MSNBC hosts Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace faced backlash online following President Donald Trump&#8217;s address to Congress on Tuesday night after they used an emotional moment with a young brain cancer survivor honored by the president to bash Trump.
The commentary from the far-left hosts came after Trump recognized 13-year-old Devarjaye &#8220;DJ&#8221; Daniel, who was in the gallery for the event and has always dreamed of being a police officer.
&#8220;In 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true and DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer, actually a number of times. The police love him. The police departments love him,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;And tonight, DJ, we are going to do you the biggest honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.&#8221;
Maddow responded to the viral moment by calling it &#8220;disgusting.&#8221;
“For the record – and this is disgusting – the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who’s thus far survived pediatric cancer – as if the president had something to do with that,” Maddow fumed.
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MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow is bitter over the fact that President Trump put the spotlight on a pediatric cancer patient and fulfilled his wish. <a href="https://t.co/waFzuKjRNp">pic.twitter.com/waFzuKjRNp</a>
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1897137781341601818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
Wallace used Daniel to attack Trump and said she hoped that he did not commit suicide.
“I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide,” Wallace said.
“And I hope he isn’t one that has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people,” she continued.
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Nicole Wallace just went after a little kid with cancer, saying “I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters.”
Even Jen Psaki looks uncomfortable.
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— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1897142707426091293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Might be the most odious thing I’ve ever heard on cable news,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SteveKrak/status/1897263129404592447">said</a> political commentator Steve Krakauer. &#8220;Totally broken-brained punditry.&#8221;
Meghan McCain <a href="https://x.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1897291991177945507">posted</a> on X: &#8220;No one knows better than me how despicable Nicolle Wallace is but this is a new low even by her and msnbc&#8217;s standards.&#8221;
&#8220;Using a child with brain cancer to say this,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Trash from the gutter.&#8221;
Red State writer Bonchie <a href="https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1897302802109751453">responded</a> to Maddow&#8217;s comments: &#8220;What a crazy, deranged thing to say.&#8221;

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MSNBC’s Maddow, Wallace Slammed For ‘Crazy, Deranged’ Remarks Politicizing Child Cancer Survivor

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MSNBC host <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/nicolle-wallace/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicolle Wallace</a> suggested Monday that the United States might need a &#8220;Democracy commission&#8221; or some other organization that could save America from the Republicans — and she thought that former President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama</a> could potentially spearhead such an effort.
Wallace, who hosts &#8220;Deadline: White House&#8221; on the left-leaning network posed the question to former Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/claire-mccaskill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claire McCaskill</a> (D-MO) — and even McCaskill quickly dismissed the idea that a &#8220;commission&#8221; of any sort was necessary.
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MSNBC&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NicolleDWallace</a>: How about we create an Obama-led &quot;democracy commission&quot; to save America from Republicans? <a href="https://t.co/kYBRtkjOgv">pic.twitter.com/kYBRtkjOgv</a>
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&#8220;The reason I started by asking if we&#8217;d ever been here before is because I think as a country we all have to participate in it,&#8221; Wallace began. &#8220;Because if you have kids, your kids wake up, if you have anything to do with an election, if you&#8217;re an election worker or a news anchor, they want to know what happened.&#8221;
Wallace went on to say that, much like the week following the 2020 presidential election, election days in the future could stretch into weeks because the results were just not known by the end of the day.
&#8220;I think we have to have a conversation as a country about how we might not know the next morning what happened,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;We might not know the day after that — and that is their point!&#8221;
&#8220;That is their point!&#8221; Wallace said again, going on to argue that some Republicans were not even running to win, necessarily, but rather, to muddy the waters and sow chaos and confusion. &#8220;Some of them will [win], unfortunately. They are running to sow discord in America. And it will change everything.&#8221;
Wallace continued down that path, claiming that Election Day might not even be a thing in two years&#8217; time and suggesting that it might be Election Week instead.
&#8220;What we are watching, and because it&#8217;s so slow, it&#8217;s so slow, we don&#8217;t cover it as a five-alarm fire but it is,&#8221; Wallace added. &#8220;We are watching Republicans not just destroying Democracy in the dark, breaking into election offices and plugging stuff in, we&#8217;re watching them do it from rally stages. Debate stages. That&#8217;s where they&#8217;re doing it.&#8221;
Wallace then asked McCaskill directly whether she thought such unprecedented behavior called for a &#8220;Democracy commission,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Should President Obama ask Chris Christie and Ben Ginsberg to sort of man a Democracy hotline, you know, man other crises — what should we do?&#8221;
McCaskill quickly pulled back from the idea of a commission, saying instead that Republicans just had to be better. &#8220;It just take Republicans that have some character and integrity,&#8221; she said.

Today – Season 67

MSNBC Host Wants Barack Obama To Lead A Hotline To Save America From Republicans

MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace Wants Barack Obama To Lead A Hotline To Save America From Republicans

Barack Obama

Claire McCaskill

Republicans

MSNBC&#8217;s Nicolle Wallace suggested that Texas democratic gubernatorial hopeful Beto O&#8217;Rourke, was the one being mistreated when police escorted him out of a formal press conference that he had intentionally disrupted.
Wallace showed footage of O&#8217;Rourke interrupting Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) while he attempted to update reporters and victims&#8217; families in the aftermath of Tuesday&#8217;s horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
After O&#8217;Rourke <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/youre-a-sick-son-of-a-b-beto-orourke-crashes-greg-abbott-press-conference-on-uvalde-shooting/">confronted Abbott</a>, accusing him of &#8220;doing nothing,&#8221; Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin called him a &#8220;sick son of a b****&#8221; for attempting to weaponize the press conference for his own political gain, and police officers escorted him from the building — but Wallace appeared to be far more concerned with the way those present had responded to O&#8217;Rourke than the fact that he had disrupted the event in the first place.
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How rude! MSNBC&#39;s Nicolle Wallace seems to think Beto O&#39;Rourke was the one being mistreated when cops ejected him from the press conference he crashed. <a href="https://t.co/x2r0Iq0nVA">pic.twitter.com/x2r0Iq0nVA</a>
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Wallace began by lamenting the lack of federal action to implement more gun control, saying, &#8220;Action, real, meaningful action on guns has been non-existent on the federal level, and in Republican led states. In fact, things are going the other way.&#8221;
She went on to complain about the fact that two of the elected officials who represent Uvalde — Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Governor Abbott — were both still slated to attend the National Rifle Association&#8217;s (NRA) upcoming annual meeting on Friday.
&#8220;In a speech last night, a clearly exasperated President Joe Biden urged Americans to turn their pain into action,&#8221; Wallace continued, sharing a moment from <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/its-just-sick-biden-uses-school-shooting-address-to-slam-gun-lobby/">Biden&#8217;s Tuesday evening address</a> attacking the &#8220;gun lobby.&#8221;
&#8220;As a nation, we have to ask when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?&#8221; Biden asked, going on to warn his political opposition against standing in the way of what he called &#8220;common sense gun laws.&#8221;
&#8220;And just this afternoon at a press conference in Uvalde, Governor Greg Abbott was confronted by his Democratic opponent, a visibly frustrated Beto O’Rourke,&#8221; Wallace continued, showing video of O&#8217;Rourke as he disrupted the press conference. When he first stood up, Senator Cruz simply told him to &#8220;sit down,&#8221; advising him to back off of what was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/very-clearly-staged-cbs-reporter-says-beto-used-seat-holders-to-slip-into-abbott-presser-unnoticed/">clearly a political &#8220;stunt.&#8221;</a> It was only after O&#8217;Rourke persisted, pointing his finger and shouting at Abbott, that McLaughlin responded — and O&#8217;Rourke was escorted from the venue a short time later.
&#8220;If that’s how they treat Beto O’Rourke, who was a member of Congress now running for governor, you wonder what’s going on down there,&#8221; Wallace responded.

Mass Shooting At Elementary School In Uvalde, Texas Leaves 21 Dead

MSNBC Host: Gov. Abbott Was Rude To Oust Beto O’Rourke From Press Conference He Crashed

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace: Gov. Abbott Was Rude To Oust Beto O'Rourke From Press Conference He Crashed

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Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald teased a coming mini-documentary (limited to his subscribers) on Thursday, sharing a trailer that called MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace &#8220;The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation.&#8221;
&#8220;From her days as a professional liar for the Bush/Cheney WH and campaign, now as a beloved-by-liberals MSNBC host, @NicolleDWallace has for two decades been the Typhoid Mary of Disinformation. Nobody spreads it more,&#8221; Greenwald tweeted along with a video clip.
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From her days as a professional liar for the Bush/Cheney WH and campaign, now as a beloved-by-liberals MSNBC host, <a href="https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NicolleDWallace</a> has for two decades been the Typhoid Mary of Disinformation. Nobody spreads it more.
Our mini-documentary will be up today. The trailer, by <a href="https://twitter.com/0rf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@0rf</a>: <a href="https://t.co/gtj0wBeSHu">pic.twitter.com/gtj0wBeSHu</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1527367847134998530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Greenwald <a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-typhoid-mary-of-disinformation?s=w">went on</a> to note that Wallace was far from the only one to graduate from George W. Bush&#8217;s White House to a lucrative career in media and journalism — and he argued that their apparent willingness to lie when it benefitted the political establishment might be the reason behind that.
&#8220;That is because serial deceit is not a liability for a thriving career in corporate journalism but a vital asset: provided the lies are in service of ruling class policies,&#8221; he said.
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The most shameless liars from the Bush/Cheney Administration have enjoyed great success in liberal media. 
That is because serial deceit is not a liability for a thriving career in corporate journalism but a vital asset: provided the lies are in service of ruling class policies. <a href="https://t.co/C3ijoAaqyz">pic.twitter.com/C3ijoAaqyz</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1527408568433004576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Greenwald pointed out a number of the more famous Bush-Cheney alumni — noting where they had landed after leaving the White House.
<ul>
<li>Former Bush White House speechwriter David Frum of The Atlantic and CNN;</li>
<li>Bush/Cheney CIA and NSA Director Gen. Michael Hayden of CNN;</li>
<li>Ubiquitous amoral neocon warmonger Bill Kristol of MSNBC and various #NeverTrump groups;</li>
<li><a href="https://rumble.com/c/Orf" rel="">Al-Qaeda/Saddam conspiracy theorist</a> Jeffrey Goldberg, now editor-in-chief of The Atlantic;</li>
<li>The <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/millions-raised-by-lincoln-project-went-to-companies-run-by-groups-founders/" rel="">various scumbags</a>, <a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34576561/never-trump-republicans-lincoln-project-2020/" rel="">con artists</a>, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/17/lincoln-project-founders-knew-alleged-harassment-months-before-they-claimed/6768370002/" rel="">predator-protectors</a> and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lincoln-project-rick-wilson-anti-trump-film-donations" rel="">fraudsters</a> of the Lincoln Project, drowning in #Resistance cash and frequent MSNBC appearances;</li>
<li>Pro-war Florida GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough, now a multi-million host of MSNBC&#8217;s flagship morning show and anchor of its corporate brand; and,</li>
<li>Rep. Liz Cheney, long-time vocal supporter of her father and <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/12/hero-liz-cheney/" rel="">now a literal &#8220;hero”</a> to American media liberals.</li>
</ul>
But Wallace, Greenwald argued, outdid them all. She &#8220;repositioned herself as a liberal&#8221; in 2010 and landed a spot on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; in 2014. She then moved to NBC, landing an afternoon show on MSNBC — on which she often hosted &#8220;Never Trump&#8221; Republicans.
&#8220;But lurking beneath her perky smile, multi-million-dollar media contracts, gushing liberal fan base and a long list of media admirers is something extremely dark and pernicious. In a swamp of professional liars and sleaze merchants, Nicolle Wallace has distinguished herself easily as one of the most seamless and casual liars in the world of Washington politics and media,&#8221; Greenwald continued, adding, &#8220;She was the vintage conservative who liberals could love — a smiling sophisticate, someone willing to betray her GOP employers to impress liberal journalists, an amicable young woman touting degrees from the types of schools that impress coastal media elites — and it was virtually inevitable that she would thrive within media corporations that need women who can credibly claim to be conservatives yet appeal to liberal sensibilities and flatter liberal audiences.&#8221;

‘Nobody Spreads It More’: Glenn Greenwald Calls MSNBC Host ‘The Typhoid Mary Of Disinformation’

Glenn Greenwald Calls MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace 'The Typhoid Mary Of Disinformation'

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Matthew Dowd claimed Wednesday that if Jesus Christ were still living, people might call him a &#8220;groomer.&#8221;
Dowd, who served as a top advisor for former President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney during the 2004 presidential campaign, made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nicolle-wallace-accuses-desantis-of-using-dehumanization-as-a-tactic-just-like-the-russian-soldiers-who-rape-children/">Deadline White House</a>.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Chief Bush-Cheney advisor: &quot;If Jesus Christ was alive today, he would be called a groomer&quot; <a href="https://t.co/6he4MCIKhM">pic.twitter.com/6he4MCIKhM</a>
&mdash; Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1516900460501864457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Easter holidays, the entire message of the Gospels of the Easter holidays was &#8216;Love one another,’” Dowd began. &#8220;And I have said this before, and I&#8217;ll say it again: If Jesus Christ was alive today, he would be called a groomer. He would be called woke. And he would be called a socialist, if he was alive today.&#8221;
&#8220;If he was speaking the message he spoke in the Gospels today about treating everybody with dignity — Jesus Christ hung around with prostitutes and tax collectors,&#8221; Dowd continued. &#8220;He was nailed to a cross because he spoke on behalf of the most marginalized people in the Middle East.&#8221;
&#8220;And the idea that a certain segment of the population has tried to capture the faith and corrupt a message that I [may have been] a follower of since I was baptized and was confirmed and served on the altar in the course of this, is something I think all of us — it&#8217;s not just people of faith, but whether Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, or don&#8217;t have a faith, the message of &#8216;love conquers hate&#8217; is a message we should be pushing, but especially Christians in the country that can&#8217;t stand what happened to our faith,&#8221; Dowd concluded.
Dowd announced a bid for the 2022 Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s race in Texas, but <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/07/matthew-dowd-texas-lieutenant-governor/">withdrew from contention</a> in the Democratic primary six days before the final filing deadline. He explained in a statement that he was making an exit in order to clear the way for a &#8220;more diverse&#8221; candidate to take on the race.
&#8220;When I first announced, the only other candidate was a white male Christian,&#8221; Dowd said. &#8220;A diverse field is now emerging in the Democratic primary for this office. I do not want to be the one who stands in the way of the greater diversity we need in politics.&#8221;
State Rep. Michelle Beckley (D), who announced her own bid for LG, voiced her thanks to Dowd: &#8220;Women have been underrepresented in politics for too long. The Democratic Party is a diverse party and a party that supports the goals and aspirations of women, and in stepping back, Dowd is showing his respect for voters.&#8221;
Mike Collier, the other white Christian man in the Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s race, did not withdraw from the race, but said he supported Dowd&#8217;s decision. &#8220;I’m thankful for all that Matthew Dowd has done to demonstrate to the nation the importance of defeating Dan Patrick. With so much on the line, Matthew and I join millions of Texans in committing to do all we can to defeat Dan Patrick in 2022,&#8221; he said.

Time Warner Political Conference 2008 – Day 2

Former Bush-Cheney Advisor: Jesus Christ ‘Would Be Called A Groomer’ If He ‘Was Alive’ Today

Dick Cheney

Jesus Christ

Matthew Dowd

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace accused Governor Ron DeSantis of using &#8220;dehumanization&#8221; as a political tactic, claiming that it was no different than Russia using the same tactic to get soldiers to rape children in Ukraine.
During Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Deadline White House,&#8221; Wallace referenced a speech made by Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow (D). McMorrow, responding to a fundraising email in which State Senator Lana Theis had reportedly accused her of &#8220;grooming and sexualizing children.&#8221;
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Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community&#8230;in a fundraising email, for herself. 
Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won&#39;t. <a href="https://t.co/jL5GU42bTv">pic.twitter.com/jL5GU42bTv</a>
&mdash; Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) <a href="https://twitter.com/MalloryMcMorrow/status/1516453738403143681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Wallace argued that Theis&#8217; argument was the same one that DeSantis was using to promote Florida&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/shocked-it-only-protects-children-until-third-grade-tulsi-gabbard-reacts-to-florida-parental-rights-law/">recently-passed</a> Parental Rights in Education law, which bans classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation for students in kindergarten through third grade. DeSantis&#8217; office and a number of those <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/how-disney-got-caught-in-floridas-anti-grooming-bill-crossfire/">in favor of the law</a> have referred to anyone who advocated pushing such lessons on children as &#8220;groomers&#8221; as well, also arguing that they meant to &#8220;sexualize&#8221; children.
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MSNBC&#39;s Nicolle Wallace compares Youngkin and DeSantis&#39; legislation to Russian soldiers raping children. 
&quot;The truth is dehumanization as a tactic for politics is from war. Russians get the soldiers to rape children by dehumanizing them.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kFrQ5gDUWE">pic.twitter.com/kFrQ5gDUWE</a>
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&#8220;You and I even fall into a tradition of our profession of focusing on what works and I think we recently had a conversation about Mitch McConnell and why does he do what he does, because it works, it&#8217;s a political reality,&#8221; Wallace began.
&#8220;I worry that in covering Glenn Youngkin and his politics of &#8216;parental choice,&#8217; all the focus was on how well it worked,&#8221; Wallace continued. &#8220;And even in our conversations about DeSantis it&#8217;s about how well they&#8217;re serving him.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth is dehumanization, as a tactic for politics, is from war,&#8221; Wallace added. &#8220;Dehumanization is — it&#8217;s a tactic, it&#8217;s being used right now. The Russians get their soldiers to rape children by dehumanizing them. Dehumanization as a practice is a tactic of war. It is being deployed in politics and people like you and I sometimes lose the plot and admire its effective — not its substance, but even the analysis of these tactics loses sight of what this speech brings us back to which is that dehumanization has a cost right now. Right now, as it’s deployed.&#8221;
Wallace went on to mention <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/chasten-buttigieg-says-floridas-dont-say-gay-bill-will-push-kids-back-rcna13463">comments</a> made by <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-tells-the-view-co-host-he-agrees-parents-rights-law-in-florida-will-kill-kids/">Chasten Buttigieg</a>, who alleged that legislation like Florida&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education law would ultimately risk the lives of children.
&#8220;This will kill kids, @RonDeSantisFL. You are purposefully making your state a harder place for LGBTQ kids to survive in. In a national survey (@TrevorProject), 42% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide last year. Now they can&#8217;t talk to their teachers?&#8221; Buttigieg tweeted, despite the fact that the law only bans official instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation but does not ban students from talking about those topics with anyone.
&#8220;Kids will die. How do we bring it back to the substance of the harm that is done by a strategy in war and politics of dehumanizing people?&#8221; Wallace concluded.

Nicolle Wallace Accuses DeSantis Of Using ‘Dehumanization’ As A Tactic — Just Like The Russian Soldiers Who Rape Children

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Gender Identity

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Michigan

Parental Rights in Education

Ron DeSantis

Although it is the Christmas season, MSNBC doesn’t seem to have much “goodwill toward men,” as the network spent an entire segment denouncing white evangelical Christians as “the most un-Christian” segment of American society.
“We have … evangelical[s], who are supposedly ‘the most Christian people in the country,’ who practice the most un-Christian ways,” said MSNBC contributor and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dallas-democrat-mayor-rips-matthew-dowd-over-remarks-on-ending-campaign-democrats-have-racism-problem">short-lived candidate for lieutenant governor of Texas</a> Matthew Dowd. He claimed that conservative Christians “don’t believe in common decency, don’t believe in the common good,” and have embraced “the exact opposite of what Jesus preached in the gospels.”
“I actually think we’re in a spiritual-soul crisis in this country,” and evangelical support for President Donald Trump “is the most direct evidence of it,” said Dowd. “We have a fundamental soul problem when we have an entire segment of our society who no longer believes in the fundamental message of Jesus Christ about loving one another and respecting one another, and treating everybody as you want to be treated. They don’t believe that anymore.” Dowd did not use the same standard to evaluate MSNBC personalities who said “there’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-idiot-percentage-of-this-population-that-just-needs-to-be-told-what-to-do">an idiot percentage of this population</a> that just needs to be told what to do” and compared Trump voters to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prager-donny-deutsch-michael-hayden-and-moral-dennis-prager">Nazis</a>.
Dowd went on to say that “every single spiritual faith in the history of the world” has taught the same ethic of selfless love, “whether it’s a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jewish person”; <a href="https://www.djameskennedy.org/devotional-detail/20200527-the-uniqueness-of-christ">all religions</a> have “<a href="https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/08/islamic-state-jesus-is-a-slave-to-allah-who-will-wage-jihad-once-he-returns-to-earth">taught the same fundamental thing</a>.”
Evangelical leaders said Dowd’s criticism rang a familiar bell.
“Let’s not forget that almost every time Jesus taught, some hated Him so fiercely they wanted to kill Him. Jesus warned that same baseless hatred would be hurled at His followers, to which Mr. Dowd is a case in point,&#8221; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told me in an exclusive statement.
Dowd’s comments came during a segment of Tuesday’s “Deadline: White House” in which the host, Nicolle Wallace, made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-repeats-3-discredited-claims-2-in-less-than-a-minute">three factual errors — two within one minute</a>. She offered no retraction on Wednesday’s program.
In the segment, Wallace highlighted an article from Peter Wehner, who also joined her.
Wallace, a former advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain, lamented that evangelical Christians now support Donald Trump when, she claims, they used to support such issues as “climate change,” fighting poverty and malaria, and pushing the U.S. “toward more aggressive action globally.”
“A lot of people who describe themselves as evangelicals have subordinated faith to politics and to partisan passions … and decided that they want to use the Bible to defend things that I think ultimately are indefensible,” said Wehner. White evangelicals’ political sensibilities are driven by an “overblown” sense of “grievances and resentments over decades of being … mocked and ridiculed by the elite [and] the Establishment,” he said without proof.
Christian scholars said it is Dowd and Wehner who have conflated their politics with the Gospel.
“The suggestion that American evangelicals don’t believe in ‘common decency’ or ‘the common good’ reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about the concept of ‘the common good’ and of Christianity,” said Trey Dimsdale, J.D., executive director of the <a href="https://crcd.net/">Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy</a>, a think tank that focuses on religion’s positive contribution to society. “From the very earliest days of the American republic, American Christians have strived to make our culture one that is open, free, and one of mutual support and affection in which non-Christians and non-Americans can flourish.”
Conservative Christians reject sweeping, top-down, government-centered policies precisely because they believe those policies do not contribute to the common good, which is better served by private philanthropy. The fact that conservative evangelicals hold “a different vision based on different conceptions of ‘the good’ is not something that should be surprising or even scandalous, but a byproduct of a plural society and should be welcomed,” Dimsdale, who is an evangelical Christian, told The Daily Wire exclusively. “Christians of different persuasions and those of other religious commitments are welcomed to participate in our common civic life and pursue the good that is common to all of us.”
Dowd seemingly misquoted Jesus during the interview, claiming that Jesus told people to “forget about the kingdom of God, and forget about Heaven, just love one another.” In reality, Jesus told people to “<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206%3A33&amp;version=NKJV">seek first the kingdom of God</a>.” The Bible mentions the terms “kingdom of God” or “kingdom of Heaven” 101 times.
&#8220;If we talk about Jesus, let’s make sure it’s the Jesus of the Bible, who said, ‘<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A15-21&amp;version=NKJV">If you love Me, keep My commandments</a>,’” said Perkins. “America’s soul problem results from its truth problem: a denial of God, His Word, and its application to our lives.”
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Today – Season 64

‘We Have’ Evangelicals ‘Who Practice The Most Un-Christian Ways’: MSNBC Contributor

Christianity

Christians

Evangelicals

Media Bias

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace admitted on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Deadline: White House&#8221; that she is a &#8220;Fauci-groupie&#8221; — and said that she worried that despite her own hyper-vigilance and adherence to mask-wearing recommendations, she would not be able to &#8220;outrun&#8221; the Omicron variant.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-falsely-claims-trump-ryan-saavedra/">Wallace</a>, who previously served as communications directer for former President George W. Bush and as an advisor for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, made the comments during a conversation with Dr. Anne Rimoin of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
&#8220;Can I just be super blunt? Is everyone going to get it? Everyone I know has COVID right now,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/msnbcs-wallace-claims-she-misspoke-saying-trump-ryan-saavedra/">Wallace</a> began.
Rimoin said that no, not everyone would get COVID — especially if they observed the precautions and guidelines put forth by public health officials.
&#8220;How?&#8221; Wallace interrupted, adding, &#8220;I have used all those tools. I am triple-vaxxed, I wear a mask everywhere except when I sit down, and I put it on before I get up. And I am going to get it. How do you not get Omicron?&#8221;
&#8220;Nicolle, that’s very fatalistic. I know how you feel,&#8221; Rimoin replied, saying that the best thing to do is take any possible steps to at least slow the rate of transmission and protect the health care systems from being overrun. &#8220;The masks make a very big difference. I would wear a very high quality KN-95 mask. I think that would make a big difference in terms of this.&#8221;
Rimoin went on to say that the typical precautions such as <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/im-an-athlete-im-not-an-activist-aaron-rodgers-ready-to-move-on-from-covid-vaccine-controversy/">getting vaccinated</a> and avoiding places that were especially crowded would also help to keep the virus from spreading.
&#8220;We should do what we can to avoid getting it. And understand that if we have done everything we can, we are going to have a mild version, and that’s much better,&#8221; Rimoin continued. &#8220;I get how you feel. So does the rest of the country. But there are things we can do to minimize it.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t feel frustrated. I actually feel relieved. It seems like this is — if you are going to get one of them, this is the one to get,&#8221; Wallace said, apparently referencing reports that the Omicron variant has resulted in much faster transmission but lesser symptoms. &#8220;I have got three shots in nine months and I wear my mask everywhere, if I am going to get one, I want this one not the next one.&#8221;
Wallace went on to ask Rimoin about the trend pivoting from reporting on the number of cases and focusing instead on the number of hospitalizations and deaths.
&#8220;The metric we need to worry about is the hospitalizations,&#8221; Rimoin agreed, noting that the primary concern for those in the health care field was to make sure that hospitals could continue to treat not just COVID patients but patients who required admission or treatment for other issues.
&#8220;Our bottom line is we just want to be able to protect the health system,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;But how do we prevent those hospitalizations? By reducing cases.&#8221;
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Hot video this week: Nicolle Wallace announcing she&#8217;s a &#8220;Fauci groupie,&#8221; buys KN-95 masks by the case, triple-vaxxed. And still scared of the Omicron. <a href="https://t.co/qsUSGS7U3J">pic.twitter.com/qsUSGS7U3J</a>
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&#8220;You see how difficult this is for this administration. I mean I am a Fauci groupie. A thrice-vaccinated mask adherent. I buy KN-95 masks by the case load, they are in every pocket,&#8221; Wallace continued, bringing in panelists Jason Johnson and former Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. &#8220;I wear them everywhere except when I sit down. And I am certain that this is not a variant I can outrun. And I wonder where you think the sort of conversation is heading at this moment, Jason?&#8221;
&#8220;It’s what you were saying, Nicolle. It is sort of a fatalism or a nihilism,&#8221; Johnson responded. &#8220;This Saturday, right, it’s Christmas, I’m hanging out with friends, and having dinner, a very, very small environment. When I was texting people to say merry Christmas, the most common response I got back was, &#8216;Oh, yeah, and I got got. I got COVID. I am not with my family because I am sick.&#8217; I know seven people who have gotten COVID in the last ten days. All these people are vaccinated and most of them are boosted. There is a sense out there right now, people are like, my goodness the same things I have been doing to be careful, that have kept me safe for a year and a half, are no longer working.&#8221;

‘I’m A Fauci-Groupie’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Brags About Buying KN-95 Masks ‘By The Caseload,’ Carrying One ‘In Every Pocket’

COVID

Omicron Variant

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, who continuously accuses Fox News of promoting “misinformation,” repeated three widely discredited stories about former President Donald Trump during a single, 13-minute segment of Tuesday’s “Deadline: White House” — two of them within one minute of each other. One of the stories directly contradicted video footage she had just shown.
Claim #1: Lafayette Square redux
Wallace devoted a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybxddn3dk4I">full segment</a> to criticizing the Trump family for its alleged disdain of the Bible. “Hyper-masculine, real men,” she said, “show their faith by gassing protesters in Lafayette Square in order to — for the sole purpose of — being able to hoist a Bible above Trump’s head as a photo prop, upside-down I believe, in front of St. John’s church.” (Emphasis in original.)
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Last June 1, President Trump visited the St. John’s Episcopal Church, often called “the church of presidents,” which rioters set fire to during arson-tinged unrest. Although the legacy media — and <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1267634400080117761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1267634400080117761%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Finspector-general-debunks-claims-made-by-biden-harris-left-wing-media-against-trump">candidate Joe Biden</a> — accused the president of ordering the U.S. Park Police to spray people with tear gas in order to stage a “photo op,” an official government report released under the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inspector-general-debunks-claims-made-by-biden-harris-left-wing-media-against-trump">cleared</a> Trump of those charges.
“The evidence we reviewed showed that the USPP cleared the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing in response to destruction of [f]ederal property and injury to officers that occurred on May 30 and May 31,” the <a href="https://doioig.opengov.ibmcloud.com/sites/doioig.gov/files/Final%20Statement_0.pdf">report</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inspector-general-debunks-claims-made-by-biden-harris-left-wing-media-against-trump">said</a>. USPP officials “made those decisions” and began clearing the area “several hours before they knew of a potential [p]residential visit to the park, which occurred later that day.”
Claim #2: Trump said ‘The Art of the Deal’ is better than the Bible
That lie came less than 60 seconds after Wallace played a clip of an interview with then-candidate Trump saying he would not name his favorite Bible passage, because his faith was “very personal.”
“The Bible clearly is so special to Donald Trump that in that moment, he couldn’t think of a single passage that he liked, and it was second only to The Art of the Deal,” Wallace said, citing the president’s book.
But in the video she had just played, the future president told Bloomberg News that he considered the Bible his favorite book, not his own bestseller. When people at his campaign rallies “hold up The Art of the Deal, I say, ‘My second favorite book of all time.’ But I just think the Bible is just something very special,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/briantashman/status/1267599254325014531">said</a>.
“The whole Bible is incredible,” he said.
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Donald Trump unable to name one verse from &quot;favorite book,&quot; The Bible <a href="https://t.co/x9CBK51Fj5">pic.twitter.com/x9CBK51Fj5</a>
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Claim #3: Trump called people who serve in the military “losers”
Later in the segment, Wallace repeated another long-discredited, anti-Trump canard: that Donald Trump refused to visit a military cemetery and called fallen U.S. soldiers “losers.”
Wallace said Trump&#8217;s alleged hostility to the Bible sounded like “a direct echo” of “an earlier Atlantic [magazine] piece about Donald Trump calling those who served our country in the military suckers. … He had horrible things to say about anyone who had been injured or lost their life serving this country. So if you serve your country, you’re a sucker. If you read and adhere to the teachings of the Bible, you’re a sucker.”
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&quot;That stoking of anger is so deliberate&#8230; Anger is a very powerful force in politics. I went to Trump rallies often during the campaigns in 2016 and 2020, and there&#39;s a deliberate stoking of anger&#8230;&quot; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/KattyKay_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KattyKay_</a> w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NicolleDWallace</a> <a href="https://t.co/djaxbyMQ7w">pic.twitter.com/djaxbyMQ7w</a>
&mdash; Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1475980342217555972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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An article published in The Atlantic in September 2020 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anonymous-sources-tell-mag-trump-called-dead-troops-losers-5-witnesses-go-on-record-to-dispute">asserted</a> that President Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris “because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead.” It went on to cite anonymous sources who claimed President Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”
But no fewer than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/10-witnesses-go-on-the-record-stating-atlantic-report-on-trump-denigrating-troops-is-a-lie-2">10 people</a> — including former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-bolton-already-debunked-key-claim-in-atlantic-report-on-trumps-alleged-comments-on-dead-soldiers">National Security Adviser John Bolton</a>, who became an indefatigable Trump foe — went on the record to say The Atlantic’s story wasn&#8217;t true. “It was entirely a weather-related decision, and I thought the proper thing to do. I never heard he made that kind of comment about another country’s forces either, no,” said Bolton.
Former presidential counselor Johnny DeStefano said plainly, “I was on this trip. The Atlantic bit is not true. Period.” Former acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Trump “was outwardly in awe of the accomplishments of the Allied Forces, and the sacrifices they paid,” as he surveyed the battlefield on the 75thanniversary of D-Day.
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I was on this trip. The Atlantic bit is not true. Period. <a href="https://t.co/gf88OoRYla">https://t.co/gf88OoRYla</a>
&mdash; Johnny DeStefano (@johnnydestefano) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnnydestefano/status/1301885340345565186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Atlantic’s owner, Laurene Powell Jobs, has donated more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlantic-owner-is-biden-megadonor-close-to-storys-author-sixth-witness-trump-opponent-disputes-story">$1.2 million to Democratic candidates</a> since 2019.
Wallace has repeatedly accused Fox News and other conservative news outlets of spreading “misinformation.”
Last January, Wallace — a former campaign strategist to John McCain — said only people who share &#8220;the truth” should be able to speak on the air, especially about the 2020 presidential election. “It would be my policy that a Republican must assert the truth before they’re allowed to share any other views,” she <a href="https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/01/21/msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-republicans-must-assert-the-truth-before-theyre-allowed-to-share-any-other-views-n313903">said</a>.
“If we can protect against counterfeit dollar bills, we should be able to protect against fake news that we now know has the potential to kill people,” <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1352009478544224265">concluded</a> Wallace.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NicolleDWallace</a> calls for the permanent expulsion and punishment for any and all forms of conservative media that run counter to her political views. She says Republicans should be BANNED from speaking unless they first speak &quot;the truth.&quot;
So, what camp am I going to, Nicolle? <a href="https://t.co/h0cpvxitKd">pic.twitter.com/h0cpvxitKd</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1352009478544224265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Will Wallace follow her own standard and step down from her show — or even issue a correction?
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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MSNBC Host Repeats 3 Discredited Claims — 2 In Less Than A Minute

Bible

Lafayette Park

The Atlantic

Although the most lurid allegations of the Steele dossier about alleged connections between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia received saturation coverage for more than two years, the legacy media have largely ignored the indictment of the dossier’s prime source. When they have covered Special Prosecutor John Durham’s indictment of Igor Danchenko for lying, they have referred to it as a “smear,” a “so-called” investigation, or proof that the dossier has been “further vetted.”
On Wednesday, November 3, John Durham issued a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sco/press-release/file/1446386/download">39-page indictment</a> of Igor Danchenko, a U.S.-based Russian citizen who formerly worked at the left-of-center Brookings Institution. Fiona Hill introduced Danchenko to Christopher Steele, who was hired by the Democratic National Committee to compile a dossier of allegations about the Trump campaign’s ties to Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Danchenko created such unfounded rumors as claiming that future President Trump once hired Russian prostitutes to urinate on a Moscow bed where Barack Obama had slept. The indictment says Danchenko was responsible for “the allegation that there were communications ongoing between the Trump campaign and Russian officials and that … the Kremlin might be of help in getting Trump elected.”
Based on Danchenko’s alleged inside sources, the FBI wrote that there was “a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership,” because Vladimir Putin “feared” Hillary Clinton. And the FBI used the dossier to petition for four successive warrants to spy on Trump campaign official Carter Page. But that all turned out to be false.
Although Danchencko told the FBI that he obtained his information from Russians with direct knowledge of the allegations, an American public relations executive named Charles Dolan Jr. has <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/04/durham-probe-analyst-tied-to-christopher-steele-trump-russia-dossier-arrested.html">stepped forward</a> as the source of the misinformation. Durham has charged Danchenko with five counts of making false statements to federal investigators; the Russian could face a fine and up to <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001">five years in prison</a> for each of the five counts.
While the allegations led to hours of banter on CNN and MSNBC, the refutation took virtually no time. The networks’ prime time hosts, who have led their broadcasts with in-depth coverage of congressional subpoenas against former Trump administration officials, have all but ignored the Danchenko indictment.
The most recent coverage came on Friday afternoon when Nicolle Wallace, the host of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” who claimed the indictment merely meant the Steele dossier was being “further vetted.”
“If you peek over at right-wing media, they are still taking a victory lap and feeling avenged around the dossier being further vetted,” she said. She then asserted that “most people covered it as, sort of, unvetted but something that was out there,” although she admitted that “other people went farther [sic] than that.”
She then asked her guest, Clint Watts, to “speak to how far from reality this information space is at this point, by nature.”
Only Rachel Maddow covered the indictment in prime time, on November 4. “The unmistakable impression is that this indictment is designed to smear Christopher Steele’s intelligence reports as things that were deliberately made up and concocted by rascally Democrats,” <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-show-11-4-21-n1283316">said</a> Rachel Maddow on Thursday, November 4. She then attempted to support the veracity of the Steele dossier by interviewing former FBI agent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/peter-strzok">Peter Strzok</a>.
MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson referred to the indictment as the product of “the so-called Durham investigation.” Her guest, Ken Dilanian, then said, “Republicans, of course, are seizing on this in support of their longtime assertion that this whole Trump-Russian investigation is a hoax, is unfounded.”
CNN took a similar approach. “John Durham appears to be doing with these cases is trying to get at the dossier,” <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnr/date/2021-11-04/segment/08">said</a> CNN “justice correspondent” Evan Perez on November 4. “And I&#8217;ve got to tell you, having spent time looking at this, including the fact that the former president&#8217;s campaign chair was himself compromised by the Russians, back in 2016, it&#8217;s hard to say that the FBI had no reason to investigate some of these things.”
Even when the hosts tried to be honest, they allowed their guests to state misinformation without any correction. On November 4, CNN’s Jake Tapper referred to the Steele dossier as “that dossier of unproven, disproven, and lurid allegations about Trump.” But his guest, former Watergate figure John Dean, insisted without evidence that “there are things coming up about the fact the server between Moscow and the Trump headquarters was real, and there is more information coming out about that by experts who say, ‘Hey, this wasn’t a bogus report.’ There really were communications going on.”
In reality, the FBI <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/the-anatomy-the-clinton-campaigns-alfa-bank-smear">dismissed</a> allegations that the Trump campaign maintained a server that communicated surreptitiously with the Moscow-based Alfa Bank in 2017.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Igor Danchenko Arraigned For Charges Of Making False Statements To FBI

‘Smear,’ ‘So-Called’ Investigation: Networks Ignore And Spin Steele Dossier Indictment

John Durham

Steele Dossier

Thirteen years after the bruising 2008 presidential election made Sarah Palin’s family the target of endless media smears, Meghan McCain said members of her father’s presidential campaign “set [Palin] up for failure” and indicted members of the legacy media for trying to make Palin “look bad.”
“I have a whole new lens of viewing how Sarah Palin was treated,” said the younger McCain during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Tuesday night.
“The people working for my father’s campaign really, in my opinion, treated her really horribly — set her up for failure,” she said.
During the 2008 campaign, Palin became the focus of numerous media <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/trashing-of-sarah-palin">leaks</a> that she lacked intelligence, obsessed over <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/us/politics/23palin.html">expensive clothing</a>, and branded her a “<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2010/01/steve-schmidts-war-against-palin-031420">whack job</a>.” McCain said the legacy media gladly facilitated the internal war between the Republican Party’s more liberal elements and its conservative, grassroots base.
McCain referred to former “Today” show host “Katie Couric talking about how Ruth Bader Ginsburg is someone she helped look good” by concealing comments the justice made critical of NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem. “I thought, ‘Well obviously, she probably put Sarah Palin in a position to look bad,’” said McCain. “And by the way, [former McCain campaign strategist] Nicolle Wallace was the person who facilitated that interview, who now has a show on MSNBC.” Wallace now hosts the network’s dependably alarmist, two-hour “Deadline: White House” from 4 to 6 p.m. Eastern time.
The media verified McCain’s claims at the time. Two days after the 2008 election, CNN’s Campbell Brown <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/06/ec.01.html">reported</a> that “top advisers to John McCain&#8217;s failed campaign” are “desperate right now to find someone to blame for their long, long list of mistakes. They have been launching grenades at Palin and her supporters. Some of their allegations, we at CNN we have found to be patently false.” The next day her colleague, Anderson Cooper, <a href="https://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/07/palin-camp-fires-back-over-claims-by-some-mccain-aides/">reported</a>, “Former McCain campaign aides have been sources for a string of embarrassing stories about Palin that have become public since GOP defeat Tuesday night.”
Far from being a drag on McCain’s popularity, the RealClearPolitics <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html">average of polls</a> showed that the only time McCain led Barack Obama after Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination was a 10-day period stretching from shortly after John McCain <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/29/mccain-nears-vice-presidential-pick/">named</a> Palin his vice president until <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/story/lehman-employees-describe-feelings-of-anger-and-uncertainty">Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy</a>, considered the height of the subprime mortgage crisis at the heart of the 2008 economic recession. Meghan McCain has <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinehoward/2010/08/31/sarah-palin-meghan-mccain-election-dirty-sexy-politics/">always rejected</a> notions that Palin had a negative impact on the ticket.
Yet the legacy media and the Republican Party establishment continued to hound Palin long after the 2008 election ended. Shortly after election day, numerous media outlets <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/editorial-reporting-fake-source-on-africa-story-about-palin-irresponsible/">reported</a> the fake story that Palin thought Africa was a country rather than a continent. The error — which was reported by MSNBC’s David Schuster, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and Fox News — allegedly came from a McCain campaign insider named Martin Eisenstadt, who turned out to be a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111202624.html">fictional character</a> created by two independent filmmakers.
Nicolle Wallace would become a short-term host on “The View” before Meghan McCain filled the conservative seat — which she said had been occupied by “women who claim to be Republican and are not, in my opinion.” McCain said she took the job on her father’s advice, because “I do think it’s important that we have to fight the culture war in their spaces, because quite frankly I think we’re losing it.”
Yet McCain says her communications skills actually harmed her relationship with her liberal co-hosts. “Being a conservative woman in mainstream media is deeply threatening; being a woman who can hold her own on a show like that proved to be ultimately threatening,” she said. “The more I pressed liberal candidates and liberal guests on the show, the worse it got for me backstage. And then ultimately, it started spilling out on air.” McCain left the show of her own volition this year, with two years left on her contract.
McCain said her views have become more conservative as part of her maturation process. “I fell in love with a really, deeply conservative man who runs <a href="https://thefederalist.com/">The Federalist</a>,” referring to her husband, Fox News personality Ben Domenech. “I have gotten older. It’s like the old adage: ‘If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you don’t have a heart; if you’re not conservative when you’re old, you don’t have a brain.’”
“I just really hope that the culture has some redemption for Sarah Palin in the same way that we have for so many other women right now,” she said.
You can watch her exchange with Sean Hannity below:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJK7dC_Yts">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJK7dC_Yts</a>
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The fact that the state of Texas has successfully enacted a law protecting unborn children with a detectable <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-suggests-babies-dont-have-a-heartbeat-at-6-weeks-heres-what-science-says">fetal heartbeat</a> from abortion has sent left-wingers into paroxysms of anger and outrage. A mere week after Texas enacted a pro-life fetal heartbeat law, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department had sued to try to overturn it. Lawsuits are the currency of our constitutional system, the way that good laws are upheld and tyrannical ones dashed on the Constitution — but they’re not good enough for many on the Left; many left-wing activists want to see pro-life advocates thrown in jail.
The pulse of left-wing rage coincided with the Texas heartbeat law. For the first time in decades, judicial activists on the Supreme Court failed to abort a pro-life law before it could take effect — touching off calls for legal retribution against pro-life lawmakers. “Maybe [former Special Counsel Robert] Mueller will look into” whether there’s “collusion” between pro-life lawmakers and “far-Right” members of the U.S. Supreme Court, said MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace; specifically, she hoped he would investigate “<a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1435355161178820608">whether it’s a crime</a>.”
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Unfortunately, Wallace’s comments do not merely expose left-wingers’ desire to jail any public official — including members of the Supreme Court — who does not do their bidding. (So much for “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/trump-roberts-judges-judiciary/index.html">judicial independence</a>.”) They expose the ease with which those on the Left weaponize the legal system to harass Americans who act on their pro-life convictions. Elected allies of the abortion lobby have a decades-long history of exploiting the full power and resources of the federal government to spy on average American citizens, convincing them to sign away their own First Amendment rights, and even prosecuting them for dubious-sounding charges that carry very real jail sentences.
One of the most recent example comes from New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), a far-Left progressive who rose to fame by persecuting the NRA and for writing the report on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down">Governor Andrew Cuomo’s alleged sexual harassment</a>. But her office has been involved in harassment of another kind, against evangelical Christian members of the <a href="https://rockny.org/">Church at The Rock</a> and its pastor, Rev. Kenneth Griepp.
Members of that congregation spend a few hours every Saturday morning as <a href="https://sidewalkadvocates.org/">sidewalk counselors</a> outside the Choices abortion facility in Jamaica, Queens. If women entering the facility consent, parishioners will listen to the women’s troubles, pray with them, and offer to help pregnant women find the resources they need to carry their children to term.
The New York Attorney General’s office seemingly colluded with the abortion facility to shut down these acts of compassion. The office launched a yearlong investigation into the counselors five years ago, under the scandal-plagued AG <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-ny-ag-schneiderman-resigns-after-hank-berrien">Eric Schneiderman</a>. He used taxpayer funds to install and mount surveillance cameras on the abortion facility, and to equip abortion facility workers with bodycams to monitor pro-life advocates for any potential legal violation. The investigation continued under Schneiderman’s successors, Barbara Underwood and James.
After several years, they basically came up with bupkis.
Nonetheless, with her office that deeply invested, James <a href="https://freebeacon.com/courts/new-york-ag-snooped-on-pro-life-activists/">prosecuted</a> the counselors for forms of harassment and obstructing the entrance. Some of the charges are laughably off-base. The AG <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/18-2454/18-2454-2021-03-10.html">accused</a> a sidewalk counselor of obstructing the entrance to an abortion facility when an abortion facility escort stepped in front of a woman to block the counselor from talking to her. One counselor told abortion facility workers to repent because “the people who went to work on 9/11 didn’t know what was going to happen that day, you never know when you’re going to die.” James cited several examples of this run-of-the-mill Christian statement as a threat of “force.”
James asked the courts for a preliminary injunction, an order legally compelling the sidewalk counselors to stop helping women. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals last month refused to grant it, noting she “failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits as to most claims.”
James’ legal crusade “looks to all the world that this is a targeting of pro-life activists who happen to be persistent and effective,” Stephen Crampton, senior counsel at the Thomas More Society, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/courts/new-york-ag-snooped-on-pro-life-activists/">told</a> The Washington Free Beacon. “So, the dirty work here is done by the state and not the clinic itself.”
It wouldn’t be the first time.
The most egregious example may be the Obama Justice Department’s federal case against Mary Susan Pine. Pine felt such intense regret over her own abortion that she tries to convince other women not to make the same mistake she made. On the anniversary of her abortion, a car stopped at a West Palm Beach abortion facility and agreed to receive a pamphlet from Pine.
Attorney General Eric Holder filed a federal lawsuit against Pine for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, signed by Bill Clinton in 1994. Holder made no effort to interview the “victims,” and he allowed the abortion facility to destroy its surveillance footage of the incident.
A federal judge not only laughed Holder out of court, but accused the Obama administration of colluding with the abortionists to “violate Ms. Pine’s right to free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
“The [c]ourt is at a loss as to why the [g]overnment chose to prosecute this particular case in the first place,” ruled the late federal Judge Kenneth Ryskamp, a <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kenneth_Ryskamp">Reagan appointee</a>. “It is rather curious that the Department of Justice was able to meet with the [abortion facility] staff and police officers the very next day after the alleged violation occurred.”
“The [c]ourt can only wonder whether this action was the product of a concerted effort between the [g]overnment and the [abortion facility], which began well before the date of the incident at issue, to quell Ms. Pine’s activities,” he <a href="https://www.jillstanek.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/OrderGrantingSJ011312.pdf">ruled</a>.
Ultimately, the DOJ dropped the case and paid Pine <a href="https://lifelegaldefensefoundation.org/federal-judge-hits-the-brakes-on-another-face-case/">$120,000</a>. Unfortunately, she was the exception, rather than the rule. In many cases — including one involving an 80-year-old man — the defendants simply backed down from the David vs. Goliath battle and signed consent decrees. Curiously, the Obama administration <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Letters/20160927_FACEActResponse.pdf">consistently sought</a> to bar sidewalk counselors from standing closer than 18-to-25 feet from the facilities’ entrance. The Supreme Court unanimously <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-1168_6k47.pdf">struck down</a> excessive free-speech barriers around abortion facilities in a 2014 decision (McCullen v. Coakley, written by Chief Justice John Roberts).
Notably, the justices unanimously ruled that sidewalk counselors engage in “caring, consensual conversations” with abortion-minded women. Pro-life advocates “consider it essential to maintain a caring demeanor, a calm tone of voice, and direct eye contact during these exchanges,” all nine justices said, because the pro-life advocates believe compassion is “a much more effective means of dissuading women from having abortions than confrontational methods such as shouting or brandishing signs, which in petitioners’ view tend only to antagonize their intended audience.”
Yet Letitia James has kept prosecuting these “caring” people as a top priority, as have Democrats since at least the 1990s.
During their <a href="https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/dj-two/">co-presidency</a>, Bill and Hillary Clinton launched an investigation dubbed “Violence Against Abortion Providers Conspiracy” (VAAPCON), which performed <a href="https://nypost.com/2000/07/02/pro-lifers-as-terrorists/">deep surveillance</a> on pro-life leaders and organizations. After months of tapping their phone lines and rifling through their mail (it was the 90s), it found absolutely nothing. After a brief respite under President George W. Bush, federal persecution returned during the Obama administration. Along with Tea Party groups, the IRS harassed pro-life organizations applying for non-profit status. And the administration again targeted sidewalk counselors.
In 2012, FBI agents appeared at the home of a pro-life advocate named Andy Moore, a native of New Zealand, and asked him to name names or potentially face deportation. Moore had been reported for an unspecified noise violation (no charges ever came of it). He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bnaS8JjF0">told me</a> that the agents asked him questions like, “What affiliations do you have, including church groups?” They noted that Moore, who was at that time not yet a U.S. citizen, could be deported to his native New Zealand, helpfully telling him, “You wouldn’t want to be apart from your wife and newborn.” Critics said it sounded as though the federal government threatened him with deportation unless he helped agents compile another <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLBRL0-Mxuo">intelligence dossier of the pro-life movement</a>.
The desire to punish the most effective pro-life advocates pulsated through Democrat-dominated states like California. When undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt shared candid video footage exposing Planned Parenthood officials’ apparent violation of numerous laws (including profiting from the sale of aborted body parts and performing the illegal partial birth abortion procedure), the government filed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalists-charged-15-felonies-undercover-videos-amanda-prestigiacomo">15 felony charges</a> … against the journalists. The case was opened under then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris and continued under her successor, Xavier Becerra, who is now secretary of Health and Human Services.
Now, Harris and Becerra join Merrick Garland in wielding the full power and resources of the Biden administration against those who threaten the abortion industry’s bottom line. Their extremism threatens the rights of pro-life advocates nationwide. And their politicization of routine criminal investigation threatens us all.
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