Friday's Final Word
The column by Ed Morrissey critiques a USA Today piece that he says unfairly targets WNBA star Caitlin Clark and reflects broader media bias. He also comments on the perceived decline of sports as a unifying force due to unequal treatment within the league. Additionally, the article reports a federal appeals court ruling that favored Mimi Weiss, who was dismissed after seeking a religious exemption from a COVID‑19 vaccine mandate at Kaiser Permanente.
- ▪Ed Morrissey denounced a USA Today column as deranged and overly critical of Caitlin Clark’s performance in the WNBA.
- ▪He argued that the WNBA’s handling of player equality has diminished its unifying value.
- ▪A federal appeals court ruled in favor of former Kaiser Permanente employee Mimi Weiss, who was fired after requesting a religious exemption from a COVID‑19 vaccine mandate.
- ▪The court warned employers against demanding excessive explanations of an employee’s religious beliefs.
- ▪Social media reactions highlighted tensions around race, gender, and media coverage of women's sports.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 24 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: right. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Thursday's Final Word — Hot Air
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| Original publisher | HotAir |
| Canonical URL | https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/24/fridays-final-word-n3817295 |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:00:06 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-25T02:05:42.225Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-25T02:05:42.225Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | QKSqcYNbGaVS · 3 stories |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Friday's Final Word Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | July 24, 2026 AP Photo/Michael Conroy Gina dreams of tabbing away, she cries in the night, Tommy whispers, "Baby, click away" ...Let’s be honest about why this article was written & published…It’s was a shot across the bow to any white woman that even thinks about complaining about abuse by anyone not white. It was a threat to shut up lest be called a white supremacist. A murderer of Emmitt Till. A klan… https://t.co/9rBsjaTjfs— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) July 24, 2026 Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); A klan member.Ed: That's how the elites see the normies at all times. Occasionally, they get incompetent at hiding it.
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