A famous &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; cartoonist who once drew Donald Trump molesting the Statue of Liberty has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, the Sacramento County Sheriff said Thursday.
The NAACP gave Darrin Bell its <a href="https://darrinbell.substack.com/p/ive-won-the-image-award-and-the-libby" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Image Award</a> last year for his comic book &#8220;The Talk,&#8221; about parents telling their children that they are victims of racism.
The <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article298639688.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sacramento Bee</a> said Bell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, made history as “the first Black cartoonist to have two nationally syndicated strips,” including Candorville, “which features three childhood friends of color and their daily lives in the inner city.”  Now he has made history again with his arrest for alleged possession of artificial intelligence-generated child abuse material, just days after a California law banning AI porn went into effect.
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For years, the Washington Post Writers Group syndicated Bell&#8217;s cartoons in the Post and other papers. He also published cartoons in the New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He won the <a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/darrin-bell-freelancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pulitzer Prize</a> in 2019 “For beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.”
Bell said that respect for human dignity is the “common thread I try to weave through every cartoon that I draw — whether it&#8217;s about police brutality or immigrants being separated from their children, or whether it&#8217;s about Donald Trump,&#8221; <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/won-pulitzer-prize-editorial-cartoons-promoting-human-dignity/story?id=62466906" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a> reported after he won the prize. One of his cartoons showed Trump attempting to molest the Statue of Liberty.
The sheriff said in a <a href="https://x.com/sacsheriff/status/1879899320616710372">statement</a> that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tipped it off that a resident had uploaded 18 files containing Child Sex Abuse Material to an online service. Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children detectives soon found 134 child abuse videos linked to the same account, which they said was owned by Darrin Bell. On Wednesday, they served a search warrant at Bell&#8217;s house. He is currently being held in jail on $1 million bail, they said.
Detectives said some material they recovered was “computer-generated/AI CSAM,” making him “the first arrest by Sacramento Valley ICAC where possession of computer-generated/AI CSAM was charged against a suspect (the law changed on January 1, 2025, to include AI-generated material as a criminal offense.”
On his blog, Bell describes his work as “Progressive anti-fascist, anti-racist political cartoons.” The most recent cartoon posted portrays Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg saying “We’re gonna get rid of a bunch of restrictions on  attacking whichever minorities MAGA considers ‘undesirable.’” He wrote beneath it: &#8220;When Elon Musk bought Twitter a couple years ago, he reinstated NAZIS, throttled anyone to the left of Attila the Hun, and his algorithm filled our timelines with a rogues gallery of alt right types, incels, Q-Anon cultists, and paid Russian dupes.&#8221;

Darrin Bell attends the NAACP Image Awards Nominees Brunch (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for NAACP)

BLM Pulitzer Winner Makes History Again By Being Arrested For AI-Generated Child Porn

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Washington Post

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> is attempting a rebrand as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office again on Monday, as evidenced by the revelation of a new mission statement that was first reported early Thursday morning.
The new mission, which comes as the newsroom is still in disarray after the paper&#8217;s refusal to endorse a 2024 presidential candidate — or, perhaps more accurately, the paper&#8217;s refusal to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race — prompted a number of high profile exits.
On Wednesday, in reaction to those exits and other concerns, some 400 employees signed a letter to the outlet&#8217;s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washington-post-new-mission.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In the letter, they called on Bezos to meet with them to discuss recent leadership decisions that they claimed had &#8220;led readers to question the integrity of this institution.&#8221;
The old mission statement — &#8220;Democracy dies in darkness&#8221; — was adopted as Trump took office the first time, as the Times noted, and was meant to be a reminder of the outlet&#8217;s role in holding the government accountable.
The new mission statement takes a broader approach — and suggests that the outlet intends to prioritize reaching all Americans: &#8220;Riveting Storytelling for All of America.&#8221;
Whether or not the new mission statement will stem some of the outlet&#8217;s internal chaos remains to be seen — but critics are already predicting that little is likely to change.
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&#8220;The actual statement is even funnier. To be honest, WP’s stories are better than many airport paperbacks. Russia collusion coup attempts, unsubstantiated rape smears against political opponents, COVID being from a wet market, etc,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Mollie Hemingway posted.
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The actual statement is even funnier. To be honest, WP’s stories are better than many airport paperbacks. Russia collusion coup attempts, unsubstantiated rape smears against political opponents, COVID being from a wet market, etc. <a href="https://t.co/VedhvAosf2">https://t.co/VedhvAosf2</a>
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1879932431878475877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Quick don&#8217;t look is this the statement for Disney Plus, Max, or The Washington Post,&#8221; Tim Miller posted.
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Quick don&#39;t look is this the statement for Disney Plus, Max, or The Washington Post <a href="https://t.co/PNYeFERs0h">https://t.co/PNYeFERs0h</a>
&mdash; Tim Miller (@Timodc) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1879933855844692390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Short added, &#8220;lol democracy died in darkness the past 4 years. Now it’s about &#8216;storytelling.&#8217; What &#8216;stories&#8217; will be told? Same ones over the past decades that paint one narrative to the detriment of the truth?&#8221;
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lol democracy died in darkness the past 4 years. Now it’s about “storytelling.”
What “stories” will be told? Same ones over the past decades that paint one narrative to the detriment of the truth? <a href="https://t.co/iVqPDYz8LL">https://t.co/iVqPDYz8LL</a>
&mdash; Ashe Short (@AsheSchow) <a href="https://twitter.com/AsheSchow/status/1879941653722722428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The last one &#8216;Democracy Dies in Darkness&#8217; &#8230; died after the @washingtonpost conspired and covered up the mental incapacity of the &#8216;Commander -In -Chief,'&#8221; Chris LaCivita said.
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The last one “Democracy Dies in Darkness” ..died after the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> conspired and covered up the mental incapacity of the “Commander -In -Chief” <a href="https://t.co/s2xSqzukmN">https://t.co/s2xSqzukmN</a>
&mdash; Chris LaCivita (@ChrisLaCivita) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisLaCivita/status/1879964876489257147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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New Washington Post Editor Won’t Take Job Following Ethics Furor

WaPo Reveals New Mission Statement, And It’s A Bigger Joke Than The Last One

WaPo Reveals New Mission Statement, And It's A Bigger Joke Than The Last One

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The Washington Post&#8217;s longtime &#8220;conservative blogger&#8221; Jennifer Rubin announced on Monday that she had resigned from the paper, effective immediately, to launch a new outlet that was &#8220;not owned by anybody.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-washington-post-jennifer-rubin-not-joseph-curl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubin</a>, who became an outspoken <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapos-jen-rubin-blasted-for-wild-claim-republicans-want-to-kill-your-kids-its-actually-true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for Democrats</a> in her efforts to &#8220;resist&#8221; Donald Trump, lionized President Joe Biden until the very end, and then went so far as to fawn over Vice President Kamala Harris even before she was foisted on the Democratic Party as their de facto nominee.
But the media landscape has begun to change with Trump&#8217;s re-election — and even some legacy media personalities and outlets have started to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-what-was-discussed-in-meeting-with-scarborough-brzezinski" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show signs of coming around</a>, resigning themselves to the fact that if they don&#8217;t at least attempt to speak to Trump and his allies in good faith, they may find themselves ousted by podcasters, citizen journalists, and other less traditional media outlets.
Rubin, according to her Monday announcement, is having none of that — in addition to launching her new outlet, she declared her intention to leave X altogether in protest of Trump&#8217;s alliance with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
&#8220;BIG NEWS. I have left the Post. Corporate and billionaire media are failing to meet the moment,&#8221; she claimed in her post to X. &#8220;With @normeisen.bsky.social I&#8217;m launching @contrariannews.bsky.social. We&#8217;ll have politics but also cooking, humor, film and even pets. Please subscribe and join the fight. And because I want to be true to my values I am leaving X. I refuse to enable the Elon-Trump presidency.&#8221;
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BIG NEWS. I have left the Post. Corporate and billionaire media are failing to meet the moment. With <a href="https://twitter.com/NormEisen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@normeisen</a>.bsky.social I&#39;m launching <a href="https://twitter.com/contrariannews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@contrariannews</a>.bsky.social. We&#39;ll have politics but also cooking, humor, film and even pets. Please subscribe and join the fight.…
&mdash; Jen &#39;now @jenrubin9&#39; Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1878810056596111658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In a lengthier post via her <a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/i-have-resigned-from-the-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">substack</a> page, Rubin offered more by way of explanation — specifically blaming WaPo&#8217;s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, for bending the knee to Trump and Musk.
<blockquote>Corporate and billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy. The Washington Post’s billionaire owner and enlisted management are among the offenders. They have undercut the values central to The Post’s mission and that of all journalism: integrity, courage, and independence. I cannot justify remaining at The Post. Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive.</blockquote>
Rubin went on to name a number of her collaborators at the new outlet — George Conway and Laurence Tribe, among others — before taking another swing at Bezos on her way out the door.
<blockquote>In closing, I want to reiterate that I have been honored to work for over fourteen years alongside the finest writers and editors in journalism. Above all, I was blessed to work for The Post under the Graham Family ownership and Fred Hiatt’s leadership of the editorial section. My admiration for their collective integrity, dedication to craft, courage, patriotism, and decency is boundless. But when new leaders sully the reputation of institutions entrusted to them and the fate of democracy is in the balance, we all must reevaluate our careers and our obligations to the world’s most essential nation.</blockquote>
&#8220;History calls us all,&#8221; she claimed.
Rubin signaled the coming move in December when she criticized elected Democrats — who are in the minority in both the Senate and the House — for suggesting that they might work with Trump during the coming administration.
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&#8220;A depressingly high number of elected Democrats are declaring their intent to find &#8216;common ground&#8217; with President-elect Donald Trump and his crackpot Cabinet picks. Their naive, tone-deaf declarations epitomize an infatuation with bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake. Sometimes, it’s better not to bend the knee before the bidding even gets underway,&#8221; she complained.
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A depressingly high number of elected Democrats are declaring their intent to find “common ground” with President-elect Donald Trump and his crackpot Cabinet picks. Their naive, tone-deaf declarations epitomize an infatuation with bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake.…
&mdash; Jen &#39;now @jenrubin9&#39; Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1871195157153849354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She also whined loudly — and often — about the fact that her own outlet was among those that had refused to offer an outright endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
&#8220;If a news organization offers up financial tribute or shies from endorsing an opponent, readers and viewers have every right to question its impartiality, aggressiveness and spine. The sort of behavior we have witnessed from many legacy outlets will not help win back audiences who have lost faith in them. (Progressives are horrified; right-wingers will never patronize them.) Maintaining financial and personal distance from the president, whom news organizations are obligated to investigate and hold accountable, should not be difficult,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If people in positions of public trust, whether in elected office or in media, do not demonstrate — in deed and word — sufficient courage, fidelity to democracy and resistance to authoritarian manipulation, we will tip into a kakistocracy without much of a fight. Sadly, the past few weeks have not been encouraging.&#8221;
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If a news organization offers up financial tribute or shies from endorsing an opponent, readers and viewers have every right to question its impartiality, aggressiveness and spine.
The sort of behavior we have witnessed from many legacy outlets will not help win back audiences…
&mdash; Jen &#39;now @jenrubin9&#39; Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1870121385801998359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Her insistence on absolute opposition to Trump led to repeated demands of absolute fealty to Democrats — despite the fact that for years, she had claimed to be the WaPo&#8217;s &#8220;conservative&#8221; voice.
&#8220;The idea we have to understand how or why Trump won to prepare to fight him is a category error,&#8221; Rubin said just after the 2024 election.
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The idea we have to understand how or why Trump won to prepare to fight him is a category error.
&mdash; Jen &#39;now @jenrubin9&#39; Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1854734804257800370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jen Rubin

WaPo’s Pretend Conservative Resigns — And Rage-Quits X — Over Trump-Musk Alliance

WaPo's Pretend Conservative Resigns — And Rage-Quits X — Over Trump-Musk Alliance

Jennifer Rubin

Former Washington Post tech reporter Taylor Lorenz raised eyebrows when she told British talk show host Piers Morgan that she&#8217;d felt &#8220;joy&#8221; upon learning of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In a video clip that circulated on Monday, Lorenz sparked an immediate reaction from Morgan when she made the comment on his show.
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&quot;I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy&#8230;&quot;
Piers Morgan is left astounded as Taylor Lorenz gives her thoughts on the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
📺 <a href="https://t.co/4ZCtndddDg">https://t.co/4ZCtndddDg</a><a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@piersmorgan</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Taylor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Taylor</a> Lorenz <a href="https://t.co/dNzF2jmw8U">pic.twitter.com/dNzF2jmw8U</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) <a href="https://twitter.com/PiersUncensored/status/1866259531145138665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I think that&#8217;s why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately, you know because —&#8221; she began.
&#8220;Joy?&#8221; Morgan interrupted, his voice incredulous. &#8220;Seriously? Joy at a man&#8217;s execution?&#8221;
&#8220;— it feels like &#8230; maybe not joy, but certainly not — certainly not empathy,&#8221; Lorenz continued. &#8220;Because again, this is a man responsible —&#8221;
Morgan cut in again, showing surveillance video that had caught the execution-style murder, and asking, &#8220;How can this make you joyful? This man is a husband, he&#8217;s a father —&#8221;
Lorenz argued that Thompson was himself guilty of &#8220;murder,&#8221; claiming that he was responsible for &#8220;millions&#8221; of deaths because of his business practices.
&#8220;So are the tens of thousands of Americans — innocent Americans — who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people,&#8221; she complained, quickly revising down her numbers.
Lorenz went on to say that she had personally watched people she loved &#8220;suffer&#8221; because of people like Thompson.
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Morgan asked whether she&#8217;d be &#8220;more joyful&#8221; if those other executives were killed off as well, and Lorenz continued to backpedal. She claimed that feeling &#8220;joy&#8221; at the death of one did not mean she wanted more of them to die.
Shortly after the clip went viral, Semafor <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2024/taylor-lorenz-and-vox-are-parting-ways" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Vox Media — which partnered with Lorenz to distribute her podcast — was severing ties with her. The report indicated that the contract between Lorenz and Vox was set to expire at the end of the year, and that a decision had been made not to renew that contract prior to her controversial comments.
Lorenz has denied that Vox is walking away from the partnership, promising to reveal all on her podcast in the coming days.

Taylor Lorenz

Ex-WaPo Reporter Taylor Lorenz Says United Healthcare CEO’s Murder Brought Her ‘Joy’

Ex-WaPo Reporter Taylor Lorenz Says United Healthcare CEO's Murder Brought Her 'Joy'

Murder

The Washington Post took a virtual beating on Friday after publishing an article declaring that the two Bronze Star medals awarded to Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to lead the Pentagon, were less than because they were awarded for &#8220;Meritorious Service&#8221; rather than for &#8220;Valor.&#8221;
In the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/05/pete-hegseth-bronze-star/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, military reporter Alex Horton argued that Bronze Stars &#8220;were issued somewhat liberally throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan&#8221; and suggested that because Hegseth was an officer rather than enlisted, the award — which he said had been compared to a &#8220;participation trophy&#8221; — had even less comparative value.
&#8220;While many officers have risked their lives on the battlefield, the majority of fighting and exposure to danger is performed by the enlisted troops they command,&#8221; Horton wrote.
The next sentence refuted most of the article&#8217;s claim, however. After five paragraphs effectively — and thoroughly — disparaging Hegseth&#8217;s Bronze Stars as though they were far from proof that he had distinguished himself as a combat veteran, Horton wrote the following: &#8220;Hegseth also received a Combat Infantryman Badge, which is awarded when infantry soldiers and officers engage an enemy in combat.&#8221;
In order to receive the <a href="https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Combat%20Infantryman%20Badge%20CIB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Combat Infantryman Badge (CIB)</a>, soldiers must meet ALL of the following criteria:
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<li>Be an infantry Soldier satisfactorily performing infantry duties.</li>
<li>Be assigned to an infantry unit during such time as the unit is engaged in active ground combat.</li>
<li>Actively participate in such ground combat. Campaign or battle credit alone is not sufficient for award of the CIB.</li>
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In order to earn the CIB, Hegseth had to not only be assigned to the unit that participated in direct armed conflict, he had to be an active participant in such combat action. Horton&#8217;s willingness to write off Hegseth&#8217;s &#8220;Meritorious Service&#8221; Bronze Stars as trivial while only including his CIB as an aside suggests an agenda that many on X picked up on.
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&#8220;.@WaPo is seriously arguing &#8216;Actually, Hegseth earning two bronze stars in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t that impressive,'&#8221; John Hasson wrote.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/wapo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WaPo</a> is seriously arguing “Actually, Hegseth earning two bronze stars in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t that impressive” <a href="https://t.co/dNhTYqt13J">pic.twitter.com/dNhTYqt13J</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1864841141398409716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Every Bronze Star recipient, along with the families, should cancel their subscription to the Washington Post immediately. Of all the gutter trash thrown at Pete Hegseth, this may be the worst of the worst. Absolutely shameful,&#8221; Joe Concha added.
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Every Bronze Star recipient, along with the families, should cancel their subscription to the Washington Post immediately. Of all the gutter trash thrown at Pete Hegseth, this may be the worst of the worst. Absolutely shameful. <a href="https://t.co/Mj5BKMHSMN">https://t.co/Mj5BKMHSMN</a>
&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1864949531923632324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fox News host Will Cain — who cohosted &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends Weekend&#8221; alongside Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy — added, &#8220;So now they have moved to diminishing Hegseth’s Bronze Stars. This is so gross but it’s also desperate and flailing. Shows the illegitimacy of all the attacks. Just a total Kavanaugh.&#8221;
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So now they have moved to diminishing Hegseth’s Bronze Stars. This is so gross but it’s also desperate and flailing. Shows the illegitimacy of all the attacks. Just a total Kavanaugh. <a href="https://t.co/Q1sM9iaUkI">https://t.co/Q1sM9iaUkI</a>
&mdash; Will Cain (@willcain) <a href="https://twitter.com/willcain/status/1864881950025994393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Washington Post hates Pete Hegseth so much that it’s now decided the Bronze Star (which Hegseth was awarded 2x) is meh and not very impressive. Which is weird, because the Washington Post wrote tons of articles about collusion hoaxer Robert Mueller’s Bronze Star. Curious!&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Sean Davis posted.
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The Washington Post hates Pete Hegseth so much that it’s now decided the Bronze Star (which Hegseth was awarded 2x) is meh and not very impressive.
Which is weird, because the Washington Post wrote tons of articles about collusion hoaxer Robert Mueller’s Bronze Star. Curious! <a href="https://t.co/RhRPtoLMv7">pic.twitter.com/RhRPtoLMv7</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1864848226743955945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When Biden awarded the Bronze Star to an intelligence analyst, @Washingtonpost called it &#8216;one of the Army’s most prestigious awards.&#8217; But when @PeteHegseth earns two of them, WaPo says &#8216;Actually, they’re pretty common.&#8217; It’s (D)ifferent for some people,&#8221; Hasson added.
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When Biden awarded the Bronze Star to an intelligence analyst, <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Washingtonpost</a> called it “one of the Army’s most prestigious awards” 
But when <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteHegseth</a> earns two of them, WaPo says “Actually, they’re pretty common”
It’s (D)ifferent for some people <a href="https://t.co/xgPSKSF3Xr">pic.twitter.com/xgPSKSF3Xr</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1864850546231857290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Ahead of a major Supreme Court case on gender transition procedures for children and young people, left-wing media outlets are overwhelmingly describing surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers for children as “care” — and suggesting that restricting these procedures endangers children. 
On December 4, the United States Supreme Court will hear <a href="https://f233cf64.streaklinks.com/CNnQykIJyTA87reFWwYPXtX9/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2Fcase-files%2Fcases%2Funited-states-v-skrmetti%2F">United States </a><a href="https://f233cf64.streaklinks.com/CNnQykIJyTA87reFWwYPXtX9/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2Fcase-files%2Fcases%2Funited-states-v-skrmetti%2F">v. </a><a href="https://f233cf64.streaklinks.com/CNnQykIJyTA87reFWwYPXtX9/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2Fcase-files%2Fcases%2Funited-states-v-skrmetti%2F">Skrmetti,</a> which deals with Tennessee&#8217;s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children. Left-wing legal groups led by the ACLU and President Joe Biden’s Justice Department sued to stop the law from taking effect, ultimately leading to the Supreme Court taking up the case. 
Every major media outlet reviewed by The Daily Wire is portraying the case as endangering the rights of “transgender children&#8221; and the ability of these children to access necessary medical procedures. These outlets also portrayed transgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers as “care” necessary for these youth. 
CNN, for example, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/politics/parental-rights-transgender-skrmetti-case-supreme-court/index.html">reported</a> that the Supreme Court is “reviewing a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/politics/tennessee-gender-affirming-care/index.html">Tennessee law enacted last year</a> that bans gender-affirming care for minors.”  The outlet argues that the case creates a “conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights,&#8221; and in a separate story, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/politics/chase-strangio-aclu-supreme-court-transgender/index.html">argues</a> that “trans Americans continue to be a key target for Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, who has frequently attacked the community during his reelection bid.”
USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/25/transgender-laywer-trans-care-bans-supreme-court/76476026007/">writes</a> that “GOP-led states” are “trying to restrict gender-affirming care, sports participation and bathroom access for transgender people,” adding that Donald Trump has spent “millions of campaign dollars attacking transgender rights.” 
This framing mirrors the rhetoric of major activist organizations, including the ACLU, Human Rights Campaign, and GLAAD. All of these groups support gender transition surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers for minors, and they promote <a href="https://f233cf64.streaklinks.com/CNnQykIvrzMC7qNMSQVnPOa7/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fthink-tank-report-questions-claims-that-puberty-blockers-hormones-prevent-suicide-among-trans-kids">activist assertions</a> that young people suffering from gender dysphoria may commit suicide if they do not have access to so-called “gender-affirming care.” 
The 19th News cites <a href="https://19thnews.org/2024/10/how-the-supreme-court-case-on-trans-youth-could-affect-health-care-for-all-americans/">alleged experts</a> who said the case “will decide whether Tennessee can continue to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth,” warning that it “could imperil the ability of all Americans to make decisions about their health care, experts say.
One of these experts, Shannon Minter, the legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, argues: “If we don’t win here, it’s going to be open season on any health care related to transgender people…It would be devastating. I mean, absolutely catastrophic.” 
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Recent research <a href="https://f233cf64.streaklinks.com/CNnQykMLy7gyEx17ogN9syO_/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2Fgender%2Freport%2Fpuberty-blockers-cross-sex-hormones-and-youth-suicide">has shown</a> that, contrary to these claims, such procedures actually increase the likelihood that minors will attempt suicide. <a href="https://f233cf64.streaklinks.com/CNnQykQNzcGSQPX6tgmpn28g/https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F38699117%2F">According to an April study</a>, “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide-attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”
Readers won&#8217;t find that research cited in the Washington Post, which <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/24/scotus-trans-minors-gender-care/">described transition procedures</a> as “gender transition care for people younger than 18,” arguing that “major medical associations have said lower rates of depression and suicide in transgender individuals.” 
The New York Times, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-transgender-care-tennessee.html">reported that the law bans</a> “certain medical treatments for transgender minors,” arguing that Republicans have “pushed to curtail transgender rights in recent years.” 
“Many American medical groups have endorsed youth gender treatments as evidence-based and necessary,” the Times argues. In a separate piece, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/trump-supreme-court.html">refers to gender transition procedures</a> for children as “the rights of transgender minors.” 
None of the outlets appear to have included the perspective of detransitioners, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-was-mutilation-5-detransitioners-harmed-by-medical-transition-speak-out-in-new-documentary">growing cohort of individuals</a> who tried to transition before realizing such a thing is impossible. These individuals, such as Chloe Cole, describe how they suffered devastating mental and physical consequences from surgeries and hormonal drugs. 
KFF, supposedly an “independent source for health policy research, polling, and news” often cited by major outlets on abortion topics, <a href="https://www.kff.org/other/issue-brief/what-to-know-ahead-of-the-supreme-court-case-on-youth-access-to-gender-affirming-care/">refers to the subject at hand as</a> “youth access to gender affirming care.” 
The Tennessean <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/news/health/2024/11/21/us-scotus-transgender-health-care-tennessee/76416056007/">published an entire profile</a> on the “Tennessee family behind the Supreme Court&#8217;s trans health care case,” including a photo shoot with the teenage boy who identifies as a girl and is one of the plaintiffs in the case. 
The outlet’s coverage of the case is very clearly biased against the state Republicans who enacted the law. An <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DCwUfnpP2O8/?img_index=9">Instagram post</a> from the Tennessean suggested that Tennessee was “dangerously hostile” to young people who identify as transgender.
 “Tennessee Republicans voted to make it illegal for transgender youth to be prescribed certain medications and treatments used to treat gender dysphoria,&#8221; the outlet states.

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Incoming White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt torpedoed The Washington Post over a media request the outlet sent to her, sharing screenshots of blatant attempts to tie President-elect Donald Trump to an act of racism.
Leavitt posted a photo of the email from The Washington Post on her X account, tearing into the outlet for attempting to use such a situation to foment racial division and then blame Trump for it, despite even admitting that Trump was not remotely connected to the event in question.
&#8220;I just received one of the most absurd emails EVER from the Washington Post,&#8221; Leavitt began. &#8220;This &#8216;reporter&#8217; is doing gymnastics to try and sow division and blame President Trump for something that he admits in his email has no trace to him whatsoever.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is exactly why NOBODY trusts the Fake News Media,&#8221; Leavitt continued, adding, &#8220;Jeff Bezos warned his staff before the election, and they’re still not listening to him!&#8221;
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I just received one of the most absurd emails EVER from the Washington Post
This “reporter” is doing gymnastics to try and sow division and blame President Trump for something that he admits in his email has no trace to him whatsoever
This is exactly why NOBODY trusts the Fake… <a href="https://t.co/IUhnsw58im">pic.twitter.com/IUhnsw58im</a>
&mdash; Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/karolineleavitt/status/1861544185192485258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The email, sent by a reporter named Emmanuel Felton, was about a racially charged incident that took place in Lawnside, New Jersey, within days of the 2024 presidential election. A local resident had reported seeing spray-painted slurs using the &#8220;n-word,&#8221; and Felton wanted Trump&#8217;s team to respond to the following section of the report:
<blockquote>What happened in Lawnside was part of a wave of racial incidents that occurred in the days following Trump&#8217;s reelection. Around the time that Hines&#8217; fence was sprayed, black people across the country were receiving text messages that said they&#8217;d been &#8220;selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.&#8221; And at the same time that Lawnside residents came together to discuss the graffiti on Hines&#8217; fence, a group of self-identified Neo-Nazis marched and shouted the same slur in Columbus, Ohio.</blockquote>
In the very next sentence, Felton gave away the game, however (emphasis added): &#8220;While none of these events can be traced directly back to Trump, experts say that his rhetoric has been tied to an increase in hate crimes across the nation.&#8221;

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Democrats still seem quite troubled about what went wrong in the 2024 election. They keep offering various reasons for the loss. Their reasons range from the failure of the meritocracy, according to David Brooks, to the utter disconnect of the American people involving racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia — all of it.
Well, the latest explanation comes courtesy of Kamala Harris&#8217; advisers. According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/20/why-harris-lost-democrats-lessons/">The Washington Post:</a>
<blockquote>Senior officials with Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign say her defeat stemmed primarily from dissatisfaction among voters about the overall direction of the country and discontent over inflation and the economy, arguing that those headwinds proved too strong for Harris to overcome in her sprint to Election Day.</blockquote>
This is a very convenient explanation for Democrats, because it means they don&#8217;t have to change anything. All of this feels like whistling past the political graveyard. It is a refusal to deal with the underlying factors that led to the Democrats getting shellacked across the country.
Well, now we’re getting this same sort of sense from the so-called “resistance.” There&#8217;s a lengthy article in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/trump-womens-march-protests-activism.html?searchResultPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> discussing Trump&#8217;s resistance encountering fatigue. It turns out that all of the ladies who protested during the first Trump administration are a little frustrated because they&#8217;re not quite sure what to do.
According to The New York Times:
<blockquote>The first Trump presidency spawned the largest protests the country had seen in half a century.
But not everyone wants to participate in another four years of mass movement work. When Women’s March shared information about an upcoming rally on Instagram, one person responded, “No im tired, yall have fun though.” (Women’s March later hid some of the pushback and limited who could respond to a handful of posts.)
On TikTok, plans for the march were met with memes of women saying, “Get somebody else to do it.” “This is an opportunity for a national brunch day for the 93 percent,” said one user, referring to the 93 percent of Black women who exit polls suggested had voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Others questioned whether the previous protests had resulted in substantial concessions.</blockquote>
So they&#8217;re realizing that their protest movements have accomplished nothing. But what they refuse to recognize is the reason why those protest movements are accomplishing nothing.
Maybe it&#8217;s because there was at least the patina of legitimacy to many of the causes people were protesting back in the 1960s and 1980s.
And now, as it turns out, the causes they&#8217;re backing are just bad.
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And this brings us to the controversy of the day.
Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) has now sponsored a resolution on the floor of the House that is going to be implemented. It suggests that women should be able to use their bathrooms without men with penises in those same bathrooms. 
This seems perfectly legitimate. In fact, this is relatively non-controversial in the regular world. And these transgender bathroom rules are perfectly obvious. There&#8217;s nothing particularly shocking about them. A man should use the men&#8217;s bathroom and a woman should use the women&#8217;s bathroom. Apparently, according to the Left, this is very bad. How dare Nancy Mace. How dare she? 
Mace appeared on Scripps News and during the interview the anchor kept insisting to Mace that she was barring a woman from using the bathrooms, to which Mace responded, “No.” Sarah McBride is a dude whose name was Tim McBride and still has all of the male appendages. In her <a href="https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/congress/rep-nancy-mace-tells-scripps-news-new-bills-would-limit-bathroom-use-for-transgender-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with Scripps News</a> Mace says a true thing, but an offensively true thing:
<blockquote>Scripps: I just want to add that the congresswoman-elect does identify as a woman. I will be…
Mace: She&#8217;s not a woman. It&#8217;s a man. She was born a man. She&#8217;s a man. She is biologically a male. That is science. You guys on the Left in the mainstream media want to say, “follow the science.” Let&#8217;s follow the science. Okay. He is a man. He can wear a dress. He can call himself, his pronouns can be she or her. But he doesn&#8217;t belong in a women&#8217;s restroom, period.</blockquote>
Again, according to the polling data, most Americans agree with this. This is not a controversial proposition, but the Left can&#8217;t let go of it.
For example, Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has <a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/1859047222895407475">suggested</a> the real problem is Mace and company, of course:
<blockquote>This is what we&#8217;re doing. This is the lesson that you&#8217;ve drawn from the election in November. This is your priority. If you want to bully a member of Congress as opposed to welcoming her to join this body so that all of us can work together.</blockquote>
The priorities are truth and protection of women. One of the most annoying things about Democratic policy on this particular proposition is that they do something totally abnormal and out of the boundaries of decent human behavior — then, they question when people bring it up.
For his part, Speaker Johnson has put out a <a href="https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1484">statement</a> saying,
<blockquote>All single sex facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings such as restrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms are reserved for individuals of that biological sex.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s also important to note each member’s office has its own private restroom. Unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women&#8217;s only spaces. Again, perfectly reasonable. There are alternative solutions. 
Despite many of his heterodox positions with his party, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is still a progressive. He <a href="https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1859316484029259986" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> out, 
<blockquote>There’s no job I’m afraid to lose if it requires me to degrade anyone. If that’s a defining issue for a voter, there will be a different candidate. We have a bathroom in my office that anybody is welcome to use, including Representative-elect Sarah McBride.</blockquote>
I&#8217;m glad that you want Sarah McBride to use your bathroom. That&#8217;s your choice, senator. Also, you don&#8217;t get to decide whether women ought to have men in their bathroom.
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Why does all this matter? Because the reason Democrats lost is the cultural disconnect that the people on the coasts and the Democratic elite have with the rest of America. These are noncontroversial propositions that are made controversial by the Democratic Party.
That is what is happening. And these are belief systems that are held so deeply that even the most elite people in the Democratic Party — people who face no discrimination in America — are now treating the election of Donald Trump and the restoration of some form of normality as a grave threat to them.

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An illegal immigrant from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/venezuela" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Venezuela</a> was convicted on Wednesday for the brutal murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, but a number of major media outlets left one key word — &#8220;illegal&#8221; — out of their coverage of the verdict.
After the defense opted for a bench trial rather than a jury trial, Judge H. Patrick Haggard found Jose Ibarra, 26, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jose-ibarra-found-guilty-of-killing-georgia-nursing-student-laken-riley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guilty on all ten counts</a> including &#8220;malice murder.&#8221; But despite the fact that Ibarra&#8217;s immigration status — he entered the country illegally in 2022 — is well known, it was left out of a number of reports.
John Hasson shared screenshots from The Washington Post, The Associated Press, and The New York Times where Ibarra was referred to as a &#8220;Venezuelan national,&#8221; a &#8220;man,&#8221; and a &#8220;Venezuelan migrant&#8221; respectively.
&#8220;[They] all refuse to describe Laken Riley&#8217;s murderer as an illegal immigrant,&#8221; Hasson noted. &#8220;Simply infuriating.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> all refuse to describe Laken Riley’s murderer as an illegal immigrant
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“Venezuelan national” “Man” “Venezuelan migrant”
Simply infuriating <a href="https://t.co/V0l3s2o5bn">pic.twitter.com/V0l3s2o5bn</a>
&mdash; John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1859282503359479845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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From The Washington Post: &#8220;Breaking news: Venezuelan national Jose Ibarra was found guilty of murdering Laken Riley, a 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student. Ibarra was found guilty on all charges, including the most serious counts of malice murder and felony murder.&#8221;
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Breaking news: Venezuelan national Jose Ibarra was found guilty of murdering Laken Riley, a 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student. Ibarra was found guilty on all charges, including the most serious counts of malice murder and felony murder. <a href="https://t.co/vGDKUBvbhE">https://t.co/vGDKUBvbhE</a>
&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1859275424104071278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In a follow-up post, the outlet raised the point that Riley&#8217;s death had sparked a national argument about illegal immigration — particularly under President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration — but did not go so far as to accurately label Ibarra an illegal immigrant.
&#8220;A Venezuelan national was found guilty of murdering Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student whose February killing inflamed the immigration debate that became a central theme of this year’s presidential election,&#8221; the second post read.
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A Venezuelan national was found guilty of murdering Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student whose February killing inflamed the immigration debate that became a central theme of this year’s presidential election. <a href="https://t.co/bugNgkLPwb">https://t.co/bugNgkLPwb</a>
&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1859293398257074256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Associated Press also noted that the case had sparked debate over illegal immigration, but gave no indication as to how that was connected to &#8220;a man&#8221; being convicted for Riley&#8217;s murder.
&#8220;BREAKING: A man was convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia student Laken Riley, a case that fueled the national immigration debate,&#8221; the post read.
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BREAKING: A man was convicted of murder in the killing of Georgia student Laken Riley, a case that fueled the national immigration debate. <a href="https://t.co/p9qySbVcjy">https://t.co/p9qySbVcjy</a>
&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1859273852552945862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times offered a similarly-disconnected framing, posting, &#8220;Breaking News: A Venezuelan migrant was convicted of murdering Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student whose killing became a flashpoint in the immigration debate.&#8221;
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Breaking News: A Venezuelan migrant was convicted of murdering Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student whose killing became a flashpoint in the immigration debate. <a href="https://t.co/PJTai04HZw">https://t.co/PJTai04HZw</a>
&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1859278483395948902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The push to hide Ibarra&#8217;s immigration status is nothing new — even President Biden was forced to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-apologizes-for-calling-alleged-laken-riley-murderer-an-illegal-they-built-the-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walk it back</a> after he told the truth during his 2024 State of the Union Address. In an interview shortly after the address — during which he also mispronounced Riley&#8217;s name — Biden said he regretted calling Ibarra &#8220;illegal.&#8221;
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🚨📷 Joe Biden says he regrets calling Laken Riley&#39;s murderer an &quot;illegal.&quot; Joe Biden cares more about criminal aliens than American citizens. <a href="https://t.co/B8qdZek632">pic.twitter.com/B8qdZek632</a>
&mdash; MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1766581481692954676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Laken Riley’s Killer Is Convicted, But Media Must Protect The Narrative

Laken Riley's Killer Is Convicted, But Media Must Protect The Narrative

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Washington Post opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin warned Democrats that if they wanted to get through to voters, they would have to deliver their message in a way that would resonate.
&#8220;You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts and you have to be pithy,&#8221; she said on a recent episode of her podcast, Jen Rubin&#8217;s Green Room. She then offered an example of what she meant by &#8220;pithy&#8221; when she added, &#8220;Republicans want to kill your kids. It&#8217;s actually true.&#8221;
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WaPo Opinion columnist Jen Rubin on how Democrats should be messaging to people who don’t follow politics:
“You have to be pithy, what do I mean by pithy? How about this, Republicans want to kill your kids. It’s actually true.” <a href="https://t.co/T45OJUhTi0">pic.twitter.com/T45OJUhTi0</a>
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&#8220;For people who don’t get political news, who never pick up a newspaper, who never turn on CNN, who never even bother with Fox News, those people really have no idea what’s going on,&#8221; she said, arguing that Democrats had to do everything they could to make sure that they were at least able &#8220;to communicate the basic facts.&#8221;
&#8220;You don’t have a vaccine because, you’re not getting a child tax credit because,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;All the good things that are happening at the state level, they have to know why they’re getting those things. Oh, you have a chip manufacturing plant because a Democratic president put that into effect and a Democratic governor went out and solicited bids. And now you have X number of thousands of jobs. It’s that simple.&#8221;
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Rubin went on to say that the way they communicated was important as well, arguing that it couldn&#8217;t just be true, it also had to resonate.
&#8220;You can’t talk broad themes. You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts and you have to be pithy. What do I mean by pithy? How about this? Republicans want to kill your kids. It’s actually true,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;If you’re going to oppose vaccinations, if you’re going to stop breakthrough medical research, if you’re going to allow minors and all sorts of people to get semi-automatic weapons, which they use to shoot up schools, well then you are responsible for kids&#8217; health and death, unfortunately. It has to be that simple and that direct, and it has to be over and over and over again.&#8221;
A number of social media users on X were not impressed with Rubin&#8217;s take and said so.
&#8220;The Washington Post should be dismissed as a legitimate or serious publication for willfully platforming this deranged individual for the last decade,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Mollie Hemingway said.
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The Washington Post should be dismissed as a legitimate or serious publication for willfully platforming this deranged individual for the last decade. <a href="https://t.co/OpF7B4yz7y">https://t.co/OpF7B4yz7y</a>
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1859265042157338652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Every once in a while it’s worth reminding ourselves that the Washington Post pays this woman to share her thoughts with the world,&#8221; GOP communications strategist Matt Whitlock added.
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Every once in a while it’s worth reminding ourselves that the Washington Post pays this woman to share her thoughts with the world. <a href="https://t.co/R5iRE4pxMu">https://t.co/R5iRE4pxMu</a>
&mdash; Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1859094886785405403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro added, &#8220;Meanwhile, Democrats literally set up a mobile abortion clinic outside their national convention.&#8221;
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Meanwhile, Democrats literally set up a mobile abortion clinic outside their national convention <a href="https://t.co/49auAAw360">https://t.co/49auAAw360</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1859237485395550399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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WaPo’s Jen Rubin Blasted For Wild Claim: ‘Republicans Want To Kill Your Kids. It’s Actually True’

WaPo's Jen Rubin Blasted For Wild Claim: 'Republicans Want To Kill Your Kids. It's Actually True'

Radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hugh-hewitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hugh Hewitt</a> stormed out of a Washington Post livestream event on Friday after two fellow columnists at the Post made false claims about former President Donald Trump and the 2024 election. He subsequently quit as a columnist at the newspaper.
The incident happened when Hewitt was participating in the Post&#8217;s &#8220;First Look&#8221; with left-wing columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus on its &#8220;Washington Post Live&#8221; platform.
During the discussion about election integrity, Capehart claimed that Trump was &#8220;laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in Pennsylvania, by suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities.&#8221;
Marcus agreed, claiming that Trump has been doing this for &#8220;months&#8221; and that his complaints in court were &#8220;far fetched.&#8221;
Hewitt noted that the Trump campaign <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/us/politics/trump-lawsuit-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballot-voting-bucks-county.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully</a> sued election officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for improperly turning away voters while they were waiting in line to apply for a mail-in ballot.
&#8220;I just gotta say we&#8217;re news people, even though we&#8217;re at the opinion section,&#8221; Hewitt fired back. &#8220;It’s gotta be reported, Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home. So that lawsuit was brought by the Republican National Committee, and it was successful.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Supreme Court ruled that Glenn Youngkin was successful,&#8221; he added, referencing Virginia&#8217;s lawsuit to stop the Biden-Harris administration from preventing the state from removing non-citizens from its voter rolls.
&#8220;We are news people, even though we have opinions and we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So yes, he&#8217;s upset about Bucks County, but he was right, and he won in court. That&#8217;s the story.&#8221;
Capehart lashed out that he didn&#8217;t &#8220;appreciate being lectured about&#8221; his false claims and he then tried to point the finger at remarks Hewitt has made while coming on the show.
&#8220;I won’t come back, Jonathan. I’m done,&#8221; Hewitt said. &#8220;This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of. You guys are working. That&#8217;s fine. I&#8217;m done.&#8221;
Clips of Hewitt went viral instantly online, garnering millions of views within a matter of minutes.
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Another bad day for <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WashingtonPost</a>. Upset with <a href="https://twitter.com/CapehartJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CapehartJ</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RuthMarcus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RuthMarcus</a> for inaccurate attacks on Trump, <a href="https://twitter.com/hughhewitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hughhewitt</a> rips off his headset and leaves lives <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PostLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PostLive</a> show. “I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of.” Show falls apart, ends early. <a href="https://t.co/fsGC1GhIrx">pic.twitter.com/fsGC1GhIrx</a>
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1852343512156520799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
Hewitt told Fox News after the incident that he quit his columnist position at the newspaper.
&#8220;I have in fact quit the Post,&#8221; he said, noting that he had already started to cut back how much writing he was doing for the paper.
The incident happened after Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bezos-tells-wapo-to-hire-more-conservatives-as-paper-loses-200k-subscribers-over-endorsement-debacle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> the newspaper to hire more conservative columnists and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeff-bezos-blasts-media-bias-in-op-ed-for-his-own-paper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that bias was a serious credibility issue for the media.
Hewitt was widely praised online for not putting up with the false claims from Marcus and Capehart.
X owner Elon Musk responded to the video: &#8220;Hugh Hewitt is right: there was election interference by the Democrats in Bucks County that was so serious that a judge ordered early voting to be extended several more days!&#8221;
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Hugh Hewitt is right: there was election interference by the Democrats in Bucks County that was so serious that a judge ordered early voting to be extended several more days! <a href="https://t.co/jTH4Zqf9WB">https://t.co/jTH4Zqf9WB</a>
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1852382019059151195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2024</a></blockquote>

Meet the Press – Season 72

Radio Host Hugh Hewitt Storms Off Washington Post Live-Stream Over Anti-Trump Lies, Quits WaPo

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