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Saturday’s PBS News Hour accused conservatives of doxxing the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA. The criticism came up in a conversation between substitute host/reporter Lisa Desjardins and PBS's dubious extremism expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss, the far-left director of American University's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Congressional reporter Lisa Desjardins: One thing I've noticed in the past few days is a rise in conservatives doxxing or publishing the personal information of people — individuals who are not remotely famous, who may have in some cases celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk. As you said, that's something obviously deplorable to do. But some — in some cases, maybe not gone that far, just offended some folks. We spoke to someone from Wired magazine who's covering this, talking about specifically this moment. David Gilbert, Wired: I've spoken to multiple people this week who have had, you know, their employment terminated as a result of what they posted online. In some cases, they were celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. In other cases, it was much, much less than that. And they were just making points about divisive U.S. society. Lisa Desjardins: This has been not just about shaming people, but about affecting their lives. And in some case, we know there's been death threats as well. I wonder what you make of this tactic, of just something a few people are doing, but people are collecting databases to do this now. Desjardins was likely referring to the site “Expose Charlie’s Murderers.” Cynthia Miller-Idriss: Yeah, doxing is a very dangerous tactic from, we've seen it from the left and from the right, and what we've seen over the years is that often when someone is doxxed their personal information leaked, there have been cases where people show up at the wrong address where they used to live, let's say, and threaten a kind of innocent family who lives there….. But the News Hour had quite a different attitude toward another group of “doxxers” – the lefty “sedition hunters” who hunted down Trump fans who entered the capitol during the January 6 riot, who were actually touted as “citizen investigators” by PBS: "How citizen investigators are helping the FBI track down Jan. 6 rioters." (Idriss also appeared in that segment as an extremist expert.) Veteran reporter Judy Woodruff cheered on the obsessive group of leftist loners who teamed up with the media’s favorite domestic surveillance organization to turn in people who entered the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021. Some "rioters" were, as the media suggests for the other side, "peaceful protesters" -- people who made the mistake of just wandering in and taking selfies.  There were no concerns about doxxing or citizen vigilantism here, with Woodruff crowing about the group's methodology. Judy Woodruff: Sandy is today part of an informal community of dozens of ordinary Americans who came to be known as sedition hunters. Over time, they developed their own methodologies, guidelines, even a software application to keep track of every individual rioter, giving each one a pseudonym and compiling dossiers of evidence that they then turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the rioters' real identity.

Once the shock of Charlie Kirk’s murder began to wear off, it became easier to notice how today’s “news” media routinely fail to live up to its own pompous prattle about their work. They don’t “hold people accountable,” they don’t “uphold democracy,” and they aren’t “independent” or “objective.” They don’t produce “news” as much as narrative. You can see this in their energetic declarations that you couldn’t possibly ascribe a leftist motive to Kirk’s shooter…and even claimed you shouldn’t try. The story was going in an “unhelpful” direction, so it should be upended. On CNN’s weekend show Table for Five, national security analyst Juliette Kayyem demanded we all “stop looking” for a motive. The former Obama official yelled at GOP strategist Lance Trover: “The point is, who cares? A man was killed, and you have yet to say political violence is bad. Period.” “Who cares?” What kind of callous person can’t imagine why this man’s grieving family and friends need to know why this senseless crime happened? On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host Jonathan Lemire admonished Republicans for pointing fingers at the Left: “There's so little we know yet about this shooter and his motives. And again, they almost shouldn't matter because what happened here, it's a culture, a society where we've had this rise in political violence. We are awash in guns.” Motive “almost shouldn’t matter”? This makes journalists sound like they’re anti-journalism. It’s like they’re saying “Who is rudely asking questions and seeking out answers?” On CBS Evening News Plus, anchorman John Dickerson was aggressively playing dumb: “Five days after Charlie Kirk's murder, the shooter's motive remains elusive. No writings left behind. Vague, secondhand testimony.” That’s not true. By Friday, we had the suspect Tyler Robinson in custody and we learned the bullet casings had messages including “Hey fascist! Catch!” Another referred to a song “Bella Ciao,” which celebrated the end of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. But somehow these geniuses can’t figure out this man was targeting “fascists,” which is the media’s common label for Trump and his followers. One man who’s not pretending to be dumb is Jimmy Kimmel, who claimed on Monday night: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.” Kimmel the “comedian” baldly and shamelessly stated the polar opposite of the truth. Even after the prosecutor laid out the evidence – and John Dickerson acknowledged reality, that it was no longer vague and secondhand information – Juliette Kayyem went on CNN still claiming the motive “may be unanswerable” to people who care about violence like she does. Robinson’s ideological motive somehow “doesn’t explain the violence.” On MSNBC, former FBI agent Chris O’Leary stayed clueless, claiming the killer had a “salad bar ideology,” nothing identifiable: “It's certainly a motive, but is it necessarily clearly an ideology and part of a broader, you know, movement and political violence or terrorism?...It probably wouldn’t get us there.” These purveyors of willful ignorance clearly want to absolve the Left of any responsibility for inspiring violence. They want the freedom to decry MAGA “fascists” who are “existential threats to democracy.” No one should say that could inspire kooks to hurt someone. But Jim Acosta routinely moaned on CNN that Trump calling them “Fake News” was going to lead to “a dead journalist on the side of the highway.” You can’t connect violence to rhetoric – unless the rhetoric is coming from conservatives. If these media people didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all. 

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America’s youth are struggling, and they need help fast.Currently, 1 in 5 U.S. children ages 2 to 19 are obese. Over the past 20 years, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes “in the 10‐ to 19‐year‐old population has doubled.”I sincerely believe that it takes good parenting, not a bunch of strangers, to raise a well-adjusted child.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that by 2060, the number of American children and teenagers with type 2 diabetes could increase by an incredible 700%!In terms of mental health, things are not much better. Sadder and dumber“Among adolescents, mental health, substance use, and suicide are concerns,” the CDC notes. “Data obtained directly from youth can tell us more about the scope of these problems.”In 2023, “40% reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year,” “20% reported seriously considering attempting suicide in the past year,” “16% reported making a suicide plan in the past year,” and “9% reporting attempting suicide in the past year.”Perhaps most concerning of all, American children are becoming dumber.Thanks to the release of the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress report, we now know that “the average reading score for the nation at grade 4 was 2 points lower compared to 2022 and 5 points lower compared to 2019.”Likewise, “the average reading score for the nation at grade 8 was 2 points lower than in 2022 and 5 points lower compared to 2019.”How about math? “In 2024, the average score at fourth grade was 2 points higher compared to 2022 and 3 points lower compared to the pre-pandemic score in 2019.” Among eighth graders, “the average score was not significantly different from 2022 but was 8 points lower compared to 2019.”When it comes to science, the trend continues. “In 2024, the average science score at eighth grade was 4 points lower compared to 2019. Scores in 2024 decreased at all five selected percentiles compared to 2019.”Help starts at homeIt is quite difficult to read these statistics and remain optimistic about the future. I hope it is not too late to reverse course; nevertheless, doing so will be much easier said than done.A myriad of reasons are to blame for the sudden and steep decline in children’s physical and mental well-being. Some blame corporations for pushing ultra-processed, sugar-laden foods. Some blame technology companies for getting kids addicted to screens and social media.I, however, blame the parents.I reject the mantra that it takes a village to raise a child. I sincerely believe that it takes good parenting, not a bunch of strangers, to raise a well-adjusted child.Parents should be responsible for what their children consume. As the ones buying the groceries and paying for their children’s expensive devices, it’s incumbent upon parents to teach their children about moderation, discipline, and all the other life lessons that turn them into responsible adults.It is also misguided to put all the blame for students performing poorly academically on the broken public school system. As a former public school teacher, I understand most government-run schools are failing to properly educate America’s millions of students.But, again, what about the parents’ role in their children’s education? Are the parents doing everything they can to ensure that their children are on the right academic path? Are the parents demanding more from the public schools that their taxes fund? Are the parents at all engaged in their child’s education? Are parents monitoring the garbage their kids encounter on social media?These are the types of difficult questions we must ask.RELATED: Gentle parenting gave us spoiled tyrants, now FAFO parenting is restoring order Photo by Studio4 via Getty ImagesChildren crave disciplineWhen I taught high school students years ago, I held them accountable. At the time, many of the students whined and complained. They said I was “mean” because I didn’t let them get away with stuff that most other teachers would.The funny thing is that many of those students came back years later and thanked me for holding them to such a high standard. Deep down, they craved order and discipline.Children need adults to keep them in check. Sometimes, they need tough love. They need help, and no government program can provide the support that they so desperately need right now.A strong family unit always has been and always will be the backbone of a healthy society. America, if we want to save the children, we must save the family.

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