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July 2, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Fact Check
Media

FACT CHECK: Did Farage Say Le Pen Will Be a ‘Disaster’ for France? No…

Brexit leader Nigel Farage was quoted on Monday as having called France’s Rassemblement National leader a “disaster” for France. The National Pulse checked the veracity of the comments first published by the neoliberal ‘UnHerd’ website, which has since altered its reporting.

On Monday, UnHerd claimed Farage said, “Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) will be a ‘disaster’ if elected in France.” Farage, however, pushed back against the framing of his comments, telling The National Pulse: “I am very unhappy with the UnHerd headline. Whilst I do not agree with the Le Pen economics, I have said for ten years that she will become the French president.”

“On matters of sovereignty, border controls, and defending national culture, she stands up for people who have been treated with contempt by the elites,” he continued, predicting National Rally “will do very well on Sunday.”

The original UnHerd headline.

At the time of publication, UnHerd had altered its headline and first paragraph to reflect the change, though the falsely framed story also had a knock-on effect, with the Telegraph and Express newspapers also claiming Farage had slammed Le Pen ahead of her second round of voting on Sunday.

The edited UnHerd copy.

National Rally won the first round of the French elections on June 30, with President Emmanuel Macron‘s Ensemble bloc falling to third place behind a far-left coalition. Macron and the far-left are mulling a joint “republican front” to block the populists in the second round, but the establishment right Les Republicains (Republicans) are, for the first time, declining to support an anti-populist alliance.

The Telegraph’s original headline, before edits occurred late Monday.

Farage hopes to make his own political breakthrough in the British snap election on July 4.

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage was quoted on Monday as having called France's Rassemblement National leader a "disaster" for France. The National Pulse checked the veracity of the comments first published by the neoliberal 'UnHerd' website, which has since altered its reporting. show more

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July 2, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Media

FLASHBACK: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Calls ‘This Version of Biden, Intellectually, the Best Biden Ever.’

As recently as March, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough declared Joe Biden not just “cogent” but “better than he’s ever been, intellectually [and] analytically.” His Pravda-like praise of the Dear Leader, criticized at the time, appears even less credible after a disastrous debate performance.

“I’ve said it for years now, [Biden] is cogent—but I undersold it when I said he was cogent. He’s far beyond cogent,” Scarborough said in March.

“Start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth, and eff you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever, not a close second, and I’ve known him for years,” he insisted.

Scarborough made the remarks shortly after a Justice Department report by special counsel Robert Hur recommended against charging Biden for mishandling classified materials in part because he is “an elderly man with a poor memory.”

Post-debate, however, Scarborough is pushing for Biden to step aside, asking, “If he were CEO, and he turned in a performance like that, would any corporation in America keep him on as CEO?”

“I fear Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States unless things change,” the MSNBC host mourned.

Scarborough paints a second Trump administration in hysterical terms, claiming the America First leader will exile, imprison, or execute his opponents if he returns to the White House.

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As recently as March, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough declared Joe Biden not just "cogent" but "better than he’s ever been, intellectually [and] analytically." His Pravda-like praise of the Dear Leader, criticized at the time, appears even less credible after a disastrous debate performance. show more
June 28, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
UK

FALSE FLAG? — ‘Racist’ Reform Volunteer in State TV Sting is Actor Specializing in ‘Secret Filming.’

Brexit leader Nigel Farage is raising questions about Andrew Parker, a low-level volunteer for his Reform Party who was secretly recorded calling Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a slur and saying boat migrants should be shot by state-owned Channel 4. Parker turns out to be a professional actor who has previously worked for Channel 4 and lists ‘Secret Filming’ as one of his specialties.

Farage says Parker initially lied to both Reform and The Telegraph newspaper about being an actor when the Channel 4 story broke. Parker now admits he is an actor, but denies he was acting when Channel 4 recorded his remarks about Sunak being a “f***ing Paki.”

Farage has gone on to stress Parker lists ‘Secret Filming’ as one of his skills. “Will the media wake up?” Farage asked in a social media post.

In an appearance on Loose Women, similar to The View in the United States, Farage also noted that Parker describes himself as “well-spoken” but lists “rough speaking”—i.e. speaking with a more low-class accent—as another of his skills.

“I was in the office when he arrived [to campaign] last Saturday, and he was doing ‘rough speaking.’ It was an act right from the very start… He wasn’t being himself from day one. I have to tell you, this whole thing is a complete and total set-up,” Farage said.

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage is raising questions about Andrew Parker, a low-level volunteer for his Reform Party who was secretly recorded calling Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a slur and saying boat migrants should be shot by state-owned Channel 4. Parker turns out to be a professional actor who has previously worked for Channel 4 and lists 'Secret Filming' as one of his specialties. show more
June 24, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Media
TECH

MeidasTouch Chief Likens His Work to Political Arson, Gloats Over Posting Fake Clips.

Ron Filipkowski, Editor-in-Chief of the far-left MeidasTouch Network, has likened his organization’s behavior on social media to criminal arson, “dropping a burning ember in a dry forest” and creating a “big blaze” of fake news within hours.

MeidasTouch, praised by the Joe Biden regime as its “front lines” on social media, launched its most successful arson attack to date in March with the “bloodbath” hoax. The network deceptively edited a clip of Donald Trump talking about a metaphorical bloodbath for the auto industry under Biden and presented it as though he was threatening political violence if he loses the election in November. Biden disseminated the same misinformation.

“Right-wingers have been clipping Democrats, clipping Biden, with deceptive posts,” Filipkowski alleged, implying his own output is deceptive with the rhetorical question, “Why aren’t the Democrats doing this to Trump?”

Founded by brothers Jordan, Brett, and Ben Meiselas, linked to the Hillary Clinton campaign and accused sex trafficker Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, one of MeidasTouch’s early funders was the Lincoln Project. The Never Trump group was co-founded by John Weaver, who had to resign after he was accused of sexual harassment and grooming by over 20 young males, including a 14-year-old.

Another controversial MeidasTouch backer is LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman. The portly plutocrat is a Democrat megadonor who has also funded Nimarata ‘Nikki’ Haley’s primary challenge against Trump, E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump, and Fusion GPS, responsible for the Russia hoax Steele Dossier against Trump. Hoffman is also a former guest of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.

MeidasTouch hosts several highly controversial contributors, including Michael Cohen, the convicted perjuror and disbarred lawyer, and ‘Coach D,’ who believes America’s Founding Fathers were all white supremacist pedophiles.

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Ron Filipkowski, Editor-in-Chief of the far-left MeidasTouch Network, has likened his organization's behavior on social media to criminal arson, "dropping a burning ember in a dry forest" and creating a "big blaze" of fake news within hours. show more
New York Times
June 21, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media

NYT Editorial Board Member Posts Meltdown Blog About JD Vance.

The Deputy Editor of the New York Times editorial board has posted a seething blog attacking J.D. Vance, the America First senator favored to become Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate by readers of The National Pulse.

David Firestone accuses Vance, a former editor of the Yale Law Journal, of being “unserious” and “callous” because he believes passing Congressional legislation to ban bump stocks would be “inhibiting the rights of law-abiding Americans” to address a “fake problem.”

“Presumably, [Vance] thinks there’s some kind of right to own a machine gun,” Firestone seethes, though the Supreme Court just ruled that semi-automatic firearms with bump stops are not, in fact, “machine guns.”

Firestone also rails against Vance‘s move to block the appointment of U.S. attorneys and judges by the Joe Biden regime in response to the Democratic lawfare campaign against Trump and his allies.

“These kinds of blockades are among the most juvenile and petulant tantrums an elected official can throw, putting Vance right there on the lowest level of the Senate alongside Tommy Tuberville of Alabama,” Firestone whines.

He concludes by saying “Trump might want to think twice before choosing someone even more preposterous than he is” as his running mate—although the fact the NYT editorial board is dead against Vance may only serve to confirm he would be an appropriate second-in-command to the America First leader.

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The Deputy Editor of the New York Times editorial board has posted a seething blog attacking J.D. Vance, the America First senator favored to become Donald Trump's 2024 running mate by readers of The National Pulse. show more
June 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
UK

Yes, You Still Need a ‘License’ to Watch TV in Britain. Farage Says He’ll End It.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage, whose Reform Party is outpacing the governing Conservatives ahead of a July 4 snap election, says a Reform government will scrap the TV license that funds the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

By law, every Briton who watches live television is required to purchase a TV license for £169.50 (~$215.25) a year—£57 (~$72.40) a year for the handful of people who still only have a black-and-white set—even if they do not watch any BBC content.

The state enforces the license fee through criminal fines for non-payment. Failure to pay such fines can result in imprisonment.

Conservatives and populists argue the BBC harbors institutional bias despite its legal obligation to be politically neutral. The broadcaster often slants public discourse in favor of mass migration and multiculturalism and injects woke ideology into educational and entertainment content.

In August, The National Pulse reported how BBC News repeatedly doctored a report on homosexual pedophile Andrew Way, removing references to the fact he is a Pride organizer and drag queen.

Farage believes the compulsory license fee is out of date and unjust. He argues the BBC should transition to a subscription-based model and allow television viewers to choose whether or not to fund it.

He has also argued that scrapping the licence would relieve financial pressure on British households and incentivize the BBC to offer content the public actually wants to see rather than content serving an ideological agenda.

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage, whose Reform Party is outpacing the governing Conservatives ahead of a July 4 snap election, says a Reform government will scrap the TV license that funds the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). show more
June 17, 2024
Wake Up Right
Election 2024
Media

CNN’s Debate Rules Are Ludicrous – No Audience, Muted Mics, And a Coin Flip…

CNN has finalized rules for the first 2024 presidential debate, with safeguards in place to protect Joe Biden.

The details: Both the Trump and Biden campaigns agreed to the following rules for their first debate on June 27 in Atlanta, moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash:

  • No studio audience;
  • Microphones muted outside speaking time;
  • Candidates stand at two uniform podiums;
  • Position on stage determined by coin-flip;
  • No props or prepared notes;
  • Each is provided paper, pen, and water;
  • During two commercial breaks, candidates can’t interact with campaign staff.

Safeguards for Biden: Muting microphones and removing the audience appear to be moves to help Joe Biden. In both 2016 and 2020, Trump routinely jabbed his opponents and debate moderators, often eliciting laughter and cheers from the audience.

  • However, I am pleased that both candidates must stand the entire time. And I look forward to Biden having to speak without prepared notes.

Third party? CNN noted it is not “impossible” for Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be featured on the debate stage. He would need to be on the ballot in enough states to reach 270 electoral college votes. He’s currently in six states, totaling 89 potential electoral votes.

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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CNN has finalized rules for the first 2024 presidential debate, with safeguards in place to protect Joe Biden. show more
June 13, 2024
William Upton
Media

Data Reveals New York Times ‘Bestseller List’ is EXTREMELY Partisan.

A study by The Economist has found that The New York Times‘s bestseller book list is biased against conservative authors. The study found that books authored by conservatives were at least seven percent less likely to make the newspaper’s weekly bestseller list. However, the analysis excluded household right-wing names in nonfiction like Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, who have generally made the list—meaning less known names in conservative political publishing are most impacted.

The study also found that conservative books that make the bestseller list “…rank 2.3 notches lower on the nonfiction list, on average, than those published by other presses with similar sales… .” Low-volume conservative publishers—whose books sell less than 5,000 copies a week—were found to have a much less likely chance of having titles make the list than non-conservative publishers.

In 2017, conservative publisher Regnery stopped communicating its sales data with the New York Times after finding it editorialized its list in order to exclude conservative authors Dinesh D’Souza and Raheem Kassam (the latter now the Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse).

Responding to the study, The New York Times disputed the allegations of bias. “The political views of authors or their publishers have absolutely no bearing on our rankings and are not a factor in how books are ranked on the lists,” the newspaper said. It added: “There are a number of organizations with bestseller lists, each with different methodologies, so it is normal to see different rankings on each.”

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A study by The Economist has found that The New York Times's bestseller book list is biased against conservative authors. The study found that books authored by conservatives were at least seven percent less likely to make the newspaper's weekly bestseller list. However, the analysis excluded household right-wing names in nonfiction like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck, who have generally made the list—meaning less known names in conservative political publishing are most impacted. show more
June 12, 2024
Media
Politics

Fox News Board Member Paul Ryan Insists: ‘I’m an Anti-Establishment Republican.’

Former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has bemoaned being labeled a “Republican In Name Only” (RINO) in an interview on Fox News, where he is now a board member. Ryan, 54, called himself “an anti-establishment Republican” during an appearance with the network’s Neil Cavuto, wherein he blasted former President Trump as “unfit for office.”

During the conversation, Ryan claimed neoconservative Nikki Haley would “win this thing by 12 points” and explained that he would be writing in his candidate for president, effectively telling Fox News viewers to throw the election for Joe Biden.

Look, I got death, taxes, and weird stuff from Donald Trump. These are the three certainties in my life, so to me, it’s just another day in my life,” Ryan seethed. “Fealty to Trump is what RINO is. Meaning, if you don’t pledge fealty to this man, then you are a RINO,” he claimed.

Ryan went on to complain Trump is a “populist” and “not a conservative.”

“I would prefer a party that is based on principles, not personality or populism. This populism is untethered to principles, and that’s why, you know, I’m an anti-establishment Republican,” Ryan claimed, also describing himself as a “classical liberal” and “free market conservative.”

Neil Cavuto tells Paul Ryan he has a “great future” in politics if he wants back in.

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Former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has bemoaned being labeled a "Republican In Name Only" (RINO) in an interview on Fox News, where he is now a board member. Ryan, 54, called himself "an anti-establishment Republican" during an appearance with the network's Neil Cavuto, wherein he blasted former President Trump as "unfit for office." show more
bannon
June 11, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
Media

WATCH: Biden Camp Truly Fears ‘Man of Action’ Bannon.

War Room host Stephen K. Bannon is “really, truly” feared by Joe Biden and his Department of Justice (DOJ) because he is not just a pundit but a man who motivates his audience to “get up off their couches, up off their seats” and take concrete action, argues Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse.

Questioned by Dinesh D’Souza on how much Bannon being sidelined by imprisonment during the election campaign will hurt the MAGA movement, Kassam said there is “no doubt” that War Room is “one of the largest shows on the political right” with “one of the largest and most activist audiences.”

“That’s the critical part of it here, and I think that’s what Biden’s DOJ and their cronies really, truly fear. It’s not just, hey, here’s a guy that gets in front of a microphone and screams bloody murder all day long about what the globalist left is doing… [Bannon] actually gets people up off their couches, up off their seats; helps them to register for precinct strategy; helps them to register for canvassing and campaigning,” Kassam stressed. “It’s his phrase, his catchphrase: ‘Action, action, action’—and that’s what they want to stop.”

The National Pulse chief said Bannon‘s imprisonment would be “extremely harmful” to MAGA, warning that, while the former Trump administration chief strategist is currently slated for release in November, an upcoming state trial in New York could see him imprisoned for even longer.

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War Room host Stephen K. Bannon is "really, truly" feared by Joe Biden and his Department of Justice (DOJ) because he is not just a pundit but a man who motivates his audience to "get up off their couches, up off their seats" and take concrete action, argues Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse. show more