Larry Elder FURIOUS that Fox News and RNC allow THIS, but keep him off presidential debate stage
Beloved conservative Larry Elder is in the running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination but isn’t being allowed to participate in the debates.
“I’ve met the 40,000 individual donor criteria. In fact, I’ve got to have 200 donors from 20 different states. I’ve exceeded that,” Elder tells Glenn Beck.
“The problem is the last one, which is I’ve got to have three national polls where Elder is at least 1% among Republican and Republican-leaning voters. I submitted three,” he continues, but adds that “they rejected one: the Rasmussen poll.”
He was told that poll was “affiliated with Donald Trump” and therefore would not be considered.
Elder says he was also told that any poll affiliated with any candidate is not usable.
“I said, the same Rasmussen that you quote all the time on your Twitter feed? The same Rasmussen that was the most accurate in 2016? And they said, 'Yes,'" Elder adds.
While Elder was unhappy with that decision, he turned in one more poll in which he was above 1% — but it was turned in after the deadline.
“I didn’t realize they were going to reject one of the ones that I turned in, so as far as I’m concerned, all the criteria have been met,” Elder says.
Elder’s lawyer says the RNC and Fox News could be facing a fine of up to $100 million for that decision.
“What I think, Glenn, is they don’t like Larry Elder because I make them feel uncomfortable. I talk about the lie that America’s systemically racist — a lie that Democrats have been using against Republicans time and time again,” he says.
“I think I make them feel uncomfortable because I know the number one social problem in the country is not the epidemic of COVID but the epidemic of fatherlessness. 70% of black kids [come] into the world without a father in the home married to the mother, up from 25% back in 1965. They don’t want to hear about that because they’re definitely afraid of being called a racist,” Elder continues.
“Nothing scares a Republican establishment guy more than being called a racist by the left.”
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Videos of middle schoolers fighting in class while teacher is present spur outrage. She responds, 'What do you want me to do? ... Those kids are bigger than me.'
Videos of students fighting in a Georgia middle school classroom while a teacher is present have resulted in calls to fire the teacher — but she responded to WSB-TV about the issue and said, "What do you want me to do? ... Those kids are bigger than me."
What are the details?
WSB published a story about the issue last week, showing cellphone videos appearing to depict students fighting each other in a Rex Mill Middle School classroom in Clayton County.
The station said in one video the teacher breaks up a fight — but in another sits back at her desk. WSB said there were claims that the teacher encouraged students to fight.
The station added that in one of the dozen videos it obtained, the teacher appears to ask, “Do you know how to slap box?” WSB noted that other students can be seen in the background standing on chairs and desks to record the fights.
\u201cA Clayton County middle school teacher is coming under fire after videos surfaced that appeared to show her allowing students to fight one another as she watched.\n@wsbtv\u201d— Larry Spruill Jr (@Larry Spruill Jr) 1679757634
But the teacher told the station in a follow-up story she isn't encouraging fighting.
When a WSB reporter asked the teacher in question, Janette Bagtas, if she encouraged the fighting, Bagtas replied, “No, ma’am, not by any means am I encouraging.”
Bagtas — a mother of two who has taught sixth through eighth grade at Rex Mill for seven years — added to the station that fighting is what students chose to play during classroom free time. She added to WSB that free time is known as incentive time in the district.
What's more, Bagtas told the station that the videos leave out when she presses a security button for help.
“We tell them to stop, we push the button,” Bagtas explained to WSB, adding that's all she's required to do.
“What do you want me to do? I’m asking them. I’m asking everybody. What do you want me to do? What more can I do?” Bagtas asked the station. “Those kids are bigger than me. I’ve been hit; I was hit in the shoulder twice.”
Parent Tatiana Couben told WSB her child is a Rex Mill student and that the videos are greatly disturbing: "Every kid in those videos ... they were African-American, young black men. That’s a double not okay. They can’t think that behavior is okay."
What did the school district have to say?
Reynard Walker, Clayton County Public Schools chief of police, told WSB when a teacher or staff member presses the Centegix CrisisAlert button three times, the school resource officer is alerted.
Walker — who added to the station that Rex Mill Middle School has only one school resource officer — said that if the system appears to be malfunctioning or if the officer isn't responding, the teacher can use the classroom's phone to talk to the front office or another teacher.
A district spokesperson released a statement about the security button protocol, WSB reported:
Clayton County Public Schools continues to prioritize the safety of all staff and students. To this end, the district began utilizing the Centegix Alert System during the 2019-2020 School Year. While the investigation into this matter is ongoing, the district is not aware of any reports of these alert buttons not functioning as intended.
'Never again'
Clayton County Public Schools told the station the Bagtas investigation is ongoing — but she added to WSB that she has no plans to teach ever again.
“Never again. Never again. Never again," she emphasized to the station. "I can’t even say it enough."
CNN's Don Lemon defends media bias: 'If we don’t we are not doing our jobs'
Last month, CNN's new chairman and CEO Chris Licht said he wanted to see less partisan opinion and more objective journalism from show hosts in an effort to jumpstart the failing cable news network.
But CNN primetime anchor Don Lemon said he just wouldn't be doing his job if he treated Democrats and Republicans the same, after all, the GOP is really "very dangerous."
“Speaking very soberly about the realities of America and American politics right now — we sit around and we talk about these things and we want to give this false equivalence to Democrats and Republicans. That is not where we are right now. Republicans are doing something that is very dangerous to our society and we have to acknowledge that. We have to acknowledge that as Americans. We must acknowledge that as journalists because if we don’t we are not doing our jobs," Lemon told "New Day" hosts John Berman and Brianna Keilar.
\u201cThe real shocker here is that Don Lemon thinks CNN and other news networks currently cover Republicans and Democrats fairly and equally. \n\n"We \u2014 we want to give this false equivalence to Democrats and Republicans."\n \nHe's either a liar or an imbecile.\u201d— Larry O'Connor (@Larry O'Connor) 1657854895
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'More and more people are encouraging me to consider' a presidential bid, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told CBS News that "More and more people are encouraging" him to contemplate a White House bid.
"More and more people are encouraging me to consider it," the governor said, according to CBS News. "There's a diminishing number of folks that are wanting the former President Trump to run. There's a growing number of people that are looking for our kind of successful, bigger-tent politics."
Hogan is a Republican who entered office in 2015, won re-election in 2018, and will leave office in early January 2023.
"Great crowd tonight for our @NoLabelsOrg event at the Puritan Backroom in Manchester to kick off our New Hampshire visit. Americans are fed up with politics-as-usual and want to move in a different direction," Hogan tweeted on Monday.
"Enjoyed meeting with the New Hampshire Investment Board of Realtors to hear about the challenges they’re facing in this economy and discuss how we can get the national inflation crisis under control," he tweeted on Tuesday.
\u201cEnjoyed meeting with the New Hampshire Investment Board of Realtors to hear about the challenges they\u2019re facing in this economy and discuss how we can get the national inflation crisis under control.\u201d— Larry Hogan (@Larry Hogan) 1657633200
Hogan told Fox News that his decision about whether to run for president will be based on if he sees a path to win — he said that he will not "go on a wild goose chase or a suicide mission."
Former President Donald Trump is widely expected to run for president again, so if Hogan decides to launch a White House bid, he would likely need to defeat Trump in order to secure the GOP nomination.
During an appearance on "Meet the Press," Hogan said that he is "hopeful" that Trump will not run and that Trump will not become the Republican nominee in the event that he does run again.
Billionaire Elon Musk opined in a tweet on Monday that if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and President Joe Biden were to face off in 2024, DeSantis would "easily win" and would not "even need to campaign."
Biden has indicated that he plans to run again as long as he has "good health."
DeSantis has not announced a presidential bid, but is seeking re-election this year in Florida's gubernatorial contest.
\u201c@adamirvinmusic @BreitbartNews Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America.\n\nIf DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win \u2013 he doesn\u2019t even need to campaign.\u201d— Breitbart News (@Breitbart News) 1657555678
'Detestable': Critics pummel Biden for racing to visit Buffalo in massacre aftermath despite still refusing to visit Waukesha
President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he and first lady Jill Biden would be traveling to Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to grieve with the community following the horrific race-based massacre there that took the lives of ten and injured three others.
At a Tops supermarket in the city Saturday afternoon, the suspected gunman, 18-year-old Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York, opened fire on the store's mostly black clientele, killing several in the parking lot before entering the store and continuing the violent rampage.
Gendron reportedly told police that he had been planning a violent attack on the black community and has allegedly espoused white supremacist and fascist views online.
Jill and I will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday to grieve with the community that lost ten lives in a senseless and horrific mass shooting.— President Biden (@President Biden) 1652662465
The vile attack has set the community and the country reeling. After such tragedies, a presidential visit is often a source of comfort and healing. As such, no one appears to be suggesting that Biden should not visit Buffalo.
But critics were quick to point out that Biden's prompt visit to the city reeks of political bias, especially since the president has yet to pay a visit to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where another mass-casualty attack took place late last year.
In that incident, a black convict recently released from jail on questionable terms, Darrell Brooks Jr., allegedly drove his car into a crowd of mostly white people at a Christmas parade, killing six and injuring more than 60 others.
It just so happens that the massacre in Buffalo — in which a white man killed innocent black people using guns — fits Biden's political narrative, while the heinous attack in Waukesha did not, the critics suggested.
In the aftermath of the Waukesha massacre, the White House defended Biden's decision not to personally visit the city by arguing that sending the president to a community "requires a lot of assets." Apparently, plentiful assets are not such an impediment this time.
Daily Wire contributor Matt Walsh called Biden's refusal to visit Waukesha "beyond vile" in light of his speedy visit to Buffalo.
We're used to Democrats being detestable pigs of course but it is just beyond vile that Biden never visited Waukesha. He's running up to Buffalo immediately but he never made a personal appearance in Waukesha because the victims were white.— Matt Walsh (@Matt Walsh) 1652670215
When a black supremacist committed a massacre at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, the President of the United States refused to visit the victims. Nearly a month after the attack, he sent his wife for a photo op. \n\nBiden will be in Buffalo personally on Tuesday.— Matt Walsh (@Matt Walsh) 1652671162
Larry Elder and RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway also made note of the president's apparent bias. As did Todd Starnes.
MEDIA BIAS\n\n11/21/21: Black man drives through Waukesha Christmas parade, kills 6, injures 62. Facebook posts praised Hitler, supported BLM and called for violence against whites\n\n5/14/22: White man in a Buffalo supermarket shoots and kills 10, injures 3. Posted racist manifestopic.twitter.com/Y25IyWqTmq— Larry Elder (@Larry Elder) 1652610820
Remember how six people were killed and 62 injured in Waukesha and Biden wouldn\u2019t visit because politics? Good times.https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1525974074584977409\u00a0\u2026— Mark Hemingway (@Mark Hemingway) 1652656641
JUST IN: President Biden will visit Buffalo on Tuesday. There's no word yet on when he will visit Waukesha, WI or Orange County, CA or Brooklyn, NY.— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) 1652655059
Conservative commenter Candace Owens, too, joined the chorus of those criticizing the president and the media, saying, "Both acts are heinous but they will not earn equal coverage in the media ... they will elevate the Buffalo shooting because white crimes vs. black victims [are] preferred."
Both acts are heinous but they will not earn equal coverage in the media. \nOur dishonest, race-obsessed media should be blamed for BOTH of these massacres.\nThey will elevate the Buffalo shooting because white crimes vs. black victims is preferred. \n\nThe cycle of hatred continues.— Candace Owens (@Candace Owens) 1652628070
Others on Twitter called Biden's actions "disgusting" and claimed that he is only visiting Buffalo because he believes an appearance there can be "politically advantageous."
Conservative journalist says she was fired by DC talk radio station over 'racist' joke about Kamala Harris' SOTU outfit
A D.C.-based conservative journalist says she was a victim of censorship after she was fired by the talk radio station WMAL-FM for a joke she made about Vice President Kamala Harris.
Amber Athey, the Washington editor for The Spectator magazine, wrote on Monday that the conservative-leaning radio station, which is owned by Cumulus Media, fired her from the "O’Connor & Company" morning radio program for violating the company's social media policy with a "racist" tweet.
"About a month ago today, I posted a tweet during the State of the Union address poking fun at Vice President Kamala Harris’s outfit," Athey recounts in her article. "Harris wore a chocolate brown business suit that was panned on social media — some users compared her to a Hershey’s chocolate bar, while others wondered why she wore the same color as her chair. I went for a UPS joke, featuring the company’s now retired slogan."
The joke was, "Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently.”
Kamala looks like a UPS employee \u2014 what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently.— Amber Athey (@Amber Athey) 1646188823
The line "what can brown do for you" is a reference to an old UPS slogan. In 2010, the company replaced that slogan in favor of, "We (heart) Logistics."
But left wing agitators on Twitter mischaracterized her joke as a racist attack on Harris, who is of black and Indian descent.
"No one had a problem with the tweet until a few days later, when I spoke critically of protests in favor of 'trans kids' at the University of North Texas," Athey writes. "A group of maniacal left-wing activists who want to chemically castrate children in the name of 'gender affirmation' came after me. All of a sudden, the Kamala tweet was being re-framed as racist and dozens of Twitter accounts were bragging about contacting my employers about my 'bigotry.'"
Oh my well now we're just telling on ourselves now aren't we Amberpic.twitter.com/BrxV6KIqRT— steven monacelli (@steven monacelli) 1646456052
She says that members of the online outrage mob tried to cancel her by contacting her employers at The Spectator. While the magazine "laughed at and promptly deleted the angry emails about my Kamala Tweet," the top brass at Cumulus Media took issue with her tweet.
This guy asking my publication to fire me claims he is a subscriber but neither his name nor email show up in our subscriber database. Try harder, KHIVE. \n\nBtw, if you want your emails to my employer to carry more weight, you can subscribe first with the promo code AMBER pic.twitter.com/inkbXCkg3W— Amber Athey (@Amber Athey) 1646510890
Athey had been hired as one of three female co-hosts of "O'Connor & Company" in the fall. On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 9, she says she was contacted by Jeff Boden, the vice president of Cumulus Washington, D.C, and Kriston Fancellas, the vice president of Human Resources about her social media post.
"They told me that the tweet I sent about Kamala was 'racist' and that subsequent follow-ups defending myself and making fun of the efforts to cancel me were unacceptable. I had violated the company’s social media policy, they said, and I was terminated effective immediately," Athey writes.
"They did not have the courtesy to offer me an opportunity to defend myself, nor did they speak to anyone at the program before handing down their decision," she added.
Athey says that during multiple attempts to appeal her employer's decision, "company officials admitted that the perception of racism was more important than whether or not my tweet was actually racist." Her appeals were unsuccessful.
She also accused WMAL of continuing to use her image and bio on its website and social media channels to promote their paid programming, even though she was fired.
"I am racist enough not to be paid, but not so racist that my likeness cannot be affiliated with the station, apparently," she writes.
She says that she wanted her job back, but now feels "obligated" to speak out about how she was censored.
"This incident has destroyed the integrity and reputation of WMAL and Cumulus as hosts of conservative content. We spoke frequently about the dangers of censorship and cancel culture on our program, and yet here they are bowing to the mob. If I can be fired for making fun of the vice president’s outfit, every single host on a Cumulus station is in danger of losing their job at a moment’s notice. Political commentary is worthless if it can’t be used to speak truth to those in power without fear of professional consequences."
Since publishing her article, Athey tweeted that WMAL and Cumulus are "doing damage control" and have removed her image from their social media pages and websites.
.@wmaldc @CumulusMedia are doing damage control & have removed my image from their social media and show website. Doesn\u2019t change that what they did to me was wrong and unjust. \n\nAnyway, excited to be on @Timcast tonight. \n\nThanks to everyone for your support. It\u2019s been amazing.— Amber Athey (@Amber Athey) 1649096887
Larry O'Connor, Athey's former co-host, said Monday that he has "been fighting all month" to get her back on the air and that he "will continue to do whatever I can."
"I still hope that [Cumulus Media] will do the right thing," he said.
I have been fighting all month to get @amber_athey back on O'Connor and Company and I will continue to do whatever I can. We assembled a great broadcast team.\n\nI still have hope that @CumulusMedia will do the right thing.pic.twitter.com/X8POy2hswD— Larry O'Connor (@Larry O'Connor) 1649094390
Cumulus Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink just revealed his plan to 'FORCE behaviors'
Surely by now you’ve heard of BlackRock, the largest money management company on the planet, that is spearheading ESG scores and driving up the price of homes in the U.S.
And even though the firm has $10 trillion in assets under its management, Larry Fink, the chairman and CEO, isn’t satisfied.
He also needs to control you.
Here are a few things Mr. Fink said at a recent conference:
“Behaviors are going to have to change.”
“You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors.”
“If you don’t achieve these levels of impact, your compensation could be impacted.”
Pat Gray is outraged by the flagrant overreach.
“Force is the plan of Satan,” he says. “It is the opposite of God's plan for us, and it's the opposite of everything this nation was founded on and stands for.”
“We gotta stand up to this ESG situation, this diversity and equity garbage,” he continues.
“BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street – I mean, those are the companies that … run the show,” adds Keith Malinak.
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