Screenshot from NPR.org What kind of supposedly respectable pundit did National "Public" Radio go looking for on the morning after the big blue wave came ashore for the Left? Looking for a hip influencer of American youth, NPR once again happily interviewed Mao-loving, Hamas-backing Hasan Piker on Wednesday’s Morning Edition. It came under the headline:Hasan Piker says Democrats must craft a 'resilient' and 'easily identifiable' party platformOn October 15, NPR Morning Edition anchor Leila Fadel awarded Piker a 40-minute Newsmakers softball interview that was posted on YouTube. This time, the anchor was Michel Martin. And once again, NPR didn't dig into Piker describing mass-murdering communist dictator Mao Zedong as a "great leader," and never touched his declaration that "America deserved 9/11."MICHEL MARTIN: Let's talk now with somebody who is closely identified with the progressive wing of the party as a surrogate, as a campaigner, as an advocate. And that is Twitch streamer and commentator Hasan Piker. Hasan Piker, good morning, or should I say hello, since apparently you've been up all night and haven't slept?...Well, do the best you can. Stay with us. What do you think is the message that voters sent last night?HASAN PIKER: I think it's very clear that the last two years of Trump was an absolute, utter disaster and that voters from basically every demographic all across the country in virtually every locality, every state, every House district decided to punish the Trump administration and the Republican Party for the death and destruction it's brought about all around the world, the instability that it's caused and its impact that they felt on the gas prices here at home.This is as close as NPR came to describing Piker’s radicalism – well, actually they let Piker do it:MARTIN: So you just heard our colleague Elena Moore mention that the exit polling suggests that Republicans lost pretty much all the gains they made with young men in 2024. That's your Twitch audience. Your Twitch audience is overwhelmingly young and overwhelmingly male, as I understand it. What were you hearing from them during your livestream last night as the results rolled in?PIKER: I would say that they are considered a little bit more radical than most. We are obviously further left than the Democratic Party. But it was - I mean, we were libbing out, to say the least, last night. We were very excited about it.Then it turned more amusing as Piker basically said he used to think America was a viciously racist country until his favorite candidates emerged victorious:PIKER: It's very exciting to see this coalition build after two years of this algorithm-induced manic state that we were experiencing, where it almost felt like this country was far more vicious, far more racist than it actually was. I myself was at the center of some of this controversy, some of these attacks in not just the Abdul El-Sayed race in Michigan, but in races that I did not touch at all. And it definitely made me feel and our community feel as though racist vitriol was the only thing that Republicans had to bring to the table after all of the destruction that they had brought about on the American economy. And I sincerely was worried that the Republicans would respond positively to that. And it turns out there is time for - there is hope, and there is time for optimism in America, in American politics.Martin felt it was important to point out that Republicans didn’t succeed in convincing voters that Piker-endorsed candidates were radicals:MARTIN: But, you know, there were Democrats, establishment Democrats, if we want to call them that, who said that you were the problem or that your side was the problem. Some people argued that some of the candidates you supported were not attractive candidates because they argued that they could never win, especially in swing states. That has turned out not to be true.PIKER: Yeah.MARTIN: So I'm wondering what message you think that sends.PIKER: I think it's great. We have a big tent. You know, I - we brought the under-45-year-olds. We brought the young men. They brought the Barbaras and the Deborahs in the suburbs.This is where the headline portion of the interview kicked in: PIKER: I really hope that we can continue this exact same trajectory, start investigations on the Trump administration, unearth some of the unbelievable corruption that we've seen, and bring accountability to the White House and to the regulatory agencies that this administration has gutted and destroyed.MARTIN: Is that going to be enough?PIKER: No. We also need to have a resilient platform that is easily identifiable, with key policy agenda items that focus on the material realities.Clearly, NPR and its left-wing audience like hearing from Hasan. Repeatedly! But NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride did have to struggle with much listener outrage when NPR offered a long "Newsmakers" interview in September to Tucker Carlson. 

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:MRC Uncovers How ABC Allowed Only One GOP Guest on The View Before ElectionsMRC Exposes How Midterm Results Embarrass Leftist Media Claims That Trump Would End ElectionsMRC Exposes MS NOW Hosting Leftist Bishop to Frame Election Results as a Return to Decency  MRC Uncovers How ABC Allowed Only One GOP Guest on The View Before ElectionsThe elitist media network ABC loaded the lineup of The View with Democratic supporters while heavily suppressing Republican representation ahead of Election Day.Only a single Republican guest was brought on to defend the party and present conservative policies to the audience.The disparity highlights how elitist media programs use selective guest booking to shape voter opinions right before an election.The imbalance showcases a persistent lack of equal time and fair debate on major broadcast network daytime shows. MRC Exposes How Midterm Results Embarrass Leftist Media Claims That Trump Would End ElectionsLeftist commentators in the elitist media spent months claiming that former President Donald Trump would cancel future elections and end democracy.Successful Democratic midterm election wins directly contradicted the widespread fearmongering promoted by elitist media figures.Elitist media hosts like Sara Haines and Rachel Maddow made extreme claims about media cancellation and political trials that failed to materialize.The outcome demonstrates how democratic processes remain intact despite repeated alarmist narratives from left-wing commentators. MRC Exposes MS NOW Hosting Leftist Bishop to Frame Election Results as a Return to DecencyMS NOW brought on leftist Episcopalian Bishop Marianne Budde to celebrate Democratic midterm wins as a national demand for decency.The segment framed political victories for left-wing candidates as a moral and spiritual triumph over conservative opponents.Network hosts and guests focused heavily on attacking Republicans while ignoring nonpartisan calls for mutual dignity.The broadcast demonstrated how elitist media networks rely on sympathetic religious figures to validate partisan political commentary.

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart was in a good mood to begin Thursday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast as he claimed Tuesday’s midterms were “an exciting repudiation of cruelty and shittiness.” However, by the time it came for the audience Q&A, Stewart and his producers demanded that the number one thing Democrats need to do is remove Sen. Chuck Schumer as majority leader, and their favorite reason for why was his original support of Rep. Haley Stevens.While The Weekly Show is released on Thursday, it is taped on Wednesday, a fact Stewart mentioned when he began the show by explaining, “On this Wednesday morning, November 4th, you may hear in my voice a slight rasp, a slight hoarseness, but also an inflection of, some would call it, enthusiasm, excitement.”Stewart also claimed, “I don't know if you've been paying attention, there was an election last night, the midterm elections, and I'm left with a feeling, as I watch the results up until, I want to say three in the morning, something along those lines. But it fills me with, it's a hard to describe feeling, one that is a little bit alien to me within these times.” Jon Stewart hails the midterm results "I believe it's referred to as hope, or that might be its ancient name, you know. The Egyptians referred to it as hope, what an exciting feeling of opportunity, what an exciting repudiation of cruelty and shittiness in our politics. The… pic.twitter.com/FWVu0m0Ica— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) November 6, 2026 He further added, “I believe it's referred to as hope, or that might be its ancient name, you know. The Egyptians referred to it as hope. What an exciting feeling of opportunity, what an exciting repudiation of cruelty and shittiness in our politics.”Additionally, Stewart gushed over the Democrats who won and compared Tuesday to his beloved New York Knicks winning the NBA Finals, “The Democrats ran actual good candidates who seem in it for virtuous and non-political salesman reasons. It was an incredible night. It was — I was watching it. The — I can only liken it, you know, you're seeing, ‘They haven't had a Democratic Senator in a hundred years.’ This was like the Knicks championship. This was ‘Knicks in five.’ This was watching result after result. Each result was like OG Anunoby, just tipping in another one, just up there hanging in here with old Wemby, representing the Republican Congress. Sorry to do that to you, Wemby.”However, Stewart’s good mood didn’t last forever. Sometime later, producer Brittany Mehmedovic kicked off the Q&A portion of the show by wondering, “Well, first, Jon, for all that is good and righteous, could you please ask George Clooney to write an op-ed calling on Chuck Schumer to step down as majority leader?”After joking that he thought she was going to ask if Clooney could ask Joe Biden to run again, Stewart got serious and said dumping Schumer was job number one for Democrats, “Boy, if they don't take — and by the way, that's job one of this opportunity. Job one of this opportunity is to tear down the obstacles and old way of thinking that got us into this mess. Someone has to meet this moment and they have got to show and this moment is not, ‘Oh, we get to impeach everybody,’ like, fuck that. Like, you have an opportunity to actually govern, do it, take it.” Later, Stewart says ditching Chuck Schumer is "Job one of this opportunity is to tear down the obstacles and old way of thinking that got us into this mess...Chuck Schumer deserves a no Chuck Schumer fought tooth and nail against half of these fucking people. And even if he… pic.twitter.com/SOvXsiK2id— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) November 6, 2026 He also asserted, “One of the first things you need to do is remove that system of seniority from Democratic politics. It is a bullshit system, and it needs to go. And by the way, they're already like, ‘Chuck Schumer deserves a lot of credit for putting together this—‘ Chuck Schumer deserves no — Chuck Schumer fought tooth and nail against half of these fucking people. And even if he didn't, he does not understand the urgency of the moment and what the future demands. I truly believe that.Producer Gillian Spear naturally agreed, “Yeah, from the fucking genius that brought you Haley Stevens, like, let's move on.”After everyone cracked themselves up, Stewart parroted the idea that Schumer’s original support for Stevens was proof he has to go, “Yeah, you never see that on the movie poster, do you? ‘From the director of Haley Stevens.’Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers out of concerns about Abdul El-Sayed and anti-Semitism. Schumer, the man who wrote a book about the danger of rising anti-Semitism in America, responded to the news with a full-fledged attack on Stevens. El-Sayed repaid the favor by endorsing Chris Van Hollen for majority leader. It is hard to feel bad for Schumer, but Stevens’s concerns about El-Sayed don’t become invalid just because he won or because Stewart insists him being Jewish gives him the credibility to say there’s nothing to see there.Here is a transcript for the November 5 show:Comedy Central The Daily Show11/5/2026JON STEWART: On this Wednesday morning, November 4th, you may hear in my voice a slight rasp, a slight hoarseness, but also an inflection of, some would call it, enthusiasm, excitement. I don't know if you've been paying attention, there was an election last night, the midterm elections, and I'm left with a feeling, as I watch the results up until, I want to say three in the morning, something along those lines. But it fills me with, it's a hard to describe feeling, one that is a little bit alien to me within these times.I believe it's referred to as hope, or that might be its ancient name, you know. The Egyptians referred to it as hope. What an exciting feeling of opportunity, what an exciting repudiation of cruelty and shittiness in our politics.The Democrats ran actual good candidates who seem in it for virtuous and non-political salesman reasons. It was an incredible night. It was — I was watching it. The — I can only liken it, you know, you're seeing, “They haven't had a Democratic Senator in a hundred years.” This was like the Knicks championship. This was “Knicks in five.” This was watching result after result. Each result was like OG Anunoby, just tipping in another one, just up there hanging in here with old Wemby, representing the Republican Congress. Sorry to do that to you, Wemby.…BRITTANY MEHMEDOVIC: Well, first, Jon—STEWART: Yeah.MEHMEDOVIC: — for all that is good and righteous.STEWART: Yes!MEHMEDOVIC: Could you please ask George Clooney to write an op-ed calling on Chuck Schumer to step down as majority leader?STEWART: Oh my God, that's hilarious. I thought they were going to say, can you ask George Clooney to write an op-ed to get Biden to run again?He just — write an op-ed that is a total apologia, and just say, “Hey, man, I don't know what I was thinking. Now is your time that the torch has been passed to the old generation. Let's do that again.”GILLIAN SPEAR: Yeah, let’s run it back.STEWART: Boy, if they don't take — and by the way, that's job one of this opportunity. Job one of this opportunity is to tear down the obstacles and old way of thinking that got us into this mess. Someone has to meet this moment and they have got to show and this moment is not, “Oh, we get to impeach everybody,” like, fuck that. Like, you have an opportunity to actually govern, do it, take it.And one of the first things you need to do is remove that system of seniority from Democratic politics. It is a bullshit system, and it needs to go. And by the way, they're already like, “Chuck Schumer deserves a lot of credit for putting together this—”Chuck Schumer deserves no — Chuck Schumer fought tooth and nail against half of these fucking people. And even if he didn't, he does not understand the urgency of the moment and what the future demands. I truly believe that.SPEAR: Yeah, from the fucking genius that brought you Haley Stevens, like, let's move on.STEWART: Yeah, you never see that on the movie poster, do you? SPEAR: Yeah.STEWART: “From the director of Haley Stevens.”   

The U.S. economy added 165,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in October, blowing past analysts’ predictions and driving down the unemployment rate, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday.The 165,000 jobs added in October more than doubled economists’ expectation of a 65,000 gain and more than tripled the 48,000 average monthly growth of the previous 12 months.. Meanwhile, job growth in August and September was revised higher by a combined total of 84,000, increasing August’s gain by 53,000 (from 133,000 to 186,000) and September’s by 31,000 (from 29,000 to 60,000).According to the BLS report, the labor force participation rate increased from 61.8% to 61.9%, while the ranks of the unemployed dipped by 41,000, but remained at about 7.1 million.As a result, the nation’s unemployment rate was 4.1% in October, down from 4.2% in September.By industry sector:Professional and Business Services led the way in October by adding 70,000 jobs - far more than its average monthly gain of 15,000 over the prior 12 months.Health Care added 42,000 jobs in October and also bested its average monthly gain of 31,000 over the prior 12 months (+31,000).Transportation and Warehousing added 25,000 jobs.Manufacturing employment continued to trend up (+19,000) and has increased by 101,000 since a recent low in December 2025.Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; wholesale trade; retail trade; information; financial activities; social assistance; leisure and hospitality.Federal government employment dipped by 1,000 jobs and the number of local government jobs declined by the same amount. But, with state governments adding 8,000 workers, total government payrolls increased by 6,000 jobs in October.At 34.4 hours, the average workweek for all private nonfarm employees in October was unchanged from September’s level. Average hourly earnings increased 0.4% to $38.00. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen 3.1%.

Despite being under scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission for a slew violations of ABC’s broadcast license, including for equal-time for candidates, The View continued their history of vastly lopsided liberal vs conservative guests in the run up to the 2026 midterm elections. For these very critical elections, ABC’s “bona fide news program” only allowed 1 conservative on the show to defend the Republicans, contrary to the 21 they had to support the liberal positions and bash President Trump and the GOP.“ABC has learned nothing from the FCC’s continued scrutiny," said Media Research Center President David Bozell. "The View continues to insult the intelligence of the American public by passing off pure Democratic propaganda as a ‘bona fide news program.’ With 21 anti-Republican voices and a single conservative in the two months before the midterms, ABC’s political agenda could hardly be more obvious. And ABC is hardly alone. The entire elitist media landscape deserves serious scrutiny. The Federal Communications Commission must hold ABC accountable for its abuse of the public airwaves for partisan political purposes.”Between the start of Season 30 on September 8 and Election Day, November 3, The View hosted a total of 56 guests.  Image Media Research Center  Of that number, only one, Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) was there to make the case for Republicans and defend Republican policies ahead of the midterm elections. Cruz was actually The View’s first guest of the new season, breaking their tradition of the last couple years of having a liberal Supreme Court justice join them first.On the other side of the ledger, The View invited 21 guests who were either critical of Trump or the Republican Party. Three of them Democratic politicians: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (a rumored presidential contender), Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Included on the liberal side is Senator Thom Tillis (R). While Tillis is a retiring Republican senator, he was brought on to bash Trump and his record and promote his anti-Trump book “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents.” The rest of the liberal column included leftist actors like: Maisie Williams, Ethan Hawke, Chelsea Handler, Michael Douglas, Billy Crystal, Patricia "Ms. Pat" Williams-Lee, D.L. Hughley, Chandra Wilson, Busy Philipps, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eisa Davis, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Sophia Bush.There were other liberal figures such as: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen A. Smith, and Kara Swisher. Smith came under attack for meeting with Trump, but he didn’t defend Trump.While many of the guests in the liberal category were more than happy to promote liberal policies or take the opportunity to attack Trump and Republicans, some would actively avoid talking politics even when the cast tried to bait them.On September 29, journalist Evan Gershkovich was on the show to promote his book telling his story about being held hostage by Russia. Co-host Joy Behar tried to suggest that Trump’s clashes with the media were just like Russian dictator Vladimir Putin locking him up.When it became clear that Gershkovich wasn’t playing along with her false equivalency, Behar stepped in to make the connection anyway and promptly ended the interview:BEHAR: Seems to be the situation that these dictatorships, the first place they go is the press. [Bangs her hand on the table] We're experiencing some of that in this country right now.GERSHKOVICH: Yeah, I mean there's a part - You know, the Part 4 of the book is this sort of when I get home and I start reporting again. I want to figure out why they took me, you know, answer some of these questions, but also how the swap worked, how the negotiations went. And it was the - Trump’s second inauguration had already taken place and I was, you know, DOGE had basically --BEHAR: Well, Trump just invited Putin to go down to Miami, so they're palsy-walsy.His new memoir, This Cured Beautiful land: A Russian-American Story is available now. You can scan the QR code on your scene to purchase a copy. We'll be right back.Since Gershkovich didn’t take her bait, he was included in the non-political category.It’s easy to understand that their choices of guests are directly tied to the type of influence they want to exert on the American political system. In May 2024, Behar admitted to comedian Bill Maher that she censors herself on the show and stays quiet about Democratic Party problems as not to help Republicans in elections:BEHAR: I'm nervous about saying anything against Biden because I feel, not that I have so much power and you have some more than I do obviously, but --BILL MAHER: oh, I don't know about that.BEHAR: Are you afraid that you might influence the people who are on the fence?MAHER: I think you lose all credibility. I do. My bond with my audience has always been I don't pull a punch. My bond with my audience is you're not going to like everything I say but you know I'm saying what I really think is true.Moderator Whoopi Goldberg had previously made it clear that the show was meant to be a vector to get Democratic talking points to the public. During a March 2025, appearance on the show by sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, Goldberg argued with Smith about the Democratic Party’s efforts in messaging themselves to voters in 2024. She defended The View’s role in that effort:SMITH: [Y]ou're talking about what he's doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I'm challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing.GOLDBERG: Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it.Later that month, when teeing up a Hot Topics discussion about the future of the Democratic Party’s leadership and responding to comments by then-Governor Tim Walz (MN), Goldberg said: “I don't know if you can wait for somebody to step up and lead the party. [Walz] is not wrong when he says the party is us and what are we going -- what are we prepared to do?”While not included in the timeframe of this study, The View’s first post-election guest on November 4 was Texas Senator-elect James Talarico (D), whose candidacy they repeatedly told viewers to support. “Congratulations, we were thrilled with your win,” Goldberg told him.Goldberg also admitted they were "celebrating” the victories alongside Democrats, who she told “we put you in to take care of business.”In all, it’s clear that The View’s mission this cycle, as always, was to do their party to sell Democrats to the American voter.Methodology: For a guest to be counted as either liberal or conservative, they needed to express such views during their appearance on The View. If a celebrity did not discuss politics, they were not included in the count of political leanings even if they had a history of being outspoken in the past.