CBS News ousts top exec accused of blocking correspondent’s Hunter Biden laptop coverage

Ms Herridge was an excellent journalist in the true sense of the word and not MSNBC-ish. She was sorely missed by the Tunnel Dweller.

 Alexandra Steigrad (nypost.com)  

"CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews — who was accused of sidelining white journalists and blocking an acclaimed correspondent’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop — is stepping down at the network, the company said Wednesday.

"The controversial news boss, who was named president just last August, is exiting after she made headlines in February over the firing of Catherine Herridge, a respected senior investigative reporter who had been doggedly covering the Hunter Biden laptop story for the network. 

"At the time, media insiders speculated that Herridge’s exit was linked to her reporting that President Biden may have kept evidence that he had foreign business dealings while in office.

"Another reason, according to sources, may have been Herridge’s role in a 2021 human resources probe of Ciprian-Matthews over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices.

"As revealed by an investigation by The Post in January, Ciprian-Matthews had racked up HR complaints from staffers over unfair hiring and management practices, particularly against white female journalists. Among those who complained was Herridge, according to sources." . . .

Inside CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews' controversies

• Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, a 30-year veteran at the network, was promoted to president in August 2023 after her boss Neeraj Khemlani left in a storm of controversy.
• Ciprian-Matthews has been accused of using her clout to promote minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists at CBS, leading to several employee complaints and a major internal probe in 2021.
• Current and former employees had revealed in January that two and a half years prior, Ciprian-Matthews was the target of a six-month human resources investigation by CBS parent Paramount Global into accusations of discriminatory hiring and management practices.
• Among the explosive claims were that Ciprian-Matthews supported the promotion of an African American correspondent after she witnessed him verbally abusing a female colleague. 
• In yet another instance, a white job candidate claimed Ciprian-Matthews told her it would be easier to hire her if she were a “different color” as she passed her over.
• Ciprian-Matthews is reportedly stepping down from her role following a string of controversies over her management of the embattled network, including accusations of discriminatory hiring and management practices.

Exclusive | Former Israeli hostage sues US group that employed captor

 Isabel Vincent (nypost.com)

"A former Israeli hostage freed last month in a daring Israel Defense Forces raid in Gaza is suing a US non-profit which employed his Hamas operative captor as a war correspondent, The Post has learned.

Almog Meir Jan, 22, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Seattle federal court against People Media Project, a non-profit based in Olympia, WA.

The organization runs a pro-Palestinian news website and had frequently published the work of Abdullah Aljamal, a Gaza-based journalist and former spokesman for the terrorist organization. He began writing articles for the website in May 2019, according to court filings.“It is indisputable that defendants provided Hamas operative Aljamal, whose connections to Hamas were publicly known, with a US-based and taxpayer subsidized platform to publish Hamas propaganda and to pass the material off as independent journalism,” the lawsuit says.

“Moreover, the compensation defendants paid Hamas operative Aljamal for his propaganda directly enabled him to imprison plaintiff in his home.” . . .

"Jan was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 last year while he attended the Nova Music Festival. He was held hostage for 246 days, along with Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, at Aljamal family’s home in Nuseirat, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.

"Jan claimed he was “abused and mistreated” by his captors, according to legal papers.

"Aljamal, who wrote articles for the website lamenting the evils of war and had also worked as a spokesman for the Hamas Ministry of Labor, continued to have his work published by the Palestine Chronicle until just before the June 8 rescue operation.

"He and his family were killed during the raid, according to reports." . . .

Debunking the Remaining Myth: Biden Has Never Been a 'Decent Man'

 Jim Thompson – RedState

"Biden has insulted constituents who have questioned him. He claimed to be a uniter, then stood in front of cameras at Independence Hall bathed in blood-red lighting and delivered a hateful rant insulting half the country." (Emphasis mine) ...  

"The last embedded myth about Joe Biden is that he’s a decent man. Like the rest of his life’s story, his “decency” is a made-up contrivance.  

"Biden has a habit of abusing the dead to his own end. Biden’s first wife Neilia and infant daughter died in a car crash. Neilia Biden was holding their daughter while driving. The accident was entirely her fault. She had a stop sign that she either blew through or didn’t check left and right before proceeding. The Biden car was broadsided by a truck driven by Curtis Dunn. It didn’t take long for Joe to blame Dunn, who was immediately determined to be blameless.  

"But Joe has never needed facts or evidence to back up his myths. Joe is infamous for puffing his résumé and his life’s history. Without a shred of evidence, Joe claimed Dunn was drunk when Neilia drove into Dunn’s right-of-way.  

“To the loved ones of the victims, there is nothing really we can say to erase this tragedy. And, those of you who think it's presumptuous of me to say that ... in a different circumstance, I got one of those phone calls ... I got a phone call saying, "Your wife's dead; your daughter's dead." And I've only said that three times in public before. But, I say it here because it's so important for you to understand. I got one of those phone calls. It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit a tractor-trailer, hit my children and my wife and killed them.  

"Whenever he thought blaming a blameless man would advance his credibility, he would repeat that lie. “Dead men tell no tales,” and for Biden, it became a convenient lie because the only people who could correct that myth were dead. (Dunn passed away in 1999.) 

"His eldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer. Tragic, yes. Did he die as a result of military service? No. Biden has repeated that lie ad nauseam, and cravenly in front of troops in uniform. " . . .

 "No, he is not a decent man. He’s never been a decent man. Before Joe Biden drifted into complete incoherence, he was a nasty, vindictive "Queen of Hearts" who fell upwards his entire career. And he’s lied all the way while doing it. He’s abused the truth like a wife-beating drunk beats his mate. He’s always been a miserable human being, but now he’s a cognitive mess who can’t be prosecuted because he’s a befuddled old coot.  

"Sorry, not sorry, libs. Joe Biden has never been a decent man." 

It Has Dawned on Some That Biden Never Liked Black People - Which May Explain Trump's Black Voter Bump

  Jennifer Oliver O'Connell – RedState

"Black voter support for Trump up from 4% to 23%, poll finds. President Biden secured overwhelming support from Black voters in the 2020 election, but a recent New York Times/Siena College poll shows support for former President Trump among Black voters has risen 19 points in the last four years."

. . ."What is most telling are the Black faces used to justify his behavior and prop him up: South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn (D), VP Kamala Harris' former senior advisor Symone Sanders, The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne tha God, etc., all excusing Biden's clearly racist comments, and lying to convince their base that Joe is down with the Blacks. Much like the unmuzzling of the truth that Joe's brain is indeed broken, what has followed is the unmuzzling of the truth that Joe Biden is indeed racist, and has been for the 50 years he's been on the national stage. The difference this time is that no one is coming to his rescue. In fact, it is being affirmed, called out, and even mocked.

"Case in point: On Wednesday night's episode of "Gutfeld!," Fox Business host Charles Payne completely skewered Biden's Sunday visit to a Philadelphia Black church. The Biden team's goal was for him to pander and resurrect his image. It did not go well, and Payne said out loud what many Blacks who have watched Joe Biden in action for decades have always thought." . . . One unfortunate mention was that Biden neglected a young black girl in a rope line, but another video shows him greeting and even hugging that very young woman. We saw her moving down to greet Biden a second time. TD

Since everyone is discussing the young black girl in Joe Biden's audience that was passed and ignored as if she was invisible...

Here is a 5-minute video compilation of Joe Biden's racist behavior: pic.twitter.com/tSE0F6sOMr

— Free the World 🇺🇲🌏🦅 (@PatriotVerity) July 7, 2024

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Handy Guide to University Codes of Conduct - The People's Cube

  Political Satire (thepeoplescube.com)

"Red Square wrote: According to Marx, the meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. And since Islamic supremacists are the allies and fellow travelers of the socialist movement, the new Current Truth™ is this: Peace is the absence of opposition to Hamas."

"Elite Universities like University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and MIT have strict codes of conduct to make sure the students respect one another, while allowing civilized and intelligent discussion about their different opinions.

"Legal scholars from these Universities met this week to create the handy guide below.  It was created so students, Congressional leaders, and the average 'they/them on the street' are absolutely clear about what statements are allowed and what are not."

"All Jews should die"

It depends on context, but nearly always allowable in the interest of reasoned debate.

"All Muslims should die"

Islamophobia at its worst - prohibited speech 100% of the time.

"Abortion is murder"

Absolutely false and a violation of the code of conduct.  How can you 'murder' a clump of cells that just happens to look like a human baby?

"Meat is murder"

Not a violation (unless the 'meat' in question happens to be a baby-shaped clump of cells).

"Men should not be allowed to compete in women's sports"

Violation of the code of conduct.  This falls under the Bullying and Harassment section and is therefore prohibited.

"Yeah you f—ing transphobic bitch.  I f–ing see you [Riley Gaines]!"

Not a violation.  The speaker is attempting to educate."

"That's not a woman!  That's just a dude in a dress.  Why do people keep calling him by the wrong pronouns?"

Not just a violation of the code of conduct, but probably a violation of state and / or federal law.

"Make American Great Again"

Ugh, do we really even have to answer this?  NO NO NO.  Most codes of conduct actually have a specific section for this.

"America was founded on racism and all the Founding Fathers were in the KKK"

Allowed.  We can debate the specifics (the KKK wasn't formed until the Civil War and well after the Founding Fathers were already gone), but this is all part of the free exchange of ideas elite Universities are trying to foster.

Hopefully this eliminates any concerns taxpayers might have about free speech on University campuses.

More Bad News on the Electric Vehicle Front: UPDATED: Issues & Insights

 Chris Talgo - American Thinker

. . ."As they say, you only have one chance to make a first impression. And, based on Americans’ reluctance to purchase EVs, I think it’s safe to say at this point that the EV rollout has been a disaster so far . . ."

. . ."Aside from the lackluster sales figures and alleged scams, the EV industry is facing several vexing problems that seem almost insurmountable at this point in time.

"For instance, over this summer alone, there have been numerous reports of people being trapped inside EVs due to dead batteries. In some of these cases, toddlers have been locked inside of sweltering cars.

"In one example, on June 20, Renee Sanchez was eager to take her two-year-old granddaughter to the Phoenix Zoo. Early that morning, Sanchez strapped the toddler into the backseat of her Model Y Tesla. After closing the rear door, Sanchez attempted to open the front door. However, it would not open because the battery was dead.

“ 'I could not get in. My phone key wouldn’t open it. My card key wouldn’t open it,” Sanchez told a local news network. In a panic, Sanchez called 911. Within minutes, thankfully, the fire department showed up.

“ 'The first thing they said was, ‘Uggh, it’s a Tesla. We can’t get in these cars,’” Sanchez said. “And I said, ‘I don’t care if you have to cut my car in half. Just get her out.’”

"Fortunately, the firefighters used an ax to break the back window. Then, they climbed in and unstrapped the toddler, literally saving her life.

"Although the toddler was okay, Sanchez said they both were traumatized by the incident. After her granddaughter was rescued, Sanchez couldn’t help but think, “oh my God, this could have been so much worse.” She was angry. And rightfully so." . . .

I admire Elon Musk and wish him well, but tend to associate EVs with Liberal-Hollywood-Biden-Newsom and lose the warm fuzzies. TD

Chris Talgo (ctalgo@heartland.org) is editorial director at The Heartland Institute.

Hey, Elon, How About A Tesla That Runs On Gas? – Issues & Insights

. . .The lack of progress cannot be explained away by the challenges faced by any infrastructure buildout, though Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tried to do exactly that when he said the project is more involved “than just plunking a small device into the ground.” No, what we have is an administration that is insisting that the contractors hired to do the work fall in line with the Democrats’ political demands. . .

. . ."A “survey among leaders in the EV charging industry” recently found that 75% “of electric vehicle charging station developers and operators say electric grid limitations present a significant barrier to deploying commercial EV charging infrastructure,” says Utility Dive. Apparently “a large number” of these businesses “have been unable to secure the energy they need for their projects and have resorted to installing fossil fuel-powered generators to run their chargers.” . . .

The Election FIX IS IN, Democrats REFUSE To Bar Illegal Immigrants Voting, Trump DEMANDS GOP Act

 Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: (ibloga.blogspot.com)

"The Election FIX IS IN, Democrats REFUSE To Bar Illegal Immigrants Voting, Trump DEMANDS GOP Act"

Get Ready For Big Media To Make Another Biden Pivot

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"Late night comics such as Steven Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel will probably try to make his ramblings kind of lovable — Joe says the darndest things." 

"Now that the mainstream news outlets have been forced to admit that President Joe Biden is suffering serious mental decline – something we’ve been tracking here since March 2020 – they’ve decided that Joe must go. But Biden is so far refusing to step down.

"So, what will the media do if Democrats can’t kick Biden to the curb? We have no doubt that they will suddenly go right back to saying: “He’s sharp as a tack! Better than ever! And all that talk about mental decline is just right-wing cheap-fake propaganda.”

"As J. Peder Zane, an editor for RealClearInvestigations and a columnist for RealClearPolitics, put it:

If it becomes clear Joe won’t go, the party and its propaganda outlets will quickly pivot. Discussions of his physical and mental capacities will be shoved down the memory hole. His continuing gaffes and incoherence will be largely ignored, cast as boring facts that are already ‘baked in the cake’: Voters know about his limits so what’s the point of harping on them? Late night comics such as Steven Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel will probably try to make his ramblings kind of lovable — Joe says the darndest things. If Biden bows out, his replacement will be cast as the second coming of well, Jesus Christ, offering a path to salvation for an imperiled land.

"Zane is absolutely right. And the Media Research Center is already seeing signs that “the networks have begun to fall back in line.”

"Doing a 180 will be easy for the mainstream media since they’ve already done it once. Remember that just moments before the debate, any talk about Biden’s mental health was strictly verboten.

"Sure, the White House staff did whatever it could to keep Biden carefully stage-managed. But reporters, who knew all along how bad Biden was, refused to tell the public the whole story – and accused anyone who dared point out Biden’s decline of “carrying water for Trump.”

"That alone is a huge scandal. But there will be no accountability. The media have already given themselves a pass by claiming that they were Shocked! Shocked! to discover how damaged Biden is.

"Democrats and their corporate media propaganda arm have made it abundantly clear that they will do anything and everything to keep Donald Trump from reclaiming the presidency. For now, they think casting Biden aside is the right move." . . .

• Joe Biden Is A Good Man? Please Don’t Insult Our Intelligence
• Now They’re Gaslighting Us About Biden’s ‘Accomplishments’

Media tries to solicit sympathy for Joe Biden who’s been ‘breathlessly’ attacked since the debate

  Jack Hellner - American Thinker 

Trump gave the United States and world relative peace, low inflation, low energy prices, secure borders, and record low poverty levels; Biden gave the world disastrous energy prices, high inflation, along with unsecure borders, and war. Biden is essentially funding both sides of two wars with his energy policies. He has built up alliances among Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea.

Do not dismiss this as leftists desperation. It is not desperation. It’s a long term strategy reaching a crescendo. It’s a strategy that has worked countless times. Trump is being setup. So are his supporters. The bankers/globalists are framing Trump as Hitler and MAGA as Nazis. pic.twitter.com/hXZulIsOBG

— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) July 7, 2024

 "Here’s a pathetic story from Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian:

The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump?

The bigger story is Donald Trump’s appalling unfitness for office. He tried to overturn a legitimate election and is a felon[.] …

There really is no comparison in the amount or intensity of coverage. One journalist, Jennifer Schulze, counted New York Times stories related to Biden’s age in the week following the debate; she counted a staggering 192 news and opinion pieces, compared to 92 stories on Trump – and that was in a week when the US supreme court had ruled he has immunity for official acts.

"This poor Democrat thinks Biden is being treated too harshly after most of the media has engaged in a massive conspiracy to cover up his cognitive dysfunction; she’s bellyaching because the media have had to cover Biden’s brain being mush for two whole weeks. Big deal!

"The media has been “breathlessly attacking” Trump for eight years with endless lies, and now a person posing as a journalist is complaining about accurate reporting on Biden for a mere two weeks, after these “journalists” have covered up and lied about his abilities for five years. Remember this?

How negative was press coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office? Far more than that of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, according to a new report from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

 Full article.

 

Biden's mental decline reflected in foolhardy policies -

 "During the previous presidential debate, Biden declared, “we’re going to make sure that we reduce the price of housing. We’re going to make sure we build 2 million new units. We’re going to make sure we cap rents, so corporate greed can’t take over,” 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Biden's mental decline reflected in foolhardy policies - Benjamin Ayanian

. . ."And any politician who grasps a few basic economic principles knows that capping rents leads to a shortage of housing and harms renters. While that seems counterintuitive, it’s true. High prices signal that demand is oustripping supply, which incentivizes developers and investors to create more housing in attempts to capture a slice of the potential profits. As more housing is developed and supply increases relative to demand, then prices moderate. By capping rents, the government distorts the signal that would otherwise tell developers to build more housing. Instead of new developments coming online, current landlords will cease providing upkeep services to the same extent since it will become unprofitable at capped rents, and others will transform their buildings into office spaces, luxury apartments, or other entities typically exempt from rent control. The result is a shortage of housing and higher prices in the long run.  

This is not just theory. It has played out time and time again. 

Ever wonder why rent is so high in some areas? Because there isn’t enough housing! Rent control would make the root problem worse. And Biden’s plan to build more government-funded housing merely redistributes taxpayer dollars through inefficient bureaucracies. If prices were allowed to fluctuate properly, and developers were not unduly restricted by city governments, then the private market could far more efficiently create the housing demanded. 

Forget the Kamala giggle when the fingernails come out. UPDATE: Kamala Harris; I'M SPEAKING!

How Trump would attack Harris if she became Democratic nominee (axios.com)  . . ."The intrigue: If Democrats picked a moderate Midwestern male as Harris' running mate, the Harris-topped ticket would be more formidable, Republicans tell us.

• The Trump team's biggest concern, and some early polling flicks at why, is that Harris would help turn out more women, who historically vote in greater numbers than men. Harris — armed with Democrats' abortion message, which worked well in off-year elections — could leverage the nation's gender divide." . . .

What the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings reveal about Kamala Harris 

. . ."Kamala Harris’s unsparing questioning of Brett Kavanaugh when the then D.C. Circuit Court judge was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Trump won the senator praise for her prosecutorial skill.

"Critics at the time, however, said Harris’s treatment of Kavanaugh was an obvious and out-of-line attempt to raise her political profile. And now that Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee for vice president, Trump has repeatedly attacked her approach to the Kavanaugh hearings.

Kamala

" 'She was extraordinarily nasty to Kavanaugh — Judge Kavanaugh then, now Justice Kavanaugh,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday during a briefing at the White House, not long after Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, announced Harris as his running mate. “She was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing the way she was,” Trump said.

"In an interview Thursday with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, Trump called Harris a “mad woman.”

“ 'Now you have a — sort of a mad woman, I call her, because she was so angry and so — such hatred with Justice Kavanaugh. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like it. She was the angriest of the group, and they were all angry.' ” . . .

Update:  KAMALA SAID, "I'M SPEAKING!

MSM Fact-Checkers Ignore Kamala Harris's Dishonest Kavanaugh Attack | National Review  "Politifact and other popular political fact-checkers entirely ignored Senator Kamala Harris’ dishonest characterization of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s description of a case involving access to contraception during his confirmation hearing Thursday." . . .

 Who can forget the viscious treatment Harris gave to the very decent Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing? Recall the opening day when his entire family sat behind him, excited by the honor of the occasion. Suddenly the same dam broke that flooded the hearings for Judge Alito that forced his wife to leave in tears and led to that magnificent speech by Senator Lindsey Graham .   

She must be said to have learned from the best if she watched the treatment Biden gave to Judge Clarence Thomas:

Let's Take a Look Back on Exactly How Kamala Harris Treated Brett Kavanaugh (townhall.com)    "After Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed and rightfully seated on the Supreme Court, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a 400-page report detailing all of the false accusations made against him. A number of individuals were referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution after lying to Senate investigators. Those individuals included Michael Avenatti, Julie Swetnik and Judy Munro-Leighton. Leighton admitted to investigators she made up rape allegations against Kavanaugh to "get attention" and as part of a "ploy" to take down his nomination. All of them were upheld by Democrats and the media as heroes for truth and justice.

"After an extensive investigation that included the thorough review of all potentially credible evidence submitted and interviews of more than 40 individuals with information relating to the allegations, including classmates and friends of all those involved, Committee investigators found no witness who could provide  any  verifiable evidence to support any of the allegations brought against Justice Kavanaugh," the report states. "In other  words, following the  separate and extensive investigations by both the Committee and the FBI, there was no evidence to substantiate any of the claims of sexual assault made against Justice Kavanaugh." . . .

Thereby giving this nation a picture of the kind of justice system we would have under President Kamala Harris. TD