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CNN devoted not one, but two segments on how President Trump got two scoops of ice cream while his dinner guests only got one as the network tried to pass off a “scoop” about the president’s eating habits as news. In a segment titled, “Two scoops for Trump,” CNN’s Jeanne Moos talks about Trump’s “executive privilege” for receiving two scoops of ice cream while the three TIME magazine correspondents he had dinner with only got one. “At the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone...

The pressures of the presidency The selective nit picking of everything Donald Trump goes with the territory as president of the United States. But the liberal media have turned it into hysteria and speculations on steroids. None of which is constructive. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy advisor to the president, summed up the current situation through the lens of the media this way: “80 percent of what’s reported in the media is 180 degrees out of whack with reality.”

Move on, snowflakes. The rest of America already has. When irresponsible reporting is combined with irrational reactions, it instills fear and confusion in people’s minds. That’s what the liberal media are doing to some people, because both are still stuck in a state of bitterness. Irresponsible reporting nowadays is well recognized as media bias. Some reporters and news outlets will slant the news, omit parts of a story or flat-out lie to make the story fit the political narrative they want to present.

U.S. government officials have been notified of new cases of attempted or potentially successful cyber intrusions, CBS News has learned. Officials would not go into specifics or reveal the number of new cases. But the revelation raises concerns that Russian cyberattacks have been more extensive than originally thought. Since the U.S released a report on election-related cyberattacks on Thursday, a government official said more cases have come to light, CBS News’ Justice and Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.

On Thursday, Chuck Todd, NBC News’ White House Correspondent and Political Director, called a Politico report which revealed that Vice President Joe Biden’s staff actively attempted to edit pool reports, which are used to inform reporters about events on the campaign trail, an “outrage.” He said that the system of distributing pool reports through political staffers may have to change as a result of Biden’s staffer’s behavior. RELATED: Biden’s Staff Tried To Influence Reporting On His Virginia Trip, According To Report Politico reporter Jonathan Martin, who originally reported the infraction by Biden’s staffers, said the attempted influencing of pool reports...

BY STEPHANIE BARISH | wpix.com April 2, 2009 SHERMAN, C.T. (WPIX) -- A pony, racing around a field on Route 39 in Sherman, Conn. Wednesday, was severely injured after being mauled by two pit bulls that escaped from a neighbor's yard in West Fairfield, officials said. Anna Walsh, a mail carrier who was working at the time, witnessed the entire incident and saw the dogs leaping and biting the horse's mane, tail and neck. She said the whole thing seemed surreal. "There was no barking, no noise," Walsh told The News Times. "It was like when you watch Wild Kingdom,...

If I read one more article on the depressed housing market I'm going to overdose on Zoloft in an abandoned builders model home and wait for the repo guys to find me and call 911. Enough of the housing market news already. There's lots more going on than meets the eye here. Some huge dangers but some equally huge opportunities. Here's what I mean: 1. THERE ARE TOO MANY HOUSES FOR SALE- No kidding. Really? Not so fast here. Except for some truly overbuilt markets we have about a 9-12 month supply of housing inventory versus the normal 6 months....

DELAND, Fla. -- An 8-year-old DeLand girl reported missing was found by police riding her bike as fast as she could to leave the state of Florida, fearing a massive Hurricane Dean was on its way. The parents of Heather Snoke reported the girl missing Wednesday night after last seeing her riding on her bike, according to a newspaper report. Volusia County sheriff's deputies searching by helicopter eventually spotted Heather about a mile from home on East Plymouth Avenue, still on her bike. She told officers that the recent news about hurricanes had scared her, and she wanted to ride...

We in the news business often enlist in moral crusades. Global warming is among the latest. Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism. Last week's NEWSWEEK cover story on global warming is a sobering reminder. It's an object lesson of how viewing the world as "good guys vs. bad guys" can lead to a vast oversimplification of a messy story. Global warming has clearly occurred; the hard question is what to do about it. If you missed NEWSWEEK's story, here's the gist. A "well-coordinated, well-funded campaign by contrarian scientists, free-market think tanks and industry has created a paralyzing fog of...

The vitriol in the media as they froth and foam at the mouth over a non-story - merely because it is an excuse to hurt a popular president whom they hate - is both frightening and sad. The media are supposed to seek truth and light; instead, they have become a dark advocate for a venomous, hateful American left-wing reminiscent of the Bolsheviks of the early 1900s. The media have become a self-anointed, fourth branch of government. The media are unelected and unaccountable. And, thanks to the Supreme Court in Times v. Sullivan, they are virtually above the law. The...

<p>Howard Kurtz, writing in the Washington Post notes the sudden appearance of multiple stories critical of various conservative symbols and causes.  Liberals love it, and conservatives claim conspiracy.  Whatever.   A Wall Street Journal columnist notes that it represents ''an outsized, mad hostility that even the assault on Clinton, which was poisonous, does not match,'' she said. ''A bottom level of partisan craziness and zealousness has infected the media.''</p> <p>The Los Angeles Times dropped an October surprise on Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday, running detailed interviews with six women who say the actor groped them during the last 30 years.</p>

The second anniversary of 9/11 slipped by with the anticipated moments of grief and solemnity. But what is most pronounced and alarming is how our mourning and resolve have degenerated into hysteria, particularly in the media and exemplified by the nine Democrats running for president. In the weeks after the terrorist attacks, the nation found its resolve and resoluteness. Partisanship dissolved, though we knew that would be temporary. What's so shocking is the rabidness of the new partisanship. This anniversary passed with the nation distressed by the media's out-of-perspective fixation on body counts and bogus Vietnam analogies. The Democrats have...

Blind to Victory: How the Liberal Press Doesn’t Want to See the Dawn of a New American Century By Tov B. Brog April 13th 2003 – Our victory in Iraq is the result of one of the most audacious and successful military operations in history.  Even neglecting the certain degradation of the Iraqi army over the last decade of sanctions, the planning, command & control, flexibility, training and discipline required to move 100,000 troops 500 miles, across hostile terrain, to arrive at a destination ready to fight, is reflective of the finest military machine in human history. You wouldn’t know...

That part of the press which lost thr battle to prevent the war in Iraq and prophesied catastrophe and quagmire should it be launched, the Left leaning gloom/doom press, domestic and foreign, which saw the ambushing of a maintenance company as a military defeat rivaling Cannae, and which agreed silently with Peter Arnett's proclamation that the Iraq campaign plan was ill conceived, the force commitment too light, the support train too thin, the enemy military too resolute, the citizenry sullen and opposed to the removal of Saddam Hussein ("Mr. Hussein" to toilers at the NYTimes who evidently confuse starchiness with...

The always amusing Robert Scheer, "columnist-fanatic" for the Los Angeles Times, never fails to grasp any straw that gives him a chance to rant about the Bush administration. Yesterday he was feverish over the weekend news from Iraq: "Destruction of one of the world's most significant collections of antiquities." Scheer arches his eyebrow and notes that the oil fields were protected, but not the museum. Get it? Scheer is simply echoing a complaint about the antiquities that has ricocheted around the elite media. This is a convenient excuse for disgraced gloom-mongers to switch the subject from the liberation of Iraq...

NEW ORLEANS, April 11 — The president's senior political adviser, Karl Rove, told a gathering of newspaper editors here today that the news media's exhaustive coverage of the war in Iraq had confused people by subjecting them to reporters' "mood swings" and the results of endless polling about the military's progress. In remarks to the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mr. Rove lamented what he described as news organizations' changing interpretations of how the war was proceeding. He said "the euphoria of April 9," when news coverage was dominated by images of a statue of Saddam...

April 13, 2003 Across the U.S., Elation Wrestles With AnxietyBy DAVID M. HALBFINGER with JOHN W. FOUNTAIN TATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 11 — As it reverberated along the American hallway that is Interstate 80, the corridor from San Francisco Bay to the New Jersey suburbs, the national conversation about the fall of Baghdad this week ranged from applauding to appalled, from cocksure to gun-shy. "One thing the people over there respect is power," said Steve Khazadian, 45, a football coach from Syracuse who was eating lunch at a tavern between sessions of a coaches' clinic at Penn State. Five feet...

At first they cheered, smiled, offered hearty thumbs-ups to the U.S. soldiers newly in their midst. But across Iraq's lawless capital, that sentiment is evaporating as quickly as Saddam Hussein's government melted away. It continues if you can stomach it...

New & Improved Media! Wars Declared 'Quagmires' 200% Faster! Posted: 11 April 2003 By Evan Coyne Maloney By the end of the war's first week, the traditional media trotted out its favorite war term: quagmire. You'll recall the frequent use of that word in late October 2001, just three weeks after the first bombs were dropped on the Taliban. A week later, the Taliban regime began its wholesale collapse in Afghanistan. It took three weeks for the media to declare the Afghan war to a quagmire, but it took them only a week to make the same proclamation about the...