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After CNN’s Dana Bash interviewed Kamala Harris, which was the first formal interview Harris has done since she was installed as the Democrat candidate, Bash sat down for her own interview with Mediaite's Aidan McLaughlin on "Press Club."
And despite being from one of the most liberal news outlets in the country, Bash admitted that Harris, who her network has backed, was not prepared for the interview.
Dave Rubin plays the clip of Bash explaining how Harris dodged questions she was unprepared for.
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“The right – their problem was that you didn't necessarily, they felt, hold her down on some of her more nebulous policy positions. What would you say to that?” McLaughlin asked.
“I tried. I mean, you can’t force somebody to answer a question, and I asked to follow up. I tried to get more into the nitty-gritty and get the answer,” Bash explained.
“In my experience doing interviews, once you ask once, fine. Twice, fine. Three times, if you don’t get a clear answer, that’s kind of your answer,” she told McLaughlin.
“How persistent do you feel like you should be in these kind of interviews where you're speaking with the vice president or presidential candidate?” McLaughlin pressed.
“It totally depends on the question, on the place you are in the calendar, on the importance,” Bash said, adding, “There are a million factors.”
Dave, while he still doesn’t like Dana Bash, appreciates the flicker of honesty.
“It's nice to hear you say right there what cannot be denied, which is that they didn't answer any of the questions honestly,” he says.
To watch the footage of Bash’s interview, check out the clip above.
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The DNC, the governing body of the Democratic Party, has been dressing black voters in Ku Klux Klan hoods and robes for 60 years.
Yesterday, I ran a photoshopped image with my column of LeBron James in a hood and robe to hammer a point I made in the column about the NBA player and leftist's bigoted attitude toward black people and indifference to the murder of a white teenager, Ethan Liming.
It’s not the first time – nor will it be the last time – I have made reference to a Black KKK. My first reference was in late 2007 after the murder of NFL star Sean Taylor, who was murdered inside his home. Prosecutors charged five men – Venjah Hunte, Eric Rivera, Jason Mitchell, Charles Wardlow, and Timothy Brown – with burglarizing and murdering Taylor. Before police identified and arrested the assailants, I wrote a piece predicting that Taylor died at the hands of the Black KKK, a term I created to describe the criminal gangs of young people who terrorize black communities.
My column and use of the term “Black KKK” shocked and angered leftists. Fifteen years later, leftists are still feigning shock, anger, and disbelief that I would argue that a KKK-like pathology afflicts black people who swallow leftist ideology.
The left-wing website Mediaite acted like the LeBron photoshop was a whodunit, publishing a piece titled “For Some Reason, The Blaze Published a Photoshopped Image of LeBron as a Klansman on a Jason Whitlock Article.” John Whitehouse, a reporter for the alt-left media platform Media Matters, complained over Twitter: “The Blaze – a far-right website of Glenn Beck, Steven Crowder, Mark Levin and more – photoshopped @kingjames into a KKK hood for a column by Jason Whitlock; archived version here:”
This isn’t a whodunit. I did it. I’ve been doing it. I’ve been arguing for years that white political leftists have forced black culture and people to adopt the mindset of the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 and served as the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. It terrorized black and white people who refused to support the racist policies of the Democratic Party.
That’s not an opinion. It’s a historical fact.
There’s a myth promoted by Democrats that the party abandoned its racist policies and attitudes in the 1960s after losing the civil rights war. They did not shift their attitudes and policies. They seduced black people into adopting their anti-black attitudes and policies.
The Democratic National Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party, massaged its name without telling black people or the media. In the late 1960s, the DNC switched to standing for Dead Negroes Confederacy. The Dead Negroes Confederacy loves dead negroes. Its policies and attitude promote the deaths of negroes.
LeBron James, most celebrity influencers, John Whitehouse, the writers at Media Matters and Mediaite, Joy Reid, Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, and on and on are rewarded for advocating the policies of the Dead Negroes Confederacy.
Let’s take a quick glance at some of the DNC’s best work:
The policies and cultural norms supported by the DNC lead to death, violence, chaos, dysfunction, and hostility toward religious faith and objective truth.
As a means of paying homage to old-school Klansmen, supporters of the Dead Negroes Confederacy fight for the right of black people and black entertainers to commodify, commercialize, and cling to calling each other “n***er.”
Worse, the work of the DNC has caused black people to be totally indifferent to black violence, carnage, and dysfunction.
Three black men allegedly murdered a white teenager and honor roll student, Ethan Liming, in the parking lot of LeBron’s I Promise School. LeBron doesn’t care. The outspoken NBA star who can seemingly never hold his tongue or Twitter fingers when anyone black is harmed by a white perpetrator has failed to say or do anything of substance about the death of Ethan Liming.
James is quiet because he’s a member of the DNC’s Black KKK. The Black KKK expects young black men to act violently and criminally. The Black KKK holds black people to no standard of moral behavior. The Black KKK believes in the superiority of whiteness and white people.
That’s why the DNC and the Black KKK are outraged whenever white people fail. Expectations are a sign of respect. The Dead Negroes Confederacy and the Black KKK have no expectations for black people.
That’s why Media Matters and Mediaite want to credit TheBlaze, Glenn Beck, Steven Crowder, and Mark Levin for my work, creativity, and excellence.
Media Matters, Mediaite, John Whitehouse, and the rest of the DNC don’t believe in black excellence. I do.
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin admitted Thursday that her family strongly considered suing former President Donald Trump because members of her family died from COVID-19 complications.
While bashing Trump for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which the panel agreed was motivated by politics, co-host Joy Behar asked why Americans are not suing Trump for the deaths of their loved ones.
Shockingly, Hostin admitted that her family has, in fact, considered suing Trump.
“My family has thought about this a lot, especially because Manny’s parents died from COVID," Hostin said, referring to her husband. "And I blame the Trump administration for that."
When Behar asked Hostin, who is a lawyer, whether she can sue Trump, Hostin replied, "We’ve explored it. We’ve explored it— we’ve thought about it."
However, Hostin did not explain what liability Trump has for the death of her parents-in-law or how Trump bears responsibility for their deaths. In fact, COVID-19 is a virus that triggered a global pandemic, and is attributed to killing millions of people around the world. It is not clear how one person could be held legally liable for deaths stemming from a highly transmissible virus.
#TheView's @sunny reveals she has "explored" suing the Trump administration because her in-laws died of Covid.\n\n"I blame the Trump administration for that."pic.twitter.com/FlZDZyGc5f— Mediaite (@Mediaite) 1649345946
Hostin's admission came during a segment in which the panel discussed a recent interview between CNN+ host Chris Wallace and Dr. Anthony Fauci. In that interview, Fauci said that working with Trump administration officials during the pandemic became "untenable" and claimed they had "declared war" on him because he "kept on telling the truth."
The panel, of course, received Fauci's claims as gospel, and agreed Fauci was the Trump administration's "scapegoat."
Stephanie Grisham — who served as White House communications director and press secretary from July 2019 to April 2020 — also claimed that "a lot more lives could have been saved," claiming Trump was most concerned with the political ramifications of the pandemic.
Dr. Fauci Calls Messaging Under Trump Admin “Painful” | The View www.youtube.com
By now, you've no doubt heard about the Oscar night spectacle in which actor Will Smith marched onstage and smacked comedian Chris Rock across the face for making a joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
Content warning: Profanity:
VIA JAPANESE TELEVISION: The uncensored exchange between Will Smith and Chris Rockpic.twitter.com/j0Z184ZyXa— Timothy Burke (@Timothy Burke) 1648434735
Soon after, anyone with a platform and an opinion (which is pretty much everyone these days) was offering up their ideas on what caused Smith's explosive meltdown, and many were quick to find a way to blame, you guessed it, former President Donald Trump.
During an episode of his SiriusXM radio show, Howard Stern said he'd cracked the code on Smith's bizarre behavior:
"Will Smith and Trump are the same guy," Sherlock Stern deduced.
Content warning: Profanity:
"Will Smith and Trump are the same guy." \u2014 @HowardStern on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the #Oscars https://mediaite.com/a/ptwrx\u00a0pic.twitter.com/g3pK6P3fqt— Mediaite (@Mediaite) 1648477432
“[Smith] open-hand, with a lot of force, smacks [Rock] right in the mouth on TV,” Stern said. “Now the first thing I said to myself was ‘what the f*** is going on, is this a bit?’ Because where is security? This is a live television event. Not one person came out, because he’s Will Smith, this is how Trump gets away with sh**. Will Smith and Trump are the same guy.
He decided he’s going to take matters into his own hands, you know, at a time when the world is at war. Bad timing, man. Calm your f***ing a** down," he added.
Mediaite's tweet highlighting the segment of Stern's show got mixed reviews:
When people say TDS isn\u2019t real— Heyden (@Heyden) 1648487019
Do you think nothing would have happened had it been Ben Affleck slapping Chris Rock?!????— KT (@KT) 1648487730
If he means that we as human beings, since around 2016 coincidentally or not, have lost all dignity about ourselves, have lost the ability to turn the other cheek, and have lost all control of impulse in the face of criticism or words we don\u2019t like, then he\u2019s absolutely right.— Jeremy Swank (@Jeremy Swank) 1648483935
I used to like Howard, he's turned into a real piece of poop. Don't you dare compare the two. When did Trump raise his hand and they were constantly making fun of his wife. Smith only thinks of violence to solve problems.— Jewel (@Jewel) 1648477184
This happens when they can get over Trump! Everything in their little minds has to include Trump. \n\nTDS is a serious condition!— CYNDI (@CYNDI) 1648477936
For the second time in the past two weeks, liberal Jon Stewart defended Joe Rogan. In his latest defense of Rogan, Stewart highlighted a major news narrative that the corporate media previously got incorrect, while simply wondering who gets to decide what is misinformation.
Legacy media pundits and musician Neil Young have accused Rogan of spreading COVID-19 pandemic misinformation, which the prolific podcaster has refuted.
During a recent episode of "The Problem with Jon Stewart" podcast, the former host of the "Daily Show" warned of "shifting sands" when reporting ever-changing news. Stewart rehashed how legacy media pushed the "weapons of mass destruction" narrative in the early 2000s that led up to the Iraq War. In 2005, the CIA's top weapons inspector in Iraq declared that Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction – which the premise was used to justify the 2003 invasion.
"In the Iraq War, I was on the side of what you would think on the mainstream is misinformation," Stewart said. "I was promoting what they would call misinformation."
"But it turned out to be right years later and the establishment media was wrong," he continued. "And not only were they wrong, in some respects, you could make the case that they enabled a war that killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people and never paid a price for it and never had accountability. And just having an ombudsman print a retraction to me isn't accountability."
"The New York Times,right, was a giant purveyor of misinformation, and disinformation," Stewart recalled. "I don't know if the Times was purposeful, but misinformation. And that’s as vaunted a media organization as you can find, but there was no accountability for them."
"And I think where I get nervous is in the run-up to the Iraq War and in the prosecution of the Iraq War, I was very vocal … about that. But the mainstream view, the New York Times, was, ‘They have weapons of mass destruction, they have these tubes that can only be used for nuclear war, Saddam Hussein is this, he's that.'"
Stewart notes that his beliefs weren't labeled as "misinformation" at the time and wasn't censored by Comedy Central or Viacom when he railed against the popular legacy media narrative regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"So it's very easy to attack Rogan … and I'm not saying that that's not your right and that there aren't things there to talk about, but what I'm saying is let's be careful because the sands can shift," Stewart added.
"These are shifting sands." Jon Stewart makes such an excellent point here on Joe Rogan flap, one of the most important. "Who gets to decide" what's considered "misinformation."\n(Full clip: https://mediaite.com/a/lyvse\u00a0) via @mediaite @leia_idlibypic.twitter.com/pHiuAGxDrA— Caleb Howe (@Caleb Howe) 1644525765
Earlier this month, Stewart defended Rogan.
"Don't leave, don't abandon, don't censor, engage," Stewart advised critics of "The Joe Rogan Experience" host. He emphasized, "Someone like a Joe Rogan who is not, in my mind, an ideologue in any way," is a "person that you can engage with."
Another person who pointed out that the legacy media has been "so catastrophically wrong about so many important things" is political commentator Dave Smith.
In a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" featuring Smith, he listed all the "lies" that the mainstream media propagated in the past 20 years, including weapons of mass destruction.
"These are lies where hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of the lies," Smith said. "So not just spreading misinformation, misinformation with catastrophic consequences where real human beings have had their lives ruined."
The libertarian podcaster also noted that the corporate media spreads misinformation about Rogan, making a reference to CNN repeatedly claiming that Rogan used "horse dewormer" to treat COVID-19.
I think this was my favorite part of the episode.https://twitter.com/illinoisexposed/status/1492283953373495303\u00a0\u2026— Dave Smith (@Dave Smith) 1644623741
Kyle Rittenhouse began sobbing uncontrollably while testifying at his own trial Wednesday morning. The Illinois teenager became so exasperated that Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Bruce Schroeder decided to call for a short break so that the defendant could gather his emotions.
Rittenhouse was describing the moments before firing the shots that killed Joseph Rosenbaum the night of Aug. 25, 2020, when the emotional breakdown occurred.
The teenager is facing multiple felony murder charges for fatally shooting two men and wounding another during Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer. But during his testimony Wednesday, Rittenhouse argued that he was present at the riots only to help people, not to seek violence.
Seconds before breaking down in tears, he described being "cornered" by Rosenbaum and another individual and saying, "that's when I [ran]."
WATCH: The judge calls for a 10-minute break after Kyle Rittenhouse breaks down and begins to hyperventilate on the stand while describing the events leading up to the fatal August 2020 shooting.pic.twitter.com/2GACgCEdvc
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Upon returning from the short break and gathering himself, Rittenhouse resumed his retelling of events, informing the jury that he heard another individual, identified as Joshua Ziminski, tell Rosenbaum to "get him and kill him."
Rittenhouse then testified being chased by Rosenbaum, who soon caught up to him and at one point, according to Rittenhouse, "put his hand on the barrel of my gun." He testified that he heard a gunshot go off behind him and that Rosenbaum lunged at him, prompting him to fire four times.
Rittenhouse had recalled earlier in his testimony that at two previous points during the night of Aug. 25, Rosenbaum had threatened to kill him.
After firing the shots, Rittenhouse testified that he briefly attempted to treat Rosenbaum's wounds but was forced to flee the area as a "mob" pursued him. As he allegedly ran to turn himself into police, he said, "The next thing I remember is Anthony Huber striking me in the head with a skateboard."
Soon after, Rittenhouse said, he fell while running away from the crowd. While on his back, someone allegedly kicked him in the head and Huber proceeded to hit him a second time with a skateboard and attempt to grab his gun — at which point Rittenhouse said he fired one shot.
Moments later, Rittenhouse recalled that Gaige Grosskreutz lunged at him with his pistol drawn, prompting the defendant to fire at Grosskreutz, striking him in the arm. Grosskreutz, who survived the gunshot, testified on Monday that he pointed a gun at Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse fired at him.
Video footage of the incidents seen by the public appears to back up Rittenhouse's testimony. His legal team has argued that their client's actions that night, though tragic, were taken in self-defense.
In addition to facing examination by his own defense team, Rittenhouse is set to face cross-examination by the prosecution Wednesday afternoon.
President Joe Biden lashed out at a female reporter Monday over a basic question about whether the Department of Veterans Affairs will require its staff to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
While meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in the Oval Office, Biden demanded that reporters ask questions only related to the withdrawal of American troops from combat in Iraq, which Biden announced Monday.
However, NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell skirted that demand — and Biden chided her in front of everyone.
"Mr. President, Veterans Affairs is going to have a mandate for its health care—" O'Donnell asked before Biden interrupted her.
"You are such a pain in the neck, but I'm going to answer your question because we've known each other so long. It has nothing to do with Iraq," Biden interrupted, rebuking the question. "Yes, Veteran Affairs is going to, in fact, require that all doctors working in their facilities are gonna have to be vaccinated."
"You are such a pain in the neck, but I'm going to answer your question," President Biden said to a reporter while… https://t.co/mvdLLmGceU
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) 1627325203.0
O'Donnell was recently elected president of the White House Correspondents' Association, so she is well-respected among her peers.
Journalists quickly noted that Biden's biting response to O'Donnell is not the first time he has publicly chided a prominent female reporter.
Glenn Greenwald, for example, highlighted an incident last month in which Biden rebuked CNN's Kaitlan Collins, who questioned Biden about Russian President Vladimir Putin following a meeting between the two.
"Why are you so confident he'll change his behavior, Mr. President?" Collins asked, referring to Putin.
"I'm not confident he'll change his behavior...where the hell— what do you do all the time?" Biden screamed. "When did I say I was confident?"
When Collins questioned how Biden could describe his meeting with Putin as "constructive," considering Putin refuses to acknowledge human rights abuses or cyberattacks against the U.S., Biden chided again, "If you don't understand that, you are in the wrong business."
'What the hell': Biden snaps at CNN reporter www.youtube.com
"A President inciting violence against journalists with language like this is never acceptable. And one can't help but notice that this is the second time Biden has lashed out so insultingly and aggressively against a woman doing her job as a reporter," Greenwald said. "In journalism we call this a 'pattern.'"
Others noted that former President Donald Trump was literally accused of subverting democracy when he criticized media.
"[W]hy is Biden attacking our democracy?" Siraj Hashmi mocked.
"We must not allow this attack on a free press….does Joe Biden not know the sacrifices these people make every day?!?" Richard Grenell said.