THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Martha MacCallum

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum questioned Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) over his management of funds meant to help Republican Senate candidates in their midterm races.

MacCallum pressed the senator as some Republicans have voiced concerns about the party's ability to take back the Senate with first-time candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Story, MacCallum asked Scott about a New York Times report detailing how under Scott’s chairmanship, the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent millions of dollars in 2021.

The committee spent 95 percent of funds collected in 2021, leaving them with just $23 million by August 2022.

MacCallum was blunt: “How did that happen? Where did all that money go?”

Scott claimed the committee "did the right thing" by sending the money to GOP candidates early in their campaigns.

“Some of them are pointing fingers at your leadership and saying that it’s not working. What do you say to them?” she said, pointing to races in Florida and Ohio where "candidates are in need of money." 

Scott attempted to defend the tight races by claiming Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) was "gonna win."

MacCallum interjected, noting, “He’s behind by about five points right now, right?”

“So, Ron Johnson’s either tied, or up a little bit, or down barely,” Scott said after MacCallum corrected him.

MEDIA LOSER:
Greg Gutfeld

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld launched into a misogynistic rant about the Democratic Party on Wednesday.

Addressing the education system, abortion, and the horrors of drag shows, Gutfeld accused President Joe Biden and the media of "creating this psychological conflict between Trump peace and democracy."

"This is not a fabricated conflict," he said. "You know, when you have lockdowns, when you have drag shows, when did all of this happen?”

Gutfeld continued his diatribe against Democrats after reminiscing about the nationwide protests following former President Donald Trump's 2016 victory.

"It wasn’t a lot of men. And the men there, they weren’t exquisite specimens. Let’s face it," he said.

"But I saw a lot of young, angry females and the Democratic Party, in a way, has become the party of young, angry, single women, right?"

Gutfeld went on to claim that pro-choice voters want "abortion on demand up to birth."

The host, of course, did not mention that abortions performed later in a pregnancy represent only 1 percent of all abortions in the nation, often cost well over $1,000, and are typically conducted because of serious medical concerns.

Not quite done with his sexist tirade, Gutfeld later took a barb at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s looks after she appeared on The View.

The segment caught the attention of tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who called him a "misogynistic and a not funny at all asswipe."

BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth II Has Died at Age 96

The A-Block

Bannon charged with six felonies

Steve Bannon is learning the hard way the limitations of a presidential pardon, being indicted Thursday in New York for state charges.

The charges largely mirror the federal ones for which former President Donald Trump granted him a “Get Out of Jail Free” card related to an alleged scheme involving a project to raise private funds to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“WeBuildTheWall, Inc.” took in roughly $25 million, and Bannon and several of his associates were accused of using the non-profit organization’s funds to personally enrich themselves, with Bannon himself accused of pocketing $1 million.

Trump pardoned Bannon on his last day in office, Jan. 20, 2021, but presidential pardons only apply to federal charges, not state ones, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James continued their investigations of Bannon and the WeBuildTheWall.

The 22-page indictment includes six counts, two for money laundering, three counts of conspiracy, and one count of scheme to defraud.

Bannon’s latest legal troubles come less than two months after he was found guilty of contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.


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Must See Clip

'I think you’re miscommunicating with God'

Sen. Katrina Shealy (R-SC) delivered a blistering speech after her party removed language from an anti-abortion bill that would have included exceptions for incest or rape-related pregnancies.

Shealy ripped her Republican colleagues while speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, exclaiming, "I don’t want anyone in this room making life and death decisions for me, my daughter, my granddaughter, or for that fact, anyone."

"If you want to believe that God is wanting you to push a bill through with no exception that kills mothers and ruins the lives of children, lets mothers bring home babies to bury them, then I think you’re miscommunicating with God," she added.

"Or maybe you’re just not communicating with him at all."

Watch here.

Links We Like

- Benjamin Mullin, Lauren Hirsch and Ben Hubbard, New York Times
Inside David Shor's pre-election season blow out
- Joseph Bernstein, New York Times - Molly Jong-Fast, The Atlantic -  Brian Steinberg, Variety
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