NBC News’ Chuck Todd said Tuesday that Biden’s declining cognitive health has been an “open secret” for years, revealing that a senior cabinet member from the Biden administration suggested in 2022 that the president cannot run for reelection. “I’m not gonna out the cabinet secretary, right?” Todd said on his podcast, “The Chuck Toddcast.” “But I had a cabinet secretary two years ago… all out of the blue ask me, ‘Do you really think he’s gonna — he can’t run again like this?'” The former “Meet the Press” host then said that the secretary told him he had little interaction with Biden. “This is a pretty senior cabinet secretary. And this was two years ago,” Todd emphasized. “This is one of those, you know, it’s the classic open secret, a non-versation, right? It’s the story everybody knows and no one was— everybody was afraid to talk about.” Todd further criticized the Biden administration for hiding Biden’s health, notably giving the mainstream media a pass. “It looks like they’re putting, essentially, party over country — and for what?” he posed. “They cannot, I mean, there is no evidence — this is irresponsible — there is no evidence he can serve four years.” “There is no evidence he can serve four years and the fact that they have to drag — this White House had to, they had to drag it out of him that they’ve had this neurological test,” he continued. “If he had it, he should have been at the [ABC News host George] Stephanopoulos interview: ‘Here you go, George, here it is. Here it is. I know people have been asking for it. Look, I did it in February. It’s clear, you know, it’s all fine. Here it is.'” “But now you have to wait till the New York Times goes to the visitor logs, finds eight visits!” he said. “‘No, it wasn’t eight. It’s just been three with Biden. But don’t worry, all is good.’ They have no credibility left on this topic. None.” Despite concerns from Democrats, Biden has been adamant that he’s staying in the race, even saying during the recent ABC News interview that he would only drop out if the “Lord Almighty” told him to. Related: Jill Biden’s Former Press Secretary Responds To ‘Elder Abuse’ Accusations

One of Clint Eastwood’s famous “spaghetti Western” films, “A Fistful of Dollars,” is getting a remake thanks to the help of Hollywood and Italian veterans in the movie-making industry. In a statement from Hollywood veteran Gianni Nunnari (300) and Simon Horsman of Euro Gang Entertainment, alongside Italian production veteran Enzo Sisti (Ripley) of FPC, and Rome-based Jolly Film (which produced the original movie), they said they were thrilled at the prospect of remaking one of Sergio Leone and Eastwood’s classic films, Deadline noted. “I am delighted to partner with Gianni again having just worked with him on ‘Those About to Die’, and with Simon on the remake of this classic film, which created a whole new sub-genre in film spawning over 500 European westerns,” Sisti said. A remake of ‘A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS’ is in the works. The original film launched the “spaghetti western” genre and also launched Clint Eastwood’s career. (Source: Deadline) pic.twitter.com/ixt15YJBg3 — DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) July 9, 2024 Nunnari and Horsman added: “Enzo is one of the most experienced producers in the film business, and we are fortunate to call him our partner on this incredible project. We are determined to produce a remake that does justice to the great Sergio Leone’s classic.”    The Western movie, which came out in Italy in 1964, is about “a wandering gunfighter” who “plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge,” a description on IMDb read.  It not only created a whole new genre called “spaghetti Westerns” but also helped to launch Eastwood’s career, the outlet noted. The success of Leone’s “A Fistful of Dollars” helped create two more movies in a classic Western trilogy of movies, “For a Few Dollars More,” followed by “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” All three movies are about the “Man with No Name,” Eastwood’s character, IMDb noted. Eastwood starred in all three and went on to become a famous Hollywood star known for his rugged and tough appearance in westerns followed by his no-nonsense approach in cop movies. Production is being kept under wraps as it’s still early in the process, Deadline noted. It is unclear if the film will be in English as the original movie was released in Italy and dubbed into English for audiences in the United States in 1967, along with the other two films in the trilogy, Reel Reviews noted. Related: Clint Eastwood’s Daughter Talks About Her Parents’ Decision To ‘Raise’ Children Outside ‘Of The Hollywood Scene’

Chairman Jordan. Ranking Member Nadler. Members of the Committee. Good morning. We are in the midst of a trust crisis in the world of media. That is because so many in the legacy media simply lie in order to preserve Left-leaning narratives. To take just the most recent example, we were told by the legacy media that Joe Biden was just fine. For years. Anyone who questioned his health and mental fitness was trafficking in “cheap fakes.” Then Joe Biden went out and engaged in a full-scale mental collapse on stage in front of hundreds of millions of people. So we can see why Americans – at least Americans who aren’t Democrats – don’t trust the media. The question, then, isn’t why the legacy media have lost Americans’ trust – the answer to that is obvious: they don’t deserve our trust. The question is why, despite that loss of trust, the legacy media continue to gain share in the advertising market. The answer is simple: there is, in fact, an informal pressure system created by Democratic legislators, this White House, legacy media, advertisers, and pseudo-objective “brand safety” organizations. That system guarantees that advertising dollars flow only to Left-wing media brands. Let me explain how this works. When a conservative competitor to the legacy media arises, members of the legacy media and their political allies rush to paint such competitors as dangerous. The commentator Kara Swisher of The New York Times, for example, told the head of YouTube that my videos on Daily Wire were a “gateway drug” that would lead children, including her teenage son, to watch neo-Nazi content (never mind the fact that I am an Orthodox Jew).  Elected Democrats pick up that same messaging. In 2017, Senator Dianne Feinstein told lawyers at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, “You created these platforms…and now they’re being misused. And you have to be the ones to do something about it – or we will.” Social media companies react to such threats. They have responded by adopting the standards of third-party Left-wing “informational safety” groups like the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, or GARM. GARM purportedly sets “brand safety” standards – objective standards by which advertisers and platforms can supposedly determine just what sort of content ought to be deemed “safe” for advertising. In reality, GARM acts as a cartel. Its members account for 90% of ad spending in the United States–almost $1 trillion. In other words, if you’re not getting ad dollars from GARM members, it’s nearly impossible to run an ad-based business. And if you’re not following their preferred political narratives – the ones Kara Swisher and Dianne Feinstein would follow – you will not be deemed “brand safe.” Your business will be throttled. We at The Daily Wire have experienced this first-hand. In 2017 after Feinstein made her threats to bring the weight of government down on social media platforms, Daily Wire YouTube channels saw a one thousand percent increase in content enforcements over a two-year period. Since 2021, after Democrat officials further turned up the heat on social media companies, my Facebook page has seen an over eighty percent drop in impressions. Or take Joe Rogan. When Rogan said that he had taken ivermectin after getting covid, White House press secretary Jen Psaki pressured Spotify to take action, stating, “we want every platform to be doing more to be calling out mis- and dis-information, while also uplifting accurate information.” Spotify complied. Spotify, of course, works with GARM. So, what “brand safety” standards does GARM apply? The standards begin with the inarguable, like preventing the distribution of child sexual abuse material. But GARM doesn’t draw the line at what is criminal, abusive, or dangerous. Their standards include restrictions on: “Hate speech” “Harassment” “Misinformation”  Or, my favorite, “insensitive,” “irresponsible” and “harmful” treatment of “debated sensitive social issues.” These criteria are highly subjective in theory. And they’re purely partisan in practice. For example, last year Daily Wire host Matt Walsh was fully demonetized on YouTube–a GARM member. Why? For “misgendering,” which to GARM, is to say that men are not women. Perfectly obvious facts now run afoul of GARM’s censorship standards. Companies targeted by GARM like The Daily Wire, Breitbart, Fox News, and so many others reach hundreds of millions of people with opinions and beliefs long established as within the mainstream of American conservative thought. GARM and its members have no respect for the beliefs of those people. They want them marginalized and squashed. It is time to stand up for the First Amendment in this Congress.  Congress can do so in two ways. First, Congress must investigate the informal and perhaps formal arrangements between censorship cartels like GARM and executive branch agencies – the Daily Wire has already filed a federal lawsuit against the State Department for allegedly doing just this. Second, Congress can itself stop engaging in violation of free speech principles. Two weeks ago, writing in dissent in Murthy v. Missouri, Justice Alito condemned what he called “sophisticated” and “coercive” government campaigns against free speech. Members of this committee have engaged in precisely such campaigns. When Congressman Schiff speaks about targeting social media companies that must be “pulled and dragged into this era of corporate responsibility” because they are too tolerant of “misinformation,” he knows what he is doing. He is participating in a sophisticated coercive campaign against free speech. When Congresswoman Jayapal blames social media for placing America at the “precipice of a democratic crisis,” and calls on them to target those they deem “hate groups,” she knows what she is doing. She is participating in a sophisticated coercive campaign against free speech. When Congressman Hank Johnson says “We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,” he knows what he is doing, too. We all know what these governmental actors – what some of you – are doing. You are using the tacit threat of government action to compel private companies to throttle viewpoints you don’t like. The First Amendment was not designed to enable workarounds by elected officials. It was directed at Congress. At you. You abdicate your fundamental duty when you exert pressure on private companies to censor speech. And some in this room have been doing just that for years. We in the non-legacy media have been feeling the effects. In the name of the Constitution – and yes, in the name of democracy – it must stop. WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show

House Republicans are cranking up the pressure on the White House over suspicions that staffers are trying to cover up potentially damning information about President Joe Biden after his poor debate performance as the 81-year-old runs for a second term. Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced on Wednesday he subpoenaed three of Biden’s aides whom, according to Axios, are believed to have put together a “cocoon” over the president amid concerns about him experiencing a decline in cognitive health. The trio of White House employees — Ashley Williams, Anthony Bernal, and Annie Tomasini — have created “a protective bubble around” Biden and he is “staffed so closely that he’s lost all independence,” one former staffer told the news outlet. Biden “relies on staff to nudge him with reminders of who he’s meeting, including former staffers and advisers who Biden should easily remember without a reminder from Annie,” the unnamed source added for the report — which the White House denied was true. A press release from the GOP-led House Oversight Committee noted Comer previously sought testimony from all three of the staffers for an inquiry into Biden’s handling of classified documents, but the White House refused to make them available for interviews. ?BREAKING? Chairman James Comer has subpoenaed three key White House staff who are reportedly running interference for President Biden and doing the President’s job for him amid his declining cognitive state. According to one former Biden aide, these three employees have… pic.twitter.com/T3cXSpC2ov — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) July 10, 2024 “The White House has shielded three key aides from testifying … and now we’ve learned through reporting these same aides are also seeking to cover up President Biden’s declining cognitive state inside the White House,” Comer said in a statement. “President Biden is clearly unfit for office, yet his staff are trying to hide the truth from the American people,” the chairman added. “Key White House staff must come before our committee so we can provide the transparency and accountability that Americans deserve.” Comer aims to have a deposition with Williams on July 23, a second one with Bernal on July 24, and a third with Tomasini on July 25. Cover letters for the subpoenas note each staffer appears to have “firsthand knowledge” as to whether Biden is capable of leading. “The Committee seeks this information to explore whether the time has come for Congress to revisit  potential legislation to address the oversight of presidents’ fitness to serve pursuant to its authority under Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment,” the letters say. Comer has also requested White House physician Kevin O’Connor appear before his committee for an interview concerning the president’s health while also citing evidence of the doctor having personal and business ties to members of the Biden family. Newsweek reported White House spokesman Ian Sams responded by accusing the House Republicans, who have additionally been leading a corruption-focused impeachment investigation into President Biden, of chasing after “crazy, discredited conspiracy theories.” After the news broke over the weekend that visitor logs showed a neurologist who is a Parkinson’s disease expert visited the White House several times, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denied the president received treatment for the brain disorder.

Seven states and a pediatrician group are suing the Biden administration for encouraging doctors to “affirm” children’s new gender identities and push them toward medical interventions. The seven states, Missouri, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Idaho, and Arkansas along with the American College Of Pediatricians filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The suit takes issue with a controversial rule the agency adopted in April that would force doctors and other health care workers to follow the “affirming” model and provide transgender medical interventions. The rule redefined “sex discrimination” in health care to include “gender identity” and “sexual orientation,” prompting backlash from critics. The plaintiffs argue the rule established the “affirming” model an “unproven” new standard of care and violates the Affordable Care Act by requiring doctors to act against their sound medical judgment. “Indeed, the rule requires doctors to provide and promote ‘social transitions,’ use of pronouns inconsistent with biological sex, experimental use of puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones for ‘gender-transition’ purposes, and perform harmful, sterilizing procedures on adults and children to appear to be the opposite sex, even if state law restricts these procedures. Doctors are even required to inaccurately code their patient’s charts based on gender identity rather than biological sex,” the American College Of Pediatricians said in a press release. The lawsuit asks a Missouri federal court to permanently block the HHS rule. Since April, three other federal courts in Tennessee, Florida, and Texas have stopped the rule from going into effect, court documents from the suit noted. Dr. Jill Simons, executive director of the American College Of Pediatricians emphasized that doctors should “never be forced” to violate their sound medical judgment and perform “life-altering and sterilizing interventions.” “Our doctors take an oath to do no harm, but the Biden administration’s rule forces them to violate this oath and perform procedures that are harmful and dangerous to our patients — vulnerable children. What the Biden Administration is calling for is wrong and unlawful,” Simons said in a statement. In recent years, a wave of seemingly gender dysphoric children in both the U.S. and Europe have been approved for drugs and surgeries to make them appear as the opposite sex. However, several European countries and U.S. states have pumped the brakes on these treatments. At least 25 states have passed legislation banning or restricting transgender medical interventions for minors. In Florida, Ohio, and Montana, restrictions are held up in court.

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro shut down a pro-Hamas protester from a far-left organization on Wednesday after she confronted him at the conclusion of his congressional testimony. The protester appears to be from Code Pink, an anti-Semitic organization that reportedly has ties to Iran’s Islamic government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Code Pink is also an aggressive defender of communist China, including defending its use of concentration camps, The New York Times reported. The group has received well over a million dollars from Neville Roy Singham, an American who lives in China and who seeks to promote the Chinese Communist Party to the world and has a history of supporting “far-left” causes — a term seldom used by the newspaper. The far-left group also supports oppressive Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro who is accused of widespread corruption, destroying the country’s economy, perpetuating human rights abuses, and creating a severe humanitarian crisis. The protester asked Shapiro how it felt to be “poison[ing]” the “American public and what you’ve been perpetuating — hate, racism, white supremacy, and the genocide that is being carried out on the Palestinian people.” Shapiro responded: “How does it feel to stand for Hamas? Does that feel good to you? Do you feel good standing in solidarity with a terrorist that has murdered 1,200 Jews and keeps people in tunnels?” During the October 7 massacre — which was carried out by roughly 3,000 terrorists from Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist group that is backed by Iran — Code Pink defended the attack. “The US-backed Israeli apartheid regime inflicts daily settler violence and terror on Palestinians,” they falsely claimed in a post on X. “Israel is an occupying force. Palestinians have every right to resist it.” The US-backed Israeli apartheid regime inflicts daily settler violence and terror on Palestinians. Israel is an occupying force. Palestinians have every right to resist it. — CODEPINK (@codepink) October 7, 2023 The protester did not deny standing with Hamas, and said she felt “very good standing in solidarity with Palestinian people” and then falsely claimed that Israel and the U.S. have murdered Palestinians. “Hamas should not start a war on behalf of its citizens and then shoot its own citizens,” Shapiro responded in referencing Hamas shooting Palestinians who were trying to escape areas where fighting was happening in Gaza. “And you standing for it makes you a disgrace to human dignity and human rights.” Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas’ group of terrorists inside Gaza, has stated that it is important that as many Palestinians die as possible so that the world will turn on Israel. Hamas commits war crimes by hiding behind civilians as they carry out their attacks and when they hide following their attacks so that civilians get killed in the crossfire. The protester continued by falsely claiming that “the people of Palestine have been occupied for 75 years and the blood is on the hands of every person in this Congress and every person who watches your propaganda of hate, white supremacy, and racism.” Shapiro fired back: “Palestinian blood is on your hands because you refuse to say that Hamas should surrender. End of story.”

BMW is recalling nearly 400,000 vehicles after officials learned that defective airbag inflators can explode when deployed. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced on July 3rd that certain BMW 3 Series four-door Sedans with model years 2006 through 2011 and 3 Series Sportswagon vehicles from 2009 to 2011 modified to include sport or M-sport steering wheels could be dangerous. Some of the steering wheels include a PSDI-5 inflator manufactured by Takata, which went bankrupt in 2017. The PSDI-5 inflator quickly shoots gas into the airbags during a collision. Takata and independent researchers discovered that the inflators in question could rupture if exposed to high temperatures and humidity for several years. This could cause metal fragments to explode if the airbag is deployed. Vehicle Recall Is “A Critical Concern” Michael Brooks of the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety told the Washington Post that many of the airbags have as high as a 50% chance of rupturing. “It’s a critical concern now,” he said. “In five years, we’re going to have even more vehicles reaching the age where they are at a critical concern.” BMW has not reported any incidents or injuries since discovering the issue. The NHTSA will notify dealers about the BMW vehicles included in the recall. However, because many owners modified their steering wheels after purchasing their cars, drivers should ensure they did not use steering wheels containing a Takata PSDI-5 inflator.  This story’s featured image is by TonyV3112. The post 400,000 Vehicles Impacted By Airbag Malfunction: BMW Recall appeared first on InspireMore.

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