by dap | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
If there was one thing we learned from the Biden administration, it’s that the best way to fight misinformation is with musical numbers.
It is in that spirit that I would like to take a look at the three most glaring and horrifying examples of blatant disinformation peddled to the American people in Vice President Kamala Harris’ six-day-old presidential campaign. Not just by showing the obvious lies, but with a few new versions of popular show tunes we can all sing along to and share.
The most obvious example is Democrats and the media’s stunning 180 on whether Harris was Joe Biden’s border czar. She was. The same way that John Kerry was climate czar and Bill Bennett was once education czar. It’s a term of art, not an official, literal appointment to Russian royalty.
Joe Biden put Harris in charge of stemming the tide at the border, several times, and it’s on tape. Republicans aren’t just making it up and the media had no problem at all calling the vice president the point person for the border. Now suddenly, it’s not true.
So for this bit of misinformation I went with the Gene Autry classic written in 1939 by Michael Carr and Jimmy Kennedy, “South of the Border Down Mexico Way.”
Our Southern border
Was run by a czar
Her name was Ka-ma-la
And she had one job
The migrants to bar
She said – don’t come here,
In your homelands please stay
But over 8 million,
They came anyway.
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Ay, ay, ay, ay, indeed.
The next tremendous lie I wanted to tackle was that somehow, in just two and a half days, Kamala Harris “earned” the nomination through a vigorous, “grassroots” and “bottom up” effort. To hear good ol’ Chuck Schumer and the liberal media tell it, tens of millions of Democratic voters showed up at their local Elks Lodge or something and held straw polls. In fact, to this day, nobody has voted for Kamala for president except the party bosses.
Here I decided to go with the 1924 classic by Isham Jones and Gus Kahn, that we all remember Dooley Wilson playing in “Casablanca:” “It Had to Be You.”
It had to be Kamala
It had to be Kamala
The voters be damned, the bosses demand
The poor suckers follow ya
For nobody else, Barack will obey
So, it’s Harris all the way
It had to be Kamala
Cacklin’ Kamala
It had to be HER!
Finally, there is the little matter of Govtrack, a supposedly neutral website removing a past page accurately calling Harris the most liberal senator. All the while, her Wikipedia page is being scrubbed. And God knows what other information is being furiously erased in Orwellian fashion. It is the rewriting of history right before our eyes and they aren’t even trying to hide. Gone is the old leftist Kamala; in is the new moderate version.
The natural selection from the American songbook here is the Rogers and Hammerstein number “Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair,” from the musical “South Pacific.”
I’m gonna wash that woke right outta my hair
I’m gonna wash that woke right outta my hair
Govtrack’ll will erase it
The media will replace it
And push new Kamala through the door.
We all have a role to play to fight misinformation. But as a former disinformation czar in the Biden administration taught us, there’s no reason we can’t do it with a song in our heart.
by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
The New York Times editorial board pleaded with
to “do better” than her former running mate in fielding questions from reporters.
“Vice President Kamala Harris, now the likely Democratic nominee, has the chance to encourage and embrace the kind of close examination that the public so far has had little opportunity to witness during the 2024 race,” the Times editorial board
Friday.
“Americans deserve a campaign that tests the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates; that highlights their differences and allows scrutiny of their plans; that motivates people to vote by giving them a clear account of how their choice in this election will affect their lives. Americans deserve the opportunity to ask questions of those who are seeking to lead their government.”
While the Times said the rollout of the Harris campaign offered “promising signs” of a positive change, it said the VP “needs to do more, and she needs to do it quickly.”
“Ms. Harris ought to challenge Mr. Trump to a series of debates or town halls on subjects of national importance, such as the economy, foreign policy, health care and immigration. Mr. Trump claims that he is ready and willing to participate in debates once Democrats have officially selected a nominee. Americans would benefit from comparing the two candidates directly,” the editorial board told readers.
The Times went on to insist “both candidates need to start taking questions from reporters, too.”
“Candidates have abundant opportunities to speak directly to voters, through social media and tightly controlled public appearances, without the mediation of journalists. Most voters, however, will never be able to speak directly with candidates,” the editorial board said. “President Biden has rarely granted the news media permission to ask questions on behalf of the American people, and on the rare occasions he did, his team sometimes sent scripted questions. It left him poorly prepared for the campaign trail and for confronting his opponent. Mr. Trump, too, rarely takes questions. Ms. Harris has the chance to do better.”
“Engaging with voters is especially important for Ms. Harris because she would be the first major-party presidential candidate in modern times who did not pass through the state primary process, in which voters have a chance to take the measure of candidates and to ask questions about the issues that matter most to their communities,” the piece continued. “Addressing small crowds in small places and answering questions from local reporters are rituals during the primaries for a reason. Unlike large public rallies, they are occasions for encounters on equal footing, and they are an education for the candidate as much as for voters.”
“Good leaders speak, and they listen. They welcome scrutiny. They accept responsibility. Ms. Harris now has a chance to demonstrate that she will be the kind of leader who deserves the nation’s support,” the Times later added.
In April, the Times editorial board
for “avoiding interviews and questions from major news organizations” in a scathing piece. The paper also called on the president to drop out of the race following his disastrous debate performance last month.
Harris has received jubilant
since she began to ascend to the top of the Democratic ticket on Sunday after Biden announced his exit from the race and endorsement. But she has yet to grant an interview despite becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee.
by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
Former
defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs was convicted on two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Tuscaloosa County District Judge Joanne Jannik
to a year of hard labor last week, ordering him to serve 60 days. The rest would be suspended for two years “pending the behavior of the defendant.”
Buggs is not permitted to have guns or be around them and is prohibited from owning dogs or cats.
The 27-year-old turned himself in late last month in Tuscaloosa for the animal cruelty charges after two dogs were allegedly found “severely malnourished, emaciated and neglected” on the back porch of a rental home he was staying at.
Buggs was accused of leaving a gray and white pit bull and black rottweiler on the back porch of the home in Tuscaloosa without food or water. The pit bull was free to roam in a screened-in porch, but the rottweiler was allegedly in a metal cage in direct sunlight.
Court documents obtained by Tuscaloosa Patch said police received information March 28 that dogs were left on the porch. Witnesses claimed Buggs moved out of the home March 19 due to owing over $3,100 in rent.
Last month, while he awaited his fate on the animal cruelty charges, he was arrested and booked in Tuscaloosa County Jail for
, according to jail records.
The Chiefs released him a little over a week after the domestic arrest.
Buggs, a sixth-round pick out of Alabama by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2019, joined the Chiefs as a member of their practice squad before their playoff run, which ended in another Super Bowl title. He had previously played for the Detroit Lions.
Fox News’ Scott Thompson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The
in Paris has sparked international outrage with drag-queen themed imagery of religious and historical figures.
In between listing all the countries participating in the Olympic Games, there have been several performances riffing on France’s history and culture, such as a headless Marie Antoinette, the last queen prior to being executed amid French Revolution,
in her hands sporting drag-style makeup. This was part of numerous drag queens that appeared to be a recurring theme throughout the ceremonies. Three drag queens were among the 10,000 torchbearers who relayed the Olympic flame as it started in Greece, passed through French territories and made its way to Paris.
One new display on Friday showed what appear to be numerous performers, including drag queens and a large woman in an aureole halo crown, parodying “The Last Supper,” a universally recognizable painting by renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci of Christ and his apostles.
Many internationally known political figures, particularly from American politics, condemned the display as a sign of the cultural rot in Western Civilization.
“Men in wigs front & center at the
OutKick’s Riley Gaines wrote in a social media post. “No one ever tell me this group is ‘oppressed’ or ‘marginalized’ again.”
Tesla founder Elon Musk who bought the X platform criticized the display, saying, “This was extremely disrespectful to Christians.”
Harrison Butker, an NFL football player who made headlines with
quoted scripture to condemn the display, writing, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.’ Galatians 6:7-8.”
Ex-transgender influencer Oli London described the scene, “Olympics openly mocks Jesus’ Last Supper as drag queens dressed as women play the role of disciples while a plus size woman appears in the middle symbolising Jesus wearing a giant crown.”
“The Olympics has basically turned into one long drag show,” anti-woke
Libs of TikTok wrote. “The Olympics has gone completely woke.”
“What the hell is going on at the Olympics?” video journalist Nick Sortor wrote. “No wonder nobody bothers watching anymore.”
“The transnational Left have contempt for Western civilization,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton wrote.
“This is crazy. Opening your event by replacing Jesus and the disciples at the The Last Supper with men in drag,” radio host Clint Russell said. “There are 2.4 billion Christians on earth and apparently the Olympics wanted to declare loudly to all of them, right out of the gate NOT WELCOME.”
Canadian conservative commentator Harrison Faulkner asked, “Wtf is going on at the
Juanita Broaddrick, the former nursing administrator who accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her, responded to the display at the Olympics, “Paris had fallen before the Olympics. This is just a continuation of it.”
Finance and culture commentator Wall Street Silver argued this represents the worst aspects of modern France.
“At least China showed the best of their country during their Olympics,” he noted. “France seems determined to show the weakest and worst parts of their country during their Olympics.”
Army veteran and radio host Bob Lonsberry wrote “Some of this might explain why so many people left Europe to settle in the United States.”
Conservative French politician and European parliament member Marion Maréchal, who has spoken at CPAC in the United States, warned international viewers that this polarizing display does not represent French people like herself.
“To all the Christians of the world who are watching the #Paris2024 ceremony and felt insulted by this drag queen parody of the Last Supper, know that it is not France that is speaking but a left-wing minority ready for any provocation. #notinmyname,” she wrote.
by dap | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News, Mediate, Politics
Vice President Kamala Harris is tied with former President Donald Trump in several key battleground states just days after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her, a series of new Fox News polls found.
conducted surveys of registered voters in Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, network anchor Bret Baier announced on Friday evening’s edition of Special Report.
In Michigan, Fox News found Harris and Trump tied at 49 percent while Harris led Trump by six points – 52-46 percent – in Minnesota.
The survey also found the two candidates each tied with 49 percent support in Pennsylvania while Trump was found to have been leading Harris in Wisconsin by one point with 50 percent support compared to Harris’ 49 percent.
Minnesota was the only state with
outside of the margin of error of +/- three points. Biden won the state in 2020 by just over seven points.
A Republican has not won the state of Minnesota since then-President Gerald Ford did so in 1976.
Trump carried the remaining states – Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – in 2016 but narrowly
in 2020.
were conducted between July 22 and July 24 among registered voters and as Baier noted, they found Harris performing better against Trump
before he exited the race.
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy told Baier that Friday’s numbers would help stave off a potential challenge to Harris next month at the Democratic National Convention.
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12-year-old Georgia girl last seen in May was found in Ohio, and a suspect has been arrested.
Maria Gomez-Perez was found in Dover, Ohio, Thursday,
reported.
She was found at a shopping center with 31-year-old Antonio Agustin, a citizen of Guatemala.
“Maria had indicated that she was unhappy, and she would like to leave home,” Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch said. Agustin allegedly drove to Georgia to meet Gomez-Perez at her home May 29.
Investigators said a break in the case came last week when the girl contacted her father on a new
account. She told him she was OK and to stop looking for her, the sheriff said.
Detectives tracked the IP address to a phone in Ohio. Agustin was arrested on suspicion of rape, but more charges are possible, Couch said.
“Technology can be a wonderful thing. It helped us locate Maria” said Couch. “But technology can also be used for evil. It’s why Maria was able to leave Gainesville with a stranger and travel nine hours from her home.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to U.S.
regarding Agustin’s legal status.
by | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News
Brooklyn residents took to the streets this week, after two men were fatally shot and another injured in separate shootings over the weekend, to insist upon the closure of 47 Hall Street, a
housing thousands near where the violence took place.
“There is simply no universe where you can cram 4,000 vulnerable people together safely,” resident Tim Walker told Fox 5. “Do you believe us now? How many more murders will it take?”
New York mayor Eric Adams said the administration had gotten wind of a “dangerous gang coming out of Venezuela” and that its possible connection to the killings was still under investigation.
“They’re extremely dangerous. And the person who was connected to the rape in Queens appears to have been part of that gang, and the person who shot the two police officers appeared to be part of that gang,”
.
“We’re dealing with violent individuals that are not representative of the overwhelming number of people who are coming here as migrant asylum seekers. So, we are currently investigating that shooting,” he continued.
At a press conference held by the mayor’s office yesterday, it was revealed that the various shootings might be connected to a “turf war” between two gangs.
Adams’ team has responded to the potential threat by sending First Deputy Commissioner of the
Police Department, Tania Kinsella, to Columbia to “get an analysis” of the gang.
The recent acts of violence in communities neighboring the migrant shelters of 47 Hall Street and 29 Ryerson Street spurred residents into action to fight against the
.
“We are here today because there is an attempt to put our neighborhood back 30 years in time when there were stabbings, drugs, assaults, fights, fear and killings,” Renee Collymore
at the rally.
“It used to be called ‘Murder Avenue,'” she added.
According to FOX 5,
reported that Arturo Jose Rodriguez-Marcano, a man in his 30s, was shot in the head by a suspect before opening fire again on 29 Ryerson Street, a migrant shelter within walking distance from Hall Street.
Enny Dejesus-Urbina Mendez, a 21-year-old shelter resident, was killed. A member of the local police told
that the victims of the shooting were migrants.
“We’re still investigating if this was connected to a gang. That is still unclear at this moment, but we are on top of it. We’re not going to allow a gang to take a stronghold or foothold here,” Adams said.
by dap | Jul 26, 2024 | Fox News, Mediate
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) claimed former President Donald Trump is “afraid” to debate presumptive Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, prompting an eye-roll from Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Friday.
Crow claimed that in addition to being fearful, Trump is tired and “fatigued,” which he said he learned to recognize during his military career.
MacCallum pointed out that Trump had agreed to a second debate with President Joe Biden which was scheduled for Sept. 10. Biden
last Sunday – effectively canceling the debate, but Harris offered to take the president’s spot for the ABC News forum.
Harris and her allies have since
Trump as hesitant to face off against her with the vice president herself accusing Trump of “backpedaling.”
MacCallum noted that Democrats do not yet have an official nominee and asked Crow if attacks against Trump were unfair.
The host asked, “Given the fact that there has been an upheaval on the Democrats’ ticket, does it seem fair that you would want to sort of say, ‘Okay, now we have a new situation. We’re gonna do this debate and that debate and these are the terms and let both sides hash them out?’”
Crow responded by portraying Trump as a sleepy, fearful old man:
The last debate, Martha, happened when both candidates were not their confirmed nominees, so what has changed is my question. I think the obvious answer is Donald Trump is afraid. He is afraid of the change and he’s acting like it. I’m a combat veteran and I know fear and fatigue when I see it and he is acting tired and afraid here.
Someone needs to wake him up and I know he has a hard time staying awake – you know he fell asleep repeatedly at his own nominating convention and he fell asleep repeatedly at his own criminal trial – someone needs to wake him up and let him know the next generation of leadership is here.
Crow’s comments prompted a smirk and an eye roll from MacCallum, who cut in and said, “Oh, come on. Come on.”
MacCallum proposed that the candidates should work together in the very near future to schedule a debate.
Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung
it would be “inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds” about nominating her.
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The face of
is reminding everyone that that is still the case.
is the overwhelming favorite to win the 200-meter race at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris (he’s even going for the world record), and he’s very likely to medal in the 100-meter, as well.
The 27-year-old Gainesville, Florida, native has yet to bring home Olympic gold (he earned bronze in the 200-meter in 2021), but he tore it up in the world championships recently to make himself a force to be reckoned with.
Lyles has taken home six golds in worlds, including three last year in Budapest (100-meter, 200-meter and 4×100-meter relay). Understandably, he’s confident in what he can do in Paris.
So, prior to heading out on Team USA’s boat for the Opening Ceremony, he put one word on his fingernails: “ICON.”
Lyles garnered controversy last year when he quipped that NBA champions cannot call themselves “world champions,” but despite receiving backlash, he stuck to his guns.
Now, he’s trying to make history by hopefully winning four gold medals, as he has also thrown his name in the hat for the 4×400-meter relay, in which he won silver at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in March.
“When you want to talk about being the greatest, that’s what you have to achieve. So, I announced that that is a goal of mine to complete; why not do it on the biggest stage, the Olympics?” Lyles told
.
However, the aforementioned world record in the 200-meter is his “dream goal.”
“It’s the first world record that I kind of put up as ‘I want that to be mine,’” Lyles said. “The 100, I’ve still been learning, but the 200 is my favorite event, and it’s the time I’ve put the most into. So, when I look at it, I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s the world record I want to be mine first.’”
Current record holder Usain Bolt ran his 19.19 at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. Lyles’ current personal best is 19.31, the third-fastest ever and current U.S. record.
He ran a personal-best 9.81 100-meter last week at a Diamond League meet.
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have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s.
The Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association announced this month that its searchers found the Margaret A. Muir in 50 feet (15.2 meters) of water off Algoma, Wisconsin, on May 12.
The Muir was a 130-foot (39.6 meters), three-masted schooner that was built in 1872. The ship was en route from Bay City, Michigan, to
, Illinois, with a cargo of bulk salt. It had almost reached Ahnapee, which is now known as Algoma, when it sank during a storm on the morning of Sept. 30, 1893.
According to the association, the six-member crew and Captain David Clow made it to shore in a lifeboat, but Clow’s dog went down with the ship. Clow remarked that “I would rather lose any sum of money than to have the brute perish as he did,” according to an association news release.
The association’s president, Great Lakes shipwreck researcher Brendon Baillod, persuaded the organization to undertake a search for the Muir last year after narrowing the search grid to about five square miles using historical records. Searchers were making their final pass of the day on May 12 and were
when they ran over the wreck.
Images of the wreck show the vessel’s deck has collapsed, and the sides have fallen outward.
