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After a week of evidence coming to light about the connections of Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Chief-of-Staff Huma Abedin to Islamist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and internationally-designated terrorist enities, the response from the left is ridicule, misrepresentation, caricature and–on the most

Reason 16,988 as to why The Most Trusted Name In News is just the opposite: – – What CNN’s Costello does in that clip is a media trick I call “Matter-Of-Facting.” First off, Costello should not be presenting her misguided opinion

In a bizarre and utterly unsourced report suggesting that the hoity-toity Romneys may be allowing their highfalutin equine hijinks to corrupt their campaign, ABC News states today that Ann Romney’s horse’s participation in the London Olympics may delay her husband’s

What’s important about the NPR excerpt below, which broadcast this morning, is that this is everything NPR’s Cokie Roberts has to say about Romney’s motives for going to Poland. This is the entirety of it. You can listen for yourself

Matthew Jaffe of ABC News, a reporter assigned to cover “the 2012 presidential campaign,” got married this weekend to Katie Hogan, a deputy press secretary for Obama’s election campaign. Attendees at the event included multiple high-ranking members of the Obama

According to the Washington Post, the Ford Foundation has given the newspaper some $500,000 to hire four new staff – a lucrative $125,000 per job deal. The goal: to try “new approaches to preserve and advance high-quality journalism.” The four

The Associated Press reported, and National Public Radio has repeated, a vicious lie about Mitt Romney–one that is being propagated by Palestinian propagandists with a proven history of lying, and that is being circulated by the mainstream American media, delighted

First we saw it with Romney’s comments about the Olympics, now we’re seeing it with Romney’s comments comparing the state of Israel’s economy with that of the Palestinian-controlled territories: Speaking the truth is now politically incorrect and undiplomatic. Romney’s quote

On Sunday morning, the New York Times found itself on the opposite – and embarrassing – end of an elaborate hoax when an op-ed piece seemingly authored by former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller appeared online and made

By some accounts, since Zimbabwe’s terror-inducing Robert Mugabe came to power more than thirty years ago, up to 480,000 people have lost their lives. Of those not killed outright or starved to death, tens of thousands of people have had

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer has written an extraordinary column in the Washington Post asking for an apology and correction from President Barack Obama’s communications director in the White House, Dan Pfeiffer, after Pfeiffer’s “bust” of Krauthammer’s reference to a bust of

Now that Obamacare has jumped the hurdle of the Supreme Court, the New York Times has decided to give us the bad news: there are nowhere near enough doctors in the country, and the problems will get exponentially worse with

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 members of the Israeli delegation to the Olympic Games in Munich by Palestinian terrorists of the “Black September” faction. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected pleas by the families of

The journalistic malpractice outfit calling itself PolitiFact Ohio has ruled as “Pants on Fire” 5 of 21 recent statements by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel, supporting a “rocky start” narrative at legacy media outlets covering the campaign. Cherry-picking and

Attacks by Democratic Mayors Thomas Menino of Boston and Rahm Emanuel of Chicago on Chick-fil-A have backfired in their own hometowns. In both cities, as Newsbusters reports, the leading paper has taken its mayor to the free speech woodshed. In Boston,

Like any political campaign, you are told to attack your opponent’s strengths. Make no doubt about it, the Activist Old Media is Barack Obama’s most powerful SuperPAC, and they are out to attack Mitt Romney on his strength. Take the

It’s hunting season, and the mainstream media is firing at big conservative donors. The Koch Brothers are a common target, with Chris Matthews not so much playing “Hardball” as bean ball, devoting a segment called “Dirty, Angry Money,” where he

Jonathan Chait has a piece at New York magazine proposing a novel newinsight on why Obama’s “you didn’t build that” gaffe is hurting thePresident. The “real reason“according to Chait is that Obama was speaking in “black dialect.” Inother words, the

People can debate whether or not Romney made a diplomatic “gaffe” all they want, but what’s not debatable is that, even outside of the world of horserace politics, our collapsing economy is a very serious matter which makes it, you

After a year of humiliating ratings and after thirty years with the network, CNN Chief Jim Walton announced today he is resigning: “There’s always pressure,” he said. “I’ve been doing this a long time and CNN has had its ups and downs,

The media is still playing up Mitt Romney’s criticism of the London Olympics–even ahead of today’s big economic news–and now they’re playing up his attempt to walk it back. (The UK Daily Mail is calling Romney’s change of heart a

All day Wednesday, the Old Media establishment was going gaga over the “gaffes” that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney supposedly committed on his overseas tour. But all the many gaffes Obama committed with our allies — especially the Brits —

The mayors of Chicago and Boston have walked into a “First Amendment buzzsaw” by denying Chick-Fil-A the right to open and operate their fast food stores in the two cities.  If TIME magazine realizes that the Democrats are misusing their

Polls and the behavior of the Obama campaign show that the unceasing attacks on Romney’s business record have not only failed to hurt Romney but have probably backfired on the President, hurting the only thing keeping him alive — his