“Growing Pains” star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kirk-cameron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirk Cameron</a> said the “dark,” “evil” and “twisted” revelations we’ve seen in the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-star-melissa-joan-hart-responds-to-quiet-on-the-set-allegations-believe-them-100-percent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quiet on Set</a>: The Dark Side of Kids TV” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nickelodeon-star-says-she-was-forced-to-kiss-30-year-old-man-as-a-teen-on-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">docuseries</a> have &#8220;been going on for a long time” in Hollywood.
Speaking to The Daily Wire, the 53-year-old actor said as a child working in Hollywood he definitely witnessed the “disturbing” behavior by those in the business, including his former personal dialogue coach on “Growing Pains” Brian Peck, the convicted sex offender named in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-documentary-uncovers-child-abuse-at-nickelodeon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series</a>. Peck was arrested, charged with sexual abuse crimes, and ordered to register as a sex offender, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nickelodeon-star-drake-bell-details-alleged-sexual-abuse-by-dialogue-coach-it-was-extensive-and-brutal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“So, the evil, the darkness, the twisted sickness of Hollywood has been going on for a long time,” Cameron told us. “I started acting when I was 9-years-old. I began ‘Growing Pains’ at 14-years-old. And I was suspicious that that stuff was going on behind the curtains even when I was working on ‘Growing Pains.’”
“And there were several young boys like us [Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio] that he [Peck] interacted with on a regular basis,” Cameron said. “So, it’s shocking. It’s sickening.
In one of the episodes of the shocking documentary — which alleges abuse and a toxic work environment behind the scenes at Nickelodeon — a clip played from “Growing Pains” showing a young DiCaprio with Peck constantly rubbing the young star’s arms and touching him. Cameron said that’s exactly how he recalled Peck behaving and just remembered “that’s the kind of thing you would see and make you pause and go ‘there’s a little flag on the field,’ but not enough to prove something worse.”
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The Hollywood star shared that at the same time he worked on “Growing Pains” (1985 &#8211; 1992) with Peck, the executive producer and showrunner was Steven Marshall. In 2010, Marshall was arrested and convicted for possession and distribution of child pornography, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2010/03/16/growing-pains-producer-sentenced-for-child-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported.
He served 7½ years in federal prison after he was <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/mar/17/child-porn-gets-ex-tv-exec-prison-20100317/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> by an undercover federal agent who was posing as a pedophile. In Marshall’s chats with the agent, the former TV producer would <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/mar/17/child-porn-gets-ex-tv-exec-prison-20100317/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brag</a> about “child abduction, bondage, rapes and murders,” the outlet noted. It came out later in court that the exec. producer never actually had “physical contact” with any of the kids he bragged about doing vile things to, Cameron noted.
“Thank God I got out of there unscathed in the 1980s,” Cameron said. “Those people who did this stuff to these kids are the same kind of people in the industry today. Still making twisted, sick, perverted material that’s hurting children today. And they need to be completely rooted out and replaced.”
“But it’s too late,” Cameron continued. “These children, like Drake Bell &#8230; they have scars that they will carry with them permanently throughout their life.”
Cameron also mentioned he recently spoke with former producers and writers of the show about working with Peck and Marshall, recalling their behavior on set.
“And the consensus was these individuals were charming, they ingratiated themselves into their victims’ lives and were generally likable people when they were putting the ‘nice guy’ face on,” Cameron said.
“But there was … always something smarmy about them,” he added. “You know it was like your ‘Spidey-senses’ told you something’s not right. They were handsy and physical in a smarmy kind of way. But not so overt that you could totally detect what was happening.”
Cameron said he “absolutely” credited his parents with keeping him safe in the predatory environment, adding, “My mom was on the set every day when I was a minor on ‘Growing Pains.’” He also credited his former “cast and crew” who served as additional sets of “guardians.”
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When asked if he thinks Hollywood protects the predator instead of the survivor, the longtime actor said what we are seeing now “ … is an industry that tries to indemnify, exonerate the very pedophiles that we say we want to get rid of, because they are the pedophiles.”
When asked about the letters of support written in defense of Peck by his former on-screen parents, Alan Thicke and Joanna Kerns, Cameron noted, “Nobody wants to believe that the fun, charming, dialogue coach who’s ingratiated himself into the lives of others — almost to the point of being a trusted family friend — would do something so wicked and evil.”
The letters were used by Peck’s attorneys before he was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor. Kearns has since walked back her letter of support. Thicke, however, passed away in 2016.
Following the documentary’s release, former child star Bell came forward and said he was the John Doe from a sexual abuse case from 2004 involving former Nickelodeon dialogue coach Peck. Peck pleaded no contest to the charges, was sentenced to 16 months in prison, and ordered to register as a sex offender, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nickelodeon-star-drake-bell-details-alleged-sexual-abuse-by-dialogue-coach-it-was-extensive-and-brutal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Docuseries contributors also spoke frequently about former Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider, who they said perpetrated abuse by acting in a controlling manner and making sexually suggestive jokes, some of which were used in children’s programming. They also alleged that Schneider was filmed in a hot tub with then-16-year-old actress Amanda Bynes.
“I definitely owe some people a pretty strong apology,” Schneider said in a statement following the release of “Quiet on Set.”
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The “Lifemark” star talked about the massive increase in LGBTQ programming targeting children from places like Disney, Cartoon Network and Netflix, and said they are no longer hiding their agenda.
“Openly sharing their agenda &#8230; giddy with excitement trying to add as much ‘queerness’ to their content as they can over time,” the actor said. “Before it was sort of hidden, under the radar. But now it’s wide open. They’ve gotten themselves intoxicated with their own perversion and they are so drunk on it that they don’t even know what’s wrong.”
Cameron said he “one hundred percent” thinks the lack of faith in Hollywood led to the darkness.
“The problem is when you take God out of Hollywood or politics they become corrupted.”
It is those experiences the actor went through and the things he’s learned since about the people he worked with that he said motivates him to be part of the solution, to create a safe working environment for kids and children’s programming like he had when he was growing up.
That’s why I’m working with Brave Americans saying ‘we’re not waiting for Hollywood to get it right,’” the “Fireproof” actor said. “We need to make this stuff ourselves.”
“God has exposed them,” he added. “He’s drug the evil out into the middle of the street in broad daylight and this is the time for brave Americans to take charge of their children’s entertainment and their education and start doing something about it.”
The longtime actor said he wants this to “&#8230; be a wakeup call, an incredible opportunity for parents and grandparents &#8230; to be the executive producer of our children’s future. Our generation&#8217;s version of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood&#8221; with his current project. More information can be found <a href="https://bravebooks.us/pages/the-adventures-with-iggy-and-mr-kirk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
“I want to give them something to remind them what good wholesome family entertainment is like and what parents are looking for and children need.”

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Kirk Cameron On ‘Quiet On Set’ Revelations: ‘Been Going On For A Long Time’

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The following is an edited transcript of a Daily Wire interview with Bill Whittle on his new, in-depth docuseries on the rise of the Soviet Union: &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/apollo-11-what-we-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What We Saw: An Empire of Terror</a>.&#8221; 
Daily Wire: Bill, you’ve now produced multiple “What We Saw” documentaries for The Daily Wire: “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/apollo-11-what-we-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apollo 11</a>” and “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/apollo-11-what-we-saw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cold War</a>.” Why did you choose the rise of the Soviet Union as your next project?
Bill: Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine I received a call from Jeremy Boreing at The Daily Wire. I just finished covering a fair amount of Russia with &#8220;The Cold War&#8221; series. Given the research for &#8220;The Cold War,&#8221; and my previous readings, I&#8217;ve always been kind of morbidly fascinated with the mechanisms of the Soviet Union — fascinated and disgusted and appalled and intrigued by governments that have to terrorize their people in order to remain in power, antithetical to the American system. And no matter how bad we think things get here, there&#8217;s nothing that&#8217;s happened or is happening now in this country that even approaches this scale.
DW: Why is it important to remember Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution?
Bill: Several years after World War I, Winston Churchill said that the Germans had transmitted a “Bacillus” into Russia in the form of Lenin. I think he got that exactly right. It (Lenin) was a biological weapon. And it was designed to destroy Russia as a great power in World War I. That&#8217;s why the Germans not only allowed Lenin to travel through Germany during the height of the war, but in fact paid his expenses for many, many years afterwards.
This regime is interesting to me for two reasons: the main reason is how intellectual it was — and I have a very low opinion of intellectuals. Intellectualism is for people who think they are intelligent and are so certain of themselves and so certain of what they believe that they feel the right to enforce their theories on other people.
What fascinated me about this horrific system was the theoretical aspect of everything. There was nothing about the system that was practical. There was nothing based on common sense, experience, reason, kindness, decency — nothing. It was all based on the theory of a German philosopher named Karl Marx. His writings appealed to people looking for some sort of justice, but they also appealed to people who had any sort of envy for the people in power but didn&#8217;t want to do any work in order to achieve it.
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The other remarkable quality about all of the Soviet leaders is just how useless they were. Prior to finding themselves in the middle of the system, none of them had jobs. Lenin’s only job was as a failed attorney, very briefly. As a lawyer he lost, I think, 13 out of 14 cases and never really worked a day in his life. Prior to the revolution, he sat around for 16 years, sitting in cafes in safe places like Berlin and Munich and London and Zurich, sipping tea and discussing theory. 
He developed in his massive forehead this idea of how a society should work and there was no real world evidence that would change his mind. If it turned out that there was a difference between the map he had in his head and reality, then the reality had to be well, he would then go about doing whatever he had to do with the lovers of state power to beat reality into line with the theory. And this is why the Soviet state was a terror state. They never had legitimacy. 
The Bolsheviks were a minority every single time they held a so-called “election;” they were a tremendous minority. And you can’t even accuse the Nazis of that.
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DW: In &#8220;An Empire of Terror&#8221; you mention the leader of Russia’s provisional government, Alexander Kerensky. Why wasn’t he able to mount a good defense against the growing Bolshevik threat?
Bill: Someone once wrote that Lenin was “lucky with his enemies.” And that was exactly the case. I have very high regard for Alexander Kerensky’s principles and for what he wanted for the Russian people. But as an actor, Kerensky had two qualities that actors often bring to the world: First, he was spectacularly naive when it came to the real world. And second, he was tremendously vain. These two blind spots led him to believe he was in control when in fact, Lenin was ready to do everything up to and including murder when Kerensky was simply looking out the window at the daisies. He was a good man and history was kind to him but he was no match for Lenin’s ruthlessness. This is the thing about the Soviet state — it&#8217;s designed in such a way that you have to keep the population under control through terror. The people that end up running the machine, by definition, become the most ruthless and terroristic of the bunch.
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DW: What were some of the challenges you faced making this new series?
Bill: All roads lead back to Lenin. When I began to realize the magnitude of the crimes that these people committed, I began to feel a tremendous sense of historical responsibility to the people who disappeared without photographs.
800,000 people were killed in one of the gulags called Kolyma. 800,000 people. That makes it second on the leaderboard from hell: Auschwitz is first, Kolyma is second, and Treblinka is third. So, more than anything, I wanted every single episode to have as many photographs of the faces of individual people. And most importantly, we can never use the same face twice. I just wanted faces because, as Stalin said, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.”
So my biggest challenge was to find a way to try and personalize this. Make people understand that this could just as easily be you or your family, and then try to give them some idea of what the size of 20 million people looks like.
For example, about 100,000 people attend the Super Bowl every year. Imagine that everybody had to exit the stadium, single file, through one gate and you had to stand there and look at every single face as they left the stadium. When you were finished, hours and hours and hours later, you would have only 199 more Super Bowls to look at before you reached 20 million and saw the face of every person killed by this “idea.” And if it&#8217;s killed that many people, maybe it&#8217;s not such a good idea.
DW: Did you come across any surprises in your research?
Bill: The most astonishing story in &#8220;An Empire of Terror&#8221; is a true story. I&#8217;ve worked exceedingly hard and long to make sure that not only everything I wrote was true, but that I also had the receipts for everything.
But the most astonishing coincidence in the entire series is this: Lenin and Stalin were both known to be extremely paranoid, and very, very private people. They kept a very tight circle and they were constantly on the lookout for assassination and betrayal. So when Lenin finally arrives in Moscow from St. Petersburg, and eventually gets himself a little mansion, he is living with his sisters, his wife, and two secretaries. He also has four bodyguards and a private cook named Comrade Spiridon.
Comrade Spiridon went from being the only person that lived with Lenin, who was not related to him, to becoming the only person who lived with Stalin. And he lived with Stalin for the duration of Stalin&#8217;s reign in the Soviet Union. The only person who shared the insight into the entire thing — from the rise from agrarian peasantry to nuclear superpower. Comrade Spiridon was the only man who was on the inside. He would serve dinner to people who were the heads of the secret police one night and then the next night they were gone. They&#8217;d been killed and replaced. The genuinely remarkable part of this story is that Comrade Spiridon’s last name was Putin. This was Vladimir Putin&#8217;s grandfather.
Vladimir Putin learned about the Soviet Union on his grandfather&#8217;s knee. And so the perspective Vladimir Putin received of the Soviet Union was the most elevated inside perspective that was possible to obtain. No one else in the entire history of the Soviet Union, ever, got that close to both of those men. And to think that it was possible for Vladimir Putin to turn out any other way is insane.
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DW: In light of the upcoming presidential election, do you see elements of communism at play in our politics?
Bill: Well, the first thing I think that stands out about the upcoming election is the lawfare that&#8217;s being conducted against Donald Trump. If these people who are committing these atrocities against him genuinely believed in democracy, if they genuinely believed that their democratic values were better than Republican values, they wouldn&#8217;t be trying to lock up Trump. They&#8217;d be doing everything they could to get him to keep talking. If you feel like your only way to win an election is by having your opponent put in jail, you are well on your way to this kind of totalitarian empire of terror. That&#8217;s number one.
Number two is cancel culture. The Left is using cancel culture as a strong-arm tactic to get people to shut up. And we all know the way it works: “You&#8217;re racist” or “we&#8217;re going to call your boss” or “we&#8217;re going to boycott your product” or whatever. But the point is that the only people who feel they need to shut up the opposition are people who know that their opposition has a better argument. And if they don&#8217;t shut them up, they&#8217;re going to win. One of my favorite sayings is that liberals want conservatives to shut up and conservatives want liberals to keep talking. And that&#8217;s the essence of the difference between these two parties.
I have seen a concerted effort in America over the last several years to silence people. This whole idea of cancel culture is as close as we&#8217;ve come so far to taking people out to the Gulag and shooting them in the back of the head. But there are people who do want other people silenced. And the one thing I did realize is that there comes a tipping point when too many people are too quiet for too long. The social proof is to be quiet. The longer everybody is quiet, the harder it is to speak up. Eventually, it will lead to a situation like the Soviet Union, or the Nazi state. With &#8220;An Empire of Terror,&#8221; I was determined to do my best to make sure that doesn’t happen.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wendy-williams">Wendy Williams</a>’ publicist criticized the producers of the new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/documentary">documentary</a> “Where Is Wendy Williams,” claiming filmmakers took advantage of the media personality.
&#8220;I felt that [Williams] was being exploited,&#8221; Shawn Zanotti told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wendy-williams-documentary-exploits-star-publicist-dementia-rcna140839">NBC News</a>. &#8220;She thought we were focusing on the comeback of her career. &#8230; She would be mortified. There’s no way you can convince me that she would be OK with looking and seeing herself in that way.”
Zanotti, who had been working for the talk show host since 2021, is also featured in the documentary. According to a recent <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/tv/10516677/wendy-williams-manager-will-selby-publicist-shawn-zanotti-out/">report</a> by The Sun, Zanotti has not worked for Williams since May, but those rumors are so far unconfirmed.
She claims the filmmakers intentionally used clips of Williams looking erratic to make her look bad.
“When I mentioned [doing a documentary] to Wendy, she immediately said: &#8216;Yes, I would love to do it. I would love to be able to get my story out there,&#8217;” Zanotti added. 
“That is not the project that [Williams] signed up for,” she said of the finished product. “That’s not the project [the producers] brought to me. That’s not what I told her this was going to be about.”
“There were a lot of good moments. None of those good moments were shown,&#8221; Zanotti added.
One day before “Where Is Wendy Williams” aired, her team announced that the 59-year-old daytime TV host had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Filmmakers <a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/wendy-williams-documentary-backlash-producers-interview-rcna140553">responded</a> during a TODAY interview, saying they didn’t know about her medical diagnosis during filming. 
&#8220;I think we all ultimately wanted to shed light on this period of time in Wendy’s life to help understand what she was going through. I can totally understand how, at times, it’s hard to watch,&#8221; documentary maker Erica Hanson said. &#8220;It was hard at times to film, but we wanted to be honest in painting a real picture of her isolation and her struggle with addiction.&#8221;
She added, &#8220;We didn’t know that she had dementia. We didn’t know that it was confusing at times. Some days, Wendy was on and very Wendy. Other days, she wasn’t. We all felt this was a complex and sensitive story to tell, and we all felt a great responsibility to do it with dignity and sensitivity.”  
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But Zanotti believes they would have gone ahead with filming either way.
&#8220;I don’t think [the diagnosis] would have stopped them at all. The producers were asking questions throughout the entire time — would ask questions where she would somewhat seem confused, and I feel as though it was done to be intentional at that moment in time to make their storyline,&#8221; Williams’ former publicist said. &#8220;Again, this was presented as a documentary to her, but to me, it looked as though it was a reality show of a circus, a circus to her downfall.”

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There’s been something going on with talk show host and entertainment industry Wendy Williams for years. Now her team has officially revealed a diagnosis as a means to &#8220;correct inaccurate and hurtful rumors about her health.”
The rumors have been vicious over the years as Williams, 59, displayed erratic behavior all in full view of the public eye. These incidents included fainting on air during her talk show, canceling multiple episodes due to flu-like symptoms, and voluntarily entering rehab for substance abuse.
Now the talk show host has a new diagnosis via her rep. On Thursday, her team released a statement saying that Williams was battling progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia. Aphasia affects a person’s ability to communicate and can also develop gradually as a result of other degenerative pathologies that impact the brain.
Frontotemporal dementia, which affects behavior and cognitive functions, typically starts with personality changes. These changes progress into memory loss. There is no cure for the disease.
“In 2023, after undergoing a battery of medical tests, Wendy was officially diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD),” the press release said, noting how her symptoms “have already presented significant hurdles in Wendy’s life.”
“The decision to share this news was difficult and made after careful consideration, not only to advocate for understanding and compassion for Wendy, but to raise awareness about aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and support the thousands of others facing similar circumstances,” the statement continued, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wendy-williams-diagnosed-with-aphasia-and-dementia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Unfortunately, many individuals diagnosed with aphasia and frontotemporal dementia face stigma and misunderstanding, particularly when they begin to exhibit behavioral changes but have not yet received a diagnosis.”
Williams hails from Asbury Park, New Jersey. Her mom was a special education teacher while her father was a high school principal. Though Williams’ parents thought she’d become a nurse, she went to college at first to become a television anchor then switched majors to focus on becoming a DJ instead.
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She gained notoriety as a radio DJ and host, eventually becoming a shock jock in New York City. The 2006 VH1 reality television series “The Wendy Williams Experience” documented notorious on-air feuds she had with various celebrities.
“The Wendy Williams Show” daytime talk show launched in 2008 and was hugely successful, expanding from select markets to nationwide prominence. At its height, the show competed with “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” as the most-watched syndicated talk show in their target demographic, which was women aged 25 to 54.
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Williams took a leave of absence due to health issues in 2021. The New Jersey native had told fans she had Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disorder that can cause an overactive thyroid. She also revealed at various points that she suffers from other ailments, including vertigo and lymphedema, a condition that causes swelling.
Shortly after, it was announced that Sherri Shepherd would take over hosting the “The Wendy Williams Show” for the 2022-23 season.
The former radio DJ’s rep said at the time that Williams “understands” why the change had to be made. “It’s been a challenging time for Wendy as she deals with her health issues. She is incredibly grateful to Debmar-Mercury, to Sherri and everybody else who has supported the show through this time,” her rep said at the time, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wendy-williams-reacts-to-sherri-shepherd-replacing-her-following-announcement-that-her-talk-show-is-officially-canceled" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“She, more than anyone, understands the reality of syndicated television — you can’t go to the marketplace and sell a show that’s The Maybe Wendy Show,” the statement continued. “She understands why this decision was made from a business point of view, and she has been assured by Debmar-Mercury that should her health get to a point where she can host again and should her desire be that she hosts again that she would be back on TV at that time.”
Williams also admitted to living in a sober living house in 2019. She had spoken candidly about her addiction issues. “You know I’ve had a struggle with cocaine in my past,” she told her audience during an emotional episode, as Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/entertainment/wendy-williams-health-challenges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “I never went to a place to get the treatment … there are people in your family, it might be you … I want you to know more of the story.”
Besides health concerns, Williams went through personal turmoil after her husband of more than 20 years, Kevin Hunter, fathered a child with his mistress. The talk show host filed for divorce in April 2019 citing irreconcilable differences. Williams and Hunter share a son, Kevin Hunter Jr, who was born in 2000.
The mystery surrounding the talk show host’s personal and medical struggles inspired the Lifetime documentary “Where is Wendy Williams?” which premiered on February 24.
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Williams’ family members claim they didn’t know about her diagnosis while filming the series. “I don’t know, honestly. I don’t know,&#8221; her sister Wanda Finnie told People of the diagnosis. She went on to say how communication with Williams was restricted after the star’s court-ordered guardianship began in April 2022.
“When she was in Florida, there were a number of people involved. Even beyond family, there were doctors involved, people in Wendy’s professional world that were involved,” Finnie continued. “She had a health team in place, nurses in place and she had family in place. She was getting healthier.”
Her son, who had power of attorney for his mom at one point, said he was told Williams was suffering from alcohol-induced issues. “Because she was drinking, I think they said it was alcohol-induced dementia,” Kevin Jr. says in the documentary. He said he tried to stop his mom from drinking.
“We&#8217;ve all seen the images over the last few months — and, really, few years — of what has seemed like a spiral for my aunt,” Williams’ niece Alex Finnie said in the documentary. &#8220;It was shocking and heartbreaking to see her in this state.”
The documentary film crew began documenting Williams’ life in August 2022 and stopped filming Williams in April 2023. The first two episodes of the documentary went into some detail about Williams’ personal struggles, including her alcohol addiction.
&#8220;Well, I love Tito Puente. I love vodka,&#8221; Wendy said in the doc. &#8220;And the problem with Wanda is she&#8217;s my sister. I love Wanda, but she hates that I love alcohol.&#8221;
The talk show host’s friend, Regina Shell, said Williams began abusing alcohol again heavily following her divorce.
Another surprising revelation from the Lifetime series regarded a time when Williams was discovered unresponsive in her apartment in May 2020. Williams&#8217; nephew, Travis Finnie recalled how she was rushed to the hospital and given three blood transfusions.&#8221;
&#8220;DJ Boof was there, and he called us crying saying that she was going to die, and she needs help,&#8221; Finnie said in the documentary. &#8220;We called Kevin, who at the time was her medical proxy. He called the ambulance. The ambulance came. My auntie had three blood transfusions and that&#8217;s the only reason she&#8217;s alive today.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;From what DJ Boof said, it&#8217;s the combination of them just letting her sit in bed and drink liquor, and then thinking she&#8217;s gonna be ready to go.&#8221;
In the documentary, Williams also said she doesn’t have access to her money after having a legal guardian appointed to oversee her finances and health in 2022. The decision was made by her former financial adviser who claimed she was of “unsound mind.”
Williams filed a temporary restraining order against Wells Fargo requesting them to &#8220;reopen any frozen accounts or assets&#8221; and grant her &#8220;access to any and all accompanying statements.&#8221;
&#8220;One judge and three doctors say my money is still stuck at Wells Fargo and I’m going to tell you something, if it happens to me, it could happen to you,&#8221; Williams said in the documentary, per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/wendy-williams-top-5-documentary-bombshells" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Williams’ son Kevin denied claims that he spent any of his mom’s money without permission despite rumors to the contrary.
Several scenes showcase Williams displaying aggressive and erratic behavior.
&#8220;There are some times when Wendy is just a little bit more aggressive, she&#8217;s just a little bit more demanding,&#8221; her manager Will Selby said during the Lifetime documentary. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what it is. I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s something special in the water. At the end of the day, she&#8217;s probably one of the biggest personalities we&#8217;ve seen in quite some time.&#8221;
Her family claims that they are still unable to contact her and only communicate with Williams when she calls them from a blocked number. She’s currently under the care of a guardian and medical professionals at an undisclosed location.

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Too often, reporters prefer narratives over the truth.
If you’re waiting for the mainstream media to apologize for ignoring Hunter Biden’s laptop or promoting the Russian collusion hoax, keep waiting.
That lets documentary filmmakers tell the stories that aren’t being told.
In the past, that’s given us Amanda Milius’ “The Plot Against the President,” which predated the Durham Report’s shocking expose on the Trump/Russia storyline. The 2021 documentary “Rush to Judgment” skewered the press for declaring the Covington Catholic High School kids guilty without having all the facts at their disposal.
This year uncorked three such films, documentaries that shed a harrowing light on corruption. These filmmakers picked up stories reporters wouldn’t touch, and the results proved explosive.
<h2>“The Essential Church” </h2>
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Grace Community Church took the COVID lockdowns on the chin, and the congregation refused to forgive and forget. The church put its grievances on screen via a powerful documentary that connected the past with the uncertain present: &#8220;<a href="https://essentialchurchmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Essential Church.</a>&#8220;
“Church” recalls similar situations when governments stopped citizens from worshiping, giving the film historical heft. Still, reliving the recent lockdown era proves chilling, especially since we’ve learned the measures had little positive impact and plenty of severe ramifications.
The core of the film follows Grace Community Church’s lawsuit against California’s pandemic measures. Head pastor John MacArthur’s fight is echoed north of the Border as two Canadian pastors fight similar battles against similar restrictions. 
This isn’t the first time a Christian community picked up a camera and told a story. In the past, that meant low-budget films with awkward performances and cringe-worthy plots.
“The Essential Church,” in comparison, is handsomely mounted and packs plenty of cinematic polish. The film’s spiritual component is profound, but you don’t have to be a person of faith to process the cruelty behind the lockdown measures or how politicians applied them unequally.
Bustling Black Lives Matter protests could proceed sans restrictions yet sitting before a pastor put everyone’s lives at risk. And they risked severe fines and even jail time for sharing the Holy Word with their flocks.
That may have gone unnoticed by the mainstream press, but the filmmakers behind “Church” couldn’t let it go.
<h2>“Police State”</h2>
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Meet the new Dinesh D’Souza.
The provocateur behind “2016: Obama’s America” and “Trump Card’ no longer nurtures his inner Michael Moore. The stakes are too high, and the evidence he summoned for his most recent films doesn’t require a radically partisan lens.
It’s all scary no matter your party affiliation.
His 2022 documentary “2000 Mules” raised questions about election integrity, complete with footage that should have sent shockwaves through government ranks. 
Now, with “<a href="https://policestatefilm.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Police State</a>,” the immigrant asks if his beloved America is becoming a new form of dictatorship. Sound hyperbolic? You won’t say so after processing D’Souza’s compelling evidence.
Conservatives already know some, but not all, of the terrifying stories the pundit-turned-filmmaker shares. Mothers dubbed “domestic terrorists” for questioning their local school’s curricula. Senior citizens hunted down like criminals for simply standing around the Capitol on Jan. 6. Big Tech platforms teaming with the FBI to prevent citizens from flexing their First Amendment rights.
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Sadly, there are many more tales to be told, and “Police State” assembles them in a cold, calculating fashion. D’Souza admits he couldn’t tell his tale if America had a full-blown “Police State.” He suggests we’re running out of time to prevent that reality, and his case is convincing.
<h2>“The Fall Of Minneapolis”</h2>
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Journalist Liz Collin watched her city burn in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The Minnesota-based TV reporter had a secondary stake in the rancor. Her husband, Bob Kroll, served as the head of the local police union at the time.
That put a target on the couple, realized during a BLM protest that literally came to their front yard. Those gathered took turns <a href="https://patch.com/minnesota/stillwater/protesters-whack-piatas-wcco-reporter-liz-collins-bob-kroll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swatting piñatas dressed as Collin and Kroll</a>, an event featuring a local Democrat running for elected office.
Now, Collin is sharing her side of the Floyd aftermath with “<a href="https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fall of Minneapolis</a>,” streaming for free on Rumble.
Neither Collin nor a crush of talking heads raise their voices about what they call the false narratives that emerged following the black resident’s death.
The tone is relentlessly calm as Collin’s team assembles court documents, eyewitness testimony, and bodycam footage to correct the media’s record on Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and more.
We watch veteran police officers tear up as they recall their orders to abandon their precinct to raging protesters. The former peace officers watched their building go up in flames, lucky to escape with their lives. Their supervisors refused to grant them riot gear to protect them from the bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks hurled at them.
That’s only part of “Fall’s” story.
The film opens with a full body-cam reel leading up to Floyd’s death. We watch local police officers patiently try to put Floyd in their car after he tried to pass off fake money at a local shop. 
They beg and plead for him to obey to no avail, and seconds after Floyd crumples to the ground they summon EMS.
We also learn that Floyd’s initial autopsy results showed no physical damage to his neck, even though the media told us officer Derek Chauvin’s unorthodox police hold prevented the suspect from breathing.
There’s more, so much more, and the alleged corruption spreads to the media, local community organizers &#8230; even the FBI.
None of this would be available to the public without filmmakers eager to ask the tough questions and answer them to the best of their ability.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
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Three Documentaries That Shocked The Mainstream In 2023

Dinesh D’Souza

John MacArthur

Minneapolis

Dinesh D’Souza and Michael Moore have something in common: Both evoked Adolf Hitler in their recent films.
Moore did it, over and again, in his 2018 documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9,” a cartoonish assault on President Donald Trump.
D’Souza opens “<a href="https://policestatefilm.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Police State</a>,” his latest docudrama, with images of der Fuhrer along with Joseph Stalin and Chairman Mao.
Subtle.
Yet, while Moore strained to make any coherent connection to his target, D’Souza’s “Police State” quickly settles into a more credible series of allegations. And he has the headlines to back them up.
The combination of a two-tiered justice system, government-led censorship and an effort to muzzle &#8220;Ma and Pa&#8221; conservatives have America steering toward a “fledgling police state.”
D’Souza, a savvy marketer, knew adding the word “fledgling” would strip his film of its marketing pop. It’s the phrase he uses repeatedly in his new docudrama, a collision of staged reenactments and harrowing talking head interviews.
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The film starts fast, notwithstanding the roll call of 20th century monsters. D’Souza knows few, if any, liberals will watch his new film, but he still could have warmed up to the topics at hand.
He finds a bipartisan entry point by noting how President George W. Bush’s War on Terror tactics embraced after 9/11 eventually turned away from global actors to the home front. And we didn’t see it coming.
Some of “Police State” will feel familiar to conservatives who aggressively read news outlets outside the warped mainstream. Republicans are keenly aware of social media giants blocking inconvenient opinions, no matter how accurate they turn out to be.
Or how Hunter Biden remains free and clear (for now) while former President Donald Trump faces a crush of serious indictments.
Perhaps that’s why the filmmaker recruited actor Nick Searcy to play the literal face of FBI corruption. The “Justified” alum anchors the dramatic recreations, playing an FBI boss overseeing the smackdown on Joe and Jane Sixpack.
Churchgoers. January 6th protesters. Moms who aren’t keen on their children reading dirty books at school.
Ironically, Searcy’s 2022 film “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-film-capitol-punishment-counters-medias-jan-6-insurrection-narrative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Punishment”</a> offers a companion piece to “Police State.” That film showed actual footage of FBI agents barging into suspects’ homes, guns drawn as if they were taking in a terrorist cell, not a beleaguered Trump fanatic.
“Police State” features commentary from Rep. Jim Jordan, Sen. Rand Paul and pundit Dan Bongino, the latter offering a dash of the theatrical. Some of D’Souza’s questions fall into the “leading” category, but the answers leave a mark.
And yet the film hardly needs extra razzle or dazzle. The facts laid out are horrifying enough.
Consider:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The January 6th protestor who hung himself before an over-the-top charge against him could be thrown out of court, according to his grieving aunt.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A concerned mother whose attempts to speak her mind about her children’s school curriculum led to FBI agents breaking into her home.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A senior citizen, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/fbi-tears-new-yorkers-life-into-shreds-devine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Bolanos</a>, gets the cancellation treatment when the local media reports on his microscopic ties to the Jan. 6 protests. That was easy compared to how the FBI treated the pillar of his community.</li>
</ul>
Whistleblowers power much of the narrative. 
Rogue FBI agents Kyle Seraphin and Steve Friend describe the incentives employed to round up real and imagined domestic terrorists. Former Big Tech workers share how some of the most influential platforms in our culture censor opinions considered unwelcome. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter Files, anyone?</a>
Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/rodas-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes the atrocities</a> tied to President Joe Biden’s open border policies, including children being sex trafficked at will.
“Police State” understands that facts and figures only take a project like this so far. It’s why we meet folks like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-activist-prosecuted-by-biden-administration-running-for-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life activist Mark Houck</a> who nearly spent a very long time in jail for pushing an abortion clinic worker after the man verbally harassed his son.
Houck volunteered to turn himself in to the authorities. The authorities opted to raid his home instead, snatching him away from his wife and seven horrified children as if he were a drug cartel kingpin.
Previous D’Souza films delivered the facts and agitprop, even for those who lean to the Right. The pundit and author’s film canon delivers furious broadsides against the Left.
Last year’s “2000 Mules,” which alleged an intricate pattern of voter fraud helped sway the 2020 presidential election, found a subdued D’Souza raising alarming questions about voting integrity.
“Police State” offers a blend of the D’Souza old and newer style. There’s a level of showmanship that’s unmistakable, combined with testimony from people who have suffered at the government’s hands.
D’Souza’s visual style &#8211; shaky camera work combined with sly graphics &#8211; underlines the themes in play. That, plus the bleak color canvas, gives the story a dystopian appeal. The recreations have a sharper feel than past D’Souza efforts, his filmmaking chops growing over time.
The docudrama wraps on an optimistic note, an odd tonal choice given what preceded it.
It’s a shame D’Souza’s conservative brand will keep most progressive viewers far away from “Police State.” Even if he toned down his partisan framing they wouldn’t give his film a fair shake. 
Americans from both parties need to see what’s happening to America, and why even a fledgling police state won’t stop with just one party.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘Police State’ Brings Dystopian America Into Focus

Dinesh D'Souza's ‘Police State’ Brings Dystopian America Into Focus

Biden Administration

Dan Bongino

Some tasks are nearly impossible. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Throwing a fastball north of 100 mph.
Giving Donald Trump a fair shake in a documentary.
Movies like Dinesh D’Souza’s “Trump Card” and, more commonly, “#Unfit,” “You’ve Been Trumped” and Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” arrived with built-in mission statements.
Trump good. Trump bad. Trump Hitler 2.0.
“Trump’s Rosebud” offers something different. Truly.
Robert Orlando’s documentary looks at the former president through a curious lens. Trump’s favorite film is “Citizen Kane,” a tale loosely based on media mogul William Randolph Hearst. The 1941 classic is often considered the <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/why-is-citizen-kane-the-great-movie-ever-made.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">greatest movie ever made</a>.
Why would Trump pick the film as his personal favorite? More importantly, what is Trump’s “Rosebud,” the elusive part of his past that speaks volumes about his pugnacious spirit?
Orlando indulges in some Michael Moore-style tics, inserting himself into the narrative much like the far-Left provocateur often does. The focus, however, remains on the titular Trump.
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The experts aligned to give depth to Trump’s life and career all lean to the Right, no doubt, but they range from all-out sycophants (Sebastian Gorka) to public servants who saw the best and worst of Trump up close (Former Attorney General Bill Barr).
Rounding out the talking head lineup? Blaze TV’s Steve Deace, a fierce Trump critic who still grasps why the GOP darling holds sway over the party.
“Clearly, Trump had a Kane-like drive for fame and attention,” Orlando says, backed by Barr noting the president was often his own worst enemy.
It’s a trip down memory lane, but it’s all recent enough to seem deeply familiar. Yet Orlando’s framing makes the trip worth our while, even if it leaves us deeply worried about the future.
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The movie reminds us of the devastating, Deep State attacks on Trump’s presidency and how he repeatedly stuck his foot in his mouth along the way. The press made some of those attacks stick, a Fake News shark with teeth.
It’s why many fell in love with him in the first place.
“Part of his media savvy was a counter-cultural thing,” Barr notes of Trump’s frequent battles with the press.
We also see a greatest hits medley of Trump “destroying” his GOP rivals during the 2016 primaries, a master class in labels and narrative.
Orlando’s film makes smart use of black and white imagery. We see old-school TVs stacked atop one another, a nod to the past and our current, suffocating media landscape. He supplements grainy clips with graphic novel illustrations of Trump and others, creating a tapestry of black that belies its modest budget.
“Trump’s Rosebud” leaves out plenty of the real estate mogul’s foibles, from the endless array of cruel Tweets to misogynistic slights against women like journalist Megyn Kelly. That could have weighed the film down, though, and those infamous battles are already part of the culture’s DNA.
You don’t walk away from the film thinking Trump is anything close to a saint. Hardly.
What the documentary explores is why Trump behaves as he does, why his very worst instincts also bleed into his best political skills. Barr notes how the president’s dogged mien can work to his advantage, like how he refused to give up on future Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh despite a relentless attack machine fueled by spurious accusations.
Barr can’t help but admire that tenacity, but it’s the same stubborn streak that gets him into trouble again and again.
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What “Trump’s Rosebud” does is show why the real estate mogul ascended to the presidency when he did and how his curious skills proved so beneficial on the campaign trail.
“Rosebud” notes how other politicians would have turned and run at many points in Trump’s contentious days in the Oval Office. Day after day. False media report after false media report.
Not Trump. He thrived on it, be it the attention it gave him or the chance to fight back.
He never quits, never tires. Barr admits it’s a fascinating personal tic, and one that cuts both ways. 
Those traits proved calamitous during the recent pandemic. His blustery touch was no match for a global threat like no other.
The film’s not-so-secret weapon is Barr, who worked closely enough with Trump to assess him in a fair manner. Trump slimed Barr on the way out, too, but Barr’s lawyerly pose allows him to call balls and strikes in a way that helps the viewer. The days of settling grudges in the public arena are behind Barr.
Trump makes it impossible for a consensus to form on anything he touches, including a documentary purporting to be fair and balanced. For now, “Trump’s Rosebud” is a clear-eyed testament to a fascinating figure, one that brings both clarity and balance to the subject.
And, chances are, few will agree with that summation.
What’s less up for debate? That Trump was and remains a symbol, and how his presence suggests the United States’ current divisions will only get worse.
To watch Trump&#8217;s Rosebud visit: www.trumpsrosebud.com
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Soccer star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">David Beckham</a> corrected his wife of 24 years, Victoria, when she claimed to come from a “working class&#8221; background.
The moment happened as part of the new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix">Netflix</a> docuseries “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Beckham</a>,” which recounts David’s career and personal life. Victoria, best known as “Posh Spice” from the popular musical group The Spice Girls, was explaining her initial attraction to her husband. 
She said, “I think also we both come from families that work really hard. Both of our parents work very hard, we’re very working class.”
David interrupted from the next room and corrected his wife, urging her to “Be honest!”
“I am being honest,” Victoria said. Then David pushed her, asking, “What car did your dad drive you to school in?”
At that point, the mom of four started backtracking, saying, “It’s not a simple answer” and “It depends.” After more pressure from her husband, Victoria admitted, “OK, in the ’80s my dad had a Rolls Royce.”
“Thank you,” David said, shutting the door.
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David and Victoria met at a soccer match in 1997 and eventually became an “it couple” of their time. They married in 1999 and have four children. 
Elsewhere in the Netflix series, Victoria <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/david-beckhams-wife-victoria-admits-resented-soccer-star-during-circus-followed-affair-rumors">alluded</a> to alleged affairs David had in the early 2000s. The pop singer confirmed she “resented” her husband at the time. &#8220;It was the most unhappy I have ever been in my entire life,&#8221; she said.
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The pair lived separately for one year after the allegations came to light. 
&#8220;It was the hardest period because it felt like the world was against us,&#8221; Victoria said in the series. &#8220;Here’s the thing – we were against each other, if I’m being completely honest,&#8221; she explained.
“I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was and how it affected me,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It was an absolute circus – and everyone loves it when the circus comes to town, right? Unless you’re in it.” 
David denied the affair allegations from two women who came forward at the time. He also said he thought his marriage was “worth fighting for.” 
&#8220;I don’t know how we got through it, in all honesty,&#8221; David said. &#8220;Victoria is everything to me, to see her hurt was incredibly difficult, but we’re fighters and at that time we needed to fight for each other, we needed to fight for our family.&#8221;

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We are continuing our dive into my docuseries, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/convicting-a-murderer#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Convicting a Murderer,”</a> and as I’ve heard from many viewers, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-6-the-key-the-license-plate-call" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode 6</a> (which just came out last Thursday) is the episode that changed the game. This is the episode that reveals the true lengths the documentary makers of “Making a Murderer” went to in order to position Steven Avery as an innocent man. For people who have never watched the Netflix docuseries or haven’t kept up with “Convicting a Murderer,” this episode is the perfect time to join, and it makes clear how stories can be easily manipulated to create a desired narrative. 
Detective Andrew Colborn endured an exorbitant amount of stress after the Netflix documentary premiered because people believed what they were watching was actual, chronological footage from the testimony. What they didn’t realize was that much of the footage of Colborn had been copied and pasted. Colborn ended up suing Netflix because of the false depiction of his testimony.
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In “Making a Murderer,” Colborn’s body language comes across as suspicious when he testifies about his call to dispatch. But what viewers were not aware of was that some of Colborn’s reaction shots were from different parts of the trial. Three of them were taken about 45 minutes earlier in the trial. In one, he is just waiting for his first question.
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He sits up later in that shot, and the documentary makers use it when Dean Strang, Avery’s attorney, says he is going to play the dispatch call.
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It becomes their go-to shot of Colborn. They use it again less than a minute later, and then they use it a third time, again, out of place. What really happened before Strang played the call looks to me as though Colborn is just simply bored out of his mind.
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When Strang poses the infamous integrity question, he asks, “This is the first time your integrity has been questioned?” Colborn’s actual reaction is what they use last when they ask about the license plate. Viewers were led to believe Colborn was lying because he looks uncomfortable as he sits, wringing his hands as though he’s been caught.
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In actuality, the trial footage stays on Strang when he asks about the plate. The next time Colborn appears in the footage, he’s answering an altogether different question. Furthermore, Colborn’s testimony about the car as it was portrayed had been edited; viewers, again, did not realize this.
Avery’s defense attorneys ask Colborn about the dispatch call after finding the car: “Well, you can understand how someone listening to that might think that you were calling in a license plate that you were looking at on the back end of a 1999 Toyota.” His response in the docuseries is a nervous “yes.” But in real life, that question and answer exchange never happened. Attorney Kratz objected and that objection was sustained. Colborn’s “yes” was an answer to the exact opposite question: “This call sounded like hundreds of other license plates or registration checks you’ve done through dispatch before?” That is the question to which Colborn answered “yes.” The call was not suspicious. It was perfectly ordinary.
Obviously, the documentary makers seem to have manipulated the film to create a testimony that was not accurate, and it is important to ask why. If Colborn’s testimony is consistent with what they originally presented, why did they doctor it? Why did they want to manipulate their audience? It’s almost as though they needed to have a bad guy. But Colborn is not that guy. If they really thought Steven Avery was framed by the police, they wouldn’t have had to edit a testimony to show the truth.
There is no justification for that. It is utterly unethical. And we must keep asking questions.
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In Episode 6 of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/convicting-a-murderer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Convicting a Murderer</a>,” Candace Owens shreds the narrative surrounding the suspicious discovery of the RAV4 key in Steven Avery’s bedroom. 
The episode, titled “The Key &amp; the License Plate Call,” was released Thursday and features more details surrounding the key to Teresa Halbach’s vehicle being found by Manitowoc County law enforcement officers that many people allege was planted in Avery’s bedroom by police. In the episode, Owens also looks into editing choices made by the filmmakers of the hit Netflix docuseries “Making a Murderer.” 
“After ‘Making a Murderer,’ the filmmakers were questioned about some of their editing choices by several news outlets,” Owens says in the episode. “They responded typically the same way: That those questioning them simply misunderstood their intentions or thought that they knew more than they really did. But that still doesn&#8217;t explain why they omitted some of the most important evidence.”
In episode 6, viewers will find answers to key questions raised by “Making a Murderer,” such as how the RAV4 key was found in Avery’s trailer and why Halbach’s DNA wasn’t found on the RAV4 key. 
“The key was absolutely the biggest piece of evidence that viewers to this day believe was planted. Lt. Lenk and Sgt. Colborn were just in Avery’s bedroom the prior Saturday night and they didn’t see the key in that cabinet. And they were also in Avery’s trailer on other occasions and still somehow missed it,” Owens says. “The key, therefore, became this huge conspiracy theory.”
“Convicting a Murderer” pulls back the curtain on what viewers missed in “Making a Murderer.” The 10-episode series contains exclusive interviews with subjects not included in the Netflix show, including law enforcement officers, family members, and fans-turned-investigators whose lives have been profoundly impacted by the case.
The Daily Wire series <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-owens-convicting-a-murderer-jumps-to-1-spot-on-rotten-tomatoes-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit the #1 spot</a> on Rotten Tomatoes’ “Best Documentary TV Shows” list last week, where it still stands. “Convicting a Murderer” is now the most popular documentary TV show, sitting ahead of FX’s “Welcome to Wrexham” and Apple TV’s “The Super Models.”
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Next Thursday, DailyWire+ will release episode 7, titled “The Vial of Blood,&#8221; where Owens will investigate one of the biggest bombshells in “Making a Murderer.” The next episode will also examine details of Brendan Dassey’s disturbing bombshell confession to investigators while Halbach was still considered a “missing person.” 
“It is so important to stress that prior to this date of February 27th, the police did not have Brendan Dassey on their radar at all. … Now they&#8217;re talking to him and he&#8217;s saying things about a golf cart, he&#8217;s talking about a bonfire that he had with his uncle Steven. He&#8217;s talking about seeing Teresa Halbach&#8217;s toes and belly and forehead in the fire,” Owens says. “I mean, this was a major breakthrough in the case.”
If you missed the first six episodes of “Convicting a Murderer,” you can still catch up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/convicting-a-murderer#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;mid=g&amp;cid=dailywire&amp;xid=0&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwu4WoBhBkEiwAojNdXjN8uPCtnyw59vrnbnUDXsxl6dP4p24tc1hls1kneFVB8EX0NiZ9WRoCcgMQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">become a member</a> to follow the rest of the series. The remaining four episodes will debut weekly on DailyWire+ every Thursday.
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‘Convicting A Murderer’ Recap: Candace Owens Dissects Narrative Surrounding RAV4 Key In Episode 6

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The DailyWire+ true crime docuseries “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/convicting-a-murderer#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Convicting a Murderer</a>,” starring Candace Owens, hit the #1 spot on Rotten Tomatoes’ “Best Documentary TV Shows” list this week. 
“Convicting a Murderer” is now the <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/browse/tv_series_browse/genres:documentary~sort:popular" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most popular</a> documentary TV show, sitting ahead of FX’s “Welcome to Wrexham” and Apple TV’s “The Super Models.” The DailyWire+ series, which reveals what filmmakers left out of the popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” premiered on September 7 and released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-5-manitowoc-s-involvement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode 5</a> of the 10-part series Thursday. 
The Netflix series “Making a Murderer” portrayed convicted criminal Steven Avery as an innocent victim of corrupt law enforcement in the murder of Teresa Halbach. “Making a Murderer” sparked a worldwide fascination in the case, attracting around 19 million viewers, but “Convicting a Murderer” pulls back the curtain on what viewers missed in “Making a Murderer.” 
“Convicting a Murderer” currently holds a <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/convicting_a_murderer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">71% audience score</a> on Rotten Tomatoes even after Avery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-steven-avery-directing-supporters-to-tank-candace-owens-convicting-a-murderer-review-score" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> to be directing his supporters to tank the audience review score of Owens’ docuseries. 
“IMPORTANT: Steven is asking for all his supporters to flood Rotten Tomatoes and give ‘Convicting a Murderer’ a bad review,” reads a post on the 36,000-member Facebook group called “Steven Avery is INNOCENT.” 
“This garbage and vitriol is NOT TRUE and we need our community to step up and let … Owens know that STEVEN AVERY IS INNOCENT!” the post added. 
Before the post, “Convicting a Murderer” was boasting an average review score in the 90s, but is now seeing a drop in that score, down to 71%. Notably, it was just hours after this Facebook post was issued that “CAM” was flooded with bad reviews.
Despite the efforts of Avery’s supporters to tank the audience score, it’s clear audiences love the series. 
“Blown away by [Candace Owens’] new docuseries ‘Convicting a Murderer’ on [The Daily Wire]. Congrats, Candace!” <a href="https://twitter.com/adamcarolla/status/1701709667347706365?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> comedian and radio personality Adam Carolla. 
“Episode 5 of ‘Convicting a Murderer’ has been released today and all I can say is WOW,” X user Tuesday Gazette <a href="https://twitter.com/TuesdayGazette/status/1704909034850226476?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The misleading narrative from the original #stevenavery doc is extremely disappointing.”
“[Candace Owens], Thank you for doing #ConvictingAMurderer &#8211; Someone has to tell Teresa Halbach&#8217;s story!” <a href="https://twitter.com/JimClemente/status/1700314024578269464?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> former New York State Prosecutor and FBI profiler Jim Clemente. 
The 10-episode series contains exclusive interviews with subjects not included in the Netflix show, including law enforcement officers, family members, and fans-turned-investigators whose lives have been profoundly impacted by the case.
The latest episode in the series, titled “Manitowoc’s Involvement,” dives into Steven Avery’s $36 million lawsuit against Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, for his wrongful conviction in 1985. If you missed the first five episodes of “Convicting a Murderer,” you can still catch up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/convicting-a-murderer#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;mid=g&amp;cid=dailywire&amp;xid=0&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwu4WoBhBkEiwAojNdXjN8uPCtnyw59vrnbnUDXsxl6dP4p24tc1hls1kneFVB8EX0NiZ9WRoCcgMQAvD_BwE&amp;_gl=1*1r7ptn7*_ga*MTYyMzczMjEwMi4xNjk0MTAyMDQx*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY5NTQwNjI1Mi42NS4xLjE2OTU0MTEzMDkuNjAuMC4w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">become a member</a> to follow the rest of the series. The remaining five episodes will debut weekly on DailyWire+ every Thursday.

Candace Owens’ ‘Convicting A Murderer’ Jumps To #1 Spot On Rotten Tomatoes List

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Episode 4 of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/convicting-a-murderer#?utm_campaign=convicting&amp;utm_medium=memexp&amp;utm_source=wisepops&amp;utm_content=banner_web_desktop_camshowpage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Convicting a Murderer</a>,” starring Candace Owens, was released on DailyWire+ Thursday, revealing bombshell audio that was left out of “Making a Murderer.” 
In the episode titled “Shifting Timelines,” viewers will hear 15-second audio from a dispatch call that sheds light on the Steven Avery case. “Shifting Timelines” also highlights some of the disturbing behavior Avery showcased before murdering 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach. 
“If the filmmakers were honestly trying to tell a complete story of what happened that day, why would they omit so many different things?” Owens asks in the episode. 
The episode details important facts from the case that were left out of “Making a Murderer,” such as a revealing answering machine message from Halbach, a strange decision made by Avery before he placed a call, and important context on a call between a police officer and dispatch that “Making a Murderer” filmmakers left out.
“These are all things that if you’re really trying to tell a full story, then you should include it because it’s a part of the case. These are the facts,” Owens says. 
The Netflix series “Making a Murderer” portrayed Avery as an innocent victim of corrupt law enforcement in the murder of Halbach, sparking a worldwide fascination in the case and attracting around 19 million viewers. 
“Convicting a Murderer” pulls back the curtain on what viewers missed in “Making a Murderer.” The 10-episode series contains exclusive interviews with subjects not included in the Netflix show, including law enforcement officers, family members, and fans-turned-investigators whose lives have been profoundly impacted by the case. The series, which premiered last week, already has a 92% Rotten Tomatoes audience score, even as mainstream critics and media outlets refuse to review it.
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Next Thursday, DailyWire+ will release episode 5, “Manitowoc’s Involvement,” which unravels the narrative that Avery was targeted because of his $36 million lawsuit against the city of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The episode will answer questions regarding Avery’s lawsuit, including why Manitowoc officers were involved in the murder investigation. 
If you missed the first four episodes of “Convicting a Murderer,” you can still catch up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/convicting-a-murderer#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;mid=g&amp;cid=dailywire&amp;xid=0&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwu4WoBhBkEiwAojNdXjN8uPCtnyw59vrnbnUDXsxl6dP4p24tc1hls1kneFVB8EX0NiZ9WRoCcgMQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">become a member</a> to follow the rest of the series. The remaining six episodes will be released weekly on DailyWire+ every Thursday.
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