After a foreign correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation lamented the assassination of terrorist Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who led political operations for the terrorist group, and publicly celebrated the October 7 massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel, Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre called for defunding the broadcasting company.
Correspondent Chris Brown, whose anti-Israel bias seems apparent in his social media posts, posted on X, “If you are serious about negotiating a ceasefire, killing the guy on the other side who is negotiating it seems … like a deliberate effort to make sure it doesn’t happen.”
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If you are serious about negotiating a ceasefire, killing the guy on the other side who is negotiating it seems … like a deliberate effort to make sure it doesn’t happen. <a href="https://t.co/DME8MUzuaV">https://t.co/DME8MUzuaV</a>
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Poilievre <a href="https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1818657211637207183">fired back</a>, “CBC is mourning the loss of the leader of Hamas, who carried out the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Destroy Hamas. Defund the CBC.”
Haniyeh, who headed Hamas’ Politburo since 2017, <a href="https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-we-should-hold-moment-victory-october-7-and-build-upon-it-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> at a conference of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) in Doha, Qatar, three months after the October 7 massacre. He declared, “We should hold on to the victory that took place on October 7 and build upon it &#8230; the time has come for the Jihad of the swords,” the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.
“In 2012, when asked by Reuters reporters if Hamas had abandoned the armed struggle, Haniyeh replied of course not and said resistance would continue ‘in all forms &#8211; popular resistance, political, diplomatic and military resistance,’” The Hindu <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/who-was-ismail-haniyeh-hamas-leader-killed-in-iran/article68467371.ece" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
After the October 7 massacre, Poilievre released a <a href="https://www.conservative.ca/statement-from-conservative-leader-pierre-poilievre-on-the-horrific-terrorist-attacks-in-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> saying, “I unequivocally condemn the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists and the sadistic violence they have subsequently carried out against innocent civilians. Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks and respond against the attackers. Canadians pledge their solidarity with all the victims.”
On October 11, he stated <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10017673/pierre-poilievre-condemns-hamas-during-okanagan-stop/?ref=readthemaple.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bluntly</a>, “Let us remember that every loss of life in this conflict is the direct consequence of Hamas’s conduct. Hamas is a sadistic, genocidal, terrorist death cult and it must be stopped. &#8230; So Conservatives call for the government to take action to counter Hamas any way we can.”
“One way would be to impose more severe sanctions on Iran, which is the sponsor of Hamas, and to criminalize the IRGC, which is the terrorist arm of the Iranian government that coordinates support for Hamas and Hezbollah,” he added.

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The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has put money on Congressman Frank Mrvan (D-IN) over his Republican challenger, Jennifer-Ruth Green, ahead of November&#8217;s midterm election.
According to a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/19/congressional-black-caucus-backs-white-democrat-black-republican-jennifer-ruth-green-frank-mrvan-indiana/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Daily Caller, the CBC donated $5,000 to Mrvan&#8217;s reelection campaign — which is currently classified as a &#8220;<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/house/elections-map.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toss-up</a>&#8221; by RealClearPolitics — in spite of the fact that Mrvan is white and Green happens to be black.
According to the U.S. government archives, &#8220;The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) was established in 1971 to put forth policy and legislation that ensured equal rights, opportunity, and access to Black Americans and other marginalized communities. It is a non-partisan body made up of African American members of Congress.&#8221;
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But in recent years, CBC leadership has made it clear that political affiliation carries as much weight as race with regard to membership. When Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) attempted to join the caucus, he was repeatedly rebuffed.
&#8220;The sad reality is although the Congressman and those in the CBC share the same race, the (R) behind his name disqualifies him from membership today,&#8221; said Harrison Fields, a spokesperson for Donalds at the time.
The race for Indiana&#8217;s 1st Congressional District was already hotly contested — and the recent leak of Green&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/indiana-republican-claims-opponent-illegally-obtained-her-military-records-and-politico-published-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military records</a> only served to raise the temperature.
Green was allegedly the victim of a sexual assault while serving, and she has said that her career was stymied after she reported the incident despite being warned not to by her superiors. After Politico published a piece including information that could only have come from her military personnel file — including details of the alleged assault — Green blamed Mrvan’s campaign team for &#8220;illegally obtaining&#8221; the information and shopping it to media.
Mrvan has denied the claim, and Politico initially claimed that the information came to the outlet by way of a public records request from someone outside Mrvan&#8217;s campaign.
The Air Force appeared to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/u-s-air-force-dumps-on-politico-over-republican-candidates-leaked-military-sexual-assault-records/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dispute that</a>, stating that the release of any personnel records would first have to be approved and then the records would be redacted in order to prevent the accidental release of sensitive information.
&#8220;We cannot confirm any documents on this individual were released by the Department of the Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act. In general, any release of information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual’s personal privacy would be reviewed under Exemption FOIA 5U.S.C. §552 (b)(6) with redactions made to ensure compliance with the law. Each document would be reviewed on a case by case basis,&#8221; an Air Force spokesman told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cotton-demands-info-air-force-jennifer-ruth-green-sexual-assault-leak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>.

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On Tuesday, an infuriated trucker who was confronted by a reporter from the Canadian-government-funded network CBC blasted the reporter, snapping, “All you care about is your paycheck. You sold your soul a long time ago,” after the reporter brought up a statement on Tuesday from the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa saying, “There have been ongoing reports to CASO regarding child welfare concerns amid the Ottawa protest.”
The Children’s Aid Society wrote on a <a href="https://www.casott.on.ca/en/news-and-events/statement-on-concerns-amid-ottawa-protest/">page on its website</a> titled, “Statement on concerns amid Ottawa protest”:
<blockquote>CASO has a duty to investigate whenever there are allegations of abuse that suggest a child may be in need of protection. Families are supported to ensure the child’s protection and other basic needs are met.
There have been ongoing reports to CASO regarding child welfare concerns amid the Ottawa protest. CASO continues to play its role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children in the community, while collaborating very closely with the Ottawa Police Service, especially in matters that involve a child who is located in the protest area.</blockquote>
“Last year, the CBC got $1.4 billion in government funding, according to the CBC’s annual report,” The National Post noted in January.
The CBC reporter asked the trucker, “Did you hear the statement I was just reading?”
“You’re saying that my teenagers are threatened for being in Ottawa?” the trucker fired back. “Is that what you’re telling me? Answer my question.”
“You heard the statement —” the reporter repeated.
“We’ve all answered questions,” the trucker replied. “You answer mine. Are my children in danger —”
“I don’t work for the Children’s Aid Society,” the reporter stated.
“Are my children in danger from being in Ottawa?” the trucker fired again.
“Well, it sounds — my understanding of the Children’s Aid Society, they —” the reporter said.
“Are my children in danger for being in Ottawa right now?” the trucker persisted. “Tell me yes or no.”
“What do you mean by danger?” the reporter answered.
“You tell me,” the trucker insisted. “You’re coming here trying to say that children are in danger.”
“The fact that the Children’s Aid Society is getting involved —” the reporter pontificated.
The trucker then slammed the reporter: “You got the inside scoop because you guys are the messenger for the devil. You tell me right now:  Are my kids in danger for being here? Should I sent them on the first train out of town? Tell me now.”
“It sounds like the Children’s Aid society is saying —” the reporter sidestepped.
“So you’re saying that my kids are gonna get hurt,” the trucker said bluntly.
“I’m not saying anything,” the reporter weakly protested. “All I’m saying is that they put out the statement and I’m looking for your reaction.”
“So you’re telling me now that I should be getting my kids out of town because they’re gonna get hurt,” the trucker reiterated.
“I’m not telling you anything,” the reporter repeated.
“The police are gonna come in here and do what to my kids?&#8230;You don’t give a s*** about nobody. All you care about is your paycheck,” the trucker blasted. “You sold your soul a long time ago. [pointing off camera] You sold your soul a long time ago and you sold your soul a long time ago. You work for the devil. That’s who you work for. That’s who you work for. That’s your boss.”
“I’m here to talk about this statement,” the reporter repeated.
“I’m telling you: Are my kids in danger in this city right now?” the trucker asked again.
“I don’t know the future,” the reporter responded, “All I can tell you is —”
“Then why are you coming here and trying to act like you’re concerned about kids,” the trucker snapped. “I have two teenagers that are in my car. Are they in danger? Yes or no? Yes or no?”
“I don’t know what the future brings,” the reporter repeated.
“Go f** yourself then,” the trucker asserted, then walked away.
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The Congressional Black Caucus released a statement calling for criminal justice reform and gun reform just after a jury found Illinois teen Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all of the charges against him.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-jury-has-reached-verdict-judge-says/">Rittenhouse</a>, who shot and killed two people and wounded one more during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was charged with murder and attempted murder. The defense argued that Rittenhouse had initially gone to Kenosha to offer medical assistance and help protect private property from vandals and looters, arguing that he had only fired his weapon in self-defense.
The CBC responded to the verdict with a public statement calling Rittenhouse an &#8220;armed vigilante&#8221; and arguing that his acquittal was proof that the justice system was broken and in need of reform.
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It is unconscionable our justice system would allow an armed vigilante — who traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz — to go free.
Read the full release⤵️: <a href="https://t.co/xmvx3NRtAo">pic.twitter.com/xmvx3NRtAo</a>
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&#8220;It is unconscionable our justice system would allow an armed vigilante — who traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz — to go free,&#8221; the statement, attributed to CBC Chairwoman Joyce Beatty (D-OH), began.
Beatty then addressed both the prosecution and the judge, suggesting that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/kids-life-is-at-stake-top-legal-expert-criticizes-passive-defense-team-of-kyle-rittenhouse/">Rittenhouse&#8217;s</a> self-defense claim was &#8220;ludicrous.&#8221;
&#8220;The ludicrous claim of self-defense is on par with the abhorrent behavior displayed by the prosecution and the judge,&#8221; Beatty continued, adding, &#8220;It is time for accountability. It is time for criminal justice reform, and it is beyond time for gun reform. The gun violence crisis in America is a challenge to the conscience of our country.&#8221;
Beatty concluded the statement by pivoting to tout bills that House Democrats had already begun work on in an effort to tackle the issues of gun reform and criminal justice reform.
&#8220;Democrats in the House have passed two bills aimed at strengthening the nation&#8217;s gun laws, including a bill that would require background check on all gun sales and transfers,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We also voted to approve legislation that would close the Charleston loophole. We don&#8217;t need to wait another minute — or another hour — to take common-sense steps that will save lives in the future. While today is filled with disappointment, we must continue to champion justice and gun reform, and condemn vigilanteism so this never happens again.&#8221;
Republicans largely <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-guns/u-s-house-passes-two-democratic-backed-gun-control-bills-idUSKBN2B32MA">opposed</a> both of the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/democrats-use-colorado-mass-shooting-to-spark-renewed-calls-for-gun-control/">bills</a> Beatty mentioned when they passed the House in March of 2021, saying that they would do little to take gun violence off the streets and would rather put up barriers that would only succeed in preventing law-abiding citizens from freely exercising their Second Amendment rights.
Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said that all House Democrats were not going to accomplish anything with those bills other than simply &#8220;making it harder for law-abiding citizens to buy a gun.&#8221;

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Black Caucus Chair Pushes ‘Gun Reform’ After Rittenhouse Acquittal: ‘Ludicrous Claim Of Self-Defense’

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On Wednesday, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds appeared on CNN, facing pushback from the network over his rejected application to join the Congressional Black Caucus, despite the fact that Donalds is black.
CNN anchor Brianna Keilar began the interview by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rep-byron-donalds-blasts-cnn-as-a-black-man-in-america-im-allowed-to-have-my-own-thoughts">asking</a> whether Donalds&#8217; defense of President Trump &#8220;might be incongruent with the mission of the CBC?”
“First of all, what the president said in the past has nothing to do with this discussion at all,” Donalds responded.
“You’ve defended him,” Keilar quickly fired back.
“As a black man in America, I’m allowed to have my own thoughts on who I choose to support and who I choose not to support,” Donalds said. Later, he added that bringing up “President Trump to try to make this about him does not matter.”
“It’s irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the situation at hand,” Donalds continued, referring back to his history of advocacy for the “black community.”
Not only was Keilar’s strategy indeed an attempt to derail Donalds’ comments with irrelevant declarations of “but Trump,” it was also indicative of the Left’s attitude toward matters of race.
In most cases, authority on issues of race are skin deep. Comments on racial inequity or systemic injustice are lauded as unquestionably accurate based solely on the skin color of the speaker — when said speaker adheres to the worldview of the modern Left. Al Sharpton, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Ibram X. Kendi. Their thoughts on matters of race are presumed valid because of their identity.
However, black conservatives like Byron Donalds, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, and Candace Owens ruin this lazy calculus. Suddenly, skin color is no longer a convenient shield which can be used to justify ideology.
The solution? Turn skin color into an ideology.
In other words, to “be black” — or, indeed, a member of any racial group — is not a genetic trait identifiable through visual variations in factors like melatonin. No, to “be black” is to embrace whatever the Left believes black people should believe.
This is precisely the same thought process which drove Joe Biden to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-if-trump-did-it-10-headlines-that-show-how-biased-media-is-against-trump">declare</a>, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Because, for the Left, “blackness” is simply a binary measurement of political membership. “Black” means “a Democrat who happens to be black,” for whom authority on racial politics is assumed and protected. If you are, as Donalds said, a black person who dares to disagree, then your race comes a poor second to politics following your betrayal of your racial comrades.
The Democrats are happy to hide behind the banner of skin color, but only if the banner can be used as a shield, rather than a window into their own racist ideology.
Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A few weeks ago, I devoted my column to an article about me published in Newsweek under the headline &#8220;Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank.&#8221; As the full context of my comments in the video made clear, it was a lie.
To its credit, after its editor was notified of this fact, Newsweek changed the headline and made revisions to the article and issued a correction.
Since then, two more smears have been spread about me, one by an official at Purdue University and the other by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the major source of news in Canada.
The Jan. 21, 2020, issue of The Exponent, the Purdue University student newspaper, published the following in a story about John Gates, Purdue&#8217;s newly appointed vice provost for diversity and inclusion: &#8220;John Gates has seen quite distinct viewpoints at Purdue, even in his first week at Purdue in early 2019. When he attended a Turning Point event that Dennis Prager spoke at, he noted that he was one of three black people in the room.”
&#8220;&#8216;His central thesis was as follows: Diversity is bad. Every dollar spent on diversity is a dollar wasted,&#8217; Gates said. &#8216;He said slavery was not bad. In fact, every civilized nation was founded in slavery, and that blacks should just be happy to be in this country. And he got a rousing ovation.'&#8221;
Needless to say, I never said anything remotely like that.
After mentioning this on my radio show, some of my listeners wrote to Gates, which prompted him to write to me — not with a retraction or an apology but an invitation to have a chat.
I wrote vice provost Gates a letter, which began: &#8220;Dr. Gates:
&#8220;I am attaching eight video files of my speech at Purdue. See if you can find where I said, implied or hinted that slavery is not bad.”
&#8220;Allow me to react to your invitation to chat over the phone. Had I, as a Jew, written in some publication that you said, &#8216;the Holocaust wasn&#8217;t bad,&#8217; and then invited you to have a chat, would you agree to do so? Or would you first demand that I retract such a vile smear of you?”
&#8220;When you unequivocally retract in The Exponent what you said and apologize for saying it, I will be happy to chat with you. In fact, I will even invite you on to my national radio show.&#8221;
I never received a response from Gates.
Then, about a week ago, on my radio show, I discussed the issue of private speech versus public speech, and the issue of character, using former President Harry Truman as an example of a good man who used foul language privately, specifically using &#8220;kike&#8221; when writing or talking about Jews, and the N-word when talking about blacks. A listener called to ask me why I could say &#8220;kike&#8221; but not the N-word. I told him that the left had rendered the N-word the only word unutterable in the English language, even when merely discussing it, as I was with regard to Truman. And, of course, I added that to ever refer to a black using the N-word is &#8220;despicable.&#8221;
On Sunday, the CBC published an article headlined &#8220;It&#8217;s &#8216;idiotic you can&#8217;t say the N-word,&#8217; says radio host Dennis Prager, soon to speak at Calgary conference.&#8221;
The headline was an echo of the Newsweek headline, using an entirely out-of-context quote to make it sound as if I want to use the N-word in referring to blacks.
Now, why would the CBC bother writing about an American talk-show host, and how did it come up with this smear?
The answer to the first question is that the CBC, described to me by former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a PragerU event as &#8220;to the left of MSNBC,&#8221; wants to charge Canadian conservative organization The Manning Centre with inviting racist speakers. (I will be speaking in Ottawa at the Centre&#8217;s annual conference next month.)
And how did the CBC come up with the phony headline and story? The author himself wrote how in his piece: from Media Matters for America, a left-wing site that each day distorts or lies about what conservatives say. The author never bothered to listen to my broadcast. He took what Media Matters wrote and recycled it.
So, then, why do left-wing media do this?
There are two major reasons.
First, truth is not a left-wing value. As I have said and written ever since studying communism and the left in graduate school at the Columbia University Russian Institute, truth is a liberal value and a conservative value, but it is not a left-wing value. However, destroying opponents by destroying their reputations is a left-wing value — whether it&#8217;s charging Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh with multiple rapes, preoccupying the country with the fake charge that Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign colluded with Russia to manipulate the 2016 election, or the charges such as those made against me.
Second, smearing opponents is not only a left-wing value; it is the left&#8217;s modus operandi. And the reason for that is: The left does not win through argument. It wins through smear. If you differ with the left, you are, by definition, sexist, racist, bigoted, intolerant, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, fascist and/or a hater. The proof? You cannot name a single opponent of the left who has not been so labeled.
Readers can fight back by contacting the president of Purdue, Mitch Daniels, at president@purdue.edu. Contacts from Purdue alumni would be particularly helpful. And readers can contact the CBC through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or an email to its ombudsman:
Facebook.com/cbccalgary
Twitter.com/cbccalgary
Instagram.com/cbccalgary
ombud@cbc.ca
The CBC needs to change its headline and issue a correction, as Newsweek did. My email to the author of the article, in which I asked for these changes and explained the entire context, did not receive a reply. You can read the letter on my website and send it or link it to the CBC.
If good liberals and conservatives don&#8217;t fight the left, truth loses. If truth loses, all is lost.
It&#8217;s that simple.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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UPDATE: Hours after The Daily Wire published this report, CBC added to a statement they sent to Comicbook regarding the movie edit, noting that the network cut the Trump cameo in 2014, when they first acquired the film. 
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CBC responds to criticism that short scene featuring Donald Trump was deleted from movie Home Alone 2, which aired recently. Spokesperson says &#39;several&#39; cuts made for time. &#39;These edits were done in 2014 when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected president.&#39;
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump pointed out that &#8220;Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,&#8221; a movie he briefly appears in, is &#8220;one of the biggest&#8221; Christmas hits of all time, financially speaking.
Trump made the comment, which was heavily covered by the mainstream media in mocking fashion, during a conference call with United States military members currently serving overseas.
The following day, Canadian broadcasting network CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) aired the film with Trump&#8217;s cameo edited out (see below).
&#8220;According to people sounding off on social media, they have noticed that Trump&#8217;s cameo has been edited out of the version of the film airing on CBC,&#8221; <a href="https://comicbook.com/movies/2019/12/25/donald-trump-cameo-home-alone-2-cut-canada/">Comicbook</a> reported Wednesday. &#8220;Given Trump&#8217;s divisive demeanor, many are quick to assume the move is politically motivated but the broadcaster denies that this was the case for the Home Alone 2 broadcast.&#8221;
CBC seemingly confirmed the edit to Comicbook when asked about the alleged censorship, though they contended the Trump cameo was cut due to advertising time constraints.
&#8220;As is often the case with features adapted for television, Home Alone 2 was edited to allow for commercial time within the format,&#8221; the broadcaster said.
According to <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/cbc-cuts-donald-trumps-home-alone-2-cameo-out-of-broadcast/">PJ Media</a>, folks online have complained about CBC cutting the Trump cameo in the movie since 2015. It&#8217;s unclear if the movie was aired on the network prior to 2015.
Trump was asked by a service member via conference call on Tuesday if he thought &#8220;Home Alone 2: Lost in New York&#8221; was his favorite holiday movie.
&#8220;Well I’m in Home Alone 2,&#8221; the president said, sparking the troops to laugh along with him, as noted by <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/12/donald-trump-home-alone-2-macauley-culkin-1202816692/">Deadline</a>. &#8220;A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas. They say – especially young kids – they say, ‘I just saw you on the movie.’ They don’t see me on television as they do in the movie. But it’s been a good movie and I was a little bit younger, to put it mildly. And it was an honor to do it.&#8221;
&#8220;And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It’s a big Christmas hit – one of the biggest. So it’s an honor to be involved in something like that, you always like to see success,&#8221; Trump added.
According to Deadline, the movie raked in $365 million worldwide in 1992.
President Trump has received notoriously vicious media coverage since his 2016 election win. The negative coverage has only ramped up since Democrats launched their partisan impeachment inquiry, Media Research Center (MRC) reported in November.
&#8220;The Media Research Center (MRC) <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/11/12/impeachment-frenzy-nets-aim-destroy-trump-96-negative-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">analyzed all coverage of President Trump and his administration</a> on ABC’s &#8216;World News Tonight,&#8217; CBS’ &#8216;Evening News&#8217; and NBC’s &#8216;Nightly News&#8217; since Trump took office in 2017. MRC editor Rich Noyes noted that coverage of Trump has been &#8216;more hostile than normal&#8217; since Sept. 24 when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced the start of the impeachment inquiry,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/broadcast-news-trump-impeachment-inquiry-negative-coverage">Fox News</a> report explained.
&#8220;Out of 684 evaluative comments included in these broadcasts, a whopping 96 percent have been negative, vs. a meager four percent that have been positive,&#8221; MRC editor Rich Noyes said.
&#8220;Noyes’ MRC study also indicated that 59 percent of impeachment coverage has been based on anonymous sources. Impeachment coverage has been 95 percent negative, while news of withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria was 98 percent negative, according to the study,&#8221; Fox noted.
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On Friday, appearing with Fox News&#8217; &#8220;The Story&#8221; with host Martha MacCallum to discuss his new book, &#8220;The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great,&#8221; Daily Wire Editor-In-Chief Ben Shapiro spoke of the recent furor triggered when the left-wing British publication The Economist first insultingly referred to him as &#8220;alt-right,&#8221; then apologized, only to change the adjective to &#8220;radical conservative.&#8221; Shapiro channeled Democratic presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m rad, dude. I can skateboard and everything, brah.&#8221;
MacCallum began by citing President Trump&#8217;s remarks on Thursday at a rally in Michigan in which Trump weighed in on the Jussie Smollett saga. Trump&#8217;s remarks prompted the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to state that Trump&#8217;s &#8220;silence on the rise of white nationalism across the country only signals his complicity,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Where was the president&#8217;s call for an investigation when white nationalists marched across the campus of the University of Virginia?&#8221;
MacCallum also noted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel suggesting Trump and the atmosphere he has created were the reason that Smollett allegedly faked his hate crime.
MacCallum introduced Shapiro and his new book, commenting, &#8220;It&#8217;s a New York Times best seller; they cannot keep it in stock.&#8221; She asked Shapiro what he thought about the CBC and Emanuel&#8217;s comments regarding President Trump.
Shapiro replied:
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Well, it&#8217;s obviously untrue. We&#8217;ve seen racial hoaxes before going all the way back to Al Sharpton in the 1980s. The story here is that there is an actor who wanted to increase pay, according to the Chicago Police Department, and so he decided to perpetuate a racial hoax and slander half the country in process, believing that it would make him more popular and more marketable, particularly with the people in Hollywood. That&#8217;s the entire story, and he didn&#8217;t mind if he slandered the Chicago Police Department; he didn&#8217;t mind if he slandered Rahm Emanuel, the city of Chicago. By the way, it is worth noting that the CBC representative saying that President Trump&#8217;s feds didn&#8217;t investigate Charlottesville &#8212; that&#8217;s just not true. The FBI did investigate Charlottesville. The DOJ did an investigation of Charlottesville as well. So that is just factually false.
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MacCallum played a clip of Anthony Anderson, the host of the NAACP awards, saying of Smollett&#8217;s nomination for an award, &#8220;I hope he wins. I&#8217;m happy for him that the system worked for him, in his favor, because the system isn&#8217;t always fair, especially for people of color.&#8221; MacCallum commented, &#8220;I think that&#8217;s very interesting. He said the system worked &#8216;for him in his favor&#8217; because the system isn&#8217;t always fair.&#8221; She added, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of ways you could read into that statement.&#8221;
Shapiro commented:
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It seems like what he&#8217;s trying to say is that social justice ought to trump individual justice. In other words, he believes the criminal justice system is biased presumably against black people and gay people, and Jussie Smollett happens to be black and gay, and therefore, even though he&#8217;s obviously guilty by all available evidence and according to the prosecutor&#8217;s office that just dismissed the charges, he&#8217;s guilty, despite that, he should be let of the hook because it&#8217;s sort of pay back for the system not working for other people. That is a fundamental violation of principles of justice. If somebody is guilty of a crime, they ought to do the time, regardless of their intersectional credentials being in order.
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MacCallum asked why Smollett is not pressing for an investigation considering he had alleged he was the victim of a hate crime. She then referred to Smollett&#8217;s attorney suggesting that the Nigerian brothers allegedly involved in the attack were wearing white face underneath the mask at the time of the alleged attack.
Shapiro quipped, &#8220;My theory of the crime is it was actually Virginia Governor Ralph Northam dressed in black face and then dressed in white face on top of the black face. That&#8217;s my going theory of the crime.&#8221;
That caused MacCallum to laugh, then shift to how the British magazine &#8220;The Economist&#8221; labeled Shapiro &#8220;alt-right,&#8221; and then, after Shapiro fired back, apologized and changed the appellation to &#8220;radical conservative.&#8221;
Shapiro replied, &#8220;There&#8217;s no such thing as a &#8216;regular conservative,&#8217; so frankly, I&#8217;m embracing the title. It&#8217;s like Beto O&#8217;Rourke, &#8216;I&#8217;m rad, dude. I can skateboard and everything, brah.&#8217;&#8221;
That triggered more laughter from MacCallum.
Shapiro continued: &#8220;What is amazing about it is to be ignorant enough to call me a member of the alt-right when I have probably been the leading antagonist of the alt-right for at least the last four years. I was their number one target online, according to the ADL in 2016. I still have to hire security to walk back and forth to synagogue because of the alt-right. To label me that just demonstrates either the ignorance or the malice of members of the media who don&#8217;t want to do a simple Google search.&#8221;
MacCallum said, &#8220;There&#8217;s definitely a fascination with you. When you read this article, they&#8217;re trying to figure out why you&#8217;re so popular, why do kids on college campuses care what this guy has to say; they talk about how you&#8217;re impeccably dressed, and you&#8217;re sharp in every way. They can&#8217;t figure it out, Ben.&#8221;
Shapiro joked, &#8220;Obviously, it is because of my great handsomeness and physical size. I&#8217;m very intimidating and people are just attracted to me the same way that they would be attracted to Tom Cruise. That&#8217;s just who I am; that&#8217;s what my wife tells me anyway.&#8221;
MacCallum agreed, &#8220;As she should. All wives should tell their husbands that.&#8221; She continued, &#8220;Eric Holder said the president wants to go back to when America was great, and Holder saw that as a racist assessment in the president&#8217;s eyes. You talk a lot about what makes the idea of America great in your book. So what would you say to him about that comment?&#8221;
Shapiro said bluntly:
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It&#8217;s an asinine comment. Really there are two views of the United States. View number one is that the United States is founded on eternal, true, immutable and good principles, and we haven&#8217;t always lived up to those principles, but the story of America is that the foundational philosophy of the country is inherently rooted in human nature and natural law and God&#8217;s creation. And that&#8217;s what American philosophy&#8217;s about. Again, it&#8217;s a job of trying to expand that promise to all Americans.
And then there&#8217;s the view of Eric Holder which is that America is founded on racial hierarchy and that all of these ideas of Western civilization are essentially a façade for perpetuating this evil power hierarchy. Well, if you feel that way, you have to rip up American civilization at its roots. I don&#8217;t think most Americans believe that; I think most Americans do believe that America has been great in the past. There&#8217;s no point at which America was &#8220;better across the board&#8221; for everyone, but there are certainly moments in American history that we can point to. Was America not great when we liberated Europe? Was America not great when Martin Luther King was speaking on the Mall in Washington? Was America not great when we were defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War or when we were creating such prosperity that 80% of world&#8217;s population was lifted out of abject poverty since 1980? It seems like America was great all of those times.
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MacCallum concluded, &#8220;The book is number one and they can&#8217;t keep it on the shelves. Congratulations.&#8221;
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WATCH: Shapiro Channels Beto O’Rourke After Being Called ‘Radical Conservative’

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On Monday, former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer blasted the media for ignoring the implications of members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including present-day members of Congress John Lewis and Maxine Waters, having met with raging anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan in 2005:
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Since the press hasn&#8217;t covered the fact that members of the Congressional Black Caucus in 2005 met with anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, I&#8217;ll make coverage easier. Here are 21 members of Congress today who belonged to the CDC in 2005. Why not ask them if meeting w anti-Semites is ok? <a href="https://t.co/TjDlKAstMp">pic.twitter.com/TjDlKAstMp</a>
&#8212; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/958103917778407424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Last week, it was<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/25/congressional-black-caucus-tried-to-bury-2005-obama-farrakhan-photo-photographer-says.html"> revealed</a> that the CBC pressured photojournalist Askia Muhammad for over ten years to suppress a photo of former President Barack Obama and Farrakhan at a meeting of the CBC in 2005 when Obama was a state senator.
In case anyone was unfamiliar with Farrakhan&#8217;s Nazi-like rhetoric, Fleischer enlightened them:
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Here, btw, is what Farrakhan has said: &#8220;Do you know that the enemies of Jesus were the Jews of his day and the Roman authorities? That wasn&#8217;t 2000 yrs ago alone. That&#8217;s today!&#8221; 3/2/14 <a href="https://t.co/3ds25XB00Q">https://t.co/3ds25XB00Q</a>
&#8212; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/958104689245081600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Jewish media has normalized sexual degeneracy, profanity, and all kinds of sin.&#8221; 5/25/13
&#8220;In Washington, right next to the Holocaust Museum is the Federal Reserve where they print the money. Is that an accident?&#8221; 10/21/12
&#8212; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/958106196690505728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You are the Synagogue of Satan and therefore will be dealt with by God.&#8221; 7/11/10
&#8220;It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israeli and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9;11 attacks &#8230; It now appears 9/11 was a false flag operation.&#8221; 3/1/15
&#8212; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/958108973479145475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Then Fleischer ripped the media for their utter hypocrisy:
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I really don&#8217;t understand how hard-hitting, neutral reporters don&#8217;t think a meeting &#8211; that they only learned of now &#8211; between Congressmen and Farrakhan is not a scandal. If it was the Freedom Caucus and David Duke, it would be a full feeding frenzy. But Farrakhan is ok?
&#8212; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/958109611009232896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Ari Fleischer Slams Media For Ignoring CBC Members Who Met With Virulent Anti-Semite Farrakhan

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On Wednesday, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), the Assistant Democratic Leader in the House since 2011 and previously House Majority Whip from 2007 to 2011, were asked by a reporter why Rep. John Conyers, who co-founded the CBC and is alleged to have committed numerous acts of sexual harassment, has not resigned from Congress or stepped down from his position as other men have who have committed similar acts.
Richmond, feigning ignorance of the maelstrom that has consumed the country as figures in Hollywood, the media, and Congress have been accused of sexual harassment or worse, asked for some examples of men who have stepped down. When the reporter offered some famous examples, Clyburn growled back, “Who elected them?”
The exchange went like this:
<blockquote>Reporter: Other men, in other industries, have faced similar accusations and gotten out of the way, resigned or stepped down far faster than he has, right?
Richmond: No, you would have to give me some examples.
Reporter: Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer …
Clyburn, as he and Richmond enter the elevator: “Who elected them?”</blockquote>
Clyburn’s taciturn response shouldn’t have been surprising; last week he told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/politics/conyers-sexual-harassment-democrats-pelosi.html?_r=0">The New York Times</a> that he wasn’t sure the claims against Conyers “have any real substance,” adding, “You can’t jump to conclusions with these types of things. For all I know, all of this could be made up.”
On Sunday, Conyers <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/john-conyers-push-to-resign/index.html">stepped down</a> as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, but he has not resigned from his seat in Congress.
Veteran newswoman Cokie Roberts <a href="v">said this week</a> that female members of the Congressional press corps knew Conyers had a history of sexually harassing women. Even House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who initially defended Conyers, finally confessed on Monday night she <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/24035/after-backlash-pelosi-now-believes-conyers-accuser-james-barrett">believed</a> one of his accusers. On Tuesday, the former deputy chief of staff for Conyers, Deanna Maher, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/24020/another-woman-comes-forward-accusing-conyers-ryan-saavedra">accused him</a> of making unwanted sexual advances toward her.
Conyers is the dean of the House, having served there since 1964.
Video of Richmond and Clyburn below:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">CBC Chair Richmond asks for ex. of ppl leaving jobs faster than Conyers when face sexual harassment claims; Clyburn asks &#8220;who elected them?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/FGDNbvBUcg">pic.twitter.com/FGDNbvBUcg</a>
— Alex Moe (@AlexNBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/935910886350475264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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House Assistant Dem Leader Dismisses Comparison Between Conyers And Other Alleged Sexual Harassers: ‘Who Elected Them?’

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On Sunday&#8217;s Inside Politics, left-wing CNN Democrat John King appeared concerned about foreign propaganda operations influencing American political attitudes despite having ignored them for years.
King stated as a matter of fact that the Russian government had &#8220;intervened&#8221; in American politics with the intent of assisting then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. In so doing, he is connecting his contestable declaration to the broader narrative of &#8220;fake news&#8221; &#8211; pushed by Democrats and their media allies &#8211; as a primary driver of the presidential election&#8217;s outcome, Implicitly, &#8220;fake news&#8221; is framed as having been and continuing to be political beneficial for President-elect Donald Trump.
Russia Today, now known as RT, is the English-language propaganda arm of the Russian government. A brainchild of Russian President Vladimir Putin, it has been in operation since 2005. Neither King nor any of his CNN colleagues have done any meaningful reporting on RT or its impact on American political attitudes. 
PressTV&#8217;s English division is the English-language propaganda arm of the Iranian government. A brainchild of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Khameini, it has been in operation 2007. Neither King nor any of his CNN colleagues have done any meaningful reporting on PressTV or its impact on American political attitudes. 
Al-Jazeera English is the English-language propaganda arm of the Qatari government. It has been in operation since 2003. Neither King nor any of his CNN colleagues have done any meaningful reporting on Al-Jazeera or its impact on American political attitudes. 
RT, PressTV, and Al-Jazeera regularly push conventionally left-wing and neo-Marxist narratives of history, sociology, economics, and broader political economy. Political and news media observers will note broad parallels between their narratives and those pushed by American-based left-wing and Democrat-aligned news outlets.
Familiar examples of the aforementioned parallels include the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efystcAVdbs">hyping</a> of <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/201384102857620336.html">racial agitation</a>, such as framing George Zimmerman&#8217;s killing of Trayvon Martin as illustrative of a broader narrative of blacks as a group oppressed by non-existent phenomena such as &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and &#8220;white supremacy&#8221;. The above-listed propaganda arms also regularly cast the American government as being subverted by &#8220;big business&#8221; and &#8220;corporate&#8221; interests, furthering Marxist narratives of class warfare.
In the realm of international politics, RT, PressTV, and Al-Jazeera regularly arraign the United States as a belligerently imperialistic state. Russia, Iran, and Qatar are framed by their respective state-run English-language propaganda arms as serving moral causes in their resistance to an aggressive and expansionist America.
Political and news media observers will note the broad overlap between narratives pushed by left-wing and Democrat-aligned news outlets &#8211; CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, NPR, et al. &#8211; and those of the propaganda arms of foreign adversarial governments.
The above mentioned overlap includes personnel. CNN alumnus Larry King essentially works for the Russian government with RT being the primary purchaser of his two shows: Larry King Now and Politicking With Larry King. CNN alumnus Soledad O&#8217;Brien went to work for Al-Jazeera after being terminated from her role as host of the now defunct Early Start morning show. Ed Schultz joined RT after his termination from MSNBC. Ayman Mohyeldin has worked for CNN, NBC/MSNBC, and Al-Jazeera. Mohamed Fahmy worked for CNN and Al-Jazeera before joining the University of British Columbia&#8217;s school of journalism as an adjunct professor.
Intergovernmental transitions by government-funded propagandists also occurs. Mehdi Hasan left the BBC to join Al-Jazeera. He concurrently operates as the political editor of The Huffington Post&#8217;s United Kingdom section. The late David Frost left a multi-decade career at the BBC to join Al-Jazeera in 2006.
CNN and its similarly-politicized news media counterparts have also neglected to conduct any meaningful reporting on the political impact of left-wing English-language state propaganda operations based in the West such as the BBC, CBC, and ABC.
<div>Watch King&#8217;s newfound concern over foreign-funded political interference into American politics below:</div>
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