The haters at ABC late night on Thursday showcased, yet again, that they despise half the country. Jimmy Kimmel Live guest host David Alan Grier seethed about a new conservative dating app, deriding The Right Stuff as “Tinder for bigots.” Grier didn’t really bother to offer a joke there, just that all conservatives are racists.
CBS Mornings on Friday also covered the new app with Democratic donor Gayle King agreeing that she would want her kids dating within their political party. But first, here’s Grier on Thursday night: “There's a new dating app. It is called The Right Stuff....It's basically Tinder for bigots.”
The hateful Grier then played a doctored ad for the dating app with faux graphics proclaiming, “No gays,” “no Mexicans,” “only a few Blacks.” How hateful are the people behind Jimmy Kimmel Live? In 2017, when asked about Republicans turning off his show, Kimmel replied, “Not good riddance, but riddance.”
Over on CBS Mornings, co-host Tony Dokoupil asked about the new conservative dating app, wondering, “So I put the question to my trusty co-hosts, you have kids, would you want — without revealing political beliefs of your children -- Would you want them to marry within their political belief system?”
After pondering the question, King replied, “I think it would be easier. But I just want them to be happy with whatever partner they choose. I really do mean that. I think it would be easier if you were more like-minded.”
Now, we don’t know about the politics of King’s daughter and son. But as I wrote in a 2020 NewsBusters analysis on her, we do know King’s politics:
Gayle King has given exclusively to Democrats. According to Open Secrets, she donated over $33,000 to the DNC, $7300 to Barack Obama, $1000 to Democrat Harold Ford Jr. Open Secrets reports that the donations stopped in 2011 as she began at CBS. But the fact that she hasn’t given anything to Republicans shows that she’s a partisan leftist.
If donating only to Democrats wasn’t enough, in 2017, King has vacationed with them as well. The CBS co-host enjoyed a trip on a yacht with the Obamas, angering actual journalists within CBS.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live
8/11/2022
DAVID ALAN GRIER: Now you guys don't need this, but for some in our audience who are single and still out in them streets, they're looking for someone very special to meet. There's a new dating app. It is called The Right Stuff. Now, this is for the conservative dater. You see what they did there? The “right” stuff. It's basically Tinder for bigots. And one of their selling points is that you can view profiles without pronouns. In case you're wondering, the pronouns for anyone you meet on this app are “they” and "suck.” The Right Stuff doesn't launch till next month. But they've already put out a very informative commercial.
DOCTORED RIGHT STUFF AD:
Graphic: “No gays” “No Mexicans,” “Only a Few Blacks.” Hey, guys. I'm Ryan. I am so excited to announce a dating app for all of us conservatives. It's called “The Right Stuff." What I love most about it is it's invite only. Not just anyone can join. The right stuff is all about getting into the right dating pool. We're sorry that you had to endure years of bad dates and wasted time with people that don't see the world our way. The right way. Okay, once you're in the app, you're ready to post a date. You can create your ideal date. You choose the time and place. See you there.
VOICE: The right stuff is not liable to match you with a cousin or stepbrother. Check the Age of consent in your state before kissing. Sex before marriage may result in eternal damnation. Please use the meth responsibly.
GRIER: We may have doctored it just a little bit.
CBS Morning
8/12/2022
8:30
TONY DOKOUPIL: My “Talk of the table” is not pop culture related, but it is culture related. It's about a new dating site, dating platform, dating app. It comes out of Trump world, two former Trump adviser and a political appointee with backing from a Trump donor, Peter Thiel, for conservatives. Take a look at the promo.
[Video from “The Right Stuff” dating app.]
DOKOUPIL: So this caught my eye because as a business --
GAYLE KING: Are you trying to date?
DOKOUPIL: Gotta get back out there, Gayle.
KING: I'm going to tell. I'm going to tell Katy. Why does this catch your eye?
DOKOUPIL: It caught my eye because it seems like a smart business move if you look at the polling. Since the 1950s there's been a doubling in the proportion of Americans who want their kids to marry someone of the same political party. So now most Americans apparently want their kids to marry in the political party. So I put the question to my trusty co-hosts, you have kids, would you want — without revealing political beliefs of your children -- Would you want them to marry within their political belief system?
KING: I think it would be easier. But I just want them to be happy with whatever partner they choose. I really do mean that. I think it would be easier if you were more like minded.
NATE BURLESON: Yeah. I do believe that, as well. My mother said try to date someone that's evenly yoked. You would love my kids to date someone that has different beliefs so they can challenge their own within the relationship and decide on who they are.
DOKOUPIL: Interesting. That’s some interesting Thanksgiving dinners at the Burleson household.
BURLESON: Listen, that's not bad. Listen, people have dating sites that are based on race.
KING: [Responding to the politics comment.] Yeah. I don't think that's bad at all. There's a farmersonly.com.
DOKOUPIL: I kinda wish that politics wasn't a super identity like religion or like farmers.
BURLESON: Like it’s a stamp or a title. That’s where we are.
MSNBC’s Morning Joe is so dramatic it might as well be a Shakespeare play. Thursday’s broadcast was no exception when hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and guest Mike Barnicle tried to speak to the “cynical hearts” of their right-wing colleagues, hoping their passionate words would put an end to “brainwashing” right-wing “extremists.”
As always, Scarborough got this eye-rolling spectacle started by accusing right-leaning media outlets of trying to stand up for Trump despite knowing “he is guilty in their minds” and still spreading violence and lies.
That was when Morning Joe staple Mike Barnicle put away his script to recite his lines. After saying his lefty-catering piece about the former president, his monologue continued with:
If you're going to believe calamity is the future, if you're going to believe that calamity is stronger than the roots, the patriotic roots of this country, then there's something wrong with you. Because this country is strong enough to survive a lot. It's already survived a lot, and we certainly ought to be able to survive Donald Trump.
These people actually think that out of Russia, China, anti-America terrorists, and all the other real threats to the American people, one outspoken billionaire who loves to golf is the largest threat out there.
To end her scene, Mika Brzezinski reached out to her “colleagues in this business” because “right-wing extremists and far-right websites are going to do what they are going to do, and they're not going to hear this.”
She continued: “right when this peaceful search happens and twist it into an attack on America, and to go nuts and to cause people to feel that this was some sort of incredibly brazen attack on our country, on a former president, when you know what happened on January 6th, you saw it when you were begging him because you knew only he could put a stop to it.”
“Know this” and “know the truth,” she implored them. She even tried to get out of the line of fire by saying “I'm not saying he committed a crime, that's not for me to say.”
MSNBC is like all the lefties, and only reports when the right is all up in arms about something. Do they not remember all the riots caused by ANTIFA, crazy liberals, and even when they showed up and tried to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of Roe being decided? Did they also forget that the shooter at the 2017 Congressional baseball practice was an avid Rachael Maddow (MSNBC) watcher? They either have selective memory, or do not care about real reporting.
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe
August 11, 2022
7:10:45 a.m. Eastern
MIKE BARNICLE: Everything he talks about roots around one thing, himself, and that's the biggest difference and the biggest danger, I would submit, between now and anything that has happened in the past in this country.
And to Jonah Goldberg's ultimate point, you know, if you're going to believe calamity is the future, if you're going to believe that calamity is stronger than the roots, the patriotic roots of this country, then there's something wrong with you. Because this country is strong enough to survive a lot. It's already survived a lot, and we certainly ought to be able to survive Donald Trump who, each and every day, to the other point that you just made, has to be thinking that anyone who worked for him, who was close to him from Mark Meadows on down during his administration, is thinking, “hey, if they offer me a deal, I'm flipping.”
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So, right-wing extremists and far-right websites are going to do what they are going to do, and they're not going to hear this, but to our colleagues in this business, in the cable news business, to jump on this, right when this peaceful search happens and twist it into an attack on America, and to go nuts and to cause people to feel that this was some sort of incredibly brazen attack on our country, on a former president, when you know what happened on January 6th, you saw it when you were begging him because you knew only he could put a stop to it. And you were begging him to stop it. When you know, you know the election was not stolen, okay?
You know this. You know the truth. You know what this former president has been trying to do—I'm not saying he broke the law, I'm not saying he committed a crime, that's not for me to say, but you know that he instigated January 6th, that he wanted people to go to the capitol, that it turned ugly. And you know that even to this day, he talks about the election being stolen when it was not.
[scoffs] To be criticizing the FBI, to be saying violent things about the FBI, to be saying the FBI crossed the Rubicon, you know you're lying. And you know you're instigating people to react in a bad way and to try and run to protect Donald Trump. You know you're doing the wrong thing for America. You know what you are doing, and you should stop it. It is going to get dangerous.
Is there anything woke lefties can’t ruin? From TV shows to movies, the’ve distorted all media to fit their radical agenda. Now they’ve come for religious figures.
According to ShakespeareGlobe, Joan Of Arc is to be reimagined as a gender-confused female with they/them pronouns.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London is proud to present the new woke piece of garbage play, I,Joan, which views the warrior saint through the funhouse perspective of modern gender silliness. “We are not the first to present Joan in this way, and we will not be the last. Regarding the use of pronouns, ‘they’ to refer to a singular person has been traced by the Oxford English Dictionary to as early as 1375, years before Joan was even born,” the Globe Artistic Director Michelle Terry writes. “Regardless, theatres do not deal with ‘historical reality’. Theatres produce plays, and in plays, anything can be possible.” At least she admits using they/them pronouns is not living in “historical reality.”
The globe defends the woke deconstruction of Joan as what Shakespeare would have wanted. “He wanted to play. Play with identity, power, with the idea of pleasure, and with all sides of an argument,” the globe continues. “Shakespeare was not afraid to ask difficult questions as he imagined the lives of 1,223 characters; he represented an extraordinary range of diverse perspectives and identities, and we are all still enjoying his work over 400 years later.” What is thou smoking?
Terry defends the woke appropriation of Joan by claiming it's just another historical interpretation. “History has provided countless and wonderful examples of Joan portrayed as a woman,” the website reads. “This production is simply offering the possibility of another point of view. That is the role of theatre: to simply ask the question ‘imagine if?’” Imagine if these lunatics weren’t so preoccupied with turning nature and morality on their heads.
But Shakespeare’s Globe’s promotes leftist values. “We are committed to becoming an inclusive and diverse organisation, and making necessary change is at the heart of our strategic aims for the organisation. This includes becoming pro-trans, anti-racist, and taking positive, conscious, and intentional action against any form of prejudice present in our culture,” the website reads. “We aim to create a culture and environment in which everyone’s experience at Shakespeare’s Globe is equal, inclusive, and equitable.” Does the website mention that they’re proud to be anti-Catholic?
Shakespeare’s Globe perverted a Catholic saint and molded her into a woke monstrosity. Get woke, please go broke.
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer is an unserious person pretending to be the opposite. She proved that on Thursday’s edition of PBS’s Amanpour and Company where she declared that legislators legislating is tantamount to “torching democracy.”
Mayer was on with NPR’s Michel Martin to discuss an article she wrote on the topic with a focus on Ohio. Martin asked, “Did you go there specifically because Ohio is just to see what would happen in the wake of the overturning of Roe or was it on your radar before that?”
After claiming that was part of the reason, Mayer elaborated, “the reason I looked at Ohio, in particular, was I was hearing from someone who I'd interviewed named David Pepper, who's written a book about Ohio, that in fact, it's not really the people deciding when you can give these issues back to a state like Ohio. It's the legislature that's deciding. And the legislatures in a number of American states no longer reflect the will of the people. That's why we talk about torching democracy.”
Mayer didn’t mention it, but Pepper is the former chairman of the state Democratic Party and as Mayer was talking, viewers saw a picture of him on a stage in front of a giant Democratic ‘D’ logo.
Pepper has a partisan ax to grind, but Mayer still cited him as an authority on subject. The reason why Republicans are torching democracy is because they don’t follow polls:
The people have one opinion, the general public, if you look at polls, feels one way. But the legislatures are way out of sync with what the population, in general, believes. And that's true in Ohio and that's what this man, David Pepper, was telling me who's written a book that's called, Laboratories for Autocracy. It's a play on a phrase that came from Justice Louis Brandeis who called the state legislatures in America laboratories for democracy.
Abortion on demand-loving Democrats aren’t exactly in line with polling either, but they aren’t accused on public TV of torching democracy. Still, Mayer continued citing Pepper, “what he is saying is actually, this is where autocracy in America is—is-- growing and brewing. And it's an attack on democracy taking place in these states. And Ohio typifies it. So, that's why I went there.”
Martin continued with the theme of the disconnect between legislators and polling, “So, how did it get to the point in a place like Ohio where there's such divergence between what people say they want in matters of significant public concern and what the legislature is actually doing?”
Mayer then suggested that winning elections was part of some sinister plot to take over state legislatures, “It was actually a deliberate plan.”
Not only that, there were racial connotations behind it, “Barack Obama had been elected in 2008. It was a shock to many white conservatives to have a black American president who was a liberal Democrat to some extent -- liberal that is to some extent. And they had lost power in both Houses of Congress and the White House. And they were looking around the country to try to figure out, well, where can we take power? And the places that seemed to be easiest to capture were state legislatures.”
“Some extent?” Mayer would also go onto condemn Republicans, and only Republicans, for gerrymandering and apply the same polling logic to gun rights.
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PBS Amanpour and Company
8/11/2022
11:35 PM ET
MICHEL MARTIN: You've written this devastating piece titled, "State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy." You know, very strong words. So, obviously, I'm going to ask you why you say that. But you focused on Ohio. Why Ohio?
JANE MAYER: Well, Ohio has been known as a bellwether state in American politics. It's a—it’s a-- moderate state that can swing both either Republican or Democratic so that if you look back, recent history, it was a state that elected Barack Obama in 2008 and in 2012 and then Donald Trump in 2016 in 2020. So, it's an interesting kind of weathervane state.
MARTIN: Did you go there specifically because you wanted to see what would happen in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade? Because as you point out in the piece, the Supreme Court anticipated when it overturned Roe that the battle of abortion rights would go to the states, like, that was the whole point. Did you go there specifically because Ohio is just to see what would happen in the wake of the overturning of Roe or was it on your radar before that?
MAYER: It -- that was part of the reason. I mean -- because you could hear even before the decision came down from the Supreme Court, you could hear during their arguments that the conservatives, Brett Kavanaugh particular, made a big point of saying, if we just send these issues, these hard issues
like abortion back to the states, we can just let the people decide.
And what I was hearing -- and the reason I looked at Ohio, in particular, was I was hearing from someone who I'd interviewed named David Pepper, who's written a book about Ohio, that in fact, it's not really the people deciding when you can give these issues back to a state like Ohio. It's the legislature that's deciding. And the legislatures in a number of American states no longer reflect the will of the people. That's why we talk about torching democracy.
The people have one opinion, the general public, if you look at polls, feels one way. But the legislatures are way out of sync with what the population, in general, believes. And that's true in Ohio and that's what this man, David Pepper, was telling me who's written a book that's called, Laboratories for Autocracy. It's a play on a phrase that came from Justice Louis Brandeis who called the state legislatures in America laboratories for democracy.
And—and-- what he is saying is actually, this is where autocracy in America is—is-- growing and brewing. And it's an attack on democracy taking place in these states. And Ohio typifies it. So, that's why I went there.
MARTIN: In the piece, you site a political science professor at the University of Cincinnati that cited, a 2020 survey indicating that less than 14 percent of Ohioans support banning all abortions without exceptions for rape and incest. But that's not the direction of the Ohio legislature is—is-- heading in.
In fact, I think the story that a lot of people may be familiar with is the story of this 10-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by an adult male, became pregnant, and then had to go to Indiana to obtain an abortion because it was impossible in her home state of Ohio. So, how did it get to the point in a place like Ohio where there's such divergence between what people say they want in matters of significant public concern and what the legislature is actually doing?
MAYER: It was actually a deliberate plan. And there aren't that many things in American politics that really follow anybody's plans because it's such a mess most of the time. But back in 2010, the Republican Party's smartest operatives looked around and they were very distressed. Barack Obama had been elected in 2008. It was a shock to many white conservatives to have a black American president who was a liberal Democrat to some extent -- liberal that is to some extent. And they had lost power in both Houses of Congress and the White House. And they were looking around the country to try to figure out, well, where can we take power? And the places that seemed to be easiest to capture were state legislatures.
And so, there was this very interesting plan that was drawn up called Red Map by the Republican Party operatives. And they set out to very deliberately flip as many statehouses as they could into Republican control. And there was a year that 2010 was very much on their mind to do that year. Because that's a census year, every 10 years there's a U.S. census. And every time there's a census, the statehouses get to reapportion the districts, both for Congress and for the statehouse.
So, it gives the legislature special powers during those years. And they figured, if we can take the statehouses, you could redraw the lines and you could do it in such a way that you would totally advantage the Republican Party. And that's exactly what they did in a bunch of states. They picked
up an incredible number of statehouses that year. They flipped them to the Republican Party, they took control of a number of them, and they set out to very systematically and scientifically redraw the district so that in many places Republicans -- I mean, they can barely lose no matter what they do.
And that's what -- that was -- you know, more than 10 years ago, 12 years ago. What we're now seeing, we're seeing the consequences. This is like a science experiment in democracy. You're saying, well, what happens when you make it so that people can't lose their elections? What kind of behavior do you get in the statehouses? And what you get is really extremist legislation because the only pressure on these peoples' lives in the Republican Party is that they might be facing primary challenges from candidates who are even more extreme than they are.
And so, that's those – who are the people who come out to vote in primaries. That's what they're worried about. And they couldn't care less about the opposing party's point of views. So, they keep moving further and further to the extreme. And that's what's happened in Ohio.
Disgruntled New York Times economist Paul Krugman is clearly willing to sink his career further into the reputational abyss by mudding semantics to save President Joe Biden’s hoax that we had zero inflation in July.
The failed “Team Transitory” apologist Krugman published a new op-ed spinning that “President Biden declared, accurately, that we had zero inflation in July.” He whined that “many on the right accused [Biden] of lying, because prices in July 2022 were 8.5 percent higher than they were in July 2021. Do they not understand the difference?” To be “fair, sloppy business reporting may have contributed to their confusion,” Krugman wrote.
Krugman touted the unchanged month-to-month inflation figure, and pontificated that he saw “many headlines to the effect that ‘inflation was 8.5 percent in July,’” before proceeding to spew nonsense at conservatives for their supposed ignorance of Krugman’s gaslighting. “The more fundamental issue, surely, is that it’s difficult to get people to understand something when their sloganeering depends on their not understanding it,” Krugman griped.
Apparently Krugman doesn’t understand that the month-to-month rate means that the “rate of inflation” in July was unchanged, not that there was “zero inflation in July.” Even anti-Trump pollster Frank Luntz called such gaslighting on inflation "a destruction of the meaning of words."
Krugman even monikered the unchanged month-to-month rate figure as the “Big Zero,” which he contradictorily admitted “doesn’t mean that the inflation problem is solved.” He even babbled in his first paragraph: "This is not the end of inflation. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." So how could there have been “zero inflation in July” if there is still an “inflation problem” to fix, Krugman? Brownstone Institute President Jeffrey Tucker lambasted the asinine play on semantics being pushed by Biden and company. “It's a bogus math trick,” Tucker tweeted. “This is the overall one-month index change. Overall that means that the big drop in fuel oil and gas (following previous massive monthly increases) swamped the huge increases everywhere else.”
Using the same tactic, you could also observe a one-month 19.2% increase in electricity! But of course we would not do that because that's dumb. The actual increase is 15.2% which we get from calculating year over year, just as the DoL does! grrrrr. Here's the breakdown. pic.twitter.com/Lvmes1zEVw
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) August 10, 2022
Tucker is right on point. For example, “[t]he food at home category, which tracks the cost of groceries, surged 13.1% over the last year, the most significant increase since March 1979. On a monthly basis, prices jumped 1.4%,” according to Fox Business. Tucker said that one could use Biden and Krugman’s same tactic to “observe a one-month 19.2% increase in electricity! But of course we would not do that because that's dumb. The actual increase is 15.2% which we get from calculating year over year, just as the DoL does! Grrrrr.”
Krugman undercut himself further by admitting a variety of core inflation measures indicate the economy is still “running too hot,” which is literally the opposite of “zero inflation.”
Economists have long known that you get a much better read on underlying inflation if you strip out highly volatile prices — normally food and energy, but there are a variety of measures of core inflation, and all of them are still unacceptably high. That’s a clear indication that the economy is running too hot, [emphasis added.]
Krugman strangely claimed in the beginning of his latest drivel that “[T]here is absolutely no reason to question the numbers.” In fact, said Krugman, he expected the GOP “to accuse the Biden administration of cooking the books.” It’s hilarious that Krugman expected the GOP to accuse Biden of “cooking the books.” He literally did the exact same thing when he absurdly claimed in 2020 that it was a “possibility” that the Trump administration had “gotten to the BLS” to fudge a May 2020 report that showed employment rising a whopping 2.5 million during the COVID-19 pandemic economy.
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Stephen Colbert welcomed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre onto his Thursday CBS show where he lobbed several softballs her way including wondering how is the White House mending the relationship with the press and wondering how Joe Biden has been so successful.
Regretting how the previous administration treated the press, Colbert declared, “So, when—when—when-- y'all, you know, came into office 18 months ago, one of the things, the goals stated was, to kind of, repair the relationship between that press office and the press.”
Asking for a status update on that, Colbert continued, lamenting that some—presumably conservatives—refuse to play along with the White House, “How was that going and how do you do that when some members of the press won't agree on what reality is?”
For her part, Jean-Pierre portrayed her spin as fact, “Look, I think the way that I see it is my job, our job, is to make sure that we are delivering the facts, delivering what the president's agenda is, and that's our focus, and that's what we – we-- do every day.”
She proceeded to claim “we really worked -- have worked the last 18, 19 months to really repair that relationship” and to give the politically correct answer how the relationship between the White House and the press is just part of freedom of the press.
It must be nice to be part of a White House that gets mostly softballs from questioners, like the one that Colbert then lobbed her way:
Since you started, al-Zawahri was killed, gun control has passed, gas prices are now down below $4 a gallon, inflation has begun to ease, the PACT Act—the burn pit legislation was passed, massive climate bill is set to pass tomorrow, what is the key to making all that happen so fast? Is it you? Are you the reason why this has happened? Or is it the fact that the president has been in isolation with COVID for a lot of that?”
Being a good press secretary, Jean-Pierre gave all credit to Biden, but gas prices are still high, inflation is still bad, and the climate bill—called the Inflation Reduction Act—won’t reduce inflation. No wonder the White House has an easier relationship with the media than its predecessor.
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Here is a transcript for the August 11 show:
CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
8/12/2022
12:17 AM ET
STEPHEN COLBERT: So, when—when—when-- y'all, you know, came into office 18 months ago, one of the things, the goals stated was, to kind of, repair the relationship between that press office and the press. How was that going and how do you do that when some members of the press won't agree on what reality is?
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Some members of the press?
COLBERT: Some members of the press.
JEAN-PIERRE: Okay. Look, I think the way that I see it is my job, our job, is to make sure that we are delivering the facts, delivering what the president's agenda is, and that's our focus, and that's what we – we-- do every day, and we really worked -- have worked the last 18, 19 months to really repair that relationship, and there's always going to be a give and take, always, always going to be a little pull and tug, but that's okay, that's democracy, that’s the, you know, the freedom of the press, the independency of the press, and it’s, you know, we see it as an opportunity to really have, to be able to communicate to all of you, to all of the American people on the work that we're doing every single day.
COLBERT: Since you started, al-Zawahri was killed, gun control has passed, gas prices are now down below $4 a gallon, inflation has begun to ease, the PACT Act—the burn pit legislation was passed--,
JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah, which is—
COLBERT: -- massive climate bill is set to pass tomorrow, what is the key to making all that happen so fast? Is it you? Are you the reason why this has happened? Or is it the fact that the president has been in isolation with COVID for a lot of that?
JEAN-PIERRE: I think, look, I think it's this, I really do believe that you have -- we have a president who has the experience, who is committed, who has the core of his conviction. If you think about why President Biden ran in 2019, it was because he saw what was happening to the core values of this country, our traditions, we were being attacked, it was being threatened, and he also saw that the little guy, right, everyday people, were being left behind, and so, he wanted to make sure that we lift people up from the bottom up and really bring out the economy from the bottom up as well and middle out.
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was sounding the alarm in multiple national TV and radio interviews. The rage-filled tone of pro-Trump commentary after the FBI raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago was going to lead to violence, possibly catastrophic violence, like the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, which killed 168 Americans.
In an hour-long interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, Milbank warned there’s too much hot talk about rising authoritarianism. “It doesn't take a whole lot where we are right now for things to get out of hand. We've seen rising violence from right-wing extremists. We really need our leaders -- opinion leaders and lawmakers -- to step in and calm things down.”
Calm would be good. But you may smirk at this insincere schtick. Because Milbank works for a newspaper whose melodramatic motto for the last five years has implied impending despotism: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” The hyperbolic title of Milbank’s new book is The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up Of The Republican Party.
Milbank insists we need to tone down the rhetoric. He should start with his own book title – and the Post motto. But he deeply imbibes from the motto. “Admittedly, I'm partisan," Milbank writes, "not for Democrats but for democrats...Republicans have become an authoritarian faction fighting democracy."
The fact that Milbank can get an interview for his dangerous-GOP rant on PBS (Amanpour & Co.), an hour on NPR, and a favorable book review on NPR.org by their political editor Ron Elving tells you once again that public broadcasting is a taxpayer-funded sandbox for the Left.
In these interviews and another with MSNBC, Milbank is pulling out the ancient smear that Republicans and conservative radio hosts caused the Oklahoma City bombing with their anti-government rhetoric. This was a very common smear at the time. Time magazine called them an “unindicted co-conspirator in the blast.”
The late David Broder of The Washington Post huffed then that Rush Limbaugh using the slogan “America Held Hostage” under Clinton was “dangerous” and could “inflame twisted minds with statements that suggest political opponents are enemies.” Unlike "Democracy dies in darkness."
In a recent column, Milbank is also re-circulating the smear that Sarah Palin using rhetoric like “Don’t Retreat, Instead — Reload!” caused the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011. Liberals like Milbank never needed proof that the shooter was a Palin supporter who actually saw the rhetoric, or if the Oklahoma City bomber loved Newt Gingrich. Who needs proof?
Milbank left out smearing Rachel Maddow or Bernie Sanders for the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise in 2017. The shooter was a big fan of both of them. The Unabomber had Al Gore’s book Earth in the Balance in his hideout. But they can’t be “destructionists.” They’re not Republicans.
Liberals apparently can’t be blamed for political toxicity. "Donald Trump didn't create this noxious environment," Milbank writes in his book. "He is a monster the Republicans created over a quarter century."
Milbank is not a serious man for serious times. He’s the columnist as jester. When Dick Cheney accidentally shot a friend in the face in a hunting accident in 2006, Milbank showed up on the Keith Olbermann show in an orange hunting vest and stocking cap. Olbermann asked if the shooting of his friend would become Cheney’s legacy. Milbank joked “Well, we've got two and a half more years of hunting trips. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.”
Milbank can mock a Gingrich or Limbaugh or Glenn Beck as a noxious presence turning political figures into vicious cartoons and replacing civil discourse with callous humor. But somehow he can never reflect on whether he resembles that critique.
As we described it, Tuesday's Morning Joe was a "Gloat-a-Thon" over the Mar-a-Lago search. But even the show's unbridled schadenfreude on Tueday paled in comparison to Morning Joe's absolute ecstasy today over Donald Trump's potential legal woes.
Mika and George Conway both joined the long chorus line of liberals declaring that the "walls are closing in" on Trump.
The ultimate euphoria came at the end of the first half-hour, as MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman, commenting on how the the Biden DoJ has turned the tables on Trump, quoted an "old saying:"
"It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun."
Mika immediately burst into prolonged, uproarious, laughter, and twice repeated the phrase. Scarborough was so enthralled with the saying that he said he would "write it down."
Now imagine if a conservative commentator invoked the notion of a Republican president's law enforcement agencies having "the gun" on a Democrat president. Cue the shrieks of liberal outrage!
And consider that a favorite liberal talking point nowadays is how Trump and others have and continue to incite violence. So who's inciting violence now, as they laugh uncontrollably at the prospect of Donald Trump having a gun trained on him?
Other low-lights from the segment:
Mika and Joe amused themselves by repeatedly mentioning the many times that Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment during his deposition yesterday with lawyers for New York State Attorney General Letitia James. Scarborough wondered whether Trump might be "mobbed up," and if his taking the Fifth constituted a "confession."
Yesterday, we noted a CNN legal analyst claiming that a federal indictment of Trump, stemming from the Mar-a-Lago search, was imminent. Today, it was Morning Joe's turn to use I-word, with legal analyst Barbara McQuade saying that an indictment of Trump in Fulton County, Georgia was likely the "most imminent."
Joe and Mika broke out their traditional string of epithets for Trump supporters: "conspiracy theorists, insurrectionists, weirdos, crazy people, freaks, lunatics," and, of course, "fascists."
Scarborough suggested that just as the law should go after the "fascists," the law should deal with "people on cable news channels" who in Joe's opinion are inspiring violence. Gee: wonder which "cable news networks" and which "people" Scarborough wants to see locked up?
Remember how the liberal media ridiculed Trump for claiming that Trump Tower was being wiretapped? Now, McQuade also said it would be perfectly appropriate for Biden's law enforcement agencies to monitor Trump and his associates via "listening devices, surveillance techniques, confidential informants, consensual monitoring, and other things."
The gloat-a-thon on Morning Joe was sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Shingrix, Ring, and Wegmans.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
8/11/22
6:00 am
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: The former president once claimed that innocent people don't plead the Fifth. So what does that say about him!--after he invoked the Fifth Amendment hundreds of times with the State of New York yesterday?
Yeesh! Walls are closing in.
. . .
Does he still think it's disgraceful?
JOE SCARBOROUGH: 400 times over, disgraceful.
MIKA: Does he think it's something you only do if you're guilty?
SCARBOROUGH: 400 times, guilty.
MIKA: And does he still think it's something that the mob does?
SCARBOROUGH: 400 times! Is he mobbed up?
MIKA: We'll get into that.
SCARBOROUGH: Is he telling us? Is this confession?
. . .
GEORGE CONWAY: Well, I do agree. This is, I think the walls are closing in on him.
. . .
BARBARA MCQUADE: I think the Georgia investigation is at least the one that is the most imminent. I don't know whether ultimately it is the one that is the most significant or brings the most prison time, but I think that's the one that's moving the most quickly.
. . .
SCARBOROUGH: You say, appeasing the public, you're talking about appeasing conspiracy theorists, insurrectionists, weirdos --
MIKA: -- crazy people.
SCARBOROUGH: -- freaks.
MIKA: -- lunatics.
SCARBOROUGH: -- Fascists. I think you call fascists fascists, and if people are, if fascists are going out making threats, I think what you do, you know, you go after them with the law.
MIKA: There's that, but there's also --
SCARBOROUGH: The rule of law. And if you have people on cable news channels that inspired violence leading up to January 6th, and then were shocked on January the 6th by the violence that took place, and then after January 6th pretended that they weren't shocked by the violence that took place on January 6th, and they're doing it again?
Well, you know, there are legal channels for that, too.
MIKA: Newsweek matched this reporting of where this all came from on the inside to senior government officials who told the search was largely based on from an informant --
SCARBOROUGH: -- an informant on the inside of Mar-a-Lago!
MIKA: -- what documents Trump was hiding, and where they were located.
SCARBOROUGH: Wow!
MIKA: Trump world is now reportedly trying to figure out who flipped. According to Rolling Stone, Donald Trump is worried he may have a rat, or multiple rats, in his midst. He's wondering if his phones or tapped. Or even if his buddies could be wearing a wire. And Barbara, I would think that's a very good thing to be concerned about.
MCQUADE: Yeah, absolutely. If this is an ongoing investigation, as it appears to be, then it would be appropriate to continue to collect evidence. And so, the ways that those are done are through listening devices, surveillance techniques, confidential informants, consensual monitoring, and other things.
. . .
CHARLES COLEMAN: Well, you know, Joe, as the old saying goes, it's no fun when the rabbit has the gun. [Mika bursts into extended laughter.]
And I think that's where Donald Trump finds himself [Mika continues to laugh]. He is essentially getting a very different view of how the legal system works. You know, this is someone who --
SCARBOROUGH: By the way, Charles, I grew up in the South --
MIKA: That is fantastic! It's no fun when the rabbit --
SCARBOROUGH: -- and I heard from my grandmom and my mom and my aunt, I heard just about every hearing, every saying --
MIKA: It's no fun when the rabbit has the gun!
SCARBOROUGH: I never heard that one. So I'm going to write that down right now while you continue. Go ahead.
Now that we’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal which left thirteen American service members dead and hundreds of Americans trapped at the hands of the Taliban after their inevitable takeover, ABC’s World News Tonight decided to revisit the story after ignoring it for months.
Other than a brief dismissive mention during coverage of the killing of Al Zawahiri, ABC’s World News Tonight hasn’t covered the ongoing humanitarian disaster due to Biden’s troop withdrawal since December of 2021. Yet recently, ABC’s flagship morning show Good Morning America recently rediscovered the debacle. So World News Tonight is behind the curve even for their own network.
Yet on Thursday evening’s installment of World News Tonight, anchor David Muir turned his focus to the wartorn country in the aftermath of the United States’s withdrawal. Turning to chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, Muir observed how “the Taliban [is] now fully in control.”
For his report from the ground in Afghanistan, Pannell painted a grim picture of the situation in the country: “on one level the city looks similar to this time last year, but if you look again, today the troops driving around in those pickups, some of them carrying American-made weapons are the Taliban.”
Pannell added that “it's clear in a little over a week since Al-Qaeda's leader was taken out here in a U.S. drone strike that the terrorists have a safe haven again, although the Taliban is insisting that Afghanistan won't be used to plot attacks on America.”
He ended by noting how “Afghanistan has become this country of broken promises and lost dreams. Girls unable to finish their high school education. Women forced to live life behind a veil. And over 90 percent of the population lacking reliable access to food.”
To underscore how devastating the conditions in Afghanistan have become since American troops left, Pannell reported that “some aid agencies are warning that the humanitarian crisis here could now kill far more Afghans than the past 20 years of war.”
It should be noted that while ABC reported on the disaster in Afghanistan, Biden’s name wasn’t mentioned once. So even when covering the disaster that Biden caused, ABC helps distance him from any blame. Mentioning Biden would only draw more attention to his epic foreign policy failure there.
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ABC’s World News Tonight
8/11/2022
6:47:44 p.m. Eastern
DAVID MUIR: We turn now to Afghanistan, and as we prepare to mark one year since that chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban now fully in control, and our chief foreign correspondent Ian Pannell tonight back on the ground there. And reporting in today on what he has seen already.
IAN PANNELL: David, on one level the city looks similar to this time last year, but if you look again, today the troops driving around in those pickups, some of them carrying American-made weapons are the Taliban. And it's clear in a little over a week since Al-Qaeda's leader was taken out here in a U.S. drone strike that the terrorists have a safe haven again, although the Taliban is insisting that Afghanistan won't be used to plot attacks on America.
Afghanistan has become this country of broken promises and lost dreams. Girls unable to finish their high school education. Women forced to live life behind a veil. And over 90 percent of the population lacking reliable access to food. Some aid agencies are warning that the humanitarian crisis here could now kill far more Afghans than the past 20 years of war. David?
MUIR: Ian Pannell, who is now our chief foreign correspondent, leading our coverage there in Afghanistan one year later. Ian, thank you.
Wednesday Night’s CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight, anchored by stand-in host Laura Coates welcomed two known Republicans and left Coates grasping for a little more hope for the downfall of the party. Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan (R-GA) and self-proclaimed conservative CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp joined Coates as she tried to wrap her head around the idea that GOP is still alive and well.
During the segment, Coates asked the Lt. Gov., “You have to wonder, if all the critics are pushed out… do you have fears for the longevity of the Republican Party or is this something that this is going to enter or allow for maybe a third-party system that reclaims some aspect of this?”
Despite the question probing Duncan to answer against the party, he confidently answered this:
“There is a golden opportunity here, but it’s going to take, right?” Continuing, he stated, if we put the right candidate forward that’s got solutions, that’s energetic, that’s not 78 or 82 years, they certainly have lost their best fastball. So, let’s get somebody that’s capable of leading this country in the right direction, helping our inflation issues, puts us back on the map with national security, understands immigration…”
Duncan did follow up with a swipe at the party, noting “the quality of the candidate still matters. If we win the House and we shove a bunch of Marjorie Taylor Greenes in there, we're going to be embarrassed as Republicans for the next couple of years.”
Simply not satisfied with the confidence and lack of demise for GOP, the host then turned her attention to Cupp, asking repeatedly, “is the time running out? Is the clock running out?”
In reference to the midterms that are coming up quickly in November, Coates questioned Cupp on the timing to which the Republican Party, and Democratic as well, might have to straighten up their parties and nominate someone to run in the 2024 election. Of course, Cupp used the opportunity to lambaste the GOP
“Listen, 2024 is around the corner. And Trump is really the only one who has expressed an interest in getting in to the race,” Cupp said. “So, if he has no competition in a party that wants no competition of ideas anymore (…) then we know where this is going. It is pretty inevitable.”
Stating the simple truth that the United States has a moderate middle “that is just completely embarrassed at their vote for Joe Biden,” Duncan stated, “We’ve got a chance to convince the middle and win for decades.”
The 2024 election will speak for itself, as well as the midterms. But one thing is certain. The Republican Party has been here since 1854 and sees no end soon.
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CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight
08/10/22
11:30:57 p.m. Eastern
(…)
LAURA COATES: I mean, Lieutenant Governor, on that point, to S.E.'s point, the idea of if the Republican Party, to S.E. and many others, is wholly unrecognizable and the idea of the identity crisis really fully fledged out.
You have to wonder, if all the critics are pushed out, if all those who are willing to say something different or more in line with what traditional Republicans have asserted, do you have fears for the longevity of the Republican Party or is this something that is going to enter or allow for maybe a third-party system that reclaims some aspect of this?
LT. GOV. GEOFF DUNCAN (R-GA): Look, I've been a Republican a lot longer than Donald Trump has ever been one, and I'm only 47 years old. So, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to fight for my Conservative values.
And I think there is a golden opportunity here, but it's going to take, right? I think you've got folks on the Republican side that now for the first time, a majority of them don't want Donald Trump to run again. Those numbers might oscillate a little bit now with some of the additional attention he's gotten with the FBI search. But they're tracking in that direction.
And you've got a middle that is just completely embarrassed at their vote for Joe Biden and all the misgivings he has given America over the last two years.
And so, if we put the right candidate forward that's got solutions, that's energetic, that's not 78 or 82 years old, they certainly have lost their best fastball. So, let's get somebody that's capable of leading this country in the right direction, helping our inflation issues, puts us back on the map with national security, understands immigration, the realities of immigration. We've got a chance to convince the middle and win for decades. But it's going to take time to get there. And the quality of the candidate still matters. If we win the House and we shove a bunch of Marjorie Taylor Greenes in there, we're going to be embarrassed as Republicans for the next couple of years.
COATES: S.E., is the time running out? Is the clock running out? Obviously, the primaries are coming up, the midterm elections. The 2024, I mean, it's still two years away, but everyone's looking towards that to figure out what's going to happen next. Is the shot clock going to run out? I hate to mix analogies you use to baseball, Lieutenant Governor, but I'm going to go to a different one. Is shot clock running out here?
S.E. CUPP, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Listen, 2024 is around the corner. And Trump is really the only one who has expressed an interest in getting in to the race. Everyone else seems a little cautious around him. So, if he has no competition in a party that wants no competition of ideas anymore, then, you know, then we know where this is going. It is pretty inevitable.
(…)
The Associated Press acted as publicists for "anti-hate" leftists again, the ones that hate free speech. Their headline on a Wednesday story by AP "misinformation reporter" David Klepper was:
Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law fuels anti-LGBTQ hate online
It wasn't "misinformation" to call it the "Don't Say Gay" law, apparently. Klepper's thinly disguised press release began like this:
Research that analyzed social media posts finds that hateful references to gays, lesbians and other LGBTQ people surged online after Florida passed a law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
References to pedophiles and “ grooming ” rose by more than 400 percent in the month after Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” measure was approved, according to a report released Wednesday by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy groups, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit group that tracks online extremism.
These are both hard-core leftist groups, but AP doesn't do ideological labels for their friends. "Groomer" is a loaded word, but this study (and the reporter) imply that no one could possibly use the word accurately or without "hate."
The only evidence that this isn't a press release is a statement from DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw:
“If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming,” Pushaw tweeted.
In response to questions about the report, Pushaw said the Human Rights Campaign and other critics of Florida’s new law are the ones linking it to LGBTQ people.
“There are groomers of all sexual orientations and gender identities. My tweets did not mention LGBTQ people at all,” she wrote in an emailed statement.
This "Digital Hate" study offered the usual tactic of characterizing all criticism of LGBT activism as "hate speech," and then demanding all this criticism be removed from the public square (online and in real life).
The authors of the report warn that the increased anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is inciting hatred that could lead to violence. They say social media platforms must do more to enforce their own policies on hate speech. Researchers said they reported 100 of the most hateful tweets they saw to Twitter. Only one was removed.
“Online hate and lies reflect and reinforce offline violence and hate,” said Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “The normalization of anti-LGBTQ+ narratives in digital spaces puts LGBTQ+ people in danger."
In the report, CCDH boss Imran Ahmed is blunt about censoring all this "hate" stuff. "We are calling on Twitter and Meta to act on anti-LGBTQ+ hate and to stop hosting these harmful slurs. Social media companies that celebrate Pride Month while profiting from dangerous hatred against LGBTQ+ people should put their money where their mouth is."
We should note that deep in the footnotes, one example of "hate" ads on Meta is MRC's Tierin-Rose Mandelburg asking people about the Florida law. Another is an MRCTV piece on Disney employees speaking in protest of their company's wokeness.
Brad Slager made this point on Twitter, that AP just repeat the leftist censors without questioning their allergy to free speech. You don't actually know if the AP reporter read the report, or just retyped the press release.
The study leaps to say those critical of pedophiles automatically and only refer to LGBT individuals, then call the non-existent targeting "hate", THEN make the leap that will/does lead to violence.
There is no proof given, but @AP repeats it uncritically.https://t.co/k2kIhkuAyO pic.twitter.com/uqYhQJxUbr
— Brad Slager: MarALago Raid Veteran/CNN+ Subscriber (@MartiniShark) August 10, 2022
The leftist UK government-funded BBC is hopping aboard the Orwellian disinformation apparatus trend that’s been popping up in the U.S. and around the world.
BBC reporter Marianna Spring announced with glee in a tweet that she was promoted to be “the BBC’s first Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent!” Her role, according to her propaganda-laced tweet, involves “investigating real-world consequences of online disinformation, trolling & all that’s bad on social media with new podcasts, TV & more coming soon.”
But no individual or group should be made an arbiter of truth concerning free speech online.
A lack of objectivity and fairness, or bias, is an ever-present concern regarding content moderation. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) even warned about bias regarding artificial intelligence creation.
And Spring and the BBC are no exception.
Spring’s bias was on display in a November 2020 tweet when she cast former President Barack Obama as an unbiased arbiter of truth, able to discern “disinformation” versus fact online. In her tweet, she used Obama’s words to bash his successor, President Donald Trump.
Spring also claimed “conspiracies” and “disinformation” were “promoted by prominent figures, with huge followings - like those in charge across the world, including in the White House.” She ended her tweet thread by promoting an interview with Obama about disinformation.
In a September 2020 tweet thread, Spring seemingly defended leftist Antifa, which the Department of Homeland Security secretary designated a domestic terrorist organization in 2020, according to The Federalist. In the thread, Spring seemingly tied conservatives to “unfounded conspiracy theories about Antifa’s role in recent fires and protests.”
In a November 2020 BBC article, Spring boasted, “I've spent a lot of time this year covering the human impact of conspiracy theories - from the pro-Trump movement QAnon to the explosion in coronavirus misinformation.”
The “QAnon” article Spring linked to in that piece seemingly tried to paint many Jan. 6 protestors as conspiracy theorists, not simply as Americans concerned about our electoral process. The article also suggested that Trump had “unwittingly or not” supported dangerous conspiracy theories.
The BBC has also demonstrated leftist bias. A BBC news anchor in July complained that there was too much “whiteness” on the UK national women’s soccer team. The BBC also released a Diversity and Inclusion Plan in February 2021 for its employees. The plan included mandatory unconscious bias training, encouraged voluntary reporting of employees’ social class and sexual orientation and offered ambitious short-term quotas based on race and gender.
But the BBC isn’t the only public media network that has hypocritically targeted “disinformation” online. Leftist taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) announced the creation of its own "Disinformation Reporting team" back in July.
NPR contributor Casey Morell tweeted about the new disinformation division, "some great company news: we're launching a disinformation team." It did not take long for Twitter users to call out NPR and Morell, citing several times the tax-payer funded outlet spread its own biased disinformation.
Fox News contributor Gregg Re tweeted, “Does your managing editor still think the Hunter Biden laptop is not a real story?” Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw also jumped in, saying, “Omg that’s great! They can start by addressing the disinformation produced by NPR.”
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Serena Williams will retire from professional tennis after the U.S. Open in late August, concluding what will undoubtedly be considered the greatest female tennis career in history. While any successful athlete always gets nostalgic regarding their career coming to a close, Williams is grousing about the decision because she thinks she wouldn’t have to if her gender were different.
In a lengthy article published in Vogue in which Williams articulated her thoughts about retiring, the all-time great complained that her desire to start a family meant that tennis had to go by the wayside, a reality she believes would not exist if she were a man.
“Believe me, I never wanted to have to choose between tennis and a family,” she said. “I don’t think it’s fair. If I were a guy, I wouldn’t be writing this because I’d be out there playing and winning while my wife was doing the physical labor of expanding our family.”
If this is the the lens through which Williams views her career change, there’s a lot wrong with it.
Related: NFL, ESPN Censor God & Jesus Comments Of NFL Player’s Son
The first is that she hasn’t chosen between tennis and her family for at least for the past five years. She had her daughter, Olympia, in 2017 and while she did have to take a pause and adjust to life post-pregnancy, she still came back to dominate her competition. There was no “sacrifice one for the other” choice, she had her cake and ate it too for a time.
But life is about tradeoffs for everyone. If you want a family, well women are the only human beings that can get pregnant -- regardless of what the trans cultists say -- so if Williams truly wants to expand her family she has to play her part in that process.
Sure, winning (as of right now) 23 Grand Slam singles titles along with 14 major championships in the doubles division, four Olympic gold medals and a slew of other trophies is great, and nobody can take them away from her. Olympia and any other children Serena welcomes into the world will be proud of her accomplishments. But what will really matter to them is whether or not Serana and her husband, Alexis, were present in their lives. That is a higher and more worthy calling to follow than anything athletics can give you, and not one that should be taken up grudgingly.
So as Williams enters this new chapter of her life, I hope she does so with the same tenacity and drive that made her a successful athlete. But it is sad that she sees it as a change to be grieved, and that tennis is evidently still more important to her.
A political megadonor is dropping the Democratic party cold turkey for allegedly misleading the American people on COVID-19.
Entrepreneur Steve Kirsch said that he watched his “friends die and be injured” by the COVID-19 vaccines on yesterday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight. But instead of receiving a fair hearing, Democrats gave him the cold shoulder.
“They violated my trust,” Kirsch told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on the Aug. 10 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight. “The agencies — the FDA, the CDC, the NIH — said that these vaccines were safe and effective. And when I started seeing my friends die and be injured, and I started looking at the data, there was no question that this vaccine is the most dangerous vaccine ever created by man. It is a thousand times more deadly than the smallpox vaccine, and that’s too unsafe for people to use.”
But despite his best efforts, Kirsch said that no Democratic member of Congress ever met with him to discuss his concerns about vaccine injuries. “I could not get even a single minute in front of any Democratic congressman,” Kirsch said. “The best I got was that Ro Khanna gave me off to a staff member who took two months to get back to me. And when I asked if she read what I had sent her, she said ‘No, it disagreed with the CDC, so it’s not right, and so I didn’t really read it.’”
The Silicon Valley-based businessman estimated the number of Americans killed or injured by the COVID-19 vaccination campaign. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed by this vaccine and millions have been injured,” Kirsch said. “Clearly, you are more likely to be injured or dead from the vaccine than if you were unvaccinated.”
Kirsch also signaled support for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) because he’s “the only person in Congress who cares at all about the millions of people who are vaccine-injured.” He added, “And my estimates are that there [are] tens of millions of vaccine-injured in America.”
“Ron Johnson has been just very consistent about bringing [this] problem to the attention of the American public,” Kirsch said.
Johnson invited a group of doctors and medical experts to the U.S. Senate on Jan. 24, to discuss “censorship, intimidation” and “professional reprisal” against those in the medical field who dared to express an opinion that contradicted the COVID-19 vaccine narrative.
A document reveal from the Department of Homeland Security uncovered a dystopian “Disinformation Governance Board” that was designed to target Americans who challenged the COVID-19 vaccine narrative.
Kirsch has come under fire from MIT Technology Review and other publications for bucking the mainstream narrative around COVID-19 and vaccines. MIT Technology Review even called Kirsch a “misinformation superspreader” in an Oct. 5 article.
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The NFL and ESPN evidently have no time or tolerance for God and Jesus. Both organizations censored the young son of a player who said he loves the whole world, God and Jesus.
The boy in question is Aaiden Diggs, whose father Trevon plays cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys. Earlier this week, Trevon brought his five-year-old son to media day and the boy delivered an incredibly positive message to brighten the day.:
"Every time I'm with my dad I love it because he gets me picks and it makes me happy. I love the whole world, I love God and Jesus, and I love my family.”
The NFL’s response? A Tweet stating, "It does not get any cuter than Aaiden Diggs. I love the whole world.”
The NFL on ESPN’s response was: "’I love the whole world.’ Aaiden Diggs is the gift that keeps on giving.”
Where’s God and where’s Jesus? They were noticeably omitted from the NFL and ESPN responses, though the Lord gives the free gift of blessed assurance.
Neither of these organizations felt compelled to explain their censoring of the Creator of the universe. The Cowboys did tweet Aaiden’s entire message.
As for the NFL, it’s just not that into Jesus Christ. After all, this is the organization that boasts of being “gay, lesbian, queer and transgender.” Unnatural human relations are considered sexual sins by God’s Holy Word, the Bible. Jesus appears to be politically incorrect, unwoke, in the NFL’s world.
Truth be known, the National Football League has been missing someone for quite some time: Jesus. The league is in dire need of Aaiden’s kind of love for Jesus. It has a huge problem with the wayward behavior of many of its players.
That would include the now ex-NFL player who was driving 156 miles per hour with a blood alcohol level twice the legally drunk figure and killed a woman.
Then there’s a lengthy list of NFL players who beat their wives, girlfriends and children. A New Orleans Saints player beat up a man in Las Vegas a few months ago.
Quarterback Deshaun Watson is expected to start tomorrow’s game for the Cleveland Browns even though he’s been suspended for the season’s first six games. He allegedly sexually abused up to 30 female massage therapists.
Yet the NFL and ESPN obviously believe God is someone whose name can’t be repeated and that God and football don’t mix. Though He gave His only Son to atone for our sins.
A pilot Twitter program for platform users to identify “misleading” information surprisingly dinged President Joe Biden’s press secretary for gaslighting people on inflation.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre bleated in a tweet Wednesday that “[w]e just received news that our economy had 0% inflation in July. While the price of some things went up, the price of others, like gas, clothing, and more, dropped.”
Three notes from users who joined Twitter’s pilot – known as Birdwatch – all went after Pierre for her apparent deception. One note, which was rated “helpful” and tagged to Pierre’s tweet on the actual platform, stated that “[t]his is misleading because it would cause people to believe inflation was 0% in July when in reality the year over year inflation for July was 8.5%. The 0% comes from the month over month inflation between June and July.”
Birdwatch notes rated “helpful” by “enough contributors from different points of view will appear directly on Tweets for a small, randomized group of people in the US.”
However, even though the note was initially rated “helpful” and appeared on the platform in accordance with Birdwatch policies, it now sports a label that reads: “Needs more ratings.” The explanation was just as bizarre: “This note hasn’t yet been rated by enough contributors from different perspectives.” Sounds convenient. MRC Free Speech America reached out to Twitter for comment about the note but received no response as of the publication of this story.
In any case, it is a rare occurrence for Twitter to even allow a fact-checkish note slamming a glaringly false Biden narrative to appear on its platform, given its ongoing censorship blitz against people who criticize the president.
An April MRC Free Speech America study of its unique CensorTrack database unearthed at least 646 examples of Twitter censoring people who criticized Biden for the infamous laptop scandal involving his son Hunter in addition to Joe’s inappropriate behavior around women and children over a two-year period.
Another study found that Twitter censored former President Donald Trump and his campaign at least 625 times between May 31, 2018, and Jan. 4, 2021, while Biden and his campaign were censored zero times during the same time frame.
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On Thursday, it was announced that chief legal correspondent and Fox News @ Night anchor, Shannon Bream will be the new anchor of Fox News Sunday after the former host Chris Wallace left the network for a gig at CNN+, which lasted a month before the streaming platform folded.
In a press release, the CEO of FOX News Media, Suzanne Scott announced that Bream would be taking the “helm [of] FOX News Sunday beginning September 11th.” “Shannon is an outstanding journalist, reporter, and anchor who has cultivated a strong and enduring relationship with the FOX News Media audience,” she added, noting Bream is “the first woman to anchor the program in its 26-year history.”
The press release made a point of noting that, when Bream was part of the rotational hosts that filled in after Wallace left for CNN, she “over-delivered” and brought in significantly higher ratings than Wallace did in his last year. This included a whopping 20 percent increase in viewers compared to the 2021 average.
“In January, she netted double-digit increases across the board on FNS, up 32% in total viewers (1.35 million) and 45% over the previous in the advertiser-friendly 25-54 demo (343,000), marking the highest-rated FOX News Sunday episode of 2022,” the statement said.
Adding: “In June, she ushered in week-to-week gains of 37% in the 25-54 demo, a 53% increase in the 18-49 demo along with 8% growth in total viewers. Bream also notched a 10% increase in the 25-54 demo compared to the same show last year, and the FNC airings outpaced every single CNN and MSNBC Sunday program in total viewers.”
While Wallace did make headlines with his CNN+ show Who's Talking to Chris Wallace by confronting New York Times race baiter Nikole Hannah-Jones and then-Press Secretary Jen Psaki, he put on an embarrassing display once it was announced CNN+ was being taken out back by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.
During an interview with Hollywood producer Brian Grazer, Wallace begged him to make a movie about his interviews with former President Trump:
WALLACE: So, I have to ask a question. When we got to know each other a little better, you said to me on time that you thought there was a possible project in Trump/Wallace.
GRAZER: I did. Wow, I didn’t know you’d bring that up. Umm—
WALLACE: Well, I’m just – Did you really believe that?
GRAZER: I really believe that. Your interviews with him were perfect.
WALLACE: Well, okay. Thank you.
GRAZER: They – Because you were able to, without any chip on your shoulder, you were able to talk directly and get direct answers like a little version of that.
WALLACE: So, maybe we’ll talk after the—
GRAZER: Yeah.
WALLACE: -- the thing about going to do it.
But back to Bream, the press release says she’s still Fox News Channel’s chief legal correspondent, but a “rotation of journalists will guest anchor FOX News @ Night until a permanent replacement is named.”
Following CBS Mornings’ lead, ABC’s Good Morning America, on Thursday, used the .6 percent drop in inflation for July to declare firmly that “we’ve turned a corner on inflation” ahead of the midterms that are looking set to handily strip Democratic control of the House. They were also bold (or desperate) enough to suggest that paying over $4 a gallon for gas “feels like a bargain.”
Leading into the segment, fill-in host and White House correspondent Cecilia Vega projected her wash casting. “We’re going to turn now to these rising prices in the hope that just maybe, maybe we are turning a corner,” she hoped. “These new numbers show inflation jumped 8.5 percent from a year ago, but that was less than expected. A potential slowdown due in part perhaps to some falling gas prices.”
She looked for backup from correspondent Trevor Ault who was outside a gas station in Brooklyn, New York. Ault was spinning his tires trying to cloud out reality. “[A] gallon of regular will set you back $4.15, which for New York City compared to earlier this summer, I got to tell you, it feels like a bargain,” he boasted.
Ignoring how the policies of President Biden and Democrats caused prices to skyrocket since he took office, Ault tried to smooth things over by reminding viewers of how high prices used to be, before getting marginally better:
We all remember when the national average for gas went above $5 a gallon back in June. Well, this morning it's just dipped below $4 a gal long on average, $3.99. Gas prices actually fell 7.7 percent in July. They've gotten lower, 58 days in a row now and the cheapest price for a gallon of gas on average now is in Texas, $3.49.
But it’s not just gas prices getting cheaper. Airline fares, used cars and trucks, communications like computers, internet – they’ve all gotten cheaper too, along with apparel.
Ault was followed by chief business correspondent Rebecca Jarvis who was much more full-throated in her positive proclamations about inflation and the economy.
“[T]his report was a relief for Wall Street. Yesterday's report showing inflation up 8.5 percent versus a year ago (…) And the way Wall Street sees this is that we've turned a corner, that inflation has peaked. And as you just heard there from Trevor, a big reason for that is gas prices,” she touted.
And despite admitting “we’re not out of the woods yet” because the prices for “groceries and shelter” are still high, Jarvis insisted “we've turned a corner” on inflation.
This gaslighting about the state of the economy was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships Apple and Target. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s Good Morning America
August 11, 2022
7:08:25 a.m. Eastern
CECILIA VEGA: We’re going to turn now to these rising prices in the hope that just maybe, maybe we are turning a corner. These new numbers show inflation jumped 8.5 percent from a year ago, but that was less than expected. A potential slowdown due in part perhaps to some falling gas prices. Trevor Ault is at a gas station here in New York with maybe some much-needed good news on this. Hey, Trevor.
TREVOR AULT: Hey, good morning, Cecilia. Yeah, this morning at this Brooklyn Shell station a gallon of regular will set you back $4.15, which for New York City compared to earlier this summer, I got to tell you, it feels like a bargain.
We all remember when the national average for gas went above $5 a gallon back in June. Well, this morning it's just dipped below $4 a gal long on average, $3.99. Gas prices actually fell 7.7 percent in July. They've gotten lower, 58 days in a row now and the cheapest price for a gallon of gas on average now is in Texas, $3.49.
But it’s not just gas prices getting cheaper. Airline fares, used cars and trucks, communications like computers, internet – they’ve all gotten cheaper too, along with apparel. But we have a long way to go to get back to where we were. Cecilia, on average, this time last year a gallon of gas would cost you $3.18. Cecilia.
VEGA: Yeah, you're exactly right. Thanks, Trevor, so much.
We’re going to turn now to Wall Street reacting positively to these new numbers and a potential inflation slowdown. So chief business correspondent Rebecca Jarvis is right there tracking it all from the stock exchange. Hey, Rebecca.
REBECCA JARVIS: Hey, Cecilia, good morning to you and in a word, this report was a relief for Wall Street. Yesterday's report showing inflation up 8.5 percent versus a year ago. That's still less than where we were just a month ago in June. And the way Wall Street sees this is that we've turned a corner, that inflation has peaked. And as you just heard there from Trevor, a big reason for that is gas prices.
There are still areas of the economy, however, that are much higher than they were a year ago, groceries and shelter, these are things you just can't get around and even though we've turned a corner on inflation, we're not out of the woods yet according to economists as far as the broader economy. It is likely according to economists, Cecilia and TJ, that we will still face a mild recession ahead.
CNN Newsroom host Poppy Harlow did not like being reminded on Thursday that left-wingers also commit and threaten to commit acts of violence. During an interview with former Trump acting Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis Brian Murphy, Harlow demanded examples that violence isn’t just a right-wing phenomenon.
Harlow began by providing examples of such rhetoric in the aftermath of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Logo, “I'll read just you two, Marjorie Taylor Greene, congresswoman calling to defund the FBI, but Paul Gosar, again, a sitting congressman, calling to, quote, ‘destroy the FBI’” Does that rhetoric make it actually in your mind more dangerous for these officials, for the FBI to do its job every day?’”
Murphy replied that while Gosar and Greene “bear some responsibility here,” to paint this is a right-wing problem is wrong because it is more of a social media problem on both sides, “And the way social media works in today's environment, people fit within these ecosystems they want to live in and they're not taking in outside opinions. So, when you have folks of influence saying those types of things, it does have an impact and it leads to people---”
Harlow wasn’t having it, interrupting to ask, “But, Brian can you specify—can you specify—by what you mean when you say both sides? Are you—are you-- talking about any Democratic lawmakers right now saying things like what I just quoted from those two Republican lawmakers? What are you saying specifically?”
It is amazing that while Harlow highlighted Greene calling for the defunding of the FBI, she ignored the whole Defund the Police movement. For his part, Murphy chose a different, but equally relevant example, “when the Supreme Court ruled on abortion, you know, we're looking at the same kind of ecosystem, and we saw people that were upset with the ruling to take violence as an answer to their grievance.”
As Harlow interrupted to ask “Who?,” Murphy continued, “And threaten and to, you know, carry out acts of violence.”
Left-wingers have carried out several arson attacks and one man was arrested for planning to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh all as Democrats, such as Chuck Schumer, attempt to paint the Court as illegitimate and claim the Dobbs decision is a war on women that will lead women to die.
Still, Harlow wasn’t satisfied with Murphy’s accurate description of the problem, “Okay, but your answer was in response to my question specifically about the danger of rhetoric like that from lawmakers.”
Murphy then backtracked a little “I don't think there is an equivalency between what is happening right now and to clear and, kind of, what happened with the Supreme Court debate.”
Returning to his social media argument, Murphy added that lawmakers should be more responsible, “My point is that where you have lawmakers speaking about the system in a way that is highly negative, and not kind of normal political speak, but with a point to it, people in social media will take that as a beacon.”
A reasonable answer that doesn’t seek to score partisan points. No wonder CNN didn’t like it.
This segment was sponsored by Carvana.
Here is a transcript for the August 11 show:
CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto
8/11/2022
10:11 AM ET
POPPY HARLOW: And it is not just anonymous threats like that online. You also have absolutely shocking, tragic rhetoric from some sitting lawmakers, I'll read just you two, Marjorie Taylor Greene, congresswoman calling to defund the FBI, but Paul Gosar, again, a sitting congressman, calling to, quote, “destroy the FBI.” Does that rhetoric make it actually in your mind more dangerous for these officials, for the FBI to do its job every day?
BRIAN MURPHY: I think the two politicians just named, we’ve got to put them in context. It’s not just the right or left, it’s both sides and what we've seen and what I’ve seen during my 27-year career of doing this, both 20 years at the FBI, DHS, and now at Logically, the company I’m at, is both sides get a vote here, and the two politicians you named certainly they bear some responsibility here. But we see this going back and forth. And the way social media works in today's environment, people fit within these ecosystems they want to live in and they're not taking in outside opinions. So, when you have folks of influence saying those types of things, it does have an impact and it leads to people--
POPPY HARLOW: But, Brian can you specify—can you specify—by what you mean when you say both sides? Are you—are you-- talking about any Democratic lawmakers right now saying things like what I just quoted from those two Republican lawmakers? What are you saying specifically?
MURPHY: Sure, thanks. Over time, I'll give a more recent example, so when the Supreme Court ruled on abortion, you know, we're looking at the same kind of ecosystem, and we saw people that were upset with the ruling to take violence as an answer to their grievance.
HARLOW: Who?
MURPHY: And threaten and to, you know, carry out acts of violence.
HARLOW: Okay, but your answer was in response to my question specifically about the danger of rhetoric like that from lawmakers.
MURPHY: Yes, that's right.
HARLOW: I'm talking about lawmakers. Members of Congress.
MURPHY: Sure. So, yeah, I don't think there is an equivalency—
HARLOW: Okay.
MURPHY: --between what is happening right now and to clear—
HARLOW: Okay.
MURPHY: --and, kind of, what happened with the Supreme Court debate.
HARLOW: Okay.
MURPHY: My point is that where you have lawmakers speaking about the system in a way that is highly negative, and not kind of normal political speak, but with a point to it, people in social media will take that as a beacon and they –
HARLOW: Words have weight. Yeah—
MURPHY: That’s right.
HARLOW: --and they matter very much, especially when you're in an elected position of authority and power, but thank you for clarifying there that you weren’t equivocating on that.
New York Post columnist, author, investigative journalist and Hoover Institution media fellow Paul Sperry said Twitter suspended his account after he condemned the FBI raid of Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, Fla.
“This is outrageous censorship,” Sperry told MRC’s Free Speech America. “Yes, Twitter is a private entity, but it has become the [dominant] public town square for political information and debate and it also enjoys a monopoly as the site where government agencies and corporations first post their releases and statements to the press. Denying a veteran working journalist access to this platform restricts my ability to cover events and issue[s].”
Sperry said the suspension occurred after he shared a tweet criticizing the FBI’s raid on Trump’s home in Mar-A-Lago, Fla., which occurred Monday evening. “Funny, don’t remember the FBI raiding Chappaqua or Whitehaven to find the 33,000 potentially classified documents Hillary Clinton deleted. And she was just a former secretary of state, not a former president,” the tweet said, according to a screenshot Sperry shared with the MRC.
The journalist said he received notice from the platform early Tuesday afternoon saying his account was “permanently suspended.” When accounts are suspended, Twitter denies access to tweets and the Twitter feed, prohibiting users from interacting with followers. “No reason, no explanation,” he said, “other than perhaps posting factual content they didn’t like.”
Sperry went on to blast the Biden administration’s involvement in social media content moderation, saying this week’s censorship “amounts to state censorship by proxy,” he said.
Top Biden administration officials, including White House spokespeople, have repeatedly advocated for Big Tech censorship.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed in July 2021 that the Biden administration was “regularly making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives dangerous to public health that we and many other Americans are seeing across all of social and traditional media.”
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy echoed Psaki’s sentiments in his own call to crack down on free speech online. He called so-called “misinformation” a “serious threat to public health,” and he encouraged Americans to “help slow the spread of health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.”
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security created the now paused Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) in April 2022 to combat the “threat” of alleged disinformation and so-called misinformation, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Free-speech advocates have raised concerns that government involvement in social media content moderation violates the First Amendment. A Congressional Research Service report explained that constitutional issues may arise “when the government’s informal attempts to encourage or threaten regulation involve matters concerning speech.”
When the government pressures Big Tech companies to censor, the censorship can be considered state action and a violation of the First Amendment, according to the CRS report, which also noted that those actions can communicate the “private party’s act is no longer considered an ‘independent decision.’”
Twitter did not respond to MRC Free Speech America’s request for comment by publication time.
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