Accurate Media Reporting

01/31/2025

Chuck Todd, NBC’s chief political analyst and former Meet The Press moderator, is exiting NBC News after nearly 20 years with the far-left network.

“There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality,’” Todd reportedly wrote in a memo to his NBC colleagues Friday. “So I’m grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment.”

“The ChuckToddcast is also coming with me (thank you NBC). Stay tuned for an announcement about its new home soon,” he added. “Needless to say, I do plan to continue to share my reporting and unique perspective of covering politics with data and history as important baselines in understanding where we were, where we are and where we’re going.”

“The media has a lot of work to do to win back the trust of viewers/listeners/readers and I’m convinced the best place to start is from the bottom up,” he continued. “National media can’t win trust back without having a robust partner locally and trying to game algorithms is no way to inform and report.”

And then to prove he’s learned nothing, Todd writes…

“We can’t tolerate propagandists,” he proclaimed without a hint of self-awareness. “I leave feeling concerned about this moment in history but reassured by the standards I and others at NBC have worked so hard to set.”

Oh, do you mean the oh-so-lofty legacy media standards that gave us these:

Elon Musk N**i Salute Hoax
The All-White Trump Party Hoax
Springfield Bomb Threat Hoax
Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax
Violent Crime Down Under Biden/Harris Hoax
Arlington Cemetery Hoax
Kamala Was Never America’s Border Czar Hoax
Russia Collusion Hoax
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax
Jussie Smollett Hoax
Covington KKKids Hoax
Very Fine People Hoax
Seven-Hour Gap Hoax
Russian Bounties Hoax
Trump Trashes Troops Hoax
Policemen Killed at Mostly Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax
Rittenhouse Hoax
Eating While Black Hoax
Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax
NASCAR Noose Hoax
Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax
Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax
MAGA Assaulted Paul Pelosi Hoax
COVID Lab Leak Theory Is Racist Hoax
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Russian Disinformation Hoax
Joe Biden Will Never Ban Gas Stoves Hoax
COVID Deaths are Overcounted Is a Conspiracy Theory Hoax
Mass Graves of Native Children in Canada Hoax
Trump Killed Japanese Koi Fish Hoax
Trump Told People to Drink Bleach Hoax
Hamas Hospital Hoax
If Reelected, Trump Will Execute People Hoax
The 900,000 Kids Hospitalized with Coronavirus Hoax
Dozens of Environmental Hoaxes
The Alfa Bank Hoax
Libs of TikTok Murdered Non-Binary Teen Hoax
Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax
‘Bloodbath’ Hoax
Biden ‘Sharp-as-a-Tack’ Hoax
Iowa Poll Hoax

- John Nolte

01/23/2025

Dayton (Ohio) Newspaper With A Deceiving Headline...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Right-wing extremists are celebrating Elon Musk’s straight-arm gesture during a speech Monday, although his intention wasn't totally clear and some hate watchdogs are saying not to read too much into it.

09/22/2024

When It Comes To voter Registration, The NFL Leans Far Left...

The NFL claims to have engaged in a “nonpartisan” get-out-the-vote effort for the 2024 election, but a look at its list of partners reveals that it has only teamed up with organizations that promote left-wing candidates and causes.

On its NFL Votes webpage, the league explains that the effort, launched in 2020, is a “league-wide, nonpartisan initiative that supports and encourages civic engagement among NFL players, and legends, club and league personnel, and fans.”

The campaign, co-sponsored with the left-wing NFL Players Association, “focuses on three key components of the electoral process: voter education, voter registration, and voter activation,” the league adds.

But, as The Federalist notes, the NFL’s GOTV partners include some of the most left-wing activist organizations in operation.

It sounds all well and good until one scrolls down to the partners’ section. There, fans will find that the league is working with I Am a Voter, Rock the Vote, Rise to Vote, Vet the Vote, and Votolatino. All of these groups, though they claim to be “nonpartisan,” have a history of pushing left-wing candidates and causes almost exclusively, not to mention being manned, chaired, and founded by leftists.

The oldest of the groups is Rock the Vote, which started in 1990 and was a big supporter of Barack Obama and his causes — especially Obamacare. Its leadership is filled to the brim with Obama operatives, Democrat donors, and left-wingers.

Then there is Voto Latino Action Fund. This group was launched in 2013 and is closely connected to Left-wing “squad” member and Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Also, Obama administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro is listed as a senior adviser.

I Am A Voter is another far-left group, this one filled with Hollywood leftists including extremist actress Debra Messing, who along with fashion industry notable and leftist Mandana Dayani, founded the group. I Am A Voter has never supported any moderate or conservative Republican candidate.

Another group the NFL has partnered with for its “nonpartisan” effort is Rise to Vote, an organization that has made millions by posing as the go-to voter registration organization for much of America’s professional sports sector.

The group’s board includes far left-wing NBA commissioner Adam Silver, “women’s empowerment” activist Gabrielle Raymond McGee, LeBron James business partner Maverick Carter, Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Black Lives Matter pusher and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, and a host of other left-wingers.

None of these organizations has conservative or Republican members on its boards, and it has not supported Republican or conservative causes or candidates. Yet, the NFL still calls this effort and its partners “nonpartisan.”

(Warner Todd Huston)

10/11/2023

Time magazine has published an op-ed by radical left-wing activist and writer Mairav Zonszein arguing that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to blame for the recent mass murder of Israelis by Palestinian Hamas terrorists.

The op-ed, “How Netanyahu Undermined Israel’s Security,” fails to condemn the brutality of Hamas terror, and actually defends Hamas by noting that it “also operates as a political party,” despite its designation by the U.S. as a terrorist organization.

Zonszein’s argument essentially blames Netanyahu for pursuing the Abraham Accords, the peace agreements that Israel has signed with several Arab countries.

The Israeli prime minister “has repeatedly formulated his policies around the idea that Israel can resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict and proceed to normalize relations with Arab countries without engaging with the Palestinians,” she claims.

She does not explain how Israel is meant to “engage” with a terror group bent on murdering Jews.

Zonszein also repeats several lies, familiar from pro-Palestinian propaganda, such as that Israel “has provoked instability at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem,” referring to raids by Israeli police to remove weapons that terrorists had stockpiled in the mosque.

She also laments that Israel “has gained diplomatic traction, signing normalization deals with four Arab countries, and was most recently admitted into the coveted U.S. visa waiver program.” She fails to note that the latter development happened because the Israeli government agreed to U.S. demands that travel to (or through) Israel by air be made easier for Palestinian-Americans.

Zonszein works at the International Crisis Group, the former home of Rob Malley, the recently-suspended U.S. envoy to Iran.

(Joel B Pollak)

12/07/2022

Please DO NOT READ One Of The Dumbest Articles Ever Written!

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11/22/2022

"In 2014, Idris Mukhtar Ibrahim tweeted . In 2015, far-left CNN hired Ibrahim as a freelance producer. CNN finally cut ties with him this week.

More proof that the media, and most especially CNN, are beyond broken.

“I have shifted to team Germany after finding out that Messi supports Israel ,” Ibrahim tweeted during the World Cup in July of 2014. He was referring to one of Argentina’s star soccer players who had previously visited Israel.

Less than a week later, he tweeted his support for the Islamic terrorist group Hamas. “Hamas is the modern day freed[o]m fighters, they def[e]nding their land, Yes they are entitled to armed struggle.”

For seven years, this guy did business with CNN before the pro-Israel media group Honest Reporting publicized his tweets ten days ago.

“Idris Muktar Ibrahim, a California-educated native of Kenya, has done work for CNN since 2015,” wrote Honest Reporting, “reporting on critical events in Africa, including then-President Barack Obama’s visit to the region[.]”

“Earlier this year,” the site reports, “following his graduation from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, [CNN’s] international desk took him on as a producer.”

Honest Reporting continues: “Ibrahim’s name has appeared in multiple bylines on CNN.com, including in one above a November 13 article about Israel’s incoming coalition[.]”

“Yet Ibrahim’s profound hatred of the Jewish state calls into question his ability to impartially report on the Arab-Israeli conflict,” the site writes before posting screenshots of the offending tweets.

Finally, CNN cut ties with Ibrahim and released a statement to Fox News: “Idris was employed as a freelancer by CNN. We were not aware of these tweets, which were published before we began working with him,” a CNN spokesperson said. “We have informed him that we will no longer be working with him in the future.”

According to the New York Post, Ibrahim worked closely with — surprise, surprise — Jim Acosta.

CNN’s hatred of Israel is no secret to anyone.

For his part, Ibrahim has apologized…

“In 2014, I wrote some ignorant and hurtful tweets. I regret having done so and unreservedly apologize for the pain my words caused, especially to the Jewish Community,” he wrote. “They were offensive and I must take responsibility. I was young, new to social media, and blurted out.”

You know what? I accept his apology. He’s a young guy, and young guys say dumb things. Why? Well, because they are dumb and because it’s only natural to push the envelope as you learn society’s boundaries. The problem is that in the age of social media, those dumb things last forever. I thank the Good Lord all the time social media wasn’t around when I was in high school and of college age. Why? Because I was an idiot. We should accept apologies. We should offer second and third, and fourth chances, and I hope Ibrahim is sincere and I hope he gets those chances. But then there’s CNN…

Are we supposed to believe a billion-dollar corporation doesn’t vet its new hires and doesn’t go back a mere year in social media accounts? This wasn’t 2004. This was 2015.

Come on. CNN knew exactly who it was hiring. How difficult is it to search someone’s Twitter account for HI**ER?

If you want to play pretend, if you want to say CNN wasn’t aware of those tweets, then remember who CNN hired. CNN didn’t hire Ibrahim (who has hopefully matured over the last decade) last week. They hired the 2015 Ibrahim, who wrote those tweets.

What a vile organization."

- John Nolte

05/12/2022

The Palestinian Authority has said it wants to go to the international community to punish Israel for the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. This demand for an international investigation was part of the reaction that appeared on the street and online within hours of the death of Abu Akleh. It is part of a wider accusation that blames Israel for her death, regardless of the details.

Israel isn’t in the same position as other countries. This is due to a variety of reasons. What is important to understand is that the killing of the journalist was immediately blamed on Israel. Ayman Mohyeldin on MSNBC said “we hear - as we did yet again today - American officials condemn and call for investigation into Israeli abuses. But as history has shown, there is rarely, if ever, any justice for the killing of Palestinians, whether they are American or not.” Mehdi Hasan also noted on MSNBC that "Shireen's producer told Al Jazeera they identified themselves to the Israelis as press & that the Israelis shot at them without asking them to leave or stop filming."

Both the statements above were retweeted by US member of Congress Ilhan Omar. She noted after the reports of the killing on May 11 that “[abu Akleh] was killed by the Israeli military, after making her presence as a journalist clearly known. We provide Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid annually with no restrictions. What will it take for accountability for these human rights violations?”

At the same time, she tweeted a demand for the media to fact-check Israeli claims. This demand for facts alongside assertions that Israel had killed the journalist illustrates the theme. Israel is guilty of the killing, even before basic facts have been determined. When these claims were being made, there was no autopsy or determination of who fired the round that killed Abu Akleh.
US politician Rashida Tlaib made similar claims. “May Shireen's memory be for a blessing and for truth. May we end US complicity and support for the Israeli government's violent apartheid regime that killed her.” She also retweeted claims that Israel had killed the journalist. “When will the world and those who stand by Apartheid Israel that continues to murder, torture and commit war crimes finally say: ‘Enough’? Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered by a government that receives unconditional funding from our country with zero accountability.

An American journalist clearly marked with press credentials was murdered. Doing and saying nothing just enables more killings. Whether you're Palestinian, American, or not, being killed with US funding must stop,” Tlaib wrote.
Amnesty International’s reaction to the killing was more simple. “End Israel’s apartheid. End Israel’s apartheid. End Israel’s apartheid. End Israel’s apartheid. End Israel’s apartheid. End Israel’s apartheid. End Israel’s apartheid. End Israel’s apartheid,” they tweeted. Without any investigation, they wrote “Israeli authorities must end unlawful killings, willful injury, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment, persecution, and collective punishment against Palestinians, including many children."

While some say they want an international investigation because they don’t trust Israel’s authorities to carry out an investigation, others didn’t even wait for any investigation before accusing Israel and then demanding an end to “apartheid” or support for Israel. This narrative was already set in place before Abu Akleh was killed. She is then placed into the narrative. The narrative is like a train track and it has only one destination which is a desire to blame Israel and heap hatred on Israel, and then any example that fits this is put onto the track.

The issue here is that Israel has no chance of ever being innocent. It doesn’t matter if there is an international investigation because the guilty verdict has already been handed down. Unlike other countries, Israel doesn’t ever get to make mistakes or even be given the chance to show that it was innocent. Omar and Tlaib and some others who slammed Israel on May 11 are likely aware that the US has carried out drone strikes that killed civilians. In September of 2021, the US apologized for a strike in Afghanistan that killed as many as 10 civilians.

Omar Tweeted at the time “Sorry’ isn't enough.
The US drone strike took place in August of 2021. In this case, the US had weeks to investigate and determine that a mistake was made. Omar condemned the US but her condemnation was more judicious than her tweets on Israel. She called for those involved to be held accountable.

For Israel, it was a claim that the journalist was killed “after making her presence as a journalist clearly known.” Is that what happened? Did we know this happened on May 11, hours after reports of the killing were made public? Omar wants accountability for US military support for Israel. This doesn’t even give Israel the time to investigate. It’s just an open-and-shut case.

The guilty verdict before any details are known is part of the mantra about Israel and it sets up Israel to be in a very difficult situation. Israel can investigate potential abuses, and Israel has the technology to do investigations. However, there is a sense that while some want answers about the killing, many do not. Many judged Israel anyway. They have opinions that range from claiming Israel “assassinated” the journalist, to claiming that Israel’s “apartheid” must end. It doesn’t matter if Israel wasn’t responsible or if Israel made a mistake, or even if an individual soldier is responsible, it’s just another example to be used to slam Israel.

It's sometimes difficult to separate the legitimate demands for an investigation from claims that Israel can’t even be trusted to investigate this incident and using the incident to bash Israel. If Israel is put in the position where critics won’t even trust Israel’s own findings on this case and only an “international” investigation can perform the findings, then how will we ever know what happened?

The evidence is already being moved around, the need to protect the scene and do basic forensics is disappearing with time. Lack of cooperation from local Palestinian authorities doesn’t help. An international investigation would take time to assemble. The track record of such investigations is that they are slow. By that time it’s not clear if such a team of investigators could even come to Israel because Israel will naturally not want them to come. Demands for such an investigation put Israel in an impossible spot. If it rejects the “international” investigation it will be seen as covering up details. If it accepts it then it opens the door for more.

Either way, Israel’s current government, which is very different than the last government, has been very forthright with wanting to know the truth. Yet, the anti-Israel critics don’t want to hear anything from this government. In their view, it doesn’t matter if Israel has a centrist or left-leaning government. This impossible situation means Israel is always guilty in the view of some critics. Israel doesn’t need to satisfy those critics, but trying to figure out how to deal with the avalanche of knee-jerk anti-Israel reactions is one of the difficult challenges for Jerusalem. Knowing this bias, it behooves Israel to always be extra careful in confrontations with Palestinians.

- S Frantzman

01/20/2022

Left-wing billionaire and Democrat donor George Soros has turned his attention in recent years to local races for prosecutor, using his money to elect “progressives” who push “criminal justice reform” and support the Black Lives Matter movement.

The rise of these Soros-backed prosecutors has coincided with a massive surge in murder and crime in many Democrat-run cities, including many where these prosecutors have implemented radical policies toward policing and incarceration.

Most recently, for example, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has faced criticism for his radical reforms in the year since he took office, while murders soared. “The city last year experienced 397 murders, up 11.8 percent from the 355 the previous year, and a 53.9 percent increase from the 258 in the pre-pandemic year of 2019,” Los Angeles magazine noted.

These murders included the shooting death of Jacqueline Avant, a black philanthropist and the wife of legendary music producer Clarence Avant, who was killed during a robbery in her home. Gascón blamed the “system” for her death.

More recently, a young woman, Brianna Kupfer, was stabbed to death in broad daylight in the furniture store where she worked. Her alleged killer was out on bail for a 2020 arrest in Los Angeles and a 2019 arrest in South Carolina. Her father blamed politicians who had let criminals roam free — a growing sentiment in cities where Soros-backed prosecutors rule.

Many of the candidates Soros has backed have received support, directly or indirectly, from a network of groups with names like “Justice & Public Safety PAC.” The Influence Watch website describes Soros’s organizations as the “‘Safety and Justice’ network, a project of left-leaning billionaire George Soros that used a network of similarly named state-level PACs to finance the campaigns of progressive Democratic candidates for district attorney in more than a dozen of America’s cities.”

Soros-backed prosecutors include:

Supported by Soros through spending by political action committees (PACs) and super PACs:

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón – Elected in 2020, he ousted incumbent D.A. Jackie Lacey, the first black woman to hold the job, and has prided himself on reducing prison sentences, even as violent crime has soared in L.A.

(Chicago) Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx – Foxx became notorious for her intervention in the Jussie Smollett case, dropping charges against the actor for a hate crime hoax. (Smollett was later convicted.) Chicago hit 800 homicides in 2021.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner – Soros supported Krasner with nearly $1.7 million in spending in 2017, more than five times as much as Kranser spent himself. Philadelphia set a new record for homicides in 2021, with 562 in total.

(Houston) Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg – Ogg is considered one of the more moderate of Soros’s prosecutors, and had to overcome opposition from even more left-wing prosecutors in 2020. Houston’s homicide rate rose 71% in 2021.

Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot – Cruezot dropped prosecutions for thefts of “personal items” valued at less than $750, among other radical reforms, and was reduced to reminding residents that theft was still against the law.

(San Antonio) Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales – Gonzales has been described as “one of Soros’s favorite DAs,” presiding over a stunning 52% increase in homicides in San Antonio since 2019, though violent crime was down overall.

(Phoenix) Maricopa County District Attorney Paul Penzone – Soros spent millions to defeat Joe Arpaio and support Penzone, who gained national attention in 2020 when he resisted efforts by Republicans to audit the ballots in the 2020 election.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner – Gardner has faced ethical complaints over the prosecution of former Governor Eric Greitens, as well as that of Mark and Patricia McCloskey. She was kicked off the latter prosecution after using it to fundraise.

(East San Francisco Bay Area) Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton – Becton famously charged a couple with a “hate crime” for painting over a “Black Lives Matter” mural that was painted on a public road in Martinez, California.

Supported by Soros indirectly:

(New York) Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg – Bragg was elected with help from the Color of Change PAC, to which Soros donated $1 million. He has banned pre-trial incarceration and prison for all but homicide and a few other cases.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby – Mosby, one of the original “Black Lives Matter” prosecutors, reportedly took a trip abroad sponsored by a Soros-backed group. She was recently indicted on federal charges of mortgage fraud and perjury.

(Orlando) Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Monque Worrell – Worrell succeeded Soros-backed Aramis Ayala, whom Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off a murder case for declining to seek charges in a murder because she opposed the death penalty.

A further list of Soros-backed prosecutors, current through 2019, is available through Influence Watch. These include prosecutors such as Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney Buta Biberaj – Biberaj came under scrutiny after a parent was arrested for speaking out at a school board meeting against district policies after his daughter was sexually assaulted. Another list is available through the Capital Research Center, including descriptions of Soros-backed prosecutors’ records.

Not every left-wing prosecutor is directly backed by Soros. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was not backed by Soros — but he received $100,000 from a PAC controlled by Soros-backed George Gascón to fight a recall election effort.

In 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported that Soros had funded at least 21 local prosecutorial campaigns, though it noted that the full extent of his influence on such races was unknown, because some of his contributions flowed to non-profit organizations and “dark money” groups rather than directly to campaigns. He has continued and expanded his role since.

(Joel B. Pollak)

06/26/2021

Scientific American retracts anti-Israel opinion piece after criticism...

Sunya Bhutta, a senior editor at the magazine has tweeted the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — widely taken as call for the destruction of Israel. She is also a public supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which has been widely condemned as antisemitic.

They’re in hot H2O.

Scientific American found itself taking heat this month after the scholarly, 176-year-old magazine published an opinion piece titled “Health Care Workers Call for Support of Palestinians.”

The screechy diatribe accused Israel of “vaccine apartheid” and “war crimes” among other alleged abuses. The piece blasted “Israeli settler colonial rule” and called on US healthcare and academic institutions to condemn “long-standing oppression” against the Palestinians and adopt the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions campaign against the country.

The piece was written by Harvard University research fellows Osaid H. K. Alser and Asmaa Rimawi; Seattle Children’s Hospital Dr. Sabreen Akhter; Mayo Clinic Dr. Nusheen Ameenuddin, Harvard med students Anand Chukka and Qaali Hussein; Arizona trauma surgeon Ariän El-Taher; and Bryan Leyva, an “AfroLatinx Scholar-Activist from the “Dakota Territory.”

The opinionated screed was swiftly retracted after the magazine received a letter from three Nobel Prize winners and 100 other scientists calling out the article.

“In publishing the cited article, Scientific American’s editors jettisoned appropriate editorial standards and ignored easily verified facts that counter the authors’ one-sided invective,” the letter read.

The opinion piece accused Israel of “vaccine apartheid” and “war crimes.”
Scientific American

“While purporting to be a scientific statement about public health, the paper addressed important historical and political issues superficially, inaccurately, and prejudicially. In reality, the piece is a call for activism that, in our view, is unsupported by the facts.”

The missive was signed by a number of influential New Yorkers, including Edward C. Halperin, chancellor of New York Medical College.

“I have been on editorial boards for so many years. You can have differences of opinions, and you can even challenge facts, but it’s quite another thing to completely falsify a fact. So that is what I objected to in the article,” said Stanley J. Robboy of the Duke Cancer Institute, who co-wrote and sent the letter.

Among the biggest sticking points were the article’s failure to note that the 1993 Oslo Accords tasks the Palestinian Authority to provide healthcare services to its people. The same agreement also prohibits Israel from providing care unless asked by the Palestinian Authority. The authors also noted that “the writers of the opinion piece ascribe no agency to Hamas and attribute no responsibility to them for any actions taken.” A sentence describing Palestinian casualties failed to note how many of them were in fact Hamas fighters.

The venerable magazine is owned by English-German publishing house Springer Nature — which did not respond to requests for comment.

It’s unclear how the article ended up being published. In an email to Robboy and Halperin, Scientific American editor Laura Helmuth said the magazine would be “revising [their] internal review processes” but declined to offer specifics.

Just two days after the now-retracted article was published, the magazine also published a similar opinion piece decrying the “mental health crisis” in Gaza. The article took aim at “recent bombings by Israel” but did not mention Hamas, the terrorist organization that rules the territory and has precipitated the most recent violence.

(J Levine - NY Post)

04/14/2021

You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) on Wednesday that “the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles.”

Thomas-Greenfield addressed the NAN’s 30th annual summit, praising Sharpton for a “lifetime of activism” and thanking him for “never backing down.” She did not mention Sharpton’s history of antisemitic, racist, and homophobic rhetoric, or his role in inciting riots against Jews.

Instead, Thomas-Greenfield recited a familiar theme from Critical Race Theory, which holds that America was founded upon white supremacy, and that racism infects all of America’s institutions as a result.

In her prepared remarks, Thomas-Greenfield said:

I spoke on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. That day – and commemoration – was personal for me. So, I told the UN some personal stories. I told them about how my great-grandmother Mary Thomas, born in 1865, was the child of a slave. Just three generations back from me. I grew up in the segregated South. I was bussed to a segregated school. On weekends, the Klan burned crosses on lawns in our neighborhood.

I shared these stories and others to acknowledge, on the international stage, that I have personally experienced one of America’s greatest imperfections. I have seen for myself how the original sin of slavery weaved white supremacy into our founding documents and principles. But I also shared these stories to offer up an insight, a simple truth I’ve learned over the years: Racism is not the problem of the person who experiences it.

Those of us who experience racism cannot, and should not, internalize it, despite the impact it can have on our everyday lives. Racism is the problem of the racist. And it is the problem of the society that produces the racist. And in today’s world, that is every society.

In America, that takes many forms. It’s the white supremacy that led to the senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many other Black Americans. It’s the spike in hate crimes over the past three years – against Latino Americans, Sikh and Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and immigrants. And it’s the bullying, discrimination, brutality, and violence that Asian Americans face everyday, especially since the outbreak of COVID-19. That’s why the Biden-Harris administration has made racial equity a top priority across the entire government. And I’m making it a real focus of my tenure at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

- Joel B. Pollak

But when I say racism is a problem in every society, that means looking beyond America’s borders too. Across four decades and four continents in the foreign service, I experienced racism in countless international contexts. From overly invasive searches at airports, to police racially profiling my son, to being made to wait behind white patrons for a table at a restaurant. Racism was and continues to be a daily challenge abroad. And for millions, it’s more than a challenge. It’s deadly.

Some of the cases Thomas-Greenfield cited, including the Breonna Taylor case, have no evidence of racial bias whatsoever. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron — the state’s first black attorney general — announced last September that no charges would be filed against police officers in the case because they knocked first before Taylor fired his weapon at them.

Thomas-Greenfield also boasted that President Joe Biden “immediately re-engaged with the Human Rights Council, and have announced our intention to seek election to that body, so that we can advance our most-cherished democratic values around the globe.”

President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2018 precisely because it sheltered undemocratic regimes while obsessively criticizing Israel. China is among the council’s members.

“Roughly 80 times, this past decade, the United Nations Human Rights Council has denounced Israel while ignoring many of the worst human rights abuses anywhere in the world,” then-President Trump recalled in an address in 2019. To call out this egregious hypocrisy, I withdrew the United States from the U.N. Human Rights Council.”

During her confirmation process, Thomas-Greenfield faced scrutiny for her praise of China during a speech to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-funded Confucius Institute at Savannah State University in Georgia in 2019. She praised China’s role in Africa, saying that critics of its “predatory lending” needed to acknowledge that “the United States and the West is [sic] not showing up or offering viable alternatives.” She did not criticize China’s human rights record on that occasion, either in Africa or within China itself. (She later told the Senate that she regretted accepting the invitation to speak.)

Thomas-Greenfield’s outreach to Sharpton and NAN is notable. As Breitbart News has reported, then-candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) refused to have anything to do with Sharpton in 2008, but reached out to him when the Obama White House sought allies in the black community.

In 2012, Sharpton and NAN helped inflame national outrage over the death of Trayvon Martin, claiming inaccurately that the suspect, George Zimmerman, was “white.” Since then, he has become even more powerful within the Democratic Party.