It was all-but a foregone conclusion that elite, liberal journalists on the “media” beat would be throwing a collective tizzy Tuesday over CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil scoring an interview with President Trump. Over nearly 13 minutes, the two discussed the death of Renee Good, grocery prices immigration operations, Iran, and even the role of automation in working-class jobs at the General Motors assembly line (where the interview took place). Because it was a respectfully but substantive conversation and not a shoutfest, liberal fiends turned into tween girls playing bully at lunch. Chief among them was Status’s Oliver Darcy, who spent over 1,200 words melting down over the “Dokoupil Dud” and expressed disappointment Dokoupil didn’t seize “a clear opportunity...to demonstrate that he is not a shill for the new MAGA-friendly owner of CBS News, David Ellison, or his new MAGA-friendly boss, Bari Weiss.” “But instead of holding Trump accountable in a meaningful way or really pressing for real answers to urgent questions, the interview resembled something more akin to a chummy exchange in which Trump was fully in control, allowed to ramble, deflect, and spout nonsense with little resistance,” Darcy screeched. In essence, Dokoupil failed to scream, shout, pout, and run down Trump in the same vein then-ABC correspondent Terry Moran did last year. After running through in all-too-short summaries of the topics covered, Darcy insisted the “interview...felt far more at home on Fox News than on the network once led by figures such as Walter Cronkite—whom Dokoupil vowed, in a now-infamous social media post, to best in the job in some respects.” Darcy gleefully said “the ratings for Dokoupil’s first week...have been, to put it gently, a dud” and leaned into the Nielsen ratings as having fallen “23% year-over-year in both total audiences and the 25-54 demographic” and put that on Dokoupil’s shoulders and not, say, the fact that CBS has been in third place for decades behind ABC and NBC and the last team of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois couldn’t even last a year. “Suffice to say, those numbers are awful. Even if Dokoupil hadn’t declined in the year-over-year numbers, staying flat would be somewhat of a failure given the extraordinary effort that has gone into promoting his first two weeks in the chair. CBS News has chartered a plane to shuttle him across the country, dropping him into a different city nearly every night,” he asserted. Darcy then turned to anonymous sources to shiv Dokoupil (click “expand”): “CBS isn’t losing the evening news race, they already lost it, and Bari and Tony are just pretending otherwise,” a veteran television executive told Status. “The total audience is soft, but the demo is a catastrophe. They’re pulling barely half of NBC and ABC in [the 25-54 demo], night after night. That’s not a rounding error, that’s a hospice situation.” “The audience is ancient, the erosion through the week is brutal, and there’s absolutely no upside,” the executive added. “No spikes, no momentum, nothing. It’s a legacy broadcast in a nutshell—cheap, aging eyeballs with no future. You can slap whatever spin you want on it, but the numbers say the new ‘CBS Evening News’ is dead on arrival.” A second veteran television executive offered similar analysis, saying they believed the initial numbers to be “very, very bad for CBS” and a “big whiff.” (....) Perhaps Weiss is learning that while controversy and “going viral” can generate attention online...bad headlines do not translate into higher ratings in broadcast television. And while the revamped “Evening News” has landed a string of high-profile interviews...it has largely failed to hold those potential newsmakers to proper account...likely alienating quadrants of the CBS News audience, which does not appear especially eager to tune in for gentle sit-downs with powerful figures who are abusing their authority[.] (....) CBS News staffers, for their part, don’t want to see it either. Since Dokoupil took over, I’ve repeatedly heard about sinking morale across the newsroom...The reality, however, is that Weiss is doing precisely what Ellison wants: overtly remaking the news division into an outlet friendlier to Trump and his MAGA movement. On the lack of reach, clips of Dokoupil’s interview were not shown Wednesday on ABC’s Good Morning America or NBC’s Today with both shows sticking to Trump’s social media posts or comments from his speech to the Detroit Economic Club. It was as if they made a collective decision to throttle the reach of a newsmaking interview! Meanwhile, the folks over at Zeteo — run by Qatar Boy Mehdi Hassan — were beside themselves as well, scoffing at Dokoupil as though he were Nelson from The Simpsons. Peter Rothpletz went as far as to lead the site’s morning newsletter with the headline “Toady Dokoupil” and dedicated part of the subhead to the interview, whining “Bari Weiss’s handpicked CBS puppet royally bungles an interview with Donald Trump.” Like with the others, the issue Rothpletz had was that Dokoupil chose not scream like a lunatic and conduct a citizen’s arrest. After huffing “CBS talking head Tony Dokoupil utterly fail[ed] to hold the president accountable for the chaos he’s unleashing,” Rothpletz continued with the insults: “Trump told the heir to the chair of Walter Cronkite, a man whose courage and candor turned the country against the Vietnam War, that he owns him.” Rothpletz whined about Dokoupil’s reaction to Trump’s closing remark about the economy and arguing “you probably wouldn’t have a job right now” if Kamala Harris had won. In essence, Rothpletz said Dokoupil lacks a manhood: Dokoupil did not immediately push back, did not immediately defend his honor, did not immediately prove his worth as a broadcast journalist and honest arbiter of truth by telling the most powerful man in the world to pound sand. No, he proceeded to ask a question about the Ford factory assembly line nearby. He further screeched that, because of this, “Dokoupil willingly allowed the commander in chief to reap from him, in one fell swoop, both his journalistic integrity and – arguably – his self-respect” and was thus “the single most disastrous, single most embarrassing (albeit entirely predictable) misfortune to yet befall Bari Weiss’s MAGA billionaire-installed reign at CBS News.” Someone get this guy a fainting couch or at least call his family to ask if he’s okay. Nevermind that Dokoupil didn’t ask him to sign a MAGA hat or ask him a softball about, say, why Democrats won’t let him make America great again or why the left hates cops. No, it was unforgivable an interview in which Dokoupil treated the President with respect and thus proof “beyond a shadow of a doubt that America’s ‘Tiffany Network’ is now state-controlled media” and not worth of using “the word ‘interview’ to describe the taping.” The Guardian’s Jeremy Barr made the Harris remark the focus of his article summarizing the interview, but was able to keep it together and not lose his noodle (because, as he said in a humorous X post ahead of the interview, he loves noodles and wouldn’t want to lose them). The puerile behavior continued over at The Daily Beast with at least five articles on the “MAGA-coded anchor” in the last 24 hours about the Trump interview. The pile-on began before it even aired and all the world had was a still shot and a small excerpt about Iran. Josh Fiallo surmised it was proof the two appeared “chummy with each other.” That went alongside a nearly simultaneous article mocking “MAGA-coded” Dokoupil’s first week ratings as a “bloodbath” ahead of his interview with “the ultimate MAGA figure” in Trump. In a story on the interview itself, Julia Ornedo also focused on the Harris jab (click “expand”): Tony Dokoupil’s primetime interview with President Donald Trump on Tuesday night went off the rails when his salary suddenly became the topic of conversation. (....) But it was Trump’s comment about Dokoupil’s job that stole the spotlight. The president claimed that the newly minted CBS Evening News anchor probably wouldn’t have a job if Kamala Harris had won the November 2024 election, because the economy would have suffered. “If she got in, you probably wouldn’t have a job right now. Your boss, who’s an amazing guy, might be bust,” he told Dokoupil, referring to Paramount CEO and Trump pal David Ellison. “You wouldn’t have this job—certainly whatever the hell they’re paying you.” (....) Dokoupil made an impassioned plea to viewers as he signed off on Tuesday night. “You may not agree with everything you hear on this broadcast, but we trust you to listen, and we trust you to decide for yourself,” he said. A third rolled in thanks to Leigh Kimmins: “MAGA-Coded CBS Anchor Takes the Bait on Height Trolling; Online records suggest that Tony Dokoupil is a mere 5 8, a rumor he is keen to dispel.” Again, we ask: How old are these people? But worst of all, Martha McHardy stooped to disgusting lows with the outlet continuing to try and break-up Dokoupil’s marriage to MS NOW host Katy Tur, boasting “Tur is now at the center of her husband’s growing fiasco” and mocked her for having “repeatedly proclaimed her support for him on social media, saying under one much-mocked post, ‘I love this man.’” McHardy had to bring up the fact that Tur used to date the psychologically unstable Keith Olbermann and suggested he’s an out-of-touch elitist (which is rich considering Dokoupil used to work for...The Daily Beast) (click “expand”): Tur, 42, married Dokoupil, 45, after meeting in a TV studio make-up room. But now another man she used to love has inserted himself into Dokoupil’s troubled debut: former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann, 66, who was in his late forties when he lived with Tur, then in her early twenties. “Honestly, @KatyTurNBC - your husband is drowning. Get him the eff out of there,” Olbermann wrote on X. The Daily Beast has contacted CBS and MS Now for comment. Tur has publicly supported her husband during his rocky start, commenting on one of his most ridiculed posts—where he was seen breaking and down weeping while talking about his childhood in Miami, where he attended school with Jeb Bush’s and Julio Igliseas’ children—“I love this man.” She also posted a clip from Dokoupil’s interview with White House Border Czar Tom Homan to her Instagram stories. Dokoupil, when not on his anti-elite private jet tour of the U.S., shares a three-story townhouse in one of Brooklyn’s most exclusive enclaves with Tur and their two children. He told People magazine he makes her eggs with za’atar and coffee with oat milk every morning. Olbermann made the intervention after Dokoupil’s 14-minute stand-up interview with President Donald Trump, which attracted criticism for his failure to push back, and after the ratings for his first week in the job showed a massive loss of viewers.

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough continued his network’s inglorious habit of portraying ICE as some sort of cartoon villain. In this case, Scarborough compared ICE to both the Soviet Union and today’s Russia under Vladimir Putin while talking beside footage of an operation at a gas station that he ignored the context of. Earlier in the segment, Morning Joe played a clip that showed part of the incident where an ICE agent clearly stated the man in the car was from Honduras and they were doing a status check. However, Scarborough didn’t seem to care. Talking with New York Times columnist David French, Scarborough declared, “And then finally, I’m just curious, as a constitutional lawyer. I mean, I see these people being dragged in the street. I see masked people coming up demanding papers. I see a guy sitting in a gas station parking lot, and ICE officers breaking the window and then dragging him out and putting their knee on his back. I just, again, this—we went to law school. We practiced law. This looks like Russia.”     Portraying the man as a simple protestor, Scarborough continued, “It really does. This looks like something that you would expect in Russia. That protesters—this is happening to protesters, not suspected murderers or rapists. This is what America looks like in 2025 for protesters.” Scarborough also claimed that “We always looked at what happened to the Soviet Union and looked at what happened in Putin's Russia and saw this happening to protesters there being taken off the streets, thinking, ‘My god, how could that ever happen in society?’ And I'd always ask, how could those Russian police officers do that? Well, we've got people lined up for this job to put masks on, to go in, to break people's windows, drag them out of their cars, beat up American citizens, shove them to the ground, and then cuff them.  In response to the video going viral on social media, Homeland Security claimed the man refused multiple orders to exit his car and had a removal order dating back to 2020, which seems like information a so-called news show should have included. Here is a transcript for the January 14 show: MS NOW Morning Joe 1/14/2026 6:13 AM ET JOE SCARBOROUGH: And then finally, I’m just curious, as a constitutional lawyer. I mean, I see these people being dragged in the street. I see masked people coming up demanding papers. I see a guy sitting in a gas station parking lot, and ICE officers breaking the window and then dragging him out and putting their knee on his back. I just, again, this—we went to law school. We practiced law. This looks like Russia. It really does. This looks like something that you would expect in Russia. That protesters—this is happening to protesters, not suspected murderers or rapists. This is what America looks like in 2025 for protesters. We always looked at what happened to the Soviet Union and looked at what happened in Putin's Russia and saw this happening to protesters there being taken off the streets, thinking, “My god, how could that ever happen in society?” And I'd always ask, how could those Russian police officers do that? Well, we've got people lined up for this job to put masks on, to go in, to break people's windows, drag them out of their cars, beat up American citizens, shove them to the ground, and then cuff them. 

EXCLUSIVE: For six weeks, Google News quietly worked to throttle coverage of widespread fraud allegations in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota, an exclusive Media Research Center analysis found. Google News, a digital gatekeeper that shapes what millions of Americans see each day, kept its readers in the dark as the Minnesota fraud scandal intensified, publishing just four stories on the matter out of 840 in its top 20 morning editions from Nov. 28 to Jan. 9.  The scandal gained national attention in November amid reporting that a group of Somali Americans exploited a COVID-19 relief program and later became linked to broader child care fraud allegations in Minnesota. Google News’s near blackout of the Minnesota fraud scandal is stunning, given its magnitude and political consequences, especially after Walz abruptly suspended his re-election campaign despite repeatedly signaling his intention to seek a third term. MRC’s Findings: Google News featured only four stories on the Minnesota fraud scandal out of 840 stories it published in its morning edition over six weeks. Neither of the four stories came from a right-leaning outlet, and three of them actively sought to vilify Trump administration enforcement actions.  Google News buried the news even when it shared it: Google News waited four days after a New York Times exposé on the Minnesota fraud scandal before finally publishing a Dec. 3 anti-Trump CNN story buried on a live update page. Google News outrageously published two other stories on days that typically rank among the lowest of the year for news viewership and ratings (Dec. 30 and Jan. 1).  The Data, Explained: MRC reviewed 840 stories published by Google News in its top 20 placements from Nov. 28 to Jan. 9, a span of six weeks, or 42 days. Of those stories, only four addressed the Minnesota fraud scandal. One such story featured by Google News came from CNN, though it was not even a standalone report but a live-update page that buried earlier reports as new information came throughout the day. As a result, the first mention of the fraud scandal is 15 entries deep at the time of this analysis. Other posts in the live update fixated on immigration operations while largely concealing the fraud allegations that had prompted the federal response. Another featured story came from The Hill on Dec. 30, which reported that the Trump administration froze child care payments.  The other came from the Minnesota Star Tribune on Jan. 1, which sought to minimize the accusations raised in a viral video under the headline, “We went to the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.” The Star Tribune did not treat the child care controversy as a fraud investigation. Instead, it took a sentiment approach, reframing the story around emotional distress and community fear, instead placing sympathy with the operators while attempting to minimize the broader context of Minnesota’s massive fraud scandal. According to media bias ratings firm AllSides, The Hill is rated center and the Star Tribune is rated left-leaning. Google News did finally push a fourth story on the fraud scandal, this one from left-leaning Axios. The Axios reportuncritically echoed the talking points of five Democratic attorneys general who claimed the child care funding freeze was political punishment rather than a response to mounting fraud concerns. The piece framed the lawsuit’s partisan narrative as fact while minimizing the corruption allegations that triggered the federal action in the first place. MRC conducted this review by examining the top 20 stories featured by Google News at approximately 10:00 a.m. each day. What Google News Censored: For weeks, the Minnesota fraud scandal produced a steady stream of major developments with serious legal and political consequences. Despite the frequency of these events, Google News repeatedly failed to reflect them in its coverage. The censored developments analyzed included: Nov. 28: The Department of Justice’s announcement of the 78th arrest in the sweeping pandemic fraud investigation. Nov. 29: A New York Times story that gave the scandal renewed national attention. Dec. 1: The re-release of audio recordings appearing to unveil Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison vowing to protect figures tied to the fraud scandal.  Dec. 3: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s launch of a formal investigation into the scandal. Dec. 12: The Treasury Department’s investigation into financial aspects of the fraud scandal, tracking suspicious money flows linked to the scheme. Dec. 26: The viral video of independent journalist Nick Shirley sounding the alarm about child-care fraud, a scandal separate from the pandemic fraud allegations.  Dec. 28: The FBI’s explanation of its investigation of the fraud scheme. Jan. 6:  The federal deployment of more than 2,000 federal agents in Minneapolis, more than double the size of the local police, in response to fraud allegations. Jan. 7: The House Oversight Committee’s first high-profile hearing on the fraud scandal. Taken together, these developments formed a steady escalation of the Minnesota fraud crisis over a six-week period. Methodology: During the time period Nov. 28 through Jan. 9, MRC researchers examined the top 20 of AllSides-rated news stories featured on the web version of Google News each day at approximately 10:00 AM EST. MRC researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Apple News and analyzed the results. MRC researchers then manually reviewed the articles to determine whether they specifically addressed the Minnesota fraud allegations.

While discussing the shooting of left-wing activist Renee Good as she almost ran over an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, MS NOW host Katy Tur worried on her Friday show that DHS recruiting Americans who "like guns" and pro wrestling contributes to violent actions by ICE. Just after 3:00 p.m. Eastern, the segment began with a clip of an anti-ICE protester in Minneapolis invoking his father fighting in World War II and complaining about the "brutality" of border patrol agents that he claimed to see: "This is just so un-American to see Americans assaulting Americans like this. And these people here is what's America -- protesting the brutality of what's happening in their cities and streets. And we felt -- we've never seen border agents before." Earth to protester: illegal immigrants are not "Americans." They may be your "neighbors," but they're not citizens. He soon added: ...and we were trying to protest what happened yesterday, that bloody shooting, but then to see what border agents are like. And this is our first, uh, uh, exposure to border agents, pushed down a snow drift. you know. We weren't part of anything -- aggressively assaulted. And, like, okay, that's what this is. That's what border patrol are. And they want fear -- they want to project that intimidation. And that's frightening for all of America. After the clip, Tur echoed him as she claimed "so many Americans" are in sync with MS NOW: That interview with Skip -- a Minneapolis resident who talked with our Alex Tabet yesterday on this show has, for lack of a better word here, gone viral. Why? Well, because it speaks to what so many Americans say they're feeling right now. Is this -- what we've been witnessing, what we've been experiencing -- really who we are? Is this really what our parents and our grandparents fought to protect -- masked agents taking people off the streets, targeting otherwise productive and law-abiding members of the community for immediate removal? A bit later, as one of her guests, ex-Obama administration acting ICE director John Sandweg, called for greater efforts to de-escalate violence by immigration agents, Tur fretted over the kinds of people who are being recruited by the Trump administration: Is it possible to get back to that given the way we've seen recruitment? I know Caitlin (Dickerson) will speak to this a little bit more. I mean, the recruitment videos that we've seen, the imagery that we've seen, you know, "protect our culture" in some of it, who they're targeting, the specific folks they're going after, uh, people who already like guns -- that they know, that they know already like guns; people who go to, like, World Wrestling matches? Is that the way to de-escalate? Toward the end of the segment, the MS NOW host blamed President Donald Trump for "bringing out the worst in everybody," leading MS NOW senior contributing editor Michele Norris to complain that the administration is "intolerant" while the residents of Minnesota are "tolerant." Does MS NOW not accept any responsibility for  the problem that "everybody is just so angry all the time"? Transcript follows: MS NOW's Katy Tur Reports January 9, 2026 3:00 p.m. Eastern SKIP, ANTI-ICE ACTIVIST: My dad fought in World War II in the Battle of the Bulge. He'd be rolling in his grave to see what's happened in America now. And America needs to hold up a mirror to see what we've become. This is just so un-American to see Americans assaulting Americans like this. And these people here is what's America -- protesting the brutality of what's happening in their cities and streets. And we felt -- we've never seen border agents before. We took the light rail down from downtown -- we live downtown -- and we were trying to protest what happened yesterday, that bloody shooting, but then to see what border agents are like. And this is our first, uh, uh, exposure to border agents, pushed down a snow drift. you know. We weren't part of anything -- aggressively assaulted. And, like, okay, that's what this is. That's what border patrol are. And they want fear -- they want to project that intimidation. And that's frightening for all of America. KATY TUR: Good to be with you -- I'm Katy Tur. That interview with Skip -- a Minneapolis resident who talked with our Alex Tabet yesterday on this show has, for lack of a better word here, gone viral. Why? Well, because it speaks to what so many Americans say they're feeling right now. Is this -- what we've been witnessing, what we've been experiencing -- really who we are? Is this really what our parents and our grandparents fought to protect -- masked agents taking people off the streets, targeting otherwise productive and law-abiding members of the community for immediate removal? (...) JOHN SANDWEG, EX-OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ACTING ICE DIRECTOR: It tells me that we need to do a real investigation here. I have concerns about how valid and legitimate this investigation will be given the pronouncements already made by the White House and the Secretary (of Homeland Security) that this was a valid shooting, but I want this to be an investigation that looks not only at whether or not the use of lethal force in those milliseconds as the car started to drive away was reasonable or not but also: How did we get here? How did we get to a point where why were we not de-escalating? And how can we have gotten into a position where we could have avoided this in the first place? And I think that's the bigger question as well, Katy, writ large, is: What can we do at this point to de-escalate things? You know, ICE is a -- ICE is an organization that can do a lot of good, and, as (former) Director (Sarah) Saldana said is can get bad guys off the street and do it in a way without causing as much controversy. How can we get back to that? TUR: How do we get back to that? Is it possible to get back to that given the way we've seen recruitment? I know Caitlin (Dickerson) will speak to this a little bit more. I mean, the recruitment videos that we've seen, the imagery that we've seen, you know, "protect our culture" in some of it, who they're targeting, the specific folks they're going after, uh, people who already like guns -- that they know, that they know already like guns; people who go to, like, World Wrestling matches? Is that the way to de-escalate? Is that the way to get this done respectfully and effectively in a way that the American public supports, John? (...) 3:13 p.m. TUR: I guess one of the things, Michele, that, listen, I've been covering Trump for 10 years, 11 years, and I, my fundamental issue with him aside from policy and whatever decisions he makes is that he just tends to bring out the worst in everybody. I mean, the decency is lost. He gives license to people to be their angriest selves -- everybody. You know, it's -- it's -- it's law enforcement, it's protesters, it's family members, politicians, journalists, everybody is just so angry all the time in a way that did not exist the way that it does right now, at the level it does right now, at the, at the, at the alarm it does right now in any other moment in our history that I can remember certainly. I mean, I'm only 42, so our history goes back much farther, and we've been through very violent times, but this is just -- people are pissed off all the time, and they're so quick to assume the worst in everybody. MICHELE NORRIS, MS NOW SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Well, you know, I'm going to speak to what's actually happening here in Minneapolis and the collision of cultures here because there is a structure of intolerance that is at the heart of the Trump administration which is colliding with a structure and a culture of tolerance in the state of Minnesota and particularly in the city of Minneapolis.

NBC was the lone network evening newscast to report on the hearing on transgender bans in school sports before the United States Supreme Court. The brief report, however, quickly devolved into a lecture from legal correspondent Laura Jarrett lamenting conservatives’ position on continued attempts to erase women in sports. Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, January 13th, 2025:   TOM LLAMAS: The Supreme Court today hearing a pair of landmark cases that could allow states to ban transgender students from playing in girls’ sports. Laura Jarrett was following the arguments and Laura, this decision is obviously going to have a major impact. LAURA JARRETT: Tom, this is one of the biggest cases of the term. The justices now confronting a question they haven't actually answered before on state laws in West Virginia and Idaho that require participation on sports teams to be based on the student's biological sex at birth. That's something that the states argue is needed to make sure that girls aren't being disadvantaged. And the questions from the court today on the conservative side suggesting they are simply unwilling to say that these sports bans now found in more than half of states nationwide violate the Constitution's promise for equal treatment, emphasizing that federal law allows separate sports teams for boys and girls and that this is an issue best left to the political process, Tom. LLAMAS: All right, Laura. We thank you for that. It should be noted again that NBC’s was the only newscast to mention the hearing on the air. ABC’s World News Tonight, of course, had no time for such matters. Instead, they reported on Mike Tomlin’s departure as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the weather, and a grated cheese recall. The CBS Evening News was a more understandable omission, with the Trump interview taking the entire A-block and compressing everything else downstream. The only other items aired were an Iran update, a Minnesota update, and an interview with the CEO of General Motors (anchor Tony Dokoupil was in Detroit). However, we would’ve liked to see Jan Crawford’s coverage of the hearing- especially in light of her recently standing up to the language police at CBS. As observed by our own Tim Graham: Guardian “media & power reporter” Jeremy Barr quoted a pile of anonymous CBS staffers in service to his anti-Weiss agenda. He referred in this story to a previously unreported November 6 “blow-up among staffers about language choices when writing about transgender individuals.” A “prominent correspondent” – which Semafor reporter Maxwell Tani claimed was legal correspondent Jan Crawford – sent an email that said CBS “should refrain from adopting terminology advocated by the movement,” referring to guidance from the Trans Journalists Association’s stylebook. I, for one, would’ve liked to see how this played out on the air. This brings us back to NBC and Jarrett, daughter of Obamite high priestess Valerie. She had three sentences to get her brief out. The first two were more or less neutralish. The third was an outright lamentation that conservative justices wouldn’t find the constitutionality in forcing states to allow boys to play in girls’ sports after the states already enacted bans on such activity. She ends her editorial by saying that “this is an issue best left to the political process.”  Yet it is the political process that got us to this point, at every step of the way. What Jarrett laments is that the political process didn’t go the way she wanted it to go. One imagines that coverage of arguments before a liberal SCOTUS being asked to uphold, say, a California trans-enabling law, would go quite differently. Or should I say (D)ifferently.