The corporate media has fallen for it again, as a new poll from The Wall Street Journal that shows Trump leading Biden in six of seven swing states was paid for by Rupert Murdoch and conducted by Trump’s pollster.
They aren’t dumping Trumpism, just Trump. Indeed, what some pundits have termed Trumpism is really just what mainstream Republican politics have been for decades.
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal responded to former President Donald Trump after he criticized their coverage of him and his administration. The Journal, one of the more conservative nationally syndicated publications, said Trump is to blame for Republicans losing their Senate majority in the most recent election. “He cost the GOP two Georgia…
Watching the senate, under the callous and inhumane rule of Mitch McConnell, fail to respond sufficiently and urgently to the dire suffering and needs of out-of-work Americans, largely denying their reality, brought to mind a scene from American author William Dean Howells’ 1890 novel A Hazard of New Fortunes. Howells narrates in the novel the…
The reliably conservative Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board criticized President Donald Trump in an editorial this morning, calling his murder allegations against former congressman and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough “ugly even for him.” “Donald Trump sometimes traffics in conspiracy theories — recall his innuendo in 2016 about Ted Cruz’s father and the JFK assassination — but…
The conservative assault on women’s basic human rights just doesn’t stop. And just as the GOP hired Arizona-based sex-crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to serve as a kind of figleaf to cover the obscene nakedness of their shameful misogyny, we also see Republican-aligned women coming out in full force to play an identity-politics game geared toward…
On Sunday we reported that “Trump’s trade war is hitting the agricultural Midwest hard as farmers in eight of the top ten soybean producing states that voted for Trump are going to be looking at bankruptcy as they are already being hurt by Trump’s trade war with China.†We also said that Trump’s trade war…
Celebrants of the recent tax bill have claimed, echoing Trump’s top economic advisors, that the massive corporate tax cut will indeed trickle down or, to mix metaphors, serve as the proverbial rising tide that will lift all boats. CNBC’s Patti Domm was quick to validate this exuberant claim, pointing to announcements from Wells Fargo and…
A number of the president’s lawyers wanted Kushner out, worrying that he would become a legal liability as the special counsel investigation intensified.
As the GOP-controlled government continues to wage war on middle-class Americans, this number will likely get worse.
“The President clings” to his false wiretapping claims “like a drunk to an empty gin bottle,” say the editors of the Wall Street Journal
“I’d be careful about using the word ‘lie.’ ‘Lie’ implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead.â€
“Donald Trump promised to change Washington’s culture of self-dealing, and if he wants to succeed he’s going to have to make a sacrifice and lead by example.”
F.B.I. directors are supposed to be above politics, not in them. Mr. Comey has to do the right thing – resign.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus claimed President Obama “secretly gave the Iranians $400M at the same time 4 Americans were released from their custody†and linked to a Wall Street Journal story that has the right up in arms this fine Wednesday morning. This, of course, is false.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Clinton is close to choosing the Spanish-speaking Virginia senator.
Despite all the evidence he is 100% correct about the connection between climate change and terrorism, Noonan thinks Sanders sounds “daffy”
The Koch brothers have no right to complain about the tone of Republican politics because it is exactly what they paid for and wanted
WSJ economists are fearful that Republicans will repeat their past “serious damage to the economy by harming consumer confidence”
It turns out that not only are Americans not the least bit enamored at the prospect of an evangelical fanatic as president, they are, by a large majority (61%), much more supportive of a gay or lesbian occupying the White House than a religious Republican seeking to rule according to Christianity.
Republicans and the media are accusing President Obama of being forced to apologize for the deaths of two Americans who were killed in a US drone strike, but the reality is that it was the White House who gave the scoop to the media.
A solid majority of Americans oppose discrimination against gays and lesbians, even if it is based on religious beliefs.
Billionaire Donald Trump has formed an exploratory committee and hired staff for a 2016 presidential run.
In yet another senseless gun episode, a highly respected, accomplished and beloved professor, Raja Fayad, was shot to death on campus on the afternoon of Thursday, February 5, 2015.
The GOP is poised for an epic clash of plutocrats that is likely to split establishment donors and benefit the Tea Party
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
In Republican vernacular, returning to the “old ways” is “taking our country back;” but back to what? If the subject is the economy, it is back to Bush-era economic policies that are wildly popular with conservative mainstream media, but still not austere and severe enough for the Koch brothers.
Ohio Governor John Kasich spent his Monday night calling up different media outlets after the Associated Press ran an article where he was quoted as heaping praise on the Affordable Care Act and stating that the law will not be repealed.
McConnell is anxious to lead the Senate and join House Republicans in enacting Brownback’s Koch brother model at the national level.
Led by Fox News (again), the mainstream media’s reaction to Obama’s admission of American intel failures has become the latest Benghazi hoax
The one thing you will never hear mentioned by Fox News is SOFA. It gets in the way of their Obama is to blame for ISIL narrative
On Tuesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz, appeared on The Rush Limbaugh Show to discuss Iraq and basically trash the President. All three people claimed that Obama is hurting America on purpose.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday to discuss the recent violence in Iraq, as well as his infamous op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he claimed that President Obama is directly responsible for the chaos in Iraq and the Middle East.
In a recent op-ed, Rupert Murdoch made a case for comprehensive immigration reform. However, due to is own Fox News network, that possibility does not seem likely.
Dick Cheney, along with his daughter Liz, penned an unbelievable piece of retcon tripe for the Wall Street Journal where they claimed that Obama lost the war that was already won, while at the same time positioning Dick Cheney as a hero.
Oh, how they hate Obama. I mean ‘hate’ with a capital “H.” We’re talking about most of the world’s population. I know this animus to be true because the right wing echo chamber led by wildly overpaid, radical talk show hosts, Fox News, and pollsters tell me so, relentlessly.
During Thursday’s broadcast of Morning Joe, the panel, which included former Democratic Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean, discussed President Obama’s commencement speech at West Point earlier this week. I
There is no place better for conservatives to wrap themselves up in self-denial and make up stuff than Fox News Sunday. Discussions around climate change are no exception.
Boeing celebrated the new year by claiming a major victory over the Machinists Union. By a 51% plurality, workers chose to OK a bad deal.
Friday the 13th was a very unlucky day for Chris Christie. So unlucky, in fact, that it might cost him a chance at the presidency.
While the media will focus on the President’s disapproval ratings showing as an all-time high in this poll (54%), the real story here is that, for the most part, this poll shows that the American people are still rejecting the Republican Party and its ideals.
Rich people should talk more openly, more often. It would make a progressive agenda a whole lot more achievable.
It would be great if Rand Paul was truly against the harming of innocent Americans, but his track record against women and the civil rights movement suggests otherwise.
There’s good news for liberty on this 40th anniversary of Roe V Wade. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans support a woman as having the right to make her own medical decisions.
Today on Bloomberg News, Al Hunt called Mitt Romney’s GM and Chrysler lies desperate and dishonest. The word fraudulent was also used.
Romney jumped the lie shark with his new ad. The press is not impressed and they are calling Romney out on it. Here’s a roundup of reaction.
On the eve of the second presidential debate, Anderson Cooper took down Mitt Romney’s false claims about the six studies he claims support his secret tax plan.
The Republican National Convention set new records – and lows – for blatant dishonesty and the mainstream media makes it all possible
Buried in the latest results of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is an 18 point swing in economic optimism for President Obama.
The right is heralding Paul Ryan as a policy wonk, but a closer look at his ideas and where they come from reveals that he is anything but.
Remember when President Obama said the private sector is doing fine, and all the conservatives poked at that comment? Well, now even two major conservative publications are saying the same thing!
