The Third Party Under Campaign Scrutiny: The Media

  • August 31, 2024
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Popular wisdom has it is that there are two candidates on the election ballot this fall: former President Donald Trump for the GOP, and for the Democrats, Vice President Kamala Harris. In fact, there’s a third major candidate out there. That would be the mainstream media and its credibility. Last week in this space it […]

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How Democrats Wrote Sex Workers Out of Their Platform

  • August 31, 2024
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I assume some of you may, unfortunately, be familiar with the feeling people can experience when there’s a party coming up at the office hosted by some friends of yours who traditionally include you in all their activities, but no invitation has arrived with your name on it. Was this just some type of accidental […]

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Russia Invaded, Week 3. State of Play

  • August 31, 2024
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Welcome to the third, and probably last, iteration of my coverage of Ukraine’s punitive expedition into Russia’s Kursk Oblast. The level of Kursk-specific activity seems to be winding down, and I will blend it into my weekly (or thereabouts) Putin’s War collection. Advertisement The Ukrainian advance seems to have run out of steam despite the […]

CBS Hypes Stunt Lawsuit Against Florida’s School Library Law

  • August 31, 2024
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For Friday’s edition of CBS Evening News, guest host Nancy Cordes and Miami correspondent Cristian Benavides hyped a rather silly lawsuit that argued that the state’s law allowing for people to challenge books in school libraries on the grounds they are inappropriate for children violates the First Amendment. At the same time, Cordes hyped a […]

Facebook Blocks ‘Reagan’ Posts with Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly

  • August 31, 2024
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“There they go again.” No, that wasn’t President Ronald Reagan but Dennis Quaid, the actor who brings the late leader to life in “Reagan.” The movie, out Aug. 30, recalls the president’s remarkable life from his days as a humble lifeguard to leader of the free world. [embedded content] Getting the word out about the film […]

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Kamala: Trump’s Afraid of a Live Mic, You Know

  • August 31, 2024
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So says the presidential nominee who still hasn’t held a press conference, or done an interview without an Emotional Support Running Mate on hand. After haranguing Donald Trump to stick to the debate agreement that he made with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris has grown more desperate to extricate herself from it.  Advertisement On Thursday, ABC […]

Snopes Defends Walz In One Of The Worst Fact-Checks Ever Written

  • August 31, 2024
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Fact-checks should be, as the name suggests, about checking facts, but a Friday piece from Alex Kasprak at Snopes showed aspiring fact-checkers how not to do their jobs as he defended Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz on the accusation he banned Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in the state. Kasprak writes, “In late […]