Media Research Center founder and President Emeritus Brent Bozell, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, advanced to the final stage of the confirmation process Thursday when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to send his nomination to the full chamber. Despite opposition by Democrats, the committee voted for Bozell to receive a final confirmation vote by the full Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority. If confirmed, Bozell will fill the post vacated by former ambassador Reuben Brigety, who resigned in January. Bozell served as president of the Media Research Center from its founding in 1987 until May of this year when he stepped down in order to answer Trump's call to serve in the administration. His son, ForAmerica President David Bozell, now leads the Media Research Center and expressed his excitement about the vote: Super excited for my father @BrentBozell, MRC's Founder and President Emeritus. This morning he was advanced out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the full United States Senate for confirmation as United States Ambassador to South Africa. ???????? — David Bozell ?? (@DavidBozell) November 20, 2025 The final confirmation vote has yet to be scheduled, but is expected to be held before year's end. A simple majority vote, which appears likely, is required to approve the nomination.

The liberal ladies of ABC’s The View kicked off Friday’s show by praising the Democrats who put out a video instructing service members to ignore what they described as “illegal orders” from President Trump. While pretend independent Sara Haines ridiculously claimed those Democrats were “moderate” and “centrist,” moderator Joy Behar and co-host Sunny Hostin warned them that “following orders” would not protect them when they’re dragged into court for listening to Trump. Despite The View repeatedly calling Trump a “traitor” (a crime punishable by death), Haines hypocritically whined about Trump saying those Democrats were engaged in sedition: Here are a bunch of military veterans saying in measured tone and specifically, you do not have to obey an illegal order. Not any order you don't like or anything else. The answer is sedition, hang them, punishable by death. There is a difference in tone there. We can agree to disagree on whether a video should be released or whether that's a bad idea. Jumping to death by hanging seems like a steep jump that we really need to bring the rhetoric to a point of disagreeing civilly. Having a difference of opinions. We are not mortal enemies. This is ridiculous. Haines didn’t have any outrage in July 2023 when Behar asserted that Trump was thinking like Mussolini and that he could end up in a noose and “hung” like the Italian dictator.   The View cast "love" the video of Democrats telling the military to disobey orders and claim those in the video are "moderates" and "centrist." pic.twitter.com/NJJStff6T0 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 21, 2025   When asked by Hostin what she thought about the video, Haines said it was needed because we’re living in dangerous times, and ridiculously praised the Democrats in the video as “moderate” and “centrist”: HOSTIN: What do you think about the video? Do you think it should not have been we leased? HAINES: Well, I think we’re living – So, it’s funny, normal times I would say I feel like that's a step out of bounds. I particularly love the actual politicians in this video. Elissa Slotkin is someone I love. She’s a centrist. She is a pragmatic common sense person. Mark Kelly out of Arizona. So these aren't the extremes jumping out saying the House is burning down. These are pretty moderate people who also are military vets. “They're saying rank and order matters, we’ve lived it ourselves but if - god forbid - something came down that was illegal and wrong, you don't have to obey that,” she added. Things turned dark when Behar claimed, without evidence, that the military was already following illegal orders. “[When] Trump threatens to deploy active duty military to quell protests that is against the First Amendment. Protests are covered by the First Amendment,” she declared, despite the only deployments being to protect federal facilities from rioters and law enforcement agents from literal attempts to kill them. Without giving an example, Hostin chimed in with her own claims that laws were being broken: “I have to say, I had no problem with this whatsoever. I actually liked it. I thought that it was important, because there are some things in my view that are being done by the administration that are unconstitutional.”   Joy Behar suggests the National Guard being deployed to protect ICE agents and federal facilities from rioters is an illegal order. Sunny Hostin claims Trump "may not be the right person" to be giving them orders. Seemingly anticipating an eagerness to commit war crimes, Behar… pic.twitter.com/zD8InZImHq — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 21, 2025   Invoking the specter of the Nazis and Nuremburg trials, Behar warned service members that if they thought of hiding behind “I was just following orders,” it wouldn’t save them: BEHAR: So, you're saying the whole thing, ‘I was just following orders’ is not good enough. HOSTIN: No, it isn't. BEHAR: It's not going to hold up in court. HOSTIN: In history it hasn't been. BEHAR: That’s right. That echoed The View’s smears of service members back in June when they equated the National Guard and the Marines to Nazis: ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Correct, but I think it's very important to remember it's a commander-in-chief that’s made these decisions. They're following the orders. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah. Think back, y'all. Where have you heard that before? BEHAR: 1938! GOLDBERG: “I’m just following orders.” By my commander-in-chief. This was the same anti-military resentment that’s been percolating under the liberal media’s hood since Vietnam. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View November 21, 2025 11:04:19 a.m. Eastern (…) SARA HAINES: Here are a bunch of military veterans saying in measured tone and specifically, you do not have to obey an illegal order. Not any order you don't like or anything else. The answer is sedition, hang them, punishable by death. There is a difference in tone there. We can agree to disagree on whether a video should be released or whether that's a bad idea. Jumping to death by hanging seems like a steep jump that we really need to bring the rhetoric to a point of disagreeing civilly. Having a difference of opinions. We are not mortal enemies. This is ridiculous. SUNNY HOSTIN: What do you think about the video? Do you think it should not have been we leased? HAINES: Well, I think we’re living – So, it’s funny, normal times I would say I feel like that's a step out of bounds. I particularly love the actual politicians in this video. Elissa Slotkin is someone I love. She’s a centrist. She is a pragmatic common sense person. Mark Kelly out of Arizona. So these aren't the extremes jumping out saying the House is burning down. These are pretty moderate people who also are military vets. HOSTIN: Yeah. HAINES: They know rank and order. They're the people we turn to. They're saying rank and order matters, we’ve lived it ourselves but if - god forbid - something came down that was illegal and wrong, you don't have to obey that. JOY BEHAR: When he threatens to -- Trump threatens to deploy active duty military to quell protests that is against the First Amendment. Protests are covered by the First Amendment. HOSTIN: Peaceful protesting, yeah. BEHAR: Peaceful protesting. That's one particular thing that they’re talking about, for instances. HOSTIN: I have to say, I had no problem with this whatsoever. I actually liked it. I thought that it was important, because there are some things in my view that are being done by the administration that are unconstitutional. I believe that. And traditionally the U.S. military adheres to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which does say that service members must obey lawful orders whether they agree with them or not but they are also obligated to not follow manifestly unlawful orders. HAINES: So, there's nothing shocking in this video. HOSTIN: So, there's nothing shocking in this video. And you know, I think what this president doesn't seem to realize is military members take an oath to the Constitution, not to the president of the United States. And so it is – [Applause] – It’s very clear. And I think it was really important for these vets and intelligence officers to come out and give guidance to our military, because the commander-in-chief may not be the right person to be giving them that type of guidance. BEHAR: So, you're saying the whole thing, ‘I was just following orders’ is not good enough. HOSTIN: No, it isn't. BEHAR: It's not going to hold up in court. HOSTIN: In history it hasn't been. BEHAR: That’s right. (…)

Jon Stewart went on an F-bomb-laden rant on Thursday’s episode of Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast as he told conservative critics of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to “look in the mirror, fuck face.” According to Stewart, they are allegedly being hypocrites for not applying their same logic to President Trump amid his recent state dinner with the Saudi crown prince. Stewart dropped the first of his eight F-bombs when he tried to conflate official foreign policy business with people who support Mamdani politically, “Donald Trump hosted, you know, this was the whole fucking thing. Do you remember the Mamdani, you know, all these right-wing guys are like, ‘How dare he take a picture with an imam? Has he forgotten the lessons in 9/11?’”     Fact-check: It wasn’t just any imam. It was Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, who claimed the FBI and CIA were the real terrorists. As it was, Stewart continued apace, “How—one guy came after me. ‘Has Jon Stewart, he's talking pleasantly with Mamdani, you know, this is a guy, has he forgotten 9/11?’ First of all, fuck you. Fuck you to the highest order of fucking you that you can be fucked. Don't you ever ask me about that, you fuck.” Fact-check #2: Stewart compared Mamdani to Jackie Robinson, which is outrageously stupid. Additionally, while Stewart wants to focus on “one guy” for suggesting he forgot 9/11 despite all his work to advocate for 9/11 first responders, it was not too much to ask that Stewart actually ask Mamdani some difficult questions. Stewart then tried to move on from the dinner to LIV golf: And second of all, your guy hosted a LIV golf tournament in the shadow of the towers with the Saudis and palled around with them. So, again, let me repeat myself. Fuck you. Like, the guy you support, like, how, how dare they? It's so shocking. And by the way, like, I'll even give it up for it. If you're a businessman, and they've got, you know, a funnel, and you've never made the case that your business has any moral underpinnings whatsoever. So, the idea that you want to hook up your mouth to the largest teats in that area and just suck down as much as that glorious Saudi money as you can get to, but I'm sorry, LIV golf tournaments are an elective. That is an elective. You make a choice like that. That is not something that your business requires, that it is foundational, that is an elective.” Circling back to Mamdani, Stewart added, “And so for any of those right-wing guys that wanna go out there and criticize the associations between, you know, anybody that would even talk to Mamdani, because clearly, you know, he's so out there with his points of view. Look in the mirror, fuck face.” The American people have no power to determine who governs Saudi Arabia. By contrast, New Yorkers do have the power to determine who they install as their mayor. If Stewart wants to get on his high horse and denounce LIV Golf, he is free to do so, but that should not be equated with official presidential business, nor should it mean that Mamdani is above criticism for associating with Islamic radicals. Here is a transcript for the November 20 show: Comedy Central The Weekly Show 11/20/2025 JON STEWART: Donald Trump hosted, you know, this was the whole fucking thing. Do you remember the Mamdani, you know, all these right-wing guys are like, “How dare he take a picture with an imam? Has he forgotten the lessons in 9/11?” How—one guy came after me. “Has Jon Stewart, he's talking pleasantly with Mamdani, you know, this is a guy, has he forgotten 9/11?” First of all, fuck you. Fuck you to the highest order of fucking you that you can be fucked. Don't you ever ask me about that, you fuck. And second of all, your guy hosted a LIV golf tournament in the shadow of the towers with the Saudis and palled around with them. So, again, let me repeat myself. Fuck you. Like, the guy you support, like, how, how dare they? It's so shocking. And by the way, like, I'll even give it up for it. If you're a businessman, and they've got, you know, a funnel, and you've never made the case that your business has any moral underpinnings whatsoever.  So, the idea that you want to hook up your mouth to the largest teats in that area and just suck down as much as that glorious Saudi money as you can get to, but I'm sorry, LIV golf tournaments are an elective. That is an elective. You make a choice like that. That is not something that your business requires, that it is foundational, that is an elective. And so for any of those right-wing guys that wanna go out there and criticize the associations between, you know, anybody that would even talk to Mamdani, because clearly, you know, he's so out there with his points of view. Look in the mirror, fuck face.

Very sad news for those of you who have become connoisseurs of the hilarious inadvertent comedy provided by Politico's over-the-top obsession with the Jeffrey Epstein files the past few months. Those good times might soon be gone. No more laughs provided by a panicked Politico publishing FIVE stories last July 18 solely on the topic of the Wall Street Journal possibly tossing President Donald Trump a "lifeline" in the form of a probable fake news story about a birthday letter supposedly sent by Trump to Epstein. Yes, the fun has continued for months culminating with Wednesday's Politico announcement of a possible Ukraine-Russia peace deal framed as a "distraction" from the Epstein files. This news about the end of Epstein files entertainment comes from a rather unlikely source. Someone who is completely obsessed about doing anything, absolutely anything, to take down Trump. None other than Politico's extreme TDS senior writer,  Ankush Khardori. His Trump antipathy bonafides have been thoroughly established over the years to the extent that in July 2024 Khardori urged, even after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump on presidential immunity, that Trump's J-6 trial be placed on speed dial just to tie him up and put him at a political disadvantage in the weeks leading to that November's election. And now Khardori is telling us that there is really is no there there in the Epstein files as you can see in this Wednesday Politico West Wing Playbook, "How to prepare for the Epstein release." This question was put to Khardori about the Epstein files: "How likely is it that there will be some big revelation or smoking gun?" And here is Khardori pretty much extinguishing all hope for those poor souls out there still seeking Epstein files salvation: It’s unlikely. But it’s important to separate two very important concepts: criminal misconduct versus highly embarrassing or evilly, morally-offensive conduct. I think the odds that we find some potent new evidence of criminal misconduct are low. Another factor for Khardori putting out the Epstein files prayer candle is the revelations have boomeranged horribly on the Democrats as he points out the sad fate of Larry Summers: "But I expect a whole lot of embarrassing stuff to come out. And we got a preview this week with the stuff on [Former Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers." Khardori then pretends that the Epstein-files damage will probably be limited to Summers while conveniently avoiding the deep embarrassment also caused by the files with revelations about associates of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries inviting Epstein to a fundraising dinner after his first sex-crimes conviction. And let us not forget the revelation about Epstein texting advice to Democrat House Delegate Stacey Plaskett during a House hearing, advice she accepted.  That is why this Khardori observation has already been proven to be laughably erroneous: The investigation [into Democrats] that Trump has spun up is not real. You know how we know that? Because several months ago, this exact same Justice Department told us that there was nothing else to investigate. File the above under "Wishful Thinking" which is why Khardori has already begun downplaying the significance of the Epstein files with the rest of Politico likely to follow suit.

Looks like Morning Joe forgot to lug along the seven-second-delay machine when it moved from MSNBC to MS NOW. Back in 2008, we noted that Morning Joe had instituted the seven-second delay two days after Joe Scarborough dropped an F-bomb. Scarborough went potty mouth again today. It came in response to Speaker Mike Johnson's and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's comments on the video released by six congressional Democrats telling members of the US military they can refuse to obey illegal orders. Leavitt said: "So these members knew what they were doing. They were leaning into their credentials as former members of our military, as veterans, as former members of the national security apparatus, to signal to people serving under this Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump, that you can defy him and you can betray your oath of office." Johnson said: "It was a wildly inappropriate thing for so-called leaders in Congress to do, to encourage young troops to disobey orders. I mean, think of what the threat that is to our national security and what it means to our institutions. We have got to raise the bar in Congress. This is out of control and is wildly inappropriate. Scarborough said: "He lies so pretty. I mean, it's too easy for him to lie." Willie Geist added "clutching the pearls," like a good sidekick. Then Scarborough added:  "They're lying through their f---ing teeth."   Scarborough pronounced the first four letters of the F-bomb out loud, only stopping himself before completing the word with the "-ing." Scarborough's vulgar outburst elicited raised eyebrows [see screencap] from his wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski. But she quickly transitioned to playing defense for Joe: "He didn't say it. It was just half."  Scarborough repeatedly referred to Speaker Mike Johnson as "Mikey," and mocked his Christianity: "I guess the Bible said, bear false witness against your brother. Is that what Mike's Bible says? Bear false witness, keep the illegal word out of there, so it means just the opposite of what Mikey knows it means?" How bravely transgressive—right up there with dropping f-bombs! Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 11/21/25 6:14 am ET JOE SCARBOROUGH: This was a guy, I think, I can't remember, was he the one that said that he was going to be ruling by the Bible, what the Bible said?  WILLIE GEIST: He is. SCARBOROUGH: I guess the Bible said, bear false witness against your brother. Is that what Mike's Bible says? Bear false witness, keep the illegal word out of there, so it means just the opposite of what Mikey knows it means?  GEIST: And you had Karoline Leavitt, from the podium yesterday, saying that these Democrats are telling troops that they can betray their oath. No, the call was to uphold the oath and not to commit illegal acts.  SCARBOROUGH: Once again, just the opposite. They are literally saying, this is Orwellian. They're literally saying just the opposite of what is true. They're lying to the American people. People on other news channels are lying to the American people. They are literally saying, you have to uphold your oath. . . .   KAROLINE LEAVITT: So these members knew what they were doing. They were leaning into their credentials as former members of our military, as veterans, as former members of the national security apparatus, to signal to people serving under this Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump, that you can defy him and you can betray your oath of office.  . . .  MIKE JOHNSON: It was a wildly inappropriate thing for so-called leaders in Congress to do, to encourage young troops to disobey orders. I mean, think of what the threat that is to our national security and what it means to our institutions. We have got to raise the bar in Congress. This is out of control and is wildly inappropriate. And for a senator like Mark Kelly or any member of Congress in the House or Senate to be engaged in that kind of talk is, to me, just so beyond the pale.  SCARBOROUGH: You know, he lies so pretty.  MIKA: It's too much.  SCARBOROUGH: He lies so pretty. I mean, it's too easy for him to lie.  GEIST: Clutching the pearls.  SCARBOROUGH: Clutching the pearls. Yep. The fainting couch. You know, it was very rude of those press members to be standing all around. He had a fainting couch. It was beautiful. Beautiful pink satin fainting couch with all the frills. He was going to just [puts on deep South accent] flop over. I tell you, he was so shocked and stunned.  These people are lying through their f---ing, through their teeth. These people are lying through their teeth.  MIKA: He didn't say it. It was just half.