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As the world of “public” broadcasting faces the rebuke of Congress rescinding its billions of dollars, it spurs a broader thought about the arrogance of liberal journalists at national media outlets. They’re not simply arrogant. They sound remarkably insincere. Start with a man named Michael Tribble, the chief content officer at WAMU, the NPR station in the nation’s capital. He sent out a fundraising email after the Senate rebuke, oozing to their liberal supporters: “You’re part of a community that believes facts matter, that context matters, and that journalism has the power to bring us closer together.” We’ll glide past the notion that Republicans don’t believe in facts or context, and highlight the preposterous part about NPR “bringing us closer together.” This is a ridiculous myth— that Team NPR are uniters, not dividers. WAMU produces a national talk show called “1A.” Here’s a reminder of how divisive they are. On June 9, 2020, in the throes of the George Floyd rioting, they aired a segment titled “When Journalists Say They’re Objective—What Does That Even Mean?” The guest host that day began with a proclamation: “In the midst of nationwide protests condemning systemic violence against black Americans, at ‘1A,’ we support protesters’ demands for a right to live and to hold police accountable for using deadly force against black people.” They can’t imagine anyone defending police officers or chattering about black-on-black violence. “Solidarity” with the cause is everything. The entire hour was a one-sided hootenanny railing against objectivity as a white supremacist construct. The guests were various shades of radical, starting with Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose “1619 Project” at The New York Times pushed the woke notion of systematic racism across the country and into the schools. The other guests were Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, the “public editor” of PBS, who insisted, “I’m a believer in activist journalism,” and an insider, “1A”producer Morgan Givens, a black “trans man” who repeatedly denounced Donald Trump as a “white supremacist fascist.” Now point and laugh at the man who says on behalf of his station that “journalism has the power to bring us closer together.” Their “us” is limited to people inside the left-wing bubble. It offers nothing to independent voters and Republicans, who don’t trust the national press. NPR CEO Katherine Maher channels that same arrogant insincerity in her performative interviews. On CNN, Maher batted away any notion NPR is arrogantly liberal. Maher uncorked this whopper, pretending she cares about conservative complaints: “As a public broadcaster, we do have an obligation to serve all Americans, and we need to make sure that our coverage reflects the interests and perspective—and we hear from Americans across the political spectrum,” she claimed. “That’s important to us, and we want to make sure we live up to that.” It should be obvious to anyone with two ears that NPR spews leftist thoughts on an hourly basis, and Donald Trump would be their daily supervillain, if he weren’t viewed as incompetent in his villainy. They have doubled down on their bias all year long, despite all the threats of defunding. The notion of “bringing us closer together” starts with listening to criticism. NPR is unwilling to listen to complaints they think come from “white supremacist fascists.” NPR “public editor” Kelly McBride told Brian Stelter in 2021 they can ignore conservative complaints “because they’re not really listening to NPR.” This demonstrates they are allergic to evidence. Rebuilding trust in media outlets begins with humility, sincerity and listening to critics. Media outlets that ignore those qualities can expect to keep losing respect and consumers. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Arrogant Media Are Not ‘Bringing Us Closer Together’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A cat showed up on a family's porch for food, unaware that his life was about to get so much better. JulepChatonsOrphelinsMontrealAn orange tabby appeared in a family's yard, hoping for a scrap of food. After roaming from door to door, he'd finally found the right place.Arianne and John, who care deeply about community cats, often leave food out for any strays who might need it. That day, the hungry tabby crept onto their porch and devoured the food like he hadn't eaten in days.The moment he noticed the family, he bolted into the shadows. He wandered onto a family's porch for foodChatonsOrphelinsMontrealHoping he'd return, they continued putting out fresh food and water each day. To their delight, the cat came back like clockwork. "He showed up every day like it was his own little cafeteria," Chatons Orphelins Montreal shared.With each visit, he lingered on the porch a little longer. He returned every day, and with each visit, he lingered a bit longerChatonsOrphelinsMontrealHe would sit outside and quietly observe the family's cats through the glass door, as if wondering what life was like on the other side. Soon, it became clear he had no home of his own and depended on the family to survive.Over time, he grew bolder and no longer darted away when they opened the door. He eventually decided to give indoor life a tryChatonsOrphelinsMontrealHe began approaching for treats and even let them pet him. Then came a rainy evening that changed everything.The cat showed up on the porch, soaking wet. The family opened the door, and this time, he walked right in. As the door closed behind him, so did the chapter of his life on the streets. They dried him off and created a cozy nook just for him. He quickly embraced the comforts of a loving homeChatonsOrphelinsMontrealSafe inside, the cat, Julep, quickly warmed up to his rescuers and even let them carry him in their arms.When they got a closer look, they noticed battle scars on his face, ears, and neck—evidence of his rough life outdoors. Wanting the best for him, they contacted their local rescue for help. He is very vocal and has a ravenous appetiteChatonsOrphelinsMontrealChatons Orphelins Montreal welcomed Julep into their care and provided the medical attention he needed. The vet estimated him to be about four years old, but he still had the heart and spirit of a kitten—charming, curious, and playful."He's very chatty. If you talk to him, he always answers back." ChatonsOrphelinsMontrealHe greets his foster mom with a symphony of purrs and chirps, rolling onto his back when she enters the room."He climbs into our laps and nuzzles into our hands for pets, all while purring and cooing nonstop. He's a big teddy bear who flops over when he's happy." He is about four years old but still a kitten at heartChatonsOrphelinsMontrealJulep wants to be close to his humans at all times and doesn't believe in closed doors. He is talkative, energetic, and always up for a game—especially when the feather toy comes out.What started as a simple search for food turned into a second chance at life. ChatonsOrphelinsMontrealNow, he's thriving in a loving foster home where he's adored, pampered, and never alone.These days, you can find him perched atop the bookshelf or cat tree, keeping a close eye on his humans, always ready to pounce into a play session or flop into their arms. ChatonsOrphelinsMontrealShare this story with your friends. More on Julep and Chatons Orphelins Montreal on Instagram and Facebook.Related story: Cat Spotted High Up on a Building, Suddenly Comes Out of Her Shell When She Realizes Life is About to Change

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CNN’s Jake Tapper tried desperately on The Lead on Friday to connect the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with parent company Paramount’s legal drama with President Trump. Tapper admitted he had no evidence for this but still found the whole thing to be “interesting” and promoted anonymous sources to help him advance his conspiracy theory. During his monologue, Tapper recalled an interview Colbert gave with PBS where he called Trump “boring,” which led to Trump calling for Colbert to be fired. After a clip, Tapper observed, “And here we are ten months later, Colbert has been canceled, and PBS is losing its federal funding. Interesting.” Not really, but because Trump reacted gleefully to the news, Tapper continued, “And in case you wondered how the president took the news about Colbert, he posted on Truth Social, quote, ‘I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.’ He's still not satisfied, though. ‘I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.’ That's what President Trump said.”     Trump’s comments aside, Colbert was not fired. His contract is expiring, and CBS decided re-upping a show that loses $40 mil lion a year wasn’t worth it. Additionally, people like Tapper will surely be keeping a close eye on ABC and Disney now to see what they do with Kimmel after such Truth Social posts, but Kimmel himself has spent the last couple of years openly speculating that he will not renew his contract next year and retire. Nevertheless, Tapper had his anonymous sources to cite, “One former CBS executive told me of this news, quote, ‘The timing seems so obvious and keeping with Paramount's quid pro quo theme. If it were just financial, why announce this now? Why not let RedBird announce it post-transaction and FCC blessing? Seems like a further tribute to me. Shameful.’” Do Tapper and his anonymous sources really believe that waiting until the merger was approved would’ve squashed the allegations that Paramount and Trump made some sort of deal? Tapper has no evidence, other than one nameless person’s opinion, that politics had anything to do with The Late Show’s demise, but he still added, “It is stunning what is being done by men and women who should know better, who do know better in boardrooms and on Capitol Hill, because the most powerful man in the world, a man who has achieved way beyond his wildest life’s dreams, seems shockingly pervious to criticism.” He then admitted he had no evidence for any of this but still accused Paramount of letting Trump think he had something to do with it, “Now, we may never know if CBS ending the Colbert Show was part of some secret deal cut between Paramount and Trump, or if it was just a freebie Paramount threw in, or if it was entirely unrelated and actually because of financial reasons, but Paramount is happy to let Trump think it is in the name of pleasing him.” That’s just not true. CBS’s statement explicitly said the decision had nothing to do with Colbert’s liberalism or other business involving Paramount. Tapper, however, further added, “The fact that so much of corporate America is dedicated to fearing these presidential whims that could result in actual retribution should concern all of us because trends like this don't stop with one president. They start with them. And the First Amendment protecting the free speech rights of comedians and journalists when they joke or cover powerful people, an amendment that our corporate masters will not fight for, that's ultimately just words on parchment.” As the segment would go on, Tapper would welcome former New York Times media reporter and current LateNighter writer Bill Carter to further cast doubt on CBS’s decision. According to Carter, because CBS was willing to renew After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson before she quit, it shows that the decision to cancel The Late Show is “very suspicious timing, extremely suspicious.” The problem with that is that After Midnight only existed in the first place because it was cheaper than continuing with The Late Late Show. Trump or no Trump, in the age of specialized entertainment journalism, streaming, and podcasts, it makes little economic sense to have a comedy show with a multi-million-dollar host, band, and celebrity interviews at 11:30 p.m. or 12:30 a.m. that only appeals to one side of the political divide. Here is a transcript for the July 18 show: CNN The Lead with Jake Tapper 7/18/2025 6:41 PM ET JAKE TAPPER: And here we are ten months later, Colbert has been canceled, and PBS is losing its federal funding. Interesting. And in case you wondered how the president took the news about Colbert, he posted on Truth Social, quote, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired.” He's still not satisfied, though. “I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.” That's what President Trump said. One former CBS executive told me of this news, quote, “The timing seems so obvious and keeping with Paramount's quid pro quo theme. If it were just financial, why announce this now? Why not let RedBird announce it post-transaction and FCC blessing? Seems like a further tribute to me. Shameful.” It is stunning what is being done by men and women who should know better, who do know better in boardrooms and on Capitol Hill, because the most powerful man in the world, a man who has achieved way beyond his wildest life’s dreams, seems shockingly pervious to criticism. Now, we may never know if CBS ending the Colbert Show was part of some secret deal cut between Paramount and Trump, or if it was just a freebie Paramount threw in, or if it was entirely unrelated and actually because of financial reasons, but Paramount is happy to let Trump think it is in the name of pleasing him. The fact that so much of corporate America is dedicated to fearing these presidential whims that could result in actual retribution should concern all of us because trends like this don't stop with one president. They start with them. And the First Amendment protecting the free speech rights of comedians and journalists when they joke or cover powerful people, an amendment that our corporate masters will not fight for, that's ultimately just words on parchment.

There is an editorial genre kept alive at liberal publications around the country that is focused on questions about what to do with conservative kin and how best to prevent family members from similarly adopting viewpoints at odds with leftist values.The HuffPost, for instance, published a long-winded essay from a stereotypical Bluesky progressive about whether she should cut her "right-wing, Trump-loving in-laws out of [her] kids' lives."New York magazine ran an essay last year from a mother of white boys expressing terror over their potential slide to the right and over "having a flesh-and-blood oppressor-in-training eating [her] spaghetti and meatballs."The Delaware News Journal published an open letter in December in which the former president of the Delaware teachers' union defended the decision to ditch Trump-supporting family members, claiming that "it comes from a deep sense of betrayal, a need to preserve our mental and emotional well-being, and the refusal to stay silent in the face of harm."Obama speechwriter David Litt recently contributed to the genre with a piece in the New York Times titled "Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?"Litt ultimately answered yes, that "keeping the door open to unlikely friendship isn't a betrayal of principles — it's an affirmation of them."RELATED: CDC knew the COVID jab was dangerous — and pushed it anyway Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesHowever, prior to signaling his beneficence, Litt provided Times readers with a reminder both of the elitism that has helped the Democratic Party alienate much of the electorate and of Democrats' chronic abuse of those who failed to fall in line during the pandemic.At the outset, Obama's former speechwriter noted that he "felt a civic duty to be rude" to his wife's younger brother."He lifted weights to death metal; I jogged to Sondheim. I was one of President Barack Obama's speechwriters and had an Ivy League degree; he was a huge Joe Rogan fan and went on to get his electrician's license," wrote Litt.Although the speechwriter did not dwell on these differences, they appear to fit thematically with voters' understanding reflected in a poll recently conducted by the Democratic super PAC Unite the Country — namely that the Democratic Party is "out of touch," "woke," and "weak."According to Litt, the imagined chasm between him and his conservative brother-in-law grew during the pandemic, particularly when the in-law refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine — a decision that various studies and recent warnings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have vindicated, especially when it comes to healthy men.'It felt like he was tearing up the social contract that, until that point, I'd imagined we shared.'The Ivy League Democrat admitted that had the man "been a friend rather than a family member, I probably would have cut off contact completely."Although Litt did not end up cutting off his brother-in-law, he indicated that he was for a period of time strategically unfriendly, claiming that such treatment of the unvaccinated "felt like the right thing to do" — a tactic then advocated in the pages of USA Today.Democrats at the time were apparently willing to go far beyond unfriendliness in their efforts to bring the unvaccinated to heel.In a Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of 1,016 likely voters conducted in January 2022, pollsters asked, "Would you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose a proposal to limit the spread of the coronavirus by having federal or state governments require that citizens temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine?" Whereas 71% of all voters — and 84% of Republicans — signaled opposition to throwing the unvaccinated in quarantine camps, 45% of Democrats said they strongly or somewhat favored the proposal. According to the same poll, 48% of Democrats supported federal or state governments fining or imprisoning Americans who questioned the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines on social media, TV, radio, or in digital publications.The same month that nearly half of polled Democrats expressed a desire to see their fellow citizens locked up for wrongthink or tossed into camps for avoiding an experimental vaccine, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece suggesting it was "not necessarily the wrong reaction" to "celebrate or exult in the deaths of vaccine opponents.""Turning down a vaccine during a pandemic seemed like a rejection of science and self-preservation," wrote Litt. "It felt like he was tearing up the social contract that, until that point, I'd imagined we shared."RELATED: Polling reveals: Whatever Democrats are doing, it ain't working Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty ImagesWhile certain that conservatives will continue to be shunned over the MAGA agenda — in particular over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown and over Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reform of the medical establishment — Litt questioned the efficacy of Democrat cancel culture, suggesting that "it's counterproductive."In what might be the most telling sentence in the piece, Obama's Democratic speechwriter characterized as "radical" the notion that individuals can like each other despite disapproving of each other's political choices. More in Common, a research outfit that studies social division, noted in a 2019 study concerning the root causes of political polarization that "Americans have a deeply distorted understanding of each other. We call this America's 'Perception Gap.'"According to More in Common, Democrats have a much wider perception gap, "likely because they have fewer Republican friends." The likelihood of Democrats reporting most of their friends sharing the same political beliefs increases depending on their level of educational attainment, whereas the likelihood remains flat for Republicans.Although he claimed shunning family with opposing views wasn't worthwhile, Litt made sure to indicate that ostracizing strangers was still okay, claiming he'd avoid White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on account of his supposed "odiousness."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Trump Scores Another MAJOR Win

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