Many are calling for a re-examination of political rhetoric in the wake of yet another attempted assassination attempt against President Donald Trump (and, for the first time, members of his Cabinet). But will this call for self-examination trickle down to the darkest corners of the Elitist Media? That remains to be seen. As you now know, late night Resistance Comic Jimmy Kimmel did a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner monologue- in a manner similar to Jen Psaki’s bit where she does fake news conferences on MS NOW. Our own Alex Christy took a look at one of Kimmel’s gags- a crass gay rape joke directed targeting FCC Chair Brendan Carr. Here’s another “joke” that needs to be examined in the wake of the shooting: What is the Walt Disney Corporation going to do to address its role in the foment of the current climate of political violence? From Jimmy Kimmel's fake WHCD monologue: "Our First Lady Melania is here. Look at Mel- so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant… pic.twitter.com/VGRjOJRPQl — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 26, 2026 JIMMY KIMMEL: Our First Lady Melania is here. Look at Mel- so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.  So edgy. So Resistancey. Yet another low for a blackface-wearing bigot reading unfunny “jokes” written by his wife.  Kimmel’s corny bit begs the question: at what point does The Walt Disney Corporation address its role in fomenting the current climate of political violence? If the backlash to his crass comments following the assassination of Charlie Kirk is any indication, it may reward him instead. After his smear of conservatives and subsequent suspension and blubbering apology, Kimmel was first rewarded with a contract extension, and then a Peabody. The Elitist Media SAY that they are concerned about political discourse and the promotion of political violence, but DO otherwise.

The horrid White House Correspondent’s Dinner shooting was, as is to be reasonably expected, top of mind across the Sunday show dial and on the minds of the respective hosts. For some of their guests, it was an opportunity to weave partisan talking points into concern over the shooting and its aftermath. Such was the case for U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) who, while on CBS’s Face the Nation, took a question from Margaret Brennan on the need for Democrats to dial down their rhetoric and used it as the basis for his defense of the recently-indicted Southern Poverty Law Center: WATCH: CBS's Margaret Brennan allows Rep. Jamie Raskin to use the WHCD shooting as a means with which to mischaracterize the SPLC indictment, wherein the organization funded "right-wing" violence it would later "combat." Pay attention to the "or-" when Raskin describes the SPLC's… pic.twitter.com/5jLpXYqTY4 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 26, 2026 MARGARET BRENNAN: The President, I want to make sure that I recognize what he said because we don't hear him speak this way very often. He said “I ask all Americans to recommit with their hearts to resolve our difference peacefully”, and he talked about being unified with members of the press. JAMIE RASKIN: Yes. Well, that certainly -- that's a new message from him. That's great. He had called the press, of course, “the enemy of the people” and he’s been engaged in a lot of lawsuits against your profession. Yes. We are going into this politically charged midterm season. There will be campaigning around the country with lawmakers out there. BRENNAN: Well, we’re- Yes. We are going into this politically charged midterm season. There’s going to be campaigning around the country with lawmakers out there. Does something change? He said this. Does something change? Demo- does Democratic language need to change, as well? RASKIN: Well- we have said all along that we need every politician in the country, every leader in the country, every citizen in the country denouncing political violence across the board regardless of where it's coming from. BRENNAN: Yeah. RASKIN: So, you know, I find this a welcome change in rhetoric, but what happened last week- they brought a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose whole purpose is to or- investigate violent right-wing extremism in the country and now they're prosecuting them for having used undercover agents which, of course, the FBI uses and the government uses all the time. BRENNAN: Understood. And there is across party lines some political violence, way too much of it right now and actually, Speaker Emerita Pelosi on this program said to me recently that she thought the threat or the concern about violence or threats to your family is what is hurting recruitment of people to run for office- particularly mothers, particularly women. Are you seeing that? That people are afraid to even join public life because of this?  RASKIN: Sure. Anybody who’s thinking about running for office undoubtedly thinks about that. Anybody who’s thinking about running for President undoubtedly thinks about that. And those people have the most protection with the Secret Service, and other people don't have the same kind of protections. So look, we have to rediscover the great American tradition of non-violence and Dr. King and the civilizing movements have always opposed violence, versus the violent groups that have used violence historically beginning with the Ku Klux Klan in order to terrorize other people. BRENNAN: Congressman Raskin, thank you for joining us, and we’re glad you were able to do so. RASKIN: You bet. BRENNAN: We’ll be right back.  Brennan never did push back on Raskin’s multiple sophistries. Instead to her next question on whether the current climate of political violence is dissuading people from running for office, before ending the interview.  Raskin shamelessly lied about the SPLC indictment by framing it as being solely about the use of confidential informants. It was not. As first reported by CBS, the SPLC was indicted on fraud charges for, among other things, funding events such as the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville and then using the events they funded in donor appeals.  And do take notice of what sure appears to be a Freudian slip by Raskin, who checked himself before fully saying it: …but what happened last week- they brought a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose whole purpose is to or- investigate violent right-wing extremism in the country…  What did the “or” mean there? Organize? The SPLC’s actions as enumerated in the indictment sure seem to indicate that, and it is unfortunate that Brennan let Raskin push these points unchallenged. And while it is good and proper that Brennan ask Raskin about Democrats’ rhetoric, it is unfortunate that this question seems to be out of her alignment with her beliefs as expressed in her editorial to close out the show: WATCH: In an editorial to close out this week's "Face the Nation," CBS's Margaret Brennan reflexively blames the Second Amendment for the WHCD shooting, as opposed to the violent rhetoric emanating from the left. MARGARET BRENANN: A night to celebrate the First Amendment,… pic.twitter.com/N1dcMw4nC0 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 26, 2026 MARGARET BRENANN: A night to celebrate the First Amendment, abruptly ended by a gunman permitted by the Second Amendment to own those weapons. Gun violence is not new in America, but the threat of violence is now a cost of public life. It permeates our politics. Last month, Supreme Court justice Roberts publicly appealed for personal attacks on judges to stop. U.S. Marshals report there were 564 threats last year, and nearly 15,000 against lawmakers, staff and their families according to U.S. Capitol Police.  Multiple Trump Cabinet members now live on military bases for their own protection. No such fortress for the federal and state officials who face growing number of threats in communities across the country. There’s a marked increase in harassment and threats of physical violence to journalists in the U.S. from the very public they are working to inform. As the nation wonders how to keep the next gunman out, let's also reflect on how we let this hate in, how we stop it from corroding our democracy, and how we grasp on to our civility before we lose it. It is easy to blame the Second Amendment for the shooting. This editorial, however, absolves from responsibility those who have abused the First Amendment in order to gin deranged individuals up into committing unspeakable acts of violence against those with whom they disagree. This is part of what the SPLC sought to accomplish through its campaign of fraud, and what so many others across multiple institutions do on a regular basis.  An unfortunate missed opportunity by Brennan.  

Brian Stelter came out of his reporting at the White House Correspondents Dinner with the usual liberal spin. His special "Reliable Sources" newsletter reliably toe-tapped the line. The headline was "An all-too-common American story." The foiled shooting at this exclusive Washington party was "extraordinary," and yet, it's the last example of Americans have too much access to guns.  But we need to say out loud that it was actually all too ordinary. In America this is all too common – a shots-fired moment, a chaotic lockdown, a spasm of violence interrupting a peaceful gathering. Thousands of media and political elites have now gone through what countless millions of other Americans have experienced in their schools, offices, malls and churches. And on most of those occasions, there were no Secret Service agents. As I crouched underneath a table last night, I knew that waves of law enforcement officials were pouring into the room, leaping from chair to chair, securing the scene. A man near me seemed hurt, or at least dazed, and a police officer helped him limp away. Everyone in the room gave thanks to the agents, bodyguards and officers who responded. But I couldn't help but think that most of the Americans who have found themselves in the middle of a shots-fired emergency feel much more exposed, much more vulnerable. And I think we should keep acknowledging that during the follow-up news coverage of this incident. As CNN's Victor Blackwell put it, when I joined him on air this morning, "The people in that room were confronted with what schoolchildren and moviegoers and congregants and people at grocery stores have been confronted with, and that is the threat of gun violence." The shooting revealed how political violence has become a "feature of American life," The Guardian's Rachel Leingang wrote. The president "is the highest-profile target of political violence," the NYT's Luke Broadwater wrote, "but the threats for years have affected officeholders at local, state and federal levels," and "the violence has taken the lives of members of both major political parties." That was followed by the notion that Wild West America looks crazy to the rest of the world:  During our overnight coverage on CNN, Jim Sciutto pointed out that people watching in other countries are baffled by this American attribute. "One thing we know," Sciutto said, "is that there will be a lot of discussion afterwards about security measures. (Discussion about) rhetoric, perhaps, as well. There won't be any substantive discussion about access to weapons, right? There just won't." I told him that Americans skip that part of the conversation, and then the rest of the world looks at us and thinks we're crazy. This morning, my 6-year-old son [Story Stelter] texted me, "Are you OK?" Yes, we're all OK. I FaceTimed him and said I'll be home soon. But I worry that one day I'll be texting that same question to him, because it seems that in America, everyone eventually winds up too close to a terrible convulsion of violence. Stelter had a version on TV as well overnight, that this is the wrong kind of American exceptionalism: "This is unfortunately very normal in America." So.... no Second Amendment pocket square? https://t.co/xvugisJUgI — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) April 26, 2026

In the immediate aftermath of Saturday night’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, one familiar line of commentary surfaced quickly. A recurring theme in the liberal media has been to attribute political violence—and the broader “climate” surrounding it—to rhetoric from Donald Trump, casting him as uniquely responsible for inflaming tensions. That line of attack was on display almost immediately in an interview with Steve Schmidt, a founder of the disgraced Lincoln Project. Asked whether the country has a “rhetoric problem” in light of multiple assassination attempts on President Trump, Schmidt pointed squarely at Trump: “I think that there's one person, beyond and above all others, who's responsible for poisoning the rhetoric in America. And that guy's name is Donald Trump . . . He's an insurrectionist, the foremost domestic enemy of the Constitution in American history. He is a vile and disgusting man. A convicted sex predator, and likely a pedophile.” Steve, we've got your "vile and disgusting man" right here. But on Sunday morning, a very different explanation emerged on CNN. Appearing on special coverage, CNN security analyst and former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow did not point to Trump. Instead, he described what he called an “assassination culture”—a decentralized, digitally driven phenomenon in which grievance and ideology are reinforced in online echo chambers. CNN Analyst Rejects Trump Blame, Cites ‘Assassination Culture’ pic.twitter.com/noj78tV82I — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 26, 2026 Wackrow warned that such attackers are often shaped by online communities where violence becomes normalized and even encouraged. He cited what he termed the “Mangione effect,” in which individuals latch onto a grievance, find validation online, and come to see violent action as justified. In other words, rather than attributing the attack to Trump's rhetoric, Wackrow pointed to a broader ecosystem—one that operates largely independent of any one politician and is far more difficult to detect or deter. The contrast was stark: while some voices rushed to assign personal blame, CNN’s own security analyst pointed to a broader—and less politically convenient—explanation. Here's the transcript. CNN 4/26/26 6:11 am EDT VICTOR BLACKWELL: The president says that he wants to have this event again within 30 days, and I imagine there's some logistical acrobatics that have to happen to do that just to get all those people back in the room.  But from a security perspective, what will that have to look like to be able to do it, considering what happened last night?  CNN SECURITY EXPERT JONATHAN WACKROW: Well, right now, what the Secret Service and their law enforcement partners are doing is, with this subject, they're actually looking back. Is this individual, while he was a lone attacker last night, was he influenced by any other type of group?  Now, to me, what this incident really illustrates is the consequence of what I've referred to in the past as assassination culture. It's this dangerous mix of grievance, ideology, and a sense of moral absolutism by an individual to take action.  And what's really dangerous and what the Secret Service and the FBI and other law enforcement entities know, is that this type of structure is really digitally native.  So you may have this lone attacker, but they're influenced online, typically in social media chat rooms. And what's happening is violence is being normalized really in this small echo chamber, and really killing of notable people is encouraged.  And really, we refer to this as the Mangione effect, right? It's where people are taking a sliver of grievance, they're finding a group of people that also align to that, they're socializing it online, and then normalizing this violence.  That is the scariest part of this, and the Secret Service knows that. So prior to any other type of event for the president, they are going to go back and reassess the threat environment that's around all Secret Service protectees, to ensure that they're picking up any of digital signals of conversations in the wake of last night to see what this new threat environment looks like if this was targeted against the president.  BLACKWELL: Jonathan Wackrow, I appreciate your informative conversation. Thank you so much. 

Saturday’s 2026 White House Correspondents Dinner was expected to be an unprecedented affair with President Trump and members of his Cabinet entering political enemy territory on liberal, elite media’s biggest single annual day of self-adulating slop. Trump later joked he had prepared “the most inappropriate speech ever made,” but he was unable to deliver it as a gunman tore through a security checkpoint just after 8:30 p.m. Eastern during dinner. In CNN’s case, they abruptly pulled out of a commercial break. Below are some of the big moments from CNN’s coverage of what was already going to be a history-making evening, but came that for all the wrong reasons. Before the shooting, CNN’s Brian Stelter argued to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that, while “you say he’s been very accessible,” the President “tries to demonize the press.” Stelter also offered standard fare, bemoaning Trump “has gone on the warpath against news outlets,” “called journalists…nasty names,” and “defunded PBS and NPR.” He even speculated a long Trump speech would cause questions to be raised “about his fitness for office.” But, as we’ll see, Stelter became a real, genuine source of information once the evening took a turn. But back to life before the shooting, Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) sufferer S.E. Cupp dropped at 8:08 p.m. Eastern the hottest take of the night, which was made scalding hot when violence erupted (click the tweet to read the lunacy in full): CNN's SE Cupp, chronically miserable and stricken with TDS, on the #WHCD, says "Trump wants us dead, figuratively"... "[The @WHCA] made it real easy for him to attend. And I, you know, glad to see everyone's in great spirits. And this is a party. I'm real bummed. Real bummed… pic.twitter.com/nxlrJnJQlb — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Fellow CNN liberal Van Jones wasn’t having any of this. Instead, he said the WHCD “is a wonderful evening in Washington, D.C., where people come together and put aside their partisan differences,” which “is awesome” and “I don’t care about what anybody says.” Our friend and 2025 MRC Bulldog Award winner Scott Jennings was also jubilant and directly addressed Cupp by opining, “journalism has never had more access to the leader of the free world than they have right now.” “[H]e may roast the press, and they spend 24 hours a day roasting him, and they need to have a little bit of thick skin and put on their big boy pants and take it…I think the press is thriving in the Trump era. The access we have and the information that we get to bring to the American people, because he allows it is a good thing, objectively a good thing,” he added. Following more banter and then White House Correspondents Association President Weijia Jiang’s opening remarks, CNN went to break. Here was the movement they jolted out to share the disturbing turn: BREAKING: The #WHCD is cleared, people sent scattering and President cleared from the stage after a loud commotion seen inside pic.twitter.com/7Md7qToqHV — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Less than five minutes later, co-hosts John Berman and Laura Coates went to Stelter inside the Washington Hilton ballroom as he had taken out his phone and began streaming to describe what was happening: .@BrianStelter at 838 pm Eastern inside the #WHCD: "Hey, John. I'm going to be honest. Nobody knows what's going on. But you'll see there are people literally hiding under tables inside the ballroom of the Washington. We have seen many different security officers, some of them… pic.twitter.com/U92SksOI5v — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 CNN host Kaitlan Collins also called in (with someone else streaming her vantage point, alongside Secretary of Education Linda McMahon): BREAKING: At 843 pm Eastern, CNN's @KaitlanCollins says there was a shooter INSIDE the #WHCD in the Hilton lobby pic.twitter.com/z1gB6cNns5 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Stelter then returned to talk things through with CNN’s congressional Republican chaser Manu Raju: Credit to @BrianStelter for taking out his cellphone and streaming for @CNN, discussing with @KaitlanCollins and @MajorCBS earlier and now @MKRaju, admitting at 849pm Eastern that the #WHCD shooting has a lot of people shook up pic.twitter.com/ms6PlY4oJ9 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 The most bizarre moment of all this came next when The Lead and State of the Union host Jake Tapper not only took Stelter’s phone, but kept spinning around. Do with that as you may: CNN's Jake Tapper -- with @BrianStelter's phone -- took viewers on quite the spin after spin while describing the chaos inside the Washington Hilton after the #WHCD shooting pic.twitter.com/BZDWKCiiqV — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Back on-set and with word Trump and the WHCA had wanted to resume the event (before security put their foot down), Jones said “there is some strength that's trying to be shown here” in “[t]hat you don't stop this country and you don't stop the celebration of the First Amendment because you're a crazy person with a gun.” On political violence, he said “this is the sort of stuff that has to stop” and “[t]his is the level of violence and crazy stuff on all sides of this country, is leading people to think that this is the right thing to do.” Jennings agreed with his friend and went even further: CNN's @ScottJenningsKy on the #WHCD shooting: "I couldn't agree with [@VanJones68] more actually about the need to continue. You can't let people who are committed to using violence to silence our political process win. You cannot do it. The country is built on speech and debate,… pic.twitter.com/tZCdKNwpo0 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 After Jiang’s first update to the room, CNN had a series of calls over the next hour-plus with The Situation Room co-host Wolf Blitzer recounting his harrowing experience of being steps away from the shooter and being tackled and shielded by a police officer: NEW: At 9pm Eastern, CNN's Wolf Blitzer calls into describe his recollections of being STEPS AWAY from the shooting at the #WHCD, including being thrown to the ground and covered by a police officer pic.twitter.com/42CRGCh9QU — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 About ten minutes later, CNN's Wolf Blitzer shares more about how he was FEET away from the #WHCD gunman and saw him being neutralized by police pic.twitter.com/MzO6SpsaTd — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 CNN's Wolf Blitzer found someone's cellphone camera, so he could explain on-air at 915pm Eastern what happened and saw the gunman "just maybe three, four, or five feet away," so he was tackled and protected by a police officer pic.twitter.com/B4OnWmkX8Y — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 CNN's @WolfBlitzer: "The shooter seemed to have gone through the metal detectors, but he had a weapon, and he was firing a weapon at least a half a dozen, maybe six or more shots. And the noise was so powerful it scared all of us. I, of course, immediately knew what that noise… pic.twitter.com/lWsebva5Q2 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 CNN eventually came back to Cupp and, at 9:24 p.m. Eastern, she stepped on another proverbial rake by demanding viewers keep an open mind and that the target may have been journalists, not the President: CNN's SE Cupp says the #WHCD cannot continue b/c of the ongoing "violence against journalists" and "politicians"... "Can I just say something? While I appreciate the courage and stoicism from my colleagues here and @Weijia at -- at the -- at the dais to continue this night, what… pic.twitter.com/Hg5KlOWurp — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Jones delivered a respectful but forceful response to Cupp about the need to show resilience: CNN's @VanJones68 on the #WHCD shooting: "I think that there's a number of things that are being balanced here. SE spoke well to the human dimension. People are probably shaken up. To the logistical dimension, can you do this? To a political dimension here, and this is the… pic.twitter.com/EI7XF5pR5i — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Jennings backed him up after Jiang announced the dinner’s postponement: “I think Van, you said it right earlier that the political element here is that we cannot allow people to believe they can show up with weapons and shut down anything that the President or the press or anything else we're doing that causes our it makes our country run on a daily basis. We cannot allow it.” Cupp and fellow liberal Van Lathan invoked gun violence and that this shooting reinforces the fact that “this country is sick” and nothing is supposedly being done about it, with no one, again, supposedly willing to acknowledge it: Liberal CNN panelists SE Cupp and Van Lantan say the #WHCD shooting is proof the "country is sick" and nothing is being done to address that fact pic.twitter.com/XmePRlxN7f — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Reporting outside the Hilton, weekday morning CNN News Central co-host Sara Sidner shared upsetting video she took after the attack of Erika Kirk being escorted out in tears and saying she wanted to get out: I cannot imagine how Erika Kirk felt being in the room when the #WHCD shooting happened CNN's Sara Sidner passed her leaving the Washington Hilton and said she was extremely upset and in tears, saying "I just want to leave" pic.twitter.com/sjI81XF0RU — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Moving into the 10:00 p.n. Eastern hour and before the President addressed the nation, Jennings reminded CNN’s liberal audience that many of those who protected the journalists and politicians assembled have been gone over 70 days without pay due to the partial government shutdown: .@ScottJennings at 1005pm Eastern on the #WHCD shooting: "You know, I saw a post from Congressman Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida who said that when this happened, it was Steve Scalise, the House Republican Majority Leader, who grabbed him and threw him into a secure… pic.twitter.com/GsjJRU4qB4 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 On a different but vital topic, Jones noted everyone there will experience the trauma differently: CNN's @VanJones68 at 1006pm Eastern on the #WHCD shooting... "I think that they obviously just did an extraordinary job. And the people -- the people I'm hearing from are, are shaken up. Look, people respond differently. You know, I've -- I've been shot at. You know, it's a very… pic.twitter.com/JFHwJW3YTm — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 He also gave Blitzer a shout-out: CNN's @VanJones68 shouts-out @WolfBlitzer for his calmness and willingness to speak about having been feet away from the #WHCD shooting... "And can we just give Wolf Blitzer some praise and some credit? He's the best to ever do it. And for him to be able to go through that and… pic.twitter.com/ZP6bVAsMHe — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Somehow, some way, Stelter made it across town to CNN’s D.C. bureau to join the panel and began sharing his recollections two hours post-gun shots: CNN's @BrianStelter on his instinct to take out his phone and start recording after the #WHCD shooting... "The only other time that's ever happened to me at CNN was a little bit like this night. It was the night there was a bomb threat at CNN in New York, and our colleague Don… pic.twitter.com/I7nygxaUM1 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 .@BrianStelter tells @ScottJenningsKY and @SECupp what he felt and experienced when he first felt the gunshots, plates crashing when chaos erupted pic.twitter.com/RYyrMgn35K — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Following the President’s press conference, those assembled rendered their final thoughts. Jones hailed Trump’s remarks and warned the public to steel itself for the possibility that a portion of the populace will lionize the suspect like many have with Luigi Mangione: CNN's @VanJones68 says he fears there will be a portion of America that will seek to lionize the #WHCD shooter in much the same way Luigi Mangione has.... "Well, I thought the President did well. I'm starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived,… pic.twitter.com/c2gMYcRJsf — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Jennings continued his theme of backing up his friend from across the political spectrum, stating Trump hit the “perfect tone” in showing unity with the press (despite the bombs both sides throw) and speed in delivering information to the public: WATCH: @ScottJenningsKY on President Trump's remarks about the #WHCD shooting... "I couldn't agree more with you, Van. And also anybody who attempts to rationalize it. You know, I think in the wake of some of these things, you get people who are saying, well, you know, you could… pic.twitter.com/0WvwOOABXX — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 Finally, we’ll end this round-up and mishmash of moments across six hours of CNN coverage where we began with Stelter, who shared one of the first people to make sure he was okay after shots fired was someone Stelter has perhaps been the most viciously critical towards: WOW: CNN's @BrianStelter says @BrendanCarrFCC -- someone Brian is perhaps most critical of these days -- was one of the first people who checked on him as the #WHCD shooting chaos unfolded... pic.twitter.com/qaxtcxfu6L — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 26, 2026 While the liberal, elite media will almost certainly go back to war against President Trump by Sunday morning and perhaps even cheerlead a third impeachment in the months or years to come, they were able to largely come together on one night when someone in either camp (the media or the President’s) could have lost their life.