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Joe Rogan learned firsthand how corrupt the legacy press can be.

The Spotify superstar took a gaggle of medications, including Ivermectin, after he tested positive for COVID-19 in 2021. The comic watched in horror as the press turned on him, suggesting he had ingested “horse paste” and not a Nobel Prize-winning drug.

His media Red Pilling commenced.

He’s been torching the press ever since, spreading the word to his loyal flock.

Now, he’s excoriating the media anew for something reporters didn’t do. They failed to highlight the incredible rescue of two stranded U.S. astronauts earlier this month.

Why? Elon Musk’s SpaceX saved the day. The legacy media loathes Musk.

It’s that simple.

 

 

Rogan invited the team behind “Triggernometry,” Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster, to his program Saturday. The comedians have become truth tellers of the first order, transcending political labels to speak clearly on the issues of the day.

Part of the “Joe Rogan Experience” chat focused on SpaceX’s mission to bring astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams back to earth. They were on board a space station for more than nine months before the successful rescue operation.

It should have been a massive news story. It could even inspire a movie or TV miniseres some day. Heck, dolphins greeted the rescued astronauts’ capsule in a moment tailor-made for the big screen.

Instead, legacy media outlets covered it briefly and moved on. Nothing remarkable to see here. Move along.

And Rogan knows why.

 

🚨NEW: @JoeRogan blasts the legacy media for downplaying @ElonMusk and @SpaceX’s heroic rescue of two astronauts trapped at the space station.
“They’re trying to sh*t on everything he does and hide all the good stuff. You didn’t hear a peep about Elon rescuing those astronauts.… pic.twitter.com/PSqtt8Nstu
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 29, 2025
 

“They’re trying to s*** on everything [Musk] does. Hide all the good stuff. We didn’t hear a peep about Elon rescuing those people,” Rogan said. “We should have had a live stream of it. It should have been a huge national event. ‘We’re finally gonna rescue the astronauts who were trapped on a space station for eight f***ing months. This supergenius, this Elon Musk character, is the guy who figured out how to go get them.’

The magnitude of the SpaceX rescue wasn’t lost on him.

“His company went and rescued them. We can’t do it anymore … we had to rely on his company,” he said.

The rescue’s news value couldn’t be more obvious. So where was the wall-to-wall coverage?

“This is a giant special interest story that would grab so many headlines and would have so much ratings because everybody wants to see it,” he said. “You’d be sitting on the couch with your family. ‘Are they gonna get ’em? Is it gonna dock? Is it gonna work?’”

Rogan isn’t alone in his assessment. 

The Daily Mail shared the muted reaction from The New York Times to the rescue:

Judging that Musk’s politicking had ‘poisoned’ his business empire, and connecting the recent slump in Tesla value, a guest author for the New York Times offered the damning assessment: ‘So what if Elon Musk rescued the astronauts?’

The TV news networks are all about ratings … to a point. Narrative and ideology trump all. It explains why so many media outlets ignored incendiary footage in recent years.

Why? The footage made the Left look bad. Think:

Violent Antifa protests
Jews being harassed on college campuses
Women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines being hunted on a college campus
Those clips routinely went viral on social media, but mainstream news outlets ignored them.

Rogan knows why, and he’s not afraid to explain it to his followers.

Not content with five days of The View, ABC now puts up a shorter episode every Saturday on its online streaming service, ABC News Live. It is common for this Saturday content to be less political than the weekday shows, but this Saturday saw the assembled cast smear the country as both racist and sexist.

During a discussion on how to deal with imposter syndrome, the condition where one feels like a fraud amid self-doubt in their skills and accomplishments, Ana Navarro attacked a vague and undefined group of people she simply referred to as “these people.” She declared:

Can I tell you I’ve never even heard the term imposter syndrome until I was on this show. And, I honestly, it’s not something that I let go into my head at all. And I think part of it is because when you are a Latino or when you are black and you are on TV or you’re in a corporate boardroom, you know, wherever there’s all these people who automatically assume that you’re there because you’re an imposter or you’re a token. And so I’m not going to do it to myself, to hell with them.

 

 

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Joy Behar pushed back a little, “I don’t know that that’s true.”

Presumably alluding to Behar being white, Navarro continued, “You don’t know it’s true because, you know—”

Behar sought to define the term, “Because to me, imposter syndrome is more like, wait until they find out that I’m incompetent. That’s what they mean.”

Navarro doubled down, “That’s my point. There’s people who think you’re incompetent, and you’re only there because you’re a Latina. You’re only there because you’re black and you’re filling out a—checking a box.”

Sunny Hostin piggybacked on the idea, “But to be clear, when you are brown or black, when you get into those rooms, you’re twice as qualified as most people because it’s so hard for you to get there because of the structural racism that’s going on. So, I never really, I never suffer from imposter syndrome because I knew how hard I had to work.”

Retreating from her earlier position, Behar sought to relitigate the 2016 election, “It’s true of women also. Look at the case of Hillary Clinton. Who was more qualified than she was? She really knew her stuff.”

Hostin agreed, “No one was more qualified.”

One way to avoid the problems the cast talked about would be for liberals like themselves to stop obsessing over the boxes Navarro referred to. There are countless women and minorities in high positions in this country that nobody thinks twice about; it is only when you insist on making those positions political statements that people take notice.

Here is a transcript for the April 5 show:

ABC News Live The Weekend View

4/5/2025

9:38 AM ET

ANA NAVARRO: Can I tell you I’ve never even heard the term Imposter Syndrome until I was on this show. And, I honestly, it’s not something that I let go into my head at all. And I think part of it is because when you are a Latino or when you are black and you are on TV or you’re in a corporate boardroom, you know, wherever there’s all these people who automatically assume that you’re there because you’re an imposter or you’re a token. And so I’m not going to do it to myself, to  hell with them.

JOY BEHAR: I don’t know that that’s true.

NAVARRO: Oh, I do. You don’t know it’s true because, you know—

BEHAR: Because to me, imposter syndrome is more like, wait until they find out that I’m incompetent. That’s what they mean. 

NAVARRO: That’s. That’s my point. There’s people who think you’re incompetent, and you’re only there because you’re a Latina. You’re only there because you’re black and you’re filling out a—checking a box.

SARA HAINES: But, I felt that way when I became a mom.

[crosstalk]

SUNNY HOSTIN: But to be clear, when you are brown or black, when you get into those rooms, you’re twice as qualified as most people because it’s so hard for you to get there because of the structural racism that’s going on. So, I never really, I never suffer from imposter syndrome because I knew how hard I had to work.

BEHAR: It’s true— It’s true of women also. Look at the case of Hillary Clinton. Who was more qualified than she was?

HOSTIN: No one was more qualified.

BEHAR: She really knew her stuff.

Los Angeles Times TV critic Robert Lloyd heaped scorn on conservatives while defending the indefensible –taxpayer-funded PBS and National Public Radio – as “fair and balanced” in Wednesday’s paper, in a long column under the long title “PBS and NPR cater to all Americans, despite what Marjorie Taylor Greene might believe.”

It’s easy for Hollywood journalists to look down their nose at red-state Republicans and dismiss all the evidence of left-wing tilt they brought to the CEOs of NPR and PBS.

Every so often across my 21 years as a TV critic at this paper, I have been moved to defend public broadcasting against regular right-wing attempts to defund it. The difference now — well, one difference — is we are living in a time without guardrails, when the ethos at the top seems to be Do What You Want, Lie Outrageously and Trust That You’ll Get Away With It, when all sorts of hard-won, long-established public goods are being crippled by executive caveat, and formerly more-or-less independent institutions scramble to paint the roses red in order to keep their heads.

Last Wednesday, PBS Chief Executive Paula Kerger, and Katherine Maher, who heads NPR, testified before Congress, essentially to bat off charges of liberal bias and to make the case that public broadcasting is a valuable social good, to politicians who don’t necessarily value social goods.

Lloyd bragged about what a great deal the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which funds PBS and NPR) is for taxpayers, “an estimated $1.50 per American per year” and dutifully hailed Ken Burns, “the country’s most famous documentary filmmaker.” At least he skipped Big Bird, perhaps aware that the rights to Sesame Street was until recently owned by television platform HBO, and hasn’t been owned by PBS for a decade.

On the key subject of the hearing, liberal bias on the taxpayers’ dime, Lloyd was evasive.

And there is more to public broadcasting than PBS and NPR, as much as they might seem to be synonymous, and more to PBS and NPR than their news programs — PBS, for the record, does not produce programs but only distributes programs produced by member stations — though that is where Greene and company primarily aimed their “liberal bias” attack. (For what it’s worth, I know more than a few people on the left who find NPR’s news coverage exasperating.)

Clearly Lloyd clearly hangs out with ultra-leftists. Then he really got snotty.

But I doubt Greene or her like-minded colleagues have spent much, or any time, watching PBS or listening to NPR, beyond the minimum needed to fuel their outrage. The fact that the system is decentralized means that its audience is neither urban nor rural, white nor BIPOC, rich nor poor, coastal nor heartland….

Citing local-oriented shows like “Michigan Out-of-Doors” and “Wyoming Chronicle,” he huffed, “To call public media radical because it makes room for ideas you might find objectionable is uninformed, delusional or mere performative partisan anti-wokeism.”

Again and again, the writer failed to engage on what actually transpired at the hearing, or the damning things especially from NPR’s Katherine Maher.

Eventually Lloyd attempted to defend PBS’s actual slanted political journalism via liberal bromides about “speaking truth to power.”

Their news programs may be imperfect, as what is not, but they deal in fact-based reality and subscribe, ideally, to the old journalistic formulation of speaking truth to power – especially valuable in a time when power asserts that truth is whatever it says it is.

He even called PBS “fair and balanced”!

I suppose if Fox News is your yardstick of “fair and balanced,” the actually fair and balanced “PBS NewsHour,” from WETA in Washington, D.C., might seem unfair and unbalanced. But accusations that public media peddle disinformation and propaganda would be more accurately aimed at the accusers and at an administration seemingly dedicated to retailing a fairy-tale American history less offensive to MAGA sensibilities.

The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour could hardly contain their excitement over Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech denouncing all things Donald Trump. Host Amna Nawaz claimed it “inspired” people, a point echoed by Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, who labeled it “inspiring.” Meanwhile, New York Times columnist David Brooks praised Booker for being “upbeat” in contrast to Trump’s “gloom and carnage.”

Nawaz began, “We saw Senator Cory Booker take to the Senate floor in a record-breaking speech that he said, his office said, inspired thousands of people to call into his office.”

She also wondered, “You had hundreds of millions of people liking and commenting online. And we also now have more than 1,000 planned protests coming up this weekend against President Trump in cities across the country. Is there a momentum shift? What’s going on here with Democrats?”

 

 

Capehart responded by recalling a previous News Hour episode:

I think with Senator Booker — what was so inspiring about what he did, one, it seemed to come from out of nowhere. It seemed to — it seemed to — it was genuine, 25 hours and four minutes without any breaks. The other thing is, I think two weeks ago, or maybe even three weeks ago, we were here when you were talking about the fight, Democrats need to fight. And I was trying to articulate what that meant, really what Democrats wanted, even though they knew they would not succeed. What Senator Booker did, that’s exactly what they wanted him to do.

Apparently, liberals just want style over substance, “They wanted someone in an elected position, someone of some stature, to stand up and say, explain what was going on, to give voice to what they were feeling about what was happening to their country, about who was doing it, about what we need to do to remind ourselves of who we are as a country.”

Capehart concluded by declaring, “And I think that’s why Senator Booker’s speech, his filibuster resonated so much. Millions of people — it was 350 million people liked it, I believe it was on — on TikTok. That’s what people are going for. And I think what Senator Booker has done, I think, has given people sort of the rhetorical armor they need for marches that are going to be happening around the country tomorrow, but going forward, because what we have seen this week is just one more horrible week on top of, what, 10 horrible weeks, if you care about this country.”

There are not even 350 million American citizens, let alone adults or Democratic voters, so that means many foreigners liked the TikTok video, which does not actually tell us much about how Booker’s speech will impact politics going forward. Still, Brooks defended himself from Capehart’s earlier invocation of March 14’s show, “Yeah, well, I didn’t like that ‘fight’ word, because I think — I have tried to say that it’s about persuasion.”

He then wrapped up the segment by adding, “What Cory Booker did was try to persuade. It was 25 hours of rhetoric on making a case for a thing. And so I thought that was good. The second final, quick thing about Cory Booker is, if Donald Trump is going to be all about gloom and carnage and threat, Cory Booker is about upbeat. And that’s a good — good way to counter the vibe of Donald Trump.”

To use a phrase PBS might recognize, to the contrary, droning on for more than one whole day is quite gloomy.

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Here is a transcript for the April 4 show:

PBS News Hour

4/4/2025

7:36 PM ET

AMNA NAWAZ: We saw Senator Cory Booker take to the Senate floor in a record-breaking speech that he said, his office said, inspired thousands of people to call into his office.

You had hundreds of millions of people liking and commenting online. And we also now have more than 1,000 planned protests coming up this weekend against President Trump in cities across the country. Is there a momentum shift? What’s going on here with Democrats?

JONATHAN CAPEHART: Well, there is a momentum shift simply because everything we have seen come out of this administration is just moving people from apathy and complacency up and out into the streets, particularly with these demonstrations around the country tomorrow.

I think with Senator Booker — what was so inspiring about what he did, one, it seemed to come from out of nowhere. It seemed to — it seemed to — it was genuine, 25 hours and four minutes without any breaks. The other thing is, I think two weeks ago, or maybe even three weeks ago, we were here when you were talking about the fight, Democrats need to fight.

And I was trying to articulate what that meant, really what Democrats wanted, even though they knew they would not succeed. What Senator Booker did, that’s exactly what they wanted him to do. That — they wanted someone in an elected position, someone of some stature, to stand up and say, explain what was going on, to give voice to what they were feeling about what was happening to their country, about who was doing it, about what we need to do to remind ourselves of who we are as a country.

And I think that’s why Senator Booker’s speech, his filibuster resonated so much. Millions of people — it was 350 million people liked it, I believe it was on — on TikTok. That’s what people are going for. And I think what Senator Booker has done, I think, has given people sort of the rhetorical armor they need for marches that are going to be happening around the country tomorrow, but going forward, because what we have seen this week is just one more horrible week on top of, what, 10 horrible weeks, if you care about this country.

NAWAZ: David, got about 30 seconds left. I will give you the final word here.

BROOKS: Yeah, well, I didn’t like that “fight” word, because I think — I have tried to say that it’s about persuasion.

NAWAZ: Right.

BROOKS: And so you should try to persuade. And so what Cory Booker did was try to persuade. It was 25 hours of rhetoric on making a case for a thing. And so I thought that was good. The second final, quick thing about Cory Booker is, if Donald Trump is going to be all about gloom and carnage and threat, Cory Booker is about upbeat. And that’s a good — good way to counter the vibe of Donald Trump.

Leftist news outlets have been inundated with journalists making crazy, apocalyptic pronouncements of  “dangerous times” being ushered in by President Donald Trump and his supporters. 

In the past month, viewers have been subjected to ultra-leftist Elie Mystal’s book tour where he’s crusaded for elimination of “all voter registration laws,” so that it’s “easier” to vote against Donald Trump’s “fascism.” 

Washington Post editor Bob Woodward warned that it’s “one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced” due to Trump and his “sidekick” Elon Musk daring to pare back our massive federal government.  

Over on ABC’s The View, co-host Sunny Hostin screeched: “It is very clear that people will die!”

The following are just a few of the craziest outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the last month: 

 

“Eliminate All Voter Registration Laws” So It’s Easier to Vote Against Trump’s “Fascism”

 

 

“We could eliminate all voter registration laws. See, when Democrats get in charge, we try to protect voting rights….We have to expand voting rights so that the 90 million people that sat on the couch and sat out this last election between democracy and fascism, so that maybe they have a little bit of an easier time to get up off the couch and come participate in the democracy.”— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 24.

 

Woodward: “One of the Most Dangerous Times” Ever, Trump Wants to “Destroy the Economy”

 

 

“He [Donald Trump] and Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, his sidekick are cutting the government….I think it’s one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced….His end goal – it looks like – he wants to destroy the economy and that is a very dangerous undertaking.”  — Associate Editor Bob Woodward on the Washington Post podcast, March 28.  

 

“Apartheid-Era Elon” Is “Burning the Republic” for “Wannabe Autocrat” Trump

 

 

“No one in America voted for apartheid-era Elon to be in charge of anything. No one in America….It is personalistic politics, where a wannabe autocrat in Donald Trump has outsourced the slashing and burning of the republic to apartheid-era Elon and no one wants this and they are gonna find out.”— Former New York Times columnist/MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 20.

 

The “Naked” “Cruelty” of Elon Musk “Starving Children Around the World” and Cutting Government

 

 

“You get the richest guy [Elon Musk] in the world cutting off food for the starving children around the world. Like, that’s the essence of what it is. The second thing it is, it’s cruelty and ruthlessness. I have had so many conversations over the last couple of weeks with people inside federal agencies when the DOGE boys comes to town. And they are naked in their cruelty.”— New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS’s News Hour, March 21. 

 

GOP Cutting Department of Education Because “An Educated Citizenry Is Not in Their Interests”

“They [Republicans] are revealing something to citizens, which is, they don’t want the most educated citizenry possible because it’s not helpful to them. People who can read and understand that climate change is happening are not favorable voters for them. People who can read and understand what they’re doing to Medicaid, to Social Security — what Elon Musk is doing — the better your reading comprehension is, the more you might not like what this administration is doing. And so an educated citizenry is not in their interests, and they’re coming for it.”— Former New York Times columnist/MSNBC contributor Anand Giridharadas on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 21.

 

Don Lemon: You Cannot “Be Black” and Be “MAGA”

 

 

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon: “I see a black MAGA person who is carrying Donald Trump’s water and they know that he’s lying, it is the shortest line to the front….If you become a black MAGA person, it’s like, ‘Whoa, let’s book this person. Let’s put him on television. Let’s promote!’”Host Bill Maher: “So you don’t think you can be a sincere black MAGA person?”…Lemon: “I don’t think that you can be a rational MAGA — be black and be a rational MAGA person. I think you can be black and be a Republican.”Maher: “I think they would find that very insulting.” Lemon: “Well, I mean, the truth is often insulting.”— Club Random with Bill Maher podcast, March 16. 

 

Nicolle Wallace: “Is a Constitutional Crisis Now Officially Upon Us?” 

“The question of the hour: Is a Constitutional crisis now officially upon us? From the invocation of an 18th century law that was the basis for some of the darkest chapters in America’s history — things like the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II now being used to deport hundreds of people, to the sudden removal of an immigrant doctor here legally….A series of developments over the last 48 hours point to a Trump administration acting as though it is now unencumbered by the law.”— Host Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, March 17.

 

Stahl to Hostage: Are You Sure Terrorists Were Starving You, Maybe Hamas Just Ran Out of Food?  

 

 

Former hostage Keith Siegel: “The terrorists became very mean and very cruel and violent.”Correspondent Lesley Stahl: “More so?”Siegel: “Much more so. They were beating me and starving me.”Stahl: “Do you think they starved you or they just didn’t have food?”Siegel: “No, I think they starved me and they, they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food.”    — CBS’s 60 Minutes, March 30. 

 

Maddow Disgusted By Trump’s Tribute to Pediatric Cancer Survivor D.J. Daniel

 

 

“For the record, and this is disgusting, the President made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the President had something to do with that. This was in the midst of him praising DOGE. The DOGE cuts, among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.”— Host Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s live coverage of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress, March 4.  

 

Wallace Ghoulishly Ties Cancer Survivor’s Story to January 6 

 

 

“I’ve let myself feel joy about D.J. [Daniel] and I hope he’s alive for another, you know, 95 years. Right? And I hope he lives the life he wants to live. He wants to be a cop. He knows what he wants to do. And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you, and I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters. And if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide. And I hope he isn’t one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald Trump pardon those people.”— Host Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC’s live coverage of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress, March 4.  

 

Will a One-Term Trump Be Tempted to Be “Incredibly Reckless?”

“Since he’s [Donald Trump] not running for re-election, do you think that’s a super power, or do you think that’s sort of a gateway to temptation to be incredibly reckless?”— NBC senior national correspondent Tom Llamas to former Trump White House press secretary J. Hogan Gidley on NBC News Now live coverage of Trump address to Congress, March 4.

 

Sunny Shames Schumer From the Left

 

 

“It gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends, but I think you caved. I think you and nine other Democrats caved. I don’t think you showed the fight that this party needs right now, because you’re playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away….In supporting that GOP partisan bill that Democrats had no input in, you cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security, to gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid.”— Co-host Sunny Hostin to Sen. Chuck Schumer on ABC’s The View, March 18.

 

Democrats Must Fight Trump Or “People Will Die!” 

“Representative [Al] Green [yelling at Trump during his address to Congress] 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!”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, March 7.

 

Joy Willing to Be “Friends” With a Trump Voter, Just Won’t Save Their Life

 

 

“I could be friends with a Trump supporter. I won’t give them a kidney but I could be friends with them.”— Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, March 6.

 

Comedian Amber Ruffin: Trumpers Aren’t “Human Beings”

“You’re [Trump administration] kind of a bunch of murderers….They [the White House Correspondents Association] were like: ‘You need to be, you know, equal, and make sure that the, that you give it to both sides, and blah blah blah.’ I was like, ‘there’s no way I’m gonna be freaking doing that, dude.’…They want that false equivalency that the media does. They want that. It feels great. It makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way ‘cause they’re not.”— Comedian Amber Ruffin before she was disinvited from performing at the White House Correspondents Dinner, as aired on The Daily Beast podcast, March 27.

 

Trump Is Running “Pogroms” Against Latinos 

 

 

Co-host Ana Navarro: “Forty-six percent voted in this country, Latinos in this country ended up voting for Trump despite the fact that he demonized Latinos, demonized immigrants every single day, and since becoming president, he’s targeted, hunted them down.”Actor John Leguizamo: “Yes, it’s like basically pogroms. They’re coming up to all these people that they said ‘they’re criminals.’”— ABC’s The View, March 21.

 

Rosie O’Donnell Wonders If Elon Rigged Election for Trump

 

“I question why the first time in American history a president has won every swing state and is also best friends and his largest donor [Elon Musk] was a man who owns and runs the Internet. So I would hope that that would be investigated and that we would see whether or not it was an anomaly or something else that happened on election night in America when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with people who supported her and Donald Trump was not able to do that.”— Comedian/actress Rosie O’Donnell on Ireland network RTE’s The Late Late Show, March 21.

 

Joan Baez Bashes “Incompetent Billionaires” Who Are Burning Down Democracy

 

 

“First, I have to set the context that I’m here in. You said I could say anything I want out here. So, that we’re all here to be silly and have fun, and as long as we recognize the fact that our democracy’s going up in flames and we’re about to — we’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires.”— Singer Joan Baez on Netflix’s Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney, March 12.

 

Awful Oliver: Best Thing About Reagan Is He’s “Dead” 

“She [Rep. Elissa Slotkin in Democratic response to Trump address] criticized Trump by praising Reagan. I will admit there are positive things you can say about Reagan, like ‘He was our only president to make a movie with a chimp,’ or ‘he’s dead,’ but his moral clarity might come as a surprise to any gay people who lived through the 1980s. I’m just saying, if you brought Reagan back from the dead and told him all the racist shit Trump’s managed to do in less than two months, he’d cum so hard he’d die again.”— Host John Oliver on HBO’s Last Week Tonight, March 9.

Sometimes you can sense that Happy News for Democrats is the most important kind of news. Sen. Cory Booker speaking on the Senate floor for 25 hours, unloading wheelbarrows of Democrat talking points, isn’t exactly epic. But Democrats in the media will pretend it is.

“It was nothing less than the most dramatic and powerful Senate speech I have ever heard,” gushed MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell. He “took his place in history!” 

Or maybe it will be forgotten by June.

We’ve been laying out some media research this week. Bill D’Agostino Last week, he found ABC, CBS, and NBC spent nearly 100 minutes covering leaked messages from a private Signal chat for Trump administration officials, in just the first 96 hours after the messages were published. But those same networks spent only 13 minutes covering the actual military operation that was discussed in those leaked messages. The success was papered over by the failure. 

Bill also reported ABC, CBS, and NBC are deliberately omitting news of a suspected arson attack against the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico from their flagship morning and evening newscasts.  There was fire damage to the front entryway and smoke damage “throughout the building.” The words “ICE=KKK” also had been spray painted on the side of the structure.

Geoffrey Dickens compared ICE stories. On March 27 the Trump administration scored a big win with the Virginia arrest of a top MS-13 leader named Henry Villatoro Santos. The day before, ICE picked up alleged Hamas-supporter and Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk. So which arrest did the leftist news outlets care more about? The arrest of the pro-Hamas activist, by an 11 to 1 margin. But ABC, CBS, NBC aired zero seconds on the MS-13 leader being brought in. A disparity like this demonstrates that the media prefer one narrative over the other. Trump having success in arresting a gang leader is too positive to underline. 

Clay Waters found once again, there are no conservative journalists to be found on the PBS show Washington Week With The Atlantic. Instead, their guest list shows a liberal bubble, including 16 separate journalists from The Atlantic, as well as reporters from The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MSNBC.

As predicted, the Resistance Media have scrambled to make Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk the scapegoat for Tuesday night’s special election outcome in Wisconsin. As part of that effort and despite clear evidence to the contrary, they have tied Musk’s upcoming exit from the Trump administration to these election results.

DOGE news was buried. On March 27, Musk and some colleagues from his Department of Government Efficiency granted an interview to Bret Baier of Fox News, describing all the work they are doing to reform government, which the other networks studiously ignored.

At a rally in Green Bay on March 30, Musk claimed almost 2.1 million illegal immigrants have received Social Security numbers, and 1.3 million of them are on Medicaid. Some of them voted. The networks skipped that, too. They only to suggest Musk was wildly unpopular and needs to go — before government is reformed.

Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 

A Meta executive announced that the social media giant will soon fulfill a January promise to abolish fact-checking. Is it too good to be true?

Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan announced Friday that the tech giant’s fact-checking program “will be officially over” by Monday afternoon. “That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers,” Kaplan wrote. “We announced in January we’d be winding down the program & removing penalties.” 

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Amid the latest blow in Signalgate and the torrent of negative stories about President Trump’s tariffs, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC used the opportunity to completely ignore word Wednesday the suspect who allegedly wanted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 has decided to plead guilty, possibly sending him to a sentence of life in prison.

Like we often see with cases of bias by omission, the Fox News Channel’s own flagship newscast — Special Report with Bret Baier — covered it.

 

 

Baier read this 18-second news brief:

Lawyers for the man accused of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh say he plans to plead guilty to the one charge against him. Attorneys for Nicholas Roske have asked for a court hearing April 7 or 8 to formally enter his plea. Roske had been scheduled to go to trial in June.

CBS News showed they were aware of this as it was given a partial segment on their streaming platform CBS News 24/7’s The Daily Report, but chose to keep it away from the eyes and ears of viewers on their flagship newscasts, CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News.

Host Lindsey Reiser announced that the “California man accused of trying to assassinate Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh plans to plead guilty, according to court filings, obtained by CBS News” for having allegedly shown up outside “Kavanaugh’s Maryland home in June of 2022 armed with a gun, knife, and tools for a burglary.”

 

 

CBS’s Justice correspondent Scott MacFarlane — who’s on the national stage thanks to making obsessing over January 6 his life’s work — declared this case “quite a legal odyssey” and skirted over the liberal media’s role (along with the progressive movement writ large) in fomenting dangerous, incendiary rhetoric against the Supreme Court:

It began in 2022 right after the Supreme Court’s controversial abortion rights decision, the one that overturned Roe v. Wade. Nicholas Roske of California was allegedly found outside the home of Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh….[H]e was found in part…because he called 911 on himself to report that he was there and that he was a danger, allegedly carrying weaponry in a backpack in close proximity to the justice’s home.

Ah, it just so happened to have come following a “controversial…decision” by the Court! Talk about implicitly suggesting they brought on themselves.

Moving on, MacFarlane said “[t]his case has languished in the courts for a few years, Lindsey, in part because of mental health and competency screenings that have been underway, but, according to a court filing, today and reviewed by CBS News, he intends to plead guilty and the public defender in this case is offering up to have the plea agreement hearing on Monday” with a life sentence on the table.

If this were a case about one of the three liberal justices at the time, it’s a safe bet every nook and cranny and utterance related to the case would have been covered by these networks.

A court in the United Kingdom ignored a State Department message, convicting a 64-year-old woman for peacefully protesting an abortion mill. The woman’s crime? Silently holding a sign offering to speak with women entering the clinic. 

Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted on Friday and told to pay $26,028 (20,000 pounds) in fines, according to Reuters. Tossici-Bolt was hauled before a court for holding a sign that said: “Here to talk, if you want.” 

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Despite being a former federal prosecutor, The View’s Sunny Hostin didn’t like to see certain laws enforced. During Friday’s edition of the show, the ABC News co-host lashed out at American voters for wanting President Trump to actually enforce American’s immigration laws and suggested that such wants were a symptom of the “lack of empathy in this country.” Additionally, she and co-host Ana Navarro downplayed the possible gang affiliation of man recently deported to El Salvador.

According to Hostin, “the cruelty” of actually enforcing immigration law was “the point.” “And when you ask the question, ‘is this what people voted for,’ yeah, I do think so. I think people thought: ‘it’s not going to happen to me or mine.’ That’s what I think,” she chided.

Hostin lashed out at American voters by suggesting that they were okay with their neighbor being deported but only took issue when it was a family member:

You know, its okay for it to happen to your neighbor. It’s okay to happen to that other person but now that it’s happening to American citizens, naturalized citizens, people with green cards, people that are legally here, people’s sister, brothers, sister-in-laws; now, I think people are thinking, ‘oh, but I didn’t vote for that. I didn’t vote for my family to be hurt.’

“And it’s a lack of empathy in this country. It is a lack of empathy,” Hostin declared.

Where was Hostin’s empathy for the innocent Americans like Laken Riley and other killed by illegal immigrants?

 

 

Continuing to decry the deportation of illegals, Hostin teamed up with fake Republican Ana Navarro to downplay the possible gang affiliation of a man recently deported to El Salvador. According to Navarro, he was only deported because he had tattoos and a Chicago Bulls hoodie:

HOSTIN: In particular, I know – I think, Ana, you’re probably going to mention this but the removal of Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia. He’s a Salvadorian national who was granted protective status by an immigration judge. He was taken from an IKEA parking lot with his 5-year-old autistic son in the car with him, and he is married to an American citizen and he is legally protected. He is a legal person here.

BEHAR: So, what did they base this kidnapping on?

ANA NAVARRO: They have this point system that they use where if you have tattoos, if you’re wearing a Chicago Bulls hoodie, if — things like that is what they are basing it on.

“If you are going to pick up people with tattoos, then Pete Hegseth should be very concerned,” Navarro sneered.

What they failed to disclose was the fact that not one, but two immigration courts found that there was enough evidence to suggest Garcia was in league with the Salvadorian gang MS-13. Apparently, a trusted confidential informant could confirm to federal authorities that Garcia was a ranking member in the gang. When Garcia was first arrested in 2019, he was allegedly associating with other members of MS-13.

 

🚨 Daily Caller Senior Editor @ambermarieduke joins @reason and delivers the FACTS about the “Maryland father” MS-13 gang member👇
DUKE: “I’ll fill in the gaps here…. The other individuals he [deported ‘Maryland father’] was with at the Home Depot–that he was arrested… pic.twitter.com/ECLGrQlH3h
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 2, 2025
 

Navarro went further than just decrying how illegals were being deported, she even scoffed at the idea that gangs like MS-13 were a problem at all. “Look, in my view, these people, mostly men, the ones that they sent to El Salvador are men, are props as part of Donald Trump’s sick, cruel charade,” she shouted. “[Trump] built this narrative that there was this gang that was overtaking America…”

As if Trump was turning the United States into a neo-Soviet Union, she accused Trump of “disappearing people.”

The transcript is below. Click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
April 4. 2025
11:04:33 a.m. Eastern

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JOY BEHAR: It’s cruel.

[Applause]

SUNNY HOSTIN: The cruelty. You said it’s cruel, Joy. The cruelty seems, to me, to be the point. And when you ask the question, ‘is this what people voted for,’ yeah, I do think so. I think people thought: ‘it’s not going to happen to me or mine.’ That’s what I think.

You know, its okay for it to happen to your neighbor. It’s okay to happen to that other person but now that it’s happening to American citizens, naturalized citizens, people with green cards, people that are legally here, people’s sister, brothers, sister-in-laws; now, I think people are thinking, ‘oh, but I didn’t vote for that. I didn’t vote for my family to be hurt.’ And it’s a lack of empathy in this country. It is a lack of empathy.

BEHAR: Why couldn’t they send them back, though?

SARA HAINES: They could. They could make phone calls.

HOSTIN: If the United States has an agreement with, let’s say, El Salvador to house people. They’re paying El Salvadorian prisons to pay people, then why doesn’t the White House say, ‘I want that person back because that was a mistake.’

Generally, the Supreme Court has found that Congress has to act and has to sort of make this type of law. And as Alyssa mentioned, this is completely unconstitutional. The minute you get here into the United States, especially if you have legal status, the Constitution applies to you too. And so, the fact that this is happening is something that every American citizen should be extremely concerned about.

In particular, I know – I think, Ana, you’re probably going to mention this but the removal of Kilmar Armando Abrego-Garcia. He’s a Salvadorian national who was granted protective status by an immigration judge. He was taken from an IKEA parking lot with his 5-year-old autistic son in the car with him, and he is married to an American citizen and he is legally protected. He is a legal person here.

BEHAR: So, what did they base this kidnapping on?

ANA NAVARRO: They have this point system that they use where if you have tattoos, if you’re wearing a Chicago Bulls hoodie, if — things like that is what they are basing it on. If you are going to pick up people with tattoos, then Pete Hegseth should be very concerned.

[Applause]

But, you know, look –

HOSTIN: It’s profiling!

BEHAR: Madonna and Cher both have tattoos, just saying. Brian, do you have one?

BRIAN TETA: No, I don’t.

BEHAR: All right.

[Laughter]

NAVARRO: I’m really glad and grateful that we’re talking about this because America cannot get numb to the cruelty that is going on and being inflicted on the Latino community, specifically by the Trump administration.

Look, in my view, these people, mostly men, the ones that they sent to El Salvador are men, are props as part of Donald Trump’s sick, cruel charade. He built this narrative that there was this gang that was overtaking America, and that he was going to send hardened criminals and rapists, monsters to this — out of the country, get rid of them. The problem is that finding them, identifying them, is not that easy so then they’re picking up – they are – Understand this, they are disappearing people.

Some of these wives and loved ones are finding out that their husbands, that their brothers are in this jail because they happened to see a video that was put out by the government of El Salvador. Can you imagine the grief, the distress, the sadness, the anxiety of a loved one not knowing where your relative is because they’ve been picked up off the street while they’re with the deaf, autistic, 5-year-old, U.S. citizen son or because they are disappeared from an ICE appointment?

What kind of country is this?! America, we cannot let this continue! You have got to stand up! You have got to call your Congress people.

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