The Other McCain

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Tucker Carlson: CNN Dutifully Follows ‘Marching Orders’ From Nancy Pelosi

  In his Wednesday opening monologue, Tucker Carlson explained that the real collusion is between Democrats and the “mainstream” media: This past Sunday afternoon, we learned that the Trump campaign did not collude with the government of Russia. That was the conclusion of Robert Mueller’s investigation, an investigation that spent two years exhaustively looking into […]

‘A Painful Gut Punch’ for MSNBC

  For 675 days of the Mueller investigation, Rachel Maddow enjoyed her best-ever ratings, promising her audience of angry Democrats that the special counsel would soon rid America of the unwelcome presidency of Donald J. Trump. For MSNBC viewers, the result was a catastrophe: Last Friday, Robert Mueller turned over the results of his titanic […]

‘Creepy Porn Lawyer’ Michael Avenatti Arrested by Feds in Extortion Scheme

  It this the best week ever, or what? The arrest Monday of Michael Avenatti in an extortion case reportedly linked to fellow celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos sparked trouble for two men who recently had been fixtures on cable news, especially CNN. Avenatti, the pugnacious attorney best known for representing adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in […]

Media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome So Bad, Ted Koppel Is Complaining

  Readers under 40 may need to be reminded who Ted Koppel is, but he used to be a pretty important TV news guy: Iconic news anchor and former “Nightline” host Ted Koppel recently fired a shot across the bow at the mainstream media — particularly the New York Times and the Washington Post — […]

Totalitarian Twitter Tactics

  Rep. Devin Nunes has filed a $250 million lawsuit against Twitter, and it’s time to have a conversation about the silencing of dissent: Does anyone remember “GamerGate”? In October 2014, a friend named Beth Haper urged me to pay more attention to the controversy that erupted over accusations of unethical favoritism by journalists covering […]

Competing Worldviews

Conservatives face a tough fight as Big Tech’s censorship expands — Donald Trump Jr., The Hill The internet is radicalizing white men. Big tech could be doing more — Alex Koppelman, CNN Here’s a question: Do you think that censoring conservatives on the Internet will reduce extremist violence or increase it? Much of what New […]

CNN’s Ratings Are SO LOW …

  Ace of Spades calls attention to the latest cable-news ratings, as reported by

UNLEASH ‘THE TONE’!

  In 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised $132 million, David Montgomery of the Washington Post noted last November: That’s a 164 percent increase over the $50 million it took in a year before. The SPLC’s endowment is up to $433 million. SPLC leaders explain the jump as a reaction to the tone unleashed […]

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