One America News Network correspondent Emerald Robinson sparked condemnation from fellow media personalities over remarks she made about two naturalized U.S. citizens who recently testified in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Emerald Robinson (Emerald. That’s why my mentions on Twitter teem with people who think that this is some huge story and that I can’t answer her tough questions until I get clearance from. Emerald Robinson is a professional journalist and news reporter in the American media industry. She is best recognized as the White House correspondent for Newsmax TV and OAN. Furthermore, the journalist is quite popular on various social media platforms like; Twitter an Instagram under the names @EmeraldRobinson and @emeraldrobinson respectively. — Emerald Robinson ️ (@EmeraldRobinson) December 17, 2020. But as infuriating as it is, I’m not sure why we’re surprised. Fauci would do this, and we knew Covid Karens in every corner would follow his lead. Fauci says you can’t see your kids at Christmas. We knew he’d try to cancel it. Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson with her son Asher at a White House press briefing. Follow @DebraJSaunders on Twitter. The briefing room’s new mothers. Pamela Brown, CNN. National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg admitted to the Google funding in an article following a Twitter exchange with One America News correspondent Emerald Robinson last year, in which she criticized the links between Goldberg’s magazine and big tech. It looks like conservative mag National Review was taking Google cash too.
Ms. Robinson, a White House correspondent for the right-wing cable network commonly abbreviated as OAN, came under fire after commenting Thursday on Twitter about former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and current NSC official Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
“Fiona Hill with that Prince Andrew accent, and ‘Defense Minister’ Vindman from the Ukraine…,” Ms. Robinson tweeted. “I’m wondering: are any Americans going to testify against Trump?”
Both individuals mentioned by the broadcaster are foreign-born American citizens with distinguished careers who testified during impeachment hearings held in the House of Representatives this week. Her tweet seemingly questioning their nationality was harshly condemned by fellow reporters before eventually being removed.
“What an ugly and, frankly, un-American thing to say,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper reacted on Twitter.
“This is vile, xenophobic, anti-immigrant garbage,” echoed New York Daily News politics reporter Chris Sommerfeldt.
Ms. Hill, 54, was born in England and became a U.S. citizen in 2002. She served as an intelligence analyst under former President George W. Bush and Barack Obama prior to acting as the Trump administration’s senior director for European and Russian affairs until resigning in July; Col. Vindman, 44, immigrated from the former Soviet Union as a child and has been serving in the U.S. military for 20 years. He joined the NSC last year as its director for European affairs and specializes in Ukraine.
Both witnesses testified during separate hearings held this week as part of impeachment proceedings triggered by the Trump administration withholding military assistance from Ukraine, and each has subsequently faced attacks from the president’s defenders.
Ms. Robinson said later Thursday that she deleted the tweet about the witnesses amid the controversy it caused because it was being “misconstrued,” denying that her critical opinion of Ms. Hill and Col. Vindman was was rooted in their “accents or naturalization.” She has since shared several other tweets raising other concerns regarding both witnesses.
Launched in 2013, OAN promotes itself as “fast becoming the 4th rated national cable news channel.” It regularly broadcasts laudatory coverage of Mr. Trump’s presidency, and it has previously complained about not being recognized accordingly.
“President Trump recently gave a speech, thanking his supporters in the media. Not a single mention of One America News — one of his GREATEST supporters,” the official OAN account tweeted in March 2019. “@OANN calls bull[expletive].”
That tweet has also been deleted. Mr. Trump has recognized the network repeatedly in the months since, including as recently as from his own Twitter account Thursday.
Messages requesting comment from Ms. Robinson and OAN were not immediately answered Friday.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the tech giant gave funds to the National Review Institute, the policy arm of establishment conservative magazine National Review — but there is a discrepancy in Pichai’s explanation of why the donation is not listed in the company’s annual transparency report.
Pichai used his written answers to congressional questions to disclose his company’s donation to the National Review Institute, which was revealed by National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg last year. The Google CEO confirmed the donation, stating that it was made in 2018 and would, therefore, be disclosed in the company’s next report.
“Google has a long history of supporting organizations on all sides of the political spectrum,” said Pichai. “Google was one of several corporate sponsors of the National Review Institute’s William F. Buckley Prize Dinner in 2018, which is scheduled to be reported in our upcoming transparency report.”
But the National Review Institute’s website states that it received a donation from Google a year earlier, in 2017. This donation was not disclosed in Google’s transparency report for that year.
Google’s contributions to the National Review Institutewere brought to light by a report in the left-leaning technology magazine Wired, which detailed a number of the tech giant’s contributions to establishment conservative institutions in order to fend off tech regulation from Republicans. Other organizations funded by Google include the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).
National Review subsequently published an article from a senior member of the CEI, arguing against the use of antitrust legislation to break up Google and other big tech companies. The article was published four months after the National Review Institute’s 2017 William F. Buckley Prize Dinner, which as the Institute’s own website discloses, was sponsored by Google among other companies.
National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg admitted to the Google funding in an article following a Twitter exchange with One America News correspondent Emerald Robinson last year, in which she criticized the links between Goldberg’s magazine and big tech.
It looks like conservative mag National Review was taking Google cash too. To suppress conservative speech on social media. Was this something that @NRO donors & contributors knew was taking place? Let's ask @JonahNRO@DavidAFrench & others today. https://t.co/TX3VMFniTw
— Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) December 14, 2018
Responding in his article, Goldberg admitted that “I learned that Google gave some money to NRI for the Buckley Prize dinner only because I asked about it this week,” but still attacked Robinson for drawing attention to it, disparaging the OAN reporter as a “ridiculous person” and “MAGA infomercial hostess.”
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“No one has ever told me what to write or not to write, re: Google or any other corporation throughout my entire time at NR” insisted Goldberg.
Nevertheless, the National Review senior editor went on to argue that the case for breaking up Google has not yet been made.
“I am open to the idea of breaking up Google and/or Facebook,” wrote Goldberg. “But it’s worth noting that doing so would be a very radical move, which is why not even Robinson’s beloved Trump administration is considering it. It would also be an insanely stupid thing to do for the sake of stopping the suppression of conservative views, not least because it wouldn’t solve the problem and because it would do great harm to all sorts of economic and constitutional principles.”
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