NewsBusters Podcast: Putting a Redsteeze Squeeze on Media Misbehavior
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NewsBusters Podcast: Putting a Redsteeze Squeeze on Media Misbehavior

Stephen L. Miller -- "Redsteeze" on X -- won our Bulldog Award for Outstanding Social Media Personality for taking on all kinds of media misbehavior on Elon's free-speech playground. He has more than half-million followers on X and a "Versus Media" podcast on Substack. We discuss bizarre rape-dog stories, the "Corbynization" of the Left, and Oliver Darcy's farcy website waging war on Bari Weiss as she barely makes changes at CBS News. Managing editor Curtis Houck joined the show as we discussed how the war on "mainstream media" misinformation often starts on X. Miller has been very aggressive on New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof ripping the Israelis as guilty of egregious prison rape of Palestinians.  Of all the claims that a newspaper should think about before they publish, the concept of “trained rape dogs” would be at the top of the list. But The Times pushed this bizarre concept on their readers. His source was the “Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor,” which has been trying tell this rape-dog story for years, and has also made bizarre claims against Israel in the past, including the accusation that Israel was harvesting organs from dead Palestinians. Oliver Darcy's website Status spends a lot of time picking on CBS News, most recently on Benjamin Netanyahu getting to choose Major Garrett as his interviewer. Anyone who thinks the Clintons or Barack Obama didn't get a concierge menu of interviewers and topics from 60 Minutes is extremely naive. Dylan Byers at Puck went after Darcy (both former CNN media reporters) for the pretense that this was some dangerous new frontier.  The "Corbynization" of the Democrats refers to former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who stated he considered Hamas and Hezbollah "friends," and was present a wreath-laying at the gravesite of participants in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The newfound popularity of Hasan Piker as he endorsed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed and the travails of Nazi-tattoo-bearing Senate candidate Graham Platner have been deep-sixed by the network news.  Enjoy the podcast below.