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Who you gonna believe: the Daily Caller, founded by Tucker Carlson, or CNN’s Chris Cuomo? Because one or the other has things seriously wrong when it comes to the political affiliations of the lawyers on Robert Mueller’s investigative team. On CNN this morning, Cuomo claimed: “Mueller’s team has some type of breakdown of Democrat and Republican. It’s about 50/50.” But a study conducted by the Daily Caller Foundation came to a strikingly different conclusion. As the headline of the article reporting on the study reads, “Not A Single Lawyer Known To Work For Mueller Is A Republican.” Get the rest...

CNN has an article up today titled “‘Black Lives Matter’ cases: When controversial killings lead to change” which looks at how individual shootings highlighted by BLM have resulted in some changes to the law. Let’s stipulate up front that there’s nothing wrong with the subject matter here. A roundup of legal changes that have resulted from these high profile cases seems worthwhile. What’s not worthwhile is the way CNN frames a couple of the best-known cases, even failing to note there is no evidence for the story behind “hands up, don’t shoot.” Here’s CNN’s description of the Michael Brown shooting:

After the massacre in Tucson that saw six murdered and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and 12 others wounded, President Obama gave a speech at the memorial where he called for raising the tone in politics. To honor the memory of those killed and wounded the president said: The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better in our private lives -- to be better friends and neighbors, co-workers and parents. And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more civility in our public discourse, let's remember...

Since Stalin labeled Leon Trotsky -- the man who was the father of Russian Bolshevism! -- a "fascist," the Left has labeled its ideological opponents evil. And when you control nearly all of the news media and schools, that labeling works

<p>WASHINGTON -- Democratic critics and some family members of soldiers serving in Iraq are taking President Bush to task for his jokes at a black-tie dinner about the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction.</p> <p>The jokes came at Wednesday night's annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner. In a 10-minute, mostly puckish, self-deprecating speech, the president presented a slide show he called "an election-year, White House photo album."</p>

September 11 families say Bush campaign treading on the dead.... so reads the headline. It makes one think that Bush has enraged every member of every family who lost someone on September 11. It gives the idea that Bush has crossed the line and disrespected the victims of our nation's tragedy.... ....then you read "the rest of the story". The article has quotes from some women like Rita Lasar, who lost her brother. Rita says, "Ground Zero is a sacred site ... find some other way to run a campaign without stepping on the bodies of our dead." In passing...

Headline listed on the New York Times story "Bush Says He Sees No Need in Iraq for Adding G.I.'s" Actual quote from the article Mr. Bush also indicated that he was not considering sending in additional American troops to help restore order, but said he was not the one making the decision. "That's a decision by John Abizaid," Mr. Bush said, referring to the senior American commander in the region. "He makes that — General Abizaid makes the decision as to whether or not he needs more troops. I've constantly asked the secretary of defense, as well as when I...

By coincidence two parallel fictions ran simultaneously in my household Sunday night. In the kitchen, I caught snippets of Hillary Clinton and Barbara Walters musing over the New York senator's new book, while my male associates gathered in another room to indulge their apparently insatiable appetite for The Godfather. Dazzling performances all 'round on a theme that's nearly become an American leitmotif: denial. Hillary, whose $8 million memoir Living History hit bookstores Monday, is telling Walters how she felt on the morning of Aug. 15, 1998, when Bill woke her up to confess his affair with that woman, Monica Lewinsky:...