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Americans’ Confidence in Newspapers Hits an All-Time Low
June 16th, 2016By Don Irvine.
A new poll by Gallup shows that Americans who express confidence in newspapers as a U.S. institution has dwindled to an all-time low of just 20%.
This marks “the 10th consecutive year that more Americans show little or no, rather than high, confidence” in newspapers. At its peak, 37% expressed high confidence. Now, those expressing little or no confidence has tied an all-time high of 36% and is likely to rise further in the future.
Even worse for newspapers is that their most loyal group of supporters—Democrats and those who lean Democratic—now have a net negative confidence rating for the first time with 27% expressing little or no confidence versus 25% who still have high confidence in the printed word. Republicans still have a large net negative view of newspapers.
The future of newspapers is bleak, with the Internet having largely supplanted them as the main source of news for most people—especially millennials—and because of their inability overall to fully monetize their digital assets and offset the decline in subscription and advertising revenue that has plagued almost all newspapers in America.
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New York Times Suggests GOP is Responsible for Orlando Nightclub Attack
June 15th, 2016
By Don Irvine.
The New York Times editorial board tried to lay the blame for the terrorist attack on an Orlando nightclub by an avowed ISIS supporter on Republicans who don’t support gay rights:
“Omar Mateen shattered the tenuous, hard-fought sense of personal safety that many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have begun to feel as the movement for equality has made significant gains in recent years. His bullets and the blood he left behind that early morning were a reminder that in many corners of the country, gay and transgender people are still regarded as sinners and second-class citizens who should be scorned.
While the precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear, it is evident that Mr. Mateen was driven by hatred toward gays and lesbians. Hate crimes don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians who see prejudice as something to exploit, not extinguish.”
The Times completely ignored the fact that Mateen called 911 during the attack, pledging allegiance to ISIS and mentioning the Boston Marathon bombers during the call. The Times is instead trying to make it solely a hate crime so they can blame Republicans, who they feel haven’t been sensitive enough on gay issues. This also is a way of providing cover for the Obama administration.
Yet even President Obama recognized Mateen’s motivation—calling him “self-radicalized”—recognizing that the attack was more than a hate crime, even though he wouldn’t use the words “radical Islam” when talking about it.
Why did the Times fail to mention ISIS even once in its editorial? Because this latest attack on American soil only underscored the failure of the Obama administration’s efforts to combat domestic terrorism. It also highlights the fact that a Clinton administration wouldn’t be any better at preventing future attacks, which doesn’t bode well for the Democrats in November.
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Trump Revokes Washington Post’s Press Credentials
June 14th, 2016
By Don Irvine.
GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump escalated his war with the media yesterday when he decided that his campaign would no longer issue press credentials to The Washington Post because of the paper’s “incredibly inaccurate coverage” of his campaign.
Trump issued the ban in a Facebook post on Monday:
“Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post.”
In another post he mentioned why he was upset at the Post:
“I am no fan of President Obama, but to show you how dishonest the phony Washington Post is, they wrote, ‘Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting’ as their headline. Sad!”
The Post was reporting on a TV interview Trump had given on Fox News, discussing the Orlando terrorist attack and President Obama’s response. Trump said:
“Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind. And the something else in mind — you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.
The media read that statement to mean that Trump was connecting Obama to the attack, rather than what I believe was his real point—that the President refuses to use the words “radical Islamic terrorism” so as not to offend the Muslim community and draw attention to his administration’s failures to prevent domestic terrorist attacks like this from occurring.
Predictably, instead of focusing his efforts on combating domestic terrorism, Obama is using the latest attack to call for increased gun control, which would only make us less safe as a nation.
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Liberal Esquire Writer Agrees that Trump Should Build a Wall on Mexican
June 13th, 2016By Don Irvine.
Esquire magazine received a jolt when a liberal reporter they sent to the U.S.-Mexico border to find out how the locals feel about illegal immigration, returned agreeing with Donald Trump’s call to “build that wall.”
Appearing on Morning Joe, Esquire Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden described the instructions the reporter was given for his assignment:
“You gotta go down there with no preconceived notions, right, just an empty notebook. Go to my former home state and walk the border, drive the border 800 miles and talk to whoever you see and let them tell us what they think about what’s really going on — whether we need a wall, in fact. Instead of hearing it from the debate stage, let’s hear it from the people who are down there everyday.”
What did the reporter find out? That locals want a wall. And no matter what their ethnic background was they said, “We want a wall and yet, we want it to be married with some compassion for the people that we’re trying to keep from jumping over the wall,” according to Fielden.
Fielden added that Hispanics are less sympathetic to illegals crossing the border than whites are. That’s because they think it’s unfair that many first generation immigrants came over legally and they now find themselves competing with illegals for jobs on a daily basis.
“Let ’em get in line,” one local legal immigrant told the reporter.
This is not the result that Esquire or the reporter expected, I’m sure, but give credit to the magazine for printing the story rather than killing it to hide yet another liberal inconvenient truth.
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The Bias Buzz Podcast- Hillary Clinches Dem Nomination, Bernie’s Future, Is Trump a Racist, Clinton’s $12K Jacket and More
June 11th, 2016
By Don Irvine.
Episode Nine- Hillary Clinton clinches Democratic nomination, California’s jungle primary dooms GOP, What’s Bernie Sanders next move?, Are Trump’s comments about Hispanic judge racist?, Hillary’s 12K jacket and other expensive clothes, Miss USA promotes women in combat, Elizabeth Warren trashes superdelegate system.
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Chris Matthews Gushes Over Hillary Clinton’s Achievements
June 9th, 2016By Don Irvine.
Chris Matthews, who was an early supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential run, used his nightly editorial to gush over her achievements now that she has secured the Democratic presidential nomination:
Let me finish tonight with something that never got said last night. A night history was made. What was missing was a recognition and salute of what Secretary Clinton herself accomplished in this historic struggle.
Look at her life and career and you see those achievements, those tests she faced, tests she chose and tests she passed.
She went down to Arkansas, became First Lady down there, learned the politics of the Southern state, left to become First Lady of the United States. And for many women, women we look up to, that alone would have made her a figure of history, a figure of great and worldwide admiration. And then she pushed hard for healthcare reform. And then she withstood the terrors and personal anguish of her husband’s troubles of 1998. And then she had the raw courage to run for Senate from New York knowing full well that there were millions of her critics out there waiting to enjoy, even relish her defeat. She ran, she had the courage to run and won. And then she served with great success as Senator from New York, was reelected to second term, ran for president the first time, almost won and grandly accepted defeat.
She did it with class. She did it in a way that advanced her party, its presidential candidate, Barack Obama and finding her own legacy. Appointed Secretary of State she did the job impressively. She then once again threw herself into the breach, running for president a second time, defeating a strong challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders.
So let’s not forget any of this. From the time she was a senior at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham, now Hillary Clinton has been a leader with guts, with energy and purpose, and incredible resilience. And she didn’t get to where she is right now by any other way.
Matthews conveniently glossed over Bill Clinton’s infidelities and impeachment, and how Hillary’s push for healthcare reform was an utter disaster. He completely ignored the scandals with the Clinton Foundation, Benghazi and her private email server, which the State Department Inspector General found to have violated the Federal Records Act. He also failed to mention that despite being the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, she is widely viewed as dishonest and untrustworthy by voters, and will face a tough challenge in getting Sanders supporters to vote for her in November.
If Matthews has his way this will become the liberal media’s new narrative—that Hillary deserves to become the first woman president in U.S. history because of her supposed accomplishments, while sweeping her failures and scandals under the rug.
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Sixty Percent of Newspaper Jobs Have Disappeared Since 1990
June 8th, 2016By Don Irvine.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has confirmed what many of us already knew—newspaper jobs have disappeared at an alarming rate over the last 26 years.
According to the BLS, newspaper jobs fell from about 458,000 in 1990 to roughly 183,000 in March 2016, which is a drop of almost 60%.
Radio and broadcasting also saw losses—though not as steep as newspapers—with employment falling 27% from 1990 to 2016.
The job losses were partially offset by the rapid rise in Internet publishing and online broadcasting, from 30,000 to nearly 198,000.
Newspaper jobs started to disappear as Internet use grew and people switched to their computers, smartphones and tablets for news. That, combined with the 2008 economic crisis—which led to a steep decline in advertising revenues, the lifeblood of newspapers—has led to large subscriber losses and, in turn, layoffs.
Radio and broadcasting have been affected by similar forces but not to the same degree as newspapers, as people haven’t completely given up watching TV or listening to the radio.
The future doesn’t look much better for the industry, as millennials rarely read newspapers. What readership that newspapers currently have tends to be older and many are dying off, meaning that the printed page as we know it may completely disappear in the next 10 to 20 years.
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Poll: Trust in Media at Six Percent
June 7th, 2016By Don Irvine.
According to a study by the Media Insight Project, just six percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, while 41 percent have no confidence at all. Fifty-two percent of respondents said they have some confidence in the people running the news biz.
Eight-five percent said it was extremely or very important that the press is accurate and get the facts right, with two percent saying that accuracy isn’t important.
Underscoring the shift from the old traditional print media to online or social media, the study found that just 20 percent of respondents have a paid newspaper subscription, and only slightly more—24 percent—have a paid magazine subscription. Eighty-seven percent said they get their news most frequently from social media juggernaut Facebook, which doesn’t have any standards whatsoever when it comes to news posted on its site.
Sixty-nine percent of the respondents said that they trust the news less because they found stories that were one-sided or biased, while 65 percent said they lost trust in the news because of incorrect facts.
Longtime news observers shouldn’t be surprised by these findings, as the rapid shift of news to a 24/7 cycle in the last few years has increased the pressure to churn out news, leaving far less time for fact-checking for those that were doing it at all.
This should be a wake-up call to the media that they need to do a better job if they want to remain in business for the long haul. But most of the liberal media tend to be in denial that readers will completely abandon them, despite watching their share of the market shrink dramatically over the last few years.
The poll of 2,014 adults was conducted February 18 to March 21 by the Media Insight Project, a partnership of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute.
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CNN’s Cuomo Grills Clinton Surrogate on IG Report
June 6th, 2016By Don Irvine.
CNN New Day host Chris Cuomo grilled Hillary Clinton surrogate Joel Benenson Monday about the State Department Inspector General’s report that heavily criticized Clinton’s use of the private email server, and her trustworthiness problem with voters:
Cuomo: With Trump, temperament is becoming an issue,” Cuomo said. “With Clinton, trust has always been the issue, from A to Z. Doesn’t matter who we’re talking to, and it’s as true now as it was at the beginning. The IG report cemented that for people. The spin out of your side, or the arguments out of your side is that IG report said no law was broken. It said a lot of things, like she never asked permission, nobody ever did this with this server, that she shouldn’t have deleted the emails. And all of those go to trust. How do you combat that image?
Benenson: Well look, you address those questions, which she has repeatedly and some of the things you just said are absolutely correct.
Cuomo then jumped in to say that all, not some, of the things he said were correct, before letting Benenson continue.
Benenson: The I.G., the State Department has to clarify and modernize the communications about what rules exist. Secretary Kerry is the first Secretary of State to have a state dot gov email address. But what’s going to go on here is there are going to be positives and negatives that each candidate is going to speak about themselves and about each other. What’s going to happen here is that there’s going to be a campaign of issues and ideas, because that’s what voters care about.
In Clinton world, voters don’t care about her email shenanigans or her honesty and trustworthiness, despite what the polls say. Surrogates like Benenson are trying hard to shift the discussion away from these issues to that of the economy and jobs.
Yet that is a huge risk for Clinton as well, since she has aligned herself with Obamanomics, which is faltering badly. That’s what last Friday’s jobs report indicated, just as voters are focusing on pocketbook issues.
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MSNBC to Launch “Lean Right”
June 3rd, 2016By Don Irvine.
MSNBC, which spent years crafting an image as a left-leaning alternative to Fox News and at one time labeled itself as the “Lean Forward” network, has found new life after a major programming shake-up. They are now poised to launch an ad stating that maybe they have gone too far to the right.
The ad features some of MSNBC’s more prominent conservative and Republican contributors—like former Bush communications chief Nicole Wallace, conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt, longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt and former RNC chairman Michael Steele—stating that “People might start accusing us of leaning too far to the right.”
MSNBC president Phil Griffin told Politico’s Hadas Gold that the rebranding is just one more step in the network’s “evolution,” as it prepares to turn 20 next month:
“There have been so many evolutions, and look, if you don’t evolve, in any medium, you’re going to lose. So I think we’ve been in a process of evolution and I feel very good about what we’re doing.”
Except that the “evolution” that Griffin is speaking about is the result of changes made by NBC News and MSNBC chairman Andy Lack, who was hired 16 months ago to fix the problems at the network.
Lack jettisoned the low-rated daytime programs and moved the network away from the liberal “Lean Forward” campaign, which Griffin was sure would topple Fox News.
The result has been a ratings revival. But just like at the other cable news networks it has been largely driven by coverage of Donald Trump, who has defied political odds to become the apparent GOP nominee for president.
As for the ad and leaning right, the problem is that the majority of those featured in the new ad aren’t very conservative, and as a result have been poor spokesmen for the movement. But that’s probably why MSNBC hired them in the first place.
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The Bias Buzz Podcast-Trump Breathing Down Hillary’s Neck, Katie Couric’s Lame Apology on Deceptive Gun Doc Edit, Hillary’s Email Woes Continue and More
June 2nd, 2016By Don Irvine.
This week we pay tribute to Rolling Thunder in honor of Memorial Day, discuss the national polls showing Trump and Clinton in a statistical tie, Katie Couric’s backtracking on gun doc after deceptive editing revealed, the State Department IG report on Clinton’s private email server, a new poll showing that 90% of Native Americans aren’t bothered by Redskins name and more.
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Hillary Clinton Tells CNN’s Tapper that She Will Hold a Press Conference
June 1st, 2016By Don Irvine.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton told CNN”s Jake Tapper during a phone interview that she was sure she would hold a press conference at some point, after Donald Trump mentioned during his press conference on Tuesday that she hadn’t done so in 179 days.
Tapper started off by asking Clinton for her reaction to Trump having bashed the media for its coverage of his campaign.
Tapper: Historically speaking, throughout your decades in public life, you and your husband have had occasionally contentious relationships with journalists, though it certainly never went as far publicly as it did today with Donald Trump calling journalists ‘sleazy’ and ‘dishonest’ and ‘unfair.’ So, what went through your mind watching his press conference today?
Clinton: Well, I have to say, Jake, I had my team check. I have done nearly 300 interviews just in 2016 and I believe that it’s important to continue to, you know, speak to the press as I’m doing right now and to understand that his attacking everybody—fellow Republicans, Democrats, I mean, the press, you just name it, he attacks everybody—is a recipe for gridlock in Washington and that’s what we’ve got to break and get away with.
You know, he seems to believe or at least is demonstrating, that insulting and attacks is his mode of operations and, you know, I just don’t think that’s going to cut it if you want to actually produce results for the American people and not only lead at home, but lead the world.
Tapper: You do do interviews and you’re calling in right now, obviously—and we appreciate that—but it has been pointed out to me that it’s been something like five or six months since you’ve held an actual press conference. Is that something you’re going to remedy soon?
Clinton: I’m sure we will. Look, I was shocked myself that I’ve done nearly 300 interviews, and they’re not even sure they’ve captured all the ones that I’ve done. But I believe that we do and we should answer questions. Of course, I’m going to and many, many different kinds of settings.
Clinton knows that holding a press conference would be very risky, especially after the State Department Inspector General’s report that was released last week, which showed that she clearly flouted the rules regarding emails when she was secretary of state. In addition, the FBI investigation into the matter is still ongoing.
That along with her other scandals, as well as her struggles with Bernie Sanders, guarantees that a press conference is far into the future, if at all.
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Couric Apologizes for “Misleading” Gun Documentary Edit
May 31st, 2016By Don Irvine.
Katie Couric, who came under heavy criticism last week after it was revealed that her documentary, “Under the Gun,” had been selectively edited to make gun rights activists look stupid, posted a statement on the film’s website last night apologizing for the “misleading” edit:
“As Executive Producer of ‘Under the Gun,’ a documentary film that explores the epidemic of gun violence, I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL). My question to the VCDL regarding the ability of convicted felons and those on the terror watch list to legally obtain a gun, was followed by an extended pause, making the participants appear to be speechless.
When I screened an early version of the film with the director, Stephanie Soechtig, I questioned her and the editor about the pause and was told that a ‘beat’ was added for, as she described it, ‘dramatic effect,’ to give the audience a moment to consider the question. When VCDL members recently pointed out that they had in fact immediately answered this question, I went back and reviewed it and agree that those eight seconds do not accurately represent their response.
VCDL members have a right for their answers to be shared and so we have posted a transcript of their responses here. I regret that those eight seconds were misleading and that I did not raise my initial concerns more vigorously.
I hope we can continue to have an important conversation about reducing gun deaths in America, a goal I believe we can all agree on.”
This was an about-face for Couric, who had initially stood behind director Stephanie Soechtig’s decision to add a pause for “dramatic effect.”
Despite the apology, there is no indication from Couric that the documentary will be re-edited to accurately reflect what the VCDL members said after she asked her question.
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Bill O’Reilly Ties Black Lives Matter to Increase in Murder Rate
May 28th, 2016By Don Irvine.
On Wednesday night, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly devoted his Talking Points Memo to the issue of how the Black Lives Matter movement has led to a spike in shootings around the country:
“First, the stats—and they are stunning. Since the Ferguson chaos, murders in the USA’s 50 largest cities are up close to 17%, and much higher in cities with large black populations. In Chicago for example, this year alone shootings are up around 80%. Why? Because the Chicago police have stopped stopping suspicious people. So-called pedestrian stops are down 90% in the Windy City. When you fail to police pro-actively, people commit more crimes.”
O’Reilly then blames the media for not talking about who is committing most of the violent crime in America, thus providing cover for the BLM movement:
“The media will not spotlight that much of the violent crime in America is being committed right now by young black men. In fact, black males between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at a rate 10-times higher than white and Hispanic male teenagers combined. And blacks of all ages commit homicide at a rate of 8-times higher than whites and Hispanics combined. Conclusion—there is a violent sub-culture in the African-American community that should be exposed and confronted. Enter the Black Lives Matter crew, which roams around the country promoting a false narrative that American police officers are actively hunting down and killing blacks.
Here’s the truth. Police shot whites at a rate of 50% in 2015. Police shot blacks at a rate of 26%.”
Racial profiling indeed.
O’Reilly concluded by calling out the media and others for backing the Black Lives Matter movement, to the detriment of the country:
“Summing up, thousands more Americans are being murdered because police are more passive since the Ferguson situation and the Black Lives Matter protests. Talking Points believes every American should know the truth. Sympathetic media and many race hustlers are backing Black Lives Matter. The final indignity? Members of the group have even been invited to the White House.”
If there is any doubt about the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement, it is explained on their website:
“Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. It goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within some Black communities, which merely call on Black people to love Black, live Black and buy Black, keeping straight cis Black men in the front of the movement while our sisters, queer and trans and disabled folk take up roles in the background or not at all. Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, Black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. It centers those that have been marginalized within Black liberation movements. It is a tactic to (re)build the Black liberation movement.”
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Katie Couric’s Gun Documentary Deceptive Editing Under Fire
May 27th, 2016By Don Irvine.
Katie Couric’s recent documentary on gun violence in America, “Under the Gun,” has come under fire for deceptive editing that made gun rights activists appear stumped by one of Couric’s questions.
Couric attended a gathering of the Virginia Citizens Defense League and asked the group this question:
“If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorist from walking into, say, a licensed gun dealer and purchasing a gun?”
The activists were then shown looking at each other, and at the ground, for about eight seconds without ever answering the question before the film moves on to another topic.
But in an audio recording obtained by The Washington Free Beacon, it is clear that the group’s members responded to Couric right away and spoke at length about this issue.
After word of the deception spread, the documentary’s director, Stephanie Soechtig, issued the following statement:
“My intention was to provide a pause for the viewer to have a moment to consider this important question before presenting the facts on Americans’ opinions on background checks. I never intended to make anyone look bad and I apologize if anyone felt that way.”
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple Blog found Soechtig’s statement completely unsatisfactory:
“In the years we’ve covered and watched media organizations, we’ve scarcely seen a thinner, more weaselly excuse than the one in the block above. For starters, it appears to count as an admission that this segment of the documentary was edited. The artistic ‘pause’ provides the viewer not a ‘moment to consider this important question;’ it provides viewers a moment to lower their estimation of gun owners.”
In order to create the “dramatic pause,” Soechtig spliced in footage from the documentary when the activists were silently listening to Couric.
Couric issued a statement that said she stood behind Soechtig, and that as the executive producer she was very proud of the film.
This incident should serve as a reminder of how anti-gun the liberal media are and to what lengths they will go to to make their case for more gun control.
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Hillary the Hypocrite, CBS Points Out that Clinton Wanted More Debates Against Obama in 2008
May 26th, 2016
By Don Irvine.
If Donald Trump needs a new nickname for Hillary Clinton, he might want to consider calling her “Hypocritical Hillary,” after the Democratic presidential frontrunner turned down an invitation from Fox News to debate Bernie Sanders. She said that she wants to concentrate on campaigning in California, despite saying in 2008 that anyone running for president should be willing to “debate anytime, anywhere.”
CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes addressed Clinton’s struggles with Bernie Sanders, and her debate hypocrisy, today on CBS This Morning:
“Hillary Clinton can’t shake Sanders, who predicted Monday that this year’s convention could get messy and urged her to debate him ahead of the California primary. The Clinton campaign said no dice, arguing, ‘Hillary Clinton’s time is best spent campaigning and meeting directly with voters across California and preparing for a general election campaign.’”
“I was disturbed but not surprised to hear a few hours ago that Secretary Clinton has backed out of the debate,” Sanders said to a crowd of supporters at a rally in Santa Monica, California.
The 2016 version of presidential candidate Clinton has conveniently forgotten what the 2008 version said when she was running against Barack Obama. Cordes noted how the 2008 Hillary sounded a lot like Sanders does today:
“It’s the toughest job in the world. You should be willing to campaign for every vote, you should be willing to debate anytime, anywhere.”
That was when Hillary thought she had nothing to lose by engaging in more debates with Obama, but the opposite is true today. The Clinton campaign sees every debate with Sanders as something that can only hurt her campaign, as she prepares to do battle with Donald Trump for the White House.
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CBS’s Gayle King: “We Were All Laughing” at GOP Turmoil
May 24th, 2016By Don Irvine.
CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King let her liberal bias shine through during a discussion about the chaotic Nevada Democratic state convention last weekend, and the growing schism between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders:
King: “[Sanders is] clearly very irritated that Democratic leaders would even suggest that he has something to do with the violence that may or may not occur. What is this doing to the Democratic Party? We were all laughing—not laughing, but saying the Republicans don’t have it together, and now here the Democrats seem to be a hot mess.”
It’s one thing to say that the GOP struggled in selecting a presidential nominee, but it’s an altogether different thing to say that you and other journalists were laughing about it while pretending to be objective.
Of course, objectivity in the liberal media is the rare exception. Not the rule.
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Michelle Fields Switches Sides, Will Cover Trump for Liberal Huffington Post
May 23rd, 2016
By Don Irvine.
Conservative journalist Michelle Fields, who accused Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of grabbing her arm and dragging her to the ground during a campaign rally last March, is going to resume her career with the liberal-leaning Huffington Post, according to a report from CNN Money:
“‘After the tumultuous events of the last few months, I am ready to get back to writing and reporting on what is without question the most bizarrely fascinating presidential race of my lifetime (and, perhaps, any lifetime),’ Fields said in a statement on Sunday night.”
Fields will start her new job today and said she is “beyond excited to join one of the biggest names in political journalism.”
HuffPo’s Washington bureau chief, Ryan Grim, called Fields “one of the most widely read chroniclers of the conservative movement.”
Fields, who was working for Breitbart at the time of the incident, left the conservative website shortly thereafter saying that she didn’t feel that the site adequately stood by her and it would be best to part ways as a result.
The story died down after the Palm Beach State Attorney’s office declined to prosecute the case, citing a lack of evidence to pursue criminal charges.
It remains to be seen how effective Fields will be given her clash with the Trump campaign and the fact that HuffPo has been blacklisted by the campaign for its previous coverage. But I guess the liberal website couldn’t resist grabbing a conservative journalist, no matter how far her star had fallen:
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Glenn Beck: Facebook Meeting “Was Like Affirmative Action for Conservatives”
May 21st, 2016By Don Irvine.
Conservative talk-show host and Internet entrepreneur Glenn Beck said yesterday’s meeting of conservative media figures with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg “was like affirmative action for conservatives,” after hearing his colleagues suggestions on how Facebook can be more balanced in its news reporting.
Beck posted a lengthy commentary on his website about the meeting, praising Facebook for holding the meeting and wondering what the other conservatives in the room were thinking:
“I sat through a meeting that, to me, felt like I was attending a Rainbow Coalition meeting, that people (not me) had come with a list of demands. I looked around the room, I heard the complaints, I listened to the perspectives, and not a single person in the room shared evidence of any wrongdoing. Maybe they had some, but it wasn’t shared.”
After listening to the various suggestions from fellow conservatives, Beck was flabbergasted at what he heard:
“It was like affirmative action for conservatives. When did conservatives start demanding quotas AND diversity training AND less people from Ivy League Colleges. I sat there, looking around the room at ‘our side’ wondering, ‘Who are we?’ Who am I?”
Even though I’m not much of a Beck fan, he does make some good points as to what happened at the meeting. This was an opportunity for conservatives to make their case as to how Facebook can improve its standing within the conservative community and instead they made suggestions that will do little to change the perception that Facebook favors liberals over conservatives.
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Donald Trump to Speak at NRA Annual Meeting
May 20th, 2016By Don Irvine.
Donald Trump, the Republican presumptive nominee for president, will try to convince thousands of gun owners and enthusiasts on Friday at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting in Louisville that he is a firm supporter of gun rights despite his support in the past for a ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
In his 2000 book, The America We Deserve, Trump wrote that while he generally opposes gun control, “I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun.”
Fast forward to today where his website declares, “The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period. The Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right that belongs to all law-abiding Americans.”
Trump also criticizes the Obama administration for its record on prosecuting violent criminals, citing Baltimore and Chicago as examples. He advocates for a program like Virginia’s Project Exile, which reduced gun murders in Richmond by nearly 60% during it’s implementation, according to the Trump website.
The NRA is also preparing for the possibility of an anti-Trump protest during his speech. But given the fact that Louisville is not exactly a hotbed of left-wing activity, plus the lack of mass transportation to the Kentucky Exposition Center where the meeting is taking place, efforts to protest Trump are likely to fall flat.
In addition to Trump, other speakers include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee, co-author of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Mark “Oz” Geist, and conservative journalist Katie Pavlich.
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