Mary Margaret Olohan on November 11, 2020 Many media pundits and Democrats have said they are making lists of President Donald Trump’s “sycophants” or supporters following the 2020 presidential election. “Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud…
Jason Hopkins on May 11, 2020 Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders all but shot down the possibility that he will run for president again, suggesting that another politician will take his place as the progressive choice. Sanders spoke Monday about the 2020 presidential election and his support for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The self-described…
Audrey Conklin on October 30, 2019 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Facebook for not policing political ads in a Wednesday tweet. The failed presidential candidate’s tweet came as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg faces backlash for defending the tech giant’s policy of not fact-checking political ads the same way it fact-checks other ads in…
Shelby Talcott A federal judge reversed his ruling Monday and announced that the family of Kentucky teenager Nick Sandmann can sue The Washington Post for libel over its coverage of the teenager. Sandmann’s family sued WaPo in February, writing that the publication allegedly “target and bullied” the teenager after an incident involving a Native American…
Peter Hasson The Washington Post passed on a thinly sourced, unproven allegation about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh before the New York Times published it in a misleading article in Sunday’s paper that has since been corrected. Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly left out exculpatory evidence in an article that claimed Kavanaugh had…
Did Abraham Lincoln share a common economic vision with Karl Marx? That’s the thesis of a recent article in the Washington Post, which claims that the 16th president and the socialist philosopher “were friendly and influenced each other.” According to an essay by Gillian Brockell, “Lincoln was regularly reading Karl Marx” and appears to have adapted a Marxist…
The Washington Post has released an editor’s note correcting its spurious coverage of the incident between the elderly Native American Nathan Philips and the teenage students of Covington Catholic High School. Early reporting on the incident by the Post made it appear as if the MAGA hat wearing teens instigated and harassed Philips, mocking the…
In what they claim is the “first of many lawsuits”, the lawyers of Covington High School Junior Nick Sandmann filed a hefty $250 million dollar lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday. “The Post rushed to lead the mainstream media to assassinate Nicholas’ character and bully him,” high-profile attorneys Lin Wood and Todd McMurty wrote…
On February 10th, The “Democracy Dies in Darkness” Washington Post ran an abhorrent piece entitled, “Trump’s War on Socialism Will Fail.” The author, E.J. Dionne, Jr., suggests that President Trump’s statement at the latest State of the Union Address that “America will never be a Socialist nation” was not only untrue, but also nothing more…
Evie Fordham on January 9, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence denied Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s characterization of Wednesday’s shutdown talks as a “temper tantrum” and said the president even passed out candy. “For those interested — the candy that [Donald Trump] offered at the start of the congressional leadership meeting included Butterfingers, M&Ms, Baby Ruth,”…