theblaze--2020-09-09--'It's really sick and dark': The left says PEDOPHILIA is a sexual orientation, should be protected u

'It's really sick and dark': The left says PEDOPHILIA is a sexual orientation, should be protected under LGBT laws

'It 's really sick and dark ' : The left says PEDOPHILIA is a sexual orientation , should be protected @ @ @ @ @ put a really insane idea out there just to shift the frame of acceptable public @ @

CORRECTION: Originally published on September 9, 2020, this article introduces a video clip in which Andrew Wilkow and guest Chadwick Moore discuss Senate Bill 145 and other then-current events which they perceived as attempts by "the left" to "normalize pedophilia" and in some cases, include sex offenders under LGBT legal protections. This is false. SB-145 is not intended to legally protect sex offenders or classify pedophilia as a sexual orientation, but "to reform the state's sex offender registry to be fairer to young LGBT adults who may be in technical violation of statutory rape laws," according to this Reuters Fact Check. This article is not intended to endorse or validate the opinions expressed in the video.
California's controversial Senate Bill 145, which would reduce penalties for sexual relations with minors, passed both legislative houses last week and now sits on the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).
According to State Sen. Scott Wiener, who authored the bill, the current law discriminates against the LGBT community.
"Senate Bill 145 is an anti-discrimination law," Wiener told KXTV-TV. He went on to explain that SB 145 would eliminate automatic sex offender registration for adults who have anal or oral sex with a minor. Instead, a judge would make the decision. Also, SB 145 would only apply in cases involving minors between ages 14 and 17 and with an offender within a 10-year age range.
In this episode of "Wilkow," BlazeTV host Andrew Wilkow was joined by journalist Chadwick Moore, a former liberal who once wrote that admitting he was a gay man to his father, "a Republican and a farmer in Iowa," was easier than "coming out as a conservative" in New York.
Prompted by the controversy surrounding SB- 145, Wilkow and Moore discussed what they perceived to be attempts by "the left" to normalize pedophilia and include sex offenders under the legal protections of the LGBT community.
"It's really sick and dark," Moore opined. "These things are coming out in the activist circles and entering the mainstream narrative. [...] You know, this is how the left always operates, with what's called the Overton window. They will put a really insane idea out there just to shift the frame of acceptable public discourse."
"They are masters at using language to change the narrative and change how people view the world," Moore went on to suggest. He claimed that pedophiles are now calling themselves "Minor Attracted Persons" or "MAPs" and arguing that pedophilia is merely a "sexual orientation" in what he considered to be an attempt to gain acceptance into the LGBT community.
"It's truly baffling and sick and no one will call them out," Moore said.
Watch the video below to catch more of the conversation:
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theblaze--2020-09-09--DC Comics to release ‘Wonder Women of History’ featuring ‘heroes’ AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Elizabeth

DC Comics to release ‘Wonder Women of History’ featuring ‘heroes’ AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and Elizabeth Warren

DC Comics to release ‘ Wonder Women of History ’ featuring ‘ heroes ’ AOC , Rashida Tlaib , and @ @ @ @ @ actually 'real-world heroes ' ?

DC Comics is set to release a new graphic novel called "Wonder Women of History," featuring and celebrating 18 "real-world heroes" including progressive politicians Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
The list also includes pop superstar Beyoncé, sports star Serena Williams (but not Venus), and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to a Nerdist report, which notes that the book will go on sale Dec. 1.
Here's the full list of "heroes":
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elizabeth Warren
Rashida Tlaib
Teara Fraser
Beyoncé
Mari Copeny
Edith Windsor
Marsha P. Johnson
Emma Gonzalez
Judith Heumann
Ellen Ochoa
Shi Zhengli
Serena Williams
Tig Notaro
Keiko Agena
Dominique Dawes
Janelle Monae
"Wonder Woman has been an inspiration for decades, and while not everyone would choose her star-spangled outfit for themselves, her compassion and fairness are worthy of emulation. We'll be presenting tales of the real-world heroes who take up Diana's mantle and work in the fields of science, social justice activism, diplomacy and more!" a DC Comics webpage listing the anthology states.
New York Times best-selling author Laurie Halse Anderson, best known for her collection of young adult novels, is reportedly heading up the project along with an all-female roster of writers and artists.
"Our kids are hungry for examples of women and girls who have fought against oppressive systems to make the world a better place," Anderson told the Nerdist. "Our book will inspire and strengthen every reader who picks it up!"
It was not immediately clear how the list of featured "heroes" was compiled. One would think selections would be based on accomplishments, but the additions of Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib seem to indicate that the list was more of a popularity contest.
Commenters on the Nerdist report picked up on the social justice engineering by DC.
"AOC, Tlaib, RBG and Beyonce are totally more inspiring as role models than Sally Ride, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, and Margaret Thatcher ... said no one, ever," one commenter wrote.
"Pure propaganda and brainwashing," another added.
It's worth noting that Ocasio-Cortez has been featured in a comic book before, though not in a work published by a major player like DC Comics.
In 2018, she was featured in the comic book "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force," which chronicled the rise of the "most diverse group of freshman Representatives in history" and their battle against the Washington establishment.


theblaze--2020-09-09--Shocking recordings reveal CNN President Jeff Zucker actually loved Trump, wanted to give him a week

Shocking recordings reveal CNN President Jeff Zucker actually loved Trump, wanted to give him a weekly show

Shocking recordings reveal CNN President Jeff Zucker actually loved Trump , wanted to give him a weekly show ' ... @ @ @ @ @ of the boss '

Fox News host Tucker Carlson released bombshell audio Tuesday of CNN President Jeff Zucker and Michael Cohen, the disgraced attorney who was once a member of President Donald Trump's inner circle, indicating that Zucker once attempted to curry favor with Trump through Cohen.
The conversation took place on March 10, 2016, hours before the final Republican primary debate — which CNN hosted.
What are the details?
In the call, Zucker claimed any aspiring presidential candidate needed CNN on his side to win election:
Here's the thing … you cannot be elected president of the United States without CNN. Fox and MSNBC are irrelevant — irrelevant — in electing a general election candidate. ... You guys have had great instincts, great guts and great understanding of everything. But you're missing the boat on how it works going forward.
Upon being told by Cohen to email Trump himself, Zucker refused — but admitted he is "fond" of "the boss," a reference to Trump:
I'm very conscious of not putting too much in email, as you're a lawyer, as you understand. And, you know, and as fond as I am of the boss, he also has a tendency, like, you know, if I call him or I email him, he then is capable of going out in his next rally and saying that we just talked, and I can't have that, if you know what I'm saying.
Zucker then told Cohen that he wished he could talk to Trump every day:
It's not that I don't want to talk to [Trump] every day. I've just got to be careful because I've just got to be careful. I just don't want him talking about it on the campaign trail. But you know what? I'm going to give him a call right now and I'm going to wish him luck in the debate tonight.
Shockingly, the CNN president even said he wanted Trump to host a weekly show on CNN:
I have all these proposals for him. Like, I want to do a weekly show with him and all this stuff. Is he back in New York tomorrow, do you know?
Later in the call, Zucker admitted that Trump would win the debate:
I think the other guys are going to gang up on him tremendously … and I think he's going to hold his own, as he does every time. He's never lost a debate. And you know what? He's good at this. … He's going to do great.
Finally, Zucker dispensed political advice for Trump. The CNN president said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) would repeatedly refer to Trump as a "con man" during the debate, instructing Cohen to have Trump's aides constantly refer to him as such preceding the debate so that Rubio's attacks would not faze him.
New Audio: CNN chief Jeff Zucker cozies up to Michael Cohen www.youtube.com
A CNN representative did not respond to a request for comment.


theblaze--2020-09-09--POLL: Should taking a COVID vaccine be mandatory?

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POLL: Should taking a COVID vaccine be mandatory?
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theblaze--2020-09-09--Los Angeles cancels Halloween: After the mayor marched with thousands of protesters in the streets,

Los Angeles cancels Halloween: After the mayor marched with thousands of protesters in the streets, county health officials declare trick-or-treating unsafe

Los Angeles cancels Halloween : After the mayor marched with thousands of protesters in the streets , county health officials @ @ @

After Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was seen marching maskless with thousands of protesters in the streets of Los Angeles just a few short weeks ago, the Los Angeles County Health Department has decreed that trick-or-treating is unsafe and will be illegal this Halloween, along with all carnivals, festivals, and parties with "non-household members."
In a guidance document published by KABC-TV, the health department declared, "Door to door trick or treating is not allowed because it can be very difficult to maintain proper social distancing on porches and at front doors especially in neighborhoods that are popular with trick or treaters." The health department also went one step further and stated, "Gatherings or Parties with non-household members are not permitted even if they are conducted outdoors."
The county has also ordered that "Carnivals, festivals, live entertainment, and haunted house attractions are not allowed."
Los Angeles County has continued to experience repeated protest events since the May 25 death of George Floyd. Protesters have not been cited for failing to abide by social distancing guidelines, and prominent city officials have even joined in many of the protests, while shutting off electricity and water to homes and businesses that violate those same rules.
Not to worry, though! If you live in Los Angeles County and have small children, they can still participate in many fun activities, including "Online parties/contests (e.g. costume or pumpkin carving)" and "Halloween themed art installations at an outdoor museum," both of which will surely be acceptable substitutes for small children.
Additionally, the county has graciously agreed to allow homeowners to "Dress up homes and yards with Halloween themed decorations."
Despite instituting some of the harshest coronavirus lockdown measures in the country (apart from intentionally failing to enforce them against social justice protesters), Los Angeles County has been one of the worst COVID-19 hot spots in the country. The county has seen almost 250,000 confirmed cases of the virus and more than 6,000 deaths at the time of this article's publication.


theblaze--2020-09-09--UPDATE: Cuomo changes stance, announces indoor dining in NYC for end of September

UPDATE : Cuomo changes stance , announces indoor dining in NYC for end of September He and NYC Mayor Bill @ @ @ @ @ over the restrictions

Update: Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday that restaurants in New York City would be allowed to open for indoor dining at 25% capacity beginning on Sept. 30. Customers will be subject to temperature checks at the door and will have to leave contact information for the purpose of contact tracing. There will be no bar service and no service after midnight. The original story is below.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said he doesn't want to allow New York City restaurants to have indoor dining services until Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) establishes a social distancing enforcement task force, according to WNBC-TV.
Restaurant owners are suing Cuomo and de Blasio over the continued restrictions, which remain in place despite the number of daily COVID-19 deaths sitting in the single digits and the infection rate staying below 1%. Even though restaurants in other parts of New York and New Jersey can serve customers indoors, Cuomo isn't budging on New York City.
"If we have the enforcement mechanism in place, then we can talk about opening restaurants," Cuomo said Tuesday, WNBC reported. "It would be negligent and reckless to open indoor dining, knowing that you have issues in Upstate New York, knowing that compliance is going to be a problem, and knowing that you have no enforcement mechanism. And we're still working through that because I believe local governments could help us accomplish this goal if they wanted to."
The State Liquor Authority and a State Police Task Force monitor restaurants for compliance with COVID-19 regulations in areas outside New York City.
De Blasio, meanwhile, said he doesn't even plan to have a timeline for indoor dining until the end of September, which means there is no relief in sight for restaurant owners even as the impact of COVID-19 is nearly nonexistent relative to the number of people in the city.
"We've been patient, the numbers are fantastic, the COVID statistics, we don't know what more we could do," said Robert Hanley, general manager of NYC restaurant Bocelli. "This is a lawsuit. We don't wanna do this. This is not us, we are workers. We work 100 hours a week. It's not a luxurious lifestyle. I have waiters; none of them drove here in a Ferrari today."
Malls in New York City are open with 50% capacity and casinos are open with 25% capacity, although food and beverage service is unavailable to people who go to those places.
New York has travel restrictions on people from 35 states that require them to quarantine for 14 days if they travel to New York. The COVID-19 statistics can't get much better than they are right now for the state that in April was experiencing nearly 1,000 deaths per day. From WNBC:
Meanwhile, New York went from the epicenter of the national crisis to celebrating a full month of daily COVID positivity test rates below 1 percent, which is what allowed establishments like malls, gyms and museums to reopen in the first place. Total hospitalizations are also at six-month lows and daily deaths are in the single digits.


theblaze--2020-09-09--More than 85 wildfires are scorching the US West Coast in 'once-in-a-generation event'

More than 85 wildfires are scorching the US West Coast in 'once-in-a-generation event' Hundreds of thousands of acres have been @

More than 85 wildfires are burning through hundreds of thousands of acres up and down the West Coast in California, Oregon, and Washington in what many are calling an unprecedented event, CNN reported early Wednesday.
What are the details?
"We have fires burning in the north part of the state all the way down to the Mexican border, about 800 miles between the furthest distant fires, so we're stretched across the landscape," Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter said of the 25 fires currently burning in California.
Gusty wind conditions and high temperatures in the state are further exacerbating the situation. Authorities warned that the winds could soon drive the fires already burning into "new ferocity."
A similar situation is playing out in Oregon, as thousands of residents have been placed under evacuation orders as fast-moving fires sweep through the state, already scorching 230,000 acres.
On Tuesday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) issued an emergency declaration in hopes of getting more resources to local responders to battle the fires.
During a news conference, Brown called the situation "unprecedented" and a "once-in-a-generation event."
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) also referred to the situation as "unprecedented." He told reporters that on Monday alone, 330,000 acres had burned in Washington state, which is more than had burned in the state's past 12 fire seasons.
The magnitude of the devastation was especially felt in the small farming town of Maiden, where 80% of the town's buildings were destroyed by a fire.
Inslee also pressed the issue of unnecessary human contribution in causing the fires.
"I just can't reiterate [it enough], we think almost all of these fires were human-caused, in some dimension," the governor said. "If you can avoid being outside for anything that would even cause a spark, I hope people can avoid those conditions."
One fire in California made headlines on Monday after it was reported that the blaze — which ended up scorching 7,300 acres — was the result of a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party.
Anything else?
Just how widespread the problem is can be seen in a screenshot of the National Weather Service's homepage.
As of Wednesday morning, huge chunks of the country's West Coast, extending from the Canadian border in the north to the Mexican border in the south, were under "red flag warnings" (shown below in magenta), indicating critical fire conditions.
Image Source: National Weather Service screenshot
Red flag warnings mean that "critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly."
In the warning, the NWS notes that "a combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior."


theblaze--2020-09-09--WATCH: Yes, Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize!

Steven covers Trump 's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and contrasts his record with that of other nominees like @ @ @ @ @ to Biden 's latest demented claim that a black man , not Edison , invented @ @ @ @ @ he goes over the facts in the case of Daniel Prude and the entire Rochester @ @ @ @ @ Use promo code LWC to save $ 10 on one year of BlazeTV .
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Steven covers Trump's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and contrasts his record with that of other nominees like Obama. He then turns to Biden's latest demented claim that a black man, not Edison, invented the lightbulb. Finally, he goes over the facts in the case of Daniel Prude and the entire Rochester police staff's resignation.
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theblaze--2020-09-10--Adam Schiff welcomes whistleblower complaint against Trump admin with open arms despite last month a

Adam Schiff welcomes whistleblower complaint against Trump admin with open arms despite last month accusing said whistleblower of lying to Congress

Adam Schiff welcomes whistleblower complaint against Trump admin with open arms despite last month accusing said whistleblower of lying to @

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) promised Wednesday the immediate launch of an investigation into whistleblower allegations that senior Trump administration officials censored information on intelligence reports that "made President Trump look bad."
Among the information allegedly censored were details regarding the rising threat of white supremacism and Russia's attempt to interfere in the 2020 election, according to former Department of Homeland Security official Brian Murphy, who filed the formal whistleblower complaint with the department's inspector general this week.
In a news release, Schiff said that he and his committee would probe Murphy's "grave and disturbing" allegations of "serious wrongdoing" by senior Trump officials, including acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolfe and acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinnelli.
"We will get to the bottom of this, expose any and all misconduct or corruption to the American people, and put a stop to the politicization of intelligence," he sternly promised.
Here's the kicker
What Schiff conveniently did not mention is that no more than five weeks earlier he had accused Murphy of lying to Congress.
According to a New York Times report in August, Schiff said that his committee had been conducting "rigorous oversight" of Murphy's actions as acting under secretary in the department's Intelligence and Analysis branch and were "concerned that Murphy may have provided incomplete and potentially misleading information to Committee staff during our recent oversight engagement." (emphases added)
At the time, Murphy had just been reassigned from his position after it was discovered his unit was compiling intelligence on journalists in Portland, Oregon.
The Times report noted that it wasn't only Schiff who had complaints about Murphy's questionable workplace conduct:
In 2015, Mr. Murphy joined F.B.I. headquarters to work on an effort known as Countering Violent Extremism, or C.V.E., after serving as an assistant special agent in charge of counterterrorism in Chicago. Mr. Murphy was known as an ambitious investigator who was once profiled in a self-aggrandizing article about a terrorism case he had worked on. But some former agents and Justice Department officials familiar with Mr. Murphy's work at the time, who requested anonymity to discuss internal discussions at the agencies, expressed concern about some C.V.E. proposals, his tendency to ignore the rules and failure to coordinate his activities. (emphases added)
Furthermore, in the news release, Schiff acknowledged that his committee's investigation into the I&A — and thus Murphy — is ongoing, which makes the timing of Murphy's complaint all the more peculiar.
At the least, it might appear to some that Schiff's opinion of Murphy as a reliable source shifted considerably at the precise moment that Murphy's stance toward the Trump administration turned hostile.
DHS spokesman Alexei Woltornist flatly denied Murphy's allegations Wednesday, saying the department "looks forward to the results of any resulting investigation and we expect it will conclude that no retaliatory action was taken against Mr. Murphy."


theblaze--2020-09-10--ACLU staffer attacks university for accepting Nick Sandmann, calls teen's admission 'a slap in the f

ACLU staffer attacks university for accepting Nick Sandmann, calls teen's admission 'a slap in the face'

ACLU staffer attacks university for accepting Nick Sandmann , calls teen 's admission ' a slap in the face' A @ @ @ @ @ that she found the former Covington Catholic student 's 'public behavior and rhetoric atrocious and @ @ @

An employee of the American Civil Liberties Union has issued a public condemnation of Transylvania University in Kentucky over the school's acceptance of former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, calling the university's decision "a slap in the face."
Sandmann, 18, is a well-known conservative and supporter of President Donald Trump. He spoke at the Republican National Convention last month.
What are the details?
ACLU Kentucky communications staffer Samuel Crankshaw took to Facebook on Saturday to slam Transylvania University — his alma mater — for allowing Sandmann in. His post was first reported by George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who testified before Congress against the impeachments of President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump.
"Does anyone think it's a bit of a stain on Transylvania University for accepting Nick Sandman (sic)?" Crankshaw began. "I'm sure it's a 'both sides' defense, but it's pretty counter to their mission and another instance of there not actually being equal sides to an issue."
Professor Turley noted in his own analysis that "the 'both sides' defense used to be the position of the ACLU in fighting for all sides to be given equal opportunities and protections."
The ACLU employee continued, "But this kid clearly is a provocateur in training with no intention of learning. He exists only to troll, intimidate and play victim."
Crankshaw went on to call Sandmann "dangerous" before adding, "Having experienced the incredibly high standards Transy requires for admission and then holds its students to, this seems like a slap in the face. I hope some time in a real classroom changes him, but his twitter and public persona suggest otherwise."
An assistant professor and diversity scholar at Transylvania, Avery Tompkins, responded to Cranshaw's post, stating, "While I certainly don't support or agree with [Sandmann's] views, and find his public behavior and rhetoric atrocious and uninformed, we can't not admit academically qualified students due to their political and personal views."
Tompkins promised to keep an eye on Sandmann "just like (she) would for any student" causing problems. She later issued an apology for her "mistake in singling out a student and any misunderstandings that arose from that."
ACLU Kentucky's deputy director told The Daily Mail of her employee's online declaration, "These were personal views expressed on personal time on a personal Facebook account. The views in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the ACLU of Kentucky."
At some point, Crankshaw also added a disclaimer to his Facebook post, stating, "NOTE: These are my personal views that I am expressing on my personal Facebook page on my personal time. They do not necessarily reflect the views of my current or past employers. I have a First Amendment right to express my views just as Nick Sandmann has a First Amendment right to express his. I will continue to express my views on my personal time."
What's the background?
Nicholas Sandmann was smeared by several mainstream media outlets last year when he was seen on video in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., smiling while face-to-face with a Native American man, Nathan Phillips. Phillips was beating a drum and some outlets suggested the teen was mocking the older man, but further footage showed that Phillips actually confronted the teen.
CNN and The Washington Post both settled defamation lawsuits with Sandmann earlier this year.
This story has been updated.


theblaze--2020-09-11--Los Angeles CEO caught on security video angrily slapping and beating his dog

Los Angeles CEO caught on security video angrily slapping and beating his dog '' There 's nothing illegal about what @ @ @

Surveillance video caught an environmental compliance company's CEO slapping and beating his dog, and police said they were investigating after a public outcry.
The incident was reported by the Daily Mail, which obtained the video from the concierge at the Seychelle Condominiums building in Santa Monica, California.
The video shows Jeffrey Previte, 46, beating and slapping his dog outside his apartment unit on Aug. 22.
The concierge, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Daily Mail that he heard the dog whimpering from the front desk and filed a report with the police about the incident.
"I heard the dog screaming and when I looked on the camera, I saw him beating the dog," he said.
Previte claimed in a statement that the concierge had been trying to extort him over the incident.
"I think this is very unfortunate that this has come across your desk. I don't even know exactly what to say but I will say this: [The concierge] called me the evening of this interaction with my dog and that was at nine o' clock at night and he attempted to extort money from me so that he wouldn't report it to the building," Previte said in the statement.
"There's nothing illegal about what I did. I said if you need to tell the building, tell the building," he added. "The building manager took it very seriously. I find it very unfortunate that we are even talking about this."
The story angered many on social media who demanded that the police investigate the matter.
"SMPD'S Animal Services Unit continues to investigate the incident for a violation of Penal Code 597(a) - Animal Abuse. We appreciate the tips received from the community," tweeted the official social media account of the Santa Monica Police Department.
The concierge said that the building's management did not take his report seriously and that he took a day off after reporting it.
The building management company released a statement to the Daily Mail.
"The apparent conduct of the unit owner was abhorrent and completely unacceptable," read the statement. "Building management stands behind our employee and we took swift action including contacting animal control and directing the resident to cease all contact with our employee. We continue to evaluate other measures that can be taken with our counsel."
Here's the disturbing and graphic footage:


theblaze--2020-09-11--Biden spokesman flips out when asked if presidential nominee used teleprompter for interviews

Biden spokesman flips out when asked if presidential nominee used teleprompter for interviews 'Disaster of an interview for the Biden @ @

The national press secretary for the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden flipped his lid on Thursday when he was asked whether his boss ever used a teleprompter during interviews with reporters.
Despite being asked several times, the spokesman never answered the question.
What are the details?
Fox News' Bret Baier asked Biden spokesman TJ Ducklo, "Has Joe Biden ever used a teleprompter during local interviews or to answer Q&A with supporters?"
"Bret, we're not gonna — this is straight from the Trump campaign talking points," Ducklo responded, leaving Baier to say, "Well, yeah, they're using it."
Ducklo insisted, "What it does, Bret, is it's trying to distract the American people."
"They're using it. They talk about it every day," Baier said, pressing, "Can you say yes or no?"
The two engaged in a back-and-forth, with Baier asking Ducklo multiple times to answer the question, before the anchor signed off with his guest.
Ducklo's refusal to answer the question raised eyebrows on social media.
Caleb Hull, senior editor at the Independent Journal Review, noted, "TJ Ducklo refused to answer and instead had a meltdown. Disaster of an interview for the Biden campaign."
Other reporters chimed in, too. The Hill's Joe Concha tweeted, "Biden spox asked by Bret Baier if Biden uses a teleprompter in interviews. Spokesman accuses Baier — one of the most respected journalists in the business — of pushing Trump talking points while refusing to answer yes or no. Attacking the messenger means you've lost the argument."
But the teleprompter question was not the only contentious part of Baier's interview with Ducklo.
Newsbusters editor Curtis Houck shared a clip from earlier in the interview, when Biden's spokesman lost his cool and failed to answer the Fox News host's question about what the Democrat would have done differently than President Donald Trump in handling COVID-19.
Instead of answering, Ducklo insisted Biden was not against Trump's travel ban.
"Let me just clarify," Baier said. "You're saying that Joe Biden was for closing down travel from China when the president did it?"
The Biden for President spokesman then attacked Fox News, saying, "I know you all like to cite the travel ban."
"No, no, no, the president does," Baier responded, explaining, "That's why I'm bringing it up. Obviously it's going to be in the debate."
Ducklo also refused to answer that question directly but offered to send Baier "fact-checks," saying that "this has been fact-checked into oblivion."
Josh Holmes, the former chief of staff and campaign manager for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, wrote on Twitter after the interview, "TJ Ducklo is likely not going on television again. Yikes."


theblaze--2020-09-11--Would you bring YOUR kid to 'Class Action Park'?

Would you bring YOUR kid to 'Class Action Park ' ?

Stu Burguiere interviewed Seth Porges, director of the HBO Max documentary "Class Action Park," about one of the most dangerous theme parks in American history. The documentary captured the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 1980s. Watch the clip and ask yourself: Would you send your kids to Action Park?
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theblaze--2020-09-10--Jussie Smollett says he was 'set up' from the beginning, claims witnesses saw 2 white men attack him

Jussie Smollett says he was 'set up ' from the beginning , claims witnesses saw 2 white men attack him @ @ @ @ @ he orchestrated a race hoax

Actor Jussie Smollett said that he was set up from the beginning of the investigation into his racist attack claims and claims that there were two witnesses who saw "exactly" what he said he saw.
The actor made the claims in a rare interview with activist Marc Lamont Hill on Instagram Live on Wednesday.
"I would say, and again, you know, I have to be careful what I say, because I'm still in a court case, but at the same time, it's out there; there's also two other witnesses that saw white men, so, you know, saw exactly what I say that I saw," Smollett said.
"These are the things that people don't necessarily know, because the lies and the things that were not true were yelled from the rooftop, but then the second that something came out that corroborated everything that I said, all of a sudden it was not even a whisper," he added.
Smollett claimed in 2019 that he was attacked by two white men spewing pro-Trump slogans and homophobic slurs in Chicago. He said that they sprayed him with a fluid like bleach and forced him to wear a noose.
Police later charged him with making false reports after they identified and questioned two Nigerian brothers who said that Smollett had paid them to fake the attack in order to garner public sympathy.
'It was set up to seem like I was lying'
Smollett went on in the interview to claim that he was set up and that someone was making an example of him.
"It's been beyond frustrating ... I'm certainly not going rogue," he said. "I'm still taking the advice of my attorneys and everything like that, but I just don't really see, honestly, what staying quiet has really done, like, where it has gotten me."
Smollett continued to deny the claims that he had orchestrated a race hoax in the interview with Hill.
"They won't let this go," he said.
"It doesn't matter," he added, "there is an example being made. And the sad part is that there's an example being made of someone who did not do what they're being accused of."
He added that the last thing he wants is to be portrayed as a victim.
"From the very, very beginning, it was set up to seem like I was lying about something or everything," he claimed.
Smollett is facing charges of disorderly conduct after the first charges against him were dismissed.
Here are the comments from his rare interview:


theblaze--2020-09-10--Death toll from West Coast wildfires reaches 7

There have been victims in California , Oregon and Washington

At least seven people have lost their lives in the devastating wildfires that continue to rage in several Western U.S. states, with reports of victims coming from California, Oregon, and Washington.
What are the details?
The first reported death was in Washington on Wednesday, where a 1-year-old boy died and his parents were severely burned as the family fled wildfires in the northern part of the state. The mother and father were hospitalized for their injuries.
Three people have been killed by the fires in Oregon. The Oregonian reported that a 13-year-old boy, Wyatt Tofte, and his grandmother, Peggy Mosso, were the first fatalities in the state. CBS News reported that Wyatt fled as a fire approached his home on Tuesday night, and his body was later found inside a vehicle along with the remains of his dog. The boy's mother was hospitalized and remains in critical condition.
The third victim in Oregon was found on Thursday in the southern part of the state from a fire that is now being investigated as arson. That person's identity has not been made public.
Another three people were found dead in Butte County, California, according to Mercury News. One of them was discovered late Wednesday morning, and authorities believe the individual was overcome by flames after fleeing their vehicle. Another two victims were found together in a separate area, but they have not been identified positively, according to Sheriff Kory Honea.
"Time and again we have seen how dangerous wildfires can be," Honea said during a news conference. "So I ask that you please, please, please be prepared, maintain situational awareness and heed the warnings."
'California's wildfire season is already the most severe'
The New York Times noted that "California's wildfire season is already the most severe in modern history, measured by acres burned." The outlet reported, "More than 2.5 million acres of land have burned in the state this year, nearly 20 times what had burned at this time last year."
The Associate Press reported that since mid-August in California, "fires have killed 12 people, destroyed more than 3,600 buildings, burned old growth redwoods, charred chaparral and forced evacuations in communities near the coast, in wine country north of San Francisco and along the Sierra Nevada."
Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in recent days to escape the West Coast fires that have been called "unprecedented" as high winds fan the flames amid drought conditions.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) expressed some cautious optimism on Thursday, saying, "We're encouraged that the wind activity appears to be dying down. The rest of the week looks a little more favorable."


theblaze--2020-09-10--Rochester's ENTIRE police command staff resigns, Chief shares POWERFUL words amid violent protests

Rochester Police Chief La'Ron Singletary and his entire command staff announced their resignation on Tuesday , following nearly a week of nightly protesting and rioting over the death of Daniel Prude , who died in police custody last March .
If you only listen to the mainstream media , you 'd think Singletary resigned due to the valiant efforts of violent BLM protesters , and that his decision should be celebrated as a victory .
But , that is the case , Glenn Beck argued on Wednesday 's radio program .
Glenn shared Singletary 's resignation statement , in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that his decision to leave the department was to save his integrity : As a man of integrity , I will not sit idly by while outside entities attempt to destroy my character .
The events over the past week are an attempt to destroy my character and integrity .
[ ... ] The mischaracterization and the politicization of the actions that I took after being informed of Mr. Prude 's death is not based on facts , and is not what I stand for .
`` He did n't resign because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would stand up , and he was being accused of things that were n't true , '' Glenn said .
`` You are seeing this now in Seattle .
[ ... ] You 're seeing this all over the country .
And it 's being spun as a giant win .
Let me ask you , Rochester .
You 've just gotten rid of an African-American police chief .
Who are you going to replace him with ?
[ ... ] Yeah , good luck , Rochester .
Good luck.
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Rochester Police Chief La'Ron Singletary and his entire command staff announced their resignation on Tuesday, following nearly a week of nightly protesting and rioting over the death of Daniel Prude, who died in police custody last March.
If you only listen to the mainstream media, you'd think Singletary resigned due to the valiant efforts of violent BLM protesters, and that his decision should be celebrated as a victory. But, that is not the case, Glenn Beck argued on Wednesday's radio program.
Glenn shared Singletary's resignation statement, in which the 20-year police veteran made it clear that his decision to leave the department was to save his integrity:
As a man of integrity, I will not sit idly by while outside entities attempt to destroy my character. The events over the past week are an attempt to destroy my character and integrity. [ ...] The mischaracterization and the politicization of the actions that I took after being informed of Mr. Prude's death is not based on facts, and is not what I stand for.
"He didn't resign because of pressure. He resigned because no one would stand up, and he was being accused of things that weren't true," Glenn said. "You are seeing this now in Seattle. [...] You're seeing this all over the country. And it's being spun as a giant win. Let me ask you, Rochester. You've just gotten rid of an African-American police chief. Who are you going to replace him with? [...] Yeah, good luck, Rochester. Good luck. "
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theblaze--2020-09-10--Neighbor of Jessica Krug — white prof who pretended to be black — says she called her 'white trash,

Neighbor of Jessica Krug — white prof who pretended to be black — says she called her 'white trash,' made threats, tried starting fights

Neighbor of Jessica Krug — white prof who pretended to be black — says she called her 'white trash , @ @ @ @ @ starting fights 'She 's been throwing air punches at me when we meet in the @ @

A neighbor of Jessica Krug — the now-former George Washington University professorwho is white but pretended to be black most of her life — told the New York Daily News she's had her share of problems with Krug, who allegedly called her "white trash," made threats, and even tried starting fights.
What are the details?
The paper said documentary filmmaker Anna Anderson, 39, first crossed paths with Krug in their East Harlem building in 2018.
"I used to have a Blue Apron subscription, which is a mail delivery subscription, and one day my food delivery didn't show up," Anderson recalled to the Daily News. "So I asked my landlord if he could check the cameras, and he said, 'Do you have any beef with Jessica?' and I'm like, 'I don't know who Jessica is,' and he said, 'She stole your package and threw it in the garbage.'"
Anderson told the paper that when Krug "did it a second time I got really pissed off." Then Anderson said she contacted police about the missing mail and spoke by phone to a judge — but the Daily News said the NYPD wasn't immediately able to verify the accusation.
She also told the paper that Krug would lock her bike so Anderson's bike would be locked, too.
"I told her to unlock her bike from my bike, and she said, 'What are you going to do? Call the cops? You know what cops do to people like me,'" Anderson recalled to the Daily News.
And the hits just kept on coming, apparently.
"I used to go out running, she would pass me when I'm running and say, 'Gentrifying,'" Anderson told the paper. "She called me 'white trash.'"
Anderson added to the Daily News that the "white trash" insult actually was funny since "I'm a white immigrant from Sweden."
'Are you gonna call the cops on me?'
Things allegedly came close to getting physical at times.
"She's a tiny person, but she's got a very big attitude, and she kinda tried to come at me, threatened to stomp on my dog and provoke me to beat her up," Anderson told the paper. "She's like, 'Are you gonna hit me, are you gonna hit me? Are you gonna call the cops on me?'"
Not that it rattled Anderson, who stands 5-feet, 9-inches tall, the Daily News said.
"She's been throwing air punches at me when we meet in the hallway," she added to the paper, which noted the women live three floors apart in their building.
Despite it all Anderson — referencing Krug's viral post on Medium in which she told the world she had been lying about her ethnicity — told the Daily News, "I just hope she gets the help she needs."
Krug didn't immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Four Houston police officers fired for fatal shooting of mentally ill man who reached for one of the

Four Houston police officers fired for fatal shooting of mentally ill man who reached for one of their stun guns @ @ @ @ @ a 'suicide by cop ' situation

Four Houston Police Department officers were fired this week over the fatal shooting of a man apparently experiencing a mental illness episode in April, ABC News reported.
The identities of the officers have not been revealed, but the police union condemned the firings and said the officers had no choice but to use deadly force when they shot and killed Nicolas Chavez.
"What happened to Nicolas Chavez was a tragedy," Houston Police Officers Union president Joe Gamaldi said. "(He was) a man who was clearly struggling from mental illness or a possible overdose and as a result forced our officers into a suicide-by-cop scenario. ... They used every non-lethal option available ... all while giving verbal commands to Mr. Chavez to give up peacefully. They begged and pleaded with Mr. Chavez to give up for the entire 15 minutes and to no avail. As Mr. Chavez stated several times, he wanted the officers to shoot and kill him."
What happened?
On April 21, police responded to a call about a possibly suicidal man running in traffic and threatening bystanders.
According to Gamaldi, the officers confronted Chavez and attempted to verbally convince him to surrender. Police said they also used stun guns and bean bag rounds, but Chavez would not stand down.
Police say Chavez was holding a piece of metal, and he got his hands on a stun gun that one of the officers dropped and pointed it at them.
Body camera footage of the shooting was played during a Thursday news conference and viewed by the Houston Chronicle. Chavez appeared to be on his knees when he was shot while reaching for a used stun gun, which three of the officers allegedly did not know had been used already.
Officers fired a total of 24 rounds at Chavez, said Police Chief Art Acevedo.
"You will hear these officers pleading with (Chavez), 'Please don't do this. Please don't do it,'" HPOU executive director Ray Hunt said, according to KPRC-TV. "You will also hear the sergeant, after he shoots (Chavez), use profanity because he is so upset that he had to finally do this ... This is an outrage for these four officers, but you know what, they're just a number."
An independent review board determined that the shooting was justified and that the officers didn't need to be disciplined, but Acevedo opted to fire them anyway.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Democratic rep takes down NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in just 6 seconds — ‘that’s it guys ... that’s th

Democratic rep takes down NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in just 6 seconds — ‘that’s it guys ... that’s the whole ad’

Democratic rep takes down NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio in just 6 seconds — ‘ that ’ s it guys @ @ @ @ @ whole ad ’

It took just six seconds for Democratic Rep. Max Rose (N.Y) to drive his point home in a new ad attacking New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Rose, who represents New York's 11th congressional district, which includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, used only the few words necessary to characterize his feelings about the mayor.
'The worst mayor'
"Bill de Blasio is the worst Mayor in the history of New York City," he bluntly states before lifting his arms and staring blankly at the camera. "That's it, guys. Seriously, that's the whole ad."
According to the New York Post, Rose's campaign made the same accusation in a separate ad that ran for only six seconds total.
The outlet also noted the reasoning behind the ad may be that Rose is locked in a tight reelection battle against Republican challenger Nicole Malliotakis at the moment.
Slamming de Blasio could bolster support for Rose in a district where the mayor is unpopular, though it's worth noting that Rose was critical of de Blasio prior to running the ad. He took shots at the mayor during his first run for Congress in 2018 when he ousted Republican incumbent Dan Donovan.
Malliotakis, a state assemblywoman, ran against de Blasio in the mayoral race in 2017, and while she lost to de Blasio citywide, she handily defeated him in Staten Island.
Others share the sentiment
The Daily Caller, in its report on the news, noticed that Rose was far from the only American who thinks de Blasio is the "worst mayor."
Here are just a couple tweets demonstrating as much:
De Blasio's reputation has fallen to new lows in recent months due to disapproval over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests in the city.
A local report recently found that only 1 in 10 political insiders approved of the job that de Blasio was doing as mayor.
Thankfully for his critics, the mayor's second and final term will be up in 2021.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Newly released DOJ records show improbable number of Mueller investigators claimed to have 'accident

Newly released DOJ records show improbable number of Mueller investigators claimed to have 'accidentally wiped' their phones

Newly released DOJ records show improbable number of Mueller investigators claimed to have 'accidentally wiped ' their phones 'What are @ @ @ @

Newly released documents from the Department of Justice show that an improbably high number of investigators involved in the Robert Mueller investigation claimed to have "accidentally wiped" their phones of vital information.
The revelation was first caught by Sean Davis of the Federalist, who posted screenshots from the 87-page document drop.
Andrew Weissmann, a manager on the Mueller team, reported that two of his special counsel's office phones were wiped, one by accident and another by entering the wrong password too many times.
"Wiped phone due to attempting the incorrect password to [sic] many times, believed had less than 10 text messages, and 5 photos of non-investigative or informational significance," read one entry for assistant special counsel Greg Andres.
"Phone was accidentally wiped prior to records review," read an entry for Kyle Freeny, a former prosecutor on the Mueller team.
Davis counted at least 15 phones that had similar entries where information and data had been wiped clean before their review by the DOJ.
"The newly released DOJ records from the OIG investigation of corruption during the Mueller probe shows that a key tactic used by the Mueller team was to put the phones in airplane mode, lock them, and then claim they didn't have the password," tweeted Davis.
Mueller was tasked with investigating the accusations of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and also claims that the Russian government interfered with the 2016 election.
"What are the actual probabilities of more than a dozen top Mueller officials all 'accidentally' nuking their phones or accidentally putting them in airplane mode, locking them, and 'forgetting' their passwords so the DOJ OIG couldn't access and examine them? Negative 100,000%?" asked Davis.
Here's more about the Mueller report:


theblaze--2020-09-10--Ivanka Trump calls Joy Behar's bluff on COVID-19 vaccine — and says she'll take it live on 'The View

Ivanka Trump calls Joy Behar's bluff on COVID-19 vaccine — and says she'll take it live on 'The View'

Ivanka Trump calls Joy Behar 's bluff on COVID-19 vaccine — and says she 'll take it live on 'The @ @ @ @ @ ' producers be serving crow that day ?

Ivanka Trump says she's not only ready and willing to take a COVID-19 vaccine — she'll take it live on "The View" to call co-host Joy Behar's bluff.
Behar said Wednesday that she had serious doubts about the efficacy of a rushed vaccine and would not take any vaccine approved by the Trump administration unless the president's daughter took it first.
What are the details?
In a Thursday tweet directed at the liberal TV co-host, the president's daughter wrote,"Deal @JoyVBehar. I would come on your show to do so. I trust the FDA and so should all Americans. Vanquishing this virus should be our collective top priority."
'It's not a simple thing to do'
On Wednesday, Behar suggested that any Trump administration-approved vaccine for COVID-19 could be faulty and unsafe.
The Trump administration has furiously been working to get a coronavirus vaccine approved and distributed to the American public by the end of 2020.
"[President Donald Trump] will push anything to get re-elected," Behar spat. "Don't fall for it. And by the way, I will take the vaccine after Ivanka takes it."
Earlier in the segment, Behar explained, "As far as the vaccine is concerned, I'd like to inform America — in case we don't know this, because I looked all this up for you — the mumps vaccine took four years, the polio vaccine took 20 years, and the smallpox vaccine took a few centuries. It was developed initially in 1796 when they started to think about it, and it became useful in the 1950s. OK? It's not a simple thing to do."
Fox News reported on Thursday that a source purporting to be close to the production "would welcome Ivanka Trump [on the show] and attempted to book her prior to the start of the current season."
Behar has yet to respond to the first daughter's tweet.


theblaze--2020-09-10--High school student arrested in New York after repeatedly showing up to class in person on remote le

High school student arrested in New York after repeatedly showing up to class in person on remote learning days

A high school senior in New York was arrested after repeatedly showing up at his school in person on days when he was assigned to remote learning, Fox News reported.
Maverick Stow, 17, was suspended from school for five days after showing up for class Tuesday when he was supposed to be attending class virtually.
The next day, Stow showed up again, and police were called to the scene. They advised him not to come back, and he reportedly left without incident.
On Thursday, Stow showed up again, wearing a neon green shirt and with some local media attention, and was arrested for trespassing and taken to the 7th Precinct in Shirley.
"I feel that I was arrested for going to school," Stow told Fox News after being released from police custody. "That's all I ever actually did, I just went to school. I just walked out of the 7th Precinct because of wanting to go to school."
Stow's parents were aware of what their son was doing by repeatedly showing up on days when he was supposed to stay home, and they supported his protest. From KGO-TV:
Stow's parents said they support their son.
"Kids need to be in school every day. Virtual learning is not learning," said Nora Kaplan-Stow, Maverick's mother. "My son is being suspended because he wants to be in school."
Richard Stow said his son told him and his wife what he was planning to do.
"He's a very smart kid. He knows what he's doing. When he said this is how he wanted to handle things, we were like, 'Then go for it,'" Richard Stow said.
Even the school district, the William Floyd School District, agrees that students should be able to attend classes in person five days per week. However, state guidelines prevent them from doing that right now, and the district wants Stow to direct his protests toward the state.
"Our district agrees with Maverick's position that school should be held in person five days per week. However, we must follow the social distancing requirements set forth by the state; and, when it is deemed safe to do so by our government and health officials, we will gladly welcome all of our 8,800 students back," the school district said in a statement. "It is important for Maverick and his family to understand that we do not set state policy, enact laws or write executive orders, but we do abide by them. We cannot have students showing up to school on their non-scheduled in-person days and when requested to leave displaying insubordinate behavior to multiple school officials and refusing to follow their instructions. His rights as a student do not surpass the rights of the other 8,799 students we have the privilege of educating. If his goal is to get school open five days per week, he is encouraged to take his advocacy to his state elected officials."
The district also said that if Stow continues trying to show up to school when he's not supposed to, the entire high school will shut down in-person learning for all students.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Top Oregon Democrat's legislative director arrested at Portland riot for interfering with police off

Top Oregon Democrat's legislative director arrested at Portland riot for interfering with police officer

Top Oregon Democrat 's legislative director arrested at Portland riot for interfering with police officer Arrestee Kristina Narayan works for @ @ @ @ @ Oregon 's House of Representatives

The legislative director for the Democratic speaker of Oregon's House of Representatives was arrested at a riot in Portland, Oregon, last weekend for interfering with a police officer, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
What are the details?
Kristina Narayan, 29, was arrested along with 58 others during a riot that began Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning, the paper said, citing a Portland Police Bureau report.
Narayan has worked for House Speaker Tina Kotek since 2016, the Free Beacon said. Kotek represents northeast Portland, Townhall reported.
Narayan was booked just after 2 a.m. Sunday for the misdemeanor; she was released the same day without bail. The Free Beacon said Kotek's office didn't respond to a request for comment.
What happened at the riot?
Portland police said "multiple fire bombs, mortars, rocks, and other items were thrown at law enforcement" during the riot.
"Many in the crowd were carrying large shields ... and dressed in protective gear including helmets, gas masks, body armor, and all black clothing," police added. "It was clear that the intent of the crowd was not peaceful protest. Therefore officers were positioned in such a way that prevented the march from reaching East Precinct."
Police said individuals in the crowd "began throwing multiple fire bombs at officers" just after 9 p.m.
TheBlaze reported that one of the Molotov cocktails caused a rioter to catch on fire:
Video Shows Portland Protester Catch Fire During Police Clash | NBC News youtu.be
More from the police:
This criminal activity presented an extreme danger to life safety for all community members, and prompted a declaration of a riot. The crowd was advised over loudspeaker that it was a riot and they were to leave the area to the east immediately. They were warned that failure to adhere to this order may subject them to arrest, citation, or crowd control agents, including, but not limited to, tear gas and/or impact weapons. Individuals within the crowd began throwing illegal fireworks/mortars at officers. Others were seen throwing rocks. At least one had a "wrist-rocket" type of slingshot launching unknown objects. In order to defend themselves from these assaults, officers used crowd control munitions, including tear gas. Officers made numerous targeted arrests.
For the next four hours, the crowd appeared to meander through the Mill Park community, attempting to get to get around the police blockade and reach East Precinct. Officers moved ahead of the rioters to prevent them access. Rioters lit fires in the streets, including dumpsters, garbage cans, and wooden pallets. Officers moved in to push the crowd back in order to extinguish the fires.
What do we know about Kotek, the Oregon House speaker?
In July, Kotek criticized Portland police for the "unacceptable" practice of using tear gas to disperse rioters.
"It was an unnecessary escalation by the [Portland Police Bureau] against people exercising their freedom of assembly and freedom of speech," Kotek said in a letter to Democratic Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, the Associated Press said. "It showed an utter inability to exercise restraint. Smart policing is when an officer can differentiate a minor provocation from a serious threat. Nothing about this was smart."


theblaze--2020-09-10--Viewers rage against Netflix after 'Cuties' premiere features 'female breast nudity of a minor,' 'sh

Viewers rage against Netflix after 'Cuties' premiere features 'female breast nudity of a minor,' 'shots of breast, bums, and spread crotches of scantily clad' children

Viewers rage against Netflix after 'Cuties ' premiere features 'female breast nudity of a minor , ' 'shots of breast @ @ @ @ @ crotches of scantily clad ' children Film has an MA rating — for mature audiences @

Update Sept. 11, 2020 2:25 PM ET: A spokesperson for Netflix tells TheBlaze, "There is no underage nudity in this film."
Original story continues below ...
Hordes of streaming viewers are calling to "cancel" Netflix after the company recently debuted the film, "Cuties," insisting that the project — which tells a story of a young "sensual dance" troupe — is nothing more than pedophilia.
Clips of the film have begun circulating on social media, showing varying degrees of apparent, inappropriate sexualization of young girls.
What's a very brief history here?
In August, the streaming giant came under fire after a trailer and poster for the award-winning French film sexualized the young girls acting in the project.
In a statement, Netflix issued an apology, saying, "We're deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for Mignonnes/Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We've now updated the pictures and description."
What are the details?
So far, nearly 600,000 people have signed a Change.org petition titled, "Cancel Netflix Subscription."
The film has also prompted hashtag #CancelNetflix to trend on social media.
Earlier Thursday, IMDB's film page for "Cuties" described a moment in the film as "lawfully defined as pedophilia."
One of the parental warnings on the film read, "During one of the many highly sexualized & erotic dance scenes that purposefully exploit & objectify numerous scantily clad under age [sic] girls, one of the female child dancers lifts up her cropped top to fully display her bare breast. This is lawfully defined as pedophilia and can be extremely distressing to many viewers."
Further, another warning noted, "An 11 year old [sic] girl watches a female rap music video where naked women role play through dance, both heterosexual & lesbian sex acts. An 11 year old [sic] female dance group then mimics these sexual moves on themselves and on each other while the camera zooms in on their sexual body parts as they erotically writher [sic]. This can be highly distressing to many viewers."
"Female breast nudity of a minor during an erotic dance scene and lengthy & excessive closeup shots of breasts, bums, and spread crotches of scantily clad 11 year old [sic] girls during numerous sexualized dance routines," another warning added.
Internet archive website Wayback Machine captured the following shot of the IMDB page at 1 p.m. EST on Thursday:
Image source: Wayback Machine IMDB screenshot
Less than an hour later, the page appeared significantly different, and warned only that the movie "consists of 11 year old [sic] girls dancing very suggestively."
It also adds, "A girl watches a female rap music video where naked women role play through dance."
At the time of this writing, the IMDB page is significantly different:
Image source: IMDB screenshot
What else?
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes currently ranks the film as 90% fresh.
The site declares that the film takes a "thoughtful look at the intricacies of girlhood in the modern age," and is a "coming-of-age film that confronts its themes with poignancy and nuance."
Decider's John Serba wrote, "Cuties is nuanced and gripping, a powerful and meritorious drama that doesn't deserve the type of ignorant condemnation it's endured."
Monica Castillo at RogerEbert.com added, "With Cuties, Doucouré announces herself as a director with a keen visual style who's unafraid to explore these cultural and social tensions."


theblaze--2020-09-10--Sen. Rand Paul tells Steven Crowder how 'corporate America' is actually funding the riots that are d

Sen. Rand Paul tells Steven Crowder how 'corporate America' is actually funding the riots that are destroying America's cities

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested Thursday that the rampant rioting and violence that is destroying some of America's cities is likely part of a coordinated effort funded by an unexpected source: corporate America.
What are the details?
The senator — who was attacked by an angry mob outside the Republican National Convention last month — made the comments in an interview with BlazeTV's Steven Crowder Thursday morning.
The two were discussing Paul's recent run-in with the "crazed" protesters and Black Lives Matters riots, in general, when the lawmaker suggested that many of the rioters are likely professional in some capacity, in that they are paid to travel to different areas of the country to incite violence.
"We're seeing these people ... some of the same people are in Portland, Kenosha, D.C., Louisville," Paul said.
"How are they getting there? They're staying at the [Willard Hotel] — the Willard Hotel might be $500 to $1,000 a night — who's paying for them to stay in the Willard Hotel?" he asked. "Who's paying for them to have air flight? Who's paying them to do this?"
"And here's the sad truth of it," he continued. "It's probably not going to be a sinister name like George Soros, it's going to be corporate America."
"Corporate America is giving money to Black Lives Matter and my guess is, if we follow the money, the people who paid for the plane tickets and the hotels and the people who continue to do this, is Black Lives Matter," he said. "People should not be giving money to a group that is then funding thuggery."
Watch the exchange in the video below starting at the 51:45 mark:
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Paul proposed that instead of funding Black Lives Matter, an organization that openly calls for a Marxist revolution and policy initiatives such as the end of the nuclear family, those who desire to promote racial equality should donate to organizations such as the United Negro College Fund or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
What else?
Last week, shortly after he and his family were attacked, Paul tweeted out a report that one of the alleged mob assailants involved in the incident was in fact a Florida resident, indicating that he had traveled quite a long way to be a part of the violence in the nation's capital.
The man was arrested and charged for striking a police officer, but then released.
"If you're looking for him, maybe try Kenosha," Paul suggested.
His suggestion was not exactly tongue-in-cheek.
The notion that rioters are flooding into America's cities from out-of-town to fuel unrest is hardly a conspiracy theory. In late August, police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reported that 102 of the 175 individuals arrested as part of the riots were residents of another city.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Daughter of Uighur man 'disappeared' by Chinese government rips Disney 'disgrace' of profiting off p

Daughter of Uighur man 'disappeared' by Chinese government rips Disney 'disgrace' of profiting off persecution of her people

A man walks past a poster of the Disney movie `` Mulan '' in Beijing on Thursday .
Disney 's @ @ @ @ @ facing fresh boycott calls after it emerged some of the blockbuster 's scenes were filmed @ @ @ @ @ where widespread rights abuses against the region 's Muslim population have been widely documented .
@ @ @ @ @ Beijing on Friday .
( Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images )

Jewher Ilham has not seen her father since 2013 — when the Chinese Communist government arrested him before he could board a plane to Indiana and "disappeared" him.
Now Ilham, a member of the Chinese Uighur people, is calling out Disney for playing footsie with China's oppressive government in order to gain access to the nation to film its newest movie, "Mulan" and screen the movie in the nation's theaters.
What did she say?
Disney has come under fire for filming "Mulan" in the Chinese province where Uighur Muslims are being held in concentration camps and then using the movie's credits to thank the agency that runs the camps for its help.
In an op-ed titled "The Chinese Government Locked Up My Uighur Father. Disney's 'Mulan' Is a Disgrace" for the Daily Beast on Thursday, Ilham, who currently serves as the Uighur Human Rights Fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, D.C., explained that her father — a "mild-mannered, studious professor of economics" whose "life's work was using his influence to promote peaceful coexistence between the Uighur people ... and the Han ethnic majority that rules China" — was arrested by the Communist government in 2013 just before he was to get on a plane to the U.S. for an Indiana University Fellowship.
His efforts at "peaceful coexistence," she said, ran counter to the interests of the Chinese government, and he was sentenced in 2014 to life in prison.
She has not heard from her father since the day before his arrest and has heard nothing of his whereabouts since 2017.
So naturally, Ilham is not impressed with Disney's cozy relationship with the very people who have reportedly put some 1 million ethnic minorities in concentration camps while using an ancient Chinese legend to make millions of dollars:
In many ways, I can identify with the title character in Disney's Mulan films, based on the ancient Chinese legend. In the story, as China calls up the men from every family to defend against a foreign invasion, Mulan dresses as a boy and fights in the place of her father, who is too old to go himself. As a child growing up in Beijing, I loved the legend and the fun Disney cartoon version produced in 1998. Little did I know that I, like Mulan, would later be fighting for my own father—helping to carry on his work while he is unjustly imprisoned. I hope, like her, to achieve victory by one day gaining my father's release.
Today, sadly, a new retelling of the Mulan story, once again by Disney, is profiting from the oppression of my people. This live-action version was filmed partly in the Uighur region—officially known in China as “Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region"—where the Chinese Communist government is holding at least one million members of Turkic ethnic minorities in concentration camps as part of a coordinated genocidal campaign. My father, if he is alive, may be among them—nobody will allow us to visit him, or even tell us where he is.
Despite widespread international condemnation of China's brutal tactics in Xinjiang, Disney still chose to go there to film this movie, delivering money and the prestige of an international “family" brand to those directly engaged in genocide. Adding insult to injury, in the closing credits, they even made sure to thank the local government “bureau of public security" (also known as state police) and “publicity department" (or propaganda). These are the very same government agencies in the Uighur region that are imprisoning Uighurs and other Turkic minorities, and then telling their families and the international press they are merely being held in “training centers." The “public security" office is currently under sanctions by the U.S. government for human rights abuses.
Ilham noted that the government have been oppressing the Uighur people since at least the 1950s and have become more aggressive about it.
She's calling on the world to boycott 'Mulan'
Sadly, she said, the West has become increasingly complicit in the government's "cultural genocide" — especially major multinational corporations like Nike, Apple and Gap that rely on China's use of political prisoners for forced labor.
Hollywood, she stated, is as guilty as those other companies about getting suckered into doing business with and cozying up to China. And now she's calling on the world to boycott "Mulan":
Hollywood isn't immune from the charms of Beijing either. The promise of access to the massive Chinese market is irresistible for a movie industry desperate for revenue in the COVID era when movie ticket sales are down. While many theaters in the United States remain shut down, Mulan will be opening in Chinese theaters.
It appears, sadly, that Disney is the latest in the long and disappointing line of Western people and companies taken advantage of by China. We can hope, at least, that the outcry against Disney on behalf of the Uighurs and freedom-loving people everywhere will not only lead others to #BoycottMulan in the short term, but in the long term demand that Western companies cease cooperating with Chinese oppression.
Ilham concluded by saying she hopes this exposure will rally nations around the globe to stop letting China's Communist government get away with its myriad abuses.
This story has been updated.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Horowitz: E-MASK-ulation: How we have been lied to so dramatically about masks

Horowitz : E-MASK-ulation : How we have been lied to so dramatically about masks What did the scientific literature say @ @ @ @ @ ?

If you are looking for the scientific rationale behind universal mask-wearing, you certainly won't find it now that the issue has become as political as guns, abortion, and taxes. We are now at a point where Canada's chief public health officer is calling on people to wear masks when engaging in sexual activities and 19-month-old babies are being forced to wear them on airplanes. There is no rational thought in a political cult. But what did the governmental and scientific literature say on the issue before it became political?
On April 3, already several weeks into the unprecedented lockdown over coronavirus, but before the big media push for universal masking, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued guidance for respiratory protection for workers exposed to people with the virus. It stated clearly what governments had said all along about other forms of airborne contamination, such as smoke inhalation — "Surgical masks and eye protection (e.g., face shields, goggles) were provided as an interim measure to protect against splashes and large droplets (note: surgical masks are not respirators and do not provide protection against aerosol-generating procedures)."
In other words, they knew that because the virions of coronavirus are roughly 100 nanometers, 1/100,000 the width of a hair and 1/30 the size of surgical mask filtrations (about 3.0 microns or 3,000 nanometers), surgical masks (not to mention cloth ones) do not help. This would explain why experience has shown that all of the places with universal mask orders in place for months, such as Japan, Hong Kong, Israel, France, Peru, Philippines, Hawaii, California, and Miami, failed to stave off the spread of the infection. Surgical masks could possibly stop large droplets from those coughing with very evident symptoms, but would not stop the flow of aerosolized airborne particles, certainly not from asymptomatic individuals.
This is why the CDC, as late as May, was citing the 10 randomized controlled trials that showed "no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks." The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford also summarized six international studies which "showed that masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers."
When Dr. Fauci spoke so assertively against universal mask-wearing early on in the epidemic, it was clearly based on this knowledge. "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask," infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told "60 Minutes" on March 8. He went on to explain that masks can only block large droplets, they give a false sense of security, and they cause people to get more germs on their hands by fiddling with it. Those facts don't change with time.
Several weeks later, Surgeon General Jerome Adams punctuated this point about the counterproductivity of wearing masks in public. Appearing on "Fox & Friends" on March 31, Adams said that based on a study that shows medical students who wear masks touch their faces 23 times more often, one has to assume that "wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting disease."
Ever since then, we have all seen how people leave masks in their pockets or cars for days and continuously put it on and off as needed without washing their hands. It's inconceivable that this is not serving as a bacteria trap, if not downright helping spread the virus on our hands.
A 2015 randomized clinical trial from the University of South Wales testing the effectiveness of cloth masks among health care workers in Hanoi found that the poor filtration becomes a conduit for moisture retention. Researchers found a high rate of infection among those workers presumably because "their reuse and poor filtration may explain the increased risk of infection." Can you imagine how much worse this is in a non-health-care setting where reuse and cross-contamination are rampant?
This is why before mask-wearing became a cult in Canada, Quebec's public health director Horacio Arruda told the Montreal Gazette that masks are counterproductive. Arruda's guidance as given in the article states that masks "get saturated with moisture from the mouth and nose after about 20 minutes. Once they're wet, they no longer form a barrier against viruses trying to come through or exit." This renders the daylong mask wearing in businesses, stores, and schools, as opposed to the short onetime use in clinical settings, a complete hazard to spread of bacteria and pathogens.
Nothing about the biology of the virus or our discovery of it has changed in the past few months that would lead us to believe that masks are somehow more effective against it than they are against the spread of other respiratory viruses. What has changed is the politics. Governments could no longer control our lives through wholesale lockdowns, because it was logistically untenable, so they created the mask mandate as a way of permanently controlling our movement. They wisely did this on the heels of the full-scale lockdown when people were grateful just to be back in business under any conditions and were desperately willing to do anything to stave off a shutdown.
Dr. Jeffery Klausner, an infectious disease doctor at UCLA, described mask-wearing in early February as all psychological, not physiological. He told the Los Angeles Times that "fear spreads a lot faster than the virus" and that a mask only "makes you feel better." What is so dangerous about this is that, as Fauci and others originally warned when they were actually speaking from a modicum of scientific grounding, is that many immunocompromised people will go to dangerous places thinking the mask protects them. I've seen countless friends and neighbors who are concerned about their heart conditions and diabetes blissfully walk around indoors thinking the mask is their shield.
This is why Swedish epidemiologist Anders Tegnell warned that because scientific evidence for mask-wearing to prevent COVID-19 is "astonishingly weak," it is "very dangerous" to believe that face masks on their own could control the spread of the disease rather than hand washing or, in the case of those who are seriously ill, staying away from indoor gatherings. He would know, because his country barely has any cases left, and almost nobody in Sweden wears a mask.
The Dutch government made the prudent decision of only requiring masks on public transit when people are really close to each other for a limited period of time. With such scant evidence of the effectiveness of mask-wearing, how can we disrupt lives of children in school, businessmen in offices, and even people walking outdoors in some countries and states? "From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Netherlands Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark in August.
The Danish supposedly commissioned a randomized clinical trial to study mask effectiveness specifically as it relates to protecting against SARS-CoV-2, but despite promises of imminent release weeks ago, the study has not been published. Henning Bundgaard, chief physician at Denmark's Rigshospitale, noted, "All these countries recommending face masks haven't made their decisions based on new studies." It doesn't appear that anyone else is interested in finding out the truth.
Even in England, where there is more mask-wearing than in some of the other northern European countries, Public Health England concluded, "There is weak evidence from epidemiological and modelling studies that mask wearing in the community may contribute to reducing the spread of COVID-19 and that early intervention may result in a lower peak infection rate."
Our own U.S. government has failed to produce new evidence that counters years' worth of evidence that masks don't work in stopping respiratory viruses and is still producing evidence to the contrary. In June, HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded a systemic review of all relevant randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on the effectiveness of mask-wearing in stopping respiratory infections and published the findings in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The conclusion was as clear as it is jarring to the current cult-like devotion to mask-wearing. "Review of RCTs indicates that N95 respirators and surgical masks are probably associated with similar risk for influenza-like illness and laboratory-confirmed viral infections in high- and low-risk settings." The study noted that only one trial did show "a small decrease in risk" for infection when doctors wore N95s in high-risk settings, but even that evidence was scant.
The study looked at eight trials with 6,510 participants that "evaluated use of surgical masks within households with an influenza or influenza-like illness index case (child or adult). Compared with no masks, surgical masks were not associated with decreased risk for clinical respiratory illness, influenza-like illness, or laboratory-confirmed viral illness in household contacts when masks were worn by household contacts, index cases, or both." Remember, Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coronavirus Task Force coordinator, is now saying people should wear masks even at home?
How have we gone from public officials universally warning about the lack of effectiveness plus the potential to spread germs from masks to mandating that young children who are germ factories wear them all day in school – without even a legislative debate or public hearings?
The answer is that we have become emasculated as a society. We have become a people who are willing to surrender every morsel of our liberty at the ever-changing and capricious whims of "public health officials," even when they are appallingly contradictory and without any evidence justifying the 180-degree U-turn.
During times of panic, opportunistic politicians in positions of power will always latch on to desperate and regressive ideas to infringe upon liberty, while packaging them as some sort of enlightened advancement in technology or understanding. In reality, these same desperate measures were tried in 1918, and even then, it was understood that they didn't work. A November 16, 1918, headline of the Santa Barbara Daily News read, "Average Person Doesn't Know How to Take Care of Mask and It Becomes Veritable Bacteria Incubator."
Many principles in life are inviolable and do not change with time. We used to understand that mask-wearing was a novelty of Halloween. Now, our passivity has allowed our entire country to become a Halloween nightmare masquerade every day, with no end in sight.
This article has been updated.


theblaze--2020-09-10--White professor who pretended to be black resigns from George Washington University. Now the school

White professor who pretended to be black resigns from George Washington University. Now the school offers counseling to impacted students.

White professor who pretended to be black resigns from George Washington University .
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Jessica Krug, a former professor at George Washington University, has resigned from her teaching position at the venerated Washington, D.C., college.
Krug came under fire last week after announcing in an essay published on Medium that she is not the black woman she has pretended to be — but a white, Jewish woman from suburban Kansas City.
What are the details?
According to NBC News, a spokesperson for the university announced that Krug submitted her resignation.
School officials initially placed Krug on suspension, and told her that if she did not resign, she would be fired.
A Wednesday email from Provost M. Brian Blake read, "Dr. Krug has resigned her position, effective immediately. Her classes for this semester will be taught by other faculty members, and students in those courses will receive additional information this week."
The outlet reported that the school was offering up "counseling services" for impacted students.
'I have built my life on a violent anti-black lie'
In the now-viral essay, Krug insisted she should be "cancelled" over her wrongdoing of pretending to embody "North African blackness," "U.S. rooted blackness," and "Caribbean rooted Bronx blackness."
Krug in her essay also said that "unaddressed mental health demons" were to blame for her behaviors.
"I have built my life on a violent anti-black lie," she admitted in the lengthy missive.
Professor 'raised questions about the veracity of her own research and teaching'
An initial response from the school read, "The members of the faculty of The George Washington University Department of History are shocked and appalled by Dr. Jessica Krug's admission on September 3, 2020 that she has lied about her identity for her entire career. With what she has termed her 'audaciously deceptive' appropriation of an Afro-Caribbean identity, she has betrayed the trust of countless current and former students, fellow scholars of Africana Studies, colleagues in our department and throughout the historical discipline, as well as community activists in New York City and beyond."
"The discipline of history is concerned with truth telling about the past," the statement continued. "With her conduct, Dr. Krug has raised questions about the veracity of her own research and teaching. Accordingly, the department calls upon Dr. Krug to resign from her position as associate professor of History at GW. Failing that, the department recommends the rescinding of her tenure and the termination of her appointment."


theblaze--2020-09-10--VIDEO: NYC firefighters chase down thug who sucker-punched 60-year-old woman in front of their stati

VIDEO: NYC firefighters chase down thug who sucker-punched 60-year-old woman in front of their station

VIDEO : NYC firefighters chase down thug who sucker-punched 60-year-old woman in front of their station Police said suspect has @ @ @ @ @ recently Aug. 2 after he allegedly slashed a man 's face

A Brooklyn bicyclist apparently thought it would be fun to sucker-punch and knock down a 60-year-old woman he was passing on a sidewalk late last month.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
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It's possible he could've pedaled away with no immediate consequences — except the thug had the bright idea of doing the deed right in front of the Engine 214/Ladder 111 fire station.
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And the firefighters apparently saw the whole thing, got plenty mad, and ran after him.
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Video shows the firefighters caught up to the bicyclist around a corner and took him down to the sidewalk.
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The firefighters stayed with the suspect until police arrived and took him away in handcuffs as a crowd watched, WCBS-TV reported.
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Who is the suspect?
The NYPD identified the suspect as 53-year-old Daniel Biggs, the station said, adding that police said he has 18 prior arrests, from robbery to assault, and that the most recent was Aug. 2 after he allegedly slashed a 26-year-old man's face.
What's more, during the Aug. 26 incident, while he was being restrained Biggs punched a 29-year-old firefighter in the eye causing bruising and swelling, police told WCBS.
Biggs, of Brooklyn, was charged with assault, menacing, harassment, and attempted assault, the New York Post said. He was arraigned the following day, ordered held on $20,000, but was released without bail after a return court appearance four days later, the paper said, citing court records.
The suspect appears to be a recognizable face in the community, the station said. "He comes, buys his stuff and leaves. That's it. I was like why he did it?" Twin Alzokari of nearby J&A Deli and Grocery told WCBS.
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Anything else?
Police said the victim suffered a cut on the mouth but refused medical attention at the scene, the station reported, adding that the suspect and victim were strangers and that the motive for the attack is unclear.
"It's bad. You can't hit a woman," Alzokari added to WCBS. "She's very nice, the whole family. I grew up with them."
And he told the station the firefighters are an asset to the neighborhood.
"You feel safe. They're always helping the community, and that's a very, very good job what they did," he said.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Salon owner slammed by Pelosi officially closes down her business, is 'afraid' to return to San Fran

Salon owner slammed by Pelosi officially closes down her business, is 'afraid' to return to San Francisco

Salon owner slammed by Pelosi officially closes down her business , is 'afraid ' to return to San Francisco ' @ @ @ @ @ go back '

Erica Kious, the owner of the San Francisco salon visited by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week in violation of city health guidelines, has announced that she is officially going out of business.
What are the details?
Kious told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the controversy surrounding Pelosi's visit on Aug. 31 has effectively destroyed her business in the city.
"I am actually done in San Francisco and closing my doors, unfortunately," the single mother of two said during an interview Wednesday.
Kious claimed that after exposing Pelosi by releasing surveillance footage of the lawmaker visiting the salon and waltzing through the store mask-less, she was hit with an onslaught of negative reviews and threatening messages.
"I started to just get a ton of phone calls, text messages, emails, all my Yelp reviews ... saying that they hope I go under and that I fail," she claimed. "So just a lot of negativity towards my business."
Last week, Kious even revealed to Carlson that she had received "death threats" as result of the incident.
On Wednesday, Kious said that she is "actually afraid to go back" to the city where she has lived and worked for more than a decade.
"It's a little scary and sad," she added. "I do have a lot of positive calls and text messages from clients. But other than that, nothing but negativity."
What's the background?
Pelosi was reportedly serviced by an an independent stylist who rents space at Kious' salon and later claimed she was led to believe that one-on-one appointments were permissible.
That, of course, was not the case under San Francisco rules which, at that time, barred personal service providers from performing any services indoors and/or which required a mask to be worn.
Pelosi should have known that, yet after the footage was released, she responded by claiming she was the victim of a "setup" and that she was the one who was owed "an apology."
"I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I've been to over the years many times," Pelosi said. "And that when they said 'We're able to accommodate people one person at a time' and that we can set up that time, I trusted that. As it turns out, it was a setup, so I take responsibility for falling for a setup."
Kious has vehemently denied that she set a trap for the speaker and has called that allegation "absolutely false."
Anything else?
After the incident a GoFundMe page was created in effort to raise funds for Kious to "pay off any debts from the business that she is forced to shut down [and] expenses to relocate and reopen in a new location."
So far, more than $336,000 has been raised.


theblaze--2020-09-10--Nick Sandmann fires back at ACLU official who complained about conservative student's college admiss

Nick Sandmann fires back at ACLU official who complained about conservative student's college admission, shreds cancel culture

Nick Sandmann fires back at ACLU official who complained about conservative student 's college admission , shreds cancel culture

Nick Sandmann is firing back at the American Civil Liberties Union staffer who publicly condemned Transylvania University for accepting his application to attend the Lexington, Kentucky, school.
Sandmann, the former Covington Catholic High School student smeared in 2019 for what many mainstream news outlets erroneously reported as "mocking" a Native American man during the March for Life, is now speaking out in defense of his conservative values.
Sandmann was the subject of much controversy and criticism, and his family filed lawsuits against media giants such as CNN and the Washington Post in response.
Both outlets settled defamation lawsuits with Sandmann earlier this year.
What are the details?
In an op-ed for Fox News, titled "I'm a pro-life conservative Republican college student who won't let cancel culture silence me," Sandmann — now a freshman at the Kentucky university — said he refuses to fall victim to "cancel culture."
"Beginning the college year during the coronavirus pandemic is difficult enough for millions of students," he wrote. "But the beginning of my freshman year at Transylvania University in Kentucky is being made even more difficult by an unwarranted attack against me by the cancel culture due to my conservative views."
Recalling his time dominating 2019's news headlines, Sandmann said enough is enough.
"[U]nbelievably, an official of the American Civil Liberties Union — a liberal group that claims to be dedicated to defending free speech — criticized the university last week for admitting me, saying my admission was a 'stain' on the school," he explained.
The staffer, identified as Samuel Crankshaw — a Transylvania University graduate — said that Sandmann solely exists to "troll, intimidate, and play victim." Sandmann, however, said he has never met Crankshaw — who he says knows nothing about Sandmann other than what he has read in the news.
"Yet still, he tries to cancel me and demand that I be denied admission to college," he wrote. "Why? Because he seems outraged that my conservative values don't align with his left-wing ideology."
He warned, "If you are a conservative like me, watch out. The intolerant left might come for you, too."
"Jonathan Turley, a scholar known for being a strong advocate of free speech, responded on his blog to defend the need for free speech and defend me from Crankshaw's attack," Sandmann noted.
Turley wrote:
I have previously written, as a long supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), about my concern over how the venerable group has changed under its current leadership, including a departure from its long robust defense of free speech. Recently, the ACLU has abandoned its famed neutrality and has not supported some on the right while supporting those on the left.
Turley later added, "[I]t is far more alarming to see an ACLU official rallying people against a young man whose chief offense appears to be that he is publicly (and unapologetically) conservative and pro-life."
Sandmann said, "Turley is right. Colleges have a reputation of being toxic places for conservative, pro-life ideas like the ones I hold. But an alumni assuming I'll act in a certain way before even meeting me? Well, that's a new low."
He pointed out that he's obviously not the only young conservative to be virtually pilloried for his beliefs and that conservative students across America regularly face this type of pushback.
"If the threats to students like me don't come from the left-leaning administrators, the threats come from fellow students who call on campus leadership to cancel events or shut down student organizations that dare challenge their left-wing view of the world," Sandmann added, blasting the notion of college and university "free speech zones" as "ridiculous."
"Our entire country is a free speech zone, enshrined by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution," the young man wrote. "And no one has the right to cancel the Constitution or its First Amendment."
Anything else?
The newly minted college freshman went on to laud President Donald Trump and Kentucky Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for remaining strong in the face of leftist pressure.
"Sen. McConnell and President Trump are the exact leaders we need at a time when liberal mobs take glee in destroying our lives and erasing our voices," Sandmann said.
"Now more than ever, we need more speech, not less," he reasoned. "We need to hear new ideas and to learn from others. That is exactly what I and so many students returning to school want to do. I invite Democrats to join us."
He concluded, "[T]o those who are inclined to write my future for me, I say let me define myself. I will not be canceled."