- The fake news show that progressives love to watch won the Emmy for Best Variety Show last night. By “variety” we must assume that “The Daily Show” didn’t win for ideological variety, considering the background with Big Journalism contributor Steven Crowder. So Emmys “variety” actually means no variety.

- Greta vs. Tucker Carlson.

- Twitter’s board loses two investors:

Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital are no longer on Twitter’s board, the company said on Friday.

It was not immediately clear what prompted the change.

- New survey says that ABC, CNN, Bloomberg, Golf Channel reach most affluent households.

- Honesty from a reporter: Canadian Commentator: The Press Gave America ‘An Untried, Unknown,’ ‘Incompetent’ President.

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Already, the media has jumped on the John Patrick Bedell story, claiming that he was a raving right winger “with virulent antigovernment feelings,” as the Christian Science Monitor puts it.  And, just as they did with the Joseph Stack case, they’re ignoring the evidence in order to come to that conclusion.

John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.

If so, that would make the Pentagon shooting the second violent extremist attack on a federal building within the past month. On Feb. 18, Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Mr. Stack left behind a disjointed screed in which, among other things, he expressed his hatred of the government.

“If so…” That’s a pretty big “if.”

Let’s start by noting that Bedell was a registered Democrat.  The media has completely and conveniently ignored that little fact. (more…)