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Jake Tapper's show displayed the fake cover on Friday during a news report The origins of the cover aren't known but it had been shared on Twitter Came five days after CNN fired three journalists for a retracted news story That story only had one source and claimed a Trump-Russia connection Tapper had been covering ongoing feud between Trump and Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski say White House tried to blackmail them Trump and White House insiders say that claim is nonsense Just five days after CNN laid off three journalists amid a 'fake news' scandal, the...

CNN went into full anti-Romney attack mode this morning, with a false report about an anti-Koch brothers protest at a fundraiser for Mitt Romney and endless discussion of Romney’s personal finances, in keeping with the Obama campaign’s current message. The worst moment came when CNN aired a charge by Nicholas Shaxson, the pro-Occupy, “offshore” British writer for Vanity Fair, that Romney had possibly broken tax laws. Shaxson’s article was the basis for a coordinated Obama campaign-mainstream media hit on Romney last week that CNN continues to pursue, long after theVanity Fair article has become old news--and timed, no doubt, to...

Al jiz conf Today I was the keynote speaker at a conference at the National Press Club to expose the covert expansion of Al Jazeera into the United States. Pamela Hall was there, and she'll have video and pics posted this weekend. Your taxpayer dollars at work. Al Jazeera is being broadcast on MHz Networks, a division of Commonwealth Public Broadcasting, which receives over three million in taxpayer dollars. Would we have subsidized Tokyo Rose or the Mufti Al Husseini's radio broadcasts during World War II? Well, that's exactly what we are doing now. Commonwealth Public Broadcasting is a "public...

Barack Obama is only a candidate, but don't tell that to the Germans, some of whom have leapfrogged that whole election thing and already are calling him "President Obama" in advance of his visit. For that matter, his own campaign could use a reminder. For the second time in as many days, reporters traveling with Mr. Obama on his overseas trip corrected campaign staffers for saying White House practices also govern his campaign in dealing with the press, or in delivering speeches. Even the King of Jordan gave the senator from Illinois special treatment - personally driving the presumed Democratic...

Athens airs Olympic doubts for first time By Harry de Quetteville in Athens (Filed: 04/06/2004) The first cracks in the Greek government's united front in promoting this summer's Olympics have appeared after ministers questioned publicly whether the Games were worth all the bother. After foreign criticism over delays and mishaps in the preparations, the public works minister, Giorgos Souflias, who is in charge of many Olympic building sites, left colleagues in the Greek parliament aghast by airing his "doubts as to whether we should have undertaken the Olympic Games". Giorgos Alogoskoufis, the finance minister, announced that the spiralling costs had...