tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213187002024-03-13T11:48:06.947-07:00Washington Gadfly Evan GahrWashington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.comBlogger137125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-70262433172375684062022-03-23T12:00:00.004-07:002022-03-24T10:29:28.437-07:00Exclusive: Planet Fitness Sued Over Anti-Gay, Anti-Trans Slurs<p><br /></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-66e31525-7fff-6d01-eb03-05a9d931cfca"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By EVAN GAHR</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dylan Miles, who identifies as transgender and an “LGBTIA+ individual,” says he was subjected to anti-gay and anti-trans slurs when he apparently tried to use the women’s facilities at a Planet Fitness gym in the Bronx, New York.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He says an employee at the fitness facility, Diamond Paredes, acting in cahoots with manager Chris Walters, called him a “trans faggot,” among other names. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, charges violations of the federal Civil Rights Act and also New York City and New York State Human Rights law.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lawsuit says that Paredes “illegally discriminated against Miles based on his sexual orientation and gender identity in regards to the woman’s bathroom. Dylan identifies as transgender.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At point “Diamond tracked Dylan [down] on the second floor where he was running and and she said, ‘We’re about to sound the Lunk alarm because you accidentally went into the woman’s restroom. Tranny.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Lunk alarm is from corporate and it’s posted on HUGE Signs all over Planet Fitness gyms.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At another point, the lawsuit recounts, Paredes “came up to Mr. Miles while he was running on the treadmill and said we need to escort you out of the women’s bathroom, my manager has instructed me to do so as well. We can’t have trans people in the woman’s bathroom. You Lunk.” </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In another conversation, the lawsuit says, Paredes called Miles “a little trans faggot.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The complaint, which also charges intentional infliction of emotional distress, says Miles contacted Planet Fitness Human Resources “to report the constant harassment and discrimiantion from Diamond” but nobody got back to him. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miles told this reporter he hopes to get “50 million dollars” from the lawsuit, but declined further comment. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diamond Paredes and Chris Walters did not respond to telephone calls seeking comment. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McCall Gosselin, a spokeswoman for Planet Fitness, said via email that, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“As the home of the Judgement Free Zone, Planet Fitness is committed to creating a non-intimidating and inclusive environment that is welcoming for all. As a matter of policy, we cannot comment further on pending litigation.”</span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-71968187470763570152020-10-20T10:51:00.003-07:002020-10-20T10:51:56.468-07:00Brian Stelter Blood Libels Trump Voters <p> Circa January 2019</p><p><br /></p><p>Brian Stelter: Hello</p><p>Evan Gahr: Brian? </p><p>Brian Stelter: Yeah, this is Brian</p><p>Evan Gahr: Do you want to apologize for lying about Trump voters</p><p>Brian Stelter: [click]</p><p>Evan Gahr: And <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2016/11/14/brian-stelter-hundreds-of-swastikas-racist-attacks-after-trump-win/">saying, per my exclusive Daily Caller report</a>,that they committed hundreds of hate crimes after the 2016 election? <br /></p>Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-26553407758113159822020-04-04T17:20:00.000-07:002020-04-21T09:20:44.200-07:00BookExclusive: Bill Kirstol Silently Acquiesced to Pat Buchanan's Anti-Semitism<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Pat Buchanan, the syndicated columnist and CNN host and former Nixon \<br />
White Hosue hand, had been making virulently anti-Semitic remarks for years and years. With pretty much no<br />
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So, at this meeting, Weyrich denouced Pat Buchanan for his anti-Semitic broadsides. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="white-space: pre;">is so heinous. But, back when nobody was watching what did Bill Kristol say about</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="white-space: pre;">Pat Buchanan saying stuff that is, by any objective standard, worse than anything</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="white-space: pre;">Donald Trump has ever said? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="white-space: pre;">He said nothing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">Bill Kristol just kept his big mouth shut during the entire meeting. </span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;">He literally did not say one word. </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="white-space: pre;">Unlike denouncing Donald Trump in 2020 denouncing Pat Buchan in 1990</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Irving is trying to depict the killings as some kind of isolated event just like Bill Kristol</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Saying the “Jews killed Christ” is not “one remark” anymore than calling a black person </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the storied Jewish organization of racism? </span></div>
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<br />Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-42423058226313806852020-03-29T12:07:00.000-07:002020-04-06T07:51:15.881-07:00DC Farmers Market xsHeld Amid Pandemic? WTF? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Clyde Haberman</b> said to this reporter in a different context in 2004, what the fuck is this?? What the fuck is this??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> You presumably can't hold a farmers market without obtaining some kind of permission form the District. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Was the farmer's market held yesterday and Sunday the Dupont Circle Metro stop authorized in the middle of the pandemic? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> One of the stands was selling handmade beer..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If this reporter's understanding is correct the only businesses currently allowed to operate in DC are those providing essential services and goods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is selling handmade beer an essential service? Somebody else was selling plants. Are plants an essential service. Plus, all the stands were crammed together. Didn't seem very amenable to social distancing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">--EVAN GAHR uised to work for Eric Breindel and often feels like he still does. </span></div>
<br />Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-74455851097568980902020-02-19T12:20:00.001-08:002020-02-19T12:20:36.925-08:00Stanley Crouch Compares Conservatives to Farrakahan<div>
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/wing-proves-honesty-doesn-pay-article-1.900498" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/opinions/wing-proves-honesty-doesn-pay-article-1.900498</a><br clear="none" />><br clear="none" />> RIGHT WING PROVES IT AGAIN - HONESTY DOESN'T ALWAYS PAY<br clear="none" />><br clear="none" />> By Stanley Crouch<br clear="none" />>
Oddly, little has been reported about the squabble among conservatives
over right-wing icon Paul Weyrich's talking the same talk that put
Charlie Ward of the Knicks on the hot plate. As you surely must know by
now, Ward is a New Testament man who went back into the old charge that
the Jews killed Christ. After that got on the front pages, there were
some behind-the-scenes movements to make sure we didn't find ourselves
in the middle of another moment of hysteria in which Jews were accused
of attacking another black man. The point was to get Ward to back up to
at least Vatican II and renounce language that has been a staple of
anti-Semitic types for centuries. As for Weyrich, this gentle Christian
recently published that very same "Jews killed Christ" charge on his Web
site. This was exposed by conservative columnist and investigative
reporter Evan Gahr. Gahr was promptly attacked and painted as "a
publicity hound" by conservative gadfly David Horowitz, whose own most
recent claim to publicity has been his buying ads in college newspapers
to argue against the idea of reparations for American slavery. In
another twist of the knife, Gahr was informed yesterday that he would
soon be relieved of his position at the Hudson Institute, a conservative
think tank. That this story has not made much of a showing in the
ongoing press discussion of identity as determined by public - or
private - statements is more than a bit interesting, particularly in
light of the coverage Ward got for much the same thing. It surely proves
there's no liberal press bias against the conservatives. After all, the
so-called liberal press let off Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
(R-Miss.) despite plenty of proof showing his connection to the Council
of Conservative Citizens, more than a few of whose members consider
black people innately inferior to whites. No black politician connected
to a group with the opposite view would have gotten away with it.
Imagine, for example, if Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice had ever
praised the ideas of the Nation of Islam. But if the mainstream press
isn't paying attention to Gahr, the right wing certainly is. <span style="font-weight: bold;">In fact, he
is being treated much the same way that Washington Post reporter Milton
Coleman was when he reported the Hymietown comment that boiled Jesse
Jackson in charges of anti-Semitism for a few years.</span> No one has promised
to "deliver death" to Gahr as Louis Farrakhan did to Coleman. But Gahr
has definitely been stripped of his conservative stripes. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The irony is
that if he had looked the other way and ignored Weyrich's anti-Semitic
remarks, Gahr would be quite safe now. But dissension in the ranks is a
crime among hard-core ideologues, from the far right to the far left.</span></div>
Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-38732532713005692682020-02-03T12:39:00.002-08:002020-02-05T08:38:48.109-08:00Exclusive: Muslim State Department Employee Sues Mike Pompeo for Discrimination <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is being sued for religious </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">discrimination by a Muslim State Department employee who </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">claims her supervisors refused to let her telecommute so she </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for making the request. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In her federal lawsuit, <b>Azza Zaki</b>, who works in the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">State Department division that oversees the Au Pear program, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She is being represented by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Morris Fischer,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> whose big</span></div>
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Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-21569690501066601272019-12-30T11:04:00.000-08:002019-12-30T11:04:04.710-08:00Slothful AP State Dept Reporter Mike Lee Ignoring Mike Pompeo Being Sued For Anti-Muslim Discrimnation <div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">No, this is a State Department employee alleging she
was subjected to anti-Muslim harassment because she requested
accommodations to observe Ramadan!!!! <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://dcgadfly.blogspot.com/2019/08/mike-pompeo-sued-for-anti-muslim-bias.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trump State Department Sued For Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Harassment</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Why would anybody possibly be interested in that???? <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">After all the lawsuit is not even credible. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Trump, of course, has never been accused of anti-Muslim bias. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> He has excellent relations with the Muslim communities in the United States and all across the world.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This whole thing must be a "nut lawsuit." <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Matt Lee has clearly shown keen news judgment by ignoring such an obviously frivolous lawsuit. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Uh, not exactly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Speculation is not journalism but it's a safe bet that this poseur is ignoring it because "nobody" has <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">reported it--except some enterprising guy who wrote it up for his Washington Gadfly blog. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And how is it that nobody else has noticed this lawsuit?? <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Apparently, because I'm the only reporter in Washington who bothers to check PACER (the Federal Courts database) to see <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">if anybody high profile in DC is being sued. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Although you wouldn't know it from the way Michael
Avenatti went on TV like 8000 times most lawyers don't seek publicity
for their cases and are actually AVERSE to publicity. All of the
lawsuits I've exposed--against the Family Research Council for sexual
harassment and retaliation and against the Washington Post for egregious
race discrimination and harassment in the advertising department (<span style="font-weight: bold;">including white VP Ethan Selzer cced above racially harassing black female subordinates</span>)--I found on my own by going to PACER. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Most lawyers are publicity averse. Because they sue people to win cases. And you don't win cases in the press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Mike Morganroth, the lawyer for WaPo ad man Dave DeJesus, made a calculated decision NOT to seek publicity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">because he thought bad publicity would antagonize the Washington Post and they would be less likely to settle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">He
could have easily got big publicity with his connections. He was Jack
Krivorkian's sp? lawyer. I think HBO made a movie about the case and he
was featured in it. He also represented Coleman Young, the first Negro
mayor of Detroit, when the government went after him on some bogus
charges. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Mike talked to me only after I called him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But
the lawyer for the Family Research Council absolutely refused to talk
to me. He wouldn't even confirm my understanding of basic facts on
background. And he refused to even ask his client if she would talk to
me. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wemple, my newfound kindred spirit</span>, you mocked me last year for "sending me 300 emails about you and Tucker." <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">No, I sent you 3 emails and 297 articles. Plus
lots of emails about David Saperstein, etc. Emails implies I dashed
something off the top of my head. I rarely do that. I usually write and
re-write stuff in my head and sometimes on Google Docs. And I check
facts and make calls sometime. "Is my understand about whatever
correct." <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And I always try to give you new information.
Because you are in many ways my reader and I was trained to give readers
new and interesting and revealing information. I don't think you
realize how lazy DC reporters are because you're not lazy. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The lawyer who
filed this case, Morris Fischer, gives great quotes if anybody ever
wants to talk to him about other employment lawsuits.</span> </span><span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem">morris@mfischerlaw.com<span style="font-size: medium;">.
He represented an ICE whistleblower who was suspended, under pressure
from Harry Reid's office, after she blew the whistle on an expedited
visa program for foreign investors, one of whom was represented by
Reid's son.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">Per
my exclusive report which sparked a congressional investigation and
Inspector General investigation, after testifying before Congress she
was then fired and illegally smeared by the ICE press office. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, maybe Matt Lee is not lazy? Maybe he has just been too swamped with more pressing stories to cover the lawsuit. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is one of the stories he recently wrote. </span></span></span></div>
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<br /><span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. ambassador in Warsaw came to Poland’s
defense on Monday following repeated claims by Russian President
Vladimir Putin that Poland bears blame for the outbreak of World War II.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yup. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An
esoteric dispute about the origins of World War 2 is clearly much more
timely than anti-Muslim harassment lawsuit against Trump's State
Department. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">I do NOT read private emails from anybody I attack publicly. Any emails not cced to other reporters will be DELETED unread. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">Evan Gahr</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">Washington Gadfly (so dubbed by Lloyd Grove) </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="addressItem"><span class="address wsItem"><span style="font-size: medium;">CC: AP Standards Editor, AP top domestic editor </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, new serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is being sued for religious </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, new serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">discrimination by a Muslim State Department employee who </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, new serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">claims her supervisors refused to let her telecommute so she </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, new serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for making the request. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, new serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">was “subjected to ridicule including but not limited to</span></span><br clear="none" />
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<span style="font-family: times, new serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The lawsuit, which as far as this reporter can tell has not been </span></span><br clear="none" />
<span style="font-family: times, new serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reported anywhere else, was quietly filed this June in the United States </span></span><br clear="none" />
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</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It charges illegal discrimination based on religion and</span></span><br clear="none" />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last week, Heritage lawyer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dan Farrington,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in his lawerly way, used coded language to intimidate Gahr and give him the impression that he he would be kicked out if he discusses his lawsuit or Weyrich’s anti-Semitic remarks at any Heritage events. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lauren Goetzl</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, then representing Heritage at the August 9 status conference for the case, used the exact same coded language that Farrington did so this is apparently a calculated legal strategy to threaten and intimidate Gahr without explicitly saying he’ll be booted for talking about Weyrich. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, at the status confernce, to the best of this reporter’s recollection, Lauren lied to the judge when she said Gahr had never asked to attend Heritage events. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It seems that Heritage Foundation president Kay Cole James or general counsel seem to think they have latched onto a really nifty and shrewd strategy to shut Gahr up without violating the law--by making their threats with coded language. . </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the reality is that implcit threats are just as much against the law as explicit threats. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The federal lawsuit charges illegal discrimination in public accommodations due to religion and intentional infliction of emotional distress because the Eric Breindel protege repeatedly told Heritage that banning him from the events would be medically, professionally and economically deleterious. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress is a tort with a very high bar. Lots of lawyers just throw it on top of other claims because it has such stringenent requireemtns. Plaintiff’s making the claim must show that the defendant’s conduct as extreme and outrageous and undertaken with the express purpose to harm him. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To make his case on that cause of action Gahr notes that, as far as he can tell, in the entire time since Weyrich co-founded Heritage with Ed Feulner, Jr., in 1973 they have never barred anybody from their public events. And that the ban violates Heritage’s own stated principles of being committed to robust debate which they purport to protect from constant assaults by liberals, Democrats and the so-caleld libeal media. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To prove intent to cause harm with the ban he includes his medical reports about being treated for severe depression and says Heritage was shown those reports and told that banning him from the events would exacerbate his depression and casue him more PTSD problems. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Horowitz, architecht of neo-con cover-up for the Christian Right, criminally harassed Dr. Gahr in conspiracy with the Bush White House</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Washington Gadfly is battling PTSD and memory blackouts largely from the aftermath of fromer Reagan White House and DOJ official </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Horowitz</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> crimnally harassing his father after he got fired from Hudson in 2001. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horowtiz contacted Dr. Gahr, purporting to be talking as one concerned father to antoher, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">just days after Gahr told Horowitz he was going to invstigate Hudson donors, particularly his and while he and Hudson were anticipating litigation. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The NYPD has told the younger Gahr that any repeated unwanted communications that occurs during an employment dispute is automatically consdired aggravated crimnal harassment. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Mitigating factors that might apply in other cases don’t in this one, said an officer who Gahr stopped in 2017 when he was feeling threatened and frightened by Horowitz, who has repeatedly ignored his requests to tell his parents he lied to them so they wouldn’t be so frightened by his lies anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horowitz first made his menacing and mendacious and threatening phone call to Dr. Gahr--during which he yelled at and breated him--and told the renowned PCP that his precious and adored son wasn’t fired for critcizing Weyrich he was fired for being derangd. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Gahr, who won the Alpha Omega Alpha Award, medical school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa, looks cute and healthy today--he just retired after working 50 years at the same Upper East Side office, where devoted patients came from Brookly, the Bronx, Queens, and event central New Jersey and Upstate New York. Evan’s mother, a natural school teacher the way her son is a natural journalist, was the office manger and developed close relationships with the patients as well. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> One patient even traveled all the way from Puerto Rico after being recommended to Dr. Gahr. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After Dr. Gahr hung up on Horowitz, effectively putting him on notice to cease and desist all communcations, Horowitz violated that edict by sending him a mendacious FedEx package </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in conspiracy with AEI, National Review writer Jonah Goldberg, the late Robert Bork and then-OMB general cousnsel Jay Lefkowitz (more recently the lawyer who got Jeffrey Epstein the sweetheart deal with Acosta).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jay Lefkowitz has more recently distinguished himself as Jeffrey Epstein’s Key Lawyer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was Lefkowtiz, a notorious apologist for Chrsitian Right anti-Semitism wh famously told the New York Times magazin that a little Christian anti-Semitism “is good for the Jews” who incited Karl Rove, a close ally of Weyrich to get Gahr, who he paled around with in DC in the early 1990s, fired from Hudson. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wait. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why does Hudson get government contracts--aren’t conservatives opposed to big government? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tim Goeglein, now DC lobbyist for Focus on the Family, parent organization of the Family Research Council, Goeglein also got Marshall Wittmann, now chief AIPAC spokesman, ousted from Hudson</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accoridng to a New Repubic article by Frank Foer Goeglein, who has been quoted saying he does nothing “without the permission of Mr. Rove” complained to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hudson about Wittman, trashing the Adminisration on his conservative reform website. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hudson then deleted the website. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Curt Smith, the Hudson official who Goeglein complained to about Wittman, was himself later fired. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At a 2004 Hudson event Goeglein said he “talks to the good folks at Hudson all the time and owes them a debt of gratitude.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Debt of gratitude, Indeed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Horowitz, who Gahr is suing in the same lawsuit against Heritage for intentional infliction of emotional distress, is currently senior adviser to his secret ally David Saperstein’s Dupont-Circle-based Religious Action Center. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Horowitz, once hospitalized for a serious psychiatric disorder, probably OCD, has not responded to Gahr’s complaint, even though he was servd through Hudson months ago. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horowitz, a Yale Law School classmate of Eleanor Holmes Norton, s clearly so frightened of any public confrontation that one day before the August 9 status conference Michael called the judge’s chambers had said he was unavailable because he was suposedly out of town. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heritage Clearly Mistook Gahr’s Cease and Desist Letters About the Confernces Ban as Ptiches to Wemple </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The federal lawsuit was filed only after Heritage, apparently believing they can blithely violate his civil rights because Wemple is not asking about him, ignored or disregarded multiple cease and desist letters, telling Heritage that it was blatantly illegal to ban him from their events. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rob Bluey, Heritage vice-president for public affairs, is personally named in the complaint because he refused to give Gahr permission--effectively prohibited him from attending--the event next week with former Congressman </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jason Chaffetz </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(D-Utah.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heritage Foundation president </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kay Cole James,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who presumably knows Gahr from his articles for major conservative publications, including the Wall Street Journal, dating to the early 1990s, is personally named in the lawsuit as well. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In non-belligerent emails and tweets Gahr, who</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Lloyd Grov</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e dubbed the Washington Gadfly was press columnist for the late New York Post editorial page editor Eric Breindel, for whom </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newscorp</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has two annual awards, asked Chaffetz to disavow his Heritage patrons banning him from the event he is headlining. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deposing Jason Chaffetz </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gahr, who lately has started referring to himself as Tucker Carlson and all of conservative Washington’s own Jewish NWA, referring to the iconic 1980s gangster rap band NWA, is lookng into whether he can hold panelists at Heritage conferences that ban him legally culpable. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is an interesting question. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If a hotel or any facility, , for example, hosts some kind of conference that illegally discriminates it can be held responsible, according to this reporter’s discussion of an unrelated public accomodations issue with a veteran civil rights lawyer, let’s call him Serpico. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panelists are not sponsors of the conference/public accommodations that is barring Gahr but they are agents of it--key agents. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In discovery for his DC Superior Court lawsuit Gahr also plans to find out which Heritage donors are funding the September 10 conference and go after them as well--journalistically. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heritage Also Sued Under Little Known Reconstruction Era Statute </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lawsuit also charges Heritage and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katrina Trinko</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, editor of Heritage’s so-called news website, with violating the little-known these days </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Civil Rights Act of 1866 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by denying him writing contracts, including rejecting his proposed exclusive interview with Chuck Schumer, which he told Trinko he could probably get because the Senate leaders knows him personally from when he worked for Eric. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In fact, the two men discussed Eric when they ran into each other at NYU hospital last Fall. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Reconstruction era statute, enacted to protect blacks, bars discrimination in contracts based on race.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the 1980s, the United States Supreme Court expaned the Act to prohibit discrimination based on religion in a case that alleged anti-Jewish discrimination.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The decision was controversial because many people consider it anti-Semitic to deem Jews a race. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Separately, Gahr last week filed a motion for injunctive relief with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia judge who has his employment lawsuit. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Washington Gadfly asked her to ask Heritage to either show cause for excluding him from their events--provide a legitimate non-discriminatory reason--or give him permission to attend. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heritage in express retaliation for the April 12 lawsuit has effectively prohibited him from attending their events. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gahr contends that the events are public accommodations akin to restaurants under the landmark Civil Rights Act because food and beverages are served and they are “open to anybody in DC--well anybody but ‘Evan Gahr.’” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To take the analogy further he says that you need to put your name on the list for the event--no questions asked. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just like some restaurants require reservations but anybody can make them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heritage to Evan Gahr: We don’t serve coloreds here</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gahr contends in his complaint, filed in the Court dropbox over Labor Day Weekend, that Heritage foundation president Kay Hall James and Vice-President Kay Hall James are guilty of the “pretext free discrimination of whtie Southern racists of yesteryear.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just like white Southern racists overtly told black people seeking service that we don’t serve blacks instead of offering some kind of excuse such as there are no available seats, he writes, Heritage is expressly barring him in retaliation for his lawsuit and for being Jewish and determined to ask Heritage panelists about Weyrich saying the Jews killed Christ. </span></div>
<br /></b><br />Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-62409293303501738202019-09-02T17:33:00.002-07:002019-09-02T17:33:16.387-07:00Exclusive: Baltimore Sun Fires Black Sales Rep Over Her EEOC Complaint <em>Yet this is the paper that claims Donald Trump is racist for his perfectly accurate criticisms of Baltimore and Eljiah Cummings? </em><br />
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The Baltimore Sun last month flagrantly violated local, state and federal civil rights law by firing a highly accomplished black woman with decades of stellar work for the paper's advertising department in retaliation for her pending EEOC complaint against the broadsheet. <br />
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Even before the woman's whtie overlords cut her loose it appeared that the EEOC was considering suing the Baltimore Sun over its racially noxiious abuse of the woman, who was stripped of lucrative accounts and not paid for the work she did after she ran afoul of white management. <br />
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It is illegal to retaliate agaisnt somebody in employment based on protected activities, including EEOC complaints or complaints to local city or state human rights offices. <br />
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Maybe, instead of race-baiting Donald Trump editorial page writer Peter Jensen, who wrote the acclaimed editorial depicting the President as racially noxious because he upbraided Congessman Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) for not denuding the City of its inveterate crime and rats should take a good hard look at the advteristing department that pays his salary. <br />
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Unlike calling Trump a racist <em>that </em>would take real courage. <br />
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To use a great expression of the late New York Post editorial page editor Eric Breindel, little steps for little feet--racists treat blacks more harshly than they do whites. <br />
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The Baltimore Sun, in its editorial, did not present any evidence that Trump was singling out Cummings because he is black. <br />
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Incidentally, Cumming to his immense credit (no sarcam intended) met with the black woman who filed the EEOC complaint and backed her whoeheartedly. <br />
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This reporter says to his immense credit because very few people in DC do the right thing without cameras around. <br />
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Jensen could not immediately be reached for comment tonight. <br />
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Updates to follow tomorrow, please God, to use the great understated religious expression of my grandmother Ruth Goldstock. Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-49080870328697081452019-08-15T18:29:00.002-07:002019-08-15T18:33:54.354-07:00Mike Pompeo Sued for Anti-Muslim Bias<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-faec859c-7fff-f223-a2fa-dc5f6bc950e0" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-25709751627868297682019-05-15T01:57:00.002-07:002019-05-15T01:57:38.354-07:00Daily Caller Top Editor Vince Coliganese Finds Lynching Really Funny<i>Kind of like Tucker Carlson found it "Hilarious" when he heard somebody call Barack Obama "a schvartze" an ADL meeting in 2008</i><br />
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<u>Tucker Carlson, Louis E. Chimpstein Me</u><br />
<i>How "everybody" in Washington acts when they think "nobody" is watching</i><br />
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Last year, <b>Tucker Carlson,</b> a dumb and sloppy liar in the mold of <b>Alger Hiss,</b> lied to <br />
Wemple when he claimed Scott Greer's white nationalist views were unknown to him<br />
until the BuzzFeed story appeared.<br />
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/09/05/tucker-carlson-says-he-didnt-know-about-a-racist-at-the-daily-caller-again/?utm_term=.bd5486e7a1eb <br />
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Daily Caller publisher and Dick Cheney affirmative action hire<b> Neil Patel</b>, who<br />
apparently hasn't been able to have an erection since 2012, also said the same thing<br />
to Wemple.<br />
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Of course, Patel is a master of denial. He probably, for years, has been trying to<br />
convince his wife that he doesn't have a little, uh, issue. <br />
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Greer's white nationalist "sensibility" was well known around the office, and known<br />
to Carlson and Patel, who was Cheney's point man on fracking. Greer's views<br />
were discussed endlessly at editorial meetings. Greer was really loud, literally and<br />
figuratively about his views in the newsroom.<br />
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At one meeting, <b>Vince said that,</b><br />
<b>"Scott comes from a long line of lynchers."</b><br />
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So Carlson lied to Wemple. <br />
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Just like Mr. Honesty lied to Jon Levine when he said an embarrassing<br />
email from him to me was "a fake." In that email Carlson told me he<br />
found it "Hilarious" when he heard somebody call Obama "a schvartze"<br />
at an ADL meeting in 2008.<br />
<br />
The Washington GadlyI sued Carlson for libel. Last October he paid me to settle<br />
the case. <br />
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In one of his motions responding to my libel lawsuit Carlson conceded the email<br />
was genuine. http://dcgadfly.blogspot.com/2019/04/tucker-carlson-in-court-papers-cops-to.html<br />
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Mr. Honesty, however, through his lawyer basically said, "Yeah, I lied but it<br />
shouldn't matter anyway."<br />
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Tucker Carlson Lied To His Own Lawyer </h2>
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Carlson contended that his statement to Jon Levine was "privileged" because<br />
I sent Jon Levine the email when applying for a job with the Wrap. Carlson's lawyer<br />
Bernie Dennis, a very honest man, wrote that in the court papers because Mr. Honesty<br />
lied to him. In fact, I did not send Levine the schvartze email as part of a job<br />
application. I sent it to him as a possible story.<br />
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Vince did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<br />
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<u> </u><i> </i>Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-13589420460324395672019-05-15T00:39:00.000-07:002019-05-15T01:47:49.715-07:00Eric Owens, the Archie Bunker of the Daily Caller, Called Rosa Parks a Communist <h2>
<span style="font-size: small;"><u>Tucker Carlson, Louis E. Chimpstein & Me</u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>How "everybody" in Washington acts when they think "nobody' is watching </i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In an unguarded email to this reporter that he clearly</span><span style="font-size: small;"> assumed would never be made public</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Daily Caller education editor <b>Eric Owens </b>falsely labeled Rosa Parks a Communist. </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Owens, who has blatantly race-baited Ta-Nehesi Coates by</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">calling him a literary affirmative action hire, also manifested </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">his rank ignorance by saying that the NAACP was "full of Communists." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In fact, the NAACP was resolutely anti-Communist. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Thurgood Marshall, as director of the NAACP Legal Defense</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">and Education Fund, refused to work with Communists. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Rosa Parks did do some training at the Highlander School, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">which had Party ties. But that was it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">She did not "attend communist meetings" as Owens</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">insisted. That formulation implies that Highlander was</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">an actual Party cell. It was no such thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">He could not immediately be reached for comment. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>But this poseur is surely going to hang up on the </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Washington Gadfly--probably almost as quickly as </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wesley Lowery comes in his pants everytime he reads </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>an email from "Evan Gahr" calling Tucker Carlson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> "a neo-racist schoolyard bully."</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Last October, Carlson paid this <b>Eric Breindel</b> protoge</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">to settle his libel lawsuit. Mr. Honesty, in court papers,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">admitted that he lied to Jon Levine when he told him the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">"schvartze email" was "a fake." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">He conceded it was real. In that 2016 email Carlson</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">told Gahr hat he heard somebody at an ADL dinner </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">in 2008 call Barack Obama "a schvartze" and he</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">found that "Hilarious." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">Owen's statements about the ACLU also manifest</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the same uncanny mix of certitude and ignorance that </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">this nation has not seen since the days of Archie Bunker</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> talking all about "the coloreds." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Kind of like Archie thinking he knows truths</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">about "coloreds" and "Hebes" that nobody else does </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Owens seems to think it is really damning that the ACLU</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> was "in direct contact with the Soviet Leadership." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">So, this supposedly proves the ACLU was a stalking horse </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">for the Soviet Union?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Really? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">At the Daily Caller I was "in direct contact" with </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">the "leadership" of the Washington Post. I frequently</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">gave my scoops to then managing editor Kevin Merida for</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">him to forward to editors for possible use.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Does that mean at the Daily Caller I was some kind of </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Washington Post sympathizer doing the paper's bidding?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">Because I was "in direct contact," on occasion, with the Washington Post "leadership?"</span><br />
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----Original Message-----<br />
From: Eric Owens <<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow">erico@dailycaller.com</a>><br />
To: EvanGahr <<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow">evangahr@aol.com</a>><br />
Sent: Mon, Nov 28, 2016 5:58 pm<br />
Subject: Re: CAIR, Somali, Muslim Leaders to Respond to Ohio State
Attack | CAIR Sends Letter to FBI Director Calling for Probe of Mosque
Threat Messages<br />
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Evan! Criminy! How can you possibly ask me this question? It is
easy to find. We have a fabulous history piece on this topic AT THE
DAILY CALLER.
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The early leaders of the ACLU were Soviet sympathizers in direct
contact with Soviet leadership. The ACLU was a haven for communists and
fellow travelers for many decades.
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The NAACP was also full of communists. Rosa Parks herself was a communist who attended communist meetings. </div>
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Does that make Rosa Parks a bad person? No. She's a hero, on the whole. Heroism is for the flawed. </div>
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"Civil rights" is not some unqualified good. Perhaps that is the part you are missing.</div>
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EVERY civil rights group in America is on a radical periphery in
some way. This includes CAIR. CAIR is a civil rights group with ties to
Hamas and probably other radical, terrorist Muslim groups.</div>
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Rights are very complex. There is not much agreement on them. Many
times, rights are a zero sum game. Giving a right to A flatly means
taking something away from B.</div>
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Eric/iPhone </div>
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Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-76127615686170239712019-04-02T15:25:00.005-07:002019-04-03T21:51:23.144-07:00Tucker Carlson, in court papers, cops to being rank liar <span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /> </span><br />
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From: EvanGahr <evangahr aol.com=""><br />To: Erik.Wemple <erik .wemple="" washpost.com="">; Jon.Levine <jon .levine="" thewrap.com=""><br />Cc:
reporters <reporters dailycaller.com="">; irenea
<irenea aol.com="">; briganti <briganti foxnews.com="">;
daniel.lathrop <daniel .lathrop="" gmail.com="">; davemdejesus
<davemdejesus yahoo.com="">; ispire313 <ispire313 gmail.com="">;
princeeditor <princeeditor gmail.com="">; Wesley.Lowery
<wesley .lowery="" washpost.com="">; dbaquet <dbaquet nytimes.com=""><br />Sent: Tue, Apr 2, 2019 4:20 pm<br />Subject: Mr. Honesty, in court papers, cops to being a rank liar</dbaquet></wesley></princeeditor></ispire313></davemdejesus></daniel></briganti></irenea></reporters></jon></erik></evangahr><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Also lied to his own lawyers <br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: medium;"><div>
<span style="font-size: medium;">Above is one page from one of Neo-Racist Schoolyard bully Tucker Carlson's </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">failed attempt to vanquish my lawsuit. <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Note how his lawyer refers to "an email between Plaintiff and Carlson"--NOT an email <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">"allegedly" exchanged or "an email that Gahr says was exchanged" but simply "an email</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">between Gahr and Carlson"--i.e, it is real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Not the "fake" that Mr. Honesty told Jon Levine it was. <br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Secondly, Tucker Carlson, the guy who every night
on FNC purports to defend the Truth against assaults by liberals,
leftists, Democrats and so-called ultra-liberal reporters, also lied to
his OWN lawyer to defend this case. <br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">In the same page, Mr. Dennis says it is unclear whether I sent Levine the schvartze email <br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">as a job application to pitch a story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Yeah, well, it is unclear because Tucker clearly
lied to Mr. Dennis that I sent it to Levine as a job application. But,
as I told Mr. Dennis repeatedly, I did not send the email to get a job I
sent it as a possible story. <br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But Mr. Dennis was confused. That is why he said it was unclear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">But by misleading him Tucker was also basically lying to the judge as well. <br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, CPUSA smear artist Betsy Rothstein you
should go say hello to Mr. Dennis because if I sue you for libel
personally he might be your lawyer. Or maybe not; maybe since I am suing
you personally Dick Cheney affirmative action Neil Patel will just tell
you to get your own lawyer. <br />
</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, Tucker also violated his FNC contract,
which forbids any intersection with the Daily Caller, by using the Daily
Caller lawyer to defend the libel lawsuit, which was against him
personally not the Daily Caller. <br />
</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/10/04/tucker-carlson-settles-small-claims-libel-suit-with-former-daily-caller-reporter/?utm_term=.dcf8093bb52d</span></div>
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Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-79469632097186895382019-04-02T15:01:00.000-07:002019-04-02T15:01:04.285-07:00Tucker Carlson, Louis E. Chimpstein & Me<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Evan.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For months and months, egged on by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tucker Carlson</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daily Caller</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> media columnist </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Betsy Rothstei</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">n, Gahr had repeatedly stood outside the Washington Post’s now demolished 15th Street building waiting for Wemple with a video camera, so he could ask the former </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Washington City Pape</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">r editor very rude question to incite him into a buzzworthy quote. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His expense reports for trips from NYC to DC even said, “Wemple ambush interview.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eric Breindel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> protege had repeatedly strategize with Betsy about showing up at Wemple’s Northwest DC house with a video. Gahr had mulled it over so many times, checking and re-checking Wemple’s address on whitepages.com, that he had pretty much memorized the scribe’s address. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But now the first time they were meeting was in the hallway outside the courtroom where Gahr, without even being represented by a lawyer, had convinced an initially very hostile judge to reject Carlson’s motion to have the libel case dismissed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was very ironic.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But, as famed</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> New Republic </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">editor </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael Kinsley</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has said, irony is not logic . . .</span></span></div>
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Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-45331751792156890012019-03-20T17:36:00.000-07:002019-03-20T17:36:04.030-07:00Baby King Executive Roy Pomerantz Hasn't Let His Kids See Their Grandparents In Like Three Years Rebecca Pomerantz, David Pomerantz and Ricky Pomerantz are very upset about this.<br />
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David AKA Jepluvius has called it "a sad situation."<br />
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Pomerantz, who employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny for like close to ten years and never paid taxes on her, has never given a reason for why he is keeping his kids from the grandmother and grandfather they love so much.Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-70804980451367402912018-10-03T13:09:00.001-07:002018-10-03T13:09:50.395-07:00Tucker Carlson on hearing somebody calling Obama a schvartze<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Posted 10/03/2018 4:09PMWashington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-17257016054084513442018-04-12T14:35:00.001-07:002018-04-13T13:12:18.333-07:00Exclusive: NY Times Alt-Right Ad Department Lawsuit Continues Apace<i>Turns out paper paid to settle similar claim against Meredith Levien</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">business department like something out of the</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Got that, “everybody?”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Times PR line is at odds with its</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">much it paid to settle a similar lawsuit against</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the paper that--like the current one--named </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(I </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2015/08/07/nyt-hit-with-age-gender-discrimination-suit/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">reported on that lawsuit exclusively for </span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The fact that the Times paid money to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">settle that 2015 case which its spokesman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">also </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2015/08/07/nyt-hit-with-age-gender-discrimination-suit/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">called frivolous </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> to the New York Post has</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">not been previously reported. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Of course, when the class action case was filed </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Times spokeswoman <b>Eileen Murphy</b> said </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it contained </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2016/04/28/ny-times-ideal-staffer-is-young-white-and-single-lawsuit/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">recycled and unsubstantiated allegations</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">executive Tracy Quitasol. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Yeah, well. If that case was so frivolous why </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">did the Times pay money to settle? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Murphy, who unlike almost everybody else in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">DC and NYC knows how to hang up on the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><b>Washington Gadfly</b> </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/13/new-york-times-blocks-reporter-from-race-discrimination-lawsuit-meeting/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">without embarrassing herself</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">by sounding so obviously guilty and deceitful, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">did not respond to a request for comment. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A voice mail for <b>Doug Wigdor</b>, the plaintiffs' lawyer, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Depositions are supposed to be completed by</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">September 2018. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It is unclear from the official docket for the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">United States District Court for the Southern District, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">if Levien, the paper’s prized executive, has</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">been deposed yet. Interestingly, after the lawsuit</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/business/media/new-york-times-coo-meredith-levien-kinsey-wilson.html">she was promoted to chief operating officer</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Imagine how the Times would be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">yapping if this fact chain applied to a top </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">executive of a companyowned by the Evil One </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(Donald Trump). The executive get smacked </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with an egregious race discrimination</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">lawsuit. The company pays to settle</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Then, the same executive gets sued for </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">virtually the same thing again. And, voila, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he gets a nifty promotion. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">New York Times reporter <b>Sydney Ember</b>, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">who did a brief 511 word story on the case when</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it was filed two years ago this month, did not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">immediately reply to a voice mail asking if she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">is going to cover new developments. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Yeah, well. Don't hold your breath. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It appears that for her previous story Ember</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">made no attempt to contact the plaintiffs </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(walking from the Times newsroom to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">advertising department was too arduous?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">black people working in the advertising </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">department.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">She did, however, quote unquestioningly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the spin from Eileen Murphy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My new pal, <a href="http://observer.com/2016/08/new-york-times-editor-in-chief-tells-reporter-fuck-you/">Dean "Fuck you, Evan" Baquet</a>, the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Times executive editor, who is black or Creole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">as he likes to call himself, could not </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">immediately be reached for comment. </span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">often feels like he still does.</span></i></div>
Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-79474389950730002262018-03-21T15:50:00.001-07:002018-03-21T15:50:24.500-07:00Roy Pomerantz Tax Evasion--For nearly ten years, possibly continuing to this day. Why would he stop now?<br />
--Involving an illegal immigrant<br />
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How do I know this? Because she told me.<br />
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Circa 2004<br />
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Evan Gahr: So, Roy pays you in cash and doesn't pay taxes on you?<br />
Lorna: Yes, that is correct. <br />
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I hear that Pomerantz, who runs his father's company Baby King, also does lots of his business in cash.<br />
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God knows what's going on with that. Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-42767482032979537402018-03-21T15:47:00.000-07:002018-04-16T09:19:58.807-07:00Tucker Carlson, the alpha male journalist, can't stay on the phone with Evan Gahr more than 13 seconds? <div class="c17" id="h.9h71s94ijg9w">
<span class="c8 c14 c15"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>What a sissy. </i></span></span></div>
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<span class="c8 c14 c15">I am a very interesting chimp--way more interesting than Tucker Carlson, a sissy who just hung up on me after some 13 seconds of stunned silence. Wemple, by his own standards, should be writing about me all the time but I am not going to push him to do so since I won't benefit. </span></div>
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<span class="c8 c14 c15">Evan Gahr: What makes you think you can get away with violating multiple civil rights and contract laws by firing me from the Daily Caller for denouncing Christian Right anti-Semitism and for denying me employment on your show? </span></h1>
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<span class="c9 c6 c13 c14">These dumb fucks--to use my grandfather Louis Goldstock's great expression--just think WaPo blacklisted me for hit pieces so they don't need to worry about publicity blowback for their CPUSAesque antics. </span></div>
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<span class="c1">Above: </span><span class="c3">Evan Gahr </span><span class="c1">with Paul Weyrich and </span><span class="c3">Louis E. Chimpstein</span><span class="c1">,
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about violating 18 civil rights and contract laws prima facie--although Tucker is kind of ignorant and probably doesn't know what prima facie violation means--because Wemple is not writing about "Evan Gahr." </span></div>
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<span class="c0">Jake Tapper has a mighty big attitude for somebody whose big claim to fame is NOT getting a blow job from Monica Lewinsky shortly before she became Monica Lewinsky </span></h2>
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Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-22503890364727654032017-06-20T12:33:00.001-07:002017-06-20T12:33:12.410-07:00Louis Goldstock, namesake of David Louis Pomerantzhttp://observer.com/2017/01/nicholas-kristof-new-york-times-response/<br />
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Nicholas Kristof Should Have Retired 20 Years Ago</h1>
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Faux ‘Apology’ Further Slimes Trump Voters and conveniently rewrites media campaign history</h2>
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<b>My grandfather once put down a relative he despised with this line: “My wife said you’re not fit to eat with pigs. But I stuck up for you. I said you are.”</b></div>
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My grandfather didn’t think the relative would be dumb enough to take him at face value. Unlike <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> columnist Nicholas Kristof, who last week blithely slimed Trump voters in the course of purporting to “stick up for them” amid unfair treatment by the media.</div>
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Just who does Kristof think he is fooling with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/lessons-from-the-medias-failures-in-its-year-with-trump.html?_r=0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">this kind of duplicity</a>?</div>
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The veteran Timesman purports to stick up for Trump voters because, according to his argument, they’re not really venal; just ignorant and misunderstood. They got duped into supporting Trump because the media did insufficient vetting; journos didn’t work hard enough to explain his truly insidious nature and track record to less sophisticated folks. After all, he explains, this charlatan real estate magnate “was masterly at diverting us from substance.”</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We will soon have as commander in chief the most evasive, ignorant and puerile national politician I’ve ever met, and while there are many factors behind his election, I think we in the media contributed by skimping on due diligence.”</em></div>
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Hello? Does anybody read Kristof’s column before he files?</div>
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Anybody vetting Kristof’s column—well, anybody not addled by ideological orthodoxies and hatreds—would have asked Kristof, “WTF? How can you say Trump is profoundly ‘evasive?’ Isn’t the whole criticism of him that he is unhinged and just blurts everything out irrespective of obvious consequences? Just which specific question from the press or anybody has he ever not answered?”</div>
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But, hey, it seems like very few people these days bother to ask anybody to read their stuff before filing. Even more damning is that Kristof’s supposedly forthright confession of media failings actually obscures and omits just how much rank bias, deceit, grotesque double standards, journalistic malpractice, and outright <a href="http://observer.com/2016/10/no-consequences-from-media-peers-for-reporters-caught-colluding-with-hillary/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">collusion with the Clinton campaign and DNC</a>, his fellow fancy pants journos shamelessly employed during the campaign to defeat Trump.</div>
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For starters, it could be more accurately said that the media skimped on “due diligence” of many of Trump’s accusers—like Kristof’s paper not even telling readers where Jessica Leeds was employed when he supposedly sexually mauled her on an airplane business trip. Although the article—co-written by Michael Barbaro, who hung up when asked why that crucial detail for independent corroboration <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/19/ny-times-withholds-crucial-facts-about-trump-accuser/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">was omitted</a>, as did political editor Carolyn Ryan—did include an old picture of Leeds, like the front-page story was her personal Facebook page.</div>
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And just what about Trump was not exhaustively scrutinized? In a major <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">scoop</a>, his private tax returns were printed in the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> itself. And how did all the scrutiny he received compare to the due diligence accorded his opponent, who, incidentally, along with her “national politician” husband, are actually far more renowned for being evasive than Trump, having even spawned an adjective that means “evasive”: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Clintonesque" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Clintonesque</a>.</div>
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Kristof didn’t raise that obvious question. But let’s look at some of the innumerable examples of grotesque double standards with how the media covered Trump versus the charmless shifty woman they assured everybody would win. Why don’t we start with David Duke compared to one little-noticed key alt-left leader in Hillary Clinton’s camp. Trump’s so-called relationship with David Duke was covered exhaustively by the media and even outright lied about by <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em> reporter Janell Ross to depict him as a crypto-racist. But the usual suspects all ignored Hillary’s endorsement by the Communist Party USA chairman, even when video emerged of <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/07/exclusive-john-podesta-refuses-to-disavow-hillarys-commie-support-video/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John Podesta running away from a reporte</a>r who asked, per Duke, if she wanted to renounce him.</div>
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Mistreatment of subordinates? Trump deriding his beauty contestant for porking out was covered extensively. “Miss Piggy” appeared all over the media.</div>
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But did a single reporter try to interview the bodyguards <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/17/fbi-docs-hillary-was-so-unpleasant-security-agents-didnt-want-to-protect-her/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hillary is notorious</a> for mistreating? She is alleged <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/10/02/secret-service-agents-hillary-is-a-nightmare-to-work-with/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">even to have told one</a> to “fuck off” when he said “Good Morning,” according to veteran <a href="https://www.amazon.com/First-Family-Detail-Service-Presidents/dp/080413961X/ref=sr_1_1?tag=nypost-20" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">investigative reporter Ron Kessler</a>. That lovely exchange with a Secret Service agent dated to her First Lady days but a colorful <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Post</em> story on Hillary treating her State Department security retinue so atrociously that they “privately snickered” when she broke her elbow <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/21/hillarys-security-detail-giddy-when-she-broke-elbow/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">also got no further mainstream press coverage</a>, according to Google.</div>
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Spurious charges of anti-Semitism against Trump abounded. The “evidence,” offered by <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">TalkingPointsMemo.com</a> founder Josh Marhsall included an advertisement criticizing the Fed Reserve chair Janet Yelllin, <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-rolls-out-anti-semitic-closing-ad" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">who he noted is Jewish</a>. Does that make anybody who ever criticized Republican Fed chair Alan Greenspan an anti-Semite?</div>
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Trump’s tweets were feverishly de-constructed <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anti-semitism-is-no-longer-an-undertone-of-trumps-campaign-its-the-melody/2016/11/07/b1ad6e22-a50a-11e6-8042-f4d111c862d1_story.html?utm_term=.801f08eeafe2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">by <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em> columnist Dana Milbank</a> for Jew baiting. But Milbank’s compatriot, Ben Terrris, shortly after commiserating about the insidious tweets, literally ran away from me and hopped into a cab when I tried to give him a 2000 article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/18/uselections2000.usa" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">from the left-leaning <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guardian</em>about Hillary Clinton</a> calling an underling “a fucking Jew bastard,” according to three eyewitnesses. (He later promised to call the guy but didn’t—more on that revealing encounter another time.)</div>
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Finances and financial entanglements? Everything about Trump’s businesses dating back to the early 1970s race discrimination lawsuit against him and his father when he was not even 30 was covered exhaustively. His penchant for getting good real estate tax breaks—something every similarly situated businessman in America aggressively seeks—was exhaustively reported by CNN like some kind of sinister and illegal plot. By way of many contrasts, Bill and Hillary’s Whitewater land deal was treated like an afterthought. Her shady dealings as a partner at Arkansas’ premiere corporate law firm also got short shrift.</div>
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Kristof’s column was basically an attempt to re-write history and avoid confronting true media failings, distortions and palpable deceit. He didn’t even quote actual voters; just various journalists.</div>
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This was the money shot for his pals.</div>
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Is that supposed to be conciliatory and generous? Just like telling somebody, contrary to the misunderstandings, she is most certainly fit to eat with pigs? He’s basically apologizing for his media pals not grasping just how ignorant Trump voters really were. Suggesting that Trump voters were uniformly angry and desperate is actually incredibly shallow and condescending and contradicts some of the rare honest reporting like exhaustive stories by <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington Post</em> reporter Jenna Johnson.</div>
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Some were angry and desperate. Some weren’t. Lots, of course, found Hillary unpalatable and would have voted for Bernie if he were the nominee. Trump’s message “Make America Great Again” could reasonably be construed by many as uplifting and optimistic and hopeful. Aspiring to greatness doesn’t mean you’re a desperate loser seeking grandeur—as the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> lead election story asserted, absent substantiation, about Trump voters when he captured the White House. Co-author Michael Barbaro immediately hung up when asked how he <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">knew</em> that’s why so many voted for Trump. Maybe Kristof can try to get an answer from him if he is serious about media accountability?</div>
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Kristof did not respond to a tweeted request for comment. I have a direct number for the suddenly publicity-shy journo so stay tuned.</div>
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Nobody asked me but these are the people and things I am thankful for:</div>
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–Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple and his lovely wife Stephanie Mencimer, an alleged human pooper. The story in Wemple’s own paper (which he refuses to dispute) that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/07/31/another-doggy-farce-in-the-district/e2a67ab4-a56d-49c5-b5b4-a982034c675d/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">she got arrested</a> for picking up dog doo from the ground and hurling it at a neighborhood shop keeper makes is a source of endless mirth.</div>
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It has also resulted in my daily Wemple fecal quota, at least one reference per day inserted into otherwise unrelated stories on everything from the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/07/31/another-doggy-farce-in-the-district/e2a67ab4-a56d-49c5-b5b4-a982034c675d/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">free speech rights of government contractors</a> to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/17/exclusive-jewish-military-activist-accuses-christian-critic-of-libel/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a military activist</a> who fights Christian proselytization by armed forces brass. Journalism professors should make students do the same thing to sharpen their writing skills.</div>
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–The aforementioned activist, Mikey Weinstein, who unlike Wemple, BuzzFeed editor and <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/white-jew-tries-to-apply-for-fellowship-for-minority-journalists/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">diversity fetishist Ben Smith</a>, WaPo executive editor <a href="http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/wapo-marty-baron-hangs-up-on-evan-gahr/119252" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marty Baron</a> and countless others, was man enough to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/17/exclusive-jewish-military-activist-accuses-christian-critic-of-libel/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">stay on the phone with m</a>e when I asked rude and potentially embarrassing questions about his own organization.</div>
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–Fox News Wannabee Ed Schultz, who instead of just settling an obviously embarrassing breach of partnership lawsuit for a lousy $80,000, was bright enough to spend maybe close to $800,00 taking it to trial. That made for nearly one week of hilarious Daily Caller stories on all the shenanigans that <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/26/did-msnbc-president-phil-griffin-commit-perjury-video/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">unfolded</a> in Washington federal district court this May.</div>
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–The dozens of reporters who covered the Schultz lawsuit when it was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/ed-schultz-sued-by-nbc-em_n_860455.html" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">filed in 2011</a>, and subsequent <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2661908/queen-v-schultz/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">judicial rulings in 2012</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/05/ed-schultz-lawsuit-restored_n_5097422.html" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2014</a> but were too lazy to check the actual court file. Consequently, I got all the hilarious stuff for exclusive DC stories, most notably Schultz <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/13/courtroom-stunner-ed-schultz-accidentally-exposes-phil-griffin-as-a-liar/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">begging Roger Ailes</a> for a job and saying Chris Matthews <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/27/ed-schultz-chris-matthews-always-spitting-foaming-at-the-mouth/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">spits when he talks</a> when I looked into it early this year.</div>
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–Schultz, again, for letting me know that if I am on “Hardball,” it is a good idea to sit a safe distance from Chris Matthews.</div>
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–The Daily Caller because no other conservative publication in the country would let a writer accuse all of the Donald Trump’s critics of engaging in a <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/lawsuit-trump-employee-told-co-worker-you-fg-immigrants-are-ruining-the-country/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">circle jerk</a>. All the others likely consider themselves too high class to publish something like that .</div>
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–NBC producer and sound engineer Michael Queen for having the courage to wage a four years and counting <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/ed-schultz-sued-by-nbc-em_n_860455.html" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">legal fight against</a> Ed Schultz, defender of the little guy, for not paying him for arranging the now defunct “Ed Show.”</div>
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–MSNBC president Phil Griffin for bringing to my attention the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/26/did-msnbc-president-phil-griffin-commit-perjury-video/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">really fascinating question</a> that Ed Schultz asked Barack Obama at his first presidential press conference. But for some strange reason, nobody else in America heard the question.</div>
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–Dave De Jesus, who had the courage and tenacity, to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/25/discrimination-suit-takes-a-dramatic-twist-black-ex-posties-claim-wapo-purged-blacks/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sue the great white liberals</a> at the Washington Post for race discrimination after his Caucasian boss fired him abruptly without cause or warning after nearly 20 years of impeccable work as a WaPo ad salesman. He should be an inspiration to everyone about how to weather indignities and injustices without wallowing in self-pity or succumbing to debilitating hatred.</div>
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–A certain scary little Jewish girl who shared her column with me for eight months, spending countless hours editing my stories. Very few people in Washington would do something like that.</div>
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–The Media Research Center board members who apparently contacted MRC president Brent Bozell after I told them he and Newsbusters.com editor Tim Graham were ignoring the Ed Schultz scandal. Graham, who probably deep-sixed the story because he resents Betsy Rothstein <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/21/newsbusters-editor-periodically-talks-about-farting/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">mocking him</a> unmercifully, published an <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2015/05/06/e-mail-ed-schultz-mocked-chris-matthews-foaming-mouth" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">item on the lawsuit</a> the next day.</div>
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–The tanning salon that gave me a discounted one year membership so I could <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/white-jew-tries-to-apply-for-fellowship-for-minority-journalists/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">finally qualify</a> for Ben Smith’s fellowship program for “journalists of color.”</div>
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–Daily Beast writer and former New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove. In his Daily News item on <a href="http://www.chimpstein.com/2005/06-15-nader-nigger.php" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">my story that Ralph Nader called himself a “nigger” in a speech </a>(yes, you read that correctly) Grove dubbed me the Washington Gadfly.</div>
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–My good friend from summer camp with whom I just re-united (through a postal mail letter with my Daily Caller articles, not Facebook!)</div>
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He taught me the glories of inciting racial tensions by asking our Latino counselor if he belonged to the notorious Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN. (Name withheld so he is not forced to attend workplace racial sensitivity seminars.)</div>
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–My grandmother Ruth Goldstock, who <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/25/its-a-wonderful-life-the-christmas-q/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">introduced me to the wider world</a> and the battle between good and evil, when I was only in elementary school. She told me stories about the founding of Israel, the rise of Hitler, the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor and the New Deal. They were so vivid somebody listening might have thought she had lived through these events.</div>
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But she experienced them all from afar in the New York City area. Bobbum, as I called her, had never even been to Israel, Washington or anywhere outside the United States, except Italy in 1969.</div>
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<b>–My grandfather Louis Goldstock, who taught me the importance of self-sacrifice and fealty. On a less lofty note, he told great jokes.</b></div>
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I just used money she left me to buy the video camera that I have used for ambush interviews of <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/18/washington-gadfly-exclusive-federal-judge-oks-wapo-racist-jokes/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Marty Baron</a> and <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/15/al-sharpton-is-suddenly-camera-shy/" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Al Sharpton</a>, with plenty more on the way.</div>
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–The liberal-leaning Washington lawyer who spends lots of time talking to me off the record for legal stories, which is crucial to me getting the facts and analysis correct.</div>
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Most people in DC don’t help reporters without some kind of personal gain. Plus, he, she or it (that is my attempt at trans sensitivity) is all the more cool because h/s/i does not mind that many of these articles are liberal hit pieces.</div>
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–My mother and father, who are the best parents anybody could possibly have.</div>
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I got my creativity and curiosity from my mother. My father, basically an old-style Democratic from the days before weirdos took over the party, is responsible for my indifference to liberal pieties.</div>
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Plus, they are very cute.</div>
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Colleagues yawn while star reporters like Thrush and Leibovich cooperate with Clinton campaign</h2>
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<b>Decades before social media and email, a remarkable but unsung Bronx housewife named <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/25/its-a-wonderful-life-the-christmas-q/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ruth Goldstock</a> told her grandson, “Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want on the front page of <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em>.”</b></div>
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These days, that wise advice applies to private communications by everybody in the entire country except elite journalists and news executives.</div>
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Elsewhere in America, when emails that the author assumed would never see the light of day became public he suffers some form of consequences—you know, stuff like plummeting poll numbers, possible jail time or forced resignation. This goes for everybody from Hillary Clinton and the <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/amy-pascal-says-she-was-fired-talks-leaked-sony-emails-and-angelina-jolie/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">former head of Sony Pictures</a> on down.</div>
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But if you’re a Politico or <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> scribe or CNBC anchor John Harwood and hacked emails emerge that reveal you outright colluding with Hillary Clinton campaign—by <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/11/nytcnbcs-john-harwood-advises-clinton-campaign-gloats-about-provoking-trump-at-debate/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">giving advice</a> or providing the communications director “veto” power over what to include from your interview with the candidate or allowing campaign chair John Podesta <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/17/politico-reporter-sends-story-to-hillary-aide-for-approval-admits-hes-a-hack/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">veto power</a> over your stories—that is another matter.</div>
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That was essentially the response from Politico spokesman Brad Dayspring when this columnist asked to interview reporter Glenn Thrush about his newly revealed emails. Dream on, he replied, emailing me: “I want to play third base for the Yankees.”</div>
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Hacked emails reveal that Thrush has apologized to campaign chairman John Podesta for writing a “shitty” story that embarrassed the operation. In another email, Thrush <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hillary-clintons-big-money-dilemma-117559" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">called himself</a> a “hack” and promised to let Podesta approve parts of his story on the campaign’s fundraising efforts.</div>
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“No worries Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u,” he wrote. “Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this Tell me if I fucked up anything.”</div>
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In multiple email exchanges, Politico spokesman Brad Dayspring, who would not even give out his own phone, did not answer a single factual question about Thrush. But did call him one of the “top political reporters in the country.”</div>
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Really? Top reporters theoretically treat both sides equally. Has he ever given Republicans advance copies of stories? If so, who?</div>
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When Daily Caller reporter Alex Pfeiffer made similar inquiries to Dayspring about Thrush he was also stonewalled. The flack <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/17/politico-reporter-sends-story-to-hillary-aide-for-approval-admits-hes-a-hack/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">proceeded to question</a> Pfeiffer’s objectivity because he had called Thrush a “fucking joke” on Twitter. But again ignored specific questions.</div>
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Ironically, Pfeiffer’s <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bon mot</em> was in response to Thrush tweeting something that illustrated his own rank bias. Thrush said that he would not have written one of his stories if he could have known it would end up helping the Trump campaign.</div>
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Dayspring followed the same game plan when it emerged in another hacked email that Politico investigative reporter Ken Vogel sent an entire draft of his story to the DNC communications director for approval.</div>
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Dayspring is good at his job. But Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple is an even better Politico flak catcher.</div>
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Having attacked his D.C. rival for years, Wemple actually defended Vogel in a lengthy post, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/07/25/lay-off-politicos-ken-vogel/?utm_term=.132eb39fa08e" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">headlined</a>, “Leave Politico’s Ken Vogel Alone.”</div>
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The self-appointed media ethics policeman certainly left Vogel alone.</div>
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Nothing in the article indicates Wemple tried to contact him directly. Instead, he just quoted Politico’s official statement verbatim.</div>
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“Politico’s policy is to not share editorial content pre-publication except as approved by editors. In this case the reporter was attempting to check some very technical language and figures involving the DNC’s joint fundraising agreement with the Clinton campaign. Checking the relevant passages for accuracy was responsible and consistent with our standards; Sharing the full piece was a mistake and not consistent with our policies. There were no substantive changes to the piece and in fact the final story was blasted out by the both RNC and the Sanders campaign, and actually prompted Politifact to revise its rating on the issue in question.”</div>
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Wemple called the response “excellent.”</div>
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Well, by the standard of skillful sophistry, it was “excellent.”</div>
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Notice that Politico did not even apologize. It just called Vogel’s action “a mistake.”</div>
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Reporters are supposed to accord that kind of eliding of responsibility by public officials considerable skepticism. Vogel did not make a “mistake.” And, if his action was “not consistent” with POLITICO policies, why was he not disciplined or reprimanded? Ditto for Thrush.</div>
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But the most curious thing was Politico’s insistence that even though policies were violated in reporting, the final product was excellent—objective and hard-hitting. Imagine how well a parallel rationale would fly from anybody else.</div>
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Suppose a boxing promoter busted for fixing the fight said, “Well, this guy would have won anyway, he threw better punches than Joe Frazier. It was a great fight.” Or if somebody indicted for insider trading said he would have bought the same stock anyway.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times</em> displays similarly situational ethics.</div>
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Hot shot <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</em> magazine writer Mark Leibovich, himself embarrassed by a <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4213" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">leaked email</a> in which he told Hillary Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri she “could veto what you didn’t want” from his interview with the candidate and omitted at her request dicey comments about Sarah Palin, recently defended his actions. But from the safe confines of his computer.</div>
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Leibovich claimed he recently did the same kind of thing with Trump—unlike just about every politician or organizational official in Washington does—refuses to answer questions about his self-serving spin. The voice-activated phone system won’t connect callers to Leibovich—even though just about everybody else, including the bureau chief, can be reached the same way.</div>
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An actual person who subsequently answered the main phone line started interrogating a caller—where do you work? what is this about?—who asked to be connected to the great man himself.</div>
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Alas, saying more or less the following did not do the trick. “What difference does it make who I am? Maybe I work at the ape house at the National Zoo. At the very least I’m a reader, right? Isn’t the Times supposed to be accountable to readers?”</div>
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Of course, consequence free journalism extends way beyond newly-revealed emails. In August, Washington Post scribe Janell Ross outright lied about Donald Trump—not shaded things or omitted things but outright lied—in order to depict him as some kind of crypto-racist. On the same day that Trump disavowed Duke on “Good Morning America” Ross wrote he had not done so in 48 hours, contradicting the paper’s own fact checker.</div>
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Asked to justify herself by this columnist, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/02/wapo-scribe-falsely-says-trump-didnt-just-disavow-duke/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ross said</a> the claim was was merely her perspective and quickly hung up. Moral of the story: hot shot journalists don’t need to worry about anything they put in writing—privately or publicly—even when they outright lie about Donald Trump.</div>
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<b>Ruth Goldstock was a remarkable woman. Born the same year as Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Rosa Parks, she had the kind of qualities—beauty, charm, intelligence—that if my grandmother’s life had taken a different course she might have ended up a significant public figure herself.</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> But even she could not have anticipated how far down the toilet journalistic standards would eventually go.</span></div>
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Thrush, Vogel and Leibovich ignored multiple inquiries. But maybe their journalism peers ought to start making them.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #545454; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: inherit;">Evan Gahr</strong><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">, freelance D.C. journo, D.C. Gadfly, resident phone enthusiast: “My grandmother Ruth. Except from her, I grew up in an apolitical family. When I was in fifth grade and at her house, my grandmother told me panoramic stories about the founding of Israel, the rise of Hitler, the Holocaust and FDR, the depression and the New Deal. Anyone who heard these stories, so vivid and passionate, would have thought she was a Holocaust survivor or grew up on a Kibbutz before the founding of Israel or been one of the young lawyers who came to Washington in the early 1930s to help Roosevelt set up the New Deal. The moment I heard these stories I became entranced with current events and wanted to be part of them and have my opinion matter. I fell naturally into opinion journalism. I also got from these stories my Manichean view of the world. There were clear heroes and villains. Yeah, yeah. Not everything is black and white and people are complicated. But liberal journalists who think they are being really nuanced and sophisticated by pretending everything is a shade of gray are the real simpletons. Anyway this world view of stark absolutes made me determined to expose political and intellectual wrongdoing and dishonesty, best accomplished these days by getting people on the phone who normally hide behind secretaries because they know what I busted them for is indefensible. (The articles are also a manifestation of my desire to have fun and be noticed.) I also got my fierce sense of Jewishness from my grandmother. We never talked about race issues — an abiding journalistic passion of mine these days. But one thing my grandmother said stood with me and has much to do with my current sensibility (an abhorrence of diversity fetishists). She said there are good and bad of every race. Diversity fetishists assume all blacks are good and therefore hiring more at newspapers would automatically be a boon for journalism. And they assume all white males are bad. My grandmother was beautiful and charming and smart and diplomatic. If she had been born in another era, when there more opportunities for woman and Jews, she could easily have ended up a senator, governor or high-level diplomatic. She also loved and adored me so much and made me feel so special that years later all that gave me the fortitude to overcome big difficulties. The year before she passed away and was very feeble, I had my first op-ed published in the </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #545454; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: inherit;">New York Post</em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">. My grandfather bought the paper and showed it to her. I said what did Bobbum think? He said, ‘She didn’t know what the hell it was. She kissed it.'”</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Oddly, little has been reported about the squabble among conservatives
over right-wing icon Paul Weyrich's talking the same talk that put
Charlie Ward of the Knicks on the hot plate.
As you surely must know by now, Ward is a New Testament man who went
back into the old charge that the Jews killed Christ. After that got on
the front pages, there were some behind-the-scenes movements to make
sure we didn't find ourselves in the middle of another moment of
hysteria in which Jews were accused of attacking another black man.
The point was to get Ward to back up to at least Vatican II and
renounce language that has been a staple of anti-Semitic types for
centuries.
As for Weyrich, this gentle Christian recently published that very
same "Jews killed Christ" charge on his Web site. This was exposed by
conservative columnist and investigative reporter Evan Gahr. Gahr was
promptly attacked and painted as "a publicity hound" by conservative
gadfly David Horowitz, whose own most recent claim to publicity has been
his buying ads in college newspapers to argue against the idea of
reparations for American slavery.
In another twist of the knife, Gahr was informed yesterday that he
would soon be relieved of his position at the Hudson Institute, a
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discussion of identity as determined by public - or private - statements
is more than a bit interesting, particularly in light of the coverage
Ward got for much the same thing. It surely proves there's no liberal
press bias against the conservatives.
After all, the so-called liberal press let off Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott (R-Miss.) despite plenty of proof showing his connection to
the Council of Conservative Citizens, more than a few of whose members
consider black people innately inferior to whites. No black politician
connected to a group with the opposite view would have gotten away with
it. Imagine, for example, if Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice had ever
praised the ideas of the Nation of Islam.
But if the mainstream press isn't paying attention to Gahr, the right
wing certainly is. In fact, he is being treated much the same way that
Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman was when he reported the
Hymietown comment that boiled Jesse Jackson in charges of anti-Semitism
for a few years. No one has promised to "deliver death" to Gahr as Louis
Farrakhan did to Coleman. But Gahr has definitely been stripped of his
conservative stripes.
<b> The irony is that if he had looked the other way and ignored
Weyrich's anti-Semitic remarks, Gahr would be quite safe now. But
dissension in the ranks is a crime among hard-core ideologues, from the
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<br />Washington Gadfly Evan Gahrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796411412161463859noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21318700.post-72414489714230615782017-06-12T18:51:00.000-07:002017-06-12T18:53:01.721-07:00Longtime Washington Post Columnist Lloyd Grove Dubs Evan Gahr the Washington Gadfly <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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