White people “can’t originally invent anything more than they were able to invent good music,” Joy Reid claimed last week in a podcast interview with New York Times contributing writer Wajahat Ali, who echoed Reid&#8217;s sentiments.
The host of The Joy Reid Show made the comments during an episode of Ali’s Left Hook <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbVyNEN_C8">podcast</a> titled &#8220;How Mediocre White Men and their Fragility are Destroying America.”
“We black folk gave y’all country music, hip hop, R&amp;B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn&#8217;t even invent that,” Reid said.
Reid notably did not attribute all music genres to black people. She also did not touch on inventions beyond the realm of music, besides vaguely mentioning “food” and “the economy.”
“We make the food better. We make the economy better. We make the music better,” Ali added.
“Even Elon Musk didn&#8217;t invent them damn Teslas. Two other men invented it. He just bought it,” Reid continued.
Tesla’s two co-founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, are both <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/06/tesla-founders-martin-eberhard-marc-tarpenning-on-elon-musk.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white</a>.
Reid’s comments come as President Donald Trump, now the board chair of The Kennedy Center, recently <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kennedy-center-announce-honorees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would be hosting the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors.
Trump helped pick this year’s honorees, including George Strait, Michael Crawford, Gloria Gaynor, KISS, and Sylvester Stallone. He says he rejected a lot of artists because “They were too <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/trump-2025-kennedy-center-20815951.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">woke</a>. I had a couple of wokesters.”
Liberals — Reid included — are upset that Trump is “taking over” The Kennedy Center and the awards ceremony.
“These people cannot create culture on their own. So they need to take over, dominate, appropriate, and control. Without black people, brown people, the DEIs, there’s no culture in America,” Ali insisted to Reid.
According to Ali, Sylvester Stallone receiving a Kennedy Center honor is emblematic of white male fragility.
“Sylvester Stallone became famous because Rocky is all about a white man, a mediocre white man who has no chance in hell of ever ever ever ever ever beating Apollo Creed,” Ali concluded.
Rocky Balboa beats Apollo Creed at the end of “Rocky II.”

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After New York Times chief White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst Peter Baker ripped President Trump for his efforts to clean up crime in Washington, D.C., Grabien founder Tom Elliott spearheaded an effort to raise funds challenging Baker to walk the streets of D.C. at night — unarmed.
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On Monday, Baker posted the following statements on X: “Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation’s capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene &#8212; Mike Pence did &#8212; and later pardoned the perpetrators. Trump himself has been convicted of 34 felonies and is the first criminal elected president.”
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Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation&#8217;s capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. <a href="https://twitter.com/katierogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katierogers</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/campbellnyt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@campbellnyt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCameronNYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCameronNYT</a> <a href="https://t.co/w101allO91">https://t.co/w101allO91</a>
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1954996356357165396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene &#8212; Mike Pence did &#8212; and later pardoned the perpetrators.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1954999790317490454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump himself has been convicted of 34 felonies and is the first criminal elected president.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1955001788035191019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Elliott fired back on X, “I’ll personally pledge $300 for Peter to livestream himself walking the following route, unarmed, after 9 PM on any weekend night.”
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I&#8217;ll personally pledge $300 for Peter to livestream himself walking the following route, unarmed, after 9 PM on any weekend night <a href="https://t.co/vVNA9vK9MA">https://t.co/vVNA9vK9MA</a> <a href="https://t.co/Cdy8q3bgGk">pic.twitter.com/Cdy8q3bgGk</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1955360724194300061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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An hour later, he updated the challenge, noting, “Hi @peterbakernyt , we’re already up to more than a thousand dollars to a charity of your choice!”
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@peterbakernyt</a>, we’re already up to more than a thousand dollars to a charity of your choice! <a href="https://t.co/lzx8wzo7rW">https://t.co/lzx8wzo7rW</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1955364594706169989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Elliott created a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-dc-challenge-walking-america-safest-city-at-night">GoFundMe</a> page for the effort, writing:
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We’re inviting New York Times reporter Peter Baker — who assures us the streets are safer than Disneyland — to take a scenic, unarmed stroll through the nation’s capital after 9 PM on a weekend night. The route? A lovingly curated “Trail of Fun” (see map) weaving through some of DC’s most “charming” neighborhoods. No security detail. No pepper spray. Just pure, unfiltered utopia.
But wait, there&#8217;s more! I’ll double my pledge if Peter sends his wife in his place. Because what better way to showcase safety than letting your loved ones experience it first-hand?
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Elliott added more incentives:
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I’ve personally pledged $300 to kick things off, and many others have already offered to join in. The more we raise, the more irresistible this opportunity becomes:
$500 — Peter gets a GoPro for crystal-clear night footage.
$1,000 — Matching “D.C.: Safest Streets in America” T-shirts for him and his cameraman.
$2,500 — We’ll buy him some gold chains so he walks in style
$5,000+ — The walk expands to two nights: one weekend night and one weeknight (for “scientific comparison”).
Every single dollar will be donated to the charity of Peter’s choice — so not only will this prove the streets are perfectly safe, it will also support a good cause. If Peter declines, we’ll select another high-profile believer in the “no crime crisis” narrative to take his place.
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Utah GOP senator Mike Lee chimed in:
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I triple-dog dare you to take on this challenge <a href="https://t.co/BEcdbibrkf">https://t.co/BEcdbibrkf</a>
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1955391514185699691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A picture is worth a thousand words — or in this case, a thousand lies. Or, in this case, a thousand reasons to fuel the BDS campaign in the United States: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.
As a professional photographer, I know that the person behind the lens doesn’t just capture the story, they control it. Every crop is a decision. Every object in the frame is a deliberate layer. Every angle sends a message. What you choose to show and what you intentionally leave out matters. Photography can illuminate truth. But it can just as easily be weaponized to obscure it.
That’s exactly what’s happening in Gaza.
A recent exposé by <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863454#google_vignette">German outlet</a> BILD revealed that Gaza-based photographer Anas Zayed Fatiyeh has been staging scenes of suffering — intentionally using women and children — to manufacture strong emotions and propaganda on behalf of Hamas. These aren’t candid moments of human agony; they are carefully choreographed images designed to deceive.
One of Fatiyeh’s photos recently went viral after being amplified by The New York Times and millions of influencers. It showed a severely malnourished Gazan child wearing a trash bag, with headlines claiming Israel was “starving” civilians. The image is heartbreaking, and the suffering is real — but the story was false. The child had severe congenital conditions, including cerebral palsy. A healthy child who appears to be a sibling, not in a trash bag but in normal clothing, standing right beside them, was deliberately cropped out of the frame.
<div id="attachment_959399" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-959399" class="size-large wp-image-959399" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2225506182-864x576.jpg" alt="GAZA CITY, GAZA - JULY 21: Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a 1.5-year-old child in Gaza City, Gaza, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade, on July 21, 2025. Having dropped from 9 to 6 kilograms, he struggles to survive in a tent in Gaza City, where milk, food, and other basic necessities are lacking. Suzan Marouf, a clinical nutrition specialist at Patient Friend’s Hospital, confirmed that Mohammad’s condition worsened due to severe malnutrition caused by the ongoing Israeli siege. When his family brought him to the hospital a month ago, doctors diagnosed him with moderate malnutrition in addition to pre-existing congenital health issues, including brain complications and muscle atrophy. Marouf said they had been trying to stabilize Mohammad’s condition using the last remaining nutritional supplements. &quot;The medical issues he had weren’t significantly affecting his weight,&quot; she noted. (Photo by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2225506182-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2225506182-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2225506182-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2225506182.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu via Getty Images</div>
This wasn’t journalism. It was another example of deliberately distorting reality to cast Israel as the perpetrator and Hamas as the victim. It is visual DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
And it didn’t happen in a vacuum. This isn’t organic outrage, it’s narrative warfare and has been going on for decades, executed in stages, and the formula works: 
First, Hamas-approved photographers stage the shot. Then, mainstream outlets from The New York Times to the BBC buy and publish the images from the Hamas-approved photographer, giving them global legitimacy. BDS accounts flood social media with them, stripped of context but supercharged with moral outrage. By the time real developments emerge — like hostage videos showing real famine, or footage of Evyatar David, intentionally starved (a war crime) and forced to dig his own grave — the emotional groundwork is already in place. The narrative then takes root, outrage explodes, and blame shifts automatically to Israel. The cherry on top? Destabilization in the West.
That’s exactly what happened here. The manufactured image became the emotional climax of a months-long BDS campaign blitz accusing Israel of engineering famine while conveniently omitting a critical fact: it was the United Nations, not Israel, that paused aid deliveries, leaving nearly 1,000 humanitarian trucks stalled inside Gaza.
What didn’t go viral? Over 100 million meals have been delivered into Gaza in the last two months alone — facilitated by Israel and the U.S. through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. That’s not the behavior of a genocidal regime. That’s a sovereign nation defending itself under relentless rocket fire, still upholding humanitarian obligations in the middle of war.
<div id="attachment_959405" style="width: 881px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-959405" class="size-large wp-image-959405" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2226561585-871x576.jpg" alt="A C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft drops humanitarian aid on the northern Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Two Jordanian and one Emirati plane drop 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid over the Gaza Strip, Jordanian state television reports on July 27, 2025. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)" width="871" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2226561585-871x576.jpg 871w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2226561585-300x198.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2226561585-768x508.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2226561585.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px" />Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images</div>
Hamas understands something many in the West still don’t: visual storytelling wields more power than words. In a media landscape where lies spread six times faster than truth, where content goes viral without verification, and where movements are built on emotion instead of evidence, a single image — especially of a child in pain or, worse, a child’s death — can shape global perception before truth even enters the conversation. Even when the image is staged, or the child is tragically yet intentionally sacrificed by Hamas, the emotional impact overwhelms reality. And once the narrative takes hold, the truth rarely catches up.
This visual manipulation metastasizes. In the United States, Hamas’s propaganda becomes the lifeblood and oxygen of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. While Hamas wages physical war, BDS attacks the American mind.
You’ve likely seen BDS content without realizing it: polished Instagram carousels calling for “genocide” strikes, petitions demanding economic boycotts, and blacklists of “Zionist businesses.” But make no mistake, this is not a grassroots cry for peace. BDS was conceived under the Iranian regime, shaped by Soviet propaganda, and codified at the 2001 Durban Conference — a supposed anti-racism summit that devolved into open antisemitism, casting Israel as the world’s pariah. Officially launched in 2005, BDS has since infiltrated nearly every legacy institution in the West and thrives on the most powerful algorithms and most naive influencers online.
BDS is a sophisticated, well-funded Trojan horse cloaked in Western progressive language: feminism, decolonization, intersectionality, liberation theology. These ideals have been hijacked and funneled into unlikely arenas. <a href="https://coachingindustryglobalstrike.com">Wellness coaches</a> are calling for BDS strikes. Interior design accounts are boycotting Jewish businesses. Predatory marketing influencers like Jenna Kutcher are raising money for <a href="https://ngo-monitor.org/ngos/palestine_children_s_relief_fund_ohio_/">NGOs</a> that historically have documented ties to Hamas. The publishing industry is boycotting <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9u0y4uJsSG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">Jewish authors</a>. And even ex-country music singer turned social justice crusader <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a2tolfsarb64bn18gm25c/Maren-Morris-BDS-Rosenheck-Op-ed.jpg?rlkey=o7c7kz48huni79qvjz0p1psm7&amp;dl=0">Maren Morris</a> is resharing BDS propaganda on her Instagram stories. Many of these voices have unknowingly become messengers for Hamas.
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I’ve seen their playbooks firsthand. Last year, I was part of the effort to stop a BDS resolution in Nashville and sifted through hundreds of BDS Google Drive toolkits used to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x8ggtgx3tzafjvozy650g/STOP-GAZA-GENOCIDE_-Ceasefire-Now-Public-Toolkit-copy.docx?rlkey=gg6u3uoy93b0l5ipfkw9yvr9u&amp;dl=0">orchestrate pressure campaigns.</a> These documents detail everything from how to birddog politicians, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15XripiWh5HoaNwLkPz05xrF2OJ-Yd6NVt3THLrNxLsE/edit?usp=sharing">chant slogans in English and Arabic,</a> manipulate marginalized groups, and weaponize emotional language to win public opinion — along with legal contacts for when the chaos inevitably leads to arrests.
The manipulation works. We’ve created a culture where a staged photo can do more to radicalize a high school student at a private school that costs $30k/year than any speech from a terrorist leader. And the consequences are measurable: Antisemitism isn’t just rising, it&#8217;s raging. The Anti-Defamation League reports 46% of the global population harbors antisemitic beliefs. That means nearly every other person you pass on the street or follow online holds some form of hatred toward Jews or Israel.
Let’s stop pretending this is accidental. It is deliberate. It is dangerous. And it is working.
I believe in the power of photography. I’ve dedicated my life to it. When done with integrity, photography is one of the most powerful tools we have to build bridges, evoke empathy, and humanize differences. But when photography is used as a weapon of propaganda, it becomes a tool of destruction, of truth, of peace, and of human dignity.
This is a wake-up call — not just for journalists, producers, and editors, but for every one of us who consumes media. We must ask: Who is behind this image? What’s their agenda? What’s being shown and what’s being deliberately left out? Does this content amount to material support for a foreign terrorist organization — a felony under U.S. law? Where is the line, and who is drawing it?
If we don’t start applying discernment, we become complicit in a system designed to manipulate us. We become pawns in a game played by those who seek not peace, but power.
You can either be used by Hamas propaganda, or you can reject it. You can either fall for the illusion or you can insist on the truth, no matter how complex or uncomfortable.
Photography shapes memory. It shapes morality. And right now, it&#8217;s being used to distort both.
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Alyssa Rosenheck is a bestselling author and named by Architectural Digest as one of the top photographers in the U.S. Through her forthcoming book White. Blonde. Jew. (Spring 2026) and firsthand experience on post-war delegations to Israel, she confronts modern antisemitism while inspiring truth-tellers and cultural clarity.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Let’s take a moment to examine how despicable the legacy media is.
Let’s contrast an actual heroic human being, the kind we need more of in America, the kind the media hates, with a person who&#8217;s awful, a person the media continue to tout.
First, the hero. His name is Edward Coristine and he was ripped up and down by the media when he first came onto the public scene. Why? Because he was working for Elon Musk&#8217;s Department of Governmental Efficiency and he was known as “Big Balls.’
According to the Left-wing media, the idea that you would have a young man who calls himself with this moniker, looking over the American budgetary system and saying, “This doesn&#8217;t belong and this does belong,” was the end of the world.
That was terrible. That was awful. We couldn&#8217;t have somebody like that working in our system.
But it turns out that Edward Coristine isn&#8217;t just a young genius who is capable of looking at budgetary numbers and figuring out where the waste, fraud, and abuse are. It turns out he is an amazing dude.
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/trump-administration-staffer-known-as-big-balls-assaulted-in-dc-00494990">Politico</a>:
<blockquote>A 19-year-old man known as “Big Balls” who played a key role in the DOGE initiative to shrink the size of government was assaulted over the weekend in Washington, according to city police. Edward Coristine, who still works for the government, was assaulted by approximately 10 juveniles near Dupont Circle about 3 a.m. Sunday, according to a police report obtained by POLITICO. Police arrested two 15-year olds as they attempted to flee the scene. 
A black iPhone 16 valued at $1,000 was also reported stolen during the incident, according to the report. President Donald Trump posted a photo on his social media platform showing a shirtless Coristine with what appeared to be blood spattered on his face, body and pants. He called for a change in the law so that the juveniles who attacked him could be charged as adults.</blockquote>
Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114977985620971126">wrote</a>: 
<blockquote>Crime in Washington, D.C., is totally out of control. Local “youths” and gang members, some only 14, 15, and 16-years-old, are randomly attacking, mugging, maiming, and shooting innocent Citizens, at the same time knowing that they will be almost immediately released. They are not afraid of Law Enforcement because they know nothing ever happens to them, but it’s going to happen now! The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these “minors” as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14. The most recent victim was beaten mercilessly by local thugs.  
Washington, D.C., must be safe, clean, and beautiful for all Americans and, importantly, for the World to see. If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore. Perhaps it should have been done a long time ago, then this incredible young man, and so many others, would not have had to go through the horrors of Violent Crime. If this continues, I am going to exert my powers, and FEDERALIZE this City. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!</blockquote>
What exactly happened here?
Apparently, Coristine said that the assailants approached him outside his vehicle while he was with a woman identified in the report as his significant other. He told police officers he got the other person into the vehicle just before he was attacked.
This young man made sure that the woman was not attacked. Elon Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1952836498971344926">wrote</a> on X, “A few days ago, a gang of about a dozen young men tried to assault a woman in her car at night in DC. A @Doge team member saw what was happening, ran to defend her and was severely beaten to the point of concussion, but he saved her. It is time to federalize DC.”
Remember, the media thought that this kid, this young man, was bad. He was bad because he was very online and he was young and he was smart, and he wanted to go through the governmental records. This was the kind of person we needed fewer of in America. According to our legacy media, “Big Balls” was the problem with America.
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Meanwhile, the media was championing another young man, claiming that he is the kind of person America needs.
That would be Mahmoud Khalil.
Mahmoud Khalil, of course, was the import from abroad; an activist who hates America, who hates the West, who hates Israel, who is not only complicit in anti-Semitism, but is an anti-Semitic provocateur. He was imported to Columbia University to essentially act as an activist against the West, against America, against Israel and against Jews.
When the Trump administration looked at his participation in the violent student protests at Columbia, they decided to deport him. But a court stopped that deportation, and the entire Left rallied to his cause. He was a victim; America needed more Mahmoud Khalils.
Mahmoud Khalil is now out there on the talk circuit, and he sat with Ezra Klein over at the New York Times, where he promptly explained to Ezra Klein that essentially, October 7 was justified, that Israel had it coming, that there was no actual anti-Semitism at Columbia University or anything of the like.
According to the Left, this is the person, this Mahmoud Khalil, whom we need more of, and fewer of the “Big Balls” type of young men. We need more imports from third-world countries who hate America and hate Jews and make our country worse.
If you actually watch the entire interview with Ezra Klein, some of the things that Khalil said were astonishingly pro-terrorism.
At one point, he said, “Having lived in the Middle East most of my life” — he lived in Syria — “The only Jew you hear about is someone who&#8217;s trying to kill you. For those in Gaza and the West Bank, that&#8217;s the only Jewish person they encounter, the one at checkpoints, the one raiding their homes.”
Khalil didn&#8217;t grow up around Jews. He grew up in Syria. And yet he is openly stating that he grew up hating Jews.
And so he came to the United States. He found a bunch of Left-wing Jews like Jewish Voice for Peace — which is not Jewish or a voice for peace — and according to him, that&#8217;s what real Judaism is, which is an absurdity.
Khalil told Klein there was no anti-Semitism at Columbia. He said, “It&#8217;s not like anti-Semitism is happening at Columbia because of the Palestine movement,” which is, of course, a lie. And then he said, “From the river to the sea, from the Palestinian perspective, no one ever said it&#8217;s a violent call.” And then, of course, he defended “globalize the intifada.” He said October 7 was not an aggressive attack. He said it was just to break the cycle, that Palestinians were not being heard.
This Left-wing martyr is a pro-terror show. That&#8217;s always what he was.
But the Left insists that he be allowed into the country, and that not only that, we need more of these people in our country.
The contrast between the media vilification of this young white man who was working for the federal government to cut waste, fraud and abuse, the kind of person who will rush to a woman&#8217;s side to save her from being assaulted by thugs, and the absolutely kid-glove glowing treatment given to Mahmoud Khalil by Ezra Klein and the rest of the legacy media is astonishing and disgusting.
It speaks to not only what the media are, but what the Left has become. I will say it over and over and over again. The Left-wing is Zohran Mamdani. The Left-wing is not some moderate senator from Minnesota like Amy Klobuchar, who&#8217;s bad enough. It&#8217;s all Mamdani, period. It’s people like Khalil, who champions terrorism. That’s what the Left thinks is right for America.
But a genius kid who saves a woman from thugs and has a nickname they hate? He’s not right for America.
Their agenda could not be any more obvious. Or vicious.

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Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the third-highest ranking GOP senator who serves as the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, delivered a blistering speech in which he denounced critics of Israel around the world and in the U.S. Senate, who he said side with Hamas and propagandize to help the terrorist organization.
&#8220;Hamas is on the verge of defeat so it’s cranked up the propaganda machine once again,&#8221; he began. &#8220;Now Hamas wants the world to believe that Israel has undertaken a campaign of deliberate starvation of the Gazan population, and as usual, Hamas can count on an international media and political chorus to fight their battles for them and try to bully Israel in submission.&#8221;
&#8220;Israel has helped bring into Gaza approximately 96,000 trucks containing nearly one and a half million tons of food, 46,000 tons of medical supplies, 60,000 tons of water and around 170,000 tons of shelter equipment,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;Put simply: Children aren’t going hungry because of lack of supplies from Israel; they’re suffering because Hamas uses food and humanitarian aid as a weapon to stay in power.&#8221;
Slamming members of the Senate who have used photos of Gazan children to buttress their attacks on Israel, Cotton asserted, &#8220;&#8216;Gullible&#8217; might be a charitable way to describe their motives, much like The New York Times buying hook, line, and sinker, the images of Gazan children afflicted with terrible diseases, but passed off as malnourished.&#8221; He then displayed photos of the massive amount of pallets of food simply waiting to be distributed to the people of Gaza, noting they are &#8220;are sitting and baking in the hot sun instead of feeding hungry kids. While the situation is shocking, it’s not all surprising; after all, Hamas’ infiltration of UN aid mechanisms is well-documented. Time and again, we have seen Hamas terrorists divert shipments to themselves or loot delivery trucks, only to resell the supplies on the black market at outrageous prices. Last year, this terrorist-infiltrated aid system managed by the UN and others allowed Hamas to rake in more than half a billion dollars in profit, profits that fund Hamas’ campaign of terror against Israel and its own people.&#8221;
&#8220;How critical is this systematic theft to Hamas’ grip on power?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Well, one of Hamas’s chief demands in recent cease-fire negotiations has been the dismantling of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a new charity created specifically to end Hamas’s stranglehold on aid and supplies. The foundation has even offered to distribute UN aid for free, despite the risk to its own people. And much of this aid, which is sitting in the sun and partly taxpayer-funded, is already inside Gaza; it simply needs to be picked up and distributed. But the offer has fallen on deaf ears because Hamas uses humanitarian aid as a tool to fund, facilitate and fight its war against innocent children, against Israel, against the civilized world. And Hamas’s cheerleaders, apologists, and dupes in Europe and America, and sadly, here in the U.S. Senate, once again, turn a blind eye to Hamas’ crimes, blaming instead Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. They demand that Israel agree to a cease-fire that preserves and rewards Hamas, while also delivering even more humanitarian aid to Gaza for Hamas to steal and exploit. They expect Israel to feed the very people who attacked, raped, and murdered innocent Israeli men, women, and children on October 7. And I would remind everyone, not a few American victims as well.&#8221;
Turning to history, Cotton — who deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq and served in combat units including the 506th Infantry Regiment and the 101st Airborne — commented, &#8220;Once again, Israel is facing demands placed on no other nation in the world. I don’t recall from my history lessons, for instance, the United States providing humanitarian aid in Germany and Japan in World War II. On the contrary, the Allies imposed naval blockades that led to widespread shortages in those enemy nations. When in the annals of history has the victim of an unprovoked war of aggression ever been held responsible for the nutrition of the aggressor? Put simply, Israel doesn’t have any responsibility to send a single loaf of bread to Gaza. I wonder why so many senators, pundits, podcasters and European politicians impose this unique standard on the Jewish nation?&#8221;
&#8220;Why could it be?&#8221; he asked bluntly.
&#8220;But despite all that, despite the brutal slaughter of nearly 1200 Israelis on October 7, despite Hamas’ continued repression of its own people, Israel is still delivering aid to Gaza while Hamas rips it from the hands of hungry children,&#8221; he pointed out. &#8220;Once again we see very simply and very clearly in this war who is on the side of justice and who is on the side of evil. And I would ask anyone who places these singular demands on Israel: Whose side do you want to be on? And if you truly care about the children in Gaza, as I do, as Israelis do, as any decent person surely does, I would encourage you to support President Trump’s statement of moral clarity and strength from earlier this morning: &#8216;The fastest way to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages.'&#8221;
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I&#39;d like to set the record straight.
Children in Gaza aren&#39;t going hungry because of Israel. They&#39;re suffering because Hamas uses food and aid as a weapon to stay in power. <a href="https://t.co/a2dGKThz0u">pic.twitter.com/a2dGKThz0u</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1951083222516797451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, after it was reported that the Gaza child who was featured in numerous publications as a poster child for malnutrition in Gaza actually suffered from other severe health problems, a fact that the legacy media — including The New York Times— did not see fit to report, The New York Times suddenly issued an editor’s note apprising their audience of the fact.
Media outlets employed the photo of an emaciated 20-month-old Gaza child to substantiate claims that Israel is intentionally starving residents of the Hamas-controlled zone. But the legacy media never reported that the child suffers from numerous medical problems — nor that his three-year-old brother looks healthy with no signs of malnutrition, <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/">according</a> to an investigation.
“Within hours, almost every major outlet was using the image to tell the same story,” investigative reporter David Collier <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/">noted</a>. “<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-faces-mass-starvation-with-supplies-totally-depleted-aid-agencies-warn-13400462">Sky News</a>, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2025/07/world/photos-starvation-in-gaza-intl-cnnphotos/">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/starvation-in-gaza-is-destroying-communities-and-will-leave-generational-scars">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14939703/Reduced-skin-bones-Gaza-famine-hell-Horrifying-picture-shows-starving-child-plastic-bag-nappy-lying-exhausted-arms-desperate-mother.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/gaza-starvation.html">New York Times</a>, and The <a href="https://archive.ph/kfN5n">Times (UK)</a> – they all ran with it, reinforcing the message: Gaza is gripped by mass starvation.”
“Except this image proves none of it,” he said. “Wider and unpublished pictures show Mohammed’s healthy brother Joud, who was born on 18 April 2022 and is 3 years old. Mohammed was born on 23 December 2023, just two months after October 7. What we can see from the pictures is that both Mohammed’s mother and his older brother, look healthy and are not suffering from any type of starvation that would be necessary to cause the thinness suffered by Mohammed.”
“This is visible in multiple images we have in our possession,” Collier continued. “The published images in all the various news broadcasts and publications have either been deliberately cropped to remove the image of the healthy brother, blurred him into obscurity, or the journalists have only chosen to use photos in which the brother is not visible at all.”
“We have appended an Editors&#8217; Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition,” the Times said in its statement. “After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems.”
“Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war,” the Times insisted.
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We have appended an Editors&#39; Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below. <a href="https://t.co/KGxP3b3Q2B">pic.twitter.com/KGxP3b3Q2B</a>
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Social media buried the Times:
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Jewish Insider Editor-in-Chief Josh Kraushaar snapped.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. <a href="https://t.co/NUsrbix5d3">https://t.co/NUsrbix5d3</a>
&mdash; Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1950321101395153342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Way too late. This correction will get 1/1000th the reach. The story was a blood libel against Jews everywhere. You should have a long hard look in the mirror and reassess what’s going on at your paper,” physicist Shaun Maguire fired at the Times.
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Way too late. This correction will get 1/1000th the reach
The story was a blood libel against Jews everywhere
You should have a long hard look in the mirror and reassess what’s going on at your paper
&mdash; Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1950315654252548297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“You know damn well how insufficient this correction is,” Jews Fight Back wrote on X.
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You know damn well how insufficient this correction is.
&mdash; Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) <a href="https://twitter.com/JewsFightBack/status/1950328571941310789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Post this on your main account with the 55 million followers where the original libelous article appeared. This account has a mere 88k followers,” attorney Andrew Laufer stated.
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Post this on your main account with the 55 million followers where the original libelous article appeared. This account has a mere 88k followers.
&mdash; Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/lauferlaw/status/1950329815543992819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Reminds me of that time that you buried the Holocaust in the back pages,” attorney Marina Medvin declared.
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Reminds me of that time that you buried the Holocaust in the back pages.
&mdash; Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1950330544052720093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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There’s an amazing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html">story</a> out of The New York Times, where the headline absolutely does not match the content of the story (as per usual arrangement).
The headline stated, “Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen.”
Cool. So everything was fine; Biden said that he was going to give clemency or pardons to people. And then he simply said to his people, “Use the auto pen to sign it. I&#8217;m busy today.”
But that is not what the story actually says. It says something quite different.
According to The New York Times:
<blockquote>The full picture of what Mr. Biden did on pardon and clemency decisions, and how much he directed those decisions and the actions of his staff, including the use of the autopen, may come down to tens of thousands of Biden White House emails that the National Archives has turned over as part of the investigation by the Trump White House and the Justice Department. Those emails contain keywords like “clemency,” “pardon” and “commutation” from November 2024 through Jan. 20, 2025, according to people familiar with the matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.
The Times has reviewed several dozen of those emails, which discussed each of the major grants of clemency that were recorded by an autopen near the end of Mr. Biden’s term. But The Times has not seen the full extent of the emails, so it is impossible to capture the totality of information they contain or what else they might show about Mr. Biden’s involvement in the pardon and clemency decisions.
But those that were reviewed by The Times show that the Biden White House had a process to establish that Mr. Biden had orally made decisions in meetings before the staff secretary, Stefanie Feldman, who managed use of the autopen, would have clemency records put through the signing device. </blockquote>
The real story was buried in Paragraph 16 and what followed:
<blockquote>At the end of his term, Mr. Biden reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned politically prominent people he considered potential targets of Mr. Trump for criminal investigations.
Mr. Biden said in Thursday’s interview that he had his staff use an autopen for the warrants because he had granted clemency to so many people; the autopen was used, in all, on 25 pardon and clemency warrants from last December to January. Some of the individual warrants included large batches of names because they all fell into the same broad policy category, like reducing the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders who met standards Mr. Biden established.
On Oct. 30, 2024, the emails reviewed by The Times show, Mr. Biden’s White House counsel, Ed Siskel, notified senior staff to expect a flood of lobbying for clemency grants at the administration’s end and laid out a process for an orderly review.
The final step, he wrote: “The president makes the final decision on the final pardon and/or commutation slate.”
Over the next three months, Mr. Biden made four major sets of clemency actions that were recorded with an autopen. &#8230; Mr. Biden did not individually approve each name for the categorical pardons that applied to large numbers of people, he and aides confirmed.
Rather, after extensive discussion of different possible criteria, he signed off on the standards he wanted to be used to determine which convicts would qualify for a reduction in sentence. Even after Mr. Biden made that decision, one former aide said, the Bureau of Prisons kept providing additional information about specific inmates, resulting in small changes to the list. Rather than ask Mr. Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version through the autopen, which they saw as a routine procedure, the aide said.</blockquote>
What’s amazing is that his aide admitted the quiet part out loud; Biden said, “Here&#8217;s a broad category of people such as nonviolent drug offenders. Go do something about it.” His people scurried around and came up with a list, which kept changing. Instead of informing the President of the United States who was on the list and what their specific crimes were, they just ran it through the auto pen based on a giant category.
That&#8217;s crazy. When you give commutations of sentences, they are for individuals. If you want to pardon everybody in a broad clemency category, as, for example, Jimmy Carter did with draft dodgers, then you have to do that as a broad category. Everybody who dodged the Vietnam War draft was pardoned, or their sentences would be commuted.
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But that&#8217;s not what Biden did. He didn&#8217;t pardon every single nonviolent drug offender; he pardoned specific drug offenders.
For several years, we did not have a President of the United States; someone else was governing the country, either Dr. Jill Biden, the greatest doctor in all the land, or Hunter Biden, the coke fiend who committed a felony gun crime, or Biden’s advisers like Jake Sullivan.
The fact that this has somehow slipped down the list to somewhere around number ten on the list of scandals that Americans care about is crazy. This should be not only the number one scandal in the country right now, it should be one of the top scandals of all time.
This is far worse than Watergate, which revolved around whether the president had authorized a break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters, an action that came in the aftermath of similar activity LBJ committed in his election against Barry Goldwater.
In this case, you&#8217;re talking about whether the President of the United States’ health condition was covered up by everyone around him, everyone in his cabinet, everybody in the media, who all knew about it.
And we should not allow it to be buried by the media henchmen for the Democratic Party.

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New <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">reporting</a> reveals an extraordinary isolation campaign by former President Joe Biden&#8217;s closest aides at the end of his term, with staffers screaming at reporters, changing his phone number, and blocking access from panicked Democrats trying to tell him the truth about his failing campaign.
The revelation appears in the recently published <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/754957/2024-by-josh-dawsey-tyler-pager-isaac-arnsdorf/">book</a> by a trio of legacy media reporters, titled &#8220;2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,&#8221; written by Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey, New York Times White House correspondent Tyler Pager, and Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf.
Pager, conducting research for the book, managed to obtain Biden’s cellphone number in March 2025. The former president quickly agreed to an interview despite his aides repeatedly turning down similar requests from Page for several months.
Asked if he regretted dropping out of the presidential race, Biden said in a dispassionate tone, “No, not now. I don’t spend a lot of time on regrets.” He then ended the conversation to board an Amtrak train, Pager <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">recalled</a> for the Times.
Pager’s brief discussion with Biden reportedly sparked panic among the former president’s top aides. “After the first call,” the authors <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bidens-team-scolded-reporters-changed-his-number-after-they-called-personal-cellphone-report/">report</a> in the book, “furious Biden aides repeatedly called and texted [Pager].”
“One screamed at me for calling the former president directly. Others texted furiously, trying to figure out how I had obtained Mr. Biden’s phone number,” Pager said.
Although Biden himself initially seemed open to continuing to talk to Pager, the reporter’s calls began to go straight to voicemail.
Within days, Pager’s calls were greeted with a message from Verizon: “The number you dialed has been changed, disconnected, or is no longer in service.”
The Times reporter writes that this incident is reflective of the insularity of Team Biden throughout his doomed presidential campaign.
Pager reports that instead of confronting Biden with the harsh reality after his disastrous debate performance, his inner circle restricted access to him, making it difficult for even longtime allies, such as Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, to connect with the president.
On his way to a fundraiser after the debate, Biden asked his traveling aides aboard Air Force One what people were saying about his performance.
Rather than providing an accurate assessment, they offered what witnesses described as a &#8220;sanitized version&#8221; of the situation.
According to Pager, Biden’s aides never even allowed him to meet with campaign pollsters, instead presenting Biden with overly optimistic outlooks that alarmed campaign staff.
Following the debate, campaign pollsters presented their findings to Biden&#8217;s advisers, and their conclusion was damning: all polling indicated that Biden had no path to victory, and voters were not convinced that he was up for the job.
This assessment enraged Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the former president and chairman of Biden&#8217;s 2020 presidential campaign, who reportedly preferred a sanitized version of events.
“Two days after the presentation, Geoff Garin, one of the pollsters, checked in with Mr. Ricchetti. Mr. Ricchetti lit into him and said the presentation was out of line,” Pager reported. “It was not their job to tell them there was no path to victory. The pollsters, Mr. Ricchetti said, were supposed to provide the path to win.”
Rep. Pete Aguilar, a top House Democrat from California, confronted Ricchetti in a heated call, asking, &#8220;Do you realize how bad it is? Has anyone told the president how bad it is?&#8221;
When Ricchetti insisted that many members of Congress still supported the president, Aguilar pushed back: &#8220;Steve, has anyone walked into the Oval and told him we could lose everything?&#8221; Ricchetti admitted no one had.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/biden-aides-election-age.html">The Times</a>, the situation was so dire that reliable Democratic strongholds, including Virginia, Minnesota, and New Mexico, suddenly became competitive – a devastating development that Biden&#8217;s inner circle concealed from him.
When former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) met privately with Biden at the White House during this crisis period, she grew frustrated by his insistence that polling showed no real change since the debate.
At one point, Biden called his longtime adviser, Mike Donilon, to refute Pelosi&#8217;s claim that polls showed he would lose to Trump. Donilon got on the line and reportedly contradicted Pelosi&#8217;s assessment.
Campaign adviser Adrienne Elrod was so concerned that Biden wasn&#8217;t getting an accurate assessment that she contacted &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, knowing the president watched their show on MSNBC every morning.
Days before Biden dropped out, Scarborough aired these concerns, saying, &#8220;The anger I hear are the people who are keeping him in a bubble.&#8221;
Even when confronted directly by donors at a Hamptons fundraiser who challenged him on his debate performance, Biden dismissed concerns as &#8220;one bad night&#8221; and vowed to stay in the race. His closest aides brushed off the concerns as typical donor anxiety.
The controversy over Biden&#8217;s isolation mirrors similar concerns that arose during his presidency, when critics frequently questioned whether his staff was shielding him from unscripted interactions with the press and public.
Throughout his term, the White House faced persistent accusations that Biden&#8217;s handlers were deliberately limiting his exposure to mask cognitive decline – allegations his team consistently dismissed as partisan attacks despite mounting video evidence of verbal stumbles and confusion during public appearances.

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The New York Times, a former newspaper, recently ran a story with this headline: “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back.” The sub-headline was: “So many men have retreated from intimacy, hiding behind firewalls, filters and curated personas, dabbling and scrolling. We miss you.”
Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh, Klavan, you smoking hot hunk of hilarity, a joke is a joke, but do you really expect us to believe that that was a headline in the same former newspaper that has spent the last forty years denigrating men and marriage and promoting a sexual culture of such degrading perversion that it could only be intended to cause even a fully operational male to recoil horrified from sexual communion as if he were Ben Affleck in the moment he suddenly realized he had left the really nice Jennifer for the Jennifer with the admittedly spectacular body but with the kind of personality that could make even a fully operational male recoil horrified from sexual communion as if he’d spent the last forty years reading the New York Times?&#8221; And okay, sure, even I’ve forgotten where that sentence began, but the point is, no, I’m not making this up.
This article wondering why men had retreated from intimacy into a world of solitary stimulation utterly devoid of emotional content was written by Rachel Drucker, a woman who spent part of her career working for Playboy and its affiliated hard core porn outlets, enticing men to retreat from intimacy into a world of solitary stimulation utterly devoid of emotional content. She writes (and this is a real quote, I’m still not even making stuff up yet): “I remember when part of heterosexual male culture involved showing up with a woman to signal something — status, success, desirability. Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men. That dynamic has quietly collapsed.”
So — baffled by this mystery — the New York Times did what they usually do in such circumstances: they sent their reporters to find out what men think, by interviewing women.
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For instance, they spoke with Karen Screamy-Hate-Face, President of the Society for Harridans who are Intolerably Loud, or S-H-R-I-L. Ms. Screamy-Hate-Face said, “I can’t for the life of me figure out why I can’t get a date with one of these toxic snakes. I’ve got the pink hat, all the right tattoos and plenty of insight on how to make men be better than they are. What do those bastards want from me? Tenderness?”
The Times also interviewed the holder of the Guinness Book World Record for highest body count, Karen Spikenose, who told them, “Frankly, I think most men are just too sexually insecure. They’re always afraid I’m going to compare them to all the men I slept with yesterday. But really, I’m the sort of girl who usually takes each man separately. It’s more time-consuming, but I feel it makes for a more intimate seven minutes.”
And they interviewed divorce attorney Karen Crotchfangs, who told us, “I just think men don’t know what they really want. They say they want a feminine girl like me who gets all made up for a date and wears pretty dresses and lets them pay for dinner, but then the minute they see my penis they run for the hills. Sometimes without even finishing their drink.”
In the end, however, despite its considerable reportorial power, the New York Times somehow could not solve the mystery of why men no longer feel that women add value to their lives.
Now, part of our job here at the Daily Wire is to bring you the kind of material that outlets like the New York Times simply can’t provide. Like journalism. So we immediately sent our reporters out into the field, and when they didn’t come back from the field but simply went prancing off across the grass picking flowers and weaving garlands of daisies for one another’s heads, we sent out some more reporters to interview a prominent man on why he had retreated from intimacy. Unfortunately, the man just kept sobbing violently and crying out, “What was I thinking? I could have had the nice Jennifer!”
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This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) tried to trash First Lady Melania Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Einstein visa&#8221; — without realizing the New York Times disproved her argument seven years ago.
Melania received an EB-1 visa, or &#8220;Einstein visa,&#8221; in 2001, when she was a model. The visa is meant for immigrants &#8220;with extraordinary ability.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re supposed to have some sort of significant achievement, like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist or having sustained other extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, art, education, business, or athletics,&#8221; Crockett said. &#8220;Last time I checked, the first lady had none of those accolades under her belt.&#8221;
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t take an Einstein to see that the math ain&#8217;t mathing here,&#8221; Crockett added.
Crockett accused Republicans of hypocrisy, as the federal government is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-state-dept-measures-unveiled-how-foreign-students-will-be-screened-for-u-s-entry">reevaluating</a> visa programs.
&#8220;Since we&#8217;re talking about integrity, I&#8217;m confused as to why my Republican colleagues aren&#8217;t talking about the lack of integrity when it comes to the president&#8217;s family&#8217;s visas,&#8221; Crockett said.
But Crockett ignored a New York Times article debunking doubts about Melania justifying the visa.
&#8220;Petitioners for the EB-1, which was created as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, face a two-part test,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/us/melania-trump-einstein-visa.html">Times</a> wrote in 2018. &#8220;The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services first must determine whether a candidate has presented evidence to satisfy three out of 10 <a class="css-yywogo" title="" href="https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">criteria</a>, such as publishing material in professional publications or other major media, appearing in artistic exhibitions or commanding a high salary.&#8221;
Melania — who had featured in British GQ and Sports Illustrated, among other magazines — satisfied that requirement.
&#8220;Once those are met, the decision comes down to a vague and undefined &#8216;final merits determination&#8217; by the immigration agency,&#8221; the Times continued.
Although they admitted the approval process is inconsistent, the Times&#8217; sources agreed Melania deserved the visa.
&#8220;The notion that you somehow have to be a genius or Einstein is utter fiction,&#8221; Chris Wright, a lawyer based in Los Angeles, told the Times. &#8220;We have succeeded with models no more accomplished than Melania Trump.&#8221;
Even Albert Einstein might have been declined a visa. In one experiment, immigration lawyers examined some of Einstein&#8217;s early work — without knowing it was his — and concluded &#8220;it would be very challenging&#8221; for him to get an EB-1, the Times reported.
Still, the seven-year-old fact check did not stop Crockett from using Melania to criticize Republicans.
&#8220;Nevertheless, what Republicans are doing with this reconciliation process, the travel bans and revoking visas, jeopardizes our national security,&#8221; Crockett said.

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The New York Times is under fire for what many are calling a bizarre hit piece on Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
The piece, by reporter Caroline Kitchener, calls Duffy the “MTV Reality Star in Trump’s Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids.” Duffy appeared on “The Real World: Boston” in 1997, and “Road Rules: Allstars” the following year, where he met his future wife, Rachel Campos.
Duffy and Campos wed in 1999 and went on to have nine children. Duffy’s political career began in 2002, when he was named District Attorney of Ashland County, Wisconsin. He served in the House of Representatives from 2011-2019. During his first campaign, he told Politico that his time as a reality TV star was “a lifetime ago,” calling it “Six months, 15 years ago.”
Still, to Kitchener, Duffy is still the “sex-hungry 25-year-old on MTV’s “The Real World,” now using his family for clout, and letting his personal convictions about family influence his policy.
Kitchener, who chronicles family issues in the “Trump era” for the Times, is a former abortion reporter for the Washington Post and received the Pulitzer Prize in 2023 for work on the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
She <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/us/politics/sean-duffy-reality-television.html">claims</a> the Duffys “positioned themselves as the poster family for the administration’s agenda to raise the birthrate and promote a conservative view of traditional family values.”
Her greatest accusation is that Duffy’s “policies and perspectives are shaped by the conviction that women should be having more children.”
“Early in his tenure at the Transportation Department, Mr. Duffy signed a controversial memo pledging to prioritize transportation funding for regions with higher birthrates and marriage rates — an approach that Democratic senators have called &#8216;deeply frightening&#8217; and &#8216;disturbingly dystopian.&#8217;”
Duffy dismissed Kitchener’s characterization, saying, “With all the serious issues facing our country, the New York Times decided to dispatch a former abortion correspondent (cosplaying now as a “family” expert) for a hit piece on me and the Trump administration.”
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With all the serious issues facing our country, the New York Times decided to dispatch a former abortion correspondent (cosplaying now as a “family” expert) for a hit piece on me and the Trump administration.
NYT reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/CAKitchener?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@CAKitchener</a> is genuinely disturbed that I’m happily… <a href="https://t.co/wrNTMFoK42" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/wrNTMFoK42</a>
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecDuffy/status/1937124269374292211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Kitchener “ is genuinely disturbed that I’m happily married, have nine kids, and—brace yourself—didn’t abort any of them,” Duffy added.
“Among the hard-hitting questions she harassed my team with: did I consider aborting one of my daughters, what color plaid my siblings and I wore as children, whether I drive a minivan, and bizarre fact-checks on an old reality show. Pulitzer stuff, truly.”
“I’m laser focused on making transportation great again,” Duffy added. “While they obsess over my beautiful family, I’m working for yours.”
Others were quick to criticize Kitchener and her piece.
“The former abortion reporter for the Washington Post is VERY mad that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a big family,&#8221; Federalist CEO Sean Davis wrote on X. &#8220;Apparently she sent a deranged list of questions to the family demanding to know why they didn’t abort their oldest daughter. What a psycho!”
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The former abortion reporter for the Washington Post is VERY mad that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a big family. Apparently she sent a deranged list of questions to the family demanding to know why they didn’t abort their oldest daughter. What a psycho! <a href="https://t.co/LfrTL9x0Vo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/LfrTL9x0Vo</a>
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1937140020030116227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
“Nothing demonstrates the plight of unhappy liberal women quite like this article trying to scandalize Sean Duffy for… *checks notes* settling down and having a big family,&#8221; White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson said.
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Nothing demonstrates the plight of unhappy liberal women quite like this article trying to scandalize Sean Duffy for… *checks notes* settling down and having a big family <a href="https://t.co/ag7q7sbJAZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/ag7q7sbJAZ</a>
— Abigail Jackson (@ATJackson47) <a href="https://twitter.com/ATJackson47/status/1937144235368874407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Duffy’s daughter, Evita Alonso-Duffy, said &#8220;it’s clear&#8221; that Kitchener &#8220;hates family, given how much the size of ours disturbs her.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth is simple,&#8221; Alonso-Duffy added. &#8220;We’re not a prop, a brand, or some act. We’re a real, loving, faithful, joyful family — and<a href="https://x.com/CAKitchener" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> @CAKitchener</a> is bitter and a creep.”
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The NYT just published a hit piece on my family, accusing my dad of using us as political props for his career. The writer, Caroline Kitchener, is an abortion reporter who now claims to be a “family” journalist. But it’s clear she hates family, given how much the size of ours… <a href="https://t.co/AkiicQXodp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/AkiicQXodp</a>
— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) <a href="https://twitter.com/evitaduffy_1/status/1937119749269311827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Lila Rose, a prominent pro-life advocate, said, “The Duffys represent everything the pro-abort side despises: faith, marriage, &amp; openness to life. The NYT is attacking them not because they’re wrong, but because they’re winning.”
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The Duffys represent everything the pro-abort side despises: faith, marriage, &amp; openness to life
Married 26 years, <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanDuffyWI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@SeanDuffyWI</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RCamposDuffy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@RCamposDuffy</a> are raising nine beautiful children with love &amp; joy
The NYT is attacking them not because they’re wrong, but because they’re winning <a href="https://t.co/l4I6ZexMoh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/l4I6ZexMoh</a>
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) <a href="https://twitter.com/LilaGraceRose/status/1937184162219467052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A news reporter at Los Angeles&#8217; ABC News affiliate, speaking over video footage of riots where leftists were burning cars to protest Trump administration immigration policies, described the situation to viewers as “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.”
The ABC 7 reporter made the comments while declaring, “It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement in there and turn what is just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.”
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Meanwhile, on Monday, after a weekend of rioting, the usual suspects in the media either offered their support for illegal immigrants or attacked the Trump administration for getting involved in the incendiary situation. The Los Angeles Times published an article titled, “<a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-08/rights-explainer-immigration-crackdown">Feds vow to continue immigration enforcement ‘every day in L.A.’ Here are your rights</a>.”
“Businesses should ensure that employees know their rights and that they should refrain from engaging with ICE officials, according to the National Employment Law Project,” the Times wrote.
“Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Confrontation in California Over Immigration,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/politics/trump-california-immigration.html">blared</a> in response to the riots, adding, “The situation has all the elements that the president seeks: a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his agenda.”
&#8220;In bypassing the authority of Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat, to call in the National Guard to quell protests in the Los Angeles area over his administration’s efforts to deport more migrants, Mr. Trump is now pushing the boundaries of presidential authority and stoking criticism that he is inflaming the situation for political gain,” the Times continued.
“The easiest way to understand this is not that Los Angeles has suddenly turned into a metropolis riddled with criminal immigrants who are holding it hostage,” the Washington Post echoed. “The easiest way to understand this is that the president and his administration have been looking to California as they have been looking to crush any center of power that he views as adversarial. &#8230; the administration by all appearances seeks to make an example of California and of any leaders who oppose its efforts.”

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