Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> was criticized online after the Democratic Party posted a video of her on Tuesday evening that many on social media said showed what appeared to be her in an inebriated state.
&#8220;I just have to remind you, don&#8217;t you ever let anybody take your power from you,&#8221; Harris said in a video address to her supporters.
&#8220;You have the same power that you did before November 5th and you have the same purpose that you did and you have the same ability to engage and inspire,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So don&#8217;t ever let anybody or circumstance take your power from you.&#8221;
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Vice President <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KamalaHarris</a>’ message to supporters. <a href="https://t.co/x5xMUGTtkz">pic.twitter.com/x5xMUGTtkz</a>
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDemocrats/status/1861550359161745529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
Thousands of users on X speculated that Harris had been drinking based on the way she appeared while making the remarks.
&#8220;Honestly I saw a lot of the chatter about Kamala and alcohol over the last year and didn’t pay much mind but … wow yeah she’s wasted,&#8221; said author Bethany S. Mandel. &#8220;I understand that whoever did this did it as revenge. But here’s what I take from it: She’s got a problem. And Democrats knew it and put her up anyway. Just like they knew that Biden had a problem and covered it up. They created a trust deficit that will take years to regain.&#8221;
Trump adviser Tim Murtaugh posted on X: &#8220;Take some time to reflect on the fact that they posted this on purpose.&#8221;
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&#8220;She’s totally hosed,&#8221; said political commentator Jack Posobiec.
&#8220;I’m not sure you guys want to be amplifying this,&#8221; said media analyst Joe Concha. &#8220;There’s something, ummmm, off with the vice president.&#8221;
&#8220;She looks like she just got back from a three week bender,&#8221; said journalist Jordan Schachtel.
&#8220;She looks, and sounds, smashed,&#8221; said writer John Podhoretz. &#8220;And you know it.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-addresses-supporters-says-nothing-leaves-them-feeling-even-more-deflated">Kamala Addresses Supporters, Says Nothing, Leaves Them Feeling Even More Deflated</a>

Vice President Kamala Harris hold a campaign rally in North Las Vegas

Internet Unloads On Kamala After New Video: ‘She Looks And Sounds Smashed’

Joe Biden

Kamala Harris

Media

Politics

Social Media

Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> reportedly shelled out major donations — totaling half a million dollars — to a non-profit connected to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton prior to her interview with him.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reported on Tuesday that the Harris campaign shelled out two six-figure donations — $250,000 on September 5 and another $250,000 on October 1 — to Sharpton’s National Action Network. Just two days after the second donation went through, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him a happy birthday — and on October 20, MSNBC aired a very friendly interview of Harris conducted by Sharpton.
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EXCLUSIVE <a href="https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FreeBeacon</a>: 
Kamala Harris campaign gave $500k to Al Sharpton&#39;s nonprofit just before a glowing interview with the MSNBC host. 
The remittance to Rev. Al part of $5.4 million that Harris gave to black and Latino groups. <a href="https://t.co/tZfhxfQKun">https://t.co/tZfhxfQKun</a>
&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1856405851893899535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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According to Ross’ reporting, neither Harris nor Sharpton told MSNBC that the donations had been made.
Harris has faced scrutiny over finances since the campaign ended with her team over $20 million in debt even after raising well over $1 billion in just three months. Payments to celebrities for concerts and appearances at rallies have been questioned, including over $1 million paid to former talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s production team and a six-figure rebuild of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast set so that she could give the interview from Washington, D.C.
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Other major expenditures included hundreds of thousands for private air travel, along with six-figure donations to minority groups with whom she was struggling to make headway.
According to the Free Beacon’s report:
<blockquote>Team Harris donated to the National Urban League ($2 million), the Black Economic Alliance ($150,000), and Black Church PAC ($150,000). The campaign gave donations to lesser-known groups like the Haitian Ladies Fund ($30,000) and International Free and Accepted Modern Masons ($150,000), a black freemasons organization, according to <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00703975&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024&amp;min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&amp;max_date=12%2F31%2F2024&amp;disbursement_description=contribution&amp;disbursement_description=donation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign finance disclosures</a>.  The Black Economic Alliance <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/01/black-business-leaders-make-a-final-push-for-harris-economic-plans-to-black-men-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> a video call for 5,000 attendees days before the election to urge black men to vote for Harris. Vote to Live Action Fund, which received $275,000 from the Harris campaign, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/harris-supporting-group-launches-4m-effort-mobilize-black-male-voters-rcna174414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a $4 million initiative in October to pressure black men to vote. Harris spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an initiative to appeal to black church voters. Two of the organizations, Black Church PAC and the Institute of Church Administration and Management ($250,000), are linked to Frederick Haynes, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/kamalas-criminal-justice-reform-comrade-accused-israel-and-america-of-apartheid-in-fiery-sermon-after-hamas-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an anti-Israel pastor</a> who has worked with Harris for years on liberal causes.</blockquote>
Despite the lingering questions surrounding the Harris campaign’s spending habits, the VP has reportedly suggested that she would be open to running again in 2028 — either for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination or for governor of her home state of California.

Al Sharpton

Kamala Paid Sharpton Group $500K Before Campaign Interview — Neither Told MSNBC

2024 Election

Elections

The liberal cohosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; struggled to keep it together after special prosecutor Jack Smith filed to drop his ongoing cases against President-elect Donald Trump — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-chutkan-dismisses-federal-election-charges-against-trump">Judge Tanya Chutkan</a> signed off on one of his requests.
Cohost Joy Behar addressed the issue during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show, where she argued that the end of the lawfare proved that &#8220;karma&#8221; against Trump was non-existent.
&#8220;After all that time and money, are we gonna get a rebate?&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg asked of the now-wasted efforts to go after Trump. &#8220;We&#8217;re not getting any money back on that? Okay, well, what do you think of that?&#8221;
&#8220;It kind of shows that there&#8217;s no such thing as karma, doesn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the Easter Bunny and affordable housing, it doesn&#8217;t exist. I mean, I feel like — eventually, I think we will get him out. But it&#8217;s going to take a while and let&#8217;s hope there&#8217;s not too much damage that he does.&#8221;
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Behar did not elaborate on what she meant when she said someone would &#8220;get him out,&#8221; but instead went on to jab at the American people for not listening to Vice President Kamala Harris when she promised to help people afford houses.
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Behar demands Republicans &quot;step up&quot; to oppose Trump&#39;s agenda despite the public&#39;s mandate to him. Specifically, she hopes that Republicans step up to stop Trump from allowing dengue fever to sweep across the country. <a href="https://t.co/FSrIn729VK">pic.twitter.com/FSrIn729VK</a>
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Behar then argued that it would be up to Republicans in Congress — many of whom won their seats on their promise to help Trump implement his agenda — to &#8220;step up&#8221; and help Democrats stop Trump from implementing his agenda.
&#8220;I also think even though everybody&#8217;s been talking about how awful these picks are for the Cabinet, I feel like some of the Republicans in Congress are going to have to step up,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;Especially when you have somebody like Robert Kennedy Jr. — you sent me a thing the other day that said that Dengue Fever is on the rise, ok? I don&#8217;t think these Republicans want to get Dengue Fever. I don&#8217;t think that they want to get COVID. I don&#8217;t think that they want their kids to not get the polio shot.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe they will step up because it will affect them,&#8221; she said.
Kennedy Jr., whose platform as an independent presidential candidate was Make America Healthy Again, has long said that he does not oppose vaccines on principle — he simply opposes vaccines that have not been through thorough and rigorous testing and does not believe that they should be mandated.

ABC’s “The View” – Season 25

‘The View’ Hosts Struggle To Cope As Anti-Trump Lawfare Efforts Evaporate

'The View' Hosts Struggle To Cope As Anti-Trump Lawfare Efforts Evaporate

Donald Trump

Jack Smith

Joy Behar

The View

Former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge revealed just a taste of what her former network had on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> and his father, President Joe Biden, prior to the 2022 midterm elections — and she said that much of the information was either reported after an intentional delay or scrapped altogether.
Herridge, who left Fox News for CBS in 2019 and was subsequently let go by CBS in early 2024, had done some serious digging on the Bidens and specifically on the now-infamous laptop that Hunter left behind at a Delaware repair shop — but much of what she found she now says that CBS would not let her report.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Untold Story Of The Hunter Biden Reporting At CBS, “I wanted the cleanest copy of the laptop data, the same data that was provided to the FBI…”
The full +22 minute video goes in depth on the controversy surrounding my investigation starting in October 2020.… <a href="https://t.co/58stp0oNXi">pic.twitter.com/58stp0oNXi</a>
&mdash; Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) <a href="https://twitter.com/C__Herridge/status/1861440661930553503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Herridge explained in a brief video posted to X on Monday that her first goal had been to get as close to the primary source as humanly possible. &#8220;I wanted the cleanest copy of the laptop data, the same data that was provided to the FBI,&#8221; she said.
She went on to say that CBS had finally allowed a story verifying that the laptop was real and the data on it had not been manipulated — but that the network had not wanted to go ahead with the story prior to the 2022 midterm elections even though she had it ready to go.
&#8220;When we did the story, we did it after the midterms. I argued against that because it was ready before the midterms,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My training is that you should always do the story when it&#8217;s ready to go, you should not be dictated by the political cycle.&#8221;
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Herridge then detailed a few other items of interest she&#8217;d found while studying the laptop data — and said that CBS had been uninterested in pursuing the leads she presented.
&#8220;For example, in the text messages, there&#8217;s unfortunately the use of the &#8216;N-word,&#8217; the liberal use of the &#8216;N-word.&#8217; And I thought this was worth another story but I was told that it&#8217;s not something that interested CBS News,&#8221; she said.
Herridge also noted that during a forensic review of the laptop, she&#8217;d found &#8220;half a dozen emails that were likely used by Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;I thought that was a story,&#8221; she said, but CBS was unwilling to move on that without the contents of those emails — which could have taken years to get.
&#8220;There were a lot of reasons I was told not to do it, not to pursue it,&#8221; she concluded.

Joe Biden and Hunter Biden

Here’s A Taste Of What CBS News Had On The Bidens — And Delayed Or Didn’t Report At All

Here's A Taste Of What CBS News Had On The Bidens — And Delayed Or Didn't Report At All

2022 Midterms

CBS News

Hunter Biden

Journalism

A CNN panel went sideways in a hurry when Republican commentator Scott Jennings pushed back on suggestions from a fellow panelist that X — now owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk — should be more strictly &#8220;regulated.&#8221;
The dustup began with complaints about the fact that Musk owns the social media platform and also has developed a close working relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, something that some on the panel found concerning.
&#8220;No one’s regulating the n-word, no one’s regulating the criticism, no one is regulating how people are treated,&#8221; former ESPN host  Cari Champion said, arguing in favor of increased regulation of the platform.
&#8220;How much government regulation of the First Amendment are you for?&#8221; Jennings shot back.
Champion pushed back, arguing, &#8220;Let me tell you something, if I came on here and I just started calling you all kinds of names, do you think the bosses would continue to let me do that?&#8221;
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&#8220;I mean, it happens to me occasionally, I don’t know if you’ve watched,&#8221; Jennings dead-panned.
&#8220;But it doesn’t happen for me and I know that I wouldn’t be able to do that. There’s a level of professionalism in what we do here because we are journalists and we adhere to something, at least morally, and there is no moral compass on this thing called X,&#8221; Champion insisted.
The conversation got even testier when Jennings noted that he&#8217;d recently read a survey indicating that X was actually the most &#8220;ideologically balanced&#8221; social media platform.
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When I said on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnn</a> last night that <a href="https://twitter.com/X?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@X</a> is the most ideologically balanced platform, folks weren’t happy. Survey says… <a href="https://t.co/VXVEbvwd38">pic.twitter.com/VXVEbvwd38</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1861445812175147353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There was a former member of the Hungarian Parliament who was writing in POLITICO, who kind of talked about this effort by that government and how specific it was in terms of purchasing media specifically for propaganda,&#8221; guest host Audie Cornish prompted. &#8220;Do you hear why they’re making that connection?&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, is the concern that certain media outlets would become propaganda arms of political ideologies? Don’t we already have that in this country at a large scale?&#8221; Jennings asked. &#8220;Also I hear what you’re saying about X, I saw a survey this week, it’s now the most ideologically balanced user platform.&#8221;
&#8220;Scott, Scott, stop, it’s too early. I just sat down. I’ve only been here for two minutes, you cannot say that. Who’s the source?!&#8221; Champion protested.
&#8220;We’ve reported on this network,&#8221; Jennings fired back, referencing a report from CNN data whiz Harry Enten that showed regular X users were evenly split between Republicans and Democrats.
&#8220;It’s not accurate and you know it,&#8221; Champion insisted.
&#8220;Okay. I’ll let you make your statement, but my point is —&#8221; Jennings tried again.
&#8220;Let me frame it a different way. The site changed radically, right? So whether you think the voices are somehow more balanced now, that’s fine,&#8221; Cornish interrupted. &#8220;But no doubt Musk’s influence is profound and that you open it up and now you’re there with his opinion and he is now part of this administration.&#8221;

7th Viva Technology Conference In Paris – Day 3

CNN Guest Insists That Nobody Believes X Is More Balanced Since Elon Took Over

Scott Jennings

The self-described “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queer-media-journalist-adds-weirdness-to-wicked-press-tour-in-viral-video">queer media</a>” journalist behind the interview with “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Wicked</a>” stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande that’s since gone viral is speaking out about the discussion and aftermath.
Out magazine&#8217;s Tracy E. Gilchrist spoke with <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/holding-space-defying-gravity-wicked-interview-meaning-1236223273/">Variety</a> after a clip of the interview totally blew up online. In it, Gilchrist tells the movie’s two leads that fans are “really holding space” with the song “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">Defying Gravity</a>.” This comment caused Erivo, who plays the Wicked Witch of the West (Elphaba), to become emotional.
Viewers were confused over what Gilchrist meant by her &#8220;holding space&#8221; reference and questioned how Erivo could understand.
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“I didn’t know that was happening,” the actress said with a quavering voice. “That’s really powerful. That’s what I wanted.”
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Gilchrist said she was shocked by the attention. “It’s so overwhelming,” she said. “I was in meetings and my phone started blowing up. Later I was at lunch with a friend, and he kept asking me to explain what was happening – like, why is it funny? I don’t know! It just is.”
As of Tuesday morning, the clip has close to 77 million views on X.
The Variety interviewer specifically asked Gilchrist about the phrase “holding space” that’s gotten so much attention. Gilchrist said it means “being physically, emotionally and mentally present with someone or something.”
She added, “For me, it means being in the moment, not being distracted and feeling something on a cellular level. I think you can hold space with lyrics of a song – one you’ve heard hundreds of times – and it can suddenly take on new meaning when you’re a queer person. The Trump administration is targeting LGBTQ+ people via Project 2025.”
Gilchrist went on, “When Cynthia sings ‘I’m through accepting limits,’ there’s power in that. She plays a character who is othered. One who comes to her full power when she is exiled by a charlatan, by a cruel leader. There’s a lot of resonance there right now for anyone who is marginalized. For me, holding space is listening to those lyrics anew and finding solace or inspiration.”
“This was for us, for queer people who understand what I meant by holding space  — or really, for anybody who feels marginalized and can relate,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;So it’s for us. It’s not for them. They can hate all they want.” 
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Wicked

‘Queer Media’ Journalist On Viral ‘Wicked’ Interview: ‘They Can Hate All They Want’

'Queer Media' Journalist On Viral 'Wicked' Interview: 'They Can Hate All They Want'

Ariana Grande

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Hollywood

LGBT

U.S.

Donald Trump could reshuffle the White House briefing room to give podcasters like Joe Rogan more prominence than legacy media outlets, his son told Daily Wire host Michael Knowles on Monday.
Knowles floated the idea during an appearance on Trump&#8217;s Rumble show, <a href="https://rumble.com/v5t090w-regime-media-imploding-whats-next-for-msnbc-plus-michael-knowles-and-alex-m.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp">&#8220;Triggered,&#8221;</a> noting that mainstream media bias had reached new heights.
&#8220;I wonder now as your father is assembling his team, as maybe Karoline Leavitt is looking at the new press briefing room chart, maybe it&#8217;s time to reorder that chart, maybe take away some people&#8217;s seats,&#8221; Knowles said.
&#8220;So we&#8217;re going to break some news here,&#8221; Trump said, noting he &#8220;literally&#8221; just discussed this with his father and Elon Musk after last week&#8217;s SpaceX launch. Trump told Knowles that the president-elect floated replacing legacy media outlets in the White House Briefing Room with &#8220;Rogan and guys like you.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;d love to see Rogan in the White House press briefing, or even rotate guys out,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;We had the conversation about opening up the press room to a lot of these independent journalists,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;If the New York Times has lied, they&#8217;ve been adverse to everything, they&#8217;re functioning as the marketing arm of the Democrat Party, why not open it up to people who have larger viewerships, stronger followings?&#8221;
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Knowles praised the idea, but predicted that Democrats would object to bringing more diverse voices into the press room.
&#8220;The Left is gonna answer you, and they&#8217;re going to say well, the reason you need to keep the New York Times and the Washington Post in there is because they influence people, and the whole point of the White House briefing room is to convey the message of the White House to the American people.&#8221; he said. &#8220;But this is different, you have the New York Times and Washington Post admitting that podcasters and streamers are eating their lunch.&#8221;
Still, Knowles agreed it was high time to shake up the White House press pool.
&#8220;If they&#8217;re dishonest, if they&#8217;re not asking questions that are in the interest of the American people, and the American people aren&#8217;t even paying attention,&#8221; Knowles said, &#8220;is the White House Briefing Room a charity now for journalists who otherwise would be out of work? Sorry guys, learn to code.&#8221;

The 2024 Republican National Convention

Donald Trump Jr. Says His Dad May Remove Mainstream Media From Press Room

Donald Trump Jr.

Joe Rogan

Michael Knowles

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk apparently struck a raw nerve, triggering MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough and Axios&#8217; Jim VandeHei, when he issued a blanket announcement to everyone on his social media platform, X: &#8220;You are the media now.&#8221;
VandeHei and Axios co-founder Mike Allen were honored at the National Press Club&#8217;s 2024 Fourth Estate Award Gala, and VandeHei lashed out at Musk directly during his remarks to Gala attendees.
&#8220;Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day — or X today — saying like, &#8216;We are the media,&#8217; &#8216;You are the media.&#8217; My message to Elon Musk is: Bull****. You are not the media,&#8221; VandeHei complained. &#8220;You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter. &#8230; You don’t do that by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.&#8221;
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NEW Axios CEO melts down over <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> telling 𝕏 users “You are the media now” — mounts passionate defense of dying legacy media:
&quot;My message to Elon Musk is b*llshit. You&#39;re not the media!&quot;
The MSNBC panel applauds:
“Social media people lying every day, every hour, every… <a href="https://t.co/SBwgI9hFfC">pic.twitter.com/SBwgI9hFfC</a>
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After playing a clip of VandeHei&#8217;s comments, &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Joe Scarborough seconded every word, leading his response with a slow clap.
&#8220;First of all, I&#8217;ve got to say, extraordinary content, it needed to be said, it continues to need to be said,&#8221; Scarborough said as cohost Mika Brzezinski agreed. &#8220;With all of the garbage that&#8217;s flying around on social media — lying about reporters, lying about the hard work they do, lying about the hard work editors do, lying about everything up and down about not only their alternative set of facts but their alternative set of facts about what people like you do.&#8221;
Scarborough kept going in that vein for several minutes, but when Musk got wind of it, he was not convinced.
&#8220;Yeah, whatever lmao. You are the media now. And legacy media know it,&#8221; Musk said.
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Yeah, whatever lmao. 
You are the media now. 
And legacy media know it. <a href="https://t.co/TWemmwMoqd">https://t.co/TWemmwMoqd</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1861063141326573907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The exchange comes as MSNBC — and a number of the network&#8217;s employees — waits to see what the future looks like once NBCUniversal spins off the far-left cable news network.
&#8220;What I find absolutely astounding about this is not his anger at Musk,&#8221; one person noted. &#8220;I can understand and even respect that to some degree. What absolutely baffles me is the total lack of introspection or self reflection as to why the media is so distrusted. Just go back over the past 5-10 years. It&#8217;s not hard to figure out. Maybe you should start going about gaining readers trust and turning out a quality product first.&#8221;
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What I find absolutely astounding about this is not his anger at Musk. I can understand and even respect that to some degree. What absolutely baffles me is the total lack of introspection or self reflection as to why the media is so distrusted. Just go back over the past 5-10… <a href="https://t.co/YI2wSu3z5V">https://t.co/YI2wSu3z5V</a>
&mdash; Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) <a href="https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/1861068793910296707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What the Axios CEO doesn’t seem to understand or accept is that X is the media now because of all the lying. If the corporate press hadn’t spent decades lying and misleading the public in really obvious, craven, and destructive ways, we wouldn’t be here. But they did so we are,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s John Daniel Davidson added.
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What the Axios CEO doesn’t seem to understand or accept is that X is the media now because of all the lying. If the corporate press hadn’t spent decades lying and misleading the public in really obvious, craven, and destructive ways, we wouldn’t be here. But they did so we are. <a href="https://t.co/j3mrxNbUll">https://t.co/j3mrxNbUll</a>
&mdash; John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnddavidson/status/1861088323235930234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC And Axios In Joint Death Spiral Over Elon Musk Claim That Citizens ‘Are The Media Now’

MSNBC And Axios In Joint Death Spiral Over Elon Musk Claim That Citizens 'Are The Media Now'

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Now that the 2024 presidential election is in the rearview mirror — not to mention the fact that President-elect Donald Trump has a decisive mandate to govern along with a solid majority in the incoming Senate — media appears content to pass the time leading up to the holidays and the now inevitable Trump transition by casting doubt on every nomination and appointment he makes.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; host Jonathan Karl kicked off the show by attempting to cast doubt on the process, suggesting that Trump was rushing — and perhaps being less than thorough — to fill out his White House and his cabinet, and fretting about the lack of FBI background checks thus far.
&#8220;Donald Trump has chosen nearly all of his Cabinet nominees and senior White House staff, making his picks at a record pace and bypassing the typical vetting process — no FBI background checks yet for any of them,&#8221; Karl said.
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&#8220;Donald Trump has chosen nearly all of his Cabinet nominees and senior White House staff, making his picks at a record pace and bypassing the typical vetting process — no FBI background checks yet for any of them,” <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> reports. <a href="https://t.co/2oJUrLxdzs">https://t.co/2oJUrLxdzs</a> <a href="https://t.co/YW5gcJ5utk">pic.twitter.com/YW5gcJ5utk</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860687045066207330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As for Trump&#8217;s efforts to get the incoming Republican Senate majority to back his nominees, Karl said that he&#8217;d been told that &#8220;Senate Republicans would have no choice but to get in line – or see their political careers go down.&#8221;
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&#8220;A top Trump lieutenant told me Senate Republicans would have no choice but to get in line – or see their political careers go down.” <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> has the latest on President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s transition and Cabinet nominations: <a href="https://t.co/MN4JyASUOz">https://t.co/MN4JyASUOz</a> <a href="https://t.co/H3yFRDsFqD">pic.twitter.com/H3yFRDsFqD</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860690915565723865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined Karl to discuss the situation, and he noted that Trump expected to &#8220;hit the ground running,&#8221; which was why he was attempting to have all of his nominees ready for hearings and confirmation votes as soon as he was sworn in. He also argued that Trump&#8217;s cabinet would face the kind of accountability that President Joe Biden&#8217;s never had.
&#8220;Massive failures on his watch, massive failures by his Cabinet members,&#8221; Hagerty said. &#8220;President Trump will fire people that don’t do their job well.&#8221;
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GOP Sen. Bill Hagerty says there have been “zero consequences in President Biden’s Cabinet.”
“Massive failures on his watch, massive failures by his Cabinet members … President Trump will fire people that don’t do their job well.” <a href="https://t.co/KdNiJx0rfz">https://t.co/KdNiJx0rfz</a> <a href="https://t.co/3nlOWQGjNF">pic.twitter.com/3nlOWQGjNF</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860699833041867212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Karl also brought in Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who complained that without background checks, she did not feel that she could do her job in the confirmation process properly: &#8220;I want to make a decision on each one of them on the merits, as I&#8217;ve done in the past, and I can&#8217;t do that without the background checks.&#8221;
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar emphasizes the importance of FBI background checks for Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees.
“I want to make a decision on each one of them on the merits, as I&#8217;ve done in the past, and I can&#8217;t do that without the background checks.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/WKLUEDPARu">https://t.co/WKLUEDPARu</a> <a href="https://t.co/qGlDtGy9C2">pic.twitter.com/qGlDtGy9C2</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860710701284696466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; host Margaret Brennan spoke with Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth — and she attacked his position on women serving in combat roles.
&#8220;Our military could not go to war without the women who wear this uniform,&#8221; Duckworth said, appearing to conflate Hegseth&#8217;s position — that women should not serve in direct combat — with an opposition to women in the military altogether. &#8220;And frankly, America&#8217;s daughters are just as capable of defending liberty and freedom as her sons &#8230; [It] shows his lack of understanding of where our military is.&#8221;
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&#8220;He&#8217;s just flat-out wrong,&#8221; Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a veteran who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, says about defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth&#8217;s belief that women should not serve in combat roles.
&#8220;Our military could not go to war without the women who wear… <a href="https://t.co/BcXQHfgQ9D">pic.twitter.com/BcXQHfgQ9D</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1860716659570246020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Duckworth also made an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where she told anchor Dana Bash that she believed former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — chosen by Trump to be his Director of National Intelligence — was &#8220;compromised&#8221; and &#8220;someone who is wholly backing and supportive of Putin.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think she&#8217;s compromised.&#8221;
.<a href="https://twitter.com/TammyDuckworth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TammyDuckworth</a> slams Director of National Intelligence pick Tulsi Gabbard in an interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a>. <a href="https://t.co/HTNBz9TMWx">pic.twitter.com/HTNBz9TMWx</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1860710539233542569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) pushed back on Duckworth&#8217;s attacks on Gabbard, saying, &#8220;For her to say ridiculous and outright dangerous words like that is wrong.&#8221;
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“For her to say ridiculous and outright dangerous words like that is wrong.”<a href="https://twitter.com/SenMullin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenMullin</a> reacts to Sen. Duckworth calling Trump&#8217;s nominee for intel chief Tulsi Gabbard “compromised” and “someone who is wholly backing and supportive of Putin.” <a href="https://t.co/2eXscKwASr">pic.twitter.com/2eXscKwASr</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1860721047722487868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) also defended Gabbard during an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; He told host Kristen Welker that calling her a Russian asset, as Duckworth essentially had, amounted to a &#8220;slur.&#8221;
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‘It’s a slur’ to call DNI pick Tulsi Gabbard a foreign asset, says GOP Sen. Schmitt <a href="https://t.co/kaRpjFJXrC">https://t.co/kaRpjFJXrC</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1860694119099592813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: The Hand-Wringing Continues Over Trump Cabinet Picks

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-lankford" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Lankford</a> (R-OK) defended former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, this week after she promised to remove anti-Trump individuals from the department.
Lankford made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Dana Bash when asked about whether Bondi would weaponize the department to go after Trump&#8217;s political opponents.
&#8220;[Trump] wants to make sure that the people that are around him in the Cabinet are at least directionally the right direction,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This has been a question, quite frankly, since the Kennedy administration, when President Kennedy put his brother in as attorney general.&#8221;
Bash then played a clip of remarks that Bondi made in the past on Fox News:
<blockquote>BONDI: The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated, because the deep state, last term for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows. But now they have a spotlight on them.
And they can all be investigated. And the house needs to be cleaned out.</blockquote>
Lankford said that he did not agree with the notion that Bondi&#8217;s comments were indicative of her pursuing &#8220;retribution&#8221; for Trump.
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&#8220;I think it&#8217;s trying to be able to get us back to neutral and to balance on that,&#8221; he said, adding that in the past, there were &#8220;individuals within the FBI, and that was very well — known after President Trump came on in 2016 — that there were members of the FBI that hated him that were in senior leadership that were working to be able to undercut him, Peter Strzok, multiple others that were actively working to try to undercut the president.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s entirely appropriate for Pam Bondi to step in and to say, or whoever that is as attorney general, to be able to step in and say, we&#8217;re not going to allow someone to try to undercut the President of the United States in this Department of Justice,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You have got to actually be balanced and about justice, not about attacking the president.&#8221;
He said anyone trying to undercut the president at the department &#8220;should be gone&#8221; immediately.
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t see any evidence of that kind of retribution.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorLankford</a> downplays Trump&#8217;s threats of payback at DOJ but tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a> &#8220;if someone is in the Department of Justice right now that is actively trying to undercut the president, they should be gone.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/6HbEwvSGv2">pic.twitter.com/6HbEwvSGv2</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1860720493424246886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>

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GOP Senator Defends Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi For Promising To Gut DOJ’s Anti-Trump Lawyers

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) slammed Sen. Tammy Duckworth&#8217;s (D-IL) attack on former Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tulsi-gabbard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tulsi Gabbard</a> (D-HI) over the weekend, calling her smear &#8220;outright dangerous.&#8221;
Mullin made the remark during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; while responding to Duckworth&#8217;s attacks on Gabbard — whom President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to be his Director of National Intelligence — just moments prior on the same show.
Duckworth claimed that Gabbard, who is now a Republican, was &#8220;compromised&#8221; and potentially someone who &#8220;will not have America&#8217;s best interests at heart.&#8221;
When asked to respond to Duckworth&#8217;s attacks, Mullin said he thought they were &#8220;ridiculous and outright dangerous words.&#8221;
&#8220;You have got to keep in mind that Tulsi Gabbard is still a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She commands a Reserve unit here in Oklahoma and Missouri. If she was compromised, if she wasn&#8217;t able to pass a background check, if she wasn&#8217;t able to do her job, she still wouldn&#8217;t be in the Army.&#8221;
&#8220;And so Tammy is absolutely dead wrong on this, and she should retract those words,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s the most dangerous thing she could say, is that a United States lieutenant colonel in the United States Army is compromised and is an asset of Russia.&#8221;
He said Duckworth&#8217;s attack could be motivated by her being upset that Gabbard left the party.
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🔥NEW: Splitscreen of Sen. Tammy Duckworth slandering Tulsi Gabbard as “compromised” — and Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s immediate response BLASTING Duckworth:
“Tammy is absolutely dead wrong on this, and she should retract those words. She&#8217;s upset that Tulsi Gabbard left the Democrat… <a href="https://t.co/ceDUcabQbD">pic.twitter.com/ceDUcabQbD</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1860722771346514059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Senator Mullin Rips Democrat Senator’s ‘Outright Dangerous’ Attack On Tulsi Gabbard

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> Republican commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/scott-jennings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Jennings</a> argued this weekend that President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> is building an &#8220;ideologically diverse&#8221; Cabinet that reflects his 2024 election victory.
During a panel on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; on Sunday, Jennings noted how Trump picked Russ Vought to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-selects-russell-vought-to-once-again-lead-omb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">return</a> as director of the Office of Management and Budget and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-picks-oregon-congresswoman-for-labor-secretary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to be the next</a> labor secretary, among many others.
&#8220;I think Trump is not getting enough credit here for building an ideologically diverse Cabinet,&#8221; Jennings said. &#8220;When you&#8217;ve got everybody from Russ Vought, who&#8217;s very conservative, all the way over to the pick for labor secretary — is a supporter of the PRO Act, and somehow Randi Weingarten is happy about it. I mean, what he has done is — which makes me squeamish, to be candid.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>: &quot;I think Trump is not getting enough credit here for building an ideologically diverse Cabinet&#8230; and that&#39;s kind of how he won. His coalition was kind of ideologically diverse — that elected him.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/lgxe57gy8x">pic.twitter.com/lgxe57gy8x</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1860701123918631342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jennings was referring to the<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-democrats-pro-act-three-things-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> &#8220;Protecting the Right to Organize Act,&#8221;</a> a bill <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written</a> to amend labor laws that passed the House, but did not get through the Senate, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
&#8220;And so what he has done, though, is put together an ideologically diverse group of people to sit in a room and help run the government,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;And that&#8217;s kind of how he won. His coalition was kind of ideologically diverse that elected him.&#8221;
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In the 2024 election victory that included winning all the swing states over Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-makes-gains-among-key-minority-groups-in-2024-victory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made gains</a> among <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-return-power-fueled-by-hispanic-working-class-voter-support-2024-11-06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working-class voters</a>, minority groups, and young people. And Republicans maintained control of the House and retook the Senate for the coming term.
Over the past several weeks, Trump has picked a number of former Democrats who became disaffected with their old party to serve in top roles in his second administration. They include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been tapped to serve as Health and Human Services administrator, and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) to serve as Director of National Intelligence.
He&#8217;s also picked Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for Secretary of State, now-former Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense, and former Florida Republican Attorney General Pam Bondi for Attorney General after Matt Gaetz dropped out, among others.

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Trump’s Cabinet Picks Are So ‘Ideologically Diverse,’ It Makes CNN’s Scott Jennings Feel ‘Squeamish’

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