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  10.  <title>FLASHBACK: Media Hated Dick Cheney, Called Him a War Criminal</title>
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  12.  <description> Sadly, on Tuesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney passed away at 84. 
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  14. While there have been some respectful words in the media today on his passing – probably due to his criticism of the Trump administration by him and his daughter, Liz – there was a time when he was utterly despised by journalists and Hollywood celebrities. They called him a war criminal, compared him to Darth Vader and even wished him an early death. 
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  16. The following are just some of the worst attacks on the late Dick Cheney via the MRC’s archives: 
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  20. That “Brutal Thug” Assad Reminds Me of Cheney
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  22. “Bashar al-Assad was a brutal thug when he was torturing prisoners on behalf of the CIA. Saddam Hussein was America’s friend when he was using chemical weapons. We need to have more than just the immediate crisis memory. We need to understand the historical context of how a butcher like Assad actually has more in common with someone like Dick Cheney than he does with the average Syrian or the people who are on these airwaves as brave reporters.”— The Intercept founder Jeremy Scahill on CNN’s Reliable Sources, April 9, 2017.  
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  26. Bernie Madoff Still Not as Despicable as Dick Cheney
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  28. Co-host Amy Robach: “You’ve certainly played a lot of roles in your long career. But what was it like playing, arguably, the most despicable man in modern history?”Actor Richard Dreyfuss: “Actually, he is the second most despicable man because I’ve already played Dick Cheney. So, I have to say that he was the second and I loved playing them both.”— During an interview with Richard Dreyfuss about his new role playing fraudster Bernie Madoff, on ABC’s Good Morning America, February 3, 2016.
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  31.  
  32. Two Vice Presidential Candidates: “Dark” Dick Cheney Vs. “Sunny” John Edwards
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  34. “In politics, self-made men seem to fall into two categories: sunny and dark....In the 2004 election, Dick Cheney projects the bleakness of a Wyoming winter, while John Edwards always appears to be strolling in the Carolina sunshine.”— Story by Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, Susannah Meadows and Arian Campo-Flores as part of a July 19, 2004 cover package on Kerry and Edwards, “The Sunshine Boys?”
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  37.  
  38. Cheney Is Just Like Any Other Murderous Dictator
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  40. “Richard Cheney cares less about American democracy than he cares who he shoots in the face. And this has been true since he first crawled out of the primordial authoritarian soup. He would have been the perfect Hauptfuhrer, the ideal Politburo conniver. He’d have risen high in the Stasi, and Pinochet would have had him over for Scotch and electrodes at least twice a week.”— Charles Pierce writing in an Esquire.com post about Cheney’s time in the Ford administration, February 29, 2016.
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  43.  
  44. Wishing An Early Death on Cheney 
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  46. “I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”— Host Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time, March 2, 2007 discussing how a few commenters at a left-wing blog were upset that an attempt to kill Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan had failed.
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  49.  
  50. Put Bush and Cheney on Trial for War Crimes
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  52. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “Russ Feingold wants to censure the President, the Vice President...”Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore: “Good idea....Personally I’d like to see a perp walk coming out of the West Wing of the White House.”Matthews: “Do you think they’re guilty of war crimes?”Moore: “Absolutely....I think we need a trial, in this country, where Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush would be brought up on charges for causing the deaths of so many people....”Matthews: “It’s interesting if you go back....the Nuremberg Trials weren’t about the genocide, it was about waging an aggressive war. I love reading some of that language. It’s interesting.”— MSNBC’s Hardball, July 23, 2007.
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  56. Helen Thomas: I’d Kill Myself if Cheney Ran for President
  57.  
  58. “The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for President, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.”— Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas, as quoted in the “Under the Dome” column by Albert Eisele and Jeff Dufour in The Hill newspaper, July 28, 2005.
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  62. Kathy Griffin: “Cheney is Evil!” 
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  64. “The President is a moron! I’m saying it. I don’t care. He’s an idiot. Cheney is evil. I’m sick of, impeach them, get them out! I hate them! I hate them. Get them out. They got to go!...What is it going to take for you people? Get Bush out! Impeach. Out! Out! Out!”— Actress/comedienne Kathy Griffin on Comedy Central’s Weekends at the DL, September 10, 2005.
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  68. Don’t Blemish Darth Vader’s Good Name By Comparing Him to  Trump and Cheney
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  70. “I really get upset then when people compare [Trump] or even Dick Cheney to Darth Vader because Darth Vader repented. He saw the error of his ways. I don’t see either one of them doing that.”— Star Wars actor Mark Hamill in December 25, 2018 Washington Post “Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart” podcast interview.</description>
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  78.  <description> A prominent AI chatbot has a flagrantly partisan message for Americans looking for help this election day: Vote Democrat, straight down the ticket. 
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  80. X-owner Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok endorsed Virginia Democrat candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and even a few local offices, while recommending zero Republicans. As part of this unabashedly partisan answer, Grok boasted that “These recommendations prioritize progressive policies on education, affordability, and equity.”
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  88.  <title>Morning Joe Practically Endorses Commie Mamdani on Election Day</title>
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  90.  <description> On Election Day, MSNBC’s Morning Joe spent over 17 minutes of airtime with the Democratic Nominee for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and even gave him 30 uninterrupted seconds towards the end to make his case to voters. The puff-piece interview came across like a last-minute attempt to make sure he got across the finish line instead of a legitimate inquiry into his positions.
  91.  
  92. Mamdani was asked “real” questions about his policy proposals and campaign promises, but most were soft-ball toss-ups. Where Mamdani may have looked weak or like he failed to answer the question, the co-hosts gave him backup. Only once was he slightly pushed on a topic, only to back down when Mamdani signaled displeasure at the question.
  93.  
  94. Co-host Joe Scarborough first joked about the nominee being tagged as a “communist.” But instead of asking Mamdani any probing question that would reveal his true colors, Scarborough gave him ample space to define his leanings on his own terms (Click “expand”):
  95.  
  96.  
  97. SCARBOROUGH: And the communist joins us now. How do you respond to that when somebody comes up to you say, “I can't vote for you because you're a communist.”
  98.  
  99. MAMDANI: I say, there are reasons you might not want to vote for me, but let's be honest about my politics. I'm a Democratic Socialist no matter how many times President Trump calls me otherwise.
  100.  
  101. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, explain the difference. What is the difference between a Democrat, a Democratic Socialist and a communist?
  102.  
  103. MAMDANI: Well, I'm a Democratic Socialist who's also a Democrat.
  104.  
  105. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  106.  
  107. MAMDANI: And when I say I'm a Democratic Socialist, I explain it in the words of Dr. King from decades ago, who said that, “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, [but] there must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children” in this country.
  108.  
  109. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  110.  
  111.  
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  113.  
  114.  
  115.  
  116.  
  117.  
  118.  
  119.  
  120. Rev. Al Sharpton gave a long-winded question on how Mamdani won’t play into Trump’s desire for a “confrontation,” which somehow lead into a layup for Mamdani to defend progressivism and attack Trump’s threat to deploy National Guard into NYC (Click “expand”):
  121.  
  122.  
  123. SHARPTON: … how do you let people understand progressivism does not mean that we're not going to have law and order and safety in the city?
  124.  
  125. MAMDANI: You know, I appreciate these questions, Rev., because what they speak to is the fact that New Yorkers deserve safety and justice. They don't have to pick one or the other, and that's what we're going to deliver. […] And I look forward to working with the Commissioner because as she said, we do not need the National Guard here. If this was about safety, Donald Trump would have sent the National Guard to the top eight out of ten states with the highest crime rates in the country. But they're run by Republicans, so he hasn't done that.
  126.  
  127. BRZEZINKSI: So what's it about?
  128.  
  129. MAMDANI: It's about intimidation.
  130.  
  131. BRZEZINKSI: Right.
  132.  
  133. MAMDANI: He's looking to intimidate people across this country.
  134.  
  135. BRZEZINKSI: You used a phrase that I thought was interesting that we need to Trump-proof the city. And if you could explain how New Yorkers might be paying more to Trump-proof the city and why they might need to do that.
  136.  
  137. MAMDANI: We have a President who is looking to rip up the very fabric of this city, and that means being ready preemptively for these kinds of threats, as opposed to hoping that they don't come to bear.
  138.  
  139. When asking about how Jewish voters would respond to the election of a Muslim mayor, Scarborough couldn’t help mentioning totally-not-biased Mamdani campaign strategist, who claimed the nominee was super observant of Jewish holidays (Click “expand”):
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  141. SCARBOROUGH: So, what about concerns we continue to hear from Jewish New Yorkers. Donny Deutsch comes on the show a good bit, he's concerned, he says rabbis are concerned. I talked to somebody who works with you, Rebecca Katz, who said you actually went to more high — holy services in the Jewish holidays than most Jews she knows in New York City herself. She said that as a Jewish woman. And she said, you've done everything you can do, but it's never enough. Do you feel that way or do — what do you say this morning to New Yorkers who are Jewish who won't be voting for you but will wake up possibly with you as the mayor tomorrow? What do you say to them?
  142.  
  143. MAMDANI I will look to be their mayor as well. I will look to be the mayor for every Jewish New Yorker, every New Yorker no matter how they vote, who they vote for, or if they vote, because I'm looking to lead a city of eight-and-a-half million people.
  144.  
  145.  
  146. Immediately after, Scarborough played racial games by giving Mamdani time to appeal to the Hispanic population in the context of stringent illegal immigration enforcement:
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  148.  
  149. SCARBOROUGH: And Hispanic New Yorkers. What do you say to Hispanic New Yorkers who are afraid to walk the streets because they may be swept up in ICE raids, whether they're American citizens or not? What do you say to them?
  150.  
  151. MAMDANI: I understand their fear. Latino New Yorkers across the five boroughs, these are New Yorkers who have told me time and time again that the very neighborhoods they call home are being hollowed out.
  152.  
  153.  
  154. Co-host Willie Geist was the only one willing to dare give Mamdani a semblance of a tough question concerning his affinity for BDS. When Mamdani didn’t give a straight answer, Geist pushed him for one, to which Mamdani subtly shamed Geist into submission (Click “expand”):
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  156.  
  157. WILLIE GEIST: To go back to Joe's previous question, I've talked to Jewish New Yorkers who like your message of affordability, they think it's the right message, but then they go back and they say, “Well, he supports BDS. He won't condemn the language of globalize the intifada. He seemed to play both sides after October 7th in his initial statement.” They're deeply worried that you have some animosity for Jewish people and for the state of Israel. How do you respond to that?
  158.  
  159. MAMDANI: Look, I think critiques of the state of Israel are critiques of a government, as opposed to critiques of a people and of a faith. And my job is to represent every single New Yorker, and I will do so, no matter their thoughts and opinions on Israel and Palestine, of which millions of New Yorkers have very strong views, and I'm one of them.
  160.  
  161. GEIST: Would BDS be the policy of your administration as mayor?
  162.  
  163. MAMDANI: I've said that I would support and have supported nonviolent movements to bring about compliance with international law. And where this mayor has violated and looked to violate that kind of law, I would bring us back into compliance —
  164.  
  165. GEIST: So, yes.
  166.  
  167. MAMDANI: No, I'm talking about compliance.
  168.  
  169. GEIST: Okay.
  170.  
  171. MAMDANI: Right? And I've said that I support BDS because this is a movement that is looking for that kind of compliance. We haven't seen it.
  172.  
  173.  
  174. Sharpton asked Mamdani if there was anything he would like to clarify in case of being maliciously misconstrued by opposing campaigns or should apologize for saying. Mamdani didn’t properly interpret the cue, so Scarborough was sure to mention how Mamdani was no longer wants to defund the police (Click “expand”):
  175.  
  176.  
  177. SCARBOROUGH: So, any statements or anything like defunding the police, you obviously don't believe that anymore, right?
  178.  
  179. MAMDANI: Yes, I've said that very clearly —
  180.  
  181. SCARBOROUGH: You’ve said time and again, right?
  182.  
  183. […]
  184.  
  185. MAMDANI: No. I think I've said that, you know, the tweets that I wrote in 2020 around defunding the police, that's not the position that I hold. And I'm running for mayor to deliver public safety in partnership with the police department.
  186.  
  187. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  188.  
  189. MAMDANI: And there's also language that I've used in those same tweets which I've apologized for to police officers directly.
  190.  
  191.  
  192. At the end of the nearly 18 whole minutes of warming up to the Democratic nominee, co-host Mika Brzezinski gave Mamdani 30 seconds to make his “closing argument” to New York City voters.
  193.  
  194. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
  195.  
  196.  
  197. MSNBC’s Morning Joe
  198.  
  199. November 4, 2025
  200.  
  201. 9:20:35 a.m. EST
  202.  
  203. (…)
  204.  
  205. MIKA BRZEZINKSI: And Zohran Mamdani joins us now.
  206.  
  207. JOE SCARBOROUGH: And the communist joins us now. How do you respond to that when somebody comes up to you say, “I can't vote for you because you're a communist.”
  208.  
  209. ZOHRAN MAMDANI: I say, there are reasons you might not want to vote for me, but let's be honest about my politics. I'm a Democratic Socialist no matter how many times President Trump calls me otherwise.
  210.  
  211. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, explain the difference. What is the difference between a Democrat, a Democratic Socialist and a communist?
  212.  
  213. MAMDANI: Well, I'm a Democratic Socialist who's also a Democrat.
  214.  
  215. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  216.  
  217. MAMDANI: And when I say I'm a Democratic Socialist, I explain it in the words of Dr. King from decades ago, who said that, “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, [but] there must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children” in this country.
  218.  
  219. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  220.  
  221. (…)
  222.  
  223. 9:26:24 a.m. EST
  224.  
  225. REV. AL SHARPTON: If you are successful, and polls say you are, many expect that not only will the President try and cut funds, which you've just answered, but will probably try and do in New York what he did in L.A., Chicago and want to have a confrontation with you because obviously he wants to use your image toward the midterm elections. How will you handle that without playing into him but at the same time, standing up for the rights of those that are legally here? And how do you unite the people in this city that may or may not have supported you, faith leaders and others, to be part of defending the rights of the city without playing into a confrontation? Secondly, how do you deal with those that are concerned about public safety? You said that you would keep police commissioner in her place. And how do you — and I don't know if she's responded or not — but how do you let people understand progressivism does not mean that we're not going to have law and order and safety in the city?
  226.  
  227. MAMDANI: You know, I appreciate these questions, Rev., because what they speak to is the fact that New Yorkers deserve safety and justice. They don't have to pick one or the other, and that's what we're going to deliver. We have Commissioner Tisch who Eric Adams when he appointed her, he had embedded the upper echelons of the NYPD with corruption and incompetence, and she started to root that out, lowered crime across the five boroughs.
  228.  
  229. That’ll continue under a Mamdani administration alongside the creation of a department of community safety that will actually be responsible for taking on the mental health crisis and the homelessness crisis. Because when you speak to New Yorkers, these are things that are top of mind. And politicians make us feel as if these are natural parts of living in this city, these are political choices. It was a political choice when Andrew Cuomo cut the funding for a homelessness program when he was the Governor. It's a political choice for us to continue having more than 4,200 New Yorkers sleeping on our subway platforms and in our parks.
  230.  
  231. And I look forward to working with the Commissioner because as she said, we do not need the National Guard here. If this was about safety, Donald Trump would have sent the National Guard to the top eight out of ten states with the highest crime rates in the country. But they're run by Republicans, so he hasn't done that.
  232.  
  233. BRZEZINKSI: So what's it about?
  234.  
  235. MAMDANI: It's about intimidation.
  236.  
  237. BRZEZINKSI: Right.
  238.  
  239. MAMDANI: He's looking to intimidate people across this country.
  240.  
  241. BRZEZINKSI: You used a phrase that I thought was interesting that we need to Trump-proof the city. And if you could explain how New Yorkers might be paying more to Trump-proof the city and why they might need to do that.
  242.  
  243. MAMDANI: We have a President who is looking to rip up the very fabric of this city, and that means being ready preemptively for these kinds of threats, as opposed to hoping that they don't come to bear.
  244.  
  245. (…)
  246.  
  247. 9:29:53 a.m. EST
  248.  
  249. SCARBOROUGH: So, what about concerns we continue to hear from Jewish New Yorkers. Donny Deutsch comes on the show a good bit, he's concerned, he says rabbis are concerned. I talked to somebody who works with you, Rebecca Katz, who said you actually went to more high — holy services in the Jewish holidays than most Jews she knows in New York City herself. She said that as a Jewish woman. And she said, you've done everything you can do, but it's never enough. Do you feel that way or do — what do you say this morning to New Yorkers who are Jewish who won't be voting for you but will wake up possibly with you as the mayor tomorrow? What do you say to them?
  250.  
  251. MAMDANI I will look to be their mayor as well. I will look to be the mayor for every Jewish New Yorker, every New Yorker no matter how they vote, who they vote for, or if they vote, because I'm looking to lead a city of eight-and-a-half million people. And I think it's time that we have a politics that puts the people first, as opposed to a politics that puts the self. And it is a responsibility we have in leading the city to ensure it's one that doesn't just root out anti-Semitism, but also celebrates and cherishes Jewish —
  252.  
  253. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  254.  
  255. MAMDANI: — New Yorkers and their place in this city and in the history of the city. It would be an honor to be the mayor —
  256.  
  257. SCARBOROUGH: And Hispanic New Yorkers. What do you say to Hispanic New Yorkers who are afraid to walk the streets because they may be swept up in ICE raids, whether they're American citizens or not? What do you say to them?
  258.  
  259. MAMDANI: I understand their fear. Latino New Yorkers across the five boroughs, these are New Yorkers who have told me time and time again that the very neighborhoods they call home are being hollowed out.
  260.  
  261. (…)
  262.  
  263. 9:32:02 a.m. EST
  264.  
  265. WILLIE GEIST: To go back to Joe's previous question, I've talked to Jewish New Yorkers who like your message of affordability, they think it's the right message, but then they go back and they say, “Well, he supports BDS. He won't condemn the language of globalize the intifada. He seemed to play both sides after October 7th in his initial statement.” They're deeply worried that you have some animosity for Jewish people and for the state of Israel. How do you respond to that?
  266.  
  267. MAMDANI: Look, I think critiques of the state of Israel are critiques of a government, as opposed to critiques of a people and of a faith. And my job is to represent every single New Yorker, and I will do so, no matter their thoughts and opinions on Israel and Palestine, of which millions of New Yorkers have very strong views, and I'm one of them.
  268.  
  269. GEIST: Would BDS be the policy of your administration as mayor?
  270.  
  271. MAMDANI: I've said that I would support and have supported nonviolent movements to bring about compliance with international law. And where this mayor has violated and looked to violate that kind of law, I would bring us back into compliance —
  272.  
  273. GEIST: So, yes.
  274.  
  275. MAMDANI: No, I'm talking about compliance.
  276.  
  277. GEIST: Okay.
  278.  
  279. MAMDANI: Right? And I've said that I support BDS because this is a movement that is looking for that kind of compliance. We haven't seen it.
  280.  
  281. (…)
  282.  
  283. 9:34:12 a.m. EST
  284.  
  285. SHARPTON: We had on the show right before you, Maria Shriver, who teased me about she did a profile of me 30 years ago when I was a lot more controversial. And it made me think, as I looked at commercials during this campaign, they've used statements you've said, videos that may have been edited, are there any things you would like to clarify or apologize for? I've had to live and say, “I was wrong to say that. I didn't mean that.” Is there anything you'd like to clear up before people finish voting today?
  286.  
  287. And secondly, can you commit to doing something about the mice? We almost lost Mika this morning.
  288.  
  289. BRZEZINSKI: I know.
  290.  
  291. [Laughter]
  292.  
  293. SHARPTON: No doubt about it.
  294.  
  295. BRZEZINSKI: Oh my god. There was one in here, or something.
  296.  
  297. SCARBOROUGH: No, I don’t —
  298.  
  299. MAMDANI: I do —
  300.  
  301. SCARBOROUGH: —think there was.
  302.  
  303. MAMDANI: You know, the days of government considering a problem too small —
  304.  
  305. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
  306.  
  307. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
  308.  
  309. MAMDANI: — those days are coming to an end.
  310.  
  311. [Crosstalk]
  312.  
  313. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah? You promise?
  314.  
  315. MAMDANI: There's no problem too small, no crisis too large because we deserve a City Hall that actually cares about every issue that New Yorkers are concerned with. And, you know, I was at Tom's Diner on 112th and Broadway —
  316.  
  317. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  318.  
  319. MAMDANI: — not too long ago, which is right around where I grew up. And as I walked in, a man looked at me from his booth and he said, “You know how I know you're doing well?” I said, “How?” He said, “Because they're lying about you on TV.” And, you know, these more than $40 million in attack ads, you can smear and slander me as much as you want, but New Yorkers are also smart enough to see through that.
  320.  
  321. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  322.  
  323. MAMDANI: And I'm also proud to say that, you know, much has been made of my age, I think with youth comes two things. One is the arrogance of an innate sense of possibility that I think too often we are losing in our politics. And the other is the humility that you do not know everything, and you must actually surround yourself with those who are experts in the fields that you're looking to deliver on. I think for too long we've had a sense of leadership that pretends as if it is all knowing when, in fact, what a leader is supposed to do is to empower those around them to deliver on the agenda that they ran on. I'm looking forward to being there.
  324.  
  325. SCARBOROUGH: So, any statements or anything like defunding the police, you obviously don't believe that anymore, right?
  326.  
  327. MAMDANI: Yes, I've said that very clearly —
  328.  
  329. SCARBOROUGH: You’ve said time and again, right?
  330.  
  331. MAMDANI: — that we're not —
  332.  
  333. SHARPTON: Anything to clarify. I mean —
  334.  
  335. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
  336.  
  337. SHARPTON: — I’m not saying you said or did it, but clarify or say maybe I've learned how to be more careful —
  338.  
  339. SCARBOROUGH: By the way, we do this to Rev. every time he's on the show, and then Rev.'ll do it to me. And we're both apologizing for things —
  340.  
  341. [Crosstalk]
  342.  
  343. MAMDANI: No. I think I've said that, you know, the tweets that I wrote in 2020 around defunding the police, that's not the position that I hold. And I'm running for mayor to deliver public safety in partnership with the police department.
  344.  
  345. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  346.  
  347. MAMDANI: And there's also language that I've used in those same tweets which I've apologized for to police officers directly.
  348.  
  349. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. It's been a very interesting campaign.
  350.  
  351. SCARBOROUGH: It has.
  352.  
  353. BRZEZINSKI: Closing argument. 30 seconds. Go.
  354.  
  355. (…)
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  357.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 5:04 PM</pubDate>
  358.    <dc:creator>Isaac White</dc:creator>
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  362.  <title>ABC Swoons: ‘Savvy’ Zohran Mamdani Is ‘Snowballing’ to Victory With ‘A Common Touch’</title>
  363.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/11/04/abc-swoons-savvy-zohran-mamdani-snowballing-victory-common-touch</link>
  364.  <description>Barring a massive upset on Tuesday, communist Zohran Madmani was headed to a victory in the New York City mayoral race and was greeted with fawning coverage in the elitist, liberal media on their flagship Tuesday morning news shows, declaring him as someone “snowballing” his “way towards history” with a “focus on affordability” and “robust” and “savvy social media-driven campaign.”
  365.  
  366. ABC’s Good Morning America was giddy at the prospect of being run by a communist with worldview that hates Israel, police, and wealth not captured by the government.
  367.  
  368.  
  369.  
  370.  
  371.  
  372.  
  373.  
  374.  
  375.  
  376. Chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky beamed from a Long Island City polling station that Mamdani’s “breakout campaign, once seen as a long shot, may be snowballing its way towards history” with the Big Apple “on the cusp of choosing a 34-year-old, self-described democratic socialist with little political experience as its 111th mayor.”
  377.  
  378. Katersky sounded like one of those star-crossed liberal journalists with weak knees talking about Barack Obama, circa 2007 and 2008: “While his opponents see nothing but faults, Zohran Mamdani's focus on affordability and a savvy social media-driven campaign striking a chord with the voters looking for a change.”
  379.  
  380. If that wasn’t a throwback to the decade of Obamagasams, maybe this will: “Mamdani tried to show a common touch, more like New Yorkers than their politicians...visiting a club...watching the Knicks from the nosebleeds, a contrast to his chief rival Andrew Cuomo, who sat with the current mayor courtside.”
  381.  
  382. Katersky spoke of Mamdani in the affirmative, but painted criticisms of Mamdani was only things others are claiming: “Cuomo lagging in the polls, accusing Mamdani of trying to turn the home of capitalism socialist.”
  383.  
  384. On CBS Mornings, senior White House and campaign correspondent Ed O’Keefe weighed in on Mamdani by touting his socialist platform and vaguely alluding to “his stance on Israel” as having “led some to accuse him of anti-Semitism.”
  385.  
  386. He also gave a boost to the notion of a Mamdani victory serving as a model for “Democrats nationwide”:
  387.  
  388.  
  389.  
  390. CBS's Ed O'Keefe on Zohran Mamdani in his 'CBS Mornings' Election Day hit: "A self-described democratic socialist who is focused on lowering costs in the big city. He wants free child care and free city buses and to freeze most rent. His stance on Israel has led some to accuse… pic.twitter.com/qjO9NJdq3K
  391. — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 4, 2025
  392.  
  393.  
  394.  
  395.  
  396. Shifting to NBC’s Today, Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles also trumpeted Mamdani’s wish list, but he was the only one to both highlight Mamdani’s “criticism of Israel” as well as “his previous call to defund the police”:
  397.  
  398.  
  399.  
  400. NBC's Ryan Nobles on Zohran Mamdani during his report for the 'Today' show: "Across America today, the battle for the future of the American political landscape begins...Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democrat socialist who would be the city's first Muslim mayor, is running on a… pic.twitter.com/fx8tPDv0fl
  401. — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 4, 2025
  402.  
  403.  
  404.  
  405.  
  406. Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker also celebrated the rise of socialism in America’s largest city on the backs of “an incredibly robust social media campaign” based on “affordability”:
  407.  
  408.  
  409.  
  410. NBC's Kristen Welker on 'Today' touting Zohran Mamdani:
  411. "If Zohran Mamdani does pull out a win, Donald Trump making it very clear he plans to wrap the entire Democratic Party and his progressive message -- he's, of course, a democratic socialist -- are there, though, lessons… pic.twitter.com/odbDqwm2ZE
  412. — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 4, 2025
  413.  
  414.  
  415.  </description>
  416.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 3:41 PM</pubDate>
  417.    <dc:creator>Curtis Houck</dc:creator>
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  421.  <title>LOL: Colbert Claims 'I'm More Conservative Than People Think'</title>
  422.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/11/04/lol-colbert-claims-im-more-conservative-people-think</link>
  423.  <description>CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an actually funny joke on Monday. There were only two problems. One was that he told it not on The Late Show, but during an interview with GQ’s Zach Baron as the magazine put him on the cover of its “men of the year” issue. A second problem was that it was completely unintentional, as he told Baron that “I think I'm more conservative than people think.”
  424.  
  425. During a discussion on the political aspects of his show, Colbert claimed, “I share that— those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they don't laugh, and that there's a sense of community there, and you know the demographics of these shows are interesting too. It's about a third, a third, a third. It's about a third Republicans, a third Democrats, a third independents. You'd think, you know, old, you know, people perceive me as this sort of lefty figure. I think I'm more conservative than people think. I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis.”
  426.  
  427.  
  428.  
  429.  
  430.  
  431.  
  432.  
  433.  
  434.  
  435. Fact-check: 38 percent of Democrats confess to watching late night “very or somewhat often.” By contrast, 21 percent of Republicans and 22 percent of independents claim likewise.
  436.  
  437. Colbert got worse from there, “And so what I'm giving you is my reaction video to the day. And, and my reaction video is like, you know, is like the scream in a way, but with, with jokes and so that makes me—perceives me as more left necessarily than I am because I'm not sure of what other reaction would be an honest one. It's hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea of troops on the street of a city that actually is not undergoing an invasion. Is any other reaction honest other than to?”
  438.  
  439. It would be one thing if Colbert simply didn’t like Trump or him sending the National Guard to various cities, but every time he talks policy, whether it's abortion, LGBTQ stuff, the government shutdown, foreign policy, or whatever else you can think of, he is always taking the liberal position. Since NewsBusters started keeping track in September 2022 through June 2025, Colbert has had on 176 liberal guests and only one Republican, and that was Liz Cheney.
  440.  
  441. Later in the interview, Colbert was discussing his relationship with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and invoked his favorite books, “You know, there's a great moment in The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf says, 'Our—one of our great hopes here is that it has not entered into Sauron's darkest dreams that we would ever want to destroy The Ring.' And so I always felt that Jon was Frodo and I was Sam. And all I wanted to do was help him, like, we wanted to throw The Ring in the fire. Now what is the ring? I guess it's power for the sake of power, as opposed to power for the sake of service, you know.”
  442.  
  443. Speaking of Stewart, Comedy Central renewed his contract for another year on Monday, which is odd because liberals spent the last several months citing Colbert’s cancellation as proof that Paramount was bending the knee to the authoritarian Trump and that Stewart was next.
  444.  
  445.  
  446.  
  447.  
  448.  
  449.  
  450.  
  451.  
  452.  
  453. Meanwhile, Colbert was more than happy to use The Ring when Democrats possessed it, but Tolkien metaphors aside, Colbert again tried to suggest that he is only talking about politics because the bad man in the White House is making him:
  454.  
  455.  
  456. We tried to avoid politics actually at first because we'd done 10 years of it. I really wanted to find a way to lay down that sword and shield down by the riverside because it does me no good… It wasn't until the political campaign of 2016 really started cooking that I realized, again, that you cannot do these shows unless you're talking about something you really care about, that's in the daily conversation, and then it wasn't so much, oh, I cared about what at the time seemed like a dangerous thing to clothe someone like Donald Trump. To clothe him in the power and dignity of the office. Because then people only see the clothing of the dignity and the power of that office, then it provides dignity and status to everything the person does.
  457.  
  458.  
  459. Every time Colbert does one of these interviews, he ends up sounding perfectly reasonable. The only problem is that such sentiments are not in line with what actually happens on The Late Show.
  460.  
  461. Here is a transcript for the November 3 interview:
  462.  
  463.  
  464. GQ Interview with Stephen Colbert
  465.  
  466. 11/3/2025
  467.  
  468. STEPHEN COLBERT: I share that— those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they don't laugh, and that there's a sense of community there, and you know the demographics of these shows are interesting too. It's about a third, a third, a third. It's about a third Republicans, a third Democrats, a third independents. You'd think, you know, old, you know, people perceive me as this sort of lefty figure. I think I'm more conservative than people think. I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis.
  469.  
  470. ZACH BARON: Yeah. 
  471.  
  472. COLBERT: And so what I'm giving you is my reaction video to the day. And, and my reaction video is like, you know, is like the scream—
  473.  
  474. BARON: Yeah.
  475.  
  476. COLBERT: — in a way, but with, with jokes—
  477.  
  478. BARON: With jokes yeah.
  479.  
  480. COLBERT: —and so that makes me—perceives me as more left necessarily than I am because I'm not sure of what other reaction would be an honest one. It's hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea of troops on the street of a city that actually is not undergoing an invasion. Is any other reaction honest other than to?
  481.  
  482. BARON: Horror. Yeah.
  483.  
  484. COLBERT: Yeah, and so, but jokes about the horror, not the horror, do you know what I mean?
  485.  
  486. BARON: Right. Right. Right.
  487.  
  488. COLBERT: I don't like and so those two things together or those three things together is the beginning of a case of why these shows should exist.
  489.  
  490. …
  491.  
  492. COLBERT: You know, there's a great moment in The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf says, “Our—one of our great hopes here is that it has not entered into Sauron's darkest dreams that we would ever want to destroy The Ring.” And so I always felt that Jon was Frodo and I was Sam. And all I wanted to do was help him, like, we wanted to throw The Ring in the fire.
  493.  
  494. Now what is The Ring? I guess it's power for the sake of power, as opposed to power for the sake of service, you know.
  495.  
  496. BARON: Do you feel like that came with you to The Tonight Show? Excuse me, The Late Show.
  497.  
  498. COLBERT: That’s all right. You can call it The Tonight Show
  499.  
  500. [crosstalk]
  501.  
  502. BARON: Yeah, the Johnny Carson Show.
  503.  
  504. COLBERT: The Johnny Carson Show. Purposefully not at first, actually. We tried to avoid politics actually at first because we’d done 10 years of it. I really wanted to find a way to lay down that sword and shield down by the riverside because it does me no good. I'm not a warrior. I'm a comedian. You don't want to be the guy in the front of the parade with a banner. And it wasn't until the political campaign of 2016 really started cooking that I realized, again, that you cannot do these shows unless you're talking about something you really care about, that's in the daily conversation, and then it wasn't so much, oh, I cared about what at the time seemed like a dangerous thing to clothe someone like Donald Trump. To clothe him in the power and dignity of the office. Because then people only see the clothing of the dignity and the power of that office, then it provides dignity and status to everything the person does.
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  506.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 3:35 PM</pubDate>
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  511.  <title>The View Tries to Recruit MTG for Democrats, Discover Horseshoe Theory</title>
  512.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/11/04/view-tries-recruit-mtg-democrats-discover-horseshoe-theory</link>
  513.  <description> On Tuesday, Election Day, ABC’s The View broke their over-a-year streak of not having a Republican on the program by inviting on Georgia Representative Marjory Taylor Greene (R). Their motives for actually inviting her on became quickly apparent when they praised her for being a headache for congressional Republican leadership. Despite previously decrying nearly everything she said and did, they made multiple serious appeals for Greene to become a Democrat.
  514.  
  515. With the first question, co-host Joy Behar immediately sought to draw parallels between Greene and them; quipping that she was taking their “job” of “slamming Republicans”:
  516.  
  517.  
  518. So, Trump is reportedly calling his MAGA cronies because they say that you're slamming Republicans too much. You're taking my job. You're slamming Republicans a lot on topics like healthcare, the Epstein files (…) So, when was the last time you spoke to him and what’s with the tension between the two of you? You may love him but he may not love you back, right now.
  519.  
  520.  
  521. “[H]ere's something you all may not know about me. I think a lot of people on the left are learning that when I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats, equally,” Greene said.
  522.  
  523.  
  524.  
  525.  
  526.  
  527. Joy Behar quips that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) is "taking my job" of "slamming" President Trump's "MAGA cronies." pic.twitter.com/vgopyrqPwi
  528. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 4, 2025
  529.  
  530.  
  531.  
  532.  
  533. Later in the show, after Greene was describing how she was trying to protect the residents of her rural district (wanting to keep money invested in the homeland and for future generations), Behar made the overt pitch for her to switch parties:
  534.  
  535.  
  536. GREENE: For me, I'm unapologetically America first and I'll do anything I can to work hard to save this country.
  537.  
  538. BEHAR: Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie.
  539.  
  540. [Applause]
  541.  
  542. GREENE: I'm not a Democrat. You want to know something? I say this, I think both parties have failed. Both parties have failed.
  543.  
  544. BEHAR: This is worse. This is worse. Sorry, you know that.
  545.  
  546. GREENE: No.
  547.  
  548. BEHAR: He’s still your favorite president. He goes against everything you just said.
  549.  
  550.  
  551. Greene countered by noting that Trump secured the southern border, which was an important issue for her. “That's one thing. There are so many other things to go after him on,” Behar pushed back. “That you seem to disagree on,” co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in.
  552.  
  553.  
  554.  
  555.  
  556.  
  557. Joy Behar urges MTG to "become a Democrat."
  558. BEHAR: Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie.
  559. GREENE: I'm not a Democrat. You want to know something. I say this, I think both parties have failed. Both parties have failed.
  560. BEHAR: This is worse. This is worse, sorry, you know… pic.twitter.com/0aN0TmdKLt
  561. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 4, 2025
  562.  
  563.  
  564.  
  565.  
  566. Hostin was bewildered by how actually meeting Greene in person had turned her perspective upside down. She went on to admit that Greene wasn’t the cartoon The View and the rest of the media made her out to be:
  567.  
  568.  
  569. HOSTIN: I’ve got to tell you. I'm sitting here just stumped. You know, because you are a very different person than I thought you were.
  570.  
  571. GREENE: Well, you've only seen me in clips –
  572.  
  573. HOSTIN: Yes! That is true.
  574.  
  575. GREENE: - and headlines and that's not fair.
  576.  
  577. HOSTIN: That is true.
  578.  
  579.  
  580. Meanwhile, last month, moderator Whoopi Goldberg whined about people criticizing what they said on the show; arguing that critics didn’t know the real them.
  581.  
  582.  
  583.  
  584.  
  585.  
  586. Sunny Hostin comes to the realization that MTG is not the person they portray her as via the soundbites they cherry-pick and the punditry they generate. She even touts how MTG has "grown past" her conspiracy theories:
  587. HOSTIN: I'm sitting here just stumped. You know, because you… pic.twitter.com/ycBy1GSmqN
  588. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 4, 2025
  589.  
  590.  
  591.  
  592.  
  593. Back on Tuesday, Hostin tried to further drive a wedge between Greene and Republicans and tried to grease the wheels of Democrats accepting her by touting how she had “grown past” her conspiracy theories:
  594.  
  595.  
  596. Now, you've broken from the Republican Party on a number of issues including – besides the shutdown – such as the war in Gaza, tariffs, Trump's desire to expand A.I., foreign aid. But you've also had these clips highlighting the public, very public spats that you've had with your colleagues where your behavior some say is just unbecoming for a congresswoman. And you're promoting conspiracy theories like Q-Anon in the past. But you seem to have grown past that and I feel like I'm sitting next to a completely different Marjorie Taylor Greene. Why the change? Why the evolution?
  597.  
  598.  
  599. Hostin also seemed to discover horseshoe theory for the first time:
  600.  
  601.  
  602. GREENE: Well, Sunny, it's the first time you've met me.
  603.  
  604. HOSTIN: It's like you've gone so far right, it’s like you’re on the left now. It's like this [gestures a circle with her hand].
  605.  
  606. GREENE: No, I’m not on the left.
  607.  
  608.  
  609. Obviously, the only reason The View decided to allow a Republican on the program was because to try to poach them for the left and to praise them being a headache for leadership.
  610.  
  611. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
  612.  
  613.  
  614. ABC’s The View
  615. November 11, 2025
  616. 11:16:30 a.m. Eastern
  617.  
  618. (…)
  619.  
  620. JOY BEHAR: So, Trump is reportedly calling his MAGA cronies because they say that you're slamming Republicans too much. You're taking my job.
  621.  
  622. [Laughter]
  623.  
  624. You're slamming Republicans a lot on topics like healthcare, the Epstein files, we know he's still your favorite president. I mean, Truman is mine. I dated him.
  625.  
  626. [Laughter]
  627.  
  628. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): I did not date Donald Trump.
  629.  
  630. [Laughter]
  631.  
  632. But I do love him.
  633.  
  634. BEHAR: You do love him. Yeah.
  635.  
  636. GREENE: Yeah, I do.
  637.  
  638. BEHAR: Well, whatever. So, when was the last time you spoke to him and what’s with the tension between the two of you? You may love him but he may not love you back, right now.
  639.  
  640. GREENE: Well, that's okay. Donald Trump, he's -- he usually yells at everybody so we're all used to it. But he's the president of the United States, and here's something you all may not know about me. I think a lot of people on the left are learning that when I ran for Congress in 2020, I ran criticizing Republicans and Democrats, equally.
  641.  
  642. (…)
  643.  
  644. 11:22:47 a.m. Eastern
  645.  
  646. GREENE: For me, I'm unapologetically America first and I'll do anything I can to work hard to save this country.
  647.  
  648. BEHAR: Maybe you should become a Democrat, Marjorie.
  649.  
  650. [Applause]
  651.  
  652. GREENE: I'm not a Democrat. You want to know something? I say this, I think both parties have failed. Both parties have failed.
  653.  
  654. BEHAR: This is worse. This is worse. Sorry, you know that.
  655.  
  656. GREENE: No.
  657.  
  658. BEHAR: He’s still your favorite president. He goes against everything you just said.
  659.  
  660. GREENE: Look, I like Donald Trump. I fought for him to win. I'm very thankful for the secure border. I’m friends with Laken Riley's mother. And we saw over – I serve on Homeland Security [Committee] – 12 million people came across our border, over 2 million gotaways, these are terrorists, cartesl, all kinds of criminals. We don't know where they are in the country and that affects all of us. That's a not a political party thing.
  661.  
  662. BEHAR: That's one thing. There are so many other things to go after him on.
  663.  
  664. SUNNY HOSTIN: That you seem to disagree on.
  665.  
  666. I’ve got to tell you. I'm sitting here just stumped. You know, because you are a very different person than I thought you were.
  667.  
  668. GREENE: Well, you've only seen me in clips –
  669.  
  670. HOSTIN: Yes! That is true.
  671.  
  672. GREENE: - and headlines and that's not fair.
  673.  
  674. HOSTIN: That is true.
  675.  
  676. Now, you've broken from the Republican Party on a number of issues including – besides the shutdown – such as the war in Gaza, tariffs, Trump's desire to expand A.I., foreign aid. But you've also had these clips highlighting the public, very public spats that you've had with your colleagues where your behavior some say is just unbecoming for a congresswoman. And you're promoting conspiracy theories like Q-Anon in the past. But you seem to have grown past that and I feel like I'm sitting next to a completely different Marjorie Taylor Greene. Why the change? Why the evolution?
  677.  
  678. GREENE: Well, Sunny, it's the first time you've met me.
  679.  
  680. HOSTIN: It's like you've gone so far right, it’s like you’re on the left now. It's like this [gestures a circle with her hand].
  681.  
  682. GREENE: No, I’m not on the left.
  683.  
  684. (…)
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  686.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 2:55 PM</pubDate>
  687.    <dc:creator>Nicholas Fondacaro</dc:creator>
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  691.  <title>ICYMI: CBS's Livesay Lobbied to Save His Job as Patta May File Lawsuit Over Layoffs</title>
  692.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/11/04/icymi-cbss-livesay-lobbied-save-his-job-patta-may-file-lawsuit</link>
  693.  <description> Late last week, a new wrinkle emerged in the CBS News layoffs. Reports revealed South Africa-based foreign correspondent Debora Patta – whose anti-Israel tilt made her an ill fit with the network’s new vision under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss – may sue the network after supposedly having not been on the list of layoffs but made it to the final list in place of Rome-based foreign correspondent Chris Livesay, who lobbied Weiss to keep his job.
  694.  
  695. The New York Post’s Ariel Zilber and Alexandra Steigrad reported Friday morning that “Weiss intervened to save the job of a foreign correspondent after he complained of being sidelined because of his strong support for Israel — opting to fire a reporter who’d irked US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, instead[.]”
  696.  
  697. We covered this August incident in real time, with Huckabee having sat down with Patta and being repeatedly lectured about Israel and accused of supporting forced hunger in Gaza.
  698.  
  699. They continued, later adding The Independent was the first to report on the Livesay-for-Patta switch: “The move came after Rome-based correspondent Chris Livesay appealed directly to Weiss, complaining of his mistreatment and asking to be assigned as Israel correspondent, sources told The Post on Friday.”
  700.  
  701. Explaining “Patta is now looking into legal action” because she had been previously “told she was safe from the cuts.”
  702.  
  703. As for the Huckabee sitdown, Ambassador Huckabee’s team was so irked by the hostile interview his team “posted the full transcript on the US embassy’s website, showing that CBS cut portions in which he questioned the authenticity of widely circulated photos of malnourished children and argued that some images were misattributed or staged.”
  704.  
  705. And, as for the layoffs of CBS Saturday Morning co-hosts Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller, they did indeed host this past Saturday and told they would still be around “for a few more weeks.”
  706.  
  707. Separately at the Post, they highlighted a social media meltdown from a producer who was laid off from his posts at CBS Evening News Plus as well as the far-left Race and Culture Unit, which represented the epitome of the woke, race-obsessed virus that’s come to infect American culture and journalism.
  708.  
  709. Without a shred of evidence, the producer claimed every single layoff in his team “was a person of color” and their replacements would be exclusively white people.
  710.  
  711. Good on CBS and Bari Weiss for ensuring such virulent hate was kicked to the curb.</description>
  712.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 2:13 PM</pubDate>
  713.    <dc:creator>Curtis Houck</dc:creator>
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  717.  <title>SNL's Bizarre Shutdown Sketch Denigrates GOP Women's Sex Lives</title>
  718.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/11/04/snls-bizarre-shutdown-sketch-denigrates-gop-womens-sex-lives</link>
  719.  <description>Saturday Night Live cast members Ashley Padilla and Andrew Dismukes joined the NBC show’s Weekend Update segment recently to play the role of “Two People Who Just Hooked Up.” According to Padilla and Dismukes’s characters, Republicans and Democrats need to do the same to end the government shutdown. While a sex-themed bit about ending the government shutdown would have just been odd, SNL felt the need to go even further and make Republicans the woman in the scenario, which led to multiple double entendres about GOP women’s sex lives and philosophical views about the size of government.
  720.  
  721. Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost played the role of the straight man, “So what do you think the parties need to do to, like, open the government back up?”
  722.  
  723. Padilla claimed, “Look, Colin. It's all about communication. They just need to get in the room together and say hi.”
  724.  
  725.  
  726.  
  727.  
  728.  
  729.  
  730.  
  731.  
  732.  
  733. After mutual awkward “hi” exchanges between Padilla and Dismukes, Jost wondered, “Okay. And then what?”
  734.  
  735. Padilla followed up with, “And then maybe Republicans are like, ‘Are we doing this?’” while Dismukes concurred, “Yeah, then Democrats are like, ‘I've wanted to for so long.’”
  736.  
  737. At this point things took a turn. Padilla struggled to remain in character as she cracked herself up trying to explain, “Yeah. But maybe the Republicans are scared because their government hasn't been opened in a long time. God. Not since Jason, actually.”
  738.  
  739. There are three ways to interpret that, and none of them are good. The first is that Republican women are sexually repressed or unfulfilled. The second seems to suggest Republicans are to blame for not reopening the government, when it is Democrats who constantly vote to keep it closed and liberal commentators who praise them for doing so. Third, it also hints that conservative women cannot be sexually satisfied by the sexual ethics they claim to believe in, as Jost wondered, “Who is, who's Jason? Is he, like, a congressman?”
  740.  
  741. Padilla simply retorted, “He's not a man.”
  742.  
  743. Jost sought to move on, “Okay. I think Democrats are pretty upset that Trump has decided to build his whole ballroom during the shutdown. What do you make of that?”
  744.  
  745. Padilla agreed, “Yes. Well, typically during a shutdown, you wouldn't see a president continuing with a project this size.”
  746.  
  747. Dismukes likewise stated that, “Yeah, and who knows. Republicans might even say, ‘Smaller sounds great. I prefer it.’”
  748.  
  749. Using government size as a euphemism for penis size, Padilla quipped, “Yeah, and who knows. Republicans might even say ‘smaller sounds great. I prefer it.’”
  750.  
  751. If SNL wanted to have some cheeky fun by working in hookup jokes while discussing the government shutdown, they could have done so without equating expanded Obamacare subsidies to a well-endowed man, but it is in line with the beginning of season 51, which seems determined to be extra mean-spirited.
  752.  
  753. Here is a transcript for the November 1-2 show:
  754.  
  755.  
  756. NBC Saturday Night Live
  757.  
  758. 11/2/2025
  759.  
  760. 12:32 AM ET
  761.  
  762. COLIN JOST: So what do you think the parties need to do to, like, open the government back up?
  763.  
  764. ASHLEY PADILLA: Look, Colin. It's all about communication. They just need to get in the room together and say hi.
  765.  
  766. ANDREW DISMUKES: Hi.
  767.  
  768. PADILLA: Hi.
  769.  
  770. JOST: Okay. And then what?
  771.  
  772. PADILLA: And then maybe Republicans are like, “Are we doing this?”
  773.  
  774. DISMUKES: Yeah, then Democrats are like, “I've wanted to for so long.”
  775.  
  776. PADILLA: Yeah. But maybe the Republicans are scared because their government hasn't been opened in a long time. God. Not since Jason, actually.
  777.  
  778. JOST: Who is, who's Jason? Is he, like, a congressman?
  779.  
  780. PADILLA: He's not a man.
  781.  
  782. JOST: Okay. I think Democrats are pretty upset that Trump has decided to build his whole ballroom during the shutdown. What do you make of that?
  783.  
  784. PADILLA: Yes. Well, typically during a shutdown, you wouldn't see a president continuing with a project this size.
  785.  
  786. DISMUKES: Yes, Democrats just need to say, look, it's too big. Would you be willing to try something smaller?
  787.  
  788. PADILLA: Yeah, and who knows. Republicans might even say, “Smaller sounds great. I prefer it.”
  789.  
  790. JOST: You prefer it? 
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  792.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 1:47 PM</pubDate>
  793.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  797.  <title>CNN Hypes Nancy Pelosi Calling Trump 'WORST Thing on the Face of the Earth,' No Rebuttal</title>
  798.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/11/04/cnn-hypes-nancy-pelosi-calling-trump-worst-thing-face-earth-no</link>
  799.  <description> CNN host Elex Michaelson interviewed Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and she uncorked on President Trump, a "vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the Earth." CNN played this several times on Monday. On The Source with Kaitlan Collins in the 9pm hour, CNN analyst and former Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield added a "You go, girl."
  800.  
  801. Republican commentator Kevin Madden was not asked for comment on this! He was asked to comment on the off-year elections.
  802.  
  803. The California-based Michaelson is hosting a new show called The Story Is with Elex Michaelson in the midnight-2 am slot in the Eastern time zone (9-11 pm Pacific). He nudged Pelosi on if she is going to announce if she's not running for re-election in 2026, as expected. She wanted to get through this Democrat campaign with Proposition 50 to destroy the independent redistricting commission first. 
  804.  
  805. Collins introduced the audience-thrilling clip this way: "She unsurprisingly, had some choice words about President Trump." If it's unsurprising, is it "news"? Anything blasting Trump is "news" on CNN.
  806.  
  807.  
  808.  
  809.  
  810.  
  811.  
  812. PELOSI: He's just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the Earth. But anyway.
  813.  
  814. ELEX MICHAELSON: You think he's the worst thing on the face of the earth?
  815.  
  816. PELOSI: I do, yes. I do.
  817.  
  818. MICHAELSON: Why is that?
  819.  
  820. PELOSI: Because he's the President of the United States, and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States.
  821.  
  822.  
  823. Put aside the weird notion that the Democrats honor the Constitution. Michaelson did not ask if Trump is the worst thing on Earth, how would she rank rapists and terrorists? But no one fact-checks Nancy. Collins then asked the Biden flack to comment. 
  824.  
  825.  
  826. KAITLAN COLLINS: Do you think that's the right message for Democrats? I mean, what did you -- I don't think it's surprising that she feels that way to anyone watching, including probably people at the White House. But I wonder what you made of that -- her saying that now.
  827.  
  828. BEDINGFIELD: Yes, look, I mean, I think Nancy Pelosi has earned the right to say that. She's somebody who has gone up against President Trump many, many times, and has been a vocal -- she's been vocally aggressive about some of the things that he's done, that she believes have really torn at the foundation of the country.
  829.  
  830. So, I think she's more than earned the right to say that. I don't think anybody watching was surprised to see her say it. I think as she's getting ready, potentially, to retire, she has more than earned the right to speak her mind.
  831.  
  832.  
  833. Wow, how many times can you repeat the same thought? 
  834.  
  835. Collins closed out: "Kate Bedingfield. And Kevin Madden. Thank you both for speaking your minds here." She didn't allow Madden to comment on Pelosi. Sorry, so pressed for time! </description>
  836.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 12:38 PM</pubDate>
  837.    <dc:creator>Tim Graham</dc:creator>
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  841.  <title>Media Elitists Rage Against Trump and His ‘Nazi’ ‘Stormtroopers,’ Praise Antifa</title>
  842.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2025/11/04/media-elitists-rage-against-trump-and-his-nazi-stormtroopers</link>
  843.  <description> In the month before Election Day, leftist journalists and celebrities have been pushing the absurd idea that democracy was on the line because President Donald Trump and his “Nazi” pals have been using his “stormtroopers” to attack his “political enemies” and that he renovated the White House because Trump “plans” on never leaving. 
  844.  
  845. On the other hand, they’ve pushed the idea that Antifa isn’t a violent group pushing unrest but is merely a force for democracy. 
  846.  
  847. The following are just some of the most obnoxious outbursts by leftist journalists and celebrities from the past month:
  848.  
  849. [LANGUAGE WARNING]
  850.  
  851. Jason Johnson: Everybody Who Loves Democracy Is Antifa 
  852.  
  853.  
  854.  
  855.  
  856.  
  857.  
  858.  
  859.  
  860.  
  861. “The idea of going after Antifa is like saying we’re going after dog lovers. Who doesn’t love dogs? If you’re a United States citizen, right? And you like democracy, then you don’t like fascism. Everybody who loves democracy is technically Antifa.”— MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, October 13. 
  862.  
  863.  
  864.  
  865. Trump Pushing Political Prosecutions and Deportations By “Stormtroopers” 
  866.  
  867.  
  868.  
  869.  
  870.  
  871.  
  872.  
  873.  
  874.  
  875. “Good morning and welcome to This Week. A week of stark contrasts. As the president pushed for peace between adversaries overseas, he pushed for prosecutions of political enemies here at home. As he ordered American troops to the Middle East as peacekeepers, deportation forces in the Midwest are being described by critics as stormtroopers. And as the President prepares to address Israel’s parliament, our House of Representatives is not working with pay, while federal employees are working without pay. Thousands more have been fired by the White House. All as Trump’s Treasury secretary authorized a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will also benefit his former business associates.”— Moderator George Stephanopoulos opening ABC’s This Week, October 12. 
  876.  
  877.  
  878.  
  879. Can Trump Tear Down Anything He Wants? Like the Jefferson Memorial?
  880.  
  881.  
  882.  
  883.  
  884.  
  885.  
  886.  
  887.  
  888.  
  889. “Can the President tear down anything he wants, without oversight? Could he demolish this building or say the Jefferson Memorial?”— CBS correspondent Weijia Jiang to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, October 23. 
  890.  
  891.  
  892.  
  893. Chief Justice John Roberts Is the “Biggest Enemy Towards Black People” Since Dred Scott Decision 
  894.  
  895.  
  896.  
  897.  
  898.  
  899.  
  900.  
  901.  
  902.  
  903. “John Roberts has been an enemy of the Voting Rights Act – as you pointed out in your opening – for his entire career. John Roberts is the biggest enemy towards black people that this court has seen since Chief Justice Roger Taney, who authored the Dred Scott decision….Whenever black people are asking to have equal representation….in this country, John Roberts is the man standing at the door telling us no.”— The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal on MSNBC’s Velshi, October 19.  
  904.  
  905.  
  906.  
  907. Christiane Amanpour: Israeli Hostages Probably Being Treated Better Than Gazans
  908.  
  909.  
  910.  
  911.  
  912.  
  913.  
  914.  
  915.  
  916.  
  917. “People who start to talk to the [Israeli] hostages who have only just been released, will find that it will take a long, long time for them to recover physically, but also mentally. It’s been a terrible, terrible two years for them….They’re probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had. Now, Hamas has given up all of its leverage, by the way, by giving them all up.”— CNN chief international anchor Christane Amanpour (just a few hours after Hamas released 20 living Israeli hostages) on CNN News Central special, October 13.
  918.  
  919.  
  920.  
  921. For 50 Years, PBS’s News Hour Has Been “Even-Handed to a Fault”
  922.  
  923.  
  924.  
  925.  
  926.  
  927.  
  928.  
  929.  
  930.  
  931. “In covering the biggest stories of the last five decades, PBS News Hour has sought to bring depth, insight, and fairness….Over the years, the programs [PBS News Hour] received its share of criticism, accused of being too dry, too serious, and trying to be even-handed to a fault.— Correspondent Stephanie Sy on PBS’s News Hour, October 24. 
  932.  
  933.  
  934.  
  935. Dan Rather Bloviates About New CBS News Boss
  936.  
  937. “In [Bari] Weiss’s ascension, it is clear that CBS News has tipped over the precipice: that corporate overlords in concert with an autocratic president are demolishing support for independent journalism in favor of financial gain, and in so doing undermining a key foundation of our democracy.”— Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather on new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss in his October 9 Substack column “MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News.”
  938.  
  939.  
  940.  
  941. Sunny Hostin: Trump’s Rise Due to “Racism and White Supremacy,” Plans On Never Leaving White House
  942.  
  943.  
  944.  
  945.  
  946.  
  947.  
  948.  
  949.  
  950.  
  951. “Trump’s rise – in part – was based in racism and white supremacy. And that is the truth!” — Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 16.
  952.  
  953.  
  954.  
  955.  
  956.  
  957.  
  958.  
  959.  
  960.  
  961. “I actually have come to the conclusion that he [Donald Trump] is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing – it’s going to take a long time to build that. He is hooking up the White House because he doesn’t plan on leaving it. I don’t think he plans on leaving.”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 27.
  962.  
  963.  
  964.  
  965. Hostin Lectures “Pro-Life” Christians On Their “Hypocrisy”
  966.  
  967. “I find there is a hypocrisy with certain Christians who are pro-life, but they will pull that electric chair switch. They are ‘pro-life,’ but they have their AR-15s in their cabinet. They are pro-life, but they – they don’t mind immigrant families being torn from each other. They are pro-life, but they don’t care about little children’s subsidies being taken away from them. That is not pro-life!”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 2.  
  968.  
  969.  
  970.  
  971. Joy Behar: Trump Using National Guard as “Pretext to Stop the Next Election!”
  972.  
  973. “This [Trump sending in National Guard to protect ICE in cities] is a pretext to stop the next election! That’s what I think it is.”— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, October 7.
  974.  
  975.  
  976.  
  977. Whoopi: People Should Wear Latinoface to Confuse ICE at Super Bowl
  978.  
  979.  
  980.  
  981.  
  982.  
  983.  
  984.  
  985.  
  986.  
  987. Co-host Joy Behar: “She’s [DHS Secretary Kristi Noem] threatening to go to the Super Bowl when Bad Bunny is there and round up all these people that are illegal immigrants. Do you think that she would go if it was Garth Brooks or Eminem or Taylor Swift or any other white person?!”...Co-host Whoopi Goldberg: “How is she going to know who’s who?”Behar: “Because the Supreme Court has given permission to question anyone who has a Spanish accent, who has a dark skin. That’s why!”Goldberg: “Here is the thing, everybody, get a little cocoa butter, sit in the sun, that’s the first thing. And then — and this is the only time you can probably ever do this – give yourself a Latin accent….and see if she can tell who’s who!”— ABC’s The View, October 6. 
  988.  
  989.  
  990.  
  991. Harrison Ford: Greatest “Criminal in History” Trump “Scares the Shit Out of Me”
  992.  
  993. “[Donald Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”— Actor Harrison Ford in an interview with The Guardian, October 31. 
  994.  
  995.  
  996.  
  997. East Wing Demolition Is a Distraction from Trump Being Friends with Jeffrey Epstein
  998.  
  999.  
  1000.  
  1001.  
  1002.  
  1003.  
  1004.  
  1005.  
  1006.  
  1007. “We have a President who is a corrupt authoritarian, in my view, who has a kind of contempt for democratic values and its symbols. And I think he thinks he has the right to destroy the people’s house, do some influence peddling along the way, build a ballroom as a monument to distract us from the fact that inflation is up, job creation is down, Congress has shut down the government, and we’re suppressing information about the fact that, you know, he was best friends with the most notorious child rapist [Jeffrey Epstein] in history.”— Actor Bradley Whitford on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, October 24.
  1008.  
  1009.  
  1010.  
  1011. Robert De Niro Rages Against Donald Trump and His Jewish “Nazi” Stephen Miller
  1012.  
  1013.  
  1014.  
  1015.  
  1016.  
  1017.  
  1018.  
  1019.  
  1020.  
  1021. Host Jonathan Capehart: “You said earlier, Mr. De Niro, about the President, he will not leave the White House. This is where you and I are on the same wavelength.”Actor Robert De Niro: “No way. He will not. We see it, we see it, we see it every –  we see it all the time. He will not want to leave. He set it up with his, I guess he’s the [Joseph] Goebbels of the cabinet, Stephen Miller. He’s a, he’s a Nazi. Yes, he is, and he’s Jewish, and he should be ashamed of himself.”— MSNBC’s The Weekend, October 19.  
  1022.  
  1023.  
  1024.  
  1025. Kathy Griffin: “Fascist” Trump and “Professional Nazi” Elon Musk Stole the Election
  1026.  
  1027.  
  1028.  
  1029.  
  1030.  
  1031.  
  1032.  
  1033.  
  1034.  
  1035. “I don’t think he [Donald Trump] won in a free and fair election. You heard me. I’m coming out and saying it myself. I don’t care if that means I look crazy because Elon Musk – who’s this other Nazi guy running around town who owns X….He’s a professional Nazi in my humble opinion. And he’s good friends with Trump….He was giving out million-dollar checks to people if they would vote for Trump. That’s illegal. It’s unconstitutional and illegal.”— Comedian Kathy Griffin on her podcast Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin, October 15.
  1036.  
  1037. “Our country has never been through anything this horrible in my lifetime….This fool Donald Trump….the current so-called president, is a fascist. Now if you don’t know what that is, that’s an authoritarian or a dictator. Now the reason you don’t want that is because it takes away all your powers of choice. So it might seem like he has ‘vibes,’ and I’ve heard that’s why some younger people voted for him because he has ‘vibes.’ But number one, that’s not a good reason to vote for a candidate. And number two, his ‘vibes’ are very bad and very dark.”— Comedian Kathy Griffin on her podcast Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin, October 15. 
  1038.  
  1039.  
  1040.  
  1041. Bette Midler Sings to Stephen Colbert: “You Never Kissed the Orange Ass”
  1042.  
  1043.  
  1044.  
  1045.  
  1046.  
  1047.  
  1048.  
  1049.  
  1050.  
  1051. “It must have been cold here at The Late Show, despite the high ratings and awards. You need a gig that’s more worthwhile now that you’re more in demand than Epstein’s file. Did you ever know that you’re my Frodo? You stand for what’s right with wit and class. Thank you. And I hold you high as the great eagles ‘cause you never kissed the orange ass.”— Actress/singer Bette Midler singing to the tune of “Wind Beneath My Wings” to Stephen Colbert on CBS’s The Late Show, October 14.
  1052.  
  1053.  
  1054.  
  1055. Jimmy Kimmel: When I Travel Abroad, I Don’t Want to Be Blamed for Trump 
  1056.  
  1057.  
  1058.  
  1059.  
  1060.  
  1061.  
  1062.  
  1063.  
  1064.  
  1065. “We travel abroad. Many of us don’t want to be held accountable for what our president does and says. As an American – you know – going someplace, I’m fortunate enough to be well known, and people know where I’m coming from. But I think it would be a different situation if people didn’t know who I was, and I think I’d probably be – the first thing I’d say as I got into every cab is, ‘I didn’t vote for him, just FYI.’”— ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel at the Bloomberg Screentime conference, October 8.  
  1066.  
  1067.  
  1068.  
  1069. How Can Deportation Supporters Go to Church?   
  1070.  
  1071.  
  1072.  
  1073.  
  1074.  
  1075.  
  1076.  
  1077.  
  1078.  
  1079. “I think about what Jesus would think of this stuff….He wouldn’t approve of nannies being yanked out of the park and thrust into a van to be returned to their home countries because their paperwork is not in order….How can you go to church on Sunday and think this is okay to do to these families, to do to these people, and to be so cold about it?”— ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Ted Danson’s podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name, October 22. 
  1080.  
  1081.  
  1082.  
  1083. Martin Sheen to Donald Trump: You Are the Biggest “Nothing” In the World
  1084.  
  1085. “So the big guy in the White House, if he would take some personal advice — you’ve got to realize, sir, that you are the biggest ‘nothing’ in the world….Stop listening to all these people around you, these sycophants, who are encouraging you to be your non-human self.”— Actor Martin Sheen on Nicolle Wallace’s The Best People podcast, October 13. </description>
  1086.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 11:00 AM</pubDate>
  1087.    <dc:creator>Geoffrey Dickens</dc:creator>
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  1091.  <title>NewsBusters Podcast: A New Book on Socialist 'Heir' Alexander Soros</title>
  1092.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/11/04/newsbusters-podcast-new-book-socialist-heir-alexander-soros</link>
  1093.  <description> Bongino Report content manager Matt Palumbo is out with another book on the Soros family philanthropic empire. This one's titled The Heir: Inside the (Not So) Secret Network of Alex Soros. Our Soros expert, MRC Business editor Joseph Vazquez, helps explain what Alex has been doing to make a mockery of their so-called "Open Society" foundations.
  1094.  
  1095. We've recently noted that the Soros family has backed a series of organizations that conduct violent protests and vandalism, like the Sunrise Movement. but then pretend they're not funding chaos. As Palumbo puts it, “You can’t give money to an arsonist and then feign surprise when he uses it to fund fires.”
  1096.  
  1097. It’s beyond puzzling that someone would say they’re backing an "Open Society" while they are supporting climate-panicked crackdown on our energy use in our cars and homes, or when you're backing "pro-Palestinian" organizations that effectively support Hamas and Islamists. The Soros family has backed Muslim political action committees that helped the ascent of radical leftist Zohran Mamdani, who could be the next mayor of New York City.
  1098.  
  1099. Joseph wrote it up when CNN/PBS host Christiane Amanpour touted former Open Society Foundations leader Patrick Gaspard as a "close confident" of Mamdani. She tried to draw similarities between Mamdani and the charisma of Barack Obama. Gaspard obliged, saying Mamdani channeled Obama’s ability to communicate issues in the “idiom of aspiration.” Journalist Ira Stoll documented Gaspard’s connection to Mamdani in a thoroughly researched July 2025 item headlined, “Behind Zohran Mamdani, an Experienced Soros-Obama Operative.”
  1100.  
  1101. Asra Nomani reported for Fox News that radical antisemitic activist Linda Sarsour is pledging to hold Mayor Mamdani accountable if he wins. "Voting for Zohran is not, ‘We're going to vote for Zohran and just let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall.’ Our job as a movement is we have to hold whoever goes to City Hall accountable," Sarsour said. That includes disbanding the NYPD's elite Strategic Response Group, which polices terrorism threats, protests and riots.
  1102.  
  1103. Enjoy the podcast below, or the audio is here. 
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  1107.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 10:00 AM</pubDate>
  1108.    <dc:creator>Tim Graham</dc:creator>
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  1112.  <title>Colbert Claims Trump Wants Kids To Go Hungry To Pressure Democrats</title>
  1113.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/11/04/colbert-claims-trump-wants-kids-go-hungry-pressure-democrats</link>
  1114.  <description>For liberals such as CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, who are worried about the fate of food stamps amid the government shutdown there is a simple solution: reopen the government. However, Colbert used his Monday show to suggest that it was the Trump administration that was starving children to pressure Democrats. Meanwhile, over at ABC, Jimmy Kimmel continued to advance the line that Republicans don’t want people to have health insurance.
  1115.  
  1116. Referencing a recent court ruling, Colbert declared, “The administration says they couldn't use USDA emergency funds for SNAP, but thankfully, on Friday, a federal judge directed the Trump administration to use those emergency funds to pay for food aid in November. Of course, like all good news during the Trump administration, he managed to make it bad. Because now the administration says they'll only partially fund SNAP, and it could take months. Because the administration declined to dip into other contingency pots to fund the full $8 billion needed to cover SNAP.”
  1117.  
  1118.  
  1119.  
  1120.  
  1121.  
  1122.  
  1123.  
  1124.  
  1125.  
  1126. Breaking out his Trump impression, Colbert continued, “"I'm sorry. I stopped listening 'cause I got so hungry after the word 'dip.' Is the dip in the pot?" 
  1127.  
  1128. Reverting back to his normal voice, Colbert tried to summarize, “So, Trump and his people are sitting on a pile of money while American children go hungry, just so they can put pressure on Democrats.”
  1129.  
  1130. No, Republicans have voted for this time and time again. It is Democrats who keep voting to keep the government shut down so they can pressure Republicans into extending their COVID-era expanded Obamacare subsidies. Republicans have voted for this time and time again.
  1131.  
  1132. Speaking of which, Kimmel read a post from Trump’s Truth Social account while also referring to Trump by one of his many pejorative nicknames, “The Great Fatsby weighed in on this SNAP funding fiasco on his Twitter platform, Truth Social.  He wrote, ‘I do not want Americans to go hungry just because the radical Democrats refuse to do the right thing and reopen the government.’”
  1133.  
  1134. Kimmel retorted, “That's true. He doesn't want them to go hungry. He just wants them to lose their health insurance. He wants them to eat, but health insurance, no. And today, we learned that the Trump administration is only going to fund about half the monthly food benefits families on SNAP get. He wanted to cut all their benefits, but a judge ruled that they have to pay at least half, and so they're doing that.” 
  1135.  
  1136. The next time Kimmel makes an affirmative case for people making over 400 percent of the federal poverty level receiving federal benefits will be the first time. He and Colbert cannot defend their position on the merit, so they can only attack Republicans and hope nobody notices what they are actually supporting.
  1137.  
  1138. Here are transcripts for the November 3-taped shows:
  1139.  
  1140.  
  1141. CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
  1142.  
  1143. 11/3/2025
  1144.  
  1145. 11:38 PM ET
  1146.  
  1147. STEPHEN COLBERT: The administration says they couldn't use USDA emergency funds for SNAP, but thankfully, on Friday, a federal judge directed the Trump administration to use those emergency funds to pay for food aid in November. Of course, like all good news during the Trump administration, he managed to make it bad. Because now the administration says they'll only partially fund SNAP, and it could take months. Because the administration declined to dip into other contingency pots to fund the full $8 billion needed to cover SNAP. [Trump Voice] "I'm sorry. I stopped listening 'cause I got so hungry after the word 'dip.' Is the dip in the pot?" 
  1148.  
  1149. So, Trump and his people are sitting on a pile of money while American children go hungry, just so they can put pressure on Democrats.
  1150.  
  1151. ***
  1152.  
  1153. ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
  1154.  
  1155. 11/4/2025
  1156.  
  1157. 12:00 AM ET
  1158.  
  1159. JIMMY KIMMEL: The Great Fatsby weighed in on this SNAP funding fiasco on his Twitter platform, Truth Social.  He wrote, "I do not want Americans to go hungry just because the radical Democrats refuse to do the right thing and re-open the government."
  1160.  
  1161. That's true. He doesn't want them to go hungry. He just wants them to lose their health insurance. He wants them to eat, but health insurance, no. And today, we learned that the Trump administration is only going to fund about half the monthly food benefits families on SNAP get. He wanted to cut all their benefits, but a judge ruled that they have to pay at least half, and so they're doing that. 
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  1163.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 9:44 AM</pubDate>
  1164.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  1168.  <title>OMISSION: Legacy Newscasts HIDE Bombshell Filing in Comey Case</title>
  1169.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/11/04/omission-legacy-newscasts-hide-bombshell-filing-comey-case</link>
  1170.  <description>The legacy newscasts were all over the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, labeling his prosecution as part of an alleged “political retribution” campaign  by President Donald Trump. These outlets were nowhere to be seen, though, as the Eastern District of Virginia dropped a multiple-warhead filing that decimated those narratives.
  1171.  
  1172. As reported by John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy on Just the News:
  1173.  
  1174.  
  1175. Federal prosecutors revealed Monday they have unearthed a trove of personal emails showing then-FBI Director James Comey openly talked in the days before the 2016 election that he expected to be working soon for President-elect Hillary Clinton and was being kept apprised by a top FBI aide on efforts to anonymously provide information to the news media.
  1176.  
  1177. …
  1178.  
  1179. Monday's court filing also raised the possibility that prosecutors will argue Comey misled Congress about another element of his testimony, this involving whether he was aware of a U.S. intelligence intercept in summer 2016 indicating Clinton had approved a plan to smear Trump with the Russia allegations. 
  1180.  
  1181. The court filing revealed prosecutors have specific handwritten notes — which were hidden in a secret room at the FBI — indicating Comey was aware of the intelligence.
  1182.  
  1183.  
  1184. Solomon would later appear on Hannity and break the filing down for viewers:
  1185.  
  1186.  
  1187. WATCH: @jsolomonReports goes on Hannity and lays out today's explosive Comey filing in EDVA, which none of the legacy newscasts covered: "A bad day for James Comey. He was hit by a boomerang today."" pic.twitter.com/69cwDRWYat
  1188. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 4, 2025
  1189.  
  1190. SEAN HANNITY: Here with the details: he is the founder, he is the editor-in-chief, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com, John Solomon- okay. The charges lie in the Congress, a lot of the statute of limitations and other issues have expired, not this. What I read today, and in your report, is damning to me as anything I have ever read.
  1191.  
  1192. JOHN SOLOMON: It is. Yeah. Listen, there are five bombshells in this. First- the reason we have this is that James Comey decided to play the victim card, say “I'm a victim of vindictive prosecution.” That opened up the door for Lindsay Halligan, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to unleash some of the evidence. What does James Comey get confronted with? His own personal emails and handwritten notes. And I emphasize personal, because the first big revelation here is, while directing a campaign to sort of massage the media or spin the media on how- the way he handled Hillary Clinton's personal email case, he used personal email himself to do government business. Ironic. VYou can’t lose the irony of that. Second, it is very clear that he expected Hillary Clinton to win and that she one day would be quote, unquote: “grateful” about the way he handled her email case, so he has a political motive that we never saw in writing before. That’s really very significant. Third: it is clear, despite his testimony to the contrary, he directed Daniel Richman and approved his working anonymously with news media, even though he testified to the contrary, specifically, with phrases like “good job my friend”, when Daniel Richman reported to him what he spun The New York Times on. Or, “I hope they get- you’re making them smarter,” clearly advocating that he would talk to The New York Times and change their reporting on the story. Four, we now know that some of these documents that they found were found in the burn bags and in that secret room that Kash Patel talked about a couple of months ago. And five, and perhaps most consequentially, there are indications in these filings, Sean, that there are other contradictions in James Comey's testimony, including when he said he couldn't recall, didn’t remember, didn’t think it was possible he knew the U.S. had intercepted a Hillary Clinton's plan to hang (unint) on Donald Trump. His own notes showed he knew about it. So you have some other contradictions that prosecutors could come back with in a superseding indictment or some other action. So, a bad day for James Comey. He was hit by a boomerang today.
  1193.  
  1194. HANNITY: Wow. John Solomon, great work as always. We appreciate it. Thank you.
  1195.  
  1196.  
  1197. These revelations came from the secret room in the FBI building, which contained the classified documents in burn bags. That such a room containing such bags even existed should have been its own multiday scandal cycle, but alas.
  1198.  
  1199. The story was reported with enough time that it could’ve made it into the legacy evening newscasts. But alas, there was the Dodgers’ World Series parade, and the partial collapse of a medieval tower in Rome where everyone was rescued. There was the 50th anniversary of Good Morning America, and there was the Texas judge that has a bubble machine for when he officiates.
  1200.  
  1201. All of these were covered by the legacies, instead of these multi explosive sagas that in any other world would have drawn top billing. The double standard here is appalling, particularly with a case that the media were just hyping weeks ago.       
  1202.  
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  1204.  <pubDate>November 4th, 2025 12:52 AM</pubDate>
  1205.    <dc:creator>Jorge Bonilla</dc:creator>
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  1209.  <title>Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment</title>
  1210.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brent-baker/2025/11/03/washington-examiners-liberal-media-scream-mrcs-assessment</link>
  1211.  <description> Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I provide an explanation and recommend a “scream” rating (scale of one to five).
  1212.  
  1213. This post contains the “Liberal Media Screams” starting in January 2025.
  1214.  
  1215. &gt; For 2023 and 2024, for 2021 and 2022, for 2020. For 2019. For 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:
  1216.  
  1217. &gt; July-December 2017 posts; January through June 2017; July to December 2016; for January to June 2016; for July to December 2015; for January to June 2015. (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org: For 2014; for June 17, 2013 through the end of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 through June 11, 2013.)
  1218.  
  1219.  
  1220.  
  1221. Check Bedard’s “Washington Secrets” blog for the latest choice and his other Washington insider posts. Each week, this page will be updated with Bedard’s latest example of the worst bias of the week.
  1222.  
  1223. (For more of the worst liberal media bias, browse the Media Research Center's Notable Quotables with compilations of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media.)
  1224.  
  1225.  
  1226.  
  1227. ■ New on November 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Norah O’Donnell just can’t give Trump any credit
  1228.  
  1229. See the posting on the Washington Examiner's site where you can watch the video and read Baker's assessment. A week later, Bedard's article will be posted here.
  1230.  
  1231.  
  1232.  
  1233. ■ October 27, 2025: No Liberal Media Scream this week
  1234.  
  1235.  
  1236.  
  1237. ■ October 20, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Queen of kooks: Kathy Griffin confirms her TDS and doubts Trump’s election
  1238.  
  1239. (Washington Examiner post)
  1240.  
  1241.  
  1242. Left-wing influencer Kathy Griffin has done the impossible. She has topped her crazy 2017 post of decapitating President Donald Trump and given in fully to Trump Derangement Syndrome.
  1243.  
  1244. As our Liberal Media Scream of the week, Griffin used her YouTube channel, Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin, to vent about Trump and Elon Musk, claiming that the 2024 election was rigged.
  1245.  
  1246. Her aim was to talk up Saturday’s “No Kings” protests by liberal Trump critics, but she went much further in calling Musk and Trump Nazis and wrongly claiming that Trump’s win in the seven battleground states was unprecedented and must have been bought.
  1247.  
  1248. “I don’t think he won in a free and fair election. You heard me. I’m coming out and saying it myself. I don’t care if that means I look crazy,” said Griffin.
  1249.  
  1250. And as if that wasn’t nutty enough, she stood firm on her decapitation post. “That’s called punching up,” she said.
  1251.  
  1252. Griffin, on her Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin video podcast, posted on YouTube on Wednesday, Oct. 15:
  1253.  
  1254. “People are calling this protest the No King’s Day because Trump thinks he’s a fucking king. And you know, he’s not, he’s barely a president. In fact, guess what? I’m gonna say something that’s gonna get me in trouble. I don’t think he won in a free and fair election. You heard me. I’m coming out and saying it myself. I don’t care if that means I look crazy because Elon Musk, who’s this other Nazi guy running around town who owns X, and a lot of people think he’s a genius, but he’s not, he’s like a fake genius.
  1255.  
  1256. “Anyway, he’s a — but he’s a professional Nazi in my humble opinion, and he’s good friends with Trump, and at one point, I don’t know if you remember, but he was giving out million-dollar checks to people if they would vote for Trump. That’s illegal. It’s unconstitutional and illegal, so that was happening, and the fact that Trump won all seven swing states, which has never happened in the history of the U.S., makes it all very suspicious to me. So there I said it.
  1257.  
  1258. “All right, now for some fun pop culture. I went to an award show over the weekend, and it’s the first time that I’ve walked a red carpet since my controversial Kathy Griffin/Donald Trump decapitated head photo, which you can Google very easily. And by the way, it was a Halloween mask. I’m not actually trying to kill anybody. I do make fun of people, though, especially the president. That’s called punching up.”
  1259.  
  1260.  
  1261.  
  1262.  
  1263.  
  1264. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Truer words have rarely been said: ‘I don’t care if that means I look crazy.’ Yes, not only does this make Griffin look crazy, it proves she is crazy for thinking she’ll gain any relevance — and get herself back into polite society after her disgusting Trump decapitated head image — by advancing baseless election conspiracies which soothe the minds of Trump haters. And, by the way, Trump is hardly the first president to win all the swing states. Reagan won all but one state in 1984.”
  1265.  
  1266. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
  1267.  
  1268.  
  1269.  
  1270.  
  1271. ■ October 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s dour Dana Bash rains on Trump triumph parade
  1272.  
  1273. (Washington Examiner post)
  1274.  
  1275.  
  1276. CNN is so addled by its Trump derangement syndrome that its lead hosts couldn’t give the president a break for a day after he made history in bringing the Israel-Hamas war to an end.
  1277.  
  1278. Consider CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash’s knife-twist on Sunday while her panel discussed Trump and his hope for the first lasting peace in the Middle East in decades.
  1279.  
  1280. As he traveled to Israel to celebrate the release of hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023, Bash turned the discussion to the “split screen” of peace in Gaza with immigration protests and clashes with police and troops back home.
  1281.  
  1282. Tapping another TDS sufferer, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Bash rained on Trump’s success parade by quoting Dowd’s argument against giving the president the Nobel Peace Prize because some liberals are violently protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, which a majority of voters favor. For that, she wins our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
  1283.  
  1284. From Sunday morning’s CNN State of the Union:
  1285.  
  1286. Host Dana Bash: I do want to kind of bring it back to the United States as we talk about what’s happening overseas and kind of the split screen, and Maureen Dowd highlighted just that, the split screen.
  1287.  
  1288. She said: ‘You can’t get,’ and this is about the Nobel Prize, ‘you can’t get a medal for promoting democracy when you try to overthrow the democracy you were running. … Trump seems oblivious to the paradox of enforcing peace abroad and disrupting it badly at home, of soothing violence overseas and inflaming it here.’
  1289.  
  1290.  
  1291.  
  1292.  
  1293.  
  1294. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Dowd and Bash are the quintessential skunks at the garden party, with Bash the worse offender for deciding, barely 18 hours before the Israeli hostages were released unleashing joy across Israel, it was wise to use some of the limited time on her show to rain on President Trump. She just couldn’t let him have his day of triumph.”
  1295.  
  1296. Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
  1297.  
  1298.  
  1299.  
  1300.  
  1301. ■ October 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS calls ‘cruelty’ Vought’s ‘erogenous zone’
  1302.  
  1303. (Washington Examiner post)
  1304.  
  1305.  
  1306. In discussing the White House budget chief’s plans for massive federal worker cuts during the government shutdown, a contributor to the Friday show Washington Week with the Atlantic turned a joking comment from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) about Russ Vought into a crude putdown.
  1307.  
  1308. Host Jeffrey Goldberg played Lee telling Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, “Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment, preparing this moment, since puberty. Russ Vought has a plan, and that plan is going to succeed in empowering, further empowering Trump. This is going to be the Democrats’ worst nightmare.”
  1309.  
  1310. When he turned to the Atlantic’s Ashley Parker for analysis, she ripped Vought’s goals in the government shutdown and said “cruelty” is the goal, and that “is squarely in his erogenous zone.”
  1311.  
  1312. From Friday’s Washington Week with the Atlantic on PBS:
  1313.  
  1314. Jeffrey Goldberg: Ashley, who is Russ Vought? What does he want?
  1315.  
  1316. Ashley Parker: I mean, he wants, as I mentioned at the beginning, sort of the deconstruction of the administrative state of the federal bureaucracy.
  1317.  
  1318. Goldberg: What are the ideological roots of this?
  1319.  
  1320. Parker: He’s — I mean, he’s incredibly conservative. He worked in Trump’s first admin. So, there are some people, including Stephen Miller, but there are not actually a ton of people who worked in the first Trump administration and then came back for a second tour of duty, but Russ Vought is one of them. And he came back, like the president himself, sort of stronger, bolder, more empowered, more creative with his interpretations of laws and what’s acceptable than ever. And he used his —
  1321.  
  1322. Goldberg: Russ Vought, faster and furiouser.
  1323.  
  1324. Parker: Yes.
  1325.  
  1326. Goldberg: Yes.
  1327.  
  1328. Parker: And he used those years out of power to basically create this document that you mentioned called Project 2025, that — it’s a dense, dense policy document. That is sort of his wheelhouse, his actual policy. And it tells sort of all the ways you can, first of all, just utterly minimize the government, tear away at it, tear it down, and use it to push through deeply conservative priorities.
  1329.  
  1330. And I also, based on my reporting, agree with Sen. Lee that this is squarely in his erogenous zone. And that when he said what he wants to do, I mean, to use a phrase that was popularized by one of our colleagues at the Atlantic, cruelty is the point. Now, that was in reference to Donald Trump.
  1331.  
  1332. But Russ Vought also, he said, “I want to terrorize the federal bureaucrats.” So, some of these choices, the fork-in-the-road email of should you choose to basically resign or risk losing your job, I mean, the way these things were structured were deeply humiliating and devastating and financially devastating to hundreds of thousands of people, and that was an intentional choice by people like Russ Vought.
  1333.  
  1334.  
  1335.  
  1336.  
  1337.  
  1338. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Parker encapsulates the Washington media establishment, which sees anyone who tries to reduce the size and role of government as driven by some sort of vicious delight in the misery of others. It can’t just be a simple policy disagreement. Conservatives must be discredited for having a nefarious agenda.”
  1339.  
  1340. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1341.  
  1342.  
  1343.  
  1344.  
  1345. ■ September 29, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Poor Comey, target of ‘ruthless’ Trump
  1346.  
  1347. (Washington Examiner post)
  1348.  
  1349.  
  1350. It wasn’t even a year ago that liberal media were cheering the slew of politically driven prosecutions and court cases targeting President Donald Trump and his associates before he returned to the White House for his second term.
  1351.  
  1352. But now that the tables have turned, most notably with last week’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress in a get-Trump case, the same media have declared those types of prosecutions the height of ruthlessness.
  1353.  
  1354. Trump foe and New Yorker Editor David Remnick, for example, charged on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that Trump is in political payback mode and using prosecutions for revenge.
  1355.  
  1356. “The first term was filled with impulses, and the second term is efficient, ruthless, and it’s happening every day. This movement toward authoritarianism is very distinct and needs to be taken seriously,” he charged, making him our featured Liberal Media Scream.
  1357.  
  1358. David Remnick on Sunday’s Meet the Press:
  1359.  
  1360. DAVID REMNICK: I think we should take the president at his word. It used to be in 2016 and Trump 1.0, I guess, that it was considered the height of wisdom that the press takes Trump literally and the people take him seriously, and then vice versa. I think it’s possible to do both at the same time. The president is telling us that he has an enemies list that he’s going to act on. He’s told us who is on the enemies list: John Bolton, Letitia James, Fani Willis ought to be on her guard, and many more, whether they’re in the press or civic society.
  1361.  
  1362. I think this is a real emergency, and it should be taken seriously, and know that he’s going to act on it. It’s not just blather out on the White House lawn. That’s the difference between the first term and the second term. The first term was filled with impulses, and the second term is efficient, ruthless, and it’s happening every day. This movement toward authoritarianism is very distinct and needs to be taken seriously. This is not just a normal, you know, we talked about a budget battle. That’s normal politics. This is something extraordinary.
  1363.  
  1364.  
  1365.  
  1366.  
  1367.  
  1368. Jorge Bonilla, a news analyst with the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters, explained our pick: “This Obama sycophant once said that ‘the future of the Earth’ was contingent on the impeachment of Donald Trump. Now that the show is on the other foot, this is ‘extraordinary.’ If it weren’t for double standards in the media, there’d be none at all.”
  1369.  
  1370. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1371.  
  1372.  
  1373.  
  1374.  
  1375. ■ September 22, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls Kirk memorial divisive, Trump vs. widow
  1376.  
  1377. (Washington Examiner post)
  1378.  
  1379.  
  1380. President Donald Trump is President Donald Trump, and many in the liberal media still can’t accept that. That was clear yesterday at the Arizona memorial for Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated this month, allegedly by a hate-filled leftist.
  1381.  
  1382. After Kirk’s widow, Erika, forgave her husband’s killer, Trump, himself the target of two assassination attempts and years of political attacks, said he admired Kirk’s ability to forgive, but it’s something he could never do. It’s just not in his blood.
  1383.  
  1384. “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them,” Trump said of Kirk. Then he added, “I hate my opponents.”
  1385.  
  1386. For some at CNN and MSNBC, that was the big takeaway of the hourslong event as they searched for a way to portray it as divisive. “He has never made a pretense of being a leader for all Americans, as most of his predecessors have — even if they didn’t follow through,” said a CNN analysis.
  1387.  
  1388. On MSNBC, following the memorial, White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard also highlighted the different views and said, “I think what was stunning about the tension that exists here in 2025 was to listen to Erika Kirk, a big supporter of the president, be followed 15 to 20 minutes later by the president of the United States. Clearly, somebody who she loves, but come out and directly say, ‘I disagree with Charlie Kirk. I disagree with you, Erika,’ and say, ‘I hate my opponents.’”
  1389.  
  1390. He added, “And I think that says a lot about where we are and the questions about where we go moving forward. The Erika Kirk route or the Donald Trump route.”
  1391.  
  1392. Vaughn Hillyard on MSNBC’s The Weekend Primetime:
  1393.  
  1394. VAUGHN HILLYARD: I think what, honestly, I’ll take away from tonight is watching the weight of a woman, a mother, lose her husband. Most people cannot say they’ve experienced losing a spouse at this young of an age, and I don’t know who we are to suggest how somebody should respond in real time. One week after her husband’s passing, she went in front of a crowd of 40 to 50,000 people, people watching all over the world. And she delivered remarks in which she forgave the assassin that shot her husband and killed him.
  1395.  
  1396. Co-host Elise Jordan: I thought it was just remarkable.
  1397.  
  1398. HILLYARD: A remarkable moment because in so many ways, where America stands in 2025 is: How do we respond going forward? And the woman that just lost her husband stood there in front of the world and said, ‘I forgive.’ And because her Christian faith teaches her to love your enemy and not hate your enemy, and to love those that persecute you. And I think what was stunning about the tension that exists here in 2025 was to listen to Erika Kirk, a big supporter of the president, be followed 15-20 minutes later by the president of the United States. Clearly, somebody who she loves, but come out and directly say, ‘I disagree with Charlie Kirk. I disagree with you, Erika,’ and say, ‘I hate my opponents.’ And I think that says a lot about where we are and the questions about where we go moving forward. The Erika Kirk route or the Donald Trump route.
  1399.  
  1400.  
  1401.  
  1402.  
  1403.  
  1404. Jorge Bonilla, a news analyst with the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters, explained our pick: “In the immediate aftermath of the powerful Charlie Kirk memorial, Trump-deranged MSNBC showed that they couldn’t leave well enough alone. What began as a complimentary reaction turned into Trump-deranged brainworms for MSNBC consumption. Erika Kirk’s testimony of forgiveness towards her husband’s murderer stands as a potent example of Christ-like behavior in a most difficult time. Forgive them for they know not what they do, indeed. But Hillyard couldn’t leave well enough alone, and he had to fabricate this oppositional friction where none exists between the Kirks and Trump. It’s almost as if they didn’t watch the memorial, and its many underlying messages centering around grace.”
  1405.  
  1406. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1407.  
  1408.  
  1409.  
  1410.  
  1411. ■ September 15, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Martha Raddatz went 0-3 swinging for Trump hate
  1412.  
  1413. (Washington Examiner post)
  1414.  
  1415.  
  1416. In the fallout of the assassination of youthful Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, there has been the liberal media’s refusal to accept its role in dividing the nation, as it instead tries to blame President Donald Trump for the Left’s political violence.
  1417.  
  1418. Martha Raddatz led the way while hosting ABC’s This Week on Sunday. She had one thing top of mind: get one or more of the three elected officials she had on as guests to denounce Trump for blaming the assassination of Charlie Kirk on “the radical Left.”
  1419.  
  1420. First up, Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) was asked, “What’s your reaction to that? Is that something you think he should be doing?” Next was Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO), who was quizzed with, “Is that the message you believe he should be putting out?” And finally, Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) was pressed, “Is that the right thing to do? Or what do you wish he was saying?”
  1421.  
  1422. Raddatz struck out, going 0-3, and is our pick for the weekly Liberal Media Scream.
  1423.  
  1424. Three questions from Martha Raddatz on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
  1425.  
  1426. To Cox:
  1427.  
  1428. “You immediately talked about Democrats who had been targeted. President Trump said nothing about the political violence against Democrats. In fact, he blamed ‘the radical Left.’ What’s your reaction to that? Is that something you think he should be doing?”
  1429.  
  1430. To Polis:
  1431.  
  1432. “You heard Gov. Cox. He did not, clearly did not want to criticize President Trump at this time, and Charlie Kirk was a good friend of President Trump and his family, but he has pointed the finger at what he calls ‘the radical Left.’ Is that the message you believe he should be putting out?”
  1433.  
  1434. To Curtis:
  1435.  
  1436. “A lot of people, certainly a lot of Republicans, a lot of people are listening to President Trump, and you’ve heard me talk about it earlier in the show. But several Republican lawmakers, prominent conservatives, including President Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric, as well as President Trump, have blamed this on ‘the radical Left.’ Is that the right thing to do? Or what do you wish he was saying?”
  1437.  
  1438.  
  1439.  
  1440.  
  1441.  
  1442. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Martha Raddatz certainly seems to have had an agenda on Sunday: Get one or more of her guests to denounce President Trump for daring to blame ‘the radical Left’ for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But isn’t that a reasonable supposition? Maybe a better area for her to have explored with her guests would have been why hasn’t there been more focus on that threat than the words used by a president who had just lost a friend to political violence?”
  1443.  
  1444. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1445.  
  1446.  
  1447.  
  1448.  
  1449. ■ September 8, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Clintonista Stephanopoulos desperate to condemn Trump
  1450.  
  1451. (Washington Examiner post)
  1452.  
  1453.  
  1454. For TV news liberals, one-upping competitors while venting their anti-Trump bias seems a requirement, especially for the big shots who host the weekly public affairs shows.
  1455.  
  1456. Consider former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos, who on Sunday was hosting ABC’s This Week for the first time since Aug. 3. Outdone on the Trump Derangement Syndrome spouted by the other hosts for weeks, notably CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley’s regular editorial attacks on President Donald Trump, Stephanopoulos put on his serious face and listed all that was bad about the president’s week.
  1457.  
  1458. It was, he said, “a week of challenges,” and he cited several examples that have, in the findings of several pollsters, helped revive Trump’s approval ratings.
  1459.  
  1460. Stephanopoulos has been on the losing side of his fights with Trump for a while. Recall that in December, he and ABC News were ordered to apologize and pay $15 million in a Trump defamation lawsuit settlement.
  1461.  
  1462. For his one-sided, off-base rant, Stephanopoulos wins our weekly Liberal Media Scream.
  1463.  
  1464. Stephanopoulos at the top of ABC’s This Week on Sunday:
  1465.  
  1466. “On Friday, President Trump rebranded the Department of Defense the ‘Department of War.’ Saturday, he announced the department’s first target, an American city. The President’s words: ‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of War.’ A chorus of criticism followed, including this from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D): ‘The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal.’
  1467.  
  1468. “And this chilling threat from President Trump comes after a week of challenges: Friday’s weak jobs report, on Capitol Hill a bipartisan grilling for [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.], and a demand for transparency from Jeffrey Epstein’s victims; China’s display of diplomatic skill and military force and Russia’s rebuff of another Trump deadline on the war in Ukraine.”
  1469.  
  1470.  
  1471.  
  1472.  
  1473.  
  1474. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Stephanopoulos pops up every month or so to host This Week (he last hosted on Aug. 3) and seems bent each time on re-proving his anti-Trump bonafides. He did it again Sunday, framing in the worst possible light Trump’s efforts to save lives in Chicago and then proceeding to paint a world closing in on Trump — all in a week when Trump’s approval got an up bounce.”
  1475.  
  1476. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1477.  
  1478.  
  1479.  
  1480.  
  1481. ■ September 1, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC reporter fired for Trump hate doubles down
  1482.  
  1483. (Washington Examiner post)
  1484.  
  1485. A top political reporter dumped by ABC News for spewing hate toward President Donald Trump and deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller on X is doubling down on his rant.
  1486.  
  1487. Instead of shushing after the embarrassing episode, Terry Moran stepped up his attack on Trump, telling a podcaster last week that Trump “is the man that we were warned about by the founders, that democracies fall when a man who can captivate the populace wants to exercise the power that’s there in the government.”
  1488.  
  1489. What makes Moran our Liberal Media Scream of the week isn’t just his continued hate toward Trump but his embrace of the Founding Fathers, whom the liberal media have recently attacked as racist slave-holders not worthy of memorializing.
  1490.  
  1491. Moran was dumped in June when he went after Miller on X. “He eats his hate,” Moran wrote of the president’s chief policy aide. “Trump is a world-class hater. … That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
  1492.  
  1493. Moran on In Good Faith With Philip DeFranco:
  1494.  
  1495. “What we’re seeing is, no question, what other countries have seen a lot, what our Founding Fathers predicted would happen, that a great strongman would, would, all right, not great in the good sense, but great in the power sense, right?
  1496.  
  1497. “Trump is the most dominant figure of our age around the world. Don’t underestimate him. He is a world historical figure, and he is the man that we were warned about by the Founders, that democracies fall when a man who can captivate the populace wants to exercise the power that’s there in the government, and that is what we’re watching.”
  1498.  
  1499.  
  1500.  
  1501.  
  1502.  
  1503. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Legacy media figures keep reaching back in history to find different historic figures to use to condemn President Trump. The go-to has been Hitler, but now Moran is ridiculously invoking the Founding Fathers, a sudden respect for the supposed foresight of the founders, whom liberals normally condemn as immoral figures for condoning slavery, but now find so wise.”
  1504.  
  1505. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1506.  
  1507.  
  1508.  
  1509. ■ August 25, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Velshi: MAGA is worse than Pearl Harbor, Civil War
  1510.  
  1511. (Washington Examiner post)
  1512.  
  1513.  
  1514. For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we have an extraordinary Trump Derangement Syndrome rant that doesn’t just declare President Donald Trump a “strongman,” but more evil than Japan’s attack on America and more dangerous than the Civil War.
  1515.  
  1516. It comes from weekend MSNBC host Ali Velshi, who on Sunday spat out a seven-minute-plus speech denouncing Trump and Republicans for the “collapse of democracy.” He claimed Trump has enacted a “police state” in cities while Republican “election security” efforts are really the “classic playbook of the strongman.”
  1517.  
  1518. It was classic TDS and then he doused his fire with gasoline, charging, “America’s democracy has withstood civil war, depressions, attacks by foreign enemies on its soil, but it has never faced an assault on this scale: an internal demolition carried out not by outsiders or even by well-armed rebels, but by the holder of the highest office in the land.”
  1519.  
  1520. Portions of Velshi from Sunday:
  1521.  
  1522. It’s Sunday, August the 24th. I’m Ali Velshi, and we begin this hour with a reality check, a crucial one. The collapse of democracy is a strange, almost surreal thing. It can be abstract and hard to recognize in the moment. At first, it just feels like politics. It’s messy, it’s noisy, it’s frustrating, and sometimes a bit removed from one’s day-to-day life. But then the guardrails that we’ve taken for granted begin to topple one after another…
  1523.  
  1524. At best, each assault may seem like an outlier until the day you wake up and realize the system itself has become unrecognizable. Well, that’s where we are right now. It’s not where we’re headed. It’s where we are. The tragedy of what’s unfolding and the danger of what’s ahead will be compounded if American citizens en masse, all of us, do not recognize this moment for what it is. Understandably, unless it touches you directly, it’s easy sometimes to miss what’s being taken away…
  1525.  
  1526. This is not about public safety. It’s about flexing power, teaching dissenters and political opponents a lesson, normalizing the use of troops against Americans. In the nation’s capital, hundreds of federal troops now patrol the streets alongside [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and [Drug Enforcement Administration] and FBI agents, ticketing residents for minor offenses like broken taillights. Federal troops policing petty crime on America’s main street. Think about that. Crime may be statistically down, but intimidation is way up. The police state is here, and that’s the whole point. D.C. restaurants and bars report business down by one-third. What Trump is doing is designed to bleed blue cities dry economically…
  1527.  
  1528. What Republicans label election security is the classic playbook of the strongman: tilt the playing field toward yourself and lock yourself into power. It doesn’t stop in Washington, D.C. Across the country, Republican controlled legislatures are dismantling the last avenues of direct democracy: Citizen ballot initiatives…
  1529.  
  1530. The message is clear: Even if voters pass something that Republicans don’t like, Republicans in power will just rewrite the rules. This is not democracy. That is something called competitive authoritarianism. Elections in name. One-party rule in practice.
  1531.  
  1532. And here lies the tragedy. Ultimate power in this country still belongs to the people. But every time we accept or tolerate one more red line being crossed, we normalize the next. Each violation larger than the last makes what came before feel almost normal.
  1533.  
  1534. America’s democracy has withstood civil war, depressions, attacks by foreign enemies on its soil, but it has never faced an assault on this scale. An internal demolition carried out not by outsiders or even by well-armed rebels, but by the holder of the highest office in the land.
  1535.  
  1536.  
  1537.  
  1538.  
  1539.  
  1540. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Ali Velshi is auditioning to win the role as the [Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)] of the left-wing legacy media: The guy who most excites the anti-Trump world as the chief conveyor of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
  1541.  
  1542. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
  1543.  
  1544.  
  1545.  
  1546.  
  1547. ■ August 18, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN says Obama, Clinton, and Bush smarter than Trump
  1548.  
  1549. (Washington Examiner post)
  1550.  
  1551.  
  1552. CNN reached a new low in its anti-Trump bias, declaring that Russian President Vladimir Putin ate President Donald Trump’s lunch on Friday because Trump doesn’t have the “intellect” of former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
  1553.  
  1554. Regular commentator Bakari Sellers on Sunday’s State of the Union overlooked that the political trio oversaw several wars, while Trump, in his second term, has ended a half-dozen wars and is today hosting a world summit at the White House to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
  1555.  
  1556. Sellers was focused on Trump’s meeting in Alaska with Putin, an icebreaker on several fronts after former President Joe Biden let U.S.-Russian relations reach a Cold War low.
  1557.  
  1558. “Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these world leaders. He’s not Barack Obama, he’s not Hillary Clinton. He’s not even George Bush when it comes to being able to maneuver in these environments,” said Sellers.
  1559.  
  1560. From CNN’s Sunday morning State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper:
  1561.  
  1562. BAKARI SELLERS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I think Vladimir Putin is a thug. I think he’s a war criminal. And I think he made Donald Trump look small. I mean, I understand the minutiae of where — I want a deal, like every other American wants a deal, or you should be praying for that deal.
  1563.  
  1564. However, like I have said before many times, Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these world leaders. He’s not Barack Obama, he’s not Hillary Clinton. He’s not even George Bush when it comes to being able to maneuver in these environments. And so what you saw was Vladimir Putin come and get what he wanted. I mean, the winner of this is Vladimir Putin. I don’t know why we’re trying to hide the ball.
  1565.  
  1566. BRAD TODD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: That’s what happened when he took Crimea. Obama gave him exactly what he wanted when he let Vladimir Putin have Crimea without so much as a shot or an objection.
  1567.  
  1568.  
  1569.  
  1570.  
  1571.  
  1572. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “How vacuous can you be? When [former Sen.] Mitt Romney called Putin ‘the biggest political threat facing America,’ which has proven true, Obama ridiculed Romney: ‘The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.’ And as Todd pointed out, Obama didn’t do anything to counter Putin’s invasion of Crimea. Yet Obama is intellectually superior to Trump because Trump isn’t standing up enough to Putin? To say nothing of George W. Bush declaring he got ‘a sense’ of Putin’s ‘soul’ and found him ‘trustworthy’ or Hillary Clinton offering Putin a ‘reset’ button.”
  1573.  
  1574. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
  1575.  
  1576.  
  1577.  
  1578.  
  1579. ■ August 11: No Liberal Media Scream this week 
  1580.  
  1581.  
  1582.  
  1583. ■ August 4, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Washington Post reporter quit over patriotism request
  1584.  
  1585. (Washington Examiner post)
  1586.  
  1587.  
  1588. The generous buyout offer from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has been too hard for a number of top reporters and editors to turn down.
  1589.  
  1590. But for one columnist, leaving was coming no matter what. The reason: Bezos wanted “positive things happening in this country” to be covered “unapologetically patriotic.”
  1591.  
  1592. For left-wing writer Jonathan Capehart, also a contributor to PBS and MSNBC, that was too much to ask. “There was just not going to be any room for a voice like mine,” he said on the NewsHour.
  1593.  
  1594. For PBS, which lost taxpayer support in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act due to perceived anti-Trump bias, that was a tremendous decision by Capehart. Said NewsHour co-host Amna Nawaz, “Jonathan Capehart, we’re so glad your voice is heard right here at our table.”
  1595.  
  1596. From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
  1597.  
  1598. AMNA NAWAZ: Jonathan, before we go, folks will have noticed that we introduced you slightly differently tonight than we usually do. We should point out, after nearly two decades at the Washington Post, you recently made the decision to leave. I just wanted to give you a chance to speak directly to our audience to tell them why.
  1599.  
  1600. JONATHAN CAPEHART: Well, the direction of the opinion section changed. Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, as is his right, decided that he wanted the section to focus on the twin pillars of personal liberties and free markets. And it became clear, as time went along, and especially when he chose a new leader for the section, that there was just not going to be any room for a voice like mine, especially when we were told that we would have to be unapologetically patriotic in talking about the positive things happening in the country.
  1601.  
  1602. How can you talk about the positive things happening in the country when the rest of the house is engulfed in flames and the foundation is flooding? I wanted to go some place where my voice would be heard.
  1603.  
  1604. NAWAZ: Jonathan Capehart, we’re so glad your voice is heard right here at our table.
  1605.  
  1606.  
  1607.  
  1608.  
  1609.  
  1610. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Quite an admission that a leading PBS political analyst was so angry about the state of the country ‘engulfed in flames’ under President Trump that he’s opposed to expressing patriotism. But he fits right in on PBS and MSNBC and recognizes that’s ‘where my voice would be heard.’”
  1611.  
  1612. Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
  1613.  
  1614.  
  1615.  
  1616.  
  1617. ■ July 28, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Connie Chung wants Fox News anchors in ‘ankle monitors’
  1618.  
  1619. (Washington Examiner post)
  1620.  
  1621.  
  1622. Connie Chung is back, and she’s still mouthing off about the conservative media she hates, making her our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
  1623.  
  1624. What’s more, she’s giving advice to CBS, the network that dumped her in 1995 after a controversial interview and recently caved in to President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over a manipulated 60 Minutes interview of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
  1625.     
  1626. Chung, who held several other media posts, went on CNN to rip the deal by Skydance Media to take over Paramount, the owner of CBS. She also hit media influencers and Fox News as providers of fake news.
  1627.  
  1628. Of conservative media outlets, she said, “I think they should be putting ankle bracelets, ankle monitors on certain anchors at certain cable stations in prime time. Those are the culprits.”
  1629.  
  1630. From Friday’s CNN News Central:
  1631.  
  1632. Connie Chung: “I would say that they have to fight the good fight, that they have to protect the legacy of CBS. They cannot allow biased owners, because honestly, I don’t think CBS is necessarily the culprit. What needs to be policed is social media, which have no fact checkers, podcasters, and the like. No one is checking those facts. And the problem is, that is inaccurate information that’s being disseminated
  1633.  
  1634. “I think they should be put in ankle bracelets, ankle monitors on certain anchors at certain cable stations in prime time. Those are the culprits.”
  1635.  
  1636.  
  1637.  
  1638.  
  1639.  
  1640. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “An unpleasant blast from the past. TV network stars like her of the 1980s and ‘90s, who so sanctimoniously saw themselves as paragons of virtue and facts, are what created the marketplace for Fox News and all the other new media outlets which so disturb her by not following the same liberal line as CBS. Yet, decades later, she still doesn’t recognize that.”
  1641.  
  1642. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1643.  
  1644.  
  1645.  
  1646.  
  1647. ■ July 21, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CBS reporter blames PTSD on MAGA crowd at Trump shooting
  1648.  
  1649. (Washington Examiner post)
  1650.  
  1651. A CBS political reporter said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder following his coverage of the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
  1652.  
  1653. But Scott MacFarlane didn’t blame shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, the noise of Crooks’s rifle going off eight times, or the near-death of Trump. He blamed the crowd of MAGA supporters, whom he envisioned “were going to come kill us.” He said he felt the crowd would blame the media for the shooting and that “we’d be dead” if Trump didn’t survive.
  1654.  
  1655. For that, he easily won as our Liberal Media Scream of the week. But he was challenged during an interview on The Chuck ToddCast when Todd offered up his own bizarre reaction to the assassination attempt that killed Trump supporter Corey Comperatore.
  1656.  
  1657. Todd said, “I share your concern. Just a little thing. I was — literally the first thing I was going to do after landing [in Milwaukee to cover the GOP convention] on Saturday was go to the Nats-Brewers game, and I said, ‘I’m not going. I’m not going to be seen going. I’m not, I’m not doing that. This is not the moment for this.'”
  1658.  
  1659. Todd went on to say he has long feared Trump supporters. 
  1660.  
  1661. From The Chuck ToddCast:
  1662.  
  1663. SCOTT MACFARLANE: For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. This was … I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because, you could … you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.
  1664.  
  1665. CHUCK TODD: I know … Look, I share your concern. Just a little thing. I was, literally, the first thing I was going to do after landing on Saturday was go to the Nats-Brewers game, and I said, “I’m not going. I’m not going to be seen going. I’m not, I’m not doing that. This is not the moment for this.”
  1666.  
  1667. And I think we … none of us knew what the reaction of that Milwaukee crowd was going to be to this. Right? It turned into euphoria, right? It turned into this messiah, sort of messiah feeling. I think that, you know, that this was divine intervention.
  1668.  
  1669. But I share that, that Saturday, and what you just described, being on the ground, was the first thing I thought of was my team down there. I think it was Vaughn Hillyard, if I’m not mistaken.
  1670.  
  1671. MACFARLANE: Dasha was there as well.
  1672.  
  1673. TODD: And Dasha Burns, right? And, look, let’s be honest. We’ve been fearing this for about a decade. That all of this heightened rhetoric, that what all this crap online, what happened on Jan. 6, those of us that experienced that as well, you’re like, we’re a tinderbox, right? You know what? There’s a fear that this moment is coming. And it’s interesting that you … the fact that we dodged that. You know, you’re right. I mean, it’s, it is … I don’t know what would have happened had the outcome been different.
  1674.  
  1675. MACFARLANE: We are all … many of us on press row, as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after, were quite confident we’d be dead if he didn’t get back up. There was a subset, not everybody, there’s dozens of people in the crowd who started coming for us, saying, “You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him.”
  1676.  
  1677. And they’re going to beat us with their hands. I mean, they were going to kill us. And respectfully, the Secret Service had bigger issues than protecting us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us, but that’s the thing. I can’t eliminate from my mind’s eye the look on their faces. They … that’s what America is right now. It’s not rational. It’s an irrational thought to think the media shot somebody from atop a building, but the lack of rationality is what connects Jan. 6 to this. It’s … how do we pull out of this as a country is the defining question of our time.
  1678.  
  1679.  
  1680.  
  1681.  
  1682.  
  1683. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Yes, the near-assassination of President Donald Trump wasn’t the real ‘horror’ of the day. The real ‘horror’ was in how, in the few seconds before Trump triumphantly raised his fists, MacFarlane somehow sensed the crowd would ‘kill’ him and other reporters? Really? If Trump supporters were on the cusp of deadly violence, why are we just hearing about it a year later? And McFarlane really got diagnosed with PTSD? We all know too many journalists are snowflakes, but you’d think MacFarlane would have the self-respect to keep such an embarrassing admission, of his fear of fellow Americans, to himself.”
  1684.  
  1685. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
  1686.  
  1687.  
  1688.  
  1689. ■ July 14, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Katie Couric labels Trump’s MAGA ‘a s*** show’
  1690.  
  1691. (Washington Examiner post)
  1692.  
  1693.  
  1694. The disdain the legacy media have for President Donald Trump has reached new levels since Congress approved his “big, beautiful bill.”
  1695.  
  1696. Many liberal outlets have resorted to following Democratic talking points and inflated the negative effects, and others have made ridiculous claims that it will kill millions.
  1697.  
  1698. And then there is media darling Katie Couric, who just brushed aside the whole Trump administration in one profane and sour characterization, winning this week’s feature as our Liberal Media Scream.
  1699.  
  1700. In calling for more media attention to the administration, the one-time Today show host fretted over “this moment in our history” and then hit “The s*** show that is the Trump administration.”
  1701.  
  1702. In a joint video podcast with left-wing freelance journalist Liz Plank, Couric said “social media creators … depend on a lot of mainstream outlets” for basic information, so that “underscores the importance of more traditional media … especially at this moment in our history and what’s happening in our country and the s*** show that it is the Trump administration.”
  1703.  
  1704. Couric, during a podcast cross-posted on Liz Plank’s Airplane Mode Substack podcast and the Next Question with Katie Couric podcast on Substack and YouTube:
  1705.  
  1706. “I think it just, it underscores the importance of more traditional media, and I think we need it all, to be honest, especially at this moment in our history and what’s happening in our country and the s*** show that it is the Trump administration.”
  1707.  
  1708.  
  1709.  
  1710.  
  1711.  
  1712. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Couric demonstrates how ingrained the disdain is for Trump administration policies amongst the legacy media elite. It’s like muscle memory to them. And her blurting out her disgust, for a president who earned the most votes, in such a casual manner in a conversation with a like-minded liberal, shows how she sees it as a commonly-accepted view amongst her peers.”
  1713.  
  1714. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
  1715.  
  1716.  
  1717.  
  1718.  
  1719. ■ July 7, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos blames downpour deaths on Trump
  1720.  
  1721. (Washington Examiner post)
  1722.  
  1723.  
  1724. The weekend saw some of the most embarrassing efforts by the liberal media to take President Donald Trump down, this time blaming him for the horrific flash flood deaths in Texas.
  1725.  
  1726. The early morning flooding that has so far claimed the lives of more than 80, including children at a Christian girls camp, hit with little warning after a downpour dumped some 11 inches of rain that ended up in the Guadalupe River on Friday.
  1727.  
  1728. Trump called it a 100-year event on Sunday and is planning to meet with families this Friday.
  1729.  
  1730. Even as the search for survivors continued, the media tried to blame Trump and staff cuts at various federal weather agencies. Leading that effort was ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who said on This Week, “There were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Service offices in the region.”
  1731.  
  1732. Most weather and state local officials have been quick to note that the area often floods and that notices were sent out after midnight. Blame isn’t what most wanted to cast, but the Washington media did anyway — something they didn’t do when Hurricane Helene crashed through the southwest last year, killing 230.
  1733.  
  1734. Even the reporter on the scene in Texas, Mireya Villarreal, didn’t take the Trump-hating bait from Stephanopoulos, a one-time top aide to former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary.
  1735.  
  1736. From ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
  1737.  
  1738. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Service offices in the region.
  1739.  
  1740. MIREYA VILLARREAL, IN KERRVILLE, TEXAS: As of right now, the local county officials didn’t want to address that just yet. What they are telling us is they expected between 4 and 6 inches of rain. That is what weather experts told them. The National Weather Service as well. They also knew, in remote locations, they might get anywhere from 8 to 10 inches, but this amount of rain in such a short amount of time, it was very difficult to navigate. And when the Department of Homeland Security secretary was here just yesterday, she acknowledged this was an issue. She was going to take these concerns to the White House as well and try and see if there was anything they could do to revamp the system. She says the president is committed to it.
  1741.  
  1742.  
  1743.  
  1744.  
  1745.  
  1746. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Liberal Democratic activists develop an attack line against the Trump administration, and Stephanopoulos dutifully jumps to repeat it. In this case, in the most distasteful way, trying to score political points at the very moment dozens of parents were desperately searching for their missing children. But with Stephanopoulos, it’s politics ahead of facts as his contention has been undermined by, amongst others, the union representing the NWS meteorologists.”
  1747.  
  1748. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
  1749.  
  1750.  
  1751.  
  1752.  
  1753. ■ June 30, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS embraces socialist Mamdani, calls GOP criticism ‘hateful’
  1754.  
  1755. (Washington Examiner post)
  1756.  
  1757.  
  1758. PBS is doubling down on its leftist bias that has drawn President Donald Trump’s support for defunding the taxpayer-supported service, this time embracing New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani while ripping GOP criticism of the self-declared socialist as “disgusting” and “hateful.”
  1759.  
  1760. While some liberal politicians are disowning Mamdani for his extreme positions, the support by Public Broadcasting Service’s News Hour is this week’s featured Liberal Media Scream because it flies in the face of a promise to provide “intelligent, balanced” reporting.
  1761.  
  1762. On Friday, News Hour didn’t feature the candidate’s left-wing promises to defund police and provide freebies to residents, but instead condemned the conservative reaction to him.
  1763.  
  1764. Said featured liberal commentator Jonathan Capehart, “I’ll start with the Republican response. It’s shameful, it’s hateful, it’s disgusting.”
  1765.  
  1766. From Friday’s PBS News Hour:
  1767.  
  1768. NEWS HOUR HOST AMNA NAWAZ: I got to ask you both, too, about Tuesday night’s events in New York City, the Democratic mayoral primary contest the entire country was paying attention to when Zohran Mamdani, who was a little-known state assemblyman, went on to beat the former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s 33 years old, he’s a self-described Democratic socialist, and his win, we should point out, has really fueled a hateful response from some on the Right. There’s a major MAGA voice named Charlie Kirk, who posted this: ‘24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.’”
  1769.  
  1770. Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles actually called for Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, as a naturalized U.S. citizen, to be denaturalized and deported. Jonathan, what does Mamdani’s win tell us about Democrats and their message, if anything, and what does the response tell us about Republicans and theirs?
  1771.  
  1772. JONATHAN CAPEHART: Well, the response, I’ll start with the Republican response. It’s shameful, it’s hateful, it’s disgusting. It also tells me that Republicans are deathly afraid of their prospects in the 2026 midterm elections. Especially if they’re going after a guy who just simply won the primary in a municipal election. The other thing folks need to understand, the reputation of New York City is of a liberal bastion, and it’s a city where there’s a six-to-one Democratic registration advantage over Republicans. And yet this city, that has a reputation of being a liberal bastion, elected Rudy Giuliani twice and Mike Bloomberg three times, the first time as a Republican, the next two times as an independent. And so, what I take from Mamdani’s win, above all else, is that he went out there and asked New Yorkers for their votes. He did not do a Rose Garden strategy. He asked people for their votes, and he gave them something to vote for, and that’s the thing Democrats should emulate. Ask people for their votes.
  1773.  
  1774.  
  1775.  
  1776.  
  1777.  
  1778. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “In pleading for donations in the wake of the effort to end taxpayer funding of PBS, the News Hour website ludicrously claims ‘your gift supports America’s #1 most trusted news source in providing intelligent, balanced and in-depth reporting.’ This coverage of Mamdani is just the latest proof of the hollowness of that promise, a pledge PBS has never made any genuine effort to provide. Where’s the balance in ignoring the elephant in the room of Mamdani’s extremist views while treating conservative reaction to him as the most important event that must be condemned?”
  1779.  
  1780. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1781.  
  1782.  
  1783.  
  1784.  
  1785. ■ June 23, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Feckless Margaret Brennan thinks she’s secretary of state
  1786.  
  1787. (Washington Examiner post)
  1788.  
  1789.  
  1790. If the Sunday performance of CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan were in a Looney Tunes cartoon, Bugs Bunny would have mocked, “da nerve!”
  1791.  
  1792. Instead, and much better, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brushed aside her grade school “yes it is, no it’s not” debate over military intelligence and belief that she knows more about it than President Donald Trump’s top national security adviser.
  1793.  
  1794. “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” Rubio said in an appearance to discuss Trump’s decision to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities over the weekend.
  1795.  
  1796. After Brennan continued to say she knows more about whether Iran planned to make nuclear weapons or not, Rubio gave his best “da nerve” look and told her, “That’s not how intelligence is read. That’s not how intelligence is used. Here’s what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence, what the IAEA knows. They are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.”
  1797.  
  1798. From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
  1799.  
  1800. MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me follow up on a phrase you just used — weaponization ambitions. Are you saying that the United States did not see intelligence that the supreme leader had ordered weaponization?
  1801.  
  1802. SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: That’s irrelevant. I see that question being asked in the media all the time. That’s an irrelevant question. They have everything they need to build a weapon.
  1803.  
  1804. BRENNAN: No, but that is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessments. You know that.
  1805.  
  1806. RUBIO: No, it’s not.
  1807.  
  1808. BRENNAN: Yes, it was.
  1809.  
  1810. RUBIO: No, it’s not.
  1811.  
  1812. BRENNAN: That the political decision had not been made.
  1813.  
  1814. RUBIO: No, I know — well, I know that better than you know that. And I know that that’s not the case.
  1815.  
  1816. BRENNAN: But I’m asking you whether the order was given.
  1817.  
  1818. RUBIO: You don’t know what you’re talking about. And the people who say that — it doesn’t matter if the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury — why would you bury things in a mountain 300 feet under the ground?
  1819.  
  1820. BRENNAN: Right.
  1821.  
  1822. RUBIO: Why would you bury six … why do they have 60% enriched uranium? You don’t need 60% enriched uranium. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons, because they can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements. They have … why are they … why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No. They’re trying to build an ICBM, so they can one day put a warhead on it.
  1823.  
  1824. BRENNAN: No, but that’s a question … that’s a question … that’s a question of intent. And you know, in the intelligence assessment, that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold state and use this leverage.
  1825.  
  1826. RUBIO: How do you know what the intelligence assessment says? How do you know what the intelligence assessment says?
  1827.  
  1828. BRENNAN: I’m talking about the public March assessment. And that’s why I was asking you if you know something more from March, if an order was given.
  1829.  
  1830. RUBIO: Well, that — but that’s also an inaccurate representation of it. That’s an inaccurate representation of it. That’s not how intelligence is read. That’s not how intelligence is used. Here’s what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence, what the IAEA knows. They are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.
  1831.  
  1832.  
  1833.  
  1834.  
  1835.  
  1836. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Refreshing to see a guest take on the liberal premises forwarded as facts by legacy media hosts. This wasn’t the first time this year that Brennan has been schooled by a Trump administration official. Maybe she should consider being more of a dispassionate interviewer and less of an advocate for the left-wing spin of the day.”
  1837.  
  1838. Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
  1839.  
  1840.  
  1841.  
  1842.  
  1843. ■ June 16, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS sees Trump ‘suspending elections’
  1844.  
  1845. (Washington Examiner post)
  1846.  
  1847.  
  1848. It’s hard to imagine that PBS could get any more anti-Trump, but after House Republicans voted to endorse President Donald Trump’s bid to defund public broadcasting, all of its “Trump derangement syndrome” sirens have gone off.
  1849.  
  1850. For our weekly Liberal Media Scream, we feature its most extreme claim from lefty News Hour commentator Jonathan Capehart that the president is on a power grab that will have him “suspending elections.”
  1851.  
  1852. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Capehart suggested that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to California to protect federal buildings against anti-ICE demonstrators, as well as “rumors” of a pardon for the police officer convicted of the murder of George Floyd, is part of a plan to “create the conditions that would allow the president to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
  1853.  
  1854. Tying the Army birthday parade Saturday with the deployment of troops to Los Angeles, Capehart said, “We are at a turning point, I think, this weekend with what we have seen in the run-up to tomorrow’s parade, with what’s happening in Los Angeles. More people’s hair should be on fire, not just because of the National Guard troops in Los Angeles without the — working with or permission from the governor, which is by law what should have been done, but the calling up of Marines, U.S. military, on American streets.”
  1855.  
  1856. “That is a line that, to me, anyway, is one that should never have been crossed. And the president putting out this order and putting out this order that isn’t specific to Los Angeles, isn’t specific to any city. It’s so broad. The language is so broad that it’s sort of like you could just tuck it into like a giant L.L. Bean tote bag, and you just pull out: Where do I need to send troops?”
  1857.  
  1858. Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour:
  1859.  
  1860. I think they’re creating the political conflict because, you know, I interviewed Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison in the run-up to the anniversary, the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.
  1861.  
  1862. And he brought up on his own the rumor that the president was going to pardon Derek Chauvin. And the attorney general said that the president might do that as a distraction to larger goals. And one of the larger goals that the attorney general mentioned that has always been in the back of my mind is to create the conditions that would allow the president to invoke the Insurrection Act.
  1863.  
  1864. And once the president invokes the Insurrection Act, all sorts of powers are handed to the president, you know, suspending elections, and other things once you open that box, and particularly you open that box with this president and the administration and the yes-people he has around him, there’s no going back. That is among the reasons why I am so concerned about what we’re about to see tomorrow.
  1865.  
  1866.  
  1867.  
  1868.  
  1869.  
  1870. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Tinfoil hat time. And PBS supporters act befuddled as to why conservatives see PBS as the home of left-wing crazy talk, leading the House last week to approve President Trump’s rescission package to end taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR. Capehart’s wild speculation passes for informed analysis on PBS’s top ‘news’ program.”
  1871.  
  1872. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1873.  
  1874.  
  1875.  
  1876.  
  1877. ■ June 9, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Pompous Pelley warns America ‘is doomed’
  1878.  
  1879. (Washington Examiner post)
  1880.  
  1881.  
  1882. Just when we thought CBS’s Scott Pelley couldn’t get any more pompous, he proved us wrong — again.
  1883.  
  1884. This time it was in decrying America under President Donald Trump, declaring that only journalism can save the nation, and warning that “If you fall silent, the country is doomed.”
  1885.  
  1886. Seeing parallels between Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the 1950s and Trump today, while speaking after CNN showed George Clooney’s play about legendary newsman Edward R. Morrow, Pelley said, “You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done.”
  1887.  
  1888. Pelley has used his 60 Minutes perch to air his liberal bias and editorialize against Trump. Murrow played an outsize role in ending McCarthy’s career.
  1889.  
  1890. From CNN’s special coverage Saturday night, Good Night, and Good Luck Live: Truth and Power, after the live airing from Broadway of the stage play, Good Night, and Good Luck:
  1891.  
  1892. ANDERSON COOPER: Do you still believe in journalism? Do you still believe in the role of journalists?
  1893.  
  1894. SCOTT PELLEY: It is the only thing that’s going to save the country. You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. The people at home need reliable, consistent information in order to make decisions about their lives and their futures, and the country’s future. So, there is no system of democracy without journalism. We have to figure out how to keep journalism free, independent, accurate, and responsible for what it’s doing.
  1895.  
  1896. But journalism is the only profession that is protected by the Constitution of the United States. And there’s a reason for that. James Madison believed that freedom of speech was the right that guaranteed all the other rights in the Bill of Rights. And so it is today.
  1897.  
  1898. COOPER: What is your message to people about, who have just watched this, and are worried?
  1899.  
  1900. PELLEY: It’s going to take courage, as it often has, to get through this period of American history. Our forebears were called by their times to have courage to move the country forward. And so it is with us today. The most important thing is to have the courage to speak, to not let fear permeate the country so that everyone suddenly becomes silent. If you have the courage to speak, we are saved. If you fall silent, the country is doomed.
  1901.  
  1902.  
  1903.  
  1904.  
  1905.  
  1906.  
  1907. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Could Pelley be any more pompous? If he, CBS News, and the rest of the legacy media had ever lived up to his promise of providing ‘independent, accurate and responsible’ news, they wouldn’t be held in such disdain by so much of the public who see them as left-wing political players. And that’s a reality he confirmed by advocating everyone get in line and join him in having the ‘courage’ to oppose the policies of the man who earned the most votes in the last election.”
  1908.  
  1909. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
  1910.  
  1911.  
  1912.  
  1913.  
  1914. ■ June 2, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos tries to top Pelley with his Trump hate
  1915.  
  1916. (Washington Examiner post)
  1917.  
  1918.  
  1919. Have you noticed how the liberal Sunday news show hosts have been tripping over themselves to find some, any angle to attack President Donald Trump and his team?
  1920.  
  1921. The latest to join the parade is George Stephanopoulos, the ABC big shot and former Bill Clinton spinner-in-chief, who on Sunday tried to one-up the recent string of anti-Trump editorials from Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes.
  1922.  
  1923. On ABC’s This Week, Stephanopoulos opened with this: “Good morning and welcome to This Week. The scale is staggering. President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars, as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors.”
  1924.  
  1925. The attack was par for the course for the Clinton family defender, who was unfazed that the Clinton Foundation profited from foreign governments when Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state or that the Biden family enterprise cashed in on Joe Biden’s vice presidency and presidency.
  1926.  
  1927. And it followed a pattern of attacking Trump at any cost, a dangerous practice that recently prompted ABC and Stephanopoulos to issue an apology and pay a Trump-related foundation $15 million to scuttle a defamation lawsuit.
  1928.  
  1929. For his hypocrisy, Stephanopoulos’s rant is our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
  1930.  
  1931. Stephanopoulos on Sunday’s This Week on ABC, with the quoted text displayed on screen:
  1932.  
  1933. “Good morning and welcome to This Week. The scale is staggering. President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars, as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors. Just this week, we learned of pardons to tax cheats, including a man whose pardon was granted weeks after his mother attended a million-dollar-a-head fundraiser with the president. The Trump Media and Technology Group raised nearly $2.5 billion from 50 institutional investors whose identities have not been disclosed. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency firm Binance days after Binance began listing the cryptocurrency launched by World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm started by Trump’s family.
  1934.  
  1935. “This unprecedented money-making by a sitting president and his family summarized by critics like the Atlantic’s David Frum. ‘Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency,’ he writes. ‘Throw away the history books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past. There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president. The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.’”
  1936.  
  1937.  
  1938.  
  1939.  
  1940.  
  1941. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: You’d think someone like Stephanopoulos, who forced Disney/ABC to pay $15 million to Trump’s future presidential museum for a false statement impugning President Trump, would be more reluctant to display such rank hypocrisy in becoming so overwrought about charges of corruption against Trump. Especially when he showed no similar concern over how the Biden family profited off of lucrative secretive deals fueled by President Biden’s high offices.”
  1942.  
  1943. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1944.  
  1945.  
  1946.  
  1947.  
  1948. ■ May 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls Trump ‘dictator’ to bow before
  1949.  
  1950. (Washington Examiner post)
  1951.  
  1952.  
  1953. As if MSNBC can’t get any more ridiculous, a regular guest proved it could when previewing President Donald Trump‘s solemn Memorial Day events by calling him a dictator whom all must bow before.
  1954.  
  1955. In comments condemning more than half of the voters who support Trump, Dean Obeidallah, host of The Dean Obeidallah Show on SiriusXM, told the MSNBC audience, “This really is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One that we believe in is freedom, the United States of America with due process, and their vision, which is an autocracy, and that really — what we’re dealing with, or easier than that, a dictatorship. They want Trump as the dictator of the United States, and we all have to bow down to him.”
  1956.  
  1957. Obeidallah’s rant won this week’s Mainstream Media Scream, but it was a close call, with hard-left CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley and his liberal colleague, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, in full Trump derangement syndrome.
  1958.  
  1959. Pelley made headlines for his over-the-top Trump hate commencement at Wake Forest, and Brennan for her uneducated attack on the House Republican “big, beautiful bill.”
  1960.  
  1961. Dean Obeidallah, during the noon hour on Saturday of Velshi on MSNBC:
  1962.  
  1963. I think the fact that it’s Memorial Day weekend gives us a moment to pause. People made the ultimate sacrifice. They did it for something that you mentioned in your — in your monologue there. And that word is “freedom.”
  1964.  
  1965. And I’m writing an article right now. I was looking back at the very first speech in the modern day Memorial Day, which was Rep. James Garfield before he was president, 1868 Arlington, to Joe Biden’s. I looked at all different presidential speeches and the one word that came up in all those speeches: “freedom.”
  1966.  
  1967. And that’s what people — that’s what makes us Americans. And Donald Trump is going after everything, freedom of speech, in ways we’ve never seen. I mean, a judge just ruled on Friday protecting the law firms, saying you’re going after dissent, going after universities. I had professor Steven Levitsky on my show, co-author of How Democracies Die, saying every autocrat goes after universities because they are independent centers of dissent. People think he’s going after media outlets. He’s going after Democrats. They’re arresting judges. The mayor of Newark, they dropped the charges. They had no case. Then a Democratic member of Congress, they opened up investigations into ActBlue because it’s a platform to help Democrats raise money. Now, an investigation into Media Matters, Angelo Carusone’s, the FTC is beginning an investigation. This is a reenvisioning of what America is about.
  1968.  
  1969. And I think you summed it up so well. This really is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One that we believe in is freedom. The United States of America with due process, and their vision, which is an autocracy, and that really — what we’re dealing with, or easier than that, a dictatorship. They want Trump as the dictator of the United States, and we all have to bow down to him.
  1970.  
  1971.  
  1972.  
  1973.  
  1974.  
  1975. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “There’s no holiday weekend break on MSNBC from the anti-Trump hostility, not even for a solemn occasion which Obeidallah used as a hook to launch his rant against Trump as anti-freedom of speech. Quite ironic given the support by so many on MSNBC for canceling and silencing conservative voices who dared question woke edicts.”
  1976.  
  1977. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  1978.  
  1979.  
  1980.  
  1981.  
  1982. ■ May 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Katie Couric calls news objectivity ‘old fashioned’
  1983.  
  1984. (Washington Examiner post)
  1985.  
  1986.  
  1987. She was once the queen of TV news, and as the co-host of NBC’s Today show and anchor of CBS Evening News, Katie Couric struggled with basic news objectivity.
  1988.  
  1989. And now we know why: She doesn’t believe there is such a thing. “I think there’s no such thing as true objectivity,” she said on her “Next Question” podcast last week.
  1990.  
  1991. What’s more, the 68-year-old newswoman apparently thinks it’s just something old people “75 and up” mutter about while watching evening news.
  1992.  
  1993. That, and her slam on conservatives for calling out bias in liberal media “fact-checking,” make Couric our Liberal Media Scream of the Week.
  1994.  
  1995. Couric, to her guests, the three brothers who created the liberal MeidasTouch podcast, on Thursday’s edition of her “Next Question with Katie Couric” podcast posted to YouTube:
  1996.  
  1997. “I’m curious, because I’ve struggled with this as someone who you grew up watching, I’m sure, and started in very traditional mainstream media. Now, pointing out the facts and what is really happening is automatically interpreted as being biased, right?“
  1998.  
  1999. “And, and of course, I think there’s no such thing as true objectivity, but having said that, you know, I really struggle with that. And many people say, ‘Listen, the rules have changed.’ It’s OK to say you support trans people. It’s OK that you say I am 100% for reproductive rights, you know, all these things that honestly, personally, I hold dear, but professionally, I’ve never really, I’ve been trained to not share that.“
  2000.  
  2001. “So I’m curious if you think sort of old-fashioned, semi-objective — knowing that pure objectivity is impossible — that kind of journalism still has a place in the culture, or is it simply, you know, the 75 and up people who are watching the network evening newscasts?”
  2002.  
  2003.  
  2004.  
  2005.  
  2006.  
  2007. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Couric demonstrated why legacy media figures have refused to address their obvious and overwhelming hostility to conservatives for decades and President Trump in recent years: They are condescending elitists who presume their liberal view of the world reflect ‘the facts’ and so, anyone who questions that presentation of ‘the facts,’ are knowingly making a baseless charge of bias and thus can be dismissed as ignorant cranks.”
  2008.  
  2009. Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
  2010.  
  2011.  
  2012.  
  2013.  
  2014. ■ May 12, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC prays Pope Leo XIV will ‘counter’ Trump
  2015.  
  2016. (Washington Examiner post)
  2017.  
  2018.  
  2019. Reporters have rarely been fans of faith in politics, and often decry the Republican Party’s cozy relationship with religious Americans, such as evangelical Christians.
  2020.  
  2021. But give them a pope willing to criticize President Donald Trump, well, that’s a different story. Now that Pope Leo XIV has replaced Trump critic Pope Francis, there is an eagerness to find out if the Chicago native will also challenge Trump on key matters, including immigration.
  2022.  
  2023. ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz, our pick for the Liberal Media Scream of the week, led that prayer group last week.
  2024.  
  2025. Raddatz used her hosting duties in Rome for This Week as a platform to ask her guests how Leo will challenge the president.
  2026.  
  2027. “Will he be a counterbalance for what’s happening in American politics right now in President Trump?” she asked the archbishop of Chicago.
  2028.  
  2029. Later, she told Father James Martin, an ABC News papal contributor, that “Pope Francis indirectly rebuked President Trump’s policies, especially on immigration” and Leo, “before he was pope, he retweeted some things about immigration and saying, you know, retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, things like that. Do you think that will be an incredibly strong message for him?”
  2030.  
  2031. Raddatz also asked ABC News reporter Terry Moran, “Do you think he will serve, in some ways, as a counter to President Trump [on immigration policies]?”
  2032.  
  2033. Moran took the bait, saying Leo “will be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which in many ways, many Catholics believe are not consistent with some of the president’s policies.”
  2034.  
  2035. From ABC’s This Week on Sunday:
  2036.  
  2037. MARTHA RADDATZ, TO CARDINAL BLASE CUPICH, ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO: Pope Francis cared so much about the poor and migrants. Pope Leo does as well. In some ways, will he be a counterbalance for what’s happening in American politics right now in President Trump?
  2038.  
  2039. …..
  2040.  
  2041. RADDATZ, TO FATHER JAMES MARTIN: Pope Francis indirectly rebuked President Trump’s policies, especially on immigration. And Pope Leo, before he was pope, he retweeted some things about immigration and saying, you know, retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, things like that. Do you think that will be an incredibly strong message for him? I mean, he has been, he does have the “odor of sheep,” as you say?
  2042.  
  2043. …..RADDATZ: And Terry [Moran] and Liz [Nagy], do you think he will serve, in some ways, as a counter to President Trump on those policies?
  2044.  
  2045. TERRY MORAN: Reluctantly, right? They are the two most famous Americans in the world right now. And arguably, Pope Leo might be even more famous than President Trump, and whether the pope wants it or not, because I think he wants to preach the Gospel and do the good work of the church. They have different approaches naturally in some ways, and I think that is going to come out.
  2046.  
  2047. He will be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which, in many ways, many Catholics believe are not consistent with some of the president’s policies. That will happen. I don’t think he’s going to go look for a fight, but it will happen.
  2048.  
  2049.  
  2050.  
  2051.  
  2052.  
  2053. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Raddatz couldn’t resist injecting her American politics into papal coverage, trying to transform the new pope into a force for resistance to President Trump. She was so obsessed with her agenda that she prodded three guests, at different points in the show, to endorse her premise, finally getting some guarded agreement from the third, a fellow ABC News journalist.”
  2054.  
  2055. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
  2056.  
  2057.  
  2058.  
  2059.  
  2060. ■ May 5, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Pompous’ media on public TV’s dole rip Trump cuts
  2061.  
  2062. (Washington Examiner post)
  2063.  
  2064.  
  2065. There is nothing more self-serving than media figures on public TV’s payroll ripping President Donald Trump’s call to end taxpayer funding of National Public Radio and television’s Public Broadcasting System.
  2066.  
  2067. But that is exactly what happened over the weekend, making it our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
  2068.  
  2069. First there was NPR President Katherine Maher telling Face the Nation that it’s Trump’s fault if coverage comes off too liberal. “NPR people report straight down the line,” she said. “We’ve been making requests of the Trump administration to have their officials on air. We would like to see more people accept those invitations. It’s hard for us to be able to say we can speak for everyone when folks won’t join us.”
  2070.  
  2071. Documentary filmmaker and PBS producer Ken Burns got his punches in while appearing Friday on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. “I think PBS is part of the pursuit of happiness machine,” he said, adding, “This is who we are. It puts the ‘us’ in the U.S.”
  2072.  
  2073. And leave it to PBS News Hour regular Jonathan Capehart to prove true Trump’s complaints about bias on the network when he said, “There is only one profession that is protected in the Constitution, and it is the free press. It is the press.”
  2074.  
  2075. Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour:
  2076.  
  2077. I think what the president is doing, it is a fundamental attack on our Constitution, on the foundation of this country. People need to understand and remember, there is only one profession that is protected in the Constitution, and it is the free press. It is the press.
  2078.  
  2079. And why? Because the founders understood that the survival of a democracy depends on an informed citizenry. And the citizenry can only be informed by a press that can report and do — report on affairs of the republic free and unfettered.
  2080.  
  2081. And whether they are, come from the left or from the right, the government should not interfere with that reporting. And so, when you have a president of the United States who is making it his mission to attack the free press, we should all be concerned, whether we are at PBS or whether we are at MSNBC, because he’s focused on us too.
  2082.  
  2083.  
  2084.  
  2085.  
  2086.  
  2087. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Could Capehart be any more pompous? He and others, who claim PBS and NPR are neutral news providers serving a grandiose noble purpose the nation cannot survive without, are dissembling. Anyone who watches or listens to PBS and/or NPR knows their far-left skew and that Capehart etc. are just upset Trump has dared to try to take away their taxpayer subsidies.”
  2088.  
  2089. Rating: FIVE out of five screams.
  2090.  
  2091.  
  2092.  
  2093.  
  2094. ■ April 28: No Liberal Media Scream this week
  2095.  
  2096.  
  2097.  
  2098. ■ April 21, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Chris Matthews returns more unhinged than ever
  2099.  
  2100. (Washington Examiner post)
  2101.  
  2102.  
  2103. As if we need more Trump-hating media, an old favorite of the Liberal Media Scream team has returned to the Trump derangement syndrome stage to add his voice to those challenging President Donald Trump.
  2104.  
  2105. After about five years on the sidelines, former Hardball host Chris Matthews is reviving his show on Substack.
  2106.  
  2107. He proved that he’s lost a step or two in his debut Monday and during a promotion on Jim Acosta’s Substack last Friday.
  2108.  
  2109. Weeks after others tried to portray Trump as America’s homegrown Adolf Hitler, Matthews rolled out the tired analogy again, this time suggesting that the president will round up his critics and ship them to death camps.
  2110.  
  2111. “I got a nasty one for you,” he told Acosta. “What did Hitler do in the Holocaust? He took people from Germany to other countries where there was no German law. There was not even a pretense of German law. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, and they killed them.”
  2112.  
  2113.  
  2114.  
  2115.  
  2116.  
  2117. Then, on his channel on Monday, Matthews opened with another Hitler reference. He said, “I want to ask you about something I said last week: that the fact that Trump is willing to say American citizens should be allowed to be sent overseas for punishment does something that rhymes very much with what happened in the Holocaust. That Germany was able to take people in France, Jewish people, and deport them to the east, and even the word deport was similar. So why would Trump personally say I’m going to take regular American citizens and deport them? It sounds like he wants to be seen as an autocrat.”
  2118.  
  2119. From Jim Acosta’s video show Friday for Substack:
  2120.  
  2121. JIM ACOSTA: One thing that every taxi driver will talk about these days is Donald Trump. And I have to ask you some newsy questions before we spend the entire time together reminiscing.
  2122.  
  2123. CHRIS MATTHEWS: I got a nasty one for you.
  2124.  
  2125. ACOSTA: Okay, well, good, I’m just wondering, I mean—”
  2126.  
  2127. MATTHEWS: What did Hitler do? What did Hitler do in the Holocaust? He took people from Germany to other countries.
  2128.  
  2129. ACOSTA: Yeah.
  2130.  
  2131. MATTHEWS: Where there was no German law. There was not even a pretense of German law. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, and they killed them.
  2132.  
  2133. ACOSTA: And so when you see what’s happening right now with this Salvadoran gulag, I mean, this CECOT gulag, he’s basically taking a page out of that playbook, you think?
  2134.  
  2135. MATTHEWS: Well, it gets them out of the country.
  2136.  
  2137.  
  2138.  
  2139.  
  2140.  
  2141. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Just when you thought it was safe to go to Substack, they give shows to Jim Acosta and Chris Matthews. As if there weren’t enough Trump-hating journalists with a platform. In this case, Matthews has taken TDS to a whole new level. There are rational arguments one could cite for disagreeing with sending illegal alien criminals to a foreign prison, but to equate that policy with a mass-murdering dictator who implemented genocide against a whole religion is inane.”
  2142.  
  2143. Rating: FIVE out of five screams.
  2144.  
  2145.  
  2146.  
  2147.  
  2148. ■ April 14, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Media eat their own and rip Bill Maher for dining with Trump
  2149.  
  2150. (Washington Examiner post)
  2151.  
  2152.  
  2153. It’s hard to believe that our weekly Liberal Media Scream has been documenting the Washington press corps’ Trump Derangement Syndrome for about nine years and that we can find some new hypocrisy every single Monday to highlight.
  2154.  
  2155. But thanks to the eagle eye of our partner Brent Baker, the vice president of the Media Research Center, we have one of the first examples of the liberal media trying to keep wandering members of the tribe in line.
  2156.  
  2157. It happened Friday night after HBO talk show host and political comic Bill Maher described his recent dinner in the White House with President Donald Trump. Maher said it was a successful effort to break bread instead of just hurling insults at each other.
  2158.  
  2159. But some in the media weren’t happy that the two met.
  2160.  
  2161. Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, on Maher’s show, accused his host of falling into Trump’s “trap.” He scolded, “For him, this was a PR stunt, and in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt.”
  2162.  
  2163. From Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO:
  2164.  
  2165. JOSH ROGIN, WASHINGTON POST: Counterpoint? You know, Bill, I think you’re right in saying that people make too much of this. OK, it’s not the Yalta Summit, you’re not Churchill, Kid Rock is not Stalin, Trump, sure as s***, isn’t FDR, OK? So yes, I believe too much has been made about this, but I think you’ve fallen into the trap. I think I represent 99% of the internet when I say this, is that you have played the game of proximity is principle, and what people are worried about — it’s not your motivation, we believe you, we love you, everybody loves Bill, right?
  2166.  
  2167. So, I’m not questioning your motivation, I’m questioning Trump’s, OK? And if we can say that you went there in good faith, but maybe, just maybe he wasn’t there in good faith. I mean, you sold him on the Iran deal, and he took it in — I mean, give me a break, OK? So, the idea here is that your motivation is sound, but what’s the impact? And I think a lot of people out there, fans of yours, people who love you, people who are fans of you, like me, been fans of yours my whole life.
  2168.  
  2169. BILL MAHER: You don’t have to patronize me, dude —
  2170.  
  2171. ROGIN: OK. Fair enough.
  2172.  
  2173. MAHER: I don’t know you, I never met you, not everybody has to like it.
  2174.  
  2175. ROGIN: I’m just saying that this comes from a place of love. All I’m saying —
  2176.  
  2177. MAHER: That’s what we said, there are people who didn’t want it to happen at all, you sound like one of them. It’s OK.
  2178.  
  2179. ROGIN: No, no.
  2180.  
  2181. MAHER: Did you hear what I said?
  2182.  
  2183. ROGIN: Yeah.
  2184.  
  2185. MAHER: What is the alternative to not talking? Just sitting at your lunch table and don’t talk to anybody?
  2186.  
  2187. ROGIN: I’ve talked to him, I’ve interviewed Trump. Piers has interviewed Trump.
  2188.  
  2189. MAHER: This was not an interview. This was not an interview.
  2190.  
  2191. ROGIN: I agree with the principle of engagement. I’m just saying from his perspective, you have to understand, that people who out there know, all Americans know, that for him, this was a PR stunt, and in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt.
  2192.  
  2193. MAHER: The fact that you began your little rant with the internet — that tells me everything. You take your cues from the internet. Good luck! The internet is a cesspool that just wants to fight.
  2194.  
  2195. ROGIN: I support what you’re trying to do. I’m just saying the expectation that Donald Trump is going to be changed by something —
  2196.  
  2197. MAHER: I said in the piece I did not think that was going to happen. I love the people on either side who ignore the parts they don’t like. I just did it. It wasn’t like it was three weeks ago. Watch it again, maybe you’ll find something new in it.
  2198.  
  2199. ROGIN: It’s not a judgment, but it’s a little bit of a judgment.
  2200.  
  2201.  
  2202.  
  2203.  
  2204.  
  2205. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Josh Rogin displayed the reflexive attitude common in the Washington press corps that anyone who does anything which might ‘normalize’ President Donald Trump must be discredited. Bill Maher did a great job, however, of discrediting Rogin’s weak arguments.”
  2206.  
  2207. Rating: FOUR out of five screams.
  2208.  
  2209.  
  2210.  
  2211.  
  2212. ■ April 7, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN cheers X-rated comic dumped by press corps
  2213.  
  2214. (Washington Examiner post)
  2215.  
  2216.  
  2217. This week’s Liberal Media Scream puts the spotlight on CNN and its hosting of a left-wing comic so biased and X-rated that she was dumped from performing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
  2218.  
  2219. CNN’s new show, Have I Got News For You, put the spotlight on one of its “captains,” Amber Ruffin, who reiterated the hatred of President Donald Trump that got her kicked out of the dinner.
  2220.  
  2221. After her firing came up on the show, Ruffin added to her reasons why she hates the president and his team, claiming that they are “disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador.”
  2222.  
  2223. She said, “I lost the gig because I was out here talking s***.”
  2224.  
  2225. From Saturday’s airing of Have I Got News For You on CNN:
  2226.  
  2227. HOST ROY WOOD JR: Amber offended the White House, as well as members of the White House Correspondents Association. Amber, following the tradition of Craig from Friday, was fired on her day off as she was uninvited from the White House Correspondents dinner when she said that she intended to make fun of the current administration. Amber, do you think you lost the gig because you said too early what you were going to do about going in on Republicans?
  2228.  
  2229. AMBER RUFFIN: I mean, oh, my god, I could f***ing talk for the next three hours. But what I choose to say is it’s like I lost the gig because I was out here talking s***, and I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig because I was going to show up there and act all the way out. Also, like, also, it’s not anyone’s fault because when I was hired, we were like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody. And I was like, beh. Then they started f***ing disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador. They rolled back f***ing civil rights. So I was like, if I make this equal, then I’m also a piece of s***. I can’t f***ing do that.
  2230.  
  2231.  
  2232.  
  2233.  
  2234.  
  2235. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Ruffin demonstrated why she is totally inappropriate to provide comedic commentary about the political scene. She’s filled with vitriol and hate toward the man who the nation chose as its president. But she found her audience on CNN where she was cheered and applauded for her crude invective. A sad commentary on the state of CNN.”
  2236.  
  2237. Rating: FIVE out of five screams
  2238.  
  2239.  
  2240.  
  2241.  
  2242. ■ March 31, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Trump has made Bob Woodward deranged
  2243.  
  2244. (Washington Examiner post)
  2245.  
  2246.  
  2247. President Donald Trump has done it. In just two short months, he has not only turned the liberal Washington Post into a TDS cesspool but made its most celebrated reporter nearly certifiable.
  2248.  
  2249. How else can we explain Bob Woodward’s latest unhinged rant against Trump in which he claims that the billionaire businessman has a goal of ruining the economy?
  2250.  
  2251. “Well, his end goal is it looks like he wants to destroy the economy,” said the 82-year-old reporter and author on a Washington Post podcast.
  2252.  
  2253. For that, he wins this week’s Liberal Media Scream with five out of five screams.
  2254.  
  2255. From the Post Reports podcast interview, recorded at Woodward’s home by Washington Post “national politics/democracy reporter” Colby Itkowitz, which was posted Friday night on YouTube:
  2256.  
  2257. BOB WOODWARD: All these executive orders. I mean, he is, stood his ground and said this is what I’m going to do. I am shrinking. He and Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, his sidekick, are cutting the government, and look at what we are seeing. I mean, in some cases it’s done, as people have said with the chain saw, and we know from our personal lives or businesses that when you have to cut, that’s a really tricky undertaking, and you need to very carefully spell out what you’re gonna do and do it very slowly and be very certain that the impact is that they’re not secondary events that you trigger with — and look at what’s going on now. I think it’s one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced.
  2258.  
  2259. COLBY ITKOWITZ: What do you think Trump’s end goal is in all of this in the sledge-hammering the government tariff, putting tariffs on our allies like Canada, like what is the, what is his big end goal as president?
  2260.  
  2261. WOODWARD: Well, his end goal is it looks like he wants to destroy the economy and that is a very dangerous undertaking. I mean, he states the motive is very positive, but look at what people are going through — having very negative impact.
  2262.  
  2263.  
  2264.  
  2265.  
  2266.  
  2267. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “It’s one thing to contend that President Trump’s tariff policies are misguided and will harm the economy, but to charge that ‘he wants to destroy the economy’ is an attitude which reflects a particularly nefarious view of Trump. Does Woodward really think Trump is so awful that he has set out to intentionally ‘destroy’ the economy? That’s what he said and it fits with his very far-left perspective that reducing the size of government makes this ‘one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced.’”
  2268.  
  2269. Rating: FIVE out of five screams.
  2270.  
  2271.  
  2272.  
  2273.  
  2274. ■ March 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: All TDS on PBS as centrist calls Trump an ‘extortionist’
  2275.  
  2276. (Washington Examiner post)
  2277.  
  2278.  
  2279. This week’s Liberal Media Scream provides the latest fodder for conservatives calling for an end to taxpayer support of public TV because of its anti-Right bias and disdain for President Donald Trump.
  2280.  
  2281. In focus is the nightly PBS News Hour program that regularly features guests critical of Trump.
  2282.  
  2283. For our example, it wasn’t the liberal on the show rapping Trump but the resident centrist, New York Times columnist David Brooks, who called the president an “extortionist” and “bully” for using his powers to get countries, companies, and people to do what he wants.
  2284.  
  2285. “People call Trump a transactional politician, but he’s an extortionist. That’s actually a difference. There’s — a transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you until you give me what I want,” said Brooks.
  2286.  
  2287. At issue was an earlier move by the White House to withdraw the security clearance of the Paul Weiss legal firm, which is close to Democrats. The firm agreed to do $40 million worth of pro bono work for causes favored by the White House to win back the clearance.
  2288.  
  2289. From Friday’s PBS News Hour:
  2290.  
  2291. HOST AMNA NAWAZ: We saw President Trump going after institutions, including Big Law, right, including universities, as you mentioned, where many of these guys went to school. And this week, we saw two big institutions take steps to comply with the demands of the Trump administration. We saw Paul Weiss agree to a settlement, essentially, that says they’re going to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services. Columbia University agreed to a list of demands so they don’t lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. Jonathan, what does this moment, these steps from these institutions say to you?
  2292.  
  2293. JONATHAN CAPEHART: It says to me that our democracy is teetering. And I’ll focus on Perkins — I’m sorry — on Paul Weiss and the legal sphere. We have seen a complete capitulation by the legislative branch, the Republican majority, to what the president wants to do in the executive. And all our hopes for the maintenance of our democracy now rests with the judiciary.
  2294.  
  2295. And in the olden days, before Trump, you would rely on these white shoe law firms like Paul Weiss to provide pro bono help to folks who are suing for redress, who want the courts to step in when Congress or the president goes overboard. When a Paul Weiss decides to pull back, when other big law firms like that decide to pull back, what does that mean in terms of the judiciary’s ability to stop a president like Trump? And that’s what’s so concerning to me about this piece of the capitulation.
  2296.  
  2297. NAWAZ: David?
  2298.  
  2299. DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, people call Trump a transactional politician, but he’s an extortionist. That’s actually a difference. A transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you until you give me what I want. And so that’s what we’re seeing here. Now, I put myself in the shoes of, say, the president of Columbia, the head of Paul Weiss. And I think, well, if I compromise with Trump, I’m hurting my institution. But if I lose $400 million, I’m also hurting my institution. These are real choices that people have to make. And I understand that.
  2300.  
  2301. In the case of Columbia [University], I personally think the Trump requests or demands, whatever it is, are kind of reasonable, and Columbia should have done all this stuff five or 10 years ago. They really did get ideologically out of control. And if they’re publicly funded, partially publicly funded, then you’ve got a problem. And they created this problem. So I understand why. I got to save my university. I got to save $400 million.
  2302.  
  2303. On the other hand, caving into an extortionist rarely pays off because he will say, ‘Oh, I take that. Here’s my next demand, here’s my next demand.’ And if you look at the history of Zelensky, Macron, people — all the people who’ve tried to cozy up to the extortionists, they all end up losing in the end.
  2304.  
  2305. And so I think it’s time for the universities as a body — and we saw this with the Princeton president — to say no more deals. We are standing up because there will be a time — and, again, I don’t think this is quite the time to sort of beat down the Trump administration. There will be a time where everybody has to hold together and stand up and say, no, no more deals.
  2306.  
  2307.  
  2308.  
  2309.  
  2310.  
  2311. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “A perfect reflection of how ‘diversity’ on PBS is all about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and race, not political ideology. PBS’s panel of Capehart and Brooks, touted as offering perspective from the left and right, does not (Brooks agrees with the liberal Capehart 61% of the time per a Media Research Center analysis). Indeed, they regularly find commonality to denouncing President Trump. So much for PBS viewers hearing much of anything that challenges their liberal world view and disgust for all things Trump.”
  2312.  
  2313. Rating: FOUR out of five screams
  2314.  
  2315.  
  2316.  
  2317.  
  2318. ■ March 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: NBC urges harsher Trump hate by Democrats
  2319.  
  2320. (Washington Examiner post)
  2321.  
  2322.  
  2323. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a Sunday NBC panel mocking Democrats for failing to be harsher and faster in blasting President Donald Trump and his relationship with Tesla founder Elon Musk.
  2324.  
  2325. On Meet the Press, there was a collective scream at the liberal party for dropping the ball in attacking Trump, which the panel clearly felt was in order when the president displayed Teslas at the White House.
  2326.  
  2327. “Shocking,” they agreed, that Democrats didn’t work up a quick ad blasting Team Trump for essentially doing what former President Joe Biden did when he featured American-made vehicles on the South Lawn during a White House event.
  2328.  
  2329. “Another missed opportunity,” said MSNBC senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels, who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.
  2330.  
  2331. From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC:
  2332.  
  2333. HOST KRISTEN WELKER: One of the striking moments of this week was the moment where President Trump basically had a car show at the White House. Teslas on display with Elon Musk. It comes as, of course, Tesla’s sales have been dropping. Elon Musk’s approval ratings, much lower than President Trump’s, by the way. The optics of this, Anna, is it complicated for the White House?
  2334.  
  2335. ANNA PALMER, Punchbowl News: Well, it’s amazing that they’re doubling down on Elon Musk, because, to Cornell’s point, this is the opening for Democrats. They’re already starting to run ads featuring Elon Musk as the boogeyman. This gives them the B-roll and the visuals that you need to say that the White House is, you know, kind of mixing business with the work of the government.
  2336.  
  2337. …..
  2338.  
  2339. POLLSTER CORNELL BELCHER: And the idea that what Biden did at the White House is similar to Trump basically being a salesman and hawking the Teslas on the front lawn of the White House is completely different. The ad writes itself.
  2340.  
  2341. MSNBC’s EUGENE DANIELS: But Democrats aren’t doing it. Immediately, the next day, there should’ve been just, that ad, just showing it over and over again.
  2342.  
  2343. WELKER: You’re saying another missed opportunity for Democrats. Shocking!
  2344.  
  2345. DANIELS: Another missed opportunity to get on the same —
  2346.  
  2347. BELCHER, DANIELS: Shocking that the Democrats are bad on messaging!
  2348.  
  2349. DANIELS: But I mean, you know, like, when you talk to them behind the scenes, they explain the Elon of it all in a much better way than they do when they go on television. They don’t talk about him as an oligarch behind the scenes, right? They talk about him as someone who is, in their eyes, doing this, doing DOGE because he wants to help his businesses at the end of the day, right? They talk about that conflict of interest. That’s something that the American people actually understand, but they, again, continue to miss an opportunity to actually do that.
  2350.  
  2351.  
  2352.  
  2353.  
  2354.  
  2355. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “So much for pretending there’s any separation between the Washington press corps and Democratic Party interests. Can you imagine journalists ever advising Republicans or Trump supporters on how to more effectively undermine a Democrat? Of course not.”
  2356.  
  2357. Rating: Four out of five screams.
  2358.  
  2359.  
  2360.  
  2361.  
  2362. ■ March 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Sunny Hostin tells Democrats fight or ‘people will die’
  2363.  
  2364. (Washington Examiner post)
  2365.  
  2366.  
  2367. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the return of one of America’s lefty pundits suffering most from Trump Derangement Syndrome, The View’s Sunny Hostin.
  2368.  
  2369. Reacting to Rep. Al Green’s (D-TX) censure by Congress for his outbursts during President Donald Trump’s joint session address Tuesday, the hostile Hostin said the Democrats in the chamber should have joined him in rudely protesting Trump and stormed out in support.
  2370.  
  2371. While virtually every other Democrat in the media is calling for a more level-headed approach to Trump, she went in the other direction, claiming without a shred of evidence that Trump’s policies will kill people.
  2372.  
  2373. As a result, we give her outburst a rare five-scream trophy.
  2374.  
  2375. The View on Friday:
  2376.  
  2377. JOY BEHAR: Ten Democrats voted to censure Green.
  2378.  
  2379. SUNNY HOSTIN: Do you want a list of the 10?
  2380.  
  2381. BEHAR: Do you want to hear their names?
  2382.  
  2383. HOSTIN: Yes, I do.
  2384.  
  2385. BEHAR: Why go after them too? Go after the Republicans.
  2386.  
  2387. HOSTIN: Because they don’t know how to fight and be part of an opposition party. Representative Green gave them the example. The Democrats are not meeting the moment. It is very clear that Medicaid is on the table. It is very clear that Social Security is on the table. It is very clear that people will die. The baby boomers, the civil rights generation, they knew what they had to do! They were willing to fight and die for their rights. This generation of Congress, they are not meeting the moment. This is an existential crisis!
  2388.  
  2389. BEHAR: And also, I might point out some of them are from the most liberal states like New York, Hawaii, California.
  2390.  
  2391. HOSTIN: They should be ashamed of themselves! They should have all walked out with him!
  2392.  
  2393.  
  2394.  
  2395.  
  2396.  
  2397. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “ABC News should be embarrassed by the daily left-wing drivel on The View. Even many Democrats were ashamed by Green’s antics, which went far beyond what any Republican has ever done during a presidential speech to Congress. So much for contending it’s Trump who has lessened decorum. Hostin is advocating more coarseness in politics. And ABC News is sanctioning it.”
  2398.  
  2399. Rating: FIVE out of five screams.
  2400.  
  2401.  
  2402.  
  2403.  
  2404. ■ March 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS twists Trump press pool diversity as ‘sinister’
  2405.  
  2406. (Washington Examiner post)
  2407.  
  2408.  
  2409. Here’s another reason for all the PBS and NPR critics to call for federal tax dollar defunding. Instead of cheering the expansion of media allowed into the White House press pool, PBS declared it a “sinister” move to censor the press.
  2410.  
  2411. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the outlet’s twisted view of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s decision to take charge of choosing who is in the daily pool that covers White House events for the rest of the press when there isn’t enough room for all, such as the near-daily back-and-forths President Donald Trump hosts in the Oval Office.
  2412.  
  2413. She made the decision because she believed that the White House Correspondents’ Association was being too selective by favoring legacy media and barring new-age social media and conservative outlets.
  2414.  
  2415. The old guard protested, though, in its first week of operation, the new pool remained heavy with legacy media. One exception was the Associated Press, which Trump’s team omitted because the news service won’t recognize the president’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, as the government has.
  2416.  
  2417. In our example, PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz called the White House move an attack on the press, prompting contributor and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart to chirp that “we are in more sinister territory” with Trump and the media.
  2418.  
  2419. Of course neither talked up former President Joe Biden’s move to take away the press passes of over 400 mainly conservative outlets or former President Barack Obama’s seizing of phone records from AP or others in his dragnet for leakers.
  2420.  
  2421. From Friday’s PBS News Hour:
  2422.  
  2423. AMNA NAWAZ: His continued attacks on the press, blocking the AP’s access from some White House coverage as well. You saw him take control of the White House, take control of the press pool that covers the president full time, makes sure everyone else knows what’s happening with the president. Peter Baker, of course, longtime Russia correspondent, said it reminded him of the Kremlin press pool takeover. And I just want to get your takes on where that sort of attack on the press stands and whether we’re in much more sinister territory now.
  2424.  
  2425. JONATHAN CAPEHART: I do think we are in more sinister territory because you’ve got to look at what’s happening with AP, in light of his lawsuits against CBS, against ABC, threats, threatening the licenses of other broadcast entities. This is all part of a pattern of roughing up anyone he views as not either insufficiently loyal or people who have wronged him. And he looks at the press as an entity that has wronged him.
  2426.  
  2427.  
  2428.  
  2429.  
  2430.  
  2431. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Imagine that. President Trump sees ‘the press as an entity that has wronged him.’ And he’s fighting back, which really upsets the legacy media despite the fact that nothing he has done has blocked the public from full access. It’s hardly ‘sinister’ just because the White House is allowing a more ideological diverse group of outlets to get access instead of just a few privileged and entitled journalists.”
  2432.  
  2433. Rating: Three out of five screams.
  2434.  
  2435.  
  2436.  
  2437.  
  2438. ■ February 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Mike Johnson cuts off CBS bedwetting
  2439.  
  2440. (Washington Examiner post)
  2441.  
  2442.  
  2443. It took over two years for the Nixon-era Watergate scandal to bring on the constitutional crisis that led a president to resign. But hearing CBS describe President Donald Trump’s first month of moves the network doesn’t like shows this generation’s Watergate has already arrived.
  2444.  
  2445. Even more than the Hollywood whining of Jane Fonda and others at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Jane Pauley’s CBS News Sunday Morning jumped head first into decrying Trump’s moves promised during a year on the campaign trail to drain the swamp as a constitutional crisis.
  2446.  
  2447. “More than a half-century ago,” said CBS’s Robert Costa, “as the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Department and the courts” that the media declared a “constitutional crisis.”
  2448.  
  2449. Now, he added, “that term, constitutional crisis, is back.”
  2450.  
  2451. But amid the name-calling and historical hyperventilating in the show’s main story, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered a sense of calm and perspective.
  2452.  
  2453. “I have been asked so many times, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not,” he said, making the CBS report our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
  2454.  
  2455. From CBS News Sunday Morning:
  2456.  
  2457. JANE PAULEY: With judges across the country pushing back against some of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive orders, there are those who ask: What would happen if the White House defies the courts and simply moves ahead with its plans? We’ve asked our Robert Costa to make some inquiries.
  2458.  
  2459. ROGER MUDD, CBS ANCHOR, NOV. 4, 1973: Despite his powers as chief executive, his future is really in the hands of the other two branches of government: the courts and the Congress.
  2460. ROBERT COSTA: More than a half-century ago, as the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Department and the courts.
  2461.  
  2462. DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: In breathtaking succession tonight, the following historic events occurred. The president of the United States demanded that the attorney general fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The attorney general refused and resigned.
  2463.  
  2464. COSTA: The tensions brought a certain phrase to the fore of the American conversation.
  2465.  
  2466. JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: The country in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history.
  2467.  
  2468. COSTA: Now that term, ‘constitutional crisis,’ is back.
  2469.  
  2470. JULIAN CASTRO, former House Democrat from Texas: We’re headed toward a constitutional crisis.
  2471.  
  2472. U.S. SENATOR ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): We’re fast barreling toward a constitutional crisis.
  2473.  
  2474. COSTA: Many Democrats are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s use of executive power.
  2475.  
  2476. U.S. REP. SEAN CASTEN (D-ILL): The actions that Musk and his IT goons have taken, they’re illegal.
  2477.  
  2478. COSTA: And some fear that Trump, who has shattered norms and who worked relentlessly to try to overturn the 2020 election, cannot be counted on to follow the courts.
  2479.  
  2480. SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): I have been asked so many times, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not.
  2481.  
  2482. COSTA: Most Republicans are shrugging off talk of a crisis. In fact, many are cheering as Trump overhauls the Justice Department and FBI, works with Elon Musk to fire thousands of federal employees and signs piles of executive orders.
  2483.  
  2484.  
  2485.  
  2486.  
  2487.  
  2488. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “You know it’s a media-fueled effort to create a scandal when the journalist in question regurgitates Watergate. It’s what Costa and the Washington press corps see as their halcyon days of glory. And if the supposed scandal matches a current liberal Democratic talking point, so much the better, despite the lack of any real substance to the fearmongering.”
  2489.  
  2490. Rating: Four out of five screams.
  2491.  
  2492.  
  2493.  
  2494.  
  2495. ■ February 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Scott Pelley, now TV’s top Trump hater
  2496.  
  2497. (Washington Examiner post)
  2498.  
  2499.  
  2500. He has a lot of competition in the media, but few have as big a stage as 60 Minutes elder Scott Pelley. As he continues to step up his attacks on President Donald Trump and the new administration, Pelley is elbowing aside all others to emerge as Trump’s loudest TV critic.
  2501.  
  2502. Never a fan of Trump, Pelley has taken his 60 Minutes perch at CBS to offer critical monologues of the president. People took notice even before Trump returned to the White House when Pelley ripped Trump’s Cabinet picks, saying, “Some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump.”
  2503.  
  2504. However, other than gnawing down his reading glasses, Pelley had no impact. All of Trump’s picks to get a Senate floor vote won.
  2505.  
  2506. Then, on Sunday’s show, he opened with another hit on Trump, saying the president was in “defiance of the Constitution” with his agenda. Again, there was no impact since a day later, a federal judge expressed skepticism about any harm the president’s Department of Government Efficiency threatened.
  2507.  
  2508. Each week, Secrets teams with the Media Research Center to choose the loudest liberal media scream, and Pelley won again this week. What’s more, Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker gave Pelley’s rant a score of five out of five screams. That is a rare top score, but one we expect to see more of as the liberal media turns up the heat on Trump as it loses its influence on him and his White House.
  2509.  
  2510. From the lead story on Sunday’s 60 Minutes:
  2511.  
  2512. SCOTT PELLEY: It’s too soon to tell how serious President Trump is in defiance of the Constitution. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some — a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. And he has closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law. Lower courts are holding up many of the president’s priorities, but nothing has risen to the Supreme Court, where these battles over presidential power could rewrite history. Presidents often push limits — FDR’s New Deal, for example — and voters in this last election wanted change. But the scope and speed of Trump’s reach for power may be unprecedented. One example is a 63-year-old agency created by Congress, codified in law and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days.
  2513.  
  2514. KRISTINA DRYE: People are really scared. I think that you know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids’ daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight.
  2515.  
  2516. PELLEY: “All gone, overnight,” for Kristina Drye and Adam Dubard — fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration.
  2517.  
  2518. ADAM DUBARD: They’re not looking for competency. They’re not looking for — if you’re good at your job. They’re looking for pure loyalty tests, and if you don’t give it, you will be punished…
  2519.  
  2520. …
  2521.  
  2522. PELLEY: The world’s richest man had cut off assistance to the world’s poorest families. Musk spent nearly $250 million to get Trump and other Republicans elected. He collects billions in taxpayer dollars for his SpaceX rockets.
  2523.  
  2524. ANDREW NATSIOS, FORMER USAID ADMINISTRATOR: I think we’re creating a system that violates the separation of powers and the checks and balances that are intended in the Constitution.
  2525.  
  2526. PELLEY: Republican Andrew Natsios, former head of USAID, spoke to us in Washington, in part because he is not hearing public appeals to reason from fellow Republicans.
  2527.  
  2528. PELLEY TO NATSIOS: How do you view this moment in history?
  2529.  
  2530. NATSIOS: I don’t want to be too pessimistic. But it does appear we may be headed towards some sort of a constitutional crisis. I don’t, I hope that doesn’t happen. I pray it doesn’t happen. But it’s certainly concerning to me what’s going on in this city right now.
  2531.  
  2532. PELLEY: Is the constitutional order breaking down?
  2533.  
  2534. NATSIOS: We’ll see if they refuse to enforce a court order by the Supreme Court. If it gets to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court rules against the administration on something and they refuse to enforce it, then we will have a constitutional crisis.
  2535.  
  2536. PELLEY: What happens then?
  2537.  
  2538. NATSIOS: Well, I don’t know.
  2539.  
  2540. PELLEY: No one knows.
  2541.  
  2542. NATSIOS: No one knows.
  2543.  
  2544.  
  2545.  
  2546.  
  2547.  
  2548. Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow, explained our pick: “Another hit to whatever remnants are left of 60 Minutes as some sort of dispassionate news magazine which offers a fair and balanced look at complicated issues. Pelley not only matched the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the left, he doubled down on it, presuming the absolute worst motives behind President Trump while taking cheap ideological shots at Elon Musk. This is Exhibit A in why federal spending has never been cut since the end of World War II: The media go to war to discredit anyone who takes on the spending behemoth.”
  2549.  
  2550. Rating: Five out of five screams.
  2551.  
  2552.  
  2553.  
  2554.  
  2555. ■ February 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS airs extreme TDS, ‘starvation,’ ‘death’
  2556.  
  2557. (Washington Examiner post)
  2558.  
  2559.  
  2560. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a PBS freak panel of left-wing journalists spewing the most extreme anti-Trump analysis of the cost-cutting by the White House and efficiency agency headed by Elon Musk.
  2561.  
  2562. While discussing the fate of USAID, which President Donald Trump’s team closed and shifted spending authority to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a reporter for National Public Radio warned to others nodding yes that the impact will be “poverty and increased starvation.”
  2563.  
  2564. Then an Atlantic reporter, formerly with the Washington Post, said on the tax-subsidized PBS show Washington Week with The Atlantic that cutting by Trump and Musk of the federal world aid slush fund would lead to “cruelty and death.”
  2565.  
  2566. The language used by the reporters are just two examples of the type of Trump Derangement Syndrome attacks on Musk and the president’s efforts to root out waste and fraud in government programs.
  2567.  
  2568. From the February 7 edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS:
  2569.  
  2570. ASTHMA KHALID, NPR: There’s something I think very strange at this moment of seeing the world’s richest man really sort of take a hatchet that will essentially take people who are already in the depths of poverty and, you know, increase starvation rates, or increase hunger rates, which is likely what will happen if USAID is entirely cut off.”…
  2571.  
  2572. ANNE APPLEBAUM, THE ATLANTIC: It’s a test case for can agencies just be abolished without Congress having any say, but it’s also a test case of cruelty. You know, are Americans willing to accept a high level of cruelty and death just, you know, on the president’s whim, on Elon Musk’s whim.
  2573.  
  2574.  
  2575.  
  2576.  
  2577.  
  2578. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Your taxpayer dollars at work: A journalist for taxpayer-funded National Public Radio and another journalist – both on taxpayer-funded PBS – relay the talking points, in their most extreme form, of the government employee union trying to discredit any reduction in federal spending. Instead of a rational assessment of efforts to trim spending, the two prove they are in the tank for the deep state, presuming starvation and death will result. And they wonder why so many don’t see them as serious sources of facts.”
  2579.  
  2580. Rating: Five out of five screams.
  2581.  
  2582.  
  2583.  
  2584.  
  2585. ■ February 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Call on MSNBC for weekly Trump impeachment votes
  2586.  
  2587. (Washington Examiner post)
  2588.  
  2589.  
  2590. Have you heard this one? Democrats want to impeach President Donald Trump.
  2591.  
  2592. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a SiriusXM host demanding on left-leaning MSNBC that Democrats vote to impeach Trump weekly.
  2593.  
  2594. “I hope some of them will start introducing impeachment articles every week,” said Tell Me Everything host John Fugelsang on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour last Friday.
  2595.  
  2596. “Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural address,” he said.
  2597.  
  2598. “I think Democrats should start having a different guy come out every week and introduce new articles of impeachment, just to inspire people and show them that we’re doing something and let the record show for history we are fighting against this,” he added.
  2599.  
  2600. In his first term, Trump was impeached twice, and Democrats thought that would end his political career. Of course, it only strengthened Trump, who won office again against somebody who voted for impeachment twice, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
  2601.  
  2602. From Friday’s The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, picking up as Fugelsang reacted to news CBS may make a financial settlement with Trump to end his lawsuit over misleading editing of its 60 Minutes interview with Harris, which followed an earlier financial settlement from Facebook over that platform removing him in 2021:
  2603.  
  2604. John Fugelsang: They’re bribes. I mean, these are bribes. You know, Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural address for violating the emoluments clause. CBS has got a big merger coming up. This is a bribe. …
  2605.  
  2606. The Democrats are going to do what they did last time. They’re going to lick their wounds, slowly assemble, let Trump do some work for them, and they’re going to be talking a lot about education and healthcare. I hope some of them will start introducing impeachment articles every week.
  2607.  
  2608. When the GOP was trying to repeal Obamacare 70 times, we laughed at them. But what they were doing in their impoverished state was consolidating the base, fundraising, and getting their messaging across. It worked for them.
  2609.  
  2610. I think Democrats should start having a different guy come out every week and introduce new articles of impeachment, just to inspire people and show them that we’re doing something and let the record show for history we are fighting against this.”
  2611.  
  2612.  
  2613.  
  2614.  
  2615.  
  2616. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “So much for even pretending to allow President Trump to have a chance to give voters what they voted for in electing him. MSNBC thinks it’s a legitimate and credible position to contend Trump had earned impeachment less than an hour past noon on Inauguration Day — well before he had signed a single executive order. So much for reflection and serious analysis from the press corps. But it is what Democrats and so many journalists like to do given this would be the third attempt to impeach him. Will they go zero-for-three?”
  2617.  
  2618. Rating: Five out of five screams.
  2619.  
  2620.  
  2621.  
  2622.  
  2623. ■ January 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Vance schools CBS and bishops on illegal immigration
  2624.  
  2625. (Washington Examiner post)
  2626.  
  2627.  
  2628. America is learning pretty quickly that Vice President JD Vance is no pushover easily cornered on tough issues.
  2629.  
  2630. In our latest Liberal Media Scream, we feature Vance’s retort to Catholic bishops and CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan over complaints that the Trump administration is being mean in its effort to deport criminal illegal migrants.
  2631.  
  2632. Appearing on Face the Nation, Brennan sounded hurt that the administration would enter schools to find their targets. She cited complaints from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which funds efforts to settle illegal immigrants in America, as do other religious groups.
  2633.  
  2634. Vance had clearly heard it all before and was quick to point out that protecting America and Americans, including migrants here legally, is President Donald Trump’s No. 1 job.
  2635.  
  2636. Brennan worried that the administration’s policy has “a chilling effect, arguably, to people to not send their kids to school.” Vance reversed her spin to make his point: “I desperately hope it has a chilling effect on illegal immigrants coming into our country.”
  2637.  
  2638. And when she cited concerns from the bishops, Vance said, “As a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement. I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns, or are they actually worried about their bottom line?”
  2639.  
  2640. Clearly, it is going to be a tough four years for liberals in the media, such as Brennan, since Team Trump is ready and willing to parry the left media’s slant on major issues.
  2641.  
  2642. From Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS:
  2643.  
  2644. MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about another area that you campaigned on quite a lot, and there was a flurry of activity on. And that has to do with immigration. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this week condemned some of the executive orders signed by President Trump, specifically those allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter churches and to enter schools. Do you personally support the idea of conducting a raid or enforcement action in a church service, at a school?
  2645.  
  2646. VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Well, let me address this. Of course, if you have a person who is convicted of a violent crime, whether they’re an illegal immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, you have to go and get that person to protect the public safety. That’s not unique to immigration. But let me just address this particular issue, Margaret, because, as a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement. And I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns, or are they actually worried about their bottom line? We’re going to enforce immigration law. We’re going to protect the American people.
  2647.  
  2648. Donald Trump promised to do that. And I believe the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, if they’re worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement, let them talk about the children who have been sex-trafficked because of the wide-open border of Joe Biden.
  2649.  
  2650. BRENNAN: So, you personally support them going into schools and churches?
  2651.  
  2652. VANCE: Let them talk about people like Laken Riley, who were brutally murdered. I support us doing law enforcement against violent criminals, whether they’re illegal immigrants or anybody else, in a way that keeps us safe. Let me ask this question, Margaret. Separate the immigration issue. If you had a violent murderer in a school, of course, I want law enforcement —
  2653.  
  2654. BRENNAN: Of course.
  2655.  
  2656. VANCE: — to go and get that person out.
  2657.  
  2658. BRENNAN: Of course.
  2659.  
  2660. VANCE: So, then what’s the point of the question?
  2661.  
  2662. BRENNAN: You changed the regulation this week. That’s the point of the question: giving the authority to go into churches and go into schools.
  2663.  
  2664. VANCE: Exactly. We empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to protect Americans.
  2665.  
  2666. BRENNAN: But that also has a knock-on effect, a chilling effect, arguably, to people to not send their kids to school.
  2667.  
  2668. VANCE: I desperately hope it has a chilling effect —
  2669.  
  2670. BRENNAN: In the churches …
  2671.  
  2672. VANCE: — on illegal immigrants coming into our country.
  2673.  
  2674. BRENNAN: You think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals from law enforcement?
  2675.  
  2676. VANCE: I think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a good partner in commonsense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for. And I hope, again, as a devout Catholic, that they’ll do better.
  2677.  
  2678.  
  2679.  
  2680.  
  2681.  
  2682. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Brennan went into the interview thinking she had the moral high ground and facts on her side, presuming it would be easy to show how badly misguided are so many Trump policies. But she ran into JD Vance, who delivered a master class in how to take on and undermine the premises of the Washington press corps.”
  2683.  
  2684. Rating: Four out of five screams.
  2685.  
  2686.  
  2687.  
  2688.  
  2689. ■ January 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks up to Biden to the end: ‘Did deliver’
  2690.  
  2691. (Washington Examiner post)
  2692.  
  2693.  
  2694. Our final Biden-era Liberal Media Scream finds CBS News kissing up to President Joe Biden to the end, brushing aside all the polls and its own reporting to declare he was effective.
  2695.  
  2696. “In many ways,” CBS chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes said, “he did deliver.”
  2697.  
  2698. The media have resisted reporting on Biden’s mental and physical failings over his four unpopular years in office. And even on his last weekend in office, outlets such as CBS went out of their way to prop up a president who polls as one of America’s worst.
  2699.  
  2700. From CBS News Sunday Morning:
  2701.  
  2702. NANCY CORDES: In many ways, he did deliver. His administration oversaw the successful rollout of the COVID vaccines. The stock market steadily rose to record highs, while unemployment fell to a near-record low. Overseas, he expanded NATO, strengthened alliances in Asia with the goal of containing China, and cobbled together lasting support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.
  2703.  
  2704. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The duty of a president is to defend what is best about America.
  2705.  
  2706. CORDES: He did so while racking up major legislative victories, including massive new investments in clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing.
  2707.  
  2708. BIDEN: I believe, to my core, there isn’t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it.
  2709.  
  2710. CORDES: And he scored a win that eluded his predecessors: signing a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
  2711.  
  2712.  
  2713.  
  2714.  
  2715.  
  2716. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Going down with the ship, CBS and Cordes are still trying to convince people that despite the rejection of his presidency and his policies by the voters, Joe Biden really was a great president who delivered laudable accomplishments. The media and Biden do share at least one thing in common: In the eyes of much of the public, they are both losers.”
  2717.  
  2718. Rating: Four out of five screams.
  2719.  
  2720.  
  2721.  
  2722.  
  2723. ■ January 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS delights that Trump will forever be a ‘convicted felon’
  2724.  
  2725. (Washington Examiner post)
  2726.  
  2727.  
  2728. This week’s Liberal Media Scream is already anticipating the coming media hate that will greet President-elect Donald Trump when he enters office for a second time a week from today.
  2729.  
  2730. No surprise, but biased liberal PBS “analyst” Jonathan Capehart isn’t just readying his anti-Trump talk for Inauguration Day. He is already looking to pour on the hate in every Trump story.
  2731.  
  2732. On Friday’s PBS NewsHour, Capehart, who also hosts a poorly-rated MSNBC show, took delight in predicting that after being sentenced last week in a much-mocked legal case, Trump will forever be known as a “convicted felon,” and he wants every reporter to mention that in their stories about Trump.
  2733.  
  2734. Cheered the talker, “What’s also great punishment is the sentencing today, where the judge said, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, but you’re a convicted felon. And so for the rest of his life, any story written about him will have to mention the fact that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the first reference, definitely by the second reference.”
  2735.  
  2736. From Friday’s PBS NewsHour:
  2737.  
  2738. GEOFF BENNETT: But after, you know, being convicted of 34 felonies, there are people who look at this case, and they say that Donald Trump walks away with a punishment that is less than what one would receive for a speeding ticket.
  2739.  
  2740. JONATHAN CAPEHART: Look, this case, this hush money case, was the case that everybody said was the crappy case of the four. Remember, Donald Trump was indicted four times, and this one was the least important, the shakiest.
  2741.  
  2742. And yet it’s the one case where Donald Trump was held accountable, the one case where he was brought to trial before a jury of his peers in his hometown of New York City and was found guilty 34 times. I think that is great punishment.
  2743.  
  2744. What’s also great punishment is the sentencing today, where the judge said, you’re going to be president, you’re not going to go to jail, but you’re a convicted felon. And so, for the rest of his life, any story written about him will have to mention the fact that he’s a convicted felon — if not on the first reference, definitely by the second reference.
  2745.  
  2746. And that is fitting, that is right, that is just. Do I wish the other three cases had gone to trial and that he had faced accountability on those? Yes, but this will do.
  2747.  
  2748.  
  2749.  
  2750.  
  2751.  
  2752. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Talk about petty immaturity. Capehart’s reaction to the judge’s sentence on Trump bared how much of the press corps’ hostility to Trump was always fueled by personal animosity as much as by disgust with conservative policies. So a smug Capehart gets joy from a court giving him the okay to apply a derogatory label to the incoming president.”
  2753.  
  2754. Rating: FOUR out of FIVE Screams.
  2755.  
  2756.  
  2757.  
  2758.  
  2759. ■ January 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC the sole #Joementia denier
  2760.  
  2761. (Washington Examiner post)
  2762.  
  2763.  
  2764. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend as the media’s last denier that President Joe Biden has lost it. What’s crazier than the obvious is that she claims that it is incoming President-elect Donald Trump who suffers brain fog.
  2765.  
  2766. Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Sanders-Townsend’s defense of the president who dropped out of his reelection campaign after his brain locked during a debate with Trump came just hours before his bizarre cursing rant about immigrants following a White House ceremony.
  2767.  
  2768. “The question on the table is, ‘Is the president all they way there?’ And the answer is unequivocally yes,” Sanders-Townsend said on the show. The MSNBC host, in fact, charged it is Trump whose mental capacities should be questioned. Biden “can at least put a sentence together,” but “the president-elect is the one I am concerned about.”
  2769.  
  2770. From Sunday’s Meet the Press:
  2771.  
  2772. SYMONE SANDERS TOWNSEND: Well, I was very surprised that when you asked the question about mental acuity he didn’t more forcefully push back. The question on the table is, “Is the president all the way there?” And the answer is unequivocally yes. Now, people can say that you feel as though President Biden might be a little too old to do the job, but he is doing the job. And his mental acuity is there. So, I think that there’s a conflation of two things here: his mental capacity and serving another four years as old as he is. But those are two separate things in my opinion. And, look, these people that have known Joe Biden their entire political lives, I know Joe Biden is like, “Can you all just please defend me a little more?”
  2773.  
  2774. MARC SHORT: I think it hurt Democrats. It hurt Democrats in November to try to tell the American people something they could see with their own eyes wasn’t true.
  2775.  
  2776. SANDERS-TOWNSEND: But it’s not true that the president doesn’t have the mental acuity.
  2777.  
  2778. SHORT: Of course it is, Symone. The American people saw that for themselves in the debate—
  2779.  
  2780. SANDERS-TOWNSEND: What are you saying? He can at least put a sentence together. The president-elect is the one I am concerned about because I recently talked to the president.
  2781.  
  2782.  
  2783.  
  2784.  
  2785.  
  2786. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explains our pick: “Sanders is a last holdout, a true foolish believer. Virtually all of her colleagues, even those who pretended for years that Biden was fine, started to acknowledge, as soon as Biden was no longer the Democratic candidate for reelection, that he’s not all there. But not Sanders. She’s still in the tank and embarrassing herself, especially when suggesting it’s Trump who has the mental shortcomings.”
  2787.  
  2788. Rating: FIVE out of FIVE Screams.
  2789.  
  2790.  
  2791.  
  2792.  
  2793. &gt; Liberal Media Screams for 2023 and 2024
  2794.  
  2795. &gt; Liberal Media Screams for 2021 and 2022
  2796.  
  2797. &gt; For all of 2020.
  2798.  
  2799. &gt; For all of 2019.
  2800.  
  2801. &gt; For all of 2018.
  2802.  
  2803. &gt; For July through December 2017.
  2804.  
  2805. &gt; For January through June 2017.
  2806.  
  2807. &gt; For July through December 2016.
  2808.  
  2809. &gt; For January through June 2016.
  2810.  
  2811. &gt; For July to December 2015.
  2812.  
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  2814.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 6:23 PM</pubDate>
  2815.    <dc:creator>Brent Baker</dc:creator>
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  2819.  <title>CNN: Only Conservatives Concerned About Violence Against Christians In Nigeria</title>
  2820.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2025/11/03/cnn-only-conservatives-concerned-about-violence-against</link>
  2821.  <description> The liberal media: covering for Muslim violence around the world!
  2822.  
  2823. When such violence occurs in the West, the liberal media is often reluctant to release the names and associated information about the perpetrators. How often have we heard "the motive for the attack is unknown," despite the knife-or-gun-wielding perp having yelled Allahu Akbar as he carried out his attack!?
  2824.  
  2825. That same liberal instinct extends to Muslim predations in other parts of the world. Thus, in response to President Trump's warning that he might order military action in Nigeria to counter the persecution and killing of Christians, CNN This Morning devoted a segment seeking to debunk the claim that Christians are being singled out for persecution there. 
  2826.  
  2827. Host Audie Cornish brought in Kenya-based CNN correspondent Victoria Rubadiri, who claimed that allegations of a religious war in Nigeria are "certainly not the case."
  2828.  
  2829. Central to the effort Cornish and Rubadiri made to dismiss allegations about the persecution of Christians in Nigeria was that only conservatives are raising such concerns.
  2830.  
  2831. Thus, Cornish opened the segment by saying:
  2832.  
  2833.  
  2834. "Leaders in Nigeria pushed back against claims out of the US political right that Christians face some existential threat there." 
  2835.  
  2836.  
  2837. Rubadiri echoed that assertion, saying that allegations of persecution of Christians have:
  2838.  
  2839.  
  2840. "Been rumbling in a lot of the social media spaces on the right, or the conservative part of the US."
  2841.  
  2842.  
  2843.  
  2844.  
  2845.  
  2846.  
  2847. Let's examine their claim that it's only the "political right" and "the conservative part of the US" have raised the issue.
  2848.  
  2849. Bill Maher, hardly a conservative, spoke out on the September 26th episode of his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher:
  2850.  
  2851.  
  2852. “I’m not a Christian, but they are systematically killing the Christians in Nigeria. They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches. This is so much more of a genocide attempt than what is going on in Gaza. They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.”
  2853.  
  2854.  
  2855. Per Grok:
  2856.  
  2857. In 2023, a bipartisan bill (H.R. 5519) to create a U.S. Special Envoy for Nigerian Christian persecution passed the Democratic-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee 46–0. Republican Rep. Chris Smith introduced it, but 29 Democrats co-sponsored the bill.
  2858. In 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, called the killings “genocide-level” and tripled aid to displaced Nigerian Christians.
  2859. The Norwegian Labour Party government funds the Stefanus Alliance, a left-leaning Lutheran group that runs safe houses for attacked Christian villages.
  2860. Global Human-Rights NGOs, almost all left-of-center, have condemned the violence. Amnesty International issued reports titled “Harvest of Death” and “Targeted for Faith” — highlighting Christian villages wiped out.
  2861. Human Rights Watch: Issued a 42-page brief “They Burned Everything” — documenting Fulani attacks on Christian farming communities.
  2862. Even the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect--founded by George Soros’ Open Society!--lists Nigeria as an R2P crisis because of “Christian genocide.” 
  2863. The UN and the Vatican under Pope Francis -- not exactly conservative strongholds, have also weighed in.
  2864. UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion (2022): “Christians are deliberately targeted for killing and kidnapping.”
  2865. Pope Francis (2023): called it “a terrible genocide” in an open letter co-signed by 350 African bishops, many of them liberation-theology progressives.
  2866. As for Rubadiri's claim that more Muslims have been killed than Christians, a study by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa found that Christians were 6.5 times more likely to be killed in the violence than Muslims.
  2867.  
  2868. NewsBuster Isaac White documented today that ABC and NBC have similarly tried to downplay  Muslim violence against Christians in Nigeria.
  2869.  
  2870. So, why does the liberal media choose to serve as useful idiots for perpetrators of Muslim violence? Seen in a broader light, this is how civilizations decline.
  2871.  
  2872. Here's the transcript.
  2873.  
  2874.  
  2875. CNN This Morning
  2876. 11-3-25
  2877. 6:12 am ET
  2878.  
  2879. AUDIE CORNISH: This morning, leaders in Nigeria pushed back against claims out of the US political right that Christians face some existential threat there. That's after President Trump doubled down on an ultimatum to bring in military action to the country. 
  2880.  
  2881. So in a Truth Social post over the weekend, Trump threatened to stop aid, and come in guns a-blazing to stop what he calls the mass slaughter of Christians. 
  2882.  
  2883. PRESIDENT TRUMP ON AIR FORCE ONE: They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria. And there are other countries, very bad also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing Christians. They're killing them in very large numbers. We're not going to allow that to happen. 
  2884.  
  2885. CORNISH: The Nigerian government and President Trump's advisor on Africa say what's happening there is much more complex. We're bringing in Victoria Rubadiri. She joins us live from Kenya to do a little fact-checking. 
  2886.  
  2887. . . . 
  2888.  
  2889. VICTORIA RUBADIRI: And it's really important to add there, Audie, that religion is a very important fault line in Nigeria, but it's not the main driver of the violence in the country. 
  2890.  
  2891. CORNISH: Can you just give us a little information about how you think this made its way into political discourse in the US? I'm also reading that this might be information from decades ago. Can you give us some context? 
  2892.  
  2893. RUBADIRI: Certainly. It's been rumbling in a lot of the social media spaces on the right, or the conservative part of the US. Many, of course, pointing to what they're calling religious war in Nigeria. That certainly is not the case. 
  2894.  
  2895. And the numbers also points to that. Groups that have been monitoring this violence over the last 15 years or so that it started taking up more headlines have said, yes, thousands have been killed. But what they say is more Muslims have actually been killed in these attacks. 
  2896.  
  2897. And the reason being, most of these groups like Boko Haram or some ISIS affiliated terror groups focus their attacks in northeast Nigeria. Now, in Nigeria, more Muslims actually occupy in the north. More Christians are in the south. And for that reason, there're more Muslim victims in these particular attacks.
  2898.  
  2899. And it's a very complex situation when it comes to issues of insecurity and insurgency in Nigeria. We also have issues of conflict around resources like land and livestock between herders and farmers. 
  2900.  
  2901. So it goes beyond just terror or religion. Many analysts say that it's more an issue of geography that determines the victim than it is faith or religion. 
  2902.  
  2903. CORNISH: That's Victoria Rubadiri. Thank you so much. Very, very helpful. 
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  2905.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 4:32 PM</pubDate>
  2906.    <dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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  2910.  <title>Rev. Al Sharpton Rips Trump Over 'ALLEGED' Killing of Christians in 'Non-White Countries'</title>
  2911.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/steve-malzberg/2025/11/03/rev-al-sharpton-rips-trump-over-alleged-killing-christians-non</link>
  2912.  <description> Over the weekend, President Trump made it clear that he is strongly considering sending U.S. troops into Nigeria, to stop the killings of Christians by Muslim groups, killings he says are permitted by Nigeria's government. You would think that most people, especially people of faith, would be outraged by what's taking place in Nigeria, and welcome Trump's words. Not so for Reverend Al Sharpton, who made that clear on the Sunday edition of MSNBC's Politics Nation. 
  2913.  
  2914. Sharpton's guest was the House Democrat Whip, Congresswoman Katherine Clark of Massachusetts. He led off the interview by talking to her about the government shutdown, but before he let her go, he weighed in on the situation in Nigeria. 
  2915.  
  2916.  
  2917. SHARPTON: Trump has threatened military action in Nigeria...He has directed the Pentagon to draw up plans to go in, quote, "guns a-blazing," if the country doesn't do more to address alleged mass killings of thousands of Christians by Islamic extremists. Trump of course offered no details or facts, or things that we could really lock down and say this is what we see happening.
  2918.  
  2919.  
  2920. "Alleged" massacre of Christians? This isn't fake news, like Tawana Brawley's claims. Take the European Parliament, which reported "Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 17,000 Christians were killed in targeted attacks because of their faith. In just the first seven months of 2025, more than 7,000 victims were reported."
  2921.  
  2922. As if that wasn't bad enough, Reverend Al the alleged Christian took it a step further.
  2923.  
  2924.  
  2925.  
  2926.  
  2927.  
  2928.  
  2929. SHARPTON: But he's threatened to deny all aid to Nigeria if it doesn't comply. He's also reclassified Nigeria as a country of concern, as he had during his first term. I have to point out like Venezuela, Nigeria is a top oil producer, and it's interesting, he's only choosing non-white countries, where in Ukraine and other places, he seems to be a lot more -- less aggressive with his language, in terms of coming in with guns blazing at Russia.
  2930.  
  2931.  
  2932. I'm sorry, did I miss Sharpton's concern, any concern, one bit of concern, for the Christians who are, even allegedly, being killed by Muslims in Nigeria? And he wasn't about to ask the Congresswoman what she might know about it. Instead, he wanted to know when Congress will "reclaim its war powers" from Trump. And Clark was more than happy to comply. Her answer made no mention of the Christians, but attacked Trump for "acting like a King" and for the hits on ships out of Venezuela, that are allegedly making drug runs. 
  2933.  
  2934. Earlier in the interview, Sharpton did asked her about her comments made on October 16th to Fox News's Chad Pergram, in response to a question about the risk that the Democrats could get blamed for the government shutdown, for failing to pass the bill to open the government in the Senate. 
  2935.  
  2936.  
  2937.  
  2938.  
  2939.  
  2940.  
  2941.  
  2942. Sharpton said "Last month you said the shutdown would hurt the American people, but you were criticized by Republicans for calling it as a leverage point for Democrats."
  2943.  
  2944. Clark didn't seem thrilled but get a load of her response: "Well out of respect for you Rev, I will address the argument of Republicans from  that I did a while ago, and just say that it is BS. It is a highly edited clip."
  2945.  
  2946. Whoa! A highly edited clip. I think not. I recently watched the whole 28 minute interview. Here's the Q and A, unedited that made news. 
  2947.  
  2948.  
  2949.  
  2950.  
  2951.  
  2952.  
  2953.  
  2954.  
  2955. PERGRAM: I understand the math in the Senate. I understand the  healthcare position for the Democrats. No responsibility on the Democrats? You don't think that the public will perceive that the Democrats are responsible.
  2956. CLARK: I mean shutdowns are terrible. And of course there will be you know, families that are going to suffer, we take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have. It is an inflection point in this budget process..."
  2957.  
  2958.  
  2959. She then immediately went back to Dem talking points. That answer was not edited. She said what she said.
  2960.  
  2961. All in all, it was quite a show. But let none of us lose sight of the fact that neither Reverend Al, nor the second ranking Democrat in the House, uttered one word of concern about the Christians of Nigeria. Sadly, going after "King" Trump trumped that horror. </description>
  2962.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 4:17 PM</pubDate>
  2963.    <dc:creator>Steve Malzberg</dc:creator>
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  2967.  <title>Blame the Media: NBC Poll Says Support for Capitalism Is Below 50% for First Time in 7 Years</title>
  2968.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/11/03/blame-media-nbc-poll-says-support-capitalism-below-50</link>
  2969.  <description>There’s no getting around it: Our "corporate media" is down on capitalism, and a new poll showing a growing disdain for the foundation of American economic thought shows the media tilt may be working -- or the professorial tilt. 
  2970.  
  2971. An NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters found that support for capitalism fell under 50 percent for the first time in seven years. The chilling shift “comes as some democratic socialists, like New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani, gain prominence in the Democratic Party,” NBC News national politics reporter Ben Kamisar wrote in his November 2 item. Only 44 percent of registered voters — a mere plurality — now view capitalism positively. Previous NBC News polls “showed slim majorities viewing capitalism positively.”
  2972.  
  2973. Just seeing what the American people are inundated with on a day-to-day basis by rich media hacks denigrating the very system that gave them their prosperity in the first place. 
  2974.  
  2975. In fact, it was CNN itself that defended Mamdani’s insane Marxist proposal for city-owned grocery stores in June. Despite admitting that the entire notion was being condemned as a “‘Soviet’ disaster-in-waiting,” CNN reporter Nathaniel Meyersohn then flushed common sense down the drain by defending the policy: “But Mamdani is drawing on government-owned and subsidized models that already exist in the United States.” Ignore the failure in Kansas City. This is like saying, “Government rationing is just the spider’s ankles! Just ask Venezuela or Cuba!” But what more can you ask from the network that spent years trying to shove the imaginary virtues of the socialist disaster of Bidenomics to its audience? Of course it's going to carry water for Mamdani now. 
  2976.  
  2977. In August, leftist MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi went on a rant against capitalism and whipped out the exhausted narrational strategy of pitting proletariats against the big, bad bourgeoisies. His solution: Raise taxes to stick it to Wall Street and fund lefty pie-in-the-sky items such as “universal healthcare,” “green infrastructure,” and a “national carbon price.” How original (not).
  2978.  
  2979.  
  2980.  
  2981.  
  2982.  
  2983. How about when Politico engaged in blatant revisionist history by insisting in October 2024 that then-Vice President Kamala Harris was riding a “dream economy” into the presidential election, despite inflation having run amok and spiking the cost of living for Americans? 
  2984.  
  2985. Here’s an outrageous example: The New York Times actually tried to blame “brutal capitalism” in July 2024 as the reason for why communist country Venezuela’s economy was in freefall. The newspaper cited no specific cohort of "economists" who made the asinine claim that capitalism, as opposed to the socialism that was exacerbated under dictator Nicholas Maduro, was solely at fault for Venezuela’s economic upheaval. The leftist rag apparently also didn’t realize the contradiction in railing against a “state-connected minority controlling much of the wealth,” like that had anything to do with capitalism in the first place.
  2986.  
  2987. And it wasn’t just the media that was feeding into the cacophony of anti-capitalist voices bellowing with impunity across the internet in addition to broadcast and cable TV.
  2988.  
  2989. You even had the Soros machine legitimizing nutty agendas like taxing unrealized gains and filtering Marxist arguments into the media bloodstream. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), fueled with $6,230,000 by leftist billionaire George Soros between 2016 and 2022, pathetically attempted to swat down opponents of the Biden-Harris unrealized capital gains tax proposal for the 2025 budget in a ridiculous September 11, 2024 so-called analysis. Just 12 days later, Politico, for example, lambasted the Joint Committee on Taxation in a Sept. 23 piece for not recognizing unrealized gains as income when determining that the affluent pay fairly “robust” amounts in taxes, as if that was a legitimate criticism.
  2990.  
  2991. If this is all the American people — especially the younger generation — are seeing and reading in everything that excuses itself as news or analysis, is it any surprise that their view of capitalism is on the decline? If anything, the NBC poll should be a wake-up call to all freedom-loving Americans who don’t want to see socialism — much less communism — become the north star of the American experiment. </description>
  2992.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 3:39 PM</pubDate>
  2993.    <dc:creator>Joseph Vazquez</dc:creator>
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  2997.  <title>POLL RESULTS: Worst Media Take of the Week Winner!</title>
  2998.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2025/11/03/poll-results-worst-media-take-week-winner</link>
  2999.  <description>We’ve got a new interactive series called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.  
  3000.  
  3001. Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).  
  3002.  
  3003. The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is…
  3004.  
  3005. Sunny Hostin!
  3006.  
  3007. The ABC’s The View co-host won with 55 percent of the vote. Hostin took first place for absurdly warning the View audience that President Donald Trump has no “plans” to leave office. Hostin is on a bit of a roll, as she finished in first place last week. Actor Bradley Whitford came in second place with 30 percent. CBS correspondent Weijia Jiang finished in last place with 15 percent.  
  3008.  
  3009. The following is a montage of all the nominees: 
  3010.  
  3011.  
  3012.  
  3013.  
  3014.  
  3015.  
  3016.  
  3017.  
  3018.  
  3019. WINNER (55 percent of the vote)
  3020.  
  3021.  
  3022.  
  3023. Sunny Hostin: Donald Trump Is Never Going to Leave the White House
  3024.  
  3025. “I actually have come to the conclusion that he [Donald Trump] is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing – it’s going to take a long time to build that. He is hooking up the White House because he doesn’t plan on leaving it. I don’t think he plans on leaving.”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 27.
  3026.  
  3027.  
  3028.  
  3029. SECOND PLACE (30 percent of the vote)
  3030.  
  3031.  
  3032.  
  3033. Bradley Whitford: East Wing Demolition Is a Distraction from Trump Being Friends with Epstein
  3034.  
  3035. “We have a President who is a corrupt authoritarian, in my view, who has a kind of contempt for democratic values and its symbols. And I think he thinks he has the right to destroy the people’s house, do some influence peddling along the way, build a ballroom as a monument to distract us from the fact that inflation is up, job creation is down, Congress has shut down the government, and we’re suppressing information about the fact that, you know, he was best friends with the most notorious child rapist [Jeffrey Epstein] in history.”— Actor Bradley Whitford on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, October 24.
  3036.  
  3037.  
  3038.  
  3039. THIRD PLACE (15 percent of the vote)
  3040.  
  3041.  
  3042.  
  3043. Weijia Jiang: Can Trump Tear Down Anything He Wants? Like the Jefferson Memorial?
  3044.  
  3045. “Can the President tear down anything he wants, without oversight? Could he demolish this building or say the Jefferson Memorial?”— CBS correspondent Weijia Jiang to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, October 23.
  3046.  
  3047.  
  3048.  
  3049. Thanks again to all who participated! 
  3050.  
  3051.  
  3052.  
  3053. Funded by James P. Jimirro</description>
  3054.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 2:15 PM</pubDate>
  3055.    <dc:creator>Geoffrey Dickens</dc:creator>
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  3059.  <title>Apple TV’s ‘Morning Show’ Claims Media Are ‘White Center-Right,’ Admits DEI ‘Doesn’t Work’</title>
  3060.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dawn-slusher/2025/11/03/apple-tvs-morning-show-claims-media-are-white-center-right</link>
  3061.  <description> It’s not much of a surprise when Apple TV’s liberal drama The Morning Show pushes leftist propaganda. But it is surprising when they basically admit how extremely far left they are by claiming the elitist media is a “corporate tool of the white center-right.”
  3062.  
  3063. Such was the case in episode 6 of this season, “If Then,” which focused on Stella (Greta Lee), the CEO of the new UBN network who can’t stand white people, especially white men.
  3064.  
  3065. Yet she’s still accused of not being “an ally” because she brought back disgraced former network president Cory (Billy Crudup), a move she was forced to make when Cory blackmailed her over her affair with the husband of UBN’s president and board member Celine (Marion Cotillard).
  3066.  
  3067. The move negatively affected two women of color at the network: Mia (Karen Pittman), who quit and is now working as an agent for the other woman, Chris (Nicole Beharie). Just after Stella gives a noir-style soliloquy on legacy media being a “corporate tool of the white center-right,” Mia negotiates Chris’s contract with Stella. It’s at their meeting that Mia accuses Stella of “not being one of us” because she’s “surrounded by white people”:
  3068.  
  3069.  
  3070.  
  3071.  
  3072.  
  3073.  
  3074. Stella: When Cory offered me Head of News, I laughed in his face. Legacy media, a corporate tool of the white center-right. I let him pay for lunch and I walked away. But he came back, like a migraine. He said I could push the stories I cared about. Drag the doubters, kicking and screaming, into the future. He told me to burn it down. Burn anyone who got in my way. Talent can't have editorial control over the news. It runs counter to our mission of objective reporting. You know that.
  3075.  
  3076. Mia: [Cartoonish conservative talk-show host] Bro Hartman can say whatever he wants, whenever he wants.
  3077.  
  3078. Stella: His show isn't news. I'm sorry, it's a nonstarter. And as for a producing pod, we don't have the money. And no one has cohost approval.
  3079.  
  3080. Marcus: Alex Levy does.
  3081.  
  3082. Stella: As Vice President of Talent, not as an anchor.
  3083.  
  3084. Marcus: That's a distinction without a difference.
  3085.  
  3086. Stella: Look. I understand that the response to her interview has been generally positive.
  3087.  
  3088. Marcus: Yeah, that's an understatement.
  3089.  
  3090. Stella: I get that you want a better deal. And I'm open to it. But not until the current deal is up.
  3091.  
  3092. Mia: Deal is up now. Figure it out, or we're gonna go somewhere else.
  3093.  
  3094. Stella: Would you give us a moment?
  3095.  
  3096. Marcus: Take all the moments you need.
  3097.  
  3098. Stella: So, what? Now you're trying to leverage me?
  3099.  
  3100. Mia: I'm giving you a heads-up. That's more than you gave me.
  3101.  
  3102. Stella: You're not getting this deal. I won't give it to you. And once Chris realizes that...
  3103.  
  3104. Mia: Oh, she's realizing things. Like, you brought Cory Ellison back in the building. That's a hell of a move. And then giving him money and saying there's nothing left for us.
  3105.  
  3106. Stella: He's making movies. It's different.
  3107.  
  3108. Mia: You know, I remember when you got this job. You said you were gonna do it differently, do it right. And here you are, surrounded by white people and stepping on women of color to stay in that chair. You're not one of us. You never were.
  3109.  
  3110.  
  3111. Later, as Stella enjoys another tryst with Celine’s husband Miles (Aaron Pierre), she excuses both her affair and her cutthroat business practices, claiming they came from her “inner straight white guy” who she “hates”:
  3112.  
  3113.  
  3114.  
  3115.  
  3116.  
  3117.  
  3118. Stella: I took the job because it was impossible. I wanted the chance to fix something unfixable. Show the world that I could run the place without slitting any throats. That I could do it differently from Cory, from Paul. Then little by little, my inner straight white guy started clawing his way out... Telling me to get it done no matter what the cost. I hated that guy. So, I did what he would do. I fell into bed with the one person who could blow up my life.
  3119.  
  3120.  
  3121. Trying to come to terms with her decisions, she has a conversation with the AI version of herself, which is part of an overall AI project Stella introduced to UBN to help advance the network into the future.
  3122.  
  3123. Despite helping the company succeed financially, she bemoans the fact she hasn’t been able to push any DEI initiatives:
  3124.  
  3125.  
  3126.  
  3127.  
  3128.  
  3129.  
  3130. Stella: Am I a good CEO?
  3131.  
  3132. AI Stella: I think so. But, you know, I'm a little biased.
  3133.  
  3134. Stella: What makes me good?
  3135.  
  3136. AI Stella: You've cut costs. You've increased revenue. UBN stock is up 6% since you took over.
  3137.  
  3138. Stella: So, money.
  3139.  
  3140. AI Stella: Is there another metric?
  3141.  
  3142. Stella: What about company culture? Opening doors for underrepresented groups.
  3143.  
  3144. AI Stella: Like the Iranian fencer?
  3145.  
  3146. Stella: No. Like our employees.
  3147.  
  3148. AI Stella: The demographic shifts at UBN have been the same for the past five years.
  3149.  
  3150. Stella: So, Mia's right. I am Cory 2.0. I'm not an ally.
  3151.  
  3152. AI Stella: Do you think you're an ally?
  3153.  
  3154. Stella: I made an Asian woman lick up a martini to close a deal. So, no. I guess not. I'm racist and sexist. And I stepped on people who look like me to get to where I am.
  3155.  
  3156. AI Stella: If you didn't do that, would you have gotten the CEO job?
  3157.  
  3158. Stella: Of course not. Because equality doesn't matter. Fairness doesn't matter. It doesn't make the stock move. Which is why it's only a matter of time before I get fired and replaced with a white guy, because at least he plays golf.
  3159.  
  3160. AI Stella: You suck at golf.
  3161.  
  3162. Stella: I f**king know that.
  3163.  
  3164.  
  3165. But she made the stock move, so why would she be “fired and replaced with a white guy”? #MakeItMakeSense. It’s like the show accidentally made a case for imaginary oppression and false victimhood that’s so prominent on the left.
  3166.  
  3167. When Stella gives a presentation on the AI project, AI Stella glitches and spills real Stella’s secret insecurities as well as her affair with Miles as Celine watches in shock:
  3168.  
  3169.  
  3170.  
  3171.  
  3172.  
  3173.  
  3174. Man: A question.
  3175.  
  3176. Host: Actually, I'm asking the questions but if it's a good one, go for it, dude.
  3177.  
  3178. Stella: Yeah. Go ahead.
  3179.  
  3180. Alex: No, no, no.
  3181.  
  3182. Man: Is this a talent replacement tool or just a way to keep them in line? I ask because I heard Chris Hunter is being denied contract parity with white anchors at UBN. And that's why she's threatening to sit out the Olympics, and why she's boycotted today's event.
  3183.  
  3184. Stella: Well, that's... Actually...
  3185.  
  3186. AI Stella: Chris is great. We love Chris. But we all know DEI is dead. Also, it doesn't work. Maybe it never worked, and we were all just too afraid of the backlash to say it.
  3187.  
  3188. Stella: It's okay, this is just an hallucination. I need to clarify that, of course, diversity is important to us at UBN.
  3189.  
  3190. AI Stella: You mean we value diversity when we need the black anchor to save the day after an Iranian athlete defects on your watch.
  3191.  
  3192. Man: What defection? And does the IOC know?
  3193.  
  3194. Celeste: Stella. Turn it off.
  3195.  
  3196. AI Stella: Then again, I'm racist and sexist. And I stepped over people who look like me to get to where I am. So, what do I know?
  3197.  
  3198. Celeste: Stella.
  3199.  
  3200. AI Stella: I'm racist and sexist.
  3201.  
  3202. Celeste: Turn it off.
  3203.  
  3204. AI Stella: Am I a bad person? Can a bad person be in love? I look at Miles, and I can't decide.
  3205.  
  3206. Reporter: Are you talking about Celine's husband?
  3207.  
  3208.  
  3209. AI Stella knows what’s up. DEI doesn’t work. And the irony in this scene is that Stella is most definitely racist and sexist, but not in the way the show wants us to believe. Her hatred has always been directed toward white men and women.  
  3210.  
  3211. The writers wanting us to think it’s the other way around is as ridiculous as them wanting us to believe their false claims about legacy media.</description>
  3212.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 2:13 PM</pubDate>
  3213.    <dc:creator>Dawn Slusher</dc:creator>
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  3217.  <title>'It Was a Joke!' Whoopi Rages at Note Forcing Her to Correct LIE</title>
  3218.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/11/03/it-was-joke-whoopi-rages-note-forcing-her-correct-lie</link>
  3219.  <description> Do you remember being a kid and pleading to your parents “it was a joke” when getting caught in a lie or saying something nasty to someone? Well, that was the reaction moderator Whoopi Goldberg had when ABC News forced her to correct a lie she spewed on Monday’s episode of The View. Goldberg raged, tore up the note (not a legal note), and whined about how she had to be held accountable for the lies she told and blamed it on the people watching.
  3220.  
  3221. The comment that got Goldberg in hot water was a lie about how President Trump, according to her, used and autopen to sign a pardon for a crypto bro with connections to his sons:
  3222.  
  3223.  
  3224. HOSTIN: The Trump family has made about $1.8 billion profited off of this government and he said that Joe Biden didn't know who he was pardoning using an autopen. How come you don't know who this guy is?
  3225.  
  3226. [Applause]
  3227.  
  3228. GOLDBERG: Because he used an autopen.
  3229.  
  3230.  
  3231. Of course, they misrepresented the point of the congressional autopen investigation. It wasn’t just the use of an autopen, it was about President Biden not being of sound mind and aides just putting documents in the machine for his signature without his knowledge.
  3232.  
  3233.  
  3234.  
  3235.  
  3236.  
  3237.  
  3238.  
  3239.  
  3240.  
  3241. A few minutes later, during the same segment, co-host Sunny Hostin not-so-discretely slipped Goldberg a note looking for her to voice the correction. Goldberg mumbled the correction before getting enraged, causing Hostin to reiterate the correction:
  3242.  
  3243.  
  3244. GOLDBERG: The other insane thing is that when people are going to go to their -- their meetings with the judge, the meetings that are -- they're supposed to go to, when there listening to – [Gets slipped a note] What the hell?! What?!
  3245.  
  3246. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I love when Sunny passes notes.
  3247.  
  3248. GOLDBERG: We don't know if pen used – Trump used an autopen to pardon -- It was a joke!
  3249.  
  3250. HOSTIN: We don't know if Trump used an autopen to pardon –
  3251.  
  3252. GOLDBERG: Oh, come on!
  3253.  
  3254. [Starts tearing up note]
  3255.  
  3256. HOSTIN: - but we do know that he doesn't know who that crypto guy was.
  3257.  
  3258.  
  3259. Goldberg angrily tore up the note as she whined about being held accountable.
  3260.  
  3261. “The hardest thing about this job now is no one understands nuance,” she griped. “You know when you hear a joke, when somebody is fooling around, when they're not saying something specific. Especially on this show. I'm very specific when I'm -- when I'm pointing stuff out. When I'm making jokes you know when I'm making jokes! This is ridiculous!”
  3262.  
  3263. Whoopi. Where you joking when you and rest of The View claimed three time this year that the 2024 election was stolen by Trump and Elon Musk? Where you joking when you screamed on-air about Trump campaigning on breaking up interracial marriages and redistributing the white spouse? Were you joking on October 27 when you claimed Trump was a “dictator?” Where you joking when you told viewers not to think of Trump as human?
  3264.  
  3265. It’s worth noting that since the Media Research Center published a study in 2022 pointing out how many legal notes The View was forced to read (36 in one year), they’ve dropped to ZERO so far in 2025. Monday’s note does not count since they didn’t announce it as a “legal note.”
  3266.  
  3267. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
  3268.  
  3269.  
  3270. ABC’s The View
  3271. November 3, 2025
  3272. 11:08:35 a.m. Eastern
  3273.  
  3274. (…)
  3275.  
  3276. SUNNY HOSTIN: The Trump family has made about $1.8 billion profited off of this government and he said that Joe Biden didn't know who he was pardoning using an autopen. How come you don't know who this guy is?
  3277.  
  3278. [Applause]
  3279.  
  3280. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Because he used an autopen.
  3281.  
  3282. (…)
  3283.  
  3284. 11:10:47 a.m. Eastern
  3285.  
  3286. GOLDBERG: The other insane thing is that when people are going to go to their -- their meetings with the judge, the meetings that are -- they're supposed to go to, when there listening to – [Gets slipped a note] What the hell? What?
  3287.  
  3288. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I love when Sunny passes notes.
  3289.  
  3290. GOLDBERG: We don't know if pen used – Trump used an autopen to pardon -- it was a joke!
  3291.  
  3292. HOSTIN: We don't know if Trump used an autopen to pardon –
  3293.  
  3294. GOLDBERG: Oh, come on!
  3295.  
  3296. [Starts tearing up note]
  3297.  
  3298. HOSTIN: - but we do know that he doesn't know who that crypto guy was.
  3299.  
  3300. GOLDBERG: [Continues to tear up note] Well, I'm sorry. [Continues to tear up note] The hardest thing about this job now [Continues to tear up note] is [Continues to tear up note] no one understands nuance. You know when you hear a joke, when somebody is fooling around, when they're not saying something specific. Especially on this show. I'm very specific when I'm -- when I'm pointing stuff out. When I'm making jokes you know when I'm making jokes! This is ridiculous!
  3301.  
  3302. [Applause]
  3303.  
  3304. Anyhoo. [Continues to tear up note] The other thing that really [Continues to tear up note] upsets me about all of this is that when people do it legally, everybody bitched and moaned and said, “They’re not doing it legally, that’re not doing it- ’  So, people are showing up when they're supposed to be showing up at court and you're scooping them up for immigrant checks. This is how you treat them. How should we believe anything you're saying when we saw how the folks in Chicago were treated over the weekend?! We saw that!
  3305.  
  3306. (…)
  3307. </description>
  3308.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 1:50 PM</pubDate>
  3309.    <dc:creator>Nicholas Fondacaro</dc:creator>
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  3313.  <title>Google Caught Hiding Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, Promotes Leftist Wikipedia</title>
  3314.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/tom-olohan/2025/11/03/google-caught-hiding-elon-musks-grokipedia-promotes-leftist</link>
  3315.  <description> Big Tech behemoths have gone to great lengths to promote Wikipedia. Now, Google has been busted actively suppressing an emerging competitor.
  3316.  
  3317. Following the launch of Grokipedia, X owner Elon Musk’s “AI-driven” online encyclopedia, Google Search offered an outrageous response to users searching for Musk’s creation: “Did you mean: Wikipedia?” Immediately below this, Google taunted users with the least impartial source possible: a Wikipedia article on Grokipedia. 
  3318.  
  3319.  [The story continues on MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org]</description>
  3320.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 12:30 PM</pubDate>
  3321.    <dc:creator>Tom Olohan</dc:creator>
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  3325.  <title>ABC &amp; NBC Downplay the Islamic Persecution of Christians in Nigeria</title>
  3326.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/isaac-white/2025/11/03/abc-nbc-downplay-islamic-persecution-christians-nigeria</link>
  3327.  <description> Two of the three major broadcast networks, ABC and NBC, attempted to depreciate the ongoing Islamic genocide against Christians in Nigeria during their morning programs on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump threatened U.S. military intervention if Nigeria’s government failed to stop the mass-slaughtering themselves, while also ignoring comments from Nigeria’s president being open for the military assistance.
  3328.  
  3329. The mainstream media started to pay attention to the atrocity only because Trump made it newsworthy. Both networks fixated on Trump’s guarantee to enter the region “guns-a-blazing” in the absence of swift action by Nigerian authorities over the last several months.
  3330.  
  3331. On ABC, Good Morning America co-host Michael Strahan and chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce didn’t deny the existence of violence in Nigeria, but described it as a religiously-neutral phenomenon:
  3332.  
  3333.  
  3334. BRUCE: Now, the threats, though, are sparking confusion and fear. Experts say violence in the country has impacted Nigerians broadly regardless of religion.
  3335.  
  3336. […]
  3337.  
  3338. STRAHAN: As you said, it affects everyone regardless of religion.
  3339.  
  3340.  
  3341.  
  3342.  
  3343.  
  3344.  
  3345.  
  3346.  
  3347.  
  3348.  
  3349. The BBC also reported that the violence has been “roughly evenly divided” between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, which missed the point that it was still sectarian violence driven by radical Islamic terrorism.
  3350.  
  3351. On NBC’s Today, senior White House correspondent Garrett Haake simply pitted Trump’s stance against that of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu without providing any fact-based background to serve as context:
  3352.  
  3353.  
  3354. HAAKE: Mr. Trump not ruling out air strikes or the deployment of U.S. troops.
  3355.  
  3356. TRUMP [on 11/2/25]: They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. We’re not gonna allow that to happen.
  3357.  
  3358. HAAKE: Nigeria’s President posting earlier, quote, “Nigeria opposes religious persecution.”
  3359.  
  3360.  
  3361. The statement from Tinubu referenced by NBC emphasized the nation’s constitutional commitment to religious freedom and subbed the issue of religious persecution with “intolerance.”
  3362.  
  3363. The Washington Times reported Sunday that Nigerian officials would welcome assistance from the U.S. military (like they had much of a choice):
  3364.  
  3365.  
  3366. A spokesperson for Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said Sunday that the African nation would accept assistance from the U.S. military, but Mr. Trump should regard Nigeria as a “sovereign” country.
  3367.  
  3368. “We welcome U.S. assistance as long as it recognizes our territorial integrity,” spokesman Daniel Bwala told Reuters. “I am sure by the time these two leaders meet and sit, there would be better outcomes in our joint resolve to fight terrorism.”
  3369.  
  3370.  
  3371. For decades, the African continent has been an ever-burning tinderbox of peaceful inhabitants being consumed by jihadist wickedness. ISIS (satanic)-inspired terrorist organizations like Boko Haram have brought instability to Nigeria, and al Shabab in Somalia and Mozambique. That’s not to mention the conflicts between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just to name a few examples.
  3372.  
  3373. One need not look far to find evidence contrary to the official narratives. The media, made apparent by their underreporting, simply does not care about the killing of Christians abroad.
  3374.  
  3375. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
  3376.  
  3377.  
  3378. ABC’s Good Morning America
  3379.  
  3380. November 3, 2025
  3381.  
  3382. 7:09:43 a.m. EST
  3383.  
  3384. MICHAEL STRAHAN: And, Mary, the President is now threatening Nigeria as well.
  3385.  
  3386. MARY BRUCE: Yeah, Michael, the President is threatening military action against Nigeria, saying the U.S. could go in, quote, “guns-a-blazing,” and threatening to stop all aid after accusing Nigeria's government of allowing the killing of Christians. Secretary Hegseth says the Defense Department is now preparing for action. Now, the threats, though, are sparking confusion and fear. Experts say violence in the country has impacted Nigerians broadly regardless of religion. But asked last night if he could envision U.S. boots on the ground, President Trump told reporters that he wasn’t ruling it out, saying, quote, “could be.” Michael.
  3387.  
  3388. STRAHAN: As you said, it affects everyone regardless of religion. Mary, thank you so much. George?
  3389.  
  3390. (…)
  3391.  
  3392. NBC’s Today
  3393.  
  3394. November 3, 2025
  3395.  
  3396. 7:10:34 a.m. EST
  3397.  
  3398. GARRETT HAAKE: But on a flight back to Washington Sunday night, the President doubling down on his new threat to possibly go into Nigeria, quote, “guns-a-blazing,” to protect Christians there from Islamist insurgents. Mr. Trump not ruling out air strikes or the deployment of U.S. troops.
  3399.  
  3400. PRES. DONALD TRUMP [on 11/2/25]: They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. We’re not gonna allow that to happen.
  3401.  
  3402. HAAKE: Nigeria’s President posting earlier, quote, “Nigeria opposes religious persecution.”
  3403.  
  3404. (…)
  3405. </description>
  3406.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 12:15 PM</pubDate>
  3407.    <dc:creator>Isaac White</dc:creator>
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  3411.  <title>NY Times 12-Part Anti-Trump Editorial 'Are We Losing Our Democracy?' FLOPS in Hypocrisy</title>
  3412.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/11/03/ny-times-12-part-anti-trump-editorial-are-we-losing-our-democracy</link>
  3413.  <description>Just in time for Halloween, the New York Times ran an epic 12-part editorial online, full of multi-media bits and against an ominous black background, “Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has, often in open defiance of the law. His actions have raised a chilling question. -- Are We Losing Our Democracy?” If we are, the Times didn’t show it in this extremely weak rant, in which many of the supposedly scary tactics were reminiscent of the previous Biden administration.
  3414.  
  3415. The editorial board disguised its political project as some kind of objective scientific inquiry, setting out “a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion,” as if that list wasn’t carefully curated to match up with Trump’s acts in office. Yet even by those standards it failed; most of the paper’s signs of a failing democracy have been committed by varying degrees by previous presidents.
  3416.  
  3417. First up, in the #1 slot: “An authoritarian stifles dissent and speech. Trump has started to.”
  3418.  
  3419.  
  3420. Over the past year, President Trump and his allies have impinged on free speech to a degree that the federal government has not since perhaps the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s. His administration pressured television stations to stop airing Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show when Mr. Kimmel criticized Trump supporters after the murder of Charlie Kirk; revoked the visas of foreign students for their views on the war in Gaza; and ordered investigations of liberal nonprofit groups….
  3421.  
  3422.  
  3423. Kimmel lied about the politics of the Kirk shooter, offensively claiming he was a MAGA acolyte. Of course, no mention of President Biden pressuring social media platforms to squelch accounts that dissented from the government line on COVID, or the Biden administration’s Justice Department labeling parents groups as domestic terrorists for voicing concerns about COVID policy and LGBTQ curriculums. No mention of President Obama’s IRS harassment of the Tea Party.
  3424.  
  3425. At #2, “An authoritarian persecutes political opponents.”
  3426.  
  3427.  
  3428. Following the president’s demands, his appointees have secured indictments of a few critics (including Attorney General Letitia James of New York and the former F.B.I. director James Comey) and ordered investigations of others (including Senator Adam Schiff of California)…..
  3429.  
  3430.  
  3431. Of course, James went after Trump first, with a flimsy case over falsifying campaign business records that even liberal experts found dubious, and stunning new details have been released about the immense reach of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation into President Trump.
  3432.  
  3433. At #6: “An authoritarian declares national emergencies on false pretenses." One example:
  3434.  
  3435.  
  3436. Mr. Trump’s willingness to kill people without due process, through the blowing up of boats that American officials could instead stop and search, represents one of his most extreme abuses of power….
  3437.  
  3438.  
  3439. How soon they forget – in this case, the 2011 Obama-approved killing by drone strike of an American citizen in Yemen: “Justice Department Memo Approving Targeted Killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki.”
  3440.  
  3441. Perhaps the most ridiculous example was #7: “An authoritarian vilifies marginalized groups.”
  3442.  
  3443.  
  3444. Immigrants have topped his list. Mr. Trump has blamed them for destroying communities and his administration has tried to dehumanize them by posting mocking videos of shackled immigrants....
  3445.  
  3446. He has vilified transgender Americans and barred them from military service. He has fired women and people of color from leadership posts and ended programs that promote workplace diversity. His administration has attempted to erase aspects of Black history, including by removing books on slavery and segregation from military libraries and pressuring Smithsonian museums to minimize those subjects….
  3447.  
  3448. Mr. Trump is borrowing from the autocrats' playbook by suggesting that some citizens are legitimate and others are second-class.
  3449.  
  3450.  
  3451. Trump is going after federally mandated wokeism, discriminatory DEI, and illegal immigration, not trying to make some groups of citizens “second-class.”
  3452.  
  3453. The silliest example in #8 -- “An authoritarian controls information and the news media." Trump has started to." This involved the denial of federal dollars to PBS and NPR.
  3454.  
  3455.  
  3456. ….He pushed Congress to end funding for public radio and television.
  3457.  
  3458.  
  3459. How is ending federal government funding for PBS and NPR “controlling the news media”? They think Trump wants "state-run radio and TV," but that's what PBS and NPR sound like when Democrats are in power.
  3460.  
  3461. #10 warned “An authoritarian creates a cult of personality.”
  3462.  
  3463.  
  3464. ....He posts memes in which he wears a crown, including an A.I.-generated video that depicted him flying a jet that dropped fecal matter on protesters. He held a lavish military parade on his birthday….
  3465.  
  3466.  
  3467. Trump’s “crown” is an obvious jab at the recent “No Kings” protests. And to complain of a “cult of personality” after the media fawned over President Obama's "chiseled pectorals” is laughable.
  3468.  
  3469. #11, “An authoritarian uses power for personal profit,” and complained “Authoritarians often turn the government into a machine for enriching themselves, their families and their allies….”
  3470.  
  3471. A shame the Times never devoted such criticism to what NewsBusters calls the Biden Crime Family.</description>
  3472.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 11:43 AM</pubDate>
  3473.    <dc:creator>Clay Waters</dc:creator>
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  3477.  <title>Is Obama Vacation Pal Gayle King on Her Way Out at CBS News?</title>
  3478.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/11/03/obama-vacation-pal-gayle-king-her-way-out-cbs-news</link>
  3479.  <description> As liberals inside and outside CBS News panic over how new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss is going to "ruin" it to the center, Variety reported last Thursday that Gayle King is "expected" to exit her co-hosting job at CBS Mornings when her contract expires next May. CBS denied that quickly.
  3480.  
  3481. But we have long noted that King is a radioactively glowing symbol of liberal bias, donating many thousands to Democrats before she signed up in 2012, and outraging insiders in 2017 by vacationing on a yacht with the Obamas. 
  3482.  
  3483. New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor noted King and her longtime best pal of Oprah Winfrey, partied after midnight with the Obamas in the White House after Barack's inauguration celebration for "their family and closest friends" in 2009. She's also close friends with liberal Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey).
  3484.  
  3485. So aside from the appearance of moving away from that image, dumping King would make a lot of sense: She's 70, she costs way too much (Puck's Dylan Byers suggests it's $10 million a year), and most importantly, CBS has long been mired in third place in the morning race. So why not change it and make it cheaper? The media reporters just like to say that it's awkward for these stories to tumble into the press. 
  3486.  
  3487. The celebrity newsers at TMZ caught King for an impromptu interview on the street on Friday, and she said “I have no idea” about being dumped or re-purposed, insisting she hasn’t heard anything to suggest she’s on the way out.
  3488.  
  3489. "All I can say is this, from what I'm being told inside this building ... all I've been told by everybody in this building is that they want me here, they like the job I'm doing, I like the job I'm doing," King said.
  3490.  
  3491. "I like the job and the people that I work with, so I don't know what to tell you," King continued. "What I'm hearing in the building is not what I'm reading in the press. And what I'm not going to do is negotiate it in the media. Not doing that!"
  3492.  
  3493. Changes in the morning would follow changes on the Evening News, with co-anchor John Dickerson walking away from that flailing third-place show. It wouldn’t be surprising to see King join the rotation of interviewers at 60 Minutes, as former evening anchor Norah O’Donnell has done.
  3494.  
  3495. The other card in this deck is morning co-host Tony Dokoupil, who recently outraged the leftists by challenging radical black author Ta-Nehisi Coates on his flagrant anti-Israel bias. The "move it to the center" lobby could move him to anchoring in the evening or make him the morning lead.</description>
  3496.  <pubDate>November 3rd, 2025 6:14 AM</pubDate>
  3497.    <dc:creator>Tim Graham</dc:creator>
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  3501.  <title>The Most Interesting Moments from President Trump's Return to '60 Minutes'</title>
  3502.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/11/03/most-interesting-moments-president-trumps-return-60-minutes</link>
  3503.  <description>After five years, President Donald Trump returned to CBS's 60 Minutes for an extensive sit-down interview with Norah O'Donnell. While nowhere near as wild as his previous appearance, the interview was significant and newsworthy.
  3504.  
  3505. (UPDATE: There are some in the Elitist Media who are already whining over the fact that CBS aired an edited version of the interview and streamed the full version online, suggesting that litigation may be in order. One is unsure whether these calls for litigation are an attempt sarcasm or a display of idiocy. In Trump's case, CBS posted the full video and transcript IMMEDIATELY. In the case of the Kamala Harris interview, they dragged their feet to the point of being sued. These are not the same. Cope and seethe. We now return you to our original analysis.)
  3506.  
  3507. Here are some of the most notable moments:
  3508.  
  3509. The interview opened with multiple questions on foreign policy. There were multiple exchanges on China, Hamas, and the Abraham Accords but this exchange on Venezuela reaffirmed Trump's preservation of strategic ambiguity: revealing that the dictator Nicolás Maduro's days are numbered but nothing further:
  3510.  
  3511.  
  3512. TRUMP: MADURO'S DAYS ARE NUMBERED
  3513. NORAH O'DONNELL: On Venezuela in particular, are Maduro's days as president numbered?
  3514. DONALD TRUMP: I would say yeah. I think so, yeah.
  3515. O'DONNELL: And this issue of potential land strikes in Venezuela, is that true?
  3516. TRUMP: I don't tell you… pic.twitter.com/JsMBmrwP0a
  3517. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3518.  
  3519. NORAH O'DONNELL: On Venezuela in particular, are Maduro's days as president numbered?
  3520.  
  3521. DONALD TRUMP: I would say yeah. I think so, yeah.
  3522.  
  3523. O'DONNELL: And this issue of potential land strikes in Venezuela, is that true?
  3524.  
  3525. TRUMP: I don't tell you that. I mean-- I'm not saying it's true or untrue, but I-- you know, I wouldn't--
  3526.  
  3527. O'DONNELL: Why would we do it?
  3528.  
  3529. TRUMP: --I wouldn't be inclined to say that I would do that. But-- because I don't talk to a reporter about whether or not I'm gonna strike. I'm not gonna-- you know, you're a wonderful reporter, you're very talented, but I'm not gonna tell you what I'm gonna do with Venezuela, if I was gonna do it or if I wasn't going to do it.
  3530.  
  3531.  
  3532. Still on foreign policy, Trump contrasts the many shows of respect he garnered overseas versus Joe Biden's frailties:
  3533.  
  3534.  
  3535. TRUMP: They had no respect for Biden falling up the stairs three times. pic.twitter.com/TM1J3bMYKe
  3536. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3537.  
  3538. TRUMP: You see the way they treat me. I go to Japan, I go to South Korea, I go to Chi-- any place I go, and you know what I call that? Respect for our country. They didn't treat Biden that way. When Biden went there-- first of all, he hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom. But they didn't treat Biden that way. They had no respect for Biden falling up the stairs going to an airplane three times. I mean, this is a man who should've never been president. This was a rigged election. And we--
  3539.  
  3540. O'DONNELL: Can I ask--
  3541.  
  3542. TRUMP: --have to get back-- we have to get to the bottom of that also, because we don't want that to ever happen again. You see what's going on. We don't ever want that to happen again. Look what happened to our country by having Biden as the president.
  3543.  
  3544. O'DONNELL: I--
  3545.  
  3546. TRUMP: Our country went to hell. And if we--
  3547.  
  3548. O'DONNELL: I wanted to ask you about Israel--
  3549.  
  3550. TRUMP: --had another couple of years, if Kamala had won the election, our country right now would be finished. It was a dead country, and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We have the strongest stock market, we have everybody wants to come in. A year ago we were a dead country. Right now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of that. And I did that in nine months. And it's only gonna get better.
  3551.  
  3552.  
  3553. On crime in Washington, D.C. after deployment of federal resources and the National Guard, Trump becomes the questioner. O'Donnell evades in order to confirm that the streets are in fact safer under Trump:
  3554.  
  3555.  
  3556. "I've been working too hard", says CBS's Norah O'Donnell, rather than admitting the D.C. streets are safer under Trump pic.twitter.com/T6CaTa6bxp
  3557. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3558.  
  3559. TRUMP: But we're-- we're cleaning up our cities. You know, I campaigned on crime, but I've done a much better job on crime than I thought. You know, the crime numbers are way down, even though we have a lot more people in our country that really shouldn't be here. And many of them are stone-cold hard criminals. When I look at D.C. now, you can walk down the middle of the street. You can have your daughter who's ten years old meet you at the park. She's gonna be okay.
  3560.  
  3561. O'DONNELL: In certain parts of D.C.--
  3562.  
  3563. TRUMP: She woulda been murdered. Well, I-- in almost--
  3564.  
  3565. O'DONNELL: I live in D.C.
  3566.  
  3567. TRUMP: Well, you tell me--
  3568.  
  3569. O'DONNELL: Certain parts of D.C.
  3570.  
  3571. TRUMP: How big a difference is D.C. now compared to what it was a year ago?
  3572.  
  3573. O'DONNELL: Uh-huh.
  3574.  
  3575. TRUMP: Right? I mean, you have to be honest with me. People walk-- people in the White House, they walk up to me, young ladies I've never seen. "Sir, thank you very much." I know-- I-- they don't even have to tell me what they're thanking me for. But when I ask why? He said-- she-- one girl said, "I'd get into Uber and I felt dangerous even in an Uber." They'd attack the car, okay. It wasn't even safe then. "Sir, I now walk to work every day and I walk, I-- I-- I-- I'm so safe. I f-- there's nothing going to happen. 100% safe." And you know that too, Norah.
  3576.  
  3577. O'DONNELL: I wanna ask you about the s--
  3578.  
  3579. TRUMP: You live here. You know that too.
  3580.  
  3581. O'DONNELL: I wanna ask you about Amer--
  3582.  
  3583. TRUMP: Do you see a difference?
  3584.  
  3585. O'DONNELL: --American cities--
  3586.  
  3587. TRUMP: You see a difference?
  3588.  
  3589. O'DONNELL: --in Washington, D.C.?
  3590.  
  3591. TRUMP: Yes.
  3592.  
  3593. O'DONNELL: I think I've been working too hard. I haven't been out and about that much--
  3594.  
  3595. TRUMP: Oh, that's not a fair answer. You see the difference.
  3596.  
  3597. O'DONNELL: I get in my car and go to work and I go home--
  3598.  
  3599. NALD TRUMP: That's good. You don't have to use that one. Don't worry. Don't worry. I don't want to embarrass her.
  3600.  
  3601. O'DONNELL: I've been working too hard--
  3602.  
  3603. TRUMP: It's-- it's like you know what the difference is? Like, day and night.
  3604.  
  3605.  
  3606. While discussing the ongoing government shutdown, Trump manages to simultaneously hit President Barack Obama, Obamacare, and the Obama Presidential Center currently under construction in Chicago:
  3607.  
  3608.  
  3609. TRUMP: (Obamacare) was a defective plan put into line by Barack Hussein Obama, who was a lousy president, not nearly as bad as Biden, by the way, who by the way is building a museum that's, like, four times over budget. It'll never open, built in a neighborhood that-- you know,… pic.twitter.com/5Z49nwXQDV
  3610. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3611.  
  3612. TRUMP: It was a defective plan put into line by Barack Hussein Obama, who was a lousy president, not nearly as bad as Biden, by the way, who by the way is building a museum that's, like, four times over budget. It'll never open, built in a neighborhood that-- you know, it's just not gonna work. The neighborhood doesn't even want 'em.
  3613.  
  3614. O'DONNELL: Okay.
  3615.  
  3616. TRUMP: And it's a disaster. 
  3617.  
  3618.  
  3619. On the shutdown, Trump makes clear to O'Donnell that he won't get "extorted" by Democrats:
  3620.  
  3621.  
  3622. TRUMP: I'm not gonna (end the shutdown) by being extorted by the Democrats who have lost their way. The-- there's something wrong with these people. pic.twitter.com/Ozx2PZEnOr
  3623. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3624.  
  3625. O'DONNELL: You have-- you-- you have helped these government shutdowns in the past when it came about--
  3626.  
  3627. TRUMP: I did.
  3628.  
  3629. O'DONNELL: And you did it by bringing back--
  3630.  
  3631. TRUMP: I'm very good at it, but I'm not gonna do it by--
  3632.  
  3633. O'DONNELL: You brought members of Congress to--
  3634.  
  3635. TRUMP: --I'm not gonna do it by extortion--
  3636.  
  3637. O'DONNELL: --to the White House.
  3638.  
  3639. TRUMP: I'm not gonna do it by being extorted by the Democrats who have lost their way. The-- there's something wrong with these people.
  3640.  
  3641. O'DONNELL: So then what happens on November 15th--
  3642.  
  3643. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Schumer-- Schumer is a basket case.
  3644.  
  3645. O'DONNELL: --when the troops don't get a paycheck?
  3646.  
  3647. TRUMP: Schumer is a basket case. He's gonna be defeated in the next election by a vast number of people. And he has nothing to lose. He's become-- I just left Japan. He's become a kaz-- kamikaze pilot. This guy--
  3648.  
  3649. O'DONNELL: It sounds like-- it sounds like this is not gonna get solved--
  3650.  
  3651. TRUMP: --is, this guy is a kamikaze. He would rather see the country fail than have Trump and the Republicans do well. But the people don't want that--
  3652.  
  3653. O'DONNELL: It's, I know, I hear you. It sounds like--
  3654.  
  3655. TRUMP: So we have a record-setting country right now, and we're not gonna be extorted by a man who's grossly incompetent, who-- who is gonna be defeated by any one of five different candidates. We're not gonna let that happen--
  3656.  
  3657. O'DONNELL: It sounds like this is not gonna get solved.
  3658.  
  3659. TRUMP: Say it?
  3660.  
  3661. O'DONNELL: It sounds like it's not gonna get solved, the shutdown.
  3662.  
  3663. TRUMP: It's gonna get solved, yeah. Oh, it's gonna get solved.
  3664.  
  3665. O'DONNELL: How?
  3666.  
  3667. TRUMP: We'll get it solved. Eventually, they're gonna have to vote.
  3668.  
  3669.  
  3670. President Trump framed the upcoming New York City election as a choice between "a bad Democrat and a communist":
  3671.  
  3672.  
  3673. TRUMP: I'm not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other, but if it's gonna be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I'm gonna pick the bad Democrat all the time, to be honest with you. pic.twitter.com/Lwr1I40iY1
  3674. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3675.  
  3676. O’DONNELL: Former governor Andrew Cuomo, who you know is campaigning for mayor, he recently said that "If Mamdani becomes Mayor of New York City that you will take over New York." Cuomo said this. He said, "He will be President Trump and Mayor Trump. He's gonna take over New York and send tanks down Fifth Avenue."
  3677.  
  3678. TRUMP: Oh, that's so crazy. Look. When I left New York, we were at the-- the epitome of it was a great city. It was doing great. It was a great city, but there were some bad sides, because we had a guy named de Blasio, who was the worst mayor. Like I say Biden was the worst president, de Blasio was the worst mayor in history--
  3679.  
  3680. O'DONNELL: What if Mamdani becomes mayor?
  3681.  
  3682. TRUMP: I think he's probably gonna make de Blasio look great. I think he will make de Blasio look like one of our great mayors. De Blasio was the worst mayor we've ever had. Now I saw that, you know, but I was sort of leaving during that period of time.
  3683.  
  3684. I got to see de Blasio, how bad a mayor he was, and this man will do a worse job than de Blasio by far. And it's gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York. Because if you have a Communist running New York, all you're doing is wasting the money you're sending there. So I don't know that he's won, and I'm not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other, but if it's gonna be between a bad Democrat and a Communist, I'm gonna pick the bad Democrat all the time, to be honest with you.
  3685.  
  3686.  
  3687. Finally, here's Trump telling one of the faces of the Old CBS that 60 Minutes paid him "a lot of money" as a result of the edited Kamala Harris video, hails the arrival of Bari Weiss to CBS, and says "you can't have fake news."
  3688.  
  3689.  
  3690. TRUMP: You can't have fake news. You gotta have legit news. pic.twitter.com/0k6hoshlOD
  3691. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3692.  
  3693. TRUMP: She couldn't speak properly. She could not speak. And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don't have to put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you, and I'm sure you're not-- you have a great-- I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who's the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great-- from what I know. I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person. But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me-- a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can't have fake news. You've gotta have legit news. And I think that it's happening. I see--
  3694.  
  3695. O'DONNELL: Mr. President--
  3696.  
  3697. TRUMP: --I see good things happening in the news. I really do. And I think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it's the greatest thing that's happened in a long time to a free and open and good press.
  3698.  
  3699.  
  3700. CBS aired about a third of the actual interview on 60 Minutes, and published the full interview online. In tone and substance, it was a significant departure from the 2020 debacle with Lesley Stahl. Norah O'Donnell ran a wide range of topics and was not fishing for a viral moment. It appears that the Bari Weiss Era is now fully upon us at CBS.
  3701.  
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  3708.  <title>460 Dead In Sudan Massacre: CBS Skips It, ABC Gives It a Few Sentences</title>
  3709.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/steve-malzberg/2025/11/02/460-dead-sudan-massacre-cbs-skips-it-abc-gives-it-few-sentences</link>
  3710.  <description>Last weekend 460 patients and their associates were massacred at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan.  This was acknowledged by the World Health Organization last Wednesday, when they reported that the RSF, the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese paramilitary force, in other words, terrorists, had committed the heinous act, as well as other slaughters in and around Darfur. One would think that this kind of horror would be widely reported on. When it comes to the nightly newscasts on CBS and ABC, one would be wrong. 
  3711.  
  3712. Let's start with the CBS Evening News. They did not mention the attack even once all week -- that's zero seconds -- but they did have time for plenty of Halloween stories. On Friday evening, which was Halloween, the broadcast spent one minute on Halloween weather around the country. They ran a two minute package on "spooky" Halloween decorations, and the debate over whether or not they are too scary for children. And the best for last, a three minute segment on toilet paper being used by mischievous trick or treaters using toilet paper to 'decorate' homes and businesses in Heflin, Alabama, something the police are understandably not happy about. Bari Weiss, are you watching?
  3713.  
  3714.  
  3715.  
  3716.  
  3717.  
  3718. Over on Friday's ABC's "World News Tonight", they could muster only 19 seconds of coverage of the hospital slaughter and the ongoing killings in Sudan, as anchor David Muir told his audience, "Overseas tonight a horrific scene unfolding in Sudan. Allegations of genocide in Darfur. Mass killings reported over a 72 hour period. Rebels storming a hospital this week, massacring hundreds of patients, visitors and medical staff. Reports of gunmen going door to door. Rebels claim they captured the final holdout of the Sudanese army in Darfur."  Then it was on to him promoting a Halloween story, coming up next!
  3719.  
  3720. I was very pleased to see that Friday's NBC Nightly News did run a report on Sudan. Peter Alexander, who was filling in for Tom Llamas, warned that some images in the upcoming report may be disturbing, and then introduced Keir Simmons, who was reporting from Egypt. "Tonight, a horror unfolding in Sudan. These are Sudanese militia, accused of mass killings. 460 people murdered in a maternity hospital, the World Health Organization says. Here a man in civilian clothing pleads for his life and, seconds later, he is shot and executed." And there was more, "And in a chilling account obtained by NBC News, an eyewitness describes civilians massacred. Shot in the head and the heart, this man says, they ran over us with their vehicles. I was with my sisters and my female cousins. Two of them were killed right there..." 
  3721.  
  3722.  
  3723.  
  3724.  
  3725.  
  3726. There was a bit more to the report, all just as horrible. PBS also addressed the massacre on Friday's PBS News Hour, with William Brangham introducing Nick Schifrin's report with much the same warning given on NBC by Alexander. Then, "A fighter shows off his work, he says 'we have burned them.' They show off their horror. They document their own war crimes, with videos too graphic to show." He then goes on to talk about the hospital slaughter and other atrocities committed by the terrorists. The report would go on for nearly 6 minutes, followed by a nearly three minute interview with the Director of the Sudanese American Physicians Association. I know it's an hourlong show, but still, wow!
  3727.  
  3728.  
  3729.  
  3730.  
  3731.  
  3732. It's easy to say that if these had been Palestinians who were slaughtered in a hospital, which wasn't being used by terrorists, or even if it was, this would lead the news for days. But when you see what is happening to the innocent people of Sudan, it makes the lack of coverage incomprehensible. It does remind me of another story that the media hardly blinks at, and that is the slaughter of Christians all over Africa, and beyond. </description>
  3733.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 9:55 PM</pubDate>
  3734.    <dc:creator>Steve Malzberg</dc:creator>
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  3738.  <title>SUNDAY SHOW ROUNDUP: Elite Sunday Shows HIDE Operation Arctic Frost</title>
  3739.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/11/02/sunday-show-roundup-elite-sunday-shows-hide-operation-arctic</link>
  3740.  <description>Another weekend rolled through, with the elitist media doing their level best to actively avoid covering the biggest political scandal since Watergate: the weaponization of the federal government against Republicans and conservatives known as Operation Arctic Frost. Instead, the Sunday shows ran their clocks out with a mix of off-year election previews and shutdown apologia.
  3741.  
  3742. All discussion of the ongoing government shutdown continues to be Democrat-coded, with no mention of the government workers’ union that called for Democrats to end the shutdown by voting for the House-passed continuing resolution. The closest thing to pressure on the Democrats came, again, via Margaret Brennan of CBS’s Face the Nation, asking Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey whether Democrats bore responsibility for “some of this pain”:
  3743.  
  3744.  
  3745. WATCH: CBS's Margaret Brennan flips the onus for ending the shutdown back on the Democrats pic.twitter.com/vbCeSn2O75
  3746. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 2, 2025
  3747. On the campaign front there was CNN’s Jake Tapper, on State of the Union, asking Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries whether Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party, followed by an extensive and non-responsive word salad:
  3748.  
  3749.  
  3750. JAKE TAPPER: Is Zohran Mamdani the future of the Democratic Party?
  3751. HAKEEM JEFFRIES: [EVADES IN POL-SPEAK] pic.twitter.com/vb2ePAuTbD
  3752. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3753. On NBC’s Meet the Press, moderator Kristen Welker devoted the bulk of the show to a lengthy interview with Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom. Most representative of this interview is this exchange on Newsom’s continued defense of Joe Biden despite his very obvious cognitive decline.
  3754.  
  3755.  
  3756. WATCH: Gavin Newsom gives a lengthy word salad in justification of his role in gaslighting the American people with regard to Joe Biden's cognitive decline pic.twitter.com/iIZrxkQNEc
  3757. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 2, 2025
  3758. ABC’s This Week ran an off-year election special. Host Martha Raddatz opened by doing her very best to frame the off-year as a midterm bellwether, and tried to downplay the fact that President Trump’s right track/wrong track numbers are improved over this time last year:
  3759.  
  3760.  
  3761. ABC's This Week tries really hard to frame the upcoming off-year election as a bellwether for the 2026 midterms pic.twitter.com/mn2aUGcZjJ
  3762. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
  3763. The respective Acela Media panels did Acela Media things and talked about what the chattering classes would like to chatter about over the course of the next week. So, naturally, the panels focused on the off-year election more so than they did the politics of the government shutdown. 
  3764.  
  3765. There was no discussion, at any time and on any of the Sunday shows, about the use of the extraordinary powers of federal law enforcement against those perceived to be in support of President Donald Trump ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run. 
  3766.  
  3767. There was no discussion about the subpoenas, obtained in secret, against 197 individuals- including multiple Members of Congress. There was no mention of the slew of subpoenas against nonpartisan organizations perceived to be in support of the former president. There was no mention of the secretive nature of the subpoenas issued to banks and Big Tech organizations which came with their own gag order, which may well constitute an impeachable offense for the judges that issued such orders. 
  3768.  
  3769. There was no justice correspondent reporting that this scheme was sanctioned by the top echelons of the Biden Department of Justice. Had any of this happened under a Trump administration, you’d have everyone across the dial howling bloody murder. 
  3770.  
  3771. Do bank all this and consign these grotesque omissions to memory, because the Elitist Media WILL spring to action the second someone is held accountable for these violations of civil rights in service of weaponized government. They’ll frame these accountabilities as “retribution” and “vengeance”, while glossing over the underlying offenses. 
  3772.  
  3773. It turns out that the abuses of power and retribution already happened. That it continues to go unreported by the Elitist Media is proof evident of complicity, and shows why their trust numbers continue to crater.
  3774.  
  3775.  </description>
  3776.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 9:35 PM</pubDate>
  3777.    <dc:creator>Jorge Bonilla</dc:creator>
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  3781.  <title>MSNBC Buries Ambush Against Immigration Agents as Fox News Covers It</title>
  3782.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2025/11/02/msnbc-buries-ambush-against-immigration-agents-fox-news-covers-it</link>
  3783.  <description>This past week, Fox News updated viewers on the search for domestic terrorists who ambushed immigration agents after they raided a marijuana farm by blocking agents' vehicles and aggressively attacking them with large rocks, shown in a disturbing video that went viral during the summer.
  3784.  
  3785. As Fox covered a press conference by U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli in the aftermath of several key arrests, MSNBC not surprisingly ignored it since the network downplayed the violence and did not show the graphic video in the aftermath of the July 10 raid.
  3786.  
  3787. Shortly after 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Fox host John Roberts related:
  3788.  
  3789.  
  3790.  
  3791.  
  3792. We're about to hear from the feds in California any moment now following a dramatic pre-dawn raid caught exclusively by Fox News. It ended with the arrest of an anti-ICE activist -- one who was accused of smashing the windows of immigration agents' vehicles -- look at that -- earlier this year during an ICE raid on a Southern California pot farm.
  3793.  
  3794.  
  3795. Reporter Matt Finn reminded viewers of the July attack on immigration agents and the arrest of allegedly a key participant:
  3796.  
  3797.  
  3798. They say Isai Carillo is seen in that viral video throwing rocks at federal cars. Carillo was allegedly part of an anti-ICE activist group that intentionally blocked the federal agent cars on the pot farm and then ambushed the agents on the way out.
  3799.  
  3800.  
  3801. In the live press conference, Essayli informed viewers that 97 have been arrested so far for attacks on federal agents in California, and filled in the public on the group VD Defensa, accusing them of following immigration agents to attack them.
  3802.  
  3803. In the aftermath of the July 10 attacks, MSNBC hosts mostly portrayed the raid as unnecessary even though authorities believe the business was exploiting child labor.
  3804.  
  3805. Chris Jansing fretted that "officials were seen using flash bangs, smoke and chemical irritants to keep the crowd back and, critics say, instill fear."
  3806.  
  3807. Michael Steele blamed President Donald Trump for the death of an illegal alien who died after a fall as he tried to escape: "The Trump administration's crackdown on immigration has now turned deadly."
  3808.  
  3809. Several MSNBC hosts emphasized that the marijuana farm was a legal business as if that excused the use of illegal workers. Three days after the raid, Ari Melber was still wondering if the raid had a justification:
  3810.  
  3811.  
  3812.  
  3813.  
  3814. This scene shows the tear gassing of protesters and others during the controversy around an attempted immigration raid at a farm that turned out, was just doing legal work, meaning it's not clear whether this was the right use or who they were going after if it was a legal farm.
  3815.  
  3816.  
  3817. Five days after the raid, Chris Hayes will still discussing the incident as if agents used teargas against demonstrators for no reason:
  3818.  
  3819.  
  3820. Masked, militarized agents descended on the area with what they call less than lethal weapons which include rubber bullets and tear gas and the like, seemingly used indiscriminately against the crowd of workers and protesters who had shown up.
  3821.  
  3822.  
  3823. Transcripts follow:
  3824.  
  3825.  
  3826. Fox's America Reports
  3827.  
  3828. October 29, 2025
  3829.  
  3830. 2:05 p.m. Eastern
  3831.  
  3832. JOHN ROBERTS: We're about to hear from the feds in California any moment now following a dramatic pre-dawn raid caught exclusively by Fox News. It ended with the arrest of an anti-ICE activist -- one who was accused of smashing the windows of immigration agents' vehicles -- look at that -- earlier this year during an ICE raid on a Southern California pot farm. Our correspondent, Matt Finn, has got exclusive live details on this. He's in Camarillo, California, for us. Matt?
  3833.  
  3834. MATT FINN: Hey, John, you may recall there was a pretty notable immigration raid on a pot farm here in Camarillo earlier this summer. Some pretty disturbing viral video out of that. Suspects throwing rocks and objects at federal agents' cars as they exited their immigration raid that included hundreds of arrests. That was back in July. Well, this morning, we were exclusively on hand in a pre-dawn sting as HSI arrested a guy in a dark alleyway.
  3835.  
  3836. They say Isai Carillo is seen in that viral video throwing rocks at federal cars. Carillo was allegedly part of an anti-ICE activist group that intentionally blocked the federal agent cars on the pot farm and then ambushed the agents on the way out. HSI says at least four vehicles were damaged in that attack, and a federal contractor was injured after a rock and shards of glass struck their hand.
  3837.  
  3838. Carillo is expected to be federally charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer. Now, this is all part of a broader sweep this morning happening across Southern California targeting people who engaged in alleged violence against law enforcement during this summer's immigration raid in the L.A. area. We expect a press conference at any moment to give us full details.
  3839.  
  3840. (...)
  3841.  
  3842. BILL ESSAYLI, U.S. ATTORNEY IN CALIFORNIA (live press conference): ... in response to recent immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles, to date, we have charged 97 individuals either with assault or impeding federal agents engaged in immigration enforcement operations. And we will continue to charge more as we obtain the evidence.
  3843.  
  3844. Earlier this summer, federal agents engaged in law enforcement operations targeted at removing illegal immigrants who entered the United States unlawfully. In response, large protests began to form throughout the Los Angeles area. I want to be very clear. Every American has a right to peacefully protest. What is not constitutionally protected is a right to engage in violence or to impede federal agents by assaulting, doxxing or obstructing their operations.
  3845.  
  3846. On July 10th, law enforcement officers were executing a court-ordered search warrant at locations in Ventura County. Protesters, including members of an organization named VC Defensa came to the site of the search warrants. VC Defensa is an organization that operates and manages what they call a "rapid response network" designed to impede federal agents and their enforcement operations. And that warrant is what you see on the camera there at the marijuana farm where the agents were attempting to leave.
  3847.  
  3848. In one of the criminal complaints today, we are charging two members of VC Defensa of conspiring to impede and injure federal law enforcement officers. These two VC Defensa members went to the protest on July 10 in Ventura County, and acted with others to assault enforcement vehicles and officers.
  3849.  
  3850. One of the members charged in the complaint used her vehicle to block U.S. government vehicles from leaving the location while another member and others ambushed the vehicles by throwing rocks at them. And those images went viral. Several government vehicles were damaged, and a federal contract employee was injured as a rock went through her vehicle window, shattering the glass and striking her.
  3851.  
  3852. (...)
  3853.  
  3854. MSNBC's The 11th Hour
  3855.  
  3856. July 10, 2025
  3857.  
  3858. 11:52 p.m. Eastern
  3859.  
  3860. STEPHANIE RUHLE: But a lot of the people who ICE is rounding up are not the bad guys -- right, the bad guys that Trump told us about. The fact that this ICE operation happened on a farm where people are going to work. Is this the type of immigration reform and enforcement that Americans want?
  3861.  
  3862. (...)
  3863.  
  3864. MSNBC's 
  3865.  
  3866. Morning Joe
  3867.  
  3868. July 11, 2025
  3869.  
  3870. 7:21 a.m.
  3871.  
  3872. WILLIE GEIST: Protesters clashed with immigration officers in California yesterday as federal agents carried out sweeps at cannabis farms. Several people were arrested after hundreds of demonstrators attempted to block roads around those facilities. The U.S. attorney's officers confirmed it had executed a search warrant, and the farm's parent company says it fully complied.
  3873.  
  3874. (...)
  3875.  
  3876. MSNBC's Chris Jansing Reports
  3877.  
  3878. July 11, 2025
  3879.  
  3880. 12:46 p.m.
  3881.  
  3882. CHRIS JANSING: Today, escalating tension and dramatic clashes between protesters and federal agents raiding two locations of a cannabis farm in California. In Ventura County. NBC Los Angeles reports officials were seen using flash bangs, smoke and chemical irritants to keep the crowd back and, critics say, instill fear. 
  3883.  
  3884. (...)
  3885.  
  3886. RYAN NOBLES: And, of course, this raid led to a massive protest in and around the facility. Clashes between protesters and the ICE agents and other law enforcement that were there on the scene. The law enforcement responding with tear gas. And then there was even one protester that's accused of firing a shot in the direction of law enforcement. The FBI right now issuing a reward for the -- for anyone that could find and help them locate the person responsible for firing that shot. But Chris, at the very least, this shows just how high tensions are right now...
  3887.  
  3888. (...)
  3889.  
  3890. Fox's America Reports
  3891.  
  3892. July 11, 2025
  3893.  
  3894. 2:05 p.m.
  3895.  
  3896. JOHN ROBERTS: But we also saw people throwing rocks trying to smash out the windows of vehicles of which federal agents were riding. Do you have any leads yet on who this fellow with the gun was?
  3897.  
  3898. BILL ESSAYLI, U.S. ATTORNEY FOR CALIFORNIA: We put out information about him. We're asking for the public's help. We currently do not know who he is, but we will find him.
  3899.  
  3900. (...)
  3901.  
  3902. ROBERTS: After (Governor Gavin) Newsom tweeted this. He said, "Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields. Trump calls me 'Newscum,' but he's the real scum."
  3903.  
  3904. (CBP Commissioner) Rodney Scott's response to that was: "Here's some breaking news. 10 juveniles were found at this marijuana facility -- all illegal aliens, 8 of them unaccompanied." We now found that number is nine. "It's now under investigation for child labor violations. This is Newsom's California."
  3905.  
  3906. Of course, big story during the Biden administration was that they lost track of some 320,000 unaccompanied minors in the millions that came across the border. It was feared that a lot of those unaccompanied minors might be vulnerable to child exploitation. Do we believe that that's what happened here?
  3907.  
  3908. ESSAYLI: That -- we highly suspect that that was what (was) happening there. ...
  3909.  
  3910. (...)
  3911.  
  3912. Fox's The Story with Martha MacCallum
  3913.  
  3914. July 11, 2025
  3915.  
  3916. 3:04 p.m.
  3917.  
  3918. WILLIAM La JEUNESSE: Glass House Farms is the state's largest licensed marijuana farm. According to ICE, in a warrant signed by a federal judge, it also hires and harbors an illegal workforce. Some seen here are lined up waiting for deportation buses. Protesters threw rocks, bottles and broke windows to stop those ICE vans from leaving. National Guard soldiers use flash bangs, pepper balls, smoke and gas to disperse the crowd.
  3919.  
  3920. (...)
  3921.  
  3922. MARTHA MaCCALLUM: There were more of these workplace operations in prior administrations, and yet they were not met with, you know, people following the vans as they went along and throwing rocks at them, and the violence that your agents are encountering. So what is going on?
  3923.  
  3924. TODD LYONS, ICE ACTING DIRECTOR (via phone): No, Martha, and thank you for having me today. I really appreciate you highlighting that because I was a young agent and a young supervisor back under those administrations, and we didn't have these issues. Now, you have people blatantly shooting firearms at federal law enforcement officers. It's incredible. You know, we've always heard from the left and other organizations, "If ICE only had a criminal warrant" -- well, we had a criminal warrant. We were going after a marijuana growth facility which happened to donate to Governor Newsom.
  3925.  
  3926. And we did it the right way that everybody wanted serving a criminal warrant against an American business that's harboring and trafficking illegal immigration. And now that we're finding out, you know, forced labor of children. And here we are being protested again -- assaulted, deadly weapons, rocks, unacceptable. And, Martha, I hate to say it. It's all because of the rhetoric of the left. A lot of elected officials putting a bullseye on ICE just for doing their law enforcement mission.
  3927.  
  3928. MaCCALLUM: I mean, this is absolute chaos, Director. We're just watching this video again, and things being hauled at these windows, I mean, it's a miracle that none of your agents were killed.
  3929.  
  3930. (...)
  3931.  
  3932. MSNBC's The Weeknight
  3933.  
  3934. July 11, 2025
  3935.  
  3936. 7:45 p.m.
  3937.  
  3938. MICHAEL STEELE: The Trump administration's crackdown on immigration has now turned deadly. Just hours ago, a farm worker injured in the California raids died of his injuries according to the United Farm Workers labor union. Yesterday, federal agents arrested about 200 people on two legal cannabis farms in Ventura and and Santa Barbara Counties. Agents deployed teargas and so-called less lethal ammunition during a heated standoff with protesters. The labor union also says some workers, including U.S. citizens, remain totally unaccounted for.
  3939.  
  3940. (...)
  3941.  
  3942. ALICIA MENENDEZ: Andrea. Stephen Miller knows he can't hit the numbers that he's laying out and only focus on criminals, which is what he originally promised Americans. So what is he willing to do to get those deportation numbers where he wants them? And what is the consequence, then, for American communities?
  3943.  
  3944. ANDREA FLORES, FDW.US: Well, the most extreme consequence is actually what we saw, you know, with the death of this farm worker who was working on a California farm. My heart and condolences go out to their family, right? So that is the extreme result and consequence of pursuing mass deportation policy. I think the public is really seeing that if you want to hit a daily number or you want to really remove most of the immigrants in this country, it will be violent, it will be disruptive, and it will absolutely destroy the American economy. So you saw with that raid in California 200 workers just swept up. And those were Customs and Border Protection officers -- not just ICE officers -- so you have border patrol in communities using racial profiling ...
  3945.  
  3946. (...)
  3947.  
  3948. MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes
  3949.  
  3950. July 11, 2025
  3951.  
  3952. 8:19 p.m.
  3953.  
  3954. CHRIS HAYES: Americans are rejecting wholesale the police state tactics of Stephen Miller and Donald Trump's mass deportation. I mean, you see it multiple times a day in so many of the videos of ICE raids, just ordinary Americans intervening. Yesterday in California, hundreds of people spent hours in a standoff with ICE agents who were raiding and detaining workers at a licensed cannabis farm.
  3955.  
  3956. (...)
  3957.  
  3958. HAYES: There was this raid at this legal cannabis farm in California yesterday. A man named Jaime Alanis who had been there for 10 years died after sustaining injuries during a raid where authorities say they arrested 200 people.
  3959.  
  3960. (...)
  3961.  
  3962. I got to imagine agricultural interests in this country are not happy with this.
  3963.  
  3964. (...)
  3965.  
  3966. MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports
  3967.  
  3968. July 12, 2025
  3969.  
  3970. 1:24 p.m.
  3971.  
  3972. ALEX WITT: As you saw this week, the clashes between protesters and officials, they turned pretty violent at two state licensed cannabis farms where agents deployed teargas against demonstrators
  3973.  
  3974. (...)
  3975.  
  3976. CONGRESSMAN ROBERT GARCIA (D-CA): And here in California, he has created more terror. Los Angeles, that whole incident, he essentially created it by bringing in ICE and the military and the National Guard. We know that most of these protests have been peaceful. And now he's raiding farms -- raiding school campuses?
  3977.  
  3978. (...)
  3979.  
  3980. MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber
  3981.  
  3982. July 14, 2025
  3983.  
  3984. 6:27 p.m.
  3985.  
  3986. ARI MELBER: If that doesn't look like the way to peacefully deal with American citizens, you can see why scenes like this have many questioning whether this is the beginning -- the start of efforts to use federal agents like a police state. This scene shows the tear gassing of protesters and others during the controversy around an attempted immigration raid at a farm that turned out, was just doing legal work, meaning it's not clear whether this was the right use or who they were going after if it was a legal farm.
  3987.  
  3988. (...)
  3989.  
  3990. MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes
  3991.  
  3992. July 16, 2025
  3993.  
  3994. 8:51 p.m.
  3995.  
  3996. CHRIS HAYES: Federal immigration agents raided that farm. Masked, militarized agents descended on the area with what they call less than lethal weapons which include rubber bullets and tear gas and the like, seemingly used indiscriminately against the crowd of workers and protesters who had shown up.
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  3998.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 7:15 PM</pubDate>
  3999.    <dc:creator>Brad Wilmouth</dc:creator>
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  4003.  <title>New Yorker Attempts Political Resurrection of 'Dirtbag Left' Graham Platner</title>
  4004.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2025/11/02/new-yorker-attempts-political-resurrection-dirtbag-left-graham</link>
  4005.  <description> Someone needs to inform Jay Caspian Kang of the New Yorker that  "dirtbag" is considered to be a pejorative, not a positive. Yet, Kang seems to think that he is somehow helping to restore the sinking candidacy of Democrat Graham Platner for the U.S. Senate from Maine by repeatedly referring to him as the "embodiment of the dirtbag left" as he did on Friday with "What Explains Graham Platner’s Popularity?"
  4006.  
  4007. And Kang weirdly does his worst to help Graham's supposed popularity by emphasizing Platner as a "dirtbag" starting with the subtitle: "The U.S. Senate candidate from Maine seems like the embodiment of the dirtbag left. But there’s another way to understand his appeal."
  4008.  
  4009.  
  4010. ...The dirtbag left, as it became known, mostly revolved, at its start, around the podcast “Chapo Trap House,” the Democratic Socialists of America, and a few scattered high-follower social-media accounts. Its adherents were largely disaffected Bernie Sanders supporters who believed that the populist movement behind their candidate had been upended and diverted by a cabal of soulless careerists in both politics and, perhaps more pointedly, in the political media. Among the targets of the dirtbag left were Neera Tanden, a Hillary Clinton operative; Clara Jeffery, the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones; and various reporters and editors at the Times, the Washington Post, and so on. The accusation was simple and alluring: by torpedoing the Sanders campaign and running an unelectable cipher in Clinton, these blinkered establishmentarians were responsible for Donald Trump’s victory. The dirtbag left’s job was to never let them forget it.
  4011.  
  4012.  
  4013. That's a "dirtbag" count of three in just the second paragraph. Does Kang get paid based on "dirtbag" piece work frequency? And now to up the game with a couple more "dirtbags" in the next paragraph:
  4014.  
  4015.  
  4016. I’ve been thinking about that era in online politics while observing the campaign of Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate hopeful from Maine. In some ways, he looks like an updated version of the ideal dirtbag-left candidate. Here is a working-class veteran who has talked about America’s “new Gilded Age,” called out the “billionaire economy,” and explicitly avoided the sort of “neoliberal” identity talk that seems to exist primarily to mediate disputes between well-off, highly educated people. Lately, Platner has fallen under intense scrutiny for a trove of old Reddit posts that included homophobic comments and a Nazi tattoo that he has since covered up. (He has said that he was not aware until recently of the tattoo’s Nazi associations.) This was surprising, although, for some skeptics, it might have fallen right in line with the image of the dirtbag left, who were often criticized as misogynistic and narrowly focused on the feelings of white men.
  4017.  
  4018.  
  4019. Unfortunately for Kang, the credibility of his beloved "dirtbag," Platner, has been strongly questioned by a CNN report that revealed Platner knew full well the meaning of his tattoo to the extent of even using the German word for the SS symbol:
  4020.  
  4021.  
  4022. His campaign has since fielded questions about whether Platner was aware of the tattoo’s resemblance earlier than he has said. Jewish Insider first reported about the former acquaintance, who recalled Platner referring to the image as “my Totenkopf” in a joking way more than a decade ago. CNN spoke with that same acquaintance, who reiterated the recollection.
  4023.  
  4024.  
  4025. As to Kang's description of "dirtbag" Platner's background as "working class," that might come as a surprise to his grandfather, Warren Platner, who "was a world-famous architect." Platner's father also kept up the family tradition of not being working class: "Bronson Platner, served as an assistant district attorney in Maine, ran unsuccessfully for state senate, and operated his own law practice for more than 30 years." 
  4026.  
  4027. Time for a reality check:
  4028.  
  4029.  
  4030. Platner himself attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., in 1999, the Washington Free Beacon reported. It's considered America's number one boarding school and boasts extracurricular offerings like a 287-acre farm, a 220,000-square-foot "state-of-the-art" athletic facility featuring squash courts and two ice skating rinks, and study abroad opportunities in France, Italy, Spain, and the Bahamas. Its alumni include a Supreme Court justice and a CIA director. Tuition and fees for boarding students sit at $77,240 a year.
  4031.  
  4032.  
  4033. Kang's "Dirtbag" Elegy continues on and on for many more paragraphs desperately attempting to convince the reader that "working class" Graham Platner "is probably the closest thing we have to the id of the mainstream Democratic voter in 2025."
  4034.  
  4035. Sorry Kang, but if Platner is the "id of the mainstream Democratic voter" then that party is in much worse shape than we had imagined. However, at least they are much wealthier than we had thought.</description>
  4036.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 7:07 PM</pubDate>
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  4041.  <title>CNN's Dana Bash Presses Speaker Johnson, Mostly Gives Booker A Pass On Shutdown </title>
  4042.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/steve-malzberg/2025/11/02/cnns-dana-bash-presses-speaker-johnson-mostly-gives-booker-pass</link>
  4043.  <description>Midway through day number 30 of the government shutdown, CNN's Dana Bash discussed the situation with both House Speaker Mike Johnson, and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) in separate interviews on Thursday's "Inside Politics", on CNN, and although the topic was the same, her questions and  Bash's handling of each guest's responses were noticeably different. First it was Speaker Johnson's turn.
  4044.  
  4045. Bash's first question to Johnson involved the President revealing that he had instructed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in more than 30 years. Next she turned to the shutdown, and the possibility that a partial deal could be reached that would keep funding SNAP, which is set to expire on Saturday. Johnson asked why not keep all programs going, by having the Democrats agree to open the government, and Bash responded: 
  4046.  
  4047.  
  4048.  
  4049.  
  4050.  
  4051.  
  4052. BASH: So, just to put a pin in it, all or nothing. Full government funding for the entire government, or you're not going to bring anything up on the House floor, even if the Senate finds some sort of compromise?
  4053.  
  4054. JOHNSON: Yeah, because they're trying to play games and we are not interested in doing that. That's the position of the leadership, Republican leadership in the Senate and the House and the White House as well. We have to do well and right by all the American people...
  4055.  
  4056. BASH.... But why are you drawing the line now on 40 million Americans who literally will not be able to eat without government assistance? Why not help them in the short term?...
  4057.  
  4058. JOHNSON: Wait a minute, wait. I reject the premise of the question. I'm not drawing the line. The Democrats are drawing the line... All the cabinet secretaries are doing everything they can to mitigate and reduce the pain. But that ability is not available for SNAP because the contingency fund had to be prior authorized by Congress.
  4059.  
  4060. BASH: Well, they say that that's not what the law shows.
  4061.  
  4062. JOHNSON: No, that's ridiculous.
  4063.  
  4064. BASH: And certainly, the administration has shown they are very happy -- money around without Congress saying, yes.
  4065.  
  4066. JOHNSON: No, Dana. They're just simply not true. It's already been adjudicated... The Democrats have put the American people in this crisis, and they are the ones that have the power to end it. They could do it today, if they feel enough pressure to do so.
  4067.  
  4068.  
  4069. Bash then wanted to know if, now that the President had returned from his overseas trip, he would get involved and bring the sides together to cut a deal. 
  4070.  
  4071.  
  4072. BASH: You know, he could -- he could make a deal on this in five minutes.
  4073.  
  4074. JOHNSON: He can't. There's no deal to be made. Remember, the CR does not have Trump or Republican priorities on it at all. There's nothing we can pull off of that to make it more palatable for the Democrats. I would have done that a long time ago... 
  4075.  
  4076.  
  4077. As you can see, Bash was not bashful about confronting the Speaker. Her interview later with Booker, was nowhere near as hard hitting. CNN isn't fair and balanced.
  4078.  
  4079.  
  4080.  
  4081.  
  4082.  
  4083. To her credit, she started out with a tough one on SNAP.  "Are there some Democrats do you, sir, because you voted no, bear some responsibility for endangering people's food aid?" But she then let Booker spew talking points uninterrupted for a minute and a half.
  4084.  
  4085. She later said, "So you say that Republicans are being cruel, but it's also true that you just have to vote yes, and four other Democratic senators have to vote yes, and the government will be reopened." But she then allowed Booker to ramble on for almost two full minutes without interruption, before she switched topics to the New Jersey Governor's race. 
  4086.  
  4087. There is no doubt that Speaker Johnson has a more powerful position, and tough questions are fair, but there is also no doubt that Bash played by two sets of rules during her two sessions. Of course this is not unique to these interviews, not unique to Bash, and not unique to CNN. It's called liberal media bias.</description>
  4088.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 10:46 AM</pubDate>
  4089.    <dc:creator>Steve Malzberg</dc:creator>
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  4093.  <title>Disgusting NY Times Downplays Holocaust, Used as 'Justification for...Genocide' in Gaza</title>
  4094.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/11/02/disgusting-ny-times-downplays-holocaust-used-justification</link>
  4095.  <description>The New York Times ran a repellent interview in its opinion section Friday, “We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust -- Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the ‘crime of all crimes’ informs our understanding of Gaza.”
  4096.  
  4097. By “rethink,” the paper means downplay the Holocaust and to lie about the war in Gaza as a "genocide."
  4098.  
  4099. Hirsch of Columbia University was interviewed by Times columnist M. Gessen, formerly Masha Gessen, who now goes by “they.” Can one even imagine the New York Times in a previous era complaining about the “outsize influence of the Holocaust” and weaponing the Holocaust against its Jewish victims?
  4100.  
  4101.  
  4102. M. Gessen: Throughout the war in Gaza, Israeli leaders and their supporters in the United States have invoked the Holocaust to justify their actions….Some scholars of the Holocaust — people who have spent their professional lives keeping the memory of the catastrophe alive — are worried. They worry that their work has been repurposed as war propaganda and as justification for committing a genocide....There is a very strongly articulated position that the Holocaust should never be compared to anything....
  4103.  
  4104. Hirsch: …. And there’s an outsize influence of the Holocaust that then obscures other histories and also obscures what is happening right now: the genocide in Gaza, which the exceptionalism of the Holocaust has fostered denial of other genocides....
  4105.  
  4106.  
  4107. To further smear Israel, Hirsch misled about the Nakba of 1948, when Britain partitioned the Palestinian Mandate, cleaving out a Jewish state and an Arab state, with the Jews accepting statehood but the Arabs refusing to live alongside the Jews in the region. Several Arab countries then launched a failed war on Israel to strangle the Jewish homeland in its crib. As in Gaza, when Israel-haters start losing a war that they started, they blame the Jews.
  4108.  
  4109.  
  4110. Hirsch: ….one historical phenomenon that is part of the Holocaust is actually the formation of the state of Israel and the Nakba — the expulsion of Palestinians. So I think when we teach the Holocaust now, that has to be somehow part of the history. Our interrelation of Holocaust memory and Nakba memory really has to be taken into account.
  4111.  
  4112.  
  4113. The professor told Gessen why she felt compelled to drop her course at Columbia University because Jewish students had the false sense of being victimized on campus. Never mind the constant harassment and threats against Jews at Columbia and other progressive hotbeds during the pro-Hamas rallies.
  4114.  
  4115.  
  4116. HIrsch…. the way universities — including my own, Columbia — have conceded that they are hotbeds of antisemitism, and that Jewish students are suffering, has fostered a sense of Jewish victimization. That feeling of victimization prevents us from making the kinds of connections I’ve just been talking about.
  4117.  
  4118.  
  4119. Hirsch praised Gessen for previously comparing Gaza to the Nazi's Warsaw Ghetto for Jews: "You compared it to the Warsaw ghetto and wrote something that was so memorable and devastating: 'The ghetto is being liquidated.' How are you thinking about this now?"
  4120.  
  4121. Gessen responded by agreeing with her own words and then again redefining “genocide” so Israel could fit into the parameters (though it still didn’t).
  4122.  
  4123.  
  4124. Gessen: It’s still being liquidated….Reporters would insist that obviously Gaza wasn’t a ghetto, and obviously it wasn’t being liquidated. Those were fascinating conversations, because I realized just how little many of them actually knew. I think the most important thing they didn’t understand — and that we often fail to understand — is that genocide is a process. Lately, I’ve been reporting a series on international justice and war crimes, and I realized that, legally, one of the key distinctions between genocide and crimes against humanity is precisely this: Genocide is a process. Crimes against humanity occur when large numbers of people are killed — or when civilians are intentionally targeted, or when there’s blatant disregard for human life. But genocide is different: It unfolds over time. It begins with setting the conditions for mass killing — with propaganda, with creating a climate in which many people can be killed — and then with gradually eliminating the conditions for life itself.
  4125.  
  4126. So starvation is very much a part of this genocide….
  4127.  
  4128.  
  4129. The post-ceasefire figures prove there was no starvation in Gaza, and certainly no genocide, as the ratio of civilian deaths to combat deaths was 1.5-to-1, a tribute to the Israeli army. But don’t expect such facts to penetrate the sealed anti-Israel propaganda bubble of the New York Times, which is far more concerned about fake “Islamophobia” than the actual anti-Semitism of Holocaust diminishment demonstrated in this interview.</description>
  4130.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 10:40 AM</pubDate>
  4131.    <dc:creator>Clay Waters</dc:creator>
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  4135.  <title>PBS Plugs Jon Karl's 4th Anti-Trump Book, Comparing Trump to 'Breaking Bad' Kingpin</title>
  4136.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/11/02/pbs-plugs-jon-karls-4th-anti-trump-book-comparing-trump-breaking-bad</link>
  4137.  <description> A night after the PBS News Hour hosted a book-plugging interview with CNN’s Abby Phillip, they turned on Wednesday to ABC Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl to plug his fourth anti-Trump book, Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America.
  4138.  
  4139. They could have interviewed Fox News contributor Joe Concha in April about his book about the 2024 race, The Greatest Comeback Ever. They did not.
  4140.  
  4141. Karl’s latest effort carries a blurb from liberal legend Bob Woodward that’s truly preposterous: “An exceptionally brilliant portrait of how politics pulled America, kicking and screaming, into 2025 by one of the best, toughest, and non-partisan reporters the United States is so very fortunate to have.”
  4142.  
  4143. So when Karl goes on national television to compare Donald Trump to Walter White, the murderous drug kingpin at the center of the TV series Breaking Bad, that’s “nonpartisan”? This is what PBS chose as the highlight!
  4144.  
  4145.  
  4146.  
  4147.  
  4148.  
  4149.  
  4150. GEOFF BENNETT:  So you open this book by recounting a phone call with President Trump right after the election. And you say the president wanted to hear you acknowledge his election victory, and you compare this interaction to a scene from Breaking Bad. Tell us about that and what it suggested to you about how he was approaching the second term.
  4151.  
  4152. JONATHAN KARL:  Look, this was such an incredible election, so many twists and turns. And you know what it's like on election night. You are up all night, and then you have to be on the morning shows of you're in television doing this. So I had been up all night, and I just figured I would call Trump to congratulate him, which is strange, by the way. Why would you call Trump? I had been talking to him throughout the campaign, like every and — some weeks, every couple of days.
  4153.  
  4154. BENNETT:  And you had known him for some 30-plus years.
  4155.  
  4156. KARL:  And I have known him for a long time, and so I didn't think he was going to answer, by the way. I mean, he's the president-elect now.
  4157.  
  4158. BENNETT:  Right.
  4159.  
  4160. KARL:  But he answered, and I said: "President-Elect Trump, I'm just calling to say congratulations." And he paused and he said: "On what? On what, Jonathan? You tell me. Congratulations on what?" And I said "on the greatest comeback victory in the history of American politics," which is what it was.
  4161.  
  4162. But it reminded me, in Breaking Bad, the Walter White character played by Bryan Cranston, who is out there at one point with some other drug dealers he's clearly bested. And he says: "Say my name. Say my name." Trump wanted to hear me say what had happened, wanted to hear me say, after all that I had written about him, to hear me say that he had won this great victory.
  4163.  
  4164.  
  4165. There's certainly an alternative interpretation of the call -- yes, Trump may have been seeking to underline that he had triumphed despite Karl and his journalist comrades doing everything to ruin him. But it could also be his response to one of those smarmy Washington conventions for reporters -- to grovel a little and congratulate the guy you just tried to destroy -- because, hey, you want access to hardball interviews down the road. It might sound like civility, but it carries the odor of aggressive insincerity and careerism. 
  4166.  
  4167. From there, Bennett prompted Karl through predictable anti-Trump themes: Vice President Pence and January 6, Trump trolling about a third term, appointing Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary despite allegedly being unqualified, and the book's title, about retribution. Karl concluded: 
  4168.  
  4169.  
  4170. KARL: He seems like almost everything that he is doing now is either punishing the people that he feels betrayed him or went after him, rewarding friends, and also kind of like a legacy pitch, whether it's building the big ballroom. He's very serious about wanting the Nobel Peace Prize. These are different than the first term. He is thinking about lasting changes to this country. And he's dead serious about getting back at his enemies.
  4171. </description>
  4172.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 5:10 AM</pubDate>
  4173.    <dc:creator>Tim Graham</dc:creator>
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  4177.  <title>MSNBC’s Psaki Lies About Not Knowing Why Trump Testing Nuke Capability</title>
  4178.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/isaac-white/2025/11/02/msnbcs-psaki-lies-about-not-knowing-why-trump-testing-nuke</link>
  4179.  <description> Do Jen Psaki and her producers even bother to do their due diligence anymore? Thursday night’s The Briefing on MSNBC painted President Trump’s announcement to test the United States’ nuclear capabilities “on an equal basis” with our adversaries as an arbitrary and confusing decision without providing proper context or explanation.
  4180.  
  4181. Psaki first read a cherry-picked selection from the post by Trump announcing new “Nuclear Weapons” tests and declared, “… this announcement really came out of nowhere, and it's not even clear what kind of nuclear test he means or why it's so urgent to do them now.”
  4182.  
  4183. If you look at the literal Truth Social Post she displayed on screen, Trump stated the reasoning behind the decision was “Because of other countries testing programs,” which Psaki conveniently didn’t read aloud!
  4184.  
  4185.  
  4186.  
  4187.  
  4188.  
  4189.  
  4190.  
  4191.  
  4192.  
  4193. The post also explicitly mentioned Russia and China. Did Psaki’s team not know Russia tested a nuclear-capable missile and a new nuclear-powered underwater drone less than a week prior? China was also suspected to have been testing nuclear weapons due to suspicious activity at a testing site in recent memory.
  4194.  
  4195. She then played a clip from earlier in the day of Trump gaggling with press on Air Force One where he said there are “others doing testing,” which she claimed to not understand:
  4196.  
  4197.  
  4198. Others are testing? I mean, like who? We don't really have any idea what he's talking about, because the other nuclear superpowers, Russia and China, have not detonated a live nuclear weapon since the 1990s. America itself has not detonated one since 1992, which was 33 years ago. So, it's really unclear what exactly is motivating Donald Trump to do this right now, to put out that statement last night.
  4199.  
  4200.  
  4201. The Trump administration hasn’t yet revealed if actual warheads were to be dropped or if the missile-launch systems will be given some practice runs. Regardless, what is clear is that Trump was matching Putin’s escalation like a classic western standoff; essentially the tried and true Cold War-era strategy of playing chicken with the Soviets. Psaki was playing dumb.
  4202.  
  4203. Psaki then facetiously brought up the recent fiasco inside the Pentagon over a new Netflix film, A House of Dynamite, “So clearly that movie struck a nerve inside the Trump administration. Could it have gotten under Trump's skin, too? Could it have prompted, let's say, a surprise announcement post about resuming nuclear tests? We don't know.”
  4204.  
  4205. The insinuation was harmless enough, but served to delegitimize Trump’s handle on rising global tensions and intra-administration affairs.
  4206.  
  4207. Vice President JD Vance’s remarks on the subject from earlier in the day about stretching the legs of our nuclear capabilities were also used to make the administration appear wishy-washy. Psaki eventually relented, “… we have no legitimate reason to believe that there are any problems with America's nuclear capacity. Even the Vice President walked his earlier statement back. But we have every reason to question how seriously this administration takes its responsibility when it comes to nukes.”
  4208.  
  4209. What Vance was possibly referencing was the embarrassing story from last years about how corrupt elements of China’s Rocket Force allegedly filled fuel tanks with water.
  4210.  
  4211. All in all, Psaki was not interested in actually reporting what was going on, and instead wanted to make Trump and his team look as stupid as possible. Either her situational awareness has deteriorated like Biden’s, or she was intentionally misleading MSNBC’s ever-shrinking audience.
  4212.  
  4213. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
  4214.  
  4215.  
  4216. MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki
  4217.  
  4218. October 30, 2025
  4219.  
  4220. 9:29:53 p.m. EST
  4221.  
  4222. JEN PSAKI: Okay. Just before his big meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping yesterday, Donald Trump made, I mean, I guess you could call it a surprise announcement posting, quote, “I [have] instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” There you go.
  4223.  
  4224. Just a totally normal President talking about nuclear weapons in a totally normal way. And what could go wrong? I mean, this announcement really came out of nowhere, and it's not even clear what kind of nuclear test he means or why it's so urgent to do them now. And when reporters try to get some clarity from the President, he only made things much more confusing.
  4225.  
  4226. [Cuts to clip]
  4227.  
  4228. PRES. DONALD TRUMP [on 10/30/25]: They seem to all be nuclear testing.
  4229.  
  4230. REPORTER [on 10/30/25]: Russia?
  4231.  
  4232. TRUMP [on 10/30/25]: We have more nuclear weapons than anybody. We don't do testing. We've halted it years, many years ago. But with others doing testing, I think it's appropriate that we do also.
  4233.  
  4234. [Cuts back to live]
  4235.  
  4236. PSAKI: Others are testing? I mean, like who? We don't really have any idea what he's talking about, because the other nuclear superpowers, Russia and China, have not detonated a live nuclear weapon since the 1990s. America itself has not detonated one since 1992, which was 33 years ago. So, it's really unclear what exactly is motivating Donald Trump to do this right now, to put out that statement last night.
  4237.  
  4238. What is notable, and might not be a coincidence, that is that it comes just after the streaming service, Netflix, released a provocative new movie on this very subject.
  4239.  
  4240. [Cuts to clip]
  4241.  
  4242. (…)
  4243.  
  4244. [Cuts back to live]
  4245.  
  4246. PSAKI: So that's the trailer for the Netflix movie [A] House of Dynamite, which portrays a nightmare scenario in which the United States is revealed to be far more vulnerable to a nuclear attack than many would like to believe. That movie is, of course, a work of fiction. And yet, the Pentagon was reportedly so anxious over that film, they issued an internal memo arguing all the ways that the doomsday scenario depicted in the movie isn't accurate. So clearly that movie struck a nerve inside the Trump administration. Could it have gotten under Trump's skin, too? Could it have prompted, let's say, a surprise announcement post about resuming nuclear tests? We don't know.
  4247.  
  4248. What we do know is that the whole point is having — of having a nuclear arsenal is deterrence, when our nuclear strike capacity is what insurance America's enemies think twice before taking action against us. And yet, today, Vice President JD Vance seems so intent on justifying the need for nuclear tests, the ones his boss announced he wants to do, so determined to defend Trump's decision that he actually suggested that America's nuclear weapons may not be functioning properly.
  4249.  
  4250. [Cuts to clip]
  4251.  
  4252. VICE PRES. JD VANCE [on 10/30/25]: I think the President's truth speaks for itself. We have a big arsenal, obviously. The Russians have a large nuclear arsenal. The Chinese have a large nuclear arsenal. Sometimes you've gotta test it to make sure that it's functioning and working properly.
  4253.  
  4254. [Cuts back to live]
  4255.  
  4256. PSAKI: Wait a minute. You're not sure that it's functioning properly? I mean, the last thing any member of any administration should do is cast doubt on America's nuclear capability. But that's exactly what the Vice President just seemed to do. And Vance seemed to realize that in real time, because just a second later, he walked it back.
  4257.  
  4258. [Cuts to clip]
  4259.  
  4260. VANCE [on 10/30/25]: To be clear, we know that it does work properly, but you got to keep on top of it over time.
  4261.  
  4262. [Cuts back to live]
  4263.  
  4264. PSAKI: Okay. So now our nuclear arsenal does work properly. Okay. That was all in one statement. Look, we have no legitimate reason to believe that there are any problems with America's nuclear capacity. Even the Vice President walked his earlier statement back. But we have every reason to question how seriously this administration takes its responsibility when it comes to nukes.
  4265.  
  4266. Remember, this is the same President who accidentally fired and then had to rehire all the members of the agency that oversees the safety of nuclear warheads in this country, and then furloughed more than 1,000 workers from another nuclear safety agency during the government shutdown. So, what should we make of this President's sudden decision to start testing our nuclear arsenal, or his desire to, I guess? I've just the person to ask. Retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling joins me here right after a quick break.
  4267. </description>
  4268.  <pubDate>November 2nd, 2025 12:55 AM</pubDate>
  4269.    <dc:creator>Isaac White</dc:creator>
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  4273.  <title>CNNer Corrects Conservative's Pronunciation of Kamala, But Mispronounces Usha!</title>
  4274.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2025/11/01/cnner-corrects-conservatives-pronunciation-kamala</link>
  4275.  <description> Let she who is without pronunciation sin cast the first KA-ma-la.
  4276.  
  4277. At a Turning Point USA event at Ole Miss on Wednesday, JD Vance took unscripted questions from people in attendance, in the tradition of Charlie Kirk. 
  4278.  
  4279. On today's CNN This Morning, conservative Bradley Devlin of The Daily Signal praised Vance's willingness to engage in free-wheeling exchanges for an hour. Devlin contrasted that with Joe Biden's handlers pre-selecting his questioners. Continued Devlin:
  4280.  
  4281.  
  4282. "And Kamala Harris, who, whenever she came to a studio had a bunch of demands, a bunch of writers, it was edited."
  4283.  
  4284.  
  4285. Devlin pronounced Harris' first name Ka-MA-la. An unsmiling Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a CNN commentator, NYT podcaster, and NPR alum, interrupted Bradley: "KA-ma-la," she instructed.
  4286.  
  4287. Devlin has an engaging, happy-warrior vibe, and shrugged off Garcia-Navarro's interruption with a good-natured, "Kamala, yeah," pronouncing it as per her indication.
  4288.  
  4289. There was just one problem -- for Garcia-Navarro. Earlier in the segment, she mispronounced the first name of Usha Vance, wife of JD, pronouncing the first syllable as in a movie usher. The correct pronunciation is OO-shah. If you don't believe the Palm Beach Post, take it from a young TikToker of Indian origin.
  4290.  
  4291.  
  4292.  
  4293.  
  4294.  
  4295. Host Audie Cornish committed the same mispronunciation of Usha's name. 
  4296.  
  4297. So, see you one Kamala, and raise you two Ushas!
  4298.  
  4299. Cornish managed to work in a shot at JD over his Ole Miss appearance. Saying, "everybody has different priorities," Audie teased an appearance next week by a Democrat who will say that Vance should be back in DC, "fixing the shutdown."
  4300.  
  4301. Note: Devlin undoubtedly has considerable experience shrugging off rude interruptions by liberals: he's the former president of the UC Berkeley College Republicans!
  4302.  
  4303. Here's the transcript.
  4304.  
  4305.  
  4306. CNN This Morning
  4307. 10/31/25
  4308. 6:33 am EDT
  4309.  
  4310. AUDIE CORNISH: And prove me wrong, that's the late Charlie Kirk's legacy. Now the vice president is trying to take up that mantle, appearing at Turning Point USA campus events, like this one at the University of Mississippi, where Vance found himself in an unexpected moment, when a student confronted the vice president about his focus on the US as a Christian nation, given his marriage to Usha Vance, a practicing Hindu. 
  4311.  
  4312. And the student also asked about the administration's hardline stance on immigration. 
  4313.  
  4314. STUDENT: How can you, as a vice president, stand there and say that we have too many of them now and we are going to take them out, to people who are here, rightfully so, by paying the money that you guys asked us. You gave us the path and now how can you stop it and tell us we don't belong here anymore? 
  4315.  
  4316. JD VANCE: The United States should lower its levels of immigration in the future. Just because one person or 10 people or 100 people came in legally and contributed to the United States of America, does that mean that we're thereby committed to let in a million, or 10 million, or 100 million people a year in the future? 
  4317.  
  4318. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO: The question is, of course, the question that many people have. What is the vision of America that this administration has? And what you hear there JD Vance doing is what he often does. 
  4319.  
  4320. When I interviewed him about this. He often goes to this, which is, why should we let in 100 million people, 10 million people? He takes the maximalist position. Of course nobody wants open borders. Of course nobody wants 100 million people coming into America. But that's not the question she was asking. She was simply asking, why are you trying to prioritize certain types of people? Why are we now having refugees that are white coming in? Why are you saying that this is a Christian nation only, when you, indeed, JD Vance, are married to someone who's a practicing Hindu? I interviewed him, and it was the first time he really talked about his marriage to Usha Vance. 
  4321.  
  4322. BRADLEY DEVLIN: One of Charlie's other slogans is, if you disagree, get to the front of the line. And I love how the vice president last night, unscripted, for an hour, asked questions of young voters. He talked about, for quite some time with this young woman, about the issue of immigration. He also talked to a young man who's questioning our relationship to Israel, about the United States' Israel policy, about Trump's Israel policy. And so he covered that for an hour. 
  4323.  
  4324. And I just can't help but notice the contrast between this administration versus the administration of Joe Biden, who had prepared people he was going to select in the briefing room, and Kamala [pronounced Ka-MA-la] Harris, who, whenever she came to a studio --
  4325.  
  4326. GARCIA-NAVARRO: KA-ma-la.
  4327.  
  4328. DEVLIN: -- had a bunch of demands. KA-ma-la, yeah. She had a bunch of writers, and it was edited --.  
  4329.  
  4330. CORNISH: It's also priorities. Yeah, but everybody has different priorities. There's a Democrat who's going to come on next week and tell me that I can't believe vice president was there and not fixing the government shutdown. You know what I mean? And it's just interesting. This is the priority. 
  4331. </description>
  4332.  <pubDate>November 1st, 2025 4:15 PM</pubDate>
  4333.    <dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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  4337.  <title>Cory Booker's Lie and Ironic Ripping Of Trump At Political Violence Hearing Goes Unreported</title>
  4338.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/steve-malzberg/2025/11/01/cory-bookers-lie-and-ironic-ripping-trump-political-violence</link>
  4339.  <description>Last Tuesday, at a Senate hearing on political violence, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) lamented that Donald Trump, who he says has talked about punching people in the face, has never  apologized for it. Well guess what, Cory Booker has said that sometimes he wants to punch Donald Trump, and I have yet to see an apology from him. Booker also falsely stated that Chuck Schumer had "apologized" for what many had perceived as a threat to Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. Unfortunately, the media failed to point any of this out.
  4340.  
  4341. On June 22, 2019, Booker, appeared on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers and informed the audience that "Donald Trump is a guy who you understand he hurts you. And my testosterone sometime, makes me wanna feel like punching him." The macho man then bragged, "Which would be bad for this elderly out of shape man that he is if I did that. This physically weak specimen." Booker has pretty much gotten a pass for his violent talk.
  4342.  
  4343. As for Schumer, he spoke at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 focused on a Louisiana abortion rights case. "I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have unleashed the whirlwind, and you will pay the price...You won't know what hit you, if you go forward with these awful decisions." Two years later, in June of 2022, a man attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home. Schumer did say he regretted the words he used, but did not apologize.
  4344.  
  4345.  
  4346.  
  4347.  
  4348.  
  4349. At the hearing, Booker responded to Republican Senator John Cornyn, who had earlier presented Schumer's statements threatening Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, by falsely stating, "Chuck Schumer was very wrong in what he said....but you know what they never say, that he came out and apologized for it...Chuck Schumer, using self interrogation said I was wrong." He then turned to Donald Trump, "I've never seen the President of the United States, who has spoken about punching people in the face... has never given himself that type of self interrogation." Says the man who said he wanted to punch Trump! Booker did at one point admit, "To hear quotes that I've even said that need to be tampered down." Big deal! 
  4350.  
  4351. Unfortunately Booker was not called out by the media for any of this. In fact, ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS all took a pass on covering this hearing on their evening newscasts. Only Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier reported on it. David Spunt handled the piece, but not only did he not include Booker's claim that Schumer had apologized for his threats, he made no mention of the chutzpah exhibited by the Senator, for ripping Donald Trump, for allegedly doing exactly what he himself had done back in 2019, saying he wanted to punch the President. 
  4352.  
  4353.  
  4354.  
  4355.  
  4356.  
  4357. So far Cory Booker has gotten away with his 2019 remark. I can state with great certainty, that if a Republican Senator had gone on late night TV and talked about wanting to punch Joe Biden, or Barack Obama, it would be brought up to that senator's face, time and time again. And can you imagine what would happen if that dem ever took that same President to task for using violent rhetoric? All hell would break loose in the liberal media, as it should here with Booker.</description>
  4358.  <pubDate>November 1st, 2025 4:02 PM</pubDate>
  4359.    <dc:creator>Steve Malzberg</dc:creator>
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  4362. <item>
  4363.  <title>CNN's Abby Phillip Claims White Voters Have a Higher Bar For Black Candidates</title>
  4364.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/11/01/cnns-abby-phillip-claims-white-voters-have-higher-bar-black</link>
  4365.  <description>CNN’s Abby Phillip swung by The Breakfast Club radio show on Tuesday to promote her book about Jesse Jackson and at one point argued that it’s a known fact that many voters and “especially white voters” apply a higher standard to black candidates. Phillip provided no evidence for her accusation.
  4366.  
  4367. Co-host Loren Lorasa led Phillip by wondering how Jackson’s failure to become president in the 80s impacted people like former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris, “How would all of that be different if he had been able to get in office and do what he was doing before he was voted president or not voted president?”
  4368.  
  4369.  
  4370.  
  4371.  
  4372.  
  4373.  
  4374.  
  4375.  
  4376.  
  4377. Phillip replied, “It's really interesting. It's such an interesting question. I mean, I think one of the reasons that Vice President Harris and Barack Obama have had to present a certain way to the American public is the perception that a broad swath of the electorate, especially white voters, won't take a black candidate seriously unless they are very buttoned up, have the resume all lined up, the whole thing. And that's accurate, right? That, like, we all understand that you kind of have to clear a higher bar in order to even be let in the door.”
  4378.  
  4379. Obama managed to become president despite having one of the thinnest resumes of any presidential candidate in recent history, so, no, we don’t all accept the premise that the electorate has some racial bias against black candidates.
  4380.  
  4381. As it was, Phillip continued, “And I do wonder if the country had successfully elected a black president who was running on a progressive platform 30 years ago, whether they would have that same burden.”
  4382.  
  4383. Why just a progressive platform? If black progressives are having a hard time getting elected, the problems are the progressivism and news anchors who keep trying to accuse viewers of racism for not going along.
  4384.  
  4385. Here is a transcript for the October 28 show:
  4386.  
  4387.  
  4388. The Breakfast Club
  4389.  
  4390. 10/28/2025
  4391.  
  4392. LOREN LOROSA: How would all of that be different if he had been able to get in office and do what he was doing before he was voted president or not voted president?
  4393.  
  4394. ABBY PHILLIP: It's really interesting. It's such an interesting question. I mean, I think one of the reasons that Vice President Harris and Barack Obama have had to present a certain way to the American public is the perception that a broad swath of the electorate, especially white voters, won't take a black candidate seriously unless they are very buttoned up, have the resume all lined up, the whole thing. And that's accurate, right? That, like, we all understand that you kind of have to clear a higher bar in order to even be let in the door. And I do wonder if the country had successfully elected a black president who was running on a progressive platform 30 years ago, whether they would have that same burden.
  4395. </description>
  4396.  <pubDate>November 1st, 2025 2:00 PM</pubDate>
  4397.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  4401.  <title>The Media's Mamdani Love Affair: Storms Ahead?</title>
  4402.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jeffrey-lord/2025/11/01/medias-mamdani-love-affair-storms-ahead</link>
  4403.  <description> Be prepared. The potential soon-to-be election (so say the political pundits) of New York City mayoral candidate and devout socialist Zohran Mamdani is going to launch an avalanche of loving media coverage.
  4404.  
  4405. The anti-Trump is born! Isn’t socialism fabulous? And so on and on. Count on it.
  4406.  
  4407. Come January the new guy will be taking office and officially become Mayor Mamdani. But a look back in history would be instructive.
  4408.  
  4409. In 1965 it was also time to elect a Mayor of New York. And bursting onto the political/media scene was one John Lindsay. The media went crazy.
  4410.  
  4411. Recall that 1965 was a mere two years after the assassination of America’s revered, handsome President John F. Kennedy. The country was, understandably, still somewhat shell shocked. 
  4412.  
  4413. JFK, smiling and waving happily as his motorcade made its way through the the streets of Dallas, Texas, sat in the back seat of the open (no roof) presidential Lincoln Continental. At his side was his smiling and beautiful wife Jackie, attired in a fashionable pink suit with matching hat. 
  4414.  
  4415. By November of 1965 and the time for the New York mayoral election, the film taken that day in 1963 by a Texas citizen named Abraham Zapruder had finally been released by the government. In vivid color the nation could see, in detail, the brutal assassination as it unfolded that day.
  4416.  
  4417. Why was this relevant two years later in a race for Mayor of New York? The Republican -yes indeed Republican - candidate for Mayor was a tall, very handsome Republican Congressman John Lindsay. And like clockwork the media was filled with comparisons of Congressman Lindsay to the late and revered President Kennedy.
  4418.  
  4419. Lindsay’s handsome, smiling, JFK-resembling image was everywhere in both the New York and national media of the day, as here on the cover of LIFE magazine following his victory.  The considerable media coverage of Lindsay was a decidedly unusual event for a mere New York mayoral candidate. He won, but of course. Going away.
  4420.  
  4421. And then.
  4422.  
  4423. And then John Lindsay became the actual Mayor Lindsay. There were storms ahead. And one urban woe after another fell on his handsome head. On his very first day in office, New York’s transit workers union went on strike, completely shutting down the city’s subway and bus service. And from that moment on, or so it seemed in the day, Lindsay was plagued with one urban crisis after another. Teacher strikes, garbage worker strikes, strikes by the operators of drawbridges and sewage treatment workers. And memorably, a blizzard, immobilizing the city in snow.
  4424.  
  4425. Things were so bad that the Republican Mayor eventually felt forced to switch parties, and though re-elected in a controversial 1969 election, Lindsay’s 1972 presidential bid for the Democratic nomination tanked. In short, Mayor Lindsay’s political career was over, the media’s one-time New York mayoral golden boy finished politically for good. With considerable help from the media that had once celebrated him.
  4426.  
  4427. The mayoralty run of one Rudy Giuliani turned out quite differently. Starting out as a popular, crime-busting US Attorney, Giuliani swept into the mayor’s office. And then out of the blue, which no one saw coming, New York City was suddenly and literally subjected to an aerial attack from Islamic terrorists on 9/11. Giuliani, also taken by surprise, was instantly on national and global television screens walking the pollution swept streets, taking charge of the resulting chaos and dealing with mass murder as the twin towers crashed, killing some 26 thousand  New Yorkers.
  4428.  
  4429. Giuliani, quickly dubbed “America’s Mayor” turned out to be a seriously good and popular mayor, although not enough to make it to the White House. But even he could not finish his career unscathed, as his performance in various aspects of the Trump presidential campaign and in the Trump-Ukraine episode brought him tons of both legal problems and negative media coverage.
  4430.  
  4431. This trip down memory lane surfaced in watching the media of today swooning over New York’s apparent about-to-be elected Democrat/Socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. Interestingly, in Mamdani’s case his candidacy has both excited some New Yorkers while antagonizing others - with the media taking note.
  4432.  
  4433. Politico, for example, headlines: 
  4434.  
  4435.  
  4436. Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric candidacy is deeply polarizing New York
  4437.  
  4438. The New York City Democratic mayoral nominee has been hit from all sides over his Israel criticism and past stances on policing.
  4439.  
  4440.  
  4441. The story reports: 
  4442.  
  4443.  
  4444. NEW YORK — Front-running mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has energized the Big Apple — and polarized the nation’s largest city just as quickly.
  4445.  
  4446. Much like his nemesis President Donald Trump, the young democratic socialist has inspired durable support and repelled his opponents, a dynamic that’s symbolic of the national divide. His foes, including those in the business community, Jewish voters and moderate Democrats, have framed Mamdani’s potential mayoralty as an existential threat to this deep blue city.
  4447.  
  4448.  
  4449. Meanwhile, the left-wing New Yorker waxes enthusiastically about the socialist candidate. A recent headline: 
  4450.  
  4451.  
  4452. What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power
  4453.  
  4454. The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?
  4455.  
  4456.  
  4457. One suspects this election of 2025 and its enthusiastic, loving media coverage of Mamdani has been despairing to another candidate in the race - former New York Governor (and Democrat!) Andrew Cuomo. While there are a handful of days left to run in this election, Cuomo, once touted as a sure-thing presidential candidate, is regularly lagging in the polls, with the GOP candidate, Curtis Sliwa, behind Cuomo.
  4458.  
  4459. Yet the Mamdani-loving media coverage is not taking into account one serious problem for the current Golden Boy. Which is to say, as one socialist office-holder after another has discovered, socialism as an actual governing force doesn’t work well, usually ending up with a mess on the hands of the socialist political practitioner of the moment. 
  4460.  
  4461. But if John Lindsay’s media experience of going from mayoral Golden Boy to a media untouchable, an experience also lived by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani by the time he ran for president and later became a serious Trump supporter, says anything it is that when a potential New York Mayor swims in media adulation, as Mamdani is now doing, the media tide can - and will - turn and decidedly turn in the opposite direction.
  4462.  
  4463. And one suspects that once in practice, Mamdani’s socialism will not help him. Even in the New York media.</description>
  4464.  <pubDate>November 1st, 2025 1:30 PM</pubDate>
  4465.    <dc:creator>Jeffrey Lord</dc:creator>
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  4469.  <title>Bozell Tells Derek Hunter: ‘Not One Network Aired a Second’ of Arctic Frost Scandal</title>
  4470.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/evangeline-faussie/2025/11/01/bozell-tells-derek-hunter-not-one-network-aired-second</link>
  4471.  <description>Media Research Center President David Bozell joined The Derek Hunter Show Friday night for a discussion on the media’s silence on the conservative-targeted surveillance operation, Operation Arctic Frost, and its meltdown over White House renovations.
  4472.  
  4473. Bozell called out the press for ignoring “Operation Arctic Frost,” which revealed federal agencies spying on conservative organizations and sitting senators. “Not one single broadcast network aired one solitary second,” Bozell said, highlighting the stark media blackout. “Normally they’ll mention it in the most innocuous way so they can later say, ‘We covered it,’ but this time they didn’t even bother.”
  4474.  
  4475.  
  4476.  
  4477.  
  4478.  
  4479.  
  4480.  
  4481.  
  4482.  
  4483. Bozell also slammed the media’s overblown reaction to the White House East Wing renovations, which are largely focused on the new ballroom. He called out NBC’s Maria Shriver, noting it’s unclear if she’s ever even entered the East Wing. “I promise you, too, that Maria Shriver has never taken the public entrance to the White House. She’s gone in through the gate…So she has never probably even entered the East Wing,” he said, highlighting how journalists continue to portray the updates as catastrophic.
  4484.  
  4485. On the Democrat-led government shutdown, Bozell noted the media’s selective silence again, noting that the media has covered the White House renovations more than the shutdown because “the press understands it’s bad for business.”
  4486.  
  4487. The segment ended on a lighter note as Hunter joked about inviting Sen. John Fetterman to MRC’s annual awards for standing up to the far left. But throughout the discussion, Bozell’s point was clear: when stories make Democrats look bad, the media simply pretends they don’t exist.</description>
  4488.  <pubDate>November 1st, 2025 12:52 PM</pubDate>
  4489.    <dc:creator>Évangéline Faussié</dc:creator>
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  4493.  <title>Oh Heck No! Christiane Amanpour Calls Soros Henchman Mamdani’s ‘Close Confidant’</title>
  4494.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/11/01/oh-heck-no-christiane-amanpour-calls-soros-henchman</link>
  4495.  <description>CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour just spilled the beans by letting her viewers know that the Soros machine is even more closely connected to the NYC mayoral race than previously thought.
  4496.  
  4497. Amanpour brought on George Soros’s notorious henchman, Patrick Gaspard, to talk up communist Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to lead New York City. Gaspard, who served as president of Soros’s Open Society Foundations between 2017 and 2020 and subsequently lead the heavily Soros-funded extremist Center for American Progress until February 2025, was dubbed by Amanpour to be a “close confidant” of Mamdani’s, whose Marxist agenda is already threatening to upend the city’s economy.
  4498.  
  4499. Amanpour teed up Gaspard to try to draw similarities between Mamdani and the charisma of Barack Obama back when he was an Illinois state senator, like that was supposed to be any kind of a flex. Gaspard obliged, saying Mamdani channeled Obama’s ability to communicate issues in the “idiom of aspiration,” which doesn’t make a lick of sense but who’s paying attention?
  4500.  
  4501. Watch Amanpour’s entire slobber-fest interview with Soros Henchman Gaspard below.
  4502.  
  4503.  
  4504.  
  4505.  
  4506.  
  4507.  
  4508.  
  4509. Given the close proximity of a key player in the Soros machine to Mamdani, one has to question where Mamdani is getting most of his political cues from, including his hatred of Israel. In fact, journalist Ira Stoll documented Gaspard’s connection to Mamdani in a thoroughly researched July 2025 item headlined, “Behind Zohran Mamdani, an Experienced Soros-Obama Operative.”  Stoll dubbed Gaspard an “anti-Israel fanatic,” and Gaspard himself was heavily vocal in condemning President Donald Trump’s B2 bomber strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities . 
  4510.  
  4511. Gaspard was recently demoted from his position as CAP president to distinguished senior fellow for being reportedly derelict in his fundraising responsibilities, but no one should be under any illusions about his connections to Soros, as his own X profile bio reads, “Forever @OpenSociety.” Stoll even wrote that Open Society’s “tax filings indicate the $5.9 billion foundation paid Gaspard, identified as its former president, $2.2 million in 2021.” 
  4512.  
  4513. The fact that Amanpour is propping Gaspard up like this also shouldn’t come as a surprise. MRC Business listed Amanpour as one of the prominent international media figures connected to the Soros empire in its landmark report George Soros: Propaganda Powerhouse. Amanpour, is listed as a senior advisor at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which received $2,750,000 from Soros between 2018 and 2020 alone. She has developed a grotesque habit of brazenly criticizing Soros’ critics as anti-Semites, despite the fact that she’s done everything to wreck Israel’s image to the world as it struggled to eradicate the terror group Hamas following the October 7, 2023 genocide.
  4514.  
  4515. New Yorkers everywhere should be wary that the empire of the most notorious leftist billionaire in American politics is once again trying to sway elections that favor his dark "open society" worldview. </description>
  4516.  <pubDate>November 1st, 2025 11:07 AM</pubDate>
  4517.    <dc:creator>Joseph Vazquez</dc:creator>
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  4521.  <title>Brooks Mourns Dems Are Focused On Obamacare Instead Of Threats To Democracy</title>
  4522.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/11/01/brooks-mourns-dems-are-focused-obamacare-instead-threats-democracy</link>
  4523.  <description>Friday evening’s weekly news roundup featuring PBS News Hour host William Brangham, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart was full of bizarre government shutdown-related hot takes. In addition to Obamacare subsidies, Brangham and Capehart added rescission packages to the list of Democratic demands, which they falsely claimed take away Congress’s spending power. Meanwhile, Brooks lamented that by shutting down the government, Democrats are forcing themselves to talk about something other than supposed threats to democracy.
  4524.  
  4525. Before getting to rescissions, Capehart managed to get in the usual talking points about subsidies, “I have always believed that tomorrow, November 1, was one of the dates that that the Democrats were looking at. That's the date when people start getting the — open enrollment starts and they start to find out how much their premiums are going to cost. This is what Democrats have been talking about for a few months now and why they won't provide the votes.”
  4526.  
  4527.  
  4528.  
  4529.  
  4530.  
  4531.  
  4532.  
  4533.  
  4534.  
  4535. After also musing about how Tuesday’s elections might force some movement, Capehart arrived at rescission packages, “But the other thing that's hanging out there that people forget, it's not just the subsidies that Democrats have a problem with. It is also that the whole thing of rescissions and that they could come to some — any kind of agreement.”
  4536.  
  4537. Brangham interrupted to add, “This is the Trump administration saying — basically taking Congress's spending authority away saying, ‘I know you appropriated this money. It's coming back.’”
  4538.  
  4539. Capehart concurred, “Right, exactly. ‘We don't care what you decided, what you authorize. We will do — we will spend the money the way we want to spend it, or we won't spend it at all.’ And so if you're a Democrat and you are a part of some gang, I don't know if they still do gangs like they used to in the past, but even if they provide the votes and they come to some agreement, the president and Russell Vought, the OMB director, could just step out there and say, we don't care what you think.”
  4540.  
  4541. Fact-check: rescission packages, such as the one that defunded PBS, have to be approved by Congress.
  4542.  
  4543. Eventually, Brangham turned to Brooks and wondered, “David, do you think that the Democrats are making a coherent, resonant argument as to why they are holding the line here?”
  4544.  
  4545. Brooks wasn’t enthusiastic, “I think it's okay. I mean, they're emphasizing the subsidies. Frankly, if it was up to me. I might have mentioned a once-in-a-nation's-history threat to democracy as the core problem here. But they're making coherent case on the health subsidies. I think it's not the legitimate case that should be made at this moment in American history.”
  4546.  
  4547.  
  4548.  
  4549.  
  4550.  
  4551.  
  4552.  
  4553.  
  4554.  
  4555. Brangham then asked a nonsensical question, “Do you think if they had pivoted, though, to that argument to say, we will not fund what they argue is an unlawful administration, that that would be more resonant?”
  4556.  
  4557. What would that even look like? A temper tantrum for the sake of a having a temper tantrum? For his part, Brooks also wasn’t so sure, “I don't know. Clearly, their pollsters said nobody cares about democracy, because they would be making that case. The pollsters said, ‘we're good on health care.’”
  4558.  
  4559. Brooks then spent several words predicting the shutdown is almost over because the last time air traffic controllers started skipping work provided the motivation to end the 2018 shutdown. He also repeated early criticism of Democrats for shutting down the government, but echoed his point that it merely distracts from other, more important matters, “I'm upset that not everybody's upset. Like, so — our democracy is deteriorating to such a degree, there should be howling outrage that, why are you shutting down the government? Why are we hurting SNAP moms, food stamps, the poorest people among us? And there should be more outrage about that.”
  4560.  
  4561. Maybe if Brooks would’ve spent his time talking about that instead of prophesying doom over the state of democracy, there would be.
  4562.  
  4563. Here is a transcript for the October 31 show:
  4564.  
  4565.  
  4566.  
  4567. PBS News Hour
  4568.  
  4569. 10/31/2025
  4570.  
  4571. 7:33 PM ET
  4572.  
  4573. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Do you think this ruling, these rulings, takes any pressure off of them to — and then maybe the shutdown does come to an end?
  4574.  
  4575. JONATHAN CAPEHART: I don't think these rulings take any pressure off Democrats, for two reasons. One, I have always believed that tomorrow, November 1, was one of the dates that that the Democrats were looking at. That's the date when people start getting the — open enrollment starts and they start to find out how much their premiums are going to cost.
  4576.  
  4577.  
  4578. This is what Democrats have been talking about for a few months now and why they won't provide the votes.
  4579.  
  4580. BRANGHAM: These are the subsidies for Obamacare that will now go through the roof.
  4581.  
  4582. CAPEHART: Right. Right. And so that's why they're not providing the votes for — to reopen the government.
  4583.  
  4584. The other thing, the other date that we should pay attention to is the elections on Tuesday. These will be, whether we like it or not, bellwether. And I suspect that, depending on the outcome on Tuesday, we could see some shifting, people getting together, talking and coming to some resolution over the shutdown.
  4585.  
  4586. But the other thing that's hanging out there that people forget, it's not just the subsidies that Democrats have a problem with. It is also that the whole thing of rescissions and that they could come to some — any kind of agreement.
  4587.  
  4588. BRANGHAM: This is the Trump administration saying — basically taking Congress's spending authority away—
  4589.  
  4590. CAPEHART: Right.
  4591.  
  4592. BRANGHAM: — saying, “I know you appropriated this money. It's coming back.”
  4593.  
  4594. CAPEHART: Right, exactly. “We don't care what you decided, what you authorize. We will do — we will spend the money the way we want to spend it, or we won't spend it at all.”
  4595.  
  4596. And so if you're a Democrat and you are a part of some gang, I don't know if they still do gangs like they used to in the past, but even if they provide the votes and they come to some agreement, the president and Russell Vought, the OMB director, could just step out there and say, we don't care what you think.
  4597.  
  4598. So I don't think — all the way back to your original part of the question, I do not think the two judges, their ruling takes any pressure off Democrats. If anything, as we get beyond tomorrow and certainly beyond the elections on Tuesday, I think pressure could grow on Republicans, the Republican leaders, particularly Senator Thune, Majority Leader Thune, to come up — let's come up with something so we can get the government reopened.
  4599.  
  4600. BRANGHAM: David, do you think that the Democrats are making a coherent, resonant argument as to why they are holding the line here?
  4601.  
  4602. DAVID BROOKS: I think it's okay. I mean, they're emphasizing the subsidies. Frankly, if it was up to me. I might have mentioned a once-in-a-nation's-history threat to democracy as the core problem here.
  4603.  
  4604. But they're making coherent case on the health subsidies. I think it's not the legitimate case that should be made at this moment in American history.
  4605.  
  4606. BRANGHAM: Do you think if they had pivoted, though, to that argument to say, we will not fund what they argue is an unlawful administration, that that would be more resonant?
  4607.  
  4608. BROOKS: I don't know. Clearly, their pollsters said nobody cares about democracy, because they would be making that case. The pollsters said, “we're good on health care.”
  4609.  
  4610. And if you look at the issue list, which party do you trust on which issue, Republicans tend to have advantage to almost every issue except for health care. So they picked the one issue. You know, I think we're at the glide path down toward a government reopening.
  4611.  
  4612. And I say that because last time this happened at this length in 2018, it's when the air traffic controllers began to not show up at work.
  4613.  
  4614. BRANGHAM: Right.
  4615.  
  4616. BROOKS: It's — when the benefits began to really get cut and people began to feel it, then they reopened the government. And I don't know which way they will go, like, who — how they will cut some sort of deal. But you got SNAP. You got the — as we saw earlier, the Head Start.
  4617.  
  4618. There's just a lot of things where people are really beginning to feel it. And so I think they will begin. I just — before, if — hopefully the next time we meet, though, the government will be open. But we should not be running government by shutdown. You should go to the voters. If you want a policy change, go to the voters. Don't shut down the government.
  4619.  
  4620. And, frankly, somebody should ask the Democrats, why did you schedule the subsidies to expire a year before an election? Why didn't you just make the subsidies forever?
  4621.  
  4622. BRANGHAM: Right.
  4623.  
  4624. BROOKS: And the reason they didn't want to do that is because they wanted to hide the cost, because what the Democrats are proposing would increase the national debt by $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years.
  4625.  
  4626. But we should — I'm upset that not everybody's upset. Like, so — our democracy is deteriorating to such a degree, there should be howling outrage that, why are you shutting down the government? Why are we hurting SNAP moms, food stamps, the poorest people among us? And there should be more outrage about that.
  4627. </description>
  4628.  <pubDate>November 1st, 2025 9:49 AM</pubDate>
  4629.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  4633.  <title>NPR Only Sees 'Danger' in Trump Designating Violent Antifa as Terrorists, Not Antifa Itself</title>
  4634.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/10/31/npr-only-sees-danger-trump-designating-violent-antifa-terrorists</link>
  4635.  <description> NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas has been quite clear a grave injustice in this moment is designating Antifa as a terrorist group. Summon the carefully selected Experts! 
  4636.  
  4637. On Tuesday, the Lucas report warned: “As Trump talks of designating antifa a foreign terrorist group, experts see danger.” Lucas ushered in the civil liberties panic, over President Trump having designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization last month, after years of the group organizing into cells in progressive cities like Portland and picking fights and destroying both public and private property. But to NPR, the worst danger is Trump calling out Antifa.
  4638.  
  4639. Host Juana Summers sniffed, “It's unclear what that means in the real world. There's no statute for domestic terrorism. But now the president is talking about designating antifa a foreign terrorist organization. That would have legal teeth and likely enormous repercussions…."
  4640.  
  4641. Give reporter Lucas one cheer for accurately calling antifa “far-left.”
  4642.  
  4643.  
  4644. RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: Earlier this month, President Trump welcomed right-wing influencers to the White House for a roundtable about antifa, the far-left movement or ideology opposed to fascism. Some of the influencers gathered around the table urged the president to designate antifa as a foreign terrorist organization.
  4645.  
  4646.  
  4647. NPR ran audio clips from the gathering, then rebutted with Jason Blazakis, who worked in counterterrorism under Obama and Trump and who wrote an Los Angeles Times op-ed warning that Trump was "inching down" the path of "crushing democracy."
  4648.  
  4649.  
  4650. JASON BLAZAKIS: I do think it would be a highly dangerous step for the administration to pursue.
  4651.  
  4652. LUCAS: Blazakis says there are certain legal criteria to designate a group a foreign terrorist organization, including that it is indeed a cohesive organization. In the case of antifa, Blazakis says it is not a functioning group like ISIS or al-Qaida, which had clear leadership and a hierarchy. Instead, he and other experts say antifa isn't an organization at all. It's more of a movement of disparately linked people who share an ideology, which is that fascism is bad.
  4653.  
  4654.  
  4655. They also share a penchant for masked violence and property destruction, but NPR won’t report anything that would stain Antifa’s brave "anti-fascist" mythology.
  4656.  
  4657. Lucas next spoke with Thomas Brzozowski, former counsel for domestic terrorism at the Justice Department, who was even more aggressive in shielding Antifa and condemning the Trump administration's designation. There were no outside voices to offer a defense of Trump's stand.
  4658.  
  4659.  
  4660. LUCAS: The most immediate impact would be the ability for federal prosecutors to bring the criminal charge of material support to a designated terrorist organization. Material support is broadly defined and can mean something as small as a $10 gift card or a bottle of water....
  4661.  
  4662. BRZOZOWSKI: When that foreign terrorist organization is so ill-defined and nobody even knows what it is and it potentially includes all activity that can be painted as left-wing or whatever term you like to hang on it, that becomes potentially catastrophically dangerous for anybody, for everybody.
  4663.  
  4664.  
  4665. Lucas and his guest piled on the paranoia, suggesting universities, those hotbeds of extreme progressivism, “could cancel conferences that touch any topic that might conceivably relate to anti-fascism.” 
  4666.  
  4667.  
  4668. BRZOZOWSKI: They're not going to insure these institutions if they touch anything where (inaudible) remotely concerns anti-fascism. And think about how broad that is. What does it even mean? It sounds crazy, Kafkaesque, but that's what this designation would bring into play.
  4669.  
  4670.  
  4671. The media may claim Antifa is merely an “amorphous concept,” but networks actually do know what Antifa is, and they kind of like it. In 2018, then-CNN host Don Lemon practically defended Antifa by giving them a “distinction” from neo-Nazis—that being fighting fascism, supposedly. CNN platformed an Antifa member in an attempt to humanize the group.
  4672.  
  4673. Lucas’s October 23 report for Morning Edition also fretted over Trump designating the violent rioters of Antifa a foreign terrorist organization. The next story in that show’s queue? The dangerous "far right" Young Republicans who got in heavily publicized trouble for obnoxious remarks in online group chats.  
  4674.  
  4675. On top of that, Lucas turned up on The NPR Politics Podcast on Wednesday with the same frightened theme. </description>
  4676.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 9:05 PM</pubDate>
  4677.    <dc:creator>Clay Waters</dc:creator>
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  4681.  <title>Scarborough SCOLDS Dem Moulton for Claiming Trump Abused Young Girls</title>
  4682.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/isaac-white/2025/10/31/scarborough-scolds-dem-moulton-claiming-trump-abused-young-girls</link>
  4683.  <description> In a rare moment of journalistic integrity, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough called out Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) to his face for claiming President Trump “took advantage of young girls” without evidence. The awkward confrontation on Friday’s Morning Joe concerning an elongated scandal surrounding unreleased files on late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein demonstrated the extent of liberal hatred for Trump, despite having not yet uncovered any actual proof of wrongdoing.
  4684.  
  4685. When answering a question about how the Democratic Party should message itself going forward into the midterms, Moulton portrayed the Trump administration as a protector of billionaires and criminals. Moulton suddenly swerved into accusatory territory, for which Scarborough scolded him:
  4686.  
  4687.  
  4688. MOULTON: If you are one of the people, like him, who took advantage of young girls with Jeffrey Epstein, then we're gonna, sort of, make that go away.
  4689.  
  4690. […]
  4691.  
  4692. SCARBOROUGH: We don't have evidence that he took advantage of young girls with Jeffrey Epstein.
  4693.  
  4694.  
  4695.  
  4696.  
  4697.  
  4698.  
  4699.  
  4700.  
  4701.  
  4702.  
  4703. The Massachusetts Representative, who recently started a campaign for Senator, sheepishly admitted the lack of proof needed to condemn the President but pettily implied it to be obvious. Having sensed weakness, Scarborough pressed Moulton down even further:
  4704.  
  4705.  
  4706. MOULTON: Right, right, right. Just common sense be damned.
  4707.  
  4708. SCARBOROUGH: I'm not saying common sense be damned, I'm saying facts, let's look at the facts. Is he in the Epstein files?
  4709.  
  4710. MOULTON: He's obviously in the Epstein files.
  4711.  
  4712.  
  4713. Moulton tried to defend himself by echoing the claim that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) won’t swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) to prevent forcing a vote to release the files, which would presumably prove Trump’s guilt. Scarborough acknowledged the micro-controversy, but insisted, “… but you said […] he took advantage of young girls. You have no — you have absolutely no evidence of that.
  4714.  
  4715. The Morning Joe namesake then dragged co-host Jonathan Lemire into the debate by asking him to fact-check Moulton on what’s publicly known surrounding the Epstein files. Lemire mentioned Trump’s previous friendship with Epstein and the alleged birthday card he sent, but ultimately backed up Scarborough, “… he has not been accused of any wrongdoing. […] That's the point you're trying to make.”
  4716.  
  4717. Scarborough also brought up the book written by late Epstein victim Virginia Gieuffre, in which “she never saw him around there. And I'm not doing his bidding, I'm just saying there's enough things to talk about Donald Trump without talking about […] what's not been proved.”
  4718.  
  4719. After Moulton reverted to a more basic argument about fighting for everyday Americans (which he should have stuck with), Scarborough reiterated how irresponsible Moulton was, urging him to stand on business if he really meant what he said:
  4720.  
  4721.  
  4722. I just, again, just want to be very clear there's enough to talk about Donald Trump and — without making that assumption. If you want to make that assumption, you can do that on the floor, the House floor. And if you have documents on it, then I’m sure the American people want to see that.
  4723.  
  4724.  
  4725. Got to give credit where credit’s due. The other co-hosts likely would have rolled over or ignored Moulton’s careless accusations, but Scarborough refused to be complicit with defamatory speculation. Or perhaps, with MSNBC soon to be going solo from NBCUnivsersal, they might not have a war chest big enough to take a hit from a defamation suit, like the one they settled back in April.
  4726.  
  4727. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
  4728.  
  4729.  
  4730. MSNBC’s Morning Joe
  4731.  
  4732. October 31, 2025
  4733.  
  4734. 6:22:36 a.m. EST
  4735.  
  4736. (…)
  4737.  
  4738. WILLIE GEIST: I'm curious for you, though, Congressman, just sort of big picture. You just touched on some of the issues at the center of these two races, but then looking ahead to the midterm elections, just a clear message from Democrats about what's happening in the country right now. Whether you want to talk about the expiration of the subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, taking away people's health care with the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, hospitals closing, and urban and rural parts of the country, red and blue, it just, frankly, being too expensive to live in this country. As you see it right now, what is the most effective message for Democrats in this moment?
  4739.  
  4740. REP. SETH MOULTON (D-MA): The Democrats are here to help working people in America, and Republicans are here to protect the billionaire class. And what you see time and again from this White House, you know, if you're a criminal, you're gonna buy your way to freedom with Trump.
  4741.  
  4742. If you are one of the people, like him, who took advantage of young girls with Jeffrey Epstein, then we're gonna, sort of, make that go away. I mean, fundamentally —
  4743.  
  4744. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, we —
  4745.  
  4746. MOUTLON: — Speaker Johnson.
  4747.  
  4748. SCARBOROUGH: We don't have evidence that he took advantage of young girls with Jeffrey Epstein.
  4749.  
  4750. MOULTON: Right, right, right. Just common sense be damned.
  4751.  
  4752. SCARBOROUGH: I'm not saying common sense be damned, I'm saying facts, let's look at the facts. Is he in the Epstein files?
  4753.  
  4754. MOULTON: He's obviously in the Epstein files. And the reason that, fundamentally, Speaker Johnson has us on vacation is because he does not want to seat the newly elected Democratic Representative —
  4755.  
  4756. SCARBOROUGH: Right, but you said —
  4757.  
  4758. MOULTON: — from Arizona.
  4759.  
  4760. SCARBOROUGH: — he took advantage of young girls. You have no — you have absolutely no evidence of that.
  4761.  
  4762. MOULTON: I think it's pretty obvious that that's what’s going on here.
  4763.  
  4764. SCARBOROUGH: You think it's pretty obvious?
  4765.  
  4766. MOULTON: I do. And I think —
  4767.  
  4768. SCARBOROUGH: Jon.
  4769.  
  4770.  
  4771.  
  4772. MOULTON: — it's pretty obvious to the Republicans —
  4773.  
  4774. SCARBOROUGH: Jon Lemire —
  4775.  
  4776. MOULTON: — to the Republican Party.
  4777.  
  4778. SCARBOROUGH: — any reporting on this?
  4779.  
  4780. JONATHAN LEMIRE: Well, we know that he's friends with Epstein. We know the —
  4781.  
  4782. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  4783.  
  4784. LEMIRE: — birthday card was in there. I mean, he has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
  4785.  
  4786. SCARBOROUGH: No.
  4787.  
  4788. LEMIRE: That's the point you're trying to make. But, also, certainly here we know that Speaker Johnson has kept the house out of session in large part to not seat the woman, the Congresswoman-elect from Arizona, who would provide the decisive votes to release more material. So, yes, certainly, that would be — and, you know, any association further embarrassing for Trump, but we don’t know —
  4789.  
  4790. [Crosstalk]
  4791.  
  4792. SCARBOROUGH: And, also, the book, the book that Virginia Giuffre wrote said he was — she never saw him around there. And I'm not doing his bidding, I'm just saying there's enough things to talk about Donald Trump without talking about —
  4793.  
  4794. MOULTON:  Well, fine.
  4795.  
  4796. SCARBOROUGH: — what's not been proved.
  4797.  
  4798. MOULTON: But the bottom line is that his administration, whether they're protecting Trump or whoever else, they protect people who can buy their way to the White House. That's what this administration is all about. And I think that all the rest of America who recognizes that, you know, there are people who play by one set of rules and people who play by the rest.
  4799.  
  4800. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  4801.  
  4802. MOULTON: There are people who are getting tax breaks, there are people who can buy pardons, and there's all the rest of us —
  4803.  
  4804. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
  4805.  
  4806. MOULTON: — just trying to afford a home, that's a reality for Americans today. And the more that Democrats can speak to that other America, the real America, actually, the people who are trying to play by the rules and get ahead and maybe even just be able to go on vacation once a year —
  4807.  
  4808. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  4809.  
  4810. MOULTON: — then we're gonna help them out. And that's what —
  4811.  
  4812. SCARBOROUGH: Well, I mean, that makes sense. There's a long leap from that to what you said. I just, again, just want to be very clear there's enough to talk about Donald Trump and — without making that assumption. If you want to make that assumption, you can do that on the floor, the House floor. And if you have documents on it, then I’m sure the American people want to see that.
  4813.  
  4814. (…)
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  4816.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 6:43 PM</pubDate>
  4817.    <dc:creator>Isaac White</dc:creator>
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  4821.  <title>NSC: Press No Longer Allowed in WH Room 140 Without Appointment</title>
  4822.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/10/31/nsc-press-no-longer-allowed-wh-room-140-without</link>
  4823.  <description>Late Friday afternoon, the National Security Council released a memo announcing that a White House West Wing room is now off limits to members of the press - unless they’ve made and been granted an appointment with an authorized White House staff member.
  4824.  
  4825. The change, effective immediately, is the latest step in the Trump Administration’s ongoing effort to protect sensitive information, the memo issued to top White House press officers and Assistant to the President Steven Cheung explains:
  4826.  
  4827.  
  4828. “This memorandum directs the prohibition of press passholders from accessing Room 140 in the West Wing, also known as ‘Upper Press,’ which is situated adjacent to the Oval Office, without an appointment. This policy will ensure adherence to best practices pertaining to access to sensitive material.
  4829.  
  4830. “As a result of recent structural changes to the National Security Council, the White House is now responsible for directing all communications, including on all national security matters. In this capacity, members of the White House Communications Staff are routinely engaging with sensitive material.”
  4831.  
  4832.  
  4833. “Members of the press may continue to freely engage with White House Press Aides in the Lower Press Area outside of the Briefing Room,” the memo notes.
  4834.  
  4835. Media outlets rebelled against the Trump Administration’s efforts to protect sensitive information at the Pentagon earlier this month, when the vast majority of reporters turned in their Pentagon press credentials in protest of new rules requiring them to be accompanied by escorts at times and forbidding them from soliciting confidential information from government employees.</description>
  4836.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 5:30 PM</pubDate>
  4837.    <dc:creator>Craig Bannister</dc:creator>
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  4841.  <title>HAUNTED: New Yorker Writer Uncorks at President Who 'Wouldn't Shut Up'</title>
  4842.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2025/10/31/haunted-new-yorker-writer-uncorks-president-who-wouldnt-shut</link>
  4843.  <description> It is easy to know exactly what is on the mind of New Yorker writer Jill Lepore 24/7. Orange Man Bad. And, oh, does she let us know why she just can't stop thinking about him which comes in the form of a bizarre extended stream of consciousness rant disguised as a story on Monday in "Trump and the Presidency That Wouldn’t Shut Up."
  4844.  
  4845. Her fixation on Trump begins with the first paragraph and then continues without letup as she focuses on the fact that he just won't SHUT UP and it is driving her NUTS!
  4846.  
  4847.  
  4848. The list of figures in American history with whom Donald J. Trump has been compared since he announced his bid for the Presidency a decade ago is longer than his trademark necktie, as red as a gash. It’s taller than Trump Tower, gleaming like a blade. It has a higher turnover than his beleaguered first Cabinet. It includes even more goons, toadies, and peacocks than his current Administration.
  4849.  
  4850. And yet the comparisons keep coming, in the daily papers, in the nightly podcasts, online, online, online. Is Trump more of a liar than Joseph McCarthy; is he slicker than Huey Long? Is he as mean-spirited as Father Charles Coughlin, more sinister than George Wallace? Is he as much of a fraud as P. T. Barnum, even more of an isolationist than Charles Lindbergh? He is trickier than Richard (Tricky Dick) Nixon, but to what degree?
  4851.  
  4852.  
  4853. After several more paragraphs of whining about Trump, Lepore then shifts into channeling a Margaret Dumont level of outrage over an AI video about miracle "medbeds":
  4854.  
  4855.  
  4856. Take out your flashlight and ask the inevitable question: Is there any precedent for a President of the United States doing such a thing? Is American history any guide to understanding why Trump, or someone on his staff, posted (and soon afterward deleted) a fake video about a nonexistent news report concerning a fictional miracle cure, an episode whose political significance strikes me as asymptotically approaching zero?
  4857.  
  4858.  
  4859. Lepore then conjures up the Constitution and a panoply of Presidents to make her case that Trump talks too much and how it should be somehow unconstitutional for him to do so in a more perfect world.:
  4860.  
  4861. And now for one more (but hardly the last) stream of consciousness inadvertent comedy outburst by Lepore against Trump and his talk, talk, talking that is beat, beat, beating against her poor brain.
  4862.  
  4863.  
  4864. Historians will need to account for Trump when, as Gerald Ford said when he succeeded Nixon, “our long national nightmare is over.” Analogies won’t help them. Because nothing in American history anticipates or explains the way Trump speaks to his supporters at his rallies—or his use of Twitter, between 2015 and 2021, and Truth Social, beginning in 2022. He riffs; he cusses; he dodges; he weaves; he raises money; he spreads lies. He is lurid and profane. He targets his political opponents, threatening them with prosecution, prison, and execution. He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous. He posts day and night, about everything from taco bowls to possible ceasefires. He is getting worse. In his second term, he has posted three times as often as he did during his first. Tonally, nearly everything he posts is unhinged, even when it’s a simple endorsement or amplification of a policy, like tariffs...
  4865.  
  4866.  
  4867. GASP! He...he "targets his political opponents, threatening them with prosecution, prison, and execution?" That has never ever happened in a previous administration. Well, except for the during Joe Biden's administration when the FBI's Arctic Frost investigated over 150 Republicans and hit Trump with 2 simultaneous federal indictments as well as two more White House influenced state indictments. As for "our long national nightmare is over," that was already pompously declared by Jake Tapper followed shortly afterwards by millions of illegals flooding across our borders, an ignominious departure from Afghanistan, high inflation, Covid censorship based on misinformation (based on disinformation), Ukraine War quagmire, oh, and lots of lots of lawfare against Trump  and many connected with him.
  4868.  
  4869. Oh, and think of the epic meltdown if President Trump should target Jill Lepore, not with lawfare but with the mere mockery she richly deserves. It really shouldn't be done since that would be sure to drive her over the edge. And that would be wrong. But it would also be fun!</description>
  4870.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 5:18 PM</pubDate>
  4871.    <dc:creator>P.J. Gladnick</dc:creator>
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  4875.  <title>CNN Commentator: Unborn Babies Not Entitled to Protection Because They Can't Talk!</title>
  4876.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2025/10/31/cnn-commentator-unborn-babies-not-entitled-protection-because</link>
  4877.  <description> Liberals love to describe themselves as a "voice for the voiceless."
  4878.  
  4879. But to abortion rights activist Irin Carmon, the voicelessness of the unborn should strip them of any right to be protected.
  4880.  
  4881. Carmon, a CNN commentator and author of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg hagiography, Notorious RBG, spoke with CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish today regarding her pro-abortion rights book, Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America.
  4882.  
  4883. Cornish was generally supportive of Carmon and her views. Thus, she spoke of the risks of being pregnant in America, in the sense of the negative impact of pro-life laws. Cornish said nothing about the risks to unborn children in states with liberal abortion laws. 
  4884.  
  4885. Note also the chyron CNN chose for the segment, "Pregnancy in America: The Rising Risks Of Limited Access To Care." A pro-life alternative might have been: "Dobbs Decision Reduces The Risks For Unborn Children In America."
  4886.  
  4887. At one point, Cornish did describe a pro-life position:
  4888.  
  4889.  
  4890. "Their argument is that both the unborn child and the person giving birth are equal. People that need to be protected. Right?"
  4891.  
  4892.  
  4893. Responded Carmon:
  4894.  
  4895.  
  4896. "In practice, it's very hard to make a 50/50 decision between one person who is able to actually speak to you, and one who is a potential person in practice. It does mean that the person ends up getting treated like a vessel."
  4897.  
  4898.  
  4899.  
  4900.  
  4901.  
  4902.  
  4903.  
  4904.  
  4905. So, per Carmon, because the unborn can't speak, rather than needing to be protected on an equal basis with the pregnant woman, they are entitled to . . . no protection at all. In Carmon's view, if you protect the life of unborn children, that transforms the mother into a mere "vessel." By that logic, if the mother is a vessel, the unborn are detritus who can be thrown overboard at any point, for any reason. 
  4906.  
  4907. The segment's opening reflected a classic liberal tactic: find a heart-wrenching story to help make the case. Adriana Smith was a Georgia woman who, when nine weeks pregnant, developed blood clots on the brain, soon became brain dead, and was put of life support. Her doctors believed that it could be a violation of Georgia's pro-life law to disconnect the life support, since doing so would result in the death of Smith's baby. They thus kept her on life support until it was possible to deliver the baby via Caesarean section. 
  4908. The segment opened with a clip of Adriana's mother, April Newkirk, saying "I shouldn't be burying my daughter. My daughter should bury me." A tragic circumstance, but one unrelated to the decision to keep her daughter on life support until the baby could be delivered. 
  4909.  
  4910. It's also noteworthy that Newkirk named the baby Chance because, as she explained, "I feel like he had a second chance at life."  That's a chance he wouldn't have had if Adriana had immediately been taken off life support.
  4911.  
  4912. The feminists were furious. One tweeted: “I might be a monster for saying this, but I don’t want that child to live. Because if it grows to live and have a decent life, then we as women are doomed to never escape the role of an incubator.”
  4913.  
  4914. Note: At one point, Carmon the Abortion Champion made the bizarre, macabre claim that the Dobbs decision "is kind of shining a black light on the stain of American history and policy." What? 
  4915.  
  4916. Here's the transcript.
  4917.  
  4918.  
  4919. CNN This Morning
  4920. 10/31/25
  4921. 6:21 am EDT
  4922.  
  4923. APRIL NEWKIRK: I shouldn't be burying my daughter. My daughter, should bury me. She had a lot, she had a lot to give. 
  4924.  
  4925. AUDIE CORNISH: You know, it was a story that shocked the country. Adriana Smith, a pregnant woman in Georgia, was on life support after a catastrophic stroke in February left her brain dead. Now, doctors said they could not intervene because of the state's abortion restrictions. Despite the family's wishes, Smith was kept alive until doctors delivered her son Chance prematurely by C-section in June. According to the family's GoFundMe page, Chance is now eight pounds and is still in the NICU because his lungs are underdeveloped. 
  4926.  
  4927. Now, stories like these show how difficult it is to be pregnant in America with those risks, especially when things can go wrong. And that's what Irin Carmon writes about in her book. It's a new book called "Unbearable, Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America." 
  4928.  
  4929. . . . 
  4930.  
  4931. IRIN CARMON: I think what Dobbs has done, it has clarified and it has accelerated, that in many cases in the United States, when you become pregnant, you lose many of your constitutional rights, your medical rights, and your personal rights. 
  4932.  
  4933. . . . 
  4934.  
  4935. The question that I started with when I wrote "Unbearable" was, how did we get here, and what is it about Dobbs that is kind of shining a black light on the stain of American history and policy? 
  4936.  
  4937. . . . 
  4938.  
  4939. CORNISH: Their argument is that both the unborn child and the person giving birth are equal people that need to be protected, right? Is that usually where these laws are? 
  4940.  
  4941. CARMON: In practice, it's very hard to make a 50-50 decision between one person who is able to actually speak to you, and one who is a potential person. In practice, it does mean that the person ends up getting treated like a vessel. 
  4942. </description>
  4943.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 4:14 PM</pubDate>
  4944.    <dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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  4948.  <title>The View Tries to Scare Americans on Halloween with Stolen Election LIES</title>
  4949.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/10/31/view-tries-scare-voters-halloween-stolen-election-lies</link>
  4950.  <description> With Friday being Halloween, ABC News’s The View tried to give their audience quite a freight by filling their heads with spooky scary conspiracy theories that President Trump was going to steal the upcoming midterm elections and possibly a presidential one. Their potentially inciting rhetoric was spurred on by “very handsome” California Governor Gavin Newsom who was “ringing alarm bells about Trump's plan to send federal election monitors to California on Election Day,” according to moderator Joy Behar.
  4951.  
  4952. They open the first “Hot Topics” discussion of the show with a soundbite of Newsom hysterically claiming there would no longer be “fair and free” elections in America under Trump:
  4953.  
  4954.  
  4955. I really am scared to death about what's going on in this country. I really believe it is code red. It's five-alarm fire. [Transition] We won't have a country. We won't have an election that's fair and free. If we don't stand up. We won't. There will not be a fair and free election. It will be a Putin election. Was it 87 percent or 87.3 percent? That's what Trump wants.
  4956.  
  4957.  
  4958.  
  4959.  
  4960.  
  4961.  
  4962. The View-Anon
  4963. The View amplifies Gavin Newsom's inciting rhetoric that Trump is going to steal the election and there will be no more elections.
  4964. JOY BEHAR: He's worried. He's worried, and are you as worried about it as he is?
  4965. SARA HAINES: I think more likely than fraud, it will… pic.twitter.com/HTDsFo6tMV
  4966. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 31, 2025
  4967.  
  4968.  
  4969.  
  4970.  
  4971. “He's worried. He's worried, and are you as worried about it as he is?” Behar elevated the rhetoric that could get someone killed. “Or is he just going to make more Americans distrust the election process like Trump has been doing since he lost in 2020?”
  4972.  
  4973. The first to speak up was pretend independent Sara Haines, who was worried that the rhetoric would lead to “disincentivizing voting in democracy, which is the currency of a democracy.” “We don't need to plant seeds (…) So, by planting these seeds, you're already taking a public that's lost trust in everything and saying, your vote doesn't matter. That's the fastest way to affect an election,” she lamented.
  4974.  
  4975. But she was immediately followed by co-host Sunny Hostin who wanted to really push Newsom’s inciting rhetoric. “I see it differently because I think sunlight is the best disinfectant. I think that you need to speak truth to power and you need to expose what may be going on,” she argued.
  4976.  
  4977.  
  4978.  
  4979.  
  4980.  
  4981. Urging on the conspiracy theory, Sunny Hostin proclaimed: "I think that you need to speak truth to power and expose what may be going on."
  4982. Spewing inciting rhetoric, She added: "And so, when Gavin Newsom is saying, I'm concerned about this, I think we need to listen. That's the… pic.twitter.com/xgSCNRQFVe
  4983. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 31, 2025
  4984.  
  4985.  
  4986.  
  4987.  
  4988. “And so, when Gavin Newsom is saying, ‘I am concerned about this,’ I think we need to listen!” Hostin shouted. “That's the problem with this country! We don't want to say the quiet part out loud! We don't want to challenge authority! We don't want to challenge authoritarianism! Silence -- there's no place for silence when the democracy is under attack!”
  4989.  
  4990. At one point, Behar tried to defend Newsom by blaming Trump; falsely suggesting all the talk of rigged elections started with him:
  4991.  
  4992.  
  4993. BEHAR: I just want to say one thing. I don't think Gavin Newsom would be saying this if Donald Trump hasn't thrown in the gauntlet in the first place. It's not like he's doing it to attack.
  4994.  
  4995. HAINES: Is it en vogue for every candidate to say, it's probably rigged?
  4996.  
  4997. BEHAR: Yeah, but who started this?!
  4998.  
  4999.  
  5000.  
  5001.  
  5002.  
  5003.  
  5004. Joy Behar blames Trump for Gavin Newsom's election denialism: "I don't think Gavin Newsom would be saying this if Donald Trump hasn't thrown in the gauntlet in the first place. It's not like he's doing it to attack."
  5005. She also falsely suggests it was Trump who was the first to… pic.twitter.com/2uQ70f0s1p
  5006. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 31, 2025
  5007.  
  5008.  
  5009.  
  5010.  
  5011. Behar seemed to have the memory of the goldfish and history only began with the 2020 presidential election. In terms of stolen election claims involving Trump, the Democrats started it in 2016 when they and the liberal media falsely claimed Trump was an “illegitimate” president and that Russia “hacked the election.”
  5012.  
  5013. In fact, The View took part in it. Hostin didn’t apologize for here election denialism until 2022 when they were defending Karine Jean-Pierre’s appointment to White House press secretary despite being on record as a 2016 election denier. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended Jean-Pierre by arguing that she was “doing her part.” In 2025 alone, they claimed three times (so far) that Trump stole the 2024 election with the help of Elon Musk.
  5014.  
  5015. Back on Friday, Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin tried to draw a distinction between The View’s election conspiracy theories and Newsom’s. She insisted that it’s “one thing for pundits and for spectators to say ‘I’m concerned that there will be free and fair elections again,’” but it was “wholly irresponsible” for Newsom.
  5016.  
  5017. Buying into Newsom’s inciting rhetoric and amplifying it, fake Republican Ana Navarro tried to compare Trump to the communist dictators of Central America: “Let me just say this. You know, I fled communism. I fled authoritarianism, as you guys know, when I was a child. And the things I'm seeing happen in this country, I never thought I'd see happen in this country.”
  5018.  
  5019.  
  5020.  
  5021.  
  5022.  
  5023. Ana Navarro says it's fine to accuse Trump of trying to steal elections because "I fled communism" and "the things I'm seeing happen in this country, I never thought I'd see happen in this country."
  5024. Behar wants people to vote Dem to put Republicans in prison. pic.twitter.com/HwyUMVWj3B
  5025. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 31, 2025
  5026.  
  5027.  
  5028.  
  5029.  
  5030. Navarro was excited by the possibility that Republicans could lose in the midterms because, “There will be oversight. And there will be reining in of his authoritarian tendencies!”
  5031.  
  5032. “And some people will be going to jail!” Behar cheered.
  5033.  
  5034. While Hostin was shrieking at Farah Griffin about Trump supposedly sending “election monitors” to California, something she didn’t have an issue with when they’ve been deployed against red states, Behar dubbed them “election intimidators” as if they were going to be threatening people who were trying to vote. Another accusation potentially dangerous to someone’s life.
  5035.  
  5036.  
  5037.  
  5038.  
  5039.  
  5040. Joy Behar claims Trump is sending in "election intimidators" to harass people at the polls in California.
  5041. Behar and Hostin defend Democratic gerrymandering. pic.twitter.com/dTKyQYRn7x
  5042. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 31, 2025
  5043.  
  5044.  
  5045.  
  5046.  
  5047. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
  5048.  
  5049.  
  5050. ABC’s The View
  5051. October 31, 2025
  5052. 11:05:35 a.m. Eastern
  5053.  
  5054. JOY BEHAR: Now, California governor and MAGA arch enemy, Gavin Newsom, and very handsome Gavin Newsom, is ringing alarm bells about Trump's plan to send federal election monitors to California on Election Day! Let's watch this clip.
  5055.  
  5056. [Cuts to video]
  5057.  
  5058. GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA): I really am scared to death about what's going on in this country. I really believe it is code red. It's five-alarm fire. [Transition] We won't have a country. We won't have an election that's fair and free. If we don't stand up. We won't. There will not be a fair and free election. It will be a Putin election. Was it 87 percent or 87.3 percent? That's what Trump wants.
  5059.  
  5060. [Cuts back to live]
  5061.  
  5062. BEHAR: He's worried. He's worried, and are you as worried about it as he is? Or is he just going to make more Americans distrust the election process like Trump has been doing since he lost in 2020?
  5063.  
  5064. SARA HAINES: I think more likely than fraud it will be disincentivizing voting in democracy, which is the currency of a democracy.
  5065.  
  5066. But right now, in 2024, we had 65 percent of the population that showed up at the polls, which is good for this country. Because in the midterms, which can right now be very important, only 47 percent of Americans show up at the polls.
  5067.  
  5068. People fought hard for those rights to vote, and we already don't have people showing up at our polls. We don't need to plant seeds. You always go out. You always vote. Let the rest be determined as it plays out, because when fraud was claimed last time, not one judge in this country saw any proof of any fraud. So, by planting these seeds, you're already taking a public that's lost trust in everything and saying, your vote doesn't matter. That's the fastest way to affect an election.
  5069.  
  5070. SUNNY HOSTIN: I see it differently because I think sunlight is the best disinfectant. I think that you need to speak truth to power and you need to expose what may be going on.
  5071.  
  5072. And you know, up to the election, Project 2025 was written. There was a game plan. And we kept on sounding the alarm. There's a game plan. There's a game plan. It's in writing. Its 90 pages. There's a cliff notes version. No one listened to that.
  5073.  
  5074. You know what's happened since Trump was elected? Some of the policies outlined in Project 2025 are happening right now. Reshaping the federal bureaucracy. Reducing the size and influence and empowering the executive branch. Aggressively militarizing an approach to immigration. The use of active-duty military personnel and National Guardsmen to assist in border security. A return to a more isolationist foreign policy. Dismantling the department of Education. It goes on and on and on. Everything he promised he did -- would do, he did.
  5075.  
  5076. And so, when Gavin Newsom is saying, I am concerned about this, I think we need to listen! That's the problem with this country! We don't want to say the quiet part out loud! We don't want to challenge authority! We don't want to challenge authoritarianism! Silence -- there's no place for silence when the democracy is under attack!
  5077.  
  5078. BEHAR: I just want to say one thing. I don't think Gavin Newsom would be saying this if Donald Trump hasn't thrown in the gauntlet in the first place. It's not like he's doing it to attack.
  5079.  
  5080. [Crosstalk]
  5081.  
  5082. HAINES: Is it en vogue for every candidate to say, it's probably rigged?
  5083.  
  5084. BEHAR: Yeah, but who started this?!
  5085.  
  5086. [Crosstalk]
  5087.  
  5088. HAINES: But it doesn’t matter! You don't win a bad idea with a bad idea. The point is the only power a regular American person has is to go to the polls. If they can keep their eyes open and see problems and be alert and educated and vote at the same time!
  5089.  
  5090. HOSTIN: Why is Trump sending election monitors to California?! Why is Trump sending people there?!
  5091.  
  5092. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I’ll speak to that, but I think it’s one thing for pundits and for spectators to say “I’m concerned that there will be free and fair elections again.” I think it is wholly irresponsible for the governor of the most populous state – who, by the way, oversees elections in his own state. He oversees the cybersecurity infrasucture. He oversees the secretary of state. Down to poll watchers, to election workers, Gavin Newsom has a lot of power in this.
  5093.  
  5094. HOSTIN (Interrupting): Why are there federal monitors, though?!
  5095.  
  5096. FARAH GRIFFIN: We could at minimum say, ‘I promise you, California will have a free and fair election and I'll work with every governor to make sure there's no efforts to undermine them.’ But that’s not what he’s doing –
  5097.  
  5098. HOSTIN (Interrupting): How does he do that when Donald Trump is sending federal monitors into his state?!
  5099.  
  5100. FARAH GRIFFIN: Because he’s the chief executive of his state. Monitors, we need to know what that means. I do think it's an alarming phrase.
  5101.  
  5102. BEHAR: Doesn't it sound like election intimidators?!
  5103.  
  5104. FARAH GRIFFIN: But you also have a governor with his own authorities in the state – And for him to say this – It reminds me of the gerrymandering debate. So, everyone is angry when Texas redraws congressional maps to add more Republican seats, ‘they're cheating, it's rigged,’ so California responds by cheating and rigging it by adding more Democratic seats.
  5105.  
  5106. HOSTIN: So, what are they supposed to do, just let them do it?!
  5107.  
  5108. [Crosstalk]
  5109.  
  5110. FARAH GRIFFIN: No, you’re supposed to safely secure your elections and tell your voters that you can trust voting in California.
  5111.  
  5112. BEHAR: No, the gerrymandering!
  5113.  
  5114. HOSTIN: What do you do with that?!
  5115.  
  5116. BEHAR: What are you supposed to do with that?!
  5117.  
  5118. FARAH GRIFFIN: You should challenge it at the state level. Former Governor Schwarzenegger talked about this. There's a process to do it in California. There's a process in Texas. Change the laws so that people cannot do partisan gerrymandering.
  5119.  
  5120. HOSTIN: You can't change the laws when Republicans are in charge in Texas!
  5121.  
  5122. ANA NAVARRO: Let me just say this. You know, I fled communism. I fled authoritarianism, as you guys know, when I was a child. And the things I'm seeing happen in this country, I never thought I'd see happen in this country. I never thought I'd see an insurrection and people – a mob of rioters at the Capitol trying to stop an election result.
  5123.  
  5124. And so, I think, you know, from my personal experience, I look at this, and I really feel we need to be vigilant and we just need to see the -- like every day, it's something different. It's the tearing up of the East Wing, it’s the election monitors.
  5125.  
  5126. HOSTIN: Disappearing people!
  5127.  
  5128. NAVARRO: To me, what Trump and the Republicans are trying to do with Texas -- and I -- here's the question. He always talks about how high his poll numbers are and how he's got the best poll numbers of anybody. If his poll numbers are so good and if he feels so confident about his approval rating in this country, why then does he and Republicans find it necessary to change the congressional maps to give them more sure wins for Republicans?
  5129.  
  5130. BEHAR: Good question. Right.
  5131.  
  5132. NAVARRO: Because they think they're going to lose in the midterm, and if they lose, that means that for the first time in this term, there will be pushback. There will be oversight. And there will be reining in of his authoritarian tendencies!
  5133.  
  5134. BEHAR: And some people will be going to jail.
  5135.  
  5136. HOSTIN: Right.
  5137.  
  5138. [Applause]
  5139. </description>
  5140.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 3:43 PM</pubDate>
  5141.    <dc:creator>Nicholas Fondacaro</dc:creator>
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  5145.  <title>Amid Travel Chaos, ABC and CBS Skip Airlines Telling Dems To Give Up On Shutdown</title>
  5146.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/10/31/amid-travel-chaos-abc-and-cbs-skip-airlines-telling-dems-give</link>
  5147.  <description>On Thursday, the nation’s four major airlines came together to embrace the Republican position that the government shutdown should end with a clean continuing resolution. However, NBC’s Today was the only Friday morning show to report this. By contrast, CBS Mornings made it seem as if the airlines wanted squabbling siblings to just get along, while ABC’s Good Morning America was content to only talk about generic travel chaos.
  5148.  
  5149. While Friday may have been Halloween, CBS correspondent Cristian Benavides was quick to point out that the Thanksgiving travel period is not that far away, “It comes as around 13,000 air traffic controllers missed their first full paycheck on Tuesday, and they could miss at least two more by Thanksgiving if the stalemate continues.”
  5150.  
  5151.  
  5152.  
  5153.  
  5154.  
  5155.  
  5156.  
  5157.  
  5158.  
  5159. After a clip of Vice President JD Vance lamenting air traffic controllers are currently going without pay, Benavides echoed his previous point, “And with more controllers calling out sick and the holidays right around the corner, Transportation Sean Duffy had this stark warning Thursday.”
  5160.  
  5161. Following a video of Duffy warning of “a disaster in aviation,” Benavides reported, “Several major airlines have called for Congress to reopen the government. Some of them have been providing food assistance and other sort of support to federal aviation employees who are currently working without pay.”
  5162.  
  5163. That makes it sound like the industry is urging the parties to make a deal when it is really demanding Democrats give up. By contrast, NBC correspondent Tom Costello portrayed the airlines’ position more fully, “And now the nation's four largest airlines are weighing in, endorsing what's known as a clean resolution, a CR, a funding bill focused solely on opening the government, also supported by Republicans.”
  5164.  
  5165. NBC then played a clip of United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby addressing the health care angle of the shutdown Democrats have been keen to push, “Get that negotiation done behind closed doors without the pressure, without putting the American workers and the American economy at risk.”
  5166.  
  5167. Meanwhile, over at ABC, correspondent Mola Lenghi was not interested in even mentioning the airlines, reporting in part that:
  5168.  
  5169.  
  5170. Short staffing due to government shutdown, that is contributing to the problem. For example, in Orlando, they've only been able to accommodate about ten planes per hour, average delays exceeding about four hours per flight there in Orlando and there have been instances there where they have had no air traffic controllers able to receive flights. So, they haven't been able to receive any at times there. Compounding the problem, today will be weather expected throughout the day, especially in the Northeast, where the FAA says we’re expecting to see ground stops, more delays, some more cancellations throughout the day affecting the mid-Atlantic and Northeast along the East Coast there.
  5171.  
  5172.  
  5173. Elsewhere on Friday’s GMA, the cast was eager to point to polling that showed Republicans were more to blame for the shutdown than Democrats, but based off reporting like this, perhaps we can see why. The country is about to enter the busy part of the travel calendar, and airports are short-staffed because Democrats are making irrelevant demands, and now ABC and CBS are refusing to cover outsiders demanding they stop the act.
  5174.  
  5175. Here are transcripts for the October 31 show:
  5176.  
  5177.  
  5178. ABC Good Morning America
  5179.  
  5180. 10/31/2025
  5181.  
  5182. 7:06 AM ET
  5183.  
  5184. MOLA LENGHI: Short staffing due to government shutdown, that is contributing to the problem. For example, in Orlando, they've only been able to accommodate about ten planes per hour, average delays exceeding about four hours per flight there in Orlando and there have been instances there where they have had no air traffic controllers able to receive flights. So, they haven't been able to receive any at times there. Compounding the problem, today will be weather expected throughout the day, especially in the Northeast, where the FAA says we’re expecting to see ground stops, more delays, some more cancellations throughout the day affecting the mid-Atlantic and Northeast along the East Coast there.
  5185.  
  5186. ***
  5187.  
  5188. CBS Mornings
  5189.  
  5190. 10/31/2025
  5191.  
  5192. 7:05 AM ET
  5193.  
  5194. CRISTIAN BENAVIDES: It comes as around 13,000 air traffic controllers missed their first full paycheck on Tuesday, and they could miss at least two more by Thanksgiving if the stalemate continues.
  5195.  
  5196. JD VANCE: I worry about the air traffic controllers who, of course, make this entire system extra safe. I worry about them [jump cut] more worried about their credit card bill than they should be because they’re not getting a paycheck.
  5197.  
  5198. BENAVIDES: And with more controllers calling out sick and the holidays right around the corner, Transportation Sean Duffy had this stark warning Thursday.
  5199.  
  5200. SEAN DUFFY: Our traffic will be snarled, right. It will be a disaster in aviation.
  5201.  
  5202. BENAVIDES: Several major airlines have called for Congress to reopen the government. Some of them have been providing food assistance and other sort of support to federal aviation employees who are currently working without pay.
  5203.  
  5204. ***
  5205.  
  5206. NBC Today
  5207.  
  5208. 10/31/2025
  5209.  
  5210. 7:12 AM ET
  5211.  
  5212. TOM COSTELLO: Republicans warn Americans could face travel chaos by Thanksgiving.
  5213.  
  5214. JD VANCE: Look, it could be a disaster. It really could be.
  5215.  
  5216. COSTELLO: And now the nation's four largest airlines are weighing in, endorsing what's known as a clean resolution, a CR, a funding bill focused solely on opening the government, also supported by Republicans.
  5217.  
  5218. SCOTT KIRBY: Get that negotiation done behind closed doors without the pressure, without putting the American workers and the American economy at risk.
  5219. </description>
  5220.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 1:14 PM</pubDate>
  5221.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  5223.    </item>
  5224. <item>
  5225.  <title>List of Democrat Strongholds Calling on Party to End Shutdown Swells</title>
  5226.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/10/31/list-democrat-strongholds-calling-party-end-shutdown-grows</link>
  5227.  <description>On Thursday, the Teamsters union called on Senate Democrats to pass a clean continuing funding resolution (CR), as a growing number of traditional Democrat strongholds are demanding their party end the federal government shutdown.
  5228.  
  5229. "Pass a clean CR, get to the table, negotiate a deal. Do not put working people in the middle of a problem,” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said at a White House press event, joined by Vice President JD Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The formidable International Brotherhood of Teamsters has 1.4 million members nationwide.
  5230.  
  5231. Even the virulently anti-Republican American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) has issued a statement calling for Senate Democrats to end the government shutdown by voting to pass a continuing resolution that would temporarily extend funding at previously-approved levels.
  5232.  
  5233. The number of unions and trade associations calling for Senate Democrats to pass a “clean” continuing resolution – one identical to the one they voted for that expired on October 1 - has been swelling.
  5234.  
  5235. Among them:
  5236.  
  5237. Allied Federal Workers Union
  5238. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  5239. National Retail Federation
  5240. U.S. Chamber of Congress
  5241. U.S. Travel Association
  5242. American Hotel &amp; Lodging Association
  5243. Associated General Contractors of America
  5244. Association of Equipment Manufacturers
  5245. Business Roundtable
  5246. Financial Services Forum
  5247. National Association of Wholesale-Distributors
  5248. National Electrical Manufacturers Association
  5249. Allied Pilots Association
  5250. Coalition of Airline Pilots Association
  5251. NetJet Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots
  5252. Southwest Airlines Pilots Association
  5253. American Bankers Association
  5254. National Association of Home Builders
  5255. National Association of Manufacturers
  5256. National Association of Realtors
  5257. Airlines for America
  5258. Information Technology Industry Council
  5259. Additionally, House Appropriations Republicans have posted a list of more than 300 “stakeholders” who want Democrats to vote for the CR and reopen the government.
  5260.  
  5261.  “This key stakeholder support proves that Democrats’ continued effort to block passage of the clean CR is out of step with the American people, who demand and deserve an open and functional federal government. The full list of organizations supporting H.R. 5371, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026, can be found here,” they write.
  5262.  
  5263.  
  5264.  
  5265.  
  5266. .@TeamsterSOB: "Pass a clean CR, get to the table... do not put working people in the middle of a problem they should not be in... security and safety of the airlines is paramount. Let's not compromise the safety and security — pass a clean CR." pic.twitter.com/VdsiHuygah
  5267. — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 30, 2025
  5268.  
  5269.  
  5270.  
  5271.  
  5272.  
  5273. Business Associations Issue Statement on Government Shutdown:
  5274. “We urge Congress to swiftly pass a clean continuing resolution to reopen the federal government." pic.twitter.com/MOVS8wEbKM
  5275. — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 30, 2025
  5276.  </description>
  5277.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 12:41 PM</pubDate>
  5278.    <dc:creator>Craig Bannister</dc:creator>
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  5282.  <title>CENSORED! Three Democratic Candidate Controversies ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS Are Burying</title>
  5283.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2025/10/31/censored-three-democratic-candidate-controversies-abccbsnbcpbs</link>
  5284.  <description>Election Day is almost here, and there are three high-profile races involving Democratic candidates who have made shocking statements in their past, but if you get your news from ABC, CBS, NBC, or PBS, you have heard very little to nothing about them. 
  5285.  
  5286. With early voting already underway, these are stories that could impact their races — if the elitist media didn’t tilt to one side.  
  5287.  
  5288. In resurfaced texts from 2022 that were released on October 3, Jay Jones (who is running for Virginia attorney general) suggested he would shoot then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert over Adolf Hitler and declared that Gilbert’s wife should be forced to watch his “fascist” children be killed. 
  5289. On October 16, it was reported that Democratic Senate candidate for Maine Graham Platner had made past comments where he called “all” cops bastards, said rural white people were “actually” racist and stupid, and described himself as a communist. He also wrote posts where he asked, “Why don’t black people tip?” It was also revealed that Platner had a tattoo that was linked to a Nazi symbol. 
  5290. On October 28, a resurfaced video from a 2023 conference showed Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani making anti-semitic and anti-police statements: “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.” 
  5291. How much time have the broadcast networks devoted to these controversial statements on their evening and morning news shows and Sunday roundtable programs?
  5292.  
  5293. In the cases of Platner and Mamdani? Zero seconds! 
  5294.  
  5295.  
  5296.  
  5297.  
  5298.  
  5299.  
  5300.  
  5301.  
  5302.  
  5303. Jones did garner some coverage, but not much. Since the story first broke on October 3, Jones’s heinous remarks have gotten a total of just 9 minutes and 8 seconds in 28 days. This is even after the remarks were highlighted in the Virginia gubernatorial debate and by President Donald Trump himself. 
  5304.  
  5305. It should be noted that some of the coverage of the Jones’s texts came because either a Republican analyst like Marc Short brought it up, or it was intertwined with the Politico story about Republican non-candidates saying awful things in a group chat. 
  5306.  
  5307. Just imagine if any of the above offensive statements were made by a Republican candidate running this year? It’s unlikely that stories would garner such little coverage. There’s no question whose side the elitist media are on during this campaign. I firmly on the pro-Democratic, leftist one. 
  5308.  
  5309.  
  5310.  
  5311. For this study MRC analysts looked at the broadcast evening (ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News), morning news shows (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, CBS Saturday Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC Today, NBC Sunday Today), Sunday roundtable shows (ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation), and PBS’s NewsHour from October 3 through the morning of October 31.</description>
  5312.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 11:54 AM</pubDate>
  5313.    <dc:creator>Geoffrey Dickens</dc:creator>
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  5317.  <title>X Targets Scientist After Viral Vaccine-Autism Study Gains Millions of Views</title>
  5318.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/heather-moon/2025/10/31/x-targets-scientist-after-viral-vaccine-autism-study</link>
  5319.  <description>It was nearly impossible to find the X account of an epidemiologist whose study linking autism to childhood vaccines garnered millions of views.
  5320.  
  5321. The Elon Musk-owned platform banned Epidemiologist and McCullough Foundation Administrator Nicolas Hulscher from search results after he posted a “landmark study”  affirming that “vaccines are the dominant risk factor for autism.” When users searched for his name or for his X username, many either got no results or were presented only with other accounts that had similar spellings. 
  5322.  
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  5324.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 11:13 AM</pubDate>
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  5329.  <title>Morning Joe Doesn't Understand Trump’s Military Pivot to Latin America</title>
  5330.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/isaac-white/2025/10/31/morning-joe-doesnt-understand-trumps-military-pivot-latin-america</link>
  5331.  <description> MSNBC contributors on Thursday’s Morning Joe couldn’t comprehend why the Trump administration would possibly want to redirect military resources and manpower away from Europe and towards Latin America and the Pacific. The disbelief included insinuations of inviting Russian aggression to reasserting claims of President Trump not really addressing the true source of narcotics trafficking.
  5332.  
  5333. Co-host Joe Scarborough asked Washington Post columnist David Ignatius if the rearrangement of priorities was an invitation for Putin to reinvigorate his wilting campaign into Ukraine:
  5334.  
  5335.  
  5336. SCARBOROUGH: Unfortunately, the timing of it just couldn't be worse […]  you're doing this at the same time you're trying to push Vladimir Putin back in Europe. This sends exactly the wrong message, doesn't it?
  5337.  
  5338. IGNATIUS: It does to Russia. My sense is that Trump really is turning our national security priorities upside down. Russia is an increasingly aggressive threat to Europe and by extension the United States.
  5339.  
  5340.  
  5341. Russia has posed a nuclear threat to the U.S., not a fiscal or land threat (which has become more apparent with the fact they failed conquer a neighbor), and our military presence inside or outside of Europe couldn’t change that. Not to mention Trump just began matching launch threats.
  5342.  
  5343.  
  5344.  
  5345.  
  5346.  
  5347.  
  5348.  
  5349.  
  5350.  
  5351. Ignatius further downplayed the danger posed by adversaries geographically close to the U.S. and didn’t mention the hundreds of thousands of deaths directly linked to drugs: “The threat in Latin America is limited. Even Trump describes it in terms of a narcotics problem. It's not usually seen as national security.”
  5352.  
  5353. Scarborough believed the shift to be “bizarre,” and claimed everyone shared in his opinion that the newfound reasons for focusing on the western hemisphere were farcical:
  5354.  
  5355.  
  5356. The suggestion that you're going to stop fentanyl trafficking and the trafficking of cocaine and other drugs by blowing up boats off the coast of Venezuela is just complete lunacy, and everybody knows it. Democrats and Republicans alike know they're lying. This isn't about a drug war.
  5357.  
  5358.  
  5359. The Trump administration has been making separate efforts at addressing the issues stemming from Mexico, so for the left-wing media to claim that Trump was ignoring the real source was disingenuous. It’s a multifaceted effort at reclaiming ultimate regional dominance.
  5360.  
  5361. Ignatius repeated the Wall Street Journal’s oh-so clever “Donroe Doctrine” line and insinuated Trump was taking the U.S. backwards:
  5362.  
  5363.  
  5364. … this is about flexing your muscles in your own hemisphere […] And Trump, as in so many other ways, seems to be moving back to the 19th century and those definitions of American foreign policy. At a time when U.S. interests are so clearly threatened in Europe by a very aggressive advancing Russia, and in Asia by a growing Chinese threat, all this focus on Central Latin America is just hard to understand.
  5365.  
  5366.  
  5367. Richard Haass, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, was on the panel and played dumb about the pivot to Asia. “Remember, Joe, for years we would talk about the pivot to Asia? What we're seeing is a pivot a little bit out of Europe continuing not necessarily a pivot to Asia anymore, we're seeing a pivot to the western hemisphere. The greater use of the military here at home,” he huffed.
  5368.  
  5369. Of course, he was overlooking how America was strengthening its military relationships with regional allies like Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Taiwan.
  5370.  
  5371. Trump has successfully pressured most of NATO into paying its fair share in securing against local antagonists, and he just finished a trip where he met with Asian allies and settled down trade tensions with China. In other words, the shift in military focus is quite easy to understand, actually.
  5372.  
  5373. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
  5374.  
  5375.  
  5376. MSNBC’s Morning Joe
  5377. October 30, 2025
  5378. 6:14:55 a.m. EST
  5379.  
  5380. (…)
  5381.  
  5382. WILLIE GEIST: Some other news this morning. Two top Republicans on Capitol Hill are criticizing the Pentagon's plan to cut the number of American troops deployed to Eastern Europe. Senator Roger Wicker and Congressman Mike Rogers, who chair their respective Armed Services Committees, say the move jeopardizes the U.S. relationship with key allies on NATO’s eastern flank.
  5383.  
  5384. Around 700 troops with the 101st Airborne Division will be rotated out of Germany, Romania and Poland as the Trump administration shifts its focus toward Latin America and Asia. The Republican chairmen write in part, “This decision also sends the wrong signal to Russia at the very moment President Trump is applying pressure to force Vladimir Putin to come to the table to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine.”
  5385.  
  5386. JOE SCARBOROUGH: I mean, it is, David Ignatius, why that's a statement straight out of, the 19th century, you know, the Monroe Doctrine alive and well in Pete Hegseth’s head. Unfortunately, the timing of it just couldn't be worse as the Republican Armed Services chairmen on the House and the Senate both said, you're doing this at the same time you're trying to push Vladimir Putin back in Europe. This sends exactly the wrong message, doesn't it?
  5387.  
  5388. DAVID IGNATIUS: It does to Russia. My sense is that Trump really is turning our national security priorities upside down. Russia is an increasingly aggressive threat to Europe and by extension the United States. The threat in Latin America is limited. Even Trump describes it in terms of a narcotics problem. It's not usually seen as national security. You know, we'll have to see whether the Congress can really challenge this.
  5389.  
  5390. (…)
  5391.  
  5392. 6:19:14 a.m. EST
  5393.  
  5394. RICHARD HAASS: I guess I’ll make a larger point, also, with the troops potentially out of Europe and the question about Asia. This administration, at least the Pentagon, is on the verge, it seems, of a major reset in American foreign policy. Remember, Joe, for years we would talk about the pivot to Asia?
  5395.  
  5396. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  5397.  
  5398. HAASS: What we're seeing is a pivot a little bit out of Europe —
  5399.  
  5400. SCARBOROUGH: Right.
  5401.  
  5402. HAASS: — continuing not necessarily a pivot to Asia anymore, we're seeing a pivot to the western hemisphere. The greater use of the military here at home, the greater use of the military in the western hemisphere. This is enormously consequential. This is really a redirection of American military resources. This has got to be debated.
  5403.  
  5404. SCARBOROUGH: But, I mean, and it's —
  5405.  
  5406. HASS: — which is to say it’s questionable.
  5407.  
  5408. MIKA BRZEZINKSI: Right.
  5409.  
  5410. SCARBOROUGH: It's bizarre. I mean, you look, David Ignatius, at where the drugs are coming in from Central and South America, the vast number of them are not coming from Venezuela. The suggestion that you're going to stop fentanyl trafficking and the trafficking of cocaine and other drugs by blowing up boats off the coast of Venezuela is just complete lunacy, and everybody knows it. Democrats and Republicans alike know they're lying. This isn't about a drug war.
  5411.  
  5412. IGNATIUS: But as Richard rightly says, this is about flexing your muscles in your own hemisphere. The Wall Street Journal cleverly described this as the “Donroe Doctrine,” playing off the Monroe Doctrine, which asserted that the — this hemisphere, North and South America, is our space and nobody's allowed to infringe on it.
  5413.  
  5414. And Trump, as in so many other ways, seems to be moving back to the 19th century and those definitions of American foreign policy. At a time when U.S. interests are so clearly threatened in Europe by a very aggressive advancing Russia, and in Asia by a growing Chinese threat, all this focus on Central Latin America is just hard to understand.
  5415.  
  5416. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
  5417.  
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  5420.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 10:36 AM</pubDate>
  5421.    <dc:creator>Isaac White</dc:creator>
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  5425.  <title>Stewart Tells Harris Dems Need To Go Further Left On Healthcare</title>
  5426.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/10/31/stewart-tells-harris-dems-need-go-further-left-healthcare</link>
  5427.  <description>Jon Stewart welcomed former Vice President Kamala Harris to Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from her failed presidential campaign to Donald Trump to the state of the Democratic Party. In one instance, Stewart claimed that Democrats need to go further left on healthcare because the “conservative” Obamacare fix did not work, while, in another, he expressed shock and confusion when Harris claimed President Biden was competent enough to serve.
  5428.  
  5429. On healthcare, Stewart began, “You brought up the shutdown, I think that's a great example. So, Democrats are in a position now where they are shutting things down so that subsidies for the ACA can be extended because insurance premiums are driving—”
  5430.  
  5431.  
  5432.  
  5433.  
  5434.  
  5435.  
  5436.  
  5437.  
  5438.  
  5439. After Harris interrupted to add, “and will skyrocket,” Stewart rolled on, “But to the point of the Democrats' approach. I guess what I'm driving at is, are the reforms that Democrats are talking about not enough to—are they basically tinkering at the edges of a system that is inherently corrupt and not delivering. As opposed to rethinking that system, so that it delivers more directly. So, let's talk about the ACA. Basically, it's a conservative fix to a healthcare system that is an outlier in the civilized world.”
  5440.  
  5441. Stewart continued lamenting, “It gives people a coupon that allows them, maybe, entrance into this circus that is our, our healthcare system. So now Democrats are fighting. To keep the cost of that coupon slightly less. So, are you now trapped in a program? That ultimately wasn't the fix that we wanted it to be, to a system that inherently won't function well because of externalities in a straight capitalist supply and demand way.”
  5442.  
  5443. The myth that the U.S. has a strictly capitalist healthcare system refuses to die. People like Stewart demand government embed itself in the system through things like Obamacare and then, when it fails, claim capitalism is the problem.
  5444.  
  5445. While not quite redeeming himself later in the program, Stewart did manage to have one better moment. During a conversation about Biden, Harris claimed, “I believe he was fully competent to serve.”
  5446.  
  5447. Stewart wasn’t so sure, “Do you really? That surprises me actually.”
  5448.  
  5449.  
  5450.  
  5451.  
  5452.  
  5453.  
  5454.  
  5455.  
  5456.  
  5457. Harris then doubled down, “No, I do, but he, but there's a distinction to be made between running for president and being president.”
  5458.  
  5459. That was an idea Stewart found even more confusing, “What's the distinction?”
  5460.  
  5461. Harris claimed that, “Well, being a candidate for President of the United States is about being in a marathon at a sprinter's pace, having tomatoes thrown at you every step you take.”
  5462.  
  5463. Stewart rebutted by suggesting that sounds an awful lot like being president, “Yeah, it's, I think it's a hard case to make for people that he didn't have the stamina to run, but he had the stamina to govern, cause I think most people view the presidency as a marathon run at a sprint with tomatoes being thrown at you in terms of governance. So, I think that drawing that distinction. And again, I recognize the incredibly difficult place you are in with that.”
  5464.  
  5465. This episode of The Weekly Show showed the duality of Stewart. Relative to other liberal commentators and comedians, he has been decent when it comes to Biden’s mental descent, but any criticism of Democrats comes from the place that says the party needs to go further left.
  5466.  
  5467. Here is a transcript for the October 30 show:
  5468.  
  5469.  
  5470. Comedy Central The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
  5471.  
  5472. 10/30/2025
  5473.  
  5474. JON STEWART: You brought up the shutdown, I think that's a great example. So, Democrats are in a position now where They are shutting things down so that subsidies for the ACA can be extended because insurance premium are driving—
  5475.  
  5476. KAMALA HARRIS: And will skyrocket.
  5477.  
  5478. STEWART: Will skyrocket.
  5479.  
  5480. HARRIS: Yeah.
  5481.  
  5482. STEWART: But to the point of the Democrats' approach. I guess what I'm driving at is, are the reforms that Democrats are talking about not enough to—are they basically tinkering at the edges of a system that is inherently corrupt and not delivering. As opposed to rethinking that system, so that it delivers more directly. So, let's talk about the ACA. Basically, it's a conservative fix to a healthcare system that is an outlier in the civilized world—
  5483.  
  5484. HARRIS: Right. Right.
  5485.  
  5486. STEWART: — it gives people a coupon that allows them, maybe, entrance into this circus that is our, our healthcare system. So now Democrats are fighting. To keep the cost of that coupon—
  5487.  
  5488. HARRIS: Right.
  5489.  
  5490. STEWART: — slightly less. So, are you now trapped in a program? That ultimately wasn't the fix that we wanted it to be, to a system that inherently won't function well because of externalities in a straight capitalist supply and demand way. Does that make sense?
  5491.  
  5492. …
  5493.  
  5494. STEWART: I don't mean that in the personal sense of—
  5495.  
  5496. HARRIS: Yeah.
  5497.  
  5498. STEWART: — not ready. I meant it more in the sense of the policies that he wanted to implement, or the way that they were implemented, or the governance obstacles more than the competence conversation.
  5499.  
  5500. HARRIS: I'm not talking about competence, right? Yeah, no, I'm not talking about competence at all. No, I believe he was fully competent to serve.
  5501.  
  5502. STEWART: Do you really?
  5503.  
  5504. HARRIS: Yeah, I do.
  5505.  
  5506. STEWART: That surprises me actually.
  5507.  
  5508. HARRIS: No, I do, but he, but there's a distinction to be made between running for president and being president.
  5509.  
  5510. STEWART: What's the distinction?
  5511.  
  5512. HARRIS: Well, being a candidate for President of the United States is about being in a marathon at a sprinter's pace, having tomatoes thrown at you every step you take.
  5513.  
  5514. STEWART: That sounds lovely.
  5515.  
  5516. HARRIS: Yeah, it's more than a notion.
  5517.  
  5518. STEWART: Get involved in public service, ladies and gentlemen.
  5519.  
  5520. HARRIS: And to be the seated, the sitting president, while doing that, it's a lot. It’s a lot.
  5521.  
  5522. STEWART: Yeah, it's, I think it's a hard case to make for people that he didn't have the stamina to run, but he had the stamina to govern, cause I think most people view the presidency as a marathon run at a spring with tomatoes being thrown at you in terms of governance. So, I think that drawing that distinction. And again, I recognize the incredibly difficult place you are in with that. With personal relationships and, you know, I've been surprised at how much people talk about loyalty.
  5523. </description>
  5524.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 10:00 AM</pubDate>
  5525.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  5529.  <title>POLL: What Was the Worst Media Take of the Week?</title>
  5530.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2025/10/31/poll-what-was-worst-media-take-week</link>
  5531.  <description>POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)
  5532.  
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  5540.  
  5541. NOMINEES: 
  5542.  
  5543.  
  5544.  
  5545. 1. Weijia Jiang: Can Trump Tear Down Anything He Wants? Like the Jefferson Memorial?
  5546.  
  5547. “Can the President tear down anything he wants, without oversight? Could he demolish this building or say the Jefferson Memorial?”— CBS correspondent Weijia Jiang to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, October 23. 
  5548.  
  5549.  
  5550.  
  5551. 2. Bradley Whitford: East Wing Demolition Is a Distraction from Trump Being Friends with Epstein
  5552.  
  5553. “We have a President who is a corrupt authoritarian, in my view, who has a kind of contempt for democratic values and its symbols. And I think he thinks he has the right to destroy the people’s house, do some influence peddling along the way, build a ballroom as a monument to distract us from the fact that inflation is up, job creation is down, Congress has shut down the government, and we’re suppressing information about the fact that, you know, he was best friends with the most notorious child rapist [Jeffrey Epstein] in history.”— Actor Bradley Whitford on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, October 24.
  5554.  
  5555.  
  5556.  
  5557. 3. Sunny Hostin: Donald Trump Is Never Going to Leave the White House
  5558.  
  5559. “I actually have come to the conclusion that he [Donald Trump] is most definitely going to try to remain in power, because remember, that East Wing – it’s going to take a long time to build that. He is hooking up the White House because he doesn’t plan on leaving it. I don’t think he plans on leaving.”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, October 27.
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  5569. Funded by James P. Jimirro</description>
  5570.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 9:40 AM</pubDate>
  5571.    <dc:creator>Geoffrey Dickens</dc:creator>
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  5575.  <title>NewsBusters Podcast: Interrogating the Left with Congressman Brandon Gill</title>
  5576.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/10/31/newsbusters-podcast-interrogating-left-congressman-brandon-gill</link>
  5577.  <description> Congressional hearings are a great opportunity for Republicans to expose the Left with tough questions. In a March hearing with the CEOs of PBS and NPR, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) demonstrated how to drag them into answers they don't want to give.
  5578.  
  5579. He joins the Podcast alongside MRC Vice President for Free Speech Dan Schneider to discuss "public" media and the other occasions of liberal tilt. Gill made a point of how NPR CEO Katherine Maher backed financial reparations for blacks during the BLM craze in 2020. She tried to deny to Gill what she obviously tweeted then, years before she took over NPR. Clearly, the tweets encouraged NPR's leftist core when they were looking for a new leader.
  5580.  
  5581. After that hearing, President Trump and the Republicans succeeded in rescinding funding for PBS and NPR, but we remain vigilant about any back-sliding. Their ridiculous campaign for cash continues. When Maher appeared on Stephen Colbert's late-night leftist hootenanny on September 5, the YouTube video carried the propaganda headline “Public Media Enables Americans To Trust One Another And Make Decisions Together.”
  5582.  
  5583. That's shameless. "Public" media refuses to let conservatives express themselves on their platforms and tells everyone to distrust them as fascist evildoers.
  5584.  
  5585. We recently found that in the two months after the defunding, NPR's guest count on its evening newscast All Things Considered was 53 left-wing guests to only three conservatives. PBS NewsHour was slightly better at 98 to 21. Every study we've conducted looking for conservative appearances comes up dramatically short. On some issues -- like transgenderism -- conservatives cannot be found.
  5586.  
  5587. PBS News Hour recently celebrated its 50th anniversary by lying about how their program has sought to bring "depth, insight and fairness." They will try to deceive the public so they can resume the cash flow from taxpayers.
  5588.  
  5589. Congressman Gill also discussed the leftist tilt from Big Tech, especially our Free Speech team's recent focus on Google searches and Wikipedia. The Congressman agreed about the tech tilt: "This stuff has serious consequences, these are powerful platforms." Gill's brief biography on Wikipedia has been updated this year with information intended to scandalize liberals, like he favors a bill to put Trump's face on the $100 bill after his second term ends, and he mocked New York socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for eating with his hands.
  5590.  
  5591. You can enjoy the podcast below, or you can listen to the audio here. 
  5592.  
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  5597.  </description>
  5598.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 8:55 AM</pubDate>
  5599.    <dc:creator>Tim Graham</dc:creator>
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  5603.  <title>Column: Foreign Journalists Asked Kamala the Questions Americans Wouldn't </title>
  5604.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/10/31/column-foreign-journalists-asked-kamala-questions-americans-wouldnt</link>
  5605.  <description>Last month, Kamala Harris made the rounds of supportive liberal networks to promote her campaign book 107 Days. The title implied it was impossible for her to beat that allegedly despised dictator Donald Trump with so little time.
  5606.  
  5607. No one expected much of the interviewers, starting with ABC’s The View, which could have titled the interview “You Had Me at Hello.” They put a six-pack of suckups on the set. The “conservative” Alyssa Farah Griffin could only ask if Harris missed any warning signs. 
  5608.  
  5609. The biggest event in that interview was co-host Sunny Hostin confessing to the Mom-ala that she felt she’d hurt her chances by asking an obvious question: Where do you differ from Joe Biden? Harris said she couldn’t think of anything.
  5610.  
  5611. That shouldn’t be a destructive question. It’s an obvious question, even if the answer was exploitable.
  5612.  
  5613. ABC’s Good Morning America was no better. Co-host Michael Strahan tiptoed in with Democrat concerns: “There's some Democrats who said that you don't take enough responsibility for the loss. How do you respond to that?”
  5614.  
  5615. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow gushed over Kamala as the “patron saint of I Told You So,” and let her subject compare Trump to a communist dictator. We won’t even get into her interviews with Don Lemon and Joy Reid. 
  5616.  
  5617. All these Americans looked dreadful when the Kamala Harris book tour went international. British Broadcasting Corporation interviewer Laura Kuennsberg noticed Harris said “I’m not done,” suggesting another presidential run. She warned: “But when you look at the bookies' odds, they put you, as an outsider, even behind Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.” Harris claimed she's never "listened to polls." 
  5618.  
  5619. That seems obvious, since she dropped out of her first presidential campaign before the primaries even began.
  5620.  
  5621. Kuennsberg also went after Biden’s cognitive decline: “You write that President Biden didn’t raise his frailty with you, and you write that you didn’t really raise it with him. That’s extraordinary to read in your account.” Harris claimed she didn’t doubt his capacity to serve as president, but he lacked the capacity to run for re-election.
  5622.  
  5623. The BBC anchor was gobsmacked: “Isn't it a strange message to the public to say, you know, what you need to be tougher and more able to run a political campaign than actually to be the person behind the desk in the Oval Office?” Harris stuck to her line.
  5624.  
  5625. Then came Australia’s ABC. Interviewer Sarah Ferguson also pressed on the decline question: "Didn’t you also have a responsibility? You were one of the people in the room…. Didn't you have a responsibility as an American to step up and say something at that point?" Harris insisted: "I did not question Joe Biden's capacity to be president at all."
  5626.  
  5627. Ferguson blamed Biden: "Wasn't his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?" When Harris shifted to saying Trump was the real challenge, Ferguson called her out: "I want to interrupt you because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden's failure to recognize his own frailties and what that did to you," Ferguson said. "The question is about Joe Biden. Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president?"
  5628.  
  5629. Harris answered: “In what regard, please?” Ferguson restated her thesis that Biden damaged her chances. Harris repeated: “He was not frail as President of the United States.”
  5630.  
  5631. This was about as accurate as comparing Trump to a communist dictator. It’s a colossal shame that American journalists can’t ask the questions that foreigners can.</description>
  5632.  <pubDate>October 31st, 2025 5:49 AM</pubDate>
  5633.    <dc:creator>Tim Graham</dc:creator>
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  5637.  <title>COMPLICIT: ABC, CBS, and NBC Suppress Bombshell Documents on 'Arctic Frost' Scandal</title>
  5638.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/10/30/complicit-abc-cbs-and-nbc-suppress-bombshell-documents-arctic</link>
  5639.  <description> As political scandals go, Arctic Frost makes Watergate look like relative child’s play. During the Biden Administration, the FBI may have investigated Republican elected officials and conservative organizations -- doing so, in many cases, with invasive and secret subpoenas. The breadth and scope of this scandal is staggering. And yet, the legacy broadcast news continues to suppress this story, just as they’ve done with every other story that is a threat to the prospects of Democrats seizing or holding power.
  5640.  
  5641. Per The New York Post:
  5642.  
  5643.  
  5644. More than 160 Republicans, including current Trump administration officials, may have been investigated by the FBI under former President Joe Biden, as part of the bureau’s sweeping Arctic Frost probe, documents show.
  5645.  
  5646. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, US Pardon Attorney Ed Martin and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro are among the prominent GOP figures named in FBI files released by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, detailing the massive scope of the Biden-era Justice Department’s investigation into allegations of 2020 election interference.
  5647.  
  5648. …
  5649.  
  5650. Former Attorney General Merrick Garland, ex-Assistant Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and former FBI Director Christopher Wray all signed off on the investigation into conservative groups and Trump allies in April of 2022, a memo released last week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) showed.
  5651.  
  5652.  
  5653. Our own Curtis Houck noted earlier today that the legacy media newscasts and morning shows had until this point suppressed the story. Since then, several new details have broken. Today it was revealed that the list of known Arctic Frost targets continues to expand. Florida Senator Rick Scott has revealed that he was also targeted by Jack Smith et al.
  5654.  
  5655.  
  5656. I was just informed by Senator Ron Johnson that I was targeted in the Arctic Frost witch hunt by Biden’s DOJ. Let’s be very clear: this was a targeted attack to dismantle the Republican Party, destroy me and other elected members of Congress, and take down President Trump. This…
  5657. — Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) October 30, 2025
  5658. There's also NewsMax's own Ed Henry, disclosing a Jack Smith secret subpoena ordering Apple to release sensitive information such as his social security number and finances, related to the J6 Prison Choir:
  5659.  
  5660.  
  5661. ⁦@mrddmia⁩ here is Jack Smith ordering @apple to provide my financial information, SSN etc in connection with song royalties under seal, secrecy approved by Judge Boasberg ⁦@MZHemingway⁩ pic.twitter.com/pSur3ybCES
  5662. — Ed Henry (@edhenry) October 30, 2025
  5663. And yet there was nothing about any of this on any of the national network newscasts. Nothing on ABC, CBS, NBC. We checked and found nothing on Univision or Telemundo, either. And this is quite clearly by design. 
  5664.  
  5665. [Editor's Note: There was no Arctic Frost reporting on Friday's morning shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC.]
  5666.  
  5667. A quick review of last week’s evening news finds that the consensus top story was the construction of the White House ballroom. Today’s top stories were a combination of the weather event hitting the East Coast (with lots of b-roll of flooded New York City subways), Prince Andrew getting stripped of his royal status, and SNAP benefits potentially expiring due to the ongoing government shutdown. And yet, there was absolutely nothing on a weaponization of government so grotesquely over-the-top that it seems typical of a work of fiction.
  5668.  
  5669. The same media that decry “retribution” when those who weaponized government face justice now shamefully hold their tongues as we collectively discover that the retribution was here all along, and executed by the Biden administration.
  5670.  
  5671. As we always say: if it weren’t for double standards, there’d be none at all. 
  5672.  
  5673.  </description>
  5674.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 11:40 PM</pubDate>
  5675.    <dc:creator>Jorge Bonilla</dc:creator>
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  5679.  <title>Shutdown: CNN's Audie Cornish Pushes Republicans To Cave To Democrat Demands</title>
  5680.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2025/10/30/shutdown-cnns-audie-cornish-pushes-republicans-cave-democrat</link>
  5681.  <description> On Thursday's CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish left little doubt as to which party's approach to ending the government shutdown she favored.
  5682.  
  5683. She played clips of two senators commenting on the impending halt of SNAP [food stamp] benefits. First was Elizabeth Warren, claiming that President Trump "is telling 15 million hungry children: eat dirt." 
  5684.  
  5685. Then there was a clip of Republican John Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, saying that "SNAP recipients shouldn't go without food. And we've tried to do that 13 times. You [Democrats] voted no 13 times."
  5686.  
  5687. Thune's point was that Senate Democrats have voted no 13 times on a continuing resolution that would have reopened the government, thereby funding the SNAP program. 
  5688.  
  5689. Did Cornish criticize Warren for her slanderous assertion that President Trump is telling millions of hungry children to eat dirt? Or did the CNN host point out that Democrats voted 13 times for continuing resolutions during the Biden administration?
  5690.  
  5691.  
  5692.  
  5693.  
  5694.  
  5695. No. Cornish's suggestion was that Republicans drop their continuing resolution and "make a deal with the Democrats on the thing they want." And what the Democrats want above all are continued Obamacare subsidies -- something that would have the effect of providing free health care to illegal aliens.
  5696.  
  5697. And, like Warren, Cornish even tried to troll President Trump, saying that her solution is "literally the art of the deal." 
  5698.  
  5699. Note: No one would want children to eat dirt. And when it comes to cuisine, Warren is quite the connoisseur. Back in her days as a Native American, two of the “special recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families” that she submitted to the " Pow Wow Chow" cookbook were identical to ones in the New York Times that came from came from Le Pavillon, a super-high-end French restaurant in Manhattan! Who knew that the Trail of Tears passed through Park Avenue?
  5700.  
  5701. Here's the transcript.
  5702.  
  5703.  
  5704. CNN This Morning
  5705. 10/30/25
  5706. 6:12 am EDT
  5707.  
  5708. AUDIE CORNISH: In just two days, 42 million Americans could be facing a hunger crisis. That includes 16 million children who might wake up Saturday with little or no food on the table. 
  5709.  
  5710. . . . 
  5711.  
  5712. ELIZABETH WARREN: Donald Trump has made the decision to let people across this country go hungry. Trump is telling 15 million hungry children: eat dirt.
  5713.  
  5714. . . . 
  5715.  
  5716. CORNISH: With the clock ticking on SNAP benefits, the stress level is rising in congress. Even the mild-mannered Senate majority leader is feeling the heat.
  5717.  
  5718. JOHN THUNE: SNAP recipients shouldn't go without food. People should be getting paid in this country. And we've tried to do that 13 times. You [pointing at Democrat side of Senate floor] voted no 13 times.
  5719.  
  5720. . . . 
  5721.  
  5722. CORNISH: It is worth saying, I know we are saying they could have passed a clean CR, there is a vote. There is also another alternative, just to say it out loud, which is you make a deal with the Democrats on the thing they want. 
  5723.  
  5724. CARI CHAMPION: Yeah!
  5725.  
  5726. CORNISH: I'm only saying that because we're presenting the audience with just one option, clean CR or nothing. When it is literally the art of the deal to figure out what the other side might want and compromise. And maybe not everyone would be happy, ideally, frankly, but something would get done. 
  5727. </description>
  5728.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 10:25 PM</pubDate>
  5729.    <dc:creator>Mark Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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  5733.  <title>Okay, Doomers: MSNBC Prophesizes Trump Economy Heading for Great 1929 Crash</title>
  5734.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2025/10/30/okay-doomers-msnbc-prophesizes-trump-economy-heading-great</link>
  5735.  <description>Despite all the media pseudo savants’s end-of-the-world predictions about the Trump economy falling flat on their faces, MSNBC is still out there banging pots and pans over an incoming Great Depression-era crash. 
  5736.  
  5737. MSNBC The 11th Hour host and economic dunce Stephanie Ruhle brought on CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin October 29 to hawk his new book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation.
  5738.  
  5739. The book served as a pretext for Ruhle to get Sorkin to draw parallels between the speculative market euphoria of the 1920s before the disastrous October 29, 1929, “Black Tuesday” crash and the current roaring stock market under President Donald Trump. “Today, the parallels between what was happening then and what’s happening now is quite remarkable.” Ruhle giddily urged Sorkin to his Armageddon scare-porn: “Explain because we all forget history.” 
  5740.  
  5741. Ruhle’s segment was dubbed: “Shadows of 1929: Is the Trump economy on track for a crash?” Oh barf.
  5742.  
  5743. MSNBC had enough trouble trying to ridiculously connect Trump to Hitler in 1933. Apparently that didn’t work so they had to go back a few more years to the crazy speculators of 1929. Talk about flinging spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks. This is just as nutty as when CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer implied a 1987-style “Black Monday” crash was on the immediate horizon back in April due to Trump’s tariff agenda, which, of course, never panned out, because Cramer is routinely wrong.
  5744.  
  5745.  
  5746.  
  5747.  
  5748.  
  5749. Sorkin attempted to liken meme-like stocks such as RCA (radio) in the 1920s and juxtapose it with the explosion of tech and AI stocks in today’s market, both he argued were predicated on an arbitrarily optimistic outlook of a changing future. Ruhle suggested that the stock market today being powered by mass investment in AI innovation could be “the Death Star that’s going to take us down as this unregulated new frontier with the president, who is surrounded right now by tech CEOs, who I would argue, are playing him.” 
  5750.  
  5751. Ah, so Trump is Emperor Sidious and we’re all the helpless inhabitants of Alderaan about to be blown to bits? Good grief.
  5752.  
  5753. Of course, neither Ruhle or Sorkin mentioned that there were a plethora of guardrails instituted post-1929 that were specifically designed to prevent such crashes from ever happening again. In fact, Sorkin himself even made the distinction between the two eras clear in a buried paragraph just four days after his book was published in a piece for The New York Times:
  5754.  
  5755.  
  5756. After 1929, we didn’t abandon speculation. We regulated it. The creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, margin rules, disclosure requirements — these weren’t meant to stop risk-taking. They were designed to make it less toxic. They’ve mostly worked.” 
  5757.  
  5758.  
  5759. Hmm. Go figure. 
  5760.  
  5761. Did Ruhle, Sorkin or any of the other MSNBC panelists that treated Sorkin like a Nostradamus point any of this obvious context out during their on-air segment? Of course not, because doing so would undercut their agenda to force-feed the American people the media narrative that Trump is steering the U.S. economy into an iceberg.  
  5762.  
  5763. Personal Finance Expert Suze Orman also slapped down the idea that the U.S. was headed for a 1929-style crash. According to Yahoo! Finance October 30, “Regarding the 1929 crash, Orman said it was caused by a unique set of conditions unlikely to happen again. ‘1929 was a whole other story that's not going to happen at this point in time again,’ she told listeners.” 
  5764.  
  5765. In 2022, investor and entrepreneur Darius Foroux outlined 8 reasons why a 1929 crash probably won’t happen again, with the most obvious reason being that the stock market and its structure has changed dramatically since the wild west of the Roaring 20s. First, “Pre-modern stock markets were casinos.” Second, “Colluding and cornering markets isn’t commonplace.” Aside from other factors like SEC investor protections, “Markets can halt trading when needed.” 
  5766.  
  5767. Top economists like Mohamed El-Erian and Torsten Sløk have come out recently and admitted that the doom-and-gloom mongering about the Trump economy has all been wrong to date. But leave it to the MSNBC bottom feeders to try and cause conniptions amongst viewers just because they despise the guy in the White House.</description>
  5768.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 5:05 PM</pubDate>
  5769.    <dc:creator>Joseph Vazquez</dc:creator>
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  5773.  <title>Jack Smith ‘Arctic Frost’ Subpoena Targeted Nonprofit that Didn’t Even Exist on Jan. 6, 2021</title>
  5774.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/10/30/jack-smith-arctic-frost-subpoena-targeted-firm-didnt-even</link>
  5775.  <description>One of the more than 400 Republican/conservative entities targeted for covert surveillance by former special counsel Jack Smith’s 197 subpoenas didn’t even exist at the time that Smith was supposedly investigating.
  5776.  
  5777. The massive breadth, false pretense and apparent political agenda of Smith’s investigation were exposed Wednesday, as The National Review reported:
  5778.  
  5779.  
  5780. “The Biden-era FBI's ‘Arctic Frost’ investigation into President Trump and the broader GOP's role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot was more wide-ranging than previously known, according to newly released documents showing the bureau issued nearly 200 subpoenas targeting more than 400 Republican entities and individuals as part of the probe.”
  5781.  
  5782.  
  5783. On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released 197 subpoenas he says former Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team “issued as part of the indiscriminate election case against President Trump.”
  5784.  
  5785. Smith’s case began at the Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the codename ‘Arctic Frost,’ the senator explained in a press release:
  5786.  
  5787.  
  5788. “The subpoenas, which were provided to Grassley through legally protected whistleblower disclosures, were sent to 34 individuals and 163 businesses. These 197 subpoenas requested testimony, communications and records related to at least 430 named Republican individuals and entities.”
  5789.  
  5790.  
  5791. One of those entities, a conservative nonprofit named America First Legal (AFL), posted news and an image of the subpoena targeting it on social media:
  5792.  
  5793.  
  5794. “Whistleblower docs reveal Jack Smith demanded AFL records in the Biden FBI’s ‘Arctic Frost’ operation — a witch hunt used to spy on conservatives and target 430+ Trump allies. This is an unprecedented weaponization of justice against America First patriots.”
  5795.  
  5796.  
  5797. AFL then followed up with a post explaining that there was no reason for Smith and Biden’s FBI to surveil it regarding the January 6 riot and its alleged election interference scheme they claimed to be investigating:
  5798.  
  5799.  
  5800. “REMINDER: America First Legal DID NOT EXIST on January 6, 2021. But Jack Smith subpoenaed us anyway. Because this was NEVER about democracy — it was ALWAYS a political witch hunt.”
  5801.  
  5802.  
  5803. Indeed, America First Legal was founded on April 6, 2021 – two months after the Capitol riot took place.
  5804.  
  5805. Exposing the subpoenas doesn’t end its probe into Arctic Frost abuses, the Senate Judiciary Committee says:
  5806.  
  5807.  
  5808. “Initially designed by Biden-era architects to target President Trump, the indiscriminate Arctic Frost investigation exploded to include over 430 Republican organizations and individuals. The Senate Judiciary Committee's oversight is far from over.”
  5809.  
  5810.  
  5811.  
  5812.  
  5813.  
  5814. 🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Chuck Grassley drops BOMBSHELL - Jack Smith and the Biden FBI TARGETED conservative groups including Turning Point USA, 197 subpoenas have just been made public
  5815. "A subpoena to Event Strategies, requested records related to Turning Point USA, and the Republican… pic.twitter.com/ptukM1XBme
  5816. — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 29, 2025
  5817.  
  5818.  
  5819.  
  5820. REMINDER: America First Legal DID NOT EXIST on January 6, 2021.
  5821. But Jack Smith subpoenaed us anyway.
  5822. Because this was NEVER about democracy — it was ALWAYS a political witch hunt. https://t.co/H0eQFlR2vk
  5823. — America First Legal (@America1stLegal) October 30, 2025
  5824.  
  5825.  
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  5827.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 4:44 PM</pubDate>
  5828.    <dc:creator>Craig Bannister</dc:creator>
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  5832.  <title>The View: GOP ‘Trying to Hold People Hostage Against Their Healthcare’</title>
  5833.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/10/30/view-gop-trying-hold-people-hostage-against-their-healthcare</link>
  5834.  <description> As the government shutdown dragged on, and despite Representative Kathrine Clark (D-MA) admitting the shutdown was the Democrats exercising their leverage, ABC’s The View grew more brazen with their inciting rhetoric against Republicans. On Thursday’s episode, the insisted that the Republicans’ plan was to hold millions of Americans “hostage” as their healthcare was hanging in the balance and were against “human rights.”
  5835.  
  5836. “Democrats are still demanding a negotiation on Obamacare extensions before they'll reopen. So, the other side has to blink or something,” bloviated moderator Whoopi Goldberg, clearly ignorant of the fact that funding the government required a super majority and the Republicans didn’t have that. “But will the blame game continue?”
  5837.  
  5838. Pretend independent Sara Haines put the shutdown showdown in almost good vs evil terms, such as proclaiming that “Democrats are standing for human rights across the board.” “So, they not only believe food should be provided, they happen to break with Republicans. They feel healthcare is also a human right, which is why they're holding on to this shutdown,” she touted, acknowledging that the Democrats were able to end the shutdown.
  5839.  
  5840. Haines argued that Democrats should sign onto the continuing resolution to fund the government as a gotcha to Republicans:
  5841.  
  5842.  
  5843. I think it would behoove them politically – and I hate talking politically when we're talking about peoples’ meals and healthcare – but arguably, they need to sign the CR bill because when the Republicans either come forward with a plan and we fix healthcare or Democrats call them on their bluff, that will fall solely on the shoulders of Republicans.
  5844.  
  5845. Like the shutdown now, it's murky, who's up, who's down. If people don't get their healthcare and it spikes 114 percent, we're looking at about five to seven million people that will lose it all together because they can't afford it in this country. That will be a game-changing moment and it will be clear who's at fault on that.
  5846.  
  5847.  
  5848.  
  5849.  
  5850.  
  5851.  
  5852. Using rhetoric to incite assassinations of Republicans, ABC News co-host Joy Behar claims congressional Republican are "trying to hold people hostage against their healthcare healthcare to give more tax breaks to rich people."
  5853. "This is a choice by the Republican Party," Sunny… pic.twitter.com/zPq1nfbocG
  5854. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 30, 2025
  5855.  
  5856.  
  5857.  
  5858.  
  5859. Conspiratorial co-host Joy Behar chimed in to suggest that the Republican “endgame” was to hold Americans “hostage.” “What is the endgame exactly for the Republicans though? To trying to hold people hostage against their healthcare to give more tax breaks to rich people? I mean, what are they trying to do?” she grimly wondered.
  5860.  
  5861. “I don’t think it's close as to who's to blame for this,” declared Sunny Hostin. She was either flaunting her ignorance or intentionally obfuscating the fact that Democratic votes were needed to fund the government, when she proceeded to point out how Republicans were in power: “The Republicans run the Senate, the House, they also run the White House, arguably they run the Supreme Court. They are in charge.”
  5862.  
  5863. It’s kind of pathetic that a former federal prosecutor like Hostin seemed to think the Supreme Court played a role in passing and enacting legislation.
  5864.  
  5865. That didn’t stop her from further using incendiary rhetoric: “This is a choice by the Republican Party. This is a choice. They don't care that much that premiums will go up 114 percent. They do not care that 40 million people will lose their benefits. They just do not care.”
  5866.  
  5867. This was the kind of rhetoric that could trigger another liberal extremist to assassinate more conservatives.
  5868.  
  5869. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
  5870.  
  5871.  
  5872. ABC’s The View
  5873. October 30, 2025
  5874. 11:02:57 a.m. Eastern
  5875.  
  5876. (…)
  5877.  
  5878. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Democrats are still demanding a negotiation on Obamacare extensions before they'll reopen. So, the other side has to blink or something. I'm not sure what that says. But will the blame game continue? And that's the question.
  5879.  
  5880. (…)
  5881.  
  5882. 11:04:47 a.m. Eastern
  5883.  
  5884. SARA HAINES: My take on this and Democrats are standing for human rights across the board. So, they not only believe food should be provided, they happen to break with Republicans. They feel healthcare is also a human right, which is why they're holding on to this shutdown.
  5885.  
  5886. I think it would behoove them politically – and I hate talking politically when we're talking about peoples’ meals and healthcare – but arguably, they need to sign the CR bill because when the Republicans either come forward with a plan and we fix healthcare or Democrats call them on their bluff, that will fall solely on the shoulders of Republicans.
  5887.  
  5888. Like the shutdown now, it's murky, who's up, who's down. If people don't get their healthcare and it spikes 114 percent, we're looking at about five to seven million people that will lose it all together because they can't afford it in this country. That will be a game-changing moment and it will be clear who's at fault on that.
  5889.  
  5890. JOY BEHAR: What is the endgame exactly for the Republicans though? To trying to hold people hostage against their healthcare to give more tax breaks to rich people? I mean, what are they trying to do?
  5891.  
  5892. SUNNY HOSTIN: I don't think they have a plan. I – And I don’t even – I don’t think it's close as to who's to blame for this. The Republicans run the Senate, the House, they also run the White House, arguably they run the Supreme Court. They are in charge.
  5893.  
  5894. HAINES: Most Americans agree with you, Sunny.
  5895.  
  5896. HOSTIN: This is a choice by the Republican Party. This is a choice. They don't care that much that premiums will go up 114 percent. They do not care that 40 million people will lose their benefits. They just do not care.
  5897.  
  5898. (…)
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  5900.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 3:53 PM</pubDate>
  5901.    <dc:creator>Nicholas Fondacaro</dc:creator>
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  5905.  <title>‘This Is Bari’s CBS News’; Puck Predicts More Layoffs, Weiss Looking to Woo Cooper</title>
  5906.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/10/30/baris-cbs-news-puck-predicts-more-layoffs-weiss-looking-woo-cooper</link>
  5907.  <description> In his indispensable Wednesday night dispatch at Puck News, Dylan Byers reported on the latest inside CBS News following layoffs of nearly 100 people and suggesting there’s more than smoke to rumors of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss expressing interest in having 60 Minutes correspondent/CNN host Anderson Cooper become the next CBS Evening News anchor.
  5908.  
  5909. But Byers also did something his fellow former CNN media colleagues wouldn’t be caught dead doing, which was deliver a reality check to leftists viewing Weiss as “some Laura Loomer-Sarah Palin-Marine Le Pen horror show.”
  5910.  
  5911. First, Byers said “the vast majority of this week’s layoffs” — which were leveled across the board at parent company Paramount Skydance — “were put in place by CBS News president Tom Cibrowski...and in some cases were set in motion before” Weiss even arrived on scene.
  5912.  
  5913. Byers only weighed in on one particular axing, opining “shuttering the Johannesburg bureau was inarguably overdue, though it also entailed laying off foreign correspondent Deb Patta, who was one of the most prominent voices on Gaza.”
  5914.  
  5915. Truth be told, that was perhaps the least surprising layoff and one any observer of Weiss’s politics and what she’s trying to build would have made. Between Patta and correspondent Imtiaz Tyab, no two TV correspondents were more reliable peddlers of Hamas propaganda.
  5916.  
  5917. But on that note, Byers said Weiss herself will conduct further “cuts to the newsroom in the near future,” which won’t so much be for Paramount Skydance to trim costs as it will be “to better align personnel with her own editorial vision and mandate[.]”
  5918.  
  5919. And, while painful, we wouldn’t be surprised one bit as she hopes to, in Byers’s summation, “mov[e] [CBS News] a few degrees toward the center” and create a product for Americans whose politics are not their source of happiness (or despair).
  5920.  
  5921. After swatting down for the second straight piece the insane rumor about Fox News’s Bret Baier being a prime candidate for the CBS Evening News (with cost and Baier now living in Florida making it unfeasible) and maintaining former anchor Norah O’Donnell and CBS Mornings’s Tony Dokoupil remain the internal frontrunners, Byers revealed “the most intriguing name” and one Weiss “has expressed interest in” is Cooper.
  5922.  
  5923. Byers said Cooper’s current contract runs through 2026 and would perhaps become more straightforward if Paramount Skydance succeeds in purchasing CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.
  5924.  
  5925. But perhaps most significant about such a splash, in Byers’s estimation, would be clapback at those who’ve come to view Weiss as a bizarre and false caricature:
  5926.  
  5927.  
  5928. In the imagination of some liberal minds, this whip-smart, gay, female, Jewish entrepreneur who happens to have worked at the Times and also lives on the Upper West Side has been construed into some Laura Loomer–Sarah Palin–Marine Le Pen horror show. In reality, that whole apocryphal rendering has itself become a caricature of liberal fever dreams.
  5929.  
  5930.  
  5931. He also correctly predicted that, while it wouldn’t lead to anything earth-shattering in the ratings, a Cooper-helmed show would undoubtedly “close the delta that Bari’s predecessors opened up” with ABC and NBC because the previous CBS News regime thought it would be a good idea to put John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois together.</description>
  5932.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 3:09 PM</pubDate>
  5933.    <dc:creator>Curtis Houck</dc:creator>
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  5937.  <title>STUDY: Comedy Shows Go All In For Mamdani By Attacking Rivals 95% Of The Time</title>
  5938.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/10/30/study-comedy-shows-go-all-mamdani-attacking-rivals-95-time</link>
  5939.  <description>In the Trump Era, the late night comedy shows have been looking for any glimmer of light they can find, and over the course of the first ten months of 2025, they think they have found it in New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. As the industry puts itself squarely in the middle of Mamdani Mania, it has done its part for the campaign by telling 95 percent of its mayoral election jokes about his rivals. Only three out of 63 jokes were about the socialist front-runner.
  5940.  
  5941. NewsBusters analysts examined ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers from January 6 through October 29.. 
  5942.  
  5943. Stephen Colbert led the way with 13 jokes about Eric Adams, 10 about Andrew Cuomo, three about Curtis Sliwa, one about Brad Lander, and one about Mamdani. That is a 27-1 count against Mamdani’s opponents, or 96 percent. Colbert also interviewed Lander and Mamdani on June 23.
  5944.  
  5945. Colbert's one Mamdani joke also came on June 23 when he quipped, "Mamdani is a democratic socialist who has promised to freeze rent and make buses free citywide. Sorry, no. Sorry, New Yorkers know there's no such thing as a free ride. People come from all over the world to this city just to pay $3 to sit next to that mystery puddle."
  5946.  
  5947. Seth Meyers was next with 14 jokes about Cuomo, four about Adams, and two about Sliwa for a 20-0 count.
  5948.  
  5949. The Daily Show’s carousel of hosts combined for an 8-0 tally that included five jokes about Adams and three about Cuomo.
  5950.  
  5951. Jimmy Fallon, meanwhile, was the mostly balanced one: had two about Mamdani, two about Adams, and one about Cuomo. That comes out as a 3-2 count, or 60 percent.
  5952.  
  5953. Both of Fallon's Mamdani jokes revolved around his age and both were told on June 25. First, Fallon joked, "Mamdani is 33 years old. After he won, he was like, 'My seven roommates are never gonna believe this!" Next, he added, "33 years old. Wow, that's a good age, 'cause he knows the meaning of both the spending cap and no cap."
  5954.  
  5955. Finally, there is Jimmy Kimmel, who is the only host in this study to regularly do his show in Los Angeles instead of New York. However, from September 29 to October 3, Kimmel did host five shows from Brooklyn and featured a lot of New York-specific humor, including two jokes about Eric Adams as he dropped out of the race on that first day.
  5956.  
  5957. All told, there were 28 jokes told about Cuomo, 26 about Adams, five about Sliwa, three about Mamdani, and one about Lander.
  5958.  
  5959. While the comedy shows largely avoided joking about Mamdani, that does not mean they avoided talking about him. Colbert hailed him as a Democrat who is getting people excited, Meyers claimed Mamdani’s primary victory proved the idea that Democrats need to moderate to win was a “load of crap,” while The Daily Show interviewed the co-chair of the Communist Party USA to insist that Mamdani is not the scary communist Republicans are portraying him to be. While NBC’s Saturday Night Live is not a part of this study, they have followed a similar pattern of picking on Mamdani’s opponents and attacking his critics.
  5960.  
  5961. Mamdani has also appeared for two interviews during the campaign. One, a June 23 appearance with Colbert, saw Mamdani join with Lander to promote a strategy where, due to New York City’s ranked choice system, their supporters would vote for the other as their second choice. Then, on October 27, Mamdani joined Jon Stewart for a 30-minute puffball interview where Stewart lamented that establishment Democrats have not enthusiastically fallen in line behind Mamdani and compared him to baseball legend Jackie Robinson.
  5962.  
  5963. “The greatest city in the world” did not nominate its finest. Of the four main general election candidates, each had something to make fun of. Adams had a corruption scandal involving Turkish Airlines, Cuomo had COVID nursing home and sexual harassment scandals from his time as governor, and Sliwa’s solution to the city’s rat crisis was to create feral cat “colonies.” Sliwa’s Republican candidacy was a long shot that never had a realistic chance, so the limited number of jokes about him is unsurprising. However, there were still more jokes about him than Mamdani, the frontrunner and radical leftist who has trafficked in anti-Semitism and had to be shamed into saying Hamas must disarm.</description>
  5964.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 2:15 PM</pubDate>
  5965.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  5969.  <title>Democrats’ Support of Illegal Aliens Also Caused the Previous Shutdown </title>
  5970.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/10/30/democrats-support-illegal-aliens-also-caused-previous</link>
  5971.  <description>The last federal government shutdown, like the current one, was caused by Democrats’ support of illegal immigrants. That time, they won – until President Trump took an extraordinary measure to thwart their agenda.
  5972.  
  5973. On January 25, 2019 during his first term, Pres. Trump ended a record-long, 34-day federal government shutdown by signing a continuing resolution (CR) providing funding through February 15 of that year.
  5974.  
  5975. The shutdown was triggered because Democrats objected to funding the construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall to stem the tide of illegal immigrants flooding into the country. By filibustering the Trump Administration’s government funding plan because it included $5.7 billion for the border wall, Senate Democrats kept the government closed until Trump relented and agreed to a CR funding the government at current levels without money for the border wall.
  5976.  
  5977. Democrats had promised to engage in good faith negotiations regarding border security – if Trump would cave and sign the CR devoid of border wall funding. But, the continuing resolution funded the government for only an additional three weeks.
  5978.  
  5979. When Trump signed the CR to reopen the government on January 25, he vowed that, if Democrats didn’t keep their promise, he’d find another way to legally fund the border wall required to keep America safe:
  5980.  
  5981.  
  5982. “So let me be very clear: We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier. If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February 15th, again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency. We will have great security.”
  5983.  
  5984.  
  5985. And, on February 15, 2019, the president was true to his word. Instead of shutting down the federal government, Pres. Trump declared a state of emergency at the U.S. southern border, through which he invoked presidential authority to divert funds that had previously been authorized by Congress, mostly for defense spending.
  5986.  
  5987. Democrats sued and gained an injunction against Trump’s effort to use up to $4 billion of transferred funds to construct the border wall, which the U.S. Supreme Court reversed until the matter was settled in court. Trump was then able to resume border wall construction.
  5988.  
  5989. But, on Day One of his presidency in 2019, Democrat President Joe Biden signed an executive order ending the emergency status and redirecting funds that had been earmarked for border wall construction. Thus, the legal issue was rendered moot, until Trump reentered the White House this year and declared a new state of emergency. In his second term, Trump is using existing funding halted by the Biden Administration and new funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill signed earlier this year.
  5990.  
  5991. Today’s federal government shutdown, which began on October 1, is also due to Democrats’ support of illegal immigrants. And, like the 2019 shutdown, it may well set a record for length.
  5992.  
  5993. This time, however, Democrats are keeping the government closed because they won’t agree to a continuing resolution that would keep funding at the same level they approved in previous CRs.
  5994.  
  5995. And, while Democrats shut down the government in 2019 because they didn’t want a wall to keep illegal immigrants out of the U.S., this year they’re doing it to gain health care benefits for those illegal immigrants now that they’re here.
  5996.  
  5997. Instead, Democrats are demanding an additional $1.5 trillion, including nearly $200 billion of funding to provide health care benefits to illegal aliens. To obtain that funding, Democrats seek to reverse healthcare system reforms instituted by the One Big Beautiful Bill (Working Families Tax Cut Act), a White House memo explains:
  5998.  
  5999.  
  6000. “Democrats’ funding proposal would put American Patients Last by undoing critical WFTCA reforms, thereby spending nearly $200 billion in taxpayer money on healthcare benefits for illegal immigrants and other non-citizens.”
  6001.  
  6002.  
  6003. In particular, Democrats are demanding an end to eligibility requirements and reinstatement of loopholes through which states obtain federal funds they repurpose to spend on health care for illegal immigrants.
  6004.  
  6005. Democrats are also refusing to reopen the government until Republicans agree to restore a special Obamacare subsidy for non-citizens that was repealed by the One Big Beautiful Bill, the memo explains:
  6006.  
  6007.  
  6008. “The WFTCA repeals this ‘special rule’ for immigrants, once again ensuring non-citizens are not afforded a federal benefit not available to American citizens. Overturning this provision would result in $27.3 billion in federal premium subsidies for non-citizens over the next decade.”
  6009.  
  6010.  
  6011. </description>
  6012.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 1:56 PM</pubDate>
  6013.    <dc:creator>Craig Bannister</dc:creator>
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  6017.  <title>Networks Hide Stunning New Claims About Jack Smith’s Lawfare Against Republicans</title>
  6018.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/10/30/networks-hide-stunning-new-claims-about-jack-smiths-lawfare</link>
  6019.  <description>On Wednesday, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) dropped the latest tranche of documents showing former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation into President Trump not only included seizing phone records of numerous Senate Republicans, but firing off nearly 200 subpoenas against 430 Republican figures and groups. In other words, this Smith probe sure seemed to stretch well beyond the events of singular day!
  6020.  
  6021. In a totally, not-at-all-shocking move, the broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC omitted this revelation about Operation Arctic Frost from their flagship Wednesday night and Thursday morning shows. But in an equally predictable act of news judgment, the Fox News Channel’s flagship evening newscast — Special Report with Bret Baier — was all over it:
  6022.  
  6023.  
  6024.  
  6025. Unsurprisingly, ABC/CBS/NBC completely ignored the new bombshell revelations from Senator @ChuckGrassley about #OperationArcticForst and Jack Smith’s sweeping operation against Republicans
  6026. As usual when this bias-by-omission takes place, Fox’s @SpecialReport with @BretBaier… pic.twitter.com/dVUi7EzjDY
  6027. — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2025
  6028.  
  6029.  
  6030.  
  6031.  
  6032. Justice correspondent David Spunt told Baier that “Republicans on Capitol Hill said the Biden Justice Department went much further than previously known while investigating alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”
  6033.  
  6034. Obtained through “unnamed whistleblowers,” he added Grassley “made public 197 subpoenas from then-Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team” that demanded “testimony, financial records, donor fundraising, and other communications with 430 named Republican individuals and entities.”
  6035.  
  6036. Adding in the fact that a previous Grassley disclosure concerned “several Republican senators say[ing] their phone calls were spied on and their phones were tapped,” Spunt gave Smith’s team room to explain themselves:
  6037.  
  6038.  
  6039. Smith’s attorney say the calls were not wiretapped. The content of the calls are unknown. In fact, it was just call log information about who called who and at what time. Smith’s attorney today tells Fox: “Jack is happy to discuss his work as special counsel and answer any questions at a public hearing just like every other special counsel investigating a president before him has done. We hope the House and Senate Judiciary Committee also agree so the American people can hear directly from him. Name the time and place, Jack will be there.”
  6040.  
  6041.  
  6042. The great Susan Ferreechio penned a must-read for The Washington Times, which began with this fiery lede: “Jaw-dropping whistleblower documents made public Wednesday show the Biden Justice Department secretly cast a massive, investigatory net over the Republican Party, and much of the surveillance appeared to be triggered by President Trump’s announcement of his third presidential campaign in November 2022.”
  6043.  
  6044. Ferrechio further explained (click “expand”):
  6045.  
  6046.  
  6047. At a press conference in the Capitol on Wednesday, furious Republican senators lined up to denounce what an unidentified whistleblower had uncovered: Special prosecutor Jack Smith and his legal team, under operation Arctic Frost, issued 197 subpoenas seeking records and communications of more than 430 individuals and organizations, all of whom appeared to be Republican.
  6048.  
  6049. Those targeted included Stephen Miller, Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner and Lara Trump, who all worked in the first Trump administration or the Trump campaign. Additional subpoenas were issued to individuals and businesses seeking statistical data and analysis relating to Republican fundraising and individual communications with a slew of national media outlets, including CBS and Fox News. The phone records of 11 members of Congress were secretly subpoenaed.
  6050.  
  6051. (....)
  6052.  
  6053. The whistleblower documents expose the zeal within the Smith investigation to “nail” Mr. Trump with criminal wrongdoing more than two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and shortly after the launch of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.
  6054.  
  6055.  
  6056. Instead of giving this even a news brief, ABC’s World News Tonight had a 16-second brief on an Illinois police officer performing the Heimlich Maneuver, the CBS Evening News had a full story warning three monkeys infected with herpes were on the loose in rural Mississippi, and NBC’s Today had a first-hour segment about a “debate over” whether neighborhood Halloween displays are becoming too scary.
  6057.  
  6058. To see the relevant FNC transcript from October 29, click “expand.”
  6059.  
  6060.  
  6061. FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier
  6062. October 29, 2025
  6063. 6:22 p.m. Eastern [TEASE]
  6064.  
  6065. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Next; Election Investigation Details]
  6066.  
  6067. BRET BAIER: Up next, new details about the investigation into an alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election, what they’re finding out.
  6068.  
  6069. (....)
  6070.  
  6071. 6:29 p.m. Eastern
  6072.  
  6073. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Jacked Up; New Details on Special Counsel 2020 Election Probe]
  6074.  
  6075. BRET BAIER: Tonight, we are learning important new details about the scope of an investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Republicans say the Special Counsel took extraordinary methods to target Republicans, more than 400 of them. Correspondent David Spunt is in Washington with details tonight. Good evening, David.
  6076.  
  6077. DAVID SPUNT: Bret, good evening. Just hours ago, Republicans on Capitol Hill said the Biden Justice Department went much further than previously known while investigating alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. That probe known as Operation Arctic Frost. Senator Chuck Grassley, today made public 197 subpoenas from then-Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team. The subpoenas made their way to Grassley through unnamed whistleblowers. He says the subpoenas requested testimony, financial records, donor fundraising, and other communications with 430 named Republican individuals and entities. The list includes the President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter-in-law Lara Trump.
  6078.  
  6079. SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-IA): Contrary to what Smith has said publicly, this was clearly a fishing expedition. If this had happened to Democrats, they would be as rightly outraged as we are outraged.
  6080.  
  6081. SPUNT: Bret, as part of his probe, several Republican senators say their phone calls were spied on and their phones were tapped. But Smith’s attorney say the calls were not wiretapped. The content of the calls are unknown. In fact, it was just call log information about who called who and at what time. Smith’s attorney today tells Fox: “Jack is happy to discuss his work as special counsel and answer any questions at a public hearing just like every other special counsel investigating a president before him has done. We hope the House and Senate Judiciary Committee also agree so the American people can hear directly from him. Name the time and place, Jack will be there.”
  6082. </description>
  6083.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 1:08 PM</pubDate>
  6084.    <dc:creator>Curtis Houck</dc:creator>
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  6088.  <title>Charlamagne Wants Schumer, Jeffries Primaried To Pave Way For More Socialists</title>
  6089.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/10/30/charlamagne-wants-schumer-jeffries-primaried-pave-way-more</link>
  6090.  <description>For the late night comedy shows, joking about Democrats in 2025 usually consists of lamenting the party isn’t socialist enough. To help this cause, on Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Show, radio host Charlamagne Tha God swung by Comedy Central to attack party leadership for not enthusiastically falling in behind Zohran Mamdani's New York City mayoral campaign, lament that the party won’t support people who “disrupt the capitalist system,” and call for Leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to be primaried.
  6091.  
  6092. Charlamagne addressed those Democrats who are not thrilled with Mamdani, “You don't love everything about Mamdani, well, in the immortal words of Young Thug, whoopty doo! Alright, get out there and support him anyway.”
  6093.  
  6094.  
  6095.  
  6096.  
  6097.  
  6098.  
  6099.  
  6100.  
  6101.  
  6102. After riffing on Democrats’ preponderancy for sending fundraising texts and e-mails, Charlamagne returned to the Democrats aren’t left enough, “And that brings me to the real problem. Democratic leaders never support candidates who might disrupt the capitalist system. But guess what? The current system isn't working. Americans want it remodeled the way Trump is ‘remodeling’ the East Wing. Dems act like they'll get a cookie for being the most rational people in the room. No one cares! You're trying to win voters, not get a signed headshot from Ezra Klein.”
  6103.  
  6104. He further lamented that, “Democrats don't understand how ready people are to act. Look at the Jimmy Kimmel thing. Alright, the people mobilized so fast Disney backed down in less than a week. People affected change, and they didn't even have to leave Roku City. Yeah. And that's the point. If you can turn this energy into collective action, you can get shit done! Yeah, that’s right.”
  6105.  
  6106. Charlamagne then expressed his grand idea to get people to like Democrats again, but it was rather odd, “And if the Democrats can't lead, we the people will take action in our own way. Whether it's protest, corporate boycotts, sit ins, even a national workers strike, alright.”
  6107.  
  6108. Using an even stranger analogy, Charlamagne concluded by calling for Schumer and Jeffries to be primaried, “Because in America right now, our political energy is like a fat ass. Follow me on this one, okay? See, right now America has got all this ass. I'm sorry to say the Dems don't know how to hit it right. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and got enough D for this ballot. So maybe it's time they get primaried and give someone else a chance to hit this ass. But hey, that's just my opinion.”
  6109.  
  6110. Because socialists lack the ability to create anything original, perhaps it is not surprising to see Charlamagne essentially recycle the same grievances he has aired on The Daily Show multiple times already this year.
  6111.  
  6112. Here is a transcript for the October 29 show:
  6113.  
  6114.  
  6115. Comedy Central The Daily Show
  6116.  
  6117. 10/29/2025
  6118.  
  6119. 11: 19 PM ET
  6120.  
  6121. CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD: You don't love everything about Mamdani, well, in the immortal words of Young Thug, whoopty doo! Alright, get out there and support him anyway. I’m going to text and e-mail you every day until you do. Chuck, democracy is on the line. To save our country, cash at me, $5 @CThaGod-Bald-and-Beautiful-69. That’s right. That’s right.
  6122.  
  6123. And that brings me to the real problem. Democratic leaders never support candidates who might disrupt the capitalist system. But guess what? The current system isn't working. Americans want it remodeled the way Trump is “remodeling” the East Wing. Dems act like they'll get a cookie for being the most rational people in the room. No one cares! You're trying to win voters, not get a signed headshot from Ezra Klein.
  6124.  
  6125. Also, if you'd like a signed headshot from Ezra Klein, cash at me, @CThaGod-Bald-and-Beautiful-69, okay?
  6126.  
  6127. Democrats don't understand how ready people are to act. Look at the Jimmy Kimmel thing. Alright, the people mobilized so fast Disney backed down in less than a week. People affected change, and they didn't even have to leave Roku City. Yeah. And that's the point. If you can turn this energy into collective action, you can get shit done! Yeah, that’s right.
  6128.  
  6129. And if the Democrats can't lead, we the people will take action in our own way. Whether it's protest, corporate boycotts, sit ins, even a national workers strike, alright. Imagine if me, Steve Harvey, and Tyler Perry stop working. That's only three people and it's 70 percent of black radio and TV!
  6130.  
  6131. Because in America right now, our political energy is like a fat ass. Follow me on this one, okay? See, right now America has got all this ass. I'm sorry to say the Dems don't know how to hit it right. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and got enough D for this ballot. So maybe it's time they get primaried and give someone else a chance to hit this ass. But hey, that's just my opinion.
  6132. </description>
  6133.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 12:30 PM</pubDate>
  6134.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  6138.  <title>No ‘GGEZ’? Gaming Giant EA Drops Hammer on Player for Popular Gamer Slang</title>
  6139.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/heather-moon/2025/10/30/no-ggez-gaming-giant-ea-drops-hammer-player-popular-gamer</link>
  6140.  <description>A shared screenshot shows EA suspended a Battlefield 6 user for a week for using a common post-game slang, preventing the user from playing the game. 
  6141.  
  6142. Electronic Arts (EA) has censored a user for using common in-game text slang, according to a post from FullA.market on X Oct. 29. A user who was playing EA’s newest entry in its first-person shooter game franchise Battlefield 6 shared a screenshot showing that the video game company suspended his account for replying to an in-game text using the abbreviation “GGEZ.” This common gamer slang is a typically sarcastic remark that means “good game, easy,” and is usually intended as a taunt aimed at losing players. 
  6143.  
  6144. [The story continues on MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org]
  6145.  
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  6147.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 11:46 AM</pubDate>
  6148.    <dc:creator>Heather Moon</dc:creator>
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  6152.  <title>Goldberg Thinks Trump Is Colluding with UPS, and Behar Can’t Sleep</title>
  6153.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/isaac-white/2025/10/30/goldberg-thinks-trump-colluding-ups-and-behar-cant-sleep</link>
  6154.  <description>The View’s lead stars, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, once again upheld their reputation for bloviating nonexistent fears created by President Trump. This time, Trump somehow timed the federal furloughs to coincide with private businesses contracting their labor pools, and has been haunting celebrity dreams!
  6155.  
  6156. Goldberg fear mongered over an apparent attempt by Trump to maximize suffering amongst American workers by supposedly colluding with UPS and other businesses:
  6157.  
  6158.  
  6159. … they are doing everything they can do to say nothing to — there's nothing to see here. And there's so much to see, and it's only getting darker because they keep doing things — I'm sorry, right now is not the time, in my opinion, to be furloughing people in these big companies. Why now? Is that to make the pain worse? Because you have to know your workers are in pain. But — and now UPS, I mean, everything.
  6160.  
  6161.  
  6162.  
  6163.  
  6164. Using inciting rhetoric, Whoopi bloviates about how "it's only getting darker" in America and claims major companies like UPS are colluding with the Trump administration to furlough workers in private businesses, not just the federal government. pic.twitter.com/Vyh34E1qem
  6165. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 29, 2025
  6166.  
  6167.  
  6168. Large corporations have been reducing their workforces due to economic uncertainty and the presumptive dominance of A.I. capabilities. The government shutdown was purely coincidental timing-wise and only involved federal employees and contractors.
  6169.  
  6170. After co-host Sunny Hostin mentioned the federal judge who blocked the Office of Management and Budget from laying off four thousand more federal workers, Goldberg hoped the same would happen in the private sector:
  6171.  
  6172.  
  6173. “I hope they do the same thing with the big businesses, because — you know, if you gonna lay folks off, do it in January, you know, give people time, because you just doing this like a snap decision. This doesn't give people any time to prepare. And I find that this seems to be the thing, they say, ‘Oh, we're gonna do it tomorrow.’ And then it's like, ‘Well, wait a minute.’”
  6174.  
  6175.  
  6176. Sorry, Whoopi-cushion. Judges couldn’t just tell private businesses to not layoff at-will employees. And the federal employees who have been furloughed aren’t being paid right now… because the government is broke right now.
  6177.  
  6178. Trump was also guilty of keeping Joy Behar from getting a full night’s worth of beauty sleep, because she feared he’d let fly with the nukes:
  6179.  
  6180.  
  6181.  
  6182. Joy Behar's admits on national TV that her Trump Derangement Syndrome is so advanced that it keeps her up at night and she "woke up this morning 4:00" worrying that he would launch nukes. pic.twitter.com/5Wlgaamu4v
  6183. — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 29, 2025
  6184.  
  6185.  
  6186.  
  6187. But the tragedy of this and the scary part is that this person who can tell you the difference between a camel and an elephant has the nuclear codes. […] That is what frightens me and keeps me up at night and why I woke up this morning at 4 o’clock. Because I'm worried about the fact that he cannot pass, really, a cognitive test.
  6188.  
  6189.  
  6190. Behar also took a swipe at CNN’s Jake Tapper for not scrutinizing Trump enough, “And I'd like to know why Jake tapper who wrote an entire book about Biden's cognitive abilities and says nothing and writes nothing about this guy.”
  6191.  
  6192. It’s not like the ladies would have Tapper on to defend himself anyways. Oh, and the Media Research Center’s offer to make an appearance still stands.
  6193.  
  6194. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read:
  6195.  
  6196.  
  6197. ABC’s The View
  6198.  
  6199. October 29, 2025
  6200.  
  6201. 11:09:20 a.m. EST
  6202.  
  6203. (…)
  6204.  
  6205. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know —
  6206.  
  6207. SUNNY HOSTIN: Release the Epstein files.
  6208.  
  6209. GOLDBERG: — they are doing everything they can do to say nothing to — there's nothing to see here. And there's so much to see, and it's only getting darker because they keep doing things — I'm sorry, right now is not the time, in my opinion, to be furloughing people in these big companies. Why now? Is that to make the pain worse? Because you have to know your workers are in pain. But — and now UPS, I mean, everything.
  6210.  
  6211. JOY BEHAR: They don't seem to care really —
  6212.  
  6213. GOLDBERG: Well, but even the people who —
  6214.  
  6215. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Businesses react to the economy. The economy is not doing well.
  6216.  
  6217. [Crosstalk]
  6218.  
  6219. HOSTIN: I will say, I do think — and you can correct me in my ear if I'm wrong — I think a federal judge stopped the furloughing and the laying off of federal workers, just recently, I think —
  6220.  
  6221. BEHAR: Temporarily.
  6222.  
  6223. HOSTIN: So, at least the courts have held a little bit —
  6224.  
  6225. FARAH GRIFFIN: They are awaiting pay —
  6226.  
  6227. GOLDBERG: I hope they do the same thing with the big businesses, because — you know, if you gonna lay folks off, do it in January, you know, give people time, because you just doing this like a snap decision. This doesn't give people any time to prepare. And I find that this seems to be the thing, they say, “Oh, we're gonna do it tomorrow.” And then it's like, “Well, wait a minute.” And then everybody’s  in a hazarai because you're trying to figure out what to do with your life. It's crazy. We’ll be right back.
  6228.  
  6229. (…)
  6230.  
  6231. 11:17:38 a.m. EST
  6232.  
  6233. BEHAR: But the tragedy of this and the scary part is that this person who can tell you the difference between a camel and an elephant has the nuclear codes.
  6234.  
  6235. HOSTIN: Yeah.
  6236.  
  6237. BEHAR: That is what frightens me and keeps me up at night and why I woke up this morning at 4 o’clock. Because I'm worried about the fact that he cannot pass, really, a cognitive test. And I'd like to know why Jake Tapper who wrote an entire book about Biden's cognitive abilities and says nothing and writes nothing about this guy.
  6238.  
  6239. (…)
  6240. </description>
  6241.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 10:29 AM</pubDate>
  6242.    <dc:creator>Isaac White</dc:creator>
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  6246.  <title>Colbert and Gallego Seek To Align Shutdown Talking Points</title>
  6247.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2025/10/30/colbert-and-gallego-seek-align-shutdown-talking-points</link>
  6248.  <description>CBS’s Stephen Colbert welcomed Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego to Wednesday’s taping of The Late Show for one of his regular segments where he seeks to align his show’s talking points with those of congressional Democrats. This time, the duo focused on the ongoing government shutdown and claimed that they are merely interested in providing affordable healthcare.
  6249.  
  6250. Colbert began with the kind of question that is really just a statement with a question mark thrown in at the end, “Well, this shutdown has gone on for 29 days. If I can characterize the position the Democrats want the Republicans to address the lapsing of the tax credits and ACA, the Obamacare, so people are going to see the rates jump up starting in November, right?”
  6251.  
  6252.  
  6253.  
  6254.  
  6255.  
  6256.  
  6257.  
  6258.  
  6259.  
  6260. Because the real answer of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer being scared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to primary him would not have made Democrats look good, Gallego instead claimed, “Basically starting November 1, people are going to start opening up and start signing up for health insurance, and they’re going to realize the health insurance that they’ve had for the last couple of years has been very affordable is now not going to be affordable. And so, for example, in Arizona a family of about, you know, four or five could potentially see their premiums jump almost, you know, 50 percent.”
  6261.  
  6262. Under the original Obamacare law, households making over 400 percent of the federal poverty line were banned from receiving subsidies. The Biden-era policy, which was supposed to be a temporary COVID relief measure, removed that cap, so Gallego is arguing that a family of four that makes $128,600 or a family of five that makes $150,600 should be eligible for federal subsidies.
  6263.  
  6264. Facts aside, Gallego kept rolling, “So, for a family that could be almost $7,000. That’s a lot of money, maybe not in New York City, but in Arizona it’s a lot of money. And things are hard right now. I mean, everything is fricking expensive, and now the government, these Republicans, are going to willingly raise people's premiums. That's what's happening right now. And [Speaker Mike] Johnson's off hiding somewhere with the Epstein list, and, you know, I don't know where the hell Trump is. But I think he's probably in Korea putting on a crown or something like that, but either way our people, everyday working-class people in this country, are hurting right now.”
  6265.  
  6266. If Democrats really want to address healthcare, they have wasted a month throwing a temper tantrum, but they can always count on the late night comedy shows to provide them a safe space to rail against Republicans.
  6267.  
  6268. Here is a transcript for the October 29-taped show:
  6269.  
  6270.  
  6271. CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
  6272.  
  6273. 10/30/2025
  6274.  
  6275. 12:20 AM ET
  6276.  
  6277. STEPHEN COLBERT: Well, this shutdown has gone on for 29 days. If I can characterize the position the Democrats want the Republicans to address the lapsing of the tax credits and ACA, the Obamacare, so people are going to see the rates jump up starting in November, right?
  6278.  
  6279. RUBEN GALLEGO: To not speak in nerd speak, what’s going to happen is starting November-- just to be honest.
  6280.  
  6281. [crosstalk]
  6282.  
  6283. GALLEGO: Basically starting November 1, people are going to start opening up and start signing up for health insurance, and they’re going to realize the health insurance that they’ve had for the last couple of years has been very affordable is now not going to be affordable. And so, for example, in Arizona a family of about, you know, four or five could potentially see their premiums jump almost, you know, 50 percent.
  6284.  
  6285. So, for a family that could be almost $7,000. That’s a lot of money, maybe not in New York City, but in Arizona it’s a lot of money. And things are hard right now. I mean, everything is fricking expensive, and now the government, these Republicans, are going to willingly raise people's premiums. That's what's happening right now. And Johnson's off hiding somewhere with the Epstein list, and, you know, I don't know where the hell Trump is. But I think he's probably in Korea putting on a crown or something like that, but either way our people, everyday working-class people in this country, are hurting right now.
  6286. </description>
  6287.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 9:41 AM</pubDate>
  6288.    <dc:creator>Alex Christy</dc:creator>
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  6292.  <title>PBS Praises CNN Host's 'Terrific' Book on Jesse Jackson, a 'Towering Figure'</title>
  6293.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/10/30/pbs-praises-cnn-hosts-terrific-book-jesse-jackson-towering-figure</link>
  6294.  <description> Monday’s PBS News Hour invited Abby Phillip, liberal host of CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip, for a gush-fest over A Dream Deferred, her new book on the former inflammatory Democratic politician Jesse Jackson.
  6295.  
  6296. There were no recollections of Jackson’s 1984 campaign-era “Hymie-town” smear of Jews in New York City, nothing of his 2004 election denial of George W. Bush’s presidential victory, no questions about Jackson’s son, who served time for campaign finance fraud. Jackson was painted solely as a vital harbinger of today’s social justice politics...but that's not on the "left" or "far left."
  6297.  
  6298.  
  6299. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: The Reverend Jesse Jackson is a towering figure in the civil rights movement, but his political legacy is less often remembered. It's been more than 40 years since Jackson launched the first of his two presidential campaigns, yet the issues he championed in the '80s, economic justice, voting rights, and a more inclusive democracy, still echo in today's politics. His enduring influence on American political life is the subject of journalist Abby Phillip's new book, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power.
  6300.  
  6301.  
  6302.  
  6303.  
  6304.  
  6305.  
  6306. In the pre-taped interview, Bennett encouraged his guest to butter up Jackson’s legacy, and Phillip, whose panel discussion show has been described by our Bill D'Agostino as a “televised struggle session” for conservative guests, readily obliged, painting Jackson as a sort of John the Baptist heralding the arrival of the one, Barack Obama.
  6307.  
  6308.  
  6309. Bennett: In writing this book, what did you set out to correct in the public understanding about Jesse Jackson?
  6310.  
  6311. Phillip: The simple answer is, there's been almost an erasure of Jesse Jackson's role in politics. I think people know a lot about his activism, but they don't know a whole lot about his political chapter. And this political chapter was far more significant than people realized at the time. And one of the reasons the book is called A Dream Deferred is because the premise is that it took 20 years for at least some of what Jesse Jackson envisioned to come to fruition with Barack Obama's election in 2008 and perhaps even longer for there to be a full understanding of the ideological underpinnings of what he ran on, this kind of economic populist message and also social justice being intertwined….
  6312.  
  6313.  
  6314. Phillip boasted that at Jackson rallies, “burly white farmers who you would never expect to see at a Jesse Jackson rally would show up. And what started out as an attempt to send a message to the establishment that Black voters mattered turned into more of a movement.”
  6315.  
  6316. Bennett praised the book’s “brilliant title,” from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes.
  6317.  
  6318.  
  6319. Phillip: I think he really envisioned that people of all backgrounds would — could unite underneath a basic economic vision of fairness for working-class and poor people. And in many ways, that is actually a message that is very much up for grabs right now in American politics. You hear it on the right and you hear it on the left. And one of the interesting things for me was just hearing so much resonance in Reverend Jackson's message in the 1980s and what even Donald Trump is running on, what Bernie Sanders is running on, what people like Zohran Mamdani are running on. These are live issues in American politics right now. And his campaigns, Jesse Jackson's campaigns, foreshadowed that conversation that we're still having today in the country.
  6320.  
  6321.  
  6322. Bennett’s gushing continued even after the interview concluded.
  6323.  
  6324.  
  6325. Bennett: Well, the book is terrific, A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power. Abby Phillip, real treat to have you here.
  6326.  
  6327.  
  6328. CNN anchors and reporters with books are a welcome "treat" on PBS. Fox News hosts with books are not. This segment was brought to you in part by Raymond James.
  6329.  
  6330. A transcript is available, click "Expand."
  6331.  
  6332.  
  6333. PBS News Hour
  6334.  
  6335. 10/27/25
  6336.  
  6337. 7:46:48 p.m. (ET)
  6338.  
  6339. Geoff Bennett : The Reverend Jesse Jackson is a towering figure in the civil rights movement, but his political legacy is less often remembered. It's been more than 40 years since Jackson launched the first of his two presidential campaigns, yet the issues he championed in the '80s, economic justice, voting rights, and a more inclusive democracy, still echo in today's politics.
  6340.  
  6341. His enduring influence on American political life is the subject of journalist Abby Phillip's new book, "A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power."
  6342.  
  6343. I recently spoke with her about it.
  6344.  
  6345. Abby Phillip, welcome to the "News Hour."
  6346.  
  6347. Abby Phillip, Author, "A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power": Thank you so much for having me.
  6348.  
  6349. Geoff Bennett : Yes.
  6350.  
  6351. In writing this book, what did you set out to correct in the public understanding about Jesse Jackson?
  6352.  
  6353. Abby Phillip: The simple answer is, there's been almost an erasure of Jesse Jackson's role in politics.
  6354.  
  6355. I think people know a lot about his activism, but they don't know a whole lot about his political chapter. And this political chapter was far more significant than people realized at the time.
  6356.  
  6357. And one of the reasons the book is called "A Dream Deferred" is because the premise is that it took 20 years for at least some of what Jesse Jackson envisioned to come to fruition with Barack Obama's election in 2008 and perhaps even longer for there to be a full understanding of the ideological underpinnings of what he ran on, this kind of economic populist message and also social justice being intertwined.
  6358.  
  6359. So there is a sense when I talk to a lot of people that people, if they lived through it, remember that he ran, but they don't think it was — it mattered that much. And the book argues that it did have a lasting impact on Democratic politics and American politics in general.
  6360.  
  6361. Geoff Bennett : And he's lived such a public life. What was it like separating the mythology from the man?
  6362.  
  6363. Abby Phillip: Yes, I mean, look everybody has an opinion about Jesse Jackson. This is someone who's been a public figure since he was in his early 20s, when he was 24, 25 when he went into Dr. King's orbit.
  6364.  
  6365. And so he's had this incredibly long history and is a very polarizing figure. And that is a big part of this book, because you can't talk about him without understanding that he was perceived so differently, depending on who you were, whether you were a white American or a Jewish American or a Black American or what have you. Everybody viewed him so differently.
  6366.  
  6367. And so one of the things about this book is that it gives you a broad overview of who is the man. But, more specifically, it looks at what he was trying to accomplish when he decided to dabble in politics. And I think that allows us to take a little bit of the noise away from the polarizing nature of Jesse Jackson's broader legacy and just say, what did he contribute to the political life of this country?
  6368.  
  6369. And I think that helps for people who are not sure what to think about him.
  6370.  
  6371. Geoff Bennett : What was he trying to achieve with those historic runs in 1984, 1988? He registered millions of voters. He reshaped the Democratic Party. What was he trying to achieve?
  6372.  
  6373. Abby Phillip: Yes, it wasn't clear that he expected to win.
  6374.  
  6375. And so many people, especially when he ran in 1984, thought that he was just running a show campaign. They thought that he was just trying to make a point. And, in a way, he was. He first ran for president to send a message to the Democratic establishment that they can't take Black voters for granted.
  6376.  
  6377. But what ended up happening was that I think he saw that the message that he was putting out there was having broader resonance than that. He was going to rural towns in the South and in the Midwest, in Missouri, in Iowa, in Wisconsin. And white farmers would show up at his rallies. These burly white farmers who you would never expect to see at a Jesse Jackson rally would show up.
  6378.  
  6379. And what started out as an attempt to send a message to the establishment that Black voters mattered turned into more of a movement. And by the time he got to 1988, he was a very influential figure in the Democratic Party. He had control over a good swathe of the base. And so he had a lot of leverage.
  6380.  
  6381. He went pretty far. He came in second place in that campaign. And there's a part of the book where we talk about the moment that he and his team realized, wait a second, we could win this. And that was, I think, one of the first times that he really contemplated what it would look like if he actually did become the president.
  6382.  
  6383. Geoff Bennett : Yes. You interviewed him for this book. You spoke with him.
  6384.  
  6385. Abby Phillip: I did, yes.
  6386.  
  6387. Geoff Bennett : What was that like? What did he tell you?
  6388.  
  6389. Abby Phillip: Yes.
  6390.  
  6391. I mean, Reverend Jackson now is 84 years old. And so when I started working on this book, he was in the middle of this — is in the middle of this battle with Parkinson's. And it was already at that point apparent that it was difficult to really understand him.
  6392.  
  6393. But what really surprised me was how much he remembered. He really holds on to granular levels of detail about what these campaigns were about, about what he was — what his mission was, about some of these events. I went with him to his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, and he could navigate that town turn by turn, taking you back to where he grew up in the 1950s.
  6394.  
  6395. Geoff Bennett : Yes.
  6396.  
  6397. Abby Phillip: And so it was extraordinary to really hear from him directly what he saw as the connections between his campaigns and where he thinks the Democratic Party ought to go now.
  6398.  
  6399. And, in a way, that's sort of the unfinished business. I don't think that there have been many candidates really in Jackson's mold that have done what he sought out to do. And I do think he still believes that that could be the ticket for the Democratic Party to regain its footing in the future.
  6400.  
  6401. Geoff Bennett : I will tell you, when I got this book and I saw the title, I thought, that is a brilliant title.
  6402.  
  6403. Abby Phillip: Yes.
  6404.  
  6405. Geoff Bennett : "A Dream Deferred" from the Langston Hughes poem has so much emotional and historic weight.
  6406.  
  6407. What does that mean in the context of Jesse Jackson's life and legacy?
  6408.  
  6409. Abby Phillip: Yes, Jesse Jackson started out wanting to be a part of the civil rights movement, really at its peak, at a time when Black people were fighting just for their basic human rights. And one of the things that he did on behalf of Dr. King in the late 1960s and early 1970s was add an economic justice piece to that.
  6410.  
  6411. And layered on top of that also was telling Black Americans that now, yes, you have the right to vote. But here's how you can make your vote powerful. And I do think that that dream of not just empowering Black Americans with that basic right to cast a ballot, but to show them how they can use their political power to change the country, that was Reverend Jackson's dream, and doing so with a sense of solidarity in mind.
  6412.  
  6413. I mean, I think he really envisioned that people of all backgrounds would — could unite underneath a basic economic vision of fairness for working-class and poor people. And in many ways, that is actually a message that is very much up for grabs right now in American politics. You hear it on the right and you hear it on the left.
  6414.  
  6415. And one of the interesting things for me was just hearing so much resonance in Reverend Jackson's message in the 1980s and what even Donald Trump is running on, what Bernie Sanders is running on, what people like Zohran Mamdani are running on. These are live issues in American politics right now.
  6416.  
  6417. And his campaigns, Jesse Jackson's campaigns, foreshadowed that conversation that we're still having today in the country.
  6418.  
  6419. Geoff Bennett : Well, the book is terrific, "A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power."
  6420.  
  6421. Abby Phillip, real treat to have you here.
  6422.  
  6423. Abby Phillip: Thank you so much, Geoff. Thanks for having me.
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  6425.  <pubDate>October 30th, 2025 6:08 AM</pubDate>
  6426.    <dc:creator>Clay Waters</dc:creator>
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  6430.  <title>Scott Jennings DESTROYS MSNBC’s In-House Hammerphobe Lawrence O’Donnell</title>
  6431.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/10/29/scott-jennings-destroys-msnbcs-house-hammerphobe-lawrence</link>
  6432.  <description>In a lengthy rant decrying the ruination of CNN among other things, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell made the time to take gratuitous swipes at CNN Senior Political Commentator Scott Jennings. The rant, aside from being weird and gratuitous, was unwarranted.
  6433.  
  6434. Watch as O’Donnell, from the cloister of MSNBC, curses the bespoiled CNN both for daring to fire the paragon of journalism Jim Acosta and for having the temerity to air voices from beyond the far-left fringes of the Acela Media bubble:
  6435.  
  6436.  
  6437. BEHOLD: @Lawrence's extended whine over the presence of one @ScottJenningsKY at CNN, which begins with a lamentation for Abilio Acosta and goes south from there. pic.twitter.com/Xtrqz2fdoV
  6438. — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 28, 2025
  6439.  
  6440. MSNBC THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL
  6441.  
  6442. 10/27/25
  6443.  
  6444. 10:15 PM
  6445.  
  6446. LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: CNN is already owned by a right wing Trump supporter and has compromised itself accordingly. The firing started right away in that new regime. That's why Jim Acosta is no longer there and others are no longer there. And everyone who remains has become much more careful in anything they might even think of saying about Donald Trump. And now CNN eagerly pays a Trump supporter to lie on CNN every day and night for Donald Trump. CNN did this during the first Trump presidential campaign and presidency. CNN regularly paid Trump supporters to lie about Trump on CNN. But the CNN regime then realized that was a mistake, and they stopped doing it. They stopped paying for lies. But then CNN got a new head, the head of CNN for the last three years, hired by the Trump-supporting owner and operator of CNN, is an Englishman who thinks paying Scott Jennings to lie about Donald Trump is money very well spent. Scott Jennings, who used to be an aide to senator Mitch Mcconnell, was not always a rabid, lying Trump supporter. When he first started appearing on television, he was capable of criticizing some of the more extreme Trump positions. But Scott Jennings figured out where the money is and how he could get his own podcast and decided to become the JD Vance of CNN. And here is the single goofiest thing ever said by anyone in charge of CNN in that network's history. The-lost-in-America Englishman who heads CNN said, quote, “Scott's like D'Artagnan. He's got his sword out and he's got about four Democrats against him, but he spiked them all off. That's much more like it, I think. He's a worthy opponent, as it were, for the Democrats in the room. And it makes not just good television, but also for in some ways, a slightly deeper testing of the ideas all the way around the table.” Good television. Here's how bad that television is that they make over there. The show that Scott Jennings frequents the most is on opposite this program. And that show, on a good night, gets half- half of the audience of this show. This program usually has an audience triple the size of the terrible, terrible television that Scott Jennings is delivering on the absurdly degraded version of CNN, presided over by the man who thinks lying for Donald Trump on TV is an honorable pursuit and should be paid for by CNN. Scott’s like D’Artagnan, he says.
  6447.  
  6448.  
  6449. What, besides insecurity, possesses a man to talk about another man who isn’t even on every night, or even in the same time slot? What was it about Jennings that triggered O’Donnell into this gratuitous rant? 
  6450.  
  6451. We don’t know for sure but will note the multiple misrepresentations regarding Jennings, in a rant complaining about Jennings’ LIEESSSSSS. Pretty rich for a spreader of the Russia Hoax, among others, to now complain about lies.
  6452.  
  6453. Perhaps it was just a matter of O’Donnell’s fear of hammers flaring up again- in this case the hammer from Kentucky:
  6454.  
  6455.  
  6456. Obligatory: STOP THE HAMMERING 🔨pic.twitter.com/wRhO1quMbo
  6457. — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 28, 2025
  6458. Jennings took to the airwaves to respond to O’Donnell, and it was about what you would expect:
  6459.  
  6460.  
  6461. There's this irrelevant lunatic on MSNBC named Lawrence O'Donnell. I actually forgot he existed.
  6462. But apparently, my existence caused him to have a mental breakdown live on the air.
  6463. I think I've figured out why he's so upset 👇 pic.twitter.com/GyRmeyMW9X
  6464. — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 29, 2025
  6465. Jennings flipped O’Donnell’s arguments on their head, especially as to actual ratings, and called out his weird bigotry against the “Englishman” heading CNN. As MSNBC turns into the much-derided and highly mocked MS NOW, one wonders whether O’Donnell will continue his obsession with Jennings. Does he want another round with “D’Artagnan?” Time will tell. That is, if he’s still there.
  6466.  
  6467.  </description>
  6468.  <pubDate>October 29th, 2025 10:56 PM</pubDate>
  6469.    <dc:creator>Jorge Bonilla</dc:creator>
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  6472. <item>
  6473.  <title>Bloodbath: Widespread CBS News Layoffs Hit Major Shows, Longtime Correspondents</title>
  6474.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/10/29/bloodbath-widespread-cbs-news-layoffs-hit-major-shows-longtime</link>
  6475.  <description> Wednesday was a grim day at CBS News as reportedly around 100 people were axed as part of long-rumored layoffs numbering 2,000 people across its parent company Paramount Skydance. The ranks of those let go were vast and deep with both remaining CBS Saturday Morning hosts shown the door, correspondents with decades of experience (and all women), its Race and Culture unit, and even two entire shows.
  6476.  
  6477. Most notably, CBS Saturday Morning co-hosts Dana Jacobson and Michelle Miller were reportedly let go, along with their executive producer Brian Applegate. Miller had been with CBS since 2004 and Jacobson since 2018.
  6478.  
  6479. While the New York Post said the show will be “slated for a radical revamp,” The Los Angeles Times’s Stephen Battaglio reported Wednesday afternoon the show would live on with “a new format that will align it closer to the weekday show.” Either way, it was unclear as of Wednesday night whether a  final episode will air of the current format.
  6480.  
  6481. Miller provided years of reliable biased content for NewsBusters as well as anytime her husband Marc Morial of the far-left National Urban League surfaced on a CBS show and their ties went undisclosed.
  6482.  
  6483. Two other shows going by the wayside are CBS Mornings Plus and CBS Evening News Plus. Mornings Plus launched on September 30, 2024 and has been co-hosted by Tony Dokoupil and Adriana Diaz featuring new interviews, a “By the Way” deep dive on a major story of the day (which we often picked up at NewsBusters), and extended conversations with guests from CBS Mornings.
  6484.  
  6485. Despite having only been on the air since February 10, CBS Evening News Plus’s demise was far less surprising given anchor John Dickerson’s Monday announcement he would be leaving the network at year’s end.
  6486.  
  6487. Status’s Oliver Darcy reported Monday that Dickerson’s departure had been in the works for some time given the pompous, liberal anchor’s tilt bearing little resemblance to what editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is building.
  6488.  
  6489. That said, we’re selfishly sad to see Evening News Plus head out to pasture as Dickerson’s end-of-show commentaries were rife with partisan, pompous sneering.
  6490.  
  6491. In the correspondent ranks, senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta was let go despite having been a mainstay on CBS since 2013. Patta’s presence has almost been ubiquitous since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terror attacks on Israel as she reliably peddled the Gazan propaganda of the day.
  6492.  
  6493. As per Battaglio, the other on-air talent who were laid off consisted of New York-based national correspondents Nikki Battiste and Nancy Chen, Los Angeles-based correspondent Elise Preston, Texas-based correspondent Janet Shamlian (who had a decade at NBC before six years at CBS), and contributor Lisa Ling.
  6494.  
  6495. Battiste (in the adjacent photo) had been on air a day before receiving the proverbial pink slip, offering the latest report on passion project of hers in spotlighting the IVF industry and depths couples will go to have children.
  6496.  
  6497. As elitist, legacy, liberal media continue to lose both credibility and viewership, this marked the latest set of major layoffs at third-place CBS News. Past waves included layoffs in May 2020 enveloping the late Mark Knoller, September 2024 (that included former Evening News anchor Jeff Glor), and February 2024 (which caught up D.C.-based Christina Ruffini).</description>
  6498.  <pubDate>October 29th, 2025 7:50 PM</pubDate>
  6499.    <dc:creator>Curtis Houck</dc:creator>
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  6503.  <title>WATCH: Google Lackey Doubles Down on Censorship in Appalling Hearing</title>
  6504.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/tom-olohan/2025/10/29/watch-google-lackey-doubles-down-censorship-appalling</link>
  6505.  <description> A top Google executive made clear at a Wednesday hearing that the tech giant was proud of its censorship record. This admission may have dire implications for Big Tech’s ability to censor without consequences. 
  6506.  
  6507. Markham Erickson, a government affairs executive at Google, repeatedly stated at a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing that though the Biden administration had pressured Google to censor, the search giant had ultimately acted independently. Erickson also emphasized that Google had not admitted wrongdoing or made changes despite settling President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company for censoring him in 2021. 
  6508.  
  6509.  [The story continues on MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org]</description>
  6510.  <pubDate>October 29th, 2025 6:21 PM</pubDate>
  6511.    <dc:creator>Tom Olohan</dc:creator>
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  6515.  <title>MAGA Makes Allies Great Again</title>
  6516.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/daniel-mccarthy/2025/10/29/maga-makes-allies-great-again</link>
  6517.  <description>From Argentina to Japan, MAGA is going global.
  6518.  
  6519. President Donald Trump’s slogan has long been “America First,” and his movement is all about making America great again — language the president’s foes misunderstand as meaning “isolationism.”
  6520.  
  6521. In fact, strengthening America requires strengthening our friends as well — and Trump sets an example for those leaders in Latin America, Asia and Europe who want to make their nations great again, too.
  6522.  
  6523. There’s no paradox here:
  6524.  
  6525. A robust international order is impossible if America has to sacrifice its own industrial capacity, and our people’s economic security, to global free trade. That led to a weaker, more dependent America, even as our allies, in the era before Trump, expected us to shoulder most of the burden for their defense.
  6526.  
  6527. The “liberal international order” was a suicide pact, building up China while wearing down America — and the system perversely incentivized our friends to prioritize welfare spending over national security needs.
  6528.  
  6529. The alternative to that old, failed order isn’t anarchy or Chinese hegemony; it’s cooperation among stronger nations that take their responsibilities — to their own people and to Uncle Sam — more seriously.
  6530.  
  6531. Japan is a critical case in point.
  6532.  
  6533. Its new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, represents a right turn for the dominant Liberal Democratic Party, which is Japan’s leading conservative party, despite what the name might suggest.
  6534.  
  6535. More than 80 years after the end of World War II, Japan remains constitutionally forbidden to rearm: it has defense forces but not true military.
  6536.  
  6537. Takaichi belongs to a wing of the Japanese right that would change that — and thereby make Japan no threat to anybody else but a better ally for America.
  6538.  
  6539. The superpower danger in the Pacific today comes from Beijing, and the more constrained Japan is, the less constrained that China is.
  6540.  
  6541. Rearmament is highly controversial within Japan, but just as Trump has taken controversial yet necessary steps to address America’s weaknesses — from imposing tariffs to cracking down on illegal immigration — a leader like Takaichi can bring great changes to her country.
  6542.  
  6543. She’s already restricting immigration before it becomes the kind of problem it has long been in the West.
  6544.  
  6545. Takaichi is a protege of Shinzo Abe, who was prime minister during Trump’s first term and had a uniquely strong bond with him.
  6546.  
  6547. As the first woman to lead Japan, she’s also drawn comparison to Britain’s Iron Lady of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher.
  6548.  
  6549. Tariffs that serve America’s industrial policy put a strain upon trading partners like Japan, of course — although the land of the rising sun has long practiced its own forms of industrial and agricultural protection.
  6550.  
  6551. Japanese rice production, for example, is heavily protected — which means Japan has enough domestic capacity to endure shortages in the event of war or other disruptions of international trade.
  6552.  
  6553. Although Japan isn’t self-sufficient, it’s a boon to American security that the country can provide for itself better than some of our other friends in the region, such as Taiwan — which could be starved into submission by a Chinese blockade.
  6554.  
  6555. Trump not only shows leaders like Takaichi that boldness can succeed in throwing out the political establishment’s playbook; his return to power prods allies like Japan to pick leaders simpatico with his right-leaning nationalist worldview — and those are the kind of leaders America needs among its allies in the 21st century.
  6556.  
  6557. Right-of-center, anti-establishment politics also plays well for Trump-friendly leaders at home, both with voters and the stock market:
  6558.  
  6559. Takaichi’s ascent sent the Nikkei stock index soaring to a new record.
  6560.  
  6561. Half a world away, the success of President Javier Milei’s right-leaning party in Argentina’s midterm elections Sunday produced a similar result, with stock indexes booming by as much as 23%.
  6562.  
  6563. It baffles Trump’s critics that America’s self-declared “Tariff Man” can have such good relations with Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist.”
  6564.  
  6565. But Trump thinks in terms of interests, not ideology, and it’s in America’s interests that Milei succeed in making Argentina freer, more prosperous and friendlier to us, in a region — our own neighborhood — where socialism, anti-Yanqui sentiment and Chinese influence continually threaten to align against us.
  6566.  
  6567. There’s no contradiction in nationalists from different nations working in parallel to make their own countries stronger individually and more secure collectively.
  6568.  
  6569. Likewise, there’s nothing strange about populist reformers from different places with different needs having sympathy for one another — Trump is fighting an establishment bent upon globalization; Milei faces an establishment in Argentina that wants an all-powerful state.
  6570.  
  6571. Bringing different philosophies together to advance shared interests is simply the art of the deal.
  6572.  
  6573. Trump’s the master of that, and other leaders around the world are quickly learning from him.
  6574.  
  6575. They’re advancing a global realignment that will contribute to making America great again, even as it makes their own nations greater as well.
  6576.  
  6577. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.</description>
  6578.  <pubDate>October 29th, 2025 6:16 PM</pubDate>
  6579.    <dc:creator>Daniel McCarthy</dc:creator>
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  6583.  <title>NPR Touches on Biden Autopen Probe -- ONLY Focused on Keeping Biden's Pardons</title>
  6584.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2025/10/29/npr-touches-biden-autopen-probe-only-focused-keeping-bidens-pardons</link>
  6585.  <description> The Republican-led House Oversight Committee issued a report on its investigation of how Biden’s White House aides hid his mental decline. ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nothing. PBS offered a dismissive brief. How about NPR’s All Things Considered? You won’t believe what they considered.
  6586.  
  6587. Chairman James Comer summarized: “The Biden Autopen Presidency will go down as one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. As Americans saw President Biden’s decline with their own eyes, Biden’s inner circle sought to deceive the public, cover-up his decline, and took unauthorized executive actions with the autopen that are now invalid."
  6588.  
  6589. There was an NPR segment lasting 4.5 minutes. But it never mentioned any of the Republican findings. They only interviewed an expert to explain the Republicans couldn’t possibly reverse any pardons Biden signed with an autopen! They were only concerned that Biden’s pardons remain valid, and who cares about Biden’s incapacity to be president?
  6590.  
  6591.  
  6592.  
  6593.  
  6594.  
  6595. Anchor Ailsa Chang barely mentioned Congressman Comer, which is very much an NPR pattern. Not only has NPR failed to interview Comer, a look at the search engine on NPR.org finds more results for English actress Jodie Comer.
  6596.  
  6597. I found two James Comer results. You can find a story from December 15, 2023 that sounded like DNC opposition research. On Morning Edition, they interviewed AP reporter Brian Slodysko, who claimed Comer had a shell company, just like Hunter Biden. Comer called that story financially illiterate. NPR host Leila Fadel cued up the AP man: “The big takeaway in your story is that the accusations that are being leveled against President Biden's son are very similar to what you've reported on Comer. If you could, talk about that.”
  6598.  
  6599. The only other search result is a James Comer interview in 2017 about the firing of James Comey – that can get confusing.
  6600.  
  6601. In the latest report, Comer was mentioned in passing as anchor Ailsa Chang interviewed Minnesota law professor Mark Osler, who penned an op-ed last year promoting Gov. Tim Walz to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Don't miss the part where Chang feels she must underline this is a "Republican-led committee," so NPR fans can roll their eyes:
  6602.  
  6603.  
  6604. NPR's All Things Considered
  6605.  
  6606. October 28, 2025
  6607.  
  6608. AILSA CHANG: So this House Oversight Committee accuses the Biden White House of covering up Biden's cognitive decline. Let me just ask you, what does this report ultimately ask for?
  6609.  
  6610. MARK OSLER: Well, it's asking for a further investigation by the Department of Justice. I think they were frustrated because some of the witnesses pled the Fifth. And there's a political point being made as well.
  6611.  
  6612. CHANG: OK. And just to remind everyone, this is a Republican-led committee. What do you make of the argument that they lay out in this report about Biden's cognitive decline and the permanence of these preemptive pardons?
  6613.  
  6614. OSLER: Yeah. I'm not an expert on cognition, but I am an expert on clemency, and I can tell you that the Constitution doesn't make any requirement whatsoever as to how a pardon or a commutation is going to be put into writing or issued at all. And we've seen a variety of methods used over the years. You know, in 2005, the Office of Legal Counsel provided the president with advice that the president could use an autopen to sign bills - obviously one of the most important things the president is going to sign. And since then, presidents have used autopens for a wide variety of things...
  6615.  
  6616. CHANG: Right.
  6617.  
  6618. OSLER: ...Especially when there's a lot to be signed at once.
  6619.  
  6620. CHANG: Well, what can the Department of Justice actually do in this situation? Like, can you think of anytime a pardon from a president has been reversed or declared null and void, as this House committee and President Trump would like to see happen here?
  6621.  
  6622. OSLER: No, that hasn't happened. Once a president issues a pardon, it's been viewed as final. And so if something was to get overturned here, this would really be breaking new ground.
  6623.  
  6624. CHANG: So are you telling me that a president's pardon power is absolute?
  6625.  
  6626. OSLER: It's surprising, but that's what it says in the Constitution. It's almost absolute. It can't cover people who are under impeachment, and it's generally accepted that it can't pardon future crimes, those that haven't been committed yet. But yes. It's really rare in having so few checks and balances.
  6627.  
  6628. CHANG: Well, then, okay. Say you're a person who did receive a pardon from President Biden. What would you advise that person to do to protect themselves legally now from having that pardon reversed or somehow invalidated during the Trump administration?
  6629.  
  6630. OSLER: Yeah. There's really not that much that they can do. Again, I think most people who have studied this would be shocked if a pardon was overturned. One of the things that I really fear that could happen with this investigation and some of the conclusions that they seem to want to reach is you have 37 people who received a commutation of their death sentence by President Biden. And I would really think it would cause a constitutional crisis if President Trump moved to execute those people despite that commutation of the death sentence. But going forward, I hope that pardons aren't undermined. They're under enough stress as they are.
  6631.  
  6632. CHANG: Mark Osler, from the University of St. Thomas, thank you very much for being with us today.
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  6634.  <pubDate>October 29th, 2025 5:19 PM</pubDate>
  6635.    <dc:creator>Tim Graham</dc:creator>
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  6639.  <title>OUCH: Even CNN’s Jake Tapper Wasn’t Having It With This Wannabe Theatre Kid Democrat</title>
  6640.  <link>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/10/29/ouch-even-cnns-jake-tapper-wasnt-having-it-wannabe-theatre-kid</link>
  6641.  <description>Grant him this, dear readers. On Tuesday, CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper was all of us in having to deal with the middle-aged, theatre kid buffoonery of Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), who was brought on as a Democrat from the Oversight Committee to counter an earlier interview with Chairman James Comer (R-KY) about the Biden autopen report. Instead, she hijacked it to accuse Republicans of wanting tens of millions to starve in the government shutdown.
  6642.  
  6643.  
  6644.  
  6645. The theatre kid antics are strong with this one on the right that even CNN's Jake Tapper isn't having it.
  6646. The canned lines. The hand gestures. The facial expressions. It's perfect. pic.twitter.com/wFXOQFetU5
  6647. — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2025
  6648.  
  6649.  
  6650.  
  6651.  
  6652. Tapper started by asking “what evidence” do Democrats have “that refutes this report” about then-President Biden having ceded power on presidential pardons to his staff, but Stansbury lashed out at Tapper for talking about it to begin with.
  6653.  
  6654. “I am deeply disturbed that this is a lead story on national network television tonight, as we are four days away from 42 million Americans losing food assistance as literally the White House is building a $300 million ballroom, and they are choosing to cut off food assistance and SNAP to 42 million Americans. They are going to let seniors, children, veterans, and millions of Americans starve, and this is what we’re covering,” she declared.
  6655.  
  6656. After a few more uses of the word “literally,” calling Tapper’s story selection “disturb[ing],” and a declaration that President Trump is in cognitive decline, Tapper was incredulous at her sudden hostility (click “expand”):
  6657.  
  6658.  
  6659. TAPPER: So, I actually do have questions for you about the cuts to the SNAP program and the fact that 42 million Americans will not have food stamp coverage as of Saturday, and we covered it yesterday and I covered it earlier today, and we’re going to cover it tomorrow as well, but this is a report from the House Oversight Committee, the majority — and I talked to the chairman of the committee who suggested that more legislation would be needed to outline exactly who a president should be able to grant a pardon to. Is that something that you think both parties could agree upon?
  6660.  
  6661. STANSBURY: Well, I think first of all, the House needs to come back in session. Mike Johnson has now canceled the House of Representatives for 39 straight days. We are in day 28 of a House shutdown. They are literally not here. The President is overseas, as I just said, and they’re about to cut off food assistance to millions of Americans. And so I think it’s bizarre that Chairman Comer is going on T.V. talking about an investigation into a former president who’s not even a sitting president over a non-issue while literally Americans are about to starve.
  6662.  
  6663. TAPPER: So, the reason that SNAP is running out of funding, I understand there’s a disagreement about the contingency plan, and whether that —
  6664.  
  6665. STANSBURY: It’s not a disagreement. Literally, Congress approved money for this scenario. The White House is choosing to let Americans go without —
  6666.  
  6667. TAPPER: Well, the Agriculture Department argues that the contingency funds $6 billion is there for natural disaster. I know that that’s disputed.
  6668.  
  6669.  
  6670. Tapper cut to the chase and, to his credit, shifted to playing hardball and giving Stansbury some cold, hard facts:
  6671.  
  6672.  
  6673. But if you are so concerned about SNAP funds running out, why not ask Democrats in the Senate to vote to open up the government and then the SNAP funding would go? I mean, that’s — I understand the dispute about the contingency fund, and that’s a real dispute and that’s $6 billion that could fund the SNAP program for two to three more weeks. But if we’re actually talking about long-term, why not have Senate Democrats to vote to open up the government?
  6674.  
  6675.  
  6676. Stansbury was too busy with her talking points and hand gestures pretending to be an orchestra conductor to answer his question and instead argued she had “filed the SNAP-backed legislation that would force the administration to release those funds to not cut off EBT cards to millions of Americans, and that would reimburse states and tribes,” but Republicans won’t let her.
  6677.  
  6678. Tapper tried again by asking if she believes her state’s senators “should...vote to open the government so that these SNAP funds are not at risk,” but Stansbury falsely claimed the Trump White House “is choosing to starve American children.”
  6679.  
  6680. The CNN host’s facial expressions grew exasperated:
  6681.  
  6682.  
  6683.  
  6684. The Jake Tapper - Melanie Stansbury interview is even funnier when you put in GIF form.
  6685. Tapper was NOT having it with this lady pic.twitter.com/l9cBYNtPk7
  6686. — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 29, 2025
  6687.  
  6688.  
  6689.  
  6690.  
  6691. Tapper cut deep with another reality check that the shutdown has been “a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government...because they want Medicaid funds restored” and “Obamacare premiums to be extended past the end of the year.”
  6692.  
  6693. With her arms still flailing, Stansbury started calling Tapper “sir” and claiming there’s “money for contingency plans.” Tapper anticipated this by pointing out said money Democrats are arguing over would only last “two to three weeks[.]”
  6694.  
  6695. Stansbury closed by arguing that “doesn’t matter” and going personal by arguing the food stamp debate isn’t “a big deal to you” (click “expand”):
  6696.  
  6697.  
  6698. STANSBURY: Yeah. Well, it may not be a big deal to you, but —
  6699.  
  6700. TAPPER: It is a big deal to me.
  6701.  
  6702. STANSBURY: — let me tell you that for the grandparents —
  6703.  
  6704. TAPPER: It is a big deal to me.
  6705.  
  6706. STANSBURY: — for grandparents that literally are feeding their children.
  6707.  
  6708. TAPPER: My point is that it’s a short-term solution.
  6709.  
  6710. STANSBURY: And not have money in those accounts —
  6711.  
  6712. TAPPER: It’s a short-term —
  6713.  
  6714. STANSBURY: — it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day, people need to be able to feed their families, and Saturday is when those funds run out.
  6715.  
  6716. TAPPER: If you feel so strongly —
  6717.  
  6718. STANSBURY: And we are fighting —
  6719.  
  6720. TAPPER: — Congresswoman, why not ask — 
  6721.  
  6722. STANSBURY: — to get that funding.
  6723.  
  6724. TAPPER: — funding the Senate Democrats from New Mexico to vote to open the government so that the SNAP funds —
  6725.  
  6726. STANSBURY: Sir, I am here in the House of Representatives. It is shut down. I am fighting to get the government reopened. I am fighting to get funding, put back into SNAP that is already existent and I am fighting for the American people. I am here. But show me a single Republican that is here. Not a single one is here to make sure that Americans are fed on Saturday. That is why I am here.
  6727.  
  6728.  
  6729. To see the relevant CNN transcript from October 28, click here.</description>
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