&#8220;So much journalism-ing!,&#8221; Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro is fond of saying in lamenting the generally decrepit nature of our <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/02/11/bad-press/">fourth estate</a> in the era of the Trump presidency. Indeed.
Earlier this week, Peter Nicholas of The Atlantic <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/11/trumps-first-medal-arts-winners-include-jon-voight/601672/">took particular umbrage</a> with President Donald Trump&#8217;s alleged &#8220;MAGA-fying&#8221; of &#8230; wait for it &#8230; National Medal of Arts award recipients. Yes, really.
The National Medal of Arts dates back to the Reagan presidency, and all types of civilian artists, writers, actors, dancers, and musicians have been honored with the award since then. Trump neglected to honor any new recipients during the first two years of his presidency. Now, according to Nicholas, that is set to change — albeit in a &#8220;MAGA-fied&#8221; direction:
<blockquote>[N]ow, I’m told, he’s poised to announce his first slate of [National Medal of Arts] winners later this month. It not only includes names that seem, in part, to be tailored to the president’s personal preferences — namely, the actor and MAGA enthusiast Jon Voight and all five U.S. military bands. But in choosing the winners, Trump appears to have ignored input from the committee that typically recommends artistic luminaries as candidates for the award.</blockquote>
Nicholas continued to describe that &#8220;members [of the National Council on the Arts] said that was a break from past practice and that presidents normally give the council’s recommendations more credence.&#8221; Specifically, Nicholas bemoans that some National Council on the Arts members &#8220;objected to what they saw as partisan political considerations or a lack of diversity.&#8221;
Put another way, the disproportionate leftists who comprise the National Council on the Arts — and Nicholas expressly acknowledges that &#8220;[t]he council’s rank and file are holdovers from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations&#8221; — are upset that a Republican president plans to tap National Medal of Arts recipients who seem to align with his personal or political preferences. Quite the story!
Nicholas quoted one perplexed Council member, each of whom spoke to Nicholas on condition of anonymity, who bewailed that &#8220;there was alarm, and some surprise&#8221; when the president&#8217;s award recipient selections were decided. &#8220;This was the first time that we had heard that there was going to be a medal award, and the decisions did not match our recommendations,&#8221; the intrepid Council member continued. &#8220;That in itself was a new experience. We all immediately recognized that not only were recommendations not followed, but the kind of diversity we had striven for in the past in the various [artistic] disciplines had not been followed.&#8221;
Jon Voight, whom Nicholas indicates will receive a National Medal of Arts later this month, is a well-known, open and proud Trump supporter. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jon-voight-releases-video-praising-trump-says-left-hank-berrien">highlighted</a> in August how he has praised the president as a &#8220;man of truths&#8221;:
<blockquote>&#8220;I’ve said this many times and I am saying it again from the deep truths of my heart and soul: President Trump is a man of truths, love and justice for the American people and also for the people of a sacred place: Israel. Not only does he love our country, the United States of America, but he has a love for the people of all nations.&#8221;</blockquote>

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The Atlantic Slams Trump For ‘MAGA-fying’ National Medal Of Arts Recipients

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On Tuesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about the media’s plan to get the American people on board with impeachment. Video and partial transcript below: 
The MRC, the Media Research Council, they do that wonderful <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/11/12/impeachment-frenzy-nets-aim-destroy-trump-96-negative-news">Newsbusters</a> site that I like so much. They write this:
<blockquote>With virtually no chance Senate Republicans will vote to remove President Trump from office, House Democrats’ drive for impeachment is more likely aimed at creating a deluge of negative daily headlines hoping to cripple Trump going into next year&#8217;s election. If that is indeed Democrats’ goal, then the three broadcast networks are doing everything they can to help achieve this partisan objective.
Overwhelmingly negative: MRC analysts have reviewed all coverage of President Trump in his and his administration on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts since 2017. Following the beginning of the impeachment inquiry on September 24, this coverage has been even more hostile than normal: Out of 684 evaluative comments included in these broadcasts, a whopping 96 percent have been negative, vs. a meager four percent that have been positive.
All About Impeachment: TV&#8217;s fascination with Democrats’ impeachment push has crowded out nearly all other news about the administration. During the six weeks since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the start of the inquiry (September 24 through November 5), the ABC, CBS, andNBC evening newscasts churned out 398 minutes of coverage to the Ukraine scandal, or more than three-fifths of all administration news during this period (645 minutes).</blockquote>
Here&#8217;s the thing, so now we know everything is negative, and Trump&#8217;s successes vanish. This is the important thing: If Trump is a success, which he so often is, or if the Democrats turned out to be lying, which they so often are, that just disappears. 
Remember when Adam Schiff was going to bring the whistleblower in to testify and then suddenly it turned out that the whistleblower had arranged everything with Schiff before they got started? Schiff realized, [paraphrased] “Oh, if I bring him in to testify, they can ask questions of him,” [and] the story does just disappears. 
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So now impeachment starts tomorrow, the public hearings start tomorrow. Now, this is what they’re talking about — remember I called it “Impeachment: The Movie,” because all they&#8217;re talking about is how can we convince people, and the press is basically piling on. The press is working with Adam Schiff, [thinking] “How can we shoot this movie, how can we shoot this story so it really affects voters?” 
By the way, they know now, they&#8217;re starting to realize, it’s not going to happen. It&#8217;s just not going to happen because they haven&#8217;t got anything, but here — just to show you because they do it openly, it&#8217;s amazing — here is Brian Stelter with Ana Cabrera on CNN, wondering how they can shoot this movie, how they can tell this story, so you give a rat&#8217;s what Donald Trump did in regards to Ukraine.
<blockquote>CABRERA: How important is this week in terms of getting the American people invested and interested early on? 
STELTER: Well, this is the first Internet impeachment, right? When you were at the Clinton White House, Joe, the Internet was mostly a text media, most people weren&#8217;t really online yet, there were no smartphones. So this is the first time we&#8217;re gonna have an impeachment process that is clipped and condensed and distorted and remixed in all of these ways and shared on social media. The reality is most people will not watch live, although many CNN viewers will, most people end up watching clips and then hearing about it later in the day as it&#8217;s being digested, whatever is said at the hearings. 
I think that&#8217;s really important. You know, both Democrats and Republicans are going to be trying to control that messaging war. I also think episode one, so to speak, matters a lot. And I hate to say that because we&#8217;re talking about basic democracy at risk here, but from a television perspective, Democrats have to come out strong in that first episode. For the same reason that when we&#8217;re watching something on Netflix or listening to a podcast, we only choose to keep listening if we&#8217;re interested in episode one. So I think the Democrats know that, but I&#8217;ll be interested to see what kind of show they put on on Wednesday morning trying to hook people.</blockquote>
Even Soledad O&#8217;Brien, who used to work at CNN, said that was shameful, that Brian Stelter should be ashamed of himself. But if I may ask you, keep these three things in your head, okay. Three things in your head: Overwhelmingly negative coverage, I mean so negative, it&#8217;s absurd. Like 94% — what was it, 96% — unbelievably negative coverage. [Two], the past disappears when it&#8217;s pro-Trump, which has been pretty consistently pro-Trump. We&#8217;re at peace where the economy is doing well, people have jobs, so things are actually going pretty well. 
So the past vanishes, that is number two, and number three: It’s a show being organized between Adam Schiff and the press, they are putting on a show meant to convince you that this is an important thing. As I’ve said again and again, I think Donald Trump is 100% right on this. It’s nonsense, it is a cover-up, it is absolute nonsense. 
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KLAVAN: Impeachment: The Movie. Brought To You By Adam Schiff And The Mainstream Media.

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On Tuesday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about how the sports media complex only allows politics in sports when it comes from the Left. Video and partial transcript below: 
So there is a rule in sports media. The rule is that if you are on the Left and you want to talk politics, then you are a hero; If you&#8217;re not on the Left and you to talk politics, you get fired. 
That is the rule in sports media. We&#8217;ve talked about this — my friend Clay Travis, who is a lifelong registered Democrat as far as I&#8217;m aware, and he fully agrees that the sports media are extraordinarily biased to the Left. Like more so, statistically speaking, than the news media, actually. This is how you end up with these two juxtaposed stories: 
In <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/opinion/deadspin-sports.html">The New York Times</a>, an editorial by a guy named Barry Petchesky, who is the former deputy editor of Deadspin — [which] had turned into this wild Left outlet that had almost nothing to do with sports, they spent their days ripping on Ted Cruz until Ted Cruz owned them — [Petchesky] has a piece called “I Was Fired from Deadspin for Refusing to ‘Stick to Sports.’”
<blockquote>Two weeks ago, I was fired as acting editor in chief of Deadspin, where I’d worked since 2009. The entire staff resigned, following me out the door after we refused a new company mandate to &#8220;stick to sports.&#8221; Jim Spanfeller, installed as chief executive of G/O Media by the private equity firm that bought the company seven months ago, called me into his office, pointed to some offending stories on our home page and had me escorted from the building.
This is the first time I&#8217;m speaking up about my firing, and my stance remains the same as in the countless meetings with management where I explained and insisted that sports don&#8217;t end when the players head back to the locker room.
We refused to &#8220;stick to sports,&#8221; because we know that sports is everything and everything is sports: It&#8217;s the N.B.A. kowtowing to its Chinese business interests; it&#8217;s pro sports leagues attempting to become shadow justice systems for publicity reasons; it&#8217;s the opioid epidemic roiling N.F.L. locker rooms at least as hard as anywhere in Appalachia, even as the league refuses to relax its marijuana policies; it&#8217;s racist fan chants chasing black players off the pitch in Italian soccer matches; it&#8217;s Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki wearing a &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; cap at the White House. (These last few stories occurred in the past week and so were not covered on Deadspin; the &#8220;stick to sports&#8221; diktat forced the outlet to ignore the biggest sports stories in the world.)
Reporting sports with integrity requires knowing that there&#8217;s no way to wall off games from the world outside.</blockquote>
This guy&#8217;s a hero! I mean, it doesn&#8217;t matter that Deadspin was basically bankrupt, which is why a private equity firm had to buy them, and reinvigorate them and change everything out. But the idea here is that if you speak about politics from the Left in the sports world, then you are a hero of the republic.
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This guy Petchesky, he said:
<blockquote>Deadspin was the voice of the long-suffering fan, finding the humor and the heartbreak in everything in the world of sports. It was the fan wondering why he was paying $200 to go to a football game to watch a team whose owner would rather pocket profit than pay to improve the roster. It was also the fan troubled by the culture and politics of sports, the fan who couldn&#8217;t help noticing that the larger issues of the real world spilled onto the field.</blockquote>
Okay, so New York Times gives that guy an op-ed, and we&#8217;re all supposed to lament the return of Deadspin to pure sports. Then, there&#8217;s Don Cherry. 
So Don Cherry is a longtime hockey analyst for the NHL, and he was on SportsNet and he commented on SportsNet on the fact that it was Remembrance Day in Canada. Now, on Remembrance Day — I’ve been there, and everyone wears a red poppy in remembrance of the Canadian soldiers who fell during World War I — and he was upset because he said who&#8217;s walking around the streets of Toronto, and he saw people who he assumed were immigrants who were not wearing the red poppy. Here&#8217;s what Don Cherry said:
<blockquote>CHERRY: I live in Mississauga, nobody wears — very few people wear a poppy. Downtown Toronto, forget it downtown Toronto, nobody wears a poppy. &#8230; Now you go to the small cities and you know those, the rows and rows, you people love — they come here, whatever it is, you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you could pay a couple of bucks for a poppies or something like that. These guys pay for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada; these guys paid the biggest price. </blockquote>
Okay, so he said this and, you know, might not be wel-articulated, but he is entitled to his opinion unless he happens to be on the anti-immigration Right, at which point he gets fired. Don Cherry was indeed fired from SportsNet. SportsNet President Bart Yabsley said, quote, “Sports brings people together — it unites us, not divides us. Following further discussions with Don Cherry after Saturday night&#8217;s broadcast, it has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down. During the broadcast, he made divisive remarks that do not represent our values or what we stand for.”
I mean, you could just say that, right? You could just have that debate, theoretically. But the point here is that the media will lament if Deadspin is told not to do politics; but if Don Cherry is told not to do politics, then that is SportsNet acting just as a wonderful diverse company should. 
You see the same thing at ESPN. At ESPN, they will cover Colin Kaepernick kneeling for years on end, but if Mike Ditka says something they don&#8217;t like because it happens to be conservative, he says something about how he doesn’t like Barack Obama or something, they&#8217;ll fire him. He&#8217;s gone, end of Mike Ditka. You see that with Curt Schilling, too. Curt Schilling can&#8217;t appear on the network because [he] once tweeted that al-Qaeda was bad and compared al-Qaeda to the Nazis, which, of course, you&#8217;re not allowed to do even though al-Qaeda is kind of like the Nazis.
So just gonna point out the double standard in sports media — one of the reasons why sports circulation is declining. The answer to this probably is to separate off politics from sports again, or if you are going to not separate off politics from sports, then you should, in fact, allow the same sort of freedom of opinion to reign as you would in the political sphere. Don Cherry wouldn’t have been fired for saying what he said on CNN, so if politics and sports are not separate, then let a thousand voices be heard. If politics in sports are separate, well, then supplementing it when left-wing political hacks start hijacking sports websites for their own political agenda. 
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SHAPIRO: Left-Wing Sports Coverage Pushed Deadspin Into A Death Spiral

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On Monday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about an allegation in Nikki Haley’s new book that former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly tried to induce her to undermine the president. Video and partial transcript below: 
All of these mainstream outlets just do not command our respect, and it makes you think a little differently about the president, who is usually the object of their ire.
Even in the administration, we had been told that all the really smart people — all the fancy people who wear jackets and ties and live in the Beltway — they said, look, Trump might be terrible, I&#8217;m talking about even right-wingers, Trump might be terrible, but at least we have responsible people in the administration. Good, serious, responsible people defending the rule of law, defending our institutions and our norms. People like, I don&#8217;t know, Rex Tillerson, former secretary of state. People like John Kelly, former White House chief of staff. They&#8217;re the good guys. They&#8217;re the one defending our norms and our Constitution; Trump is the one destroying it.
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Except now in a new book, in a new interview, Nikki Haley is saying that it was actually guys like Tillerson and Kelly who were undermining our norms, undermining our institutions, undermining our Constitution. Nikki Haley writes in her new book, quote, “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they were not being insubordinate. They were trying to save the country.”
Here&#8217;s Nikki Haley:
<blockquote>REPORTER: Secretary of State Tillerson went on to tell you the reason he resisted the president&#8217;s decisions was because if he didn&#8217;t, people would die. You memorialize that conversation, it definitely happened?
HALEY: It absolutely happened, and instead of saying that to me, they should have been saying that to the president. Not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan, it should have been, go tell the president what your differences are and quit if you don&#8217;t like what he&#8217;s doing. But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing, and it goes against the constitution and it goes against what the American people want. It was was offensive. </blockquote>
That&#8217;s absolutely right, and this is where I begin when I&#8217;m evaluating something that the president has done. I do not begin from the position that Trump is always right, [and] I love everything he&#8217;s doing. Whether that&#8217;s on policy, whether that&#8217;s on executive action, whether that&#8217;s on his behavior, that&#8217;s actually not where I begin. 
I do have some policy problems with the president. For instance, I didn&#8217;t like the First Step Act — I thought that was a mistake. I felt that health care could&#8217;ve been handled a little differently, sure. So there are some policy differences. However, where I begin is from a position of assuming the best of the president, and maybe the corruption of the mainstream media. Why do I assume that? Because that&#8217;s exactly the opposite of the script that I&#8217;m being told by the mainstream media, and I&#8217;ve just been fooled one too many times.
The media have told us that Trump colluded with Russia to overturn the 2016 election, that he should be impeached for his tax problems, that he&#8217;s a racist and a bigot, and a Nazi, and a terrible person. They&#8217;ve been lying the whole time, and so I just approach these questions, not even with treating these guys differently. I won&#8217;t even say that I begin assuming Trump is really great, and the media are really terrible. 
I just begin with a little skepticism about those claims. And I give a little bit of grace to the president because it&#8217;s the opposite of what we&#8217;re getting, and usually that appears to be the right way to go. You can even see this with the ex-Trump administration officials who have done well. The ones who have done well, [like Nikki Haley], the ones who position themselves well are the ones who don&#8217;t throw him under the bus. 
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The long-awaited launch day for the streaming service Disney+ had more than its share of technical difficulties on Tuesday, forcing Disney to issue an apology for the preponderance of crash notifications users received on their television screens.
&#8220;Twitter users mentioned problems accessing the service or some of its features around 7:00 A.M. New York time, and Downdetector.com showed 6,900 reports of problems with the service around 7:30 A.M. ET and slightly more than 7,000 later before problem reports dropped off,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-hit-by-technical-issues-launch-day-1254094">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;People mentioned problems signing up, logging in and streaming.&#8221;
Users also reported not being able to load Disney+ onto their smart TVs or PlayStation apps after paying for the service, with an error icon appearing of Mickey Mouse and Pluto in space outfits. The issues became such a headache that the hashtag #DisneyPlusFail began trending on Twitter.
&#8220;Disney spends months hyping the new #DisneyPlus streaming option and they didn&#8217;t bother to make sure it could handle the traffic on day one,&#8221; tweeted Josh Jordan. 
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Disney spends months hyping the new <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DisneyPlus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DisneyPlus</a> streaming option and they didn&#39;t bother to make sure it could handle the traffic on day one. 😂 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DisneyPlusFail?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DisneyPlusFail</a> <a href="https://t.co/xmgJA1kxws">pic.twitter.com/xmgJA1kxws</a>
&mdash; Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) <a href="https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1194285493502042113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Honestly not surprised about the #DisneyPlusfail. Even the best servers in the world can&#8217;t prepare for millions of Americans trying to stream Hannah Montana at once,&#8221; tweeted another user. 
&#8220;Really Disney? Y&#8217;all didn&#8217;t plan for your servers to handle all these users?&#8221; said another dissatisfied customer.
&#8220;Day one failure! I am excited to watch the Mandalorian, paid $69.99 for the year &#8230; cannot watch the Mandalorian on my first use of the app, no idea when it will be available on my side. Complete fail on day one!&#8221; tweeted another.
&#8220;It was working perfectly fine when it was charging my debit card,&#8221; said another.
Other users noted that certain titles, such as &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; were not loading properly even after successfully logging into the service. &#8220;Sorry something went wrong. Please try again later,&#8221; the message typically stated. Shows that did not succumb to an error message sometimes faced load times longer than 30 seconds or would crash entirely upon viewing.
In response to the frustration, Disney said that the technical difficulties were the result of &#8220;consumer demand.&#8221;
&#8220;The consumer demand for Disney+ has exceeded our high expectations. We are working to quickly resolve the current user issue. We appreciate your patience,&#8221; the company said.
Another gripe with the service centered around the new Disney version of the original &#8220;Star Wars,&#8221; which instituted a new edit to the famous Han Solo/Greedo standoff scene by now having both characters shoot their guns at the same time — further adding to the &#8220;Han Shot First&#8221; debate that has been raging since George Lucas altered the original scene in the 1997 special edition. Here&#8217;s how Collider <a href="https://collider.com/star-wars-han-greedo-scene-changed-disney-plus/">described</a> it:
<blockquote>In the version of Star Wars: A New Hope on Disney+, the infamous Han/Greedo scene has been changed. Again.
And now on Disney+, the scene has inexplicably been changed again. Now, Greedo has the last word before the gunblasts. It’s not subtitled, so it’s just alien gibberish, but it could give the impression that Greedo further goads Han into shooting, rather than Han just being smart enough to draw before this alien dude kills him.</blockquote>
George Lucas has always maintained that Greedo shot first and he only made the edits to clear up confusion about it.
&#8220;The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t,&#8221; Lucas said in 2012. &#8220;It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down.&#8221;

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Disney+ Faces Technical Difficulties On Launch Day

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Trump Derangement Syndrome is not merely a cute-sounding phrase to deflect criticism of President Trump. It&#8217;s real. It&#8217;s palpable.
Case in point: The American Prospect&#8217;s Paul Waldman gives us an earful about President Trump and how Trump is destroying everything that&#8217;s good and decent in America. Let me share some of his words, which speak for themselves — but I&#8217;ll speak for them, too.
&#8220;The impending impeachment of Donald Trump brings with it the possibility of something that has been in short supply over the last three years: accountability,&#8221; Waldman writes. &#8220;At last, you may think, we can use a constitutional process to proclaim at last that This Is Not OK.&#8221; Waldman goes on to acknowledge that Trump probably won&#8217;t be held to account after all, because though the House will likely impeach him, the Senate will vote against removing him from office.
What strikes me is Waldman&#8217;s unchecked assertion that Trump&#8217;s accountability &#8220;has been in short supply.&#8221; He wholly ignores that Democrats have been feverishly pursuing Trump since he announced his candidacy. For two years, they&#8217;ve prosecuted a bogus case on Trump &#8220;colluding&#8221; with Russia, guaranteeing they had unimpeachable evidence.
They were lying, and their would-be savior, special counsel Robert Mueller, produced no evidence of collusion. Accountability? Why haven&#8217;t the Democrats had to answer for their wasting taxpayers&#8217; time and money over this lie? Neither they nor their legacy media co-conspirators have uttered one syllable of apology to the American people, let alone President Trump, for dragging us through this nightmare.
Instead, they immediately pivoted to Ukraine. Here we go again — but this time, it&#8217;s really serious. What is this, the fourth impeachment attempt? Why not? We now know from released transcripts that they&#8217;ve been planning this coup from the jump. We already knew it, but we&#8217;ve got the smoking gun. Will they be held to account for their election and post-election interference? Of course not, unless their constituents vote them out of office for abuse of power.
Waldman continues: &#8220;This is one of the products of Trump&#8217;s time in office: the contamination of our emotional lives. Trump has made us feel dread, despair, disillusionment, and a dozen other awful emotions whose grip it feels impossible to escape. And even if he loses in 2020 then slinks back to Mar-a-Lago to spend his days regaling his dwindling number of sycophants with tales of his matchless presidency, we&#8217;ll continue to live with the effects for years or even decades to come.&#8221;
I don&#8217;t know whom Waldman purports to speak for, but millions of Americans would find his words repugnant. Trump doesn&#8217;t make us feel dread and despair. Bullish on America and fighting leftist insanity and political correctness, he invigorates our patriotic instincts. His policies have stimulated robust economic growth, which is hardly cause for despair.
Waldman details &#8220;the unceasing parade of horrors emanating from the Oval Office,&#8221; citing the usual litany of Trump&#8217;s alleged sins — his oh-so-offensive tweets, his racism and his cruelty. It&#8217;s just so exhausting for poor Waldman. He writes: &#8220;And how many times have you found yourself almost involuntarily talking with friends or family about some awful thing Trump did or said, only to have someone stop and say, &#8216;Oh god, let&#8217;s just not talk about him for a while. I can&#8217;t take it.&#8221;
What&#8217;s exhausting is the ceaseless leftist noise machine railing against Trump. Leftists need to remove the smudges from their mirrors and see that they are projecting. They are the ones who have been vicious and hateful toward Trump from the beginning. They have wrongly accused him — and his supporters (half of Americans) — of racism and cruelty. They have contempt for all his supporters. Yet has Trump called them Nazis? Racists?
If you don&#8217;t believe me, read Waldman&#8217;s elaboration: &#8220;For many the mere fact that Trump could win in 2016 (even if he got three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton) was reason enough to lose faith in their country in a fundamental way. Eight years before they had convinced themselves that Barack Obama&#8217;s election meant America could be the place they wanted it to be: inclusive, tolerant, progressive, hopeful. Trump came along and told them that America was not that place.&#8221;
What? Precisely the opposite is true. Progressives are the antithesis of inclusion, tolerance and hope. They are intolerant of opposing viewpoints, and they readily use the power of government and social media giants to suppress conservative speech and religious liberty. They bully conservatives out of restaurants and college campuses. They are anything but hopeful. Former President Obama&#8217;s team told us the days of 3% growth were over. President Trump rejected the naysaying and gave us an economic boom, fulfilling his campaign promises and restoring hope.
The rest of Waldman&#8217;s piece is even more desperate and bitter, but space constraints preclude further dissection. I&#8217;ll just leave you with his closing paragraph, which encapsulates his TDS: &#8220;There may yet be more to come, if nothing else in the form of an election defeat next year. But it&#8217;s hard to escape the gnawing feeling that nothing we can do to Trump will ever make up for what he has done to us.&#8221;
To the contrary, Trump has done nothing to them, but they have done plenty to him. And he&#8217;s done plenty for us — specifically standing athwart the extreme left&#8217;s crusade to fundamentally and permanently transform America into a nation our framers wouldn&#8217;t recognize.
Thank you, President Trump, for standing up for America and those who still believe in it.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is &#8220;Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win.&#8221; Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

“Impeach” sign.

LIMBAUGH: Trump Derangement Syndrome On Steroids

Ukraine

On Tuesday&#8217;s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about the newest tape published by Project Veritas, in which ABC Anchor Amy Robach says in a hot mic that she had the Epstein story three years ago. Video and partial transcript below:
Our friend James O&#8217;Keefe, the undercover journalist over at Project Veritas, he has now gotten hold of tape of an ABC News anchor saying on a [hot] mic — her name is Amy Robach — and she was caught on camera slamming her own network for allegedly sitting on the Jeffrey Epstein story three years ago. Here&#8217;s a little bit of what that sounded like, it&#8217;s pretty incredible, actually, pictures and everything: 
<blockquote>ROBACH: She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years, we convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us, it was unbelievable what we had — Clinton, we have everything.
I tried for three years to get it on to no avail. And now it&#8217;s all coming out and it&#8217;s like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it. I’m so pissed right now. </blockquote>
She&#8217;s talking off air about the fact that now all these revelations were coming out about Jeffrey Epstein. She says, I had this years ago and ABC News quashed it and sat on it, and now she has issued a statement, Robach.
I mean, that just shows you how the media works. Bad look for the media, right? In the aftermath of NBC News basically quashing the Harvey Weinstein story for years until Ronan Farrow broke it, and now it appears that ABC News was sitting on Jeffrey Epstein stuff for years. These are the media you are going to trust? The public trust in the media is already at an all-time low. This is certainly not going to help — nor should it.
Robach said her comments were made, quote, “in a private moment of frustration. I was upset that an important interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn&#8217;t air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations” regarding Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, and Bill Clinton. She added that in the years since the 2015 interview, “no one ever told me or the team to stop reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, and we have continued to aggressively pursue this important story.”
An ABC News statement issued says, “At the time, not all of our reporting met our standards to air, but we have never stopped investigating the story.”
Well, you kinda did, didn&#8217;t you? I mean, just a little bit? I mean, the fact is that if it didn&#8217;t meet your standards to air, well then presumably you should have kept digging. So that is a that is a pretty — it&#8217;s a pretty damning indictment of ABC News. 
That&#8217;s not what she’s saying there, right? I mean, what she&#8217;s saying in that clip is that she had the interview, she had the goods — she says she has pictures there. It’s different than than what she’s saying in her statement, her statements like [paraphrasing] “Oh well we didn&#8217;t have all the goods.” But in that tape she’s saying [paraphrasing], “Yeah, we pretty much had all of the goods.”
If the media was involved in covering up, or at least neglecting to investigate Jeffrey Epstein because they thought it was going to hurt the Clintons, that&#8217;s a massive, massive story, obviously, and goes again to the level of media bias that is involved in all of this. Pretty astonishing.
Mollie Hemingway over at The Federalist tweets: “In addition to these statements not actually being responsive to what the initial hot mic claims were, mostly what this shows that ABC News has indefensibly different standards for, e.g., Kavanaugh allegations or for Covington boys then [sic] it does for Clinton connected pedophiles.”
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In addition to these statements not actually being responsive to what the initial hot mic claims were, mostly what this shows is that ABC News has indefensibly different standards for, e.g., Kavanaugh allegations or Covington boys then it does Clinton-connected pedophiles. <a href="https://t.co/grLZmo7iID">https://t.co/grLZmo7iID</a>
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1191744311186075649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
Which is, of course, exactly right. They&#8217;re willing to run with any level of speculation, including false speculation about anything that hurts Republicans, but if it could possibly damn the Clintons, then all of a sudden they run away from this stuff like wholesale. Then, you wonder why the American people have trouble trusting the media? That would be the reason. 
 
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Jeffrey Epstein Appears In Manhattan Federal Court On Sex Trafficking Charges

SHAPIRO: ABC&#8217;s Leaked Epstein Tape Shows Why Americans Don&#8217;t Trust The Media

Jeffrey Epstein

On Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Michael Knowles Show,&#8221; Knowles talks about how the media oversold Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s appeal. Video and partial transcript below: 
The Beto O&#8217;Rourke campaign is officially over. Seems like it barely began, but it is officially over. I am not going to gloat over Beto O’Rourke’s campaign being over. I&#8217;m going to miss Beto O’Rourke. He is hilarious.
He was the doofiest candidate in the entire race, he was skateboarding around WhatABurger parking lots, he was filming his dental hygienist while she was poking around his teeth. He was hilarious, he was great. He reminded me of every kind of whiny liberal guy who would hit on your girlfriend when you went out of town. You know, he was just like the archetypal, liberal progressive guy. Really sensitive guy, you know.
He&#8217;s out of the race now, which is a huge slap in the face, not to his campaign staffers or his donors or even himself — it&#8217;s a huge slap in the face to the mainstream media. The reason that Beto O’Rourke dropping out matters — the only reason that it matters — is because it highlights something that we talk about every other day on the show, probably [that] you should not believe the press. &#8230;
That&#8217;s the mainstream media for you. And guess who the mainstream media&#8217;s favorite presidential candidate was for months? Beto O&#8217;Rourke. Big, beautiful, glossy-pictures-in-Vanity-Fair Beto O’Rourke. Tucker Carlson over at Fox put together just a quick little montage of the press&#8217;s reaction when Beto got into the race.
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<blockquote>JOURNALIST 1: I saw him for the first time just a month ago when he sat down with Oprah, and me and the rest of people in the audience thought, “Wow, this guy has this dynamic positive energy.”
JOURNALIST 2: Yeah, he has that raw talent, he is very kind of Obamaesque, indeed.
JOURNALIST 3: Women voted for him in the suburbs of Houston who hadn&#8217;t voted Democrat before because they had a kind of “Beto crush” going on.
JOURNALIST 4: You know, he&#8217;s wholesome and he&#8217;s earnest.
JOURNALIST 5: He&#8217;s got that magic dust. Of course, his son is named Ulysses. I love that that&#8217;s his sons.
JOURNALIST 6: And he has that gleam in his eye, somebody, Evan Smith in the Texas Tribune, said seeing him, it’s like a “Jesus Christ Superstar,” seeing this guy in front of people. He&#8217;s got that celebrity aura about him, and in that moment he was owning that.</blockquote>
None of that is true. Not a single aspect of what they just said is true. He&#8217;s not terribly charismatic — he&#8217;s really awkward, and weird, and stiff, and goofy. He&#8217;s not like a celebrity, he doesn&#8217;t make women swoon. He&#8217;s kind of a weird guy. He not Jesus Christ, I know the press actually said he was “Jesus Christ Superstar” — He&#8217;s not. He&#8217;s an ex-congressman who lost a Senate seat, who lost a presidential race, who skateboards around a WhatABurger parking lot.
He&#8217;s also not that earnest. I mean, he tries to affect an earnest persona, [but] he doesn&#8217;t believe in anything. He changes his views day-to-day. At first he said — this was a few months ago — he said, “We will never take away your AR-15s, we&#8217;re not going to confiscate your guns.” Then like two months later, he said, “Hell yeah, we&#8217;re going to confiscate your AR-15s,” shortly after which he said, “Hell yeah we&#8217;re going to drop out of the presidential race.” Because he was going nowhere, he didn&#8217;t catch on with anybody. He actually said in Iowa, where he got onto a table — because this was his shtick for a while, he would stand on top of tables before crowds of fifteen, sometimes twenty people, all of whom were in the mainstream media, by the way — and he said, “I want you to shape me into the presidential candidate that you want.”
That is not the campaign theme of somebody who&#8217;s earnest, somebody with conviction, somebody who&#8217;s charismatic, somebody that people can fall head over heels for. That is the presidential campaign theme of a hack who doesn&#8217;t believe in anything, who&#8217;s just desperate for power, who says from the very first moments of his campaign, I was born for this. I was born to do this, I&#8217;m in it to win it.
He&#8217;s one of the first candidates out of the race.
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2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates Speak At The Polk County Steak Fry

KNOWLES: The Lesson Of Beto’s Failed Campaign? Don’t Believe The Media

2020 Election

Beto O'Rourke

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CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta claimed on Friday that he has gotten phone calls from President Donald Trump&#8217;s aides who secretly tell him that the president believes that he is &#8220;very professional,&#8221; and that the president&#8217;s public attacks on Acosta was just part of &#8220;an act&#8221; that the president does.
Appearing on the Canadian news show, &#8220;The Agenda with Steve Paikin,” Acosta made the remarks claiming that Trump&#8217;s intense criticism of news organizations and journalists who are dishonest or heavily biased was all just &#8220;an act.&#8221;
Speaking on his new book, Acosta noted a press conference from February 2017 where Trump called him &#8220;very fake news,&#8221; saying that it was after this press conference that he got a call from one of Trump&#8217;s top aides.
“After the press conference was over, I got a call from one of his top aides, Hope Hicks, and she said to me on the phone, &#8216;Jim, I just want you to know the president thought you were very professional today and said Jim gets it,'&#8221; Acosta claimed.
&#8220;I thought to myself, &#8216;Wait a minute, the president just referred to me as very fake news five minutes ago and now he&#8217;s saying I&#8217;m professional and I get it?'&#8221; Acosta recalled of the alleged phone call. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on here, am I in the twilight zone?'&#8221;
&#8220;I talked to a number of his aides and they basically explained, &#8216;Jim, this is an act, he doesn&#8217;t really mean it&#8217; and so on,&#8221; Acosta continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m not in on the act; we&#8217;re not a part of some reality TV show contrived melodrama that he&#8217;s trying to put out there to prop up his political prospects.&#8221;
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Acosta may be the only person who believes that he is not acting when he flares up confrontations during press briefings, as even the left-leaning publication The Atlantic wrote a piece last year <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/cnns-jim-acosta-cannot-win/566990/">titled</a>: “Jim Acosta’s Dangerous Brand of Performance Journalism.”
“Whenever a reporter who has not been kidnapped by terrorists, shot by an assailant, or won a big prize becomes an actor in her own story, she has lost the fight,” The Atlantic’s Todd Purdum wrote. “Or in this case, reinforced the corrosive, cynical, and deeply dangerous feedback loop that has convinced Trump’s most fervent supporters that his relentless brief against the press has merit: FAKE NEWS! SAD!”
The piece even noted one of Acosta&#8217;s performances in which he “interrupted [White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders] repeatedly … then cut off his colleagues to demand a follow-up,” adding that &#8220;Acosta’s confrontation – so florid, so vivid – also plays directly into Trump’s received narrative about a hostile, combative, and even unfair press.&#8221;
Partial transcript from Acosta&#8217;s interview:
<blockquote>I think Barack Obama had a healthy respect for the job of the White House press corps, of the press here in the United States, and I hate to say it, I take no joy in saying this, but I don&#8217;t think the same could be said of our current president, Donald Trump.
As we saw during the campaign, this was long before he called us “fake news” and the “enemy of the people,” then-candidate Trump referred to the press as the dishonest news media, the disgusting news media, liars, scum, and so on. And then he rolled that act into the Oval Office – started off by calling us “fake news,” called me “fake news” at that infamous press conference in January 2017, and then “the enemy of the people.”
What started off as kind of an act or a schtick from his reality TV days has gotten out of control, and the rhetoric has gotten to a point where some of the hostility is absorbed by his supporters – not all of [his] supporters, some of his supporters – and then directed back at us in ways that make us feel threatened.
I think that is what has been picked up on here in the United States and around the world, that this is a very difficult and somewhat dangerous time for the press in covering this administration because this is really nothing like we&#8217;ve ever seen before.
This happened after the February 2017 press conference, the president called me “very fake news,” and after the press conference was over, I got a call from one of his top aides, Hope Hicks, and she said to me on the phone “Jim, I just want you to know the president thought you were very professional today, and said ‘Jim gets it,’” and I thought to myself, “Wait a minute, the president just referred to me as very fake news five minutes ago and now he&#8217;s saying I&#8217;m professional and I get it? I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on here, am I in the twilight zone?”
I talked to a number of his aides and they basically explained, “Jim, this is an act; he doesn&#8217;t really mean it” and so on. You know, there are lots of ways to parse this. First, you know, I&#8217;m not in on the act; we&#8217;re not a part of some reality TV show contrived melodrama that he&#8217;s trying to put out there to prop up his political prospects. We’re here to do the news; we&#8217;re here to report on his administration. The second thing is, and I write about this a great deal in my book, and I think it&#8217;s something that people need to think deeply about, not everybody is in on the act.</blockquote>

Jim Acosta

CNN’s Acosta: Trump Thinks I’m ‘Very Professional,’ Criticism Of Me An ‘Act’

On Thursday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Shapiro talks about the media’s outrageous reaction to President Donald Trump tweeting a Daily Wire meme about Conan, the dog that sustained minor injuries while hunting down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Video and partial transcript below: 
So The Daily Wire social media team, who listen to the show and then very often create memes that are often kind of drawn from the general themes of the show, they put out a meme, and the meme was a picture of President Trump awarding the “Medal of Pawner” to [Conan the Hero] dog. 
[Our team found] a picture of President Trump awarding a Medal of Honor to an American hero named James McCloughan, who is credited with saving the lives of 10 men in a battle in Vietnam, and this photo had nothing to do with McCloughan. The last thing that The Daily Wire would ever think of doing is deriding an actual war hero, of course, and nobody actually thinks that&#8217;s what the Daily Wire social media team was doing with — Are they really suggesting that this was meant to dishonor the person who was at the center of the photo? No. The Daily Wire social media team took this photo and they just put in the dog. They obviously photoshopped in the dog. 
So it’s President Trump putting not the Medal of Honor, it&#8217;s a medal that has a picture of a paw print on it, on the dog, obviously photoshopped. It has our watermark in the bottom right hand corner of the picture, nobody&#8217;s trying to hide the ball here. This is just a cute little tribute to a very good doggy. That&#8217;s all. It&#8217;s a joke and a cute little tribute to a very good doggy. 
So President Trump sees this, and he thinks it&#8217;s cute because one of the charming things about Trump, and there are many things that are not charming about Trump, one of the wonderful, charming things about Trump is that when the man sees something that he enjoys, he sort of puts it out there. So he put out our picture with the watermark in the right hand corner of himself giving the “Medal of Pawner” to the dog … [And] President Trump then tweets out, “AMERICAN HERO!”
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AMERICAN HERO! <a href="https://t.co/XCCa2sGfsZ">pic.twitter.com/XCCa2sGfsZ</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1189601417469841409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
Now, this should be the end of the story. It’s just like a cute, funny little tweet. But no, our intrepid media are on the case. The Washington Post, and The New York Times, and USA Today and pretty much everybody else covers this as though it&#8217;s actual news and that it&#8217;s a scandal — not just that President Trump tweeted out a meme, but that it&#8217;s a real scandal &#8230; .
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This story from Alex Horton, reporter at <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/10/30/trump-tweeted-photo-medal-honor-recipient-who-was-edited-out-replaced-by-dog/">The Washington Post</a>. Here’s a first note: Alex Horton apparently is an Iraq war veteran. Nothing but respect for his military service. Also, this is insanely bad reporting. So two things can be true at once: Alex Horton can be an American patriot who served honorably in Iraq;  also, he can be an unbelievably crappy reporter. So here is his report from The Washington Post. The headline says, “Trump tweeted a photo of a Medal of Honor recipient — who was edited it out and replaced by Conan the dog”
Then it says:
<blockquote>In a somber White House ceremony in July 2017, President Trump draped the Medal of Honor around the neck of James McCloughan. He was credited with saving the lives of 10 men in a brutal, days-long battle in Vietnam, and Trump told the former Army medic that “we are in all of your actions and your bravery.
On Wednesday, Trump posted a photo of that moment with McCloughan’s image replaced by that of a dog.
The distinctive star of metal was replaced with a paw print.
Trump and the Pentagon initially declined to release the dog&#8217;s name, later confirmed as Conan, but the canine has since become a social media sensation after Trump tweeted a photo of the dog on Monday.
Since then, the dog has been a feature of countless memes.
Conan also collided with a real-world moment after the conservative site Daily Wire tweeted the image Tuesday with McCloughan removed. A watermark of the site appears in Trump&#8217;s tweet, but it is cropped version that removed the attribution of the source photo, which is the Associated Press.</blockquote>
That&#8217;s because the source photo has now been dramatically altered. The source photo did not include a dog or a Medal of Pawner, you idiots. It&#8217;s called a meme. This is how memes work on the interwebs.
<blockquote>That would have indicated it began as a legitimate news photo, raising the question of whether Trump or a staffer knew McCloughan had been edited out.</blockquote>
Okay, so I&#8217;m pretty fairly certain that Trump knew he had not actually awarded the “Medal of Pawner” to a dog. I&#8217;m fairly certain that Trump knew this. Now, even if you thought that Trump may have forgotten that he awarded the Medal of Honor to a dog, I feel like he would have known that it wasn&#8217;t real once he looked and saw it was a Medal of Pawner. It&#8217;s a paw on the medal &#8230; Then this is the best part: 
<blockquote>Jeremy Boreing, the chief operating officer at the Daily Wire, dismissed emailed questions about whether the altered photo originated from his publication.</blockquote>
Okay, this is the part that&#8217;s totally insane. So, Jeremy, who is my longtime business partner and chief operating officer at Daily Wire — co-founder of Daily Wire. Listen to that sentence again: “dismissed emailed questions about whether the altered photo originated from his publication.”
First of all, number one, our watermark&#8217;s on it. It&#8217;s like, right there in Trump&#8217;s original tweet, but the way that&#8217;s reported, sounds like Boreing dismissed questions — like he wouldn&#8217;t, we refused. We at The Daily Wire, we were so scared of the question, we refused to answer the question as to whether the altered photo originated from our publication. We just refused, because this a scoop, guys. Here&#8217;s how the actual exchange went: 
Alex Horton e-mailed our social media team. He said:
<blockquote>Hello, I&#8217;m with The Washington Post, and I wanted to get confirmation this photo originated with you, and if it did, that you digitally removed Medal of Honor recipient James McCloughan and replaced him with a dog.</blockquote>
Jeremy responded the way that any normal human being could respond, it is a pretty epic response. He wrote back:
<blockquote>Alex, on the record, you&#8217;ve got to be f***ing joking. Please quote me on that. Thanks, Jeremy.</blockquote>
We jokingly call Jeremy the “god-king,” but he definitely was great there. That&#8217;s spectacular stuff from Jeremy &#8230;
Then, it was reported by The Washington Post as Jeremy “dismissed emailed questions” about — What? No, he didn&#8217;t dismiss emailed questions. He dismissed your stupid question, he dismissed you. Like, there&#8217;s no way to read that as Jeremy saying, “You know, we have no comment.” We issue “no comments” here all the time here at The Daily Wire. It&#8217;s a thing that everybody does in the media, that happens. If we wanted to “no comment,” you know what we could&#8217;ve done? “No comment.”
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Conan The Military Dog

SHAPIRO: The Media Investigates Conan’s ‘Medal Of Pawner’ Award

Ben Shapiro

It took a dog meme to reveal the full extent of the mainstream media’s decay. The saga began yesterday, when The Daily Wire posted a joke on our social media accounts that depicted President Trump awarding a bronze paw print medal on a two-dimensional blue ribbon to the dog who chased down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The caption read, “Please, @realDonaldTrump.”
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Please, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>. <a href="https://t.co/nYSJSGlJ8L">pic.twitter.com/nYSJSGlJ8L</a>
&mdash; The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1189241705746386944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The president apparently liked the joke and reposted it, tweeting, “AMERICAN HERO!” 
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AMERICAN HERO! <a href="https://t.co/XCCa2sGfsZ">pic.twitter.com/XCCa2sGfsZ</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1189601417469841409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The exchange offered a pleasant moment of levity. Even in an age as politically divided as ours, at least we can still come together and laugh at a picture of a goofy-looking dog to celebrate a military victory.
Or so we thought, until the mainstream media decided to take the picture seriously. “A WH official said ‘the dog is not at the WH,’” tweeted CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta.
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A WH official said &quot;the dog is not at the WH.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/eJLqBMyKna">https://t.co/eJLqBMyKna</a>
&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1189658623431102465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Voice of America’s Steve Herman rushed to fill the gaps in Acosta’s groundbreaking report. “I’ve requested details from the @WhiteHouse on this photo,” he tweeted. “There was no such canine event on today’s @POTUS schedule but there is a Medal of Honor ceremony set here for later today for an active duty Green Beret.” 
USA Today also deemed the tweet newsworthy and described the meme as a “doctored image.” The New York Times assigned not one but two investigative reporters to cover the joke, which it described in its headline as a “faked photo.” Apple News users received a push notification using the same phrase.
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“Fine, just the president of the United States disseminating a doctored image created by a right-wing propaganda site,” wrote S.V. Date of HuffPost, a left-wing propaganda site.
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Fine, just the president of the United States disseminating a doctored image created by a right-wing propaganda site. <a href="https://t.co/Ky26zdDaXe">pic.twitter.com/Ky26zdDaXe</a>
&mdash; S.V. Dáte (@svdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1189602652511965187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Then The Washington Post published the pièce de résistance. “Trump tweeted a photo of a Medal of Honor recipient — who was edited out and replaced by Conan the dog,” read the headline. 
The Post’s story marked the media’s third distinct attack of the day. The first round of reporting about the dog meme wondered if the image had been an act of deception — fake news from The Daily Wire. The next narrative suggested Trump had unwittingly spread an intentional joke. Neither attack gained traction beyond the widespread mockery of normal people stunned by the humorless press. So The Washington Post settled on the third and strongest charge: Trump had somehow disrespected the actual Medal of Honor recipient in the photograph by mashing up the image with the hero pup.
That attack too fell flat because the hero from the original photo found the dog meme funny. The Washington Post tried and failed to track down 73-year-old Medal of Honor recipient James McCloughlan, but the Times managed to reach him by phone. McCloughlan laughed, assured the reporters he did not take offense, and even applauded public recognition of the dog. “This recognized the dog is part of that team of brave people,” he explained. “They are very courageous.” So much for that angle.
Undeterred, the Post continued to insinuate wrongdoing on the part of the meme-makers. “Jeremy Boreing, the chief operating officer at The Daily Wire, dismissed emailed questions about whether the altered photo originated from his publication,” reported the Post. 
In fact, Jeremy responded directly to reporter Alex Horton’s request that he confirm The Daily Wire had “digitally removed Medal of Honor recipient James McCloughan and replaced him with a dog.”
“Alex,” wrote the Daily Wire COO. “On the record: You’ve got to be f***ing joking. Please quote me on that.” The Post was not joking, and it did not publish Jeremy&#8217;s response.
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So, WaPo asked my business partner, <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeremydboreing</a>, about our Medal of Honor dog meme. His glorious response is screencapped below. Their report then suggested Jeremy refused to answer questions about the picture. Um, no. We just think you’re being f***ing insane. <a href="https://t.co/pEyOH96hEr">pic.twitter.com/pEyOH96hEr</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1189757002408267776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The most dishonest headline of the day came from the Sun: “Donald Trump baffles internet with bizarre Photoshopped pic of him giving medal to hero dog ‘Conan.’”
 Trump didn’t baffle the Internet. He didn’t baffle anyone — other than the mainstream press, which has become so consumed with hatred of the president and his supporters that it can’t recognize an obvious joke.
You can tell fanatics by their lack of a sense of humor, which requires a sense of proportion and reality. An image of a dog receiving a presidential medal is a funny joke. But it&#8217;s not as funny a joke as the fanatical leftists in the press who took it seriously.

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KNOWLES: Democracy Dies In Barkness

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

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On Tuesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about the Washington Post’s insane reaction to the killing of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Video and partial transcript below: 
This is an unobjectionable win for the White House. This is an absolute good for the country. They&#8217;ve really done something great here, we have defeated ISIS, and I think the real reason that the Left is so upset about it is really the timing, too. It so cuts against the narrative that we were hearing just last week — the narrative was ISIS is about to re-form. You heard it from some Republicans who didn&#8217;t want Trump to pull those troops out of northern Syria — and not only is ISIS not currently re-forming, [but] ISIS has now been struck the most decisive blow in the history of ISIS. 
This is a cause for some skepticism now, when we approach the mainstream media, because their predictions just keep being so wrong. The greatest example of this is actually not MSNBC — I don&#8217;t even want to really pick on MSNBC. The greatest example of this is The Washington Post. The Washington Post, where democracy dies in darkness, ran an obituary for the leader of ISIS that read — I am not making it up — it said that “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an austere religious scholar at helm of the Islamic State, dies at 48.”
An austere religious scholar. Adolf Hitler, passionate community planner and dynamic public speaker, dies at 56 — that was one version that went around on Twitter. Another one: Mao Zedong, who saved 20 to 45 million of his own people from having to suffer through the struggle of existence, dies at 82. I put one out: Attila the Hun, renowned world traveler and government administrator, dies at 46.
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When I saw this Washington Post headline, I did not believe it, and it is not possible for me to have less respect for The Washington Post than I currently do. And yet even I said, This has to be a Babylon Bee parody of of The Washington Post. No, it was. It was real. 
They then changed the headline — they changed the headline a few times. It was “extremist leader,” but a lot of it focused on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi&#8217;s scholarly training — on his expertise in Islam, and it&#8217;s such an irony because all we heard during the rise of ISIS is that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. 
Here&#8217;s Barack Obama saying as much:
<blockquote>OBAMA: Now, let&#8217;s make two things clear: ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.</blockquote>
Look, let&#8217;s be perfectly clear. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has a Ph.D. in Islamic theology from Baghdad University — he doesn&#8217;t know nearly as much about Islam as me, some guy in America who is not a Muslim. 
He also calls them ISIL instead of ISIS, which everybody called them. Obama would call them ISIL, because if he called them ISIS, it would acknowledge that Obama had completely bungled Iraq and Syria — the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. So he called them ISIL, which was the Islamic State in the Levant, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which was a little muddier.
So Obama didn&#8217;t have to take total credit for it, but he completely bungled the thing up and it exposes this lie. The Left wants to have it both ways. The Left wants to revere this austere religious scholar — this one is like, gosh, this guy really knew a lot about Islam and then say, but also he doesn&#8217;t know anything about Islam. It depends what argument they&#8217;re trying to make about the religion of peace. 
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President Donald J. Trump Watches Raid On Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi&#8217;s Compound

KNOWLES: Remember The Media Warning Us ISIS Would Return? Trump Proved Them Wrong.

Radical Islam

Radical Islamic Terror

One of the most interesting parts of the CNN Democratic debate this week had nothing to do with the debates. It came during a commercial break. The Washington Post bought commercial time — which isn&#8217;t shocking, since the Democrats are the paper&#8217;s natural subscriber base. It&#8217;s how The Post promoted itself that was truly jaw-dropping.
The ad resembles a computer screen with a cursor floating over a button that reads, &#8220;Unsubscribe.&#8221; It starts with the phrase &#8220;Clickbait as news.&#8221; Is that true? The Post abhors clickbait?
Two minutes on the paper&#8217;s website puts the lie to that. The night after the debate, the first &#8220;In the News&#8221; tag at the top of the website promoted the &#8220;news&#8221; subject of &#8220;snowball fight.&#8221; That clickbait led straight to this headline: &#8220;A 68-year-old got hit with a snowball. He retaliated by beating a 9-year-old unconscious, police say.&#8221;
There was more. The next scourges The Post opposed in the commercial were &#8220;Hidden agendas&#8221; and &#8220;Unverified sources.&#8221; But The Post thrives on hiding the agendas of anonymous sources, whose identities feel unverified to the reader. In 2017, The Post published an article gleefully titled &#8220;Anonymous sources are absolutely killing Trump&#8217;s presidency.&#8221; Two weeks ago, the paper gushed over the &#8220;whistleblower&#8221; fueling the Democratic impeachment effort, under the headline &#8220;Someone blew a whistle. It&#8217;s now the hottest tune in D.C.&#8221;
Virtually the entire false narrative of Russian collusion with Trump was based on statements like &#8220;said one source,&#8221; &#8220;according to an official,&#8221; &#8220;based on interviews with 17 sources familiar with the case&#8221; etc., etc. Now it&#8217;s the same with the narrative on Trump and Ukraine.
And The Post is one of the worst offenders. What anonymous staff member came up with that lie?
Still, there&#8217;s more to the ad. The Post also claims to be in staunch opposition to &#8220;The outrage cycle&#8221; and &#8220;Purposefully polarizing narratives.&#8221; But whether it&#8217;s the &#8220;news&#8221; pages or the editorials, the outrage at Trump and polarization over Trump are never-ending. Even in times when unity should occur — take the funeral of George H.W. Bush — The Post was polarizing, running a front-page &#8220;news&#8221; update headlined, &#8220;Trump sits with fellow presidents but still stands alone.&#8221; Reporter Philip Rucker snarkily described former presidents and first ladies in the front row &#8230; by reminding everyone how Trump had insulted them over the years.
Still more. The ad claims you should subscribe to The Post to avoid &#8220;Reckless reporting&#8221; and &#8220;Misinformation.&#8221; Holy smokes. We won&#8217;t bother to cite the endless stream of recklessness. We will only point to the entirety of the Russia collusion story that dominated The Post&#8217;s coverage for two years and was entirely wrong. &#8220;Reckless&#8221; is an understatement.
Just weeks ago, The Post rushed to print a story about a young African American girl who was allegedly savagely bullied by white boys at a Northern Virginia private Christian school where Karen Pence teaches. &#8230; And then the girl admitted the attack never happened. She made it up.
It grew worse. You should also buy The Post to avoid &#8220;Intentional bias&#8221; and &#8220;One-sided news,&#8221; the ad said. This needs a laugh track and &#8220;no comment&#8221; from us.
Finally , The Post rejects &#8220;scare tactics.&#8221; It&#8217;s hard to forget that in the summer of 2016, it made a half-page &#8220;photo illustration&#8221; of a nuclear mushroom cloud inside Trump&#8217;s head — with the headline &#8220;Anger management.&#8221; He&#8217;d get us all nuked!
If The Post is really trying to attract new online subscribers during a Democrat debate on the Collusion News Network, it should just say: &#8220;You hate Trump? We hate Trump. Come to us for all the hot Trump-hating scoop. The Washington Post.&#8221;
L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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BOZELL &#038; GRAHAM: No Truth In Washington Post Advertising

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The White House issued a statement Monday condemning a graphic parody video showing President Donald Trump shooting members of the media, Democrats, and activist groups, which played at the American Priority Conference over the weekend as part of a &#8220;art installation&#8221; by professional meme-maker, Carpe Donktum.
The video, which has been on YouTube for sixteen months without much notice, attracted the attention of the New York Times, which posted a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/us/politics/trump-video.html">blockbuster breaking news report on the film</a> Sunday night. Members of the media were quick to condemn the video, suggesting that it was an open call for violence against journalists and activists, and accusing the White House of promoting and encouraging violence.
The Trump Administration was quick to issue a statement on the video, noting that the president has not seen it but strongly condemns the use of violence, according to the Associated Press.
&#8220;The White House says President Donald Trump has yet to watch a graphically violent parody video that depicts a likeness of him shooting and stabbing opponents and members of the news media, but based on what he’s heard, he &#8216;strongly condemns&#8217; it,&#8221; <a href="https://www.apnews.com/5b4d068063154e74bbfca5cbfa3082c0">the AP reported</a>.
The video is actually a scene cut from the film, &#8220;Kingsman: The Secret Service,&#8221; and originally depicted the main character, a secret agent played by Colin Firth, engaging in a frenzied shootout inside a church whose congregation has been driven mad by a chemical released into the air (the work of an elite environmentalist super-villain).
Carpe Donktum simply superimposed Trump&#8217;s face on top of Firth&#8217;s, and the logos of media outlets like CNN and Vox (and activist groups like Black Lives Matter) over the faces of Firth&#8217;s fictional victims and re-labled the church the &#8220;Church of Fake News.&#8221;
The video doesn&#8217;t seem particularly well thought-out (Firth&#8217;s character is shot in the head at point blank range at the end of the scene), or constructed, and appears meant to &#8220;troll&#8221; the same news organizations the fictional President Trump takes aim at in the clip.
Outlets like CNN were quick to release statements condemning the video and demanding an apology from Trump.
&#8220;Sadly, this is not the first time that supporters of the President have promoted violence against the media in a video they apparently find entertaining &#8212; but it is by far and away the worst. The images depicted are vile and horrific,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/politics/trump-fake-video-shooting-media-critics-doral/index.html">CNN said in a statement released late Sunday</a>. &#8220;The President and his family, the White House, and the Trump campaign need to denounce it immediately in the strongest possible terms. Anything less equates to a tacit endorsement of violence and should not be tolerated by anyone.&#8221;
AMP Fest organizers also condemned the video, noting that it&#8217;s showing was an &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; &#8220;meme exhibit&#8221; and that viewings took place in a &#8220;side room.&#8221;
&#8220;Content was submitted by third parties and was not associated with or endorsed by the conference in any official capacity,&#8221; event organizer Alex Phillips said, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/13/politics/trump-fake-video-shooting-media-critics-doral/index.html">according to CNN</a>. &#8220;American Priority rejects all political violence and aims to promote a healthy dialogue about the preservation of free speech. This matter is under review.&#8221;
The Trump campaign issued a confused statement back to CNN, noting that they had nothing to do with the video or its presentation but denounced the depiction of violence, regardless.
One reporter for Reason Magazine inadvertently revealed that room on Twitter while reporting from the conference. The room was empty.
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There’s a big empty room here with TVs and projectors playing videos by that “carpe donktum” guy <a href="https://t.co/O87stQDfrc">pic.twitter.com/O87stQDfrc</a>
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Although demands to condemn the video lest it encourage violence against the media spread like wildfire across Twitter and Facebook, it appears the film clip has been up on YouTube since July of 2018 and, until Monday, had less than 100,000 views &#8212; a rather paltry total for a typical Trump parody piece. Once the New York Times called attention to the video, it, too, quickly went viral, in an odd example of the &#8220;Streisand Effect.&#8221;

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Graphic Video Of President Trump Shooting Media Plays At Trump Resort, White House Condemns

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There are days I wish someone else were president. It is not easy to support the President. Many of my friends detest him. Many of his supporters are more uncivil toward a person like me than his opponents are. I support the President, but I have a hard time cheering. There is much not to like. But there is even more not to like on the left. To support the President and not cheer on everything he does is to be a hostage tied on top of the bull in the china shop.
Still, I do not see an impeachable offense. If I saw one, I would not support the President. What I see are a bunch of people who have long despised the President, have never come to terms with him and are still angry. I am unaware of any person on the national stage right now tweeting &#8220;I cannot believe you could support him&#8221; who was not thinking the same thing in 2016. What I see is a group of people who have interpreted every single thing the President has done in the worst possible light and are continuing to do so. What I see are the people who were wrong about Hillary Clinton winning, wrong about Russia working with Trump to steal the election and wrong about so many other things now doubling down in self-righteousness with very little humility and absolutely no charity. A lot of people outraged at evangelicals sticking with Trump are modeling a graceless hypocrisy and a sinful impatience.
What I also see is a Democratic Party and a media operation that started saying we were at a turning point in February 2017 suddenly start talking about impeachment, which they have actually been doing consistently since 2017. They have wanted this moment all along. We have reached so many turning points, breaking points, tipping points, bombshells and surprises that Washington should resemble Beirut circa 1988.
Why should anyone trust a media fixated on the President&#8217;s lies when the media has consistently lied, exaggerated and pushed Democrats&#8217; talking points? Should we forget CNN pushed out on social media the man who alleged Trump had killed more people than Hitler? Should we forget that the mainstream press that focused on Trump&#8217;s words as precursors to violence gave no similar treatment to Democrats&#8217; words after the Hodgkinson shooting? There&#8217;s neither balance nor fairness. There is a nonstop quest to deliver vengeance to Trump for daring to hurt the press corps&#8217; feelings.
The offerings from this presidency are largely normal, even if the President&#8217;s behavior is not. The media has been relentlessly amplifying chaos, division and more. We&#8217;re in a satanic feedback loop of biblical donkeys in Washington fueled by a bunch of thin-skinned people, and the President is not the cause of it. If Mike Pence were president instead of Trump, we would have the media attacking him for his wife&#8217;s career choice and pushing fake racist attacks on him. Oh, wait! They already are.
Had the American media been honest and fair over the past decade, we would not be here now. We would not have this president. We would not have this news cycle. We would not have this impeachment battle. People view Trump as chaotic and bad, but he is merely a reflection of something in society that is also reflected in the talking heads in the media and the screaming crowds on Twitter. He is nothing more and nothing less. The only difference is that this president is more honest than a press corps that cannot even admit its biases.
I take seriously that there is real truth. I think we have an obligation to find it. I will move slowly. I will pay attention to the voices of the credible. If I think the President has committed an impeachable offense, I will wrest myself off the bull in the china shop into the shards of glass and broken china. But I am not there. Even if I get there, I suspect most conservatives never will because the media has done an amazing job destroying its own trustworthiness with Americans.
To find out more about Erick Erickson and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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ERICKSON: The Perpetual Crisis Machine

Journalist Aaron Calvin, the Des Moines Register reporter who wrote about Carson King&#8217;s offensive tweets when he was just age 16, says that editors were responsible for the cancelation of the local hero and that he was just doing as he was told by the higher-ups.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/des-moines-register-iowa-reporter-fired-aaron-calvin-carson">Buzzfeed News</a>, Calvin said that he feels &#8220;abandoned&#8221; by the newspaper, whom he claims used him as a scapegoat after he followed standard editorial practice by researching Carson King&#8217;s social media history while doing a profile about him.
“This event basically set my entire life on fire,” Calvin told Buzzfeed News.
Earlier this month, Iowa resident Carson King became a media sensation when “ESPN College GameDay” highlighted him holding a sign that read, “Busch Light supply needs replenished. Venmo Carson-King-25.” When his sign went viral, donors poured in all over the country to contribute to the fund. After raising over $1.14 million, King decided to donate the money University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
Unfortunately, what began as a positive story quickly turned into an ugly one when a reporter with the Des Moines Register dug into King’s Twitter history to find offensive comments he made eight years ago when he was just 16.
“A routine background check of King’s social media revealed two racist jokes, one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another making light of black people killed in the holocaust. The joke tweets date back to 2012, when King was a 16-year-old high school student,” wrote Aaron Calvin at the <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/college/iowa-state/football/2019/09/24/meet-carson-king-whos-raised-over-1-million-charity-asking-beer-money-childrens-hospital-tweet/2427538001/">Des Moines Register</a>. “When asked about the tweets, King was remorseful and thanked the Register for pointing them out, saying they made him ‘sick.’ He has since deleted them.”
Despite King being 16 at the time of the offensive tweets and expressing remorse, the editors at the Des Moines Register still decided to mention his past sins in a brief paragraph further down the profile. King, knowing the controversy would create a firestorm, immediately issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-who-raised-money-childrens-hospital-apologizes-paul-bois">public apology</a> for the tweets, which then prompted the beer empire Anheuser-Busch to cut all ties with him, saying his tweets do not align with their values.
“Carson King had multiple social media posts that do not align with our values as a brand or as a company and we will have no further association with him. We are honoring our commitment by donating more than $350,000 to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics,” the company said in a <a href="https://www.kcci.com/article/anheuser-busch-to-cut-ties-with-carson-king-over-multiple-offensive-social-media-posts/29216988#">statement to KCCI</a>.
The story prompted such rage in Carson King&#8217;s supporters that they immediately searched through reporter Aaron Calvin&#8217;s own Twitter history, revealing he had made several offensive comments of his own. Backed into a corner, the Des Moines Register fired Aaron Calvin while refusing to apologize for ever including news of Carson King&#8217;s tweets in the original profile.
Calvin, however, says that his editors were the ones who sparked this controversy.
&#8220;I was reminded by an editor to background Carson &#8230; and I found a few tweets that he published in high school that were racist jokes,” he said. “I knew if I found them, other people would find them as well. Throughout this entire process of the discovery and inclusion of the tweets, the editor knew, the editorial board knew, and the executive editor knew how I’d included them and handled them for the article, and as far as I knew, approved of that.&#8221;
&#8220;I regret publishing that tweet now,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Because I was never trying to hold Carson to any kind of ‘higher standard’ or any kind of standard at all. I was trying to do my job as a reporter, and I think I did so to the best of my ability.&#8221;
Calvin ultimately blames &#8220;right-wing idealogues&#8221; for launching a cancel campaign against him by resurfacing his old tweets, which he says were taken out of context. Since then, he has been bombarded with death threats, forcing him to leave his home and bunk with a friend.
&#8220;I recognize that I’m not the first person to be doxed like this — this whole campaign was taken up by right-wing ideologues and largely driven by that force,” he said. “It was just a taste of what I assume that women and journalists of color suffer all the time, but the kind of locality and regional virality of the story made it so intense.”
&#8220;As I said when I was speaking with Carson, I don’t think people’s past social media statements should be made to make blanket characterizations about them,” he continued. “Carson was never in danger of being canceled — there was no attempt or intent to quote-unquote ‘cancel’ him. He’s raised hundreds of thousands more dollars since this happened. The governor of Iowa declared a ‘Carson King Day.’”

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Reporter Fired By Des Moines Register Blames Editors For Carson King’s Cancelation

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If anyone is still somehow confused about why an increasing segment of the American public loathes the media with the fiery passion of a billion supergiant suns, look no further than the story of Carson King.
As The Daily Wire reported earlier, King became a local hero in Iowa and a nationwide viral sensation when he showed up to a college football game with a sign that said, “Busch Light supply need replenished. Venmo Carson-King-25.” The ingenious ploy paid dividends. People from all across the nation contributed to the beer fund until King had amassed over a million dollars in donations. Rather than invest all of that money in booze, King opted to donate it to a children’s hospital in the state. It was the perfect human interest story — starting humorously with the funny sign and turning inspirational and heartwarming with King’s generous act.
But then the media stepped in. While sane and decent people saw all of this as a nice little story with a happy ending, the crack investigators at the Des Moines Register saw it as an opportunity to drag a random person through the mud and destroy his reputation forever. Reporter Aaron Calvin performed, as he terms it, a “routine background check” of King’s social media history. During this fishing expedition, he turned up two “racist” tweets from eight years ago. Confronted by Calvin, King decided to get in front of the story and hold a news conference apologizing for the offensive stuff he tweeted almost a decade ago while in high school. The feckless corporate cowards at Anheuser-Busch immediately cut ties with King, declaring that their “values” do not “align” with a dumb joke made by a 16-year-old during Obama’s first term. The Des Moines register, having decided that King’s good deed hadn’t yet been sufficiently punished, then published the dirt they had on him.
Late last night, the Register’s editor wrote a lengthy statement defending her paper’s stupid and malicious conduct. She repeated the assertion that the “background check” on King was “routine,” and insisted that they had to report on the tweets in the name of “the public good.” These excuses won’t cut it.
First of all, Carson King was not applying to be an FBI agent. He achieved his moderate prominence because he held a funny sign and then gave a bunch of money to sick kids. This does not necessitate a “background check” of any kind. And even if it did, why would that check involve sifting through tweets from 2011?
Second, the “public good” is served by raising money for a children’s hospital. It is not served by arbitrarily humiliating people who raise money for children’s hospitals. That is the opposite of the public good. In fact, it actively detracts from the public good by discouraging members of the public from doing good.
Third, in his “offensive” Tweets, King was apparently referencing or quoting a comedy bit he saw on the show &#8220;Tosh.0.&#8221; But that doesn’t matter. He could have tweeted the most racist things imaginable. He could have pledged allegiance to Hitler. He could have advocated slavery and genocide. He could have said the most objectionable things a person could possibly say and it still wouldn’t be even slightly newsworthy. It does not matter at all what Carson King tweeted in high school. There is no universe where any statement he tweeted almost a decade ago could have any relevance or importance or news value at all. He’s not running for president. He wasn’t elected pope. He’s just a guy who did a nice thing for some kids. That’s all. His internet history has no bearing on anything and should not be printed in a newspaper under any circumstance.
In fact, even if King was running for president, even if he were made the new pope, even if he were in a position of political or cultural power of some kind, I would still say that his tweets from high school are not important. Teenagers say gross things all the time. Every teenager in the history of human civilization has said gross things. Teenagers say gross things because they’re gross. That’s the whole appeal. To them, it’s funny, a way to show off, a way to get attention, a way to rebel. These are all dumb reasons to say gross things, but so what? Teenagers have dumb reasons for doing almost everything they do. The only difference between teenagers of the past and teenagers of today is that the former could get the dumbest and grossness out of their systems without it being recorded for posterity.
The Register is sustaining a significant backlash, and rightly so. Meanwhile, Aaron Calvin has gone into hiding after Twitter sleuths did a “background check” and turned up a host of racist and homophobic material in his own Twitter history. Calvin is getting hoisted on his own petard, as he well deserves. Every scavenging vulture who drags decent people through the mud for clicks is owed the same treatment. The media has largely created this culture of vengeance, exploitation, and mercilessness. This beast probably isn’t going away until the people who made it are consumed by it.

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WALSH: A Man Raised Money For Sick Kids, So Journalists Went Through His Old Tweets To Humiliate Him. This Is Psychotic.

On Monday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about the corruption that runs through the press. Video and partial transcript below: 
Juvenal was an ancient Roman satirist who mocked life in Rome after the fall of the Republic. I like to think of myself as his rogue descendant, sort of a juvenile delinquent.
Juvenal is the guy who famously accused the Roman people of giving up their political power for bread and circuses. That is, they sold their freedom for welfare and entertainment. Fortunately, that could never happen here, so we don&#8217;t need satire anymore and everything is fine.
Anyway, there&#8217;s a line in Juvenal that some scholars say was inserted in his work later: “Who will watch the watchmen?” It refers to the problem of trying to keep your wife from committing adultery by surrounding her with guards. What&#8217;s to keep her from sleeping with the guards themselves? Who will watch the watchmen? And yes, that&#8217;s where the name of the famous graphic novel comes from, Watchmen, yet another fun fact to know and share.
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Wherever the phrase originates, it&#8217;s frequently used to refer to Plato&#8217;s concerns and his work on government, the Republic. Who will guard the guardians of the state? Who will police those who police the powerful? Today, we have an answer to that question in America: No one.
Our press is not only dead as a government watchdog — it has become part of the corrupt government it is supposed to watch. Kim Strassel, the excellent reporter of The Wall Street Journal who&#8217;s been covering and trying to uncover the full story of how the Trump-Russia collusion hoax got started by corrupt Obama officials, recently noticed a disturbing trend: Whenever a new chapter in the story of the Obama administration&#8217;s apparent corruption is about to surface, an anonymous intelligence source leaks a story meant to create a big fuss over alleged Donald Trump misbehavior. The media amplifies the story with several days of Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff, or some other McCarthy wannabe calling for impeachment, and by the time the whole thing blows up in the Democrats&#8217; faces, the real story, how the intelligence heads of the Obama administration tried to scuttle Donald Trump&#8217;s election with Russian misinformation, has once again been swept under the table.
So the first draft of the Department of Justice&#8217;s inspector general report on Obamagate has been handed in, and the public release presumably is on its way. And suddenly, surprise surprise, we have an anonymous intelligence leak about some Trump phone call to the president of Ukraine.
Obviously, the important story here is how the press is now colluding with our spies to undermine the duly elected president of the United States and cover up the malfeasance of the last administration. This includes the press actually launching attacks on anyone who dares to question the actions of anti-freedom intelligence weasels like James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper. &#8230;
This is a big story. The real story of how corporate interests aligned corporate news media with big government to secure power for the elites over the people. It&#8217;s essentially the story of how the press, our watchmen, became the enemies of our freedoms — the enemies of the people. Where have I heard that before? Luckily, this isn&#8217;t true of everybody in the media, so welcome to The Daily Wire.
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KLAVAN: The Press Doesn&#8217;t Value Our Freedoms

Conservatism

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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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">Thank you for helping this video reach 1 Million views.
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

Los Angeles Times

Donald Trump Jr. slammed another editor for The New York Times on Sunday after a news report revealed that the editor had made numerous racist and anti-Semitic comments on Twitter.
Jazmine Hughes, an editor at The New York Times Magazine, made the remarks according to a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/09/22/another-new-york-times-editor-made-racist-anti-semitic-comments/">report</a> from Breitbart News, which noted that Hughes&#8217; &#8220;most recent project for the Times&#8217; magazine was the 1619 Project, a comprehensive series of articles and essays arguing that slavery was the institution that fundamentally shaped the modern United States.&#8221;
Hughes made numerous condescending remarks about white people and promoted anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish people and money.
Trump Jr. tweeted: &#8220;I started to make a list of all the racist, anti-Semitic @NYTimes employees who&#8217;ve made cookie-cutter &#8216;apologies&#8217; and kept their jobs &#8230; But I quickly realized there just aren&#8217;t enough hours left in the day.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I started to make a list of all the racist, anti-Semitic <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a> employees who’ve made cookie-cutter “apologies” and kept their jobs&#8230; But I quickly realized there just aren’t enough hours left in the day. <a href="https://t.co/LkA0RME4TI">https://t.co/LkA0RME4TI</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1175942254265020419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The uncovered tweets come less than a week after more bigoted tweets from New York Times fact-checker Gina Chérélus were unearthed, which Trump Jr. also called out on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Another day, another bigot exposed at the @nytimes. Are they ever going to do anything to address the rampant hatred at their paper?&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Another day, another bigot exposed at the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>. Are they ever going to do anything to address the rampant hatred at their paper? <a href="https://t.co/FfFSrkjC7l">https://t.co/FfFSrkjC7l</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1174108528728039424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The tweets from Chérélus featured &#8220;homophobic and racial slurs as well as animus toward other racial groups dating back several years ago,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51906/trump-jr-blasts-new-york-times-after-more-bigoted-ryan-saavedra">reported</a>.
The bigoted tweets from Chérélus came after another New York Times editor, Tom Wright-Piersanti, had his old anti-Semitic tweets <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/08/22/exclusive-crappy-jew-year-new-york-times-editors-antisemitism-racism-exposed/">published</a> by Breitbart News late last month.
So far it does not appear that The New York Times has taken any action against any of their employees whose bigoted tweets have surfaced.
Ben Domenech, co-founder of The Federalist, wrote on Twitter: &#8220;Was anyone held accountable for the obvious NYT social media and opinion failures in the past week? Anyone?&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Was anyone held accountable for the obvious NYT social media and opinion failures in the past week? Anyone?
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1175934541149679616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The New York Times had to face charges of racism against white people last year after they hired Sarah Jeong to be on their editorial board and numerous bigoted tweets from her were unearthed and instantly went viral,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. &#8220;The New York Times has also has also faced recent scandals over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46501/nyt-ripped-anti-semitic-cartoon-non-apology-ryan-saavedra">anti-Semitic</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46523/anti-semitic-new-york-times-runs-another-cartoon-hank-berrien">cartoons</a> it has published and over offensive tweets about <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/09/11/new-york-times-deletes-tweet-saying-airplanes-took-aim-at-towers-on-9-11/">9/11</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-york-times-deletes-tweet-calling-mao-zedong-one-of-historys-great-revolutionary-figures">Mao Zedong</a>, and <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/09/17/ny-times-reporter-who-co-wrote-kavanaugh-book-cops-to-writing-penis-tweet/">sexual assault</a>.&#8221;
The latest series of bigoted tweets to surface from New York Times employees comes after &#8220;Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, said recently that, after the Mueller report, the paper has to shift the focus of its coverage from the Trump-Russia affair to the president&#8217;s alleged racism,&#8221; The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/new-york-times-chief-outlines-coverage-shift-from-trump-russia-to-trump-racism">reported</a>.
The drama involving the Twitter accounts of the newspaper&#8217;s employees comes as the newspaper also has dealt with more than a week of fallout over its failed attempt to smear Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The allegation, contained in a new book, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51805/breaking-new-york-times-adds-correction-kavanaugh-ryan-saavedra">published</a> by The New York Times on Sunday: &#8220;We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez&#8217;s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.&#8221;
The Federalists&#8217; Mollie Hemingway noted: &#8220;The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event. Seems, I don&#8217;t know, significant.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event. Seems, I don’t know, significant.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1173203831397801984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times was later forced to issue a correction to their reporting: &#8220;An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book&#8217;s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.&#8221;
The reporters then went on a media tour where they deflected blame for the smear article onto their editors and were again caught spreading more lies, as noted by Hemingway.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">NYT authors <a href="https://twitter.com/rpogrebin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rpogrebin</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/katekelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katekelly</a> conceded the lack of evidence for anti-Kavanaugh forces, but said that their &#8220;gut&#8221; told them to believe them. One &#8220;reason&#8221; they cited? Pro-Kavanaugh witnesses &#8220;kept mum.&#8221; That was yet another lie they spread. <a href="https://t.co/N5q3SJCrhB">https://t.co/N5q3SJCrhB</a>
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1174174388813467649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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