This past November President Trump instructed the Pentagon to, "prepare for possible action in Nigeria", saying the U.S. could go in "guns-a-blazing" and halt aid if the government there "continues to allow the killing of Christians." He also refused to rule out the possibility of U.S. troops boots on the ground, and declared Nigeria, "a country of particular concern" for violating religious freedoms, all of which sent the left  into a frenzy, with many questioning if Trump's  warnings were warranted.  Many in the left wing media like MSNBC's Al Sharpton and CNN's Abby Phillip had major issues with Trump shining a light on Christians being killed. And on November 20th, all three major TV Network Newscasts skipped coverage of a House hearing on the very issue of Christians being killed in Nigeria. Fast forward to Christmas Day, and the U.S. bombing of ISIS in Nigeria, and the coverage provided by the three Network Newscasts. The in depth reporting occurred on Friday December 26th. Over on the CBS Evening News, correspondent William James Inman began his report this way. INMAN: The U.S. Military fired more than a dozen tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Nigeria, and the timing was deliberate, President Trump told a radio interviewer. TRUMP: I said hit them on Christmas day. It'll be a Christmas present. We hit ISIS, who are terrible, they are butchers. INMAN: People could be seen carrying debris away from one target site. The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated multiple ISIS militants were killed. Trump warned last month the U.S. Would go into Nigeria with guns a-blazing if the government failed to protect Christians from ISIS attacks. TRUMP IN NOVEMBER: They are killing the Christians, and killing them in very large numbers. I'm not going to allow that to happen. INMAN: But Nigeria denied those accusations. So far this year nearly 12,000 people have been killed. Inman never tells us how many of the 12,000 were Christians. It would have been an opportune time to inform his audience that in September, Senator Ted Cruz introduced the 'Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025'. The bill protects Christians and other religious minorities being persecuted in Nigeria. Cruz has pointed out that since 2009, 52,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered by Jihadists and over 20,000 Christian churches and religious-based institutions have been destroyed. That all went unreported by Inman, who did find time to play a clip from CBS National Security Contributor Samantha Vinograd. VINOGRAD: Violence by insurgent groups, criminals, and others in Nigeria doesn't just target Christians. It also targets Muslims. And where and when these strikes occur will certainly be scrutinized by analysts to see who exactly is hit and whether the violence stops. Again, minimizing the significance of the Christians who have been killed. Over on NBC Nightly News the agenda-driven reporting continued, with reporter Julie Tsirkin who had the help of an official from the Nigerian government, which as always denied that Christians are being targeted. TSIRKIN: ..Nigeria's government now confirming  it worked directly with the United States to carry out the mission. But the Foreign Minister also pushing back against President Trump's claim that Christians alone are being targeted by the Islamic State. YUSUF TUGGAR Foreign Minister Nigeria: This is not about religion. It is about Nigeria's innocent civilians and the wider region as a whole. Tsirkin could have pointed out that this has been the position of the Nigerian government all along, despite numbers to the contrary. She could have easily pointed to Senator Cruz's telling statistics, referenced above, but of course did not.  Friday on ABC's World News Tonight, it was more of the same. Anchor Linsey Davis led into a report on the attack from correspondent Selina Wang this way. DAVIS: President Trump says it was to protect Christians in that country. But Nigerian officials say the strikes were aimed at protecting all religions, not just Christians. WANG: ..President Trump saying he ordered the strikes against terrorists who, quote, have been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians... U.S. And Nigerian officials confirming they worked together on this operation. Analysts tell ABC news the reality on the ground in Africa's most populous country, home to millions of Christians and Muslims, is complex. DARRELL BLOCKER, Former Chief, CIA Africa Division: Christians are not the sole target of ISIS, in Nigeria, they have been indiscriminate in their violence. WANG:: Nigeria's government responding to the strikes overnight, saying terrorist violence in any form, whether directed at Christians, Muslims, or other communities, remains an affront to Nigeria's values and to international peace and security.  I don't believe that Donald Trump or anyone else would argue with the above statement. The President has acknowledged that not only Christians have been killed, but that doesn't change the facts. None of the three networks made any mention of Trump designating Nigeria as "a country of particular concern", or the "Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act" or the number of Christians who have actually been killed in Nigeria over the last several years. That is not journalism.

This past November President Trump instructed the Pentagon to, "prepare for possible action in Nigeria", saying the U.S. could go in "guns-a-blazing" and halt aid if the government there "continues to allow the killing of Christians." He also refused to rule out the possibility of U.S. troops boots on the ground, and declared Nigeria, "a country of particular concern" for violating religious freedoms, all of which sent the left  into a frenzy, with many questioning if Trump's  warnings were warranted.  Many in the left wing media like MSNBC's Al Sharpton and CNN's Abby Phillip had major issues with Trump shining a light on Christians being killed. And on November 20th, all three major TV Network Newscasts skipped coverage of a House hearing on the very issue of Christians being killed in Nigeria. Fast forward to Christmas Day, and the U.S. bombing of ISIS in Nigeria, and the coverage provided by the three Network Newscasts. The in depth reporting occurred on Friday December 26th. Over on the CBS Evening News, correspondent William James Inman began his report this way. INMAN: The U.S. Military fired more than a dozen tomahawk cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Nigeria, and the timing was deliberate, President Trump told a radio interviewer. TRUMP: I said hit them on Christmas day. It'll be a Christmas present. We hit ISIS, who are terrible, they are butchers. INMAN: People could be seen carrying debris away from one target site. The Pentagon's initial assessment indicated multiple ISIS militants were killed. Trump warned last month the U.S. Would go into Nigeria with guns a-blazing if the government failed to protect Christians from ISIS attacks. TRUMP IN NOVEMBER: They are killing the Christians, and killing them in very large numbers. I'm not going to allow that to happen. INMAN: But Nigeria denied those accusations. So far this year nearly 12,000 people have been killed. Inman never tells us how many of the 12,000 were Christians. It would have been an opportune time to inform his audience that in September, Senator Ted Cruz introduced the 'Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025'. The bill protects Christians and other religious minorities being persecuted in Nigeria. Cruz has pointed out that since 2009, 52,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered by Jihadists and over 20,000 Christian churches and religious-based institutions have been destroyed. That all went unreported by Inman, who did find time to play a clip from CBS National Security Contributor Samantha Vinograd. VINOGRAD: Violence by insurgent groups, criminals, and others in Nigeria doesn't just target Christians. It also targets Muslims. And where and when these strikes occur will certainly be scrutinized by analysts to see who exactly is hit and whether the violence stops. Again, minimizing the significance of the Christians who have been killed. Over on NBC Nightly News the agenda-driven reporting continued, with reporter Julie Tsirkin who had the help of an official from the Nigerian government, which as always denied that Christians are being targeted. TSIRKIN: ..Nigeria's government now confirming  it worked directly with the United States to carry out the mission. But the Foreign Minister also pushing back against President Trump's claim that Christians alone are being targeted by the Islamic State. YUSUF TUGGAR Foreign Minister Nigeria: This is not about religion. It is about Nigeria's innocent civilians and the wider region as a whole. Tsirkin could have pointed out that this has been the position of the Nigerian government all along, despite numbers to the contrary. She could have easily pointed to Senator Cruz's telling statistics, referenced above, but of course did not.  Friday on ABC's World News Tonight, it was more of the same. Anchor Linsey Davis led into a report on the attack from correspondent Selina Wang this way. DAVIS: President Trump says it was to protect Christians in that country. But Nigerian officials say the strikes were aimed at protecting all religions, not just Christians. WANG: ..President Trump saying he ordered the strikes against terrorists who, quote, have been targeting and viciously killing primarily innocent Christians... U.S. And Nigerian officials confirming they worked together on this operation. Analysts tell ABC news the reality on the ground in Africa's most populous country, home to millions of Christians and Muslims, is complex. DARRELL BLOCKER, Former Chief, CIA Africa Division: Christians are not the sole target of ISIS, in Nigeria, they have been indiscriminate in their violence. WANG:: Nigeria's government responding to the strikes overnight, saying terrorist violence in any form, whether directed at Christians, Muslims, or other communities, remains an affront to Nigeria's values and to international peace and security.  I don't believe that Donald Trump or anyone else would argue with the above statement. The President has acknowledged that not only Christians have been killed, but that doesn't change the facts. None of the three networks made any mention of Trump designating Nigeria as "a country of particular concern", or the "Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act" or the number of Christians who have actually been killed in Nigeria over the last several years. That is not journalism.

With Erica Hill subbing for Audie Cornish, CNN This Morning continued  to downplay Islamic terrorism against Christians in Nigeria in the context of Trump-ordered US strikes on Islamic terrorists there. And as seen in the screencap, CNN put in quotes the "slaughter" of Christians. Hill suggested that's not reality, but conservatives don't care about reality: HILL: ...the data doesn't necessarily support the president's claim that Christians are being disproportionately targeted. Ashley, this has been, the religious persecution, has been a really animating subject matter, if you will, for many conservatives. Does it matter to them that the data doesn't line up? Writing about CNN doing something similar last month, we countered claims that Christians aren't being targeted with these facts: Global Human-Rights NGOs, almost all left-of-center, have condemned the violence. Amnesty International issued reports titled “Harvest of Death” and “Targeted for Faith” — highlighting Christian villages wiped out. Human Rights Watch: Issued a 42-page brief “They Burned Everything” — documenting Fulani attacks on Christian farming communities. Even the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect--founded by George Soros’ Open Society!--lists Nigeria as an R2P crisis because of “Christian genocide.”  UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion (2022): “Christians are deliberately targeted for killing and kidnapping.” Pope Francis called it “a terrible genocide” in an open letter co-signed by 350 African bishops, many of them liberation-theology progressives. A study by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa found that Christians were 6.5 times more likely to be killed in the violence than Muslims. There's much more, as you can read about here. And yet, Saturday's New York Times carried this headline on the front page: "Analysts Question Claim Militants Are Singling Out Christians." For CNN and other media outlets to downplay the way in which Christians in Nigeria are being targeted by Muslims is outrageous. But it's of a piece with the way the liberal media seeks to softpedal Islamic attacks on home soil, as when they pretend not to know the motive of attackers who shout Allahu Akbar while wielding their guns or knives. Hill also took a snide shot at President Trump. She opened the segment by accusing him of hypocrisy, saying in respect of military operations in Nigeria and off the coast of Venezuela, that Trump is "gunning" for a Nobel Peace Prize.   We see what you did there, Erica. Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 12/26/25 6:00 am ET ERICA HILL: President Trump ordering a deadly Christmas Day strike on ISIS fighters in Nigeria. CNN This Morning starts right now.  A move from the president, who of course is gunning for a Nobel Peace Prize.  . . .  CNN's Nada Bashir is following these developments for us and joins us now live from London. So, Nada, what more do we know about these strikes and the targets specifically?  NADA BASHIR: Well, look, Erica, we had heard warnings from the US president in November, calling on his Defense Secretary to prepare for possible action in Nigeria. We frequently heard from the US president discussing what is characterized as the persecution of Nigeria's Christian community by Islamist extremist groups, notably the Islamic State group in Nigeria. And now, of course, we have seen that so-called action being carried out now, an overnight strike.  . . .  HILL: Well, President Trump, of course, casts himself as a peacemaker. He touts ending several wars, has also vowed to limit U.S. military intervention abroad. Yet from Iran to Venezuela, we are seeing an increase in international escalations. And the president warning, of course, there could be more to come in Nigeria, writing on Truth Social to the, quote, dead terrorists, warning there will be, in his words, many more if the slaughter of Christians continues.  . . .  It's important to note, the country itself is about split between Christian and Muslim faith. And the data doesn't necessarily support the president's claim that Christians are being disproportionately targeted.  Ashley, this has been, the religious persecution, has been a really animating subject matter, if you will, for many conservatives. Does it matter to them that the data doesn't line up? Because that is a significant issue.  . . .  ASHLEY DAVIS: But I'm very happy that, that the administration is actually striking in abroad rather than them coming and striking us in our country.  In regards to the Christian and Muslim controversies, I mean, we don't know what we don't know. It's so complicated. There's a lot of national security complications that are overlaid between the two groups, that the ISIS and terrorist groups are hiding behind the Muslim religion. And so I think that we need to be very cautious that this is, including with president, that this is a religious attack.  HILL: Yeah, caution definitely advised. I will just say, just based on our reporting, the data does not support the claims that Christians are being disproportionately targeted.     

It was a rough year for the late night comedy business. One show was cancelled, it was announced another will be cancelled next year, and another was suspended for spouting off about conspiracy theories related to Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Add all that to the regular program of liberal politicking, and you get the top (bottom?) ten moments from late night 2025. 10. Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Comedy Central, February 24 on Capitalism “Look, capitalism is by definition exploitative. It's how it operates. That's fine. But then government's role should be to ease the negative effects on Americans of that exploitation, not subsidize that treachery with our money. We are getting [bleep] at a Diddy party and they're making us buy the baby oil!”      9. Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, CBS, November 5 on Zohran Mamdani MAMDANI: New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant! COLBERT: Is this true? Is this true? I'm being told just now that they’ve already changed the poem on the Statue of Liberty: "I'm not crying, you're crying." 8. Bill Maher, Real Time, HBO, August 15 on DOGE Staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine Getting Assaulted “So, somebody in the administration got mugged, Big Balls. Remember Big Balls? He was part of DOGE, he's a teenager and he was mugged, carjacked, I think, by two other teenagers. Ironically, when they were kicking the shit out of him, he was curled up in a big ball. Not funny – it’s not funny that—well, you know, it's a little embarrassing to the bro squad out there who think of themselves as such tough guys because he got beat up by two 15—year—olds and one was a girl. They were brutal, they hijacked his car, and then they made fun of his playlist.” 7. Alan Cumming, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, July 21 on America “America, how are you doing? No, really, how are you doing? I mean, how are you doing aside from being a country that has just reintroduced concentration camps, taken healthcare away from 17 million people to give billionaires a tax cut, and also to finance an armed militia of masked men that commits heinous assorted kidnapping and crimes against humanity on a daily basis? Aside from all that, are you okay? I wouldn’t have thought so.” 6. Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, CBS, June 24 on Operation Midnight Hammer COLBERT: Okay, that's one less problem in the world. Except for one small problem: today we learned that U.S. intelligence has determined Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed, and their centrifuges are largely intact. Oopsa nukey. So, less Operation Midnight Hammer and more Operation MC Hammer. In that Iran's nuclear scientists just sent this message about their centrifuges.  MC HAMMER: Can't touch this COLBERT: [Dances]     5. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC, May 22 on The Big Beautiful Bill “Well, it was another wildly destructive day in Washington, D.C. You know they pulled another all-nighter in the House last night where they passed Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill. And man, oh man, if this is the beautiful bill, I'd hate to see the ugly one. I'm not sure which part of the bill is the most beautiful. I don't know if it's the part where we take food from hungry kids or the devastating effect it will have on college education or the trillions of dollars it will add to our national debt or the almost $700 billion in cuts to Medicaid. Either way, say goodbye to grandma because the bill passed with a vote of 215-214, or as Trump called it, a landslide.” 4. Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, CBS, May 15 on The Big Beautiful Bill “There's also gonna be cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or [snaps] Republicans have proposed limiting nutrition aid to only U.S. citizens and green card holders. Or, counterpoint, hear me out. What if we keep giving food to all the hungry children and to make up for that, Republicans can eat a [bleep]. How 'bout that? Will that work? Would that be okay? You know what? You know what? You know what? In fact, let's be generous, they can eat a bag of [bleep].”  3. John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, HBO, March 9 on Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump “And I will admit there are positive things you can say about Reagan, like "He was our only president to make a movie with a chimp," or "He's dead," but his moral clarity might come as a surprise to any gay people who lived through the 1980s. I'm just saying, if you brought Reagan back from the dead and told him all the racist shit Trump's managed to do in less than two months, he'd cum so hard he'd die again.”  2. Taylor Tomlinson, After Midnight, CBS, March 6 on Brian Thompson and Luigi Mangione “It’s been a pretty bad week for the world, so I have a gift for you. My friends, there's a Luigi sex tape. That's right. Luigi Mangione is the accused murderer of a healthcare CEO, whose name was—he's not hot, so I don't remember.” 1. Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, September 15 on Conservative Reaction to the Charlie Kirk Assassination “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”    

On the night of Christmas -- as millions of American Christians celebrated the birth of a savior to a troubled mother -- the PBS News Hour thought it was a tremendous occasion for a one-sided discussion on...abortion. The godless tone-deafness was something to behold.  PBS was sharing a piece of their new podcast Settle In, and the guest was pro-abortion activist/journalist Irin Carmon and how she reported on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Anchor Amna Nawaz explained her new book Unbearable "tells the stories of five women in New York and Alabama as they navigate a new post-Roe landscape." The opportunity for states to outlaw or limit the killing of babies was, to Carmon, treating women like animals and diminishing their humanity -- and obviously, with that world view, the unborn child doesn't have humanity, killing them isn't diminishing anything. Nawaz helpfully asked Carmon to explain her statement from the book about "how incomplete our story of American reproduction has been and how much has been unexpressed, hidden or taken for granted." IRIN CARMON: I think, for me, when I -- the real inspiration for writing this book, the actual moment, even though in some ways I was leading up to it in my entire career of reporting, was being pregnant. I was six months pregnant for the second time when Roe v. Wade was overturned with the Dobbs decision and I was eight months pregnant when the decision was finalized. And for me, one of the stories that I wanted to tell -- I was covering the decision as a reporter at New York magazine. I was writing about all the implications for policy and for law and the dynamics of the decision and the holding. But I was also feeling in my bones what it would mean for this profound change in American law and life, how it would actually affect people. And I did not need an abortion. I did not seek an abortion. I was really excited to be pregnant. But I also found myself thinking, why hasn't anybody talked about how what an enormous physical and grave undertaking pregnancy can be in the context of even when you want to and what it might mean to force this on someone? I don't think nobody talks about it, but for me it was something that I felt in my bones. I felt it in my blood. I could feel like in the extra heart that was beating inside of me, that there was a profound erasure from that opinion in particular and from the way Alito wrote about it of the seriousness of pregnancy, regardless of the circumstances you find yourself in. So one of the parts that I thought was incomplete and inexpressed is that you might think of yourself -- unexpressed -- is that you might think of yourself as never needing this kind of care, right? And there are women in the book who I write about who never thought they would be in this situation -- AMNA NAWAZ: Right. CARMON: -- and find themselves seeking a kind of care that is stigmatized, that is illegal, that is secret, or that they will be punished for one way or another. And so it felt like the best way to tell that story was to -- I started a little bit by weaving in my own personal story, even though in many ways it's not an extraordinary one, but I think the very fact that for me as a married, white, upper-middle-class, privileged woman who literally reports on this for a living, the feelings that I had of being made to feel smaller or less than a fully adult human in control of my own decisions during my pregnancy were so instructive for me. Because I thought, like, what chance does anybody who doesn't have all this going for them have in this system that says that the moment you become pregnant you have fewer constitutional rights, you have fewer rights of autonomy in medicine, you will be treated like, to quote one of the women in my book, a child animal? And that's not to diminish the fact that my pregnancies and many other people's pregnancies were deeply joyful and I was excited about them, but that's not a reason to diminish the individual pregnant person's humanity. On "public" broadcasting, the usual night for this kind of leftist advocacy is on January 22, the Roe v. Wade anniversary, where they would annually avoid covering tens of thousands of protesters at the "March for Life" in favor of putting all their "compassion" on the abortion advocacy. But to do this on Christmas night is a little astonishing.