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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 24, 2019 24 Comments
The Daily Beast is the 342nd most trafficked website in the U.S., out of tens of thousands, according to Alexa.com. Under Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman, The Daily Beast has aggressively joined the anti-Trump "Scoop" wars, sometimes with actual reporting, other times in Gawker-style clickbait, leading Recode to ask last November, Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 22, 2019 27 Comments
Hayden Williams, a student at UC Berkeley, was helping the conservative group Turning Point USA when he was attacked and punched in the face in broad daylight. It was all captured on camera. Will the media give this story one percent of the attention they devoted to Jussie Smollett?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 17, 2019 29 Comments
The Jussie Smollett claim of a racial and homophobic attack in late January in Chicago by two white men wearing MAGA hats is falling apart. The story was suspicious from the start. While not impossible, it was improbable that two white guys were running around Chicago in the middle of the night during a sub-zero Polar Vortex wearing MAGA hats while carrying bleach and a noose and just happened to find a high-profile gay black actor to attack.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 16, 2019 23 Comments
Opponents of President Trump's declaration of a national emergency are practically orgasmic over his statement during his press conference that "I didn't need to do this . . . . " That statement supposedly will be devastating in court as an admission that there is no actual emergency. But as with so many things #NeverTrump, the words are plucked out of a longer sentence and statement in which Trump makes the case for the declaration being necessary because a wall/fencing cannot wait given the crisis. The full statement, which I quote below, will be the one in front of a court, and an appeals court, and ultimately the Supreme Court.
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