NBC medical expert Joseph Fair, who has appeared on the network nearly a dozen times since the COVID-19 pandemic began sweeping across the U.S., offered a horrific tale about the virus.
According to Fair, he caught the virus while on a commercial flight from New Orleans. “I had a mask on, I had gloves on, I did my normal wipes routine … but obviously, you can still get it through your eyes,” Fair in May told the &#8220;Today Show,&#8221; directly, via video link from his hospital bed. “And, of course, I wasn’t wearing goggles on the flight.”
In another appearance the next month, Fair told NBC’s Chuck Todd on &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; that the virus was “the worst I’ve ever felt. I probably spent 23 out of 24 hours in bed.”
“I don’t have any of those underlying conditions, I’m 42 years old. So you wouldn’t think, clinically, that I would be one of those people that would get so very ill,” Fair said, adding: “Those people that are young and think they’re invincible or people that just don’t think it’s going to affect them that greatly even if they do get it. I can say that my own experience was the complete opposite.”
&#8220;I was a very healthy person. I exercise five to six days a week,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If it can take me down, it can take down anybody.&#8221;
The only problem: Fair never had COVID-19, at least according to several test results.
&#8220;What Fair, Todd, and NBC News didn’t tell the audience is that before he made this claim, Fair had already tested negative for COVID-19 at least five times,&#8221; <a href="https://www.insidesources.com/nbc-news-contributor-never-had-covid-network-has-yet-to-issue-correction/">Inside Sources</a> reports. &#8220;Fair followed that up with an antibody test to detect if he’d ever had the virus. The results were negative.&#8221;
&#8220;And now we know Dr. Fair never had coronavirus, despite nearly a dozen appearances on NBC and MSNBC where he talked about having it or recovering from it,&#8221; media watchdog Steve Krakauer writes in his <a href="https://mailchi.mp/thefirsttv/fourth-watch-jul-9">Fourth Watch</a> newsletter.
<blockquote>In the end, NBC&#8217;s viewers were left with two very alarming &#8212; and false &#8212; impressions. First, that an expert virologist can take every precaution but can still catch COVID-19 through his eyes. False. Second, that tests can be so untrustworthy that you can have multiple negative tests and still have coronavirus. [Today co-host] Craig Melvin described them as &#8216;false negative tests&#8217; in that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWRVXxTdgYs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">initial report</a> on May 14. Hoda Kotb said, &#8216;every time it came back negative, but clearly you have it.&#8217; False.</blockquote>
Fair took to Twitter last week to try to explain.
&#8220;My undiagnosed/suspected COVID illness from nearly 2 months ago remains an undiagnosed mystery as a recent antibody test was negative. I had myriad COVID symptoms, was hospitalized in a COVID ward &amp; treated for COVID-related co-morbidities, despite testing negative by nasal swab,&#8221; he wrote in a post.
&#8220;I was severely ill for 2 weeks, 4 days of it in critical condition, resulting in pneumonia, diffuse lung injury &amp; 18lbs of weight loss. My path forward is a 2nd AB test, &amp; follow-up with a pulmonologist &amp; tropical medicine specialist in an effort to diagnose what made me so ill,&#8221; he wrote.
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I was severely ill for 2 weeks, 4 days of it in critical condition, resulting in pneumonia, diffuse lung injury &amp; 18lbs of weight loss. My path forward is a 2nd AB test, &amp; follow-up with a pulmonologist &amp; tropical medicine specialist in an effort to diagnose what made me so ill.
&mdash; Dr. Joseph Fair (@curefinder) <a href="https://twitter.com/curefinder/status/1280555581334532096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NBC Virus Expert Who Claimed He Had ‘Undiagnosed’ COVID-19 Reveals He Never Had Virus

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) unloaded on Google in a letter late Tuesday over a debacle that played out on social media in which NBC News ran a hit piece on the conservative publication The Federalist in an apparent attempt to get them demonetized from Google — a move that would damage their business.
<a href="http://archive.is/OvelP">Far-left</a> NBC News Verification Center reporter Adele-Momoko Fraser published a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200616191520/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-bans-two-websites-its-ad-platform-over-protest-articles-n1231176">report</a> claiming: &#8220;The Federalist, will no longer be able to generate revenue from any advertisements served by Google Ads. A Google spokesperson said in an email that it took action after determining the websites violated its policies on content related to race.&#8221;
Once backlash quickly built online from media organizations and from multiple U.S. Senators, Google publicly disputed the claim by NBC News, writing: &#8220;The Federalist was never demonetized.&#8221;
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The Federalist was never demonetized.
&mdash; Google Communications (@Google_Comms) <a href="https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1272997425821540352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Google later suggested that the issue was related to The Federalist&#8217;s &#8220;comments section,&#8221; adding, &#8220;as the comment section has now been removed, we consider this matter resolved and no action will be taken.&#8221;
Fraser, who appeared to originally state that she &#8220;collaborated&#8221; with two far-left foreign-based activist organizations, came out and said that she did &#8220;not collaborate on the research,&#8221; even though she thanked the two organizations for their &#8220;collaboration&#8221; in her original tweet.
Furthermore, one of the groups, Stop Funding Fake News, thanked the NBC News Verification Center, tweeting, &#8220;&#8230;and thanks to our investigation with [NBC Verification Center], [Google Ads] also took action to defund [The Federalist], a racist Fake News site pushing misinformation about [Black Lives Matter].&#8221;
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Yet another bizarre inconsistency. 
“thanks to our investigation with NBC” that NBC is now outright denying it played a role in &#8230;
I’m megacurious what all the communications looked like between these two and then NBC and Google. <a href="https://t.co/TWE8IuA8l8">pic.twitter.com/TWE8IuA8l8</a>
&mdash; Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1273126816195268611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The entire debacle quickly spiraled out of control on social media, with NBC News and Google facing backlash for the entire incident in which far-left foreign activist groups tried to attack an American company.
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As the piece notes, NBC brought this to Google&#39;s attention. NBC found a ridiculous advocacy group to make allegations. Without offering any quotes, NBC claimed a specific story was the reason for the penalty&#8211; a story critical of NBC. NBC tried to have the site demonitized. <a href="https://t.co/xVGTNx6f7A">https://t.co/xVGTNx6f7A</a>
&mdash; David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1273024246156058630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Cruz later sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and copied Attorney General William Barr and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph Simons on the letter.
In the letter, Cruz highlighted the &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; that Google&#8217;s alleged actions raised with respect to an apparent attempt to &#8220;censor political speech with which it disagrees.&#8221;
The following is the full letter that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai:
<blockquote>The recent actions of Google to “demonetize” a conservative media publisher, The Federalist, raise serious concerns that Google is abusing its monopoly power in an effort to censor political speech with which it disagrees.
This is part of a bigger problem. The culture of free speech in this country is under attack, and Google is helping lead the charge. Whereas Americans once understood that the best response to speech was more speech, some Americans, with the help of some of the most powerful companies on the planet, are now pressing to silence and punish those expressing views that do not align with the prevailing and ever-shifting progressive orthodoxy. These individuals demand that people with different views lose their livelihoods if they step out of line. Employers must fire dissenters. Companies like Google must—to use a most Orwellian term— “demonetize” them.
As evidenced by its actions yesterday, Google seems more than happy to play this censorship role by trying to break the financial back of a media publication with which it disagrees. As NBC News reported, The Federalist—a conservative media organization and publisher—was banned from generating revenue from any advertisements served by Google Ads. According to the report, Google took this action after NBC News Verification Unit, apparently working at the behest of the so-called Center for Countering Digital Hate notified Google that The Federalist had published an article claiming that “the media had been lying about looting and violence during the protests, which were both included in the report sent to Google.”
Whether or not one agrees with this characterization, destroying the publisher’s ability to use advertising to reach willing readers should be wholly beyond the pale. The so-called “Center for Countering Digital Hate” is now actively fundraising off its success enlisting Google in its efforts to silence views contrary to its political agenda.
Perhaps knowing that its actions were indefensible, Google appears to have backtracked, saying that the decision to “demonetize” The Federalist is not due to the article itself, but instead due to offensive reader comments that allegedly violated Google advertising policies. Google reportedly gave The Federalist three days to eliminate the offensive comments, or face immediate “demonetization.” Moreover, Google apparently stated that The Federalist could use Google Ads if it simply turned off its comments section. This is no better.
Google’s decision to target The Federalist is transparently politically motivated. Numerous “progressive” media outlets allow comments, including, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Wonkette, Slate, Jezebel, The Root, Salon, The Intercept, The Young Turks, and many others. I don’t know what the objectionable comments were that individual users might have posted on The Federalist, but any objective review would no doubt demonstrate at least as many profane, racist, or indefensible user comments on these other sites that would equally violate Google’s alleged standards.
But one need not look that far. On any given day, there are thousands of profane, racist, and indefensible comments posted on YouTube, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google.
It is also deeply ironic that Google is financially punishing a website for speech that appears on its platform. Google has defended section 230’s grant of immunity to Big Tech by arguing that “the best way to protect online speech—and indeed the internet itself—is to allow platforms to set and enforce standards for appropriate speech on their services, and to do so generally free from . . . the threat of private litigation.” But while Google demands that it cannot be held financially accountable for unlawful speech on its own platform, it is all too willing to use its market power to hold a conservative media outlet financially responsible for allowing disfavored speech on its platform.
Google’s actions yesterday were antithetical to American values. The Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee is charged with protecting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; Google’s facially discriminatory conduct is contrary to the principles of Free Speech embodied in the First Amendment, and may well violate federal antitrust laws as well.
Within seven days, by June 24, 2020, Google is requested to provide to the Subcommittee the following:
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<li>All communications in the past year between Google and the NBC News Verification Unit concerning The Federalist.</li>
<li>All communications in the past year between Google and the Center for Countering Digital Hate concerning The Federalist.</li>
<li>All internal communications or deliberations in the past year at Google or YouTube concerning The Federalist.</li>
</ol>
Google is also requested to answer, in writing, by June 24, 2020, the following questions:
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<li>Has Google examined the comments sections of any of the “progressive” organizations listed in this letter and made any assessment whatsoever how they compare to the comments on The Federalist that were claimed as a basis for demonetization?</li>
<li>Will Google apply the same standards to all media organizations, or just those with which it has political disagreements?</li>
<li>Does Google believe Section 230 protects The Federalist? Why or why not?</li>
<li>If any offensive comments appear on YouTube, will Google begin immediately demonetizing its subsidiary? Within three days, the deadline given to The Federalist?</li>
<li>Is Google’s preferential treatment to YouTube, on far more favorable terms than those extended to The Federalist, consistent with the Sherman Act? Why or why not?</li>
</ol>
Thank you for your attention to this matter. I look forward to your response.</blockquote>
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Senate Leadership Holds News Conference After Weekly Caucus Meeting

Cruz Unloads On Google Over Debacle In Failed NBC News Hit On The Federalist, Gets AG Barr Involved

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Google has threatened to ban the conservative news and opinion site The Federalist from profiting off online advertising through Google Ads for violating the tech giant&#8217;s conditions against “inappropriate content.”
Google is disputing an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-bans-two-websites-its-ad-platform-over-protest-articles-n1231176">NBC News report</a> claiming that Google barred The Federalist and Zerohedge from Google&#8217;s ad platform over allegations that the sites spread false or racist information. Google has deplatformed Zerohedge, but only warned The Federalist and has given the site time to correct the violations.
“To be clear, The Federalist is not currently demonetized. We do have strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on, which includes comments on the site. This is a longstanding policy,” a Google spokesperson told The Daily Wire in a statement. The violations apply only to The Federalist&#8217;s comment section where the site&#8217;s readers are allowed comment on individual articles. Google did not cite any violations having to do with content by The Federalist&#8217;s writers or contributors.
Google is apparently walking back a statement given by a company spokesperson to NBC News. A spokesperson had initially claimed The Federalist was barred from profiting off advertisements run through Google Ads. Requests for clarification made to Google and NBC News were not immediately returned.
“We have strict publisher policies that govern the content ads can run on and explicitly prohibit derogatory content that promotes hatred, intolerance, violence or discrimination based on race from monetizing,” a Google spokesperson said, according to NBC. “When a page or site violates our policies, we take action. In this case, we’ve removed both sites’ ability to monetize with Google.”
In another detail of the NBC News story now denied by Google, the outlet says that the tech giant deplatformed The Federalist after the British nonprofit Center For Countering Digital Hate published a <a href="https://www.stopfundingfakenews.com/defund-racism">report</a> of 10 websites, which included The Federalist and ZeroHedge, that allegedly traffic in “Fake News and racist narratives” that “can cause real-world harms.”
NBC News brought the report to Google&#8217;s attention. According to the NBC <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200616201505/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-bans-two-websites-its-ad-platform-over-protest-articles-n1231176">article</a>:
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Google blocked The Federalist from its advertising platform after the NBC News Verification Unit brought the project to its attention. ZeroHedge had already been demonetized prior to NBC News’ enquiry, Google said. ZeroHedge and The Federalist did not respond to requests for comment.
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Countering Digital Hate is spearheading a push to get all 10 sites in its report “defunded.” The campaign, called the Stop Funding Fake News project, is pressuring for advertisers, financial supporters, and platforms to drop the sites.
The Federalist was placed on Countering Digital Hate&#8217;s report for two alleged infractions recorded by Countering Digital Hate: publishing a June 3 <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/03/the-media-are-lying-to-you-about-everything-including-the-riots/">article</a> accusing journalists and media outlets of making false claims about white supremacists sparking violence at recent protests, and of creating a “black crime” tag for categorizing articles. The tag was last used and deleted from The Federalist site over three years ago.
The Federalist declined a request to comment.
ZeroHedge, a financial and political news and commentary site that publishes articles under pseudonymous authors, was placed on the list for claiming in a May 30 <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-05-30/fake-artificial-manufactured-protests-exposed-real-america-has-voice">article</a> that “Black Lives Matter is practically a revolutionary operative of the CIA via Soros,” citing a <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/black-lives-matter-has-been-hijacked-by-george-soros-sheriff-clarke">claim</a> made by Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. Countering Digital Hate also cited a Sept. 8, 2016 <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-08/deep-left-pockets-black-lives-matter">article</a> that says:
<blockquote>While claiming to be a grassroots organization formed in response to the prevalence of police violence, Black Lives Matter (BLM) is actually 100-percent pure Astroturf. With coffers bulging with millions of dollars from George Soros, the Ford Foundation, and other deep-pocketed leftist individuals and groups, BLM is little more than a front organization for these leftists and their agenda to reshape the very fabric of American society, culture, and law.</blockquote>
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Google Threatens To Ban The Federalist From Ad Platform For Comment Section Violations

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During a shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Comcast CEO and Chairman Brian Roberts rejected multiple proposals from investors, including one that demanded the company hire an outside investigator to look into how NBC News handled complaints of sexual harassment against fired “Today” show anchor Matt Lauer.
The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-06-03/comcast-rejects-outside-investigation-sexual-harassment-nbc-farrow-lauer?_amp=true">reported</a> that some investors asked why Comcast didn’t hire an outside investigator to look into allegations of sexual misconduct. CBS and Fox News, for the record, each hired outside law firms to investigate such allegations within their ranks. Yet NBC has still refused, instead relying on an internal investigation with assistance from two outside law firms that concluded NBC News was not at fault and that no complaints had been filed against Lauer until November 2017.
More from the Times:
<blockquote>One shareholder, Arjuna Capital of Manchester, Mass., requested the company conduct an “independent investigation and report on risks posed by failing to prevent sexual harassment.”
The firm noted that NBC News’ digital editorial staff voted to form a union with the NewsGuild of New York because staff members, among other things, have “serious questions” about management’s handling of allegations of workplace sexual misconduct. Allegations about inappropriate comments by managers have been made by three Comcast call center employees, according to Arjuna.
“Workplace harassment can harm shareholder value,” Arjuna Capital wrote in its proposal. “To avoid legal and reputational risk, as the employer of 184,000 workers, Comcast must create a culture of accountability and transparency, and protect employees from harassment and discrimination.”</blockquote>
Comcast fought the suggestion, asking shareholders to reject Arjuna Capital’s proposal because “our company has been built on a foundation of respect, integrity and trust, and we are committed to creating a work environment that promotes those values.”
Last fall, former NBC host Ronan Farrow published a book alleging a conspiracy to cover up allegations against Lauer. Farrow’s book was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farrow.html">criticized heavily</a> by New York Times media columnist Ben Smith. Lauer himself wrote <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/matt-lauer-why-ronan-farrow-is-indeed-too-good-to-be-true/">an article</a> for Mediate highlighting numerous factual issues with Farrow’s book, providing evidence to back up his criticism.
NBC did hire an outside firm to look into allegations from Gabrielle Union, who claimed racism and a toxic environment led to her exit from “America’s Got Talent.” That outside firm concluded that an alleged toxic environment had “no bearing” on her leaving the show.
In addition to requests for the outside investigation into sexual allegations, an elderly couple also requested “senior discounts” for cable customers. Another shareholder concern was that some MSNBC anchors were supporting protesters even as protests across the country turned violent. Chairman Roberts, however, dismissed concerns and ignored the violence.
“It is truly heartbreaking and tragic that, in 2020, we find our society still struggling with issues that are so core to human dignity. Racism, injustice, violence have no place and cannot be tolerated,” he said. “By and large, I think the coverage continues to inform and educate our society. &#8230; But thank you for your comment.”
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Comcast Building

Comcast Continues To Reject Demands For Outside Investigation Into NBC’s Handling Of Sexual Harassment Complaints

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A shakeup at NBC News that includes the replacement of its longtime chairman, Andy Lack, is coinciding with an investigation into the network by New York&#8217;s attorney general, according to a former NBC producer who witnessed firsthand an alleged &#8220;cover up&#8221; scandal at the network.
As reported by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/nbc-news-chairman-andy-lack-steps-down-in-corporate-shakeup/">New York Post</a> Monday, NBC&#8217;s plan is now for Lack to leave at the end of the month rather than after the 2020 presidential election. Lack &#8220;came under fire after Ronan Farrow’s book &#8216;Catch and Kill&#8217; accused NBC News executives including Lack’s right-hand man Noah Oppenheim of killing his Harvey Weinstein reporting,&#8221; the outlet notes.
In an appearance on Tucker Carlson Monday night, former NBC News producer Rich McHugh — who worked with Farrow on his &#8220;killed&#8221; bombshell exposé on Weinstein&#8217;s alleged sexual misconduct — slammed his former network and made some comments that NBC executives probably do not want to hear on the airwaves.
On his show Monday, Carlson, who slapped Lack for &#8220;protecting&#8221; disgraced megaproducer and Democrat megadonor Weinstein, asked McHugh about reports that the New York attorney general&#8217;s office is investigating the network on its handling of sexual misconduct claims. While &#8220;no one’s been charged,&#8221; said Carlson &#8220;people have come in and been interviewed.”
Asked if he&#8217;d heard the same, McHugh said, “Yes, I have, Tucker. That is true.&#8221;
&#8220;I have been looking into it for a story,&#8221; he added, as reported by <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-nbc-producer-rich-mchugh-blasts-outgoing-chairman-andy-lack-says-ny-ags-office-probing-the-network/">Mediaite</a>. &#8220;It was the New York attorney general’s office civil division. We’re not sure if it could lead to anything criminal, but I do know they have been looking into this and interviewing employees over a number of months.&#8221;
&#8220;One has to assume that they caught wind of this investigation because it’s been going on for months and they have spoken to dozens of employees,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I believe that has a role to play in it. There’s new management at the top and so they have decided we’re going to try to get away from this black eye who presided over the Harvey Weinstein story and the Lauer disgrace and all of it. This is a good first step, I should say. I should point out that I’ve spoken spoken to a number of women, victims who worked at NBC, and they say, you know, the fact that Andy Lack gets to walk out of the building on his own accord is a disgrace. Their careers have been ruined. I personally left NBC largely because of things that he and other executives did with our reporting. The fact that he can just kind of walk away is upsetting.&#8221;
As for Oppenheim, who has been allowed to remain at NBC, McHugh said, &#8220;It looks like this move has taken some of his power away.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it needs to be said that if they’re really going to clean house and try and restore their credibility, they need to clean house,&#8221; he added. &#8220;One half of the team that presided over our reporting killing our story is still in power.&#8221;
As detailed by the Post, since Lack returned to NBC in 2015, &#8220;his division has been riddled with controversy,&#8221; including the Brian Williams &#8220;embellished&#8221; Iraq war story and the network&#8217;s much-criticized handling of Megyn Kelly&#8217;s contract. But the worst scandals involved sexual misconduct allegations against Matt Lauer in 2017 and the alleged burying of the Weinstein story.
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NBC News Chief Out; Reports: NY Attorney General Investigating Network

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As President Donald Trump and his coronavirus task force are working to mitigate the spread of the deadly disease, media members are actively pushing Chinese propaganda. NBC has become the worst offender.
The coronavirus started in Wuhan, China. The communist regime initially <a href="https://www.axios.com/timeline-the-early-days-of-chinas-coronavirus-outbreak-and-cover-up-ee65211a-afb6-4641-97b8-353718a5faab.html">covered-up</a> the public health crisis, pretending it didn’t exist and doing little to contain it at a time when Chinese Americans and tourists were visiting the country for the Chinese New Year.
China is directly responsible for the spread of this deadly disease.
Now, China is pretending they’re the heroes in this fight. First, they <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/chinese-state-media-falsely-claim-u-s-army-athlete-brought-coronavirus-to-china/">blamed</a> the US military for manufacturing COVID-19 in a lab, then disseminating it in Wuhan. Then, China kicked American journalists out of the country so they could more-easily doctor coronavirus numbers. Now, they’re delivering medical equipment to countries that need them in their fight against the virus for PR effect.
NBC is happy to help China’s propaganda effort as a means to hurt Trump.
After the propaganda campaign began, President Trump smartly called it the “Chinese virus” so that the world would remember China was responsible at a time when the media was working overdrive to blame the president for the spread here. Woke NBC analysts jumped to condemn, foolishly calling this bigoted.
Richard Engel on MSNBC laughably called it a “bat virus” to defend China from taking any blame.
&#8220;This is a virus that came from the territory of China but came from bats,” Engel claimed. “This is a bat virus, not a China virus. It doesn&#8217;t speak Chinese. It doesn&#8217;t target Chinese people. It targets human beings who happen to touch their eyes, nose or mouth.&#8221;
But they wouldn&#8217;t just insufferably word-police. They would boost China as a world leader and even victim.
Keir Simmons, on the Today Show, <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-nbcs-simmons-china-helped-world-delaying-coronavirus-now-wor">credited</a> China for “delaying the arrival of the coronavirus” before noting “they are worrying that they may get re-infected by the coronavirus from the rest of the world.&#8221; In other words, China is the hero and it’s the foreigners bringing infections there?
As China <a href="https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1243530205832118273">dubiously claims</a> they had only one positive COVID-19 in their country of 1.3 billion people in the last several days, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes gleefully noted on <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1243673639096123394">Twitter</a>: “We are quite literally doing a worse job of containing the virus than any other country on earth.”
And yes, it is <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1244279416819273729">delivered with glee</a> when you spend the last three years of your career proudly trying to damage the presidency.
Over the weekend, &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Chuck Todd wondered if President Trump has blood on his hands, asking former Vice President Joe Biden: &#8220;Do you think there&#8217;s already–do you think there is blood on the president&#8217;s hands considering the slow response?&#8221; Todd asked. &#8220;Or is that too harsh of a criticism?&#8221; Even Biden thought that was too dramatic and unfair.
On their web property, NBC won’t relent either.
Covering a House resolution to condemn China for their role in the cover-up and spread of coronavirus, NBC’s Kimmy Yam published a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/house-members-introduce-resolution-pin-coronavirus-blame-china-n1169051?fbclid=IwAR179IcF6B2jkG2umWtD3P8_3-D_3EEhg_RZbdQpTJbaJltKx_bKyeMFHdA">piece</a> titled “House members introduce resolution to pin coronavirus blame on China.” Pin it on them? The title makes it seem like China is the victim of a smear campaign. The country is being rightly labeled responsible because… they’re responsible.
Then you have NBC reporter Ken Dilanian. He propped up China as a global leader in an article titled &#8220;As U.S. struggles to stem coronavirus, China asserts itself as global leader.” Wow. In a <a href="https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1243243758914863104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fnbc-ken-dilanian-china-superpower-criticism-coronavirus">tweet</a>, he wrote “With Italy in dire need of medical equipment, an economic superpower stepped in to help. No, not the United States. It was China.”
This is all literal Chinese propaganda. So why is NBC so complicit?
I’d argue they don’t care if they have to use Chinese propaganda that hurts this country because their main goal is to hurt President Trump. Like many in the media, NBC anchors and analysts don’t hide their disdain for the president. And they’re not above using a public health crisis to continue their transparent attacks.
Jason Rantz is a Seattle-based talk show host heard weekday afternoons from 3-6 p.m.on KTTH 770 AM (subscribe to the podcast <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/category/podcasts/#AM770KTTH">here</a>). He’s a frequent guest on FOX News and occasional fill-in host for the Ben Shapiro Show. Follow Jason on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jasonrantz">@JasonRantz</a>.
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RANTZ: NBC News Is Actively Promoting Chinese Propaganda

China

A virus has spread across the White House press corps: No, not COVID-19, but TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Reporters who attend the daily briefing by President Trump, Vice President Pence and a slew of top officials are taking advantage of a limited press corps to exhibit their disdain for the president. And each day, there are several very snotty questions (as an aside, I covered the White House for 12 years and I know a snotty question when I hear it). What&#8217;s more, several reporters just talked over the president when he was speaking.
On Friday, NBC reporter Peter Alexander asked why the president was optimistic about a new drug that may be useful in combating the effects of the virus when he should be busy frightening Americans (sort of).
&#8220;What do you say to the Americans who are scared, though, I guess,&#8221; Alexander said. &#8220;Nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching right now who are scared?&#8221;
“I say that you’re a terrible reporter, that’s what I say,” Trump responded. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a very nasty question, and I think it&#8217;s a very bad signal that you&#8217;re putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they’re looking for hope, and you’re doing sensationalism. Let&#8217;s see if it works. It might, and it might not. I happen to feel good about it, but who knows. I&#8217;ve been right — a lot. Let&#8217;s see what happens.
“Let me just tell you something, that’s really bad reporting, and you oughta&#8217; get back to reporting instead of sensationalism,&#8221;  Trump scolded. &#8220;You should be ashamed of yourself.”
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On Monday, the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), which sets the seating chart in the room, released a rearranged seating chart to increase &#8220;social distancing,&#8221; meaning quite a few reporters are now without the seats they once held. Under the new setup, only every other seat is occupied.
And those not on the seating chart are out, the White House said in an email to reporters.
&#8220;Members of the press who do not have a seat on the updated seating chart or who do not participate in the President’s In-House Pool will not be permitted access to the White House Complex,&#8221; said an email from White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham. She added that the changes are &#8220;effective Tuesday, March 17, 2020, and continuing until further notice.&#8221;
The WHCA issued new policies late Sunday in an effort to follow guidelines set out by doctors to stem the spread of the coronavirus. And the association urged reporters to work remotely if possible and limit the number of journalists at the White House to the bare minimum.
The WHCA is discouraging those without a seat from attending White House briefings.
&#8220;We understand these restrictions are deeply disruptive to our members and their ability to do their jobs,&#8221; WHCA President Jonathan Karl of ABC News said in a statement, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/487754-whca-rearranges-seats-in-briefing-room-to-increase-social-distancing">The Hill</a> reported. &#8220;But we are forced to take these steps to do our part to ensure that there is a healthy pool available to cover the president and inform the public during this critical time.&#8221;
The new arrangement means just five &#8220;conservative&#8221; outlets are now in the briefing room at any given time — Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times (which will share a seat with The New York Post), and One America Network (which will share a seat with Newsmax). Fox Business News will also share a seat with CNBC.
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Members Of The Coronavirus Task Force Hold Press Briefing

‘You’re A Terrible Reporter’: Trumps Blasts NBC Correspondent For Asking ‘Nasty Question’ At Virus Briefing

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Even though COVID-19 originated in China and became a global pandemic because the Chinese government prioritized containing information about the outbreak rather than the outbreak itself, Richard Engel of NBC condemned the phrase &#8220;Chinese Virus,&#8221; referring to it as a &#8220;scapegoat.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to scapegoat people and that is what has always happened in pandemics or epidemics. Foreigners are attacked, foreigners sometimes physically attacked,&#8221; said Engel on Wednesday.
Engel then invoked the Middle-Ages as an example of people scapegoating outsiders during pandemics, portraying the country of China as a victim of scapegoating.
&#8220;If you looked at what happened during the Middle-Ages, there was lots and lots of scapegoating against an ethnic group or religious group whenever there were pandemics that affected the society and frightened a lot of people,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;China certainly feels like that is what is happening now with people calling it the Wuhan flu or the Wuhan virus or the China virus,&#8221; he continued.
As to the origin of the virus, Engel said that people should see it as a &#8220;bat virus,&#8221; seemingly side-stepping that the Chinese &#8220;wet markets&#8221; enabled people to come in contact with such an animal.
&#8220;This is a virus that came from the territory of China but came from bats,&#8221; said Engel.  &#8220;This is a bat virus,  not a China virus. It doesn&#8217;t speak Chinese. It doesn&#8217;t target Chinese people. It targets human beings who happen to touch their eyes, nose, or mouth.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RichardEngel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RichardEngel</a>: &quot;This is a virus that came from the territory of China but came from bats. This is a bat virus, not a China virus. It doesn&#39;t speak Chinese. It doesn&#39;t target Chinese people. It targets human beings who happen to touch their eyes, nose or mouth.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ljQeT7UQam">pic.twitter.com/ljQeT7UQam</a>
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Setting aside the fact that the Chinese government <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-coronavirus-whistleblowers-speak-out-vanish-2020-2">aggressively tamped down</a> on whistleblowers trying to raise awareness about the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese &#8220;wet market&#8221; trade deserves a closer look. From <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-ban-illegal-animal-trade-tighten-supervision-on-wet-markets-2020-2">Business Insider</a>:
<blockquote>The Wuhan coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, is likely to have started in a wet market in Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei. The markets are known for selling both live and dead animals, often in poorly regulated conditions.
The Wuhan coronavirus is a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-sars-bats-animals-to-humans-2020-1" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="60">zoonotic disease</a>, meaning that it originated in animals. Some experts have suggested the novel coronavirus spread from bats, to snakes, to people, though many others say snakes are a highly unlikely intermediary species (a mammal is more probable). China initially imposed a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-virus-china-bans-food-markets-selling-live-animals-wolves-2020-1" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="60">ban on live animal sales</a> in the city of Wuhan in light of the outbreak.</blockquote>
With that in mind, as Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-coronavirus-is-the-chinese-virus">rightly pointed out</a>, the use of the term &#8220;Chinese Virus&#8221; is both accurate and necessary, if Western countries are to rethink their relationship with the authoritarian country.
Richard Engel is also far from the only one to condemn the use of the phrase &#8220;Chinese Virus.&#8221; On Wednesday, none other than Whoopi Goldberg of &#8220;The View&#8221; said that people should see the virus as a byproduct of mother nature, not China.
&#8220;You know, people as we’ve seen, people start punching people, Asian folks out, you know, will attack,&#8221; <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/18/whoopi-goldberg-says-stop-blaming-china-mother-nature-did-this-to-us/">said Whoopi Goldberg</a>. &#8220;So we need to stop calling it or labeling it like it’s they did it to us. Mother Nature really did this to us.”
When asked if his use of the term &#8220;Chinese Virus&#8221; had any racial connotations, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, &#8220;It’s from China. It’s not racist at all, no. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.”

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WATCH: NBC’s Richard Engel: ‘This Is A Bat Virus. Not A China Virus. It Doesn’t Speak Chinese’

Media Bias

On Saturday, one day prior to the Super Bowl, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-liv-will-shine-so-will-ncna1128171">ran an op-ed </a>in which the writer accused Kansas City Chiefs fans of racism, stating, “Native American mascots might be the last form of traditional American racism that people of every color and creed will rush to support and defend. On any given Sunday during the regular NFL season — right there in the stands — one can find a black guy in a headdress, a white guy in redface, and a Latino or Asian duo tomahawk chopping with one hand and gripping an overpriced alcoholic beverage in the other.”
Simon Moya-Smith, a <a>self-described</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-moya-smith-56ba8313">contributing writer</a> for NBC News, which describes him as “an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and a Chicano writer and journalist,” bemoaned the actions of Chiefs fans, opining that at the AFC Championship Chiefs’ fans engaged in a “most brutal and vicious display” as they “whooped while donning fake feathered headdresses, people war-painted their faces and, in that baleful Kansas City tradition, the game began with the beating of that hideous faux “Indian” drum.” Moya-Smith continued, “As its deep boom echoed throughout the stadium, fans performed the tomahawk chop en masses and joined in on that half-witted tomahawk chop ‘chant.’”
Moya-Smith cited a 2005 opinion from the American Psychological Association urging an immediate ban on all Native American mascots. He related a story about confronting a Chiefs fan and telling him Indian mascots dehumanized indigenous people.
Moya-Smith wrote, “Native American mascots commodify indigenous peoples and our cultures; they make us and our heritage into images and words and logos to be sold by white people to other non-Native people. It’s a complete and utter appropriation for profit by others.” He theorized that “such national displays of racism and arrogance on broadcast TV and call it good ol’ American fun, but little do they know (and maybe you don’t either) that there’s a seedy underbelly to that ‘fun,’ and it puts Natives in serious physical danger.”
Moya-Smith claimed he has visited sports bars in Washington D.C., asserting, “ … into which Native Americans cannot go during football season without sending at least one fan of the city’s racist-themed football team into a vicious rage, barking things like, ‘Keep the name! and ‘I’m a quarter Cherokee and I don’t have a problem with it, you P.C. libtard!’”
He claimed a bartender told him, “Just go somewhere else. We don’t want that kind of trouble here,” then adds, “I should never have been asked to leave just to accommodate the anger of some racists — but I was.”
He concluded:
<blockquote>And that’s where we will be again on Sunday: The discrimination of Natives will continue, and on the main stage. We will be mocked and told to “get over it.” We will be commodified and told things like “we’re honoring you.” But I am here to ruin the party, because that party harms the mental health and stability of kids. Children should be valued over mascots and definitely over cheap team loyalty – every time. Decent people don’t harm kids and they certainly don’t enable anything that would.</blockquote>

Kansas City Chiefs Fans Watch Super Bowl LIV Against The San Francisco 49ers

NBC News Runs Op-Ed Accusing Kansas City Chiefs Fans Of Racism

Native Americans

Far-left news organizations reported on Wednesday that high winds blew over a small segment of President Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall that was under construction on the southern border near Mexicali in an apparent attempt to embarrass the president but the claim was misleading.
The far-left publications — CNN, NBC News, HuffPost, NowThis, and AJ+ (Al Jazeera)  — published the following headlines or comments in tweets:
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<li>CNN: Portion of US border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side</li>
<li>NBC News: Portions of California border wall wilt and fall into Mexico after high winds</li>
<li>HuffPost: &#8220;Trump’s signature border wall fell over in Mexico from high winds a day after he boasted about the strength of his barrier.&#8221;</li>
<li>AJ+: Part of President Trump&#8217;s proposed border wall fell over because of high winds.</li>
<li>NowThis: &#8220;Strong gusts of wind knocked over new sections of Trump’s border wall into Mexico&#8221;</li>
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The claims were misleading because a small portion of the wall blew over because the concrete had just been poured and it did not have time to set in and harden.
Washington Post border reporter Nick Miroff noted that misleading claims and specifically called out CNN&#8217;s coverage of the incident, writing on Twitter: &#8220;I get the urge to dunk on the border wall, but this is misleading. The panels that fell over in the wind were not anchored yet. You can clearly see that in the photo. And adjacent sections did NOT fall, likely because the concrete base had time to harden.&#8221;
&#8220;When there are issues, flaws, problems etc with the border wall and its construction, we will continue to cover them,&#8221; Miroff added. &#8220;This incident was not one of those.&#8221;
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When there are issues, flaws, problems etc with the border wall and its construction, we will continue to cover them. This incident was not one of those.
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“Luckily, Mexican authorities responded quickly and were able to divert traffic from the nearby street,” Border Patrol Agent Carlos Pitones <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2020-01-29/high-winds-in-california-blow-down-new-border-fence-panels">told</a> The San Diego Union-Tribune. “CBP will work with the construction contractor to mitigate the impact of high winds as construction continues.”
Both CNN and NBC News did mention in their stories that the problem was with the concrete, but still deceptively framed the way that their stories were written because they did not include the critical information in their headlines.
In a video posted to Twitter, HuffPost failed to mention once that the small portion of the wall blew over because the concrete had not hardened.
WATCH:
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Trump’s signature border wall fell over in Mexico from high winds a day after he boasted about the strength of his barrier. <a href="https://t.co/YJOGPWMI3g">pic.twitter.com/YJOGPWMI3g</a>
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CNN also posted a video of the incident on Twitter, just under a minute long, and waited 32 seconds before telling viewers that the wall blew over because the concrete had not hardened.
The video, which was aggregated by far-left activist Antonio Arellano, who has a history of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-spreads-two-new-lies-aimed-smearing-ice-ryan-saavedra">promoting falsehoods</a> on the platform regarding border and immigration related issues.
&#8220;When mother nature says &#8216;¡Chinga tu muro!'&#8221; Arellano wrote. &#8220;Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border per @CNN.&#8221;
Translated into English, ¡Chinga tu muro! means, &#8220;F*** your wall!&#8221;
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When mother nature says “¡Chinga tu muro!” 
Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border per <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> <a href="https://t.co/ti4Mhawm7f">pic.twitter.com/ti4Mhawm7f</a>
&mdash; Antonio Arellano (@AntonioArellano) <a href="https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1222935017363574786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NowThis, a far-left propaganda group, <a href="http://archive.is/ANXby">posted</a> a 6:20 video on Twitter of the incident and waited 30 seconds before telling viewers about the concrete.

MEXICO-US-BORDER-WALL

Media Claims That Wind Made Border Wall Fall Over. There’s More To The Story.

Border Wall

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) politely fired back at left-leaning NBC News reporter Heidi Przybyla on Tuesday as Przybyla repeatedly cut him off while he was trying to answer questions during a press conference about the Senate impeachment trial.
&#8220;This NBC reporter interrupted us at least 20-25 times,&#8221; Zeldin told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It was obvious she was only looking to disrupt and be a story rather than report a story. She could care less what we had to say to answer her question.&#8221;
NBC News tweeted out a video clip of the exchange in which the network selectively edited to show their reporter hounding several Republican lawmakers who were trying to answer questions.
NBC News wrote: &#8220;WATCH: [Heidi Przybyla] presses Reps. Zeldin, Stefanik and Johnson during a tense exchange about her tough questioning style on a question about corruption in Ukraine as it relates to the Senate impeachment trial.&#8221;
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeidiNBC</a> presses Reps. Zeldin, Stefanik and Johnson during a tense exchange about her tough questioning style on a question about corruption in Ukraine as it relates to the Senate impeachment trial. <a href="https://t.co/tJj44JOPrc">pic.twitter.com/tJj44JOPrc</a>
&mdash; NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1222295395679854592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Zeldin fired back on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Aside from @HeidiNBC &#8216;s 20-25+ interruptions (DC press record?), you have to love @NBCPolitics then cutting out our answers re what Zelensky &amp; his team were doing to fight Ukraine corruption after May 19. @RepStefanik @RepMikeJohnson&#8221;
Zeldin also linked to a video that showed the full exchange, which NBC News did not include in their tweet.
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Lee Zeldin

WATCH: Congressman Zeldin Dices Rude NBC Reporter Who Repeatedly Cuts Him Off

On Friday, NBC News published <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/2010s-spelled-end-white-christian-america-ncna1106936?fbclid=IwAR1kJ4FmWYrgIVGbxOlwlGanexTNDxtylamsQKCl_pIFmBZlNk6M_88B3VQ">an opinion piece</a> that mocked white Christians in America, saying that their anxiety over losing dominance in America has “created a nostalgia for the past that has fueled support for Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ agenda.”
Robert P. Jones, the founder of PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) and the author of “The End of White Christian America,” is about to launch his new book, titled, “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. He wrote on the NBC News website in a piece titled, “White Christian America ended in the 2010s,” “Of all the changes to identity and belonging, the century’s second decade has been particularly marked by a religious sea change. After more than two centuries of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance, the United States has moved from being a majority-white Christian nation to one with no single racial and religious majority.”
Jones writes that between 2010 and 2014, the percentage of white Christians in the general population had plunged from 53% to 47%; claiming that in 2019, that figure has dropped to 42%. He continues, “White Christian America’s attraction to Trump has little to do with his personality or character … and everything to do with something more important: their belief that ‘making America great again’ necessarily entails restoring white Christian demographic and political dominance.”
Jones cites a survey by his own group that found majorities of white Christian groups think American culture and way of life has changed for the worse since the 1950’s. He posits, “From the perspective of a healthy democratic society, one of the most alarming developments is that these trends have been compounding the political polarization in the country.”
Jones pontificates, &#8220;This demographic and cultural sorting means that our partisan conflicts are increasingly driven not just by political disagreement but by entire worldviews that are rooted in religious, racial and generational values and identities. This arrangement leaves us ill-equipped to deal with a past that cannot be resurrected and to build a new, pluralistic future together.”
Jones concludes, “Here’s hoping that the upcoming decade may find us able to accept and even embrace a future that — while different from our past — is already and inevitably well on its way.”
Jones’ insistence that white Christians wax nostalgic for a bygone era because of their desire for racial dominance ignores a basic fact: it is not a racial concern that motivates Christians to long for the 1950s or vote for a president who defends the rights of religious people, but a fervent desire for the nation to return to Biblical principles undergirding the sanctity of the family and the innocence of children while blocking the concerted attempt by the Left to destroy those principles in the name of “progress.”
The question is not, as leftists would have one believe, simply one of moving backward or forward; it is a question of forward to what and backward to what. Simply to be new and different than what came before has no intrinsic merit of its own.
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Why Don&#8217;t We Perform On NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221;

NBC News Opinion: White Christian Americans Panicked Over Losing Dominance

Christianity

White Supremacy

In a revealing recent interview with Rolling Stone, Chuck Todd, host of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; discusses what led him to begin approaching Republicans and others on &#8220;the right&#8221; with more skepticism and reporting on their claims in a less &#8220;naive&#8221; way than he had in the past. In his comments, Todd indicates that he does not view Democrats and their claims in the same skeptical light.
The <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-disinformation-spreads-according-to-chuck-todd-interview-929912/">interview</a> was conducted as part of an upcoming &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; special on the &#8220;weaponization of disinformation,&#8221; which, according to Todd&#8217;s comments to the Rolling Stone, appears to approach the topic from a glaringly one-sided angle.
Asked what made him decide to devote a show to the topic of &#8220;disinformation and fake news,&#8221; Todd said it began with an interest in the impact of social media on politics, which he said is ultimately really about &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;
&#8220;This is bigger than social media,&#8221; said Todd. &#8220;The Ukraine story for me really crystallized it. And for good or bad, our show has been at the forefront of this.&#8221;
Todd then traced the topic back to what he suggested was its source: the Trump administration&#8217;s claims about his inauguration.
&#8220;The first Sunday of the Trump administration is when the phrase, &#8216;alternative facts&#8217; was debuted,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was on Meet the Press Rudy that Giuliani used the phrase &#8216;Truth isn’t truth.'&#8221;
&#8220;So look, whether we’d liked it or not, our platform has been used, or they’ve attempted to use our platform to essentially disseminate, or to sort of, what I would say, is lay the groundwork for this,&#8221; Todd explained.
After describing the dissemination of &#8220;misinformation&#8221; — for which he and the interviewer only give examples from the Trump administration and Republicans — as an &#8220;epidemic,&#8221; Todd addressed the issue of political advertising.
&#8220;I think our biggest problem going into 2020 is that we have two sets of standards simply on political advertising,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you choose to advertise on cable or television, on linear television, there’s a certain set of standards on fact that you have to surpass in order to get your ad on television. Not the case on social media. And we have seen the Trump campaign literally use two different ads — one that allows them to say their misinformation about Biden in the areas that they can.&#8221;
Asked if he was &#8220;surprised by the consistency that the Trump administration was willing to spread disinformation&#8221; about the crowd size at the inauguration, Todd said yes.
&#8220;I fully admit, listening to you ask that question now, and me giving you the honest answer of, yeah, I guess I really believed they wouldn’t do this,&#8221; said Todd. &#8220;Just so absurdly naive in hindsight.&#8221;
Todd then presented his succinct summary of his view of Trump: &#8220;Donald Trump’s entire life has been spent using misinformation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;His entire life.&#8221;
But it&#8217;s not just Trump and his administration that Todd now views in what he described as a less &#8220;naive&#8221; way, it&#8217;s Republicans and everyone else on &#8220;the right.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact is, and by the way, this isn’t going to be easy to show, but I actually think when we outline this it will, the right has an incentive structure to utter the misinformation,&#8221; he said in response to a question about Republicans supposedly pushing &#8220;Russian talking points&#8221; about Ukraine. &#8220;&#8230; I do think one of the things that I want to explore on this is the incentive structure. One of the things we don’t fully appreciate in mainstream media on these attacks is that it’s become fun to attack the press, if that makes sense, on the right. It doesn’t matter if we’re right or wrong, attack them anyway.&#8221;
Throughout the interview, neither Todd nor the interviewer acknowledges even the possibility that Democrats and those on the left have spread &#8220;misinformation&#8221; and made overtly false claims on the airwaves; instead, the problem is presented as a purely Republican/right issue.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feud-between-trump-and-christianity-today-results-in-resignation-from-another-publication">Feud Between Trump And Christianity Today Results In Resignation From Another Publication</a>

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NBC’s Chuck Todd Explains Why He’s Changed How He Reports On Republicans

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UPDATE: After this piece was published, Kelly posted a tease of the interview via Twitter:
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The former ABC staffer who allegedly leaked the hot mic Amy Robach tape sits down with me in an exclusive — here’s a preview — we’ll be posting the full exchange shortly at <a href="https://t.co/A53IqETTDd">https://t.co/A53IqETTDd</a>. Stay tuned! <a href="https://t.co/WgvUFgCnBX">pic.twitter.com/WgvUFgCnBX</a>
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On Friday morning, journalist Megyn Kelly announced that she conducted an interview with the CBS employee who was recently fired for exposing that ABC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-abc-news-killed-epstein-clinton-story-says-anchor-in-hot-mic-video">killed a bombshell story</a> three years ago on registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
This will be the first time Kelly has conducted an interview since exiting NBC News last year.
&#8220;Have you been following this story about the Amy Robach hot-mic moment at ABC?&#8221; the former &#8220;Megyn Kelly Today&#8221; host started. &#8220;She was caught talking about how she said she had the Epstein story three years ago and ABC wouldn’t air it. And then she amended to say, &#8216;Well, I didn’t have the corroboration,&#8217; after ABC had publicly had to deal w this hot-mic moment.&#8221;
&#8220;The employee who sort of marked that clip in the system and then moved on to CBS got fired this week because they suspected she leaked this thing to Project Veritas — which is the one that put it out there,&#8221; Kelly continued.
&#8220;Well, we just sat down with her in an exclusive interview,&#8221; she teased. &#8220;We got the full story and I think you’re gonna be fascinated by it.&#8221;
&#8220;Launching my Instagram with an exclusive interview of the woman just fired after the leak of a hot mic moment by ABC’s [Amy Robach],&#8221; Kelly caption the Instagram post, ominously adding, &#8220;But did ABC News target the right person?&#8221;
James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas dropped the bombshell clip of Robach on Tuesday. Here&#8217;s the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-abc-news-killed-epstein-clinton-story-says-anchor-in-hot-mic-video">partial transcript</a> of the ABC anchor discussing how her network killed the story:
<blockquote>I’ve had the story for three years. I’ve had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told who’s Jeffrey Epstein, no one knows who that is, this is a stupid story. Then the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will, that also quashed the story. And then Alan Dershowitz was also implicated in it because of the planes. She told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years. We convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything. [emphasis added]
I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it&#8217;s all coming out and it’s like these new relevant revelations and I freaking had all of it. I’m so pissed right now, like every day I get more and more pissed because I’m just like, oh my god, what we had was unreal. Other women backing it up. Brad Edwards the attorney three years ago saying like, &#8216;there will come a day for we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known.&#8217; I had it all three years ago.</blockquote>
Kelly was canned at NBC last year for allegedly discussing people dressing up as famous black and brown people for Halloween and darkening their faces. But last month, Fox News host Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">suggested</a> she was actually fired because she called for an outside investigation into the network over internal claims of sexual misconduct and the suspect handling of allegations into Democratic mega-donor Harvey Weinstein.
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WATCH: Megyn Kelly Announces Bombshell First Interview Since NBC Exit

A leaked video from inside ABC News, exclusively obtained by James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas, shows anchor Amy Robach talking for several minutes on a hot mic claiming that the network had a bombshell story on convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein several years ago, but that the network killed the story.
In the leaked footage, Robach was reportedly talking on set to her producer, who is not seen in the video, about how she had the story on Epstein for three years but was not able to run it at ABC News. Robach stated:
<blockquote>I&#8217;ve had the story for three years. I&#8217;ve had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told who&#8217;s Jeffrey Epstein, no one knows who that is, this is a stupid story. Then the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn&#8217;t be able to interview Kate and Will, that also quashed the story. And then Alan Dershowitz was also implicated in it because of the planes. She told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years. We convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable what we had, Clinton, we had everything. [emphasis added]
I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it&#8217;s all coming out and it&#8217;s like these new relevant revelations and I freaking had all of it. I&#8217;m so pissed right now, like every day I get more and more pissed because I&#8217;m just like, oh my god, what we had was unreal. Other women backing it up. Brad Edwards the attorney three years ago saying like, &#8216;there will come a day for we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known.&#8217; I had it all three years ago.</blockquote>
It is not perfectly clear what exactly Robach meant when she said she had &#8220;Clinton&#8221; but it almost certainly is in reference to former President Bill Clinton&#8217;s connections to Epstein, which have long been documented.
WATCH:
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/abcnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abcnews</a> anchor <a href="https://twitter.com/arobach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@arobach</a> caught on &#8216;hot mic&#8217; in August disgustedly exposing networks decision to strategically spike bombshell investigation into Jefferey Esptein over THREE YEARS AGO.
Says what she had was &#8220;unbelievable&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EpsteinCoverup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EpsteinCoverup</a>: <a href="https://t.co/HagfLpwKDn">https://t.co/HagfLpwKDn</a> <a href="https://t.co/fPvJc3JCCQ">pic.twitter.com/fPvJc3JCCQ</a>
— James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1191716801178034180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
In July, investigative journalist Conchita Sarnoff told Fox News’ Shannon Bream that there were &#8220;underage girls&#8221; on Epstein’s plane when Clinton traveled on it, including times in which he allegedly traveled without his Secret Service detail.
&#8220;I have read too much information and I have spoken to too many people on the inside,&#8221; Sarnoff said. &#8220;I actually attempted to interview Clinton but he did not agree to do so and I know from the pilot logs and these are pilot logs that you know were written by different pilots and at different times, that Clinton went, he was a guest of Epstein’s 27 times.&#8221;
&#8220;Many of those times Clinton had his Secret Service with him and many times he did not,&#8221; Sarnoff continued. &#8220;Almost every time that Clinton’s name is on the pilot logs there are underage girls there are initials and there are names of many many girls on that private plane.&#8221;
&#8220;Are you saying the former president is not telling the truth?&#8221; Bream asked Sarnoff.
&#8220;Yes, I’m saying, sadly, that he is not telling the truth,&#8221; Sarnoff responded.

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BOMBSHELL: ABC News Killed Epstein-Clinton Story, Says Anchor In Hot Mic Video

Bill Clinton

Jeffrey Epstein

On Monday, author Sil Lai Abrams explained how her rape accusation against music mogul Russell Simmons and sexual assault charge against then &#8211; “Extra” host A.J. Calloway were allegedly killed off by NBC in 2018.
Abrams says Simmons, who has since moved to Bali, raped her in 1994. Mr. Calloway, who no longer works at &#8220;Extra&#8221; — which &#8220;airs in major markets on NBC owned-and-operated stations,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/russell-simmons-an-extra-host-nbc-news-a-sexual-assault-accusers-story-1123824">The Hollywood Reporter</a> — allegedly sexually assaulted the author in 2006. Both Simmons and Calloway have denied the allegations.
According to Abrams, her #MeToo claims were set to be covered by MSNBC host Joy Reid before the interview was killed off by NBC higher-ups in the same fashion journalist Ronan Farrow&#8217;s reporting on Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was apparently buried.
&#8220;I have been struck by the company’s (NBC) insistence that Ronan didn’t have the Harvey Weinstein story in the bag,&#8221; Abrams writes at <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-not-just-ronan-farrow-nbc-news-killed-my-rape-allegation-story-too?ref=scroll">The Daily Beast</a>. &#8220;I don’t believe a word of what it says because in 2018, the network killed my #MeToo story that was being reported by MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid. Incredibly, a year after NBC botched Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein, they had the audacity to do it again.&#8221;
Abrams says she was put through &#8220;a thorough vetting process” and an on-camera interview with Reid was taped on January 7, 2018, which was scheduled to air six days later. She assumed they would go forward with the taped interview and publish an accompanying #MeToo piece written by Reid for New York magazine. Neither, however, would hit the press. 
The day before the interview was set to air, Abrams was asked to contact Reid. 
&#8220;When we spoke a few hours later, she informed me that Russell Simmons&#8217; attorney had gone ballistic and NBC was not going to air the segment, and the New York magazine story was also on hold since they were paired,&#8221; Abrams said. &#8220;She assured me the story wasn’t dead, but that NBC simply needed more vetting done in order to feel comfortable with moving forward.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the next several months, NBC put me through an elaborate and bizarre vetting process,&#8221; Abrams continues. &#8220;I provided legal documentation, hospital bills, and over a dozen corroborating witnesses. Still, they stonewalled. I asked Joy repeatedly if NBC was going to do to her what it did to Ronan, and she said that she didn’t think so.&#8221;
In mid-February, Reid allegedly emailed Abrams:
<blockquote>“So basically the story got caught up in a couple of vices: the struggle to get comments from the principles (now mostly alleviated), threats from Russell’s lawyer that spooked NBC,” Joy told me via email. “So now NBC… is demanding that I do all of this additional reporting to meet a legal and standards review.”</blockquote>
“Still not clear why NBC is demanding more corroboration regarding A.J. [arrest] &#8230; his lawyer already confirmed the case, but I know this isn’t about you,” Abrams replied to the MSNBC host. 
“My team and I, my PA and senior producer helping me with the story met with the standards department rep today just to figure out what the heck’s going on,” Reid explained to Abrams in a phone call two weeks later. “I just have to get my company to have the guts to do the story. I’ve never done a story that has this much evidence before. I have more evidence than the LA Times and The New York Times stories combined. So the whole thing is, if my company will trust the evidence that I’ve shown them, which is substantial, they will do the story.”
When Abrams asked if the network was going to kill her story due to legal threats from Simmons&#8217; and Calloway’s attorneys, Reid allegedly told her: “We have enough that we have satisfied the standards side, but this is now in the hands of lawyers who have to determine the likelihood of a lawsuit by two people now, and what is the likelihood that we will prevail. … This has now gone up past the attorneys I deal with to the head of NBCUniversal’s lawyers. I’ve never been through anything like this.”
Abrams writes that the last time she spoke with Reid was on April 6, 2018, when Reid told her should take her story elsewhere. Senior management, Reid reportedly told her, had stopped responded to her inquiries about the story.
As reported last week by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">The Daily Wire</a>, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that former NBC host Megyn Kelly was canned from the network because she called for an outside investigation into internal claims of sexual misconduct by former “Today” host Matt Lauer and the handling of Farrow’s reporting on Weinstein. 
“Last September, early September, you (Kelly) on your show, on the air on NBC, called for an independent investigation into these allegations,” Carlson said to Kelly, who appeared alongside the host on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday night. 
Carlson ran a clip of Kelly from September 2, 2018. “There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,” she said. “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,” Kelly added. 
“People’s jaws hung open when you said that,” Carlson told Kelly. “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.”
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’s handling of such allegations and reporting. “He (Hayes) is saying essentially what you said, which is he doesn’t trust the management at NBC News,” he said to Kelly. “Given your experience, do you think he’s in jeopardy of being fired?”
Tellingly, Kelly responded: “No comment to that.” 
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>

Sil Lai Abrams

Author Says Her Rape Claim Set To Air With Joy Reid Was Killed By NBC

Sexual Assault

Amid multiple reports based on new allegations detailed in Ronan Farrow&#8217;s upcoming book, former &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor Matt Lauer has come under fire again for alleged past sexual misconduct. While NBC News has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/horrific-nbc-news-nukes-former-anchor-after-explosive-new-allegations">made clear</a> that it stands with Lauer&#8217;s accusers, the embattled former host has felt compelled to write a lengthy open letter expressing his regret for having chosen to stay silent and denouncing the allegations of his accusers.
&#8220;Over the past two years people have asked why I have not spoken out to defend myself more vigorously against some of the false and salacious allegations leveled at me,&#8221; Lauer wrote in an open letter released by his lawyers and published Wednesday by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matt-lauer-pens-open-letter-ronan-farrow-book-allegations-1246419">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (full letter below). &#8220;It is a fair question and the answer is deeply personal. Despite my desire to set the record straight and confront the individuals making false allegations, I wanted nothing less than to create more headlines my kids would read and a new gathering of photographers at the end of our driveway. So I decided to just stay quiet and work on repairing my relationship with the people I love. It has been the most important full-time job I have ever had.&#8221;
&#8220;But my silence has been a mistake,&#8221; Lauer continues. &#8220;Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made. All are being spread as part of a promotional effort to sell a book. It’s outrageous. So, after not speaking out to protect my children, it is now with their full support I say &#8216;enough.'&#8221;
Lauer was fired by NBC in late November of 2017 after a series of allegations of sexual misconduct came to light. Ahead of the release of Farrow&#8217;s big book, &#8220;Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators&#8221; (Oct. 15), multiple outlets have reported on some of the book&#8217;s key claims. In a report Wednesday, <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> detailed the allegations of former NBC News employee Brooke Nevils:
<blockquote>In Sochi, Nevils was tasked with working with former “Today” co-anchor Meredith Vieira, who’d been brought back to the show to do Olympics coverage. In Nevils’ account, one night over drinks with Vieira at the hotel bar where the NBC News team was staying, they ran into Lauer, who joined them. At the end of the night, Nevils, who’d had six shots of vodka, ended up going to Lauer’s hotel room twice — once to retrieve her press credential, which Lauer had taken as a joke, and the second time because he invited her back. Nevils, Farrow writes, “had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience.”
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.”
According to Nevils, she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow writes. “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.” Lauer then asked her if she liked it. She tells him yes.</blockquote>
Nevils told Farrow that the incident &#8220;was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent&#8221; and that she allegedly told him &#8220;multiple times&#8221; she did not want to perform the act.
In his open letter, Lauer blasted Nevils&#8217; claims, suggesting that she is willfully lying about the nature of their relationship and that specific encounter.
&#8220;The story Brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter. Brooke did not do or say anything to object. She certainly did not cry. She was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. At no time did she behave in a way that made it appear she was incapable of consent. She seemed to know exactly what she wanted to do. The only concern she expressed was that someone might see her leaving my room. She embraced me at the door as she left.&#8221;
&#8220;This encounter, which she now falsely claims was an assault, was the beginning of our affair,&#8221; Lauer continues. &#8220;It was the first of many sexual encounters between us over the next several months. After we returned to New York, we both communicated by text and by phone. We met for drinks, and she met me at my apartment on multiple occasions to continue our affair. Our meetings were arranged mutually. At no time, during or after her multiple visits to my apartment, did she express in words or actions any discomfort with being there, or with our affair. She also went out of her way to see me several times in my dressing room at work, and on one of those occasions we had a sexual encounter. It showed terrible judgment on my part, but it was completely mutual and consensual.&#8221;
He goes on to suggest that she is lying about the incident for profit.
&#8220;It was not until I was called in to speak to an NBC attorney on November 28, 2017 that I first learned Brooke had any complaint. I answered all questions openly and honestly for more than an hour. At that meeting I was never told that Brooke claimed our encounter in Sochi was non-consensual. Had I been, I would have defended myself immediately,&#8221; he states. &#8220;After Brooke filed her complaint in late 2017, her attorney publicly insisted she wanted to remain anonymous. He said she just wanted NBC to “do the right thing.” But within a year she was reportedly out trying to sell a book. And it appears that she also sought a monetary payment from NBC. Now she is making outrageous and false accusations to help sell a different book and stepping into the spotlight to cause as much damage as she can.
Below is the full text of the letter:
<blockquote>Over the past two years people have asked why I have not spoken out to defend myself more vigorously against some of the false and salacious allegations leveled at me. It is a fair question and the answer is deeply personal. Despite my desire to set the record straight and confront the individuals making false allegations, I wanted nothing less than to create more headlines my kids would read and a new gathering of photographers at the end of our driveway. So I decided to just stay quiet and work on repairing my relationship with the people I love. It has been the most important full-time job I have ever had.
But my silence has been a mistake.
Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made. All are being spread as part of a promotional effort to sell a book. It’s outrageous. So, after not speaking out to protect my children, it is now with their full support I say “enough.”
In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault. It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.
I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014. It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.
The story Brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter. Brooke did not do or say anything to object. She certainly did not cry. She was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. At no time did she behave in a way that made it appear she was incapable of consent. She seemed to know exactly what she wanted to do. The only concern she expressed was that someone might see her leaving my room. She embraced me at the door as she left.
This encounter, which she now falsely claims was an assault, was the beginning of our affair. It was the first of many sexual encounters between us over the next several months. After we returned to New York, we both communicated by text and by phone. We met for drinks, and she met me at my apartment on multiple occasions to continue our affair. Our meetings were arranged mutually. At no time, during or after her multiple visits to my apartment, did she express in words or actions any discomfort with being there, or with our affair.
She also went out of her way to see me several times in my dressing room at work, and on one of those occasions we had a sexual encounter. It showed terrible judgment on my part, but it was completely mutual and consensual.
Brooke now says that she was terrified about the control I had over her career and felt pressure to agree to our encounters after Sochi. But at no time during our relationship did Brooke work for me, the Today Show, or NBC News. She worked for Meredith Vieira (who had not worked for the Today Show in several years) in a completely different part of the network, and I had no role in reviewing Brooke’s work.
I admit, I ended the affair poorly. I simply stopped communicating with her. Brooke continued to reach out. She admitted to NBC at the time she filed her complaint that she called me late at night while I was home with my family in an effort to rekindle the affair. But I attempted to go back to my life and pretend as if nothing had happened. I understand how that must have made her feel. However, being upset or having second thoughts does not give anyone the right to make false accusations years later about an affair in which they fully and willingly participated.
Between February 2014 and November 2017, Brooke and I saw each other more than a dozen times at professional gatherings, both large and small. Despite the fact that our affair was over, she always went out of her way to greet me warmly and engage in conversation. It was not until I was called in to speak to an NBC attorney on November 28, 2017 that I first learned Brooke had any complaint. I answered all questions openly and honestly for more than an hour. At that meeting I was never told that Brooke claimed our encounter in Sochi was non-consensual. Had I been, I would have defended myself immediately.
After Brooke filed her complaint in late 2017, her attorney publicly insisted she wanted to remain anonymous. He said she just wanted NBC to “do the right thing.” But within a year she was reportedly out trying to sell a book. And it appears that she also sought a monetary payment from NBC. Now she is making outrageous and false accusations to help sell a different book and stepping into the spotlight to cause as much damage as she can.
But Brooke’s story is filled with contradictions. Which Brooke is to be believed?
• She claims our first encounter was an assault, yet she actively participated in arranging future meetings and met me at my apartment on multiple occasions to continue the affair.
• She says I was the one pursuing the relationship, yet once it was over, she was the one calling me asking to rekindle it.
• She says she felt pressure to continue the affair because I had control over her career, but she did not work for me, the Today Show, or NBC News.
• She said she wanted to remain anonymous, yet she was reportedly trying to sell a book within year after filing her complaint.
• She said she just wanted NBC to “do the right thing,” yet she sought a monetary payment, and two years after I was fired, she is stepping forward to do more damage.
There are people who fully understand the actual dynamic that existed between Brooke and me. They have reluctantly and quietly reached out in the past two years and shared what they know. They have accurately described Brooke and her role in this affair. I hope those people will understand that these allegations cross a serious line, and what they can share is a vital truth, even if it may seem unpopular.
Because of my infidelity, I have brought more pain and embarrassment to my family than most people can ever begin to understand. They’ve been through hell. I have asked for their forgiveness, taken responsibility for what I did do wrong, and accepted the consequences. But by not speaking out I also emboldened those who continue to do me harm with false stories.
One such story I should have confronted a long time ago is an example of why I believe my silence was a mistake. Despite numerous erroneous reports in the past, there was not a button in my office that could lock the door from the inside. There was no such locking mechanism. It didn’t exist. NBC confirmed this fact publicly following my termination.
It would have been impossible to confine anyone in my office, for any purpose, and I have never attempted to make anyone feel as if they were confined in my office. I have never assaulted anyone or forced anyone to have sex. Period.
Anyone who knows me will tell you I am a very private person. I had no desire to write this, but I had no choice. The details I have written about here open deep wounds for my family. But they also lead to the truth. For two years, the women with whom I had extramarital relationships have abandoned shared responsibility, and instead, shielded themselves from blame behind false allegations. They have avoided having to look a boyfriend, husband, or a child in the eye and say, “I cheated.” They have done enormous damage in the process. And I will no longer provide them the shelter of my silence.
Matt Lauer</blockquote>
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New allegations leveled against NBC News and its former anchor Matt Lauer have been met with multiple vehement denials and one particularly harsh rebuke.
On Wednesday, multiple reports based on previews of former NBC reporter Ronan Farrow&#8217;s new book, “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators” (available October 15), detailed explosive claims about Lauer and the network, which Farrow says protected the &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor amid alleged sexual misconduct.
Among the claims leveled by Farrow — who left NBC after the network refused to run his bombshell Harvey Weinstein exposé — is that the network was cowed by Weinstein and quashed Farrow&#8217;s story after the mega-producer &#8220;made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer’s behavior and capable of revealing it.&#8221;
Farrow&#8217;s book also lays out new allegations against Lauer, including from former NBC News employee Brooke Nevils. <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a>, one of the outlets which obtained an advance copy of the book, reports:
<blockquote>In Sochi, Nevils was tasked with working with former “Today” co-anchor Meredith Vieira, who’d been brought back to the show to do Olympics coverage. In Nevils’ account, one night over drinks with Vieira at the hotel bar where the NBC News team was staying, they ran into Lauer, who joined them. At the end of the night, Nevils, who’d had six shots of vodka, ended up going to Lauer’s hotel room twice — once to retrieve her press credential, which Lauer had taken as a joke, and the second time because he invited her back. Nevils, Farrow writes, “had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience.”
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.”
According to Nevils, she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow writes. “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.” Lauer then asked her if she liked it. She tells him yes.</blockquote>
&#8220;It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,&#8221; Nevils told Farrow. &#8220;It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.&#8221;
In response, Lauer released a statement denouncing Nevils&#8217; claims as &#8220;categorically false.&#8221;
&#8220;In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.&#8221;
NBC News, which fired Lauer in November 2017 shortly after initial allegations against him hit the papers, made clear that it does not stand behind its former anchor.
&#8220;Matt Lauer&#8217;s conduct was appalling, horrific and reprehensible, as we said at the time,&#8221; NBC News said in a statement reported by Variety. &#8220;That’s why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint. Our hearts break again for our colleague.&#8221;
While the network is not pushing back on the book&#8217;s claims about Lauer&#8217;s alleged sexual misconduct, it is adamantly refuting Farrow&#8217;s claims that the network caved to Weinstein&#8217;s pressure, which Farrow says was aided by American Media Inc (AMI), the publisher of Enquirer, digging up &#8220;dirt&#8221; on Lauer.
&#8220;Citing anonymous sources at NBC and AMI, Farrow, 31, claims that Weinstein was using the Enquirer‘s accumulated dirt on the Today show star’s alleged workplace misconduct to pressure NBC executives to kill Farrow’s long-gestating Weinstein exposé,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ronan-farrow-book-how-harvey-weinstein-may-have-leveraged-matt-lauer-1246149">The Hollywood Reporter</a> explained in its own &#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221;-based report Wednesday.
But NBC says that&#8217;s &#8220;preposterous.&#8221;
&#8220;NBC News was never contacted by AMI, or made aware in any way of any threats from them, or from anyone else, for that matter,&#8221; a network spokesperson told the outlet. &#8220;And the idea of NBC News taking a threat seriously from a tabloid company about Matt Lauer is especially preposterous, since they already covered him with great regularity.&#8221;
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On Wednesday morning, a rape allegation against former NBC daytime news star Matt Lauer hit the press. Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News employee, claimed she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics. 
The accusation was detailed in journalist Ronan Farrow’s book &#8220;Catch and Kill” and picked up by Variety. 
Lauer has since flatly denied the accusation of rape, adding that it “defies common sense.” 
Nevils told Farrow that she, then &#8212; &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor Meredith Vieira, and Lauer had drinks at the hotel bar the NBC team was staying at 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 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, though she described them as “transactional,” sexual encounters with Lauer, some of which she initiated, after the alleged rape. 
The allegation was an open secret at NBC for years, Nevils claimed. 
“She told colleagues and superiors at NBC,” Farrow said in the book, adding, “This was no secret.”
In 2017, however, Nevils was encouraged by Vieira to go to NBC Universal human resources with a lawyer and make the complaint. Lauer was soon fired, though he denied any accusations of coercion. 
Lauer’s lawyer sent an open letter to Variety soon after the rape allegation hit the media on Wednesday, wherein Lauer denies all coercion claims by Nevils. 
“In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault,” Lauer said. “It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.”
“I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014,” the 61-year-old continued. “It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”
Mere hours after the allegation hit the media, “Today” show hosts Savanah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb reacted to the “shocking” claim. 
WATCH:
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Overnight, troubling new allegations about former TODAY anchor Matt Lauer were revealed from journalist Ronan Farrow’s soon-to-be-released book “Catch and Kill.” <a href="https://twitter.com/MorganRadford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MorganRadford</a> reports the details. <a href="https://t.co/7ooO3oAJ5X">pic.twitter.com/7ooO3oAJ5X</a>
&mdash; TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1181893809564770305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Matt Lauer Accused Of Rape By Former Colleague; Lauer Responds

On Wednesday, NBC News trumpeted the announcement that it had created a new website where people could anonymously confess their climate change sins. NBC News tweeted, &#8220;Blast the AC? Cook a steak once a week? Where do you fall short in preventing climate change? Tell us with Climate Confessions.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Blast the AC? Cook a steak once a week? Where do you fall short in preventing climate change? Tell us with Climate Confessions: <a href="https://t.co/WoifEE8gHj">https://t.co/WoifEE8gHj</a> <a href="https://t.co/nhCE0UOiuA">pic.twitter.com/nhCE0UOiuA</a>
— NBC News Graphics (@NBCNewsGraphics) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNewsGraphics/status/1174298230793887750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In case you might feel alone in confessing your grave sin, NBC News added, &#8220;Click a category to get started and read other people’s confessions.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Click a category to get started &#8230; <a href="https://t.co/WoifEE8gHj">https://t.co/WoifEE8gHj</a> <a href="https://t.co/dcSYPfhAKG">pic.twitter.com/dcSYPfhAKG</a>
— NBC News Graphics (@NBCNewsGraphics) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNewsGraphics/status/1174298671082610689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">And read other people&#8217;s confessions <a href="https://t.co/WoifEE8gHj">https://t.co/WoifEE8gHj</a> <a href="https://t.co/aQHp27wz8l">pic.twitter.com/aQHp27wz8l</a>
— NBC News Graphics (@NBCNewsGraphics) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNewsGraphics/status/1174299586992726018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Some sample confessions NBC offered to help confessors along included:
<blockquote>I sleep with the air conditioner on year-round and justify it to myself by recycling
I do not believe in man-made climate change and do absolutely nothing to &#8216;prevent&#8217; it in any way, shape or form.
I fly too much.. partially due to work, but on the flip side I do not own a car.
I will use the easiest method of transportation for the distance I am travelling.
I travel often to conferences (flying). I think about the emissions + try to justify it with, &#8220;the plane is going there anyway.&#8221;
I think the climate has always been changing, and I&#8217;m not going to stop eating meat because of cult-like manipulation by the left.
I use way too many products packaged in ridiculous amounts of plastic. Looking for alternatives.
I like the temperature low in my home so I blast the AC in the summer. Using so little heat in the winter justifies it somehow.
I use enough Q-tips for a family of 8. I have an addiction to them in hygiene purposes, makeup application, even cleaning.</blockquote>
NBC News was mocked on Twitter:
Fox News Contributor Katie Pavlich: “This &#8216;confession&#8217; page by NBC News about how you supposedly contribute to climate change is insane. Eat meat? You must confess! Use plastic? Confess! Drive a car? Congress! There&#8217;s a list of &#8216;sins.&#8217; Climate change is a religion.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This &#8220;confession&#8221; page by NBC News about how you supposedly contribute to climate change is insane. Eat meat? You must confess! Use plastic? Confess! Drive a car? Congress! There&#8217;s a list of &#8220;sins.&#8221; Climate change is a religion. <a href="https://t.co/YIJp61cFVT">https://t.co/YIJp61cFVT</a>
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1174365410931675136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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New York Magazine contributor Yashar Ali: &#8220;Wait&#8230;did I do this right?&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Wait&#8230;did I do this right? <a href="https://t.co/e3vOMAuGZg">https://t.co/e3vOMAuGZg</a> <a href="https://t.co/rdTGeZLeyh">pic.twitter.com/rdTGeZLeyh</a>
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1174427643275616256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Psychology professor Geoffrey Miller: &#8220;Climate confession: I haven&#8217;t done all I could to promote nuclear power.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Climate confession: I haven&#8217;t done all I could to promote nuclear power. <a href="https://t.co/RUu0Fl7tF6">https://t.co/RUu0Fl7tF6</a>
— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) <a href="https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1174329639369490432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Neontaster: &#8220;As I keep saying again and again &#8211; the problem ALWAYS seems to be regular people doing regular people things rather than ostentatious wealthy people flying in private jets and maintaining 4 houses that are air-conditioned 24/7/365. But plebs shouldn&#8217;t eat steak anymore. F*** off.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">As I keep saying again and again &#8211; the problem ALWAYS seems to be regular people doing regular people things rather than ostentatious wealthy people flying in private jets and maintaining 4 houses that are air-conditioned 24/7/365. But plebs shouldn&#8217;t eat steak anymore. Fuck off. <a href="https://t.co/apSAIKBbdI">https://t.co/apSAIKBbdI</a>
— neontaster (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1174319180381900800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Election reporter for DecisionDeskHQ Varad Mehta: &#8220;Don&#8217;t you dare suggest that climate change is a cult!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Don&#8217;t you dare suggest that climate change is a cult! <a href="https://t.co/CpawwMdreM">https://t.co/CpawwMdreM</a>
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) <a href="https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/1174323709378727936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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But climate change is apparently a religion of sorts for NBC News; on September 9 the network announced it would be hosting a week of climate-focused topics. <a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/866068/after-criticizing-california-over-homeless-numbers-trump-wont-give-state-money-fight-crisis">The Week</a> reported:
<blockquote>It will feature correspondents reporting environmental and climate stories from around the world, full hours of coverage on MSNBC opinion shows, and its previously promised two-night forum on climate change with 2020 presidential candidates … NBC News&#8217; flagship reporters Al Roker and Lester Holt will report on how climate change is affecting Greenland and Alaska … MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes and Ali Velshi will meanwhile moderate the two-day town hall … which will put &#8220;2020 presidential candidates in conversation with young voters on climate issues.&#8221;</blockquote>

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WATCH: NBC’s Richard Engel: ‘This Is A Bat Virus. Not A China Virus. It Doesn’t Speak Chinese’

NBC News Runs Op-Ed Accusing Kansas City Chiefs Fans Of Racism

Media Claims That Wind Made Border Wall Fall Over. There’s More To The Story.

WATCH: Congressman Zeldin Dices Rude NBC Reporter Who Repeatedly Cuts Him Off

NBC News Opinion: White Christian Americans Panicked Over Losing Dominance

NBC’s Chuck Todd Explains Why He’s Changed How He Reports On Republicans

WATCH: Megyn Kelly Announces Bombshell First Interview Since NBC Exit

BOMBSHELL: ABC News Killed Epstein-Clinton Story, Says Anchor In Hot Mic Video

Author Says Her Rape Claim Set To Air With Joy Reid Was Killed By NBC

READ IT: Matt Lauer’s Open Letter Slams Accusers: ‘My Silence Has Been A Mistake’

‘Horrific’: NBC News Shreds Former Anchor After Explosive New Allegations

Matt Lauer Accused Of Rape By Former Colleague; Lauer Responds

NBC News Turns Climate Change Into Real Religion: Offers Site Where You Anonymously Confess Your Sins

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NBC Virus Expert Who Claimed He Had ‘Undiagnosed’ COVID-19 Reveals He Never Had Virus

Cruz Unloads On Google Over Debacle In Failed NBC News Hit On The Federalist, Gets AG Barr Involved

Google Threatens To Ban The Federalist From Ad Platform For Comment Section Violations

Comcast Continues To Reject Demands For Outside Investigation Into NBC’s Handling Of Sexual Harassment Complaints

NBC News Chief Out; Reports: NY Attorney General Investigating Network

RANTZ: NBC News Is Actively Promoting Chinese Propaganda

‘You’re A Terrible Reporter’: Trumps Blasts NBC Correspondent For Asking ‘Nasty Question’ At Virus Briefing

WATCH: NBC’s Richard Engel: ‘This Is A Bat Virus. Not A China Virus. It Doesn’t Speak Chinese’

NBC News Runs Op-Ed Accusing Kansas City Chiefs Fans Of Racism

Media Claims That Wind Made Border Wall Fall Over. There’s More To The Story.

WATCH: Congressman Zeldin Dices Rude NBC Reporter Who Repeatedly Cuts Him Off

NBC News Opinion: White Christian Americans Panicked Over Losing Dominance

NBC’s Chuck Todd Explains Why He’s Changed How He Reports On Republicans

WATCH: Megyn Kelly Announces Bombshell First Interview Since NBC Exit

BOMBSHELL: ABC News Killed Epstein-Clinton Story, Says Anchor In Hot Mic Video

Author Says Her Rape Claim Set To Air With Joy Reid Was Killed By NBC

READ IT: Matt Lauer’s Open Letter Slams Accusers: ‘My Silence Has Been A Mistake’

‘Horrific’: NBC News Shreds Former Anchor After Explosive New Allegations

Matt Lauer Accused Of Rape By Former Colleague; Lauer Responds

NBC News Turns Climate Change Into Real Religion: Offers Site Where You Anonymously Confess Your Sins

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