times — who gave Hillary an 85% chance of winning on Election Day — sees this as a victory for the Democratic Party.

Liberal Journalists Falsely Accuse Jeff Sessions of Calling Illegal Immigrants 'Filth'.  Liberal journalists on Twitter falsely accused Attorney General Jeff Sessions of calling illegal immigrants "filth" in a speech he delivered on the Mexican border Tuesday [4/11/2017].  Politico reporter Josh Dawsey took a partial quote from a Wall Street Journal story on Sessions' speech out of context, tweeting that Sessions described illegal immigrants as filth.  From there, it caught the eye of Tufts professor and writer of the Washington Post's Spoiler Alerts blog Daniel Drezner, and the misinterpretation spread throughout Twitter.

Washington Post Blogger Issues Official Apology for Spreading False Jeff Sessions Story.  A Washington Post blogger responsible for launching a false story about Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday published an official apology Wednesday [4/12/2017].  Tufts professor and Washington Post blogger Daniel Drezner helped kickstart the narrative that Sessions had referred to illegal immigrants as "filth" while delivering a speech before border agents at the U.S.-Mexico border.  Drezner took a quote from Sessions' prepared remarks out of context, and released his frustrations on Twitter.

Fact Check:  Fresno Bee Lies About Professor's Call To Kill Trump.  There's a lot of talk about a post-truth society these days.  A post-truth society kicks in when there is no respect for even the most blatantly obvious facts.  Professor Lars Maischak, who teaches, among other things, Marx and Hegel, at California State University, Fresno, tweeted, calls to kill Trump and Republicans.  [Tweets]  Could the media possibly defend and whitewash this?  Do you even need to ask.  No leftist can do anything too terrible for the media to defend.

The 10 Questions Andrea Mitchell Didn't Ask Susan Rice.  Here are a few thoughts about Andrea Mitchell's interview with Susan Rice — and the key questions that were left unasked.  Rice opened the interview by saying, "The allegation is that somehow Obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes.  That's absolutely false."  On the contrary, the allegation is absolutely true — and demonstrating its truth is as easy as unmasking an American citizen in an NSA intercept.

The Fake News Crisis.  Within living memory, in 1968, the Democratic Party had its convention in Chicago, Hubert Humphrey was their nominee, and there were riots in the streets. [...] There is one huge difference between what is happening now, and what happened back then.  In 1968, there was a culmination of real events that actually affected America.  In 2017, there are no real events causing this, just narratives made up from nothing by a leftist media that is more divorced from reality than anyone thought possible.
  •   The Russians colluded with Trump.
  •   Trump is Hitler. Stupid. And evil.
  •   Obama was wonderful, transparent, brilliant, perfect, and fully competent.
  •   Trump's tax returns will show he is unfit.
  •   He is a racist that wants to ban all Muslims.
  •   Kellyanne Conway is a ditzy uninformed waste of a woman.
  •   Hillary Clinton is a pure and honest heroine fighting for good.
Virtually 24/7, these and other very unreal narratives are being played to the American public by our pathetic left wing media.  In 1968, the news had a reality component.  Yes, there was liberal bias in the news, but at least the events happened.

Washington Post Lies About Lawmaker's Biblical Reference, Then Refuses To Quote A Single Word He Said.  After the presidential election last November, New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet gave an interview to NPR in which he admitted that his journalists simply don't understand religion.  "We don't get religion," Baquet said.  "We don't get the role of religion in people's lives."  Baquet was correct:  Acela corridor political reporters don't understand religion, especially Christianity.  Though he was specifically speaking about New York Times reporters, Baquet's comments clearly also apply to the Washington Post, which on Friday morning accused a Republican congressman from Texas of claiming that the Bible forbids the unemployed from having food to eat.

WaPo Caught Red Handed In Big Lie, Tries To Quietly Overhaul Entire Piece.  Caitlin Dewey's initial write-up in the paper (which recently adopted the slogan "Democracy Dies In Darkness") did not include a single quote from the Texas representative she basically accused of using the Bible to justify taking food from starving people.  The story also incorrectly referred to "2 Thessalonians 3-10," and wildly mischaracterized Rep. Jody Arrington's statements on the verse.  While Arrington did reference 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat) in a discussion of food stamps, he did not, as The WaPo article suggested, use it to argue unemployed people should not be allowed to eat.

The New York Times' ongoing dishonesty only helps Trump.  Six months ago, I canceled my subscription to the New York Times because I felt the paper had become ethically challenged in its coverage of the presidential election.  And, it turns out, I was right.

I Got Your Fake News Right Here.  In the interest of transparency, and to assist CBS, I have compiled the ultimate list of #FakeNews stories that have circulated over the last decade or two:
  •   They told us that allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons would turn our streets into rivers of blood. #FakeNews
  •   They told us that taking trillions of dollars and giving it to those "who truly needed it" would eradicate poverty. #FakeNews
  •   They told us that giving home loans to those who couldn't afford them would make the American dream achievable for all. #FakeNews
  •   They told us that letting the federal government run our health care system — and those of our veterans — would reduce premiums and make care accessible for all. #FakeNews
  •   They told us that allowing millions of unvetted third-worlders — from gang-bangers to professional moochers — would make America safer. #FakeNews
  •   They told us that allowing teachers to unionize in public schools would help inner city students reach for the stars. #FakeNews
[...]
  •   They told us that slathering welfare payments and food stamps around in record numbers would help the economy. #FakeNews

Media Tries and Fails to Re-invent Ferguson Thug Michael Brown as Victim with Meaningless 'New' Video.  In yet another attempt to turn Ferguson thug Michael Brown into a victim, a new "documentary" filmmaker released a segment of film showing Brown inside the market he was thought to have robbed just before he was shot and killed by a local policeman back in 2014.  The filmmaker claimed that is "proved" Brown did not rob the store.  But in only a day the whole claim unsurprisingly fell apart.  A segment of film showing 18-year-old Michael Brown in the Ferguson quick-mart was released late last week by documentary film maker Jason Pollock.  The filmmaker insisted that the video "proved" that Brown could not have robbed the market on the day he was killed resisting arrest a few blocks away.  The snippet of footage appears in Pollock's new movie entitled Stranger Fruit.

The Meals On Wheels Lie Keeps Rolling Along.  Let's start with a basic fact.  Contrary to news reports last week, President Trump is not eliminating funding for Meals on Wheels.  He's not even cutting it.  How do we know this?  Meals on Wheels says so.  A statement issued by Meals on Wheels America on Thursday notes that 35% of the revenues at the 5,000 or so local Meals on Wheels programs come via the Older Americans Act Nutrition Program.  Trump's budget outline says nothing about this program whatsoever.

Outrage on Wheels.  It made for great copy — irresistibly clickable and compulsively shareable.  "Trump's Budget Would Kill a Program That Feeds 2.4 Million Senior Citizens," blared Time's headline.  "Trump Proposed Budget Eliminates Funds for Meals on Wheels," claimed The Hill, in a piece that got 26,000 shares.  But it was false.  And it wouldn't have taken long for reporters to find and provide some needed context to the relationship between federal block grant programs, specifically Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), and the popular Meals on Wheels program.

The ancient laws of unintended consequences.  Fake news now serves as a sort of linguistic canary to remind the public that it is customarily saturated with a lethal gas of media disinformation.  Thus "fake news" seemed a proper if belated summation and clarification of years of liberal bias in the media that were supposed to be our custodian of the truth.  Were NBC anchor Brian Williams's fantasies fake news?  Were Dan Rather's "fake but accurate" Rathergate memos?  How about the party line circulated in JournoList or the Washington and New York reporters who colluded to massage the news to favor the Clinton campaign, as revealed in the Podesta WikiLeaks trove?  Was jailing a video maker part of an Obama-administration fake-news attempt to blame Benghazi deaths on a spontaneous riot?  Was the Iran Deal's "echo chamber," about which Ben Rhodes later bragged, the epitome of fake news?

Washington Post employee posed as ICE agent, police say.  A Washington Post employee was arrested last month and charged with impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent following an FBI raid, court documents show.  Itai Ozderman, 35, is accused of impersonating an ICE officer throughout Falls Church, Va., on more than one occasion, according to Montgomery County District Court documents.  Police say that he sported a bulletproof vest bearing the ICE logo and, when the FBI entered his home in Maryland bearing a search warrant, they discovered 10 weapons, including two M4-style assault rifles and a shotgun.  They also found body armor and tactical vests.

Presidential Payback For Media Hubris.  In just his first month in office, reporters have alread peddled dozens of fake news stories designed to discredit the President — to such a degree that little the now write or say can be taken at face value.
  •   No, Trump did not have an plans to invade Mexico, as Buzzfeed and the Associated Press alleged.
  •   No, Trump's father did not run for Mayor of New York by peddling racist television ads, as reported by Sidne Blumenthal.
  •   No, there were not mass resignations at the State Department in protest of its new leaders, as was reported by the Washington Post.
  •   No, Trump's attorney did not cut a deal with the Russians in Prague.  Nor did Trump indulge in sexual escapades in Moscow.  Buzzfeed again peddled those fake news stories.
  •   No, a supposedly racist Trump did not remove the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the White House, as a Time Magazine reporter claimed.
  •   No, election results in three states were not altered by hackers or computer criminals to give Trump the election, as implied by New York Magazine.
  •   No, Michael Flynn did not tweet that he was a scapegoat.  That was a media fantasy endorsed by Nanc Pelosi.
In fact, Daniel Payne of the Federalist has compiled a length list of sensational stories about Trump's supposed buffooneries, mistakes, and crudities that all proved either outright lies or were gross exaggerations and distortions.

How illegal immigrant advocates demonize Trump and terrify people.  The New York Times describes 11 million people — those who are living in the country illegally — as sleepless with anxiety, waiting for the "fists pounding on the door, the agents in black, the van ride, the cell."  Who has thrown such fear into this community?  How about the Left, aided and abetted by the liberal media, which has purposefully distorted President Trump's immigration policies, characterizing them erroneously as a radical departure from past practices?  In a feverish blast to donors sent out yesterday [2/22/2017], the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee claims that "Donald Trump plans to add thousands of immigration agents and begin deporting "almost all" undocumented immigrants."  That is, excuse the expression, fake news.  Trump is doing no such thing.

How to Tell if News Is Really News.  Wake up, America!  You're being had.  Start asking the right questions.  How did the Democrats come up with that 40,000,000 uninsured Americans to pass Obamacare?  When CNN's Don Lemon asks his panel about how much the Trump family's secret service is costing taxpayers, ask him where's his research and why didn't he question that about Michele Obama's huge entourage when she traveled?

Reporting? Liberal Media Have Much More in Mind Than That.  On Nov. 6, Daily Beast feature writer Justin Glawe pounced on news that a historically black church had been burned down with the words, "Vote Trump" spray-painted on the "charred remains."  Glawe acknowledged that he did not know who had committed the arson, writing that it was "now up to authorities to find out."  Nevertheless, he went on to tie the act into what he termed "the string of violence [by Trump supporters] against minorities this election season."  When in December it was revealed that a black church member with a criminal record had burned the church down, the Beast merely tacked on an editor's note to the original article and Glawe penned a follow-up piece in which he noted the arrested man had "liked" Donald Trump on Facebook.

Fake News:  Trump Never Said There Was A 'Terror Attack' Last Night In Sweden.  President Trump never said there was a "terror attack" last night [2/18/2017] in Sweden, but that didn't stop hundreds of fake news outlets from claiming he did.  During his rally Saturday, Trump said:  "Here's the bottom line, we've got to keep our country safe.  You look at what's happening.  We've got to keep our country safe.  You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden.  Sweden, who would believe this.  Sweden.  They took in large numbers.  They're having problems like they never thought possible.  You look at what's happening in Brussels, you look at what's happening all over the world.  Take a look at Nice, take a look at Paris."  Nowhere did he say there was a "terror attack."  He said "look at what's happening."

Rev. Graham:  Trump Says 'What We All Know ... News Media Has Been Lying' — 'Fake News'.  Rev. Franklin Graham said President Donald Trump is correct about the news media today, that they lie and create "fake news," and added that the media should do what the Bible instructs, "You shall not circulate a false report" (Exodus 23:1).  "President Donald J. Trump has been saying what we all know — that the news media has been lying," said Rev. Graham in a Feb. 19 post on Facebook.  "In today's terminology, creating fake news."

No, Trump Never Said There Was A Terrorist Attack In Sweden.  This weekend the media was awash with stories suggesting that President Donald Trump claimed that a terrorist attack had recently occurred in Sweden during his speech at Saturday's [2/18/2017] rally in Melbourne, Florida.  Left-wing outlets ran numerous headlines and reports about Trump's statement, and the story was even a top trending item on Facebook:

Is the Media Too Comfortable with Its Own Mistakes?  In November, New York magazine excitedly reported on the claims of computer scientists that "results in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania may have been manipulated or hacked."  No credible evidence of hacking was ever presented.  In December, Politico reported that the bank of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had "foreclosed on a 90-year-old woman after a 27-cent payment error," a claim widely repeated in publications such as Vanity Fair.  As the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Ted Frank pointed out, the "widow was never foreclosed on and never lost her home, and it wasn't Mnuchin's bank that brought the suit."  Seven hate crimes widely reported after the 2016 election turned out to be hoaxes.  Do members of the media feel bad when they get facts wrong or gullibly repeat implausible claims?  Guilty?  Angry at themselves?  Do they resolve to do better next time?

Fake News Rap Sheet:  Last Week the MSM Was Caught Telling FORTY Lies.  Welcome to week three of "This Week In Fake News!" [...] You will see one change in this week's list, with respect to the count.  Rather than start the count over every week, this ongoing diary of Fake News will now use a cumulative number, an ongoing count.  Put simply, last week's list contained 24 pieces of Fake News.  The week prior was 12.  That is a total of 36, so this week we will start with number 37.  This is not meant to be a gimmick.  Rather, it is a way to more accurately understand and comprehend the breathtaking scope of the national media's rabid dishonesty.

It's Not Fake News, It's Lying, Leftist, Political Propaganda.  [I]t wasn't until the press began telling bold-faced lies intended to undermine and harm the candidacy of Donald Trump that it occurred to me that the press was telling outright lies, intentionally and with malice, in an attempt to defeat my candidate, Donald Trump, in his run for the presidency.  And after he became President the untrue stories got even more outlandish and more frequent and forceful as the leftist press attempted to destroy President Trump's administration before it could get off the ground.  At this point President Trump began putting a name to it, and it began to resonate with everyone how fabricated liberal news is.

Fake News:  Politico Scrubs Soros Ties to Anti-Trump Group Trying to Mobilize Nationwide Protests.  A Politico profile of a new anti-Trump protest movement calling itself "Indivisible" reported that "conservatives" are "spreading unfounded rumors" that the group is "being driven by wealthy donors like George Soros."  Politico, however, seemingly failed to do even the most minimal research on the Indivisible leaders cited in the news outlet's own profile.  Some of those personalities are openly associated with groups financed by Soros.

The Crisis in Journalism Is Here.  It's getting harder and harder to kick in the needed amnesia to believe anything that comes from the media.

The Media's Jihad Against the Trump White House Staff.  [Scroll down]  The elephant in the room in these stories about the Trump White House staff is not just that the liberal media can't stand the new president — it can't abide his agenda.  And watching one executive order after another pour out of the Trump White House that is at a 180-degree variance with the Obama-era and all things far Left, the media reflexively zeroes in on the Trump staff.  Thus the stories.  Steve Bannon is really the president.  Or, according to Time magazine, which has put him on the cover, he is "The Great Manipulator" of the President.  And he's a white supremacist.  Not to mention he's anti-Semitic.  Oh, and by the way, he's incompetent too.  Kellyanne Conway ignored Ethics Rules 101.  She has no integrity and she went out of her way to make the rich Ivanka even richer using her public position.  And so it goes through the list.  Does this not mean that at any given moment President Trump may in fact have a genuine problem with one of his staffers?  Of course not.

Jeffrey Toobin Catching On — President Trump's Executive Order Wins by Losing.  There are two ways you can tell when moonbats are losing, one is subtle the other is obvious.  A subtle indicator is how the entire MSM apparatus switched (literally overnight on Thursday [2/10/2017]) from calling President Trump's executive order a "Muslim ban" to calling it a "Travel Ban".

Fact Check: Obama Is Not Good at Kite Surfing, Any Sport.  A glowing report in the Washington Post claiming former President Barack Obama is "pretty much a natural on a kiteboard" is filled with factual errors, according to a Washington Free Beacon fact check.  "Obama makes rest of us look bad with his effortless kitesurfing," the headline for a piece by Kelyn Soong reads.  Soong "works in the sports department" at the Washington Post and writes about tennis and running. [...] "Turns out that was just the beginning of Obama's post-presidency adventures," Soong wrote, explaining that Branson challenged Obama to see who could stay on a kiteboard or foilboard the longest.  "It's well documented that Obama is pretty good at basketball, but the video proved that the 55-year-old former leader of the free world is pretty much a natural on a kiteboard, as well," Soong wrote.  These claims are false.  As the video reveals Obama fell multiple times off the kiteboard despite "perfect conditions" and practicing for "two days solid" before the challenge.

New York Times:  Our Readers Are Too Dumb To Understand Global Warming Numbers.  I recently wrote about the wretched reporting on the claim that 2016 was the "hottest year on record," using as my main example a New York Times article by Justin Gillis that gave his readers none of the relevant numbers they could use to evaluate that claim.  None of them.  If you search for the actual numbers, you will eventually find that the effect they are claiming, the actual amount by which this year was hotter than previous years, is smaller than the margin of error in the data.  Shortly afterward, I got a revealing response from Gillis.  I'll fill in all the details for you, because the whole thing is an important case study in why you can't trust mainstream reporting on global warming.

2 Minutes of Mainstream Media Backtracking Really Put 'Fake News' Into Perspective.  Since Trump's election, numerous mainstream outlets have propagated rumors or falsehoods before being forced to peddle them back.

Here's A List Of Stories The Media Got Wrong This Week.  It was an embarrassing week for the mainstream media.  In case after case, stories pushed by news outlets turned out to be either unsubstantiated or fell apart upon closer scrutiny.

Words matter:  The media's use of 'anti-abortion' to describe the March for Life is willful deception.  The outlets that decided to cover the march [1/27/2017] at all used phrases like "anti-abortion" and "abortion opponents" to advance the progressive pro-choice narrative that pro-life individuals are enemies of women's rights, and therefore human rights.

Liberal Media Bend Over Backwards To Avoid Describing March For Life As Pro-Life.  Liberal media outlets bent over backwards to avoid describing the March for Life as pro-life, relying exhaustively on terms like "anti-abortion" or "abortion opponents" to describe the hundreds of thousands of pro-life marchers in Washington, D.C. on Friday [1/27/2017].  "Anti-Abortion Groups Hold Triumphant Rally After Obama Years" was how the Associated Press titled its coverage of the march, later referring to the pro-life marchers as a "politically ascendant anti-abortion movement."

20 'Vetted' Refugees Who Turned to Terrorism After Being Allowed Into America.  While the lying media is perpetuating the lie refugees do not pose a terrorist threat, the facts show otherwise.  Senator and soon-to-be Attorney General Jeff Sessions compiled this list of refugees-turned-jihadists in 2016 while Obama was pushing to dramatically increase the amount of so-called "refugees" allowed into the United States.

Brzezinski: Trump Won EV 'Fair and Square' — But He's Not 'Completely Elected By the People'.  On Friday's [1/28/2017] broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-anchor Mika Brzezinski argued that while President Donald Trump won the Electoral vote fairly, "this is a president who lost to Hillary Clinton... I think there's a lot of support he still needs to gain.  It's not a president completely elected by the people."

ABC's Photoshop Fail:  Creates Fake Image to Promote Trump Interview.  After being caught deceptively editing comments from former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer during a report on Monday's [1/23/2017] Nightline, on Wednesday, ABC News was again embroiled in a fake news controversy after the network used a badly photoshopped image to promote World News Tonight anchor David Muir's upcoming interview with President Trump.  The picture showed Trump looking out the window of the Oval Office in a pretty standard pose, however, outside that window there appeared to be a massive blizzard.  The only problem?  It hasn't snowed in Washington D.C. in weeks and certainly no storm that intense has hit the area so far this winter.  In fact, the weather on Wednesday was unseasonably warm — sunny and 60 degrees.

ABC Apologizes After Being Caught Deceptively Editing Quote About Sean Spicer.  ABC News apologized late Tuesday [1/24/2017] after being caught deceptively editing a quote from former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer during the Monday night edition of Nightline.  ABC edited Fleischer's words to make it look like he was being more critical of White House press secretary Sean Spicer in the taped interview than he actually was.  Nightline quoted Fleischer as saying, "[Spicer's] briefing made me uncomfortable.  It was too truculent, too tough.  It looks as if the ball was dropped on Saturday."  But that is not what Fleischer meant to convey at all.  The point he was trying to make was actually complimentary of Spicer.

Magazine Retracts Claim That Fetal Heartbeats Are 'Imaginary'.  One of Washington's most influential magazines published several updates to an error-filled article attacking ultrasound technology, without acknowledging the extent of those corrections.  The Atlantic published "How the Ultrasound Pushed the Idea That a Fetus Is a Person" on Tuesday [1/24/2017].  The 2,500-word article argued that ultrasound technology "has been used to create an imaginary 'heartbeat' and sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus."  The article by Moira Weigel, a Yale doctoral candidate in comparative literature, included at least three major errors that the publication corrected.

Abortion Science:  Heartbeats Are Imaginary, Unborn Babies Aren't Alive, And Ultrasounds Are Just Tools Of The Patriarchy.  The abortion industry has a new enemy:  ultrasounds.  In a bizarre and rambling 2,600-word feature piece published on Tuesday [1/24/2017], The Atlantic writer Moira Weigel took a sledgehammer to basic science and then did her best to vacuum its brains out before anyone could figure out what just happened.  The article's headline is bad enough — "How the Ultrasound Pushed the Idea That a Fetus Is a Person" — but its subhed is the real work of art:  "The technology has been used to create an 'imaginary' heartbeat and sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus."  There are numerous other gems throughout the piece, such as her implication that only male doctors are allowed to use ultrasounds.

President Trump Should Dump The Media.  Trust ratings and approval levels for the media are so far down in the toilet that it would take a plumber to find them.  If the media are the people's representatives, then the people want to elect different ones.  Those are some of the same representatives that the media is trying to ban from social media with a fake "Fake News Crusade" and by resisting any expansion of press briefings with threats and warnings.  "We'll have to consider doing things other than protesting and whining," Fournier threatened.  "We'll have to think about what we can do to bring some pain to make our point."  Do what?  Run items accusing President Trump of being a traitor, a liar, a racist, a rapist and a Batman villain?  The media has already done all of those.  What else is it going to except shout more lies even louder?  Within a brief span of time, the media's fake news operation claimed that Trump had banished the bust of MLK, lifted quotes from a Batman villain and had been cavorting with Russian prostitutes.  And that he was a compulsive liar.  That last accusation is notably hilarious considering the honesty and integrity of the media.

Three Mainstream Media Lies on Trump's First Day.  The mainstream media lost no time in attempting to undermine President Donald Trump, as opposed to actually reporting information.  After eight years of kowtowing to Obama, they have suddenly discovered a civic responsibility to hold the government accountable.  But they are focusing on minutiae, and in some cases actually telling lies, both of omission and commission.  That risks alienating the public even further — making it harder, actually, for the media to act as watchdogs.

MSM reporter falsely claimed that Trump had MLK bust removed from Oval Office.  Sure everybody makes mistakes, but making a sensational false charge against a new president at the very first opportunity he allowed reporters into his Oval Office on Day One of his presidency sure looks like one of those narrative-confirming, "too-good-to-check" stories of journalistic lore that just happens to portray Trump as a racist "white nationalist" in the eyes of progressives.  Zeke Miller of Time was allowed into the Oval Office as a pool reporter and tweeted out reports that the Churchill bust was back (true) and the MLK bust was gone (false).

Why NYT Hid The Numbers For The 'Hottest Year On Record'.  [W]hen you read an article proclaiming that, for the third year in a row, last year was the hottest year on record, you might expect that right up front you will get numbers, measurements, and a statistical margin of error. [...] I just got done combing through a New York Times report titled, "Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year."  The number of relevant numbers in this article is:  zero.  We are not told what the average global temperature was, how much higher this is than last year's record or any previous records, or what the margin of error is supposed to be on those measurements.  Instead, we get stuff like this. [...]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Botches Crime Stats in Defending John Lewis.  On Friday, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, whose 5th District includes the City of Atlanta, said of Donald Trump that "I don't see the president-elect as a legitimate president."  Trump characteristically fired back with a two-part tweet suggesting that Lewis "... spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results."  As would be expected, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution rushed to Lewis's defense.  In its apparent haste to do so, a pair of journalists at the paper committed a colossal math blunder vastly understating the city's crime rate.  With that mistake, the paper made the city look over 13 times safer than it really is.

CBS radio report created the impression Chicago torture victim was a black man assaulted by white Trump supporters.  This may be the single most despicable act of media bias I have ever encountered.  It took a lot of effort and art for CBS Radio to put together an early report on the Chicago torture incident that was strictly factual, yet created the impression on listeners that a group of white Trump supporters had attacked a helpless mentally challenged black man.  Mediaite provides a transcript of what was reported last Thursday morning by a top-of-the hour broadcst distributed to radio stations across the country.

CBS Takes Spin to a New Level of Deception After Chicago Torture Outrage.  The media has been hyping a contrived narrative that since the election there has been a wave of hate crimes against groups beloved by liberals:  blacks, Muslims, sexual deviants, et cetera.  Until now their evidence has consisted mainly of hate hoaxes, but this time an appalling racially motivated crime really did occur.  CBS listeners would never guess that this crime was committed by four blacks against a white kid.

CBS Radio Deceptively Implies Chicago Torturers Were White Trump Supporters, Victim Was Black.  A CBS Radio News report on the video of four young Chicago people torturing a mentally disabled man falsely implied that the victim was black and his attackers were white, when in fact the opposite was true.

The Washington Post Needs To Come Clean About Its Russian Hacking Story Fiasco.  On Friday [1/6/2017], the Washington Post published an earth-shattering report that Russian hackers had infiltrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility. [...] This was huge news, and for good reason.  If Russian hackers, or any hackers for that matter, had found their way into the U.S. electricity grid, there would be almost no end to the harm they could cause.  Not surprisingly, the Post story spread like wildfire.  But it turns out that none of it was true.

The Media That Cried Wolf.  "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is one of many of Aesop's fables. [...] The moral is that nobody believes a liar, even when he is telling the truth.  How is a twenty-five-hundred-year-old story relevant today?  Let's rewrite the fable bringing it up to date.  The shepherd boy today is the collection of social justice warriors throughout the media, academia, and entertainment worlds, basically the core of the modern Democrat Party.

The Trump Nail in the Media Coffin.  When Cronkite returned from Vietnam after the 1968 Tet Offensive and declared the war stalemated and unwinnable, no one dared to offer the dissenting viewpoint that Tet was actually a decisive American victory.  The mainstream-media narrative in 1963 that Lee Harvey Oswald, the Castroite, Communist assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was a product of right-wing Texas hatred was completely crazy — but largely unquestioned. [...] MSNBC anchor Brian Williams sermonized about the so-called "fake news" epidemic.  Williams failed to remind us that he was removed as NBC's evening news anchor for serving up all sorts of fake details about his supposedly brave trips abroad in search of edgy news stories.  After the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the co-hosts of the show CNN Newsroom collectively put up their hands in "hands up, don't shoot" solidarity — echoing a narrative of police murder later proved to be completely false by a lengthy federal investigation.

The Myth of the Good Old Media.  Donald Trump recently noted that the media had become much worse since Walter Cronkite, which is an honest mistake by a man who grew up as a Democrat leaning to the left.  But there was no "Good Old Honorable Media."  The establishment media have been utterly biased and often outright dishonest for many decades.  The 1965 CBS documentary Hunger in America began with outright lies, citing an infant dying in a hospital as the victim of malnutrition, which was pure invention.  The 1971 CBS documentary The Selling of the Pentagon actually took the answer of an assistant secretary of state to one question and edited it so that he was giving the answer to another question — and the documentary did that over and over again.

The Great Hacking of Vermont's Electrical Grid That Never Happened.  Prominent media critics keep insisting that inaccurate reports from prominent institutions are completely different from the made-up "fake news" found on Facebook and other social media networks.  But do news consumers see them as completely different?  The net effect is the same: something that is not true gets communicated far and wide, and the correct information is spread on a much smaller scale.  A new poll found 52 percent of Democrats believe Russia "tampered with the vote tallies" to make Trump the winner in the presidential race.  There is no evidence of this.  When the big-name media institutions and elected Democratic officials twist the news to the point of falsehood, it's not surprising that so many of the rank-and-file would believe something that isn't true.

Fake News About the Office of Congressional Ethics.  The mainstream media are abuzz with claims that House Republicans have voted to "gut" or "eviscerate" the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), or to strip it of its independence.  Perpetual House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed Republicans had "eliminated" the oversight body, and linked the move to President-elect Donald Trump, claiming that the House Republicans' move represents a violation of Trump's campaign promise to "drain the swamp" in Washington.  The story qualifies as "fake news," and the fact that it is being repeated by so many outlets does not make the it any less fake.

BBC Finally Admits Its Famous 'Women Write Better Code' Story Was Fake News.  When the issue of "fake news" came to prominence at the end of this year's election cycle, traditional media outlets were the firsts to engage in relentless finger-pointing.  Journalists everywhere deplored the spread of misleading, lazily reported and, in some cases, totally fabricated stories that had been facilitated by social media.  That'd be ignoring — of course — that in a competitive media climate where virality and accuracy go head-to-head, editors will often go for a catchier headline, at the expense of factual accuracy.  And as one writer at HEqual noted, even the respectable BBC is not immune from this kind of sensationalism.

Top Ten Most Under Reported Stories of 2016.  [#2] The wipe-out of the corporate media apparatus:  It is understandable why the media would choose not to report on their own irrelevance; yet that doesn't mean their irrelevance is any less a story.  Arguably you could make the complete collapse of the U.S. corporate and legacy media the #1 story of this entire election cycle.  Never before has any single political election so thoroughly, completely and visibly destroyed the credibility of print or broadcast journalism.  Collectively and individually they will never recover from the continual abject and transparent falsehoods they promoted in each and every hour of their coverage, and in almost every column inch of their publications.  Put a fork in them, they are all done — and they did it to themselves, repeatedly.

Fake News:  Family Didn't 'Flee Town' over Breitbart Story That Doesn't Mention Them.  If you read through the world of left-wing clickbait Thursday afternoon [12/22/2016], you may have seen a shocking story about a Jewish family chased out of town by anti-Semitic Breitbart readers because our site blamed them for shutting down a school's Christmas play.  Scary stuff — except that version of the story is 100% fake news.

ADL: 'No truth' to story about Jewish family fleeing Pa. over Christmas play.  The Anti-Defamation League said Thursday that a widely circulated story that a Pennsylvania Jewish family fled their home after being blamed for the cancellation of a school Christmas play was false.  After investigating, the ADL said, it found the family had gone on vacation.  "News reports alleging that a Jewish family has 'fled' Lancaster County are untrue and damaging," ADL Regional Director Nancy Baron-Baer said in a statement.  "We spoke with the family, who explained that they went on a previously-planned vacation for the holidays.  Stories like this can sow fear in the Jewish community and beyond, and it is important to stop the spread of misinformation."

Kurt Eichenwald Further Explains His Claim That Trump Was Institutionalized.  [Scroll down]  So:  Eichenwald was making a joke, and "signalling to a source," but he also really believes that Trump was institutionalized in 1990.  The problem is that he can't prove it — it's merely "reporting process" — so he hasn't said so publicly.  Except for when he did say so publicly, but that doesn't count because he really doesn't like Tucker Carlson.  Now we know.  If Eichenwald genuinely believes that Tucker prevented him from explaining all of this on the air, then I'm glad to help make things right.

NBC's Chuck Todd Wonders If GOP Provoked Hacking from Russia by Calling Obama 'Soft'.  On Sunday [12/18/2016], NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd displayed the ability for some on the left to blame Republicans for anything.

Can You Trust the Press?  No..  Judith Miller, formerly of the New York Times, explains why we cannot trust the fake news vomited forth by the leftist "mainstream" information gatekeepers:  [Video clip]

4 Reasons Russia Didn't Swing The Election To Trump.  Democrats are over the moon about the new Washington Post report that quotes CIA sources who say that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government actively attempted to aid Donald Trump in his election race against Hillary Clinton.  Many Democrats have been making the claim that if not for Putin's intervention — if not for Russian hackers accessing emails from Hillary campaign chief John Podesta and then releasing them via WikiLeaks for months — Hillary Clinton would today be the president-elect.  There's no evidence to support that.  There is plenty of evidence to support the contrary notion, actually.

Mainstream Media Claims Russia Hacked U.S. Election, Offers Absolutely No Proof.  The CIA on Friday [12/9/2016] leaked a memo to the Washington Post "concluding" that Russia meddled in the U.S. election to help President-elect Donald Trump win — but any evidence supporting that finding remains secret.

The King of Fake News.  The liberals would love to do away with free speech, as Hillary Clinton would have if she'd been elected and could have packed the Supreme Court with liberals who would have reversed the Citizens United decision and others protecting free speech.  But the best way to do away with about 99 percent of the "fake news" that is broadcast and printed is for the liberals and their media allies to stop creating it.  Fake news — propaganda — is often risible and easily recognized.  When the North Korean government described the first time Kim Jong-Il (father of Kim Jong-Loon, the current dictator) went golfing, they broadcast that he scored a hole-in-one five times in one round of golf.  These days, the liberal media don't wait for enemy governments to make stuff up.  They do it themselves.

How a free press became fake.  If one wonders why American audiences are reposting fake news rather than purchasing subscriptions to the Washington Post, look no further.  When the free press falls into disrepair, readers click elsewhere.  Just as the electorate rejected elites at the ballot box in November, so audiences are ditching the establishment news media.  They're tired of journalists accepting fluff for fact, lecturing instead of reporting, and getting the story plain wrong.

MSNBC Host Apologizes For Falsely Claiming Fox News Held Its Christmas Party at Trump Hotel.  This morning, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle accused Fox News of holding its Christmas party at President-elect Donald Trump's recently opened Washington hotel.  The comment was part of a discussion revolving around potential conflicts of interest the incoming POTUS may have when it comes to his businesses.  The only problem was that Fox News has not even held its annual party yet and the upcoming party they've scheduled will be at a different hotel that isn't affiliated with Trump.

Sheriff Clarke:  Liberal Media Created Fake News With 'Hands Up Don't Shoot' Lie.  Liberal journalists and activists spread far and wide the myth that Michael Brown had his hands up before being gunned down by police officer Darren Wilson.  That claim was the origin of the Black Lives Matter movement and eventually lead to violent rioting in Ferguson.  The facts of the case showed the 'Hands up don't shoot' claim to be false and that Wilson was justified in shooting Brown.

Lies, [...] and LA Times editorials.  The Left, having no value for truth, honesty, integrity, or anything else besides getting their way of course, has no problem with printing absolute falsehoods like the ones in this editorial bemoaning the prospect of national concealed carry reciprocity.  It seems the Times is aggrieved that liberty and greater ability to self-defense might soon be coming[.]

Zakaria: 'Working-Class Whites' Vote On Emotion, Not Policy.  Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign did not fail as a result of its subscription to unpopular left-wing policies, said left-wing CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday's [12/4/2016] GPS.  As is his custom, his introductory monologue was a reading of his weekly column at left-wing news outlet The Washington Post.  Despite declaring Hillary Clinton's victory as inevitable on October 16 ("Let's be clear.  Donald Trump will lose the election."), Zakaria now claims to understand President-elect Donald Trump's appeal.  He also now claims to know what Clinton could have done to win the presidency.  American voters aren't driven by policy, said Zakaria, but by emotion: [...]

Democrats, Not Trump, Racialize Our Politics.  The most absurd Democratic meme to emerge from the party's ballot-box defeat is the claim that it is Donald Trump, rather than Democrats, who engages in "aggressive, racialized discourse," in the words of a Los Angeles Times op-ed.  By contrast, President Barack Obama sought a "post-racial, bridge-building society," according to New York Times reporter Peter Baker.  Obama's post-racial efforts have now "given way to an angry, jeering, us-against-them nation," writes Baker, in a front-page "news" story.  Tell that valedictory for "post-racial bridge-building" to police officers, who have been living through two years of racialized hatred directed at them in the streets, to the applause of many Democratic politicians.

Boycott Frosted Flakes!  Liberal bullies are trying to pressure advertisers into boycotting Breitbart.com, one of the most popular conservative sites on the internet. [...] Most CEOs of large companies are liberals, as are nearly all PR employees of such companies.  So this kind of response comes naturally.  The AP helpfully explains:  ["]Breitbart has been condemned for featuring racist, sexist and anti-Semitic content.["]  Really?  Condemned by whom?  For what?  The AP ritually recites these allegations against the site without citing any evidence whatsoever.  The claims are false, if not ridiculous.  But readers who rely on America's daily newspapers won't know this.

The Fake Arbiters of "Fake News".  As everyone already knows, on Friday the business section of The Washington Post published an article about so-called "fake news" propagated on the Internet.  The Russian propaganda services are said to be behind this disinformation, with many American websites helping to spread it, deliberately or otherwise.  One of the WaPo's principal sources for the story was a website called "PropOrNot".  For some reason the author, Craig Timberg, failed to link the site, although he linked many others.  However, in its post on the piece, Zero Hedge provides a link to the 200 "fake news" websites listed by PropOrNot.  Gates of Vienna was not illustrious enough to make the Post's article, but PropOrNot has honored us by including us in the list of sites that retail "fake news".

'Fake news' isn't the problem — mainstream news with an agenda is.  "Fake news" has been a big news story for the past week.  Hoaxes and fabrications hatched by clickbait-hungry websites — or, some reports say, by the Kremlin propaganda machine — have been blamed for Donald Trump's election victory.  Leading journalists such as CNN's Christiane Amanpour have decried the profession's "existential crisis" caused by the onslaught of fake stories.  Google and Facebook have both moved to curb the problem by denying advertising to "fake news" sites.  Meanwhile, critics on both the left and the right argue that the outcry about "fake news" is a manufactured crisis intended to smear and ostracize dissident, non-mainstream media — especially since some of the critiques lump together publications that contain real if slanted reporting, such as Breitbart News or Antiwar.com, with sites that publish actual hoaxes (such as a story about Pope Francis endorsing Trump) or satire.  Critics also charge that the "fake news" trope obscures the fact that the mainstream media have their own problem with false or misleading stories.

Fake News.  The success of "fake news" is inextricably linked to the state of credibility of the media.  Fake news would get no purchase if the media's credibility were high.  But surveys showed it has been declining for years and the Russians could not have helped but notice.  They very cleverly exploited the fact that news organizations were increasingly used by politicians to spread lies.  Talking Points, which made the coordination of lies easier, also made them easier to detect.

32 Times Establishment Media and Pollsters Assured the People of Donald Trump's Defeat.  From the time Donald Trump announced his White House bid, there has been no shortage of establishment media outlets predicting his defeat.  Indeed, as the weeks and months marked Trump's ever-apparent political preeminence, the pundits, pollsters, and prognosticators doubted and declared his collapse inevitable.  Even as Trump, a real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star, clinched the Republican presidential nomination, the affirmations of his failure kept coming.  The very establishment media and pollsters who benefitted from Trump's celebrity before branding him leader of a deplorable political base will stand against his governance.

Chicago Tribune:  Obama has been Pro Second Amendment!  Steve Chapman is a writer for the Chicago Tribune.  He has often written about gun legislation.  He stands out at the Tribune as a voice that recognizes reality more often then most.  His writing and viewpoints have been a reasonable voice crying in the wilderness of Chicago.  Unfortunately, he lives in the fantasy bubble of current Progressivism.  It is evident in his recent column excoriating the NRA.  He buys into the leftist propaganda without introspection or examination of facts.  It is an opinion column, but opinions should have a basis in reality.

LA Times produces list of "fake new sites" that includes a bunch o' sites more accurate than it is.  Having blamed James Comey, Russia, John Podesta, Julian Assange, warmal colding, and screwed up computer algorithms for the failure of a screeching, unhealthy, and unpopular harridan to achieve the presidency, the latest culprit appears to be "fake news".

Speaking Of Fake News, The 'Muslim Registry'.  Donald Trump has never called for a "Muslim registry," and any story claiming otherwise should be relegated to the pile of "fake news" the media is so concerned about right now.  The hysterical headlines claiming Trump and his surrogates are preparing to force all Muslims in the country to register perhaps reached their climax in this Washington Post headline Friday:  "They interned my family.  Don't let them do it to Muslims."

Crying and lying:  Hysteria and repeated false claims showered upon us by the left.  Greg Gutfeld brutally calls out the left and the fake cable news shows that push out the false narratives and refuse to investigate the veracity of the claims that pass over their airwaves.  Remarkable is the stream of claims that America is now tainted by the Trump supporters and their hateful antics.  Case after case is blurted across the left leaning cable shows.  But it seems there is never a corroboration or proof of the incidents so claimed.

Drown Out the Lying MSM.  Older readers may remember an era when the media generally reported facts and left spin to the mind of the viewer, or at least wasn't so crookedly biased.  In accurately predicting President-Elect Trump's victorious path through Michigan and Pennsylvania, I indicated that the media was distorting polling numbers deliberately to keep Trump supporters from bothering to vote.  While Trump won an electoral landslide, only a relatively small chunk of votes made the difference in those two states and in Florida.  Yes, the lying, propagandizing jackals in media nearly won the election for Clinton.  They decided to hang together up until the bitter end, and are now predictably circling the wagons trying to figure out what went wrong.  Everyone knew there was a secret Trump vote, and they still lied. [...] Do you enjoy being lied to?  Or do you have to watch sports so badly that you're willing to fork over $150 per month for a cable or dish subscription that directly funds people who hate you and everything you believe in and want to mislead you, all while insulting you to your face?

Lies my Politico told me.  After feeding the story line for the last two years that Trump was not a serious candidate, Politico is now pretending that he spent eighteen months of his life and $100 million to win an office he did not want.

There Is No Violent Hate-Crimewave in 'Trump's America'.  [W]hile all sorts of horrible incidents are being reported on Twitter and Facebook... well, anyone can say anything on Twitter and Facebook.  The bulk of these stories are "friend of a friend" told me types.  But if men were really going around pulling knives on Muslim women on public buses in Trump's name, there would at least be local or campus news reports of it.  Same, too, for the alleged wave of transgender teen suicides which keep getting mentioned in media but for which no one can offer any evidence.

Really?  Do you have 'Hundreds' of pictures?
Brian Stelter: 'Hundreds' Of Swastikas, Racist Attacks After Trump Win.  In little-noticed remarks Saturday [11/12/2016], "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter Saturday [11/12/2016] parroted data from the Southern Poverty Law Center, claiming that there have been "hundreds of cases of swastikas, of racist language, of harassment, of in some cases, assaults and bullying across this country" since Donald Trump was elected.

An Important Post-Election Message About Media Polling.  The media didn't get it wrong.  The pollsters did not work from the wrong data set; the media pollsters, consultants and professional political class did not work from the wrong assumptions, or use the incorrect baselines.  THEY LIED.  The professional media polling agents knew exactly what the truth was.  They lied and manipulated their data in a concerted effort to intentionally falsify reality.  There should be no doubt, EVER, in the mind of any political observer as to what took place within the expressed and broadcasted polling which fueled over two years of broadcast news.  The media intentionally lied.  They knew the truth.  The same tools available to us, and to those who were ridiculed for truth-telling, were available to them and many more.  They did not get it wrong.  They chose to lie to you the American electorate.

The real election surprise?  The uprising of the American people.  [Scroll down]  The political class and the mainstream media have a narrative that Trump's late surge is the result of an intervention by FBI Director James Comey.  That narrative, like every one they've had over this cycle, couldn't be more wrong.  The momentum of the election was already moving toward Trump before Comey's announcement to reopen of the Clinton email investigation.  That event, like the presidential debate in 1980, tended to accelerate what was already in motion.

On The Upside, At Least This Election Will Destroy The Media.  Liberal journalists, by which I mean journalists, do not think you should know things that hurt their favored candidate.  This is an interesting new take on the whole idea of "news reporting," an innovative rethink that refocuses journalists less on ensuring people hear the news and instead focuses on ensuring they only hear certain news that, incidentally, supports the media's progressive political agenda.  So we get fact checking that involves neither facts nor checking.

The Media Must Be Dismantled In Order For Freedom To Survive.  News has always been biased, but the American media exists for one reason and one reason only in 2016 — to further the agenda of the corporate-government complex a.k.a. the globalists. [...] You will never get any truth from the media when it comes to politics and many other issues. [...] I have personally not watched television in over a year since leaving the news industry, and my mind is more focused than it has ever been in my life.  I will likely never own another television in my life.

How 'Convicted Criminal' James O'Keefe Came to Be 'Discredited'.  [Anderson] Cooper introduced the videos by sniffing at O'Keefe's "less than stellar reputation for accuracy."  As inevitably happens, he cited no examples of O'Keefe's inaccuracies.  Cooper then turned the task over to CNN "investigative reporter" Drew Griffin who promptly upped the libel ante by referring to O'Keefe as a "discredited conservative activist."  Again, there was no effort to prove the "discredited" label or the "conservative" one, for that matter.

Spike In Immigrants Illegally Crossing Into US Ahead Of Election.  Experts told CBS News the number of immigrants crossing the border won't drop after Election Day.

The Editor says...
In other words, the headline is misleading and deceptive.

Debunking the Vicious False Narratives against Donald Trump.  By now, every voter knows that the mainstream media is in the pocket of Hillary Clinton but many do not know the extent of the malpractice in journalism today.  The MSM has successfully embedded in the minds of the voters false narratives that need to be exposed out of just plain common decency.  The three I will address in this piece are the charges that Trump mocked a disabled reporter; that he questioned the Mexican American's legitimacy to handle his court case because of his race, and that he mocked a Gold Star family.  There are many more.

Ex-NY Times Public Editor Aghast That Anyone Thinks Times Reporters Make Stuff Up.  GOP nominee Donald Trump is alleging the game is rigged against him from a disturbing combo of inevitable voting fraud and slanted media coverage of the campaign.  Predictably, media stalwarts blithely dismiss Trump's allegation as paranoid and delusional.  Perhaps they should not be so quick to laugh it off, given the media's track record when it comes to fiction fobbed off as journalism.

Liberty students less divided over Trump than MSM claims.  Mainstream media reports portray Liberty University students as turning against Donald Trump, but a current student says this is just an exaggeration meant to divide the student body.

Alicia Machado Is 2016's Sandra Fluke, A Democratic Public Relations Scam.  Sandra Fluke became the centerpiece of the Democrats' "War on Women" messaging that they pounded throughout the year.  The media completely ate it up, hook, line, and sinker.  Within minutes, she was put on every major network and cable outlet.  The media ran with stories about how women weren't allowed to testify at the hearing, even though two female college administrators — Dr. Allison Dabbs Garrett, the senior vice-president for academic affairs at Oklahoma Christian University, and Dr. Laura Champion, medical director of Calvin College Health Services — testified.  The facts were no barrier to the headlines, which included CBS' "Dems decry all-male House panel on WH contraception rule" and CNN's "Angry lawmakers challenge lineup at hearing:  'Where are the women?'"

Rudy Giuliani defends Trump on 'stop and frisk' and demands apology from 'dead wrong' debate moderator Lester Holt for declaring it 'unconstitutional'.  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is demanding an apology from Lester Holt, the moderator of Monday night's presidential debate, for incorrectly declaring stop-and-frisk policing methods 'unconstitutional.'  'Donald Trump was right,' Giuliani wrote in an op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal.

Hillary's Pneumonia Hokum:  A Timeline.  [Scroll down]  Some of the dinosaur media have reported that Hillary "stumbled at the curb" and "fell into the van."  Others reported that she "fainted."  This shows the extremely low quality of "journalism" today, describing things that just didn't happen, as you can see for yourself in the video.  Hillary didn't "stumble";she buckled at the knees.  She didn't "faint" (lose consciousness and go limp).  Hillary herself says she didn't faint, and for once she might be telling the truth, because the video shows that she was apparently awake but immobile.  She was having a seizure of some kind.

Dear Media:  Please Stop Calling Violent Rioters 'Protesters'.  Watching coverage of the unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina last night, I was struck by a common trend in how the most violent acts were being covered. [...] Looting a Wal-Mart, destruction of property, attempted murder, all carried out by... "protesters." [...] I suppose you could make a convoluted argument about how the protests were against white supremacy, and capitalism and the media are agents of white supremacy, therefore attacking those institutions are acts of "protest" or whatever.  But if even violent attempted murder and destruction of property can be a "protest" so long as the motives are political, I don't see why the same can't be said of, say, a terrorist attack.

CBS lies about yet another police shooting.  On Tuesday September 20, 2016, The Talk, on CBS showed some video of a guy being shot by police near Tulsa OK.  They showed him with his hands up, and they showed him after he was shot.  They made no mention of the fact that, after the police told him to stand still, he kept walking toward his truck.  They EDITED OUT the part of the video that showed the guy reaching into his truck, which of course is why the police shot him; he looked like he was reaching for a gun.  And of course the hostesses expressed outrage about the police shooting a guy with his hands up and "not making any kind of threatening gesture in any way" and how it's yet another example of "blacks being killed by racist cops."  I rather doubt that the hostesses have ever heard the true story of that incident.

Joy Reid:  Not True That Republicans Passed Civil Rights for African-Americans That Democrats Opposed.  Saturday on MSNBC's "AM Joy," host Joy Reid disagreed with chairman of the Black Republican Caucus of Florida Sean P. Jackson when he said that if it was not for Republicans, African-Americans would still be enslaved.

CBS Misleadingly Suggests Clinton Emails Marked 'C' Not Actually 'Classified'.  On CBS This Morning on Monday [9/5/2016], at the end of a report recalling the notes the FBI released which document that Hillary Clinton claimed not to know that "(C)" markings in her emails indicated classified information at the level of "confidential," CBS correspondent Nancy Cordes misleadingly gave the impression that confidential emails are not classified as she made a point of correcting Donald Trump for mis-stating that the "(C)" stood for "classified."  A bit later, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared as a guest and similarly suggested that "confidential" information is not classified, CBS substitute host Josh Elliott seemed to accept her claim.

MSNBC: Republicans Purging Minorities to Steal Election, Hack Results.  MSNBC's Joy Reid, who was swift to condemn Republican concerns of voter fraud, was equally as fast at accusing them of plotting to steal the election.  Reid's concern centered on a computer system called CrossCheck which was developed to find duplicate names on the voter rolls so they can be removed.  But Reid and her guest Rolling Stone writer Greg Palast, who brought the issue to her attention, accuse the system of targeting minorities.  "The system disproportionality targets voters of color who are likely to have common surnames, like Washington or Hernandez," Reid stated.

Media Invented Lie About Trump Mocking Disabled Reporter.  Just when you think the media could not possibly become more loathsome, the Fourth Estate bullies prove you wrong again.  The Washington Post's latest ugliness was to exploit the disability of a newspaper reporter in order to smear the Republican nominee for president.  Then — and this is the least surprising part of the story — the Post lied about it.

Desperate Media Declare Trump Mexico Summit a Failure in Advance.  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had not even left yet for his visit to Mexico on Wednesday morning [8/31/2016] when the mainstream media began declaring it a failure.

National NBC Reporter Claims "Trump Rally Crowds Small" — Despite Akron Ohio Max Capacity Crowd 5,000+.  The trust in U.S. journalism is at a historic low.  Most Americans now accept the U.S. media is completely dishonest.  However, the media reporters claim such public opinions are unwarranted. [...] Any objective observer of the news media's treatment of Trump can certainly conclude that reporters are taking a side in this election — and they don't have to be wearing a button that says "I'm with her" for this to be readily apparent.

Almost Everything the Media Tell You About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Is Wrong.  A major new report, published today [8/22/2016] in the journal The New Atlantis, challenges the leading narratives that the media has pushed regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.  Co-authored by two of the nation's leading scholars on mental health and sexuality, the 143-page report discusses over 200 peer-reviewed studies in the biological, psychological, and social sciences, painstakingly documenting what scientific research shows and does not show about sexuality and gender.  The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that "some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence."

Media Matters fabricates quote from Robert Spencer, claims he runs "white nationalist think tank".  Did you know I was a "white nationalist think tank leader"?  Neither did I.  I didn't know I was a white nationalist, and didn't know I ran a think tank.  Just think of all the meetings I've missed. [...] Media Matters claims to correct the lies of the Right.  In fact, it is they who are the liars.

Black males murder five year old white girl in Milwaukee.  No national outrage.  Two black males in Milwaukee walked up to the home of a white family, in a majority black neighborhood, and unleashed a hail of gunfire.  A five year old white girl, Laylah Petersen, was murdered while sitting on her grandfather's lap.  Milwaukee police say there is no question the shooters were deliberating trying to kill people inside the house.  At least a dozen bullets were fired directly into the house.  There may have been a third person driving a getaway car.  The house was located in a census tract that is 77% black and 14% white.  The Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee channel 6 have actually been trying to downplay the murder.  They are falsly reporting that it was "a stray bullet."  That directly contradicts all the evidence found by police.

Megan Twohey of the New York Times Caught in a Media Hoax.  Megan Twohey of the New York Times offers you a master class in how to spot a liar.  Megan Twohey along with "journalist" Michael Barbaro recently published a hit on Donald Trump.  In their article, ["]Crossing the Line:  How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Public["], Twohey and Barbaro accused Trump of conduct varying from sexual harassment to "debasing" of women.  The problem?  The story was a hoax!

The Media Are Lying to Hide Clinton's Animosity to the Second Amendment.  This is the state of "journalism" today.  Members of the media who desperately want Hillary Clinton to be elected president are stooping to unprecedented lows, abandoning all pretenses of impartiality, forfeiting whatever remnant of credibility they might otherwise have, trying to prevent voters from realizing that Hillary Clinton fundamentally opposes the individual right to keep and bear arms.  The Washington Post, to single out one of the worst in this regard, is worried that voters agree with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that if Clinton were elected, she would "essentially abolish the Second Amendment."

The Misinformation Age.  The thing is, our mass media culture is mostly fabricated nonsense.  Most of what the news people "report" is made up.  As soon as you see the word "sources" you know what follows is invented.  Even when someone is named as a source, nine times out of ten we learn that the named source did not actually say what he was claimed to have said.  The other day, the news people were claiming Trump got in a fight with a baby at one of his events.  It turns out he made some harmless jokes about a crying baby.

The media's lies and double standards accelerate at blinding speed.  [Scroll down]  As a senator, Mrs. Clinton had voted for the Iraq war and refused to support the military surge that turned the war around, and as secretary of state, she supported President Obama's precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, which created the vacuum into which the Islamic State stepped, and failed to honor repeated requests for greater security in Benghazi, all while Mr. Trump was a private citizen.  But according to Mr. Khan, Mr. Trump is the villain:  "Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims," he said.  "He disrespects other minorities, women, judges, even his own party leadership.  He vows to build walls and ban us from this country."  Another untruth.  Rather than "ban Muslims" from entering the country, Mr. Trump proposes a temporary hold on those coming from nations "compromised" by Islamic terrorism and once the situation is in hand, thorough background checks on all immigrants coming from those areas.  Mr. Khan also wondered if Mr. Trump had "read the Constitution."  Never mind that the Constitution does not offer religious freedom protections to non-citizens and that as a matter of law and policy, we are not obligated to let anyone into the country.  Throughout his time in the spotlight, Mr. Khan parroted the media's distortions, and they ate it up.

Media Photoshops Crowd Image For Hillary Clinton St.  Petersburg, Florida Speech.  Remember the discussions of "optics" and trying to manufacture the perception of support for Hillary Clinton?  It's all a pretense; a fraud; a corporate media ruse.  Well, a great example comes today from "The Hill", an on-line media outlet promoting the speech of candidate Clinton.

The Media vs. America.  The other night I spent some time with Donald Trump.  He had come to Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, a mere five or so miles up the road from my house.  The Trump rally was filled — completely — with thousands inside and outside thousands more waiting (in vain) to get in the door.  Here's what interested.  Never once — not once — did I hear Donald Trump mention the Khans, the now famous parents of a son killed in battle in Iraq.  Even more to the point?  In talking with many people in the audience before and after the rally, no one — say again not a single soul — mentioned the Khans.  What I did hear from Trump was talk about jobs, trade, the economy, ISIS and more.  Which was the talk from members of the audience when I spoke to many of them before and after the rally.  They volunteered directly to me, conversation after another, their thoughts about ObamaCare, a sick child, jobs, trade, pride in America, Hillary and so on.  And yet?  Mysteriously when I returned home and turned on the television or checked on-line it seemed to be all-Khan all-the-time.  As if Trump had spent the evening re-hashing the whole subject yet again.  Which he had not.

Exclusive: NBC Quietly Scrubs 'Discredited' Smear of Bill Clinton Rape Accuser.  Following the receipt of a retraction demand, NBC News has quietly edited the Internet edition of a segment that aired on the highly-rated "Today Show" in which anchor Andrea Mitchell claimed Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against Bill Clinton had been "discredited."  After receiving the legal letter, penned by Broaddrick's attorney and son, Kevin L. Hickey, NBC removed the word "discredited" from the network's Internet version of Mitchell's video report, Broaddrick and Hickey told this reporter.  However, NBC did not make any indication of the edit in the video or on the webpage that hosts it.

Free Beacon Catches NBC Scrubbing Old Video of Mitchell Saying Juanita Broaddrick Is 'Discredited'.  In a breaking story posted late Tuesday afternoon [8/2/2016] by our friends at the Washington Free Beacon, staff writer and former CNS News staff writer Elizabeth Harrington revealed that NBC News has stealth edited a May 19 video of Clinton campaign correspondent Andrea Mitchell on Today denouncing Juanita Broaddrick's sexual allegations against Bill Clinton as "a discredited and long-denied accusation" to merely being a "long-denied accusation."  Mitchell's original phrasing was flagged the day that it aired live on NBC by the MRC's Kyle Drennen and he chronicled the network's history concerning Broaddrick and Clinton.

Media Hoax!  Dishonest Journalists Claim Alex Jones was Arrested.  The mainstream media was at it again, this time attempting to hoax the world by claiming Alex Jones had been arrested for punching a black cop.  The truth is that SJWs assaulted him.  I know because I was there filming the entire event.  At a small gathering of discontents, Alex Jones appeared with his bull horn explaining how the protesters were globalist tools of George Soros.  As Jones approached the group, they attacked him.  Police intervened, separating the two groups.  Yet the media began spreading a hoax, claiming Jones assaulted a black police officer.

Website Gets Busted Trying to Cover Obama's Lies.  Rumor-disproving website Snopes has proven itself especially unreliable on all matters political, and it did so again this week when it tried to "bust" the myth that President Obama had paid Iran $400 million in exchange for American citizens being held in Iranian jails.  Both Snopes and the Obama administration insist that the payment was part of the Iran nuclear deal and completely unconnected to the release of the men.

Media Outlet Claims Big, Boisterous Crowd At Clinton Rally.  There's just one problem:  The crowd was not really that big.

Misleading Headline of the Month:  AP "Man who shot sleeping intruder".  The above headline must be one of the most misleading that I have seen.  It comes from AP itself.  It is aided and abbetted by the AP leading sentence.  From the washingtontimes.com:  ["]BEND, Ore. (AP) - The man who shot and killed another person asleep inside a Bend home in 2012 is asking a court to throw out a wrongful death lawsuit against him.["]  The intruder was not sleeping.  He was actively fighting the couple that found him asleep in the homeowners house.  There was an extensive investigation, and the shooting was ruled justified.  The story is all over the Internets, with the factually wrong headline and first sentence.

So Much for That 'Unprecedented' Jail Talk.  The Republican convention's rowdy chants about Hillary Clinton — "Lock her up!" — have caused liberal journalists to get extremely distressed.  In their lead editorial on July 21, The Washington Post fulminated that Team Trump's "descent from standard red-meat partisanship to unprecedented accusations of criminality displays contempt for the rule of law and a startling disinterest in fact and reason."  That's strong brew.  It's too bad for them that it's completely false.  Somehow, the Post writers are acting like they were born yesterday, or slept through the last Republican presidency.  They've chosen to overlook that their liberal friends in news and entertainment were active participants in an eight-year anti-GOP hatefest.  Take CNN commentator Jack Cafferty, who on October 17, 2005, gushed to Wolf Blitzer about the idea of Karl Rove in prison: [...]

How The Media Covers Up Muslim And #Blacklivesmatter Terrorism.  The propaganda, the artful selection and deselection of facts, have become as familiar to us as they were to any of the residents of the Soviet Union or North Korea.  Anyone who pays attention knows not only that they are being lied to, but can easily predict the lies that they will be told on the evening news even before they actually hear them being spoken out loud.  We always knew that the Muslim terrorist, even before he was identified, would turn out to be a secular loner who was depressed over his family life.  All the media had to do with Mohammed Bouhlel, the Islamic terrorist who murdered 84 people in Nice, France was to replay the same exact narrative as the one that they had fed us with Omar Mateen, the Islamic terrorist who murdered 49  people in Orlando.  Irreligious, depressed loner with family problems.  Check.  No connection to Islamic terrorism.  Suggestion of mental illness.  Check and check.  Insistence on his lack of interest in religion?  One final check.

MSNBC's 'truck crash' framing of France terror attack ignites Twitter mockery.  An MSNBC tweet on late Thursday [7/14/2016] that framed France's latest terror attack as a "truck crash" elicited a stinging response from readers.  "Follow our live blog for the latest from Nice after a truck crash leaves at least 70 dead," the network tweeted at 8:49 p.m.  EST., well after even President Obama and French President Francois Hollande called the event an act of terrorism.  Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, killed at least 84 people during Bastille Day ceremonies by plowing a giant truck through crowds along the Promenade des Anglais.

Media blames truck, not terrorists or Islam, for Nice attack.  Leftist media outlets reacted to the devastating attack in Nice not by blaming Islam or even terrorists, but by suggesting that an inanimate object — the truck — was responsible for the carnage.  Instead of pointing the finger at Islamists, CNN, CBC and the New York Times all published headlines that served to hide the true nature of the attack.  CBC reported, "Children feared killed in Nice as truck attacks family event".  Presumably, the truck was somehow able to manifest artificial intelligence and plough itself through dozens of victims.

When liberal narratives override the facts.  Here we go again.  Yet another hotly reported media narrative stamps itself on the national dialogue only to find — oops! — maybe there are actually more facts to be discovered before we know, as they say, "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth."  This time around the media narrative surrounds the Minnesota shooting by St. Anthony Village Police Department officer Jeronimo Yanez, the shooting victim one Philando Castile.

Shocker! It Looks Like the Media May Have Bought a False Narrative in Philando Castile Shooting.  If there is one thing I've learned about media firestorms in the modern age of one-hour news cycles and 15-second attention spans, it's that whoever tells the first story which the news media likes is the "winner."  Once the narrative is set in stone (when the news media works in unison that takes about two days, tops), the truth will face a battle that is severely uphill, into the wind, on ice, and will almost never prevail.  There was no better example of this sad reality than the "Hands Up!  Don't Shoot!" myth which drove the entire Ferguson fiasco and was the origin of the entire "Black Lives Matter" movement.  Every investigation into the matter (including by the Obama administration) later concluded, against self-interest, that this catchphrase was based on an obvious and despicable lie.  However, even that did almost nothing to alter public perceptions of that event or the media's eagerness to give instant credibility to similar claims from the same groups in the future.

Update:
Woman Who Famously Live-Streamed Her Boyfriend's Police Shooting is Arrested for Hammer Attack.  Diamond Reynolds, the woman who famously live-streamed the controversial fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, has been arrested in connection with a vicious attack that left another woman with serious injuries.  Reynolds, Dyamond Richardson, and Chnika Blair were apprehended Thursday [3/23/2107] in St. Paul, Minnesota, after allegedly attacking a woman with a hammer Tuesday night [2/28/2017], and leaving the scene in a silver truck.

Media Ignore the Tsunami of Black Violence against Cops.  The shootings in Dallas did not make much of a difference.  Not to the reporters explaining the protest and the reason behind the assassination of five police officers.  The reason for the demonstration was simple and beyond pushback:  White cops shoot black people all over the country, all the time, for no reason whatsoever.  Everybody knows that.  So sad.  Some took it to the next level:  The head of a black group called Dallas Action said the killings were a wake up call to let people know how cops are picking on black people.  All the time.  For no reason whatsoever.  The local Fox reporter in Dallas took the comments in stride, quickly changing the topic to all the pretty lights on nearby police cars.  Not one reporter at any point even hinted at how black violence is wildly out of proportion.

Betrayed by an America-hating press.  The press lie constantly, and their lies are exposed every day by conservative radio and opinion sites.  Lying to the public is a basic betrayal of a vital survival function in a democratic republic, a true stab in the back. [...] In J schools in this country, "betrayal" of the basic obligations of journalism has a name.  It's called "advocacy journalism," but it means lying to every single American.

The Democrats' Self-Serving Distractions.  After the massacre at a gay club in Orlando, Fla., by an American Muslim of Afghan origin affiliated with the Islamic State, the editors of the New York Times argued that the fundamental problem was "hate" exemplified by ... opponents of same-sex marriage.  That was an interesting line of argument.  Omar Mateen was not found with a natural-law treatise in his back pocket, and he wasn't fresh from a Princeton seminar with Robert George.  He never suggested that the Supreme Court had taken too broad a view of the 14th Amendment in Obergefell v.  Hodges.  He was a Muslim fanatic whose heroes throw homosexuals off of tall buildings and crucify Christians.  The morning after that massacre, the New York Daily News reported the enormity under the headline:  "Thanks, NRA!"

Here's The Media's Latest Attempt To Downplay Radical Islam After Orlando Attack.  Ever since witnesses started coming out of the woodwork in the wake of the Orlando attack, claiming that shooter Omar Mateen had actually led a secret gay lifestyle, the liberal media has been desperately trying to portray the massacre as more of a homophobic hate crime than a radical Islamic terrorist attack.  It allows the left to view the attack as proof that hatred of the LGBT community is separate from the Muslim faith. [...] It was a coordinated attempt by the media to spin the narrative, to protect Islam at all costs, despite evidence to the contrary.  Unfortunately for them, the FBI has finally come out and said the entire narrative that Mateen was a self-hating gay man has no evidence to back it up.

Everything was accurate.  But none of it was true.  [Scroll down]  The points of this narrative:  One, the national media is not interested in accuracy or truth, but in getting the story out first.  Two, it should fit a template, e.g., the nation is racist, law enforcement is prejudiced, and they will frame their narrative accordingly (black male was shot, it was because the "white" Hispanic is racist, there is racism all over the country).  Three, the people doing the reporting have little knowledge of the facts they are discussing, such as what is the difference between an AR-15 and M-16, or "automatic fire" and "semi-automatic fire", and "define what is an assault weapon" ([indeed], so ignorant they should run for Congress).

6 Things To Know About Tying Gun Sales To A Watch List.  [#2] The Democrats are still falsely conflating the no-fly list with the terrorist watch list.  We've been over this before.  The no-fly list is not the same thing as the terrorist watch list.  The no-fly has roughly 40,000 names on it and many of them are not the names of U.S. citizens.  By contrast, the terrorist watch list has more than a million names on it (we can't know the actual number).  The legislation Democrats are pushing relies on a definition similar, but not identical, to the one used to create the terrorist watch list on a rolling basis.  It has nothing to do with the no-fly list.  That won't stop Democrats from conflating the two intentionally (as an aide to Sen. Diane Feinstein admitted she does), nor will it stop ignorant journalists from confusing them accidentally (as several have conceded to me they have).

Journalism, R. I. P.  For a variety of historical and cultural reasons, most of those who work in the media are progressives.  They believe that government must undertake to fix an array of social maladies, such as income inequality, perceived racial and gender disparities, and the general dangerous superstitions, bad habits, and cultural baggage of those of less education than reporters, investigative journalists, and Internet and television commentators.  Yet sometimes simply reporting on society's perceived ills does not offer quite a rich enough landscape in which to save humanity.  And sometimes reality offers examples that confound the progressive ideology.  Therefore, journalists often fabricate stories and justify their cons as necessary means to achieve their higher aims.

Guardian admits rogue reporter fabricated interviews.  The Guardian has admitted that a rogue reporter fabricated interviews in articles for the newspaper and falsely claimed to have been present at events he wrote about.  Joseph Mayton, a freelance who has been writing for the Guardian since 2009, has been accused of making up quotes in some of his stories, even filing interviews with people who later said they had never spoken to him.

The Continually Dishonest Media.  Apparently the U.S. media has chosen this week to once again reassert itself as the epitome of broadcast propaganda; Pravda must have been giving them a run for the ruses.  One of the examples today comes from the nascent Jake Tapper of CNN who rallied the proverbial troops around a claim that Donald Trump "brought up Vince Foster" while campaigning for President.

No, The Public Doesn't Suddenly Support Socialized Medicine.  A new Gallup survey seems to suggest that majority of Americans now back government-run health care. [...] The mainstream press eagerly ran with the story.  The Washington Post, for example, headlined its piece:  "Poll:  Most Americans want to replace ObamaCare with single-payer — including many Republicans."  The ABC News headline blared "Poll Says Majority of Americans Prefer 'Medicare For All' Health Care," and the story led by saying that "A growing number of Americans now support the idea of federally funded health care."  Look more carefully at the poll itself, however, and you see that it doesn't show that at all.

Media Lies About Court's Contraception Order.  Anyone still naïve enough to rely on the legacy media for unvarnished news will have gone to bed Monday evening [5/16/2016] believing that the Supreme Court evaded its duty regarding Little Sisters of the Poor v.  Burwell.  Countless headlines had declared that the Court decided to "punt," "skirt," or otherwise dodge any meaningful action concerning the challenge to the HHS contraception mandate.  In reality, SCOTUS handed the Little Sisters and the other petitioners with whom the Court consolidated their case a major victory in their protracted battle to defend religious liberties against the depredations of the Obama administration's bureaucrats and lawyers.  In a unanimous opinion, the justices vacated all lower court rulings against the Little Sisters and the other petitioners.  The term "vacated," in this context, means that the Court has rendered those adverse decisions legally void.  And the justices didn't stop there.

Irony Alert:  New MSNBC Ad Says 'We Seek Different Perspectives'.  With no sense of irony or humor, a new MSNBC ad claims the network "seeks different perspectives."  Yes, the cable channel home to some of most liberal hosts and journalists on the planet, touted, "We seek different perspectives, connect the dots, approach the story from all the angles."  The condescending commercial started airing on Tuesday [5/3/2016].  The unidentified voice lectured, "We break news.  Yeah.  But we do more than that.  If all you want is headlines, check your Twitter feed."  The announcer smugly continued, "We go beyond the sound bites."  What's so bizarre about this latest spot is that it directly contradicts previous MSNBC ads.

Top 10 Misreported or Underreported Stories of 2015.  [#1] The Fake Iran Agreement:  In July the mainstream media celebrated a deal between Iran and the P5+1 that would provide Iran with sanctions relief along with virtually no accountability.  Today, the administration, along with their lapdogs in the press, continues to argue that this somehow adds up to a good deal for the world.  It doesn't.  In fact, there really is no deal at all.  The New York Times and other news organizations still call this a "signed" deal.  It isn't.

How The Mainstream Media Spread Another False 'Islamophobia' Story.  The journalists and publications which implied the hit and run in Molenbeek this weekend was a 'far right' anti Islam attack had no evidence to suggest that it was as they reported, but they knew what story they wanted to write.  That's why most hesitantly wrote "during" a "far right demonstration" instead of bluntly labelling the driver a "far right activist" as did the Daily Mail, the first publication to report on the story.  Instead of acknowledging the categorical error, or clearly reporting the truth as it emerged, however, the Mail quietly edited their original article, burying the factual change three quarters of the way down the page, and failing to issue a correction or clarification.

Dumping Tabloid Trash on Ted Cruz.  The National Enquirer's name in journalism is synonymous with factually unsupported drivel of the lowest kind.  It is a sacred truth that no responsible journalist would reference the kind of garbage found in this tabloid.  But somehow it's perfectly appropriate for the same responsible journalists to report the sleaze over and over, emphasizing, of course, that the source is the awful National Enquirer.

CNN Started The Carson Drop-Out Rumor; Now They're Lying About It To Bash Cruz.  [Scroll down]  Cruz's team explicitly cited CNN's reporting in its emails.  Carson himself has sent emails blaming CNN.  Cruz correctly pointed out what happened on CNN, as you can see from the transcript [in this article].  And while CNN reporters tweeted that Carson wasn't dropping out, as did Carson staffers, CNN did not report on air that Carson was staying in the race until later in the evening.

'One Long Cheap Shot' — WashPost Lines Up Canadians to Bash Ted Cruz as Extreme.  While The Washington Post would only go to Kenya looking for gushing over Barack Obama, they turn to Canada to make fun of Ted Cruz.

The myth of the cop killing 'epidemic'.  To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport.  Except that these homicidal goons are wearing the blues and badges of American police departments.  It's the narrative that's given rise to the protest movement Black Lives Matter and to a growing public mistrust of the police in general.  From Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., to the recent shooting of a middle-aged woman and a teen in Chicago, the body count seemingly keeps rising, exacerbating racial tensions and keeping the nation on edge.  And each incident is breathlessly reported by a media determined to show that America remains deeply, irredeemably racist.  Problem is, it's simply not true.

CBS Muslim Panel Accidentally Includes Professional Leftist Obama Operative.  CBS's Frank Luntz sought to gauge the attitudes of an ostensibly ordinary panel of Muslims in America towards Donald Trump.  Undeclared to the audience, however, is a professional left-wing agitator seated in the front row who is an alumnus of the Obama Administration.  Linda Sarsour, an anti-American hater of Israel, Islamic supremacist, and regular commentator on left-wing media, was not identified as such when offering her views on Trump.  Rather, she was presented as an ordinary Muslim in America.

Also posted under Media bias in favor of Islam.

Did Media Misquote NC Anti-Solar Residents To Make Them Look Stupid?  Numerous left-wing media outlets have repeatedly misquoted citizens of Woodland, N.C., after the city government voted to reject a proposed solar farm.  An article in the Huffington Post claimed local resident Bobby Mann said the proposed solar farm would "stop plants from growing and suck up all the energy from the sun," during his testimony to the Woodland Town Council, citing an article in the Roanoke-Chowan Herald-News.  However, the Herald-News only directly quotes Bobby Mann as saying "You're killing your town, [a]ll the young people are going to move out."  Other media outlets repeated the misquote.

Biggest Liar of 2015: The Washington Post and Its Pinocchios.  [Scroll down]  The [Washington] Post, of course, was an early and gleeful adopter of the narrative of the unarmed black person shot for no reason whatsoever by racist police in Ferguson who apparently did that kind of thing all the time.  This Lie infected more than just miles and miles of newsprint in the hard news sections.  It was also reported and spread in the sports, lifestyle, opinion, entertainment, and virtually every other nook and cranny of the Post — even after the attorney general grudgingly admitted the entire thing was a hoax in March of this year.  The lies are legion.  A few of the more deceitful:  The Post led the way in glorifying the hundreds of black Capitol Hill staffers who gathered for a photo op in their $1000 coats, soft leather gloves stretched into the air, proclaiming 'hands up, don't shoot.'  [...]

Thank You, Joe Scarborough, For Being So Biased And Fact Challenged.  Those tuning into Monday's [11/9/2015] "Morning Joe" on MSNBC might've wondered about the "worst record" poll that host Joe Scarborough said unfairly kicked Chris Christie off the Fox debate stage.  We wondered, too.

Carson Blows Up at Reporters During Presser: Why Don't You Care About Obama's Past?  Ben Carson faced some combative reporters during a press conference in Florida tonight about the various issues in his background that have been raised this week.  He dismissed Politico's report about him not being formally offered a West Point scholarship, simply insisting it was relayed to him that he could get one with the kind of accomplishments in his background.

Politicians, press pile on Politico.  Reporters and politicians ripped into Politico for publishing a story Friday saying Ben Carson "fabricated" a story about being offered a full scholarship to attend West Point.  But even before this criticism started, Republican front-runner Donald Trump had already declared war on the Virginia-based news outlet's editorial standards, saying last week that it is "the dumbest and most slanted" site that he has ever encountered.

Politico Admits Fabricating A Hit Piece On Ben Carson.  There were at least five major problems with the story:
  •   The headline was completely false
  •   The subhed was also completely false
  •   The opening paragraph was false false false
  •   The substance of the piece was missing key exonerating information
  •   The article demonstrated confusion about service academy admissions and benefits

The Three (Clinton) Stooges and CNBC.  [Scroll down]  Quintanella has a BA in political science.  So does Quick.  John Harwood says evasively that he studied economics and history as an undergraduate.  At least half their colleagues have degrees in journalism.  Almost none have had experience managing anyone else's money.  So it came as no surprise when Becky Quick asked Ted Cruz what he was going to do about the fact that women earn 77% of what men make.  This claim has been made for four decades; it's almost as old as Becky.  It has 999 lives.  No matter how many times it's refuted by economists, the mantra is repeated — like the similarly discredited claim that intelligence tests are culturally biased.

GOP Media Takedown: A Recipe for Victory.  Along with lawyers and politicians, the media is a group for which Americans have a fairly intense dislike.  This is largely because as with the first two groups, a big part of the modern media's business is lying, and no one likes being lied to. [...] Along with entertainment and academia, they constitute a tripartite axis of cultural evil.  They are Americans' conduit of information, and how can citizens choose the right policies and politicians if they're being fed misinformation?

How the MSM spins, example #926: Politico provides Team Hillary a talking point.  The State Department, before releasing one of the emails Hillary funneled through her homebrew server, failed to redact the name of somebody who is (or was) a CIA source.  The House Benghazi Committee later made that email public after it was cleared by State.  If you're among the left-leaning the MSM, how do you spin that?

State Department Screws Up, Politico Blames Trey Gowdy For Some Reason.  That's weird; if Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy accidentally released CIA information, why is the State Department apologizing?  The story here is that the State Department admitted they made a mistake in redacting a series of Clinton emails the Benghazi Committee planned to release.  But despite the State Department admitting that they screwed up and left in the name of a CIA source, Politico's headline is that Gowdy "accidentally released" it[,] even though he got the okay from the State Department to release the emails.

Biased coverage of Israeli-Palestinian 'violence': When terror becomes 'tensions'.  If you are seeking an example of bias in the media's coverage of what journalists are calling the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian "violence," consider the case of Ahmad Manasra.  In an angry speech on Wednesday night [10/14/2015], Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, appealed for calm but accused Israeli security forces of killing Palestinian boys "in cold blood," singling out the 13-year-old Manasra as one of the Palestinian youths Israel had "executed." [...] There are at least two major problems with Abbas' charge:  First, Ahmad Manasra was not "executed" or even shot by Israelis.

The Ahmed Mohamed Fairy Tale.  There can be no doubt that Americans are fortunate enough to be governed by a brilliantly conceived Constitution drafted by remarkable, intelligent men.  Unfortunately, too many Americans are utterly ignorant of what it contains and how it impacts on their lives.  Voter ignorance on this and so much else contributes to the ease with which the media manipulates public opinion into believing things which are not so.

Lessons in disaster for the next Katrina.  [#1] Though the press patted itself on the back afterwards, in fact, as American University Journalism Professor W. Joseph Campbell writes, "it's instructive to recall how extreme and over the top the reporting was from New Orleans in Katrina's aftermath."  Reports of wandering bands of rapists, a 10-year-old girl raped in the New Orleans Convention Center, claims that people were shooting at rescue helicopters, sharks haunting the floodwaters, bodies stacked like cordwood — all were false.  Though the extremism generated ratings, and satisfied the anti-American urges of the foreign press, it did real harm.  New Orleans, a city battered by disaster, was portrayed as, in Maureen Dowd's words, "a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning."  Dowd used this portrayal to take shots at then-President George W. Bush, and I suspect a lot of the media pile-on was similarly motivated, but it had the effect of stigmatizing victims and, by playing up anarchy and danger, may even have delayed the arrival of aid, as rescuers feared to go in without armed escort.  Overall, a horrible media performance.

An activist masquerading as a journalist is an impostor.
Activist anchor Jorge Ramos uses influence to push immigration agenda.  Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who has long been as much an activist as a newsman, managed to find himself at the center of an immigration story yet again this week as he went head-to-head with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, getting tossed from a press conference after repeatedly and insistently trying to ask questions.

Obama, Bush, Clinton: Secret Agents.  [Scroll down]  [Jorge Ramos] asserts proudly that he votes in elections in both countries.  (Translation of Ramos' world view:  He'd like to see the U.S. flooded with the dregs of his native country so he and Democrat elites could rule it without a vibrant middle class as they do Mexico.)  Ramos is employed by Univision, whose owner Haim Saban is a big Clinton contributor, Mrs. Saban is a big Hillary supporter.  Jorge's daughter works for Hillary Clinton.  He is most certainly a Clinton operative in newsman's drag.

Jorge Ramos Is an Immigration Activist Posing as a Reporter.  Jorge Ramos may be the award-winning celebrity anchor of Univision's premier news broadcast, but "the Walter Cronkite of Hispanic News" long ago revealed himself to be less a journalist than another perpetually indignant immigration activist.  His devolution into outright heckler was only a matter of time.  It would be difficult to overstate Ramos's immigration radicalism.  When Central American children were pouring over the border last summer, Ramos announced as a solution, "First, we treat children like children, as if they were our own."  When, in their 2012 interview, Newt Gingrich told Ramos, "I'm not going to let you define what 'immigration reform' is," Ramos replied, "It's very simple:  to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants."  And when, last November, President Obama lawlessly granted amnesty to some 5 million of those immigrants, Ramos touted the measure as "a triumph for the Latino community."

Jorge Ramos Has a Long History of Activist 'Reporting'.  Ramos has been called the "Walter Cronkite of Latino America," but he has a history of behaving more like an activist with a cable-news platform than a reporter.  Ramos constantly identifies with his Latino and immigrant audience, using words like "us" and "our" when reporting on any immigration-related issue.  He seems to see himself as the gatekeeper of Latino American opinion — and to think that qualifies him to be a political kingmaker.

For a 'Silenced' Journalist, Jorge Ramos Sure Is Getting a Lot of Air Time.  A couple of days ago, I had no idea who Jorge Ramos was.  I imagine many others were likewise unfamiliar with the Univision newscaster before Donald Trump made him famous by kicking him out of a press conference.  Among several media appearances since the confrontation with Trump on Tuesday, Ramos was on The Kelly File Wednesday night. [...] First of all, can we bask ever so briefly in the irony of being "silenced" on national television, then getting to rant about it ad nauseam on all the major networks?  This guy has been anything but silenced.  He should send Trump a thank you note for the exposure.

The Media Lies, AGAIN, About Donald Trump's Illegal Alien Enforcement Proposals — Completely Manufactured Claims.  Having watched an entire media cycle of punditry pontificate about Donald Trump proposing to deport "by force" 11 to 42 million illegal aliens we find ourselves shaking our heads at how little the MSM think of the viewing audience.  NOWHERE in Donald Trump's proposal does he say, or advocate for, the mass "rounding up and subsequent deportation" of millions of illegal aliens.  He never said it, he never proposed it, and it doesn't exist in his presented Border Solution and Illegal Alien proposal.  It just doesn't exist, yet the media claim it to be so.

US carbon pollution from power plants hits 27-year low.  Carbon dioxide — from the burning of coal, oil and gas — is the chief greenhouse gas responsible for man-made global warming.

Bias alert:
The Associated Press is wrong about one aspect of this story, in the first sentence:  The primary greenhouse gas is water vapor, which no law or politician can counteract.

PolitiFact and Planned Parenthood: Erroneous Fact Checks All the Way Down.  Planned Parenthood now finds itself being heavily criticized after being caught on tape brokering fetal body parts.  Fortunately for them, they have no shortage of allies in the media, including PolitiFact.  Fox Business reporter Sandra Smith recently said on air "Almost 95 percent of all (Planned Parenthood) pregnancy services were abortions."  On Tuesday, PunditFact, a division of PolitiFact, rated it false.  PolitiFact concedes the source of this statistic is Planned Parenthood's own annual report.  If you take the number of services listed in the report, exclude the ones that don't apply to women who aren't pregnant, you do indeed get a figure that showing that over 94 percent of pregnant women who go to Planned Parenthood get an abortion.

Cahoots:
Email Reveals Hillary Clinton Was Fed Questions Before Meet the Press Appearance.  One of the private Hillary Clinton emails released Friday [7/31/2015] reveals that an NBC source was leaking possible questions to the then-Secretary of State's staff ahead of an appearance on Meet the Press.  In an July 2009 email with the subject line "heads up," Clinton staffer Lissa Muscatine wrote, "You probably already know this, but I just heard from a friend who is wired at Meet the Press that David Gregory will ask you about David Maziar, the Newsweek journalist arrested in Iran."

Muhammad... Muhammad... Where Have I Heard That Name Before?  In the wake of the latest mass shooting, carried out by Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, an engineer like so many Islamic terrorists, we are seeing the usual scramble to avoid stating the obvious.  On CNN, Tom Fuentes ludicrously cautioned that Muhammad is not an Islamic name: [...]

Report: Caitlyn Jenner's camp pitched ESPY award in exchange for PR plugs.  ESPN's annual ESPY Awards show generally comes and goes with little controversy.  Until this year, that is.  [Bruce "Caitlyn"] Jenner, the former Olympic champion decathlete, will be awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at Wednesday night's event which will be televised on ABC.  Abby Wambach, a member of the U.S. women's national soccer team that just won the World Cup, will present Jenner with the award.  According to a new report, Jenner's ESPY award originated as a pitch from her representatives to ESPN.  Per RadarOnline, Jenner's camp suggested to the network that she receive the award and offered public relations plugs on her upcoming reality show in return.

Revealed: Caitlyn Jenner's reps 'demanded ESPYs award in exchange for PR plugs and Diane Sawyer interview'.  Representatives of Caitlyn Jenner reportedly negotiated her ESPYs award in exchange for PR plugs in her upcoming TV series and threatened to pull out of her 20/20 interview.  Reports have emerged that Jenner's team approached ESPN with the idea that she win the Arthur Ashe Courage Award just as details were being finalized for her 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC.  ABC and ESPN are both owned by Disney, and ABC aired Wednesday's [7/15/2015] awards ceremony.

New York Times Debunked: Scott Walker's 'I'm Not Going Nativist' Conversation Never Happened.  A conversation about immigration between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore, reported on by the New York Times this week, never happened.  "We have spoken with Stephen Moore and the conversation that was reported did not happen and he will tell you that.  I would recommend you reach out to him," Walker spokeswoman AshLee Strong told Breitbart News on Thursday [7/2/2015] in response to an article by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman.

AP Calls Crippled Economy 'Healthy' Amid Mass Immigration.  In a grim report detailing America's severe economic decline, the Associated Press brushes off two crucial factors:  Mass immigration and Obamacare's grip on employers. [...] A record 93,626,000 Americans have stopped looking for work in an economy that managed to create only one job for every two immigrants the government let in from 2000 to 2014.  When all U.S. job growth goes to foreigners at the expense of Americans, while everyone in the labor force sees their wages suppressed year after year, it makes sense that some would throw in the towel — and other would tolerate less-than-ideal jobs to make ends meet.

Fanning the Flames of Another Black-Church-Arson Hoax.  On Monday [6/29/2015], a Baltimore Sun lead editorial decried "a series of mysterious fires at African-American churches across the South" in the wake of the Charleston murders.  The newspaper cited a "pattern" of attacks, including what it claimed was an "uptick in attacks on 37 black churches in the South" in the 1990s that "prompted President Bill Clinton to set up a church-arson investigative task force."  The Sun neglected to mention that Clinton had falsely claimed at the time that he had "vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child" — an assertion immediately debunked by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Gallup Poll: Confidence in Police Rates Twice That of Mainstream Media.  "None of this should surprise anyone," [John] Nolte stated, because "certain members of the police force have been caught doing some truly terrible things, no question.  But these are individual incidents in individual precincts.  "On the other hand, time and again and again as an institution," he indicated, "the mainstream media has been caught red-handed lying, fabricating evidence and engaging in the kind of corruption that would put any other institution (the National Football League, police, the Koch brothers) out of business."

An NBC Affiliate Manufactures a Story to Attack Conservatives.  "Months before the conference, my family booked a hotel room at the same resort as ALEC," reported Brendan Keefe of WXIA TV, also known as 11 Alive.  It's the NBC affiliate in Atlanta.  "We found the fabled back room where the laws are made," he told their audience.  It was sweeps week and NBC had a scoop.  What he failed to mention is that the event held by the right-leaning American Legislative Exchange Council was open to the press, he did not register for the event, he registered at the hotel under an assumed name, and the hotel was not a resort, just a hotel in Savannah.  More particularly, it was the Hyatt in Savannah.

Our Biggest Problem Is A Lying, Stinking Media.  [Scroll down]  But the truth is that the lies of the press are nothing new.  It can be traced back to the 1930's with Stalin apologist Walter Durant's lies about the Soviet Union that won him a Pulitzer Prize.  Yes, he was a New York Times correspondent, of course.  It has taken over seventy years for the Pulitzer Prize committee to review Durant's denial about the desperate condition of the Russian people under Stalin and to consider revoking that prize but why bother since that prize has been a joke for many years?  The Pulitzer Prize was awarded to the Times-Picayune newspaper for totally fraudulent reporting of the Katrina disaster.

Researcher Behind Fabricated Gay Marriage Study LIED About Funding.  Michael LaCour, the University of California-Los Angeles graduate student responsible for a now-widely discredited study on attitudes towards gay marriage, apparently lied about the funding grants given for his fraudulent research.  In fact, according to The New Yorker, LaCour received no funding at all for the study — which was published last December in Science magazine and discredited earlier this week — into whether views on same-sex marriage change due to interaction with gay individuals.

What's Behind Big Science Frauds?  In December, Science published a paper claiming that people could change their minds about same-sex marriage after talking for just 20 minutes with a gay person.  It seemed too good to be true — and it was.  On Wednesday [5/20/2015], the journal distanced itself from the study, after its accuracy was disputed, and one of the authors could not back up the findings.  News organizations, which had reported on the study, scrambled to correct the record.

Weasel words from a weasel.  When [George] Stephanopoulos's contributions to the Clinton Foundation were discovered by the Free Beacon's Andrew Stiles and leaked by Stephanopoulos, or on his behalf by ABC public relations, to Politico, Stephanopoulos prepared a statement that amounted to old-fashioned damage control. [...] Stephanopoulos wraps his statement in a profession of his great generosity, of which the Clinton Foundation was coincidentally an additional beneficiary.  He made the donations over the past three years only to support worthy causes:  to heal the sick, protect the weak and feed the starving.  Make room for the apostle George.

Did Stephanopoulos go wrong? Of course he did.  "[W]hen those donors give that money," ABC host and commentator George Stephanopoulos said to Jon Stewart last month, "there's a hope that that's going to lead to something."  Stephanopoulos was impugning (or perhaps more accurately, describing) the motives of many people who had given money to the now-very-controversial Clinton Foundation.  He failed to mention that he himself had given $75,000 — a fact he was forced to admit last week after Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon began asking questions about it.

What Stephanopoulos Still Hasn't Disclosed.  The common denominator in what Stephanopoulos still hasn't disclosed is the fact that Stephanopoulos didn't just give the Clinton Foundation money, he gave it his time.  Schweizer notes that time is the one thing news media personalities have very little of.  In Stephanopoulos' case there's a second thing:  integrity.

George Stephanopoulos has forfeited all trust as a newsman.  Dan Rather of CBS was toppled by a phony document scam.  Lyin' Brian Williams at NBC casually mixed fact with self-aggrandizing fiction.  Now George Stephanopoulos is caught in a Clinton web of deceit at ABC.  The hat trick of arrogant anchor scandals helps explain why Americans don't trust network news.  With apologies to Walter Cronkite, that's the way it is, and the way it is stinks.  Stephanopoulos shares with Rather and Williams the rotten distinction of fessing up only after being exposed by real journalists.

AP perpetuates tale that Benghazi attack caused by anti-Islam film.  In a report about a Supreme Court ruling, the Associated Press on Monday [5/18/2015] continued with the ruse that an anti-Muslim film posted on YouTube caused violence in the Middle East, culminating in the murder of a U.S. ambassador on Sept. 11, 2012.  "In a victory for free speech advocates, a federal appeals court says YouTube should not have been forced to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to actors," the AP wrote.

MSNBC: America killing Muslims 'in the streets for decades" explains Garland shootings.  If there's an attack on American's anywhere, I think there's a law that there has to be someone on MSNBC to defend the attackers.  They always seems to get TV time.

Interracial Crime: Media-driven versus Statistical Realities.  The much-hyped "black killed by whites" stories sold to us over the past several years by the media and Race Industry have been either outright lies or grossly misreported.

Never Trust Liberal "Fact Checkers".  The Democratic Party controls almost all of the news media.  Some years ago, the Democrats came up with a great idea:  they established "fact checkers" within Democratic Party newspapers to spin unfortunate facts in the Democrats' favor.  Today, several such "fact checkers" are well known.  Are they reliable?  Of course not.

CBS employee goes silent after making baseless fraud charge about embattled Indiana pizzeria.  An employee of a Virginia-based CBS News affiliate has gone silent following revelations Friday [4/3/2015] she made a baseless fraud charge against an attempt to raise funds for an Indiana family at the center of a political battle over religious freedom.

Math Is Hard For Obamacarians.  If you are masochistic enough to read the "reporting" of the legacy media on Obamacare, you will have noticed a spate of recent stories with titles like the following from CNBC:  "Health spending post-Obamacare seen $2.5 trillion lower."  This headline is not only awkwardly worded.  It is, like the article over which it appears, misleading.  It misrepresents a new study from the left-leaning Urban Institute concerning projected health care spending in a way that suggests the nation has saved enormous amounts of money thanks to the "Affordable Care Act."  This is absurd, of course, but it highlights an underappreciated element of the health care reform debate — the adversarial relationship that exists between Obamacare's partisans in the press and basic statistics.

Another Great Moment in Mainstream Journalism.  This story, like the now-completely discredited Rolling Stone "campus rape" article, shows the dangers of an increasingly biased mainstream news media.  Stories that fits reporters' and editors' ideological predispositions get rushed through into print with little skepticism or careful review, and apparently with no actual fact checking.

Libel Is Obama's Latest Weapon In His War On Israel.  Behold what's buried in Tuesday's [3/24/2015] Wall Street Journal — a claim of Israeli spying, which was obviously planted by one or more nameless administration officials seeking to make the Israelis' newly re-elected leader look like a U.S. enemy:  "While U.S. intelligence officials believe secured U.S. communications are relatively safe from the Israelis, they say European communications are vulnerable."  The Israelis, it turns out, almost certainly got their information from eavesdropping not on U.S., but on European and Iranian diplomatic communications — which virtually every U.S. embassy in the world does.

NYTs Caught Manipulating Story That Didn't Fit Their Narrative.  In a story published Monday [3/16/2015], The New York Times reported online that family members of Jeffrey Williams, the 20 year-old man suspected of shooting and wounding two Ferguson police officers, confirmed that Williams had been one of the Ferguson protesters.  This morning, at the same url, that crucial piece of news disappeared from the story.  No update or editor's note explained the removal (that has now been returned).

The Biggest Lie of Our Generation: Ferguson Was All About Traffic Tickets. 
Hands up, don't shoot?  Lie.
Gentle giant?  Lie.
Minding his own business?  Lie.
Shot in the back?  Lie.
Did not attack the police officer?  Lie.
'Didn't do nothing' to the Asian shopkeeper?  Lie.
Relatives did not try to start a riot?  Lie.
Protests were "largely peaceful?"  Lie.
National Guard would protect the business owners from looting...
This is a very long list of of the bodyguard of lies that reporters and activists (sorry for the redundancy) hoped would protect anyone from challenging the core truth of the racial grievance industry, which is the biggest lie of this generation:  Black people are relentless victims of relentless white racism.  All the time.  Everywhere.  That explains everything.  And it is not just Ferguson.  Lying about race and racial violence is now the default position for American reporters.

DOJ Report States "Hands Up — Don't Shoot" Narrative Was Completely False — We Again Explain Its Origin.  Today [3/4/2015] the DOJ released their comprehensive finding report on the Mike Brown shooting.  The DOJ Report states unequivocally the "Hands Up - Don't Shoot" narrative was a completely false construct, but yet the media ran with it for months.  Why?

Petraeus Set To Plead Guilty — Remove Himself From The Clutches Of Obama/Clinton Blackmail.  CNN is reporting, through Evan Perez again, that General David Petraeus is expected to plead guilty to a federal probe that he gave classified pillow-talk intelligence to Paula Broadwell during their affair in 2011/2012.  It should be noted, however, that Evan Perez was recently the CNN reporter who presented an entirely false story about a DHS report on Soverign Citizens where he portrayed the report as DHS worried about right-wing extremist groups.  Nothing in his interpretation of the report was even remotely accurate [...]

JW Exposes Another NBC Scandal Days Before Brian Williams Debacle.  The mainstream media's credibility continues to deteriorate at a breakneck rate and now a major network television station — with recent transgressions exposed by Judicial Watch and a U.S. military newspaper — is serving as the poster child of this shameful movement.  It involves two popular and "respected" journalists at NBC, disgraced "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams and "Meet the Press" anchor David Gregory, two of the highest paid and most coveted personalities in the network's history.

AP: Islam Fundamentally a Religion of Peace, 'Brazen' Critics Probably Racist.  AP writer Lee Keath published an article on Monday dealing with the "debate among Muslims over interpreting faith" — without mentioning that thousands of deaths are meted out every year in the name of Islam across the globe.  Keath instead describes those who question the link between Islam and jihadist violence as "increasingly brazen."  Rather than focusing on the "brazenness" of the murderers in Islam's name, the author instead points towards those who dare critique the Religion of Peace.

Newsweek hit piece smears Bible, Christians.  Newsweek's 16-page diatribe portrays Evangelical Christians as homophobic, right-wing fundamentalist hypocrites who believe an unbelievable Bible.  And just in case the reader misses the writer's subtle nuance, the essay was illustrated with images of snake handlers, Pat Robertson and the Westboro Baptist Church.  That's because in the minds of Newsweek's esteemed editors, most evangelical Christians spend their weekends dancing with snakes and picketing gay nightclubs.

In LA, CBS Station Pretends There Was a Real Kwanzaa Parade Yesterday.  A Kwanzaa "parade" was held in Los Angeles yesterday [12/26/2014].  In reporting on the event, CBS Los Angeles published a work of fiction which absolutely belongs on any 2014 list of most embarrassing moments in journalism. [...] A procession of a few vehicles lasting 10 minutes is not a "parade."  It isn't even a motorcade.

CBS News Fabricates Story That Michigan Bill Would Allow Doctors/EMTs to Deny Treatment to Gay Patients.  CBS News published a story on December 11 under the headline:  "Bill would let Michigan doctors, EMTs refuse to treat gay patients."  CBS News reports: [...] According to Michael W. McConnell, a professor at Stanford University Law School and former federal appeals court judge, the CBS story is false.  "The exact same law has been on the books at the federal level and in many states for almost twenty years, and no such claim has ever been made.  And if it were made, it would lose in court, probably unanimously," McConnell tells The Weekly Standard in an email.

Obama's Endless Lies and His Media Accomplices.  It was appropriate that the Democratic Senate report on "torture" was released on the same day that Jonathan Gruber was testifying about lying to the American people regarding the benefits of Obamacare.  The Senate report was another form of deception, designed to confuse and mislead about what Obama has used in place of interrogation techniques of terrorists.  Obama doesn't interrogate terrorists, he kills them.  Yet, we are led to believe Obama believes in American values and practices them.  The American people would see through the lies if only they could depend on a media that would lead them out of all the deliberate obfuscation.

Why The Media's Fact Problems Are Way Bigger Than Rolling Stone.  It's absolutely true that we don't have a wave of outright fabrication-out-of-whole-cloth.  But what we have is much worse.  We have a tsunami of inaccuracy that is generally tolerated, embraced and even celebrated so long as it serves the right political and cultural goals.

NBC's Snyderman faces credibility issues.  NBC must now decide whether Snyderman's credibility is too damaged for her to continue reporting on Ebola or other medical issues and, if so, for how long.

The Mike Brown PBS "Lie Chart" — The False PBS Claims Deconstructed Visually.  A Treeper has been reviewing every piece of testimony in the case and comparing it with the chart that PBS published.  Turns out they misrepresented almost all of the statements.

Ex-Obama Aide Destroys Media Narrative, Admits Gruber Was an 'Important Figure'.  A former adviser to Barack Obama on Tuesday [11/18/2014] overturned the media narrative, promoted by the President, that Jonathan Gruber was an unimportant, minor figure.  The New York Times on Tuesday insisted in an editorial, "Republicans are crowing over Mr. Gruber's remarks because he has been portrayed as a major architect of the health reform law.  In truth, his role was limited."  The health care operative has repeatedly bragged about fooling "stupid" Americans.  The paper's editors lectured, "His comments should not be taken as evidence that the reform law was hatched in secrecy and foisted on the public by trickery."  Yet, Steven Rattner, a former Obama administration adviser, countered this narrative on Morning Joe.

ABC and NBC Ignore Gruber's Numerous W.H. Visits, CBS Barely Covers.  On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of ObamaCare, made more than a dozen visits to visit the White House since "Democrats began drafting the law in 2009."  Despite the latest developments in the Gruber controversy, which contradicts President Obama's line that Gruber was "some advisor who never worked on our staff," CBS This Morning was the only network morning show to mention the report, giving it a mere 24 seconds during its Tuesday morning [11/18/2014] broadcast.  ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today ignored the Journal's report altogether.

More about the Jonathan Gruber ObamaCare scandal.

Chuck Todd: Eric Holder is a 'Very Non-Political Person'.  [Meet the Press host Chuck] Todd says this of the man who openly talked about serving "my people" as attorney general.  He made that comment in connection with the New Black Panther case — a racially-tinged case that Holder's DOJ dropped even after the government had won it.  Eric Holder desperately wants to treat al Qaeda terrorists as criminals rather than non-state illegal combatants.  That's a political choice, and one for which he has been roundly criticized.  When Holder attempted to move trials of al Qaeda terrorists from military tribunals to civilian court — in New York — he lost.  Big.  Being obtuse to the viewpoints of others, and being unable to comprehend that the things that you say and do offend and anger others, is not the same thing as being "non-political."

Best of facts-free reporting hands-down... I mean up.  I began to lose interest in Ferguson, Mo., when it was first reported that the late Michael Brown was an "aspiring rapper."  Hadn't heard that one yet?  It was in the LA Times, under the headline:  "Michael Brown's raps: Money, sex, drugs — and a vulnerable side."  Of course he had to have a vulnerable side.  That's why he was known as "the Gentle Giant."  He didn't look terribly gentle in that closed-circuit video, shoving the owner of the Ferguson Market when he was stealing the box of Swisher Sweets just before he got shot.  But the demonstrators could see right through that — "the man" had photoshopped the video, or so they said live on national TV.

The Media Are Buying Hillary's Foreign Policy [Prevarication] — And Selling It To You.  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — the most senior foreign policy official in the United States, aside from President Barack Obama himself, for four years — is now attempting to differentiate herself from her old boss, now that his hapless leadership has become a liability to her presidential ambitions.  And the media are buying it, then re-selling it to the public as if it represents an authentic split instead of opportunism and lies.

5 Reasons Not to Trust the 'What Me Worry' Media About Ebola.  [#5] The mainstream media lies.  It lies all the time.  The mainstream media is a degenerate, habitual, serial liar that exists only to serve the government and the noxious little career-climbing bubble it exists in.  I always assume the media is lying — that way I'm right more than I'm wrong.  The mainstream media is a wretched institution populated with wretched people and only a handful of exceptions.  If you're foolish enough to believe the mainstream media will put what's morally good, right, and true above The Club Rules, you obviously haven't watched CNN's coverage of the war in Gaza.

The Self-Inflicted Hamas 'Massacre' Blamed By the Media on Israel.  According to the Hamas version of events — widely promulgated in the media by ITN, the Telegraph and the Belfast Telegraph — an Israeli airstrike on a crowded market place during a partial ceasefire in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood of Gaza City on July 30th, 2014 was responsible for the deaths of 17 people, including blue-helmeted photojournalist Rani Rayan.  However as Thomas Wictor has incontrovertibly demonstrated using close analysis of film footage of the incident, the deaths were not caused by Israeli shrapnel but by secondary explosions from a vast cache of Hamas rockets.  Oh, and the market wasn't 'crowded' either:  it had been closed for the day.  And this particular area wasn't included in the ceasefire zone, either, because Hamas was continuing to fire rockets from it.

Gallup: Public Confidence in TV News at All-Time Low.  Public confidence in television news is at an all-time low, according to a survey released today [6/19/2014] by Gallup. [...] In the latest survey, conducted June 5-8, only 10 percent said they had "a great deal" of confidence in T.V. news, and 8 percent said they had "quite a lot" of confidence.

Gallup: Public Confidence in TV News at All-Time Low.  Public confidence in television news is at an all-time low, according to a survey released today by Gallup.  Only 18 percent of the Americans surveyed expressed either a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in that news medium.

Dana Milbank's Heritage disaster.  Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank set off a flurry of outraged tweets on Monday night [6/16/2014] after posting a highly critical recap of a panel event at The Heritage Foundation that, he says, "deteriorated into the ugly taunting of a woman in the room who wore an Islamic head covering."  Video of that panel has since surfaced and — in my view — Milbank grossly misrepresented the nature of that exchange.

Friends Don't Let Friends Read Dana Milbank.  Dana Milbank is a columnist for the Washington Post who serially exaggerates or distorts what he writes about.  It's just what he does.  This has been established so many times by so many people that it's disappointing to see he is still given prominent perch in his paper and that people who made it past their sophomore year in high school take him seriously.

What Dana Milbank Does Not Tell You.  [Scroll down]  But what's more, Milbank relies on the account of "Saba Ahmed, an American University law student," who is the aggrieved victim of his piece.  She's a moderate, caring Muslim girl targeted by the group because she is Muslim.  What Milbank does not tell you is that Saba Ahmed is a family friend of Mohammed Osman Mohamud, the convicted Islamic bomber who tried to blow up Portland, OR in the name of jihad.  Milbank also does not tell you Saba Ahmed has been arrested for stalking and her family claims she was diagnosed with a mental disorder.  She's also been active at Occupy rallies denouncing American war efforts.  She has made opposition to the American war against terrorism a key part of what she does.  And she took to Heritage to hijack a conversation on Benghazi, turning it to her issue, which had not even been a topic of conversation.

Washington Post Lets Columnist Dana Milbank Lie About Heritage Foundation.  Writing for a Washington Post that apparently decided his column was too good to check, columnist Dana Milbank attacked the conservative Heritage Foundation for bullying a female Muslim woman who expressed concern about Muslim stereotyping during a panel Monday night.  The only problem with Milbank's charge is that it's a smear — it never happened.  And of all places, it is video from the left-wing Media Matters that debunks Milbank's entire column.

MSNBC.com Deceptively Edits Dave Brat to Suggest He Was 'Dodging' Questions.  Editors at MSNBC.com trimmed down Republican congressional nominee Dave Brat's June 11 phone interview with MSNBC's Chuck Todd in order to paint him as dodging questions from the Daily Rundown host.  But a review of the full interview shows that Brat had already and seemingly quite gladly answered a few policy questions on such hot issues as the minimum wage, immigration reform, and his stance on Wall Street's influence on the business wing of the GOP.

ABC Apologizes for Story That Connected Mozilla CEO to Hateful Westboro Baptist.  ABC News Vice President Jeffrey Schneider has apologized for a story on his network that connected a CEO who supports traditional marriage to the Westboro Baptist Church and their offensive [...] signs.  Mr. Schneider contacted the Media Research Center on Thursday after our social media department requested members call and complain about the comparison.

CBS dubs sound for quiet electric car.  CBS News says an editor made an "audio error" in dubbing the sound of a loud traditional car engine over footage of the much quieter Tesla electric car in a story that aired Sunday [3/30/2014].

Six Lies The Leftist Media Tells About The Contraception Mandate Cases.  This week, the Supreme Court will consider whether businesses and their owners must choose between paying millions of dollars in fines and violating their religious beliefs.  [...] The leftist papers do not mention the substantial monetary burden put on religious business owners to violate their consciences.  The papers do not mention that contraception was both inexpensive and widely available before the contraception mandate, and still is.  The papers omit to mention that it isn't the businesses who have radically changed, but the mandates from government.  Quite simply, if you read a newspaper to find out about the contraception mandate cases, you will read lies.

Jacksonville Channel 4 falsely portrays black on white hate crime attacks as having a white perpetrator.  For years we have talked about how the media censors black crime.  Many major media outlets now openly admit to having a policy of censoring black crime perpetrators.  However, an even more sinister form of censorship is rising.  This is what we call Stage 2 censorship of black crime.  Where the media purposely leads you to believe that a black crime perpetrator was actually a white guy.

Appalling: NY Times editorial distorts, misleads, and lies to readers on HHS Mandate.  With many political debates, I try to give opponents the benefit of the doubt on intentions.  Sure, raising taxes is a bad thing, but some politicians and pundits believe higher taxes will benefit society.  Some people think we need to spend more, and others really fear climate change.  When it comes to the HHS abortifacient/contraception/sterilization mandate, however, I've almost stopped being that generous with the left's media and thought leaders.  [A recent] New York Times Magazine editorial is a prime example as to why.  Almost from start to finish, the piece misleads and misdirects readers about the mandate, its opponents, and religious freedom.

Yet Another Journalist Says Lying Is A-OK.  It's a relatively new development for journalists to admit that lying to the public isn't a bad thing, but it's a rapidly growing phenomenon, as sophistry becomes an increasingly accepted practice in the MSM, to the point where it's openly talked about by those who employ it.

Radio DJs spark outrage after admitting they made up story about a homophobic RSVP to a party.  Two radio DJs in Long Island who caused an uproar last week by posting the homophobic RSVP to a birthday party for a 'little girl with two gay dads' admitted on Saturday that the whole thing was a hoax.

Cybersecurity Expert Accuses NBC of '100% Fraudulent' Hacking Story, NBC Fires Back.  Earlier this week, NBC's Richard Engel filed a report warning travelers to Sochi about the danger of getting hacked, but one cybersecurity expert took serious issue with the story, which he described on his blog as "100% fraudulent."  In the report, Engel brought some brand-new laptops and a new phone just to test how secure people's devices would be in Sochi, and he concluded that he was hacked "almost immediately."  But Robert Graham pointed out a few reasons why all is not as it seems.

CBS's Mellody Hobson, Whose Husband George Lucas Is Worth $7 Billion, Slams Rich CEOs.  CBS analyst Mellody Hobson, whose husband George Lucas is worth $7.3 billion, appeared on This Morning to slam excessive salaries for corporate bosses.

NBC News Fails to Disclose Soros Connection In Shriver Report on Women.  The Media Research Center reports that a report promoted heavily by NBC News Special Anchor Maria Shriver was funded by a ultra-left political group funded by George Soros.  Earlier this week Shriver was all over NBC News and MSNBC to talk about a study titled "The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back From the Brink."  The promotion of the report also allowed Shriver and NBC News to portray President Obama as "sympathetic to working mothers."  This push focusing on women we see throughout the media, not just on NBC, is nothing more than the media prepping the battlefield to elect Hillary Clinton.

Five Years of Falsehoods at NBC News.  Everyone acted surprised when we learned yesterday that after a couple of disastrous months, MSNBC is defiantly refusing to change their editorial process.  But why would they?  For years now, MSNBC and NBC News have both become a culture of left-wing hate and fraudulent editing.  The only thing new, as you will see [in this article], is that the frequency of the fraud and hate is increasing.  What I've assembled here isn't anything close to comprehensive, but it is a revealing top ten: [...]

Ripping Off the "Progressive" Mask.  It is a sad fact that telling a lie these days has become more convenient than telling the truth.  This is a terrible commentary on those with access to our major media.  Consider the coverage of the inauguration of Bill de Blasio as New York City's mayor.  The term "progressive" is used in most accounts to describe him and his backers.  De Blasio accepts that term.  Yet, by any objective measure, he is a dedicated Marxist, and has been for most of his life.  For example, he never disavowed his support for the communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua.  He claims to have honeymooned in communist Cuba, when such a trip was illegal.  His wife was a member of a Marxist collective.

NBC News' Happy Obamacare Customer is a Dem Candidate, Operative.  NBC News senior health reporter JoNel Aleccia told the story of a woman described as "Joyce Moore, a Pennsylvania financial planner" who "runs her own retirement and estate planning business."  NBC said Moore was actually happy her existing insurance was canceled due to Obamacare. [...] What NBC News Senior Health Reporter JoNel Aleccia failed to mention is that Joyce Moore is a longstanding Democratic activist who, in November 2013, ran as a Democratic candidate for Upper Milford Township Supervisor in Pennsylvania.

10 Forms of 2013 Media Malpractice.  [#1] Pretend that "no one" is saying something, when they really are.  Carol Costello of CNN claimed in January that "no one is talking about overturning the Second Amendment or confiscating guns in America."  In the three preceding weeks, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had said that "confiscation could be an option"; an Iowa state representative had "said governments should start confiscating semi-automatic rifles and other firearms"; and Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California had suggested a gun-buyback program which "could be compulsory."  In early December, New York City's police department sent out "letters telling gun owners to turn over their rifles and shotguns — or else face the consequences," i.e., confiscation.

Journalistic malpractice over Benghazi.  The Times' report misconstrues known facts and simply sweeps under the table mountains of evidence of al Qaeda's ties to Libyan jihadi groups.  In June 2012, for example, more than a dozen different jihadi groups put the black flag of al Qaeda on parade in Benghazi in what they hoped would be a three-day show of force.  Thousands of jihadi fighters, many of them in Pakistani and Afghan dress, paraded through the streets of Benghazi with hundreds of gun trucks.  For The New York Times, though, the black flags were merely "the black flags of militant Islam" and apparently bore no relation to al Qaeda.  "Benghazi was not infiltrated by al Qaeda," The Times flatly asserted.

House Intel Chairman on NYT's Benghazi Report: 'That Story Is Just Not Accurate'.  The New York Times on Sunday [12/29/2013] published a highly controversial report claiming the September 2012 attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, did not involve al Qaeda, and was as the Administration originally stated a spontaneous demonstration in response to an American-made anti-Islamic video.  Appearing on Fox News Sunday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) completely refuted the article saying, "[T]hat story is just not accurate".

Denver Post Stealth Edits Out 'Socialist' from Profile of Arapahoe School Shooter.  In a profile on the shooter in the Denver Post which focused on his "strong political beliefs," several of Pierson's classmates offered their impressions of the shooter.  One of the shooter's classmates described him as a "very opinionated socialist."  Shortly after that post was published, however, that description was edited out.  The current copy simply describes him as "very opinionated."

Mika Suggests Obama 'Too Smart' For The Job.  Too smart to be President.  Is that really Barack Obama's problem? Mika Brzezinski thinks so.  On today's [11/4/2013] Morning Joe, as Mike Barnicle and John Heilemann kicked around the notion, as others have before, that President Obama doesn't much like politics and the people in it, Brzezinski piped up with a different explanation for his aloofness:  he's "too smart for the job," she suggested.

The Editor says...
I can provide copious evidence that Barack H. Obama is not all that bright.

WashPost's Milbank: 'Couldn't Be the Case' That Some Lost Insurance Because of ObamaCare.  On Monday's PoliticsNation, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank claimed that it "couldn't be the case at this time" that ObamaCare is already causing people to lose their current health insurance plans, in spite of all the documented cases insurance companies canceling plans as they struggle to comply with ObamaCare regulations.

The Shutdown that Ruined Christmas?  [Scroll down]  On the very first night, Oct. 1, NBC already sounded like a DNC campaign commercial.  Reporter John Yang highlighted an EPA worker in Chicago, Elizabeth Lytle, who had already filed for unemployment benefits. [...] Despite her $52,000-a-year salary, Lytle is an experienced "victim."  Back in March, the eco-news site Greenwire also focused on her suffering from sequestration. [...] Here, too, was ethical fraud:  NBC and other outlets didn't say so, but Lytle had been previously featured in the media by her union, the American Federation of Government Employees.

The AP Misreports the Debt Ceiling.  I wrote here that no matter what happens with the debt limit, the federal government will not default on its debt obligations.  I also noted here that Moody's — which certainly ought to know — agrees that there is zero chance of default on Treasury bonds.  In recent days, many more commentators have made the same point.  The government is legally obligated to recognize its debt obligations, and the existing $17 trillion debt can be serviced on less than ten percent of federal revenue.  So there simply can't be a default.

The Planned Destruction of America.  One world is where the television and radio pundits sanctimoniously scold us into believing that all is normal, and everything we see taking place today is merely the result of a growing acrimonious relationship between two political parties.  They sit behind the microphones, in front of the TV cameras, write the newsprint, and dominate the internet with their matrix of mendacity.  They are well-paid for keeping the public in the dark, and by confining public discourse to the limitations of mere political theater.  Regardless of their political bent, they bully and mock those who disagree, and sneer at those who dare threaten the illusion of normalcy.  The other world is what is really taking place behind the scenes.

Limbaugh Bashes 'Journalistic Malpractice' Attacking GOP Over Gov't Shutdown.  Rush Limbaugh took the media to task Monday [9/30/2013] for foisting all the blame of a potential government shutdown on Republicans.  Limbaugh predicted in the next few days the media would write piece after piece about all the programs getting shut down during the shutdown and blaming Republican intransigence on the whole thing.  He referred to the AP article above as "basically a press release from the Democrat party" that accuses Republicans of hating Obama so much they're willing to let millions of people go without health care.

CBS's Bob Schieffer Falsely Claims 'Polls Say That Most People Favor' ObamaCare.  In defiance of reality illustrated in numerous polls, on Sunday's Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer scolded Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn when she correctly asserted "there is only partisan support" for ObamaCare.  Schieffer cut her off:  "Well now Congresswoman, that's not entirely true.  The polls don't suggest that.  Polls say that most people favor it."

Little Media Lies About ObamaCare.  [Scroll down]  Obama signed House bills to kill a costly ObamaCare reporting rule, terminate its long-term care insurance program and repeal the "free choice voucher" program.  He also signed bills cutting funds for the so-called CO-OP program, a public health slush fund and other ObamaCare programs.  Two other House-passed bills — one to end the Independent Payment Advisory Board and another terminating the medical device tax — have strong bipartisan support.  Another simply codified the employer mandate delay Obama himself had already ordered.  Yet the media pretend these things never happened.

BBC claims Tamerlan Tsarnaev motivated by "right-wing" literature, not radical Islam.  With all the efforts to tie the Tea Party and "right wing" to violence committed by others, it wouldn't be long before the Islamic radical Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was tied to "right-wing" causes.  With the slenderest of proof, The BBC goes there.

Politico: Media Didn't Ignore Benghazi.  Politico's Dylan Byers, in a piece for his buddies in the MSM, declares that conservative criticism of the mainstream media is overblown. [...] Let us enlighten Byers to the scope of the MSM's betrayal of the public trust, with some added help from the Media Research Council.

How the Media Has Distorted a Tragedy.  [Scroll down]  This narrative has perpetuated the lie that Zimmerman's history of calls to the police indicates obsessive racial paranoia.  Thus, discussing the verdict on the PBS NewsHour, University of Connecticut professor and New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb asserted that "Zimmerman had called the police 46 times in previous six years, only for African-Americans, only for African-American men."  Actually, only six calls — two of them about Trayvon Martin — had to do with African-American men.

Defending American Principles Is Now a Revolutionary Act.  The [George Zimmerman] case was a joke, but you wouldn't know that if you only listened to the mainstream media.  The media's rank speculation, mischaracterization of the evidence and outright lies were designed to replace the strict adherence to law and the rules of evidence that for a thousand years have protected the accused from the mindless fury of the mob.

Key Witness for Zimmerman Grand Jury Changes Story.  We wrote yesterday [10/31/2014] about the "October Surprise/Get Out the Vote" announcement by a flailing Obama administration that the Department of Justice will be holding a Grand Jury hearing next Wednesday regarding possible federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.  The only named witness for Wednesday's hearing is Frank Taaffe, a self-declared "friend" for George Zimmerman.  Earlier this year Taaffe suddenly announced that he believed Zimmerman had a racial, not merely self-defense, motive in killing Trayvon Martin.  This would be more than two years after the shooting occurred.

More lies from the main stream media about the Zimmerman case.  The claim that Zimmerman was at fault because he pursued Martin after being told not to has absolutely no basis in fact.  It is a made up assumption that has been repeated so many times by the media that people actually believe that is what happened.  The 911 call that was placed by Zimmerman is on the web in both audio and written transcript form.  It was played numerous times at the trial.  There is no excuse for continuing to lie about the evidence.  The Chicago Tribune should know better than to continue to perpetuate lies that have fueled so much anger over this case.

Just report the news, don't generate it.
TX Lt. Gov: Reporters Tried To Inflame Pro-Abortion Protesters.  Texas Lt. Governor David Dewhurst told HotAir's Ed Morrissey that his office received reports that reporters were actively encouraging and rallying pro-abortion protesters during State Sen. Wendy Davis' fillibuster last week.

Media misreporting rampant in Trayvon Martin case.  A combination of pressure through social media and poor journalism led to the trial of George Zimmerman, who is accused of second-degree murder in last year's shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.  Immediately after the shooting in Sanford, Fla., which is 20 miles northeast of Orlando, the media described Mr. Zimmerman as white, setting up the racially divisive meme of a white man killing a black teenager — a characterization that proved to be wrong.

Number Seven: NBC News Again Caught Selectively Editing Video.  Deceptive journalistic practices at NBC News show no sign of slowing down.  This latest attempt to selectively edit audio/video in order to benefit Barack Obama represents the seventh such act of willful, intentional journalistic malpractice.  NBC News is already being sued over one instance involving George Zimmerman.

WaPo Quietly Changes Key Details in NSA Story.  The gist is that the Washington Post has quietly made major edits to its initial story about the NSA's PRISM program, without acknowledging that any changes have been made at all.  Many of the changes are stylistic, but many are factual.

Update:
Busted Again: Washington Post Stealth Edits Obama/Africa Story.  For the second time in a week, The Washington Post has been caught editing a major story without noting publicly that the story has been changed.

CNN Launches Dishonest Attack On Clarence Thomas — To Protect Voter Fraud.  CNN published an article by John Blake entitled "Three questions for Clarence Thomas" that allows them to not only distort the black conservative judge's opinions, but also to tip-toe on the edge of racism, referring to Justice Thomas as a "sellout" and "Uncle Thomas" while hiding behind the cowardly journalistic trick of "Hey, we're just reporting what other people say!"

Propaganda: NPR Incorrectly Claims IRS Has Nothing to do With Obamacare.  During the May 22 broadcast of National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation," host Neil Conan repeatedly contradicted a guest by claiming that the IRS has nothing at all to do with Obamacare.  NPR's Conan is, of course, completely incorrect.  The IRS is up to its Tea Party harassing neck in Obamacare.  The guest Conan contradicted was Kellyanne Conway, a Republican strategist and pollster.  Conway was on to discuss the various scandals in which Obama is mired and close to the end of her segment she questioned how the American people can trust the IRS to implement Obamacare.  Conan initially pressed her on the claim saying that she must have "misspoken."

Politico Quietly Edits Story Claiming Tea Party Supports Immigration Bill.  Politico deceptively edited its lead story from Tuesday, "Immigration's new ally: Tea partiers" that originally erroneously argued the Tea Party was an "ally" of the "Gang of Eight" immigration bill.  The changes came after Breitbart News caught the site red-handed in a number of factual errors.  Politico made several substantive changes to its piece and the only notification it gave to readers of those corrections was an updated time stamp next to the authors' bylines.

NBC News Again Caught Selectively Editing Video.  I had hoped this nonsense would end with the reign of Steve Capus, but once again we have NBC News forced to apologize for yet-another dishonest edit meant to push the left's agenda.

News Media Keep Peddling Their Bush Vs. Gore Lie.  When Sandra Day O'Connor said she regretted her decision in Bush v. Gore, the press threw another fit about the "stolen" election.  They seem to forget their own studies proved the court's ruling didn't matter.

Newspaper caught photoshopping injuries out of Boston Marathon photograph.  A US newspaper has admitted that it digitally altered a front-page photograph of a Boston Marathon bombing victim so that the woman's pants covered her horrific leg wounds.  The woman's gory wounds had vanished on the large image that wrapped around the New York Daily News on Tuesday [4/16/2013], despite the photograph appearing unedited online and in other publications in the US.

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#12]  Fake Exploding GM Trucks:  In 1993 on its Dateline NBC program, NBC News was determined to smear trucks made by General Motors.  The TV newsers wanted to show America that the gas tanks in GM trucks were prone to exploding.  Dateline aired footage of just that causing a PR nightmare for GM.  Ultimately, NBC had viewers convinced that GM's "sidesaddle" gas tank was a hazard.  But in its zeal to destroy GM, NBC forgot to mention one little thing to the viewing public.  Its video of an exploding gas tank was little else but Hollywood special effects.

False Media Narrative: Hagel Filibuster 'Unprecedented'.  You'll hear it all over cable news and the networks and in every lede paragraph from the Washington Post to the LA Times:  Republicans are conducting an unprecedented filibuster of Chuck Hagel.  Where did the media get this buzz word that's repeated breathlessly by the obedient servants of the White House?  From the White House, of course.

Steve Capus Oversaw 'Erosion of Journalistic Values'.  You would think five documented instances of outright journalistic fraud from a single news division would result in a little more outrage from our journalistic overlords.  You would also think that those who believe in the ethics of their profession would speak out, or that those with competitive instincts would leap at the opportunity to ding a competitor.  But media has its own version of a the Blue Code of Silence.

AP Gives False and Conflicting Information on Potential Voter Fraud Case.  In a move that serves to discount the severity of voter fraud in the US, the Associated Press' Gary Fineout posted two conflicting reports regarding a voter fraud investigation.  Strangely, after posting inaccurate information in an article, the heavily left-leaning AP staff writer then posted an update — one that conflicted with the first false posting, yet was still false in itself.

Cape Cod Times says reporter fabricated sources in dozens of stories.  A Massachusetts daily newspaper apologized to its readers after an internal investigation concluded that a veteran reporter wrote dozens of stories that included people who don't exist.

$1.2 billion examples of ABC News' bias.  The slimiest news coverage of 2012 has nothing to do with the presidential election.  It concerns a massive ABC News campaign against an American beef company.  Led by national correspondent Jim Avila, the network bombarded a South Dakota firm with a seemingly endless barrage of stories claiming that its lean beef was — it doesn't get uglier than this — "pink slime."  According to that company, ABC's reports cost it hundreds of millions of dollars, and cost more than 700 people their jobs.  Now that company is suing ABC — for $1.2 billion.

Cutter: Yeah, we've been lying about the $5 trillion we said Romney's lying about.  As soon as Team Obama realized its excuse-making was getting embarrassing after the president's debate performance, they pivoted to a replay of the response to Rep. Paul Ryan's convention speech in Tampa.  They can't call either of them dumb, so they have to call them liars.  In the service of that narrative, they either present mere philosophical disagreements as "lies" or they dishonestly represent parts of Mitt Romney's plan to make him into a "liar."

Are the Media Telling the Truth About Romney's "Lies"?  [Scroll down]  Many reports have documented examples of stimulus money wasted on dubious projects or that benefited well-connected firms.  And [Paul] Ryan's overall complaint was that the money was "borrowed, spent, and wasted."  That may be hyperbole, but by Obama's own standards, the stimulus was hardly a success.  Just before he signed the stimulus, Obama promised it would "ignite spending by businesses and consumers," unleash "a new wave of innovation, activity and construction," and produce 4% economic growth this year.  None of which happened.

Report: Journalists Using Fake Names to Buy Obama Merchandise.  Several journalists have reportedly used fake names to buy Obama campaign merchandise inside media-only areas of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC.

Were journalists using fake names to make Obama donations at the convention?  [Scroll down]  So the next time you hear a "journalist" pitching in with the sort of in-kind campaign contribution that Democrats love, even though they are very upset by the idea of other types of corporation participating in political speech, remember that he or she might be driving home in a car with a "Democrats Are Hot" bumper sticker, purchased under a fake name at the Democratic National Convention.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews claims to live in 'black majority' DC, but actually lives in Md. suburbs.  MSNBC host Chris Matthews might have exaggerated his abilities to hear dog-whistle racism at this week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Newsbusters' Jack Coleman noted.  During Tuesday night's [8/28/2012] coverage, Matthews made the case that he is well-positioned to judge racial issues because of where he lives, after having repeatedly insinuated that Republican figures are racist.

Isaac Shows Media Bias Of Hurricane Proportions.  As Isaac bore down on New Orleans, the administration's media toadies preferred to talk not about substantive issues, but on how the "shadow of Bush and Katrina" hung over the delayed GOP convention in Tampa.

WaPo's Glenn Kessler Has Fact-Checking Tantrum Over 'You Didn't Build That'.  Glenn Kessler is The Washington Post's laughably biased fact checker, and when you think of Kessler, remember this — remember the "fact" checker who called Romney a liar for saying a president who didn't go to Israel didn't go to Israel.  This guy is utterly shameless, and this morning he's having a full-blown tantrum.

Mark Brown Declares Obama is not a Chicago Politician.  In a curious column the Sun-Time [sic] Mark Brown denies that President Obama has much to do with Chicago Politics.  Curious because the preponderance of evidence that Brown offers is that President Obama is a typical Chicago politician, working in league with donors and other politicians to fleece their consituents and taxpayers. [...] If being Emil Jones point man in Springfield, married to the daughter of a Precinct Committeman/water department employee, and having David Axelrod as a constant flack for many years doesn't qualify you as a Chicago politician, just what does?

Cutter: I'm Just Going to Make [Stuff] Up about Jobs.  Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama's reelection effort, seems more a character out of fiction than a real person.  A high-octane spokesman, she is willing to say anything to win the 30-second sound byte cycle.  She will lie, contradict herself and make up stats on the fly to get through any single cable news appearance.  Its something real people, with a credibility gene, wouldn't do.  Fortunately, she's a Democrat, so the media will never really hold her statements to account.

NBC accused of deliberately editing footage of the women's team gymnastics.  Controversy over the coverage of the Olympics on American television deepened today when NBC was accused of deliberately editing footage of the women's team gymnastics in order to create what critics called "fake suspense."  Russian world champion Ksenia Afanasyeva's unexpected fall during the floor exercises, which effectively handed a gold medal to Team USA during an early stage of the contest, was inexplicably removed from the time-delayed version of events that NBC presented to its prime-time television viewers.

Faking and enhancing the sounds of the Olympics.  Ah, there's nothing quite like the serene "swoosh-swooshing" of oars in the water, as Olympic rowers glide along the water.  There really isn't, because those sounds spectators are hearing on their TVs are not live from the event, The Atlantic reported.  In order to keep sight of the boats, broadcasters must follow them with chase boats and a helicopter.  The result is that the sound of the rowing is drowned out by that noise.  So, NBC elected to replace the live audio with a recorded soundtrack of rowing practices to deliver more accurate depiction of what the sport sounds like in its pure form.

Media Invents Story That Chick-fil-A President Condemned Gay Marriage.  Last week, reports emerged that Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy had condemned gay marriage.  It's no secret that the company is run by devout Christians, but this still caused an uproar.  Boston's mayor threatened to deny the company business permits, celebrities condemned the company, and the Muppets announced fast food chain wouldn't be able to license any new toys for their kids meals.  One small problem:  The president of Chick-fil-A never actually said anything condemning gay marriage.

TV Station Fires Anchor After He Fails to Disclose Connection to Atheist Group He Was Covering.  Jason Volentine, a former anchor for WXMI, a television station in Michigan, found himself without employment after failing to tell his employers about a relationship he had with the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).  FFRF, an atheist activist group, is a non-profit that advocates for the separation of church and state, while fighting faith in the public square.  It wasn't Volentine's relationship, in itself, that was problematic — it was the fact that he had covered the non-profit group, but had purportedly failed to tell his employers and viewers about the relationship beforehand.

Nuts to Nutting: Under Obama, Real Spending Has Exploded.  On Tuesday, Rex Nutting of MarketWatch, who per his Linkedin profile is the site's Washington bureau chief, published a column titled "Obama spending binge never happened."  This column will show that it did, but that clever accounting has largely concealed its existence.

The Decline of The Washington Post.  [Scroll down]  The [Washington] Post is running paid ads from the Russian and Chinese governments that are made to look like news sections of the paper.  The ads, some of them six pages long, even carry a facsimile of The Washington Post masthead.  In relatively small print it says they are paid supplements and have nothing to do with the paper's news or editorial departments.  But The Washington Post masthead or logo is more prominently featured. [...] Readers are thus given the impression that the propaganda has the approval of the Post.

Boston Globe Takes Credit for Breitbart Scoop.  Today the Boston Globe has a front-page, below-the-fold story titled "Filings raise more questions on Warren's ethnic claims."  It's a well-written take on documents and information first brought to light here at Breitbart News two weeks ago.  Unfortunately, it's presented as a scoop with no link or reference to the fact that the information has appeared previously in another publication.

Washington Post Admits to Bogus Quote.  Veteran Washington Post reporter Daryl Fears, part of a two-person writer team, unmistakably wrote that filmmaker John O'Keefe had "said" he "targeted" ACORN, the advocacy group, for his candid-camera expose, because it registered voters to defeat Republicans.  O'Keefe said no such thing.  It was a non-quote made out of whole cloth by reporter Fears, and published as fact on Sept. 17.  Making the falsehood exponentially worse, the Post story then was retailed worldwide by the Associated Press.

Fox News Has a Van Jones Problem.  In the same way that Van Jones was exposed originally by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon by using Internet search engines to look into his controversial background and writings, over the course of just a few days Accuracy in Media has been able to determine the following about [Marc Lamont] Hill from public sources.

This is what passes for journalism these days:
ABC Fakes Muslim Prejudice, Unsurprisingly Finds 'Islamophobia' in America.  Apparently to prove that the US is filled with Muslim hating yahoos, ABC went on the hunt to find "Islamophobia" in America and the result is "Witness to Discrimination:  What Would You Do?"  Since they didn't really know where to find any, ABC News decided to create their own prejudice against Muslims by hiring an actress to put on Muslim dress and get "confronted" by a Muslim hating coffee store server — also an actor hired by ABC.

It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp.  Scott Beauchamp was the last straw.  I realized that I need a scorecard to keep track of all the fallen journalists, journalistic mistakes and major and minor screw-ups in the media. … Offenses include lying and fabricating, doctoring photos, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, falling for hoaxes, and overt bias.  Some are hilarious, such as an action figure doll being mistaken for a real soldier.  Some are silly, such as reporting on a baseball game watched on TV.  Some are more serious.

It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp — Part Two.  Without too much extra effort, it was fairly easy to add 21 more names to the "Media Hall of Shame" list, bringing the total to 83.  With more effort, I'm sure the total list could easily double.

In part three, the list grows to 101.
Media Dishonesty Matters.  Did you know that Time magazine and other news organizations had a Vietnamese communist on full-time staff in Vietnam during that war?  Do you remember that ABC, CBS and NBC have all rigged cars or trucks with explosives or other devices to make them look dangerous on TV, or that Consumer Reports lied about the Suzuki Samurai enough to put it out of business?

Is 'Journalistic Ethics' an Oxymoron?  The Founding Fathers thought a free and skeptical press was essential to the preservation of our political and economic liberties.  The First Amendment is first for just that reason.  What would they think of today's generation of reporters who hide from the truth, parrot the slogans of left-wing advocacy groups, fail to do their own research, and routinely give politicians a free ride?  My guess is they would be stunned.

Is news just the facts?  Not anymore.  When I entered the field the ideal was to "... tell it like it is."  Not what I would like it to be, but simply lay out the facts.  If one fact strongly supports a point of view we were obligated to seek other facts that would dispute it.  Unfortunately, many of today's instructors teach what is called, "advocacy journalism."

Fake News from CBS.  In 2002 the Guerilla News Network published a piece written by staffers from a group called PR Watch.  They said that "For years CBS (and all the other networks) have run fake news stories in the form of video news releases."  What's more, the article, "CBS sells fake news," went on to announce that CBS also had gone into the business of creating, producing and distributing so-called "fake news."

'48 Hours' apologizes for altered image.  The executive producer of CBS's "48 Hours Mystery" has apologized for airing an altered image of the front page of the Tribune in an episode about the murder trial of Ryan Ferguson that aired Saturday night [2/18/2006].

Playing with the numbers:  A UPI story a few months back reported that nearly 300,000 veterans are homeless on any given night.  If so, as blogger Megan McArdle pointed out a few weeks ago on Asymmetrical Information, that would mean that every single homeless person in America must have served in the armed forces, since 300,000 is about the total number of the homeless.

Opinion masquerading as journalism:
The Liberal media are living in cocoons.  Whenever you read the headline, "some say," you know you are reading the opinions of the reporter.  Some say the moon is made of green cheese, but what's the difference?  The story is only worth telling when "some say" what the reporter wants them to say.

Paper Uses Global Warming Activist's Press Release as News Story.  The Palm Beach Post was caught in a bit of deception by one of its readers over the weekend. ... Unfortunately for the reputation of Dara Kam and that of the paper, this "article" was merely a rewording of the press release of an environmentalist group calling themselves, Environment Florida.  An alert reader who wrote in calling them on it also exposed several other papers across the country that did the very same thing.

A Phony Tale Of Woe.  The story currently making the rounds about the guy who robbed a bank for $1 to get free jailhouse health care is supposed to expose how terrible our medical system is.  It actually exposes something worse.  It's a story tailor made for the news media. ... The fact that not one reporter trafficking this story bothered to point these facts out is an example of gross dereliction of duty or extreme bias — or both.

WaPo Author who Tied Romney to KKK Resigns over Plagiarism Scandal.  When Washington Post journalist Elizabeth Flock wrote a post last year falsely accusing Mitt Romney of using a Ku Klux Klan slogan in his campaign speech, she was not fired or disciplined.  But when Flock stole from the work of another mainstream organization and did not properly attribute, she abruptly "resigned" from the Washington Post conveniently and coincidentally before another editor's note went up on her post that described it as having "serious factual errors" and "a significant ethical lapse."

Here are the Most Egregious Fake News Stories of 2018.  [#21] NPR: Donald Trump Jr. committed perjury:  NPR published a report in November insisting that Donald Trump Jr. lied to Congress about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow because his statements conflicted with those of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.  However, NPR failed to realize that the piece of Trump Jr.'s testimony they quoted was about a different project.

NPR Blatantly Lies About Donald Trump Jr.'s 2017 Senate Testimony.  NPR falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 conflicted with an account given by a former attorney for President Donald Trump. [...] In fact, Senate investigators were asking Trump Jr. about a series of efforts to develop property in Russia, going back several years.  Reporter Phil Ewing (reporter Tim Mak contributed to the story) conflates one of those efforts with another separate effort.  That conflation results in the false news report.

Donald Trump Jr Responds to NPR Finally Retracting False Story About Him.  In another example of why Americans increasingly distrust the establishment media to present factually sound, unbiased news, NPR published a report Friday claiming that Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress conflicted with the current claims of Michael Cohen about the "Moscow Trump Tower" deal discussions taking place in 2016.  After a number of reporters from various outlets called out NPR for reporting what was a verifiably false claim, the network finally issued a correction and deleted its original tweet — but not before the false report had permeated social media and made its way to CNN.

When The Truth Gets In The Way.  [Scroll down]  NPR hadn't bothered to check the whole transcript in the research, writing, or editing phases of their "reporting," and neither did any of the so-called journalists who'd help spread the fake story once it broke.  It fit perfectly with the liberal narrative of the Trump family bring Russian puppets — no fact-checking was necessary, it had to be true because they'd wished for it be.  But the note should have been a complete retraction, as the entire premise of the story was wrong.  Everyone who read it in that 5-hour window, before the "note" was added, was lied to and believed that lie, likely spreading that lie to others to this day.  The lie always beats the truth with people who desperately want to believe it.

Mass stabbing at Idaho apartment complex leaves 9 injured, suspect in custody, police say.  Nine people, including six children, were injured in a mass stabbing in an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, on Saturday night, with four of the victims reported to be in critical condition, officials said.  The Ada County Sheriff's Office told Fox News on Sunday [7/1/2018] 30-year-old Timmy Earl Kinner of Los Angeles has been arrested in connection with the attack.  Kinner has been charged with 9 counts of battery-aggravated assault, and 6 counts of injury to a child, according to jail records.

Fake news from Trump-hating NPR Update:  NPR says it was fake.  Taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio is as shameless as CNN in its efforts to blame President Trump or his supporters for everything bad that happens.  Why wait for facts when the narrative was so blindingly obvious in the case of a stabbing attack on refugees in... Boise, Idaho? [...] So why would NPR leap to the conclusion that a Trump-supporter was the perp?  Everyone at all the best cocktail parties in Washington, D.C. knows that Idaho is populated by white racists, holdouts against the new emerging nonwhite majority of America, who have retreated to Whitetopia, as NPR itself instructed us.

NPR Bungles Sea Level Rise Story (supposed threats to coastal military installations ignore science).  National Public Radio's March 31 "Morning Edition" program carried a "news" story claiming that rising seas threaten a number of U.S. coastal military bases.  The commentary was so laden with factual errors that listeners might have thought it was an early April fool's joke.  Unfortunately, it was not.  NPR remains so wedded to its belief that humans and carbon dioxide emissions are causing a fossil fuels-driven global warming catastrophe that its reporting has been compromised, and it is unable to think critically or report honestly without resorting to activist claims and fake news events.  Real journalism would have at least included passing references to alternative views and sources.  But they were absent in this story, which in truth is a splendid example of ignorance or deception — reader's choice.

Kasie Hunt Spreads Fake News Biden's Segregationist Pals Were 'Republicans'.  MSNBC's Kasie Hunt misidentified Joe Biden's Democrat segregationist pals on Wednesday [6/19/2019] as Republicans.  While teasing a segment about the uproar over the former vice president bragging about being able to do business with racist segregationists, Hunt, a far-left activist and MSNBC hostess, spread this fake news: [...]

Impeachment Fever:  Democrats whip themselves into a frenzy.  [Scroll down]  Meanwhile, over at the Democrats' top propaganda arm, MSNBC, we have guests complaining that it's impossible to get onto the network unless they promise to talk about impeachment.  No other topic is to be broached.  And for those who do, "no TV for you."  CNN is beating the drum hard for impeachment, too, giving lots of airtime to professors and more professors calling for it.

Continuing plunge of CNN, MSNBC ratings reveals that fake news is a bad business strategy.  The catastrophic ratings decline for both CNN and MSNBC was no temporary blip following publication of the Mueller report.  Both cable news outlets had heavily promoted the hoax of Russian collusion with the Trump administration, teasing the hopes of Trump-haters for impeachment and prosecution for treason.  Now, those disappointed viewers have gone away, and continue to stay away.

MSNBC Suggests No One Is Trying To Take Our Guns.  Here's Their Correction.  In true leftist fashion, the Democrats have been utilizing the New Zealand shooting as a way to push the issue of gun control in the United States.  MSNBC's Ali Velshi is one such individual, who took a moment to push the issue on his show, kicking off the festivities by claiming that "nobody in America has suggested banning any guns."  Only that's incredibly false.  Democrats have been trying to take our guns away for some time, both on the voter, activist, and lawmaker level.  A perfect example is a fervor to strip America of its gun rights after the Parkland shooting, as marchers held out signs that promoted the removal of our right to bear arms by banning guns.

How Joe and Mika have been tricking 'Morning Joe' audience.  Married MSNBC co-anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are reportedly making it look like they're broadcasting their show "Morning Joe" from different locations, when they're actually traveling together.  Fans have noticed that the duo have not been broadcasting their show from New York lately — and they appear to be co-hosting from two Washington, DC, locations, judging from different Beltway backdrops behind each anchor.  But Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi said on Twitter of Scarborough and Brzezinski:  "They're broadcasting from a home studio in Jupiter [Florida].  And there's no formal set in their home studio, just a couple of (Washington) backdrops.  Thus, a wide shot is out of the question."

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace: 'There isn't a strain of racism on the left'.  MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace claimed on Tuesday that only one side of the aisle has problems dealing with racism. [...] Wallace, who previously served under President George W. Bush and was a senior advisor on Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, weighed in on [Rep. Steve] King's controversial comments by taking aim at the entire party.  "Part of the problem is we think — this does not have a parallel on the left.  It doesn't.  There isn't.  There isn't a strain of racism on the left.  So I think that this gets brushed under the rug.  People sort of tolerate — it's been normalized," Wallace told the panel.  "Like you just said, they don't have anywhere else to go, so they attach to the Republican Party.  The Republican Party doesn't have to let them.  How — how do — how do Republicans sort of get back to doing something decent?"  "They would have to completely reinvent the party," former Obama official Matthew Miller responded.

MSNBC Host: 'There Isn't a Strain of Racism on the Left'.  MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said there is no strain of racism on the left the same day the Democratic National Committee had to pull out of the Women's March because of an anti-Semitism scandal.  Wallace's program "Deadline:  White House" devoted a segment to Rep. Steve King's remark about wishing "white supremacy" was not considered offensive.  Republicans voted unanimously to condemn white supremacy today but Wallace was laser-focused on trashing every member of her former party for the comment.  "This does not have a parallel on the left.  There just — it doesn't.  There isn't.  There isn't a strain of racism on the left.  I don't — so I think that this gets brushed under the rug.  People sort of tolerate — it's been normalized," Wallace said.  "How do Republicans sort of get back to doing something decent?"

The Editor says...
Examples of black racism can be found here.  The "soft bigotry of low expectations" and other aspects of the shabby treatment of minorities by those on the left can be found here

What did Mr. King say that was racist?
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace: 'There isn't a strain of racism on the left'.  Last week, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, landed himself in hot water for racist remarks he made during an interview with the New York Times.  "White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?  Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?" King asked.

Liberal media tell us the left is right, and the right is wrong.  "Morning Joe" brought MSNBC host Al Sharpton on to blast Trump for anti-Semitism.  There's only one problem with that.  Back when Scarborough was an actual Republican and serving in Congress, he proposed a resolution:  "Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton."  The major media would have been all over it if a conservative had so openly backtracked.  But it got almost no attention because Scarborough works for MSNBC.  The press is OK with how much he has to contort himself to fit in the network's world view.  They are also OK that MSNBC employs Sharpton as a host.  Media cover-ups directly benefit politicians with the letter "D" after their name.

MSNBC Host Incorrectly Claims Broward County Election Supervisor Is a Republican.  MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Monday [11/12/2018] claimed Florida's Broward County election supervisor Brenda Snipes is a Republican, despite the fact she is a Democrat.  "We should also point out that Brenda Snipes in Broward County is a Republican appointed by former governor, then-Governor Jeb Bush," Mitchell said in a clip flagged by Mediaite.  "So, she was put in by a Republican governor after the mess that we all remember from 2000.  And she's hardly a Democratic official, or someone doing the bidding of the Democratic candidates there."  Snipes self-identifies as a Democrat and has run as a Democrat for her current position.

MSNBC Freaks:  Kavanaugh Confirmation Means Racism, 'Back to the '50s'.  Just seconds after Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court, MSNBC hosts suffered a meltdown, raging against a country founded on "the idea that being a free white" man gives you all the power.  Host Joy Reid suggested that feeling returned on Saturday as Mitch McConnell imposed a form of tyranny.  Reid slimed, "Mitch McConnell has decided that order means that people like Mitch McConnell, men like him rule.  He believes in rule.  Democrats tend to believe in governing.  Republicans believe in rule."

MSNBC Keeps Lying About the Dossier Being Corroborated.  An MSNBC panelist named Paul Butler, a Georgetown Professor, stated on the Joy Reid show that the Steele dossier "keeps getting corroborated" by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and reporters.  That is not at all true.  Nothing of significance has been confirmed.  Even Jim Comey said the FBI could not verify the document.  Earlier this week, Lanny Davis, the Clinton mob lawyer now representing Cohen, asserted that the dossier's allegations about Cohen are "100 percent" false.

NY Times Columnist:  Trump 'Would Certainly Like to' Murder People Without Due Process.  New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued with her fellow panelists on MSNBC's "Meet the Press Daily" Friday [8/17/2018] about whether President Donald Trump is the leader of the free world or an aspiring despot.  RealClearPolitics reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns was criticizing Trump's communication strategy when she called him "the leader of the free world."  Goldberg interjected to say that, actually, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the leader of the free world.  "He's not the leader of the free world, but, sorry," Goldberg said.  "By default he's the leader of the free world," Commentary magazine editor John Podhoretz replied.  "Angela Merkel is the leader of the free world," Goldberg said, while Podhoretz laughed.

Heilemann: 'Virtually Certain' 10 Percent of the GOP Would Be OK with Trump Killing Their Parents, Grandparents.  Thursday [8/16/2018] on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," NBC analyst John Heilemann posed the scenario of a pollster asking members of the GOP that think it would be OK for President Donald Trump to kill their parents or grandparents, saying he is "virtually certain" 10 percent would be fine with the president killing

Katy Tur Makes False Statement About GOP Then Admits She's Clueless.  MSNBC's Katy Tur falsely claimed on Monday [7/30/2018] that the Republican Party was opposed to arming Ukraine in their opposition of Russia and later admitted she didn't know what she was talking about after she was corrected on air.

MSNBC lies in support of Hillary's candidacy documented and savaged — from the left.  NBC, a subsidiary of Comcast, and its cable news affiliate MSNBC have become among the fiercest antagonists of President Trump.  Even before his election, they were shameless in shilling for Hillary Clinton's candidacy.  Conservatives know this quite well, but now comes documentation from the left of the outright lies, not just permitted, but encouraged and rewarded by the cable outlet, and tolerated by its corporate parents.  Glenn Greenwald, of the Intercept, documents an attempt to smear left-wing presidential candidate Jill Stein.  The presumption has to be that votes for Stein would otherwise have gone to Hillary, so hobbling her with lies would also hurt the prospects of electoral success of Donald Trump.

Watch: MSNBC Analysts Claim Trump Admin Is Operating Concentration Camps.  Two MSNBC analysts falsely claimed on Friday [6/15/2018] that the Trump administration is operating concentration camps for illegal immigrant children who are separated from their parents.  Guests Stephanie Cutter and Michael Steele made the remarks, which went completely unchallenged by host Stephanie Ruhle.  Cutter, who was a high-level official in Barack Obama's 2012 presidential campaign, claimed that what the Trump administration is doing was not the law, just merely their "interpretation" of the law.

'Morning Joe' contemplates Trump's mental 'stability' after dry-mouth speech.  The panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" suggested Thursday [12/7/2017] that President Trump is suffering from diminished mental capacity after he delivered a speech and slurred some of his words toward the end.  Republican strategist and MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt, a regular on the show, said Trump appeared to have an "impairment" and called it "chilling" to watch.  "This is not the person that we knew even three years ago. ... There's a remarkable change," said host Joe Scarborough.  "He seemed like he was almost hanging on to the prompter and hanging on to the words," co-host Mika Brzezinski said.  "Something, I don't know. ... There was a struggle happening."

MSNBC Spins Pro-Abortion Alabama Democrat as 'Conservative'.  MSNBC journalists on Tuesday rushed to the defense of the Democrat in Alabama's Senate race, spinning Doug Jones as "moderate" and "conservative."  This despite his firm support for abortion and some gun control policies.

Fake live news:
'Morning Joe' caught airing pretaped show the day after Thanksgiving.  The "Morning Joe" hosts were talking turkey the day after Thanksgiving, but all the viewers heard was bull.  "Day after Thanksgiving.  Woo!  I'm stuffed!" host Mika Brzezinski said to open the show.  "A great Thanksgiving," Joe Scarborough replied before they both offered a few awkward chuckles.  The live MSNBC show — which airs five days a week — seemed normal at first, but a few fans were quick to notice it wasn't unfolding in real-time.

The Editor says...
Recorded TV shows that are marketed as "live" are plentiful, and they are nothing new.  For example, the Wendy Williams show, Live with Kelly (delayed in some markets), Access Hollywood Live, TMZ Live.  About half of your local TV news programs are pre-produced.  Even a purported "live" report from the field is usually just an introduction to a pre-produced news package or interview.  That's not necessarily a bad thing.  If the local news show was all live, it would be dreadfully boring and repetitive, and the local TV station would go broke because of the labor costs.

MSNBC's Brian Williams Encourages Viewers to Share Storm Photos, 'Pretend' They're Their Own.  MSNBC's The 11th Hour host Brian Williams is probably regretting a flippant comment he made during the network's live coverage of Hurricane Irma on Sunday afternoon [9/10/2017], after it earned him mockery online.  While discussing a photo reporters in Tampa, Florida had taken of the intense winds, Williams instructed Florida viewers to not take similar photos of their own.  Instead, he suggested they steal this photo, share it, and "pretend you shot it."  "We'll look the other way," he helpfully added.

MSNBC Contributor:  Hillary Lost Because Obama Is Black.  MSNBC contributor Wendy Sherman believes that Hillary Clinton may have lost the election because it was too hard for America to elect the first female president directly after the first black president.  Sherman was on a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival discussing modern political technology when she segued into the bizarre comment.

MSNBC Anchor:  Planned Parenthood 'A Critical Tool For Helping Saving Lives'.  MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi spent several minutes Tuesday heralding Planned Parenthood as "a critical tool for helping saving lives" and said "I'm not an advocate" before having Planned Parenthood's Director of Constituency Communications come on to defend the organization.

Guilt By Association:  Mitchell Sneers That Montana Assault Is 'Extension' of Trump.  Guilt by association.  That's what Andrea Mitchell believes.  Despite the fact that Donald Trump is on another continent, the Andrea Mitchell Reports anchor thinks that the assault against a journalist by a Montana congressional candidate is an "extension" of the President.  Talking about Greg Gianforte's attack on Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, the MSNBC host connected, "There is so much hostility, frankly, to the press, a lot of it generated by the Donald Trump rallies."

NPR, Uncorked on MSNBC: 'Right Wing Media' 'Brainwashed' People to Believe Lies.  The liberal media threw a proverbial hissy fit Monday [11/28/2016] in response to President-Elect Donald Trump's dubious claim that millions of votes were cast illegally.  While seeming pretend that Trump would be the first president ever to tell a lie, public radio host Bob Garfield went on a long winded tirade, on MSNBC's All In, railing against the "Right wing media."  "The people who get it and we at the mainstream media, you know, get the straight dope but about half the electorate is getting their information from other sources, none credible," he whined.  The ranting Garfield blamed the success of "right wing media" on what he called "330 million individual echo chambers," which he claimed helped to insulate people from news they don't want to hear.  He didn't seem to realize that his belief works both ways, especially when it's evident that left does not want to consider another perspective on nearly everything.

NBC News' Pete Williams Reports FBI 'Really Isn't' Conducting Clinton Foundation Investigation.  Appearing on MSNBC's MTP Daily today, NBC News' justice correspondent Pete Williams refuted much of the reporting from Wall Street Journal and Fox News regarding a likely indictment regarding an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.  Fox's Bret Baier later backed off slightly, saying the indictment comment was "inartfully answered."  Speaking to host Chuck Todd, Williams claimed that via his own law enforcement sources, there doesn't actually appear to be much of an investigation, let alone one that will result in indictments.

Andrea Mitchell Falsely Claims Donna Brazile Leak Story Has Been 'Completely Knocked Down' [Video].  In the face of all evidence to the contrary, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell claimed on Thursday [10/20/2016] that allegations that Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile leaked town hall questions to the Clinton campaign have been "completely knocked down."  Mitchell was discussing references Donald Trump made on Thursday to leaked debate and town hall questions.  Trump claimed on Twitter that questions from Wednesday's debate, moderated by Fox News' Christopher Wallace, were provided to the Clinton campaign.  On Thursday, he referred to the scandal involving Brazile and her apparent leaking of a CNN/TV One town hall question asked of Clinton in March.

MSNBC host insists Clinton created jobs.  An MSNBC news anchor insisted on Friday that Hillary Clinton has a record of job creation that's at least more than "zero," but then struggled to point to any evidence of her claim.  The anchor, Stephanie Ruhle, interviewed Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a Donald Trump supporter, who said Trump created "thousands and thousands" of jobs as a businessman.  "How many jobs has Hillary Clinton created?" asked Rutledge.  "Zero is the answer.  Zero jobs for any woman.  Zero jobs for any man, for that matter.  So, she has zero credibility when it comes to job creation."

MSNBC Anchor Falsely Claims Trump Has Never Been on Stage With a Female Candidate.  MSNBC anchor Kate Snow falsely claimed in an interview Monday that Donald Trump has never appeared on a debate stage with a woman. [...] Snow appeared have forgotten about Carly Fiorina's presence on the Republican debate stage during the primary process.  Fiorina participated in four debates with Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP field.

Seriously? New Chris Matthews Ad Touts Liberal's 'Tough Questions'.  In case you weren't aware, the liberal Chris Matthews is the king of the "tough questions."  That's according to a new ad airing on MSNBC.  In the spot, Matthews brags, "I take it as my job not to just ask the tough questions... but to get answers to them." [...] However, in January of 2016, the Hardball host conducted a 20 minute softball interview with Hillary Clinton.  It included "questions" such as this one:  "Well, New York came and fell in love with you and said, 'We like you, come up here, live up here and be our senator.'"

Brian Williams:  U.S. Is 'The Only Nation to Have Used' Nuclear Weapons 'In Anger'.  MSNBC breaking news host and ex-NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was allowed out on MSNBC's airwaves early Friday afternoon [5/27/2016] to discuss President Obama's visit to Hiroshima so he could resurrect a taped report that aired in 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bomb's dropping on the Japanese city.  In the course of discussing the event afterward, though, Williams threw some shade in the direction of the U.S. military and then-President Harry Truman by complaining that "we're the only nation to have used them in anger" against the horrifying Axis Powers member.

Apparently, no one at MSNBC pays taxes.  Democrats are fond of accusing Republicans of being hypocrites on a variety of issues, but particularly when it comes to tax policy.  The liberal comedian Bill Maher recently claimed that Republicans expose themselves to this critique when they champion the value of hard work and perseverance while simultaneously opposing the inheritance tax.

Liberal Hypocrites At MSNBC Don't Pay Their Taxes.  For typical Americans who paid all their taxes upfront, Friday [4/24/2015] is Tax Freedom Day.  But for several hosts at MSNBC, Tax Freedom Day came much sooner.

MSNBC's Touré Has the Taxman on His Case.  Touré Neblett, co-host of MSNBC's The Cycle, owes more than $59,000 in taxes, according to public records reviewed by National Review.  In September 2013, New York issued a state tax warrant to Neblett and his wife, Rita Nakouzi, for $46,862.68.  Six months later, the state issued an additional warrant to the couple for $12,849.87.

Four MSNBC Stars Do Not Pay Their Taxes.  National Review's Jillian Kay Melchior reported Wednesday [4/22/2015] that, along with Al Sharpton and Melissa Harris-Perry, two more MSNBC stars are not paying their fair share of taxes.  Touré Neblett, co-host of "The Cycle" owes the IRS a cool $59,000.  Joy-Ann Reid, a former anchor and now a regular contributor to the "Lien" Forward network, owes New York almost $5,000 in back taxes.  As we reported last week, Melissa Harris-Perry owes the IRS $70,000.  Al Sharpton's tax bill is upwards of $3-$4 million.

MSNBC fails to address tax problems of hosts.  National Review reported today that MSNBC's Touré, who co-hosts the network's afternoon program "The Cycle," owes nearly $60,000 in taxes to New York State, according to a pair of tax warrants that the magazine found.  And as the story fully noted, there's a trend afoot here: [...]

MSNBC's Tax Delinquents Lecture Audience on Taxes.  MSNBC, the liberal network that advocates at every turn for a progressive revenue system, is home to four tax delinquents who have all lectured their audience about tax fairness over the years.

Chris Matthews Says 'Unemployment Was Well Past 10%' When Obama Took Office — It Was Only 7.8%.  "When your guy left town, Dubya — who nobody asked him to come back by the way at the Republican convention — unemployment was well past ten percent and skyrocketing."  So falsely said MSNBC's Chris Matthews to conservative talk radio host Roger Hedgecock on HBO's Real Time Friday [9/21/2012].

Rice Shuts Down NBC Claim Race Relations [are] 'Worse' Under Trump.  During an interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for the Third Hour Today show on Thursday [6/20/2019], NBC reporter Sheinelle Jones grilled the prominent African American Republican on whether race relations were "worse" under President Trump.  Rice immediately rejected the notion and called on the press to knock off the "hyperbole" in its coverage.

NBC Resurrects Brian Williams.  Former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams whose career imploded after he was caught lying on the air in 2015 about being on a helicopter in a combat zone in Iraq in 2003 has apparently made it back into the good graces at the network.  Williams appeared at the recent upfronts — an annual presentation where networks preview their fall programs for advertisers, which is normally reserved only for the network's stars and an event that Williams hasn't been a part of since his downfall.

MSNBC Reporter Compares Climate Change to Alien Invasion.  On MSNBC Monday afternoon [5/6/2019], NBC News technology correspondent Jacob Ward was so concerned about a new United Nations climate change report that he compared the issue to an alien invasion and feared that humanity was failing to confront an "existential threat."  Even liberal anchor Stephanie Ruhle thought he was going too far.

NBC News CAUGHT Using Fake Photo of Baby With Measles In Pro-Vaccine Segment.  NBC News was caught using a fake photo of a baby with measles in a segment attacking anti-vaccination "myths."  The Christian podcast "A Call For An Uprising" caught NBC in the act.  The photo NBC News used in the segment was merely a doctored stock photo of a newborn baby in a doctor's arms.

If It Walks Like a Spy, Talks Like a Spy, Acts Like a Spy.  Attorney General William Barr used the S-word yesterday [4/10/2019].  In public. [...] He quickly followed by saying, "But the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated."  In other words, "Yeah, they spied, but it might well have been by the book."  No matter.  He'd said the S-word and Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) went apoplectic.  Nancy Pelosi was shaking like she was covered in ants.  Barr is "going off the rails."  Senators Chuck Schumer and Richard "Stolen Valor" Blumenthal demanded Barr retract.  NBC's Chuck Todd, over the sound of Tim Russert rolling over in his grave, moaned "The attorney general gaslit the country."  Todd insisted there's "zero factual basis" for saying Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign.

William Barr Confirms Breitbart News, Mark Levin on Obama Administration 'Spying' on Trump Campaign.  Attorney General William Barr told the Senate on Wednesday that he believed the Obama administration did, in fact, spy on President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.  Democrats and their media allies howled in outrage and derision.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that Barr "is going off the rails."  NBC News' Chuck Todd said that Barr "gave credence to a factless conspiracy theory."  But Barr merely confirmed what is already known.

NBC News, to Claim Russia Supports Tulsi Gabbard, Relies on Firm Just Caught Fabricating Russia Data for the Democratic Party.  NBC News published a predictably viral story Friday [2/1/2019], claiming that "experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard."  But the whole story was a sham:  The only "expert" cited by NBC in support of its key claim was the firm New Knowledge, which just got caught by the New York Times fabricating Russian troll accounts on behalf of the Democratic Party in the Alabama Senate race to manufacture false accusations that the Kremlin was interfering in that election.

NBC, NY Times Set Up 'Trump About To Cave' Narrative.  As the government shutdown barrels toward the one-month mark with no sign Republicans are caving or the president is having second thoughts, the mainstream media has taken to attempting to nudge things in the Democrats' direction.  NBC News attempted to push the president by declaring his poll numbers were declining.

NBC's myth of sawing through the wall.  NBC reporters showed they know as much about saws as they do AR-15s.  The network reported, "President Donald Trump has repeatedly advocated for a steel slat design for his border wall, which he described as 'absolutely critical to border security' in his Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday.  But Department of Homeland Security testing of a steel slat prototype proved it could be cut through with a saw, according to a report by DHS.  I seriously doubt Homeland Security said they sawed through the steel.

NBC News Tries to Excuse Alleged Child Predator with Sob Story.  Identity politics have so warped the establishment media's collective hive minds that, just because he was black and gay, NBC News is singing the praises of a 20-year-old man who allegedly sought out a 14-year-old boy for sex.  In a lengthy piece that has to be read to be believed, here is NBC's glowing biography of an alleged child predator: [...]

Here are the Most Egregious Fake News Stories of 2018.  [#13] Andrea Mitchell says disgraced Florida election official is a Republican:  Allegations of voter fraud and electoral misconduct in Florida during the 2018 midterms brought Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes into the spotlight.  Snipes, a Democrat, had been accused of misconduct in the past and was slammed again for violating Florida election law.  NBC's Andrea Mitchell bafflingly said on air that Snipes is a Republican and "hardly a Democratic official, or someone doing the bidding of the Democratic candidates there."

NBC Tries, Fails To Defend Itself After Sitting On Information That Undermined Kavanaugh Accusers.  An NBC reporter who interviewed one of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's accusers, and who admitted to sitting on evidence that two of his accusers were not credible, is now trying to defend herself and her network.  It's not working. [...] Last Thursday [10/18/2018(?)], NBC acknowledged that a second accuser represented by attorney Avenatti, whose name is still unknown, said her words were "twisted" in her sworn statement and that she never saw Kavanaugh spike punch or act inappropriately toward women.  NBC had this information days before Kavanaugh's confirmation vote, but didn't report it until now.  On Saturday, Snow took to Twitter to defend herself and her network for sitting on information that could have helped Kavanaugh gain some of his reputation back after the salacious allegations.

Why Did NBC And Time Magazine Sit On Their Avenatti Scoops For So Long?  I think Time has an excuse.  I can't imagine what NBC's excuse is.  Remember that newsy quote from him about Democrats needing to nominate a "white male" to stop Trump in 2020? That came from a story in Time magazine.  Avenatti responded predictably when liberals began attacking him over it yesterday, crying FAKE NEWS and demanding that Time reporter Molly Ball provide the full context.  So she did.  Here's the transcript posted last night of her exchange with Avenatti.  Note the date. [...]

NBC News Hid Information that Would Have Cleared Kavanaugh of Avenatti Rape Allegations.  NBC News deliberately hid vital information that would have helped clear Brett Kavanaugh of the serial rape allegations Julie Swetnick and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, leveled against him.  On September 16, Kavanaugh and his loved ones were dropped into a pit of hell due to allegations of sexual assault from Christine Blasey Ford.  Although her story quickly fell apart during public testimony, for the three-plus weeks that would follow, in an effort to derail his confirmation, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media did everything in their power to personally destroy this man as a drunken serial rapist.  NBC News and Avenatti played a huge role in this obscene smear campaign.  One notable example was NBC breathlessly publishing and airing an assault allegation against Kavanaugh that was quickly exposed as a hoax.  NBC did not even bother to independently corroborate this allegation prior to airing it.  A Democrat handed NBC the smear, and NBC ran with it.

After Promoting Avenatti Accusers NBC Tries Walking Quietly Toward the Exits.  Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a criminal referral to the DOJ today surrounding Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti and claims from the accusers he brought forth.  Hours later, all of a sudden NBC, the primary advocacy media for Avenatti and his accusers, starts publicly questioning the details of their interactions?

NBC Belatedly Corrects Fake News Story on Trump and Robert E. Lee.  NBC News issued a correction Sunday of its inaccurate tweet Friday that President Donald Trump had praised Confederate General Robert E. Lee at a rally in Ohio, misquoting the president and leaving out the context that he was setting up praise of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

Fake News and News Fraud.  Rather than functioning as a news organization, NBC news simply allowed itself to be used as a PR outlet promoting the clearly self-interested complaints of its source, just as Andrew Duehren at The Wall Street Journal did the following day.  And why?  This isn't "fake news."  It is news fraud.  It is a conscious failure to cover an equally critical part of a news story that isn't hidden, but sitting there in plain sight.  It is a conscious choice by a news organization to only run the allegations of a source and allow selective use of a tape offered as bait to support those allegations and in the process provide only negative information on the Trump administration. [...] "Fake news" may often be a matter of opinion, but a blatant case of intentional news fraud against the fair presentation of a news story of interest to Americans is hard to miss.

My Declaration of Incivility.  All around us the organized left (establishment media, Hollywood, and Democrats) are lamenting the loss of civility.  Of course, to express this lament, they must first take a break from calling us [names] throughout the halls of the U.S. Capitol.  Oh, and they must also take a break from bullying us out of public spaces and calling for more even more mobs to be vigilant so we face a "life sentence" of bullying.  With no professional consequences, NBC News is not only calling Trump a "Nazi," NBC News is smearing his supporters as "Nazis" — and I do not mean figuratively.  NBC News is not being coy about calling us Nazis.  NBC News is not nibbling around the edges of calling us Nazis.  NBC News is straight-up calling us Nazis.

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#12] Fake Exploding GM Trucks:  In 1993 on its Dateline NBC program, NBC News was determined to smear trucks made by General Motors.  The TV newsers wanted to show America that the gas tanks in GM trucks were prone to exploding.  Dateline aired footage of just that causing a PR nightmare for GM.  Ultimately, NBC had viewers convinced that GM's "sidesaddle" gas tank was a hazard.  But in its zeal to destroy GM, NBC forgot to mention one little thing to the viewing public.  Its video of an exploding gas tank was little else but Hollywood special effects.  The video did not show an actually exploding gas tank, but one rigged to explode on cue by NBC's special effects artists.  NBC's anti-capitalist crusade turned into a circus and network had to apologize for its lies.

'Fake Pocahontas' Warren Sends Up Smoke Signals on Any New EPA Chief.  This past week, President Trump held a campaign rally in Montana for the Republican running against Jon Tester who spread vicious stories about Trump's doctor who was nominated to lead the VA.  He had to resign over the false rumors.  During the rally, the President jokingly offered a million dollars to Elizabeth Warren if she would take a DNA test to prove her so-called Native-American heritage.  It is a claim she has used so well to get ahead.  After the rally, NBC embarrassingly tried to defend her with an obviously deceptive report.  NBC 'News' no longer even tries to pretend they're reporting honestly.  They said DNA tests can't qualify for tribal citizenship.  No one asked for Warren's proof of tribal membership.  One must wonder who came up with that argument.

Earth to NBC: Russians did not change one vote in 2016.  CNN just lost its Fake News crown to NBC.  Its effort to win the gold has been Olympic this month.  The network sent its anchor to Pyongyang to show what a paradise North Korea is.  Then it (and the rest of the Fake News media) fawned over Caligula Jong Un's sister.  Then it lied and said Koreans admire the Japanese.  No, Koreans hate the Japanese after 35 years of cruelty when Japan colonized Korea.  Now the Trump administration is pushing back twice as hard.  The subject is not the Olympics.  The subject is Fake News reporting by NBC on the long discredited Democratic Party's excuse that Russia meddled in the past presidential election.

NBC News Presents Eight-Month-Old 'Russia Hacked the Election' Story as 'Breaking News'.  NBC News conducted an interview with Obama era Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity chief Jeanette Manfra Wednesday [2/7/2018], then tweeted out a largely inconsequential revelation from last year as "BREAKING" news. [...] Compounding NBC News's erroneous "breaking" claim is that the original, five-month-old revelation later was proven to be wildly exaggerated and amounted to very little.

Here are the Most Egregious Fake News Stories of 2018.  [#23] Time magazine's family separation cover featuring crying Honduran child:  Time Magazine published an infamous cover in June that showed a Honduran child crying at the U.S. border, apparently after she had been separated from her mother.  The image quickly became the face of the "issue of family separations at the border," despite the fact that the child in question was never separated.

TIME Stands By Erroneous Crying Girl Cover Story Because Of Its Propaganda Value.  TIME magazine is standing by a cover photo and story critical of Trump's immigration policies that reporters exposed Friday as factually incorrect, wildly misleading, and lacking important context.  The cover features a 2-year-old Honduran girl sobbing as she looks up at Trump, with the words "Welcome to America."  Inside, TIME reported the little girl was one of those separated from her mother because of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy on families crossing the border illegally.  She was taken "screaming" from her mother by border agents, the report claimed.  The photo and story made a big splash in the media war over the separation policy, which Trump has since ended, but both have now been completely dismantled by the press, resulting in a major correction.

Time apologizes for cover story about migrant girl.  Time magazine has issued a correction to a controversial cover story about a Honduran migrant girl who they said was taken from her mother by US border patrol agents after it was revealed that the pair were never separated at all.  Three-year-old Yanela Denise became the unintentional face of the now defunct family separation crisis after photographer John Moore captured her agonized face screaming as her mother was questioned by agents on June 12.  After the picture was taken, the pair were taken together to a family detention center.  Yanela's father has since told DailyMail.com that they are 'safe'.

Father says little Honduran girl on Time cover was not taken from mother.  The Honduran toddler pictured sobbing in a pink jacket before U.S. President Donald Trump on an upcoming cover of Time magazine was not separated from her mother at the U.S. border, according to a man who says he is the girl's father.

Mother Of Crying Child Was Previously Deported In 2013.  The mother of the crying child featured on the cover of TIME Magazine was previously deported from the United States in 2013, according to ICE.  TIME Magazine pasted the image of the young girl crying as President Donald Trump looked down on her, attempting to symbolize the administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy at the border that leads to family separations.  The father of the child later revealed that the girl was never separated from the mother and that the child was only briefly set down so that border patrol agents could perform a pat down.  The mother also left three other children behind in Honduras.

Fake photo, fake news, fake media and the engineering of fake outrage to push an open borders invasion of America.  The now-infamous "family separation" photo [...] taken by John Moore and licensed by Getty Images, has become the emotion-infused rallying cry for fact-devoid Leftists to demand unlimited open borders that would flood the United States with illegals.  It has now emerged that the photo is "fake" in the sense that the girl wasn't separated from her mother at all.  Young girls cry for a million reasons:  They're sleepy, they want more ice cream, they don't like the food, and so on.  But the deceptive left-wing media claimed this girl in particular was crying because she was forcibly separated from her mother by U.S. Border Patrol.  That claim, we now know, is a complete lie.  But it fits the convenient narrative of the insidious Left — which cares nothing about actual facts — and so the photo has been widely circulated on Fakebook and even used to raise nearly $20 million in donations for pro-open borders front groups.

TIME Magazine admits screaming migrant girl cover is FAKE news, but says it "captures" a real story, so it doesn't matter.  The cover [of Time magazine] features a crying two-year-old Honduran girl who appears to be looking up at President Donald Trump, who is looking back down at her dispassionately.  The cover comes with the caption:  "Welcome to America."  The story inside is another Left-wing hit piece criticizing the Trump administration's practice of separating some migrant children from the lawbreaking adult parent as it enforces a "zero-tolerance" policy of prosecuting all illegal crossers.  But there's a catch regarding the cover photo of the little girl:  She was never separated from a parent.  It's a lie.  It's the fakest of fake news.  It's intentionally misleading.  It's a hoax.

Time Magazine Stands by Its Fake Cover, Misleading Story.  The profound irresponsibility of the media reached fever pitch this week.  The absence of any sense of guilt on the part of the 'journalists' is frightening.  They don't even recognize the inherent evil in what they are doing. [...] News outlets are not seeking the truth.  They believe Trump is a danger to America and they are justified in doing whatever they want or have to do.

Sarah Sanders Torches Media over Immigration Photo Hoax.  White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders blasted the establishment media Friday for spreading a now-debunked hoax-photograph featuring a little girl crying at the border.  "It's shameful that dems and the media exploited this photo of a little girl to push their agenda," Sanders tweeted.  "She was not separated from her mom.  The separation here is from the facts.  Dems should join POTUS and fix our broken immigration system."

Fake News:  Iconic Crying Migrant Girl Was Never Separated from Mother, Says Father.  The father of the tearful two-year-old Honduran migrant girl who became the face of the "family separation" news coverage says that his young daughter was never actually separated from her mother when caught by U.S. Border Patrol.  Instead, he says, his daughter and her mother are together in U.S. custody at "at a family residential center in Texas."  Moreover, the mother had been deported from the U.S. in 2013, according to a statement given by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Buzzfeed on Thursday evening [6/21/2018].

[The] Crying migrant child in [a recent] photo [was] never separated from her mother.  Now the facts come out, and pretty quickly, too.  Somene tracked these people down and asked them about it, and now we learn the real story:  Turns out the kid was never separated from her mother, not once.  The girl's father, Denis Javier Varela Hernandez, was located by the always-on-the-job Daily Mail, and told a very different story from what the press had been reporting.  One, the kid wasn't separated.  Two, family separation indeed occur, from the Honduran illegal immigrant's side.  The girl's mother had actually abandoned three other children and her father, to take the one-year-old toddler, through the hands of smugglers, to the U.S. illegally, without the father's permission.  She in fact didn't tell anyone.  Three, this was no poverty story:  The kid's expensive shoes and jacket offered a hint of that in the photo, but now it turns out the mother apparently lived a very wealthy life, her spouse or babydaddy a sea captain over in Puerto Cortes.  She had a spare $6,000 handy to pay a human smuggler for the crossing, according to the father.  Oh, and she's been deported before, in 2013, a multiple entry case with little regard for U.S. law, as so many of them are.  And instead of inhuman treatment, the father says she's comfortable and well-cared for by Americans over in McAllen, Texas.

Time Magazine Stands by Its Fake Cover, Misleading Story.  The Time Magazine story gets more absurd by the day.  It is perhaps the worst example of fakery and yellow journalism yet.  Time Magazine is standing by their fake cover story of a crying 2-year old Honduran girl because it offers the propaganda they are looking for.  The cover features a 2-year-old Honduran girl sobbing as she looks up at Trump, with the words "Welcome to America."  They pretended the tiny child was separated from her mother.  As it happens, the little girl was crying because she was in the hot desert and it was 11 at night.  The mother abandoned her husband and three children in Honduras where her husband has a good job as a ship's captain.  She took the toddler as insurance to get into the country.  It's her second illegal entrance, making it a felony.

Thoughts on Crying Babies, Dying Babies, and Media Deception.  Also this week, "TIME magazine featured a picture of a crying illegal immigrant child on its cover.  The child was supposedly separated from her parents; over her looms Donald Trump, smugly staring down at her."  And the cover caption reads, "Welcome to America."  What a brute he is!  What a heartless monster!  What an evil man!  But, as Ben Shapiro notes, "There's only one problem:  the cover is total bull.  It's not just total bull because Trump hasn't implemented a newly-developed policy of separating children from parents — that's an operation of law under the Flores settlement as modified by a 2016 Ninth Circuit court ruling.  It's bull because this particular child wasn't separated from her mother, her mother wasn't fleeing persecution but did falsely claim asylum, her mother did put the child in danger, and Trump was targeted by the media for treating this mother and child exactly the same way the Obama administration would have."

Liberals Are Pushing The Country To The Edge.  Time magazine used to be important, used to have standards.  But when they used the picture of a little illegal alien girl who was not separated from her mother on their cover to represent all illegal alien children at the border because she was crying and perfectly fit their narrative they crossed a line.  When they were informed of the fraudulent nature of the picture they chose to ignore it, choosing activism over accuracy.  They chose emotion over truth.

Crying migrant girl's dad says she wasn't separated from mom.  The sobbing Honduran toddler in a pink jacket — whose photo was placed alongside an image of President Donald Trump for an upcoming Time magazine cover — wasn't actually separated from her mother, her father said.  The picture of the crying little girl — taken at the US-Mexico border by Getty Images — became a symbol of the movement against Trump's "zero tolerance" policy, which tore more than 2,000 children from their parents.  "My daughter has become a symbol of the ... separation of children at the US border.  She may have even touched President Trump's heart," Denis Valera, who said he was her father, told Reuters.

Time magazine cover features Trump staring down a crying migrant child.  The latest cover of Time magazine criticizes President Trump's tough border policy, by showing him looking down at a crying, two-year-old Honduran girl whose mother was detained after crossing the border.  The photoshopped image is the latest ding against Trump and his zero tolerance policy, which led to the increased family separation of illegal immigrants.  The cover is captioned, "Welcome to America."

You Know The Real Reason Why Time Mag Is Going Down the Drain?  The Content!  For all the tears that get shed over the beginning of the middle of the end for Mr. Luce's mag and newsweeklies in general, one obvious explanation generally gets glossed over:  They are mostly written by conventional-wisdom mongerers who can barely finish shipping an issue of "Why Dinosaurs Believed in God" and "The Mother Mary Holy Water Diet" before rushing out something like this time-waster by esteemed historian David M. Kennedy.

Time: Right-Wing Militias Are The Real Threat To Cops.  Time Magazine warned of a growing threat to cops nationwide in September 2010.  The nationally renowned publication argued that sinister individuals would launch targeted attacks against police officers and even ambush them in their patrol cars.  Time alerted readers that these groups and individuals have a disturbing hatred of cops and that there was a real threat of "lone-wolf" attacks.  Who are these groups that present such a threat to police? Right-wing militias, according to Time.

Hey, Fareed, You've Got a Paragraph; You Didn't Write That.  In penning his recent piece "The Case for Gun Control," Time editor and CNN host Fareed Zakaria actually made the case that he needs to focus on pen control.  Because he plagiarized part of his work from a New Yorker article written by one Jill Lepore.  Zakaria was busted by NewsBusters, a feat that probably wasn't too difficult since Lepore's piece was published less than four months ago.

Will Yale Fire Fareed Zakaria?  There is now little question that Fareed Zakaria is guilty of plagiarism.  He has admitted copying a portion of a New Yorker essay and apologized.  Time, where Zakaria works as a columnist, has suspended Zakaria for a month, and CNN — owned by the same parent company — has suspended him pending an investigation.  This represents a mere slap on the wrist for someone whose standard speaking fee is $75,000.

A few days later...
Fareed Zakaria's suspension lifted by CNN and Time.  All is forgiven for Time magazine writer and CNN host Fareed Zakaria, who last week was suspended by both outlets for apparent plagiarism.  CNN said on Thursday [8/16/2012] that Zakaria's weekly "GPS" public affairs program will return to the air on 26 August.

Here are the Most Egregious Fake News Stories of 2018.  [#1] The Washington Post blames the Border Patrol for the death of a 7-year-old migrant:  The Washington Post published a story in December focusing on a 7-year-old migrant child from Guatemala who died in border patrol custody.  Despite WaPo's misleading headline suggesting border patrol was to blame for the girl's death, the full timeline of events and statements from the girl's father praising border agents revealed a different story.

WaPo Ran Kavanaugh Story With Knowingly False Information.  The Washington Post falsely suggested that Georgetown Preparatory School was hiring a new employee to deal with fallout from the Kavanaugh hearings, despite the school directly contradicting WaPo's report.  Emily Heil reported on October 18 that Georgetown Prep was hiring a director of alumni relations, and wrote that the school posted the advertisement for the position this week.  The article further suggested that the school was adding the position because of the news surrounding the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Georgetown Prep alum, to the Supreme Court.  However, Heil was informed prior to publication of her article by a spokesperson for Georgetown Prep that the position was posted back in July.

The Destructive Effects Of The Media's Misleading, Racially Charged Headlines.  When it comes to race and crime or even racially charged incidents, not all headlines are created equal.  "Woman beats a 91-year-old Mexican man with a brick, tells him to 'go back to your country,'" read last Monday's [7/9/2018] Washington Post headline about the brutal anti-Hispanic hate-crime against Rodolfo Rodriguez.  Rodriguez had suffered two broken ribs and a broken cheekbone after accidentally bumping into a child while walking on a sidewalk and being repeatedly attacked by the child's concrete-brick wielding mother.  And if that wasn't enough, the Post reports, several other "young men" came over and kicked the 91-year-old while he was down.  "Go back to your country!" the woman yelled.  It has all the tragic hallmarks of a hate crime, to be sure, except the Washington Post chose not to reveal the race of the perpetrator until the fourth paragraph down, almost as an afterthought (hint:  she was a black woman).  And even after she was arrested, the racial identity of 30-year-old assailant Laquisha Jones remained buried in paragraph four.

WaPo invents quote, then stalls on correction for Nikki Haley:  Any questions as to why people hate the press?  [Scroll down]  Turns out it was the United Nations that made the 250,000 quote, not Haley, and the 250,000 was a figure for extreme poverty, not regular poverty.  Neither the 'extreme,' nor the fact that Haley never said it at all, were gottten right in the original story, quite a two-fer for two reporters to make on the mistake front.  And they ran the bad quote with Haley's picture on their tweet.

Maybe the left should answer some questions instead of Kavanaugh.  Greg Sargent of the Washington Post, Senator Chuck Schumer, and others on the left are trying to trash President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, in as many ways possible.  One of their many lines of attack is that Trump knows that Kavanaugh will let Trump off on any potential legal problems, presumably from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  The first question that Sargent, Schumer, and other leftists of this state of mind should be asked is which law Trump broke.  What's more, how would some garden-variety stealing-or-lying charge, whatever it is, somehow make it to the Supreme Court?  More to the point, how would that cause any Supreme Court justice to let him off?

This Is What a Eulogy for an Establishment Conservative Looks Like.  The Washington Post began an obituary for the late Charles Krauthammer that blamed him for the Iraq War, a bit of a stretch since he's a writer, not a general.  They called him a "neo-conservative provocateur" who helped lead the invasion of Iraq.

The Most Dangerous Aspect of Obamagate.  The party line from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and countless lesser outlets that parrot their "news" stories is that the memo was both a "nothingburger" and a dangerous attempt to undermine federal law enforcement agencies.  Immediately upon its release the Times published a column titled, "Devin Nunes Nothingburger."  Then, 24 hours later, the Gray Lady published another piece under the headline, "The Memo Doesn't Vindicate Trump.  It's More Proof of Obstruction."  The problem here isn't that the fabled "newspaper of record" would have us accept the proposition that the memo proves nothing while also providing proof that the President is guilty of obstructing justice.  The danger is that the media is largely controlled by people who are so committed to a dead statist ideology that they are willing to ignore objective facts and contradict themselves on a day-to-day basis in order to participate in what amounts to a coup attempt against a duly elected President.

The truth about fatal shootings by police.  As it has for the last three years, the Washington Post dedicated a team of data collectors and writers to focus on the issue of fatal shootings by police, producing a long story earlier this month headlined:  "Nationwide, police shot and killed nearly 1,000 people in 2017."  The exact number of such deaths the Post counted was 987.  But rather than supplying any balance or meaningful context to an important topic, the flawed story takes the reader just where discerning people might expect — to the discredited myth that racist police are targeting and gunning down unarmed black men and boys for no reason other than the color of their skin.

No, the Trump Administration Didn't 'Ban' 7 Words at the CDC.  Heads exploded over the weekend in response to a Washington Post article that claimed the Centers for Disease Control would "ban" seven words in all future budget documents submitted to Congress.  The article's inflammatory headline, "CDC gets list of forbidden words:  Fetus, transgender, diversity," set the tone for an egregiously poor example of journalism, even by Washington Post standards.  Science reporter Lena Sun wrote, "the Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation's top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including 'fetus' and 'transgender' — in official documents being prepared for next year's budget."  Support for that explosive charge came from precisely one anonymous source, a CDC analyst who attended an agency briefing on December 14 where the word-ban was allegedly discussed.

Another errant anti-Trump hit piece from the Washington Post.  Fresh off of its triumph in the Alabama Senate race, the Washington Post returns to its primary mission — taking down the President of the United States. [...] The hit piece, by Greg Miller, Greg Jaffe, and Phillip Rucker, takes up five pages in the front section of today's Post.  One searches in vain through the authors' gossip and distortions for evidence of the article's two themes:  (1) that Trump is leaving the U.S. vulnerable to the Russian threat in question, cyber-attacks on our election process and (2) that Trump's policies tilt in favor of Russia.  In support of its first theme, the Post notes that Trump hasn't formed a task force to focus on election hacking or convened a Cabinet-level meeting on the subject.  From this, it wants us to infer that little or nothing is being done to make such hacking more difficult.  The inference is unreasonable.

Flashback: WaPo Document Expert Said Forged Roy Moore Yearbook 'Consistent with One Writer'.  Three weeks ago, in a partisan effort to dismiss what is now an admitted forgery, and what at the time was an obvious forgery, the left-wing Washington Post's Philip Bump consulted former FBI agent Mark Songer, a forensics documents examiner, to examine a yearbook produced by one of Roy Moore's accusers as evidence he assaulted her.  The expert concluded that the "writing seems consistent with one writer."  The context of when Bump published this piece is important.  If you recall, the Washington Post was the news outlet that first broke the story of the Moore allegations, and it was during this time that outside fact-checking of the Post's reporting revealed serious lapses, all them pointing to a Moore accuser who manufactured a false narrative.  But in a Friday morning [12/8/2017] interview on ABC's Good Morning America, Beverly Young Nelson admitted that she had forged a portion of what she still claims (with no credibility) is truly Moore's signature.

Why should we believe the Washington Post?  If Roy Moore committed statutory rape, then he does not belong in the Senate.  But I doubt it is true because the story stems from the Washington Post.  This publication lies — repeatedly.

Alabama ABC Affiliate Can't Find One Voter Who Believes WaPo Report About Roy Moore in Man-on-the-Street Segment.  During a segment that aired on Friday's [11/10/2017] broadcast of Birmingham, AL ABC affiliate WBMA 33/40's 5 p.m. local news, political reporter Lauren Walsh sought out voters in Columbiana, AL to gauge their reactions to the Washington Post report that alleged Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Moore engaged in inappropriate conduct with four teenage girls more than 34 years ago.  None of the respondents according to Walsh told her they believed the Post's reporting.  "It's hard to believe the events that transpired yesterday," Gordon Fluker of nearby Wilsonville, AL said to Walsh about the Washington Post report.  Fluker's response was the standard according to Walsh.  "Out of all the voters we spoke with Friday [11/10/2017] in Columbiana, we didn't find one voter who believed the Washington Post report about Moore," she said.

Judge Roy Moore on Sean Hannity Show: 'We Have Some Evidence of Some Collusion' Against Me in WaPo Smear.  Judge Roy Moore, the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity on Friday afternoon that his campaign is conducting its own investigation into the allegations against him and has "some evidence of some collusion" against him.

The Truth About One-Sided DACA Reporting.  Over at the Washington Post's Wonkblog, reporter Tracy Jan has a piece entitled, "White House claims 'dreamers' take jobs away from blacks and Hispanics.  Here's the truth."  The truth, according to the immigration advocates interviewed for the article, is that DACA has no undesirable effects whatsoever on the U.S. labor market.  Ms. Jan apparently did not reach out to any immigration skeptics for comment.  Had she done so, they would have told her several things.  First, DACA recipients are not a high-skill group.  The 15 percent of DACA recipients over the age of 21 who have a four-year degree is far from the 34 percent among natives in the same age range.  Furthermore, as Alan Tonelson points out, the occupations held by DACA recipients seem to be primarily working-class.  The idea that they are not competing with less-educated natives, as the advocates in the Wonkblog article claim, is unlikely.  Second, although there is certainly not a fixed number of jobs in our economy, immigration can still negatively affect American workers.

WaPo Fact Checker Misleads on Huma Abedin & the Muslim Brotherhood:  What's the Truth?  It is an undisputed fact that Huma Abedin was an employee of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA) for 12 years, and appeared on the masthead of the organization's journal, the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA) right up until the time she began to work at the State Department for Secretary Clinton. [...] Whether one finds it plausible that an individual might be listed as an "associate editor" for a period of 12 years, yet never be called upon to perform the task which their position suggests (i.e. editing) is not a question of fact.  The readers, (Kessler's and ours) will need to determine for themselves whether such an excuse holds water, but a reasonable person might look upon their own life's experience and wonder whether they ever approached a decade or longer in a position without even having seen the work ostensibly produced there during their tenure.

Graham: Comey Didn't Tell Congress the DNC Email That Drove Him to Intervene in Clinton Investigation Was Fake.  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) said Sunday [6/11/2017] that former FBI Director James Comey did not tell lawmakers the email that played a role in his decision to publicly intervene in the Hillary Clinton email investigation was fake, as the FBI reportedly believed.  The Washington Post reported May 24 on a Russian intelligence document the FBI obtained that purported to show a "tacit understanding between the Clinton campaign and the Justice Department" over the investigation into Clinton's email server use.  The FBI, according to the report, believed the document was unreliable and possibly fake.

Trump Maintains Momentum Despite Malicious Media.  I was at a conference in Chicago last week when a friend mentioned that it had just been reported that [Rod] Rosenstein was furious that Trump deployed his memo as the reason to fire Comey and that he was threatening to quit.  Yikes!  Except that Rosenstein did not threaten to quit.  So why did The Washington Post report that he did?  They just made it up.  And they did so out of malice, in an effort to delegitimize Trump.

The Obama-Bezos-CIA-WaPo Link Coincidentally Lurking Behind Those Intel Community Leaks.  [Scroll down]  The rogue officials behind the leaks are from the Obama administration.  You can certainly buy the deduction that they'd know reporters at WaPo, and would, in their unhappiness, "leak scoop" to them.  (Even though it never turns out to actually be anything, other than innuendo.)  But it's really been noticeable that whatever the most sensational claim is, every couple of days or so, it's that claim that ends up being leaked through the Washington Post.

Tips For Reading Washington Post Stories About Trump Based On Anonymous Leaks.  Previous Washington Post stories sourced to anonymous "officials" have fallen apart, including Josh Rogin's January 26 report claiming that "the State Department's entire senior management team just resigned" as "part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior Foreign Service officers who don't want to stick around for the Trump era."  The story went viral before the truth caught up.  As per procedure, the Obama administration had, in coordination with the incoming Trump administration, asked for the resignations of all political appointees.  While it would have been traditional to let them stay for a few months, the Trump team let them know that their services wouldn't be necessary.  The entire story was wrong.

Analyzing the Trump/Russia Intelligence Story.  [Scroll down]  So, let's have a little analytical look at the story.  First of all, every U.S. person in the room denies it, specifically saying no "sources and methods" were disclosed.  Remember that, it's important.  Apparently, the Trump people did report to the NSA and CIA what they talked about with the Russians, and that some of it was highly classified.  Following that, the story was leaked by "current and former U.S. officials," speaking anonymously, of course.  One thing we know — since we know exactly who was in the meeting — is that these "current and former officials" were not in the meeting.

Washington Post Creates Fake News Timed-Release Story Intended to Capture Evening News Lede.  Always remember the basic rule that has been proven accurate 100% of the time:
  •   When the CIA wants to leak a damaging story they coordinate with the Washington Post and ABC.  (and vice-versa).
  •   When the State Dept. or FBI/DOJ wants to leak a damaging story they coordinate with CNN and the New York Times.  (and vice-versa)
This consistent pattern has NEVER been broken.

Another Year of Torrential Media Bias.  Today's CNN is so hopelessly biased it makes the days of Ted Turner look journalistically rigorous.  Back then, at least a few CNN hosts would fake up a just-the-facts mien.  Now every last CNN host is a strident anti-Trump pundit.  It is all opinion, all the time, as hosts search high and low for every conceivable angle from which to attack Trump.  The hosts will often preface these tendentious segments with a little lecture to the audience on how CNN deals in "facts" but the president peddles "lies."  One would think the country was on the brink of dissolution from the tone of CNN's hysterical coverage.  Instead, what usually occasions it is nothing more than an imprecise presidential tweet.

CNN's Bakari Sellers:  Trump Administration Is 'Literally Terrorizing People' With ICE Raids.  Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum argued Sunday [7/14/2019] that the Trump administration is "literally terrorizing people" by going through with planned ICE raids on illegal immigrants under deportation orders.  During a panel segment of "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper, Gillum called the raids a "strategy" designed to "demonize black and brown people" in order to secure a second term in the White House.

'So Dishonest': Vice President Pence Blasts CNN After Visiting Migrant Shelters.  Vice President Mike Pence visited migrant shelters in the McAllen, Texas, area Friday and blasted CNN on Twitter following the stops, particularly for its "dishonest" coverage of his trip.  "CNN is so dishonest," the vice president tweeted late Friday [7/12/2019].  "Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well."

CNN mired in a credibility crisis as ratings continue to collapse, experts say.  CNN's audience shriveled in the second quarter of 2019, averaging only 541,000 total viewers, less than half Fox News Channel's 1.3 million average.  But CNN struggled even more during the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, finishing as the fifteenth most-watched network on basic cable behind networks such as TLC, Investigation Discovery and the Hallmark Channel.  CNN averaged a dismal 761,000 primetime viewers while FNC averaged 2.4 million.

CNN Death Spiral Continues with Double Digit Q2 Ratings Collapse.  The far-left fake news outlet CNN came in 15th place in primetime during the previous quarter and lost nearly 20 percent of its already pathetic viewership.

CNN Ratings Tank.  I've been writing over the last few days about the fact that "get woke, go broke" doesn't always apply to companies that pose as social justice warriors.  On the other hand, CNN's formula — obsessive, over the top Trump hatred, every day, all the time — has bombed.

CNN's Credibility Crisis.  President Trump in April mocked CNN (yet again), tweeting out a report that the cable news network had registered its lowest viewership ratings of 2019. [...] Now, two months later, the news just keeps getting worse for the far-left network.  According to recent reports from several credible sites, including The Hill and Forbes, CNN has suffered a 16 percent primetime ratings collapse.  This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one Mueller shaped basket.

Don Lemon And CNN Can't Stop The Trump/Hitler Comparisons.  In a discussion with Chris Cuomo on CNN, Don Lemon once again made a Trump/Hitler comparison.  [Video clip] [...] This was shortly after CNN cut away from the Trump rally when the President attacked the media and the crowd started chanting "CNN s****".

Acosta Is His Own Worst 'Enemy'.  [Jim] Acosta is pitching a book called "The Enemy of the People" and he wants you to think he is "the people."  He isn't.  Is he "The Enemy of the People"?  That's giving him too much credit, but he is the enemy of the truth.

Fusion GPS Best Bud At CNN Runs Interference For Bogus Steele Dossier.  After President Trump commented on the idea of receiving "foreign dirt" on an opponent on Thursday, cable news pundits fully dedicated themselves to moving the goal posts for what constitutes colluding with a foreign adversary.  On "At This Hour With Kate Bolduan," CNN reporter Evan Perez simultaneously downplayed the significance of the Steele dossier and failed to explain which 2016 campaign had actually paid a foreign adversary for opposition research (spoiler: it was the Hillary Clinton campaign).  Perez seemed to conclude that Trump's hypothetical comments are much worse than the actual effect the Steele dossier had on the 2016 election because the dossier was written by someone connected to U.S. ally Great Britain, and because it was obtained by the FBI.

Don Lemon Tries to Convince Viewers CNN is Not Biased, Does Not Hate Trump.  Don Lemon has begun a campaign to convince viewers CNN does not hate Trump, love the Democrats or engage in biased reporting.  Earlier this month, speaking at the Financial Time Future of News event, Lemon said flatly the network is "not liberal," which set off a storm of reaction from conservatives in the media.

Don Lemon and Jim Acosta assert CNN is not an anti-Trump outlet.  CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta and host Don Lemon said the network is not an anti-President Trump outlet, they are simply "holding their feet to the fire" because they will ask the hard questions to anyone who is in power.

CNN Is Really Upset That Scot Peterson Got Arrested Over His Cowardice.  You can always count on CNN to be on the wrong side of every issue and their response to Scot Peterson being arrested for his cowardice (among other things) during the Parkland shooting is no exception.  While there are questions about whether Peterson has legal liability, there's no doubt he was a primary factor in so many children being killed that day.  He sat idly by as a gunman walked around the school shooting people when it was his job to respond with force.  To give you an idea of CNN's bias on this issue, Chris Cillizza once notably quipped on Twitter that a "good guy with a gun doesn't always stop a bad guy."  This echoed CNN's softball treatment of Sheriff Scott Israel at a town hall where they instead savaged Dana Loesch, who had nothing to do with the shooting.

CNN Tries Turning Trump "Special Day of Prayer" Into "White Evangelical" Day.  Today [6/2/2019] is the day devoted Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, has called a "Special Day of Prayer" to protect President Donald Trump from his "enemies".  While Franklin Graham is revered by millions of Christians world wide as an inspiring Evangelist, just as his father was before him, according to CNN Religion Editor Daniel Burke, he's a "White Evangelical".  Because Evangelists come in all colors and all races, calling Franklin Graham a "White Evangelical" is racist.  The word "evangelical', incidentally is an adjective rather than a noun.

Exposing the RINO Underground By Smoking Out the 'Never Trumpers' One-by-One.  Honestly — really, honestly — who ever heard of Ana Navarro before she became a CNN "expert Republican" on what is wrong with Trump and with the entire Republican political agenda? [...] Between those rare glimpses of Navarro, and occasional snippets of that Thing that get aired on Hannity or Laura when that vile object is shown obnoxiously filing her nails during a "debate," I have figured this out:
  [#1]   She claims to be a Republican.
  [#2]   She takes the Democrat Left side on virtually every single issue that gets discussed, no matter how little it has to do with anything Trump.
  [#3]   She was an advisor to John McCain.
  [#4]   She was an even higher-up advisor in Florida to Jeb!  Bush.

CNN Blatantly Lies to Protect Far-Left Abortionists.  A left wing conspiracy theory news channel Friday [5/31/2019] made blatantly false claims in order to make the abortionists on the far-left seem less radical.  "Vice President Mike Pence suggested Thursday that abortion rights activists support 'infanticide,' echoing false claims made last month by President Donald Trump about doctors killing babies that have already been born," said CNN.  But there are two obvious problems with CNN's analysis.  The first is that Trump never said that.

CNN's Cooper Complains About FB After They Won't Remove Funny Pelosi Parody Video.  CNN wants to monopolize information.  They tried and failed to swing the 2016 election; it was because they had competition.  CNN and NBC are the biggest sources of completely fake news.  Eighty million people tuned in to CNN to watch a wholly rigged presidential debate.  The FCC should have pulled their license to broadcast.  NBC tried to incite a race riot in Sanford, FL with their doctored 911 tape:  ["He's black' SPLICE "he's up to no good"].  They tried to make the police dispatcher seem involved in the phony racist talk.  And that's the way they presented it.  And when they found out the shooter wasn't "white" like they had assumed, they called him a "White Hispanic" No one was prosecuted.  NBC just said, "my bad" then went on spewing fake news.  Seriously, America needs to shut these phony news organizations down — permanently.

Impeach or get off the pot, Democrats.  When House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that the United States had been plunged into a "constitutional crisis," a large swath of the media took to plying this fantasy for them.  "Ever wonder what a constitutional crisis looks like?  Well, open your eyes," CNN's Don Lemon explained to his viewers.  "The president of the United States is just blowing right through our system of checks and balances, the very thing that is supposed to keep our Congress, the judiciary, and the executive branch working, which means our country working."  None of this is remotely true.  Our checks and balances are working exactly as they should.

CNN Lays Off Almost Entire Division, Surprises Employees As 'Crazy Rumor' Comes True.  CNN laid off almost all of its health care coverage division Tuesday [5/21/2019], in a move the network called a "crazy rumor" less than three weeks ago.  While Dr. Sanjay Gupta is expected to keep his job, most of the rest of the division, based out of Atlanta, were released.

CNN Completely Edits African American Pro-Lifer Out Of Abortion Documentary.  Last October, Bell produced a show about abortion and the CNN documentary crew tapped Students for Life of America (SFLA) to provide a pro-life perspective for the episode.  The group sent their Minority Outreach Coordinator Elizabeth Parker (who is African American) to represent the organization and the unborn on camera.  Naturally Parker and her colleagues were excited to see how the interview turned out in the final cut and honored to be included in a show aimed at "exploring communities across America".  In a discussion about abortion, it goes without saying that the pro-life community is an unavoidable and vital part of the conversation — literally half of it.  When the May 19th premiere finally came around the SFLA team was disappointed to discover Parker had been cut out of the documentary altogether.  Even worse, it turned out there were no pro-life views represented at all.  CNN even cut out footage of pro-life advocates outside local abortion facilities.  Parker says she suspects their views simply didn't fit the narrative they were trying to weave.  Rather than present a two-sided story, they simply cut the side that didn't fit the script.

Our Collective Dive off the Cliff.  The burning of the Cathedral of Notre Dame — in the heart of Paris, in the heart of France, in the heart of Europe, in the heart of Christendom and Western civilization — was an absolute cultural catastrophe. [...] Over at CNN, Frida Ghitis penned a heartwarming, sincere panegyric, but one in which she cannot help but refer to Notre Dame as "a building, technically a religious structure."  Technically a religious structure?  I wonder what tipped Ghitis off.  The giant crucifix bestriding the altar?  The religious imagery that adorns literally every surface of the place?  The masses of people who gather there daily to pray?  What facet of the building does Ghitis consider technically a non-religious structure?

Continuing plunge of CNN, MSNBC ratings reveals that fake news is a bad business strategy.  The catastrophic ratings decline for both CNN and MSNBC was no temporary blip following publication of the Mueller report.  Both cable news outlets had heavily promoted the hoax of Russian collusion with the Trump administration, teasing the hopes of Trump-haters for impeachment and prosecution for treason.  Now, those disappointed viewers have gone away, and continue to stay away.

CNN Goes Melodramatic To Push Gun Control Agenda After Colorado Shooting.  CNN took to not only politicizing the recent school shooting in Colorado but doing so with a melodramatic new gimmick.  Brooke Baldwin simply emoted into the camera as images flashed behind her on a screen.  First, you see Baldwin at her desk at CNN.  Then, you see the inside of a classroom where students are discussing the incident.  "I'm afraid that one day I'll go to school and I'll never come out," one grieving student sobs.  "What actions will you take to protect people like me and my classmates from this happening?"  Then we see Baldwin again, hands folded in her lap, glaring angrily at the camera.

CNN's Jim Acosta Caught Lying About Trump Again.  CNN's fake news reporter, who is really a political activist, Jim Acosta is lying again.  Acosta claimed that Trump painted asylum seekers with a broad brush, accusing them of misleading immigration authorities at the border.

CNN's Jim Acosta Misrepresents Trump Speech on Asylum Seekers.  CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta misrepresented remarks President Donald Trump made during a Rose Garden speech selling a White House immigration plan.  Acosta tweeted during the Thursday [5/16/2019] speech that Trump had "[painted] asylum seekers with a broad brush," saying of them "these are frivolous claims."

CNN's Jim Acosta Spreads Misquote from Trump Immigration Speech.  CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta on Thursday misquoted a portion of President Donald Trump's immigration speech and was quickly met with a fact-check by a Breitbart News reporter.  Speaking in the Rose Garden, President Donald Trump unveiled immigration reform proposals aimed at increasing the quota for skilled workers.  During his remarks, the president assailed some asylum seekers' abuses of the country's immigration system. "

CNN Further Normalizes Leftist Antifa Terrorists.  It's been over three years since the FBI and the Department of Homeland security referred to the radical leftist Antifa movement's behavior as that of a "domestic terrorist" organization, but that hasn't stopped CNN from promoting their activities.  Just days after CNN host Chris Cuomo argued that Antifa was a "true" and "good cause," social justice warrior Kamau Bell on Sunday's [5/5/2019] United Shades of America offered a national platform to an Antifa member while offering no pushback against their violent tactics.  Completely ignoring the terrorist designation, Bell sat down with a young woman who only went by the name Ariel.  As they began their discussion, Bell allowed her to twist and lie about what Antifa actually was: [...]

CNN Contributor Insanely Claims Unborn Babies Aren't Even Human.  On CNN's "Primetime with Chris Cuomo" on Monday night, a segment on the legality of state-level fetal heartbeat bills quickly spiraled into a chaotic debate about whether unborn children should be considered human beings.  CNN contributor and erstwhile New York City Democratic politician Christine Quinn said, "When a woman is pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her."  When guest Rick Santorum asked CNN Host Chris Cuomo if he disagreed "that at the moment of conception that a child is human and alive?"  Cumono replied that means it's "viable."  When Santorum asked, "Is it biologically a human life?" Quinn shouted, "No!"

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CNN cutting staff by as many as 300 jobs.  Trump hatred has been good for the [New York Times], with digital subscriptions up substantially (over $700 million in revenue last year) as the paper became the premier source of anti-Trump fulminations.  But with CNN, the story is very different.  The network that pioneered cable news long ago lost its dominant position to Fox News, and since Donald Trump became president has bet its future on the Russia Hoax, and lost.

CNN says 100 employees accepted voluntary buyouts in response to layoffs 'rumor'.  CNN says roughly 100 employees have accepted voluntary buyouts a month after an overhaul by parent company AT&T.  According to Deadline, AT&T's decision to offer buyouts, similar to those offered at HBO and the remnants of Turner, was in an effort to chip away at approximately $170 billion in outstanding debt, which AT&T agreed to take on as a result of their acquisition of Time Warner announced in 2016.  In March, AT&T restructured the majority of their TV assets under the umbrella of WarnerMedia, including CNN.

CNN is More Dangerous Than Banned Voices.  You know what CNN is.  It's the network that took the lead in promoting the false narratives that Michael Brown and others killed while violently resisting arrest were, instead, innocent victims of racist American cops.  You might remember that photo of "CNN Newsroom" hosts Sally Kohn, Mel Robbins and Margaret Hoover with their hands in the air while their co-host Sunny Hostin held up a sign saying, "I can't breathe."  The fake news about Michael Brown and others like Eric Garner who were killed while resisting lawful arrest was so widely broadcast that everyone knew exactly what the celebrity anchors meant without even seeing the so-called victims' names.  The smug and self-righteous look on their faces alone was almost enough to tell the tale.

Clintons and CNN plunging together.  Maybe it's a sign of the times.  President and Mrs. Clinton can't sell tickets and CNN can't draw an audience. [...] So what's going on?  The Clintons are worn out and have nothing to say.  It does not help that the former President is a loser in the "me-too" age.  The former First Lady can only do interviews with Rachel Maddow for fear of getting a serious question.  CNN is a victim of its own stupidity.  They became a news channel obsessed with everything anti-Trump and can't survive the Mueller report.

ObamaGate: No Misdemeanors, Only High Crimes.  Or look instead at Anderson Cooper, CNN's putative doyen, who can't even garner 0.3 percent of the population as viewers for his "flagship" program, and who recently accused Jared Kushner of "gaslighting" the nation over Russia; in other words of making statements aimed at convincing the listeners that they are insane.  This from the network that has so stoked the flames of Russia conspiracy-mongering every day for two years, that they publish outlandish pieces on Robert Mueller's sealing indictments against the president, and as Cooper's fellow show host Chris Cuomo qualifies the president's public statements as those made by a convict already wearing an "orange jumpsuit," statements that are less gaslighting than full on tinfoil-hattery.

CNN's Chris Cuomo Made 11 Misleading Statements About the Mueller Report.  The world already knows CNN's Chris Cuomo is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.  Still, during an interview with former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday night, Cuomo proved not only that he's eager to mislead his audience, but that he doesn't have the capacity to grasp even the fundamental bottom line of the Mueller Report and has no idea how our three separate branches of the federal government operate.  From Maggie Haberman to John Podhoertz to Bill Kristol to Mitt Romney to Chris Cuomo... Nepotism is replacing meritocracy and America is all that much stupider for it.

Trump is Popping in the Polls.  Watch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear — President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the White House in 2020. Some of the faces are not so fresh as three of the leading contenders — Biden, Sanders, and Warren are septuagenarians.  Despite the exonerating Mueller report, Trump is still on the ropes, about to be impeached, a Russian agent, and so on.  Trump is also a Nazi, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and sexist pig.  Nobody likes him.  At least that's what CNN says.  If this was truly the case, Trump should be polling in the low 30s at best, with most of the country giving him and his administration a thumbs down on performance and results.  Yet reality is far different.

Jim Acosta doing his best to prove Trump is right about CNN as 'fake news'.  CNN has been accused repeatedly by President Trump of being "fake news."  He couldn't be more correct, given that CNN's coverage of the border crisis, which not too long ago was characterized by a drumbeat of reports debunking any crisis, is now all about reporting that yes, indeed, there is a crisis. [...] Remember the CNN drumbeat of "not a crisis" and "no emergency at the border"?  They're singing a different tune now, [...]

Jake Tapper:  CNN Didn't Get 'Anything' Wrong In Russiagate Reporting.  Jake Tapper said Sunday that CNN has not gotten "anything" wrong during the course of reporting on Russiagate, even though his network has bungled numerous stories over the past two years.  "I'm not sure what you're saying the media got wrong.  The media reported the investigation was going on.  Other than the people in the media on the left, not on this network, I don't know anybody that got anything wrong," Tapper said during an exchange with acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.  "We didn't say there was a conspiracy.  We said Mueller was investigating a conspiracy."

Tucker Carlson exposes CNN's slavish obedience to Democrats' demands.  Last night, Tucker Carlson offered a landmark, devastating critique of CNN's descent from a legitimate news source to a propaganda adjunct of the Democratic Party.  Using CNN's own broadcasts yesterday, he proved his case that there is actual collusion between the two organizations, the Democratic Party and the pioneer cable news channel.  This is must-see TV (to appropriate a slogan invented by NBC) that almost fatally discredits a competitor that already is facing a viewership crisis, with half of its viewership melting away in the realization that they have been fed a hoax for over two years.  [Video clip]

How CNN misled its viewers.  In our hyperpartisan world, in which so many people watch only media that will give them news with which they agree, CNN viewers understandably expected the Mueller report to find overwhelming evidence that President Trump colluded, conspired with and is beholden to Russia.  After all, that is what they have been hearing for many months.  Pundit after pundit, commentator after commentator, host after host already had made up their minds:  President Trump was guilty and should be indicted, impeached or removed under the 25th Amendment.

Jeff Zucker:  No Regrets on CNN's Russia Hoax Coverage, 'We Are Not Investigators'.  CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker is pushing back against critics accusing the news network of being one of the chief propagators of a debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theory after special counsel Robert Mueller cleared the president's 2016 campaign of alleged collusion with the Kremlin.  In an interview with the New York Times, Zucker said he was "entirely comfortable" with CNN's Trump-Russia coverage and suggested it was entirely appropriate to give near around-the-clock-coverage due to the story's magnitude. "

Dan Bongino:  More evidence for 'Sasquatch' than for 'half the stuff CNN puts on the air'.  Fox News contributor Dan Bongino weighed in on the pending lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of the viral confrontation between the Covington Catholic High School students and Native American elder Nathan Phillips, saying the liberal network has a serious trust issue.  The legal team of high school student Nicholas Sandmann launched the massive $275 million lawsuit against CNN, accusing the network of ignoring the facts and putting its "anti-Trump agenda first" after portraying the MAGA hat-wearing teenagers as the aggressors in the altercation.

Acosta: Trump Is Spreading 'Virus' Against the Media, Right Has Bigger Media Presence.  A day after he offered a tired assertion that it was "surreal" that he and his media colleagues were questioning the White House about President Trump's mental stability, CNN chief White House correspondent and carnival barker Jim Acosta was back on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom offering another lengthy diatribe and meltdown to the delight of his colleagues.  In four-and-a-half minutes, Acosta attacked the Daily Caller for a "softball" question to the President, bashed Trump for spreading a "virus" around the world that the media has a liberal bias, and even suggested conservatives have a bigger media and social media influence than liberals.

CNN President Calls Fox News a 'Propaganda Network'.  During his speech at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, last week CNN president Jeff Zucker renewed his criticism of cable news rival Fox News Channel, calling the network a "propaganda network."  He also said Fox's relationship to the White House is "completely symbiotic" and detrimental to journalism.  Zucker addressed Fox News's response to the DNC's decision barring the network from hosting one of the 2020 presidential primary debates.

CNN guest connects New Zealand mosque massacre to Trump only minutes after it happened!  The hate for Trump has become vile at networks like CNN.  Last night [3/14/2019], as the news was unfolding about these mosque attacks in New Zealand, Intercept columnist Mehdi Hasan suggested that Trump was partly to blame for these kind of attacks around the world.

This is CNN? Primetime shows filled with liberal opinion, not straight news as network claims.  CNN touts its primetime lineup as being straight, just-the-facts news, but anyone tuning in to the network's evening programming can expect a heavy dose of liberal opinion, as "Anderson Cooper 360," "CNN Tonight" and "Cuomo Prime Time" don't always align with founder Ted Turner's bare bones, objective approach to journalism.  "Anderson Cooper is a mix of news and opinion, but Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo are obviously heavy on opinion and use the news as a launching pad for those opinions," Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson told Fox News.  "There's nothing inherently wrong with that, so long as they are not mischaracterized as part of the news operation."

Study: CNN's 'The Situation Room' Is a Week-long Promo for Dem Investigations.  CNN's Wolf Blitzer has spent the past week using his evening show The Situation Room as a platform for Democratic lawmakers to plug their numerous investigations of President Trump.  Blitzer, a veteran reporter and host on the network, is not a name that immediately springs to mind when one thinks of biased or outlandish statements from CNN journalists.  However, the many interviews he has conducted with politicians on the Hill — a staple of his show — tell a story of bias through careful and deliberate framing of facts.

People Who Watch CNN are Less Likely to Believe Trump is Telling the Truth on Russia.  CNN viewers are far less likely to believe that President Donald Trump is being honest about the Russia investigation than people who watch MSNBC or Fox News, according to a new NBC News and Wall Street Journal poll.  The February 2019 poll found that just 37 percent of people agree that the president has been truthful about the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference, while 58 percent disagree that he has been truthful.  Opinions regarding Trump's honesty, however, are even more divided among people based on which cable news channel they primarily watch.

CNN's Vinograd:  Trump's CPAC Speech Had Moment That Sounded Like Hitler.  On Saturday's "CNN Newsroom," CNN National Security Analyst Sam Vinograd stated that during President Trump's CPAC speech, he sounded "a lot like" Adolf Hitler, and that he also made statements "that really looked like Vladimir Putin scripted his speech."

CNN's Acosta Caught Lying During Tantrum at Hanoi Press Conference.  CNN's Jim Acosta lied during an on-air tantrum after President Trump did not call on him at a press conference in Hanoi, reports NewsBusters.  After ending his summit without a deal with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Trump addressed the world media and took a number of questions.  He did not, however, call on Jim Acosta, the anti-Trump activist at the far-left CNN.  At the end of the press conference, CNN brought Acosta on air to recap the event.  Naturally, the crybully opened by making everything all about himself and immediately started lying.

CNN Spins Its Role in Jussie Smollett Hoax.  CNN is in the business of spin.  Yet it is not doing a good job of spinning its own role in the imploded Jussie Smollett hate hoax.  CNN propagandist Brooke Baldwin, personifying the leftist "mainstream" media just as Jussie Smollett personifies black victimhood, sneered, "This is America in 2019" while hyping the hoax, even though Smollett's story was conspicuously fake from the beginning.

Did someone mention Jussie Smollett?

Look What CNN Is Outraged Over Now.  The media are outraged over the silly, like how President Trump gets two scoops of ice cream or doesn't have a pet dog in the White House.  They are also incensed over what they believe is serious, that Trump colluded with Putin to steal the election from Hillary Clinton, despite there being not one iota of evidence supporting their belief.  It's much like believing that Elvis and Bigfoot are regularly splashing around with the Loch Ness Monster.  There is plenty the media could be outraged about but are not.  Where is the outrage over the Obama administration spying on its political opponent's presidential campaign, then, when caught, using unverified opposition research to obtain a FISA warrant to cover its misdeeds?  Followed by finagling a special counsel appointment to put the blanket of investigational secrecy over its illegal and treasonous activities?  No outrage.

CNN Mocks Trump for Eating Omelet During Border Emergency.  To prove that there's a border emergency, President Trump must stop eating omelets!  Ridiculous, you might say.  And yet, on this morning's [2/18/2019] New Day, CNN's John Avlon, Alisyn Camerota and Jeff Toobin mocked President Trump for eating an omelet, somehow suggesting it debunks the existence of an emergency.

Autopsy of a Dead Coup.  [Scroll down]  So-called "bombshell," "watershed," "turning-point," and "walls closing in" fake news aired in 24-hour news bulletin cycles.  The media went from fabrications about Trump's supposed removal of the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. from the Oval Office, to the mythologies in the Steele dossier, to lies about the Trump Tower meeting, to assurances that Michael Cohen would testify to Trump's suborning perjury, and on and on.  CNN soon proved that it is no longer a news organization at all — as reporters like Gloria Borger, Chris Cuomo, Eric Lichtblau, Manu Raju, Brian Rokus, Jake Tapper, Jeff Zeleny, and teams such as Jim Sciutto, Carl Bernstein, and Marshall Cohen as well as Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Harris all trafficked in false rumors and unproven gossip detrimental to Trump, while hosts and guest hosts such as Reza Aslan, the late Anthony Bourdain, and Anderson Cooper stooped to obscenity and grossness to attack Trump.

High-powered Dem Andre Fladell:  What's hurting the country the most is dysfunctional and disgusting CNN.  Palm Beach County Democrat and political powerbroker Andre Fladell is as angry at CNN's fake news as Donald J. Trump.  And, it sounds a little different when it's coming from one of the most powerful Democrats in the Sunshine State.  "What's hurting the country the most, in my opinion, is the dysfunctional and disgusting reporting of a cable channel called CNN," Fladell said during a meeting earlier this month of the United South County Democrats.

The Biggest Threat To Press Freedom Is The Media Itself.  In December 2017, CNN reported that Donald Trump Jr. received an email giving him the hacked Democratic National Committee emails released by WikiLeaks before they were public.  MSNBC and CBS "independently" confirmed the story.  It was later revealed that the date on the email was wrong, and Donald Trump Jr. didn't get the emails before they were public.  CNN eventually revealed they never saw the original email, and based on the very lawyerly and suspect denials issued, it appears that the anonymous sources who gave CNN the story, as well as confirming it to MSNBC and CBS, were Democratic partisans from the House intel committee.  CNN did not discipline the reporters who botched the story.  There was no formal retraction.  Instead, CNN rewrote the story so it was an inane recounting of how Donald Trump Jr. got an email about a big news event.

Watch CNN try to rationalize away their own instant poll showing 76% of viewers positive on Trump's SOTU.  I don't think the suits at CNN anticipated either the quality of State of the Union speech that President Trump delivered or the positive public reaction to it when they went to the expense and trouble of an instant poll.  The segment they broadcast on it is a classic of rationalization, attempting to minimize the outcome that went so contrary to their own prejudices.  A stunning 59% were very positive, with another 17% somewhat positive, for a grand total of 76% — a landslide in anyone's book.

CNN State of the Union Promo: 'President Trump in Nancy Pelosi's House'.  CNN promoted its coverage of Tuesday's State of the Union address by describing it as "President Trump in Nancy Pelosi's house."  The language gave it the appearance of a sporting event rather than a solemn address by the president of the United States before a joint session of Congress.  The promo also appeared to be playing up the rivalry between the two political leaders now that Pelosi's Democrats have taken the House majority.  While the State of the Union address is given in the House Chamber and Pelosi (D., Calif.) is the speaker, the House of Representatives is more frequently referred to as the "People's House."

CNN Chyron Labels Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam a Republican.  CNN aired a chyron Friday evening [2/1/2019] labeling Virginia Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam a Republican during a report on the Virginia Democrat apologizing for a racist medical school yearbook photo depicting two men — one of them himself — in blackface and Ku Klux Klan garb.  The chyron aired at 9:00 p.m.  EST during a CNN broadcast of Anderson Cooper 360, which showed a video of Northam addressing the inflammatory yearbook photo in a video posted to his Twitter account.

Embattled Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Abruptly Changes Political Affiliation.  Ordinarily you'd think this was an accident but then you have to ask yourself:  how is this accident even possible?  Why is it that all these mistakes CNN makes run in exactly one direction?  When was the last time a damaging but false story was spread about any Democrat by CNN?  When was the last time they made a blunder on their chyrons when it hurt a Democrat?

This Is CNN: Network Labeled Dem VA Governor Embroiled In Racist Yearbook Fiasco Was A Republican.  It didn't take long for the news media to hit another iceberg.  This time it was in the Old Dominion.  Virginia became the subject of media attention (okay, some media attention) since Democrats tried to push a bill that would've permitted abortions up until the moment of birth.  It was a ghastly bill that was rejected.  Still, Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, a medical doctor, decided to weigh in during a radio interview this week, where he was torched for his remarks that pretty much detailed how this bill would permit the murder of babies.  The Democrats' abortion extremism was on full display.  He responded to the blowback by saying he doesn't regret his remarks about the legislation.

Roger Stone's lawyer offers proof CNN is in bed with FBI.  Documentation was released yesterday [2/4/2019], reportedly from Roger Stone's lawyer, that claims that CNN didn't just happen upon Mr. Stone's home right before a 29-person FBI team raided it and took him into custody based on a "gut instinct," as the FBI claimed.  The letter was produced by Mr. Stone's lawyer, Grant Smith, who sent it to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.  It details a frightening tale of CNN acting on behalf of the FBI in regard to the continual Russia probe.

Documents Show CNN Was Tipped Off on Roger Stone Arrest by 29 FBI Armed Agents — Leaked by Deep State!.  CNN's camera crew allegedly arrived at Stone's residence a whole hour before the raid and CNN's Sara Murray provided Stone's attorney with a draft copy of the indictment in an early morning communique to confirm the FBI raid and arrest.  CNN was the only camera crew on the scene of the FBI raid on Roger Stone's home.  While CNN has spent an entire week claiming their presence at the FBI raid on Stone's South Florida home was a combination of luck and hard work, this evidence proves that their "source" was indeed the Office of the Special Counsel, who colluded with the notoriously anti-Trump news network to produce a propaganda broadcast of the arrest that is reminiscent of the Nazi era tactics of the Gestapo and propaganda ministry lead by Joseph Goebbels.

CNN Tries to Thread the Needle as Racist Past of Democrat Governor Ralph Northam Surfaces.  He's toast.  There's no way, no way, Democrat Governor Ralph Northam can survive the public scrutiny of his behavior in 1984 as a 25-year-old medical school graduate.  This is 1984, not 1964, 1984.  C'mon.

CNN Again Pushes False Narrative that Republicans Suppressed Voting Rights in 2018 Midterms.  During CNN Newsroom Thursday morning [1/31/2019], the panel blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for wanting to "restrict voting rights" because he opposed a Democrat House bill which would demand Election Day be made a paid federal holiday.

CNN Segment Tries To Paint Border Crisis As Hollywood Fiction.  CNN reporters compared the southern border crisis to Hollywood fiction on "New Day" Wednesday [1/30/2019] and played clips from the 2018 film "Sicario:  Day of the Soldado" to illustrate their point.  CNN correspondent Miguel Marquez narrated the piece, which intertwined clips of cartel violence from the film with news headlines and immigration soundbites from President Donald Trump.  The chyron read:  "Are Trump's Border Claims Hollywood Fantasy?"

CNN Hid Images and Video of Roger Stone's 72-Year-Old Wife Being Dragged Out of Home Barefoot and In Nightgown.  On Monday Roger Stone told Judge Napolitano in a FOX Nation interview that his 72-year-old wife was also forced to stand outside barefoot and in her nightgown.  For some strange reason this was not aired on CNN who had a camera crew at Stone's home during the arrest.  The Gateway Pundit wrote CNN for comment — It would be completely irresponsible if they hid this from the American public.

Jim Acosta Peddled Slime: 'Team of Vipers' Reveals CNN Printed Unsubstantiated Dirt on Sarah Sanders to Settle Ex-Trump Aide's Score.  An excerpt from former West Wing official Cliff Sims' new book — provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of the book's public release on Monday — shows how CNN's Jim Acosta peddled unsubstantiated misinformation from a disgruntled ex-Trump campaign aide about White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as part of the network's effort to push the Stormy Daniels scandal story.  In other words, Sims' book reveals that CNN pushed out an attack on a current Trump aide by an ex-Trump aide — providing the ex-Trump aide with anonymity to shield the person's identity — and did not verify whether it was actually true before CNN printed it.

CNN Got an Inside Tip About the FBI Raid and It's Lying About It.  In response to the accusations by President Trump and others, that CNN had received an inside tip about the Roger Stone raid from the FBI, the news network published a whole article claiming that it had gotten the scoop by putting together various clues.  Nonsense.  There was no purpose to such an aggressive FBI raid without a camera crew standing by.  Previous defendants had been allowed to turn themselves in.  Why would it take multiple vehicles and personnel to arrest one man in his sixties?  There's nothing resembling practical necessity here.  And, without cameras standing by to broadcast the footage, the entire effect would have been lost. [...] Occam's Razor tells us that the FBI tipped off CNN.  And that needs to be investigated.

Anonymous Twitter Guy Turns Out To Be Better Reporter Than Jim Acosta.  An anonymous Twitter user spent his Friday night [1/11/2019] absolutely dismembering the border diary of CNN's Jim Acosta.  Acosta, for his part, spent Thursday filing short video diaries from McAllen, Texas. [...] His last video, shot by a portion of the border with no fence, was seemingly a direct response to President Donald Trump's criticism.  As if to make the idea of border security seem like a joke, Acosta playfully pointed out a shuffleboard court adjacent from the US border. [...] For a Twitter user going by the handle "Techno Fog," enough was enough.  Either Acosta didn't know, or he chose not to say, that the waterfront town he was reporting from is basically a Border Patrol firm base with a geographically advantageous position.

How news media omissions distort Russia probe narrative, and shield Democrats.  Counterintelligence investigations are by their very nature complex, nuanced and methodically slow, all facts that today's news media outlets seem to ignore as they chronicle the Russia collusion probe.  The past week provided fresh examples of how journalists endlessly seeking to portray the Russia probe in black-and-white terms can misinform the public through omission, cherry-picking or lack of context.  On Wednesday [1/9/2019], for example, CNN and others ran speculative reports suggesting Russians or Republicans could be involved in a mysterious grand jury subpoena fight involving special counsel Robert Mueller.

CNN's Don Lemon Wants to Delay President's Speech to Censor It.  Don Lemon wants a delay in the President's speech so CNN can censor it — edit, criticize, fake fact-check, morph it, and whatever else he thinks necessary.  And this is why they call CNN fake news.  Criticizing the President for calling them fake news seems silly in light of the fact that Lemon is ready to air fake news.  Even Chris Cuomo looked confused and was forced to defend the President.  He said the President has the right to present his case to the American people.

Don Lemon Suggests There Be an On Air 'Delay' During Trump's Speech.  On his program Monday night, CNN's Don Lemon urged the network to incorporate a "delay" during President Trump's primetime address on border security, such as one you'd have during a live awards ceremony when Christian Bale or Patricia Arquette step up to the mic with no filter.  Otherwise, it's like their network will be "promoting propaganda" that comes out of Trump's mouth, Lemon feared.  "People will believe it whether the facts are true or not," Lemon said.

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Read that last sentence again.  In it, Mr. Lemon summarized the success of CNN.

Here are the Most Egregious Fake News Stories of 2018.  [#2] CNN and The Hill spread retracted sexual assault claim against Kavanaugh:  CNN and The Hill both reported on a sexual assault claim against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in late September without ever mentioning that the claim had been quickly retracted.  Jeffrey Catalan apologized for making a "mistake" in leveling the false claim against Kavanaugh, but CNN and The Hill's initial reports on the claim failed to note the retraction.  The Hill later retracted a tweet bolstering the claim and CNN updated its misleading report.

Writer touted by CNN as 'Journalist of the Year' forced to resign for fabricating stories.  The German magazine Der Spiegel revealed Wednesday that one of its top award-winning journalists fabricated many of his articles, inventing characters, sources, and their quotes "on a grand scale" for many years.  Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, admitted to fabricating parts of at least 14 stories following the magazine's internal investigation.  The publication said the issue "marks a low point in the 70-year history of Der Spiegel."  "I am sick and I need to get help," he reportedly told the magazine.

Trump Provides Example of Google Bias After Being Called a Liar.  During Obama's presidency, Google put his State of The Union addresses on the front page of their site every year, while Trump's have never been featured.  Meanwhile, CNN said Trump propped up a "false claim" that big tech is censoring conservatives and called it a conspiracy.

DHS Shuts Down Fake News From CNN's Jim Sciutto.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responded Wednesday after CNN accused President Donald Trump of making up statistics about illegal immigration.  Trump claimed during a meeting with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer this week that terrorists are illegally immigrating to the United States.  "People are pouring into our country, including terrorists.  We caught 10 terrorists over a short period of time," Trump said.  CNN anchor Jim Sciutto asserted multiple times that Trump was incorrect, writing, "DHS did not provide evidence of a single terrorist caught at the southern border over the very last short period of time as the president claimed."

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The president's claims are not disproven just because the government does not provide evidence to CNN upon demand.  I think the President should not provide CNN with any information at all, since it would likely be used against him later.

CNN 'Fact-Check' on Trump Crushed After DHS Provides Actual Facts on Terrorists.  CNN's Jim Sciutto was one of the many journalists this week who attacked President Trump's comments about border security during his meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Tuesday.  Sciutto even did a whole segment "fact-checking" the president on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom.  Unfortunately for him, actual experts from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called out his reporting on Twitter with a brutal comeback.  The former Obama staffer turned CNN host took to Twitter to brag about his "fact-check" of Trump's claims about DHS stopping terrorists at the border, dismissing it as fear-mongering.

America's Trojan Horses Are Sacking Us From Within.  The most deceptive Trojan Horse trots around as compassion.  By twisting the meaning of equality, fairness and justice, liberals shame politicians into overspending on social programs, ignoring federal laws, and giving special rights to "victim" groups.  The migrant caravan is the latest victim group.  Carrying the Honduran flag, thousands of migrants stormed the Mexican border headed for America, taunting Trump along the way.  They used women and children as human shields, attacked U.S. Border Patrol, and admitted they're just looking for a better life.  The "caravan" turned out to be a Trojan Horse — unarmed intruders disguised as asylum seekers.  But the rock-throwing didn't stop CNN's Chris Cuomo from trying to disarm us with compassion.

There's No Terrorism Like Islamic Terrorism, Despite the Left's Lies.  Donald Lemon, on CNN:  "So, we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right.  And we have to start doing something about them.  There is no travel ban on them.  There is no ban on — they had the Muslim ban.  There is no white guy ban.  So, what do we do about that?"  Racist Donald Lemon chooses to make this a race issue, and yet you never hear him refer to ubiquitous Muslim terrorism by the race of its perpetrators, as most Muslim terrorists are non-white.  Another leftist hack, politician Corey Booker, told CNN in January, "In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups."  As I noted above, this lying leftist cites the study that conveniently and deviously begins on 9/11, in order to downplay or even exonerate Islamic terrorism, and not even mentioning leftist terrorism, in order to conveniently make it appear that his political opponents are the most dangerous terrorists around.

Murdered WaPo 'Reporter' Jamal Khashoggi [was] Connected to Osama bin Laden, Muslim Brotherhood and Russiagate [and] Wasn't Even [a] US Green Card Holder.  Murdered WaPo 'Reporter' Jamal Khashoggi was connected to Osama bin Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood.  It also turns out he may have been related to Russiagate and he wasn't even a US citizen.  In October, CNN criticized reports that Washington Post reporter, Jamal Khashoggi was related to Osama bin Laden.  They said this was all talking points [...] But what CNN doesn't report and what Khashoggi may have neglected to note is that when Khashoggi was with bin Laden in Afghanistan he was very much in sync with bin Laden, as noted in the Arab Weekly [...]

Acosta Told Court Under Penalty of Perjury That He 'Politely' Questioned Trump.  Jim Acosta, the chief White House correspondent for CNN, told the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last week, in a written declaration delivered under penalty of perjury, that he "politely" questioned President Donald Trump at a November 7 press conference.  Acosta submitted the sworn declaration, which is dated Nov. 13, as part of the lawsuit he and CNN have brought against President Trump, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and other White House officials for revoking his White House reporter's "hard pass."

Lemon leads most outrageous assertion, yet: 'ALL pro-Trump white women are racist,' deeply invested in supremacy.  An outrageous discussion unfolded on CNN recently focused on how most white women who voted for President Donald Trump must be "racist."  Only one of the all-female panel hosted by CNN's Don Lemon pushed back in the discussion on why the president resonates with most white women, delivering a blistering take-down of the argument that white women who have a "deep investment in white supremacy" voted for Trump.  Lemon began by asking liberal contributor Kirsten Powers "why white women support Donald Trump in spite of or perhaps because of his policies and his tone," during Friday's [11/16/2018] "CNN Tonight."

Post-Midterm Meltdowns.  CNN has sued the president and his entourage for revoking Jim Acosta's White House press pass.  This is the perfect illustration of the presumptuousness of the fake news press.  This description "fake news" was furnished by the president when CNN took the Steele dossier public and asked the president if he had participated in a festival of urination by a group of prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room because the Obamas had slept there.  In those early days of the administration, Wolf Blitzer claimed immense enterprise by CNN to unearth the dossier (that the Democratic National Committee, which paid for it, was shopping desperately to the media).  CNN elaborately portrayed this now infamous hack-job as the work of an eminent retired British espionage official.  After Acosta attempted to filibuster the president's post-midterm press conference and engage him in debate, the revocation of Acosta's pass was an appropriate measure.  CNN has many other accredited representatives and could nominate a replacement, but the network's media director, Brian Stelter, a foaming-at-the-mouth Trump-hater, instead has sued the president.

The Evidence Is Overwhelming.  While bloviating and ululating about the illusory and innumerate Great White Terror Threat last week, [CNN's Don] Lemon stated unequivocally that we needn't be concerned about foreign terrorists:  ["]We don't need to worry about people who are thousands of miles away.  The biggest threats are homegrown.  The facts prove that.["]  Sure they do — if you start tallying dead bodies on the day AFTER 9/11/2001.  But if you count the nearly 3,000 dead bodies stacked up on 9/11, it's not even close.  The facts prove that.  Then in a startling display of egregious doublethink, Lemon said in the same sentence that "we have to stop demonizing people" before demonizing white males: [...]

CNN Interview Appears to Choose 'Random' Rally Goer - Turns Out to be Andrew Gillum's Mom.  CNN reporter Randi Kaye was conducting interviews at a rally for Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum on Friday when she "randomly" interviewed Gillum's mother.  Former President Barack Obama spoke in support of Gillum, who currently serves as the mayor of Tallahassee, at a Miami, Florida rally on Friday.  Gillum is squaring off against Republican Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis.

No, CNN: Nationalism Is Not White Supremacy.  One doesn't know whether to laugh or cry at this.  Laugh at the absurdity that the concept of "nationalism" has anything whatsoever to do with race.  Or cry at the realization that yet again, as is true of the Left throughout American history, the obsession with race is something the liberal media cannot and will not leave in the ash heap of history where it belongs.

CNN Attempts to Blame President Trump for Suspicious Packages.  No one yet really knows what the motives are behind mailing packages containing fake pipe-bombs to high-profile members of the Trump 'resistance'.  Hopefully the FBI will identify the perpetrators quickly.  However, given the history of left-wing political activity and their use of fake hate crime as a tool to advance victim politics, the strongest origination likelihood is a person or group connected to left-wing activism.  Toward that suspicion there is growing Alinsky-motive visible amid media.  CNN is desperate to pin the blame on President Trump.  Check out the Alinsky model narrative engineering on display today.  It starts out by labeling the recipients as "Trump's targets":

CNN Anchor Lies About Remarks Made By Trump, Trump Jr..  CNN anchor Ana Cabrera falsely claimed on Sunday [10/14/2018] that President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. made racial remarks over the last week that white men have a lot to fear.  "President Trump and his son Don Jr. said this week white men have a lot to fear right now," Cabrera said during a segment on black people who have had the police called on them by white people.  Trump and Trump Jr. never said that, though.  Earlier this month Trump said it was a "very scary time for young men in America" as he spoke about men being falsely accused of crimes as it related to the allegations made against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

CNN Promotes Misleading Article With Further Misleading Tweet.  A CNN headline and the tweet promoting the article provided a misleading impression about one of the alleged witnesses to the alleged sexual assault on Christine Blasey Ford by Brett Kavanaugh.  The headline on the article read "Christine Blasey Ford's friend is not refuting Ford's allegation, will cooperate with FBI, lawyer says."  Its accompanying tweet read:  "Christine Blasey Ford's friend, Leland Ingham Keyser, is not refuting Ford's allegation against Brett Kavanaugh and will cooperate with the FBI, her lawyer says."  Activist Ken Gardner pointed out the misleading framing in a reply to CNN's tweet:  "Hi, CNN, she repeated what she told the Judiciary Committee: she has no knowledge of the party and had never met Kavanaugh at any event, with or without Ford present.  If this is what you call 'not refuting,' no wonder no one trusts your reporting."

CNN And The Hill Spread Retracted Sexual Assault Claim — Without Mentioning It Was Retracted.  CNN and The Hill both spread a bombastic accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday, without mentioning that the man who made the accusation has since retracted the claim and apologized for making it.  A Rhode Island man called Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's office and claimed that Kavanaugh and one of the judge's high school friends, Mark Judge, had drunkenly sexually assaulted a friend of his while in Rhode Island in 1998, according to the transcript of a Senate Judiciary Committee interview with Kavanaugh.  The man's name was redacted in the transcripts released to the public but the investigator quoted verbatim several outlandish anti-Trump tweets from the man's Twitter account, allowing reporters to definitively identify him on Twitter as "Jeffrey Catalan."

Yes, the Mainstream Media Is the Enemy.  CNN, for example, "resigned" three journalists, including an executive editor, for their involvement in a story that relied on an "anonymous source" who had the scoop on a fictitious "Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials" and the nonexistent investigation thereof.  After the network concluded that "standard editorial processes were not followed," (read:  they were caught misinforming the American people, and caught as the operative) CNN axed the trio, including Eric Lichtblau, then a CNN new hire but a veteran of the Times and a Pulitzer Prize recipient.  It's unclear what became of that "anonymous source."

Why is CNN avoiding the truth about Lanny Davis' lies?  It all started with last month's bombshell CNN report that Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney, was claiming his then-boss knew in advance of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and a Russian operative. [...] Last week, however, Davis publicly stated that Cohen knew no such thing, and had never said otherwise.  He then 'fessed up to his anonymous claims to the New York and Washington papers, while still insisting he wasn't a source for the CNN report.  It was only this week that he admitted he actually was a CNN source.

CNN Lashes Out at President Trump 'We Don't Lie!'  In July, CNN rolled out a story using anonymous sources wherein they reported Michael Cohen claimed Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in advance.  Perhaps to cover their bases, CNN also reported Michael Cohen told the Senate Intel Panel last year in a closed-door interview that he didn't know about the Trump Tower meeting in advance and didn't know whether Trump did either.  This dumpster fire of an article was published just a couple weeks after Cohen hired sewer dweller and Clinton fixer Lanny Davis to be his lawyer.

CNN Boldly Decides It No Longer Needs Reliable Sources.  On July 27, CNN aired a news story in which it claimed President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of the meeting at Trump Tower between members of his campaign team and two Russians working with Fusion GPS. Despite the fact Trump has repeatedly stated that he didn't know about this meeting until after it had occurred, two anonymous sources assured CNN that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen personally witnessed the then-candidate for the presidency being told the details about the forthcoming meeting.  The two sources went on to claim that Cohen wanted to make this assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller.  So excited was the mainstream media by this anonymously sourced story that it dominated the headlines for days.  Trump was caught now!  Soon, Mueller would have Cohen under oath before a grand jury, and then Trump's collusion with the two Russians at the Trump Tower meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin, would be fully exposed!  Never mind the fact that by this point, it's been revealed these two Russian lobbyists were affiliated with Fusion GPS, the same research firm that produced the Steele dossier, which had sent them to this meeting to lobby Trump's team against the Magnitsky Act sanctions.

Another Very Fake News Scandal Engulfs CNN with Fake Michael Cohen Russia Story.  Another very fake news scandal has engulfed CNN as the network's credibility crisis reaches another fever pitch just over a year after three senior network staffers were forced to resign in disgrace over a similar scandal.  This time, though, famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein is at the center of the scandal, and the network for now is dug in despite deep criticism from across the political and ideological spectrum as far-ranging as Breitbart News and Daily Caller among others on one side, and the Associated Press, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, and more on the other.

If You Want To Know Why Conservatives Don't Trust Media, Watch CNN.  On July 27, CNN reported that Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, would be willing to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller that the president knew in advance of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his campaign and a Kremlin-linked lawyer who was allegedly selling dirt on Hillary Clinton. [...] Well, on Monday [89/27/2018] BuzzFeed ran another article in which Davis admitted to being CNN's source as well, even though the network had initially claimed that Davis had declined to comment for the article — which turns out not only to be untrue but a ham-fisted way to hide the story's origin.  "We stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it," the network responded.

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin Falsely Blames Antifa Violence on Black Americans.  CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin bizarrely pinned the blame for Antifa violence on black Americans Tuesday night [8/28/2018], saying that the far-left group is "widely perceived as an African-American organization."  In response to President Trump warning of Antifa violence should Democrats win the midterms, Jeffrey Toobin said, "Let's be clear also about what's going on here.  The theme here is, 'I'm Donald Trump and I'll protect you from the scary black people.'"  "Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization, and this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players," he continued.

CNN's Jim Sciutto Busted for Two Fake News Scoops in One Week.  CNN's Jim Sciutto has had two big scoops debunked as very fake news in just one week.  Sciutto, CNN's chief national security correspondent, joined the far-left network after serving in Barack Obama's White House for a few years.  His bias and dishonesty has made already him a laughingstock on more than one occasion, but this was an especially bad week for the anti-Trump activist.  Last week, Sciutto misled the public with a breathless piece of "breaking news" that falsely claimed President Trump did not consult with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats prior to revoking the security clearance of John Brennan, the former CIA chief who, like Sciutto, served in the Obama administration.

The left's enforcers:  CNN sues to reveal names and addresses of Manafort jurors.  Less than a week after making a stink about freedom of the press, President Trump, and "enemies of the people," CNN and apparently other news outlets have decided to get into the harassment business, given that reporting news is just not good enough for them. [...] So now they've gotten into the jury-tampering business.  They're more interested in who the jury is than the trial itself.

CNN's Cuomo Says Antifa's Fight Is Moral Even After They Attack Cops, Reporters.  CNN's Chris Cuomo suggested on Monday night that violence carried out by Antifa is not as bad as violence committed by racists because Antifa's cause is moral and just — even after they attacked police and reporters over the weekend at the "Unite the Right" rally in Washington, D.C.  The segment came after a couple of dozen racists came out in support of the "Unite the Right" rally and were met by a large gathering of Antifa thugs who ended up attacking reporters and police officers.  Cuomo downplayed Antifa's violence by saying they only "confronted" police and "berated" journalists.

CNN Caught Putting Socialist on Panel to Pretend He's a Disillusioned Trump Voter.  CNN is a sorry excuse for a news network.  They push fake news every day but their latest venture is beyond the pale.  The New Day hosts and panel in the video are outrageous liars.  CNN should call themselves the Goebbels network.  What you are about to see in the video is unadulterated propaganda.  It's incredible, it really is.  They put so-called Trump voters on a panel and one plant, who claimed to be a disillusioned Trump voter turned hater, is a Socialist.  He has always hated President Trump.  [Video clip]

CNN Op-Ed slammed for comparing military to the media, says both are 'protecting our freedoms'.  CNN has been mocked widely for publishing an opinion piece calling for Americans to thank the media the way members of the military are acknowledged because they are both "protecting our freedoms" and "the stakes have never been higher."  University of Notre Dame management professor Joseph Holt wrote the essay headlined, "The press isn't the enemy, it's the protector," which was published last week.  The ridiculed piece is labeled "opinion" and notes "the views expressed here are solely the author's."

CNN Jokes About Obvious Truth:  US Media Works With Intelligence Community.  As CNN reporter, Gary Tuchman, mocked supporters of Donald Trump who displayed signs supporting the internet "Q-Anon" movement, he blatantly misrepresented a well-established fact.  Tuchman taunted one Trump supporter who said mainstream media was 'weaponized by the CIA' saying:  "I don't know anyone in the CIA except for a few people I've interviewed over the years?  But weaponized by the CIA? What does that even mean? ... Do you think I'm weaponized by the CIA?"  The truth is that mainstream media does indeed have a relationship with intelligence agencies, and the US government works very hard to control and cooperate with the mainstream media to achieve its goals.

Now they see themselves as soldiers.  Yesterday [8/6/2018], CNN had the audacity to publish an "opinion" piece by an ethics professor from Notre Dame that compares "journalists" to soldiers. [...] It must be "journalistic ethics" that inspired Politico reporter Marc Caputo to call us gap-toothed garbage people.  "Accuracy and fairness?"  Like cutting video to make it look like Trump emptying a box of fish food was some kind of never-before-seen boorishness the likes of which the world has ever known?  Was it that "demanding code of journalistic ethics" that inspired Chris Cillizza to put a rifle scope on a gif of President Trump?  Sleeping with a Senate staffer to get classified information — talk about a demanding code of journalistic ethics.  How many retractions and corrections have the news media had to make over the last two years?

CNN Claims To Support The First Amendment.  Anyone who watches CNN for longer than five minutes will most likely hear the network complaining about President Donald Trump's "attacks" on the media, labeling him as a threat to free speech and "our Democracy."  But does CNN really support the First Amendment?  Hardly.  CNN regularly engages in seeking to silence those who criticize their network or those who offer facts that counter the narrative of the Democratic Party.

Hey Media, You Started It.  New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says he told Trump his anti-press rhetoric could lead to violence.  But the media's anti-Trump rhetoric already has led to violence:  public officials rat-packed and bullied, Trump supporters harassed, White House spokes-lady Sarah Sanders having to live under guard.  And yet when Sanders pointed this out to Look-At-Me-I'm-Jim Acosta, Acosta stormed out of the room.  [Indeed], if he doesn't want to hear the truth, he could just stay home and watch CNN.

CNN's Acosta Makes Absurd Claim About Trump Rally After Getting Criticized.  CNN's Jim Acosta complained on Wednesday evening [8/1/2018] about the way he was treated yesterday during President Donald Trump's rally in Tampa, Florida, claiming that he felt like he "wasn't in America anymore."  Appearing on HLN with host S.E. Cupp, Acosta recounted his experience at the recent Trump rally where he was mocked and Trump supporters chanted "CNN S---s!" while he was on camera.  "Honestly, it felt like we weren't in America anymore," Acosta said.  "I don't know how to put it any more plainly than that."

CNN: The OPPO Research Arm Of The Democratic Party.  Everyone knows that CNN is maniacally devoted, 24/7, to trying to destroy the Trump administration.  But it doesn't end there.  CNN is all in for the Democratic Party, and is doing its part to help the Dems capture the House in November.  See, e.g., the KFile, billed by CNN as "the leading investigation team for the social, mobile generation."  KFile features content by Andrew Kaczynski, pretty much all of which consists of anti-GOP smears.  Kaczynski came to CNN via Buzzfeed, which you should keep in mind next time someone tells you that CNN represents legitimate journalism.  Kaczynski has a vendetta against my Congressman Jason Lewis, who represents Minnesota's 2nd District.  The 2nd is a swing district that the Democrats hope to capture this year; hence Kaczynski's interest.

CNN: Revoking Security Clearance of James Clapper Is 'National Security Threat!'  How exactly is it a "national security threat" to revoke security clearance of someone who no longer works for the government, but now works as an analyst for CNN?  Finally taking away security clearance from him, as well as from John Brennan, who now works for MSNBC, James Comey and others who worked for Obama makes perfect sense.

CNN Anchor Calls Russian Meddling 'A Terror Strike'.  CNN host Michael Smerconish went on a rant Saturday morning calling the Russian election meddling "a terror strike."  [Video clip]

The World Throws An Anti-Trump Protest At NATO, Hardly Anybody Shows Up.  Here's how CNN saw President Trump's first day at the big NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium:  "Trump outrages on the world stage, again."  In something called "The Point," CNN said:  "Trump's comments at the NATO summit seemingly further alienated the United States from its allies.  And this is only day one of his foreign trip."  The piece also quoted former Secretary of State John Kerry saying, "The President set America back this morning.  He is steadily destroying our reputation in the world."  That's the take of the mainstream media in America.  It's the exact same take the MSM had when George W. Bush was president.  Bush, to them, was a bumbling fool stomping over the world stage with his "cowboy diplomacy."  But Barack Obama, he — The Chosen One — would make the world love America again.

Brian Stelter skewered after bragging CNN skipped Trump rally.  CNN's in-house media magpie Brian Stelter was ridiculed Wednesday night [6/20/2018] after bragging on Twitter that his network didn't air President Trump's rally in Duluth, Minn. which occurred hours after he signed an executive order to end the separation of families who cross the border illegally. [...] The CNN media reporter was, as the kids say, "ratioed," which is when negative comments far outnumber the likes and retweets on a particular tweet.

Sarah Sanders to CNN Reporter:  You And Your Network Falsely Accused Me of Not Wanting to Be Here.  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders aimed fire at CNN Senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny Monday [6/18/2018] for CNN claiming that Sanders did not want to do the briefing that day.  Sanders was referencing a tweet from CNN's media reporter Oliver Darcy, who tweeted that Zeleny learned from a White House official alleged Sanders did not want to do the briefing amid questions on the Trump administration's child separation policy.

Feinstein: 'I Didn't Really Know Enough' About Mistreatment of Undocumented Immigrants During Obama Years.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said Sunday [6/10/2018] that while former President Barack Obama was in office, she was not well enough aware of the mistreatment undocumented immigrants faced, saying she has since learned more about the issue.  CNN's Jake Tapper mentioned to Feinstein a recent viral photo of undocumented children in a holding cell that was tweeted out by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D.).  The photo was shared by many who attempted to condemn the Trump administration's actions at the southern U.S. border.  The issue with the photo going viral for that reason is it was taken in 2014 while Obama was in office.

CNN White House Producer Calls Out CNN Contributor for False Tweet.  American Urban Radio White House correspondent April Ryan tweeted a misleading comment about President Donald Trump's celebration of America this afternoon at the White House.  Trump held the event in place of the Eagles Super Bowl celebration, which was hastily canceled after only a handful of Eagles players decided to attend.  Ryan, a CNN contributor, tweeted out that as Trump began speaking at the event, the crowd "heckled and booed" him and that reporters have "confirmed" this.

Very Fake News:  CNN's Stelter Lies About Melania Trump 'Disappearing'.  Following a surgical procedure on May 14, less than three weeks ago, the first lady has, understandably, not made any public appearances (she is scheduled to host some Gold Star families at the White House Monday night [6/4/2018]).  But this is not what the far-left [Brian] Stelter told his audience.  Instead, the anti-Trump activist repeatedly and deliberately misinformed his audience with the false claim she has been "invisible."  Stelter also allowed one of his guests to repeat the false claim the first lady has "disappeared."  This is simply not true.

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CNN's May Ratings Are In; They're Almost Too Pathetic To Believe.  CNN's endless pursuit of being the most anti-Trump cable news network is having backfiring consequences.  According to Ad Week, CNN didn't have a single show in the top 25 throughout the entire month of May.  Worse than that, the fake news network didn't have a program that averaged at least 900,000 total viewers.  As Fox News climbed in the ratings, CNN collapsed.

CNN's Ratings Collapse Marches into June.  Far-left cable channel CNN suffered a massive ratings collapse in May.  June is shaping up to be worse.  CNN stumbled out of May with a massive -25 percent ratings collapse when compared to the same month last year.  Because Fox News actually experienced total viewer growth and MSNBC's loss was a negligible two percent, we know the problem is CNN and not the news cycle or Americans tiring of the news.

Fake News:  CNN's April Ryan Falsely Reports Trump Booed at 'Celebration for America'.  CNN political analyst April Ryan sent social media into a frenzy after posting a false secondhand report that President Donald Trump was booed during the White House's "Celebration for America" event Tuesday [6/5/2018].  As President Trump began his remarks, a man shouted, "stop hiding behind the armed services and the national anthem."  The heckler was met with loud boos from attendees and was reportedly escorted from the premises.

The Spying That Dare Not Speak Its Name.  The media's pooh-poohing coverage of Spygate grows more laughable by the day.  Turn on CNN at almost any hour and you will see its farcical re-education camp in session — this or that host yelling louder and louder that no one "spied" on the Trump campaign.  As stupid as this coverage is, it is still worth dissecting, if only for its propagandistic shadings, telling omissions, and inadvertent revelations.  It is as if the media has an emergency manual at the ready in the event that a story starts hurting the Democrats, a manual which enjoins reporters to run away from it as fast as they can.  But if that's not possible, if they have to shelter in place, they are instructed to minimize the story and urge the public to avert its gaze from it.

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The Astonishing Silliness of CNN.  [Scroll down]  Over the course of two airports, CNN was everywhere.  Before departure, CNN was rolling in our lunch restaurant.  Next door, CNN was burbling in a convenience store.  In the second airport, in the waiting area at the gate, CNN was not only surrounding me on several screens, but the sound was also piped in. [...] Join with me, America, and demand the channel be changed.  Or even better, to turn the TVs completely off, with the exception of major sporting events and occasional soothing nature specials.

The media's collusion delusion is collapsing.  CNN"s Brian Stelter has been a loyal member of the media's Praetorian Guard for ages, and he shows no signs of turning.  In his newsletter last night, Stelter devoted the majority of his writing to fighting back against recent revelations that the Justice Department used an informant to investigate spy on the Trump campaign in 2016.  The piece is clearly Stelter trying to weave a narrative.  When called out on that narrative-weaving, mainly using the phrase "far-right bloggers," Stelter leapt into his standard defense mode.  You see, HE wasn't saying it was "far-right bloggers;" someone else did and he just quoted that phrase from someone else. [...] Sure, Brian.  Your entire body of work since 2016 shows that you are clearly on a side of the aisle.  You've been a protector of your side of the aisle interests.  You call people conspiracy theorists when they put together information that the media has dribbled out piecemeal.  Then, when you are proven to be wrong, you can't man up and say that you're wrong.

The Definitive List Of Media Screw-Ups On The Trump-Russia Story.  [#1] CNN Accuses Don Jr. Of Wikileaks Collusion:  Last December, CNN's Manu Raju reported that Wikileaks emailed Donald Trump Jr. to give him access to stolen documents a full ten days before they were released to the public.  Unfortunately for CNN, it turns out their sources gave them the wrong date.  Don Jr. actually received an email with access to the stolen docs on Sept. 14, 2016, after they had already been released publicly.

This Is CNN: Hiring of Suspected Leaker Clapper Raises Ethical Questions.  CNN walked away with a prestigious journalism award at Saturday night's [4/28/2018] White House Correspondent's Association dinner for their role in making public a briefing by intelligence officials to then President-elect Donald Trump.  CNN reported the briefing "included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump."  But the information briefed to the President was also leaked to the media by one of the same senior Obama administration officials who orchestrated the briefing and was hired by CNN months later as a paid analyst.  Some are questioning now if this was ethical — a pay for play of sorts — as it raises serious questions about the role and responsibility that U.S. intelligence officials have when taking on paid positions as analysts for news organizations, while still retaining their high-level security clearances.  It also raises similar questions about news organizations and their role of remaining objective and not paying their sources.

CNN Panel Gives Their Opinions About Why Opinion Shows Are Bad.  In a jaw-dropping display that was one part a lack of self-awareness and another part hypocrisy, Wednesday's [4/18/2018] prime-time Anderson Cooper 360 featured a panel of CNN analysts sharing their opinions about opinion shows like Hannity on Fox News.  Their opinions varied but were largely against the mixing of opinion and news.  And that was their opinion on the news of the day.  The hypocrisy was so thick you could cut it with a knife.  "I mean, personally, I have no problem with Fox News.  I'm glad Fox News is out there.  I'm glad MSNBC is out there.  I personally wouldn't want to do what either of them do," explained host Anderson Cooper.

CNN's sexist coverage of YouTube shooter pushes half-baked 'love triangle' narrative.  YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam was a scorned woman who opened fire at the company's headquarters because she was spurned in a "love triangle."  That's the narrative CNN is pushing, to the annoyance of viewers, who called the half-baked theory sexist, misogynistic "fake news."[4/4/2018] CNN's crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz floated the "love triangle" theory to Wolf Blitzer, when he blurted out that the shooting stemmed from "perhaps a love triangle."  Prokupecz did not provide any evidence to back[4/4/2018]up his claims, but the panel continued to speculate that the shooting was due to a romantic relationship gone wrong.

CNN mocked for glorifying JFKs 'legendary' infidelity after harping on sex allegations against Trump.  CNN was slammed for hypocrisy over the weekend when the network glorified President John F. Kennedy's many infidelities after spending significant coverage painting President Trump as a monster for an alleged affair that occurred prior to his political career.  While promoting "The Kennedys," CNN hailed the 35th president's "legendary love life," before asking, "Did one of his affairs connect him with the mob?"  The tweet featured video detailing JFK's relationship with actress Judy Campbell, who was allegedly intimate with the head of the Chicago mafia while also having an affair with the president.

No One Is Saying That.  Did you hear?  They're talking about repealing the Second Amendment.  It started with former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley.  And it sure does seem like those calls prompted skeptics of American gun culture to echo their remarks.  Turley and Stevens were joined this week by op-ed writers in the pages of Esquire and the Seattle Times.  Democratic candidates for federal office have even enlisted in the ranks of those calling for an amendment to curtail the freedoms in the Bill of Rights.  Of course, this is just the most mainstream invocation of anti-Second Amendment themes that have been expressed unashamedly for years, from liberal activists like Michael Moore to conservative opinion writers at the New York Times. [...] You might be surprised to learn that none of this occurred.  It's only your vivid or, some might go so far as to say, fevered imagination.  Rest assured, CNN host Chris Cuomo insists that "no one" is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment.  And even if they are, as Justice Stevens most certainly is, he's a "boogeyman" who commands no influence or respect.

CNN's Stelter Admits He Let David Hogg Get Away With Lies About Guns, NRA.  It's not often that CNN media reporter Brian Stelter is honest about his blatant biases when it comes to politics, just take his assertions about the President's mental fitness and his denials of making such connections.  But during an appearance on the Monday edition of HLN's S.E. Cupp Unfiltered, the Reliable Sources host appeared to let it slip that he let radical anti-gun activist David Hogg get away with making false claims about the guns and the NRA during a February 25 interview on his show.  Stelter's admission came after host S.E. Cupp questioned him about the wisdom of the media's obsession with elevating only the kids pushing gun control.

CNN In Full Meltdown Over Zinke Allegedly Favoring 'Excellence' Over 'Diversity'.  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is taking heat for allegedly telling staffers he would focus on "excellence" and finding the "best people" to work at the department, not "diversity."  Zinke's lack of concern over "diversity" at the Interior Department angered some staffers, who rushed to tell CNN.  The news network on Monday [3/26/2018] ran with the chyron:  "Zinke angers many by saying it's more important to find best people; Dept denies."  Each time Zinke was asked about diversity, he would respond, "what's important is having the right person for the right job," or "I care about excellence, and I'm going to get the best people, and you'll find we have the most diverse group anyone's ever had," sources told CNN.  Zinke's spokeswoman denied he made those comments, telling CNN "the anonymous claims made against the secretary are untrue."

CNN Runs Story Comparing ICE Agents To Nazis.  The full article tells the story of a Jewish woman who is hiding a Catholic, Latino family from deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  "For the woman, the link from the present to the history of World War II is strong," the authors write, noting that Jewish people also feared being kicked out of their homes during the Holocaust.  The article apparently does not feel the need to point out the key differences between Jewish people during the Holocaust and illegal immigrants in the U.S. — chiefly that Jewish people were being exterminated by their own government.  A number of people lashed out at CNN for the offensive comparison.

At the Box Office and Voting Booth, Leftist Fantasies Bomb.  [Scroll down]  And then, there's CNN.  The cable news outlet has spent the last fourteen months and more giving 24/7 coverage to a Russia-Trump conspiracy for which there is zero evidence, an epidemic of gun violence that does not exist, and what Brian Stelter, in a panic attack reminiscent of the little girl in Frobenius's anecdote, recently called "a rolling, ongoing, crisis" at the White House.  The result?  Like the Oscars, CNN's ratings have tanked.

Parkland Shooting:  Questions the Left Can't Answer.  Days after the shooting, CNN hosted a town hall meeting.  Rather than a thoughtful discussion regarding causes and potential solutions, it lived up to CNN's goal of a political rally.  Yet CNN claims that its meeting was not political.  Could CNN pour a cup of coffee without it being political?  Did CNN stack the audience and prep participants?  CNN has a history of planting Democrats in its town hall meetings.  One participant claimed that CNN gave him scripted questions to ask.  Plausible?  Isn't CNN the network that supplied Hillary Clinton with debate questions in advance?  CNN turned their town hall meeting into a Dana Loesch- and Marco Rubio-bashing fest.

CNN's Don Lemon apologizes for false criticism of Fox News.  One of CNN's top anchors partook this week in the press' favorite new game of sniggering at Fox News' programming decisions.  The problem here is that Don Lemon's exact claim, that Fox ignored news of White House communications director Hope Hick's looming resignation when it was first reported, is totally false.  Fox not only covered the Hick's news as soon as it was reported Wednesday afternoon, but the right-leaning cable news network also covered it every hour for the rest of the day.  "I said something last night that was an attempt to make a broader point about Fox News and how they downplay bad news about the administration," Lemon said Thursday evening [3/1/2018].

Florida Shooter Survivor's Father:  CNN Sought Out Political Statements for Interview.  CNN has turned a number of the survivors of the Parkland school shooting in Florida into mini-celebrities in the wake of the massacre.  It is seldom the case that survivors of these tragedies do speak out, so you can't blame the network for giving them airtime.  But we can blame CNN for using these survivors of a tragedy as pawns for gun control.  While we don't mean to attack the students personally, having survived such a tragedy doesn't add any validity to their calls for gun control, especially since I haven't seen any actual concrete proposals from these students.  I've just seen them call for "action."  What kind of action exactly?  Who knows — just "action."  They also want politicians to "do something."  What that something is isn't explained.  Likewise, views of the Parkland survivors who don't believe gun control is the answer aren't any more valid either, but they do exist, and CNN is not giving them airtime.  In fact, the only time CNN almost gave one of the pro-gun students a platform was at their recent town-hall event with Dana Loesch.  In that case, they wouldn't allow him to express his actual beliefs.

5 Other Times CNN Was Accused of Staging Something.  Anybody who watched CNN's town-hall meeting on gun control could easily tell the entire affair was designed to push a certain agenda.  The crowd was stacked and the viewpoint was singular in nature — ban all the guns!  The questions may have also been stacked.  Colton Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC credited with shielding students during the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, accused CNN of scripting questions for students.  Haab even went so far as to name the producer who told him to "stick to the script."  "Originally, I had thought that it was going to be more of my own question and my own say.  And then it turned out to be more of just a script," he said.  "And [the producer] had actually said that over the phone, that I needed to stick to the script."

Second person accuses CNN of trying to direct the narrative at gun town hall.  The father of a survivor of last week's school shooting in Parkland, Fla., said Thursday night [2/22/2018] that a CNN producer "insinuated" to him that the network was looking for people to interview that would "espouse a certain narrative."  Andrew Klein, whose daughter survived the school shooting, told Laura Ingraham on Fox News Thursday that he spoke to a CNN producer the day after the shooting, Feb. 15., and he took away from the conversation that they wanted to interview people that wanted to talk about the "policy implications of what happened in terms of preventing future mass shootings."

CNN Pimps Traumatized Kids To Push Politics.  Conservatives Should Boycott The Network.  Adults who prostitute traumatized teenagers to advance their political agenda should be ashamed of themselves, and those at CNN who do it should be fired. [...] Conservatives should be undeterred by this trick, rendered all the more transparent by a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student enrolled in the ROTC program, Colton Haab, who alleges that CNN told him to read a scripted question during their slanderous broadcast.  CNN is now calling that student a liar — because we must listen to the children except when what the children say is inconvenient for CNN.  Without falling into Democrats' trap and stooping to attack the ignorant teenagers themselves, conservatives should aim their criticism squarely at the craven adults who exploit them.  CNN so desperately seeks to manipulate its audience's emotions because the facts uniformly refute its gun-grabbing agenda.

Schoolboy Cameron Kasky.  The U.S. media apparatus — specifically for current events, CNN and Jake Tapper's narrative engineers — consistently indoctrinate and manipulate children.  Indeed, in the history of Fabian political advancement children have always been a focus point for advancing their authoritarian control objectives.  However, today — as with prior history, the media's ideological lust intoxicates them, and the engineers have a tendency to go too far.

CNN Fails to Disclose Former Handgun Control, Inc.  Spokesman Role of Jake Tapper, Host of CNN Parkland School Shooting Town Hall.  CNN's Jake Tapper, host of the town hall held Wednesday night in Sunrise, Florida on the February 14 Parkland school massacre worked in 1997 as a spokesman for Handgun Control, Inc., the precursor to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.  CNN and Tapper have failed to disclose Tapper's anti-gun activism in advance of the town hall.

CNN Scrambles:  Denies 'Scripted Question,' Invites Pro-Gun Student to Appear.  CNN issued a statement Thursday morning denying that it had asked a shooting survivor to ask a "scripted question" at the CNN Town Hall on guns on Wednesday evening [2/21/2018] in Sunrise, Florida.  On Wednesday evening, junior Colton Haab, a survivor of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, told local Fort Lauderdale ABC affiliate WPLG that CNN had invited him to appear at the town hall, but he had withdrawn after being asked to recite a "scripted" question.

CNN's Drew Griffin:  School Shooting Survivor Colton Haab Is Lying.  CNN's Drew Griffin explicitly accused school shooting survivor Colton Haab of lying over the student's claim that CNN wrote a question for him to recite at the far-left network's widely criticized anti-gun town hall.  On Thursday evening, President Trump tweeted out criticism of CNN's ongoing fake news crisis with a quote from Fox News's Tucker Carlson, who interviewed Haab Thursday night.  "'School shooting survivor says he quit @CNN Town Hall after refusing scripted question.' @TuckerCarlson," Trump tweeted, adding, "Just like so much of CNN, Fake News.  That's why their ratings are so bad!  MSNBC may be worse."

Colton Haab vs. CNN.  On Wednesday night CNN took up the 2018 children's crusade that is intended to produce gun control where previously there has only been left-wing frustration.  After the event, RealClear Politics posted local television video of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab. [...] Haab said he had been approached by CNN to ask a question at the event but decided not to after the network gave him a "scripted question" in lieu of one he wrote himself.  Yesterday morning [2/22/2018] CNN issued a statement to the effect "that it did not, and does not, script any questions for town hall meetings, ever."  I was surprised to see CNN disputing one of the youngsters possessing absolute moral authority, but Haab lost his immunity somewhere along the way.  Last night Tucker Carlson followed up with young Mr. Haab on FOX News.  RealClearPolitics has posted an account of the interview together with the video here.  I have embedded the video below.  Haab names a CNN name and supplies credible details supporting his claim.  He held in his hand the question he says CNN wrote for him.

CNN's Pro-Gun Control 'Children's Crusade' Exploited Grieving Students And Parents.  It's bad enough that the students of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School have been traumatized by the mass shooting by a former student that claimed 17 lives.  But gun control extremists in the media, Hollywood and Democratic Party now are exploiting them to achieve their dubious agenda of eliminating the Second Amendment.

CNN busted trying to put scripted words in mouth of hero Stoneman Douglas student at televised town hall.  CNN would be the object of humor if its behavior were not so contemptible.  Coming in the wake of its disgrace over using chyrons to proclaim President Trump a liar, giving up all pretense of objectivity, the latest scandal reveals an active propaganda effort to manufacture fake questions from real children, even from a boy hero who used his body to protect others during the shooting at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School.  The narrative favoring the Democrats takes precedence over anything faintly resembling genuine discussion of the real views of the people who were victims of the shooting.

Shooting Survivor:  CNN Gave Me "Scripted Question" After Denying Question About Armed Guards.  Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab said he was approached by CNN to ask a question at Wednesday night's town hall but decided not to after the network gave him a "scripted question," quashing one he wrote himself.  Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC shielded students while the school was under attack from the shooter, said he was going to ask about using veterans as armed security guards.  "CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted," Haab told WPLG-TV.

CNN's Chris Cuomo Caught Promoting Fake News Story About Buying AR-15 Without ID.  CNN reporter Chris Cuomo was caught sharing a 'fake news' story about a 20-year-old who was allegedly "able to buy an AR-15 in five minutes" without a valid driver's license.  Problem being, it never happened, and the author of the post, Cody Davis, even admits to it within the body of the story.  Oh, there's no doubt he's trying to convince you that he could have walked out of the store with an AR-15 in five minutes, but there's also no doubt that he definitively did not buy the gun.  In fact, he didn't even fill out the paperwork for the background check.

CNN resorts to its usual fake news hackery on Florida gun laws.  In some areas, such as Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, California, New Jerse and New York, there are are draconian gun restrictions.  Heavily burdensome.  Yet, interestingly, there are a lot of crimes that occur there that involve the use of guns.

Ted Cruz Did A 15 Minute Interview With CNN — They Aired None Of It, Then Attacked Him For Not Coming On-Air.  CNN was very upset that Republicans were not coming on their programming in the wake of the school shooting tragedy this week.  On Wednesday, a gunman opened fire at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17.  Brian Stelter — CNN's human-egg hybrid — personally whined that GOP congressmen were "scared" to come on their programming after the tragedy.  "What are they afraid of?" a CNN graphic flashed on "New Day."

Ted Cruz destroys CNN's sanctimonious Brian Stelter.  When tragedy strikes you can count on CNN's media critic/cheerleader Brian Stelter to make it all about him and his network.  The morning after the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Stelter decided to call out three Republican politicians that he and his network claimed were "afraid of" appearing on CNN.  Cruz was included in the graphic and shot back fiercely.  Stelter was left looking like a fool.

Ted Cruz Just Blew Open CNN's Blatant Lie About Him Being Too Scared To Give An Interview AGAIN.  Yesterday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) completely clowned CNN for their claim that he's too chicken to come on their network to discuss the Parkland shooting by showing them that he's demonstrated multiple times that he's not.  "Gosh," said Cruz to CNN, "I seem to recall doing not 1, not 2, but THREE town hall debates w/[Bernie Sanders] on [CNN] Each 90 min long.  You can accuse me of many things, but being afraid of CNN is not one of them...."  Regardless, CNN is continuing the narrative that Cruz is too scared to appear on the network to discuss the hard issues.  Whether this is to give off the impression that Cruz is too afraid to discuss gun control because the Parkland shooting makes him wrong about his stances, that CNN is a legitimate news network that Republicans are afraid of, or both, is anyone's guess.

CNN hires Comey fanboy to "defend" FBI.  Scott [Johnson] says James Comey may be the least self-aware man in America.  I agree.  Comey is a legend in his own mind.  Comey is also a legend in the mind of Josh Campbell, his former special assistant at the FBI.  In an op-ed for USA Today, Campbell called his former boss "a giant of a man with an even bigger heart, whose focus was always on trying to understand and improve the lives of others."  Campbell also wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in which he stated he was leaving the FBI because of "relentless attacks on the bureau."  Campbell claimed that these attacks "undermine not just America's premier law enforcement agency but also the nation's security."  Thus, he said, he "was reluctantly turning in my badge and leaving an organization I love."  (If the ability of a GS-13 FBI employee to get an op-ed published in the New York Times strikes you as odd, you are not alone.  It struck retired FBI supervisory special agent James Gagliano that way too).  CNN immediately hired Campbell as its "law enforcement analyst," a gig he no doubt had lined up before he wrote his sanctimonious New York Times piece.

Jim Acosta Spreads Fake News, Tries to Correct It Unobserved.  Embattled, anti-Trump CNN reporter Jim Acosta went and contradicted his own previous reporting on Andrew McCabe Monday [1/29/2018].  Reports came out across various news organizations that FBI deputy director McCabe was stepping down from his position, months ahead of his planned exit.

CNN's Jim Acosta Spreads FAKE News About McCabe Stepping Down As FBI Deputy Director.  [Scroll down]  Rather than issue a correction, Acosta quoted tweeted himself, attempting to make it seem as though his primary tweet was half of the story.  Acosta was swiftly busted.  "'More' is an odd way to spell 'correction,'" tweeted the Washington Free Beacon's Alex Griswold.

CNN Democrat Bought Hundreds Of Thousands Of Fake Twitter Followers.  Did you know it's possible to buy Twitter followers to make yourself look more important?  There are companies which actually provide this service for a fee.  And it turns out Hilary Rosen, a Democrat consultant who frequently appears on CNN was a customer for one of them.

CNN's Hilary Rosen Shows She Might Just Be A Lot Dumber Than You Ever Imagined.  Life can come at you pretty hard when you are a shameless hypocrite.  Yesterday [1/27/2018], "Democrat strategist" and CNN contributor Hilary Rosen was slagging on President' Donald Trump's twitter account. [...] The fact is that when you have several million followers you really can't police them unless you hire staff to do it.  People follow you for all kinds of reasons.  Some are your fans.  Some hate you and are documenting everything you say.  You can't keep bots from following you and you can't keep bots from retweeting you.  Not only is it time consuming it doesn't matter.  But there is a big difference between having bots follow you and this: [...]

CNN Has 'Lost It'.  I'm starting to worry about CNN's "mental fitness." [...] They repeat themselves with "alarming frequency."  Just try to turn on CNN and not see the word "Russia" on the screen.  That has been CNN's coverage, since Thursday [1/11/2018].  Clearly CNN has to devote hours upon hours to its favorite kind of story:  the "too good to check" kind.  Like MSNBC's Katy Tur says, "It feels true."

CNN's New Excuse For Anderson Cooper's Anti-Trump Tweet Is Absolutely Ridiculous.  Anderson Cooper and CNN came up with an absolutely hilarious explanation for a pretty vicious anti-Trump tweet posted on Wednesday on his personal Twitter feed.

Oops, CNN did it again.  CNN on Monday [12/11/2017] walked back an "exposé" on Attorney General Jeff Sessions that turns out to have exposed nothing, except maybe the network's own bias.  The original report back in May blared that Sessions hadn't listed those two meetings with Russia's ambassador on his FBI disclosure forms prior to his Senate confirmation hearings.  Now CNN admits that the FBI told Sessions not to list any of his dozens of meetings with other countries' diplomats as part of his senatorial duties.  To be fair, the May story did note the Sessions camp's claims about the FBI's guidelines.  But it also quoted a Beltway "expert" as saying that Sessions should've listed every meeting anyway.  What forced CNN to "clarify"?  A right-wing group's Freedom of Information request produced an FBI e-mail from March that proved Sessions right.

CNN Walks Back Jeff Sessions-Russia Bombshell.  CNN has quietly walked back more of their "bombshell" reporting on the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, and this time it's a story relating to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' security clearance forms.  In May, CNN reported that Sessions had failed to disclose meetings he had with the Russian ambassador when he was a senator.  Justice Department officials told CNN that Sessions had not listed those meetings on a security clearance form, even though the form says to list "any contact" with the "foreign government" or its "representatives" in the past seven years.

CNN's 'Reliable Sources' Turns Network's Colossal Screwup Into An Attack On Trump.  CNN's "Reliable Sources," hosted by Brian Stelter, bills itself as a show that provides "the story behind the story, how the media really works, and how the news really gets made."  But the show, which airs Sunday mornings, failed to live up to that billing in its discussion of its massive screwup on a CNN story about Trumpworld that the network was forced to correct on Friday [12/8/2017].  Stelter addressed CNN's blunder for a couple of minutes, offering up a brief review of the reporting of the story.  The media reporter then quoted the network's public relations department, which downplayed the scandal.

'The LEAST trusted name in news': Trump blasts CNN.  President Trump blasted CNN on Saturday over a mistake in its report which wrongly claimed his son Donald Jr. received hacked DNC files before they were made public, describing the error as 'vicious and purposeful'.  In his weekly early-morning flurry of tweets at around 8am, the president fumed:  'Fake News CNN made a vicious and purposeful mistake yesterday [12/8/2017].  'They were caught red handed, just like lonely Brian Ross at ABC News (who should be immediately fired for his "mistake").[...]'

18 Questions CNN Needs To Answer After Getting Busted For Fake News.  Early on Friday, CNN promoted its latest breathless report purporting to show collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.  CNN has been extremely invested in the narrative of collusion for the last year.  In June, CNN was forced to pull one of its Russia-Trump conspiracy stories that "did not meet CNN's editorial standards."  The discredited story was based on a single anonymous source who connected Anthony Scaramucci, a prominent ally of President Trump, to a Russian investment fund managed by a Kremlin-controlled bank.  Three journalists who worked on the story were fired.

7 Times CNN Botched The News In 2017.  CNN has had a rough 2017 and it's not even over yet.  The news network has repeatedly made key errors when breaking big stories, only to get embarrassed when the facts come to light.

Laura Ingraham Rips CNN For 'Sloppy Reporting': 'Sometimes It's Not Fake News, It's Just Wrong News'.  On Friday night [12/8/2017], Laura Ingraham slammed CNN for their botched report on Donald Trump Jr.  'Sometime it's not fake news; it's just wrong news," Ingraham began.  Earlier that morning, CNN reported that during the election, WikiLeaks gave Don Jr. accesses to hacked DNC emails before they were made public.  That report turned out to be inaccurate and was corrected in the afternoon.  The Fox News host said that the error left CNN "once again with fried egg on its face."  She then listed some of the media's mistakes, [...]

Watch CNN Trot Out Reporter Who Published Fake News To Correct His Own Fake News.  CNN made an egregious reporting error Friday [12/8/2017] on the potential connection between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks.  The story, which was touted by the network for many hours on broadcast and social media as a bombshell turned out to be factually incorrect and insignificant.  CNN's original report definitively stated that Don Jr. received access to secret Wikileaks information via email on Sept. 4, 2016.  In fact, that email was sent on Sept. 14, after the said documents were released to the public.  CNN pushed the fake story for hours, even after the email in question was made publicly available to disprove the reporting.  In a humiliating move, CNN decided to have one of the authors of the debunked story go on air to "correct" his reporting.

Yet more ammo for the 'fake news' critics.  We certainly understand the rush to be first in this business.  But the increasingly desperate attempts by an anti-Trump press to prove Russian collusion are leading to gaffes that make readers question even legitimate stories.

Another CNN "Russia Bombshell" Story Explodes in Their Faces.  Mere hours after CNN reported on an "exclusive," alleging the Trump campaign received Wikileaks information before it was public, the story came crumbling down with the Washington Post reporting that the emailed information in question was already public before being emailed to the campaign.

WaPo: CNN Misreported WikiLeaks Providing Trump Access to Email Tranche.  Earlier today [12/8/2017], CNN said that Congressional investigators obtained an email that was sent last year to President Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and other senior company officials.  The email reportedly contained tools that would allow users to get an early look at the hacked information Wikileaks released during the last months of the 2016 election.  However, Washington Post reports that CNN got the email dates wrong, and the decryption key would've only led Trump officials to information that was already publicly available.  CNN says the email was sent on September 4, though WaPo says it was sent on September 14, a day after the documents in question were released.

CNN's Awful Week:  Lies, Meltdowns, Ratings Collapse, New Discrimination Suit.  Until CNN turned into a 24/7 RedBaitingAntiTrumpFakeNewsHateMachine, the left-wing network was in second place, beating MSNBC much more often than not.  So not only has CNN lost more than half of its year-over-year viewers, it has lost its bragging rights over its left-wing counterpart at MSNBC.  And things continue to get worse, primarily through unforced errors caused by CNN's blinding hate and rabid partisanship.  Without a doubt, CNN has just suffered through its worst week since those hilarious weeks back in June when CNN staffers had to be fired over hate-sprees against President Trump, and a barrage of firings occurred after the network was caught red-handed telling one audacious lie after another.

CNN's Undisclosed Ties To Fusion GPS.  CNN's reporting on the Trump-Russia dossier has left out at least one crucial fact:  the close ties between the network and the opposition research firm at the center of the dossier controversy.  CNN's reporting on the dossier, led by justice correspondent Evan Perez, has been favorable to the firm, Fusion GPS, and hyped the dossier's credibility.  Left out of Perez's reporting, which has relied largely on unnamed sources, is his personal closeness to Fusion GPS' operatives.  Fusion has repeatedly been described in Senate testimonies as a smear-for-hire operation that manufactures misleading or false media narratives for its clients.

Report Reveals CNN's Close Ties to Trump-Smearing Firm Fusion GPS.  As more details emerge about the murky swamp that funded Fusion GPS's work on the salacious Trump dossier, a new report reveals CNN's own ties to the smear-for-hire firm.  CNN's justice correspondent Evan Perez, who has reported extensively on the Russia investigation and the Trump dossier, is close personal friends with Fusion GPS's founders, according to a report by the Daily Caller.

Three More Trump/Russia 'Bombshells' Turn Out To Be Duds.  Over the weekend, CNN offered up a shocking revelation:  Russia had enlisted Pikachu and his Pokemon pals in its effort to get Donald Trump elected president.  Well, not really.  It was just the latest nonstory whipped up by the Trump-hating press.

CNN Continues to Solidify Its Place Atop the Fake News Dung Heap.  In the ongoing battle between President Trump and the always hostile mainstream media, CNN has taken center stage as either the fight's biggest victim or its most egregious offender, depending on one's perspective.  I vote the latter. [...] This isn't journalism, it's a slander party.

CNN throws in the towel on fake Russian news.  CNN has dismantled its vaunted Trump-colluded-with-the-Russians investigative unit in a wretched concession to reality.  The only thing the unit found was an empty well for stories, surrounded by a crust of fake news.  The whole caper damaged the network's credibility, and the public just wasn't buying it anymore.  So the whole unit had to go.  What a shabby end to what the network had put so much stock in in the heady days of trying to oust President Trump just as he had taken office.

CNN Pulled Investigative Team Off Trump-Russia Coverage.  CNN executives explicitly told their investigative team to stop looking into potential ties between the Trump administration and Russia following a series of high profile reporting errors led that to the resignation of three journalists in June.  Executives transferred all reporting duties associated with the Trump-Russia narrative to CNN's Washington, D.C. team in the wake of a retracted June report, members of the CNN staff told The New York Times.  The report in question was removed from CNN's website after the network admitted it could not stand by information that tied then Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci to a Russian investment bank under Senate sanctions.

Something Very Odd In That "CNN Crew Rescuing Man in Truck" Video.  Perhaps you might have seen the story of Drew Griffin from CNN and a spontaneous, and serendipitous, CNN crew's rescue of a Texas man who drove his truck into a canal.  Kudos for CNN being in the right place at the right time and doing the right thing etc.  CNN has been playing up the video all day as an act of spontaneous CNN bravery in a moment of emergency and crisis.  High-fives and back-pats all around.  [Video clip]  Except someone noticed something weird about it.  Either there's another guy in the video and the footage makes it seem weird and conflated, or Drew Griffin had time to change clothes between the moment the man drove into the canal and the moment Griffin "rescued" him.

CNN: From Fake News to Fudging Ratings?  CNN has reacted very badly to the political rise of President Trump, promulgating fake news and presenting an echo chamber of negative commentary.  Now, the struggling news channel appears to be trying to manipulate the ratings.  Even if it's not the originator of the Fake News model that now largely defines the MSM, CNN has certainly perfected it.

CNN: 'Ordinary People Are 'White Supremacists by Default'.  On Thursday [8/24/2017], CNN's John Blake published a story blaming "ordinary people" for making Charlottesville possible, and quoting a history professor who called such people "white supremacists by default."  "We are a country with a few million passionate white supremacists — and tens of millions of white supremacists by default," Mark Naison, a political activist and history professor at Fordham University in New York City, told CNN.  "You have to have millions of people who are willing to be bystanders, who push aside evidence of racism, Islamophobia, or sexism.  You can't have one without the other."  Blake, the CNN reporter, paraphrased activists like Naison saying "the tragedy that took place in Charlottesville this month could not have occurred without the tacit acceptance of millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans who helped create such a radically explosive climate."

The Editor says...
No, all it takes is a few inflammatory cable TV  news  propaganda channels to "create such a radically explosive climate."

Provocateur Journalism.  When a news organization reports an impending weather event based on forecasts from the National Weather Service, or warns of potential seismic activity anticipated by the U.S. Geological Survey, or alerts the public concerning an infectious-disease outbreak being tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no one questions the news organization's motives, because the underlying information is factual and derived from a reliable, nonpartisan, and authoritative source.  CNN presents itself as a news organization, yet today [8/17/2017] it posted a dubious story titled "Here are all the active hate groups where you live," based entirely on data from the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The SPLC is not the equivalent of the National Weather Service, the USGS, or CDC, to put it mildly.  It is risible for CNN to recite SPLC data uncritically, with no additional validation, as a credible list of "domestic hate groups," let alone to describe SPLC's data as "widely accepted."

Charlottesville, Barcelona, and the Left's Nostalgia for Nazism.  Within minutes of the announcement of the vehicular terror attack in Barcelona, Jim Sciutto and Wolf Blitzer of CNN were opining that the horrifying events in Spain may have been inspired by (i.e. were a copycat of) Charlottesville.  The implications of this comparison are not only wrong-headed, they are reactionary and dangerous to the American public and the world. [...] It isn't because of neo-Nazis or the KKK that it's been decades since any of us has walked onto an airplane or entered a concert or museum without being examined or x-rayed, that our daily lives have not been the same.

Jim Acosta is exactly why cameras were kept out of WH briefings.  When the White House stopped allowing cameras in the press briefings, no one was more vociferous against the move than CNN's Jim Acosta.  He went on an unceasing tirade against the practice.  This week he proved why he ranted against it — and why the White House may have been smart to institute the practice.  It wasn't really about transparency.  It was about Jim Acosta being able to make the briefings about himself and not the president.  An exchange this week between Acosta and presidential adviser Stephen Miller proved why then-press secretary Sean Spicer was right to make the move.

CNN's Jim Acosta Read The Statue Of Liberty Poem, Had A Meltdown When Someone Suggested Immigrants Be Able To Read It, Too.  Jim Acosta took a rhetorical beating today [8/2/2017].  Over the past couple of months he's been one of the loudest voices grousing about the Trump administration's policy of conducting off-camera press briefings.  Listening to him, a person might have been under the impression that the First Amendment features a clause granting senior White House correspondents from CNN the right to grandstand on national TV every day.  Acosta happens to be one of the strongest arguments for keeping daily briefings off camera.  Most often these exchanges are excruciatingly uninformative, pitting dishonest administration officials against crusading journalists who offer ideological statements in the form of pretend questions.

Acosta Pulls the Media's Mask Off.  It is impossible to overstate the partisan jackassery of CNN, which is at once a product of the cynical, ratings-driven scumbaggery of its head Jeff Zucker and the pretentious liberalism of its "reporters," almost all of whom come from Democratic circles.  What an astonishing collection of frauds.  With their anchormanish baritones, they try to hoodwink viewers into thinking they are "serious" journalists.  But they are all just liberal activists playing reporters on TV.  Jake Tapper was a Dem staffer.  So was Jim Sciutto.  Christiane Amanpour, last heard lecturing journalists on the need to drop "neutrality" in its coverage of Trump, is married to former Clinton staffer James Rubin.  And the list goes on and on.  Out of this ethos came Jim Acosta, who, thanks to Trump, has justly become the face of fake news.

CNN's Jake Tapper Claims 'Every Intelligence Expert' Under Trump, Obama Affirms Russia Interference.  During yesterday's [7/23/2017] State of the Union program on CNN, host Jake Tapper wildly asserted that "every intelligence expert, both under the Obama administration and under the Trump administration" agrees with the assessment that Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.  Tapper did not explain how he concluded that "every intelligence expert, both under the Obama administration and under the Trump administration" made such an assessment.

CNN's Jake Tapper Caught Misstating His Background on Live Television.  Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor, has been caught misstating his background on live television on Sunday [7/23/2017].  During an interview with President Donald J. Trump's new White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, Tapper inflated his background to make it seem as though he was more in touch with people with working- and middle-class beginnings than he really is.

Americans Protest 'Very Fake News' CNN Outside of Atlanta Headquarters.  More than 150 protesters charged the CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia to share their disgust with the network's peddling of "fake news" against President Trump's administration.

How CNN took on President Trump and lost.  [Scroll down]  [Jeff] Zucker was not a journalism guy, but he understood numbers.  He lived and died by them.  His philosophy at CNN was to stay on anything that its viewers were watching whether it was a missing Malaysian plane or Trump.  CNN's old strategy of "flooding the zone" with meaningless non-coverage of a breaking event was merged with Zucker's own preference for reality television to create a constant coverage circus.  Hiring a ton of reporters from across the spectrum, from a New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner to the BuzzFeed trolls, would flood the zone with Trump scandals.  CNN would have the most Trump scandals and the most viewers.  It was a great strategy for manufacturing a whole bunch of fake news scandals.  And things that don't even qualify as fake news.  Like wondering whether Trump is afraid of stairs.

Legal Experts:  CNN Committed Multiple Felonies.  So arrogant and self-righteous have liberal news outlets become, that they now take it upon themselves to hunt down and blackmail private citizens who dare to mock theor pomposity or make fun of the elf-appointed hall monitors of news.  Blackmail is a harsh term, but it applies to what CNN did to the Reddit user who made the now infamous wrestling GIF showing Trump pummeling an opponent with a CNN logo for a head.

Thanks CNN! Worst media moments of the week.  Being biased is one thing.  Threatening online anonymity another.  That led to even The New York Times trying to explain how such online battles evolve.  "Remarkably, the CNN episode has managed to unite the notoriously fractious right-wing meme community under a common cause."  Posters have revealed home addresses and more from several CNN staffers in response and have claimed they will keep fighting.  The network probably wishes the whole thing would just go away.  The online community isn't likely to let that happen.

The Long List of Lies.  Would it be possible to list all the lies CNN tells?  The network fed questions to Hillary Clinton prior to debates.  And that was when Clinton was fighting Bernie "I'm a Loser" Sanders.  She still couldn't get by that imbecile without cheating.  Next, CNN twisted polls to make the Clinton camp believe Hillary Clinton was a rock star.  That didn't end well.  More recently, CNN buried the truth of terror attacks, hiding their Muslim connection.  In one such incident, the attacker was Muslim, shouted, "Allahu akbar," yet CNN called the guy a Canadian and buried the story under a piece about The Bachelor.

CNN Admits in 30th Paragraph that Trump was Right about Intel Agencies' Assessment on Russia.  CNN, far from a neutral news source, wrote a very long piece on President Trump's relationship with the country's intelligence agencies.  However, they buried the truth that the liberal media overestimated how many intelligence agencies believed the Russian government meddled in the 2016 election.  Where did they admit the truth?  In the 3oth and 31st paragraphs.

CNN's Zucker doesn't know his Dumpster's on fire.  CNN is a Dumpster on fire, but its boss is clueless.  Jeff Zucker's background is broadcast TV, a world of sitcoms, dramas, and reality shows.  He fails to realize that what he saw as small mistakes — the Russian dossier story, the false preview of Comey's testimony, and the retracted story about Scaramucci being investigated — were major problems.  None of CNN's competitors on TV had even one Fake News scandal that large.  CNN had three.

CNNBlackmail Is the Best Thing Since Trump Got Elected.  [T]he left isn't interested in logic and facts — and hasn't been for quite some time.  That was what James O'Keefe recently uncovered — not that we couldn't have guessed anyway — with his recent sting on CNN.  Here is an organization which affects the demeanor of a responsible, politically-neutral, internationally-respected news outlet with reporters and newscasters who look exactly like real ones on grown up TV channels.  But underneath, its entire raison d'etre and business model is churning out leftist fake news propaganda.  If conservative media outlets like Breitbart took the same liberties with the truth as leftist media outlets like CNN (and Vox and Slate and Salon and Huffpost and the rest...) they would be crucified.

A Weeks Worth of CNN's Russian Narrative Destroyed in a Minute.  For an entire week CNN has been running an ongoing story, based on a single source, about President Trump not going to confront Vladimir Putin about interference in the 2016 election.

CNN's Jim Acosta Busted for Fake News in Failed Attempt to Slam Trump.  NN's Jim Acosta accused President Donald Trump of "fake news" on Thursday for claiming that "three of four" intelligence agencies had identified Russia as the culprit in hacking during the 2016 presidential election — but the president was right, and Acosta was wrong.  Last week, the New York Times was forced to issue a correction, admitting that "17 intelligence agencies" had not, in fact, accused Russia, as Hillary Clinton had once claimed.

CNN sees its TV viewers in June collapse after having its "fake news" propaganda exposed.  The media giant saw its viewership numbers take a big hit in June after having its "fake news" reporting exposed in a variety of scandals, from Project Veritas videos, to made up Russia-collusion news, and even Trump body slamming the network via twitter.

CNN Threatens To Expose Non Compliant Citizen for Thinking Wrong Thoughts.  In an article identifying the originating source of the wrestling gif tweeted last week by President Donald Trump, CNN says they'll keep his name private so long as the person remains compliant to the media thought police.  The direct threat is:  "CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change." [...] Got that comrades?  Failure to remain a compliant citizen may render you subject to targeting by CNN corporate media.  Worth remembering.  CNN has instituted a multi-level corporate approval process for all media articles.  That means everyone within the media organization from top tier executives through legal departments and editors approved of this statement.

Media errors give Trump fresh ammunition.  A string of high-profile corrections and retractions by major news organizations on stories about President Trump or his allies have fueled more allegations of bias in the mainstream press.  The relationship between Trump and the news media regularly hits new lows, with insults flying between the two camps and reporters warning that the president is inciting violence against journalists.  But Trump's allies on the right believe the president's claims that the mainstream media is "fake news" have been bolstered by recent missteps.  They point to recent admissions from top news outlets — including CNN, the New York Times and the Associated Press — that bombshell stories were either overcooked or included incorrect details.

CNN's Fake News Machine.  In April, media types were crowing that CNN had brought in Eric Lichtblau who had been, in the Washington Post's words, at "the forefront of the New York Times's reporting on the relationship between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia."  It was "an investment in investigative reporting and the sprawling Russia story".  It didn't take long for the investigative investment to sprawl badly.  Lichtblau has resigned from CNN in a growing scandal over a Fake News story about a Trump associate.  "Eric will guide our coverage and thinking," Lex Haris, executive editor of CNN Investigates, had boasted.  "And when he's onto a investigation, he'll still be reporting and writing too."  Not for long.  And Haris has joined Lichtblau on the unemployment line after the Fake News scandal.

Associated Press Engulfed in CNN-Level Scandal as It Covers Up Invention of Imaginary Pruitt Meeting.  A Breitbart News investigation has led to the correction by the Associated Press — which originally resisted — of the fake news it printed as deeper questions of responsibility, accountability, and journalistic ethics consume the AP heading into Fourth of July weekend.  This time, the Associated Press invented an imaginary meeting between EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, and then alleged that some kind of impropriety happened as a result.

CNN screws up — again.  We're told CNN flew into a panic on Friday [6/30/2017] after it accidentally aired a fake National Enquirer cover during Jake Tapper's broadcast.  Tapper did a segment on his "The Lead" show about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's claim that Donald Trump tried to blackmail them with a hit piece in the National Enquirer.  During the piece, it showed a cover from the tabloid, which seemed to be about a scandal involving GOP senator Ted Cruz and his wife, Heidi Cruz.  Unfortunately, the cover is — literally — fake news.  The cover — which has the headline "Heidi Cruz:  Betrayed by Cheating Husband!" and promised details on a "sordid threesome, sleazy love letters and sensational photo proof — has never appeared on the National Enquirer, according to sources at the magazine.

Seniors Group Files FCC Complaint Against Very Fake News CNN.  The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC), the leading conservative seniors' organization in the country, filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Thursday [6/29/2017] over CNN's reporting on Russian hacking.  In the light of hidden camera videos from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas showing a CNN producer calling the narrative "bulls***," and CNN Contributor Van Jones's characterization of the Russia "collusion" story as a "nothing burger," AMAC has brought a complaint under FCC regulations against the knowing broadcast of false information.

CNN's Latest Retraction Is Just the Tip of the Fake News Iceberg.  Even the best reporters make serious mistakes.  When that happens, as it will, it's best to take responsibility and move on, as CNN did in this case.  Certainly this decisive action taken in response to a serious problem is a great start.  But taking responsibility for just one of the many flawed stories CNN has been pushing is nowhere near sufficient a response to the institutional problems plaguing the media outlet.  The serious problems with CNN's approach to the Russia-Trump collusion conspiracy are much deeper than just one story, go back many months, and involve several stories and larger themes that no one at CNN has bothered to sufficiently explain.  Let's look at a few of those stories.

The coming crash of the lawless media.  Sniping and rock-throwing at Donald Trump, a game that any number can play and nearly everybody does, has become a game with no rules and no referees, and worse, no editors to restrain obstreperous children breaking up the furniture.  CNN, once a fairly reliable source of news, with a weakness for trivia and given to peddling old news as the new thing, is now an inviting target for imaginative libel lawyers.  Three of its most prominent editors and "producers" were sacked this week after the network was forced to retract and apologize for a story it made up about a condant of President Trump, that he and his hedge fund was being investigated by the U.S. Senate for colluding with the Russians for nefarious purpose.

Joe Scarborough Calls President Trump 'Greatest Liar That's Ever Sat In The White House'.  MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski bashed President Donald Trump Wednesday, calling him worse than former President Richard Nixon and the "greatest liar that's ever sat in the white house."  Scarborough played a clip of Brian Karem, executive editor of The Sentinel Newspapers, at Tuesday's [6/27/2017] White House briefing challenging Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, saying her criticism of the media was inflaming the American people.  Sanders responded at the briefing by citing a debunked Washington Post story stating reporters were not being thorough enough in their critiques of the president.

The Editor says...
Mr. Scarborough should spend some time reading my partial catalog of Obama's lies.

CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story.  The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump's — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The [New York] Post has learned.  The cable network's coverage of Trump transition-team member Anthony Scaramucci came amid federal scrutiny of corporate parent Time Warner's pending purchase by AT&T — and the widespread belief among media execs that CNN President Jeff Zucker can't survive a merger.  CNN immediately caved after Scaramucci, a financier and frequent network guest, cried foul and threatened to take legal action, sources said Tuesday.

CNN Just Got Hit by a Massive Truth Bomb — The Facts of Life Are Conservative.  As a fellow human being I feel sorry for the poor guy caught on camera by Project Veritas admitting this stuff — because he's probably going to lose his job.  But [...] It just seems to me that one of the most basic, entry-level precepts that any serious news organization ought to be observe — and that CNN most patently never has observed, or not for a very, very long time — is this:  Facts are sacred.  The truth always makes the best story.

CNN Producer Admits Witch Hunt Against Trump.  CNN producer John Bonifield made the brazen admission of the network's absence of journalistic bona fides to an undercover reporter from ACORN-slayer James O'Keefe's investigative nonprofit, Project Veritas.  "He not only gave us a tour of CNN's main newsroom, he gave us a window into the editorial bias and anti-Trump agenda of the organization," O'Keefe says as he narrates the video.  Project Veritas is touting the video as the first installment in a multi-part investigation