It is now time for our latest installment in a long-running series of Elitist Media nightly newscast omissions of horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens. We take cold comfort in reporting that tonight’s omission is a partial one. ABC’s World News Tonight was the only evening newscast to cover the death of a beloved Georgia school teacher after the vehicle she was driving was wrecked by an illegal alien fleeing ICE. Here is that report in its entirety, as aired on Monday, February 17th, 2026: WATCH: @ABCWorldNews is the only network nightly to cover the death of a highly respected Savannah, GA school teacher at the hands of an illegal alien fleeing ICE. Her name was Linda Davis. pic.twitter.com/JQ3I88YBVI — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 18, 2026 DAVID MUIR: Tonight, authorities say a schoolteacher was killed in a crash that they say was caused by a man trying to escape immigration agents in Savannah, Georgia. Police say agents were trying to pull over Oscar Vazquez Lopez when he hit the other car. Lopez was treated for injuries. Homeland Security tonight saying he was in the U.S. illegally, with an order of removal. The brief, while…well, brief, was more coverage of this horrific and needless crash than was provided on CBS and NBC. The CBS Evening News chose instead to cover a non-lethal traffic accident: the truck that flew off the road and into an Oregon home. NBC eschewed traffic news altogether- choosing instead to report on a toddler that fell into an arcade claw machine. We’re also thankful that the brief didn’t follow the style and language of the coverage of the crash on ABC’s website, which all but blamed ICE for the wreck as opposed to the illegal alien that caused it. Local officials questioned whether Davis' death might have been prevented. “I’ve always been and remain very concerned about the activities of ICE in cities, particularly where they’re not coordinating or communicating,” Savannah Mayor Van Johnson, a former police officer, told reporters Tuesday. “What this individual was wanted for, did it necessitate the end result?" Johnson said. Chester Ellis, chairman of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners, noted that county police are constrained by a policy that allows vehicle pursuits only when officers believe a suspect has committed or is attempting to commit a violent felony. “The no-chase policy is to help protect our citizens more than it is anything else,” Ellis told WTOC-TV. "So there may have been a different way to corner the individual so that he could not run, or that he could not cause the accident that took the life of Dr. Davis.” To answer the mayor’s question, nothing necessitated the end result, which could’ve been avoided had administrations decided to enforce immigration law as opposed to letting tens of millions of illegal aliens flood into the country. No responsibility is placed on the illegal alien committing the crime of vehicular manslaughter while fleeing and eluding law enforcement.  ABC’s brief would have benefitted from naming the highly respected teacher taken from her community, and from showing her face. Her name was Linda Davis.

During Tuesday’s The Situation Room, co-anchor Pamela Brown teased her new documentary on the rise of ‘Christian Nationalism’ in which she correlated the Assassination of Charlie Kirk as a turning point that ‘unified’ the group with the Trump Administration. She portrayed the situation as a brewing threat to the country, complete with ominous soundtrack. In Brown’s lead to the short four-minute tease of the full documentary, she described ‘Christian Nationalism’ in a way where she seems to frame some Christians as a threat after the Kirk Assassination: Well for the past several months, I've been working on a special project examining the growing influence of Christian nationalism in America. If you're not familiar, Christian nationalism is an ideology rooted in the belief that our country was founded as a Christian nation and that our laws and institutions should reflect Christian values. In the lead up to my hour long documentary this weekend, we're going to bring you a preview of what you'll see. Starting off with the Assassination of Charlie Kirk last year. Experts say it was a pivotal moment for the movement and an occasion where the tragedy of his loss unified Christian nationalists and the Trump administration as they honored him.    CNN's Pamela Brown announces she's been working on a "special project" warn against "Christian nationalism" and portrays them as a radicalized threat to the country. She then launches into a report where she fears the assassination of Charlie Kirk uniting Christians and scoffs… pic.twitter.com/1J63ta6EIO — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 17, 2026   The tease segment started with the scene from Charlie Kirk’s funeral. Brown showed clips of President Trump at the funeral, along with Erika Kirk’s forgiveness of her husband’s killer. Brown then portrayed the event as a “call to action.” “Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and prominent Christian nationalist, was assassinated. It became a rallying call for those who believed in his message,” she said. She displayed a clip of Hegseth’s message for those to “put Christ at the center of your life as he advocated for giving his” as a sort of radical message for Christian nationalists.   The tease for Brown' "special project" to demonize American Christians continued with her expressing fear that "Kirk's death happened at a moment of unprecedented alignment between Christian nationalists and the Trump administration." Taylor decried that Trump administration… pic.twitter.com/uvirf6k3Lu — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 17, 2026   The main “expert” on ‘Christian Nationalism’ Brown spoke to was Matthew Taylor, a Georgetown University visiting scholar, who portrayed the group as dangerous radicals with a martyr complex: Memorial service was one of the most potent examples of this shift in our culture that we're experiencing right now, where a large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas, radicalized by these ideas that say that they are the persecuted ones and that they need to stand up for Christian’s rights. Brown then interviewed someone she portrayed as a ‘Christian nationalist,’ who stated that "political leaders proclaiming the name of Christ at his funeral” was “amazing.” Brown and Taylor connected ‘Christian nationalists’ to the Trump administration, especially after the assassination attempts of Trump and Kirk, and frowned on the idea that Christians deserved any kind of protection: TAYLOR: Part of the shift that we've experienced in the second Trump Administration is a dropping of all pretenses to say: “No, we're here. We're protecting Christians.” TRUMP: We will protect Christians in our schools and our military and our government. BROWN: Trump has never explicitly said he believes the country should be a Christian nation, but he is aligned with Christian nationalists and wants their support. And after an assassination attempt during his campaign, Trump said he believes God saved his life so he can lead the country. TRUMP: My life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to Make America Great Again. At the end of the segment in conversation, Brown also teased interviews with people who were “sounding the alarm” on ‘Christian nationalism.’ Brown seemed very keen on portraying Christians as radical nationalists in her documentary. It was a choice to portray those at a funeral of a prominent activist as radical Christians. The connection of Kirk’s assassination to ‘Christian nationalism’ might just prove the opinion of many on the right that many of the Left turn to fearmongering to portray those with faith as radical nationalists. The transcript is below. Click to expand: CNN’s The Situation Room February 17, 2026 10:27:43 AM Eastern   PAMELA BROWN: Well for the past several months, I've been working on a special project examining the growing influence of Christian nationalism in America. If you're not familiar, Christian nationalism is an ideology rooted in the belief that our country was founded as a Christian nation and that our laws and institutions should reflect Christian values. In the lead up to my hour-long documentary this weekend, we're going to bring you a preview of what you'll see. Starting off with the Assassination of Charlie Kirk last year. Experts say it was a pivotal moment for the movement and an occasion where the tragedy of his loss unified Christian nationalists and the Trump administration as they honored him.    [Cuts to video]   BROWN: September 21st, 2025.   PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: America is a nation in grief, a nation in shock, and a nation in mourning. Charles James Kirk was heinously murdered.   ERIKA KIRK: That young man. I forgive him.   BROWN: Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and prominent Christian nationalist, was assassinated. It became a rallying call for those who believed in his message.   TRUMP: Our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal.   BROWN: And it was a call to action.   PETE HEGSETH: My charge to all of you: put Christ at the center of your life as he advocated for giving his.   MATTHEW TAYLOR (Georgetown University Visiting Scholar): Memorial service was one of the most potent examples of this shift in our culture that we're experiencing right now, where a large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas, radicalized by these ideas that say that they are the persecuted ones and that they need to stand up for Christian’s rights.   ANDREW MCILWAIN (Member, Christ Fellowship Church): The way we had all these political leaders proclaiming the name of Christ at his funeral, it was amazing.   BROWN: Do you think it marked a turning point for -    MCILWAIN: For America?   BROWN: For your mission and for America.   MCILWAIN: With the rise of interest in Christianity, I think there's a sense that this way of life, the way America has been heading, that's not the answer. Well, where is the answer? Well we find that answer in scripture in Christ.   BROWN: Kirk's death happened at a moment of unprecedented alignment between Christian nationalists and the Trump administration.   TAYLOR: Part of the shift that we've experienced in the second Trump Administration is a dropping of all pretenses to say: “No, we're here. We're protecting Christians.”   TRUMP: We will protect Christians in our schools and our military and our government.   BROWN: Trump has never explicitly said he believes the country should be a Christian nation, but he is aligned with Christian nationalists and wants their support. And after an assassination attempt during his campaign, Trump said he believes God saved his life so he can lead the country.   TRUMP: My life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to Make America Great Again.   TAYLOR: Many Christians who, especially evangelical Christians, who had previously said, I don't believe in these prophecies, came around because the assassination attempts. And believed that that his survival was the hand of divine providence, a sign of God's favor. He's an anointed figure that God has put in this place.   [Cuts back to live]   BROWN: So this is just one example of why Christian nationalists are having such a moment right now. In fact that Christian scholar you heard from told me that its influence could be at the highest point it's ever been throughout American history.    And starting tomorrow, I'll take you to the communities I visited that are either actively practicing what it means to embody Christian nationalism in their daily lives, or those who used to belong to these groups but have left and are now sounding the alarm.   You can watch my documentary on the Whole Story with Anderson Cooper this Sunday, February 22nd at 8 P.M. on CNN, or the next day on CNN's all access streaming platform.   WOLF BLITZER: And I'll be looking forward to it. I'll be watching, like millions of others.   BROWN: I hope you will. It’s important, no matter what you believe or where you live. This is an important moment in our country.   BLITZER: I’m grateful to you for doing this.   BROWN: Thank you, Wolf.  

In CBS Mornings’s latest example of officially partnering with a liberal partisan to sell books, Tuesday’s show embarrassingly fangirled over liberal historian Jon Meacham’s latest tome and voicing agreement to claim America is facing a “moral crisis” requiring the greatest level of citizenship since the 1850s because there is an “authoritarian” in Donald Trump “galloping at the highest level.” “Coming up in this 8:00 hour. Some perspective on these very divided times. Historian Jon Meacham says we are in a moral crisis as a nation, but it’s not the first time, he says. So, we’ll ask how, in his view, it does get better,” teased co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King. Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers gave a glowing lead-in: It may feel like our country is more divided than ever, but according to our next guest, conflict is nothing new in our democracy. Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and best-selling author. His latest book is called American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union. You can buy it right now by scanning that QR code that you see on your screen. Meacham chronicles the divisions and the debates that have defined our country from 1619 to the present. Jon Meacham is here. Good morning. I’m such a fan. After briefly having Meacham weigh in on the passing of the Reverend Jesse Jackson Jr., Duthiers said his book American Struggle and its stories from 1619 to today exhibit a “theme in sort of what Reverend Jackson talked about throughout his life and times, which is he didn’t want a society that did not include everybody.” Hysteria, NOT history: Tuesday's 'CBS Mornings' -- again, supposedly a MAGA network under Bari Weiss -- was fawning over liberal historian (and Joe Biden speechwriter) Jon Meacham saying America's in “moral crisis” b/c Donald Trump is an “authoritarian galloping at the highest… pic.twitter.com/VNJCNN2I8Y — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2026 “You say we’re in a moment of moral crisis. What do you mean by that,” he wondered. Meacham’s answer sounded nice in that “if we don’t recognize each other of equal dignity, if we don’t see each other as those who stand equally before God and the law” and our founding documents (which he dubbed “American scripture”), “then the covenant that is America falls apart.” But sounding nice is all one could say given the fact that Meacham has spent decades in the political arena hurling coarse rhetoric at his adversaries and even advising speechwriting for President Joe Biden. We compiled 16 different examples back in September, such as Meacham referring to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) as dog feces, and viewing Republican voters as “lizard brain[ed]” “white guys” led by a man in Donald Trump who’s dumber than springer spaniels. Someone ask Duthiers about that double standard. But Meacham is treated as non-partisan, so the lovefest went on. King asked him to expound upon a James Madison quote fearing a time when “enlightened statesmen” won’t be at the helm of the country. This went right into Meacham’s claim about Donald Trump being “an authoritarian galloping at the highest level” (click “expand”): KING: [T]here’s a line in the book where you talk about James Madison, who says “... it’s vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust those classic interests to the public good” — it makes me think about Congress — “but these enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” What can we — ain’t that good, Vlad? DUTHIERS: Yes. KING: What can we learn from that? Because it seems very similar to what’s going on today. MEACHAM: Absolutely. The founders would have been surprised, I think that it took this long. DUTHIERS: Really? MEACHAM: I really — KING: For what? For what? MEACHAM: — for there to be an authoritarian galloping at the highest level. KING: Really? That it took this long? Wow! MEACHAM: Because really — because, think about it, the Constitution is incredibly unwieldy. It’s unwieldy because they assume that most of what we would want to do would be wrong. It’s a theological document in many ways. It’s based on the idea that we’re driven by appetite and ambition more often than we’re driven by grace and generosity. And guess what? I know you all are better people than I am, but I know that’s true in my life. King followed up: “But, Jon, many people believe that — many in power don’t believe that the Constitution matters these days.” Meacham replied with partisanship wrapped in flowery language that “[t]his is an hour of — this is arguably the most important hour for citizenship since the 1850s” and “the founders anticipated this” and that “the Constitution was built for moments...of stress and strain where people” — as in Republicans — “would put power above principle.” Using emotional blackmail, he added that “our” — as in “we, the People” — “task is to put the principles above power.” Since King is a Democrat, she twice blurted out “exactly.” Co-host Nate Burleson finally had a go, wondering if there’s “historical context for that younger generation that doesn’t dive into history books that can give them some parallels to what’s going on today.” Like he did with Duthiers, Meacham started with an undisputable fact that older Americans “all grew up more adjacent to great moments in American history” in which, for example, older generations had parents or grandparents who fought in World War II or even World War I. Bari Weiss’s ‘CBS Mornings’ co-host sit in awe as Jon Meacham suggests American government in the 21st century has failed because of crises that all conveniently happened on the watches of Republican presidents: 9/11, Iraq, Great Recession, Covid, Donald Trump being elected,… pic.twitter.com/rDoMe5C6TN — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2026 But once again, he veered into the partisan by asserting those born “in the 21st Century” have seen a government that’s “not covered itself in glory” and, sure enough, his examples only occurred under Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump (and the other in lack of mass gun confiscation, failed because of GOP pushback): September 11, weapons of mass destruction, Iraq, great recession, COVID, President Trump, January 6 and school shootings and school shooting drills, right? If you are that age, why would you trust grown-ups to protect you when we self-evidently say we can’t protect you in schools. We have to drill for this. Meacham’s solution? Teach younger Americans about the courage of those from yesteryear such as those maimed on Blood Sunday (March 7, 1965) in Selma, Alabama. Someone at CBS News needs to explain to us, on or off the record (my DMs on X are open!) how the ideological tilt to the hard left is going to be changing in the near future under new ownership. Because, with segments like this one with Meacham and others last week like this on the CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings cheering Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, it sure doesn’t seem like anything has changed outside the opening few weeks. To see the relevant CBS transcript from February 17, click here.

Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades. They’re demanding ID from drivers. In short, they’re setting up their own borders — against America’s laws and law enforcement. It’s not the first time “protesters” have done this. Activists inspired by Black Lives Matter seized control over a portion of Seattle six years ago and christened their conquest the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) or “Capitol Hill Occupation Protest” (CHOP). A black teenager, Antonio Mays Jr., was shot and killed by what the Seattle-area ABC affiliate KOMO News calls “civilian guards who were acting as CHOP security.” Let that sink in: “Protesters” took over part of a major city and deputized thugs to replace police. That caused a young man’s death — a crime for which no one has been arrested, though last month a jury held the city of Seattle liable to the tune of $30.5 million for Mays’ slaying. The city wasn’t enforcing the law — it allowed “protesters” to establish their own law — yet now it’s the city’s taxpayers who are on the hook for what the CHAZ activists brought about. Whether the scene is Minneapolis today or Seattle six years ago, what’s happening in America’s cities is not just a revolt against law enforcement — it’s an attempt to establish different laws, different borders and a different kind of government, not through anything like a democratic electoral process but by directly seizing power in the streets. Why isn’t Mays given the martyr-treatment that George Floyd Jr., Renee Good and Alex Pretti have received? The latter three died while resisting arrest or interfering with officers of the law — Mays was a victim of what fills the vacuum left by the absence of law and legitimate police. The anti-ICE activists who are checking IDs and setting up roadblocks in Minneapolis, without a shred of legal authority to do so, have been depicted by sympathizers in the media as harmless citizen activists. Yet even a report by Minnesota Public Radio acknowledges these people are putting others’ lives in danger. “When streets are blocked, it slows our response and limits access to critical resources,” Minneapolis interim Fire Chief Melanie Rucker told MPR News. “Every second matters when lives are on the line.” There’s a word for what the protesters in Minneapolis are doing, a word the liberals themselves like to bandy about, but only when they can use it against President Donald Trump. That word is “insurrection.” That’s what the CHAZ/CHOP was, and it’s what’s underway in Minneapolis. The difference between these operations and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters is Jan. 6 would have been much worse had the rioters had the kind of disciplined organization — not to mention supportive press coverage — of the anti-cop and anti-ICE seditionists in Seattle and Minneapolis. ICE’s liberal critics have a basic problem: They like to claim they have procedural legal objections to the way immigration law is being enforced. Yet they can hardly say they’re for the rule of law when not only are the “protesters” they champion behaving as a law unto themselves in Minneapolis, but the very cause that unites them is illegal immigration. Libertarians, unfortunately, are often the biggest hypocrites of all, insisting that they are more principled than conservatives who support Trump, when in fact they are proudly unprincipled where the rule of law is concerned — they don’t believe the nation’s drug laws or immigration laws should be enforced, and they encourage flouting those laws. Yet without the distinction between citizens and aliens, there can be no popular self-government. Perversely enough, the street activists in Minneapolis and Seattle acknowledge this when they set up their own internal borders and identity checks — they consider America’s law-enforcement agencies aliens and enemies. The anti-ICE movement has occasionally tried to wrap itself in the American flag, claiming that resisting federal law enforcement within our country is the same as resisting the redcoats in the American Revolution. But the point of the American Revolution was to win self-government for Americans — the ability to live under laws of our own making as citizens, not laws made for the benefit of foreign interests. There is a parallel between the Revolution and what’s taking place in our cities today, but it’s not the comparison the anti-ICE activists want to draw. They are, after all, trying to overthrow the laws of the United States of America for the benefit of people who are not Americans. There are indeed various procedural and other arguments that can be made in defense of illegal aliens, but those are matters for the courts and the political system, not activist mobs, to decide. What the Minneapolis activists are proving is that the immigration fight isn’t just about immigration. It’s about who rules — we, the American people, or they, the activists in the streets? Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.

“THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico,” CBS said in a statement Tuesday after the show’s host, Stephen Colbert, claimed he was “told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers” that he could not air his interview with the Democrat candidate. Instead, CBS said, the lawyers merely provided Colbert’s show with “guidance,” warning of potential FCC consequences of having one candidate on, but not offering equal time to Talarico’s fellow Democrats contesting in a primary to be the party’s Texas Senate candidate. Additionally, CBS said, the lawyers explained to Colbert how he could air the interview in accordance with the FCC's rule: “The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled.” “THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options," CBS noted. As NewsBusters explains, Colbert made his accusations against CBS while attacking FCC Chairman Brendan Carr during Monday night’s program: “Colbert accused Carr and President Trump of trying to silence him but ultimately ended up interviewing Talarico anyway and put the video up on YouTube.” …. “Colbert began by lamenting, ‘You know who is not one of my guests tonight? That's Texas State Representative James Talarico. He was supposed to be here. But we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then, I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly does not want us to talk about this, let's talk about this.’” At issue is a Public Notice published last month by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Media Bureau reminding broadcasters that, if they provide airtime to one candidate, they are required by law to provide equal and comparable access to airtime to all opposing legally-qualified candidates – and that late-night talk shows may be not be exempt under the exclusion given to “bona fide newscasts.” As CNSNews reported at the time: “Citing Section 315 of the Communications Act, the Bureau’s Public Notice reminds broadcasters that, if they provide airtime to one candidate, they are required by law to provide equal and comparable access to airtime to all opposing legally-qualified candidates.” Related: Late Night Hosts Haven't Interviewed a GOP Candidate Since 2016 Exemptions to this requirement are granted only if the candidate’s appearance serves a genuine (“bona fide”) news purpose, specifically: A bona fide newscast, A bona fide news interview, A bona fide news documentary (if the appearance of the candidate is incidental to the presentation of the subjects covered by the news documentary), or On-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events (including, but not limited to, incidental political conventions and activities). Thus, late-night talk shows, such as Colbert’s, may qualify for the “bona fide news” exemption and interview candidates. Stephen Colbert denounces the FCC for its equal time policy, "And you know who is not one of my guests tonight? That's Texas State Representative James Talarico. He was supposed to be here. But we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly… pic.twitter.com/vpw9DPXJLA — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 17, 2026