Category: Media Bias

Koch Industries Responds to ‘Misleading’ UK Articles

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Koch Industries recently published a response to the work of UK Independent journalist Steve Connor whose work, Koch says, “misled readers.” The two articles accused Koch Industries of secretly funding attacks on climate change. The articles written by Connor “got many facts about Koch wrong,” according to the open letter published on the company’s website. […]

 

Big Three Nets Slant Overwhelmingly For Obama’s Gun Ban Campaign

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new study of coverage by the big three networks of President Obama’s anti-gun crusade shows an overwhelmingly positive slant toward the President’s policy ideas at an 8 to 1 ratio. The study conducted by the Media Research Center reviewed coverage from December 14 to January 17, or from the day of the crime at […]

 

Green Movement Founder Opposes Wind Turbines in His Backyard

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the world’s premiere environmentalists, credited as a founder of the green movement, is fighting plans to erect wind turbines in his own village. Professor James Lovelock, 93, is renowned for having created the “Gaia Theory” and becoming one of the World’s earliest and most active modern environmentalists. He is also known for predicting […]

 

Surprise! Paper Of Record Not Particularly Concerned With Obama Drone Strike Policy

Posted on by William Teach

If there’s one major media outlet those on the Left go to for news and opinion, it would be the NY Times. The same NY Times that excoriated Bush for, well, everything he did. In this case, we’re talking about going after Islamist terrorists. We all remember the hysteria regarding Abu Ghraid. The constant drumbeat […]

 

Noam Chomsky: Obama is Like an Old ‘Moderate Republican’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On January 30, professor Noam Chomsky, famed linguistic scholar and long-time anti-American activist, said on Current TV that if President Obama were in office a few decades ago he would have “basically” been considered a “moderate Republican.” Chomsky made his comments on Cenk Uygur’s Current TV show The Young Turks. The MIT professor’s main point […]

 

How the left uses identity politics and fear tactics to influence voters

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

Although Barack Obama’s inauguration was a few weeks ago this article will still touch on some of the language he spoke as well as the meaning behind his words. I will also explain in great detail how the left uses identity politics to influence certain voters and alienate others. Language can be a great indicator […]

 

Leaked Memo Cites Legal Rationale For Targeted Assassination Of Americans Abroad

Posted on by William Teach

Let’s take a look at a few headlines, shall we? EXCLUSIVE: Justice Department memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans Justice Dept. document justifies killing Americans overseas if they pose ‘imminent threat’ Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens in Al Qaeda Official memo justifying drone strikes leaks Those are just a […]

 

ABC Ignores Tim Scott’s Senate Appointment in Dec., By Jan. Hails Mo Cowan’s as ‘History’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In December, ABC’s World News saw no news at all in the historic appointment of African American Tim Scott to the Senate in South Carolina. No mention was made of it during the broadcast. Only a month later, though, the same program suddenly hailed African American William “Mo” Cowan’s appointment to the Senate as history […]

 

Paul Krugman: Let’s Just Print More Money

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Once again liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has said that our government trillions in debt is not a problem and even intimated that we might we crank up the printing presses and print more fiat money to get us out of our bad economy. Krugman appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” program […]

 

Obama Operatives Training Media How to Sell Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Old Media is getting a little help from team Obama on how to report about Obamacare the “correct” way. To achieve that goal, Obama operatives are setting up propaganda symposiums for journalists and giving large cash donations to journalism associations to help spread Obama’s word. This Obamacare propaganda campaign seriously blurs the line between […]

 

Media Lies Again With ‘Man Buys Missile Launcher During Gun Buyback Program’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rocket launchers roaming our city streets and being turned in at gun buyback programs is a fake story the Old Media establishment has repeatedly promulgated as real and I am getting a bit sick and tired of it. Early in January I noted an instance where the media went gaga over “missile launchers” that were […]

 

Vogue Editor Wintour’s Boyfriend Owes $1.2 Million in Taxes

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Only a month ago, Vogue editor Anna Wintour was being floated as an ideal candidate to become President Obama’s next ambassador to Britain but now the fashionista is in the news for another reason. A British newspaper has found that her boyfriend, J. Shelby Bryan, owes $1.2 million in back taxes to the IRS. Despite […]

 

Actor John Leguizamo a Big Fan of Big Government

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Actor John Leguizamo refuses to employ any cagey politically correct speak about his love for big government. There’s no dancing around or soft-pedaling with him. For Leguizamo, big government is all good. In a recent interview with Nicholas Ballasy, the actor asked “What’s wrong with big government?” “I’ve never had a problem with big government. […]

 

VP Biden: Mental Health Checks Could Have Stopped Vir. Tech Shooting

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After a discussion on gun control at an event in Richmond, Virginia, Vice President Joe Biden claimed that better mental health checks could have stopped the shooting on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007. Biden said that he and those he consulted during the recent gun banning commission he chaired which was completed in mid […]

 

Left Pays No Attention to Obama Pledge of No Name Calling

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Even as Obama stood in front of hundreds of thousands of admirers during his inaugural speech saying that we needed to end the name calling, many in his party and many of his surrogates have utterly ignored that advice. “We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned […]

 

WH Spokesman Carney Slams GOP’s ‘Obsession’ With Anti-Islam Film

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the days following the attacks on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year the Obama administration insisted the whole thing was a result of Muslim ire at an anti-Islam film posted to Youtube. Today, after Hillary testified in front of the Senate over her role in the debacle, White House spokesman Jay Carney is […]

 

Leonardo DiCaprio to Fly Jet Around World To Save the Environment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is taking a break from acting to help save the environment by pursuing his environmental activism but maybe someone needs to tell him how “saving the environment” might work. DiCaprio told members of the entertainment media that after doing so many movies in a row he’s tired and needs a break from […]

 

Food Stamps Recipients Increased 11,133 Per Day In Obama’s First Term

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One way to mark the legacy of a presidency is to tally statistics and at least one stat is not very flattering for this president: Americans on food stamps have grown by 11,133 every day during his first term. In 2009, when Obama took office, recipients of SNAP, the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, stood at […]

 

Did VP Biden Lie About Hearing 2006 Gun Shots?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last week as Vice President Joe Biden talked publicly about his efforts to assist President Obama with his various gun-banning schemes, he made a startling new claim. He said that while golfing in Pennsylvania in 2006 he personally heard the gunfire from a mass shooting being committed at a nearby school. But did he really? […]

 

Danny Glover’s Revisionist History: 2nd Amendment Was for Protecting Slavery

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Actor and hardcore progressive Danny Glover should add revisionist historian to his growing resume of left-wing activism after a recent visit to Texas A&M University where he told students that the Second Amendment was mainly meant to keep African Americans in slavery and to kill Native American peoples. During his January 17 appearance at the […]

 

Left Says Gov’t Won’t Abuse Powers? What of Civil Rights Movement, 60s Riots?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The left is scoffing at the belief held by Second Amendment supporters that their right to bear arms is in part meant to act as a check on tyrannical government. Government turning tyrannical is ridiculous, many leftists say. But isn’t this the most absurd hypocrisy because didn’t they build their entire lefty edifice on the […]

 

Americans Dissatisfied With Current Gun Laws But Still Supportive of Second Amendment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In the aftermath of the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut, Gallup has found that the number of Americans open to greater restrictions on guns has taken an upswing going from 25 percent in support of tighter restrictions to 38 percent. Despite this, Americans are not keen on ending their Second Amendment rights. […]

 

VP Gaffemaster: ‘No Silver Bullet’ to Stop Gun Violence

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This month’s busy work for Vice President “Sheriff” Joe Biden is his great gun control task force assigned him by his boss, Barack. Now that it is close to wrapping up, Biden has told us a bit about his progress and in his gaffetastic way he’s told us that there is “no silver bullet” to […]

 

Larry King: That Piers Morgan is Awfully Self-Absorbed, Isn’t He?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For years Larry King hosted the CNN show that is now helmed by British import Piers Morgan. Now King has opened up about his replacement and his pronouncement is not very flattering. King thinks Morgan makes the show too much about Morgan. For those who remember, Larry King was more about being a conduit for […]

 

Cincy TV News Calls Out PIers Morgan’s False Anti-Gun Stats

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his raucous interview with rabble rouser Alex Jones, CNN’s Piers Morgan unleashed several false gun statistics to show how wonderful his British homeland is for its gun banning ways. But Cincinnati’s Fox affiliate WXIX didn’t let Morgan get away with it thoroughly debunking the CNNer’s false stats. With his January 8 “Reality Check” segment, […]

 

Gore’s TV Staffers Not Happy About Being Sold to Al Jazeera

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Al Gore may have gotten a multi-million dollar payday from his new friends in Jihadland, but his Current TV employees don’t seem so all fired up about being sold to Al Jazeera. Current TV employees were called to an early staff meeting in San Francisco and via teleconference to the New York and Los Angeles […]

 

NY Dem. Calls Supporter of Opponent ‘N’ Word

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A Democrat candidate for a seat on New York’s Uptown City Council is turning to race baiting as his primary campaign strategy and recently went all in using the “N” word repeatedly to attack a supporter of his opponent. Thomas Lopez-Pierre is running for the Uptown City Council seat being vacated by the term-limited Robert […]

 

Fake News: L.A. Cops/Media Tout Rocket Launcher Seizure That Wasn’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Chief Charlie Beck and L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa, Dec. 27, 2012 The L.A. Police Department had big news on December 27. They had seized a pair of rocket launchers! This, of course, would have been shocking news if only they really had found “rocket launchers” in the City of Angels. As the L.A. Police Department’s “gun […]