
Curtis Houck
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Managing Editor @NewsBusters, Proud grad of @Penn_State & @ManheimTownship via Lancaster, PA. Caps, Nats, NASCAR, Bengals, mental health, ✝️. Views = mine
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Karmelo Anthony's mother and father on Thursday's 'CBS Mornings'... "My son didn't intend to hurt anyone. My son was defending himself." "What stuck out to me, number one, was the all-white jury, but I was trying to be, you know, like, all right, it's not that big of a deal. I mean, the truth is on our side."
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‘I’ve Had It’ co-host Angie Sullivan on homeschooling.... “You would not believe how many people in Bible study homeschool their kids, and you just think, ah, I worry about that.” “I just think homeschooling is a bad idea from soup to nuts. I don’t care if you’re a nuclear physicist. I think it’s just fucking weirdest as fuck that you want your kids around you all day, every day, and all night” “So, I don’t trust somebody that wants to be with their kids 24/7. I think a lot of dumb people do it because it’s just easier, and that’s a concern” “I just can’t think of very many good things about homeschooling.”
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WATCH: Kayleigh McEnany goes nuclear on Utah Judge Tony Graff delaying his decision on whether Tyler Robinson goes to trial in Charlie Kirk's murder until September... "This is mind-blowing. Judge Tony Graff yesterday cited Article I, Section 28 of the Utah Constitution and that allows Erika Kirk and family to be treated with respect, with dignity, to be free from harassment, to be informed, and present at the trial. But I would love for him to cite Utah code 773872. You know what that gives Erika Kirk and her family? "The right to a speedy disposition of the charges, free from unwarranted delay caused by or at the behest of the defendant." Where's Judge Tony Graff's affinity for that statue? Because you are not giving that to Erika Kirk. You are not giving that to that family. Yes, the defendant has Sixth Amendment rights to a speedy trial -- a litany of other rights." "But the fact that this is not going to be decided until September, there's no decision on probable cause? Probable cause is such a low bar. To your point, ballistic evidence, DNA evidence, there's a texted conviction, there's that roommate saying he confessed, there's a litany of evidence, and she doesn't get a probable cause decision until September, nearly a year after Charlie was killed? You can't make a decision on the pleat of Tyler Robinson? We're not even going to get his plea until a year when Charlie Kirk was assassinated? We're not going to know if this goes to trial into until a year from when Charlie was assassinated?" "This is inexcusable. I am angry about it. On average in this country, a defendant enters a plea 24 to 48 hours after an arrest. Tyler Robinson has been arrested for nearly a year, and the fact that we would not know this until a year, Utah might as well rip up your statute about the speedy disposition for the victim, because Erik Kirk is being denied that, and I am quite angry about it."
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INSANE: NBC’s Craig Melvin offers a trigger warning for trans people watching... “Just a quick note here. The terms that we’re using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent. But just so you know, we’re using those terms from the decision itself, biological male, biological female.”
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WATCH: New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor – who wrote many of the #MeToo stories – DEFENDS Graham Platner and DISMISSES the allegations against him by Lyndsey Fifield and other ex-girlfriends because they were not “abuse” and women saying they just “did not like what” they saw from him... “Well, let’s talk about what they may or may not be willing to overlook the accusations against Graham Platner are not classic MeToo accusations. They’re not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances. They’re — they were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships. There are these, like, very sensational texts about sex. There are allegations from former girlfriends that are not — the way my colleagues reported them were not like classic abuse allegations. They were mostly like being his boyfriend gave me a view into him and I did not like what I saw. His character was scary. He had this Nazi tattoo. Et cetera.” “There was one allegation of crossing a line physically, but I think that means that these are pretty different accusations than, say, the one that — the ones that President Trump faced. And, of course, in the Access Hollywood tape, President Trump bragged about grabbing women against their will. And so I think it speaks to the kind of confusion of the long post MeToo moment in which, like, gender related accusations get bundled together. But they’re actually very different.”
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BOOM: Jason Rantz on Seattle Red calls out Brian Tyler Cohen and Geoff Duncan for implying Donald Trump was a co-conspirator in Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes... "What crime did Trump commit as it relates directly to Epstein? Because you're mentioning that he's in the files with the implication, of course, that a crime was committed. And yet, for four years under the previous President, they didn't charge him with anything because there's actually no evidence to suggest that he committed." "A position you only magically started to take in the last two years, not one during the Biden administration." "Who should be charged next? Who should be charged next? Who should be charged next?" "You're only interested in the files because you know you can use this to go after the President." "Because you didn't care about this for four years for a reason!" "Of the files that have been released so far, who should be charged? Based on -- anyone yet? I'm just -- I'm asking that question" "[H]ave you seen any evidence of a crime yet? Or, is the argument that, well, we haven't seen all the files, so we -- the additional files might have some crime done?" "So, I guess my main point here is that -- but is your -- but is your argument that Merrick Garland and his DOJ -- they saw evidence and chose not to pursue?"
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NYT columnist Charles Blow DEFENDS Graham Platner staying in the race after the Politico story alleging sexual assault, arguing the GOP has stuck behind Kavanaugh despite Blasey Ford’s “compelling testimony” that “she was raped”.... “Well, the first thing I always want to say in situations like this is that sounds horrible and we deserve to hear her more of her case if she wants to pursue other actions,. I think she should be encouraged to do that, and we should wait to hear more of her case. But the second thing I want to say is that we continue to have a situation where Democrats and Republicans are playing by a completely separate, separate rulebooks. The idea that this would push him out of the race, maybe that's the right thing to do. But, you know, Donald Trump was found liable of sexually abusing a woman, and then eight months later, a separate jury found him guilty of liable for defamation of her, and then ten months after that, he was still elected. Christine Blasey Ford gave, I thought, compelling testimony against Brett Kavanaugh about what she said — she was raped. He was still confirmed by Republicans in the Senate. We are just on two different ball fields when it comes to cases like this, situations like this in politics.”
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Reporter: “As of today, there have been eight U.S. military fatalities associated —” Trump: “Right.” Reporter: “— with the war in Iran. How many American deaths are you willing to have in this war?” Trump: “Well, as I said before, when you have conflicts like this, you always have death. And I was at Dover yesterday. I met the parents and they were unbelievable people. They were unbelievable people, but they all had one thing in common. They said to me one thing, every single one: finish the job. Sir, please finish the job and I’ll leave you at that.”
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ABC's 'Good Morning America' had a full story on Wednesday whining about the "death threats" and "hatred" being hurled at Alyssa Thomas of the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury for beating up Caitlin Clark Yes, Disney-owned ABC News wants you to feel bad for *Thomas* and demand the league do more to protect HER, not Clark
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.Jason Rantz on Seattle Red and Noah Rothman to a former Obama official fear-mongering about the midterms, suggesting Trump could send an armed militia to the polls... "Are you scared to vote? Are you scared?" "Are you scared to vote, you specifically?" "You're scared to vote? No, I'm asking you if you're scared to vote." "We've seen an increase in voter participation, despite the fact that we're being told that all of these things are happening at the ballot box." "There's a whole lot of reasons why people vote, why people don't vote. People don't vote because they're satisfied. Not because they're intimidated. I mean, you don't -- we can't know what every individual motive is, and to make a generalization is just wild speculation." "I'm a Jew who lives in a country that the Democratic Party turned its entire back on us" "If you had armed [police] within a certain range of the polls, you're engaging in unconstitutional practices. A very serious allegation, I hope you pursue them all the way to impeachment because I don't think it's going to happen." "I'm asking you to substantiate a very serious allegation, and you're changing the subject to grand, consummate conditions" "The Department of Justice has recognized this for many years, since the Civil Rights Act, and that's on the books, and if you're alleging a violation of that, I do hope you prosecute it, because that would be very serious. I haven't heard substantiation of that claim."
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CNN's Van Jones was not a fan of Zohran Mamdani's angry, far-left, rage-filled victory speech: "I think he missed an opportunity. I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech. And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight. There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not? Is he going to include me? Is he going -- is he -- is he going to be more of a class warrior even in office? I think he missed a chance tonight to to open up and bring more people into the tent. I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling. And that's not the Mamdani that we've seen on Tiktok and the great interviews and stuff like that." "So, I felt like it was a little bit of a character switch here, where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working people was not on stage tonight. And there were some some other voice on stage. That said, he's very young. And he just pulled off something very, very difficult. And I wouldn't write him off, but I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight. And I think that that will probably cost him going forward."
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CNN's Scott Jennings on Virginia's Democrat gerrymander: "Virginia had -- literally had the fairest maps in the nation. They had a 6-5 map, six Democrats, five Republicans. In terms of proportional representation, they had the fairest map in the nation. That was drawn, by the way, by an independent commission that the voters asked for just a few years ago. Now they will have the least fair maps in the nation. And I'm not surprised that the yes vote won. They had all the money and all the lies. And sometimes in politics, when you got those two things, you can put something over the line, even something as egregious as this. This whole thing has driven Spanberger's approval ratings down into the toilet. She lied to the people of Virginia. They had to write a ballot question that was a joke. They drew maps that were a joke. Now you're going to have huge chunks of rural Virginia represented by 5 or 6 Democrats who all live in Northern Virginia, within about 15 miles of each other. It's a complete joke. Everybody knows it. And there's a reason that all these national Democrats and all their money came into Virginia, because, you know, they don't really care about the people of Virginia. They just care about power."
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WATCH: President Trump again SLAMS CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, reminding everyone she USED TO be a conservative reporter then became a liberal when she joined CNN... Collins: “Just to clarify on what you were asked earlier, is the $1.8 billion DOJ fund dead or is it on hold?” President Trump: ““It’s — I’d have to ask the lawyers, I don’t know. I know one thing: the weaponization.” Collins: “But —” Trump: “Are you talking about the weaponization fund?” Collins: “— yeah. What’s your decision?” Trump: “The weaponization fund, as far as I’m concerned was a beautiful thing. It was something I was — I didn’t make it, but I was — I heard that I thought that was the greatest thing because people like you have abused our people so badly. The fake news like, CNN, like The New York Times and like others, have abused our people.” Collins: “Well, Republicans are [inaudible] to it on Capitol Hill.” Trump: “Well, wait a minute. Be quiet. Have abused our people so badly and you should be ashamed of yourself. You — you used to be a conservative. She was a conservative from Alabama. Can you believe it? But CNN in particular —” Collins: “I’m still from Alabama.” Trump: “CNN does such false reporting, but now they have new ownership, so maybe it’ll straighten it out. I doubt it, but it’s hard to straighten garbage out. But CNN has abused and others have abused so badly — people. these are people that are great. People that would destroy their families, have been destroyed. Many suicides. They committed suicide. People that went there to — with love. They went there with love. You know, when I made that speech earlier in the day, tremendous crowd. I hate to say it because they’ll say, oh, I was wrong on the number, but I believe it’s the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to by — by twice. The biggest crowd, I think bigger than the inauguration’s, bigger than anything. And there was so much love and — and friendship. It was the most amazing thing. People were crying.” Collins: “But Republicans are [inaudible] upset —” Trump: “Wait a minute. Let me finish.” Collins: “— that people who beat up cops —” Trump: “Let me finish. Let me finish. And those people have been abused by you and by others and by the politicians, by the Dumocrats. They’re dumb people. They want to have open borders. They want to have transgender utilization of your children. They want to have men playing in women’s sports. They want to have high taxes. They turn down — you know, they fought us on the tax bill and they fought us because they want people to pay high taxes because they’re crazy. There’s something wrong with them. There’s something wrong with you. It’s a shame.”
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CNN's Scott Jennings on Zohran Mamdani: "I'm going to compliment your guy. He's the greatest actor you have. You know, he turned himself into a hood ornament for the poor and the downtrodden. He's a rich kid who is a great actor. He -- he play acts. He play acts" "I'm just saying there's no other obvious Democrat. He has all the energy behind him. You talk about slicing and dicing the electorate, he's going to slice it and dice it in one way -- oppressors and oppressed. And I want to find out if he has it in him to give it up. I don't think he does, because that's the energy in the Democratic Party. It's oppressors and oppressed. That's why the Jews in this city feel scared because they know he has labeled them as the oppressors. That's why people who create jobs in New York City are leery, because he labels them the oppressors. That is the the worldview of the energy of this campaign. And it's also the worldview of the energy of Democratic primaries across this country."
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ABC’s Aaron Katersky: “Whatever happened in Minneapolis, a mother of three is dead, an American citizen. Do you have a message for her family? DHS Secretary Noem: “Yes, absolutely. And I reiterated this yesterday when I had my press conference in Minneapolis. I asked everybody not to just pray for the officer, but also pray for the deceased's family and her loved ones as well. It was a tragic situation that I hope we never see happen again. That's why I'm encouraging all elected leaders to work together, so that we can be cooperative in getting dangerous criminals off of our streets.”
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Scott Pelley sobs when he argues he’s just like U.S. troops because both go to war to serve the country and might even be more important because “there is no democracy without journalism”… “Don’t care about the country? [CRYING] I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country. Please correct me if I’m wrong. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment. You become a journalist because you love the country. And while all the other descriptions that the President used about me might be applicable, not that one. [CRYING] There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. And that is why I am a journalist.”
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Wow. BRUTAL words for her fellow liberals from Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky on CNN: “I’m going to speak some hard truths...We are not be party of common sense, which is the message the voters sent to us...When we address Latino voters...as Latinx, for instance, b/c that’s the politically correct thing to do, it makes them think we don’t even live in the same planet as they do. When we are too afraid to say that, hey, college kids, if you're trashing the campus of Columbia University b/c you’re unhappy about some sort of policy and you’re taking over a university and you’re trashing it and preventing other students from learning, that is unacceptable. But we’re so worried about alienating one or another cohort in our coalition that we do not know what to say when normal people look at that and say, wait a second. I send my kids to college so they can learn, not so they can burn buildings and trash lawns, right? And so on and so forth. When we put pronouns after names and say she/her as opposed to saying, you know what, if I call you by the wrong pronoun, call me out. I am sorry. I won't do it again. But stop with the virtue signaling and speak to people like they’re normal. There is nothing that I'm going to say to Shermichael that I’m not going to say to your or I’m not going to say to somebody else. I speak the same language to everybody. But that’s not what Democrats do. We constantly try to parse out different ways of speaking because our focus groups or polling shows that so-and-so appeals to such and such. That’s not how normal people think. It is not common sense and we need to start being the part of common sense again. Joe Biden is not responsible for that, neither is Kamala Harris. That is a problem that Democrats have had for years. I’ve been banging the drum on this for I don’t know how — probably ten years on this. We need to get back to being the party of common sense that people look at us and say we understand you. We appreciate what you say because you speak our language. And, until we do that, we should stop blaming other people for our own mistakes.”
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: “You were talking about how busy you were this morning. James Comey was in court. He self surrendered. He’s now been charged a second time, this time over a social media post with seashells that said 8647. Do you really think that he was endangering your life or threatening your life with that post?” President Trump: “Well, if anybody knows anything about crime, they know — 86. You know what that’s a mob term for? Kill him, you know. Do you ever see the movies? 86 him. The mobster says to one of his wonderful associates, 86 him. That means kill him. It’s I think of it as a mob term. I don’t know if people think of it as something having to do with disappearing, but the mob uses that term to say, when they want to kill somebody, they say, 86 the son of a gun. I’m trying to keep the language nice and clear. They don’t use that term son of a gun. They use another term, but that’s a mob term for killing. Yeah.” Collins: “But do you really think your life was in danger? Because —” Trump: “Probably, I don’t know, you know, based on — based on what I’m seeing out there. Yeah.” Collins: “— the seashells?” Trump: “The — the people like Comey have created tremendous danger, I think, for politicians and others. You know, Comey is a dirty cop. He’s a very dirty cop. He cheated on the elections. He tried to help Hillary Clinton. As you know, he dismissed a lot of things that he should have proceeded with. I wasn’t involved, but he should have proceeded with, no, he’s a dirty cop. He’s a crooked man.”
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USA Hockey goaltender Connor Hellebuyck to Bret Baier on what it’ll be like to return to his NHL team in Canada, the Winnipeg Jets.... “Yeah, you know, I actually am meeting the team in California. I’ll take a day. I need a day after this whirlwind. Mentally, this is going to be hard to get back in it. I need at least 24 hours to wrap my brain around this because this has been not only the most fun experience in my life, but you just see the pride in this country, and everyone that had our back and we had their back and there’s just so much more. It’s bigger than the game of hockey, and being able to go back. I know my city loves me in Winnipeg and I'm really looking forward to try to bring some joy back to that city as well and hopefully chasing a Cup, but in this moment, as I speak to you now, I am really enjoying every day and every second that I have.”
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