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opinion
Florida Just Showed Us How to Fight Back Against Media Blacklists
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis put his signature on the state’s new budget last week and tucked inside is a provision worth celebrating. State agencies in Florida are now barred, for a second straight year, from hiring advertising firms that use “misinformation” ratings to decide which news outlets deserve ad dollars and which don’t. I’ll be… -
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The Media Eagerly Take the Wrong Side of the Facts on Girls Sports
Journalists love to boast that they are “Facts First” people, that they are the brave souls seeking out “truth.” But when it comes to transgenderism, facts go out the window, and truth is triggering. When the Supreme Court upheld state bans on boys in girls sports, NBC anchor Craig Melvin sounded apologetic in live coverage…. -
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The Left Makes Weird Comments About Usha Vance’s Normal Maternity Clothes
The Left said Vice President JD Vance was weird when he was on the campaign trail. Now it’s obsessed with his wife’s pregnant belly. That’s weird. Usha Vance appeared on the most recent episode of “Storytime with the Second Lady” wearing a slightly off-the-shoulder, fitted coral maternity dress, and the chief fashion critic of The… -
The Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha
One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democratic Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses). Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a transparent Democrat, and so is Vanessa Friedman of The New York… -
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JD Vance: ‘America First’ Warrior
Critics have been howling at Vice President JD Vance lately. The wailing and aspersions flow from predictable quarters, especially the legacy media and the establishment GOP neocons. Why do they protest so vehemently? Because they know, in their bones, that Vance showcases exactly the kind of muscular leadership that is demanded by the patriotic populist movement. Moreover, they recognize, deep… -
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JD Vance Survives the Women of ‘The View’
Fresh off negotiating a peace deal with the mullahs and extremists of Iran, Vice President JD Vance waded into the much more turbulent waters of ABC’s “The View” Tuesday. After receiving warm, respectful applause from most of the audience, Vance endured a hostile interrogation not from the usual four rotating co-hosts of the show, but… -
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Iran Will Fall Within the Year: Amit Segal and Josh Hammer
U.S.-Israeli military and diplomatic pressure will lead the Iranian regime to crumble within the next year, Israeli and Jewish American political commentators told the Daily Signal in Israel. That is, unless “Israel fatigue” undermines the effort. “Iran is losing $450 million [a day] through the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz,” Amit Segal told the… -
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Elite Media Tantrums Over ’60 Minutes’ Changes Demonstrate How Clueless They Are
When America’s media elites deign to allow the hoi polloi a brief glimpse behind the sacred curtain, they come off just as clueless and out of touch as we thought they were. That’s my take on the recent brouhaha over firings at CBS News, which were triggered by staff rebellions over the management of its… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Scott Pelley’s CBS Complaint Backfires
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: OK, let’s go to Scott Pelley. Here’s the headline from the Daily Mail. “Teary-eyed Scott Pelley goes scorched earth on Bari… -
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‘I’ve Had Enough, Thank You Darling’: Trump Walks Out On NBC Interview
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump frequently sparred with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker about multiple topics before cutting the interview short. Trump went to Wisconsin on Friday to discuss farming and his economic agenda, Fox 6 Milwaukee reported. Mirroring the stormy weather outside the farm where the interview took place, Trump and Welker… -
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How The New York Times Buried a Conservative Woman’s Allegation Against a Democrat
If a major Senate candidate abused a past girlfriend, isn’t that newsworthy? If a major Senate candidate knowingly sported a Nazi tattoo, isn’t that newsworthy? If a major Senate candidate, already under fire for his past remarks about rape, talked about raping intruders, isn’t that newsworthy? You’d think so. Yet in an extensive new article… -
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Florida Lawmakers Move to Block State Use of Media Rating Firms
Florida lawmakers once again approved a provision in their budget to prohibit state agencies from contracting with advertising and marketing firms that track media outlets using rating systems. Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the budget into law this month. For the second year in a row, the Legislature opted to include the language in the state budget to combat the use of media blacklists, which often target conservative news outlets. Critics… -
Fox News Dominates Competitors in Latest Ratings
Powered by what surveys show is the most diverse and loyal audience in cable news, Fox News again ended the week of May 18 as the most-watched television news channel, a title it has held almost every week for 24 consecutive years. Fox News was ranked as No. 1 in all daytime cable news viewership… -
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Jill Biden’s Rewrite of Husband’s Health History Exposes Media Lies
Jill Biden really wants you to believe that she just had no idea that President Joe Biden was in steep mental decline until it was revealed in front of the whole world. That laughable notion was the narrative she peddled in an interview on CBS News this Sunday, where she acted as if the infamous final debate… -
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News Aggregators’ Left-Wing Bias Reinforces Political Ignorance
The other day, a young lady got on the elevator and promptly whipped out her smartphone and began scrolling. “Excuse me,” I said, “can I ask you where you get your news?” She said, “You mean like news about what’s going on in the world?” “Yes.” “Oh, TikTok.” This reminded me of a dinner conversation… -
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Victor Davis Hanson Calls Out The New York Times Over Explosive Israel Story
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. There’s been a very strange story that was printed not long ago by the liberal opinion journalist Nicholas Kristof. Now, apparently, he’s been… -
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MS NOW Host SHOCKED That Some Americans Believe They Have God-Given Rights
We may have witnessed the most MS NOW moment of all time. On Monday, MS NOW host Katy Tur moderated a panel in which she discussed recent, supposedly controversial comments by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La. “What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government, they come from… -
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Don Lemon Teases Presidential Run
Former CNN host Don Lemon once again teased a 2028 presidential run during an appearance last week at the Vanity Fair “Truth Tellers” summit in London. “I’m a man of a certain age,” he said when asked about the possibility of running for president. “Why not?” The moderator, journalist Kara Swisher, chuckled, according to Vanity… -
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The Elitist Media Despise Black Conservatives
Black conservatives perennially face the slur that they’re “not really black” if they aren’t on the left. Not only that, they are tools of white racists if they dissent from the NAACP hard line. When the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn a racially gerrymandered congressional district in Louisiana, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, was outraged… -
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Trump Torches Norah O’Donnell’s Sick ‘Manifesto’ Trap on National TV
This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: So, Victor, [President] Donald Trump was actually a lot easier on his Secret Service and the others that were protecting him that…