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Updated Feb 03, 2021 GOP Senator Comes Up With A Mind-Bogglingly Dumb Way To Duck A Question No ones buying Tommy Tubervilles weird excuse to refuse comment on conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Blame the weather. That’s what Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) did when a reporter tried to get him to comment on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who is facing criticism from both sides of the aisle for her embrace of disturbing conspiracy theories and threats of violence against la...

Speak for yourself, Marco Rubio! The Florida senator once again found himself in Twitter-roasting territory on Wednesday with his misguided tweet blaming the media for the rise of QAnon-sympathizer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) within the GOP — conveniently ignoring his own history of enabling former President Trump to run wild with false claims of election fraud that eventually led to the deadly insurrection at the Capitol last month. On Wednesday morning, Rubio griped about the amount...

NBC News retracted a piece that questioned whether a Biden appointee's financial contributions to pro-Israel advocacy group AIPAC disqualified her from serving on the White House National Security Council (NSC).

Font Size Matthew Foldi at the Washington Free Beacon reported NBC News on Wednesday retracted an article by intelligence reporter Ken Dilanian, telling readers that it "fell short of our reporting standards. In order to warrant publication, it needed on-the-record quotes from critics, rather than anonymous ones." Thats fascinating, since anonymous sources were appropriate for Dilanians stories on Trump scandals.  This latest story focused on more than $550,000 in donations to t...

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On Wednesday, Mother Jones and NBC News reported that a top Biden national security aide who is an expert on Russian cyber had given over half a million dollars to AIPAC in recent years through a family foundation. And the aide’s husband is on the AIPAC executive council in Baltimore. AIPAC is of course the leading Israel lobby group, which supports everything the rightwing Israeli government does, from persecuting Palestinians to threatening Iran. Mother Jones and NBC questioned Anne Neub...

Mother Jones, NBC News face backlash over articles about NSC official, AIPAC donations Mother Jones, NBC News face backlash over articles about NSC official, AIPAC donations A controversial story was moved to the archives on NBC, as per an editor’s note. Anne Neuberger. Credit: National Security Agency. Spread the word. Mother Jones and NBC News have faced backlash over publishing articles on Wednesday about a top National Security Council official and her family foundation donating hundreds...

On Sunday, Rand Paul won most of the attention of the day when he went full "both siderist" regarding Trumps big lie on "election fraud." Joe Biden won the 2020 election in a free and fair contest. Trumps lawyers lost in court scores of times. But Rand Paul argued that since the majority of Republicans still "believe" Donald Trumps lies, that makes those lies worthy of consideration. Both Sides. Steve Benen wrote at MSNBC.com this morning: "In the Republicans vision, journalists have ...

As mentioned previously, Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ opening gubernatorial gambit was to nationalize a race for Arkansas governor with images of Donald Trump, troops on foreign soil and her self-described winning fight against the “media, radical left and cancel culture.” Some national reporters and influential figures have weighed in on that. Some early returns Advertisement What did she “win”? She may be best known for admitting to the FBI that she lied when she claimed she’d heard f...

Impeachment Trial Delay Lines Up COVID Stimulus Push in Congress: Live Updates Intelligencer 1/24/2021 Intelligencer Staff © Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Biden’s busy first week continues. Ken Cedeno/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Biden got to work hours after he was sworn in on Wednesday, signing a flurry of executive orders, memorandums, and requests, many of which reversed Trump administration policies. During his first few days in office, the ...