The partisan nature of the Elitist Media’s news coverage even trickles down to how pardons are covered. Any pardon issued by President Donald Trump will immediately raise the media’s hackles and draw significant coverage. Controversial pardons by Democrats? Not so much. Per The New York Post: Minnesota officials, including Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, last month pardoned an illegal immigrant who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl and who was slated to be deported. With the recommendation of the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission (CRC), the Minnesota Board of Pardons — led by Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — granted a pardon for Laos national Tou Lue Vang, 42, at its June 10 meeting, according to a letter informing Vang of the decision from Carli Stark, the executive director of the state CRC. The pardon essentially gives Vang a clean slate. “Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction,” Stark wrote in her letter to Vang. The article goes on to note that the defendant admitted to having the sexual contact with a minor, and blamed his crimes on the cultural norms of his native Thailand. Furthermore, he was detained last year as part of the Trump administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota. In other words, this is the type of criminal immigrant that we were told needed to be removed from the streets- the worst of the worst. Instead, a clemency commission that includes the 2024 Democrat vice presidential nominee decides to pardon him so that he can avoid deportation. Needless to say, a Trump pardon under similar circumstances would have drawn significant A-block time.  There was no mention of this pardon on the Elitist Media evening news, or on its cable news networks. Instead, viewers were regaled with endless coverage of the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding at Madison Square Garden. There was time for this and for other things but, to put a fine point on it, zero time for the pardon of a convicted violent sexual predator so that he may avoid deportation from the United States. We are reminded yet again that what doesn’t get covered on the Elitist Media evening news is often more important than what does.  

The partisan nature of the Elitist Media’s news coverage even trickles down to how pardons are covered. Any pardon issued by President Donald Trump will immediately raise the media’s hackles and draw significant coverage. Controversial pardons by Democrats? Not so much. Per The New York Post: Minnesota officials, including Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, last month pardoned an illegal immigrant who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl and who was slated to be deported. With the recommendation of the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission (CRC), the Minnesota Board of Pardons — led by Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — granted a pardon for Laos national Tou Lue Vang, 42, at its June 10 meeting, according to a letter informing Vang of the decision from Carli Stark, the executive director of the state CRC. The pardon essentially gives Vang a clean slate. “Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction,” Stark wrote in her letter to Vang. The article goes on to note that the defendant admitted to having the sexual contact with a minor, and blamed his crimes on the cultural norms of his native Thailand. Furthermore, he was detained last year as part of the Trump administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota. In other words, this is the type of criminal immigrant that we were told needed to be removed from the streets- the worst of the worst. Instead, a clemency commission that includes the 2024 Democrat vice presidential nominee decides to pardon him so that he can avoid deportation. Needless to say, a Trump pardon under similar circumstances would have drawn significant A-block time.  There was no mention of this pardon on the Elitist Media evening news, or on its cable news networks. Instead, viewers were regaled with endless coverage of the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding at Madison Square Garden. There was time for this and for other things but, to put a fine point on it, zero time for the pardon of a convicted violent sexual predator so that he may avoid deportation from the United States. We are reminded yet again that what doesn’t get covered on the Elitist Media evening news is often more important than what does.  

On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, as left-wing cable networks continued to be forced to cover the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) due to their continued wins in Democratic primaries, guest Anand Giridharadas, an online newsletter publisher, downplayed concerns of the DSA having radical ideologies. He asserted the DSA was like to “left, center-left ideology in most European countries,” and it was not “gulag socialism” or “Soviet Union Socialism.” Co-host Willie Geist turned to Giridharadas in the aftermath of another DSA-candidate victory, this time in Colorado. Geist wondered: “But is this a bigger movement for the Democrats? Is it a problem for Democrats nationally because Republicans are going to use this - some believe extreme views of some of these candidates - against them nationally?” Giridharadas followed Geist and connected the socialist rise “to the kind of oligarchic power that we see being exercised in Washington.” After he praised the “broad and diverse” nature of the country, he said “often” most people in the DSA “are of working-class who have lived the struggles of most people and are not the kind of millionaires or typical in Congress.”   On Wednesday, Morning Joe Guest Anand Giridharadas said the DSA has a "left, center-left ideology" like European Social Democracies, as he then told viewers that the rise of the DSA comes from those who "didn't grow up with the baggage of the Cold War." pic.twitter.com/NjeTGVpmav — Nick (@nspin310) July 1, 2026   He then started to talk about socialism, and said the story was less about Americans “becoming socialist: and more about how they “didn’t grow up with the baggage of the Cold War”: I think it is actually a new generation of people in this country didn't grow up with the baggage of the Cold War, didn't grow up with, like, bomb shelter drills in the Cold War. And so when they hear socialism, they're not thinking about, you know, a Red Scare of a Soviet Union overloading the world, which if you're of a certain age, that was the fear that you were that you were told. After Giridharadas minimized the Soviet Union and the Red Scare, which he labeled as “the fear that you were told,” he continued to say the DSA would be a simple “social Democracy” like a “left, center-left” ideology in European countries. He explained: Democratic socialism is social democracy, which is essentially the left, center-left ideology in most European countries, which is basically we can have nice things, right? He then assured viewers the DSA was just so “we can have nice things” and was definitely not like the Soviet Union: This is not gulag socialism. This is not the Soviet Union socialism. This is like buses should be free, housing should be affordable. People shouldn't die of preventable illnesses because they don't have the right health care plan. Not helping Girdihadas' claims, one DSA candidate, Darializa Avila Chevalier, has showcased some communist affinities, which include complaints that a bookstore did not showcase The Complete Works of J.V. Stalin in its banned book section. Chevalier also, according to the New York Post, “called for government-run farm cooperatives, reminiscent of the farm programs of Stalin and Mao.” For a party, the DSA, that Giridharadas tried to assure did not emulate “Soviet Union socialism,” some candidates and influential DSA-aligned streamer Hasan Piker, who has worn outfits that look suspiciously like Mao and showed glee when gifted Mao’s Little Red Book, sure seemed like they had an affinity for Soviet-style governing systems. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Morning Joe July 1, 2026 6:46:31 AM Eastern (...) WILLIE GIEST: Anand, if you put this together in Colorado with what happened last week in New York City, what do you see? Are these just specific to these districts? Not terribly surprising that a very Progressive candidate would win in some of the places that we've seen. But is this a bigger movement for the Democrats? Is it a problem for Democrats nationally because Republicans are going to use this, some believe extreme views of some of these candidates, against them nationally? ANAND GIRIDHARADAS: Well, Willie, you're on a roll with stringing these stories together. I mean, you were just we were just before the break talking about the president using the American presidency as a vehicle to profit from crypto and other things and making a billion-plus dollars on it. And then you have people saying, “Why are Democratic socialists winning in different parts of the country?” Well, it may be as a reaction to the kind of oligarchic power that we see being exercised in Washington.  And I think, you know, it's very important to understand in a country like this that is broad and diverse, and if you drive an hour, you can get to a whole new kind of religious worldview, ideological worldview, relationship to land and space. This is a diverse, big country. So, it's not going to be a uniform thing, but something is happening, and I think it is fresh faces. It is people, often in this wave, who are of working-class backgrounds, who have lived the struggles of most people and are not the kind of millionaires or typical in Congress.  It is young people, in addition to just the ideological aspect. But the ideological story is important. And I think what is happening above all is less than Americans are, you know, becoming socialist.  I think it is actually a new generation of people in this country didn't grow up with the baggage of the Cold War, didn't grow up with, like, bomb shelter drills in the Cold War. And so when they hear socialism, they're not thinking about, you know, a Red Scare of a Soviet Union overloading the world, which if you're of a certain age, that was the fear that you were told. If you're 25, in which a lot of these voters are electing these candidates in a lot of places, what you understand, I think rightly, is like social democracy, right? Democratic socialism is social democracy, which is essentially the left, center-left ideology in most European countries, which is basically we can have nice things, right?  This is not gulag socialism. This is not the Soviet Union socialism. This is like buses should be free, housing should be affordable. People shouldn't die of preventable illnesses because they don't have the right health care plan. And I think it makes sense that in an age of the first trillionaire in this country and a billionaire president fleecing us through elected office, that you see people who present a different story winning. (...)

On Monday, The Supreme Court handed down several rulings, one of which went in favor of President Trump, expanding his power to fire the heads of Federal agencies, but several others went against him, including one which allows mail-in ballots to arrive after election day and be counted. This decision caused the President to double down on pushing the Save America Act, which became a topic of discussion on Monday's The Arena, on CNN, where Trump was bashed, and the very sanctity of our elections was glossed over. Host Kasie Hunt turned to CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel, who proceeded to downplay any concern over delaying election results, and of course, went after Trump. GANGEL: For perspective, does it take a while to count ballots in certain places? Yes. If they're coming in after election day, can it extend it longer? Is it a little messy? Yes.... It's not about corruption or fraud.... So is this a loss for President Trump? Yes. But big picture, he's obsessed with this. It is sort of a loss of his own making because the underlying problem here is he doesn't want to admit he lost in 2020. So he's looking for fraud and corruption where there isn't. Liberals can always say Trump's losses can be blamed on Trump. Hunt then played a clip of Trump who was asked if he'd sign the housing bill. TRUMP CLIP: It hasn't been sent to me yet....It's a yawn. Some people say it's wonderful. Compared to the SAVE America Act, just about everything is a big yawn. After mockingly repeating Trump's "big yawn" description, Hunt welcomed in former Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley, who she would almost immediately interrupt. HUNT: The President calls it a big yawn....Why not take the political win on housing under these circumstances? GIDLEY: I think he is going to take the victory lap in some form or fashion. I do think, though, he is focused on making sure that our elections have some semblance of faith, trust and confidence, which they have been losing now in this country for decades. You remember around 65% of Republicans did not believe that Joe Biden won the election, but around 60- HUNT: Isn't that President Trump's fault? GIDLEY: But around 63 percent of -- HUNT: Didn't he tell them that he -- (Hunt laughs) GIDLEY: But around 63 percent of Democrats did not believe that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton. People have been complaining about this process for a long time. Gidley continued, addressing Gangel's claim that Trump was "obsessed" and then turned his attention to the SAVE Act, which would require voter ID, and prevent voter fraud, something that Hunt didn't seem to have much interest in. GIDLEY: He is not obsessed with this. GANGEL: Yes. [Laughter] GIDLEY: Unless you consider obsessed with 90 percent of the country, which also agrees only American citizens should decide the outcome of American elections. HUNT: But that's already a law. GIDLEY: I don't get to vote in Italy, I don't get to vote in Germany or France, and I'm sure you don't either. Only in this country -- HUNT: It's also the law, Hogan- GIDLEY: Well, it's also the law you can't come into this country illegally, but yet people do it all the time. It's also the law you can't murder somebody, yet murder happens in big cities all the time. So, to pretend as though just because it's a law, it doesn't happen is ridiculous. It happens constantly. HUNT: The Heritage Foundation is the one that has studied this,  between someone voting when they're not a citizen and the number of votes required to change the outcome of an election. GIDLEY: Sure, but how many -- how many instances of fraud are okay? Is it one? A hundred? HUNT: I'm not arguing instances of fraud are okay. The question is, can we trust or not the results of our elections. And it's required for us -- GIDLEY: No question. And on both sides, people don't trust it. That's just the statistics. Not sure why Hunt would bring up The Heritage Foundation's study on voter fraud, which noted, among other things, "In 2015, a city council election in the New Jersey town of Perth Amboy was decided by a mere 10 votes. A judge overturned the election and ordered a new one after it was revealed that at least 13 illegal absentee ballots had been cast." Hunt then outrageously allowed Democratic Strategist  Adrienne Elrod,  to go unchallenged while claiming that Trump is, "actively trying to disenfranchise voters." Unfortunately, it was consistent with the entire segment.

The world’s richest man has had enough of anti-Israel fake news peddler and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof for continuing to spew sewage on the internet with impunity. Kristof attempted to play gotcha! against SpaceX CEO Elon Musk by making a post-hoc argument to illustrate how the first trillionaire supposedly “killed” people by taking a blowtorch to the massive government waste replete throughout federal agencies. “Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts,” Kristof snorted in a June 28 X post. He then cherry picked a few random names and then arbitrarily shoe-horned Musk's DOGE cuts as being the culprit behind their deaths: “Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because you stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.” As NewsBusters Media Editor Bill D’Agostino suggested in retort, this is as idiotic as saying Musk could be blamed for a kid dying in Tajikistan from toxoplasmosis because he stopped paying for his Mucinex. Musk had a one-line response to Kristof’s nonsense: “You’re an utter piece of shit and a liar.”  Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo piled on the mockery: “The moral calculus here is insane. According to Kristof, the USA is responsible for every poor nation in the entire world. If an ambulance runs out of fuel in rural Liberia, that is our fault. The liberal has a pathological tension between the feelings of omnipotence and guilt.” Using Kristof’s logic, the Trump administration putting a freeze on $8 million for the African Elephant Conservation Fund means he would be liable if the world’s largest pachyderms eventually experience a thinning of the population.  You’re an utter piece of shit and a liar — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2026 What made it worse for Kristof was that he tried doubling down on his argument a day later, making himself look even more foolish in the process and teeing him up to get swatted down by Musk: No, I don't think we are responsible for all poor nations. But we were saving 1 life every 10 seconds with USAID, and we cut that off abruptly with no time for countries to adjust. So kids died unnecessarily. And I do think that it's bad when kids die unnecessarily, don't you? Of course, there’s absolutely zero way for Kristof to know if we were in fact saving “1 life every 10 seconds with USAID,” given the litany of chain of custody issues and lack of oversight that has become damningly commonplace with foreign aid. As South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper reported January 30, despite the U.S. giving $200 billion in foreign assistance to Africa since 1991, “African countries lose an estimated $88 billion each year through tax evasion, money laundering and corruption.” The USAID Inspector General Adam Kaplan even admitted in a March 17 statement to the House House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Intelligence that “Foreign assistance programs, no matter which agency administers them, are targets for fraud, corruption, and diversion to terrorist organizations.”  Musk addressing these significant issues is apparently tantamount to killing people, according to Kristof. Kristof clearly didn’t think this correlation vs. causation argument through at all. But what more can you expect from the same moron who actually tried convincing the world through garbage journalism that the Israeli Defense Forces were teaching dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners? Here’s a suggestion for Kristof: Just because you have a social media account doesn’t mean you have to post every lowbrow thing that pops into your brain.