Constitutional attorney Michael Connelly describes the Justice Department tapping the Associated Press’ phones as part of the Obama Administration’s all-out assault against the US Constitution and Americans’ legal rights. Connelly is especially troubled by the administration’s refusal to appoint an independent counsel to investigate any of the emerging scandals.
Reacting to Attorney General Eric Holder’s Tuesday afternoon press briefing on the Department of Justice’s secret seizing of Associated Press phone records, Fox senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano tore into the agency for its “direct assault” on the Constitution that he says circumvented the proper channels laid out by the law.
Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murdering babies born alive. “However, most networks didn’t report on the Gosnell trial,” says Jodi Miller. “They were already too busy ignoring Benghazi to find time to cover it.” In this edition of NewsBusted, Miller also touches on the IRS’ growing scandal involving illegal harassment of conservative groups, the Justice Department snooping on the Associated Press and Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s defeat in her South Carolina Congressional race.
Do Americans suffer from Islamophobia? Or are they simply exhibiting a rational “Getting Blown Up Phobia?” Or a “Using Airplanes as Weapons of Mass Destruction Phobia?” Sensitivity trainer Joe Dan Gorman presents his diagnosis, and also administers some castor oil to leftwing media ideologues, in this edition of Intellectual Froglegs.
Imagine you’re a pot reporter. Pot as in weed, marijuana, bud. What could possibly go wrong when you cover a drug that is legally contentious but widely tolerated? Reporter Michael Montgomery finds out the hard way.
The Associated Press has said that its Twitter account was hacked by a group allied with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. Before the hack was uncovered, fake news planted by the cyber warriors sent the US stock market reeling.
Not only your garden-variety Leftists, but also many in the media have come unhinged, openly hoping that the Boston Marathon suspects prove to be white, right-wing extremists. Greg Gutfeld on Fox News’ The Five addresses those choosing to politicize the tragedy. The fact is: At this point in time, we do not know whether those responsible were deranged lone wolves, left or right-wing terrorists, or belonged to some domestic or international front. Until more is uncovered, it’s premature to be jumping to conclusions.
Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. who spent 85 days in jail in 2009 for refusing to reveal her source in the Valerie Plame CIA affair, tells NewsmaxTV’s Steve Malzberg that she is shocked by the lack of outrage by the journalistic community over the potential jailing of reporter Jana Winter, who refuses to reveal her sources in the James Holmes Aurora theater massacre. She says it would be a different story if Winter didn’t work for Fox News.
Somali pirates have kidnapped hundreds of people and cost millions in ransom payments. Jamal Osman of Channel 4 in Great Britain finds that journalists keen to interview them do not always get what they bargained for.
The Burmese thaw continues. In Myanmar, privately run daily newspapers once again hit the stands after being banned by late dictator Ne Win in the 1960s.
