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  • PEGIDA, Le Pen, Fascism, and Media Ignorance

    By Selwyn Duke “You’re a fascist!” “You’re a racist, sexist, bigoted homophobe!” Media bias often leads to the thoughtless hurling of names, but reporters can’t help but exhibit a negative bias when they don’t know what the names mean in the first place. A good example is the reportage on Europe’s burgeoning anti-Islamization movements, such…

  • Je ne Suis pas Charlie — I’m Sane

    By Selwyn Duke It’s so often the case that the best thing a person can do to improve his reputation is die. John F. Kennedy is now a legendary president, but would he be estimated so highly if he’d been able to end his political career as a man and not a myth? Ah, the…

  • Liberal Lies Killed the Two NYC Cops

    By Selwyn Duke “They have blood on their hands,” said former NYC police commissioner Bernard Kerik, of Mayor Bill de Blasio, Al Sharpton and “all those who encouraged this anti-cop, racist mentality.” He was, of course, commenting on the heinous assassinations of the two NYPD officers this weekend. “All those who encouraged,” by the way,…

  • Rape and the Attack of the “Man-hating Media”

    By Selwyn Duke “History is a series of agreed-upon myths,” Napoleon Bonaparte observed cynically. Now some critics are saying that, today, current events are also a series of agreed-upon myths. “No matter what Jackie said, we should automatically believe rape claims.” This was opined by a more contemporary figure, being the recent title of a…

  • CNN Flat-out Lies: Calls Ferguson Rioters “Peaceful”

    By Selwyn Duke Mocking critics have long said the CNN acronym stands for “Communist News Network.” Now they may feel vindicated. In a shocking display of reportage that many observers would characterize as journalistic fraud, the network has been whitewashing Ferguson protester violence. In fact, one New York Post writer minces no words when describing…

  • Muslim Columnist: Regulation, “Diversity” Could Stop Negative Newspaper Coverage of Islam

    By Selwyn Duke While Britain already has hate-speech laws that stifle criticism of Islam, this isn’t enough for the political director of the Huffington Post UK, Mehdi Hasan. Speaking at a London media industry event hosted by Mindshare UK last Thursday, the columnist complained of what he called “demonizing press coverage” of Muslims and said…

  • CNN Spreads Lies About Radio Giant on Ebola

    Selwyn Duke “It’s so unhinged we should probably not bother dignifying it with fact-checking.” So said CNN’s Jake Tapper, reporting on comments radio giant Michael Savage made about the Ebola crisis. But if Tapper had done some fact-checking, fewer people would now believe as fact that he checked his credibility at the newsroom door. On…

  • Ferguson’s Michael Brown: The Tall Tale of the “Gentle Giant”

    By Selwyn Duke Unlike Trayvon Martin, pictures of a 12-year-old Michael Brown haven’t been used to portray him as a gentle little cherub. Instead the media has cast him as the “gentle giant.” And they’re at least partially right, say critics. Brown certainly was a giant, as surveillance footage seems to prove, showing his 6’4”,…

  • Ferguson Shooting Shock: Witness Unwittingly Captured on Audio Corroborates Police Story

    By Selwyn Duke While Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities are being slaughtered by the Islamic State jihadis in the most brutal of ways, the U.S. media has been obsessed with the Ferguson, Missouri, police’s shooting of teenager Mike Brown. It’s portrayed as an example of how black youth are unfairly targeted by mostly white law-enforcement…

  • How Facebook Can Manipulate the November Election

    By Selwyn Duke It was the focus of the film The Social Network, but critics say that Facebook has become a political network — one that is two-faced and facing left. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has long been pushing amnesty and targeting politicians who oppose it. Now, warns American Thinker’s Jonathon Moseley, Facebook is going…