This passes for accurate reporting
A law enforcement source told CBS News the suspect was armed with a SKS semi-automatic assault rifle and a handgun, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports. What… Uh… That phrase does...
View ArticleWhy No One Should Trust The Media
This Fox News bit is just rambling ignorance by three people who have no idea what they are talking about. There’s a bit where she talks about getting DNA off the casings. This woman is being sold as a...
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Media Goes After C&R? Really?
CBS News reports, or rather misreports, because they don’t know what they are talking about: The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives calls the SKS rifle Micah Johnson used to kill...
View ArticleFact Check Sites Covering for Hillary on Guns
OK folks, it’s time to take a rare turn for me and turn on rant mode. Some foul language will proceed. Ordinary media bias pisses me off, but the bias found at these bullshit “Fact Checker” sites piss...
View ArticleInstapundit to Twitter: Drop Dead
Glenn Reynolds is not staying where he isn’t wanted. For all the same reasons that Sebastian pulled the plug here. Twitter seemed to be much more about filling the niche of an RSS feed than a peer to...
View ArticleTruth Getting Harder to Find These Days
I’ve been seeing the ongoing controversy over Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline, but this is one of those cases I feel like everyone involved, regardless of the “side” they are on, is lying...
View ArticlePolitifact Openly Aids Gun Control Group’s Narrative
Whether it is true that seven children per day die from gun violence depends on whether you define 18 and 19 year olds as children. One could argue that it’s a matter of opinion (which I’d point out...
View ArticleMore Media Wagon Circling Over the Hearing Protection Act
This time the LA Times is getting in the game: Stiff federal regulations on silencers date back to 1934, when they were enacted as part of a crackdown on machine guns and other instruments of mobster...
View ArticleNavigating the Coming Disinformation Campaigns
It’s pretty clear at this point we live in a world where there’s no such thing as objective news reporting. Social Media has become a den of fake news and sharing news articles engineered to express...
View ArticleHow the Social Security NICS Repeal is Being Spun
Most of us are aware that the Obama Administration finalized the Social Security rule in the lame duck period, leaving it open to repeal by Congress, and repeal Congress did. So one might thing much of...
View ArticleGhost Guns! Under My Bed!
It’s kind of depressing the media has largely chosen to ignore our issue, and isn’t as much in the business anymore of running hysterical articles like this. Articles like this are why I got into...
View ArticleWhy No One Should Trust Social Media
This fascinating article in Mic talks about how Snap tried to pick Mike Bloomberg’s deep pockets using the gun control issue, but apparently they weren’t biting. Apparently they told Bloomberg’s...
View ArticleThe Media are Suckers? You Don’t Say
Forgive the lack of posting. Very busy. John Lott has an article in The Hill about “How gun control advocates play the mainstream media for suckers.” It’s good that an outlet like The Hill chose to run...
View ArticleHalf True is the Best We Ever Get
Yes, our friendly neighborhood fact checkers are at it again. The people who want to be the final arbiters of fake news struggle to even give us a half-true for something that was entirely 100%...
View ArticleGun Control Folks Definitely Expecting HPA to Move
There’s just too much chatter about it for that not to be the case. A common argument against: “What’s wrong with ear plugs?” But note this editorial concedes many of our points: To be sure, the...
View ArticleNow You Can Be Sure the Bloomberg Talking Point Are Out There
As I’ve said before, when you see a pattern, it means it’s a coordinated campaign, and folks, we’re seeing a pattern. Same talking points as Milbank, to a tee. Is it Title II, which eliminates...
View ArticleAlmost Getting it Right
This is a lot better than I would have expected from “fact checkers” only a few years ago. It’s mostly right. Journalists often mistake the “AR-15” semi-automatic rifle, sometimes referred to as an...
View ArticleNow This is the Kind of Article I Expect from the Media
Granted, I had to go to inverse.com, and who has ever heard of that? We’re probably the only people who will actually read this crap. Although restrictions do exist on buying, selling, and owning fully...
View ArticleVictims at the Four Seasons
Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer has an attention-grabbing headline: “For Bucks couple in Vegas, a horrifying view of the carnage.” With a headline like that, you click on it thinking that maybe they were...
View ArticleThe Media Darling
I can’t count how many article I’ve seen about Caleb Keeter (if you’re saying “Caleb who?,” join the club) in the media. I passed on most of them, since I’ve never heard of the guy, and I frankly don’t...
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