The summer was just heating up when The New York Times published a “bombshell” story yet again citing unnamed officials. The Times claimed that a Russia spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan in 2019 to kill U.S. troops. The kicker was that President Donald Trump allegedly knew about the bounties and did nothing.
“The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year,” the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html">reported</a> on June 26. “Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the officials said.”
The Times said the three reporters who wrote the story received their information from officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity who said Trump and his National Security Council were brief on the matter.
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said he “never heard this,” while Trump said neither he, Vice President Mike Pence, nor White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows were briefed on the issue.
“Nobody briefed or told me, [Vice President Mike Pence], or Chief of Staff [Mark Meadows] about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an ‘anonymous source’ by the Fake News [New York Times],” Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1277202162070753280">tweeted</a> at the time. “Everybody is denying it [and] there have not been many attacks on us. Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration. With Corrupt Joe Biden &amp; Obama, Russia had a field day, taking over important parts of Ukraine — Where’s Hunter? Probably just another phony Times hit job, just like their failed Russia Hoax. Who is their ‘source’?”
Trump followed up his tweet by saying intelligence officials told him they never briefed him because they did not find the information credible.
Within weeks of the story, Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said he found the reports “very worrisome” but added that the bounties had not been connected to any U.S. casualties, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-commander-says-no-american-deaths-linked-to-russia-bounty-killing-scheme">reported</a>.
By July 10, top Defense Department officials said they could not corroborate the reports during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee.
“All the defense intelligence agencies have been unable to corroborate that report,” said Defense Secretary Mark Esper, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-pentagon-officials-we-are-yet-unable-to-corroborate-report-on-russian-bounty-scheme">reported</a> at the time. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added that the Pentagon did not have “cause and effect linkages to a Russian bounty program causing U.S. Military casualties.”
Milley said the Department was still looking into the matter.
Two months later and that link has yet to be found, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-commander-intel-still-hasn-t-established-russia-paid-n1240020">reported</a> Monday.
&#8220;It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me,&#8221; Gen. McKenzie told the outlet of the alleged bounty program.
&#8220;We continue to look for that evidence,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I just haven&#8217;t seen it yet. But … it&#8217;s not a closed issue.&#8221;
The alleged program &#8212; and the allegations that Trump knew about it but did nothing &#8212; were used as an attack line against the president by members of the media and Democrats, including Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who called Trump’s alleged inaction a “betrayal” to the country.
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Media commentators and other wastes of the precious gift of human life are saying that a new bombshell book about Donald Trump could mark a tipping point when the walls start closing in on the beginning of the end of a crucial period at the crossroads of a juncture of a defining moment when push comes to shove in the crunch of an emergency that could be the tipping point of the beginning of the end of the flashpoint when the walls start closing in on the defining event of the Trump administration.
The new bombshell of a book is entitled &#8220;Bombshell: How the Trump Administration Reached a Tipping Point When the Walls Closed in on the Beginning of the End.”
According to anonymous sources, excerpts have been leaked to the press by anonymous sources who confirm that the anonymous sources reporting on the anonymous sources are, in fact, anonymous which, coincidentally, is the name of the author of &#8220;Bombshell: How the Trump Administration Reached a Tipping Point When the Walls Closed in on the Beginning of the End,&#8221; which anonymous sources say could be a bombshell that marks the tipping point when the walls closed in on the beginning of the end of the Trump administration.
Anonymous sources who have read the excerpts of &#8220;Bombshell&#8221; by Anonymous have told anonymous sources that they contain stunning revelations about the Trump Administration, which could mark a crucial juncture of a defining event when those stunning revelations come to light and are revealed to be truly stunning.
The New York Times, a former newspaper, declared the book&#8217;s stunning revelations to be a stunning bombshell and denounced Trump in what was either a front page news story or an editorial on the op-ed page, depending on which way you’re holding the paper. The paper declared that this could definitely be the beginning of the end of the beginning of the end of the beginning.
President Trump could not be reached for comment because he was busy bringing peace to the Middle East.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-insists-on-giving-speech-in-cornfield-because-he-says-the-audience-there-is-all-ears-satire">Biden Insists On Giving Speech In Cornfield Because He Says The Audience There Is All Ears </a>
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Groups hosting and coordinating the ongoing unrest in Portland, Oregon, have established an &#8220;approved&#8221; media list and are vetting coverage from on the ground, according to <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/04/youre-not-allowed-to-film-the-fight-for-control-over-who-reports-from-portland/">a report from Reason&#8217;s</a> reporter on the scene, Nancy Rommelmann, and they are blocking, harassing, and even threatening &#8220;un-approved&#8221; journalists there to provide more accurate coverage of riots, looting, and violence.
Rommelmann says she became curious about the way Portland&#8217;s unrest was being covered in mainstream media outlets after seeing individuals at demonstrations with the word &#8220;press&#8221; emblazoned across helmets and protective body armor.
It turns out, she found, groups organizing the protests in Portland are also vetting reporters for an &#8220;Independent Press Corps&#8221; &#8212; a group allied with and approved by protesters, who are deeply involved in crafting and guiding the way mainstream media outlets are reporting on Portland&#8217;s demonstrations &#8212; and the group includes reporters affiliated with some of the nation&#8217;s top papers.
&#8220;The IPC is an organized group in league with the activists, and it is usually their footage you see streamed online and recycled on the news: mostly innocent protestors being harassed and beaten by police,&#8221; Rommelmann writes Saturday.
&#8220;The IPC and other documentarians who are deemed sympathetic to the activists&#8217; cause agree on certain principles. You do not show activists&#8217; faces. You only show activists in a defensive position: responding to, rather than inciting, violence. You enhance what can appear to be police brutality, e.g., activists defending themselves with homemade shields, often bearing the anarchist circle-A, against police,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;The shields are largely ineffective for personal defense, but extremely effective for optics, and that&#8217;s precisely the point. If a member of the IPC is arrested, he or she will be protected.&#8221;
The list of approved reporters include the &#8220;man on the ground for the New York Times,&#8221; Rommelmann says, as well as a high profile social media reporter whose Tweets are largely considered an official timeline of Portland events, and many have connections directly to national outlets like The Washington Post.
&#8220;These protester-approved journalists are producing much of the news you see about the protests, with an assist from the national press. Kate Shepherd isn&#8217;t on the list, but she was previously a sympathetic reporter for local Portland media, and she is now filing such stories for The Washington Post, with headlines like &#8216;Portland police arrest a hate crime survivor and Wall of Moms organizer in crackdown,'&#8221; according to Rommelmann.
Reporters like Rommelmann, who are judged &#8220;not sufficiently sympathetic to the cause&#8221; (largely those who are not signed on <a href="https://www.tenforjustice.com/">to the protesters&#8217; ten agenda items</a>) are harassed, intimidated, and confronted and, on occasion, assaulted and threatened. Rommelmann reports of being told that &#8220;photography equals death,&#8221; and had her phone knocked from her hand as she filmed something the IPC wasn&#8217;t interested in reporting.
That&#8217;s creating a &#8220;bottleneck&#8221; in reporting that protects most news consumers from what&#8217;s happening in Portland, where the unrest has continued for nearly four months, moving from downtown Portland, where agitators were attacking and attempting to burn a federal courthouse, now to residential neighborhoods.
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REPORT: Portland Protesters Vetting Media Coverage, Blocking ‘Un-Approved’ Reporters From Covering Riots

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It should not come as news to anybody that the history of America’s founding is under attack. More and more, the enemies of our regime tell us explicitly what they want: to defame, erase, and replace the heroes of our country’s origins. The most barefaced example of this is of course The New York Times’s 1619 Project, a series of essays on race in America whose architect, Nikole Hannah-Jones, has <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/1619-project-founder-claims-her-project-is-simply-an-origin-story-not-history">made clear</a> that her work is “not a history. It is a work of journalism that explicitly seeks to challenge the national narrative and, therefore, the national memory. The project has always been as much about the present as it is the past.”
In other words, factual truth matters less to Hannah-Jones than hypnotizing the public, through artful rhetoric and ceaseless repetition, into <a href="https://dwswanson.com/2019/11/28/just-how-much-racism-is-in-our-dna/">believing</a> that “anti-black racism runs in the very DNA in this country.”
These efforts to unseat the American Founders, to make us ashamed of men like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, have been <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/1619-pulitzer-will-boost-socialist-teaching-schools">amplified</a> by the Pulitzer Center and fed into the curricula of schools across the nation. The buildings burning in our cities, the <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/1619-pulitzer-will-boost-socialist-teaching-schools">statues torn to the ground</a>, are a perfect illustration of what Hannah-Jones and the ruling classes who have empowered her want: to persuade our people to hate and destroy themselves and one another. Small wonder Hannah-Jones herself took <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06/22/new-york-times-mum-on-1619-project-creator-calling-1619-riots-moniker-an-honor/">gleeful ownership</a> of the riots not long after they began.
Among the many bitter ironies in all this, it is particularly appalling to consider the premise of the 1619 Project, the reason why it is so supposedly “necessary.” The New York Times wants us to believe that without Nikole Hannah-Jones, our nation’s history classes and patriotic celebrations would involve nothing but senselessly jingoistic, uncritical and unmerited pride. As if all Americans did was gloss over the painful moments of their past and shrug off the injustices in their history.
In fact, our moments of greatest patriotism have often been moments of deep introspection and agonizing self-criticism. From Abraham Lincoln’s <a href="https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&amp;doc=38&amp;page=transcript">Second Inaugural</a> to Frederick Douglass’s <a href="https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/">Fourth of July Oration</a>, the great men of America have always been quite ready to acknowledge the darker moments of our racial history — in terms far more searing and eloquent than Hannah-Jones could ever muster.
That did not stop them from celebrating the true greatness of the nation without fear or qualification.
Indeed, it is because they took a hard, clear look at the country’s shortcomings that our greatest statesmen could say, as Douglass did, that “The principles contained in [the Declaration of Independence] are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.”
It’s a childish fallacy to imagine that American patriotism comes at the cost of ignorance about our history.
There is an interesting moment in Beowulf, the great heroic poem of warriors and heroes, which speaks to these concerns. After the hero has slain Grendel, the shadowy ogre who was terrorizing the feasting-halls of the Danish king Hrothgar, there is a great feast of celebration. Hrothgar’s minstrel sings a song to accompany the merriment, and you might expect that what he would sing is a rollicking tale of Danish triumph. But instead, he sings a complex and tragic song of victory won at great cost, of Danes who rose up against the Frisian king Finn. Finn is married to a Danish woman, Hildeburg, and so every death on both sides is a misery to her — she loses not only her Frisian husband and son, but her Danish brother. &#8220;Flame devoured them all, hungriest of spirits, all that in that place war had taken of either people: their glory had passed away.”
Even the great war ballads of old were not thoughtlessly triumphalist. But the song of Finn isn’t meant to diminish the greatness of the Danes, the way the 1619 Project is meant to diminish the greatness of America. Instead, it shows that truly patriotic history can celebrate a people even as it acknowledges the difficult moments of the past.
Before Nikole Hannah-Jones ever put pen to paper, no patriotic American who has fully embraced our nation&#8217;s founding principles would deny that slavery was a moral atrocity. That’s because America at its core is not racist, and neither are the overwhelming majority of Americans. The whole idea that there is some vast conspiracy to paper over the sins of our history was ridiculous from the moment the Times published it. Our patriotism, and our country, are strong enough to take criticism. It’s propaganda we can’t take, and rioting, and gleeful desecration of our cherished founding.
There was never any need for the 1619 Project at all, and we will be better off the sooner we consign it to the ash heap of history where it belongs.
More from Spencer Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cancel-culture-isnt-new-john-milton-saw-it-coming">Cancel Culture Isn’t New. John Milton Saw It Coming.</a>
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It&#8217;s known as the &#8220;viral load.&#8221;
The most used test to determine if someone has COVID-19, known as a PCR test, is either positive or negative, that&#8217;s it. But the test does not identify the viral load — the greater the amount of virus, the more likely it is that the patient is contagious.
&#8220;In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds, compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html">reported</a> Sunday after conducting a review of data.
<blockquote>On Thursday, the United States recorded 45,604 new coronavirus cases, according to a database maintained by The Times. If the rates of contagiousness in Massachusetts and New York were to apply nationwide, then perhaps only 4,500 of those people may actually need to isolate and submit to contact tracing.</blockquote>
Health experts told the paper the current PCR test is too sensitive and should be improved so that it will determine the viral load — which would then rule out those with insignificant amounts of the virus.
Apoorva Mandavilli, the Times reporter who wrote the piece, said on Twitter: &#8220;NEW: All these months into the pandemic, we may have been testing the wrong way. Data from some state labs suggest up to 90% (!!) of people who get a positive result are no longer contagious and don’t need to isolate.&#8221;
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NEW: All these months into the pandemic, we may have been testing the wrong way. Data from some state labs suggest up to 90% (!!) of people who get a positive result are no longer contagious and don’t need to isolate.
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&#8220;It turns out that the PCR, that old reliable workhorse, is both too slow and too sensitive for what we need. And it all hinges on a metric called the &#8216;cycle threshold,'&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1299705092178956288">wrote</a> in another post.
The current PCR test analyzes genetic matter from the virus using 37 or 40 cycles, but health experts say that is too high because it detects even small amounts of the virus that pose no risk of contagion.
&#8220;Tests with thresholds so high may detect not just live virus but also genetic fragments, leftovers from infection that pose no particular risk — akin to finding a hair in a room long after a person has left,&#8221; Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the paper.
&#8220;If you adjust that down to a more reasonable CT threshold of 30, anywhere form 40%-90% of state lab results are *no longer positive.* The rest are well past the point of contagiousness,&#8221; Mandavilli wrote on Twitter.
&#8220;Think about that for a minute. Think of the thousands of people being asked to isolate, refrain from work and submit to contact tracing. But also, think of the needless bottlenecks, and all the people who aren’t getting tested and isolated *when* they need to be,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1299705492332306434">wrote</a> on Twitter. &#8220;Imagine a neighborhood on fire. Here, the firefighters have defined even dying embers as a &#8216;fire&#8217; and are so busy putting those out that they are missing entire homes that are burning down and setting others ablaze.&#8221;
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NY Times: Up To 90% Of People Who Test Positive For COVID-19 No Longer Contagious, ‘Don’t Need To Isolate’

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On Thursday, Christiaan Triebert, working on the New York Times Visual Investigations team, posted a breakdown of the Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooting on Tuesday night that ended with two dead and one injured. 
Seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, has since been arrested and charged with first-degree murder because of the incident.
Triebert&#8217;s reporting shows that that the incident is more complex than initial video had shown, outlining a two-part shooting that includes &#8220;multiple gunmen&#8221; and threats.
&#8220;A teenager faces charges in shootings that left 2 people dead in Kenosha, WI. The [New York Times] Visual Investigations team reviewed hours of livestreams to track 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse’s movements during and leading up to the shootings,&#8221; the Times investigator starts the thread. 
&#8220;In the hours before the shooting incident, [Kristan T. Harris], [Richie McGinniss], and [Elijah Schaffer] all interviewed Rittenhouse, who said he was protecting a local vehicle dealership together with several other armed men. He also offers medical assistance to protesters.&#8221;
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In the hours before the shooting incident, <a href="https://twitter.com/KristanTHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KristanTHarris</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/RichieMcGinniss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RichieMcGinniss</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElijahSchaffer</a> all interviewed Rittenhouse, who said he was protecting a local vehicle dealership together with several other armed men. He also offers medical assistance to protesters.
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&#8220;Rittenhouse eventually leaves the dealership [ &#8230;] and is barred by the police from returning, as seen [Ruptly] footage, six minutes before the shooting,&#8221; Triebert continues. 
The reporter emphasizes that there were &#8220;multiple gunmen&#8221; involved in the incident, which he says occurred in two parts: &#8220;To better understand what happened next, we synchronized 6 livestreams, which revealed that there were two separate shooting incidents, about one and a half minutes apart, involving multiple gunmen.&#8221;
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To better understand what happened next, we synchronized 6 livestreams, which revealed that there were two separate shooting incidents, about one and a half minutes apart, involving multiple gunmen.
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&#8220;At 23:19 (Triebert later amends the time to 23:49), Rittenhouse is seen in this YouTube livestream. He&#8217;s being chased into a parking lot. While he is being pursued, an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air,&#8221; he outlines.
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At 23:19, Rittenhouse is seen in this YouTube livestream. He&#39;s being chased into a parking lot. While he is being pursued, an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air. <a href="https://t.co/BSD8rd6ARN">pic.twitter.com/BSD8rd6ARN</a>
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Rittenhouse then &#8220;turns toward the sound of the gunfire as another pursuer lunges toward him. He then fires four times with his assault rifle (the reporter later amends: &#8220;AR-15-style rifle, *not* an assault rifle&#8221;), and appears to shoot the man in the head,&#8221; explains Triebert, adding, &#8220;The muzzle flash of the first shot by the unknown gunman and the smoke rising from the handgun can be seen in this video capturing the first shooting from a different angle.&#8221;
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The muzzle flash of the first shot by the unknown gunman and the smoke rising from the handgun can be seen in this video capturing the first shooting from a different angle. <a href="https://t.co/ddRjsgiMN7">pic.twitter.com/ddRjsgiMN7</a>
&mdash; Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) <a href="https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298841139810893824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s unclear why Rittenhouse was being chased or why he was in the area of this car dealership about four blocks away from the one he claimed to be protecting. We do know vehicles in this lot were damaged minutes before the first shooting,&#8221; said the reporter, captioning a short video of the destruction:
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It’s unclear why Rittenhouse was being chased or why he was in the area of this car dealership about four blocks away from the one he claimed to be protecting. We do know vehicles in this lot were damaged minutes before the first shooting. <a href="https://t.co/7mbLQ3K21B">pic.twitter.com/7mbLQ3K21B</a>
&mdash; Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) <a href="https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298841617634340864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The initial shot and Rittenhouse’s four subsequent discharges of his AR-15-style weapon are followed by three more shots in the parking lot — we don’t know who fired them,&#8221; reports Triebert. &#8220;Rittenhouse seems to make a phone call and then flees the scene.&#8221;
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The initial shot and Rittenhouse’s four subsequent discharges of his AR-15-style weapon are followed by three more shots in the parking lot — we don’t know who fired them. Rittenhouse seems to make a phone call and then flees the scene. <a href="https://t.co/ddRjsgiMN7">pic.twitter.com/ddRjsgiMN7</a>
&mdash; Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) <a href="https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298841820802297856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Then, part two of the incident begins: &#8220;While fleeing from the scene, Rittenhouse is again chased by several people. He trips and falls to the ground and fires four shots as three people rush him. One person appears to be hit in the chest, while another, who is carrying a handgun, is hit in the arm.&#8221;
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While fleeing from the scene, Rittenhouse is again chased by several people. He trips and falls to the ground and fires four shots as three people rush him. One person appears to be hit in the chest, while another, who is carrying a handgun, is hit in the arm. <a href="https://t.co/wy0T26UmkR">pic.twitter.com/wy0T26UmkR</a>
&mdash; Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) <a href="https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298842098163216384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;At the same time,&#8221; Triebert reports, &#8220;we hear at least 8 gunshots from farther away. Mr. Rittenhouse gets up and begins walking north from the scene, and 8 more gunshots are heard from closer range. It’s unclear who fired the other gunshots.&#8221;
The teen then attempts to surrender himself to police.
&#8220;Police vehicles just one block away remain stationary during the gunfire. Rittenhouse walks with his hands up toward the police, as bystanders call out that he was involved in the shooting. The police drive by him to the scene of the shootings, without stopping.&#8221;
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Police vehicles just one block away remain stationary during the gunfire. Rittenhouse walks with his hands up toward the police, as bystanders call out that he was involved in the shooting. The police drive by him to the scene of the shootings, without stopping. <a href="https://t.co/duiec5vm5P">pic.twitter.com/duiec5vm5P</a>
&mdash; Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) <a href="https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1298842326853472258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Protests Continue After Kenosha, WI Police Shooting Of Jacob Blake

NYT Reporter Posts Video Breakdown Of Kenosha Shooting Showing ‘Multiple Gunmen’

Kenosha

Wisconsin

Warning: This post contains graphic footage On Thursday, Christiaan Triebert, working on the New York Times Visual Investigations team, posted a breakdown

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Late-term abortion is deeply unpopular in America, with <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/235469/trimesters-key-abortion-views.aspx">just 13%</a> saying they support the practice during the third trimester and just 28% supporting it during the second trimester. Yet Democrats, including presidential candidate Joe Biden, refuse to put any limits on abortion, even up until the minute of birth or shortly thereafter.
Speakers at the Republican National Convention pointed this out, and The Washington Post has been there to run cover for Biden. On Wednesday, Sister Deirdre Byrne said that Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), support “the horrors of late-term abortion and infanticide.” Following the statement, the Post attempted a “fact check” that doesn’t actually negate what Byrne said:
<blockquote>Biden does not support “late-term abortion and infanticide.” He supports abortion rights and says he would codify in statute the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade and related precedents, which generally limit abortions to the first 20 to 24 weeks of gestation.</blockquote>
National Review’s David Harsanyi <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/factcheckers-keep-lying-about-bidens-abortion-position/">explained</a> how the Post avoided what Byrne actually said in order to make it seem as if she were making an untrue statement.
“For one thing, the words ‘generally limit’ do a lot of heavy lifting. The Post notes that only ‘1 percent’ of abortions ‘happen after the fetus reaches the point of viability.’ What the Post avoids saying is that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/12/separating-fact-fiction-abortion-talking-points/">more than</a> 8,000 viable fetuses, and probably more than 10,000 <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/cbo-late-term-abortions-average-one-hour-us-calculates-cost-letting">on the cusp</a> of viability, are aborted every year. The killing of thousands of tiny human beings — whether it is ‘codified’ by law; or whether it is allowed by emotional health exemptions; or whether reporters find ‘experts’ to tell us it’s okay — is properly described as infanticide,” Harsanyi wrote.
Further, as Harsanyi pointed out, the Post would never use such dismissing language when talking about gun deaths.
“But can anyone imagine an alleged Post factchecker dismissing gun deaths as ‘generally’ unimportant because less than .01 percent of legal firearm owners commit murder? Or treating a public official who advocates for zero limits on gun ownership, as simply promising to ‘codify’ the Second Amendment? To do so would be to circumvent fundamental point of the debate — which is exactly what pro-choice reporters are trying to do,” Harsanyi wrote.
This isn’t the first time mainstream media outlets have covered for the Left’s extreme abortion views. National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-washington-posts-abortion-fact-check-gets-it-wrong/">explained</a> earlier this week another “fact check” from the Post used similar language to dismiss Biden’s personal support for late-term abortion. At that time, the Post actually did try to make a comparison to gun rights, but as Ponnuru explained that while the Post suggests 8,000 late-term abortions is negligible to the point of not needing to be discussed, a year with 13 school-shooting deaths warrants massive attention. Neither should be dismissed.
The New York Times was no better. The Times, Ponnuru <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-new-york-times-also-factually-deficient-on-abortion/">wrote</a>, deceptively described a bill introduced in the Virginia legislature as merely allowing late-term abortions “if the mother’s physical health or safety were at risk.” The bill actually allowed for late-term abortions for mental health reasons.
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‘Fact Checkers’ Going To Great Lengths To Hide Joe Biden’s Support For Late-Term Abortion

Abortion

Joe Biden

Late-term abortion is deeply unpopular in America, with just 13% saying they support the practice during the third trimester and just 28% supporting it

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Warning: CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter makes an unsettling appearance in the following, as does a former newspaper.
Journalists and other Democrats are reacting with outrage to the convention speech of adorable cutie-pie and former ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley.
Haley said in her speech that this was not a racist country, sending shockwaves through George Stephanopoulos and other organized crime figures.
Among the hardest hit was CNN’s Brian Stelter who said Haley’s words caused him to take to his bed for a good cry, clutching his American Girl doll, also named Brian Stelter.
In a private conversation later released to the press, Stelter told his doll, “I am very saddy-waddy over the meanie-weanie words of Nikki-wikki. I’m so upset I can’t even get out of bed to tweet about how hard I’m crying.”
Stelter says he’s going to hold his breath until Haley either agrees to take the statement back or buys him a Barbie Dream House of his very own.
At the New York Times, a former newspaper, the outrage spread all the way from the twenty-year-old staffers to the editors who tremble at their every whim.
In a statement written in calligraphy on the finest vellum, editor-in-chief Blithering Prevarication the Third told the other diners at Le Bernadin, “It is unforgiveable for Nikki Haley to say something we higher orders don’t want people to believe. After all, this is still a country where an innocent black man with a warrant out on him for abusing women can be gunned down by the police for doing nothing but fighting with them when they tried to arrest him and then reaching into his car for a possible weapon. If that isn’t racism, then racism would just mean racism, which is patently absurd.”
Presumptive former president Joe Biden also condemned Haley’s speech, saying, “It was personally disappointing to me to hear those words coming from a woman whose hair smells so great I just want to be buried in it, possibly within the next couple of minutes because I’m really not feeling very well.”
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-times-says-trumps-effective-actions-undermine-satire">NY Times Says Trump’s Effective Actions Threaten To Undermine The Very Foundation Of The American Narrative</a>
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Nikki Haley

Journalists And Other Democrats Are Outraged At Nikki Haley For Loving Her Country [Satire]

Brian Stelter

Warning: CNN&#039;s Brian Stelter makes an unsettling appearance in the following, as does a former newspaper. Journalists and other Democrats are reacting

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The following is satirical, except for that one line about The New York Times, which is deadly serious.
President Trump recently announced Emergency FDA approval for an effective plasma therapy for the Chinese Flu. Or the Wuflu. Or Covid-19, which stands for, “China: Oh, Vicious In Despotism, times 19.” Or something like that.
The New York Times, a former newspaper, denounced Trump’s action, saying that if the therapy should, in fact, turn out to be effective, it presents a serious threat to the First Amendment by hampering the press in its duty to spread unreasoning terror in the hopes of getting Joe Biden elected.
In an editorial personally written by Times editor-in-chief Blithering Prevarication III on his personal velvet-sheathed laptop with the sparkly keys meant to represent the glittering quality of his integrity in attacking injustice whenever and wherever it threatens the election of a Democrat — and in attacking justice under the same circumstances — Mr. Third wrote, “The idea that any action taken by Donald Trump could reduce the death and suffering from this pandemic is an unprecedented danger to this republic because it could turn voters toward Donald Trump who is an unprecedented danger to this republic and thus cause his reelection which would be an unprecedented danger to this republic.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump has already begun to bring peace to the Middle East which is not only a stab in the back to the cause of innocent and oppressed terrorists everywhere but also harms the reputations of foreign policy experts merely because they happen to have been wrong about everything,&#8221; Third continued. &#8220;Now he threatens to reduce deaths from Covid-19 which could undermine the very foundations of the great and good narrative we were planning to peddle straight through November.”
Presumptive former Democrat president Joe Biden said in his convention speech last week that he would create testing, staffing and manufacturing build-ups that Trump has already created.
Biden now says he is working on getting emergency FDA approval for an effective plasma therapy, a move the Times hailed as brilliant.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-clinton-celebrates-a-hundred-years-of-abusing-women-till-they-vote-for-you-satire">Bill Clinton Celebrates A Hundred Years Of Abusing Women Till They Vote For You</a>
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The New York Times Co. Post An 82 Percent Decline In 2nd Quarter Profi

NY Times Says Trump’s Effective Actions Threaten To Undermine The Very Foundation Of The American Narrative [Satire]

The following is satirical, except for that one line about The New York Times, which is deadly serious. President Trump recently announced Emergency FDA

NY Times Says Trump’s Effective Actions Threaten To Undermine The Very Foundation Of The American Narrative [Satire] | The Daily Wire

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Wealthy party hosts in the Hamptons are hiring “medical concierge services” to rapidly test guests for coronavirus before letting them enjoy the festivities.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/style/does-rapid-covid-testing-work-weddings-parties.html">spoke</a> to Dr. Asma Rashid, who runs one of these “members-only” companies and said she has been invited to elite parties all summer.
“We’ve gone to these private, private, private events, where they have me sign a ‘nothing you see in this house can be leaked’ document,” she told the Times. “This is still a party town.”
As the outlet reported, Rashid administers quick coronavirus tests using a finger prick or a nose swab – a procedure that takes less than 30 minutes and costs up to $500 per test. Some insurance companies won’t cover the cost and most doctors don’t have the kits to perform them, the Times reported.
“Every time there is an event, a protest or Fourth of July celebration, there is higher demand,” Rashid said, adding that clients might book her well in advance for an event or they might call her at two in the morning for an emergency test.
For example, after the “Safe &amp; Sound” concert, which cost $1,250 to attend and eventgoers were supposed to watch from their cars, Rashid received numerous requests, as social media posts showed people got out of their cars to dance near the stage.
“I can’t even tell you how many requests we got after that,” Rashid told the outlet.
Business has been good for Rashid, who said she has had to triple her staff to meet the demands of the New York elite this summer. She even had to open a new office in Bridgehampton.
“While most of the country waits seven to 14 days for coronavirus test results, a privileged few have access to rapid tests. There are a few types — some detect antibodies, others antigens or <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/covid-19-test-that-relies-on-viral-genetic-material-gives-false-negative-results-if-used-too-early-in-those-infected">viral genetic material</a> — but they all provide an answer in under 30 minutes,” the Times reported. “Hosts are hiring doctors to screen guests before they attend their gatherings, or children coming in from out of town for sleepovers. Other people are getting tests to provide peace of mind after a particularly wild night. Event companies are offering rapid testing as a service to clients alongside catering and music. Instagram influencers are even touting the service.”
The tests, however, aren’t necessarily reliable, as negatives have to be retested for accuracy and false positives have been found.
The privilege for wealthy New Yorkers extends beyond quick and expensive coronavirus testing. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wealthy-new-york-city-parents-are-paying-70000-for-their-children-to-learn-in-pods">reported</a>, wealthy New York City parents are spending upwards of $70,000 to hire private educators to oversee their children while learning remotely. The parents are already paying five-figure private school tuitions, and will now be paying even more to set up “pods” of four to ten students in the same grade who will be led by a private educator.
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Wealthy Hamptons Visitors Given Expensive But Fast Coronavirus Test To Keep Partying

New York

Wealthy party hosts in the Hamptons are hiring “medical concierge services” to rapidly test guests for coronavirus before letting them enjoy the

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A deputy editor for The New York Times went after Robert O&#8217;Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, accusing him on Wednesday of being a &#8220;p*ssy&#8221; who is unwilling to sacrifice for others after not wearing a mask on a plane.
Dan Saltzstein quote-tweeted O&#8217;Neill, who had posted a picture of himself maskless in a plane with the words, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a p*ssy.&#8221; Behind him was a man in a USMC hat, who was wearing a mask. In response, Saltzstein said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know this guy but: counterpoint, you might just be because you&#8217;re not willing to sacrifice and be a little uncomfortable for your fellow humans (including that marine behind you)!&#8221;
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NYT editor tells the Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden that he’s not willing to sacrifice 😂😂😂 beyond parody <a href="https://t.co/8OujXwkeGs">pic.twitter.com/8OujXwkeGs</a>
&mdash; Amber Athey (@amber_athey) <a href="https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/1296144274308964357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Saltzstein later deleted his tweet and clarified, &#8220;I deleted a previous version of this tweet because I broke my own rule about name-calling. So let me try again: I honor O’Neill for his sacrifices to his country and his heroism. It’s sad that he can’t extend the same for the safety of his fellow passengers.&#8221;
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I deleted a previous version of this tweet because I broke my own rule about name-calling. So let me try again: I honor O’Neill for his sacrifices to his country and his heroism. It’s sad that he can’t extend the same for the safety of his fellow passengers. <a href="https://t.co/DxlUluIdX6">pic.twitter.com/DxlUluIdX6</a>
&mdash; Dan Saltzstein (@dansaltzstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/dansaltzstein/status/1296126545841528833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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O&#8217;Neill also deleted his original tweet, but claimed his wife did it.
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I didn’t delete my tweet. My wife did.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1296151889667657728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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O&#8217;Neill, who claims to have fired the shots that killed al Qaeda&#8217;s leader during the May 2011 raid of his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, sparked a heated debate on Twitter with his picture, as The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/19/ex-navy-seal-brags-about-not-wearing-dumb-ass-mask-on-plane/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>. One user told him, &#8220;You’re endangering a veteran’s life. How patriotic,&#8221; and others accused of him endangering the elderly.
In tweets also since <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1296067776705069056" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">deleted</a>, O&#8217;Neill went off on China and the coronavirus, writing, &#8220;China told you to wear a mask. Look down… you’re wearing a mask. I’m not.&#8221;
&#8220;Make no mistake.. this &#8216;pandemic&#8217; was sent to you by China,&#8221; he went on, adding, &#8220;Do you remember the complete, incompetent morons buying all of the toilet paper? They’re the ones telling you to wear masks now.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not being rude… I’m just telling you facts,&#8221; he maintained.
O&#8217;Neill also told his many Twitter followers, &#8220;I know more about biological warfare than most of you. We were trained. These dumb ass masks do nothing. Nothing,&#8221; and insisted a bandana &#8220;does more harm than good.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not afraid of the mob,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill eventually wrote after facing backlash. &#8220;Come get some.&#8221; He also said in a series of tweets, &#8220;There is a time to act. Who&#8217;s with me?&#8221; and &#8220;I shook thousands of hands and gave thousands of hugs this week. I flew on some planes. I’ll be alive next week.&#8221;
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I’m not afraid of the mob. Come get some.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1296156904771784704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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There is a time to act. Who’s with me?
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1296159935806558209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I shook thousands of hands and gave thousands of hugs this week. I flew on some planes. I’ll be alive next week.
&mdash; Robert J. O&#39;Neill (@mchooyah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1296161137881501698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In May, O&#8217;Neill got into a Twitter <a href="https://popculture.com/celebrity/news/alyssa-milano-claps-back-navy-seal-osama-bin-laden-mask/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spat</a> with actress Alyssa Milano after she posted a picture of herself wearing a knit mask with holes in it. &#8220;There are holes in your mask, love,&#8221; O&#8217;Neill mocked, to which Milano responded, &#8220;Carbon filter inside, love.&#8221;
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Carbon filter inside, love.
&mdash; Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1264318806022742017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Mask has a filter in it for f*ck&#8217;s sake. A carbon one. My mom makes them,&#8221; she told another user.
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Mask has a filter in it for fuck’s sake. A carbon one. My mom makes them. 🙄 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WearAMask?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WearAMask</a> <a href="https://t.co/tyzePPSekj">https://t.co/tyzePPSekj</a>
&mdash; Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1264320522428399616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rob O&#8217;Neill

‘You’re Not Willing To Sacrifice’: SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Scolded By NYT Deputy Editor For Not Wearing A Mask

Osama bin Laden

A deputy editor for The New York Times went after Robert O&#039;Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden, accusing him on Wednesday of being a &quot;p*ssy&quot;

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Leading suffragette Susan B. Anthony received a post-mortem pardon from President Donald Trump on Tuesday to mark the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, giving women the vote &#8212; a cause Anthony, of course, devoted her life to.
But some leftists &#8212; and The New York Times &#8212; used the occasion of Trump&#8217;s pardon to try to cancel Anthony for &#8220;racism&#8221; and for her opposition to abortion.
As The Daily Wire reported Tuesday, President Trump pardoned Anthony for an 1872 arrest for &#8220;voting as a woman.&#8221; She was fined $100.
“She was never pardoned. Did you know that? She was never pardoned,” Trump said. “What took so long? She was guilty for voting and we’re going to be signing a full and complete pardon.”
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/trump-susan-b-anthony-pardon.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur">New York Times was quick</a> to throw cold water on Trump&#8217;s efforts, though, pointing out that Susan B. Anthony is an &#8220;increasingly divisive figure&#8221; who is now an icon of &#8220;anti-abortion forces&#8221; and has been &#8220;criticized for relegating black suffragettes to the sidelines.&#8221;
&#8220;On Tuesday, Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion political group, and Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who represents conservative groups, were in attendance as Mr. Trump made his announcement,&#8221; the outlet noted.
It went on to connect Anthony to other controversial figures Trump has pardoned or granted clemency, including former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and Trump campaign political advisor Roger J. Stone, Jr.
Leftists on social media were quick to join in the effort to &#8220;cancel&#8221; Anthony, turning on the early feminist without mercy over Trump&#8217;s decision to pardon.
&#8220;It makes sense that Trump would pardon Susan B. Anthony, a white feminist who didn&#8217;t mind turning her backs on Black folks, including her supposed friends Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass, to hasten white women&#8217;s fight for suffrage,&#8221; one wrote.
&#8220;Susan B. Anthony was a racist. That&#8217;s the tweet,&#8221; wrote another.
&#8220;Susan B. Anthony was racist. No wonder trump is pardoning her. They’re kinfolk,&#8221; added a third, who then advised her followers to &#8220;Google&#8221; Anthony to get evidence of her claims when they pointed out that Anthony is still revered for her contributions to women&#8217;s suffrage.
At least one high-powered Democrat even joined the pile-on. New York&#8217;s lieutenant governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, sniped at Trump in a press conference Tuesday morning.
&#8220;I was deeply troubled to learn that Trump went ahead and treated her like a criminal,&#8221; Hochul said, sidestepping her state&#8217;s one-time decision to charge Anthony with a crime.
In a later tweet, Horchul demanded Trump rescind his pardon.
&#8220;As highest-ranking woman elected official in New York and on behalf of Susan B. Anthony’s legacy we demand Trump rescind his pardon,&#8221; Hochul tweeted. &#8220;She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women’s rights, and never paid her fine. Let her Rest In Peace.&#8221;
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New York Times, Leftists Label Susan B. Anthony ‘Racist’ After She Gets A Trump Pardon

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The following is satirical.
Leftist rioters continue to make the world a better place.
A new completely made-up study from the New York Times, a former newspaper, reveals that every time the mostly peaceful violent mobs tear down a statue, another underprivileged child gets an education.
According to the study, the sheer moral purity of the mostly peaceful violence is transferred into the kinetic action of destroying monuments so that, when the monuments crash to the ground, a series of vibrations travels across town into the minds of minority children, imparting math and reading skills. This not only improves the child’s chances of success, it also helps him to avoid experiencing traits which were determined by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to be tools of oppressive whiteness, such as hard work and rational thought. (The Museum later apologized for that characterization, but they were still thinking it and had their fingers crossed behind their backs.)
The completely made-up study in the Times, one of a new series of completely made-up studies which the Times is releasing as a follow up to the 1619 Project, was overseen by an expert committee of experts led by expert experts John and Mary Expert. So anyone who doesn’t believe it, is not listening to the Experts.
The study goes on to say that every time a government building is set on fire, systemic racism is lowered in any system where systemic racism is systemic. According to the study, when government buildings burn, the righteous rage of the arsonists mixes with the historic sins of the nation, causing a chemical reaction that purifies the air of the kind of racism that often arises when Black Lives Matter activists are seen setting buildings on fire.
Finally, the study concludes that anyone who loots a store could actually improve people’s lives, especially the lives of the Experts, if they would send them a pair of hot sneakers, sizes ten-and-a-half male and female eight.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-names-the-woman-he-says-will-be-my-last-heartbeat-away-from-the-presidency-satire">Biden Names The Woman He Says Will Be ‘My Last Heartbeat Away From The Presidency’</a>
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NYT Study: ‘Every Time A Rioter Vandalizes A Statue, An Underprivileged Child Gets An Education’ [Satire]

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After the Department of Justice issued a letter alleging Yale University has engaged in “longstanding and ongoing” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-yale-guilty-of-ongoing-discrimination-against-asian-american-white-applicants">racial discrimination in its admissions process</a> — specifically against Asian American and white applicants — The New York Times has published a report with interviews from enrolled students who “disputed” that &#8220;the university discriminates against Asian American applicants.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/yale-asian-american-discrimination.html">the Times</a>, Yale students “widely criticized” the Trump administration’s finding, and many don’t believe the administration even has the relevant credibility to make the accusation in the first place.
“I think this is the oldest tactic in the book, to pit minority groups against each other,” Siddarth Shankar, a junior at the university who said he identified as Asian American on his application, told the news agency.
“When I talk to my Asian American friends, this is not what we wanted,” said Alec Dai, a student whose parents are from China, reports the news agency. “It’s not like people on campus were asking for this kind of justice that doesn’t exist.”
The Times briefly notes that two applicants who were rejected from Yale and are involved in a lawsuit against Ivy League schools agree with the DOJ, but the news agency reports that they were &#8220;reluctant&#8221; to speak on-the-record for fear of being mobbed online.
The report also cites one Asian American student who believes race “should just be perhaps weighted less” in the admissions process — not discarded completely — before the report includes even more interviews with students skeptical of the DOJ charge.
“Anti-Blackness and systematic racism and oppression, especially for Black Americans, is the more pervasive and the most important thing that we need to focus on right now,” said another student, reports the Times.
The Civil Rights division of the DOJ announced the findings on Friday, noting that they were “the result of a two-year investigation” of alleged racial discrimination in the admissions process.
“There is no such thing as a nice form of race discrimination,” Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement. “Unlawfully dividing Americans into racial and ethnic blocs fosters stereotypes, bitterness, and division. It is past time for American institutions to recognize that all people should be treated with decency and respect and without unlawful regard to the color of their skin.”
The DOJ purports that white applicants have a one-fourth likelihood of admission compared to African American applicants with similar academic achievement, and the figure is even lower for Asian American applicants.
In a statement to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yale-accused-of-discrimination-asian-white-applicants-department-of-justice/">CBS News</a>, the university emphatically denied the DOJ’s allegation and said it has been cooperative in the investigation.
&#8220;Given our commitment to complying with federal law, we are dismayed that the DOJ has made its determination before allowing Yale to provide all the information the Department has requested thus far,&#8221; said Yale. &#8220;Had the Department fully received and fairly weighed this information, it would have concluded that Yale&#8217;s practices absolutely comply with decades of Supreme Court precedent.&#8221;
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NYT Report: Enrolled Yale Students Dispute Allegation That The University Racially Discriminates In Admissions Process

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Hollywood power players are getting in bed with groups eager to turn an ideologically lopsided industry into a near monolith.
A pair of veteran actors are trying to bring balance to an industry as ideologically rigid as a CNN chyron.
Nick Searcy and Antonio Sabato, Jr. are both working with new production companies to tell stories existing studios might avoid. Think faith-friendly, pro-American tales, or at the very least yarns that speak to the country’s rich past.
They face an uphill battle on a number of fronts, though each deserves credit for seeing a cultural chasm and attempting to fill it.
Meanwhile, big players in Hollywood are forming partnerships with groups that will further push left an already ideologically imbalanced industry.
The upcoming film “The Way I See It” charts the remarkable career of Chief White House photographer Pete Souza, who served that function during both the Reagan and Obama years.
Today, Souza is a fiery critic of President Donald Trump, part of the motivation behind the new documentary … from MSNBC Films.
MSNBC Films is currently working with a number of high-profile partners including Focus Features and Blumhouse Productions, measures sure to boost its industry profile.
The production shingle has been active since 2009, but to date it hasn’t released a film quite like “The Way I See It,” let alone one debuting weeks before a major national election.
That’s no accident, of course. Consider the similarly timed Showtimes series “The Comey Rule,” debuting on the pay channel over two nights starting Sept. 27. The miniseries stars Brendan Gleeson and President Trump and Jeff Daniels as the disgraced former FBI Director.
The project’s creator, Billy Ray, all but demanded Showtime drop the miniseries prior to Election Day. The channel eventually complied.
Those projects may soon be dwarfed in both size and ideology by a massive merger announced last month. Lionsgate is partnering with Oprah Winfrey, Pulitzer Prize®-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times to develop content tied to the 1619 Project.
For the uninitiated, that’s the <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/02/19/these-black-scholars-and-leaders-rebuke-1619-projects-narrative-of-victimhood/">deeply flawed</a> endeavor meant to recast the American experiment as inherently racist. Historians have teed off on its many inaccuracies, and Hannah-Jones herself has admitted the 1619 Project is more <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/1619-project-founder-claims-her-project-is-simply-an-origin-story-not-history">“origin story” than history.</a>
Oh.
The plans include feature films, TV shows and related content “for a global audience,” the press release on the deal notes. Winfrey, the billionaire who recently said America operates under a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oprah-caste-system-gives-whites-a-leg-up">caste system</a>&#8221; benefiting white Americans, is on hand to “provide stewardship and guidance.”
It’s hardly the only project tied to The New York Times. <a href="https://www.axios.com/new-york-times-tv-shows-8c7858f0-aee8-4f55-b72d-bb537e2f52a6.html">Axios reports</a> a number of new developments including a rebranded documentary series, now dubbed “The New York Times Presents” airing on both FX and Hulu.
The company’s media division debuted its premier feature documentaries at Sundance earlier this year with an expanded movie division promising more “in-house” content.
That’s in addition to 10 scripted TV shows currently in development.
It’s worth noting the Gray Lady’s content is increasingly biased, with voices drifting to the center, let alone the right, getting drummed out the newspaper. Just ask <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gadfly-bari-weiss-quits-new-york-times-savages-them-if-you-speak-your-mind-youll-be-hung-out-to-dry">former contributor Bari Weiss</a>.
Let’s not forget the Obamas’ aggressive measures on the pop culture front. The former First Couple’s Higher Ground production group just delivered “Becoming,” a mash note to Michelle Obama, and the duo are just warming up in the cultural space, what with her new Spotify podcast.
Their initial documentaries, “American Factory” and “Crip Camp” haven’t been as ideological as some might expect. They still have a better grasp of pop culture than most political couples, and have a massive war chest thanks to their Netflix deal to do as they please.
Yet none of this may truly measure up to the woke winds blowing through the industry in the wake of the George Floyd riots.
The industry remains understandably guilty for its poor representation over the years. To right that wrong, Hollywood power players are leaning in, hard, hoping to address America’s “systemic racism” in as many projects as possible.
It’s why the aforementioned projects happened in the first place. It also explains the upcoming “League of Our Own” reboot, promised to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/a-league-own-reboot-ordered-series-at-amazon-1306264">emphasize the racial and gender woes</a> of the era – 1950s America.
Over at the Mouse House, Disney <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-07-12/hollywood-decides-being-woke-is-good-for-business-for-now">inked a deal</a> with far-left activist and occasional athlete Colin Kaepernick to <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29417850/colin-kaepernick-disney-announce-partnership-deal">produce new content</a>.
The partnership will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and the quest for equity. It also will provide a platform to showcase the work of minority directors and producers.
The company also approved a “Wonder Years” reboot featuring a black family.
And, of course, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is leveraging its global brand to push <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/mark-ruffalo-kevin-feige-quit-marvel-disney-mcu-diversity-1202213127/">diversity as much as super heroics</a> moving forward.
So much of Hollywood today is either woke, progressive or a heady combination of the two. Just peek at late-night television, a nightly infomercial for the Democratic Party.
We might actually look back at 2020 as being a simpler time when some TV shows and movies hit screens without an overt agenda.
More from Christian Toto: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/toto-reporters-ignored-richard-gere-slamming-u-s-studios-for-china-appeasement">Reporters Ignored Richard Gere Slamming U.S. Studios For China Appeasement</a>
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TOTO: Think Hollywood Is Liberal Now? New Developments Will Push It Even Further Left.

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President Donald Trump blasted The New York Times on Sunday after the left-leaning newspaper claimed that the White House reached out to South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem&#8217;s office and asked about adding another president to Mount Rushmore.
&#8220;Since the first days after she was elected governor of South Dakota in 2018, Kristi Noem had been working to ensure that President Trump would come to Mount Rushmore for a fireworks-filled July 4 extravaganza,&#8221; The New York Times reported. &#8220;After all, the president had told her in the Oval Office that he aspired to have his image etched on the monument.&#8221;
&#8220;And last year, a White House aide reached out to the governor’s office with a question, according to a Republican official familiar with the conversation: What’s the process to add additional presidents to Mount Rushmore?&#8221; The New York Times claimed.
The New York Times said that in private, Noem &#8220;greeted him with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included a fifth presidential likeness: his.&#8221;
Trump responded to a re-aggregated version of the story that was published by CNN, writing, &#8220;This is Fake News by the failing [New York Times] &amp; bad ratings [CNN]. Never suggested it although, based on all of the many things accomplished during the first 3 1/2 years, perhaps more than any other Presidency, sounds like a good idea to me!&#8221;
Trump also tweeted out a photograph from his recent trip to Mount Rushmore in an apparent effort to troll the Times and CNN.
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Trump&#8217;s speech during his Fourth of July trip to Mount Rushmore was widely praised everywhere except the media, which <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-shapiro-trump-july-fourth-speech-mount-rushmore">portrayed</a> the speech as &#8220;dark and divisive.&#8221;
&#8220;Today, we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. I am here as your President to proclaim before the country and before the world: This monument will never be desecrated, these heroes will never be defaced, their legacy will never, ever be destroyed, their achievements will never be forgotten, and Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-south-dakotas-2020-mount-rushmore-fireworks-celebration-keystone-south-dakota/">said</a>.
&#8220;We gather tonight to herald the most important day in the history of nations: July 4th, 1776. At those words, every American heart should swell with pride. Every American family should cheer with delight. And every American patriot should be filled with joy, because each of you lives in the most magnificent country in the history of the world, and it will soon be greater than ever before,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity. No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America. And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation.&#8221;
&#8220;These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable march of freedom. Our Founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given [to] us by our Creator in Heaven. And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away — ever,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Seventeen seventy-six represented the culmination of thousands of years of western civilization and the triumph not only of spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason.&#8221;
&#8220;And yet, as we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.&#8221;
&#8220;Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing. They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive. But no, the American people are strong and proud, and they will not allow our country, and all of its values, history, and culture, to be taken from them.&#8221;
&#8220;One of their political weapons is &#8216;Cancel Culture&#8217; — driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America. This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped, and it will be stopped very quickly. We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation’s children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life.&#8221;
&#8220;In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It’s not going to happen to us,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress.&#8221;
&#8220;To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.&#8221;
&#8220;Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;The radical view of American history is a web of lies — all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.&#8221;
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Trump Trolls NYT After They Claim White House Asked About Adding Another President To Mount Rushmore

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President Donald Trump blasted The New York Times on Sunday after the left-leaning newspaper claimed that the White House reached out to South Dakota

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On Saturday, The New York Times attempted to correct the mistake made by its op-ed writer Maureen Dowd by writing that if former Vice President Joe Biden selected a woman as his running mate it would be the first Democratic male/female presidential ticket since Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, ignoring Hillary Clinton’s presidential run in 2016.
The Times started by tweeting, “It’s hard to fathom, but it has been 36 years since a man chose to put a woman on the Democratic ticket with him, writes @Maureen Dowd. To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite expression, ‘Gimme a break.’”
The Times followed by admitting, “Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly said it had been 36 years since a man and a woman ran on a Democratic Party ticket. It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket. We’ve deleted a tweet that repeated the error.”
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Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly said it had been 36 years since a man and a woman ran on a Democratic Party ticket. It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket. We’ve deleted a tweet that repeated the error.
&mdash; New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1292118400588808192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It was noted that the initial “correction” of the Times still didn’t get the story right:
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Your earlier version didn’t say “Democratic Party,” it asserted a lack of women on ANY party ticket. Even your correction are full of historical revisionism.
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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), whose June op-ed in the Times calling for federal intervention in the riots around the nation triggered a maelstrom in which the Times editorial page editor resigned and the Times even issued an apology for printing the op-ed, reacted with a pointed notice on Twitter, writing, “It seems like a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet the New York Times&#8217;s standards.”
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It seems like a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet the New York Times&#39;s standards. <a href="https://t.co/h4JMlUgh3y">pic.twitter.com/h4JMlUgh3y</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1292192701954379779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cotton was mocking the Times&#8217; note appended to his op-ed after the column elicited blowback. The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">wrote</a>, “After publication, this essay met strong criticism from many readers (and many Times colleagues), prompting editors to review the piece and the editing process. Based on that review, we have concluded that the essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published.”
In that same note, the Times tried to explain their decision by stating, “For example, the published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of ‘cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa’; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned. Editors should have sought further corroboration of those assertions, or removed them from the piece.”
But in a piece published on Friday, titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/defund-police-seattle-protests.html">Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure</a>,” the Times actually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-ripped-cottons-op-ed-for-claiming-antifa-was-present-in-protests-the-times-just-admitted-he-was-right">acknowledged</a> that Antifa was indeed present in the city of Portland. The relevant paragraphs read like this:
<blockquote>Many of the business owners on Capitol Hill agreed: Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa, which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement. “The idea of taking up the Black movement and turning it into a white occupation, it’s white privilege in its finest definition,” Mr. Khan said. “And that’s what they did.”
Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, is <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-antifa-trump.html">a radical, leaderless leftist political movement</a> that uses <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/154110/antifa-arming-trump-crackdown">armed, violent protest</a> as a method to create what supporters say is a more just and equitable country. They have <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/">a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest</a>, including the current protests in Portland.</blockquote>
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NY Times Attempts To Correct Their Own Op-Ed. Tom Cotton Gets Even, Mocks Their ‘Rushed Editorial Process’

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On Saturday, The New York Times attempted to correct the mistake made by its op-ed writer Maureen Dowd by writing that if former Vice President Joe Biden

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In early June, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">now-famous op-ed</a> in The New York Times that called for “an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain, and ultimately deter lawbreakers.”
Cotton noted:
<blockquote>The pace of looting and disorder may fluctuate from night to night, but it’s past time to support local law enforcement with federal authority. Some governors have mobilized the National Guard, yet others refuse, and in some cases the rioters still outnumber the police and Guard combined. In these circumstances, the Insurrection Act authorizes the president to employ the military “or any other means” in “cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws.”</blockquote>
Cotton added, “But the rioting has nothing to do with George Floyd, whose bereaved relatives have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/01/us/ap-us-america-protests-george-floyds-brother.html">condemned</a> violence. On the contrary, nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barrs-statement-riots-and-domestic-terrorism">antifa</a> infiltrating protest marches to exploit Floyd’s death for their own anarchic purposes.”
After leftists erupted in fury that Cotton actually suggested that federal law enforcement should intervene in the chaos and violence plaguing cities like Seattle and Portland, the Times hastily added a long note apologizing, within which they claimed that “the essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published,” adding, “For example, the published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of ‘cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa’; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned. Editors should have sought further corroboration of those assertions, or removed them from the piece.”
How times change: in a piece published on Friday, titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/defund-police-seattle-protests.html">Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure</a>,” the Times actually acknowledged that Antifa was indeed present in the city of Portland. The relevant paragraphs read like this:
<blockquote>Many of the business owners on Capitol Hill agreed: Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa, which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement. “The idea of taking up the Black movement and turning it into a white occupation, it’s white privilege in its finest definition,” Mr. Khan said. “And that’s what they did.”
Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, is <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-antifa-trump.html">a radical, leaderless leftist political movement</a> that uses <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/154110/antifa-arming-trump-crackdown">armed, violent protest</a> as a method to create what supporters say is a more just and equitable country. They have <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/">a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest</a>, including the current protests in Portland.</blockquote>
The brouhaha that ensued from Cotton&#8217;s article precipitated the resignation of editorial page editor James Bennet. The Times&#8217; reaction to Cotton&#8217;s op-ed prompted Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to tweet an obituary for the paper, writing, &#8220;The NYT literally fired their editorial page editor because he dared publish an op-ed that Leftists disagreed with.&#8221;
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The NYT literally fired their editorial page editor because he dared publish an op-ed that Leftists disagreed with. 
The totalitarian Left will brook no dissent. To hell with Free Speech—we are Pravda. 
New York Times: founded as an actual newspaper 9/18/1851.
Died: 6/7/2020. <a href="https://t.co/YIzBihdhtO">https://t.co/YIzBihdhtO</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1269857708863299584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NYT Ripped Cotton’s Op-Ed For Claiming Antifa Was Present In Protests. The Times Just Admitted He Was Right.

In early June, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) published a now-famous op-ed in The New York Times that called for “an overwhelming show of force to disperse,

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Former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss says America&#8217;s &#8220;paper of record&#8221; is making editorial decisions that alienate “half of the country” because it fears being canceled by an irate mob.
Weiss, who resigned in July after former Editorial Page editor James Bennet was fired amid criticism for running an op-ed by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), said Twitter has become the paper’s “ultimate editor.”
“My boss got fired for running an op-ed by a sitting U.S. senator,” said Weiss, appearing Friday on Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time.&#8221; “Now, you might say that Tom Cotton is detestable, that you disagree with him, but I don’t want to live in a world where the views of half of the country can’t be heard in the paper of record. And that’s, I fear, where we’re headed.&#8221;
“In order to do our job well, writers and editors, we need to have a level of bravery and thick skin and fearlessness,” she said. “And when you are living in fear of an online mob, you know, all it takes is a dozen people to repeat a lie about you — that you’re a racist, that you’re a transphobe, that you’re a bigot — for that lie to become true and that’s extremely dangerous.”
Weiss said on the HBO show that the purpose of her resignation letter was to air objections to the “growing culture of illiberalism” at the paper.
“Thomas and I, and you, Bill, we’re used to criticism,” she said. “Criticism is kosher in the work that we do. Criticism’s great. What cancel culture is about is not criticism. It is about punishment. It is about making a person radioactive. It is about taking away their job. It’s not just about punishing the sinner, it’s not just about punishing the person for being insufficiently pure.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s about a sort of secondary boycott of people who would deign to speak to that person or appear on a platform with that person,&#8221; Weiss said. “Politics has come to be people’s almost religious identity. That’s an enormous problem because what it’s meant is the collapse of moderates. It’s meant the collapse of the center and the retribalization of this country.”
In her open letter addressed to New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger in July, Weiss said the paper was condoning of “constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views” and an environment where she said, “self-censorship has become the norm.”
Weiss said she had taken endless abuse for her views, writing, “ … some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly ‘inclusive’ one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still, other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.”
To the publisher, she said:  “I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the public. And I certainly can’t square how you and other Times leaders have stood by while simultaneously praising me in private for my courage. Showing up for work as a centrist at an American newspaper should not require bravery.”
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Former New York Times Writer Says Paper ‘Living In Fear Of Online Mob’

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In 2008, The Associated Press called the presidential election shortly after 11 p.m. on Election Day  — Democrat Barack Obama had won enough Electoral College votes to move into the White House. In 2012, the AP called the election at 11:38 p.m. — Obama beat Mitt Romney by 3% of the vote but easily defeated him in the Electoral College, 332-206.
But things have been different for Republicans in recent elections. In 2000, due to some &#8220;hanging chads,&#8221; the result of the presidential election was not determined until Dec. 12. Four years later, in 2004, President George W. Bush wasn&#8217;t deemed the winner until the morning after Election Day.  And in 2016, CNN didn’t call Trump’s victory until 2:29 a.m. despite his sound electoral defeat of Hillary Clinton.
While computers now rule supreme, some are saying that the results of the 2020 election might not be known for weeks  — with one New York Times columnist <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/business/media/election-coverage.html">saying</a> the outcome could be up in the air until Thanksgiving.
&#8220;Picture this Thanksgiving: turkey, football (maybe), tenser-than-usual interactions with relatives. And perhaps a new tradition: finding out who actually won the presidential election,&#8221; Ben Smith <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/business/media/election-coverage.html">wrote</a>.
<blockquote>The coronavirus crisis means that states like Pennsylvania may be counting mail-in ballots for weeks, while President Trump tweets false allegations about fraud. And the last barriers between American democracy and a deep political crisis may be television news and some version of that maddening needle on The New York Times website.</blockquote>
Election analysts, TV hosts, network chiefs, and executives of social media platforms display &#8220;blithe confidence&#8221; that they&#8217;ll handle the election just fine, but Smith writes there&#8217;s &#8220;near panic among some of the people paying the closest attention.&#8221;
&#8220;The nerds are freaking out,&#8221; Brandon Finnigan, the founder of Decision Desk HQ, told Smith. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s penetrated enough in the average viewer&#8217;s mind that there&#8217;s not going to be an election night. The usual razzmatazz of a panel sitting around discussing election results — that&#8217;s dead.&#8221;
Smith notes that in the 2018 midterms, only 60% of the votes were cast in-person Election Day and we saw a bunch of &#8220;coverage misfires&#8221; as a result, with news commentators lamenting on Election Night the failure of the much-hyped &#8220;blue wave,&#8221; the full arrival of which was effectively delayed weeks.  This year, we should see an even lower percentage of in-person votes, likely delaying things even longer.
Smith urges media companies to start preparing Americans to be patient but said no one right now appears to know what&#8217;s coming.
&#8220;Nobody I talked to had any real idea how cable talkers or Twitter take-mongers would fill hours, days, and, possibly, weeks of counting or how to apply a sober, careful lens to the wild allegations — rigged voting machines, mysterious buses of outsiders turning up at poll sites — that surface every election night, only to dissolve in the light of day,&#8221; Smith wrote.
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