The network evening news, deep in the throes of Trump derangement, have taken an adversarial tack towards coverage of ongoing U.S. operations in the Caribbean. In so doing, they willfully omitted reporting on the daring clandestine mission to get Venezuelan leader María Corina Machado to Oslo, Norway where she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Per The Wall Street Journal: Wearing a wig and a disguise, María Corina Machado began her escape from Venezuela on Monday afternoon. The Venezuelan opposition leader was trying to get to Norway by Wednesday in time to receive the Nobel Peace Prize that she won for challenging Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. First she had to get from the Caracas suburb where she has been in hiding for a year to a coastal fishing village, where a skiff awaited her. Over the course of 10 nerve-racking hours, Machado and two people helping her escape hit 10 military checkpoints, avoiding capture each time, before she reached the coast by midnight, said a person close to the operation. The report goes on to note that a call was made to the U.S. military, so as to give a heads up and therefore avoid being blown up along the route to Curacao like a cocaine-ferrying drug boat. Machado had backup along the way: Around the same time of their crossing, a pair of U.S. Navy F-18s flew into the Gulf of Venezuela and spent roughly 40 minutes flying in tight circles near the route that would lead from the coast to Curaçao, according to flight-tracking data. It was the closest incursion of U.S. aircraft into Venezuelan airspace since the U.S. military buildup began in September. Online speculation has been rampant since the partial reveal of the details of this journey were made public, with questions about the role that U.S. Special Operations forces may have had in this extraction.  Machado missed the Nobel ceremony. Her daughter collected her Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf and gave a powerful speech. Eventually, she made it to Oslo and greeted Venezuelans still gathered outside the Grand Hotel at 2AM local time. None of this, at least the parts that happened before airtime, were reported on the network nightly news. Nothing at all on ABC, CBS, or NBC. The legacy media focused instead on the U.S. seizure of an Iranian ghost fleet tanker chock full of Venezuelan oil and en route to Cuba. That story is easier to keep Trump-centered and Trump-washed.  

While all three networks went hard in the paint Wednesday morning against President Trump and painted the economy as in turmoil, ABC’s Good Morning America was particular vicious with an entirely negative story and zero recognition of how economic indicators have improved vis-à-vis the Biden economy. Co-host George Stephanopoulos reveled in Trump’s state of affairs: “With his poll numbers dropping, the President hit trail in Pennsylvania last night to tout the record on the economy before veering off message and mocking affordability.” Fellow Trump hater and chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce huffed that Trump “kicked off what is supposed to be a series of speeches to sell his economic message ahead of the midterms” and “[h]e is adamant his policies are benefitting Americans even though recent polls show voters feel the economy isn’t working for them.” Man. I understand the state of the economy is a huge warning sign for Republicans next year, but this segment from ABC's 'Good Morning America' by serial Trump haters Stephanopoulos and Mary Bruce was off the charts horrible. Zero snarky or scoffs in the Biden years! pic.twitter.com/9UpRG1dwHj — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2025   “And while the President is well aware this will be the key issue come November, for over 90 minutes last night, his remarks repeatedly veered off topic and into vicious attacks,” she added. While many conservatives such as our friend Erick Erickson have noted the economic unease has persisted and will be a concern for Republicans in the midterms, ABC disgustingly painted Trump as uninterested in the economy (click “expand”): BRUCE: But the President has also dismissed concerns about affordability, calling the issue a Democrat hoax and a con job. TRUMP: They use the word affordability, and that’s their only word. They say affordability and everyone says, oh, that must mean Trump has high prices. No, our prices are coming down tremendously from the highest prices in the history of our country. BRUCE: But the price of groceries actually up from a year ago, including products impacted by the President’s tariffs. Coffee up 41 percent, sirloin steak up 20 percent, frozen orange juice up 12 percent. The President standing by his tariffs while saying Americans may have to make some sacrifices. TRUMP: You don’t need $37 for your daughter. Two or three is nice, but you don’t need 37 dolls. So, we’re doing things right. We’re running this country right. BRUCE: But most polls show voters don’t agree. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 56 percent of Americans disapprove of how the President is handling the cost of living. Only 31 percent approve. Bruce then whined Trump “launch[ed] into vicious attacks against Somali immigrants, calling them lazy and garbage and continuing to go after Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen” and “rous[ed] the crowd” with his “anti-immigrant tirade.” Back live with Stephanopoulos, the two also kept up the drumbeat about Trump’s health: STEPHANOPOULOS: And Mary, the President also played on social media, lashing out at reports about his health. BRUCE: Yeah, the President is clearly furious about recent reporting about his stamina. He is going after The New York Times’s latest reporting on his health. He says it’s “seditious, perhaps even treasonous,” and he’s threatening the publication, saying, “we should do something about it.” Being the Biden regime’s chief apple polisher, Bruce did everything in her power to scoff at those concerned over the economy from 2021 through this past January. In September 2022, Bruce gushed Biden wasn’t “worried about these latest inflation numbers and he’s putting a positive spin on things” because “inflation is relatively flat” with “low unemployment numbers and plunging gas prices.” A month later, co-host Robin Roberts touted to Bruce that Biden was “address[ing] the issue of gas prices,” “going...after oil companies,” and taking “action...to drive prices down.” Bruce was obedient to The Cause in 2024 as well by playing stenographer on both empathy for workers and job creation. Bruce’s then-colleague Cecilia Vega was also all-in on the Biden economy, gushing in August 2022 that it was “turning a corner” and backed up by correspondent Trevor Ault celebrating national average gas prices as having fallen to $3.99 from $5.02 in June. The second hour featured a “reality check” from chief business and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis: Pretty sure ABC's 'Good Morning America' did not run condescending "reality check" stories on the state of the economy when Joe Biden was President and insisting the economy was strong. pic.twitter.com/7hOHbTaXpk — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 10, 2025 Rewinding to the Biden years, the former Apprentice contestant defended his economy by arguing there was “technically” not a recession in 2022 and, in July of that year, conceded the economy was in rough shape. Missing from that latter segment, of course, was any blame on Biden. She did the same in April 2024 by leaving the Biden administration out of any discussion about soaring grocery prices and gave consumers tips to save. NBC’s Today took shots of its own at the President, but left out ABC’s condescension and had gave more context to the President’s remarks. Co-host Savannah Guthrie said in a tease Trump addressed the economy and “acknowledg[ed] Americans are paying too much” amid “growing concerns over the cost of everything.” Following two massive charts co-host Craig Melvin used to paint costs under President Trump as having soared double digits (while providing no date for what said costs were in comparison to), chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander said Trump “kick[ed] off a campaign that aides here say will stretch through next year’s midterms, insisting it will focus heavily on the economy.”     “But overnight, the President repeatedly veered off-course his favorite targets. And on that key issue, the topic of affordability, his speech underscored this disconnect between the President’s claims Americans are doing great and their growing frustrations about the cost of living,” he added. Alexander at least ran soundbites of Trump that showed he cares about the American consumer (click “expand”): TRUMP: I have no higher priority than making America affordable again. ALEXANDER: The President facing growing dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy, focusing on affordability, which he’s called a Democratic hoax. TRUMP: You know, there was never a hoax. The new word is affordability. [SCREEN WIPE] I can’t say affordability hoax because I agree the prices were too high. ALEXANDER: Test driving ahead of next year’s midterms. TRUMP: Lower prices, bigger paychecks. ALEXANDER: But while wages have ticked up, so have prices, especially at grocery stores where staples like beef and Orange juice are up. Last night, the President also occasionally straying from his economic message. TRUMP: I haven’t read practically anything off the stupid teleprompter. (....) ALEXANDER: And, in that speech last night, President Trump said his chief of staff told him that he needs to start hitting the campaign trail again to try to motivate MAGA voters, a move that may help reinvigorate his base, but one that Democrats are already welcoming, confident that, if next year’s midterms are viewed as a referendum on President Trump, it’ll drive up their voters to the polls a well.  As for Trump’s Somalia comments, Alexander framed it as akin to “highly publicized remarks from an Oval Office meeting during his first term.” Guthrie cued up senior business correspondent Christine Romans for more Trump bashing (click “expand”): GUTHRIE: Let’s talk about what the President said last night —  ROMANS: Yeah. GUTHRIE: — acknowledging that affordability is a real issue. He’s also said prices are coming down tremendously and that they’re crushing inflation. What’s the reality check — ROMANS: Right. GUTHRIE: — bearing in mind Americans can do their own fact check. They’re the ones going to the grocery store and buying things. They know if prices are up and down. ROMANS: Yeah, and it’s not just groceries. It’s utilities, it’s car insurance. I mean, over the past five years, since February 2020 before Covid, some of these things are up double digits, 20, 30, 40 percent. Look at those numbers, especially like auto insurance. Some of these things are non-negotiables in the family budget, so people really are feeling it. The President talking about how gas prices are lower. That is true. Talking about how cereal and ham and some single products are a little bit lower, but overall, I think zoom out, it’s the past five years of these price issues and the CPI — the inflation rate — at three percent right now? It’s exactly where it was at the end of the Biden administration. While Good Morning America remained the safest bet of the networks to be the biggest anti-Trump tools, CBS Mornings mostly kept the proverbial train on the tracks and, like NBC, at least admitted prices have been soaring since the pandemic. “President Trump has launched a new effort to sell his economic plans to Americans. He told the crowd in Pennsylvania last night that things are actually doing really well, going great, and if they aren’t, it’s the Democrats’ fault. Right now, he is not polling well on the economy, one of his signature issues,” declared co-host Tony Dokoupil.     Senior White House and campaign correspondent Ed O’Keefe only made one reference to Trump doing the weave and it was right off the top: It was supposed to be focused mostly on the economy, but the President’s speech last night also included several attacks on Democratic lawmakers and immigrants, a potential preview of how he’ll campaign for Republicans next year. He tried convincing Americans he understands concerns about rising prices, but insisted the economy is strong. O’Keefe reemphasized Dokoupil’s point that Trump “blame[d] Democrats for failing to address inflation during Joe Biden’s presidency” and provided some balance to the state of the economy by conceding “[g]overnment data does show the inflation rate had been falling at the beginning of the year, but began slowly rising again as the President imposed widespread tariffs” and while [t]he cost of a gallon of gas is down compared to the same time last year...it’s a mixed bag at the supermarket.” CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger followed with analysis, saying “people are still feeling this pressure of high prices” and “much higher than they were even five years ago” even though “the rate of inflation has come down from nine to three percent” and “one good thing is gas prices.” To see the relevant transcripts from December 10, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View barely had a grasp of American politics, but on Wednesday’s show they ventured into international politics. Pouncing on President Trump’s comments over the last few days about wishing more people from Scandinavian countries (like Norway) would immigrant to the U.S. and denouncing Somali immigrants who defrauded federal welfare programs, The View declared that it all came down to Trump’s “racism”; suggesting there were no other differences between the countries other than race. After playing edited soundbites of Trump rhetorically asking, “Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden,” moderator Whoopi Goldberg was noticeably irritated. “Well, they see you as the president, and they don't want to come here,” she sneered. Co-host Joy Behar chimed in with her signature dull whit and proclaimed that she had a “really good idea” to ship Trump off to Norway. And in all seriousness, Goldberg falsely claimed that Norway had banned Trump from traveling there: BEHAR: I have a great idea. I have a really good idea. Why doesn't he go to Norway and stay there? He loves it so much. GOLDBERG: They won't let him in. They will not let him in. BEHAR: That's true. GOLDBERG: No, they won't let him in.   ABC News falsely claims Norway has banned President Trump from entering the country: TRUMP: Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few. [End clip] WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, they see you as the president, and they don't want to come here. JOY BEHAR: That's… pic.twitter.com/WqfliC1CSj — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 10, 2025   Behar would pipe up again a short time later to declare that the only reason Trump would have anything bad to say about Somalia was his “racism”: BEHAR: Can we just talk for a second about the blatant racism, though? What's the difference between Somalia and Norway? Hello. I mean, it's so obvious that that is what it is and he doesn't even try to cover it. GOLDBERG: Taller people? Perhaps it had something to do with Somalia literally being a failed state. Within the borders of Somalia (one of them being in dispute with Ethiopia), there were at least three governments vying for authority and one of them was the al Shabaab terrorist group, which was besieging the capital city of Mogadishu.   "What's the difference between Somalia and Norway, hello?" Joy Behar claims the only difference between Norway and Somalia is the color of their skin. Not the fact that one is a functioning state and the other a failed state with several governments vying for authority and a… pic.twitter.com/zBsd6Y6vI5 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 10, 2025   Behar was so ignorant, if she heard someone say “Somaliland,” she’d likely think they were using a derogatory name for the country. It’s the name of breakaway region that claims statehood in the country’s northwest. Staunchly racist co-host Sunny Hostin agreed that “racism” was the driving factor and bloviated about “offended” she an everyone in her echo chamber were about Trump allegedly calling Haiti a “shit hole country”: My husband's father was from Haiti. And so, the Haitian community really was offended. I was offended. My family was offended. And I think everyone should be offended at the blatant xenophobia and racism that comes from the highest office in the United States.   While claiming she doesn't feel safe in America, Sunny Hostin bloviates about how "the Haitian community was really offended. I was offended. My family was offended" when Trump allegedly called Haiti a "shithole country." Gangs literally control most of Haiti and carry out… pic.twitter.com/uEcCFdUYk8 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 10, 2025   Haiti too was a failed state. After the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, the country spiraled out of control until its collapse in 2024. Now, most of the country was controlled by brutal gangs, with the remainder of government forces holed up in small enclaves. One gang leader, Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier was trying to consolidate full control. He’s wanted by the FBI. It’s obvious why countries would be skeptical of people traveling from failed states when their documentation couldn’t be verified. As they were nearing the end of the segment, Goldberg claimed people from Norway didn’t want to move to America “because they don't want to be under a dictatorship.”   ABC News claims Norwegian and Swedes don't want to come to America because "they don't want to be under a dictatorship." Behar portrays Norway as a paradise: "In Norway you have high quality universal healthcare, strong safety net, the gun laws..." pic.twitter.com/PTfPhRX5Bx — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 10, 2025   Behar even scoffed at the idea that people from Norway would want to come here at all since it was a perfect country: “But why should they come? They have everything going for them back in Norway. In Norway you have high quality universal healthcare, strong safety net, the gun laws…” If it’s so much better than America, then why aren’t you there, Joy? Notice she didn’t read off a similar list for Somalia. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View December 10, 2025 11:02:56 a.m. Eastern (…) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few. [Cuts back to live] WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, they see you as the president, and they don't want to come here. JOY BEHAR: That's right. GOLDBERG: That's why. BEHAR: I have a great idea. I have a really good idea. Why doesn't he go to Norway and stay there? He loves it so much. GOLDBERG: They won't let him in. They will not let him in. BEHAR: That's true. GOLDBERG: No, they won't let him in. (…) 11:05:12 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: Can we just talk for a second about the blatant racism, though? SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. BEHAR: What's the difference between Somalia and Norway? Hello. HOSTIN: Yeah. BEHAR: I mean, it's so obvious that that is what it is and he doesn't even try to cover it GOLDBERG: Taller people? BEHAR: He doesn't even try to cover it up anymore. GOLDBERG: No he doesn’t try to cover it. He never did ever. SARA HAINES: I don’t know if he tried to cover it up. HOSTIN: I think he did. He did try to cover it up. Because remember, when there was reporting coming out of the White House that he had called Haiti an s-hole country. He denied that. He said that he did not use that kind of language. And he tweeted about it and said that he did not say it. And, you know, as you know, my husband -- BEHAR: Let's go to the videotape. HOSTIN: My husband's father was from Haiti. And so, the Haitian community really was offended. I was offended. My family was offended. And I think everyone should be offended at the blatant xenophobia and racism that comes from the highest office in the United States. BEHAR: And the misogyny. HOSTIN: And the misogyny. BEHAR: Everything. HOSTIN: And so now, he's just openly embracing these words like garbage, like filth, like these – BEHAR: Vermin. HOSTIN: And vermin. [Crosstalk] GOLDBERG: This is not new! HOSTIN: But where have we heard that language, Whoopi? We have heard that language in places, fascist places where white supremacy has taken over the country. And to hear the people in the background saying, ‘send her back, send her back,’ it's -- it was scary to me actually. It was scary, and I don't want to live in a country where I'm afraid for myself and my children. BEHAR: But every fascist government looks for a scapegoat. This is his scapegoat. HOSTIN: It’s otherizing language. (…) 11:08:40 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: And this is why all the people you would like to have come here are not going to come here, because they don't want to be under a dictatorship. BEHAR: But why should they come? They have everything going for them back in Norway. HOSTIN: Yeah. BEHAR: In Norway you have high quality universal healthcare, strong safety net, the gun laws…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe Awards added a Best Podcast category for its awards show in January. They began from a short list of the top podcasts, about 25 programs, but that included shows the left hates, like Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and #1-rated podcaster Joe Rogan. Right-wingers never win awards!?  Over at his kvetchfest of a website Status, Oliver Darcy complained for weeks that the Globe pickers wanted to platform “toxic figures” “who spend their days radicalizing audiences and inflaming the culture wars.” Darcy wants conservatives to be removed from all platforms, including awards shows.  Maybe it's time for Darcy to do a victory dance. The six nominees for that inaugural Best Podcast award are out, and none of these Darcy-inflaming shows made the cut. Instead, it’s mostly light celebrity fare: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang with Amy Poehler, The Mel Robbins Podcast, SmartLess (with actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Poehler's ex-husband Will Arnett). Tacked on is the Up First podcast from NPR, which is their three top news stories in ten minutes from their show Morning Edition. That recently included Odette Yousef's rah-rah story on ICE resisters in Chicago. So it looks like just another award for glitzy celebrities to win. NPR weekend anchor Ayesha Rascoe was thrilled, but will they be thrilled if they lose to the sex-talk Daddy podcast?  It’s not every day you wake up and a show you host is nominated for a Golden Globe!!! Shout out to NPR and the entire Up First team and all the co-hosts! pic.twitter.com/P7SK7RTdYy — Ayesha Rascoe (@ayesharascoe) December 8, 2025 NPR TV critic Eric Deggans loved that the "knucklehead political chatter" from the right didn't a foothold:  Not gonna lie - I was pretty psyched to see that, in the Golden Globes first year presenting an award for best podcast, they looked past knuckleheaded political chatter - including Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro - to nominate Amy Poehler, Dax Shepard, and NPR's Up First.… — Switching Codes with Eric Deggans (@Deggans) December 8, 2025 The entertainment site Deadline carried this headline: "Comedy Stars Triumph Over Right-Wing Firebrands In First Golden Globes Podcast Nominations." They noted Ben Shapiro paid for an ad campaign promoting his show...and the New York Times podcast The Daily -- which airs on hundreds of NPR affiliates -- withdrew from consideration. In their story on the list, AP turned to Ben Bogardus, chair of the journalism department at Quinnipiac University, who argued: “They’re trying to bill themselves as an award show that is for the masses and non-controversial, celebrating the best in entertainment. Having this political sideshow, I think they just wanted to avoid that." Has the professor ever watched the Golden Globes? Political sideshows are a big thing....just not conservative sideshows. The 2024 Golden Globes on CBS began with the host, "comedian" Jo Koy, riffing on the movie Killers of the Flower Moon, which taught "white people stole everything! You guys stole everything! Not, like, 97%. You guys stole 100% of everything. You took the land, you took the oil!" Sure, that's non-controversial stuff for the masses, sure sure. 

“We hope the headlines and social media likes are worth it,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday, warning Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker that he violated the U.S. Constitution Tuesday by signing a bill designed to thwart the federal department’s efforts to U.S. immigration law. “(President) Donald Trump, (DHS Secretary) Kristi Noem, and (Border Chief) Gregory Bovino have tried to appeal to our lesser instincts. But the best of us are standing up to the worst of them," Gov. Pritzker said at the bill’s signing ceremony. In addition to giving illegal aliens new rights to sue the U.S. government for efforts to enforce immigration law, the bill also protects them from investigation and arrest, Fox News explains: “Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed a sweeping bill aimed at further shielding illegal immigrants in the state from deportation, creating new safeguards at courthouses, hospitals, day cares and university campuses to limit civil immigration enforcement.” “We will counter the Trump Administration’s depravity,” Gov. Pritzger vowed Tuesday in a social media post touting the new state law: “Today, I've signed into law legislation that expands legal protections for the people of Illinois. Dropping your kid off at day care, going to the doctor, or attending classes should not be a life-altering task. We will counter the Trump Administration's depravity.” DHS responded by reminding the Illinois governor that, per the U.S. Constitution, federal law trumps any and all state and local laws: “Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution, still clearly states: ‘This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof … shall be the supreme Law of the Land.’ “By signing this law, @GovPritzker violated the Supremacy Clause. “We hope the headlines and social media likes are worth it.” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs echoed the sarcastic sentiment in an interview with Fox News: "By signing this law, Pritzker violated the Supremacy Clause, his oath he took as Governor to ‘support the Constitution of the United States’ — which itself falls under the oaths clause of the Constitution. "We hope the headlines, social media likes, and fundraising emails he did this for are worth it!" The full text of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution is presented below.