Democrats and media outlets were quick to blame climate change and oil companies for the devastating Palisades Fire that ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year. But that narrative crumbled on Wednesday when federal law enforcement officials charged a man for deliberately starting the fire. Federal prosecutors in California…
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Don’t Mess with Melania Trump
Melania Trump, the most attractive and intelligent first lady in American history, is doing her part to restore public faith in mainstream media by forcing journalists to atone for their lies. Over the past several weeks, Melania has obtained retractions and apologies from media outlets that published falsehoods…
Liberal Media, Activists Silent as Bari Weiss Makes LGBTQ History at CBS News
Bari Weiss made history this week as the first openly LGBTQ journalist to lead a major network newsroom. Paramount announced Monday that Weiss, the former New York Times opinion writer who founded the Free Press, would serve as editor in chief of CBS News. Alas, the landmark achievement…
‘RALLY, RAGE, & RESIST’: Pro-Hamas Student Groups Plan Nationwide Protests on Oct. 7 Anniversary
Anti-Israel student groups have started this semester with a whimper, keeping low profiles without major protests or unrest. That could change Tuesday as campus radicals plan to mark Oct. 7’s second anniversary with demonstrations planned across the country. Should those demonstrations turn destructive, the response will provide a…
NBC’s Divorce From MSNBC Is Almost Final. Who Gets Custody of the Kids?
NBC News, that failing left-wing media company, celebrated a key milestone Monday in its ongoing divorce from MSNBC, the failing radical left-wing media company soon to be rebranded as MS NOW. As of Oct. 6, NBC News will have officially cut ties with the employees who accepted humiliating…
‘What the F—?’: CBS News Staffers Melt Down Over New Boss Bari Weiss
Paramount formally announced the onetime New York Times opinion writer turned Free Press founder Bari Weiss as its editor in chief on Monday. Staffers at the perennially third-place network and their allies in the mainstream media are not taking it well. Inside CBS News, employees did the courageous thing: They started anonymously leaking their…
Gallery of the Gods
LONDON—Let me start my review of an exquisite exhibition with a small gripe: “Ancient India: living traditions” is saddled with a terrible name. The oh-so-obvious juxtaposition of opposites—of “ancient” with “living”—comes straight out of Headline Writing 101. Couldn’t the British Museum, the greatest repository of cultural artifacts in…
NYU, Facing Backlash, Agrees to 10/7 Federalist Society Event
New York University has reversed course and agreed to work with the Federalist Society to host the conservative scholar Ilya Shapiro on Oct. 7, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and three people familiar with the matter. The move comes after NYU’s law school claimed…
MSNBC Host Ayman Mohyeldin Attends Festival Featuring Former PLO Spokeswoman
A longtime MSNBC host last month attended an anti-Israel gathering alongside a long list of Hamas cheerleaders, social media posts reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. Ayman Mohyeldin, an Egyptian-born MSNBC personality, appeared in an Instagram post at the London “Together for Palestine” music festival with British…
FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Claims She’s ‘Not a Trained Seal’ Who Memorizes Talking Points
Claim: “I am not a trained seal; I’m not going to memorize lines and spout them. I have to understand the logic and building blocks of every argument so I can present it clearly and defend it persuasively.” Who said it: Kamala Harris, the inept career politician who…