constitution

Lone Rearranger

julia.seymour — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:37:27 +0000

Glenn Foden

Publish Date

July 11, 2014 - 10:24am

NBC's Gregory to Ben Carson: 'Very Highly Charged' to Demand Gov't Follow Constitution

kyle.drennen — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 12:37:53 +0000

Kyle Drennen

In an interview with Dr. Ben Carson for Meet the Press's web-based feature Press Pass, NBC host David Gregory dismissed Carson's call for "a government that placed the Constitution of the United States at the highest level": "There are some people who say that. That's a very highly charged thing to say.

— Kyle Drennen is Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Kyle Drennen on Twitter.

Low-Information Politicians

mike.ciandella — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:12:11 +0000

Glenn Foden

Publish Date

March 18, 2014 - 1:08pm

Lawless ... but not Loveless!

matt.philbin — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:09:25 +0000

Glenn Foden

Publish Date

February 11, 2014 - 3:06pm

Whopper ...

mike.ciandella — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:43:47 +0000

Glenn Foden

Publish Date

October 29, 2013 - 3:41pm

Dyspeptic NYT Critic Faults PBS Documentary on Constitution for Wasting Gas, Noisy Motorcycles

clay.waters — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:18:23 +0000

Clay Waters

On your bike! New York Times' roaming critic Neil Genzlinger reviewed Constitution USA with Peter Sagal, airing Tuesday night on PBS. Judging by the headline, "The Philosophical Rumble Of That Living Document," Genzlinger's editor didn't know what to do with his puzzling, cranky review of the documentary (starring Sagal, liberal host of the NPR game show Wait Wait ...

Is the NYT's Real Concern 'Disproportionate' Small-State Power, or Passing Liberal Laws?

clay.waters — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:20:51 +0000

Clay Waters

On the front page of Monday's New York Times, Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak presented readers with the proposition that "Smaller States Find Outsize Clout Growing in Senate." It's part of "Unequal Representation," a Times series "examining challenges to the American promise that all citizens have an equal voice in how they are governed."

Second Amendment, Anyone? Mental Illness Registry Just As Alarming as Total Gun Ban, NYT Claims

clay.waters — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:43:33 +0000

Clay Waters

Erica Goode and Jack Healy made a dubious observation about gun rights in their New York Times article Friday, "Focus on Mental Health Laws to Curb Violence Is Unfair, Some Say." ("Some" translates into "liberals at the Times"). The Times cynically suggested that the mental health angle was due in part to congressional reluctance to take on the allegedly fearsome National Rifle Association.

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Argues Gun Rights 'Can Be Infringed'

kyle.drennen — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:07:45 +0000

Kyle Drennen

In a contentious exchange with Eric Pratt of Gun Owners of America on her Wednesday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell declared that Constitutional rights, like the right to bear arms, were more like suggestions: "Well, they can be infringed, because the First Amendment is infringed, I have to obey all sorts of regulations from the FCC, there are things we can't say in a crowded theater, so every right also carries with it responsibilities and obligations." [Listen to read more

Piers Morgan Sneers At Conservative Guest Citing Constitution; 'You Brandish Your Little Book'

matt.hadro — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:10:07 +0000

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Matt Hadro

When Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro on Thursday evening used his pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution on the set of Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN's Piers Morgan asserted that he, like the NRA, was deviously trying to frame gun control as an assault on the Second Amendment.

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Gail Collins, the NYT's La-La-La Liberal: 'Really, I Have My Hands Over My Ears. Not Listening.'

clay.waters — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:31:41 +0000

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Clay Waters

The New York Times has previously reported on the dangers of the arcane problem of "epistemic closure," whereby the conservative movement (but evidently not the liberal one) suffers from "a kind of closed-mindedness in the movement....a high-toned abbreviation for ideological intolerance and misinformation."
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WashPost Defends ObamaCare's Constitutionality; But In 1995, Paper Cautioned Congress to 'Demonstrate Some Modesty' On Commerce Clause

ken.shepherd — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:56:50 +0000

By
Ken Shepherd

It was as predictable as the sun rising in the east, but today the Washington Post defended as constitutional ObamaCare's individual mandate. The mandate is defended by the administration as being legitimate under the Constitution's commerce clause, a defense the Post editorial board agreed with while conceding that the arguments against the mandate are "serious."
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Coburn Brushes Off Charlie Rose's Citation of Pseudo-Conservative Brooks

matthew.balan — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:52:17 +0000

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Matthew Balan

Charlie Rose boosted New York Times's staff "conservative" David Brooks for his endorsement of the individual mandate on Tuesday's CBS This Morning, but Senator Tom Coburn was having none of it.
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CNN Legal Analyst Whacks Conservative Case Against ObamaCare Mandate as 'Really Weak'

matt.hadro — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:10:26 +0000

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Matt Hadro

One week before the Supreme Court hears arguments on Obamacare, CNN's legal analyst has already come down against the conservative side as "really weak." Jeffrey Toobin gave the legal precedents for an individual health insurance mandate and insinuated that it was constitutional on Monday's Starting Point.
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NYT Says 'Old' Constitution Outdated for Failing to Guarantee 'Entitlements' Like Health Care

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:39:00 +0000

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Clay Waters

Sorry, Founders: The 'terse and old' U.S. Constitution has been ruled out of date by Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak for failing to provide such 'rights' as free health care.

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