Jim Antle, the magazine’s executive editor, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article’s authors and expert analysis.
Antle starts the show with the annual tradition of reviewing important conservatives and Republicans who died in the past year. Washington Examiner contributor Tevi Troy has been writing the annual tribute since 2020. Antle focuses on what he called the biggest news story of the year: the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“Kirk was an important figure with youthful activism on the right,” Antle said. “He was also very successful in advancing conservative religious principles, Christian beliefs, and he also was somebody who, unlike a lot of other figures on the new right, was a unifier and a team player by temperament. Certainly, Kirk will be missed for many reasons, but as the right goes through many debates currently, those are some of the attributes of Charlie Kirk that we might miss the most.”
Washington Examiner Editor-in-Chief Hugo Gurdon sits down with Antle to discuss this week’s cover story on the Bondi Beach massacre and the resurgence of global antisemitism.
“It made people understand that if, even down on the other side of the planet, Islamist terrorists are murdering Jews, then there’s nowhere on Earth where these where the attacks might not take place,” Gurdon said.
Gurdon argues that the intifada, historically rooted in Islamism rather than Palestinian statehood, has expanded to target non-Muslims globally.
“Whilst the attacks against Jews have been going on, we’re also seeing attacks by the same people, by Islamists, by Muslims all over the world, against Christians,” Gurdon explained. “Christmas markets in Europe have been attacked. In Nigeria, Islamists are murdering and wiping out villages, burning churches with people inside, and it leads one to an absolutely unavoidable conclusion, that Islamists are waging a global war against non-Muslims.”
In our in-depth report, Jamie McIntyre, the Washington Examiner‘s defense and national security correspondent, writes about the fresh faces of MAGA influencers who have jumped into the new Pentagon press pool feet-first. Some have made claims that “new media” has never been allowed in the Pentagon’s briefing room.
“The new government-approved press corps lacked the experience to recognize that the talking points they were being fed were not entirely true,” McIntyre said.
McIntyre said until War Secretary Pete Hegseth took over, the Pentagon was “arguably the most welcoming building in Washington for journalists to cover.”
McIntyre calls the Pentagon narrative “ludicrous” that the old school reporters ran rampant in the building, terrorizing military and civilian workers in their quest for classified information that would jeopardize U.S. missions and put the lives of U.S. troops in danger.
“Here’s where I have to call on my 33 years of Pentagon reporting to assert that, to my knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened remotely, and it certainly does not reflect the workplace culture I witnessed daily,” McIntyre wrote. “The relationship between the military and media has historically been adversarial but friendly and courteous.”
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“It’s also true that the job of the press secretary is, or was, to talk to the press and answer their questions,” he added.
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