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Elon Musk Just Exploded One of the Left’s Favorite Smear Tactics With Some Common Sense

Elon Musk has just dared to shine the light of truth and accuracy upon one of the left’s favorite weapons of propaganda and manipulation.

Whenever mainstream media “journalists” want to make people dislike someone and reject whatever their victim may stand for, they start calling the person they want to destroy “far right.” The idea is to associate the victim with Hitler and fascism without saying anything that could end up being legally actionable, and the leftists have not hesitated to use the label for anyone and anything they don’t like, no matter how far from anything genuinely “far right” their target may be.

One notorious example is the media’s use of “far right” to try to defame everyone who dares to oppose its favorite religion, Islam, and to speak out against jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. And so the late Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, who was a gay activist with leftist positions on everything except his refusal to accept the Islamization of the Netherlands and Europe, was “far right.” So is his political heir in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, whose party’s program aligns with the left on almost everything except its opposition to mass Muslim migration into Europe, and so he, too, is “far right.”

I myself believe in free speech, free enterprise, and free society, and reject racism, fascism, and the like, but when I started writing books about how Islamic jihad is a historic and present-day threat, I, too, became “far right,” and was placed on the blacklists of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, and defamed and deplatformed accordingly.

The whole thing has gotten so absurd that in a December 2024 article published in the aftermath of an Islamic jihad attack upon a Christmas market in Germany, the Daily Mail warned: “This Christmas market carnage will make a dangerous situation even uglier – and the Far Right will grow even stronger.” Yeah, that’s the biggest takeaway from a jihad attack that killed six people and injured over 300 others: the “far right” may take advantage.

The idea that anyone at all would have been worrying about the “far right” at that moment demonstrated how avid the establishment media is to divert attention away from Islamic jihad violence. If that required warning about a nonexistent threat and once again smearing people who were simply trying to stand against the prevailing madness, so be it.

Now, however, Elon Musk has had enough. The Hill reported Friday that in a recent interview, The Economist’s Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes claimed that Musk “supports not just the populist right, but the far right — in fact, very fringe parties in some countries.”

Musk took issue with this characterization, saying: “No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely. Literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years and these policies were completely normal.”

That was perfectly true, but Beddoes is a leftist, and so she took issue with it. She granted that “the center of gravity in this country has shifted, certainly the Democratic Party shifted to the left,” but then continued, “but that’s not what I’m talking about.” Then, says The Hill, “she said she was discussing figures such as Rupert Lowe, a member of the United Kingdom Parliament who leads the far right political party Restore Britain.”

Lowe wants to stop the mass migration into Britain that threatens to make the native people of the island into a minority in their own homeland before the end of this century. And so Musk responded: “It’s just normal people. Here are the principles, and tell me, which of these sound terrible. That we should have secure borders? That we should have safe cities? That we should have sensible spending? Which of those three are far right fringe?”

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Journalists Who Have Spent Years Comparing Trump to Hitler, Complain That His WHCD Jokes Were Mean Spirited

Members of the American media, who have spent years calling Trump an authoritarian and have even repeatedly compared him to Hitler, are now complaining that the jokes he told at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner were too mean.

Remember, these same people also regularly accuse Trump of being thin-skinned for not wanting to be compared to a fascist dictator. But they break down at the slightest pushback.

They take themselves so seriously and are completely incapable of taking any criticism while they hurl insults 24/7.

Brian Stelter of CNN writes:

President Donald Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Friday night. He knew he was bombing, too, and he even tried to meta-joke his way out of it.

But no. Even the president’s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.

Members of the media mocking a leader’s dismal performance on live TV and all across the internet? In some other countries, that’s a criminal offense. But in the US, it’s the norm, so maybe Trump’s speech unwittingly underscored the theme of the dinner: America’s robust First Amendment protections.

In a rambling hour-long speech, Trump insulted journalists by name, repurposed old nicknames for political opponents, made a strange number of fat jokes that weren’t funny at all, and sounded mad at his unnamed writers for giving him weak material to work with.

The Associated Press called it an ‘insult-filled’ speech.

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CNN Host Admits He Was Wrong to Claim Illegal Immigrant Voting Never Happens, Following Discovery of Voter Fraud in New Jersey

Michael Smerconish of CNN, who is billed as a conservative commentator, said that he was wrong to dismiss the idea of illegal immigrants voting during a recent conversation with journalist Mark Halperin.

Their discussion was focused on the discovery of thousands of illegal immigrants who were registered to vote in the state of New Jersey.

It’s amazing that the New Jersey story broke just a few days after Trump gave a national address about election integrity in which he alleged that this exact thing is happening in multiple states.

FOX News reports:

CNN and SiriusXM host Michael Smerconish acknowledged Wednesday on “The Michael Smerconish Program” that he could no longer claim noncitizen voting never occurred after New Jersey disclosed that a software error improperly registered roughly 6,600 noncitizens and fewer than 400 cast ballots.

“I can’t say that any longer,” Smerconish said. “I don’t know how often it does happen, but I can’t say any longer, ‘This never happens.’”

Smerconish said he had previously reached the opposite conclusion after discussing a January New York Times analysis titled “Initial Review Finds No Widespread Illegal Voting by Migrants, Puncturing a Trump Claim.” The analysis found no evidence of widespread fraud but noted that noncitizens sometimes appeared on voter rolls…

Political analyst Mark Halperin agreed that the disclosure undercut categorical claims about noncitizen voting while cautioning that more information was needed before conclusions could be reached about its scale.

“Based on what we now know, the thing that Democrats said doesn’t happen happened,” Halperin said. “And it’s not right to take the word of the Democratic governor of New Jersey about what actually happened.”

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MSNOW Suggests Trump Will Try to Steal the 2026 Midterms – Then Completely Dismisses Massive Voter Fraud Uncovered in New Jersey

During a recent broadcast, MSNOW pushed the Democrat narrative that Trump is going to try to steal the 2026 midterms, and explained that Senate Democrats are taking the threat so seriously that they’re actually wargaming various scenarios over it.

Minutes later, the same host talks to another guest and the two of them completely dismiss the very real voter fraud that was recently uncovered in New Jersey, where it was discovered that as many as 4,000 illegal immigrants were registered to vote and that hundreds of them had voted.

This is an example of something that could only happen on MSNOW.

NewsBusters has details:

The segment opened with correspondent Ali Vitali interviewing House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on his “doomsday plans” for if Trump made a move against free elections. Vitali summarized Schumer’s concerns:

Schumer feels there is enough information to go off of from the president’s own statements, not just in recent weeks, but in recent years, casting doubt on elections that Republicans lose. To Schumer’s mind, it says that Democrats have not just an edge going into the midterms, but that they need to be able to have some reflexes to draw upon if there are attempts to sow disinformation or send federal troops to polling places. Those are just some of the fears that he has.

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Slate: 3rd Circuit Ruling Gives SCOTUS ‘Cover’ to Find Constitutional Protection for AR-15s

Slate lamented in a column on July 24 the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit striking down New Jersey’s “assault weapons” ban and claimed it gives SCOTUS “cover” to strike down such bans more broadly.

Breitbart News reported that the Third Circuit’s ruling was handed down on July 17, 2026. In that ruling, the majority made clear that the state’s ban failed to survive the Bruen (2022) test, which is a two-tiered test examining the historicity and tradition of firearms and firearms regulation in America.

The majority opinion for the 3rd Circuit decision was written by Judge Ariana Freeman, a Biden appointee. This fact was not lost on Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, as the astounded duo noted that Freeman is a “progressive appointee” who ruled that the millions of AR-15s in circulation prove they are in “common use for self-defense” and therefore protected by the Second Amendment.

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UK’s National Crime Agency Launches Investigation Into Itself over Leaked Financials of Farage’s Reform Party

Britain’s equivalent of the FBI has launched an investigation into itself after financial details of members of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party were leaked to the press.

Following accusations of illegally leaking banking information relating to Reform UK, including transactions involving deputy leader Richard Tice, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Friday that it has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) for investigation, The Telegraph reported.

Earlier this month, a report from the Sunday Times accused Reform leader Nigel Farage of having failed to publicly declare financial support from longtime ally George Cottrell in the year leading up to the 2024 snap election, during which Mr Farage was mostly retired from frontline politics. While the party has denied that Farge broke any rules, questions have been raised, given Cottrell’s previous conviction for wire fraud in the United States and the alleged failure of Reform to declare the donations to the parliament.

Additionally, The Guardian revealed that Cottrell had also provided a brief loan of £80,000 to TisunInvestments, the real estate firm owned by Reform MP Richard Tice. Cottrell’s mother was also revealed to have donated £1 million to Tice’s think tank Britain Means Business, of which half was donated to Reform by Tice.

The transactions were reported flagged to the NCA under its suspicious activity report (SAR) scheme, which requires banks to flag large transactions.

However, Mr Tice said he was only made aware that the transactions had been flagged after he was approached by journalists from The Guardian, who also knew of other transactions from different bank accounts. He claims they would have been able to access such information only through leaks from the National Crime Agency.

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Alyssa Farah Griffin Shames ‘The View’ Co-Hosts for Initial Support of Graham Platner

Alyssa Farah Griffin shamed her “The View” co-hosts over their initial support of far-left Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Platner was forced out of the Maine Senate race after he won over 70% of the vote in the state’s Democratic primary amid new allegations of rape.

During Thursday’s show, Farah Griffin said,“I don’t know that I’m convinced either party puts up the best people. I’m just going to be honest.”

“Like I love you guys, but a lot of you guys defended a guy with the Nazi tattoo who is credibly accused of a number of things.”

Her co-hosts tried to push back with Joy Behar saying, “Don’t look at me. I did not.”

Sunny Hostin jumped in, adding, “I did, but I didn’t know most of the background.”

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Joe Biden Gives Up, Declines to Seek Further Review of Appeals Court Ruling on Release of Audiotapes with Ghostwriter

Joe Biden has given up the fight and declined to seek further review of an appeals court ruling on the release of 70 hours of conversations with his ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday denied former Joe Biden’s emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal that sought to block the Justice Department from releasing redacted transcripts and audio recordings of his private conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.

The 2-1 order, in Heritage Foundation and Mike Howell v. United States Department of Justice, was signed by Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan (Obama appointee) and Judge Gregory Katsas (Trump appointee). Judge Florence Pan (Biden appointee) dissented and would have granted the injunction.

“Today, The Oversight Project obtained a complete and total victory over President Joe Biden’s autopen in his sad, but predictable efforts to withhold the recordings of his interviews with his ghost writer. Biden’s declination to seek further review of the D.C. Circuit’s ruling paves the way for the release of the interview tapes,” the Oversight Project said in a press release on Friday.

“Today’s victory is the latest in a string of Oversight Project wins over the autopen President. The autopen’s efforts to block transparency here were decisively rejected by both the Court of Appeals and the District Court,” they said.

“Last year, we secured the release of the audio recording of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Our work uncovering the prolific and unlawful use of the Biden autopen has revealed the serious threats to our constitutional republic that Democrat leadership poses,” the Oversight Project said.

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TALKING POINTS: Liberal Journos Covering the WHCD Claim Trump Has Destroyed Trust in News Media

Every once in a while, it’s very easy to see that talking points have been sent out. When two or more people in media are pushing the same narrative, it’s obvious.

Tonight is the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner and multiple journos are talking about how Trump – not them – has destroyed trust in media. If these people had an ounce of honesty in them, they would admit that they destroyed their own industry through constant lies, but they can’t do that. They’re simply not capable.

They are also incapable of shame, as you’ll see below.

Up first is CNN’s talking potato, Brian Stelter, who calls himself a media reporter. In this clip, he says “The damage Trump has done, both in his first term and now in his second term, in terms of trust in media, that has been enormous.”

Over on MSNOW, some random journo in this clip says “The president has convinced a great many Americans to not trust reporters and that’s done a lot of damage. A lot of long term damage.” 

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DISTURBING: Kentucky Newspaper Caught Publishing Sinister Threats to President Trump, His Administration, and Supporters

A small local Kentucky paper is going viral after publishing serious direct threats to the lives of President Trump, members of his administration, and his supporters in what is either a lazy oversight or something more sinister.

On Thursday, Libs of TikTok discovered that the The Mountain Eagle, a newspaper in Whitesburg, KY, had published two death threats in the paper’s “Speak Your Piece” section, which allows readers to anonymously sound off on what is on their minds.

One recent comment calls for not only throwing Trump out of office but also executing him and all his fellow “cultists.”

“Get that Nazi p*dophile traitor out of office and take his entire corrupt administration with him,” one reader says. “Put them all 10 feet deep in concrete and Quickline and then start hunting down the rest of the cultists.”

The second death threat comes from yesterday’s “Speak Your Piece.” The reader starts by whining about Trump discussing sending “Gestapo” agents to the polls before calling for the deaths of federal agents.

“Trump is back to talking about posting his Gestapo agents at the polls to intimidate voters,’ the reader writes. “Don’t be intimidated.”

“Instead, give the Nazi freaks reason to fear the people. Whatever their body count reaches on election day,” the reader continues. “Double it if you find them at your polling place.”

“No argument, no discussion, just put them down.”

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