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Meia Bias: President George W. Bush has issued a full-throated defense of the media's role in modern society. He's being way too generous. "I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. … Power can be very addictive," Bush said in remarks on NBC's "Today." "We need an independent media to hold people like me to account," he said. Yes, we agree wholeheartedly. But he seemed to imply today's media were fulfilling that role. They aren't. And there's no better example than Bush's own two terms in office. While we deeply admire the former president for not holding a grudge,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group's annual report. It also funded reporters and partnerships with other news outlets. The Ploughshares Fund's mission is to "build a safe, secure world by developing and investing in initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate the world's nuclear stockpiles," one that dovetails with President Barack Obama's arms control efforts. But its behind-the-scenes role advocating for the Iran agreement got more...

One of the finest gut shots ever to a bunch of pathetic Libtard Newsers. You can watch the National Rifle Association's response to the ad run by the New York Times at the Oscars by Clicking Here. It's well worth a watch in my humble opinion. Note: If you have a strong stomach, you can observe the original NY Times ad by clicking Here.

Obama's "echo chamber" lives on and the media are still buying... In an article on the Atlantic website, a former Obama White House staffer explains why she resigned from the Trump White House after only eight days. . . . Hers was the second story in less than a week in which a government official explained that they’d resigned because of Trump’s policies. Ned Price, a CIA analyst who worked at the Obama White House, authored a cri de coeur for the Washington Post to explain why his disagreements with Trump’s policies prompted him to leave government service. “To be...

The motor of fake news is not inaccuracy. It's malice. I had an insight into this important truth a couple weeks back when I was at a swank New York club for an evening event. The establishment in question is overwhelmingly conventional, i.e., leftish in that smug "We're-all-beautiful-people-who-are-you?" sort of way that publications like The New Yorker and the New York Times, along with such media outlets as CNN and MSNBC, exude like the cloying aroma of paperwhites. I ran into an acquaintance, a female journalist I hadn't seen in years. I knew that her politics were echt conventional in...

Saturday, former Nixon and Ford speechwriter, actor and author Ben Stein said on “CNN Newsroom” that mainstream media like CNN and The New York Times are “looking for a scandal” with President Donald Trump and they want to do to him like they did to former President Richard Nixon. “Look, every day you pick up The New York Times, every day they’re slamming, slamming, slamming [Trump]. I’m a great fan of CNN; I watch it quite faithfully, every day CNN is slamming him, slamming him, slamming him. Every day, they’re looking for a scandal. They’re just turning the woods upside...

The New York Times is flush with new cash thanks to increasing subscriptions, and the paper's executive editor says President Trump is to thank. "Trump is the best thing to happen to the Times' subscription strategy," said Dean Baquet, executive editor of the Times on CNN Sunday. "Every time he tweets it drives subscriptions wildly." He added, "Our digital subscriptions are through the roof, our print subscriptions are up."

Tom Godat, a union electrician who has always voted for Democrats, cast his ballot for Donald Trump last year as “the lesser of two evils” compared to Hillary Clinton. He’s already a little embarrassed about it. There’s a lot that Godat likes about President Trump, especially his pledge to make the country great again by ignoring lobbyists, challenging both political parties and increasing the number of good-paying jobs.

New York Times Continues To Lie On Friday the New York Times published a piece titled Trump’s Blistering Speech at CPAC Follows Bannon’s Blueprint. In the article the New York Times intentionally tried to mislead readers and cause chaos and panic by lying about what President Trump said during his CPAC speech. From the NYT: “ His speech also included a promise to throw undocumented immigrants “the hell out of the country” and a recitation of his law-and-order campaign promises. Click on photo below to ENLARGE

<p>As Srinivas Kuchibhotla's family tries to deal with the young aviation engineer's cold-blooded murder by a hate-driven shooter, questions are being raised about the lack of attention it has received from the White House, especially in comparison to similar circumstances in the past.</p>

Mark Cuban and Mark Dice argue over Fake News, and wild accusations fly from the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner, only to have him later retreat to his safe space after stepping up to YouTube's most popular conservative news analyst.

After getting lost in the weeds, Crowder and Michael Ian Black debate real numbers and "rape culture". Play nice. Are 1 in 5 Women Raped at College? See second video for Prager University featured video for stats and the facts. More Studies below. Second video has Prager University tacking the stats and myth of rape culture, more links below it including opposing views

A pair of NBC News videos featuring kids expressing fears about Donald Trump’s presidency is coming under fire by conservatives who call it “propaganda.” The videos show kids saying things such as “Most of my family is black. I’m afraid that you’re gonna hurt some of us blacks,” “You are here, attempting to white-wash America,” “You’re going to separate me away from the rest of my family, and I really don’t want [that] because I love them too much.” The videos begin with one youth offering faint praise, then continue with a barrage of children expressing despair and fear over...

Et tu, Cavuto? Hey faux and other globalist networks: One of the primary reasons we elected Trump is because he's a fighter for freedom, for America and for our constitution! He's not a wimp and does not rollover for the enemedia or the globalist GOPe ruling class!! Dear Mr. President, We're behind you all the way against the treasonous leftist fakenews media and the turncoat GOPe RINOs!! Damn the media torpedoes, full speed ahead!! Fight, baby, fight!! Cut, baby, cut!! Drain the swamp!! MAGA!!

Shep Smith is one of the best foot soldiers there is in the anti-America media army. CNN is missing a star.

"They only want to diminish, embarrass, and harass President Trump," says James O'Keefe of Project Veritas as he makes public 119 hours of insider, CNN audio recordings, "the largest confidential cache of hidden audio tapes ever released about a single news organization." "The American people are not being informed; they're being fed lies," said O’Keefe on Thursday as he announced a $10,000 bounty award for any citizen journalist who provides a legally obtained tape recording of media malfeasance or abuse. The Project Veritas presser attracted over 80,000 views and citizen investigators are currently combing through the plethora of audio tapes...

The infamous “Access Hollywood” tape — in which President Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by the hoo-ha — was an inside job, leaked by an NBC News staffer on Billy Bush’s own “Today” show, multiple sources tell Page Six. “The tape was leaked by the NBC News division, by somebody at the ‘Today’ show,” says one source. “NBC News knew for a while about the existence of the tape. Billy himself had told them about it. People in the news division became frustrated that ‘Access Hollywood’ was taking too long to air it and decided it had to come...

Journalists "find a renewed sense of mission," reports The New York Times. That's nice. There is some truth to this. And it's not fake news. With the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, journalism, in a typical pattern of self-congratulatory excess, has dusted off an old cliche to announce that it is once again "speaking truth to power." Behold. That which was lost has now been found. But it isn't exactly like setting out on a long and frightening sea voyage to find an undiscovered country, is it? Because finding a renewed sense of anything suggests that you might...

The Washington Post has added a "clarification" to the top of a column written by former CIA employee Ned Price to note that he made political contributions to Hillary Clinton, a fact that was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this week. Price wrote in his Sunday column that he had decided to quit the CIA and that his decision "had nothing to do with politics." Not noted by the Washington Post at the time was that Price is both a registered Democrat and gave $5,000 to Hillary Clinton's failed effort to defeat Trump.

New York Times columnist Charles Blow decried any Democrat effort to win over Donald Trump voters in a column Wednesday, saying he has “no patience” for talk of reaching out to them and calling Trump a “cancer.” “I have no patience for liberal talk of reaching out to Trump voters,” Blow writes, arguing anyone who voted for Trump is not compassionate and isn’t worth the Democrat party’s time. . . . The best way to “resist” Trump and his bigoted supporters is not to work to understand their point of view, but to refuse to compromise, he writes. “Trump is...