Category Archives: The Media

Trump Is (Sort Of) Right About Yellen

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Donald Trump this week said that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen won't raise rates because President Obama told her not to. Why he's (sort of) right. [Credit: CNBC]

Don­ald Trump this week said that Fed­er­al Reserve Board Chair­man Janet Yellen won’t raise rates because Pres­i­dent Oba­ma told her not to. Why he’s (sort of) right. [Cred­it: CNBC]

The media just can’t keep up with The Donald.

Cor­po­rate news-gath­er­ing out­lets do their best to repeat and ampli­fy his every off­beat utter­ance.  His accu­sa­tion that Mar­co Rubio is a “dis­as­ter with his cred­it cards” has rip­pled through the press and forced Rubio to respond.  Dit­to for Trump’s mock­ery of Jeb’s ener­gy, Carson’s reli­gion, Carly’s face, Kasich’s poll num­bers, Hillary’s mar­i­tal rela­tions  (“If Hillary Clin­ton can’t sat­is­fy her hus­band what makes her think she can sat­is­fy Amer­i­ca?”), Bernie’s men­tal health and the men­stru­al cycles of debate moderators.

But as they were buzzing about his sched­uled appear­ance on Sat­ur­day Night Live, the media large­ly over­looked what was per­haps Trump’s most hereti­cal accu­sa­tion of all. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Why It’s a Bad Time to Hold on to Holder

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AG Eric Holder may have to help POTUS dig out from under mounting scandals. Credit: theatlantic.com

AG Eric Hold­er may have to go to help POTUS dig out from under mount­ing scan­dals.
Cred­it: theatlantic.com

May 10 was sup­posed to be about health care and moms.  The White House mes­sage of the day was that the health care law is pro-moth­er­hood. The law’s detrac­tors, with their “polit­i­cal bick­er­ing,” “tall tales,” and “polit­i­cal games,” are, by impli­ca­tion, against motherhood.

The Pres­i­dent deliv­ered this mes­sage two days before Moth­ers Day at a White House event. But his mes­sage nev­er did get out. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Washington Post Inaccuracies

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Black and white drawing of Pope Benedict IX

His scan­dalous res­ig­na­tion is often mis­rep­re­sent­ed and the Post fell into the trap of fail­ing to ful­ly research reli­able info.

The Feb­ru­ary 12 edi­tion of the Post includ­ed a piece by Max Fish­er, which stated:

“Pope Bene­dict IX, in 1045: At age 33 and about 10 years into his tumul­tuous term, the Rome-born pope resigned so that he could get mar­ried – and to col­lect some cash from his god­fa­ther, also Roman, who paid Bene­dict IX to step down so that he might replace him, accord­ing to British his­to­ri­an Regi­nald L. Poole’s defin­i­tive and much-cit­ed his­to­ry of the 11th century.”

Not quite. The twist­ed and still obscure events of the 11th cen­tu­ry are any­thing but clear, but this much is: Regi­nald Poole, writ­ing near­ly a cen­tu­ry ago, did not cred­it the idea that Bene­dict IX abdi­cat­ed the papa­cy in order to mar­ry. Con­tin­ue read­ing →