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Host Brian Williams Cut From Veterans Award Special

The indignities continue to pile on for disgraced NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Back in January, before his serial fabrications were uncovered, and he was suspended for 6 months, Williams hosted an awards ceremony to honor military veterans and

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Exclusive: Jake Tapper Does Not Have a Stephanopoulos Problem

For whatever reason, according to CNN, a Clinton Foundation error dipped Jake Tapper in the George Stephanopoulos grease by listing the respected CNN anchor as a “speaker” for an upcoming Foundation event scheduled in early June.  Apparently, inquiries from USA

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German Journo: Scottish Nationalists are Nazi Lite

A prominent German journalist living in the Scottish Highlands has provoked the wrath of his adopted homeland by describing Scottish National Party (SNP) ideology as “modern national socialism light.” Reiner Luyken, who has lived in the Highland village of Achiltibuie for

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Scandal Rap Sheet: 48 Reasons to Distrust & Despise the Media

The American mainstream media is filled to the brim with liars, frauds, partisans, cheats, plagiarists, and those who tolerate, defend and enable all of them. There is no American institution — not the NFL, not the tobacco companies, not any corporation or enterprise regularly targeted by the media — that engages in anywhere near the amount of fraud and dishonesty that serially oozes from Our Media Overlords.

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NYT: Ad Promoting Anti-Clinton Book Reaches Unlikely Audience

The writers at The Nation, one of the foremost liberal media outlets in the country and a driving force behind Bill de Blasio’s rise in the 2013 mayoral primary in New York City, have been open about their desire to see a challenge from the left to Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.

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CBS: Groups Lobbying on Trade Paid Hillary Clinton $2.5M in Speaking Fees

Since leaving her post as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton earned millions of dollars delivering 41 paid speeches in the U.S. to a variety of companies and organizations. At least 10 of those groups have been lobbying Congress and federal agencies on trade, an issue that has divided Democrats as the Obama administration pushes for a 12-nation pacific trade deal – and around which Hillary Clinton has remained mum.

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12 Journalists Condemn George Stephanopoulos

Mainstream media journalists, including several former ABC News reporters, have launched an avalanche criticism against Clinton strategist-turned-ABC News host George Stephanopoulos’ decision to hide his deep involvement and $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation from viewers while conducting a hyper-aggressive interview with Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer

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Democrats Have a Demographic Problem in 2016

A report by Daniel J. McGraw in this weekend’s Politico brings rigorous data analysis–i.e. “quick back-of-the-napkin math”–to bear on the GOP’s demographic “problem”: namely, that Republican voters tend to be old, so more of them are dying. (If you are a Democrat, this is not a problem, as death has historically posed no real impediment to voting.) Yet the real demographic problem in 2016 is not the age of Republican voters: rather, it is the age of the Democratic candidates.

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Spoiler Alert: This Is What Feminism Looks Like

The award winning author Walter Mosley once said: “A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.” How very sexist of him. For, as Jessica Valenti has rightly pointed out in the Guardian, sexism isn’t just about