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Prince Louis Steals The Show At Trooping The Colour Much To Prince George’s Dismay
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We don’t know about you, but there is something that we absolutely adore about Prince Louis. Perhaps it’s because he’s the youngest of Kate Middleton and Prince William’s three children, but his mischievous streak makes people smile. At 7 years old, Prince Louis is still a kid, and he makes sure that he brings that youthful spirit to the royal family. Sometimes, his playful behavior is much to the chagrin of his older siblings, Prince George, 11, and Princess Charlotte, 10. During the 2025 Trooping the Colour, Prince Louis waved from the balcony at Buckingham Palace, and the crowd cheered at his toothless grin. Prince Louis steals the show at the Trooping the Colour Parade at Buckingham Palace. https://t.co/2wai3BpaX0 pic.twitter.com/PLU00kpJs7— E! News (@enews) June 14, 2025 Prince Louis Hammed It Up At Trooping The Colour Whether he knows what he’s doing or not, Prince Louis layers on the charisma and he was giving the people what they wanted at Trooping the Colour. At one point, Prince George subtly moved his brother’s hand down as if to say, “Cool it, kid.” His antics got a laugh from Kate Middleton and Prince William, who clearly adore their spirited third child. E! News posted a video of Prince Louis at Trooping the Colour on X, and fans were positively smitten. Many noticed that Prince George had no time for Prince Louis’ shenanigans. “His older brother doesn’t have Louis’s charm,” one wrote. “He seems little envious.” “Prince George already acting as a proper King, telling Prince Louis to stop,” someone agreed. “The Wales’ Reign not too far off!” Others noticed that Prince Louis’ parents smiled big at Trooping the Colour. “Will and Kate are so amused by Louis,” someone wrote. This person sees a lot of the late Princess Diana in her daughter-in-law. “The way HRH Princess Catherine smiles at Prince Louis reminds me so much of Princess Diana doting on her sons when they were that age,” they wrote. They’re only little for so long, might as well soak up the fun. This story’s featured image is by Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty. The post Prince Louis Steals The Show At Trooping The Colour Much To Prince George’s Dismay appeared first on InspireMore.
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MSNBC Baselessly Throws Out Theory That Trump Will Ditch G7 For Alliance With Russia, China
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MSNBC Baselessly Throws Out Theory That Trump Will Ditch G7 For Alliance With Russia, China

'Look, alliances come and go
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Evacuate Tehran Immediately, Trump Says
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Evacuate Tehran Immediately, Trump Says

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Trump Protesters Gather in DC’s Virginia Suburbs as US Army Is Feted in Washington
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Trump Protesters Gather in DC’s Virginia Suburbs as US Army Is Feted in Washington

THE CENTER SQUARE—In the hours leading up to and during a massive military parade that took place in the heart of Washington, D.C., on Saturday evening at the behest of President Donald Trump, protesters who argue he has repeatedly acted outside his constitutional authority gathered across the nation in symbolic defiance. The president has said the parade was held in honor of the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday. It also coincided with Flag Day and the president’s 79th birthday. A group of about 30 people gathered at one of many Northern Virginia locations as part of the ‘No Kings Day’ nationwide protest Saturday. They held signs and stood on sidewalks by a major intersection. Among them was 68-year-old Erin Scally. Now retired, Scally was a lawyer for the Department of Justice and is also former military. She said that the administration is violating the law by refusing to take asylum applications.  Trump attempted to suspend asylum access at U.S. ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border with an executive order on his first day in office. Like so many of the president’s second-term executive actions, that order is being challenged in court.  “I spent my whole career working for the Department of Justice and immigration, OK? And everything that’s happening now is 100% illegal,” Scally told The Center Square. “Even though people have a legal right to apply for asylum, they can’t now, which is absolutely illegal.” “No Kings” is a group supported by more than 100 left-wing organizations and its protest took place in cities and towns across the country opposing what they say is the “authoritarian overreach” protesters believe has been demonstrated by the Trump administration. Some protests heard from local and state leaders. Others simply held signs and chanted things like “Love, not hate, that’s what makes America great” and “When women’s rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” Tom Doyle, a 64-year-old retiree who worked for the Food and Drug Administration and is also former member of the military, said that Trump was using the military more to celebrate his own birthday than anything else. Doyle said he “couldn’t begin to start” with the ways he thinks the current administration has violated the Constitution. “It’s particularly egregious that this draft dodger who doesn’t even understand what the Constitution means, is trying to usurp the Army’s birthday today. It’s incredibly disrespectful,” Doyle told The Center Square. Other veterans pushed back against the narrative that the celebration was about Trump and not the Army’s anniversary. “As a Vietnam Veteran and retired Army soldier, I’m absolutely disgusted that the mainstream media are referring to the celebration as Trump’s military parade. They are so into [Trump Derangement Syndrome] that they would give short shrift to the birthday of the U.S. Army,” retired Federal Aviation Administration special agent Brian Sullivan told The Center Square.  Most of the protesters The Center Square spoke to had concerns with how the administration is handling immigration enforcement. Violent protests erupted in Los Angeles over the past week over Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the city.  The attacks on ICE agents over several days led Trump to activate 2,000 members of the California National Guard to provide protection. “The current administration is changing the status quo to something really nasty, which is a nation without due process, and a nation where immigrants can be grabbed off the streets. A nation where ICE can run around without identifying themselves,” said Jonathan Krall, a 65-year-old who worked for the Department of Defense for more than 30 years.  “Having law enforcement that doesn’t identify itself is antidemocratic,” Krall told The Center Square. In recent weeks, as the Trump administration has continued to implement its crackdown on illegal immigration and deportations of people who came to the U.S. illegally, there have been increased complaints of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers wearing masks and not identifying themselves as law enforcement or ICE. The law requires that ICE officers identify themselves at the time of an arrest “as soon as it is safe and practicable to do so.” The Trump administration says the masks are needed because outed agents have been doxed and threats have been made against their families. Trump also campaigned on securing U.S. borders and deporting criminal illegal aliens. Krall attended the “No Kings” protest in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, where hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday afternoon. Others The Center Square spoke to also mentioned the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the “misuse of federal funds” and growing the deficit when the administration has said it’s cutting government waste. Earlier this year, the Department of Government Efficiency directed a mass firing of USAID employees, and some of the department’s functions have now been transferred to the State Department, with the reasoning that the agency’s values didn’t align with American values and that agency had demonstrated fraud, waste, and abuse.  Walter McCormick, a 71-year-old who said he was a Republican for 40 years and had worked as part of Republican staff for the U.S. Senate for 10 years, now finds himself disenchanted with the party. McCormick said he attended the protest for “defense of the rule of law.”  USAID is a “congressionally authorized and appropriated agency” and “the Trump administration just did away with it. Illegal, unconstitutional, in complete derogation of our separation of powers,” McCormick told The Center Square.  No Kings has a stated commitment to nonviolence. The Center Square did not witness any violent actions or destruction of property at the protests. Originally published by The Center Square The post Trump Protesters Gather in DC’s Virginia Suburbs as US Army Is Feted in Washington appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Hate-Filled’ Group Advised DOJ Prosecutors on ‘Hate Crimes,’ Docs Show
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Hate-Filled’ Group Advised DOJ Prosecutors on ‘Hate Crimes,’ Docs Show

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A left-wing activist group known for putting its political opponents on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan advised Justice Department prosecutors at a “hate crimes symposium,” newly unveiled documents show. America First Legal obtained the documents via a Freedom of Information Act request, and provided them first to The Daily Signal. “All Americans should be shocked, appalled, and terrified that the Biden Justice Department was taking advice from a hate-filled, morally bankrupt organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Ian Prior, senior counselor at America First Legal, told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “The SPLC’s agenda is anti-American to its core, and we must ensure that the SPLC never regains the power that it was so wrongly granted by the woke bureaucrats who ran this country until this past January.” On Oct. 27, 2023, Robert Moossy Jr., deputy assistant attorney general at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, sent an email to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, head of the Civil Rights Division. His email referenced a “Hate Crimes Symposium” at the National Advocacy Center at the National District Attorneys Association in Columbia, South Carolina on Nov. 7-9, 2023. The Civil Rights Division’s Criminal Section “will hold a hate crimes symposium focusing on the investigation and prosecution of federal hate crimes.” “More than 100 [assistant U.S. attorneys] and [criminal division] trial attorneys are anticipated to attend as well as agents from the FBI’s Hate Crimes/Domestic Terrorism Fusion Cell,” the email noted. “While the presenters will primarily involve [criminal division] attorneys, [assistant U.S. attorneys], attorneys from the National Security Division, and staff from the SPLC will also present.” Email mentioning briefingDownload The schedule of events for the symposium listed R.G. Cravens, manager of research and analysis at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project (which publishes the “hate map”), as a speaker at 2 p.m. on Nov. 7. “This presentation will provide an overview of important, disturbing trends and developments within the anti-LGBTQ movement, including the surge in threats and violence against transgender people, children, and their caregivers,” the schedule said of Cravens’ presentation. “By focusing on commonalities in rhetoric, symbols, locations, and actors involved in violent anti-LGBTQ attacks and targeted intimidation, this presentation will help investigators and prosecutors identify potential evidence and motivations for bias crime.” The symposium had two similar speeches, one dedicated to “talking to victims in the LGBT+ community” and another focused on “overcoming hurdles to prosecuting transgender violence.” Hate Crimes Symposium ScheduleDownload The Justice Department repeatedly engaged with the SPLC during the Biden administration. DOJ staff seemed receptive to meeting with the SPLC shortly after the group put the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on the “hate map” in 2023. Clarke appears to have met with the SPLC in March 2023. The FBI’s Richmond office cited the SPLC in its since-rescinded memo on “radical traditional Catholics.” What Is the SPLC? The SPLC gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, but by the 2000s, it had weaponized this history against conservatives. The SPLC publishes a “hate map” that plots mainstream conservative and Christian groups alongside Klan chapters, suggesting that the same kind of hatred and potential for terrorism drives conservatives. The “hate map” includes parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty; religious freedom law firms like Alliance Defending Freedom; conservative Christian think tanks like the Family Research Council; pro-enforcement immigration groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform; and more. The most recent version of the “hate map” added the largest conservative grassroots youth organization in America, Turning Point USA. It also added PragerU, which produces five-minute conservative educational videos, and the Christian nonprofit Focus on the Family. The SPLC brands Focus on the Family an “anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.” Critics have condemned the SPLC’s “anti-LGBTQ+” accusations as “anti-Christian,” and the group called that accusation a “major misconception.” As evidence that it was not “anti-Christian,” SPLC noted that it did not put Focus on the Family on the “hate map.” Before the SPLC put Focus on the “hate map,” the language about the “major misconception” disappeared from its website. Did the SPLC just admit that it's anti-Christian??This year's SPLC "hate map" includes @TPUSA & @PragerU alongside KKK chapters.But SPLC also made a key blunder that undercuts its previous claims not to be "anti-Christian."?1/10https://t.co/jc14AoIHgU pic.twitter.com/hxHoMKuFCi— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) June 11, 2025 The SPLC has faced numerous scandals over the years. In 2012, a terrorist used the “hate map” to target the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. The SPLC condemned the attack, but kept FRC on the map. In 2019, the SPLC fired its co-founder amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal. In the wake of that scandal, SPLC staff unionized. Last year, the SPLC Union accused the center of “union-busting” for a rash of layoffs that included unionized staff. The SPLC has paid millions in defamation settlements, and it currently faces a defamation lawsuit for branding a pro-enforcement immigration group in Georgia an “anti-immigrant hate group.” As I wrote in my book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” these scandals did not prevent the Biden administration from welcoming the SPLC with open arms. President Joe Biden nominated an SPLC attorney to a top federal judgeship. The Biden White House welcomed SPLC leaders and staff at least 18 times. Kristen Clarke Critics fault Clarke for politicizing the Civil Rights Division, bringing charges against pro-lifers for protesting abortion facilities while largely ignoring the attacks on 96 pro-life pregnancy centers and 326 Catholic churches since the leak of the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion overturning the abortion precedent Roe v. Wade. The Civil Rights Division only charged four people for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for such vandalism in 2023 (and zero in 2022), while it brought 26 charges against pro-lifers in 2022. A former DOJ official told The Daily Signal that the department appeared to be “using the FACE Act to intimidate the pro-life population of the country.” As my former colleague Mary Margaret Olohan exclusively reported for The Daily Signal, Clarke had been arrested for attacking her then-husband, Reginald Avery, with a knife, deeply slicing his finger to the bone in 2006. The pair finalized their divorce in 2009. Clarke had the arrest expunged from her record, and during her Senate confirmation, she denied ever having been arrested or having been accused of committing a violent crime. Clarke admitted to her failure to disclose this arrest, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, called for her to resign. Clarke joined the faculty of the Howard University School of Law in February. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. The post EXCLUSIVE: ‘Hate-Filled’ Group Advised DOJ Prosecutors on ‘Hate Crimes,’ Docs Show appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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How to Choose the Perfect Dog Crate for Your Pet
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How to Choose the Perfect Dog Crate for Your Pet

Choosing the right crate for your furry friend can be overwhelming. At DogingtonPost, we understand the importance of finding the perfect home within your home for your canine companion. Our dog crate tips will guide you through the process, ensuring your pup’s safety, comfort, and well-being. From size considerations to material options, we’ll help you make an informed decision that benefits both you and your four-legged family member. Why Dog Crates Are Essential A Safe Haven for Your Pup Dog crates provide a secure space where your pet can retreat when they feel overwhelmed or tired. This is especially important in multi-pet households or homes with young children. However, a study found that dogs exhibited significant stress responses when first kenneled, indicated by elevated glucocorticoid levels and behavioral changes. Potty Training Simplified Crates are invaluable tools for house training. Dogs naturally avoid soiling their sleeping areas. You can leverage this instinct to establish a consistent potty routine by using a crate of appropriate size. Effective Behavior Management A crate can help manage unwanted behaviors when you can’t supervise your dog. It prevents destructive chewing, garbage raiding, and other mischief. However, research suggests that confining a dog with separation anxiety to a crate can increase lip licking, a response consistent with stress, and dogs can injure themselves in attempts to escape. Travel Companion Crates make travel safer and more comfortable for your dog. Whether it’s a trip to the vet or a family vacation, a familiar crate can reduce stress and anxiety. The American Veterinary Medical Association recommends crate training for safe car travel, as it minimizes distractions and protects your dog in case of sudden stops. Recovery and Rest During illness or after surgery, a crate provides a quiet, confined space for your dog to recover. Veterinarians often suggest crate rest for dogs recovering from injuries or surgeries. This controlled environment limits movement and promotes healing. As we explore the various types of dog crates available in the market, you’ll see how each design caters to different needs and situations. Let’s move on to discover the perfect crate for your furry friend. What Are the Different Types of Dog Crates? Wire Crates: The Versatile Choice Wire crates offer durability and excellent ventilation. They suit dogs who overheat easily or live in warmer climates. Most wire crates fold flat, which makes storage and transport easy. A study in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior revealed that dogs in wire crates showed fewer stress-related behaviors compared to those in solid-walled crates. This could result from the increased visibility wire crates provide, allowing dogs to feel more connected to their surroundings. However, wire crates don’t suit all dogs. Some anxious pups might feel too exposed. In these cases, you can cover part of the crate with a blanket to create a more den-like environment. Plastic Crates: Travel-Friendly Options Plastic crates are lightweight and often airline-approved, which makes them excellent for travel. They provide a more enclosed space, which can help anxious dogs feel secure. The solid walls also make them a good choice for dogs who need fewer visual distractions. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) states that plastic crates are the most commonly accepted type for air travel. If you plan to fly with your dog, a high-quality plastic crate is a must-have. Plastic crates have some drawbacks. They can be harder to clean thoroughly compared to wire crates. They also provide less ventilation, which might pose issues in hot climates or for dogs prone to overheating. Heavy-Duty Crates: For the Escape Artists If you have a strong chewer or a dog with a knack for escaping, a heavy-duty crate might be your best option. These crates typically consist of reinforced steel or aluminum and can withstand determined escape attempts. A survey by the American Pet Products Association found that 5% of dog owners reported their dogs had escaped from or destroyed a standard crate. For these “Houdini hounds,” a heavy-duty crate can provide peace of mind for both the dog and the owner. Heavy-duty crates often come with a higher price tag and weigh more than other options. They don’t work well for frequent moving or travel, but they excel at keeping strong or anxious dogs safely contained at home. Soft-Sided Crates: Comfort and Portability Soft-sided crates offer a lightweight and portable option for small to medium-sized dogs. They work well for travel, outdoor events, or as a temporary space in different rooms of your home. These crates often feature mesh panels for ventilation and visibility. Some models even come with convenient pockets for storing treats or toys. However, soft-sided crates aren’t suitable for dogs who chew or scratch excessively. Furniture Crates: Style Meets Function For those who want their dog’s crate to blend seamlessly with home decor, furniture crates provide an elegant solution. These crates double as end tables, nightstands, or other functional pieces of furniture. While they offer aesthetic appeal, furniture crates might lack some practical features of traditional crates (such as easy cleaning or portability). They also tend to be more expensive than standard crate options. As we move forward, let’s explore the crucial factors you should consider when selecting the perfect crate for your furry friend. How to Pick the Right Crate for Your Dog Size: The Foundation of Comfort The size of the crate forms the basis of your dog’s comfort. A small crate causes discomfort and stress, while an oversized one defeats the purpose of crate training. The gate allowing access to the crate must be of appropriate size to ensure that the dog can move easily into and out of the space. Measure your dog from nose tip to tail base, then add 2-4 inches for length. For height, measure from floor to head top when standing and add 2-4 inches. These measurements will guide you to the correct crate size. A University of California, Davis study found that dogs in appropriately sized crates showed lower stress levels compared to those in oversized or undersized crates. This fact emphasizes the importance of correct dimensions. Purpose and Portability: Tailoring to Your Needs The crate’s purpose influences your choice. Home use, travel, or training each require different crate types. Frequent travelers might prefer a lightweight, collapsible crate. The American Kennel Club suggests plastic crates for air travel due to their durability and airline regulation compliance. For home use, consider the crate’s placement and how it fits your living space. Some crates feature wheels for easy movement (a useful feature if you need to relocate the crate often). Durability: Matching Your Dog’s Behavior Your dog’s temperament and chewing habits influence crate selection. Aggressive chewers or escape artists need heavy-duty metal crates, typically made of thicker gauge wire or reinforced steel. Ventilation and Visibility: Balancing Comfort and Security Proper ventilation ensures your dog’s comfort, especially in warmer climates. Wire crates offer excellent airflow, while plastic crates provide a more enclosed environment. Consider your dog’s preferences and your local climate when making this choice. Visibility also plays a role in your dog’s comfort. Some dogs feel secure in more enclosed spaces, while others prefer to see their surroundings. You can always adjust visibility in wire crates by covering portions with a blanket. Ease of Cleaning: Practical Considerations A crate that’s easy to clean will save you time and effort. Wire crates often feature removable trays for easy cleaning, while plastic crates might require more thorough scrubbing. Consider how often you’ll need to clean the crate and choose a design that fits your lifestyle. Final Thoughts Selecting the perfect crate for your dog requires careful consideration of size, purpose, durability, and ventilation. Each aspect ensures your dog’s comfort and safety. The right crate allows your dog to stand, turn around, and lie down comfortably while providing a secure environment. Proper introduction and training are essential for successful crate use. Gradually acclimate your dog to the crate, making it a positive experience with treats, toys, and praise. Never use the crate as punishment, as this can create negative associations and stress for your pet. At DogingtonPost, we provide the latest dog crate tips and advice to enhance your pet’s life. Our resources cover everything from choosing the right crate to effective training techniques (ensuring you have the knowledge to make informed decisions for your canine companion). A well-chosen crate can become your dog’s favorite spot – a safe haven where they can relax and feel secure.
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CNN Finds Trump’s Birthday Suspicious, Upset Speech Was Non-Political
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After complaining beforehand that Trump was politicizing the military by hosting an alleged dictator-style military parade in the Nation’s capital, CNN was so desperate to keep finding things wrong with the Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade, that they then complained that Trump didn’t politicize the parade enough. And then there was their apparent suspicion of how the Army and Trump shared a birthday.     CNN Newsroom spent their evening by critiquing the celebration of 250 years of the Army, doing anything but showing respect and support for our troops. In an attempt to justify their distaste of the patriotic parade, contributor Kristen Holmes aired suspicion of how the birthdays happened to line up She explained that Trump was inspired by France’s Bastille Day parade, and that the White House says French President Emanuel Macron wasn’t called a dictator like he was. Holmes defended CNN’s smears by noting that Bastille Day doesn’t fall on Macron’s birthday:  BORIS SANCHEZ: Kristen, the celebration notably falls on the President's 79th birthday. He said earlier that he anticipated getting some heat for that. How is the white house framing the two coinciding days? KRISTEN HOLMES: I mean, just that, Boris. It is– it is coinciding. They have pushed back on me on every which way that this is a celebration because they have said that they understand how that this looks. I mean, I had one source telling me, ‘Hey, Macron was never called a dictator for having a parade.’ Well, of course, that parade in France was not on Macron's birthday, which is what we heard some of the pushback back from the critics of Donald Trump saying that he wanted this kind of big, spectacular parade. But, again, this still is the 250th birthday. But, again, this still is the 250th birthday. We know that there was a plan in place to celebrate the Army, whether it was this kind of spectacle. No, that is not what it was. But they say this was already happening anyway. Happens to fall on the President's 79th birthday. This was an argument the left peddled for days: Trump simply is using the Army’s 250th as a cover-up to give himself a North Korean birthday bash. Undoubtedly, CNN hoped that Trump would make this parade about him, about his policies, and about MAGA. But that wasn’t the case.  Trump only spoke for a mere eight minutes to commend the military as their Commander-in-Chief. The majority of the spectacle was on the Army, their weaponry, their aircraft, and most overwhelmingly, their history. There was no way the parade could be spun any way as “Trump” themed, as CNN also tried to baselessly claim.  So CNN created a new spin that hilariously contradicted previous parade commentary: Trump wasn’t political enough.  Special correspondent Jamie Gangel felt the need to point out that Trump should’ve spoken on the months old headline Signalgate, or the crisis in Ukraine, all spurred on by people she’s seen talk. “Someone also messaged, what about NATO because of his remarks about NATO…there are people who take issue with some of the things he said today,” she griped.  Co-host Boris Sanchez then turned to retired U.S. Army Major General James “Spider” Marks, who shot down CNN’s narrative about Trump’s birthday. “Well, you know, you can't choose your birthday unless you're United States Army,” he stated. “So, let's give the President a break in terms of making this or even having the narrative about this, having something to do with him. He didn't choose his birthday.” This was refreshingly sensical for the conspiracy theory riddled segment. Marks continued to say that he felt the parade was an incredible display of the might of our armed forces: “What I saw today was an incredible display and, I would say, a very humble display of what our Army, what our military, what our joint force brings to the table.” The celebration of our Army should be apolitical– and it was. CNN was clearly upset that Trump didn’t match the authoritarian version of him they had been trying to sell to viewers, impassioned, spit-flying political speech and all. The left media doesn’t care about factual reporting, they care about selling an agenda, and Saturday’s parade coverage was a perfect example of that.  The entire transcript is below. Click "expand" to read. CNN Newsroom June 14 2025 6:09 PM EST BORIS SANCHEZ: Kristen, the celebration notably falls on the President's 79th birthday. He said earlier that he anticipated getting some heat for that. How is the White House framing the two coinciding days? KRISTEN HOLMES: I mean, just that, Boris. It is– it is coinciding. They have pushed back on me on every which way that this is a celebration because they have said that they understand how that this looks. I mean, I had one source telling me, ‘Hey, Macron was never called a dictator for having a parade.’ Well, of course, that parade in France was not on Macron's birthday, which is what we heard some of the pushback back from the critics of Donald Trump saying that he wanted this kind of big, spectacular parade. But, again, this still is the 250th birthday. We know that there was a plan in place to celebrate the Army, whether it was this kind of spectacle. No, that is not what it was. But they say this was already happening anyway. Happens to fall on the President's 79th birthday. (...) 8:34 PM EST JAMIE GANGEL: So, just to reiterate what Jeff said, I think this has to be the shortest speech that he has ever given. I mean, ten minutes, very disciplined stay– stayed on message. I've heard from a number of people when he said we're the hottest and we should celebrate, among the messages, someone pointed out the signal chat scandal, where they added a reporter to it. I mean, it has not been a smooth ride. The fact that the president has said that, you know, on day one, everything would be okay. And he's facing the challenges of Ukraine now, what's going on in the Middle East. Someone also messaged, what about NATO because of his remarks about NATO, and also the fact that both in his first administration and now he's wanted to close bases and and pull back on things. So I think that by and large, let's just reiterate this was about the U.S. Army today, but when you’re talking about the politics of it all, there are people who take issue with some of the things he said today.  SANCHEZ: And Major General James “Spider” Marks, I wonder what you made of the president's remarks. JAMES “SPIDER” MARKS (Army Maj. Gen., Ret.): Well, you know, you can't choose your birthday unless you're United States Army. So, let's give the President a break in terms of making this or even having the narrative about this, having something to do with him. He didn't choose his birthday. Can't choose your parents. What I saw today was an incredible display and, I would say, a very humble display of what our Army, what our military, what our joint force brings to the table. (...)
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Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment
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Washington Examiner’s ‘Liberal Media Scream’ With the MRC’s Assessment

Since late January of 2012, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard has once a week featured a “Mainstream Media Scream” selection in his “Washington Secrets” column. For each pick, usually posted online on Monday, I provide an explanation and recommend a “scream” rating (scale of one to five). This post contains the “Liberal Media Screams” starting in January 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.) Check Bedard’s “Washington Secrets” blog for the latest choice and his other Washington insider posts. Each week, this page will be updated with Bedard’s latest example of the worst bias of the week. (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.)   ■ New on June 16, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS sees Trump ‘suspending elections’ See the posting on the Washington Examiner's site where you can watch the video and read Baker's assessment. A week later, Bedard's article will be posted here.   ■ June 9, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Pompous Pelley warns America ‘is doomed’ (Washington Examiner post) Just when we thought CBS’s Scott Pelley couldn’t get any more pompous, he proved us wrong — again. This time it was in decrying America under President Donald Trump, declaring that only journalism can save the nation, and warning that “If you fall silent, the country is doomed.” Seeing parallels between Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the 1950s and Trump today, while speaking after CNN showed George Clooney’s play about legendary newsman Edward R. Morrow, Pelley said, “You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done.” Pelley has used his 60 Minutes perch to air his liberal bias and editorialize against Trump. Murrow played an outsize role in ending McCarthy’s career. From CNN’s special coverage Saturday night, Good Night, and Good Luck Live: Truth and Power, after the live airing from Broadway of the stage play, Good Night, and Good Luck: ANDERSON COOPER: Do you still believe in journalism? Do you still believe in the role of journalists? SCOTT PELLEY: It is the only thing that’s going to save the country. You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. The people at home need reliable, consistent information in order to make decisions about their lives and their futures, and the country’s future. So, there is no system of democracy without journalism. We have to figure out how to keep journalism free, independent, accurate, and responsible for what it’s doing. But journalism is the only profession that is protected by the Constitution of the United States. And there’s a reason for that. James Madison believed that freedom of speech was the right that guaranteed all the other rights in the Bill of Rights. And so it is today. COOPER: What is your message to people about, who have just watched this, and are worried? PELLEY: It’s going to take courage, as it often has, to get through this period of American history. Our forebears were called by their times to have courage to move the country forward. And so it is with us today. The most important thing is to have the courage to speak, to not let fear permeate the country so that everyone suddenly becomes silent. If you have the courage to speak, we are saved. If you fall silent, the country is doomed. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Could Pelley be any more pompous? If he, CBS News, and the rest of the legacy media had ever lived up to his promise of providing ‘independent, accurate and responsible’ news, they wouldn’t be held in such disdain by so much of the public who see them as left-wing political players. And that’s a reality he confirmed by advocating everyone get in line and join him in having the ‘courage’ to oppose the policies of the man who earned the most votes in the last election.” Rating: FIVE out of FIVE screams.   ■ June 2, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Stephanopoulos tries to top Pelley with his Trump hate (Washington Examiner post) Have you noticed how the liberal Sunday news show hosts have been tripping over themselves to find some, any angle to attack President Donald Trump and his team? The latest to join the parade is George Stephanopoulos, the ABC big shot and former Bill Clinton spinner-in-chief, who on Sunday tried to one-up the recent string of anti-Trump editorials from Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes. On ABC’s This Week, Stephanopoulos opened with this: “Good morning and welcome to This Week. The scale is staggering. President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars, as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors.” The attack was par for the course for the Clinton family defender, who was unfazed that the Clinton Foundation profited from foreign governments when Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state or that the Biden family enterprise cashed in on Joe Biden’s vice presidency and presidency. And it followed a pattern of attacking Trump at any cost, a dangerous practice that recently prompted ABC and Stephanopoulos to issue an apology and pay a Trump-related foundation $15 million to scuttle a defamation lawsuit. For his hypocrisy, Stephanopoulos’s rant is our Liberal Media Scream of the week. Stephanopoulos on Sunday’s This Week on ABC, with the quoted text displayed on screen: “Good morning and welcome to This Week. The scale is staggering. President Trump and his family are making hundreds of millions, potentially billions of dollars, as Trump and his administration take official actions that benefit contributors and investors. Just this week, we learned of pardons to tax cheats, including a man whose pardon was granted weeks after his mother attended a million-dollar-a-head fundraiser with the president. The Trump Media and Technology Group raised nearly $2.5 billion from 50 institutional investors whose identities have not been disclosed. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency firm Binance days after Binance began listing the cryptocurrency launched by World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm started by Trump’s family. “This unprecedented money-making by a sitting president and his family summarized by critics like the Atlantic’s David Frum. ‘Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency,’ he writes. ‘Throw away the history books, discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past. There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president. The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship.’” Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: You’d think someone like Stephanopoulos, who forced Disney/ABC to pay $15 million to Trump’s future presidential museum for a false statement impugning President Trump, would be more reluctant to display such rank hypocrisy in becoming so overwrought about charges of corruption against Trump. Especially when he showed no similar concern over how the Biden family profited off of lucrative secretive deals fueled by President Biden’s high offices.” Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.   ■ May 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC calls Trump ‘dictator’ to bow before (Washington Examiner post) As if MSNBC can’t get any more ridiculous, a regular guest proved it could when previewing President Donald Trump‘s solemn Memorial Day events by calling him a dictator whom all must bow before. In comments condemning more than half of the voters who support Trump, Dean Obeidallah, host of The Dean Obeidallah Show on SiriusXM, told the MSNBC audience, “This really is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One that we believe in is freedom, the United States of America with due process, and their vision, which is an autocracy, and that really — what we’re dealing with, or easier than that, a dictatorship. They want Trump as the dictator of the United States, and we all have to bow down to him.” Obeidallah’s rant won this week’s Mainstream Media Scream, but it was a close call, with hard-left CBS 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley and his liberal colleague, Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, in full Trump derangement syndrome. Pelley made headlines for his over-the-top Trump hate commencement at Wake Forest, and Brennan for her uneducated attack on the House Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Dean Obeidallah, during the noon hour on Saturday of Velshi on MSNBC: I think the fact that it’s Memorial Day weekend gives us a moment to pause. People made the ultimate sacrifice. They did it for something that you mentioned in your — in your monologue there. And that word is “freedom.” And I’m writing an article right now. I was looking back at the very first speech in the modern day Memorial Day, which was Rep. James Garfield before he was president, 1868 Arlington, to Joe Biden’s. I looked at all different presidential speeches and the one word that came up in all those speeches: “freedom.” And that’s what people — that’s what makes us Americans. And Donald Trump is going after everything, freedom of speech, in ways we’ve never seen. I mean, a judge just ruled on Friday protecting the law firms, saying you’re going after dissent, going after universities. I had professor Steven Levitsky on my show, co-author of How Democracies Die, saying every autocrat goes after universities because they are independent centers of dissent. People think he’s going after media outlets. He’s going after Democrats. They’re arresting judges. The mayor of Newark, they dropped the charges. They had no case. Then a Democratic member of Congress, they opened up investigations into ActBlue because it’s a platform to help Democrats raise money. Now, an investigation into Media Matters, Angelo Carusone’s, the FTC is beginning an investigation. This is a reenvisioning of what America is about. And I think you summed it up so well. This really is a push and pull between two competing visions of America. One that we believe in is freedom. The United States of America with due process, and their vision, which is an autocracy, and that really — what we’re dealing with, or easier than that, a dictatorship. They want Trump as the dictator of the United States, and we all have to bow down to him. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “There’s no holiday weekend break on MSNBC from the anti-Trump hostility, not even for a solemn occasion which Obeidallah used as a hook to launch his rant against Trump as anti-freedom of speech. Quite ironic given the support by so many on MSNBC for canceling and silencing conservative voices who dared question woke edicts.” Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.   ■ May 19, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Katie Couric calls news objectivity ‘old fashioned’ (Washington Examiner post) She was once the queen of TV news, and as the co-host of NBC’s Today show and anchor of CBS Evening News, Katie Couric struggled with basic news objectivity. And now we know why: She doesn’t believe there is such a thing. “I think there’s no such thing as true objectivity,” she said on her “Next Question” podcast last week. What’s more, the 68-year-old newswoman apparently thinks it’s just something old people “75 and up” mutter about while watching evening news. That, and her slam on conservatives for calling out bias in liberal media “fact-checking,” make Couric our Liberal Media Scream of the Week. Couric, to her guests, the three brothers who created the liberal MeidasTouch podcast, on Thursday’s edition of her “Next Question with Katie Couric” podcast posted to YouTube: “I’m curious, because I’ve struggled with this as someone who you grew up watching, I’m sure, and started in very traditional mainstream media. Now, pointing out the facts and what is really happening is automatically interpreted as being biased, right?“ “And, and of course, I think there’s no such thing as true objectivity, but having said that, you know, I really struggle with that. And many people say, ‘Listen, the rules have changed.’ It’s OK to say you support trans people. It’s OK that you say I am 100% for reproductive rights, you know, all these things that honestly, personally, I hold dear, but professionally, I’ve never really, I’ve been trained to not share that.“ “So I’m curious if you think sort of old-fashioned, semi-objective — knowing that pure objectivity is impossible — that kind of journalism still has a place in the culture, or is it simply, you know, the 75 and up people who are watching the network evening newscasts?” Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Couric demonstrated why legacy media figures have refused to address their obvious and overwhelming hostility to conservatives for decades and President Trump in recent years: They are condescending elitists who presume their liberal view of the world reflect ‘the facts’ and so, anyone who questions that presentation of ‘the facts,’ are knowingly making a baseless charge of bias and thus can be dismissed as ignorant cranks.” Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.   ■ May 12, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ABC prays Pope Leo XIV will ‘counter’ Trump (Washington Examiner post) Reporters have rarely been fans of faith in politics, and often decry the Republican Party’s cozy relationship with religious Americans, such as evangelical Christians. But give them a pope willing to criticize President Donald Trump, well, that’s a different story. Now that Pope Leo XIV has replaced Trump critic Pope Francis, there is an eagerness to find out if the Chicago native will also challenge Trump on key matters, including immigration. ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz, our pick for the Liberal Media Scream of the week, led that prayer group last week. Raddatz used her hosting duties in Rome for This Week as a platform to ask her guests how Leo will challenge the president. “Will he be a counterbalance for what’s happening in American politics right now in President Trump?” she asked the archbishop of Chicago. Later, she told Father James Martin, an ABC News papal contributor, that “Pope Francis indirectly rebuked President Trump’s policies, especially on immigration” and Leo, “before he was pope, he retweeted some things about immigration and saying, you know, retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, things like that. Do you think that will be an incredibly strong message for him?” Raddatz also asked ABC News reporter Terry Moran, “Do you think he will serve, in some ways, as a counter to President Trump [on immigration policies]?” Moran took the bait, saying Leo “will be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which in many ways, many Catholics believe are not consistent with some of the president’s policies.” From ABC’s This Week on Sunday: MARTHA RADDATZ, TO CARDINAL BLASE CUPICH, ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO: Pope Francis cared so much about the poor and migrants. Pope Leo does as well. In some ways, will he be a counterbalance for what’s happening in American politics right now in President Trump? ….. RADDATZ, TO FATHER JAMES MARTIN: Pope Francis indirectly rebuked President Trump’s policies, especially on immigration. And Pope Leo, before he was pope, he retweeted some things about immigration and saying, you know, retweeting that he supported the Dreamers, things like that. Do you think that will be an incredibly strong message for him? I mean, he has been, he does have the “odor of sheep,” as you say? …..RADDATZ: And Terry [Moran] and Liz [Nagy], do you think he will serve, in some ways, as a counter to President Trump on those policies? TERRY MORAN: Reluctantly, right? They are the two most famous Americans in the world right now. And arguably, Pope Leo might be even more famous than President Trump, and whether the pope wants it or not, because I think he wants to preach the Gospel and do the good work of the church. They have different approaches naturally in some ways, and I think that is going to come out. He will be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which, in many ways, many Catholics believe are not consistent with some of the president’s policies. That will happen. I don’t think he’s going to go look for a fight, but it will happen. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Raddatz couldn’t resist injecting her American politics into papal coverage, trying to transform the new pope into a force for resistance to President Trump. She was so obsessed with her agenda that she prodded three guests, at different points in the show, to endorse her premise, finally getting some guarded agreement from the third, a fellow ABC News journalist.” Rating: FOUR out of FIVE screams.   ■ May 5, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: ‘Pompous’ media on public TV’s dole rip Trump cuts (Washington Examiner post) There is nothing more self-serving than media figures on public TV’s payroll ripping President Donald Trump’s call to end taxpayer funding of National Public Radio and television’s Public Broadcasting System. But that is exactly what happened over the weekend, making it our Liberal Media Scream of the week. First there was NPR President Katherine Maher telling Face the Nation that it’s Trump’s fault if coverage comes off too liberal. “NPR people report straight down the line,” she said. “We’ve been making requests of the Trump administration to have their officials on air. We would like to see more people accept those invitations. It’s hard for us to be able to say we can speak for everyone when folks won’t join us.” Documentary filmmaker and PBS producer Ken Burns got his punches in while appearing Friday on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. “I think PBS is part of the pursuit of happiness machine,” he said, adding, “This is who we are. It puts the ‘us’ in the U.S.” And leave it to PBS News Hour regular Jonathan Capehart to prove true Trump’s complaints about bias on the network when he said, “There is only one profession that is protected in the Constitution, and it is the free press. It is the press.” Jonathan Capehart on Friday’s PBS News Hour: I think what the president is doing, it is a fundamental attack on our Constitution, on the foundation of this country. People need to understand and remember, there is only one profession that is protected in the Constitution, and it is the free press. It is the press. And why? Because the founders understood that the survival of a democracy depends on an informed citizenry. And the citizenry can only be informed by a press that can report and do — report on affairs of the republic free and unfettered. And whether they are, come from the left or from the right, the government should not interfere with that reporting. And so, when you have a president of the United States who is making it his mission to attack the free press, we should all be concerned, whether we are at PBS or whether we are at MSNBC, because he’s focused on us too. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Could Capehart be any more pompous? He and others, who claim PBS and NPR are neutral news providers serving a grandiose noble purpose the nation cannot survive without, are dissembling. Anyone who watches or listens to PBS and/or NPR knows their far-left skew and that Capehart etc. are just upset Trump has dared to try to take away their taxpayer subsidies.” Rating: FIVE out of five screams.   ■ April 28: No Liberal Media Scream this week   ■ April 21, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Chris Matthews returns more unhinged than ever (Washington Examiner post) As if we need more Trump-hating media, an old favorite of the Liberal Media Scream team has returned to the Trump derangement syndrome stage to add his voice to those challenging President Donald Trump. After about five years on the sidelines, former Hardball host Chris Matthews is reviving his show on Substack. He proved that he’s lost a step or two in his debut Monday and during a promotion on Jim Acosta’s Substack last Friday. Weeks after others tried to portray Trump as America’s homegrown Adolf Hitler, Matthews rolled out the tired analogy again, this time suggesting that the president will round up his critics and ship them to death camps. “I got a nasty one for you,” he told Acosta. “What did Hitler do in the Holocaust? He took people from Germany to other countries where there was no German law. There was not even a pretense of German law. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, and they killed them.” Then, on his channel on Monday, Matthews opened with another Hitler reference. He said, “I want to ask you about something I said last week: that the fact that Trump is willing to say American citizens should be allowed to be sent overseas for punishment does something that rhymes very much with what happened in the Holocaust. That Germany was able to take people in France, Jewish people, and deport them to the east, and even the word deport was similar. So why would Trump personally say I’m going to take regular American citizens and deport them? It sounds like he wants to be seen as an autocrat.” From Jim Acosta’s video show Friday for Substack: JIM ACOSTA: One thing that every taxi driver will talk about these days is Donald Trump. And I have to ask you some newsy questions before we spend the entire time together reminiscing. CHRIS MATTHEWS: I got a nasty one for you. ACOSTA: Okay, well, good, I’m just wondering, I mean—” MATTHEWS: What did Hitler do? What did Hitler do in the Holocaust? He took people from Germany to other countries. ACOSTA: Yeah. MATTHEWS: Where there was no German law. There was not even a pretense of German law. They took them to Poland or Hungary or wherever, and they killed them. ACOSTA: And so when you see what’s happening right now with this Salvadoran gulag, I mean, this CECOT gulag, he’s basically taking a page out of that playbook, you think? MATTHEWS: Well, it gets them out of 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: “Just when you thought it was safe to go to Substack, they give shows to Jim Acosta and Chris Matthews. As if there weren’t enough Trump-hating journalists with a platform. In this case, Matthews has taken TDS to a whole new level. There are rational arguments one could cite for disagreeing with sending illegal alien criminals to a foreign prison, but to equate that policy with a mass-murdering dictator who implemented genocide against a whole religion is inane.” Rating: FIVE out of five screams.   ■ April 14, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Media eat their own and rip Bill Maher for dining with Trump (Washington Examiner post) It’s hard to believe that our weekly Liberal Media Scream has been documenting the Washington press corps’ Trump Derangement Syndrome for about nine years and that we can find some new hypocrisy every single Monday to highlight. But thanks to the eagle eye of our partner Brent Baker, the vice president of the Media Research Center, we have one of the first examples of the liberal media trying to keep wandering members of the tribe in line. It happened Friday night after HBO talk show host and political comic Bill Maher described his recent dinner in the White House with President Donald Trump. Maher said it was a successful effort to break bread instead of just hurling insults at each other. But some in the media weren’t happy that the two met. Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, on Maher’s show, accused his host of falling into Trump’s “trap.” He scolded, “For him, this was a PR stunt, and in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt.” From Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO: JOSH ROGIN, WASHINGTON POST: Counterpoint? You know, Bill, I think you’re right in saying that people make too much of this. OK, it’s not the Yalta Summit, you’re not Churchill, Kid Rock is not Stalin, Trump, sure as s***, isn’t FDR, OK? So yes, I believe too much has been made about this, but I think you’ve fallen into the trap. I think I represent 99% of the internet when I say this, is that you have played the game of proximity is principle, and what people are worried about — it’s not your motivation, we believe you, we love you, everybody loves Bill, right? So, I’m not questioning your motivation, I’m questioning Trump’s, OK? And if we can say that you went there in good faith, but maybe, just maybe he wasn’t there in good faith. I mean, you sold him on the Iran deal, and he took it in — I mean, give me a break, OK? So, the idea here is that your motivation is sound, but what’s the impact? And I think a lot of people out there, fans of yours, people who love you, people who are fans of you, like me, been fans of yours my whole life. BILL MAHER: You don’t have to patronize me, dude — ROGIN: OK. Fair enough. MAHER: I don’t know you, I never met you, not everybody has to like it. ROGIN: I’m just saying that this comes from a place of love. All I’m saying — MAHER: That’s what we said, there are people who didn’t want it to happen at all, you sound like one of them. It’s OK. ROGIN: No, no. MAHER: Did you hear what I said? ROGIN: Yeah. MAHER: What is the alternative to not talking? Just sitting at your lunch table and don’t talk to anybody? ROGIN: I’ve talked to him, I’ve interviewed Trump. Piers has interviewed Trump. MAHER: This was not an interview. This was not an interview. ROGIN: I agree with the principle of engagement. I’m just saying from his perspective, you have to understand, that people who out there know, all Americans know, that for him, this was a PR stunt, and in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt. MAHER: The fact that you began your little rant with the internet — that tells me everything. You take your cues from the internet. Good luck! The internet is a cesspool that just wants to fight. ROGIN: I support what you’re trying to do. I’m just saying the expectation that Donald Trump is going to be changed by something — MAHER: I said in the piece I did not think that was going to happen. I love the people on either side who ignore the parts they don’t like. I just did it. It wasn’t like it was three weeks ago. Watch it again, maybe you’ll find something new in it. ROGIN: It’s not a judgment, but it’s a little bit of a judgment. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Josh Rogin displayed the reflexive attitude common in the Washington press corps that anyone who does anything which might ‘normalize’ President Donald Trump must be discredited. Bill Maher did a great job, however, of discrediting Rogin’s weak arguments.” Rating: FOUR out of five screams.   ■ April 7, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: CNN cheers X-rated comic dumped by press corps (Washington Examiner post) This week’s Liberal Media Scream puts the spotlight on CNN and its hosting of a left-wing comic so biased and X-rated that she was dumped from performing at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. CNN’s new show, Have I Got News For You, put the spotlight on one of its “captains,” Amber Ruffin, who reiterated the hatred of President Donald Trump that got her kicked out of the dinner. After her firing came up on the show, Ruffin added to her reasons why she hates the president and his team, claiming that they are “disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador.” She said, “I lost the gig because I was out here talking s***.” From Saturday’s airing of Have I Got News For You on CNN: HOST ROY WOOD JR: Amber offended the White House, as well as members of the White House Correspondents Association. Amber, following the tradition of Craig from Friday, was fired on her day off as she was uninvited from the White House Correspondents dinner when she said that she intended to make fun of the current administration. Amber, do you think you lost the gig because you said too early what you were going to do about going in on Republicans? AMBER RUFFIN: I mean, oh, my god, I could f***ing talk for the next three hours. But what I choose to say is it’s like I lost the gig because I was out here talking s***, and I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig because I was going to show up there and act all the way out. Also, like, also, it’s not anyone’s fault because when I was hired, we were like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody. And I was like, beh. Then they started f***ing disappearing people to a prison in El Salvador. They rolled back f***ing civil rights. So I was like, if I make this equal, then I’m also a piece of s***. I can’t f***ing do that. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Ruffin demonstrated why she is totally inappropriate to provide comedic commentary about the political scene. She’s filled with vitriol and hate toward the man who the nation chose as its president. But she found her audience on CNN where she was cheered and applauded for her crude invective. A sad commentary on the state of CNN.” Rating: FIVE out of five screams   ■ March 31, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Trump has made Bob Woodward deranged (Washington Examiner post) President Donald Trump has done it. In just two short months, he has not only turned the liberal Washington Post into a TDS cesspool but made its most celebrated reporter nearly certifiable. How else can we explain Bob Woodward’s latest unhinged rant against Trump in which he claims that the billionaire businessman has a goal of ruining the economy? “Well, his end goal is it looks like he wants to destroy the economy,” said the 82-year-old reporter and author on a Washington Post podcast. For that, he wins this week’s Liberal Media Scream with five out of five screams. From the Post Reports podcast interview, recorded at Woodward’s home by Washington Post “national politics/democracy reporter” Colby Itkowitz, which was posted Friday night on YouTube: BOB WOODWARD: All these executive orders. I mean, he is, stood his ground and said this is what I’m going to do. I am shrinking. He and Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, his sidekick, are cutting the government, and look at what we are seeing. I mean, in some cases it’s done, as people have said with the chain saw, and we know from our personal lives or businesses that when you have to cut, that’s a really tricky undertaking, and you need to very carefully spell out what you’re gonna do and do it very slowly and be very certain that the impact is that they’re not secondary events that you trigger with — and look at what’s going on now. I think it’s one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced. COLBY ITKOWITZ: What do you think Trump’s end goal is in all of this in the sledge-hammering the government tariff, putting tariffs on our allies like Canada, like what is the, what is his big end goal as president? WOODWARD: Well, his end goal is it looks like he wants to destroy the economy and that is a very dangerous undertaking. I mean, he states the motive is very positive, but look at what people are going through — having very negative impact. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “It’s one thing to contend that President Trump’s tariff policies are misguided and will harm the economy, but to charge that ‘he wants to destroy the economy’ is an attitude which reflects a particularly nefarious view of Trump. Does Woodward really think Trump is so awful that he has set out to intentionally ‘destroy’ the economy? That’s what he said and it fits with his very far-left perspective that reducing the size of government makes this ‘one of the most dangerous times this country has ever faced.’” Rating: FIVE out of five screams.   ■ March 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: All TDS on PBS as centrist calls Trump an ‘extortionist’ (Washington Examiner post) This week’s Liberal Media Scream provides the latest fodder for conservatives calling for an end to taxpayer support of public TV because of its anti-Right bias and disdain for President Donald Trump. In focus is the nightly PBS News Hour program that regularly features guests critical of Trump. For our example, it wasn’t the liberal on the show rapping Trump but the resident centrist, New York Times columnist David Brooks, who called the president an “extortionist” and “bully” for using his powers to get countries, companies, and people to do what he wants. “People call Trump a transactional politician, but he’s an extortionist. That’s actually a difference. There’s — a transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you until you give me what I want,” said Brooks. At issue was an earlier move by the White House to withdraw the security clearance of the Paul Weiss legal firm, which is close to Democrats. The firm agreed to do $40 million worth of pro bono work for causes favored by the White House to win back the clearance. From Friday’s PBS News Hour: HOST AMNA NAWAZ: We saw President Trump going after institutions, including Big Law, right, including universities, as you mentioned, where many of these guys went to school. And this week, we saw two big institutions take steps to comply with the demands of the Trump administration. We saw Paul Weiss agree to a settlement, essentially, that says they’re going to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services. Columbia University agreed to a list of demands so they don’t lose hundreds of millions of dollars in funding. Jonathan, what does this moment, these steps from these institutions say to you? JONATHAN CAPEHART: It says to me that our democracy is teetering. And I’ll focus on Perkins — I’m sorry — on Paul Weiss and the legal sphere. We have seen a complete capitulation by the legislative branch, the Republican majority, to what the president wants to do in the executive. And all our hopes for the maintenance of our democracy now rests with the judiciary. And in the olden days, before Trump, you would rely on these white shoe law firms like Paul Weiss to provide pro bono help to folks who are suing for redress, who want the courts to step in when Congress or the president goes overboard. When a Paul Weiss decides to pull back, when other big law firms like that decide to pull back, what does that mean in terms of the judiciary’s ability to stop a president like Trump? And that’s what’s so concerning to me about this piece of the capitulation. NAWAZ: David? DAVID BROOKS: Yeah, people call Trump a transactional politician, but he’s an extortionist. That’s actually a difference. A transaction is, we do a deal. Extortion is, I bully you until you give me what I want. And so that’s what we’re seeing here. Now, I put myself in the shoes of, say, the president of Columbia, the head of Paul Weiss. And I think, well, if I compromise with Trump, I’m hurting my institution. But if I lose $400 million, I’m also hurting my institution. These are real choices that people have to make. And I understand that. In the case of Columbia [University], I personally think the Trump requests or demands, whatever it is, are kind of reasonable, and Columbia should have done all this stuff five or 10 years ago. They really did get ideologically out of control. And if they’re publicly funded, partially publicly funded, then you’ve got a problem. And they created this problem. So I understand why. I got to save my university. I got to save $400 million. On the other hand, caving into an extortionist rarely pays off because he will say, ‘Oh, I take that. Here’s my next demand, here’s my next demand.’ And if you look at the history of Zelensky, Macron, people — all the people who’ve tried to cozy up to the extortionists, they all end up losing in the end. And so I think it’s time for the universities as a body — and we saw this with the Princeton president — to say no more deals. We are standing up because there will be a time — and, again, I don’t think this is quite the time to sort of beat down the Trump administration. There will be a time where everybody has to hold together and stand up and say, no, no more deals. 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 reflection of how ‘diversity’ on PBS is all about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and race, not political ideology. PBS’s panel of Capehart and Brooks, touted as offering perspective from the left and right, does not (Brooks agrees with the liberal Capehart 61% of the time per a Media Research Center analysis). Indeed, they regularly find commonality to denouncing President Trump. So much for PBS viewers hearing much of anything that challenges their liberal world view and disgust for all things Trump.” Rating: FOUR out of five screams   ■ March 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: NBC urges harsher Trump hate by Democrats (Washington Examiner post) This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a Sunday NBC panel mocking Democrats for failing to be harsher and faster in blasting President Donald Trump and his relationship with Tesla founder Elon Musk. On Meet the Press, there was a collective scream at the liberal party for dropping the ball in attacking Trump, which the panel clearly felt was in order when the president displayed Teslas at the White House. “Shocking,” they agreed, that Democrats didn’t work up a quick ad blasting Team Trump for essentially doing what former President Joe Biden did when he featured American-made vehicles on the South Lawn during a White House event. “Another missed opportunity,” said MSNBC senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels, who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. From Sunday’s Meet the Press on NBC: HOST KRISTEN WELKER: One of the striking moments of this week was the moment where President Trump basically had a car show at the White House. Teslas on display with Elon Musk. It comes as, of course, Tesla’s sales have been dropping. Elon Musk’s approval ratings, much lower than President Trump’s, by the way. The optics of this, Anna, is it complicated for the White House? ANNA PALMER, Punchbowl News: Well, it’s amazing that they’re doubling down on Elon Musk, because, to Cornell’s point, this is the opening for Democrats. They’re already starting to run ads featuring Elon Musk as the boogeyman. This gives them the B-roll and the visuals that you need to say that the White House is, you know, kind of mixing business with the work of the government. ….. POLLSTER CORNELL BELCHER: And the idea that what Biden did at the White House is similar to Trump basically being a salesman and hawking the Teslas on the front lawn of the White House is completely different. The ad writes itself. MSNBC’s EUGENE DANIELS: But Democrats aren’t doing it. Immediately, the next day, there should’ve been just, that ad, just showing it over and over again. WELKER: You’re saying another missed opportunity for Democrats. Shocking! DANIELS: Another missed opportunity to get on the same — BELCHER, DANIELS: Shocking that the Democrats are bad on messaging! DANIELS: But I mean, you know, like, when you talk to them behind the scenes, they explain the Elon of it all in a much better way than they do when they go on television. They don’t talk about him as an oligarch behind the scenes, right? They talk about him as someone who is, in their eyes, doing this, doing DOGE because he wants to help his businesses at the end of the day, right? They talk about that conflict of interest. That’s something that the American people actually understand, but they, again, continue to miss an opportunity to actually do that. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “So much for pretending there’s any separation between the Washington press corps and Democratic Party interests. Can you imagine journalists ever advising Republicans or Trump supporters on how to more effectively undermine a Democrat? Of course not.” Rating: Four out of five screams.   ■ March 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Sunny Hostin tells Democrats fight or ‘people will die’ (Washington Examiner post) This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the return of one of America’s lefty pundits suffering most from Trump Derangement Syndrome, The View’s Sunny Hostin. Reacting to Rep. Al Green’s (D-TX) censure by Congress for his outbursts during President Donald Trump’s joint session address Tuesday, the hostile Hostin said the Democrats in the chamber should have joined him in rudely protesting Trump and stormed out in support. While virtually every other Democrat in the media is calling for a more level-headed approach to Trump, she went in the other direction, claiming without a shred of evidence that Trump’s policies will kill people. As a result, we give her outburst a rare five-scream trophy. The View on Friday: JOY BEHAR: Ten Democrats voted to censure Green. SUNNY HOSTIN: Do you want a list of the 10? BEHAR: Do you want to hear their names? HOSTIN: Yes, I do. BEHAR: Why go after them too? Go after the Republicans. HOSTIN: Because they don’t know how to fight and be part of an opposition party. Representative Green gave them the example. The Democrats are not meeting the moment. It is very clear that Medicaid is on the table. It is very clear that Social Security is on the table. It is very clear that people will die. The baby boomers, the civil rights generation, they knew what they had to do! They were willing to fight and die for their rights. This generation of Congress, they are not meeting the moment. This is an existential crisis! BEHAR: And also, I might point out some of them are from the most liberal states like New York, Hawaii, California. HOSTIN: They should be ashamed of themselves! They should have all walked out with him! Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “ABC News should be embarrassed by the daily left-wing drivel on The View. Even many Democrats were ashamed by Green’s antics, which went far beyond what any Republican has ever done during a presidential speech to Congress. So much for contending it’s Trump who has lessened decorum. Hostin is advocating more coarseness in politics. And ABC News is sanctioning it.” Rating: FIVE out of five screams.   ■ March 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS twists Trump press pool diversity as ‘sinister’ (Washington Examiner post) Here’s another reason for all the PBS and NPR critics to call for federal tax dollar defunding. Instead of cheering the expansion of media allowed into the White House press pool, PBS declared it a “sinister” move to censor the press. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the outlet’s twisted view of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s decision to take charge of choosing who is in the daily pool that covers White House events for the rest of the press when there isn’t enough room for all, such as the near-daily back-and-forths President Donald Trump hosts in the Oval Office. She made the decision because she believed that the White House Correspondents’ Association was being too selective by favoring legacy media and barring new-age social media and conservative outlets. The old guard protested, though, in its first week of operation, the new pool remained heavy with legacy media. One exception was the Associated Press, which Trump’s team omitted because the news service won’t recognize the president’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, as the government has. In our example, PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz called the White House move an attack on the press, prompting contributor and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart to chirp that “we are in more sinister territory” with Trump and the media. Of course neither talked up former President Joe Biden’s move to take away the press passes of over 400 mainly conservative outlets or former President Barack Obama’s seizing of phone records from AP or others in his dragnet for leakers. From Friday’s PBS News Hour: AMNA NAWAZ: His continued attacks on the press, blocking the AP’s access from some White House coverage as well. You saw him take control of the White House, take control of the press pool that covers the president full time, makes sure everyone else knows what’s happening with the president. Peter Baker, of course, longtime Russia correspondent, said it reminded him of the Kremlin press pool takeover. And I just want to get your takes on where that sort of attack on the press stands and whether we’re in much more sinister territory now. JONATHAN CAPEHART: I do think we are in more sinister territory because you’ve got to look at what’s happening with AP, in light of his lawsuits against CBS, against ABC, threats, threatening the licenses of other broadcast entities. This is all part of a pattern of roughing up anyone he views as not either insufficiently loyal or people who have wronged him. And he looks at the press as an entity that has wronged him. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Imagine that. President Trump sees ‘the press as an entity that has wronged him.’ And he’s fighting back, which really upsets the legacy media despite the fact that nothing he has done has blocked the public from full access. It’s hardly ‘sinister’ just because the White House is allowing a more ideological diverse group of outlets to get access instead of just a few privileged and entitled journalists.” Rating: Three out of five screams.   ■ February 24, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Mike Johnson cuts off CBS bedwetting (Washington Examiner post) It took over two years for the Nixon-era Watergate scandal to bring on the constitutional crisis that led a president to resign. But hearing CBS describe President Donald Trump’s first month of moves the network doesn’t like shows this generation’s Watergate has already arrived. Even more than the Hollywood whining of Jane Fonda and others at Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Jane Pauley’s CBS News Sunday Morning jumped head first into decrying Trump’s moves promised during a year on the campaign trail to drain the swamp as a constitutional crisis. “More than a half-century ago,” said CBS’s Robert Costa, “as the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Department and the courts” that the media declared a “constitutional crisis.” Now, he added, “that term, constitutional crisis, is back.” But amid the name-calling and historical hyperventilating in the show’s main story, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) offered a sense of calm and perspective. “I have been asked so many times, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not,” he said, making the CBS report our Liberal Media Scream of the week. From CBS News Sunday Morning: JANE PAULEY: With judges across the country pushing back against some of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive orders, there are those who ask: What would happen if the White House defies the courts and simply moves ahead with its plans? We’ve asked our Robert Costa to make some inquiries. ROGER MUDD, CBS ANCHOR, NOV. 4, 1973: Despite his powers as chief executive, his future is really in the hands of the other two branches of government: the courts and the Congress. ROBERT COSTA: More than a half-century ago, as the Watergate saga unfolded, President Richard Nixon had a standoff with the Justice Department and the courts. DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: In breathtaking succession tonight, the following historic events occurred. The president of the United States demanded that the attorney general fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. The attorney general refused and resigned. COSTA: The tensions brought a certain phrase to the fore of the American conversation. JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC ANCHOR, OCT. 20, 1973: The country in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. COSTA: Now that term, ‘constitutional crisis,’ is back. JULIAN CASTRO, former House Democrat from Texas: We’re headed toward a constitutional crisis. U.S. SENATOR ELISSA SLOTKIN (D-MI): We’re fast barreling toward a constitutional crisis. COSTA: Many Democrats are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s use of executive power. U.S. REP. SEAN CASTEN (D-ILL): The actions that Musk and his IT goons have taken, they’re illegal. COSTA: And some fear that Trump, who has shattered norms and who worked relentlessly to try to overturn the 2020 election, cannot be counted on to follow the courts. SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): I have been asked so many times, aren’t you uncomfortable with this? No. I’m not. COSTA: Most Republicans are shrugging off talk of a crisis. In fact, many are cheering as Trump overhauls the Justice Department and FBI, works with Elon Musk to fire thousands of federal employees and signs piles of executive orders. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “You know it’s a media-fueled effort to create a scandal when the journalist in question regurgitates Watergate. It’s what Costa and the Washington press corps see as their halcyon days of glory. And if the supposed scandal matches a current liberal Democratic talking point, so much the better, despite the lack of any real substance to the fearmongering.” Rating: Four out of five screams.   ■ February 17, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Scott Pelley, now TV’s top Trump hater (Washington Examiner post) He has a lot of competition in the media, but few have as big a stage as 60 Minutes elder Scott Pelley. As he continues to step up his attacks on President Donald Trump and the new administration, Pelley is elbowing aside all others to emerge as Trump’s loudest TV critic. Never a fan of Trump, Pelley has taken his 60 Minutes perch at CBS to offer critical monologues of the president. People took notice even before Trump returned to the White House when Pelley ripped Trump’s Cabinet picks, saying, “Some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump.” However, other than gnawing down his reading glasses, Pelley had no impact. All of Trump’s picks to get a Senate floor vote won. Then, on Sunday’s show, he opened with another hit on Trump, saying the president was in “defiance of the Constitution” with his agenda. Again, there was no impact since a day later, a federal judge expressed skepticism about any harm the president’s Department of Government Efficiency threatened. Each week, Secrets teams with the Media Research Center to choose the loudest liberal media scream, and Pelley won again this week. What’s more, Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker gave Pelley’s rant a score of five out of five screams. That is a rare top score, but one we expect to see more of as the liberal media turns up the heat on Trump as it loses its influence on him and his White House. From the lead story on Sunday’s 60 Minutes: SCOTT PELLEY: It’s too soon to tell how serious President Trump is in defiance of the Constitution. In his first 28 days, he signed an order to nullify birthright citizenship for some — a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. And he has closed agencies and frozen spending that Congress mandated by law. Lower courts are holding up many of the president’s priorities, but nothing has risen to the Supreme Court, where these battles over presidential power could rewrite history. Presidents often push limits — FDR’s New Deal, for example — and voters in this last election wanted change. But the scope and speed of Trump’s reach for power may be unprecedented. One example is a 63-year-old agency created by Congress, codified in law and eviscerated by Trump in a matter of days. KRISTINA DRYE: People are really scared. I think that you know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids’ daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight. PELLEY: “All gone, overnight,” for Kristina Drye and Adam Dubard — fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration. ADAM DUBARD: They’re not looking for competency. They’re not looking for — if you’re good at your job. They’re looking for pure loyalty tests, and if you don’t give it, you will be punished… … PELLEY: The world’s richest man had cut off assistance to the world’s poorest families. Musk spent nearly $250 million to get Trump and other Republicans elected. He collects billions in taxpayer dollars for his SpaceX rockets. ANDREW NATSIOS, FORMER USAID ADMINISTRATOR: I think we’re creating a system that violates the separation of powers and the checks and balances that are intended in the Constitution. PELLEY: Republican Andrew Natsios, former head of USAID, spoke to us in Washington, in part because he is not hearing public appeals to reason from fellow Republicans. PELLEY TO NATSIOS: How do you view this moment in history? NATSIOS: I don’t want to be too pessimistic. But it does appear we may be headed towards some sort of a constitutional crisis. I don’t, I hope that doesn’t happen. I pray it doesn’t happen. But it’s certainly concerning to me what’s going on in this city right now. PELLEY: Is the constitutional order breaking down? NATSIOS: We’ll see if they refuse to enforce a court order by the Supreme Court. If it gets to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court rules against the administration on something and they refuse to enforce it, then we will have a constitutional crisis. PELLEY: What happens then? NATSIOS: Well, I don’t know. PELLEY: No one knows. NATSIOS: No one knows. Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow, explained our pick: “Another hit to whatever remnants are left of 60 Minutes as some sort of dispassionate news magazine which offers a fair and balanced look at complicated issues. Pelley not only matched the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the left, he doubled down on it, presuming the absolute worst motives behind President Trump while taking cheap ideological shots at Elon Musk. This is Exhibit A in why federal spending has never been cut since the end of World War II: The media go to war to discredit anyone who takes on the spending behemoth.” Rating: Five out of five screams.   ■ February 10, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: PBS airs extreme TDS, ‘starvation,’ ‘death’ (Washington Examiner post) This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a PBS freak panel of left-wing journalists spewing the most extreme anti-Trump analysis of the cost-cutting by the White House and efficiency agency headed by Elon Musk. While discussing the fate of USAID, which President Donald Trump’s team closed and shifted spending authority to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a reporter for National Public Radio warned to others nodding yes that the impact will be “poverty and increased starvation.” Then an Atlantic reporter, formerly with the Washington Post, said on the tax-subsidized PBS show Washington Week with The Atlantic that cutting by Trump and Musk of the federal world aid slush fund would lead to “cruelty and death.” The language used by the reporters are just two examples of the type of Trump Derangement Syndrome attacks on Musk and the president’s efforts to root out waste and fraud in government programs. From the February 7 edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS: ASTHMA KHALID, NPR: There’s something I think very strange at this moment of seeing the world’s richest man really sort of take a hatchet that will essentially take people who are already in the depths of poverty and, you know, increase starvation rates, or increase hunger rates, which is likely what will happen if USAID is entirely cut off.”… ANNE APPLEBAUM, THE ATLANTIC: It’s a test case for can agencies just be abolished without Congress having any say, but it’s also a test case of cruelty. You know, are Americans willing to accept a high level of cruelty and death just, you know, on the president’s whim, on Elon Musk’s whim. Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “Your taxpayer dollars at work: A journalist for taxpayer-funded National Public Radio and another journalist – both on taxpayer-funded PBS – relay the talking points, in their most extreme form, of the government employee union trying to discredit any reduction in federal spending. Instead of a rational assessment of efforts to trim spending, the two prove they are in the tank for the deep state, presuming starvation and death will result. And they wonder why so many don’t see them as serious sources of facts.” Rating: Five out of five screams.   ■ February 3, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Call on MSNBC for weekly Trump impeachment votes (Washington Examiner post) Have you heard this one? Democrats want to impeach President Donald Trump. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features a SiriusXM host demanding on left-leaning MSNBC that Democrats vote to impeach Trump weekly. “I hope some of them will start introducing impeachment articles every week,” said Tell Me Everything host John Fugelsang on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour last Friday. “Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural address,” he said. “I think Democrats should start having a different guy come out every week and introduce new articles of impeachment, just to inspire people and show them that we’re doing something and let the record show for history we are fighting against this,” he added. In his first term, Trump was impeached twice, and Democrats thought that would end his political career. Of course, it only strengthened Trump, who won office again against somebody who voted for impeachment twice, former Vice President Kamala Harris. From Friday’s The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC, picking up as Fugelsang reacted to news CBS may make a financial settlement with Trump to end his lawsuit over misleading editing of its 60 Minutes interview with Harris, which followed an earlier financial settlement from Facebook over that platform removing him in 2021: John Fugelsang: They’re bribes. I mean, these are bribes. You know, Donald Trump was eligible for impeachment one minute into his inaugural address for violating the emoluments clause. CBS has got a big merger coming up. This is a bribe. … The Democrats are going to do what they did last time. They’re going to lick their wounds, slowly assemble, let Trump do some work for them, and they’re going to be talking a lot about education and healthcare. I hope some of them will start introducing impeachment articles every week. When the GOP was trying to repeal Obamacare 70 times, we laughed at them. But what they were doing in their impoverished state was consolidating the base, fundraising, and getting their messaging across. It worked for them. I think Democrats should start having a different guy come out every week and introduce new articles of impeachment, just to inspire people and show them that we’re doing something and let the record show for history we are fighting against this.” Brent Baker, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: “So much for even pretending to allow President Trump to have a chance to give voters what they voted for in electing him. MSNBC thinks it’s a legitimate and credible position to contend Trump had earned impeachment less than an hour past noon on Inauguration Day — well before he had signed a single executive order. So much for reflection and serious analysis from the press corps. But it is what Democrats and so many journalists like to do given this would be the third attempt to impeach him. Will they go zero-for-three?” Rating: Five out of five screams.   ■ January 27, 2025: Liberal Media Scream: Vance schools CBS and bishops on illegal immigration (Washington Examiner post) America is learning pretty quickly that Vice President JD Vance is no pushover easily cornered on tough issues. In our latest Liberal Media Scream, we feature Vance’s retort to Catholic bishops and CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan over complaints that the Trump administration is being mean in its effort to deport criminal illegal migrants. Appearing on Face the Nation, Brennan sounded hurt that the administration would enter schools to find their targets. She cited complaints from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which funds efforts to settle illegal immigrants in America, as do other religious groups. Vance had clearly heard it all before and was quick to point out that protecting America and Americans, including migrants here legally, is President Donald Trump’s No. 1 job. Brennan worried that the administration’s policy has “a chilling effect, arguably, to people to not send their kids to school.” Vance reversed her spin to make his point: “I desperately hope it has a chilling effect on illegal immigrants coming into our country.” And when she cited concerns from the bishops, Vance said, “As a practicing Catholic, I was actually heartbroken by that statement. I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns, or are they actually worried about their bottom line?” Clearly, it is going to be a tough four years for liberals in the media, such as Brennan, since Team Trump is ready and willing to parry the left media’s slant on major issues. From Sunday’s Face the Na
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Now that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking on incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn (R) in the 2026 U.S. Senate primary, the attorney general’s office might have some big shoes to fill next year.Given Cornyn’s low approval ratings, there’s a good chance Texas will need a new “top cop,” says BlazeTV host Jill Savage.Thankfully, there is “someone that has experience fighting alongside Donald Trump at the Justice Department ... someone that Trump has called a true MAGA attorney and warrior for the Constitution” who has risen to the challenge. His name is Aaron Reitz, and he’s Paxton’s former senior Department of Justice official and deputy.On a recent episode of “Blaze News | The Mandate,” Reitz joined Jill and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson to share what motivated him to take on this challenge and how he plans to ensure Texas stays tough on crime while holding rogue, Soros-backed DAs accountable. “I know that if the president doesn't get a true MAGA attorney or a warrior for the Constitution in that Texas AG spot ... all kinds of dominoes are going to fall, and it's going to be very bad, not only for Texas but really for the nation,” says Reitz. “I can’t accept that scenario.”“What we need out of a Texas AG is somebody who first and foremost understands the civilizational crisis that we're in. It's not an exaggeration to say that we are in the midst of a war for the soul and the heart of our country,” he continues. “Texas in particular, just out of its sheer size, influence, scope, and power, is really always going to be where the heart of that fight is, and it's why Democrats are always competing to try to take Texas.”It would be a mistake, says Reitz, if Texas falls into what he calls “red-state complacency” — a phenomenon where red states forget that we are currently in the throes of a “civilizational and frankly even a spiritual cold war for our state and for our nation.” These states mistakenly figure that “tinkering on the margins” will “preserve liberty, preserve justice, and advance law and order.”But it’s not enough — not since Soros-funded district attorneys began “undermining law and order in Texas.” Texas counties, Reitz explains, “have massive amounts of autonomy and discretion,” meaning “ideological Democrats get governmental capture over their city and their county political apparatuses, and they just start advancing an aggressive left-wing agenda.”“The Texas AG, though, as a statewide elected official representing the interests of the whole state and robed with immense constitutional powers, plays a critical part in suppressing the extent of the damage that these blue Soros-funded DAs do,” says Reitz, noting that this calculated suppression requires the AG “to get creative with the exercise of the weapons that are in statute.”One creative legal strategy he plans to employ is called a "quo warranto memo" — a common-law mechanism allowing a state to challenge the authority of a public official or entity, such as a district attorney, if they are repeatedly and flagrantly violating the law.“I want to seek affirmative measures for the state of Texas — state versus Soros-funded DA — because if that Soros-funded DA is making our streets unsafe, releasing criminals, making families paranoid ... and they are abusing their prosecutorial discretion to the extent that the cities are rotting, I want to be the kind of Texas AG that comes directly for you,” says Reitz. “You've got a state attorney general who is going to come and hold you accountable and ideally get you out of office.”To hear more of Reitz’s plans to keep Texas tough, watch the episode above.Want more from 'Blaze News | The Mandate'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.
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