(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 22, 2017
Media Should Report That President Trump Is Violating The Constitution -- And It's An Impeachable Offense President Donald Trump's continued ownership interest in the Trump Organization means that he is in violation of the U.S. Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which prohibits the president from personally benefiting from actions taken by foreign governments and their agents.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 30, 2016
Conservative Newspapers Explain Why They Refused To Endorse "Frightening" Trump David Yepsen, former Des Moines Register political columnist, said, "One thing Trump has to do is get moderate and wavering Republicans to 'come home.' When Republican papers endorse Hillary Clinton, those endorsements become something that might continue to give those Republicans pause about him." USA Today, which has "never taken sides" in a presidential race, declared Trump "unfit for the presidency" in an editorial.

SHARE        Thursday, October 1, 2015
Hannity Doubles Down: The Phony Benghazi Scandal Committee Fox Built Was "Political" In the year-and-a-half between the attacks and House Speaker John Boehner's formation of a special committee to investigate the administration's response to Benghazi, Fox aired over a thousand evening segments about Benghazi.

SHARE        Monday, February 23, 2015
Former CBS News Colleague Calls O'Reilly's Combat Claim "Absurd" Another one of Bill O'Reilly's former colleagues at CBS News is casting doubt on his claims that he reported from a "combat situation" in Buenos Aires during the Falklands War. Charles Krause, a CBS News correspondent from 1980 to 1983 who reported from Buenos Aires during the same period as O'Reilly, is the latest to contradict the Fox News host.

(9 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 24, 2014
NRA Floats Idea Of Kids Needing To Show Gun Proficiency "To Advance To The Next Grade" NRA News commentator Billy Johnson imagined a compulsory education system that would require children to become proficient with firearms, just like "reading and writing," even "if they didn't want to learn. It wouldn't matter if they didn't want to learn. We would make it necessary to advance to the next grade."

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 3, 2014
Fox's Benghazi Expert Endorsed Assassinating Obama Last Week Days after he wrote a column endorsing the assassination of President Obama, Fox hosted Michael Scheuer to accuse Hillary Clinton of effectively murdering the Americans who died during the 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Scheuer, a former CIA officer with a long history of extreme rhetoric, has appeared on Fox News and Fox Business dozens of times over the years.

(16 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 5, 2013
Ted Nugent's Presidential Pitch: Disenfranchise The Working Poor And The Elderly Ted Nugent proposed a compromise that would trade closing the gun show loophole for closing "the federal voting loophole," which allows individuals who do not pay federal income tax to vote. Implementing this plan would involve taking away the vote from a large number of Americans who work but do not owe federal income taxes as well as retirees and some individuals who cannot work because of illness or disability.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 10, 2013
Former 60 Minutes Producer Mapes: Benghazi Story Aimed At "Obsessed" Right-Wing Audience Former 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes, who was fired for her role in a controversial 2004 story about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard, accused CBS News of pandering to a right-wing audience with her former program's recent Benghazi report, for which the network has been criticized and forced to retract.

SHARE        Thursday, October 24, 2013
CNN's Latest Gingrich Ethics Problem: His Company Received RNC Payment Last month, Newt Gingrich's media production company was paid $9,500 by the Republican National Committee, a fact he has not divulged on Crossfire, the CNN program he co-hosts. It's the latest ethics headache brought to the network by their new host.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 26, 2013
New CNN Host Newt Gingrich Is Already Violating Network Rules Issues with Gingrich and his PAC don't end with his CNN disclosure problem. Mother Jones raised significant questions about whether Gingrich is fronting a "dubious PAC" since "most of the money flowing into American Legacy PAC is benefiting vendors and consultants who have long been associated with Gingrich" rather than actual candidates.

SHARE        Thursday, September 5, 2013
Fox Asks Rumsfeld About Extending "Hand Of Friendship" To Dictators, Forgets About Saddam Hussein What's so awkward about Fox pressing Rumsfeld on the U.S. sending "mixed signals" is Rumsfeld himself had offered a "hand of friendship" to Iraq's dictator at the time when Hussein was engaging in the use of banned chemical weapons -- actions the Bush administration would later cite as a justification for military strikes.

SHARE        Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Laura Ingraham Celebrates March On Washington 50th Anniversary With Gunshots And Race-Baiting On her August 26 radio broadcast, Ingraham criticized the event and its speakers, saying the goal "was to co-opt the legacy of Martin Luther King into a modern-day liberal agenda." Ingraham began playing a clip of Lewis' speech from the 50th anniversary rally, before interrupting the playback of his comments with the sound of a loud gunshot.

SHARE        Thursday, August 1, 2013
Karl Rove Absolves GOP Of Blame For Debt Ceiling Hostage Taking Karl Rove ignored the Republican obstructionism that led to the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, falsely claiming President Obama was entirely to blame for automatic government spending cuts and misleadingly accusing Obama of hypocrisy for criticizing the devastating effects of the law.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 19, 2013
Dissecting Bob Woodward's Comparison Of Benghazi To Watergate There's no small irony to Woodward injecting himself into what has become a scandal driven by deceptively edited emails passed off to reporters, given the recent attention he received after using a similar method to support his ridiculous accusation that a White House aide threatened him.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The John Bolton Acknowledgment That Should End The Benghazi Scandal Mongering Fox News contributor John Bolton delivered a devastating blow to the right-wing scandal mongering over Benghazi when he acknowledged that it was impossible to know at the exact moment of the September 2012 terrorist attack whether it was appropriate to shift security resources away from the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 11, 2013
Stephen Moore, Rush Limbaugh, And The Right-Wing War On Science mental midgets mock science, even more cluelessly than past right wing morons. In this case a high school kid calls out a Wall Street Journal hack... but the problem is growing-- as the right's attack on education continues to dumb down America (rk)

SHARE        Thursday, February 7, 2013
Journalists on NRA "Enemies List" Speak Out On "Thuggish" and "Insane" Approach The NRA web site lists 37 columnists, cartoonists, and editors along with other organizations and public officials it sees as opponents of its efforts under the headline "National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies." The list claims that the journalists in question "actively editorialize in favor of gun control laws." Several of those news people on the list criticized the NRA for the move.

(13 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 20, 2012
Why Isn't The Media Discussing The Unprecedented Law Giving Gun Makers And Dealers Immunity? Faced with an increasing number of successful lawsuits over reckless business practices that funneled guns into the hands of criminals, the 2005 immunity law was a victory for the NRA, which "lobbied lawmakers intensely" to shield gun makers and dealers from personal injury law.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 6, 2012
Karl Rove And Dick Morris: Too Embarrassing For Fox News Fox News producers are under orders to limit the appearances of contributors Karl Rove and Dick Morris. Fox relied heavily upon Rove and Morris to interpret polling and project the winner of the 2012 presidential election, which they invariably projected being Mitt Romney.

SHARE        Thursday, November 15, 2012
Fox News Kicks Off "Swift Boat" Campaign Against John Kerry Ahead Of Possible Defense Post Fox News is distorting Sen. John Kerry's record in an attempt to discredit his possible nomination as Defense secretary. But Fox's criticism is based on the misleading and false claims of a disgraced 2004 Swift Boat campaign against Kerry and on the misrepresentation of past Kerry remarks.