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Watch the video at the link. Senator Ted Cruz said tonight that if illegal immigrants were bankers or lawyers or taking jobs in America's newsrooms, "we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation." Here's his full answer on immigration: What was said was right, the Democrats are laughing because if Republicans join Democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose. And you know, I understand that when the mainstream media covers immigration, it doesn't often see it as an economic issue. But I can tell you for millions of Americans at home, watching this,...

There's no question that Trump has played the earned media game masterfully. We can quantify just how masterfully by comparing the news coverage data with polling data over the past year, as compiled by Real Clear Politics. It's clear from the data that TV news coverage over time tracks largely, but not entirely, with candidates' relative positioning in the polls. The better a candidate is polling, the more air time she or he tends to get. Some candidates, though, get more coverage than their poll numbers suggest they should. Some candidates get a lot less. The outliers raise interesting questions...

From July 2 through October 29, Donald Trump had an amazing run: Every single day, he was mentioned more on cable news channels than any other Republican candidate for president. It was rarely even close. Since Trump entered the GOP race in mid-June, he has accounted for nearly half the TV news coverage of the GOP field, according to data compiled by the Internet Archive and curated by the GDELT Project. That coverage is immensely lucrative in a campaign where, despite record-breaking fund-raising hauls, candidates have frequently risen and fallen based on their use of what's called "earned media" --...

On Tuesday's Breitbart News Daily (6AM-9AM ET on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125), one of the nation's top immigration experts said GOP presidential candidates and debate moderators never want to discuss how many legal immigrants America should actually admit. Jon Feere of the Center for Immigration Studies told host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that though only 7% of the country is calling for an increase in legal immigration, "everyone that's wandering the halls of Congress out here in D.C. is lobbying for more, more, more immigration at all costs." -snip- Feere also pointed out that one...

Tonight's presidential debate moderators are under just as much scrutiny as the candidates themselves after last month's embarrassing CNBC free-for-all. -snip- Her co-moderator Neil Cavuto said his goal is to make himself "invisible." He will have a lot easier time achieving that than Bartiromo will. The other member of the panel is Wall Street Journal Editor In Chief Gerard Baker.

There may be trouble ahead for the top candidates at tonight’s Republican debate, sponsored by Fox Business News and the Wall Street Journal. Why? There may be a slew of new “gotcha” trade questions posed by the debate’s trio of free-trade favoring moderators, Maria Bartiromo, Neil Cavuto, and Gerard Baker. These free-trade proponents have never seen a so-called free-trade agreement that they weren’t predisposed to back. And they will likely be out to boost the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal announced last week with their lead-in statements and questions. Don’t believe it? Fox and the WSJ should be friendly to...

Ready for a good laugh, and proof of the revisionist history that panders to baby black Jesus, aka Barack Obama? Obama has surpassed Reagan in jobs creation! That’s right, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Obama has matched Ronald Reagan in jobs creation.According to Newsmax, a Leftist rag posing as Conservative media: Friday’s positive and hugely surprising jobs numbers not only put the U.S. economy that much closer to full employment, it also set a record that President Barack Obama now shares with former President Ronald Reagan. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the national...

Debates: Those tuning into Monday's "Morning Joe" on MSNBC might've wondered about the "worst record" poll that host Joe Scarborough said unfairly kicked Chris Christie off the Fox debate stage. We wondered, too.

If you thought Ted Cruz was going away anytime soon, I’ve got some bad news. The singularly annoying obstructionist has real staying power, and he’s as well-positioned as any of the candidates moving forward. The more Cruz irks his opponents, the more he grandstands, the more entrenched and profitable his campaign becomes. Even Cruz’s Republican colleagues appear resigned to this fact. “Ted Cruz has been branded a ‘wacko bird’ by a Senate colleague,” write Katie Zezima and David Weigel in the Washington Post. “A GOP consultant labeled him a show horse, and a strategist for a rival presidential campaign call...

Since he was a boy, Senator Ted Cruz has said, all he wanted to do was "fight for liberty" - a yearning that he says was first kindled when he heard his father’s tales of fighting as a rebel leader in Cuba in the 1950s, throwing Molotov cocktails, running guns and surviving torture. Those stories, retold by Mr. Cruz and by his father, Rafael, have hooked Republican audiences and given emotional power to the message that the Texas senator is pushing as an increasingly serious contender for the party's presidential nomination. In their telling, the father's experience in Cuba -...

"I think it might be a better idea – I know it’s a crazy idea – but maybe we focus on the issues impacting the American people and what candidates are saying, rather than just spending so much time exploring their lives of 30 or 40 years ago," -Bernie Sanders, Meet the PressA DB article with the headline blurb: Ben Carson Was Sued for Malpractice at Least Eight TimesThis reminds me of the joke, The Pope is visiting DC and President Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac, sailing on the presidential yacht. They're admiring the sights...

Kelly Riddell at the Washington Times has some shocking news which will doubtless send many of you to the fainting couch. If you check the number of journalists covering politics in America today who can be identified as belonging to one party or the other, the spread is actually nowhere near the breakdown you find among all the voters in the country. A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates' claims that they are facing a hostile audience when...

How Long Has Gerard Baker Been 'Wall Street Journal' Editor-In-Chief? The GOP Debate Moderator Was Promoted During A Shake-Up. The fourth Republican presidential debate airs Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on Fox Business and will be moderated by some of financial news' heavy hitters. The Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker will be joining the Fox Business personalities Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto as a moderator. Baker has been the editor-in-chief at The Wall Street Journal since 2013. He has been at the paper a bit longer, though: He made his move to the WSJ in 2009; he started off...

What Should be Done about Media Inequalities? A mere 7 percent of journalists identify as Republicans, and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates’ claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press. The movement toward equality in all things exists in the political forums. Bias is the word applied to inequalities in the media. The media is the primary source of various reports of inequality and the attempts to make unequal things equal. Inequalities of outcome exist because of inequalities of EFFORT....

Shocker. ....No. Not really. By all accounts, CNBC’s Republican debate was an unmitigated disaster. Not for the candidates, mind you, but for the moderators, the network, its parent company, and the left in general. What was obviously a planned attack on the GOP field blew up in the faces of its would be perpetrators - and it did so in spectacular fashion. Instead of making the candidates squirm, the network made the angry. Instead of looking weak, they rallied and went on the offense. Instead of goading the field into a circular firing squad, the moderators placed a spotlight on...

Dr. Ben Carson's whole life has been very unusual, so perhaps we should not be surprised to see the latest twist -- the media going ballistic over discrepancies in a few things he said. Years ago, when I was writing some autobiographical sketches, I dug up old letters, to check out things that I remembered -- and was surprised more than once to discover that my memory was not always exactly the same as the way things had happened and were recorded at the time. In the current flap over some things that Dr. Carson said, the biggest discrepancy has...

It's been less than two weeks since CNBC's train wreck of a debate exposed just how much of a double standard the mainstream media can have against GOP presidential candidates. Now a new example comes in the attack on Ben Carson for saying in his autobiography that he was offered a full scholarship to West Point. In a news conference on Friday, Carson said the offer from Army officials was informal and he never in fact applied to the military academy, which is how he described it in his book Gifted Hands, first published in 1990: I was offered a...

The most acclaimed candidate debates in American history the Lincoln-Douglas encounters of 1858 had nothing in common with modern presidential debates: No questions from moderators, no 60-second time limits, no ricocheting from topic to topic, no real-time reaction from focus groups. No pre- and post-debate sermonizing by political pundits. No Anderson Cooper or Megyn Kelly. No presidential candidates, even. (Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were running for the US Senate).By comparison, today's "debates" are pitiful.Presidential hopefuls aren't required to debate their opponents, and for most of the nation's existence they weren't expected to. Andrew Jackson didn't debate John Quincy Adams. Harry...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson claims his campaign has pulled in $3.5 million in fundraising dollars this week thanks to “biased media” coverage.    “We the People have made 10,000 donations each day this week, raising $3.5M this week alone. Thank you biased media,” Carson tweeted Saturday.   We the People have made 10,000 donations each day this week, raising $3.5M this week alone. Thank you biased media.— Dr. Ben Carson (@RealBenCarson) November 7, 2015   Carson's dig at the media comes amid heightened scrutiny of the his extraordinary life story as he has risen to the top of the...

“Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.” You’d think by now that watching the proficiency in the ‘Fine Art of Lying’ of their Democrat heroes like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that the rubes over at Politico would know better than to be caught in their lies. But they did get caught. Proof of the lies of Politico can be readily seen in how they changed their headline before scaling back on their ‘Ben Carson’s an admitted liar’ story.