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<title><![CDATA[Becket Adams - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29972.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Becket Adams]]></description><category domain="29972">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA['Woke' Is Not Dead]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/09/woke-is-not-dead/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s reelection in 2024, many cheered what they took for a cultural counter-swing, a meaningful movement away from radical progressive ideology and toward something resembling common sense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No One Failed Harder During Covid Than Our Media]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/6000938-fauci-congress-fifth-amendment/?tbref=hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anthony Fauci'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' recent appearance before Congress is a good reminder that his reign of error during COVID would not have been possible without a deeply partisan and starstruck press.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Power Hungry Democrats Aiming To Pack Supreme Court?]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5911744-gerrymandering-supreme-court-ruling/?tbref=hp</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It would be so easy to say the U.S. Supreme Court is a right-wing organization.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&lsquo;Lobstergate&rsquo; Shows Just How Far Our Media Have Sunk]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5781843-lobstergate-shows-just-how-far-the-media-have-sunk/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is a terrible time to be a news consumer. Sadly, the only way to explain today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s media is to write them off as either malicious or hopelessly incompetent.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rubio Sticks It to Europe's Censorship Goons]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/opinion/marco-rubio-free-speech-hero-sticks-it-to-the-eurogoon-censors/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don't, in fact, have to host a Eurocrat who sees freedom of expression as a disease to be cured.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' We can tell him to stay home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Leaps To Defend Minnesota's Somali Fraudsters]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/opinion/media-leaps-to-somali-fraudsters-defense-but-trips-over-the-awful-truth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The funny thing is, the legacy media's public relations campaign is actually doing more harm than good.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reuters Beclowns Itself, to Hamas&rsquo; Benefit]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5182813-biased-journalism-terrorism-propaganda/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One problem with biased journalism is that it produces weak reporting. Another is that it can lead to the dissemination of outright falsehoods, even honest-to-God terrorist propaganda.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Axios and Politico Might as Well Be Run by the DNC]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/wHTxf</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a market positively saturated with fawning and propagandistic coverage of the Harris campaign, two Virginia-based newsrooms stand out for their commitment to that mission.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Great Nothingburger: Rolling Stone&rsquo;s Hilarious Alito 'Scoop']]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4721839-the-greatest-nothingburger-rolling-stones-hilarious-alito-scoop/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann, are as controversial as the Pledge of Allegiance, or the phrase printed on all U.S. currency, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'In God we Trust.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Which is to say, they are not controversial at all.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like 2016]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4575545-its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-2016/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In politics, anything can happen. But at the rate things are going,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' seems increasingly likely to return to the Oval Office.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left-Wing Demonstrations Are Meant To Intimidate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2793677/what-you-probably-misunderstand-about-disruptive-left-wing-demonstrations/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Protest tactics such as vandalism and traffic interruptions are meant to intimidate, not persuade.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Cautionary Tale About Wikipedia Censors &amp; Twitter Files]]></title>
							<link>https://thespectator.com/topic/wikipedia-censorship-matt-taibbi-twitter-files/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia attempted to remove mentions of Matt Taibbi winning the National Journalism Center award for excellent in journalism]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cruelty of the Left]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/the-cruelty-of-the-left</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so," Ronald Reagan once quipped of his political opponents.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need a Serious Conversation About Joe Biden's Brain]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4075227-we-need-a-serious-conversation-about-joe-bidens-brain/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The public deserves to know whether this president is capable of performing the basic duties of his office. But the media aren't interested.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Truth About Who Made Violent Threats Against Target]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4052194-dont-hide-the-truth-about-who-made-violent-threats-against-target/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'd hardly know that the threats came from people claiming to be upset about the removal of Pride Month merchandise, not from conservatives upset about transgender swimwear for children.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin Is Now Harassing Catholic Hospitals]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/biden-administration-targets-a-catholic-hospital-for-daring-to-question-its-authority</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not content to harass just Catholic nuns, the successor administration to the Obama White House has taken up harassing Catholic hospitals.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fake News: Vindication Edition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vindication-edition/ar-AA173pkx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a hopeful sign that a growing number of journalists are taking a hard look at the media's coverage of former President Donald Trump's administration, with many concluding that, yes, corporate media behaved terribly during those years.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Babel at Davos]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/babel-at-davos</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Legacy Media Failed in Loudoun]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/the-major-press-failed-in-loudoun</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Of all the recent trends in American political discourse, none are so grotesque or dangerous as the reflexive dismissal of allegations of wrongdoing merely because the accused has the support of one's political opponents.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joy Reid's Anti-Jewish 'Dog Whistles']]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/revisionism-and-anti-jewish-rhetoric</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay is embarrassing her newspaper. Again.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left's Grotesque Politicization of Mass Shootings]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/left-grotesque-politicization-mass-shootings</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth so swift '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' not the peregrine falcon, not the cheetah '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' as a liberal in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Corrupt Crypto King Has Deep Democratic Ties]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/conspicuous-silence-over-fallen-crypto-kings-democratic-ties</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/conspicuous-silence-over-fallen-crypto-kings-democratic-ties]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The story of FTX's downfall is complicated, convoluted, and unbelievably stupid.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Institutions Are Legitimate So Long as Left Is in Charge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/us-institutions-legitimate-so-long-as-left-in-charge</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court this summer handed conservatives a victory nearly 50 years in the making when it overturned Roe v. Wade. Liberals, including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, are taking the defeat poorly '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' so poorly, in fact, that they've taken up questioning the legitimacy of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Critics of School Closures Have Been Vindicated]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/critics-of-the-pandemic-school-closures-have-been-vindicated</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Critics of the pandemic school closures have been vindicated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Washington Post Doth Protest Too Much]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-washington-post-doth-protest-too-much</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post is very concerned that a multibillionaire tech tycoon may soon own a major media platform. Very concerned.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CBS Gives Warren Time to Spin 'Voter Suppression' Lies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cbs-gives-elizabeth-warren-plenty-of-space-to-spin-massive-voter-suppression-lies</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats can say whatever they want, slinging the vilest slanders and falsehoods, and the media, though nominally tasked with keeping them honest, will sit by silently, nodding along.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Top Nine Worst Media Moments of 2021]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-top-nine-worst-media-moments-of-2021</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was not a good year for the national press. From the Chris Cuomo scandal to corporate journalists inventing stories about violent Border Patrol agents and Republican-led witch hunts, 2021 marked yet'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' another lousy year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in media credibility.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Katy Tur's Credibility Latest Casualty of Cuomo Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/katy-turs-credibility-the-latest-casualty-of-the-andrew-cuomo-scandal</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/katy-turs-credibility-the-latest-casualty-of-the-andrew-cuomo-scandal]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MSNBC's Katy Tur probably shouldn't be anywhere near an anchor's desk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wash Post Amends at Least 12 Steele Dossier Stories]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-post-edits-adds-editors-notes-to-at-least-a-dozen-steele-dossier-stories</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post has amended at least a dozen reports investigating the genesis and fallout of the Steele dossier, an opposition research project that is almost certainly a work of total fiction if not Russian counterintelligence propaganda.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rand Paul Was Right&mdash;Anthony Fauci Is a Liar]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rand-paul-was-right-anthony-fauci-is-a-liar</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rand-paul-was-right-anthony-fauci-is-a-liar]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Becket Adams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dr. Anthony Fauci is a damned liar. Don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t take my word for it. Take the word of the National Institutes of Health, which revealed this week the U.S. nongovernmental group EcoHealth Alliance violated its reporting rules while conducting bat coronavirus research in collaboration with...]]></description>
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