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CNN anchor: Who ever heard of a gunman rampaging across a U.S. military...
"I've worked in Washington for many years, I've never heard of such a thing happening." Via Newsbusters. As Santayana said, those who do not learn from history are condemned to broadcast their...
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Why the liberal press loves the right’s reaction to Obama’s ‘latte salute’
What they will talk about tells you something. Barack Obama is taking the nation to war on his own terms yet again. It is not the first time he has done so, but so many in the press are determined to...
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Matt Lewis shames the press for laughing at Bristol Palin’s physical assault
New front in the "War on Women." Apparently, the usual sober and fraught political commentary that often accompanies episodes of physical violence directed toward women disappears when the subject of...
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Quotes of the day
Double standards. Until this week, the Palin family “brawl” that went down last month at an Anchorage house party last month has been treated like an excellent tabloid story with just enough political...
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Video: Palin-bashing CNN anchor claimed Michelle Obama signed bill into law
Forget civility. How about civics? A sillier moment than earlier this week for CNN’s Carol Costello, but perhaps just as revealing. In May, when new nutritional regulations on school lunches endorsed...
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CNN media reporter: Costello deserves all the criticism she’s getting
Will CNN follow Costello's own standards? And CNN deserves some too, although their media reporter Brian Stelter didn’t go quite that far yesterday. Give Stelter credit for covering the controversy at...
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Cable news is having a hard time coming to terms with a Republican Senate
Raw feelings. This is getting to be quite entertaining. Watch CNN or MSNBC’s coverage of what appears increasingly likely to be a GOP takeover of the Senate either tonight or in the coming weeks, and...
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Elizabeth Lauten and the ‘kids are off limits’ canard
Standards. On Monday, the media claimed a scalp. A formerly obscure staffer for a still relatively unknown Republican congressman was outed in the press over the slow holiday weekend after she had the...
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CNN media critic: The coverage of Lauten was a little much, huh?
Slow news cycles and high horses. “I think in this case it was about a slow news cycle,” CNN media critic Brian Stelter said yesterday in a critique of the media’s coverage of Elizabeth Lauten’s...
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Hot Air’s top 50 posts in 2014: 31-40
Embarrassments. Welcome back to our retrospective on the most-read posts at Hot Air in 2014, a chance to review the top stories and reminisce about the oddities that captured our imagination. One of...
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CNN’s Carol Costello apologizes for providing Moscow with invaluable propaganda
No joke. Western observers of the increasingly deadly conflict in eastern Ukraine between the separatist forces armed and supported by Russian troops and soldiers loyal to Kiev have long opposed the...
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Good news: CNN guest informs nation that radical Islam a ‘made-up idea’
Get ready to laugh. While perusing Twitter on Monday, I came across this cryptic message via RedState’s Erick Erickson: Today on CNN I learned there’s no such thing as radical islam. It is “a made up...
View ArticleCNN anchor goes inside a cop’s world in a deadly shooting scenario
Hide the women and children, little campers, because I’m about to say something at least slightly positive about CNN Newsroom anchor Carol Costello. (Yes, yes… I know. We have a bit of history with her...
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