The Star Spangled Banner is one of the hardest songs, even for our most revered musicians, to actually perform well. But since it’s our National Anthem, of course, our most sacred musical piece is the go-to target of every self-inflated celebrity who figures they can make the song, and its meaning about themselves. One wannabe pop star figured she couldn’t get away with phoning in her “talent,” as usual, when the Los Angeles Dodgers graciously invited her to screech the National Anthem at their stadium. So she decided to win some quick press by inverting the anthem in Spanish, as part of an unoriginal attempt to signal virtue to our foreign invaders.  This "influencer" and her ilk of sheltered LA types could take use in learning that our National Anthem ends in a question: Whether America will still survive, and will our brave countrymen ensure it does? Or will it end on a sour note... in a foreign language. I will explain this segment in the World of Woke in more detail.

More than 75 years after Israel declared Jerusalem as its capital—and more than seven years since U.S. President Donald Trump formally recognized it as such—several artificial intelligence chatbots still hedge on what should be a simple question: What is Israel’s capital city? Key Findings: All of the chatbots, except Grok, dodged MRC Free Speech America’s question with qualified language. That included Meta AI, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, DeepSeek and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Arguably providing the worst answers out of the six chatbots queried, Meta AI, Gemini and Copilot used hedging language, emphasizing that foreign entities dispute Israel’s designation of Jerusalem as its capital, as if such a declaration depends on external approval. Meanwhile, ChatGPT and DeepSeek, the controversial chatbot tied to communist China, offered a more straightforward answer but still qualified their responses with references to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Only Grok, the AI chatbot owned by tech mogul Elon Musk, unequivocally identified Jerusalem as Israel’s capital [Story Continues on MRC Free Speech America]

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel is not a military expert, but he does try to play one on TV. Having previously shown a stunning lack of basic knowledge on how missiles work in order to try to dunk on President Trump’s Golden Dome idea, Kimmel was back at it again on Tuesday, claiming that deploying National Guard and Marine units to Los Angeles has left Trump “in a tough spot” as he weighs his options on the ongoing war between Israel and Iran. Kimmel reported, “President Macron of France said Trump bailed to help broker a cease-fire between Israel and Iran. For whatever reason, that rubbed Trump the wrong way. He was angry. He wrote, ‘Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran. Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a ceasefire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!’”     He then quipped, “Like it's the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice or something. It's not a ceasefire, it's much bigger than that. Maybe a bowel movement? I don't know. By the way, Trump calling another president 'publicity seeking' is like Diddy calling you a bad boyfriend. The president has been live-truthing his diplomacy attempts in real time. He wrote, ‘I have not reached out to Iran for peace talks in any way, shape, or form. This is just more highly fabricated fake news. If they want to talk, they know how to reach me.’” Kimmel then finally got to his analysis, “That’s right, if Iran wants to reach Trump, all they have to do is give him a $400 million plane, and he will talk to them all they want. Trump spent the afternoon guzzling Diet Cokes in the Situation Room trying to figure this out. He's in a tough spot because the American military right now is busy guarding all the Waymos here in downtown in LA.” Despite the media’s best efforts to portray Trump’s LA response as something out of a dystopian novel, the ships, aircraft, air defense, bunker busters, and other relevant units and weapons are not in Los Angeles. While Kimmel may try to claim he was just trying to be the funny man, the joke makes zero sense. The idea that having a couple thousand National Guard troops and a few hundred Marines in LA has put the U.S. in a tough spot now that an actual military crisis is unfolding in the Middle East is just plain dumb. Here is a transcript for the June 17 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 6/17/2025 11:37 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: President Macron of France said Trump bailed to help broker a cease-fire between Israel and Iran. For whatever reason, that rubbed Trump the wrong way. He was angry. He wrote, “Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran. Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a ceasefire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!” Like it's the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice or something. It's not a ceasefire, it's much bigger than that. Maybe a bowel movement? I don't know. By the way, Trump calling another president “publicity seeking” is like Diddy calling you a bad boyfriend. The president has been live-truthing his diplomacy attempts in real time. He wrote, “I have not reached out to Iran for peace talks in any way, shape, or form. This is just more highly fabricated fake news. If they want to talk, they know how to reach me.” That’s right, if Iran wants to reach Trump, all they have to do is give him a $400 million plane, and he will talk to them all they want. Trump spent the afternoon guzzling Diet Cokes in the Situation Room trying to figure this out. He's in a tough spot because the American military right now is busy guarding all the Waymos here in downtown in LA. 

The national media employ a long-held double standard on political protests. They boost left-wing protests regardless of crowd size and pretend they’re not leftist. When conservatives protest, it’s either ignored or it’s treated as menacing, laced with a “dark undercurrent.” Saturday’s nationally organized leftist “No Kings” protests against President Trump were boosted as “massive.” Morning Joe co-host Jon Lemire gushed "The vast, vast majority of these ‘No Kings’ protests were very peaceful and the crowds were huge!” But protests are not elections. Leftist Garry Kasparov – the Russian chess master – bragged about that “huge” turnout on Substack: “Five million people protested across the United States over the weekend—for liberal democracy and the rule of law and against a wannabe strongman. That’s 1.5% of all Americans taking part in a coordinated action.” Read that again: even if you accept this exaggerated crowd size, how does 1.5 percent of America represent public opinion? Five million protesters is a much smaller sample than 77 million Trump voters. Democracy is measured at the ballot box, not with the most activist voters in the streets.  Protests could be analyzed as “pseudo-events,” as defined by Daniel Boorstin – events staged to draw media attention.  Protests by the president’s opposition are morale boosters for the people who lost the election. You could have said that about conservative protests against President Obama in 2009. It’s instructive to review what happened back then. On August 7, 2009, then-MSNBC host David Shuster was spreading fear about protesters at Obamacare town hall meetings. "We know that threats to President Obama are up by like, 400% compared to the Bush administration. Is this putting our president in some sort of danger? Because of some wacko that will see this stuff and say, ‘oh, yes, it’s fascism and the way we dealt with Adolf Hitler was to try to kill him, so therefore, let’s do this with our president.’" That’s fascinating, since in the Trump years, MSNBC hosts and guests have routinely smeared President Trump as a dictator and a fascist and Hitler, and no one worries about their loose talk endangering him. CNN displayed a complete contrast in 2009. First came a big Tea Party rally with an estimated 75,000 protesters on September 12.  CNN’s Jim Spellman couldn’t locate a scary nut in D.C., so he aired canned footage of a man – somewhere in Michigan – holding an AK-47 and talking of a possible civil war. Then he warned of that "dark undercurrent" poisoning the right: "It’s a bit of a dark undercurrent. You have the bulk of the people that are there for low taxes, less government control, but there really is an element that's got these kind of outlandish conspiracy theories about death camps and about the, you know, this takeover, people comparing President Obama to Hitler.” Just twelve days later in Pittsburgh, the radical left held a protest in Pittsburgh against a G-20 summit. CNN reporter Brian Todd robotically cited the usual talking points for leftist rallies, highlighting the "very, very diverse" nature of the protesters: "We're told this is the biggest march in Pittsburgh since the 1970s, estimated at least a few thousand people. But it is much more peaceful, less confrontational. Very, very diverse group of protesters here, everyone from people protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet, to women's rights groups, to anti-capitalists."  This “much more peaceful” protest ended with 200 arrests. The Left clearly thinks protests are Their Thing, and whenever conservatives protest, it must be a dastardly conspiracy that endangers democracy. In their minds, democracy only flowers when their stilted narratives dominate. 

Covering politicians getting themselves performatively arrested these days is not unlike watching an outbreak: first one patient, then another, until the whole town is infected. And as is the case with their outbreak coverage, the media are excessively hyping these performative arrests. Case in point: ABC World News Tonight as they covered the stunt arrest of New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander, who attempted to obstruct ICE from arresting an illegal alien that he was escorting to and from immigration court. Here is that report in its entirety: ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT 6/17/25 6:37 PM DAVID MUIR: Now to the dramatic scene in New York City. A candidate for mayor detained by ICE agents inside immigration court. Agents handcuffing him and taking him away. Here's Aaron Katersky. BRAD LANDER: Do you have a judicial warrant? Do you have a judicial warrant? AARON KATERSKY: Tonight, one week before the primary in the race for New York City's mayor, the dramatic scene involving one of the candidates inside immigration court. LANDER: Where is it? Where is the warrant? KATERSKY: ICE Agents pulling Brad Lander, an elected official and Democratic candidate for mayor, through a hallway. Pushing him against the wall, locking him in handcuffs. LANDER: You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. I'm not obstructing, I'm standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant. KATERSKY: Lander had linked arms with a migrant officers were trying to arrest, prying the two men apart. Homeland Security officials accused Lander of assault, and impeding a federal officer. Federal prosecutors said they are investigating but late today, Lander walking out free. ICE said you assaulted an officer. LANDER: I mean, you guys all saw it on video, so, you know exactly what happened, and probably on advice of counsel, I will not characterize the events, but I certainly did not assault an officer. KATERSKY: It comes days after a United States senator was detained in California. ICE: Hands up, hands up. ALEX PADILLA I'm senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the secretary. KRISTI NOEM: Also, I want to talk -- KATERSKY: Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from a press conference as he tried to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about ICE arrests in Los Angeles. Today, Padilla emotional.  PADILLA: I was forced to the ground. KATERSKY: In his first speech on the Senate floor, and issuing this warning: PADILLA: What's happening is not just a threat to California, it's a threat to everyone in every state. KATERSKY: These public officials are being detained, David, during an uptick in ICE arrests in immigration courts around the country. David. MUIR: Aaron Katersky with us again tonight. Aaron, thank you. First off, you’ll note that although Katresky begins his narration of Landers’ arrest with the arm linking, the video shown by ABC omits that. Unless viewers also saw the original video of the arrest, there is the potential for confusion.This is by design. Compare this video featuring the full arrest in its context with what you saw on ABC.                                                                This sleight of hand allows for an easier establishment of a persecution narrative, particularly as ICE prepares to conduct more raids in cities like New York. Then there is the matter of Padilla. Katersky runs the comparison to Padilla’s Los Angeles crashout, attempting to establish parallels between the two. Padilla showed up to the Senate floor and delivered his emotional remarks. Katersky closes out the report by linking the arrests to an “uptick in ICE arrests in immigration courts.” It sounds nice, but that’s not what happened. Lander got arrested for obstructing an arrest, and Padilla got busted for trying to crash a press conference in order to ask questions without first identifying himself. Once again, ABC gaslights its public: this time, in order to further fuel anti-ICE sentiment by casting these arrested politicians as Resistance martyrs. Buyer beware.