On Tuesday, The Los Angeles Times, ever mindful of its obligation to push a leftist agenda, lectured the National Football League in an <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/editorial-its-not-enough-to-apologize-to-colin-kaepernick-the-nfl-needs-to-give-him-a-job/ar-BB15ytSa">editorial,</a> writing that National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell can only be taken seriously about his pledge to confront racism “by ensuring Colin Kaepernick has a job again as an NFL quarterback.”
The Times editorial board, aware that Kaepernick’s record after his initial stellar start was nothing to write home about, hedged, “We can spend hours dissecting Kaepernick&#8217;s abilities as a player,” but then surmised, &#8220;He didn’t get a tryout with a single team, and that&#8217;s not because of his skills or his salary,” citing “various NFL insiders and analysts,” concluding that the supposed lack of a tryout (the NFL offered him a special tryout in November 2019 but Kaepernick skipped it) was because “he had the audacity during the 2016 season to ‘take a knee’ while the national anthem was playing.”
In February, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/xfl-commissioner-we-talked-to-kaepernick-about-playing-but-his-rep-made-exorbitant-demands">reported,</a> XFL Commissioner Oliver Luck, the father of former NFL quarterback Andrew Luck, said during an <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/02/08/804163433/the-relaunch-of-xfl">interview</a> with NPR&#8217;s Michael Martin that his league would have welcomed Kaepernick, but Kaepernick’s agent made “exorbitant&#8221; demands. Asked why the XFL would not &#8220;distinguish&#8221; itself from the NFL &#8220;by offering an opportunity to somebody who has a track record as a great player, who has a lot of following,” Lick responded. &#8220;We gave it some thought. We have some pretty significant salary restrictions, you know. We&#8217;re a start-up league, so we want to make sure that we can be fiscally responsible and fiscally prudent. And the, you know, salary requirements that some folks, you know, shared with us were in our case exorbitant, so we, you know, couldn&#8217;t go down that path.&#8221;
Martin pressed, &#8220;Are you saying that you approached him or his representatives, and he wasn&#8217;t willing to talk to you because of salary requirements?&#8221; Luck replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m saying that we spoke with his representative, and the salary requirements that were broached in that conversation were exorbitant and certainly out of our range.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfls-goodell-on-kaepernick-weve-moved-on-after-he-skipped-workout">The Daily Wire</a> reported in December 2019 that after Kaepernick decided to skip a special workout offered to him by the league in November, Goodell stated, &#8220;This was about creating an opportunity. We created that opportunity. It was a unique opportunity, a credible opportunity and he chose not to take it. I understand that.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We’ve moved on.&#8221; the commissioner added.
In an ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28139355/why-colin-kaepernick-nfl-were-never-going-work-out">report</a>, league insiders consistently maintained that the league, particularly Goodell, had genuinely offered Kaepernick a real opportunity to play again, but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nfl-insiders-kaepernick-tryout-needlessly-derailed-by-his-camps-distrust-of-league">&#8220;distrust&#8221; and &#8220;resentment&#8221;</a> for the league within Kaepernick&#8217;s camp led to his decision to skip the NFL-organized event less than an hour before it began.
Former Jets head coach Rex Ryan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCd96dTWKwU">added</a> on ESPN’s “Get Up,” “The NFL doesn’t have to have this kid play. I’m sorry. What I see on the video is look, if you want to break down the little video , you see, you see, is he throwing the ball behind him, too much air on his deep ball, yeah all those type of things. But that wasn’t about this. As a coach, you don’t want this circus in the locker room. And, I’m sorry, but that’s what it is. Is it going to be worth all the extra media? You’re going to have a backup quarterback having press conferences.”
Kaepernick is still making politically charged statements; on May 28,  Kaepernick tweeted during the violent Minneapolis protests after George Floyd’s death, “&#8221;When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction. The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance. We have the right to fight back!&#8221;
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When civility leads to death, revolting is the only logical reaction. 
The cries for peace will rain down, and when they do, they will land on deaf ears, because your violence has brought this resistance.
We have the right to fight back! 
Rest in Power George Floyd
&mdash; Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1266046129906552832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In August 2017, NFL legend Jim Brown took issue with Kaepernick’s attitude, telling <a href="http://www.thepostgame.com/jim-brown-colin-kaepernick-activist-flag-anthem">The Post Game</a>:
<blockquote>Colin has to make up his mind whether he&#8217;s truly an activist or whether he&#8217;s a football player. Football is commercial. You have owners. You have fans. And you want to honor that if you&#8217;re making that kind of money. … I’m going to give you the real deal: I’m an American. I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem. I’m not gonna do anything against the flag and the national anthem. I’m going to work within those situations. But this is my country, and I’ll work out the problems, but I’ll do it in an intelligent manner.</blockquote>
The Times concluded, “Goodell&#8217;s credibility, and the league&#8217;s, is on the line here (which Goodell seems to recognize; on Monday, he told ESPN that he would welcome a team signing Kaepernick, and ‘I encourage them to do that’). If the NFL wants the world to believe that it respects its players&#8217; voices and their protests, it needs Kaepernick back in uniform.”
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L.A. Times Lectures NFL’s Goodell: Make Sure League Hires Kaepernick

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You would expect that with its leftist proclivities and penchant for identity politics The Los Angeles Times would write an article defending what they perceive to be a victim group, but on Tuesday, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis threatening the stability of the world and the human race, the Times published an article defending one supposed victim group from humans:
Bats.
Yup, while the coronavirus COVID-19 that has inflicted worldwide trauma is indelibly associated with bats, the Times took space to argue that the creatures are really the victims, titling the piece, “<a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-21/bats-coronavirus-infections-research-yolo-county">Bats get blamed for the coronavirus. But bats face their own virus risk — from humans</a>.”
The article begins with a rather bland paragraph, considering the voluminous evidence supporting it: “As forensic virologists search to uncover the origins of COVID-19, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-22/by-decoding-the-coronavirus-genome-scientists-hope-to-gain-the-upper-hand-in-the-outbreak">bats have been fingered as a </a><a href="https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-02-22/by-decoding-the-coronavirus-genome-scientists-hope-to-gain-the-upper-hand-in-the-outbreak">likely source</a>. Genetic analyses show the virus is very similar to one harbored by <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-02/why-china-wildlife-ban-not-enough-stop-coronavirus-outbreak">Chinese horseshoe bats</a>, and researchers think it’s possible it jumped from those winged mammals to people.”
But then, the Times swiftly reverses direction: “But some bat lovers and chiropterologists — scientists who study the flying mammals — are adamant there is no proof. Instead, they’re wringing their hands about the reverse: That people with COVID-19 could spread the disease to their furry, nocturnal housemates.”
How does the Times support this nebulous claim? With speculative proof, writing, “There is no evidence indicating that bats can get the coronavirus from people, said Alice Chung-MacCoubrey, a bat biologist for the National Park Service, and an affiliate faculty at South Oregon University. ‘But it’s something we’re concerned about.’”
Well, why not? Surely the human race is dastardly enough to target such helpless creatures.
But wait — if there’s a paucity of scientific evidence supporting such a contention, what would suffice to act as evidence that humans are a danger to bats?
This: “Reports indicate that COVID-19 has the ability to <a href="https://www.latimes.com/socal/la-canada-valley-sun/news/story/2020-04-14/cats-dogs-pets-coronavirus-la-canada-flintridge-pasadena-humane-society">jump from humans to other species, including pet cats</a> and a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-05/tiger-at-nycs-bronx-zoo-tests-positive-for-coronavirus">Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo</a>. And because people can live in close proximity to bats — the flying mammals often live in attics and crawl spaces — common sense suggests it could jump to them too.”
Ahhhh. Common sense.
The Times notes that on Saturday evening, underneath the Yolo Bypass just west of Sacramento, “a half-dozen amateur photographers appeared by the bridge, hoping to get good shots of the swarm.” Then the Times laments, “None of the photographers seemed concerned about passing the virus to the bats.”
<a href="https://www.livescience.com/26898-bats-host-human-infecting-viruses.html">LiveScience</a> noted how dangerous bats can be in 2013:
<blockquote>When it comes to carrying viruses that can jump to other species — so-called &#8220;zoonotic&#8221; viruses — bats may be in a class of their own. The flying mammals are reservoirs for more than 60 viruses that can infect humans, and host more viruses per species than even rodents do, new research shows.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/why-bats-are-breeding-grounds-for-deadly-diseases-like-ebola-and-sars">Discover Magazine</a> wrote in February:
<blockquote>Essentially, some of the same adaptations that let bats take to the skies also endowed them with a high-functioning immune system, according to the <a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/48401">study</a>, published earlier this month in the journal eLife. That powerful immune response thwarts invading viruses, driving them to adapt more rapidly than they would in other hosts. This tends to produce viruses far deadlier than the pathogens found in other creatures. So when one of them does leap to humans, the consequences are often alarming.</blockquote>

LA Times: The Real Victims Here Are The Bats

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Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who is a constitutional attorney by training, has the following op-ed today at the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-15/william-barr-attorney-general-donald-trump">Los Angeles Times</a>.
Many have been all too quick to make Atty. Gen. William Barr out to be a reflexive toady for President Trump. Just last week, the New York City Bar Association took the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trumped-up-case-of-bar-v-barr-11578699265?mod=opinion_lead_pos2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="2">extreme</a> step of <a href="http://documents.nycbar.org/files/Exercising_Congressional_Oversight_AG_Barr_01082020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="3">writing to congressional leaders</a> to investigate Barr for political bias. And last month, he came under blistering criticism for <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/barr-thinks-fbi-may-have-acted-bad-faith-probing-trump-n1098986" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="4">defending the Trump campaign</a> and characterizing the FBI’s Russia investigation into the 2016 election as bogus.
Slate has <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/bill-barr-lying-inspector-general-horowitz-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="6">accused</a> Barr of using the Department of Justice as “a personal law firm for Trump.” Vox has <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/12/9/21003334/inspector-general-horowitz-barr-durham" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="7">bewailed</a> “the department’s politicization under Barr.” The Daily Beast has <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-barr-exposed-as-horowitz-report-dismisses-trumps-conspiracies-and-clears-trumps-enemies" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="9">lamented</a> how Barr has “become another of Donald Trump’s personal lawyers.” The New York Times has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/politics/barr-durham-ig-report-russia-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="10">noted</a> that the attorney general had “reprised his role as a vocal defender of President Trump.”
Perhaps none of these media outlets recall the time when then-Atty. Gen. Eric Holder famously described himself as President Obama’s “<a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2013/04/eric-holder-im-still-the-presidents-wingman-160861" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="12">wingman</a>.” Curiously, Holder actually took to the Washington Post to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eric-holder-william-barr-is-unfit-to-be-attorney-general/2019/12/11/99882092-1c55-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="13">decry</a> Barr’s ostensible self-debasement as an unfortunate “instrument of politics.”
Holder’s hypocrisy aside, the newfound stance in favor of a strongly independent attorney general among liberals is misguided as a matter of constitutional interpretation and ahistorical as a matter of American custom.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution states that “[t]he executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The power is vested not in numerous sources, but solely in the president. The president maintains plenary authority over the entirety of the executive branch.
The “unitary executive theory,” which Democrats routinely excoriate, comes from the plain text of the Constitution. As Atty. Gen. Barr <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-19th-annual-barbara-k-olson-memorial-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="18">recently said</a> during his remarks at the Federalist Society’s 2019 National Lawyers Convention, the notion of the unitary executive “is not ‘new,’ and it is not a ‘theory.’” On the contrary, he continued, “[i]t is a description of what the Framers unquestionably did in Article II of the Constitution.”
Throughout American history, attorneys general have intuited and acted upon their non-independent subordination to presidents of the United States. In “<a href="https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-0530-9.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="20">Conflicting Loyalties: Law and Politics in the Attorney General’s Office, 1789–1990</a>,” the scholar Nancy V. Baker explored the historical nature of the attorney general’s position. Baker devoted entire book sections to “The Attorney General as a Legal Adviser” and “The Attorney General as a Policy Advisor.” She observed that “before he became an administrator” of a sprawling Department of Justice bureaucracy, “the attorney general assumed the role of the advisor to the president.” What’s more, the attorney general’s “responsibility” to serve in such an advisory capacity “has antecedents in seventeenth-century England.”
Indeed, the role of the attorney general as a top presidential advisor has been a recurring theme throughout American history. When President Lincoln’s attorney general, Edward Bates, <a href="https://archive.org/stream/suspensionofwrit00unit/suspensionofwrit00unit_djvu.txt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-reader-unique-id="22">famously wrote to Congress</a> in 1861 to defend Lincoln’s unilateral suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, he did so not as a neutral arbiter of legal principle, but as Lincoln’s top legal advisor who shared his superior’s ultimate policy aim of a Union victory in the Civil War.
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-15/william-barr-attorney-general-donald-trump">Read the rest of the piece here.</a>

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Hammer At The ‘Los Angeles Times’: Attorney General Barr Is Not Simply A Trump Shill.

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In the days after nine American citizens — three women and six of their children — were brutally massacred by a suspected drug cartel in the Mexican state of Sonora, the mainstream media posted widely-ridiculed pieces focusing on the victims&#8217; alleged ties to &#8220;violence&#8221; and &#8220;religious fundamentalism.&#8221;
Members of the related LeBarón and Langford families were victimized by one of the Mexican drug cartels while traveling to a wedding on Monday. The cartel repeatedly shot at their vehicles and set them on fire, killing nine — including a three-year-old — and injuring three others, including a seven-month-old baby girl.
Notably, the seven-month-old who survived, baby Faith Marie Johnson, was reportedly saved by her mother. Christina Marie Langford Johnson, 29, who was killed in the attack, reportedly sacrificed her own life to shield little Faith from bullets flying into one of the cars. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/moms-selfless-act-saves-young-childs-life-in-mexican-cartel-attack-on-u-s-family">The Daily Wire</a> reported Tuesday:
<blockquote>Kendra Lee Miller, a relative of the victims, writes in an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kendraleemiller92/posts/10162303510900316">account</a> on Facebook about the discovery of Faith hours after the attack, her mother’s quick-thinking actions apparently having saved the child’s life. Family members “found Christina’s baby Faith with the vehicle around her riddled with bullet holes,” Miller writes. “Somehow she had remained untouched, and alive. She was in her car seat, which looked to have been hurriedly placed on the floor of the vehicle by her mother for protection.”
After apparently moving Faith’s car seat to a safer position, Christina, Miller explains, “jumped out waving her arms to let the attackers know that it was women and children in the vehicles. She gave her life to try and save the rest.”</blockquote>
The victims had U.S. citizenship and belonged to a religious community in Mexico. As noted by The Daily Wire, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not recognize the religious community to which the members belonged as part of the Mormon Church.
The day following the news of the attack, the Los Angeles Times focused on the deceased&#8217;s alleged ties to violence.
&#8220;U.S. victims in Mexico massacre were tied to family with a long history of violence,&#8221; the headline said. However, the headline, according to Townhall senior writer <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1192150693676822528">Julio Rosas</a>, was later changed to read: &#8220;Massacre of U.S. citizens aims spotlight at Mormon community with deep roots in Mexico.&#8221;
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U.S. victims in Mexico massacre were tied to family with a long history of violence <a href="https://t.co/tNUdw20wKx">https://t.co/tNUdw20wKx</a>
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&#8220;Some of the victims shared the last name LeBaron,&#8221; the Times story outlined, adding:
<blockquote>&#8220;The LeBarons are among &#8216;a handful of major groups of fundamentalists,&#8217; said Patrick Mason, a historian of Mormonism at Utah State University. But, he added: &#8216;The LeBaron name in recent decades has been most often linked to violence. Unfortunately, this incident only adds to that association.'&#8221;</blockquote>
&#8220;The family is perhaps best known for a series of killings perpetrated in the 1970s and 1980s, in both Mexico and the United States, by Ervil LeBaron — once called the &#8216;Mormon Manson&#8217; — and a group of his followers,&#8221; the piece continued.
Some also took issue with The New York Times for focusing on the victims&#8217; &#8220;religious fundamentalism.&#8221;
&#8220;The brutal killing of [nine] members of an American family in northern Mexico on Monday highlights the long history of religious fundamentalist settlers in the region. Our religion reporter, Elizabeth Dias, details their history back to the early 20th century,&#8221; the Times posted.
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The brutal killing of 9 members of an American family in northern Mexico on Monday highlights the long history of religious fundamentalist settlers in the region. Our religion reporter, Elizabeth Dias, details their history back to the early 20th century. <a href="https://t.co/rfvtzdTN9i">https://t.co/rfvtzdTN9i</a>
&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1191822530727829506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The reactions to the pieces blew up online, many accusing the outlets of &#8220;victim blaming.&#8221;
&#8220;Well the NY Times and the LA Times found who is really to blame for a drug cartel brutally murdering and torching 9 people to death, including kids — the victims,&#8221; said FoxNews.com contributor Stephen Miller.
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Well the NY Times and the LA Times found who is really to blame for a drug cartel brutally murdering and torching 9 people to death, including kids &#8211; the victims. <a href="https://t.co/cvDgKKPqA7">pic.twitter.com/cvDgKKPqA7</a>
&mdash; Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1192127369353416704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Comedian and former Playboy writer Bridget Phetasy bluntly wrote, &#8220;This is disgusting victim blaming [L.A. Times] and you should be ashamed.&#8221;
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This is disgusting victim blaming <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@latimes</a> and you should be ashamed. <a href="https://t.co/bJWQC5j0sw">https://t.co/bJWQC5j0sw</a>
&mdash; Bridget Phetasy (@BridgetPhetasy) <a href="https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1192136991200006144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Nine Americans, including children, were brutally murdered, and the New York Times doesn&#8217;t call out the evil of the cartels, but labels the family &#8216;fundamentalist settlers?'&#8221; the account for PragerU questioned. &#8220;Shame on you, [New York Times].&#8221; 
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Nine Americans, including children, were brutally murdered, and the New York Times doesn&#39;t call out the evil of the cartels, but labels the family &quot;fundamentalist settlers&quot;?
Shame on you, <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>. <a href="https://t.co/CkFUfVhugo">https://t.co/CkFUfVhugo</a>
&mdash; PragerU (@prageru) <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1192126655478693888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Did the cartel write this?&#8221; Rosas blasted the LA Times.
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Did the cartel write this? <a href="https://t.co/72RB4jaixH">https://t.co/72RB4jaixH</a>
&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1192125884205064194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Breitbart News&#8217; Brandon Darby similarly posted, &#8220;Serious question, [L.A. Times]. Did someone in Mexico promise you access or exclusives if you agreed to help smear these victims of cartel violence? Trying to understand why you’d do this.&#8221;
&#8220;Or is it that &#8216;the border is safe&#8217; narrative means so much to your editors politically that you just decided to piss on the bodies of the women and children killed in order to protect that narrative?&#8221; he added. 
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Or is it that “the border is safe” narrative means so much to your editors politically that you just decided to piss on the bodies of the women and children killed in order to protect that narrative? <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@latimes</a>
&mdash; Brandon Darby (@brandondarby) <a href="https://twitter.com/brandondarby/status/1192126127797440514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Is the idea here that the victims had it coming? This is an insane piece,&#8221; Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro said.
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Is the idea here that the victims had it coming? This is an insane piece. <a href="https://t.co/8xEVTZnVez">https://t.co/8xEVTZnVez</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1192127080625885184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Steve Cortes, a CNN political commentator, posted: &#8220;What a disgraceful tweet and article from corporate media [L.A. Times]. The clear message: &#8216;[W]ell, these women and children who were gunned down by cartel monsters, they themselves had some pretty crazy relatives &#8230; or something&#8217; &#8230;&#8221;
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What a disgraceful tweet and article from corporate media <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@latimes</a>. The clear message: “well, these women and children who were gunned down by cartel monsters, they themselves had some pretty crazy relatives&#8230;or something”&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/9H6Ddaz721">https://t.co/9H6Ddaz721</a>
&mdash; Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1192150296656527360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;The [eight-]month old baby that was shot by a cartel member deserved it&#8217; &#8211; Journos,&#8221; mocked popular political Twitter account Comfortably Smug, adding: &#8220;&#8216;Actually a family getting pulled from their cars, raped, shot and set on fire is good&#8217; – L.A. Times.&#8221;
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&quot;Actually a family getting pulled from their cars, raped, shot and set on fire is good&quot; &#8211; LA Times
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President Donald Trump&#8217;s reaction was not the same at the media&#8217;s. Taking to his Twitter account on Tuesday morning, Trump declared &#8220;war&#8221; on drug cartels as he recalled what was known at the time of the brutal assault on the &#8220;wonderful&#8221; Utah &#8220;family and friends.&#8221;
“A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing,” the president posted.
“If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters, the United States stands ready, willing [and] able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively,” Trump continued. “The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!”
“This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth,” the president concluded. “We merely await a call from your great new president!”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/moms-selfless-act-saves-young-childs-life-in-mexican-cartel-attack-on-u-s-family">Mom’s Selfless Act Saves Young Child’s Life In Mexican Cartel Attack On U.S. Family</a>

Members of the Lebaron family look at the burned car where part of the nine murdered members of the family were killed and burned during an ambush in Bavispe, Sonora mountains, Mexico

‘Victim Blaming’: L.A. Times Ridicules Family Murdered By Mexican Cartel, Gets Ripped Online

Media Bias

Mexico

New York Times

Religion

Violence

In August, a group of Trump supporters led by conservative activist Scott Presler went to West Baltimore for a massive clean-up operation following tweets sent by President Donald Trump highlighting the dire conditions in the area.
Keeping to his promises, Presler has since led clean-up efforts in Newark, New Jersey and Virginia Beach, Virginia. And on Saturday, Presler and some 200 volunteers headed to Democrat-run Los Angeles, removing a stunning 50 tons of garbage, according to the activist.
&#8220;Without the help of the city, 200 volunteers picked up 50 tons of trash in 9 hours at a homeless camp in Los Angeles,&#8221; Presler told The Daily Wire on Monday.
&#8220;It’s almost 9 a.m. &amp; we’re removing waste from a homeless camp in Los Angeles. Why is an outsider from Northern Virginia here &amp; not California elected leadership?&#8221; the activist posted to Twitter Saturday, adding, &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngelesCleanup?src=hashtag_click">#LosAngelesCleanup</a>.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">It’s almost 9 a.m. &amp; we’re removing waste from a homeless camp in Los Angeles.
Why is an outsider from Northern Virginia here &amp; not California elected leadership? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngelesCleanup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LosAngelesCleanup</a> <a href="https://t.co/yqW2pxKA3c">pic.twitter.com/yqW2pxKA3c</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1175436890125635584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Presler periodically posted photos and videos tracking the group&#8217;s impressive progress. In one video showcasing the effort, the activist said they were working as &#8220;an act of love.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">We’re making incredible progress.
This is an act of love. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngelesCleanup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LosAngelesCleanup</a> <a href="https://t.co/lbR7tU8VPU">pic.twitter.com/lbR7tU8VPU</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1175478791461724160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We did it. We actually did it,&#8221; he captioned a video around 2 p.m. local time.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">We did it.
We actually did it. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngelesCleanup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LosAngelesCleanup</a> <a href="https://t.co/zreUb0Mlyh">pic.twitter.com/zreUb0Mlyh</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1175519843669307392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In additional tweets, Presler called the clean-up &#8220;one of the proudest moments of my life,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I’ll never forget the day we cleaned up a homeless camp in LA.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope I make you proud, mom &amp; dad,&#8221; another tweet said. &#8220;In Baltimore, we cleaned up 19 tons of trash. In Los Angeles, we cleaned up 50 tons of trash.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I hope I make you proud, mom &amp; dad.
In Baltimore, we cleaned up 19 tons of trash.
In Los Angeles, we cleaned up 50 tons of trash. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/69Tons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#69Tons</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1175550054536364032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The impressive feat, however, has gone widely unnoticed by the mainstream media.
&#8220;National media has been completely silent,&#8221; Presler said. &#8220;Yet, the day before our cleanup, the LA Times reported on the climate strike. I&#8217;m not a climate striker — I&#8217;m a climate doer. Perhaps if the LA Times reported stories on real activism, we would see more cleanups and fewer protests. #StopTalkingStartDoing.&#8221;
The LA Times recently begged for such clean-up efforts executed by Presler and company in a collective editorial published in June, titled, &#8220;<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-encampments-cleanups-20190620-story.html">A plan to clean up L.A. and help the homeless? Get it done already</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;Don&#8217;t postpone the decision. Don&#8217;t call for another study. This is an emergency,&#8221; the LA Times editorial board urged.
&#8220;Finally, Los Angeles city officials are recognizing the urgent need to clean up the trash near homeless encampments. Both the trash that homeless people have nowhere to put and the garbage illegally dumped by businesses are a blight and health hazard for everyone in the city. Too bad our elected representatives had to be shamed into performing one of local government’s most basic duties,&#8221; the piece said.
Again, Presler and company, who have not taken a dime from the city, have yet to earn any coverage from the outlet.
But that might be a notch better than how <a href="https://bsun.md/2GQuocC">The Baltimore Sun</a> reacted to Presler&#8217;s efforts in their area. The liberal outlet questioned his motives and scolded the activist for &#8220;reinforc[ing] the tired image that the poor people in this city can’t take care of their own neighborhoods.&#8221;
He also took a hit from Real News Network, which erroneously <a href="https://therealnews.com/stories/right-wing-extremist-scott-presler-organizes-trash-clean-up-in-west-baltimore">labeled</a> Mr. Presler, who is openly gay, a &#8220;right-wing extremist.&#8221;
Presler is clearly undeterred by the opposition media. On Monday, he posted a message of encouragement for others. &#8220;I&#8217;m just 1 guy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We were able to organize 200 volunteers to pick up 50 tons of trash in 9 hours. If each of us did something, we could transform America for the better.&#8221;
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I’m just 1 guy.
We were able to organize 200 volunteers to pick up 50 tons of trash in 9 hours.
If each of us did something, we could transform America for the better.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngelesCleanup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LosAngelesCleanup</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1176110120922574848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Conservative Activists Clean Up 50 TONS Of Garbage In Liberal Los Angeles; Media Silent

Homelessness

Los Angeles

Media

Prince Harry of England and his mixed-race American wife have had a baby and the question the Los Angeles Times is asking is, &#8220;Will Meghan Markle and Prince Harry raise their baby to be black?&#8221;
Now you&#8217;re probably thinking: &#8220;Oh, Andrew Klavan, you&#8217;re such a funny, satirical sort of guy, you always make me laugh out loud, and you&#8217;re so good-looking too.&#8221; And normally, I would agree with you. But no, this time, it isn&#8217;t just me trying to make American journalists sound so race-obsessed they&#8217;re like some left-over Nazi lunatic raving in his padded cell about the bloodline of a baby who is seventh in line to a throne with no power in a country the size of Oregon. This is a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/enterthefray/la-ol-meghan-markle-prince-harry-baby-sussex-upbringing-20190506-story.html">real headline</a> on an op-ed written by Carla Hall, who is actually on the L.A. Times editorial board.
Carla writes &#8211; and these are all real quotes, &#8220;Baby Sussex, as he&#8217;s called for the moment&#8230; needs to know about what it means to be a black person in the world today. Of course&#8230; there is no one black experience &#8212; except, perhaps, a cop stopping you because you look like a suspect.&#8221;
And yes, it will be interesting to see Baby Sussex pulled over by a cop who asks, &#8220;Hey, black guy, where did you get that motorcade?&#8221;
Over at CNN, John Blake asks, &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/us/prince-harry-meghan-royal-baby-mixed-race-hope/index.html">How black will the royal baby be?</a>&#8221; &#8220;There are questions about how to racially define the royal baby,&#8221; John writes in the passive voice because no one is actually asking such questions. He goes on to say, &#8220;Left unsaid is something no one has seriously suggested: Why not call the baby white? Why? Because much of the talk about the baby&#8217;s racial identity has echoes of the one-drop rule from slavery and the Jim Crow era.&#8221;
So life is going to be tough on Baby Sussex. Not real life. Life in the news media. Which has nothing to do with real life.

KLAVAN: CNN Asks ‘How Black Will Royal Baby Be?’ No, Really.

Race

Over the weekend, the LA Times published a piece about a Portland-based neighborhood advocacy group&#8217;s efforts to address the homeless crisis that has significantly impacted their community over the last couple of years. The title of the LA Times&#8217; piece, &#8220;<a href="https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-portland-homeless-vigilantes-20181218-story.html">Neighborhood advocates or vigilantes? A group in Portland makes life tougher for the homeless</a>,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t try very hard to hide reporter Thacher Schmid&#8217;s opinion on the group. But the group, the Montavilla Initiative, isn&#8217;t standing by while the paper portrays them as &#8220;conservative&#8221; &#8220;vigilantes&#8221; in an attempt to push its agenda.
Describing the Montavilla Initiative as a &#8220;conservative nonprofit,&#8221; Schmid writes that &#8220;the debate over homelessness&#8221; in the once highly-regarded Montavilla neighborhood &#8220;has taken on an edge in the last two years as a neighborhood patrol has marched up to the line of vigilantism &#8212; and, some say, crossed it.&#8221; Schmid describes similar community-based attempts to curb the increasingly pervasive homeless issue on the West Coast as a &#8220;conservative,&#8221; &#8220;tough-love response to the problem.&#8221;
&#8220;Montavilla Initiative began doing its own foot patrols; the city-partnered neighborhood association stopped doing them,&#8221; writes Schmid. &#8220;Interactions between citizen patrol groups led by Montavilla Initiative and the area&#8217;s homeless are now at the center of the neighborhood&#8217;s divide. On the one hand, local officials and homeless advocates accuse Montavilla Initiative of harassing vulnerable homeless people. On the other, leaders of the nonprofit say homeless encampments foster crime, and they&#8217;re just trying to make the neighborhood safer.&#8221;
While Schmid offers some defense of the group, most of the article is dedicated to detailing the accusations against the Montavilla Initiative, including that they are &#8220;harassing our [homeless] clients, and making them feel stalked and scared,&#8221; according to one county official, and go around &#8220;running havoc on houseless people,&#8221; according to one homeless advocacy group leader, supposedly &#8220;slashing their tents, throwing cold water on them, following them around,&#8221; writes Schmid.
After the &#8220;slashing their tents&#8221; accusation, Schmid eventually inserted a correction, noting that the homeless advocacy group leader admitted that he never actually witnessed any of the alleged actions of the members, stating, &#8220;This is happening in the neighborhood to those people, but we don&#8217;t know for sure that it&#8217;s Montavilla Initiative.&#8221;
The Montavilla Initative, which describes itself as committed to &#8220;foster[ing] relationships, community building, and safety initiatives in Montavilla that enhance the quality of life of residents in the neighborhood and beyond,&#8221; has published a blistering &#8220;<a href="https://www.montavilla.org/2018/12/31/open-response-to-la-times-neighborhood-advocates-or-vigilantes/">open response to LA Times</a>&#8221; that addresses the paper&#8217;s &#8220;biased, contextually blind and misinformed&#8221; reporting (h/t <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2018/12/31/la-times-suggests-neighborhood-group-concerned-homelessness-portland-may-vigilantes/">John Sexton</a>).
The response begins by slapping Schmid with some heavy sarcasm: &#8220;While the recent article in the LA Times (Neighborhood advocates or vigilantes? A group in Portland makes life tougher for the homeless) is biased, contextually blind and misinformed, it does provide Montavilla Initiative an opportunity to speak to issues that affect not only our neighborhood but all of Portland and communities all across our nation. Thank you Thacher Schmid,&#8221; the group writes.
&#8220;Mr. Schmid wants you to know that some of our MI members participate in neighborhood walking patrols,&#8221; they continue. &#8220;It&#8217;s true. There are at least 8 other patrol groups in our neighborhood, but we are unable to answer for the actions of anyone but ourselves. We support a patrol that reaches out to the homeless community, including doing cleanups, providing food, clothing and pointing to transition services. Through this outreach we have spent hundreds of hours talking to people living in our public spaces. Some, we have helped to get off the street and have even brought some of them into our homes. We also care a lot about public safety. We advocate for law-enforcement and emergency services for all residents. Patrols have collaborated with police and emergency services to respond to assaults, thefts and fires in progress, while neighbors sleep. Especially, and most controversially, these patrols have spotlighted the unsanitary conditions and health risks, harassment, crime and deadly violence to which people are subjected, who live outside in the city.&#8221;
The group then turns Schmid&#8217;s &#8220;diversity&#8221; argument on its head and drops some eye-opening statistics: &#8220;Our neighborhood, no matter what the author claims, is more diverse than most Portland neighborhoods. It is made up of a mix of incomes, including minimum wage earners and blue collar workers. Property values are well below the city average. There has been a nearly 50% increase in crime in the last few years. All members of our community (long time residents, newcomers to the city, immigrants, the housed and unhoused) are being robbed and vandalized and the City of Portland has decided to do too little about it. Portlanders are given mixed messages, with the mayor&#8217;s office insisting that all laws are being enforced but police officers saying that they are not given the power to arrest criminals. Meanwhile, the District Attorney claims they cannot effectively prosecute those who are arrested. Neighborhoods are generally left to their own devices &#8211; but, we advocate compassion and law enforcement as the most effective measures against vigilantism.&#8221;
Underscoring that they have the support of at least 7,000 Portlanders who have signed on to the &#8220;<a href="http://www.enoughisenoughpdx.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Enough is Enough neighborhood livability campaign</a>,&#8221; the group describes the current state of once-beautiful neighborhoods due to the incompetence of local government: &#8220;Our once clean, welcoming city is littered with graffiti, trash and hazardous waste. Portland churches, offices and businesses cannot count on help from law enforcement to protect their property and provide a clean and safe entrance for their visitors. Vacant homes become rotten cores of crime, decaying filth, and fire hazards on their blocks. We aren&#8217;t the only people living here who are fed up with garbage, pilfering, break-ins, assaults and robberies. Ours isn&#8217;t the only neighborhood organizing to advocate for sanitation and responsible law enforcement.&#8221;
They then counter Schmid&#8217;s take on their action regarding the needle exchange: &#8220;Some of our members joined a patrol one evening, to stand across the street in order to verify complaints from neighbors that the program had become a threat to public safety, who cited needles and human waste in neighbors&#8217; yards, a large vehicle hosting drug deals in the parking lot of the exchange, heroin users shooting up and passing out and then driving off intoxicated, people urinating and defecating in public, clients shooting up in neighbors&#8217; yards, even having sex on a neighbor&#8217;s front porch.&#8221;
The drug counseling services the program supposedly offers is almost non-existent, they note, and those frequenting the center are often threatening: &#8220;On the night that the author refers to, our group was threatened with physical violence and warned that we would not be safe in our homes, a woman standing on the street in our group was called a &#8216;n%gger b%tch&#8217;, because we were present to see that instead of a needle exchange this site had become a bazaar for dealers of heroin and meth, and an unsanitary, unsafe, public injection site right under the nose of county and city workers,&#8221; they write.
They close the open response by blasting Schmid&#8217;s reductive description of them as a &#8220;conservative&#8221; group. &#8220;We are a diverse group from different economic, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. Our members include liberals and conservatives and everything in between,&#8221; they write. &#8220;What brings us together is that we want to make a positive difference for everyone in the Montavilla neighborhood.&#8221;

Neighborhood Advocacy Group: LA Times Smeared Us As ‘Vigilantes’; Here’s The Truth

In terms of sex crimes, Harvey Weinstein could become the &#8220;case of the century,&#8221; say Los Angeles prosecutors, who have been probing all evidence available to see if they can potentially bring him to justice over allegations of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-weinstein-prosecution-la-20180217-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sexual assault</a>.
&#8220;When it comes to sex crimes, Weinstein is the case of the century,&#8221; said Steve Cooley, former Los Angeles district attorney.
While Weinstein stands accused of sexual impropriety by over 80 women, few of the accusations have been considered for criminal prosecution due to statutes of limitation and lack of physical evidence. In Los Angeles, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-weinstein-prosecution-la-20180217-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">an Italian model-actress alleges</a> that Weinstein raped her in a Beverly Hills hotel room five years ago, a case that law enforcement say could be strong enough to prosecute.
According to the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-weinstein-legal-sex-da-20180410-story.html">Los Angeles Times</a>, &#8220;detectives believe the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lapd-nypd-weinstein-20180320-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">case is promising because the woman</a> told her story to three people, including her priest, relatively soon after the alleged attack. LAPD detectives also have obtained bills showing she was at the hotel at the time, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.&#8221;
The case is not air-tight, given the lack of physical evidence and investigators&#8217; inability to secure proof of Weinstein being at the hotel at the time the rape allegedly occurred. One interesting caveat is that California law allows cases to introduce allegations from other women that do not result in criminal charges. Essentially, more women can take the stand to testify against Weinstein&#8217;s actions without charging him criminally. The Times provided further details on the alleged rape:
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In October, the actress, 38, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-fi-ct-weinstein-lapd-victim-20171019-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">provided LAPD detectives with what she said</a> was a moment-by-moment account of how Weinstein had &#8220;bullied&#8221; his way into her hotel room in 2013 and attacked her.
She told The Times that she and Weinstein had spoken briefly on the evening in question at the Los Angeles Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest. Later, she said, he showed up &#8220;without warning&#8221; in the lobby of her hotel &#8212; which surprised her because she didn&#8217;t tell him where she was staying. He asked to come up to her room. She said she told him no and offered to meet him downstairs, but soon he was knocking on her door.
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&#8220;He &#8230; bullied his way into my hotel room, saying, &#8216;I&#8217;m not going to [have sex with] you, I just want to talk,'&#8221; the woman told the Times. &#8220;Once inside, he asked me questions about myself, but soon became very aggressive and demanding and kept asking to see me naked.&#8221;
Weinstein allegedly bragged about his power as he persuaded her not to fight him. Not even her tears as she revealed to him pictures of her children could fend him off.
&#8220;He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.&#8221;
No rape kit had been taken because she feared telling authorities at the time, which leaves little physical evidence. Weinstein attorneys Blair Berk and Benjamin Brafman maintain that all acts were consensual: &#8220;Mr. Weinstein unequivocally denies there was any criminal conduct.&#8221;
The case could take months before any legal action is filed. Similar to the O.J. Simpson trial, the tightrope that prosecutors walk here is balancing the evidence with the public outcry. In short, they must see if his guilt exists beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, not the court of public opinion.
Criminal cases against Weinstein are still pending in the New York District Attorney&#8217;s office.

L.A. Prosecutors Still Mulling Weinstein: ‘Case Of The Century’

Harvey Weinstein

Hollywood

Sexual Harassment

Los Angeles has finally discovered the panacea that will cure the city&#8217;s crippling homeless problem: paying property owners to build guest houses in their backyards.
According to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-tiny-house-20180411-story.html">Los Angeles Times</a>, the county Board of Supervisors approved back in August a &#8220;$550,000 pilot program to build a handful of small backyard houses, or upgrade illegally converted garages, for homeowners who agree to host a homeless person or family.&#8221;
&#8220;Rents under the county&#8217;s pilot program would be covered by low-income vouchers, with tenants contributing 30% of their incomes,&#8221; reports the Times. &#8220;The county is also sponsoring a design competition, streamlining permits and providing technical aid and financing options.&#8221;
Since 2016, the city has been experimenting with low-cost design options to erect these guest houses in people&#8217;s backyards. One such unit could be seen in the hipster-haven of Highland Park at 35-year-old Trent Wolbe&#8217;s house.
&#8220;This is all about adding [housing] stock to a neighborhood that has gotten out of reach for everyone,&#8221; said Wolbe.
The homeless population in Los Angles exceeds 58,000 people, and though residents have been taxed $1.2 billion to house them, units still remain unaffordable and scant. Over 10,000 new apartments must be erected, which will take years to complete.
&#8220;People are looking at what they can do to make our neighborhoods more affordable and help more Angelenos find stable places to live,&#8221; said Mayor Eric Garcetti. &#8220;That&#8217;s why [backyard units] are attracting so much interest &#8212; they&#8217;re a relatively low-cost way for homeowners to play a big part in expanding our city&#8217;s housing stock, and make some extra money while they&#8217;re at it.&#8221;
For now, Angelenos seem intrigued by the option, with about 100 of the first 500 homeowners contacted with the proposal showing interest. More from the Times:
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Unlike Summers&#8217; houses &#8212; brightly colored sheds with locks and lighting but no bathrooms or kitchens &#8212; the new dwellings would have plumbing and cooking facilities. Tenants would be screened and receive social services that could include case management, job training and counseling.
The city&#8217;s proposal to Bloomberg was &#8220;designed to pair homeowners with homeless Angelenos who are stable, prepared to move in to housing, and ready to get their lives back on track,&#8221; Garcetti said.
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In Orange County, proposals have been made to create homeless <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28501/orange-county-residents-outraged-after-supervisors-paul-bois">encampments in empty lots</a>. The proposal has not gone over well with residents, who have been protesting ever since.
More than $70 million has been spent to house the homeless in Orange County, which will involve both building permanent housing and possible camps in Irvine, Laguna Niguel and Huntington Beach on county-owned land. In response, the Irvine City Council will be suing the county to stop the proposal following a unanimous vote on Tuesday.
Irvine&#8217;s Mayor Donald P. Wagner wondered aloud at a special meeting how setting up public homeless camps will solve the problem. Other Orange County residents feel that the supervisors should look elsewhere: Los Angeles.

L.A Has The Homeless Solution: Guest Houses In People’s Back Yards

Charles Manson died early Monday after a prolonged illness, but few people were willing to eulogize the convicted killer and cult leader as anything other than a maniacal murderer who, along with his bizarre &#8220;Family,&#8221; carried out at least nine brutal slayings in April of 1969.
But this is a woke age, and so, of course, an author at the Los Angeles Times felt it necessary to pen an obituary for the dead Manson that focused less on the fact that he led a group of men and women who stabbed and then disemboweled a handful of local residents, and <a href="http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ulin-manson-death-20171120-story.html">more on the fact that &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Manson had a &#8220;human side</a>.&#8221;
To wit, per the Times&#8217; David Ulin.
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Manson, though, was no devil but a human being, as his death makes clear. I don&#8217;t say that to soften or absolve him. But I don&#8217;t believe in demons; people are frightening enough. Indeed, to accept Manson as a person, to see him through the filter of his humanity, is to acknowledge what we resist: that he was perhaps not so utterly different from the rest of us.
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Well, for starters, the fact that he led a murderous cult does, in fact, make him significantly different from the rest of us. I can&#8217;t speak for everyone, but personally, the thought of operating a hippie commune with a horrific dark side out of a shack in the middle of the desert has never seemed like a viable career option. And neither has going out to recruit said cult, brainwash them into submission, stockpile weapons and food, and then murder nine people in pursuit of a race war &#8212; a plan Manson developed, he said, after listening to the Beatles&#8217; &#8220;White Album.&#8221;
That would, in fact, be &#8220;utterly different from the rest of us.&#8221;
But Ulin goes on (of course).
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For those who have faith in an afterlife, I suppose there&#8217;s some solace in imagining he will get his karmic comeuppance. But it makes more sense to me to see him as an agent of the hells we create on Earth.
Manson was a killer, yes, and he was a psychopath, but he was never otherworldly. The violence and the hatred he embodied may be his most human attribute.
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That&#8217;s an . . . interesting . . . take. It&#8217;s almost as if Ulin is using the death of a mass murderer in order to somehow make a statement about man&#8217;s capability to do evil, yet at the same time is denying that evil exists at all, and that Manson was simply a slave to his baser urges &#8212; something all of us are capable of, because there&#8217;s nothing more evil than just being human.
Sure, we all make mistakes, David. Some of us indulged in a sort of Country Time Lemonade and vodka mixture occasionally before we were of legal age to imbibe. A few of us have broken the speed limit. Lots of us have probably tried to watch &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; without paying for HBO.
But it&#8217;s a far cry from taking humanity&#8217;s fallen nature and extrapolating that out to indicate that literally everyone on the planet has the capacity to become Charles &#8212; excuse me, Charlie &#8212; Manson.
Because there are at least several people left who weren&#8217;t yet insulted by his essay, Ulin rounds out his work by saying that the late 1960s was such a simpler time, and Manson&#8217;s crimes &#8212; in particular his number of victims &#8212; were &#8220;quaint&#8221; compared to the mass killings of modern America.
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In a nation now grappling with mass killings one after another, the actual number of Manson&#8217;s victims seems almost minimal, even quaint. But it&#8217;s worth remembering the terror stirred by the murders, the chaos they implied.
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The murders stirred terror because they were terrible &#8212; and few people, perhaps aside from those who work at the LA Times, really need to be reminded of precisely why Manson was given several consecutive life sentences even though he, himself, was an active participant in only a couple of his &#8220;Family&#8217;s&#8221; crimes.
They don&#8217;t actually seem minimal, or even quaint, when you read the details and, in fact, it&#8217;s those killings that make people believe Manson was more than just a poor, misunderstood failed rock star &#8212; that he was inspired by and embodied evil. The killings also don&#8217;t diminish what murders came after. But Manson&#8217;s murders were hardly the kind we hear about daily on the news.
Obviously, in this more tolerant and inclusive age, some of us feel a knee-jerk reaction to find something &#8220;relatable&#8221; in everyone who passes away or makes headlines. But maybe there are some situations &#8212; like the death of Charles Manson &#8212; that just don&#8217;t demand a progressive understanding &#8212; because evil doesn&#8217;t need, or want, to be understood.

LA Times Wants To Explore The ‘Human Side’ Of Dead Murderer Charles Manson

After violence once again erupted from the self-styled &#8220;anti-fascists&#8221; in Berkeley over the weekend, Americans have encountered a few surprising headlines from news outlets that had so far held the party line by whitewashing leftist violence. The black-clad, mask-wearing, weapon-carrying Antifas simply left the media with no way to glorify or excuse their actions this time (though some outlets tried). On Monday, The Washington Post finally dealt somewhat honestly with the violent leftist movement, reporting, &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/20310/washpost-shock-headline-calls-out-black-clad-joseph-curl">Black-clad Antifa attack peaceful right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley</a>.&#8221; And now even the Los Angeles Times is acknowledging that &#8220;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-far-left-violence-20170829-story.html">Antifa violence</a>&#8221; is a problem.
But as the LA Times&#8217;&#8216; coverage of the violence in Berkeley makes abundantly clear, there&#8217;s a reason that the media is, at least for now, turning on Antifa: They&#8217;re making President Trump look right for (accurately) condemning &#8220;many sides&#8221; for the violence in Charlottesville.
Here&#8217;s how the LA Times begins their piece, which at once admits that Antifa is violent while making sure to downplay the size of the movement:
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Of the dozens of organizations that turned out for Sunday&#8217;s mass protest against racism here, one group was impossible to miss.
Its members dressed head to toe in black, with masked faces and some bearing pastel-painted riot shields that read &#8220;no hate.&#8221; These 100 or so militants billed themselves as a security force for progressive counter-protesters, vowing to protect them from far-right agitators.
But as <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/social-issues/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-EVPD000002-topic.html">the protest</a> got underway, some of those in masks would resort to mob violence, attacking a small showing of supporters of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics-government/donald-trump-PEBSL000163-topic.html">President Trump</a> and others they accused, sometimes inaccurately, of being white supremacists or Nazis.
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The Times soon gets to the heart of the issue, a question that is clearly haunting many on the Left: &#8220;Does violence help Trump&#8217;s claims?&#8221;
&#8220;Trump received blistering criticism for equating the behavior of Klansmen and neo-Nazis to the actions of those who opposed them,&#8221; the Times notes. &#8220;Some fear that Sunday&#8217;s violence would only help advance the idea that the two sides are the same.&#8221;
Who exactly are those &#8220;some&#8221; who fear Antifa is proving Trump right? We all know the answer to that, but the LA Times turns to one of its experts to inform us that Antifa is hurting the &#8220;Resistance&#8221;:
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&#8220;This is food for the adversary,&#8221; said sociologist Todd Gitlin, a founder of Students for a Democratic Society, which organized the first national protests against the Vietnam War. He pointed out that violent acts committed by a few will almost always hijack the narrative of the entire protest, and that it is happening now should be no surprise.
Gitlin also described what he sees as a push by the anti-fascist &#8212; also called &#8220;antifa&#8221; &#8212; movement to put &#8220;themselves on the map of protest&#8221; by using violence to &#8220;intimidate&#8221; both political opponents and those on the left who promote non-violence. One of the biggest banners at the Berkeley demonstration carried the message &#8220;Avenge Charlottesville.&#8221;
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While the LA Times claims that the Antifa only numbered around 100, it underscores that an estimated 4,000 people were there to protest. The paper explains that the violence-embracing group was supposed to be there to play a &#8220;defensive role,&#8221; but also acknowledges that by the end of the day, 13 people were arrested on &#8220;suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and three on battery charges.&#8221; That&#8217;s not &#8220;defensive.&#8221;
So, yeah, the LA Times and the rest of its left-leaning colleagues are angry with Antifa for putting on full display exactly what Trump was talking about. For that sin, they might not be allowed back in the media&#8217;s good graces.

LA Times Worries: Does Antifa’s Violence Help Trump’s Claims?

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White Supremacy

Another day, another series of breathless reports featuring &#8220;unfit&#8221; President Trump and his &#8220;colluding&#8221; Russian comrades. The latest supposed scandal: Trump held an &#8220;hour-long,&#8221; &#8220;undisclosed,&#8221; &#8220;private&#8221; &#8220;meeting&#8221; with Vladimir Putin. Here&#8217;s a sample of some of the sinister-sounding headlines: 
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<li>New York Times: &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/trump-putin-undisclosed-meeting.html">Trump and Putin Held a Second, Undisclosed, Private Conversation</a>&#8220;</li>
<li>Washington Post: &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-had-undisclosed-hour-long-meeting-with-putin-at-g20-summit/2017/07/18/39c18dd4-6bd0-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.39251284e2dc">Trump had undisclosed, hour-long meeting with Putin at G-20 summit</a>&#8220;</li>
<li>L.A.Times: &#8220;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-putin-held-second-undisclosed-1500418625-htmlstory.html">Trump and Putin Held Second, Undisclosed Talk</a>&#8220;</li>
<li>CNN: &#8220;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/trump-putin-g20/index.html">Trump, Putin met for nearly an hour in second G20 meeting</a>&#8220;</li>
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But, as has been so often the case in so much of the reporting by the establishment media on President Trump, the central claims of the articles are, well, &#8220;fake news,&#8221; as Trump took to Twitter to make clear: the &#8220;press knew&#8221; about the supposedly &#8220;undisclosed&#8221; meeting and the &#8220;private conversation&#8221; was actually in public &#8212; at a dinner <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18738/us-media-hits-new-low-report-secret-trump-putin-joseph-curl">with hundreds of people</a>. As for the &#8220;hour-long&#8221; part, the White House said the two talked &#8220;briefly.&#8221; 
&#8220;Fake News story of secret dinner with Putin is &#8216;sick.&#8217; All G 20 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the Chancellor of Germany. Press knew!&#8221; tweeted Trump on Tuesday.
&#8220;The Fake News is becoming more and more dishonest! Even a dinner arranged for top 20 leaders in Germany is made to look sinister!&#8221; he added. &#8203;
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Fake News story of secret dinner with Putin is &#8220;sick.&#8221; All G 20 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the Chancellor of Germany. Press knew!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887475373981696000">July 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Fake News is becoming more and more dishonest! Even a dinner arranged for top 20 leaders in Germany is made to look sinister!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887477071160762369">July 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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After the &#8220;bombshell&#8221; reports about the &#8220;undisclosed&#8221; meeting, the White House confirmed that, as at least the European press knew, Trump and Putin did talk &#8220;briefly&#8221; while at the dinner for the world leaders, which is, of course, common practice. But the media&#8217;s characterization of the talk as a &#8220;meeting&#8221; the president tried to &#8220;hide,&#8221; a senior administration official said, was &#8220;false, malicious and absurd.&#8221;
&#8220;During the course of the dinner, all the leaders circulated throughout the room and spoke with one another freely,&#8221; the official said in a <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18738/us-media-hits-new-low-report-secret-trump-putin-joseph-curl">statement</a> Tuesday night. &#8220;There was no &#8216;second meeting&#8217; between President Trump and President Putin, just a brief conversation at the end of a dinner. The insinuation that the White House has tried to &#8216;hide&#8217; a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. It is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a president&#8217;s duties, to interact with world leaders.&#8221;
As for the real news, official meeting between the two leaders, despite being scheduled to be just a half-hour, the meeting between Trump and Putin on July 7 lasted over two hours. Following that meeting, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18373/trump-meets-putin-did-trump-tell-putin-he-accepts-ben-shapiro">two different narratives emerged</a>. Ben Shapiro provided a summary of the key talking points from each side: 

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According to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Trump pushed the Russians on election interference, as well as aggression in Ukraine and Syria; Putin denied election interference. According to Tillerson, &#8220;The two leaders agreed this is of substantial hindrance. They agreed to exchange further work regarding commitments of noninterference in the affairs of the U.S. and our democratic process as well as other countries.&#8221; Tillerson said that the United States and Russia would work together to counter &#8220;cyberthreats&#8221; and that they had overlapping goals with respect to ISIS. Tillerson even stated, &#8220;on some issues maybe they have the right approach and we have the wrong approach.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the Russians claimed that Trump had caved to Putin almost immediately on the election interference issue. Lavrov stated that Trump had accepted Putin&#8217;s denial regarding election interference. Lavrov explained, &#8220;President Trump, I&#8217;m sure either he himself or Rex Tillerson will talk about this, said that this campaign [regarding Russian interference] is already acquiring quite a strange character because for months when accusations have been voiced not a single fact has come out.&#8221; Anonymous U.S. officials denied Lavrov&#8217;s account.
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‘SICK’: Trump Smacks ‘Fake News’ About ‘Undisclosed’ Talk With Putin

Fake News

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Vladimir Putin

Washington Post

On Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times, betrayed by a computer, issued a retraction that ranks with the most hilarious retractions ever penned:
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Please note: We just deleted an automated tweet saying there was a 6.8 earthquake in Isla Vista. That earthquake happened in 1925.
&#8212; L.A. Times: L.A. Now (@LANow) <a href="https://twitter.com/LANow/status/877677781089304576">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Times has an automatic algorithm that writes stories based on alerts like these, thus it was <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-earthquakesa-earthquake-68-quake-strikes-near-isla-vista-calif-jyhw-htmlstory.html">misled</a> by an alert sent by a Caltech staffer saying an earthquake had occurred. The Times immediately noted that it was the computer&#8217;s fault:
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We have an algorithm (Quakebot) that automatically writes stories about earthquakes based on USGS alerts. The USGS alert was incorrect.
&#8212; L.A. Times: L.A. Now (@LANow) <a href="https://twitter.com/LANow/status/877678715945144320">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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A human being might have noticed the date on the alert clearly indicated the date referred to for the earthquake was the year 2025:
The alert went out by email at roughly 4:51 p.m. Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson said scientists at UC Santa Barbara had noted earthquakes from the area were actually located roughly six miles from where records showed. A staffer on Hauksson&#8217;s team made a change, triggering an email from the U.S. Geological Survey&#8217;s email server that normally sends alerts of new earthquakes.
The USGS apologized:
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Regarding: <a href="https://t.co/z8Ykmo6OXX">https://t.co/z8Ykmo6OXX</a> <a href="https://t.co/68Q0I2Ix2j">pic.twitter.com/68Q0I2Ix2j</a>
&#8212; USGS (@USGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/USGS/status/877685556003692545">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Alerts were sent for a M6.8 in California. This was an error. More information to come.
&#8212; USGS (@USGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/USGS/status/877678322859356160">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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When the original earthquake occurred, the Los Angeles Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-santa-barbara-quake-framework-2013-story.html">reported</a> that thirteen people were killed, up to 200 people were injured, and damage was estimated at $8 million.
There were some amusing tweets in response to the Times&#8217; error:
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Tell him not to be too hard on himself, we all make mistakes.
&#8212; 1984 on Lifetime (@mascdonna) <a href="https://twitter.com/mascdonna/status/877684638550044672">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Unfortunately, some mistakes are of larger magnitude than others
&#8212; Elias Saadeh (@CarneASaadeh) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarneASaadeh/status/877685966399455233">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Think of the lives you could&#8217;ve saved if you&#8217;d reported this 92 years sooner. smh.
&#8212; Michael Urie (@michaelurie) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelurie/status/877721645712117762">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Think of the lives you could&#8217;ve saved if you&#8217;d reported this 92 years sooner. smh.
&#8212; Michael Urie (@michaelurie) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelurie/status/877721645712117762">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Robots for the win! <a href="https://t.co/PSD5ijuNLj">pic.twitter.com/PSD5ijuNLj</a>
&#8212; Alice Walton (@TheCityMaven) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCityMaven/status/877679724423561216">June 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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LA Times Runs Most Amazing Retraction Ever

Competing narratives have emerged after a &#8220;<a href="http://theredelephants.com/breaking-trump-activist-stabbed-9-times/">pro-Trump activist</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baked-alaska-stabbing-20170620-story.html">bodyguard</a>&#8221; to popular alt-right personality &#8220;Baked Alaska&#8221; (Tim Gionet) was stabbed nine times after a pro-free speech event in Santa Monica on Saturday night. While the victim, Antonio Foreman, was being treated in the hospital for serious wounds, two men were arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Two diverging accounts of what prompted the near-fatal confrontation have begun to circulate, with Foreman&#8217;s friends and <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/breaking-trump-supporter-stabbed-armenian-gang-member-identified-conservative/">allies on the right</a> saying the two men, who were Armenian, attacked him for his conservative political beliefs and hurled racial slurs at him, while the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baked-alaska-stabbing-20170620-story.html">Los Angeles Times</a><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baked-alaska-stabbing-20170620-story.html"> </a>reports that local police have dismissed the idea of the attack being a &#8220;hate crime,&#8221; and believe Foreman may have &#8220;made a comment to the suspects which led to an argument.&#8221; 
Here are the details that are not in dispute: Foreman is an &#8220;<a href="http://theredelephants.com/breaking-trump-activist-stabbed-9-times/">avid Trump supporter</a>&#8221; and member of Oath Keepers who has worked with alt-right personality &#8220;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-baked-alaska-milo-mike-cernovich-alt-right-trump-2017-4">Baked Alaska</a>&#8221; (a former BuzzFeed employee) as &#8220;security detail&#8221; and participated in events with alt-right icon &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16979/portland-mayor-wants-cancel-trump-free-speech-james-barrett">Based Stickman</a>&#8221; (Kyle Chapman), who was at the event over the weekend as well.
Around 11 p.m. on Saturday, Foreman was stabbed nine times in a parking structure in Santa Monica by two men: Edgar Khodzhafaryan, 30, and Arsen Bekverdyan, 31, who were later arrested for attempted murder. Foreman was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in critical condition and has undergone multiple surgeries, his condition appearing to have stabilized.
Here&#8217;s how the <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/breaking-trump-supporter-stabbed-armenian-gang-member-identified-conservative/">Gateway Pundit</a> describes the sequence of events leading to the stabbing:
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27-year-old Antonio &#8220;Tony&#8221; Foreman had just left a free speech rally in California alongside a slew of other well-known Trump supporters such as Kyle Chapman (&#8220;Based Sick Man&#8220;). Afterward, they headed to a local bar to relax. After a few hours at the bar, the group &#8212; many dawning Trump hats and supportive bumper stickers on their vehicles &#8212; decided to retire for the night. That is when things took a turn for the worse.
As Tony approached his vehicle, another car rammed through the parking gate vehicle barrier into the lot, directly smashing into Tony&#8217;s car. The Armenians exited their car, and reportedly were initially receptive to exchanging insurance information. They walked the length of Mr. Foreman&#8217;s car and noticed multiple &#8220;pro-patriot stickers&#8221; including a &#8220;Gadsden flag, an American flag, and multiple other patriotic and pro-Republican stickers&#8221; on his bumper and back window. That&#8217;s when things took a turn for the worse.
After noticing these stickers, the Armenian gang member is reported to have walked back to his car before re-approaching Mr. Foreman. The car&#8217;s other passengers stepped out of the vehicle wielding knives. Within in a matter of minutes, Mr. Foreman was stabbed nine times right before one of the gang members screamed, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to shank you whiteboy!&#8221;
The Santa Monica police, when asked for comment, said, &#8220;There is no reason to believe that this was pre-meditated, but it was a racially charged attack.&#8221;
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That account is echoed by another alt-right-sympathizing site, <a href="http://theredelephants.com/breaking-trump-activist-stabbed-9-times/">The Red Elephants</a>, which notes that police &#8220;do not believe the attack was politically connected at this time,&#8221; though, the site adds, it does appear to be &#8220;certainly racially motivated.&#8221;
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In a sharply diverging account of the stabbing, the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baked-alaska-stabbing-20170620-story.html">L.A. Times</a>, citing Santa Monica PD spokesman Lt. Saul Rodriguez, downplays the potential of political or racial motivation in the attack, unless it was initiated by Foreman. 
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&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing here that would lead us to believe it was targeted or a hate crime or anything like that,&#8221; Rodriguez said.
 
Edgar Khodzhafaryan, 30, and Arsen Bekverdyan, 31, were exiting the parking structure and attempting to call for a parking attendant to help them operate the gate when the victim &#8220;made a comment to the suspects which led to an argument,&#8221; according to Rodriguez.
All three men exited their vehicles and a fist fight erupted. The suspects fled a short time later, and the victim realized he had been stabbed, Rodriguez said. The victim, whom Rodriguez would not identify, was transported to an area hospital in critical condition.
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The two suspects have been booked on suspicion of attempted murder, with Rodriguez noting that Khodzhafaryan is suspected of having violated his probation.
&#8220;Bekverdyan is being held in lieu of $1 million bail, and has a court appearance scheduled Tuesday, according to online jail records,&#8221; the Times reports. &#8220;Bail information about Khodzhafaryan was not immediately available.&#8221;

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‘Alt-Right Bodyguard’ Stabbed 9 Times After Pro-Free Speech Event

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Free Speech

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After the leftist Los Angeles Times decided in February to endorse self-proclaimed &#8220;bike advocate&#8221; Joe Bray-Ali for City Council over incumbent Gil Cedillo, on Thursday they reversed their position, joining the chorus of leftists retracting their endorsement because of Bray-Ali&#8217;s perceived racism.
The Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-endorsement-recinded-bray-ali-20170427-story.html">wrote:</a>
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This week, another side of Bray-Ali was revealed when <a href="http://laist.com/2017/04/26/bray_ali.php">the website LAist reported</a> that he had frequented viciously racist areas of the Internet and participated in shocking and entirely unacceptable conversations. The revelations are so deeply disturbing &#8212; raising serious questions about both his judgment and his character &#8212; that The Times has re-evaluated its original position. For the first time in recent memory, the editorial board is officially rescinding its endorsement.
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The Times noted Bray-Ali&#8217;s participation on Voat, a &#8220;no censorship&#8221; social media site &#8220;which has become a haven for racists and bigots.&#8221; The Times pointed out that Bray-Ali commented on a site thread known as &#8220;v/Niggers,&#8221; and twice used the offensive word himself. The Times added, &#8220;He also commented uncritically on a video of a fight between two African American girls; that thread was titled &#8220;Sheboons fighting in a gas station.&#8221; He posted an offensive comment on &#8220;v/FATPEOPLEHATE,&#8221; a forum for mean-spirited mocking of overweight people. And on another thread, he disparaged transgender people who seek gender-reassignment surgery.&#8221;
In early February, the Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/endorsements/la-ed-bray-ali-endorsement-20170206-story.html">endorsed</a> Bray-Ali, writing:
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Many people in the district think of Bray-Ali, 37, as just a bike-shop owner and bike activist. Frustration over Cedillo&#8217;s part in stalling bike lanes on Figueroa Street propelled Bray-Ali into this race. But though he may be campaigning atop two wheels, he has educated himself way beyond bike and transit issues. In fact, his understanding of land-use policy is impressive for someone who has never worked in City Hall, and his experience running a small business in the city will make him a rare and important voice on the council.
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The Times board interviewed Bray-Ali on Thursday, then decided to retract their endorsement because Bray-Ali&#8217;s explanations were &#8220;unsatisfying. He has said that he went on the site to &#8216;track&#8217; bigots and hatemongers out of &#8216;morbid fascination&#8217; and that he sought to pick fights with them. But there&#8217;s no indication that he was &#8216;tracking&#8217; anyone, and picking fights is exactly what he didn&#8217;t do. He participated in the conversations without once criticizing the headlines, the participants or the subject matter, without once noting that such talk was unacceptable or offensive.&#8221;
On Thursday, both City Councilman Mitch O&#8217;Farrell and the East Area Progressive Democrats also <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bray-ali-reaction-20170427-story.html">retracted their endorsements</a>.
Bray-Ali remained defiant, saying, &#8220;Those endorsements were a great boost for my campaign, but they do not represent what a campaign needs to win.&#8221;

The Left Endorsed This ‘Bike Advocate’ For LA City Council. It Turns Out He’s A Racist.

The 15 felony charges California Attorney General Xavier Becerra leveled at two activist journalists behind a series of explosive Planned Parenthood undercover videos is such an egregious abuse of the law that even the Los Angeles Times felt compelled to call out the Democrat A.G. for his &#8220;<a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-planned-parenthood-charges-20170330-story.html">disturbing overrreach</a>.&#8221; 
On Tuesday, Becerra <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14885/tyranny-california-criminally-charges-undercover-ben-shapiro">charged</a> David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress with 15 felony counts for violating the state&#8217;s two-party consent law by recording interviews with Planned Parenthood officials without their consent. The videos set off a series of investigations into the abortion provider&#8217;s disturbing practices involving the harvesting of &#8220;fetal tissue&#8221; &#8211; in other words, aborted baby body parts &#8211; and led to <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/tissue-731858-fetal-research.html">charges</a> against a few companies in the industry. As Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro notes, the footage included &#8220;high-ranking Planned Parenthood members joking about selling baby body parts for market rates and picking through baby body parts in order to demonstrate which sorts of body parts were available for sale for medical research, as well as talking about the best methods of abortion for procuring those baby body parts.&#8221;
While The Los Angeles Times dismisses outright the significance of the videos, saying simply that they were &#8220;heavily edited&#8221; &#8211; despite CMP having released the complete, unedited footage of the most controversial interviews &#8211; the paper makes clear that Becerra&#8217;s &#8220;disturbingly aggressive&#8221; charges have crossed the line:
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There&#8217;s no question that anti-abortion activist David Daleiden surreptitiously recorded healthcare and biomedical services employees across the state of California with the intent of discrediting the healthcare provider, Planned Parenthood &#8211; something his heavily edited videos failed to do. There&#8217;s also no question that it&#8217;s against state law to record confidential conversations without the consent of all the parties involved.
But that doesn&#8217;t mean that California Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra should have charged Daleiden and his co-conspirator, Susan Merritt, with 15 felony counts &#8211; one for each of the 14 people recorded, and a 15th for conspiracy. It&#8217;s disturbingly aggressive for Becerra to apply this criminal statute to people who were trying to influence a contested issue of public policy, regardless of how sound or popular that policy may be. Planned Parenthood and biomedical company StemExpress, which was also featured in the videos, have another remedy for the harm that was done to them: They can sue Daleiden and Merritt for damages. The state doesn&#8217;t need to threaten the pair with prison time. 
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The Times, like Shapiro, underscores that Dalieden and Merritt were acting as journalists attempting to expose the truth of a controversial issue, abortion and fetal tissue research. If the media wants to protect the freedom of the press, the media cannot turn its back on Dalieden and Merritt just because they do not agree with their values. Here&#8217;s The Times making that case: 
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In similar cases, we have denounced moves to criminalize such behavior, especially in the case of animal welfare investigators who have gone undercover at slaughterhouses and other agricultural businesses to secretly record horrific and illegal abuses of animals. That work, too, is aimed at revealing wrongdoing and changing public policy.
That&#8217;s why the state law forbidding recording of conversations should be applied narrowly, and to clear and egregious violations of privacy where the motive is personal gain.
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Kudos to the paper for being consistent on this issue. 
For more, read <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14885/tyranny-california-criminally-charges-undercover-ben-shapiro">Shapiro&#8217;s take on the legal flaws of Becerra&#8217;s 14 two-party consent charges</a>.
More from the Daily Wire on this case: 
<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14913/attorney-general-who-charged-pro-life-activists-james-barrett">AG Who Charged Activists For Exposing Planned Parenthood Received Thousands In Donations From Planned Parenthood</a>
<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14908/kamala-harris-office-collaborated-planned-hank-berrien">Kamala Harris&#8217; Office Collaborated With Planned Parenthood To Target David Dalieden</a>
H/T <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/03/30/la-times-felony-charges-against-creators-of-planned-parenthood-videos-go-too-far/">John Sexton</a>

Even The LA Times Agrees: Felony Charges Against Activists Behind Planned Parenthood Videos A ‘Disturbing Overreach’

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Pop superstar Adele has finally confirmed what tabloids and fans have been gossiping about for months. She&#8217;s married.
Adele made the announcement at a concert in Brisbane, Australia, telling the adoring crowd that she had married longtime romantic partner Simon Konecki.
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&#8220;As bad as a breakup can be and as bitter and horrible and messy it can be, that feeling when you first fall for someone is the best feeling on earth. I&#8217;m addicted to that feeling,&#8221; Adele stated before singing her hit-song &#8216;Someone Like You.&#8217; &#8220;Obviously I can&#8217;t go through with those feelings because I&#8217;m married now. I found my next person.&#8221;
The singer has been dating Konecki since 2011. The couple already has a 4-year old son together.
However, Adele never officially confirmed rumors of a marriage, despite intensive speculation by the celebrity press.
&#8220;Rumors began in earnest after the first of the year, when both Konecki and Adele were spotted <a href="http://people.com/music/adele-simon-konecki-married-ring-photo/">wearing rings </a>on significant fingers,&#8221; <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-march-rumor-no-more-adele-tells-concertgoers-1488745739-htmlstory.html">reports</a> The Los Angeles Times. &#8220;The singer added fuel to the flame (if not fire to the rain) when she referred to Konecki as &#8220;husband&#8221; during her Grammys acceptance speech for album of the year.&#8221;
Adele is currently on tour in Australia. She plans on holding performances in New Zealand and the United Kingdom in the following months.
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On Friday, the White House <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/media/cnn-blocked-white-house-gaggle/index.html">blocked major news outlets</a>, including CNN, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico and BuzzFeed from an informal press briefing, known popularly as a &#8220;gaggle,&#8221; in White House press secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s office.
Administration spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the White House &#8220;had the pool there so everyone would be represented and get an update from us today.&#8221;
Normally, the gaggle includes a representative from one television network and one print outlet; on Friday, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News were invited and attended the meeting. Breitbart News, The Washington Times and One America News Network were also permitted to attend.
CNN responded, &#8220;This is an unacceptable development by the Trump White House. Apparently this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don&#8217;t like. We&#8217;ll keep reporting regardless.&#8221;
The White House Correspondents Association protested, saying:
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The WHCA board is protesting strongly against how today&#8217;s gaggle is being handled by the White House. We encourage the organizations that were allowed in to share the material with others in the press corps who were not. The board will be discussing this further with White House staff.&#8221;
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The White House would not waver from its decision.
CNN reporters tried to attend, but an administration official informed them they weren&#8217;t invited. New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet wrote, &#8220;Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties. We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.&#8221;
The Associated Press and Time magazine boycotted the briefing as a result of the ban on certain organizations.
Bret Baier of Fox News tweeted his own protest:
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Some at CNN &amp; NYT stood w/FOX News when the Obama admin attacked us &amp; tried 2 exclude us-a WH gaggle should be open to all credentialed orgs <a href="https://t.co/8Vjcs0KCPR">https://t.co/8Vjcs0KCPR</a>
&#8212; Bret Baier (@BretBaier) <a href="https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/835206562549493760">February 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Spicer was asked if the White House had blocked certain outlets because the White House disliked their reporting; he responded, &#8220;We had it as pool, and then we expanded it, and we added some folks to come cover it. It was my decision to expand the pool.&#8221;
On Thursday, White House advisor Stephen Bannon <a href="http://deadline.com/2017/02/steve-bannon-donald-trump-press-enemy-get-worse-war-1201956106/">warned</a> at CPAC:
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[The press] are corporatist globalist media that are adamantly opposed to a economic nationalist agenda like Donald Trump has. Here&#8217;s where it&#8217;s going to get worse. He&#8217;s going to continue to press his agenda. And, as economic conditions get better, as more jobs get better, they&#8217;re going to continue to fight. If you think they&#8217;re going to give you their country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. Every day it is going to be a fight.
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On Thursday morning, a Los Angeles Times journalist who writes on South and North Korea for the Times tweeted that he would &#8220;rather see Trump&#8217;s life end&#8221; than see Donald Trump&#8217;s life in photos:
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This Tweet from Time is what the <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes">@latimes</a> journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/steven_borowiec">@steven_borowiec</a> was responding to&#8230; when he said he wanted to see Trump dead <a href="https://t.co/oaPXCrbw4J">pic.twitter.com/oaPXCrbw4J</a>
&#8212; Nick Iannelli (@NickWTOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickWTOP/status/794148710561226753">November 3, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Nick Iannelli, a reporter at WTOP, saw the tweet and posted it:
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Really hope the <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes">@latimes</a> understands that one of its journalists said this about <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> &#8230; before deleting the Tweet <a href="https://t.co/3g5ioV0oGO">pic.twitter.com/3g5ioV0oGO</a>
&#8212; Nick Iannelli (@NickWTOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickWTOP/status/794133228798013440">November 3, 2016</a></blockquote>
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After Borowiec deleted the tweet, Iannelli followed up:
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After the <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes">@latimes</a> journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/steven_borowiec">@steven_borowiec</a> said he wants to see Trump dead, he blocked me. That doesn&#8217;t make your tweet disappear&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/i3iGqWrB1c">pic.twitter.com/i3iGqWrB1c</a>
&#8212; Nick Iannelli (@NickWTOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickWTOP/status/794137238833692672">November 3, 2016</a></blockquote>
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After blowback erupted over his tweet, Borowiecq, who is in Japan, tweeted an explanation and apology:
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I apologize for my Trump tweet. I meant it in jest.
&#8212; Steven Borowiec (@steven_borowiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/steven_borowiec/status/794183955578699776">November 3, 2016</a></blockquote>
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One more example of the MSM&#8217;s hatred of Trump.

LA Times Journalist Tweets That He Wants Trump Dead

During the general election season, one poll has stood as an outlier from all the other polls, consistently stating that Donald Trump has led Hillary Clinton: the U.S.C. Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Daybreak poll.
There are two good reasons, both of them based on the poll&#8217;s weighting, as to why that poll has favored Trump while all the other polls showed Clinton with a small or moderate lead, as Nate Cohn <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/upshot/how-one-19-year-old-illinois-man-is-distorting-national-polling-averages.html?_r=1">delineated comprehensively</a>. Cohn derived his position from studying the <a href="https://uasdata.usc.edu/user/login?destination=node/92262">data set</a> and the documentation necessary to replicate the survey offered by the pollsters. As Cohn pointed out, &#8220;Despite falling behind by double digits in some national surveys, Mr. Trump has generally led in the U.S.C./LAT poll. He held the lead for a full month until Wednesday, when Hillary Clinton took a nominal lead.&#8221;
Here are the two reasons for the poll&#8217;s seeming inaccuracy in its weighting:
1. The poll weights for many tiny categories; weighting for very tiny groups, which results in big weights. For example, instead of weighting for a small category such as like 18-to-21-year-olds, the poll weights for 18-to-21-year-old men, and even admits that group comprises roughly 3.3% of the general population. As Cohn points out, &#8220;But for those voters to make up 3.3 percent of the weighted sample, these 15 voters have to count as much as 86 people &#8212; an average weight of 5.7.&#8221; One 19-year-old black man in Illinois was &#8220;weighted as much as 30 times more than the average respondent, and as much as 300 times more than the least-weighted respondent. Alone, he has been enough to put Mr. Trump in double digits of support among black voters. He can improve Mr. Trump&#8217;s margin by 1 point in the survey, even though he is one of around 3,000 panelists.&#8221; Cohn added that the reason Clinton was finally listed as leading Trump on Wednesday was that the young man was not included in the poll.
2. The poll weights by past vote. Cohn notes that the poll weights the sample according to how people said they voted in the 2012 election. This can be inaccurate because, as Cohn explains, &#8220;People don&#8217;t report their past vote very accurately. They tend to over-report three things: voting, voting for the winner and voting for some other candidate. They underreport voting for the loser.&#8221; Thus the poll included 27 Barack Obama voters and 25% Mitt Romney voters. Cohn states, &#8220;If the survey didn&#8217;t include a past vote weight, the past vote of its respondents would be Obama 38, Romney 30. This is a lot like national surveys that were published around the same time as the U.S.C./LAT poll, like those from NBC/WSJ or the NYT/CBS News. By emphasizing past vote, they might significantly underweight those who claim to have voted for Mr. Obama and give much more weight to people who say they didn&#8217;t vote.&#8221;
Cohn explains, &#8220;If the poll was weighted to a generic set of census categories like most surveys (four categories of age, five categories of education, gender and four categories of race and Hispanic origin), Mrs. Clinton would have led in every iteration of the survey except the period immediately after the Republican convention.&#8221;
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&#8220;The U.S.C./LAT poll had terrible luck: The single most overweighted person in the survey was unrepresentative of his demographic group.&#8221;
Nate Cohn
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Cohn explains the the poll eschewed &#8220;trimming&#8221; the weights, meaning a poll preventing one person from being weighted up by more than some amount, like five or 10. In 2012, Gallup trimmed its weights, and nonwhite voters were underrepresented. Cohn further explains the risks of trimming or not trimming, that trimming the weights might not include enough of the voters who tend to be underrepresented, but eschewing trimming could mean a few heavily-weighted respondents could unbalance the poll.
But then he notes that the U.S.C./LAT poll is a panel &#8212; which means it recontacts the same voters repeatedly, thus leaving the poll at risk of both problems.
Cohn concludes of the single young black voter unbalancing the poll: &#8220;The U.S.C./LAT poll had terrible luck: The single most overweighted person in the survey was unrepresentative of his demographic group. The people running the poll basically got stuck at the extreme of the added variance. By design, the U.S.C./LAT poll is stuck with the respondents it has. If it had a slightly too Republican sample from the start &#8212; and it seems it did, regardless of weighting &#8212; there was little it could do about it.&#8221;

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