By Mark | August 25, 2019
I’m just curious to know if there’s even a single person in the audience today who believes Donald Trump when he says that multiple world leaders at the G7 summit in France have said to him, “Mr. President, why does the American media hate your Country so much? Why are they rooting for it to […]
This afternoon, a white male gunman outfitted with a shotgun and several smoke grenades, walked into the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, and began firing. By the time he was taken into custody by the police, five people were dead, and many more were seriously injured. The man arrested by police has […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged David Simon, Donald Trump, gun control, Jarrod W. Ramos, Lügenpresse, lying press, Maxine Waters, Milo Yiannopoulos, NRA, Sean Hannity, universal background checks |
By Mark | January 23, 2018
This past July, in a post about our President’s war on the free and independent press, I shared the following quote from CNN contributor, and lifelong Republican, Ana Navarro, who had, at that point in time, just been a guest on ABC’s This Week, discussing Donald Trump’s heightened rhetoric against the press. “It is an […]
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By Mark | February 25, 2017
At some point prior to the 2016 election, Donald Trump, angered by what he perceived to be negative press coverage, banned reporters from the Washington Post, Politico, and Buzzfeed from his campaign events. When asked this past December by Politico’s Jake Sherman whether or not we might expect to see the same kind of aggressive […]
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By Mark | December 1, 2016
The utter disregard for truth that we’re seeing with Trump isn’t something that’s completely new… I just went through the archive here and found a number of instances over the past decade or so, where we’ve lamented the fact that truth was becoming a thing of the past. Back in 2008, I apparently even posted […]
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