CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish cuts off conservative Terry Schilling 7-24-26 No communists in America? Really, Audie?Friday's CNN This Morning devoted a segment to indications that fewer Americans have a favorable view of capitalism.Host Audie Cornish began by playing TikToks of three younger men kvetching about capitalism. The third guy, seen in the screencap below, is literally in bed, dozing off with his head on a pillow. In a voice that makes you wonder if he'd been hitting the bong, he says: "Most Americans are working two jobs now, so they're working sixty hours a week, seventy hours a week." Now, it's possible he's tired from working that hard. But you might be tempted to say: Get out of bed and look for a job, dude!Á clip was then played of President Trump warning: "We can't be hoodwinked, we can't be taken advantage of by people that say you're gonna have a free home. You're gonna get free rent, everything's gonna be free. What they don't say is, a year later, everything's gonna end up in squalor, destruction and death, and also death for our country. So we have to stop the threat of the communist rhetoric that you're hearing right now."Lulu Garcia-Navarro, like Cornish, a former NPR host, dismissed Trump's statement as “scaremongering.” Giving free everything won't end in misery! Lulu loved the solution of: “taxing the very wealthy to make them pay their fair share so that more can be given to those who have less.” Tax the rich "so that more can be given to those who have less!"Huh! Where did we ever hear that notion before? Oh, right: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." It was that 19th-century "democratic socialist"—guy by the name of Karl Marx.Conservative guest Terry Schilling — a member of the board of the Media Research Center, our parent organization — tried to interject the historical record. “We have to articulate the evils of communism,” he said. “It eliminates political dissent, it eliminates religious freedom, it kills a lot of people…”But Cornish cut him off. “The socialists who are running around the country, [are] not communists. I wanna say it out loud, because if you say it in passing, it makes it sound like I haven't put all the communists on screen. THERE AREN'T ANY. We're just talking about people who are what they're calling a democratic socialist movement.“As you see in the screencap, Cornish was so determined to silence Terry that she put one hand on his arm while flashing the stop sign with her other hand!  Cornish Interrupts Guest Warning of Communist Evils: No Communists In America--Just Democratic Socialists! pic.twitter.com/lM9wSr9LgZ— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) July 24, 2026 No communists in America, Audie? The central tenet of communism is government ownership of the means of production. And guess who has expressly called for that? Yup: Zohran Mamdani, the very guy you opened the segment with, saying, "Thanks to Mamdani, democratic socialism is gaining some national attention."In a 2021 speech to the Young Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani stated that “the end goal of seizing the means of production” was something “we firmly believe in.” (Video — relevant portion begins ~10:00)And then there's Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Mamdani-endorsed DSA member who just defeated five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat in the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th congressional district, who previously posted “Seize the means of production.”Jake Altman, a long-time member of DSA until he left in 2022, has a column in this week's Free Press: "I Was in the DSA. Here’s What They Really Believe." In it, he writes:  "The Marxist Unity Group—a caucus with three members on the organization’s governing board of 27, operating as part of the explicitly communist coalition that governs the DSA—is clear. The demand is communism. A February 2025 statement on their own draft program for DSA, which influenced 'Workers Deserve More!' is much clearer about the organization’s ultimate goal: 'The maximum program, on the other hand, elaborates the history of capitalist development and the role of the working class within it. It demonstrates our commitment to the long-term struggle for a fully liberated, classless society—in a word, communism.'” Dozing Tiktoker on CNN This Morning 7-24-26 Scratch a DSAer, find a communist. It's not hard, Audie. But in the meantime, Cornish prefers to silence people like Terry Schilling who raise the alarm about the realities of what the likes of Mamdani and company ultimately seek.Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning7/24/266:49 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: Thanks to Mamdani, democratic socialism is gaining some national attention.On the flip side, it seems like America's support, or certain segments of America's support, for capitalism is declining.TIKTOKER 1: Expectations for millennials in 2026 is that you gotta have, like, three income streams, a side hustle, a personal brand.TIKTOKER 2: Just because we critique capitalism doesn't mean we're socialist or communist. It's just capitalism has reached a stage where it's exploitation at this point.TIKTOKER 3: Most Americans are working two jobs now, so they're working sixty hours a week, seventy hours a week.DANCE GROUP: Are you depressed, or is it just C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M?CORNISH: That last one is my favorite.A recent Fox News poll showing 50% of voters have a positive view of capitalism, 46% unfavorable. I wanna show you the difference between now and 2019, when it was 57% favorable and 28% unfavorable.. . . DONALD TRUMP: We can't be hoodwinked, we can't be taken advantage of by people that say you're gonna have a free home. You're gonna get free rent, everything's gonna be free. What they don't say is, a year later, everything's gonna be, end up in squalor, destruction and death, and also death for our country. So we have to stop the threat of the communist rhetoric that you're hearing right now.. . . LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO: Can I just say, having just sat with Mamdani, and I've interviewed AOC before, and these are of course, the sort of standard bearers of this movement, you know.What they argue is that, you know, this scaremongering of that everything's gonna be free and you're gonna bankrupt the country. They are talking about taxing the very wealthy, to make them pay their fair share, so that more can be given to those who have less.CORNISH: You're seeing a lot of billionaire tax requests. You're also seeing people talking about taking cut from AI companies.Like there's a sense of --GARCIA-NAVARRO: And that makes sense to people. People understand that equation that they're making.So the scare tactic of like, everything's going to be free and everything's gonna fall apart, it doesn't make sense to them in an economy where you see the very, very rich swanning around, and people can't make rent.TERRY SCHILLING: I agree. Sorry, I was just gonna say, I agree with all of that, but if you -- we have to do two things at the same time, as Republicans, and I'm not talking about Democrats.We have to articulate the evils of communism. It eliminates political dissent, it eliminates religious freedom, it kills a lot of people -- CORNISH: -- and we should say, the socialists who are running around the country [are] not communists.SCHILLING: I know, but it's --CORNISH: No, no, but I wanna say it out loud, because if you say it in passing, it makes it sound like I haven't put all the communists on screen. There aren't any. We're just talking about people who are what they're calling a democratic socialist movement.

Screenshot via C-SPAN/Snapstream Friday marked the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) following the April 25 dinner being postponed following another alleged deranged leftist who sought to assassinate President Trump.With a third of the original attendance and a different venue, the show went on with all of the awards for anti-Trump screeds, remarks by the President, and outgoing White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) President Weijia Jiang of CBS News, and a mind-bending performance from Oz Perlman.Given the nearly five-hour runtime from Hail to the Chief to the end of Perlman’s routine, let’s walk through just a few moments and takeaways.Jiang continued to exude the unity she displayed in April and showed Friday why we would be hard-pressed to find a more level-headed and ego-free WHCA president. As we’ll see, she hit the right points about a reality all too ignored by liberal, elite media: The First Amendment applies to all of us.Her pre-dinner remarks were laudatory of the President for coming, and praising both Trump and her fellow journalists for how they handled the traumatic first go-around. She argued Trump was right to call the unity following the attack “a very beautiful thing to see.” WATCH: CBS’s @Weijia Jiang’s opening remarks at the rescheduled #WHCD: “Good evening, everybody. Let's try this again. Because the one thing about this press corps is we always have a follow-up. Welcome to the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner, a tradition spanning more… pic.twitter.com/hqR5BErBIR— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 “Three months later, it still is. Whatever may divide us, we stand together against political violence. An assassination attempt on our President is an attack on democracy itself. Tonight – tonight, our message is this: We are back. We will not be intimidated. We refuse to let an act of violence have the final word,” she added.After dinner, she noted Calvin Coolidge was the first President to attend the WHCD in 1924, offered some thank yous, and reiterated her belief that President Trump and the press, in theory, share the same mission, and “duty to serve the American people.”This went into a moving video about April’s shooting from Jiang’s colleague, CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil:  .@CBSEveningNews anchor @TonyDokoupil voicing #WHCD video about the shooting derailing the event in April…DOKOUPIL: The White House Correspondents Dinner was to be a night celebrating the First Amendment. and 250 years of surviving, thriving, and overcoming our nation's many… pic.twitter.com/ub0xaOFDHw— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 The next portion was bizarre as an AI James Madison appeared and, in a shot at Trump, reminded those there that while “you’re now worried about tweets, algorithms, and people yelling on television,” no one should be able to change “the rule” that “[t]he government doesn’t get to shut the press up, not when it’s wrong, not when it’s annoying and not when it’s asking uncomfortable questions.” WATCH: James Madison impersonator appears in a video at the #WHCD to lecture the President about the First Amendment…“Hello from 1789. I'm James Madison. Yes, that James Madison. I wrote the First Amendment. At the time, we worried a king might control the press. Turns out,… pic.twitter.com/08dDNpzclZ— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 How stunning and brave.The AI Madison reappeared later after a package from current and former White House reporters that, while it included a few of our conservative friends in the press corps, it included former and disgraced retired journalists: LOL: A #WHCD love letter to the President spotlights Dan Rather questioning Richard Nixon (R), Sam Donaldson going after Ronald Reagan (R), and Helen Thomas grilling George W. Bush (R).Only then did it throw in Major Garrett vs. Obama on a hostage deal.Notice a pattern? pic.twitter.com/sXhPfIw1N6— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 Moving to the speeches and awards, new WHCA President Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News praised Jiang, denounced the attempt on the President’s life as “a sobering reminder that democracy is not immune to violence, and the freedoms that we cherish can never be taken for granted,” said “[p]olitical violence must have no home in America,” and delivered an award to the staff of the Washington Hilton. Fox’s @JacquiHeinrich: “The attempt on President Trump’s life last April was a sobering reminder that democracy is not immune to violence, and the freedoms that we cherish can never be taken for granted. Political violence must have no home in America. [APPLAUSE] And journalism… pic.twitter.com/lB5Z06xrYr— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 After Jiang honored law enforcement serving back in April and recognizing WHCA scholarship recipients, it was time for the WHCA’s awards, read out by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. We covered it when they were announced, noting five of the six were for reporting hammering Trump, something we never saw of President Biden until the 2025 show (based on reporting from 2024).Blitzer handed them out to The Wall Street Journal’s Josh Dawsey (Trump personnel), the Associated Press’s Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller (Trump purging National Security Council staff), CNN’s Kaitlan Collins (Trump vs. Zelenskyy), Getty Images (Trump appearing uninterested in a man who passed out), The Journal again (Trump and Jeffrey Epstein), and The New York Times’s Tyler Pager (slew of negative headlines).None of those recipients spoke, but one who did – retired AP photojournalist Susan Walsh for the Dunnigan Payne Award for Lifetime Achievement – did, and she closed with a veiled shot at Trump: “[T]o all the journalists out there who are working incredibly hard to report the truth, despite access issues, insults, and subpoenas. Keep it up. Your work matters and we need you now more than ever.”Jiang’s keynote was the only thing standing between the world and the President’s address, but she took a candid stroll down memory lane to what would probably surprise a lot of people about her upbringing as a first-generation American in rural West Virginia where her parents ran a Chinese restaurant: CBS’s @Weijia Jiang at the #WHCD on her upbringing in rural WV: “I’ve been thinking a lot about my own journey to this podium tonight. I grew up in rural West Virginia, in a town at the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, a town called Buchanan, Population 5,500. Those images… pic.twitter.com/uKDoXrPnNX— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 She next delivered some stunning, firmly pro-America, and welcome remarks about the First Amendment as something for “all Americans” and that the press is “not special,” so “[w]e cannot demand accountability without practicing it” by taking in outside criticism: Truly refreshing comments from CBS’s @Weijia Jiang at the #WHCD...“Because when this is your home, you inherit something remarkable, the protections in the First Amendment, free religion, free speech, free press, free assembly, free petition. This fundamental right belongs to… pic.twitter.com/LoHk0BqoMy— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 The President would take up just over the next hour, but started on a humorous note, quipping “this has not been an easy evening for him,” although “it’s great to be back at a place that I know very well because I built it” in his former hotel (now the Waldorf Astoria). Trump’s first lines at the #WHCD. Funniest President ever.“Wow, that was very beautiful, but this has not been an easy evening, all these awards. Do I have a say in those awards or those awards? but it’s great to be back at a place that I know very well because I built it. And… pic.twitter.com/Tc6V8n0XQq— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 Trump delivered the first of what would be multiple jokes about running for an (unconstitutional) third term: Trump on #WHCD being postponed from April: “I think a lot was learned from that evening, tremendous amount was learned about security and about other things, the dangers of what we all do. But just like my presidency, the second time is always better. It’s always better. And the… pic.twitter.com/vLFWD50UAz— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 Also early in the speech and just prior to a denouncement of political violence, Trump had a quip about Nicki Minaj as having been there for the ill-fated first dinner: Trump: “But after hearing the gunshots, many people yelled, get down, get down. which caused Nicki Minaj to start twerking. Do you believe it? Get down. She’s the only one that really understood what that meant. Quite an evening.” pic.twitter.com/VsTLlzSvt6— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 Skipping ahead, he paid tribute to both Jiang and Heinrich, making particular reference to the latter’s new marriage to Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), a moderate Republican: Trump on Fox’s @JacquiHeinrich: “Let me also thank the incoming president of the Correspondents’ Association, Jacqui Heinrich. She could be very tough as a reporter, I will tell you. She can be nasty. She looks so beautiful, but she can be so nasty. How could that happen? But she… pic.twitter.com/wMwBqQ78AL— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 Trump alluded to the work of the Media Research Center when talking about Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: WATCH: President Trump cites the MRC’s work at the #WHCD on negative coverage of his presidency on ABC, CBS, and NBC...“Karoline may have one of the hardest jobs in the White House. She has to deal with all of you. all of the time, and you can be very difficult. You can be… pic.twitter.com/VqlfUuygn6— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 Starting with a lengthy riff about the incoming White House Ballroom, the rest of the speech dragged with multiple asides and riffs – otherwise known as The Weave – about current events that would normally be deployed at campaign rallies.One notable and genuine zinger was this one about the evening’s dinner and Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:            TWEET: https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/2080842639146987618The next series of jokes was proposing a follow-up to UFC 250 at the White House, which would star “Sloppy Chris Christie” vs. Jerry Nadler, AOC vs. a foreign policy question, and Anderson Cooper vs. Lawrence O’Donnell:            TWEET: https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/2080845208665657536Trump had brutal and similar missives to hurl at deranged leftists Jimmy Kimmel, “sick old woman” Rosie O’Donnell, and “pencil neck” Adam Schiff:            TWEET: https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/2080846842560987497Without a doubt, Trump’s most controversial moment of the night came shortly thereafter when, after a benign jab at the Oscars hemorrhaging ratings for being woke, he not only revisited his observation that CNN’s Collins doesn’t smile, but argued her doppelgänger is trans actor Dylan Mulvaney: Trump on the Oscars, Kaitlan Collins, Dylan Mulvaney, Josh Dawsey, and Jake Tapper…“But of course, this evening, it’s really all about the fake news media, and you’re handling of prizes, writing, and producing, and performing made-up stories like the Academy Awards. You know,… pic.twitter.com/aQjcxzqB2U— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026  Collins’s CNN colleague Jake Tapper was also called out: President Donald Trump from the TOP ROPE: “Some people say that Jake Tapper is a great investigative reporter in DC. That's why after moderating our debate, it only took him one year to break the story that Joe Biden might possibly have suffered from cognitive decline.”Then… pic.twitter.com/kRftLSFrHi— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) July 25, 2026 The speech continued on with rehashes of past callouts to far-left elected Democrats, so it was surprising when this one about Bari Weiss and CBS News made its way in that, if a Democrat President had said it, the room would have been howling in laughter: Trump with a legitimately great joke about CBS News under Bari Weiss and Iran…“While I have all of the press here in one place, I have to say that we’re having an amazing load of accomplishments that the media never talks about, for example, under my administration, a once… pic.twitter.com/kx6UA25fxC— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 His concluding remarks ran for nearly seven minutes, starting with a concession that “for all of the trouble that you give me, you give me a lot of trouble, a lot of heartache, I hope all of you know that I believe in the free press more than anyone in this room does. Ehh, maybe not quite. But that’s why I’m proud to be the most open and transparent President in history.” Trump’s closing remarks at the #WHCD…“But for all of the trouble that you give me, you give me a lot of trouble, a lot of heartache. I hope all of you know that I believe in the free press more than anyone in this room does. Ehh, maybe not quite. But that’s why I’m proud to be… pic.twitter.com/oXHzcGwSY3— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2026 There was a reality check for the press whenever he’s gone: “[Y]ou people have no idea how lucky you are. When I’m gone, you’re all going to be broke. Your business model is going to be finished. No, it’s true. When I’m not around, you’re gonna be broke. There’s not going to be anybody to report on. Nobody gives a damn about anybody else.”Once he trolled the liberal journalists one last time with talk about third and fourth terms, he declared Friday “an interest evening” because “I didn’t really know what to expect, and it’s far worse than I actually thought, but if you want to know that, but I didn’t know exactly what to expect, and I’ve made a lot of friends tonight.”Here was how he brought it home following one last Weave:I just want to say it is a room I have tremendous respect for the people in this room. Sometimes I don’t feel you treat me fair, or maybe you do. I don’t know. I don’t feel that, but sometimes you treat me very fairly, and I have a lot of respect for your profession, your profession’s amazing, and I just want to thank you for having me, and it’s been fun, and I’ve met a lot of great people and, you know, I used an expression, I’ve used it right from the beginning. I did this for one reason, to make America great again, and that’s what’s happening right before your very eyes. We have made America great again. It’s going to get a lot greater. So, thank you all very much. It’s an honor to be with you. Thank you. Thank you very much.Poor Perlman had to follow a long, winding set of Trump remarks, but he had some spell-binding moments, including this exchange at the end with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: MUST WATCH: Oz the Mentalist pulls off an absolutely next-level mind-reading stunt, enlisting the help of Acting AG Todd Blanche and Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz at the WHCA Dinner.Oz first has Blanche commit a "federal offense" by signing a $20 bill, then has him fold it… pic.twitter.com/6yqBo27XdU— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 25, 2026 Here was the full show, beginning with guessing dream vacation destinations of random audience members that included Fox’s David Spunt and Reuters’s Steve Holland. Keep your eyes peeled for others to surface, including Fox’s Kevin Corke and State Department official Erin Scavino: Oz Pearlman full mentalist performance at White House Correspondents' Dinner @USATODAY pic.twitter.com/sfdYLNwf2m— liten drage (@DrageLiten) July 25, 2026 To see a partial transcript of the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, part 2, click here.

ABC via SnapStream On Friday, The View closed out Season 29 in a true-to-them fashion: proving how uninformed they were while speaking like an expert authority on a policy matter. While trying to downplay the 400 illegal votes and 6,600 illegal registered voters on New Jersey’s rolls and dismissing the need for the SAVE Act, ABC’s Sunny Hostin suggested that only five states required voters present I.D. Even after being schooled on it, she argued that voter I.D. was just like having black people “count jelly beans in a jar.”During a segment where they finally discussed New Jersey Democratic Governor Mikie Sherrill announcing the DMV snafu that allowed non-citizen to register to vote and cast ballots, Hostin paid lip service to the problem.“I do think we need to acknowledge and recognize that 6,600 noncitizens registered to vote is a problem,” she admitted. “400 noncitizens went on to cast ballots. That's problematic.”And yet, Hostin followed up but by arguing that it was not that bad in practice:However, to call it widespread voter fraud is just absolutely misleading. It's absolutely ridiculous because if you look at the last election that Mikie Sherrill did win, it would amount -- 400 ineligible votes would amount to 0.01 of a percent of all votes cast. Okay? So there's no widespread voter fraud. The View falsely claims the SAVE Act is about keeping everyone from voting and downplay the 400 illegal votes in New Jersey as not a big deal:SARA HAINES: But 90 percent of U.S. citizens have some form of I.D. Whereas, only about half of Americans have passports so this… pic.twitter.com/jb4LDGNOUC— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 24, 2026 For all the righteous indignation Hostin was speaking with, she would later go on to accidentally prove just how little she knew about voting in America despite the show constantly opposing the SAVE Act.While co-host Ana Navarro was explaining her general support for voter I.D. (but not the SAVE Act), Hostin jumped in and suggest that only “about five states” required I.D. to vote. Navarro and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin jumped in to inform Hostin that a supermajority of the states actually required it:NAVARRO: Like most Americans, I am in favor of requiring some sort of government issued I.D. Maybe it's because I live in Florida where it is a requirement and for me it's such a non-issue.HOSTIN: There are about five states where it's required. Right?NAVARRO: No. No. No. It's about 36.FARAH GRIFFIN (in unison with Navarro): It's about 36.HOSTIN: 36? Okay.NAVARRO: So, most states. <Uninformed and ignorant. Sunny Hostin is shocked to learn that 26 states (a supermajority) already require an ID to vote. She thought it was "about 5 states where's it's required":NAVARRO: I actually - I will tell you, like most Americans, I am in favor of requiring some sort… pic.twitter.com/5RNMCuSC5z— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 24, 2026 Hostin would later go on to talk about voting in her home state of New York, saying: “it's not required to have any sort of I.D. to vote.” Of course, she wasn’t being entirely truthful. In New York, you need to show I.D. when you register to vote. Or perhaps, she was ignorant about that too.Being so clearly unequipped to have the discussion was merely a small speed bump for Hostin. She would later equate showing I.D. to vote to Jim Crow laws and requiring black people to “count jellybeans on a jar” and making them “answer citizenship questions.”“I believe that it [The SAVE Act] will disproportionately affect African Americans voters. I believe that in my soul!” she exclaimed. “I won't support it.” Hostin (who thought only 5 states required ID, until a couple minutes ago) goes on to equate requiring ID to vote to having black people "count jelly beans in a jar" and "having to answer citizenship questions." "I believe that in my soul" she proclaimed:HOSTIN: You know, the… pic.twitter.com/KNXM6oatAz— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 24, 2026 Again, Hostin could not be bothered to Google how many states require I.D. to vote, meanwhile she’s been denouncing the SAVE Act for months.This was the perfect end to The View’s season, blowing hot air about a topic they knew little about while speaking with the righteous indignation of a moral authority on the matter. Essentially giving the FCC further proof they were not a “bona fide news program” after all.The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:ABC’s The ViewJuly 24, 202611:03:34 a.m. Eastern(…)SARA HAINES: But 90 percent of U.S. citizens have some form of I.D. Whereas, only about half of Americans have passports so this actually is.JOY BEHAR: Or pastaports.HAINES: Yeah. That means it is reducing the voting public. You're making it harder when the percentages at the polls are already, i think, too low for this country, and what a vote means.BEHAR: So they really don't want us to vote, is the point.HAINES: Some of us.[Crosstalk]SUNNY HOSTIN: I do think we need to acknowledge and recognize that 6,600 noncitizens registered to vote is a problem.HAINES: Yes.HOSTIN: Right. I think we should recognize that. I think that's appropriate, 400 noncitizens went on to cast ballots. That's problematic.However, to call it widespread voter fraud is just absolutely misleading. It's absolutely ridiculous because if you look at the last election that Mikie Sherrill did win, it would amount -- 400 ineligible votes would amount to 0.01 of a percent of all votes cast. Okay? So there's no widespread voter fraud.But I will say this: comparing our vote to a pasta card, like voting rights are foundational in a functional democracy. Pasta purchases are not, and so -ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I beg to differ.ANA NAVARRO: Honey, they're just throwing spaghetti at the wall.HOSTIN: Correct. Nice one. I see what you did there. It's absurd.(…)11:05:55 a.m. EasternNAVARRO: I actually - I will tell you, like most Americans, I am in favor of requiring some sort of government issued I.D. Maybe it's because I live in Florida where it is a requirement and for me it's such a non-issue.HOSTIN: There are about five states where it's required. Right?NAVARRO: No. No. No. It's about 36.FARAH GRIFFIN (in unison with Navarro): It's about 36.HOSTIN: 36? Okay.NAVARRO: So, most states.(…)11:07:13 a.m. EasternHOSTIN: You know, the reason I'm not in favor of the SAVE Act, in New York you don't -- it's not required to have any sort of I.D. to vote. I believe that it will disproportionately affect African Americans voters. I believe that in my soul! And African Americans fought and decided for the right to vote in this country![Applause]And I just -- I think it's a very slippery slope. If you know your history, it reminds me of having to count jelly beans in a jar. It reminds me of having to take - answer citizenship questions for black people to vote and I am just not -- I won't support it.[Crosstalk]NAVARRO: But Sunny, there is a difference between Alyssa and I supporting voter I.D. requirement and supporting the SAVE Act. They are two different things -HAINES: Yeah, that's very different.NAVARRO: - because there's a bunch of other stuff they've put in the SAVE Act -HOSTIN: They have.NAVARRO: - to make it more difficult for everyone to vote.HOSTIN: I believe it's a slippery slope.FARAH GRIFFIN: But it's only about one percent of Americans that don't have some form of I.D. that would be needed to vote. It's actually much smaller than it used to be. And considering like you say this all the time black women are the most educated demographic.HOSTIN: True.FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah, black women have I.D.s. They're showing gup, they're engaged.HOSTIN: That part is true.(…)

The Heritage Foundation, which owns more than $40,000 of Airbnb stock, has won its legal fight to have Airbnb include shareholder proposals on the agenda of its 2026 stockholder meeting, the nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) legal organization announced Friday.Airbnb agreed to include the proposals of Heritage and the American Conservative Values ETF in order to resolve the lawsuit, The Heritage Foundation v. Airbnb, filed after the company excluded the two shareholders’ proposals from its 2025 proxy materials.“This case has always been about protecting the rights of shareholders and reinforcing the principle that public companies must follow the law and remain accountable to their owners,” Heritage Foundation Chief Advancement Officer said in a statement. “As a shareholder, Heritage wants Airbnb to succeed by creating long-term value for investors and focusing on its core business. We appreciate that Airbnb fulfilled its legal obligations so its shareholders could have their voices heard.”The Heritage proposal highlights Airbnb’s “history of yielding to politicized pressure campaigns,” ADF said in a press release announcing the settlement:“It cited Airbnb’s 2018 decision to de-list Israeli-owned rental properties in the West Bank before later reversing course. The proposal called on the board to issue an annual report to shareholders analyzing the legal and reputational risks associated with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and similar activism.”The American Conservative Values ETF proposal requests a report on how the company’s terms-of-use policies can negatively impact shareholder value. The proposal highlighted broad, subjective standards such as “misinformation,” “hate speech,” “intolerance,” or “reputational risk” that can enable viewpoint discrimination. It also cited instances in which Airbnb, an online marketplace connecting travelers with hosts providing short-term lodging, blocked conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, as well as Lauren Southern and members of her family, from being able to use its services because of their political affiliations.

You come at the X trolling king, you better not miss. And unfortunately for The Economist, all of cyberspace saw its editor-in-chief get torn to shreds in a debate battle with the world’s richest man. X.com The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes tried to box X owner Elon Musk in on a number of issues that she twisted into cudgels against him (DOGE cuts, likeability, Islam, etc.) during a July 23 interview. But Musk just smacked her pious line of questioning down for the leftist drivel that it was over and over again. Arguably the most entertaining part of the interview was when Beddoes sneered to Musk that “people loathe you.” The cheeky Musk just spun it back around on her and her colleagues in the media: “I don't care. The fact that a quarter billion people follow me means a lot more people like me than don't. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media than you realize!” Once Musk flipped the script, it was game over: “Do you realize the media is despised? Do you realize that the favorable view of journalists is like 15 percent? So the shoe is on the other foot. They hate you! They hate you far more than they hate me.” He even repudiated Beddoes and her colleagues for their characterizations of the political “far right” writ large, which he argued were completely embellished for rage bait. Musk even took the role of the interviewer away from Beddoes and played the part himself:Tell me which of these [“far-right” policies] sound terrible: That we should have secure borders? That we should have safe cities? That we should have sensible spending? Which of those three are far-right fringe? And I would just like to admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the “far-right,” which is false and misleading and nonsense.Musk then turned to the camera crew: “Please keep this part in!” Talk about giving a masterclass on how to deal with pompous elitist journalists with an axe to grind!Watch the entire interview blow!The Economist Elon Musk July 23rd 2026 pic.twitter.com/xti3kXcZFc— Lord Withers (@_lordwithers) July 24, 2026Musk wasn’t fazed by virtually any of the slanted line of questioning Beddoes attempted to skewer him with, especially as it came to her attempts to make him seem like a killer for using DOGE to gut the wasteful bloat replete throughout USAID and other government agencies. Musk listed off a few examples of the kind of stonewalling DOGE would face when asking agencies to give specifics about their intended grant recipients. Beddoes had no choice but to concede the existence of “a lot of waste,” but then she pivoted to arguing the way Musk made the cuts led to people’s deaths and "unnecessary suffering.” Musk retorted immediately, “It caused a lot of complaining.” Beddoes then tried to pin Musk with a hyperbolic hypothetical that was completely off-the-rails: “You don’t buy the idea that anybody — and to put it really crudely — any kid in Africa died because of the suddenness with which …” Musk interjected: “Zero!”A flabbergasted Beddoes then editorialized her whole question, “I just don’t think that’s right,” as if viewers care about what the interviewer thinks. But Musk didn’t hesitate to poke holes in the logic by pointing out the “tens of thousands of NGOs”  like the “$50 billion” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that could immediately fill in the gaps theoretically left by the DOGE cuts. When Beddoes saw that Musk wasn’t buckling, she tried to shift the conversation entirely: “I don’t want to have an argument about that.” But Musk had her completely on the ropes: When funding is stopped for fraudulent organizations, do you think they’re going to say, ‘Please keep funding the fraud,’ or come up with a sympathetic story to get the funding restored? Obviously, it will be the latter. The amount of funding we’re talking about is far less than what could be supported by private foundations like the Gates Foundation or MacKenzie Bezos’s foundation. They have tens of billions of dollars and are capable of acting very quickly. If they didn’t, I would say they’re equally responsible. Zero people died because of DOGE. Zero.As NewsBusters Media Editor Bill D’Agostino suggested previously, the “Musk is a killer” narrative is as idiotic as saying he could be blamed for a kid dying in Tajikistan from toxoplasmosis because somehow we stopped paying for his Mucinex.