On Monday, far-left New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio conceded that the recent high-profile surge in crime in New York City may, in fact, have something to do with New York state&#8217;s new deeply controversial &#8220;bail reform&#8221; law that de Blasio and his fellow leftist Democrats championed prior to its enactment.
&#8220;We had, for six years, steady decreases in crime across the board. There’s not a whole lot of other environmental things that have changed recently,&#8221; de Blasio said, as <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/07/de-blasio-admits-nyc-crime-jump-is-linked-to-bail-reform/">reported</a> by the New York Post. &#8220;It sort of stands out like a sore thumb that this is the single biggest new thing in the equation and we saw an extraordinary jump.&#8221;
“Of course there’s always a possibility this is plain statistical variation, that happens sometimes,” the mayor added, the newspaper noted. “But I think it’s pretty clear that there’s only one new major piece in the equation.”
De Blasio did offer one concrete proposed reform to the &#8220;bail reform&#8221; law: Offering judges the discretion to impose pretrial detention upon those defendants deemed a bona fide public safety risk. “I think judicial discretion should be clarified so that there are very clear checks and balances, so that we avoid any inkling of bias entering into the process, but I think a system predicated only on the question of flight risk misses the fact that there are some individuals who are just consistently, by their own actions, and by the proof of due process, consistently creat[ing] a threat to their neighbors,&#8221; he said.
New York&#8217;s new &#8220;bail reform&#8221; law, which outright eliminates bail for all but the most truly violent criminals, has faced mounting opposition amid a panoply of headlines showcasing the awful caliber of criminal defendants let off into the streets pretrial. In fact, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disaster-dems-consider-changes-to-ny-bail-reform-just-one-week-after-implementation">reported</a> last month, even many Empire State Democrats have been pushing to tweak the pro-criminal law.
&#8220;After an onslaught of bad press over the disastrous first week of Democrat-implemented &#8216;bail reform&#8217; in New York, Democrats are considering changes to the legislation,&#8221; Prestigiacomo noted.
&#8220;Bail reform, which was reportedly implemented early in New York City by &#8230; de Blasio, led to a woman charged with an anti-Semitic attack to be arrested and released three times in five days,&#8221; Prestigiacomo continued. &#8220;[Tiffany] Harris &#8216;was nabbed for allegedly slugging three Jewish women and yelling &#8220;F-U, Jews!&#8221; but let go Saturday with no bail, despite an open assault case. Last month, she got no jail for a felony in another incident,&#8217; [the Post] <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/30/revolving-door-injustice-serial-slugger-gets-sprung-again/">reported</a>. &#8216;Nabbed again Sunday in a new attack, she was once more freed, on no bail, Monday.'&#8221;
Appearing last month on “Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler” on One America News Network, I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-hammer-on-tipping-point-with-liz-wheeler-new-yorks-insane-pro-criminal-bail-law">strongly criticized</a> New York&#8217;s new criminal-mollycoddling law:
<blockquote>The problem with the Left is the Left speaks about justice and compassion and all these fancy words. They never focus on the people who actually suffer … from their policies. So in the case of border security and amnesty, there is no one who suffers worse from an open border and the human trafficking by drug cartels than the aliens themselves who are trafficked. In the case of “criminal justice reform,” “bail reform,” no one suffers more than victims of crime.
Where is anyone speaking for the victims of crime? But you know what the Left also does, Liz? The Left is amazing at getting the right version of language for their policies. “Bail reform,” it sounds so innocuous, right? What they’re doing is they’re throwing out a system of bail that has existed since at least 13th century England! That is how far back bail goes — cash bail, monetary bail. This is literally a centuries-old phenomenon that they are just throwing out.</blockquote>

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Jailbreak Is To Blame For Spike In NYC Crime, De Blasio Admits

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Anti-gun rights activist and the father of a Parkland school shooting victim, Fred Guttenberg, was asked to leave President Donald Trump&#8217;s annual State of the Union (SOTU) address on Tuesday night after the activist heckled the president for vowing to protect Americans&#8217; Second Amendment rights.
Mr. Guttenberg shouted about gun control when Trump vowed that he would “always protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.”
The father attended the SOTU address as a guest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/04/state-of-the-union-address-pelosi-guest-a-father-of-parkland-shooting-victim-booted/">New York Post</a>, the speaker &#8220;turned to the gallery with a stern look after the disruption and muttered something under her breath&#8221; after Guttenberg&#8217;s outburst.
The father, who tragically lost his 14-year-old daughter Jaime during the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, is a constant activist against gun rights.
In September, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) met with both actress/left-wing activist Alyssa Milano and Guttenberg to discuss the Second Amendment.
&#8220;I am always grateful for the opportunity to engage in positive, civil discussion on the substantive issues of the day — especially with those with whom I disagree. Today&#8217;s meeting was productive and respectful, and I appreciate Alyssa and Fred&#8217;s willingness to come here with an open mind. I believe more conversations like this will go a long way in helping unite and heal our divided country,&#8221; Sen. Cruz said in a <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&amp;id=4647">statement</a> following the meeting.
&#8220;We all agree we have far too many of these mass shootings, and they need to stop. It is long past time for everyone to put away the partisan talking points so we can work together to solve this problem. We need to act,&#8221; he added.
Though Pelosi was seemingly displeased with Guttenberg&#8217;s outburst, the speaker offered some disobedience herself on Tuesday night. The leading Democrat refused to properly announce President Trump at the start of the evening, and ripped up her copy of Trump’s speech following the event.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-violates-protocol-by-refusing-to-announce-trump-properly-at-sotu-rips-up-speech">The Daily Wire</a>, <a href="https://www.c-span.org/search/?sdate=&amp;edate=&amp;searchtype=Videos&amp;sort=Least+Recent+Event&amp;text=0&amp;tagid%5B%5D=2109&amp;show100=">decades of past SOTU addresses show</a> that is protocol for the House Speaker to announce the president by noting that it is their “high privilege and distinct honor” to do so: “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.”
Instead, Pelosi merely <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdU4MGyOmLA">announced</a> Trump as follows: “Members of Congress, the President of the United States.”
Pelosi was unapologetic about ripping up Trump&#8217;s speech, too.
In a statement reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-shreds-trumps-speech-reflecting-a-tumultuous-year-in-washington/2020/02/04/c378856c-4771-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html">The Washington Post</a> on Tuesday, the speaker called the speech from the president a “manifesto of mistruths.&#8221;
“The manifesto of mistruths presented in page after page of the address tonight should be a call to action for everyone who expects truth from the President and policies worthy of his office and the American people,” a statement from Pelosi said.
“Nancy Pelosi says ripping up Donald Trump’s speech was ‘was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative,'&#8221; Jim Roberts reported.
Eight House Democrats (listed below) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) all skipped the president&#8217;s speech:
<blockquote>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
Rep. Al Green (D-TX)
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)</blockquote>
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WATCH: Parkland Dad Booted From SOTU After Heckling Trump, Second Amendment

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Last night, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, a constitutional attorney by training, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aPkR8lrtLU">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-pelosi-considers-withholding-articles-of-impeachment-from-senate-heres-the-insane-reason-why">news</a> that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) intends to withhold the formal physical delivery of the House&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-multiple-democrats-vote-against-impeachment-only-democrats-vote-for-it">passed articles of impeachment</a> to the Senate unless and until she and House Democrats can be assured a &#8220;fair process.&#8221; The delay raises a myriad of complex legal issues, and there is also the distinct topic of the political fallout from such a stunt.
Hammer also has an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-at-the-new-york-post-pelosis-newest-dirty-trick-putting-trumps-senate-trial-on-hold">op-ed</a> in today&#8217;s <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/19/pelosis-newest-dirty-trick-putting-trumps-senate-trial-on-hold/">New York Post</a> that breaks down the topic:
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Some prominent lawyers on the right, such as former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree, have ­argued that it is outright unconstitutional for Pelosi to delay transmission. He has suggested that Trump has a constitutional right to see his impeachment proceed to a possible acquittal in the Senate.
I disagree. As a matter of constitutional construction, it is generally inappropriate to read duties and rights that aren’t there in the text. When the Constitutional text is silent, we have to turn to hierarchically lower bodies of law. Here, that means the internal rules governing the House and the Senate. &#8230;
The president may not have an explicit constitutional right to a Senate trial. But if Democrats really cared about rule of law and good order, they would have allowed the Framers’ process to unfold as it was supposed to do. Their delay tactics merely expose the frivolity of their Trump-induced mass hysteria.
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Hammer and Wheeler probed the legal and political issues at length on the &#8220;Tipping Point&#8221; television segment, with Hammer first discussing the legal intricacies and Wheeler then breaking down the politics.
Wheeler began by asking whether the Senate has to wait for the House&#8217;s physical delivery of impeachment articles to begin a trial. Hammer responded that, under the Senate&#8217;s own rules, it currently does have to wait:
<blockquote>&#8230; [W]hen we&#8217;re interpreting the Constitution, I think it&#8217;s inappropriate to read in implied rights and duties that are not there. So, the Constitution is pretty silent on this.
What that means [is] we then look to House and Senate internal rules. There is nothing in the House&#8217;s internal rules that mandates that the speaker of the House pass any kind of resolution or legislation and physically deliver that to the Senate. It&#8217;s totally up to the discretion of the speaker of the House. As far as the Senate is concerned, there&#8217;s a Tulane law professor — who&#8217;s apparently one of the country&#8217;s only &#8220;impeachment law&#8221; experts — who has digged up this Senate Rules provision that, according to the Senate&#8217;s own internal rules, they say that the trial does not start until the articles of impeachment have been physically delivered to the Senate.
So the Senate can always amend its own rules, but unless and until they do so, [Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell has his hands tied right now.</blockquote>
Later in the conversation, Wheeler expressed her opinion that Pelosi&#8217;s stunt will backfire, politically speaking: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how this is going to help her. It shows that this is partisan, which we all know, but this shows that even to the people who were maybe on the fence. The Democrats who are on the fence, it shows that this is partisan. She&#8217;s essentially &#8230; trying to coerce Mitch McConnell into allowing [Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer and the Democrats to call witnesses that they want.&#8221;
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The New York Post slammed Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in its Thursday cover and an op-ed published from columnist Michael Goodwin over the Democrats&#8217; purely partisan impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The cover features a picture of Pelosi dressed in black for impeachment and states: &#8220;IT&#8217;S YOUR FUNERAL: Swamp mistress Pelosi dresses in black for historic vote.&#8221;
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“Swamp Mistress”: Today’s <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nypost</a> cover <a href="https://t.co/XwRSVxiqnU">pic.twitter.com/XwRSVxiqnU</a>
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The Post&#8217;s cover and the op-ed from Goodwin come in response to Democrats, for the first time in U.S. history, impeaching a president along strictly partisan lines, as only Democrats voted for the impeachment and all Republicans voted against it, with a multiple Democrats siding with the Republicans. One independent member sided with the Democrats.
The Post noted that Pelosi had publicly and privately fought off impeachment for months as the far-left faction of her party, led by socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), aggressively demanded impeachment.
Pelosi told The Washington Post in March, “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path.”
Pelosi told CNN in June, “I don’t think there’s anything more divisive we can do than to impeach a president of the United States, and so you have to handle it with great care. It has to be about the truth and the facts to take you to whatever decision has to be there. It should by no means be done politically.”
Goodwin wrote in his op-ed:
<blockquote>[B]y last Sept. 24, with the 2020 election fast approaching and her icy relationship with Trump now a bonfire, Pelosi suddenly flip-flopped on impeachment. Her ostensible reason centered on the unverified claims of an anonymous whistleblower regarding Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine. The call, she was assured by the media and Rep. Adam Schiff, would amount to a smoking gun. &#8230;
&#8230; Twenty-four hours later, Trump released the transcript of the Ukraine call and it was benign in comparison to her inflammatory accusation. If only Pelosi had waited another day.
But it was too late. Confident that she had the votes now that most if not all the 2018 winners would be with her, she erased her previous red lines about bipartisanship, took the plunge — and plunged America into a nightmare that continues.</blockquote>
Goodwin went on to write that &#8220;the damage&#8221; from Pelos&#8217;s actions to America &#8220;is real.&#8221;
Goodwin was not alone in his analysis as others, including The New York Post&#8217;s editorial board, who noted what Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 65. Hamilton <a href="https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-65">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself. The prosecution of them, for this reason, will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. In many cases it will connect itself with the pre-existing factions, and will enlist all their animosities, partialities, influence, and interest on one side or on the other; and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties, than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.</blockquote>

House Speaker Pelosi Holds News Conference Following Vote On Impeachment Of President Trump

‘IT’S YOUR FUNERAL’: New York Post Shreds ‘Swamp Mistress’ Pelosi In Brutal Cover

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On November 24, actress Jennifer Agostini and swimsuit model Prendinellys Garcia were allegedly attacked by a group of about 10–15 individuals after leaving a Manhattan bar, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-actress-model-beaten-by-10-15-attackers-f-those-white-bes">lawsuit</a> seeking to have the surveillance footage of the fight released.
The suit claimed the attackers made racial comments toward Agostini and Garcia during the beatdown, including: “white motherf***ers,” “dirty white b****es,” and “f*** those white b****es and their money.”
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Sky Room, the Manhattan bar where the fight broke out, released footage of the attack in question earlier this week, as well as a statement claiming the brawl was &#8220;instigated&#8221; by Agostini and Garcia, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/02/midtown-bar-blames-actress-jennifer-agostini-model-pal-for-wild-brawl/">The New York Post</a> reported.
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&#8220;It is our opinion, Ms. Agostini had another agenda including seeking to spread as much blood on her face as possible for photos released to the media vs. seeking to care for her small injury at the lounge or from an ambulance our staff offered her,&#8221; Sky Room claimed in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7747247/New-York-City-bar-says-drunk-friend-started-brawl-actress-43-claimed-attacked.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
The bar also alleged that there was no racial motive in the attack.
&#8220;We also find it outrageous and allegedly defamatory that Ms. Agostini and her party concocted a false narrative about an alleged &#8216;racial&#8217; fight with our customers and also allegedly lied saying our security staff pushed, beat or hit her,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Neither is true. In fact, race was never a factor of any altercation, but Ms. Garcia and Ms. Agostini&#8217;s own aggressive and harmful actions both verbally and physically are to blame.&#8221;
&#8220;We wish Ms. Garcia much luck with her alleged &#8216;swimsuit modeling&#8217; career and we also wish Ms. Agostini much luck with her &#8216;acting&#8217; career,&#8221; Sky Room mocked the women.
&#8220;According to a perfunctory internet search, neither Garcia and Agostini, in our opinion, seem to be a professional model or professional actor. We look forward to reviewing evidence of them getting paid enough for either one of their professional careers over the course of many years to make a livable wage doing so,&#8221; the bar continued.
&#8220;Sky Room is New York City&#8217;s highest rooftop party lounge,&#8221; concluded the bar. &#8220;We welcome customers of every race and ethnicity and seek to mirror the great NYC community in which we operate. We also welcome customers from around the world.&#8221;
In November, Agostini told the Post that it was &#8220;just this stampede as we were leaving. We just got rushed and assaulted by, I can’t tell you by how many people.”
“I was pushed onto the ground and eight individual jumped on top of me and brutally assaulted me. I have five stitches in my head. My whole eye is closed. I am going to have numerous scars on my face,” she said.
“I’m a lead character on the series in March,” added Agostini, “and I have to now go see numerous plastic surgeons, and I also have to go back to the concussion center to MRI my head.”
“I have a black eye,” Garcia told the New York outlet. “I have been having a lot of headaches. My whole entire body hurts. They were punching and kicking me on my body.”
“They were screaming, ‘These white b****es!’” the model added, noting that most of the attackers were black females. “I’m Puerto Rican, my girlfriends are white, my husband’s white, everybody else is white. It was crazy.”
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WATCH: Surveillance Video Of Alleged Anti-White Attack On Actress Released. Bar Claims Actress, Model Friend Sparked Brawl.

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An actress and a model were allegedly attacked by a group of about 10–15 individuals early Sunday morning after leaving a Manhattan bar, a lawsuit claims.
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/26/hoods-attacked-actress-jennifer-agostini-friends-leaving-midtown-bar-suit/">New York Post</a>, the suit says actress Jennifer Agostini, 43, and swimsuit model Prendinellys Garcia, 47, were attacked on their way out of the Sky Room. The attackers reportedly yelled racist comments at the women during the beatdown, including: “white motherf***ers,” “dirty white b****es,” and “f*** those white b****es and their money.&#8221;
The lawsuit is &#8220;seeking to force the venue to hang on to surveillance footage&#8221; and other records of the alleged attack, the Post reported.
The victims, according to the Post, have not filed a police report.
“It was just this stampede as we were leaving,&#8221; Agostini told the New York outlet. &#8220;We just got rushed and assaulted by, I can’t tell you by how many people.&#8221;
Agostini sent photos to the Post of her bruised, swollen, and scarred face, which can be viewed below.
“I was pushed onto the ground and eight individual jumped on top of me and brutally assaulted me. I have five stitches in my head. My whole eye is closed. I am going to have numerous scars on my face,” Agostini recalled to the Post.
The actress is set to star in the upcoming show “Brooklyn Ties.&#8221;
“I’m a lead character on the series in March,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and I have to now go see numerous plastic surgeons, and I also have to go back to the concussion center to MRI my head.”
“I have a black eye,&#8221; Garcia told the Post. &#8220;I have been having a lot of headaches. My whole entire body hurts. They were punching and kicking me on my body.”
“Jennifer got the worst of it,” the model noted, according to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-actress-sues-midtown-lounge-assault-20191127-zmn2xxxdyvemxcifhbvusq4caq-story.html">New York Daily News</a>, “There were two or three bouncers there, and no one was doing anything.”
“They were screaming, ‘These white b****es!&#8217;” Garcia added, noting that most of the attackers were black females. “I’m Puerto Rican, my girlfriends are white, my husband’s white, everybody else is white. It was crazy.”
Agostini and Garcia do not know what initially sparked the beatdown, though the claims of anti-white comments coming from the alleged attackers clearly points to a racial component.
&#8220;The incident touched off when one of their friends tried to go back into the bar for a forgotten credit card after their party had left, according to court papers,&#8221; the Post reported. &#8220;A bouncer pushed the woman, and they got into a verbal spat when [Garcia’s husband Cal] Stuart told him to lay off, the husband claimed.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-actress-sues-midtown-lounge-assault-20191127-zmn2xxxdyvemxcifhbvusq4caq-story.html">Daily News</a>, the bouncer is described in court papers as “black male, bald head, white goatee, wandering eye approximately six-feet two-inches tall, wearing a black turtle neck and black pants.”
“All of a sudden, 10 to 15 people jumped us,” Mr. Stuart said, adding, “These are beautiful women and their faces are distorted.&#8221;
Chris Selletti, a friend of Agostini&#8217;s, &#8220;said he suffered a &#8216;puncture to his lung and rib area,'&#8221; the Daily News noted.
The Sky Bar Times Square Inc., which is Sky Room&#8217;s parent company, along with two other companies, are named in the lawsuit.
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The New York Post has done it again. The paper best-known for its hilarious front-page headlines (the most famous of which being “Headless Body in Topless Bar”) published an “obituary” to commemorate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s exit from the Democratic primary.
“Obituary: Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign, May 15, 2019-Sept. 20, 2019, dead of ego-induced psychosis,” the fake obituary reads. It continues:
<blockquote>Neighbors said the body had been in rigor mortis for some time.
It died doing what it loves best – being as far away from New York City as possible.
It was surrounded in the end by friends, MSNBC hosts. It’s in a better place now – a Park Slope gym.
Whether it was in the empty churches of South Carolina, the sun-kissed empty deserts of Nevada or begging someone, anyone, to talk to de Blasio at the Iowa State Fair, the campaign always gave 100% &#8211; and always polled at 1%.
“Can’t” was never part of its vocabulary. Neither was “won’t,” “please stop,” or “this is a dumb idea.”
The campaign is survived by hotel industry officials who expect favors from City Hall. And 8 million suffering New Yorkers.
In lieu of flowers, de Blasio asks for donations to his slush fund.</blockquote>
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De Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52020/trump-mocks-de-blasios-exit-presidential-race-nyc-ashe-schow">announced</a> he was abandoning his bid for the Democratic nomination Friday Morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Getting out there, being able to hear people’s concerns, address them with new ideas, has been an extraordinary experience,” de Blasio told the hosts. “But I have to tell you, at the same time, I feel like I’ve contributed all I can to this primary election and it&#8217;s clearly not my time so I&#8217;m going to end my presidential campaign.”
De Blasio consistently polled below 1%. His final polling average, according to RealClear Politics, was 0.2%, above only Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam, The Daily Wire previously reported.
The Post “obituary” highlights some of the lowlights of de Blasio’s campaign. De Blasio has been regularly criticized for decrying climate change while taking SUVs across town nearly every day so that he can use a Park Slope gym. As for the hotel-industry favors, a state watchdog agency revealed the day before de Blasio exited the race that three developers settled after being accused of making illegal gifts to de Blasio. The City <a href="https://thecity.nyc/2019/09/state-fines-developers-for-their-gifts-to-mayor-de-blasio.html">reported</a> that the developers wrote “five-figure checks to his now-defunct charity, the Campaign for One New York.”
De Blasio also agreed to require hotel developers to seek a special permit after a major industry union announced its support for his presidential campaign, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-de-blasio-hotel-development-special-permit-htc-trades-council-20190826-65pehba2pnagddulbup7tjwjam-story.html">reported</a> the New York Daily News.
De Blasio’s campaign may be over, but investigations into his campaign finances are not. Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2019/09/20/fec-finds-fault-with-de-blasios-campaign-finances-1203806">reported</a> Friday that the campaign received a letter from the Federal Election Commission detailing issues with his fundraising practices:
<blockquote>In a July public filing, the de Blasio camp noted a $52,852 debt owed to the NY Fairness PAC, a state political action committee controlled by the mayor. The campaign had argued that this was a permissible loan from one organization to another. But the FEC&#8217;s senior campaign finance analyst, Robin Kelly, wrote this week that the practice is not allowed by campaign finance rules.
Such transfers are capped at $5,000 per election cycle, Kelly&#8217;s letter said, meaning the campaign took more than ten times the permissible amount from the state PAC and spent it on travel and advertising. Kelly mandated that the campaign refile an amended report by late October that corrects the transfer, and noted that an audit of the campaign may follow.
The campaign repaid the loan Thursday, the day it received the FEC’s letter, spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg said.</blockquote>
Politico further reported that “donors who had already given the max to de Blasio&#8217;s presidential campaign were also donating to both of his PACs. And PAC money was being shifted back into the presidential warchest.”

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New York Post Publishes Hilarious Obituary For Mayor De Blasio’s Campaign

In an exposé for <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/12/the-real-story-behind-the-movie-leonardo-dicaprio-never-wants-you-to-see/">The New York Post</a> published Monday, Steven Greenstreet and Tamar Lapin peel the curtain back on the ugly, rather tragic story behind the banned and buried film &#8220;Don&#8217;s Plum&#8221; — the &#8220;lost&#8221; feature-length film that Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire &#8220;fiercely fought for decades to keep it from seeing the light of day&#8221; and the failure of which left &#8220;ruined careers, destroyed friendships, divorce and thoughts of suicide.&#8221;
The film, Greenstreet and Lapin report, is a &#8220;Clerks&#8221;-esque, largely ad-libbed movie shot over a period of just six days in the mid-1990s starring DiCaprio, Maguire, and some of their other &#8220;skirt-chasing&#8221; Hollywood pals known as the &#8220;P*ssy Posse,&#8221; according to a 1998 New York Magazine piece on &#8220;<a href="http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/2793/">Leo Prince of The City</a>.&#8221;
The film, which both DiCaprio and Maguire maintain was supposed to only be a short film, was eventually stretched into a feature by producers Dale Wheatley and Tawd Beckman. But, according to the producers, when Maguire saw the final product, things went off the rails. The stars reportedly took action to make sure the film was &#8220;banned from ever being shown in the US and Canada.&#8221;
So why was Maquire and eventually DiCaprio so intent on making sure the film never got released? After reviewing court documents, footage of the actors&#8217; depositions, and exclusively obtained images and other materials, Greenstreet and Lapin shed a little light on some of the dirty details.
The film &#8220;tells the story of a group of 20-something guys who gather every Saturday night at a Los Angeles diner the film is named for, each with a new girl,&#8221; the Post reports. DiCaprio plays a &#8220;rude, standoffish&#8221; character with a foul mouth, whose memorable lines include &#8220;Do you girls masturbate at all?&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll f***ing throw a bottle at your face, you g*ddamn wh*re&#8221; — a threat he follows through with.
Maguire, whose performance supposedly fails to keep pace with DiCaprio&#8217;s, reportedly &#8220;reveals his unusual masturbation habits&#8221; in a scene, which the actor managed to strongarm the producers to cut.
The main problem, according to Beckman, is that the film &#8220;is so free-flowing and it seems so natural, that an audience is gonna look at that, look at DiCaprio, look at Maguire and say, &#8216;Oh, that’s who they are.'&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s for that reason that Wheatley, Beckman and others suspect DiCaprio and Maguire didn&#8217;t want US audiences to ever see their characters on the big screen,&#8221; the Post reports.
That&#8217;s not how DiCaprio and Maguire framed it in their depositions, however, insisting instead that the real issue is that they never intended the film to be a feature, agreeing to shoot it only as a short.
That argument is complicated by an incident reported by the Post. According to Wheatley, DiCaprio, initially &#8220;apprehensive,&#8221; watched a cut of the feature-length film and loved it. &#8220;Suddenly he was jumping out of his chair. He&#8217;s high-fiving all of our friends … Leo had done a complete 180,&#8221; said Wheatley.
It was ultimately Maquire, according to Wheatley, who strongly resisted the film, fearing it &#8220;would ruin his career,&#8221; and allegedly turned DiCaprio against the producers. &#8220;Tobey Maguire believed &#8216;Don&#8217;s Plum&#8217; would just be a pile of crap, we weren&#8217;t going to succeed, Leo&#8217;s going to say &#8216;no&#8217; … but that&#8217;s not what happened,&#8221; Wheatley told the Post. &#8220;There&#8217;s no way to make it stop now unless he creates a villain … and I am the mark for that.&#8221; (<a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/12/the-real-story-behind-the-movie-leonardo-dicaprio-never-wants-you-to-see/">Read the full report here</a>.)
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50428/actress-fbi-told-me-lock-my-account-after-my-white-james-barrett">Trump-Critic Actress: FBI Told Me To Lock My Account After My ‘White And Privileged’ Tweet</a>

Leonardo DiCaprio

Report: The Ugly Story Behind DiCaprio’s ‘Lost Film’ He Doesn’t Want You To See

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On Tuesday, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbomzMNomiI">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network (OANN) to discuss a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50263/hammer-conservatives-must-not-go-soft-assault-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> he had written earlier this week. Hammer&#8217;s op-ed, entitled &#8220;Conservatives Must Not Go Soft On &#8216;Assault Weapons,'&#8221; was written in response to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/04/the-post-says-ban-assault-weapons-now/">New York Post editorial</a> calling for precisely that.
Wheeler and Hammer discussed why it is crucially important that conservatives not yield an inch on banning any new classes of semiautomatic weapons. Wheeler began by asking Hammer — who is also a constitutional attorney specializing in religious liberty — whether the term &#8220;assault weapon&#8221; has any legal relevance, or whether it is instead a term merely used as a political cudgel.
Hammer did not mince words in his response.
<blockquote>Legally speaking, [Democrats] completely fabricated it as part of the 1994 so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; ban. Dianne Feinstein of California helped write this legislation. Liz, I&#8217;ve actually heard off the record from some people I&#8217;ve met in ATF — Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms — that they were contacted by Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s staff during the drafting on this law in 1994 just to ask basic rudimentary questions as to what a flash suppressor is, what a pistol grip is. They had no idea what they were doing — they literally created this term for purposes of banning a cosmetically amorphous and technically undefinable subclass of weapons just to seize and ban them from the populace. And according to DOJ&#8217;s own statistics — this ban lasted 10 years from 1994 to 2004 — it had no impact whatsoever on crime.</blockquote>
Hammer continued, mentioning how he &#8220;adore[s]&#8221; his own AR-style rifle and sending a very simple message to Democrats who would try to ban it: &#8220;Come and take it.&#8221;
<blockquote>Liz, I&#8217;m a proud AR-15 owner — I have a Daniel Defense rifle that I absolutely adore. You know what my response is to Joe Biden and to these other people who are talking about a gun buyback program? I think I speak on behalf of millions and millions of law-abiding Americans here. Four words: Come and take it. This is not happening.</blockquote>
Wheeler, channeling a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/15-133_7l48.pdf">Clarence Thomas dissent</a> that Hammer flagged in his Daily Wire op-ed, then mentioned how, regardless of policy efficacy, such a ban on &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; would be unconstitutional under the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s own tests. Wheeler then asked Hammer how, if conservatives were to cave to the Left on banning a new sub-class of semiautomatic weapons, this does not end with a full ban on all semiautomatic weapons. Hammer responded:
<blockquote>That is the million dollar question here. Fully automatic weapons, which as your viewers I&#8217;m sure know, are weapons that when you hold down the trigger, the bullets basically fire in rapid succession, are effectively banned under the National Firearms Act of 1934. There is a way to get them, but it is an incredibly arduous, expensive process that exceedingly few people go through. So we&#8217;re talking within the category of semiautomatic weapons — the weapons that, obviously, one pull of the trigger releases one cartridge.
Within that, where can you possibly stop? In the New York Post editorial that you reference, Liz, they talk about muzzle velocity. I mean, how the heck is our legislature possibly equipped to ban categories of semiautomatic weapons based on something like muzzle velocity? It makes no sense whatsoever. We&#8217;ve already eliminated fully automatic weapons from circulation, so within the sphere of semiautomatic weapons, once you cave on what the Left is calling quote-unquote &#8220;assault weapons,&#8221; the Glock 19 is next. My little Sig Sauer P238 concealed carry handgun is next. That is where they&#8217;re going and that, at the end of day, is absolutely why we cannot cave an inch on banning any new class of weapons whatsoever.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Hammer On ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: Conservatives Must Never Cave On ‘Assault Weapons’

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&#8220;I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials.&#8221; – George Mason, Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 1788
Over the weekend, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50232/trump-hits-back-media-after-accusations-inciting-molly-prince">two more</a> unspeakably tragic mass murder atrocities tore our beleaguered nation — already grieving from a tribalized citizenry, an invective-spewing culture war, and a most supercilious media praetorian guard — increasingly asunder. There are truly no words to adequately bemoan such raw carnage.
To be sure, red-blooded American patriots may take solace in the magisterial conclusion of Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln2.asp">Second Inaugural Address</a> — &#8220;[w]ith malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation&#8217;s wounds &#8230;&#8221; — as a source of continuing optimism. If Lincoln could voice such auspiciousness at the nadir of the Civil War, I sometimes ask myself, how can I not be anything other than sanguine about the future of the republic? Yet that optimism, frankly, remains exceedingly difficult to muster at times.
Today is one such day. Today, we grieve for the fallen, pray for the wounded, and beseech the Almighty to pardon the iniquitous ways of such a self-destructive populace as ours. But as conservatives, no matter how dour the national mood, we must do our absolute best to remain sober-minded about the tasks and issues confronting us.
As my colleague Michael Knowles told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro on Ben&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Special&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/50057/sunday-special-ep-062-michael-knowles">podcast yesterday</a>, conservatism is just as much a disposition and an inclination as it is a substantive dogma. When National Review founder William F. Buckley, Jr. famously <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/1955/11/our-mission-statement-william-f-buckley-jr/">announced that the goal</a> of his then-fledgling journal was to &#8220;stand[] athwart history, yelling Stop,&#8221; he was fundamentally channeling the quintessence of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47839/hammer-limited-defense-sohrab-ahmaris-assault-josh-hammer">Edmund Burke himself</a>. The goal of the conservative is to resist the ad hoc caprices and passions that envelop the Twitter cognoscenti. Ours is not to be irrationally fixated upon the past and to resist any and all change — but ours is to demand that serious legislative change be well-calibrated, narrowly tailored to redress a specific societal ill, and properly honed upon the pursuit of man&#8217;s <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp">fundamental natural dignity</a> and <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-ethics/">Aristotelian human flourishing</a>.
Viewed through this lens, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/04/the-post-says-ban-assault-weapons-now/">editorial today</a> at the reliably conservative New York Post that calls for a ban on the cosmetically amorphous class of guns routinely deigned as &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; deserves serious rebuke. As a threshold matter, the Post editorialists have caved to knee-jerk, news cycle-induced alarmism and, in so doing, have fundamentally failed to uphold the Burke/Buckley conservative disposition.
But let&#8217;s focus a bit on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44327/hammer-here-are-three-core-reasons-oppose-ban-josh-hammer">the substance</a>.
The Post, to its mild credit, argues that &#8220;the next [&#8216;assault weapons&#8217;] ban should be better written, with a clear definition focused on factors like firepower — rate of fire, muzzle velocity, etc. — [and] not on cosmetic features [like the 1994 – 2004 ban did].&#8221; But the reasonable conservative ought to ask the following question: In a society in which fully automatic weapons are already (for all intents and purposes) banned under the National Firearms Act of 1934, how can legislators plausibly draw a coherent line about banning new classes of weapons based on such arcane technicalities as muzzle velocity? What on earth is the logical limiting principle here? The gun-grabbing Left, which supports something closely akin to a full <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">ban on all semiautomatic weaponry</a>, would be fully empowered to pursue a far broader-ranging ban on semiautomatic handguns. As for rate of fire, such a metric is deeply individualized and can hardly be standardized at all. I have personally seen videos of skilled marksmen firing a semiautomatic rifle at a higher rate of fire than a &#8220;bump stock&#8221;-equipped equivalent rifle.
The Post next cites the landmark 2008 U.S. Supreme Court case of D.C. v. Heller for the proposition that &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; do not meet the &#8220;in common use&#8221; criterion that Heller deemed legally requisite for a class of weapon to attain constitutional status. Absolute nonsense. As Justice Clarence Thomas noted in his 2015 dissent from the Court&#8217;s denial of a writ of certiorari in the Seventh Circuit case of <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/15-133_7l48.pdf">Friedman v. City of Highland Park, Illinois</a>:
<blockquote>The City’s [&#8220;assault weapons&#8221;] ban is &#8230; highly suspect because it broadly prohibits common semiautomatic firearms used for lawful purposes. Roughly five million Americans own AR-style semiautomatic rifles. &#8230; The overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting. &#8230; Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such weapons.</blockquote>
The Post, echoing the very worst of the gun-grabbing Left, continues to denigrate the modern-day sporting rifle in the most noxious of terms. &#8220;Our Founding Fathers gave us the right to bear arms in a time of muskets,&#8221; the Post editorializes. &#8220;They did not foresee a time when one 21-year-old could kill 20 people in the span of minutes thanks to poisonous beliefs and an assault weapon.&#8221; What absolute drivel. The Founding Fathers also did not foresee that the First Amendment would one day secure the right to YouTube or Amazon — or that the Fourth Amendment would one day secure the people against warrantless government snooping of Gmail.
But more fundamentally, as National Review&#8217;s David French has <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/assault-weapons-preserve-the-purpose-of-the-second-amendment/">articulately argued</a>, &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; secure the very purpose of the Second Amendment, in defending against government tyranny. &#8220;The argument is not that a collection of random citizens should be able to go head-to-head with the Third Cavalry Regiment,&#8221; French wrote last year. &#8220;Rather, for the Second Amendment to remain a meaningful check on state power, citizens must be able to possess the kinds and categories of weapons that can at least deter state overreach, that would make true authoritarianism too costly to attempt.&#8221;
The contemporary modern sporting rifle — &#8220;assault weapon,&#8221; as detractors label it — is nothing less than the 21st-century equivalent of the single-shot muskets that served the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord. The weapons serve the precise same purpose: A deterrence against tyrannical state overreach.
We <a href="https://www.redstate.com/diary/josh_hammer/2015/10/10/quick-note-see-australia/">once again</a> close with the epic 2003 <a href="http://keepandbeararms.com/silveira/enbanc.asp">dissent from a denial to rehear a case en banc</a> from then-Judge Alex Kozinski (a son of Holocaust survivors) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in the case of Silveira v. Lockyer:
<blockquote>[T]he simple truth — born of experience — is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people. Our own sorry history bears this out: Disarmament was the tool of choice for subjugating both slaves and free blacks in the South. In Florida, patrols searched blacks’ homes for weapons, confiscated those found and punished their owners without judicial process. In the North, by contrast, blacks exercised their right to bear arms to defend against racial mob violence. As Chief Justice Taney well appreciated, the institution of slavery required a class of people who lacked the means to resist. See Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393, 417 (1857) (finding black citizenship unthinkable because it would give blacks the right to &#8220;keep and carry arms wherever they went&#8221;). &#8230;
All too many of the other great tragedies of history — Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few — were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.</blockquote>
Shame on the Post&#8217;s editorial board for, as Kozinski put it, &#8220;forg[etting] these bitter lessons of history.&#8221; Conservatives must not yield on the issue of preserving the right to own &#8220;assault weapons.&#8221;

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HAMMER: Conservatives Must Not Go Soft On ‘Assault Weapons’

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After two horrific mass shootings that took the lives of at least 29 people and injured dozens others in less than 24 hours, the editorial board of the right-leaning New York Post is now calling for President Trump — whom the board describes as &#8220;a pragmatic centrist&#8221; on gun control — to <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/04/the-post-says-ban-assault-weapons-now/">take action against &#8220;weapons of war.&#8221; </a>
&#8220;Two mass shootings within 24 hours in El Paso and Dayton, days after the Garlic Festival killings,&#8221; the editorial begins. &#8220;Three months after Virginia Beach, six months after Aurora, nine months after Thousand Oaks, 10 months after Tree of Life, 15 months after Santa Fe High School, 18 months after Parkland and in the wake of larger horrors like the Vegas concert and Pulse nightclub massacres.&#8221;
Describing the nation as &#8220;terrified&#8221; and feeling that &#8220;the country is spinning out of control,&#8221; the Post&#8217;s editors turn directly to Trump, stressing that he is &#8220;positioned to assuage that fear.&#8221; The editors&#8217; hope is that Trump&#8217;s pragmatism will override his desire to appeal to his pro-Second Amendment supporters.
&#8220;On gun control, you are a pragmatic centrist, someone who knows there is a vast majority of Americans who are not to the extreme left or right on this issue. They just want the killings to stop,&#8221; they write.
&#8220;Yes, we know the president regularly praises the Second Amendment and received the National Rifle Association’s support in the 2016 race. But the Second Amendment leaves ample room for regulating gun rights, just as every other constitutional right has its limits,&#8221; the editorial continues. &#8220;And Trump has sneered at others for being afraid of the NRA when it comes to passing common-sense gun laws. He’d surely have rather had Congress pass a law banning bump stocks, although his administration got it done eventually through executive action.&#8221;
Noting that the NRA is currently facing serious internal problems, the editors insist that it would be &#8220;far wiser&#8221; to appeal to those Americans who own guns for hunting or self-defense but are still &#8220;appalled by the endless string of mass shootings&#8221; than an embattled association.
The first step, they suggest, is &#8220;the return of an assault weapons ban.&#8221;
Acknowledging that &#8220;assault weapon&#8221; is not a clearly defined class of guns and that studies indicate that the previous ban (1994 to 2004) had only &#8220;a limited impact,&#8221; the board says this time the assault weapons ban &#8220;should be better written, with a clear definition focused on factors like firepower — rate of fire, muzzle velocity, etc. — not on cosmetic features.&#8221;
As for Second Amendment protections, the board maintains that the Supreme Court has determined that the amendment only guards Americans&#8217; rights to own &#8220;guns in common use,&#8221; which, they say, &#8220;doesn’t cover the semiautomatic weapons regularly used only in mass shootings.&#8221;
Along with a more clearly written assault weapons ban, the board calls for improved background checks, more effective means of addressing mental health issues, and encouraging each state to pass red-flag laws, with a federal version enacted as well. (<a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/04/the-post-says-ban-assault-weapons-now/">Read the Post&#8217;s editorial here</a>.)
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50232/trump-hits-back-media-after-accusations-inciting-molly-prince">Trump Hits Back At Media After Accusations Of Inciting Two Mass Shootings</a>

NY Post Editorial Board Calls On Trump To ‘Ban Assault Weapons Now’

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Last week, the New York Post published a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45846/new-york-post-cover-photo-shreds-ilhan-omar-ryan-saavedra">scathing rebuke</a> of embattled Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for her comments dismissively describing the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead simply as &#8220;somebody did something.&#8221; Now, Omar&#8217;s fellow freshman Democratic congresswoman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has come out in support of an attempt to keep the Post out of New Yorkers&#8217; hands.
During an event hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on March 23, Rep. Omar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45788/ilhan-omar-trivializes-911-terrorist-attacks-some-ryan-saavedra">said</a>, &#8220;CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.&#8221; (CAIR was actually founded in 1994 in response to what organization leaders believed was unfair characterization of Muslims in Hollywood.)
&#8220;How pathetic: A member of Congress can&#8217;t acknowledge what happened on one of the most horrific days in US history,&#8221; the New York Post editorial board <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/04/10/ilhan-omars-outrageous-writeoff-of-9-11s-horrors/">wrote</a> in the featured editorial published last Thursday. &#8220;Some people did something? Wow. What a way to describe the heinous surprise attack on America that claimed 3,000 lives.&#8221;
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The New York Post&#8217;s cover for Thursday calls out Ilhan Omar for trivializing the 9/11 terrorist attacks as &#8220;some people did something&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/xToghXSGw5">pic.twitter.com/xToghXSGw5</a>
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In response, Ocasio-Cortez is actively promoting a boycott targeting the paper. On Saturday, the radical representative issued a tweet endorsing an initiative started by a group of Yemeni-American bodega owners.
&#8220;Two years ago, Bodega owners across NYC (&amp; cheered by neighbors) shut their shops citywide to protest Trump&#8217;s #MuslimBan,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Today, that same community is banding together to reject sales of the NY Post at bodegas citywide. This is what real unity (&amp; NYC solidarity) looks like.&#8221;
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Two years ago, Bodega owners across NYC (&amp; cheered by neighbors)shut their shops citywide to protest Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MuslimBan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MuslimBan</a>.
Today, that same community is banding together to reject sales of the NY Post at bodegas citywide.
This is what real unity (&amp; NYC solidarity) looks like &#11015;&#65039; <a href="https://t.co/mj8vtA4Pv5">https://t.co/mj8vtA4Pv5</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1117117898902970369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In an interview Sunday with Yahoo News&#8217; &#8220;Skullduggery&#8221; podcast, Ocasio-Cortez explained why she&#8217;s promoting the New York Post boycott.
&#8220;There&#8217;s aggressive politics. There&#8217;s people that won&#8217;t be fair to you and things like that, and I understand that that&#8217;s part of the field that comes with it. But, you know, I think that this is unacceptable,&#8221; she said in comments reported by <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-backs-boycott-of-new-york-post-over-cover-attacking-ilhan-omar-214842479.html">Yahoo</a>. The paper&#8217;s attack on Omar, she said, was &#8220;beyond the pale.&#8221;
But while she is actively promoting it, Ocasio-Cortez made a point of stressing that the boycott effort wasn&#8217;t her idea &#8212; something she said is a &#8220;substantive difference.&#8221;
&#8220;And also I think it is important to, to assert that I didn&#8217;t call for a boycott of the New York Post,&#8221; she told the podcast. &#8220;I&#8217;m amplifying organizing that&#8217;s happening on the ground, and I, I do think that there&#8217;s a substantive difference between the two.&#8221;
Asked if she&#8217;s trying to influence the paper or just punish it financially, she said her &#8220;focus&#8221; in promoting the boycott is &#8220;is actually less in endorsing it&#8221; and &#8220;less on the Post,&#8221; and more on demonstrating &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with immigrant groups.
&#8220;Like that to me is what was exciting and inspiring about this action,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because these are the same folks who shut down almost every bodega in New York City in protest of the Muslim ban. And what that does is that it elevates the consciousness of all New Yorkers.&#8221;
Asked if she is &#8220;implicitly&#8221; endorsing the boycott by tweeting about the effort, the congresswoman eliminated any potential equivocation. &#8220;I endorse it,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;I do endorse it.&#8221;
The representative also acknowledged that the paper has often been critical of her, something she called &#8220;annoying&#8221; and &#8220;agitating,&#8221; but, she insisted, that is not why she&#8217;s supporting the boycott.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46123/snopes-fact-checks-satire-website-babylon-bee-yet-ashe-schow">Snopes Fact Checks Satire Website Babylon Bee Yet Again Over Article On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a>
H/T <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/17/ocasio-cortez-im-not-boycotting-ny-post-im-just-supporting/">Ed Morrissey</a>

Ocasio-Cortez Backs Boycott Of NY Post Over Omar-9/11 Cover, But Stresses It Wasn’t Her Idea

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

CAIR

Ilhan Omar

You might think that restaurant owners look forward to Valentine&#8217;s Day like Hershey&#8217;s looks forward to Halloween. You would have thought wrong. According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/restaurants-actually-hate-valentines-day-saying-it-limits-cash-and-regulars/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&amp;utm_medium=site%20buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site%20buttons">New York Post</a>, restaurateurs actually dread the day upon which the West celebrates courtly love in the name of St. Valentine.
&#8220;Add <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/food-drink/food/restaurants" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">restaurateurs</a> to the list of curmudgeons who don&#8217;t love Valentine&#8217;s Day,&#8221; says <a href="https://nypost.com/author/lisa-fickenscher/">Lisa Fickenscher</a>. &#8220;Anxious lovebirds scrambling to book a table this week might guess that fancy eateries are gaga over Feb. 14. But many proprietors say it&#8217;s actually a once-a-year headache they&#8217;d just as soon skip.&#8221;
Sure, couples often indulge in elevated food on Valentine&#8217;s Day, often shelling out an extra $50 for that special bottle of cabernet or that over-priced chocolate souffle, but as a whole, the day leaves more to be desired from a business standpoint.
&#8220;It clears out the highly profitable regulars at the bar, who quaff more drinks,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;Likewise, the tables-for-two-only night limits the size of the tab that comes with bigger groups and corporate events.&#8221;
Nick Valenti, chief executive of Patina Restaurant Group, which owns 70 eateries, including The Sea Grill and Rock Center Cafe, said that Valentine&#8217;s Day offers only the appearance of success. &#8220;Our restaurants are absolutely full because every table is taken,&#8221; he told the Post. &#8220;But not every table is maximized because you have tables for four being occupied by two people.&#8221;
Couples also linger at the tables long after having paid their bill. Typically, a couple will spend 75 to 90 minutes in a restaurant, but on Valentine&#8217;s Day, they can spend upwards of 120 minutes at the table. Burak Karacam, owner of two Pera Mediterranean Brasserie eateries in Manhattan, said that Valentine&#8217;s Day is just not great for business.
&#8220;It cannot be said that Valentine&#8217;s Day is great for business or tipped staff,&#8221; Karacam told <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/restaurants-actually-hate-valentines-day-saying-it-limits-cash-and-regulars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Post</a>.
This business trouble helps explain why restaurants typically offer prix fixe menus that can run upwards of $265 per person, such as Tavern on the Green&#8217;s menu this year. None of that, however, helps the fact that couples celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day don&#8217;t often behave like lovebirds while dining out. In fact, sometimes tensions can be quite hostile.
&#8220;Another dirty V-Day secret: Couples aren&#8217;t always quietly canoodling,&#8221; says the article. &#8220;Instead, the pressures of the holiday can lead to tension &#8212; and even fights worthy of a Hollywood script, according to restaurant personnel.&#8221;
One such horrible example occurred at a Lebanese restaurant in Manhattan where a couple decided to get divorced on that very night.
While restaurants may not exactly be in love with Valentine&#8217;s Day, economists agree the day generates tremendous revenue as a whole. According to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesrtaylor/2019/02/13/reaching-women-and-men-on-valentines-day-the-role-of-brand-advocates/?utm_source=twitter_video&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=forbes#3f8e815e39bd">Forbes</a>, Americans will spend upwards of $20.7 billion on Valentine&#8217;s Day this year.
&#8220;According to the National Retail Federation, <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/fewer-consumers-celebrating-valentines-day-those-who-do-are-spending" href="https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/fewer-consumers-celebrating-valentines-day-those-who-do-are-spending" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">U.S. consumers will spend $20.7 billion on Valentine&#8217;s Day</a> in 2019,&#8221; reports Forbes. &#8220;In terms of overall individual transactions, <a data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.thebalance.com/happy-valentine-s-day-retailers-feeling-the-love-3306043" href="https://www.thebalance.com/happy-valentine-s-day-retailers-feeling-the-love-3306043" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">candy and greeting cards rank one and two</a>.&#8221;
The report continued: &#8220;However, in terms of overall dollar value of the purchases, jewelry and flowers lead the way. In these two leading categories, an increasing percentage of purchases are being made over the internet. A recent survey by Bankrate.com suggests some interesting demographic difference in Valentine&#8217;s Day purchases. Younger millennials spend more than their older millennial counterparts, couples who are together longer spend less than those together for a shorter period, and as one would expect, men spend more than women.&#8221;

Restaurant Owners Actually Hate Valentine’s Day: Not Great For Business

Economy

Valentine's Day

ESPN Fired &#8216;Rising Star&#8217; For &#8216;Leaking&#8217; Info; Now He&#8217;s Fighting Back Against The NetworkIn a rather stunning turn of events, one of ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;rising stars&#8221; was abruptly fired Friday by the four-letter network over what the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/02/03/rising-espn-star-adnan-virk-fired-escorted-out-in-leak-investigation/">New York Post</a> reports was &#8220;multiple&#8221; leaks of confidential company information to the media. His reported firing comes not long after reports that he had locked down a &#8220;new multi-year contract&#8221; with the network, the Post notes.
&#8220;ESPN rising star Adnan Virk has been fired by the network,&#8221; the New York Post reports, citing unnamed sources. &#8220;Virk is accused of leaking confidential company information to the media on multiple occasions, according to sources.&#8221;
The Post reports that when ESPN began investigating the alleged leaks, Virk, 40, &#8220;failed to fully cooperate&#8221; in their view, according to its sources. That prompted the network to take action, including reportedly escorting him off the property.
&#8220;On Friday, Virk was escorted off the Bristol campus,&#8221; the Post&#8217;s Andrew Marchand reports. &#8220;The specific nature of the information Virk chose to share is unknown at this time.&#8221;
When the outlet reached out to ESPN, they were told by Vice President of Communications <a href="https://espnmediazone.com/us/bios/krulewitz_josh/">Josh Krulewitz</a> simply that &#8220;Adnan Virk no longer works at ESPN.&#8221;
So far, Virk has not publicly commented on his alleged firing and his Twitter account remains active, listing ESPN as his employer. He has not, however, posted since Thursday.
Virk&#8217;s last tweet promotes his movie podcast and playfully calls out his fellow ESPN commentator, Dan LeBatard. &#8220;Your tweets will not stop us, @LeBatardShow,&#8221; he retweeted.
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Your tweets will not stop us, <a href="https://twitter.com/LeBatardShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LeBatardShow</a>&#8230;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InfiltrateWithImpunity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InfiltrateWithImpunity</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SubscribeUnsubscribeResubscribe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SubscribeUnsubscribeResubscribe</a> <a href="https://t.co/vKjBMJenw1">https://t.co/vKjBMJenw1</a>
&#8212; Cinephile: The Adnan Virk Movie Podcast (@CinephileESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CinephileESPN/status/1091047547035156486?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Virk&#8217;s <a href="https://espnmediazone.com/us/bios/virk_adnan">online profile</a> has already been scrubbed from ESPN MediaZone.
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As Virk&#8217;s online profile highlights, he had become an almost ubiquitous presence at ESPN, including the network&#8217;s college football, Major League Baseball, and college basketball coverage. He also frequented ESPN Radio programs, including some guest-hosting gigs, and was host of ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.espn.com/espnradio/podcast/archive/_/id/15563407">Cinephile: The Adnan Virk Movie Podcast</a>.&#8221; Virk first joined ESPN in 2010.
<a href="https://www.espnfrontrow.com/author/adnan-virk/">ESPN Front Row</a> provides the following biographical sketch of Virk:
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Adnan Virk, a Canadian-born sports reporter and host, joined ESPN in May 2010 as an anchor for ESPNEWS, the 24-hour all-sports news network. Virk gained eight years of experience in Canada, starting out with TSN in 1998, where he was an associate producer for Sportscentre. From there, Virk worked for Omni Television serving from September 2002 &#8211; December 2003 as a co-host for Omniculture and Bollywood. In April of 2002, he began working for a 24-hour Canadian sports television network, The Score, where he hosted several programs until his departure in 2009. His most recent job before joining ESPN was as a reporter and host from 2010 &#8211; April 2011 for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment&#8216;s Raptors NBA TV, Leafs TV and Gol TV. Virk has been recognized multiple times for his reporting. In 2008, he was named Sportscaster of the Year by Anokhi Vibe Magazine, and Favorite Media Personality by the Masala, Mehndi, Masti Organization. Virk, whose parents immigrated to Canada from Pakistan, attended Ryerson University in Toronto, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in radio and television in 2000.
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UPDATE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43411/espn-fired-rising-star-leaking-info-now-hes-james-barrett">ESPN Fired &#8216;Rising Star&#8217; For &#8216;Leaking&#8217; Info; Now He&#8217;s Fighting Back Against The Network</a>

ESPN ‘Rising Star’ Fired, ‘Escorted From Building’ For Alleged Leaks To Press

ESPN

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio spoke at a memorial on Wednesday for victims of the &#8220;bike-path terrorist,&#8221; who killed eight and injured dozens one year ago.
De Blasio spoke before the grieving loved ones, and thanked the politicians who attended the memorial, the first responders who helped the victims, and the people who didn&#8217;t let the attack keep them from marching in a Halloween parade.
Notice anyone missing from that list?
De Blasio left the stage after laying a wreath for the victims with NYPD Commissioner James O&#8217;Neill, and began shaking hands with mourners. After a moment, he quickly returned to the podium when a mourner told him who he forgot.
&#8220;I apologize. This should have been part of the gathering to read the names of the eight that we lost,&#8221; De Blasio said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/10/31/de-blasio-forgets-to-honor-terror-attack-victims-at-their-memorial/">according to the New York Post</a>. &#8220;So I want to right that wrong with apologies and do that now and ask everyone to bow their heads as we remember each of them.&#8221;
After the apology, De Blasio read the name of the victims who died after the &#8220;bike-path terrorist&#8221; allegedly ran down cyclists and runners with a rented truck.
Diego Enrique Angelini, Nicholas Cleves, Ann-Laure Decadt, Darren Drake, Ariel Erlij, Hernan Ferruchi, Hernan Diego Mendoza, and Alejandro Damian Pagrucco all died in the attack.
De Blasio bowed his head.
This wasn&#8217;t the only misstep for the memorial, according to the Post. The mother of Nicholas Cleves, Monica Missio, wasn&#8217;t told about the ceremony until the evening before, and was not able to attend because she was in Boston.
&#8220;It is so traumatic for her to be in the city today that she is in the Boston area and wasn&#8217;t told about this memorial service until 4 p.m. yesterday,&#8221; Hugh Hales-Tooke, a friend of Missio, told The Post. &#8220;She&#8217;s very hurt. She was very hurt.&#8221;
Hales-Tooke refused to shake De Blasio&#8217;s hand over the treatment of his friend. He also criticized the mayor for his &#8220;boilerplate&#8221; address, according to the Post.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t hear a thing about the lives, the people. Nicholas Cleves was born and bred in New York. He loved this city. His mother&#8217;s destroyed by this,&#8221; he said.
He added: &#8220;I thought that was what this was about, that this is a moment where we would say . . . &#8216;You know, we care, we really do care,&#8217; but I didn&#8217;t get the feeling. [The mayor] said this attack has been in our hearts for a year . . . Really? Do you believe that?&#8221;
A spokesman for City Hall told the Post that De Blasio didn&#8217;t read the names because it wasn&#8217;t on the program for the event.
&#8220;The program didn&#8217;t originally include a reading of the names. When the families raised the issue, he agreed and read the names,&#8221; said spokesman Eric Phillips.
Phillips then claimed the event was put together &#8220;very recently,&#8221; which is why Missio wasn&#8217;t invited in time.
&#8220;While the event came together very recently, they should have been invited earlier,&#8221; Phillips said.

Bill De Blasio Attends Memorial For Terror Attack Victims, Forgets To Do One Important Thing

Terrorism

When the Stormy Daniels &#8220;scandal&#8221; broke, CNN just couldn&#8217;t get enough of her and her lawyer.
In just 10 weeks, the liberal network interviewed Michael Avenatti 74 times &#8212; 74!
But something surprising has happened with Omarosa Manigault Newman. The former White House aide and longtime &#8220;friend&#8221; of President Trump hasn&#8217;t gotten the same treatment.
Newman has penned a tell-all book, &#8220;Unhinged,&#8221; that says Trump is off his rocker and a bit of a racist. The book&#8217;s gotten huge play across the mainstream media, especially MSNBC. But she hasn&#8217;t been able to book an appearance on CNN.
&#8220;Don Lemon was offered one of the first cable interviews and passed,&#8221; an insider told the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2018/08/20/cnn-gives-omarosa-the-cold-shoulder/">New York Post</a>.
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We&#8217;re told Manigault Newman was also scheduled to appear on Jake Tapper&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; on Sunday, but CNN canceled the appearance.
Another source said CNN was initially only interested in booking commentators who would trash-talk the reality-show vixen. &#8220;They only wanted to book guests with nothing positive to say about her. They were specifically looking for people who would provide a more negative slant when discussing Omarosa,&#8221; the source said.
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Now that makes more sense. CNN really just wanted to bash Trump and all those around him. Because Newman was a longtime supporter, the network isn&#8217;t excited about putting her on the air.

SHOCKER: CNN Snubs Omarosa

Omarosa Manigault

An upstate New York woman has been charged with false reporting of a crime after police say she claimed she was raped. In reality, she was angry at the man because he wouldn&#8217;t give her a ride home.
Jessica Gallagher, 27, met a man on a dating app and told police that he abducted, blindfolded, and raped her. Police say she later admitted that she made up the false rape claim because the man refused to drive her home.
Gallagher was arraigned on Tuesday, and is currently being held in the Wayne County jail. Her next court appointment is on July 18, <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/07/10/woman-made-up-rape-claim-because-date-wouldnt-drive-her-home-cops/amp/?__twitter_impression=true">according to the New York Post</a>.
There&#8217;s a cultural push in America today to always &#8220;believe the victim,&#8221; with &#8220;victim&#8221; standing in place of those who should rightfully be called, initially: &#8220;accuser.&#8221; We&#8217;re also told that &#8220;women never lie&#8221; about being raped, yet there&#8217;s a long history of frivolous rape claims just like Gallagher&#8217;s.
Just last month, Sacred Heart University student Nikki Yovino <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/woman-pleads-guilty-to-making-up-rape-allegations-against-two-college-football-players.html">pleaded guilty to falsely accusing two football players of rape</a>. Yovino said she made up the accusation because she wanted sympathy from another student on whom she had a crush. The motive behind Yovino&#8217;s false accusation is similar to that of Jackie Coakley, the woman who not only made up a rape claim, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lawyers-for-jackie-tacitly-admit-she-invented-her-pretend-rapist/article/2592725">but a fake rapist</a>, in a story published and retracted three-and-a-half years ago by Rolling Stone. Coakley invented the rape claim after a fake terminal illness failed to woo a fellow student.
Coakley wasn&#8217;t punished in any way by her university (she did not file a police report), and Yovino will be sentenced to &#8220;three years, suspended after she serves one year in prison and followed by three years&#8217; probation,&#8221; <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Yovino-pleads-guilty-in-false-rape-case-12969059.php#photo-15669289">according to the CT Post</a>.
Those are severely lacking punishments for attempting to destroy the lives of innocent people (Coakley did not attempt to destroy a life, but her accusation did do great harm to her school and a fraternity), but so it goes with false accusations of rape. Activists claim that highlighting false accusations keeps real victims from coming forward, as if a liar suppresses truth tellers. Pretending no one ever lies about rape does more harm to the cause than anything else, because reasonable people know that some people do lie, and become skeptical of people claiming otherwise.
Gallagher will likely receive little to no punishment for what she has done. At least the man she accused has not been named, and might therefore be safe from the reputational ruin that comes from a false rape accusation.

Woman Cries Rape After Man Refuses To Drive Her Home

New York

Rape

America&#8217;s formerly most respected newspaper is being <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/18023/sarah-palin-sues-new-york-times-defamation-hank-berrien">sued by Sarah Palin</a> for defamation after publishing a <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17553/new-york-times-runs-worst-editorial-human-history-ben-shapiro">hit-piece</a> that falsely claimed that the shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords was a &#8220;direct&#8221; consequence of a website produced by Palin&#8217;s PAC. The New York Times has now defended itself. It&#8217;s excuse: it was just &#8220;an honest mistake.&#8221; There&#8217;s just one problem: the Times published a story proving it knew its own claim was false. 
In 2011, Jared Loughner opened fire at a Giffords&#8217; event in Tucson, Arizona, severely injuring the congresswoman and killing six others, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and a 9-year-old girl. Immediately, the leftwing media tried to blame conservatives, quickly landing on an innocuous &#8220;stylized target&#8221; symbol from a Palin PAC website &#8220;targeting&#8221; Giffords&#8217; district. But within hours of the &#8220;blame Palin&#8221; theory, the claim was debunked. Loughner, who was eventually diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, was an unhinged, violent, drug-abusing man who hated the government in general and whom acquaintances described as more &#8220;left wing&#8221; or &#8220;radical&#8221; than anything else. There simply was no link to Palin&#8217;s &#8220;target&#8221; symbol. 
Despite these well-known facts, the New York Times chose to publish an <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17553/new-york-times-runs-worst-editorial-human-history-ben-shapiro">editorial</a> the evening after an unhinged Bernie Sanders&#8217; supporter opened fire on a Republican congressional baseball practice blaming Palin for Loughner&#8217;s actions. Below is how the original, blatantly dishonest passage read:
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Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably. In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, the link to political incitement was clear. Before the shooting, Sarah Palin&#8217;s political action committee <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palins-crosshairs-ad-focus-gabrielle-giffords-debate/story?id=12576437">circulated</a> a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.
Conservatives and right-wing media were quick on Wednesday to demand forceful condemnation of hate speech and crimes by anti-Trump liberals. They&#8217;re right. Though there&#8217;s no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack, liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right.
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Now the Times&#8216; lawyer claims that the attempt to blame Palin was simply &#8220;an honest mistake.&#8221;
&#8220;There was an honest mistake in posting the editorial,&#8221; lawyer David Schultz told Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff on Friday, the <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/07/07/linking-palin-ad-to-shooting-was-honest-mistake-ny-times/">New York Post </a>reports.
But as Palin&#8217;s attorney pointed out, the Times knew better:
&#8220;It was literally acknowledged the same day in another story in their paper,&#8221; said attorney Kenneth Turkel.
After thorough public shaming, The Times made <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17578/new-york-times-busted-falsely-blaming-palin-james-barrett">multiple &#8220;corrections&#8221;</a> to their egregious editorial. Here&#8217;s how the passage now reads (deleted phrasing marked with a strike-through, significant phrasing additions in bold):
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Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably. In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, the link to political incitement was clear. At the time, we and others were sharply critical of the heated political rhetoric on the right. Before the shooting, Sarah Palin&#8217;s political action committee <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palins-crosshairs-ad-focus-gabrielle-giffords-debate/story?id=12576437">circulated</a> a map that showed the targeted electoral districts of Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs. But in that case no connection to the shooting was ever established.
Conservatives and right-wing media were quick on Wednesday to demand forceful condemnation of hate speech and crimes by anti-Trump liberals. They&#8217;re right. Though there&#8217;s no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack, Liberals should of course be held to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right.
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The editorial also now includes a correction note at the bottom:
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Correction: June 15, 2017 
An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that a link existed between political incitement and the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords. In fact, no such link was established.
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As Daily Wire editor-in-chief <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17553/new-york-times-runs-worst-editorial-human-history-ben-shapiro">Ben Shapiro</a> put it in response to the original version of the editorial, &#8220;This is fever swamp territory from The New York Times. The facts don&#8217;t match the narrative, so the facts must die a gruesome, slow death.&#8221;

NYT: Sarah Palin Smear An ‘Honest Mistake.’ Palin Lawyer: Here’s Proof That’s A Lie Too.

Liberalism

New York Times

Progressivism

Sarah Palin

Shooting

On Sunday, The <a href="http://nypost.com/2017/01/15/the-campus-left-needs-to-stop-whining/">New York Post</a> pointed out in an op-ed that University of Wisconsin-Madison snowflakes, triggered by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10869/shapiro-eviscerates-raucous-protesters-university-hank-berrien">speech</a> there in mid-November, in which protesters formed a wall in front of Shapiro, have petitioned the university to deem the campus Young Americans for Freedom chapter, which sponsored Shapiro&#8217;s speech, a hate group.
The leftist group, the Student Coalition for Progress, also petitioned to have the members of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter subjected to &#8220;intensive diversity training.&#8221;
The petition<a href="https://www.change.org/p/uw-madison-administration-denounce-young-americans-for-freedom-and-the-alt-right"> read</a>:
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For the last few years, ultra-conservative student organization Young Americans for Freedom has existed on campus and has not been a threat to the greater campus community. They brought in speakers that espoused unsavory viewpoints and promoted conservatism, but were nonconfrontational.
That changed during the Fall 2016 semester. 
When current chairwoman Kara Bell stepped in to replace the outgoing leader of the chapter, a decision was made to bring in controversial commentator Ben Shapiro. Shapiro has used his following and nationally syndicated media presence to deny the realities of systematic and institutional violences against Black and Brown people, sexual assault survivors, Muslims, LGBTQIA+ people, people with low income, people with differing abilities, undocumented immigrants, and anyone that is systematically targeted along identity lines.
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The Post condemned the action in an op-ed, noting, &#8220;Triggering the whiners was a visit from conservative columnist Ben Shapiro, who spoke about how &#8220;&#8217;safe spaces&#8217; limit free speech &#8212; which, the petition claimed, had denied &#8216;systematic and institutional violences&#8217; against marginalized communities.&#8221;
The Post opined, &#8220;Happily, the petition bombed, scrounging barely more than a couple hundred signatures. But the effort shows yet again that &#8216;shut up&#8217; remains the central argument of the campus left. Sadly, the kids who need re-education &#8212; or, rather, a basic education in the fundamentals of civilized discourse &#8212; are the ones in the Student Coalition for Progress.&#8221;
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&#8220;Triggering the whiners was a visit from conservative columnist Ben Shapiro, who spoke about how &#8220;&#8217;safe spaces&#8217; limit free speech &#8212; which, the petition claimed, had denied &#8216;systematic and institutional violences&#8217; against marginalized communities.&#8221;
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Leftists at the University had created a private Facebook page before Shapiro&#8217;s speech, titled &#8220;F(***) White Supremacy: Interrupting Ben Shapiro.&#8221; The irony was not lost on Shapiro at the time, as he noted he had been the target of white supremacists.

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Hillary Clinton&#8217;s desperate and deceptive attempts to cover up her health problems have blown up in her face. What she hoped to conceal from the press on Sunday has ended up being the lead story on liberal and conservative publications alike. But of all the outlets hitting &#8220;Hillary&#8217;s Health,&#8221; the winner for best cover is The New York Post&#8217;s Tuesday issue, which is, well, you just have to see it:

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Today&#8217;s cover: Hillary&#8217;s collapse on Sunday was only the latest in a series of health issues <a href="https://t.co/pCJSo8KWTB">https://t.co/pCJSo8KWTB</a> <a href="https://t.co/JsYUPfZTw5">pic.twitter.com/JsYUPfZTw5</a>
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A couple of points on the Post&#8217;s headlines: As the Daily Wire reported Monday, Secret Service <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9077/secret-service-ignored-protocol-avoiding-taking-hank-berrien">broke protocol</a> at the demand of a Hillary Clinton staffer to whisk her to Chelsea&#8217;s apartment instead of a state-designated trauma center &#8212; not only a paranoid and politically motivated move, but a potentially dangerous one. Her political health apparently takes precedence over her physical health. 
As for her allies beginning to &#8220;worry,&#8221; that is a clearly an understatement. In one of the biggest headlines of the day, former Democratic National Committee chairman and long-time Clinton loyalist Don Fowler urged Democratic leaders on Monday to create <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9075/yikes-former-dnc-chair-calls-contingency-plan-james-barrett">a contingency plan</a> immediately in the chance that Hillary could not finish the race. 
&#8220;Now is the time for all good political leaders to come to the aid of their party. I think the plan should be developed by 6 o&#8217;clock this afternoon,&#8221; said Fowler in an interview with Politico Monday, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s something you would be a fool not to prepare for.&#8221;
Yikes. 
A few Hillary health scare incidents (h/t Drudge):
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/31/clinton/">Hillary faints during speech</a>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/us/politics/19clinton.html?_r=0">Hillary has surgery to repair her broken elbow after fall</a>
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3786187/Three-blood-clots-concussion-deep-vein-thrombosis-Hillary-Clinton-s-shielded-medical-history-isn-t-just-conspiracy-theorists-penchant-privacy-gets-scrutiny.html">Hillary&#8217;s laundry list of health concerns</a>
And finally, here&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hjf2zgp2c">Hillary&#8217;s infamous coughing fit during Benghazi testimony</a>:

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