Category: Media

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 […]

 

The NRA’s Media Strategy, Is It Working?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The newest efforts to ban guns being undertaken by Democrats and President Obama demands response and the National Rifle Association isn’t lying down on the job. But is the NRA’s media strategy working? For about a week after the murders of 26 school children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA […]

 

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 […]

 

Roe at 40: A Discussion with Live Action’s Lila Rose

Posted on by Matt Vespa

On January 22, the United States celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, which legalized abortion in all fifty states. : In doing so, the Court usurped a developing consensus amongst the state legislatures on the issue, and violated the principle of federalism that should guide how we enact policy in […]

 

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 […]

 

Cost of Obama’s 2012 Regulations: $236 Billion

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite Obama’s promise to cut unnecessary regulations, his administration issued $236.7 billion in new regulations in 2012. According to a report by the American Action Forum, headed by former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the direct costs of the regulations force America’s businesses to waste 87 million man-hours to fill out regulatory paperwork. Adding […]

 

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, […]

 

Stephens: ‘ [Hagel] Confirmation Process Should Be Illuminating’

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Chuck Hagel, former Senator of Nebraska, has been tapped to head the Department of Defense. : He’s a Republican, who vociferously criticized the Bush administration during the Iraq War — and equated ‘The Surge’ as the biggest foreign policy blunder since Vietnam. : I also think Iraq was more of a distraction, than brilliant strategic thinking — […]

 

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 […]

 

Obama’s Lawless Presidency

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama’s supporters love to call him the “cool” President, a “no drama” guy, and generally like to claim he is unflappable in office. Whatever the truth of that claim, there is one thing for sure: he doesn’t sweat the small stuff. Like following the law. During his four years in office this president has […]

 

UK Guardian: Pedophiles Need Support

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The paper the Guardian has become Britain’s newest champion for a minority of sorts. In a January 3 article, the UK paper has taken up the cause of pedophiles who claim they are just “ordinary members of society” that only need a little understanding. The paper seriously presented pedophiles as but a misunderstood minority that […]

 

Reminder: Sen. Feinstein Said She Wants All Guns Banned

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the lines that many progressives and TV talking heads are reiterating is that no one really wants to take away Americans’ guns. Senator Dianne Feinstein apparently missed that directive. She admitted as far back as 1995 that she does, indeed, wish to take everyone’s guns away from them. In a 1995 broadcast of […]

 

Al-Jazeera Buys Al-Gore’s Current TV

Posted on by Dave Blount

Among the people scrambling to unload assets before the descent of Obama’s monstrous 2013 tax guillotine is bitter 2000 loser Al Gore, who confirmed the enduring bond between America’s worst two enemies — moonbats and militant Muslims — by selling his ultra-left Current TV to the Islamic propaganda outfit Al-Jazeera. In related Current TV news, […]

 

Marine Tells Di Feinstein, ‘No Ma’am’ Over Gun Grabbing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Joshua Boston, a retired Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, has a message for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) concerning her newest gun banning bill. Corporal Boston says, “No Ma’Am.” Boston posted an open letter to Senator Feinstein at CNN’s ireport site on December 27 to let DiFi know that he, at least, would not […]

 

Fiscal Face Plant

Posted on by Robert Cleveland

It is now 2013, and I can unequivocally state that I am sick and tired of all of the Fiscal Cliff crap…mainly because crap is all that we are getting from Washington. After all of the angst and hand-wringing and closed-door meetings and finger-pointing and bloviating for the press, all the White House and the […]

 

New York Times Editorial Calls for Canceling the Constitution

Posted on by Dave Blount

Having managed to reelect Obama despite his abysmal performance, the hard left “mainstream” media is beginning to feel free to take off the mask. Calls for jettisoning the Constitution that has held this country together for over two centuries are growing louder. From the alarmingly influential New York Times: Our obsession with the Constitution has […]