There was a lot of head scratching when President Trump decided that Dr. Ben Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon, would be just the person to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Rep. Nancy Pelosi released a statement calling Carson “disturbingly unqualified.”) Carson got off to a rough start when he referred to slaves as…
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Busted. Politico changed the headline on its problematicBen Carson — West Point story from “Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship” to “Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point ‘scholarship’ but never applied,” but there’s no Editor’s note in the story to alert readers to the change: Here are screenshots comparing the two headlines, via the Washington…
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First, Kathy Griffin posed foran ISIS-style photo shoot with a replica of the president’s bloody, severed head, declaring it an “expression of art.”Then she made a weepy apology video, admitting that she’d gone too far. Then, she held a press conference to complain that she’d been bullied by the Trump family. As much as we’d…
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