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MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: FLASHBACK: Media Elitists Despised Trump’s Addresses to Congress ABC LOSES IT Over Patel in Milan, Cites Iran, Guthrie for Why He Shouldn’t Have Gone Viral MRC Tweet: (CBS News Old School Immigration Reporting) Promoting NYT, Google News Blocks Right-Leaning Media During Scathing Trial   FLASHBACK: Media Elitists Despised Trump’s Addresses to Congress 2017, CNN Tonight, Don Lemon: “The way President Trump speaks extemporaneously is not the same as what he said tonight. It sounded, to me, and this is just — I mean, I thought it was — he sounded very presidential. This was a speech written by a college student for someone else trying to use big words to impress that the person who is reciting it did not know the meaning of the words. That’s how it sounded.” 2018, MSNBC Host Chris Matthews: “It almost got ugly. Very tough about saying immigrants are basically killers. MS-13. Beginning a discussion about immigration in a country of immigrants with crime. And that was his way of opening up the discussion like I’m protecting us from criminal elements. I thought that got very ugly about that point.”... 2019, CNN's Van Jones: “I saw this as a psychotically incoherent speech with cookies and dog poop. He tries to put together in the same speech these warm kind things about humanitarianism and caring about children. At the same time, he is demonizing people who are immigrants in a way that was appalling.” 2019, MSNBC Host Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe: “How can anyone see this as a good speech? How can anyone see this as unifying when he is spewing out lies to the American people?...This is an angry, racist platform that has been surrounded by sweet stories and World War II veterans....but the bottom line is his platform is based on hate and lies, bottom line.”   ABC LOSES IT Over Patel in Milan, Cites Iran, Guthrie for Why He Shouldn’t Have Gone ABC Stands Alone in Its Outrage While every other major network ignored the story, ABC’s Good Morning America was the only one to pitch a fit over Patel attending the U.S. men’s hockey gold-medal game and celebrating with Team USA in the locker room — turning a feel-good American victory into “controversy.” Desperate Guilt-by-Irrelevant-Association ABC’s Pierre Thomas bizarrely tied Patel’s previously scheduled trip to the “elevated threat environment,” the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, and tensions with Iran — claiming these were reasons he “shouldn’t have gone.” This is textbook media desperation to smear a Trump appointee. Fake “Taxpayer Boondoggle” Smear Debunked FBI officials confirmed the Milan trip was planned months in advance, combined official security business with the games, and that Patel personally reimbursed any non-official expenses. ABC ignored these facts and instead parroted Democratic complaints about agency-jet use, exposing their blatant double-standard and bias.   Viral MRC Tweet: (CBS News Old School Immigration Reporting) Bill D'Agostino, MRC Senior Research Analyst, uncovered a CBS News clip from 1995 in which Dan Rather exposes the “national anxiety” over illegal immigration  Transcript from 48 Hours Trailer: “The American people are having a national anxiety attack over large scale immigration, illegal immigration. [America] can’t take care of the world.  “Anger over immigration. People who are here illegally will be deported. I feel hurt and let down and replaced by foreigners. It is outrageous. Schools and hospitals strained to the limit. Criminal aliens on our streets, burglaries, robberies. He's got 20 different aliases. I just can't believe this really happened. Should America slam the door?” Elon Musk commented: Those days are long gone. White House Advisor Stephen Miller commented: For discredited legacy media to regain public confidence (and audience) they need to pursue real journalism like this once again.   Promoting NYT, Google News Blocks Right-Leaning Media During Scathing Trial Total Blackout on Right-Leaning Media Over four consecutive days (Feb 17–20, 2026), Google News featured ZERO articles from right-leaning outlets in its top 20 morning stories each day — that's 80 articles with not a single conservative or right-leaning perspective included, effectively censoring diverse viewpoints and forcing users into a one-sided news bubble. Overwhelming Leftist Dominance More than half (44 out of 80) of the promoted top stories came from outlets rated "left" or "lean left" by AllSides, with The New York Times (rated "lean left") as Google's clear favorite, appearing in eight stories across the period — this isn't neutral curation; it's active promotion of leftist narratives on everything from Jesse Jackson's death to Prince Andrew's arrest. Stunning Hypocrisy Amid YouTube Trial While Google faces a massive lawsuit from over 1,500 families accusing YouTube of addictive, harmful design targeting children, its Google News platform simultaneously pushes "harmfully one-sided narratives" by boosting leftist media and suppressing right-leaning sources — proving Big Tech's double standard: lecture others on content harms while engineering biased information flows.    

CNN doesn’t care about the victims of illegal alien crimes or their families, White House Press Secretary Karoline said Monday, calling the leftist network “a total disgrace” for completely ignoring Monday’s event honoring and hosting “Angel Families.” “.@CNN is a total disgrace,” Leavitt declared in a social media post following the White House ceremony, during which President Donald Trump signed a proclamation designating February 22, 2026 as National Angel Family Day: “President Trump hosted a powerful event honoring Angel Families who lost loved ones at the hands of illegal alien criminals and deadly drugs – but CNN refused to cover EVEN one second of it. “That’s because CNN doesn't care about the victims of illegal alien crime. “They pretend to be a news organization, but they refuse to cover anything that doesn’t fit the Left’s narrative. This is why CNN is failing and losing all of their viewership.” Leavitt embedded video from the event of comments by Allyson Phillips, whose daughter, 22-year old Laken Riley, was killed by an illegal alien. . @CNN is a total disgrace. President Trump hosted a powerful event honoring Angel Families who lost loved ones at the hands of illegal alien criminals and deadly drugs – but CNN refused to cover EVEN one second of it. That’s because CNN doesn't care about the victims of… https://t.co/8jJIYmkGOB — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 23, 2026 “.@CNN spends much of their time attacking the Trump Administration's strict immigration policies, but they will never air stories like this, which are the reason our strict enforcement policies are happening in the first place,” Leavitt said in a separate post including video of a police officer explaining that he had arrested Riley’s illegal alien murderer, José Ibarra, before he killed her, but he was then set free. .@CNN spends much of their time attacking the Trump Administration's strict immigration policies, but they will never air stories like this, which are the reason our strict enforcement policies are happening in the first place: https://t.co/A8LoFV05Ct — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 23, 2026 “.@CNN will never show this incredible man's honest words because he completely debunks their fake narrative that ‘Trump is bad and racist,’ the press secretary wrote in a third post of video from the event: “Jody Jones, whose brother, Rocky, was shot and killed by an illegal: ‘I'm sick and tired of hearing these [Democrat] politicians stand up on these podiums and say how sorry they are for seeing these criminal illegal aliens being 'ripped apart' from their families. What about US?... We mean something to, and this man right here understands it.’” .@CNN will never show this incredible man's honest words because he completely debunks their fake narrative that "Trump is bad and racist" https://t.co/coRSCHk2cS — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 23, 2026 “Why doesn't @CNN think this American mother's words are worth airing on their network?” Leavitt asked in a post of video of Laura Wilkerson, whose son was "brutally beaten, tortured, and strangled to death, and his body set on fire" by an illegal immigrant. “Jesus works on my family every day, still healing us today, and I am just so incredibly grateful for the man who’s in office who never quits (Pres. Trump),” Wilkerson said, asking God to “breathe a fresh breath of air through this administration.” Why doesn't @CNN think this American mother's words are worth airing on their network? https://t.co/LxX41g0Lvc — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 23, 2026  

Both ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned on Monday after a week off to offer up some Olympic-sized hockey hot takes. Kimmel would try to turn the gold-medal-winning women’s team into a symbol of the anti-Trump resistance, while Daily Show host Jon Stewart and this week’s Tuesday-Thursday host Desi Lydic used the opportunity to explain why Canada, which both the men’s and women’s teams beat in overtime to win gold, is better than the U.S. For his part, Kimmel introduced a clip of the men’s team talking on the phone with Trump after the game, “So, Trump dials into the locker room after the game, Kash has got his phone to glom on to the glory and invite the men’s team and, begrudgingly, gold medal-winning women’s team, who also won in overtime, to his State of the Union tomorrow.”   Jimmy Kimmel and his audience applaud the women's hockey team not being able to make it to the State of the Union, "What a funny creep, huh? The women's hockey team, by the way, immediately refused his invitation. Truly. I mean, can you blame them? The last time Trump invited a… pic.twitter.com/0LnPLcIn4Y — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 24, 2026   Over speakerphone, Trump declared, “We'll do the White House the next day, we’ll just have some fun, we have medals for you guys and we have to, I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that. If I don’t do that, I believe I probably would be impeached, okay?” As Trump was talking, the team was clearly excited about the idea of sharing the spotlight with the women’s team and understood the joke, but Kimmel, who purports to be a professional funny person, was not amused, “What a funny creep, huh?” He then applauded the women’s team while trying to decipher hidden meanings in Hockey USA’s official statement: The women's hockey team, by the way, immediately refused the invitation. Truly. I mean, can you blame them? The last time Trump invited a woman with a medal to the White House, he made her give it to him. A spokesperson for USA Hockey wrote, ‘We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women's hockey team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement. Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.’ Which is a nice way of saying, ‘Puck off, Trump!’ We've got better things to do. Meanwhile, The Daily Show sought to satirize what it considered to be overzealous chest-beating by certain conservative media personalities trying to make political points about liberals and Canada. At the same time, Lydic would not-so subtly suggest that if you wanted to actually compare the U.S. with Canada, then the latter would be better. Stewart played the role of the straight man when he declared, “I just don't know if our political systems are really all that different from Canada's.”   The Daily Show sought to mock what it considered overzealous conservative political reactions while implying Canada's actually better. Desi Lydic claimed "Our democracy separates executive power from the legislature with a president appointed by an electoral college, while their… pic.twitter.com/RPnZt2H1bh — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 24, 2026   Lydic sarcastically lamented the existence of the Electoral College, “What? Are you kidding me? Our democracy separates executive power from the legislature with a president appointed by an electoral college, while their democracy appoints an executive based on the outcome of which governing party has the majority. And as we learned on the ice yesterday, that system sucks!” Fact-check: In both 2019 and 2021, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party won despite losing what American liberals would refer to as “the popular vote.” After some additional caricaturizing from Lydic, Stewart claimed, “But the game didn't change the fact that Canadians still have a better health care system than we do.” Lydic returned to the sarcasm, “Yes. Okay, I thought so, too, until I saw the scoreboard! For-profit health care: 1. Universal Canadian health care: 0. USA! USA!” Ah yes, the Canadian health care system. The system that gives its people shortages, absurdly long wait times, and euthanasia. Here are transcripts for the February 23 shows: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2/23/2026 11:44 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: So, Trump dials into the locker room after the game, Kash has got his phone to glom on to the glory and invite the men’s team and, begrudgingly, gold medal-winning women’s team, who also won in overtime, to his State of the Union tomorrow. DONALD TRUMP: We'll do the White House the next day, we’ll just have some fun, we have medals for you guys and we have to, I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that. If I don’t do that, I believe I probably would be impeached, okay? KIMMEL: What a funny creep, huh? The women's hockey team, by the way, immediately refused the invitation. Truly. I mean, can you blame them? The last time Trump invited a woman with a medal to the White House, he made her give it to him. A spokesperson for USA Hockey wrote, "We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women's hockey team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement. Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment." Which is a nice way of saying, "Puck off, Trump!" We've got better things to do. *** Comedy Central The Daily Show 2/23/2026 11:09 PM ET JON STEWART: I just don't know if our political systems are really all that different from Canada's. DESI LYDIC: What? Are you kidding me? Our democracy separates executive power from the legislature with a president appointed by an electoral college, while their democracy appoints an executive based on the outcome of which governing party has the majority. And as we learned on the ice yesterday, that system sucks! STEWART: The systems seem, actually, pretty similar. I mean, don't both the U.S. And Canada have bicameral legislatures? LYDIC: Yes, but American senators are elected, while Canadian senators are appointed, just like how Canada just got appointed to our nuts, bitch! STEWART: That kind of came out of nowhere, Desi. Comprehensive and filthy, Desi. LYDIC: Aw, thank you! Here's another: In America, we have electoral districts. But in Canada, they call their districts ridings, which is fitting because Team Canada was riding our nuts, bitch! STEWART: Jon: Please stop saying "Nuts." LYDIC: I will not. I will not. And by the way, another reason we're better: America's congress has a sergeant at arms, but the Canadian parliament has an "Usher of the Black Rod," and speaking of ushering a black rod— STEWART: No, no, Desi, no. LYDIC: Yeah, I didn't like where that was going. Same way the Canadians didn't like where my nuts were going, bitch! STEWART: Okay, don't encourage her! The cold weather has changed you! But the game didn't change the fact that Canadians still have a better health care system than we do. LYDIC: Yes. Okay, I thought so, too, until I saw the scoreboard! For-profit health care: 1. Universal Canadian health care: 0. USA! USA! STEWART: Desi, that wasn't even the final score.

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