You’d think so from this photo and cutline appearing in the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail on Monday, August 2, 2021, in connection with the ex-president’s upcoming 60th birthday bash. (See it here.) The story behind the photo is about the White House press secretary defending this birthd[...]
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July 27th, 2021 - 8:32 pm § in News Media, Politics
Police testify about Capitol riot; Republicans turn their backs
“Senate Republicans waved off police officers’ emotional accounts Tuesday of battling a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a partisan escapade not worth paying attention to,” Huffington Post said on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 (read story here), with S[...]
Did Tucker Carlson deserve this?
“When a local fly fishing guide spotted … Tucker Carlson at a sporting goods store in Livingston, Montana, he did not waste time. ‘You are the worst human being known to mankind. I want you to know that,’ Dan Bailey can be heard telling the Fox News host in a video posted to [...]
Top general likened Trump to Hitler
Comparing with Hitler has long been taboo in American politics, and for good reasons. Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War 2 were uniquely evil. And when the Hitler analogy is used, it’s often misused, sometimes ludicrously as when rightwing provocateur Marjorie Taylor Greene recently [...]
July 10th, 2021 - 5:15 pm § in News Media, Politics
When impersonating the media isn’t a good idea
“A Southern California man has been arrested after being charged with joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol while trying to impersonate a member of the media,” NBC News reported on Saturday, July 10, 2021 (read story here). “Matthew Thomas Purse, 45, was arrested in Irvine[...]
July 4th, 2021 - 12:26 pm § in News Media, Politics
Video: Buttigieg vs. Fox hosts
This video is from 2019, when Pete Buttigieg (now U.S. Secretary of Transportion) was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, and appeared on a Fox show hosted by Chris Wallace. Who do you think won this argument, Buttigieg, or his Fox-host critics? Me, I don’t think we’v[...]
Another agitator gets tossed off social media
“Andy Ngo is the latest conservative voice to be CANCELED by Big Tech: SoundCloud bans his podcast,” the headline reads. “Journalist Andy Ngo became the most recent voice to be banned from a Big Tech platform after SoundCloud has permanently banned him from its platform,” the[...]
Video: “Lie Witness News”
In which ordinary citizens go on TV and look like complete idiots. (Read story here and watch video below.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 23rd, 2021 - 5:42 pm § in Law and Courts, News Media
Detained American reporter freed
An American reporter detained by authorities while covering an anti-government protest has been freed. Worldwide, journalists are arrested by the hundreds every year, and 50 were killed last year (see figures here). Last month, Belarus’ strongman hijacked an airliner and seized a journalist on[...]
Facebook ban spawns hilarious Trump emoji
Trump doesn’t see being kicked off Facebook for 2 years as funny, but New York Daily News does! Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]