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As Olympics Ratings Crater, Some in Media Ignore Ugly Truth

From Ed Morrissey: Not once does The Spun mention the pushback on China’s genocide of the Uighurs or its demolition of freedom in Hong Kong, not to mention the whole COVID-19 pandemic that managed to kill millions of people around the world. “Why do you think the Olympic ratings are so much lower this time than last?” asks The Spun at the end. Come on, man. Actually, Axios manages to avoid those answers, too. Blindness appears to be contagious in this case (Hot Air). From columnist Dan Wetzel: NBC says it had total audience of 13.6 million (streaming included) for first Saturday of Winter Olympics. Same date for 2018 Games did 24.2 million, so down 43.8 percent (Twitter). Meanwhile, Senator Ben Sasse is telling people to delete the app required for anyone going to the Olympics as it is spying on them (National Review). And it appears NBC booted a popular sports reporter from Beijing after he commented on the genocide (Daily Caller).

Senator’s Stroke Leaves Democrats in Temporary Minority

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan (pictured) is expected to be out for four to six weeks – hoping to return to help Biden push through a liberal Supreme Court Justice.

CBS News

Charter School for BIPOC Students Only to Open in Portland

From the story: HOLLA Public Charter School is expected to open in the fall of 2022 in partnership with the Reynolds School District. “We’ll focus on what’s in your community. Like, it’s a very strong entrepreneurial focus […] There’ll be a very strong hip-hop focus around our kids’ learning style,” explained Knox (KGW). From Hugh Hewitt: This is unconstitutional (Twitter).

Nancy Pelosi Spent Nearly $500,000 on Private Jets Since 2020

Among the many problems with that: She claims climate change is an “existential threat” we have “a moral obligation to protect.”

Daily Mail

Democrats Begin to Pull Away from Biden on Mask Mandates

Those running for governor see it is a losing issue (RedState). From Erick Erickson: How bad must the internal polling from Democrats be to see them suddenly racing to end mask mandates and play up natural immunity after two years of dogmatic resistance? (Twitter). From Karol Markowicz: Super glad that the Dem governors all got the “oh crap, we’re about to get smoked in the midterms, change course!” memo today but as a country we need the admission masks don’t work and will never, ever, return. Ever (Twitter).

George Washington University President Changes Tune on Posters Critical of China

Mark Wrighton originally agreed they were racists and wrong but admits now he “responded hastily.” He wrote “I want to be very clear: I support freedom of speech—even when it offends people—and creative art is a valued way to communicate on important societal issues.”

GWU

Rumble Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million to Switch Platforms

They’d even included the now-deleted episodes.

Hot Air

Rent Hits All-Time High

As inflation crunches down hard on families.

Axios

Quarantined Athletes in China Complain of Squalor

Athletes claim they are fed tiny amounts of food. Some question the odd timing of covid positive test results. The athletes are discovering China really doesn’t care about human rights (USA Today). More on the poor living conditions (NY Post).

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Canadian Police Seize Fuel from Ottawa Truckers

They also outlawed honking their horns at night as the police use emergency powers to crack down on protestors.

Daily Caller