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CNN needs to fire Jeffrey Lord
if they want to keep the name "News" in their name. His performance
with Van Jones tonight was shameful. Utterly shameless and also
shameful. It was an insult to every Black person watching, and a mark on
the head of any white person who would tolerate such lies.
First, Lord tried to deny Trump's racism and claim Trump had "disavowed" David Duke.
Then he goes to the so-called Republican Establishment to prove he
and his pal Trump are no racists. Feigning shock and repulsion, Lord
claimed, "Their view of civil rights is to tip the waiter five bucks at
the local country club. This is atrocious." READ MORE
Rand Paul didn't do himself any favors while trying to defend getting testy with yet another female reporter.
Saying that you're just a hot head who can't control his temper doesn't
appear any more presidential than being a condescending sexist.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) denied on Wednesday afternoon that
he has a problem with female journalists, just hours after he got into a
testy exchange with NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie.
Paul was asked during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the
accusations from his critics that his interactions with journalists have
a sexist bent. READ MORE
New Day host Chris Cuomo, who’s become a one-man wrecking ball over Indiana’s just-passed “religious liberty” bill, confronted Ryan McCann,
Policy Director of the Indiana Family Institute, Tuesday morning for
his third contentious interview on the subject in the past 24 hours.
McCann argued that the bill only ensures protections for religious
minorities, something Cuomo said was belied by the presence of anti-LGBT
figures at the bill’s signing. McCann said that the statements Cuomo
was alluding to had been passed around the internet “by the left.”
Things got personal when Cuomo demanded McCann account for the real
motives behind the bill, which was supported by “groups like yours, that
are Christian-based, with an animus toward the LGBT community. Own who
and what you are. There’s nothing wrong with that you’re allowed to
believe it but you’re not about native Americans or people who want
liver transplants, right?” READ MORE
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a journalist, there's a buzz you can detect once the normal restraints
in your business have been loosened, a smell of fresh chum in the
waters, urging us down the road to war. Many years removed from the Iraq
disaster, that smell is back, this time with Iran.
You can just feel it: many of the same newspapers and
TV stations we saw leading the charge in the Bush years have gone back
to the attic and are dusting off their war pom-poms. CNN's house
blockhead, the Goldman-trained ex-finance professional Erin Burnett,
came out with a doozie of a broadcast yesterday, a Rumsfeldian jeremiad
against the Iranian threat would have fit beautifully in the
Saddam's-sending-drones-at-New-York halcyon days of late 2002. Here's
how the excellent Glenn Greenwald described Burnett's rant:
It's the sort of thing you would produce if you set out
to create a mean-spirited parody of mindless, war-hungry, fear-mongering
media stars, but you wouldn't dare go this far because you'd want the
parody to have a feel of realism to it, and this would be way too
extreme to be believable. She really hauled it all out: WMDs! Terrorist
sleeper cells in the U.S. controlled by Tehran! Iran's long-range
nuclear missiles reaching our homeland!!!! She almost made the
anti-Muslim war-mongering fanatic she brought on to interview, Rep.
Peter King, appear sober and reasonable by comparison.
Like Greenwald, I was particularly struck by Burnett's
freak-out about Iran's nuclear program, about which she said, "No one
buys Iran's claim that [it is] for peaceful purposes." She then cited
remarks by Director of Intelligence James Clapper, which, she said,
"drove that message home." But then she ran a clip with Clapper's quote,
which read as follows: READ MORE
On
her radio show, CNN contributor and Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch
cheered on an Internet video reportedly showing U.S. Marines urinating
on what appear to be dead Afghans, saying she would "drop trou and do it
too." The video has been widely condemned by Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, U.S. military commanders,
foreign policy experts and others as depicting conduct that "does not
reflect our values" and may endanger Afghanistan peace talks.
On yesterday's edition of The Five, Eric Bolling gave a decidedly skewed version of history when he said, "America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time."
Media conservatives have done this before.
In November of 2009, former Bush White House staffer Dana Perino said "we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term."
In January of last year, Rudy Giuliani -- who was the mayor of New York City at the time of the 9/11 attacks -- told Good Morning America that "We had no domestic attacks under Bush."
In a subsequent appearance on CNN, Giuliani said, "I usually say we had no domestic attacks, no major domestic attack under President Bush since Sept. 11" and "I did omit the words 'since Sept. 11.' I apologize for that."
Attack Against El Al Ticket Counter At LAX: In 2002, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at an El Al Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport killing two people and wounding four others before being shot dead. A 2004 Justice Department report stated that Hadayet's case had been "officially designated as an act of international terrorism."
DC Sniper: The state of Virginia indicted Washington, D.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad -- along with his accomplice, a minor at the time -- on terrorism charges for one of the murders he committed during a three-week shooting spree across Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Muhammad was convicted, sentenced to death,
UNC SUV Attack: In March 2006, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove an SUV into an area of campus, striking nine pedestrians. According to reports, Taheri-azar said he acted because he wanted to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world."
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a journalist, there's a buzz you can detect once the normal restraints
in your business have been loosened, a smell of fresh chum in the
waters, urging us down the road to war. Many years removed from the Iraq
disaster, that smell is back, this time with Iran.