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Finally, a White House Press Conference Went Completely Off the Rails, and It Should’ve Happened Long Ago
The press does not work for the White House. While they are invited to be members of the White House press corps, their job is to challenge the White House when things sound batshit crazy. While news outlets have been ambitious in working behind the scenes to debunk many of the asinine comments coming from…
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People Are Butt-Hurt Because Angela Rye Refused to Say Trump Was Her President
How gangster is Angela Rye? Angela Rye is gangster like Tupac coming out of court wearing a hockey jersey spitting at reporters. Angela Rye is gangster like Harriet Tubman’s pistol. Angela Rye is gangster like the side eye I imagine Rosa Parks gave that white man who told her to move to the back of…
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Oh, Look: NRA Spokeswoman Finally Had Something to Say About Philando Castile’s Shooting Death
It’s been some three-and-a-half weeks since a jury acquitted a St. Anthony, Minn., police officer in the death of permit-to-carry gun owner Philando Castile in a case that enraged the nation. But now that all the drama has unfolded and there is nothing else to be said or done, a National Rifle Association spokeswoman has…
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Trump’s Anti-CNN Video Has Racist Roots
Originator Apologizes, Then the Plot Thickens Diversity in Local TV Newsrooms Rises a Point White Founding Fathers, Diverse Progeny Writer Says NFL Network Owes Prospect an Apology After Series, Legislature to Probe N.C. Prison Abuses ESPN: The Magazine Seeks Diverse Storytellers Racial Differences Over Coverage of Mass Shootings Black Women in Diversity Posts at Apple,…
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Stupid or Liars? James O’Keefe’s Van Jones Hoax Raises an Important Question
Have you ever played the game “stupid or liar”? It was created by podcaster Adam Corolla. The premise is that whenever someone says something that is blatantly false, you must figure out if he or she is either incredibly stupid or a bald-faced liar. Like when your boyfriend tells you he has no idea who…
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Trump Couldn’t Wait to Hit Twitter After CNN’s Fake-News Debacle
A broken clock is right twice a day, and every once in a while a reputable news organization messes up. On Monday it was announced that three of CNN’s high-profile journalists resigned after a Trump-and-Russia-related article fell apart. The story, which was published late last week and was retracted after an investigation revealed that it…
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Lord Sayeth: Jeffrey Lord Is a Village Idiot, but That’s Exactly How CNN Likes It
Jeffrey Lord has the distinct honor of being one of the dumbest people on cable news. Considering all of the simpletons currently soiling the media landscape with their stupidity, that’s no easy feat. Last week Lord made headlines for declaring President Sweet Potato Saddam to be the “Martin Luther King Jr. of health care”: What…
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Why Paris Dennard Needs To Catch The Fade In The Worst Possible Way
For the past 6 months I’ve struggled to come to terms with the results of the November 8th that put Trump and them in the White House. Even worse, I can’t come to terms with the fact that many of our own people chose death over life and help to put him in there. I’m…
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CNN Facing Racial-Discrimination Lawsuit Claiming African Americans Receive Lower Performance Ratings in Evaluations
Another major news network is facing allegations in a racial-discrimination lawsuit, stemming from a proposed class action in Georgia federal court. In the lawsuit, plaintiffs claim that at CNN and other Time Warner units, African Americans receive lower performance ratings in evaluations, that there are huge discrepancies in pay between employees doing similar jobs but…
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Sean Hannity Is Garbage, but Not All Opinion Shows Are Trash
Ted Koppel performed a great service to his country in telling Sean Hannity to his face that he was “bad for America.” Hannity can simmer in his lingering anger over the widely shared clip that originally aired on CBS Sunday Morning as he sees fit, but it does not absolve him of the sins that…