THE SHOW NOTES: Racists Defending Claudine Gay, Hispanic Leaders Warn Democrats, & FatCon?
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Gone: Harvard’s Claudine Gay
Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday after her anti-semitic congressional testimony helped bring to light nearly 50 allegations of blatant plagiarism from her time in academia. Gay’s six-month presidency was the shortest in Harvard’s 388-year history.
Context: Harvard’s governing body, The Harvard Corporation, stood by Gay and attempted to squash the plagiarism controversy in mid-December by claiming they had reviewed Gay’s work and found several cases of "inadequate citation" but no proof of research misconduct. It was not until The Washington Free Beacon’s jaw-dropping report released on Monday that fully depicted the number of allegations and the severity of each offense. On multiple occasions, Gay copied verbatim the work of a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin and claimed it as her own.
Big money: It appears that Claudine Gay will retain her $900K per year salary after leaving the top post for a faculty position on the Cambridge campus.
Reporting: Despite the reputational damage that Gay’s short tenure did to the university and the fact that Harvard’s enrollment is down 17%, mainstream media outlets are covering her resignation as a product of conservative outrage. Consider these headlines:
AP: Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism
Politico: How the right toppled Harvard’s president
NPR: Claudine Gay's resignation highlights the trouble with regulating academic writing
Forbes: Claudine Gay Resigns From Harvard: Why Black Excellence Is Never Enough
Bias: Progressive pundits are having a meltdown attempting to explain why Gay is really the victim. Watch this from MSNBC:
Here’s a “journalist” on CNN:
Hispanic leaders warn Democrats: Voters are fed up with Biden
President Joe Biden is heading into 2024 with concerning numbers among Hispanic voters: A new USA Today/Suffolk survey shows him trailing Donald Trump by five percentage points, with many reluctant to back either candidate. While it’s an especially rough poll, others have also shown him struggling to match his 2020 numbers with a key swath of the Democratic base — and Hispanic leaders say they’re seeing the same problems on the ground.
“It’s a matador red flag flying out there — the Hispanic vote is totally up for grabs,” Domingo Garcia, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, told Semafor. “[Trump’s] cutting the margins. And in battleground states like Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, that can be a big difference.”
Full story at SEMAFOR.
Biden administration asks Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol to cut or move razor wire at Texas border
The Biden administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow federal Border Patrol agents to cut through or move razor wire Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a contentious effort by the state to prevent illegal border crossings.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said in a court filing that Border Patrol agents have authority under federal law to access private land at the border and that Texas has no basis to thwart them from carrying out their duties. The Biden administration says the wire prevents agents from reaching migrants who have already crossed over the border into the U.S.
The case arose when the administration of Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, a Republican, installed the razor wire near the Rio Grande river at Eagle Pass, Texas, as part of an operation to address illegal immigration that has brought the state into conflict with the Biden administration.
Full story at NBC.
Israel
An Israeli airstrike in Beirut resulted in the death of a prominent Hamas leader who founded the military wing of the organization. While Saleh al-Arouri was not directly involved in the day-to-day activities of Hamas, al-Arourir facilitated the organization’s diplomatic advancements that resulted in financial support from countries like Iran.
Iran
At least 103 were killed and 170 were injured when a pair of remote-controlled explosive devices went off during an Iranian event commemorating the death of General Qassem Soleimani four years ago. As a top general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani was killed during a US airstrike in 2019.
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Market snapshot:
Al Sharpton wrote, "President Gay’s resignation is about more than a person or a single incident. This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass ceiling,"
Fred Harari, operator of 'Freddy's Fashion Mart' was unavailable for comment, as he was killed after a hostage incident following 1995 protests led by Sharpton, who told the crowd of protesters: "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business,"
People routinely cite Tawany Brawley in reference to Al Sharpton. But no one died in that incident.
Seven people (not including the gunman) died due in part to Sharpton's inflammatory rhetoric. That ANYone pays attention to this race-hustler defies logic.
Barak Obama quietly recommended Claudine Gay for the President position and he quietly recommended she not be terminated. The downfall on this is that she will no longer dictate policy at Harvard but will be right in the forefront of indoctrinating (teaching) the children with her ideology. Where are the parents? Do they not ask their children what they are learning in school, do they not see a different behaviour when kids come home on recess - showing "how smart" they are and pushing their life's lessons on their parents. The real shame of all this is that there are qualified black females for every type of job, but people will look at them as being "chosen" and question their capability.