In his Monday night newsletter, former conservative media Benedict Arnold and Status founder Oliver Darcy expressed horror that the great people at NewsNation would hire “MAGA Media type personality” Katie Pavlich away from the Fox News Channel (and Townhall) to host a weekday primetime show and argued it “makes little sense”...unless it was to explicitly curry favor with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approval of a local TV merger? That was the conspiracy theory Darcy spun to explain the machinations behind Pavlich being offered her own show and more money than FNC was offering to re-up as a contributor and fill-in host. In essence, Darcy argued Pavlich didn’t necessarily earn this position on merit but rather use her as a piece in “governmental chess.” Darcy started with allegations of how the deal came to together and laid out the pros and cons for Pavlich to leave a place she had been with for over a dozen years to a newer and smaller (but growing) channel. But he then took shots at Pavlich by using mocking a statement from the boss of NewsNation’s parent company Nexstar Networks hailing the hire of such “a seasoned journalist and commentator” who “will be a tremendous asset” at a network “committed to delivering straightforward, fact-based journalism” and “diverse viewpoints” “for all Americans.” Darcy seethed Compton referred to Pavlich as “a seasoned journalist” and ignored Pavlich’s 16 years at Townhall and 2012 book on the Obama administration’s Fast & Furious scandal: While ridiculous to pretend Pavlich is a “seasoned journalist,” the first half of Compton’s statement was at least aligned with how NewsNation has marketed itself to the public: as a nonpartisan, down-the-middle network that aims to be a refuge for those seeking information in a polarized media landscape. Which is precisely why the appointment of a MAGA Media type personality makes little sense[.] Sadly filled with such virulent hate for anyone not on the far-left or supportive of free speech, Darcy asked why would NewsNation hire such “a partisan opinion host in a prime time slot if the network is genuinely trying to position itself as a neutral destination for news.” What Darcy said here was it’s an outrage a conservative like Pavlich should be allowed to exist in any prominent position at any respectable network. Remember, Darcy has repeatedly pitched childish fits over Scott Jennings being allowed to utter a word on CNN. But Darcy then morphed into the famous GIF of Charlie Day’s chara cter on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia by suggesting “a deeper look into the political context” of Pavlich’s hire would suggest this was a purely cynical play by Nexstar to show the Trump administration they’re on their side. In turn, Darcy argued, Nexstar could then receive the green light from the FCC to complete their “$6.2 billion deal to acquire rival TEGNA, which owns more than 60 stations” even though they themselves already own “more than 200.” “That is no small hurdle and getting any media deal done in 2025 can be tough, given that the FCC is now chaired by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, who has made clear he will wield the power of his office to reward the president’s allies and punish his critics. Nexstar, of course...is doing what it believes it must,” Darcy surmised. He continued to imply he’s right because “installing a right-wing commentator in a prime time slot makes considerably more sense, even if it runs counter to NewsNation’s stated mission of neutrality” and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had tweeted congratulations Monday to Pavlich. Dun dun dun! “Whether Pavlich’s hiring is intended to curry favor...is, of course, something Nexstar would never openly acknowledge...But in a regulatory environment where media companies are well aware of who holds the levers of power...such decisions aren’t made in a vacuum. Nexstar is playing governmental chess and Pavlich’s appointment is just the latest move on the board,” he concluded.

James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump character was simultaneously drugged up on Adderall and Ambien on NBC’s Saturday Night Live when he falsely described his seizing of a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker as piracy and bragged about shooting down Santa Claus. Fake Trump was aboard Air Force One taking questions from reporters when he turned to Andrew Dismukes, “Now, can a man ask me a question, please? Yes, you're kind of a man, what you got?”     The bit about desiring a question from a male reporter was SNL’s way of claiming that Trump only seems to go after female reporters because apparently Jim Acosta was not available for comment. As for Dismukes, he asked, “Okay, Mr. President, any comment on the oil tanker you seized off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday?” Johnson portrayed Trump as a hypocritical pirate on the matter: Yes, we're doing pirate now, arggh! You know, it’s interesting, last week I said Somalis were garbage, and now we're stealing the ships. Ironic, isn't it? Alanis, she's great in Dogma. She's at the end, but with regard to tanker, you know, I'm captain now, remember that, Captain Phillips? ‘I'm captain,’ I love that line. You know, Captain Phillips, one of my favorite captains after Crunch…Uh-oh, methinks Ambien has pulled into the lead, but don't worry, Adderall is still in the race. Seizing sanctioned ships is not piracy, unless you also think Russia is a victim of a piratical Germany. Dismukes then followed up, “Right. So, you'll continue to carry out strikes on Venezuela in the Caribbean?” After making some weird noises intended to mock the question, Johnson bragged about taking the campaign up a notch, “Yes. And you know, we're not just targeting drug boats, we're targeting suspected drug planes as well. In fact, we have some declassified video from a strike I can show you now. Do we have that clip? Where's the clip?” The video showed Santa and his sleigh being shot down by a missile, which led another horrified reporter to ask, “Was that Santa?” Fake Trump bragged, “Not anymore! Next question.” Of course, Santa is a magical being, so even if someone shot him, he would survive so that he could deliver coal to SNL. Here is a transcript for the December 13 show: NBC Saturday Night Live 12/13/2025 11:32 PM ET JAMES AUSTIN JOHNSON/DONALD TRUMP: Now, can a man ask me a question, please? Yes, you're kind of a man, what you got? ANDREW DISMUKES/REPORTER: Okay, Mr. President, any comment on the oil tanker you seized off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday? TRUMP: Yes, we're doing pirate now, arggh! You know, it’s interesting, last week I said Somalis were garbage, and now we're stealing the ships. Ironic, isn't it? Alanis, she's great in Dogma. She's at the end, but with regard to tanker, you know, I'm captain now, remember that, Captain Phillips? “I'm captain,” I love that line. You know, Captain Phillips, one of my favorite captains after Crunch, hoops, all berries. Why do you say “hoops?”  I prefer it when it's all crunch berries. Uh-oh, methinks Ambien has pulled into the lead, but don't worry, Adderall is still in the race. DISMUKES: Right. So, you'll continue to carry out strikes on Venezuela in the Caribbean? TRUMP: [weird noises] Yes. And you know, we're not just targeting drug boats, we're targeting suspected drug planes as well. In fact, we have some declassified video from a strike I can show you now. Do we have that clip? Where's the clip? [video of Santa getting shot by a missile] REPORTER: Was that Santa? JOHNSON: Not anymore! Next question.

BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler has an interesting prediction for 2026 — and it’s one that most people on the right would be happy to see come true.“My biggest prediction for 2026 is that a member of the U.S. Congress will be denaturalized, removed from her seat in Congress, and deported from the United States of America,” Wheeler says. “And it’s no secret to whom I am referring.”She is referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who is facing intense scrutiny after an article from the Daily Mail revealed what Wheeler calls “pretty airtight evidence” that Ilhan Omar married her brother.“Ilhan Omar’s first husband, she married here in the United States only in a religious ceremony. She married a Muslim man named Hirsi. They were married by a Muslim cleric in an Islamic ceremony, but they never married civilly. So their marriage was never recognized by the United States government,” Wheeler explains.“Ilhan Omar was married to Hirsi for many years. But then suddenly, she, in a civil ceremony, was married to a different man. She married a man named Elmi, the man who is accused of being her brother,” she says.The marriage secured Elmi residence in the United States, though he later left for the United Kingdom.“That’s not even the primary reason that Ilhan Omar should face denaturalization. The primary reason is her status as a naturalized citizen was, according to some very credible reports, based on a lie,” Wheeler says.“Ilhan Omar’s father claimed that he was fleeing Somalia because the communist Marxist regime at the time was after him. But sources tell journalist Ashley Rindsberg that Ilhan Omar’s father was actually a member of that violent communist Marxist regime. He worked in propaganda, and he was fleeing because the government was being toppled by the people and he was afraid for his life,” she explains.“Well, eventually Ilhan Omar’s father claimed asylum here in the United States, and Ilhan Omar because a naturalized American citizen, but if it was based on a lie, then her citizenship ought to be revoked,” she continues.And it’s not just Wheeler’s wish that Omar be denaturalized and deported, but border czar Tom Homan has confirmed that she is under investigation for immigration fraud.“He’s looking; he’s ‘running it down this week,’ he says. Make it come true, Mr. Homan,” Wheeler jokes, adding, “Make my 2026 prediction come true.”Want more from Liz Wheeler?To enjoy more of Liz’s based commentary, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

President Donald Trump filed a massive defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation on Monday over an edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech that appeared in a BBC "Panorama" documentary.The lawsuit claims that the BBC's "deceptive and defamatory distortion, doctoring, manipulation, and splicing damaged President Trump in his occupation, damaged his professional reputation, and portrayed him as engaging in supposed calls for rioting and violence that he never actually made."'The FAKE NEWS "reporters" in the UK are just as dishonest and full of s**t as the ones here in America.'The complaint notes further that the "aggressively anti-Trump" documentary, which aired shortly before the 2024 presidential election and painted Kamala Harris as an optimal candidate, constituted "a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence the Election's outcome to President Trump's detriment."A tale of two speechesTrump originally said at 12:12 p.m. in his speech on Jan. 6, 2021:Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down — and I’ll be there with you — we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down. Any one you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you'll never take back our country with weakness.The president noted nearly an hour later after first raising concerns about voting irregularities and potential fraud in the 2020 election, "Most people would stand there at nine o'clock in the evening and say, 'I want to thank you very much,' and they go off to some other life, but I said, 'Something's wrong here, something's really wrong — can't have happened.' And we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country any more."The "Panorama" documentary spliced and reorganized Trump's remarks to make it appear as though he said, "We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country any more."In addition to creating a false narrative by coupling two parts of the speech that were divided by over 50 minutes' worth of content and omitting Trump's call for supporters to behave "peacefully," the documentary showed flag-waving men descending on the Capitol after the president spoke — despite the video having been recorded before Trump's speech.RELATED: 'Enemy of Europe': Liberal globalists attack Trump over recognizing 'civilizational erasure' in Europe Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Telegraph obtained and reported on a whistleblower memo earlier this year revealing that there were concerns at the BBC over the apparently deceptive work.The whistleblower memo noted that the "mangled" footage made Trump "'say' things [he] never actually said" and insinuated, with the help of the footage of men marching on the Capitol, that "Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms.'"Too little, too lateLast month, the BBC came under fire both in the United States and in the United Kingdom.White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the Telegraph, "Trust in the media is at an all-time low because of deceptive editing, misleading reporting, and outright lies. This is yet another example, of many, highlighting why countless Americans turn to alternative media sources to get their news."Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, "The FAKE NEWS 'reporters' in the UK are just as dishonest and full of s**t as the ones here in America!!!""This is a total disgrace. The BBC has doctored footage of Trump to make it look as though he incited a riot — when he in fact said no such thing," wrote former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. "We have Britain’s national broadcaster using a flagship programme to tell palpable untruths about Britain’s closest ally. Is anyone at the BBC going to take responsibility — and resign?"In the face of mounting pressure, the BBC issued a retraction, and the director-general of the BBC, Tim Davie, and Deborah Turness, the head of BBC News, both resigned in disgrace."Like all public organizations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent, and accountable," Davie said in statement. "Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made, and as director-general I have to take ultimate responsibility."Turness similarly assumed some responsibility for the fiasco, noting the controversy had "reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC" and adding that "the buck stops with me."'The BBC had no regard for the truth.'Turness suggested, however, that the broadcast corporation was not biased."In public life, leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down," said Turness. "While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong."Samir Shah, the chair of the BBC, subsequently sent a personal letter to the White House apologizing for the edit; however, the network refused to pay compensation, claiming that there was no basis for Trump's defamation claim.Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss encouraged Trump to take legal action against the BBC, suggesting in a Nov. 15 interview that the network's apology was insufficient "because they keep doing it again and again. They have painted a completely false picture of President Trump in Britain over a number of years. They've done the same thing about conservatives in our country."Pay the piperTrump's lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and demands judgment against the BBC for at least $5 billion in damages, states:The lack of any effort by the BBC to publish content even remotely resembling objective journalism, or to maintain even a slight semblance of objectivity in the Panorama Documentary, demonstrates that the BBC had no regard for the truth about President Trump, and that the doctoring of his Speech was not inadvertent, but instead was an intentional component of the BBC's effort to craft as one-sided an impression and narrative against President Trump as possible.A spokesperson for Trump's legal team told the Guardian that "President Trump’s powerhouse lawsuit is holding the BBC accountable for its defamation and reckless election interference just as he has held other fake news mainstream media responsible for their wrongdoing."A spokesperson for the network said in a statement, "As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case."A spokesperson for the prime minister's office noted that while Downing Street will always "defend the principle of a strong, independent BBC as a trusted and relied-upon national broadcaster reporting without fear or favor," the prime minister's office has "also consistently said it is vitally important that they act to maintain trust, correcting mistakes quickly when they occur."Like Blaze News? 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Following some significant delays due to the Democrat-imposed government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has finally released its long-anticipated jobs report for November and October. On Tuesday, the November jobs report, including partial data from October, was released, showing an unemployment rate at 4.6%, up 0.2 percentage points since September 2025 and up 0.4 percentage points since November of last year.'The report on December's employment data, released in early January ahead of the next meeting, will likely be a much more meaningful indicator for the Fed when it comes to deciding the near-term trajectory.'The labor market reportedly added 64,000 jobs after losing 105,000 jobs in October, according to available data.Most of the jobs lost came from the federal government as part of DOGE's buyout program, which went into effect at the end of September. Government employees who opted into the buyout were still listed as employed until their scheduled exit in October.RELATED: Yuge win! New jobs report exceeds expectations, reversing Biden-era trends | Blaze Media Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesCNN explained that federal employment dropped precipitously in October, with 162,000 jobs lost, as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency's work. DOGE's "fork in the road" deferred resignation policy reportedly went into effect on September 30, though it was established earlier in the year.The new report was originally scheduled to be released on December 5, but the release was delayed due to the 43-day government shutdown which affected data collection for both October and November. Given the delays and fragmented data, experts have suggested that the November 2025 jobs report will not pull much weight in the Federal Reserve's decision-making.Kay Haigh, global co-head of fixed income and liquidity solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, told Fox News: "Chair [Jerome] Powell commented last week that the report would likely be affected by shutdown-related distortions, making it a less reliable gauge of the labor market's health than usual. The report on December's employment data, released in early January ahead of the next meeting, will likely be a much more meaningful indicator for the Fed when it comes to deciding the near-term trajectory."The jobs report for December is set to be published on January 9. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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