It got crazy this last month, with members of the Leftist Elitist Media stoking hatred of Donald Trump and the GOP. Their alarmist warnings about GOP gerrymandering and Trump’s “fascist” tactics continued EVEN after an assassination attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Former MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested it was staged, and ex-Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd whined that he wasn’t going to any more Trump events because “chaos” follows him. ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin feared that the Supreme Court decision on redistricting would lead to Republican discrimination against black voters: “I have to tell my children that they have fewer civil rights than I did.” Celebrities also fueled animus against Trump and conservatives. ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel sank to a new low when he mocked First Lady Melania Trump as an “expectant widow.” Actress and singer Bette Midler got some of her Hollyweird pals together to croon against Trump and ICE agents in a reworked Woody Guthrie song: “All You Fascists Bound to Lose.” The following are the most obnoxious outbursts from leftist journalists and celebrities over the last month: [LANGUAGE WARNING]   Joy Reid Suggests Assassination Attempt Was Staged   Joy Reid suggests that assassination attempts were staged - The Joy Reid Show podcast, April 27, 2026. pic.twitter.com/UxxeiNqGgy — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) May 8, 2026   “Donald Trump is allegedly shot in the ear [in Butler, Pennsylvania], although no one’s ever shown us any medical records….There’s just odd things that keep happening around Trump. And we know that Viktor Orbán allegedly, allegedly, according to Washington Post’s reporting, there was a plot by the Russians to stage an assassination, fake assassination for Orbán….When something seems too perfect, people, they don’t – they don’t believe in it. And Donald Trump now again gets victimized by an alleged would-be assassin in front of the perfect witnesses – the press.”— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on her podcast The Joy Reid Show, April 27.   Chuck Todd Whines: I’m Not Going to Any More Trump Events, Chaos Follows Him   Chuck Todd Whines: I’m Not Going to Any More Trump Events, Chaos Follows Him— Former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on the So What with Chris Cillizza? podcast, April 27. pic.twitter.com/uwJfJH3esk — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) May 8, 2026   “I’m not going to any more events where Trump is at them. I don’t feel safe….Chaos follows him and you are less safe, right? If you decide to go into his orbit, you have become less safe.…He’s more likely to have you be the target of Iranian assassins….The guy doesn’t care when people commit violence in his name, he only cares when the violence is committed against him, and he does not see that he is a contributor to the atmospherics of the world we’re living in.” — Former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on the So What with Chris Cillizza? podcast, April 27.    Lawrence O’Donnell Praises “International Sound of Resistance” to “Hitler,” “Gangster” Trump   Tuesday night, MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell once again made a Trump-Hitler comparison, as he likened Winston Churchill's comments from 1941, which called Hitler a "monster of wickedness," to Ed Davey's comments in UK Parliament that called Trump a "dangerous and corrupt gangster." pic.twitter.com/bH0bzZX1SJ — Nick (@nspin310) April 15, 2026   Host Lawrence O’Donnell: “The international sound of resistance to Donald Trump was heard in the British House of Commons, and the language used to describe Donald Trump was on a par with the language Winston Churchill used to describe Adolf Hitler during World War II.”Winston Churchill (June 22, 1941): “Hitler is a monster of wickedness.”O’Donnell: “A monster of wickedness. Words to describe the worst, most murderous dictator in European history and world history. And yesterday in the British parliament, the words ‘he is a dangerous and corrupt gangster’ [by MP Ed Davey] were used to describe the President of the United States, an office once occupied by the President who beat Adolf Hitler in World War II.”— MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, April 14.   Lawrence O’Donnell: “Hitler Never Said,” What Trump Just Said “‘A whole civilization will die tonight.’ Hitler never said that. No head of state in the history of the world ever said that. Civilization had to wait literally thousands of years until today, April 7th, 2026 at 8:06 A.M. for a head of state to say and threaten ‘A whole civilization will die tonight.’ No cruel king ever threatened that, no mass murdering tyrant anywhere in the world ever said that, or even thought it was possible. And so, the United States of America now must live with the permanent stain on our history, that we are the only country in the world who has produced a head of state, who said, ‘a whole civilization will die tonight.’”— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MS NOW’s The Last Word, April 7.    Jonathan Lemire: President Trump Sounds Like Putin, Kim Jong-Un, the “Monsters of History”   WATCH: Morning Joe Uses Ceasefire to Tie Trump to ‘Monsters of History’ pic.twitter.com/RlhkR94yOi — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 8, 2026   “Peter Baker, start with you about the President’s post this morning. And we know he is, you know, fond over-the-top language. He is fond of, you know, fire and fury threats and the like. But this, to me, is something entirely new…This is the rhetoric we associate with people like Vladimir Putin, with people like Kim Jong-un, with the monsters of history, and yet we have heard it now from the sitting president.”— Host Jonathan Lemire on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, April 7.   Can’t Celebrate Moon Mission Because of Trump’s Threats of “Genocide” “Today, as President Donald Trump threatens Iran with civilizational destruction, Artemis II is hurtling past the moon without any of that larger framing, or soaring rhetoric. The world is watching, and some part of it may delight in the lunar imagery, the clarity of the craters, the detail of its blasted surface, the pits and wounds of some 4.5 billion years of exposure to the vicissitudes of space. But down below, on earth — which is still our only option for survival as a species — the world’s most powerful man is using the language of genocide and apocalypse to threaten a country that posed no imminent danger to the United States.”— Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott in April 7 column “Trump’s dark rhetoric eclipses the new wonders of the Space Age.”   Tom Friedman: The Problem With Iran Losing Is That It Strengthens “Awful” Trump   Don’t want Iran to lose if it means Trump wins. @TomFriedman of @NYTimes really wants “to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people and the region,” but on CNN’s @Smerconish he fretted “the problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi… pic.twitter.com/rgPngGXkGc — Brent Baker

On Friday’s All Things Considered, NPR aired a seven-minute interview lamenting Republican redistricting with a man who’s rarely considered. They interviewed Rep. Steve Cohen, Democrat of Memphis, who is a white man who’s long represented a majority-black district. The online headline had drama: “Tennessee Democrat speaks about his erased district.” Anchor Ailsa Chang apologized in this question: AILSA CHANG: Let me ask you -- and forgive me for pointing out the obvious. You are a white politician who has been representing this majority-black district. What do you think is the significance of Tennessee losing its only majority-black district? Rep. STEVE COHEN: Well, it's going to lessen African Americans' interest in the election process when they know that their decision in a primary is going to be for a candidate who probably doesn't have much of a chance to win. NPR didn’t point out Cohen’s representation undercuts the leftist argument that black voting rights don’t have meaning if they don’t have black representation. Chang did ask about the tit-for-tat wars: CHANG: What do you say to people watching all of this, who are like, hey, two wrongs, don't make it right, no matter who's doing it? None of this tit for tat between the two sides is good for democracy in general. How do you respond? COHEN: Yeah, It's not good for democracy. Donald Trump started this in Texas when he called the Texas governor and asked him to get him four or five new congressmen. [This overlooks that New York did it under Biden, before Trump.] CHANG: Right, and Democrats are punching back. So now there's a tit for tat. What do you think of that? COHEN: If we don't do it and Gavin Newsom didn't do it, we'd be dead. We would not be - have a chance at having the majority in the House of Representatives and the authoritarian leader who started this unprecedented action by going to Texas - just like he went to Georgia and said, find me 11,000 votes - he would be a president without any oversight. That's not right. Cohen went on to denounce Trump as “basically a gangster” and added: “if the Democrats didn't respond, they would continue to have the House and have it forever. And that's just not right. We'll have authoritarianism. We'll have Orbán. He's close to Orbán already.” Chang didn’t take exception, just underlined he was talking about Hungarian president Viktor Orban, who just lost a re-election bid.

On Friday's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish gave Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) free rein to lecture Republicans on the evils of partisan redistricting, complete with hyperbolic comparisons to Jim Crow poll taxes and literacy tests. The guest warned that GOP moves in the South would backfire, as blue states could retaliate by wiping out Republican districts on the West Coast: "Republicans are gonna come to regret it... We can have a West Coast where there's not a single Republican district. That can be done." Nice Republican districts you got there — wouldn’t want to see nuthin’ happen to them! It took real chutzpah for Virginia Democrat Walkinshaw (who's been in office for just seven months) to condemn Republican redistricting. Virginia, under newly-elected Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger, just pushed through a mid-decade redistricting referendum in April 2026 designed to flip four Republican-held congressional seats and turn the state from competitive (6D-5R) to a near-Democratic lock (10D-1R). During her campaign, Spanberger piously pledged “I have no plans to redistrict Virginia.” Once in office, she strongly backed the effort. Later on Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned it. When Daily Signal executive editor Rob Bluey, an MRC alum, politely pointed out the hypocrisy, Walkinshaw hid behind the fact that voters had narrowly passed a referendum approving the redistricting, unlike in Tennessee, where the legislature acted directly. But Virginia Democrats had driven the entire process and the maps, spending tens of millions of dollars and ending up with just 51.7 percent of the vote. Message to Walkinshaw: The Constitution established a representative democracy in which the people’s elected representatives are charged with adopting legislation — including on electoral districts. Referenda are the exception, not the rule, and often provide less protection for minority rights. @CNN's Cornish Lets VA Dem Call GOP Redistricting 'Jim Crow' — While His Own State Just Gerrymandered pic.twitter.com/quwqM3tOt8 — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) May 8, 2026 Parroting the approved Democrat talking point, Walkinshaw made an absurd analogy to poll taxes and literacy tests, dutifully accusing the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling of enabling “a return to Jim Crow” in how we draw districts. Cornish ended the segment by playing the race card against Republicans, claiming black-majority districts were necessary “to compensate for the fact that white voters did not vote for non-white candidates.” Tell that to Black Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, whose Florida 19th District is roughly 70% white and only 6% black. Both parties gerrymander when they hold power. The “redistricting war” Walkinshaw decried is bipartisan — with Democrats now crying foul after the Supreme Court made clear that race can’t predominate over traditional districting principles. CNN’s selective outrage and failure to challenge Walkinshaw’s hypocrisy exemplify the network’s lopsided liberal tilt. Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 5/8/26 6:49 am EDT JAMES WALKINSHAW: Like, look, if you look at this redistricting that's taking place across the South now, where it's a grab based on race and power, Republicans are gonna come to regret it. Because in advance of the 2028 election cycle, there's a lot more blue states that can go back and redistrict again. We can have a West Coast where there's not a single Republican district. That can be done.  I don't think that's good for the country. We'd be much better off if we join hands and end this redistricting war and ban partisan gerrymandering, but clearly, that's not the direction Republican-controlled states are going. AUDIE CORNISH: Can I go back to you really quickly, because I feel like people don't fully understand that when the Supreme Court made this ruling, it wasn't just saying you can devalue race as an issue in doing maps, that that isn't right. They also, to my reading, elevated partisanship. It is now legal to say that. If someone takes you to court and you say, "Look, we're doing this for partisan advantage," that's kosher, that's legally it. ROB BLUEY: I would argue that it's no different than what Abigail Spanberger and Gavin Newsom did in Virginia and California, because they were obviously trying to maximize the Democrats' advantage too. . . . WALKINSHAW: I think it's important to note, you mentioned California and Virginia. A big difference is, Gavin Newsom and Abigail Spanberger didn't decide on the maps in California and Virginia. The voters of California and Virginia decided to redraw the maps. Big difference between that and what we just saw happen in Tennessee.  . . .  I'm from the Commonwealth of Virginia. I live very close to the Fairfax County Courthouse. And from roughly 1904 until the 1960s, if you were black and you wanted to vote at that courthouse, you had to do a poll tax, pay a poll tax, or perform a literacy test. And they said, "It's not about race, right? There's no racist intent here. We just have some standard for everyone who votes."  Supreme Court's basically saying the same thing. It's a return to Jim Crow in terms of how we draw districts. CORNISH: I just want to bring up one other thing I've been thinking about. You know, there's been an exodus of black Republicans from Congress. And one of the things that these black districts were supposed to do is kind of compensate for the fact that white voters did not vote for non-white candidates, right?

On Friday, all of the big three network morning shows had segments on Tennessee redistricting and the protests that followed, with special attention given to props used in the protests led by State Representative Justin Pearson (D). Of course, they loved the signs about “white supremacy,” a banner that read “Jim Crow 2.0,” along with the burning of a paper with the Confederate Flag on it in a seeming revival of the ‘Tennessee Three’ controversy from 2023. First, CBS Mornings continued its comparison of redistricting to the civil rights movement with a continuation of Thursday’s segment by correspondent Ed O’Keefe. Host Nate Burleson introduced the story as Republicans trying “to eliminate the state’s only black majority district.” Burleson described the protests, which included loud language and screams from Democratic representatives along with signs that claimed “white supremacy,” as a “passionate demonstration.”   CBS Mornings spent the most time of the network morning shows on the redistricting battle, as Ed O'Keefe highlighted protests in the Tennessee Capitol. O'Keefe also continued his likening of redistricting to the civil rights movement, as he talked to someone who "at 12 years… pic.twitter.com/XpM9tu97KI — Nick (@nspin310) May 8, 2026   O’Keefe’s news package began as his voice played over some protest audio from the Tennessee Capitol as he described the situation as “chaos,” as protesters tried to “stop legislation breaking up the state’s only Democratic House seat.” The protesters' attempt to “stop legislation” was passed over as he then highlighted a banner on the house floor held by a Democratic representative that read “Jim Crow 2.0” and the paper Confederate flag burning by Pearson. O’Keefe interviewed CBS election law analyst David Becker, who said the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act will “really minimize the impact of the minority population in a state.” In a continuation of Thursday, O’Keefe returned to Democratic Congressman Shomari Figures of Alabama, who called all southern redistricting discrimination. Then, O’Keefe interviewed civil rights activist Doris Crenshaw, as he connected the redistricting to Rosa Parks: O’KEEFE: Civil rights activist Doris Crenshaw, who at 12 years old started working on civil rights issues with Rosa Parks, was at an information session hosted by Congressman Figures Thursday night. [To Crenshaw] You've spent your entire life working for more representation, and they may be on the verge of taking it away. CRENSHAW: It does not sit well with me, and it shouldn't sit well with the people of goodwill in this country.   ABC's Good Morning America highlighted "heated protests" in Tennessee as the report played with audio of protesters in the background. The visual selection included notable members of 2023's 'Tennessee Three' protest, along with a sign that read "Fight Against White Supremacy." pic.twitter.com/pzdBIzfvv2 — Nick (@nspin310) May 8, 2026   On ABC’s Good Morning America, fill-in anchor Rachel Scott introduced a story on redistricting focused on Tennessee, as the chyron read, “Push to Redistrict Sparks Protests.” Reporter Jay O’Brien framed the redistricting as an end to black-district representation in Congress, as he ignored, like all the other shows, how Tennessee’s black majority district was represented by white Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN). His report talked over images and videos of “heated protests” screaming and holding up signs, provided by organizations like the ACLU, with phrases such as “Protect the South: No Jim Crow Maps.” Special highlight was, once again, given to Pearson, as the ABC package showed him walking through protesters while protesting, along with images of Democratic representatives holding up fists. At the end of the package, ABC showed another member of 2023’s ‘Tennessee Three,’ State Representative Justin Jones, as he held up a sign that read, “Fight Against White Supremacy.”   NBC's Today ensured all networks covered Tennessee redistricting protests, as host Willie Geist read the story as similar images of chaotic protests played. pic.twitter.com/eiKGXRmndv — Nick (@nspin310) May 8, 2026   Lastly, on NBC’s Today, the Tennessee redistricting was briefly covered by fill-in anchor Willie Geist, as similar images of protests played on screen: Back here at home, Tennessee lawmakers passed a new congressional map yesterday, dividing up the state's lone majority-black district. The redrawn district lines put Republicans in position to gain a seat in this fall's mid-term elections and to secure full control over Tennessee's congressional delegation. CBS’s comparison of redistricting to the civil rights movement showed the true direction media coverage wanted to go on the topic. As the other networks highlighted protests in Tennessee, it seemed like the networks were hungry to return to the ‘Tennessee Three’ story from 2023 as they returned to highlight Pearson and Jones. The transcript is below. Click "expand": CBS Mornings May 8, 2026 7:14:52 AM Eastern NATE BURLESON: Republicans in Tennessee are giving their party a better chance to win every congressional seat in November. They voted to eliminate the state's only black majority district on Thursday. Opponents held a passionate demonstration. They say this will punish black voters. Supporters, though, say the new maps are not driven by race. Ed O'Keefe looks a how this fight is playing out. [Cuts to news package] ED O’KEEFE: Chaos at the Tennessee capital in Nashville Thursday, as Democratic lawmakers and protesters tried to stop legislation breaking up the state's only Democratic House seat.  [Protest audio] Yelling, holding signs, calling the move ‘Jim Crow 2.0.’ Even burning a printout of the confederate flag. STATE REP. JUSTIN PEARSON (D): [Holding up Burning Confederate Flag] We will not go back. O’KEEFE: The change follows a Supreme Court ruling last week that narrowed the Voting Rights Act.  CBS News election law analyst David Becker says the ruling has this effect. DAVID BECKER: And in some cases, that's going to mean that they blanche their entire state's delegation and really minimize the impact of the minority population in a state. O’KEEFE: That's the concern for Democratic Congressman Shomari Figures of Montgomery, Alabama, where a similar pending Supreme Court decision could draw his majority-black district off the map. REP. SHOMARI FIGURES (D-AL): What that translates into is this. It is okay to discriminate against Democrats who are black, but it is not okay to discriminate against black Democrats. Doesn't make a lot of sense. O’KEEFE: Alabama's Attorney General says it is a question of reflecting the state's Republican tilt. ALABAMA AG STEVE MARSHALL: Alabama is a conservative state. I expect we will have conservative representatives. O’KEEFE: Civil rights activist Doris Crenshaw, who at 12 years old started working on civil rights issues with Rosa Parks, was at an information session hosted by Congressman Figures Thursday night. [To Crenshaw] You've spent your entire life working for more representation, and they may be on the verge of taking it away. DORIS CRENSHAW: It does not sit well with me, and it shouldn't sit well with the people of goodwill in this country. [Cuts back to live] O’KEEFE: As of yet, nothing in Alabama has changed. The Supreme Court could issue a ruling allowing the state to redraw its map as early as today. Now that Tennessee has acted, nine Republican- and Democratic-controlled states across the country have redrawn their maps. Three more in the deep south may do so ahead of November's elections. Gayle? (...) ABC’s Good Morning America May 8, 2026 7:14:30 AM Eastern RACHEL SCOTT: Now to the protests over the nationwide race to redraw congressional maps across the country for partisan advantage ahead of the midterm elections. Jay O'Brien is in Washington with the latest. And Jay, Tennessee now the latest state to approve a redistricting plan. JAY O’BRIEN: That's right, Rachel. Good morning to you. Tennessee Republicans passed a new congressional map yesterday, likely to eliminate the state's only majority-black district which is the only House seat held by a Democrat there. The move sparking heated protests inside the Tennessee state capitol as the votes were taking place.  Tennessee is now the first state to redraw its congressional maps after a Supreme Court decision last week weakened the Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and gerrymandering. The Tennessee chapter of the NAACP has already filed a lawsuit to block these maps from going into effect. Other republican states, though, like Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina, are now also moving to redraw their maps. It’s all just the latest in a months-long wave of redistricting that swept through Republican and Democrat controlled states ahead of the November midterms, Michael? (...) NBC’s Today May 8, 2026 8:04:32 AM Eastern WILLIE GEIST: Back here at home, Tennessee lawmakers passed a new congressional map yesterday, dividing up the state's lone majority-black district. The redrawn district lines put Republicans in position to gain a seat in this fall's mid-term elections and to secure full control over Tennessee's congressional delegation.  Tennessee now becomes the ninth state to enact a new congressional map ahead of the midterms. Republicans could pick up as many as 14 seats as a result of the changes compared with 10 for Democrats, though several maps face litigation. (...)

Since the start of the Iran War, the leftist media has followed the Democrat script, intensifying their scrutiny of Israel, including one sided reporting on allegations that the U.S. was dragged into the war by the Jewish state, and retaliatory strikes by Israel against Hezbollah in Lebanon. On Monday, 30 House Democrats, including all Squad members, signed a letter demanding that we find out more about Israel's nuclear capabilities, something that CNN's Abby Phillip came out in full support of early Wednesday on NewsNight. Philip began, "Everybody knows that Israel has nukes. We don't know how many. Is it time for there to be more transparency around that?" After providing a lengthy lesson on Israel's nuclear history, Presidential historian Tim Naftali seemed to say, yes it was time, to make an exception when it comes to Israel. NAFTALI: It has never been our policy as a government to tell people about our allies nuclear arsenals, if they don't say it themselves. And we're stuck in this policy because of the cold war, it's a problem. PHILLIP: But now that there's a hot war in the Middle East, does that change the calculus? CNN's senior political commentator Van Jones came to Israel's defense, big time, calling out his own party, and this issue, for what it is. JONES: What is the point? We already know that they have nukes. If the United States forces them to cough up    the furball, how is that in the interest of the United States? I just don't know what the point is.... It seems to me it's just another attempt on the left wing of my party, to throw a rock at Israel. And it just seems like a whole bunch of people in my party, just like throwing rocks at Israel, and this is the latest rock. I try to be fair about this stuff. How does it advance the interest of the United States to force Israel to cough up this furball when everybody already knows it anyway? What's the point? Then Naftali seemed to reveal what the left is really looking to accomplish. NAFTALI: But one of the things that has fallen away is our leverage.  We've never had a lot of leverage over the state of Israel when it comes to its decisions on national security. They're an independent country. Our national interests and their national interests do overlap, but not completely.... Israel does what Israel wants to do. And one of the things we haven't done as much of as we could, we haven't used our leverage to say to Israel, sometimes, you know, the war you've launched against Hamas, Hamas deserves it, but the way you're fighting it, it's not good for the international system and it's not good for us....It's a good debate to have, not on the nuclear issue, but how can the United States use its leverage to make the Middle East more peaceful? Isn't that what they thought Team Biden was doing? How did that work out? Then Jones stepped in again with another dose of common sense. JONES: I'm asking an honest question. Why? I mean, I is has there been some rumor that says that Israel is going to nuke Iran? I don't think there has been. PHILLIP: There's only one power in the Middle East that has a nuke and it's Israel. And so the question is, what are the circumstances? What are the boundaries? Are there any boundaries? They don't acknowledge that they have them. People know that they that they do. But are there any boundaries? And I think that seems like a fair question. Really? Should Israel reveal this information to the world, or just to  to members of the Squad, and others who can easily leak it? Naftali took it a step further: "The issue here is whether it should go public." Phillip continued her strong push against Israel's stance, "Why shouldn't they (Israel) behave the way other nuclear states that are good actors do when they have those nuclear weapons, they have a certain degree of transparency.... There's no reason for them not to acknowledge it." Interestingly, Scott Jennings was on the panel, but he did not weigh in at all on this issue. It's obvious Phillip goes beyond the what the Democrat letter demands, which is for Congress to be informed. She wants every one of Israel's enemies to know all that they can about Israel's capabilities, which should come as no surprise from the woman, who on Wednesday redefined the meaning of the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish chant of From the River To The Sea.