When you’re on Team MS NOW, you think there’s nothing funny going on when Jim Acosta starts lecturing about civility in press briefings. During his time at CNN, Jim Acosta may have been the rudest White House reporter in modern history, but only with one president. On Saturday’s Velshi, substitute host Charles Coleman welcomed in Acosta and fellow White House screamer April Ryan. Coleman asked for Acosta’s reaction to how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt excused Trump trying to silence a rude reporter with a “Quiet, Piggy.” Typically, the liberal journalists think you can exhibit maximum rudeness to Trump – like calling him Hitler – but he is now allowed to be rude in return. But his strategy in response – for the anti-Trump press to stop covering Trump until he behaves – would be a huge win for the White House. Acosta insisted that any boss in any newsroom would be fired for being this rude to a female reporter. ACOSTA: And imagine if this were your daughter, or your sister, or your mother being spoken to in this fashion. And that's why you know, I strongly believe and I there are people who disagree with me on this, that other folks in the press in the room should speak up in that moment and say, ‘Mr. President, that is not appropriate,' And, you know, double down on the questions that were asked. ‘Why didn’t you answer that question? Why are you resorting to personal attacks? Why can’t you take the heat? What’s going on here?'” But what this snit fit reveals is: the media can't "take the heat," and they can't help "resorting to personal attacks." If the public were the referee of civility, they might punish both sides. But the media think civility is a one-way street. Here's how Acosta pushed his boycott idea:  ACOSTA: I think the only solution to all of this is collective action. We need to see the networks get together, perhaps with some of the major newspapers. Send a letter to the white house, send it to Caroline Leavitt and say, ‘listen, if the president does not stop these attacks, we're not coming into your oval office. We're not going to ride with you on air force one. You can have fox and all these other sycophantic outlets covering you, but we're just not going to do it. We're going to take a break for a while until you clean up your act. That's what I think they should do. During Trump's first term, the White House temporarily pulled Acosta's White House pass (but none of the other CNN White House reporters). The entire leftist media establishment battled for Acosta to get back in, so he could scream some more. Why couldn't he have tried the boycott then? It seems obvious that since he's not the Chief White House Showboat any more, he doesn't have any skin in the game. 

On Friday's CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff For Policy Stephen Miller, confronted Phillip for not defending of her husband, when he was called a white supremacist and a 'Nazi Jew' on a podcast where Phillip was a guest in October.  The podcast, I've Had It, is hosted by poisonous lefty Jennifer Welch, who has been a frequent guest on Phillip's show. Welch said, "Stephen Miller is a white supremacist...and he's basically running the White House...And then you have these real sociopaths that are real anti-Semite, true white supremacists, like Stephen Miller. And even though he's Jewish, he's like a Nazi Jew." Jennifer Welch: "Stephen Miller is a white supremacist… And even though he's Jewish, he's like a Nazi Jew." CNN's Abby Phillip: "Well, look, I can't speak to what Stephen Miller's motivations are."pic.twitter.com/bohYt3K3zQ — Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) October 24, 2025 Phillip's response was, "Well look, I can't, I can't speak to what Stephen Miller's motivations are..." Pathetic. Welch has recently demanded that "Democrats ‘get on board’ with GOP assassinations." On Friday's show, the topic was the the future of MAGA, and who would emerge as the new leader after Donald Trump. J.D. Vance was one of those mentioned, and Phillip, who had allowed Stephen Miller to be labeled a 'Nazi Jew', on the Welch podcast, ironically brought up that Vance has not denounced Tucker Carlson for his interview with anti-Semite Nick Fuentes, and then allowed Bakari Sellers to make the outrageous claim that Fuentes "has the pulse of the Republican base right now." Katie Miller disputed that claim. Then Sellers challenged Miller, and the gloves were off! PHILLIP: So, what does it say that Vance didn't feel like part of what -- if he wants to lead the Republican Party, part of what he has to do is to police the boundaries of what's acceptable and what's not. And not say, hey, Tucker, unacceptable, don't do that? MILLER: It's not up to you or myself to police speech in our country. PHILLIP: Shouldn't it be up to J.D. Vance to say this is not part of our movement? SELLERS: Are you okay with Nick Fuentes? MILLER: Here we go. I'm a Jew. Do you want to go there?.. SELLERS: Yes, I just asked the question. It was yes or no?...Are you okay with Nick Fuentes? MILLER: If Nick Fuentes wants to be able to speak freely in our country, he has every right to do so. Do I agree with his views? Absolutely not... PHILLIP: This isn't about whether he can speak freely. It's about whether someone like Tucker Carlson, who is a very powerful force in the conservative movement. He is -- MILLER: You host people on your show all the time who call my husband and myself a Nazi...  you have Jennifer Welch on your show very often and you've never pushed back as she has called my husband a white nationalist. That is no different than Nick Fuentes going on Tucker Carlson's Show. It's not and you should admit it... PHILLIP: It is not the same thing. MILLER: And he (Vance) didn't push back, the same way you didn't say push back when someone called someone in my family a Nazi. It's not different, Abby. The heated back and forth continued. PHILLIP: If someone comes on this show and says, I love Hitler and I admire what he did, they would never ... I would never invite them on the show and they would never be invited back... MILLER: (Talks over Phillip).. But yet you've gone on Jennifer Welch's podcast. It's the same thing. It's the same thing. PHILLIP: They are not the same thing, okay?...Do you believe that Jennifer Welch has a right to say something negative about your husband? MILLER: The same way Nick Fuentes has the right to say what he wants to say. PHILLIP:.. Do you think it is okay for Jennifer Welch, is she allowed to say something negative about your husband? MILLER: Absolutely. And it's your job as a moderator to push back... It's the same way you're asking Tucker Carlson to push back against Nick Fuentes. PHILLIP: Nick Fuentes, he's not describing someone else as a Nazi, he is saying, I admire Nazis. You don't think that's a different thing?  MILLER: Do you believe my husband's Nazi? PHILLIP: You are making a comparison of two things that are not in any way the same.... Abby Phillip boxed herself in. She wants it both ways. She can demand conservatives excise the Nazis, but she has no responsibility to call out dangerous hate speech about Trump and his aides. Nobody's reading Jennifer Welch out of any show. She's the new hot thing on the Left. Phillip is demanding Welch has the right to call the Millers Nazi Jews. She feels she has no responsibility to call out dangerous hate speech when she sees it. Unless of course it comes from the right. 

As we’ve often exposed here at MRC Latino, the last decade of Univision’s news coverage has been driven by reflexive opposition to Donald Trump and by Latino identity politics. A recent news report engages in both while casting a soft spotlight on one New York Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition chairs. Watch as anchor Elian Zidan frames a puff piece of United Way of New York CEO and Mamdani transition co-chair Grace Bonilla (no relation): ELIAN ZIDAN: Grace Bonilla, the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants and a New Yorker from Queens, is the first Latina president of The United Way, New York City's largest nonprofit organization, which helps hundreds of thousands with food and healthcare. Now Bonilla is also a transition co-chair for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, and spoke with Fabiola Galindo about the challenges they face under the Trump administration's policies. The framing is intended to inflame Univision’s viewers into watching the entire report by expecting more Trump derangement. This frame is a false bill of goods, as there is only one exchange where the reporter, Fabiola Galindo, could be seen as seeking to elicit an adverse reaction to “Trump administration policies”. Bonilla refuses the bait and stays on message: FABIOLA GALINDO: How do you feel about working for an elected mayor whom the president has labeled a communist? GRACE BONILLA: That's secondary. What matters most to me is moving this city forward so we can keep our young people here and they can see a future in this city. That’s it. This is the sole mention of the Bad Orange Boogeyman in the report, whether on policy or otherwise. The frame was clearly a hook to hold viewers who might otherwise reach for the remote on Black Friday. So what purpose does this report serve, then? It is to bolster a cloak of “Latino by association” identity on Mamdani with which to make his policies more attractive to viewers. Hence the focus on Bonilla as an ethnic “first” and her role within the campaign. The constant focus on identity and race fill time and foreclose the opportunity to scrutinize more important things such as identity and track record. All these things are concealed behind identity politics fluff. Par the course for Univision. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on Noticiero Univision on Friday, November 28th, 2025: ELIAN ZIDAN: Grace Bonilla, the daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants and a New Yorker from Queens, is the first Latina president of The United Way, New York City's largest nonprofit organization, which helps hundreds of thousands with food and healthcare. Now Bonilla is also a transition co-chair for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, and spoke with Fabiola Galindo about the challenges they face under the Trump administration's policies. GRACE BONILLA: My family. I think I come from parents who are very helpful, right? It wasn't at all unusual for us to have people in our house who shared at our table. FABIOLA GALINDO: A New Yorker, daughter of Ecuadorian immigrants and a public servant, Grace Bonilla says she grew up amid need and by extending a helping hand. BONILLA: I know that my parents, out of pride or ignorance, didn't take advantage of services that were there for us, right? And that was something that made life at home a little more stressful. And I don't want a child living in this city to have to feel that. GALINDO: She grew up in Queens, New York. Her mother, who made her quinceañera dress by hand, worked as a seamstress so that she could graduate law school. She is the first Latina president of The United Way organization, which has distributed millions of pounds of food and health services to the poorest people. Now, she is a co-chair for the transition team of Mayor-elect Zohan Mamdani in the country's largest city. BONILLA: We already have the police commissioner and that's what we're doing, looking at those key positions that we need to have in place before January 1st. GALINDO: He inherits a city where more than half of Latinos struggle to make ends meet, according to figures from The United Way. BONILLA: We need to have a city where they feel good, safe, and secure, because we depend on their economy for the economy of this city. GALINDO: How do you feel about working for an elected mayor whom the president has labeled a communist? BONILLA: That's secondary. What matters most to me is moving this city forward so we can keep our young people here and they can see a future in this city. GALINDO: Analysts don't rule out the possibility that Grace Bonilla will hold not only a temporary but a permanent position, to help shape the city's policies alongside the new mayor. In New York: Fabiola Galindo, Univision.  

The Thanksgiving edition of the PBS News Hour pondered the crude American tradition of Thanksgiving football watching from an anthropological perspective, with anchor John Yang’s abstract rendering of the game of football in his introduction followed by liberal sportswriter guest Christine Brennan of USA Today paying backhanded, condescending compliments to America’s most popular and “violent” sport. Brennan insisted that the multi-millionaires who play in the NFL, who achieved their positions on talent alone, are really huge supporters of left-wing schemes like the mantra of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” or DEI, which President Trump has been fighting against. John Yang: Chances are that at some point in the next few days, a couch in your house will be occupied by someone watching football. It's America's most popular sport. The National Football League unites much of the country in a shared passion, but, as Lisa Desjardins reports, the league faces a tricky potential threat to that, politics. Reporter Lisa Desjardins asked Brennan, a "friend of the show," to explain the NFL's popularity, and the condescension toward the sport, which codes conservative, began. Christine Brennan, USA Today: America has really fallen in love with the new national pastime. It's no longer baseball. It's football. It is about the cadence of the game. Obviously, we love that, versus baseball as our attention spans gets shorter and shorter…. Lisa Desjardins: The violence, the aggressiveness. Brennan: ….it fits perfect American psyche and what we want, which is quick action, violent action, and then the opportunity to run to the refrigerator before the next play. Brennan never misses a chance to pump anti-Trump vitriol into her sports columns and the conversation turned to anti-Trump politics, a theme foreshadowed in the segment’s online heading: “Trump tries to put his stamp on the NFL, but gets pushback from some fans,” a declaration not supported in the actual segment. Brennan: ….so Trump is going there to try to change the national conversation or put his imprint on those issues and, of course, make the points that he wants to make, some of them seemingly just kind of fun, like, OK, the NFL draft is going to be in D.C., some of them much more serious, like racial issues. Desjardins: And let's get to that, because this is a league, especially a commissioner, who has pushed for diversity, pushed for DEI ideas. This is a president who has pushed against that. How has that worked now? Is the NFL continuing its DEI effort now in the era of Trump 2.0? Brennan complained that Trump’s appearance at the last Super Bowl, the first for a sitting president, made the NFL change its end zone slogan from “End Racism” to “Choose Love,” as if either expression would ever change anyone's heart or mind. Brennan: ….There is no way on earth you cannot have some semblance of DEI in the thinking of the NFL because Black players are such a huge part of it and so popular with so many fans. Again, it's that tightrope wire, tight-wire act that Roger Goodell and the owners are doing. Desjardins: Right. But they have kept the DEI program in place. Brennan: Well, they have. They have got the Rooney Rule. Every big opening with an NFL team, there needs to be a minority who's considered for the job. Brennan spoke in glowing terms of the past performative spectacle of NFL players kneeling for the National Anthem to protest supposed racial justice issues like police brutality (the instigator, former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, angered average fans by wearing pig socks to mock the police). Brennan: I think it's the way that all sports leaders are trying to work with Trump in this era, while also understanding that the people who make the league, it's a majority-Black league. So you cannot just fall in line completely with Trump on that, because you would lose the players, you would lose the coaches. We have seen that, of course, with Trump going back to 2017, when he said kick the SOBs -- without saying SOBs -- off the field, fire them when they were kneeling for the National Anthem. Well, two days later, you had incredible kneeling by many, many players throughout the league. So, already, we have seen that these players will speak out. This segment was brought to you in part by BDO. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 11/27/25 7:23:28 p.m. (ET) John Yang: Chances are that at some point in the next few days, a couch in your house will be occupied by someone watching football. It's America's most popular sport. The National Football League unites much of the country in a shared passion, but, as Lisa Desjardins reports, the league faces a tricky potential threat to that, politics. Lisa Desjardins: The National Football League is in the middle of a ratings and profit boom. At the same time, it is also in the center of something else notable, the way President Trump engages with and wants to influence American sports. Joining me to talk about this is Christine Brennan, a sports columnist for USA Today and friend of the show. Christine, let's start with the NFL itself. Roger Goodell, the commissioner, is experiencing an all-time all-star era. What is behind it right now? Christine Brennan, USA Today: America has really fallen in love with the new national pastime. It's no longer baseball. It's football. It is about the cadence of the game. Obviously, we love that, versus baseball as our attention spans gets shorter and shorter. Also, it's a sport, high school, college, Americans grow up with, not only the day of the week Sunday, as we all know, but now prime time. That has been going on. A public relations man named Pete Rozelle was the commissioner who just saw the NFL explode back in the '70s. You had "Monday Night Football." And, again, it's the violence. It's the — it's a very national game. Lisa Desjardins: The violence, the aggressiveness. Christine Brennan: Absolutely, and because of its success, having markets like Green Bay, but also, of course, the big cities, and the superstars. Go all the way back. I think everything about it is a marketing success, and it fits perfect American psyche and what we want, which is quick action, violent action, and then the opportunity to run to the refrigerator before the next play. Lisa Desjardins: I do want to come back to President Trump himself. He himself is a showman. We know he's had a love for sports his whole life. He was at the Washington Commanders game just two weeks ago. Let's listen to this. Donlad Trump, President of the United States: By the way, they're going to build a beautiful stadium. That's what I'm involved in. We're getting all the approvals and everything else. And you have a wonderful owner, Josh and his group. And you're going to see some very good things. Lisa Desjardins: A little name-dropping there, because he actually wants his name put on that stadium. That is the reporting here. Christine Brennan: Yes. Lisa Desjardins: He's also rung in on everything from the new kickoff plan for the NFL. Now, billionaire owners of the NFL seem to generally like kind of stoking this relationship. Fans are mixed. But how has Roger Goodell navigated this attention from Donlad Trump? We know, when he gives something attention, he wants to be in control. Christine Brennan: Exactly. Roger Goodell, the son of a senator, Charles Goodell, has been with the league his entire career. I think he understands this tiptoeing through the tulips, so to speak, with the president of the United States. For example, there was the announcement that the NFL draft is going to be held in Washington, D.C., in 2027. So, of course, Roger Goodell was there with one of the owners of the Washington Commanders and the president. And how do you say no to the president about being a part of some kind of show like that? Lisa Desjardins: Any president, much less Trump. Christine Brennan: Exactly. And presidents have been linked with football, Richard Nixon giving play advice to the Washington football team's coach at the time, George Allen. Richard Nixon, Former President of the United States: Well, maybe you can put Nock in there and rest him next week. George Allen, Washington Head Coach: I hope so, yes. Richard Nixon: Who'd you lose? George Allen: We lost — this hasn't even been announced, I don't think we lost. Richard Nixon: Yes. George Allen: We lost Malinchak. He's going to have to be operated on either tonight or tomorrow morning. Christine Brennan: So this is not just — he's not the first president, but he has certainly put it on times 100 in terms of his involvement. And I think, for Trump, he understands football, the NFL is that common denominator. All Americans love it. They all can talk about it, the watercooler or the virtual watercooler, Lisa. It is a game that all — everyone understands. And so Trump is going there to try to change the national conversation or put his imprint on those issues and, of course, make the points that he wants to make, some of them seemingly just kind of fun, like, OK, the NFL draft is going to be in D.C., some of them much more serious, like racial issues. Lisa Desjardins: And let's get to that, because this is a league, especially a commissioner, who has pushed for diversity, pushed for DEI ideas. This is a president who has pushed against that. How has that worked now? Is the NFL continuing its DEI effort now in the era of Trump 2.0? Christine Brennan: We saw this with the Super Bowl. By the way, the president, President Trump, was the first sitting president to ever attend a Super Bowl, which really surprised me, as someone who's covered a lot of them. Lisa Desjardins:   Yes. Christine Brennan: Again, Trump understanding the visual of going there and being a part of this incredible national pastime. Highest rated television show every year, of course, is the Super Bowl. So you have that. So then the NFL changes. They no longer have "End Racism" in the end zone, but "Choose Love." Coincidence? Not. Whatever. Of course, there had been the terrible terrorist attack in New Orleans, the fires in L.A., the terrible plane crash right off — at DCA. So it made sense. That was what the NFL said. Nonetheless, "End Racism" was gone. This is a league that is a majority-Black league, a significant majority-Black league. There is no way on earth you cannot have some semblance of DEI in the thinking of the NFL because Black players are such a huge part of it and so popular with so many fans. Again, it's that tightrope wire, tight-wire act that Roger Goodell and the owners are doing. Lisa Desjardins: Right. But they have kept the DEI program in place. Christine Brennan: Well, they have. They have got the Rooney Rule. Every big opening with an NFL team, there needs to be a minority who's considered for the job. Lisa Desjardins: But they have dialed down that messaging of end racism, no longer those words now. Christine Brennan: Yes, it was "Choose Love" in the case of the Super Bowl. Lisa Desjardins: "Choose Love." Christine Brennan: I think it's the way that all sports leaders are trying to work with Trump in this era, while also understanding that the people who make the league, it's a majority-Black league. So you cannot just fall in line completely with rump on that, because you would lose the players, you would lose the coaches. We have seen that, of course, with Trump going back to 2017, when he said kick the SOBs, without saying SOBs, off the field, fire them when they were kneeling for the national anthem. Well, two days later, you had incredible kneeling by many, many players throughout the league. So, already, we have seen that these players will speak out. Lisa Desjardins: This is about American culture. It's also about big business. Quickly, on other sports, the president knows that the World Cup is coming in this country, the Olympics are coming in this country, and he's made some sort of vague threats, sort of political, about where they should go. Let's listen. Donlad Trump: If we think there's any reason that — whether it's Boston or anywhere else, that they're not doing their job, we're going to take — those World Cup games and move them someplace else. Lisa Desjardins: Are those serious threats? Are that — what is that? Christine Brennan: No, it's not serious. They — those tickets are already sold. He even said it's sold out. This is a good signal, I think, for many people who are going to watch the two biggest sports events in the world, men's World Cup soccer next year, the Olympic Games in 2028 back in Los Angeles. We're going to see Trump do this time and time again. It will be fascinating to watch how these leaders try to deal with him, but also sidestep him and do the things that they were planning to do before Trump opened his mouth. Lisa Desjardins: Christine Brennan, thank you so much for joining us. Christine Brennan: My pleasure, Lisa. Thank you.

It is our long held belief that Univision is, fundamentally, an immigration advocacy organization with broadcast licensing. A recent report from North Carolina extolling active obstruction of ICE operations proves this point. Watch as a North Carolina man describes keeping silent in order to lead ICE to believe he is in the country illegally, in order to protect his father from deportation: XEYLI ALFARO: Trying to buy time, he kept quiet in order to save his father and other workers. FERNANDO VAZQUEZ: They asked me where I was from, and I didn't say anything. I stayed quiet. ALFARO: Upon receiving the call, Fernando's father managed to hide. VAZQUEZ, SENIOR: What I mean is—if I ran in the parking lot they'd catch me, and since the company truck was nearby, I jumped in. I tried to hide in the back seat. ALFARO: He says he stayed there for about 15 minutes without moving, listening as the agents searched the place. It is worth noting that this report ran on prime A-block, so committed is Univision to advocating for open borders and unfettered immigration. The report opens with the young man giving a demonstration of how he activated his phone remotely so he could tip his father off as to the worksite raid. The report shifts to the actual deception: the young man concealing his U.S. citizen status long enough for his illegal alien father to hide from ICE agents. This is followed by reaction from the father, and testimony from another friend who claims to have been reverse-profiled. The report closes with more from the father, who laments having to live in a position of always hiding from the authorities. These victim narratives being allowed to flourish are an essential part of Univision’s immigration advocacy Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on Noticiero Univision on Thursday, November 20th, 2025 ILIA CALDERÓN: From North Carolina comes another account of an ICE operation. Agents arrived at a construction site, and one of the workers only thought about warning his father who wasn't there so he could get to safety. And although he was able to do so, they arrested him despite being a U.S. citizen, as Xeyli Alfaro tells us. FERNANDO VÁZQUEZ: Hey Siri, Call Papi. KHEILI ALFARO: That's how the call went down where Fernando Vázquez saved his father from being arrested by ICE in North Carolina. VAZQUEZ  I thought of calling him on Siri. ALFARO:  Fearing that he’d be shot for getting involved, he reached down his pants to grab his phone and asked the virtual assistant Siri to call his dad.  VAZQUEZ, SENIOR: Hello? VAZQUEZ: Run, run, run! Immigration is here! ALFARO: The 18-year-old, born in the city of Raleigh, says that the officers were passing by the construction site where a daycare center is being built and stopped to question him when they saw him. VAZQUEZ: I don't know if they saw the color of my skin. ALFARO: Trying to buy time, he kept quiet in order to save his father and other workers. VAZQUEZ: They asked me where I was from, and I didn't say anything. I stayed quiet. ALFARO: Upon receiving the call, Fernando's father managed to hide. VAZQUEZ, SENIOR: What I mean is—if I ran in the parking lot they'd catch me, and since the company truck was nearby, I jumped in. I tried to hide in the back seat. ALFARO: He says he stayed there for about 15 minutes without moving, listening as the agents searched the place. After being arrested there, Fernando was put in ICE vans and then driven for two miles. And then they suddenly released him. VAZQUEZ: My wallet. ALFARO: Fernando recounts that the officers searched his wallet and found his documents, yet they still took him away along with other workers. Three people were arrested that day. Mario Benítez is the brother of one of those detained. He maintains that he was spared because of the color of his skin. MARIO BENITEZ: They first asked me if I was born here, I said yes, and then they focused more on my brother, who looks more -um- Hispanic. ALFARO: Fernando ran back to the construction site, drove the truck, and brought his father out, still hiding. The frustration is immense, says Fernando's father, who today, like many families in North Carolina, lives locked inside and, when he goes out into the yard, does so with fear, making sure no one is watching him. In Raleigh, North Carolina, Xeyli Alfaro, Univision.