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AP Photo/Tony Dejak We’ve seen a lot of talk about ‘misinformation’ in the last few days from the Biden team and the media. But what’s so ironic about all that is that the Biden administration and the liberal media are some of the biggest purveyors of misinformation out there. Take a statement that President Donald Trump made today, for example. A Politico editor termed it “a dangerous turn of events as Trump flirts with anti-vaccine sentiment.” But, that isn’t even close to reflecting what Trump said. A dangerous turn of events as Trump flirts with anti-vaccine sentiment. pic.t...

On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris wished her Twitter followers an enjoyable long weekend. That’s when all hell broke loose. Within hours, Harris, who had just delivered the commencement address during the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation ceremony a day earlier and shared a video on Twitter of her conversation with history-making Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber, was being accused of disrespecting the military. The mistake: Harris didn’t specifically mention Memorial Day in her “weekend” tweet. This wasn’t the first time right-wing media has tried to turn Memorial Day into...

Print this article New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has thoughts on who’s partially responsible for the press’s failure last year to investigate the theory alleging the coronavirus originated in a research facility in Wuhan, China. She blames former President Donald Trump, of course. Haberman also blames former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the media’s knee-jerk rush last year to dismiss an entirely plausible and now increasingly likely theory. Who knew these two men had the power to control news coverage of the biggest public health crisis of our lifetime? Haberman’s ...

"Cotton did one thing that those other sources didn’t do — he speculated a little."

A huge fuckup, with perhaps not-so-huge policy stakes