<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-sold-us-a-bill-of-goods-megyn-kelly-says-transgender-movement-has-gone-too-far" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> was one of many on social media who blasted Newsweek for labeling critics of their article — about <a href="https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1668542573223264257?s=20">Johns Hopkins University</a> referencing women as &#8220;non-men&#8221; — as &#8220;right wing,&#8221; &#8220;anti-gay,&#8221; and more.
The host of Sirius XM&#8217;s &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; podcast tweeted on Tuesday to her millions of followers, &#8220;This is next level. <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/johns-hopkins-accused-trying-erase-women-its-lesbian-term-1806134">Newsweek</a> forced to update its article referring to women as &#8216;non-men.&#8217; Making misogyny great again [tomwritesnow]!&#8221;
Her post included a retweet from Jennifer Gingrich-who describes herself as a &#8220;radical feminist&#8221; and &#8220;lifelong leftie.&#8221; In it, Gingrich slams their <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230612231102/https://www.newsweek.com/johns-hopkins-accused-trying-erase-women-its-lesbian-term-1806134">headline</a> &#8220;Johns Hopkins Accused of Trying to &#8216;Erase&#8217; Women With Its Lesbian Term.&#8221; In the piece, Newsweek talked about the university&#8217;s definition for &#8220;lesbian&#8221; in its glossary of LGBTQ+ terms calling women &#8220;non-men.&#8221;
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This is next level. Newsweek forced to update its article referring to women as “non-men.” Making misogyny great again <a href="https://twitter.com/TomWritesNow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tomwritesnow</a>! <a href="https://t.co/g8xlI3ro0Q">https://t.co/g8xlI3ro0Q</a>
&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1668623060835127301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Look at this appalling misogyny in [Newsweek] from [TomWritesNow], telling women who object to Johns Hopkins calling us non-men that we&#8217;re just &#8216;right wing&#8217; bigots engaging in a backlash against &#8216;LGBTQ rights.&#8217; I&#8217;m left-wing, Tom, and this is repugnant,&#8221; Gingrich tweeted.
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Look at this appalling misogyny in <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsweek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Newsweek</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/TomWritesNow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TomWritesNow</a>, telling women who object to Johns Hopkins calling us non-men that we&#39;re just &quot;right wing&quot; bigots engaging in a backlash against &quot;LGBTQ rights&quot;.
I&#39;m left-wing, Tom, and this is repugnant. <a href="https://t.co/cRy1G1LPos">https://t.co/cRy1G1LPos</a>
&mdash; ♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ (@fem_mb) <a href="https://twitter.com/fem_mb/status/1668443913835757568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gingrich followed up her post, &#8220;Seriously, [TomWritesNow], your [Newsweek] article is one of the most misogynistic pieces of crap I&#8217;ve ever read. How dare you dismiss women who object to being demeaned with the term non-men as &#8216;far right&#8217; &amp; accuse us of being anti-gay while smugly flaunting your own lesbophobia?&#8221;
A short time later, Jennifer tweeted Newsweek saw the criticism and revised the piece. A disclaimer at the bottom of the Newsweek piece read, &#8220;This article and its headline have been updated for context and clarity.&#8221;
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1/2 Newsweek must have heard the outrage over Thomas Kika&#39;s misogynistic article, as they&#39;ve heavily updated it.
It now refers to those who object to Johns Hopkins calling women non-men as &quot;social media users&quot; instead of &quot;a small subset of right-wing&#8230;<a href="https://t.co/cRy1G1LPos">https://t.co/cRy1G1LPos</a>
&mdash; ♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ (@fem_mb) <a href="https://twitter.com/fem_mb/status/1668596678977282053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;1/2 Newsweek must have heard the outrage over Thomas Kika&#8217;s misogynistic article, as they&#8217;ve heavily updated it,&#8221; Gingrich tweeted. &#8220;It now refers to those who object to Johns Hopkins calling women non-men as &#8216;social media users&#8217; instead of &#8216;a small subset of &#8216;right-wing&#8217; &#8216;conservatives&#8217; &amp; they added &#8216;gay rights activist.'&#8221;
The university&#8217;s move also sparked a backlash from people like famed author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jk-rowling-blasts-trans-activists-after-death-threat-this-movement-poses-no-risk-to-women-whatsoever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.K. Rowling</a>  &#8212; who has been the target of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-deletes-trans-activist-video-with-j-k-rowling-death-threat-after-initially-saying-it-didnt-violate-safety-policies">transgender activists</a> because of her numerous comments in defense of biological women.
She tweeted in response slamming the university, &#8220;Man: no definition needed.&#8221;
&#8220;Non-man (formerly known as woman): a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a vacuum where there&#8217;s no man-ness,&#8221; she added.
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Man: no definition needed. Non-man (formerly known as woman): a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a vacuum where there&#39;s no man-ness. <a href="https://t.co/cpSaSR2Vfg">pic.twitter.com/cpSaSR2Vfg</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1668589229046112258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Others blasted John Hopkins for &#8220;destroying&#8221; and trying to &#8220;erase&#8221; women.
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One of the most prestigious universities in the US <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnsHopkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnsHopkins</a> is actively destroying the category of women &#8211; adult human females. We are now to be referred to as “Non-men”. I don’t think even <a href="https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MargaretAtwood</a> could have imagined this. <a href="https://t.co/A2rPHANqQB">pic.twitter.com/A2rPHANqQB</a>
&mdash; Sonia Gallego🪬 (@SoniaRGallego) <a href="https://twitter.com/SoniaRGallego/status/1668236564080590848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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How is this thing real?! <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnsHopkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnsHopkins</a> is a joke. They were a joke during Covid and they&#39;re a laughing stock now. <a href="https://t.co/V71gDjUDxg">pic.twitter.com/V71gDjUDxg</a>
&mdash; Justin Hart (@justin_hart) <a href="https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1668658945978929152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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What is this absolute nonsense <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnsHopkins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnsHopkins</a>?
“Non-men”? 
We are women. 
Stop erasing us. <a href="https://t.co/u54XrktOS3">pic.twitter.com/u54XrktOS3</a>
&mdash; Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RantyAmyCurtis/status/1668329815517306880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Megyn Kelly, Others Blasts Newsweek For Slamming Critics Of Article Referencing Women As ‘Non-Men’

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American news magazine Newsweek retracted a headline Tuesday that incorrectly claimed author and Daily Wire host Candace Owens said transgender surgery turned the Nashville shooter into a monster.
As the nation mourned the murder of three children and three adults at the hands of a 28-year-old mass shooter inside the Covenant School, a Presbyterian preschool through 6th-grade institution in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, the news outlet published an article early Tuesday morning smearing Owens in the headline.
Newsweek originally published the headline: &#8220;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/candace-owens-nashville-transgender-shooter-school-trans-1790789">Candace Owens Says Transgender Surgery Made Nashville Shooter Into Monster</a>.&#8221; By Tuesday afternoon, Newsweek issued a retraction, admitting the inaccuracy of the headline.
&#8220;Great news! @Newsweek has issued a retraction and changed the hideous lie of a headline which was written by one of their many lying LGBTQ activists, @shannonjpower,&#8221; Owens said in a tweet. &#8220;I will not tolerate blatant smears against me meant to inspire violence against my family. &#8221;
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Great news! <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsweek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Newsweek</a> has issued a retraction and changed the hideous lie of a headline which was written by one of their many lying LGBTQ activists, <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonjpower?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shannonjpower</a>. 
I will not tolerate blatant smears against me meant to inspire violence against my family. <a href="https://t.co/elU9HEMEiZ">pic.twitter.com/elU9HEMEiZ</a>
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1640816742703194113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Newsweek crafted the false headline based on a quote tweet Owens posted that showed transgender activists assaulting right-wing YouTube personality Alex Stein at a rally, which made no mention of the Nashville shooter in the tweet.
&#8220;When you play Frankenstein with people&#8217;s body&#8217;s parts, you can&#8217;t be surprised when they behave like monsters,&#8221; Owens said in the quote tweet from filmmaker Mike Cernovich. &#8220;A person willing to execute violence upon his/her own body will not hesitate to impart violence onto someone else&#8217;s.&#8221;
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When you play Frankenstein with people’s body’s parts, you can’t be surprised when they behave like monsters. 
A person willing to execute violence upon his/her own body will not hesitate to impart violence onto someone else’s. <a href="https://t.co/e1kMt73XCu">https://t.co/e1kMt73XCu</a>
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1640534738447343616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Owens later called out pop culture and entertainment reporter Shannon Power, warning her to look out for her lawyer&#8217;s cease and desist letter regarding the &#8220;FLAGRANT LIE of a headline.&#8221;
&#8220;You wrote this headline intentionally to send an army of trans people to send death threats to me— which they are doing,&#8221; Owens said. &#8220;An impossible conclusion for me to have made because NO ONE KNOWS IF THE SHOOTER HAD SURGERY. You are a lying piece of filth.&#8221;
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Hey Shannon! Be sure to look out for the cease and desist letter from my lawyer regarding this FLAGRANT LIE of a headline of something that I NEVER ONCE asáis about the Nashville shooter, ever. <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsweek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Newsweek</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/shannonjpower?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shannonjpower</a> —lying psychopath. <a href="https://t.co/zD1zJg5YAC">pic.twitter.com/zD1zJg5YAC</a>
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1640776495009259520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The shooter, whom the Daily Wire will not name per company policy, was a white 28-year-old Nashville woman who recently identified as a man. Just before 10:30 a.m. on Monday, the shooter entered the school &#8220;armed with two assault-type rifles and a handgun,&#8221; police said until law enforcement fatally shot her.
Police identified the six victims, including three 9-year-old children and three adults 60 years old and above. According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, the victims are &#8220;Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9, Cynthia Peak, age 61, Katherine Koonce, age 60, and Mike Hill, age 61.&#8221; Koonce was the head of the Covenant School.
Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the shooting was a &#8220;targeted attack,&#8221; later revealing authorities found maps of the school drawn in detail, including points of entry, and a &#8220;manifesto&#8221; indicating the shooter planned on attacking multiple locations. The police chief said authorities have a theory on the shooter&#8217;s motive but have not disclosed further information.
It remains unconfirmed if the shooter had undergone transgender surgery or had started using testosterone.
Owens later tweeted that the public deserves to know if the shooter had started taking such drugs to transition from female to male, accusing the pharmaceutical industry of contributing to gun violence.
&#8220;No one talks about big pharma&#8217;s contribution to shootings,&#8221; Owens <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1640772404501676033">said</a>. &#8220;Virtually all of these psychopaths are on anti-depressants, hormones (trans), anti-psychotics, etc. Hold Pharma execs responsible for their human experiments.&#8221;
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The unethical move from Newsweek comes weeks after left-wing publications, including Rolling Stone, Yahoo News, Huffington Post, and The Daily Beast, falsely framed Daily Wire host Michael Knowles&#8217; statement at the Conservative Political Action Conference in which he called for an end to transgenderism ideology.
Knowles told a crowd at the conservative event that men cannot become women, and women cannot become men, adding that society must help gender dysphoric people, not encourage them to seek sex changes.
However, the mentioned news outlets caused listening comprehension-challenged leftists to interpret Knowles&#8217; words as a call for &#8216;genocide&#8217; to eradicate transgender people, not an ideology.
The Daily Beast edited its original headline, which stated Knowles called for the &#8220;transgender community&#8221; to be eradicated to reflect that the podcast host called for eradicating &#8220;transgenderism,&#8221; not people who believe they are transgender.
Rolling Stone made a similar update.
Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

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Newsweek Retracts ‘Hideous Lie Of A Headline’ Claiming Candace Owens Said Transgender Surgery Turned Nashville Shooter Into Monster

Newsweek Retracts 'Hideous Lie Of Headline' Claiming Candace Owens Said Transgender Surgery Turned Nashville Shooter Into Monster

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Could the experts be starting to admit, three years later, that they were wrong about COVID?
At least one medical researcher is calling on the scientific community to admit mistakes were made.
&#8220;I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives,&#8221; wrote Kevin Bass, an MD/PhD student, in a recent <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/its-time-scientific-community-admit-we-were-wrong-about-coivd-it-cost-lives-opinion-1776630">op-ed</a> for Newsweek.
Whoops.
For years and with almost one voice, the scientific elites seemingly doubled down on the necessity of broad vaccine mandates and prolonged lockdowns, even as Americans suffered.
Medical professionals who <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55141055">questioned</a> <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/05/scho-j05.html">the narrative</a> or <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/">offered</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601011428579717121">opinions</a> not accepted by the mainstream were mocked and censored on social media platforms.
Americans were required to abide by COVID restrictions even when they seemed to defy common sense, <a href="https://www.bmhsc.org/blog/mask-etiquette-when-dining-out">such as</a> wearing a face mask when standing in a restaurant but not when sitting down.
Bass said he &#8220;staunchly supported&#8221; public health authorities when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and booster shots. He believed at the time that they were responding with &#8220;compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise.&#8221;
Now the scales have fallen from his eyes, he said.
Public health authorities &#8220;overstated the evidence and misled the public&#8221; on a litany of issues, including natural COVID immunity vs. vaccine immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially for young people, Bass wrote.
The U.S. government, namely the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as the World Health Organization (WHO), are all at fault, he said.
Bass also pointed out that pandemic policies like lockdowns were promoted by elites in academia, government, medicine, journalism, tech, and public health and forced on the working class, &#8220;whose daily lives routinely demand that they reckon with risk.&#8221;
Not only were the experts wrong, but their mistakes cost lives, Bass concluded.
&#8220;If our public health officials had led with less hubris, the course of the pandemic in the United States might have had a very different outcome, with far fewer lost lives,&#8221; he wrote.
Beyond the loss of life potentially caused by the half-baked policies foisted on the public, Americans suffered physically, emotionally, and financially.
Elderly Americans <a href="https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2022/03/07/covid-patients-icu-dying-alone-helen-t-dcouto">died alone</a> in the hospital. Their families were <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-rites-insight/there-are-no-funerals-death-in-quarantine-leaves-nowhere-to-grieve-idUSKBN2161ZM">denied</a> a funeral. Children <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/us/politics/student-suicides-nevada-coronavirus.html">committed</a> suicide. Many of the ones who didn&#8217;t suffered, cooped up at home and stuck behind a computer screen, watching their <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/briefing/pandemic-learning-loss.html">grades sink</a> while schools stayed closed longer than restaurants. Families <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/us/phoenix-arizona-aguirre-family-covid-deaths/index.html">lost</a> their businesses. <a href="https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/jobtracker/#tool-3-tracking">Millions</a> lost their jobs.
Then many Americans were forced to get the COVID vaccine <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251914/health-care-workers-denied-religious-exemption-to-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-settlement">despite</a> religious and health objections. Stories of &#8220;vaccine injuries&#8221; including <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1786/rr-0">nerve damage</a> proliferated online. Some young people, who are least at risk of developing serious COVID symptoms, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html">developed</a> myocarditis or inflammation of the heart after the vaccine.
Bass describes himself as a &#8220;centrist&#8221; with &#8220;non-partisan takes on health, longevity, nutrition&#8221; who welcomes &#8220;constructive criticism.&#8221;
He is not the first <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-need-to-admit-what-they-got-wrong-about-covid/">to admit</a> that medical experts oversold their confidence in how COVID works and what the response should be. Even CNN&#8217;s Dr. Leana Wen <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1473045198980665344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1473045198980665344%7Ctwgr%5Edb858c6fabbade8faa619e3a7a9b9eff05053fb7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-13444116233539229772.ampproject.net%2F2301181928000%2Fframe.html">said</a> at the end of 2021 that &#8220;cloth masks are little more than facial decorations.&#8221;
However, so far it has been crickets from most of the scientific community on whether they got anything wrong over the last three years.

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When President Joe Biden recently sat down for an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11225877/Biden-Classified-documents-Mar-Lago-raise-concerns.html">interview</a> with &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; host Scott Pelley went there.
&#8220;Some people ask whether you are fit for the job, and when you hear that, I wonder what you think,&#8221; Pelley said.
&#8220;Watch me,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Honest to God, that&#8217;s all I think.&#8221;
&#8220;If you think I don&#8217;t have the energy level or the mental acuity, then you know, that&#8217;s one thing,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s another thing, you know, just watch and, you know, keep my schedule. Do what I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;
&#8220;I respect the fact that people would say, you know, &#8216;You&#8217;re old.&#8217; But I think it relates to how much energy you have and whether or not the job you&#8217;re doing is one consistent with what any person of any age would be able to do.&#8221;
Bad call. A week or so later, Biden appeared to get lost and confused while walking off stage following remarks at the Global Fund Conference in New York.
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Where ya going, Big Guy? <a href="https://t.co/hvMjZlprWb">pic.twitter.com/hvMjZlprWb</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1572695406915604481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The scene went viral.
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HANKE&#39;S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Following a speech, Pres Biden was literally LOST ON STAGE. Our fearless Commander in Chief is UNABLE to get on and off stage. Take a look:<a href="https://t.co/TvCf4z4IRd">pic.twitter.com/TvCf4z4IRd</a>
&mdash; Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) <a href="https://twitter.com/steve_hanke/status/1573133257104707584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But Newsweek came to Biden&#8217;s defense in a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-lost-viral-video-fact-check-un-stage-video-speech-global-fund-1745716">piece</a> headlined, &#8220;Fact Check: Did Joe Biden Get &#8216;Lost&#8217; on UN Stage in Viral Video?&#8221;
&#8220;The clips of Biden leaving the stage show about 30 seconds of footage, from applause as his speech ends, to the camera shifting towards a new speaker at the end,&#8221; the mag wrote.
&#8220;Biden can be seen heading to the left of the podium (stage right), where some photographers can be seen as he briefly freezes, possibly to pose briefly for a photo or wait for guidance (as he has been seen doing on past occasions).&#8221;
&#8220;The latter point is supported by the next few seconds, where it appears that Biden is speaking to someone out of shot. While it is unclear what is being said, Biden&#8217;s reaction to the response—stopping in his tracks rather than exiting the stage—suggests that he was told to remain until further notice.&#8221;
&#8220;Indeed, moments later he and other world leaders are called up on the main stage to take a photo together, providing a likely explanation for why the president awkwardly lingered at the side of the stage after his speech,&#8221; Newsweek reported.
The liberal outlet also said Biden &#8220;showed an understanding of where the stairs to get off the stage were.&#8221; You can watch the unedited video below.
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But from a watch of the video, it&#8217;s clear Biden is at least confused about where he was supposed to go and what he was supposed to do.
Biden said, &#8220;watch me.&#8221; And we are.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Did Biden Really Get ‘Lost’ On Stage?

Did President Joe Biden Really Get Lost On Stage?

60 Minutes

Joe Biden

A false article published Monday by Newsweek has spawned a series of articles repeating a false claim about Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a potential Trump pick to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Newsweek originally claimed that a charismatic Catholic group called People of Praise, which Barrett is reportedly a member of, inspired the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood. Newsweek later corrected the article, admitting “the book’s author, Margaret Atwood, has never specifically mentioned the group as being the inspiration for her work.”
The correction, which undercut the premise of the article, drew heavy criticism. National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru called on Newsweek to retract the debunked article.
“The correction at the bottom of this article should have caused the piece to be taken down,” Ponnuru tweeted.
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The correction at the bottom of this article should have caused the piece to be taken down. <a href="https://t.co/zrtjFSn2uP">https://t.co/zrtjFSn2uP</a>
&mdash; Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) <a href="https://twitter.com/RameshPonnuru/status/1308365204405841922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Newsweek left the article up, however, and it spawned a series of similarly false allegations from various outlets against Barrett, connecting her and People of Praise wrongly with “The Handmaid’s Tale.” As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsweek-forced-to-issue-major-retraction-after-it-smears-amy-coney-barrett-claims-she-belongs-to-sect-that-inspired-the-handmaids-tale">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>By the time Newsweek “updated” its article, though, the story had spread, and Reuters, Refinery29, and a host of other left-leaning media outlets had picked up on the rumor that Barrett was directly involved in a Handmaid’s Tale-style society. It does not appear any of the other outlets have yet offered a similar correction.
Barrett has fallen under scrutiny because she’s likely a judicial conservative, something the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whom Barrett could replace, was not. Her feelings on key political issues are under wraps, as is the case with most high-level judges, and experts have been left to speculate that Barrett is religious and right-wing based on her biography alone.</blockquote>
The media laundering of the false story drew heavy criticism from lawmakers, journalists, and others who accused outlets that repeated the lie of “anti-Catholic bigotry.”
“These ugly smears against Judge Barrett are a combination of anti-Catholic bigotry and QAnon-level stupidity. People of Praise is basically a Bible study — and just like billions of Christians around the world, Judge Barrett reads the Bible, prays, and tries to serve her community. Senators should condemn this wacky McCarthyism,” Sen Ben Sasse (R-NE) said in a statement.
“Absolute embarrassment the way much of the press ‘reports’ on religion,” Washington Examiner Magazine executive editor Seth Mandel tweeted. “You would think there would be some curiosity about the beliefs of millions of your fellow citizens. Also, it’s your damn job. If you have no interest in how things work get out of journalism and go into government or something.”
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you would think there would be some curiosity about the beliefs of millions of your fellow citizens. Also, it&#39;s your damn job. If you have no interest in how things work get out of journalism and go into government or something.
&mdash; Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1308506020948463616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Brazen bigotry from what is supposed to be a news organization. The campaign of personal destruction begins. Let’s draw a line in the sand now. There is no place for this trash,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) tweeted.
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Brazen bigotry from what is supposed to be a news organization. The campaign of personal destruction begins. Let’s draw a line in the sand now. There is no place for this trash <a href="https://t.co/j1WvoxYCMs">https://t.co/j1WvoxYCMs</a>
&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1308509683762765824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“Biden’s Sister Souljah moment will come when some resistance idiots on this site start going after Coney Barrett&#8217;s Catholicism and he just publicly curb-stomps them as a Catholic himself, telling everyone to focus on the substance, not personal attacks,” Tablet Magazine senior writer Yair Rosenberg noted on Twitter.
“This meme literally got started because partisan idiots confused Coney Barrett&#8217;s ‘People of Praise’ Catholic group with a totally different group called ‘People of Hope’ that ALSO didn&#8217;t inspire The Handmaid’s Tale. Now it&#8217;s laundered as a mainstream news piece. Not great, folks!” he said.
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This meme literally got started because partisan idiots confused Coney Barrett&#39;s &quot;People of Praise&quot; Catholic group with a totally different group called &quot;People of Hope&quot; that ALSO didn&#39;t inspire The Handmaid&#39;s Tale. Now it&#39;s laundered as a mainstream news piece. Not great, folks! <a href="https://t.co/Wht6V6gsf8">https://t.co/Wht6V6gsf8</a>
&mdash; (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1308495105398132737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Handmaid’s Tale

‘Absolute Embarrassment’: News Outlets Slammed For Publishing ‘Anti-Catholic Bigotry’ Against Amy Coney Barrett

Amy Coney Barrett

Catholicism

Handmaid's Tale

In my last column, &#8220;Newsweek Hits a New Low,&#8221; I wrote about Newsweek&#8217;s dishonest description of what I had said on one of my weekly PragerU &#8220;Fireside Chats.&#8221; A viewer had asked me to respond to a statement Anne Frank made in her epic Holocaust diary. Frank said, &#8220;Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.&#8221;
The Newsweek headline, &#8220;Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank,&#8221; was simply a lie. In order for readers to appreciate the level of mendacity, I had my entire response transcribed and placed it in the column.
A few days later I received a message from Nancy Cooper, global editor-in-chief of Newsweek. She emailed me her personal cellphone number and asked me to call her. I did, and we had a good conversation. She agreed that what Newsweek published mischaracterized my remarks and corrected both the headline and the article, written by deputy editor Benjamin Fearnow.
She changed the headline to &#8220;Conservative Radio Host Counters Anne Frank&#8217;s View That People Are &#8216;Good at Heart.'&#8221;
In addition, she deleted Fearnow&#8217;s sentence characterizing me as having mocked Anne Frank. And she deleted another Fearnow falsehood: &#8220;He also brings up Nazi comparisons frequently on his radio program, The Dennis Prager Show, to criticize modern Democrats and liberals.&#8221;
I told Cooper that in 37 years of radio, I have never compared Democrats or liberals to Nazis; Fearnow had made that up out of whole cloth.
In its place, she wrote the truth: &#8220;He also brings up Nazi comparisons on his radio program, The Dennis Prager Show, saying the left &#8216;cheapens&#8217; Nazi evil by using the term to dismiss political opponents or that liberals focus on Nazism while failing to acknowledge the horrors wrought by Communism.&#8221;
The following notice now appears at the end of the article: &#8220;Update 1/8, 4:45 p.m. ET: The original headline on this story misrepresented Prager&#8217;s comments; the headline and story have been edited to reflect that Prager did not &#8216;ridicule&#8217; or &#8216;mock&#8217; Anne Frank but took issue with her view.&#8221;
As I wrote to Cooper, &#8220;Your attention to this says a lot about you and your hopes for Newsweek. Thank you.&#8221;
But the story doesn&#8217;t end there.
First, has Newsweek disciplined Fearnow in any way? (I never heard from Fearnow.)
Second, and more important, the original lie about me has taken on a life of its own. It was conveyed on numerous left-wing sites.
Wonkette, under the sarcastic headline &#8220;Dennis Prager Will Not Be Bullied by Anne Frank,&#8221; wrote a deceit-filled article about my comments about Anne Frank. At this writing, the column is followed by 654 reader comments — virtually every one of them repeating the lie started by Newsweek and continued by Wonkette.
There has not been a word on Wonkette about Newsweek&#8217;s correction.
The Daily Dot — &#8220;conceived as the Internet&#8217;s &#8216;hometown newspaper,&#8217; focuses on topics such as streaming entertainment, geek culture, memes, gadgets and social issues, such as LGBT, gender and race,&#8221; as Wikipedia describes — reprinted the original Newsweek charge.
There has not been a word on The Daily Dot about Newsweek&#8217;s correction.
Under the headline &#8220;Dennis Prager on Anne Frank: &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Get My Wisdom from Teenagers,'&#8221; the Patheos website&#8217;s Friendly Atheist page wrote, &#8220;Leave it to right-wing commentator Dennis Prager, founder of a fake online &#8216;university&#8217; &#8230; to dismiss Frank&#8217;s comment &#8230; because she was a child and therefore too dumb to understand anything.&#8221;
There has not been a word on Patheos about Newsweek&#8217;s correction.
Inquisitr, which claims 40 million readers a month, headlined its disparaging article &#8220;Conservative Pundit Dennis Prager Ridicules Anne Frank.&#8221;
There has not been a word on Inquistr about Newsweek&#8217;s correction.
Democratic Undergound&#8217;s headline read, &#8220;Conservative Radio Host Dennis Prager Ridicules Anne Frank.&#8221; It features a tweet from @Kokomothegreat that has 499 retweets.
There has not been a word on Democratic Underground or from Koko about Newsweek&#8217;s correction.
I note all of this to make three points.
First, as I have said for decades: While truth is a conservative value and a liberal value, it has never been a left-wing value.
Second, the left&#8217;s primary response to those with whom it differs is to smear.
Third, smears cannot be undone.
This was brilliantly brought home to me in a famous Jewish story I first heard when I was a student in yeshiva.
The tale is told of a Jew in Eastern Europe who had slandered his rabbi but soon regretted it. So, he went to his rabbi, told him what he had done, sincerely apologized and asked the rabbi&#8217;s forgiveness.
&#8220;Bring me two feather pillows,&#8221; the rabbi responded.
The man did.
&#8220;Am I now forgiven?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Now cut open the pillows,&#8221; the rabbi responded.
The man had no idea why the rabbi made these requests, but deeply wanting the rabbi&#8217;s forgiveness, he did as he was told.
&#8220;Am I now forgiven?&#8221; the man asked.
&#8220;Now let the feathers fly away,&#8221; the rabbi responded.
Once again, the man did as the rabbi requested.
&#8220;Am I now forgiven?&#8221; the exasperated man asked.
&#8220;Just do one more thing,&#8221; the rabbi responded. &#8220;Bring back the feathers.&#8221;
Benjamin Fearnow and the left-wing websites cannot bring back the feathers. Nor, apparently, do they want to.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; came to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

Feather.

PRAGER: Newsweek Changed Its Article About Me. But …

Dennis Prager

Media Bias

If decent people working in mainstream American media want to know why many Americans do not trust them and are willing to use the term &#8220;fake news&#8221; to describe the mainstream media, I offer one of the most glaring examples of a lie in my lifetime.
Last week, Newsweek headlined the following: &#8220;Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank: &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Get My Wisdom From Teenagers.'&#8221;
Now, imagine how that must have struck any reader not familiar with the &#8220;conservative radio host&#8221; or with what he actually said. &#8220;Ridicule Anne Frank&#8221; — what kind of terrible human being would do that?
Well, it turns out the &#8220;conservative radio host&#8221; was me. Yes, me — a religious Jew who has devoted much of his life to the welfare of the Jewish people, served on the board of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, made the most widely viewed pro-Israel video in the world, written a book on anti-Semitism that is in its third printing, and founded a synagogue and a Jewish day school.
To understand how terrible a lie this is, you need to know what happened: Every week I do a video podcast for PragerU called &#8220;The Fireside Chat.&#8221; In it, I offer thoughts on life and then take questions from around the world (we have received questions from 52 countries). A few weeks ago, I received the following question from Sam in Meridian, Idaho: &#8220;On your most recent Fireside Chat, you said that people are not basically good. We&#8217;ve heard you discuss this topic before. Anne Frank is quoted as saying, &#8216;Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.&#8217; How do you respond to her quote?&#8221;
Here is my response (this is a word-for-word transcription, except for the words in parentheses added for clarity): &#8220;She wrote that in her diary, the most famous Holocaust document. (She was) a teenage girl, a Dutch Jewish girl, who hid with her family until they were betrayed by someone to the Nazis, who then shipped them to death camps. And she died, murdered by the Nazis in the death camps. She was about 16 years old, maybe 15. Her diary is very famous. It gives a face to the horror of the Holocaust.
&#8220;I know she wrote that, and my answer is it doesn&#8217;t matter that she wrote it. I don&#8217;t get my wisdom from teenagers. That she was a wonderful young woman and wrote an unbelievably powerful document that will last forever is beside the point. I don&#8217;t expect 16-year-olds, unless they grew up in a religious Jewish or Christian home (where it is taught as basic religious doctrine that people are not born basically good). She was a secular Jew. Most kids believe that (people are basically good). But it is not true. So, it has never been an issue for me — &#8216;Well, you disagree with Anne Frank.&#8217; So what?
&#8220;And, by the way, to be very serious for a moment, I would be very curious — I&#8217;ve thought about this a lot — if I were to be able to visit Anne Frank while in a concentration camp, would she have still believed that? We don&#8217;t know.&#8221;
Readers can watch the actual video <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-114-how-to-tackle-new-years-resolutions/">clip</a> (starting at 19:04).
Only someone who deliberately seeks to smear someone would claim that what I said ridicules Anne Frank.
The person who wrote this is Benjamin Fearnow, a deputy editor at Newsweek, who previously worked for the left-wing site Mediaite.
When I looked up Fearnow, I came across this December 2018 tweet from talk show host Mark Levin: &#8220;Newsweek&#8217;s Benjamin Fearnow is a very, very sick person.&#8221;
And Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, one of the most revered Jewish scholars in America — author of such Jewish classics as &#8220;Jewish Literacy&#8221; and &#8220;Biblical Literacy&#8221; — called me to say that Fearnow&#8217;s article saying I ridiculed Anne Frank is &#8220;the most despicable lie I recall reading in a mainstream news source.&#8221;
Yesterday, Newsweek published Fearnow&#8217;s column headlined, &#8220;Top Iranian Presidential Adviser Says Tehran&#8217;s &#8216;Sole Problem Is Trump,&#8217; Not Average American People.&#8221;
Apparently, Fearnow has chosen to serve as a useful idiot for the Iranian regime, which hates America, not only Trump. (Does Fearnow believe that the Iranian chant &#8220;death to Israel&#8221; only means &#8220;death to Netanyahu&#8221;?) The Iranian regime has gathered millions of Iranians to chant &#8220;death to America&#8221; since long before it ever heard of Donald Trump. It has been wishing death on us and killing Americans (not to mention Iranians) since it came into power in 1979. But Fearnow cites the Iranian dictator, Ayatollah Khamenei, as having said last February that &#8220;&#8216;Death to America&#8217; means death to Trump, (National Security Adviser) John Bolton, and (Secretary of State Mike) Pompeo,&#8221; as if it were credible.
Meanwhile, multiple left-wing sites have picked up Fearnow&#8217;s and Newsweek&#8217;s lie that I ridiculed Anne Frank.
If Newsweek has any honor, it will remove Fearnow&#8217;s article and apologize to me.
But neither is likely. As I wrote 30 years ago, &#8220;Being on the left means never having to say you&#8217;re sorry.&#8221;
Next time someone challenges you for using the term &#8220;fake news&#8221; to describe mainstream media, just cite Newsweek and Fearnow.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; comes to theaters fall 2019. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

Fake news.

PRAGER: Newsweek Hits A New Low

Fake News

Newsweek has fired the reporter who wrote a blindingly inaccurate story about President Donald Trump&#8217;s Thanksgiving plans, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/newsweek-fires-reporter-who-published-inaccurate-story-on-trumps-thanksgiving-day-plans">according to the Washington Examiner,</a> but the outlet is refusing to admit it committed its own mistakes in greenlighting and posting the faulty piece.
On Thanksgiving, Newsweek reporter Jessica Kwong, who covers the Trump family for the magazine, wrote a story then-titled, &#8220;How is Trump spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing and more.&#8221; The &#8220;more&#8221; included a secret visit overseas to serve a Thanksgiving dinner to Americans serving in Afghanistan, but Kwong&#8217;s original piece didn&#8217;t include the trip, even though, by the time the story hit both the internet and social media, photos and narrative from Trump&#8217;s mission abroad were readily available, at least
&#8220;Hours after the president&#8217;s trip was announced, Newsweek edited Kwong&#8217;s story and added a note at the bottom of it. The beginning of the story now focuses on the president&#8217;s trip and his speech to the troops, while the new headline reads, &#8216;How is Trump spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing — and surprising U.S. troops in Afghanistan,'&#8221; the Examiner reports.
The note at the end of the story reads, &#8216;This story has been substantially updated and edited at 6:17 p.m. EST to reflect the president&#8217;s surprise trip to Afghanistan. Additional reporting by James Crowley.&#8221; There is no mention of Kwong&#8217;s very serious mistake.
Kwong also corrected her story on social media, Tweeting, &#8220;Trump headed to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops on Thanksgiving… Deleting this tweet because it was written before knowing about the president’s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake. Story has already been updated, as shown in the screenshot.&#8221;
The President was quick to pounce on the &#8220;fake news&#8221; story, tweeting that he believed Newsweek had gone out of business.
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I thought Newsweek was out of business? <a href="https://t.co/3ro4eSJloo">https://t.co/3ro4eSJloo</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1200224161576017921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Newsweek told the Examiner that they terminated Kwong: &#8220;The story has been corrected, and the journalist responsible has been terminated&#8230;We will continue to review our processes and, if required, take further action.”
&#8220;The next day, [writer Jessica] Kwong reached out to the editor on duty and relayed the president&#8217;s latest actions, after which the story was published,&#8221; the Examiner reported. &#8220;When the president&#8217;s trip to Afghanistan was announced, that editor then decided to assign another reporter to write a new story about it but neglected to update Kwong&#8217;s original piece in a timely manner.&#8221;
Kwong said on Twitter that she&#8217;d been assigned the story on Wednesday and filed it early Thursday. She says she had no control over when it posted, and appeared to blame her editors at Newsweek for both accepting the story and making it public without checking on its validity.
Donald Trump, Jr., the President&#8217;s son, was unconvinced that it was merely a comedy of errors on Newsweek&#8217;s part, even if both Kwong and the paper say the whole ordeal was an &#8220;honest mistake.&#8221;
&#8216;It wasn’t an &#8216;honest mistake&#8217; you tried to dunk on Trump and ended up dunking on yourself because you couldn’t resist. Notice how there’s never been a story that broke in Trump’s favor &amp; had to be corrected the other way? These aren’t mistakes, they are a very consistent pattern,&#8221; he tweeted.

US-MEDIA-NEWSWEEK

Newsweek Fired Reporter Who Wrote Inaccurate Story About President Trump’s Thanksgiving Plans

On Wednesday, Newsweek wrote that Donald Trump Jr. praised Candace Owens for her supposed defense of Adolf Hitler, prompting an avalanche of criticism that Newsweek was twisting the news to fit their preconceived leftist agenda. Newsweek promoted their article with this tweet:
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Donald Trump Jr. praises Candace Owens for her defense of Hitler comments <a href="https://t.co/4c4kVyLfjY">https://t.co/4c4kVyLfjY</a> <a href="https://t.co/5qyuUMNWf3">pic.twitter.com/5qyuUMNWf3</a>
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In the article linked by the tweet, Newsweek wrote: &#8220;Donald Trump Jr. has praised right-wing activist Candace Owens for her appearance on Capitol Hill, during which she defended her comments about nationalism and Adolf Hitler.&#8221;
Newsweek noted that Owens, speaking before the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism, responded to a clip of comments she made in December that was played by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). The clip showed Owens saying:
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I actually don&#8217;t have any problems at all with the word nationalism. I think that the definition gets poisoned by leaders that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don&#8217;t want. So when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. You know, he was a National Socialist. But, if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted&#8212;he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German.
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Newsweek acknowledged that after the clip was played, Owens fired back at Lieu, saying, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty apparent that Mr. Lieu believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety. He purposely presented an extracted clip.&#8221; She added, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty apparent that Mr. Lieu believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety. He purposely presented an extracted clip.&#8221;
Owens continued, &#8220;He&#8217;s trying to present as if I was launching a defense of Hitler in Germany, when in fact the question that was asked of me was pertaining to whether or not I believed &#8230; in nationalism and that nationalism was bad. What I responded &#8230; was I do not believe that we should be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist. He was a homicidal, psychopathic maniac that killed his own people. A nationalist would not kill their own people.&#8221;
Newsweek then quoted Trump Jr. tweeting, &#8220;Wow. Well done @RealCandaceO!!! Great to see someone call out the Dems on their purposeful manipulation of facts for their narrative. Since the media runs with anything they say and is the marketing wing of the DNC, they aren&#8217;t used to getting called out for the repeated BS.&#8221;
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Wow. Well done <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealCandaceO</a>!!! Great to see someone call out the Dems on their purposeful manipulation of facts for their narrative. Since the media runs with anything they say and is the marketing wing of the DNC they aren&#8217;t used to getting called out for the repeated BS. <a href="https://t.co/aQpVzF0clo">https://t.co/aQpVzF0clo</a>
&#8212; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1115686203955777537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Newsweek was called out for their characterization of Owens&#8217; remarks and Trump Jr.s&#8217; defense of her:
&#8220;Dilbert&#8221; creator Scott Adams was most succinct:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNewsweek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FakeNewsweek</a> is being extra despicable today. <a href="https://t.co/eNPAg3lBeH">https://t.co/eNPAg3lBeH</a>
&#8212; Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1116314117709582337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As was Ann Coulter:
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UNF-INGBELIEVABLE. <a href="https://t.co/r2X2TvdBvJ">https://t.co/r2X2TvdBvJ</a>
&#8212; Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1116195198298656768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Director and producer Robby Starbuck snapped, &#8220;No <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO">@RealCandaceO</a> did not defend Hitler and <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> certainly did not defend her defending Hitler you vile liars <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsweek">@Newsweek</a>. Newsweek is the epitome of fake news and should be shamed by everyone with a pulse until they change their ways or close their doors for good.&#8221;
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No <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealCandaceO</a> did not defend Hitler and <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> certainly did not defend her defending Hitler you vile liars <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsweek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Newsweek</a>. Newsweek is the epitome of fake news and should be shamed by everyone with a pulse until they change their ways or close their doors for good. <a href="https://t.co/dA0zz7iu4f">https://t.co/dA0zz7iu4f</a>
&#8212; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1116200102056448001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Writer Jeremy Frankel noted the irony of Newsweek slamming Owens while featuring a picture of anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar on their cover:
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Why does <a href="https://twitter.com/Newsweek?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Newsweek</a> think its readers are idiots?
Writing a headline smearing <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealCandaceO</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> for &#8220;defending Hitler&#8221; (she didn&#8217;t) while putting an actual Jew hater <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> on your magazine cover is truly the death of irony <a href="https://t.co/OMLgzt6co4">https://t.co/OMLgzt6co4</a>
&#8212; Jeremy Frankel (@FrankelJeremy) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrankelJeremy/status/1116343032012595202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Newsweek Gets Pounded For ‘Lying’ About Candace Owens And Donald Trump Jr.

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Over the weekend, Newsweek writer Nina Burleigh discovered that law-abiding, gun-owning Americans take offense when you claim they&#8217;re all &#8220;mass murderers.&#8221;
Responding to Rep. Eric Swalwell&#8217;s (D-CA) suggestion that gun owners who resist government authorities who might confiscate their weapons could be literally nuked from orbit, Burleigh decided to wax poetic on why, exactly, she felt the nation&#8217;s 15,000,000 or so legally owned AR-15 rifles should be immediately taken from their owners.
No AR-15 owner she&#8217;s met, Burleigh said, has been anything short of a mass murderer.
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Almost every single person I&#8217;ve ever heard of with an AR-15 has been a mass murderer. Based on Twitter sample the rest of them are scarily paranoid. Get on the right side of history <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DLoesch</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Rambobiggs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gunsense?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#gunsense</a> <a href="https://t.co/rFtHFBpvLM">https://t.co/rFtHFBpvLM</a>
&#8212; Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaburleigh/status/1063817196961452038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
If all fifteen million legal AR-15 owners are, indeed, mass murderers, it&#8217;s absolutely shocking that there aren&#8217;t multiple mass murders per day.
The math didn&#8217;t occur to Burleigh, however, or the fact that a vast majority of AR-15 owners are hunters, target shooters, and former members of the military who wanted to take home a small piece of military technology. The vast majority of AR-15 owners are also, of course, not homicidal maniacs.
Twitter quickly schooled Burleigh on her privilege.
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I know multiple people who own AR-15&#8217;s, and none of them has ever shot anyone, much less committed mass murder. I have met one mass murderer, however, but he was a doctor in my town who did about 50 abortions a day. Guess not all murder is committed with a gun.
&#8212; Kelly J (@Calla_Lily_85) <a href="https://twitter.com/Calla_Lily_85/status/1064319986787741696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Since when did Twitter become an accurate sample? Maybe we should pay for you to take a class in how to actually get accurate statistics. Honestly, I had a crash course in media bias over the past couple years &#8211; and you certainly are part of it. What happened to accuracy?
&#8212; Siobhan Patricia Lynch (@siobhanphoenix) <a href="https://twitter.com/siobhanphoenix/status/1064333406652309505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Hmm guess I&#8217;m a mass murderer. Thx for telling me.
&#8212; Marcia Brady (@somethingabtjen) <a href="https://twitter.com/somethingabtjen/status/1064394541300477958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s because you haven&#8217;t ever been around guns and dont understand them. You&#8217;re just a follower of the rhetoric and scare tactics MSNBC uses. Educate yourself about what it is you want taken away from others
&#8212; Sergeant Miles (@sgt_doe) <a href="https://twitter.com/sgt_doe/status/1064326655718510592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The AR-15 is the single most popular rifle in America. Millions of law abiding citizens own them for everything from target practice to hunting to home defense.
&#8212; Carlos Frazier (@CarlosFrazier_) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarlosFrazier_/status/1064494336925159424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
When Burleigh didn&#8217;t get the result she wanted from her social media deep thought, she didn&#8217;t bother to reconsider her opinion. No, in fact, Burleigh appears to have ignored the four thousand-odd replies to her tweet, blaming them not on gun owners trying to politely walk her through the realities of gun ownership, but on Russian bots.
No, really.
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1/ In less than 24 hours this tweet got more than 4k replies. I don&#8217;t read them and I assume the majority are pro <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NRA</a> Russian bots. Thanks for stepping up comrades! Ready to be checked by <a href="https://twitter.com/SecureDemocracy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecureDemocracy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/robhatlabs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@robhatlabs</a> <a href="https://t.co/9HaAcgj2Bt">https://t.co/9HaAcgj2Bt</a>
&#8212; Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) <a href="https://twitter.com/ninaburleigh/status/1064262259021684737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2018</a></blockquote>
She pointed to an article about Russian hackers using the gun control issue to inflame American tensions in the wake of February&#8217;s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, as proof that her detractors couldn&#8217;t possibly be real, live gun owners who had studiously avoided committing mass murder, but rather, bots from a Russian troll farm.
Twitter had a similarly appropriate answer to her second bright idea.
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Well, that&#8217;s one way to never have to look outside your own bubble and question your assumptions.
&#8212; Harold Stickeehands (@StickeeNotes) <a href="https://twitter.com/StickeeNotes/status/1064493510307414016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
Indeed.

Newsweek Reporter Claims She’s Never Met Someone With An AR-15 Who Wasn’t A Killer, Gets ROASTED

Gun Control

Guns

<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/watch-donald-trumps-hair-flaps-wind-revealing-his-scalp-and-real-hairstylists-801314">Newsweek</a> has given up even trying to masquerade as a serious and nonpartisan source of news. 
When boarding Air Force One last Friday, the 71-year-old President Trump&#8217;s hair got caught in the wind of the jets, allowing cameras to see the back of his scalp. Yes, Newsweek actually deemed this worthy of an article, complete with the headline: &#8220;WATCH: DONALD TRUMP&#8217;S HAIR FLAPS IN THE WIND, REVEALING HIS SCALP&#8221;
The article, written by <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/authors/tufayel-ahmed">Tufayel Ahmed</a>, described the image as searing, something unable to be unseen:
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OK, once you see this footage, you&#8217;ll never be able to unsee it. So, like the blue pill and the red pill in The Matrix, make your choice now. Because there&#8217;s no turning back.
On Wednesday, footage circulated of <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-health-exam-president-hair-loss-drug-research-erectile-dysfunction-783580">President Donald Trump&#8217;s hair</a> flapping in the wind as he boarded Air Force One last Friday. The windy conditions caused Trump&#8217;s famous mane to become disheveled, revealing what appears to be significant bald patches.
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Focusing on a 71-year-old&#8217;s balding is the type of thing late-night hosts with a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/26744/jimmy-kimmel-says-late-night-hosts-are-all-liberal-james-barrett">degree of intelligence</a>,&#8221; like Jimmy Kimmel, do &#8212; which is why Kimmel dedicated a whole segment to it.
&#8220;This is why Darth Vader had the good sense to wear a helmet,&#8221; Kimmel said on his program.
Seth Meyers also got in the action. &#8220;Wow, dude. Well I guess there&#8217;s one draft you couldn&#8217;t dodge,&#8221; he said, though he had the honesty to admit the hit was &#8220;petty.&#8221;
Some Twitter users also likened the President to the LOTR creature Gollum:
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Trump&#8217;s hair out there looking like Gollum. <a href="https://t.co/mTr8o1g3q1">pic.twitter.com/mTr8o1g3q1</a>
&#8212; Denizcan James (@MrFilmkritik) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrFilmkritik/status/961281352216842240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Actual Newsweek Headline: ‘Donald Trump’s Hair Flaps In The Wind, Revealing His Scalp’

Donald Trump

Jimmy Kimmel

Seth Meyers

Newsweek magazine appears to be in trouble Monday, after the publication fired its top editor, along with several reporters who were looking into financial issues involving Newsweek&#8217;s parent company and its connection to a California college.
Newsweek editor-in-chief Bob Roe, executive editor Ken Li, and reporter Celeste Katz were fired Monday morning, and at least two other reporters have been let go,<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/newsweek-editor-fired_us_5a78ab9fe4b006e74aef095d"> the Huffington Post reports</a>. One reporter has quit in solidarity with the fired journalists, and over what he termed &#8220;reckless leadership.&#8221;
The shakeup seems to originate with a story several Newsweek reporters and editors were following <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-investigation-manhattan-da-raid-etienne-uzac-leaves-servers-793929">about a &#8220;money trail&#8221; that flowed between former executives</a> at Newsweek Media Group and Olivet University, a Christian college headquartered in California. According to reports, Newsweek&#8217;s top executives had close connections to the school, and, in recent years, &#8220;paid the school more than $2.8 million for licensing and research-and-development agreements.&#8221;
In January, officials from the New York District Attorney&#8217;s office raided Newsweek&#8217;s offices, looking for two servers. <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/the-publisher-of-newsweek-and-the-international-business?utm_term=.qkZvGGZXa#.frdzVVvWk">Buzzfeed reported last week</a> that &#8220;the publisher of Newsweek and the International Business Times has been engaging in fraudulent online traffic practices that helped it secure a major ad buy from a US government agency.&#8221;
Although Newsweek denied that they&#8217;d purchased traffic for their struggling publication, and that they&#8217;d engaged in any financial wrongdoing, both Newsweek Media Group founder, Etienne Uzac, and his wife, the company&#8217;s financial director, stepped down on February 1.
Sources also told Huffington Post that the reporters and editors fired on Monday were investigating their own parent company.
&#8220;It&#8217;s all the people who were investigating the church,&#8221; an anonymous staffer told HuffPo, likening the situation to Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation of Donald Trump. &#8220;So it&#8217;s pretty clear. They fired the special counsel, essentially.&#8221;

Newsweek Fires Top Editor, Reporters Amid Financial Investigation

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