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NPR loves The New York Times, and vice versa. On Tuesday, NPR’s Fresh Air granted most of its hour to a 44-minute interview with David Enrich, the paper’s business investigations editor. His new book focusing on Donald Trump and Justice Clarence Thomas is brazenly titled Murder The Truth: Fear, The First Amendment, And A Secret Campaign To Protect The Powerful.

NPR host Tonya Mosley never asked Enrich if that title was truly appropriate when reporters damage someone’s reputation with maliciously inaccurate reporting. What about reporters murdering the truth? The online headline is: 

‘Murder the Truth’ describes a campaign to silence journalists and curb free speech

Nowhere in this 44 minutes did they discuss cases outside Enrich’s picture of crusading progressive journalists versus obstreperous capitalist oligarchs. For example, they never raised the case Fox News vs. Dominion Voting Systems, since Enrich and NPR hate Fox News and don’t consider them journalists. 

At the time, Enrich made an exception for his expansive view: “But a victory for the cable news network would have raised questions — even among lawyers who represent the news media — about whether federal courts’ interpretations of the First Amendment made it impossible to hold anyone accountable for reckless and damaging lies.”

Enrich discussed how Justice Thomas isn’t fond of the case New York Times vs. Sullivan, which allows reporters to defame public figures, and can’t be found guilty unless an obvious “malice” can be found. It’s obvious — if undiscussed — that NPR was a vicious player in smearing Thomas as a sexual harasser, and then they repeated the exercise with Justice Brett Kavanaugh (his name never surfaced).

Perhaps if NPR was sued for defamation, taxpayers would end up with that bill, too. 

Mosley and Enrich didn’t touch on the most recent high-profile case, Zachary Young’s successful defamation suit against CNN for reporting he was a “black market” operative (criminal) getting people out of war-torn Afghanistan. They didn’t mention CNN and The Washington Post settling with teenager Nicholas Sandmann over their wildly inaccurate reporting on people screaming into Sandmann’s face as he wore a MAGA hat in D.C. after the March for Life. 

They did discuss ABC settling with Donald Trump over George Stephanopoulos claiming Trump was found “liable for rape.” He said “most legal observers viewed as if not frivolous then lacking much merit,” even if the Clinton bimbo-eruption specialist had murdered the truth. “There’s no evidence, at least that I’m aware of or that had become public, that Stephanopoulos was lying or had acted with reckless disregard….almost every legal observer I speak to says that ABC had an extremely good chance of prevailing.” But they caved! 

Mosley made sure to mention — for commercial purposes — that Enrich also wrote other anti-Trump books with the titles  Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, And An Epic Trail Of Destruction and Servants Of The Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, And The Corruption Of Justice. Naturally, Fresh Air also offered Enrich long interviews to promote those books when they came out — actually, two long interviews on the Deutsche Bank reporting.

The Amazon page on this book leads with a blurb from leftist Trump-hater Ruth Ben-Ghiat: 

“Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America.”

NPR and Trump-hating journalists are the best of friends, and the warmest of allies. But Trump voters end up paying for these hour-long exercises in demonizing conservatives as creepy authoritarians. 

A public school teacher simply can’t bear the idea that a student openly supports President Donald Trump. So she naturally abused her position of authority to publish a scathing poem calling a student a “weed” for existing. 

Sally Toner who teaches and lives “in the DMV area” (matching information from a blog page and Linkedin would place her as a high school teacher in Virginia’s Loudoun County School District) named her Trump-hating  poem, A Lesson for John – perhaps after one of her own students (assuming “John” is his actual name. We don’t know for sure, as Toner has not replied to MRC’s request for comment).

Toner’s piece, published by a literary journal meant to inspire other teachers, gives off vibes akin to the Facebook ramblings of a suicidal wine aunt.

“That other teacher said you don’t have a soul,” she begins, calling her student a “cocky self-important little Trumper.” That’s quite the projection coming from an adult congratulating herself for supposedly teaching a “lesson” by picking fights with a child.

“You sit in the front,” seethes the teacher who is apparently triggered that he’s “a head taller” than her.

Oh no! Not a student who… participates in class!

“Your mind [is] so tiny in the tiniest room at the end of the tiniest hall in the building,” she continues, claiming “you look smaller when you disregard the opinions of others” (says the woman announcing her pure hatred for her student over his personal opinions).

“Teachers are not supposed to reveal their political views. The literature speaks for itself–but you make it so hard,” she whines, gaslighting the student for failing to control herself. 

Here’s a lesson for you, Sally. If it’s too hard for you to act like an adult and put your personal biases aside, you probably shouldn’t be trusted with an entire class of impressionable kids whom you’re supposed to protect. Especially, when you hold a personal vendetta against one of those students.

Yet she furthers the case for her removal.

“A teacher emphasizes the culture of mutual respect she has built in this space of unreliable narrators,” the poem goes on (Her respect seems to be missing).

In the same breath she admits she calls on her student “as little as possible,” applauding herself for “hold[ing] my breath when I can’t ignore your raised hand anymore, knowing you’ll defend his [Trump’s] vitriol.” 

“You stare down the English language learners who congregate at the entrance to my hallway. They stop their chatter in Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Vietnamese, and part the waters. You nod, walk through, offering a curt “thank you,” her hate poem continues. 

(God forbid, someone says… “Thank you!” So rude!)

“You might be able to say that to one of them in their native tongue. Not that you’d try,” she complained. Then you sit down in English class and prattle on about the American Dream.”

What better way to reassure us all that she belongs in the classroom than by admitting next, that she “walked into school” after Election Day “hung over?!”

“You don’t say a word,” she complained about the student, who likely didn’t care less that her eyes were “welling up.”

“You just hang that head of perfect hair and walk into room 308 after me. And even though your guy has won, for the rest of the year, you will never mention his name again,” she complained.

Yes, maybe because he doesn’t suffer Trump Derangement Syndrome.

On Friday morning, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC giddily promoted Thursday’s attempted town hall by western North Carolina GOP Congressman Chuck Edwards that was derailed by “democracy in action” and “frustration” from “heated” voters who are “very loudly and very clearly” unhappy with the Trump administration.

This was passed off as organic instead of wholly partisan in which the most committed leftists flock to and pack town halls (no matter whether they live in a particular district) and team up with the media to paint conservative policies such as shrinking the federal government via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is unquestionably unpopular.

CBS Mornings didn’t even have a problem with the far-left mob chasing Edwards afterward as he’s trying to get to his car. If this had happened to Congresswomen Maxine Waters (D-CA) or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the liberal media wouldn’t think it’s fun and games.

“We’re going to begin this hour with Americans speaking up very loudly and very clearly at town hall events across the nation. Republicans in Congress are taking the brunt of it over President Trump and Elon Musk’s deep cuts to federal jobs and programs and the uncertainty over the economy. Lot of people worried,” co-host, Democratic donor, and Obama family friend Gayle King gushed.

She added that Republicans have grappled with “very tough questions from the constituents” as a segue to Edwards choosing to still hold one, which “got — how shall we say — very heated.”

Congressional correspondent Nikole Killion went down to Ashville for the charade: “At Tuesday’s town hall in Asheville the lines began early, snaking outside the building with some who oppose President Trump…and others who support him.”

 

 

Amid that first thought, she had balance with one soundbite each of elderly white women representing the left and the right. After there, however, it was all heat.

Killion did the rudderless left’s bidding (click “expand”):

KILLION: As the event got underway, frustrations toward the administration bubbled over.

ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #1: Listen to us now!

KILLION: Attendees sounded off.

ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #2: Why is a non-elected person running our government?

KILLION: — and shouted down GOP Congressman Chuck Edwards who represents Asheville, a blue city in an otherwise red district.

ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #3: You’re lying! I’m a veteran, you don’t give a [EXPLETIVE] about me.

KILLION: At least one man was hauled out by police.

ANGRY MALE TOWN HALL ATTENDEE #3: You don’t take away our rights! You don’t get to take away our health care. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Get off me. You don’t get to do this to us. [EXPLETIVE] you! [EXPLETIVE] you! [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

(….)

ANGRY WOMAN AT TOWN HALL #1: Why are people losing their jobs at record numbers?

KILLION: Many in the room are still recovering from Hurricane Helene.

ANGRY WOMAN AT TOWN HALL #2: We don’t need to hear you tell us what we lived through.

Again, no consideration there was any coordination.

“It follows a series of similar town halls nationwide where members of Congress have faced off with angry constituents. [BOOS] Edwards received a steady stream of questions about Elon Musk, tariffs, the Ukraine-Russia war, and massive cuts from the government from the VA to the Department of Education,” she added.

Killion also merely passed along that “[c]rowds surrounded Edwards as he left” with video of Edwards having to be surrounded by security as he entered a parking lot.

Back live, co-host Tony Dokoupil declared it all was “democracy in action.”

Having been the network to give the most attention to the first wave of town halls, ABC had Good Morning America on the case, down to even a tease with fill-in co-host Rebecca Jarvis bragging about “the heated town hall in North Carolina over President Trump and Elon Musk’s slashing of the federal government.”

Partisan tool Rachel Scott — who masquerades as senior political correspondent — painted the Trump agenda as on the ropes thanks to “voters….confronting their Republican representatives[.]”

 

 

Following a clip of the Edwards mob shouting “Chuck is a coward,” Scott touted the “heated town hall” in which Edwards was “confronted by constituents” and “booed…for 90 minutes.”

Scott obviously didn’t paint a man escorted out as a lunatic: “One interaction turning so contentious, this man had to be escorted out.”

She later returned to the townhall with a question being read insinuating DOGE was cutting Social Security benefits (and on the heels of an earlier bite falsely claiming veterans were having their health care cut).

NBC’s Today only had 34 seconds of jubilation on these partisan and phony agitators.

Ahead of a soundbite from it, chief business correspondent Christine Romans declared the GOP were “fac[ing] growing frustration from voters…over the Trump administration’s economic policies and government cuts, anger erupting at a town hall led by Republican North Carolina Congressman Chuck Edwards yesterday.”

To see the relevant transcripts from March 14, click here (for ABC) and here (for CBS).

Former co-host of ABC’s The View, Rosie O’Donnell got her desperately needed dose of public attention recently after she announced that she left the United States and moved to Ireland because Donald Trump was president. The bonkers move from the insane 9/11 truther was lauded during Friday’s episode by co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro as rational.

“So, our former co-host of The View, Rosie O’Donnell, has a long-standing feud with Donald Trump that dates back years before he became president. And now that he’s back in power, she’s just made a drastic move,” announced Friday moderator Joy Behar ahead of this stitched together soundbite:

ROSIE O’DONNELL: I’m here in Ireland. [Transition] Although I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old. [Transition] And I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when, you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.

“Oh no, he’s going to be mad at Ireland now. Here comes the potato tariff,” Behar mocked.

Hostin responded by calling Trump “a toddler,” and suggesting, “His frontal lobe is not really fully developed, in my opinion. And so, he probably suffers from that imposter syndrome.”

Later in the segment, Hostin again proved herself to be a sore loser, because – according to her – since Trump won the election, it meant America’s “democracy” “doesn’t seem to be working right now.”

 

 

“It doesn’t seem to be working for everyone,” she further whined. She also huffed that O’Donnell was “one of the few people that can pick her life up and move it somewhere.” “Most of us are stuck here,” she exclaimed.

In 2023, Hostin claimed China was a better country for black people to live in because “[America is] putting more black people in jail here.” She also praised how she felt safer in Africa. “I felt real good in Ghana,” she touted.

As a multi-millionaire, Hostin and her family certainly have the means to leave the U.S., but the likely reason she couldn’t was because of the fact that her surgeon husband was swept up in a massive RICO investigation for insurance fraud.

The other member of the cast to throw their full weight behind endorsing O’Donnell’s self-imposed, attention-driven exile was Nicaraguan immigrant Ana Navarro:

[I]f you’re Rosie O’Donnell, who he hates…and you are listening to him threaten Liz Cheney and looking at him go after law firms, and you are listening to him saying he’s coming back to be the retribution, and you know how ruthless and vicious he is , and that he personally hates you, and you have a 12-year-old with special needs, and you want to bring her up in a place of love and peace, and you have the resources and ability, then you make the hard decision of leaving, good for her.

“It’s good that she’s fought her entire life, she’s putting herself first. I’m very supportive,” Navarro proclaimed.

While co-host Sara Haines didn’t come out strongly for either O’Donnell leaving or staying, she did tout America. “I would absolutely believe that this country is imperfect and progress is slow, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else,” she said.

The other purported conservative at the table, Alyssa Farah Griffin also talked up America and busted the liberal fantasy of Europe. “I think Americans love to think we’re so far behind and Europe is so progressive and ahead of us. It’s just not really the case,” she argued. “We’re the one where you’re most likely to come in from one socio-economic class and in your lifetime be in a completely different one. This table doesn’t exist in a lot of Europe.”

While Hostin scoffed at her and claimed America was “pretty racist,” Farah Griffin declared that America “still is the greatest nation on Earth.”

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

ABC’s The View
March 14, 2025
11:03:25 a.m. Eastern

(…)

JOY BEHAR: So, our former co-host of The View, Rosie O’Donnell, has a long-standing feud with Donald Trump that dates back years before he became president. And now that he’s back in power, she’s just made a drastic move. Watch.

[Cuts to video]

ROSIE O’DONNELL: I’m here in Ireland. [Transition] Although I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old. [Transition] And I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. And when, you know, it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.

[Cuts back to live]

(…)

11:04:15 a.m. Eastern

BEHAR: Oh no, he’s going to be mad at Ireland now. Here comes the potato tariff!

Why can’t Trump let this go? This has been years now. He’s still got — as the Italians go, over here for Rosie O’Donnell.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Can you remind us what it is that she said about him or did to him? Because it’s almost like — You know, he’s a toddler. His frontal lobe is not really fully developed, in my opinion. And so, he probably suffers from that imposter syndrome.

(…)

11:06:30 a.m. Eastern

ANA NAVARRO: But I do know, that if you’re Rosie O’Donnell, who he hates – and in fairness, she hates him, it’s mutual –

BEHAR: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

NAVARRO: – and you are listening to him threaten Liz Cheney and looking at him go after law firms, and you are listening to him saying he’s coming back to be the retribution, and you know how ruthless and vicious he is , and that he personally hates you, and you have a 12-year-old with special needs, and you want to bring her up in a place of love and peace, and you have the resources and ability, then you make the hard decision of leaving, good for her. It’s good that she’s fought her entire life, she’s putting herself first. I’m very supportive.

(…)

11:07:55 a.m. Eastern

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: So, I do think it’s important just to remember that America’s bigger than the president. And I want to acknowledge especially the LGBTQ community may feel uncomfortable in certain states right now. I just talked to Kara Swisher on our podcast yesterday about this.

And I get if you have the means and you want to make that decision. But I also remind folks, I think Americans love to think we’re so far behind and Europe is so progressive and ahead of us. It’s just not really the case.

BEHAR: No.

FARAH GRIFFIN: We remain the most ethnically diverse nations on Earth. We’re the one where you’re most likely to come in from one socio-economic class and in your lifetime be in a completely different one. This table doesn’t exist in a lot of Europe. On LGBTQ rights issues we are about as advanced as most of Europe.

SUNNY HOSTIN [While grimacing]: We’re pretty racist too, though.

FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, we have way more diversity, though, which is a good thing. And when you’re a completely homogeneous nation like Denmark –

[Crosstalk]

BEHAR: But you know what? That’s why people are upset because we like this country. We want to stay the way it’s been.

FARAH GRIFFIN: But that’s my point though. This country is bigger than whose president for four years. I just think it’s important people remember — there are places I wouldn’t be able to get IVF treatments in Europe. Like, we put a lot— Love my European friends, but we put everyone on kind of this pedestal and act like America is so backward and broken.

BEHAR: Who does that?

FARAH GRIFFIN: I think this still is the greatest nation on Earth.

HOSTIN: It’s a young democracy that doesn’t seem to be working right now. So, I do think –

FARAH GRIFFIN: I believe more in America than Donald Trump’s ability to ruin it.

BEHAR: I hope you’re right.

HOSTIN: It doesn’t seem to be working for everyone. And I think that’s Rosie O’Donnell’s prerogative and that’s her point. It doesn’t work for her family and she is one of the few people that can pick her life up and move it somewhere. Most of us are stuck here!

SARA HAINES: I would absolutely believe that this country is imperfect and progress is slow, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.

BEHAR: All right. We got to go.

PBS News Hour White House correspondent Laura Barron-Lopez tried to claim on Thursday that if the Trump Administration is able to successfully deport pro-Hamas Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, it can deport any legal immigrant simply for disagreeing with them.

During a larger conversation about Trump’s immigration views, host Amna Nawaz asked, “I know one of the recent examples that’s fallen under this is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, right? He was a legal permanent resident here. How is that case fitting into the approach that the Trump administration has on immigration?”

 

 

Barron-Lopez replied, “Today, we saw a protest breakout inside of Trump Tower in New York City in response to Khalil’s ongoing detention at an ICE facility in Louisiana. And, as you noted, Khalil is a green card holder. He’s a legal permanent resident. And so far he has not been charged with any kind of crime. And in the court filings this week, the administration only cited this immigration provision that’s considered obscure by some that says that the Secretary of State can deport someone if they pose—quote—’potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the United States.’”

Turning to libertarianism, Barron-Lopez continued, “Now, David Bier of Cato Institute added that the immigration law is expansive. It gives a lot of authority to the executive branch. And he warned that noncitizens should be concerned that this administration could target them if they disagree with this administration’s political agenda and that ultimately this administration could carry out potential deportation cases against legal immigrants.”

Hamas is a terrorist organization, designated as such by Bill Clinton in 1997 and recognized as one by several other countries as well. Khalil was involved in demonstrations that occupied school property that distributed Hamas propaganda while curtailing other students’ ability to study in peace. He was previously warned he was close to violating the university’s policies against harassment. Sometimes you don’t need to do a Pastor Martin Niemoller impression.

Here is a transcript for the March 13 show:

PBS News Hour

3/13/2025

7:34 PM ET

AMNA NAWAZ: I know one of the recent examples that’s fallen under this is the case of Mahmoud Khalil, right? He was a legal permanent resident here. How is that case fitting into the approach that the Trump administration has on immigration?

LAURA BARRON-LOPEZ: Today, we saw a protest breakout inside of Trump Tower in New York City in response to Khalil’s ongoing detention at an ICE facility in Louisiana. And, as you noted, Khalil is a green card holder. He’s a legal permanent resident. And so far he has not been charged with any kind of crime. And in the court filings this week, the administration only cited this immigration provision that’s considered obscure by some that says that the Secretary of State can deport someone if they pose—quote—”potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the United States.

Now, David Bier of Cato Institute added that the immigration law is expansive. It gives a lot of authority to the executive branch. And he warned that noncitizens should be concerned that this administration could target them if they disagree with this administration’s political agenda and that ultimately this administration could carry out potential deportation cases against legal immigrants.

One night after he incorrectly accused EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin of incompetence by claiming he put out an incomplete press release, CNN climate correspondent Bill Weir returned to The Source with Kaitlin Collins on Thursday to admit he got it wrong and what he thought was a typo or placeholder was a real EPA regulation, but not before he suggested that he had good reason to believe it was actual incompetence on the EPA’s part.

Weir did not admit it was Zeldin himself who posted a video of the segment on X that led to this mea culpa, but he did acknowledge, “I have to make a correction. On one of those, last night, as we were trying to make sense of this, I speculated that this particular press release that says, ‘Trump EPA Announces OOOO b/c Reconsideration of Biden-Harris Rules Strangling American Energy Producers.’”
 

 

The man CNN pays to be the climate expert then admitted he was unaware of the regulations, while also blaming the administration for his mistake, “Because we had seen a couple typos on the other press releases, in the haste of this, I speculated that that was some sort of a typo or a placeholder. I now know that OOOOb and OOOOc are parts of Clean Air regulations. Some of those were put in definitions of different substances, like methane, limits on leaks in oil and gas production, all of that that now the Trump administration wants to strip out. So, it is important to be precise in these days. So, we regret that error and making this correction now.”

Moving back to the rules themselves, Weir reported, “But these declarations, Kaitlan, yesterday are just the beginning of a long process. They have to list these new rules online. There’s public comment period. Some of these decisions will go to court before anything really changes for the American people.”

He further declared, “So, it’ll be interesting to see if Administrator Zeldin can explain how these moves, as he said in his video, will make driving your car cheaper or heating your home or running your business cheaper when some of these are just allowing big companies to pollute more. So, this is all very early in the stages, as we know.”

While Weir worries about “allowing big companies to pollute more,” maybe CNN can fly him back to Antarctica to continue his journalistic services in the studies of whale poop.

Here is a transcript for the March 13 show:

CNN The Source with Kaitlan Collins

3/13/2025

9:51 PM ET

BILL WEIR: We had 20 different press releases come out, in about two hours. And I have to make a correction. On one of those, last night, as we were trying to make sense of this, I speculated that this particular press release that says, “Trump EPA Announces OOOO b/c Reconsideration of Biden-Harris Rules Strangling American Energy Producers.”

Because we had seen a couple typos on the other press releases, in the haste of this, I speculated that that was some sort of a typo or a placeholder. I now know that OOOOb and OOOOc are parts of Clean Air regulations. Some of those were put in definitions of different substances, like methane, limits on leaks in oil and gas production, all of that that now the Trump administration wants to strip out.

So, it is important to be precise in these days. So, we regret that error and making this correction now. But these declarations, Kaitlan, yesterday are just the beginning of a long process. They have to list these new rules online. There’s public comment period. Some of these decisions will go to court before anything really changes for the American people.

So, it’ll be interesting to see if Administrator Zeldin can explain how these moves, as he said in his video, will make driving your car cheaper or heating your home or running your business cheaper, when some of these are just allowing big companies to pollute more. So, this is all very early in the stages, as we know. And we’ll see how it plays out, Kaitlan.

A recent report published by The Bulwark illustrates the freakout inside Univision over the decision to air the ad featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, encouraging illegal immigrants to self-deport. 

Adrian Carrasquillo writes:

EMPLOYEES AT THE SPANISH-LANGUAGE cable mainstay Univision were left distraught earlier this month after the network’s brass decided to run Department of Homeland Security ads warning immigrants that the government will find and deport them.

The ads, which are part of a new $200 million campaign Homeland Security unveiled in February, have rankled immigrant-rights groups, who view them as a blunt attempt at fearmongering on the taxpayer dime.

The article references Univision’s initial coverage of the ad campaign, which the news division labeled a “controversy” featuring a “radical” ad:

Univision covered the DHS self-deportation ads with Kristi Noem as “radical”, and a “controversy”: pic.twitter.com/fihy2pVxz1
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 14, 2025

NOTICIERO UNIVISION EDICIÓN DIGITAL

2/18/25

12:03 PM

ANDREA LINARES: We continue with this controversy. “If you don’t leave, we will find you and deport you”, that’s how radical the ad with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is, in a controversial TV, radio, and digital ad campaign across several countries. 

Linares and co-anchor Borja Voces tossed to D.C. correspondent Edwin Pitti, who didn’t further editorialize about the ad campaign but noted there were “strong reactions” to it. It turns out that the strongest reactions may have come from within Univision’s own newsroom.

Carrasquillo’s item goes on to detail the internal debate and hand wringing by Univision staffers over the decision to air the ad, and it all goes back to the 2023 Trump interview and how it was handled. But the caterwauling inside Univision (and, to a lesser extent, Telemundo) confirms what we’ve told you all along: that these networks are part and parcel of the Immigration Industrial Complex. Their long-term survival depends on a continuously broken border and a lack of executive will to enforce it. Here’s former anchor Jorge Ramos, making that very point at a 2015 Harvard Q&A:

JORGE RAMOS: I think the future of Spanish-language media is assured for decades, simply, for a very simple reason: Despite of the fact that the majority of the growth within the Hispanic community is coming from people being born here, we still have one to two million immigrants, legally and illegally coming in every single year. Most of them speak Spanish. So, therefore, we have a market that is growing and growing.

…

And I think we can assure you that in the next few decades, you’ll see Spanish-language media. That’s another topic completely, but the Latino community is keeping so many elements from their country of origin, including Spanish- 9 out of 10 Latinos speak Spanish…speak Spanish at home- that- and we’re doing things that Italians didn’t do, or Russians, or Eastern Europeans didn’t do- and the closeness to our countries of origin and the communications that we have are keeping Spanish-language media alive. And thanks to that, it’s a new power that other immigrant communities didn’t have in the past. 

The Biden administration, what with their flinging the border open, turned out to be a boon for Spanish-language news media. But it is time to adapt to the current environment. Univision and Telemundo appear to be doing so, albeit very reluctantly.

Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on Noticiero Univision Edicion Digital on February 18, 2025:

ANDREA LINARES: We continue with this controversy. “If you don’t leave, we will find you and deport you”, that’s how radical the ad with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is, in a controversial TV, radio, and digital ad campaign across several countries. 

BORJA VOCES: According to the official, this campaign seeks to convince undocumented migrants to leave the United States voluntarily, and (to convince) those outside (the U.S.) not to risk coming because, as you can see, they will face the consequences. Edwin Pitti is live from Washington, D.C. with all the details and, of course, the reactions which have come quickly. Edwin. Good afternoon. Breaking news.

EDWIN PITTI: How are you, good afternoon. That’s right- we are talking about a controversial advertisement by the Department of Homeland Security starring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem herself who directly addresses undocumented immigrants: first, by making them a loud and clear invitation to self-deport so that they leave the country voluntarily. And, on the other hand, she reinforces the message with a threat, saying that this government is willing to move forward, searching, finding and massively deporting people who have committed some type of crime, as they have been doing since Day One of President Donald Trump’s second term. In this video that lasts just under a minute, Secretary Noem also thanks Donald Trump for his leadership in how these mass deportations have been carried out. But she also leaves the door open so that those people who leave voluntarily can, in her own words, have the slightest option in the future to legally return to the United States. Secretary Noem says In this video that the only way for a country to be truly strong is for all the people who live within it to respect the laws, and that is why she states that it will be the only way for people to return to the United States- respecting the laws. But those who are caught and deported will not be able to return to American soil. Without a doubt, an advertising campaign that costs millions of dollars- millions of dollars that are of course paid for by taxpayers, and that is why there are many strong reactions. I’m Edwin Pitti, reporting from Washington for your Edición Digital. Back to you.

LINARES: Edwin, as always, thank you very much for this report.

 

Joe Biden became president in 2021, which was not that long ago, but according to CBS’s Stephen Colbert, repealing Biden-era EPA regulations is a public health crisis of grave consequence. Colbert made the remarks on Thursday’s edition of The Late Show, where he also expressed his lack of interest in the financial cost of regulations.

Reaching for the alcohol, Colbert declared, “Trump also, and I want to be fair, is ruining everything. For instance, his EPA, his Environmental Protection Agency, announced plans to repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. I mean, just even hearing that stresses me out. I need a drink, man. There you go. Oh, my god. That’s water.”

 

Stephen Colbert freaks out over the EPA getting rid of a bunch of Biden-era rules, “Mercury poisoning is back, baby! Pretty soon your horoscope’s gonna read, ‘This month, Mercury is in retrograde and also in your brain. Blaaaaaaggahhhaa.'” pic.twitter.com/Tw9dU9j5Ez
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 14, 2025
 

Moving on, Colbert added, “The EPA is also going to overturn limits on soot from smokestacks and restrictions on emissions of mercury. Mercury poisoning is back, baby! Pretty soon your horoscope’s gonna read, ‘This month, Mercury is in retrograde and also in your brain. Blaaaaaaggahhhaa.’”

Colbert’s source for this was a New York Times article that included a note that the soot and mercury regulation was a Biden rule, but Colbert made it seem like Trump was turning the clock back to the 1870s.

Nevertheless, Colbert rolled on, “The changes also include getting rid of something called the “good neighbor rule,” which requires states to address their own pollution when it’s carried by winds into neighboring states. Getting rid of the good neighbor rule is really going to change those commercials.

In a State Farm parody, the narrator suggested the moves will kill people, “Like a good neighbor. [Coughing] My lungs! Get out! I’m dying! You lied to me, Jake! State Farm is there!”

Colbert followed up, “This new highway to a Mad Max hellscape was announced by EPA administrator and Humpty Dumpty after Ozempic, Lee Zeldin.”

The fact that Zeldin cares about how regulations may impact the economy was something Colbert simply could not understand, “Zeldin claims that getting rid of these regulations is in service of the agency’s mission, which he said is to quote, ‘Lower the cost of buying a car and running a business.’ No it’s not! The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect the environment, not to sell cheaper cars, that’s the mission— selling cheaper cars is the mission of Lee Zeldin’s Used Auto World: Stop in today to buy, zel, or lee-se.”

The whole reason why Trump and Zeldin are in charge is because liberals like Colbert downplayed the consequences their policies had on costs to everyday voters. Some things never change.

Here is a transcript for the March 13 show:

CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

3/13/2025

11:43 PM ET

STEPHEN COLBERT: Trump also, and I want to be fair, is ruining everything. For instance, his EPA, his Environmental Protection Agency, announced plans to repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. I mean, just even hearing that stresses me out. I need a drink, man. There you go. Oh, my god. That’s water. 

The EPA is also going to overturn limits on soot from smokestacks and restrictions on emissions of mercury. Mercury poisoning is back, baby! Pretty soon your horoscope’s gonna read, “This month, Mercury is in retrograde and also in your brain. Blaaaaaaggahhhaa.”  Blaaaaaaggahhhaa.

The changes also include getting rid of something called the “good neighbor rule,” which requires states to address their own pollution when it’s carried by winds into neighboring states. Getting rid of the good neighbor rule is really going to change those commercials.

MAN: Like a good neighbor. [Coughing] My lungs! Get out! I’m dying! You lied to me, Jake! State Farm is there!

COLBERT: This new—we love Jake, we love Jake from State Farm. Blaaaaaaggahhhaa. This new highway to a Mad Max hellscape was announced by EPA administrator and Humpty Dumpty after Ozempic, Lee Zeldin. 

Zeldin claims that getting rid of these regulations is in service of the agency’s mission, which he said is to quote, “Lower the cost of buying a car and running a business.” No it’s not! The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect the environment, not to sell cheaper cars, that’s the mission— selling cheaper cars is the mission of Lee Zeldin’s Used Auto World: Stop in today to buy, zel, or lee-se.”

Trans woman activist Dylan Mulvaney did a happy-go-lucky softball interview tour to promote the book Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer. The “mainstream” media are out of the mainstream on trans issues, and their extreme fawning and flattery only underlines it.

On CBS Mornings, correspondent Natalie Morales sounded like a supporter: “What do you want people to see and know about you?” Mulvaney said, “I would ask them to please not make it harder for us…I am now realizing that this is life or death, you know, for a lot of people.”

They routinely play the suicide card. When the Bud Light ad campaign with Mulvaney tanked their sales, Mulvaney said “It resulted in a lot of suicidal ideation.”

Dissent = death. It’s not subtle. Extreme fragility is their superpower.

When the softball bucket was empty, CBS co-host Gayle King put on her Oprah pose: “We live in a society today where there are things that are different, and we need to at least make an effort to understand and embrace that.” Embrace the libertine Left. That’s their command.

On ABC’s The View, it was the same game. The Bud Light fiasco – “Beergate” – displayed dangerous conservative backlash. Co-host Sarah Haines summarized: “There were angry protests, denouncing the brand. The company got bomb threats. You were the lead topic on conservative media for months. It became known as one of the biggest boycotts in American history. Now, what people didn’t see with all this backlash, it caused you to have suicidal ideations.”

Mulvaney responded: “What brings me the most joy is my gender euphoria, and to have that used against me was such a mind game,” but it was “the trans women in my life that supported me during that time and took my hand and said, ‘this is our reality. Welcome.’”

Perhaps the gushiest interview of them all came on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, under the online headline “For Dylan Mulvaney, ‘sweet earnestness’ is what feels right.”

NPR’s Juana Summers was swooning: “You write to the reader in the opening of this book that — I need you to believe that sweet earnestness still exists. And Dylan, that is just something that — from everything I’ve seen and everything I’ve heard — that you seem to embody. How is it that you manage to hold on to that?”

This eight-minute lovefest aired on a show called All Things Considered. Here’s how Mulvaney’s opposition was considered by Summers: “You were also the subject of some ugly vitriol online, some violent threats. You’ve talked about this in the book. I know that you’ve spoken out about this before, but I just want to know, what is it that you want people to understand about what that time in your life was like for you — how you experienced it?”

Follow-up questions included: “I wonder, having gone through that experience and now being at a very different point in your life, what did it teach you about yourself? What did you learn about yourself?” And: “What’s your relationship with your faith today?” Then finally, it was “Dylan, what do you hope comes next for you? What are you looking for in your next chapter?”

NPR’s show could be titled You Had Me At Hello, not All Things Considered.

Whenever a leftist lectures us on Democracy, it’s easy to bring up transgender issues, because there can be no dissent, no opposition, no debate — it’s just “hate.” In our democracy, conservatives are not only maligned, they are taxed so they can be maligned on radio and TV from coast to coast. 

 

ABC World News Tonight opened their newscast by stoking recession fears among their viewership. This, just one day after being the only network evening newscast not to report on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), a key indicator for inflation, coming in below expectations.

Watch David Muir’s hysterical, five-alarm open to Mary Bruce’s report:

ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT

3/13/25

6:33 PM

DAVID MUIR: And we begin here with the stock market dropping again, as President Trump escalates his trade war with America’s allies. The Dow closing down more than 500 points today, the S&P 500 now in correction territory tonight. All of this today after the president announced a 200% tariff on all wine, champagne, and alcohol from France and other European countries. His retaliation for the European tariffs on American goods that were a response to President Trump’s tariffs in the first place. The Dow tonight closing down 537 points, closing at 40,813. President Trump today with NATO’s secretary-general visiting, defending his tariffs saying, “I’m not going to bend at all.” And tonight here, the new poll just in, showing Americans are growing very concerned, weighing in on the president’s handling of the economy so far and on his tariffs on our neighbors Canada and Mexico. ABC’s Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce leading us off tonight.

MARY BRUCE: Tonight, an ominous new sign the president’s escalating trade war is taking a real toll on the American economy. The Dow plunging more than 500 points. And for the first time in two years, the S&P 500 closing down 10% from its recent peak. Going into what’s known as correction territory. An alarm bell for investors that the current roller coaster ride is far from over. Still, President Trump insisting he’s not backing down from his sweeping tariffs.

They made it bleed so it could lead. Muir’s overwrought opening that could’ve served as its own brief is the tell that ABC relished in packaging and delivering this story the way they did. 

It bears noting that there isn’t even a negative GDP quarter on the books yet. It is also important to note that when the Biden administration reported two negative quarters, the media totally ignored it, which bought the administration enough time to change the definition of “recession”. One imagines that the media will revert to the classical definition of “recession” should two consecutive negative quarters happen under Trump.

The report was vintage Mary Bruce: equal parts Democrat servility and economic doom. The report was laced with scary words and dark undertones. Additionally, there was the prerequisite “victim” testimony: in this case, from a New York wine merchant whose product mix is 70% from Europe.

Based on the reporting this week, we can assess that the media will report any potential economic downturn under Trump with none of the deference accorded to Joe Biden.

Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, March 13th, 2025:

ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT

3/13/25

6:33 PM

DAVID MUIR: And we begin here with the stock market dropping again, as President Trump escalates his trade war with America’s allies. The Dow closing down more than 500 points today, the S&P 500 now in correction territory tonight. All of this today after the president announced a 200% tariff on all wine, champagne, and alcohol from France and other European countries. His retaliation for the European tariffs on American goods that were a response to President Trump’s tariffs in the first place. The Dow tonight closing down 537 points, closing at 40,813. President Trump today with NATO’s secretary-general visiting, defending his tariffs saying, “I’m not going to bend at all.” And tonight here, the new poll just in, showing Americans are growing very concerned, weighing in on the president’s handling of the economy so far and on his tariffs on our neighbors Canada and Mexico. ABC’s Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce leading us off tonight.

MARY BRUCE: Tonight, an ominous new sign the president’s escalating trade war is taking a real toll on the American economy. The Dow plunging more than 500 points. And for the first time in two years, the S&P 500 closing down 10% from its recent peak. Going into what’s known as correction territory. An alarm bell for investors that the current roller coaster ride is far from over. Still, President Trump insisting he’s not backing down from his sweeping tariffs.

REPORTER: You are not going to change your mind?

DONALD TRUMP: No, no, look, we’ve been ripped off for years and we’re not going to be ripped off anymore. No, I’m not going to bend at all.

BRUCE: In fact, today Trump vowing to go even further, threatening a 200% tariff on all wine, champagne and alcohol coming out of France and the European union. Saying it’s in response to the, quote, “nasty” 50% tariff on U.S. whiskey that the EU announced in retaliation to Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum. Economists warn American businesses will foot the bill for Trump’s tariffs, and pass the costs along to consumers by raising prices. And Tyler Armstrong, who owns a wine shop in Greenport, New York, worries that’s exactly what he’ll have to do. 70% of the wine he sells comes from Europe.

TYLER ARMSTRONG: I hope that I wouldn’t be paying $60 a bottle for a wine that I pay $20 a bottle for now, because then a $30 bottle of wine could cost $90 for the consumer.

BRUCE: Trump acknowledges Americans could take a hit, but argues it’s worth it. That our trading partners like Europe, Mexico, and Canada, need us more than we need them.

DONALD TRUMP: Now, there will be a little disruption. But it won’t be very long. But they need us. We really don’t need them. 

BRUCE: Canadian leaders say that’s not true.

DOUG FORD (ON FOX NEWS): We’re your largest customer. There’s no one that buys more products off the United States than we do. You’re going to be paying a lot more for everything right across the board, because you can’t get aluminum anywhere else. You only produce 16% of your aluminum. We ship in over 60%. So anything that has aluminum, you’re going to pay more.

BRUCE: A new Quinnipiac poll shows most Americans are unhappy with Trump’s trade war with America’s neighbors. 58% disapprove of how he’s handling trade with Canada, while only 36% approve. And 56% disapprove of how he’s handling trade with Mexico, with 37% approving. Overall, 54% of Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the economy. 41% approve. Today, I pressed the president. 

Many American small business owners say they are concerned that these tariffs are going to hurt them. What’s your message to them?

TRUMP: They’re going to be so much richer than they are right now, and we have many — yesterday General Motors was in, they want to invest $60 billion. The people from Facebook were in yesterday, they’re going to invest 60 billion by the end of the year.

BRUCE: But those are huge companies. Small business owners like Jeremy Peterson, who runs a pet food company in Windsor, Colorado, doesn’t have the time, or the money, to wait out a trade war.

JEREMY PETERSON: We need to take these tariffs off the table so that we can get certainty and move forward, just trying to create a living for us and our family. And everyone involved with our business.

BRUCE: And again, David, those Wall Street jitters about this trade war are only getting worse. But the president has said he’s not concerned. Meanwhile, tonight, news about the administration’s efforts to carry out those mass firings. A federal judge ruling that thousands of employees recently fired must be rehired, calling the process a, quote, “scam”. Tonight, The White House is blasting the ruling and vowing to appeal it. David?

MUIR: Mary Bruce leading us off at The White House tonight. Mary, thank you.