Jennifer Harper
Articles by Jennifer Harper
Inside the Beltway: The complex hazards of the ‘MeToo Kavanaugh ambush’
Behold. The Wall Street Journal has offered a new editorial titled "The #MeToo Kavanaugh Ambush." Regarding the baroque challenges now facing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh from political and cultural opponents, the news organization simply advises "A story this old and unprovable can't be allowed to delay a Supreme Court confirmation vote." Published September 18, 2018
Inside the Beltway: Repetitive Trump attacks losing their power
Anyone out there remember details from the infamous, anonymous New York Times op-ed? Anyone? It was just one in a long line of intense, coordinated, strategic attacks on President Trump and his administration which arrive like clockwork daily, and every other word is "chaos." Published September 17, 2018
Furious and fuming: Broadcasters saturate airwaves with adjectives to portray Trump as unstable
Broadcasters have a very limited lexicon when it comes to describing President Trump according to a 9-month study of the language used in major broadcast coverage. Mr. Trump is primarily described as angry, fuming and outraged fuming no matter what he's doing. Published September 17, 2018
Trump’s reminder: It’s Constitution Day
Everyone argues about the U.S. Constitution. Not so many sit down and read it, or honor its existence. Monday is Constitution Day, a fact not lost on President Trump. Published September 17, 2018
Inside the Beltway: Clay Travis: ‘How the left is ruining sports with politics’
Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis has much to say in a forthcoming book titled "Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left is Ruining Sports with Politics." Mr. Travis is intent on saving sports, he says, from "social justice warriors seeking to turn them into another political battleground." Mr. Travis is naming names and supplying anecdotes; he refers to ESPN as "MSESPN" and insists that politicized sports could sully national unity. Published September 16, 2018
Gale force: The hurricane media rages against Donald Trump
The threat of global warming and climate change are hot political topics, embraced by liberal politicians and much of the news media. So are hurricanes, which became a contentious partisan subject beginning in 2005 when former President George W. Bush was criticized for his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The same thing has happened to President Trump. Published September 14, 2018
Inside the Beltway: Michael Savage fires off new book on mass hysteria and the ‘Trump Witch Hunt’
An unsettling new culture seems to have sprung up now 20 months after President Trump was inaugurated, fueled by the president's tenacious persistence, negative press coverage, shrill outcry and much more. This unprecedented political phenomenon has fueled a new book by talk radio kingpin Michael Savage and the title tells all: "Stop Mass Hysteria: America's Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt." Published September 13, 2018
Fox News establishes scholarship to honor Charles Krauthammer
Fox News Channel has partnered with the National Merit Scholarship Program to establish the Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship, named for the late political analyst who was a contributor to the network from 2002 to his passing in 2018. Published September 13, 2018
Democrats recruit Obama, Hillary and Bernie ‘alumni’ to help with midterms push
The Democratic National Committee has announced the formation of "Team Blue," described as a "deployment project" to mobilize campaign volunteers as the midterms elections close in. Loyalists of former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders are high on the list of recruits. Published September 13, 2018
Inside the Beltway: Gallup ‘Global Emotions’ poll suggests world is actually happy
There are some intriguing findings in a massive new Gallup "Global Emotions" poll of 147,000 people which took a year to conduct and offers insight into mood of the world's populations. Some of the findings are surprising, even counterintuitive given the endless media coverage suggesting madness and mayhem rules the planet. Most people appear happy. Published September 12, 2018
How Americans really feel about the mainstream media
A major poll from Gallup and the Knight Foundation confirms that Americans don't trust the press. Published September 12, 2018
Inside the Beltway: News media fixates on ‘Trump’s Katrina’ and Hurricane Maria
The weather was politicized years ago when global warming and climate alarmism were ramped up as a dire, dramatic topic by the news media and quickly added to the liberal list of pet issues. The weather was again politicized when former President George W. Bush was criticized for his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Published September 11, 2018
9/11 memorial crafted from World Trade Center steel has a new home at the CIA
A rust-colored steel column recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center on 9/11 has a new home at CIA Headquarters just outside the nation's capital, the federal agency announced Tuesday. Published September 11, 2018
Was Obama worse to the press than Trump?
Former President Barack Obama recently has re-emerged as a strident political force for his party, criticizing President Trump for deeming the news media "an enemy of the people," among other things. Published September 11, 2018
Inside the Beltway: America remains steadfast on 9/11 anniversary
The 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks finds the nation in remembrance - reverent but steadfast. Published September 10, 2018
53% of voters say anonymous NYT author should have signed the op-ed and resigned
The majority of U.S. voters - 53 percent, say that the anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed bashing President Trump's leadership should have signed the editorial and "resigned in protest" according to a new American Barometer poll conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company. Published September 10, 2018
NRA ‘School Shield’ program awards $600,000 in grants for school security projects
The National Rifle Association has awarded over $600,000 in grants to support school security projects in 23 states, organized under the organization's School Shield program. Published September 10, 2018
Inside the Beltway: Media attacks on Trump run like clockwork
For many Americans, the political world goes from complicated to incomprehensible when the news media makes negative claims against President Trump that don't match up with reality. The public, for example, rejoices over the administration's very real economic and diplomatic gains but then are warned by grim journalists that the administration is in "chaos." Published September 9, 2018
Inside the Beltway: Trump resistance now ‘an emergency,’ say organizers
The volume has gone way up on the non-stop effort to counter President Trump, his administration and his nominee for the Supreme Court. It's about to get a lot louder according to chief organizers - who have declared that the situation has escalated into "an emergency, all-hands-on-deck moment." Published September 6, 2018
New tech watchdog to monitor conservative censorship on Facebook, Twitter, Google
The Media Research Center, a conservative press watchdog which has long monitored liberal bias in the news media, on Thursday launched MRC TechWatch -- a new project dedicated to exposing bias and censorship online by major tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube. Published September 6, 2018
