New York Times’ Dark History of Promoting ‘Alternative Facts’ to Hide Communist Atrocities
Posted: August 25, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education, History, Mediasphere, Politics, Russia, U.S. News | Tags: 21st Century Fox, Adam McKay, Albert Einstein, Alexander Pushkin, Fox News Channel, Joseph Stalin, Nazism, The New York Times, Vladimir Putin, World War II Leave a commentThe Red York Times: First in Fake News.
Michelle Malkin writes: Newsflash from The New York Times: Women may have starved under socialist regimes, but their orgasms were out of this world!
That’s the creepy gist of one of the Grey Lady’s recent essays this summer hailing the “Red Century.” The paper’s ongoing series explores “the history and legacy of Communism, 100 years after the Russian Revolution.” When its essayists aren’t busy championing the great sex that oppressed women enjoyed in miserable Eastern Bloc countries, they’re extolling Lenin’s fantabulous conservationist programs and pimping “Communism for Kids” propaganda.
Since this is back-to-school season, it’s the perfect time to teach your children about faux journalism at the Fishwrap of Record. As the publication’s pretentious own new slogan asserts, “The truth is more important than ever.”
While the Times hyperventilates about the dangers of President Trump’s “art of fabrication” and “Russian collusion,” this is the same organization whose famed correspondent in Russia, Walter Duranty, won a Pulitzer Prize for spreading fake news denying Joseph Stalin‘s Ukrainian genocide.
[read the full story here, at Frontpage Mag]
An estimated 10 million men, women and children starved in the Stalin-engineered silent massacre between 1932-1933, also known as the Holodomor. Stalin had implemented his “Five Year Plan” of agricultural collectivization — confiscating land and livestock, evicting farmers, and imposing impossible grain production quotas. At the peak of the famine, about 30,000 Ukrainian citizens a day were dying. Untold numbers resorted to cannibalism. Read the rest of this entry »
Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story on Russia Ties
Posted: June 26, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: CNN, Donald Trump, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fox News Channel, James Comey, Muslim, Qatar, Qatar News Agency, Republican Party (United States), Reza Aslan, The New York Times, Twitter, United States Leave a commentItay Hod reports: Three CNN employees have handed in their resignations over a retracted story linking president Trump to Russia, the network announced Monday.
Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the unit; and Lex Haris, who oversaw the unit, have all left CNN.
“In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignation of the employees involved in the story’s publication,” a network spokesperson told TheWrap in a statement.
On Thursday, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a story involving an investigation into a Russian investment fund with possible ties to several Trump associates.
According to the network, an internal investigation found that “some standard editorial processes were not followed when the article was published.”
Citing a single unnamed source, the story reported that Congress was investigating a “Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials.”
CNN explained Monday that “these types of stories” usually would go through several departments, including fact-checkers, journalism standards experts and lawyers.
But the network says there was a “breakdown in editorial workflow” which “disturbed the CNN executives who learned about it.”
The network’s investigative unit was told during a meeting on Monday that the retraction did not necessarily mean the facts of the story were wrong. But, rather, “the story wasn’t solid enough to publish as-is,” according CNN.com.
The story, which only appeared on the network’s site, was quickly disputed on Friday, as one Trump ally Anthony Scaramucci — who was mentioned in the story — pushed back on Frank’s reporting, insisting he “did nothing wrong.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Otto Warmbier: How Did North Korea Holiday End in Jail, and a Coma?
Posted: June 18, 2017 Filed under: Asia, Crime & Corruption, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy | Tags: Associated Press, Cincinnati, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Kim Jong-il, Korean People's Army, North Korea, Otto Warmbier, United States, University of Virginia Leave a comment
Everyone in frame is smiling and laughing in the North Korean cold. Otto Warmbier, like the other tourists, launches a snowball, captured in slow motion on what appears to be a camera phone.
It’s the kind of innocent fun you expect to be captured on a tour group holiday. Otto turns to his right, mouth wide open, laughing.

Otto’s father Fred wore his son’s jacket as he spoke to journalists
“This is the Otto I know and love. This is my brother,” wrote Austin Warmbier, who released the video, which was shot during a three-night North Korea tour at the end of 2015.
Two months later, Otto would again appear on video, but in very different circumstances.
Head bowed and clutching a prepared “confession”, the 21-year-old student walked out in front of North Korean TV cameras to speak, explaining why he had been arrested at the end of that tour, when everyone else had been allowed to leave.

Danny Gratton Otto (centre, with others on the trip) was “bright, intelligent and likeable”, according to Danny Gratton, who met him on the North Korea trip
Looming over him were the oversized portraits of North Korea’s former supreme leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
He wore a cream-coloured jacket and tie. Before speaking, he got up an offered a low bow.

Danny was the last person to see Otto (far right), witnessing the moment he was marched away
Otto thanked the North Korean government for the “opportunity to apologise for my crime, to beg for forgiveness and to beg for any assistance to save my life”.
He said he tried to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel as a “trophy” for a US church with the “connivance of the US administration” in order to “harm the work ethic and motivation of the Korean people”.

Weeks after the group pictures were taken, Otto “confessed” in front of North Korean media. AFP
Later, he would break down in tears: “I have made the single worst decision of my life, but I am only human.”
Otto is now back in the US after 15 months of captivity in North Korea. But he is in a coma, cannot understand language and has severe brain damage.

Otto – pictured in ear muffs – was in “the wrong place at the wrong time”, says Danny
In the year-and-a-half since he threw that snowball, the life of a young man full of promise has been permanently altered.
Much remains unknown about how Otto’s health deteriorated. Doctors at Cincinnati Medical Center say they have seen no sign he was physically abused but they and his family also don’t buy North Korea’s story that he contracted botulism and fell into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.
But how did a brilliant student from an Ohio suburb with hopes of becoming an investment banker end up imprisoned in a pariah state? And why was he released in a coma?
The Warmbiers hail from a small suburb called Wyoming in Cincinnati, Ohio, where father Fred owns a small company.
Otto attended the best high school in the state, and was prom and homecoming king. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Krauthammer: NY Times’ Shooting Op-Ed ‘Completely Egregious’
Posted: June 16, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 2011 Tucson shooting, Bernie Sanders, Capitol Police, CNN, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Gabrielle Giffords, James Comey, Republican Party (United States), The New York Times 1 Comment
Syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor on the New York Times being forced to correct an editorial that cited a long-debunked theory about Sarah Palin and 2011 shooting of Gabby Giffords. Plus, how to de-escalate rhetoric.
[VIDEO] Maxine Waters Is Connecting the Dots
Posted: May 19, 2017 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Chris Hayes (journalist), Donald Trump, Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel, Maxine Waters, President of the United States, RUSSIA, The New York Times, Vladimir Putin 1 Comment
Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) really enjoys calling for President Trump’s impeachment over allegations of his campaign’s collusion with Russia, and she’s perhaps even fonder of saying how we have to “connect the dots” to make that happen … (read more)
Source: Free Beacon
Roger Ailes’ Cause of Death Revealed by Medical Examiner
Posted: May 18, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Donald Trump, Drudge Report, Fox News Channel, Gretchen Carlson, New York, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity Leave a commentAlex Stedman reports: Ousted Fox News chief Roger Ailes died from complications of a head injury, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner said in a report on Thursday.
Ailes “died this morning of complications of a subdural hematoma after he fell at home injuring his head,” said the report. “Hemophilia contributed to his death and his manner of death was accidental. There was no evidence of foul play.”
Ailes died just three days after his 77th birthday. He was a towering figure in the fast-paced business of cable news, but sexual harassment allegations forced him out of Fox News last year. Read the rest of this entry »
21st Century Fox Has Paid Out $45M In Settlements Since Roger Ailes’ Exit
Posted: May 10, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: 21st Century Fox, Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Bill Shine, Fox News Channel, New York Magazine, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, The New York Times, The O'Reilly Factor, The Wall Street Journal 1 CommentFox News Channel made an appearance today in corporate filings submitted by parent 21st Century Fox. The price tag is at $45 million since Roger Ailes was canned last summer following numerous and explosive allegations of extremely inappropriate behavior.
The financial fallout from the sexual harassment claims and lawsuits piling up at“Other for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2017 included approximately $10 million and $45 million, respectively, of costs related to settlements of pending and potential litigations following the July 2016 resignation of the Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel after a public complaint was filed containing allegations of sexual harassment,” said a section deep within the Quarterly Report (read it here) that 21st Century Fox submitted to the SEC on Wednesday. The total figure for the ‘Other’ category over the nine months that ended at the end of March is $71 million.
My colleague David Lieberman reported earlier today that 21st Century Fox also noted in its quarterly report that it has “received regulatory and investigative inquiries relating to these matters and stockholder demands to inspect the books and records of the Company which could lead to future litigation.” As civil suits from Fox News on-air talent, past and potential contributors and others swirl, prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and criminal investigators from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are looking into what went on at FNC in these matters, who was paid what, and where it ended up in the books.
“Due to the early stage of these matters, the amount of liability, if any, that may result from these or related matters cannot be estimated at this time,” the filing today goes on to say in bloodless corporate speak. “However, the Company does not currently anticipate that the ultimate resolution of any such pending matters will have a material adverse effect on its consolidated financial condition, future results of operations or liquidity.”
The key word, as it has been for a while in this, being “anticipate” — that being what Fox has not been good at the past nine months.
At what Fox surely hoped was the end of the matter but really became the prologue in many ways, Ailes was shown the door by Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan on July 21 last year soon after former Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson sued him for sexual harassment. Ailes was said to have received a $40 million golden goodbye from the Murdochs, which does not seem to be reflected in today’s filing. In September, Carlson came to a $20 million settlement with Fox and dropped her legal action. That payout is surely part of the $45 million noted in today’s filing. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Wolff: How Bill O’Reilly’s Scandal Exposes a Murdoch Family Divide
Posted: April 19, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: 21st Century Fox, Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Gretchen Carlson, Julie Roginsky, media, Roger Ailes, The New York Times, The O'Reilly Factor, Wendy Walsh Leave a commentFox News’ handling of the renewed harassment allegations is a reflection of greater company conflicts and a generational shift as Rupert hangs on to a bygone era and James and Lachlan plot a risky new course.
Michael Wolff reports: Last July, after Gretchen Carlson sued the Murdoch-controlled 21st Century Fox and Roger Ailes, the then-head of Fox News Channel, for sexual harassment, Rupert Murdoch told his sons, both Ailes enemies, that paying off Carlson without a fight would mean more lawsuits. Easy-money settlements always bring more claims. James and Lachlan Murdoch, however, were eager to get rid of their nemesis, and the most direct way to do that was to accept Carlson’s claims after a quickie investigation and then use a big payoff — $20 million — to end the dispute and calm the storm.
Nine months later, the chickens coming home to roost, Fox has continued to collect a string of look-alike claims against Ailes and against ratings giant Bill O’Reilly, with a firestorm of recent press attention on what The New York Times is calling the “O’Reilly revelations.” What has been revealed is not evidence nor an admission of guilt but details of payments settling complaints against O’Reilly — not a small distinction. You can assume maximal guilt, which the Times and other Fox haters do, or you can assume, as many lawyers do, that when there is money to be had, plaintiffs come out of the woodwork. (“Coming out of the woodwork” is a virtual term of art in big settlement tort cases).
Murdoch Senior is said to be saying, “I told you so.” James, CEO of 21st Century Fox, is blaming it on the Fox News culture and has hired Paul Weiss, the same law firm that performed a two-week investigation of Ailes, to probe O’Reilly (there is, too, a Department of Justice investigation of how settlement payments were made, which Rupert dismisses as DOJ liberal politics and which his sons see as indicating more Fox News dark arts). This is a reflection of greater family and company interests and conflicts. Read the rest of this entry »
Networks Censor Alleged Rape by Illegal Immigrant; Gave 11 Minutes in Two Days to Fake UVA Rape
Posted: March 23, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: ABC World News Tonight, CBS, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, NBC, Rockville High School, Rolling Stone, UVA Rape Hoax, Washington 1 CommentCurtis Houck reports: The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued their shameful blackout into Wednesday night of the horrifying alleged rape of a teenage girl in a Washington D.C. suburb high school bathroom by two men, including one here in the U.S. illegally.
Instead, the pathetic liberal media that’s shown no interest in the Rockville High School case complied with Rolling Stone in giving over 10 minutes of coverage in two days to the fake 2014 claim that a University of Virginia fraternity gang raped a female student.

Before breaking down how blind the media were in furthering a narrative about college fraternities and sexual assault (which can be a noble cause), the pro-illegal immigrant media were surely displeased with the Fox News Channel’s Special Report as it again offered a story on the events in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Fill-in host James Rosen noted that “the Maryland State House of Delegates has approved a bill to make Maryland a sanctuary state…just days after Maryland authorities charged two immigrants, one of them confirmed to be here illegally, in the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in a Rockville High School bathroom.”
Correspondent Doug McKelway provided the latest from the school and told viewers how the cowards with the school district banned TV cameras from Tuesday’s packed PTA meeting as “[t]he red-hot controversy…lit up social media.”
[read the full story here, at newsbusters.org]
McKelway also noted how the school district has shifted their focus from the rape to blaming average citizens for being outraged about how such a thing could have happened.
At the same time, local and state Democrats went ahead with their desire to make Rockville and Maryland a sanctuary city and state, respectively. This was despite strong opposition from Republican Governor Larry Hogan.
This lack of seriousness by the liberal media was no issue back in fall 2014 when Rolling Stone detailed a graphic gang rape of a young woman at a University of Virginia fraternity. Read the rest of this entry »
Russian Spy Ship Returns to East Coast of U.S.
Posted: March 16, 2017 Filed under: Breaking News, Foreign Policy, Global, Guns and Gadgets, Russia, War Room | Tags: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, Connecticut, Donald Trump, East Coast of the United States, Espionage, Fox News Channel, Groton, United States, United States Navy, Viktor Leonov 1 CommentA Russian spy ship that made a foray near a U.S. Navy submarine base in Connecticut in February is once again in international waters off the East Coast of the United States, presumably to monitor activity at American Navy bases.
The Viktor Leonov spy ship is now 50 miles east of the U.S. Navy’s submarine base at Kings Bay, Georgia, according to a defense official. The ship traveled there from a port in Havana, Cuba, where it docked for five days.
The Leonov’s earlier visit off the Eastern Seaboard in mid-February drew international attention although American officials noted at the time that the visits have become a regular occurrence in recent years.

Serena Marshall/ABC News. The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov CCB-175 is parked at a Havana port as the US starts talks Cuba, Jan. 21, 2015.
For one day in February the ship was offshore of the U.S. Navy submarine base in New London, Connecticut, the furthest north the Russian intelligence ship had ever traveled up the East Coast of the United States.
Following that brief stop off New England, the Leonov headed south where it spent almost two weeks east of the U.S. Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] ‘The Greg Gutfeld Show’ Introduces a New ‘Sponsor’: Victima
Posted: February 12, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Activism, Advertising, Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, drugs, Fox News Channel, Greivance, Identity Politics, Left Wing, Parody, satire, Special Snowflake, The Greg Gutfeld Show, TV Commercial, Twitter, Victim Culture, Victima Leave a comment‘The Greg Gutfeld Show‘ introduces a new ‘sponsor‘
to learn more about Victima: https://t.co/maZUvxlQLc
and return to @GregGutfeldShow at 5pm!— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 12, 2017
Source: The Greg Gutfeld Show [WATCH the video here]
[VIDEO] Krauthammer: Spicer ‘Got a Second Chance to Make a First Impression’
Posted: January 23, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, News conference, Sean Spicer, United States Leave a comment
Charles Krauthammer thought that Sean Spicer did an excellent job in his second press conference, and offers hope that it may have made up for the awful first one.
Newt Gingrich: I ‘Made a Big Boo-Boo’
Posted: December 22, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, President of the United States, Speaker (politics), Trump, United States, White House 1 Comment“I want all of you to know: I goofed. Draining the swamp is in. The alligators should be worried, and you’ll hear me write more about alligators and the swamp.”
“I want to report that I made a big boo-boo,” Mr. Gingrich said in a video posted to his Facebook page.
“I talked this morning with President-elect Donald Trump, and he reminded me: He likes draining the swamp,” Mr. Gingrich said. “I mischaracterized it the other day. He intends to drain the swamp.”
“He even describes it as DTS,” Mr. Gingrich said. Read the rest of this entry »
At Least 9 Dead, Dozens More Injured After Truck Plows into Berlin Christmas Market
Posted: December 19, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Politics, Terrorism | Tags: 2010 Copiapó mining accident, Berlin, Birmingham, Brussels Airport, Christmas Market, Fox News Channel, Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Paris, Scania, Terror, United Kingdom, United States Department of Homeland Security, West Midlands Police Leave a commentA truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin Monday night, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others in what witnesses described as a deliberate attack.
The large Scania truck with a Poland license plate crashed into the market outside the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. Television footage showed the truck with its windshield smashed out on the sidewalk alongside the market, with a swarm of ambulances nearby. A large Christmas tree with a gold star on top was toppled over nearby in the street, and tree branches were crushed under the truck’s tires.
Police said a suspect believed to be the driver was arrested nearby and a passenger was dead. Authorities estimated that 50 people were injured, but an exact number was not immediately available.

Police said they are still investigating whether the crash was an accident or an attack, but the incident had a chilling echo of the July 14 truck attack in Nice, France that killed 86 people.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the Nice attack, which was carried out by a Tunisian living in France. ISIS and Al Qaeda have both called on followers to use trucks in particular to attack public places.
Die Welt newspaper reported that a Polish TV station had interviewed a man named Ariel Zurawski, who said that his cousin was assigned to drive the truck involved in the incident. Zurawski claimed he had last spoken to his cousin at noon Monday and said he suspected the truck had been hijacked. He added that the truck had been loaded with steel structures weighing 25 tons. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Highlight Reel of Tucker Carlson’s Legendary Interview with Kurt Eichenwald
Posted: December 16, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Election, CIA, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Kurt Eichenwald, Mental Hospital, Newsweek, Seizure, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, United States Secretary of State Leave a comment
Investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald had something like a meltdown on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program Thursday night.
In response to repeated questions from Carlson to substantiate his tweeted allegation that President-elect Donald Trump spent time in a mental hospital in 1990, Eichenwald strangely claimed over and over that he wasn’t being allowed time to answer the question.
He was, and he also complained that they were wasting time, but Eichenwald never gave any…(read more)
Source: freebeacon.com
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Buys Remaining U.K. Sky Stake
Posted: December 10, 2016 Filed under: Global, Mediasphere | Tags: 21st Century Fox, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, News Corp, News Corporation, News International phone hacking scandal, Pay television, Rupert Murdoch, Sky UK, United Kingdom Leave a comment
The flag of the Twenty-First Century Fox Inc is seen waving at the company headquarters in the Manhattan borough in New York June 11, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) — Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. has struck a preliminary deal to buy the 61 percent of British pay-TV firm Sky PLC it does not already own for around $14 billion, five years after a political scandal wrecked a previous bid.
The proposed offer of £10.75 a share in cash, which is backed by Sky’s independent directors, would strengthen the position of James Murdoch — who is both chief executive of Fox and chairman of Sky — in his 85-year-old father’s media empire.
People familiar with the matter said Fox had pounced after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in June sent the pound down about 14 percent against the U.S. dollar and Sky’s share price tumbling.
Owning Sky would give Fox, whose cable networks include Fox News and FX, control of a pay-TV network spanning 22 million households in Britain, Ireland, Austria, Germany and Italy.
It would also be the latest deal to marry distribution with content after AT&T Inc. announced an $85 billion bid to buy Time Warner Inc. earlier this year. While Sky does produce some of its own content, including in news and sport, the deal would give Fox full ownership of a wider distribution platform in Europe.
“Fox has always seen its 39 percent stake in Sky as an unnatural state of being and has long been trying to buy full control,” a person familiar with the deal said. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Tucker Carlson vs. Washington Post Over ‘Angry White Racist’ Trump Voters
Posted: December 10, 2016 Filed under: Food & Drink, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Donald Trump, Fox News, Fox News Channel, Jennifer Rubin, journalism, Left Wing Hysteria, media, Media bias, news, propaganda, Racism, RUSSIA, The Washington Post, Tucker Carlson, video, White Male Leave a comment
Tucker Carlson takes on Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin over her claims that many of Trump’s voters are angry, racist white people. (December 9th, 2016)
[AUDIO] Tucker Carlson Busts Newsweek’s Incredible ‘Madam President’ Content
Posted: December 4, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Electoral College (United States), Fox News Channel, Green-Rainbow Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Kellyanne Conway, Newsweek, United States Secretary of State Leave a comment
CARLSON: Thank you. So, it what — Look, I mean everyone makes screwups like this, and I’m not here to mock you for that. It’s the content of it that was unbelievable. And it’s so unbelievable actually that I have got to put it on the screen. I want to read part of the introduction to the “Madam President” edition. It describes this:
… “as the tone of the election grew darker and more bizarre by the day, President-Elect Hillary Clinton ‘went high’ when her opponent and supporters went even lower.”
“’Fear and hate-based conservatism.’ It’s breathless. It’s not even hagiographic. It’s pornographic. It’s Soviet in its devotion to Hillary Clinton. Who wrote this?”
“No stranger to trudging through the mire of misogyny in her career as First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State, President Clinton managed to push for an issues-based campaign, even as a handful of Trump’s deplorable supporters, seeing the wide margin she held among female voters, called for repealing the 19th Amendment.”
It goes on and on. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Mollie Hemingway: ‘The Media Have Done a Lot to Hurt That Social Contract’
Posted: November 7, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 2016, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Mollie Hemingway, Republican Party (United States), Television, The Federalist Papers Leave a commentMollie Hemingway on Trump Bashing Katy Tur: She’s Being Overly Sensitive.
Mollie Hemingway joined Fox News‘ “Media Buzz,” November 6 to explain why Katy Tur is being overly sensitive over Trump calling her out by name at rallies.
“The sensitivity and defensiveness that we’re seeing among media people when they’ve done so much to destroy civil discourse and to disparage the views of so many people, I’m not that impressed.”
WikiLeaks: Post’s Dana Milbank Asked DNC Anti-Trump Research
Posted: November 7, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: 2016, Democratic National Committee, Donald Trump, Donna Brazile, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, John Podesta, Megyn Kelly, Newt Gingrich, WikiLeaks Leave a commentThe DNC research team worked together to come up with a list of things Milbank could use that was provided to Walker.
Peter Hasson reports: Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank appears to have asked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to do the majority of the research for a negative column he wrote about Donald Trump in April 2016.
Milbank’s column was titled, “The Ten Plagues of Trump,” and featured a list of “outrageous things” said by Trump. One of the “plagues” listed by Milbank, for example, was “Blood” and centered around a quote from Trump about Megyn Kelly: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
Internal DNC emails suggest Milbanks asked for — and then leaned heavily on — DNC opposition research on Trump for the article.
[Read the full story here, at The Daily Caller]
The day before Milbank’s article, DNC deputy communications director Eric Walker sent out an email to the DNC’s research team. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] MSNBC Terrorism Analyst Misidentifies Victor David Hanson as Russian Spy
Posted: November 6, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Russia | Tags: 2016, Anthony Weiner, Classified information, Clinton Foundation, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Hoover Institution, Huma Abedin, James Comey, The Wall Street Journal, United States, Victor Davis Hanson Leave a comment
On AM Joy, MSNBC terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance, bragging that he knows some of the FBI spy catchers, says “guys who have taken down big names, such as Aldrich Ames and Victor Davis Hanson.”
Hanson, an historian and one of America’s leading conservative intellectuals, is currently a Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is surely not a spy.
Nance presumably had in mind Robert Philip Hanssen, a former FBI agent who was convicted of spying for the Soviets and Russians. Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations #NBC News: The Stupidest Tweet in Media History
Posted: October 10, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Chris Wallace, Commission on Presidential Debates, Donald Trump, Fact checker, Fox News Channel, Hillary Clinton, Iraq War, Jim Lehrer, Matt Lauer, NBC Leave a commentThis morning in The Federalist:
…That brings me to the broader issue of this alleged “fact-checking” the media feels impelled to engage in during debates. Most of the pushback from moderators last night was arguable assertions or half-truths, and Trump was often debating 3-on-1, as he correctly asserted.
MOLLIE: Oh man, speaking of “fact checkers” you have got to see this.
It’s real, not a parody of fact checking. Totally real. Not photoshpped.
DAVID: Seriously, they’ve lost their minds. There are exceptions, yet so many journalists have been consumed by anti-Trump sentiment that they’ve lost any sense of professionalism — or, more precisely, Trump has given them an excuse to stop pretending. The moderators were hardly any better.
[Read the full story here, at thefederalist.com]
MOLLIE: They were both disasters. Cooper started poorly, visibly displaying anger, constantly interrupting Trump. He kept saying, in playground style, “Please let her talk. She let you talk.” Or something like that. This is just a strategically unwise move, as it seems petty and juvenile.
Raddatz started fine, because she was mostly silent, and got off a few good questions to each candidate, but then she just lost it. A common criticism of moderators is that they think they’re debating the candidates. But in last night’s debate, Raddatz seemed to forget that she wasn’t a candidate herself. The moment where she began debating Trump on foreign policy was epicly awful. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Power of Video’
Posted: October 8, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Ann Coulter, Black swan theory, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Hannity, Hillary Clinton, Illustration, National Review, Rich Lowry, Sean Hannity, Stop Trump movement, Television, United States, video Leave a commentBREAKING: Suspect in Washington State #CascadeMallShooting in Custody
Posted: September 24, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice | Tags: Burlington, Cascade Mall, Fox News Channel, Macy's, Washington State, Washington State Patrol Leave a commentDEVELOPING: A suspect in Friday night’s shooting that killed five people at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Wash. has been arrested, authorities said Saturday night. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Krauthammer: Ted Cruz’s Endorsement of Trump Is ‘Business as Usual’
Posted: September 23, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Free the Delegates, Hillary Clinton, Mark Levin, news, Presidential nominee, Republican Party (United States), Stop Trump movement, Ted Cruz, video 1 Comment
Affirming that Ted Cruz’s endorsement of Donald Trump helps the Republican candidate, Charles Krauthammer added that it is another example of normal politics.
Fox News Terminates ‘The Five’ Co-Host Bob Beckel
Posted: May 19, 2017 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: 21st Century Fox, Bill O'Reilly (political commentator), Bill Shine, Fox News Channel, Gabriel Sherman, George H.W. Bush, Gretchen Carlson, Republican Party (United States), Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch | Leave a commentBrian Steinberg reports: Fox News Channel is parting ways — again — with Bob Beckel, the co-host of its primetime program, “The Five.”
“Bob Beckel was terminated today for making an insensitive remark to an African-American employee,” the network said in a statement.
The dismissal opens — or perhaps closes — another chapter in an off-and-on relationship Beckel has had with the 21st Century Fox-owned cable-news outlet over the years. Beckel, a longtime political consultant as well as a former campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, joined Fox News in 2000, and had a years-long tenure on “The Five” when it aired in the late afternoon. Indeed, he was one of the program’s original co-hosts.
He departed in 2015 while recuperating from back surgery in a split that was seen as less an amicable. “We tried to work with Bob for months, but we couldn’t hold ‘The Five’ hostage to one man’s personal issues,” said Bill Shine, who was then the network’s executive vice president of programming, in a statement at the time. “He took tremendous advantage of our generosity, empathy and goodwill and we simply came to the end of the road with him.”
But Beckel returned to Fox News in 2017 after doing a stint at CNN, and was greeted with open arms. “Bob was missed by many fans of ‘The Five’ and we’re happy to welcome him back to the show,” said Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of Fox News Channel and its corporate parent, 21st Century Fox, in a prepared statement, in January.
Fox News’ human resources department was made aware of a complaint about what one person familiar with the situation characterized as a “racially insensitive remark” on Tuesday evening. Executives conducted an internal investigation, this person said, and decided to part ways with Beckel Friday morning. Read the rest of this entry »
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