CNN’S NEXT DOXXING VICTIM IDENTIFIES HIMSELF: WalkAway Founder Brandon Straka Confronts CNN’s April Ryan; ‘You’re The Biggest Liar in This Room’ (Video).

DISPATCHES FROM THE DOXXING NETWORK: CNN Pundit April Ryan’s Bodyguard Charged with Assault after Removing Reporter Covering Her Speech.

IT’S CNN, SO YOU KNOW SOMEBODY’S ABOUT TO GET DOXXED: Chris Cuomo Threatens Violence After Man Calls Him ‘Fredo’: ‘I’ll F*cking Throw You Down These Stairs!’

“Punk-ass b*tches on the right call me Fredo! My name is Chris Cuomo. I’m an anchor on CNN,” Cuomo explained angrily.

“Fredo was on The Godfather. He was the weak brother. And they use it as an Italian aspersion,” he added.

Cuomo said if you are Italian, being called “Fredo” is “a f*cking insult to your people.”

“It’s like the n-word for us,” he explained heatedly.

It was perfectly acceptable, just last year at the Atlantic, which ran a piece from David Frum with a photo atop it of actor John Cazale from the Godfather, and the headline, “Donald Trump Goes Full Fredo,” plus the Google-bot friendly meta title, “Donald Trump Is a Real-Life Fredo Corleone.”

Why didn’t Frum, his editor (the legendarily unflappable Jeffrey Goldberg…), and whoever wrote the post’s meta title catch this equivalent of the N-word before letting Frum expose himself as a stone cold racist?

And while it’s understandable that Cuomo can’t police the Atlantic, why didn’t he send harshly worded memos to his fellow newsreaders at CNN to inform them of just how racially insensitive they were being in recent months?

As James Hasson‏, formerly of the Washington Examiner tweets, “The funniest part of the Cuomo freakout is that if he’d just said ‘get a life, I’m out with my family,’ then people would have sympathized with him. But because he took it to 11 and compared ‘fredo’ to the n-word—and CNN PR doubled down on it—everyone will now call him Fredo.”

TIME FOR CNN TO EITHER DOXX ITSELF OR GIVE AN EDITOR A PROMOTION: CNN Photo Editor Posted Vicious Anti-Semitic Tweets on Deaths of ‘Jewish Pigs.’

Mohammed Elshamy has now locked his account (unexpectedly), but he’s far from the first CNN employee who has expressed anti-Semitic sentiments. A week ago, Jewish Insider reported that “Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were ‘Zionist organizations’ that produced ‘Zionist content,’ during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held by progressive activists in Philadelphia…Hill’s comments came less than a year after he lost his CNN perch after calling for a ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea,’ during an appearance at the U.N. The statement was interpreted by many as a call for the elimination of Israel, something Hill denied.”

In 2014, the Washington Free Beacon reported that “CNN International correspondent Diana Magnay referred to a group of Israelis as ‘scum’ after she claimed that they were standing on a hill near the town of Sderot cheering as bombs landed in Gaza, according to a screen-shot of the comment captured by National Review.”

When CNN’s senior editor of Mideast affairs Octavia Nasr was fired in 2010, for tweeting, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot,” Cal Thomas opined, “The dirty little secret here is that she was simply expressing viewpoints that is widespread not only in the American media but much of the Euro media.  If you watch the BBC, for example, as I frequently do when I’m over there, coverage of the Middle East, it is virtually all one-sided, pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel.  Christiane Amanpour holds many of these views as well, I would daresay, but she is smart enough and sophisticated enough not to stick them on a Tweet.”

UPDATE: Elshamy walks the plank; CNN is describing it as a voluntary “resignation:”

CNN Digital Worldwide & Great Big Story Communications Vice President Matt Dornic said in a statement to the Journal, “The network has accepted the resignation of a photo editor, who joined CNN earlier this year, after anti-Semitic statements he’d made in 2011 came to light. CNN is committed to maintaining a workplace in which every employee feels safe, secure and free from discrimination regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion.”

Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper told the Journal in a phone interview that he didn’t think CNN’s statement on Elshamy was good enough.

“They owe the Jewish community and the victims of terrorism an apology,” Cooper said.

Note that CNN’s laundry list above doesn’t include political worldview, which is why the network has no problem doxxing conservatives.

MORE: Another CNN Personality’s Antisemitic Tweets Unearthed: ‘I Love You Hitler.’

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DOXX THE SITE FROM ORBIT, CNN. IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE: CNN Decries U.S. Troops in Iraq Who Had Their MAGA Hats Signed by Trump. “If it were troops handing ‘Yes We Can’ items to Obama for him to sign, CNN would either be touting it or not talking about it because it would be fine and a given that the President had their support. But not for this President. This is CNN.”

UPDATE: “Our nation’s hall monitor strikes again,” Greg Gutfeld tweets in response to CNN.

CNN’S ANDREW KACZYNSKI CRIES FOUL WHEN OTHERS USE HIS OWN TACTICS ON HIM.

Related: “If doxing is bad, why does CNN keep doing it?

Flashback: Trump Has Driven CNN Stark, Raving Mad.

JUDGE ELLIS IN MANAFORT CASE DENIES DOX-FACTORY CNN’S DEMAND FOR JUROR INFORMATION; SAYS HE HIMSELF HAS BEEN THREATENED, AND THE JURORS WOULD BE AS WELL.

Nice jury you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it…

CNN: GOTTA DOX SOMEBODY. CNN Washes Out Its Own Role in Outing Hannity’s Legal Chat with Michael Cohen.

As Joseph A. Wulfsohn writes at the Federalist, Let’s Apply The Sean Hannity Standard To ‘Objective’ Journalists With Hidden Political Ties.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but this double standard is overwhelming. Hannity makes his pro-Trump, pro-Cohen bias clear. Meanwhile, Jim Sciutto, George Stephanopoulos, Glenn Thrush, Mark Leibovich, and John Harwood pretend to be neutral players despite their ties to Democrats. If Hannity is going to face such scrutiny, so should these so-called “objective” journalists.

Indeed.™

BETTER DOX ‘EM BOTH CNN, JUST TO MAKE CERTAIN: David Hogg Poses With GOP Candidate Wearing A T-Shirt Featuring Trump Pissing On CNN.

MOVE OVER CNN. Another outlet just got into the shameful ‘doxing’ business with Pamela Geller’s daughters.

More here: Instagram Stars Harassed, Lose Talk Show After Daily Beast Doxes Them as Pamela Geller’s Daughters.

Note that in the first link, BuzzFeed is gleefully amplifying the story, which isn’t surprise since they practically invented the concept of doxxing innocent people in 2013 with #WhatTimeDoesJustineLand.

IRONY THY NAME IS ANDREW KACZYNSKI: CNN dude who threatened to doxx meme maker concern-trolls Nazi fail-doxx.

HEY, MAYBE THIS IS WHY CNN CHOSE TO DOX A GIF-MAKER ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. CNN’s Brian Stelter: Reporters Obsess Over Russia Because ‘Journalists Love America.’

This is CNN: If you don’t believe how much we love America, we’re prepared to dox each and every one of you, too! Or to paraphrase Ted Knight’s Judge Elihu Smails character in Caddyshack, “Danny, there’s a lot of badness in the world today. I see it in the editing room today. I’ve sentenced boys younger than you to be doxxed. Didn’t wanna do it, but felt I owed it to them.”

‘CNN WILL BE DOXXING EVERY BOY SCOUT IN AMERICA:’ Trump drives DNC-MSM (further) insane by appearing earlier tonight at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. In response to Trump essentially forcing the media to show the size of the crowd by insisting they didn’t have the guts to, Kristin Donnelly of NBC News tweets a shot of a television monitor, presumably somewhere in NBC’s offices or a remote truck, with some sort of creepy-looking Obama doll grinning into it:

With those big ears and dog-eating grin, NBC would have an aneurysm if that appeared in a shot from a Fox News studio. And as Twitchy spots in the above link, because of Trump’s appearance tonight, our totally objective, unbiased media is comparing the Boy Scouts to the Hitler Youth, and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes of all people (and all networks) is tweeting, “Everything is culture war. Everything.”

Which side started the culture war? Who kept advancing the front lines until they reached all the way into the pizza parlor, cake baker, and the lady’s room? If we’re going to talk about a culture war involving kids, just as a reminder, MSNBC ran an ad that said (speaking of partying like it’s 1939) that children belong the government – a commercial that aired with the goal of increasing its audience size by saying something that would flatter “Progressive” sensibilities – in 2013:

Choose the form of your destructor…

SEE, THIS IS WHY CNN SHOULDN’T HAVE THREATENED TO DOX “HAN ASSHOLESOLO.” “How a Montana mom became the target of a neo-Nazi troll,” reports CNN. A Colorado real estate agent named Tanya Gersh was bombarded with threatening emails and phone calls, “after contacting tenants of a local building:”

Gersh says she was then called by the building’s owner, Sherry Spencer, the mother of white supremacist Richard Spencer.

Gersh says she warned Sherry Spencer about looming protests at the building in Whitefish, a Montana town of 7,300 where both women live.

Gersh says she advised Spencer to disavow the views of her son, including that the United States is a country for white people.

She says she offered to sell Spencer’s property as a way of defusing tensions in town. Gersh suggested Spencer donate money to a human rights group.

Sherry Spencer refused to speak to CNN when we reached her on the phone. Earlier, she wrote in a blog post that Gersh, a Realtor, had threatened her, saying protesters and media would turn up and drive down the building’s value if she didn’t sell.

That’s when, according to CNN, “DailyStormer.com, which spews neo-Nazi propaganda” went into full-on #hastanyalandedyet mode:

Andrew Anglin, the site’s founder, accused Gersh of extortion in a blog post. And he exhorted readers to send Gersh — whom he also identified as Jewish — enough messages to make a point.

“Let’s hit ’em up,” he posted. “Are y’all ready for an old-fashioned Troll Storm?”

He then told them: “(I)t’s that time.”

Obligatory reminder: it is never that time. And it shouldn’t be for CNN either, which makes their putting their mafia-like warning that “CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change” into their piece on the now infamous “Han Asshole Solo” all the more abhorrent.

“Now, before we move on, someone is going to point out that the meme guy is kind of a jerk and said stuff that offends decent people,” as Kurt Schlichter wrote last week. “So? How is that the point? This is a multi-billion dollar media corporation using all its power to threaten an individual into not criticizing it. How is that ever okay? And don’t pretend for a minute this media extortion precedent gets limited to outlier Reddit guys. Normal Americans are next.”

But normal Americans have already gotten the full troll storm from the left. Just ask the owners of Indiana’s Memories Pizza, who had the mob from a 1930s Universal Frankenstein movie dropped onto them as a result of badthink in response to a hypothetical question by a local journalist. Or Elizabeth Lauten, the low-level Republican staffer who had the temerity to write on her Facebook page that Obama’s daughters should “try showing a little class. At least respect the part you play,” and ultimately quit her job, after social media was whipped into a frenzy by the DNC-MSM (including, of course, CNN):

Or Justine Sacco, which brings us back to last week’s threatened doxxing by CNN:

This isn’t [senior CNN editor Andrew] Kaczynski’s first attempt at destroying a private citizen’s life. As a BuzzFeed reporter, he gained notoriety for publicizing a lame joke Tweeted by a 30-year-old PR director named Justine Sacco. As Sacco was boarding a plane from London to Cape Town, South Africa, she poked fun at many people’s poor understanding of the continent. Kaczynski decided the joke was racist and helped gin up a digital lynch mob while she was in the air for 11 hours sans internet. By the time Sacco landed, she was mobbed by reporters, was fired from her job, and had to go into hiding. [Update: Another link demonstrating Kaczynski’s role is here.]

If it’s wrong for an alt-right group to combine doxxing with intimidation – and it is – it’s also wrong for CNN to threaten the same tactics, knowing full well, as Kaczynski does, that outing Mr. AssholeSolo will send up the Batsignal for the Twitter mobs. Or as CNN contributor Mary Katharine Ham wrote yesterday at the Federalist, “Going To The Mats For Free Speech Sometimes Means Letting Trolls Go Unpunished:”

HanA**holeSolo isn’t some great modern-day pamphleteer whom we should ensure at all costs can keep delivering us (and the president) hot memes from his den of racist sh*tposters. He’s not, and the fact that the White House finds inspiration in these corners of the Internet is newsworthy. Some of his other creations, including a a composite with Stars of David next to the Jewish CNN employees, are truly disgusting.

But media should be very careful about when they expose private citizens for the sin of political speech. They should be especially careful not to imply that content of political speech that crosses a big media entity is the reason for exposure. The media don’t owe every troll on the Internet his or her anonymity, but doing disproportionate warfare with them can endanger and chill the speech of others.

As Vox’s German Lopez put it simply, “The Internet is not proportional.”

“The problem here is that the internet is not proportional. People wouldn’t merely react to this guy making some offensive remarks on the internet by making some offensive remarks to him. They would react as the internet has reacted before to these kinds of situations — with potentially thousands of hateful messages, death threats, attempts to get him fired, and harassment not just against him but also his family. Lines would quickly be crossed.”

And it’s not just the Internet that’s not proportional. Media has shown an inability to gauge its coverage of the online speech of private citizens.

Bravo for CNN for reporting on Tanya Gersh – but their reasons for doing so appear to be more than a little self-serving. And in threatening “HanA**holeSolo” with doxxing – and with it, the implicit threat that they would the sturm und drang of social media down upon his life, they are yet the latest reminder that the left shouldn’t be surprised when the alt-right adopts the odious tactics they themselves popularized.

HANDS UP, DON’T DOX!  Video: “Milo showed up at the CNN HQ with a camera crew and a sign that read ‘Hands Up, Don’t Dox.'”

TED CRUZ: CNN May Have Broken The Law With Doxxing Threat.

WHAT CNN’S THREAT TO DOX A REDDITOR TELLS US ABOUT THE STATE OF JOURNALISM:

Should HanA**holeSolo ever revert to his nefarious meme-making ways, “CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.”

This is a threat. There is simply no other way for an open-minded person to comprehend the meaning of the line. I’ve read thousands of news stories and written a bunch of them, and I can’t think of a single instance I’ve ever run across a similar disclaimer. CNN has absolved the man of his sins. For now.  I guess if HanA**holeSolo does anything they deem ugly, the network reserves the right to put him in “danger”?

In a now-deleted tweet, CNN’s oft-confused Chris Cuomo asks: “Should CNN reveal name of Reddit user who made trump wrestling video? Had a lot of bigoted and hateful material on page and website.”

Let’s chew on this question and assertion for a moment: For one thing, although Cuomo happens to be correct in this case, I don’t trust his definition of hate or bigotry. Moreover, are journalistic standards contingent on the target’s political views? If HanA**holeSolo had the wrong opinion on gay marriage or affirmative action, would that be enough to ruin his life?

In the DNC-MSM’s mind that’s an emphatic yes, particularly given the symbiotic relationship between old media and social media. Two words: Memories Pizza.

PATRICK POOLE: CNN Threatens to Dox Reddit User Behind Trump Tweet Wrestling Gif.

DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING: CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski threatens to out anonymous Internet user who created the animated “Trump clotheslining CNN logo” GIF that the president’s account retweeted:

CNN is not publishing “HanA**holeSolo’s” name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

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In the phone interview on Tuesday, “HanA**holeSolo” said the White House did not ask his permission to use the GIF, and said he probably would have said no if they had.

As Twitchy notes, “Seriously, this is what the media does now? They track down people and ‘threaten’ to post their personal information for sharing content they don’t like?”

Sharing content, incorrectly answering hypothetical questions about who they’d make pizza for — wherever there is badthink being thought, the DNC-MSM is one business that’s always ready to swing into action to destroy its customers.

And on the Fourth of July, to boot.

UPDATE: “CNN has chosen the form of its Destructor. A million @4chan guys,” Glenn tweets.

THIS IS CNN: CNN Gets a Shock When They Venture out of Their Bubble and Talk to the American People.

CNN doesn’t seem to understand what the American people think.

They showed that again during a segment featuring John King talking with Americans in Iowa. The description from King shows just how clueless CNN is about the American people and what the support for former President Donald Trump is about.

King acknowledges the people don’t like CNN and that there’s “reverence for Ronald Reagan.” But then he paints them all as though they believe what they believe because they are somehow caught in the thrall of Trump.

WATCH: CNN reporter visibly stunned into silence after Iowa Trump supporters take turns shooting down CNN, Biden Regime Psy-Ops to his FACE🤣

"A few days here makes clear Trump's grip is very strong." pic.twitter.com/D2UspRNTws

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 10, 2023

“Reagan’s optimism, replaced by Trump’s grievances.” One guy says we have to find a way to take care of ourselves. King’s reaction? “Reagan’s disdain of big government replaced by Trump’s distrust of just about everything.” How dare they think that the prosecutions of Trump are politically motivated just because they’ve seen how everything has rolled out since the Russia collusion hoax? For shame, you silly cultists! The capper that shows how delusional these folks are? Not one hand goes up when he asks if they “support Ukraine in the fight against Putin.”

* * * * * * * *

Listening to Republican voters who are skeptical of support for Ukraine is “like watching the open of an old Tucker Carlson show,” King said.

He said some on the left want to call them “deplorable” — but “there are millions of them!”

“They’re good people…They go to Church! But they believe things that would break our fact-check machine,” King despaired. “And they don’t trust us! They think we’re part of the problem!” Bingo.

Yes, why on earth would people distrust CNN?

AN INTERESTING HYPOTHETICAL: WHEN IS IT DOXXING? Stephen Green’s earlier post made me wonder, “How in the hell can these people complain, when they keep voting for legislators who openly plan to ruin the communities they represent?”

Amusingly, we constantly hear from the leftists who insist that Clarence Thomas is not really black, or Condoleezza Rice is not really a woman because they “legislate against their own interests.” At first blush, I find that appalling, because frankly, how does a well-off, white, Ivy-League editorialist get to wrestle self-determination away from someone else? It’s not just dehumanizing, it’s condescending and kind of…fascistic.

But here’s the hypothetical I would present to journalists and bloggers: We know from the public record that Oregon State Rep. Farrah Chaichi is the sponsor of the bill that essentially gives homeless people property rights over public spaces. That leads one to wonder if any of these homeless encampments are near Chaichi’s residence.

Aye, there’s the rub. I am not suggesting to anyone that they locate her residence and publicize it. But would it be “doxxing?” I have no doubt that if someone were to post her address or a picture of her home, they would be accused of “inciting harm” or “inviting violence.” That’s not a statement without merit, although the left are historically famous for doing just that, especially to judges who issue rulings with which the cybermob disagree. And that same mob often punches down much lower than just judges: News commentators like Tucker Carlson who are targeted for vilification have had their families confronted at their homes by Antifa nuts and others on the far left:

Some of you may remember the boneheaded move by The Westchester Journal News, who in 2012 published an interactive map listing names and addresses of licensed and registered gun owners. Although the paper eventually removed the post and apologized, by then it was too late.  That map (and the names and addresses of perfectly law-abiding gun owners) is still floating around. The internet is forever.

But at what point does that residential information become important to telling the whole story? And can it be presented without raising security concerns? (As an aside, when I was at Bloomberg News, we did the same kind of story regarding guns, but at my direction our data only showed how many registered weapons were in a particular zip code: no names, no addresses.)

Should Chaichi’s residential address be sussed out and published? Would it be fairer or less offensive to simply describe the neighborhood in which she lives, and go look to see if there any homeless encampments nearby? Or is her address crucial to telling the story?

Discuss, I’ll go make coffee.

THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Leana Wen: The Unvaccinated Should Not Be Allowed To Leave Their Homes.

To be fair, not allowing people to leave their homes in peace is completely on-brand for the network:

DON LEMON BLASTS MAN WHO HARASSED TUCKER CARLSON IN VIRAL VIDEO:

CNN anchor Don Lemon ripped the man who accosted Tucker Carlson in a Montana fly fishing shop, saying he had no right to invade the Fox News host’s “personal space.”

The liberal Lemon offered his surprising take during his CNN program “Don Lemon Tonight” Monday evening, when he devoted an entire segment to addressing the weekend encounter, which he said put him in a position “to maybe somehow have to defend Tucker Carlson.”

“Let me tell you this: I don’t like it. I don’t like it when people do that because I would not want it to happen to me,” Lemon began after showing a snippet of the video, going on to caution, “I have mixed emotions because Tucker has done this to people before. Tucker said some really nasty and silly things about me, and the next day there’s paparazzi in front of my house, hiding, taking pictures.”

As Jim Treacher wrote earlier this week: “This Montana incident also shows a big difference between Fox News and CNN. At CNN, the roles are reversed. It’s the employees who out of their way to call out the regular Americans who are just minding their own business. But Tucker doesn’t need to resort to that sort of behavior because he isn’t desperate for ratings.”

STACY MCCAIN: N.Y. Times Doxxes Scott Alexander Because They Hate Free Speech.

Liberals once insisted that the First Amendment protected everything from the right of Communists to teach in public schools to the right of pornographers to produce films of women getting gang-raped. If you wanted to burn the flag? Cool — the First Amendment protected that “free speech,” too, according to liberals.

Liberals are still in favor of Communism, flag-burning and pornography (some things never change), but the kind of First Amendment absolutism that once characterized liberalism (e.g., the ACLU insisting Nazis had a right to march through Jewish neighborhoods) is long gone.

Destroying anonymity on the Internet for bloggers who stray outside the prescribed lines of acceptable opinion was a project undertaken last year by Cade Metz of the New York Times when he decided to dox the proprietor of Star Slate Codex (SSC). When Metz contacted the (inarguably brilliant) blogger known as Scott Alexander, the SSC proprietor immediately shuttered the blog and put up a post explaining what the New York Times was doing, i.e., trying to destroy his private life in order to punish him for allowing free discussion on his site.

Why? Because Star Slate Codex had become influential among certain computer geeks and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

See, that’s the thing about Internet anonymity — you can create a blog or a Twitter account using a pseudonym to say whatever you want, and this probably won’t get you in trouble unless you are so good at it that you attract a following and having real influence on public opinion, in a way disapproved by the liberal Thought Police. People like Oliver Darcy of CNN work more or less full-time to dox conservatives, and this is to say nothing of the SPLC’s massive research staff, which specializes in what Laird Wilcox called the “links-and-ties” smear method.

Indeed.

AFTER A DECADE OF SEEING LEFTISTS DOXXING PEOPLE AND GETTING THEM FIRED FOR EXPRESSING A FORBIDDEN OPINION, I HAVE TO ASK WHAT’S THEIR BEEF WITH JOE MCCARTHY? Liberal Media Scream: In Trump, CNN sees ‘rampages of Joe McCarthy.’

Personally, I’m beginning to wonder if we should have had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for communist sympathizers and adherents after the Cold War ended.