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Stars like Stevie Wonder, Lily Tomlin, and Keegan-Michael Key showed up to help raise tens of millions for Vice President Kamala Harris at a Los Angeles fundraising event. On Sunday, Harris made her first major fundraising stop in southern California since she replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket — after Biden stepped out of the race — the Hollywood Reporter reported. The event was held at the J.W. Marriott, with tickets to attend ranging from $500 to nearly $1 million to be there, Deadline reported. More than $28 million was raised at the fundraiser, according to a campaign source. About 1,500 people showed up, with the list of stars — besides Wonder, Tomlin and Key — including Jessica Alba, Alanis Morissette, Sterling K. Brown, Demi-Lovato, Harris’ campaign co-chair Jeffery Katzenberg, Universal chief Donna Langley, and “Watchmen” boss and longtime Damon Lindelof and spouse Heidi, Deadline noted. Kamala Harris Hits L.A. for Star-Studded Fundraiser: “It’s Good to Be Home” https://t.co/RfQuOEcY4q — The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 30, 2024 Speaking briefly to the room full of celebrities, Harris said “Oh, it’s good to be home,” though she grew up in Oakland, THR noted. “I look around this room and there are people who have been with me here every step of the way.” However, attending the event as places in the southeastern U.S. have been ravaged by Hurricane Helene, has led to criticism against Harris.  On Monday, on Sirius XM “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, the host slammed the VP attending the big star fundraising event. Kelly said the storm hit places in North Carolina on Friday and on Sunday, “well into the devastation, the of loss of life, men, women, children, pets, the entire devastation and destruction of communities, Harris was [at the multi-million dollar LA fundraising event]… The devastation was ongoing. How dare she!” As of mid-day Monday, the Associated Press reported at least 121 deaths across multiple states, including 30 people killed in the county where Asheville, North Carolina, is located, and efforts to provide relief to flooded areas were ongoing. Others on social media have noted that no one cares about what Hollywood thinks anymore after people like Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lady Gaga, and more have said they endorse Harris over former President Donald Trump. “SO the issues really do not matter to Hollywood,” one person wrote. “Why would anyone give a [crap] what any of them think. Rich people problems are not even close to the rest of the world.” Another person added, “Dear Hollywood celebrities, famous performing artists and athletes, nobody cares about who you are endorsing. You’re not paying for anyone’s groceries or living expenses. You live in a fantasy land. Your job is to entertain us. Stay in your lane.” Related: The Degenerates Of Hollywood Endorse Kamala, And That Tells You Everything

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for records on ties that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, has to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced the subpoena on Monday, one day before Walz is expected to appear for his vice presidential debate against his rival, Sen. J.D. Vance. The top House lawmaker cited whistleblower disclosures causing concern. “The Committee has learned of a non-classified, Microsoft Teams group chat among DHS employees — titled ‘NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync’ — that contains information about Governor Walz that is relevant to the Committee’s investigation,” he said in a cover letter. Comer added that his committee “has also learned that further relevant information regarding Governor Walz has been memorialized in both classified and unclassified documents in the control of” the Homeland Security Department (DHS). Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced President Joe Biden atop the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential ticket after he was pressured to step aside by allies amid concerns about his age and health, picked Walz to be her running mate in early August. Later that month, Comer declared his panel would be investigating Walz over his “extensive” ties to entities linked to the CCP, expanding an inquiry already looking at the Biden administration and China’s efforts to meddle in the affairs of the United States. Teddy Tschann, a spokesperson for Walz, said in a statement reported by The Washington Post that his boss and Harris would “ensure we win the competition with China, and will always stand up for our values and interests in the face of China’s threats.” He also claimed “Republicans are twisting basic facts and desperately lying to distract from the Trump-Vance agenda: praising dictators, and sending American jobs to China,” referring to former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential nominee. Comer’s subpoena demands records from the Microsoft Teams group chat “NST NFT Bi-Weekly Sync” from July 1, 2024, to present, and all Intelligence Information Reports and Regional Intelligence Notes from November 2023 to present related to Walz. RELATED: House Panel Subpoenas Walz In COVID Fraud Probe A deadline of October 7, roughly one month before the November election, for the DHS to provide the documents was listed in the subpoena. The Daily Wire has reached out to DHS seeking comment on the demands and will update this report if it responds. If a governor or VP pick is compromised by the CCP, it would “strongly suggest that there are alarming weaknesses in the federal government’s effort to defend the United States from the CCP’s political warfare that must be urgently addressed,” Comer wrote.

There are a lot of stories out there about lottery winners who go on to destroy their lives. Something like 70% of them supposedly go bankrupt within a few years. And it’s not hard to see why. When you give a lot of money and attention to a person who didn’t earn any of it, that person doesn’t suddenly change overnight. Instead, more often than not, all of their worst character traits are amplified ten times over. And in many cases, that leads to a very public and humiliating collapse. This is a principle that doesn’t just apply to individuals. It applies to organizations too. Unearned fame and fortune are far more destructive than they might appear. And right now, there’s no organization on the planet that proves this point more than the WNBA. The league just posted its highest average game viewership in 24 years. They’re bringing in massive new sponsorships, at least by the league’s standards. They’re selling out arenas, which used to be unheard of. This should be a dream come true for everyone involved in the WNBA — from the executives to the players to the reporters who, for their sins in a past life, have been cursed with the job of covering a women’s basketball league. Everyone should be overjoyed. But there’s a big problem. All of this success — every bit of it — is due to the presence of one player in the league: a generational talent named Caitlin Clark. She’s the reason the WNBA just won the lottery. Without Caitlin Clark, no one cares about any of these players or the league. With her, most people still don’t care. But a lot more people care than did before. And everyone knows that. Therefore, everyone in the league other than Caitlin Clark is doing exactly what so many lottery winners do. They’re allowing all of their worst personality traits to surface. They can’t help themselves. Several months ago, I covered the many cheap shots that Clark has had to deal with on the court. Some of these cheap shots look a lot like criminal assault, but of course they weren’t prosecuted. I also talked about the many “champions of diversity” in the media who are strangely very unhappy about the diversity that Clark has brought to the WNBA, a league that’s mostly made up of black players. There’s been a lot of resentment in this league lately, in particular since this season began. And the thing about resentment, as we all know, is that it tends to fester over time. It gets worse and worse. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing now that the season is winding down and the playoffs are underway. Over the past week, race hysteria in the WNBA has somehow reached yet another inflection point. The league is currently in the midst of the single most contrived racism scandal in any professional sport, at least since the fake noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show Specifically, a bunch of WNBA players have come out claiming that they’ve been victimized by “racial slurs” and other racist attacks. In other words, they are now accusing the people who have started showing up to WNBA games — for the first time in more than two decades — of being horrible racists. Now for the fine print. None of these “racial slurs” — some of which have supposedly occurred during games — have actually been caught on camera. There’s no visual or audio evidence that might substantiate any of this. There isn’t a single credible report. And that’s extremely unusual, obviously, given that there are cameras and smartphones at every WNBA game. You’d think that, if a mob of racists were buying up WNBA tickets so they could heckle the players with racial slurs, then the video would be all over the internet. But those videos are not all over the internet. They aren’t anywhere on the internet. So instead we have to take the players’ word for it. Here’s Brittney Griner, for example: The question was about the massive growth of this league, which was dead in the water just a year ago. “What do you think of all the new fans,” asks the reporter. And instead of some gratitude — some appreciation for the people who saved the WNBA, who pay to come out to see bad players like Brittney Griner — we get resentment. The fans are racist, says Griner. They buy tickets just so they can yell racist things. And not only that — these racists happen to be magicians. They can shout racist things while also being completely invisible. You can hear what they say, but it’s impossible to record it or broadcast it anywhere. They’re like ghosts. They just appear in the stands, shout the N-word a few times, and then they disappear. Put aside the fact that Griner is obviously lying. Let’s say, hypothetically, that someone did shout a slur at a WNBA game, and it really bothered Brittney Griner. Nothing about the answer makes sense, even in that context. Why would that be the first thing that Griner mentions when the reporter asks about the fans? Why not say, “The overwhelming majority of the fans are great people, and I’m so happy they’re paying money to see me playing basketball as badly as I do”?  If anyone should be striking a note of gratitude, it’s Brittney Griner. Less than two years ago, the Biden administration traded away a Russian arms dealer — someone who conspired to murder American citizens — in order to get Griner out of a Russian prison. So Griner has every reason to be extremely grateful to this country — not just because of the paycheck for playing basketball poorly, but also because the United States is a lot nicer than a Siberian gulag. At the very least, you’d expect Griner to be happier than the usual WNBA player. But that’s obviously not the case. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Of course the media — especially the sports media — is uncritically reporting on this phantom crisis of racism at WNBA games. Just search “WNBA racism” in google and you’ll get dozens and dozens of mainstream media articles frantically shouting about the racism crisis in the WNBA. Many other players have raised the alarm about this invented epidemic. Here’s another one: "It's heartbreaking that … the excitement around the league is at its highest, but the racial slurs and the derogatory comments and the online bullying are also at their worst." ESPN's Andraya Carter says there is "no space" for WNBA fans who dish hate: pic.twitter.com/5ggjUdk4Dk — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 26, 2024 Notice the sad music in the background. Law enforcement might have to get involved. WNBA games have become Klan rallies, from what we’re told. You won’t see any of that on video or hear any of it. But take the WNBA’s word for it. Take the media’s word for it. Yet some WNBA players are still upset that the media isn’t making an even bigger deal out of the fake racism scandal. Reading from USA Today: “Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese says the media should have done more to combat the ongoing issue of racism in women’s basketball before it reached a boiling point. The WNBA on Wednesday condemned all ‘racist, derogatory or threatening comments’ that have been directed toward players after Connecticut Sun All-Star Alyssa Thomas called out “racial comments from the Indiana Fever fan base” following the Sun’s series-clinching 87-81 victory over the Fever. Reese said this has been a long-standing issue, noting that she’s been the subject of racially motivated hate for some time. Reese, however, said her pleas for accountability and action have been repeatedly ignored. ‘The media has benefited from my pain & me being villainized to create a narrative,’ she wrote on X. ‘They allowed this. This was beneficial to them… Y’all a little late to the party and could have tried to put out this fire way before it started.’” Yes, it’s a fire raging. You won’t see the fire. But it’s there. Trust Angel Reese on this one. This shaming obviously had the desired effect on some in the media. Which led to this line of questioning: “NaLyssa, how did you personally deal with the hate, the racism, the attention, the scrutiny?” If you listen to these press conferences, you’d think that skinheads are rushing the court and assaulting the players in the middle of the games. At the very least, you’d expect that this player would’ve been subjected to some kind of horrible racist chant from one of the WNBA’s racist ghost fans. Here’s what actually happened. NaLyssa’s has a girlfriend named DiJonai Carrington who also plays in the WNBA. And recently, Carrington nearly took Caitlin Clark’s eye out on the court just a few minutes into a game. This is one of many flagrant fouls against Clark that have occurred since she started in the league, and this one wasn’t even called. Watch: After this foul, as you’d expect, there were a lot of angry fans on social media. To a lot of people, this looked intentional. So in response, a USA Today reporter named Christine Brennan did what any reasonable “sports journalist” would do. She asked Carrington if the hit was intentional. Watch: These are obviously reasonable questions from Christine Brennan. They’re not “racist.” They’re not offensive. They’re the bare minimum you’d expect under the circumstances. But Carrington immediately gets snippy and obnoxious in response. And then, just for asking these questions, Brennan — who, incidentally, is one of the biggest champions of women’s sports in the industry — is now getting dogpiled. In particular, the WNBA Players’ Association just put out one of the most demented statements imaginable. They wrote: We call B.S. … To unprofessional members of the media like Christine Brennan: You are not fooling anyone. That so-called interview in the name of journalism was a blatant attempt to bait a professional athlete into participating in a narrative that is false and designed to fuel racist, homophobic, and misogynistic vitriol on social media. You cannot hide behind your tenure. The statement then said Brennan was guilty of “abusing” her “privileges,” and charged that she does not “deserve” her “credentials.” It continues:  We call on USA Today Network to review its Principles of Ethical Conduct for Newsrooms and address what we believe is a violation of several core principles, including seeking and reporting the truth. USA Today Sports should explain why a reporter with clear bias and ulterior motives was assigned to cover the league. We also urge the league to review its policies and take measures to prevent such issues, protecting the integrity of the game and its players. So we’re at the point now that journalists can’t even ask black players about fouls they commit against Caitlin Clark without being accused of racism for asking the question. That’s how much racism there is in the WNBA. Even asking questions is now racist. Obviously there’s no reason to take any of these people seriously. But, just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything, I went looking to see if I could find the most egregious examples of racism in the WNBA. And I came across this monologue from a sports commentator named Nick Wright. It’s from a couple of days ago and it’s about as unhinged as you’d expect. Watch: His grand example proving the WNBA is racist is that a woman mocked the player who gave Caitlin Clark a black eye with her nails. Apparently that’s racist because some black people have long nails. That’s it. That’s why this podcast host is invoking the Civil War. Mockery of WNBA players is a threat to the entire country, apparently — at least if those WNBA players are black. If they’re white, you can mock them all you want. You can assault them on the court, in fact. What this fake outrage tells you is that “racism” isn’t really what they’re upset about. This is just too manufactured and overblown to take seriously. They’re reaching — to a degree that’s comical and delusional at the same time. This scandal has been invented, out of whole cloth, by WNBA players for one reason, and one reason only: They are wracked with envy and resentment that the most popular player in the league is white. What they’re really claiming is that Caitlin Clark, by bringing a bunch of white fans to the league, has naturally also brought racism. Basically they’re complaining that too many white people are watching women’s basketball now. And for her part, Caitlin Clark has basically gone along with this narrative. She made a statement denouncing all of the made up racism. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR ‘AM I RACIST?’ — A MATT WALSH COMEDY ON DEI The racial hysteria reminds me of the summer of 2020, just playing out on a much, much, much smaller stage. A white woman playing basketball has become the WNBA’s George Floyd moment. And just like we saw with the George Floyd situation, before long, people are going to start pushing back. No normal person wants to pay money to support a team, only to be told they’re racist and horrible. That’s a big part of why the DEI grift has begun to collapse. And it’s why the WNBA’s brief resurgence isn’t going to last very long either. Very soon, the league will be back on the path to irrelevance and bankruptcy. It’s clear that none of these players or executives or “sports journalists” really want the league to succeed, anyway. To borrow an adage from the world of sports commentary, you might even say the WNBA is like a rubber band — one that’s been stretched to the limit by pathological narcissists who only know how to complain and demean their own fans on the basis of their skin color. And one deranged sports podcast and self-pitying press conference at a time, that rubber band is about to break.