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December 14, 2023
Politics

CNN’s Oliver Darcy Blasts His Own Network Over Vivek Ramaswamy Town Hall.

CNN’s senior media reporter Oliver Darcy blasted his own network for “legitimizing” Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and his “dangerous lies” by giving him a platform in a town hall on Wednesday. In his ‘Reliable Sources’ newsletter, Darcy argued that despite CNN’s assurances that Ramaswamy would not be able to “spread his lies unchecked” given Abby Phillip’s moderation, the network was still affording him unwarranted attention. Darcy contrasted this to the treatment of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is polling higher than Ramaswamy and has not been offered a similar opportunity by the network.

Ramaswamy used his platform to debunk a number of globalist hoaxes against the political right, including Jan 6 and the Whitmer kidnapping plot.

Darcy said the interview could have been pre-recorded, questioning why a major news network would “help to validate such a preposterous figure” and allow him to further his own agenda. This criticism follows Darcy’s whining about CNN partnering with certain organizations, and his censure of their controversial town hall with former President Donald Trump.

A spokesperson for CNN defended the network’s decision, maintaining that Ramaswamy is a significant contender for the GOP nomination and that voters still have questions for him before the Republican primary. The spokesperson added that the network’s role was to hold every candidate accountable and furnish voters with the necessary information for informed decisions. Reference was also made to Darcy’s disputes with then-CNN boss Chris Licht, who was subsequently dismissed the month after Darcy criticized him in the Reliable Sources newsletter.

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CNN's senior media reporter Oliver Darcy blasted his own network for "legitimizing" Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and his "dangerous lies" by giving him a platform in a town hall on Wednesday. In his 'Reliable Sources' newsletter, Darcy argued that despite CNN's assurances that Ramaswamy would not be able to “spread his lies unchecked” given Abby Phillip's moderation, the network was still affording him unwarranted attention. Darcy contrasted this to the treatment of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is polling higher than Ramaswamy and has not been offered a similar opportunity by the network. show more
December 14, 2023
Jake Welch
Media

WATCH: Vivek Steamrolls Panicked CNN with Jan 6, Fed Entrapment Explainer.

Republican 2024 presidential nominee outsider Vivek Ramaswamy railed against CNN host Abby Phillip on Wednesday night, detailing the reality of federal government agent involvement in Jan 6 and the Governor Whitmer kidnap hoax.

Phillip confronted Ramsmwamy on his claims, telling him a protestor who participated in the event – Alan Hostetter – used the GOP nominee hopeful’s comments during his sentence hearing last week.

“If you told me… back when I was a biotech CEO not steeped in this world… that January 6 was in any way an inside job, the subject of government entrapment. I would have told you that was crazy talk, fringe conspiracy theory nonsense. I can tell you know having gone somewhat deep in this: it’s not,” Ramaswamy replied.

“The reality is, we know that there were federal law enforcement agents in the field. We don’t know how many,” he continued before being quickly interrupted by the panicked CNN host. “We’ve seen multiple informants suggesting that there were, we know people who were FBI informants who were asked to do this,” Ramaswamy then countered.

“Why did they suppress footage of now what’s been released 200 hours of footage of shooting rubber bullets into that crowd, shooting tear gas into that crowd, you didn’t see that response before you saw what the response was to that, now you footage coming out of actually out the red carpet for Capitol police allowing people in,” he continued, with the audience beginning to applaud his remarks.

Whitmer Plot.

Ramaswamy then decided to enter uncharted territory for the mainstream media. He mentioned the potential Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) involvement in the Whitmer Plot, which supposedly saw an attempt to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

“Three people who were in an alleged plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer were acquitted at the end of trial because it was entrapment – that is, government agents put them up to do something they otherwise wouldn’t have done,” he explained.

“They gave them credit cards with spending limits of up to $5,000, encouraged them to buy munitions, plan something they were otherwise unwilling to plan. So much so that… one of the jurors went to those defendants and apologized afterwards, gave them a hug… seeing what the government had put a poor guy up to.”

“These people were exploited… FBI agents putting them up to a kidnapping plot that we were told was true but was entrapment, same thing with the Capitol Police…” He added, “I think this is the civil libertarian issue of our time.”

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Republican 2024 presidential nominee outsider Vivek Ramaswamy railed against CNN host Abby Phillip on Wednesday night, detailing the reality of federal government agent involvement in Jan 6 and the Governor Whitmer kidnap hoax. show more
December 12, 2023
Media
Politics

WATCH: CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Admits She Doesn’t Know That Alternate Electors Have Been Used In Previous U.S. Elections.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins tried to dunk on Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on Monday, attacking the alternate electors slated by the political right in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Sen. Johnson was forced to explain the tactic has been used by Democrats in previous years – a fact over which Collins seemed both wildly ignorant and belligerent.

Collins repeatedly demands the Senator provide exact details of prior examples, despite Johnson having been booked by CNN producers to discuss Ukraine and the U.S. border. While Johnson therefore didn’t have specific dates to hand, he furnished CNN will information via X (formerly Twitter) a few hours later:

Democrats in Hawaii chose an alternative slate of electors in the 1960 election, for example, allowing John F. Kennedy to be certified as the winner. Johnson also cited: “In 2005, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones led a group of 31 representatives in objecting to the certification of Ohio’s electors. Those 31 include Jim Clyburn, Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, now-Sen. Ed Markey, Benny Thompson, and Maxine Waters.” Indeed, in 2016, Democrats from Washington and Colorado signed an attempt to block Trump from winning an Electoral College majority. And in 2017, Reps. Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Raúl Grijalva, Maxine Waters, and Jim McGovern, all objected to electoral votes for Trump.

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CNN's Kaitlan Collins tried to dunk on Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on Monday, attacking the alternate electors slated by the political right in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Sen. Johnson was forced to explain the tactic has been used by Democrats in previous years – a fact over which Collins seemed both wildly ignorant and belligerent. show more
December 7, 2023
William Upton
Politics

WATCH: Vivek Schools CNN’s Dana Bash on How Cops Incited Jan 6.

Vivek Ramaswamy sparred with with CNN’s Dana over his assertion during the debate that federal law enforcement, and other elements of the government hostile to former President Trump, instigated the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021. During the debate he challenged his fellow Republican primary candidates to be more open to questioning the government’s official narrative – posing the question: “Why am I the only person on this stage this state, at least, who can can say that January 6th now does look like was an inside job.”

Bash kicked off the post-debate spin room exchange with Ramaswamy, bluntly claiming: “There is no evidence that is is an inside job. It was a fringe was a fringe conspiracy theory that Trump appointed FBI director Christopher Ray has said explicitly, over-and-over, is just not true.” Nonplussed, Ramaswamy pushed back: “Looking at the facts of the video footage that have come out, it is shocking that you still haven’t gotten a clear answer as to how many federal agents were in the field that day.”

Ramaswamy pointed Bash to U.S. Capitol security camera footage made public by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) which indicate federal law enforcement deployed dangerous crowd dispersal tactics against the mass of protestors prior to the riot. Footage also shows police opening doors to let protestors into the Capitol, later declared a “crime” for which many have faced prosecution.

“That is a case of entrapment,” Ramaswamy told Bash.

The interview continued for more several minutes with Bash appearing increasingly confused. The CNN anchor incorrectly argued  “an inside job” suggests all of the protestors who rioted and entered the Capitol were either federal agents or acting the government’s behalf.

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Vivek Ramaswamy sparred with with CNN's Dana over his assertion during the debate that federal law enforcement, and other elements of the government hostile to former President Trump, instigated the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021. During the debate he challenged his fellow Republican primary candidates to be more open to questioning the government's official narrative – posing the question: "Why am I the only person on this stage this state, at least, who can can say that January 6th now does look like was an inside job." show more
November 30, 2023
Jake Welch
Media

WATCH: Chris Cuomo ‘Open’ To Trump 2024 Vote.

Former CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo has indicated that he would be open to voting for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, seemingly reversing his previous hardline never-Trump position.

Cuomo, who was sacked by CNN in 2021 after he supposedly assisted his brother, the former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, in fighting sexual misconduct accusations, made the remarks during an interview with the PBD podcast earlier this week.

“We survived a Trump administration, would we survive another one? Yes, yes. I don’t think there’s any greater risk to America with him than with Biden… the data is the data. Nobody was trying to kill us when Trump was President in a way that they’re not now. If anything, there’s more hostility,” Cuomo stated.

He was then asked whether he would consider voting for the 45th President by podcast host Patrick Bet-David, to which he responded, “I am always open. And I’ll tell you this, people say, ‘Oh, bullsh*t. You’ve never voted for Republican in your life.’ Wrong. And not only have I, the first vote I ever cast was for a Republican.”

Cuomo’s admission comes just days after Donald Trump registered his largest ever lead over Joe Biden, holding 2.6-point lead over the incumbent President.

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Former CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo has indicated that he would be open to voting for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, seemingly reversing his previous hardline never-Trump position. show more
November 21, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Media
Politics

Ousted CNN Boss Jeff Zucker May Take Over UK ‘Telegraph’ Paper, ‘Spectator’ Magazine.

The Telegraph and The Spectator, Britain’s most prominent center-right broadsheet and news magazine, are set to be bought out by U.S. firm RedBird Capital and an Abu Dhabi fund, who will pay off its bank debts and reportedly place disgraced ex-CNN president Jeff Zucker in charge. Zucker would almost certainly drag both publications to the left.

At CNN, he oversaw the celebration of the Chinese Communist Party’s founding, pushed staff to divide America and overhype supposed scandals surrounding the Trump administration, and presided over multiple, internal sex scandals.

The Telegraph has increasingly adopted left-wing issues on social and cultural issues, promoting adultery, defending Cuties, and suggesting the “theory that history is defined by alpha males feels unfashionable and offensive.” Broadly, however, the brand has retained center-right dispositions, endorsing Brexit in 2016, as well platforming the likes of Nigel Farage, and publishing anti-woke exposés.

The Spectator has drifted leftward for some time, chaired by globalist Andrew Neil, who is pro-immigration and pro-amnesty. The magazine supported Brexit in 2016, but from a neoliberal “global Britain” perspective.

If taken over by Zucker, the newspaper and magazine will be the latest (and last) right-leaning publications in Britain to be taken over by the left. The Daily Mail was taken over by an anti-Brexit editor in 2018, while the Daily Express, once a strong supporter of Nigel Farage, Brexit, and border controls, was taken over by a far-left conglomerate which immediately banned negative stories on immigration the same year.

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The Telegraph and The Spectator, Britain's most prominent center-right broadsheet and news magazine, are set to be bought out by U.S. firm RedBird Capital and an Abu Dhabi fund, who will pay off its bank debts and reportedly place disgraced ex-CNN president Jeff Zucker in charge. Zucker would almost certainly drag both publications to the left. show more

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
This is, of course, yet another media disaster especially for Britain but also for the English-speaking world
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November 20, 2023
William Upton
Media

CNN Says Pro-Hamas Man With Beard Is a ‘Female Rabbi’.

CNN continues to give airtime to radical left-wing agitators whose pro-Hamas stances are well outside the political mainstream. In the latest instance, the corporate news network aired an interview with ‘Rabbi’ Jessica Rosenberg – who appears to be a biological male claiming to be a woman. Rosenberg, who sports long hair, lipstick, and facial hair in the form of a goatee, made headlines in early November when he heckled President Joe Biden during a Minnesota speech on the U.S. economy.

“Mr. President, if you care about Jewish people, as a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now,” Rosenberg shouted from the audience as the President spoke. Biden responded to Rosenberg saying: “I think we need a pause. A pause means giv[ing] time to get the prisoners out.” The President stopped short of agreeing with the call for a cease-fire.

On CNN, Rosenberg once again reiterated his call for the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, claiming, “We cannot bomb our way to peace. We need a political solution, not a military solution.” Rosenberg goes on to claim that the lack of equal rights for Palestinians is a fundamental threat to Israel, not terror attacks from Hamas.

Ostensibly a rabbi in the “reformed” sect of Judaism, Rosenberg serves as an activist and organizer for Bend The Arc Jewish Action – a left-wing group funded by billionaire George Soros and his son Alex. Rosenberg also works with a pro-Hamas group, Jewish Voice for Peace which recently stormed the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building while calling for Congress to push for a cease-fire in Gaza.

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CNN continues to give airtime to radical left-wing agitators whose pro-Hamas stances are well outside the political mainstream. In the latest instance, the corporate news network aired an interview with 'Rabbi' Jessica Rosenberg – who appears to be a biological male claiming to be a woman. Rosenberg, who sports long hair, lipstick, and facial hair in the form of a goatee, made headlines in early November when he heckled President Joe Biden during a Minnesota speech on the U.S. economy. show more
November 3, 2023
Crime
Media

CNN’s John Griffin Settles Lawsuit with 9-Year-Old Girl He Sexually Abused.

Former CNN producer John Griffin settled a lawsuit on Tuesday that had been filed on behalf of a girl who was sexually abused at his Vermont vacation home in 2020. The 45-year-old was recently sentenced to over nineteen years in prison after admitting to luring minors for sexual activity during a four-month period. Court records reveal the girl’s mother accepted a $3,500 offer from Griffin to bring her daughter to his home for lewd activity, including watching pornographic content and performing sexual acts. Images captured by a drone controlled by Griffin showed him in his underwear alongside the nude child.

The lawsuit seeking $15 million in damages was filed in 2022 by the Connecticut Superior Court on behalf of the now 11-year-old victim. Griffin’s attorney, Robert Berke, released a statement after the settlement stating, “we were able to resolve this state court civil case, and [Griffin] is glad to put this behind him,” although specifics about the settlement have not been disclosed.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District Vermont initially charged Griffin, a father of three, with three counts of using interstate commerce facilities to attempt to entice minors for unlawful sexual activity. He confessed to his crimes through a plea agreement in December 2020, which led the government to drop two additional charges of enticing a minor. The indictment stated Griffin utilized online messaging platforms such as Kik and Google Hangouts to contact parents with underage daughters, expressing the belief that “a woman is a woman regardless of her age.” As part of his conviction, Griffin is banned from contact with people under the age of 18 unless supervised by an approved adult and from locations that attract children. His wife has filed for divorce.

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Former CNN producer John Griffin settled a lawsuit on Tuesday that had been filed on behalf of a girl who was sexually abused at his Vermont vacation home in 2020. The 45-year-old was recently sentenced to over nineteen years in prison after admitting to luring minors for sexual activity during a four-month period. Court records reveal the girl's mother accepted a $3,500 offer from Griffin to bring her daughter to his home for lewd activity, including watching pornographic content and performing sexual acts. Images captured by a drone controlled by Griffin showed him in his underwear alongside the nude child. show more
October 17, 2023
William Upton
News
War
World

A Jihadist Rocket Aimed at Israel Hit the Gaza Hospital, Killing 500+, Says IDF.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that intelligence sources indicate it was an Islamic Jihad terrorist group rocket that hit a Gaza hospital, killing hundreds, as opposed to an Israeli strike as first claimed by international corporate media and terror group Hamas. The IDF provided video to support their claims.

“Following an analysis by the IDF’s operational systems, a barrage of rockets was launched toward Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit,” the IDF said in a statement posted on X. “According to intelligence information from a number of sources we have, Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is responsible for the failed rocket launch that hit the hospital.”

In the immediate aftermath of the blast, it was reported that upwards of 500 Palestinians had been killed with the number expected to rise. U.S. corporate media and some Members of Congress were quick to condemn the Israeli military, citing Hamas claims that it was an Israeli airstrike that hit the hospital. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said, “Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes.” Omar insinuated that it was the IDF that orchestrated the attack. CNN and MSNBC both reported that an Israeli airstrike was responsible for the deadly blast – repeating the claims made by Hamas.

Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau, also appeared to uncritically accept Hamas’s narrative. “The news coming out of Gaza is horrific and absolutely unacceptable. International humanitarian and international law needs to be respected in this and in all cases,” Trudeau said shortly after the new broke.

“The barbaric terrorists in Gaza are the ones who attacked the Gaza hospital, not the IDF,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushing back against corporate media that was quick to blame his country’s military. “Those who cruelly murdered our children, murder their children as well.”

The Islamic Jihad is a terrorist organization that seeks to establish an Islamist Palestinian state. It is the second-largest militant group in Gaza after Hamas and frequently uses rockets as a weapon of terror against Israel.

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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that intelligence sources indicate it was an Islamic Jihad terrorist group rocket that hit a Gaza hospital, killing hundreds, as opposed to an Israeli strike as first claimed by international corporate media and terror group Hamas. The IDF provided video to support their claims. show more

Editor’s Notes

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RAHEEM J. KASSAM Editor-in-Chief
This is why unlike irresponsible corporate media outlets, we at The National Pulse don’t rush to attribute blame to one side or another until reputable evidence is presented
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October 6, 2023
William Upton
Media
News

WATCH: CNN Meltdown Over Trump-Kassam Interview.

CNN’s Dana Bash joins a host of corporate media freaking out over The National Pulse’s interview with former President Donald Trump. Feigning outrage at Trump’s remarks about the unchecked flow of illegal immigrants at the souther border, Bash told viewers before running a clip of the interview: “Now to something Donald Trump said on this topic this week. In an interview, the former president borrowed from white nationalists when he said this to National Pulse, a right-wing news outlet.”

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The corporate media meltdown began earlier this week when MSNBC’s resident Islamic extremist, Mehdi Hasan, took to X (formerly Twitter) accusing former President Trump of adopting neo-Nazi talking points. Hasan, however, has previously called non-Muslims “cattle” and “animals” in video first popularized by National Pulse editor Raheem Kassam, over a decade ago. The New York Times, MSNBC‘s MaddowBlog, and Snopes quickly followed Hasan’s lead.

Trump was specifically speaking about drugs and communicable disease “poisoning the blood” of America in his exclusive interview with Kassam, though this point has been broadly ignored by the corporate media, who have instead raised the issue of Jewish people and Adolf Hitler. Jewish people are not part of the masses of illegal migrants pouring over America’s southern border.

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CNN's Dana Bash joins a host of corporate media freaking out over The National Pulse’s interview with former President Donald Trump. Feigning outrage at Trump's remarks about the unchecked flow of illegal immigrants at the souther border, Bash told viewers before running a clip of the interview: "Now to something Donald Trump said on this topic this week. In an interview, the former president borrowed from white nationalists when he said this to National Pulse, a right-wing news outlet.” show more