The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so. The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn’t want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway. President Trump will be suing The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Mr. Murdoch, shortly. The Press has to learn to be truthful, and not rely on sources that probably don’t even exist. President Trump has already beaten George Stephanopoulos/ABC, 60 Minutes/CBS, and others, and looks forward to suing and holding accountable the once great Wall Street Journal. It has truly turned out to be a “Disgusting and Filthy Rag” and, writing defamatory lies like this, shows their desperation to remain relevant. If there were any truth at all on the Epstein Hoax, as it pertains to President Trump, this information would have been revealed by Comey, Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and other Radical Left Lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have sat in a file waiting for “TRUMP” to have won three Elections. This is yet another example of FAKE NEWS!
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21734/media-iran-mouthpiece
This time the lies are being fabricated by Iran and its proxy Hamas — with the generous help of the “international community” not least the UN, the Red Cross and a variety of NGOS…
It has apparently made no difference to mainstream media reporting that there is footage showing that Hamas deliberately shoots at Gazans waiting for aid, or shoots them as punishment for receiving it; or that local Gazans working for GHF have testified that Hamas deliberately targets the aid sites where GHF operates and that 12 of its local staff have been murdered, and others tortured; or that audio has been released in which a resident in Gaza explains how Hamas operates….
It has also apparently made no difference to the mainstream media that the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida daily newspaper in the Palestinian Authority, a self-declared enemy of Israel, has, in an article, “accused Hamas of murdering Gaza residents trying to get to the American food aid distribution centers established in the Gaza Strip.”
When Iran’s proxy Hamas, on behalf of Iran, invaded Israel to carry out the worst massacre against the Jews since the Holocaust, the thin civilizational veneer that used to stop most of “elite” society from displaying the ugliest parts of its Jew-hatred completely peeled off. It is now on full display, though still cloaked in the transparent pretense of “anti-Zionism.” Its vilifications, falsely defaming the Jewish state and its inhabitants, embody echoes of Nazi propaganda.
Since Hamas launched the Gaza war in October 2023, contemporary versions of the false accusation that Jews kill non-Jews to use their blood for ritual purposes have proliferated. It is a lie that was widely spread by the Nazis, especially by Julius Streicher, the propagandist and publisher of the Third Reich newspaper, Der Stürmer.
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/11/just-how-dumb-are-todays-journalists/
A headline in Axios over the weekend carried this scary warning: “An increasing share of American adults are going hungry.”
Look at what has happened since Trump has been in office. It’s back down to where it was nearly two years ago and appears to be moving sideways.
Axios is hardly the only news site to claim that the One Big Beautiful Bill “slashes” food stamps – which now goes under the euphemism Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – and will cause millions to go hungry.
As The Guardian put it, “the cuts amount to the largest in the program’s history. They come at a time when food insecurity is already on the rise in all 50 states.”
The Guardian apparently got its talking points from the leftist Center for American Progress, which makes the same point. “Moreover, this legislation comes at a time when food insecurity is rising across all 50 states, reaching levels not seen since 2014.”
But look at the sources that the Center for American Progress (CAP) – a favorite “think tank” for many journalists – links to in its screed about the horrors of the OBBB.
The “shocking data point” comes, the story says, “at a time when the stock market is hitting record highs and President Donald Trump just signed a bill slashing food benefits.”
But take a look at the chart Axios published in that tear-jerking story, which is based on data from Morning Consult. Notice anything?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/07/how-the-media-echoes-hamas-propaganda/
Israel has come to be the most demonized nation on Earth. Its actions in Gaza are continually vilified as ‘genocidal’. Last month’s air strikes against Iran were denounced as ‘unprovoked’ and ‘illegal’. In the one-sided narrative that is now dominant in the West, the Jewish State is the aggressor, while the terror groups and regimes that attack it are cast as innocent victims. Natasha Hausdorff – barrister and legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – joined Brendan O’Neill on his podcast, The Brendan O’Neill Show, to debunk the lies we are constantly told about Israel. What follows is an edited version of that conversation. You can watch the whole thing here.
Brendan O’Neill: How degraded has the debate become around Israel right now?
Natasha Hausdorff: It’s been deteriorating extremely rapidly – but this is perhaps unsurprising. For decades, we have had a media that, for the most part, propagates the lies of terrorist organisations. This has come to a head in everything we have seen being reported, in particular out of Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas. Ultimately, it is misinformation that has been informing – or perhaps disinforming – public debate.
O’Neill: What did you think when you saw a very large crowd of privileged Britons chanting ‘death to the IDF’?
Hausdorff: Let’s be clear that this was essentially calling for death to Jews. It is simply an evolution of ‘From the river to the sea’, which we’ve heard from 7 October onwards.
I saw a distinct lack of pretense to this sort of unbridled Jew hate. Glastonbury has been a very unwelcome place for Jews and Israelis for years. It was reported that there was even a Hitler flag being displayed on some of the tents. This is deeply, deeply concerning – but likely only the tip of the iceberg. There are many people who have been swept up in all this because they think it’s the fashionable thing. Apparently, it’s the way that you demonstrate your moral credentials these days – by siding with internationally proscribed terrorist organisations and saying things like ‘up Hamas’ and ‘up Hezbollah’.
O’Neill: What’s your response to the claim Israel is guilty of genocide?
Hausdorff: Not only is it grotesque, it has no basis in reality whatsoever. But it is being advanced with a very particular purpose. I remember being on SABC – the South African version of the BBC – just after South Africa had brought its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). My counterpart said, ‘Isn’t it marvelous now we can finally use Israel and genocide in the same sentence, and nobody can tell us otherwise?’.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/07/06/new-york-times-struggles-to-explain-why-it-reported-news-to-traumatized-readers/
This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned. Why? Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The newspaper took the additional step of publishing a cringing explanation of why it reported the news that Mamdani lied on his Columbia application in claiming to be black.For liberals, it was an utter nightmare. For a party still defined by identity politics, Mamdani’s false claim over his race left many uncertain about how to react.The left has always maintained a high degree of tolerance for false claims by its own leaders, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native American to Sen. Richard Blumenthal claiming to have served in the Vietnam War.
The problem is when a news eco-chamber for many readers is shattered by an errant outbreak of journalism. Many Times readers live within a hermetically sealed news silo, relying on MSNBC for cable, The New York Times for print, and BlueSky for social media. You can literally go all day without being exposed to an opposing view or fact. Then suddenly this happens.
The result is often anger. It is the same response many in higher education have to “triggering” views being expressed on campus by conservative or libertarian speakers.
The fact is that the Mamdani story was obvious news—and confirmed by the candidate himself. Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia University application, according to the New York Times.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/hey-new-york-times-are-we-really-still-touting-gaza-health-ministry-propaganda/?utm_source=recirc-
This is from the Newspaper of Record today, reporting on Trump administration pressure for a ceasefire between Israel, i.e., our ally, and Hamas, i.e., the jihadist Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood designated for three decades as a foreign terrorist organization under federal law:
Israel’s retaliation has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children, according to the Gaza health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Almost all of the roughly two million Palestinian residents of in Gaza have been displaced at one point during the war, many of them repeatedly, and hunger is widespread.
Sigh.
Just to clarify:
That “Gaza health ministry” is Hamas. If its flacks are moving their lips, they are lying. This is not merely because they are liars. It is doctrinal. In Hamas-dominated schools, Palestinians children are taught the prophet Mohammed’s instruction that “War is deceit.” In warfare against Jews and other infidels, Islamic scripture encourages misdirection, ploys, and broken agreements — indeed, much of the Koran details the military conquests of the first Muslims, and deception was a feature, not a bug. (Muslims are hardly unique in this regard, Mohammed was speaking a timeless military truth. The important point here is that Hamas considers itself engaged in a jihadist war for the destruction of Israel; its statements are in furtherance of the jihad and, perforce, tend to be lies.)
The “Gaza health ministry,” i.e., Hamas, does not distinguish between “civilians” and combatants in totaling deaths because sharia supremacist ideology does not see things that way. First, “citizen” is a Western concept. Sharia societies are not free societies; they have the sharia authority and its subjects (not citizens), most of whom are Muslim; the only obligation of the ruler and the ruled is to adhere to sharia law. Second, to be sure, sharia does distinguish between combatants and other subjects; combatants are esteemed in life and venerated in death, after which Allah is believed to richly reward them. Nevertheless, insofar as the execution of the jihad is concerned, it is the duty of all Muslims — combatants and noncombatants alike — to die if that advances the cause of Allah. In Hamas’s jihad against Israel, Western garment rending about “civilian casualties” is more valuable to the cause than Hamas’s combatant operations because (as we’re seeing yet again) the former yield concessions from the Jewish state that are manifestly more valuable than whatever (increasingly little) is achieved by the latter.
Two million Palestinians have been displaced at one time or another because (a) Hamas atrociously attacked Israel on October 7, requiring Israel to respond by attacking Hamas in its Gaza stronghold, the former safe haven from which it planned, trained, recruited, and raised funds for its eliminationist jihad against Israel; (b) as a terrorist organization that specializes in war crimes, Hamas both hides among and targets civilian infrastructure; (c) Israel encouraged Gazan noncombatants to relocate in the lead-up to its combat operations against Gazan military targets to avoid killing noncombatants – honoring the spirit of international law even though Israel well knew the consequences of this approach: more casualties for its own soldiers while Hamas jihadists evaded attack, and a lengthier war; and (d) if the noncombatants had not been displaced, if Israel had simply attacked targets of military value shielded by noncombatants (which the law of war permits), the Timeswould say that Israel had intentionally “mass-murdered civilians” and committed “war crimes” (which, of course, is what commentators of the Islamist-leftist alliance say anyway).
Hunger is less widespread than the Times would have you believe because Israel is delivering millions of meals to Gazans. To the extent there is and has been hunger, it is because the billions in humanitarian aid that Israel and the West send to Gaza is stolen by Hamas. Historically speaking, some degree of hunger is a tragic fact of life in war-torn territories – it is a big part of why populations are displaced. Yet, the hunger problem in Gaza has been ameliorated because Israel has substantially defanged Hamas – since the terrorist organization has been severely weakened as a fighting and ruling force, Israel has been able to get humanitarian aid directly to the Gazan population, without diversion by Hamas.
Hope that helps.
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/06/22/must-watch-rubio-wipes-the-floor-with-brennan-again-this-time-over-iranian-nukes-n4941059
There are some things I’d never do in life. I’d never challenge Usain Bolt to a race. I’d never have a conversation with Clarence Thomas and pretend to know more about the law than he does. I’d never volunteer to tackle Derrick Henry, and I’d never try to tell Peyton Manning how to throw a football. And I’d certainly never try to outsmart Secretary of State Marco Rubio on something like foreign intelligence.
But Margaret Brennan doesn’t seem to know how to stay in her lane. I guess she enjoys embarrassing herself on national television? That’s the only thing I can come up with.
Rubio made the media rounds on Sunday morning, and among his appearances was a spot on “Face the Nation.” As you can imagine, Donald Trump’s decision to beautifully bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities was the topic of discussion. Brennan seemed to fancy herself some sort of foreign intelligence expert, and as you can also imagine, Rubio made her look like an absolute moron.
The interview started with Brennan asking about Iran’s capabilities to retaliate against the United States.
Rubio responded by saying that Iran should choose peace, but that the United States is prepared for anything the regime could throw our way. He also doubled down on the fact that this was not an attack on the country but simply a move to eliminate their nuclear capabilities. He concluded:
So this mission was a very precise mission. It had three objectives, three nuclear sites. It was not attack on Iran. It was not an attack on the Iranian people. This wasn’t a regime change move. This was designed to degrade and/or destroy three nuclear sites related to their nuclear weaponization ambitions, and that was delivered on yesterday. What happens next will now depend on what Iran chooses to do next. If they choose the path of diplomacy, we’re ready. We can do a deal that’s good for them, the Iranian people and good for the world. If they choose another route, then there will be consequences for that.
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/06/13/suddenly-journalists-dont-want-to-follow-the-money/
“Just … follow the money.” – Deep Throat, All the President’s Men
That use to be the watchword for investigative journalists. If you want to uncover corruption, find out where the money is coming from and where it is going. At least it use to be.
Today? Not so much. At least not when doing so could implicate Democrats or upset the left’s agenda.
Case in point is the Los Angeles riots. There’s plenty of reason to believe that the riots are being organized and financed by unsavory characters whose mission is to foment division and violence in the United States.
Some of the money is likely coming out of taxpayer pockets.
Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, is said to be behind some of the protests, according to the New York Post. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles staged a rally last Thursday to protest ICE arrests (but claims it has had nothing to do with the riots). That group got more than $46 million in federal grants in 2022 and 2023, as well as millions from California taxpayers.
“Another group involved in organizing the LA riots is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a radical leftist American union with extensive overseas ties,” says Heritage senior fellow Mike Gonzalez. “Then there are the ‘charities’ helping the rioters, such as Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network, Operation Healthy Hearts, LA Poverty Department, and Mutual Aid/Social Therapy.”
One scene captured by Fox News showed rioters unloading a truckload of Bionic Shield face masks that go for about $60 each. The FBI later arrested the guy driving the pickup truck, who faces charges of conspiracy to commit civil disorder.
But who paid for those masks? Who is buying “commercial grade fireworks … with shrapnel being put in,” that Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell says are fired at officers?
The FBI is investigating the financial ties behind the riots. The mainstream press could care less.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-manufactured-genocide-gaza
Concept creep describes the phenomenon in which morally potent terms expand beyond their original definitions into ever broader applications. As these terms become more diluted, they also become politically weaponized, shifting public perceptions, priorities, and policy.
In August 2020, I illustrated in these pages how terms like racism, white supremacy, and privilege saw a dramatic surge in media usage, significantly reshaping public and political perceptions and discourse. The same dynamic, I feared, was beginning to reshape another crucial term: genocide.
Genocide is going the way of racism and white supremacy, I observed on Oct. 19, 2023. Israel hadn’t yet invaded Gaza, but the mainstream media template for response to Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7 attacks was already set. Sure enough, by 2024, mentions of genocide in The New York Times (1.43% of all articles) had eclipsed the paper’s earlier peak for white supremacy (1.41% in 2020) and, though not matching the peak for racism/racist(s) (7.2% in 2020), still reflected a similar pattern of conceptual escalation.
Upon closer examination, however, much like the widespread surge in race-related terminology during the “Great Awokening,” The New York Times was far from alone, as references to genocide reached unprecedented highs across numerous major news outlets, including The Guardian and the Associated Press.
To confirm that these recent spikes were driven primarily by the Israel-Gaza conflict—and to place them in historical context—I analyzed how frequently each of the six outlets paired genocide with countries or groups historically associated with genocide allegations or acts. Using Nexis Uni, I tracked annual coverage associating genocide with well-documented historical cases, including Rwanda (1994), Darfur (2003-2008), Bosnia (1995), Myanmar (2017-present), and the Yazidis (2014-2017).
The results were striking and unambiguous: Coverage linking Israel with genocide has surged far beyond every other agreed-upon historical case of genocide across all examined outlets. In The New York Times, for example, articles pairing Israel and genocide reached levels more than nine times higher than the peak for Rwanda and nearly six times greater than for Darfur. Similarly, in The Guardian, more than 1 percent of all articles now reference both Israel and genocide—a frequency unmatched by any other pairing in recent decades.
https://freebeacon.com/media/as-rioters-burn-cars-and-clash-with-cops-cnn-cites-lawful-protests-and-broadcasts-broadway-play/
As anti-ICE rioters torched cars and clashed with police in Los Angeles on Saturday, CNN described the chaos as “lawful protests” with “some unrest.” The comments came after the network cut away from its broadcast coverage of the violent protests to air George Clooney’s journalism-themed Broadway musical.
“So there’s unrest. Let’s start with, there’s protests, lawful protests, which is allowed in this country,” said CNN senior national security analyst Juliette Kayyem, who is also a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School. “There is some unrest, generally dealt with by local law enforcement and if there needs to be state support through state police, and sometimes even national guard under a governor’s authority.”
Kayyem’s comments came after CNN turned its focus away from Los Angeles and toward Manhattan’s theater district, where it aired a “special” live broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck, Clooney’s Broadway adaptation of the 2005 film chronicling former CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow.
CNN ran a segment on Los Angeles around 6 p.m. eastern time before cutting to interviews with Clooney and the play’s director, a Washington Free Beacon review found. A “pre-show” special then aired from 6:30 to 7 p.m. before the play aired uninterrupted from 7 to 9 p.m. CNN also aired a post-show panel hosted by Anderson Cooper, cutting away from it at one point to detail the clashes in California and break the network’s roughly three-hour gap in coverage. Kayyem then joined for much of the 10 p.m. hour.
The violence in Los Angeles unfolded as protesters attempted to impede ICE raids taking place in the city. They burned an American flag, vandalized cars, setting one on fire, and pelted rocks at law enforcement officials, injuring one. Dozens were arrested throughout the day for “imped[ing] agents in their ability to conduct law enforcement operations.”
