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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., views the media in a way that will likely make conservatives' heads turn, portraying them in a new interview as "accomplices" of the president. "I do think that he was assisted by the communications industry, not just Hollywood, but the press as well, because all they do is enable him, and that is really a sad thing," she told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday. She added that she calls her friends in the press "accomplices" and seemed to push back on the idea that Trump's words should make news. "I've said to...

Teen who taunted Native American man at march defends his actions The MAGA hat-wearing teen who went viral over the weekend — after he was caught on camera smiling and staring down an elderly Native American war vet at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington — has come forward to defend his actions. “I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me,” explained Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School in northern Kentucky.

The media, and Democrats, lost in November for any number of reasons, including their own incompetence and misunderstanding of the American people—not Comey’s actions or a Russian influence operation The New York Times recently published a lengthy postmortem on the effects that the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and the bureau’s investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia had on the 2016 election. The paper casts blame because FBI Director James Comey went public with the Clinton investigation, but didn’t expose the Trump inquiry during the election. “For all the attention on Mrs. Clinton’s emails, history is likely...

The American Mainstream Media and Washington D.C. are dominated today by a Leftist, Secular and Godless mindset. That isn't any secret. Not even the unregenerate (unbelievers) will disagree with that. As Lucifer (Satan) controls more and more of the Media today - with these godless surrogates and talking heads - his agenda is moving along quite rapidly and increasing exponentially. Never in the history of this nation has the Main Stream Liberal Media pushed and supported a President’s leftist agenda as this one we have today. Today Lucifer’s American Leftist Media is ram-rodding, bulldozing, redefining and cultivating the U.S. ground...

Obama has also taken all objectivity away from the media, turning them into his lap dogs. The state run media has become a cheerleader for the White House, Obama, and his Marxist policies. ABC even took money from Dear Leader for his primetime health care debacle. Obama is inherently evil and out to destroy America. In so doing, he has violated federal law and RICO statutes.

News to Note, May 23, 2009: A weekly feature examining news from the biblical viewpoint (READ THE FOLLOWING STORIES AND MUCH MORE BY CLICKING THE EXCERPT LINK AT BOTTOM) 1. ICR: “‘Missing Link’ Ida Is Just Media Hype”The news media has been awash this week in hype over an alleged missing link fossil nicknamed Ida. As it turns out, the fossil wasn’t fraudulent, but the hype definitely was. 2. The Telegraph: “New ‘Super Rats’ Evolve Resistance to Poison”Is this “super rat” an example of evolution in action, or the result of an information-reducing mutation? 3. Gallup: “More Americans ‘Pro-Life’ than...

“For those who remember journalism back in a 1970s heyday they can’t explain to to [sic] the young, [David] Halberstam’s death was not just the death of a hero, it was like the death of the great Hollywood stars—Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable.” So wrote Henry Allen in The Washington Post shortly after the car crash which brought about the melancholy event to which he refers. He reminds us of what a paltry thing, in journalism’s little kingdom, is “just” the death of a hero—at least in comparison with the apotheosis of a celebrity. Halberstam, Hepburn, Gable. When did this...

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Why Wait: The Benefits of Abstinence Until Marriage by: Bridget Maher The mainstream media constantly bombards young people with sexually explicit messages. Television programs regularly feature premarital sex and sexually provocative content, giving the impression that all young people are sexually active before marriage. The good news is that despite the media's targeting of young audiences with sex-saturated shows, teens prefer the abstinence message.More Teens Remaining AbstinentIncreasing numbers of young people are practicing abstinence today. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the percentage of teens who have had premarital sex declined during the 1990s. In 1991, 54 percent of...

Oh those posh Brits. Those accents. That wit. "We've always had a cultural inferiority complex with regard to the Brits," Stanford University linguist Geoffrey Nunberg says, "that they speak correctly and we don't. We even say we 'use the queen's English.' And why should that matter to us?" Just such intellectual Anglophilia may be what's behind a virus that's infecting American media these days: Britspeak. We have become a nation of journalistic copycats, betraying perfectly good American idioms along the way.

If you trust most media accounts fed to American viewers and readers, Iraq is an unmitigated disaster.There is no security throughout the country, and armed insurgents (search) are springing up, sown like dragon's teeth by the offensive of the U.S. military forces. The scheduled elections are highly uncertain. Indeed, U.S. forces have killed 100,000 Iraqis. Iraqis have never had it so bad. It’s a drumbeat with echoes of the way the American media reported the  Vietnam War (search).Those who have the opportunity to hear the accounts of Americans serving in Iraq often come away with a completely different impression. Many...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. BANGALORE, India (AFP) - Financial news and information giant Reuters announced it would shift 50 percent of its data operations to India and add 860 workers by the end of next year. The move comes on top of 340 staff already recruited since operations began at its Bangalore centre in April, Reuters Group Plc editor-in-chief Geert Linnebank told a news conference in India's high-tech hub of Bangalore. "By the end of next year our centre in Bangalore will employ 1,200 people. Of this, 750 will be employed in the data management...

Next week's covers will belong to the dynamic Democratic tag team of Kerry and Edwards. This week, the glory and the ink go to America's most beloved biker, Lance Armstrong, and France's most adored star of the American film world since Jerry Lewis, Michael Moore. Armstrong, the aging hero who's trying to pedal his way to his sixth Tour de France, can be found on the covers of Outside, Men's Journal, ESPN the Magazine, Esquire and the June 28 Sports Illustrated. If there's anything you don't know about Armstrong's successful fights with cancer, his refutation of doping allegations, his relationship...

A parody helps change a corrections policy at The New York Times. An online critic's query ends a career at the Chicago Tribune. Bloggers' scrutiny is making its mark on traditional journalism. Blogger Robert Cox tried everything he could do to get The New York Times to change its ways. After he read an incorrectly abridged quote in a Maureen Dowd column last year, he tried in vain to get a correction in the paper. He vented, he raged, he rallied the blogosphere and even some other newspapers. But in the end, his parody of the Times' correction page --...

"We get results," is a characteristic boast in James Taranto's daily blog, Best of the Web Today. (It is one of the Wall Street Journal's free online features.) The cry goes up each time someone he has exposed for shoddy or vicious journalistic practices is compelled to make amends. Last Sunday I wrote about the Jayson Blair debacle at the New York Times, and what it portends for print journalism at large. On Thursday, the Times's top two editors, Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, resigned in half-acknowledged disgrace. With his newsroom melting down, the publisher brought the previous editor out...

This FReeper reserved it at his local public library, which is why I am asking. How good a brainwasher is Alterman?Wasn't he a guest on John Gibson on FNC a couple of months ago?foreverfree

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE President Bush and friend Roland Betts play the Las Campanas golf course in Santa Fe, N.M., on Sunday. Employees of a plastics plant will have to make up the time they're off work while the plant is used as the site of a speech today by President Bush on his economic and employment proposals.The president, who has been campaigning across the country to drum up support for tax cuts being debated in Congress, will speak to Airlite Plastics Co.'s 575 employees about how his economic stimulus plan would benefit them.Airlite President and CEO Brad...

Back in Desert Storm, you might have caught Barry McCaffrey on television. He commanded the 24th Infantry Division as it wheeled in a 240-mile left hook across the desert. Should war come to that part of the world again, you'll probably see McCaffrey on TV again - but this time as an analyst for NBC News, which he joined in September 2001. Ever since Vietnam, Army generals have tended to hold the press at arm's length. But McCaffrey expresses no qualms about becoming a part of the press. He said in an interview here this week: "When I signed on...

For months the financial media has howled for the blood of Wall Street stock analysts as the penalty for their allegedly "tainted" research. Meanwhile, they've cheered the efforts of New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to levy huge fines and potentially restructure the investment-banking industry. It's not just the usual liberal-biased media — like the New York Times — that's out for blood. In today's post-Enron hyper-regulatory environment, capitalism has hardly any defenders in the mainstream media.Even the politically conservative Wall Street Journal is joining this media onslaught. Last week it took the lead by pillorying former Salomon Smith...