Author: Freedom Watch
Opinion | Anti-Zionists Deserve Free Speech By Michelle Goldberg New York Times April 17, 2019 The Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, was supposed to be on a speaking tour of the United States this week, with stops at N.Y.U.’s Washington campus and at Harvard. He was going to attend his daughter’s wedding in Texas. I had plans to interview him for “The Argument,” the debate podcast that I co-host, about B.D.S., the controversial campaign to make Israel pay an economic and cultural price for its treatment of the…
Trump takes second whack at Fox News By Caitlin Oprysko POLITICO April 17, 2019 President Donald Trump took a second whack at Fox News on Tuesday, again expressing frustration that his favored network offered a platform for Sen. Bernie Sanders to connect with 2020 voters. Without offering evidence, Trump on Tuesday night accused Fox News of blocking his supporters from attending the previous night’s town hall with Sanders. Continue Reading…..
By Lauren Egan NBC News April 17, 2019 WASHINGTON — Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is leading the Republican field vying for the party’s 2020 nomination to challenge Sen. Doug Jones, the Democrat who beat Moore in 2017, according to a survey released Tuesday. Moore leads among could-be GOP candidates with 27 percent in the poll from Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, just a year and a half after losing what was widely viewed as a safe seat for Alabama Republicans. He’s trailed by three Alabama congressmen: Mo Brooks at 18 percent, Bradley Byrne at 13, and…
Duke men’s basketball’s Zion Williamson declares for the NBA Draft The Chronicle April 17, 2019 Williamson’s scoring average for the year was the 13th highest in ACC history and his Player Efficiency Rating of 40.8—although sometimes critiqued as a not meaningful stat—shattered the previous previous record of 36.93 by High Point’s John Brown. “I just want to say thank you,” Williamson said in the release. “Thank you for making this season a dream for me and the best year of my life. Everything about this team was special, and learning from Coach K was a blessing. He taught…
Fox News Anchors Shut Down Conspiracy Theories About Notre Dame Fire The Daily Beast April 17, 2019 During two separate occasions on Monday afternoon, Fox News anchors Shepard Smith and Neil Cavuto had to dump out of interviews after their guests wildly speculated and parroted conspiracy theories that the blaze that suddenly destroyed much of the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was an intentionally malicious act. While anchoring breaking-news coverage of the fire, Smith interviewed witness Philippe Karsenty, the deputy mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine and a controversial right-wing media figure. Early in the call, Karsenty suggested that the…
Donald Trump really isn’t happy that Fox News hosted a town hall with Bernie Sanders By Aaron Rupar Vox April 16, 2019 President Donald Trump is far from thrilled about the fact his favorite television station broadcast a Bernie Sanders town hall on Monday evening — one in which Sanders repeatedly laid into him and called him “dangerous.” On Tuesday morning, Trump — who regularly live-tweets Fox News shows, programming that almost always covers him favorably — bemoaned the Fox News event featuring one of the 2020 Democratic frontrunners, and notably used the pronoun “we” while decrying the…
Trump escalates his attacks on Omar after Pelosi ups her security By Rebecca Morin POLITICO April 15, 2019 President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his verbal attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, less than 24 hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she is seeking protection for the Minnesota congresswoman due to increased death threats following tweets from the president. “Before Nancy, who has lost all control of Congress and is getting nothing done, decides to defend her leader, Rep. Omar, she should look at the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and ungrateful U.S. HATE statements Omar has made,” Trump tweeted. “She…
Fox’s Wallace not ‘comfortable’ playing full 9/11 video tweeted by Trump By Chris Mills Rodrigo TheHill April 15, 2019 Fox News’s Chris Wallace said Sunday that he was not “comfortable” playing the entirety of a video President Trump tweeted Friday showing scenes from the 9/11 terrorist attack combined with remarks from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Wallace began playing the video before cutting it off. “Now, that was the only five seconds we felt comfortable showing,” Wallace told White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. “It goes on in a much worse way of her seeming, no question about…
Washington Examiner April 15, 2019 A group that is urging Beto O’Rourke to run for president has circulated newly discovered video of Sen. Bernie Sanders during a trip to the Soviet Union in 1988. The video, which was found in an archive from May 2018, shows Sanders, I-Vt., shirtless and singing the Woody Guthrie song “This Land Is Your Land” with a group of people sitting around a table. Travis Justin, who is part of the “leadership team” and runs “Veteran Outreach” for “Draft Beto 2020,” an effort to get the Texas liberal to run for president in 2020,…
By Qanta Ahmed Fox News April 15, 2019 Rep. Ilhan Omar continues to be an embarrassment and a disgrace for me and other American Muslims with her outrageous, ignorant, anti-Semitic and now anti-American comments. And while Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, holds herself out as a proud Muslim, she repeatedly projects a distorted and patently Islamist interpretation of Islam — a religion that in reality stands for the values of justice, peace and ethical conduct. Sadly, Omar gives millions of Americans a false impression of what Islam is and what we Muslims believe and stand for. While she denounces prejudice…