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Gateway Pundit Owner Wants Trump To Fight For Misleading Conservative Sites...

OMG, no one complains more loudly and pathetically than snowflake conservatives, right? And Gateway Pundit owner Jim Hoft is one of the loudest whining...

Twitter Eschews Political Ads While Facebook Doubles Down

Last year, news broke about evidence confirming Russian buyers used Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election. In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads through 470...

Facebook’s New False Ad Policy Conspicuously Exempts Politicians (Video)

Last year, news broke about evidence confirming Russian buyers used Facebook advertising as propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election. In response, Facebook presented Congress 3,000 Russian-purchased ads...
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The REAL Fake News

Candidate Trump didn’t actually invent the term "fake news." He copied it from political satirists who were using the term a decade prior to his run for the White House.
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (image courtesy Tenney's Facebook)

GOP Congresswoman Thinks ‘It’s Fake News’ To Call Her On Wingnuttery...

Donald Trump has waged all-out war on the media almost from the time he took office. Indeed, he has made it clear that he...
Jim Hoft and Lucian Wintrich of Gateway Pundit, in the White House Briefing Room (image courtesy Hoft's Twitter)

Fake News Peddler Learns Trashing Shooting Survivors Has Its Costs (TWEET/AUDIO)

Lately, it seems that a disturbing element on the right has been far too willing to throw basic decency out the window. For instance,...
Barack Obama unveiling his official portrait (image courtesy Obama's Facebook)

Fake News Peddler Thinks Official Obama Portraits Prove They’re Pedophiles (AUDIO)

We expected the right-wing fringe to go into meltdown with the release of the Obamas' official presidential portraits. But the reaction of one of...
Judge Jeanine Pirro with Rudy Giuliani (image from Pirro's Facebook)

Judge Jeanine Says Obama Is Responsible For An Abuser Being In...

We expected to hear some pretty bizarre, unhinged, and flat-out dumb attempts by Donald Trump's diehard supporters to spin White House staff secretary Rob...
FBI director James Comey giving a briefing on the Orlando massacre (image courtesy FBI's Flickr feed, part of public domain)

FBI Agents Were Blindsided By Comey’s Firing–And These Documents Prove It...

By now, you know that everything the White House has told us about the firing of FBI Director James Comey is false. We were...
Devin Nunes talking with farmers in his district (image courtesy Nunes' Facebook)

National Review Discovers Yuuuge Flaw In Nunes Memo (TWEETS)

A lot of things have been said about the memo crafted by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes that supposedly claims the FBI and...
Christopher Wray being sworn in as FBI director (image courtesy Matthew Nichols for Department of Justice, part of public domain)

FBI Calls BS On Nunes Memo, Has ‘Grave Concerns’ About Accuracy...

On Monday afternoon, the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to release a memo that supposedly accuses the FBI and the Justice Department of...
John Guandolo (screenshot courtesy YouTube)

Fake Terrorism Expert: Reporters Who Criticize Trump Are Guilty Of ‘Treason’...

For the last two years, if you dare speak ill of Donald Trump on social media, you run the risk of being viciously trolled,...
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Even Fox News Admits This Conspiracy Theory Is Fake News (VIDEO/TWEETS)

For the last few weeks, the right-wing tubes have lit up with claims that the FBI is trying to cover up a smoking gun...
Robert Mueller at the U. S. Embassy to Estonia in 2012 (image courtesy U. S. Embassy to Estonia, available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license)

GOP Outrage Over ‘FISA Memo’ Is An Alternative Fact (TWEETS/VIDEOS)

Donald Trump diehards have spent most of the last 48 hours trying to blame the government shutdown on Democrats, even though Trump himself was...
Donald Trump at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)

Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ Were Themselves Fake (TWEETS)

For most of the last two months, Donald Trump promised to present "awards" for what he considers the most egregious examples of the "fake...
Pete Hoekstra (image courtesy Graham Davis, available via a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license)

Trump Ambassador Finally Admits He Peddled Fake News (AUDIO/VIDEO)

For 18 years, Pete Hoekstra represented a very large and very Republican slice of West Michigan. His lowest winning percentage was 63 percent. In...
Pete Hoekstra (image courtesy Graham Davis, available via a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license)

Reporters Tell Trump Ambassador, ‘You Have To Answer Questions’ (VIDEOS)

It's not often when a newly appointed ambassador has a massive credibility gap with the country where he serves before he even takes his...
Anna Khait and Liz Crokin with Steve Bannon (image courtesy Khait's Facebook)

Pizzagate Peddler Tries To Defend Slander Of Chrissy Teigen And John...

Most of the reality-based world knows that Pizzagate is a hoax. There is no evidence whatsoever of a wide-ranging pedophilia and sex trafficking ring...
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend (image courtesy BET)

Chrissy Teigen And John Legend Push Back Against Trumpkin Slander (TWEETS)

Without a doubt, the Donald Trump tailenders who are most deserving of being called deplorables are the bloggers and pseudo-journalists who seem to be...
David Clarke with Donald Trump (image from Clarke's Twitter)

Trump’s Favorite Sheriff Tweets Violent Attack On CNN (TWEETS)

When Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio was fired by his constituents in 2016, the title of "looniest sheriff in America" went to Milwaukee...