Category Archives: Wonky Media

North Carolina Muslim Women Start Hashtag Against Radical Islam

Just kidding. They’re upset with Donald Trump (supposedly) Area Muslims turn to social media to combat Trump’s rhetoric Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s call for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” has been roundly criticized as bigoted, unconstitutional and potentially dangerous for American interests abroad, but some local Muslims say […]

Washington Post: Republicans Are Totally Into Gun Pride

Today’s opinion piece disguised as a straight news article, by Phillip Rucker and Sean Sullivan, appearing on the front page of the web page. It’s meant to say how Republicans are outside the mainstream in their support of guns and gun rights. Funny how the Washington Post never does the same about radicalized Muslims, who […]

NY Times Totally Upset That GOP Won’t Allow People On Arbitrary No Fly List To Be Denied Firearms

There are lots and lots of silly opinion pieces and editorials, long on outrage, short on facts. The NY Times Editorial Board provides possibly the dumbest one of the day Tough Talk and a Cowardly Vote on Terrorism Investigators now believe that what initially seemed a workplace shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., was a well-planned attack […]

Washington Post: The Common Thread In Gun Violence Is Guns!

The hell you say! The Washington Post Editorial Board is vexed by all the gun violence caused by guns. Not people, of course. They generally aren’t the problem. The guns just leap into their hands and lead the person under hypnosis, and pull their own triggers. This is probably one of the sillier, more meaningless […]

Days After Terror Attack By Islamists In Paris, NY Times Uses Occasion To Demonize Right Wingers

I bet you thought this kind of thing only occurred in bat guano insane sites like Salon and Islamist defenders on social media. Negative, though at least the NY Times Editorial Board waited till Monday to post their screed, which is long on complaints against those who stand against the radical Muslims, and short on […]

Is The GOP Establishment Panicking Over Trump And Carson?

That’s what the Washington Post is implying Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat […]

USA Today: It’s Totally Appropriate To Vet Presidential Candidates Named Ben Carson

The Editorial Board of USA Today says “He shouldn’t be immune from tough scrutiny or be able to play fast and loose with the facts.” Not how they set the vetting process up Ben Carson has much to commend him. He was raised in poverty by a single mother and rose to the pinnacle of […]

Winners And Losers From The GOP Debate

The biggest loser? CNBC. They have been roundly criticized for their absurd questions. Here’s a bit of Ted Cruz on the subject “Let me say something at the outset,” the Senator from Texas said. “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.” “This is not a cage match. […]

NY Times Blames Republicans For Ocare Coop Failures

If you haven’t noticed, Obamacare co-ops are losing lots of money, and are not just on shaky ground, but are failing left and right and shutting down. Guess who the NY Times blames for this? A New Attack on Health Care Reform In recent months, several nonprofit insurance plans that were created to compete with […]

Washington Post Totally Enthused For Incremental Executive Action On Gun Control

Remember when the liberal media was very upset over President Bush’s use of executive orders, calling him a unilateral executive? Good times, good times. Now, they’re all in for any possible gun control, no matter how little of a difference it will make in restricting people with ill intent from having a gun What the […]

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