On Sunday, LevinTV host Mark Levin was interviewed by the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro about his new book, “Unfreedom of the Press” on Shapiro’s Sunday Special show. In a wide-ranging discussion, these two giants of conservative media touched on why the news media is so distrusted, the progressive roots of modern journalism, President Donald Trump’s record, and conservatism itself.
Shapiro, 35, asked Levin to explain why he thinks the news media today is so distrusted compared to how previous generations felt about the news. Levin explained that more competition and the advent of the internet has exposed how networks like CNN report the same narratives every day without diversity of opinion.
“They so hate Trump they can’t control themselves,” the 61-year-old Levin said.
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Asked if journalists should stop trying to pretend to be objective, Levin said the answer to bias in media is “technology.”
“The answer is progressive creativity, not ideology, progressive creativity,” he said.
Technology and the internet gives conservatives a resource to develop ways to compete with the mainstream media, Levin explained.
Later in the program, Shapiro asked Levin how he became a conservative. Levin said he’s always been a conservative because he’s always been skeptical of authoritarianism.
“Autocracy is a bad thing whether it’s practiced one-on-one on the playground or whether it’s practiced by government,” Levin said. “And that’s why I started to say, ‘Wait a minute, I like liberty. I like individualism. I like to be left alone, I like to kinda do what I want to do.’ And if that’s the way you think, then big government and the Left is not the answer.”
James O’KeefeandProject Veritas released alarming new undercover video, leaked documents, and testimony from a Google insider revealing the tech giant’s plans to meddle in US politics and “prevent a Trump situation in 2020.”
One aspect of the report features undercover footage of longtime Google employee and Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, saying Google has been working diligently to “prevent” the results of the 2016 election from repeating in 2020, meaning they are actively engaging in election meddling and working to elect someone from the Democratic Party.
The exposé was so damaging that Google-YouTube deleted Project Veritas’ video exposing the tech giant’s electioneering.
And the Google executives have deleted their social media pages.
Jen Gennai, the Google executive caught on video bragging that “Congress can pressure us but we’re not changing,” panicked, deleted her Twitter account and made her Instagram ‘private.’
Gaurav Gite, the Google engineer revealing the tech giant’s actions to manipulate its algorithms based on its own definition of “fairness,” has deleted his Facebook page.
NEW: Google executive Jen Gennai @gennai_jen, who said Congress "can pressure us but we’re not changing," has deleted her Twitter account. Her Instagram is private, too; it wasn’t before. Google engineer @GauravGite3 has deleted his Facebook. pic.twitter.com/24Qx78rpaZ
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) responded to O’Keefe’s latest undercover sting and said Google needs to be stripped of its section 230 immunity and to be “properly pursued by class action lawsuits by those they have knowingly harmed.”
WASHINGTON, DC – Democrats running for president are compiling a secret list of activist judges for the Supreme Court and lower courts, and the Judicial Crisis Network is challenging Joe Biden and other candidates to follow President Donald Trump’s lead in publicly releasing the list, so citizens will know what they will be voting for in 2020.
When running for president, Donald Trump released a list of federal and state judges from which he would choose Supreme Court justices. He expanded that list prior to the election to add additional names. He chose Justice Neil Gorsuch from that list, and a year later chose Justice Brett Kavanaugh from an expanded version of the list.
Then-candidate Trump explained he was releasing the list so the public could vet his potential picks, and would know precisely what sort of judges and justices they would get if they elected him president.
President Trump has racked up an impressive record keeping his promise, having confirmed over 100 new federal judges, including over 40 to the federal appeals courts and two to the Supreme Court.
In response, liberal Democrats are developing their own list. But unlike President Trump, they refuse to release their list to the public. Conservatives contend that Democrats are keeping the list secret because it contains a who’s-who of judicial activists who believe in inventing new constitutional rights like taxpayer-funded abortion that are not found anywhere in the Constitution, and records of ignoring the plain wording of laws they do not personally like, or constitutional rights they disfavor like religious liberty or the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) launched a $1.1 million ad campaign on Tuesday informing voters that Democrats will not release their judges list, pressuring Democrats to do so as their presidential candidates debate on television for the first time this week. JCN also created a new website to build awareness on the issue, ReleaseTheList.com.
“The radical left smeared Judge Kavanaugh,” the ad begins. It quotes President Trump, who explained of these attacks on Kavanaugh, “They tried to ruin his life, all in pursuit of political domination and control.”
“Now the same radicals want to pack the Court,” the narrator continues.
“They’ve built a secret list of judges that they won’t show anyone,” the ad goes on. “What are they hiding?”
JCN Chief Counsel Carrie Severino said in a statement:
President Trump was open and honest with the American people and has kept his promise. He released his list of judges, but Joe Biden and other Democrats running for president have yet to reveal theirs. Democratic candidates and liberal groups are campaigning to pack the courts with liberal judges, while keeping their list secret. Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden and all Democratic presidential candidates should stop hiding and release their list of potential Supreme Court nominees so the American people can judge for themselves.
Judicial appointments are one of President Trump’s strongest political issues, beginning when he promised to nominate federal judges and Supreme Court justices like the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who interpret federal law according to the words enacted by elected leaders, and who interpret the Constitution according to its original public meaning.
Voters referred President Trump over Hillary Clinton on this issue by a 16-point margin of 57 to 41, and the Supreme Court was the top issue for 21 percent of voters in 2016.
The ad campaign will run throughout the Democrat presidential debates this week.
Ken Klukowski is senior legal analyst for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski
Chants of “build the wall” broke out at Tuesday’s rollout of the Donald J. Trump for President Latino Coalition event in Miami, Florida.
Vice President Mike Pence was headlining the launch of the Trump 2020 presidential campaign event when chanting broke out among what was described by New York Times Miami Bureau Chief Patricia Mazzei as a largely Cuban/Venezuelan/Nicaraguan American crowd, “Build the wall.”
“We need four more years for President Donald Trump,” Pence said sparking the crowd to begin chanting those same words.
It’s notable that Pence did this event in Miami on Tuesday because on Wednesday and Thursday in the same city the Democrat candidates for president will have their first debates in the same city. In addition to NBC and MSNBC hosting the debates, the Spanish language Telemundo is also co-hosting these first face offs among Democrats. Pence’s rollout of the Latino coalition for Trump comes as a prebuttal of sorts to the coming Democrat onslaught on the president in Miami later this week.
“Chants of ‘Build the wall’ have broken out at Latinos for a trump event in Miami as Pence talks about border security,” Mazzei described.
Chants of “Build the wall” have broken out at Latinos for a trump event in Miami as Pence talks about border security. The crowd is largely Cuban/Venezuelan/Nicaraguan American
“Chants of ‘Build that wall’ erupt at Pence’s ‘Latinos for Trump’ event. VP says “in the midst of democrat obstruction…President Trump has taken decisive action to end the crisis at our southern border & we are securing our border.” Touts 400m of wall finished by next year,” said Associated Press reporter Alexandra Jaffe.
Chants of “Build that wall” erupt at Pence’s “Latinos for Trump” event. VP says “in the midst of democrat obstruction…President Trump has taken decisive action to end the crisis at our southern border & we are securing our border.” Touts 400m of wall finished by next year
The crowd also chanted “Trump, Trump, Trump,” early in Pence’s speech. Cheers and clapping broke out as Pence lauded President Trump delivering American economic success.
Michelle Moons is a White House Correspondent for Breitbart News — follow on Twitter @MichelleDiana and Facebook
The land of pineapples and Aloha is usually reserved as a honeymoon destination for the majority of Mainlanders. Like most vacation destinations, it’s oft forgotten about as a place where people actually live. And yet upon closer examination, Hawai’i is a good forecast of where other, more politically influential, states are headed.
While California is generally looked to as the cultural canary in the coalmine for the rest of the U.S., there’s a conservative nudge within California that sometimes effectively slows down the Golden State’s worst impulses.
But Hawai’i has no such contrary undercurrent. We’ve only had one Republican governor in the history of the state, and one election that cast our 4 electoral votes to a Republican (Reagan’s 2ndelection).
Long before Obamacare was mandated, Hawai’i functioned under the same method of providing healthcare to all within its borders. And before Virginia allowed for abortions up to the point of birth, Hawai’i was the first state to legalize abortion (before the Roe v. Wade decision) and the Guttmacher Institute lists Hawai’i as one of the “freest” for abortion access using the same vague language of “health” of the mother as a factor that was so shocking when it passed in Virginia.
With zero restrictions on parental notification, waiting periods or public funding, it’s unsurprising that Hawai’i is in the top ten list for states that spend the most on publicly funded abortions despite being #40 in the U.S. for population.
While our laws may be reason enough to reconsider moving to our state, our open corruption should seal the deal.
This year the FBI has labeled the amount of investigations into Hawai’i as “unprecedented.” The most populous county Honolulu alone is under investigations into our island-wide Honolulu Police Department, the Chief Prosecutor individually as well as his whole department, and fighting off a variety of potential FTA investigations into the mysteriously disappearing funding for a boondoggle of a rail system that has increased into the $9.2 billion range (though likely much higher) for a track that only ever potentially projected to 20 miles in length.
Hawai’i’s Department of Education is uniquely a state department, and one of the largest, receiving somewhere in the realm of $3 billion. Despite a spate of local probes into HIDOE’s reported corruptions and crumbling infrastructure (a majority of classrooms do not even have air conditioning in this tropical climate), the department has not been audited in the last 50 years.
Homelessness is in the public conversation nationally but Hawai’i has been living with rising homeless persons, very often the mentally ill or drug-addicted, in public parks and business district streets for many years. Attacks on pedestrians and tourists are ramping up, with HPD citing low arrests on difficulty in locating attackers and mental illness as their reason to send violent attackers to the hospital instead of jail only to be released back on the streets within an hour or two of capture.
Looking from the outside, Hawai’i may still seem far away. But how does the Hawai’i state government get away with so much abuse for those who call Hawai’i home?
The Hawai’i State Legislature is effectively a single-party body with only 5 Republicans of its 51 members and 0 of 25 in the Senate.
The Democratic Party is supported by the highest rate of unionized employees and the lowestvoter turnout in the country. Voter registration does not require any identification without even an address requirement (you may describe landmarks in the area you claim to reside).
On June 24th, our governor, David Ige, announced that he does not intend to veto a bevy of bills that will further harm the civil liberties of residents of the 50thstate. These bills include:
With only 4 electoral votes, Hawai’i may be the last state you worry about, but we are the usually among the first states to push the boundaries of civil liberties for the more influential states to follow.
Google’s motto, at least when it came to its internal code of conduct, was once “Don’t be evil.” What, then, do you call it when you censor videos that have to do with your own conduct on your own platform? Because that seems to be exactly what Google is doing with an undercover video released…
Running for political office is not the career path that retired U.S. Army Brigadier Gen. Don Bolduc had considered, as he often said that he was far from a politician. But the war veteran changed his mind after witnessing the gross inaction and partisan politics in Washington, D.C. His incumbent Democratic two-term opponent, New Hampshire…
Here’s a headline to ponder: “Democratic group’s poll shows Trump vulnerable with his base on health care: American Bridge is planning a $50 million advertising campaign targeting small-town Trump supporters and swing voters.”
That headline appeared in Politico on June 24; the article explained that the goal of the Democratic group American Bridge is to chip away at Trump’s percentages in red rural areas.As American Bridge’s president, Bradley Beychok, said, “We’re trying to go from losing these segments [of voters] 85-15 to maybe 75-25.”
Such a nibble-around-the-edges strategy could bear fruit.For instance, in 2016, Donald Trump won 82 percent of the vote in Sioux County, Iowa, giving him a margin in that county of more than 12,000 votes.In the meantime, Trump won Iowa with only 52 percent, a mere 48,000 votes out of nearly a million-and-a-half ballots cast.So if American Bridge really could chisel down Trump’s supermajority numbers, the Democrats might succeed in flipping the Hawkeye State next year.
According to Politico, health care is the wedge-issue that American Bridge intends to wedge wider.Relying on American Bridge data, the article reports:
Just 25 percent of respondents gave Trump a positive rating for “reducing health care costs,” compared to 67 percent who rated him negatively, while they split against Trump 39-51 on “taking on the drug and pharmaceutical companies.”
Now American Bridge, of course, is a group founded by David Brock, the Bill Clinton-basher-turned-fanboy-turned-high-dollar-fundraiser-turned-Hillary Clinton-groupie.Indeed, Brock was so flagrantly out front for Hillary in 2016 that the Washington Post blasted him in a piece entitled, “One Hillary Clinton supporter’s rotten political empire.” The article approvingly quoted Sen. Bernie Sanders calling Brock “the scum of the earth.”(Over the years, many Breitbart News writers have closely chronicled Brock.)
Indeed, because Brock is such a creature of the bicoastal elites, it’s a safe bet that American Bridge will never mention him in its advertisements.So while Brock is spending his time in the Hamptons and Beverly Hills, plotting his next six- or seven-figure soirée, Republicans would be smart to keep reminding folks who it is that’s giving Brocks his bucks.For instance, George Soros, having already given millions to American Bridge, just last year gave the group another $300,000.
Yet if American Bridge can keep its focus on health care—and if Republican “oppo” groups aren’t paying close enough attention—then Brock and his money could put a dent in Trump and the GOP.Why?Because the Democrats have the edge on health care.
We might consider: In last year’s midterm election, health care was the single most important issue, both in terms of campaign advertising and voters’ intentions, as measured by exit polling.And, of course, in November, the Democrats did well, picking up 41 House seats, seven governorships, and six state-legislative chambers.(At the same time, the GOP scored a net of plus two in the U.S. Senate, so the news wasn’t all bad.)
Thus we can see: The Democrats want to talk about health care, and American Bridge is eager to amplify that message.
Yet in fact, Democrats weren’t always eager to talk about health care.Just a decade ago, in 2009-2010, President Obama and his party struggled to get a national health-insurance bill passed, and as they slogged, pushing their unpopular legislation, the Tea Party erupted.As a result, the Democrats got clobbered in the 2010 midterm elections.And although Obama was re-elected in 2012, two years later in 2014, the Republicans won another big midterm victory. And of course, 2016 saw the triumph of Trump.
Interestingly, these shifting electoral fortunes closely correlate with support for Obamacare, as measured by the Kaiser Family Foundation’s monthly tracking poll.A look at the numbers shows that Obamacare was “underwater” for most of the time from 2010 to the end of 2016—although it blipped up in 2012, as voters rallied around Obama’s personal re-election.Yet at its low point, in July 2014, Obamacare was down massively, by a net of 16 points.
Yet then, after the 2016 election, support for Obamacare started to rise.Over the last two-and-a-half years, its net favorability has reached as high as plus 12 points, and as of June 2019, it was plus six.
So now we’re starting to see why Trump and the Republicans have been mostly frustrated in their push to repeal-and-replace—or at least repeal—Obamacare. (This author wrote extensively about that GOP effort in 2017-2018, including here.)
To put the matter bluntly, Obamacare has been finally becoming popular.And that popularity helps explain why a recent AP-NORC poll found that 40 percent of Americans trust Democrats on health care, compared to just 23 percent who trust Republicans.That’s a 17-point gap in favor of the Dems, enough to cool down the repeal-and-replace ardor of most Republicans.
Indeed, these days, as “Medicare for All” increasingly supplants Obamacare as the Democrats’ big goal, it’s worth watching a broader metric of public enthusiasm for national health insurance.According to Gallup, when Americans are asked whether or not “it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure Americans have healthcare coverage,” 57 percent say, yes, Uncle Sam has that responsibility.
To be sure, such Bernie Sanders-friendly numbers aren’t the final word—there’s never a final word in politics.And so as the Democrats prepare a massive new health bill, Republicans should be ready with their calculators, their microscopes, and their fine-toothed combs.
Yet for the time being, when there are no specifics to be scrutinized, we can see from the polling numbers that American Bridge, hammering the healthcare issue in rural areas, could have a significant impact.
So now, looking ahead, we can see the decision on health care that the voters will likely face in 2020:
The Democrats will vaguely promise every American free healthcare coverage; perhaps their plan will look a lot like the plan enjoyed by grandma and grandpa—that is, Medicare for All.
The Republican plan will vaguely promise every American access to a free-market health-insurance plan, including vague commitments about protecting those with pre-existing conditions.
So what will happen?Which approach will the voters choose?We don’t yet know, of course.So perhaps in the meantime, we should put it this way: For the sake of Republicans, it’s a good thing that there are issues other than health care to be debated.That is, issues ranging from the economy, to Iran, to the Supreme Court, to the latest dumb thing said by AOC.One rather suspects that Trump and the GOP will be campaigning harder on those hot buttons than on health care.
Of course, there is one healthcare issue that’s supremely, albeit somewhat vaguely, popular: medical cures.After all, everyone wants to be healthier.
In his 2019 State of the Union Address, Trump spent considerable time highlighting a proposal for a new special effort to fight pediatric cancers, and he received sustained bipartisan applause.Sadly, not much has been heard about that idea since.
Indeed, in some alternative presidential timeline, it might have been possible for Trump to launch a whole “Cure Strategy,” coordinating public and private efforts on behalf of medical research.Such a Cure Strategy would help shift the debate from the difficult topic of Obamacare, pro or con, to the happier topic of making disease go away, just as we once made polio go away. As this author has arguedmanytimes here at Breitbart News, health insurance is great, but health itself is greater.
Of course, by now, in mid-2019, it might be too late to gin up a comprehensive approach to a Cure Strategy in time for the 2020 elections.Such a strategy, after all, would require cooperation from the Democrats in Congress, and they’re in no mood to help Trump on anything.We can hope that the “window of opportunity” will open up again after the 2020 election.
Yet in the meantime, as Brock’s American Bridge ads pound Trump and the GOP on health care, let’s not forget to mention: George Soros and his fellow left-wing billionaires are funding American Bridge.
The New Republic, which in the past few years has faded from obscurity to invisibility, has discovered what is all too obvious to even the casual observer of politics. Namely that polls are, get this, inaccurate. The one who went on this voyage of discovery to tell us what we already knew is staff writer of long political experience, Walter Shapiro. And since Shapiro has worked as a standup comedian (Laugh Factory?) he does provide us with some chuckles at the expense of the news media which has demonstrated an absurd dependence on polling despite the fact polls have become even more…
Eric Cochran worked at Pinterest for nearly two years, creating open-source code for a variety of apps. But with a June 24 op-ed in Newsweek, he’s exposing the censorship skeletons in the platform’s closet. Cochran says he was an idealist who “wanted to do good” with the technology he created. “I thought Pinterest could be different from its sibling tech giants. I hoped Pinterest might be a tech company that respected its users and was honest with them.”
