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In the year everything went to sh*t, America's media was already positioned for action. Rather than riding athwart the troubled waters of America in 2020, offering a beacon of accurate, intrepidly researched reporting to help guide the country, the biggest names in media time and again chose instead to abuse their positions, advancing narrow political interests in lieu of valuable, fact-checked information. If there’s a theme to this year’s edition, it’s the mainstreaming of gaslighting. Time and again news consumers were told that what they were seeing meant the opposite of what it clearly did (see, for example, #s 15...

RUSH EXCERPT: CUOMO: “Well, it’s good news/bad news. The good news is the Pfizer tests look good and we’ll have a vaccine shortly. The bad news is that it’s about two months before Joe Biden takes over and that means this administration is going to be implementing a vaccine plan. The vaccine plan is very important and it’s probably the most ambitious undertaking since Covid began. Just to put it in focus, we did 10 million Covid tests in this nation over seven months scrambling doing everything we can. We now have to do 330 million vaccinations, maybe twice, my...

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Google’s video platform, YouTube, doesn’t want people to know the Michigan kidnapping plot’s alleged ringleader considered President Trump an “enemy.” The man, now in federal custody, is named Brandon Caserta, and he made a series of videos while preparing his kidnapping plot against Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In one such video, Caserta expounds on his anarchist philosophy, calling President Trump an enemy. “Trump is not your friend, dude,” Caserta says. “And it amazes me that people actually, like, believe that, when he’s shown over and over and over again that he’s a tyrant. Every single person that works for government...

As the 2020 election season winds down to its final days, Democrats are deploying a rather dark talking point. Vote Biden, or die. This might sound like an exaggeration, but it's actually become a common refrain among Democrats hitting the campaign trail for the former vice president. "Vote as if your life depends on it," urged Biden's VP nominee, Kamala Harris. "Because right now, it really does." In a message addressed specifically to millennial voters, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said: “Vote like your life depends on it, because it does."

BORGER: “It is insulting to the people who have lost loved ones. It is insulting to every American who wears a mask. I mean, it’s disgraceful, Wolf. It’s absurd.” BLITZER: “Don’t tell your supporters, don’t be afraid of Covid. Everyone should be afraid of Covid.” TAPPER: “It’s okay to be afraid of Covid and it’s okay that it’s dominating your life because it has dominated your life!”

There’s new reason to think the Democrats’ presidential candidate is being scripted through his — increasingly rare — interviews with the press. In a moment that’s thus far escaped public notice, Biden, speaking last week with Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart, at one point halted mid-answer, appeared confused, and gestured to someone off camera, saying, “I lost that line.” Biden was in the middle of explaining how he would suspend deportations should he become president. Even more bizarre, Diaz-Balart then tells Biden — in a tone that doesn’t appear meant for broadcast, “Yeah, OK, that’s good, because we can talk you and...

‘Today was a fantastic fulfillment of Osama Bin Laden’s vision by Donald Trump’

This week Bob Woodward released excerpts from a forthcoming book on the the Trump Administration’s handling of Coronavirus. The angle grabbing the most media attention is President Trump telling the author that his public comments were less dire than the intelligence he was being provided from the federal government. Many are now claiming this amounts to a “cover up” that needlessly endangered the lives of Americans. However, as the timeline below demonstrates, Woodward’s report does not accurately capture the Trump Administration’s public handling of the virus. In fact, the administration was initially attacked for being too aggressive. With assistance from...

Wake up, sheeple! There’s an elaborate plot unfolding right before our eyes. President Donald Trump — a notoriously Machiavellian schemester who is perhaps most infamous for stealing the 2016 election thanks to his underhanded alliance with his sometimes puppetmaster Vladimir Putin — is now busily executing his next sinister conspiracy. Thanks to our sources — primarily Twitter users @ResistancefackTrump212eh213 & @RepiglicansAreHitler22133v3 — we’re now able to report how this plot has been unfolding: 1. After refusing to resign, Trump likewise refused to be impeached 2. Trump then pointedly refused to stop Coronavirus from infecting Americans, likely because of his/Putin’s financial...

Someone must have put something in her Wheaties, because Mika Brzezinski went on an absolute rampage against President Trump on today’s "Morning Joe." The host, angry over Trump's mockery of Joe Biden's recently announced plans for a national mask mandate, spent several segments screaming at the commander-in-chief. Brzezinski, who was anchoring the program without her usual cohost and husband, Willie Geist and Joe Scarborough, respectively, repeatedly blamed Trump for the deaths of Americans who’ve died from Coronavirus. She called on members of the Trump administration who aren’t “brainwashed by the cult leader” to start taking on Trump.

‘My pronouns are she, her, and hers’

After spending weeks demanding Attorney General Barr testify about the federal response to recent protests across America, House Democrats today made clear what they actually wanted was to testify themselves -- and simply let AG Barr watch and listen. Time and again over the day-long hearing, Democrats phrased their comments ostensibly as questions, but then objected when Barr attempted answering. "Reclaiming my time" became a theme early into the contentious proceedings. When Barr began balking at being barred from speaking, Rep. Greg Stanton reassured the attorney general that "'You'll have a chance to comment after your testimony is over today."

top us if you’ve heard this one before: The media — excited about a story that confirms all of its favorite narratives — gives the “news” prominent airtime before journalists actually do the hard work of thoroughly fact-checking. And, before long, the actual news turns out to pretty much the opposite of what these credulous reporters claimed. It happened with Jussie Smollett. It happened with Covington. It happened with the Virginia girl whose dreads were supposedly cut off. And now it’s happened again — in the most predictable, absolutely unsurprising development of 2020.

‘Sexual assault is not about sex; it’s about power, it’s about the abuse of power’

Democrats are pouncing on the Coronavirus, looking to take advantage of the sudden support for big government projects to "re-shape society" in a more progressive vision. Over the last few weeks, Democrats have urged using the crisis to pursue single-payer health care, nationalized industry, the conscription of medical workers, an expanded social welfare system, and the Green New Deal. California's Gavin Newsom said the pandemic created an opportunity to "reshape" society. ...

Democrats are chastising President Trump for his handling of the Coronavirus global pandemic, but a review of their initial handling of the crisis looks far worse in retrospect. As news reports began circulating that the disease was able to be transmitted from person to person, Democratic lawmakers continued encouraging Americans to gather in large groups. The Coronavirus, De Blasio said February 14th, "should not stop you from going about your life, should not stop you from going to Chinatown and going out to eat. I’m going to do that today myself.” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likewise urged Americans...

ew York City’s health commissioner, ostensibly responsible for advising New Yorkers on best health practices, is coming under fire for the role she may have played in the city becoming America’s biggest Coronavirus cluster. Last month, Oxiris Barbot, the city’s health commissioner, said that riding public transit and going out into public, — including attending the Chinese Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown, would help defeat anti-Asian prejudices. “The risk to New Yorkers for Coronavirus is low, and our preparedness as a city is very high,” Barbot said February 2nd. “There is no reason not to take the subway, not...

In a series of interviews Tuesday, Joe Biden attempted to remind America he's still running for president, but ended up providing President Trump a treasure trove of campaign fodder. The ostensible Democratic front-runner appeared in lengthy interviews on CNN, MSNBC, and ABC's "The View," to describe how much more competent his handling of the Coronavirus crisis would be were he in the White House, but appeared confused and sick — coughing incessantly — throughout the appearances. CNN's Jake Tapper even had to remind the former vice president that current protocol is to cough into his elbow, not his his, as...

When the Coronavirus entered most Americans’ radars, the deadly pandemic was largely contained to China. To try to keep the virus from entering America, President Trump on January 31st announced a ban on travel from China to the U.S. The move was almost reflexively panned as “racist,” “xenophobic,” and not in line with science. More than a month and a half later, it’s now widely acknowledged that limiting travel from “cluster” regions is one of the only ways to slow the virus’ rapid spread, and that this travel ban helped the United States gain time to prepare its defenses. Americans...