If historical revisionism were an addiction, the pompous charlatans in left-wing media would all be institutionalized. The New Republic Editor Michael Tomasky came out with a bumptious screed lecturing Americans for not voting the correct way in his view: “When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.” Yes, he actually wrote that with a straight face and treated the 4 years of inflationary disaster under President Joe Biden as if they didn’t exist. Tomasky doubled down on making himself look completely foolish by selling blue pills as if they were red pills: “Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy? I doubt it.”  So are Americans just supposed to memory-hole the then 40-year high inflation crisis brought on by Biden and the Federal Reserve’s multitrillion-dollar spending policies? How about when gas prices hit over $5 a gallon on average in 2022? For context, this spike happened without the massive intercontinental conflict in which the U.S. and Israel sought to dismantle Iran’s Islamist regime — even as Russia waged its regional war in Ukraine while Biden banned Russian oil imports. What’s crazy is that this is public record, and yet Tomasky still maintained the temerity to whine about how the Iran war “has shot gas prices up near $5 a gallon in most places.” Short-term memory or willful ignorance? You decide. How about when the 30-year fixed mortgage rate went over seven percent at least twice under Biden and completely priced out younger Americans seeking to be first-time homebuyers? The America First Policy Institute noted in January 2025 that “the median age of first-time homebuyer[s] reach[ed] a record 40 years old.”  Tomasky didn’t address any of this, of course, including the damning statistic that more than half of Americans were struggling under Biden to pay their bills and save money, as Bloomberg News reported November 19, 2024. Instead, he had the audacity to spin how “Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.” Maybe Tomasky would actually believe this if he had been living under a rock the past few years, and that may have well been the case, as his only apparent beef with Democrats was that they were not being effective enough in telling Americans the “truth” about Republicans: The idea that the party of big business must surely be more trustworthy on economic policy just seems intuitively right to most, and the Democrats, in their typical way, have done a horrible job explaining this truth to people. Still—the evidence is getting hard to ignore, so perhaps there’s some hope. The shamelessness here is unreal. In Tomasky’s view of the illusory positives of Bidenomics, “Real GDP grew at 2.8 percent in 2024. Wages were growing at a higher rate, 4.8 percent. Inflation closed out 2024 at 2.9 percent—high, but way down from the 7 percent of 2021.” But as always with narratives churned out from the left, the devil is in the details.  With regards to GDP, Tomasky didn’t mention how much of that so-called growth was caused by a supernova-like explosion in government debt. As economist Daniel Lacalle wrote November 17, 2024, an “unsustainable increase in government spending and federal debt bloated the official GDP, making gross domestic income significantly weaker than headline GDP.”  As far as inflation is concerned, consumer prices had shot up 21 percent higher on average than when Biden first took office. But you wouldn’t know that reading Tomasky’s drivel. With regards to wages, the former Newsweek scribe was just being flat-out deceptive. Data from Statista released Inauguration Day 2025 found that the “largest blemish” on Biden’s legacy was that — *checks notes* — “Wages Haven't Kept Up With Inflation.” Go figure! His concluding flex reinforced his headline treating Americans who remember the years of Bidenflation as too dumb to know what’s good for them: The Democrats need a 2028 standard-bearer who will say these things over and over until they get pounded into the heads of those famous low-information swing voters they end up relentlessly chasing after every fourth November. The lie has persisted long enough. If it takes $7 gas for people to realize it, I’ll happily pay it. Democrats—and reality—must bury this myth once and for all. The Left is always blaming "low-information swing voters" for swinging the wrong way. Voting for the Democrats proves you're a "high-information voter."

In the final minutes of Tuesday’s Katy Tur Reports, the MS NOW host discussed the Democrats’ 2024 election autopsy that had not been released as she and Democratic strategist Morris Katz minimized Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner’s controversies, including a Nazi tattoo, and then went after LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt’s style. After a discussion of what went wrong in 2024 for Democrats, Tur asked Katz about Platner, which she described as Democratic “hand-wringing”: Let me ask you about Graham Platner. There's a lot of hand-wringing within the Democratic Party about what to do with him, because on the one hand, he's a great speaker and he's charismatic. But on the other hand, he's got some issues in his past that have been ugly. How is he going to be able to deal with that in a general election against Susan Collins, who has proven to be a survivor?   In the final minutes of Katy Tur Reports, Tur and Democratic Strategist Morris Katz minimized Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner’s controversies, with no mention of the Nazi tattoo, before they hit on LA Mayoral Candidate Spencer Pratt's style, while admitting it works. pic.twitter.com/dVjv29AcE0 — Nick (@nspin310) May 19, 2026   Katz glanced over the actual controversies, like his Nazi tattoo, Reddit comments, and more, and instead went to call Platner “real.” He said, “real people (...) understand the realities that the average American is facing right now,” but they also “understand that when real people run for office, that embodies the good parts of it. It also embodies realities of people who've lived real lives, people who, you know, like, for Graham’s instance, served a decade overseas, struggled with PTSD.” Katz described Platner as a “story of redemption” and “if we don't believe in redemption, then what's the point in this political project?” Tur then turned to the Pratt campaign in LA as she slightly chuckled when introducing one of Pratt’s online ads that described his mayoral run through the The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song. After Tur repeated Meghan McCain's comments on Pratt’s strategy as “the way that this generation, my generation, elder millennials need to talk to people if you want to be a politician.”  Katz had some skepticism along with a few chuckles and an admission on its success: “I mean, I don't know if I want to see every politician engaging in the exact same practices. But I think it does speak to something. He's breaking through. You can't argue with the facts.” Tur then actually admitted some of the Democrats’ problem, as she admitted “the homeless problem is real” along with an understatement of “there seems to be a drug issue there.” She also said the Democratic Party sometimes seemed to be “full of a bunch of talk.” Katz turned this into praise for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and said instead of LA’s Mamdani, a conservative Pratt has taken the spot: I mean, that's when I see someone like Spencer Pratt succeeding. I think it's an indictment on us as a Democratic party. We need to. And this is why I think Mayor Mamdani has done a remarkable job and laid a platform where it's not just words.  Every day, you're seeing different actions that are improving the quality of life in New York, and that's the kind of party we need to be. And that hasn't been the result in LA a lot. And that's kind of left this pathway for someone to take that lane.” To close, Tur asked Katz how Democrats could turn the fate of the party around. TUR: Can this get turned around in the next two years? KATZ: With Democrats like Graham Platner, I think. Absolutely. With the controversies of Platner, notably his Nazi tattoo that was never mentioned in the segment, one would hope there were no more Platners. But it seemed likely as some in the media, as seen on Morning Joe, had taken a liking to Platner. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Katy Tur Reports May 19, 2026 3:55:48 PM Eastern KATY TUR: Let me ask you about Graham Platner. There's a lot of hand-wringing within the Democratic party about what to do with him, because on the one hand, he's a great speaker and he's charismatic. But on the other hand, he's got some issues in his past that have been ugly. How is he going to be able to deal with that in a general election against Susan Collins, who has proven to be a survivor? MORRIS KATZ (DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST): I think that people are really hungry for candidates who aren't politicians, who are real people, working-class people who understand the realities that the average American is facing right now.  And they understand that when real people run for office, that embodies the good parts of it. It also embodies realities of people who've lived real lives, people who, you know, like, for Graham’s instance, served a decade overseas, struggled with PTSD, you know, had not done everything his entire life planning to run for president, like so many politicians who lost trust.  And he talks about this, and I think it's his is a story of redemption. And if we don't believe in redemption, then what's the point in this political project? TUR: I want to play another candidate who is going viral. It's not Graham Platner. It's maybe not some of the Democrats like, but his campaign message is striking a chord. And this is Spencer Pratt. Here's his latest video for the race for mayor of LA. [Cuts to video] SPENCER PRATT ADVERTISEMENT [To Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme]: Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down. And I had to take a minute to run for mayor. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.  In West Los Angeles Palisades, in my backyard is where I spent most of my days. Meeting hummingbirds, relaxing, all cool, avoiding all the bones outside of the school when a couple (...). [Cuts back to live] TUR: Okay, Spencer Pratt. Meghan McCain said, this is the way that this generation, my generation, elder millennials need to talk to people if you want to be a politician. KATZ: I mean, I don't know if I want to see every politician engaging in the exact same practices. But I think it does speak to something. He's breaking through. You can't argue with the facts. TUR: He's addressing an issue in Los Angeles that people, you know, get into the consultant speech on. KATZ: Absolutely. And that is the thing to me, where he communicates in a way that no other politicians communicating and actually does relate to the grand thing in the sense of there's an authenticity there that I think really attracts people. TUR: And there are Democrats who support him and will say, I'm a Democrat, but I also look around the city of Los Angeles and I - the homeless problem is real. There seems to be a drug issue going on there, and it's not being addressed by the very people who say that they're going to address it humanely.  And they look at the Democratic party, and they say, you're full of a bunch of talk, and this is what Wes Moore was talking about. But all you do is give out, you know, proposals and nine-point plans, and you don't actually get anything done. KATZ: I mean, that's when I see someone like Spencer Pratt succeeding. I think it's an indictment on us as a Democratic party. We need to. And this is why I think Mayor Mamdani has done a remarkable job and laid a platform where it's not just words.  Every day, you're seeing different actions that are improving the quality of life in New York, and that's the kind of party we need to be. And that hasn't been the result in LA a lot. And that's kind of left this pathway for someone to take that lane. TUR: Also, more broadly, I'm going to put up on the screen Donald Trump's numbers on the on the poorly educated. And we bring this up because Donald Trump really embraced, really embraced, you know, “the poorly educated love me.” I remember I was in a rally in Vegas in early 2016. It was right after the South Carolina primaries. He got some results back and he was reading them out, and he said, “Oh, I love the poorly educated.”  And it was it was him saying, I connect with the working class. I connect with all types of people. I am not. I may be an elitist, but I understand you and people really responded to that. How does the democratic party win back these voters or win over these voters? KATZ: I mean, I think we need to look at some of the things that, frankly, Donald Trump was able to campaign on. And also some of the things Spencer Pratt is campaigning on. They're lying. And I think we can be clear about that. And we have a lot of points we can make to reveal that.  But in order to take those voters in, I think we need to take seriously what they have been expressing in their support of them, which is exactly what you said. A deep frustration with the democratic party is more interesting and lecturing than listening. And in kind of proving moral points than intangibly improving people's lives. TUR: Can this get turned around in the next two years? KATZ: With Democrats like Graham Platner, I think. Absolutely. (...)

Not everything CBS’s Stephen Colbert does for The Late Show makes it to air. Some material is only revealed 10 years later, and some gets puts on YouTube. The latter was the case on Tuesday, as Colbert welcomed The Daily Show’s Monday host Jon Stewart to antepenultimate episode of the show. As the duo were discussing how Stewart is the last one standing at Paramount in terms of late night shows, Stewart made the incredulous assertion that Colbert’s politics are only a “minute portion” of his show and urged the audience to look forward to the joy they will have when “this putrid administration” ends. Colbert began, “So you now, sir, as I leave, the CBS family, the Paramount Skydance family, you now are the only person in the corporation left in late night. Good luck. You are. There used to be more of us. Now it’s you—”   In a YouTube extended portion of his interview with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart claims it is "a ridiculous framing" to view the late night shows as Trump opposition, yet he urges the audience to "Close your eyes and dream. The day that the electorate in this great nation we call… pic.twitter.com/TcWb1EzZ4Y — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) May 20, 2026   After Stewart interrupted to claim, “That’s chilling,” Colbert continued, “on Monday, this coming Monday, you're going to be the only one in late night for the CBS Paramount Skydance Corporation, and I am happy for you.” Stewart then launched into his ode to his former Comedy Central colleague, “Here's the only saving grace that I think that I have is that I don't think Trump has cable. I really think it's a network thing. I don't think it's basic cable, but let me tell you something, and I truly mean this. And what upsets me about this situation is that, first of all, you're just a tremendous human and one of my favorite people. So that's—but second of all, that—you're—I've seen your talents from Exit 57 to, you know, to Strangers with Candy, to writing—he can do whatever he wants to do. But the ubiquitous bloviating of the commander-in-chief has put us all as defined as who we are in opposition to him.” According to Stewart, the idea the comedy shows have come to be defined as Trump critics is “just a ridiculous framing. It's a minute portion of the joy machine that you call your show. And it's annoying. And let me say this.” However, Stewart then undermined his point by attacking the administration in nasty terms, “I mean this from the bottom of my heart, not just for this show, but for the country. The day. The day. Oh, people. Close your eyes and dream. The day that the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration, the day that that happens. My brother, my brother, there will be—and I mean this. The day that that happens, there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary's repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath.” Colbert’s politics simply aren’t a “minute portion” of the show. They are the main attraction, and even liberals know this which is why people other than Stewart are acting like they are losing a leader of The Resistance or that Colbert is a free speech martyr. The fact that The Daily Show is also a Paramount property and was promoting communism as recently as last week is just ignored. Here is a transcript for the May 19 show: YouTube/CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 5/19/2026 STEPHEN COLBERT: So you now, sir, as I leave, the CBS family, the Paramount Skydance family, you now are the only person in the corporation left in late night. Good luck. You are. There used to be more of us. Now it’s you— JON STEWART: That’s chilling. COLBERT: — on Monday, this coming Monday, you're going to be the only one in late night for the CBS Paramount Skydance Corporation, and I am happy for you. STEWART: Here's the only saving grace that I think that I have is that I don't think Trump has cable. I really think— COLBERT: I noticed that.  I noticed that. STEWART: —It's a network thing. I don't think it's basic cable, but let me tell you something, and I truly mean this. And what upsets me about this situation is that, first of all, you're just a tremendous human and one of my favorite people. So that's—but second of all, that—you're—I've seen your talents from Exit 57 to, you know— COLBERT: You saw my talents in Exit 57! STEWART: —to Strangers with Candy, to writing—he can do whatever he wants to do. But the ubiquitous bloviating of the commander-in-chief has put us all as defined as who we are in opposition to him. COLBERT: That's right, yeah. STEWART: And it's just a ridiculous framing. It's a minute portion of the joy machine that you call your show. And it's annoying. And let me say this. And I mean this from the bottom of my heart, not just for this show, but for the country. The day. The day. Oh, people. Close your eyes and dream. The day that the electorate in this great nation we call home repudiates this putrid administration, the day that that happens. My brother, my brother, there will be—and I mean this. The day that that happens, there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary's repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath.

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories:   Sunny Hostin Calls for Open, Andor-Style 'Rebellion' to Fight Trump, GOP Saturday Night Live Claims Trump Wishes For Vance's Death Democrat Voters Support 'Retaliatory' Gerrymandering Female Officer Suspended After Objecting to Male in Her Locker Room     Sunny Hostin Calls for Open, Andor-Style 'Rebellion' to Fight Trump, GOP During an episode of the Behind the Table podcast, The View co-host Sunny Hostin called for the formation of a rebellion and a true resistance to fight Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Hostin expressed frustration with mainstream Democrats, stating that they are bringing knives to gunfights and failing to match the political energy of their opponents. The call for a rebellion was inspired by a discussion with executive producer Brian Teta about the Disney sci-fi series Andor, which depicts violent efforts to overthrow an empire. Hostin also claimed that voting rights are under attack in the American South, comparing recent Supreme Court decisions on partisan gerrymandering to a new Jim Crow era.   Saturday Night Live Claims Trump Wishes For Vance's Death The season finale of Saturday Night Live featured Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che targeting Vice President JD Vance with jokes focused on death and assassination. During the broadcast, Colin Jost claimed that Donald Trump keeps a letter in the Resolute Desk addressed to Vance that simply reads that he wishes Vance had been the one to die. The show also included political commentary from Michael Che regarding U.S. war reparations to Iran and criticisms surrounding the Supreme Court. According to the article, the finale capped off a season where 91 percent of the political jokes told by the Weekend Update anchors targeted conservatives.   Democrat Voters Support 'Retaliatory' Gerrymandering A new Economist and YouGov national survey reveals that 56 percent of Kamala Harris voters believe it is justified to gerrymander in one state to retaliate against other states that do the same. The poll highlights a bipartisan consensus that gerrymandering is a problem, with 92 percent of total citizens agreeing that intentionally drawing legislative districts to favor one political party is problematic. Democrats and Independents show a higher level of concern regarding the issue, with 89 percent of Harris voters labeling gerrymandering a major problem compared to 60 percent of Donald Trump voters. Despite acknowledging it as a major problem, self-identified Democrats and Harris voters support retaliatory district drawing at significantly higher rates than Republicans and Independents.   Female Officer Suspended After Objecting to Male in Her Locker Room Norfolk Police Department Officer Meghan Grabow was suspended after objecting to a biological male recruit being permitted to use the female locker room. A male officer named Martin Powers spoke up in support of Grabow's privacy concerns and was subsequently terminated from the department. Superiors instructed Grabow to use female pronouns for the biological male recruit and suggested that she should take her gun into the shower if she felt unsafe. The transgender-identified recruit ultimately dropped out of the police academy before officially becoming an officer, yet the disciplinary actions against the objecting officers remain in place.        

Anderson Cooper decided to quit his moonlighting job at 60 Minutes, but not without a few words interpreted as “a dig” at CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. In an “Overtime” video reviewing his career, Cooper proclaimed “There’s very few things that have been around for as long as 60 Minutes has and maintain the quality that it has,” and “I think the independence of 60 Minutes has been critical.” Always beware the I-word. “Independence” is a code word for “crusading liberal bias.” We at 60 Minutes demonstrate our “independence” by beating Donald Trump over the head on a weekly basis. Cooper often didn’t sound “independent” to most of us when interviewing Democrats. Just start with the interview with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in 2022. Sending one famous gay liberal man to interview another famous gay liberal man didn’t sound like it would be hard-hitting, and it wasn’t. Cooper asked Buttigieg a series of bland softballs, such as: “When somebody's driving over a bridge, should they feel confident?” Cooper finished the segment by noting the engineers who gave America C-minus on infrastructure hoped Team Biden would take it up to a B. Cooper gushed to Buttigieg: “Have you ever gotten a B in your life? You strike me as the kind of guy who hasn't gotten a lot of Bs in your life.” In 2018, Cooper supportively interviewed porn star Stormy Daniels and her sleazy lawyer Michael Avenatti, part of their “Get Trump” formula. Cooper pointed out to Daniels: “Melania Trump had recently given birth to a son, just a few months before. Did he mention his wife or child at all in this?” No. Cooper asked Daniels if she was physically attracted to Trump (no) and did he use a condom (no). “I thought of it as a business deal,” she said.  This wasn't "independent" at all from all the other liberal channels giving Stormy and Avenatti endless minutes of conspiracy chatter, including Cooper's CNN. In 2019, Cooper platformed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who’d been in office for a few weeks. He noted that Ocasio-Cortez was proposing some radical goals, like no use of fossil fuels within 12 years. “What you are talking about, just big picture, is a radical agenda compared to the way politics is done right now.” AOC replied by comparing herself to Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation and FDR establishing Social Security. Cooper did not reply: “Your ego, madam, is off the charts.” Cooper could only ask “Do you call yourself a radical?” Ocasio-Cortez said “Yeah.” How "independent" does that sound?  That's not to say Cooper couldn't be tough on socialists. It all depends on it being carefully timed, like during Democrat primaries. In February of 2020, Cooper came at presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from the right, insisting he'd been wrong to praise Fidel Castro's communist regime. “A lot of dissidents [were] imprisoned in Cuba," he said. Cooper also found a hypocrite: "Though he's campaigning as an advocate for the poor, Bernie Sanders became a millionaire four years ago, thanks largely to royalties from his best-selling book, Our Revolution." Cooper hasn’t been shy about celebrating CBS, including on CNN. After CNN ran a live performance of George Clooney’s fact-mangling play about CBS heroes in the McCarthy era last summer, Cooper brought on his CBS colleague Scott Pelley for a promotional interview about his anti-Trump commencement speech at Wake Forest. The hour was titled “Truth and Power.”  "Truth" is a buzzword, like "independence." CBS beating up Trump, Newt Gingrich, or multiple George Bushes was "truth" in action, and promoting Obamas, Clintons, and Bidens was somehow "independence."