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Well, it took a few days, but the agitators of race and class have finally made it to south Florida. And, true to form, local media is there to applaud. No social distancing. Blocking legal movement of traffic and commerce. Yet, will the media challenge any narrative put out by the mob leaders? Ha. Not a chance. Local newspaper, radio and television only AMPLIFY the left wing myths. Right now only ABC and FOX stations are carrying the illegal actions of the mobs....thankfully CBS and NBC are showing car races and golf.

Protesters returned to the White House late Friday night, squaring off with police and a Fox News crew. Fox reporter Leland Vittert and his crew were attacked and chased out of Lafayette Park across from the White House as they were covering the protests. Some of the protesters tried to steal their camera and microphone as they fled. The news crew and a security guard were chased out of the block wide park, then across H Street and up 16th Street with the protesters throwing water bottles at them. No one was apparently hurt in the attack. Vitter was interviewing protesters:https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1266593252557287424?s=20 A...

Rage, fury spans U.S. as Minnesota governor warns violence could last days Chaos spread across the country Friday night as thousands of protesters demanded justice after the killing of George Floyd Live Blog / George Floyd death and nationwide protests Portland declares 'State of Emergency' Head of African Union criticizes U.S. for George Floyd death Houston police make 200 arrests, chief thanks 'peaceful' protesters Google postpones Android 11 unveiling amid U.S. protests Ex-officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck charged with third-degree murder Wife of officer charged with murder of George Floyd announces she's divorcing him George Floyd and officer...

WASHINGTON - Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 100,000, the number of people who filed for unemployment during the crisis soared past 40 million, and the streets of a major city erupted in flames after a handcuffed black man was killed by a white police officer. It’s the kind of frenetic, fractured moment when national leaders are looked to for solutions and solace. President Donald Trump instead threw a rhetorical match into the tinderbox. “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” he declared ominously in a late-night tweet. The episode encapsulated Trump’s...

A black CNN reporter was arrested live on air on Friday morning by Minnesota State Patrol while reporting on the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes. CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez was put in handcuffs and led away from his team of producers this morning at 5.11am CT after the team was moved down the street by police in riot gear. According to one of his colleagues, the crew was told he was being arrested for refusing to move when he'd been told to but he...

"I answered your question once, and if you ask it twice, it doesn't make it any better of a question." - @PressSec (Kayleigh McEnany)

An MSNBC journalist attempted to explain that the violence that erupted in Minneapolis on Thursday night was "mostly a protest" despite a building burning right behind him. Ali Velshi was reporting live from the Twin Cities amid the uproar following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd. Velshi attempted to explain that what he was witnessing was "calmer" than the night prior. "For most of the day, today, it looked a lot calmer than yesterday looked," Velshi began after showing his colleague Brian Williams some of the destruction that took place. "And that's what happened yesterday. It picked up later in...

CNN network president Jeff Zucker said in a company-wide memo Wednesday that “the majority” of CNN employees will not return to the network’s office this year due to health concerns stemming from the Chinese coronavirus, according to a report. Zucker wrote, as was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter: We expect that the majority of you will not be able to return to our offices this calendar year. What happens after that is still a question mark, as well. No doubt the world, and our understanding of the way COVID-19 continues to shape our lives and our work, will change countless times...

NBC is prohibiting reporters from using the word “riot” in its coverage of violent outbursts in Minnesota that have occurred in response to the killing of George Floyd. “While the situation on the ground in Minneapolis is fluid, and there has been violence, it is most accurate at this time to describe what is happening there as ‘protests’–not riots,” NBC host Craig Melvin wrote on Twitter Thursday.

An article at the Daily Signal implodes the lies women have been told for decades in the media — specifically, in women's magazines. Sue Ellen Browder, a former longtime Cosmopolitan writer, 'admits' she spent 20 years pulling the wool over women's eyes by telling them marriage and babies hold women back and that sexual liberation is the true path to fulfillment. For decades now, they've been teaching young women in article after article, image after image, fake story after fake story all the wrong things about men, women, sex, love, marriage — and even America. The propaganda they spread is...

WASHINGTON -- Threatening to shut down Twitter for flagging false content. Claiming he can “override” governors who dare to keep churches closed to congregants. Asserting the “absolute authority” to force states to reopen, even when local leaders say it’s too soon. As he battles the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers that legal scholars say the president simply doesn’t have. And he has repeatedly refusing to spell out the legal basis for those powers. “It’s not that the president does’t have a remarkable amount of power to respond to a public health crisis. It’s that...

Just watched some local coverage of the riots in Minneapolis. A brief word of a business burning. The rest of the two or three minute fake news was people describing how terrible it was that cops killed the suspect. Chief of police in Minneapolis is black. No word if the mobs blame him.

My long-time doctor friends who have treated COVID-19 patients have been disappointed recently in some of the national and regional media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. They point out the over-emphasis often given to statistical information without proper understanding. For example, emphasizing the volume of reported cases without equally emphasizing increased testing and positivity ratios is misleading. Governors, doctors and hospitals seriously consider positivity ratios, and the media should not bury the lead here. It isn’t all about case volume. Also, some in the media and Democratic leaders, like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have recently been critical of President...

Talk show host Jimmy Fallon has released an apology after a clip of him in blackface started trending on Twitter. The SNL skit from 2000, which shows the comedian doing an impression of Chris Rock, resurfaced again on the internet on Tuesday triggering the hashtag #jimmyfallonisoverparty to trend. Admitting his regrets over the sketch the 45-year-old Tonight Show host took to social media to apologize to those he may have offended. 'In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface. There is no excuse for this.

CNN political analyst and Politico writer Ryan Lizza decided during Monday’s briefing to follow girlfriend Olivia Nuzzi from April 27 and ask a snarky question about how many deaths would be acceptable to the White House in terms of President Trump’s reelection prospects. The only difference here was Nuzzi tried to trap Trump whereas Lizza’s verbal grenade was lobbed at White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. And as has been the case during McEnany’s tenure, the reporter in question became incensed.

An MSNBC camera crew was caught off guard after a man recorded several members of the crew not wearing masks while they did a report scolding other people for not wearing masks. "Are they not worried about their own personal safety?" host Katy Tur asked a masked Cal Perry of those not wearing masks in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. "You can see here, just around, nobody is wearing them," Perry said. "Including the cameraman," said a bystander, who gestured to Perry's team. "Half your crew isn't wearing them, either."

A book published 66 years ago and still in print is an essential reference for understanding most of the data that you see about the pandemic afflicting the world today. Written by Darrell Huff and illustrated by Irving Geis, How to Lie With Statistics is both sardonic and a serious lesson in the abuse of math for propaganda. Whether or not it was studied by our Trump-hating media anxious to make the U.S. look bad, some of its lessons are being employed. A few days ago, we learned that the mortality rate from the coronavirus is lower than touted by...

President Trump is facing intense backlash for celebrating the recent layoffs that took place at the liberal magazine The Atlantic. Last week, The Atlantic became the latest of several news outlets that have cut its staff amid the coronavirus pandemic, detailing in a memo to staff that 68 of their colleagues were let go, resulting in a cut of roughly 17 percent of all of the magazine's employees. Roughly 40 million Americans have lost their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic. On Tuesday night, Trump touted the layoffs from the magazine whose coverage has been largely critical of the...

On Sunday's AM Joy, during a discussion of what presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should offer to black voters in exchange for their support, race-obsessed MSNBC host Joy Reid twice claimed that President Donald Trump promised white Americans that he would take actions against "brown immigrants." She also suggested that Italy has done a better job of handling the coronavirus epidemic than President Trump even though the per capita death rate there is substantially higher than in the U.S. At 10:08 a.m. Eastern, as she spoke with MSNBC contributor and future Biden campaign member Karine Jean-Pierre, Reid declared that...

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany challenged MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough to explain why he joked about having sex with and killing his dead intern. Scarborough’s intern, Lori Klausutis, died in 2001 after she fell and hit her head at his Florida office as the result of an undiagnosed heart condition, according to the coroner’s office. White House journalists repeatedly pressed McEnany about why the president raised questions on Twitter about the conspiracy theory, prompting Scarbrough’s co-host and third wife Mika Brzezinski to publicly demand Twitter’s CEO take the tweets down. Video at link.