The Washington Post wasted no time after the collapse of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/baltimore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Baltimore’s</a> Francis Scott Key Bridge in reminding readers that the man it was named after was a problematic figure.
Early Tuesday morning, a massive container ship crashed into the bridge, knocking it down, and leaving at least six construction workers presumed dead.
In a Wednesday <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/03/27/francis-scott-key-history-profile/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled &#8220;Who was Francis Scott Key, controversial poet the bridge is named after?&#8221; the paper reminded readers about Key&#8217;s &#8220;racist views.&#8221;
Francis Scott Key is best known for writing the poem that became America&#8217;s national anthem, &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner.&#8221; He wrote the lyrics the morning after an 1814 British attack on Fort McHenry, which is right by the collapsed bridge.
&#8220;As The Washington Post previously reported, &#8216;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8217; did not become the national anthem until more than a century after it was written because of controversy, partly over Key’s racist views,&#8221; the Post wrote.
&#8220;One section of the poem’s third verse, in particular, has come under scrutiny from those who say it was intended to mock or threaten African Americans who escaped slavery to join the British forces, after being promised land in exchange for their service,&#8221; the paper continued.
The verse in question reads, &#8220;No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And The Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.&#8221;
The Post also reminded readers that Key was a slave owner who opposed abolition and made racist remarks about black people.
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However, the paper also acknowledged that critics have pointed out that as a lawyer, Key defended several slaves, and he freed several of his own slaves.
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Because of his mixed record on racial issues, monuments to Key have been defaced, and critics have called for institutions named after him to be renamed.
In 2017, vandals <a href="https://baltimoreheritage.org/francis-scott-key-monument-splashed-red-paint-spray-painted-words-racist-anthem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defaced</a> the Francis Scott Key Monument in Baltimore with red paint and spray-painted “Racist Anthem” and “blood on his hands.”
Investigators are still searching for the remains of the six people who fell in the water at the time of the Key bridge&#8217;s collapse.
The search, as well as the cleanup process, is expected to finish before any rebuilding of the bridge begins.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/27/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-news-updates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">toured</a> the area of the destroyed bridge in the rain with the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday afternoon.
President Biden also addressed the disaster on Tuesday, <a href="https://wtop.com/baltimore/2024/03/biden-federal-government-should-pay-to-rebuild-baltimores-key-bridge-after-collapse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> he wants the federal government to pay for the bridge&#8217;s rebuilding.
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The Washington Post has been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/10/11/washington-post-buyouts-metro-cuts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hemorrhaging</a> subscribers and web traffic for years. Late last year, the paper <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/business/media/washington-post-job-cuts.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conducted</a> yet another round of layoffs, impacting hundreds of employees.
Jeff Bezos purchased the paper for $250 million a decade ago, and last year alone, it managed to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/10/11/washington-post-buyouts-metro-cuts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lose</a> roughly $100 million. This is not a profitable venture, and in normal circumstances, businesses that lose this much money don&#8217;t stay around very long. But the Washington Post has stuck around. Jeff Bezos has kept it on life support to fulfill a specific mission, which is to harangue and censor independent voices on behalf of Jeff Bezos&#8217; donors in the Democratic Party.
A couple of days ago, that mission was on full display.
On March 21st, The Washington Post published an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/03/21/stopping-birth-control-misinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled, &#8220;Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion.&#8221; The Daily Beast ran a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/explosion-of-women-ditching-birth-control-amid-misinformation-blitz-docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar story</a>, warning ominously of an &#8220;explosion&#8221; of women who are ditching birth control amid a &#8220;misinformation blitz.&#8221;
First of all, it needs to be said that any time the media collectively decides to label something &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; they really mean &#8220;information that we find personally or politically inconvenient.&#8221; They&#8217;re not interested in proving you wrong, they&#8217;re interested in shutting you up. And that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s happening here.
As the Washington Post piece says: &#8220;Brett Cooper, a media commentator for the conservative Daily Wire, argued in a viral TikTok clip that birth control can impact fertility, cause women to gain weight and even alter whom they are attracted to. It racked up over 219,000 &#8216;likes&#8217; before TikTok removed it following The Post’s inquiry.&#8221; The piece goes on to describe other similar videos that the Post also wants to be deleted from the internet. 
For example, this one, from Ben Shapiro&#8217;s show a year ago:
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It&#8217;s hard to imagine a more anodyne clip than that. This is not a woman making up crazy, unhinged conspiracy theories about birth control. She&#8217;s not expressing some dangerous, unscientific opinion. She doesn&#8217;t even appear to be political. She&#8217;s just articulating a very reasonable, increasingly common concern, which is that taking unnatural hormones might have some unexpected and unwanted effects on the human body. Even if you don&#8217;t know anything about the scientific data on this point, that&#8217;s not a crazy thing to believe.
But as that clip goes on, they do talk about some of the research on this point. None of this is quack science. It&#8217;s widely accepted in medical literature.
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For example, a recent <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6193788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> out of Denmark, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that, &#8220;hormonal contraception use doubles the risk of suicide attempt, and triples the risk of suicide.&#8221; The study specifically found that &#8220;the association between hormonal contraception and primary outcomes peaked at 2 months, but continued even after the cessation of hormonal contraception for some years.&#8221; The researchers also reported that hormonal contraceptives were connected with a 70% increase in rates of depression.
Before I get into the specifics of what other studies have found, it&#8217;s important to pause here and take another look at how the Washington Post is framing this story. Here&#8217;s the first paragraph: 
<blockquote>Search for &#8216;birth control&#8217; on TikTok or Instagram and a cascade of misleading videos vilifying hormonal contraception appear: Young women blaming their weight gain on the pill. Right-wing commentators claiming that some birth control can lead to infertility. Testimonials complaining of depression and anxiety. &#8230; Physicians say they’re seeing an explosion of birth-control misinformation online targeting a vulnerable demographic.</blockquote>
The implication of what the Post wrote is that it&#8217;s &#8220;misinformation&#8221; to say that birth control is related to &#8220;depression and anxiety.&#8221; But that&#8217;s not true. At no point in the Washington Post&#8217;s article did they debunk the study from Denmark. They don&#8217;t even mention it. Instead, they simply state, as a matter of fact, that you&#8217;re crazy if you link birth control to weight gain, infertility, or depression. They claim the only significant side effects of birth control medication are blood clots. But they&#8217;re wrong, on all counts.
One of the main reasons they&#8217;re wrong is that hormonal birth control inhibits the body&#8217;s natural reaction to stress. As a UCLA Health study put it late <a href="https://www.uclahealth.org/news/study-shows-how-birth-control-pills-affect-womens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last year</a>:
<blockquote> Researchers at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences’ Laboratory for Stress Assessment and Research found contraceptive users and non-users processed stress differently at the molecular level, with contraceptive users also reporting a more negative psychological response to stress compared to non-users.</blockquote>
Is it possible that disrupting the body&#8217;s natural stress response might lead to weight gain, given that weight gain is one of the most common symptoms of stress? The Washington Post thinks you&#8217;re a science denier if you even suggest that. They&#8217;ll have you pulled off TikTok if you even mention the possibility. And that&#8217;s weird, because less than a year ago, NBC News ran this report, in which their medical experts explain that weight gain and hair loss are among the symptoms of hormonal birth control. Watch:
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I guess we&#8217;re expected to believe that at some point between May and this week, the science changed. But actually, it didn&#8217;t. Going back to the UCLA study, researchers confirmed existing research which found that: 
<blockquote>hormonal contraceptive pills may increase women’s risk for chronically elevated inflammation, which carries the long-term risk of developing illnesses such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune disorders, as well as potential mood disorders, including depression.</blockquote>
The lead author at UCLA added: 
<blockquote>Cortisol gets a bad rap, but increases in cortisol in response to stress help the body manage stressful situations. &#8230; If women on the pill are having these increases in cortisol but their mood is getting worse, it could mean that the pill is preventing their bodies and minds from returning to normal following stress.</blockquote>
The truth is that hormonal birth control does come with all kinds of risks and side effects. All drugs do. Drugs that suppress the normal, healthy functions of the body are always especially risky. And that includes potential impacts on fertility, as much as the Washington Post doesn&#8217;t want to admit it. Right now, if you go to the Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/birth-control-shot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, you&#8217;ll find that they recommend a method of hormonal birth control known as &#8220;the Depo shot.&#8221; 
<blockquote>The depo shot (AKA Depo-Provera) is an injection you get once every 3 months. It’s a safe, convenient, and private birth control method that works really well if you always get it on time.</blockquote>
What Planned Parenthood doesn&#8217;t mention on their website is that the &#8220;depo shot&#8221; has clear and proven impacts on fertility. This is from the WebMD website, which on most days, the Washington Post agrees is a <a href="https://www.webmd.com/baby/get-pregnant-after-birth-control">reliable source</a>: 
<blockquote>Injectable birth control (Depo-Provera): Unlike other forms of hormonal birth control, it may be harder to get pregnant after you stop getting these shots. It may take 10 months or more before you ovulate again. For some women, it will take up to 18 months for periods to start again.</blockquote>
So this is a method of hormonal birth control that does impact fertility after you stop taking it. In fact, it can make women infertile for a very long time. This isn&#8217;t some conspiracy theory — and neither is the idea that hormonal birth control can contribute to weight gain, depression and suicide. The same sources that the Left tells us to trust at every opportunity — established medical researchers — are very clear on this. But the &#8220;trust the science&#8221; crowd has suddenly become very distrusting of science.
And that&#8217;s not the only platitude they&#8217;re abandoning in order to censor anyone who speaks critically about birth control. Remember &#8220;my body, my choice?&#8221; If these people really believed in the &#8220;my body my choice&#8221; mantra, they would celebrate, or at least accept, that an increasing number of young women are choosing to forgo birth control. But birth control is central to their cultural agenda.
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With fewer women on the pill, more women will become mothers, and some of them will drop out of the workforce and discover fulfillment and happiness as wives and homemakers. This is the real crisis that the Washington Post and the other Left wing rags are worried about. The last thing that the elites want to see is a movement of women fully embracing their own womanhood, and men fully embracing their manhood. A move back towards the family, away from materialism and self-preoccupation and towards marriage and parenthood. These people have been waging a war on the family for decades, and the birth control pill is their nuclear bomb. The family is the greatest threat to them. And a society full of families — of intact, happy families, with attentive mothers and strong fathers — that is a society that has rendered these people powerless. That is their fear. And they fear it like they fear nothing else.
And politically, of course we know that unhappy career middle managers at Citibank are one of the core constituencies of the Democratic Party. If they rebel, Democrats will have real trouble winning another election. And they&#8217;re willing to do anything — including lying to women about the serious and even fatal drug side effects of birth control, and so many other drugs — to prevent that from happening.

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The Washington Post&#8217;s Kathleen Parker called on Vice President Kamala Harris to step aside &#8220;for the country&#8217;s sake&#8221; in an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/kamala-harris-quit-biden-2024/?utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editorial</a> published on Friday.
Parker agued that although she had hoped to see Harris thrive and shine in her position as second-in-command, she — and may Americans along with her — had been disappointed by the vice president&#8217;s actual job performance.
&#8220;The Kamala conundrum comes down to this,&#8221; Parker wrote. &#8220;She was picked because she was Black and female, a combo tantamount to job security. Now that she has become a burden to the Democratic ticket, Biden can’t fire her. He can’t risk alienating his base. Full stop.&#8221;
Parker went on to note that the &#8220;Kamala conundrum&#8221; was particularly worrisome given the number of Americans who were also worried about the age and cognitive state of President Joe Biden.
&#8220;The seriousness of this situation can’t be overstated. Biden’s diminishing faculties, notwithstanding his relatively successful State of the Union address, and his increasing physical frailty are concerning,&#8221; Parker wrote, adding, &#8220;Every honest person knows he’s not in top form. A recent New York Times poll found that 73 percent of registered voters believe Biden is too old to be the nation’s top executive. This includes 61 percent of those who voted for him in 2020.&#8221;
Parker concluded by pointing to Harris&#8217; low marks when it came to job approval polls — which have consistently scored her among the lowest tallies ever for a sitting vice president — and argued that if something were to happen to Biden, those numbers were not likely to skyrocket simply because Harris moved into the Democratic ticket&#8217;s top spot.
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Her assessment was that, for the sake of the country — or, more aptly, for the sake of the Democratic Party&#8217;s chances of success in 2024 — Harris should step aside. Parker gave no indication of who she might like to see take Harris&#8217; place in the event that se did so, however.

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WaPo Editorial Calls On Kamala Harris To Step Down ‘For The Country’s Sake’

WaPo Editorial Calls On Kamala Harris To Step Down 'For The Country's Sake'

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A Washington Post article criticizing Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley’s</a> “all-white high school” was blasted by political commentators on Tuesday.
The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/20/nikki-haley-high-school-racism-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a>, titled “Haley’s nearly all-White high school lacked lessons of racism, some say,” was written by the Post’s national political investigative reporter Michael Kranish. The reporter goes back to the mid-1980s when Haley attended Orangeburg Preparatory, a private high school in South Carolina. At the time, Orangeburg Prepatory was “a newly created private school formed from the merger of two institutions known locally as ‘segregation academies’ because of their nearly universal White enrollment in a majority-Black city,” according to the Post.
Shortly after the article was published, it was slammed by political commentators on social media.
“Ffs this is stupid. Now do Joe Biden’s high school,” wrote The Dispatch Editor-in-Chief Jonah Goldberg.
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Ffs this is stupid. Now do Joe Biden’s high school. <a href="https://t.co/kyzpenJoCE">pic.twitter.com/kyzpenJoCE</a>
&mdash; Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonahDispatch/status/1760053535817801779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“This s*** is exhausting,” <a href="https://twitter.com/brad_polumbo/status/1760036835957317748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1760036835957317748%7Ctwgr%5E5bd65755462d8f1b034df06ffdc074bfd83fe973%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fpolitics%2Fconservatives-mock-wapo-article-critical-of-nikki-haleys-high-school-this-sht-is-exhausting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Washington Examiner and New York Post contributor Brad Polumbo.
Mediaite staff writer Isaac Schorr chimed in, <a href="https://twitter.com/isaac_schorr/status/1760044474581897295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1760044474581897295%7Ctwgr%5E5bd65755462d8f1b034df06ffdc074bfd83fe973%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Fpolitics%2Fconservatives-mock-wapo-article-critical-of-nikki-haleys-high-school-this-sht-is-exhausting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a>, “This article has nothing to do with Nikki Haley. What a classic of the ‘[Republican&#8217; Name&#8230;Something Bad Unrelated to Said Republican]’ genre.”
The article’s main sourcing came from interviews the Post conducted with classmates of Haley who complained that they “weren’t adequately instructed about South Carolina’s history of divisive racial issues — from Jim Crow laws to Ku Klux Klan raids to lynchings.”
In the sixth paragraph of the Washington Post story, the reporter writes, “Neither Haley nor officials at Orangeburg Prep responded to questions from The Washington Post about her time at the school, and thus it could not be determined what she was taught there.”
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The former South Carolina governor graduated from Orangeburg Prepatory in 1989 before going on to Clemson University. Haley was born to Indian immigrants, which The Washington Post article mentions, and has previously discussed growing up in a majority white school.
“We were the only Indian family in our small southern town,” Haley <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/nikki-haley-claims-she-was-victim-of-racism-teased-every-day-for-being-brown-south-carolina-republican-gop-2024-election-desantis-ramaswamy-trump-biden-new-hampshire-primary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NBC News last month. “I was teased every day for being brown. So, anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I’ve said on how hard it was to grow up in the deep South as a brown girl.”

WaPo Dragged For Article Criticizing Lack Of Racism Lessons At Nikki Haley’s ‘All-White High School’: ‘Now Do Joe Biden’s High School’

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Six weeks after its article vilified the Israeli government with false claims that it had forced Palestinian mothers who received authorization to leave Gaza for humanitarian reasons with their babies to return to Gaza to reapply after their permits expired, the Washington Post finally issued a correction, but still managed to find a way to malign the Israeli government by introducing new unnamed sources with new unverified claims.
The Post’s “editor’s note” <a href="https://washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/17/israel-gaza-war-babies-families/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">affixed</a> to the original article, which had been titled, “Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers,” stated:
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An earlier version of this article about Palestinian mothers in #Gaza who have been separated from their newborns mischaracterized some aspects of Israeli rules for permits that allowed some Palestinian women, before Oct. 7, to travel from Gaza to give birth at hospitals in the West Bank and Israel. The article incorrectly said that all Palestinian mothers who received authorization to leave Gaza for humanitarian reasons had to return to Gaza to reapply after their permits expired. In fact, it was not always necessary for mothers to return to Gaza. 
The article has been updated to specify that it was hospital officials who told two Palestinian mothers that they needed to return to Gaza to apply for new permits.  The article also reported an incorrect birth weight for one newborn, Mahmoud; he weighed 3½ pounds, not 7 pounds. The article has been corrected.  
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“In addition, The Post neglected to seek comment from Israeli officials for this article,” the Post admitted.
Yet, as Robert Satloff, the Executive Director of The Washington Institute, pointed out, “The Post is holding firm on refusing to identify the hospitals or name any of the nurses, doctors or administrators cited makes little sense. Instead, the Post is doubling down on the unverified claim that the unnamed interviewees have a legitimate fear of ‘retaliation’ by Israel.”
Satloff noted that on December 6, NBC News cited the hospital and a doctor by name in its own version of this story on Dec 6.   He added that the Post added the following paragraph to the original story in which they used unnamed sources making new unverified claims:
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But patient advocates and hospital staff who help women with the process say these on-the-ground extensions can be difficult to obtain and are not consistently granted. One of the mothers in this story said she was not aware that she could apply for an extension, and left without doing so. 
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Success! Well, at least partial success.
Late this afternoon, <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> finally published an “editor’s note” &amp; an updated version of the flawed Nov 17 article on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinian</a> mothers separated from their newborn infants because of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a>&#8211;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hamas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hamas</a> war.…
&mdash; Robert Satloff (@robsatloff) <a href="https://twitter.com/robsatloff/status/1740565550185562441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The editorial board of The Washington Post on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a recent decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to ban former President Donald Trump from its ballot.
The Colorado high court ruled on Tuesday that Trump is liable for an insurrection committed on January 6, 2021, and so is ineligible for holding public office again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The court ruled in a 4-3 decision to bar Trump from its ballot, though it stayed its decision until January 4 or later in case of appeal.
The Trump campaign has promised to appeal the decision. In the meantime, the Colorado court’s decision ignited a debate over the merits of the case and the prudence of unelected judges determining the eligibility of a presidential candidate on standards significantly less defined than age or birth requirements.
The Post’s editorial board <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/colorado-14th-amendment-trump-insurrection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> the legal issues involved in the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling are “murky,” and in writing its opinion, the judges “had to answer ‘yes’ to a vexing series of questions.” For example, the court found that Section 3 applied to the presidency despite doubts raised in a lower court ruling.
The board also points to whether Section 3 needs an act of Congress to take effect, especially given that “Chief Justice of the United States Salmon P. Chase ruled that such a move was necessary just a year after the 14th Amendment’s 1868 ratification.”
The biggest assumption that the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision rests on, however, is “whether Mr. Trump really did engage in insurrection,” the editorial board says.
“Not only has Mr. Trump not been convicted of insurrection either by a jury of his peers or from the bench by a judge; he hasn’t even been charged with it,” the board writes. “Tellingly, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has brought an aggressive case against the former president for conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an official proceeding and more — but not for violating the federal law against insurrection.”
“[A]cross multiple aspects of the case and on the insurrection question especially, the law is unclear. In the absence of clarity, a body of unelected officials should be reluctant to prevent the country’s citizens from choosing an elected official to lead them. The Supreme Court, hopefully, understands that,” the board says.

The Washington Post Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down Colorado Trump Ruling

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A former New York Times journalist claimed Monday that the newspaper only allows its writers to express &#8220;right-wing opinions,&#8221; not Left-wing views, prompting raised eyebrows.
Taylor Lorenz, a tech reporter who now writes for The Washington Post, made the claim in a <a href="https://www.threads.net/@taylorlorenz/post/C0udsGiSPAx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Instagram&#8217;s Threads.
&#8220;Anyone who&#8217;s worked as a journalist at the NYT knows that journalists there are absolutely allowed to loudly espouse political opinions, you just have to espouse the *right* political opinions. Right wing opinions are fine, left wing opinions are not,&#8221; Lorenz wrote in her post.
She added, &#8220;For instance, at the NYT I wasn&#8217;t allowed to express the &#8216;opinion&#8217; that online harassment was a bad thing, in the midst of having my entire family harassed and doxxed. I also once had to delete a tweet where I said I don&#8217;t like living in America lol. But saying &#8216;wokes&#8217; are taking over campus is totally fine in their book.&#8221;
Lorenz&#8217;s post was met with amused and incredulous reactions on social media.
&#8220;The parody writes itself,&#8221; Elon Musk, owner of X, posted along with two laughing emojis, reacting to a post about Lorenz&#8217;s comments.
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The parody writes itself
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1734408017699897350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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This person lives in an alternate reality. <a href="https://t.co/hUOI1HLsSk">pic.twitter.com/hUOI1HLsSk</a>
&mdash; Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubensteinAdam/status/1734311794548814268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This person lives in an alternate reality,&#8221; posted journalist Adam Rubenstein, who also previously worked at the Times.
&#8220;This has to be a joke, right?&#8221; one X user wrote.
&#8220;When I think of the NYT, I definitely think of it being right wing,&#8221; another X user posted.
The Times frequently publishes pieces that platform Left-wing causes and views.
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In October, the Times falsely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-it-lied-about-israel-new-york-times-verification-badge-removed-by-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Israeli military bombed a hospital in Gaza, causing X to remove the Times’ verification badge.
Back in May, the Times published a piece <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/style/polyamory-somerville.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advising</a> readers which U.S. cities grant more &#8220;rights&#8221; to people engaging in polyamory.
Lorenz herself frequently attracts criticism for her opinions and reporting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-lorenz-questions-libs-of-tiktok-about-fostering-violence-gets-mocked-in-reply" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tactics</a>.
Last year, Lorenz wrote a controversial article for the Post revealing the identity of Chaya Raichik, the woman behind the popular Libs of TikTok account on X. Initially, the story linked to Raichik’s real estate license, which showed her name, real estate license number, and possible physical address. The Post removed the link after being accused of doxxing Raichik.
Lorenz has also been a vocal critic of lifting pandemic restrictions such as mandatory face masks, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/taylor-lorenz-in-twitter-feud-with-sopranos-meme-account/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> the lack of COVID rules places immunocompromised people like herself at risk. She continued to wear a face mask in public as recently as this year.

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Taylor Lorenz Says NY Times Only Allows ‘Right-Wing Opinions’

Taylor Lorenz Says NY Times Only Allows 'Right-Wing Opinions'

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New York Times

Taylor Lorenz

Hundreds of employees at The Washington Post went on strike Thursday, citing &#8220;record-level inflation,&#8221; even as the paper itself ran articles insisting that the economy is doing well under the Biden administration.
About 750 Post staffers <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/12/07/washington-post-strike-layoffs-buyouts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walked</a> off the job for a 24-hour strike, and they are asking readers not read or engage with any Post content, Axios reported.
&#8220;We still lack a contract that keeps pace with record-level inflation and guarantees workers a living wage,&#8221; the union, the Washington Post Guild, <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-at-the-washington-post-deserve-a-living-wage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in its announcement of the strike.
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Workers <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months. 
But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith.
So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours. <a href="https://t.co/GCraL1I0nm">pic.twitter.com/GCraL1I0nm</a>
&mdash; Washington Post Guild (@PostGuild) <a href="https://twitter.com/PostGuild/status/1732063014373806296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, the Post called it &#8220;a miracle year for the U.S. economy&#8221; in an editorial <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/02/us-economy-2024-recovery-normal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> on Saturday, citing falling inflation.
&#8220;In many ways, this is the year the economy finally returned to something close to normal. But many people seem to have forgotten what normal looks like after a traumatic few years,&#8221; the editorial read.
A Thanksgiving week editorial called for &#8220;gratitude&#8221; and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/thanksgiving-democracy-gratitude/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the &#8220;typical U.S. family’s cup runneth over&#8221; compared to families in places like Ukraine, Gaza, and Afghanistan.
&#8220;Voters seem to be giving President Biden little or no credit for the modicum of economic and geopolitical stability over which he has presided,&#8221; the editorial said, although it admitted that the cost of housing, fuel, and food &#8220;remain elevated compared with their pre-pandemic levels.&#8221;
The Post worker strike comes after 18 months of contract negotiations.
The Post is facing a $100 million loss this year. In response, the paper is trying to get rid of 240 jobs, but only about 120 employees have accepted voluntary buyouts, according to Axios.
Last week, The Post warned that it may have to start laying people off if more employees do not accept voluntary buyouts.
Meanwhile, soaring inflation is making life difficult for Americans.
The inflation rate has slowed slightly since 2021, when it spiked to the highest levels in four decades, but many American families say they are struggling more financially now than they did before the pandemic, CBS News polling from September <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-need-over-11k-more-to-keep-2021-standard-of-living-report#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a>.
According to one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-need-over-11k-more-to-keep-2021-standard-of-living-report#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a>, Americans need over $11,000 more this year to keep the same standard of living they enjoyed at the beginning of 2021.
Less than half of Americans, 47%, say they cannot live comfortably and have little money left over after meeting their expenses, down from 56% who said so in 2019, according to the polling. Meanwhile, more than half, 53% of Americans, say they either have just enough or cannot meet their expenses, up from 44% in 2019.
Wages have grown, but they have not kept up with inflation, as the Post staffers appeared to acknowledge in their strike announcement.
The average hourly wage has increased 13.6% since January 2021, but inflation has outpaced that growth with a 17% spike, government data <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-households-need-extra-11400-these-states-its-even-higher/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=251671293" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.

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Washington Post Employees Strike Over ‘Record-Level Inflation’ As Paper Insists Economy Is Good

Washington Post Employees Strike Over 'Record-Level Inflation' As Paper Insists Economy Is Good

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After the Washington Post, whose anti-Israel bias has been <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/the-washington-post-and-politico-push-anti-israel-propaganda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> for <a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/andrea-levin/the-washington-post-vs-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decades</a>, twisted the story of Israel protecting Palestinian babies from Gaza in Israeli hospitals to instead focus on the children’s mothers being separated from their children, the leader of a think tank focused on Middle East policy blasted the paper.
“Israel’s war with Hamas separates Palestinian babies from their mothers,” the Post titled the piece.
“What is the gist? That several dozen Palestinian mothers and premature infants have been separated because of the war, the latter all cared for in unidentified hospitals in Israel or the West Bank,” Robert Satloff of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy <a href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-washington-post-turned-feel-good-story-anti-israel-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “‘Tragedy’ is a much-used term in a conflict that began with Hamas’s murder and kidnapping of Israeli babies—a fact interestingly not mentioned in a story about babies and this war—but no one dies in this story; these Palestinian babies are all safe and protected.”
“There is the uncomfortable fact that some of these babies are being cared for in Israel — yet the whole story rests on the inhumanity of Israel’s alleged policy of denying re-entry permits to some mothers, preventing them from reuniting with their children, but the reporters do not appear to even have sought comment from Israeli officials, allegedly because ‘staff members fear reprisals from Israeli authorities,’” Satloff wrote. “Really? What sort of reprisals? Did the reporters document any examples of such reprisals? Did they even ask?”
“In a war filled with death, the Washington Post took a fundamentally good news story about premature babies from Gaza cared for by compassionate people across enemy lines and turned it into a horror story, with diabolical Israelis lurking overhead,” he declared. “Along the way, reporters who stated with precision what infant items are on the floor of blown-out buildings in faraway Gaza repeated unverified accusations against unnamed Israeli authorities by unnamed administrators in unnamed hospitals in unnamed Israeli cities. If that isn’t the one-sided editorialization of news, what is it?”
“The Post, one should recall, labels its news coverage of the conflict ‘Israel-Gaza War,’ an editorial decision which implies Israel is at war with Gaza, rather than the more-accurate ‘Israel-Hamas War,’” he pointed out.

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Fulton County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fani-willis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fani Willis</a> said this week that she expects the Georgia trial of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> to go on for “months,” and that it could drag past the 2024 election and into 2025.
Willis, who is the top prosecutor bringing charges against Trump in Georgia, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/14/fani-willis-trump-case-videos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made the comments</a> at the Washington Post’s Global Women Summit. Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fani-willis-gets-her-first-guilty-plea-in-2020-election-case-heres-who-it-is" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faces 13 charges</a>, including three counts of solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer, two counts of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree, and two counts of conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, among other charges.
According to Willis, Trump’s trial over his alleged misdeeds following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2020-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 presidential election</a> will likely coincide with the 2024 presidential election. 
“I believe in that case there will be a trial. I believe the trial will take many months. And I don’t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025,” she said.
Republicans have said that Willis’s prosecution is politically motivated to help Biden&#8217;s re-election chances, and Trump has said that the cases brought against him are election interference. Trump is the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and has climbed in front of President Joe Biden in recent polling from key swing states. 
“I don’t, when making decisions about cases to bring, consider any election cycle or an election season. That does not go into the calculus. What goes into the calculus is: This is the law. These are the facts. And the facts show you violated the law. Then charges are brought,” Willi said. 
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arrested-by-a-radical-left-district-attorney-trump-to-turn-himself-in-on-thursday-in-georgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was indicted</a> alongside 18 allies in Georgia in August and has maintained his innocence. The former president could be involved in multiple other trials throughout the 2024 campaign and into November 2024. He is facing trials in New York, Florida, and Washington, D.C.
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A request by Trump to move his Florida trial over his alleged mishandling of classified documents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-rejects-initial-request-from-trump-to-delay-documents-trial-until-after-2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was denied</a> last week by Judge Aileen Cannon. The classified documents trial is set to begin on May 20, 2024. A scheduling hearing is set for March 1, and Cannon could move the start of the trial then. 
Trump has denied any wrongdoing. 
&#8220;Every time the radical Left Democrats, Marxists, communists and fascists indict me, I consider it a truly great badge of honor,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-slam-biden-protectors-2024-election-interference-jan-6-charges-alabama-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in August at a Republican event in Alabama. &#8220;Because I&#8217;m being indicted for you.&#8221;

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Fani Willis Says Trump Georgia Case Could Go On For ‘Months,’ And Through 2024 Election

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post&#8217;s</a> resident fact-checker was treated to a virtual earful over his Wednesday piece claiming that the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza had a &#8220;good track record&#8221; when it came to accurately reporting death tolls.
Fact-checker Glenn Kessler was responding to statements from Biden administration officials — and President Joe Biden himself &#8212; who had said that he had &#8220;no confidence&#8221; in the numbers coming out of any organization controlled by Hamas terrorists.
&#8220;I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.&#8221;
Kessler, however, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/01/bidens-dismissal-reported-palestinian-death-toll/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared to argue</a> that the health ministry could be trusted. He explained that the Biden administration had cited the Gaza Health Ministry in the past and that the United Nations cited their numbers as well.
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Fact Checker: The president said he had “no confidence” in the figures issued by the Hamas-run health ministry, but it has a good track record on reporting death tolls. <a href="https://t.co/5xh4k2zq5d">https://t.co/5xh4k2zq5d</a>
&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1719698820664021205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But critics were not buying Kessler&#8217;s argument, and said so via X.
&#8220;This piece on the accuracy of Hamas Health Ministry&#8217;s casualty figures, which produced 27 seconds after Israeli strikes, is predicated on the idea that the UN, which operates in Gaza only with the understanding that Hamas exerts editorial control over it, is a reliable narrator,&#8221; Noah Rothman said, adding, &#8220;It was only about two weeks ago the UN announced that Hamas had stolen a shipment of fuel but then speedily deleted the announcement. No one with any experience covering UNRWA needs to ask why.&#8221;
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It was only about two weeks ago the UN announced that Hamas had stolen a shipment of fuel but then speedily deleted the announcement. No one with any experience covering UNRWA needs to ask why <a href="https://t.co/Mg8roMeCoF">https://t.co/Mg8roMeCoF</a>
&mdash; Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) <a href="https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/1719744121445785642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;FACT CHECK: Alderaan Death Toll Greatly Exaggerated, Says Generally Reliable &amp; Unbiased Galactic Empire Health Ministry,&#8221; Dan McLaughlin <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1719746850788434145" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Another <a href="https://twitter.com/BlameBigGovt/status/1719778166531637461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;Democracy dies in useful idiocy.&#8221;
&#8220;What on earth is happening at WaPo where they think terrorists are reliable sources,&#8221; Steve Guest posted, tagging one of President Biden&#8217;s spokesmen (@AndrewJBates46) and adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to assist in fighting back against this insane fact check. Your guy has this one right. Yes, WaPo is coming to the defense of Hamas terrorists to attack your boss.&#8221;
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What on earth is happening at WaPo where they think terrorists are reliable sources?<a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewJBates46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewJBates46</a> &#8211; I&#39;m happy to assist in fighting back against this insane fact check. Your guy has this one right.
Yes, WaPo is coming to the defense of Hamas terrorists to attack your boss. <a href="https://t.co/UZPcvb9iRK">https://t.co/UZPcvb9iRK</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1719758399557050780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></blockquote>
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WaPo Fact-Checker Dragged For Saying Hamas Has ‘Good Track Record’ On Reporting Death Tolls

WaPo Fact-Checker Dragged For Saying Hamas Has 'Good Track Record' On Reporting Death Tolls

Fact Check

Gaza

Glenn Kessler

Hamas

Palestinians

Major American news outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Associated Press routinely cite the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers for civilians purportedly killed in Israeli airstrikes, but the Hamas-run agency has a history of lying about these very numbers. 
After Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, the Israeli government responded quickly and forcefully, bombing Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and preparing a ground operation that is expected to begin any day. Quickly after Israel responded to Hamas’ attack with airstrikes on military targets, legacy media outlets began reporting numbers of Palestinian civilian casualties fed to them by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. 
At the top of The New York Times’ live updates on the war, the legacy outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/16/world/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza/heres-the-latest-on-the-war?smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writes</a>, “Some two million people remain trapped in Gaza, desperate for water and other critical supplies and fearful of Israeli airstrikes that Palestinian officials say have already killed more than 2,800 people and wounded more than 10,000 others.” Those numbers come directly from the Palestinian Health Ministry, but the Times makes no mention of the agency’s previous lies about its death tolls. 
The Times previously noted that the health ministry used deceptive tactics less than a decade ago. In an article published by the Times on August 5, 2014 — in the midst of an Israeli operation in Gaza to take out terrorists — the news outlet <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/world/middleeast/civilian-or-not-new-fight-in-tallying-the-dead-from-the-gaza-conflict.html?_r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that the “Palestinian Ministry of Health does not categorize victims as civilian or combatant,” meaning the Gaza-based reporting of civilian casualties was significantly higher than what Israel and the U.N. reported. 
During the 2014 conflict, an <a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/08/12/hamas-lies-about-the-gaza-civilian-death-toll-and-the-media-bought-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in U.S. News &amp; World Report highlighted Hamas’ lies about civilian casualties, stating clearly that the numbers coming from the Palestinian Health Ministry cannot be trusted. 
“Hamas lies systematically, instructing civilians to misinform the foreign press. It lies habitually, with a formidable record of mendacity from previous conflicts. And it lies guiltlessly, convinced that the objectives of ‘resistance’ supersede quaint notions of truth-telling,” Oren Kessler wrote on August 12, 2014. The report even went on to blast “Western media” for going along with Hamas’ casualty count. 
“Nonetheless, since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge over a month ago, Western media have relied on Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry – as <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSKBN0FV04K20140726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-hamas-trade-fire-as-gaza-death-toll-mounts-1407579399" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/missile-strike-al-shati-refugee-camp-kills-10-including-8-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> – for casualty tallies,” the report added. “As one reporter told the Washington Post, when it comes to body counts, the Hamas Health Minister Ashraf Al-Qidra is ‘the only game in town.’&#8221; 
The fog of war combined with the Gaza Health Ministry’s deceptive reporting makes gathering accurate information on Palestinian civilian casualties nearly impossible. This was proven yet again when an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-defense-forces-terrorists-fired-rocket-that-killed-500-at-gaza-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explosion near a Gaza hospital</a> on Tuesday was blamed on an Israeli airstrike by Palestinian authorities, whose word was taken as truth by mainstream newsrooms. The Hamas-backed health ministry said the blast at the hospital killed at least 500 people, and that claim was plastered on the websites and in the newspapers of American legacy media outlets — again, with no explanation of the unreliable source reporting the deaths. 
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The New York Times <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1714416589724864790/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> its headline <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231017194544/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/17/world/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231017203739/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/17/world/gaza-news-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">times</a> after the explosion near the Gaza hospital — initially running with the Palestinian officials’ version of the event before updating the headline as more information came out that indicated the blast came from a failed Hamas rocket. The Times provided no editor’s note explaining the revised headline. 
After the blast at the hospital, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/17/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah/f80150f0-6ca9-11ee-b01a-f593caa04363_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “Before the al-Alhi Hospital deaths, Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 2,778 people and wounded 9,700, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and nearly two-thirds of those killed were children. Another 1,200 people across Gaza are believed to be buried under the rubble, alive or dead, health authorities said.” The death count is reported as fact with no disclaimer about the unreliability of the source it comes from. 
Similarly, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “A massive blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian militants. At least 500 people were killed, the ministry said.”
American news outlets <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestinians-hostages-updates/#post-update-1871bc50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2LL2kbNmiY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC</a>, <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/chris-jansing-reports/watch/palestinian-officials-hundreds-killed-in-strike-on-gaza-hospital-195816517935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC</a>, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23/h_1bc0ffaac9b123d607215ecabaadc3eb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN,</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-attacks-200-targets-in-gaza-ahead-of-biden-visit-cd6889d6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> have all followed suit by reporting Hamas’ propaganda as fact, and the health ministry’s lies were also touted by sitting members of Congress, Reps. <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1714342122185191596" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI) and <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1714358704303157661" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ilhan Omar</a> (D-MN). Both of the congresswomen have <a href="https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1714413463928229950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doubled</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">down</a> on accepting the Palestinian authorities’ lies and condemning President Biden for standing with Israel.

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