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- Leavitt Says Iran’s ‘Inability to Send a Unified’ Message Is Proof of Succ...
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum spoke to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday and asked about the latest in the ongoing negotiations between President Donald Trump and Iran. Earlier in the week, Trump announced a ceasefire extension based on Iran’s “seriously fractured” government’s inability to swiftly respond to his demands. MacCallum began the interview by noting he spoke “on the phone with President Trump — about 90 minutes ago.” “He said then that there is no time pressure on this ceasefire extension, that the three-to-five-day window that has been reported is, quote, ‘not true.’ He says he’s not in a rush and that he wants the best deal. He added that the U.S. military blockade, quote, ‘scares the Iranians more than the bombing’, and also said that he personally asked Iran not to execute eight women who were scheduled for hanging and who were charged with protesting in January.” “Two of these women are 16 years old, according to reports on them. He shared this image on social media yesterday. He says that Iran listened to that request, and he called that a good sign and a good move on their part. Iran reportedly denies that these women were going to be executed,” MacCallum continued. Iran’s judiciary denied on Tuesday that the women Trump claims Iran is no longer set to execute were ever facing execution. “White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt joins me now. Karoline, great to have you with us. Welcome. This afternoon, I’m curious if this signals that these human rights issues — the hangings and the executions — will be part of a deal that is discussed when they do return to negotiations in the coming days or weeks, or however long it takes?” MacCallum then asked Leavitt. Leavitt replied, “Well, first of all, Martha, only President Trump could save the lives of these eight beautiful Iranian women. He has received direct word from the Iranian regime — or what’s left of it — that their lives are going to be spared.” “And that comes as a result of President Trump asking them directly not to kill these young, beautiful women, who certainly deserve a chance to continue living their lives freely and peacefully. And now that will happen, thanks to President Trump, because he’s a humanitarian at heart. I understand this news story about the scheduled execution of these women came… [TheTopNews] Read More.14 hours ago - ‘Victimhood and Despair’: Jeremy Boreing Unmasks Tucker Carlson and Candace ...J Jeremy Boreing, the Daily Wire co-founder and eponymous host of The Jeremy Boreing Show, accused Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens of selling Americans “a worldview of victimhood despair” in a merciless new takedown. Boreing devoted the entirety of a 35-minute episode of his show to the project, beginning with a retelling of his momentary flirtation with a 9/11 conspiracy theory. “And for one fleeting moment, I believed it. Something shifted in my chest. It felt like waking up. It felt like scales falling from my eyes. It felt I was finally seeing the truth that had been hidden from me. And the feeling was, I’ll be honest with you, exhilarating. And then a small voice, maybe my conscience, maybe common sense, maybe the Holy Spirit, told me to hit mute,” he recalled before walking his audience through the various rhetorical techniques employed by Carlson and Owens. Boreing wrapped by urging his audience to reject the pair’s product: Powerful voices online and in the podcast world sold you a worldview of victimhood and despair. They pointed you toward what they wanted you to see, and they told you what you were seeing before you saw it. That entire process is what you might call epistemic manipulation — not just influencing what you think, but controlling how you decide what’s true in the first place. When someone promises you secret knowledge, what they’re actually offering almost always is slavery. Interested parties — some malicious, some well-meaning but fully captured — all operating through the exact mechanisms we’ve been describing here, put specific images in front of you. They told you what those images meant, they told that obviously everyone could see it, that the whole world was turning, that the only ones who couldn’t see it were the ones being paid not to. And they rewarded you with community and attention, dopamine, that exhilarating waking up feeling every time you agreed with them. The current wave of anti-Israel sentiment and the anti-Semitism bleeding out from its edges is a social contagion. It has the same shape as every social contagion we’ve described. It has same fingerprints, the same feeling of urgent, inarguable, obvious truth, the same mechanism that makes questioning it feel like proof that you’re one of the compromised ones. Real debates don’t work that way. And of course, there are real debates to be had about Israeli policy. They’re worth… [TheTopNews] Read More.14 hours ago
- Karoline Leavitt Says Media is Blowing ‘Out of Proportion’ Iranian Ship Atta...White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed the mainstream media for blowing reports on Iran seizing cargo ships “out of proportion” on Wednesday, hours after Iran attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The press secretary was asked about it during an interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum. MacCallum said: I want to ask you about the ships that Iran seized. We’re continuing to get reporting on this. Does the seizure of two ships — as we said they were Greek and mediterranean-owned ships with cargo on them — and the reports are that Iran basically seized them and then moved them into Iranian waters. We don’t know what’s going to happen to these crews. We’re not sure where all of this is going. Does the president view that as a violation of the cease fire? Leavitt said President Donald Trump does not view it as a violation of the ceasefire deal he has with Iran because they were international ships. “These were not U.S. Ships, these were not Israeli ships,” Leavitt said. She then ripped the press for jumping on the story. “For the American media, who is sort of blowing this out of proportion to discredit the president’s facts that he has completely obliterated Iran’s conventional Navy,” Leavitt said. “These two boats were taken by speedy gunboats. Iran has gone from having the most lethal navy in the Middle East to now acting like a bunch of pirates.” She continued, “They don’t have control over the strait. This is piracy that we are seeing on display. And the naval blockade that the United States has imposed continues to be incredibly effective.” Leavitt added that while military fighting during Operation Epic Fury is on pause, “Operation Economic Fury” remains in effect. The naval blockade of the strait is “choking their economy,” Leavitt said. Her appearance came shortly after the Wall Street Journal and a number of other outlets — including Fox News — reported Iranian vessels had attacked three ships and commandeered two of them. Trump has reportedly added 3-5 days to the ceasefire deal that was set to expire on Wednesday. Leavitt said the Trump administration is waiting to hear back from the Iranians, but their leadership is in such disarray that they are having a hard time coming up with a “unified response.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Karoline Leavitt Says Media… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago
- Warnock Goes Off On RFK Jr For CDC Cuts: ‘You’re Dangerous’ And ‘Ought t...Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) went off on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a Senate hearing on Wednesday about cuts to America’s public health and disease prevention infrastructure. Warnock hammered Kennedy over cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, specifically in areas dealing with rabies and other viral diseases passed to humans from animals. “Staff at the CDC rabies division in Atlanta, Georgia, have historically been able to field emergency calls 24/7 from providers about complex rabies cases using CDC expertise to determine appropriate care, Secretary Kennedy, since you and President Trump took office, do you know how many people are left to staff this 24/7 line?” Warnock questioned. Kennedy replied he was unaware of the number, to which Warnock shot back, only one. “The incredible folks at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia — they protect us every day from the threats that we don’t see. And they don’t get much credit for it, because of the stuff that does not happen. And it’s okay for the general public not to wake up thinking about that. But we expect you to keep Americans alive,” Warnock fumed as he wound down his questioning, adding: And the cutting that we’re seeing — these draconian cuts — for an agency that you said you wanted to restore to be the leader in infectious disease, yet you’re cutting the coverage of infectious disease. Personally, sir, even as you seem distracted while I talk to you about deadly diseases, I think you’re dangerous to the American public, and you ought to be fired. And if you’re not fired, you ought to have the decency to resign. You’re way in over your head. During his first term, Trump infamously ended the $200 million USAID program set up during the second Bush administration to monitor global virus outbreaks. The project, named Predict, was created following the 2005 “bird flu” outbreak and was set up as an early-detection system for a global pandemic – working with epidemiologists across the globe, including in China. The Trump administration ended the program in September 2019, just months before the Covid-19 epidemic began. Watch the clip above.The post Warnock Goes Off On RFK Jr For CDC Cuts: ‘You’re Dangerous’ And ‘Ought to be Fired’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.15 hours ago
- ‘Correct That’: Joy Behar Tells Producer To Fix ‘Problem’ with The Viewâ...The View co-host Joy Behar told the show’s producer he may need to “correct” a “problem” with some studio audiences who don’t laugh as much at Behar’s jokes. Behar joined View producer Brian Teta on Tuesday on the Behind the Table podcast. At the tail end of the conversation, Behar and Teta discussed how great that day’s audience had been and how some, by comparison, don’t laugh as much at Behar’s material. During a discussion about getting laughs on the show, Behar said, “I can only be as funny as the audience allows me to be.” She noted that day’s guests, Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer, brought a great audience with them and they were laughing at “everything” she threw out during the show. “I think their audience likes The View. Sometimes I think maybe there’s a different audience that comes for a guest if it’s somebody whose just from a different world than our show is then sometimes the energy’s a little bit different,” Teta said. Behar, a longtime comedian, asked if he meant politically, but Teta argued the bigger problem is guests promoting things like comic book movies. “Not even politically, but if it’s someone for let’s say a comic book movie and everyone’s here because they love the guy playing the new superhero, and then they’re sitting there, they’ve never seen our show before, and they’re waiting for this guy to come out for the whole thing,” the producer said. “Oh, yeah. That’s a problem,” Behar agreed, adding, “You need to correct that.” Teta added that there is a loyal View audience that packs the studio audience, but when he said he was recognized out and about, Behar took a light-hearted swing at her producer. “I got recognized on the subway this morning,” Teta said. “Oh, really? By your wife?” Behar joked. Check out the full exchange below: BRIAN TETA: Does it feel like standup when you’re getting a big laugh here? JOY BEHAR: No. TETA: Just different? BEHAR: Well, it’s nice. It’s good to get a big laugh. Today’s audience was great. I can only be as funny as the audience allows me to be and this audience really was a good audience so I was getting a lot of laughs. TETA: Yeah, you said that on the break. You said it felt a little cheap [because] they were laughing so hard at… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago
- WATCH: Bill Clinton Crashes Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones’ Pre-Draft Press ... Talk about an unexpected blitz. Former President Bill Clinton crashed a press conference Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and other members of the organization were hosting the day before the NFL draft on Wednesday, with Jones scurrying from his seat to go stand next to the president when he entered. “I’m negotiating the draft,” Clinton quipped to the room full of reporters, about 40 minutes into the press conference. He was flanked by several people behind him. Jones had told reporters a moment before Clinton arrived that the ex-commander-in-chief was in the building, and The Dallas Morning-News reporter Joe Hoyt stopped his question mid-sentence when he spotted the president and realized Jones was not joking. “Oh!” Hoyt let out, which was captured on camera. Meanwhile, Jones leapt from his chair and went to greet Clinton. It sounded like he almost tripped on a chair while walking over, but the camera only caught audio of the near-spill. Jones then started to sing Clinton’s praises. “Let me tell you something, this guy was recently named the second-most [successful] American to have started with very little and to have accomplished a lot. Look at it, it’s in Forbes,” Jones told the assembled press. He was likely referring to the Forbes story that ran earlier this month, listing Clinton as one of the 10 most successful self-made people in America. The list also included Dolly Parton, Oprah Winfrey, and Vice President JD Vance. Jones continued by saying Clinton was a “wonderful” president and has been a good friend for years. “Thank you, I’m glad to see ya. Have a good draft day,” Clinton responded. Jones then explained the sports reporters were like his “cousins,” and that he sometimes just wished they’d be a little “sweeter” since they’re all in the same line of work. “They got a lot of good questions for ya, right?” Clinton said. “You can dream that someday of having a press conference and nobody will come and [they] won’t ask questions, because everything is perfect.” That got some laughs from the room. Dallas is reportedly targeting Ohio State Safety Caleb Downs with the 12th pick in the first round of the draft, which is happening on Thursday night. At 6’2, Clinton has the size to be a decent safety, but his foot speed at the age of 79 might be an issue. Watch above via YouTube.The post WATCH: Bill Clinton… [TheTopNews] Read More.16 hours ago
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