Category Archives: Journalistic Malpractice

Politico: Democrats “Lash Out” At Republicans Over Shutdown

Yesterday the Politico was incensed by Republicans “tossing insults” at the Senate for being “lazy”, having taken the weekend off. Today, worse insults emanating from Democrats are treated a wee bit differently House Democrats lash out at GOP over shutdown Visibly angry and at times raising their voices, House Democrats slammed Republicans for sending Washington […]

Politico Has Hissy Fit Over GOP Using Mild Insults

Really, Republicans are damned if they do damned if they don’t in the majority of American media, so they might as well do Republicans toss insults at Harry Reid Washington’s shutdown blame game is already in full force – and the government isn’t even closed yet. About 20 House Republicans gathered on the steps of […]

Ezra Klein Takes One For Team Climahysteria, Walks Back Gore Hurricane Comment

Lots of people, from pundits to scientists, have hit Gore for his comment about “category 6 hurricanes”. Like a good little disciple, Ezra Klein takes one for the team (via Junk Science) (Washington Post) On Wednesday, I published an interview with Al Gore in which he mentioned that the scientific community was beginning to consider […]

Dana Milbank Upset Democrats Dare Accuse Bush, Bush Admin. Of Wrong Doing

Oh, wait, sorry, he’s upset that Republicans have suggested that Obama and his administration might have engaged in wrong doing and could be involved in the IRS targeting scheme Accuse first and ask questions later A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you […]

NBC Makes Up Quote For Michele Bachmann: “I’m quitting my House seat in 2014”

Here’s their headline Nowhere in the story is that headline verified. Nor, if one listens to the 8+ minute video from Bachmann will you hear that phrase. A bit of bias, eh? For Max Baucus NBC had the headline Max Baucus heeds the call of Nature. And Harkin won’t seek 6th Senate term (for Tom […]

Saudi Arabia Warned US About Tamerlan Tsarnaev

As Obama is defending those responsible for keeping the US as safe as they can from terrorists, his pleas seem rather weak in the face of more information, in the form of an exclusive from the UK Daily Mail…..isn’t it funny that we have to get so much of our information on these types of […]

USA Today: Two School Tragedies 23 Years Apart Is A “Familiar Pattern”

If by a “tragically familiar pattern“, as their headline reads, they mean “Democrats attempting to take away Constitutional rights and punish the innocent for the crimes of the guilty”, well, yes. In 1989 a deranged gunman shot up a school (from outside) in Stockton, California with a “military-style rifle” (nice to know that the writer […]

NY Times Trots Out “Austerity” Regarding Sequester

Nowhere in this article, which could have been written by the White House (but, really, this is just the way Liberals think) is it mentioned that Sequestration is simply a slight reduction in the growth of government Austerity Kills Government Jobs as Cuts to Budgets Loom I know, I know, you’re really, really, really broken […]

Surprise! Paper Of Record Not Particularly Concerned With Obama Drone Strike Policy

If there’s one major media outlet those on the Left go to for news and opinion, it would be the NY Times. The same NY Times that excoriated Bush for, well, everything he did. In this case, we’re talking about going after Islamist terrorists. We all remember the hysteria regarding Abu Ghraid. The constant drumbeat […]

LA Times Wants To Stem The Flow Of Guns To Mexico

Strangely, the phrase “Operation Fast And Furious” is never mentioned (LA Times) There are plenty of reasons right here at home to support President Obama’s effort to reform the nation’s gun laws. But if Congress requires additional arguments, it should consider that easy access to guns is also undermining the United States’ avowed goal of […]

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