A new poll could signal trouble for President Joe Biden as former President Donald Trump holds a big lead in a hypothetical head-to-head. 
The Washington Post-ABC News <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/24/biden-trump-poll-2024-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> has Trump, the GOP frontrunner, with a ten percentage point lead over Biden among registered voters, at 52% to 42%, well beyond the 3.5 percentage point <a href="https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1230a3PresidentialPolitics.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">margin of error</a>. Biden’s approval rating on top issues for voters, including the economy and immigration, shows the president faces an uphill battle in 2024 over topics far beyond his age. 
“The latest ABC/Washington Post Poll has Trump beating Biden by 10% and they are desperately scrambling trying to call it an ‘outlier,’” chair of the House Republican Conference, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), posted on X. “It’s not an outlier. The elitist Left and their stenographers in the mainstream media should talk to more voters across America. President Trump has historic support in Upstate New York and all across the country!”
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Good morning! 
The latest ABC/Washington Post Poll has Trump beating Biden by 10% and they are desperately scrambling trying to call it an “outlier.”
It’s not an outlier. The elitist Left and their stenographers in the mainstream media should talk to more voters across America.… <a href="https://t.co/sH13O3M82C">pic.twitter.com/sH13O3M82C</a>
&mdash; Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1705926695415349372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Post described the results as an “outlier.” According to the RealClearPolitics <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-election-trump-vs-biden-7383.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">average</a> of polls, Trump holds a 1.1 percentage point lead over Biden. Of the twelve most recent polls included in the average, Trump beats Biden in five, while Biden beats Trump in three, and four are ties. 
According to the new WaPo/ABC News poll, the majority of voters, 74%, believe Biden is too old for a second term, up six percentage points <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from</a> May. Biden&#8217;s approval rating for the economy, which is consistently at the top of voters’ priorities, sits at 30%, despite his administration touting “Bidenomics.&#8221; His approval on the border issue is a dismal 23%, and the president&#8217;s overall approval rating is 37%, with 56% disapproval. Trump, who left office with a 38% approval rating, now has a retrospective 48% approval for his performance in the White House, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a>. 
The former president also has a commanding lead among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, with 54% supporting his bid for the GOP nomination. His next closest challenger, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is at 15%, followed by the remainder of the candidates in single digits, the survey found. In May, DeSantis was at 25%, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/24/biden-trump-poll-2024-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post</a>. 
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Most Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, 62%, believe the party should nominate someone besides Biden, while just a third support another term for the president. Despite this, Biden is <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/24_democratic_presidential_nomination-8171.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling well ahead</a> of the two other Democratic candidates, Robert F. Kennedy and self-help author Marianne Williamson. 
As for who the alternative could be, 8% said Vice President Kamala Harris, 8% said Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders, 7% said Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and 20% said “someone else.” 
“Left-wing ABC News/WashPost poll has Trump up 10 points (!) over Biden. By comparison, ABC/WP poll from September 2019 had Biden up 15 points,” Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief at The Federalist, <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1705825403124723945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X. “The poll tends to dramatically overstate Democrat support &#8230; its final 2020 poll had Biden up 12, for example.”
Trump touted his poll numbers in his decision to skip the first Republican debate in August, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-sit-for-interview-with-tucker-carlson-skip-first-gop-debate-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?” The decision appears to have not affected his national poll numbers. Trump will also skip the second GOP debate on Wednesday to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-skip-next-republican-debate-give-speech-auto-issues-aide-2023-09-18/#:~:text=Sept%2018%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Former,workers%20and%20America's%20leading%20automakers." target="_blank" rel="noopener">give a speech</a> to striking auto workers in Detroit.

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New WaPo/ABC News Poll Shows Trump With Commanding Lead Over Biden

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Social media platform X, formerly called Twitter, issued a brutal context update on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> piece about Barstool founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dave-portnoy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dave Portnoy</a>, who earlier in the week taped a call he had confronting one of the reporters writing what he deemed a &#8220;hit piece.&#8221;
During his taped conversation, Portnoy pressed reporter Emily Heil about why she was contacting participating pizzerias and sponsors of his &#8220;One Bite Pizza Festival&#8221; and seemingly asking them to defend their decision to participate in the event, while describing Portnoy as having a &#8220;history of misogynistic comments and other problematic behavior.&#8221; Notably, Heil told Portnoy on the call that she wanted the advertisers to think something negative was going to be printed, which she said is a press tactic used to get a response.
&#8220;A phone call between Emily Heil and Dave Portney was shared prior to publication, in which the WaPo journalist admits to intentionally misleading advertisers into speaking negatively of the One Bite Pizza Festival,&#8221; X said in a note labeled &#8220;Readers added context,&#8221; adding, &#8220;They agreed to an interview the next day but Wapo cancelled.&#8221;
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This weekend, New York will host Dave Portnoy&#39;s One Bite Pizza Festival.
Participating pizzerias have had to navigate buzz around the festival and backlash against the Barstool Sports founder&#39;s controversial remarks and allegations of sexual misconduct. <a href="https://t.co/v2XqLxkJwg">https://t.co/v2XqLxkJwg</a>
&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1705322338189705308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s surreal we live in a country where activist reporters can openly get caught lying and admitting they are creating a false narrative to generate engagement and controversy AND still publish the article,&#8221; Portnoy commented following the Post&#8217;s publication of the story.
In a video of the call, which has garnered 43 million views, Portnoy pressed Heil about her journalism tactics. &#8220;We have this Pizzafest happening on Saturday, and you’re reaching out to our advertisers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You’re basically sending an email that says, to the effect, ‘Dave’s a misogynic racist. Do you want to defend yourselves advertising at this event?’ Right?”
“We are planning to write about the festival and how some of the sponsors and participants have drawn criticism by seeming to associate themselves with Dave Portnoy, who has a history of misogynistic comments and other problematic behavior,” Portnoy read Heil&#8217;s email.
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During the conversation, the reporter shockingly told Portnoy, &#8220;You know, sometimes you have to say something like this is like, you know, it&#8217;s sort of a reporting tactic. When you want someone to respond, you kind of have to indicate that there might be something negative and then you get them to engage. That&#8217;s all I was trying to do.&#8221;
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It&#39;s surreal we live in a country where activist reporters can openly get caught lying and admitting they are creating a false narrative to generate engagement and controversy AND still publish the article <a href="https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M">https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M</a> <a href="https://t.co/R9wk8B9d3V">pic.twitter.com/R9wk8B9d3V</a>
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1705333557860696414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Portnoy on Saturday commented on the Post receiving the context update from X. &#8220;That [Washington Post] got community noted for lying,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Ain&#8217;t no fun when the rabbit got the gun.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> got community noted for lying 😂😂😂. Ain&#39;t no fun when the rabbit got the gun <a href="https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M">https://t.co/kUtVMsFI9M</a>
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1705558780765782366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Notably, none of Portnoy&#8217;s sponsors pulled out of the event, despite the Post&#8217;s apparent efforts.
&#8220;None of the pizzerias or sponsors contacted by The Post indicated that they were pulling their support,&#8221; the piece said. &#8220;Some said they lent their name and reputation to the event in exchange for publicity or access to the young, social media-savvy audience that Portnoy attracts. And some support Portnoy, whom they see as a champion of small business. His pizza reviews, they say, can increase revenue up to 50 percent. They point out that his Barstool Fund has raised tens of millions of dollars to help restaurants and other small businesses during the pandemic.&#8221;
Portnoy&#8217;s supporters cracked jokes about the Post during the festival, and when the Barstool CEO ran into a New York Times reporter, he told the pizza shop owner that the reporter is &#8220;bad news.&#8221;
&#8220;New York Times reporter trying to play nice to my face,&#8221; he captioned video of the interaction. &#8220;I know they&#8217;re nothing but bad news.&#8221;
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New York Times reporter trying to play nice to my face. I know they’re nothing but bad news <a href="https://t.co/JcERlGvpFE">pic.twitter.com/JcERlGvpFE</a>
&mdash; Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href="https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1705724251272073643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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X Adds Brutal ‘Context’ Update To WaPo ‘Hit Piece’ After Dave Portnoy Tapes Call With Reporter

X, Formerly Twitter, Adds Brutal ‘Context’ Update To WaPo ‘Hit Piece’ On Dave Portnoy

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One of the leading Left-leaning newspapers in the U.S. came out staunchly against the Senate’s new dress code, or lack thereof, on Tuesday.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> editorial board panned the policy, which was confirmed by Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) on Sunday. The paper said the new dress code – which places the personal taste of each senator above the traditional, formal dress requirement – lacks respect for the chamber, regarded as the greatest deliberative body in the world.
“We vote nay,” the Post’s editorial board <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/19/senate-dress-code-john-fetterman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> regarding Schumer’s change to the Senate’s floor dress code.
“Dressing formally conveys respect for the sanctity of the institution and for the real-world impact of the policies it advances. Putting on a suit creates an occasion for lawmakers to reflect, just for a moment, on the special responsibilities with which the people have entrusted them and on a deliberative process that at least aspires to solemnity,” the editorial continues.
The Post warned that Schumer’s decision, widely viewed as a hand out to Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, could turn the Senate floor into a showcase of odd outfits with obtrusive political messaging.
“Ultracasual though it is, Mr. Fetterman’s clothing probably doesn’t represent the bottom of the slippery slope upon which Mr. Schumer has set Senate style,” the board says. “It is, however, all too imaginable that attention-seeking lawmakers will don T-shirts emblazoned with the names and mascots of their hometown sports franchises — or inflammatory partisan messages — hoping to go viral on social media and garner small-dollar donations.”
Schumer announced the change, which some are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-senators-are-reacting-to-fetterman-rule-dress-code" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> the ‘Fetterman Rule,’ in a statement to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/17/senate-drops-dress-code-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> on Sunday.
“Senators are able to choose what they wear on the Senate floor. I will continue to wear a suit,” Schumer said.
The most immediate beneficiary appears to be Fetterman, known for his casual dress of hoodies and shorts. The Pennsylvania senator has often been seen wearing the outfit outside the Senate chamber around lawmakers’ offices in D.C. Now allowed to wear his preferred outfit on the Senate floor, Fetterman has mocked those who have expressed dismay at the fallen standard.
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Fetterman says he “felt a tear in the time continuum” after presiding over the Senate without a suit 
“The world didn’t spin off its axis” <a href="https://t.co/It2PCqrizQ">pic.twitter.com/It2PCqrizQ</a>
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The rule change has received a frosty reception from many Republican lawmakers.
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“Police. Firefighters. Judges. Pilots. They all have uniforms. Ours is a suit and tie. We shouldn’t abandon it because it’s more comfortable to wear sweats,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said in a social media post.
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Police. Firefighters. Judges. Pilots. They all have uniforms. Ours is a suit and tie. We shouldn’t abandon it because it’s more comfortable to wear sweats. <a href="https://t.co/Ij9KOETPJk">https://t.co/Ij9KOETPJk</a> <a href="https://t.co/9z8hP76cUX">pic.twitter.com/9z8hP76cUX</a>
&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1703621616478171503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Washington Post Pans New ‘Fetterman Rule’ For Senate Dress

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A columnist for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> snapped during an appearance on a podcast with host Noam Dworman this week after he was questioned about reporting on President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden.
Fox News noted that Philip Bump, who has written about Hunter Biden numerous times, had been repeatedly pressed throughout the podcast about evidence of corruption in the Biden family.
&#8220;What do you take from his text to his adult daughter &#8212; Hunter texted her, &#8216;I had to give 50% of my income to Pop&#8217;?&#8221; Dworman asked.
&#8220;I have no idea what that means,&#8221; Bump responded. &#8220;I don&#8217;t. I have no idea what that means. It&#8217;s circumstantial evidence and you prefer that to direct evidence.&#8221;
Bump repeatedly turned down the line of questioning and eventually became agitated enough that he decided it was time to leave.
&#8220;Like I just said, I don&#8217;t know and I don&#8217;t know what to make of it, so I have nothing to say about it,&#8221; Bump said. &#8220;What do you want me to say?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, but you say, &#8216;there&#8217;s no evidence, there&#8217;s no evidence,&#8217; but then there is a text message where he says, &#8216;I give Pop 50% of my money,'&#8221; Dworman responded. &#8220;That&#8217;s evidence.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay. Okay, fine. It&#8217;s evidence,&#8221; Bump responded. &#8220;I appreciate you having me on. &#8230; I feel like you want me to leave, like, just walk out in the middle of this because that way you can [inaudible]&#8211;&#8221;
Dworman responded, &#8220;Is this the standard, really? This is the way that The Washington Post handles people that disagree with them?&#8221;
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Bump: There’s no evidence Joe Biden received money from his son’s nefarious dealings.
Host: Here’s some evidence.
Bump: That doesn’t count, and now I’m leaving. <a href="https://t.co/8khzpZ4snk">pic.twitter.com/8khzpZ4snk</a>
&mdash; Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1697706637425811924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>NOAH DWORMAN, HOST, OWNER, COMEDY CELLAR: What do you take from his text message to his adult daughter &#8212; Hunter texted her, &#8220;I had to give 50% of my income to Pop.&#8221;
PHILIP BUMP, WASHINGTON POST: I have no idea what that means. I don&#8217;t. I have no idea what that means.
DWORMAN: It&#8217;s &#8212;
BUMP: It&#8217;s circumstantial evidence and you prefer that to direct evidence.
DWORMAN: No. What could it be?
BUMP: I have no idea. I appreciate your enthusiasm.
DWORMAN: Has anybody asked her?
BUMP: I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know!
DWORMAN: Don&#8217;t you think somebody should ask her?
BUMP: Okay. Like I just said, I don&#8217;t know and I don&#8217;t know what to make of it, so I have nothing to say about it. What do you want me to say?
DWORMAN: Yeah, but you say, &#8220;there&#8217;s no evidence, there&#8217;s no evidence,&#8221; but then there is a text message where he says, &#8220;I give Pop 50% of my money.&#8221; That&#8217;s evidence.
BUMP: Okay. Okay, fine. It&#8217;s evidence.
DWORMAN: So &#8211;
BUMP: I appreciate you having me on.
DWORMAN: So something like that &#8212; who do you think &#8212; I&#8217;m [inaudible]&#8211;
BUMP: I feel like you want me to leave, like, just walk out in the middle of this because that way you can [inaudible]&#8211;
DWORMAN: You can go.
BUMP: Alright.
DWORMAN: Is this the standard, really? This is the way that The Washington Post handles people that disagree with them?</blockquote>

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The Washington Post attempted to spin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-lights-slump-continues-as-new-drink-becomes-top-selling-beer-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bud Light&#8217;s rapid descent</a> in popularity as an organic change rather than a response to the brand&#8217;s short-lived, but disastrous partnership with trans-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney.
&#8220;Bud Light sales fall in U.S. as Mexico’s Modelo gains popularity,&#8221; the headline read on an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/14/bud-light-modelo-top-selling-beer/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> published Wednesday — but the sub-headline suggested that even though the brand had been targeted by boycotts, it had likely lost its perch as America&#8217;s most popular beer because of a longer-term trend.
&#8220;Bud Light has been targeted by a recent boycott, but consumers might be moving away from the brand anyway amid stagnation for domestic beer in general,&#8221; the outlet tweeted.
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Bud Light has been targeted by a recent boycott, but consumers might be moving away from the brand anyway amid stagnation for domestic beer in general. <a href="https://t.co/DUhhYGEUMm">https://t.co/DUhhYGEUMm</a>
&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1669135821763407872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Critics immediately pointed to the extremely rapid drop-off in sales – which had coincided almost exactly with Bud Light&#8217;s ill-fated partnership with Mulvaney and the brand&#8217;s decision to place two marketing executives connected to said partnership on leave — and said that to suggest the two weren&#8217;t connected required a level of disbelief that they just couldn&#8217;t muster.
&#8220;Man, imagine being so stupid you still fall for this s***,&#8221; podcast host Tim Pool said. &#8220;I think regular people are finally realizing the media just lies about everything.&#8221;
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man
imagine being so stupid you still fall for this shit
i think regular people are finally realizing the media just lies about everything <a href="https://t.co/oqlV4Rjt6p">https://t.co/oqlV4Rjt6p</a>
&mdash; Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1669322376335564801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;A 25% permanent drop in sales was going to happen anyway,'&#8221; @ITGuy1959 <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1669149920484261889" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. &#8220;Wapo is indistinguishable from parody.&#8221;
&#8220;Imagine believing this. If you really think that Bud Light’s drastic drop in sales is from consumers being tired of &#8216;domestic beer,&#8217; I have a beachfront home to sell you in Iowa,&#8221; Michael Seifert <a href="https://twitter.com/realmichaelseif/status/1669325424273260545" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>.
Radio host Buck Sexton added, &#8220;The Left will be increasingly desperate to convince conservatives that their highly successful campaign against Bud Light wasn’t effective after all, and definitely shouldn’t be duplicated against other woke targets.&#8221;
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The Left will be increasingly desperate to convince conservatives that their highly successful campaign against Bud Light wasn’t effective after all, and definitely shouldn’t be duplicated against other woke targets <a href="https://t.co/yA0rjTAsaV">https://t.co/yA0rjTAsaV</a>
&mdash; Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1669143330624528384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Bud Light was not the only brand facing the wrong end of a boycott in recent weeks, either. Retail giant Target also saw a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-loses-10-billion-in-just-ten-days-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multi-billion-dollar loss</a> in market capitalization following backlash over an &#8220;LGBTQ+ PRIDE&#8221; display that included &#8220;coming out&#8221; greeting cards and &#8220;tuck-friendly&#8221; and &#8220;binding&#8221; bathing suits for trans-identifying children.

Bud Light Boycott Continues After Company Partnered With Transgender Influencer

WaPo Desperately Tries To Spin Bud Light’s Massive Plummet In Sales

WaPo Desperately Tries To Shift Blame For Bud Light's Implosion

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President Joe Biden fell down &#8212; again.
But the liberal media arrived quickly to try to lift him up. In a fawning profile, The New York Times described the 80-year-old president as &#8220;sharp,&#8221; &#8220;fit,&#8221; and having &#8220;striking stamina.&#8221; The Washington Post, meanwhile, said Biden&#8217;s tumble helps make him appear &#8220;more human&#8221; — then listed a bunch of other times politicians fell down.
The Times piece, which took four reporters to write — including the top two White House correspondents — was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/politics/biden-president-age-2024.html">headlined</a>, &#8220;Inside the Complicated Reality of Being America’s Oldest President.&#8221; The article said Biden’s aides limit his time in the spotlight to avoid gaffes.
&#8220;The two Joe Bidens coexist in the same octogenarian president: Sharp and wise at critical moments, the product of decades of seasoning, able to rise to the occasion even in the dead of night to confront a dangerous world,&#8221; the article said. &#8220;Yet a little slower, a little softer, a little harder of hearing, a little more tentative in his walk, a little more prone to occasional lapses of memory in ways that feel familiar to anyone who has reached their ninth decade or has a parent who has.&#8221;
The writers don&#8217;t call out the many false memories Biden repeats ad nauseam, instead saying, &#8220;Like many his age, Mr. Biden repeats phrases and retells the same story, often fact-challenged stories again and again. He can be quirky; when children visit, he may randomly pull a book by William Butler Yeats off his desk and start reading Irish poetry to them.&#8221;
And even though Biden shuffles everywhere he goes — which prompted him to fall over a sandbag as he oversaw the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy last week — the Times said: &#8220;At the same time, he is trim and fit, exercises five days a week and does not drink.&#8221;
Jon Nicosia, president of News Cycle Media, ripped the Times piece.
&#8220;A 4-writer slobbering piece on Biden&#8217;s age from @nytimes with gems like: &#8216;Yet people who deal with him regularly, including some of his adversaries, say he remains sharp and commanding in private meetings. Diplomats share stories of trips to places like Ukraine, Japan, Egypt, Cambodia and Indonesia in which he often outlasts younger colleagues. Democratic lawmakers point to a long list of accomplishments as proof that he still gets the job done,'&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsPolitics/status/1665385936555765763">wrote</a> on Twitter.
National Review contributor Pradheep Shanker said Biden&#8217;s fall and poor health are indicative of something far more nefarious.
&#8220;What&#8217;s more likely is that many, many of the presidential level decisions are not being made by Biden at all,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1665353654025461760">wrote</a> on Twitter.
Meanwhile, The Washington Post put its own positive spin on Biden&#8217;s clumsy fall.
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&#8220;President Biden’s onstage tumble at the U.S. Air Force Academy made headlines around the world. But he’s far from the only world leader or political candidate who has taken a highly visible fall,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/02/biden-fall-world-leaders/">wrote</a> Adela Suliman, described as &#8220;a breaking-news reporter in The Washington Post&#8217;s London hub.&#8221;
&#8220;Trips and tumbles are fodder for laughs, cringes — and hot takes,&#8221; she wrote.
&#8220;It breaks the image of infallibility of powerful figures,&#8221; Bart Cammaerts, a professor of politics and communication at the London School of Economics, told the Post.
&#8220;But there is also something captivating about politicians appearing more human. &#8216;Think of slapstick comedy, breaking the seriousness and ceremonial aspect of the event,&#8217; Cammaerts said.&#8221;
Then Suliman listed a bunch of times other politicians fell, such as President Gerald Ford, Britain’s former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and, of course, the very famous Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
The Post even included a time that former President Donald Trump did not fall.
&#8220;Trump, as president, looked unsteady on his feet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2020. His slow, unsteady walk while descending a ramp led his critics to use the hashtag #TrumpIsNotWell,&#8221; Suliman wrote. &#8220;Trump tweeted that the ramp was &#8216;very long &amp; steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery&#8217; and insisted that the &#8216;last thing I was going to do is ‘fall’ for the Fake News to have fun with.'&#8221;
But falls for an 80-year-old can be very dangerous. And The New York Post wrote a piece about that last week headlined, &#8220;Kamala Harris is a Biden fall away from being in the Oval Office.&#8221;
&#8220;It was alarming to watch Joe Biden take a tumble Thursday at the Air Force Academy commencement,&#8221; Michael Goodwin <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/03/kamala-harris-is-a-joe-biden-fall-away-from-being-in-the-oval-office/">wrote</a>. &#8220;But the really scary thought is that if he had landed head-first, Kamala Harris would be sitting in the Oval Office.&#8221;
Food for thought, indeed.
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.

Joe Biden after he fell again.

NY Times, WaPo Do Cartwheels To Spin Biden’s Clumsy Tumble; Twitterers Shred Them

NY Times, WaPo Do Cartwheels To Spin Biden's Clumsy Tumble; Twitterers Shred Them

New York Times

Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-scott-opens-his-presidential-bid-in-hometown-speech-bashing-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Scott</a> (R-S.C.) formally announced his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, and Washington Post reporter Ben Terris chose that moment to reflect on asking the unmarried senator whether he is a virgin.
Terris used the moment in part to sell his upcoming book — &#8220;The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind&#8221; — and shared a brief anecdote about Scott on Twitter.
&#8220;Tim Scott will be the first prez candidate I’ve ever asked about the status of his virginity. Initial answer: &#8216;I’m not talking about my sex life with Ben Terris.&#8217; Then he stood up and said: &#8216;I have to go potty,'&#8221; Terris tweeted.
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(It wasn’t a completely random question. He had spent his young adult life preaching abstinence until marriage. He’d give talks and mention that he was saving himself until marriage, and during my interview with the then-congressman he was, and continues to be unmarried.)
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Terris went on to explain that he had only asked the question because <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-guest-calls-tim-scott-a-racial-pacifier-and-security-blanket-for-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott</a> has always been a vocal proponent of abstinence outside of marriage. And since Scott has never been married himself, he wanted to know whether the senator – who was then still a congressman – had followed his own advice.
&#8220;(It wasn’t a completely random question. He had spent his young adult life preaching abstinence until marriage. He’d give talks and mention that he was saving himself until marriage, and during my interview with the then-congressman he was, and continues to be unmarried),&#8221; Terris added.
He followed that up with a plug for his book – and went on to explain further that he had done his best to try to make the conversation less awkward.
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One more thing… It was such an awkward question to ask that I wrote myself a script: You used to preach about the virtue of no sex until marriage… is that a virtue that you still adhere to today?”
Ultimately he implied he did not.
“I just wish we all had more patience.”
&mdash; Ben Terris (@bterris) <a href="https://twitter.com/bterris/status/1660634737243815937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;One more thing … It was such an awkward question to ask that I wrote myself a script: &#8216;You used to preach about the virtue of no sex until marriage … is that a virtue that you still adhere to today?&#8217; Ultimately he implied he did not: &#8216;I just wish we all had more patience,'&#8221; he quoted Scott as answering.
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Newsbusters executive editor Tim Graham responded to Terris with a question of his own, tweeting, &#8220;Dear Ben, did you ever ask Bill Clinton how many interns he nailed? Of course not. Ben Terris (D-Washington Post).&#8221;

Tim Scott

WaPo Reporter Asked Tim Scott If He Is Still A Virgin

Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s social media company is seeking $3.78 billion in damages in a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post for publishing &#8220;an egregious hit piece&#8221; earlier this month that accused the company of securities fraud and other wrongdoings.
Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the owner of Truth Social, filed the <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/Complaint%20-%205.20.23_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> on Saturday in a Sarasota County, Florida, state court house, which accuses The Post&#8217;s article of causing an &#8220;enormous&#8221; loss that created an &#8220;existential threat&#8221; to the social media platform.
&#8220;WaPo has been on a years-long crusade against TMTG characterized by the concealment of relevant information in its possession—a bitterly ironic truth for a publication whose motto is &#8216;Democracy Dies in Darkness,'&#8221; the lawsuit reads.
Trump launched Truth Social last year as an alternative to Twitter and other social media platforms for conservative users who said they were censored and discriminated against for their political views.
According to the lawsuit, the legacy media outlet published the online article headlined, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/13/trump-truth-social-loan-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Trust linked to porn-friendly bank could gain a stake in Trump&#8217;s Truth Social&#8221;</a> on May 13, 2023, which stated TMTG failed to disclose key details about a proposed merger to the Securities and Exchange Commission and shareholders.
&#8220;The clickbait headline of the WaPo Article&#8230; immediately grabbed the common mind of readers, falsely insinuating that TMTG was involved in shady business dealings,&#8221; the suit claims.
The article alleged a series of accusations involving a bank in the Caribbean islands that offered $8 million in loans to TMTG.
&#8220;[TMTG] borrowed money from a bank best known for servicing the adult entertainment, pledged a stake in the company for the loan and didn&#8217;t tell the SEC,&#8221; the article says.
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The lawsuit says The Post published nine false claims and circulated the misinformation to its 2.5 million subscribers and 20 million Twitter followers.
“In order to further spread the smear and increase the damage to TMTG, WaPo engaged agents from both within and outside the company to broadly republish the defamation,” the complaint alleges.
A spokesperson for The Post declined to comment on the lawsuit.
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Trump’s Social Media Company Files $3 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against Washington Post

Trump's Social Media Company Files $3 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against Washington Post

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George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jonathan-turley-torches-karine-jean-pierre-for-being-transparently-unwilling-to-answer-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley</a> ripped into The Washington Post over a post-Durham defense of the Trump/Russia collusion narrative, accusing the author of reaching a &#8220;new level of denial.&#8221;
Turley referenced a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/17/clinton-durham-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new column</a> from WaPo&#8217;s national correspondent Philip Bump – titled &#8220;There’s now even less reason to blame Clinton for the Russia probe&#8221; — and argued that it was one last attempt to spin away the conclusions laid out in Inspector General John Durham&#8217;s final report on the FBI&#8217;s investigation into former President Donald Trump&#8217;s alleged ties to Russia.
&#8220;With the release to the Durham report, the media went into total spin mode,&#8221; Turley tweeted. &#8220;However, the Washington Post (which won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Russian collusion) set a new level of denial with a column by Philip Bump &#8230;&#8221;
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&#8230;Bump not only quotes Hillary Clinton on how the allegations against her campaign is possible &quot;Russian disinformation,&quot; Bump actually makes one last pitch that there might have been Russian collusion after all.
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&#8220;Bump not only quotes Hillary Clinton on how the allegations against her campaign is possible &#8216;Russian disinformation,&#8217; Bump actually makes one last pitch that there might have been Russian collusion after all.&#8221;
The Durham report found a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/durham-report-makes-sobering-findings-about-fbis-handling-of-trump-russia-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">number of irregularities</a> in the way that the FBI began the investigation into Trump — named Crossfire Hurricane — and concluded that the entire basis for the inquiry had been based on the Steele dossier, the contents of which the FBI had never independently verified.
&#8220;The matter was opened as a full investigation without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information. Further, the FBI did so without (i) any significant review of its own intelligence databases, (ii) collection and examination of any relevant intelligence from other U.S. intelligence entities, (iii) interviews of witnesses essential to understand the raw information it had received or (iv) using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed by the FBI in evaluating raw intelligence,&#8221; the report stated.
Still, Bump&#8217;s overall conclusion in his Wednesday column was that Russian collusion on the part of Trump and his allies was not only possible, but likely.
&#8220;There’s an alternative way to consider the Russia probe: that Russia hoped Trump would win, that Trump was happy to have their help and that federal counterintelligence officials saw that as problematic,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;This appears to be what actually happened.&#8221;

House Judiciary Committee Holds First Impeachment Inquiry Hearing

‘New Level Of Denial’: Jonathan Turley Rips Into WaPo’s Last Defense Of ‘Russian Collusion’

Jonathan Turley Rips Into WaPo's Last Defense Of 'Russian Collusion'

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The following is the opening satirical monologue from &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1130-biden-corruption-media-lies7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.&#8221;
The Washington Post, where Democracy dies in darkness after they drive an ice pick into the back of its neck and toss it into the darkness and leave it there to die, has issued a devastating new poll showing President Biden’s approval ratings have fallen to a level that would truly upset him if he were still capable of understanding what a poll is and what numbers are.
The poll shows Biden’s approval ratings are now at a mere 36 percent. What&#8217;s more, twelve percent of those who approve of Biden are low information voters like journalists and college professors, while 8 percent of them are homeless people who receive their opinions from the demon Azuzu speaking through the fillings in their teeth. Five percent of the Biden supporters were just pranking the pollsters by pretending they knew who Joe Biden is, and the remaining four percent were former Whitney Houston backup singers who now hang out all day on Main and Third in Cincinnati chanting “somebody, somebody, somebody who loves me,” over and over again, hoping a passerby will put money in their hat so they can afford to get back to New Jersey and vote for Joe Biden.
Seventy-two percent of the people polled thought Biden was too old to be president. Twenty-three percent said no, he was just lying face down in his own drool to get his opponents to underestimate him. And five percent believed the president had passed away last Thursday which made him the politician least likely to ruin the country.
Sixty-three percent of those polled said they would prefer to vote for Donald Trump over Biden. Seventeen percent said they preferred Trump to Biden because Trump could almost speak in complete sentences. Twenty-two percent said Trump was better than Biden because Trump was a reckless bloviating boor who would drive the United States government into a ditch where it would be reduced to flaming rubble, so that was a plus. And sixteen percent said they would vote for Trump because he had assaulted that woman in Bergdorf Goodman after she had written for Saturday Night Live so that left only 247 unfunny writers left unpunished.
Twenty-nine percent of those polled who wanted neither Biden nor Trump said they would vote for Nikki Haley because at least she didn’t believe in anything. Fourteen percent said they would vote for RFK Junior because that dude was crazy and if you dropped acid and then played his speeches backwards they would predict who was going to win the next season of Bachelorette. And eleven percent said they would vote for Vivek Ramaswamy because his name was funny and made him sound like a snake charmer and that would be really cool especially if he used a live cobra and then explained how he would reform the Fed while the cobra just wavered in front of him pretending to listen and then suddenly bit him on the face which would be hilarious especially if you were still stoned from listening to RFK.
In other poll results, 92 percent said the country was headed in the wrong direction unless you enjoyed watching that video where the race car careens into the wall and then bursts into flames, in which case the country was right on course. Breaking that result into various groups, fourteen percent of black people said they thought the country was headed in the right direction, but they couldn’t be sure because they were pinned down in a crossfire behind a 1978 Dodge Dart. Eighty-two percent of Hispanics said the country was headed in the right direction compared to the country they had just come from. And 52 percent of white people said they were heading in the right direction, namely the direction of Switzerland.
Twenty-seven percent of those polled said the worst problem the country faced was runaway inflation because it meant they couldn’t buy as many lottery tickets with their food stamps which gave them a lower chance of winning a loaf of bread. Eighteen percent said the worst problem facing the country was that Don Lemon had been fired and now there was no one left to scream at but their children. And three percent said the worst problem facing the country was that when their phone rang they thought it was their ex saying she wanted to have breakup sex again but instead it turned out to be some jerkwad asking stupid questions about Joe Biden.
In terms of methodology, the Washington Post said pollsters had developed a system of weighted averages to establish the proper number of Democrats, Republicans and Independents, and then told their boss they had called those people when really they were just making stuff up because they worked for the Washington Post.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> is the host of The Andrew Klavan Show at The Daily Wire. A popular political satirist and Hollywood screenwriter, Klavan is also an award-winning novelist. His newest novel is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Strange Habit of Mind</a>, book two in the Cameron Winter Mystery series.
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

President Joe Biden

Devastating Washington Post Poll Spells Doom For Biden

Devastating Washington Post Poll Spells Doom for Biden

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George Stephanopoulos used to be President Bill Clinton&#8217;s press secretary, and he has toed the liberal line for Democrats ever since as an ABC News anchor.
So for Stephanopoulos to call out President Joe Biden over his ever-dwindling poll numbers means something.
&#8220;This poll is just brutal for President Biden,&#8221; Stephanopoulos said Sunday on &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/07/president-biden-post-abc-poll/">poll</a> by ABC News and The Washington Post released Sunday found that 63% of Americans do not think Biden, 80, has the &#8220;mental sharpness&#8221; to be president. That&#8217;s up nine points since the same question was asked a year ago.
Just 32% believe Biden is mentally capable, while 5% have no opinion.
The numbers were similar on Biden&#8217;s physical health. Some 62% of Americans don&#8217;t think Biden is in &#8220;good enough physical health&#8221; to serve as president, while just 33% believe he is.
Former President Donald Trump fared much better in the poll, taken from April 28 to May 3. 54% of those surveyed said Trump has the mental sharpness compared to Biden&#8217;s 32%. And 64% said he&#8217;s physically fit enough to be president, compared to Biden&#8217;s 33%.
Biden&#8217;s approval rating is also in the dumper, hitting a new low of 36%, down six points since the same poll was conducted in February. More than half (56%) disapprove of the job Biden’s doing.
A majority (54%) of those surveyed said Trump did a better job with the economy than Biden. Just 36% think Biden is doing a better job.
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Plus, the poll showed Trump would beat Biden by 7 points in a head-to-head matchup.
&#8220;You&#8217;re seeing real weaknesses in the coalition that powered Joe Biden to the presidency in 2020,&#8221; ABC&#8217;s political director Rick Klein told Stephanopoulos, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/george-stephanopoulos-2024-poll-brutal-president-biden">reported</a>. &#8220;This race is shaping up [to be] a lot more about the incumbent president Joe Biden than it is about any of his challengers.&#8221;
Donna Brazile, a former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, also appeared on &#8220;This Week&#8221; and said the poll should alarm Democrats.
&#8220;It kept me up, and I thought they should wake up and look at those numbers,&#8221; Brazile said. &#8220;It’s sobering in the sense that the coalition that elected Joe Biden, with the historic numbers that we saw in 2020, that coalition right now is fragmented. That should concern them,&#8221; she said.
The latest survey was just another in a string of bad polls. Shortly after Biden announced his re-election campaign two weeks ago — not with a live event featuring thousands of cheering supporters but with a video posted on his website — his job approval rating among the U.S. public slipped to 37%, Gallup <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/505202/biden-begins-reelection-bid-low-point-presidency.aspx">reported</a>.
That&#8217;s just slightly more than 1 in 3 people — not a winning number. In the 2020 election, Biden won 51.3% of the vote, so that&#8217;s a 14.3% drop in support.
For the record, 37% is the lowest Gallup has measured for him to date. The president&#8217;s job approval has been hovering in the low 40s for most of the last 18 months, after the initial honeymoon period. But he did drop to 38% last July, then his lowest.
The latest Gallup poll, taken April 3-25, shows a 3-point dip from March and a 5-point drop from February. His ninth quarter average in polling is 39.7%.
&#8220;Only Ronald Reagan in early 1983 had a lower ninth-quarter average among elected post-World War II presidents,&#8221; the pollsters wrote. &#8220;Reagan’s low ratings came during a period when the unemployment rate exceeded 10% after the 1981-1982 economic recession.&#8221;
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.

George Stephanopoulos

George Stephanopoulos Admits New 2024 Poll ‘Just Brutal For President Biden’

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A woman who hunted down and destroyed the life of a private figure who once wore blackface to a Halloween party in an episode widely seen as the peak of cancel-culture zealotry later resurfaced briefly in the Biden administration.
Lexie Grüber-Pérez, who attended a 2018 party thrown by then-Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles despite not being invited, complained two years later that she had seen a woman wearing blackface there. Although the woman, later identified as Sue Schafer, wore blackface in an effort to criticize racism, the complaint from Grüber-Pérez prompted a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/blackface-incident-at-washington-post-cartoonists-2018-halloween-party-resurfaces-amid-protests/2020/06/17/66f09bde-af2e-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">front-page article</a> and the cancelation of Schafer and possibly Toles. The article shocked people across the political spectrum with its vindictive and malignant tone, and was described as the “<a href="https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1273656116573097984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1273656116573097984%7Ctwgr%5Ee9ce25b6cccae9030c149f062e98f8781f01e061%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fwashington-post-blackface-costume-halloween-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">zenith</a> of cancel culture.”
Grüber-Pérez began working as a senior advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services in September 2021, The Daily Wire has learned. According to her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexiegruberperez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> profile, which pictures her with Biden, she left the job after six months and now lives in England.
“Now is the time to address the stark racial disparities, acknowledge the history of criminalizing neglect, and move towards the new systems of care that prevent the need for family separation,” she said on Facebook after taking the job, according to <a href="https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/foster-youth-advocate-joins-biden-administrations-child-welfare-agency-leadership/58773" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Imprint</a>, a publication which chronicles the youth human services industry.
The strident racial activism of Grüber-Pérez was on full display at the 2018 Halloween party after she saw Schaefer, whom she did not know and who had no position of public prominence. Witnesses said she yelled at the tearful woman, who tried to explain that the costume was criticism of Megyn Kelly’s purported minimization of the practice, a controversy that was in the news that week. Nearly two years later, Gruber sought out the stranger’s identity, refused to accept an apology from her, and bullied the Post into writing the 3,000 word article about the woman’s misstep, published in June 2020.
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The cancellation in the Post was so vengeful that it attracted almost uniform backlash for weeks. The story seemed to be entirely driven by Grüber-Pérez, who emailed Toles out of the blue to complain about the incident at his long-ago party. She demanded to know the name of the guest, and when Toles declined to give up Schaefer&#8217;s identity to a stranger, Grüber-Pérez accused him of &#8220;a deliberate act of white privilege and cowardice.&#8221;
Toles&#8217; five-decade career came to an end a few months later. Although he offered to connect the two so that Schafer could offer a private apology—which Schafer had done repeatedly to Toles at the time— Grüber-Pérez refused.
Grüber-Pérez, who is Puerto Rican, wrote that she had “a hard time believing that you are genuine in remorse. . . . I do not feel comfortable reaching out to a woman who publicly harassed me and my friend — simply because we are not white. This happened in public — and so I want a public apology.”
She then took the story to Post editors, and appeared to push it so forcefully that it resulted in the story which featured a portrait of Grüber-Pérez looking heroic. Then, after the story was universally greeted with disgust, the Post gave in to Grüber-Pérez&#8217;s demands that it unpublish the picture she had willingly posed for&#8211;while leaving up the picture of Schafer.
Even the leftist former Post reporter Wesley Lowery, who left the paper over his self-professed desire to conduct less objective journalism, was appalled by the over-the-top cancellation.
“Giving a massive amount of attention to a dumb incident involving private citizens would invariably do negligible good and cause massive amounts of harm,” he told New York magazine.
The left-leaning magazine was shocked by the cruelty of using a major newspaper to attack a repentant, liberal, private figure for a years-old petty offense.
“The Post twice violated its own editorial policy in an apparent effort to appease Gruber and Prince: reporting on the incident even though the resulting story violated the Post’s editorial standard about relevance, then removing an editorial component of the story in violation of the Post’s editorial standard about take-down requests,” it wrote in an article titled <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/why-did-the-washington-post-get-this-woman-fired.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Did The Washington Post Get This Woman Fired?</a>.
Prince refers to Lyric Prince, a friend of Grüber-Pérez’s who is a black woman who is more than six feet tall but said she felt “unsafe” because of Schafer, and described Schafer as bullying her even though witnesses said they only saw Schafer on the receiving end of screams and insults. Ironically, Prince later lost her job for <a class="c-link" href="https://medium.com/@elpeanote/why-im-in-therapy-is-how-i-got-cancelled-a47112971892" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://medium.com/@elpeanote/why-im-in-therapy-is-how-i-got-cancelled-a47112971892" data-sk="tooltip_parent">calling someone a “fag”</a> in the company of a transgender person, according to her blog.
Grüber-Pérez, who could not be reached for comment, has a track record of seemingly absurd cancellations. In college, she forced the <a href="https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/quinnipiac-student-starts-debate-over-offensive-philanthropy-poster/520-49b3de26-2bbe-4846-913d-3ed7499fb33a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancellation of a charity event raising money for orphans</a>, because she said that the Mexican food-themed fundraiser was cultural appropriation.
The Imprint suggested that the Biden administration position Grüber-Pérez held was funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA), a law which allows outside interests to pay people to work as government employees. HHS declined to describe the funding mechanism to the outlet. Casey is a big-dollar, far-left activist group.
In January, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_to_health_and_human_services_deptipaoversight.pdf">wrote</a> to HHS concerning possible abuses of IPA in HHS that could allow former Google CEO Eric Schmidt improper influence on government. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/22/eric-schmidt-joe-biden-administration-00074160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> reported last year that the “Ex-Google boss helps fund dozens of jobs in Biden’s administration,” suggesting that Schmidt could use the mechanism to embed his pet projects, such as artificial intelligence, in government.
Under the controversial law, local and state governments and nonprofits are permitted to fund federal positions under certain limited conditions. Grassley suggested that the Schmidt funding could exploit a loophole, with an LLC controlled by Schmidt using the nonprofit Federation of American Scientists (FAS) as a pass-through.
“Within the White House, officials have sometimes viewed FAS and Schmidt Futures interchangeably, as the dual vehicles for the funding of jobs,” Politico reported.
Casey is a nonprofit foundation funded by the estate of the UPS founder, so it is not serving as a pass-through for a corporation. But it is a radical leftist group, and the federal government allowing it to fund jobs raises the risk that partisan billionaires can essentially buy government&#8211;providing staff to tackle policy favored by the far-left that the federal government otherwise would not have undertaken.
Casey has long been the subject of significant political drama; the UPS founder entrusted his money to a conservative board for the purpose of building orphanages, but board members watched in shock as staff hijacked it for far-leftist purposes, and it was soon no longer running any orphanages at all.

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