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David Frum Describes How the Biases of Mainstream Media Pundits Benefit Trump
“The worse he does, the more eagerly the pundit seeks something to praise. We’ve all experienced this. ‘There has to be something good to say about Trump.'”
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Mainstream Media Ignores Majority Vote Against Trump By Hiring More Pro-Trump Commentators
54% of voters voted against Trump, so the mainstream media’s answer to the majority rejecting the president-elect is to try to hire more pro-Trump commentators.
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Trump Surrogate Jeffrey Lord Tells CNN Black Lives Matter to Blame for Nazis
“The left, whether it’s Black Lives Matter or La Raza…Groups that identify themselves by race provoked this group to identify by race”
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Maybe Now the Media Will Do Its Job After Helping Elect Trump
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
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Paul Krugman Scolds the Media – Demands They Do Their Job
Reporting that doesn’t accurately reflect the huge honesty gap between the candidates misleads readers, giving them a distorted picture that favors the biggest liar.”
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Bumbling Donald Trump Provokes Mainstream Media into Calling Out His Birther Lies
Donald Trump has been called, and Paul Krugman says, “I suspect Donald Trump is feeling a bit sandbagged right now.”
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Only In a Patriarchy Is Anthony Weiner’s Sexting Is a Presidential Campaign Issue
Claiming a woman can be held accountable for a man’s indiscretions, and that they are “not off limits” in a campaign is beyond irresponsible.
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Trump Claims ‘Media Pile on Against Me…Worst in American Political History’
“It is being reported by virtually everyone, and is a fact, that the media pile on against me is the worst in American political history!”
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More Trouble for GOP as Mainstream Media Debates Trump’s Mental Health
Reactions to an American president who not only says but does things from a position of apparent insanity, can never mean good things for the United States
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Trump Says ‘No Big Deal!’ But Cruz Just Kicked the Rotting Corpse of the Republican Party
To turn one of the GOP’s favorite misogynist tropes around on them, what did Trump think was going to happen?
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The Republican Plan to Defeat the Islamic State is More Empty Bluster
The Republicans are whining a lot about the president’s address Sunday night, but they’re not offering useful ideas, just whine and bluster
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Times Editorial Mocks ‘Daffy’ Republican Debate Demands While NBC Grabs its Ankles
The response of the mainstream media to Republican debate demands is varied, from the Times’ mocking to NBC’s offer to make grab their ankles
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Paul Ryan To Spew More of the Same Old on Five Sunday News Shows
“We are wiping the slate clean,” we are told by Paul Ryan, which means the same “screw America” agenda advanced by a new face
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Ivanka Trump Excuses Her Father’s Racism by Saying He is “Very Blunt”
What Ivanka needs to realize is that it is not that her father is blunt, but that the content of his speech is both racist and misogynist
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Millions Of Dollars In Ads Backfire As Jeb Bush Sinks In New Hampshire Polls
After a 4.8 million dollar Pro-Bush ad blitz in New Hampshire, Jeb’s polling numbers have moved in the wrong direction, dipping 0.3 percent.
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CBS News Only Mainstream Media Outlet Sunday to Ignore Benghazi Whistleblower Podliska
Everyone ought to be talking about Major Bradley Podliska, and everyone did Sunday, except for CBS News, which preferred Donald Trump lies
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Gallup: Americans’ Trust in Media Remains at Historical Low
Americans’ trust in mass media has been falling since 2004 and this year “ties the historical lows on this measure set in 2014 and 2012.”
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The Media Tries To Write Trump’s Political Obituary, But He Refuses To Go Away
Despite the media’s attempt to spin it as a fatal blow, Trump’s feud with Fox’s Megyn Kelly has not hurt him with Republican voters.
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Election 2016 – The Attack of the Republican Clones
Too much can be made of the plethora of Republican candidates for 2016 – after all, they are all virtually clones of one another
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Fox News Claims Hillary Less Ethical, But Public Gives Her High Ratings on Every Issue
Fox News seems to want to wish away Hillary Clinton, but even their numbers cannot disguise that the public still approves of Hillary Clinton
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Senate No-Show Cruz Criticizes Evangelicals Who Didn’t Show in 2008 and 2012
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
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While Israelis Terrorize Christians, Evangelicals Accuse Obama Of Persecuting Christ
What the evangelical right never, never ever, talks about is the persecution, barbarism, and hatred targeting Christians at the hands of Israeli Jews in the Holy Land and it leads one to wonder if America’s neo-Christians are using President Obama as a surrogate for the Israelis targeting Christians for persecution.
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Fox News And NY Times Cut Deal With Dishonest Conservative Author For Dirt On Hillary
Fox News and The NY Times have entered into agreements with Peter Schweizer to push the theme from his anti-Hillary book in their coverage.
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Sean Hannity Helps Rand Paul Find Excuses For the Things He Used to Believe
Ah, the comforting embrace of Sean Hannity, where “that was then” is answer enough to questions about issues that affect millions
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MSNBC Isn’t Even Trying to be Honest Anymore
When MSNBC does not advertise that it is giving air time to members of an infamous hate group, it’s time for viewers to reconsider their network
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Friday Fox Follies – Do Ratings Equal Truth?
According to a recent headline, Fox News is the most watched cable news channel – for the 159th month in a row, which makes 13 years, 3 months of ratings dominence. Cue the balloon drop and confetti cannons. Whoop-dee-doo!
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Michigan Republican Says Schools Should be a Ministry of the Church
When Pink Floyd sang that “we don’t need no education,” I don’t think church ministries are what they had in mind.
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Does Ted Cruz Actually Think He Can Win in 2016?
“I am running for president and I hope to earn your support,” Ted Cruz tweeted last night. Does he really think he can get it?
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No, Nancy Pelosi’s Trip to Syria Was Nothing Like “Tehran Tom’s” Iran Letter
Attempts to link Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria with Cotton’s Iran letter, fail, as Pelosi was even briefed by the White House before she went
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Scandal? Use of Private Email is Pervasive Among 2016 Hopefuls
It turns abouta whole slew of Republicans looking at the White House in 2016 has used private emails for government business
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5 Big Whoppers from Speaker Boehner
Unwilling to do anything to help Americans, John Boehner concocts some more self-serving lies to blame Obama for his own failings
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The Mainstream Media Sides With Fox News By Refusing To Investigate Bill O’Reilly’s War Lies
The media is doing their best to avoid examining Bill O’Reilly’s claims that he was on the ground in combat in a war zone when he was actually in Buenos Aires.
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Bill O’Reilly Whines About “Overwhelmingly Liberal” Media Praising Departing Jon Stewart
During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly got bent out of shape over the amount of praise Jon Stewart has received from national media figures since The Daily Show host announced he is departing at the end of the year.
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Jon Stewart Uses Brian Williams Fiasco To Call Out Media For Accepting Bush’s Iraq War Lies
During Monday night’s broadcast of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart addressed the recent revelation that NBC News anchor Brian Williams had made false claims about taking rocket fire during a helicopter ride in Iraq in 2003.
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John Boehner Falsely Claims House Focused Squarely on Jobs and the Economy
John Boehner continues to pretend he cares about jobs while pushing his Keystone XL get rich quick scheme on the American people
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Bryan Fischer Fired, but Jews Still Lack First Amendment Rights, Says AFA
The GOP has tied itself to a hate group – the AFA – which insists America is for Chrisitans only and Jews don’t have First Amendment rights
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Bill O’Reilly Agrees With David Duke That Media Is “Sympathetic For The Left” On Race Issues
During Monday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed former KKK leader David Duke regarding the recent controversy surrounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaking at a white supremacist conference in 2002.
CNN Suddenly Seems to Notice Republican Reliance on Religious Right
CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, “The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary.” Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial…
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MSNBC and Joe Scarborough Aspire To Be As Racist As Fox News
Scarborough’s version of the story bared no resemblance to the truth, but that is precisely what one expects from “Fox News lite” (MSNBC).
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Immigration and the Shoddy Pretense of Journalism that is CNN
In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves
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Latest Obamacare Scandal is Just More Republican Hypocrisy and Lies
Media Matters went to the trouble of exposing the GOP’s latest Obamacare scandal on Thursday, three days before CNN made a big deal bout it
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The Mainstream Media is Culpable in the Murder of American Democracy
Democrats are now people who can have our heads held under water until we stop breathing, who can be “made to squeal,” not like pigs and the media will remain silent
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The Likes of Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Leave America a Bleaker Place This Morning
We are the victims of voter suppression and intimidation. Our votes were overridden with dark money and corporate-funded propaganda
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Chris Christie Acts Like Schoolyard Bully To Quarantined Nurse By Daring Her To Sue Him
While out on the road campaigning Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Dismissed reporters’ questions about a potential lawsuit regarding Christie’s order to forcibly quarantine a nurse who had recently returned from West Africa.
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For the Love of America, Ignore Republican Fear-Mongering and Vote
Not believing in reality doesn’t make you immune to it. Republicans will just blame the nearest Democrat, but all of us will have to deal with the fall-out
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Change Is Coming: Ferguson Sees Huge Surge In Voter Registration Since Michael Brown’s Death
USA Today reported on Thursday that the town of Ferguson has seen a huge surge in voter registration since the August 9th death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
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For Republicans ISIL is Only an Excuse to Attack Our President
The suspicion that Republicans are far more horrified by a black president than Islamic terrorists is borne out by the rhetoric
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ISIL and the Limits of the Republican Alternate Reality Bubble
The U.S. must tread carefully in Iraq. The GOP’s reality bubble will not protect them – or the rest of us – from real world, as opposed to fantasy, consequences
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Gallup: Republicans Better Able to Defend Against Terrorism, Keep America Prosperous
The GOP has been able to destroy this country while getting Americans to willingly participate in their own demise with flag-waving and cheers
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For Fox News, a Tired Old Hoax Trumps Obama Outperforming Reagan
Where does a strong economy get you when you’re a black president and outperform Reagan on job creation? It gets you to Benghazi.
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The Media Embarrasses Itself by Treating the Lying Bush Bumblers Like Iraq War Experts
America’s mainstream media is as apt to repeat failures as conservatives likely due to the symbiotic relationship between corporate media and the conservative movement.
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Plea To The Mainstream Media — Can You Please Cut Off John McCain’s Mic?
On Friday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on five different cable news shows to discuss the recent flare up of sectarian violence in Iraq and directly blame it all on President Obama and his administration.
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While Talking About Right Wing Extremism in Europe, Let’s Not Forget Our Own
The mainstream media loves to talk about right wing extremism in Europe while ignoring our own, who are more a threat to us than al Qaeda
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The Republican Party Has Institutionalized Dishonesty
The Republican Party has made dishonesty an art-form, lying about everything from Obamacare to Benghazi, from the economy to prisoner exchanges
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Operation American Spring Rallies a Few Hundred Lunatics at Most
Protesters has no problem finding places to sit on the capital mall while they try to wish Obama away
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Tom Perkins Is Wrong – Germany’s 1 Percent Were Hitler’s Allies, Not his Victims
Venture capitalist Tom Perkins would have you believe America’s 1 percent are yesterday’s Jews but nothing could be further from the truth
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The Media Needs to Talk Less About What Obama Can Do and More About Why Republicans Won’t Do
Since when was it ever the intention of the U.S. Constitution that one branch should be able to not balance another, but to nullify it?
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Republicans Insist al Qaeda Behind Benghazi Attack Because all Terrorists are al Qaeda
The Republicans insist that because pretty much any Islamic terrorist you care to name is al Qaeda that al Qaeda was behind the Benghazi attack
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The Religious Right Champions Moral Relativism in Defense of Phil Robertson
All this fuss about Phil Robertson comes down to the Religious Right’s insistence that they have a right to say nobody else has rights
USA Today/Pew Poll Shows Democrats With Advantage in 2014 Elections
A new poll released on Friday by USA Today and Pew Research shows that voters prefer Democrats to Republicans in a generic Congressional vote.
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Time Re-Validates Humanity By Choosing Pope Francis Over Ted Cruz as Their Person of the Year
Time Magazine named the Pope their Person of the Year, with Ted Cruz as first runner up. Under their criteria the person of the year is “the person who most influenced the news, good or bad.” By this criteria, the Pontiff was the obvious choice.
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NBC/WSJ Poll Shows Majority of People Reject the Republican Party and Their Views
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.
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Republicans Hate Getting What They Wanted When They No Longer Want It
There are a bunch of Republicans besides McConnell who, when Bush was president, said they’d never, ever filibuster a nominee.
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The GOP is Unrepentantly Evil and This is Why
They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and let us die when we get too sick to be of any further use for them.
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Rand Paul is Dishonest and Lacks Integrity
It would have been bad enough if he’d pulled a Bachmann and claimed “urban legend!” but shooting people for telling the truth?
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The GOP’s Benghazi Hoax Exposed
The Republican Party refuses to let go of their manufactured Benghazi scandal narrative. We saw just the other day that a Benghazi “witness” featured on 60 Minutes was in fact nowhere near the U.S. compound when terrorists attacked. Yet the GOP insists the testimony of this non-existent witness justifies further hearings on the subject. Have…
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Left-Leaning American Majority Sees Views Consistently Ignored
The mistakes legislators make tend to fall in one direction, giving U.S. politics a rightward tilt compared to what most voters say they want
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CNN Makes Man Made Global Warming Front Page News
A UN report coming out Monday reveals that world climate scientists are 95 percent confident that we humans are causing global warming
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Hey Mainstream Media – Pay as Much Attention to Republicans as to Miley Cyrus
I find it an indictment of our mainstream media that Miley Cyrus at the VMAs can attract such outraged responses, but Republican politicians, behaving in a much more outrageous fashion get a free pass
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Limbaugh Says GOP Wants New Base and that Obama Likes Scandals
Rush Limbaugh told Greta Van Susteren that the GOP hates the Tea Party and the Tea Party, feeling rejected, stayed home and didn’t vote.
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Joseph Farah Laments Fox News’ Liberal Biases
Joseph Farah wishes to point out that useful as Fox News is, it isn’t WND, the home of wingnut excess.
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Republican Rep. Tom Price Says Obama No Longer has Consent of the Governed
What Price means by “the governed” is “angry white people” like himself who have sold their souls to the ravenous corporations seeking to replace the federal government
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Obama Impeachment and the Republican Presidential Shoe Shine Boy Fantasy
The truth behind the calls for impeachment is that Republicans won’t be happy until President Barack Obama is reduced to shining their shoes.
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Embarrassed Yet? Will the Media Now Apologize for Helping to Destroy ACORN?
O’Keefe has to pay a former ACORN employee $100,000 for secretly recording him and making a deceptive video. In light of this, will the media finally apologize for helping to destroy ACORN?
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The Media Missed Model Cameron Russell’s Point in Her TEDx Talk
In Victoria Secret model Cameron Russell’s TedX talk, she discussed winning the ‘genetic lottery’ and the privileges afforded to her purely because of her looks, including white privilege.
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Things I am Grateful for in 2012
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
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How the Pax Americana is to Blame for Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
Israel could not have attacked Gaza without the tacit consent of the American government, which persists in seeing Israel as the victim
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Mourdock Loses Ground in Senate Race But GOP Party of Rape Not Even Close to Getting It
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
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Rachel Maddow On Romney’s Lies, ‘It’s a Character Issue, and I find it Disqualifying’
Rachel Maddow believes Mitt Romney isn’t fit to be president. While talking about his lies and shifting policies she said, ‘It’s a character issue, and I find it disqualifying.’
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Bryan Fischer, Kicked off CNN for Lying, Reacts like Childish Buffoon
Bryan Fischer appeared on CNN this week to share his hateful and dishonest spew but ran into a host who was having none of it
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Romney Won! The Debate is Over and the Spin Begins
The mainstream media was quick to proclaim a Romney victory afer last night’s debate, but who really won remains to be seen
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Obama is Now Crushing Romney 75%-21% With Latinos
According to a new CNN poll, President Obama is expanding his already huge lead with Latino voters. Among all Latino voters, Obama leads Romney 75%-21%.
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Romney and Mainstream Media Try to Silence Nate Silver’s Obama Victory Projections
The Romney campaign sent out a rather breathless memo this morning warning the press to not get too worked up about the latest polling and Nate Silver is being admonished to ‘wait’.
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Two Pictures Shatter the Mainstream Media Myth of an ‘Obama Enthusiasm Gap’
Want to see just how wrong the mainstream media is about the ‘Obama enthusiasm gap’? Check out these pictures of thousands of fired up Floridians at today’s Obama rally in St. Petersburg.
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The Republican Party Turns the Page on Truth – And the Media Helps
The Republican National Convention set new records – and lows – for blatant dishonesty and the mainstream media makes it all possible
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Elizabeth Warren a Communist Because She Supports Everything Conservatives Hate
Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate
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Rachel Maddow Challenges the Mainstream Media to Do Their Jobs
In the face of a mounting daily barrage of Romney and GOP falsehoods, Rachel Maddow has challenged the mainstream media to do their jobs.
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CBN News Claims Media Matters is anti-Christian
In a world where saying “Happy Holidays!” makes you guilty of waging a war on Christmas, telling the truth about media bias means you’re anti-Christian!