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Media outlets around the world reported Thursday that five Palestinian journalists were killed in Gaza by Israel, even though those “journalists” were members of a terrorist group.
The BBC’s headline <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg57wrgl7o?xtor=AL-99999-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;at_medium=social&amp;at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_link_origin=BBCWorld&amp;at_link_type=web_link&amp;at_link_id=54910A0E-C370-11EF-9ED0-BBDB6976FC3C&amp;at_campaign=Social_Flow&amp;at_format=link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared,</a> “Five Gaza journalists killed in Israeli strike targeting armed group,” and began its coverage by citing Quds TV, a Palestinian TV channel that is affiliated with the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
The PIJ is described by the BBC merely as “an armed group that took part in 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.” The BBC also, early in its report, mentioned that the wife of one of the “journalists” was about to give birth. The outlet waited until the fourth paragraph to mention that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had targeted “Islamic Jihad operatives posing as journalists&#8221; and that steps were taken to avoid harming civilians.”
But immediately after, the BBC included a comment from the Committee to Protect Journalists saying it was “devastated by the reports” and that &#8220;Journalists are civilians and must always be protected.&#8221; The outlet spends most of the article claiming that Israel has been killing “journalists” in Gaza.
The five men killed were Ibrahim Jamal Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Ali, Faisal Abdallah Muhammad Abu Qamsan, Mohammed Ayad Khamis al-Ladaa, Ayman Nihad Abd Alrahman Jadi, and Fadi Ihab Muhammad Ramadan Hassouna, all of whom the IDF labels as PIJ operatives.
Other outlets also followed the framing that the men were merely journalists. The Associated Press, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-news-12-26-2024-2e8c33648410c2da94ae7d0d73c0b1a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for example</a>, cited the notoriously unreliable Gaza Health Ministry as its source that the men were journalists. Only after claiming they were journalists did the AP acknowledge that the Israeli military says the men were posing as journalists and were actually Islamic militants.
CNN also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/25/middleeast/journalists-death-israeli-strike-gaza-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used this framing</a>, citing Gaza authorities.
Eitan Fischberger, a former staff sergeant for the IDF, posted a thread on X identifying each of the men as terrorists, including their public postings, which include pro-terrorism statements.
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Faisel likes to indoctrinate children into a life of terrorism, because “journalism” <a href="https://t.co/C3S9iiQ3ZN">pic.twitter.com/C3S9iiQ3ZN</a>
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1872244010376744974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Media outlets routinely present stories from the side of the Palestinians over Israel. In August, more than 80 outlets had to issue a correction after republishing an article from the AP that falsely stated the civilian death toll in Gaza had “exceeded 40,000,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eighty-media-outlets-issue-correction-on-ap-story-that-inflated-gaza-civilian-death-toll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
But “not even Hamas has alleged that more than 40,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza have been killed in the war between Israel and the terror organization,” the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), which monitors Arab media, <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/press-release-more-than-80-north-american-media-outlets-correct-after-ap-outflanks-hamas-casualty-claims/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
“While the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported over 40,000 total deaths among Gaza’s residents, its data does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israeli sources, meanwhile, estimate that over 17,000 of those killed are Hamas combatants,” the organization added.
Media outlets have also repeatedly cited the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, even though it routinely lies about civilian casualties, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-run-gaza-health-ministry-cited-by-legacy-media-has-history-of-lying-about-civilian-casualties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.

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The Washington Post took a virtual beating on Friday after publishing an article declaring that the two Bronze Star medals awarded to Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to lead the Pentagon, were less than because they were awarded for &#8220;Meritorious Service&#8221; rather than for &#8220;Valor.&#8221;
In the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/05/pete-hegseth-bronze-star/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, military reporter Alex Horton argued that Bronze Stars &#8220;were issued somewhat liberally throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan&#8221; and suggested that because Hegseth was an officer rather than enlisted, the award — which he said had been compared to a &#8220;participation trophy&#8221; — had even less comparative value.
&#8220;While many officers have risked their lives on the battlefield, the majority of fighting and exposure to danger is performed by the enlisted troops they command,&#8221; Horton wrote.
The next sentence refuted most of the article&#8217;s claim, however. After five paragraphs effectively — and thoroughly — disparaging Hegseth&#8217;s Bronze Stars as though they were far from proof that he had distinguished himself as a combat veteran, Horton wrote the following: &#8220;Hegseth also received a Combat Infantryman Badge, which is awarded when infantry soldiers and officers engage an enemy in combat.&#8221;
In order to receive the <a href="https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Combat%20Infantryman%20Badge%20CIB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB)</a>, soldiers must meet ALL of the following criteria:
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<li>Be an infantry Soldier satisfactorily performing infantry duties.</li>
<li>Be assigned to an infantry unit during such time as the unit is engaged in active ground combat.</li>
<li>Actively participate in such ground combat. Campaign or battle credit alone is not sufficient for award of the CIB.</li>
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In order to earn the CIB, Hegseth had to not only be assigned to the unit that participated in direct armed conflict, he had to be an active participant in such combat action. Horton&#8217;s willingness to write off Hegseth&#8217;s &#8220;Meritorious Service&#8221; Bronze Stars as trivial while only including his CIB as an aside suggests an agenda that many on X picked up on.
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&#8220;.@WaPo is seriously arguing &#8216;Actually, Hegseth earning two bronze stars in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t that impressive,'&#8221; John Hasson wrote.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/wapo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WaPo</a> is seriously arguing “Actually, Hegseth earning two bronze stars in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t that impressive” <a href="https://t.co/dNhTYqt13J">pic.twitter.com/dNhTYqt13J</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1864841141398409716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Every Bronze Star recipient, along with the families, should cancel their subscription to the Washington Post immediately. Of all the gutter trash thrown at Pete Hegseth, this may be the worst of the worst. Absolutely shameful,&#8221; Joe Concha added.
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Every Bronze Star recipient, along with the families, should cancel their subscription to the Washington Post immediately. Of all the gutter trash thrown at Pete Hegseth, this may be the worst of the worst. Absolutely shameful. <a href="https://t.co/Mj5BKMHSMN">https://t.co/Mj5BKMHSMN</a>
&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1864949531923632324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fox News host Will Cain — who cohosted &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends Weekend&#8221; alongside Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy — added, &#8220;So now they have moved to diminishing Hegseth’s Bronze Stars. This is so gross but it’s also desperate and flailing. Shows the illegitimacy of all the attacks. Just a total Kavanaugh.&#8221;
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So now they have moved to diminishing Hegseth’s Bronze Stars. This is so gross but it’s also desperate and flailing. Shows the illegitimacy of all the attacks. Just a total Kavanaugh. <a href="https://t.co/Q1sM9iaUkI">https://t.co/Q1sM9iaUkI</a>
&mdash; Will Cain (@willcain) <a href="https://twitter.com/willcain/status/1864881950025994393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Washington Post hates Pete Hegseth so much that it’s now decided the Bronze Star (which Hegseth was awarded 2x) is meh and not very impressive. Which is weird, because the Washington Post wrote tons of articles about collusion hoaxer Robert Mueller’s Bronze Star. Curious!&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Sean Davis posted.
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The Washington Post hates Pete Hegseth so much that it’s now decided the Bronze Star (which Hegseth was awarded 2x) is meh and not very impressive.
Which is weird, because the Washington Post wrote tons of articles about collusion hoaxer Robert Mueller’s Bronze Star. Curious! <a href="https://t.co/RhRPtoLMv7">pic.twitter.com/RhRPtoLMv7</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1864848226743955945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When Biden awarded the Bronze Star to an intelligence analyst, @Washingtonpost called it &#8216;one of the Army’s most prestigious awards.&#8217; But when @PeteHegseth earns two of them, WaPo says &#8216;Actually, they’re pretty common.&#8217; It’s (D)ifferent for some people,&#8221; Hasson added.
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When Biden awarded the Bronze Star to an intelligence analyst, <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Washingtonpost</a> called it “one of the Army’s most prestigious awards” 
But when <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteHegseth</a> earns two of them, WaPo says “Actually, they’re pretty common”
It’s (D)ifferent for some people <a href="https://t.co/xgPSKSF3Xr">pic.twitter.com/xgPSKSF3Xr</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1864850546231857290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-lankford" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Lankford</a> (R-OK) busted media during a recent appearance on Fox News, saying that although the legacy outlets might talk a good game, it was the people doing the actual work on Capitol Hill who knew what was really going on.
Lankford was responding to the numerous reports swirling about President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for Secretary of Defense, decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth — among them, a report from the Wall Street Journal suggesting that Hegseth might be replaced by Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) — and he argued that media outlets did not always have the inside scoops they claimed.
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Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/jameslankford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jameslankford</a>: &#8220;What&#8217;s interesting is the national media, the CNN, MSNBC, CBS, all talk about people as if they&#8217;ve met them. All of us get the privilege of actually getting a chance to be able to meet them&#8230; So there&#8217;s all the noise out there and then there&#8217;s actually… <a href="https://t.co/XnpCc7MqdJ">pic.twitter.com/XnpCc7MqdJ</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1864329104385888642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;What&#8217;s interesting is the national media, the CNN, MSNBC, all those, CBS, all talk about people as if they&#8217;ve met them. All of us get the privilege of actually getting a chance to be able to meet them&#8230; So there&#8217;s all the noise out there, and then there&#8217;s actually what&#8217;s happening on the Hill as people are one-by-one getting to meet with folks as I&#8217;m doing later on today with several different nominees,&#8221; he explained.
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Lankford argued that the people — and media — should allow the process to play out as proscribed in the Constitution and wait to see how those one-on-one meetings and eventual hearings went before rushing to judgment.
&#8220;President Trump, like every other president, has the right to be able to hire his staff, and to be able to pick the people around him,&#8221; Lankford continued. &#8220;The Senate also has a role, in key people, in what&#8217;s called &#8216;advise and consent&#8217; &#8230; at this point, let it play out. Let&#8217;s get past the media noise and let&#8217;s actually do the constitutional process and let&#8217;s actually support the president in who he&#8217;s actually trying to be able to pick to put next to him to be able to actually turn the country around.&#8221;

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Penelope Hegseth joined &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; on Wednesday morning to defend her son, and she took direct aim at legacy media for running with a series of attacks on decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth since President-elect Donald Trump selected him to be Secretary of Defense.
Her appearance follows a number of hit pieces accusing her son of everything from sexual misconduct to excessive drinking and sexist behavior — along with a New York Times report that included the publication of a private email sent by Penelope to her son amid a contentious divorce — and she accused the media of only looking for the bad.
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PENELOPE HEGSETH: <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteHegseth</a> is &quot;the most faithful patriot of this country &#8230; he has fought and almost died for his country. He&#39;s a good dad, he&#39;s an amazing son and father — and that&#39;s the Pete I want people to know.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3sgSVvfVm7">pic.twitter.com/3sgSVvfVm7</a>
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&#8220;Thank you for your belief in my son. We all believe in him. We really believe that he is not the man he was seven years ago. I’m not that mother, and I hope people will hear that story today and the truth of that story,&#8221; Penelope told &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; host Steve Doocy.
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&#8220;I am here to tell the truth. To tell the truth to the American people and tell the truth to the senators on the hill, especially our female senators. I really hope that you will not listen to the media, and you will listen to Pete,&#8221; she continued.
Doocy asked Penelope to clarify the email in which she had accused her son of being &#8220;abusive to women,&#8221; among other things.
&#8220;Go back seven years, which, if we all went back seven years, we would see maybe we are not the people we are today. They were going through, Pete, and his wife at the time were going through a difficult divorce, a very emotional time and I’m sure many of you across the country understand how difficult divorce is on a family. There&#8217;s emotions,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We say things and I wrote that in haste, I wrote that with deep emotion, I wrote that as a parent. About two hours later, my husband tells me I should think through things more. Pete and I are both very passionate people. I wrote that out of love, and about two hours later, I retracted it with an apology and nobody has seen that. It was a difficult time.&#8221;
Penelope then turned her attention to the media, adding, &#8220;I want to say something about the media. Part of today is to discredit the media and how they operate. When they contact you, I let a few phone calls go. But then they call you and they threaten you, that&#8217;s the first thing they do. &#8216;Unless you make a statement, we will publish it as is.&#8217; I think that is a despicable way to treat anyone, threats are dangerous and they are hard on families.&#8221;

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Pete Hegseth’s Mom Speaks Up, Trashes ‘Despicable’ Media Amid Flurry Of Hit Pieces And Attacks

Pete Hegseth's Mom Speaks Up, Trashes 'Despicable' Media Amid Flurry Of Hit Pieces And Attacks

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Incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt torpedoed The Washington Post over a media request the outlet sent to her, sharing screenshots of blatant attempts to tie President-elect Donald Trump to an act of racism.
Leavitt posted a photo of the email from The Washington Post on her X account, tearing into the outlet for attempting to use such a situation to foment racial division and then blame Trump for it, despite even admitting that Trump was not remotely connected to the event in question.
&#8220;I just received one of the most absurd emails EVER from the Washington Post,&#8221; Leavitt began. &#8220;This &#8216;reporter&#8217; is doing gymnastics to try and sow division and blame President Trump for something that he admits in his email has no trace to him whatsoever.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is exactly why NOBODY trusts the Fake News Media,&#8221; Leavitt continued, adding, &#8220;Jeff Bezos warned his staff before the election, and they’re still not listening to him!&#8221;
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I just received one of the most absurd emails EVER from the Washington Post
This “reporter” is doing gymnastics to try and sow division and blame President Trump for something that he admits in his email has no trace to him whatsoever
This is exactly why NOBODY trusts the Fake… <a href="https://t.co/IUhnsw58im">pic.twitter.com/IUhnsw58im</a>
&mdash; Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/karolineleavitt/status/1861544185192485258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The email, sent by a reporter named Emmanuel Felton, was about a racially charged incident that took place in Lawnside, New Jersey, within days of the 2024 presidential election. A local resident had reported seeing spray-painted slurs using the &#8220;n-word,&#8221; and Felton wanted Trump&#8217;s team to respond to the following section of the report:
<blockquote>What happened in Lawnside was part of a wave of racial incidents that occurred in the days following Trump&#8217;s reelection. Around the time that Hines&#8217; fence was sprayed, black people across the country were receiving text messages that said they&#8217;d been &#8220;selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.&#8221; And at the same time that Lawnside residents came together to discuss the graffiti on Hines&#8217; fence, a group of self-identified Neo-Nazis marched and shouted the same slur in Columbus, Ohio.</blockquote>
In the very next sentence, Felton gave away the game, however (emphasis added): &#8220;While none of these events can be traced directly back to Trump, experts say that his rhetoric has been tied to an increase in hate crimes across the nation.&#8221;

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When I studied journalism at the University of Maryland, we were trained to recognize “yellow journalism” — sensational reporting that sacrifices truth for attention. Today, American media has been overtaken by a new, more dangerous trend: “red journalism,” where government propaganda has replaced honest reporting. The reason? The 2012 <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smith-Mundt Modernization Act</a>, a law quietly slipped into the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ31/PLAW-118publ31.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Defense Authorization Act</a> under President Obama. This legislation lifted bans on U.S.-funded propaganda meant for foreign audiences, allowing government and legacy media to collude on delivering propaganda to the American public. 
Ostensibly designed to counter “misinformation”, this amendment has allowed the government to weaponize our press, turning it from a watchdog into a megaphone for political agendas and false narratives. Once a pillar of democracy, legacy media has become a lap dog of the government, pushing narratives that serve those in power, not the truth.
Under Obama, media outlets went from scrutinizing policies, events, and politicians to uncritically parroting government talking points. When the Affordable Care Act’s rollout tanked, legacy outlets downplayed the issues and glossed over glaring government missteps. This disturbing pattern of sanitizing the news in favor of political spin has continued, feeding Americans one-sided narratives disguised as journalism.
Under Biden, this alignment has intensified. Critical issues like Covid, his cognitive decline, border security, inflation, and disastrous foreign policy decisions are routinely softened, outright ignored or blatantly lied about. The Afghanistan withdrawal, a deadly debacle, saw the press repeating official statements that minimized or ignored the administration&#8217;s failures. Real, investigative reporting was left to independent journalists and international sources.
This propaganda machine is especially clear in election coverage. Legacy media&#8217;s bias has shifted from subtle to brazen. Kamala Harris received glowing, uncritical coverage that boosted her image, while Donald Trump was forced to endure unsubstantiated accusations and dangerous rhetoric. From hiding the Hunter Biden laptop scandal to glossing over President Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline, legacy media has shown they are not just biased but actively complicit in shaping political outcomes to favor the administration. This is not journalism — it’s election interference and public manipulation.
A free press is the bedrock of democracy, a crucial check on government power. When the media stops questioning and starts amplifying the official line, the public loses access to objective information and becomes vulnerable to manipulation. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act has turned American media from truth-tellers into mouthpieces for those in power, destroying public trust and democracy itself.
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Moving forward, our new Congress must make it a priority to repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act and hold news outlets legally accountable for factually accurate, transparently sourced reporting. This is not an assault on free speech; it’s a demand for journalistic integrity. Our nation deserves a media landscape free from government influence, and repealing the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 would be a significant move toward that goal. Congress must seize this opportunity to restore the boundaries that protect a free and independent press and, by extension, preserve the public’s trust in the information they receive.
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Elicia Brand is the founder and president of <a href="https://armyofparents.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Army of Parents</a> in Loudoun County, VA.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Media outlets across the United States spent nearly all of the 2024 election cycle trying to ensure President-elect Donald Trump would lose. But this laser focus only resulted in further damage to their reputations, a Wall Street Journal editor says.
Gerard Baker, the Journal&#8217;s editor-at-large, spoke with Morning Wire about how the media&#8217;s failure to learn from Trump&#8217;s victory in 2016 caused them disaster in 2024.
“Well, if you recall, after the shock of the 2016 election, when Donald Trump won despite the media telling us that there was virtually no chance of that happening,” Baker told Morning Wire host and Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley.
“We had those famous probability indicators saying that Hillary Clinton had a 90 percent chance of winning. The shock that so many American media companies discovered that there were so many people in this country who wanted to vote for Donald Trump, even though they didn&#8217;t know it, the media companies didn&#8217;t know it.”
Baker noted that after Clinton’s loss in 2016, some media outlets vowed to learn more about the people of America – to essentially leave their echo chamber that was so vastly out of touch with American voters.
“The editor of the New York Times at the time said that was one of his priorities after 2016, [was] to know more about the country,” Baker explained. “They kind of went forth in the manner of 19th century anthropologists venturing into darkest Africa to discover who these people were who voted for Trump. And they presumably found them and then we didn&#8217;t really hear very much more from them except when we got to the election campaign of 2024 and we sort of were just told by so many of these media organizations that Trump supporters were a lot of fascists.”
Baker said this disconnect leads to the question of what these media companies had been doing for the previous eight years, if not learning about the American voter. Of course, he said, it is clear what they have been doing: they’ve learned nothing, changed nothing, and continued their “vilification of Donald Trump.”
Baker noted that not only did most journalists not vote for Trump, but they didn’t even know anyone who voted for Trump, because they live in such a tight political bubble. So, what was very interesting about the 2024 election is just how much of a shift toward Trump there was in Blue areas.
“[W]hat we saw in this election was actually really significant gains for Trump and for the Republicans in some of these places where these journalists are concentrated,” Baker said. “We have seen this remarkable phenomenon, big gains for Trump compared with 2020 in places like New York City and Chicago and San Francisco and L.A.”
As to whether this latest election loss will finally force a reckoning among mainstream media outlets, Baker isn&#8217;t so sure.
“I think they&#8217;ll go through a little bit of the soul searching they went through in 2016,” Baker said. “But I think that the die is cast…the staff of these news organizations is just so monolithically left of center, and not just left of center, but committed, as I say, in a kind of an activist way, that I don&#8217;t really see that unwinding.”
At the same time, though, Baker said competing news organizations – like The Daily Wire – could force these other networks to be less partisan.
“So, I think that the market will, actually, A, develop new platforms and new products, and B, in the process, might actually force these, the owners of these media properties that we&#8217;ve seen, again, like the L.A. Times and the Washington Post, to say, ‘you know, not only do I think it&#8217;s right that we should be more balanced and that we should appeal to more readers, but actually I think it&#8217;s in our business interest that we should [be] too.’”
You can listen to the full interview on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire">Morning Wire</a>.

Gerard Baker

The Media Learned Nothing After Trump’s First Victory, WSJ Editor Says

Morning Wire

U.S.

Wall Street Journal

Ever since Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion was returned to the states, the media has been searching for stories of pregnant women to use as pawns to demonize those against abortion.
This week, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/abortion-law-nevada-arrest-miscarriage/?utm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a story</a> about a Nevada woman who had a miscarriage and was arrested and charged with manslaughter. The story was widely shared on social media, with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof amplifying that narrative.
“A struggling Nevada mom suffers a miscarriage,” Kristof wrote on X. “Then the police show up and arrest her for manslaughter, and she&#8217;s sentenced to 2.5-8 years in prison. Only when a pro bono lawyer steps up and appeals does a judge reverse the conviction and set her free to return to her children. This is family values? Think about that as you vote.”
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A struggling Nevada mom suffers a miscarriage. Then the police show up and arrest her for manslaughter, and she&#8217;s sentenced to 2.5-8 years in prison. Only when a pro bono lawyer steps up and appeals does a judge reverse the conviction and set her free to return to her children.…
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1851284338505404874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It appears Kristof, like many others, didn’t read the full Post story, which explains – albeit while attempting to downplay the situation – that Patience Frazier did things intended to end her pregnancy and admitted as much to law enforcement.
For starters, Frazier’s arrest took place in 2018, four years before Roe was overturned. Abortion is also legal in Nevada, even now that Roe is no longer in place.
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When Frazier first learned she was pregnant, she knew she was in trouble because the baby was not her boyfriend’s and she feared being kicked out of his home. A few days later, she scheduled an abortion, but she didn’t have a working car and couldn’t find a ride to the abortion facility before she was 24 weeks pregnant – which is when the baby would be viable and Nevada law bans abortion. At that point, Frazier would have been in her third trimester.
She didn’t see any doctors about her pregnancy and told police she didn’t know how far along she really was. She purchased cinnamon capsules after learning they could help end her pregnancy and took twice the recommended amount to do so. Medical experts later testified there was no evidence to suggest cinnamon could end a pregnancy.
On April 21, 2018, Frazier says she miscarried her son and tried to give him CPR when she noticed that she could see his facial features. She said she cradled her son’s body and then buried him in the yard, crying all the while.
A month later, a woman who babysat for Frazier and sheriff’s deputy Jaqueline Mitcham told Mitcham she believed Frazier “got rid of her baby.” Mitcham believed Frazier’s baby was born alive and then killed, but the medical examiner testified that there was no evidence the baby was born alive.
The toxicology report did, however, find marijuana and methamphetamine in the baby&#8217;s system.
Believing Frazier had done something wrong, Mitcham investigated the case, even as her male colleagues told her there was nothing she could do.
Frazier’s own mother told police that her daughter had attempted to end her previous pregnancies by drinking bleach (which Frazier denied to the Post), taking meth, and “doing all kinds of pills.” Frazier’s mother even showed investigators text messages from a previous pregnancy where Frazier said she “tried to miscarry the whole time I knew I was pregnant” by taking pills and lifting heavy objects.
Frazier admitted to taking cinnamon and lifting heavy objects to try and end her pregnancy, and, due to her mother&#8217;s statements and the drugs found in the baby&#8217;s body, she was charged with taking drugs to end a pregnancy and a lesser charge of concealing a birth.
Though Frazier cried when she was arrested, Mitcham would later say it seemed like a child pretending to cry so they could get out of trouble.
Frazier’s public defender worked out a deal for probation, but a Nevada Division of Parole and Probation employee recommended up to 10 years in prison. The employee had noted that, while Frazier’s attorney kept using the word “fetus,” the autopsy report referred to the baby as an “infant” who was between 28 and 32 weeks old.
The judge sentenced Frazier to 30 months to eight years in prison, but that sentence was later set aside due to ineffective assistance of counsel.

Pregnant Woman

Media Claims Woman Was Arrested For Miscarriage. Here’s What Really Happened.

Media Claims Woman Was Arrested For Miscarriage. Here's What Really Happened.

Crime

Pregnancy

Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan’s comments on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ex-trump-ice-directors-viral-take-on-deporting-without-family-separation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may have gone viral</a>, but the retired government official says the network selectively edited out important information.
Homan told Fox News’ “Evening Edit” anchor Elizabeth MacDonald that his full interview with CBS was two hours long, and the information they decided to cut was determined by the pre-conceived narrative they wanted to run, MacDonald said on X.
“Tom Homan, former acting ICE director under Trump, says 60 Minutes made massive edits &amp; censored its 2-hour [interview with] Homan because it had a biased agenda to attack Trump about deportations &amp; to protect Biden-Harris,” MacDonald wrote on social media. “Homan says 60 Minutes came into the [interview with] a pre-determined angle about fascism, but that it edited out what he said about deporting terrorists caught crossing and violent criminal illegal aliens and gang members.”
“That includes, he says, editing out his info on deporting criminal illegal aliens and gang members accused of murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping, sex and drug trafficking and more,” MacDonald continued.
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The anchor then published a rough transcript of her exchange with Homan on Monday’s program:
<blockquote>Homan: First, I sat for almost two hours during a very contentious interview. I went in to talk about why we need a secure border. The damage they [Biden-Harris] have done to this country, why this is such a huge national security issue. Of course, most of that didn&#8217;t make it to the final cut. 
Liz: And what didn&#8217;t make it to the final cut? What did they cut out? 
Tom: About the national security threat on the border. About how many, you know, suspected terrorists have been arrested crossing the border. People on terrorist watch lists. [60 Minutes] also edited out the amount of fentanyl coming across that killed a quarter million Americans. They [edited out] a 600% increase in sex trafficking. I talked about all of this. We didn&#8217;t talk about, you know, the criminals and the gang members that have come across, Tren de Aragua, they didn&#8217;t talk about everything that&#8217;s meaningful to the American people. We talked about it, but it didn&#8217;t make the final cut. It&#8217;s almost a two-hour interview. We talked about all of that, Liz. </blockquote>
MacDonald added that Homan told her he discussed illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. “from 181 different countries” but that was edited out as well.
“They [60 Minutes] came in with a plan,” Homan said, according to MacDonald. “They wanted to show that this massive deportation operation was going to be inhumane. It was going to separate families.”
“It&#8217;s going to be, you know, akin to the Nazis,” he added, according to the host. “And that&#8217;s why I spent so much time with them explaining how this would be a well-targeted enforcement plan to protect this country and remove national security threats and criminal alien threats.”
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Looks like CBS 60 Minutes has another major new editing and now a censorship controversy on its hands. 
Tom Homan, former acting ICE director under Trump, says 60 Minutes made massive edits &amp; censored its 2-hour intvw w Homan because it had a biased agenda to attack Trump about…
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/LizMacDonaldFOX/status/1851036519865466912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Tom Homan

Former ICE Director Accuses ’60 Minutes’ Of Cutting Key Points To Fit Agenda

Former ICE Director Accuses '60 Minutes' Of Cutting Key Points To Fit Agenda

60 Minutes

CBS News

While Vice President Kamala Harris was giving her closing campaign speech in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, President Joe Biden called former President Donald Trump’s supporters “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declares-trump-supporters-are-garbage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">garbage</a>.”
Following Biden’s comments, CNN anchor Kaitlin Collins <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/30/politics/video/josh-shapiro-biden-trump-supporters-remark-digvid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was passed over for Harris’ VP candidate, for his response to Biden’s remarks.
&#8220;I had not heard that until now, Kaitlin, so I&#8217;m kind of giving you my fresh reaction to it,&#8221; Shapiro said after Collins played the clip. &#8220;I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans even if they chose to support a candidate that I didn’t support.&#8221;
Collins then asked if Biden needed to clarify his comment, to which Shapiro replied: &#8220;Well, I think President Biden will decide what he wants to say. It&#8217;s certainly not words that I would choose, and I think it&#8217;s important that we remain focused on the contrast between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and not attacking supporters of either candidate.&#8221;
Biden did <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-lies-to-explain-why-he-called-trump-supporters-garbage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempt to clarify</a> his comments, claiming he was only referring to an insult comedian who made a joke at a Trump rally in New York.
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“Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” Biden <a href="https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1851436643498037614">said</a> on X. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable.”
“That’s all I meant to say,” he continued. “The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
Biden’s original statement, however, clearly referred to Trump supporters in the plural. Biden made his comments during a campaign call Tuesday night, saying, “Donald Trump has no character” and “He doesn’t give a damn about the Latino community.”
“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage,” Biden continued, referring to a joke made by a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”
After Biden made the remarks, leftist media outlets immediately began to insist that Biden did not say what everyone heard him say. The White House even released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/10/29/remarks-by-president-biden-on-a-campaign-call/">transcript</a> that added an apostrophe to Biden’s comments in an attempt to change the meaning of Biden’s statement.
&#8220;And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,’” Biden said, according to the official White House transcript. “Well, let me tell you something. I don&#8217;t — I — I don&#8217;t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I&#8217;m fr— in my home state of Delaware, they&#8217;re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter&#8217;s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it&#8217;s un-American. It&#8217;s totally contrary to everything we&#8217;ve done, everything we&#8217;ve been.&#8221;
Yet, watching the video, viewers can clearly see that Biden began a new thought after saying “supporters,” despite what the transcript claims.
Media outlets also attempted to downplay the significance of Biden&#8217;s remarks, with some saying they didn&#8217;t matter because Biden isn&#8217;t running for president. This comes after the media has spent three days complaining about a comedian&#8217;s remarks at a Trump rally.

Josh Shapiro

Snubbed Dem VP Candidate Josh Shapiro Denounces Biden’s Attack On Trump Supporters: ‘I Would Never’

Snubbed Dem VP Candidate Josh Shapiro Denounces Biden’s Attack On Trump Supporters

Elections

Executive

As you’ve probably heard by now, Donald Trump held a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Sure, it wasn’t a Nazi rally by name. He didn’t call it a Nazi rally. There wasn’t any Nazi paraphernalia or Nazi flags or swastikas. There wasn’t anything Nazi related at all. But he did hold his rally in a venue where Nazis held a rally back in 1939. Is that a coincidence? The Nazis rallied at Madison Square Garden and then suddenly, practically the very next day — or, like, 31 thousand days later, give or take, but who’s counting — Donald Trump and his MAGA minions are gathering at the exact same spot. What other conclusion can we draw here? 
If Nazis were in a certain venue and then 85 years later other people are in the same venue, are we not forced to conclude that the second group of people must also be Nazis? Is it conceivable that two different groups, separated by nearly a century, could gather in the same building for different reasons? No, it is not conceivable. It is, in fact, impossible.
That’s the math that the media and the Kamala Harris campaign are doing. Here was Tim Walz sending up the warning flag before the rally:
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A direct parallel, he says. What is the parallel? Well, how much more explicit can it be? There were Nazis in that building 85 years ago. Then on Sunday other people were in the building. The Nazi building. What would they be doing there, except Nazi stuff?
This is the point that many high profile Democrats made. Hillary Clinton denounced the rally as a Nazi gathering. 
As she put it, Trump is “reenacting” the Nazi rally:
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No, we can’t ignore it. She’s right. 
MSNBC made the case as well: 
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There you have it. If you aren’t convinced, you can read the Washington Post column <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/28/trump-rally-madison-square-garden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published on Monday</a> with this headline: “Another night at the Garden: How Trump’s rally echoed one in 1939.” You should read the piece, but in case you don’t have time: it echoed the Nazi rally because it was in the same place as a Nazi rally. That’s the whole argument. And what other argument needs to be made? It’s utterly decisive.
Meanwhile, Mika Brzezinski appeared as a guest on &#8220;The View&#8221; on Monday, where she nearly brought the collective IQ at the table to room temperature level. It was slightly above room temperature before she got there. Mika warned that we are in the “final hours” and must do everything we can to stop the man who holds “Nazi-type rallies”:
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Now you might ask: isn’t Madison Square Garden a major venue where lots of events are held every week? Yes, and that should tell you the scope of this problem. In fact, I went on Ticketmaster this morning and saw that there is a Cyndi Lauper concert — the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” tour — happening at Madison Square Garden this week. This is tragic for her fans, but the conclusion is inescapable: Cyndi Lauper is a Nazi. Girls just wanna be Nazis, apparently. Duran Duran is holding a Nazi rally the very next day at MSG. Nazism is absolutely rife in the 80s music scene. 90s bands aren’t much better. As you can see if you check the events schedule, Dave Matthews Band and Creed are having their own Nazi rallies at Madison Square Garden in November. I’m not surprised about Creed, frankly, but I’m very disappointed in Dave Matthews.
Here’s an interesting and disturbing note: The New York Knicks are having 41 Nazi rallies at Madison Square Garden in the next few months. Nazism is alive and well among NBA players, just as we always suspected.
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This is the way it works now. Every large gathering of people is a Nazi rally if it happens at a place where there was once a large gathering of Nazis. Of course, needless to say, this doesn’t count the 1992 DNC held at Madison Square Garden, or the Ralph Nader Green Party rally in 2000. There are exceptions to every rule. Let’s not dwell on those. Let’s just get back to the main point, which is that Donald Trump is literally a Nazi.
Maybe you aren’t convinced yet. Maybe, in your wild imagination, you have concocted fanciful hypothetical scenarios where Trump held a rally in Madison Square Garden because it’s a really big arena that fits lots of people, and not because Nazi sympathizers gathered there eight and a half decades ago. I find that sort of speculation to be ludicrous, but fine. Then how do you explain the other parallels between Trump and Hitler?
Consider this. Donald Trump, as you may have noticed, almost always wears suits. It seems kind of odd. In an era where most politicians are dressing more casually, Trump insists on the suit. Sort of a strange quirk. It doesn’t really make sense. Until you connect the dots. 
As you can see here, someone else has also been documented wearing suits:
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This is deeply troubling. Adolf Hitler was known to sit at a table and eat dinner. Donald Trump has also been documented sitting at tables and eating dinner. Is this just a “coincidence,” or is it yet another Nazi MAGA dog whistle? <a href="https://t.co/BeJLoT2UmZ">pic.twitter.com/BeJLoT2UmZ</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1850898838564827437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The parallels run even deeper. Recall that infamous photo of Trump eating a taco salad on Cinco De Mayo. That was traumatizing already just for the cultural appropriation alone. Not to mention the fact that he didn’t even have guacamole on his taco salad, which is a totally bizarre and inexplicable choice. 
Instead, think about how he was eating the salad. He was sitting in a chair at a table. Again: that seems strange. You think to yourself: why is he eating at a table? Why a table, of all things? Well, it turns out that someone else was also photographed eating dinner at a table: 
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This is deeply troubling. Adolf Hitler was known to sit at a table and eat dinner. Donald Trump has also been documented sitting at tables and eating dinner. Is this just a “coincidence,” or is it yet another Nazi MAGA dog whistle? <a href="https://t.co/BeJLoT2UmZ">pic.twitter.com/BeJLoT2UmZ</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1850898838564827437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Have you seen enough yet? How many coincidences do you need? Hitler sat at a table. Trump sat at a table. Hitler wore a suit. Trump wore a suit. People who liked Hitler went to Madison Square Garden once. Trump went to Madison Square Garden. The conclusion follows with mathematical certainty: Trump is a Nazi. Cyndi Lauper is a Nazi. The Knicks are Nazis. The dots all connect. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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I think I’ve proven the case beyond any reasonable doubt at this point. But I do want to address the most outlandish rebuttal from the Nazi sympathizers. They will sometimes point out that Trump was actually already president. He was in office for an entire term. If he’s a fascist dictator, then we should be able to look and see that he did a whole bunch of fascist dictator stuff while in office. But, as these naysayers point out, he didn’t. In fact, Trump was the first president in decades to refrain from starting any new wars or invading any new countries. 
Trump did not use his presidential powers to install himself as a dictator for life. He did not end democracy. He did not take any steps to make himself into the autocratic ruler of the country. In fact, Trump signed fewer executive orders than Obama, Bush, and Clinton. If you’re judging Trump by how he actually governed, you are forced to conclude that he was the least power hungry president in the past 100 years. He was remarkably restrained, if anything. At least that’s how the argument goes.
I find it deeply unconvincing. Just because Trump didn’t do something in the past, that doesn’t mean he won’t do it in the future. Indeed, the fact that he didn’t do it in the past only means that he will do it in the future. Think about it. As an analogy, Trump was the burglar casing the house before he makes his move. Just because the burglar drives away without stealing anything, doesn’t mean that he won’t in the future. Of course, in this case, the burglar was actually in the house, for four years, and didn’t do anything. Actually if a burglar is in your house for four years and doesn’t steal anything then it’s really good evidence that he’s not a burglar. So that analogy isn’t helpful. But forget about that. 
The point is that this is all part of Donald Trump’s plan. He refrained from anointing himself Supreme Ruler during his first term, only so that we would be lulled into a false sense of security. He is like a snake, coiled up and waiting to strike. He is a Hitler who didn’t govern like Hitler, so that later he could govern like Hitler. It’s all part of the plan, part of the spell that he casts. And you know who else casts spells? Well, that’s Voldemort actually. But also Hitler. Think about it.

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