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

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

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

For elite journalists, being compared to Walter Cronkite is considered a great honor, so when the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism announced their 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for excellence in political journalism on Wednesday, it gave insight into who the industry views as the best of the best. For everybody else, the 2025 winners were a reminder that for those journalists, fighting President Trump is the best way to get street cred. The first winner was NBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander for “holding the powerful accountable.” According to the judges, “Alexander’s live reporting and interviewing ‘meets the challenge of fearlessly engaging’ with the U.S. President and his staff in the Oval Office and White House Press Room. Noting his ‘deep commitment to the pursuit of truth,’ they praised his ‘vital work to correct false narratives’ … he remains composed under pressure, persevering and prepared with the facts.’” Speaking of fraud and false narratives, Alexander recently suggested Trump’s comments about Somalis were related to impending ICE operations and not the welfare fraud scandal. Another award winner was CBS’s 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, executive producer Bill Owens, and producer Maria Gavrilovic for a “story about executive orders targeting law firms that the president treats as political enemies ‘an excellent and shocking look at the context and the breadth of the threat’ of wielding power against the judicial system.” They were also praised for airing that “a week after the program’s executive producer resigned after 24 years with the show, prompted by increased corporate supervision of its news content in the face of a $20 billion lawsuit from President Trump and the pending FCC approval required for CBS owner Paramount Global’s merger with Skydance Media. ‘This skillful examination stands up for the Fourth Estate’s responsibility to not fold under pressure’” Next were PBS News Hour anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett for their “On Democracy” series. “Judges called this ‘brilliant concept’ for a series of interviews with experts, scholars and activists ‘the very best that news can do.’ … it delivered diverse viewpoints that “cut through the noise.” In reality, News Hour featured 98 liberal guests from July 18 to September 18, but only 21 conservatives. MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow was also honored for being “the first and only national television program to cover the Hands Off protest movement on April 7 as ‘a valuable contribution to the historic record of this presidency,’ hailing the ‘engaging and informative’ episode reporting on 1,400 peaceful demonstrations as a ’strong use of the medium’ showing viewers they’re not alone in dissent.” Back on CBS, Evening News anchor John Dickerson’s pretentious end-of-show monologues were praised for “defending civil service and risks to healthcare, to the DOJ, DOGE and DEI. Dickerson does a journalist’s job of ‘bravely’ calling out false narratives ‘with humanizing detail and precision.’ His ‘clear explanations’ tell us how and why it matters that democratic values are under assault, and his ‘historical grounding’ presents facts with ‘calm and rational delivery,’ making his writing even more ‘powerful and effective.’” The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart was recognized for “continuing a comedic tradition in American journalism” and being “a master of his class,’ as shown in the entry’s analysis of DOGE, Stewart exposes how its chainsaw approach eroded safeguards that protect democracy instead of actually cutting fat.” It’s ironic that Stewart was the first comedy host to be recognized by the award given that he spent part of Monday’s show mocking Trump for winning the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize, which he claimed was just a way for FIFA to appease Trump. Also receiving an award was Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro for “exploring the massive changes enacted, from immigration to tariffs,” and KFOR Oklahoma City for “this ‘stunning’ three-part series about a U.S. citizen and her daughters detained and humiliated by Homeland Security agents ‘a poignant example of finding an important local story that illustrates a national one and digging deep into it and not letting go.’” Not only was there no award given to anyone who investigated the left, but there was also no award given to anyone who did something non-Trump related. The 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards ended up being just another instance of journalists patting themselves on the back for allegedly keeping democracy alive.

Following months of rumors, CBS News’s parent company Paramount Skydance announced Wednesday that CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil will become the new anchor of the CBS Evening News on January 5, signifying editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s biggest gamble yet, the network’s most serious attempt to break out of a lifetime in third place, and the most concrete effort to nudge a legacy newscast back to the center since the days of Jeff Glor from December 2017 to May 2019. Dokoupil will the top job from longtime CBS News journalist John Dickerson and former CBS New York anchor Maurice DuBois, who lasted less than a year and suffered from criticism over its format, plummeting ratings, and rampantly smug liberal bias. Weiss acknowledged the non-existent levels of trust in the media, writing in a press release that “[w]e live in a time in which many people have lost trust in the media” and Dokoupil will be “the person to win it back...because he believes in old school journalistic values: asking the hard questions, following the facts wherever they lead and holding power to account.” CBS News President Tom Cibrowski added Dokoupil represents “what everyone wants in an evening-news anchor – authentic, compassionate, unafraid” and “connects instantly, whether he’s talking with world leaders or with families navigating difficult news in their own backyards.” The on-air announcement came on CBS Mornings’s “Talk of the Table” segment with co-hosts Gayle King and Nate Burleson saying they would be discussing “a guy who everybody’s been whispering about in our hallways, in and out of the building” and thus they had to “clear up some rumors about him.” Set to M People’s Moving on Up, Burleson made it official: “Tony Dokoupil — or, as Oprah calls him — Tony Baroni — is moving from the table to the desk as the new anchor of CBS Evening News.” Dokoupil shared his first on-air comments about the new gig, proceeded by heaping praise from Burleson and featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers, who insisted Dokoupil is “the perfect person” to “make us competitive again” and “bring us on the trajectory of winning”: Here’s ‘CBS Mornings’ announcing that @TonyDokoupil will become the anchor of the @CBSEveningNews in January and will bid farewell to the AM show after seven years at “the best job I’ve ever had in journalism” Tony says EN is “a massively important show” with “a massively… pic.twitter.com/z9f7BgabSH — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 10, 2025 Dokoupil made clear the change wasn’t out of unhappiness on the AM show: “I want to talk about us because it’s been almost seven years we’ve been doing this together and I am not joking when I say this is the best job I’ve had in journalism, and if things didn’t change around us... I would never change.” Duthiers backed him up, revealing to viewers “I spoke to you a couple weeks ago, you said if you could retire doing this job with us, that would be your dream.” Dokoupil paid tribute to his three co-hosts well: [This new job is] only because of what I learned here. I mean, you are the most authentic, curious, empathetic person on television, Gayle. And I’ve learned so much from you for the last seven years. Nate, you’re the most charming man on TV. I still have a list of 27 activities that we’re going to get to before we pass from this Earth. And Vlad, you’re the renaissance man. You make me smarter about music and humanity everyday. And just the commercial breaks around here, I wish people at home could know, and thank you to the audience as well. They concluded by asking what Dokoupil’s wife — MS NOW host Katy Tur — thought of this hoopla.  Dokoupil joked “I think she’s been lobbying for this for years” and long wanted to be able to have him join her in taking their children to school. Dokoupil’s character arc has been certainly interesting. Starting in the Obama era, he was at Newsweek and The Daily Beast then NBCNews.com before shifting to on-camera duties at MSNBC during the 2016 election cycle (which was when he met Tur as a fellow correspondent). Partway through that election, he shifted over to CBS where he’s been ever since as a correspondent then morning co-host when the newscast was called CBS This Morning. The NewsBusters archives reveal a lengthy record of bias, most infamously an early 2020 segment in which he used pies to promote socialism (and earned fawning praise from Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren). But in the last few years, Dokoupil has noticeably tacked toward the center (or at least ensured conservative/non-liberal arguments were accurately articulated, such as here and here). Not-so-coincidentally, one inflection point was his reporting since Hamas’s barbarism on October 7, 2023, which personally affected him because his two older children and ex-wife were living in Israel. In May 2024, liberal talk radio host Charlamagne tha God accused him of being “on the left” and a Biden voter, leading to Dokoupil dismiss this and shout he was “not on the left.” It all culminated in a truly red-pill moment as Dokoupil seemed to have been on thin ice because he dared grill far-left author Ta-Nehisi Coates on the September 30, 2024 CBS Mornings about his virulent anti-Israel book. Following vicious backlash from the pro-Palestinian staffers inside CBS News, Dokoupil survived thanks to then-Paramount boss Shari Redstone and also cultivated the respect of Weiss, who then had launched her site The Free Press. Be that as it may, readers can expect NewsBusters to provide rigorous oversight of the new CBS Evening News and see if this newscast — which will start with a series of trips across the country to speak with ordinary Americans — will live up the standard Cibrowski, Weiss, and Dokoupil himself have set. To see the relevant CBS transcript from December 10, click here.