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After the 2000 election, Ralph Nader was pretty much exiled to cultural Siberia for the claim that his third-party run got George W. Bush elected. I mean, let’s face it, most younger liberals probably couldn’t have picked a man best known for killing the commercial prospects of the Chevrolet Corvair three decades prior out of a police lineup of two people, but now they knew who he was — and they loathed the man with the same intensity they loathed Dubya.

If Howard Schultz has anything to say about it, however, Nader’s place in the history books could finally revert to being the man who got a mediocre rear-engined GM economy car off the market.

If you’re not into business or the field of liberal activism, you also might not be able to pick Howard Schultz out of that two-person lineup. He’s the former CEO of Starbucks, having served two stints in that position and being the man most commonly associated with bringing the brand to worldwide prominence. He’s also a Twitter neophyte, having just sent out his first three tweets.

And wouldn’t you know it, two of them had to do with the possibility of him running for president:

It feels good to be here. My hope is to share my truth, listen to yours, build trust, and focus on things that can make us better.

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 27, 2019

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I love our country, and I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent.

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 28, 2019

This moment is like no other. Our two parties are more divided than ever. Let’s discuss how we can come together to create opportunities for more people. #ReimagineUS https://t.co/9UY46OTO0I

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) January 28, 2019

It was at that auspicious moment that at least 13 potential Democrat presidential candidates called their doctor and asked for a Xanax prescription.

In an interview with The New York Times, Schultz told the newspaper “he was preparing to run for president as an independent and had already begun the groundwork required to be on the ballot in all 50 states.”

“We have a broken political system with both parties basically in business to preserve their own ideology without a recognition and responsibility to represent the interests of the American people,” Schultz said.

“Republicans and Democrats alike — who no longer see themselves as part of the far extreme of the far right and the far left — are looking for a home,” he continued, saying he thought the answer to our problems lay beyond party politics. “The word ‘independent,’ for me, is simply a designation on the ballot.”

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Here is Schultz making his statement to “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday:

In this respect, Schultz could definitely be a spoiler. Of the serious declared Democrat candidates — I’m assuming Rep. John Delaney of Maryland’s prospects are non-existent that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii’s are marginal at best — the most centrist among them is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who’s hardly centrist at all.

Former Vice President Joe Biden will almost certainly enter the race, but one assumes even he’s going to have to move further left than he was in the Obama administration in a primary season that will likely see activist voters dominate.

And there arises the problem with Schultz.

Yes, Schultz could theoretically attract conservatives who were reluctant Trump supporters in 2016, particularly depending on what Robert Mueller ends up presenting, whenever he presents it.

However, in a moment where American politics are deeply cultural, Schultz’s credentials come as the CEO of a company not entirely beloved by conservatives. Also, even in 2016 — back when prospects of Trump winning seemed dim and there was plenty of dissent within the GOP ranks, Evan McMullin and Gary Johnson couldn’t tap into that resentment to siphon off votes.

That brings us to the Democrats, who still seem to forget that what the base may want is fundamentally different from what the wider party will vote for.

“Already top Democratic operatives working for presidential candidates and beyond say they’re worried that the only thing he’ll accomplish is making sure Donald Trump gets re-elected,” Edward-Isaac Dovere reported in The Atlantic. “It’s more than just sniping at a prospective opponent; word that he might invest in an independent run has many of them clearly worried about how he’d split votes in a general election.”

“Trump’s strategy has always been divide and conquer, and this plays directly into his hands,” an anonymous Democrat strategist told Dovere. Schultz is “Ralph Nader without any of Nader’s redeeming qualities. What’s his value proposition for America? Make America like a corporate chain?”

Schultz’s value proposition may be that he’s not whoever the Democrats nominate. Remember, the party’s success in 2018 was partially built on activist voters and the tendencies of midterm elections to bring out voters who oppose the president. However, one key to Democrats’ retaking the House was fielding moderate candidates in suburban districts where antipathy toward Trump ran high.

Can Democrats sell Elizabeth Warren to these voters? Bernie Sanders?

Maybe if the other candidate is Trump and the Democrats’ entire campaign is solely about the perfidies of the Trump administration, sure. But if those newly minted Democrat voters are given a legitimate third-party challenger that’s none of the above and peddles himself as a centrist who isn’t reflexively anti-business and has a chance of winning, that strategy would necessarily be thrown out the window.

Schultz, 65, is worth $3.3 billion. Campaigns are expensive nowadays, but that’s enough money to make a significant dent, particularly if you’re a Ross Perot type who comes to the late-life conclusion that just being known as a CEO isn’t enough to ensure your legacy.

If the former CEO decides he wants to blow, say, a fifth of his fortune on a delusional, quixotic bid for the presidency, I can see him easily see him in double digits — if perhaps not in the White House.

The problem for the Democrats is that not much of that support is going to siphon off from Trump. And while 2000 had Democrats forcing Ralph Nader out of the public sphere, 2020 could get them to try and force Howard Schultz out of the country.

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Trump being very Trump, trying to troll him in, knowing it would harm Democrats.

Via Daily Wire:

Over the weekend, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he is strongly considering running for president as an Independent, intentions he discussed in an interview with “60 Minutes” Sunday night. Though thus far he’s stopped short of officially announcing a run, he’s making clear he believes he is a viable “alternative” not only to Trump, whom he blasted in the interview as “not qualified to be the president,” but Democratic candidates as well.

“Not only the fact that this president is not qualified to be the president, but the fact that both parties are consistently not doing what’s necessary on behalf of the American people and are engaged, every single day, in revenge politics,” Schultz told “60 Minutes” concerning his rationale for a potential run as an Independent.

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Looks like people don’t like her game playing.

Via Twitchy:

Someone’s negatives shot WAY UP during the government shutdown, and it’s not who the media and the Left want you to think it is.

Which is probably why we’re not seeing more about this particular poll.

Nancy Pelosi’s negatives SHOT UP, and oh yeah, she’s the most unpopular politician tested in that survey.

Which is hilarious when you consider how many Tweeps are pretending she somehow ‘won’ in all of this. Nobody won, it was a huge mess for all involved and we’re no closer to being secure than we were before the shutdown. If Democrats see that as a win we have a bigger problem here but that’s another story.

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Democratic operatives flipping their gourds and hoping to bully him out of the race. You know, to “save democracy.”

Via Daily Wire:

Where will they write their screenplays?

Over the weekend, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced he is “seriously considering” a run for president as an Independent in 2020.

Schultz said the same in an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night.

Schultz’s remarks about potentially running for president were not received well by the Left, which hopes to unseat President Donald Trump and believes an Independent such as Schultz could siphon off votes from the eventual Democratic nominee.

In response to Schultz’s flirtation with a presidential candidacy, many on the Left suggested boycotting the coffee chain until the CEO calls off his run.

Neera Tanden, the president of the left-wing Center for American Progress, said she would start a boycott against Starbucks because Schultz’s run “will help Trump win.”

“Vanity projects that help destroy democracy are disgusting. If he enters the race, I will start a Starbucks boycott because I’m not giving a penny that will end up in the election coffers of a guy who will help Trump win,” Tanden tweeted.

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New York state lawmakers approved a measure that aims to dole out millions in taxpayer-funded aid to “Dreamers”—who entered the country illegally—attending college.

The now Democratic-controlled New York state Legislature on Wednesday passed the Dream Act, legislation that would make thousands of “Dreamers” eligible for financial aid to attend public colleges in the state. The bill, which has attracted praise from Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, would cost $27 million.

The measure is “a slap in the face for all the hardworking taxpayers who play the rules and struggle for the costs of a college education,” Republican state Sen. Daphne Jordan said of the bill.

Jordan was joined by other Republican state legislators in criticism of the Dream Act, who argued it would unfairly take money away from legal residents who struggle to pay their college tuition.

The bill had been introduced in the New York Legislature before, but Republican control of the state Senate had prevented it from moving forward—until Democrats gained control of both chambers after the 2018 midterms.

“We do this as a symbol that you will be guaranteed an education and that the door to higher education is open to all children of New York State,” stated De La Rosa, sponsor of the bill and immigrant from the Dominican Republic.

While Cuomo has not yet signed the bill into law, he has expressed support for tuition for illegal immigrants and he has already included his own version in the state budget plan.

Passage of the Dream Act came one day after New York legislators passed a bill dramatically expanding access to abortion. The bill, which was promptly signed into law by Cuomo, allows women to have abortions after 24 weeks in situations where “there is an absence of fetal viability, or at any time when necessary to protect a patient’s life or health.”

New York Democrats say they have just begun.

Supporters of the Dream Act say they will also consider allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses and give them better housing protections. Cuomo has also expressed interest in forcing insurance companies to provide free contraceptive care.

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April Sellers was an up-and-coming dancer and choreographer in Minneapolis, MN. That is, until her name was falsely smeared by a couple who mistook her for a different April Sellars.

Jinah Parker was celebrating her interpretive dance production titled “SHE, A Choreoplay,” which debuted off-off-Broadway and included four women dancing and discussing sexual abuse. But on Oct. 21, 2017, Parker and her husband – producer, author, and former “The Real World” cast member Kevin Powell – discovered that not everyone was a fan of the show. Powell has a history of domestic violence against women, which he mentions in his public speaking engagements. In his memoir, “Who’s Gonna Take the Weight,” Powell acknowledged that he could become violent again.

In a Facebook post and in an email to the couple, a woman referenced this past while criticizing Parker’s play.

“You are being a hypocrite. How can you present a message via dance on sexual violence, but knowingly choose to marry an admitted woman beater?!” the woman wrote. “Kevin Powell admits that he can relapse into violence. Don’t be deceived and trade your safety for someone who can assault you.”

The email was signed: “April Sellers.”

Parker and Powell Googled the name April Sellers and found a woman with the name in Minneapolis where they lived. The woman ran a business called the April Sellers Dance Collective. The couple assumed this woman, described by City Pages as a 43-year-old “an anarchist queer feminist known for avant-garde expressions of body politics,” and assumed she must have been the same April Sellers who sent the critical email.

Two weeks after the received the email, Powell wrote a 1,200-word email and blind copied to numerous local media outlets and art centers, as well as the Minneapolis NAACP, and others. It read, in part:

“For you, as a so-called progressive White woman, to think it’s okay to send a note like that to a Black woman, about her relationship with her Black husband, speaks to a kind of racist privilege and racist condescension deeply steeped in the history of this country.”

The couple called Sellers’ messages “hateful, racist, sexist, mean-spirited, disrespectful, and so much more,” according to the Star Tribune.

Sellers – the choreographer in Minneapolis who received the email response – was shocked and confused.

“I wanted right way for anyone who might have gotten it to know it wasn’t me. I didn’t do it,” Sellers told City Pages. “More than anything, I wanted to engage.”

Sellers replied to the email less than two hours after it was received, and claimed the couple were mistaking her for someone else. Neither Parker nor Powell responded to any of Sellers’ attempts to clear her name.

Sellers withdrew from the art community for fear of how she had been portrayed. A month after she received the open letter from Parker and Powell, she ran into Star Tribune art critic Rohan Preston at a restaurant. Preston asked how Sellers was doing, as the two had a friendly relationship, and she cried.

A year after she was publicly shamed for something she didn’t do, Sellers hired a lawyer and threatened to sue Parker and Powell if they didn’t retract their letter and apologize for defaming Sellers. The couple refused and hired a lawyer of their own. So, Sellers followed through on her lawsuit.

The April Sellers who actually wrote the Facebook post and email to Parker and Powell was found by the mistaken Sellers’ attorney, Aaron Mills Scott. This April Sellers – April Maria Sellers – lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a fan of Powell’s work, but also is an activist focusing on domestic violence.

April Maria signed an affidavit stating she had written the original email. This did not result in an apology to the other April Sellers from Powell and Parker. Instead, the couple attempted to blame Preston, the art critic, for the mistake.

Powell claimed in a deposition reviewed by City Pages that Preston trashed Sellers the choreographer, noting she had “a history of trafficking in black culture” and could be a “loose cannon with her voice.” Powell claimed Preston gave him examples of Sellers’ racism.

Preston testified at the trial for Sellers’ lawsuit that this was not true.

“I was certainly dismayed by what he ascribed to me,” Preston told City Pages. “About being lied on, frankly. That he would essentially try to use my credibility to pawn off his mistakes.”

In court, Preston disputed Powell’s claims by saying he was at his daughter’s volleyball game with Powell called and didn’t speak to him much. He said Powell vented and Preston suggested he make sure he’s right about Sellers.

The couple claimed in court that they did nothing wrong in sending the email blasting the wrong April Sellers and claim Preston is a liar. When Sellers’ attorney gives his closing statements, Powell, according to City Pages, stuck his fingers in his ears.

The jury awarded Sellers $210,000, about half of what she requested. Despite this verdict and the affidavit from April Maria, the couple never apologizes for what they did to April Sellers.

Instead, they started a GoFundMe to raise money for their legal bills.

“I also need funds for a possible and absolutely necessary appeal,” Powell wrote. “Here we are in a majority White city and state, Minneapolis, Minnesota, two Black folks from New York City, going up against a White woman with an all-White jury. You can only imagine our trauma around this situation.”

Further, Powell told City Pages that proof didn’t matter, only a history of racism in America.

“Regardless if we had proof or not, what we do have proof of is the historical reality of being a person of color in America and having people talk to you in any kind of foul way and thinking it’s okay, even in the state of Minnesota that’s supposed to be liberal and progressive,” Powell said.

Not only did they defame a white woman, but they attempted to blame a black man – Preston – for their mistake while remaining adamant they had done nothing wrong.

The wife of a Texas-based Border Patrol agent invited Speaker Nancy Pelosi to visit the border to see for herself why walls are needed.

“We would like to show you around! You don’t need to bring any security detail. Our husbands/significant others are actually very good at their jobs, thank goodness!” Jill Demanski, the wife of a Texas-based Border Patrol agent wrote in a letter to Speaker Pelosi. She told Fox News she wrote the letter because she felt Pelosi needs to see this area of the border in person in order to make an informed decision about border security funding.

“We would also appreciate if you’d stop pretending that you care about federal workers,” she continued. “If you did, you would care for their safety, not just their paychecks. We can hold out a while longer if it means our husbands and communities are safer.”

She emphasized that elected representatives should meet with the agents on the ground to get a more accurate understanding of the need for physical barriers and to see the actual work being done by their husbands.

Another Border Patrol wife, Renea Perez, joined Demanski on Fox & Friends Monday morning, saying, “It is definitely needed. We just want them to come down there on the line and actually see where the whole argument is about.”

The wives of Border Patrol agents endured weeks of their husbands going to work and putting their lives on the line while they were not being paid during the partial government shutdown that ended late last week. She said she was glad Demanski wrote the letter to Pelosi.

“It was kind of written in a time of high emotion. It’s been tough, and at times we have felt like nobody cared about us families, about our agents,” she said. “Bills don’t stop, so we were feeling like we were forgotten.”

Demanski said the border wall is not a Trump issue and that Border Patrol agents have been asking for the barriers along the border for years.

“We finally have a president that has come here and seen firsthand the need for it, and has had our back,” she said on Fox & Friends on Monday. “You can support a wall without being a supporter of Trump.”

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for the Breitbart Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights has travelled to Paris to speak with the French government about the Yellow Vest protests after footage and images of the government’s heavy-handed attempts to break the protests flashed around the world.

Council of Europe commissioner Dunja Mijatovic revealed the move Monday morning when she wrote that she was on her way to Paris to discuss “Human rights issues related to the Yellow Vests movement” with the French interior minister and police representatives, among others.

On my way to Paris to discuss with @NunezLaurent, @Defenseurdroits, @CNCDH, representatives civil society, police & journalists’ unions #HumanRights issues related to the #YellowVests movement

— Commissioner for Human Rights (@CommissionerHR) January 28, 2019

The Associated Press reported that Mijatovic will also meet with representatives of France’s human rights commission, police, and journalists.

While Mijatovic has made no comment on what will be discussed in the meetings or what triggered the trip other than “human rights issues”, her trip follows 11 weeks of intense protests against the globalist government of President Emmanuel Macron which have seen unprecedented levels of force deployed by the French state in response.

Amnesty International condemned the level of police violence used against the Yellow Vests in December.

French Police Deploy Rifles with Live Ammunition to Yellow Vest Protests https://t.co/pcj3Bz5vDK

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 15, 2019

Breitbart London reported this month on allegations that French riot police had started deploying dozens of officers armed with live ammunition rifles to the protests. Activist Giles Caron said of the deployment: “Their job was simply to threaten us with lethal weapons in a manner which is very troubling. We deserve some explanations.”

Just weeks later, a prominent Yellow Vest organiser was seriously injured after being allegedly shot in the eye by officers. French police are investigating the incident among unproven claims the man was deliberately targeted during the protest.

Among the serious violence between protesters and riot police with some 80,000 officers deployed this past weekend, French doctors have said the number of serious injuries inflicted on protestors has reached unprecedented levels.

Around 2,000 Yellow Vests and 1,000 police officers have been hurt. Doctors have particularly highlighted the use of “flash ball” ammunition by the authorities, which has led to some of the most serious injuries so far.

UPDATE: Footage of a Yellow Vest being shot with a rubber bullet is going viral on social media; clashes between and police and protesters are taking place in the port city of Marseilles https://t.co/3ot7no3ICc

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 8, 2018

One doctor said of the number of protesters being shot in the head by anti-riot ammunition: “The head is still something very fragile. At the level of the face, projectiles at high velocity can only cause damage.

“Whether it’s voluntary or a sign of incompetence, that’s a problem.”

“I have been working in this sector since the 1980s and this is the first time I have seen so many serious injuries during a social movement,” he added.

Among the most controversial police deployments of the protests is that of military-style armoured personnel carriers on the streets of Paris, first seen in December and now a regular feature of security arrangements around Yellow Vest protests. T

he emergence of the vehicles caused headlines after the blue-painted hulls were seen to be sporting the flag of the European Union rather than the French tricolour.

Viral Video Show EU-branded Armoured Vehicle Crushing Paris Protests https://t.co/IQyqgxAajG

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 9, 2018

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Planned Parenthood announced Thursday the launch of a “sexual health chatbot” that it hopes will bring the abortion provider’s version of “sex education” to its target audience – children and teens.

A robot that answers your sexual health questions accurately, doesn’t judge, and is freakin’ adorable? Yes please → https://t.co/fPNauQpOtf pic.twitter.com/vFOznzBFco

— Planned Parenthood (@PPFA) January 24, 2019

“Planned Parenthood is thrilled to announce the launch of Roo, our new sexual health chatbot,” Planned Parenthood said in a press statement. “The first tool of its kind, Roo is designed to help young people visiting PlannedParenthood.org get personalized information instantly — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”

Monica Cline, a former HIV and sex-ed educator for Planned Parenthood, told Breitbart News that, with its launching of Roo, Planned Parenthood “is harnessing the power of the digital world to purposely circumvent parents and steer children towards deceptive and harmful practices.”

“They are delivering a service straight to their target market, hoping to make lifelong customers that will eventually spend a not insignificant amount of money with Planned Parenthood for everything from pregnancy and STD tests to abortions, sometimes multiple ones,” Cline asserted.

In fact, Planned Parenthood says Roo – which was developed in partnership with Work & Co – is “designed for 13- to 17-year-olds,” but can be used by children of any age.

“Texting and instant messaging are the most common reasons young people are on their phones, so a chatbot is an ideal tool when it comes to delivering fast, personalized information,” says the organization.

Children and teens can get immediate information about sex by simply texting Roo at 22422 around the clock.

This is such a cool way to expand access to reproductive health information, @PPFA! https://t.co/UHHBTtt0ym

— NARAL (@NARAL) January 25, 2019

Since the chatbot is powered by artificial intelligence, the more it is used, the more it learns about what children want to know about sex and can then provide even more specific information.

AdAge offered perspective on the political motivation behind the bot:

Initiatives like this one are meant to help Planned Parenthood give information to hard-to-reach audiences like teenagers who don’t receive sex education or are receiving abstinence-only education. In recent years Planned Parenthood has been on the offensive about the breadth of resources they provide as conservative lawmakers and anti-abortion groups have sought to defund the organization.

“At Planned Parenthood, we want to make it as easy as possible to get everyone the education and health care they need, when they need it, no matter what method of communication works best for them,” said Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood, in the statement. “It’s important that our youth receive a reliable answer they can trust.”

To develop Roo, Work & Co used data gathered from teens at MESA (Math Engineering Science Academy) High School – a charter school – in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York.

In September, a new California law required charter schools to teach Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) – which assumes most children will be sexually active – thanks to the lobbying efforts of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU.

At that time, Cline told Breitbart News she views Planned Parenthood’s sex education strategy as “very similar to how pedophiles prepare children for them to have sex with them. You start to break down their natural inhibitions.”

Cline explained:

One of the first exercises in comprehensive sex education—and you see this across the board in all the comprehensive sex education courses that you’ll find in any public school—is that you start to try to break the ice by asking the kids to tell you all the slang words that they know about sex or body parts. And they giggle, and they’re nervous, and you can tell that they’re inhibited, but they start to break down that barrier, those inhibitions.

In a video produced in 2017 by And Then There Were None, an organization that helps abortion workers leave their jobs, Cline, who worked as HIV health educator at Planned Parenthood of Texas/New Mexico, said Planned Parenthood instructed its workers, “Parents are a barrier to service. We don’t want parents involved.”

“Planned Parenthood, again, is very aggressive,” Cline said in the video. “They are a sales team. They want to make money, and they want as many customers as possible.”

On Friday’s Fox & Friends, Kurt Knutsson gushed over Microsoft’s NewsGuard blacklist as “fair” and a “good idea.”

Knutsson said:

This is a filter. So Microsoft has decided, in their latest mobile browser called Edge, that they’re going to make this as part of the browser that you can just simply see a badge. … What it does is it comes in red if it’s “unreliable,” and it comes in green if it’s “reliable” or trustworthy sources.

…

The [browser] add-on is from NewsGuard Tech and its former journalists … that run it. There are actually human beings behind it, and it’s actually a good idea. When I looked pretty closely at it, it’s pretty fair. They’re giving some criticism to the left, to the right–pretty right down the middle, and they’re calling it like it is.

Watch the full segment here at the 36-minute mark.

Knutsson’s only concern is if Silicon Valley, is if Facebook grabs control of NewsGuard, but as is, with establishment types running the blacklist, he thinks it’s pretty freakin’ awesome.

Well, of course, the backstabbers at Fox News love this blacklist. Why wouldn’t they? 1) Fox News is not blacklisted and 2) Fox News’s competition at Breitbart News and other right-leaning sites are blacklisted.

And so, what we have here from Fox News is a perfect example of “I’ve got mine” or “I’m going to appease the alligator, hoping he eats me last.”

Question…

What is Fox News going to do when Microsoft and NewsGuard add Fox News to this blacklist?

Seriously, what is Fox going to do now that it is on record gushing over just how “fair” and “down the middle” NewsGuard is? In brief, what is Fox News going to say for itself when Fox is blacklisted just in time for the 2020 presidential election, which is probably what’s going to happen?

Fox News has no principles.

This is a news outlet that will rage against Silicon Valley when Silicon Valley harms Fox News.

But if a Microsoft (which I believe is part of Silicon Valley, Kurt) launches a blacklisting tool and Fox News is not blacklisted, well, then, Hell, yeah, this thing is awesome! And it hurts our competition and it might send more advertisers our way and since we have no principles, we love this thing, Hoss, and so should you!

Fox News is also misleading its viewers into believing Microsoft’s NewsGuard is “fair” and “straight down the middle” because, as Breitbart News reported, NewsGuard is blacklisting Breitbart News only for the sin of reporting stories the establishment does not want reported.

In its lengthy critique of Breitbart News, NewsGuard did not list one story — not one — that Breitbart got wrong. All the blacklisters do is whine about our opinion pieces (which are clearly marked opinion) and crybaby over our accurate reporting on things NewsGuard does not want the public to know. It is all laid out right here.

Meanwhile…

While NewsGuard is blacklisting Breitbart News for telling the truth, this very same NewsGuard is marking as “credible” proven hoaxes and news so fake they have been retracted.

You think I’m kidding? Read this.

Behold NewGuard’s mighty green checkmark informing readers that first lady Melania Trump was an illegal alien, the Russians hacked Vermont’s electric grid, and so on and so forth…

Microsoft’s NewsGuard is nothing less than a hoax site with two functions: 1) As you can see in the Google search screenshot above, NewsGuard is marking as “credible” the grossest lies about President Trump, so this is all about misleading voters in 2020. 2) NewsGuard wants to sucker advertisers into believing it is credible as a means to starve publications like Breitbart News that dare to report (accurately) stories the establishment does not want reported.

No decent American is okay with any kind of central authority backed by a multinational corporation like Microsoft abusing its power to publish blacklists.

But if you watch the video above, you will see the pathetic suck-up that is Fox News lapping up every treat the establishment throws its way while selling out the rest of us… 

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