Month: May 2015
Sanders Raises $3 Million in Four Days
$3 million
Amount Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2016 presidential campaign pulled in over the last four days, The Hill reports. “Sanders’s campaign had received approximately 75,000 contributions at an average amount of $43. … A campaign adviser also told the publication 99.4 percent of the donations were in the amounts of $250 or less.”
New Yorkers Blase Over De Blasio’s New York
49%
Of New York City voters report things are going in the wrong direction, and 45% say they are moving in the right one, a new Marist poll finds. “To compound New Yorkers’ downbeat attitude about the city, fewer than one in five residents, 17%, believes the overall quality of life in the city has improved over the last year. A majority, 56%, reports it has either gotten worse, 33%, or has remained the same which, in their view, is a bad thing, 23%.”
Bush Ahead in New Hampshire as Christie Diminishes
15%
Jeb Bush’s lead in the GOP presidential race, followed by Marco Rubio at 12%, Scott Walker at 11%, and Rand Paul at 10%, a new WMUR poll in New Hampshire finds. Chris Christie “dropped from 9% in February to 3%, even after rolling out an entitlement reform plan that received positive reviews for its candor.”
Fox Calls ‘Clinton Cash’ Lie About Foundation’s Spending ‘Incredibly Misleading’
Not surprisingly, Schweizer’s assertion has been proved to false. In fact, the 10 percent figure is such a flagrant lie that it couldn’t even pass muster on Fox. On May 6, Fox viewers were exposed to a rare glimpse of the truth, when Eric Shawn, one of the fake news channel’s “real” reporters, appeared on the network’s flagship broadcast, “The O’Reilly Factor”:
‘Clinton Cash’: The Same Old GOP Smoke and Mirrors
You’ve probably also heard about Schweizer’s deep ties to the extreme right. He is a former Bush speechwriter, foreign-affairs adviser to Sarah Palin and blogger for Breitbart.com, the legacy website of the late serial liar and notorious racist, Andrew Breitbart. His work is riddled with mistakes and falsehoods. Fact-checkers and legit reporters have used words like these to describe his work in the past: “incorrect,” “inaccurate,” “bogus,” “a fatal shortcoming in Journalism 101,” “the facts didn’t stand up,” “unfair and inaccurate,” “specious argument,” “there was nothing there,” “suspicious,” “the facts don’t fit,” facts “do not check out,” sources “do not exist or cannot be tracked down,” “confusion and contradiction,” “discrepancies,” “admitted a mistake,” “neither journalism nor history,” “a polemic so unchecked … that we can’t tell the fact from the fiction,” sources “have clearly used him,” and “tacitly conced[ed] he was wrong.”
Despite Schweizer’s shady background, however, “Clinton Cash” has been taken seriously by “liberal media” outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post and others, who have lent it legitimacy by using it as a source for their reporting.
So — where there’s smoke there’s fire. Right?
