Media Matters Digs Up Old Tucker Carlson Audio. Carlson Fires Back.

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Obama&#8217;s former Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan responded to President Donald Trump&#8217;s Wednesday speech on illegal immigration by noting that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents regularly apprehend &#8220;murderers, rapists, pedophiles, other violent offenders, and gang members.&#8221;
Morgan made the remarks while appearing on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221; with host Tucker Carlson immediately following Trump&#8217;s Oval Office address.
&#8220;Before I was even chief of Border Patrol, I served on the FBI for two decades,&#8221; he told Carlson. &#8220;One of my assignments was I led the El Paso office. From my office right on the border, I could see Juarez. Every day, Tucker, we worked the DEA and all components of DHS. And we worked human trafficking cases, we worked drug cases, and we worked drug and gang cases, all impacting the southern border.&#8221;
&#8220;And then as chief, every single day, Tucker, I was briefed every single day about the men and women who are risking their lives every day and they&#8217;re apprehending murderers, rapists, pedophiles, other violent offenders, and gang members,&#8221; Morgan continued. &#8220;That is not manufactured, that is real, and that&#8217;s a fact and it&#8217;s still happening today.&#8221;
Morgan also addressed the Democrats&#8217; unsubstantiated claim that this is a &#8220;manufactured crisis,&#8221; a notion that even The Washington Post dismisses.
&#8220;And I would say, one last point is, 127 Border Patrol agents have died,&#8221; Morgan added. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t die playing Monopoly. They died defending, being the frontline defenders of our borders, trying to apprehend 17,000 people, the bad people, that Secretary Nielsen mentioned. I wondered if he asked their families if this was a manufactured crisis.&#8221;
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Obama&#8217;s fmr. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan: &#8220;I was briefed every single day about the men and women who are risking their lives every day and they&#8217;re apprehending murderers, rapists, pedophiles, other violent offenders, and gang members. That is not manufactured, that is real&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/doyB6lCgyq">pic.twitter.com/doyB6lCgyq</a>
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Full transcript provided via <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/01/10/former-border-patrol-chief-obliterates-liberal-medias-fact">NewsBusters</a>:
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TUCKER CARLSON: Joining us tonight is Mark Morgan he&#8217;s the former head of the Border Patrol under Barack Obama was then replaced by the Trump administration and we&#8217;re glad to talk to him again for the second time this week. Mr. Morgan, thanks a lot for coming back. When you hear the term &#8220;Manufactured crisis&#8221; from politicians and their lackeys in the press, what is your response?
MARK MORGAN: My response is those people that are saying that&#8212;Anybody that says that, Tucker, is misinformed and they&#8217;re misleading the American people. So before I was even chief of Board Patrol, I served on the FBI or two decades. One of my assignments was I led the El Paso office. From my office right on the border, I could see Juarez. Every day, Tucker, we worked the DEA and all components of DHS. And we worked human trafficking cases, we worked drug cases, and we worked drug and gang cases, all impacting the southern border.
And then as chief, every single day, Tucker, I was briefed every single day about the women you are risking their lives every day and they&#8217;re apprehending murderers, rapists, pedophiles, other violent offenders, and gang members. That is not manufactured, that is real, and that&#8217;s a fact and it&#8217;s still happening today.
And I would say, one last point is, 127 Border Patrol agents have died. They didn&#8217;t die playing Monopoly. They died defending, being the frontline defenders of our borders, trying to apprehend 17,000 people, the bad people, that Secretary Nielsen mentioned. I wondered if he asked their families if this was a manufactured crisis.
CARLSON: I do wonder that. I do wonder what people serving on the border of all backgrounds and political beliefs think when, they hear these self-appointed experts on television refer to this as a manufactured crisis.
MORGAN: And I think that&#8217;s the point. Self-appointed experts. Go to the experts that are really working that. I&#8217;ll say, the President has done that. The President is talking to the leadership of CBP and the Border Patrol, and the rank in &amp; file, and those are experts and they&#8217;re saying, &#8220;the wall works&#8221;. It doesn&#8217;t work everywhere. It&#8217;s not the end all to be all, but it works.
CARLSON: So I want to run a couple of facts by you that I can watch journalists tell me last night in the fact-check segments. The first is that drugs don&#8217;t really come across our border. They come through our ports is that true.
MORGAN: Again, a complete disingenuous statement. So you want to say, because more drugs enter the points of entry, therefore it&#8217;s not a problem in between the ports. That&#8217;s just fictitious. It is correct, more drugs, enter throughout point of entry. But Tucker, millions and millions of pounds of drugs, still enter through the ports of entry.
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CARLSON: Now, I saw a lot of people who had the air of authority about them, and really seemed to know what they were talking about, last night claim that every study has shown that illegal immigrants to this country, commit crime at a lower rate than native-born Americans. We do this topic a lot and we&#8217;re pretty converse in the social science of it. I&#8217;ve never seen that study. Where are those numbers from, do you know?
MORGAN: I&#8217;ve never seen the study either and I pose that to somebody to show me that stat and show me how they can come up with that. Because can I show you the opposite. The sheriff Yuma Arizona just published an article today, where he talked about in 2005, when they started putting the fence &#8212; the wall up in his area, violent crime, all crime drastically reduced in his area.
CARLSON: So you&#8217;re saying &#8212; I don&#8217;t want to blow anyone&#8217;s mind here, but the people telling us that they were fact-checking the speech may not have really known what they were talking about?
MORGAN: That&#8217;s absolutely what I&#8217;m saying.
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Obama’s Border Patrol Chief Debunks Democrat Talking Points About Border

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In Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/38704/ep-257-two-different-worlds">The Michael Knowles Show</a>,&#8221; Knowles pointed out the hypocrisy of CNN complaining about media bias. 
After playing a clip of Brian Stelter complaining about Fox News&#8217; focus on the migrant caravan instead of the government global warming report, Knowles points out the irony of the left-leaning anchor&#8217;s comments. 
&#8220;Brian Stelter&#8217;s contention, his issue is not about the report itself, it&#8217;s that Fox News isn&#8217;t covering the Global Warming Executive Agency report with wall-to-wall coverage,&#8221; said Knowles. &#8220;Why not? Well, let&#8217;s think of some other stories. There&#8217;s a story that came out about Amanda Ferguson Weyant, a young teacher who was killed by an illegal alien, Joel Velasquez. He is 24 years old. He&#8217;s an illegal alien. It was a hit and run. This guy was out on bond already for an assault charge. He went and he killed this poor girl. He didn&#8217;t even stop. Eventually they caught up with him, thank goodness.&#8221;
&#8220;So let&#8217;s play that game,&#8221; Knowles joked. &#8220;Let&#8217;s play Brian Stelter game! Can we cut to CNN&#8217;s coverage of the Amanda Ferguson Weyant killing by the illegal alien? Can we cut to that coverage? No? We can&#8217;t, because there&#8217;s no coverage of it. None whatsoever. So we can play this game all day, can&#8217;t we, Brian Stelter? And, by the way, which story do you think is more important? The Sun Monster which is going to kill us all in 2002 or 2007 or 2013 or whenever? Now they&#8217;re predicting the world is going to end, and it never ends.&#8221;
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Brian Stelter&#8217;s contention, his issue is not about the report itself, it&#8217;s that Fox News isn&#8217;t covering the Global Warming Executive Agency report with wall-to-wall coverage. Why not? Well, let&#8217;s think of some other stories. There&#8217;s a story that came out about Amanda Ferguson Weyant, a young teacher who was killed by an illegal alien, Joel Velasquez. He is 24 years old. He&#8217;s an illegal alien. It was a hit and run. This guy was out on bond already for an assault charge. He went and he killed this poor girl. He didn&#8217;t even stop. Eventually they caught up with him, thank goodness.
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So let&#8217;s play that game! Let&#8217;s play Brian Stelter game! Can we cut to CNN&#8217;s coverage of the Amanda Ferguson Weyant killing by the illegal alien? Can we cut to that coverage?
No? We can&#8217;t, because there&#8217;s no coverage of it. None whatsoever. So we can play this game all day, can&#8217;t we Brian Stelter? And, by the way, which story do you think is more important? The Sun Monster which is going to kill us all in 2002 or 2007 or 2013 or whenever?
Now they&#8217;re predicting the world is going to end and it never ends.
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Or a real American woman, a real American citizen, a young teacher who was killed by a criminal who was not supposed to be in this country to begin with? A guy who was in this country illegally, out on bond, for an assault charge killed her and tried to drive away. Tried to flee the scene. Which is a more relevant story? Which story speaks more to people&#8217;s lives? Obviously, the story about illegal immigration. These are having real effects on people&#8217;s lives, on the economy, on their jobs, on their families, on obviously people who are injured or killed by illegal aliens.
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That number should be a zero, because none of them are supposed to be in the country. Sometimes, the left will come out and say that rates of criminality among illegal aliens are lower than for the general population. First of all, that statistic is not true and it&#8217;s been refuted by a lot of different studies, but you have your statistics. I have my statistics. I&#8217;m sure you can find some surveys that show that that is true. The point is it&#8217;s illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is illegal. It&#8217;s as simple as that. The true number of people who should be injured or killed by illegal aliens is zero, because not a single one of them is supposed to be in this country. So, those are two issues.
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Now, what does Brian Stelter make of this as his broader point? What is the actual CNN thesis for today? Take it away.
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That&#8217;s a great point. Brian Stelter is actually making a perfectly correct observation. It is right now if you look at the news media, the mainstream media and, then the Daily wire or maybe Fox News or a couple newspapers, CRTV. There&#8217;s just the handful of new media right-wingers. It is true, they present different stories. That is media bias. What Brian Stelter would prefer is if we only had one perspective that was being put out there. What he wants is when it was only the left that controlled the news media. It&#8217;s like two different widths. It&#8217;s as though different Americans have different perspectives. Yes, of course.
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What creates those two different worlds in the news media is the selection of stories and this is by the way where most of the bias is in the media. The trouble with the New York Times, even with CNN, frankly is not so much the caliber of the reporting. The Times still has pretty good reporters. Even the Washington Post sort of has good reporters. That isn&#8217;t the issue. The issue is which stories are being run and which stories are not being run.
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When Sheryl Atkinson, one of the last journalists in America, left CBS, it wasn&#8217;t because they were yelling at her over something she wrote. It wasn&#8217;t because of anything like that. It was that the stories were being killed. They were being squashed. They wanted to talk about only stories that were favorable to the left. No stories that were favorable to the right. This is what a worldview is and Brian Stelter is right to people like him and to people at the New York Times.
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This scary scary Sun monster, as Drew calls it, global warming, global cooling, whatever the hypothetical negative effects of climate change, none of which we are experiencing right now. None of which have been credibly and reliably proven to be happening in any short period of time. None of which have been proven, have been demonstrated to be caused by human beings and human efforts. They are so much more concerned and worried about that. That religion of environmentalism, that religion of global warming, than they are about illegal alien criminals killing Americans.
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At least he&#8217;s honest. At least Brian Stelter is honest. My worldview is a worldview that prefers real to the theoretical, the near to the far, the tangible to the abstract.
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And so when I see Americans having their livelihoods disrupted or ended by a major problem: 2000 illegal aliens crossing the border every single day at least. You&#8217;ve got a whole hoard, a whole Caravan marching through, threatening to storm across the border. That to me is a greater concern than the Sun is heating up and the atmosphere is trapping too much heat in and whatever worry they have today.
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WATCH: Michael Knowles Points Out CNN’s Hypocrisy On Media Bias

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On Friday, the debut of Tim Allen&#8217;s sitcom &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; drew an impressive 8 million viewers on Fox, according to <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/last-man-standing-ratings-fox-1202962065/amp/">Variety</a>. The outlet notes that the sitcom&#8217;s 1.8 in adults 18-49 is the highest the show has received since its second season on ABC.
&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; began its initial six-season run on ABC in 2011. It was cancelled in 2017 despite being ABC&#8217;s <a href="https://deadline.com/2017/05/last-man-standing-canceled-by-abc-after-6-seasons-1202089263/">second highest-rated comedy</a>, trailing &#8220;Modern Family&#8221; by approximately half a million viewers in Live+7 ratings.
ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey claimed that the cancellation was due to &#8220;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/why-last-man-standing-was-canceled-tim-allen-responds-1004414">many factors</a>,&#8221; one of which was the network&#8217;s move away from comedy on Friday nights. There was also <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/5/12/15628038/last-man-standing-canceled-tim-allen">speculation</a> that the cancellation was due in part to licensing costs as the show was produced by 20th Century Fox.
Whatever the reason, Dungey <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/07/last-man-standing-cancellation-fans-skeptical-abcs-excuse-for-axing-show.html">insists</a> that &#8220;politics had absolutely nothing to do with it.&#8221;
Following the cancellation, Allen said he was &#8220;blindsided,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/09/27/tim-allen-thinks-conservative-politics-might-be-why-last-man-standing-got-canceled/?utm_term=.82b40428b0d4">adding</a>:
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There&#8217;s nothing more dangerous to me, especially in this climate, than a funny, likable conservative. That was the most dangerous thing. Because he was mitigated on his show by a family of women that had different opinions &#8212; but the guy was a likable guy, a principled guy, just about work and ethics and all this stuff. I think there&#8217;s nothing more dangerous now than a likable conservative character.
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Shortly after the cancellation, a Change.org petition was signed by <a href="https://www.change.org/p/abc-network-save-tim-allen-s-show-last-man-standing">nearly 450,000</a> people protesting ABC&#8217;s decision, and asking for a revival. Where ABC was unmoved, Fox saw an opportunity, <a href="http://www.foxflash.com/fox/content/last-man-standing%E2%80%9D-starring-tim-allen-air-fox-during-2018-2019-season">announcing in May</a> that they had picked up the sitcom for a seventh season.
It appears, at least for now, that Fox made the right call.

‘Last Man Standing’ Revival Debut A Ratings Winner For Fox

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Television networks have not been subtle about hiding their disdain for people who do not believe in progressive ideology. Since &#8220;The Brave&#8221;was canceled by NBC in May, conservatives have very few entertainment options.
The Media Research Council highlights several television shows in this week&#8217;s fall action TV premieres that chose political correctness over storytelling. The shows decided to ignore the rhetoric of Antifa, the growing threat of gang violence in Democrat-run cities, or the deadly reality of radical Islamic terror. Instead, showrunners decided to target ICE, the rich, and the tired stereotype of white people in general as the main antagonists. 
As the MRC <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/09/26/mayans-mc-takes-border-defending-racist-yahoos">reports</a>, in the FX series &#8220;Sons of Anarchy&#8221; spinoff &#8220;Mayans MC,&#8221; a group of U.S. border vigilantes are portrayed as violent Mexican-hating white supremacists (complete with the Confederate battle flag). The entire premise is based on white Americans wanting to keep brown people from crossing into the United States. There is no discussion or reference to victims of criminal aliens involved in the drug cartels.
The season premiere of CBS&#8217; &#8220;FBI&#8221; echoes this <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/rebecca-downs/2018/09/26/fbi-dick-wolfs-new-show-premieres-old-liberal-terrorist-trope">sentiment</a>. After a bombing in Southern Bronx, the heroic agents at first suspect rival gangs until the bomb seems to match one used against a synagogue by a white supremacist group, a not-so-subtle reference to the leftist charge that white people are to be blamed for crime in the inner city. This theme continues throughout the episode. 
Racial issues are not the only topic that television chose to portray in a left-wing manner. 
Fox &#8220;X-Men&#8221; franchise spinoff &#8220;The Gifted&#8221; portrayed an armed group known as the Sentinel Services rounding up and shooting unarmed <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/09/25/x-men-show-deadly-apartment-raid-looks-lot-ice">mutants</a>. Series creator Matt Nix told <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/09/24/the-gifted-season-2-preview-matt-nix/">EW</a> that the group, &#8220;sure looks a lot like an ICE [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement] raid.&#8221; It is not mentioned that ICE has primarily been targeting illegal aliens that have criminal records.
CBS&#8217; &#8220;<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/rebecca-downs/2018/09/25/bull-demonizes-rich-always-manage-get-theirs">Bull</a>&#8221; shames protagonist Dr. Jason Bull (Michael Weatherly), director of a jury analytics firm, for accumulating wealth and being able to afford healthcare while his firm represents an insurance company being sued by a woman in need of a liver transplant. Several side-characters confront Bull about his wealth, saying that his own recent heart attack is not comparable to the woman&#8217;s issue, simply because he has money. 
Network and cable television have been infected with politically correct programming, but there was always a form of subtlety to the stories they were trying to tell. This made the shows at least enjoyable, even if the audiences disagreed with the message. 
The narrative is now shifting from the subtle to the obvious and it is not going unnoticed. The ratings indicate that viewers are putting up with it for now, but when Tim Allen&#8217;s sitcom &#8220;<a href="https://dev.dailywire.com/news/35860/tim-allen-state-comedy-it-really-dancing-thinnest-jacob-airey">Last Man Standing</a>,&#8221; regarded as a Pro-Trump show by both the Right and Left, was canceled, the audience outrage brought it back to a new network which saw the financial potential. 
That is the key. If the viewers use the power of the remote, either to change the channel or turn it off, the networks will get the message because it will hurt where it matters most. Their wallets.

This Week In TV Bias: Networks Shame The Rich, ICE, And White People In General

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Democratic Michigan House of Representatives candidate Jennifer Suidan has been accused of embezzling at least $100,000 from a fellow Democratic candidate during her time employed at a Southfield, Michigan-based law firm.
Suidan is running for Michigan House District 39 in Oakland County, just outside of Detroit. She is facing Republican Ryan Berman and libertarian Anthony Croff in the general election. 
Fox News <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/25/michigan-house-candidate-allegedly-embezzled-more-than-100k-from-another-campaign.html">reports</a> that on Monday, Oakland County Treasurer Andy Meisner leveled the allegations of &#8220;misappropriated money&#8221; against Suidan, who was working as his re-election campaign committee&#8217;s record keeper while employed at local law firm Goodman Acker.
In a statement released on Twitter, he said that Suidan &#8220;has betrayed my trust and the trust of all who expected her to perform her duties honestly and in compliance with the law.&#8221;
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Meisner, who had previously endorsed Suidan&#8217;s candidacy for the Michigan legislature, has stated that he will no longer support her candidacy. 
Local station Fox2 <a href="http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/democratic-candidate-for-michigan-house-accused-of-embezzling-100k">reports</a> that the Michigan Democratic Party released a statement denouncing Suidan and called her to step aside from the campaign. 
&#8220;The allegations against Jennifer Suidan are serious, and the only appropriate response is for her to suspend her campaign and we expect her to do so immediately,&#8221; they said. &#8220;These allegations have no impact or connection to the rest of our candidates and we remain focused on the issues that matter to Michigan families.&#8221;
Goodman Acker also denounced Suidan and seemingly confirmed the allegations that she embezzled funds over a period of six months while she was in their employ. 
Neither Suidan nor her campaign has released a statement regarding the accusations at this time, but her Facebook and Twitter accounts have been either deleted or placed in private.

Michigan Democratic Candidate Accused Of Embezzlement, Asked To Step Down

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Tim Allen expressed his concern over the state of comedy at a recent event, suggesting that it can be &#8220;dangerous&#8221; for comedians who might say the wrong thing and offend someone in the audience. 
&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re going to say to offend people,&#8221; the &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; actor said. 
Allen made the comments at this year&#8217;s PaleyFest in Beverly Hills, California on Thursday, Fox News <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/09/13/last-man-standing-star-tim-allen-on-difficulty-trying-not-to-offend-people-it-s-like-dancing-on-thinnest-ice.html">reports</a>. Given the current hypersensitive climate, he suggested he has to use caution during his performances to avoid any blowback from his act.
&#8220;It is really like dancing on the thinnest ice,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in the comedy world for 30 years as a comic and there&#8217;s nothing more dangerous right now for all of the comics I know, what we can and cannot say.&#8221;
Allen went to on to say that he brings a certain amount of &#8220;anarchism&#8221; into the &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; writers&#8217; room. 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like being told what I can and cannot say and who&#8217;s telling me what I can&#8217;t do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I really appreciate where these guys go because our writers are all over the map, and with writing just the stuff you do in your life.&#8221;
Allen made similar comments in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35817/tim-allen-trump-maybe-it-took-type-guy-get-stuff-paul-bois">interview</a> with Entertainment Weekly in which he described himself as a &#8220;political anarchist.&#8221;
&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; returns to television on September 28 on Fox after an unexpected cancellation by ABC despite the sitcom&#8217;s high ratings. The cancellation sparked outrage among <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/16450/abc-hit-boycott-canceling-last-man-standing-hank-berrien">fans</a>, many of whom charged that it was due to Allen&#8217;s political stance on screen and off.

Tim Allen On The State Of Comedy: ‘It Is Really Like Dancing On The Thinnest Ice’

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Tim Allen, star of &#8220;Home Improvement&#8221; and &#8220;Last Man Standing,&#8221; broke his silence Thursday about ABC&#8217;s decision to cancel Roseanne Barr&#8217;s sitcom.
Entertainment Weekly <a href="http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/02/tim-allen-roseanne-firing/">reports</a> that the comedian-turned-actor responded to questions about &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; during a panel at the Television Critics Association press tour. 
&#8220;I go way back with Rosie and that&#8217;s not the Rosie I know. She was the most diverse and tolerant woman I&#8217;ve ever known for a long time. Whatever got in her head isn&#8217;t the Roseanne I know. It&#8217;s a very icy time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a comedian for 38 years and I&#8217;ve never seen it, like Lenny Bruce said at the Purple Onion, &#8216;We&#8217;ve gone backwards.&#8217; There are things you can&#8217;t say. There are things you shouldn&#8217;t say. Who makes up these rules? And as a stand-up comic, it&#8217;s a dangerous position to be in because I like pushing buttons. It&#8217;s unfortunate.&#8221;
When asked if ABC did the right thing, Allen shrugged it off saying, &#8220;They had to do what they had to do and it&#8217;s their decision.&#8221;
When asked about the return of &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; to television, he explains his character&#8217;s political influence. 
&#8220;I think the guy is a centrist,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s probably pro-Trump. He probably doesn&#8217;t defend him. He&#8217;s for whatever is good for his business and for the state of Colorado. I&#8217;m not the character I play. Keanu Reeves didn&#8217;t actually murder 100 people in John Wick. What&#8217;s interesting to me is pissing people off.&#8221;
When asked about his own show&#8217;s cancellation by ABC, Allen explained that it was all about the bottom line and not bias. 
&#8220;I don&#8217;t really believe it was a political decision. I think it was a financial decision,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I thought it was done very poorly, that&#8217;s my point of view. I was heartbroken.&#8221;
&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; is set to return next month on Fox with most of its cast intact. &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; will spin-off &#8220;The Connors&#8221; in October with Barr absent from the show.

Tim Allen Speaks Out About ‘Roseanne’ Cancellation

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Tim Allen gets the last laugh against the network that inexplicably canceled his show in the teaser trailer for the new rendition of &#8220;Last Man Standing.&#8221;
When the Disney-affiliated ABC announced it would be canceling the hit show &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; despite its consistently strong ratings, fans were left scratching their heads while conservatives were left crying foul. As John Nolte <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/16317/despite-high-ratings-abc-cancels-trump-friendly-john-nolte">reported at the time</a>, the cancelation made absolutely no sense, leaving one to conclude that ABC canceled the show due to its openly pro-conservative themes and Tim Allen&#8217;s outspoken conservative views.
Well, that&#8217;s all water under the bridge now. After a long-fought war to give &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; a new home, the show will return this fall on Fox, and Allen has made sure to address the big elephant in the room straight out of the gate: being jilted by ABC.
In the teaser trailer, Allen and actress Nancy Travis, who plays his wife Vanessa on the show, warm by an open fire in the great outdoors until suddenly Vanessa abruptly announces, &#8220;Look at that! Look! It&#8217;s a fox!&#8221;
Allen promptly asks her to say it again three times. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t hear you. What is that?&#8221; he asks. Holding her laugh, Travis replies, &#8220;A fox!&#8221;
At that moment, Allen smiles to the camera and says, &#8220;I know somebody&#8217;s gonna be happy you said that three times.&#8221;
Take that, ABC.
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WATCH: ‘Last Man Standing’ Teaser Mocks ABC’s Cancellation

On Monday, the National Radio Hall of Fame announced that conservative radio host, television personality, and bestselling author Mark Levin was inducted into the Hall in their &#8220;Spoken Word On-Air Personality&#8221; after a record-breaking vote.
The NRHF said on their <a href="http://nationalradiohalloffame.com/">website</a>, &#8220;They report an unprecedented level of listener participation with more than a half million votes cast for the two voting categories, Music Format On-Air Personality and Spoken Word On-Air Personality. The increase is attributed to the competitive and creative campaigning waged by nominees.&#8221;
Levin thanked his fans on Twitter saying, &#8220;Thanks to you, my wonderful listeners for your support! You turned out in record numbers to vote! And the National Radio Hall of Fame has just announced that WE will be induced into the Radio Hall of Fame.&#8221;
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Thanks to you, my wonderful listeners for your support! You turned out in record numbers to vote! And the National Radio Hall of Fame has just announced that WE will be induced into the Radio Hall of Fame. <a href="https://t.co/xe0H7DJfG6">https://t.co/xe0H7DJfG6</a>
&#8212; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1011201419733536770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;But I truly have the most wonderful audience, and I owe them everything,&#8221; <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/no-1-public-votes-mark-levin-into-radio-hall-of-fame">said</a> Levin, as reported by the Washington Examiner. &#8220;They are smart, loyal, and patriotic, and I&#8217;m blessed by them. I&#8217;d be nowhere in this business without my listeners, and I never take them for granted. And it is my audience who voted me into the National Radio Hall of Fame by an unprecedented vote turnout. I also wish the other nominees well as they are all top talents. And, of course, thanks for my loving family for all their support.&#8221;
Levin has had an iconic career as a radio host, television pundit, noted author, and founder of the popular website Conservative Review. His commentary has touched on topics such as politics, pop culture, and media bias. 
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31428/voting-begins-induct-mark-levin-national-radio-jacob-airey">reported</a>:
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After serving as an legal adviser to former President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s cabinet, Levin began giving on-air contributions to both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity radio shows, respectively.
In 2002, he was given his own time slot for The Mark Levin Show on WABC and moved into syndication 2006 on Sundays.
Since that time, he has founded CRTV, where he hosts &#8220;Levin TV,&#8221; and has become host to the Fox News program &#8220;Life, Liberty, Levin&#8221; on the weekends.
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Mark Levin Inducted Into The Radio Hall Of Fame With Record-Breaking Turn Out

Mark Levin

Washington

Washington D.C.

Fox News anchor Brian Kilmeade hosts the latest video from Prager University, &#8220;<a href="https://www.prageru.com/videos/americas-2nd-war-independence">America&#8217;s 2nd War of Independence</a>&#8221; which discusses the often misunderstood and sometime forgotten War of 1812.
&#8220;The United States had to fight not one, but two wars for its independence,&#8221; Kilmeade says. &#8220;The first, of course, was the Revolutionary War. Can you name the second? It was the War of 1812. Now, both wars were against the British. And in both cases, the Americans should have lost.&#8221;
He adds, &#8220;The Revolutionary War is very much celebrated in American history. The second one has all but been forgotten. But had it been lost, America&#8217;s history would have been much, much different.&#8221;
Kilmeade discusses how between the years 1807 and 1812, the British Empire was capturing as many as 5,000 American sailors and forcing them to serve the Crown. 
Under the direction of then-President James Madison, Congress declared war on England on June 18, 1812. America had much to fear. Britain had a large navy, battle-tested troops, and experienced military leaders at the command. America had none of those things. 
The British invaded the nation and soon burned down the capital city of Washington, D.C. and setting their eyes on New Orleans. If the British controlled the port city, they could put a check on American expansion into the West. They sent over 10,000 men and 60 naval ships to take the city. 
Kilmeade says, &#8220;And what could the Americans offer by way of defense? Enter Andrew Jackson, one of the most remarkable figures in American history.&#8221;
Jackson was born in 1767 in the territories of the Carolinas, who had seen the brutality of the British during the War of Independence. His mother and brothers died in the war and he, himself, had received a permanent scar by a British officer who slashed him. 
He had served in Tennessee as a lawyer, as the Congressman-at-Large, a Senator, and despite having no formal military training, he was elected to the rank of major general of the state&#8217;s militia. 
He had led many successful campaigns in the region, but he knew the British were far superior a foe, with his forces less than half of the large army. 
Kilmeade explains furthers, &#8220;But for all their deficiencies, Jackson&#8217;s men had three talents he fully exploited: they knew the terrain, they knew how to dig, and they knew how to shoot.&#8221;
&#8220;The Battle of New Orleans began in earnest at dawn January 8, 1815. The overconfident British had no idea what they were in for. Wading through the mud of Louisiana swamps and thwarted by Jackson&#8217;s hastily constructed, but formidable, ramparts, one British charge after another was cut down by deadly accurate American artillery and rifle fire.&#8221;
Kilmeade emphasized, &#8220;When it was over, it amounted to the worst defeat in British military history.&#8221;
He adds, &#8220;The War of 1812, America&#8217;s second war of independence, began badly and only got worse. But it ended with one of the greatest victories in American military history.&#8221;
You can watch the video below:
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Brian Kilmeade: America’s Second War Of Independence

American History

Dennis Prager

England

Fox News Sunday

Great Britain

New Orleans

Prager University

On Monday, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said he is taking up President Donald Trump&#8217;s proposal for him to host next year&#8217;s White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner, adding a couple caveats for what it will take for him to do it.
Trump made the suggestion in a Sunday tweet following the White House correspondents dinner that comedian Michelle Wolf hosted, which was met with intense criticism for being inappropriate and for the vicious personal attacks on women who are associated with the Trump administration.
Trump tweeted:
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While Washington, Michigan, was a big success, Washington, D.C., just didn&#8217;t work. Everyone is talking about the fact that the White House Correspondents Dinner was a very big, boring bust&#8230;the so-called comedian really &#8220;bombed.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/greggutfeld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@greggutfeld</a> should host next year! <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteHegseth</a>
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/990557728752926725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Gutfeld indicated that he was accepting Trump&#8217;s proposal during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Five.&#8221; &#8220;I am saying yes to the challenge. I will host next year, but not there. We have to do a counter-dinner, maybe do it for police widows. The money goes there &amp; then Trump has to go&#8230; it&#8217;ll be a gentle roast.&#8221;
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Greg Gutfeld says he&#8217;s taking up Trump&#8217;s proposal to host the next WHCD: &#8220;I am saying yes to the challenge. I will host next year, but not there. We have to do a counter-dinner, maybe do it for police widows. The money goes there &amp; then Trump has to go&#8230; it&#8217;ll be a gentle roast.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/DZp7KwIi0B">pic.twitter.com/DZp7KwIi0B</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/991152146098765825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Greg Gutfeld Says He Is Taking Up President Trump’s Proposal

Greg Gutfeld

Trump Administration

In an interview with fellow Fox News host Sean Hannity Tuesday night, Mark Levin criticized the media for obsessing over the alleged affair between President Donald Trump and porn star Stormy Daniels while ignoring other important stories. 
&#8220;[W]e know that lies were told to a federal judge at the FISA court to get a warrant to spy on an American citizen and then for a year they got three extensions. The media do not care about that,&#8221; said Levin. &#8220;So what do the media care about? The pornification of the media.&#8221;
Levin specifically slammed the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview between Daniels and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. 
&#8220;This Anderson Cooper, you know, I didn&#8217;t watch this (the interview),&#8221; he said. &#8220;You showed this on your show earlier the questions he was asking. Has he no shame? Is he not embarrassed? The children of this country to listen to a reporter go on and on about the kind of sex, when you had sex?&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s sick,&#8221; said Hannity.
&#8220;It&#8217;s sick,&#8221; Levin agreed. &#8220;And I&#8217;m starting to think some of these reporters are enjoying sitting at their computers doing research on Daniels&#8230;&#8221;
Hannity compared the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview to the sensationalized content featured on &#8220;The Jerry Springer Show&#8221; with Levin pointing out that, in the meantime, the media has refused to cover other newsworthy stories.
&#8220;We have North Korea that&#8217;s threatening us with nuclear missiles. We have Iran that&#8217;s trying to get nuclear missiles,&#8221; Levin said. &#8220;We have Russia that&#8217;s not only interfering with our elections but threatening us. We have China that&#8217;s threatening us, stealing our technology.&#8221;
He continued, &#8220;What the media are doing, what I called the Praetorian Guard media they&#8217;re the mouth pieces and scribes for the ideological left, for the Democrat Party. They are embarrassing themselves.&#8221;
Levin concluded: &#8220;Anderson Cooper will never live down that interview. CNN will never live down that interview. And the more they chase these sort of things and they&#8217;re not serious, it&#8217;s one thing they have differences of opinion on substance and the more they bring out her slip and fall lawyer to go out there and make the arguments he makes, the more they degrade themselves.&#8221;
Watch a clip from the interview below:
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H/T <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/03/28/mark_levin_anderson_cooper_will_never_live_down_interview_with_stormy_daniels.html">RealClearPolitics</a>

Mark Levin: We’re Watching The ‘Pornification Of The Media’

Anderson Cooper

Republican Party

When Brian Kilmeade is not hosting &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; he is researching and writing nonfiction historical books recounting fascinating stories about America&#8217;s past. In his latest bestselling work, Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America&#8217;s Destiny, Kilmeade tackles one of our most controversial presidents and his famous campaign in the War of 1812. 
Kilmeade focuses on one specific point in Jackson&#8217;s past: when he was major general of a ragtag group of Western citizens. As the British were arming hostile Native American tribes to fight the United States army, Jackson feared the British would take the port city of New Orleans. 
Despite the growing threat, President James Madison did not seem to trust in the expertise of the mountain man Jackson, considering him uncouth. Jackson managed to convince the War Department that if the British took the Mississippi River, the historic Louisiana Purchase would become void. Jackson led his men on a perilous journey to the southwest, encountering sickness, starvation, and overwhelming odds along the way. 
Kilmeade provides excellent background and context for this historical battle that helped shape the United States. He tells the story in a dynamic way and avoids falling into the overly dense history text mode. The facts are interesting, the history fascinating, and the profile of Andrew Jackson helps make the former president seem more three dimensional. 
This is the third historical book written by Brian Kilmeade and his co-author Don Yaeger. George Washington&#8217;s Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates were both bestsellers. 
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans is a well-written and thoughtful historical book that gives rare insight into an often overlooked segment of American history. 
For more information, check out Ben Shapiro&#8217;s exclusive interview with Brian Kilmeade on the book:
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Book Review: Brian Kilmeade’s ‘Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans’

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) slammed Democrats over their reaction to the decision to end the House Intelligence Committee investigation of alleged Russia collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign. 
Nunes, who serves as chairman of the committee, told &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; that the Democrats were virtue signaling over the end of the investigation while ignoring Hillary Clinton&#8217;s failed campaign connections to Russia. 
&#8220;They try to rewrite history,&#8221; he said on Monday.
&#8220;Well, it happens on a daily basis that I get accused by the Democrats of [hampering the investigation],&#8221; Nunes said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s been happening even before the Russia investigation began publicly. So right after I was named to the Trump transition team, I began getting attacked,&#8221; he said. Nunes emphasized that the Democrats and their allies in the media began accusing him of shilling for Trump. He points out, &#8220;the reality is that I had warned the Obama administration in early 2016 about this.&#8221;
Nunes said it was time to move on from the investigation and focus on other matters, specifically naming the recent bombing attacks in the state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28134/breaking-austin-police-investigating-2nd-bombing-ryan-saavedra">Texas</a>. 
&#8220;If you look at the situation in Austin right now, it&#8217;s very fluid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to get our FBI and our intelligence agencies working on real problems and get them away from what they&#8217;re doing now, which is, it looks likes spinning in circles. We spent 14 months on this investigation looking for collusion. We didn&#8217;t find any. &#8230;&#8221;
According to Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee could find no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of President Trump&#8217;s campaign, despite the ongoing investigation.
&#8220;We interviewed many dozens of witnesses, many people right around the president. Almost nearly everybody who was involved in the campaign. All of them have testified under oath that they had no contacts with the Russians,&#8221; Nunes said.
He did take a moment to criticize Donald Trump, Jr., for arranging a meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower. &#8220;If you look at the one example of which was, I think, bad judgment,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think they met with a Russian lawyer where it had to do with Russian adoptions.&#8221; 
He also criticized the Democrats for refusing to look into their own candidate&#8217;s campaign, despite mounting evidence that there were some coincidental connections to foreign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26074/report-hillary-hatchet-man-sidney-blumenthal-was-hank-berrien">entities</a>.
&#8220;We did find clear links between the Russians and the Hillary Clinton campaign, which nobody seems to care about,&#8221; Nunes said. 
Watch the clip below:
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Rep. Devin Nunes Slams Democrats On Russia Probe: ‘They Try To Rewrite History’

Hillary Clinton

House Republicans

Mike Pence

Obama Administration

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Life, Liberty, Levin&#8221; on Sunday for an exclusive interview in which he praised the U.S. and slammed the Iran Deal negotiated by former President Barack Hussein Obama. 
Host Mark Levin asked Netanyahu, &#8220;What is it about America that you find so profound and so compelling? You spend a lot of time here.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think, in one word, freedom. Freedom,&#8221; he <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/12/israeli-pm-says-theres-still-time-to-change-policy-on-iran-deal/">replied</a>. &#8220;Because I think that America has been the vanguard of freedom.&#8221; The Israeli PM added that America is a &#8220;meritocracy&#8221; rather than &#8220;a class society.&#8221; 
&#8220;If you&#8217;re good, if you have the smarts and the ambition, you can do it, and this is a message for everybody. At least it should be,&#8221; he said.&#8221; That&#8217;s the way I see America, that&#8217;s what I encountered in America, and I thought should be brought to Israel and in many ways.&#8221;
Levin then asked Netanyahu about the Obama Administration and what disagreements the Israeli PM had with the former president. 
&#8220;The disagreement was this: The nuclear deal, as structured, basically takes away the constraints on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program by a date certain,&#8221; Netanyahu said. &#8220;Iran can do anything it wants in the interim, it can conquer countries, which exactly is what they&#8217;re doing, and they&#8217;ll still get the removal of these limitations. I said, look, make sure, don&#8217;t remove these restrictions until Iran changes its behavior.&#8221;
The prime minister noted that he had attempted to present the case at the time that the conditions of the deal should focus on the terror-sponsoring state&#8217;s &#8220;behavior&#8221; rather than the &#8220;calendar,&#8221; but the administration ignored his warnings about the threat posed by the deal. Iran is now &#8220;out of its cage,&#8221; he said, but there&#8217;s time to impose restrictions once again. 
&#8220;You cannot devour one country after the other, that&#8217;s what they said,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They said Iran will now join the community of nations after this nuclear deal. No. Iran is just devouring the nations, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s doing. I think you need a change of policy, and [I&#8217;m] very glad to see there has been such a change in Washington by President Trump.&#8221;
Watch a portion of the interview below:
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Partial transcript via <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/12/israeli-pm-says-theres-still-time-to-change-policy-on-iran-deal/">The Daily Caller</a>.

Benjamin Netanyahu Praises America, Slams Obama’s Iran Deal In Mark Levin Interview

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

Barack Obama

Benjamin Netanyahu

Iran

Israel

Middle East

On Thursday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, appearing on Fox &amp; Friends, was asked about the Democrats&#8217; dismissive reaction to President Trump&#8217;s State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, in which they derided Trump for championing traditional American values, even disparaging him for frequently using the term &#8220;America.&#8221; Shapiro commented succinctly, &#8220;Good luck, if that&#8217;s your strategy.&#8221;
Host Ainsley Earhardt referred to MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid&#8217;s tweet in which she stated: &#8220;Church &#8230; family &#8230; police&#8230; military &#8230; the national anthem &#8230; Trump trying to call on all the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism. The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for. #SOTU.&#8221; She asked Shapiro what he thought. He answered:
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It&#8217;s pretty amazing, the art of politics always used to be getting your opponents to actually oppose motherhood, apple pie and the American flag. Democrats are just embracing that. Joy Reid is basically saying, &#8220;Motherhood: terrible. Apple pie: terrible. The American flag: terrible.&#8221; This is not is about 1950s America. This is about a gap created by the hard Left in the United States which opposes all of these unifying institutions and that is what was truly amazing about the State of the Union is that the president, I thought, did a good job &#8212; this is why the polls reflected how popular the State of the Union was &#8212; he did a good job of mentioning a lot of things that unify Americans, among them, things like the police, military and the national anthem, and the flag. And Democrats were sitting for those things or deriding that. Good luck in 2018, if that&#8217;s your strategy.
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Host Steve Doocy noted that the ACLU complained about Trump&#8217;s frequent use of the word America, using the word America &#8220;more than 80 times in his speech. Yet, after a divisive first year, we hear and feel how exclusionary that &#8216;America&#8217; is with policies that have harmed so many vulnerable American communities.&#8221;
Doocy asked, &#8220;Do they have a point?&#8221;
Shapiro responded: &#8220;No. This is astonishing, right? The American Civil Liberties Union, what are they going to call themselves, &#8216;The International Civil Liberties Union&#8217;? They only exist in the United States because of American liberties, American freedoms, the American Constitution. And here they are, deriding the term &#8216;America&#8217;? This is totally nuts. If you are so anti the word &#8216;America&#8217; because it&#8217;s so exclusive, why don&#8217;t you just give up the title &#8216;American&#8217;? You should not be considering yourself an American; it&#8217;s too exclusionary. Maybe you should be a world citizen with all the privileges that entails.&#8221;
Kilmeade asked what Shapiro thought would be the outcome in the November 2018 elections. Shapiro replied:
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A lot of it is going to depend on if the president that we saw during the State of the Union is the president that we see for the rest of the year. I thought that he did an excellent job in the State of the Union; he really laid forth the story that he wanted to tell. I think we&#8217;re also going to have to see what his agenda is. He talked a lot more about what he did in 2017 than what they intend on doing in 2018 and, of course, Democrats are going to be highly intransigent. The good news is that the president&#8217;s greatest ally in Republican victory is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, who apparently are incompetent at nearly everything, so you could at least stake a little bit of hope if you are a Republican on the idea the Democrats may blow this thing just as they&#8217;ve blown everything else over the last couple of years.
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Ben Shapiro

State of the Union

The Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles appeared on Fox &amp; Friends First on Monday morning to discuss Hillary Clinton&#8217;s bizarre appearance at the Grammys on Sunday. 
&#8220;Well, nothing says entertainment like Hillary Clinton, right? Isn&#8217;t that just what the American people want?&#8221; Knowles asked the hosts. 
&#8220;When the music elite and the Hollywood elite get the point that we do not want to hear their political opinions,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The ratings in the key 18-49 demographics have been at several year lows. Oscars were at nine year lows last time around. The Golden Globes had low ratings.&#8221;
Knowles explained, &#8220;People are tuning this out. There was one high point last night, when Patti LuPone sang, and it was maybe the saddest reminder of what glamour and class used to look like at these award shows.&#8221; 
On the controversy over a single female performing artist winning an award at the Grammys, Knowles pointed out the hypocrisy of the entertainment industry.
&#8220;Rather than going on stage and having some class and some gratitude and grace,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You just see millionaires instead who are complaining that they&#8217;re not making enough millions of dollars.&#8221; 
He adds, &#8220;It&#8217;s a farce that regular ol&#8217; American people, who work real jobs in the real world, just don&#8217;t want to pay attention to if we&#8217;re at least going to be entertained by it.&#8221;
Knowles also discussed President Donald Trump&#8217;s reaction to singer Jay-Z&#8217;s sharp critique of the White House Administration during a CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26437/trump-eviscerates-jay-z-single-tweet-joseph-curl">interview</a>. 
You can watch the interview below:
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Knowles is the host of &#8216;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/show/michael-knowles-show">The Michael Knowles Show</a>&#8216; podcast here on The Daily Wire. He published the bestselling political satire book &#8220;Reasons To Vote For Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide.&#8221;

WATCH: Michael Knowles To Fox News: ‘Nothing Says Entertainment Like Hillary Clinton’

Grammys

Michael Knowles

Want more of the real news and less of the fake kind, Facebook?
Pay for it.
That&#8217;s Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s proposal &#8212; as outlined in a Monday <a href="https://newscorp.com/2018/01/22/statement-of-rupert-murdoch-executive-chairman-of-news-corp-on-a-carriage-fee-for-trusted-publishers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement</a> &#8212; following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s announcement on January 19 that the social network will favor news stories published by &#8220;trusted&#8221; sources, as determined in user surveys.
&#8220;This update will not change the amount of news you see on Facebook. It will only shift the balance of news you see towards sources that are determined to be trusted by the community,&#8221; Zuckerberg wrote Friday on his Facebook page. 
Since the 2016 presidential election, Facebook and Google have come under fire for supposedly giving a platform to &#8220;fake news&#8221; sources that critics say may have helped sway the election in Donald Trump&#8217;s favor. Facebook has been grappling with how to prioritize legitimate news sources without, at the very least, conveying the appearance of selection bias.
Murdoch&#8217;s unexpected Monday statement said, &#8220;Facebook and Google have popularized scurrilous news sources through algorithms that are profitable for these platforms but inherently unreliable.&#8221;
The media mogul and executive chairman of News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal, said he has &#8220;no doubt&#8221; that Zuckerberg &#8220;is a sincere person,&#8221; but criticized Facebook and Google for a &#8220;serious lack of transparency that should concern publishers and those wary of political bias.&#8221;
Alluding to the importance of financially supporting traditional journalism, a notoriously financially unstable field, Murdoch said Facebook should pay &#8220;trusted&#8221; publishers a &#8220;carriage fee similar to the model adopted by cable companies.&#8221;
&#8220;The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and content but are not being adequately rewarded for those services,&#8221; Murdoch wrote.
Why Facebook would pay publishers for their content is unclear, as the social network already provides news sites with a potentially massive audience, and the advertising revenue that their click-thrus provide.

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In an interview with Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson Tuesday night, The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Andrew Klavan called out the Left and their allies in the mainstream media for &#8220;bullying&#8221; conservatives, particularly when it comes to the assertion of &#8220;simple facts.&#8221;
Carlson praised Klavan&#8217;s City Journal article, &#8220;<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/crudeness-and-truth-15668.html">Of Crudeness and Truth</a>,&#8221; which discusses the bullying tactics that the Left uses to intimidate those on the Right. 
After reading the opening line of the piece, &#8220;Nothing scandalizes a leftist like the truth,&#8221; Carlson asked what the bestselling novelist meant by that assertion. 
&#8220;Well the Left has been tremendously successful in making the statement of simple facts seem rude and evil and unkind,&#8221; Klavan explained. Simply stating that men and women are different or the majority of terrorists active now are radical Muslims can trigger the Left, said Klavan. 
&#8220;Suddenly they rear back and start to call you a bigot,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They start to say you are a racist, or sexist, or Islamophobic, or whatever, until the statement of simple data, things that are just factually true, become unexpressable. You&#8217;re not allowed to say them.&#8221;
Klavan added, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think conservatives fully appreciate the power of that kind of mental slavery. Conservatives are not very good with culture. We don&#8217;t understand the way it wraps around your mind and keeps you from saying the things that you are thinking.&#8221;
On the topic of President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;boorishness,&#8221; Klavan discussed how it is a useful tool to combat the Left who have on occasion used violence against those who disagree with them. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s a form of bullying,&#8221; he emphasized when describing the mainstream media&#8217;s attempt to shame conservatives into silence.
Klavan said, &#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to Donald Trump for shattering that, even when he does it in ways that I find kind of appalling.&#8221;
&#8220;I agree completely,&#8221; Carlson replied.
Watch the interview below:
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Andrew Klavan is the host of The Daily Wire podcast &#8220;The Andrew Klavan Show&#8221; and is the bestselling author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Good-Thing-Secular-Christ-ebook/dp/B01864DXNC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1516073387&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+great+good+thing+andrew+klavan">The Great Good Thing</a>. He also wrote the fictional podcast serial &#8220;<a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/ricochet/andrew-klavans-another-kingdom">Another Kingdom</a>&#8221; narrated by Michael Knowles.

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