Karl Wright

Policy wonk. Classical liberal.
I think and I know things.
Sometimes wrong but always Wright.

[Karl Wright @DaddyWri]

When I'm shipped off to the gulag in 2030 because I dared challenge left-wing orthodoxy, I expect my cell block to be named "The Krugman Bloc".

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Paul Krugman: “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States."

“We need a deMAGAfication…similar to de-Nazification."

This deranged lunatic was employed by NYT for 20+ years.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

I’m sure the massive, post-election vote dumps will boost leftist candidates. Taking days or weeks to count votes and announce the results is a joke.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Scott Pelley says CBS demanded he "inject falsehoods," and wants to "murder" 60 Minutes. There's no evidence for either claim and good reason to think they're false. Pelley joins Dan Rather, Katie Couric, and Chuck Todd in spreading misinformation and then denying he had done so

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

It’s good to not promote subpar officers

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

He was fired from the CBS Evening News before that.

Where was the outrage then?

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

So many fake ballots wasted.

[Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author @yesnicksearcy]

You are about to see the CA Democrat electoral cheat machine in real time.

Hilton and Pratt will win the right to be on the ballot in November, but the cheat machine will take it away from them in the coming weeks.

That’s how communists work.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

After being fired from CBS, former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley yesterday said that “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.”

Those are remarkable claims for which Pelley presented no evidence. Indeed, it would be extraordinary for CBS to demand such things of a correspondent, either verbally or in writing, given the reputational risk to the network.

A more likely explanation is that Pelley disagreed with someone at CBS and then declared a difference of opinion to be a demand to lie. Support for this interpretation comes from the fact that he claimed Tuesday that CBS’s new management, led by Bari Weiss, was trying to kill “60 Minutes,” something for which he also did not provide evidence.

Moreover, the accusation makes no sense. CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss took the job to rebuild CBS News, not to wreck it, and a ruined “60 Minutes” would hurt her. Paramount’s owners did not pay billions for the network to burn its best asset for spite. So the simpler reading is that Pelley is the one stretching the truth.

Doing so appears to be a habit for Pelley. He told The New York Times, “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq,” but being in a combat zone as a journalist is not the same as being “in combat.” The remark is yet more evidence of Pelley’s propensity to exaggerate to the point of lying.

For decades, mainstream liberal journalists have displayed remarkable levels of arrogance, even as they get major stories wrong.

Consider the case of CBS News’ former anchor Dan Rather. In the fall of 2004, two months before the election, Rather presented documents purporting to show favoritism in George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Experts called them forgeries. CBS apologized: “We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry,” Rather said. On air, he added, “I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry.”

But then, a decade later, Rather told Variety he still stands “100 percent” behind the report and reframed the apology.

Or consider NBC’s Katie Couric. In her 2016 documentary “Under the Gun,” editors inserted roughly eight to nine seconds of silence after she asked Virginia gun owners how to keep guns from felons and terrorists without background checks, making them look stumped. The raw audio revealed that they answered immediately.

Couric’s first instinct was to defend what she did, saying she was “very proud of the film.” Only after sustained backlash did she apologize.

In her 2021 memoir “Going There,” Couric admitted she cut Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s harshest anthem-kneeling comments from her 2016 interview. Ginsburg had said kneeling players showed “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life, which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”

NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in the spring of 2020, aired a clip of Attorney General Bill Barr that omitted part of his answer, misleading the public.

When Catherine Herridge interviewed Barr for CBS Evening News, she asked what history would say about his decision to drop the case against a former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Michael Flynn. The Obama administration’s FBI had illegally targeted Flynn for entrapment and prosecution. Barr replied that ”history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

"Meet the Press'" anchor at the time, Chuck Todd, said on air that Barr “didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.’” But “Meet the Press” had left out the second part of Barr’s answer to Herridge, in which he said, “But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law.”

The safeguards the journalism profession built against error did not work when it mattered. The corrections, the editors, the fact-checkers, and the standards desks all sat in place while the press got the border, trans medicine, climate, the sixth extinction, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, Covid and much else wrong. Gerth described how reporters sought to “shoot the messenger” rather than grapple with evidence contradicting the Russia collusion narrative...

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[Super Journalist (Retired) - JOURN-EL of Skrypton @Magnum_CK]

It’s hilarious watching Moran and his other broadcastaways cry over the firing of yet another one of their fired fellow Democrat Party activists.

[Karl Wright @DaddyWri]

We're really gonna need that wall between California and the rest of the country.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Watching the establishment have a huge meltdown over Bill Pulte’s appointment is the best endorsement he could have asked for. Nothing validates his selection more than seeing the right people absolutely terrified. Let’s hope he spends his time there burning the whole place down.

[IT Guy @ITGuy1959]

"journalistic interference"

They truly think they are a special class of citizens, immunized from the harsh realities of everyday professional life.

I didn't think it was possible for legacy journalists be more contemptible, but the Pelley thing is next level vomit inducing.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin just OBLITERATED Indian Rep. Shri Thanedar 🔥

THANEDAR: When will you stop spreading bigoted and racist words?

MULLIN: It's INTERESTING you make those claims with no facts yet YOUR party is the one supporting a guy with a NAZI TATTOO on his CHEST in Maine!

THANEDAR: I have the facts!

MULLIN: No, there IS no facts. You throw out Nazism, that's EXACTLY what causes hatred and violence to our officers! You should be ASHAMED!

THANEDAR: It's not my words!

MULLIN: It IS your words...did you endorse the Nazi candidate in Maine?

THANEDAR: Colorado fusion center says white nationalist messaging could lead to violence

MULLIN: Who? What message? Don't give me some left-wing POLL. Give me your specific details about what DHS SAID.

THANEDAR: Let me reclaim my time!

MULLIN: YEAH — you don't want to TALK about it but you want to throw out RACISM all the time at my Department, which ISN'T TRUE.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I will die on this hill. @SeanParnellASW cleaned up Stars and Stripes to where it now creates NORMAL content for warriors again. Without the ideological twist. Sane journalism that informs us.

INEVITABLY an ideologue will always resort to lawfare to get their way in our society. To make everything woke, divisive, and lame again.

That’s what they do. It’s like they want earth itself to burn so they can gleefully rule over the ashes.

It may sound like I’m jumping to conclusions. I’m not.

Any attempt to go back to making that paper a wretched hive of Marxist filth would be a colossal step in the wrong direction.

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

. @MarkWarner Senator, “private mortgage information” — wrong. The Letitia James mortgage fraud evidence came from public records: ACRIS, property deeds, certificates of occupancy, sworn financial disclosures. Anyone with internet access can find them.

I’m Sam Antar, convicted felon turned forensic accountant, registered Democrat. I published 30+ sourced articles on James’s mortgage irregularities starting February 2025. The FHFA criminal referral followed my public work.

You sit on the Senate Intelligence Committee. You have subpoena power. Instead of posting videos in your car, call me as a witness. I will testify under oath before your committee that every document I published is authentic.

Will Letitia James testify under oath that her mortgage documents are legitimate?

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[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Scott Pelley Was A Highly Paid Propagandist https://t.co/2uFMnGDeAJ

[Acting AG Todd Blanche @DAGToddBlanche]

Today, Jamshid Ghomi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who lives in a $35 million mansion in Orange County, California, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with selling computer technology to Iranian companies and Iran’s government — including technology to help with Iran’s military and nuclear program.

These allegations assert that the defendant violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, aided one of our nation’s enemies, supported Iran’s nuclear program, and got rich doing it. Not only is he being arrested today, but we also are beginning the process of seizing his mansion, which was purchased with his illegal proceeds. Thanks to the work of @USAttyEssayli’s office, @CommerceGov, and @IRS_CI’s Los Angeles Field Office, he will face the full force of justice.

[IT Guy @ITGuy1959]

Dear legacy media journalists:

In light of your Scott Pelley lunatic antics; apparently, you all need a reality refresher. So as a public service to your cratering brand, here you go:

1- You do not run the company that employs you. The executive management runs the company, subject to oversight by the owners and/or the stockholders. You are not part of that oversight process.

2- The company that employees you does not owe you an explanation of everything they do, especially with regard to personnel matters. In fact, your own legal / HR department will tell you it is problematic to discuss personnel decisions beyond a need-to-know basis.

3- People don't care who reports the story - they care about the quality of the story. Reading a teleprompter put together by the production team that did the story isn't the galactic-level skill you may think it is.

4- This one should be obvious, but when journalists are the story versus reporting the story, you all failed.

5- When you run a story that is critical of an individual, administration, or institution; allowing the subject of the story to comment ahead of time is not "injecting political bias into the story." It's Journalism 101, which apparently is no longer taught in Journalism 101.

6- We really don't care what a "former producer" or a "former correspondent" thinks about anything. There's often a good reason they are a "former" something, and that reason usually undercuts their credibility.

7- This one also seems obvious, but you're subject to - and only subject to - the same employment laws that affect everyone else in every other business. When the First Amendment was written, the "press" referred to the printing press, not some special class of citizenry that is exempt from laws that affect everyone else.

8- When you have a show that suffered one of the worst scandals in journalism history - revolving around the literal forging of fake memos - don't tell us it's a gold standard that never had a blemish in its history. You just look dumb when you do that.

You're welcome.

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

One of the worst Scott Pelley segments was when he featured Paul Ehrlich to warn that the planet was heading for extinction. This was in *2023.* Journalist Pelley never mentioned that Ehrlich had gone 0-for-30 in world-is-ending prediction racket over the previous 50 years.

[Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS]

🚨🚨🚨Putting this out again because it didn’t get enough attention:

* Watch the clip.

* Democrats are saying that in 2029+ they will go to the ends of the earth to disbar Assistant United States Attorneys.

* This is highly dangerous and a dagger aimed at having to engage in political competition, the life’s blood of what keeps us free.

* It points directly to a goal of running a one-party government, just like Communist China.

[Karl Wright @DaddyWri]

How can something like this happen? Have we imported so many HAMAS supporters now that Al Qaeda effectively runs major parts of the country?

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.