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Scott PowersDecember 1, 2017

Taking up President Donald Trump‘s challenge that the media ought to award a “Fake News” trophy, Rasmussen Reports conducted a survey this week that finds stark differences, with Republicans on one side and Democrats and independents on the other, as to who ought to win it. Overall, Fox News was the top pick among more […]

Darryl PaulsonAugust 17, 2017

We are all familiar with gobbledygook: Words that have no real meaning. We are now seeing Googledygook: speech which says one thing, but really means something different. On June 29, 2017, Google employee James Damore posted a ten-page memo on a Google message board which was designed to solicit ideas and encourage debate. Damore’s post, […]

Mitch PerryJune 14, 2017

Polk County Congressman Dennis Ross is one of four members of the Florida GOP delegation on the baseball team attacked by a gunman Wednesday morning in Alexandria, Virginia, but he wasn’t at today’s practice. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was shot, and multiple congressional aides were also hit by a gunman with a rifle who opened […]

Mitch PerryApril 28, 2017

According to North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador, the standoff over his country’s nuclear program will end only when the U.S. withdraws its “hostile policy” toward the northeast Asian nation. In an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Kim In Ryong says his government will not attend “any type of talks which would discuss its nuclear abandonment.” That includes the […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 10, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry broke recent protocol on his Twitter account with a couple of enthusiastic Tweets about President-elect Donald Trump. The Tweets, issued on Friday evening upon the mayor’s return from the city’s annual bond rating trip, speak to an alignment the Jacksonville mayor has had with Trump going back years. “President elect .@realDonaldTrump using football […]

Associated PressNovember 13, 2016

Megyn Kelly says Donald Trump tried unsuccessfully to give her gifts, including a free stay at one of his hotels, as part of what she called his pattern of trying to influence news coverage of his presidential campaign. In her memoir “Settle for More,” to be released Tuesday, Kelly says Trump may have gotten a […]

Mitch PerryNovember 11, 2016

Some random thoughts at the end of one of the most epochal weeks in the history of our republic: Yesterday in this space we contemplated some of the first moves the Donald Trump administration might make when he inherits power in January. Lots of focus right now is on the fact that he could kill all of […]

Florence SnyderNovember 7, 2016

AT&T, the communications conglomerate which owns Direct TV, was hauled into the court of public opinion Friday, charged with censorship for pulling the plug on Fox News. Irate customers of the satellite television subscriber service took to the internet to voice their suspicions, tar and feathers at the ready. They did not for one New […]

Mitch PerryNovember 4, 2016

It was the Thursday night before the 2000 general election when Fox News’s Carl Cameron reported George W. Bush had been arrested in 1976 in Maine on a DWI case. It was definitely an “October surprise,” and it definitely seemed to stop Bush’s momentum in that contest — a contest in which he ultimately lost the […]

Associated PressOctober 10, 2016

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An estimated 66.5 million people watched the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, down from the record-setting audience who saw their first match but on par with the Obama-Romney contests four years ago. The first debate reached a total of 84 million viewers, more than for any other presidential debate on record, the […]

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Linda McMahon. Image via AP.

And the Fake News Trophy winner is…

Darryl Paulson: Googledygook

Dennis Ross is on GOP congressional baseball team, but wasn’t at practice where shots were fired

Bill Nelson: If China can’t deter North Korea’s nuclear plans, it could mean war

After a quiet spell, Lenny Curry extols Donald Trump on Twitter

Megyn Kelly: Donald Trump tried to influence coverage with gifts

Mitch Perry Report for 11.11.16 — Whither the EPA?

Censorship and ‘censorship’

Mitch Perry Report for 11.4.16 — What will be this year’s decisive October surprise?

Unlike first, second debate doesn’t set viewership record