Multiple political commentators and influential figures expressed concern after Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro revealed his findings on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-posts-shocking-thread-revealing-dei-at-work-in-medicine-even-if-doctors-injure-patients-they-might-still-be-protected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at work in medicine</a>.
<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195994123407577" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a thread</a> posted to X on Monday, Shapiro dove into how some medical schools and doctors have pushed DEI in an effort to recruit more minority surgeons and stop hiring so many &#8220;walls of white men,&#8221; especially after the death of George Floyd and the ensuing riots in the summer of 2020. The Daily Wire editor emeritus said that his findings even show how some &#8220;top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons.&#8221;
“It’s bad enough when teachers or government bureaucrats talk like this, but valuing intersectionality over merit can literally mean life or death in surgery,” Shapiro said.
The thread has been viewed over three million times and was quickly reposted by over a thousand people, including billionaire Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, conservative broadcaster and news analyst Mark Levin, and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele.
&#8220;DEI puts the lives of your loved ones at risk,&#8221; said Musk.
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DEI puts the lives of your loved ones at risk <a href="https://t.co/dV6l3MCOPd">https://t.co/dV6l3MCOPd</a>
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Steele — who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-espn-anchor-who-criticized-covid-mandates-leaving-network-to-exercise-first-amendment-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued ESPN</a> alleging the network retaliated against her for making negative comments about the COVID vaccine — <a href="https://twitter.com/sagesteele/status/1762219432984957097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;The last sentence in the final tweet of this must-read thread should scare all of us: &#8216;Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US&#8217; &#8230; yet these universities &amp; hospitals are more concerned about DEI than hiring the most qualified person for the job??!!&#8221;
&#8220;MUST READ — the destruction of our medical system by the Democrat bigots and racists is underway,&#8221; Levin <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1762204807782162933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Dave Rubin said he wasn&#8217;t surprised by the revelations in Shapiro&#8217;s thread, even though it should shock people.
&#8220;I’d say this thread is insane, but it’s actually obvious,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1762209825662919073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;DEI will lead many people to DIE. Some intentionally …&#8221;
Shapiro began his thread by discussing Kychelle Del Rosario, a Wake Forest medical student who is getting ready to graduate from the school and potentially start a career in the medical field. Del Rosario made headlines in 2022 after she injured a patient who laughed at her “She/Her” pronoun pin. The Wake Forest medical student posted about her actions on social media, seemingly joking about missing the vein of the patient who made fun of her pin.
Del Rosario was defended by fellow Wake Forest medical student Ewen Liu who said the jab was an accident, but it “seemed ‘karma-tic.’” Shapiro said that he has learned Liu was recently hired by UPenn Health where she focuses on “substance use disorder, LGBTQ+ health, community medicine.”
“Both UPenn and Liu’s medical school, Wake Forest, have attempted to hide Liu’s hiring,” Shapiro wrote. “Wake Forest didn’t list Liu’s hospital in graduation materials, and UPenn doesn’t list Liu’s medical school on its website.”
Later in the thread, Shapiro shows video of award-winning Duke surgical resident Vignesh Raman discussing his goal to reduce the number of white men in surgery after the events surrounding George Floyd&#8217;s death “collectively galvanized the consciousness of Duke University and certainly our department to try to do something, and recognizing there’s like centuries-long history of racism and slavery in which Duke University essentially was founded [on].”
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6/ Raman adds that post-George Floyd, Duke made a concerted effort to stop hiring so many “walls of white men.” He says the team is now &quot;abandoning &#8230; all sort[s] of metrics&quot; and adopting a &quot;completely holistic&quot; application practice in order to recruit more women and non-white… <a href="https://t.co/Jxo93giLoQ">pic.twitter.com/Jxo93giLoQ</a>
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Raman goes on to say that he and his team are “abandoning … all sort[s] of metrics” and adopting “completely holistic” application practices so Duke can bring on more women and “non-white” surgeons, Shapiro said.
“Raman also tweeted that he won’t ‘amplify’ medical literature involving only white men – because it’s not as if white men have ever advanced medicine or anything,” Shapiro added. “Vignesh Raman is just one example of a much larger trend. The American College of Surgeons, or ACS, recently gave its 88,000 members a definition of ‘racism’ that implies it’s impossible to be racist against white people.”
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8/ Vignesh Raman is just one example of a much larger trend. The American College of Surgeons, or ACS, recently gave its 88,000 members a definition of “racism” that implies it’s impossible to be racist against white people. <a href="https://t.co/sKOM3UvNEV">pic.twitter.com/sKOM3UvNEV</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196010636390688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro also pointed out how the ACS invited speaker Madeline B. Torres to a 2021 conference where she said, “[W]hen patients see physicians who look like them, they tend to do better.” Torres also said that surgeons are receiving grants and awards based on their minority status.
At another 2021 DEI conference, this one at UPenn, a surgeon said it is “off putting” to see so many white men as surgeons.
“The doctors also state that surgery needs something like the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which requires that teams interview minority candidates,” Shapiro wrote. “But the doctors say surgery needs an expanded version that goes further and ensures that minority candidates are selected.”
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10/ This is now the prevailing view in surgical medicine. At a recent conference on DEI at UPenn, where Ewen Liu now works, one surgeon says that it&#39;s &quot;off putting&quot; that so many surgeons are white men. <a href="https://t.co/S1wIdWLfmF">pic.twitter.com/S1wIdWLfmF</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196015330037965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘DEI Puts The Lives Of Your Loved Ones At Risk’: Elon Musk, Other Prominent Voices Respond To Ben Shapiro Investigation Into DEI In Medicine

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Dave Rubin

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Mark Levin

Sage Steele

In a single tweet, best-selling author and news analyst Mark Levin shredded CNN’s Jake Tapper apart for his anti-Israel reporting.
Levin began by noting Tapper trying to bully an Israeli spokesman by saying, &#8220;There are a lot of innocent people being killed by bombs that Israel is raining down upon Gaza, and even if, as I know the IDF believes that Israel has killed 5,000 members of Hamas, that’s thousands of innocent people, including women and children, babies, that Israel has killed. Even if it’s an accident, even if it’s collateral damage, it’s a lot of innocent lives that have been killed by Israel.&#8221;
Then Levin went to work: “Tapper&#8217;s self-righteous moral outrage does not extend to all the countries around the world, and particularly in the Middle East, where civilians are being intentionally targeted for slaughter &#8212; from Syria and Iran, to Yemen and beyond. It does not extend to the several million Muslims in China who have been shipped to concentration camps where they are raped, tortured, and murdered. It does not extend to Russia, which is specifically targeting Ukrainian civilians for annihilation, killing tens of thousands of them. And on and on.”
He quoted Tapper claiming Israel is &#8220;raining bombs&#8221; down on Gaza, then fired, “No it is not. If Israel wanted to ‘rain bombs’ down on Gaza it would not be sending tens of thousands of its young men and women into Gaza, the IDF infantry, to fight street by street, house by house, room by room, thereby increasing Israeli casualties as it seeks to limit civilian casualties. It wouldn&#8217;t be dropping leaflets, sending text messages, dropping bump bombs, etc., warning Palestinians to get out of harms way.”
“Name another military on the face of the earth that does this,” he challenged Tapper. “Name another country on the face of the earth that would show such restraint after its girls were gang raped and executed, after its babies were decapitated, after over 100 of its citizens were taken hostage (from a 10 month old infant to an 89 year old Holocaust survivor), most of whom have been tortured and many of whom (the women and girls in particular) will not be returned so they can&#8217;t tell the world how they were horribly abused.”
“Israel must wipe out the Palestinian terrorists who name themselves Hamas, which was voted into power by the Palestinians in Gaza, who are overwhelmingly supported by the Palestinian civilians not only in Gaza but Judea and Samaria (according to a serious survey conducted a few weeks ago of the Palestinians in these areas), and who support the slaughter of Israeli Jews on Oct. 7 and their annihilation,” he declared, before turning back to Tapper: “Tapper has never gone through this report with his audience because he is pushing a narrative and projecting his own bigotry, which belie the report&#8217;s findings and, of course, what most serious observers have always known to be true. At no time does Tapper explain how he would destroy these terrorists without harming civilians, given that Hamas wants its own citizens killed in order to influence Tapper&#8217;s reporting (and the rest of American media).”
“The fact is that every death is on the head of Hamas, not the Israeli defense forces,” Levin wrote. “But Tapper continues to berate Israeli officials. He would just assume Israeli citizens face endless acts of terrorism, as they have since 1948 (and Jews have for thousands of years before), because that is the outcome if Israel does not destroy Hamas. Hamas itself has said it will never stop and that Oct. 7 was a dry run for worse. In other words, it is one thing to proclaim ‘Never Again,’ but when the Israeli Jews actually take affirmative steps to prevent future atrocities against themselves, they&#8217;re perpetrators and oppressors not better than the marauding terrorists who seek to wipe them out.”
“If Tapper and his ilk were serious journalists they would spend at least 10 percent of the time they use to attack Israel or 5 percent of the time they use to attack Donald Trump explaining that the Biden administration has waived sanctions against Iran, has continued funding UNRWA (which, in turn, funds Hamas, which the UN refuses to label a terrorist group), and continued funding the PLO (the Palestinian terrorist organization founded by Arafat), all terrorist and terrorist supporting entities,” he noted. “Biden saved the Iranian regime, their economy, and rearmed its military, despite the fact that it also sought to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers in Iraq. Biden is funding terrorism, directly and indirectly, and Iran is pouring money and armaments into Gaza and supporting terrorist operations in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, etc. to be used for the purpose of killing Israeli Jews (and others).”
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“Tapper&#8217;s small audience might benefit from this information rather than his constant self-righteous tirades and blaming the Israelis,” he continued. “Biden and Blinken blew up the Middle East as a direct result of their policies, and they blew up Trump&#8217;s policies which led to the Abraham Accords, Iran&#8217;s unraveling, Israeli-Saudi relations, and much more. Indeed, as Iran attacks American armed forces through proxies, thus far Biden has done nothing serious to punish that regime and protect our men and women.&#8221;
“But Tapper hates Trump, he supports Biden and the Democrat Party, and the disastrous foreign policy of Obama that continues to this day through his former staffers in the Biden regime,” Levin asserted. “Tapper is not a serious journalist. He has a long resume of working for Democrats and Democrat causes, and a media background that includes working with a radical left-wing media website ‘Salon.’ His true purpose is to provide propaganda for the Left, to stop Israel from winning a war it did not start, to turn Israeli restraint into Israeli oppression and barbarism, and ‘cover the war’ through the lens of the perpetrators. And he does it with sanctimony and self-righteousness, and under cover of a so-called news organization, CNN.”
He concluded, “Of course, like the rest of the media, he denounces what happened on Oct. 7 and Hamas, but then condemns Israel for trying to prevent a future Oct. 7 the only way it truly can, by defeating a monstrous enemy that commits war crimes as a purposeful strategy for destroying a democracy and civil society generally. If Oct. 7 doesn&#8217;t prove this point to someone like Tapper and the pro-Hamas protestors in our colleges and streets, and Hamas&#8217;s own mission statement underscores it all, than nothing will. Tapper&#8217;s sympathy for Israelis ended soon after Oct. 7, as he and his network predictably turned against the Israeli defenders, as they have in the past &#8212; indeed, as most of the rest of the American media have. Now, they use moral equivalency or worse to push their narrative and project their agenda. Thankfully, the media do not represent the American people. They represent a small but powerful group of self-appointed elitists and leftists, who can be counted on to root against Israel as they root against America. Israel will survive if it rejects these media reprobates and the suicidal demands of the Biden regime.”
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Mark Levin Shreds Jake Tapper For His Anti-Israel Narrative

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-being-lied-to-ben-shapiro-reveals-truth-about-israel-and-palestine-in-latest-facts-episode" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> blasted the American legacy media for seemingly allying with Hamas after the terrorist organization brutally attacked Israel on October 7. 
Shapiro’s comments came while discussing the Israel-Hamas war with conservative analyst Mark Levin on his Fox News show “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6339216896112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life, Liberty, Levin</a>” on Sunday. The two political commentators first discussed the “insanity” of the Biden administration <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-aid-palestine-hamas-attack-israel-trump-1833168" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sending aid</a> to the Gaza Strip, which likely ended up in the hands of Hamas, and unfreezing $6 billion for Hamas’ backer Iran. 
But the commentators’ criticism didn’t stop with those in the White House. 
“Isn’t it also insane, Ben Shapiro, that the greatest ally the terrorists have in the United States is the American media?” Levin asked. “Just as it was the greatest ally of the Nazis by covering up the Holocaust?” 
“It’s absolutely despicable,” Shapiro replied. “The American media has drawn a moral parity between Israel and its enemies for decades at this point.”
Hamas killed more than 1,300 people after invading Israel last Saturday, slaughtering Israeli families. Over the course of the week, the scale of Hamas’ atrocities against the Israelis has become more evident. During their attack, the terrorists targeted the most vulnerable, including raping and killing young women and slaughtering children and infants.
The Daily Wire host said that the legacy media “pretends” what Hamas is upset over is “a territorial dispute,” even though Hamas will “literally say to your face what they want is to kill Jews.” 
“And the entire American media looks the other way and pretends it’s not happening,” Shapiro added. “They’ll say, ‘Well, but we can examine your ulterior motive. We can tell what you’re really thinking.’ And this really goes to the absolute arrogance of Western liberals and that is [believing] ‘everyone thinks like they do.’” 
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“The media buys into that same nonsense because when it comes to this particular conflict, the media has decided in their heads that the Western country has to be wrong by nature,” said Shapiro. “And because it’s wrong by nature, that means that anything that happens to that country must have inevitably been caused by the ‘occupation.’” 
Shapiro noted that the Israel-Hamas conflict that the legacy media attempts to spin as stemming from Israel’s “oppressive occupation” — even though Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005. 
“The victims [of the Hamas attack] are living in unoccupied areas. … They’re living in the south of Israel which has been a part of Israel since 1947-48. And even the people getting slaughtered are disproportionately people of the political Left,” Shapiro said, noting that Hamas killed hundreds of young people at a dance festival.  
“That doesn&#8217;t matter to [the media] at all. The facts are completely irrelevant to the narrative.”

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Ben Shapiro Talks Israel With Mark Levin, Slams ‘Absolutely Despicable’ Legacy Media For Drawing ‘Moral Parity Between Israel And Its Enemies’

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Florida Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> spoke with Fox News host Mark Levin Sunday evening in a wide ranging interview about his new book that is set to be released this week and about the numerous successes that he has secured as governor.
The interview comes amid mounting speculation that DeSantis will announce sometime over the next few months that he will run for president in 2024 as polling has repeatedly showed that he and former President Donald Trump are the top two candidates for the GOP primary.
DeSantis told Levin that he wrote his new book &#8220;The Courage to Be Free: Florida&#8217;s Blueprint for America&#8217;s Revival&#8221; and did not rely on a ghostwriter to do the work.
&#8220;I think it comes across as more authentic because it is me writing this,&#8221; DeSantis said, adding that he did not include attacks against others in the book because he doesn&#8217;t believe in sharing details from private conversations that he has had with other officials because those conversations were in confidence.
DeSantis said that Republicans needed to learn how to go on offense instead of always having to be on defense where they are having to respond to what the Democrats are doing.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a lot easier for a governor — an executive to be on offense, but what I would say is one of the things I did when I was becoming governor, I compiled all the constitutional authorities the governor had, all the statutory authority, so I know what could I do by myself, what do I need to legislature for, what&#8217;s my relationship with local government officials?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because I&#8217;ve removed bad election officials, I removed the Soros-backed prosecutor, and so we have certain authorities under Florida&#8217;s constitution, and so I understood that because you have an agenda you want to get passed or you want it to stick, but you don&#8217;t just say I want this and it happens, you&#8217;ve got to get it through those constitutional checks and balances.&#8221;
DeSantis said that one of the decisions that he made early on that proved to be critical was not relying on polls to dictate how to govern.
&#8220;You and I could go out, we could poll a group of 100 people; that&#8217;s just a static analysis of how they respond to a certain question. If I phrase the question different, probably get a different response,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;So I don&#8217;t need to know what the static view [is]. What I need to know is if I set out the vision, if I execute that vision, if I produce favorable results, then will they be — will they be with me?&#8221;
&#8220;As a leader don&#8217;t be captive to public opinion, shape public opinion,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;And I think we&#8217;ve proven that we did that. I went from winning by 32,000 votes to winning by 1.5 million votes.&#8221;
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DeSantis said that the people that he has hired in his administration are true believers in what he is doing as evidenced by the fact that his administration has had no leaks to the media.
&#8220;No leaking, none of your own agenda, and we laid that down very early and from the time we did that, I didn&#8217;t have a single leak in the administration for 4 years,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I ran the highest profile governor reelection campaign in the country, not one leak from my campaign apparatus. That&#8217;s how you know you have people that are committed to the mission.&#8221;

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&#8220;The Great One&#8221; has some advice for all Americans: Stop reading The New York Times.
Radio host Mark Levin called the contents of the paper, whose motto is &#8220;all the news that&#8217;s fit to print,&#8221; worse than fake news.
On his Fox News show &#8220;Life, Liberty &amp; Levin,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/levin-new-york-times-worse-fake-news">blasted</a> the paper&#8217;s coverage of the Holocaust. Reading from his new book, &#8220;Unfreedom of the Press,&#8221; Levin claimed the paper &#8220;almost always&#8221; put stories about the Holocaust on the back pages.
&#8220;Surely the New York Times, with its wide reach, resources, access to foreign sources of information, reputation as the foremost newspaper in the country, large Jewish readership and its Jewish ownership would do everything possible to investigate and disclose the horror of Jewish genocide,&#8221; Levin said. &#8220;But the opposite was true.&#8221;
&#8220;The mass media treated the systematic murder of millions of Jews as though it were minor,&#8221; Levin said.
The radio host also said the paper is now pushing a &#8220;radical agenda&#8221; that makes it &#8220;an extremely destructive force in this country and outside this country.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s worse than fake news. It tried to take down an elected president, Donald Trump. It tried to push him out of office, supported both impeachments, supported criminal investigation, still supports these various prosecutors who are investigating the former president. And on and on and on,&#8221; Levin said.
Levin made headlines last week when he blasted the leak of a Supreme Court draft on overturning the abortion landmark decision Roe v. Wade, which was published by Politico. The opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, said, “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.”
“There is no federal constitutional right to abortion, period!” Levin said, according to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/its-not-a-salami-sandwich-its-a-viable-baby-mark-levin-yells-into-the-camera-after-liberals-slam-supreme-court-opinion/">Mediaite</a>. “They amended the Constitution without amending the Constitution!”
&#8220;Is that a baby in the womb?!&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Is that a viable baby in the womb at the very last minute? Yes! It&#8217;s not a salami sandwich! It’s a viable baby in the womb! And we have states and governors that say you can abort that baby even though it&#8217;s viable. It&#8217;s not a choice! It&#8217;s a human being! So to the Democrat Party – &#8216;Women aren’t women, babies aren’t babies.&#8217; This is insanity!&#8221;
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Mark Levin Urges Americans Stop Reading NY Times, ‘Worse Than Fake News’

Radio Host Mark Levin Urges Americans To Stop Reading The New York Times, 'Worse Than Fake News'

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New York Times

A slew of conservative accounts came back to Twitter Monday, following news that Tesla founder Elon Musk has reached a deal to purchase the Left-wing site.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson tweeted simply, &#8220;We&#8217;re back.&#8221;
The host and author was suspended for agreeing that Dr. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, is a biological man.
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We’re back.
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Fellow Fox News host Mark Levin came back to the site on Monday, too. &#8220;Thanks to new ownership, I&#8217;ve decided to come back!&#8221; he wrote.
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Thanks to new ownership, I’ve decided to come back! 😊
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Anti-lockdown group Truckers For Freedom, which was banned from Twitter, came back to the platform Monday as well, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/babylon-bee-others-return-twitter-after-musk-buys">according</a> to Fox Business.
&#8220;Friends, it is happening again like the last time,&#8221; the account tweeted. &#8220;We already have 1000 followers in one hour since we have rejoined twitter! Last time we had the same growth (but not from the first hour!!!) Follow us to support, Elon Musk is with us! <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/truckersforfreedom?src=hashtag_click">#truckersforfreedom</a>.&#8221;
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Friends, it is happening again like the last time. We already have 1000 followers in one hour since we have rejoined twitter! Last time we had the same growth (but not from the first hour!!!) Follow us to support, Elon Musk is with us!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/truckersforfreedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#truckersforfreedom</a> <a href="https://t.co/PmmrhVkw6g">pic.twitter.com/PmmrhVkw6g</a>
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Actor Michael Caine, who was a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/michael-caine-brexit-boris-johnson-b1940075.html">supporter</a> of Brexit and has voted conservative, sparked some attention on Twitter, too, when he posted for the first time in months on Monday. The timing made Twitter users wonder if the actor came back to the site because of the Musk buyout, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10753641/Sir-Michael-Caines-Twitter-return-raising-questions-Elon-Musk-buys-platform-44B.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline">reported</a>.
On the flip side, race-hustler Shaun King appeared to <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking">delete</a> his account from the platform. The move came following King claiming South African-born Musk was motived by &#8220;white power&#8221; in his quest to purchase Twitter.
“At its root, [Elon Musk] wanting to purchase Twitter is not about left vs right,” he wrote earlier in the day. “It’s about white power.”
King later appeared on Twitter and claimed that he never deleted his account.
In other notable Twitter news, former President Donald Trump, who had his account <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension">permanently suspended</a> in January 2021, said he will not return to the platform if his account is reinstated.
Instead, Trump said, he will use his own social media platform Truth Social.
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth,” the former president <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/trump-wont-return-to-twitter/">told</a> Fox News. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth. The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”

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Sitting down with Fox News host Mark Levin, Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis responded to Levin’s comment that DeSantis has been the target of the media and Democrats because he has been so effective asserting, “If you stand your ground, if you lead, if you don’t back down and just stand for the right things, there’s a groundswell of folks who will have your back.”
Levin pointed out, “You know, the bigger picture here, there’s a lot of governors — at least 50 last time I checked — there’s many Republican governors. Yet you are the focus. So I suspect if you are an ineffective governor, you wouldn’t threaten the left-wing media, the Democrat party&#8230;.You have some really terrible media here. This is me speaking. Palm Beach is just a disaster; Orlando, Tampa, disaster, like most of the rest of the country.”
“If you were a mediocre Democrat governor, or if you had been a Cuomo, a disastrous governor, you wouldn’t be getting this kind of attention, would you?” he asked.
“No,” DeSantis answered bluntly. “Look, when you’re over the target, they’re gonna come at you. But what I view it as, I view it as positive feedback. If the corporate press nationally isn’t attacking me, then I’m probably not doing my job. So the fact that they are attacking me is a good indication that you know what? I’m tackling the big issues. We’re going after Critical Race Theory; we’re fighting back against Biden’s mandates; we’re fighting back against the illegal immigration, all those things that a vast majority of Floridians and Americans want to see done.”
“But that does threaten the ruling class and the regime,” he continued. “And so when you stand up in this day and age that we’re in, when you’re speaking the truth, those folks do not want that to get out. And so they are gonna throw arrows at you.”
“But I think what we’ve been able to show is: If you stand your ground; if you lead; if you don’t back down and just stand for the right things, there’s a groundswell of folks who will have your back,” he declared. “And that ultimately is what it’s all about.”
Levin segued to the trouble Florida has had in obtaining monoclonal antibodies, which deal with the coronavirus therapeutically, from the federal government, asking, “Did you ever think an issue like a pandemic or vaccines or this monoclonal antibody, did you ever think that that would be politicized the way that Washington has politicized it and Biden and stuff like that? You’ve had to fight like hell to get the citizens of this state the monoclonal antibodies that you have focused on very heavily, this therapeutic.”
“And as a side point, as a footnote, I was in Florida; my family was in Florida; I got the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine; I got the booster, then I got the virus,” Levin recalled. “And we looked it up on the internet and there was a center 20 miles away where we could go to get the monoclonal antibody, which you really are supposed to get within 48 hours if you can, and after the first day where I felt lousy I felt fine. I mean, it actually works, and you have them all over the state, you’re really the only governor who’s done this and yet you’re the focus of Washington. The bureaucrats and the Democrat politicians who are saying, ‘That works. Let’s withhold the monoclonal antibodies.’ What do you make of that?”
“It’s all political,” DeSantis replied. “And we set up these centers this summer when we started to see Delta variant rear its head, and it worked. We were keeping tens of thousands of people out of the hospitals, saved thousands of lives. No one disputes that. Well, as that was happening in September, they, the federal government, decided to seize control of the monoclonal antibodies and cut supplies to Florida and Texas, mainly. Now I was able to do a deal with another company &#8230; and then our numbers were so low that there just wasn’t a lot of demand for it for many months.”
“Well, now that you see Omicron, you start to see more prevalence in the winter, which we anticipated, there’d be an increase in demand, we’re not getting what we need,” DeSantis pointed out. “And so we’re working through that; we think we have the potential to have a positive solution on that, but you know, what HHS will say is, ‘Florida, you use too much of it.’ Well, part of the reason we use more than other states is because we’ve actually embraced treatment. Most of these other governors and the people like Fauci in the federal leadership, they basically say, ‘Get a shot. Wear a mask.’ They never talk about treatment. And we&#8217;ve really embraced treatment because that’s just the reality of what we’re facing.”
“You were vaccinated and yet you still got it,” DeSantis said. “I wish the vaccines were sterilizing but they’re not providing that type of immunity. So to just not deal with treatment and be hostile to people like me, who are, it shows so much of this is about a political agenda; it’s about partisanship, and it’s not about the best interests of the American people when you talk about how these folks are acting.”
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Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told conservative radio giant and Fox News host Mark Levin that he believed President Joe Biden looked for &#8220;scapegoats&#8221; in order to obscure his own failures in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nauseating-ron-desantis-says-january-6th-anniversary-will-be-a-politicized-charlie-foxtrot/">DeSantis</a> spoke with Levin at length in an interview that aired Sunday evening, and explained that early on he had felt as though a focus on therapeutics would be both wise and necessary — and he believed the Biden administration&#8217;s continued attacks on him were a fair indicator that he had chosen correctly.
&#8220;As a footnote, I was in Florida — my family was in Florida,” Levin told <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-florida-to-distribute-1-million-at-home-covid-19-tests-for-vulnerable-people/">DeSantis</a>, commending the Florida governor for making sure that treatments like the monoclonal antibody therapy were available. “I got the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine, I got the booster, then I got the virus. And we looked up on the internet, and there was a center 20 miles away where we could go to get the monoclonal antibody therapy.&#8221;
&#8220;Most of these other governors and the people like [Dr. Anthony] Fauci and the federal leadership, they basically say, ‘Get a shot, wear a mask’ and they never talk about treatment. And we’ve really embraced treatment because that’s just the reality of what we’re facing,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/im-not-surprised-desantis-says-hed-be-a-pretty-doggone-wealthy-man-if-he-had-a-dollar-for-every-lockdown-politician-who-escaped-to-florida/">DeSantis</a> explained.
DeSantis also noted, in a clip that previewed the interview, that attacks from the left and the mainstream media were fair indicators that he was doing his job.
&#8220;When you’re over the target, they’re going to come at you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If the corporate press nationally isn’t attacking me, then I’m probably not doing my job. So, the fact that they are attacking me is a good indication that I’m tackling the big issues.&#8221;
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&#8220;When you’re over the target, they’re going to come after you.
If the corporate press nationally isn’t attacking me, then I’m probably not doing my job. So, the fact that they are attacking me is a good indication that I’m tackling the big issues.&#8221; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantisFL</a> 👀🔥 <a href="https://t.co/wsiC0eBHgS">pic.twitter.com/wsiC0eBHgS</a>
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&#8220;I think when you look back how the pandemic was handled there will be a whole host of the cardinal sins,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;But some of the chief will be school closures, kids were locked out of school for over a year, we have schools still closed in parts of the country, unbelievably, the extended lockdowns, the lockdowns were a disaster — but not focusing on treatment from the beginning was a huge mistake, Dr. Anthony Fauci and people like him are absolutely to blame for this, and so once we did get these treatments on line through the private sector, to ignore them and to put all your eggs in one basket was a fundamental mistake. Now, the question is, Biden did mention it once, he mentioned it after — right before they cut our supply, he said we’ll ramp up the monoclonal antibodies then he turns around and cuts the supply, we have not seen the ramp up. He had months and months after this was demonstrated to be effective to be ready for this, and we haven&#8217;t seen that. I don’t think that they&#8217;re ultimately going to embrace it.&#8221;
DeSantis argued that Biden and Fauci appeared to have &#8220;tunnel vision&#8221; with regard to their approach, promoting the vaccines as the only correct response to COVID, and that had come around to backfire on Biden in particular.
&#8220;He gets in and now you see, cases and all this like no one anticipated was even possible, and of course his central promise of his campaign goes up in smoke. As a result they try to find scapegoats and I think trying to fight with Florida or Texas is something they do to divert attention from their failure.&#8221;

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In 2009, constitutional lawyer and syndicated radio host Mark Levin published Liberty &amp; Tyranny, a runaway bestseller that galvanized the conservative movement. Now, he has published American Marxism, putting a name to — and tracing the ancestry of — the movement that is sweeping away our rights and freedoms.
As he admits, this is Levin&#8217;s longest book because it is his most comprehensive. The reader is taken through the evolution of the nefarious, anti-democratic ideals that have seized control of America&#8217;s institutions and are tearing down society.
Reading the philosophers of totalitarianism of yesteryear — Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx — seems like an exercise in tedium. Yet their reasoning has echoed through time — even if the (in Levin’s phrase) “zombie-like ’woke’ drones” don’t know where their dogma came from. &#8220;Ultimately,&#8221; Levin writes:
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<blockquote>these arguments for collective identity, collective beliefs, and class consciousness, in support of mass movements, wittingly or otherwise &#8230; form the basis not only for peaceful protests but violence, riots, and revolution—of the sort we have seen in our cities and towns with the likes of Antifa, BLM, and other violent radical groups. In fact, they attempt to provide the veneer of an expertise or scholarly approach to societal disruption, the undermining of civil institutions, and flat-out rebellion.</blockquote>
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The Marxists’ disdain for individualism is omnipresent throughout its history. The same is true of attitudes toward the common man. Levin points out the similarities in the way the American Marxist speaks of the hard working, blue collar American and the way the Soviet Union in the time of Stalin spoke of the “backward” Russian and Ukrainian peasant (who would suffer a genocide in the name of collectivization). Like its Soviet counterpart, American Marxism is &#8220;laced throughout with raw bigotry, antagonism, and hate.&#8221;
One of Levin&#8217;s favorite sayings is that even as Communism was defeated in the Soviet Union, it is thriving in American universities. It was from his perch in academia that Marxist pseudo-intellectual Herbert Marcuse &#8220;hatch[ed] the Critical Theory ideology from which the racial, gender, and other Critical Theory–based movements were launched in America.&#8221;
Marcuse, Levin writes, argued that &#8220;tolerance is actually a ploy instituted by the powerful and conniving forces of the bourgeoisie against the unsuspecting proletariat, in which the masses are duped and programmed to support their oppressors. In short, tolerance is used to suppress the people &#8230; if American society does not tolerate its own demise or overthrow at the hands of Marxist ideologues and movements, it cannot be said to be truly tolerant. Therefore, Marcuse insists that a society is not truly tolerant if it does not sow the seeds of its own demise by Marxist revolutionaries &#8230; since a republic would not consent to its own subversion and dissolution, thereby rejecting true tolerance, Marxists must resort to other means to overthrow it, including violence.&#8221;
In sum, &#8220;Marcuse was urging the violent overthrow of American society in which the &#8216;established hierarchy&#8217; was using tolerance to perpetuate oppression against the minority.&#8221; It&#8217;s nonsense, and yet it is the root of Critical Race Theory (CRT).
In discussing Critical Race Theory, Levin borrows a description from Professor George R. La Noue:
<blockquote>CRT begins with the presumption that race is the primary way to identify and analyze people and consequently posits a racial hierarchy that supposedly exists with whites on top and blacks at the bottom. Individual behavior is insignificant because everyone in America functions within a society of systemic racism, structural racism, and institutional racism. &#8230; According to this perspective, efforts by public and private organizations to enforce civil rights laws in employment, housing, contracting, education, etc. are either insufficient or pointless.</blockquote>
Levin explains:
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<div>In other words, CRT undermines and exploits America&#8217;s unique and very successful fusion of diversity and cultural assimilation, and considers all issues in the context of past societal imperfections—regardless of enormous struggles and efforts in creating a more perfect society, including a civil war, massive economic redistribution, and groundbreaking legal changes. Even more, it incorporates and advances an increasing list of causes as new or additional reasons for eradicating society and transforming the country. Indeed, CRT repositions what is the most tolerant and beneficent society on earth as a miserably dark and impoverished nation, from its beginning to today. </div>
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Furthermore, &#8220;For CRT advocates, counter-speech, more speech, and the marketplace of ideas are all poisoned by white dominance and privilege. Of course, this leads to repression, censorship, and today&#8217;s &#8216;cancel culture.'&#8221;
Levin does not mince words: &#8220;Having laid the foundation for revolutionary change in multiple areas of our society and culture, the banning, canceling, and silencing have begun in earnest. Repression, not engagement; compliance, not speech; conformity, not independence; and subjugation, not liberty, are all hallmarks of American Marxism.&#8221;
Yet for all the grim straight talk, American Marxism also offers a message of hope. Levin closes the book with a call to action. Boycott the enemy&#8217;s businesses, pressure institutions to withdraw investments in woke movements, have your state and local governments end all funds for or involvement in wokeness. And most importantly, never, ever give up. In the final pages, Levin returns, as he often does, to America&#8217;s founding for inspiration — citing the words of Thomas Paine:
<blockquote>THESE are the times that try men&#8217;s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.</blockquote>
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Speaking on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty and Levin” with host Mark Levin on Sunday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis took aim at President Biden regarding his policies on school closures, charging, “It&#8217;s a pathetic failure of leadership to not stand up for these kids and for these families.”
Levin prompted DeSantis by saying: &#8220;Here&#8217;s my concern: Florida is not some little state like Delaware where the president comes from, no offense. It is a massive state with a diverse population. You&#8217;ve got metropolitan areas; you&#8217;ve got suburban areas; you&#8217;ve got rural areas; you&#8217;ve got people pouring into your state every day to move there; you&#8217;ve got a huge school system in Florida. Well, isn&#8217;t that a perfect example? Look at what&#8217;s going on in Florida. No, there isn&#8217;t a massive outbreak of the virus in the classrooms with the teachers or the students. That&#8217;s the data. That&#8217;s reality. Look at California. The whole damn thing is shut down. Look at New York. The whole damn thing is shut down. Isn&#8217;t this common sense at this point?&#8221;
“Without question. and the numbers are very clear if you look at the pediatric cases up to (age) 17,” DeSantis replied. “California per capita is higher than Florida, and they&#8217;ve had schools closed. And I think the reason is, is when kids do get infected, it&#8217;s usually not in school. It&#8217;s usually in the community. So having them do virtual [learning] doesn&#8217;t solve that problem at all.”
“So the evidence is very clear at this point, Mark,” DeSantis continued. “This is just purely being subservient to a special interest and Biden has been one of the worst in it, because when he says, ‘My goal is to get 50% of the schools in person in 100 days,’ we&#8217;ve already had that. His goal should have been yesterday to get everybody back in school, but he can&#8217;t do that because he doesn&#8217;t want to upset the teachers’ unions. It&#8217;s a pathetic failure of leadership to not stand up for these kids and for these families.”
“And you know, Mark, the kids that are the most impacted and the families that are the most impacted are the low income, blue collar middle class kids,” DeSantis added. “The wealthy sons and daughters of, say, elected officials and other powerful people, they&#8217;re sending their kids in person in private schools, but they&#8217;re not affording that right to the folks who need to go to the public school system.”
Asked by Levin what was the data on people moving to Florida during the pandemic, DeSantis replied: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s getting hard to keep track of because it&#8217;s just happening at such a fast clip. And these are folks — people want to move their businesses here, people want to retire here, as always, but they&#8217;re wanting to do that at faster clips — but, Mark, we had families move just because our schools were open, because maybe their son played football and you couldn&#8217;t play football in the lockdown states. Maybe they just needed to get the kids in the classroom. So there was a whole host of reasons.&#8221;
He continued: &#8220;When people come from lockdown states, they remark about people in Florida are just happier. It&#8217;s a much more vibrant society, and I think the lockdowns have really a done a lot of damage in terms of psychology and mental health in some of those places. They&#8217;ll be people that&#8217;ll visit here who can&#8217;t believe we have schools open or can&#8217;t believe we are playing football or basketball or all these other things.&#8221;
DeSantis said some people had compared arriving in Florida from a lockdown state to fleeing from behind the former Iron Curtain to the West: &#8220;Some have even said, it&#8217;s kind of like you&#8217;re landing in West Berlin from coming, because it&#8217;s so much different.&#8221;
 A native of Florida, DeSantis was recruited by Yale University where he played baseball for four years, then attended Harvard Law school before being commissioned in the Navy as a Navy JAG officer. Serving stateside and then in Iraq, he segued to serving as a federal prosecutor before being elected to Congress in 2012 before his election as governor in 2018.
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On Sunday, after Fox News anchor Chris Wallace mocked Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), likening his defense of President Trump to Japanese soldiers who refused to accept defeat after World War II, Cruz fired back, snapping that Wallace “beclowned himself with a shamefully biased debate performance” and “continues to demonstrate his rank partisanship.”
As <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ted-cruz-bashes-chris-wallace-after-anchor-likens-him-to-japanese-holdout-soldiers-after-wwii/">Mediaite</a> reported, Wallace stated, “It would seem to me that Republicans on Capitol Hill have a role to play in this, a very few of them have said ‘look, you pursue your legal options but damp down the rhetoric,’ like Mitt Romney, like Pat Toomey. There are a lot who are just silent and there are some, I mentioned Ted Cruz, who are like the Japanese soldiers who come out 30 years after the end of the war and out of the jungle and say, ‘Is the fight still going on?&#8217;”
Fox News’ own Mark Levin, disgusted with his colleague’s unprovoked attack on Cruz, issued a blistering tweet, writing, “This is way out of line.  Keep your politics to yourself, Mr. Journalist.  You’re not just showing ankle, you’ve undressed yourself.”
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This is way out of line.  Keep your politics to yourself, Mr. Journalist.  You’re not just showing ankle, you’ve undressed yourself.<a href="https://t.co/W4KOcRrgPe">https://t.co/W4KOcRrgPe</a>
&mdash; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1325537260964622337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz followed with a tweet of his own: “Chris Wallace, who beclowned himself with a shamefully biased debate performance—universally panned—continues to demonstrate his rank partisanship. Urging that we follow the law &amp; that election recounts be actually completed is not somehow undermining democracy.”
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Chris Wallace, who beclowned himself with a shamefully biased debate performance—universally panned—continues to demonstrate his rank partisanship.
Urging that we follow the law &amp; that election recounts be actually completed is not somehow undermining democracy. <a href="https://t.co/vLVUpe23OT">https://t.co/vLVUpe23OT</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1325558185214705664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In late January 2016, Cruz <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/28/7th-republican-debate-transcript-annotated-who-said-what-and-what-it-meant/">asserted</a> at a GOP presidential primary debate, moderated by Wallace, that Wallace should have allowed him to reply to a question Wallace asked Chris Christie that implicitly criticized Cruz. Wallace denied that he had included Cruz in the question, but he was wrong and Cruz was right. The transcript of the relevant portion of the debate went like this:
<blockquote>Wallace: Governor Christie, you have compared both Senators Cruz and Rubio to Barack Obama, saying that we cannot afford another inexperienced President. You&#8217;ve also said that Senator Cruz&#8217;s vote to curtail the NSA surveillance program made America less safe. Is either of them ready to be Commander in Chief?
Christie: Well, let me say that I do believe that the vote on NSA made the country less safe. Well, let me tell you what the country should really be worried about. I watched that town hall meeting with the Democrats the other night, and I heard Hillary Clinton asked a direct question by an Iowan, and that&#8217;s what Iowans like to do. They like to ask direct questions.
And, they asked about her email situation. And, here&#8217;s what she said to the American people. She did it for convenience. For her convenience. She put America&#8217;s secrets at risk for her convenience. She put American intelligence officers at risk for her convenience. She put American strategy at risk for her convenience.
Let me tell you who&#8217;s not qualified to be President of the United States, Chris. Hillary Rodham Clinton did that to our country. She is not qualified to be President of the United States.The fact is what we need is someone on that stage who has been tested, who has been through it, who has made decisions, who has sit (ph) in the chair of consequence and can prosecute the case against Hillary Clinton on that stage, and that is exactly what I am ready to do.
Wallace: Governor (Jeb) Bush&#8230;
Cruz: Chris? Chris I was mentioned in that question.
Bush: No, you weren&#8217;t. Your name wasn&#8217;t mentioned, Ted.
Cruz: &#8230; Actually, I was&#8230;
Bush, trying to ignore Cruz, “Chris, keep it coming&#8230;”
Wallace to Cruz: I don&#8217;t think that your name was mentioned&#8230;
Cruz: Chris, your questions that you&#8230;
Wallace: Sir, I think — I think the question was —
Cruz: What was your question?
Wallace: It&#8217;s not my question that you get a chance to respond to, it&#8217;s his answer. You don&#8217;t get 30 seconds to respond to me&#8230;
Cruz: Your question was you have disagreed&#8230;
Wallace, repeating: You don&#8217;t get 30 seconds to respond to me&#8230;
Cruz: (inaudible) opening statement.
Wallace: If I could go on. Sir, I know you like to argue about the rules, but we&#8217;re going to conduct a debate&#8230;
Bush: Thank you, Chris.
Wallace: Governor Bush?
Cruz: This entire question was an attack.</blockquote>

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On Wednesday, Fox News host Mark Levin <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-levin/last-nights-debate/10103036150941080/">sounded off</a> on Facebook regarding Tuesday’s presidential debate, pointing out that former Vice President Joe Biden assayed using the same gestures against President Trump that he used against 2012 GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, but Trump “would have none of it.”
Levin recalled the vice-presidential debate between Biden and Ryan, in which Ryan ignored Biden&#8217;s histrionics and eschewed harshly attacking him, writing, “Biden pulled the same stunts on the president as he pulled on Paul Ryan eight years earlier, but Trump would have none of it. Biden was making faces, rolling his eyes, interrupting the president with laughs and jabs, and was long-winded, which the moderator allowed to a ridiculous level.”
Levin opined that fellow Fox News host and debate moderator Chris Wallace permitted Biden “much longer opportunities uninterrupted by the moderator to speak, which Biden used to hurl one nasty lie after another.” He added that Trump wouldn’t stand for that, as he “is a counter-puncher and often was forced to try to muscle his way in to address Biden’s list of attacks as he wasn’t given opportunities to reply.”
Levin ripped Wallace for exhibiting bias against the president, asserting, “The moderator’s liberal bias was obvious in the nature of many of the questions, as was his dislike of the president when he’d get into arguments with the president over policy while mostly letting Biden get away with whoppers.”
“The moderator knows the governors shut down the economy not the president, the moderator knows the president didn’t kill over 200,000 Americans, the moderator knows Antifa is a real group, the moderator knows that the “science” of man-made climate change is in dispute, etc., but it seemed like none and certainly little of his correcting or challenging was aimed at Biden or, even worse, he’d insert his views into the questioning and follow up,” Levin wrote, adding, “If he was truly interested in tax returns, why did he ignore Biden’s use of an S-1 corporation to get around paying over half a million dollars in payroll taxes, including Social Security, or mention that the New York Times article itself states that Trump paid approximately $24 million in the alternative minimum tax. If you’re going to bring it up, then get it right.”
Levin noted that some commentators were &#8220;more critical of the president than Biden,&#8217; then targeted Biden, noting. “Biden’s strategy was as a disrupter who was prepared with memorized attack lines and falsehoods, which he rattled off like a machine gun. Biden&#8217;s handlers figured such a debate — going from hiding in the basement and limiting press availability to a debate brawl — would continue to protect Biden from real scrutiny for his past record and his current embrace of truly extremist policies as set forth in his 110-page manifesto. Biden’s obvious strategy, plus the moderator’s predictable approach, was infuriating.”

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