THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2022

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Dana Bash

CNN’s Dana Bash grilled Governor Kristi Noem on a series of tough topics this weekend, despite Noem's attempts to deflect.

During the interview, the South Dakota governor trashed the Jan. 6 House committee as “one-sided” — neglecting to mention that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled Republicans from the panel.

Noem then went on to impugn the credibility of committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, criticizing much of Hutchinson's testimony as "hearsay.

The comment prompted Bash to note that while one claim was a secondhand account, many of the other key portions of Hutchinson’s testimony involved statements she says she heard directly from Donald Trump and Meadows.  

“Governor, what I just played was first-hand,” Bash said – referencing a soundbite she had just shown in which Hutchinson talked about Trump knowing the protesters were armed and encouraging them to march to the Capitol anyway.

The governor then abruptly tried to switch gears, yet Bash went on to ask, "Do you believe that President Trump bears any responsibility for what happened on January 6th?”

Noem waffled and refused to put any of the blame on Trump, prompting Bash to ask the question again. 

At another point in the painful interview, Bash asked Noem if the restrictive abortion laws in her state would force a sexually-abused young woman to have a baby.

Noem failed to answer the question directly. 

Undeterred, Bash continued to steer the discussion back on topic throughout the interview

MEDIA LOSER:
Dave Rubin

Dave Rubin has been suspended from Twitter.

In a rather obvious series of events, Rubin was suspended from the platform after he shared a screenshot of a post that had already gotten psychologist Jordan Peterson temporarily axed in June. 

In a June 22 tweet, Peterson harked back to the good old days when "pride was a sin," referring to a time when consensual sexual relations between same-sex couples was illegal. 

To top it off, Peterson went on to personally attack and deadname actor Elliot Page, who is a transgender man.

“Remember when pride was a sin?" he tweeted. "And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician."

The tweet clearly violated Twitter's hate speech guidelines, which specifically prohibits "targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals."

Peterson has vowed to never delete the tweet, adding, "I would rather die than do that."

Rubin slammed the suspension in a statement and expressed hope that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s pending acquisition of Twitter is completed.

"I have been suspended by Twitter for posting a screenshot of Jordan Peterson’s tweet which got he himself suspended," he wrote. 

"While it is unclear how I broke their terms of service, it is clear that they are breaking their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders by letting a bunch of Woke activists run the company."

As previously stated, it's extremely clear how both Rubin and Peterson violated Twitter's terms of service and got themselves kicked off the platform.

The A-Block

Terror on July 4

This year's Fourth of July weekend was horrifically interrupted by multiple shootings across the nation, punctuating days of celebration with fear and mourning. 

A deadly mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in the city of Highland Park tragically left at least six dead and dozens more injured.

Eyewitnesses recounted horrific stories from the shooting to CNN and other outlets, describing the large-scale carnage.

“I think the shooter stopped and reloaded, and that’s when I ran around the corner and put my son and little brother in a dumpster, and his dog. I asked someone to watch him because I had to go back for the rest of my family,” witness Alexander Sandoval told the New York Times.

“Then when I ran back to look for them is when I saw people shot on the ground.”

Twenty-two-year-old Robert ‘Bobby’ E. Crimo III has since been named a person of interest and arrested. Charges have not been filed. 

President Joe Biden released a statement following the shooting, vowing to continue fighting the “epidemic of gun violence.”

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other state and local officials also reacted to the Independence Day tragedy. 

The incident occurred amid a spate of high-profile mass shootings across the country in public areas such as grocery stores and schools

In a separate incident, two police officers were also shot at Philadelphia’s Fourth of July fireworks celebration.

The gunshots caused mayhem in the city, as civilians fled the scene in terror to seek refuge in the area. 

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney decried the availability of guns in the U.S. while speaking to reporters after the incident.

“It was a laid back, chill day,” Kenney said. “Weather was beautiful. Concert was beautiful. But we live in America. And we have the Second Amendment. And we have the Supreme Court of the United States telling everybody they can carry a gun wherever they want. It’s like Dodge City.”
 

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Mitt Romney Calls Out America’s ‘National Malady of Denial’: Warns a Return to Trump Would Render it ‘Incurable’

RATINGS: Thursday June 30: Greg Gutfeld Has 2 of Top 3 Shows on Cable News in the Demo

Must See Clip

'We’ve got to get the roaches out'

Stunning new footage from the now-infamous Trump January 6 documentary Unprecedented has been released.

The clips, released in a new trailer obtained by Politico’s Ryan Lizza and Eugene Daniels, show just how unfettered the film crew’s access was to then-President Donald Trump, his family, and the supporters who carried out the violent attack on the Capitol.

Watch the latest gripping footage here.

Links We Like

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