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Dec 28 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Joe Manchin Takes Heat Over Build Back Better Bill
From the CenterModerate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced last week on "Fox News Sunday" that he could not support Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill — which has led to polarizing reactions across the political spectrum and clear examples of media bias.
"If I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia I can't vote for it," Manchin said during the interview. "I've
Antonio Ferme
Jan 11 2017
News
Is Rex Tillerson's image as a Russia-lover fair?
Senators are beginning to see more nuance in Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson's relationship with Russia. But many are not convinced he knows the difference between business deals and diplomacy.
Christian Science Monitor
Sep 19 2020
News
Facebook Censors Conservative Ads, Even Though Fact Checkers Admit They Could Be True
Dealing in a “fact check” rife with obscure language, Facebook has censored a conservative ad critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The latest example of the deceptive censorship practice came when a pro-Trump super PAC launched an ad on Facebook Aug. 4. After being slapped with a misleading “mostly false” rating by PolitiFact, the 30-second video — which includes a
CBN
Aug 19 2020
Data
Perceptions of Trump and Biden
About half (49%) of registered voters say they are very or fairly satisfied with the presidential candidates, while a similar share (48%) say they are not too or not at all satisfied. Voter satisfaction with the candidates is higher than it was in 2016, when just 40% expressed satisfaction, but lower than it was for the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 elections.
About six-in-ten Republican
Pew Research Center
Jul 30 2021
Analysis
Olympics Remind Us That Sports Build Bridges Where Governments Can't
The United States and Iran met today at the Tokyo Olympics to play basketball. The elephant in the room—decades of geopolitical saber-rattling and proxy violence—was nowhere to be seen. The Americans clapped as the Iranian national anthem played. The Iranians applauded "The Star-Spangled Banner." Handshakes and niceties were exchanged before and after the game.
It was a match between
Reason
Nov 13 2016
News
Donald Trump campaign says it has a ‘mandate’
Kellyanne Conway, a key adviser to Donald Trump’s transistion team, says the general election “was not close” and the president-elect has a “mandate” to carry out the will of the people on issues ranging from Obamacare to national security.
Washington Times
Mar 19 2021
News
White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theories are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn
AS THE BIDEN administration turns its attention to an infrastructure system beset with problems, a strange new issue has emerged: conspiracy theorists. That’s according to a detailed intelligence report, produced by the New York Police Department and obtained by The Intercept, which finds that cellphone towers and other critical infrastructure have become an attractive target for conspiracy
The Intercept
Dec 23 2012
News
How Party of Budget Restraint Shifted to ‘No New Taxes,’ Ever
On a Saturday afternoon in October 1990, Senator Pete V. Domenici turned from a conversation on the Senate floor, caught the eye of a clerk by raising his right hand and voted in favor of a huge and contentious bill to reduce federal deficits. Then he put his hand back into his pocket and returned to the conversation.
New York Times (News)
Dec 07 2017
News
Amid calls to resign, Al Franken to make a statement
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken will speak from the Senate floor Thursday about his future in office following a raft of allegations he touched women inappropriately and dozens of his Democratic colleagues calling for him to step aside.
CNN Digital