The left-wing media is just fine with spreading propaganda from a foreign government, so long as it hurts President Donald Trump.
NBC News chief global affairs correspondent Bill Neely appeared on MSNBC Friday to literally spread Chinese propaganda in a segment to attack Trump over his administration’s handling of the coronavirus, a virus that originated in China.
Neely used the interview to parrot an article from China’s state-run media, a transcript of which was <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/05/15/msnbc-parrots-chinese-propaganda-trashing-trump-lunacy">published</a> by Newsbusters. MSNBC host Katy Tur set up Neely by asking if there was anything behind Trump “again” blaming China for the coronavirus pandemic, even though no one except China claims the virus started anywhere else. China claims the virus originated in the U.S., but all evidence points to it originating in Wuhan.
Instead of explaining why Trump is right to blame China for the virus, Neely described what China’s state-run media was saying in response to Trump suggesting the U.S. cut ties with China.
“&#8230;the coronavirus really is now the central battleground between the U.S. and China&#8230;.and it’s often at the state media level that you find out what the Chinese are really thinking – a completely different reaction to President Trump’s suggestion of cutting off relations altogether with China. The Global Times, pretty influential newspaper, saying that this is lunacy, something that’s not been heard from any U.S. president. Saying it’s hardly surprising from a president who suggested injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients,” Neely said (emphasis added).
Neely then describe an “interesting point” made by Chinese state-run media:
But the really interesting point that they make in their editorial is about election strategy in the U.S. They are suggesting that panic is beginning to set in, in Washington, that President Trump will not be re-elected in November. And that the strategy now is to blame China for everything&#8230;
Neely also touted without hesitation China’s obviously false coronavirus statistics. Neely didn’t even attempt to suggest the numbers should not be taken at face value, as it is impossible that China’s numbers climbed rapidly and then just about fell to zero, as the communist regime suggests.
“China has not reported a single death from coronavirus for a month now. And today only reported four new cases in one cluster. So China definitely trying to argue from a position of strength that it has its pandemic under control. That’s what it says,” Neely said.
Full transcript, from Newsbusters:
KATY TUR: During this afternoon’s news conference at the White House, President Trump again blamed China for the pandemic and his trade adviser Peter Navarro also spoke out.
DONALD TRUMP: This came from China. It should have been stopped in China, before it got out to the world. We have 186, it’s been updated this morning, 186 countries are affected.
PETER NAVARRO: We signed a trade deal with them, and one of the things was stop stealing our intellectual property. Now we have credible information that the Chinese government is trying to steal our vaccine information.
TUR: Joining us now from London is NBC News chief global correspondent Bill Neely. So, Bill, is there anything behind these allegations?
BILL NEELY: Yeah, I mean, it’s interesting, Katie, the coronavirus really is now the central battleground between the U.S. and China. And China responding at a state level, really rather diplomatically, not saying very much except asking that America should cut out the cold war rhetoric.
But at a state media level – and it’s often at the state media level that you find out what the Chinese are really thinking – a completely different reaction to President Trump’s suggestion of cutting off relations altogether with China. The Global Times, pretty influential newspaper, saying that this is lunacy, something that’s not been heard from any U.S. president. Saying it’s hardly surprising from a president who suggested injecting disinfectant into COVID-19 patients.
But the really interesting point that they make in their editorial is about election strategy in the U.S. They are suggesting that panic is beginning to set in, in Washington, that President Trump will not be re-elected in November. And that the strategy now is to blame China for everything, that this will just get worse in the months leading up to November. And it’s calling on Chinese people to be prepared for Washington to indeed cut off relations in certain areas, like technology and like the economy.
Now, the interesting thing, as you will know, Katy, is that officials in Washington have been talking in recent days about the position of Chinese companies on the New York Stock Exchange, about removing Chinese companies from the U.S. supply chain, even about limiting Chinese students access to study science in the U.S. So there is, you know, some justification, if you like, for what The Global Times are saying. But they are basically preparing China for a long battle, not just obviously over trade, but over the coronavirus itself, in advance of November’s election.
Just one quick fact also, Katy, that’s interesting. China has not reported a single death from coronavirus for a month now. And today only reported four new cases in one cluster. So China definitely trying to argue from a position of strength that it has its pandemic under control. That’s what it says. Katy?
CHUCK TODD: Bill Neely, thanks very much.
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NBC Correspondent Spreads Chinese Propaganda To Attack Trump

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NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; admitted late on Sunday that their segment earlier in the day on remarks made by Attorney General William Barr last week was false after host Chuck Todd was called out publicly by a spokesperson for the Department of Justice.
The remarks that &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; deceptively edited came from the following exchange from an interview that Barr had with CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge:
<blockquote>HERRIDGE: In closing, this was a big decision in the Flynn case, to say the least. When history looks back on this decision, how do you think it will be written? What will it say about your decision making
BARR: Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history. But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.</blockquote>
Todd&#8217;s segment only aired the first two sentences from Barr&#8217;s answer and cut off the rest.
Todd then said, “I was struck … by the cynicism of the answer. It’s a correct answer. But he’s the attorney general. He didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.”
Barr spokeswoman Kerri Kupec responded to the segment by transcripts from Todd&#8217;s segment and from Barr&#8217;s interview last week and wrote: “Very disappointed by the deceptive editing/commentary by @ChuckTodd on @MeetThePress on AG Barr’s CBS interview. Compare the two transcripts below. Not only did the AG make the case in the VERY answer Chuck says he didn’t, he also did so multiple times throughout the interview.”
&#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; later responded to her tweet, writing, &#8220;You’re correct. Earlier today, we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed, and we regret the error.&#8221;
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You’re correct. Earlier today, we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed, and we regret the error.
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1259630134614790146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The statement from “Meet The Press” was considered suspect by many online who noted that their claim that they “missed” Barr’s remarks was hard to believe given the fact that remarks they cut out were literally the very next words out of his mouth.
Daily Caller reporter Greg Price tweeted: &#8220;There was nothing inadvertent about it. Chuck Todd says Barr &#8216;didn&#8217;t make the case that he is upholding the rule of law&#8217; when that was literally the next thing Barr does in the clip that you cut off. Your apology is meaningless unless you issue an on air retraction.&#8221;
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There was nothing inadvertent about it. Chuck Todd says Barr &quot;didn&#39;t make the case that he is upholding the rule of law&quot; when that was literally the next thing Barr does in the clip that you cut off. 
Your apology is meaningless unless you issue an on air retraction. <a href="https://t.co/dwMAg5n8oQ">https://t.co/dwMAg5n8oQ</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1259650693171949570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume tweeted: &#8220;Interesting that Chuck Todd and his guests seemed unaware of what the full Barr quote actually contained. At least we can hope they were unaware. Otherwise&#8230;.&#8221;
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Interesting that Chuck Todd and his guests seemed unaware of what the full Barr quote actually contained. At least we can hope they were unaware. Otherwise&#8230;. <a href="https://t.co/dAu3xRmEpj">https://t.co/dAu3xRmEpj</a>
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1259649353704226816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Federalist co-founder Sean Davis tweeted: &#8220;It wasn’t &#8216;inadvertent.&#8217; You did it on purpose to defame Barr. Your apologies are even fake news.&#8221;
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It wasn’t “inadvertent.” You did it on purpose to defame Barr. Your apologies are even fake news. <a href="https://t.co/enGOgUeF64">https://t.co/enGOgUeF64</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1259659487646007296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘YOU’RE CORRECT’: NBC’s ‘Meet The Press’ Admits Their Segment On AG Barr Was Not Accurate

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Attorney General William Barr&#8217;s office slammed far-left NBC News host Chuck Todd on Sunday for &#8220;deceptive editing&#8221; after Todd took remarks that Barr made out of context and used the distorted remarks to smear the Department of Justice (DOJ).
On &#8220;Meet The Press,&#8221; Todd used a deceptively edited portion of Barr&#8217;s interview last week with CBS News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge.
Todd focused in on the following exchange between Barr and Herridge:
<blockquote>HERRIDGE: In closing, this was a big decision in the Flynn case, to say the least. When history looks back on this decision, how do you think it will be written? What will it say about your decision making?
BARR: Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who&#8217;s writing the history. But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.</blockquote>
Todd only played the first two sentences of Barr&#8217;s comments where Barr said, &#8220;Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who&#8217;s writing the history.&#8221;
Todd then launched into an attack on Barr, saying, &#8220;I was struck &#8230; by the cynicism of the answer. It&#8217;s a correct answer. But he&#8217;s the attorney general. He didn&#8217;t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.&#8221;
Todd&#8217;s comments were false because the very next thing that Barr said, which Todd did not show his viewers, was: &#8220;But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Today on Meet The Press, <a href="https://twitter.com/chucktodd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chucktodd</a> wildly took context out of an answer AG Bill Barr gave about his decision to drop the case into Gen. Michael Flynn.
I cut Todd&#39;s segment along with Barr&#39;s full answer together. Look at how blatantly dishonest this is. <a href="https://t.co/tODOEwL48V">pic.twitter.com/tODOEwL48V</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1259549689239818240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Barr spokeswoman Kerri Kupec responded to the segment by posting screenshots on Twitter of the transcript from what Todd said and what Barr said in his CBS News interview last week, writing: &#8220;Very disappointed by the deceptive editing/commentary by @ChuckTodd on @MeetThePress on AG Barr’s CBS interview. Compare the two transcripts below. Not only did the AG make the case in the VERY answer Chuck says he didn’t, he also did so multiple times throughout the interview.&#8221;
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Very disappointed by the deceptive editing/commentary by <a href="https://twitter.com/chucktodd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChuckTodd</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeetThePress</a> on AG Barr’s CBS interview. 
Compare the two transcripts below. Not only did the AG make the case in the VERY answer Chuck says he didn’t, he also did so multiple times throughout the interview. <a href="https://t.co/PR1ciceMmE">pic.twitter.com/PR1ciceMmE</a>
&mdash; KerriKupecDOJ (@KerriKupecDOJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/KerriKupecDOJ/status/1259532906722197504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Herridge posted a video of her interview with Barr that showed the full context of Barr&#8217;s answer and also included the following additional exchange:
<blockquote>HERRIDGE: When the special counsel report was released last year, you were accused by critics of putting your thumb on the scale in the president&#8217;s favor. Are you doing the president&#8217;s bidding in General Flynn&#8217;s case?
BARR: No, I&#8217;m doing the law&#8217;s bidding. I&#8217;m doing my duty under the law, as I see it.</blockquote>
WATCH:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FLYNN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FLYNN</a> Two big moments from our exclusive AG Barr interview ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSNews</a>⁩ “I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.” <a href="https://t.co/aRtFnnx7da">pic.twitter.com/aRtFnnx7da</a>
&mdash; Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1259567553736736774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Meet the Press &#8211; Season 73

Attorney General Barr’s Office Shreds NBC’s Chuck Todd For ‘Deceptive Editing’ Of Barr’s Comments

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Lawyers for Covington Catholic High School senior Nick Sandmann reportedly will file lawsuits against five additional media companies this week for smearing Sandmann last year.
Sandmann’s lawyers submitted a status report with the U.S. District Court in Covington last week that showed that &#8220;they intend to file complaints against Gannett, ABC, CBS, The New York Times and Rolling Stone before March 9,&#8221; Fox 19 <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2020/02/27/sandmann-intends-sue-additional-media-outlets-including-abc-cbs/">reported</a>.
&#8220;All of the future defendants listed above have published or republished statements made by Nathan Phillips and others that Nicholas blocked or otherwise restricted Phillips’ free movement and would not allow Phillips to retreat at the National Mall on January 18, 2019,&#8221; the document said. &#8220;Nicholas reserves his right to file complaints in this Court or any other court against any other potential defendant not listed above, subject to the applicable statute of limitations.&#8221;
Left-wing media companies and Democrats smeared Sandmann following an incident at the January 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Sandmann has previously filed lawsuits ranging from $250 million to $275 million against The Washington Post, CNN, and NBC Universal for their reporting on the incident.
In January, Sandmann received his first major win in his legal fight against the media after CNN settled the $275 million lawsuit that Sandmann&#8217;s team filed against them.
“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,” Wood <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-be-sued-250-million-over-vicious-ryan-saavedra">told</a> Fox News’ Mark Levin last year. “CNN couldn’t resist the idea that here’s a guy with a young boy, with that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him.”
“They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false,” Wood continued. “Now you say you’ve seen the tape; if you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I’ve said to others, he was the only adult in the room.”
In an interview on Fox News last year, McMurtry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nick-sandmanns-lawyer-reveals-massive-275-ryan-saavedra">told</a> anchor Sandra Smith, “Well, what CNN’s tagline is is ‘facts first.’ And what we believe their reporting was in this circumstance was lies first, cover up second, and facts not yet determined by that organization. So the difference between this lawsuit and the other lawsuit that we have filed is that CNN is a very significant media organization with a much broader reach than, say, the Washington Post. It has Twitter followers of 41 million people. It published four videos. Nine online articles that were tweeted out. So that’s millions and millions and millions of repetitions of the lies and falsehoods that CNN spread.”
“Well, we’ve talked about the impact on Nicholas Sandmann a number of times and it — it is significant,” McMurtry continued. “Nicholas Sandmann was a 16-year-old man who had a perfect reputation. He was loved by his parents, respected at his school, and had many good friends at Covington Catholic High School. So he was a person that was doing very well in life, and due to his strong character, he still is. But nevertheless, his character has now been determined by the lies issued by CNN. So the facts were not first, the lies were.”

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Nick Sandmann’s Lawyers Filing Lawsuits Against Five More Media Companies

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Feminist, avid social justice activist, and NBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Good Place&#8221; actress Jameela Jamil came out as queer on Wednesday.
The timing of the announcement, however, has raised eyebrows.
The day before her queer declaration, Jamil, who is in a relationship with singer James Blake, was swarmed with criticism concerning LGBTQ representation and her new gig as a judge on a vogueing TV show.
According to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/06/jameela-jamil-comes-out-as-queer-following-voguing-show-backlash">The Guardian</a>, the new contest show set for HBO, called &#8220;Legendary,&#8221; is &#8220;based around the predominately black and Latinx subculture of drag balls in the LGBT community.&#8221;
Jamil, who was known as a straight woman until Wednesday, took flak for &#8220;taking&#8221; a role from a deserving member of the community around which the show is based.
&#8220;The public response to Jamil’s appointment focused on her perceived lack of ties to its subject matter,&#8221; The Guardian explained.
One such example of this, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jameela-jamil-queer-jameela-jamil-comes-out-as-queer-twitter-today-2020-02-05/">CBS News</a>, came from comic artist Adam Ellis.
&#8220;Look I get that we&#8217;re all out here just trying to get a paycheck,&#8221; he posted via Twitter. &#8220;But [Jameela Jamil] how are you gonna work tirelessly on behalf of underrepresented people and then turn around and accept a job on a panel that should be populated with queer and trans people?&#8221;
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Look I get that we&#39;re all out here just trying to get a paycheck, but <a href="https://twitter.com/jameelajamil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jameelajamil</a> how are you gonna work tirelessly on behalf of underrepresented people and then turn around and accept a job on a panel that should be populated with queer and trans people? <a href="https://t.co/iiCriF5YBt">https://t.co/iiCriF5YBt</a>
&mdash; adam ellis (@moby_dickhead) <a href="https://twitter.com/moby_dickhead/status/1224837706389303296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Jamil&#8217;s response, apparently, was to come out as queer.
According Jamil, she largely kept her queer identity a secret until Wednesday because she &#8220;was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping&#8221; and also noted that it&#8217;s hard for actresses, in particular, to be truthful about their sexuality.
&#8220;I added a rainbow to my name when I felt ready a few years ago,&#8221; her Twitter statement explained, &#8220;as it&#8217;s not easy within the south Asian community to be accepted, and I always answered honestly if ever straight-up asked about it on Twitter.&#8221;
&#8220;But I kept it low because I was scared of the pain of being accused of performative bandwagon jumping, over something that caused me a lot of confusion, fear and turmoil when I was a kid,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;It&#8217;s also scary as an actor to openly admit your sexuality,&#8221; Jamil said, &#8220;especially when you&#8217;re already a brown female in your thirties. This is absolutely not how I wanted it to come out.&#8221;
The actress added that her announcement doesn&#8217;t &#8220;qualify&#8221; her for her new gig.
“I know that my being queer doesn’t qualify me as ballroom,&#8221; Jamil wrote. &#8220;But I have privilege and power and a large following to bring to this show … sometimes it takes those with more power to help a show get off the ground so we can elevate marginalised stars that deserve the limelight and give them a chance.&#8221;
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✌🏽 <a href="https://t.co/YcB6H7YCT0">pic.twitter.com/YcB6H7YCT0</a>
&mdash; Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) <a href="https://twitter.com/jameelajamil/status/1225165342965669888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Along with her social justice activism, Jamil is an avid abortion promoter. In December, for example, the actress attacked pro-lifers as “clueless,” likened them to trolls, and instructed them to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suck-on-that-abortion-loving-jameela-jamil-posts-expletive-laced-tweet-ripping-clueless-pro-lifers">suck on that</a>” if they disagree with her.
Jamil, who has called her own abortion the “best decision” of her life, posted an expletive-laced message after she was criticized for agreeing with fellow abortion-promoting feminist Gloria Steinem that democracy is impossible without on-demand abortion.
“To the people trolling me and (feminist) [Gloria Steinem] because we said there is no democracy without a woman’s right to choose … I SAID WHAT I F***ING SAID and you’re clueless if you think I’m going to take it back,” she wrote.

Jameela Jamil

Actress Comes Out As ‘Queer’ After Her New Gig Sparks LGBTQ Diversity Concerns

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NBC’s “The Good Place” actress Jameela Jamil continued her attacks on pro-lifers on Wednesday, claiming pro-life folks &#8220;don&#8217;t give a f***&#8221; about children and are merely &#8220;pro-birth.&#8221;
&#8220;You people are Pro birth. Not pro life,&#8221; Jamil posted to Twitter. &#8220;There are plenty of starving, homeless babies currently. Over 100k currently seeking foster care. You care about fetuses, Once they’re out the womb, you don’t give a f***.&#8221;
&#8220;Help the kids who are alive first, then call yourself &#8216;pro-life,'&#8221; the 33-year-old actress said.
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You people are Pro birth. Not pro life. There are plenty of starving, homeless babies currently. Over 100k currently seeking foster care. You care about fetuses, Once they’re out the womb, you don’t give a fuck. Help the kids who are alive first, then call yourself “pro-life” <a href="https://t.co/kuCaLaarEO">https://t.co/kuCaLaarEO</a>
&mdash; Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) <a href="https://twitter.com/jameelajamil/status/1202266096755040256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Jamil then posted a nasty political cartoon depicting pro-lifers as hateful bigots who don&#8217;t care about born children or mothers, despite <a href="https://www.hli.org/resources/pro-lifers-stop-caring-children-theyre-born/">loads of data</a> contradicting such nonsense.
&#8220;Literally. And this is how they speak to white mothers. ..,&#8221; Jamil posted, though it remains unclear why the TV star added race into the equation with her &#8220;white mothers&#8221; emphasis.
The cartoon shows &#8220;pro-lifers&#8221; saying, &#8220;We&#8217;ll do whatever we can to protect your life&#8221; to an unborn child. The second half of the cartoon shows the same &#8220;pro-lifers&#8221; viciously attacking the mother and the child, saying the following:
&#8220;Now you&#8217;re on your own.&#8221;
&#8220;Get a job, moocher.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope your tramp mom doesn&#8217;t want food stamps to feed you.&#8221;
&#8220;Or medical insurance.&#8221;
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Literally. And this is how they speak to white mothers&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/8AgMVp3p93">pic.twitter.com/8AgMVp3p93</a>
&mdash; Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) <a href="https://twitter.com/jameelajamil/status/1202268198109794305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Of course, Ms. Jamil&#8217;s claim that pro-lifers do not care about children or mothers once they are born has been shown to be false time and time again.
For example, <a href="https://www.hli.org/resources/pro-lifers-stop-caring-children-theyre-born/">Human Life International</a> (HLI) compiled nearly a dozen studies showing that conservatives are far more likely than liberals to give to charity and support those in need. For example, HLI explained:
<blockquote>&#8220;A 1996 study showed that conservatives gave an average of four times as much to charity as did liberals, and things have not changed since then. &#8230; In his 2006 book Who Really Cares, Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks said: &#8216;[Conservatives] gave more to every type of cause and charity: health charities, education organizations, international aid groups, and human welfare agencies.  They even gave more to traditionally liberal causes, such as the environment and the arts.'&#8221;</blockquote>
This doesn&#8217;t seem to actually be why Ms. Jamil made this particular attack, however. The actress&#8217; tactic is a common one from those on the pro-abortion Left, used to distract from the reality that abortion is a moral evil.
Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins illustrated why the tact is mere obfuscation during a question-and-answer session on a college campus in May.
&#8220;Are you upset that the American Diabetes Association doesn’t fight cancer?” Hawkins asked a pro-abortion student who slammed pro-lifers for allegedly not caring about children after birth. When the student conceded that she wasn&#8217;t upset &#8220;because they are the diabetes foundation,&#8221; Hawkins replied, “Exactly!”
“I am anti-abortion,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;My organization, my mission, is very limited: it’s to abolish abortion; to make abortion illegal and unthinkable, because abortion is the greatest human rights tragedy our world faces. There’s no other act of violence that kills more people every single day in America and across the world than abortion.”
“There is nothing wrong with me fighting and spending 100% of my time doing it,” Hawkins continued. “Just like how there’s nothing wrong with the American Diabetes Association putting 100% of their money, their research, and time behind curing juvenile diabetes.”
“No one ever accuses the Diabetes Association or the American Cancer Association of not trying to cure every life-ending disease,” she highlighted.
The pro-life leader concluded her answer by noting that too often, those accusing pro-lifers of not caring for children post-birth “don’t really care” that <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/katieyoder/2019/05/24/writer-dares-prolifers-to-say-they-personally-help-moms-in-need-n2546836">pro-lifers are often foster parents, lead adoption efforts, and give to charity</a>. “It’s just an argument to try to stop the actual discussion from happening, which is abortion is a moral wrong and it should be stopped,” she said.
Jamil, who has called her abortion the “best decision” of her life, started her crusade against pro-lifers on Monday, when she called them “clueless,” likened them to trolls, and instructed them to “suck on that.&#8221;
“To the people trolling me and (feminist) [Gloria Steinem] because we said there is no democracy without a woman’s right to choose…I SAID WHAT I F***ING SAID and you’re clueless if you think I’m going to take it back,” the actress posted. “My life *is* more important to me than an unborn fetus’ one. Suck on that.&#8221;
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To the people trolling me and <a href="https://twitter.com/GloriaSteinem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GloriaSteinem</a> because we said there is no democracy without a woman’s right to choose&#8230;I SAID WHAT I FUCKING SAID and you’re clueless if you think I’m going to take it back. My life *is* more important to me than an unborn fetus’ one. Suck on that.
&mdash; Jameela Jamil 🌈 (@jameelajamil) <a href="https://twitter.com/jameelajamil/status/1201604444305133568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A federal judge in Kentucky ruled on Thursday that a $275 million lawsuit from Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann against NBCUniversal can proceed in court, the third lawsuit from Sandmann that the judge has allowed to proceed.
&#8220;U.S. District Court Judge William Bertelsman dismissed parts of the lawsuit while allowing discovery on allegations that the network’s coverage defamed the teen by reporting that he &#8216;blocked&#8217; Native American elder Nathan Phillips in a Jan. 18 encounter at the Lincoln Memorial,&#8221; The Washington Times reported.
“[T]he court finds that the statements that plaintiff ‘blocked’ Phillips or did not allow him to retreat, if false, meet the test of being libelous per se under the definition quoted above,” said Judge Bertelsman in his order.
Sandmann attorney Lin Wood wrote on Twitter: &#8220;As predicted, today Judge Bertelsman entered an order allowing the Nicholas Sandmann case against NBCUniversal to proceed to discovery just as he had earlier ruled with respect to WaPo &amp; CNN cases. Huge, huge win!&#8221;
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As predicted, today Judge Bertelsman entered an order allowing the Nicholas Sandmann case against NBCUniversal to proceed to discovery just as he had earlier ruled with respect to WaPo &amp; CNN cases. Huge, huge win!
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) <a href="https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1197603698224054273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
Late last month, Bertelsman reversed course on Sandmann&#8217;s $250 million lawsuit against The Washington Post after having initially blocked it from moving forward.
“After reviewing an amended complaint, Judge William Bertelsman ordered Monday that the case could enter the discovery phase and hence a portion of the lawsuit against the newspaper could continue,” the Cincinnati Enquirer <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/28/cov-cath-judge-rules-lawsuit-against-washington-post-can-continue/2489395001/">reported</a>. “The judge’s order that discovery can continue means Sandmann’s legal team can make requests for internal Washington Post documents concerning the events like emails and communications between editors and reporters.”
Bertelsman allowed the lawsuit to proceed after tossing out 30 of the 33 examples of what Sandmann&#8217;s legal team had tried to argue were libelous statements.
“The Court will adhere to its previous rulings as they pertain to these statements except Statements 10, 11, and 33, to the extent that these three statements state that plaintiff ‘blocked’ Nathan Phillips and ‘would not allow him to retreat,&#8217;” Bertelsman said, according to a separate report from <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/28/nick-sandmann-covington-catholic-student-washingto/">The Washington Times</a>. “Suffice to say that the Court has given this matter careful review and concludes that ‘justice requires’ that discovery be had regarding these statements and their context. The Court will then consider them anew on summary judgment.”
Following the judge&#8217;s October ruling, Sandmann attorney Todd V. McMurty noted that the ruling was a good sign for the $275 million lawsuits against NBCUniveral and CNN.
McMurtry added on Twitter: “NEWSFLASH: Federal Judge William O. Bertelsman partially reversed his ruling to dismiss #nicksandmann’s claims against the @washingtonpost. Nick’s case may now proceed into discovery. The ruling bodes [well] for the NBC and CNN cases, as well.”
“This is a huge win,” McMurtry concluded. “Now #NickSandmann will be able to start discovery and find out exactly what the reporters were thinking when they attacked Nicholas and the #CovingtonCatholic kids.”
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This is a huge win. Now <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NickSandmann?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NickSandmann</a> will be able to start discovery and find out exactly what the reporters were thinking when they attacked Nicholas and the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovingtonCatholic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CovingtonCatholic</a> kids.
— Todd V. McMurtry (@ToddMcMurtry) <a href="https://twitter.com/ToddMcMurtry/status/1188878949268512773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
In March, Sandmann&#8217;s legal team <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nick-sandmanns-lawyers-release-video-ryan-saavedra">released a video</a> explaining the incident that led to their decision to file massive lawsuits against numerous media organizations.
“Last January, 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann was falsely targeted, attacked, vilified, and threatened,” the video begins. “The Washington Post, owned by the richest man in the world, led the print media’s false attacks against Nicholas’ reputation. CNN led the broadcast media’s charge against Nicholas. Both recklessly spread lies about a minor to advance their own financial and political agendas.”
“Despite raw video debunking the false narrative, the Post and CNN doubled down on their reckless lies,” the video continues. “Lies that will forever haunt and endanger the life of an innocent young man. Lies that further divided our nation.”
“How long will we allow these media giants to tear at the fabric of our lives to further their own agendas? Will they ever be held accountable? Yes, they will,” the video adds. “Nicholas Sandman has taken a stand for himself and for you by filing major lawsuits against CNN and the Washington Post. Nicholas and his legal team will not be stopped until these Goliath corporations are held accountable for their lack of journalistic integrity. Until then, no one’s reputation is safe.”
This report has been updated to include additional information.

Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Gets Good News In Lawsuit Against NBCUniversal

Four Democratic 2020 candidates have signed a letter requesting an independent investigation in sexual abuse allegations against NBC. The presidential candidates signed the letter ahead of Wednesday night’s debate, which is co-sponsored by MSNBC. The candidates have so far given no indication that they will pull out of the debate if MSNBC and NBC’s parent company, Comcast, does not agree to their request.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) signed the letter earlier this week and addressed it to Tom Perez, the current chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Huffington Post first <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/warren-sanders-press-investigation-nbc-toxic-culture-democratic-debate_n_5dd35799e4b0263fbc99a8ea">reported</a> on the letter Tuesday morning, writing that the candidates expressed concern that a debate hosted by MSNBC would send the wrong message to victims of sexual abuse if its parent company didn’t agree to an outside investigation into NBC.
“We, the undersigned candidates, are very concerned about the message it would send to sexual assault survivors if our next debate is sponsored by MSNBC without clear commitments from Comcast, the parent company of NBC and MSNBC, to conduct an independent investigation into the toxic culture that enabled abusers and silenced survivors,” the candidates wrote in <a href="https://d2486uwqr5x79k.cloudfront.net/images/DNC_letter_NBC_candidates.pdf">the letter</a>.
The candidates go on to suggest that the five-month long internal investigation into the allegations was inadequate, since it determined that NBC News executives could not be faulted when formal complaints were not made.
“Yet, there is clearly something wrong with a work environment reluctant to hold management accountable. That&#8217;s what allowed the behavior of powerful abusers inside the company to go unchecked. The troubling reports about management’s role to cover up abuse demonstrate that Comcast should have and needs to do more to shift the work culture and pursue significant structural changes in order to prevent future harassment and abuse at NBC and MSNBC. Until that happens, employees are at risk,” the candidates wrote.
The senators suggest that President Donald Trump has been “credibly accused” (a term used these days for every allegation against someone right-leaning, whether the accusation is credible or not) of sexual assault, and therefore Democrats must “offer voters a clear and unquestionable difference come November when it comes to these important issues.”
“We can not do that when we prop up and support companies that have systematically covered up numerous indicents [sic] of sexual violence with no accountability or changes of leadership,” the senators continued.
“It is critical that the Democratic National Committee make clear that they support survivors of sexual harassment and abuse by ensuring that Comcast and NBC News take steps to clean up the toxic culture that exists across their networks,” the candidates concluded.
The  co-sponsorship of the debate has been known for some time, yet these candidates just released the letter this week. As NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/4-democratic-candidates-call-independent-inquiry-nbc-over-alleged-sexual-n1086046">reported</a>, the letter was coordinated by UltraViolet, a women’s group that insists all allegations of sexual assault made by women must be believed. This is an organization that says it still believes Christine Blasey Ford, who claimed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers 30 years ago. No evidence exists that the two had ever even met, and Ford’s own friend from the time says that not only does she not remember Kavanaugh or any incident like the one Ford described, but that Ford’s attorneys pressured her to tell a different story. UltraViolet also says it still believes Anita Hill, who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment even as she followed him from job to job.
Nowhere in the letter do the Democratic candidates suggest they would avoid Wednesday’s debate if Comcast does not agree to an independent investigation.

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A former medical corespondent for an NBC News affiliate in Los Angeles has been charged with asking a nine-year-old girl with sexually suggestive photos.
Dr. Bruce Hensel, who was charged in Santa Monica on Wednesday, is 71 years old.
&#8220;The Los Angeles Police Department said detectives began a child sexual exploitation investigation involving a nine-year-old child after inappropriate messages and photographs were shared between the child and a man believed to be Hensel,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-tv-medical-correspondent-charged-with-asking-9-year-old-girl-for-racy-photos/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=77027356">CBS News</a> reported Thursday.
The nine-year-old child is the daughter of an acquaintance of Hensel&#8217;s, the report noted. Hensel allegedly requested the racy images from the girl, whose name will not be revealed, via a messaging app on August 4th, according the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.
The former correspondent faces one felony count of contact with a minor for sexual purposes, according to Deputy D.A. Angela Brunson.
The 71-year-old was being held on $5,000 bail after the Wednesday arrest but was later released, reported CBS.
If convicted, Hensel could serve out 18 months in state prison.
The former NBC employee maintains his innocence.
A lawyer for Hensel said his client &#8220;is completely innocent of the charge.&#8221;
&#8220;We are cooperating with the authorities and look forward to a speedy and complete exoneration,&#8221; the lawyer told reporters.
&#8220;Hensel is well known in the area as the former chief medical correspondent for KNBC-TV. He won 11 Emmys and two Golden Mike awards for his work in Los Angeles media,&#8221; CBS reported, noting that his &#8220;LinkedIn profile says he spent 29 years with NBC — much of that time at KNBC as its medical and science reporter but left the station in May of 2016.&#8221;
NBC has been plagued with controversy since journalist Ronan Farrow claimed his bombshell story exposing Hollywood producer and alleged serial sexual predator Harvey Weinstein was spiked by the network.
In Farrow’s new book, “Catch and Kill,&#8221; the journalist exposed another hit against NBC, a rape accusation against their former star morning host Matt Lauer. According to the accuser, Brooke Nevils, the accusation was known throughout the company before she filed a formal complaint.
Nevils, a former NBC News employee herself, claimed she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics. 
Nevils told Farrow that she, then-“Today” anchor Meredith Vieira, and Lauer had drinks at the hotel bar where the NBC team was staying during the Olympics. After socializing, Nevils said she went to Lauer’s hotel room to get back her press credentials, which she said were taken by Lauer as a joke. She then returned to his room a second time upon invite, when the alleged rape took place. 
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,’” the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> report detailed the alleged encounter per Farrow&#8217;s book.
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow wrote in the book. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.” 
It was suggested last month by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that former NBC employee Megyn Kelly was canned by the network for publicly asking for an outside investigation into the apparent mishandling of both the Weinstein story and accusations against Lauer. Kelly did not comment on Carlson&#8217;s accusation.

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Former NBC Affiliate Correspondent Charged With Asking 9-Year-Old For Sexual Photos

On Wednesday, NBCUniversal announced that there will not be any additional investigations into sexual misconduct allegations surrounding former “Today” host Matt Lauer. 
&#8220;There is no additional investigation being launched,” NBCUniversal spokesperson Hilary Smith said, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nbcuniversal-wont-conduct-new-matt-lauer-investigation-1248592">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;We are very confident in the report that was conducted.”
&#8220;We fired Matt Lauer within 24 hours of learning what he did, and promptly launched a corporate investigation,” Smith contended. “Based on our investigative findings, we have swiftly taken appropriate actions to address the situation and improve workplace culture. It is also worth noting that this was a corporate investigation that was conducted by an almost entirely female team, none of whom are part of the News division.&#8221;
Megyn Kelly, a former NBC employee who’s been vocal in her support for an outside investigation, blasted the network for their lack on transparency. 
“CBS, FOX, NPR, NFL &#8211; all hired outside investigators,” she posted to Twitter. “NBC again refuses to do so &#8230; as it claims it has ‘nothing to hide.’”
“RELEASE ALL LAUER ACCUSERS FROM THEIR NON-DISCLOSURES,” Kelly added, in all upper case letters.
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CBS, FOX, NPR, NFL &#8211; all hired outside investigators. NBC again refuses to do so &#8230; as it claims it has “nothing to hide.” RELEASE ALL LAUER ACCUSERS FROM THEIR NON-DISCLOSURES. <a href="https://t.co/cMoLMYCcE6">https://t.co/cMoLMYCcE6</a>
&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1184971434856202240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While working for NBC, Kelly publicly called for an outside investigation into the network over internal claims of sexual misconduct regarding Lauer and the suspect handling of allegations into Democrat megadonor Harvey Weinstein.
“There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,” Kelly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">said</a> on NBC airwaves on September 2, 2018, referring to the Lauer allegations and apparent stonewalling on Weinstein reporting from then-NBC journalist Ronan Farrow. “To me, as a lawyer, it’s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it, and if there’s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” she added.
While Kelly was ostensibly fired from NBC a month later for remarks about darkening one&#8217;s face for Halloween costumes, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested Wednesday that Kelly was actually canned for calling for an outside investigation.
Kelly neither confirmed nor denied Carlson&#8217;s theory.
“There needs to be an outside investigation into this company,” she told Carlson. “They investigated themselves, that doesn’t work. Fox News had an outside investigator, CBS News had an outside investigator, NPR, the NFL, this is how it’s done. You get somebody on the outside who can be trusted.” 
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-lauer-accused-of-rape-by-former-colleague-lauer-responds">The Daily Wire</a> last week, former NBC news employee Brooke Nevils claims she was raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics, Farrow&#8217;s new book &#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221; reveals.
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,’” a report from Variety said.
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow wrote in the book. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.”
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” the former NBC employee told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”
Nevils admitted that she had consensual sexual encounters with Lauer following the alleged rape — some of which she initiated.
According to Farrow, Nevils says the alleged incident was an open secret at NBC before a formal complaint was filed and Lauer was canned.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">Tucker Carlson Floats Real Reason Megyn Kelly Was Canned From NBC: Called For Independent Investigation</a>

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NBC Won’t Open New Investigation Into Matt Lauer; Megyn Kelly Responds

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On Wednesday night, Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson, citing published accounts, suggested the real reason Megyn Kelly was canned from her job at NBC last year was because she called for an outside investigation into the network over internal claims of sexual misconduct and the suspect handling of allegations into Democrat mega-donor Harvey Weinstein. 
&#8220;Last September, early September, you (Kelly) on your show, on the air on NBC, called for an independent investigation into these allegations,&#8221; Carlson said to Kelly, who appeared alongside the host on &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight.&#8221;
Carlson ran a clip of Kelly doing just that on September 2, 2018. &#8220;There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,&#8221; Kelly said, referring to allegations of sexual misconduct aimed at former “Today” host Matt Lauer and apparent stonewalling on Weinstein reporting of then-NBC journalist Ronan Farrow. “To me, as a lawyer, it&#8217;s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it and if there&#8217;s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” Kelly added. 
&#8220;People&#8217;s jaws hung open when you said that,&#8221; Carlson told Kelly. &#8220;There have been a couple of published accounts that say you were fired from NBC, a little more than a month later, for saying that.&#8221;
Kelly was ostensibly canned from NBC in October for discussing whether it’s “racist” or not for people to darken their faces for Halloween costumes. 
Carlson then pointed out that MSNBC host Chris Hayes similarly questioned NBC&#8217;s handling of such allegations and reporting. 
&#8220;He (Hayes) is saying essentially what you said, which is he doesn&#8217;t trust the management at NBC News,&#8221; Carlson said to Kelly. &#8220;Given your experience, do you think he&#8217;s in jeopardy of being fired?”
&#8220;No comment on that,&#8221; Kelly tellingly responded. “I will say, the question is open as to whether [NBC] put dollars ahead of decency.” 
“There needs to be an outside investigation into this company,” she continued. “They investigated themselves, that doesn&#8217;t work. Fox News had an outside investigator, CBS News had an outside investigator, NPR, the NFL, this is how it’s done. You get somebody on the outside who can be trusted.” 
As outlined by Tiana Lowe earlier this week, it’s become increasingly clear that Kelly was likely fired for questioning NBC management, rather than the “blackface” comments, in light of reporting from Farrow&#8217;s new book &#8220;Catch and Kill.&#8221;
“Ronan Farrow&#8217;s explosive reporting on the lengths NBC went to shut down his investigation into Harvey Weinstein grants further credence to an unpalatable, sexist, and abhorrent rationale for Kelly&#8217;s firing: NBC wanted to silence Kelly&#8217;s coverage of their former anchor, Matt Lauer,” Lowe posted at <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nbc-probably-fired-megyn-kelly-for-her-matt-lauer-coverage">The Washington Examiner</a>. 
“In the weeks before the blackface nothingburger, Kelly spent ample amounts of time on her talk show reporting on the numerous sexual assault and harassment allegations plaguing Lauer. Unlike many of her fellow daytime hosts, Kelly had covered the #MeToo beat in scrupulous and, at times, necessarily unsavory detail: conducting explosive interviews with multiple Weinstein victims, and when the Lauer story broke and his termination from NBC came shortly thereafter, Kelly covered it with the same righteous indignation,” she continued. “On live television, Kelly called on her own employers to allow an external team to investigate the network&#8217;s handling of the entire Lauer affair, and she went so far as to interview one of Lauer&#8217;s accuser on air.”
“It&#8217;s a massive gamble to criticize the ethics of your own employer on national television, but Kelly rightly made that bet. And NBC fired her for it,&#8221; Lowe claimed. &#8220;We can be more confident thanks to new reporting by Farrow.&#8221;
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NBC News President Noah Oppenheim is attempting to get ahead of the scandal included in former MSNBC host Ronan Farrow’s new book, “Catch and Kill,” which releases on Tuesday.
On Monday morning, Oppenheim sent a lengthy email to NBC News staffers laying out what he alleges are factual inaccuracies in Farrow’s book. The content of the email was shared on Twitter by journalist Yashar Ali. Oppenheim objects to Farrow’s characterization of NBC as having covered up former “Today” show host Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct in part through payouts to “silence” his accusers who came forward.
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4. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim just sent this long email to NBC News staffers in advance of <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a>’s book which comes out tomorrow <a href="https://t.co/i62JjZlDit">pic.twitter.com/i62JjZlDit</a>
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&#8220;Matt Lauer&#8217;s actions were abhorrent, and the anger and sadness he caused continue to this day,&#8221; Oppenheim began the email. &#8220;As we&#8217;ve said since the moment he was fired, his abuses should never have happened.&#8221;
&#8220;Ronan Farrow&#8217;s book takes that undeniable fact and twists it into a lie – alleging we were a &#8216;company with a lot of secrets.&#8217; We have no secrets and nothing to hide,&#8221; he continued.
Oppenheim wrote to employees that NBC employees have read Farrow’s book and determined that “it’s clear &#8212; his smear rests on the allegation that NBC’s management knew about and took steps to hide Matt Lauer’s misconduct before his firing in November of 2017.  Without that, he has no basis on which to rest his second conspiracy theory &#8212; that his Harvey Weinstein reporting was squashed to protect Lauer.&#8221;
Oppenheim claims that “the so-called evidence Farrow uses in his book to support the charge collapses under the slightest scrutiny.” The NBC president then laid out the company’s alleged counter evidence – an analysis from “Kim Harris and the [NBC Universal] Legal Team.”
This analysis claims that the “only three examples we can find that Farrow alleges are Lauer-related before 2017, with even minimal detail, involve employees who by their own admission made no complaint to management, and whose departure agreements were unrelated to Lauer and completely routine.”
The first example involves a named woman in Farrow’s books who, according to Oppenheim, told former NBC host Ann Curry about Lauer’s behavior. Curry, Oppenheim claims, merely told two NBC executives that Lauer “had a problem with women.” One of the executives allegedly denied having heard any such claim. This accuser apparently left the company three years after her allegations and “made no complaint about Lauer.” At the time of her departure, she “was paid 22 weeks of severance based on her years of service, and was asked to sign a separation agreement that was standard for departing employees at the time.”
That contract, according to NBC, was not designed to prevent employees from reporting misconduct.
The second example was an “on-air personality” who also “signed a completely standard separation agreement, including a routine confidentiality provision that was in her original employment contract.” This employee also, according to NBC, did not make any report to management but did show inappropriate messages from Lauer to “colleagues.” The third example involved a “senior member of the Today show team” who received a severance NBC claims, “was commensurate with her salary.” Farrow in his book says the woman received a “seven-figure payout.”
Oppenheim claims the agreements were about protecting “proprietary company information.” It will be hard for regular Americans to understand how much money was given to these three women as “severance” without it looking like a payoff.
Oppenheim also failed to address audio recorded by Ambra Gutierrez showing Harvey Weinstein trying to get her into his hotel room despite her repeated refusals. As Farrow writes in his book, NBC squashed his story about Weinstein’s sexual assault and says that Oppenheim dismissed the audio by saying “Eh … I mean, I don’t know what it proves.”

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NBC Staff Memo Claims Ronan Farrow’s New Book Takes A Fact ‘And Twists It Into A Lie’

The current president of MSNBC waved around a zoomed-in photo of the vagina of popular TV personality Maria Menounos at a staff meeting, a new book from journalist Ronan Farrow reveals.
According to sources in Farrow&#8217;s new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catch-Kill-Conspiracy-Protect-Predators/dp/0316486639/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QLCI8OR8XIPI&amp;keywords=ronan+farrow&amp;qid=1570061809&amp;sprefix=Ronan+Farrow,aps,125&amp;sr=8-1">Catch and Kill</a>,&#8221; MSNBC head Phil Griffin was known for his crass remarks. At a staff meeting, a source detailed that a &#8220;smirking&#8221; Griffin once &#8220;waved around a printed page bearing a zoomed-in image&#8221; of Menounos&#8217; vagina &#8212; the former &#8220;Access Hollywood&#8221; host apparently suffered a wardrobe malfunction while wearing a bikini in public.
&#8220;Would you look at that?&#8221; Griffin reportedly said of the photo, as he &#8220;exhaled hard.&#8221;
&#8220;Not bad, not bad,&#8221; he added.
Journalist <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/10/13/msnbc-exec-showed-off-revealing-pic-of-maria-menounos-reports-on-book/">Yashar Ali</a> obtained the troubling excerpt from &#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221; and posted it to social media on Saturday.
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1. One particularly disturbing scene in <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a>’s book&#8230;
Phil Griffin, the current president of MSNBC, waving around a zoomed in photo of Maria Menounos’s vagina in a staff meeting. 
Order Ronan’s book here: <a href="https://t.co/eLcNiasfdB">https://t.co/eLcNiasfdB</a> <a href="https://t.co/rZmD5vZRAh">pic.twitter.com/rZmD5vZRAh</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1183187544252530688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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According to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/10/13/msnbc-exec-showed-off-revealing-pic-of-maria-menounos-reports-on-book/">Page Six</a>, &#8220;Farrow also claimed that coworkers described Griffin as a crude boss and that while he was still a senior producer at &#8216;Nightly News&#8217; in the 1990s, once pressured female colleagues to go to a peep show in Times Square, New York magazine said.&#8221;
&#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221; details a slew of trouble for NBC Universal News Group outside of Griffin&#8217;s alleged unsavory actions.
According to another excerpt obtained by Ali, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim shrugged off audio captured by model Ambra Gutierrez of Harvey Weinstein admitting to sexual assault and pressuring the model. 
&#8220;Ambra Gutierrez captured Harvey Weinstein on tape admitting to sexual assault. According to [Ronan Farrow]&#8216;s new book, when he played this audio for NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, Noah reacted by saying: &#8216;Eh&#8230;I mean, I don&#8217;t know what it proves,'&#8221; Ali posted. 
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2. Ambra Gutierrez captured Harvey Weinstein on tape admitting to sexual assault. 
According to <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a>&#39;s new book, when he played this audio for NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, Noah reacted by saying: &quot;Eh&#8230;I mean, I don&#39;t know what it proves.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2">https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2</a> <a href="https://t.co/c0qmzt7fWj">pic.twitter.com/c0qmzt7fWj</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1183492093601341446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ali added, &#8220;Another thing NBC News president Noah Oppenheim said to [Ronan Farrow] (according to Ronan&#8217;s book) after listening to this audio was: &#8216;He&#8217;s trying to get rid of her. People say a lot of things when they&#8217;re trying to get rid of a girl like that.’”
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3. Another thing NBC News president Noah Oppenheim said to <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a> (according to Ronan&#39;s book) after listening to this audio was:
&quot;He&#39;s trying to get rid of her. People say a lot of things when they&#39;re trying to get rid of a girl like that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2">https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2</a> <a href="https://t.co/cAZxxNVWgw">pic.twitter.com/cAZxxNVWgw</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1183492098957422597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Moreover, Farrow uncovered a rape allegation against former NBC &#8220;Today&#8221; host Matt Lauer.
Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News employee, said she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics, as accusation Lauer has fiercely denied.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-lauers-rape-accuser-rips-his-defense-as-victim-shaming">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>After socializing at a hotel bar with Lauer and then-“Today” anchor Meredith Vieira, Nevils said she went to Lauer’s room to get back her press credentials, which she said were taken by Lauer as a joke. She then returned to his room a second time upon his invite, when the alleged rape took place.
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,&#8217;” the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> report said.
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,&#8217;” Farrow wrote in his book “Catch and Kill.”
“Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow,” the book claimed.
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” the former NBC employee told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”</blockquote>
Nevils said she had sexual interactions with Lauer after the alleged rape, some of which she initiated.
Farrow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best know for his reporting into the alleged rampant sexual misconduct from Democrat megadonor and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

Maria Menounos

MSNBC President Waved Zoomed-In Photo Of Maria Menounos’ Vagina At Staff Meeting: Report

Herring Networks, Inc., which owns One America News Network, a &#8220;conservative alternative&#8221; to the news, filed a $10,000,000 defamation lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in California on Monday against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Comcast, NBC Universal Media, and MSNBC Cable for defamation and censorship.
As detailed in a <a href="https://www.oann.com/rachel-maddow-lawsuit/">press release</a> Monday, One America News (OAN) is suing Maddow and her employer for making the false claim on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; that OAN &#8220;really literally is paid Russian propaganda&#8221; — an assertion OAN says was made &#8220;maliciously and recklessly&#8221; and despite the left-leaning host knowing it was false. The defamatory claim, OAN says, was made shortly after OAN President Charles Herring condemned NBC&#8217;s parent company, Comcast, for engaging in &#8220;anti-competitive censorship.&#8221;
&#8220;The Complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry OAN as part of its cable programming because OAN counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC,&#8221; OAN announced Monday (full release below). &#8220;The Complaint further alleges that one week after OAN&#8217;s President, Charles Herring, called out and objected to Comcast&#8217;s anti-competitive censorship in an email to Comcast&#8217;s President of Content Acquisition, MSNBC&#8217;s most popular show — The Rachel Maddow Show — opened with the show’s host, Rachel Maddow, telling her audience that OAN &#8216;really literally is paid Russian propaganda.'&#8221;
The defendents, OAN maintains, &#8220;knew this statement was false and that they acted maliciously and recklessly in making it.&#8221; Maddow and MSNBC promoted the false claim, the lawsuit asserts, specifically to damage the reputation and business of OAN because of the network&#8217;s conservative viewpoint and to retaliate against the network for Herring&#8217;s complaint about Comcast&#8217;s alleged censorship.
The lawsuit follows OAN&#8217;s demand for retraction issued to Maddow and The Daily Beast&#8217;s Kevin Poulsen in July after both pushed the Russian claim. As outlined by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/29/one-america-maddow-daily-beast/">The Daily Caller </a>at the time, Poulsen wrote that OAN&#8217;s Kristian Rouz is a &#8220;Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.&#8221; Maddow said on her show the same day that OAN &#8220;really, literally is Russian propaganda.&#8221;
Maddow has repeatedly promoted conspiracy theories about Russian influence on her show, particularly alleged &#8220;collusion&#8221; between Russia and Trump and his associates.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45418/watch-rachel-maddow-collusion-delusion-video-greg-james-barrett">WATCH: Rachel Maddow &#8216;Collusion Delusion&#8217; Video By Greg Gutfeld Goes Viral</a>
Below is the full <a href="https://www.oann.com/rachel-maddow-lawsuit/">press release</a> from OAN (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>Los Angeles, CA—September 9, 2019 – Herring Networks, Inc., an independent, family owned national cable television programming company based in San Diego, California, filed a defamation lawsuit today in the United States District Court, Southern District of California, against Defendants Rachel Maddow, Comcast Corporation, NBC Universal Media, LLC, and MSNBC Cable LLC. The Complaint seeks damages in excess of $10,000,000.
Herring Networks owns and operates One America News Network (“OAN”), a prominent and popular independent television news channel providing Americans with a conservative alternative to the major liberal news outlets. The Complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry OAN as part of its cable programming because OAN counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC.
The Complaint further alleges that one week after OAN’s President, Charles Herring, called out and objected to Comcast’s anti-competitive censorship in an email to Comcast’s President of Content Acquisition, MSNBC’s most popular show—The Rachel Maddow Show—opened with the show’s host, Rachel Maddow, telling her audience that OAN “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
OAN asserts that, in fact, Defendants knew this statement was false and that they acted maliciously and recklessly in making it. The Complaint alleges that the statement was meant to damage OAN’s business and reputation because OAN, unlike MSNBC, presents a conservative viewpoint; and that OAN was targeted in retaliation for calling out Defendants for their anti-competitive censorship in refusing to carry OAN on its cable system.
OAN is represented by Skip Miller, a partner at Miller Barondess, LLP in Los Angeles. Per Miller, “One America is wholly owned, operated and financed by the Herring family in San Diego. They are as American as apple pie. They are not paid by Russia and have nothing to do with the Russian government. This is a false and malicious libel, and they’re going to answer for it in a court of law.”</blockquote>

Rachel Maddow

Conservative Network Sues Rachel Maddow, MSNBC For Defamation

Russia

Despite the fact that the film “The Hunt” reportedly depicts liberal elites hunting “deplorables” for sport, NBC Universal is remaining adamant in the face of recent mass shootings that it is still planning to release the satiric film, which has a release date of September 27. An NBC Universal source <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nbc-universal-pictures-the-hunt-release-backlash">told Fox News</a>, “There are no plans to not release the movie. No plans to move the release.”
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7339149/NBC-Universal-Pictures-plans-release-Hunt-liberal-elites-kidnapping-deplorables.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported, “The violent, gun-toting film revolves around a group people from predominately Republican states being kidnapped and hunted for sport by liberal elites.” <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR) echoed that the “violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum&#8217;s Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.”
The original title of the film was “Red State Vs. Blue State.”
THR pointed out that the screenplay for the movie features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, one of whom boasts about owning numerous firearms, while the blue-state characters opine that the deplorables were targeted for their anti-choice positions or using the N-word on Twitter. One blue-stater reportedly is supposed to push her stiletto heel into the eye of a red-stater, claiming, “War is war.”
A Universal executive reportedly told Fox News that the film “is meant to show what a stupid, crazy world we live in. It might even be more powerful now.” THR noted that the screenplay, written by “Lost” producer Damon Lindelof along with Nick Cuse, includes this exchange: “Did anyone see what our ratf***er-in-chief just did?” “At least The Hunt&#8217;s coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables.”
THR reported, “A high-level insider says top executives want to stand by Blum, one of the studio&#8217;s most prolific and successful producers, as well as filmmaker Craig Zobel, and see the project as a satire addressing an issue of great social importance.”
Political satirist Tim Young told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/the-hunt-movie-deplorables">Fox News</a>, “Why would anyone think it&#8217;s a great idea to have a movie about hunting down someone who doesn&#8217;t agree with them politically? It&#8217;s remarkable to me that the left blames Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric for violence, then literally spends millions to normalize the killing of people based on politics.”
Young added, “We&#8217;re told over and over again by the Left, especially in Hollywood, that this country is more divided than ever and we need to come together&#8230; is this what they mean by it? Come together to murder your neighbors that you don&#8217;t agree with? This film is sick and shows just how hateful the left has become.” He concluded, “The executives at Universal and those even willing to promote this or run ads for it should know better than to promote political violence.”
In April 2017, Lindelof <a href="https://mashable.com/2017/04/17/leftovers-co-creator-talks-donald-trump/">said</a> of the election of President Trump in 2016, “With all apocalyptic thinking, if it’s not happening fast enough we are going to bring it about, which I think explains the election in America. If you are unhappy with the way things are going, you may want to elect an agent of destruction.”

Jason Blum

NBC Universal: We’re Not Canceling Release Of Film Where Liberals Hunt ‘Deplorables,’ Report Says

Hollywood

President Trump is going off the rails on this &#8220;crazy train&#8221; that is the emerging cycle of 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate debates.
After hilariously trolling the debate from the comforts of his Twitter account last night when the moderators had to cut to commercial due to a mic glitch, the president resumed his troll routine on Thursday morning when he tweeted a doctored video of the whole incident with a little Ozzy Osborne thrown in for good measure. Take a look:
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Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>, real professionals! <a href="https://twitter.com/chucktodd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chucktodd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/maddow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@maddow</a> <a href="https://t.co/7ZCkcUQ4yA">pic.twitter.com/7ZCkcUQ4yA</a>
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144177713869017089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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People on social media had a good time with it. But as always, the president had his share of hecklers.
&#8220;S**t happens! Just like you! Your administration is lights out too!&#8221; said Canadian talk show host Frank D&#8217;Angelo. &#8220;You are a colossal power failure! You Delusional treasonous pathological liar f***ing moron conman rancid fishlips incompetent corrupt clueless A***OLE!&#8221;
&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that Donald Trump pays somebody to create these juvenile, pathetic little videos. It&#8217;s the definition of fake news because he wants people to believe that this really happened. The man has absolutely no class or scruples,&#8221; said another Twitter user.
&#8220;You make fun of a technical difficulty? At least they didn&#8217;t lose $130 million drone,&#8221; said another user.
As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48910/mic-breakdown-mid-democratic-primary-debate-trump-amanda-prestigiacomo">reported</a>, the incident began halfway through the debate when moderator Chuck Todd fielded the candidates questions about gun control. Before anyone could answer, they were interrupted by the echoes of chatter reverberating throughout the chamber. After first believing the sounds emanated from the audience, to moderators&#8217; horror, they discovered the source to be backstage where their colleagues had not yet powered their mics off.
&#8220;I think we had a little mic issue in the back,&#8221; Todd said as he looked around the room. &#8220;We have the audience on.&#8221;
Todd persisted in questioning the candidates about gun control but the sounds persisted with him, prompting laughs from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
&#8220;What is happening?&#8221; Maddow puzzlingly asked.
&#8220;We are hearing our colleagues&#8217; audio,&#8221; Todd exclaimed. &#8220;If the control room can turn off the mics &#8230; if the control room can turn off the mics of our previous moderators &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;You know, we prepared for everything,&#8221; Maddow said. &#8220;We did not prepare for this.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to take a quick break, we&#8217;re gonna get this technical situation fixed,&#8221; Todd declared as the broadcast cut to commercial.
Immediately, President Trump seized the opportunity to trash NBC for allowing the difficulty to happen during a live broadcast as an indication of the network&#8217;s ineptitude.
&#8220;@NBCNews and @MSNBC should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible technical breakdown in the middle of the debate,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;Truly unprofessional and only worthy of a FAKE NEWS Organization, which they are!&#8221;

President Trump Addresses Faith &amp; Freedom Coalition Conference In Washington

‘Crazy Train’: Trump Trolls Democratic Mic Glitch With Doctored Video

Democratic Party

Halfway through the first Democrat primary debate on Wednesday night, there were noticeable mic issues, which forced moderator Chuck Todd to cut to commercial break. The disruption was quickly pounced on by President Donald Trump, who blasted NBC and MSNBC for their &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; snafu.
The issues started when NBC&#8217;s Todd asked the Democrat candidates about their position and plans regarding gun control. Hearing voices in the background, the candidates remarked about their mics being on, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/democratic-debate-june-26-2019/index.html">according</a> to CNN.
&#8220;Yeah, everybody&#8217;s mics are on,&#8221; Todd told the candidates, later adding, &#8220;I think we had a little mic issue.&#8221;
The NBC host then went forward with his question, but the technical issues continued. Apparently, according to Todd, his colleagues backstage had not yet turned off their mics, CNN reported. He quickly threw to commercial so the error could be fixed.
Within moments, President Trump took to Twitter to blast the &#8220;fake news&#8221; networks.
&#8220;[NBC News] and [MSNBC] should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible technical breakdown in the middle of the debate,&#8221; the president posted. &#8220;Truly unprofessional and only worthy of a FAKE NEWS Organization, which they are!&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> should be ashamed of themselves for having such a horrible technical breakdown in the middle of the debate. Truly unprofessional and only worthy of a FAKE NEWS Organization, which they are!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1144064520152739840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Last week, Trump said he planned on live-tweeting the first round of 2020 Democratic primary debates, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/campaign-wire-election-2020/card/1560859018">according</a> to The Wall Street Journal. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48537/president-trump-plans-live-tweeting-democratic-emily-zanotti">noted</a> by The Daily Wire, the move was considered &#8220;controversial among Trump&#8217;s aides, with some strategists claiming that it would be better for the president if the Democrats, who will debate in two shifts over two nights, were allowed to attack each other without the president as a distraction.&#8221;
Trump has seemingly found some middle ground, blasting the &#8220;fake news&#8221; networks and calling the entire debate &#8220;boring,&#8221; while generally backing off calling out any individual candidates.
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BORING!
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Mic Breakdown Mid-Democratic Primary Debate; Trump Mocks Them

On Wednesday, attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student who was targeted by the media after his encounter with Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, announced they are filing a $275 million lawsuit against NBCUniversal, alleging &#8220;NBCUniversal created a false narrative by portraying the &#8216;confrontation&#8217; as a &#8216;hate crime&#8217; committed by Nicholas.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/1/nick-sandmann-covington-catholic-teen-sues-nbc-275/">The Washington Times</a>, the suit states that NBCUniversal was motivated by its &#8220;anti-Trump agenda,&#8221; adding that Sandmann was &#8220;an easy target for NBCUniversal to advance its anti-Trump agenda because he was a 16-year-old white, Catholic student who had attended the Right to Life March that day and was wearing a MAGA cap at the time of the incident which he had purchased earlier in the day as a souvenir.&#8221; The suit also states that NBCUniversal, by means of NBC and MSNBC, &#8220;unleashed its vast corporate wealth, influence, and power against Nicholas to falsely attack him despite the fact that at the time, he was a 16-year-old high school student.&#8221;
The lawsuit asserts, &#8220;Headlines run online by NBCUniversal outlets about the incident included, &#8216;Nathan Phillips, Native American man harassed by high schoolers, tells his story,&#8217; and &#8216;Video of teens taunting man at Indigenous Peoples March sparks outrage.&#8217;&#8221;
Sandmann&#8217;s attorneys have already filed a $250 million suit against the Washington Post and another suit against CNN for $275 million. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43694/breaking-nick-sandmanns-lawyers-file-massive-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire reported</a> in mid-February, Sandmann&#8217;s lawyers warned when they sued The Washington Post that more suits would be forthcoming. They said in a <a href="http://www.hemmerlaw.com/blog/for-truth-for-justice-for-nicholas/">statement</a>:
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Today, Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry filed their first lawsuit on behalf of Nicholas Sandmann against The Washington Post. The lawsuit filed is included below. The suit seeks $250 million in both compensatory and punitive damages. Lin and Todd will continue to bring wrongdoers before the court to seek damages in compensation for the harm so many have done to the Sandmann family. This is only the beginning.
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The lawsuit against the Post stated: &#8220;In targeting and bullying Nicholas by falsely accusing him of instigating the January 18 incident, the Post conveyed that Nicholas engaged in acts of racism by &#8220;swarming&#8221; Phillips, &#8220;blocking&#8221; his exit away from the students, and otherwise engaging in racist misconduct. The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump (&#8216;the President&#8217;) by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44586/watch-nick-sandmanns-lawyer-reveals-massive-275-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire reported</a> in mid-March that Sandmann&#8217;s attorneys announced they were suing CNN, with one saying, &#8220;Well, what CNN&#8217;s tagline is facts first. And what we believe their reporting was in this circumstance was lies first; cover up second, and facts not yet determined by that organization. So the difference between this lawsuit and the other lawsuit that we have filed is that CNN is a very significant media organization with a much broader reach than say The Washington Post. It has a Twitter followers of 41 million people. It published four videos. Nine online articles that were tweeted out. So that&#8217;s millions and millions and millions of repetitions of the lies and falsehoods that CNN spread.&#8221;

Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Files Major Lawsuit Against NBC and MSNBC

Covington Catholic High School

Warning: Lewd content.
On Friday, <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/saturday-night-live-accused-plagiarizing-1203163172/">Variety</a> reported accusations of plagiarism against &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; by a comedic group who says the iconic show blatantly stole their ideas &#8212; and they&#8217;ve got evidence.
Two video sketches released by SNL over the last six months are eerily similar to sketches produced and published on YouTube years earlier by comedic group Temple Horses. One sketch aired by SNL last October titled &#8220;The Pumpkin Patch&#8221; features an owner of a pumpkin patch questioning his employees about an accusation that they had intercourse with some of the pumpkins. Another SNL sketch, &#8220;Pound Puppy,&#8221; released in mid-February, is a fake infomercial about a new product that allows couples to have sex without worrying about offending their dogs.
Both of the videos, Temple Horses co-founders Nick Ruggia and Ryan Hoffman said in a letter sent to NBC in February and obtained by Variety, were lifted from sketches their troupe published on YouTube back in 2014 and 2011: &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=219&amp;v=DwuDCcOnveA">F*** A Pumpkin</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=82&amp;v=UAyVo7u5_0I">Pet Blinders</a>&#8221; (videos linked rather than embedded due to NSFW content).
In the Temple Horses&#8217; pumpkin sketch (uploaded Oct. 2014), an owner of a pumpkin patch is appalled by the lewd acts customers suggest performing on a pumpkin. &#8220;Pet Blinders&#8221; (uploaded Sep. 2011) is an infomercial advertising blinders for dogs so they don&#8217;t have to be traumatized by watching their owners getting intimate. The &#8220;Pound Puppy&#8221;/&#8221;Pet Blinders&#8221; videos are particularly similar. Variety explains:
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In the Temple Horses&#8217; &#8220;Pet Blinders&#8221; and the &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; sketch &#8220;Pound Puppy,&#8221; a fictional product is being sold that prevents pets from watching their owners perform sex acts. In the former, the product is a blind that goes over the pets&#8217; eyes. In the latter it is a large, dog-shaped blinder that the owners climb inside in order to have sex while obscured from their pets&#8217; field of vision. Each sketch, as the letter points out, uses &#8220;[three] separate settings for pet-interruption, introducing the pet owners&#8217; dilemma.&#8221; Each sketch uses a dog&#8217;s-eye-view and reverse shot. In each, a labrador retriever, a mid-size dog, and a custom-breed dog is used.
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&#8220;Imagine, one day you come home and it looks like somebody&#8217;s robbed your house,&#8221; Hoffman told Variety in an exclusive interview. &#8220;What do you want from that situation? We feel like somebody took our stuff, and this isn&#8217;t the kind of thing where you can just get it back or call your insurance company to have it replaced, so at this point we&#8217;re just speaking out about it.&#8221;
Ruggio and Hoffman told Variety that they received a verbal response to their letter from an NBC attorney about a week after they sent it and were told that an internal investigation found that the writers of both sketches &#8220;had independently developed the ideas for those sketches and found no similarities to the Temple Horses sketches that would be protected by copyright law,&#8221; Variety reports.
Variety&#8217;s SNL source confirmed Ruggio and Hoffman&#8217;s claim and said NBC is currently working on a more official response.
Below are the two videos produced by SNL followed by links to the Temple Horses&#8217; previously released sketches.
SNL&#8217;s &#8220;The Pumpkin Patch&#8221;:
<div class="embed video fluid-video"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d2jcw6-iKQc" width="635"></iframe></div>
And here&#8217;s the link to Temple Horses&#8217; &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=219&amp;v=DwuDCcOnveA">F*** A Pumpkin</a>.&#8221;
SNL&#8217;s &#8220;Pound Puppy&#8221;:
<div class="embed video fluid-video"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dn9no3ZzfFo" width="635"></iframe></div>
Here&#8217;s the link to Temple Horses&#8217; &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=82&amp;v=UAyVo7u5_0I">Pet Blinders</a>.&#8221;
<a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/saturday-night-live-accused-plagiarizing-1203163172/">Read Variety&#8217;s full report here</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43592/alec-baldwin-says-trumps-snl-collusion-tweet-may-james-barrett">Alec Baldwin Says Trump&#8217;s SNL &#8216;Collusion&#8217; Tweet May Be Threat To His Family</a>

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller hasn&#8217;t found any collusion (yet). The House Intelligence Committee found no collusion. The Senate Intelligence committee found no collusion. No reporter has been able to find collusion (though they&#8217;ve tried and failed many times). But Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who now chairs the House Intel committee, is convinced that he will find collusion by hiring prosecutor-turned-pundit Daniel Goldman.
Goldman <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/05/house-intelligence-daniel-goldman-1204140">was described</a> by Politico as &#8220;a seasoned former Southern District of New York federal prosecutor with experience going after Russian organized crime.&#8221; Schiff hired Goldman to lead all of his committee&#8217;s investigations into President Donald Trump (because Schiff is convinced he&#8217;ll find it if he leaves no stone unturned).
Goldman&#8217;s credentials are impressive, having taken down Russian mobsters and some in the Genovese crime family. But he has since become a legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC, and clearly believes in Trump&#8217;s wrongdoing. Asking him to lead a &#8220;professional investigation&#8221; when he clearly already has a particular outcome in mind is anything but professional.
&#8220;Under Chairman Schiff&#8217;s leadership, we intend to run a professional investigation designed to uncover the facts and the truth,&#8221; Goldman said of his hiring.
Schiff and other House Democrats are determined to investigate anything he can involving Trump. Politico notes that Schiff&#8217;s investigations are among other &#8220;probes targeting the president, his administration, his presidential campaign and his business empire.&#8221;
Democrats are still so upset they lost in 2016 they are willing to dig through Trump&#8217;s life to find something they can use against him. Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee, led by chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44153/democrats-really-are-going-subpoena-trumps-taxes-ashe-schow">will subpoena Trump&#8217;s personal tax returns</a>, hoping to find quick ammo against him. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), will investigate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44221/house-democrats-will-investigate-trump-obstruction-ashe-schow">whether Trump obstructed justice</a>.
Newsflash: The special counsel&#8217;s investigation is a counter-intelligence investigation that has found some criminal wrongdoing by former Trump officials. It is not actually a criminal investigation. Counter intelligence investigations <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andrew-c-mccarthy-would-mueller-indict-trump-for-attempting-to-fire-mueller">are done for the president</a> (or, they&#8217;re supposed to be), so by definition he can&#8217;t obstruct them, as National Review&#8217;s Andy McCarthy has repeatedly written.
As The Daily Caller&#8217;s Chuck Ross <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/05/schiff-hires-msnbc-analyst/">reported</a>, Goldman&#8217;s prosecutorial chops have been diminished by his antipathy for Trump. Last December, Goldman whole-heartedly endorsed a McClatchy story that contained no evidence for its claims outside of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44319/mcclatchy-still-standing-its-evidence-free-thinly-ashe-schow">&#8220;two sources familiar with the matter</a>.&#8221;
Schiff himself has lost all credibility when it comes to leading a &#8220;professional investigation.&#8221; Schiff, reportedly, routinely leaves closed-door hearings. Minutes after he leaves, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44200/nagging-ethics-questions-regarding-democrat-house-ashe-schow">CNN breaks a story using leaks from the testimony</a>. It happened during Benghazi hearings and it happened when Donald Trump, Jr. testified behind closed doors. During former Trump attorney Michael Cohen&#8217;s testimony last week, Schiff left, and lo and behold, CNN had a scoop that Cohen provided documents that showed Trump&#8217;s lawyers changed his testimony, which Cohen gave in 2017 and which was false. CNN later had to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/cnn-update-michael-cohen-story/">issue a major correction</a> to the report. Last year, one of these leaks led to another major error for CNN, when it claimed Don Jr. received early access to Wikileaks documents. The media outlet reported the email with the links was sent on Sept. 4, 2016, when it was clearly sent on Sep. 14, after the documents had already been released.

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