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Media Wrong Again as Kamala Harris’ Economic Policies are More Popular with Voters

Media Wrong Again as Kamala Harris’ Economic Policies are More Popular with Voters

In what will be a surprise if readers buy what the mainstream media has been telling them, voters not only…

4 months ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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."

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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?

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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,…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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.

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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,…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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.

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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.

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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,…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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…

12 years ago

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

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago