Fake News
January 8, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Here’s a headline many people have perhaps expected: ‘The View’ Announces Major Shakeup to the Long-Running Weekday Talk Show So, is that egregiously awful show going to add some actual balance to its panel, ditch Sunny Hostin, who gives ABC’s legal department fresh headaches every day, or add some producers who insist Whoopi and Joy (who inspire neither thing, let alone any brightness from Sunny) include some actual facts in
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December 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
There were so many of them, that any top ten list will be controversial. You could have a top 100 and not come close to a complete list. But this one by Grabien is probably as good as any: SUPERCUT! The 10 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2024 Read our wrap-up:https://t.co/djyeFa86fG pic.twitter.com/xKyLkEq475 — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 27, 2024 We can laugh at these absurd lies now, because the Left’s
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December 22, 2024 — Steven Hayward
By now you’ve seen the headlines about how “a car” drove through a Christmas market in Germany at high speed, killing and injuring numerous people. I had no idea that Skynet’s self-driving car technology had progressed to the Terminator stage already: The sequel deception is the “reporting” about this “suspected” attack that the driver of the car—yes, it actually had a human driver—was a Saudi “migrant” (Taleb Al Abdulmohsen) who
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December 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
My law firm was one of those that defended tobacco companies against, among other things, lawsuits brought by state attorneys general. A key claim in those cases was that the tobacco companies conspired to prevent the public from learning that smoking is bad for you. “If so,” said the partner in my firm who was in charge of the case for our client, “it was the least successful conspiracy in
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December 16, 2024 — Steven Hayward
It is fun to watch the major media adjust to the thumping the election delivered. Last week the New York Times offered up some revealing though sharply limited mea culpas. The first piece, by creative writing instructor David Morris, argued in its headline that “The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone.” Morris begins by recalling a ruckus that erupted in the publishing world back in 2022: Male underrepresentation is
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December 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Associated Press reports that journalists are worried about President Trump’s second term: The return to power of Donald Trump, who has called journalists enemies… What have journalists called Trump? The AP, for one, has made itself an arm of the Democratic Party. …and talked about retribution against those he feels have wronged him… Later in the very same story, the AP quotes Trump: “I am not looking for retribution,
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December 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Under current law, it is just about impossible to defame a public figure, let alone a politician, let alone Donald Trump. But ABC News and George Stephanopoulos managed the feat, and now they are going to pay: ABC News and star anchor George Stephanopoulos have agreed to pay President-elect Trump $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. The settlement was publicly filed Saturday, just days before the two sides were
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December 1, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Actual women such as Riley Gaines, Paige Spiranac, J. K. Rowling, and the female Israeli soldiers Steve helpfully displays each week, just got the news from the New York Times that they should be known as “non-transgender women.” This drew flak from tennis great Martina Navratilova, British Olympian Sharron Davies, and Rep. Nancy Mace, among others. The dynamics going on here will be of interest to all people. NYT reporter
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November 19, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The New York Times has this “news” report on Matt Gaetz, whose nomination the paper is desperate to defeat: An unidentified hacker gained access to a file shared in a secure link among lawyers with clients who have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to be attorney general, a person with knowledge of the activity said. The file is said to include sworn testimony
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November 9, 2024 — Steven Hayward
John says immediately below that Democrats are in deep trouble. How deep is the trouble, John? This deep: see what Michael Tomasky, a former thinker and current editor of The New Republic (a former magazine) has to say about the real reason Democrats lost this election: The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing media—Fox News (and the entire News Corp.), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network
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November 7, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Yes, I know, “Meltdown at the NY Times” is not exactly a man-bites-dog headline. But if you can stomach it, these three minutes, which seem like 30 minutes, of NY Times editorial page members kvetching about the Dark Ages that Trump will bring in are beyond the capacities of the best satirists alive today. And while this is very catty of me, doesn’t the egregious David French look rather pudgy
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November 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
If you haven’t already seen it, this is for your viewing pleasure. Trump’s National Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, absolutely lays waste to an ABC Democratic Party spokeswoman: HOLY SHT! @kleavittnh absolutely destroyed this ABC host to oblivion 🔥🔥🔥 She will crying herself to sleep later 😂 Best clip of the day 👏🏼pic.twitter.com/hKZ6oqC4b6 — Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 (@saras76) November 1, 2024 For what it is worth, I would say that Trump,
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October 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Washington Post, made the decision for that newspaper to stop endorsing presidential candidates. His decision has been controversial: something like 200,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions, and several Post employees have quit in protest. Which is revealing in itself: many Post readers, and I suspect most Post employees, thought that helping to elect Democrats was the whole point of the operation. Bezos explained his
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October 25, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Last night I noted that CNN really lived down to its fake news reputation when it featured as an “undecided” voter a left-leaning professor from Swarthmore, Carol Nackenhoff. I concluded that “the chance that she is considering voting for Donald Trump is zero-point-zero. If she’s technically undecided, it is because she might be considering casting her vote for Jill Stein instead of Harris.” Today Nackenhoff outed herself in an interview
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October 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Every morning The Washington Post emails links to its top stories of the day. Heading the email today was “New allegations against Donald Trump.” The “new allegation” dates to 1993, so 31 years old. I suppose it is “new” because the alleger didn’t think to mention it until now. Here is the email link: The Post hopes that just one more fake allegation from decades ago will cause support for
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October 23, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini,” charges The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, who throws in Mao Zedong and Pol Pot for good measure. As Sir Bedevire (Terry Jones) might say, who is this who is so wise in the ways of politics and history? Applebaum won a Pulitzer for Gulag: A History, published in 2003. The Yale alum is a smart lady, but as Nobel laureate Saul Bellow said,
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October 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
If you wonder how so many people can be blissfully ignorant of what you and I consider basic factual realities, the answer likely is that they are getting their information, not just from sources that disagree with us, but that seem to be living in another galaxy. Take, for example, the stories highlighted in today’s New York Times, as they appear in that paper’s morning email: So much error packed
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