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ABC Accosts Iranian Kurd Chief With Forced “Forever War” Narrative
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ABC Accosts Iranian Kurd Chief With Forced “Forever War” Narrative

It is one thing to watch the Elitist Media be as unpredictably biased as they go about their business. It is entirely another to watch them inject their biases into stories from the weirdest angles, as ABC’s James Longman just did. Watch as the network’s Chief International Correspondent James Longman closes out the videotaped portion of his report by foisting the American “forever war” terminology upon an Iranian Kurdish leader who may soon send his troops to take on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC): WATCH: ABC's James Longman foists American political slang upon an Iranian Kurdish leader who may soon send his troops to fight the IRGC, accosting him about his feelings on "forever war": JAMES LONGMAN: And tonight, a whole new dimension is emerging- that the U.S. may be arming… pic.twitter.com/bz7t1ODzoW — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 5, 2026 JAMES LONGMAN: And tonight, a whole new dimension is emerging- that the U.S. may be arming Iranian Kurds to fight a ground war. I met exclusively with one of their leaders. You will know that many Americans will be watching the developments here, very worried about getting involved in another forever war: another war that never seems to end. What would you say to Americans watching now worried that their government is getting involved? I think the USA owes the Iranian people a country, he says.  And I got the sense from that Iranian opposition leader that he’s hoping for American help to launch that ground invasion. If that happens, it totally changes the dynamic of this war and there are still 17,000 Americans stranded in this region. David. MUIR: Watching this tonight on multiple fronts- James Longman in Iraq for us. James, thank you.  It is just plain weird to watch Longman try to foist what amounts to American political slang on this leader. He refuses the bait, instead talking about the war more broadly.  This is what happens when toxic Elitist Media cover the most significant stories of the day. The attempt to superimpose their own particular agenda on to whatever it is they’re presenting to the American people, no matter how detached from the public it may be, Par for the course for the Trump-deranged ABC. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned interview as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Wednesday, March 4th, 2026: DAVID MUIR: Meantime tonight, the thousands of trapped Americans trying to get out. More than 20,000 flights across the region canceled since the military operation began. Tonight authorities now say some Americans are trying to drive through all of this to other countries to try to get out. Here is our Chief International Correspondent James Longman from Iraq. JAMES LONGMAN: Tonight the U.S. is scrambling to mobilize military aircraft for Americans stranded in the Middle East as Iranian drones and missiles crisscross the region. Commercial airspace in one of the busiest corridors in the world has ground to a halt. More than 20,000 flights have been canceled since the conflict began. Thousands of citizens spread out across 14 countries pleading for help. STRANDED TRAVELER: My fourth day of being stuck in the hotel. I'm so, like, ready to go home, y'all. STRANDED TRAVELER: I am mentally exhausted. So basically the way the day has looked is we are constantly running multitudes of scenarios. LONGMAN: Panicked passengers stuck on cruise ships, more sheltering in place in hotel rooms. Our Marcus Moore is in Doha and met Ryan Blackman from Texas, who is hoping to get home to his wife and three kids. RYAN BLACKMAN: I have hopes that every day is going to be the last day that I will be here and ultimately get to go back home.. LONGMAN: Some are making the dangerous drive to other countries just to get out. STRANDED TRAVELER: We are passing the border to get out of Kuwait finally. LONGMAN: There’s hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens living in the Middle East and with weeks of military build-up, there are now questions about an apparent lack of planning. The State Department says they are actively securing planes and chartering flights, urging citizens to call this hotline for immediate assistance. A recorded message saying: STATE DEPARTMENT VOICE MAIL: The U.S. Is committed to helping U.S. citizens who want to leave the region to do so. LONGMAN: And asking callers to stay on the line. Some flights are taking off with airstrikes around them. This one leaving Beirut amid the smoke from an Israeli airstrike. The race to get out comes as the war expands on multiple fronts. Israeli forces are already targeting Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed proxy in Lebanon.  And tonight, a whole new dimension is emerging- that the U.S. may be arming Iranian Kurds to fight a ground war. I met exclusively with one of their leaders. You will know that many Americans will be watching the developments here, very worried about getting involved in another forever war: another war that never seems to end. What would you say to Americans watching now worried that their government is getting involved? I think the USA owes the Iranian people a country, he says.  And I got the sense from that Iranian opposition leader that he’s hoping for American help to launch that ground invasion. If that happens, it totally changes the dynamic of this war and there are still 17,000 Americans stranded in this region. David. MUIR: Watching this tonight on multiple fronts- James Longman in Iraq for us. James, thank you.  

‘Cross-Partisan Appeal’; ABC, CBS Gush Talarico Is Pushing ‘Unity’ to Pull in ‘Moderates’
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‘Cross-Partisan Appeal’; ABC, CBS Gush Talarico Is Pushing ‘Unity’ to Pull in ‘Moderates’

On Wednesday, ABC and CBS were nauseatingly in awe on their flagship newscasts of far-left Texas State Representative James Talarico — who believes, among other things, God was non-binary and that Mary would support abortion — as possessing “cross-partisan appeal” in a campaign “emphasizing unity” to pull in “moderates” to deliver Texas the first statewide Democrat win since 1994. CBS sent senior White House and campaign correspondent Ed O’Keefe to Austin, Texas, who reported back on CBS Mornings that Talarico had “put off his seminary studies in order to launch this campaign, believing he can combine support from Democrats, independents in this state and Republicans upset with the President.” In a second live-shot that aired in some time zones (due to a CBS News Special Report on a Pentagon briefing), O’Keefe boasted of Talarico’s “cross-partisan appeal” with a “Christian progressive approach, that you can be rooted in your faith” and “make a faith-based argument as to why the country needs to change.” WATCH: Wednesday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ fawns over Texas Democrat James Talarico’s “cross-partisan appeal,” “Christian progressive approach, that you can be rooted in your faith” and “make a faith-based argument as to why the country needs to change” that could “pull support from… pic.twitter.com/yjBXBJ9xwr — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 All this, he argued, could “pull support from independents and Republican voters...upset with state and national Republican leadership.” O’Keefe returned for the CBS Evening News and declared Democrats think Talarico — “a Christian progressive” with “record-setting turnout” — “could be the one to finally help them win a statewide race here for the first time since the 1990s” by delivering “a coalition of traditional Democratic voters, Latinos, new primary voters, and Republicans switching sides.” Over on the leftist ABC, Good Morning America saw virulent Trump hater Rachel Scott gush that Talarico has been “emphasizing unity, really trying to appeal to moderates” and has served as proof “Republicans know they do have a fight on their hands” to hold onto a Senate seat. On ABC’s ‘Good Morning America,’ correspondent @RachelVScott gushed that Texas Democrat James Talarico has been “emphasizing unity, really trying to appeal to moderates” and has served as proof “Republicans know they do have a fight on their hands” to hold onto a Senate seat pic.twitter.com/lYTGFp9n1a — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 ABC’s World News Tonight sent chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl to Texas to speak with Talarico. Before he giddily dumped on the Republicans, Karl bragged Talarico is “an aspiring Presbyterian minister” denouncing “what he calls the politics of division, emphasizing compassion” (click “expand”): MUIR: Now to the first major primary in the midterm election year, the Senate showdown in Texas. Democrats tonight hopeful they might have a chance in Texas pointing to turnout last night. On the Republican side, quite a political battle ahead. And here’s Jonathan Karl. KARL: Tonight, Democrats see an opening in deep red Texas. State lawmaker James Talarico — an aspiring Presbyterian minister — defeated Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the primary to be the Democratic candidate for Senate. Talarico is running against what he calls the politics of division, emphasizing compassion. [TO TALARICO] Now, I notice you don’t talk about Trump very much. At least if your ads, it’s not, like, much of a factor. Why is that? TALARICO: Aren’t we all tired talking about Donald Trump? It’s been ten years. I want to talk about something else. In contrast to the hints of swoon on ABC and CBS both day and night, NBC’s Today was far more straightforward with senior Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles splitting time between the Texas Senate, House, and North Carolina Senate races. But most notably, Nobles did not attach an ideological ID to anyone, Democrat or Republican (click “expand”): NOBLES: This first primary of the midterm calendar does give us a real sense of where the battle is headed, with enthusiastic Democrats turning out the vote and President Trump once again looming large over the Republican contests. This morning, legal chaos in Texas’ elections after fears that some voters went to the wrong polling places, some locations were ordered to stay open , but then overturned by the Texas Supreme Court, leaving votes cast after 7:00 p.m. local time in limbo. It’s a sign of how hotly contested these races are, including the Democratic Senate primary. NBC News projecting that James Talarico has defeated Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. TALARICO: This is a truly a campaign of, by, and for the people. NOBLES: The victory setting up a Texas-sized showdown this November in the Lone Star State, as Democrats try to flip a statewide seat ere for the first time in three decades. The Republican Senate primaries heading towards a bruising runoff in may, with John Cornyn fighting for his political survival against Ken Paxton, after neither candidate won a majority of the vote. Cornyn taking aim at Paxton, who was impeached, but later acquitted by the state Senate of bribery and corruption charges in 2023. (....) NOBLES: And a stunner on the House side, with Republican Dan Crenshaw, the only Texas GOP House incumbent who did not have President Trump’s endorsement, losing his race. In North Carolina, another critical race taking shape. The state’s former Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, clinching his party’s nomination overnight, facing former Republican National Committee chair, Michael Watley, who was endorsed by President Trump, another race heavily influenced by the President. (....) NOBLES: Look, we’re still several months out from the general election. But the Democrats that I spoke to were very pleased with the incredible voter turnout in their primaries last night. For instance, in Texas, with competitive races on both sides of the ballot, more Democrats voted in the primary yesterday than did Republicans, which is rare for that red state. But Republicans still feel confident they can hold the Senate, because they currently control the majority of the seats up for re-election this cycle. But on NBC Nightly News, anchor Tom Llamas touted the “new momentum for Texas Democrats” before giving way to Capitol Hill correspondent Melanie Zanona, who harped on the Republicans needing a runoff to settle on a nominee and celebrating Talarico for having “leaned on his Christian faith and pointed to his electability, highlighting the record-breaking voter turnout in the state.” To see the relevant transcripts from March 4, click here (for ABC’s Good Morning America), here (for ABC’s World News Tonight), here (for CBS Mornings), here (for the CBS Evening News), here (for NBC’s Today), and here (for NBC Nightly News). To see the relevant transcripts from March 4, click here (for ABC’s Good Morning America), here (for ABC’s World News Tonight), here (for CBS Mornings), here (for the CBS Evening News), here (for NBC’s Today), and here (for NBC Nightly News).

On Iran, Dr. Cornel West Says 'Brother Trump Is A Gangster,' CNN's Phillip Stays Silent
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On Iran, Dr. Cornel West Says 'Brother Trump Is A Gangster,' CNN's Phillip Stays Silent

Under normal circumstances it's often most difficult to watch and listen, day after day, night after night, as the liberal media spews its left-wing garbage. With the U.S. at war with Iran, with our men and women bravely serving our country, fighting, some dying, it's become almost intolerable to see that the stated circumstances haven't slowed their efforts, in many instances they have reached new lows, as was the case Monday on CNN's NewsNIght With Abby Phillip. Phillip played a clip of Vice President JD Vance, who appeared on Fox earlier in the evening, explaining why President Trump took us to war. VANCE CLIP: He wanted to make sure that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon, and that would require fundamentally a change in mindset from the Iranian regime. So, he saw that the Iranian regime was weakened. He knew that they were committed to getting on that brink of a nuclear weapon, and he decided to take action because he felt that was necessary in order to protect the nation's security.  Whatever happens with the regime in one form or another, it's incidental to the president's primary objective here, which is to make sure the Iranian terrorist regime does not build a nuclear bomb. Phillip immediately went on the attack, and turned to panelist Dr. Cornel West who is no stranger to trashing Trump and Israel, and he was true to form. PHILLIP: Now, if you're listening carefully, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. He's saying on the one hand that they need the regime's, quote/unquote, mindset to change, but on the other hand, they don't care what happens to the regime. It can't be both of those things at the same time. WEST: Not at all. And it is just so sad to see the worst of our humanity being manifest once again with all of this vicious, organized hatred, revenge, lies, crimes, cruelty, barbarity. And you get justifications from a variety of different camps, but at least we should try to aspire to some moral consistency and some ethical integrity....I just follow Martin King, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. So, I want to be in solidarity with anybody who's suffering.I come from a Christian tradition. We all made an image and likeness of a loving and living God, and therefore all have a dignity and a sanctity that the world can't take away and the world give us. That's true for Palestinians. It's true for Iranians. It's true for Ethiopians. It's true for Israelis. It's true for Nigerians across the board. Apparently not true for all. WEST: What I see is I see the gangsterism coming out of the White House. They lying, they rationalize, they killing American citizens here and rationalizing it and telling lies. When I look at Israel, I see a government that's lying and got to deal with genocide with the news around his neck. When I look at Iran, I see the gangsters who've been running that for 46 years, and I stand in very deep solidarity with the suffering and the heroic struggles of the Iranian people. Later, Phillip played a montage of out-of-context clips of President Trump designed to make him look like a hypocrite on Iran, starting with an overplayed remark he made about Barack Obama back in 2011, "Our President will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate...." Then it was back to West who reached a new low. PHILLIP: Dr. West, this is a president who has used his opposition to past wars as a political tool, but here he is. WEST: It's just so sad because you see, Brother Trump, he is a gangster, and the gangster has a mentality that views himself as never accountable, never vincible, never answerable and therefore never responsible. So there's a sense in which we don't  shouldn't focus just on him, he's got enablers, he's got supporters. And it's a sign, I'm just thinking we're going to put brother Jesse in the grave next few days -- Jesse Jackson. And you know, Martin and Jesse talked about just how spiritually sick and morally decrepit and politically corrupt the country has become. Outrageous and sickening that Phillip would allow this vicious and unsubstantiated attack  to go unchallenged, especially during a time of war.

OUCH: Leavitt Throws Down With CNN Hack Kaitlan Collins Over VILE Iran Question
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OUCH: Leavitt Throws Down With CNN Hack Kaitlan Collins Over VILE Iran Question

Late in what was otherwise a surprisingly respectful White House press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, former conservative reporter-turned-CNN liberal Kaitlan Collins disgustingly claimed to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s comments hours earlier about the press fixating negative stories about the Iran mean the administration doesn’t want the media to cover the upcoming dignified transfer for six American heroes lost thus far in the war. Collins — with her inability to show little emotion besides robotic annoyance — huffed: “You just mentioned the President is going to attend the dignified transfer for these families. Given what Secretary Hegseth said this morning, is it the position of this administration that the press should not prominently cover the deaths of U.S. service members?” Shocked as anyone would be, Leavitt made the obvious distinction between honoring the fallen and the reality that the administration believes “the press in this room and the press across the country should accurately report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room.” WATCH: @PressSec @KarolineLeavitt absolutely destroys a disgusting series of gotcha questions from former conservative reporter-turned-CNN liberal, @KaitlanCollins... Collins: “You just mentioned the President is going to attend the dignified transfer for these families. Given… pic.twitter.com/QJjFwITZhg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Collins continued to be purposefully dense: “But Secretary Hegseth was complaining that it was front page news about these six service members who were killed.” Leavitt stated another obvious point that this was “not what the secretary said” or “meant and you know it.” “You know, you’re being disingenuous,” she added and tried to continue with the claim America’s “never had a secretary of defense who cares more” about the soldiers than Hegseth, but Collins wouldn’t let her finish and read the quote aloud. “He said, ‘when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the President look bad.’ As you know, we cover the deaths of U.S. service members under every president,” Collins groused. Leavitt then dropped the hammer on the CNN tool by telling her “[t]he press does only want to make the President look bad” and “especially you and especially CNN” (click “expand”): LEAVITT: The press does only want to make the President look bad. That’s a — that’s a fact — especially you. No, listen to me, especially you and especially CNN and the secretary of defense cares deeply about our warfighters and our men and women in uniform. He travels all across this country to meet with them, to connect with them, and your network has hardly ever probably reported on that. You also had the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Chairman Caine, who’s a brave patriot standing alongside the secretary at the Pentagon this morning, again expressing his condolences to these families. And I just told you that the President of the United States will be attending their dignified transfer. COLLINS: But we’re going to cover that dignified transfer. LEAVITT: So please, so please — COLLINS: That’s not making the President look bad. That’s showcasing that. LEAVITT: — so — and we — we expect you to cover that as you should. COLLINS: And we did it in his first term and under Biden. LEAVITT: We expect you to cover that as you should, Kaitlan. But you and your network know that you take every single thing this administration says and tries to use it to make the President look bad. That is an objective fact. COLLINS: I don’t think covering troop deaths is trying to make the President look bad. LEAVITT: If you’re trying to — if you’re trying to argue right now that CNN’s overwhelming coverage is not negative of President Donald Trump, I think the American people would tend to agree — COLLINS: I don’t think covering troop deaths is [inaudible]. LEAVITT: — and your ratings would tend to disagree with that as well[.] In reality, Hegseth was making an allusion to the doom porn the press have been trigger happy to deploy in the early days of the war (such as here from Tuesday night on ABC). A few minutes prior to Collins, The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg took issue with Leavitt becoming the latest member of the administration to walk through the last 47 years of bloody U.S.-Iranian relations as mere “grievances” and not provide, in his mind, a single “imminent threat” Iran posed to the United States for justifying the war. Leavitt ripped this line of attack, saying “I completely reject the premise of your question” (click “expand”): .@Independent’s @AndrewFeinberg: “At the top of the briefing, you listed a long list of grievances against the Iranian government, going back to the takeover of the embassy in 79, barracks bombing in the 80s, etc. But no one from the administration has laid out the imminent… pic.twitter.com/WElM6CzBK6 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 I completely reject the premise of your question. You have had the President of the United States, the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State. And now, I am out here today to explain to you exactly what led the President to make the decision to launch Operation Epic Fury, and President Trump does not make these decisions in a vacuum. This decision to launch this operation was based on a cumulative effect of various direct threats that Iran posed to the United States of America, and the President's feeling, based on fact, that Iran does pose an imminent and direct threat to the United States of America, based on the fact that they are the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, based on the fact that they were rapidly and aggressively building up their ballistic missile program to give themselves immunity within their country alongside their navy, so that inside their country they could continue to create nuclear weapons and nuclear bombs, which would, of course, pose a risk to Americans in the region. And even Americans one day here at home. And then another point on this is the president found that through these extensive, exhaustive failed negotiations with Iran, that they were hell bent on death and destruction. So, again, the President was not going to be just another president on a very long list who sat back and stood by and passed the buck of this direct threat to the next administration. The President had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike. The United States, was going to strike our assets in the region, and he made a determination to launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons, and I would like the media to actually report on all of them, rather than just picking soundbites from one person in this administration and saying, oh, they're contradicting the other person. No. Again, these decisions are not made in a vacuum. They are made by the President's feeling that Iran was going to strike the United States and our assets in the region, and he was not going to sit back and watch that happen. The determination was made that the president was going to strike first alongside Israel and that has obviously been proven to be the right decision and an effective one at that. Rewinding to the beginning, the “new media seat” recipient was TBN’s Erick Stakelbeck and then NBC’s Garrett Haake leveled a challenging but substantive question (i.e. the kind Collins and the CNN trolls should try more often: NBC’s @GarrettHaake: “Axios, I think, was the first to report this morning, this phone call between the President and Prime Minister Netanyahu saying that Netanyahu had given us this information about where the ayatollah would be and that he'd be with these deputies on Saturday.… pic.twitter.com/5uctCPtXrZ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich came up after a Haake follow-up and she focused on the Americans stranded in the Middle East and the impact the war has on gas prices: JACQUI TIME: “Obviously, seeing the update from the State Department on the 17,500 Americans that have already come back, including some 8,000 just yesterday, there are still 6,000 that are looking to get out, as I understand it. And just in the context of what you just told… pic.twitter.com/Xz6bgS6OYA — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Fox’s @JacquiHeinrich: “And then one follow up just on how people might be experiencing this at home with respect to the economy and the cost of oil spiking, is there a need to start those Navy escorts in the Strait of Hormuz now to sort of blunt the impact to people, and also… pic.twitter.com/SwfOWOGqlt — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 CBS’s Nancy Cordes tried to trap Leavitt on this liberal narrative that Trump has unnecessarily stranded Americans a la Joe Biden in Afghanistan. Of course, Leavitt repeatedly explained there had been repeated warnings (along with what she told Heinrich in the second video above): CBS’s @NancyCordes: “The President said yesterday there wasn't time to make evacuation plans because this all happened so quickly, given how critical the President has been of the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan by the last administration five years ago, why wasn't there more… pic.twitter.com/NIgjxEJBkE — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 CBS’s @NancyCordes: “But Americans who called the State Department hotline as recently as last night were being told, we can't help you. You have to make your own plans.”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “Well, the line was updated, and I expect every single person in this room to… pic.twitter.com/ntOnqS10Zp — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 CBS’s @NancyCordes: “Do you have any details on how many charter flights have been able to get out of the region so far with Americans on board?@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “I don't have an exact count for you, but I know that we're working on chartering many flights as soon as… pic.twitter.com/4Mnz0QWwyA — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Skipping ahead, New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh asked whether “the United States airstrike a girls elementary school in kill 175 people”: .@NYTimes’s @ShawnMcCreesh: “Did the United States airstrike a girls elementary school in kill 175 people?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “Not that we know of, Sean. And the Department of War is investigating this matter. And I would just tell you very strongly, the United States… pic.twitter.com/UVkU6u5kOW — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 On an important, non-Iran-related topic, our friend Reagan Reese of the Daily Caller brought up the SAVE Act: .@DailyCaller’s @ReaganReese_: “Prior to the Iran conflict, the SAVE Act was really the focus of the news cycle. Is the SAVE Act still a priority for the administration?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “Absolutely.” Reese: “Will you just provide an update on the administration's… pic.twitter.com/tzEbsODfeF — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 Remarkably, there was only one question about the U.S. military operations Tuesday in Ecuador and it came in the last question of the entire briefing from Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc: .@DCExaminer’s @TocRadio: “First, what can you tell us about the military operation in Ecuador? And then secondly, is the President considering invoking the Defense Production Act to boost munitions stockpiles while we are in this conflict?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “It’s not… pic.twitter.com/JChS37Kotg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 4, 2026 To see the relevant transcript from the March 4 briefing (including even more questions), click here.

Hasselbeck Calls Out The View’s Hypocrisy on Border Security, Masks
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Hasselbeck Calls Out The View’s Hypocrisy on Border Security, Masks

With former co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck filling in for co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin as she’s out on maternity leave, ABC’s The View finally had something they’d been missing since Meghan McCain left: an actual conservative that was willing and able to call the cast out on their hypocrisies. And on Wednesday’s episode, Hasselbeck had them in a tizzy when she called out their hypocrisy on border security when the studio has security and their aversion to masks on ICE when they wanted everyone masked during COVID. Early in the episode, the show was looking to take swipes and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem following her congressional hearing the previous day. Hasselbeck drew outrage from the permanent cast when she called out their hypocrisy for supporting loose borders and immigration practices, despite the fact the studio they were broadcasting from had security and the audience was verified: We need a strong border especially now with our current global situation. And I believe that you may say you don't want border control and you're against ICE, but I actually don't believe you in your daily lives. How many people in the audience here had to go through security, and to get right here. Raise your hand, just be honest. [Cuts to shot of the audience. Some raise their hand, most don’t] Otherwise, you go to jail, I guess for illegal trespassing. Right? This is an authorized audience. They had to go through security to get through the border to get right here to just hear us talk. We need strong borders more than ever right now. We are being infiltrated -   Elisabeth Hasselbeck calls out The View's hypocrisy on wanting open borders by pointing out their audience had to do through security and would be trespassing otherwise. pic.twitter.com/0HIPX0rc77 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 4, 2026   “But we’re not on the border when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and death is not a mistake!” co-host Sunny Hostin started shrieking; possibly opening up ABC and Disney to liability by accusing two ICE agents of a crime they were not adjudicated as committing. To counter Hostin’s shouting, Hasselbeck noted that “I hate the fact that people are dying in this” and her “heart actually bleeds for this.” She also said her heart “also bleeds for Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Moran, Matthew Dennis, Sarah Ruett, Ivory Smith, all killed at the hands of illegal immigration.” Names often ignored and over looked by The View. The next hypocrisy Hasselbeck called out took aim at how they were demanding ICE agents not wear masks (to keep leftist extremists from Doxxing them and threating their families), when The View and the Democrats wanted everyone masked during COVID: GOLDBERG: If somebody come at me with a mask on running and to talk about ‘hey, and didn't show me cop.’ Um-hm. HASSELBECK: This is the party of masks. You guys forced masks on everybody in the United States -- GOLDBERG: I didn't do anything. HASSELBECK: I don't want to hear that you can't see my face. “I think a public health crisis is a little bit different,” chided Hostin, who also ridiculously claimed illegals paid more taxes than Americans. “That was a lie,” Hasselbeck shot back.   Whoopi whines about masked ICE agents and Hasselbeck calls out how the show and the Dems wanted everyone masked during COVID (the cast and the audience did not like that truth bomb): GOLDBERG: If somebody come at me with a mask on running and to talk about hey, and didn't show… pic.twitter.com/g6jKWyCd3N — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 4, 2026   Hasselbeck also annoyed moderator Whoopi Goldberg by calling out how Presidents Obama and Biden had failed to fix illegal immigration. Goldberg flat out refused to discuss their role in perpetuating decades of problems: HASSELBECK: Yes, the how matters. Yes, and it was done without a how during the Biden administration and Obama. GOLDBERG: Here's the thing. Let's take Obama and Biden out of here because this is -- [makes dramatic movements to mime pushing them out of the way] [Applause] - let's move them. Goldberg also didn’t want to hear the facts of how Biden’s border policies failed, shouting over Hasselbeck: GOLDBERG: Because, you know, Joe Biden, I remember during the - the speech to the nation said I -- we have a good border plan that is bipartisan. HASSELBECK: It failed. GOLDBERG: No! It didn't fail! The Republicans were told by you-know-who, don't do this, block this.   After the commercial break, Whoopi suddenly wants secure borders: "Welcome back. So, I was just -- I was going to say that one of the things that I think everybody in the nation wants is they want tight borders. They want people who are not good for the country out of the… pic.twitter.com/JvkfB0JwzJ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 4, 2026   Yes, Whoopi That’s how it failed to get passed. While Hasselbeck would only be back with The View for a short time, she was leaving many yarning for a permanent, real conservative woman to put the liberal ladies in their place. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 4, 2026 11:05:49 a.m. Eastern (…) ELISABETH HASSELBECK: Yes, there are mistakes made. But I think if Kristi Noem were up for promotion right now and she put forward the statistics that zero illegals released into the U.S. for 10 months straight have not crossed. Okay? That nearly 3 million aliens have left the United States. That we have the lowest murder rate in 125 years. That fentanyl trafficking is down 56 percent -- JOY BEHAR: Wait a second. HASSELBECK: - at the border. And daily counters have gone down 96 percent. Hang on one second. We need a strong border especially now with our current global situation. And I believe that you may say you don't want border control and you're against ICE, but I actually don't believe you in your daily lives. How many people in the audience here had to go through security, and to get right here. Raise your hand, just be honest. [Cuts to shot of the audience. Some raise their hand, most don’t] Otherwise, you go to jail, I guess for illegal trespassing. Right? This is an authorized audience. They had to go through security to get through the border to get right here to just hear us talk. We need strong borders more than ever right now. We are being infiltrated - [Crosstalk] Behar: But Elisabeth, can I give you a stat- SUNNY HOSTIN: But we’re not on the border when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered and death is not a mistake! (…) 11:09:06 a.m. Eastern HASSELBECK: I hate the fact that people are dying in this. My heart actually bleeds for this. It also bleeds for Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Rachel Moran, Matthew Dennis, Sarah Ruett, Ivory Smith, all killed at the hands of illegal immigration. This needs a fix. But it needs a fix now. But let me tell you - HAINES: The how matters. HASSELBECK: Yes, the how matters. Yes, and it was done without a how during the Biden administration and Obama. BEHAR: But she's made it worse. She's made it worse you have to admit that. GOLDBERG: Here's the thing. Let's take Obama and Biden out of here because this is -- [Applause] - let's move them. Because, you know, Joe Biden, I remember during the - the speech to the nation said I -- we have a good border plan that is bipartisan. HASSELBECK: It failed. GOLDBERG: No! It didn't fail! The Republicans were told by you-know-who, don't do this, block this. (…) 11:16:18 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: I guess my point is -- I guess my point is there have been efforts made by both sides to figure out how to do this. This is not the way to -- to round people up the way that they do. And you're right. If somebody come at me with a mask on running and to talk about ‘hey, and didn't show me cop.’ Um-hm. HASSELBECK: This is the party of masks. You guys forced masks on everybody in the United States -- GOLDBERG: I didn't do anything. HASSELBECK: I don't want to hear that you can't see my face. I just can't. I can't. I love you, but I can't. I love you, but I can't. GOLDBERG: I now that you can't. HOSTIN: I think a public health crisis is a little bit different. HASSELBECK: That was a lie. GOLDBERG: I was going to say that's a whole different thing. (…)