The Washington Post has published an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-graham-ginsburg-confirmation/2020/09/23/390ec598-fdca-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html">article</a> claiming Senate Republicans’ schedule for confirming a new Supreme Court justice nominated by President Donald Trump is “unprecedented in modern history.”
The readily available facts, however, say otherwise. For starters, “modern history” is defined in the article in specific and cherry-picked ways to ding Trump. Even then, the definitions don’t make the schedule “unprecedented.”
The current timeline set by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would start confirmation hearings during the week of October 12 and schedule the confirmation vote for around October 23.
Modern history is first defined by the Post as “during an era in which toxic partisan fights over the judiciary have only further polarized the Senate.” Using this definition, the timeline for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is not unprecedented. One only has to look back to the 1991 nomination of Justice Clarence Thomas to find a “toxic partisan fight over the judiciary.” Thomas was dubiously accused of sexual harassment by a woman who has since been lionized as a victim despite testimony that contradicted her FBI interview and allegations that never added up. Following the contentious hearings, Thomas was nominated by a vote of 52-48, similar to the totals current Supreme Court justices get in the Senate.
Just two years later, in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated by President Bill Clinton. He nominated her on June 22. Her confirmation hearings began on July 20 and she was confirmed on August 3. This confirmation took place near to one that could be considered part of the “toxic partisan fights” and yet the time between the start of her confirmation hearings and confirmation vote was just 13 days.
If the Senate sticks to the current outline, which isn’t set in stone, the time between the start of Trump’s nominee’s confirmation hearings and her potential confirmation vote would be about 12 days, just one day short of Ginsburg’s. Hardly different enough to warrant the pearl-clutching “unprecedented in modern history” label.
Further down in the Post article, the authors point out that three Supreme Court justices were confirmed in short amounts of time, yet claim all three were confirmed in “less fiercely partisan times,” ignoring not only the Democrats’ treatment of Justice Thomas, but also the character assassination of President Ronald Reagan’s nominee Robert Bork.
The Post then uses the cherry-picked data that confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominees typically take place 50 days after their nomination, while noting that time for Ginsburg was just 28 days. But the Post leaves out former Justice John Paul Stevens, who was nominated by President Gerald Ford on November 28, 1975, and whose confirmation hearings began just 10 days later on December 8. His confirmation vote occurred nine days after that, on December 17, 1975. The Post does mention Stevens later in the article, but not when it comes to proving its point that this Senate schedule would be “unprecedented.”
If Trump nominates someone on Friday, September 25, and the confirmation hearings begin on October 12, there would be 17 days in between, almost enough time to seat one John Paul Stevens.
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In the age of Trump, headlines have become even more polarizing and, worse, the media has increasingly employed them with a deliberate intent to deceive. Many in the media are willing to present misleading or, at times, even objectively false information — while leaving out crucial counter-narrative details — to gaslight the public. Sometimes, the headlines even contradict the very content of the article. Due to our busy lives, many fail to get the full story and take the headlines for fact. Here are seven recent headlines from multiple mainstream outlets — including CNN, the Associated Press and The Washington Post — that attempted to mislead or misdirect on important issues, and always in ways that benefited leftist promoted narratives, including downplaying rioting, painting Trump&#8217;s actions as racist while lauding Democrats, and promoting leftwing talking points on &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; and the pandemic.
1. CNN: “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shootings” 
While not quite a traditional headline, CNN’s risible title for an on-air graphic amid the Kenosha protests and riots seemed better suited for The Onion or The Babylon Bee. It’s as though CNN “out-spun” itself in its obvious and vain attempt to present the mayhem which continues to this day as “mostly peaceful.”
“CNN has been mocked on Twitter,” <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/cnn-mocked-calling-kenosha-riots-fiery-mostly-peaceful-protests-1527997">Newsweek</a> reported, “for displaying a chyron that said protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin were ‘fiery but mostly peaceful’ as its correspondent on the ground reported while standing in front of burning cars.”
2. Associated Press: “Trump downplays legacy of slavery in appeal to white voters”
<a href="https://apnews.com/afdfa0b3454d5a7fdf544158ee1f5e1f">The Associated Press</a> sought to repudiate President Trump’s assertion that “America’s founding ‘set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism and built the most fair, equal and prosperous nation in human history.’”
Such a statement is apparently rife with controversy, according to The Associated Press, because “he did not mention the 246 years of slavery in America, including the 89 years it was allowed to continue after the colonies declared independence from England. Nor did the president acknowledge the ongoing fight against racial injustice and police brutality, which has prompted months of protests this year.”
According to many in the media and elsewhere, any praise or homage to our nation, even with its complex history, ought to be immediately condemned as “racist” no matter what, especially if it’s coming from Trump. This is not reporting. This is manufacturing a false narrative out of thin air.
3. Washington Post: “Coronavirus kills far more Hispanic and Black children than white youths, CDC study finds”
The headline boldly states that a disproportionate number of minority children are dying from coronavirus. <a href="blank">The article</a> even opens with an equally alarming statement to reinforce the headline: 
“The coronavirus is killing Hispanic, Black and American Indian children at a much higher number than their White peers, according to federal statistics released Thursday.” 
When such sensationalism is removed from the actual data, the supposed evidence is not only suspect, it’s statistically meaningless. Here are the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937e4.htm?s_cid=mm6937e4_w">CDC’s findings,</a> cited in the Post’s piece: 
“Among 121 SARS-CoV-2–associated deaths among persons aged &lt;21 years reported to CDC by July 31, 2020, 12 (10%) were infants and 85 (70%) were aged 10–20 years. Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaskan Native persons accounted for 94 (78%) of these deaths; 33% of deaths occurred outside of a hospital.”
This piece attempts to present roughly .06% of reported fatalities attributed to the coronavirus as evidence of “systemic racism.” Basing such a provocative conclusion on such scarce data is nothing other than disingenuous journalism at play.
4. CNN: “Thank God for Andrew Cuomo”
In a now darkly ironic <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/opinions/thank-god-for-andrew-cuomo-filipovic/index.html">March editorial piece</a>, Jill Filipovic lionized Governor Cuomo in no uncertain terms, stating:
“In the midst of a pandemic, Americans need real leadership — and the New York governor has risen to the occasion. In the face of a feckless, reckless president spreading disinformation by the day, Cuomo has stepped up, using his platform to share accurate public health information and demand action. It makes him, disturbingly, an outlier. And it reveals how the growing right-wing cult of Trumpism is endangering all Americans.”
The fact is, Cuomo’s mishandling of the pandemic has directly lead to, at this moment, the <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/">second-highest death toll among states</a>. As <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/20/andrew-cuomo-new-york-coronavirus-catastrophe">The Guardian</a> reported, Cuomo was “no hero” and “should be one of the most loathed officials in America right now.” 
<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/cuomo-distorts-covid-record-at-dnc">City Journal</a> states Cuomo’s abysmal pandemic record quite succinctly: 
“New York State has seen about 34,000 Covid-related deaths, out of a national total of 170,000, which means that New Yorkers have died at a rate close to four times what would be expected based on their proportion of the U.S. population. Moreover, Cuomo bears considerable responsibility for at least 6,700 deaths in care facilities, and possibly many thousands more, because of his health commissioner’s mandate in March that nursing homes admit Covid patients after being discharged from hospital. It’s widely acknowledged that this was the catalyst of the spread of Covid-19 through facilities left under-equipped to deal with the disease. When the nursing homes begged Albany for masks, Cuomo dismissively remarked that &#8216;it’s not our job&#8217; to supply private facilities with protective equipment.”
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5. CNN: “Kansas City Chiefs fans booed players during a moment of unity against racism”
The intention of this title seems to indicate an attempt to malign an entire fan base solely along political lines. However, the content of the piece itself states that the intention of the booing was “unclear” and goes on to contradict the actual headline: 
“Boos, lasting about 5 to 10 seconds, could be heard from the crowd as the Chiefs linked arms and the Texans made their way to the middle of the field to join them. It&#8217;s unclear if the fans were booing the Texans for not being on the field for the National Anthem or if the boos were directed at the moment of unity. The crowd eventually applauded once the chain was formed, and the teams then broke apart to get ready for kickoff.”
In reality, fans began cheering during the climactic moment of unity. Beyond being a simple example of a sensationalized story, this is an inherently nonsensical report that appears to be fueled by political motives.
6. Bloomberg CityLab: “How Structural Racism is Linked to Higher Rates of Police Violence”
As <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-15/how-structural-racism-is-linked-to-police-violence">this particular title</a> suggests, the theory that implicit bias and racism are at the root of recent police shootings is now being presented as an assumed premise: 
“The question that typically pops up when black people are killed by police is whether racism had anything to do with it. Many studies do show that racism plays a part in causing police to <a href="https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/02/is-reverse-racism-among-police-real/513503/">pull the trigger more quickly on black suspects</a>. That’s usually because of the implicit racial biases of the individual police officer involved. Law enforcement officials often try to rule out racism by arguing that you can’t tell what’s in a officer’s heart when these killings happen.”
Such assertions remain rooted in the emotional, dogmatically assuming the novel psychological theory of implicit bias – a theory that still doesn’t hold up under critical scrutiny.  The implicit association test (IAT) used to gauge implicit bias is very much a pseudoscience, according to <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/psychologys-racism-measuring-tool-isnt-up-to-the-job.html">The Cut</a>, but one that has become so pervasive and popular, it’s readily accepted as fact:  
“A pile of scholarly work, some of it published in top psychology journals and most of it ignored by the media, suggests that the IAT falls far short of the quality-control standards normally expected of psychological instruments. The IAT, this research suggests, is a noisy, unreliable measure that correlates far too weakly with any real-world outcomes to be used to predict individuals’ behavior — even the test’s creators have now admitted as such. The history of the test suggests it was released to the public and excitedly publicized long before it had been fully validated in the rigorous, careful way normally demanded by the field of psychology. In fact, there’s a case to be made that Harvard shouldn’t be administering the test in its current form, in light of its shortcomings and its potential to mislead people about their own biases. There’s also a case to be made that the IAT went viral not for solid scientific reasons, but simply because it tells us such a simple, pat story about how racism works and can be fixed: that deep down, we’re all a little — or a lot — racist, and that if we measure and study this individual-level racism enough, progress toward equality will ensue.”
If we consider the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-in-so-many-instances-of-police-brutality-far-greater-complexities-are-at-play-than-racism">many recent white victims</a> of police brutality, it becomes nearly impossible to find a causal link between police brutality and racism. For example, Arizona officers responding to a call killed <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/news/phoenix-police-video-shows-officer-shooting-and-killing-ahwatukee-man/article_c22550a6-c6d7-11ea-a012-c7f514e61a50.html">Ryan Whitaker</a> in his home in May of 2020. His death was similar to the death of Breonna Taylor. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/us/salt-lake-city-police-shoot-boy-autism-trnd/index.html">Linden Cameron</a>, a 13-year-old autistic boy, was recently shot by police in Utah. Both shootings, however, have yet to receive any public outcry or protests. 
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7. Nature: “Stillbirth rate rises dramatically during pandemic”
The implication of this particular headline, published by one of our most esteemed scientific journals, is that COVID-19 may now be responsible for stillborn deaths. It brings to mind <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/14/zika-babies-two-years/">the Zika virus</a> that lead to all sorts of grave complications for newborns. In effect, it’s the kind of fear-mongering which continues to drive the pandemic narrative. 
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02618-5">The piece</a> opens with an alarming statement: 
“A slew of studies from around the world has reported a disturbing trend: since the coronavirus pandemic started, there has been a significant rise in the proportion of pregnancies ending in stillbirths, in which babies die in the womb.”
In fact, lockdowns and inadequate healthcare resulting from COVID-19 restrictions are leading to a rise in stillborn deaths, according to the piece itself: 
 “Researchers say that in some countries, pregnant women have received less care than they need because of lockdown restrictions and disruptions to health care. As a result, complications that can lead to stillbirths were probably missed, they say.”
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KHAN: 7 Misleading Headlines That Pushed Leftist Narratives

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In the age of Trump, headlines have become even more polarizing and, worse, the media has increasingly employed them with a deliberate intent to deceive.

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In a report published on Tuesday, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-disinformation-trump/2020/09/15/c84091ae-f20a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html">smeared</a> conservative activists, likening them to &#8220;Russian bots&#8221; and a Macedonian &#8220;troll farm&#8221; for posting pro-Trump and conservative content online from their own accounts, in coordination with Turning Point USA marketing partner Rally Forge.
The Post, ironically railing against so-called election interference, boasted Tuesday about prompting social media giants like Twitter and Facebook to ban the young Arizona-based politicos&#8217; accounts:
<blockquote>In response to questions from The Post, Twitter on Tuesday suspended at least 20 accounts involved in the activity for “platform manipulation and spam.” Facebook also removed a number of accounts as part of what the company said is an ongoing investigation.</blockquote>
There is no evidence presented by the Post or otherwise that the accounts are in fact &#8220;bots.&#8221;
The young conservatives used their real names and personal accounts—or pseudonyms to protect themselves from bullying and harassment—posting pro-Trump, conservative, and lockdown-skeptical content online for months.
Moreover, numerous Democrat organizations engage in the same message-pushing outlined in the Post report, noted Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/16/washpost-compares-pro-trump-teenagers-to-russian-trolls-gets-them-banned-from-social-media/">reporter</a> Allum Bokhari.
Here are a just a couple of the examples highlighted by Bokhari:
<blockquote>The <a class="x5l" href="https://archive.is/0ZOR5" target="_blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer">Texas Democrat Party</a> is currently advertising for a “deputy digital organizing director” who will “Recruit and manage an in-state volunteer digital captains program to develop, curate, and distribute grassroots-generated content in support of Democrats up and down the ticket.”
The <a class="x5l" href="https://archive.is/EVGmN" target="_blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer">South Carolina Democrat</a> party is currently recruiting a “digital organizing manager,” who will “develop volunteer communities via Facebook, Slack, and/or other online platforms.”</blockquote>
“Comparing American conservative teenagers to Russian bots is, in and of itself, the height of misinformation by the mainstream media,” said a spokesman for Students for Trump, which contracted Rally Forge. “They should be ashamed. It’s beyond ridiculous at this point.”
Paige Noonan, one of the young conservative activists, pushed back against the Post.
“I love this job,&#8221; she said, according to Breitbart. &#8220;It’s a great environment and I actually have fun with it — I am grateful I have a job during corona[virus].”
“It’s sick that the Washington Post and Twitter are working together to take away my right to free speech” she added.
“It’s stupid and dumb,” said activist Brent Hamilton. “They call us ‘Russian bots,’ which we’re obviously not. We’re American and Arizonan, writing about what we believe in.”
Hamilton had his account banned from social media following the Post&#8217;s pushback regarding the conservatives to big tech companies.
Turning Point Action field director Austin Smith issued a statement in response to the report, too. “This is sincere political activism conducted by real people who passionately hold the beliefs they describe online, not an anonymous troll farm in Russia,&#8221; he said.
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“Like everyone else, Turning Point Action’s plans for nationwide in-person events and activities were completely disrupted by the pandemic,” Smith added. “Many positions TPA had planned for in field work were going to be completely cut, but TPA managed to reimagine these roles and working with our marketing partners, transitioned some to a virtual and online activist model.”
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“Republicans pounce!” In a variety of forms, this simple phrase has been part of the biased media’s lexicon for years. As described by Noah Rothman in 2015, “The story is never the story; for political reporters and editors alike, the Republican reaction to the story is the preferred prism through which to view events Democrats find… discomforting.” The pattern is as follows. If a Republican does something “bad,” the story is that the Republican did something “bad.” When a Democrat does something “bad,” the story is that Republicans “pounced,” drawing focus away from the actions Democrats would rather obscure.
There are so many examples that “Republicans pounce” has become a Leftist cliché. “Ocasio-Cortez Team Flubs a Green New Deal Summary, and Republicans Pounce” is one wonderful <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/climate/green-new-deal-faq.html">example</a>. The phrase is so hilariously overused that Tucker Carlson <a href="https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/02/19/republicans-pounce-tucker-carlson-takes-medias-favorite-word-describe-gop">joked</a> in 2019 that “the symbol of the Republican party might have to be switched from an elephant to a tiger” due to its apparent propensity for pouncing.
Unfortunately, this clear strategy of redirecting the misbehavior of the Left by focusing on the mischaracterized critical reaction of the Right has now crossed a line.
Our society’s open sexualization of children has been at the forefront of multiple arenas of political debate, with several branches of the American Right opposing this growing and impactful cultural change. Some fights involve actual legislation, such as California’s decision to effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-false-equality-new-california-law-places-more-children-at-risk">weaken</a> protections for vulnerable youth under the absurd banner of “achieving equality.” Other fights involve the “culture war,” such as the <a href="https://youtu.be/77pWTBMbszU">widespread condemnation</a> of “Cuties,” a French movie distributed by Netflix which depicts an 11-year old girl joining a “<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/cuties-cancel-netflix-controversy-explained_ca_5f5ba5cac5b67602f604a4c4">twerking dance crew</a>.”
Describing the “backlash” to &#8220;Cuties,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/11/cuties-netflix-cancel-movie/">reported</a>, “Conservative commentators circulated a clip of Amy and the &#8216;Cuties&#8217; performing in their spandex outfits, while others pounced on parental guidance noting that there is a scene in which one girl’s underwear is exposed,” and Axios <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1305611325494697997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1305611325494697997%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fthe-obamas-and-susan-rice-are-silent-on-netflixs-cuties">tweeted</a>, “GOP politicians are jumpstarting a Netflix boycott in response to the film &#8216;Cuties&#8217;&#8230;Their stance is linked to a child sex trafficking conspiracy theory central to the QAnon movement.”
Yet again, the story is not Netflix’s choice to distribute content which could arguably be classed as child pornography, but the Republican reaction to Netflix’s choice to distribute content which could arguably be classed as child pornography.
Beyond the moral depravity required to use “Republicans pounce” for stories involving obvious ethical questions, the Left are now partnering this strategy with a clear effort to delegitimize such criticism by predefining any such reaction as inherently conspiratorial.
This combined effort was exemplified by Melissa Ryan, a “writer, organizer, and digital strategist” who boasts on her <a href="https://twitter.com/MelissaRyan">Twitter profile</a> that she organizes “to combat disinformation and extremism.” When Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard criticized Netflix for distributing what she identified as child pornography and pointed out that this would “help fuel the child sex trafficking trade,” Ryan delegitimized the argument against “Cuties” as “going QAnon.” Perhaps Ryan should consider “organizing” against herself?
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Tulsi going QAnon is the least surprising thing to happen in 2020. <a href="https://t.co/9ZriBWrYJH">https://t.co/9ZriBWrYJH</a>
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Again, the story is not the story. The reaction is the story. Not only that, the mischaracterized reaction is the story.
To link any mainstream conservative (or even non-conservative) criticism of a movie which arguably glorifies the sexualization of prepubescent girls with a fringe conspiracy theory is to discredit the debate entirely, providing us with yet another one of the Left’s favorite binary choices: you must either celebrate the sexualization of children or submit to ideological self flagellation and accept the label of “conspiracy theorist.”
When you see “Republicans pounce” in a headline or report, it is a sign that the leftist media are attempting to dilute the underlying story. The fact that they would use this previously amusing strategy to distract from the abuse of children has crossed a line. The fact that others are claiming that the mere utterance of protest is proof of allegiance with a conspiracy theory pushes that line beyond our reach.
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Groups hosting and coordinating the ongoing unrest in Portland, Oregon, have established an &#8220;approved&#8221; media list and are vetting coverage from on the ground, according to <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/04/youre-not-allowed-to-film-the-fight-for-control-over-who-reports-from-portland/">a report from Reason&#8217;s</a> reporter on the scene, Nancy Rommelmann, and they are blocking, harassing, and even threatening &#8220;un-approved&#8221; journalists there to provide more accurate coverage of riots, looting, and violence.
Rommelmann says she became curious about the way Portland&#8217;s unrest was being covered in mainstream media outlets after seeing individuals at demonstrations with the word &#8220;press&#8221; emblazoned across helmets and protective body armor.
It turns out, she found, groups organizing the protests in Portland are also vetting reporters for an &#8220;Independent Press Corps&#8221; &#8212; a group allied with and approved by protesters, who are deeply involved in crafting and guiding the way mainstream media outlets are reporting on Portland&#8217;s demonstrations &#8212; and the group includes reporters affiliated with some of the nation&#8217;s top papers.
&#8220;The IPC is an organized group in league with the activists, and it is usually their footage you see streamed online and recycled on the news: mostly innocent protestors being harassed and beaten by police,&#8221; Rommelmann writes Saturday.
&#8220;The IPC and other documentarians who are deemed sympathetic to the activists&#8217; cause agree on certain principles. You do not show activists&#8217; faces. You only show activists in a defensive position: responding to, rather than inciting, violence. You enhance what can appear to be police brutality, e.g., activists defending themselves with homemade shields, often bearing the anarchist circle-A, against police,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;The shields are largely ineffective for personal defense, but extremely effective for optics, and that&#8217;s precisely the point. If a member of the IPC is arrested, he or she will be protected.&#8221;
The list of approved reporters include the &#8220;man on the ground for the New York Times,&#8221; Rommelmann says, as well as a high profile social media reporter whose Tweets are largely considered an official timeline of Portland events, and many have connections directly to national outlets like The Washington Post.
&#8220;These protester-approved journalists are producing much of the news you see about the protests, with an assist from the national press. Kate Shepherd isn&#8217;t on the list, but she was previously a sympathetic reporter for local Portland media, and she is now filing such stories for The Washington Post, with headlines like &#8216;Portland police arrest a hate crime survivor and Wall of Moms organizer in crackdown,'&#8221; according to Rommelmann.
Reporters like Rommelmann, who are judged &#8220;not sufficiently sympathetic to the cause&#8221; (largely those who are not signed on <a href="https://www.tenforjustice.com/">to the protesters&#8217; ten agenda items</a>) are harassed, intimidated, and confronted and, on occasion, assaulted and threatened. Rommelmann reports of being told that &#8220;photography equals death,&#8221; and had her phone knocked from her hand as she filmed something the IPC wasn&#8217;t interested in reporting.
That&#8217;s creating a &#8220;bottleneck&#8221; in reporting that protects most news consumers from what&#8217;s happening in Portland, where the unrest has continued for nearly four months, moving from downtown Portland, where agitators were attacking and attempting to burn a federal courthouse, now to residential neighborhoods.
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REPORT: Portland Protesters Vetting Media Coverage, Blocking ‘Un-Approved’ Reporters From Covering Riots

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Either the following is satirical or the original article is satirical, we&#8217;re not sure which.
In The Washington Post, where Democracy dies in flatulent dishonesty, a law professor named Rosa Brooks has written an op-ed gaming out what will happen in various scenarios after the November election.
Brooks reports, “A landslide for Joe Biden resulted in a relatively orderly transfer of power. Every other scenario we looked at involved street-level violence and political crisis.”
Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh ho ho, Klavan, you bubbling cauldron of hilarity, once again you have both enlightened us and made us laugh with that rambunctiously rib-tickling satirical wit that somehow manages to capture the absurdity of leftist solipsism while at the same time deepening not only our political understanding but our enjoyment of life as well. And you’re so good-looking too.”
But no, that, so help me, is an actual word-for-word quote from the article.
Rosa Brooks says if we don’t elect a doddering relic of a once-merely-stupid second-rate politician, there will be bloodshed.
Brooks goes on to say, “We consulted some of the most accomplished intellectuals in the bar on the ground floor of our building, and asked them to imagine a series of election scenarios. We concluded that if Donald Trump wins, Democrats will challenge the outcome by stopping the business of government completely through a bogus three-year investigation into Russian interference and, when that blows up in their faces, they’ll move on to reacting hysterically to every little thing Trump does and even impeach him over absolutely nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;Finally, they’ll spread racial hysteria until their fellow leftists are destroying cities and terrorizing ordinary citizens,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;So vote for Biden or we’ll burn this stupid country to the ground.&#8221;
When she finished writing the article, Miss Brooks set her hair on fire and ran through the halls of the newspaper shrieking until the windows shattered, raining glass on the people below.
The Post op-ed is the first in a series. Tomorrow’s sequel is entitled, “Vote for Biden or we’ll kill you. We know where you live.”
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-praise-peaceful-protests-as-violent-riots-that-are-trumps-fault-satire">Democrats Praise Peaceful Protests As Violent Riots That Are Trump’s Fault</a>
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Washington Post: Vote For Biden Or We’ll Kill You [Satire]

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

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In an odd attempt to boost Democrat vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, The Washington Post ran an article titled: “Kamala Harris’s dad was from Jamaica, where a fierce woman warrior once fought slavery.”
The article begins:
<blockquote>She was a warrior — the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/09/01/whether-shes-on-the-20-bill-or-not-harriet-tubman-made-men-pay-for-underestimating-her/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2">Harriet Tubman</a> of Jamaica.
As Republicans question whether Democratic vice-presidential candidate <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/16/kamala-harris-grew-up-mostly-white-world-then-she-went-black-university-black-city/?arc404=true&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_3">Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.)</a>, whose father was an immigrant from Jamaica and whose mother was an immigrant from India, is Black or even a descendant of enslaved Black people, they may want to consider the remarkable history of Nanny of the Maroons, a national hero in Jamaica.</blockquote>
Harris’ picture appears at the top of the article next to a photo of Nanny on the Jamaican $500 bill. Nanny is an impressive woman, but she is in no way related to Kamala Harris or her father. The Post could have simply written an article about a great woman or picked any random person who is an immigrant or who has an immigrant parent and found an impressive historical figure from their country of origin.
As an example, the Post could have written an article titled, “Donald Trump’s mom was from Scotland, where a fierce warrior once fought for freedom.” The warrior in question is William Wallace (many may know his name from “Braveheart”). Wallace has no connection to Trump whatsoever, and tying the two together makes no sense.
The other, more glaring problem with bringing Harris’ father into the arena is the fact that the last thing he said about his daughter was not pleasant. In early 2019, Harris appeared on a radio program called “The Breakfast Club” and told host Charlamagne tha God that she smoked marijuana in college. When asked whether she’s against marijuana legalization, Harris joked: “Half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?”
Her joke about Jamaica apparently did not sit well, as her father, Donald Harris, an economics professor at Stanford University, provided <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/politics/kamala-harriss-father-is-slamming-her-for-making-a-travesty-of-her-jamaican-heritage/">a statement</a> to Jamaica Global Online in which he called his daughter’s remarks a “travesty.”
“My dear departed grandmothers, as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” Donald said.
Soon after, Maclean’s <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/politics/kamala-harriss-father-is-slamming-her-for-making-a-travesty-of-her-jamaican-heritage/">reported</a> at the time that Harris – who was still running for president in February 2019 – had released a campaign manifesto mentioning her father in the beginning before he disappeared on page 20 out of 300 and was never mentioned again.
None of this appears in the Post article about Nanny, nor is any attempt made to connect her to Kamala Harris besides several campaign-provided photos of Harris as a little girl with her Jamaican relatives.
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Washington Post Headline Celebrates Homeland Of Kamala Harris’ Father. Here’s What Her Father Said About Her.

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The Washington Post used its headline about the death of President Donald Trump’s brother Robert to knock the president, in yet another example of the outlet declaring its bias in headlines before changing them.
Sometimes, the article doesn’t line up with the headline, but in this case, the “obituary” for Robert Trump from the Post also consisted of gossip and attacks aimed at the president, including second-hand claims that Donald and Robert had a falling out decades ago. The Post’s obituary also spends much of its time on a book from Donald and Robert’s niece, Mary, who trashed the president and thus received praise for her book from the mainstream media.
“Robert Trump, younger brother of President Trump who filed lawsuit against niece, dies at 71,” read the Post’s original headline for Robert’s obituary. The inclusion of Donald’s lawsuit against Mary is not only inappropriate in an obituary headline, it’s also in this case misleading, making it seem as if Donald sued Robert’s daughter. In reality, Donald sued the daughter of his late brother Fred Jr. Robert sought to keep Mary’s book from being published.
“I and the rest of my entire family are so proud of my wonderful brother, the president, and feel that Mary’s actions are truly a disgrace,” Robert said in a statement regarding Mary’s book.
The Post’s obituary for Robert focuses on the alleged feud between him and Donald, and on Mary’s book. The second paragraph of the article mentions Mary’s book, including Mary’s claim that Donald was “the world’s most dangerous man.”
The Post included another quote from Mary’s book, where she claimed: “Donald had discovered early on how easy it was to get under Robert’s pale skin and push him past his limits; it was a game he never tired of playing.”
The Post then relied on former Trump casino executive John O’Donnell’s claims of an argument between the two brothers in 1989 – an argument that may have happened but that clearly didn’t lead to animosity between the two brothers, as Robert praised Donald when he became president and Donald told the post his brother did a “really good job.”
To fill out its obituary, the Post relayed an inheritance battle within the Trump family, another attempt to make the family look bad and make Mary seem sympathetic.
Robert Trump’s obituary by the Post was a far cry different than the outlet’s obituary on terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom the Post called an “austere religious scholar” at the time of his death in October 2019. As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/58280?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=benshapiro">reported</a>, the Post changed its headline several times after al-Baghdadi’s death. It first read: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State’s ‘terrorist-in-chief,’ dies at 48.” The outlet then changed the headline to, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48,” before the Post changed it once more to “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.”
The article itself gave al-Baghdadi more praise than the Post’s article about Robert Trump’s death gave to President Trump.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-some-democrats-use-death-of-trumps-brother-to-attack-the-president-the-wrong-trump-died">Related: Media, Some Democrats Use Death Of Trump&#8217;s Brother To Attack The President: &#8216;The Wrong Trump&#8217; Died</a>
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden issued a non-apology on Thursday evening for widely-panned remarks he made about African-Americans earlier in the day, saying that he did not &#8220;mean&#8221; what he said.
“Earlier today, I made some comments about diversity in the African American and Latino communities that I want to clarify. In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith—not by identity, not on issues, not at all,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “Throughout my career I’ve witnessed the diversity of thought, background, and sentiment within the African American community. It’s this diversity that makes our workplaces, communities, and country a better place.”
Biden added, “My commitment to you is this: I will always listen, I will never stop fighting for the African American community and I will never stop fighting for a more equitable future.”
Early on Thursday, Biden said during an interview, “What you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”
Biden followed that remark up with a similar comment later in the afternoon during a separate interview, saying, “Now what I mean full diversity, unlike the African American community and many other communities, you’re from everywhere.”
Biden received a fair amount of criticism over his non-apology after his remarks.
Columnist Rita Panahi wrote on Twitter, &#8220;Clarify? There is not a single word clarifying what you meant in your series of tweets. Whoever is writing these tweets for you is doing a poor job.&#8221;
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Clarify? There is not a single word clarifying what you meant in your series of tweets. Whoever is writing these tweets for you is doing a poor job. <a href="https://t.co/UyKtHVrhTd">https://t.co/UyKtHVrhTd</a>
&mdash; Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1291542855580696581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Washington Examiner columnist Beckett Adams wrote on Twitter, &#8220;but I had been reliably informed by certain members of the press that Biden a) said nothing wrong and b) didn&#8217;t say what you clearly heard him say.&#8221;
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but I had been reliably informed by certain members of the press that Biden a) said nothing wrong and b) didn&#39;t say what you clearly heard him say. <a href="https://t.co/JyifS6YCnZ">https://t.co/JyifS6YCnZ</a>
&mdash; tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) <a href="https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1291543732844744708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Commentator Stephen Miller wrote on Twitter, &#8220;Well he just turned the Washington Post fact-checker inside out.&#8221;
Miller&#8217;s remarks were aimed at Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, who disputed a claim from the Trump campaign about Biden&#8217;s remarks.
The Trump campaign tweeted, &#8220;Joe Biden just said that Latinos have diversity of thought, unlike Black Americans&#8230; This is disgusting!&#8221;
Kessler responded, &#8220;If you listen to the clip, he didn&#8217;t actually say this.&#8221;
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To start, <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GlennKesslerWP</a>, the fact checkers for the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a>, claims that Biden never made these comments he just walked back. 
It begs the question why Biden would need to clarify them, don’t you think? <a href="https://t.co/ciKmW1BRhp">pic.twitter.com/ciKmW1BRhp</a>
&mdash; Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1291560494390706176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Trump campaign did not directly quote Biden, so they never said that he used those exact words. Secondly, Biden said that &#8220;unlike the African American community,&#8221; Latinos are &#8220;an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly different attitudes about different things.&#8221; The implication the Trump campaign made about what Biden was saying was correct.
HuffPost reporter Igor Bobic responded to Biden&#8217;s tweet by writing, &#8220;Clean up on aisle cringe.&#8221;
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Clean up on aisle cringe <a href="https://t.co/WzAr5hTpai">https://t.co/WzAr5hTpai</a>
&mdash; Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) <a href="https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1291541938949234688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden issued a non-apology on Thursday evening for widely-panned remarks he made about African-Americans

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A Tuesday <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/04/american-bird-names-colonialism-audubon/?arc404=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">op-ed</a> in The Washington Post by two ornithologists argued that bird names derived from problematic historical figures should be changed.
Gabriel Foley and Jordan Rutter, two ornithologists who started the website &#8220;<a href="https://birdnamesforbirds.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bird Names for Birds</a>,&#8221; maintained that the many bird names that include eponymous references to such people &#8220;cast long, dark shadows over our beloved birds and represent colonialism, racism and inequality.&#8221;
&#8220;It is long overdue that we acknowledge the problem of such names, and it is long overdue that we should change them,&#8221; they added.
Foley and Rutter first criticized John James Audubon, after whom several birds were named and whose monumental 19th-century book &#8220;The Birds of America&#8221; is widely considered one of the most important ornithological works ever written. &#8220;Surely, most of us might think, this is an entirely fitting honor for someone who did so much for our understanding of the environment,&#8221; they wrote, but reminded readers that even &#8220;Audubon&#8217;s story has a dark side.&#8221;
Pinpointing how he once scoured the battlefield after the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto cutting the heads off of Mexicans to send to a phrenologist, they wrote, &#8220;For Audubon, this might have been just another way of practicing science — but his actions hardly align with modern values, and his scientific contributions do not excuse him from judgment.&#8221;
The two then go on to list other birds who were named for people they don&#8217;t like, such as Bachman&#8217;s sparrow, who was named for a pro-slavery reverend; McCown&#8217;s longspur, who shares a name with a Confederate general; Hammond&#8217;s flycatcher, who was named for a doctor that performed anatomical studies on Native Americans killed in battle; Bendire&#8217;s thrasher, named for a U.S. major who fought Native Americans; and Townsend&#8217;s warbler, a bird whose namesake dug up Native Americans to study their skulls.
Foley and Rutter conclude by likening such bird names to Confederate statues, writing:
<blockquote>The controversy over such names, which is now exciting passions within the bird community, mirrors similar conflicts over monuments to Confederates and colonialists now raging in the United States and elsewhere. Eponymous names serve as verbal statues: They are a memorial both to the colonial system that wove the fabric of systemic racism through every aspect of our lives — including the birds we see every day — and to the individuals who intentionally and directly perpetuated that system.</blockquote>
They urge their readers to reject &#8220;the colonial monument that eponyms represent&#8221; in favor of &#8220;inclusion and diversity in our community[.]&#8221;
&#8220;We cannot subjectively decide — especially if the adjudicators are White — that some names can be retained because they are associated with less abhorrent pasts than others. We must remove all eponymous names. The stench of colonialism has saturated each of its participants, and the honor inherent within their names must be revoked,&#8221; they wrote, adding, &#8220;A bird’s beauty should not be marred by the baggage of an eponym.&#8221;
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A Tuesday op-ed in The Washington Post by two ornithologists argued that bird names derived from problematic historical figures should be changed. Gabriel

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The Washington Post announced on Wednesday that it would begin capitalizing the words “black” and “white” when used to refer to a person’s skin color.
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/07/29/washington-post-announces-writing-style-changes-racial-ethnic-identifiers/#comments-wrapper">the Post</a>, the decision to capitalize the term “black” recognizes and acknowledges both “the cultural bonds and historical experiences shared by people of African heritage” and the “shared struggles of the descendants of enslaved people, families who immigrated generations ago,” as well as more recent immigrants.
Similarly, the news agency will capitalize the term “white” because, while “many White Europeans who entered the country during times of mass migration were the targets of racial and ethnic discrimination,” these ethnic groups “were eventually assimilated into the collective group that has had its own cultural and historical impact on the nation.”
Anyone who doesn’t wish to be identified by the color of their skin can also be identified through other ways: “Just as the U.S. Census asks individuals to categorize themselves by race, ethnicity and nationality, in our journalism, people will have the opportunity to identify as Black, African American and biracial, or something more ethnically specific, such as Afro-Latino, Ethiopian American or other national identifiers, a reflection of the many cultures and backgrounds that constitute this vast community.”
The news agency presents a few caveats to the rule change.
As a general rule, writes the Post, “racial identification and ethnic background should not be mentioned unless they are clearly relevant, such as in stories about civil rights, problems or achievements of people of color, cultural history and similar topics.”
“Separately, political terms used to promote racist ideologies or to advocate ethnic superiority or separation should remain lowercase (i.e. white supremacist, black nationalist). And in crime stories, where cultural and historical identity aren’t key to a suspect’s actions, use the lowercase versions of black, white and brown as race descriptors,” reads the news agency&#8217;s explanation.
The Washington Post’s decision to change its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-associated-press-says-it-will-capitalize-black-but-not-white">style guide</a> rules for referencing skin color comes as other news organizations have announced similar changes to the way they reference race. For example, CNN has started capitalizing both “white” and “black,” according to <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-capitalize-black-white-race/">The Wrap</a>, and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-media-capitalize-black">Fox News</a> has started capitalizing the terms “white” and “black” when “used as an adjective to describe people, a community or culture&#8230;”
However, other news organizations, such as The Associated Press and The New York Times, have declined to capitalize “white.”
“We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems,” John Daniszewski, vice president for standards, told AP staff in a memo, reports the news wire. “But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.”
The New York Times, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black.html">reporting</a> on its own decision earlier this month, wrote that it declined to capitalize both “brown” and “white” because the former doesn’t have a clear meaning, and the latter “doesn’t represent a shared culture and history in the way Black does, and also has long been capitalized by hate groups.”
“To be parallel does make sense usage-wise when talking about grammar and usage, but we can never just go on these sorts of standards,” Destinée-Charisse Royal, a staff editor for the graphics department, told the Times. “Language doesn’t work that way. You have to consider the other factors.”
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The Washington Post announced on Wednesday that it would begin capitalizing the words “black” and “white” when used to refer to a person’s skin color.

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Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann announced on Friday that his legal team has settled its $250 million defamation lawsuit with The Washington Post.
&#8220;On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 &amp; WaPo settled my lawsuit,&#8221; Sandmann wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Thanks to @ToddMcMurtry &amp; @LLinWood for their advocacy. Thanks to my family &amp; millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do.&#8221;
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On 2/19/19, I filed $250M defamation lawsuit against Washington Post. Today, I turned 18 &amp; WaPo settled my lawsuit. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/ToddMcMurtry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ToddMcMurtry</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/LLinWood?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LLinWood</a> for their advocacy. Thanks to my family &amp; millions of you who have stood your ground by supporting me. I still have more to do.
&mdash; Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/N1ckSandmann/status/1286675866408431616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Sandmann added, &#8220;We have settled with WAPO and CNN. The fight isn’t over. 2 down. 6 to go. Don’t hold your breath @jack .&#8221;
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We have settled with WAPO and CNN. 
The fight isn’t over. 2 down. 6 to go.
Don’t hold your breath <a href="https://twitter.com/jack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jack</a>.
&mdash; Nicholas Sandmann (@N1ckSandmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/N1ckSandmann/status/1286676812303564800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The lawsuit centered around false coverage of an interaction that Sandmann had with Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips that portrayed Sandmann as an aggressor.
Kris Coratti, a spokesperson for The Post, said, &#8220;We are pleased that we have been able to reach a mutually agreeable resolution of the remaining claims in this lawsuit.&#8221;
&#8220;Nicholas Sandmann agreed to settle with the Post because the Post was quick to publish the whole truth—through its follow-up coverage and editor&#8217;s notes,&#8221; Sandmann&#8217;s attorney, Todd McMurtry, said in a statement. &#8220;The terms of the settlement are confidential.&#8221;
The settlement from The Washington Post comes after CNN settled the $275 million lawsuit that it faced from Sandmann back in January.
“CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann,” Fox 19 <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2020/01/07/cnn-settles-lawsuit-with-nick-sandmann/">reported</a>. “The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington.”
“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,” Lin Wood <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-be-sued-250-million-over-vicious-ryan-saavedra">told</a> Fox News’ Mark Levin last year. “CNN couldn’t resist the idea that here’s a guy with a young boy, with that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him.”
“They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false,” Wood continued. “Now you say you’ve seen the tape; if you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I’ve said to others, he was the only adult in the room.”
In an interview on Fox News last year, McMurtry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nick-sandmanns-lawyer-reveals-massive-275-ryan-saavedra">told</a> anchor Sandra Smith, “Well, what CNN’s tagline is is ‘facts first.’ And what we believe their reporting was in this circumstance was lies first, cover up second, and facts not yet determined by that organization. So the difference between this lawsuit and the other lawsuit that we have filed is that CNN is a very significant media organization with a much broader reach than, say, the Washington Post. It has Twitter followers of 41 million people. It published four videos. Nine online articles that were tweeted out. So that’s millions and millions and millions of repetitions of the lies and falsehoods that CNN spread.”
“Well, we’ve talked about the impact on Nicholas Sandmann a number of times and it — it is significant,” McMurtry continued. “Nicholas Sandmann was a 16-year-old man who had a perfect reputation. He was loved by his parents, respected at his school, and had many good friends at Covington Catholic High School. So he was a person that was doing very well in life, and due to his strong character, he still is. But nevertheless, his character has now been determined by the lies issued by CNN. So the facts were not first, the lies were.”
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Covington Catholic HS Student Nick Sandmann Settles $250 Million Lawsuit With The Washington Post

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Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann announced on Friday that his legal team has settled its $250 million defamation lawsuit with The

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On Tuesday night, Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sean-hannity-threatens-lawsuit-against-nyt-demands-retraction-over-covid-story-times-responds">Sean Hannity</a> responded critically to comments by fellow network host <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8vqof9hAk">Tucker Carlson</a> during their nightly handoff, hitting Carlson for a sharply critical segment on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the Democratic Party.
&#8220;At least one person has become extremely rich, richer than any man in history, from all of this, including a lot of the suffering, that would be Amazon CEO, Democrat donor, owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos,&#8221; Carlson said during the segment, referencing the U.S. response to the novel coronavirus.
During the show handoff, Hannity, in a side-by-side shot with Carlson, said, &#8220;People can make money. They provide goods and services people want, need, and desire. That’s America. It’s called freedom, capitalism, and as long as it’s honest, right, people decide.”
Carlson seemed visibly confused and irritated by the Hannity shot, but refrained from responding to his colleague on-air.
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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson spends his D-block criticizing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for adding to his overall net worth during the coronavirus pandemic. 
Watch Carlson’s face during the handoff to Sean Hannity who defends Bezos.<a href="https://t.co/WcFlZTJTHU">pic.twitter.com/WcFlZTJTHU</a>
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Hannity soon after offered an apology to Carlson and clarified his comments.
“I apologize for any misunderstanding to Tucker and the Fox audience,” he said in a reply to the viral video clip of the Carlson segment dig. “I support freedom and Capitalism. Not people taking advantage of a pandemic. If I see such evidence I will obviously condemn it.”
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I apologize for any misunderstanding to Tucker and the fox audience. I support freedom and Capitalism. Not people taking advantage of a pandemic. If I see such evidence I will obviously condemn it.
&mdash; Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1285761201344057344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The segment, to which Hannity was apparently responding, included Carlson condemning Bezos for profiting off the pandemic response and insulating himself from criticism by owning a major newspaper. He also hit the Democratic Party for ignoring the supposed economic injustice they would otherwise condemn, were they not the ones profiting.
&#8220;At least one person has become extremely rich, richer than any man in history, from all of this, including a lot of the suffering, that would be Amazon CEO, Democrat donor, owner of The Washington Post Jeff Bezos,&#8221; Carlson started in. &#8220;Jeff Bezos, just yesterday, made $13 billion.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, 20 years ago, if that had happened, if a &#8216;captain of industry&#8217; had made $13 billion in a single day while the country got poorer, the Democratic Party would have had something to say about it,&#8221; the populist-leaning Fox News host continued. &#8220;Not anymore, because the people getting rich are members of the Democratic Party.&#8221;
Later in the segment, Carlson emphasized, &#8220;I&#8217;m not against wealth accumulation, I&#8217;m not against free enterprise, but $13 billion in a day suggests something is skewed with the system.&#8221;
Commenting on Bezos&#8217; ownership of the Post, Carlson noted that the billionaire made a &#8220;pretty smart PR (public relations)&#8221; move, adding, &#8220;Buy the paper so you never get criticized.&#8221;
&#8220;One thing about Jeff Bezos: not stupid. I&#8217;m not a fan, but I gotta say, pretty smart.&#8221;
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Here was Tucker’s segment on Jeff Bezos that proceeded this exchange <a href="https://t.co/G3uYTytRpC">pic.twitter.com/G3uYTytRpC</a>
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Carlson has questioned Bezos before. For example, back in 2018, Carlson gave the nod to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in comments about Bezos.
&#8220;Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Many of his employees are so poor, you’re paying their welfare benefits. And he’s not the only tech billionaire offloading his payroll costs onto taxpayers. This is an indefensible scam. Why is only Bernie talking about it?&#8221;
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Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Many of his employees are so poor, you’re paying their welfare benefits. And he’s not the only tech billionaire offloading his payroll costs onto taxpayers. This is an indefensible scam. Why is only Bernie talking about it? <a href="https://t.co/PdXBfQsHsq">pic.twitter.com/PdXBfQsHsq</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1035334044698009600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2018</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity responded critically to comments by fellow network host Tucker Carlson during their nightly handoff, hitting

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Four previous directors of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention accused President Donald Trump of politicizing the agency and botching the U.S. pandemic response.
Tom Frieden, Jeffrey Koplan, David Satcher, and Richard Besser, who altogether ran the CDC for about 15 years, slammed Trump in a joint op-ed published Tuesday in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/14/cdc-directors-trump-politics/">The Washington Post</a>. The former directors argued that Trump had failed the U.S. in part because case numbers are higher across the country than those reported by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“As America begins the formidable task of getting our kids back to school and all of us back to work safely amid a pandemic that is only getting worse, public health experts face two opponents: covid-19, but also political leaders and others attempting to undermine the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” the public health experts began, referencing the Trump administration’s push to reopen schools in the fall. “As the debate last week around reopening schools more safely showed, these repeated efforts to subvert sound public health guidelines introduce chaos and uncertainty while unnecessarily putting lives at risk.”
The former directors went on to tout China’s reported cases relative to the United States. The coronavirus originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread globally to nations unprepared to face such a disease in large part because the CCP initially hid the outbreak. The Chinese government <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-a-timeline-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak-and-chinas-coverup">allowed</a> an estimated 5 million people to leave Wuhan before shutting down the city.
“China, using the same mitigation tools available to us and with a far larger population, has had just a tiny fraction of the 3.1 million cases reported here. The United States now has more cases and deaths than any other country and the sixth-highest rate of any large country in the world — and we are gaining on the other five. The United States is home to a quarter of the world’s reported coronavirus infections and deaths, despite being home to only 4.4 percent of the global population,” the former CDC directors wrote.
The U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly <a href="https://dw-site-dev.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says">warned</a> the White House that China is intentionally underreporting the virus’s spread and fatality rate. Based on the evidence, Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-death-rate-from-coronavirus-in-china-far-higher-than-the-u-s">said</a> China&#8217;s death toll from the disease is “far higher” than that of the United States.
The former directors also asserted that the pandemic in the U.S. is worsening as “willful disregard for public health guidelines” leads “to a sharp rise in infections and deaths.” It remains unclear what data the group is referring to. Total positive cases in the United States are rising as the disease spreads in the South and West. Weekly deaths from the disease in the U.S. continue to fall, however.
As noted by the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html">CDC</a>:
<blockquote>Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 6.9% during week 26 to 5.5% during week 27, representing the eleventh week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC. The percentage is currently below the epidemic threshold but will likely change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks.</blockquote>

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Former CDC Directors Bash Trump Over Virus Response, Says U.S. Is Failing Compared To China

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Four previous directors of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention accused President Donald Trump of politicizing the agency and botching the U.S.

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A Washington Post editor said Monday that the Texas Rangers team name &#8220;must go.&#8221;
On the same day that the National Football League&#8217;s Washington Redskins announced it would do away with its 93-year-old team name, Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah said that the Major League Baseball team must deal with &#8220;the violent and racist implications of its name.&#8221;
&#8220;To know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand that the team’s name is not so far off from being called the Texas Klansmen,&#8221; Attiah wrote in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/13/texas-rangers-team-name-must-go/">op-ed</a> for the liberal newspaper.
Attiah, who grew up in Dallas, reminisced about going to Rangers games with her father as a child, but said at the time she didn&#8217;t know the Rangers &#8220;were a cruel, racist force when it came to the nonwhites who inhabited the beautiful and untamed Texas territory.&#8221;
The Texas Rangers were unofficially created by Stephen F. Austin in 1823 as a statewide investigative law enforcement agency, headquartered in the capital of Austin. The Rangers stopped the assassination of President William Howard Taft and pursued such outlaws as Bonnie and Clyde. More than 120 have died in the line of duty.
Attiah, who said she is part of a Ghanaian immigrant family and calls herself a &#8220;black Texan,&#8221; said &#8220;the first job of the Rangers &#8230; was to clear the land of Indian for white settlers.&#8221;
<blockquote>That was just the start. The Rangers oppressed black people, helping capture runaway slaves trying to escape to Mexico; in the aftermath of the Civil War, they killed free blacks with impunity. “The negroes here need killing,” a Ranger wrote in a local newspaper in 1877, after Rangers fired on a party of black former Buffalo soldiers, killing four of them and a 4-year-old girl. A jury would later find that the black soldiers “came to their death while resisting officers in the discharge of their duty,” an unsettling echo of the justification for modern-day police killings.</blockquote>
The editor cited a new book, “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers,” in which author Doug J. Swanson wrote, “In service to Anglo civilization’s slow march, they functioned as executioners. Their job was to seize and hold Texas for the white man.”
The Post writer isn&#8217;t the first to call for the Texas Rangers to change their name. After a Chicago Tribune piece last month, the team made a statement.
“While we may have originally taken our name from the law enforcement agency, since 1971 the Texas Rangers Baseball Club has forged its own, independent identity,” said the team statement. “The Texas Rangers Baseball Club stands for equality. We condemn racism, bigotry, and discrimination in all forms.
“To help bring about meaningful change, we are committed to listening to and supporting our communities of color. &#8230; We go forward committed to do even more, with a renewed promise that the Texas Rangers name will represent solutions and hope for a better future for our communities,&#8221; said the team.
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Washington Post Editor Says Texas Rangers’ ‘Violent And Racist’ Name ‘Must Go’

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A Washington Post editor said Monday that the Texas Rangers team name &quot;must go.&quot; On the same day that the National Football League&#039;s Washington Redskins

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The July 6 Washington Post carried a typically colorful headline on top of the Style section. &#8220;A binder full of bombast: Kayleigh McEnany plays her boss and his base with derisive news briefing walk-offs.&#8221;
Media reporter Paul Farhi wrote McEnany&#8217;s &#8220;would-be smackdowns seemed so orchestrated&#8221; they only lacked some kind of musical flourish, like the opening witticisms that lead into the theme song on the crime drama &#8220;CSI: Miami.&#8221;
McEnany flourished again later that day, noting: &#8220;I was asked probably 12 questions about the Confederate flag. This President is focused on action. I&#8217;m a little dismayed that I didn&#8217;t receive one question on the deaths that we got in this country this weekend.&#8221; She wasn&#8217;t asked &#8220;about New York City shootings doubling for the third straight week, and over the last seven days shooting skyrocket by 142%.&#8221; Reporters groaned and protested.
For analysis of this tactic, Farhi turned to Ryan Lizza, the chief Washington correspondent of Politico. Lizza said these mic drops create delight for Trump and &#8220;the universe of Trump-friendly websites&#8221; who turn these commentaries into clips &#8220;for the MAGA-sphere.&#8221; That&#8217;s true. McEnany&#8217;s commentaries are great clickbait for people who want to see arrogant reporters get a dose of their own medicine.
But is Lizza really an objective observer? He then claimed: &#8220;We used to have this quaint idea that the press secretary wasn&#8217;t just a mouthpiece for the president, that half of the job was serving the press and the public. &#8230; That model is gone now. Now it&#8217;s almost pure theater, and (she&#8217;s serving) the negative partisanship that drives all else.&#8221;
Lizza isn&#8217;t being honest, because he represents &#8220;pure theater&#8221; and &#8220;negative partisanship&#8221; from the other side of the exchange. On May 26, he asked McEnany this beanball question repeatedly: &#8220;We&#8217;re about to cross the 100,000 dead American milestone &#8230; on Election Day, what does the White House view the number of dead Americans where you can say that you successfully defeated this pandemic? Is there a number?&#8221;
Recently, Lizza asked her facetiously, &#8220;Does President Trump believe that it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War?&#8221;
Lizza&#8217;s live-in girlfriend, Olivia Nuzzi of New York Magazine, beat him to the sleazy punch when she asked Trump on April 27, &#8220;If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War, does he deserve to be reelected?&#8221;
This kind of question is performance art. It&#8217;s a look-at-me spectacle, a Jim Acosta bump and grind. There&#8217;s nothing &#8220;quaint&#8221; about it.
Farhi closed out this article with the expertise of Jennifer Mercieca, described merely as &#8220;an associate professor at Texas A&amp;M who specializes in rhetoric and public affairs.&#8221; McEnany&#8217;s &#8220;leave-taking behavior&#8221; points to &#8220;how adversarial the relationship between the press secretary and the press is at present,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The abrupt ending signals a lack of respect for the press, especially after she has berated their reporting.&#8221;
The Post didn&#8217;t note that Mercieca has a brand-new book about Trump called &#8220;Demagogue for President.&#8221; Its dust cover promises she will show, as one review reads, &#8220;how a bombastic pitchman emerged as America&#8217;s authoritarian PT Barnum, using nothing more than his weaponized words to transform a polarized and dispirited nation into his own reality TV show.&#8221;
This would seem to signal a lack of respect for the president — or the ringmaster/dictator, in her overactive imagination. This book sounds like quite a &#8220;binder full of bombast.&#8221; But The Washington Post is pretending that political bombast is a one-way street &#8230; like no one ever reads its front page.
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GRAHAM: The Press Secretary Puts Down Bombastic Reporters

The July 6 Washington Post carried a typically colorful headline on top of the Style section. &quot;A binder full of bombast: Kayleigh McEnany plays her boss

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On Sunday evening, the Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post tweeted “white women are lucky that we are just calling them ‘Karen&#8217;s’. And not calling for revenge.”
Karen Attiah wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “The lies &amp; tears of White women hath wrought: —The 1921 Tulsa Massacre — Murder of Emmet Till — Exclusion of Black women from feminist movements — 53% of white women voting for Trump. White women are lucky that we are just calling them &#8216;Karen&#8217;s&#8217;. And not calling for revenge.”
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She added later: “This is not patience and strength. It&#8217;s the result of knowing the price of resistance, and that much blood would be spilled. We must get away from the idea that enduring abuse is admirable.”
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this is not patience and strength. It&#39;s the result of knowing the price of resistance, and that much blood would be spilled. 
We must get away from the idea that enduring abuse is admirable.
&mdash; Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1277358185179987968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Four minutes after that, she tweeted, “I&#8217;m just saying. Be happy we are calling for equality. And not actual revenge.&#8221;
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Prior to those three tweets, Attiah explained: “But here’s the real thing about ‘Karen’ memes. The dark side to handwringing about how ‘Karen’ hurts white women’s feelings is that it is a distraction from how everyday white women uphold white supremacy through violence, aggression and the weaponizing of their gender.”
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But here’s the real thing about “Karen” memes. 
The dark side to handwringing about how Karen” hurts white women’s feelings is that it is a distraction from how everyday white women uphold white supremacy through violence, aggression, and the weaponzing of their gender.
&mdash; Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1277337462231236616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Attiah has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/28/karen-memes-jokes-arent-sexist-or-racist-let-karen-explain/?arc404=true">described</a> the use of the name “Karen” to belittle people this way:
<blockquote>In the past several years, “Karen” has come to represent a certain archetype of middle-aged white female privilege — or the new n-word, depending on whom you ask. Yup, “Karen” is the new black …Becky and Karen memes and jokes should be understood in this context, part of a long tradition to use humor to try to cope with the realities of white privilege and anti-blackness.</blockquote>
An article published on the site <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/very-online/the-karen-meme-isnt-a-slur-its-a-social-critique">bitchmedia</a> surmised that using the name “Karen” as a pejorative arose from the &#8220;custom (also largely based in social media) of giving white women nicknames that reference their specific brand of racism.” The article continued, “In current contexts, white women’s power is translated into that of a Karen; Black women know that Karens have always walked among us.”
&#8220;Because Karen is white, she faces few meaningful repercussions,&#8221; Robin Abcarian of the The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-23/column-karen-meme-white-women-behaving-badly">wrote</a> in a May 23 column. &#8220;Embarrassing videos posted on social media is usually as bad as it gets for Karen. This is the subversive genius of the meme. It’s not especially vicious, but with luck it causes all the Karens out there to examine the way they move through the world. The Karen meme exists for the amusement of those who take pleasure in watching the privileged take themselves down. It is observational, darkly funny and racially pointed: We see your privilege, even if you don’t.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.insider.com/karen-meme-origin-the-history-of-calling-women-karen-white-2020-5">Business Insider</a> added, &#8220;The &#8216;Karen&#8217; meme, which has become so ubiquitous it&#8217;s been <a href="https://twitter.com/Schultzzie/status/1190067795121229825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1190067795121229825&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F2020%2F2%2F5%2F21079162%2Fkaren-name-insult-meme-manager" data-analytics-module="body_link" data-analytics-post-depth="20">used as a Halloween costume</a>, burst onto the scene in the last couple of years to describe white women who were perceived as acting entitled in public. Now, it&#8217;s used as a moniker for any white woman who&#8217;s thought to be acting inappropriately, rudely, or in an entitled fashion.&#8221;
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WaPo Editor: White Women ‘Lucky’ We’re ‘Not Calling For Revenge’

On Sunday evening, the Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post tweeted “white women are lucky that we are just calling them ‘Karen&#039;s’. And not

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An &#8220;analysis&#8221; in The Washington Post this week apparently sought to discredit a claim by President Donald Trump about violence in Democrat-controlled cities and ended up proving him correct.
The Post noted that Trump has sought to portray Democrats as soft on crime as part of his re-election strategy and pointed out the following quote from Trump on Wednesday: “You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what’s going on in Detroit and other — other cities, all Democrat run. Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.”
The Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/25/trump-keeps-claiming-that-most-dangerous-cities-america-are-all-run-by-democrats-they-arent/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>It’s not clear how Trump is defining “most dangerous” in this context. So let’s look at two related sets of data compiled by the FBI: most violent crime and most violent crime per capita.
The most recent data to that effect is from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report covering the first half of 2019. The cities with the most violent crimes are many of the most populous cities in the country, as you might expect. Those with the highest rates of violent crime are from a range of different states.</blockquote>
The Post then included a graphic (featured below) in their report that showed that overall 17 out of the top 20 cities with the most violent crime have Democrat mayors, while two have independent mayors, and one has a Republican mayor.
The graphic also showed that per capita, Democrats controlled 19 out of the top 20 most violent cities with independents controlling one and Republicans controlling none.
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&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1276885830083043329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Trump would no doubt shrug at that detail, decrying as &#8216;fake news&#8217; the revelation that his assertion was only slightly wrong,&#8221; Washington Post blogger Philip Bump wrote. &#8220;And, in fairness, it actually doesn’t matter that four of the 32 cities listed above have non-Democratic mayors — because it doesn’t really matter that the other mayors are Democrats.&#8221;
Violence has surged in major cities across the U.S. in recent weeks — including in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-shreds-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-in-letter-over-chicago-violence-lightfoot-snaps-on-twitter">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/new-york-city-crime/index.html">New York City</a>, and <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/06/09/lapd-crime-homicides-up-250-percent/">Los Angeles</a> just to name a few — as far-left activists have demonized law enforcement officials and called for defunding police departments in response to the death of George Floyd.
Violent rioters have also plagued streets across the U.S. in recent days as they try to destroy statues and monuments.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-signs-executive-order-protecting-monuments-barr-creates-task-force-to-tackle-extremists-includes-antifa">reported</a>:
<blockquote>In recent days, extremists have destroyed statues of former Presidents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rioters-burn-american-flag-on-fire-on-top-of-george-washington-statue-tear-it-down">George Washington</a>, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-protesters-tear-down-racist-statue-thomas-jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-california-tear-down-statue-of-ulysses-s-grant-he-defeated-the-confederacy-devastated-kkk">Ulysses S. Grant</a>, and attempted to destroy the statue of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-rioters-near-white-house-try-to-tear-down-presidential-statue-set-up-black-house-autonomous-zone">Andrew Jackson</a> before being stopped by law enforcement.
Statues of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rioters-tear-down-statue-of-francis-scott-key-he-wrote-the-star-spangled-banner">the man who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner,”</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rioters-in-california-tear-down-religious-statue-of-father-junipero-serra">a notable person from the Catholic church</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/memorial-dedicated-to-holocaust-survivors-toppled-at-cemetery-in-california">a Holocaust memorial</a> have also been destroyed in recent days.</blockquote>
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-signs-executive-order-protecting-monuments-barr-creates-task-force-to-tackle-extremists-includes-antifa">signed</a> an executive order yesterday that protects monuments while Attorney General William Barr created a new task force to go after violent anti-government extremists.
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Washington Post ‘Analysis’ Tries To Debunk Trump Claim On Violent Democrat Cities. It Proves Him Right.

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Violence

An &quot;analysis&quot; in The Washington Post this week apparently sought to discredit a claim by President Donald Trump about violence in Democrat-controlled

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The Washington Post is defending its 3,000-word article about a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-gets-random-woman-fired-for-satirical-halloween-costume-from-two-years-ago-backlash-ensues">random woman</a>, 54, who attended a Post editorial cartoonists’ 2018 Halloween party dressed as Meghan Kelly in blackface. The woman (who will not be named by The Daily Wire) was fired from her employer after she told them about the costume incident, and that The Washington Post was writing a story on it. 
Even though the woman was confronted at the party, left in humiliation, and apologized to the host the next day, The Post decided to run an investigation nearly two years later after Lexie Gruber — one of the party guests who confronted the woman — decided to seek news coverage for it.
&#8220;Employees of The Washington Post, including a prominent host, were involved in this incident, which impelled us to tell the story ourselves thoroughly and accurately while allowing all involved to have their say,&#8221; a spokesperson for The Washington Post told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-halloween-costume-cancel-culture-defense">Fox News</a> in a statement. &#8220;The piece conveys with nuance and sensitivity the complex, emotionally fraught circumstances that unfolded at the party attended by media figures only two years ago where an individual in blackface was not told promptly to leave.&#8221;
“America&#8217;s grappling with racism has entered a phase in which people who once felt they should keep quiet are now raising their voices in public. The story is a microcosm of what the country is going through right now,” said the spokesperson. 
Gruber, who claims to have been harassed by the woman at the party, emailed The Washington Post about her experience at the party, in addition to emailing the host of the party, who she never even met, asking him to reveal the identity of the woman. 
The host initially told Gruber he didn’t know who she was talking about, but later acknowledged that the woman was a friend of his, but that he wouldn’t give over her name. Gruber responded: “Hiding her name is a deliberate act of white privilege and cowardice, not friendship.”
Lyric Prince, a friend of Gruber who confronted the woman at the party, told the Post she isn’t interested in an apology, but wanted the party host to condemn his friend in public: “I want people who read this story to say to themselves, ‘I cannot excuse my friend’s bad behavior because it does reflect on me if I say nothing.’ ”
When the host offered to connect Gruber with the woman, who he indicated “wanted a chance to explain and apologize,” Gruber declined, saying that she wasn’t “comfortable reaching out to a woman who publicly harassed me and my friend — simply because we are not white.”
The story, however, doesn’t present clear evidence that Gruber and her friend were harassed at the party. 
The news agency reported that Prince approached the woman and told her she looked “horrible” as a way of “clapping back” at the costume without directly addressing it. The woman, who has reportedly talked to a therapist over her shame about the costume, claims she nervously laughed off the remarks after Prince “told me that I was ugly and had wrinkles.” 
Gruber then approached the woman to explain the degrading history of blackface, later recalling that “there wasn’t a single person in that party who didn’t hear me when I spoke.” Gruber and Prince left the party after the interaction, as did the woman, who said she herself was crying when she left. 
Prince told the Post that she has sought therapy over the incident: “I felt threatened and physically and emotionally exposed. . . . I felt powerless in a way that I never want to feel again.” The woman told the Post she wants an opportunity to apologize to Gruber, the person who brought the incident to the news agency’s attention. 
“With this story, they’ll get the public humiliation they want, but it won’t foster any real dialogue between us. I wish they would talk to me. I made a mistake, and I understand now that when black people make a mistake, they can get killed,” said the woman. 
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Washington Post Defends Story Dragging Random Woman Into Public Sphere Over Halloween Costume

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The Washington Post is defending its 3,000-word article about a random woman, 54, who attended a Post editorial cartoonists’ 2018 Halloween party dressed

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