THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2021 

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Maggie Haberman & Dean Baquet

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet defended Times correspondent Maggie Haberman in a statement Monday night over a critical piece from Fox News.

Earlier in the day, Haberman deleted tweets of hers hitting Fox News over an article slamming reporters who “rush[ed] to judgment” on the Florida pride parade crash.

That article said, “Reporters such as New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman and liberal writer Lesley Abravanel have posted and retweeted statements implying the truck was part of ‘domestic terrorism.'”

On Monday afternoon Fox News media reporter Brian Flood wrote a piece headlined “New York Times’ scribe Maggie Haberman can’t quit Trump, largely ignores Biden.”

Baquet said in a statement that Haberman “is one of the finest journalists of her generation.”

"We’re proud that she works for The New York Times," he wrote.

Sean Hannity went after Haberman again on Monday night and called her a “Donald Trump stalker.”

Standing by a reporter is a welcome move from the New York Times, and Haberman facing off with Fox News may seem a bit inside baseball, or even extra drama, but in fact she's standing up for her honest reporting in the face of a coordinated attempt to undermine her and, by extension, her paper and CNN.

MEDIA LOSER:
NCAA

The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) can no longer restrict colleges from providing education-related benefits to athletes — in a decision which could lead to fundamental changes in how college sports operates.

In the case of NCAA v. Alston, the Supreme Court reached a 9-0 decision to invalidate the NCAA’s “amateurism” rules for students playing for university sports teams. The money that the NCAA generates through media and marketing is stunning, and was central to the blue check reactions from press and athletes alike. And, it turns out, the Justices too.

Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the court, but it was Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a concurring opinion that set the NCAA on fire.

“Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate," he wrote. "The NCAA is not above the law."

It is a testament to the unpopularity of the NCAA's position on the subject that Justice Kavanaugh was quoted so favorably and often in his statement that was far more devastating than we can convey here. But this tweet sums it all up pretty well.

Chuck Todd on the Future of Meet the Press and Handling Election Deniers: ‘If You Don’t Accept the Premise, It’s Going to be a Painful Interview’ 

The A-Block

Disturbing Poll

Nearly one in three Americans believe that President Joe Biden only won the 2020 general election as a result of widespread voter fraud, according to a new poll from Monmouth University.

This is a disturbing development for anyone who believes in the need for a free and fair election or, perhaps more to the point, the willingness to believe in bipartisan claims from experts that there was no systemic voter fraud that could change the elections.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr has said that the DOJ saw no evidence of a “stolen election” and Chris Krebs, the cybersecurity czar under former President Donald Trump, also has repeatedly claimed there is no evidence of voter fraud, and 59 DHS experts signed a statement calling election fraud claims “unsubstantiated” or “incoherent.”

But Trump has continued to beat the drum that he only lost the election due to malfeasance and has repeated that baseless claim so often that now almost one in three Americans polled believe Biden only one due to voter fraud, which is the same number since polling started in November. 

“The continuing efforts to question the validity of last year’s election is deepening the partisan divide in ways that could have long-term consequences for our Democracy, even if most Americans don’t quite see it that way yet,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, in a statement.

And there's more...


In Other News...

Scarborough Reveals His Friends Are Gushing Over DeSantis, Comparing Him to Reagan

Tucker Carlson Praises Biden Appointee and His Segment Gets a Retweet from – Ilhan Omar?

Obama Rips Republicans on Voting Rights: ‘In the Aftermath of an Insurrection, With Our Democracy on the Line…’

Jen Psaki Expresses Solidarity with NCAA Student-Athletes: ‘I’m a Retired One Myself’

RATINGS: Fox News Notches Big Ratings Success Friday, Locks Out the Competition

Must See Clip

Unhinged

Seth Meyers went after Maria Bartiromo for continuing to push misinformation on the Capitol insurrection, calling her “one of the most unhinged conspiracy theorists on Fox.”

Meyers hit at Republicans for still being “obsessed with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election and rewrite the history of what happened during the January 6th insurrection of the Capitol” — later playing a clip of Bartiromo and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) doing just that.

The whole takedown is savagely funny.

Links We Like

The Books Are Already Burning
- Abigail Shrier, Substack
Racial Injustice Was Taught Long Before Critical Race Theory Existed
- Joe Cunningham, Substack
Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill Is A Big Test For Biden’s Global Democracy Agenda
- Alex Ward, Vox
The Miseducation of Wypipo: 10 Reasons Why America Needs White History Lessons
- Michael Harriot, The Root
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