The Wall Street Journal editorial board piled scorn on Vice President JD Vance over his reflexive defense of the Young Republicans operatives caught sharing racist and openly pro-Nazi messages in group chats.“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said, ignoring the fact that the operatives in these chats were between the ages of 18 and 40. He went on to attack the media for reporting on the leaked messages at all, and demanded everyone move on and focus on real issues. This defense, the board wrote, is “deeply misguided. By treating actual adults the chat participants weren’t teenagers with kid gloves, they contribute to the cultural malady of infantilization. Mr. Vance in particular has blown an opportunity to set a good example for Republicans young and old. Excusing such behavior will only get us more of it. That’s how people actually ruin their lives,” wrote the board. “It is likewise a poor defense to call these messages ‘jokes.’ You can learn a lot about people by what they think is funny.”This comes as, despite Vance’s deflections, large swathes of the Republican Party are going out of their way to condemn the leaked texts, with even one dedicated MAGA senator, Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, repudiating Vance, saying, “I didn’t hear the vice president’s remarks, but I would never let my kids joke like that. That’s a solid no.” Meanwhile, a number of the operatives have lost their jobs, and the Kansas Young Republicans group, which was heavily involved, was shut down entirely by the state GOP. To excuse this behavior, the board wrote, “is to outsource the right’s self-definition to the most vile and discrediting. The prospects for conservatives and Republicans would sour as a result.” And in any case, they noted, “internal hygiene is good politics.” They held up Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP candidate for governor of Virginia, as a model for responding to the scandal, as she said everyone involved must be made to “step down from their positions.””You don’t need a Telegram account to see that this is a winning approach,” the board concluded.
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A Smartmatic court filing revealed that a survey of employees done by Fox’s human resources department found that the staff has a “resounding lack of confidence” in the company as a news organization. Among the problems employees had with the company were ethics, fair treatment, and their efforts to fact-check and report things fairly and accurately. Smartmatic is highlighting the commentary as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company, alleging that the network and news personalities defamed the company. The most notable comments come from pages 550-554, in which HR took commentary from some of those employees. “The racial rhetoric spewed on Air. It’s everything but [Fair] and Balanced,” another employee said, referring to the slogan the network used until it was retired in 2017. “I sometimes go home fighting back tears. This network made me question my morals. Have I sold my soul to the devil?”“I wish we would get out of Trump’s pocket and realize people like Tucker [Carlson], Laura [Ingraham], [Sean] Hannity, [Mark] Levin, etc. are a total embarrassment, peddling BS and conspiracy theories. Many days I feel like I am part of the problem and FNC is contributing to hatred in this country,” said one staffer.“There is total lack of accountability when highly rated anchors like Tucker, Hannity and Laura say outrageous things that are outright racist and xenophobic,” complained one employee to HR. “There is not enough quality control to keep conspiracy theories off the air. There is so much good about Fox, but serving as the committee to re-elect Trump puts us on the same footing as Breitbart, and it is very hard to defend at times.”Another staffer encouraged that the on-air talent make a commitment to “tell viewers the truth, and to bolster their arguments with hard, proven facts given in full context, rather than spin or reckless conjecture that causes harm to real people (just one example of many: the Seth Rich conspiracy theory).”.
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The Senate failed on Thursday for the 10th time to advance a Republican-led bill to end the government shutdown. CBS News congressional correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.
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