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There is fear and then there is the type of fear that makes a person psychotic. The footsteps the Left hears coming for them, the ones they know belong to Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, have now frightened them into a panic that is not likely to subside anytime soon - if ever. A Wednesday night, New York Times op-ed written by a man with the extremely Runyonesque name of Charles Blow shows he has had such an extreme panic attack that it has caused him to fall into the gutter in front of the paper’s main office and start...

Last month we shared a warning to ignore the predictable post convention media polling nonsense.  That warning remains valid today. Just because the media is predictably beginning to sell poll stats beneficial to Donald Trump doesn’t mean they are any less manipulated. On June 15th aggregate media polling had Hillary Clinton leading by 15 points.  On July 15th the same media polling had Trump +17.  On August 8th the pendulum swing was back to Hillary +15,…. and now today the media signals of a tied race begin. It’s all nonsense.  All of it.  Polls don’t swing 20 to 30 +/- points every few weeks. The media outlets conducting these polls have...

Scandal: Leaked documents released a few days ago provide juicy insider details of how a fabulously rich businessman has been using his money to influence elections in Europe, underwrite an extremist group, target U.S. citizens who disagreed with him, dictate foreign policy, and try to sway a Supreme Court ruling, among other things. Pretty compelling stuff, right? Not if it involves leftist billionaire George Soros. In this case, the mainstream press couldn't care less. On Saturday, a group called DC Leaks posted more than 2,500 documents going back to 2008 that it pilfered from Soros' Open Society Foundations' servers. Since...

Faking regret... You’ll probably know CNN as that network you only watch when you’re trapped in an airport, there’s no wifi, your laptop’s battery is dead, you don’t want to spend money on outdated print media, and you need something to look at while you slurp up your third watered-down Bloody Mary. For you it’s background noise, nothing more. However, there are apparently still people out there who regard it as a source of actual news. We’re not sure who those poor, ill-informed, souls are, but we’ve been assured that, yes, they really do exist. Thanks to CNN’s deceptive editing,...

The New York Post hit new lows when they went after Donald Trump’s wife, Melania. The Post sank to a level far below the tabloids they claim to despise by publishing Melania’s nude modeling photos. At least we expect it from the tabloids; from a major newspaper it’s both disappointing and terrifying. The Post’s front page spread is significant beyond the attempted smear. It’s a snapshot in time, the moment when a major newspaper proudly waved the banner of biased coverage and shameful tactics to damage their opponent and elect their candidate; the moment when the press ripped off the...

ESPN’s Around the Horn has gone from one of the best, longest running panel shows the network has ever had, to an absolutely farcical flagship of left-wing lunacy. Yesterday, the panel at ATH lamented the fact that Cam Newton didn’t feel racially persecuted. Because, apparently, that’s bad. On Tuesday’s edition of the show, the panel discussed really silly comments made by the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers, who said the NFL’s culture makes players not speak publicly on cultural issues, out of fear of repercussions.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Audio sound bite time. Last night Charlie Rose speaking with NBC correspondent Katy Tur. Charlie Rose said, "What about the issue of taking on the press?" They're talking about Trump, not about his speech last night or the one the night before. They're talking about Trump's decision to pivot from Crooked Hillary to the Crooked Media. And of course I am a -- well, I'm the primary reason they were discussing this, as you will hear. TUR: He [Trump] does think it resonates. It does resonate with a strong portion of Donald Trump's supporters and the Republican...

WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — Audiences watching CNN’s coverage Monday of violent protests in Milwaukee over the police shooting of an armed black man saw footage of the victim’s sister at a vigil calling for peace. “Don’t bring the violence here and the ignorance here,” Sherelle Smith, sister of Sylville Smith, said in the brief excerpt shown on air.

Feminist Magazine: Bill Clinton Isn’t Necessarily A Bad Guy If He Raped Juanita Broaddrick 12:33 PM 08/17/2016 Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 26, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson An online feminist magazine recently featured an article that excused former President Bill Clinton’s alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick. A Wonkette article titled “Let’s Talk About Juanita Broaddrick” claimed that even if Clinton had raped Broaddrick in 1978 — he was running for Arkansas governor at the time — it does not necessarily mean he’s “an evil man.” “To sum up, I think Bill Clinton...

Despite his fall from prominence due to serial lying and removal from the anchor desk of NBC Nightly News, current MSNBC breaking news anchor Brian Williams will be given another chance to rein over a daily news program when, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter, MSNBC awards him a half-hour show at 11:00 p.m. at a date to be determined. Stelter reported late Monday night that Williams's program will be slated to run from Labor Day to Election Day and last for only a half-hour "wrapping up the day's campaign news, the sources said." Of course, this brings to mind Williams’s...

Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept, formerly of The Guardian newspaper, laid out in an interview with Slate magazine that the media in the United States has decided to band together in a last-ditch effort to stop the rise of 2016 GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. Greenwald, the progressive journalist who broke the Edward Snowden mass government surveillance storyline, was asked what he thought about Donald Trump’s press conference recently in which Trump joked that Russia should release any emails... OK, so, I am glad you asked about that because this is the conflict that I am currently having: The...

Noah Gray, a CNN producer covering the Trump campaign rally Thursday in Kissimmee, FL, uploaded this video to Twitter showing a Donald Trump rally attendee shouting at journalists covering the event. "Go home!" he said. "You are traitors! I am an American Patriot!" When asked his name, the man replied: "I am a Patriot! And your name is 'Traitor.'" "To be clear, the man came up to me as a was typing & said what I put in quotes, and then I started filming him & his interactions w/press," Gray Tweeted later in the evening.

Noah Gray, a CNN producer covering the Trump campaign rally Thursday in Kissimmee, FL, uploaded this video to Twitter showing a Donald Trump rally attendee shouting at journalists covering the event. "Go home!" he said. "You are traitors! I am an American Patriot!"

Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson left MSNBC anchor Kate Snow 'speechless' Wednesday, when she said that the candidate is not responsible for peoples' mistaken reactions to statements of his, that she sees being taken out of context. "If you listen to Donald Trump's rallies," Pierson said about comments this week about the Second Amendment, "He talks about this all the time --at every rally-- If Hillary Clinton is able to appoint Supreme Court candidates [who are] against the Second Amendment, there has to be something to stop her." "But does he have any responsibility for what people hear?" Snow asked....

FOX News - the Five - consensus echoes what was being said by others on the Network yesterday. There's nothing really wrong with what Candy Crowley did during the debate - and it didn't really affect anything. Dana Perino said she's known Candy Crowley for years - and Perino attests that it wasn't intentional. Gutfeld added that he thought it wasn't a real or sincere issue for Trump to have concerns about the Fairness of Debate Moderators. Seems FOX is focused on defeating points of the right. Numerous panel members dismissed Candy Crowley's actions as much ado about nothing.

During his losing 2006 campaign for re-election as a United States Senator from Virginia, George Allen noticed a little brown man following him from rally to rally. He made an off-hand remark calling the little man “Macaca” which the media researched and found meant female monkey in Portuguese. This set off a fake, media generated “firestorm” that put Allen into a downward spiral he never recovered from. He did all of the standard things; went on a Trent Lott Apology Tour and apologized to Macaca personally but to no avail. Several times during Donald Trump’s campaign the media has been...

The Mainstream Media and Democrats have gone bat-crap crazy over Donald Trump. This time they’re accusing Mr. Trump of threatening to assassinate Mrs. Bill Clinton. mean it's full-blown, head-spinning, Linda Blair-projectile vomiting kind of crazy, folks. So first - I want you to hear what Donald Trump actually said about the Second Amendment. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment," Trump started. "By the way, and if she gets to pick - if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know." Before Mr. Trump...

The media’s legions of Trump-bashers are finally acknowledging the obvious. And trying their best to justify it. But there’s one problem: Tilting against one candidate in a presidential election can’t be justified. This is not a defense of Donald Trump, who has been at war with much of the press since he got in the race. Too many people think if you criticize the way the billionaire is being covered, you are somehow backing Trump. And it’s not about the commentators, on the right as well as the left, who are savaging Trump, since they are paid for their opinions....

The media, complicit with elitists in both political parties, are trying to “Sarah Palin” Donald Trump. Sarah Palin was a rock star when she gained national attention in 2008 as John McCain’s vice-presidential pick. She articulated the message of We the People clearly and concisely. Her record of accomplishment as governor of Alaska was impeccable, complete with having broken the shackles of Republican cronyism that permeated the Alaskan political landscape like manure on a chicken farm. Palin refused to allow the same people today attacking Donald Trump to craft a message that wasn’t hers. The pompous so-called network news cognoscenti...

This is a perilous time we live in. We have tried to save our nation by nominating a candidate we know is not a member of the growing Uniparty. We are standing out in front of the country without any armor save for our enduring faith in the goodness of our country and her great capacity to overcome even the worst attacks. Nevertheless, there is a lingering stench of corruption and Soviet style gang activity taking place right before our eyes. The media has abandoned any semblance of fairness and impartiality. They take increasing delight in lying to us while...