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Donald Trump's fondest wish came true Thursday, as he conducted nearly an entire campaign rally without his hated national media in tow. He called it 'really good news.' Trump publicly mocked his own traveling press corps for showing up late, a turn of events that his own campaign staff caused. 'I have really good news for you,' Trump told about 1,000 people in a New Hampshire middle school gymnasium. 'I just heard that the press is stuck on their airplane.' 'They can't get here. I love it! So they're trying to get here now. They're gonna be about 30 minutes...

But still way too high... It doesn’t matter who you are. If you’re awake, if you’re paying attention to what’s going on in the world around you, there’s a good chance you don’t trust the press. Considering the inarguable fact that most mainstream media outlets are little more than regurgitators for Democrat talking points, this is hardly surprising. If they ever really existed, the days of non-partisan journalistic curiosity and integrity are long gone. We know this, and we cite examples every day. Now we have some polling that shows just how far the mighty fourth estate has fallen. According...

The mainstream media bet the farm on Hillary Clinton, confident that their dismissal of every skeptical inquiry as a "conspiracy" would guarantee her victory. It now appears they have lost their bet. Let's do something radical and be honest for a moment: the mainstream media has smoothed the path to Hillary's coronation in countless often subtle ways. MSM "Opinion" hacks have unleashed unrelenting attacks on legitimate inquiries with accusations of "conspiracy" and obsequious kow-towing headlines such as "Can we please stop talking about Hillary's health?" Suggestions that the Clinton Foundation engaged in "pay to play" during Hillary's term as secretary...

See link for numbers... Guess all of that Trump-bashing is continuing to work well for them. I love seeing them circle the toilet bowl. They just don't get it...

The Hillary Clinton campaign has a talking point they want to get into the bloodstream about Clinton's pneumonia diagnosis.

Kellyanne Conway accused media of 'badgering' Trump

A Virginia gun-rights group is suing Katie Couric and the producers of the documentary “Under the Gun” for $12 million in defamation over an interview that was revealed to have been deceptively edited. The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) and two gun-rights activists featured in the film, Daniel Hawes and Patricia Webb, are suing Ms. Couric, who produced the documentary and led the interview in question, as well as director Stephanie Soechtig, Atlas Films and Epix, the film’s distributor. The suit filed in federal court Tuesday, obtained by BearingArms.com, claimed the producers of the film “intentionally manipulated” footage to make...

The Clinton campaign almost got away with it. On Sunday at a 9/11 ceremony marking 15 years since the attacks, Hillary Clinton wasn't feeling well to the point she had to make an early exit. Her handlers obviously knew what such an exit would do: Feed the narrative — irresponsibly called conspiracy theory at that point by too many posing as objective journalists — that there really was something more than allergies surrounding the Democratic presidential nominee's health. So Clinton was whisked away. Reporters embedded in her campaign were left in the dark for 90 minutes as to her whereabouts...

Hillary Clinton says she didn't think her pneumonia diagnosis was "that big a deal" before she was taken ill during a 9/11 memorial event. The Democratic presidential nominee vowed to be back on the campaign trail within days after she was forced to cancel planned events following her near-collapse on Sunday. The 68-year-old admitted she had ignored doctor's orders to rest before she 'overheated' and felt faint at the 9/11 service in New York. Asked when she will return to campaigning, Clinton told CNN: "Well, it will be in the next couple of days. "I just want to get this...

Why is it surprising that the presidential candidate kept working even while ill? Women do it every day As the cover of nearly every newspaper and news site in America made abundantly clear Monday morning, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, cut short her appearance at 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday and later disclosed that she’d been diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia. In a more normal world and in a more normal year, that information might receive a public round of supportive get well wishes, and then we’d move on. But these, as we are...

In an interview Monday on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Donald Trump predicted the upcoming presidential debates would be “very unfair,” and suggested doing away with moderators entirely. “Let Hillary and I sit there and just debate,” he said. Trump pointed to criticism of NBC’s Matt Lauer for his role as moderator of the network’s Commander-in-Chief forum last week. “They’re saying about how Matt Lauer was nice … he wasn’t nice to me, he was tough on me,” Trump said. “Everyone saying he was soft on Trump. Well, now the new person is going to try and be really hard on Trump...

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Led by Drudge, there have been questions circulating in the conservative media — and among Trump surrogates like Rudy Giuliani — that "something" is wrong with Clinton for months... A certain sector of conservatives were convinced that more was going on with her health than ever became public and that this was yet another example of the Clintons hiding things from the public. This is a totally ridiculous issue — for lots of reasons... Clinton has released a detailed letter from her personal physician attesting to her overall good health... So, to believe that something is seriously wrong with Clinton,...

There is nothing more to learn about Hillary Clinton’s home-brew server, deleted e-mails, chronic cough or anything else that makes her look bad, according to The Washington Post. And The New York Times, stung by Clinton’s woeful performance at last week’s presidential forum, believes the debates are going to be a total disaster unless moderators get much, much tougher with Donald Trump. To judge from her tone, the Gray Lady finally has found somebody she wants to waterboard. Naturally, it’s a Republican, not a terrorist. America’s two most prominent newspapers used to compete for Pulitzer Prizes and readers, but now...

<p>President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle have graced the cover of the October issue of Essence, which includes a romantic photos of the couple that has social media swooning.</p> <p>As the Obamas prepare for their final months in the White House, they have been featured in the special collector's issue, that hit stands on Friday, in which they open up about their legacy.</p>

If you wondered what the internal focus grouped feedback was to Secretary Clinton’s Commander-in-Chief forum presentation, you only need to note that first thing this morning her campaign hastily scheduled a press conference on the tarmac of the airport. Clinton’s first press conference in 278 days. Essentially the press conference was typical Clintonian deflection and complaints about media coverage of her performance. From the video it appears four questions were agreed upon, but another was taken by Andrea Mitchell. Obviously the sycophants in the traveling Clinton press poll (all pre-approved by the campaign) did not ask any substantive questions…. And...

NBC News knows the "Commander-in-Chief Forum" was not Matt Lauer's finest hour. One executive, speaking anonymously, was blunt about it: "Disaster." The morning after Lauer's back-to-back interviews of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, several high ranking sources at the network said they hear the criticism and agree with at least some of it. Lauer was widely criticized for failing to fact-check or follow up when Trump falsely claimed that he was opposed to the Iraq war when it started. Some viewers thought Lauer held Clinton to a higher standard than Trump. Several people who were sitting in the audience told...

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is working the refs hard when it comes to reports about her health. While Clinton responded to a fit of coughing this week with humor, saying she was “allergic” to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, her aides and surrogates played the role of bad cop. Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill took to task an NBC reporter who wrote about the coughing spell, posting on Twitter that the writer should “get a life.” The five-paragraph story, by Andrew Rafferty, was titled “Hillary Clinton fights back coughing attack” and reported that the “frog in Clinton’s throat on Monday was one...

Hillary Clinton was never asked about her controversial private email server or her family's foundation during her first formal press conference Thursday in 278 days. Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, addressed reporters on the tarmac in Westchester, N.Y., at a podium in front of her airplane. She was asked six questions over 15 minutes about the tightening polls in the presidential race, and whether she believed she was being treated different in the race because she is a woman.

This is what the Drudge Report looked like Tuesday morning: The reference, in case you missed it, is to an episode of coughing that struck Clinton at a rally in Ohio on Labor Day. (You can watch it here.) Drudge also linked to lots - and lots - of stories about the coughing. This is not new. [Snip] Here's the thing: This is a totally ridiculous issue - for lots of reasons - and one that if Trump or his Republican surrogates continue to focus on is a surefire loser in the fall. Let's start here: Clinton has released a...