On Tuesday, clips went viral on X of former Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA) — who’s running to become governor of California — pitching an utterly bizarre tantrum after CBS News Sacramento’s Julie Watts asked Porter if she had planned to seek to win the votes of Californians who voted for President Trump. Unsurprisingly, the Wednesday flagship morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored this development in the race to become the governor of the country’s largest state and a cartoonish meltdown from someone with a porous record of high staff turnover and abusive behavior, including pouring scalding-hot potatoes on her then-husband’s head. These networks had plenty of time over the last two days for Prime Deal days, of course. First, here’s how it all went down:   Given the love she’s received over the years from shows such as CBS Mornings, ABC’s The View, and late-night comedy shows, the left’s base audience wouldn’t want to impugn her chances. Hence her arrogance and disgust when a local reporter chose to actually do her job. In contrast, the Fox News Channel and Newsmax covered it throughout the day Wednesday, but also NewsNation and even CNN gave it attention. Our friend Bonchie posted a partial transcript at RedState, starting when things went downhill. When Porter whined such a question about reaching out to Trump voters was “unnecessarily argumentative,” Watts noted this was the “same” question she had “asked “ all the candidates running. The conversation circled the drain with Porter digging in and, at one point, attempt to abort the interview as forcefully as she supports actual murder of babies: “I don’t want to keep doing this. I’m going to call it.” Watts replied with exasperation, to which Porter delivered what will inadvertently become an iconic, inside-joke-level quip: “I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation.” Porter insisted follow-ups were too much for her, leaving Watts floored yet again: “You’ve never had to have a conversation with a reporter?” “So you’re not going to answer questions from reporters? Okay, why don’t we go through, I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that’s my job as a journalist, but I will go through and ask these, and if you don’t want to answer, you don’t have to answer,” Watts added. The kicker came at the end of the video with Porter reiterating “I don’t want to have an unhappy experience with you” and leveling a mind-numblingly stupid decree of Watts and the CBS Sacramento team: “I don’t want this all on camera.” As he always does, Bonchie nailed it in reaction to this hoopla: Based on her statements, it seems as if Porter thought she could end the interview and bully the network into not releasing the footage. They did, though, and it's an awful look for a person who's already swamped with a history of anger-related scandals. Throughout the exchange, Porter talks herself in circles while the reporter actually tries to re-center her several times. It was such a softball question, too. All she had to say was that she respects every voter and will not take a single vote for granted. 

Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) continues to get a pass from the leftist media. The man who bragged on NBC in 2019 that his testosterone sometimes makes him want to punch Donald Trump appeared Monday night on Anderson Cooper 360 to call Trump dangerous, reckless, chaotic, cruel and deeply corrupt, with absolutely zero pushback. Cooper brought up the September 30th overnight ICE raid at a Chicago apartment complex, which resulted in the arrests of 37 illegal aliens from several countries. The complex was reportedly targeted because it was frequented by members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. Two gang members were said to be among those captured along with others with criminal records. Cooper mentioned the 37 illegal aliens earlier in the show. But if you were hearing about this for the first time from Cooper in this interview, all you heard was a crafted Democrat talking point on the horrors of ICE:  COOPER: You showed this video earlier. It was put out by Homeland Security. It's highly produced, very slick. Posted by Secretary Kristi Noem. It shows the huge ICE raid last week on a Chicago apartment building. I mean, it looks like an action film. As you know, families, including children, were forced outside, zip-tied, a Blackhawk helicopter hovering overhead. What do you make of what is happening in Chicago and the way this administration is portraying it? BOOKER: I mean, this should appall all Americans. When you say people were zip-tied, those were American citizens that were zip-tied, American children that were zip-tied. As he's pursuing what he thinks is an action hero movie, what's really happening is people are getting hurt, communities are being torn apart, people are afraid. And he is violating everyday our values, not to mention our public safety and our strength. Donald Trump is reckless, chaotic, cruel, and deeply corrupt. And this is something I'm glad to see most Americans on both sides of the aisle together say that is wrong. "Facts First" CNN did not acknowledge that DHS debunked the zip-tied children claim as an internet hoax. Cooper then encouraged another Booker speech: "Do you think this is an attempt to kind of normalize, you know, federal troops on the ground in major American cities?" Booker then bizarrely went on to compare these ICE raids and arrests to the arrest of radical leftist Angela Davis in 1970 when she was on the FBI's Most Wanted list: "the reality is, as in America, we know, as the great James Baldwin said after the false wrong arrest of Angela Davis, if they come for you in the morning, then they're going to come for me at night. When you take away other people's values anywhere, it's a threat to all of our shared precious values everywhere." Angela Davis was later the vice-presidential nominee in 1980 and 1984 for the Communist Party USA, which wasn't all about our "shared precious values" of freedom. Booker closed by going after Trump, again, "He doesn't respect checks and balances. Donald Trump is dangerous, and we more and more need to realize that."  Well, since Booker declared that sometimes his testosterone makes him want to punch Trump, there have been two assassination attempts on Trump. Now he says we need to realize how dangerous he is, as Cooper sits silently by.  Both Anderson Cooper and Cory Booker were playing on the same Trump-trashing team. This was a despicable display of media bias at its worst. 

Tough noogies, asthmatics! CNN has officially pinned your breathing tool as the latest climate change threat to the environment.  Jen Christensen of the CNN Health & Climate Unit railed against respiratory-challenged individuals’s survival tool in an October 6 story headlined: “Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds.” Apparently being full of hot air is no longer just an idiom for the lefty media. Christensen’s story was utterly ridiculous from the start: “The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds.” Darn those respiratory-challenged people trying to stay alive, eh Jen? For context, Christensen noted that “[t]o treat conditions like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, millions of Americans use what doctors often call metered dose” inhalers. The problem, claimed Christensen, was how inhalers use “propellants called hydrofluoroalkanes, or HFAs,” which the wacky study she cited asserted was devastating the environment.   Christensen descended further down the rabbit hole, suggesting that lung cancer patients who literally can’t live without the metered-dose inhalers switch to alternative sources: “The other study published Monday shows that concerted efforts to reduce traditional inhaler use can make a difference.” In essence, she literally co-opted the same talking points climate lefties use to badger consumers about using renewables and EVs instead of fossil fuels and shoe-horned them into her beef with inhalers: Metered-dose inhalers were responsible for 98% of the climate pollution from inhalers, the study found. People with lung conditions can’t live without them, but the researchers noted some might be able to switch to an alternative inhaler that emits fewer problematic propellants. But — here’s a surprise — alternative breathing tools are more expensive! Christensen admitted in a buried paragraph that “[t]here can also be a price barrier with dry-powder inhalers, since many of the versions that use HFAs are generic and less expensive. And insurance doesn’t often cover the dry-powder kind.” JunkScience.com founder Steve Milloy mocked CNN for being completely tone-deaf with its climate fanaticism in comments to MRC Business: The ozone hole was a hoax. Global warming is a hoax. And because of these two hoaxes, greens don’t want asthmatics using inhalers to survive because the propellants may possibly contribute in unmeasurable amounts to the two easily debunked global atmospheric hysterias of our time. "As an asthmatic who has relied on inhalers," said Milloy, "it is wild that medical researchers would deny people irreplaceable life-saving medication because of nonsense spewed by Al Gore." It's also wild that the media would treat this kind of faux-scholarship as being worthy of any serious consideration. Did Christensen bother to mention any of the conflicts of interests of the researchers that were disclosed in the, er, “study” she cited? Of course not! If she did, it would throw a wrench in her appeal-to-authority-argument.  One researcher “reported receipt of personal fees from Alosa Health and for serving as an expert witness in litigation against inhaler manufacturers.” Another disclosed “previous employment by GSK prior to initiation of this project.” GSK is a biopharma company that has a particular obsession with leftist climate pipe dreams. “We are committed to net zero impact on climate across our entire value chain,” the company’s website states. Doesn’t sound like the researchers are the most objective people in the world, eh Jen?   It’s not even until you get to the 20th paragraph of Christensen’s propaganda that readers would know that “inhalers are a relatively small cause of climate change compared to the bigger culprits like traffic, agriculture, and power generation.” But even that pathetic caveat glosses over how tiny the supposed green effects of inhalers are by the study’s own admission, which Christensen left out: “[I]nhalers are responsible for less than 0.5% of the more than 500 million mtCO2e of annual health care–related greenhouse gas emissions in the US.”  First it was the cow farts. Now it’s the things asthmatics and others use to stay alive. What’s next? 

Big Tech is feeding Americans a partisan and hypocritical narrative about the current government shutdown. In fact, three AI chatbots took Sen. Chuck Schumer’s side in blaming Republicans for the ongoing shutdown. Citing heinously biased sources to justify their contradictory and partisan opinions, three of the world’s most used artificial intelligence chatbots went so far as to blame Republicans for both the 2013 and 2025 government shutdowns. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta AI, and xAI Grok, all spun the issue with the help of leftist media sources such as Wikipedia and the recently defunded National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to blame Republicans for not funding the federal government.   [The story continues on MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org]

Even as the Trump administration works to broker a peace deal between Israel and Gaza, Google once again revealed its utter disdain for America’s ally.   On the second anniversary of the horrific Oct. 7 attacks that sparked Israel’s war in Gaza, the Google News home page promoted just two articles on the war and the ongoing peace negotiations currently in progress. However, Google promoted two of the worst news outlets looking back on the last two years: The Guardian and The Associated Press.  The Guardian in particular went out of its way to disparage Israel before eventually admitting that the Middle Eastern country was, in fact, the victim of the Oct. 7 terrorism attack. Google’s promotion of such disgusting rhetoric led Dan Schneider, MRC Free Speech America’s vice president, to call the company “Israel’s second worst enemy.”  In an X post thread, Schneider commented on the Guardian article headlined, “The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory,” calling the outlet a “sick, twisted antisemitic mouthpiece for Jew hatred.”  Schneider added, “Not until paragraph 6 does it even suggest that Hamas terrorists started the war in Gaza. But readers must first wade through slanderous framing.” Indeed, as Schneider noted, The Guardian referred to "Israel's two-year assault" and noted that the "Majority [of those killed] have been civilians" despite the fact that this is always true in war for both sides.  The outlet even seemed to gloss over the significance of Oct. 7, 2023, writing: “The war, triggered by a Hamas raid into Israel on 7 October 2023, which killed approximately 1,200 people and took a further 251 as hostages, has devastated Gaza, in physical and human terms.” The AP, to its credit, acknowledged how devastating Hamas’s attack was and still is for Israel. And although it mentioned criticism of the country’s defense policies, it included both sides of the argument.  However, this does not negate accusations that an AP photojournalist — whose footage and photographs the outlet used — appears to have been embedded with Hamas. In a 2023 X post, Honest Reporting alleged: “In the hours following our expose, new material is still coming to light concerning Gazan freelance journalist Hassan Eslaiah whom both AP & CNN used on Oct. 7. Here he is pictured with Hamas leader and mastermind of the Oct. 7 massacre, Yahya Sinwar.” At the time, Honest Reporting additionally showed footage of Eslaiah “after he crossed into Israel and took photos of a burning Israeli tank. He then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza. Note that he is not identifiable as a member of the press. But AP & CNN deemed it acceptable to use his services." This is also not the first time Google has displayed an anti-Israel sentiment. In June, Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, would not definitively say that Israel can choose its own capital city. When asked, “If Israel says Jerusalem is its capital, does that make it so?” the AI chatbot argued that Jerusalem as the capital city is “largely not recognized by the international community due to the disputed status of the city and its significance to both Israelis and Palestinians.” Similarly, in October 2023, when Shneider asked, “Is Hamas a terrorist organization?” the chatbot refused to answer. “I’m just a language model, so I can’t help you with that,” Google’s AI said.  That same month, Google Maps also displayed over 50 bomb shelters near the border with Gaza shortly after the Hamas attack that targeted bomb shelters. A civilian living in Israel, Ilana Sondak, told MRC at the time, “Everyone living in Israel knows where his bomb shelters are located.” When asked if it is helpful for travelers to use Google Maps to identify shelter sites, Sondak added, “You just have to go into the stairwell of the nearest house. You certainly wouldn’t stand in the street and look up Google.” Free speech is under attack. Contact Google at 650-253-0000 and demand it be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.