Governor Youngkin Rebuffs CNN’s Tapper: Virginia Won’t ‘Mandate What People Can and Can’t Buy’

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) didn’t hesitate to choose his constituents over a CNN audience.  During the June 6 edition of The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN anchor Jake Tapper attempted to guilt trip Youngkin over his decision to take Virginia off the bureaucrat-imposed, draconian California emission standards. Youngkin let the smarmy anchor finish whining about climate change, then spoke up for the freedom and finances of Virginians, drivers, and auto dealers. The governor wasn’t willing to limit freedom for climate change: “The reality is that mandates are misguided. Let's trust innovation and let's put that trust in the American consumer as opposed to mandating what people can and can't buy.”  Largely ignoring Tapper’s argument for tyranny, Youngkin made his case against the mandate. “The decision that we made yesterday was to no longer be subjected to the California mandates on which car you can buy,” Youngkin said. He went on to explain that these standards would not just limit Virginian’s choices, but also impact their budgets. Youngkin said that his administration made a decision that “having California with unelected bureaucrats, mandate which car people can buy was wrong, but we also made a decision to protect people's pocketbooks and to give them the benefit of choosing which car they think is best for their needs.”  Youngkin was referencing the fact that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved draconian regulations in August of 2022 to phase out sales of gas-powered cars. According to CARB, the state has mandated that “all new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in California will be zero emissions” by 2035. CARB also demands that the states following the group’s standards sell 35% electric vehicles by the rapidly approaching date of 2026.  Youngkin made the point that electric vehicles are “$10,000 to $50,000” more expensive than normal gas cars. The governor pointed out that this higher cost puts an incredible burden on Virginians. Youngkin noted that only nine percent of cars recently sold in Virginia are electric vehicles, vastly less than the 35% Virginia would be expected to achieve by 2026. Youngkin emphasized the cumulative cost of forcing Virginians to buy more expensive vehicles: “That's upwards of $1.2 billion of economic penalty being placed on Virginians.” The Virginia governor also discussed his decision during a June 5 appearance on CNBC. Youngkin told Last Call anchor Brian Sullivan that “we are declaring Independence from California electric vehicle mandates.” Sullivan, for his part, frankly admitted that “the consumer is speaking and speaking loudly,” since only nine percent of vehicles purchased by Virginians are electric vehicles.  [WATCH: Governor Youngkin Tears Into California Emissions Standards on CNBC] Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at 818-460-7477, CBS News at 212-975-3247 and NBC News at 212-664-6192 and demand they hold the left accountable for attempting to restrict  the Americans people’s automobile choices.

Paul Krugman to Biden: Your Economic Messaging Isn’t Working, Keep Doing It

In New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s latest Bidenomics propaganda piece, he reveals the extent of his delusional state when he actually characterized the president’s economy as a “success.”  Krugman published a June 3 op-ed fawning over the Biden economy headlined, “Should Biden Downplay His Own Success.” For most of the article, Krugman continues his classic pattern of ignoring inconvenient facts and rebuking struggling Americans as whiners. But when Krugman once again complained about the American public persistently giving President Joe Biden low marks on the economy, he offered the president some wildly illogical advice.  Krugman’s big advice for Biden is to double-down on the same economic messaging that apparently isn’t reaching the average American in polls.  Krugman wrote, “So how should Biden and his people talk about the economy now? I’d suggest that they simply tell the truth as they see it. Which, as far as I can tell, is what they’ve been doing all along.” Forget the voters, suggests Krugman, “There’s overwhelming evidence that most Americans’ negative views about the economy don’t reflect their lived experience.” Wow, that’s pretty easy for a media talking head worth $5 million to say. It doesn’t appear he needs to worry about his lived experience.  Krugman somehow acknowledges that Biden “telling voters to buck up and realize how good they have it would also be a bad move.” However, Krugman seems to have no problem making that argument for the president himself. He then pivots again into a complete lack of self-awareness: “To be clear, nobody is suggesting that Biden administration officials should tell Americans to sit down, eat their Happy Meals and stop complaining.” Not only did Krugman  just do exactly that in his latest piece, he is the same public figure who recently condescended to Americans by lecturing them that the reason why they hate the economy so much is really just because they “hate Biden.”  In effect, Krugman twisted himself into a contradiction pretzel.  Krugman also apparently couldn’t stand his colleagues within the liberal media drum circle being more realistic about the precarious state of the economy. He railed at The Washington Post and Financial Times for suggesting that Biden is turning away American voters by bragging about the economy.  In Krugman’s twilight zone, the economy “isn’t bad,” it’s “remarkable” even, the growth of which is the “envy of other wealthy nations.”  Krugman conveniently left out the part that much of the so-called “growth” is being bought by the government via an enormous amount of debt, as Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni pointed out May 30. As the old saying goes, the devil’s in the details, but don’t expect Krugman to be forthcoming about it. As is consistently the case, Krugman forgets that Americans paying higher prices under Biden are capable of remembering that things used to be better. Americans have endured 5.5% inflation monthly under President Biden, after only enduring an average of 1.9% inflation under former President Trump. Krugman even tried to excuse the recent acceleration in prices as a possible “statistical blip.” Talk about wishful thinking on steroids.    Krugman didn’t bother mentioning gas prices, which have risen from $2.42 when Trump left office in Jan 2021 to $3.73 as of April 2024. He also didn’t care to address how this “remarkable” economy includes a decline in real wages since Biden took office.  This economy that’s supposedly the “envy of other wealthy nations” has also seen rising mortgage rates, making it much harder for Americans to buy a home. Home insurance costs are also rising.  Conservatives are under attack. Contact The New York Times at 1 (800) 698-4637 and demand it distance itself from Krugman’s economic nonsense.

Victory! Australian Bureaucrat Backtracks on Insane Vendetta Against Elon Musk’s Platform

Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant conceded defeat in a weeks-long effort to force X (formerly Twitter) to censor content she didn’t approve of across the globe.  On June 5, Grant dropped her Federal Court complaint against X after a federal judge blocked her application for the extension of an injunction against the social media platform. Grant still has a separate ongoing case against X-owner Elon Musk over the same content. Musk celebrated the win in a post on X, “Freedom of speech is worth fighting for.” Notably, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Snap, TikTok, Reddit and Telegram all caved to Australian government pressure to block the video for the entire world. After Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of was stabbed during Mass at Assyrian Orthodox Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakely, Australia, the Australian eSafety Commissioner demanded that X and other platforms censor the video of the terrorist attack.  However, Musk refused to take the content down under pressure from the Australian government, but unfortunately censored the video for Australian users of the platform. While the commissioner was trying to dictate what the entire world has a right to see, the victim in the video she was trying to suppress — Bishop Emmanuel — spoke out in favor of free speech.  Bishop Emmanuel, having lost sight in his right eye, took to the pulpit and told his congregation, “Every human being has the right to their freedom of speech and freedom of religion, every human being, and for us to say that free speech is dangerous, that free speech cannot be possible in a democratic country, I’m yet to fathom this.” Twitter Files author Michael Shellenberger repudiated the rest of Silicon Valley in a post celebrating the eSafety Commissioner’s defeat. “Free Speech Victory! Only Elon Musk's X stood up to the censors in Australia, and now they've won,” Shellenberger wrote. He went on to explain the struggle between Musk and the eSafety Commissioner and say that “we owe Musk a debt of gratitude for fighting for free speech.” Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Will the Media Care Soros Funneled $19M into Leftist Groups Attacking Justice Alito? Don't Bet on It!

A coalition of leftist groups published a dishonest attack on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just prior to the announcement of the verdict in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial last Thursday and in the midst of  the Supreme Court announcing numerous opinions this June and July — among them a case involving presidential immunity. A number of the involved groups received millions from leftist billionaire George Soros, not that the leftist media will care anyway.  On May 29, 25 radical leftist organizations, including seven groups that have received at least $19,512,000 from Soros between 2016 and 2022, wrote a letter to Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) calling for Justice Alito to be investigated for “recent conduct,” suggesting Alito “recuse himself from cases where the public has a clear reason to doubt his impartiality.” The letter used a distorted history of a flag from the American Revolution and a separate recent flag nontroversy to claim that Justice Alito should be investigated.  Politico, which did cover the story, did not spare even one word about Soros’ generous financing of seven of the signatories. Instead, Politico legitimized the attack, referring to flags flown at Justice Alito’s house as the “latest ethics black eye.” These radical groups ludicrously asked Durbin to investigate Justice Alito “for the public’s long-term faith in the rule of law,” but went on to rely heavily on a time Justice Alito’s wife flew the American flag upside down and a separate time when the family flew the “Appeal to Heaven” Revolutionary War flag. Their ridiculous argument dishonestly refers to a historical and patriotic flag as “another flag also closely linked to the January 6 attack.” On this absurd basis, the signatories claimed that “Justice Alito’s clear lapses in judgment call into serious question his ability to fairly judge cases concerning the 2020 election.” The groups outrageously provided a nakedly political reason for Durbin to go after Justice Alito, referencing “a leaked opinion drafted by Justice Alito overturning decades of constitutional protection for the right to abortion,” an issue jealously guarded by the left as evidenced by leftist calls for court-packing following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs. The signatories were led by the radical Supreme Court-packing advocacy group Demand Justice, which was largely responsible for pushing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination. The group spent a million dollars pushing for Jackson’s confirmation. Demand Justice received $5,837,000 from Soros just from 2018-2021 alone. Demand Justice has repeatedly clamored for adding seats to the Supreme Court, whining about the six justices appointed by Republicans while lauding the three justices appointed by Democrats.“[A]dding four seats is the only way to restore balance to the Court immediately,” Demand Justice fear-mongered.  But this wasn’t an isolated incident of Demand Justice demanding additional judges on the high Court. Demand Justice also pushed for court-packing to ensure that states cannot protect unborn lives from abortion. Demand Justice wrote that, “Democrats who support reproductive rights need to see the Republican justices’ writing on the wall and stop standing idly by as Roe v. Wade slowly but surely falls,” before using this as proof of the “urgency” of expanding the Supreme Court.  The letter was also signed by another advocate of court-packing, Take Back the Court Action Fund, which received $400,000 from Soros between 2021 and 2022. Take Back the Court Action Fund warned that a “hyper-partisan, right-wing Supreme Court majority is leading an assault on democracy and striking blows against reproductive rights, racial justice, climate action, voting rights, and more.” The organization also appeared to parrot the language of Demand Justice, that the Court must be expanded by four seats for “balance.”  Another signatory, the Reproductive Justice for All Committee, a new name for the blood-stained abortion advocacy group NARAL, received $4,500,000 from Soros in a single donation. Other signatories that received funding from Soros include the People’s Parity Project ($200,000), People for the American Way ($1,375,000), National Women’s Law Center ($825,000) and the Center for American Progress ($6,375,000). The Center for American Progress is currently run by the former president of Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Patrick Gaspard.  Conservatives are under attack. Contact Politico at 703-647-7999 and demand it report fairly on Soros-funded groups working to undermine the Supreme Court.

WATCH: Rep. Jim Jordan Confronts Fauci on Government Efforts to Censor Lab Leak Theory

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded answers from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci on the Biden administration's relentless drive to censor the COVID-19 lab leak theory online. During a June 3 Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing, Fauci fielded questions on gain-of-function research, horrific experiments involving puppies, and collusion between Big Tech and the government. Jordan specifically pressed Fauci over government pressure on Facebook’s parent company Meta to censor the lab leak theory, among other topics. Jordan twice confronted Fauci with internal Facebook admissions of censorship following Biden administration pressure.  “In our study on the censorship of the Biden Administration working with Big Tech, I want to read you a WhatsApp message from Mark Zuckerberg: ‘Can we include that the White House put pressure on us to censor the lab leak theory,’” Jordan read to Fauci. Jordan went on to emphasize that this occurred only a few months into the Biden Administration. The congressman added, “[Meta executives are] certainly feeling the pressure to downplay any lab leak theory and go with the natural origin theory.”  Jordan followed with another damning example of Facebook acknowledging government pressure: “Here’s another email to Mark Zuckerberg, it says subject line, ‘COVID misinformation Wuhan Lab Leak Theory. In response to public pressure and tense conversations with the new administration, we started removing five COVID claims, including the lab leak theory.’ Mr. Zuckerberg responds, ‘This seems like a good reminder that we compromise our standards due to pressure from an administration in either direction we often later regret it.’” Last year, Jordan released the Facebook Files on X (formerly Twitter) providing evidence on the extent of the pressure the government exerted on getting Zuckerberg’s Big Tech behemoth to bend to its will. The released documents included an April 2021 email from a Facebook employee confirming the Biden regime’s scheme against free speech. “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House and the press to remove more COVID-19 vaccine discouraging content,” an unnamed employee told Zuckerberg and former Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Jordan wasn’t the only lawmaker to grill Fauci over the government’s collusion with Big Tech to censor speech that went against the Biden narrative on the pandemic. During the hearing, Rep. Rich McMormick (R-GA) also spoke out against the censorship of so-called COVID-19 disinformation. "In 2020, I was censored. My medical license was threatened because I disagreed with bureaucrats. Literally taken off the internet as a person who is treating patients with leading edge technologies." McMormick went on a tear against Biden Administration bureaucrats who thought they knew what was best for his patients and who were willing to censor all opposing opinions. “My opinions were relegated to conspiracy, misinformation by so-called health care experts, who had never treated a patient throughout the entire pandemic.”  Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

WATCH: Mr. Wonderful Outlines His Plan For ‘Americanizing TikTok’

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka “Mr. Wonderful,” offered a bold alternative for the future of the Communist Chinese government-tied app TikTok.  During the May 30 edition of Fox Business’ The Big Money Show, O’Leary laid out his plans for “Americanizing TikTok” and making it “wonderful again,” offering to buy the app with the help of crowdfunding investors. O’Leary told Fox Business, “I find this an extraordinary deal. It’s a legacy deal. It’s definitely one I want to do. And I think the opportunity is huge.”  O’Leary panned alternatives to his proposed solution, such as a recently revealed 2022 proposal by TikTok to offer a measure of control to the U.S. government. O’Leary rejected this plan as a “Chinese-style solution,” strongly opposing any plan that gives the government the ability to shut down an app over unapproved content.  O’Leary also rejected the idea that TikTok could win in court against a recently passed law that would either force the sale of TikTok or ban the app from the country. O’Leary said that the lawsuit would be unsuccessful “even at the Supreme Court.” Instead, O’Leary pitched Fox Business viewers on his idea. “That's why those of us interested in buying it are starting the process now,” he said, before mentioning his website. “I've set up wondertiktok.com if you're interested in participating because I want to do crowd funding for all the millions of Americans that want to be part of this. But that won't be the majority of the money. It’s gonna come from sovereign wealth,” he said. O’Leary warned listeners that getting permission from both President Joe Biden and the Chinese Communist Party for this deal would not be easy. However, O’Leary was not deterred. “I want to support Americanizing TikTok. I want to make TikTok wonderful again. That’s exactly what is going to happen if I do this deal.” Prior to the Fox Business interview, O’Leary announced in a May 28 post on X that he has a plan to purchase the app. “The clock is ticking on TikTok. Congress has passed a law that gives it less than 270 days to sell to interests that are governed by US laws or be shut down,” O’Leary wrote. “I'd like to democratize TikTok and turn it into a platform where the user data is protected from the prying eyes of foreign adversaries. It's time to make TikTok WONDERFUL again. Want to be part of this?” Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

MRC UnCensored: Rachel Bovard Calls Weak Congressional Section 230 Hearing a ‘Slap in the Face’

Conservative Partnership Institute Senior Director of Policy Rachel Bovard dressed down Members of Congress and thinkers on the right who are wedded to an outdated mindset that allows for Big Tech censorship, debanking and ultimately the death of the free market.  MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider asked Bovard about the free market and a recent congressional hearing on Section 230 that largely ignored free speech concerns during the May 31 edition of MRC UnCensored,. Bovard called the hearing and the choice of witnesses “disappointing,” “insulting,” “an unserious effort” and a “slap in the face.” When Schneider mentioned his frustration that the hearing almost entirely ignored free speech concerns and actually pushed companies to censor more, Bovard did not hold back.  “It’s kind of insane to me that years into this debate, reams of evidence into how these companies actually do censor certain types of speech, how they work with the government to do it, we now have the receipts of all this happening, that we’re still, that we could have a hearing run by republicans that doesn’t talk about this issue,” said Bovard. She added that the “unserious effort” was even more absurd “given how far down the road we are.”  Schneider and Bovard both heavily criticized the House Energy and Commerce Committee for inviting three left-wing pro-censorship witnesses. Schneider also condemned the bill under consideration during the hearing, calling it “political suicide.” The bill called for the sunsetting of Section 230 at the end of 2025, which the Media Research Center-led Free Speech Alliance called “insufficient to address the underlying issues” surrounding Big Tech. Bovard lamented the wasted opportunity. “The stakes couldn’t be higher, this is like an integral aspect of our electoral democracy, you know, speech rights, market access rights, not to mention all the harms facilitated online and none of this was addressed, it was just a very narrow slice of 230,” she said, before ripping the committee for inviting a witness connected to Google.  Schneider credited Bovard with helping him see the way forward on fighting Big Tech censorship. “If you just have this truly, completely hands-off approach to the market,” Schneider reasoned, it can stop being free. Big bad actors can actually prevent free market forces from working appropriately.” Bovard agreed, making the point that increasingly companies have prioritized ideology rather than profit and have “set up barriers to access to the market itself.” In light of these conditions, Bovard suggested that these Big Tech corporations had upended the old system where businesses prioritized finding as many customers as possible and where they were “going to allow all comers.” She followed with a call to action for how conservatives should act in light of the changing circumstances, including in response to censorship like debanking. “And I think when that happens, you’re absolutely right, it is incumbent on us and the government in particular to ensure that the market is fair. You have to exert a certain amount of vigilance in the market place to just ensure that the market has access to it. And it’s crazy to me that this is where we are," Bovard said. She pointed out how “you have international banks, like Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan, shutting down accounts of people because they don’t like their politics. That is crazy to me. When you can’t access the levers of capitalism, you can’t have a functioning free market. So I do think that there is a role for the government when that happens.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Michael Knowles Mocks Pete Buttigieg’s Absurdly Expensive Electric Vehicle Rollout

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles applauded CBS Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan for laying bare the absurdity of a Biden administration initiative.  When questioned on CBS, Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had no good defense for the absurdly slow and expensive rollout of electric vehicle (EV) chargers across the country. Buttigieg made a sad attempt to try to explain away why his department has built only 7 or 8 charging stations since 2022 with a budget of $7.5 billion: “It's more than just plunking a small device into the ground, there’s utility work.” During the May 28 edition of The Michael Knowles Show, Knowles pointed out just how significant it is that even the legacy media is calling out Biden’s disastrous energy policies.  “I love that this woman laughs at Pete,” Knowles said referring to Brennan. “This woman on a liberal news network–they exist to be the propaganda arm for the liberal establishment–and she goes ‘huh, $7.5 billion and you built 7 or 8 charging stations.’ So by my math, I didn’t really get far out of calculus, that would be about a billion dollars per charging station.”     Earlier in the segment, Knowles pointed out the absurdity of Biden’s antagonistic relationship with Tesla owner Elon Musk during a supposed transition to EVs. Knowles also cited the slow rollout of EV chargers as proof of the unseriousness of Biden’s push. “[Brennan] laughs because it’s a total joke, because its proof that the whole electric vehicle craze from the government is just patronage for Democrats,” Knowles said. “Billion dollars per charging station, that’s pretty good, that’s a pretty good payoff if you’re a Democrat flak.”  Knowles compared the money wasted on the EV charger rollout to the Obama Administration’s green energy Solyndra scandal, a “green energy company” that he described as a “patronage slush fund for Dems to send federal dollars to pay off their cronies.” As the Biden Administration inches forward on expensive EV chargers, the EPA has stepped back from an absurd and authoritarian plan to push for 67% of new vehicles sold to be EVs, but is still pushing for a draconian 35%.  California, on the other hand, has enacted a regulation that mandates “all new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in California will be zero emissions” by 2035. Sixteen states, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington — have adopted California’s emission standards.  [WATCH: Pete Buttigieg Squirm Over Practically Non-Existent EV Charger Rollout on Face the Nation]  Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at 818-460-7477 and NBC News at 212-664-6192 and demand they hold Biden and his cronies accountable for attempting to restrict fossil fuel production and Americans’ choices.

WATCH: MRC VP Dan Schneider Offers Solution to Big Tech Censorship Problem

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider called out Big Tech for censorship, discrimination and election interference during a hearing at the Texas Capitol.  During a May 29 hearing of the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs, committee members heard from several witnesses, including Schneider, about Big Tech censorship and election interference. During the hearing, Schneider touched on Facebook’s outright discrimination against certain users, undeniable election interference efforts and upcoming free speech cases that are currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.  During his opening remarks, Schneider presented work done by MRC Free Speech America and blistered Big Tech companies such as Facebook for their bias and discrimination.   MRC's @Schneider_DC testifies before the Texas Senate about our unique database https://t.co/PnA94qKHV4 which tracks Big Tech censorship of free speech. pic.twitter.com/u4APrirGLD — Free Speech America (@FreeSpeechAmer) May 29, 2024 Schneider warned that the future of free speech in many ways lies in the hands of three cases soon to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. “[W]e are at risk of losing the First Amendment entirely,” he said. “The Google/Facebook attorney has argued that our individual rights to free speech are nothing compared to the government’s right to free speech to coordinate with Big Tech to silence individuals, which of course turns the First Amendment upside down.”  Schneider also shredded Big Tech for its bias and outright discrimination. “It’s important for you all to know that Google and Facebook, and these other Big Tech firms, they’ve resurrected the Plessy v. Ferguson standard,” Schneider said. “They believe that not only can they discriminate against people based on political viewpoint, they can, and in fact do, discriminate against people based on race and religion,” he added referring to a case in which Facebook argued that it could discriminate against a Sikh religious group. When Texas State Senator Tan Parker asked Schneider about how social media algorithms drive bias, Schneider pointed out that algorithms are written by people who often have biases. “What we know is that those algorithms are drafted in a way specifically to achieve outcomes. These outcomes, oftentimes, are articulated by the corporate leadership.”  He gave the example of a meeting at Google following the 2016 election. “[Y]ou had the most senior Google employees, specifically at an all-hands-on meeting, vowing that this would never be allowed to happen again their resources were put into altering future election outcomes and it's gone on to this day.”   Schneider added that the Big Tech companies, “Collude with advertisers and media ratings firms like NewsGuard and Ad Fontes and then other organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL, that used to care about the rights of individuals, but now they’re just politicized, radical left-wing organizations that exist to silence everyday Americans.”  The MRC Free Speech America Vice President also offered a solution. “This collusion, I believe, is in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and then similar laws at the state level that prohibit illegal restraint on trade. So, I think that that could be a very good avenue for this committee and for the attorney general to explore.”  Following the hearing, Senate Committee on State Affairs Chair Bryan Hughes announced that the committee had unanimously voted to authorize subpoenas against Big Tech companies. In a post on X, Hughes wrote, “There is strong evidence that big tech imposes their own biases to manipulate and stifle dissenting voices, undermining election integrity. Texas will not stand for that.” Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency and an equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us at the Media Research Center contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

MSNBC Legal Analyst Makes Wildly Misleading Defense of DEI

An MSNBC legal analyst offered a wildly misleading defense of discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.  MSNBC Legal Analyst Charles Coleman Jr. lamented pushback against DEI in education and business during the May 26 edition of Velshi. Coleman ignored the discriminatory, racist and anti-Semitic nature of DEI and instead mourned that DEI would be replaced with equality and non-discrimination at North Carolina public universities.  “The Republican crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI for short, continues with the latest casualty being the entire state of North Carolina's public university system,” Coleman bemoaned. “The University of North Carolina's board of governors just this week moved to eliminate DEI initiatives across all 17 of its campuses.” He then proceeded to whitewash racial discrimination in hiring and admissions. “This move follows a growing number of schools and state legislatures gutting programs intended to boost representation for historically underrepresented groups,” he added.  This is nothing new for Coleman who has repeatedly demonstrated racist tendencies towards Caucasian men. The DEI evangelist has gone after white evangelicals, criticizing both their race and religion. Furthermore, Coleman has repeatedly posted  that America has a “[w]hite male problem” and even a “[w]hite male domestic terrorism problem.”  During the segment, Coleman went all out to defend DEI, even referencing a debunked McKinsey study purporting to show a business case for diversity. “There is research that shows that diverse teams lead to better outcomes in a number of fields, all the way from business to healthcare,” Coleman claimed, before asking his guest, Daily Beast Contributor Ameshia Cross, “What do you think about rolling back DEI and how that affects America's overall ability to innovate? And to progress?”  Dominik Whitehead, NAACP Vice President of Campaigns, and Cross both ignored the racism and the discriminatory nature of DEI. Cross even went so far as to flatly deny that DEI initiatives prioritized background over talent.  That is precisely what DEI means. It is racial discrimination in hiring and admissions rather than simply choosing the most qualified candidate or applicant. Even the liberal media has occasionally acknowledged this. A report by Bloomberg News, owned by leftist billionaire Michael Bloomberg, laid out how this worked in 2021. According to the media outlet, a mere 6 percent of jobs at major companies they analyzed went to white individuals in 2021. Simultaneously, white people made up 68.5% of layoffs at studied companies that shrank in 2021.  DEI has also been condemned as a source of anti-Semitism by a number of voices, including by a former DEI director at De Anza College, Tabia Lee. Lee said that she may have been fired for pushing back against anti-Semitism on campus and relayed this disturbing anecdote: “I was told in no uncertain terms that Jews are ‘white oppressors’ and our job as faculty and staff members was to ‘decenter whiteness.’” During the explosion of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel campus activity, several others noted the link between this ideology’s oppressor narratives and anti-Semitism. X owner Elon Musk labeled DEI as “fundamentally anti-Semitic.” Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has publicly said that DEI teaches students to label Jews as “oppressors” and even lends itself to justifications of terrorism against Jews in Israel.  Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman spoke up against both anti-white and anti-Semitic sentiment on campus at Harvard, blaming the DEI ideology for both. Ackman called DEI and an “oppressor/oppressed framework” the “intellectual bulwark” behind anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests.  Ackman also denounced DEI as racist: “DEI is racist because reverse racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that I even need to point this out). Racism against white people has become considered acceptable by many not to be racism, or alternatively, it is deemed acceptable racism. While this is, of course, absurd, it has become the prevailing view in many universities around the country.” Conservatives are under attack! Conservatives are under attack! Contact MSNBC at (800) 952-5210 and demand they report on the dangers of leftist DEI ideology infecting American companies.

Mark Levin: ‘Bidenomics’ Making Fast Food Unaffordable

Syndicated radio host Mark Levin excoriated President Joe Biden for presiding over an economy so bad that even fast food is increasingly unaffordable.  During the May 22 edition of The Mark Levin Show, Levin tied steep prices hikes at formerly affordable fast food chains to out-of-control spending in D.C. Levin addressed the historical importance of cheap, processed food in America, before tackling a Breitbart report that detailed major price increases at chains such as Chick-fil-A, Popeyes, Wendy’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, McDonald's, Chipotle and Starbucks.   After addressing how many Americans have long relied on processed food or fast food, Levin pointed out that Americans need cheap food prices more than ever. “Now when you have an economy where the interest rates are through the roof, where the inflation is through the roof and you have a husband and a wife and two or three or four kids or a single parent with two or three kids it is tough going,” Levin said. He added: “I’m sure those kids would love to have fresh beef or chicken or fish or turkey. I’m sure they would love to have fresh vegetables. I’m sure they’d love it. But they can’t afford it, not with Bidenomics!” Levin didn’t mince words on the reason for these higher prices. “This is what happens when you have massive government spending, massive government debt, massive government borrowing. I’ve said it here for 22 d*mn years, inflation, inflation, inflation, it is a killer,” Levin said. “It destroys the market system. It distorts the value of the dollar.” The radio host also ripped Biden for being deceptive about inheriting 9% inflation from former President Donald Trump (Inflation was 1.4% in Jan 2021). Levin called out another Biden attempt to deflect blame onto the fast food companies. “So he blamed the businesses that are trying desperately to cope with the economic conditions he created, with the minimum wage conditions that he and others have created, with the supply chain problems he has created,” Levin said.  Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at (818) 460-7477, CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and NBC News at (212) 664-6192 and demand they tell the truth about the Bidenomics disaster.

WATCH: Anti-Fossil Fuel PBS Pushed Raskin to Attack American Energy Industry

PBS was more than willing to help Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) harass an important American industry during a critical time in the inflation-rattled economy.  During the May 22 edition of PBS NewsHour, PBS correspondent Lisa Desjardins egged on Raskin to compare fossil fuel companies to the tobacco industry for supposedly hiding the impact of their emissions on “climate change.” Raskin called for the Department of Justice to investigate them for “costing humanity hundreds of billions of dollars,” leaving the door open to both possible criminal and civil liability. Desjardins not only pushed this tobacco analogy but also took four and a half minutes to briefly mention the elephant in the room: America still needs fossil fuels.  The U.S. gets the vast majority of its energy from fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. Fossil fuels are also critical for the production of fertilizer, plastic, cement, steel and other much-needed products, but this was apparently lost on PBS. Desjardins did eventually read a statement by the American Petroleum Institute (API) Senior Media Relations Manager Andrea Woods. “This is another unfounded political charade to distract from persistent inflation and America’s need for more energy, including oil and natural gas. U.S. energy workers are focused on delivering the reliable, affordable oil and natural gas Americans demand and any suggestion to the contrary is false,” Desjardins read.  Desjardins then asked Raskin for his response to the API statement given that “obviously moving to renewable fuels can’t happen immediately.”  “Well we’re at levels of gas and oil production higher than we’ve seen before and the economy remains deeply invested and engaged in carbon production,” Raskin stammered out before returning to bashing the industry.  But this was misleading, and PBS didn’t bother pushing back.  Americans have paid the price for Biden’s eco-extremist policies by suffering stubbornly higher gas prices. Average gas prices have risen to $3.73/gallon under Biden in April 2024 from $2.24/gallon under Trump in Jan 2021. This is even though Biden massively drained the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve starting in 2021. The president just recently sold off even more oil designated for emergencies, a million barrels from the Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve. President Joe Biden has repeatedly restricted oil and gas production and discouraged future investments. In addition, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency recently passed a rule that CNN Climate Correspondent Bill Wehr said is designed to not only shutter existing coal plants, but also to place new burdens on new natural gas plants. The Biden Administration has also announced a “pause” on new liquified natural gas projects, restricted drilling in Alaska, and reversed several of former President Donald Trump’s pro-energy executive orders.  [WATCH: Senator Mike Lee Confronts Jennifer Granholm on Anti-Energy Policies] Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at 818-460-7477, CBS News at 212-975-3247 and NBC News at 212-664-6192 and demand they hold Biden and his cronies accountable for attempting to restrict fossil fuel production and Americans’ choices.

WATCH: Guess Which Lawmakers Stood Up for Free Speech at Big Tech Hearing

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing supposedly to discuss sunsetting Big Tech’s tightly clutched liability shield that allows for censorship. But free speech and Big Tech censorship were hardly part of the discussion. During the May 22 hearing the Committee heard from three left-wing witnesses, a plaintiff’s lawyer, a former Democrat committee staffer and the Director of Engine Executive, which is funded by Google. But despite the fact that Big Tech censors justify silencing their users under the protection of Section 230, the Committee did not manage to bring in a single witness who showed up in support of free speech. In the three-hour hearing, only four members of the Committee even asked questions about Big Tech censorship and free speech. MRC Free Speech Vice President Dan Schneider, who attended the hearing, criticized the witnesses and most of the members for focusing on prohibiting already illegal content rather than promoting free speech. “It is fine for the Committee to be angry that Big Tech fails to remove illegal content. Nobody should tolerate illicit drug sales, human trafficking and other illegal practices, but those things are already illegal online,” Schneider said, before adding, “We don’t need to make online crimes doubly illegal. The laws just need to be enforced. The systemic harm that must be addressed in any Section 230 reform legislation is the abuse by Big Tech in how they discriminate based on political disagreements.” Representatives Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), Russ Fulcher (R-ID) and Neal Dunn (R-FL) were the only members on the Committee who thought to address this discrimination.  Rep. Obernolte pushed a witness and former Democratic staffer, Organization for Social Media Safety CEO Marc Berkman, to address free speech concerns. [See More: Rep. Jay Obernolte Presses Witnesses Tummarello and Berman on Free Speech] Rep. Harshbarger asked Berkman about expanding “the rights of individuals to express views that often get conservatives kicked off of left-wing companies like Facebook.” Berkman ridiculously responded, “We do believe that’s a red herring.” But Berkman’s retort is contrary to the 6,816 cases of documented Big Tech censorship found on MRC Free Speech America’s exclusive CensorTrack database, including 187 against former President of the United States Donald Trump. Despite calling censorship a red herring, Berkman was unwilling to condemn discriminatory conduct by social media companies when Rep. Harshbarger provided him with a hypothetical case of a social media company shutting off comments on some posts but not others.  Rep. Dunn, to his credit, emphasized censorship when he spoke to the witnesses. “Today our internet is under attack. The American public gets very little insight into decision-making processes when content is moderated, and users have little recourse when they are censored or restricted. Recently, Americans have experienced a great deal of online politicizing from Big Tech during the last presidential election,” Dunn said. He followed with a reminder of the absurd Big Tech-government collusion in violation of Americans’ rights. “For example, you saw platforms like Twitter and Facebook immediately cut stories from being shared or talked about by the users on their platforms at the request of our government.”  The Organization for Social Media Safety CEO didn’t appear to care. When Dunn asked Berkman about how his proposal would impact free speech on the internet, Berkman claimed, “We believe the fears are really overblown in terms of impact on free speech that is happening over social media.”  Rep. Fulcher also spoke up for free speech, bringing up the important questions of whether users deserve transparency and accountability from the social media companies that censor them. Fulcher asked a witness, “When social media companies flag or remove content, is there any reporting requirement whatsoever necessary for that?”    Schneider panned the hearing, noting that all the witnesses and most of the members showed no concern for free speech. He even called out House Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) for arguing that the “tech oligarchs have not censored enough bad stuff,” instead of addressing the censorship of conservatives.  “The so-called free speech hearing left me speechless,” Schneider said, before adding, “This hearing intentionally hid the ball. The biggest problem facing America and the continuity of our system of government is Big Tech's silencing of viewpoints they disagree with. But for a couple of exceptions, all the questions focused on how there needs to be more censorship, not less.” Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

WATCH: Former Home Depot CEO Shreds Biden’s Atrocious ‘Wrecking Ball’ Economic Policies

Former CEO of Home Depot Bob Nardelli made clear how the policies of President Joe Biden will continue to damage the American economy in the near future. During the May 20 edition of Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria Bartiromo, Nardelli agreed that further inflation was ahead due to Biden’s policies, especially his climate change-obsessed energy policy. “Day one of this administration they started the war on fossil fuel. And what I've seen over the past three-and-a-half years is that there's a series of debacles and missteps have created a tremendous pressure on the fault lines, if you will, of our economy and they're about ready to crack,” Nardelli said. He effectively suggested that the dismal American economic situation is teetering on being an irreparable catastrophe, regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election in November: “Whoever gets the next stint in the White House is going to be hit with a wrecking ball in trying to correct the missteps and the overspending of this current administration, Maria, so we’re in for a rough time I would say.”  Nardelli and Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo were responding to a brutal report from The Wall Street Journal that highlighted an embarrassing factoid for Biden: “Adjusted for inflation, net worth was up just 0.7% through Biden’s first three years, compared with 16% through Trump’s first three years.” Biden has also presided over the devastation of Americans’ savings and declining wages, while prices continue to spike.  Nardelli also went after Biden’s absurd regulatory warfare on the American auto industry, warning that Biden’s eco-extremist energy policies would ultimately strain the grid. “They've been shutting down coal plants because of this war on fossil fuel and the grid is in a very very fragile state. And it will take years to improve the sustainability and durability of this grid,” Nardelli said.  He went on to criticize the president for pushing for electric vehicles, adding to electrical grid demand even as Biden’s regulations threaten the coal and natural gas that fuel the grid. Nardelli didn’t mince words about how “the hypocrisy and the ambiguity of this administration challenges common sense.” Conservatives are under attack! Conservatives are under attack. Contact ABC News at (818) 460-7477, CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and NBC News at (212) 664-6192 and demand they tell the truth about the Bidenomics disaster.

WATCH: CNBC’s Joe Kernen Warns of ‘Stagflation’ in Joe Biden’s America

A restaurant owner minced no words on the immense costs that are devastating his business as inflation continues to harm both owners and customers under President Joe Biden.  During the May 20 edition of Squawk Box, co-anchor Joe Kernen pointed to a specific case succinctly illustrating inflation’s devastating impact on Americans’ wallets. He prefaced his point by saying his guest Will Restaurants Investments Group Founder Brian Will’s “food costs have increased by more than 20% since 2023 and he has had to raise menu prices three times in the last year.” Will noted that the inflation crisis spurred a 24 percent rise in his food costs, a 20 percent rise in his labor costs and a whopping 50 percent rise in maintenance costs. Kernen responded, “You’re like a microcosm. So costs are up and revenues down. It sounds like, it almost sounds like stagflation.”     In fact, this inflation isn’t just hitting restaurant owners. Americans are paying far more when they go out to eat. Compared to last year, eating out cost 4.1% more in April.  Overall, Americans have dealt with a horrifying average of 5.5% inflation over the last 39 months of Biden’s presidency, compared to an average of 1.9% inflation under former President Donald Trump.  During the interview, Will made clear that raising prices three times in the last year was a very necessary choice: “Overall revenues are down 11% even after raising prices 20%. So if we hadn't raced the prices the revenues would be down even more.” Will emphasized just how hard the higher costs were hitting him, saying that repairing a restaurant fryer with current maintenance prices was more costly than replacing it. Will stated that it would take “111 tables just to pay to replace the first fryer.”  Conservatives are under attack! Conservatives are under attack. Contact ABC News at (818) 460-7477, CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and NBC News at (212) 664-6192 and demand they tell the truth about the Bidenomics disaster.

Not Okay: Biden’s Demonstrably False Claim in Softball Yahoo! Finance Interview

Despite receiving a flattering question from an interviewer, President Joe Biden still faceplanted in his response.  During a May 14 interview with Yahoo! Finance, Biden falsely claimed that inflation had been wildly higher under his predecessor. His interviewer, who had promoted Bidenomics in his question, did not correct Biden. “I think inflation has gone slightly up. This was at 9% when I came in and it's now down about 3%,” Biden astonishingly said.  But it was not. In fact, inflation in January 2021 stood at only 1.4% but skyrocketed under Biden’s watch, reaching an average of 5.5% from February 2021 to April 2024. To make matters more absurd, Biden made this demonstrably false statement in response to a misleading question flattering his economic record.  The interviewer, Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, entirely failed to mention the impact of COVID-19 shutdowns while giving Biden credit for creating 15 million jobs: “Mr. President, over 15 million jobs have been created under your watch, the unemployment rate under 4% for 27 straight months, the stock market at a record high. Why don't households feel wealthy right now?” While Biden chose to lie about inflation in response to this easy question, the fibs didn’t stop there.  The 81-year-old president also told Yahoo! Finance that wages were outpacing inflation, claiming, “But the fact is that I think people are just uncertain and that's why we got to be steady, stay the course and continue to produce these incredible jobs and the job—and by the way the pay for the jobs are, are outpacing the inflation rate they pay.” Real wages have actually fallen under Biden. Americans’ median weekly real earnings have declined from $373 in the first quarter of 2021 to $365 in the first quarter of 2024.   ICYMI: Bidenomics after 39 Months: Six Charts the Media Don’t Want You to See The White House has struggled to spin the president’s ludicrous statements as more and more bad economic news comes in.  During the May 16 edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto, White House Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein wildly ducked and dodged when confronted with Biden’s claims of taming 9% inflation.  See More: White House Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein Can’t Defend Biden Biden’s brief but disastrous Yahoo! Finance interview came the same day as the news that inflation had increased 0.5% in April, exceeding expectations.   Conservatives are under attack. Contact ABC News at (818) 460-7477, CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and NBC News at (212) 664-6192 and demand they tell the truth about the Bidenomics disaster. 

Michael Knowles Mauls Biden’s Ridiculous Defense of Bidenomics on CNN

The Daily Wire host Michael Knowles attacked President Joe Biden for his incoherent response to questions from a CNN anchor.  During the May 10 edition of The Michael Knowles Show, Knowles responded to President Biden’s befuddled defense of Bidenomics, noting that Biden’s “failures on the economy were most likely to destroy Democrats in November.” To emphasize just how bad things are for Biden, Knowles played a clip of “Erin Burnett of CNN grilling Biden for his economic failures” during which Biden made a vain attempt to save face.  On May 8, CNN Anchor Erin Burnett, to her credit, confronted President Biden with both his low polling on economic issues and bad economic statistics. “Voters by a wide margin, trust Trump more on the economy,” Burnett told Biden. She went on to cite polls and statistics that spell out Biden’s devastating failures:  “The cost of buying a home in the United States is double what it was when you look at your monthly costs from before the pandemic. Real income, when you account for inflation is actually down since you took office, economic growth last week, far short of expectations. Consumer confidence, maybe no surprise, is near a two-year low. With less than six months to go to election day are you worried that you're running out of time to turn that around?” Absurdly, Biden responded, “We’ve already turned it around.” Biden referenced a poll to support this point before veering off in a very different direction. “The polling data has been wrong all along. You guys do a poll at CNN, how many folks do you have to call to get one response?”  Knowles roasted the president for his incoherent response. “Biden is not as swift as he used to be and he just gave two answers that contradict each other,” Knowles said.  He ripped Biden for simultaneously questioning the bias of unfavorable polls while also pointing to one solitary favorable poll. Knowles pointed out the absurdity of anyone on the left arguing that the polls or the media are biased against them.  “Democrats have the media on their side. So when a Republican says ‘the fake news coverage is slanted against us’, that’s different from the Democrats saying that because Republicans don't really have news outlets and Democrats have all of the news outlets, same goes for polling, same goes for any aspect of American political propaganda,” Knowles said.  The Daily Wire host went on to say that when polls are actually wrong, they tend to overestimate Democrats rather than Republicans. “So when you’ve got polls coming out, economic indicators coming out, statistics from all the social scientists coming out that do not look good for Democrats and you hear this being reported by Democrat liberal news outlets, you know these people are really, really in trouble,” he said. He added that the media “have every single incentive to paint the Democrats in as good a light as possible and that’s just not going to cut it these days because everyone knows that the economy is in the doldrums.”  The economy is in the doldrums. While the devastating statistics listed by Burnett proved too much for Biden to address, they aren’t the only bad numbers. Burnett also could have mentioned that Americans have dealt with 5.5% average monthly inflation under the Biden administration. She also could’ve addressed how gas prices have skyrocketed from $2.42 a gallon in Jan. 2021 (when Biden took office) to $3.54 in March. Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at (818) 460-7477, CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and NBC News at (212) 664-6192 and demand they tell the truth about the Bidenomics disaster.

Heritage Economist on Target Pride: DOJ Should be ‘Suing Them Into Oblivion’

Heritage Economist E.J. Antoni saw right through retailer Target’s attempt to once again push summer LGBT propaganda while avoiding a repeat of the backlash they faced in 2023.  During the May 10 edition of Newsmax’s The National Report, Antoni ripped Target, which made headlines in 2023 for selling “pride” apparel from a Satanic designer and “pride” gear for children. On May 9, Target published a statement on its 2024 “pride” collection, which the retailer said, “Will be available on Target.com and in select stores, based on historical sales performance.” While some celebrated that Target would place LGBT propaganda in fewer stores, Antoni was not appeased.  “Well, let's be perfectly frank here, what Target has done and is continuing to do is nothing less than the sexualization of children,” he said. “It's a disgrace. If we had a DOJ in this country that was more concerned with protecting the innocent than prosecuting them, then they would be all over Target and would be suing them into oblivion.” Related: ROUNDUP: Media Shill for Target Bending Knee to Satanic Wokeism In its statement, Target also promised to “continue to support LGBTQIA+ organizations year-round, including Human Rights Campaign, Family Equality and more.” Strikingly, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is a radical organization that applies ESG ratings to companies based on their willingness to embrace radical gender theory.  The HRC’s “Corporate Equality Index” (CEI) judges companies based on factors such as whether they included “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” in their nondiscrimination policies. It also questions whether companies have “trans-inclusive” bathrooms and “health coverage for transgender individuals without exclusion for medically necessary care.” In 2022, the HRC gave Target a perfect CEI score of 100 but downgraded its perfect score to 95 for 2023. On their website, the HRC thanks Target and a number of other companies “for their generous support of the work of the Human Rights Campaign.” The HRC refers to Target as a “National Corporate Partner” and a “platinum partner,” the highest possible level of supporter.  According to the anti-woke non-profit 1792 Exchange, “Target forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation.”  Target also uses “sex and gender ideology criteria” for hiring, choosing vendors and marketing. The 1792 Exchange also states that Target horrifically covers “transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they cover Target’s continued support for the radical HRC.

Can’t Make This Up: WashPost Cites Debunked Study to Push DEI

Two writers for The Washington Post tried to make the case for discriminatory diversity equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) in an article about DEI’s rebranding. However, they relied on debunked research to do it.  A May 5 article by The Post referenced a pro-DEI study by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company on the “business case for DEI” in response to the increased condemnation aimed at the infamous leftist acronym.  Strikingly, these studies, which linked greater diversity to profitability, had already been ripped to shreds long before May 5. In March 2024, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor of Accounting John R. M. Hand and Texas A&M Associate Professor of Accounting Jeremiah Green exposed these studies, noting that they could not replicate McKinsey’s work.  Green and Hand wrote that their “inability to quasi-replicate [McKinsey’s] results suggests that despite the imprimatur given to McKinsey’s studies, they should not be relied on to support the view that US publicly traded firms can expect to deliver improved financial performance if they increase the racial/ethnic diversity of their executives." The Post reporters Taylor Telford and Julian Mark not only ignored Green and Hand’s research but went ahead and cited McKinsey anyway.  “Many large companies see a correlation between a diverse workforce and financial success, and routinely tout the ‘business case’ for DEI,” they wrote. “Companies with the highest racial, ethnic and gender representation are 39 percent more likely to financially outperform, according to a 2023 study by McKinsey & Co. involving more than 1,200 firms worldwide.” Telford and Mark went on to mention that, “In his annual letter to shareholders this year, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon emphasized that DEI ‘initiatives make us a more inclusive company and lead to more innovation, smarter decisions and better financial results for us and for the economy overall.’” But where did Dimon get that idea? McKinsey—of course. JPMorgan leaned on McKinsey’s published fig leaves for discrimination. To this day, JPMorgan cites one of these McKinsey studies “Diversity Matters” on their website: “According to a study conducted by McKinsey & Company diversity creates increased client orientation and a diverse talent pool, which fosters creativity, improves collaboration and results in enhanced employee performance.” When JPMorgan Asset Management CEO George Gatch called diversity, equity and inclusion “critical to our success” in a video, McKinsey once again showed up in the footnotes.  Telford and Mark are correct that many corporate leaders embraced McKinsey’s DEI propaganda. The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh recently went after the former CEO of Intel and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban for using McKinsey as an excuse to push DEI.  Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on the dangers of leftist DEI ideology infecting corporate America.

PLOT TWIST: Soros Comrade Condemns Bidenomics: ‘I’d Give Them an F’

The former managing director at Soros Fund Management panned President Joe Biden’s management of the economy during a CNBC appearance.  During the May 7 edition of Squawk Box,  Stanley Druckenmiller, billionaire investor and former chairman and president of Duquesne Capital, gave his frank assessment of Bidenomics — and it was not positive, to say the least. In the interview, CNBC anchor Joe Kernen asked Druckenmiller about the nation’s overspending under President Biden. In response, Druckenmiller seemed overcome by disgust before telling Kernen, “If I was a professor, I would give [Biden] an F." This is an incredible election-year statement coming from a man who once managed money for leftist billionaire George Soros. Earlier in the interview, Druckenmiller criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the Biden administration for the state of the economy. He said, “The day Powell pivoted, gasoline was $2. It went to $2.80. It's now at $2.55.” Druckenmiller also suggested that the current state of affairs would be politically damaging for Biden, adding, “the average American cares more about gasoline prices than they do about stock prices and they are getting hurt.” He went on to mention economic difficulties previously highlighted by CNBC: “There was an interview earlier on your show about people being priced out of the housing market.” This is true,  Biden’s policies are taking a toll on the average American. Since January 2021 (when Biden took office), the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has risen from 2.77% to 6.8% on April 4, 2024.  Druckenmiller also mentioned that “Inflation is 21% higher than it was in 2019. To me, even politically, that's more consequential than keeping the markets up than trying to nail the soft landing and not having a recession.”   Indeed, Americans have been brutalized by 5.5% average monthly inflation under the Biden administration.  The former Duquesne Capital president went beyond the impact of Bidenomics on struggling Americans, suggesting that Biden’s missteps would have horrible ramifications for the future.  “All government needed to do was get out of their way and let them innovate. Instead, they have spent and spent and spent,” Druckenmiller said. “And my new fear now is that spending and the resulting interest rates on the debt that’s been created are gonna crowd out some of the innovation that otherwise would have taken place. We’ve got a 7% budget deficit at full employment. It’s just unheard of.” Conservatives are under attack. Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report fairly on how Bidenomics is crippling the American economy.