Why is Jeremy Boreing exiting the Daily Wire?

Wired for sound

Rumors abound about god king’s exit

The right-wing media rumor mill threatened to spin off its axis earlier this week with the shock announcement that “god king” Jeremy Boreing was stepping down as co-CEO of the Daily Wire. Boreing, a keen film enthusiast who starred, wrote and directed in the Wire’s comedy movie Lady Ballers, is withdrawing to “focus on creative projects for the company,” per Axios’s Sara Fischer.

The DW’s many detractors had a field day with the news – speculating that there was more to the story. Boreing and Ben Shapiro had fallen out, one hater claimed, and were retaining different PR agents to brief against each other!

Cockburn did his darndest to separate truth from fiction: “lol no,” Ben Shapiro said when asked if he was retaining his own PR. “I personally handle Ben and Jeremy’s PR – I hire outside PR people, they work for me,” Daily Wire spokesperson Alyssa Cordova told Cockburn.

Others confidently asserted that the company is in dire financial straits due to all the movies and shows it’s making, pointing to Boreing’s passion project The Pendragon Cycle, an Arthurian TV series which is yet to be released. Cockburn understands that the show is in post-production with a premiere date soon to be announced.

One source with knowledge told Cockburn that Boreing’s exit was due to a clandestine acquisition of the Daily Wire by NewsCorp. This rumor made slightly more sense than the fruitier ones: Fox News’s audio division was somewhat left in the dust of the 2024 podcast election, and NewsCorp executives would likely be keen on buying an outlet with bigger inroads into a younger conservative audience. “I would not be surprised,” an industry insider told Cockburn.

However Cordova said rumors of a Fox takeover of the Wire were “totally false.”

According to Axios, the Daily Wire currently has a valuation “north of $1 billion” – when have we heard that before in digital media? — and Cockburn understands that further investment from venture capital could be in the cards as the company enters the post-Boreing era. Watch this space…

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How much Chuck can the Democrats chuck?

Septuagenarian Schumer faces party rebellion

Senator Chuck Schumer truly can’t catch a break.

The Senate Minority Leader is facing a brewing New York Tea Party as Democrats across America openly rebel against one of the most powerful men in their party.

Several House Democrats have openly stated that he isn’t ready for the moment. Worse still is that multiple Senate Democrats are starting to whisper – without their names attached to the murmurings! – that he may need to step aside.

“I’m afraid that it may be time for the Senate Democrats to get a new leader,” Congressman Glenn Ivey told a rowdy town hall. And Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is barnstorming the country, picking up steam to either potentially primary him or force him into retirement altogether for his next race.

Even Schumer’s former staffers are agitating against him. “I, as a former staffer, call on Senator Schumer to step down from leadership,” LGBTQ activist Leah Juliett wrote.

Personal foul

University of Michigan football coach indicted for illegally accessing coed nudes

Forget March Madness: the real drama is in college football during the close season. The Department of Justice and FBI have thrown a flag at the University of Michigan’s former co-offensive coordinator.

According to a 24-count indictment, Matthew Weiss impermissibly gained access to a student-athlete database of more than 100 schools over an eight-year period, during which he “downloaded the personally identifiable information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes… Weiss also illegally obtained access to the social media, email, and/or cloud storage accounts of more than 1,300 additional students and/or alumni from universities across the country,” according to the US Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Michigan.

“Once Weiss obtained access to these accounts, he downloaded personal, intimate digital photographs and videos that were never intended to be shared beyond intimate partners.”

The indictment sent shockwaves through both college and professional football — as Weiss had spent years working for brothers John and Jim Harbaugh, at Stanford, Michigan and for the Baltimore Ravens…