Americans are fickle. They like to play the field.
You&#8217;ve got to go back 35 years to 1988 to find a given political party winning a third consecutive term in the White House. Back then, Ronald Reagan handed off to George Bush. But before that, the last string of three presidents from the same party began in 1921.
Bill Clinton was two and out, as were George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Donald Trump was one and done.
And now, a new poll finds Americans are very much leaning toward showing President Joe Biden the door on November 5, 2024. And it&#8217;s not just Republicans &#8212; Democrats agree that he ought to get the boot after a single term.
Just 37% of Democrats say they want Biden to seek a second term, down from 52% in the weeks before last year’s midterm elections, a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-norc-poll-biden-2024-presidential-prospects-c843c5af6775b4c8a0cff8e2b1db03f6">survey</a> by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs found.
The liberal AP, normally a Biden cheerleader, gave the commander-in-chief a little tough love.
&#8220;While Biden has trumpeted his legislative victories and ability to govern, the poll suggests relatively few U.S. adults give him high marks on either. Follow-up interviews with poll respondents suggest that many believe the 80-year-old’s age is a liability, with people focused on his coughing, his gait, his gaffes and the possibility that the world’s most stressful job would be better suited for someone younger,&#8221; the AP said.
Ouch.
The wire service quoted Democrats and Republicans musing about the old man. &#8220;I, honestly, think that he would be too old,&#8221; said Sarah Overman, 37, a Democrat who works in education in Raleigh, North Carolina. “We could use someone younger in the office.”
Then the AP went to Republican John Rodriguez, 76, who the agency said &#8220;backed Trump and assumes that Biden is merely doing the bidding of his aides.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe he’s not the one who’s calling the shots,&#8221; said Rodriguez, who lives in Cutler Bay, Florida. &#8220;He’s a puppet being told where to go, what to say.&#8221;
Meanwhile, another poll found Trump would beat Biden by three points in a rematch of 2020 &#8212; but that most Americans say they don&#8217;t want to do it again.
In an ABC News/Washington Post <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11715295/New-poll-finds-Americans-DONT-want-2020-Trump-v-Biden-rematch.html">poll</a> released Sunday, 48% of registered voters said they would vote for Trump with 45% backing Biden.
While this falls within the four-point margin of error, it is a flip from September when Biden was beating Trump by two points. Independent voters lean Trump by nine percentage points at a 50%-41% split.
And a lot of Americans don&#8217;t want Biden to run. If he does, 30% said they would be &#8220;angry,&#8221; while another 32% said they would be &#8220;dissatisfied but not angry.&#8221;
Only 7% of respondents said they would be &#8220;enthusiastic&#8221; if Biden won re-election.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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When you&#8217;re as liberal as they get — not to mention a black woman of Asian descent — and The Washington Post doesn&#8217;t have your back, you got problems.
The Jeff Bezos-owned liberal paper — whose motto is &#8220;Democracy Dies In Drabness&#8221; — wrote yet another piece dissing Vice President Kamala Harris. The paper has already detailed her dysfunctional office and its disgruntled workers, along with her endless word salads, but this time it went further.
&#8220;Some Democrats are worried about Harris’s political prospects,&#8221; said a <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/some-democrats-are-worried-about-harris-s-political-prospects/ar-AA16U4BP?cvid=466ebe4e5aa84e7cbf874094026c59c4#image=1">headline</a> this week. Now mind you, it&#8217;s 641 days until Election Day 2024.
It&#8217;s not the first time a liberal news outlet has taken early aim at a Democrat. In 1999, many weren&#8217;t happy with the prospect of Vice President Al Gore becoming president, so they were kinda brutal to him (&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; picked up on that and <a href="https://youtu.be/zDgRRVpemLo">mocked</a> him for his earth-tone wardrobe and his &#8220;lock-box&#8221; fixation).
The Post went to a top source, Jacquelyn Bettadapur, a &#8220;longtime leader of the Cobb County Democrats.&#8221; That&#8217;s right, the paper was able to reach her! So great. Let&#8217;s hear her insights.
&#8220;People are poised to pounce on anything — any misstep, any gaffe, anything she says — and so she’s probably not getting the benefit of the doubt,&#8221; Bettadapur said. Many Democrats, she said, &#8220;don’t know enough about what she’s doing” — adding, &#8220;it doesn’t help that she’s not [that] adept as a communicator.&#8221;
Man, you can only get that kind of expert political analysis from the top Cobb County, Georgia, Democrat.
Now, the Post wasn&#8217;t able to get the current chairman of the Charleston County Democratic Party in South Carolina. But they were, thank God, able to reach Brady Quirk-Garvan, a former chairman. He dropped this wisdom:
“I think many Democrats have changed from a 2008 sentiment, or even the feeling in 2012 and 2016, which were about voting for aspiration. Democrats at the moment — I don’t hear a lot of chatter about aspiration. I hear about what’s going to guarantee a win, what’s a certainty, what feels safe,&#8221; he said.
We&#8217;ll skip the insights offered by a former South Carolina state legislator and go straight to &#8220;one South Carolina Democratic strategist who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of damaging professional relationships.&#8221; This is gonna&#8217; be good &#8216;cuz it&#8217;s anonymous.
&#8220;Every fiber in my body wants her to be president; everything I’ve ever fought for is for someone like her to be president. I think she’s a good person with a good heart who can lead the country. But I don’t know that the people who have to make that happen feel that way right now. I don’t know that she has what it takes to get over the hump in our present environment.&#8221;
Huh. Now that&#8217;s one shrewd observation. A lot of powerful people don&#8217;t think Harris is the one so she likely won&#8217;t be president.
Even though the 2024 election is ages away, the onslaught of negative press on Harris will be a drag on her ambitions. The press may ease up on her should President Joe Biden decide to drop, but he appears ready to rumble again so that may not happen.
Harris, 58, could just coast — being vice president is about the easiest job in the world. She could wait around until 2028 and give it a go then. But anyone who knows her knows she thinks very highly of herself and has concluded that she — among the 320 million Americans — is the one to lead.
She may not even get that chance.
Over the last few months, Democrats have openly mused about her future, with some liberal news sites and party leaders saying she shouldn’t run in 2024. If Biden runs again, he should dump Harris, some stories say. Others say that if he doesn’t run, the party should bail on her and pick someone else.
Take the recent <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2022/09/28/democrats-believe-biden-should-run-2024-primary-harris/">survey</a> from Morning Consult: Just 28% of Democratic voters would vote for Harris in a Democratic presidential primary without Biden on the ballot, down from 33% in a poll last year. You don’t win the White House with those numbers.
The liberal site Slate laid a vicious <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/kamala-harris-joe-biden-new-vp-2024.html">slap</a> on Harris shortly after Election Day 2022.
“As Joe Biden weighs a run for re-election even as he becomes the first octogenarian U.S. president in history, he should think back on what it was like to watch the Harris campaign flame out,” Christina Cauterucci wrote. “Harris, a proven dud of a presidential candidate who has done little to distinguish herself since is not a good choice for the Democrats’ top billing. For his second term, should he seek one (he shouldn’t!), Biden should tap someone else.”
And Harris, it turns out, is surprisingly even more unpopular than her predecessors.
“As the country has become more partisan, vice presidents have been less likely to enjoy broad support among the public. [Mike] Pence, for example, had a net favorability of roughly zero for much of his four years in the White House. Joe Biden, Dick Cheney and Al Gore all began their tenures with higher ratings than Harris currently enjoys,” The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/projects/kamala-harris-approval-rating-polls-vs-biden-other-vps/">wrote</a> last month.
The 2024 election, as we noted, is 641 days away. But that might not be enough time to bail out her sinking ship.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos responded to a report Monday that claimed that he was considering selling The Washington Post so he could purchase an NFL team from an owner who hates the newspaper.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/jeff-bezos-will-sell-washington-post-to-buy-commanders-investors/">reported</a> that Bezos is looking to potentially buy the Washington Commanders from team owner Dan Synder.
Snyder, however, despises the newspaper because it reported on the alleged toxic management of the NFL franchise.
After the report was published on Monday, representatives for Bezos and The Washington Post both <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/23/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos">told</a> CNN that the newspaper was not for sale.
The New York Post report comes after the newspaper&#8217;s publisher, Fred Ryan, told staff last month that there would be layoffs.
Sources reportedly told the New York Post they believe that The Washington Post is for sale even though Bezos allegedly told senior staff at the paper that he had no plans to sell.
“I think Bezos’ people could go to Dan and say as a gesture of goodwill, &#8216;We are selling the paper,&#8217;” a source familiar with the matter said. “I think that would go a long way with Dan.&#8221;
The bank that Snyder hired to sell the team continues to court Bezos, even though Snyder might not want to sell to him, the report said. The first round of bidding has already started.
JP Finlay, who covers the Commanders for NBC Sports, tweeted, “Not only was I told Bezos didn’t submit a bid, I’ve had people tell me the Snyder family has absolutely no interest in selling to Bezos.”
Bezos, who purchased the paper a decade ago for a quarter of a billion dollars, said in a book that he wrote that purchasing the paper would be one of his top achievements.
“I know that when I’m 90, it’s going to be one of the things I’m most proud of, that I took on the Washington Post and helped it through a very rough transition,” Bezos wrote.
The report noted that Bezos&#8217; libertarian-leaning political views have reportedly made him an awkward fit for the paper.
Journalism professor Edward Wasserman said that he did not believe that Bezos understood how owning the paper would &#8220;muzzle him&#8221; when he bought it and that &#8220;it would make sense for him to get out of it.”

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After a Washington Post reporter characterized a leftist who had allegedly championed violence as someone “documenting racist and far-right attackers,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk fired back that the reporter was a “contemptible liar.”
Musk was responding to the Post’s article that was written by Joseph Menn, which stated that Chad Loder “was banned from Twitter by an order from owner Elon Musk, according to a former employee &#8230;” The Post-Millennial’s editor-at-large, Andy Ngo, blasted Menn, writing, “Why didn&#8217;t you mention in your WaPo reporting that Antifa member Chad Loder incited violence, including deadly violence? He also celebrated violent crimes when he praised Antifa &#8216;martyrs,&#8217; including domestic terrorist Willem van Spronsen &amp; gunman Michael Reinoehl.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/josephmenn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@josephmenn</a>, why didn&#39;t you mention in your WaPo reporting that Antifa member Chad Loder incited violence, including deadly violence? He also celebrated violent crimes when he praised Antifa &quot;martyrs,&quot; including domestic terrorist Willem van Spronsen &amp; gunman Michael Reinoehl. <a href="https://t.co/CiRFLJzSis">pic.twitter.com/CiRFLJzSis</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1611107762775228420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Joseph Menn is a contemptible liar,” Musk tweeted. “Twitter policy has always been to suspend accounts that clearly &amp; repeatedly incite violence.”
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Joseph Menn is a contemptible liar. Twitter policy has always been to suspend accounts that clearly &amp; repeatedly incite violence.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1611110531917828097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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After Musk tweeted, Ngo commented further on Loder, writing, &#8220;One of the ways Antifa normalize themselves in the mainstream is through laundering influencers &amp; their ideas through journalists. WaPo &amp; Intercept present Chad Loder as a &#8216;researcher&#8217; to mislead the public about his violent extremism &amp; antisemitic views. <a href="https://twitter.com/chadloder">@chadloder</a>&#8216;s violent extremism on Twitter included celebrations of Antifa violence against a man who protested the trans sex offender who allegedly exposed an erect penis at Wi Spa. He also celebrated violence on black people &amp; routinely posted personal information of targets.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/chadloder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chadloder</a>&#39;s violent extremism on Twitter included celebrations of Antifa violence against a man who protested the trans sex offender who allegedly exposed an erect penis at Wi Spa. He also celebrated violence on black people &amp; routinely posted personal information of targets. <a href="https://t.co/rmFF1KSXQb">pic.twitter.com/rmFF1KSXQb</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1611169313767002117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Menn’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/04/mudge-finds-a-new-job/">article</a> revolved around former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko joining security company Rapid7, “the maintainer of Metasploit, an open-source hacking tool that adds new techniques within hours of their disclosure,” Menn noted, before adding “a co-founder of the company was Chad Loder, now an activist documenting racist and far-right attackers, including some who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.”
After Loder’s account was suspended from Twitter, he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/left-wing-activists-banned-from-twitter-after-false-report-2022-11">claimed</a> that he was the victim of an “organized mass reporting campaign&#8221; against left-wing Twitter users from a group called Zanting. “There&#8217;s nobody minding the shop anymore,” he said. “I know everyone that worked on Twitter&#8217;s trust and safety team over the years has long gone and the team has been more than decimated. It&#8217;s maybe 5% of the original staff, so what&#8217;s happening is mass-reporting is allowed to succeed because there&#8217;s no one double checking whether these reports are valid or not. So people are being suspended for silly things or over nothing at all.”

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The Washington Post took a virtual beating on Thursday over an article detailing the results of an &#8220;eye-opening&#8221; study that compared exercise habits and coronavirus outcomes.
&#8220;Regular exercise protects against fatal covid, a new study shows,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/12/21/covid-exercise-hospitalization-mortality/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline read</a> — and the article went on to lay out some of the findings of the study, which was <a href="https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(22)00526-8/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> December 14 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
According to the study — which looked at data from nearly 200,000 adults in Southern California — adults who exercised 30 minutes almost every day were up to four times more likely to survive COVID infection than those whose lifestyles were more sedentary.
&#8220;It turns out exercise is even more powerful than we thought&#8221; with regard to COVID, said the study&#8217;s senior author Robert Sallis, who is also a clinical professor at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Los Angeles.
Exercise had such a profound impact, according to the study, that even those who only worked out for 11 minutes per week saw lower instances of hospitalization and death than those who did not exercise at all.
Critics quickly swarmed on Twitter, mocking the Post for being late to embrace what many had believed to be an obvious conclusion even as cities and states had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-mayor-garcetti-orders-closure-of-all-bars-in-dining-restaurants-theaters-and-gyms-amid-pandemic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">locked down gyms</a> and even <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/read-it-california-reopens-playgrounds-issues-ridiculous-guidelines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outdoor playgrounds</a>.
&#8220;Remember when they closed the gyms?&#8221; author Max Lugavere <a href="https://twitter.com/maxlugavere/status/1606015918395441152" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
Actor and comedian Rob Schneider added, &#8220;Surprise surprise! Healthy people less likely to drop dead!&#8221;
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Surprise surprise! Healthy people less likely to drop dead! <a href="https://t.co/c0ZAl2l0qB">https://t.co/c0ZAl2l0qB</a>
&mdash; Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobSchneider/status/1605998033442770944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Let me get this straight. We mandated vaccines even though widely known they don&#8217;t stop spread, because we must unburden the hospitals,&#8221; @ITguy1959 mused. &#8220;Yet we locked people in their homes + closed gyms because &#8230; we wanted to burden hospitals? Stunning act of *journalism.&#8221;
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Let me get this straight.
We mandated vaccines even though widely known they don&#39;t stop spread, because we must unburden the hospitals.
Yet we locked people in their homes + closed gyms because &#8230; we wanted to burden hospitals? 
Stunning act of *journalism👇🏽
h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieLeBec3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EddieLeBec3</a> <a href="https://t.co/InE1GyMPnN">https://t.co/InE1GyMPnN</a>
&mdash; IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1605946535912407041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Washington Post announces exercise is a great way to beat COVID. This is something people with functioning brains knew in March 2020. Instead of talking about the vaccine nonstop, we should have been telling people to put down the junk food and go for a nice run,&#8221; Outkick&#8217;s David Hookstead <a href="https://twitter.com/dhookstead/status/1605927581546450944" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>.
Special Forces veteran and UFC fighter Tim Kennedy <a href="https://twitter.com/TimKennedyMMA/status/1605925141082525697" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;Those of us not profiting off of people being sick or living in fear have been saying this for 2 1/2 years … Glad you finally join the party.&#8221;
&#8220;Exercise, in almost any amount, reduces your risk of being hospitalized or dying of anything. The fact that governments &#8216;experts&#8217; finally admit this, after 2 years of trying to convince us the answer is to stay home and take big pharma products, shows how much we can trust them,&#8221; Spike Cohen concluded.
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Exercise, in almost any amount, reduces your risk of being hospitalized or dying of anything.
The fact that governments &quot;experts&quot; finally admit this, after 2 years of trying to convince us the answer is to stay home and take big pharma products, shows how much we can trust them. <a href="https://t.co/JN9YEFdXa6">https://t.co/JN9YEFdXa6</a>
&mdash; Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1605920646734692352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk suspended left-wing Washington Post reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/straight-trash-twitter-explodes-as-washington-post-reveals-who-runs-libs-of-tiktok-account">Taylor Lorenz</a> on Saturday night after saying late last week that her &#8220;shameful behavior&#8221; would not be tolerated on the platform in the future.
Lorenz claimed in a blog post that she &#8220;received zero communication from the company on why I was suspended or what terms I violated.&#8221;
She suggested that she was suspended because she tweeted at Musk asking him for a comment on a story.
&#8220;Never once in my 13 year career in social media have I received a single terms of service or community guidelines violation, for my personal account or any account that I’ve run,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;Twitter has served as an essential real time news source and played a crucial role in the journalism world, but Musk’s arbitrary suspensions of journalists who report on him should worry anyone who values free speech and expression.&#8221;
The popular Twitter account Libs of TikTok posted a screenshot of Lorenz&#8217;s account being suspended.
&#8220;Taylor Lorenz- the person who doxxed me was just suspended from Twitter,&#8221; Libs of TikTok posted. &#8220;Taylor campaigned Twitter to ban me multiple times. She also campaigned substack and shopify to ban me and complained when [Instagram] and Facebook gave me my account back. I have ZERO sympathy.&#8221;
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Taylor campaigned Twitter to ban me multiple times. She also campaigned substack and shopify to ban me and complained when IG and Facebook gave me my account back. I have ZERO sympathy. <a href="https://t.co/iGkQNTuwJu">https://t.co/iGkQNTuwJu</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1604344037015781376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Friday, Musk responded to a tweet from Ariadna Jacob, who wrote: &#8220;I’m not famous and I wasn’t a public figure either when Taylor Lorenz asked for my address, said it wasn’t for publication and then proceeded to dox me in the NYT with the address she had assured me she wasn’t going to publish. The article was shared many x on Twitter.&#8221;
Musk responded to the tweet: &#8220;Such shameful behavior will not be tolerated going forward.&#8221;
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Such shameful behavior will not be tolerated going forward
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603903999870062592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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While many conservatives typically oppose online censorship, it seemed as though there was a near-unanimous consensus from the right side of the political spectrum that this was not a typical censorship case.
Podcast host Tim Pool tweeted: &#8220;Taylor Lorenz finally got suspended for all the awful things she&#8217;s done.&#8221;
&#8220;Banning Taylor Lorenz is the best thing Elon Musk has done for this website,&#8221; said digital strategist Caleb Hull.
&#8220;Elon Musk decided to stop entertaining the liars on the far left. Good,&#8221; writer Ian Miles Cheong tweeted. &#8220;We need more of this. These people will stop at nothing to destroy you and all that you stand for.&#8221;
Political commentator Mike Cernovich tweeted: &#8220;Was out with friends and then checked in to see this. Is that what people mean by a night cap (sic)?&#8221;

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How can you bring in $600 million in revenue and still not make a profit?
Just be The Washington Post.
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013 for a paltry $250 million. Within three years, Bezos had tripled its web traffic, even as the print edition of the paper shrunk to just a few dozen pages.
The Post went hardcore liberal during former President Donald Trump&#8217;s term, but since he left office, readers have been bailing in droves. The &#8220;Trump Bump&#8221; is over.
The paper has lost 500,000 subscribers since Biden took office in January 2021, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-post-considers-selling-tech-business-it-built-up-on-jeff-bezoss-watch-11670428112">reported</a>.
The Post had 3 million subscribers in January 2021, but that has dropped to 2.5 million subscribers, sources with knowledge of the company’s finances told The Journal. Digital advertising revenue at the media outlet also fell about $70 million — or roughly 15% — since the first half of 2021, according to reports earlier this year.
Things got even worse this week. The Post decided to kill its Sunday magazine, firing 10 staffers in yet another cost-cutting move.
So Trump was right. In 2017, he said, &#8220;Newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there, because, without me, their ratings are going down the tubes.&#8221;
Post media reporter Paul Farhi confirmed Trump&#8217;s prediction in a March 2021 <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/media-trump-bump-slump/2021/03/22/5f13549a-85d1-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a>. &#8220;Barely two months into the post-Trump era, news outlets are indeed losing much of the audience and readership they gained during his chaotic presidency. In other words, journalism’s Trump bump may be giving way to a slump,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;The Post, for example, saw the number of unique visitors fall 26 percent from January to February, and 7 percent from a year ago. The New York Times lost 17 percent compared with January and 16 percent over last February,&#8221; Farhi wrote.
Other major news operations are also shrinking because of the sagging economy and the loss of the headline-grabbing Trump. CNN, BuzzFeed, Gannett, Vice News, and Vox Media have all made layoffs this year.
&#8220;The current economic conditions are impacting companies like ours in multiple ways, with supply chain issues reducing marketing and advertising budgets across industries and economic pressures changing the ways that consumers spend,&#8221; Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff wrote in a memo to staff, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/07/27/vox-media-layoffs-economic-uncertainty">Axios</a>.
&#8220;Our aim is to get ahead of greater uncertainty by making difficult but important decisions to pare back on initiatives that are lower priority or have lower staffing needs in the current climate,&#8221; he said.
On Wednesday, Post publisher Fred Ryan <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/14/washington-post-announces-more-job-cuts-next-year/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> during a staff meeting that the company will continue with layoffs in 2023/
The announcement came just days before Christmas. Videos posted on social media platforms show Ryan refusing to take questions from staffers, and stepping off the stage to avoid inquiries from angry employees.
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NEW: <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> publisher Fred Ryan refuses to take staff questions after announcing Q1 layoffs in “Town Hall” <a href="https://twitter.com/PostGuild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@postguild</a> <a href="https://t.co/C4HOXb6y2C">pic.twitter.com/C4HOXb6y2C</a>
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The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Since Biden Took Office, The Washington Post Has Lost 500,000 Readers

Since President Joe Biden Took Office, The Washington Post Has Lost 500,000 Readers

Footage of employees at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-post" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> lambasting company leadership over pending <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/unemployment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">layoffs</a> surfaced online as executives plan to reconfigure the paper’s operations.
The outlet will conduct targeted layoffs constituting a single-digit percentage of the overall workforce beginning next year, Washington Post CEO Fred Ryan informed employees at a heated town hall meeting on Wednesday, according to a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/media/washington-post-layoffs/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from CNN. He told staff that the company cannot “keep spending on initiatives that no longer align with readers’ interests.”
A video from the meeting posted by Washington Post Correspondent Annie Gowen showed multiple employees shouting questions at Ryan and complaining about the upcoming job losses. “We are not going to turn a town hall into a grievance session,” the executive responded.
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NEW: <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> publisher Fred Ryan refuses to take staff questions after announcing Q1 layoffs in “Town Hall” <a href="https://twitter.com/PostGuild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@postguild</a> <a href="https://t.co/C4HOXb6y2C">pic.twitter.com/C4HOXb6y2C</a>
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Washington Post Chief Communications Officer Kathy Baird confirmed to CNN that the outlet will cut positions next year. “We are planning to direct our resources and invest in coverage, products, and people in service of providing high value to our subscribers and new audiences,” she said. “As a result, a number of positions will be eliminated. We anticipate it will be a single digit percentage of our employee base, and we will finalize those plans over the coming weeks.”
The paper could even increase headcount as the company emphasizes high-growth verticals. The Washington Post Guild nevertheless <a href="https://twitter.com/PostGuild/status/1602773561353146376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lambasted</a> Ryan and other managers for dismissing features and magazine employees without offering them “jobs elsewhere in the newsroom.” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchased the outlet for $250 million in 2013 and named Ryan, a former senior adviser to the late President Ronald Reagan, as chief executive and publisher.
The Washington Post will nix its standalone Sunday print magazine this month as part of the “global and digital transformation,” according to a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/11/30/washington-post-magazine-ends/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message</a> to staffers. The 10 employees who ran the publication were told last month in a meeting that their positions had been eliminated.
Following years of profitability, The Washington Post is on track to lose money as revenue from digital advertising in the first half of the year fell to $70 million, marking a 15% decline from the same period last year, according to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/business/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos-revenue.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Times.
Entertainment and media companies have dismissed substantial portions of their payrolls in recent months as macroeconomic tensions persist. Gannett, a media conglomerate that owns more than 250 local news outlets, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/local-journalists-laid-off-as-media-conglomerate-suffers-heavy-losses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that executives would begin “necessary but painful reductions to staffing” while eliminating some open positions.
CNN CEO Christ Licht likewise <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/media/cnn-layoffs/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initiated</a> hundreds of layoffs earlier this month and ended live programming on cable channel HLN. In a memo to employees, Licht <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-chief-lets-go-of-hundreds-of-employees-at-company-guts-sister-network-hln-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the goal of the strategic review that led to the dismissals was to “better align our people, processes and resources with our future priorities, strengthen our ability to deliver on CNN’s core journalistic mission and enable us to innovate in the years ahead.”
The layoffs in the media industry occur as investors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-shares-fall-to-lowest-level-since-2016-as-company-burns-billions-on-metaverse-inflates-payrolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticize</a> large companies, especially in the technology space, for maintaining bloated payrolls. Many financiers took note as Twitter CEO Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-elon-musk-sends-blunt-message-to-3700-fired-twitter-employees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reduced</a> the social media company’s headcount by two-thirds with no salient impact on the social media platform’s performance.

WATCH: Washington Post Staffers Irate After Layoffs Announced; CEO Balks As ‘Grievance Session’ Unfolds

Washington Post Staffers Irate After Layoffs Announced

Mainstream Media

Unemployment

President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate czar <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=john+kerry+dailywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=john+kerry+dailywire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30j69i60l3j69i64l3.2392j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kerry</a> is having a tough time wrangling his Chinese counterparts to come to the table on climate change hysteria.
On Thursday, Kerry — a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jetsetter-john-kerry-asks-worlds-poorest-to-cut-back-on-oil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known jet setter</a> and Biden&#8217;s &#8220;dear friend&#8221; — blamed his recent inability to have any concrete conversation with the communist country on a recent bout of COVID.
Kerry told The Washington Post&#8217;s Sally Buzbee that it would be &#8220;great&#8221; if U.S. taxpayers could help foot the bill as a major &#8220;contributor&#8221; to climate change reparations for Third World countries. He also said that we need to &#8220;demand&#8221; nations such as China start negotiations.
When Buzbee asked whether or not China would oblige, Kerry tossed that dream up on a wing and a prayer.
&#8220;I would hope,&#8221; the typically dour-faced failed presidential candidate responded. &#8220;I would hope.&#8221;
Buzbee simply responded, &#8220;Okay.&#8221;
Perhaps Kerry realized that hope isn&#8217;t a strategy and instead offered up an excuse.
&#8220;I mean that&#8217;s — we will, you know, we&#8217;re — we picked up the conversation with China in Sharm,&#8221; Kerry said about a recent diplomatic mission to the COP27 meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in November.
Yet those communications were foiled by the Chinese Virus — as it is known outside the Beltway.
&#8220;Unfortunately, you know, I got COVID in the last few days, and we had to — we couldn&#8217;t quite finish those conversations,&#8221; he explained.
&#8220;Right,&#8221; Buzbee said.
&#8220;But we will continue,&#8221; he claimed.
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Well, The Washington Post&#8217;s audience might not realize it — but Kerry&#8217;s latest alibi is more of the same.
China has eaten his lunch ever since he stepped into his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-much-are-taxpayers-paying-climate-czar-john-kerry-he-wont-say-but-one-gop-senator-is-demanding-answers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mysterious, tax-dollar-funded office</a>.
Consider that in September 2021, Kerry flew to China to discuss potential deals regarding the climate.
As <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_us-politics_us-climate-envoy-kerry-gets-cold-shoulder-china/6219223.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> by Anders Corr, a longtime China observer and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, “the Taliban got a better reception” from the Chinese Communist party than Kerry did.
A delegation from the Islamic terrorist group met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in person during the summer of 2021.
Kerry had to meet with a CCP underling via video chat.
Corr <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_us-politics_us-climate-envoy-kerry-gets-cold-shoulder-china/6219223.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> it a &#8220;diplomatic snub&#8221; and a &#8220;joke&#8221; at the U.S.&#8217;s expense.
The comedy tour continued as China <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-approves-15-gw-new-coal-fired-power-h1-research-2022-09-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ramped up</a> its coal production capacity in 2022  — even as Kerry begged the world to heed his warnings.
Kerry&#8217;s CCP equivalent, Xie Zhenhua, doesn&#8217;t seem all that interested in Kerry&#8217;s courtship.
Here&#8217;s a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/climate/john-kerry-xie-zhenhua-cop27.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brutal assessment</a> from The New York Times of how the pair&#8217;s relationship has fared since springtime: &#8220;Mr. Kerry, who has known Mr. Xie for 20 years, has said he spent the summer and fall emailing Mr. Xie without much response.&#8221;
They did meet briefly three times while in El-Sharm, but alas, it seems that pesky COVID ruined an otherwise embarrassing display of America&#8217;s dwindling soft power over our enemies.
In the end, all America&#8217;s unelected climate envoy can do is &#8220;hope&#8221; and fret about &#8220;the survival of the planet&#8221; while lecturing the entire globe that the world &#8220;desperately needs to come together&#8221; on this issue.
Maybe if his remarks wind up shared on the Chinese-backed app TikTok, he can finally get the message across to the country he says we &#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/25/john-kerry-china-return-climate-talks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">need to get</a>&#8221; on board with the Biden administration&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meads-joe-bidens-energy-policy-is-the-embodiment-of-america-last" target="_blank" rel="noopener">green energy utopia</a> that will never come.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

John Kerry

John Kerry Blames Recent COVID Bout For Failed Climate Change Talks With China

Biden Administration

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Chinese Communist Party

Climate Change

Environment

Global Warming

Massachusetts

Former &#8220;Shark Week&#8221; host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/mike-rowes-mom-reveals-the-weirdest-thing-he-ever-sent-her-while-working-dirty-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Rowe</a> had a few thoughts about a recent Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/05/shark-week-diversity-study/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> claiming that the Discovery Channel&#8217;s regular summer event &#8220;lacks diversity&#8221; and &#8220;overrepresents men named Mike.&#8221;
Rowe, who hosted the annual week-long event in both 2006 and 2008, responded to the Post&#8217;s assertion by crowd-sourcing a response via social media. Having not yet had his coffee, he explained, he needed a little outside help.
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&#8220;Good Morning. As a white male named Mike who hosted Shark Week more than once, this headline caught my eye in The Washington Post,&#8221; Rowe began, explaining that he had come across the article while in New York City to promote another new season of the show that made him a household name: &#8220;Dirty Jobs.&#8221; The new season, he noted, is set to premiere on Discovery on Sunday at 8 p.m.
&#8220;I have not yet had my coffee, or time to formulate a cogent response, but in the course of promoting a new season of &#8216;Dirty Jobs,&#8217; (Sunday at 8pm on Discovery,) I suspect I might be asked to respond specifically to this headline,&#8221; Rowe continued, calling on his fans to make suggestions as to how he should respond.
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&#8220;If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please leave them in the comments below,&#8221; Rowe added, warning, &#8220;Unless of course, you’re a white guy named Mike. I think we’ve all heard quite enough from you …&#8221;
Rowe concluded the message with a postscript reminding fans once again about the upcoming Sunday premiere of the new season of &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221; — and then added a second postscript, musing, &#8220;Gotta wonder how former Shark Week host, Mike Tyson, is taking the news …&#8221;
During 2020&#8217;s Shark Week, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-as-people-frantically-duck-under-tables-ice-cold-mike-tyson-never-moves-when-man-pulls-a-gun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tyson</a> participated in a stunt labeled &#8220;Rumble on the Reef,&#8221; during which he placed a shark into tonic immobility by grabbing it by the nose. &#8220;I am champion of the shark!&#8221; Tyson shouted upon his success.
WATCH:
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Yet another &#8220;Mike&#8221; — history&#8217;s most decorated Olympian of all-time <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/greatest-olympian-all-time-michael-phelps-swims-michael-qazvini/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Phelps</a> — has also appeared as a part of Shark Week programming in 2017, &#8220;racing&#8221; against a great white shark.
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Today – Season 71

WaPo Claims ‘Shark Week’ Has Too Many ‘Men Named Mike’ And ‘Lacks Diversity’ – Former Host Mike Rowe Responds

WaPo Claims 'Shark Week' Has Too Many Men Named Mike' – Former Host Mike Rowe Responds

Mike Rowe

Sharks

Do you ever get the sense that the Left is trying to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-cannot-ignore-the-slippery-slope-of-minor-attracted-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">normalize pedophilia</a>?
Well, of course, you do. It&#8217;s hard not to have that impression. Liberals have gone off the rails over the past decade. Fashion brands are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-bowl-mvp-cooper-kupp-unloads-on-balenciaga-over-child-photo-shoot-scandal?utm_campaign=news&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=dwtwitter&amp;cid=news&amp;mid=t&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">releasing bondage-bound teddy bear advertisements</a> that sexualize children. Using progressive logic, if children can consent to change their gender, they can consent to a whole lot more.
It is all an entirely perverse and disordered slippery slope.
Now, we have The Washington Post writing a rave review for a play that casts pedophiles in a sympathetic light, suggesting their punishments are often too harsh.
In a column titled, &#8220;‘Downstate’ is a play about pedophiles. It’s also brilliant,&#8221; theater critic Peter Marks <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/23/downstate-bruce-norris-pedophiles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> the play for being &#8220;tough stuff, questioning how society treats those convicted of heinous acts.&#8221;
As described by Marks, Bruce Norris — the playwright behind the production — paints these child molesters in a positive light.
&#8220;He’s loaded the dice to some degree in &#8216;Downstate,&#8217; as the predators who’ve completed their prison terms are depicted not as monsters but rather as complicated, troubled souls,&#8221; Marks claims.
The play also makes a victim of one of the main characters  — a now-grown man who was molested by his instructor during a piano practice — out to be the bad guy in the story.
So why does Marks find this garbage to be so enlightening and worthy of praise?
Well, as Marks explains it&#8217;s not for everybody — especially those staunchly against pedophilia and who believe in true justice.
&#8220;Some theatergoers no doubt will resent that Norris chose to illuminate this delicate subject in a nuanced way that doesn’t jibe with their own undiluted revulsion,&#8221; Marks explains. &#8220;If you suspect you are one of these people, &#8216;Downstate&#8217; is not for you.&#8221;
Yet if you have an open mind to the topic, or whatever, then maybe this is your cup of tea.
&#8220;For many others, it will be a stunning demonstration of the power of narrative art to tackle a taboo, to compel us to look at a controversial topic from novel perspectives,&#8221; Marks said.
There is nothing to discuss — except whether or not pedophiles deserve tougher sentences such as the death penalty.
Yet that&#8217;s just it. Many on the Left want to make that viewpoint old-fashioned. There are movements to change the name of the pedophile to a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minor-attracted-person-inside-the-growing-effort-to-destigmatize-pedophilia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minor-attracted person</a>&#8221; and make it societally acceptable. This play is part of that slippery slope.
As heavyweight boxer and author Ed Latimore explained, &#8220;The fact that the play got made is already a problem.&#8221;
&#8220;Calling it &#8216;brilliant&#8217; is disgusting,&#8221; Latimore tweeted. &#8220;The part where you wanna burn it all down is when the @washingtonpos described the character of the victim as &#8216;the most disagreeable character&#8217; who is played &#8216;irritatingly well.'&#8221;
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The fact that the play got made is already a problem.
Calling it &quot;brilliant&quot; is disgusting.
The part where you wanna burn it all down is when the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> described the character of the victim as &quot;the most disagreeable character&quot; who is played &quot;irritatingly well.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Mfj47VCHs4">https://t.co/Mfj47VCHs4</a>
&mdash; Ed Latimore (@EdLatimore) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdLatimore/status/1597023103522988032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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All of this is an attempt to destigmatize pedophilia.  Norris&#8217; play wants the viewer to believe that we need to change our views on the subject.
You would only give out lighter sentences to these creeps if what you think they did is acceptable or at the very least not as bad of a crime as it&#8217;s treated now. Of course, it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s heinously evil, but some want to convince you otherwise.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Slippery Slope: Washington Post Gives Rave Review For Play About Pedophiles, Treating Them Kinder

Legacy Media

Pedophilia

More than two years after the New York Post broke the news of crack addict-turned-first son Hunter Biden’s laptop, <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/forensic-analysis-of-copy-of-hunter-biden-laptop-data-shows-no-tampering/ar-AA14nXIG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a> reported that the laptop is authentic — just days after the second election day in which it might have made a difference.
CBS said it commissioned experts at a Minneapolis-based firm called Computer Forensics Services to evaluate the hard drive. It used a variety of digital techniques, but in the end, it leaned heavily on a common-sense judgment that was available to even non-technical viewers of the laptop: &#8220;Just the sheer volume of what we&#8217;re dealing with it would be difficult, if not impossible, to fabricate,&#8221; Sean Lanterman, the company&#8217;s incident response director, told CBS.
The report was by CBS’s Catherine Herridge. Before the 2020 election, the network&#8217;s Lesley Stahl sat down with then-President Donald Trump, who asked her why she wasn’t covering the laptop. Stahl rebuked him: “Because it can&#8217;t be verified.&#8221;
But for anyone with basic computer programming knowledge, it needed to take only minutes to conclusively say that emails on the laptop are authentic. An anti-spam measure called DKIM lets the possessor of an email ask the sender’s server whether it really sent a message with the given text in order to prevent spammers from impersonating others. Your email provider likely runs this check instantaneously anytime you open an email.
The Daily Wire’s investigative unit verified the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">laptop’s emails</a> using this method, with no outside expert required. A DKIM check could not be performed for all emails for a variety of typical reasons, such as that the sender’s email client didn’t use the technology. But for the large portion in which the DKIM signature was present, it showed that they were real and unaltered.
DKIM was not present on one of the most sensational emails, which proposed earmarking 10% of the proceeds of a Chinese business venture as “held by H for the big guy.” But remarkably enough, one of the recipients of that email — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-whistleblower-tells-tucker-carlson-fbi-ghosted-him-before-2020-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tony Bobulinski</a>, a former military officer with impeccable intelligence credentials and bipartisan bona fides — confirmed that email’s authenticity in a press conference before the election.
Reporters had reason to be familiar with technology tools for verifying emails, because the same technique was used to prove the authenticity of <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2016/10/21/heres-cryptographic-proof-that-donna-brazile-is-wrong-wikileaks-emails-are-real/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee emails</a> after Democrats claimed during the 2016 election that emails published by Wikileaks might be fake. Wikileaks later incorporated DKIM results in its online tool.
The slow-walking is part of a pattern in which legacy media outlets appear to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-finally-admits-hunters-laptop-is-real-more-than-two-years-after-the-fact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adopt farcically slow timelines</a> in what is ordinarily a frenetic business when they are faced with an inconvenient truth that can’t be rebutted.
On October 14, 2020, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported on the existence of the laptop, and how it showed Hunter name-dropping his father in his lucrative international ventures. It was a classic &#8220;October surprise&#8221; that stood to roil the presidential election — if people saw it, that is. Twitter blocked the New York Post’s account, and Facebook throttled the story. On October 19, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276">Politico</a> ran a story headlined “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”
For the most part, however, major news outlets ignored the laptop. Publicly-funded NPR wrote on Twitter before the election that it was enforcing a blackout because “We don’t want to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-were-not-covering-biden-laptop-scandal-because-its-not-really-a-story-pure-distractions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waste our time</a> on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.” NPR later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-admits-major-error-after-claiming-hunter-biden-laptop-reports-discredited" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falsely reported</a> in April 2021 that the laptop&#8217;s contents had been &#8220;discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations.&#8221; It later issued a correction, saying U.S. intelligence “has not issued a statement to that effect.”
It wasn&#8217;t until March 16, 2022, that The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> casually admitted that it knew the laptop was real, writing in the 24th paragraph of a story about Hunter&#8217;s tax woes that &#8220;emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.&#8221;
As if embarrassed by its rival, weeks later on March 30, 2022, The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post</a> reported that &#8220;Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, are authentic communications,&#8221; citing &#8220;two security experts who examined the data at the request of The Washington Post.&#8221; Those security experts primarily relied on DKIM.
The Washington Post apparently felt more comfortable ignoring the reports of other outlets, which spelled out the technique on which its expert eventually relied. The <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/29/cybersecurity-expert-authenticates-hunter-biden-burisma-email/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Caller</a> on October 29, 2020, got a cybersecurity expert to say that a key email was authentic, relying on DKIM. The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9445105/What-Hunter-Biden-left-tell-memoir-revealed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a> later had an outside forensics expert authenticate the laptop, as did the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hunter-bidens-laptop-is-100-authentic-forensic-examination-concludes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a>.
Jack Maxey, a former sidekick of Steve Bannon who got a copy of the drive from Rudy Giuliani — who in turn got it from John Mac Isaac, the repairman at whose shop Hunter abandoned the machine — told The Daily Wire that he provided it to the Washington Post early on and had been pressuring them to cover it to no avail.
In September 2021, <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/09/21/double-trouble-for-biden-494411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> acknowledged that one of its reporters had authenticated key emails on the laptop by speaking with others who were parties to the correspondence, but that information was held for the reporter&#8217;s book which was published that month.
Initially, the justification for ignoring evidence of international influence-peddling was that the emails might be fake. But since corroborating them, major news outlets appear to have done little with them. With thousands of emails, texts, photos and videos raising questions about the Biden family and prominent Democrats to work with, the Post eventually settled on writing a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/look-time-tucker-carlson-asked-hunter-biden-favor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lengthy story</a> attacking Tucker Carlson as a hypocrite because the Fox News host had exchanged polite emails with Hunter when they were neighbors.
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