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After blowing in the wind for over a year since CNN fired him, disgraced former chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt finally found a landing place. He apparently didn’t think he could cut it on his own on Substack, like many other displaced liberal “journalists,” and decided to answer the call from Al Jazeera English. A fitting home for the reporter who authored the video report that resulted in CNN being found liable for the malicious defamation of Navy veteran Zachary Young.

“I’m very excited to be joining Al Jazeera @AJEnglish in Washington after years of watching their extraordinary coverage from around the world,” Marquardt boasted.

Not only was he joining the network that literally backs jihadist terrorists and takes part in their operations, Marquardt would be hosting their coverage of America’s 250th birthday. “Kicking things off today with the US 250th coverage and will be hosting “This is America,” every day at 2:30pm ET. Hope you’ll tune in!” he added.

 

I’m very excited to be joining Al Jazeera @AJEnglish in Washington after years of watching their extraordinary coverage from around the world. Kicking things off today with the US 250th coverage and will be hosting “This is America,” every day at 2:30pm ET. Hope you’ll tune in!
— Alex Marquardt (@MarquardtA) July 1, 2026
 

In an accidental example of just how good of a match his hiring was, following the link to Al Jazeera English’s X account, provided by Marquardt, it featured a banner promoting their documentary that pushed the conspiracy theory that the Israeli Defense Force trained dogs to rape Palestinians.

It was over a year ago, June 2, 2025, that Marquardt cryptically announced on X that he was abruptly leaving CNN:

Some personal news: I’m leaving CNN after 8 terrific years. Tough to say goodbye but it’s been an honor to work among the very best in the business. Profound thank you to my comrades on the National Security team & the phenomenal teammates I’ve worked with in the US and abroad.

It was later confirmed by former CNN insider Oliver Darcy that Marquardt was fired as a result of CNN being found liable for malicious defamation earlier in the year, and costing the network several million dollars.

CNN parent company Warner Brothers Discovery forced the network to fire Marquardt following a routine post litigation review.

Always having an eye for the dramatic, Darcy even dramatized how Marquardt sent the e-mail to his colleagues to let them know he was leaving:

At 10:04am on Monday, Alex Marquardt took a deep breath and pressed send on an email to his CNN colleagues, bidding them farewell. “It’s been an extraordinary time, which is why it’s so tough to say goodbye,” he wrote in the surprise announcement, reflecting on his eight years at CNN and calling it an “honor” to work alongside the network’s national security team. He didn’t mention that he had just been dismissed. Or that CNN—after defending him through a closely-watched defamation trial, promoting him, and grooming him as a future anchor—had abruptly severed ties.

Curious, he had all those details about Marquardt’s deep breaths before hitting send but claimed “Marquardt also declined to comment.”

Marquardt went largely silent for a while, and giving no hint at what he was doing for work in the interim. Over time, Marquand grew more active as he posted and reposted content critical and/or mocking of America, President Trump, and Israel. His activity really took off after the start of the war with Iran.

It really was a fitting pairing.

 

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National “Public” Radio legal reporter Nina Totenberg turned 82 in January, and she may be losing a step. On Tuesday, as the Supreme Court put out its final opinions of the term, she posted a false report on NPR’s website (and then repeated on air) that Justice Samuel Alito, 76, was calling it quits.

“Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court’s opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday,” the article began. The court did not announce that.

Totenberg had a pre-written analysis of Alito’s tenure on the top court ready to go, but the shocking part is she never called Alito’s office to confirm, which is Journalism 101. The fake news came down within minutes, and on Tuesday night’s All Things Considered, she confessed:

TOTENBERG: I did to my boss, and I scared everybody half to death for about five minutes, and it’s entirely on me. It’s not anybody else’s fault. And I’ve written to Justice Alito to apologize, and I thought I would read you most of this letter, ’cause it tells you everything.

(Reading) “Dear Justice Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today’s error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault. I rushed out of the courtroom after the opinion announcements, and when I realized that the usual rush of folks, after a few minutes, had not happened, I asked somebody what was going on inside, to which the answer was retirement announcements. I didn’t hear the S on announcements and assumed – something no reporter should ever do – that you were retiring. It was the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism. I could go on, but I don’t know what else to say, except that I am so, so sorry.”

And I am, eternally. You know, this was a rookie mistake.

That’s true. In a response, NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride correctly suggested a rookie would be fired for this kind of elementary mistake. One reason Totenberg’s reporting was accepted without any real attempt at NPR to double-check her is the assumption that she is an NPR Legend, and so it must be accurate. She noted that many people began speculating that maybe Alito’s retiring later in the week or something, and she just jumped the gun. It’s harder to imagine she was just this incompetent.

McBride also suggested: “For most news consumers, the error is a blip, something that flashed across their feed or they heard on their radio. It was corrected quickly and will not have lasting consequences.”

Totenberg usually plans on reporting that has “lasting consequences,” like ruining conservative Douglas Ginsburg’s Supreme Court nomination in 1987, and attempting to ruin Clarence Thomas’s nomination in 1991 with Anita Hill’s unproven claims of sexual harassment. Totenberg was “tick tight” with leftist Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for decades, and even wrote a book about it (Dinners With Ruth) after Ginsburg died. Totenberg is Exhibit A in how NPR is a thoroughly ideological outlet that should never have been funded by the taxpayers. 

These days, the person giving that speech is often a political activist with no connection to the school itself, or to education at all.

We celebrate, 250 years later, because it’s a miracle to have inherited the great cause of mankind.