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It’s a challenging task but we here at NewsBusters are going to try to sift through all the crazy, angry and ridiculous observations made by leftist journalists every night of the Democratic National Convention coverage and pick one for Worst of the Night. So without further ado, the Worst Media Outburst for Thursday night goes to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for her incredibly gushy review of Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech: “You will remember where you were,” “an inflection point in history.”      “All right, you will remember where you were when you heard the speech tonight from the Vice President of the United States. Kamala Harris really introducing herself to the nation. Speaking as much to Republicans and independents as she was to the Democrats who are nominating her tonight. Asking Americans to remember how great their country is and to fight for its values. You are going to remember where you were on this night. This is an inflection point in history.”— Host Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s live coverage of night four of the Democratic Convention, August 22.   WEDNESDAY'S WORST OF THE NIGHT     “Everybody has to come on your radio show. She [Kamala Harris] hasn’t done a big interview in a while here and certainly not since announcing. Are you going to talk to her soon? What do you think? What do you think she should do? Or does she do better to ignore all those calls to talk and just keep doing what she’s doing?”— Host Erin Burnett to radio/podcast host Charlamagne on CNN’s The Situation Room, August 21.   TUESDAY'S WORST OF THE NIGHT     “So nobody’s ready to write the epigraph for the Trump years, but I do think, you know, it’s a powerful suggestion, right? That Barack Obama is the future. That Kamala Harris is the future and that Donald Trump is the past. And indeed, that demographic reality lies at the core of so much of Donald Trump’s power over his audience, right? The idea that a multicultural inclusive America is actually the road we’re heading down, and that the sort of white patriarchal society that allowed Donald Trump to profiteer as much as he has is going into the rear view, right? That’s a powerful, distressing idea if you are part of the white patriarchy like Donald Trump.  And the supporters who see change, who see people like Barack Obama, who see people like Kamala Harris, you know, multi-ethnic, multi-racial progressive leaders, and are scared of that vision, right? The idea that this might be the norm. And that Trumpism and MAGAism are the things of yesterday, veering their heads for one last gasp? Man, that’s powerful stuff.”— MSNBC host Alex Wagner on night two of MSNBC’s live coverage of the Democratic National Convention, August 20.     MONDAY'S WORST OF THE NIGHT     Anchor Linsey Davis: “Former President Donald Trump is expected to go campaign in Howell, Michigan tomorrow. Many people are aware that a month ago, in Howell, KKK protesters marched in the streets with the white robes on and suggested that they support Donald Trump. I’m curious if you make anything about that connection and him going in particularly to Howell tomorrow.”Governor Gretchen Whitmer: “Well, you know, anyone who’s doing a little bit of research might have said ‘that’s really a bad idea, look at the optics.’ You’re showing up where the KKK was just at the same time you’re in Michigan. I mean, this is a— I think — a troubling strategy that we see from the other side to divide us and to scare us and to stoke fear and anger.  — ABC’s Your Voice/Your Vote: Democratic National Convention, August 19. 

To comment on Kamala Harris's convention-closing speech, CNN This Morning stacked its panel today with three Democrats -- four, if you count host Kasie Hunt -- to lone Republican Scott Jennings. And the lib majority took full advantage, raving over Harris' performance. Thus, former Biden comms director Kate Bedingfield claimed that Kamala "had a high bar to clear, and she cleared it." In reality, the bar Harris had to clear to win praise from Bedingfield could be measured in microns.  Democrat Bakari Sellers assured us that Harris put in "a flawless performance." Later, he employed violent imagery against Trump, claiming that whereas Democrats had previously been treating Trump as a nemesis with "a knife to the throat of democracy," at the convention, they mocked him as a buffoon and a bumbling idiot. Host Kasie Hunt "helpfully" chipped in, quoting Michelle Obama to the effect that Trump is "small and selfish."  Scott Jennings gave Harris and the Dems their due, acknowledging that the convention was effective, that Harris delivered at the podium, and came across as a plausible and reasonable person. But he made the telling point that Harris failed to take any responsibility for her job as Vice President, or express any humility for the Biden-Harris failures on the economy or the border. Let's add the media doesn't tend to assign her any responsibility. When Bedingfield tried to push back, Jennings quipped, "You're asking the independent voters to all get collective amnesia and not remember all of the actions, or inactions, that Biden-Harris did or didn't do for three-and-a-half years." Former eight-year Obama official Elliot Williams took the praise of Harris to absurd heights, crowning Kamala a born-again Iron Lady. Referring to Harris's remarks on foreign policy, Williams said: "They had a woman standing on stage saying, this is a paraphrase, in the battle between U.S. and tyranny, I know where I stand and where the USA belongs. That is the rhetoric—that's Margaret Thatcher, dude." Elliot's Harris hyperbole was so preposterous that even the Kamala-loving panel burst into laughter! It's fun stretching metaphors like Laffy Taffy!  Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 8/23/24 6:02 am EDT KATE BEDINGFIELD: It was a huge night for Vice President Harris. I mean, I think she had a high bar to clear, and she cleared it . . . But I also think she just did a terrific job introducing herself, selling herself, in a moment that's not always easy to do that. . . .  BAKARI SELLERS: What I saw was flawless execution. . . .  SCOTT JENNINGS: I think the convention for Democrats was effective. I mean, they wanted to come out of here feeling like they had a chance to win. They didn't have a chance to win with Biden. Now they have a chance to win with Harris. So that was mission accomplished on that front. I think on the speech, look, she's gotten much better behind a podium. She used to not be all that great at this. She's an improving person on that front. She delivered from behind a podium last night. She's been doing that since she got into the race. So that was also another box checked. She seemed plausible. The speech, I agree with Kate. It did portray her as someone who sounded like a reasonable person.  Now, what she did not do was take any amount of responsibility for her current job, which is Vice President of the United States for the last three-and-a-half years under Joe Biden. It was not an ounce of humility about the inflation gripping the country. She talked about immigration without talking about all the things that happened right up until this border bill that they have hung all their hats on over at the Biden White House.  So to me, where the Republicans are going to be headed is, all the pablum, all the platitudes, all that aside, you cannot leave the same people in charge if you believe the country's on the wrong track, if you believe they made all the mistakes on the economy and on immigration, you cannot leave the same people in charge that have run the country off into the ditch. Until she comes up with a good answer for that, which I suspect will have to be litigated at the debate on September 10th, Donald Trump is still in a very good place. . . .  BEDINGFIELD: The way she addressed these things last night was smart. I mean, she didn't, you're right, she didn't address them in the way that you, as a Republican strategist, would like to see her address them, but she did talk about immigration, and she said, hey, Donald Trump blew up our best option to make progress on this issue. So if you're an independent voter and you're trying to sort out left from right in this race you say, oh, well, that seems like actually she's making a good point here. Like, there's, it's not that she didn't address these issues. It's that she actually took them on in a way that was smart and on the offensive. JENNINGS: Well, you're asking the independent voters to all get collective amnesia and not remember all of the actions, or inactions, that Biden-Harris did or didn't do for three-and-a-half years leading up to the political fight over the border bill. The reality is, everybody believes this administration made the border weaker. This legislative thing is a political argument. And you're asking people to forget that she had the job. . . .   SELLERS: I think that one of the things that the Democratic party did this week, that was actually so well done, was they took away this kind of nemesis feel that Donald Trump had, like he had a knife to the throat of democracy.  And instead, they just castigated him as this buffoon, right? He is this bumbling kind of idiot. KASIE HUNT: He was small and selfish -- Michelle Obama painted him. . . .  ELLIOT WILLIAMS: You had a woman standing on stage saying, and this is a paraphrase, in the battle between us and tyranny, I know where I stand and where the USA belongs. That is the rhetoric, that's Margaret Thatcher, dude. [Laughter from panel] I mean, that's powerful rhetoric in an arena where people were chanting USA, USA. Something you don't hear at Democratic rallies a lot, and waving these flags. It was sort of shocking to see. BEDINGFIELD: At a moment where there is a question about whether the Republican nominee, if he becomes president again, stands on the side of democracy or tyranny. That's another mind-blowing -- JENNINGS: Oh, come on.

For the late night comedy shows, the week of the Democratic National Convention provides the hosts with an opportunity to prove that they can make fun of Democrats in the same way they attack Republicans. However, a new MRC study shows they failed to do so this past week. In terms of quantity, the comedians hold 113 fewer jokes than they did during the RNC and 60 fewer jokes about Kamala Harris than Donald Trump. For the purposes of this study, analysts examined 20 episodes of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest hosted by RuPaul throughout all four nights of the DNC. Analysts looked at jokes told about Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and everything else related to the convention. We also analyzed what type of jokes were told and who the hosts brought on as guests to help them make sense of the proceedings. Finally, we compared the findings to July’s RNC. Who Was Joked About Throughout the week, there were seven jokes told about Harris, 13 about Walz, and 124 about everything else related to the DNC, for a total of 144. The Daily Show led all shows with five jokes about Harris and 45 about the rest of the convention. Colbert topped the count with six about Walz. To put those numbers in context, Trump was targeted with 67 jokes over four days, Vance had 28, and everybody else had 162 for a total of 257 RNC-related jokes. What Was Joked About It was not unexpected that during the week of the DNC, comedians would joke about Democrats. However, to identify themes, jokes were divided into ten categories: policy, character, personality, physical appearance, age, names, gaffes and bloopers, nonsensical statements, impressions, and polls. For a detailed definition of each, check the methodology section below.  Jokes about speakers' personalities or indivudal quirks topped the list at 38. Jokes about age, mainly about President Biden, were second at 19, while impressions rounded out the top three with 18. The top three categories the comedians found interesting about the RNC were physical appearance, character, and personality, the last being the only constant between the two conventions. Jokes about physical appearances provided the biggest gap at 47 more jests about Republicans. There were 41 more jokes about Republican character flaws or moral failings, as well as 23 more jokes about GOP policy. Guests Unlike during the RNC, Colbert and The Daily Show took their shows on the road. While the RNC ratio of liberals-to-conservatives was 4:1, during the DNC it was 11:0 for a total of 15:1. The DNC Week guests were as follows: COLBERT: Hillary Clinton, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jefferies, Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez THE DAILY SHOW: J.B. Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, Lauren Underwood, Wes Moore SETH MEYERS: Ramin Setoodeh Conclusion Even after President Biden dropped out, late night would rather tell “Joe Biden is old” jokes than ones about Kamala Harris or Democratic policies. While Republicans were lampooned as bad people, Democrats got the “you tease the ones you love” treatment. Gone were the concerns of overheated rhetoric and lack of national unity. The comedians, espicially Colbert and The Daily Show, also highlighted that when trying to understand Republicans, they bring on Democratic guests, and when seeking to understand Democrats, they also bring on Democratic guests. This week, the comedy shows took "Late Night DNC" a little too literally.

The MLB commissioner's office is reportedly considering a rule change that would require starting pitchers to play at least six innings per game.MLB officials spoke to ESPN and expressed that the league is looking to both have starting pitchers spend more time in the game and also cut back on injuries. While these two viewpoints seem contradictory, the league also reportedly wants more balance in terms of strikeouts versus hits. A pitcher who knows he has to stay in the game longer may take some velocity off his pitches, making it easier for the batter.'We all want to go at least six.'"We are interested in increasing the amount of action in the game, restoring the prominence of the starting pitcher and reducing the prevalence of pitching injuries," an MLB official told ESPN. "There are a whole host of options in addressing those issues."The alleged objective is to prioritize starting pitching but also avoid leaving in a struggling pitcher simply to meet the six-inning minimum.To counteract this possibility, some caveats would have to be carved out. Some of the suggested exceptions would allow a pitcher to leave the game after:Throwing 100 pitchesGiving up 4+ earned runsAn injury followed by mandatory time on the injured listIn regards to the minimum, Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Seth Lugo said "I do that anyway.""We all want to go at least six," he added."It's such a bad idea," baseball analyst Gary Sheffield Jr. told Blaze News. "So bad that it would never be considered by the players."Sheffield stressed that requiring such a pitch count would be extremely detrimental to young pitchers. "At the velocities they're throwing these days most young arms would explode."Arizona Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen suggested pulling back on velocity would be an inevitable result."That's a tough thing, because that's where you get outs," Hazen explained.According to Bleacher Report, MLB starters are averaging 5.25 innings in 2024 while Triple-A starters are averaging 4.3. This appears to reveal that development would be required in the minor leagues to extend the life of a starting pitcher another .75 innings in the majors.Teams have become much more strict in terms of pitch counts for their starters in recent years, so much so that only 21 pitchers have thrown complete games in 2024. Just three pitchers — Kevin Gausman (TOR), Max Fried (ATL), Cristopher Sanchez (PHI) — have more than one.Aside from the minimum-innings rule, the league has also reportedly considered limiting the size of pitching staffs and implementing the double-hook DH rule.Currently being experimented with in the independent Atlantic League, the double-hook DH rule causes a team to lose their designated hitter if they remove their starting pitcher from the game.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On Thursday, former President Donald Trump visited Cochise County, Arizona, to tour the southern border and hold a press conference, during which he vowed to impose the death penalty for illegal aliens convicted of sex trafficking."We will impose tough new sentences on illegal alien criminals, including 10-year mandatory minimum sentences for anyone guilty of human smuggling; a guaranteed life sentence for any one guilty of child trafficking; and a death penalty for anyone guilty of child or woman sex trafficking," Trump declared. "We'll also impose the death penalty on major drug dealers and traffickers."Trump also promised to impose the death penalty for those who kill federal or local law enforcement officials.Trump, joined by law enforcement agents and families of the victims of recent violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants, kicked off his speech by slamming the Democratic Party for forcing President Joe Biden (D) out of the race and replacing him with his vice president, Kamala Harris. He warned that Harris would be a "Marxist president."'I really hope everybody can hear my pain.'Trump discussed the Biden-Harris administration's failed border policies and manufactured illegal immigration crisis. During his press conference, he pointed to sections of the border wall stacked up and lying on the ground, never installed."All of this wall was built at great expense," Trump said. "It just had to be stood up.""It's sad to see it sitting here," he added.He stated that Harris "unleashed a deadly plague of migrant crime" by keeping the border open. "Since comrade Harris took over the border, there has been a 43% nationwide increase in violent crime and a 60% increase in rape," Trump claimed.He introduced the mother of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five who was reportedly raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant in Maryland. According to authorities, Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a 23-year-old El Salvadorian national who was charged with Morin's murder, entered the U.S. illegally after murdering a woman in El Salvador. He was also accused of attacking a 9-year-old girl and her mother in Los Angeles last year.Morin's mother, Patty, described the devastation of receiving the phone call from a detective that her daughter's body had been recovered. "The reason why I came here today and I accepted the invitation is because I really want our words to be heard, and I really want you to take to heart what we're saying. We're not here for a political stand, although we are. We're here because we're losing our moms, our daughters, our children to criminals, and that shouldn't happen," Patty Morin stated."We're going to end up being a third-world country if it continues this way. And I hope, truly, I hope that you would just take my words to heart because it's devastating to lose a child. But even more devastating when you see the pictures or you see the body and you really understand what's happened to that person," she added.The mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old girl who was reportedly raped and murdered by two illegal aliens in Texas, also spoke at the news conference on Thursday afternoon.Alexis Nungaray thanked Trump for inviting her to speak about the tragic murder of her daughter."She was left with no clothing from the waist down, was thrown in a bayou, left, was strangled to death. We believe, yes, she was assaulted," Alexis Nungaray stated. "But it's still very, very early and still very, very raw, and it is still very, very surreal. They had no reason to do anything that they did to Jocelyn. There was over 300 detention beds that they should have been at because they were detained, and they were released when they shouldn't have been released. One had an ankle monitor, didn't stop anything.""I just really, really, really want everybody to please take into consideration how important border control is because we're losing very innocent people to heinous crimes that shouldn't be happening in the first place," she remarked. "So, please, please, I really hope everybody can hear my pain. Please, please, he [Trump] needs to be in office."Trump vowed to secure the border and initiate the "largest deportation effort in American history."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Biden-Harris Department of Energy official is facing ridicule over her radioactive recommendation that the policy community adopt a "queer lens," thus deprioritizing the "abstract idea of national security," when dealing with nuclear weapons and the power to exterminate all human life on the planet. Sneha Nair started work in February as a special assistant in the National Nuclear Security Administration, the semi-autonomous nuclear security branch of the DOE. Just months earlier, she co-authored an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists entitled "Queering nuclear weapons: How LGBTQ+ inclusion strengthens security and reshapes disarmament." Early in the article, Nair and Louis Reitmann, an advocate for DEI in the nuclear field, expressed dissatisfaction with the critical response to a 2022 panel discussion about "LGBT+ Identity in the Nuclear Weapons Space." 'Queer theory can help change how nuclear practitioners, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons.' The Biden-Harris official suggested that criticism of the event — such as the suggestion that "they should not allow mentally ill people near weapons of mass destruction" — evidenced "the common belief that queer identity has no relevance for nuclear policy." The remainder of the article appears to have been an attempt to correct that belief. Nair and Reitmann emphasized: We would like Bulletin readers to understand that the visible representation and meaningful participation of queer people matters for nuclear policy outcomes. Discrimination against queer people can undermine nuclear security and increase nuclear risk. And queer theory can help change how nuclear practitioners, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons. According to the duo, non-straight people have unique insights and "specific skills," such as empathy, that could come in handy when making decisions about nuclear weapons. The inclusion of more non-straights and women into the greater policy community would apparently serve as a check on group think and possibly even upset the "perpetuation of theories like deterrence and crisis stability." By "queering" the nuclear space, minority staff might also be spared some of the "enormous psychological stress" previously associated with making decisions around world-ending weapons. 'The Biden/Kamala regime is a danger to the entire country and sanity itself.' Working under the presumption that non-straight workers offer unique perspectives and enjoy special skill sets, the Biden-Harris official and her DEI co-author indicated that their "exclusion creates nuclear security risks." The Biden-Harris official and Reitmann suggested further that "queer theory," a radical spin-off of feminist theory, not only has a place in the nuclear weapons space but should help inform "how officials, experts, and the public think about nuclear weapons." Should, for instance, a foreign adversary appear to be preparing for an intercontinental ballistic missile attack on the homeland, Nair would apparently want American officials thinking about a possible pre-emptive nuclear strike to also contemplate "whose experiences are being excluded." "Queer theory is also about rejecting binary choices and zero-sum thinking, such as the tenet that nuclear deterrence creates security and disarmament creates vulnerability," said the article. "Queer theory helps to shift the perception of nuclear weapons as instruments for security by telling the hidden stories of displacement, illness, and trauma caused by their production and testing." Shortly after the publication of this article, Nair co-authored a policy paper claiming "that development of a DEI nuclear security culture is not only a sustainable solution to these long-standing challenges but critical to strengthening the nuclear security community’s ability to identify and mitigate threats in a shifting national security landscape." Conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck was among the many critics who responded to the recently resurfaced article, tweeting, "The Biden/Kamala regime is a danger to the entire country and sanity itself." "As I've long said, DEI is simply a Trojan horse for left wing values that's meant to solidify total power consolidation by the left," continued Starbuck. "Once they fully consolidate, there's no going back for decades. Opposing this virus and removing it should be the actual national security objective. Oh and yes, China is laughing at us." Libs of TikTok posed the question online: "Can someone explain how 'queer theory' has anything to do with managing our nuclear energy?" The Biden-Harris DOE appears to have attracted more than one LGBT radical in recent years. Samuel Brinton, a nuclear engineer who ran a "Physics of Kink" class and made a habit of dressing in women's clothing, served as deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the Energy Department. He recently pleaded guilty to petit larceny for stealing women's luggage. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!