Not in the Neighborhood: Ms. Rachel’s Radical Departure From Mr. Rogers’ Moral Compass

The American Spectator  

"Ms. Rachel’s support for Gaza — at the expense of Israel — is just the latest political entanglement to draw backlash to her YouTube channel. In June 2024, Ms. Rachel celebrated Pride Month on her “Songs for Littles” show, posting a video on the first day of Pride Month."

"Trading Mr. Rogers’ cardigan for Hamas controversy, Ms. Rachel — the YouTube darling of preschoolers whose “Songs for Littles” has garnered more than 14.7 million subscribers — has sparked backlash over what some have claimed to be her promotion of propaganda supportive of Hamas. Platforming Motaz Azaiza, a Palestinian journalist who has been considered by Israeli media as “one of the most identifiable voices with Hamas in the digital arena,” Ms. Rachel posted a short video of herself singing about the “letter M” with “my friend Motaz.” Describing himself as a “genocide survivor,” Azaiza has called for “Palestinian resistance” after the October 7 vicious attack on Jews in Southern Israel.

"Last spring, Ms. Rachel shared content that suggested that Israel was the aggressor in the War, showing photos of emaciated children without noting that, in some cases, these children were suffering from genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis. Last Spring, the StopAntisemitism organization appealed to the American Justice Department to ask U. S. officials to open an investigation into whether Ms. Rachel is serving as a paid propaganda agent. The StopAntisemitism website declares that “Accurso spreads evil propaganda against the State of Israel to more than 20 million followers through multiple accounts, more than the entire population of Jews and Israelis in the world.”

"Earlier this year, Ms. Rachel ignored the Israeli hostages and Jewish children impacted by the October 7 attack and raised $50,000 through Cameo for Gaza’s children, along with the children of Sudan and Ukraine. Later, she posted on Instagram that Israel had violated the Geneva Convention by halting aid when Hamas broke the ceasefire. The truth is that Israel has overseen the transfer of more than 2 million tons of aid into Gaza on more than 107,000 trucks since the War began after October 7.

"While much of her pro-Palestinian rhetoric has been posted on Instagram, Ms. Rachel has also used her “Songs for Littles” YouTube channel to convince children and their parents of Israel’s malign complicity in hurting children. In this heartbreaking video, Ms. Rachel sings one of her viewers’ favorite “songs for littles” with Rahaf, a 3-year-old double amputee from Gaza who had been evacuated for medical treatment by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. In an interview with PBS, Ms. Rachel said that the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund reached out to her when they first saw her advocacy for Gaza and asked her to help. “They told me Rahaf loved the show, and then they said, Would you want to meet her and have her on the show? And I said I’d love to … I’m so honored that I could be helpful or I could provide a moment of relief or joy in the midst of genocide.”

"Ms. Rachel shared that Rahaf’s father and two baby brothers are still in Gaza, but they have family FaceTime calls with them. But according to BuzzFeed, the family avoids eating during the FaceTime calls because “the family has so little food” in Gaza. Echoing Hamas’s talking points and relying on data from Hamas’s health ministry, Ms. Rachel has shared that 14,000-15,000 children had been murdered by Israel in Gaza since October 7. These figures have been debunked by Hamas itself, as reported in the Jerusalem Post, which claimed that 70 percent of all of those killed were combat-aged men, not women or children." . . .

What would Mr. Rogers have said?

Stuff Trump Didn't Do

Doug Ross Journal

The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s show doesn’t matter. What matters is the left’s embrace of political violence.

 The Federalist

"What does matter is the left’s embrace of political violence and the left-wing terrorist ecosystem that enables that violence. Right now, it’s the only thing that matters. So that’s what we’re going to talk about, and act upon, until we get the situation under control."

PJ Media

"The national conversation we need to have right now is not about free speech.

"The conversation we need to have is about the normalization of political violence on the left. We need to be talking about left-wing Antifa/trans terrorists gunning down Christians in broad daylight while Democrats and the corporate press justify it and the online left celebrates it.

"That’s the only conversation that matters right now. The manufactured outrage over ABC canceling Jimmy Kimmel’s show is an attempt to change the conversation, to flip the script so that instead of talking about the first major political assassination in America in sixty years, instead of talking about the mainstream left’s embrace of political violence and the institutional ecosystem that foments and funds that violence, we can talk about whether President Trump is using Kirk’s murder as a pretext to crack down on free speech and silence his enemies.

"What nonsense — and what a tell. It speaks volumes that Democrats, liberal media, and online leftists are so desperate to pivot away from talking about Kirk’s assassination that they have chosen to take up the transparently stupid cause of Kimmel’s free speech rights. Remember, these are people who don’t care at all about free speech. Some of those rending their garments this week over Kimmel’s cancellation were the same people who cheered on government censorship during Covid. They love censorship, so long as it’s their side doing the censoring.

"And it hardly needs to be said that nothing about the Kimmel story implicates free speech in any way. Kimmel didn’t just mock MAGA or criticize Kirk, he patently lied about the ideology of Kirk’s alleged assassin, and by allowing his comments to air, ABC arguably violated the terms of its FCC license.

"During his Monday show, Kimmel said this: “The MAGA gang is desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

"Anyone with an internet connection and half a brain cell knows that Kirk’s alleged killer was deeply into Antifa and transgender ideologies, and that he specifically targeted Kirk for speaking out against these things. He was a creature wholly of the left, and to declare otherwise, as Kimmel did, is a deliberate falsification of the facts surrounding the most high-profile political assassination of our time.

"That means Kimmel blatantly violated FCC regulations. Public broadcasters like ABC are prohibited from spreading false information about a crime or catastrophe, and they can lose their licensure if they don’t adhere to the relevant federal regulations.

"No surprise then that Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, addressed Kimmel’s comments when he went on Benny Johnson’s podcast on Wednesday. “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. " . . .

Murderers of the Land That Bore Them 

. . . "To this end, Charlie Kirk’s politics were purely incidental. The slanders of “racist,” “misogynist,” “transphobe,” and whatever other absurdity they lobbed at the man were simply covers to justify their nihilistic desire to destroy. These are the same people who cheer the murder of children in Christian schools or in Israeli villages, none of whom were anywhere remotely guilty of the slanders with which the left routinely denigrates their opponents. They don't cheer Kirk's murder because they think he was bad. They cheer Kirk's murder because they know he was good.

On paper, these nihilists have little reason to be angry. They are the most privileged people ever produced in the entirety of human history. They have everything, but they are nothing. And maybe that’s the root cause of this…a smug, arrogant attitude that screams through a bullhorn that the universe revolves around them and their feelings. And when this produces not happiness, but its exact opposite, they turn not to humility or reflection or development, but to envy, bitterness, spite, resentment, and hate." . . .

We Need a Post-Kirk Christian Revival and We Need It to Stick

Intellectual Takeout

"But it is not enough to merely make vague condemnations of killing and “hate.” Kirk’s assassination shook people to their core, precisely because it was a political and religious killing. " . . .

"American pews were full the Sunday after the brutal open-air assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The reminder of the fragile briefness of life and the stark display of evil in the murderous act understandably coaxed many backslidden church-goers back to worship.

"The naysayers believe this won’t stick. It’s up to American pastors to prove them wrong.

" 'If your church refused to mention Charlie this Sunday, it’s time to find a new one,” activist Isabella De Luca wrote on X this past Sunday morning. Dozens of others echoed her.

. . . "Pastors who refuse to speak out against such a public display of evil should not be surprised when their pews return to empty next Sunday. Those who filled the pews this past Sunday did so because the senseless killing they witnessed left them longing for an eternal faith in Kirk’s Heavenly Father.

"A pastor’s words in the pulpit illuminate the antidote which Jesus Christ offers to this darkness. Pastors have an opportunity here to show that all hope is not lost because the Lord, the Comforter of the widow and the orphan, is also a just God who will punish the evildoer.

"But it is not enough to merely make vague condemnations of killing and “hate.” Kirk’s assassination shook people to their core, precisely because it was a political and religious killing. The motivations of the killer, as of this writing, point to a driftless man who was thoroughly marinated in sexually degenerate online communities." . . .

Sarah Wilder is a writer and commentator on culture and the family. Formerly a reporter at the Daily Caller, her work has been published in Chronicles Magazine, The Federalist, and The American Mind.

*Beware if a church becomes political, you can get this.

Politics in the Pulpit; Cal Thomas  . . . "Politicians and preachers should mostly stay in their own lanes. Where Scripture speaks clearly to a contemporary issue, including marriage, gender, abortion and the wisdom found in Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, I'm ready to listen. But don't let me hear who the pastor prefers in the next election. I am not without information and neither is anyone else if they take the time to do research.

"Religious people have an absolute right - indeed the country needs them - to express their views in the public square. Many of our Founders exercised that right and the principles found in the Declaration of Independence and other documents reflected their worldview. And yes, colonial preachers frequently based their sermons on politics, praising or denouncing politicians. But that exception shouldn't create a rule." . . .

Antifa celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder before panicking over backlash

The Post Millennial Senior Editor Andy Ngo has criticised Antifa for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder but stated the group is “quite concerned” with the “anger” at the assassination.   “In the immediate hours in the first two days after the assassination, all of the Antifa all around the world were celebrating, and they were celebrating not just that Mr Kirk was assassinated, but that somebody with his views was killed,” Mr Ngo told Sky News host James Morrow. “They were surprised at the unity in the backlash and anger at what happened … They really thought this would be another killing that would just be either ignored by the media. “They’re quite concerned, and they are discussing ways for how to sabotage the right because they really fear the pendulum changing.”

Daily Signal video; Victor Davis Hanson    "Charlie Kirk’s death ignited a fire within Western civilization, and it is sending a message to the Left: No more.

"It’s been one week since Kirk was shot dead while debating on a college campus, and the Right is reacting more viscerally than we’ve seen from it in recent memory. Not only that, but we’re seeing worldwide support for Kirk, mass demonstrations against illegal immigration in Europe, the fall of France’s government, and a grassroots movement saying, “Enough is enough,” here in America. Victor Davis Hanson analyzes the events that pushed the West to its boiling point and where we go from here on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” "“What is this moment? We're seeing it in the United States with thousands of people are commemorating the death of Charlie Kirk. There's no tolerance for the usual left-wing, socialist craziness, the abhorrent violent smears of conservatives who've died. And you don't see major bureaucrats, or generals, or Hollywood figures—increasingly, they're not coming out and rejoicing because they feel that they're going to get a big pushback. “ We also are tired of what I call boutique anti-Americanism. We see Ilhan Omar suggesting that our elected government is worse than the dictatorship in Somalia; or we see AOC calling Donald Trump a fascist, as she has in the past; or we see Rashida Tlaib just demonizing and damning the United States, even though her parents fled the Middle East to come here. And we're tired of it. It doesn't mean we're gonna outlaw free speech or try to use the same tactics as the critics of America do. But what we're saying is, we're a unique place. We're better than the alternative. We don't have to be perfect to be good. So, you can say all you want, but we're gonna not just ignore you, we're gonna do our best to make sure your voices have no influence.” . . .

AOC's Considering 2028 Presidential Run

 JFeed  

"One thing's certain: In a polarized America, her 2028 play could redefine the battle lines, forcing the party to confront its soul or risk implosion."

"Progressive powerhouse Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the self-styled champion of the far-left "Squad," is stealthily gearing up for a seismic 2028 leap, mulling a audacious White House run or a Senate showdown that could upend Democratic leadership, according to a bombshell Axios report. As the Democratic Party grapples with internal fractures and a quest for identity post-2024, AOC's maneuvers signal her unyielding ambition to reshape American politics, love her or loathe her, she's positioning to dominate the narrative.

Performing for the press

"Sources close to the 35-year-old congresswoman reveal she's quietly building a war machine: Expanding her national footprint with town halls far beyond her Bronx-Queens stronghold, pumping millions into turbocharging her social media empire, and compiling a massive database of potential backers and donors. This isn't casual networking, it's calculated empire-building, with AOC's team dissecting every angle of a presidential primary blitz or a Senate challenge, potentially targeting vulnerable incumbents like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.).                                "No official call yet, but the tea leaves are clear: AOC has morphed from a 2018 upset victor – ousting a Democratic establishment dinosaur – into one of the party's most electrifying and divisive figures. Her Green New Deal zealotry, unapologetic socialism, and viral takedowns of corporate titans have amassed a cult-like following among young progressives, while drawing fire from moderates and Republicans who brand her policies as economically reckless and out-of-touch. Critics warn her ascent could splinter Democrats further, handing Republicans easy ammo in a post-Trump era where economic populism clashes with woke agendas." . . .

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EntertainmentJUST IN: Dems’ Kimmel Narrative Crumbles As Real Reasons For His Suspension Emerge; September 19, 2025

Trending Politics  

"The outlet reported that Kimmel had plans to address the controversy on his next episode, but his team had run out of time to do a live taping. By then, roughly 66 of the 200 stations where Kimmel would have been broadcast were promised to be offline."

"Hothead Jimmy Kimmel felt he had nothing to apologize for, he told ABC and Disney executives as his media blackout and boycott grew from a rolling snowball into an avalanche.

"Kimmel had just finished mocking MAGA Republicans on his Tuesday night episode when alarm bells went off inside ABC studios. By injecting himself directly into the finger-pointing game between defenders and detractors of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel had put ABC and Disney in the crosshairs of the culture war, they feared.

"Discussions between network executives and Kimmel had not yet reached the desk of Disney CEO Bob Iger, but they were close. Those familiar with the talks say Kimmel was presented with an ultimatum: Apologize for suggesting Tyler Robinson, Kirk’s suspected killer, was a Trump supporter, or face the consequences, which were not yet known to either side.

“ 'We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during the monologue.

"A “social media s**tstorm” quickly followed, an insider said, but then subsided.

"Participants had just enough time to take a breath before Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, fanned the flames in an interview where he suggested ABC could lose its broadcasting license for airing one-sided political commentary.

"That’s when the storm “became a bigger swirl,” the source told the Hollywood Reporter." . . .

Grifters Desecrating Charlie Kirk’s Memory Could Implode MAGA

"Fringe opportunists on the Right are trying to twist Charlie Kirk’s murder to further their own antisemitic ends."

The American Spectator  

"The body of my friend Charlie Kirk, who was tragically assassinated last week during a campus event in Utah by a leftist transgender-adjacent “furry” fetishist   , had barely returned home to Arizona before some grifters on the ostensible “right” started trying to capitalize on his memory."

Jewish Student Asks Charlie Kirk About Candace Owens, This Was His Response!

. . . "Disgraced podcaster Candace Owens, never one to miss any opportunity to slander Jewish people, took precious time away from her Brigitte Macron legal defense to suggest that Jewish people or the Jewish state of Israel were somehow involved in Kirk’s assassination. To hear Owens tell it: Kirk, a lifelong vocal supporter of the Jewish people and the Jewish state, was souring on Israel and was getting close to publicly adopting a hostile stance. Oh, and what’s more — per Owens, Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge funder and proud Zionist, staged an “intervention” with Kirk during a retreat last month in the Hamptons, where Ackman pressured Kirk to “get in line” on the Israel issue. Notably, numerous high-profile cable news has-beens have legitimized Owens’ outrageous laundering of a left-wing political assassination into an antisemitic caper.

"Where to begin?

"I spoke with Kirk less than 24 hours before his untimely death. The night before, a right-wing rabbi friend and I held a Zoom call with Kirk and a few others. During this call, Kirk, an unapologetic Christian Zionist who was greatly distressed by rising antisemitism in some pockets of the Right, asked us a series of Israel-related questions that he anticipated receiving on his upcoming campus tour. We answered those questions and provided messaging advice for how to best communicate and win over students. At one point, Kirk joked to me that he would simply direct students toward my book, Israel and Civilization, when Israel came up on tour. It beggars belief that someone on the verge of renouncing Israel would organize this call just before embarking on a campus tour." . . .

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on.”

 "Suffice to say that the left needs to stop lying about its recent politically motivated violence against conservatives." Issues & Insights

Rich Terrell

Charlie Kirk resolution vote puts House Democrats in the spotlight

 . . . "A Democratic member confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Democratic leadership told the conference they planned to support the resolution. A bipartisan debate took place Thursday afternoon, setting up a vote on the resolution Friday when the House is also expected to vote on a short-term spending bill to fund the government through Nov. 20." . . .

Lies, Damned Lies, And Leftist Media Lies About An Assassin

Toon added by TD

. . . "A relative said the following: “He hates conservatives and Christians,” the relative said. “He hated us. He was not raised that way, but he, over the years, has become really detached (and) been radicalized.”

"There are, in fact, no indications whatsoever that Robinson was, as popular leftist substack writer Heather Cox Richardson (hat tip: Dylan on X) falsely described him: “a young white man from a Republican, gun-enthusiast family, who appears to have embraced the far right, disliking Kirk for being insufficiently radical.”

"Any evidence of this? Of course not. There is zero evidence. But that didn’t stop her from getting an immediate 7,000 likes for her post." . . .

Issues & Insights is run by seasoned journalists who were behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning IBD Editorials page (before it was summarily shut down). Our goal then and now is to bring our decades of combined journalism experience to help readers understand the top issues of the day. I&I is a completely independent operation, beholden to none, but committed to providing cogent, rational, data-driven, fact-based commentary that the nation so desperately needs. 

Blame Social Media, Guns, Vacuums — Anything but Transgenders

 Ann Coulter  

Obviously, ideas like this can only survive in a sensory deprivation chamber, stripped of dissenting voices — no conservative guests, no op-eds by Sen. Tom Cotton, no conservative college speakers, no unapproved economists who’ve calculated the transgenders per capita rate of mass shootings. 

"The biggest development coming out of Charlie Kirk’s murder last week is that the gun isn’t to blame. This time, “social media” did it.

"On Sunday, The New York Times published an idiotic op-ed to that effect by Nathan Taylor Pemberton, who “writes about extremism and American politics,” and whose last article for The Nation magazine was presciently titled: “Why the Right Fantasizes About Death and Destruction.” So we know he’s a fair broker.

"Long after it had been established that Kirk’s shooter, Tyler Robinson, was in a romantic relationship with a transgender, Pemberton proclaimed: “The only thing that can be said conclusively about Mr. Robinson, at this moment, is that he was a chronically online, white American male.”

"Really? Was that the only thing that stuck out about the accused shooter?

"If Pemberton’s right, we can narrow down future assassins to the 99% of the population that’s online — with the exception of people over 65, only a paltry 90% of whom are online, according to Pew Research.

"I don’t know how the FBI’s profiling unit missed this.

"On further thought, the usefulness of “chronically online” as a red flag is severely hampered by the fact that it encompasses the entire f-ing population. Most Americans spend more than 10 hours a day online, according to a recent survey. The only less helpful characterization would have been “mammal.”

"Is there something — anything else — that stands out about a murderer who was living with his transgender partner?

"Transgenders are, at most, 1% of the population. That’s about the same as the percentage of Americans who are deaf, missing a limb, have eyes of two different colors or support Stacey Abrams for any elected office.

"Here are some of the most notorious recent public murders. Would it be at all odd if each of these had been committed by a deaf person?". . . 

Kamala Throws Tim Walz Under the Bus.

 PJ Media

"Kamala Harris has finally confirmed what many already suspected: Tim Walz was never her first choice as a running mate. According to an excerpt from her new book 107 Days, Kamala openly admits that Pete Buttigieg was originally at the top of her list. She ultimately decided against him, however, not because of his disastrous tenure in the Biden administration or his qualifications, but because she feared that the country couldn’t handle the combination of a black woman and a gay man on the same ticket.

"In her words, “Buttigieg would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man.” That’s about as blunt as it gets, and it leaves Walz looking like the political equivalent of being picked last in gym.

"It’s not a good look for Kamala or for Walz. For anyone who thought Walz was chosen for his leadership or his accomplishments, Kamala has now erased that illusion with one chapter.

He wasn’t chosen because he was the best candidate, but because he was seen as the safest bet — a bland, middle-of-the-road option who wouldn’t bring “extra baggage” to the ticket. Which is hilarious because ultimately, he did bring baggage to the campaign. Between his stolen valor, his draconian COVID policies, and his affinity for putting tampons in boys' restrooms, the “safe” Tim Walz ended up being as much of a liability as a running mate possibly could be.

"Still, it’s a humiliating admission. Imagine being introduced as vice presidential material, only to discover later that you were basically a last-resort fallback. That’s essentially what Kamala is telling the country.

"Harris’s treatment of Walz is particularly striking because many had already speculated that he wasn’t her top choice. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was long rumored to be on her shortlist, but that was a major no-no because the Democratic Party has become increasingly antisemitic. Reports also suggested that other Democrats she approached simply turned her down. It was hardly a sign of strength going into 2024; it was more like desperation dressed up as strategy. Now, instead of doubling down on choosing Walz, Harris essentially threw him under the bus." . . .

Dems Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder Spark Historic Party-Switching Wave to GOP

And stop calling the killer a "shooter". He is and will forever be the "murderer". TD

 PJ Media

  Kirk's murder was meant to silence conservative voices through intimidation and violence. Instead, it's created a political martyrdom that's energizing the right while exposing the left's tolerance for political violence when it serves their purposes.

"The assassination of Charlie Kirk has become a defining moment in American politics, and not just because of the tragedy itself. When Tyler Robinson gunned down Kirk last week at Utah Valley University, he didn’t just take a life; he exposed a shocking reality: Some on the left celebrated the attack. That reaction has now triggered what’s being called the “Charlie Kirk effect,” a historic wave of Democrats abandoning their party and joining the GOP.

"The numbers tell the story better than any pundit could. According to a report from The New York Post, across states like Florida and New Mexico, voter registration offices are reporting unprecedented surges in people switching from Democrat to Republican. These are Americans who watched the left's reaction to Kirk's murder and decided they'd seen enough.

“ 'I’m switching parties to protest. I understand that the right also has certain character flaws, but it doesn’t culminate in sympathy for political violence,” said Sheilfer Zepeda, a 31-year-old avocado farmer and software entrepreneur from California, reacting to Democrats celebrating the assassination. “Attempted assassinations of presidential candidates, public executions of healthcare CEOs and political influencers seems to be in line with what leftists want.”

"Zepeda further analyzed his old party. “After all, in revolutionary socialist doctrine, political violence is necessary and justified, which is why we see so many people trying to intellectualize these assassinations in the first place. I just simply cannot align with the direction things are going in.”

"Christopher Elton, a restaurant manager from Bucks County, Pa., said Kirk’s death “definitely encouraged” him to register as a Republican last week.

“ 'There’s more peace on the right compared to the left. And I’m almost embarrassed for voting left in my life,” he said. “I was always more of a policy voter than party affiliated. I slowly moved toward faith and religion and Jesus, and learned a lot through Charlie Kirk. He wasn’t argumentative. He brought you facts. If he was wrong, he’d be the first one to say it.” . . .