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CBS: Did Romney Claim Aurora Weapons Were Illegal?

CBS: Did Romney Claim Aurora Weapons Were Illegal?

CBS News published an article on its website Wednesday afternoon with the misleading headline “Romney claims many Aurora weapons were illegal.”This makes it sound as if Romney is keeping up with the news, since theguns used by shooter James Holmes

NBC'S Touré Race Baits on Guns

NBC'S Touré Race Baits on Guns

MSNBC’s Touré made Aurora all about race yesterday:  “We understand those are outlier crimes, somebody going to shoot up the mall or shoot up the school. I would hope that it would be a Trayvon Martin situation that would make

MSNBC Lost Viewers As Colorado Shooting News Broke

MSNBC Lost Viewers As Colorado Shooting News Broke

What we now know happened to cable news viewership on Friday is telling because it gives us some insight into MSNBC viewers. When they want news instead of left-wing pablum, even lefties are smart enough to change the channel. Yep,

ABC Rips Brian Ross For Tea Party Colorado Shooting Slur

ABC Rips Brian Ross For Tea Party Colorado Shooting Slur

The executives at America’s major news networks are always willing to throw someone else under the bus. Despite the fact that ABC News star and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos greenlit the Brian Ross segment in which Ross explained that

David Frum: Uninformed on Fast and Furious

David Frum: Uninformed on Fast and Furious

David Frum at The Daily Beast uses his frustration about the lack of gun control momentum in the aftermath of the Aurora shootings to take an incoherent swipe at the Republicans attention to the Fast and Furious scandal. The right-wing

Politico Wants Romney To Do Its Reporting For Them

Politico Wants Romney To Do Its Reporting For Them

Today’s feature story at the corrupt Politico is written by Maggie Haberman (you remember her) and, in order to aid and abet the Obama campaign’s narrative about how secretive and shady Romney is, the article is titled “The Hidden Mitt.”

Big Investor Bailing from Newsweek/Daily Beast

Big Investor Bailing from Newsweek/Daily Beast

A big publishing story of 2010 was when stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman bought financially troubled Newsweek Magazine for $1 in the hopes of revitalizing the venerable old publication into the “thought leader” it once was. Now, since Mr. Harman’s

The Michele Bachmann Witch Hunt

The Michele Bachmann Witch Hunt

The Republican establishment has long kept Michele Bachmann at arm’s length and the exploitation of her simple inquiry into foreign policy matters (along with Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney, Trent Franks, and Lynn Westmorland) is just another example. What’s worse: they seem eager

'New York Times' Rips Nolte's 'Dark Knight' Review

'New York Times' Rips Nolte's 'Dark Knight' Review

Ross Douthat is a conservative columnist at The New York Times, and a very good one.  Today, he took issue with the “Dark Knight Rises” review I published over the weekend, calling it “equally preposterous” to a Salon review that declared

ABC's  Tea Party Smear: Buck Stops with Stephanopoulos

ABC's Tea Party Smear: Buck Stops with Stephanopoulos

George Stephanopoulos is the anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” So doesn’t the buck stop with him and with the show’s producers for what happened Friday morning? Using the scantest of circumstantial evidence, investigative reporter Brian Ross chose to use