Tag Archives: Mike Cernovich

Newsweek reports: Arizona Senate candidate Dr. Kelli Ward says she is hoping to capitalize on the audience of far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, who is best known for spreading the “Pizzagate” fake news panic and the firing of Hollywood director James Gunn. Ward, a Republican candidate hoping to replace retiring Sen. Jeff Flake in November, made the admission to MSNBC …

Mediaite reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said director James Gunn should be prosecuted for old tweets joking about rape and pedophilia that were recently resurfaced. Disney fired Gunn, the director of Guardians of the Galaxy, after his tweets were unearthed by Pizzagaters Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, sparking a debate over whether the star director should have been fired as …

The Washington Examiner reports: Those looking into the Magic 8-Ball of the 2018 midterms recognize that it’s looking pretty bleak for the GOP. “Slaughtered” might be a better term to describe how Republicans might fare in November, according to longtime GOP strategist Ali Alexander. “The inverse of 2010 [midterm elections] is not gonna happen, but the blue bump is coming,” …

Vanity Fair reports: PayPal co-founder and Gawker nemesis Peter Thiel isn’t the only one eyeing the final remains of Nick Denton’s gossipy, sometimes groundbreaking media empire. Mike Cernovich, the right-wing lifestyle guru and self-proclaimed journalist, is offering $500,000 in cash for Gawker’s assets, according to a copy of the offer letter obtained by the Hive. “For the past eighteen months …

Business Insider reports: After being knocked out from the Australian Open in the quarterfinals on Wednesday, American breakout tennis star Tennys Sandgren blasted the media for its coverage of him in recent days. Sandgren, 26, made a surprise run through the Australian Open, but faced scrutiny over past Twitter use that seemed to support the alt-right movement. Previous tweets and …

The New York Post reports: A supporter of President Trump who had attended an alt-right Manhattan celebration of the anniversary of the inauguration was attacked by a protester Saturday night, police said. Several hundred people had bought tickets for the gathering at a nightclub at West 50th Street and 12th Avenue — which featured right-winger Mike Cernovich and which was, …

Pizzagate troll Mike Cernovich, who has famously bragged that his manly jism is so supremely powerful that women uncontrollably crave it, also apparently fancies himself to be a literal sorcerer. (Wizard? Warlock?) Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: “Everything I do is alchemy. That’s why I believe in magic. Not black magic, not the satanic magic that they practice …

Media Matters reports: Right-wing media trolls Mike Cernovich and Chuck Johnson promoted a forged document that accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of sexually harassing a former staffer, then quickly walked back their claims when the document was reported to police as a forgery. In a now-deleted tweet, far-right Twitter troll Mike Cernovich promoted claims by Chuck C. Johnson, …

The New York Times reports: MSNBC pulled an abrupt about-face on Thursday, announcing that it had rehired a contributor just days after it fired him when far-right activists drew attention to an inflammatory tweet he posted in 2009. “Sometimes you just get one wrong — and that’s what happened here,” Phil Griffin, the cable network’s president said in a statement …

Far-right activist Mike Cernovich, who has previously been busted on leaked text messages suggesting the planting of fake signs at student protests, last night gleefully tweeted out an image of an obviously planted NAMBLA banner at a protest at Columbia University. Cernovich’s tweet was immediately promoted by fellow extremists Jack Posobiec and InfoWars nutter Paul Joseph Watson, much to the …

Pizzagate nutjob says so! They write: Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow spoke to journalist Mike Cernovich on Breitbart News Daily this morning discussing the Trump presidency, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s influence, and the possibility of President Trump being held under “house arrest.” “There’s some pretty explosive stuff in your report,” said Alex Marlow referencing Cernovich’s recent Trump Dispatches, “and …

Right wing troll and fake news promoter Mike Cernovich, who first gained fame for his claims about the power of his “super sperm,” declares today that the Charlottesville rally was a “federal trap” that the Nazis stupidly walked right into with torches illuminating their faces. Right Wing Watch reports: “I can’t believe people didn’t know that was a honey pot,” …

The Inquisitr reports: Mike Cernovich, a prominent figure on social media among the alt-right (although he has taken to describing himself as “new right” lately), has reportedly become the latest member of the alt-right to be punched in the face at an anti-Trump demonstration. According to a report by AOL News, Cernovich was attending the anti-Trump “Tax March” rally in …

The Daily Beast reports: A week after President Donald Trump began to publicly distance himself from White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, alt-right ringleader Mike Cernovich threatened to release a “motherlode” of stories that could “destroy marriages” if Bannon is formally let go from the administration. Cernovich made the claims that he’d release a series of “scoops” if Bannon is …

The Never Trump crowd at Reagan Battalion, who gained national headlines with their takedown of vile homocon Milo Yiannapoulos, has rushed out a video compilation of outraged reactions to Trump’s Syrian strike from his racist alt-right troll army. Watch below for anguished takes from David Duke, Mike Cernovich, InfoWars, Laura Ingraham, and more. The frog breakup. pic.twitter.com/Nc8mfMsEyE — The Reagan …

Politico reports: The fractured elements of what was once called the alt-right were unified once more on Thursday night in condemning Donald Trump’s airstrike in Syria as a mistake. Or as Milo Yiannopoulos put it, “FAKE and GAY.” This loose confederation of web-savvy, anti-establishment right-wingers formed an important vanguard of Trump’s online support in last year’s election, and its unified …

This morning Donald Trump Jr. posted the above tweet in praise of infamous “Pizzagate” promulgator Mike Cernovich for naming former Obama advisor Susan Rice as the person who ordered the unmasking of Trump officials overheard during surveillance of foreign operatives. Junior’s tweet came minutes after his father retweeted a Drudge link to a story about Rice on the right wing …

Last night 60 Minutes interviewed fake news promulgator and ardent Trump supporter Mike Cernovich, who with Alex Jones and other far-right crackpots earned millions of hits with their Pizzagate conspiracy claims and invented stories about Hillary Clinton’s health. CBS News reports: Cernovich is a southern California lawyer who runs the website Danger & Play. He describes himself as “right of …

Yesterday we learned that Trump’s neo-Nazi fans are ripping each others’ weaves out over whether Hitler salutes should be allowed at their inauguration “DeploraBall” celebration. Because that would be bad for their image! Reportedly banned from the event is one of its founders, nutjob Twitter personality Baked “Gas The Jews” Alaska, who is ever so pissed that homocon Milo will …

Raw Story reports: It didn’t take long for the racist Trump fans organizing the “Deploraball” inauguration party to turn on each other. A major fight has broken out among Trump’s white nationalist fans over whether they should celebrate Trump’s pending inauguration by showering him with Nazi salutes. Alt-right leader Mike Cernovich, who is organizing the Deploraball, started a massive fight …