Plus: NPR Allows Its Reporters to Engage in Direct Activism
August 2 2021
Good morning from Washington, where dominant news organizations look the other way when a government agency spies on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Our Fred Lucas reports. Surprise: NPR is fine with its employees being political activists. Jarrett Stepman sees a trend. On the podcast, Ben Shapiro tells Rob Bluey that, with the left’s demands, authoritarianism isn’t just for governments anymore. Plus: lawmakers bully Americans on the nature of men and women; federal officials fail to clothe children in their care, whistleblowers say; and Republicans want to question a Biden nominee over a racism allegation. On this day in 1992, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, raised poor in East St. Louis, becomes the first woman to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the heptathlon.
The Washington Post and other news outlets that decry government intrusion aren’t willing to stand with Fox News host Tucker Carlson as he is “unmasked” by the National Security Agency.
“I don’t have time for this s--t,” a manager replied when asked about using government credit cards to buy underwear and other clothing for the children, one of two whistleblowers alleges.
“The other sort of authoritarianism, which is unique to our moment … is the authoritarianism of the culture,” the founder of The Daily Wire says, discussing his new book.
“I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed,” the New York Democrat tells CNN’s Dana Bash. “I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.”
If the Equality Act passes, the insanity we’ve witnessed—biological males in female safe spaces such as locker rooms and on sports teams—will be enshrined in civil rights law.
David Chipman allegedly told a former ATF agent in 2007 that black agents “must have been cheating” because an “unusually large number” passed a promotion exam.
The left can’t admit vaccine-hesitant people might be rational. In fact, the mainstream media would have you believe all public health dissenters are kooks.
