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CNN Bureau Chief Says ‘Carrot’ is No Longer Working in Drive to Vaccinate Americans

Suggests authorities should start threats of punishment.

A leaked internal email from CNN’s Washington bureau chief complains that the “carrot” is no longer working in terms of convincing Americans to get vaccinated and that authorities need to start using the “stick.”

The message, which was mistakenly sent to conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was only intended to be seen by other CNN colleagues.

Although Fox News didn’t name the individual responsible for the comment during an interview segment between Tucker Carlson and Kirk, CNN’s Washington bureau chief is also the network’s senior vice president, Sam Feist. 

The email’s subject line was, “FW: #NEWS: A majority of unvaccinated Americans say they’re unlikely to get the Covd-19 vaccine, regardless of outreach efforts.”

“This is the point re: carrot vs. stick. The carrot is no longer going to work,” wrote the author in the body of the email.

Kirk responded to the email by asking, “Is it CNN’s stated position now that they’re going to try to administer medicine under the threat of punishment? What does the stick look like in CNN’s world?”

However, CNN’s Brian Stelter tried to do damage control by claiming that the opinion wasn’t the network’s official position.

“CNN has 4,000 staffers,” he tweeted. “One exec sends an email about vaccine hostility opining that ‘the carrot is no longer going to work.’ Carlson obtains it. And his show turns it into an outright lie: ‘CNN WANTS TO USE A ‘STICK’ ON THE UNVACCINATED.”

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Conservative Baptist Network, Mike Stone Call for Resignation of SBC President Ed Litton

The Conservative Baptist Network of Southern Baptists (CBN) released a statement on July 20, 2021, calling for newly elected Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Ed Litton‘s resignation, citing recent reports that Litton plagiarized J.D. Greear’s sermon series on Romans. Greear had earlier responded to the reports, saying he had granted Litton permission to use the sermons.

Who Is the Conservative Baptist Network?

According to the purpose statement located on its website, the CBN is a “partnership of Southern Baptists where all generations are encouraged, equipped, and empowered to bring positive, biblical solutions that strengthen the SBC in an effort to fulfill the Great Commission and influence culture.” The CBN also states it is committed to seeing the SBC function biblically, efficiently, and strategically. The network says it is not a denomination, competitor, or platform created to “air grievances, but are Southern Baptists who use this avenue called the CBN to voluntarily partner together with like-minded pastors, churches, organizations, and individuals to influence the SBC to fulfill the Great Commission.”

The CBN’s steering committee is comprised of numerous leaders, including:

  • Faith leader and president of the Family Research Council Tony Perkins
  • Ordained Southern Baptist minister and the 44th governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee
  • Founding president of Northeastern Baptist College and member of the SBC Executive Committee Mark Ballard
  • Senior pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church and SBC Executive Committee member Mike Stone (Stone came up a few hundred votes short against Ed Litton to become this year’s SBC President.)

The full list of the CBN steering committee can be found here.

CBN Calls for Ed Litton to Resign

CBN’s statement said it waited nearly a month to respond after Litton’s sermon plagiarizing was first reported in the hope that Litton would “acknowledge his error and repent.” The statement said this has not happened.

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Trump Lost $200 Million In 2020, Still Gave Away Presidential Salary: Forbes

A Forbes report from Monday shows President Donald Trump’s personal businesses took a multi-million dollar hit during his time in the White House, but still donated his presidential salary.

QUICK FACTS:
  • A Forbes analysis of Trump’s financial records—some only recently becoming public—reveals that President Trump’s businesses lost revenue while he was in office.
  • Forbes scoured property records, ethics disclosures, debt documents, and securities filings.
  • In Trump’s first three years as president, his businesses earned “about $650 million annually,” according to the analysis. “But in 2020, revenues plunged to an estimated $450 million as COVID infected [sic] the business.”
  • Trump still gave away his $400,000 salary as U.S. president.
HOW MUCH TRUMP LOST:
  • Trump’s golf resorts were hit with long shutdowns, “causing his overall golf and club revenues to drop 27% to an estimated $190 million in 2020,” writes Forbes.
  • His hotel, licensing, and management businesses dropped to around $50 million in 2020, a fall from “well above $100 million” in prior years.
  • President Trump’s Washington, D.C. hotel saw revenues drop to “about $52 million from 2017 to 2019. But when Covid hit, “revenues plunged to less [than] $20 million,” motivating a sell attempt from the Trump Organization.
  • “The lack of deals was one reason revenues dropped about 25% to an estimated $450 million,” says Forbes.
WHAT TRUMP SAID ABOUT HIS FINANCIAL HIT DURING COVID:
  • “It’s hurting me, and it’s hurting Hilton, and it’s hurting all of the great hotel chains all over the world,” Trump said in a March 2020 White House press conference. “It’s hurting everybody. I mean there are very few businesses that are doing well now.”
  • “I wouldn’t say (business is) thriving when you decide to close down your hotels and your businesses,” he said.

Federal Lawsuit Seeks Immediate Halt of COVID Vaccines

America’s Frontline Doctors filed a motion to stop the use of Emergency Use Authorization COVID vaccines for anyone under 18, anyone with natural immunity, or anyone who hasn’t received informed consent, according to Children’s Health Defense.

QUICK FACTS:
REASONS WHY COVID VACCINE ADMINISTRATION SHOULD BE HALTED:
  • The motion says there is “no emergency, which is a prerequisite to issuing EUA and EUA renewals for COVID vaccines.”
  • It also says there is “no serious or life-threatening disease or condition.”
  • “Vaccines do not diagnose, treat or prevent SARS-CoV-2 or COVID.”
  • “Known and potential risks of the vaccine outweigh their known and potential benefits.”
  • “There are adequate, approved, and available alternatives to vaccines.”
  • “Healthcare professionals and vaccine candidates are not adequately informed.”
THE WHISTLEBLOWER WHO CAME FORWARD:
  • The Defender notes that the authors of the motion attached a declaration by a whistleblower who came forward.
  • The whistleblower is “alleging deaths occurring within 72 hours of receiving a COVID vaccine are significantly under-reported in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS)” which is “maintained by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).”

Pentagon Tracking ‘Truth About BLM’ Web Searches—Labeled ‘White Supremacist’

U.S. Department of Defense now monitoring alleged “extremism” among Americans’ internet searches.

QUICK FACTS:
  • The Pentagon is working with a U.K.-based contractor called Moonshot CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) to track Americans’ web searches that it describes as indicators of interest in or engagement with White supremacism, according to Fox News and Defense One.
  • The project aims to uncover networks of domestic extremists within the military.
  • Moonshot says it has “monitored a list of almost 1,600 indicators of interest in or engagement with White supremacism.”
  • It is “unclear why the Pentagon chose a U.K.-based company for monitoring purported U.S. extremism,” according to Fox, neither Moonshot nor the Defense Department responding to a request for comment.
WHAT QUALIFIES AS ‘WHITE EXTREMISM’:
  • Searching the phrase “the truth about black lives matter” is cited as one example of extremism, indicating a belief “that the BLM movement has nefarious motives.” Moonshot says the idea that BLM might have nefarious motives “is a disinformation narrative perpetuated by White supremacist groups to weaponize anti-BLM sentiment.” Because it has been used to suggest the BLM movement “is in line with the burning and looting of Antifa,” the phrase is “[not] innocuous” but dangerous. “These sources echo White supremacist disinformation narratives alleging that BLM protesters are trying to ‘overthrow the republic’ and ‘harm American citizens in a Marxist coup,’ as a means of delegitimizing it,” says Moonshot.
  • The above search is considered as extreme as phrases such as “George Floyd deserved to die,” “Jews will not replace us” and “the truth about black lives matter.”
  • Labelling BLM as “Marxist” also indicates extremism, even though BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors says she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists.”
ABOUT MOONSHOT:
  • Moonshot has ties to the Obama Foundation, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and George Soros’ Open Foundation.
  • The Center for Security Policy raised concerns about the company in an article last month in which it highlighted how Moonshot CEO Vidhya Ramalingam served as a leader in the Obama Foundation’s Europe program, according to Fox.
TUCKER CARLSON’S COVERAGE OF MOONSHOT:
  • Editorial director of The Daily Caller appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show discussing Moonshot’s contract with the Pentagon, noting that there is “a sustained move within the Biden government to label everything as domestic extremism.”
  • “It’s completely out of control,” said Coglianese, adding that “[a]sking questions, now extremism. Free inquiry, now extremism. It’s getting worse.”
  • Carlson said that Joe Biden has already “gone much farther than any other president, however, to politicize every federal agency. And that includes, terrifyingly, the military.” “Biden has directed the defense department, the department that is supposed to work on keeping us safe from foreign threats, to instead turns its attention on American citizens,” Carlson went on to say.
  • “Notice he never defined white supremacy,” Carlson said. “No one ever has. There is no actual definition for it. So it can apply to everyone who didn’t vote for Joe Biden. That’s why it is terrifying, that’s why you should resist it.”

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.

Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas From Implementing Near Total Abortion Ban

An Obama-era federal judge blocked Arkansas on Tuesday from implementing strict legislation that would have greatly restricted abortion access in the state.

In her court order issuing a preliminary injunction against the law, U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker, appointed in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama, described the bill — set to take effect July 28 — as “categorically unconstitutional.”

If implemented, the legislation would have banned all abortions in Arkansas, including in cases of rape and incest. The only exception would have been for rare instances when the life of the mother was in danger.

Baker argued the plaintiffs — the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider — were “likely to succeed on the merits” of their claim that the Arkansas legislation blocks access to abortion before the age of viability outside the womb and, as such, is unconstitutional based upon precedent established by the Supreme Court.

“Defendants do not make any argument to the contrary and concede that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits,” the judge explained. “Instead, defendants argue that [Roe v. Wade] and [Planned Parenthood v. Casey] were wrongly decided and that there is no constitutional right to abortion. As a federal district court, this Court ‘is bound by the Supreme Court’s decisions in Casey.’ Accordingly, the Act is categorically unconstitutional, and plaintiffs have demonstrated they are likely to succeed on the merits.”

“Defendants make no argument as to whether or not plaintiffs or plaintiffs’ patients will experience irreparable harm,” she continued. “Since the record at this stage of the proceedings indicates that women seeking abortions in Arkansas face an imminent threat to their constitutional rights, the court concludes that they will suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief.”

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