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12 Nov 2024

He Wants Kari Lake To Die!

“He wants her [Kari Lake] to die,” says Ben Rappaport, former Defense Legislative Correspondent for Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema (@SenatorSinema). He’s exposing the intense animosity that U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego (@RepRubenGallego) holds toward Republican Kari Lake (@KariLake).

Rappaport also claims Gallego “f*cking hates her” and is far more progressive than his “centrist” public image suggests.

According to Rappaport, Gallego is “a stronger believer in the Democratic Party’s agenda than Sinema,” aligning closely with the liberal wing even as he brands himself an independent. Here’s more from the O’Keefe Media Group, James O’Keefe’s new investigative unit.

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04 Sep 2021

The Rise Of Citizen Journalists

Tim Pool is part of what some call the new media, citizen journalists who work for themselves. Increasingly, such journalists cover things the mainstream media miss.

Pool, who leans left and supported Bernie Sanders, reports whatever he sees on his news channel TimCast. When the media jumped on a video of a grinning Covington High School kid wearing a Trump hat, claiming he was taunting a Native American man, Pool was skeptical. He found a longer clip of the encounter on YouTube and used that to show that the Native American elder approached the kids as they waited for a bus, not the other way around, as had been claimed. There was no evidence that the kids were racist.

In this edition of his blog, John Stossel reports Pool is part of a new wave of independent journalists and thinkers–leftists, centrists, libertarians and conservatives–who use the new media to get the word out. “I’m glad that gives us more options,” he says. Here’s more.

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