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October 15, 2024
Media
UK

Here’s Who Might Take Over Britain’s Most Iconic Right-Leaning Newspaper.

Dovid Efune, owner of The New York Sun, has entered exclusive negotiations to purchase the United Kingdom’s Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £550 million ($718 million). A former editor with the New York-based Algemeiner Journal—a Jewish news-focused publication—Efune submitted the highest bid for the newspapers last month, beating out three other bidders. A six-week due diligence period is anticipated to assess Efune’s suitability for the acquisition. The agreement would ultimately require approval from the Labour government’s Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy.

Meanwhile, current staff at the publications are worried that Efune’s staunch pro-Israel views will result in his editorial intervention in their coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East following Hamas’s barbaric October 7 terrorist attacks against the Jewish state. Some Daily and Sunday Telegraph staff worry the betting process will solely focus on Efune’s financial fitness and not his religion or personal politics.

Financially, The New York Sun owner is backed by asset managers Oaktree and Hudson Bay Capital Management and the family office of U.S. hedge fund manager Michael Leffell.

Despite staff concerns, Efune has heaped praise on the British newspapers. “The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph symbolise the very best of world-class, independent journalism and a commitment to relentlessly seeking the public interest,” he said in a recent interview. “This unique institution has a storied history as a pillar of the British press, dedicated to providing readers uninhibited, clear-eyed coverage of the most consequential issues of the day.”

He added: “As a lifelong newsman—variably as reporter, columnist, editor, and now publisher—I believe strongly that these values, in general, are fundamental to the advancement of any journalistic enterprise. It’s with these principles that the Telegraph is best positioned for even greater success going forward.”

Image by University of Seville.

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Dovid Efune, owner of The New York Sun, has entered exclusive negotiations to purchase the United Kingdom's Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £550 million ($718 million). A former editor with the New York-based Algemeiner Journal—a Jewish news-focused publication—Efune submitted the highest bid for the newspapers last month, beating out three other bidders. A six-week due diligence period is anticipated to assess Efune's suitability for the acquisition. The agreement would ultimately require approval from the Labour government's Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy. show more
October 1, 2024
Media

BREAKING: Taylor Lorenz Out at Washington Post After Calling Biden a ‘War Criminal.’

Blogger Taylor Lorenz has left the Washington Post several weeks after she posted an Instagram story that showed her attending a Joe Biden speech at the White House with the caption “war criminal :(.”

Lorenz’s departure is being billed as her opportunity to become an internet “content creator” more than a traditional news reporter. She is starting a Substack called “User Magazine,” where she says she will discuss social media from a user perspective.

Lorenz is a 40+-year-old New Yorker who often attempts to ingratiate herself within the culture of much younger, often sub-20-year-olds online. She gained notoriety by doxxing the Libs of TikTok account, which made fun of far-left activists by using their own clips on social media.

Lorenz claims to have post-traumatic stress disorder from online “harassment” and continues to wear a COVID-era face mask, often outdoors.

Before her tenure at the Post, Lorenz covered internet culture for the New York Times and the far-left Daily Beast. She also hosts a podcast called Power User for Vox Media.

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Blogger Taylor Lorenz has left the Washington Post several weeks after she posted an Instagram story that showed her attending a Joe Biden speech at the White House with the caption "war criminal :(." show more
July 12, 2024
William Upton
Culture

Gaybraham Lincoln? Documentary Claims ‘Honest Abe’ Was a Closet Homosexual.

Filmmaker Shaun Peterson contends that the bulk of scholarly work on the life of President Abraham Lincoln is wrong. According to Peterson, Lincoln was a homosexual who preferred the company of men—a case he argues in a new documentary, Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln, released on July 10.

The documentary “examines the intimate life of America’s most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never before seen photographs and letters, the film details Lincoln’s romantic relationships with men.”

“The film fills in an important missing piece of American history and challenges the audience to consider why we hold such a limited view of human sexuality,” the film’s synopsis states, continuing: “Lover of Men is not only an exploration of gender roles and sexual identity, but also serves as an examination of American intolerance.”

According to Peterson—and allegedly never before seen letters authored by Lincoln—the sixteenth American president slept with more men than he did women. The crux of the contention that Lincoln was a closeted gay man is letters he exchanged with a childhood friend, Joshua Fry Speed. “Dear Speed, I shall be very lonesome without you. Love, Lincoln,” one letter reads.

SO, WAS LINCOLN GAY?

The idea of Lincoln being a homosexual dates to a 1926 biography by Carl Sandburg, which refers to Lincoln’s relationship with Speed as having “a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets.”

While some have interpreted Sandberg’s words as suggesting Lincoln was a closeted gay man, in reality, the author was referring to the more vulnerable relationship between two friends, which belied their more public-facing images of masculinity.

Letters supposedly authored by Lincoln explicitly detailing his homosexuality—and ‘found’ by gay rights activist Larry Kramer in 1999—are widely believed to be a hoax.

Recent attempts to ‘queer‘ popular fictional characters have fallen flat with audiences. The National Pulse reported in May that the ratings for the latest season of the British science fiction adventure Doctor Who have crashed following the introduction of the first “openly queer” black Doctor, played by Rwandan migrant Ncuti Gatwa.

Meanwhile, Disney‘s Star Wars: Acolyte—which features predominantly nonbinary and lesbian characters—has been widely panned by viewers and even some critics.

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Filmmaker Shaun Peterson contends that the bulk of scholarly work on the life of President Abraham Lincoln is wrong. According to Peterson, Lincoln was a homosexual who preferred the company of men—a case he argues in a new documentary, Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln, released on July 10. show more
June 3, 2024
News

The Washington Post Will Now Be Led by Two Brits Who Broke One of the Biggest Scandals in UK Politics.

Sally Buzbee announced she is stepping down as executive editor of The Washington Post. Buzbee’s departure came as a surprise to many late on Sunday night, including Post reporters themselves.

Buzbee will be succeeded by Matt Murray, the former Editor-in-Chief of the Wall Street Journal, in the short term. British investigative reporter Robert Winnett, currently the deputy editor of The Telegraph Media Group, will also join the Post in a new role designed to oversee core coverage areas like politics, investigations, business, technology, sports, and features.

Winnett, who began his national newspaper career at Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times, moved to the Telegraph nearly two decades ago, assisting in the coverage of the massive parliamentary expenses scandal story that broke in 2009. At the time, Winnett worked under Will Lewis, who is now the publisher of the Bezos-owned Post.

Winnett and Lewis aren’t the only Brits making America their home for news reporting. CNN recently brought in the BBC’s Mark Thompson. GB News recently sent reporter Steven Edginton to Washington, D.C., and the Daily Mail’s Rob Crilly can often be spotted around Capitol Hill. The National Pulse is also edited by a Brit, Raheem Kassam.

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Sally Buzbee announced she is stepping down as executive editor of The Washington Post. Buzbee's departure came as a surprise to many late on Sunday night, including Post reporters themselves. show more
May 24, 2024
Election 2024

WATCH: Trump Says Nikki Haley ‘Absolutely On The Team in Some Form.’

Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,” following his successful Bronx rally in New York on Thursday.

A self-appointed bête noire of the MAGA movement, Haley and her donors have been attempting to position her for Vice President or another senior position in Trump’s cabinet should he win in November 2024.

“Well, I think she’s gonna be on our team because we have a lot of the same ideas, same thoughts,” Trump said, adding: “I appreciated what she said. You know, we had a nasty campaign. It was pretty nasty. But she’s a very capable person, and I’m sure she’s going to be on our team in some form. Absolutely.”

Haley’s partners, meanwhile, have been participating in phone calls with the Joe Biden for President campaign. Her family members have even been publicly claiming they will launch a bid against Trump at the Republican Party Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July.

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Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey's Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will "absolutely" be "on our team in some form," following his successful Bronx rally in New York on Thursday. show more

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May 21, 2024
Ed Kozak
Fact Check

FACT CHECK: Trump’s ‘Nazi Reich’ Video Was ACTUALLY a WWI Clip From A Widely-Used Video Template.

A video posted Monday on Donald Trump‘s Truth Social account caused controversy with a reference to a “unified Reich” among hypothetical news headlines. Some in the media have attempted to claim the video represents an effort on Trump’s part to allude to Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. However, the 30-second video, which came straight from a popular, widely-used template, was not an officially approved campaign video and features headlines drawing from World War I-era articles, not World War II.

“This was not a campaign video; it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word while the President was in court,” said campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

The AP was eager to remind its readers that the “word ‘Reich’ is often largely associated with Nazi Germany’s Third Reich.” It also claimed that “Trump previously used rhetoric echoing Adolf Hitler when he said immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ and called his opponents ‘vermin.'” However, even the AP was forced to concede that “Other headlines appear to be references to World War I.”

In fact, the entire video template is a reference to World War I. The word reich is German for “realm.” While the Third Reich may be the most well-known Reich, the German Empire, which existed from 1871 until 1918, was known as the Deutsches Reich, the Deutsches Kaiserreich, or simply the Reich. 

Indeed, the controversial headline in question from the video template appears to copy text verbatim from a Wikipedia entry on World War I: “German industrial strength and production had significantly increased after 1871, driven by the creation of a unified Reich.”

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A video posted Monday on Donald Trump's Truth Social account caused controversy with a reference to a "unified Reich" among hypothetical news headlines. Some in the media have attempted to claim the video represents an effort on Trump's part to allude to Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. However, the 30-second video, which came straight from a popular, widely-used template, was not an officially approved campaign video and features headlines drawing from World War I-era articles, not World War II. show more
May 19, 2024
Election 2024

Marco Rubio Triggers NBC By Throwing Hillary Clinton’s Election Denial in Kristin Welker’s Face.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a potential vice-presidential pick for former President Trump, refrained from pledging complete acceptance of the 2024 presidential election results during a Sunday interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.” Rubio’s comments were a nod to the need to ensure fair elections, and he stated that an unfair election would likely be contested by both sides.

Rubio’s reminded NBC’s Kristin Welker that Hillary Clinton declined to acknowledge her defeat in the 2016 Presidential election, repeatedly calling Trump an “illegitimate” president, and fuelling the Russia hoax which arguably hobbled the first Trump administration. Rubio also highlighted that Democrats argued against the certification of George W. Bush’s 2004 victory in Ohio.

Rubio also raised the issue of  “illegal drop-box locations” and ballot harvesting.

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Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a potential vice-presidential pick for former President Trump, refrained from pledging complete acceptance of the 2024 presidential election results during a Sunday interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.” Rubio's comments were a nod to the need to ensure fair elections, and he stated that an unfair election would likely be contested by both sides. show more
May 7, 2024
Media
Politics

NYT Editor Blasts Biden Regime: They Want to Be Covered Like Chinese State Media Covers the CCP.

New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn slammed the Biden regime for its criticism of the newspaper’s coverage, suggesting that the White House would prefer the Times to document the administration’s activities much like Pravda, the state-run Soviet newspaper. The remarks follow allegations from the White House that the Times isn’t doing enough to prevent Donald Trump‘s return to office.

“To say that the threats of democracy are so great that the media is going to abandon its central role as a source of impartial information to help people vote — that’s essentially saying that the news media should become a propaganda arm for a single candidate, because we prefer that candidate’s agenda,” Kahn said.

“It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second. Should we stop covering those things because they’re favorable to Trump and minimize them?” Kahn asked rhetorically.

“I don’t even know how it’s supposed to work in the view of Dan Pfeiffer or the White House. We become an instrument of the Biden campaign? We turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda and put out a stream of stuff that’s very, very favorable to them and only write negative stories about the other side?”

The Biden White House has been highly hostile to media sources that dare to criticize the regime and has gone to great lengths to control media coverage. Last month, it was reported that the regime went as far as pressuring fact-checker Snopes to change one of its ratings.

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New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn slammed the Biden regime for its criticism of the newspaper's coverage, suggesting that the White House would prefer the Times to document the administration's activities much like Pravda, the state-run Soviet newspaper. The remarks follow allegations from the White House that the Times isn't doing enough to prevent Donald Trump's return to office. show more
May 6, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Election 2024
Politics

Biden Took His 100th Delaware Vacation Since 2020, And Strangely Kept Disappearing From The Press Pool’s Line of Sight.

President Biden’s recent weekend in Delaware, meant to be a routine trip to his home state, encountered a number of curious logistical challenges that kept the traveling press pool away from the President of the United States in an almost unprecedented manner.

The protective press pool lost contact with the President not once but twice this weekend, with administration staff glibly remarking upon a series of “hiccups” that prevented reporters from confirming Biden’s whereabouts or activities.

POLITICO reports: “It’s rare for the pool to lose touch with the commander-in-chief at all. One veteran White House reporter who is frequently part of the traveling press corps estimated that they had witnessed it fewer than five times in nearly a decade.”

White House Correspondents’ Association president Kelly O’Donnell added: “The proximity of the protective pool is an essential part of the transparency needed in coverage… The pool always knows where the president is in public, and the president always has immediate access to communicate directly to the American people through the pool. Any disruption of that continuity is an issue that we seek to immediately address.”

“We don’t want hiccups to happen. But things don’t always move as smoothly as we would like,” said White House director of press advance Nicolette Jaworski, who worked as a public relations consultant for corporate giant AT&T until February this year.

Read the details of the bizarre incidents here.

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President Biden's recent weekend in Delaware, meant to be a routine trip to his home state, encountered a number of curious logistical challenges that kept the traveling press pool away from the President of the United States in an almost unprecedented manner. show more
May 2, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Election 2024
Media

WATCH: RFK Defends Fake News, Arguing, ‘There Is No Such Thing As Liberal Media.’

Newly unearthed video has revealed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) defending America’s corporate media class and claiming the “biggest lie” that the “right-wing has been able to promote” is that “there is a liberal media in the United States of America.”

In a 2005 speech where he also openly insulted “red state” voters, RFK can be clearly heard defending the corporate media apparatus in the United States, already whittled down to just a handful of left-liberal leaning firms by then:

“Well, the biggest lie that the right-wing has been able to promote in our country over the past 10 or 12 years has been the lie that there is a liberal media in the United States of America. There is no such thing as a liberal media. There is a right-wing media. And if you look where people are getting their news, you know, [an] overwhelming number of Americans are getting it from right-wing media. Thirty percent of Americans say that their principal news source is talk radio. which is primarily 90 percent controlled by the right. Another 22 percent say that their principal news source is one of three cable channels, CSNBC [sic], MSNBC, or Fox News, all dominated by the right.”

CNBC and MSNBC were not, in fact, “dominated by the right,” while Fox News at the time was dominated by the neoconservative uniparty.

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Newly unearthed video has revealed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) defending America's corporate media class and claiming the "biggest lie" that the "right-wing has been able to promote" is that "there is a liberal media in the United States of America." show more