<p>After the left-leaning media-led smear campaign against high school boys from Covington Catholic fell apart after video evidence demonstrated that not only did the boys not target an African American group with &#8220;racial epithets&#8221; and &#8220;harass&#8221; Native American protester Nathan Phillips, the boys were actually the ones who were pelted with insults and harassed, the left-wing New York Daily News published another hit-piece on the Catholic school on Monday.</p>
<p>The piece, shamelessly titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-sports-covington-nathan-phillips-nick-sandmann-20190121-story.html">SEE IT: Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game</a>,&#8221; begins by saying snarkily, &#8220;This won&#8217;t help Kentucky student Nick Sandmann&#8217;s case.&#8221; It then &#8220;reports&#8221;:</p>
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<p>A photo said to be featuring Covington Catholic High School students clad in blackface during a 2015 basketball game made the rounds on Twitter Monday morning amid last week&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples March controversy.</p>
<p>The photo depicts several white students, some in blackface, shouting at an opposing black player.</p>
<p>While the photo&#8217;s origins couldn&#8217;t be verified, the official Covington Catholic High School YouTube account published a video last January boasting its basketball school spirit, and several clips, including one from 2012, showcase attendees chanting in black face, a mockery of the opposing players. The school took down the video later on Monday.</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s the photo that the Daily News describes as showing the high schoolers in &#8220;blackface&#8221;:</p>
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<p>VIDEO: <a href="https://t.co/pFgrJA1N0Q">https://t.co/pFgrJA1N0Q</a> From :06 to 1:06 you can see a teacher or coach of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovingtonCatholic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CovingtonCatholic</a> leading the teens in a chant&#8211; several of the Covington students are in blackface. At this game, black players on the opposing team were verbally abused. <a href="https://t.co/gqyNRUjYXD">pic.twitter.com/gqyNRUjYXD</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Marcus Henry Weber (@MarcusHWeber) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcusHWeber/status/1087270294467751937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>But, many have since pointed out, rather than showing high schoolers in &#8220;blackface&#8221; (wearing black makeup in order to imitate in a derogatory manner an African American), the photo clearly shows students in a &#8220;blackout&#8221; event. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42485/walsh-smear-merchants-now-claim-covington-catholic-matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a> summed up the arguments succinctly in an op-ed for the Daily Wire:</p>
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<p>Anyone with, say, a third of a functioning brain rattling around in their skulls will immediately understand the scene. The kids are all wearing black because the fans of sports teams often will come to games all in the same color. Oftentimes fans will wear black as part of a &#8220;blackout.&#8221; Other times they&#8217;ll white as part of a &#8220;whiteout.&#8221; Or sometimes they&#8217;ll wear blue or red or any other color. This is standard operating procedure in American sports, especially scholastic sports.</p>
<p>Why are they screaming at the opposing player? Well, because he is the opposing player and that&#8217;s what the home fans do and have done in every basketball game or football game ever played anywhere on Earth. Why is the opposing player black? Well, because that just happens to be his race. If he was white, they would be just as unwelcoming. This is part of the pageantry of sports.</p>
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<p>The blowback to the Daily News&#8217; hit-piece has begun online, including from Robert Barnes, the lawyer who has repeatedly called out journalists for libeling the Covington teens and is threatening lawsuits on their behalf against any who fail to adequately retract their false reports.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fake news. This is a blackout event, not people in blackface. Hence, notice how the kids entire bodies are in black paint or black clothing. I guess NYDN thought it wouldn&#8217;t be fair if they didn&#8217;t get sued too,&#8221; wrote Barnes in response to the Daily News tweet.</p>
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<p>Fake news. This is a blackout event, not people in blackface. Hence, notice how the kids entire bodies are in black paint or black clothing. I guess NYDN thought it wouldn&#8217;t be fair if they didn&#8217;t get sued too. <a href="https://t.co/iIpdCHlCkv">https://t.co/iIpdCHlCkv</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) <a href="https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1087509707789459456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Many independent journalists who lean left agree the kids were falsely attacked, led by one of the best grassroots journalists in the country on these kind of issues,&#8221; he wrote Tuesday after a series of posts directed at specific reporters. &#8220;No media member who refuses to retract at this juncture has any credible defense to libeling these kids.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Many independent journalists who lean left agree the kids were falsely attacked, led by one of the best grassroots journalists in the country on these kind of issues, <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Timcast</a>. No media member who refuses to retract at this juncture has any credible defense to libeling these kids</p>
<p>&#8212; Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) <a href="https://twitter.com/Barnes_Law/status/1087781605698162690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>A few other responses to the Daily News&#8217; smear piece (warning: language):</p>
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<p>Pathetic. Piling on to kids who did nothing wrong. WTF is wrong with you?</p>
<p>&#8212; Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaMarieBoothe/status/1087515261396312066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Their whole body was painted black. It looked like it was a blackout at a basketball game. You don&#8217;t get out of the house much because it happens in college and high school</p>
<p>&#8212; cubs fan (@cubsfan038) <a href="https://twitter.com/cubsfan038/status/1087685312065818625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>UCLA, Michigan, NYU, and Harvard all have unity-color dress nights at games. This is the exact opposite of a new and shocking thing. (pictured: Duke) <a href="https://t.co/58Xtnkc3lm">pic.twitter.com/58Xtnkc3lm</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTonus/status/1087512181212626944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>You spread fake news. And now you&#8217;re trying to coverup your mistake with more fake news. Stop.</p>
<p>&#8212; Mark Dice (@MarkDice) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1087510129652551680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>They just keep in digging</p>
<p>&#8212; Casey Dudek (@casedd76) <a href="https://twitter.com/casedd76/status/1087549850495795200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Not Pictured: Blackface</p>
<p>The media have gone completely bananas trying to libel these falsely-accused <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovingtonCatholic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CovingtonCatholic</a> kids.</p>
<p>Will we see a Gawker-level extinction event throughout the mainstream media?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s VERY possible. <a href="https://t.co/GbX6RtSIH4">pic.twitter.com/GbX6RtSIH4</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Jeffrey Marty (@Jeffrey_Marty) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeffrey_Marty/status/1087523417023102976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Yup thats it, civil war.</p>
<p>They refuse to back down.</p>
<p>They are actually insane.</p>
<p>This is not black face, its just sporting event body paint for a &#8220;blackout game&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/DU1oPzNaZE">https://t.co/DU1oPzNaZE</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1087683079957872641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>Related:</em> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42474/lawyer-covington-kids-threatens-sue-nyt-obvious-james-barrett">Lawyer For Covington Kids Threatens To Sue NYT For &#8216;Obvious Libel&#8217;; People Line Up To Help</a></p>


Blowback Begins Over Covington Catholic ‘Blackface’ Accusation

Catholicism

Covington Catholic High School

New York Daily News

Race

<p>The Left&#8217;s narrative about the incident involving students from Covington Catholic school has collapsed, but they will not drop their pitchforks quietly. Instead of admitting that they were played by a conman named Nathan Phillips, and that they wildly misconstrued an event that actually began when a group a black activists yelled racist and anti-gay slurs, they have instead set out to retroactively justify their treatment of the innocent students. They have already declared the Covington kids racist and bigoted, now all they have to do is find some sort of evidence to go with that charge. And, of course, if they find no evidence, they can always just lie. Which brings us to the latest smear.</p>
<p>A picture went viral yesterday showing a group of Covington students at a basketball game wearing all black, some in black paint, screaming at the black player of another team. Anyone with, say, a third of a functioning brain rattling around in their skulls will immediately understand the scene. The kids are all wearing black because the fans of sports teams often will come to games all in the same color. Oftentimes fans will wear black as part of a &#8220;blackout.&#8221; Other times they&#8217;ll white as part of a &#8220;whiteout.&#8221; Or sometimes they&#8217;ll wear blue or red or any other color. This is standard operating procedure in American sports, especially scholastic sports.</p>
<p>Why are they screaming at the opposing player? Well, because he is the opposing player and that&#8217;s what the home fans do and have done in every basketball game or football game ever played anywhere on Earth. Why is the opposing player black? Well, because that just happens to be his race. If he was white, they would be just as unwelcoming. This is part of the pageantry of sports.</p>
<p>Many leftists, though, apparently want us to believe that they have never watched sports or even been introduced to the concept of sports. Feigning an extraordinary amount of ignorance, they accused the students of wearing &#8220;blackface.&#8221; Several media outlets got in on the act. A worthless trash rag called the New York Daily News put the lie right in their headline: &#8220;Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game.&#8221; The Daily Mail added emphasis: &#8220;Kentucky students from the same Catholic high school as the teens who taunted a Native American man were allowed to don BLACKFACE at their sports events &#8211; and openly goaded African American players.&#8221; Prominent leftists like <a href="https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1087349213858414592">Tariq Nasheed </a>and <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1087530451596705797">Matthew Yglesias</a> helped to spread the smear on Twitter.</p>
<p>These people, if they had any integrity, might ask themselves why the school would take pictures and videos of their own students in blackface and then publish them on the internet. They might ask whether it is at all likely or plausible that a whole student body would get together and agree to wear racist costumes to a basketball game. But these considerations are irrelevant to the smear merchants. The smear need not be likely or plausible or, least of all, true. It need only succeed in keeping the narrative alive. And what if that false narrative succeeds in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42472/speaking-ben-shapiro-show-covington-students-daily-wire">getting a kid hurt or killed</a>? The smear merchants couldn&#8217;t care less about that. They are empty, amoral husks of human beings. Nothing matters to them but the political victory.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://Today on the podcast, we discuss the insane claim that Covington students wore &#8220;blackface.&#8221; Also we talk about Notre Dame covering up murals of Christopher Columbus.  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-matt-walsh-show/id1367210511?mt=2#episodeGuid=tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F562985346">Listen</a> to Matt&#8217;s latest podcast.</em></p>


WALSH: Smear Merchants Now Claim That Covington Catholic Students Wore ‘Blackface.’ That’s A Complete Lie.

Media Bias

<p>Brad Schaeffer is a historian, author, and musician whose columns have appeared in several news media outlets including the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and here at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/authors/brad-schaeffer">The Daily Wire</a>. He delves into historical fiction with his novel &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Another-Time-Place-Brad-Schaeffer/dp/1682616630/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1543689929&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Brad+Schaeffer">Of Another Time and Place</a>.&#8221; The story takes place at two points in time, first in the modern-day streets of London, but also in the skies of Europe during the second World War.</p>
<p>The book is described as a &#8220;a novel about love, redemption, and two young lovers separated by war and desperate to survive the unparalleled violence consuming their war-torn nation. It is the story of a country gone astray, mesmerized by their mad Fuehrer, and the artist-turned-warrior and his courageous bride who vow to break his spell and make a difference, even it if means dangling at the end of a Nazi rope.&#8221;</p>
<p>The plot involves American reporter Rachael Azerod, who flies to England in order to meet Harmon Becker, the former German WWII hero to whom Hitler himself awarded the highest honors. However, there is more to his story than meets the eye. </p>
<p>Becker explains how as the second World War breaks out, he joined the German air force known as the Luftwaffe, leaving behind his parents and his fiancé Amelia, who is protesting the rise of the Third Reich as the Jewish community begins to be targeted. </p>
<p>After battling in the skies above Russia, Becker is transferred to Belgium where he is promoted to captain and tasked with training a new squadron of pilots.</p>
<p>He is given leave to travel and meet Adolf Hitler himself, who is to give him an award for his prowess in the sky. He stops off at his hometown where he learns a secret. Amelia has been hiding a Jewish family in the woods near their town &#8212; but not just any family. It is none other than his former music teacher under whom he studied prior to the war. Now, he must make a choice to either do the right thing, or report his own loved ones to the dreaded Nazis. </p>
<p>&#8220;Of Another Time and Place&#8221; is not simply a historical novel, it tells the story of a man who is torn between a genuine love for his home country and his forced loyalties to the Nazi regime.</p>
<p>Schaeffer perfectly captures this tragic moment in history. It is an excellent and well-crafted plot that engrosses you as you travel with Becker on his journey of divided loyalties and dangerous secrets. Every step of the way, you feel the tension build as Becker makes choices that he knows could get him and his entire family killed by the deadly Gestapo. It is a story that you do not want to miss.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire&#8217;s editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro says of the novel, &#8220;I love Brad Schaeffer&#8217;s writing, and &#8216;Of Another Time and Place&#8217; is no exception. Buy it and read it. You won&#8217;t be disappointed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Check out the book trailer below:</p>
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Book Review: ‘Of Another Time And Place’ By Brad Schaeffer

Germany

Jews

London

Making History

Nazis

Wall Street Journal

<p>As part of the New York Daily News&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33413/new-york-daily-news-announces-mass-layoffs-staff-ashe-schow">mass layoffs</a> announced Monday, apparently the entire social media team was cut, according to Candace Amos, who was one of the employees let go.</p>
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<p>The whole entire <a href="https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYDailyNews</a> social media team was just let go by Tronc. There are no updates to any stories being pushed right now. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/transitions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#transitions</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Candace Amos (@CandaceAmos) <a href="https://twitter.com/CandaceAmos/status/1021425756944125952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Nearly two hours after Amos sent her tweet &#8212; and two hours after the newspaper&#8217;s Twitter account stopped retweeting people mentioning the outlet&#8217;s successes &#8212; the outgoing social media team put up one final, perfect tweet.</p>
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<p><a href="https://t.co/z0Ffw9uNmb">pic.twitter.com/z0Ffw9uNmb</a></p>
<p>&#8212; New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1021436288002555911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In case this tweet gets deleted &#8212; it&#8217;s the gif of John Travolta from &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; looking around confused.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Yup, it was deleted. Thanks to Ian Bremmer for screencapping:</p>
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<p>The social media team goes out in a blaze of glory. <a href="https://t.co/L4TXraJwqu">pic.twitter.com/L4TXraJwqu</a></p>
<p>&#8212; ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1021476554092814336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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Entire New York Daily News Social Media Team Fired, Puts Up Final Perfect Tweet

Twitter

<p>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Monday afternoon that Tronc&#8217;s decision to cut half of the New York Daily News&#8217; editorial staff was &#8220;greedy.&#8221;</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;ve disagreed with the Daily News from time to time. But Tronc&#8217;s greedy decision to gut the newsroom is bad for government and a disaster for NYC. Tronc should sell the paper to someone committed to local journalism and keeping reporters on the beat.</p>
<p>&#8212; Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1021415772369956864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In May 2018, emails obtained by consulting firm BerlinRosen showed de Blasio weighing whether cutbacks at the Daily<em> </em>News <a href="%3cblockquote%20class=%22twitter-tweet%22%20data-lang=%22en%22%3e%3cp%20lang=%22en%22%20dir=%22ltr%22%3eIt&#8217;s%20no%20secret%20that%20I&#8217;ve%20disagreed%20with%20the%20Daily%20News%20from%20time%20to%20time.%20But%20Tronc&#8217;s%20greedy%20decision%20to%20gut%20the%20newsroom%20is%20bad%20for%20government%20and%20a%20disaster%20for%20NYC.%20Tronc%20should%20sell%20the%20paper%20to%20someone%20committed%20to%20local%20journalism%20and%20keeping%20reporters%20on%20the%20beat.%3c/p%3e&amp;mdash;%20Bill%20de%20Blasio%20(@NYCMayor)%20%3ca%20href=%22https:/twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1021415772369956864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22%3eJuly%2023,%202018%3c/a%3e%3c/blockquote%3e%20%3cscript%20async%20src=%22https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js%22%20charset=%22utf-8%22%3e%3c/script%3e">would be good or bad for his administration</a>.</p>
<p>In one email thread from 2015, Jonathan Rosen, co-founder of BerlinRosen and one of de Blasio&#8217;s political advisers, told the mayor about rumors that the Daily News would be sold.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some rumor that his [plan] is to cut back on the print paper and make it a web play,&#8221; Rosen wrote, according to Politico. &#8220;The Hill now only comes out in print three days a week on session days. Rest online.&#8221;</p>
<p>In response, de Blasio wrote back: &#8220;And that would be good for us, right? Or would that make the [New York] Post more dominant? Or, conversely, would it hasten the demise of the Post &#8212; prob [sic] just wishful thinking.&#8221;</p>
<p>The NYC mayor offered the &#8220;greedy&#8221; comments shortly after the Daily News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33413/new-york-daily-news-announces-mass-layoffs-staff-ashe-schow">announced via email</a> that it would layoff 50% of its editorial staff.</p>
<p>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has since pledged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33426/new-york-governor-offers-state-help-new-york-daily-ashe-schow">unspecified state help</a> for the struggling paper.</p>


NYC Mayor Calls Decision To Cut New York Daily News Staff ‘Greedy’

Andrew Cuomo

Bill de Blasio

<p>New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to Twitter Monday to offer state support for the New York Daily News, which announced earlier in the morning that it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33413/new-york-daily-news-announces-mass-layoffs-staff-ashe-schow">cut half its editorial staff</a>.</p>
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<p>My statement on the layoffs at the <a href="https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYDailyNews</a>: <a href="https://t.co/R1FflH98DX">pic.twitter.com/R1FflH98DX</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1021415336011358210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Cuomo said he stands &#8220;ready to work&#8221; with Tronc to keep the Daily News staffers. He ended his statement by saying,  &#8220;New York State stands ready to help.&#8221;</p>
<p>What exactly that &#8220;help&#8221; means, is not clear yet.</p>
<p>Cuomo mentioned in his statement that his &#8220;father, as Governor, came to the aid of the New York Post when it was facing difficult financial times.&#8221; Indeed, in 1993, Cuomo&#8217;s father, Mario, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070423111034/http:/www.cjr.org/issues/2004/1/gangs-hickey.asp">helped save the Post</a> by persuading the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to waive cross-ownership rules to allow Rupert Murdoch to purchase the paper for a second time (he had been previously forced to sell the Post due to these FCC rules).</p>
<p>Since this instance was cited specifically by Cuomo in his statement, one could reasonably assume that&#8217;s what he meant by offering state support, should a similar situation arise.</p>
<p>Over in New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy recently announced a new non-profit to support local news, <a href="http://observer.com/2018/07/new-jersely-local-journalism-civic-information-consortium-investment/">aided by a $5 million taxpayer infusion</a>.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s hope this is not the tactic Cuomo plans to take.</p>


New York Governor Offers State Help To New York Daily News

Journalism

New Jersey

<p>For weeks now, staffers at the New York Daily News have braced for cuts. On Monday, those cuts were announced in an impersonal email. It doesn&#8217;t appear as though everyone who is being laid off even knows yet.</p>
<p>Tronc, which owns NYDN, sent an email to staff Monday morning announcing it would be &#8220;fundamentally restructuring the Daily News,&#8221; according to <a href="https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1021384000542330881">a copy of the memo</a> obtained by the Daily Beast&#8217;s Max Tani.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are reducing today the size of the editorial team by approximately 50 percent and re-focusing much of our talent on breaking news &#8212; especially in areas of crime, civil justice and public responsibility,&#8221; the email said.</p>
<p>Tani wrote on Twitter that &#8220;multiple staffers&#8221; told him NYDN employees were called in for an all-staff meeting and told to wait for the email.</p>
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<p>Per multiple staffers, New York Daily News employees were called in for an all hands meeting that lasted less than one minute. Management said to wait for an email about cuts that was just sent out.</p>
<p>&#8212; Max Tani (@maxwelltani) <a href="https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1021383173228384256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Later in the email, Tronc wrote: &#8220;With the exception of a few particular employees who are not in the office today, Human Resources will communicate with everyone leaving the Daily news by the end of the day,&#8221; suggesting many employees still don&#8217;t know whether they have a job or not. Those who are laid off, per the email, will &#8220;be paid for the next 90 days and be eligible for transitional benefits after that.&#8221;</p>
<p>The biggest cut was editor-in-chief Jim Rich, who foreshadowed the layoffs in an ominous tweet Monday morning.</p>
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<p>If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.</p>
<p>&#8212; Jim Rich (@therealjimrich) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealjimrich/status/1021268879052627969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He also changed his Twitter bio to read: &#8220;Just a guy sitting at home watching journalism being choked into extinction.&#8221;</p>
<p>Robert York, who was the previous editor-in-chief at Tronc&#8217;s Morning Call paper in Allentown, PA, will take over from Rich.</p>


New York Daily News Announces Mass Layoffs To Staff Via Email

<p>The New York Daily News is experiencing backlash in response to the release of its new cover, which features a smiling Ivanka Trump gesturing to a photoshopped-in image of an injured Palestinian from the violence on the Gaza strip.</p>
<p>On Monday, in response to the ceremony for the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Hamas-led Palestinian protesters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30590/watch-palestinian-protests-us-embassy-get-out-james-barrett">rioted</a> at the Israel-Gaza border, prompting the Israel Defense Forces to strike a number of Hamas targets. According to the Hamas-run health ministry, dozens of Palestinians were killed as a result of the IDF&#8217;s response. Among those killed were three terrorists who tried to plant a bomb on the border.</p>
<p>In its promotion of an early look at its Tuesday cover on Twitter, the Daily News provided a one-word comment that aptly described its own cover: &#8220;Deplorable.&#8221;</p>
<p>The headline reads, &#8220;Daddy&#8217;s Little Ghoul: 55 slaughtered in Gaza, but Ivanka all smiles at Jerusalem embassy unveil.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Deplorable <a href="https://t.co/EMGX6xPzva">https://t.co/EMGX6xPzva</a></p>
<p>An early look at Tuesday&#8217;s front&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/ZAK1Vk5ACW">pic.twitter.com/ZAK1Vk5ACW</a></p>
<p>&#8212; New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/996205473119588353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>If the Daily News was trying to cause a stir, it certainly succeeded. The <a href="https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/05/15/disgusting-ny-daily-news-cover-about-ivanka-trump-gaza-riots-is-a-new-low-for-journalism/">reaction online</a> was strong, including from Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro and Fox News&#8217; Brit Hume:</p>
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<p>This headline is disgusting in every conceivable way <a href="https://t.co/sgzh0k7uYI">https://t.co/sgzh0k7uYI</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/996238783308644354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Good grief. <a href="https://t.co/8DbOF2mgUh">pic.twitter.com/8DbOF2mgUh</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/996233414595502081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In an op-ed for The Daily Wire, Shapiro slammed the left-wing media for acting as &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30638/hamas-planned-violence-gaza-border-media-act-their-ben-shapiro">the propaganda arm</a>&#8221; for the Hamas terrorist organization, who planned and led the violent protests and terrorist activity on Monday.</p>
<p>A few other examples of the blowback online:</p>
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<p>Gee, now that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nazi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nazi</a> narrative is officially dead, the media must politicize death itself. If <a href="https://twitter.com/BillClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillClinton</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS44</a> had moved the embassy to Jerusalem or enforced Israel&#8217;s capital as they ALL promised to do, ur headline would read &#8220;Historic Milestone Marred By Unrest.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/U1dTjlRQtv">pic.twitter.com/U1dTjlRQtv</a></p>
<p>&#8212; Lynne Patton (@LynnePatton) <a href="https://twitter.com/LynnePatton/status/996212977614442498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The hell is wrong with you people? Those were armed attackers who were trying to get into Israel and kill women and children. Hamas said so outright. After two thousand years we can&#8217;t celebrate Jerusalem for what it is without the world hating us.</p>
<p>&#8212; Jacob Fischer (@yyfischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/yyfischer/status/996213686640488449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>I am not a Trump supporter, but this is grounds for a boycott of the newspaper.</p>
<p>&#8212; Mr. Eph (@MrEph) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrEph/status/996233315991638016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>This is &#8220;journalism?&#8221; Blaming Ivanka &amp; the President for a staged event at the Gaza border which was sponsored &amp; encouraged by a terrorist group for maximum carnage &amp; effect makes this a definite contender for &#8220;Peak Stupid Journalism in 2018.&#8221; Congratulations on making the cut!</p>
<p>&#8212; SilverPatriot (@SilverPatriot1) <a href="https://twitter.com/SilverPatriot1/status/996240187968507905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8203;And of course there were many who bought the Daily News&#8217; &#8220;Hamas-as-victims&#8221; and &#8220;Trumps-as-murderers&#8221; rhetoric:</p>
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<p>Donald Trump is personally responsible for those deaths, because he&#8217;s the one who moved the embassy. Everyone who went with him, including Ivanka, is complicit.<br />
Also, tell me to &#8220;shut the hell up&#8221; if you want to, but you&#8217;re the one complaining about hateful rhetoric. Pick one.</p>
<p>&#8212; Post Cabrón (@ConradPolloi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConradPolloi/status/996262719669104641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Trump supports a war of religion to push his dream of the apocalypse. He&#8217;s quoted the Georgia Guidestones and believes them to be true. You gotta see that trump wants the blood shed. He needs a story about made up borders and starved workers to gain weight from the other side</p>
<p>&#8212; Captain Inkwater (@captain_dye) <a href="https://twitter.com/captain_dye/status/996340703549681664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8203;<em>Related: </em><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30638/hamas-planned-violence-gaza-border-media-act-their-ben-shapiro">SHAPIRO: Hamas Planned The Violence On The Gaza Border. The Media Act As Their Propaganda Arm.</a></p>


‘DEPLORABLE’: NY Daily News’ Cover Ties Ivanka To Gaza Violence

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<p>&#8220;Trump points finger at Samsung for missing texts between FBI agent, lawyer engaged in affair,&#8221; says the headline in the New York Daily News. (The url says &#8220;Blames Samsung,&#8221; which means that was the original headline).</p>
<p>&#8220;Donald Trump blames Samsung for lost FBI text messages,&#8221; CNET.com said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Trump appears to call out Samsung over missing FBI text messages,&#8221; The Hill wrote.</p>
<p>Did Trump do that? Let&#8217;s examine the facts.</p>
<p>It all started with a late-night post on Twitter in which he said:</p>
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<p>Where are the 50,000 important text messages between FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Blaming Samsung!</p>
<p>&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/956012274942128128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Daily News decided that tweet meant this: &#8220;President Trump pinned the blame for scores of missing text messages between two romancing FBI agents on the tech giant Samsung Tuesday, calling the glitch &#8216;one of the biggest stories in a long time.'&#8221;</p>
<p>A couple of points, one obvious, one maybe not so much.</p>
<p>First, Trump was merely pointing out &#8212; sarcastically, mind you &#8212; that it&#8217;s the <em>Federal Bureau of Investigation</em> that&#8217;s blaming Samsung for the missing text messages between a top bureau agent and his mistress. The FBI said last Friday that because of a &#8220;glitch&#8221; in the bureau&#8217;s Samsung 5 mobile phones, some five months worth of text messages between agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page have mysteriously disappeared.</p>
<p>Strzok was a lead counterintelligence official who was involved in the clearing of Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified documents and also was part of the team investigating Trump for alleged collusion with Russia before the 2016 election. All kinds of revelations flowed this week about the pair&#8217;s text massages, like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26265/bombshell-informant-tells-congress-there-really-hank-berrien">this</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26241/bombshell-new-text-anti-trump-fbi-agent-casts-ryan-saavedra">this</a>.</p>
<p>Newsweak &#8212; er, Newsweek &#8212; didn&#8217;t know what to make of the president&#8217;s words (as usual). &#8220;DID TRUMP BLAME SAMSUNG FOR MISSING FBI TEXT MESSAGES? PRESIDENT GETS NUMBER OF MESSAGES WRONG.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Early Wednesday, President Donald Trump appeared to blame Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung for a technical glitch the FBI says caused sections of a series of controversial text messages between two officials to be lost,&#8221; the lead said.</p>
<p>Well first, it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;early Wednesday.&#8221; Not to be too picky, but that&#8217;s wrong. It was precisely 10:54 p.m. It&#8217;s time-stamped on the tweet &#8212; which Newsweek ran in the piece! But the once-great-now-horrible magazine just didn&#8217;t know what was going on, offering well down in the story: &#8220;Trump&#8217;s statement may have been sarcastic, Mail Online suggested.&#8221;</p>
<p>But second is this point: Trump&#8217;s just made a move that&#8217;ll shed significant light on the whole Samsung-Did-It canard. Here&#8217;s how: Trump points out that the FBI &#8212; not him, but the FBI &#8212; is &#8220;blaming Samsung.&#8221; Now, Samsung has two choices: Come out and say, &#8220;Yup, our phones are pretty crummy, lots of glitches happen,&#8221; or to push back on the narrative, declare that, &#8220;Guys, it&#8217;s not our phones. Whatever problems you have is all on you.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Samsung comes back with the latter, the story moves back to the FBI, despite the bureau&#8217;s claim that the phones are at fault. With any luck, Samsung and the FBI will get in a mini-battle &#8212; &#8220;It&#8217;s your fault! No, it&#8217;s YOUR fault!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>So Trump&#8217;s intent with the late-night (not early morning) tweet was twofold: Expose the &#8220;fake news&#8221; media, which we can assume he knew would (wrongly) claim that Trump was blaming Samsung, and push the electronics giant to rebut FBI claims that a &#8220;glitch&#8221; in the phones meant important data has gone missing.</p>
<p>There may be debate about whether Trump really is, as he claims, a &#8220;stable genius,&#8221; but there&#8217;s little doubt that sometimes, he really is playing some three-dimensional chess.</p></p>


Trump ‘Blames Samsung’ For Missing FBI Messages? Nope. Trump Is Three Moves Ahead.

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<div>The national news media has lost its mind and gone hysterical over #MuslimBan. </div>
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<div>Forget that it&#8217;s not a &#8220;Muslim ban&#8221; but instead an order to halt immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. Forget that President Obama and President Bush and President Clinton and President Other Bush and President Reagan and President Carter all issued executive orders limiting immigration from one country or another. And forget (if you can) that Cher is very angry about the whole situation.</div>
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<div>The liberal media, those outlets that sometimes masquerade as presenting &#8220;real&#8221; news but which are in fact just biased agencies pumping out propaganda for sycophants, are running wild with the story, always sure to include &#8220;Muslim Ban&#8221; is their needled-up headlines.</div>
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<div>Googling &#8220;Muslim Ban&#8221; &#8212; a term that clearly signals Trump has banned people on the basis of their religion, a charge that is completely false and easily discernable by reading the 2,853-word executive order &#8212; brings up a slew of hits. What&#8217;s most fascinating is that the &#8220;journalists&#8221; typing the term know full well that it&#8217;s false, but do it anyway.</div>
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<div>So let&#8217;s take a quick look at who&#8217;s using the inaccurate term. </div>
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<div>The New York Times &#8212; &#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s Muslim Ban Is Cowardly and Dangerous.&#8221; Yes, seriously. And the paper even says &#8220;The document does not explicitly mention any religion&#8230;.&#8221; So, how is it a Muslim ban? Fuhgeddaboutit.</div>
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<div>The Guardian &#8212; &#8220;The Muslim ban has brought the US close to constitutional crisis.&#8221; Oh those excitable Brits. In a story about the &#8220;Muslim ban,&#8221; writer Trevor Timm actually called Steve Bannon a white nationalist &#8212; in the lede!  top that, Americans!</div>
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<div>Huffington Post &#8212; &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Muslim Ban Brings U.S. To Edge Of Constitutional Crisis.&#8221; Arianna must&#8217;ve told her boys that she liked the Guardian&#8217;s headline.</div>
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<div>NBC News &#8212; &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Muslim ban &amp; the backlash.&#8221; Maybe Brian Williams will report on his hardships of being Muslim.</div>
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<div>Time &#8212; &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Muslim Ban: New York Muslims Grateful for Protests.&#8221; The liberal mag must have had at least one honest editors, because clicking on the link brings readers to a story headline: &#8220;New York Muslims Encouraged by Mass Support as Thousands Protest Trump&#8217;s Immigration Ban.&#8221;</div>
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<div>New York Daily News &#8212; &#8220;President Trump&#8217;s Muslim ban excludes countries linked to his sprawling business empire.&#8221; That was another red herring the MSM threw out there, along with allegations that the ban didn&#8217;t target countries copnnected with the 9-11 attacks because Trump is soft on Saudis.</div>
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<div>Rolling Stone &#8212; &#8220;Inside the Huge JFK Airport Protest Over Trump&#8217;s Muslim Ban.&#8221; The rag mag cites &#8220;opposition to President Trump&#8217;s executive order to effectively ban Muslims from entering the United States,&#8221; although the ban does no such thing.</div>
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<div>Boston Herald &#8212; &#8220;Boston judges issue order halting Trump&#8217;s Muslim ban.&#8221; Boston strong!</div>
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<div>AOL &#8212; &#8220;Trump&#8217;s Muslim ban excludes Muslim countries linked to his business empire.&#8221; America offline.</div>
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<div>Teen Vogue &#8212; &#8220;<a href="http://www.teenvogue.com/story/celebrities-speaking-out-against-trumps-muslim-ban">Celebrities Are Speaking Out Against Trump&#8217;s Muslim Ban</a>.&#8221; Sorry, just had to include this one. But for a hilarious read of one of the most uninformed mooks you&#8217;ll find out there, read this piece in GQ: &#8220;<a href="http://www.gq.com/story/trumps-muslim-ban-proves-that-his-administration-is-full-of-idiots">Trump&#8217;s Muslim Ban Proves That His Administration Is Full of Idiots.</a>&#8221; </div>
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<div>Every editor who types the term &#8220;Muslim ban&#8221; knows &#8212; or <em>should</em> know &#8212; that Trump&#8217;s executive order is no such thing. To do so is the height of shoddy journalism. With fake news running rampant, no wonder Trump won.</div>
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Wanna Find a Liberal News Site? Google ‘Muslim Ban.’

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<p>The <i>New York Daily News</i> (NYDN), in an apparent effort to keep their coveted status as America&#8217;s most insane newspaper, tweeted a preview image of their Halloween cover Sunday evening:</p>
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<p>Early look at tomorrow&#8217;s front page:<br />
FBI&#8217;S MAD BOMBER<br />
News says: Reckless James Comey must go <a href="https://t.co/YJNyf8IyWH">https://t.co/YJNyf8IyWH</a> <a href="https://t.co/oappFrvQ3F">pic.twitter.com/oappFrvQ3F</a></p>
<p>&#8212; New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/792906545654800384">October 31, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The title, which reads: &#8220;FBI&#8217;S MAD BOMBER,&#8221; is situated next to an image of FBI Director James Comey looking like Jack Nicholson in <i>The Shining</i>. Three bullet points follow:</p>
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<li>NEWS SAYS: Reckless Comey must go</li>
<li>Expert: Only criminal if classified emails</li>
<li>Fed agents knew of laptop weeks ago</li>
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<p>The folks at <i>NYDN</i> love provocative, if very misleading, covers. Let&#8217;s go over the information we&#8217;re provided in the bullet points.</p>
<p>Regarding the first bullet point, of course the &#8220;news,&#8221; being largely in the tank for Hillary Clinton, would say that Comey is &#8220;reckless,&#8221; and call for his ouster.</p>
<p>The second bullet point, if it pertains to Clinton, is something the American people already know. However, if it pertains to Huma Abedin, who <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/29/huma-abedin-swore-under-oath-she-gave-up-all-the-devices-containing-state-department-emails.html">testified under oath</a> that she turned over all devices containing official emails, it could potentially lead to criminal charges of some kind.</p>
<p>The final bullet point implies Comey dropped this bombshell less than two weeks before the election for partisan reasons. What the <i>NYDN</i> cover fails to note is that Comey <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-to-conduct-new-investigation-of-emails-from-clintons-private-server/2016/10/28/0b1e9468-9d31-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html">didn&#8217;t know about the laptop</a> until Thursday.</p>
<p>This is garbage coverage from a garbage newspaper&#8211;one that also strongly endorsed Hillary Clinton twice.</p>
<p>In April, while Clinton was still campaigning against Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the editorial board <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/vote-hillary-clinton-article-1.2598171">called her</a> &#8220;unsparingly clear-eyed about what&#8217;s wrong with America.&#8221; In July, they <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/daily-news-editorial-board-hillary-clinton-president-article-1.2730476">wrote</a> that Clinton &#8220;is all that stands between the United States of America and never-before-seen proof that the Founding Fathers weren&#8217;t all that they&#8217;ve been cracked up to be.&#8221;</p>
<p>As circulation <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/nyregion/the-daily-news-layoffs-and-digital-shift-may-signal-the-tabloid-eras-end.html?_r=0">continues to plummet</a>, and layoffs are euphemistically called &#8220;restructuring,&#8221; perhaps the <i>New York Daily News</i> is trying to amp up its already outrageous covers to compensate.</p>


New York Daily News Goes Insane Over Comey With This Nutty Front Page

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<p>In <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/3374/here-are-top-7-moments-republican-debate-saturday-james-barrett">the debates</a> and on the campaign trail, business mogul Donald Trump has made a lot of his New York roots and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/3406/trump-spokeswoman-blames-jeb-911-hijackers-james-barrett">the causes and aftermath of 9/11</a>. Now a few past reports have resurfaced that call into question Trump&#8217;s financial gains from the Twin Towers tragedy.</p>
<p>Drawing from reports by the <em>New York Times </em>and the<em> New York Daily News,</em> <em>The Weekly Standard</em>&#8216;s <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/after-911-trump-took-money-marked-for-small-businesses/article/2001099">Michael Warren</a> recently highlighted a curious infusion of funds Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;40 Wall Street LLC&#8221; received from a federal grant for small businesses impacted by the 9/11 Twin Towers attack. The &#8220;curious&#8221; part is that by the definition spelled out in the grant, Trump&#8217;s LLC was no &#8220;small business&#8221; and thus should not have taken money from the grant.</p>
<p>Warren explains that not long after 9/11, Trump&#8217;s LLC received $150,000 from the World Trade Center Business Recovery Grant program, a program designed to help &#8220;small businesses&#8221; impacted by the devastating attack. Though <a href="http://youtu.be/ZYXygIcIJ6I?t=16s">Trump said publicly</a> that none of his businesses were directly damaged in 9/11, his LLC wound up landing the sizeable grant.</p>
<p>The problem is that his business did not meet the definition of a small business. The <em><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/feds-gave-donald-quick-bundle-titans-9-11-funds-set-small-biz-article-1.558429">New York Daily News </a></em>explained back in 2006:</p>
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<p><em>The grant application describes the corporation through which Trump owns that building as having 28 employees and $26.8 million in annual revenues. That passed the ESDC&#8217;s small business test of less than 500 employees. But the revenue amount would put the single Trump property over the federal definition of a small business &#8211; which is $6 million annually for lessors of nonresidential buildings. A Trump spokeswoman did not respond to a call and e-mail message seeking comment.</em></p>
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<p>Warren notes that as early as 2003, <a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-12-27/news/0312270001_1_businesses-lower-manhattan-grant-program">reports</a> began to surface that the 9/11 recovery grant program, which disbursed hundreds of millions of dollars, &#8220;admitted to overpaying some firms and took back $1.2 million.&#8221; In fact, a federal audit at the time estimated that at least $5 million had been overpaid.</p>
<p>Trump said in 2005 that the &#8220;<a href="http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/new-york-ny/40-wall-street/">impressive, landmark property</a>&#8221; of 40 Wall Street was worth <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/business/yourmoney/whats-he-really-worth.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$400 million</a>, and his revenues appear to have been booming, yet, as Warren writes, &#8220;through a loophole in the rules, Trump was able to squeeze $150,000 of money from taxpayers for his valuable landmark property.&#8221;</p>
<p>As was the case in the 2006 report, a Trump spokesman has so far declined comment on Warren&#8217;s story.</p>


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