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Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment: 2025 Archive
From late January of 2012 until his retirement at the end of 2025, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard once a week featured a “Liberal Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I provide an explanation and recommended a “scream” rating (scale of one to five).
This post contains the “Liberal Media Screams” for 2025.
> For 2023 and 2024, for 2021 and 2022, for 2020. For 2019. For 2018. (Re-named “Liberal Media Scream” as of June 11, 2018.) “Mainstream Media Screams” for:
> July-December 2017 posts; January through June 2017; July to December 2016; for January to June 2016; for July to December 2015; for January to June 2015. (2012-2014 are featured on MRC.org: For 2014; for June 17, 2013 through the end of 2013. And for January 31, 2012 through June 11, 2013.)
(For more of the worst liberal media bias, browse the Media Research Center's Notable Quotables with compilations of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media.)
■ December 29, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Rare CBS truth about Trump and the Supreme Court
(Washington Examiner post)
If every Liberal Media Scream were like the one CBS legal reporter Jan Crawford delivered on Sunday’s Face the Nation, then we’d be handing out awards instead of scolds in our weekly feature.
For her “underreported” story of the year, Crawford cited the liberal media’s claim that the U.S. Supreme Court is a Trump-weighted rubber stamp, calling that a lie.
“Not only is that narrative overreported, it is patently false, and it is dangerous for the institution and the public’s faith and confidence in the rule of law,” said the court expert.
For that shocking bit of truth-telling, our grader Brent Baker, the vice president of research and publications at America’s media watchdog, the Media Research Center, said, “She’s earned applause for her courage.”
From the annual year-end Face the Nation roundtable of CBS News journalists on Sunday:
MARGARET BRENNAN, HOST: Jan, underreported?
JAN CRAWFORD: There is a narrative that the Supreme Court is corrupt. I mean, we saw that emerge in the wake of the Dobbs [v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization] decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, and now we see that they’re in the tank for [President Donald] Trump. Not only is that narrative overreported, it is patently false, and it is dangerous for the institution and the public’s faith and confidence in the rule of law. This is a conservative Supreme Court. It has been a conservative Supreme Court for 20 years. People can disagree and do disagree with their opinions, but it’s profoundly wrong to call it or say corruption where there is, in fact, none.
What’s underreported is any understanding of what this court has been doing for the past 20 years: Its views of its role, vis-à-vis the other branches, how it sees the law, how it’s trying in its focus to restore some kind of accountability in our constitutional structure. Again, this is a court that is functional. It is consistent. They are nine justices. They don’t necessarily see the Constitution the same way, by any means, or how to interpret federal law. They’re in a struggle over the proper way to interpret the Constitution, but that is as it should be.
I think as we approach our 250th anniversary of this country, it’s important to think about the court and the rule of law as the justices are doing, especially if we hope to keep democracy intact.
BRENNAN: That’s a big statement, Jan. If we hope to keep democracy intact.
CRAWFORD: If the public loses confidence in the rule of law, I don’t know what that means for democracy. And that’s why I think some of the rhetoric about corruption is so, so profoundly irresponsible.
Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Some much needed year-end truth-telling from Crawford, a rare reporter within the Washington press corps willing to challenge the liberal assumptions of her colleagues. In this case, taking on the media-fueled presumption that any ruling that favors Trump is inherently corrupt when it’s really part of a much larger quest to determine the best balance amongst competing constitutional interests. She’s earned applause for her courage.”
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ New on December 22, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s Kasie Hunt calls to ‘impeach’ Trump and Bondi
(Washington Examiner post)
Washington’s liberal media isn’t just assuming that Democrats will take control of Capitol Hill in next year’s midterm congressional elections. They’re already demanding retaliation against President Donald Trump & Company — even more than leftist lawmakers.
Take, for example, Kasie Hunt, one of CNN’s resident Trump haters, and our weekly Liberal Media Scream.
She was substitute hosting CNN’s State of the Union show on Sunday when she asked Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) if he’d push to impeach Trump or Attorney General Pam Bondi should the Democrats take the House majority.
“Are you considering, or would you support, attempting to impeach the attorney general, Pam Bondi, as some other colleagues have suggested as possible?” wished Hunt.
Later, she pressed Raskin on Trump. “If Democrats retake the House in the fall, which is looking increasingly likely next fall in the midterm elections, do you think impeaching the president should be something the House looks at?” she said.
Trump was impeached twice during his first administration. He was never convicted in the Senate.
Raskin sounded reasonable by comparison, suggesting that maybe building a case for taking on Trump and Bondi is the better place to start, rather than just filing articles of impeachment.
“That’s purely performative. We’re interested in actually getting these materials out,” he said.
From Sunday’s State of the Union on CNN:
KASIE HUNT: Are you considering, or would you support, attempting to impeach the attorney general, Pam Bondi, as some other colleagues have suggested as possible?
REP. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD): I mean, look, I think everything is on the table here, but people are coming up with solutions that require a majority in Congress. So, we know the Republicans are in control in the House, they’re in control in the Senate. So, when people say, you know, let’s impeach Bondi, let’s impeach Robert F. Kennedy, let’s impeach Trump or whomever, I say, bring me some Republicans and we can have a conversation. Otherwise, what happens is what happened the other day to Al Green. You get up on the floor, and then the whole thing is shot down immediately. So, that’s purely performative. We’re interested in actually getting these materials out.
HUNT: Yeah. So speaking of what happened on the floor, impeachment, I’d like to turn to politics because, as you mentioned, that vote, that impeachment vote, did fail on the floor of the House. If Democrats retake the House in the fall, which is looking increasingly likely next fall in the midterm elections, do you think impeaching the president should be something the House looks at?
RASKIN: I mean, right now, we are all 100% absorbed in trying to do the work of getting information out that’s being withheld by Trump and then going out and campaigning around the country.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “A perfect example of how the Washington press corps do a lot more than just favorably cover what Democratic politicians think and do. They see their role as directing what those elected officials should think and do.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ December 15, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: New TDS height: ‘Atlantic’s’ Frum warns Trump could block critics from voting
(Washington Examiner post)
It’s hard to imagine that the media’s Trump Derangement Syndrome can get any worse, but every day, there is a new example that there is no end to it.
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we’re featuring the Atlantic’s never Trumper David Frum, who said that President Donald Trump might arrest or detain people to stop them from voting.
On MS Now, he went through a list of possibilities Trump could employ, such as using troops to intimidate voters or detain them to check their immigration status. Citing Supreme Court precedent, he suggested that voters could be detained at 3 p.m. on Election Day and held until the polls close.
Of course, many Americans vote early and have since the COVID-19 crisis, so his fearmongering about Election Day trickery is pointless. But it makes for good MS Now TV.
“That’s an interesting point that David makes,” cheered Ali Velshi, who was hosting Deadline: White House on MS Now. “If dirty tricks are all that’s left, you’re going to put all your energy into the dirty tricks.”
From Friday afternoon’s Deadline: White House on MS Now:
VELSHI: There continue to be real and massive challenges against free and fair voting in 2026.
FRUM: Look, Donald Trump has made, and his family have made, $1 billion in his first year as president. That’s the kind of behavior that used to be not just a little bit illegal in the United States, but massively criminal in the United States. Now, the rules seem to be different, or at least they’re enforced differently. But the law could come back into effect in a different political alignment. And that has to be a very scary possibility for Donald Trump.
So he will do anything. And we — I talked on my podcast this week with Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center — he might do, you know, one of the things that the Supreme Court has authorized is the brief detention of American citizens to check that they are indeed American citizens, brief detention. How brief is brief? Can you arrest them at 3:00 in the afternoon and hold them till after the polls close? Is that brief?
Can you put troops on the streets in marginal areas in an effort to intimidate people who maybe have a member of their family who has a doubtful immigration status, and don’t want to risk any kind of encounter with the police? Can you, aside from gerrymandering, can you do other kinds of things that are at the margin of the law to shape the electorate in such a way that it’s more favorable? Now, in the face of the kind of massive public discontent that seems to be brewing in the country, none of this may be enough, but when a dirty trick is the only trick you have, the dirty trick becomes your entire repertoire.
VELSHI: Basil [Smikle], this is important because, and by the way, they’re probably instructions, we can talk about this for the next several months about, “OK, if you think you’re at risk of being detained for a few hours,” as I am a man of a certain color in New York, “better vote early,” so that I’ve got that chance. But that’s an interesting point that David makes. If dirty tricks are all that’s left, you’re going to put all your energy into the dirty tricks.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Time for Frum to put on a tin foil hat. Could there be a better display of Trump Derangement Syndrome?”
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ December 8, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Connie Chung bares fangs at husband over Bari Weiss CBS changes
(Washington Examiner post)
Bari Weiss has barely been editor-in-chief of CBS News for two months, and already her promise to bring an even hand to the notoriously biased network is dividing media royalty.
In a podcast last week, onetime CBS News anchor Connie Chung clashed with her husband and shock show host Maury Povich over the impact so far on CBS.
Even before the network has shown any noticeable changes, Chung charged on the Pablo Torre Finds Out video podcast that the network under the new team of Weiss, Shari Redstone and David Ellison “has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles.”
Povich countered briefly with, “Yeah, but she’s, you know, we’ll see,” to which his wife glared and said, “It’s not a big ‘we’ll see…’” And she wasn’t having it when he added that an interview with President Donald Trump, as Weiss looked on, “was a decent interview. It was OK.”
While no chairs were thrown, the clash certainly was our pick for the Liberal Media Scream of the week.
From the Pablo Torre Finds Out video podcast, hosted by the former ESPN contributor who now appears regularly on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, posted Thursday on YouTube:
PABLO TORRE: By the way, what’s it like to watch CBS right now?
CONNIE CHUNG: We don’t. I mean, I can’t. The paradigm has completely changed in news, and we have so much opinion that the truth doesn’t hold value anymore, and what we end up doing is trying to — we as consumers — trying to find the truth. We can’t find good old-fashioned facts, and it distresses me so terribly.
CBS is a whole different realization that I had worked for. CBS has now been taken over, thanks to greedy owners: Shari Redstone, partnering with David Ellison, Larry Ellison’s son. And their greed has caused the venerable CBS to actually disassemble, to crash into crumbles, and then they’ve hired this — I don’t know what to call Bari Weiss.
MAURY POVICH: I don’t either.
CHUNG: She is, you know, I, I just don’t know.
POVICH: Yeah, but she’s — you know, we’ll see.
CHUNG: It’s not a big “we’ll see” as if she could possibly restore —
POVICH: Well, she was there the other day when Trump goes on 60 Minutes. I thought it was a decent interview. It was OK.
….
CHUNG: When I worked at CBS, it was owned by William Paley, and he actually — who made it a point of allowing the news division to be autonomous and not have to worry about the bottom line. He had a president by the name of Frank Stanton, who went before Congress time and time again to defend the Fourth Estate. Now we have a complete dismantling of that kind of social responsibility. That we are watchdogs. We, reporters, are watchdogs of government. It’s our job to report information that is not fed to us.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “How arrogant. Ellison and Weiss are trying to save CBS News from the mess left by Chung and her successors where virtually no one trusts or believes the elitist press corps. And they’ve hardly done anything yet to the programming: It’s all the same people running and anchoring the same shows, so what’s she so upset about? She needs to realize and accept that the left can no longer control all of the news media.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ December 1, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Joy Reid broadens her MAGA hate to Tea Party
(Washington Examiner post)
Getting dumped by MSNBC after years of raging against President Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again movement hasn’t calmed former host Joy Reid down any. In fact, she’s stepped up her often insane attacks on conservatives as witnessed in a recent podcast, making her our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
It was on the extremely liberal I’ve Had It podcast where she claimed that Trump’s MAGA supporters are driven by racism against immigrants. She even went so far as to claim that the word “illegals” was equivalent to the N-word, ignoring efforts by Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, to kick illegal migrants out of America.
Then she took her hate of conservatives back a decade to claim that the Tea Party was driven by racism when it was actually based on cutting government spending and debt. As the two white women hosts nodded like puppies, Reid claimed she had “data” to prove her nutty claims.
Racism is what “motivates” MAGA and the Tea Party, Reid charged as the two hosts, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, said “right.”
According to Curtis Houck, the managing editor of Newsbusters, who captured Reid’s rant, she also insisted that “the base of MAGA is fundamentally racist” and the thing they are most motivated by is a “hatred of non-white immigrants.”
During the podcast, Reid wore a black T-shirt with white lettering announcing a series of left-wing phrases: “F*** Trump,” “F*** ICE,” “Free Palestine,” “Free DC!” and “Unoccupy Chicago.”
Joy Reid on the I’ve Had It podcast hosted by Jennifer Welch and Angie ‘Pumps’ Sullivan:
“[Vice President JD] Vance has a problem in that the base of MAGA is fundamentally racist. I know people don’t like it when you say it, but it’s the emergence from the Tea Party to MAGA. Tea Party, when you finally did the actual data, [Public Religion Research Institute] and others, the thing that most motivated them was race and hatred of non-white immigrants. What most motivates MAGA? Hatred of non-white immigrants. They’re obsessed with non-white immigrants and undocumented people.
They use the term illegals, which is just the N-word for brown people. If you want to say the N-word and it’s about brown people, you say ‘illegal.’ I’m sorry I said it again. That is me saying the N-word about, that is what it is, right? And that’s what motivates them. So they can’t have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife. They’re also Christian nationalists. That ain’t gonna work. That’s why he’s throwing his wife under the bus. Poor [second lady Usha Vance] — or she’s in on it, right?”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “MS NOW dodged a bullet when MSNBC dropped Reid before the newly named channel separated from NBC and inherited the MSNBC shows and hosts. Since her departure last February, Reid has regularly spewed racist rants and wild conspiracy theories, all driven by her hatred of President Trump and disgust with all who support him. Impugning concern over illegal aliens, as the same as vile anti-black racism, is par for the course for her.”
RATING: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ November 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC’s Jonathan Karl hatches turkey trap for Kevin Hassett
(Washington Examiner post)
If there is one thing that the legacy media bigots can’t stand, it is journalists who do not think like they do.
That showed in the first Trump administration when former press secretary Sean Spicer called on conservative reporters in the White House press room. And it has been at play in the second administration with the inclusion of conservative influencers in the White House press mix.
While the press has mostly kept its complaints private, it spilled out last week when podcaster Katie Couric and MS Now host Jen Psaki whined openly about the addition of conservative media to the White House press corps.
Psaki, the former Biden White House spokeswoman, complained on Next Question with Katie Couric that the new media is made up of “sycophants … who are not asking about news that the American people cares about.”
And Couric responded, “They’ve invited a lot of reporters from very right-wing media outlets.”
Actually, the Trump press office has broadened the political diversity of the press corps covering the president, so it is more than the liberal Washington outlets. The office did not take away liberal media slots, but opened up the pool of reporters allowed into the White House.
And of note, Trump, who is considered the most accessible president ever, typically calls on liberal reporters in his extended meet-and-greets.
From the Next Question with Katie Couric video podcast on Wednesday for Substack and YouTube:
JEN PSAKI: And what they’ve done is they have really, and I read the press briefing a lot because we do a little thing on our show about it sometimes, more and more of the questions in there are by sycophants, are by people who are not asking about news that the American people cares about, but they’re asking about, I mean, literally a question has started more than once, why is Trump in such good shape, right?
Or they are, you know, putting out conspiracy theories. There are people who, and they are getting a lot of the questions. There are some of the people who are in the press pools — this means that reporters who are there to cover MBS being at the White House, or to cover Zelensky being at the White House, or to ask these questions that Mary Bruce fortunately asked yesterday, there are fewer of them. And that is, you don’t know that and see that unless you’ve lived there, but that’s a huge, huge problem because it’s becoming more of a Kremlin-esque press corps.
KATIE COURIC: Right. And they’ve invited a lot of reporters from very right-wing media outlets, and you’re right, they usually say, I forget there was one example, like, “Did you ever believe that you would be the peacemaker?” I mean, just, so–
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “What chutzpah. After presiding over press briefings dominated by Biden-friendly reporters while rarely taking a question from a journalist tough on Biden, Psaki is now upset when Trump and his press secretary get some friendly questions while also taking plenty from ‘traditional’ outlets very hostile to Trump. In fact, this answer from Psaki came in the context of her responding to how President Trump had criticized a question from ABC’s Mary Bruce – proof in itself that Trump still gets aggressive questions from the left-wing media.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ November 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Couric and Psaki condemn pressroom political diversity
(Washington Examiner post)
It was a classic media “gotcha” moment. On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, host Jonathan Karl was going to show that President Donald Trump is a liar on costs and prices.
He hit his guest, Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, with the much-reported-on Walmart Thanksgiving price list, which showed a less expensive dinner menu with fewer items than last year.
Trump has touted the lower price, but Karl said, “Does he know that’s not true?”
Boom, right? No. Hassett had his own list showing the prices are down on other items, such as gas and homes, and he fired back that it is unrealistic to expect Trump to “fix the hole that [former President] Joe Biden dug right away.”
Our choice for the weekly Liberal Media Scream from Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
JONATHAN KARL: So, the president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. I mean, does he know that’s not true?
KEVIN HASSETT: Well, if you look at Walmart and the few places that put out their prices, Thanksgiving prices–
KARL: Wait, wait a minute, I got to stop you because the Walmart comparison’s like not a thing — I mean, Walmart had a Thanksgiving package last year. They’ve got a Thanksgiving package this year. The one this year contains much less than what the one last year it took. So that’s why the price is less.
Look, we got a chart here. Last year, with 21 total products. This year, it’s 15. Total number of items in those products was … 29, now it’s 22. There’s more generic brand stuff. So, I mean, Thanksgiving — if you’re going to the store to buy groceries for Thanksgiving, it’s going to be more expensive this year.
HASSETT: You know, I really don’t understand where you’re going in the sense that Joe Biden gave us 20% inflation–
KARL: He’s not president. Donald Trump’s president.
HASSETT: No, and you’re– you want us to fix the hole that Joe Biden dug right away.
KARL: No, I’m just saying, why does the president tell–
HASSETT: I mean, the prices went up so much under Joe Biden, and inflation is way down. Inflation is about half what it was in December. This is something that’s being fixed fast, and real incomes are up after dropping about [$]3,000 under Joe Biden. And so, sure, you could find a few things where the price is higher, but there’s a whole bunch of stuff where the price is lower, like gasoline, like mortgage rates.
KARL: When are we going to get the Republican plan to–
HASSETT: You understand that mortgage rates have gone way down, and it’s much cheaper to buy a home now than it was when President Trump took office?
KARL: Because interest rates have come down, right.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Talk about missing the forest for the trees. Walmart’s Thanksgiving meal package this year is cheaper than the one last year, and the inflation rate for food is way down from the Biden years, but Karl chose to sandbag his guest, with an obviously pre-planned hit, in order to once again demonstrate his well-earned anti-Trump bona fides.”
Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ November 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Joe Scarborough spins shutdown cave-in as win
(Washington Examiner post)
Since Joe Scarborough has built his MSNBC show around bashing Republicans and President Donald Trump, how else could he spin the Sunday cave-in by Senate Democrats on the government shutdown as anything other than a liberal victory?
And not just any win. On his Monday show, he compared the move by Senate Democrats to retreats of George Washington and the British against Adolf Hitler.
A temporary retreat, he argued, is part of the long game of beating Trump. “It also happened when George Washington retreated from Long Island in 1776. That retreat helped us eventually win the Revolutionary War. And let’s make you feel better. My God, there have been movies made about Dunkirk. I mean, one of the great retreats in the history of modern warfare allowed the British to live to fight another day,” he said on his morning show on Monday.
What’s more, Scarborough said it proves that only Democrats care about the needy, even though the Sunday procedural vote was an acceptance of what the Republicans have been offering for over 40 days in their bid to end the government shutdown.
“Why did these Democrats do what they did? This is very easy to explain. Well, because Democrats, unlike a lot of Republicans, actually care about the hungry. They just do,” he said.
“Democrats live to fight another day with the political winds finally, for the first time in a year and a half, at their backs,” he said in a twisted and unrealistic argument that easily made his rant the weekly choice for our Liberal Media Scream.
Joe Scarborough on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
If I were at a town hall meeting, and I did hundreds and hundreds of town hall meetings, and if I were a Democrat, this would be easy. I would go in tonight, go, ‘Let me tell you what happened. We fought Donald Trump. We fought him like hell. We fought the Republicans. We fought them like hell. And all we wanted to do, not help liberals, not help Democrats. We wanted to help people in their own home districts. We wanted to help them with food assistance. We wanted to help them paying their healthcare bills. But they were obsessed with giving tax cuts to billionaires, to multinational corporations, to tech monopolies.’ I mean, damn, even this last week, we were still finding out that they were extending tax cuts to crypto tycoons. They were extending new tax cuts, by the way they were interpreting the law, to tycoons in foreign real estate, foreign real estate tycoons.
And at the same time they were doing that, they were fighting like hell to stop people in red state America from getting a little bit of a helping hand on their healthcare costs, which are exploding through the roof. And to get some food assistance so their kids could eat.
So, we’ve framed this debate, and while we framed this debate in a way that puts us in a powerful position as we move forward over the next year, guess what else we did? We had historic wins in Virginia. We had historic wins in New Jersey. We had a historic win in California, and Donald Trump’s approval ratings are lower now than they’ve ever been, according to CNN — according to four out of five polls last week, his approval ratings when it comes to the economy are in the 30s.
So, yes, sometimes you declare victory, sometimes you win. And then I would give a couple of historical analogies because, after all, who at a town hall meeting doesn’t like historical analogies? I would talk about how sometimes Katty Kay’s strategic retreats actually lead to eventual victory. And I can tell you that happened for us as Republicans after the government shutdown ended. But it also happened, I mean, not to rub salt in the wound, but it also happened when George Washington retreated from Long Island in 1776. That retreat helped us eventually win the Revolutionary War. And let’s make you feel better. My god, there have been movies made about Dunkirk. I mean, one of the great retreats in the history of modern warfare allowed the British to live to fight another day.
Why did these Democrats do what they did? This is very easy to explain. Well, because Democrats, unlike a lot of Republicans, actually care about the hungry. They just do. Are Republicans going to be rewarded because they don’t give a damn about helping the hungry in their own districts? I say no because Democrats care about the hungry, because Democrats understand if this continues, families will not be able to be together over Thanksgiving, over the holidays. And for many, that’s the only time they get to see their children, they get to see their grandchildren.
They understand the chaos was building and that disasters could be happening. That’s pretty easy. And also, I’m sorry, it’s just true whether you like it or not, Democrats live to fight another day with the political winds finally, for the first time in a year and a half, at their backs. The polls have all shifted, and they will stay that way when the next debate comes up on giving working Americans a little bit of help, being able to afford their healthcare.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Scarborough proved his driving motivation every morning is to spin the news to put Republicans and President Trump in the worst light and provide an uplifting narrative for liberals to tout. Of course, Scarborough didn’t explain how he can say Democrats are the ones who truly care about those who need federal food assistance when only eight of 47 Democratic senators voted to provide that funding, by voting to end the shutdown, while 52 of 53 Republican Senators have consistently voted to keep the government open and thus never endanger the food aid.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ November 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Norah O’Donnell just can’t give Trump any credit
(Washington Examiner post)
It was a simple question from President Donald Trump to CBS 60 Minutes interviewer Norah O’Donnell. Don’t you feel safer in Washington, D.C., where crime plummeted after the National Guard was called in to help clean up crime-filled neighborhoods?
But instead of answering yes or no, she bobbed and weaved to avoid giving Trump any credit for making the city safer, something the district’s liberal mayor has repeatedly done.
Trump pressed her: “You see a difference?” She demurred: “I think I’ve been working too hard. I haven’t been out and about that much.” Trump parried back: “Oh, that’s not a fair answer. You see the difference.” She deflected again: “I get in my car and go to work, and I go home.”
The exchange between Trump and O’Donnell during a portion of their 74-minute interview that was not aired on 60 Minutes, but posted online by CBS News on their 60 Minutes Overtime page:
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We’re cleaning up our cities. You know, I campaigned on crime, but I’ve done a much better job on crime than I thought. You know, the crime numbers are way down, even though we have a lot more people in our country that really shouldn’t be here. And many of them are stone-cold hard criminals. When I look at D.C. now, you can walk down the middle of the street. You can have your daughter, who’s 10 years old, meet you at the park. She’s gonna be OK.
O’DONNELL: In certain parts of D.C.
TRUMP: She woulda been murdered. Well, I — in almost—
O’DONNELL: I live in D.C.
TRUMP: Well, you tell me—
O’DONNELL: Certain parts of D.C.
TRUMP: How big a difference is D.C. now compared to what it was a year ago? Right? I mean, you have to be honest with me. People walk — people in the White House, they walk up to me, young ladies I’ve never seen. “Sir, thank you very much.” I know, they don’t even have to tell me what they’re thanking me for. But when I ask why? He said — she — one girl said, “I’d get into Uber and I felt dangerous even in an Uber.” They’d attack the car, OK. It wasn’t even safe then. “Sir, I now walk to work every day, and I walk. I’m so safe, there’s nothing going to happen — 100% safe.” And you know that too, Norah.
O’DONNELL: I wanna ask you about the—
TRUMP: You live here. You know that, too.
O’DONNELL: I wanna ask you about Amer—
TRUMP: Do you see a difference?
O’DONNELL: –American cities—
TRUMP: You see a difference?
O’DONNELL: –in Washington, D.C.?
TRUMP: Yes.
O’DONNELL: I think I’ve been working too hard. I haven’t been out and about that much.
TRUMP: Oh, that’s not a fair answer. You see the difference.
O’DONNELL: I get in my car and go to work, and I go home.
TRUMP: That’s good. You don’t have to use that one. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. I won’t embarrass her.
O’DONNELL: I’ve been working too hard.
TRUMP: It’s like you know what the difference is? Like, day and night.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “This interview went a lot better for the image of CBS News than did the one five years ago with the antagonistic and aggressively misinformed Lesley Stahl, but O’Donnell couldn’t let herself be seen agreeing with Trump, let alone saying anything that could be construed as positive toward any Trump achievement. That would be a cardinal sin in the eyes of her colleagues. In that way, CBS News hasn’t yet changed under its new management.”
Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ October 27, 2025: No Liberal Media Scream this week
■ October 20, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Queen of kooks: Kathy Griffin confirms her TDS and doubts Trump’s election
(Washington Examiner post)
Left-wing influencer Kathy Griffin has done the impossible. She has topped her crazy 2017 post of decapitating President Donald Trump and given in fully to Trump Derangement Syndrome.
As our Liberal Media Scream of the week, Griffin used her YouTube channel, Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin, to vent about Trump and Elon Musk, claiming that the 2024 election was rigged.
Her aim was to talk up Saturday’s “No Kings” protests by liberal Trump critics, but she went much further in calling Musk and Trump Nazis and wrongly claiming that Trump’s win in the seven battleground states was unprecedented and must have been bought.
“I don’t think he won in a free and fair election. You heard me. I’m coming out and saying it myself. I don’t care if that means I look crazy,” said Griffin.
And as if that wasn’t nutty enough, she stood firm on her decapitation post. “That’s called punching up,” she said.
Griffin, on her Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin video podcast, posted on YouTube on Wednesday, Oct. 15:
“People are calling this protest the No King’s Day because Trump thinks he’s a fucking king. And you know, he’s not, he’s barely a president. In fact, guess what? I’m gonna say something that’s gonna get me in trouble. I don’t think he won in a free and fair election. You heard me. I’m coming out and saying it myself. I don’t care if that means I look crazy because Elon Musk, who’s this other Nazi guy running around town who owns X, and a lot of people think he’s a genius, but he’s not, he’s like a fake genius.
“Anyway, he’s a — but he’s a professional Nazi in my humble opinion, and he’s good friends with Trump, and at one point, I don’t know if you remember, but he was giving out million-dollar checks to people if they would vote for Trump. That’s illegal. It’s unconstitutional and illegal, so that was happening, and the fact that Trump won all seven swing states, which has never happened in the history of the U.S., makes it all very suspicious to me. So there I said it.
“All right, now for some fun pop culture. I went to an award show over the weekend, and it’s the first time that I’ve walked a red carpet since my controversial Kathy Griffin/Donald Trump decapitated head photo, which you can Google very easily. And by the way, it was a Halloween mask. I’m not actually trying to kill anybody. I do make fun of people, though, especially the president. That’s called punching up.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Truer words have rarely been said: ‘I don’t care if that means I look crazy.’ Yes, not only does this make Griffin look crazy, it proves she is crazy for thinking she’ll gain any relevance — and get herself back into polite society after her disgusting Trump decapitated head image — by advancing baseless election conspiracies which soothe the minds of Trump haters. And, by the way, Trump is hardly the first president to win all the swing states. Reagan won all but one state in 1984.”
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ October 13, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN’s dour Dana Bash rains on Trump triumph parade
(Washington Examiner post)
CNN is so addled by its Trump derangement syndrome that its lead hosts couldn’t give the president a break for a day after he made history in bringing the Israel-Hamas war to an end.
Consider CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash’s knife-twist on Sunday while her panel discussed Trump and his hope for the first lasting peace in the Middle East in decades.
As he traveled to Israel to celebrate the release of hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023, Bash turned the discussion to the “split screen” of peace in Gaza with immigration protests and clashes with police and troops back home.
Tapping another TDS sufferer, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Bash rained on Trump’s success parade by quoting Dowd’s argument against giving the president the Nobel Peace Prize because some liberals are violently protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, which a majority of voters favor. For that, she wins our Liberal Media Scream of the week.
From Sunday morning’s CNN State of the Union:
Host Dana Bash: I do want to kind of bring it back to the United States as we talk about what’s happening overseas and kind of the split screen, and Maureen Dowd highlighted just that, the split screen.
She said: ‘You can’t get,’ and this is about the Nobel Prize, ‘you can’t get a medal for promoting democracy when you try to overthrow the democracy you were running. … Trump seems oblivious to the paradox of enforcing peace abroad and disrupting it badly at home, of soothing violence overseas and inflaming it here.’
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Dowd and Bash are the quintessential skunks at the garden party, with Bash the worse offender for deciding, barely 18 hours before the Israeli hostages were released unleashing joy across Israel, it was wise to use some of the limited time on her show to rain on President Trump. She just couldn’t let him have his day of triumph.”
Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
■ October 6, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS calls ‘cruelty’ Vought’s ‘erogenous zone’
(Washington Examiner post)
In discussing the White House budget chief’s plans for massive federal worker cuts during the government shutdown, a contributor to the Friday show Washington Week with the Atlantic turned a joking comment from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) about Russ Vought into a crude putdown.
Host Jeffrey Goldberg played Lee telling Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, “Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment, preparing this moment, since puberty. Russ Vought has a plan, and that plan is going to succeed in empowering, further empowering Trump. This is going to be the Democrats’ worst nightmare.”
When he turned to the Atlantic’s Ashley Parker for analysis, she ripped Vought’s goals in the government shutdown and said “cruelty” is the goal, and that “is squarely in his erogenous zone.”
From Friday’s Washington Week with the Atlantic on PBS:
Jeffrey Goldberg: Ashley, who is Russ Vought? What does he want?
Ashley Parker: I mean, he wants, as I mentioned at the beginning, sort of the deconstruction of the administrative state of the federal bureaucracy.
Goldberg: What are the ideological roots of this?
Parker: He’s — I mean, he’s incredibly conservative. He worked in Trump’s first admin. So, there are some people, including Stephen Miller, but there are not actually a ton of people who worked in the first Trump administration and then came back for a second tour of duty, but Russ Vought is one of them. And he came back, like the president himself, sort of stronger, bolder, more empowered, more creative with his interpretations of laws and what’s acceptable than ever. And he used his —
Goldberg: Russ Vought, faster and furiouser.
Parker: Yes.
Goldberg: Yes.
Parker: And he used those years out of power to basically create this document that you mentioned called Project 2025, that — it’s a dense, dense policy document. That is sort of his wheelhouse, his actual policy. And it tells sort of all the ways you can, first of all, just utterly minimize the government, tear away at it, tear it down, and use it to push through deeply conservative priorities.
And I also, based on my reporting, agree with Sen. Lee that this is squarely in his erogenous zone. And that when he said what he wants to do, I mean, to use a phrase that was popularized by one of our colleagues at the Atlantic, cruelty is the point. Now, that was in reference to Donald Trump.
But Russ Vought also, he said, “I want to terrorize the federal bureaucrats.” So, some of these choices, the fork-in-the-road email of should you choose to basically resign or risk losing your job, I mean, the way these things were structured were deeply humiliating and devastating and financially devastating to hundreds of thousands of people, and that was an intentional choice by people like Russ Vought.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Parker encapsulates the Washington media establishment, which sees anyone who tries to reduce the size and role of government as driven by some sort of vicious delight in the misery of others. It can’t just be a simple policy disagreement. Conservatives must be discredited for having a nefarious agenda.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 29, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Poor Comey, target of ‘ruthless’ Trump
(Washington Examiner post)
It wasn’t even a year ago that liberal media were cheering the slew of politically driven prosecutions and court cases targeting President Donald Trump and his associates before he returned to the White House for his second term.
But now that the tables have turned, most notably with last week’s indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress in a get-Trump case, the same media have declared those types of prosecutions the height of ruthlessness.
Trump foe and New Yorker Editor David Remnick, for example, charged on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that Trump is in political payback mode and using prosecutions for revenge.
“The first term was filled with impulses, and the second term is efficient, ruthless, and it’s happening every day. This movement toward authoritarianism is very distinct and needs to be taken seriously,” he charged, making him our featured Liberal Media Scream.
David Remnick on Sunday’s Meet the Press:
DAVID REMNICK: I think we should take the president at his word. It used to be in 2016 and Trump 1.0, I guess, that it was considered the height of wisdom that the press takes Trump literally and the people take him seriously, and then vice versa. I think it’s possible to do both at the same time. The president is telling us that he has an enemies list that he’s going to act on. He’s told us who is on the enemies list: John Bolton, Letitia James, Fani Willis ought to be on her guard, and many more, whether they’re in the press or civic society.
I think this is a real emergency, and it should be taken seriously, and know that he’s going to act on it. It’s not just blather out on the White House lawn. That’s the difference between the first term and the second term. The first term was filled with impulses, and the second term is efficient, ruthless, and it’s happening every day. This movement toward authoritarianism is very distinct and needs to be taken seriously. This is not just a normal, you know, we talked about a budget battle. That’s normal politics. This is something extraordinary.
Jorge Bonilla, a news analyst with the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters, explained our pick: “This Obama sycophant once said that ‘the future of the Earth’ was contingent on the impeachment of Donald Trump. Now that the show is on the other foot, this is ‘extraordinary.’ If it weren’t for double standards in the media, there’d be none at all.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 22, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls Kirk memorial divisive, Trump vs. widow
(Washington Examiner post)
President Donald Trump is President Donald Trump, and many in the liberal media still can’t accept that. That was clear yesterday at the Arizona memorial for Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated this month, allegedly by a hate-filled leftist.
After Kirk’s widow, Erika, forgave her husband’s killer, Trump, himself the target of two assassination attempts and years of political attacks, said he admired Kirk’s ability to forgive, but it’s something he could never do. It’s just not in his blood.
“He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them,” Trump said of Kirk. Then he added, “I hate my opponents.”
For some at CNN and MSNBC, that was the big takeaway of the hourslong event as they searched for a way to portray it as divisive. “He has never made a pretense of being a leader for all Americans, as most of his predecessors have — even if they didn’t follow through,” said a CNN analysis.
On MSNBC, following the memorial, White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard also highlighted the different views and said, “I think what was stunning about the tension that exists here in 2025 was to listen to Erika Kirk, a big supporter of the president, be followed 15 to 20 minutes later by the president of the United States. Clearly, somebody who she loves, but come out and directly say, ‘I disagree with Charlie Kirk. I disagree with you, Erika,’ and say, ‘I hate my opponents.’”
He added, “And I think that says a lot about where we are and the questions about where we go moving forward. The Erika Kirk route or the Donald Trump route.”
Vaughn Hillyard on MSNBC’s The Weekend Primetime:
VAUGHN HILLYARD: I think what, honestly, I’ll take away from tonight is watching the weight of a woman, a mother, lose her husband. Most people cannot say they’ve experienced losing a spouse at this young of an age, and I don’t know who we are to suggest how somebody should respond in real time. One week after her husband’s passing, she went in front of a crowd of 40 to 50,000 people, people watching all over the world. And she delivered remarks in which she forgave the assassin that shot her husband and killed him.
Co-host Elise Jordan: I thought it was just remarkable.
HILLYARD: A remarkable moment because in so many ways, where America stands in 2025 is: How do we respond going forward? And the woman that just lost her husband stood there in front of the world and said, ‘I forgive.’ And because her Christian faith teaches her to love your enemy and not hate your enemy, and to love those that persecute you. And I think what was stunning about the tension that exists here in 2025 was to listen to Erika Kirk, a big supporter of the president, be followed 15-20 minutes later by the president of the United States. Clearly, somebody who she loves, but come out and directly say, ‘I disagree with Charlie Kirk. I disagree with you, Erika,’ and say, ‘I hate my opponents.’ And I think that says a lot about where we are and the questions about where we go moving forward. The Erika Kirk route or the Donald Trump route.
Jorge Bonilla, a news analyst with the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters, explained our pick: “In the immediate aftermath of the powerful Charlie Kirk memorial, Trump-deranged MSNBC showed that they couldn’t leave well enough alone. What began as a complimentary reaction turned into Trump-deranged brainworms for MSNBC consumption. Erika Kirk’s testimony of forgiveness towards her husband’s murderer stands as a potent example of Christ-like behavior in a most difficult time. Forgive them for they know not what they do, indeed. But Hillyard couldn’t leave well enough alone, and he had to fabricate this oppositional friction where none exists between the Kirks and Trump. It’s almost as if they didn’t watch the memorial, and its many underlying messages centering around grace.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 15, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Martha Raddatz went 0-3 swinging for Trump hate
(Washington Examiner post)
In the fallout of the assassination of youthful Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, there has been the liberal media’s refusal to accept its role in dividing the nation, as it instead tries to blame President Donald Trump for the Left’s political violence.
Martha Raddatz led the way while hosting ABC’s This Week on Sunday. She had one thing top of mind: get one or more of the three elected officials she had on as guests to denounce Trump for blaming the assassination of Charlie Kirk on “the radical Left.”
First up, Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) was asked, “What’s your reaction to that? Is that something you think he should be doing?” Next was Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO), who was quizzed with, “Is that the message you believe he should be putting out?” And finally, Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) was pressed, “Is that the right thing to do? Or what do you wish he was saying?”
Raddatz struck out, going 0-3, and is our pick for the weekly Liberal Media Scream.
Three questions from Martha Raddatz on Sunday’s This Week on ABC:
To Cox:
“You immediately talked about Democrats who had been targeted. President Trump said nothing about the political violence against Democrats. In fact, he blamed ‘the radical Left.’ What’s your reaction to that? Is that something you think he should be doing?”
To Polis:
“You heard Gov. Cox. He did not, clearly did not want to criticize President Trump at this time, and Charlie Kirk was a good friend of President Trump and his family, but he has pointed the finger at what he calls ‘the radical Left.’ Is that the message you believe he should be putting out?”
To Curtis:
“A lot of people, certainly a lot of Republicans, a lot of people are listening to President Trump, and you’ve heard me talk about it earlier in the show. But several Republican lawmakers, prominent conservatives, including President Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric, as well as President Trump, have blamed this on ‘the radical Left.’ Is that the right thing to do? Or what do you wish he was saying?”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Martha Raddatz certainly seems to have had an agenda on Sunday: Get one or more of her guests to denounce President Trump for daring to blame ‘the radical Left’ for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But isn’t that a reasonable supposition? Maybe a better area for her to have explored with her guests would have been why hasn’t there been more focus on that threat than the words used by a president who had just lost a friend to political violence?”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 8, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Clintonista Stephanopoulos desperate to condemn Trump
(Washington Examiner post)
For TV news liberals, one-upping competitors while venting their anti-Trump bias seems a requirement, especially for the big shots who host the weekly public affairs shows.
Consider former Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos, who on Sunday was hosting ABC’s This Week for the first time since Aug. 3. Outdone on the Trump Derangement Syndrome spouted by the other hosts for weeks, notably CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley’s regular editorial attacks on President Donald Trump, Stephanopoulos put on his serious face and listed all that was bad about the president’s week.
It was, he said, “a week of challenges,” and he cited several examples that have, in the findings of several pollsters, helped revive Trump’s approval ratings.
Stephanopoulos has been on the losing side of his fights with Trump for a while. Recall that in December, he and ABC News were ordered to apologize and pay $15 million in a Trump defamation lawsuit settlement.
For his one-sided, off-base rant, Stephanopoulos wins our weekly Liberal Media Scream.
Stephanopoulos at the top of ABC’s This Week on Sunday:
“On Friday, President Trump rebranded the Department of Defense the ‘Department of War.’ Saturday, he announced the department’s first target, an American city. The President’s words: ‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of War.’ A chorus of criticism followed, including this from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D): ‘The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal.’
“And this chilling threat from President Trump comes after a week of challenges: Friday’s weak jobs report, on Capitol Hill a bipartisan grilling for [Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.], and a demand for transparency from Jeffrey Epstein’s victims; China’s display of diplomatic skill and military force and Russia’s rebuff of another Trump deadline on the war in Ukraine.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Stephanopoulos pops up every month or so to host This Week (he last hosted on Aug. 3) and seems bent each time on re-proving his anti-Trump bonafides. He did it again Sunday, framing in the worst possible light Trump’s efforts to save lives in Chicago and then proceeding to paint a world closing in on Trump — all in a week when Trump’s approval got an up bounce.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ September 1, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC reporter fired for Trump hate doubles down
(Washington Examiner post)
A top political reporter dumped by ABC News for spewing hate toward President Donald Trump and deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller on X is doubling down on his rant.
Instead of shushing after the embarrassing episode, Terry Moran stepped up his attack on Trump, telling a podcaster last week that Trump “is the man that we were warned about by the founders, that democracies fall when a man who can captivate the populace wants to exercise the power that’s there in the government.”
What makes Moran our Liberal Media Scream of the week isn’t just his continued hate toward Trump but his embrace of the Founding Fathers, whom the liberal media have recently attacked as racist slave-holders not worthy of memorializing.
Moran was dumped in June when he went after Miller on X. “He eats his hate,” Moran wrote of the president’s chief policy aide. “Trump is a world-class hater. … That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
Moran on In Good Faith With Philip DeFranco:
“What we’re seeing is, no question, what other countries have seen a lot, what our Founding Fathers predicted would happen, that a great strongman would, would, all right, not great in the good sense, but great in the power sense, right?
“Trump is the most dominant figure of our age around the world. Don’t underestimate him. He is a world historical figure, and he is the man that we were warned about by the Founders, that democracies fall when a man who can captivate the populace wants to exercise the power that’s there in the government, and that is what we’re watching.”
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Legacy media figures keep reaching back in history to find different historic figures to use to condemn President Trump. The go-to has been Hitler, but now Moran is ridiculously invoking the Founding Fathers, a sudden respect for the supposed foresight of the founders, whom liberals normally condemn as immoral figures for condoning slavery, but now find so wise.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.
■ August 25, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s Velshi: MAGA is worse than Pearl Harbor, Civil War
(Washington Examiner post)
For this week’s Liberal Media Scream, we have an extraordinary Trump Derangement Syndrome rant that doesn’t just declare President Donald Trump a “strongman,” but more evil than Japan’s attack on America and more dangerous than the Civil War.
It comes from weekend MSNBC host Ali Velshi, who on Sunday spat out a seven-minute-plus speech denouncing Trump and Republicans for the “collapse of democracy.” He claimed Trump has enacted a “police state” in cities while Republican “election security” efforts are really the “classic playbook of the strongman.”
It was classic TDS and then he doused his fire with gasoline, charging, “America’s democracy has withstood civil war, depressions, attacks by foreign enemies on its soil, but it has never faced an assault on this scale: an internal demolition carried out not by outsiders or even by well-armed rebels, but by the holder of the highest office in the land.”
Portions of Velshi from Sunday:
It’s Sunday, August the 24th. I’m Ali Velshi, and we begin this hour with a reality check, a crucial one. The collapse of democracy is a strange, almost surreal thing. It can be abstract and hard to recognize in the moment. At first, it just feels like politics. It’s messy, it’s noisy, it’s frustrating, and sometimes a bit removed from one’s day-to-day life. But then the guardrails that we’ve taken for granted begin to topple one after another…
At best, each assault may seem like an outlier until the day you wake up and realize the system itself has become unrecognizable. Well, that’s where we are right now. It’s not where we’re headed. It’s where we are. The tragedy of what’s unfolding and the danger of what’s ahead will be compounded if American citizens en masse, all of us, do not recognize this moment for what it is. Understandably, unless it touches you directly, it’s easy sometimes to miss what’s being taken away…
This is not about public safety. It’s about flexing power, teaching dissenters and political opponents a lesson, normalizing the use of troops against Americans. In the nation’s capital, hundreds of federal troops now patrol the streets alongside [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and [Drug Enforcement Administration] and FBI agents, ticketing residents for minor offenses like broken taillights. Federal troops policing petty crime on America’s main street. Think about that. Crime may be statistically down, but intimidation is way up. The police state is here, and that’s the whole point. D.C. restaurants and bars report business down by one-third. What Trump is doing is designed to bleed blue cities dry economically…
What Republicans label election security is the classic playbook of the strongman: tilt the playing field toward yourself and lock yourself into power. It doesn’t stop in Washington, D.C. Across the country, Republican controlled legislatures are dismantling the last avenues of direct democracy: Citizen ballot initiatives…
The message is clear: Even if voters pass something that Republicans don’t like, Republicans in power will just rewrite the rules. This is not democracy. That is something called competitive authoritarianism. Elections in name. One-party rule in practice.
And here lies the tragedy. Ultimate power in this country still belongs to the people. But every time we accept or tolerate one more red line being crossed, we normalize the next. Each violation larger than the last makes what came before feel almost normal.
America’s democracy has withstood civil war, depressions, attacks by foreign enemies on its soil, but it has never faced an assault on this scale. An internal demolition carried out not by outsiders or even by well-armed rebels, but by the holder of the highest office in the land.
Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Ali Velshi is auditioning to win the role as the [Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)] of the left-wing legacy media: The guy who most excites the anti-Trump world as the chief conveyor of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.
■ August 18, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN says Obama, Clinton, and Bush smarter than Trump
(Washington Examiner post)
CNN reached a new low in its anti-Trump bias, declaring that Russian President Vladimir Putin ate President Donald Trump’s lunch on Friday because Trump doesn’t have the “intellect” of former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Regular commentator Bakari Sellers on Sunday’s State of the Union overlooked that the political trio oversaw several wars, while Trump, in his second term, has ended a half-dozen wars and is today hosting a world summit at the White House to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Sellers was focused on Trump’s meeting in Alaska with Putin, an icebreaker on several fronts after former President Joe Biden let U.S.-Russian relations reach a Cold War low.
“Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these world leaders. He’s not Barack Obama, he’s not Hillary Clinton. He’s not even George Bush when it comes to being able to maneuver in these environments,” said Sellers.
From CNN’s Sunday morning State of the Union hosted by Jake Tapper:
BAKARI SELLERS, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I think Vladimir Putin is a thug. I think he’s a war criminal. And I think he made Donald Trump look small. I mean, I understand the minutiae of where — I want a deal, like every other American wants a deal, or you should be praying for that deal.
However, like I have said before many times, Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these w
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