It was just a few months ago that police in Chicago attempted to pull over a man named Dexter Reed for driving with illegally tinted windows. I talked about this incident on the show at the time, when the media was trying to turn Reed into the next George Floyd. As soon as the traffic stop began, Reed began acting suspiciously. He repeatedly refused officers&#8217; commands to lower his window so they could see what was going on inside his car. Then he raised the tinted window to completely obstruct the officers&#8217; view of the inside of the vehicle. And then, within seconds, Dexter Reed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaO3HPpewdw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opened fire</a>.
Police officers train on footage like this all the time. There are hundreds of videos like it all over the internet. And they all tell the same story, which is this: When the police pull someone over, and that person attempts to hide what he&#8217;s doing, then the situation has just become extremely dangerous. All traffic stops involve some level of risk. But when someone rolls up a tinted window instead of complying, that risk gets exponentially higher. That&#8217;s especially true when the suspect has a criminal history. So police have no choice but to respond quickly and decisively, and potentially with force, because they&#8217;re in a life-threatening situation. Otherwise, they might get shot and killed before they can even see what&#8217;s coming.
As I said at the time, there was an attempt to portray Dexter Reed as some kind of BLM martyr. But it fell apart the moment this footage was released. Everyone understood why the officers drew their weapons. Everyone understood that Reed had put the officers in fear for their lives, even before he started shooting. The entire media-driven narrative &#8212; that Dexter Reed was an oppressed victim of police brutality &#8212; fell apart. And no one spoke of it again.
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But there&#8217;s always someone waiting in the wings to claim that mantle of oppression, especially in an election year. And this week, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is going for it &#8212; even though his traffic stop, in many ways, has a lot of similarities to Dexter Reed&#8217;s. Tyreek Hill, like Dexter Reed, was pulled over for a lawful reason. In Tyreek Hill&#8217;s case, he was speeding near the Hard Rock Stadium, where the Dolphins play. That&#8217;s all caught on camera. And like Dexter Reed, Tyreek Hill also had an existing criminal record at the time of his stop, although the officers probably weren&#8217;t aware of that. In Hill&#8217;s case, that record included a prior guilty plea for serious offenses &#8212; including domestic assault and battery by strangulation.
And then, when he was pulled over, Tyreek Hill, like Dexter Reed, refused lawful orders to lower his tinted window. Instead, he started raising the window in clear defiance of the officers. Watch:
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Tyreek Hill ARREST body cam FOOTAGE released.. 😲‼️
Did the cops have a power trip, or were they just doing their job? 🤔 <a href="https://t.co/MUrSiffh2u">pic.twitter.com/MUrSiffh2u</a>
— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/DramaAlert/status/1833281051059490877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Instead of complying, Tyreek Hill rolled up a tinted window while the police were trying to talk to him. They responded aggressively to his belligerence. Then, Tyreek Hill refused to sit on the curb as instructed, saying he had just had surgery, so he can&#8217;t sit down. He can play in a professional football game a few hours later and score a touchdown, but he can&#8217;t possibly sit down. That&#8217;s just asking too much. So the officer again used some force, this time to put him on the curb. The officers also detained one of Hill&#8217;s teammates, Calais Campbell, after he approached the scene in the middle of the road. Ultimately the authorities cited Hill for reckless driving but didn&#8217;t arrest him. They also didn&#8217;t charge him for obstructing an officer, which is a misdemeanor in Florida punishable by up to a year in prison.
Speaking to reporters, Hill claimed he had “no idea” why he was placed in handcuffs. “No idea. It’s crazy. No idea. I wasn’t disrespectful because my mom didn’t raise me that way. Didn’t cuss. Did none of that. I’m still trying to figure it out… Don’t be disrespectful.”
Of course, the truth is that Hill could have avoided all of this by acting like an adult rather than a spoiled toddler. He knows that. Everyone watching the video knows that. But the media and the Left are pretending otherwise. They&#8217;re completely ignoring the evidence and running with the same narrative we&#8217;ve seen a million times before, even if the facts don&#8217;t remotely fit. Over on ESPN for example, they&#8217;re acting as if Tyreek Hill was just killed. They&#8217;re mourning him as if he died, by comparing him to a bunch of other BLM martyrs. Watch:
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When Tyreek Hill says &#8220;What if I wasn&#8217;t Tyreek Hill..&#8221; he&#8217;s absolutely right.
&#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCanty99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCanty99</a> on the detainment of Tyreek Hill <a href="https://t.co/JKCafYSwdm">pic.twitter.com/JKCafYSwdm</a>
— UNSPORTSMANLIKE Radio (@UnSportsESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/UnSportsESPN/status/1833467225786736673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Just to be clear about this: Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, and Philando Castile are all dead. That&#8217;s not to relitigate all of those cases &#8212; all of which the media lied about to one degree or another. It&#8217;s just a fact. This guy is comparing several dead people to Tyreek Hill, who in fact is not dead. Tyreek Hill is very much alive. He&#8217;s still earning $30 million a year. He&#8217;s still a famous celebrity. What happened to Hill is that on Sunday, he endured a minor inconvenience that was entirely attributable to his own actions. This was such a minor inconvenience that he was able to play in a football game afterwards and mock the whole situation with a celebration after he scored a touchdown.
All of this fake hysteria is intended to obscure an obvious point, which is that Hill &#8212; like so many other BLM heroes &#8212; didn&#8217;t comply with lawful orders that were given by police officers. He put them in a dangerous situation as a result. And he suffered the predictable consequences of that decision. When the outraged ESPN personality says he&#8217;s &#8220;frustrated&#8221; that the country hasn&#8217;t &#8220;reckoned with race,&#8221; what he&#8217;s really saying is that black people should be able to do whatever they want when the police pull them over. They should be able to put the police in danger, apparently. Or maybe that&#8217;s only the case if they&#8217;re driving expensive cars, like Tyreek Hill was. Maybe the law just doesn&#8217;t apply to football players.
That&#8217;s the position of Tyreek Hill&#8217;s team, the Miami Dolphins. In a statement, the team said they &#8220;urge&#8221; the police department &#8220;to take swift and strong action against the officers who engaged in such despicable behavior.&#8221; The team didn&#8217;t even mention Tyreek Hill&#8217;s decision to put people in danger by driving recklessly on the way to the stadium. They didn&#8217;t mention that he disobeyed the officers&#8217; commands. They pretend as if the officers had no reason whatsoever to treat Hill like a potential threat to their lives. This is the lose-lose situation that cops are in. They&#8217;re being told that they have to ignore suspects who roll up their tinted windows, and just hope that it doesn&#8217;t turn out to be another Dexter Reed situation. If they do anything to protect themselves, those cops are “despicable.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the brain trust of former athletes over on FS1 took the melodrama up ten more notches. Here’s former NFL star LeSean McCoy in a conversation with former NFL player Emmanuel Acho. These are some of the most oppressed people in America. They were paid millions to play a game. Now they’re paid millions to talk about playing a game. But that doesn’t make them any less oppressed. Watch:
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The most vulnerable, heartfelt and gut wrenching conversation I’ve ever been a part of on live television.
“We do not feel safe around cops and that’s crazy… Black people do not feel safe around cops.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TyreekHill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TyreekHill</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FinsUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FinsUp</a><a href="https://t.co/jJ24MNiX5Y">pic.twitter.com/jJ24MNiX5Y</a>
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelAcho/status/1833543879876087872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Oh is that what you tell your kids? You tell them if the cops are there, get to some light? Have you considered telling them to comply with lawful commands? Have you thought about that? Why don’t you tell your kids to simply comply with lawful orders given by officers of the law? If they do that, then everything will be fine.
We’re told that black men are afraid of the cops. They’re terrified that they’re going to be executed on the spot. Tyreek Hill was afraid, allegedly. Well if that’s the case, why are you going out of your way to antagonize them? Why are you doing everything in your power to make your interactions with the police as stressful and contentious as possible? When I see videos like the one with Tyreek Hill — or any of the footage of any BLM martyr — I do not see black men who are afraid of the cops. I see black men who completely disregard the cops and act as though they are above the law and impervious to the basic rules and standards of conduct that govern the rest of us. If you’re afraid for your life while dealing with the cops, why would you roll up a tinted window? How is that going to make you safer? How is that going to make the situation LESS volatile? You are making it more volatile. You are directly, actively, making it into a more volatile situation.
But this does not occur to these kind of commentators. We can’t blame them for that. They’re emotional. In fact, these guys were so emotional that when they came back from commercial break, they were still comforting each other:
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Moments after a sad, infuriating, tear evoking conversation on Tyreek Hill, I attempted to continue the show as if all was normal. It wasn’t.
I’m grateful for James Jones, who did not allow us to rush by our humanity.
On <a href="https://twitter.com/TheFacilityFS1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheFacilityFS1</a>, we’re not doing TV, we’re doing life. <a href="https://t.co/zU6d5yghG9">pic.twitter.com/zU6d5yghG9</a>
— Emmanuel Acho (@EmmanuelAcho) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelAcho/status/1833602039915680240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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What brave warriors. What heroes. My God. They had to overcome the trauma of talking about a football player’s briefly unpleasant interaction with the police. They somehow had to soldier through and find a way to keep talking about football. It’s painful, you see. It’s painful to think about the minor inconvenience that a millionaire football player experienced. A minor inconvenience of his own making. They are shaken up. They are barely able to hold it together.
For his part, the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, Mike McDaniel, was even more hysterical than the sports commentators. He appeared to be choking back tears as he said he couldn&#8217;t imagine what it&#8217;s like to be as oppressed as Tyreek Hill is. Watch:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dolphins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dolphins</a> HC Mike McDaniel got very emotional and choked up talking about Tyreek Hill getting detained on Sunday.
&#8220;The thing that f***** me up honestly, to be quite frank, is knowing that I don’t know exactly. I don’t know what that feels like.&#8221;
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— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1833227060887638125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fifty years ago a guy this weepy and emasculated would never be the head coach of a football team. It just wouldn&#8217;t have been possible for a theater kid to get a job like this. But here we are. Mike McDaniel is &#8220;triggered.&#8221; It really messes him up, to not know &#8220;what it feels like&#8221; to be Tyreek Hill. He&#8217;ll never be able to experience that level of oppression.
But the coach could find out pretty easily. He could start driving his sports car, as recklessly as possible, around slow-moving traffic. And when he gets pulled over, he can roll up his tinted windows and dare the cops to do something about it. Very quickly, Mike McDaniel will experience something similar to what Tyreek Hill experienced on Sunday. And if that happens, Mike McDaniel would deserve to be forcibly removed from his car and treated like a threat, just like Tyreek Hill was.
Predictably, no one in the corporate press wants to point this out. Instead, they&#8217;re affirming Tyreek Hill&#8217;s story of racial grievance at every opportunity. Here&#8217;s CNN for example. Watch as they allow Tyreek Hill to claim &#8212; without any pushback &#8212; that, if he weren&#8217;t a football player, the police officers would have executed him on the side of the road. Watch:
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Tyreek was on CNN last night playing the victim and claiming if he wasn&#8217;t Tyreek Hill then in the worst-case scenario he could have been mu*dered. What a joke. Hill is a horrible human being who beat up his pregnant girlfriend several years ago. <a href="https://t.co/aowlTV2L5E">pic.twitter.com/aowlTV2L5E</a>
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedWave_Press/status/1833514276314878426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Try to follow the logic here. According to Hill, the police knew he was a famous NFL player, with a very high profile. So they knew they had to be on their best behavior. That&#8217;s why they decided not to just shoot him outside the stadium. That&#8217;s what the police supposedly do to every other black person, but they don&#8217;t do it to NFL players. At the same time, according to Tyreek Hill, these same police officers didn&#8217;t have any problem risking their entire career just to rough him up on camera for no reason. So they&#8217;re cautious police officers, but they&#8217;re also extremely reckless at the same time.
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That&#8217;s the explanation that flies on CNN, apparently. But it doesn&#8217;t make any sense. What makes more sense is that the police did exactly what they were trained to do, which is to treat everyone who behaves like Hill did &#8212; regardless of how much money they have &#8212; as a potential threat. That&#8217;s especially true when, like Dexter Reed, they have a criminal record and start rolling up their tinted window instead of complying.
The only way to explain the reaction from the corporate press, and the Miami Dolphins, is that these people really believe that a black man should be able to do or say literally anything he wants when confronted by police. Whatever happens will always be the cop’s fault, no matter what. The point is to absolve “people of color” of any blame.
But the effect is that they’re infantilized. They&#8217;re treated like children incapable of controlling themselves. They&#8217;re given no incentive to improve their own behavior. Instead, they&#8217;re given more incentive to act like Tyreek Hill &#8212; with all the entitlement and hysteria that entails. We saw where that approach leads in 2020. It leads to police pulling out of black neighborhoods, and fewer people choosing to become police officers. And that, in turn, leads to a lot more black people dying. Narcissists like Tyreek Hill claim they&#8217;re afraid of that outcome. In reality, they&#8217;re doing everything they can to ensure it keeps happening.

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Media Paints Millionaire Athlete As Another ‘Oppressed’ Victim Of Police

Media Paints Millionaire Athlete As Another 'Oppressed' Victim Of Police

Black Lives Matter

Legacy Media

Miami Dolphins

Police

Readers Pass

Top headlines from legacy media outlets halfway through the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/debates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate</a> between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris painted a picture of Harris throwing punches and Trump on the defensive without mentioning the highly criticized ABC moderators.
Shortly into the debate, moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis began interrupting Trump to &#8220;fact-check&#8221; him on issues ranging from violent crime to abortion. Conservatives pointed out the moderators&#8217; apparent bias, but legacy media outlets such as CNN, NBC, and The New York Times focused on showing Harris on the &#8220;attack.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s main headline during the second half of the debate read: &#8220;Harris puts Trump on defense.&#8221; The New York Times wrote a nearly identical headline: &#8220;Harris puts Trump on defense in fierce debate.&#8221; Meanwhile, NBC News wrote, &#8220;Trump spreads conspiracy theories, Harris attacks on Jan. 6 at debate.&#8221;
&#8220;The former president defended the January 6 rioters and refused to acknowledge he lost the 2020 presidential election. He also repeated a false conspiracy theory,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-harris-debate-abc-09-10-24/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. The New York Times added, &#8220;Ex-President Gets Angry as Talk Turns to Jan. 6 and Ukraine War.&#8221; The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/10/us/harris-trump-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> that Harris &#8220;rattled the former president with attacks focused on abortion, immigration and his relationships with dictators.&#8221;
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As many conservatives pointed out on social media, Trump was forced to defend himself during the debate against claims from Harris and &#8220;fact-checks&#8221; from the ABC moderators. Muir interrupted the former president after he discussed allegations of Haitian migrants eating animals in Ohio, saying the city manager has said the allegations are unsubstantiated. Muir also &#8220;fact-checked&#8221; Trump on violent crime statistics, citing an FBI report. Trump fired back, saying the FBI report deflated the number of violent crimes.
Davis similarly stopped Trump when he pointed out that Democrats in some states allow abortions after birth. She claimed, &#8220;There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it&#8217;s born,&#8221; but that is not true. In Minnesota, the state led by her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz eliminated a legal obligation for doctors to provide life-saving care to a baby who survives an abortion attempt, Just The News <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/abortion/abc-news-debate-moderator-fact-checks-trump-botched-abortions-despite-8?utm_source=mux&amp;utm_medium=social-media&amp;utm_campaign=social-media-autopost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;The moderators are the story of the evening. And it isn&#8217;t a good story,&#8221; Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro wrote.
&#8220;The pile-on against Trump is so bad and so obvious this will backfire,&#8221; political commentator Megyn Kelly said.

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Here’s How The Legacy Media Is Spinning The Debate

Here's How The Legacy Media Is Spinning The Debate

Debates

Donald Trump

Kamala Harris

Media

Politics

Presidential Debate

Election season is now in full swing and voters are listening carefully to the ideas and policies of their candidates and taking the full measure of their vision and intentions for the future of this country, if they’re Republican voters. If they’re Democrat voters, of course, they have no idea what their candidates believe and they’ve simply been hypnotized into stupidity by media flunkies with all the integrity of jack-in-the-box jesters who bob up and down on their springs with grinning faces chattering mesmeric platitudes until they’ve turned the Democrat party into a shambling mob of idiots shuffling toward November with slack mouths and empty eyes as if they were zombies, if zombies were lemmings, if lemmings actually walked blindly off cliffs like zombies who were lemmings acting like zombies or like Democrats.
So today, as an exclusive service of The Daily Wire, we’re going to fill in the blanks left by the many, many incisive and probing interviews Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will never do because just look at them. That couldn’t end well.
So what does Kamala Harris actually believe?
Well, on the environment, she believes we should absolutely ban fracking as long as we don’t ban fracking but only ban fracking, which she won’t do, but will. She proudly stands on her record of supporting the Green New Deal through a bill deceptively named the Inflation Reduction Act so she doesn’t have to proudly stand on her record of supporting the Green New Deal, which sucks.
Kamala is also proud of her role as border czar which she never was although, before she never was, when she was, she did many good things which decreased illegal immigration by declaring no immigrant is illegal so now there is no illegal immigration — problem solved. She also called Donald Trump’s border wall “an UnAmerican, stupid waste of money on a medieval vanity project” and she promises she’ll build it too to end illegal immigration which she ended when she was never border czar, but totally was.
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On the economy, Kamala says she knows Americans are suffering from raging inflation but she says that inflation was caused by Donald Trump’s reckless actions, like not being president, so Americans should vote for a change by sending Kamala to the White House where she already is.
All right, what about foreign policy? Well, when it comes to Israel, Kamala completely supports Israel’s right to exist as long as they don’t do it in any recognizable material form. That would be imperialism, or settler colonialism, or just too many Jews in one place called Israel. And Kamala believes those Jews have the right to defend themselves, as long as that doesn&#8217;t stop people from killing them because, after all, the killers are people too, with hopes and dreams, like the destruction of Israel.
Now as for Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, his positions are a little clearer. For instance, he says he wants to protect the constitutional right to bear arms by banning the weapons of war he carried in war, which is none, so problem solved. But Americans can trust Walz because he’s just a down home, regular, plaid-shirt wearing midwestern football coach who wants to cut the sexual organs off children, just like any totally normal all-American Midwesterner — Ed Gein, say, or any of those other mid-westerners who look totally normal until one day you open the newspaper and you’re, like, “Holy crap, so many mutilated bodies, and he looked completely normal, how could we ever have known?” But the important thing is Walz supports abortion. I mean, the guy just has a thing for butchering children. There’s no sense lingering on it, it’s just too disturbing. Let’s move on.
So there you have it. Democrat voters, if you’ve gone to Kamala Harris’s website and you’ve noticed there’s not a single policy proposal there, and if you’ve said to yourself, “Hey wait, how come my mouth is hanging open and I’m shuffling mindlessly toward November as if I’m some kind of zombie lemming about to vote for a candidate who believes in absolutely nothing,” now you know that Kamala Harris does in fact believe in what she says. Which is absolutely nothing.
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Democrat Voters Have Been Hypnotized By Media Flunkies

2024 Election

Andrew Klavan

Humor

Satire

Tim Walz

The Associated Press and top Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, were blasted on Thursday after taking Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance&#8217;s remarks on the Georgia school shooting out of context.
During a rally on Thursday, Vance addressed the deadly shooting where two students and two teachers were killed allegedly by a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Vance said of the shooting, &#8220;I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security, so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able.&#8221;
Reporting on Vance&#8217;s comments, the Associated Press wrote the headline, &#8220;JD Vance says school shootings are a &#8216;fact of life,&#8217; calls for better security.&#8221; After getting slammed on social media and receiving a community note on X explaining the full context of Vance&#8217;s quote, the AP updated its headline to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-georgia-shooting-7d7727a1aff8491f66914a4d8a14cd8c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">read</a>, &#8220;JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for better security.&#8221;
The AP then posted the new headline on X, writing, &#8220;This post replaces an earlier post that was deleted to add context to the partial quote from Vance.&#8221;
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Whatever shred of credibility still existed within the Associated Press was just executed by the Associated Press <a href="https://t.co/Chi8fF5NZA">pic.twitter.com/Chi8fF5NZA</a>
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1831923121722737124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Vance spokesman William Martin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/vance-spox-blasts-ap-brazenly-lying-out-context-quote-lost-any-all-credibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the AP in a statement to Fox News, accusing the legacy media outlet of &#8220;brazenly lying.&#8221;
&#8220;This is yet another case of the fake news media brazenly lying about a Republican politician. Senator Vance said exactly the opposite of what the Associated Press claimed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It should come as no surprise that the AP lost any and all credibility it had years ago, because they will lie about literally anything in order to prop up the Democrats. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has called for all police officers to be removed from schools, putting children all over America at risk. It&#8217;s yet another example of how Kamala Harris&#8217;s weak, failed, and dangerously liberal agenda makes her unfit for office.&#8221;
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Even after the AP revised its headline, Harris and Walz continued using the out-of-context quote to attack Vance. The Harris campaign <a href="https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1831861963187519518" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a clip of Vance&#8217;s remarks with the caption, &#8220;JD Vance responds to the deadly shooting in Georgia by saying school shootings are just &#8216;a fact of life&#8217; and attacking common sense gun safety reform.&#8221; Harris reposted the clip, saying, &#8220;School shootings are not just a fact of life.&#8221;
&#8220;It doesn’t have to be this way. We can take action to protect our children—and we will,&#8221; she added.
Walz, Harris&#8217; running mate, also responded to the clip, writing, &#8220;This is pathetic. We can’t quit on our kids — they deserve better.&#8221;
Vance hit back at Harris, saying, &#8220;Instead of addressing her own failures, she lies about what I said.&#8221;
&#8220;More desperation from the biggest fraud in American politics,&#8221; Vance added.
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Kamala wants to take security out of our schools instead of protecting our children. Instead of addressing her own failures, she lies about what I said.
More desperation from the biggest fraud in American politics. <a href="https://t.co/KNOwOtpcLx">https://t.co/KNOwOtpcLx</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1831898053508526554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Shortly after the shooting on Wednesday, President Joe Biden released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-calls-for-gun-bans-condemns-republicans-after-georgia-high-school-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> calling for gun bans and condemning Republicans for not doing more to pass gun laws.
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&#8220;Republicans in Congress must finally say ‘enough is enough’ and work with Democrats to pass common-sense gun safety legislation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We must ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines once again, require safe storage of firearms, enact universal background checks, and end immunity for gun manufacturers.&#8221;

JD Vance

‘Brazenly Lying’: AP, Kamala Slammed After Taking JD Vance School Shooting Comments Out Of Context

'Brazenly Lying': AP, Kamala Slammed After Taking JD Vance School Shooting Comments Out Of Context

Associated Press

Elections

Media Bias

Misinformation

School Shooting

The shine on Kamala Harris is wearing off fast.
People forget that the first few weeks of her 2019 campaign were not a total disaster area; it took a few weeks for the shine to wear off. 
But now it’s wearing off, so the Democrats are activating Operation Russiagate II.
The Biden-Harris administration is making noise about Russia interfering in our elections again. Yesterday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced indictments and seizures of internet domains related to Russian interference in the election. 
But here&#8217;s the thing: Various powers try to interfere in American elections. That is just reality. China has repeatedly attempted to interfere in American elections. Iran is attempting to interfere in the American election.
So it&#8217;s not a surprise that Russia will try to interfere in the American election. The difference is that when China does it, it is not a national news story. When Iran does it, it&#8217;s buried.
But when it&#8217;s Russia, the basic idea is that Russia is going to intervene in the election in such deep and nefarious ways that everyone will be deceived.
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This feels like the Biden-Harris administration is setting up the predicate for a crackdown on social media, for a crackdown on tech companies that allow free speech, for a crackdown on X or Right-wing media. 
The Biden administration is going to play this to the hilt. 
According to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/breaking-biden-administration-to-accuse-russia-of-2024-election-interference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite</a>: 
<blockquote>The Biden administration is preparing to publicly accuse Russia of launching a sustained campaign to influence the 2024 presidential elections using on Kremlin-controlled media and online platforms to spread disinformation.
The accusation will be part of a broader set of actions expected to be announced on Wednesday, including law enforcement efforts aimed at curbing the alleged Russian operation.</blockquote>
This only makes sense in the context of 2020, when American defense and intelligence apparatus were warning people like Mark Zuckerberg they needed to shut down the Hunter Biden story because it might be Russian disinformation.
The Biden-Harris administration is setting the ground for that right now. Before the campaign ends, the Biden administration is going to make claims it&#8217;s Russian disinformation.
This is a convenient excuse to siphon off any sort of viewership of that information.
Mediaite continues, writing:
<blockquote><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/biden-administration-accuse-russia-election-influence-efforts/">According to four sources who talked exclusively to CNN</a>, Russian state media outlet RT is a central focus of the US response, with officials viewing it as a key tool in the Kremlin’s propaganda machine with disinformation being funneled through both American and foreign voices. </blockquote>
That would not be a shock. RT obviously has a vested interest in particular points of view being elevated. But the question is: How much real impact is that going to have on the election?
The reason the media are covering this extensively is that they want to send this message: The only way Donald Trump can win is if the Russians somehow manipulate Americans into voting for him. 
But the reality is that Russia and its ability to interfere through disinformation in the American election is extremely limited.
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The reality is that the opposition to Harris is driven by the fact that Biden&#8217;s an unpopular president and she&#8217;s a terrible candidate. Support for President Trump is the same as it ever was. For some people, it is driven by a personal liking for Trump. For people like me, the driving force behind voting for him is that his first presidency had a lot of tremendous policy attached to it.
But we’re going to hear all about Russia and disinformation.
We’ve seen this movie before.

Attorney General Merrick Garland Hosts A Meeting Of The Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force

Russiagate II: Kamala’s Revenge

Ben Shapiro

Democrats

Opinion

Russia

Over the weekend, we got absolutely horrifying news: Six Israeli hostages, including one Israeli-American whose parents spoke at the Democratic National Convention, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-israeli-hersh-goldberg-polin-among-six-dead-hostages-recovered-by-israeli-forces-in-rafah">were executed</a> by the terrorist group Hamas.
It&#8217;s not just that the bodies of the hostages were found; it&#8217;s how they were found. You&#8217;ll recall that last week Israel freed a Bedouin Muslim Israeli citizen who was found in one of the terror tunnels. At just about that time, Hamas terrorists shot to death those six hostages, who had been held in captivity since October 7, over 300 days ago.
They were held in darkness, in captivity, in conditions of torture. And then they were shot point-blank in the back of the head.
The absolute horror of that — keeping these six hostages alive for over 300 days and then shooting them point-blank in the back of the head — underscores how deeply evil Hamas is.
It&#8217;s easy to forget how evil Hamas is because October 7 was almost a year ago. Everyone was shocked by the murderous, rape-filled rampage Hamas did that day — the taking of hostages, including babies who are still being held hostage right now the rampant executions and rape.
The entire situation turned into war because the Israeli Defense Force went into Gaza in order to dismantle Hamas, in order to destroy their infrastructure, in order to take over the Philadelphi Corridor (which is the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip), in order to take over the Netzarim Corridor, which runs across the middle of the Gaza Strip, and establish military control.
A lot of talk turned to how Israel was prosecuting the war. Could they do it faster? Could they do it quickly? Could they do it more humanely? 
Meanwhile, everyone ignored just how evil Hamas is.
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And then they executed the six hostages with a bullet to the head. And that reminded people that these are human monsters who are willing to hold hostages for over 300 days and then shoot them point-blank in the head to prevent them from being liberated. The IDF got close to rescuing the hostages and now Hamas is boasting that they murdered the hostages because the IDF <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-hints-6-slain-hostages-extracted-by-idf-from-gaza-over-weekend-were-murdered-because-troops-were-near/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was getting close</a>.
This is what Hamas does. This is why Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas who is hiding underground right now, has surrounded himself, according to reports, by upward of 20 hostages, presumably including women and children, hoping that Israel will leave him alone because otherwise he&#8217;s going to threaten to shoot the women and shoot the children.
After the hostages were executed, Hamas, just to add insult to injury, decided that they were going to release hostage videos of the six people they murdered. And they are heartbreaking.
There has been contemporaneous documentation found in the terror tunnels in which Hamas explains what they are attempting to do; to be so brutal and so vicious and so evil that it creates serious political schisms within Israeli society.
As Netanyahu has pointed out, on one side you have a free democracy that is allied with the West and on the other side you have the world&#8217;s worst terror group. But somehow the West has found a unique way to decide that that the terror group deserves compassion, deserves concession, deserves some level of recognition and decency, when in reality, every member of Hamas up to and including the leadership, deserves nothing but death because that is what they have brought upon themselves through their violation of basic human norms and standards of basic human decency.
The notion from the West that Israel is the one that needs to be pressed to make concessions to the terrorists is totally insane and speaks to an ulterior political motive on the part of Americans and Britons who are pushing this sort of nonsense.
The reality is the only way to win a war is to actually win the war. The reason the West has not won a major war since World War II is because it has forgotten that basic notion — that the way to win a war is to win the war. When the West wins, it&#8217;s not because there is some sort of peace agreement that is signed, it&#8217;s because its enemies are utterly defeated.
The fact that the West is even considering leaving Hamas in place or creating a “Palestinian state,” which would immediately be run and staffed by the very same people who are currently holding hostages along with their best friends in the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, is totally insane.
The narrative you&#8217;re hearing from the Biden-Harris administration is that Netanyahu has made no concessions to Hamas.
There are actions that the United States could have taken to bring pressure on Hamas. Joe Biden has done virtually none of them. All of it derives from the leftist narrative that there is some sort of moral equivalence or parity in all human relations, which means that when someone is evil — the more you believe in moral relativism, if you believe that it&#8217;s just a matter of perspective — then what that means is that the more evil you are, the more there must be a justification to your evil, because otherwise you wouldn&#8217;t be evil.
If you are a moral relativist, the way that the Left is when it comes to these matters, then your belief is the more evilly you behave, the more you have been victimized. The victim/victimizer matrix is undefeated in terms of stupidity and immorality.
Take a look at the headlines from the legacy media over the murder of the six hostages. <a href="https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1830297753185898620" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>: “Israeli-American hostage has died.”
“Has died?” Did he die of old age? Is that what happened? Was it cancer?
Here&#8217;s what actually happened to Hersh Goldberg-Polin. On October 7, he was at the Nova Festival. He had his arm blown off by Hamas. They then sawed off his arm. They kept him alive for 300 days and then they shot him point-blank in the head.
<a href="https://x.com/simonmontefiore/status/1830238735860150742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BBC</a>: “Israel says bodies of six Gaza hostages recovered.”
What happened to them? Is that irrelevant?
<a href="https://x.com/simonmontefiore/status/1830238735860150742" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sky News</a>: “Israeli hostages confirmed dead after Army finds six bodies in Gaza.”
Imagine for a moment you&#8217;re at a music festival. You are taken hostage by the world&#8217;s worst vicious human beings. You are held alive underground for 300 days with the shred of hope that maybe the IDF would find you. And then as the IDF comes close, Hamas puts you down and they shoot you in the back of the head.
But the headline from the legacy media is they somehow just randomly died, as if they died in a car accident.
Joe Biden&#8217;s initial response to the six hostages being murdered? “Earlier today, in a tunnel under the city of Rafah, Israeli forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas.”
That’s rich, coming from him, because Israeli troops would have been in Rafah in February or March if it had not been for the Biden administration, which withheld munitions from the Israelis to prevent them from doing operations in Rafah.
Israel kept saying they needed to go into Rafah to go get the hostages and to extirpate Hamas. Meanwhile, Biden warned that a major Israeli operation in Rafah was a “red line” that could cause him to cancel arms to support Israel. In March Harris <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-3-24-24-sen-marco-rubio/story?id=108441678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” adding that there would be “consequences” if Israel went into Rafah, as National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/kamala-harris-warned-israel-of-consequences-if-it-invaded-rafah-where-hamas-just-murdered-an-american-hostage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a>. 
The reason Hamas did not want Israel to go into Rafah was because it is a Hamas stronghold. They did not want Israel to shut down the terror tunnels to Egypt. They did not want Israel to find hostages and free them.
Biden, because he&#8217;s a cretin both intellectually and morally, was asked on Monday — as he made his way back after 17 days of vacation being a useless moldering corpse at the beach —  about the so-called cease-fire deal. He was asked if it was “&#8230;time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue? Do you think he’s doing enough?
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-blames-israels-netanyahu-for-stalled-hostage-negotiations-after-american-killed-by-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden declared</a>, “No.”
Every shred of blood is on Hamas&#8217;s hands. They just executed hostages. And Biden’s first response was that Netanyahu needs to do more?
Does he understand what kind of damage he just did? 
Not likely, he’s a dangerously immoral moron.
When terrorists shoot hostages and your first move is to put pressure on the nation whose hostages were taken, you are telling the terrorists to keep shooting hostages.
Biden and Harris are repellent, disgusting people.
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President Biden Returns To White House From Delaware

Execute Hostages, Win A Prize From Biden-Harris!

Benjamin Netanyahu

Hamas

Hostages

Israel

Joe Biden

Kamala Harris is a liar.
She has lied about every position she&#8217;s ever held.
She is simultaneously asking us to believe that she is really, really important at every level but also has had no consequence whatsoever as vice president.
Monday marked the murder of 13 American soldiers at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. Those are the soldiers completely ignored by Joe Biden during his administration.
In the first presidential debate, Biden actually said no American soldiers have died on his watch, which, of course, was a lie. 13 American soldiers were murdered at Abbey Gate because of the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, the single worst foreign policy move in the modern history of America.
The Afghanistan pullout was a disaster. It was humiliating for the United States. We left hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of military equipment in the hands of the Taliban. We left tens of thousands of people who had worked with us to the brutality of the Taliban. There were people falling off the wheels of passenger airliners. A suicide bombing killed over 170 people, including those 13 American soldiers.
Right now, women have been stuffed back into burqas; they&#8217;re not allowed to show their eyes on the streets. None of them are going to school.
Well done, Biden administration.
Never forget that Joe Biden lied every single step of the way. Every single step of the way.
He suggested an American pullout from Afghanistan would not result in the collapse of the Afghanistan government, which was not true. He suggested it would be an orderly withdrawal. It was not. He suggested the withdrawal had been absolutely smooth and wonderful. It was not.
Yet according to Kamala Harris, she was deeply involved in every aspect of the decision making. In 2021, she explained that she was the last person in the room making these decisions with Biden. When asked if she felt comfortable with that, she said, “I do.”
You might also recall Harris on a tarmac being asked about the 13 dead service people while laughing and saying, “Hold on. Hold on. Slow down everybody.” The giant joke grin and the bizarre laughter while talking about 13 dead Americans were quite telling.
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On Monday, Donald Trump went to Arlington to lay wreaths on the graves of the 13 dead Americans. You can call it politics. You can call it whatever you want. It also happens to be reality. Those 13 dead service people are on the Biden administration. They are on Kamala Harris.
Their deaths did not happen on Trump&#8217;s watch.
As Trump has pointed out, pretending Harris was not involved in the Biden-Harris administration is a lie.
The catastrophe in Afghanistan was directly linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Iran&#8217;s aggressive moves in the Middle East against both America and her allies, particularly Israel. The Afghanistan pullout was a signal horrifying failure in American foreign policy history.
And Harris was part of the team making the decision.
Two years ago, Gold Star dad <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5082625/gold-star-dad-criticizes-president-biden-us-withdrawal-afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Schmidt</a>, whose son Lance Corporal Jared Schmidt was killed at Abbey Gate, told Newsmax2, “The people that made the decisions that were made that led up to this are literally washing their hands (of the decision.) ‘It’s not me; it’s him.’ … It’s just a circle of nonsense and nobody has any accountability or responsibility about it whatsoever.”
On Monday, Harris issued a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/08/26/statement-by-vice-president-harris-on-the-anniversary-of-the-terrorist-attack-outside-kabul-airport/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, saying, “I will never hesitate to take whatever action necessary to counter terrorist threats and protect the American people and the homeland.” Schmidt fired back, “I have to remind her she&#8217;s been the vice president for the last three and a half years and working side by side with Biden. We still have American citizens left in Afghanistan right now. What is she doing about that? What has Biden done? Nothing. You know, they have left thousands of people behind, and obviously millions or billions in our military assets behind. They wanted to end the war, to be able to get that photo opportunity, and it didn&#8217;t matter what the cost was.”
Kamala owns it. She was there.
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President Biden Delivers Remarks On Afghanistan Evacuation

13 Americans Died In Afghanistan. That’s On Kamala.

Afghanistan

Biden Administration

One of things you&#8217;re not supposed to do when you&#8217;re in the business of news reporting, or political commentary, is repeat yourself. Saying the same things over and over again is usually a good way to turn off your audience. Everyone in the media knows this, and political campaigns know it too. They count on it. They think that if they just ignore inconvenient facts — no matter how bad they may be — then eventually people will stop talking about them.
That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m going to begin by repeating a highly inconvenient fact that the Kamala Harris campaign apparently wants everyone to ignore, even though it&#8217;s unprecedented in modern politics. Since becoming her party&#8217;s presumptive nominee well over a month ago, Kamala Harris still hasn&#8217;t participated in a single press conference or interview. The most she&#8217;s done is deflect a couple of softballs on an airport tarmac. Harris was also completely absent from the Sunday shows the other day, even though pretty much every single Sunday show is explicitly on the side of her campaign.
Even when Joe Biden ran for office in 2020, when he was secluded in his house supposedly because of COVID, he sat for more interviews than this. He logged in via Zoom, and he only spoke to media outlets that wanted to do everything in their power to prop him up. But still, he technically spoke to the media. Kamala Harris isn&#8217;t even capable of doing that. And to this day, there are still no policies listed on her campaign&#8217;s website. She&#8217;s given speeches about price controls and more taxes, but she hasn&#8217;t outlined how any of that will work in practice.
This strategy of completely ignoring the public — the people Kamala Harris supposedly wants to represent — has had a few predictable consequences. One of them is that people are now digging up old Kamala Harris interviews that she gave months ago and posting them all over social media. These interviews aren&#8217;t necessarily interesting, but there&#8217;s a lot of demand out there for videos of Kamala Harris speaking in an unscripted setting. So they&#8217;re racking up millions of views.
Here&#8217;s one of those interviews that&#8217;s making the rounds. As far as I can tell, it&#8217;s from several months ago, when Joe Biden was officially still running for president. And it illustrates very clearly why Kamala Harris isn&#8217;t giving any interviews now that she&#8217;s been named the party&#8217;s presumptive nominee. Watch:
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It&#8217;s a bit like that video of Miss Teen USA in 2007 — the one where she&#8217;s asked why people can&#8217;t find America on the map, and she starts talking about &#8220;the Iraq and everywhere like such as.&#8221; Except in this case, we&#8217;re talking about someone who wants to be the president of the United States. She was asked, in very clear terms, to defend her administration&#8217;s DEI programs, which the Trump campaign says it wants to dismantle. That includes programs that would allocate tens of billions of dollars to &#8220;women- and minority-owned restaurants,&#8221; meaning restaurants that aren&#8217;t owned by white men. It also includes the Biden administration&#8217;s plan to allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to &#8220;black farmers,&#8221; which a federal judge had to shut down. And of course it includes the federal government&#8217;s preferential hiring for so-called &#8220;minorities,&#8221; including <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/news/faas-diversity-push-includes-hiring-people-with-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disabilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">air traffic controllers</a> with, &#8220;severe intellectual disabilities.&#8221; 
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This should not have been a difficult question to respond to. Kamala Harris, by Joe Biden&#8217;s own admission, is the nation&#8217;s first DEI vice president. She&#8217;s constantly talking about equity and diversity and how it should be in the foreground of everything the government does. But when you listen to the answer, it&#8217;s evident that Kamala Harris knows nothing about any of these DEI policies. Or at the very least, if she&#8217;s aware of these programs, she&#8217;s certainly not capable of speaking about them in a coherent fashion. So she starts speaking very broadly about the importance of &#8220;teaching history.&#8221; She says that everyone should have an opportunity to &#8220;compete,&#8221; which isn&#8217;t something that anyone opposes. And then she meanders a little more. This was painful to listen to, for about a dozen reasons, and it wasn&#8217;t even a challenging question. Imagine how she&#8217;d handle an actual question about anything remotely complicated.
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Because Democrats are now saddled with a candidate who is — somehow — almost as incompetent as Joe Biden, it falls on campaign surrogates to explain what Kamala Harris will do if she does indeed become the next president. Normally it wouldn&#8217;t make sense to spend a lot of time talking about what campaign surrogates say, but in this case, Kamala has left us with no choice. She can&#8217;t speak for herself, so others have to speak for her. 
That brings me to this recent clip from H.R.C. president Kelley Robinson, who just spoke at the Democratic National Convention. She gave a short speech and also appeared at an &#8220;equality&#8221; panel, which is where this clip is from. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the H.R.C. (which stands for &#8220;Human Rights Campaign&#8221;), I&#8217;ve exposed a lot of their previous scams on this show in the past. They&#8217;re the same organization that routinely lies about the so-called &#8220;trans genocide&#8221; in this country, by claiming that trans-identifying people are being murdered in the streets at disproportionate rates. Then when you dig into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-left-claims-theres-an-epidemic-of-anti-trans-violence-heres-why-that-claim-is-total-nonsense">numbers</a> and the specific cases, you find the exact opposite. You find that, in pretty much every case, these individuals are either committing serious crimes when they were killed (like shooting at police officers or trying to stab security guards), or they were killed for reasons that have nothing to do with their sexual orientation.
All this is to say, under normal circumstances, if you were running a presidential campaign, you wouldn&#8217;t want the H.R.C. to be speaking for you. But that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening now for the Kamala campaign because they&#8217;ve ceded the floor. So here&#8217;s the H.R.C.&#8217;s Kelley Robinson at the D.N.C. explaining what Kamala Harris means when she says her presidency would restore and protect &#8220;democracy&#8221; in this country. Watch:
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The Bill of Rights is a &quot;little piece of paper&quot; and we must &quot;reimagine&quot; democracy.
This is a top Kamala surrogate.
She means communism.
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She declares that we have to &#8220;reimagine&#8221; democracy. And then she gives a clue as to how that reimagined democracy might operate. According to Kelley Robinson, in this new democracy, &#8220;people who look and love like us&#8221; should be at the &#8220;center.&#8221;
Anyone who&#8217;s familiar with what &#8220;democracy&#8221; means can probably spot the problem here. A democracy is a system of government that vests power in the general population. It does not vest power in a small, select group of preferred identities who seek to persecute and undermine other identity groups. But that&#8217;s what Kelley Robinson means when she says &#8220;democracy,&#8221; and of course it&#8217;s what Kamala Harris means as well. When she says democracy should be about &#8220;people who look and love like us,&#8221; she means that democracy should work for everyone except straight white men. Their voices are less important. 
What does that look like in practice? Presumably it means appointing judges who will approve congressional districts that minimize the voting power of straight white men. It means continuing to discriminate against straight white men in all aspects of hiring, in both the government and the private sector. And it means continuing to tolerate violent racial attacks on white people in broad daylight. Here&#8217;s just one of those attacks from the other day.
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This is footage from Staten Island in July. A group of young black men violently assault a 62-year-old man, knocking his teeth out of his mouth and beating him. It&#8217;s a cliche to point this out, but if the races were reversed, Merrick Garland&#8217;s DOJ would have opened an investigation already into this obvious &#8220;hate crime.&#8221; If anything&#8217;s a hate crime, this qualifies. But in this case, no one in the federal government or the corporate press cares. That&#8217;s apparently what a democracy looks like when it doesn&#8217;t care about white men.
But democracy isn&#8217;t the only thing we need to re-think, according to Kamala Harris&#8217; surrogates. In that panel discussion, the H.R.C. lady also said she wants to, &#8220;reimagine freedom,&#8221; which is especially important to keep in mind because the Kamala campaign is running on a platform of &#8220;freedom.&#8221; It&#8217;s not freedom as we traditionally understand it, but this &#8220;reimagined&#8221; kind of freedom. What does that look like exactly? And why would we need to reimagine a concept that seems to be pretty straightforward? Who isn&#8217;t free right now in the United States?
To try to answer these questions, I went looking for some other videos from Kelley Robinson. And I came across this one, from when she became the president of the H.R.C. It does a pretty good job explaining the outlook of Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign and the kind of people who support it. Watch:
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&#8220;Like every single day, just in my house, I experience a crisis.&#8221;
This is a woman who, assuming her <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521243457">salary</a> is in line with past H.R.C. presidents, probably pulls in around half a million dollars a year at a minimum. She has a prominent position in Democrat Party politics that includes prime speaking gigs at the DNC and all over Left-wing cable news. She is one of the wealthiest and most &#8220;privileged&#8221; Americans in the country, to use their preferred lingo. And yet, if we take her at her word, every single day in her house is a &#8220;crisis.&#8221; She is perpetually on edge. There are no good days to be had. There is only a never ending sense of panic and despair in the Kelley Robinson household.
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This is an ideology of catastrophizing and self-pity. It&#8217;s pathological, to an absurd and obvious degree. And it&#8217;s what the Kamala campaign subscribes to. This is why they say that our entire system of government needs to be completely transformed into a racial and gender-based spoils system, where only preferred identity groups matter. They&#8217;re unloading all of their neurosis on the rest of the country, in an effort to obtain complete and total power over the people they believe are responsible for their psychological pain.
Kamala Harris may not be able to verbalize that, because she&#8217;s not capable of verbalizing anything approaching a coherent thought. But that&#8217;s what her campaign stands for. And it&#8217;s the clearest example of projection you&#8217;ll find in modern politics today. No, a vote for Kamala Harris will not end your daily &#8220;crisis&#8221; because you&#8217;re probably not having one. But they are. And the purpose of the Kamala Harris campaign, as told by the surrogates who are forced to speak for her, is to ensure that one way or another, you experience a daily crisis, too.

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The Real Reason Why Kamala Won’t Answer Questions

The Real Reason Why Kamala Won't Answer Questions

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Well, the reviews for the DNC are in — and across the political spectrum, on media outlets as far-Left as ABC News to those as far-Left as NBC News, people pretending to be journalists all agree that this Democrat Convention was a joy-filled, folksy, All-American, joy-filled, totally normal, full of joy, freedom-loving gathering of utterly joyful Baby-murdering Communists pretending to ignore antisemitic pro-Islamist terrorist protestors just long enough to get elected, when they can capitulate to them entirely and also full of joy. 
The only sour note came from grumpy, non-joyous Republicans, who attacked Democrats for offering free abortions and vasectomies outside the convention center. Republicans are deeply concerned that if Democrats have too many abortions and vasectomies, there won’t be any more Democrats, and Republicans might accidentally win an election and have to govern, which sounds much harder than talking tough on Fox News. 
Indoors, the joyful, folksy folksiness began with a touching joy-filled all-American farewell speech by Joe Whatever-his-name-used-to-be, who was joyously dragged onstage by Nancy Pelosi, while he dug his fingernails into the floor leaving inch-deep scratch marks as he joyously screamed, “I don’t want to go, please don’t make me go.” 
Far-Left media outlets like CBS and even some far-Left outlets like PBS — or wait, maybe it’s PBS that’s on the far-Left and CBS that’s on the far-Left, I always get those two confused because there’s only one letter of difference between them and they’re both Communist — but anyway, CBS and PBS and all the BS in between agreed that Biden’s farewell speech was a joy-filled, touching, tear-filled, joy-filled touching joy-filled tribute to whatever it was he was talking about.
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A joy-filled Biden told the joy-filled crowd, “Sure, I thought I could win re-election. But Nancy Pelosi quietly explained that if I didn’t step down, she would cut off my testicles and wear them for earrings, and so with a great sense of regret and also terror because what a horrifying image that is — Nancy Pelosi wearing my nuts for earrings — holy crap, no wonder I can’t remember who I am or even what the end of this sentence is. But my legacy is clear: I passed all kinds of bills with things in them and now the price of bread is more than fifty percent higher than it was when I took office, but I can afford that, because I’ve made tens of millions of dollars peddling my influence to America’s enemies so at least I&#8217;m not like that stab-in-the-back SOB Obama who ripped off Netflix for a fortune to make god-awful movies so now Netflix can’t afford to let your grandmother share your subscription anymore and she just sits around wondering where all those nice black Victorian Englishmen on TV went and hoping they didn’t escape into real life where they scare the hell out of her. And now I’m very sleepy, so I have to go back to napping and being the leader of the free world.”
Biden’s joyful speech was followed by joyful speeches by the joyful Obamas. First, Michelle Obama joyfully told the joyful crowd “Donald Trump is trying to make people afraid of Barack and me because we’re two college educated black people who are trying to destroy America from within. And that’s racist. We’re not trying to destroy America because we’re black. We’re trying to destroy America because we’re college educated, and have therefore been stripped of our capacity to reason and feel gratitude. So let’s reject racism, and come together to tear this country to pieces in the name of outlandish, anti-factual ideologies that could only be mistaken for reality after four-years of relentless indoctrination, not to mention drugs.” 
Barack Obama then followed his wife with a speech celebrating his legacy of giving nukes to Iran and making it impossible for your grandmother to share your Netflix subscription. 
Finally, Kamala Harris ended the convention by appearing in the form of a hologram, who declared that America needs a change from all the things she supported for the last four years, so vote for her. When asked why the real Kamala couldn’t appear instead of a phony three-dimensional image, DNC officials said that was the only Kamala they had.
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Independent presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a> eviscerated the legacy media and Democrat Party in a scathing speech on Friday where he explained why he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Kennedy made the remarks during a press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, where he explained how today&#8217;s modern Democrat Party is vastly different than the party he grew up with.
&#8220;Back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism, and unjust wars. We were the party of labor, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment.&#8221;
He noted that the party has morphed into the party of &#8220;war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money,&#8221; adding that he left the party &#8220;when it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary&#8221; to hide the cognitive decline of President Joe Biden.
RFK said that the term &#8220;democracy&#8221; has &#8220;become little more than a slogan&#8221; for the Democrat Party.
&#8220;In the name of saving democracy, the Democratic Party set itself to dismantling it, lacking confidence in its candidate, that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the DNC waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.&#8221;
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&#8220;It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden. Then when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.&#8221;
RFK noted that Harris was &#8220;so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.&#8221;
He said that his father and uncle would be appalled that Harris was given the nomination and has avoided all interviews and unscripted encounters with voters.
&#8220;My father and my uncle were always conscious of America&#8217;s image abroad because of our nation&#8217;s role as the template for democracy, the role model for democratic processes, and the leader of the free world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Instead of showing us her substance and character, the DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing: no policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons in a highly produced Chicago circus.&#8221;
RFK said that Democrats aren&#8217;t focused on telling voters about Harris&#8217; policies because they are focused on casting hate onto Trump.
&#8220;How did the Democratic Party choose a candidate that has never done an interview or debate during the entire election cycle?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;They did it by weaponizing the government agencies. They did it by abandoning democracy. They did it by suing the opposition and by disenfranchising American voters. What most alarms me isn&#8217;t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs or runs its candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control and the weaponization of the federal agencies.&#8221;
&#8220;When a U.S. president colludes with or outright coerces media companies to censor political speech, it&#8217;s an attack on our most sacred right, of free expression, and that&#8217;s the very right upon which all of our other constitutional rights rest,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;President Biden mocked Vladimir Putin&#8217;s 88% landslide in the Russian elections, observing that Putin and his party controlled the Russian press and that Putin prevented serious opponents from appearing on the ballot; but here in America, the DNC also prevented opponents from appearing on the ballot, and our television networks expose themselves as Democratic Party organs.&#8221;
RFK said that legacy media companies have effectively banned him from interviews during the election in what he said was a coordinated effort with the Democrat Party that included vile smears against him.
He said that he decided to support Trump because they aligned on free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war on children.
He added that he was working to get his name removed from the ballot in 10 swing states where, if he remained on the ballot, he would be helping Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Here are highlights from RFK Jr.&#8217;s (<a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobertKennedyJr</a>) speech:
-Rips Democrats for abandoning values 
-Explains how the media &amp; Democrats worked to stifle his campaign 
-Slams Harris becoming the nominee despite not winning any primary votes 
-Explains why he is supporting Trump <a href="https://t.co/ZmGAvAHl6W">pic.twitter.com/ZmGAvAHl6W</a>
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Since when did the free press of the United States become a useful idiot? Why are mainstream media outlets, across the spectrum, parroting propaganda from the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)? The Wall Street Journal spoke of the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/irans-election-features-a-reformer-a-hardliner-and-a-crisis-3360fad2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent Iranian elections</a>, without declaring its sham nature. The Atlantic published an <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/07/iran-election-pezeshkian-khamenei/678948/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unironic piece</a> detailing Ayatollah Khamenei&#8217;s fear of the reformist party, failing to note that Iran is a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57260831">totalitarian state</a>. Nothing happens without his approval, so what exactly does he have to fear? The New York Times is no better. Their <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/world/middleeast/iran-new-president-pezeshkian.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent portrayal</a> of the new Iranian president paints a sympathetic portrait.
Apparently, the following points need to be made for the American public.
One, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is an Islamic theocracy with Ayatollah Khamenei as its Supreme Leader. Khamenei’s regime controls everything in the country. I repeat: everything. This is a foreign concept to Americans basking in the land of the free. So let me provide an example. When I was living in Iran, the regime chose what college I attended. The regime chose my major. The regime forced me to cut my long hair. Like the other 80 million Iranians, I had no agency over my own life.
Moreover, external narratives originating from the regime cannot be trusted. This includes any Iranian news outlet, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14542234" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as all media is state-run</a>. To maintain a modicum of grace within the Western world powers, the regime creates a facade of liberalism. This is their propaganda. It is a mirage, a lie sold to the West in order to continue <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/25701/how-iran-and-her-proxies-use-western-resources-to" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leeching Western resources</a>, like funding and research, to further entrench their ideology. Instead, listen to what they say behind our backs. MEMRI, an independent U.S.-based nonprofit, translates scores of <a href="https://www.memri.org/countries/iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal IRI media</a>. Perusing these translations informs us of IRI’s true intentions.
Two, in general, the Iranian people are not our enemy. They suffer most under the oppressive regime and are essentially a collective political prisoner. The lucky few who escaped deserve our compassion and attention, not the ones who are <a href="https://medium.com/@mitra.jashni7/islamic-republic-apologists-in-the-west-are-cheering-for-nuclear-weapons-935f8064f297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regime apologists</a> and come to the West to whitewash IRI’s crimes. They, who have endured trauma beyond comprehension, do not deserve  treatment similar from which they ran away. When I fled to America nearly eight years ago, I faced resistance when telling my story. It continues to alarm me that other Iranian dissidents, some who continue to face <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iranian-dissidents-abductions-assassination-attemts-60-minutes-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death threats</a> from the regime, are being silenced. Some even have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227634325/iran-murder-for-hire-plot-maryland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">terror plots against them</a>. Americans need to listen to these people. We have seen the other side (spoiler alert: it’s terrifying), we notice the warning signs, and we are committed to preserving freedom.
Three, the IRI seeks the destruction of the West, particularly America. This is not hyperbole. Don’t laugh this off. I know it sounds absurd. The end may not come with fire and brimstone, but perhaps rather a social unraveling. I fear that if <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/312644/national-pride-falls-record-low.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diminishing pride</a> in our country continues to grow, our institutions and infrastructure of freedom will whither. It can be metaphorical suicide to take our freedom for granted. There is a reason Ayatollah Khamenei <a href="https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1795963798831964411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted support</a> for American college student protesters and their encampments — which also highlights the regime’s double standard, as the Iranian people do not have access to Twitter. In fact, I echo the request of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-22/iran-protests-target-ayatollah-khamenei-social-media-accounts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iranian dissidents</a> who call upon Elon Musk and other tech giants to ban Khamenei. The Supreme Leader gets high off of American turmoil. Our chaos is his schadenfreude. To be clear, anything that pleases Ayatollah Khamenei should revolt us. He <a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-crime-government-and-politics-da53071412f8c3da9cd51945b7870780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hangs political prisoners from cranes</a> for all to see.  He <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/opinions/nobel-peace-gender-apartheid-un-narges-mohammadi/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upholds gender apartheid</a>, forcing women into a second-class caste. If Ayatollah Khamenei says you’re on the “right side of history,” you’re on the wrong side.
We need to be vigilant about our language. Language directly shapes how we understand our world. The stakes are too high to misunderstand the Iranian regime and the threat they pose. The challenge, of course, is that certain terms carry a different meaning in the IRI context. Words hold very different definitions within IRI. Words like “government” — for Americans this connotes something that is by the people for the people, which the Iranian regime is neither; “private” — the regime controls everything; “private” institutions in IRI are still public; “reformist” — this sounds palatable to Western ears, but the <a href="https://democrawonk.com/2024/06/28/iranian-elections-the-never-ending-saga-of-hardliners-vs-reformists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reformists and hardliners in IRI are one and the same;</a> “crime” — did you know it is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62205744">illegal to own a dog in Iran?</a> 
If you struggle to understand the Islamic Republic, discard all that you know about the world and start anew. Just because a word is familiar, do not assume you know what it means in the IRI context.
Our journalists bear the burden of truth telling and clear communication. I urge them to reject IRI propaganda.
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William Mehrvarz was born and raised in the Islamic Republic of Iran. After rejecting Islam (the crime of apostasy), he fled under the threat of execution to seek asylum in the United States. He now writes and speaks about the dangers of Islamism and the importance of religious freedom. William can be reached on <a href="https://x.com/WilliamMehrvarz" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://x.com/WilliamMehrvarz&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1723843824564000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2O7Yz6sD6Yq1snu_mkvACW">X</a>.
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Iran-Celebrating Iran’s IRGC Missile And UAV Attack Against Israel

I Am From Iran. Here’s Why American Journalists Need To Reject Iranian Propaganda.

I Am From Iran. Here's Why American Journalists Need To Reject Iranian Propaganda.

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It has now been 25 full days that Kamala Harris has been the de facto Democratic nominee and has answered zero questions from the media.
You would think that might bother some people in the media.
But no. 
This is the untold story of the last 20 years in American politics. Since Barack Obama came onto the national scene, no one in the media has had any curiosity about asking Democrats questions. 
That&#8217;s how Harris has had 25 days of glowing media coverage, a media massaging her shoulders and bootlicking her at every turn. 
During the Bill Clinton presidency, the media broke some pretty major stories, ranging from Travelgate to Chinagate to the Lewinsky scandal. They did their jobs, at least up to a point. They hated George W.  Bush, so they did everything they could to cover every small peccadillo in which anyone involved in the Bush family or the Bush circle participated. 
Then came Barack Obama. With Obama, the media decided that at long last, their messiah had come, and they were no longer able to ask any questions. In fact, asking questions of Obama would be seen as gauche, might be seen as racist. They didn&#8217;t want to do that.
So, instead, they decided to become the full-fledged Praetorian Guard for Obama. And because Barack Obama reshaped the nature of American politics and because the media had spent eight years with their muscles atrophying, they were able to go hard at Donald Trump.
Everything Trump did or did not do became front-page news — four long years of them claiming that just around the next corner loomed evidence that he was a stooge of Vladimir Putin. Everything Trump ever did was the most scandalous thing anyone had ever done.
Then, Trump lost the election in 2020 and the media went right back to that comforting, warm, urine-filled kiddy pool that was the Obama years.
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They&#8217;re there right now. And they&#8217;re enjoying it. They had a three-week intermission where they were forced by circumstance, and by the incompetence of Joe Biden, to do their job.
That had to have been unusual for them, as if they were suddenly hit with volts of electricity and had to get up and walk around.
But it turned out that wasn&#8217;t journalism being alive. That was like the experiment with frogs, where you galvanize a frog and suddenly it moves a little bit even though it&#8217;s dead. They were dead, but then Kamala Harris came in and suddenly they were just as incurious as they ever were about Barack Obama.
But — the American people know it. The American people know it. They know what the legacy media are. And we just had a prime example.
Monday night, on the Stephen Colbert Show, Colbert had on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. She was talking about how terrible Trump is, what a terrible job he&#8217;s doing, and how Harris has all the momentum.
But then Colbert said, in perfect seriousness, straight-faced, that CNN is objective.
And the crowd — the crowd for Colbert’s shows is invariably to the Left — laughed.
It wasn’t supposed to be a laugh line.
But it was because the media have become such a laughingstock every normal American looks at CNN and sees a Left-wing outlet.
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NEW: Audience starts cracking up after a serious Stephen Colbert tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that CNN “just reports the news as it is.”
Remarkable.
Colbert: “I know you guys are objective over [at CNN], you just report the news as it is.”
Audience: *Laughs hysterically*… <a href="https://t.co/9R8iv2UXeN">pic.twitter.com/9R8iv2UXeN</a>
&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1823365884213346613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Maybe, just maybe, Harris can&#8217;t get away with this. The media are doing their damnedest to help her steal this election, not by changing the votes or rigging the ballot boxes, but by obscuring her record and positions to completely hide every piece of relevant information about her.
Why has Harris been able to switch every position she has ever held to the complete incuriosity of the media? They keep saying, “Well, you know, eventually we&#8217;ll get to it.”
The question is: When? We are getting down to crunch time. People are going to start turning in their ballots right now.
Harris has been able to skate completely across the campaign with not even a ripple from the legacy media. They are all trying to play defense for her.
Why? Because they have to. Without them playing defense, they have nothing. She is not a good candidate. She never was a good candidate.
Any half-decent politician can read a speech from a teleprompter. That is not difficult. What is difficult is knowing your own positions, being able to speak to those positions, taking on critics, and facing down controversy.
That&#8217;s a hard job. But Harris is not facing down any of that because the media are acting as her Praetorian Guard.
The media’s performance is worthy of Samwise Gamgee in “Lord of the Rings.”
They&#8217;re not able to carry the ring of power themselves, but they are able to carry the person who&#8217;s carrying the ring of power, Kamala Harris, all the way up that mountain.
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2024 Republican National Convention: Day 1

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Presidency

Stephen Colbert

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