Did you hear the story about the poor, the mentally ill, and the French?
Well, not in the pages of the Associated Press, you didn&#8217;t. According to the AP&#8217;s official Style Guide, all three of those terms are offensive and &#8220;dehumanizing.&#8221;
&#8220;We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing &#8216;the&#8217; labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses,&#8221; the AP&#8217;s Style Guide tweeted. &#8220;And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.&#8221;
Based on that logic, you should refer to the French as &#8220;people experiencing Frenchness&#8221; or maybe &#8220;people with Frenchness.&#8221;
Whatever it is, it&#8217;s all a bit silly — but it is part of the Left&#8217;s larger trend to dominate and transform language to meet their goals.
Before we touch upon that, let&#8217;s ponder what a Frenchman might think about this. This author isn&#8217;t one, so he reached out to <del datetime="2023-01-26T19:38:39+00:00">the French</del> Embassy representing France in Washington, D.C., to find out if the term &#8220;the French&#8221; is offensive.
They haven&#8217;t responded thus far.
Until they do, readers might enjoy some reactions to the inane tweet.
The Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro responded, &#8220;I agree, these days we probably should label ‘the college-educated’ people with mental illnesses instead.&#8221;
He also added, &#8220;Also, we should stop calling people &#8216;the French&#8217; and instead call them &#8216;people suffering from cheese-eating surrender monkeyness,’” in reference to a line from &#8220;The Simpsons.”
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Also, we should stop calling people &quot;the French&quot; and instead call them &quot;people suffering from cheese-eating surrender monkeyness.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BmWqBmGabK">pic.twitter.com/BmWqBmGabK</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1618686467961929729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As pointed out by Ezra Levant of Rebel News, the AP actually has no problem referring to a group of people as &#8220;the,” as in &#8220;the unvaccinated.&#8221;
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No you don’t. <a href="https://t.co/5VAH6izWj3">https://t.co/5VAH6izWj3</a> <a href="https://t.co/GOcsevad12">pic.twitter.com/GOcsevad12</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1618677591979986945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Of course, the real reason for this nonsense is political correctness. Writers should be concerned with being precise and telling the truth, not necessarily with whether they offend people or not.
It&#8217;s not just the AP doing this garbage either. Readers will know that rather than call illegal aliens, well, illegal aliens, the Biden administration refers to them as &#8220;people who are coming irregularly to migrate.&#8221;
Yet, they crossed the border illegally and are aliens to this land, ergo illegal aliens. One would hope that the Biden administration is more concerned with stopping those people from entering the country in the first place — not whether or not word choice hurts their feelings.
Similarly, the AP should be concerned with reporting accurate information. They aren&#8217;t though. They are concerned with pushing the agenda of social justice warriors who want to bastardize the English language in order to transform culture.
In addition to that, they just sound like Michael Scott from “The Office.” Scott was also confused why his employee, Oscar, would refer to himself as Mexican. The &#8220;world&#8217;s best boss&#8221; was under the impression that “Mexican” was an offensive term.
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Michael Scott, of course, is a moron, but doesn&#8217;t realize it. The same can be said of the editors at the AP.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘The Poor, The Mentally Ill, The French’: What’s With The Morons At The Associated Press?

'The Poor, The Mentally Ill, The French': What's With The Morons At The Associated Press?

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Joe Rogan called out the media over its coverage of COVID and riots, arguing that they&#8217;re &#8220;not the f***ing propaganda department.&#8221;
During &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/489chEayb8doxqCYbrgjRs?si=32n1YLU1RziD1XDhA7P52g">podcast</a> on Wednesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">host</a> told his guest, former MTV DJ/podcaster Adam Curry, that modern politics is similar to tribalism. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fing-bravo-joe-rogan-takes-swipe-at-biden-administration-over-talk-about-gas-stove-ban">Rogan</a> said humans have always wanted &#8220;other people to think and behave exactly the way you do.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re willing to overlook some awful s*** on your side. And you&#8217;re willing to exaggerate some s*** on the other side,&#8221; the host shared, as he compared it to how mainstream media covers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/antifa">riots</a>.
&#8220;Mostly peaceful! Oh, it&#8217;s mostly peaceful that burning,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-has-change-of-heart-explains-why-will-smith-has-to-be-forgiven-after-chris-rock-slap">Rogan</a> explained. &#8220;I f***ing saw someone again say this because of what happened in Atlanta and they were calling it mostly peaceful.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re not the f***ing propaganda department, you can&#8217;t define things in a way to calm people down,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s not what your f***ing job is. But you&#8217;re bulls****ing people, you&#8217;re acting as a propagandist. It&#8217;s not &#8216;mostly peaceful&#8217; when a car is on fire.&#8221;
&#8220;In CNN&#8217;s backyard,&#8221; Curry added.
Earlier, Rogan noted that there were a &#8220;lot of people&#8221; that said &#8220;trust the science&#8221; when it came to COVID and the vaccine. The host said, &#8220;if the data&#8217;s being controlled by certain people that have a vested financial interest in controlling the data, in controlling the narrative, that&#8217;s not science.&#8221;
Curry said it was &#8220;telling&#8221; when CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-floats-suing-cnn-for-claiming-he-took-horse-dewormer">falsely claimed</a> that Rogan took horse dewormer to combat COVID, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-grills-cnns-sanjay-gupta-does-it-bother-you-that-your-news-network-lies">reported</a>.
&#8220;What was really telling was when you were being accused of eating horse paste, and then you had [CNN&#8217;s Dr.] Sanjay Gupta on and you said, &#8216;Why the f*** did they lie about that?&#8217; and he could not answer,&#8221; Curry shared. &#8220;His brain could not process the question.&#8221;
&#8220;Someone should come along that does what they [media] do, but do it in a way where you&#8217;re not lying,&#8221; Rogan said. &#8220;Where you&#8217;re only giving information. The uncomfortable information that people probably don&#8217;t want to hear. You&#8217;re just giving them data &#8230; but don&#8217;t do it in a way where you&#8217;re bulls****ing people.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fing-had-my-back-joe-rogan-praises-the-right-and-fox-news-who-supported-him-after-attacks-from-the-far-left">&#8216;F***ing Had My Back&#8217;: Joe Rogan Praises The Right And Fox News Who Supported Him After Attacks From The &#8216;Far Left&#8217;</a>

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&#8220;The View&#8221; devolved into a shouting match on Thursday as the co-hosts debated red flag laws — whether or not they were a good idea and whether or not they were effective.
The conversation came about as a response to a shooting that took place when a <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/virginia-school-official-aware-that-6-year-old-may-have-been-armed-before-was-teacher-shot-superintendent-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six-year-old</a> student brought a gun to school and shot his teacher — despite <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/paralyzed-by-apathy-school-officials-were-warned-about-gun-3-times-before-6-year-old-shot-teacher-lawyer-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple warnings</a> that the school administrators had reportedly failed to act upon.
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Joy Behar began the conversation by attacking legal gun owners and anyone who did not agree with her conclusion that guns were the problem.
&#8220;The beauty of this story is that the right wing of this country would have us believe that it has nothing to do with the guns and that the solution to these type of shootings is to arm the teachers,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, now, the teacher has a gun — was she supposed to shoot the kid? What would have happened if she had a gun? Who was she supposed to shoot?&#8221;
Behar then pivoted, saying that some might argue that shootings could be stopped by &#8220;good guys with guns,&#8221; noting that there had been <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/egregious-poor-decision-making-nearly-400-cops-gathered-at-uvalde-school-before-anyone-did-anything/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police present in Uvalde</a> who had not entered the school during the shooting there.
&#8220;This country needs to grow up!&#8221; she exclaimed, suggesting that the United States was not &#8220;civilized&#8221; because stronger gun control laws had not yet been implemented.
Co-host Sunny Hostin jumped in then, claiming that the others at the table had previously &#8220;skewered&#8221; her for asserting that red flag laws were &#8220;not enough&#8221; to handle the issue.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a red flag law in Virginia,&#8221; she pointed out.
&#8220;I support red flag laws,&#8221; Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin remarked.
&#8220;But they don&#8217;t work!&#8221; Hostin&#8217;s voice rose. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t work!&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not being —&#8221; Sara Haines interrupted as everyone began talking at once. &#8220;Excuse me. They&#8217;re not being implemented properly —&#8221;
&#8220;And that&#8217;s what I said,&#8221; Hostin pushed back.
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean you give up —&#8221; Haines tried again, repeating, &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean you give up —&#8221;
&#8220;But they knew!&#8221; Goldberg shouted over the crosstalk, trying to get the segment back under control.

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One digital media company is generating a great deal of buzz with a plan to feed readers with content created with the help of artificial intelligence.
A memo to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/buzzfeed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BuzzFeed</a> staff on Thursday revealed the company would soon rely on tools made by OpenAI, the creator of the ChatGPT chatbot that is taking the world by storm across multiple sectors.
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti said &#8220;AI inspired content&#8221; will make strides toward &#8220;enhancing the quiz experience, informing our brainstorming, and personalizing our content for our audience.&#8221;
Humans will remain a part of the editorial process, Peretti assured his staff, though soon they will be able to wield computer technology to refine their work.
&#8220;Our industry will expand beyond AI-powered curation (feeds), to AI-powered creation (content),&#8221; Peretti wrote. &#8220;AI opens up a new era of creativity, where creative humans like us play a key role providing the ideas, cultural currency, inspired prompts, IP, and formats that come to life using the newest technologies.&#8221;
The Verge obtained the memo and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23572834/buzzfeed-using-ai-tools-personalize-generate-content-openai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published it in full</a>.
News of BuzzFeed&#8217;s new direction appears to have been received well on Wall Street. BuzzFeed Inc. shares jumped by about 150% after The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-use-chatgpt-creator-openai-to-help-create-some-of-its-content-11674752660" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke the story</a>.
BuzzFeed, founded in 2006, established a space for itself on the internet with news reporting, listicles, and quizzes. But recent years have posed challenges for the company.
It took steps in 2021 to cut back on its news arm as the division was losing about $10 million a year, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/22/buzzfeed-investors-have-pushed-ceo-jonah-peretti-to-shut-down-newsroom.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNBC</a>. After merging with a special purpose acquisition company, Peretti announced in December 2022 that BuzzFeed would <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/06/buzzfeed-to-cut-12percent-of-its-workforce.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut 12% of its workforce</a>, or about 180 staffers, to &#8220;weather an economic downturn.&#8221;
ChatGPT is making all sorts of headlines these days, whether it is <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/26/1151499213/chatgpt-ai-education-cheating-classroom-wharton-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stirring fresh concerns about cheating</a> in academic institutions with computer-generated essays or being used to generate a speech read on the House floor <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/member-of-congress-reads-ai-generated-speech-on-house-floor/3263737/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocating for a bill</a> to create a United States-Israel artificial intelligence center.
Peretti said the new BuzzFeed content would launch in February, and he would share a preview of the system during a staff meeting on Thursday.
&#8220;In publishing, AI can benefit both content creators and audiences, inspiring new ideas and inviting audience members to co-create personalized content,&#8221; Peretti wrote in a memo. &#8220;When you see this work in action it is pretty amazing.&#8221;
Some journalists shared less-than-enthused reactions to the news, suggesting the turn to artificial intelligence is an omen for the media industry. Samit Sarker, deputy managing editor of Polygon, <a href="https://twitter.com/SamitSarkar/status/1618670266594508800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, &#8220;a sentence to put on journalism&#8217;s tombstone if I&#8217;ve ever seen one: &#8216;BuzzFeed remains focused on human-generated journalism in its newsroom, a spokeswoman said Thursday.'&#8221;

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Why would Emmy-award-winning sportscaster Michele Tafoya walk away from her successful television career? PragerU presents Tafoya&#8217;s account in its latest &#8220;Stories of Us&#8221; <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/michele-tafoya-my-freedom-to-speak-meant-more-than-my-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>.
Tafoya discusses the highlights of working in the sports journalism industry, the struggle to start her family, and why she refuses to apologize for her values.
Raised in Manhattan Beach, California, as one of four children, Tafoya discussed the strong upbringing that taught her to value hard work and personal responsibility. She recalled watering the neighbor&#8217;s plants from the age of 11 and getting a paper route two years later.
After studying journalism in college, Tafoya found a gig on sports talk radio in Charlotte, North Carolina, and later landed a job with CBS Sports before joining ESPN. After working with the network&#8217;s NBA crew, she became a sideline reporter for Monday Night Football and later moved on to NBC.
The success did not come without adversity, as Tafoya revealed a series of miscarriages before giving birth to her son. Their family then adopted a daughter who needed open heart surgery.
As her family grew, so did her concerns about her freedom.
&#8220;Outside of that world, I was paying attention to politics, to policy, to where we stood on the world stage of history. I really started reading a lot of history. And there was a lot of perspective to be gained,&#8221; Tafoya said. &#8220;And I realized I wanted to preserve the freedom and the liberty in the beauty that is America, for my kids, for the future.&#8221;
Tafoya said she could no longer keep silent &#8220;the more divisive things&#8221; got and grew frustrated between 2016 and 2020. Despite her respect for Sunday Night Football and NBC, she knew she needed a change.
&#8220;I knew that if I said anything too controversial, it would reflect on those entities and I didn&#8217;t want to do that. So if I wanted to speak I had to leave,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My freedom to speak meant more to me than staying in that job.&#8221;
Tafoya considers herself one of the luckiest people in the world to do what she did, but she said there was something bigger in her future. She has since started her own <a href="https://salempodcastnetwork.com/podcasts/sideline-sanity-with-michele-tafoya?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=Michele-Tafoya&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA5sieBhBnEiwAR9oh2nS6HEaeWidLD1fGoyVBHd4iXGDGO2nc-W-OKq79QCm_yr4w1dRsqhoCy50QAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>, called &#8220;Sideline Sanity,&#8221; to use her voice to make a difference.
The former sports media personality said she will not be &#8220;canceled&#8221; and will continue to speak up. Tafoya challenged people to &#8220;find your courage and use it.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to apologize for my values, because I&#8217;ve looked at them really closely and I know they&#8217;re wholesome and they&#8217;re good,&#8221; she said.
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PragerU Presents Michele Tafoya: 'My Freedom To Speak Meant More Than My Job'

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Fox News host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com.topic/jesse-watters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse Watters</a> said on Wednesday that New York might be in better shape if the state were to dump current Democratic Governor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/hochul-wont-hire-back-unvaxxed-health-care-workers-despite-overturned-mandate-worker-shortage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kathy Hochul</a> and bring back disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was also a Democrat.
Spitzer earned a reputation for holding financial services professionals accountable and rooting out corruption while serving as attorney general of New York — becoming known as the &#8220;Sheriff of Wall Street&#8221; before he became governor in 2007. He <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/nyregion/08york.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won in a landslide</a>, earning 69% of the vote — but <a href="https://www.npr.org/2008/03/12/88134976/spitzer-resigns-after-sex-scandal-pressure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> after serving less than two years following reports that he had patronized a prostitution ring.
Watters referenced Spitzer during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of the network&#8217;s popular afternoon panel show &#8220;The Five,&#8221; during a conversation about Hochul&#8217;s refusal to reinstate medical professionals who were fired for failing to comply with vaccine mandates even though the state has since dropped the mandates.
Judge Jeanine Pirro quoted Hochul, who explained her decision by claiming that healthcare professionals who did not have the COVID vaccine were putting patients at risk of developing COVID while they were receiving care.
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After airing a clip of Hochul&#8217;s comments, Pirro and her co-hosts discussed the fact that the vaccines have been proven to not stop transmission of the virus.
&#8220;She doesn’t know that vaxxed and unvaxxed can still transmit the virus? She doesn’t know that, and she’s the governor?&#8221; Watters asked. &#8220;I mean, what an idiot. Let’s say I go into the ER with a gunshot wound, and I’m bleeding out, you think I care if the nurse is unvaxxed? I think bullets are more dangerous than the ‘rona virus.&#8221;
Watters went on to tie in bail reform and the state&#8217;s still-rampant crime problem, saying, &#8220;We’re [more] afraid of people getting shot than we’re afraid of COVID at this point.&#8221;
That was when he suggested New Yorkers might fare better under the leadership of former Governor Spitzer, saying, &#8220;I don’t care if he sleeps with escorts. He was smart.&#8221;

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The hard-Left Associated Press blared the &#8220;news&#8221; from the rooftops: &#8220;Pope says homosexuality not a crime,&#8221; screamed the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-gay-rights-ap-interview-1359756ae22f27f87c1d4d6b9c8ce212?utm_source=apnews&amp;utm_medium=relatedcontentmodule">headline</a> on Wednesday.
&#8220;Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as &#8216;unjust,&#8217; saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church,&#8221; said the lead.
&#8220;&#8216;Being homosexual isn’t a crime,&#8217; Francis said during an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Associated Press.&#8221;
The AP went further, saying: &#8220;Francis’ comments, which were hailed by gay rights advocates as a milestone, are the first uttered by a pope about such laws. But they are also consistent with his overall approach to LGBTQ people and belief that the Catholic Church should welcome everyone and not discriminate.&#8221;
But toward the end of the lengthy story, the wire service added this quote from the pope, saying he &#8220;articulated the position&#8221;:
&#8220;It’s not a crime. Yes, but it’s a sin. Fine, but first let’s distinguish between a sin and a crime,&#8221; the pontiff said.
So, as President Joe Biden said last week about all those classified documents being found in his properties, &#8220;there&#8217;s no there there.&#8221;
Pope Francis has long said that the Catholic Church is open to all. Jesus Christ famously preached tolerance and understanding for all of God&#8217;s children.
The pope said discriminating against others was sinful: &#8220;It&#8217;s also a sin to lack charity with one another, so what about that?&#8221;
And for the record, the church views all sex outside of Catholic marriage as sinful, not just homosexual sex. So the pope really wasn&#8217;t saying anything new &#8212; let alone newsworthy.
What&#8217;s more, the Catholic Church doctrine says gay people must be welcomed into the church and treated with respect, even if their homosexual acts are considered &#8220;intrinsically disordered.&#8221;
The church has said this before. In 2021, the Vatican&#8217;s doctrinal office decreed that the church could not bless same-sex unions because &#8220;God cannot bless sin.&#8221;
And back in 2020, Francis did express support for making some sort of mechanism for same-sex unions. &#8220;What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered,” Francis said in the documentary, “Francesco,” which debuted at the Rome Film Festival, noting he views gay people as children of God. “I stood up for that,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/world/europe/pope-francis-same-sex-civil-unions.html">reported</a>.
Even his declaration that homosexuality is not a crime is not new. The pope has condemned laws in some nations that deem homosexuality a crime, saying bishops from those countries should undergo a process of &#8220;conversion&#8221; to help them welcome LGBTQ people into their ministry &#8220;with tenderness.&#8221;
We should note, however, that it is unclear which reboot of the &#8220;Spiderman&#8221; series the pope prefers. We&#8217;ll bring that to you promptly when we find out because that will be news.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Woke Pope? Nope. Francis Made No News With Gay Declaration.

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On any other day, all the hosts of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; — save for Republican host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thats-not-fairsuch-a-cheap-shot-the-view-blows-up-as-alyssa-farah-griffin-and-kellyanne-conway-clash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alyssa Farah Griffin</a> — might have trashed former Vice President <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-at-former-vp-mike-pences-home-in-indiana/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pence</a> when news broke that he had discovered classified documents in his possession.
But during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast, the hosts seemed amused and even relieved to hear the news claiming that the reports took some of the sting out of the still-unfolding scandal surrounding President Joe Biden and the multiple classified documents found at his home, in his garage, and at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin explains the chaotic transition period in the Trump White House leading The View cast to suspect that she might have classified documents. &quot;So should we be concerned about you? Do you have boxes?&quot; Whoopi asks. Alyssa responds with a nod, a smile, and a laugh. <a href="https://t.co/pjSX88alBU">pic.twitter.com/pjSX88alBU</a>
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Whoopi Goldberg opened the conversation, asking with a laugh whether every former president and vice president should be checking their offices and libraries just to be sure they hadn&#8217;t taken anything they shouldn&#8217;t have.
Sunny Hostin was the first to give Pence a pass, arguing that in all of the chaos after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, the vice president may have panicked and packed in a hurry.
&#8220;I feel like now every president and vice president is a suspect,&#8221; she said, adding in mocking tones, &#8220;Are the documents in the conservatory with the wrench?&#8221;
Griffin agreed, explaining that Pence had always been extremely careful when she worked for him — even to the point of doing briefings in the Situation Room just in case anything classified might come up.
She went on to say that she believed the chaos of the transition — and a possible staffer error — was likely the reason classified material had gotten into Pence&#8217;s home.
&#8220;So should we be concerned about you? Do you have boxes?&#8221; Goldberg asked Griffin then, getting a laugh.
Goldberg then went on to argue that the news took some of the heat off Biden, saying, &#8220;Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.&#8221;
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Joy Behar is excited that Pence had documents because it supposedly means AG Garland can try to put Trump in prison again.&quot;I thought, maybe Merrick Garland would think it was just politically motivated to go after Trump &#8230; Now they don&#39;t have to worry about that&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VdZQM3HHlY">pic.twitter.com/VdZQM3HHlY</a>
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Joy Behar said that Pence finding documents opened the door for Attorney General Merrick Garland to move forward with anything he had wanted to pursue with regard to former President Donald Trump. &#8220;I thought, maybe Merrick Garland would think it was just politically motivated to go after Trump &#8230; Now they don&#8217;t have to worry about that,&#8221; she said.
Hostin concluded by noting that she was a <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1618300942364905476" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bit concerned</a> about former President Barack Obama&#8217;s legacy — especially if it were later discovered that he had anything classified in his possession.
&#8220;But I do feel like now every president and vice president is a suspect,&#8221; she repeated, adding, &#8220;They have been looking to tarnish [Obama&#8217;s] legacy forever.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Hosts Are … Happy That Mike Pence Had Classified Docs?

'The View' Hosts Are ... Happy That Mike Pence Had Classified Docs?

Alyssa Farah Griffin

classified documents

Joe Biden

Joy Behar

Mike Pence

Left-leaning media outlets misled their readers when they touted a new study that purported to show mental health benefits of child sex change treatments, according to one of the first journalists to cover the subject.
The <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a>, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed data collected between 2016-2019 from four prominent pediatric gender clinics and found that depression only lessened for females after taking testosterone, which has known antidepressant effects; the males in the study, who were conversely given estrogen which does not have antidepressant properties, saw no improvement to their well-being. Despite this, at least six news outlets lauded the new study as proof that &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; improves teens&#8217; mental health, without distinguishing between the profoundly different results of females from males.  
&#8220;Depression and anxiety symptoms decreased significantly, and life satisfaction increased significantly, among youth designated female at birth but not among those designated male at birth,&#8221; the discussion section of the study pointed out.
Media outlets, including The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/trans-teens-benefit-from-gender-affirming-care/2023/01/20/955f807c-98bd-11ed-a173-61e055ec24ef_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a>, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/gender-affirming-care-trans-youth-improves-mental-health/story?id=96510337" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>, <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/18/mental-health-benefits-of-gender-affirming-hormones-for-teens-persist-two-years/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STAT News</a>, <a href="https://www.popsci.com/health/gender-affirming-hormones-transgender-youth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Popular Science</a>, <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-01-19/hormonal-therapies-are-boosting-the-mental-health-of-trans-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HealthDay</a>, and <a href="https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/trans-teens-benefit-from-gender-affirming-care/article_08c37dce-181a-5c2f-a021-b372b104025d.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Eagle</a>, as well as many individual posts on social media, have been accused of misrepresenting the results of the study by insinuating that the mental health of both sexes improved after cross-sex hormone treatment. Absent from the glowing coverage from media outlets are the two study participants who committed suicide and 11 who struggled with suicidal ideation.
Jesse Singal, one of the first journalists to <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-a-child-says-shes-trans/561749/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on the rapid proliferation of trans-identification among teenage girls in 2018, called the media coverage of the study by leftwing outlets &#8220;irresponsible.&#8221;
&#8220;Journalists continue to botch this SO badly,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1616164935821574147?s=20&amp;t=juqV1kwKLhAeq2Z-5kFMwA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Singal, noting the lack of caveats, weaknesses, and missing context of different outcomes between the sexes. 
&#8220;Testosterone and estrogen are totally different chemicals, and [testosterone] is believed to have antidepressant effects,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1616117717987098624?s=20&amp;t=juqV1kwKLhAeq2Z-5kFMwA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
Androgens, including testosterone, are the hormones that give men their secondary sex characteristics, such as facial hair, deeper voices, more upper-body strength, and other male-related traits developed during puberty. Testosterone is frequently prescribed to adolescent females who &#8220;identify&#8221; as transgender “boys” and has <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/exploring-the-antidepressant-effects-of-testosterone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">well-documented</a> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0941950019300119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mood-boosting</a> properties. According to a 2016 cross-sex hormonal treatment <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4977075/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> of patients with gender dysphoria, androgens &#8220;can reduce mental distress, promoting feelings of euphoria and energy.&#8221; 
Also missing from the study are confounding variables that may have contributed to females&#8217; improved well-being, including the impact of psychotropic medication like antidepressants and psychotherapy, which have been independently shown to improve mental health. Researchers have also <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02472-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posed</a> a &#8220;placebo effect&#8221; hypothesis, in which the expectation of benefits from treatment has been shown to induce psychological improvement.
Another concerning revelation is the study&#8217;s opening line, which reports that &#8220;transgender and nonbinary youth comprise 2 to 9% of high-school-aged persons in the United States.&#8221; The 9% figure comes from a <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/147/6/e2020049823/180292/Prevalence-of-Gender-Diverse-Youth-in-an-Urban?autologincheck=redirected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 analysis</a> of more than 3,000 surveys on trans-identification in urban school environments. 
The study was funded by a <a href="https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-HD082554-01A1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research grant</a> from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that seeks to examine the impact of early medical treatment on trans-identified youth. Participants were recruited from well-known pediatric gender clinics, including the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles from July 2016 through June 2019 for the Trans Youth Care–United States (TYCUS) Study.
Short-term follow-ups, like this two-year study, by design, are unable to capture long-term feelings about medical transition. Even the Dutch studies, often hailed as the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; of evidence supporting medically transitioning trans-identified children, were found to be extremely deficient, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-study-finds-methodological-flaws-and-significant-risk-of-harm-in-dutch-protocol-for-pediatric-medical-transition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new analysis</a>. 
Claims from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/researcher-debunks-claim-trans-youths-mental-health-improves-with-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">past studies</a> about the clear mental health benefits of “gender affirming” medical treatments for trans-identifying youth are often exaggerated and misleading. <a href="https://twitter.com/LeorSapir" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leor Sapir</a>, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, found that claims of causality frequently cited by news outlets are not supported by evidence and that some of the studies commonly touted as demonstrating positive mental health outcomes show no or possibly even negative association between hormones and mental health.

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Legacy Media Misrepresents Results Of New Study On Child Sex Change Treatments

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Transgender

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A White House spokesman complained that reporters have continued to ask questions about the unfolding scandal involving President Joe Biden and the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oh-my-goodness-peter-doocy-catches-karine-jean-pierre-off-guard-with-classified-docs-question/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified documents</a> found in his possession in several locations.
Ian Sams, who was assigned to represent the White House Counsel&#8217;s office on the issue of the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-issues-statement-over-classified-document-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified documents</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/white-house-rep-lashes-out-at-reporters-says-they-want-attention-in-classified-doc-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that reporters were only still asking questions — and demanding that he take questions in full view of the public rather than on private press calls — in order to get &#8220;stir up controversy to get attention or time on camera.&#8221;
&#8220;I have certainly endeavored to give all of you in the press corps access to the information that you need. I’ve taken your questions a couple of times, I made myself available for media interviews,&#8221; Sams said on a press call. &#8220;In every presidency, you know, there are many people out there in the media who’s sort of trying to stir up controversy to get attention or time on camera.&#8221;
Reporters in the White House Press Corps have repeatedly asked about the documents — their scope, whether or not there may be more in other locations, and whether or not Biden knew about them or others had access to them through him — and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has refused to answer even the most benign questions, referring everything to the White House Counsel&#8217;s office.
Jean-Pierre did repeat information coming out of the White House Counsel&#8217;s office on the Friday before the MLK Day holiday weekend — telling the Press Corps that all of the classified documents in Biden&#8217;s possession had been found and properly turned over. But just one day later, more documents were found in the president&#8217;s Wilmington, Delaware, home. At the next press briefing on the following Tuesday, Newsmax&#8217;s James Rosen and NPR&#8217;s Tamara Keith <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/are-you-sorry-reporters-bombard-karine-jean-pierre-over-false-statement-on-classified-docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">challenged Jean-Pierre directly</a>, asking whether she regretted sharing bad information.
Reporters have continued to press Jean-Pierre, asking her to bring someone from the White House Counsel&#8217;s office into the briefing room for direct questions, but so far the Biden administration has resisted.
&#8220;We’ve tried to give you guys public information as it’s appropriate,” Sams told reporters during a Monday call. &#8220;… But I think that the American people see it for what it is, which is the president respecting the appropriate entity who’s doing an investigation and ensuring that they have the independence they need to conduct that investigation.&#8221;
Sams refused to answer any questions about the number of documents that had been found or the information that was contained therein.

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White House Rep. Blasts Reporters For Asking Questions About Classified Doc Scandal: They Want ‘Attention’

White House Rep. Claims Reporters Only Ask About Biden's Classified Doc Scandal To Get Attention

Executive

Energy Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jennifer-granholm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Granholm</a> was asked to comment about urban and rural <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparities</a> in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/gas-prices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gas prices</a> by a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporter</a> who appeared to be implying a race-driven cause for the phenomenon.
April Ryan of TheGrio noted during a Monday <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/01/23/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-secretary-of-energy-jennifer-granholm-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press briefing</a> that “there were some communities that felt the relief” as a result of <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> releasing millions of barrels from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/strategic-petroleum-reserve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strategic Petroleum Reserve</a> in order to reduce prices at the pump, while “other communities did not, particularly those in urban areas.” She asked Granholm to explain why “there was such a difference in communities with gas prices in one community versus the other.”
The official replied that infrastructure costs are a primary factor behind variances in fuel prices across the country. “Some rural areas, for example, or some who might be at the very end of a line or may not even have a line, they may get it trucked in. It takes longer and it’s more expensive,” she said. “If you’re not near a refinery, that’s another reason why the transportation costs are tacked on at the pump. So you’re seeing, for example, when refineries go down in regions, then the prices go up in those regions much more than they would nationwide.”
Ryan nevertheless continued to press the issue. “But specifically, the urban areas,” she asserted. “Because there was still a big pinch in urban areas with these gas prices when the outlying communities, particularly majority white communities, were seeing the drop to $3.00, and many of these urban areas were seeing $4.00 and $5.00 gas prices. Could you speak to that?”
Granholm noted that gas stations are typically owned by individuals rather than branded oil companies, affirming that local authorities should prosecute those who seek to profit from emergencies. “State attorney generals should go after because gouging is illegal,” she said. “You cannot take advantage of a crisis to jack up the prices in that way.”
The exchange between Ryan and Granholm comes as fuel prices remain elevated, worsening inflationary pressures faced by households. The national average price of gas is currently $3.45 per gallon, according to <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from AAA, marking a 45% increase since the start of the Biden administration. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed on Monday that “House Republicans are using their narrow majority to force the American people to pay higher gas prices, just as big oil companies are amassing record profits.”
Fuel analytics company GasBuddy recently <a href="https://twitter.com/gasbuddyguy/status/1608830476298469377?s=46&amp;t=wYpu520Rr20bfmNRwVR-aw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marked</a> average gas prices at $3.96 per gallon for 2022, far surpassing the $3.02 per gallon average charted in 2021 and the $2.17 per gallon average charted in 2020. Even though GasBuddy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-when-gas-prices-could-return-to-4-per-gallon-according-to-new-projection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forecasts</a> that prices will drop to a national average of $3.49 per gallon in 2023 after approaching $4.00 per gallon by summertime, the reading would still rank among the highest years for prices at the pump in more than a decade.

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Reporter Presses Biden Official To Embrace Race Narrative On Gas Prices

Reporter Implies Race Is Responsible For Gas Price Disparities

Biden Administration

Department of Energy

Gas Prices

Jennifer Granholm

Systemic Racism

M&amp;M&#8217;s, the popular chocolate candy owned by Mars Wrigley, announced Monday that it was taking an &#8220;indefinite pause&#8221; from using its &#8220;spokescandies&#8221; in advertisements following criticisms from some in the media.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticized the candies during a recent segment over changes that the company made to the appearances of the spokescandies.
“M&amp;M’s will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous,” Carlson said. “Until the moment when you wouldn’t want to have a drink with any one of them. That’s the goal. When you’re totally turned off, we’ve achieved equity. They’ve won.”
Carlson declared that “woke M&amp;M’s have returned”  the company introduced new spokescandies.
“The green M&amp;M’s got her boots back but apparently is now a lesbian, maybe, and there is also a plus-sized, obese purple M&amp;M’s,” he said. “So we’re going to cover that, of course. Because that’s what we do.”
M&amp;M&#8217;s tweeted a statement on Monday saying that the company has paused their use of the spokescandies and had instead selected someone else to represent the company.
&#8220;America, let&#8217;s talk,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;In the last year, we&#8217;ve made some changes to our spokescandies. We weren&#8217;t sure if anyone would even notice. And we definitely didn&#8217;t think it would break the internet. But now we get it — even a candy’s shoes can be polarizing.&#8221;
&#8220;Therefore, we have decided to take an indefinite pause from the spokescandies,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;In their place, we are proud to introduce a spokesperson America can agree on: the beloved Maya Rudolph. We are confident Ms. Rudolph will champion the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they belong.&#8221;
The company was widely mocked online over the statement while others suggested that the supposed controversy was pointless and not worth people&#8217;s time.
&#8220;You mean, your sales dipped after going woke and you don’t want to admit it outright?&#8221; radio host Jason Rantz tweeted.
Political commentator Tatjana Pasalic tweeted, &#8220;I am once again begging @elonmusk to give us a parody or real button.&#8221;
&#8220;Nobody cares about your spokescandies,&#8221; journalist Ian Miles Cheong tweeted.
Grabien News founder Tom Elliott tweeted, &#8220;Just do your shareholders a favor &amp; fire this entire department.&#8221;
Rival candy company Skittles also jumped in on the fun, tweeting: &#8220;Our thoughts go out to the spokescandies.&#8221;
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Our thoughts go out to the spokescandies <a href="https://t.co/ub8iPHCq5d">https://t.co/ub8iPHCq5d</a>
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M&M’s Pulls ‘Spokescandies’ After Supposed Controversy : ‘Sales Dipped After Going Woke’

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