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Bubbling up on Twitter Friday afternoon is this 2009 tweet from a verified account owned by NBC News’s Toure’ (co-host of MSNBC’s “The Cycle”) that questions whether or not the Pentagon was hit by a plane on September 11, 2001.

This is how Obama and the media got their groove together back in 2008 and have held tight to it ever since: 1. Obama wants something (to become president, ObamaCare, gun control, etc.) 2. The Media Collective gathers together and

At the height of his gun-grab demagoguery, for a time, Piers Morgan was able to brag (and did brag) that his ratings were number-one on CNN. Being number-one on a last place network is something, I guess — but now

In observance of Holy Thursday, a day on which Catholic priests and bishops throughout the world recreate Jesus washing and kissing the feet of his Apostles at the Last Supper, Pope Francis did the same to a dozen juvenile inmates

Pretty sad state of affairs when all kinds of government welfare can’t even manage to keep you on the air: NPR will discontinue its two-decade-old afternoon call-in program “Talk of the Nation,” it announced on Friday. … According to NPR

Soledad O’Brien Signs Off From CNN. After more than a year of some of the worst ratings in cable news history, Soledad O’Brien took the last few minutes of her morning show “Starting Point” to say goodbye: Whatever. Soledad O’Brien

According to a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, Christians suffer and are harassed in more places than any other religious group. Writing for The Commentator, Lawrence J. Haas asks, “How many more Christians around the world must die

CBS Sports analyst Doug Gottlieb caused a politically correct firestorm Thursday night during the network’s NCAA basketball tournament coverage.  Gotlieb joined co-hosts Greg Gumbel, Kenny Smith, Greg Anthony and Charles Barkley on the pre-show coverage and made a joke about the

All it takes to buy some love from the media, apparently, is a few billion dollars and some half-baked proposals to control Americans on everything from soda size to gun ownership. What else to make of the fact that from

UPDATE: Howard Kurtz states that a source of his claims Walters will retire in 2014. A source confirms that Barbara Walters will step down in May 2014, but wants to announce it on her own terms. Hard in the Twitter

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King questioned President Barack Obama’s decision to allow his daughters Sasha and Malia to vacation in the Bahamas for spring break this week during a Wednesday radio appearance. King said that the president allowing Sasha and

Though the speculation was that CNN primetime anchor Erin Burnett would be joining Chris Cuomo as co-host of CNN’s new morning show, the struggling cable news outlet announced Thursday that congressional correspondent Kate Boulduan will join Cuomo. Michaela Pereira will

“If Jesus were alive today, he would be more inclined to say, ‘you know, I didn’t know it all…’” – Rev. Oliver White, Sean Hannity Show, March 27, 2013 In general, most news outlets have provided awful coverage of the

The paragraph below is from an Associated Press news item, not an opinion column. Pretty self-explanatory: Republican majorities in the Virginia House and Senate pushed the bill to passage one year after a more modest GOP-sponsored voter identification law failed

Jenna Wolfe, NBC’s “Today” weekend anchor, came out as a lesbian on the air this morning. She also announced she is pregnant: Today” weekend anchor Jenna Wolfe revealed some major news on Wednesday’s program. “I’m actually pregnant,” she said. “I’m

Politico columnist Roger Simon has never been the brightest bulb in the chandelier. But he has always been a reliable bellwether for what the extreme left is thinking. And according to Simon’s Wednesday column, the left is a little freaked

The last time CNN paired Anderson Cooper with Kathy Griffin to welcome in the new year the reality show staple pretended to fellate the silver-haired anchor. America cringed. New CNN head honcho Jeff Zucker apparently felt a burst of inspiration.

Eight months into President George W. Bush’s second term, the Washington Post wrote that Bush’s frequent trips to his Texas ranch symbolized “a lackadaisical approach to the world’s most important day job” and gleefully noted that Bush was intent on setting the

In oral arguments before the Supreme Court Tuesday, Justice Antonin Scalia repeatedly pressed Ted Olson, the attorney advocating same-sex marriage, over the issue of when exactly marriage, as it is defined in most states today, became unconstitutional:  “We don’t prescribe

Media Matters is scrambling to discredit a much-discussed report on America’s disability program by journalist Chana Joffe-Walt that was featured on Chicago’s Public Radio This American Life and National Public Radio’s (NPR) All Things Considered.  Media Matters researcher Hannah Groch-Begley

If anyone wants to argue that the same government currently forcing religious institutions to purchase the abortion pill through ObamaCare will not eventually use civil rights violations in order to attempt to force the Church to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies

Abdel Bari Atwan is Editor-In-Chief of London based Al Quds Al Arabi, an Arab language daily newspaper published since 1989.  He is a frequent guest on the BBC, known for making controversial, anti-Israeli statements and provoking heated exchanges with adversaries.   On

NBC’s Pete Williams watched Tuesday’s oral arguments and seems pretty sure the Supremes are not going to impost same-sex marriage on the rest of the country: In a historic oral argument on a challenge to state laws limiting marriage to

No one knows how the nine Supreme Court justices will ultimately rule in the two cases involving same-sex marriage currently before them, but a respected site that watches and closely covers the Court has made an uncharacteristically bold prediction after

Piers Morgan appears to have a pretty low opinion of America, and Americans for that matter. He seems to have staked his entire American broadcast career on the gun issue and criticizing America for our desire to retain our right