CNN’s Brian Stelter sent out his “Reliable Sources” email on July 28 with the chirpy headline “Surprise: PBS and NPR are still alive and kicking.” Why on Earth would that be a surprise? Depriving these liberal networks of taxpayer money wasn’t a death sentence. In last year's debate over defunding, PBS and NPR executives routinely claimed federal funding was a tiny fraction of their budget – and also that cutting them off would have a horrible result. How does that make sense? Then again, PBS and NPR executives also claimed they weren’t biased, which was preposterous. NPR’s “Public Editor” Kelly McBride explained: “The entire public media network, including every member station across the country as well as PBS and NPR, runs on about $3.2 billion a year. The federal grants represented about 16 percent of that total.” That’s not a tiny fraction. One year after President Trump signed the bill to defund them, Stelter happily reported: “Station executives credit a burst of philanthropy caused by the GOP’s funding cut.” He then touted a “terrific story” on the state of so-called “public” broadcasting by NPR media reporter David Folkenflik. A surge in donations, he admitted, “would appear to confirm the position of some conservative critics who say people who value public media can pay for it themselves.” What these reporters have failed to explain is that the surge in what NPR calls “rage-giving” came from the Left. Folkenflik used the word “conservative” five times to describe their opponents, but never used any words like “liberal” or “left” to describe the ardent supporters now surging their money into the system. No conservatives were allowed to make any criticisms of NPR. It was all fluff. In April, he reported Connie Ballmer -- wife of Steve Ballmer, one of the Microsoft founders -- contributed $80 million to NPR, and another anonymous donor added $33 million. They like NPR exactly as it is, and NPR and PBS never moved a whisker closer to the center as the Republicans held hearings and prepared to defund them. This entire aftermath could have been predicted. The result is exactly what conservatives argued, that it was unjust to take our money to put on relentlessly biased programs and that liberals should be the ones to pay for their liberal-pleasing propaganda. PBS and NPR also please the Left by the stories they smother. The “public” networks haven’t reported on their airwaves about the Anthony Fauci diary entries released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). They were completely supportive of all of the Fauci-ordered lockdowns on schools, businesses, churches, and even family holiday gatherings. In 2020, NPR also notoriously proclaimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a “pure distraction,” not a news story. In the years afterward, as other liberal media outlets admitted the laptop was authentic and newsworthy, NPR adamantly refused to bend. On July 18, NPR aired a softball interview by weekend anchor Scott Simon under this empathetic headline: “Hunter Biden shares his painful road to recovery and fight against political scrutiny.” “Public” broadcasting is a powerful communications tool for the left, with hundreds of affiliates in large cities and rural communities, pumping out narratives nationwide about how everything Trump and his conservative supporters are pushing is toxic, even “un-American.” These networks hope the funding cutoff is temporary. Whenever Democrats get back in control, they will re-open the spigot, signaling what we all know: “public broadcasting” is Democrat Radio and Democrat TV.

Snapstream The ongoing debt crisis within the Democratic National Committee has driven the wedge between establishment Democrats and their radical democratic socialist wing even further. This Tuesday, MS NOW Reports host Antonia Hylton invited ex-DNC vice chair David Hogg to discuss the crisis, despite him being a left-wing activist who built his career off the lost lives of his classmates and was ousted from his position in the DNC for using his position to promote radical politics.Hogg would spew progressive propaganda for nearly the entire segment, with virtually no pushback from Hylton. He began his monologue by slandering the Democratic establishment, portraying his DSA-aligned progressive movement as a stronger alternative: "Then you add on top of that that it's now been 18 months and they had to put the building up as collateral, and they are $2 million in debt. And then you juxtapose that with the progressive movement and what's going on out there."After his resentment-fueled attacks on his former employer, Hogg pivoted to praising the Democratic primary system: "Ultimately we need to win Michigan. And this is part of why primaries are so important, so that people in our party are held to the highest standard possible."According to Hogg’s logic, it follows that Graham Platner was held to the “highest standard possible.” Platner being the same Maine candidate who fell into scandal after scandal: his Nazi tattoo, his extramarital affairs, his extremist Reddit posts, and eventually his campaign-ending sexual assault allegations. Some high standards they’ve got there! According to leftist activist David Hogg, Democratic primaries hold candidates "to the highest standards possible." Apparently, the Democrats' highest standards include Graham Platner, who had to drop out of his race due to sexual assault accusations. Real high standards, guys! pic.twitter.com/GyyHfOzsIR— James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) July 28, 2026 Despite the incoherence of his statements, Hogg continued to extol the virtues of Democratic primaries, which he portrayed as necessary to elect radical Abdul El-Sayed instead of Rep. Haley Stevens:And we have these debates and ensure that whether it's somebody going out there and saying that they're not taking corporate money when they quite obviously are, like Stevens said last night in her debate, saying that she wasn't taking money from a private utility when she literally took, I think it was $5,000 last year or different past comments that other people have made. There was a reason why we have a primary process in our party, and I'm thankful that people still care enough to actually engage in the process so that we have the best Democrats possible out there to get elected. And to the broader point that - I believe that Abdul is probably getting at there - I'm just seeing that comment now is we need to have a competitive primary process to ensure that Democrats are the best, have the best representation possible. It must be asked again, since Hylton refused to provide any pushback to Hogg’s monologue: is Platner one of these “best Democrats possible?” While the media tried their best to conceal them, Platner’s initial scandals were known to Maine voters when they chose them to represent them. Is Platner really the “best representation possible” of the Democratic Party?Even among candidates who haven’t dropped out due to disastrous, career-ending scandals, recent Democratic primaries seem poised to amplify radical voices rather than decent people. El-Sayed, who Hogg said he aligns with politically, has come under fire for radical statements of his own. James Talarico, in Texas, has struggled to gain traction due to his controversial religious and political stances. Mamdani-endorsed NY candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier was revealed to be a Marxist sympathizer and prison abolitionist.If these are the best candidates the Democrats have, one can only imagine what their worst ones look like!The transcript is below. Click "expand" to view.MS NOW ReportsJuly 28, 202611:40:20 a.m. Eastern(...)ANOTNIA HYLTON: Let's bring in David Hogg, co-founder of Leaders We Deserve and former vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. David, you were a part of the DNC until June of last year, when committee members voted to hold new elections for your post and a fellow vice chair. And this came after you told the New York Times that you plan to spend millions to bring generational change to the party, knowing what you know now about the committee, what you've seen from Ken Martin, are you surprised at all by these reports?DAVID HOGG: No, unfortunately. I am disappointed to see them, but I'm far from surprised. We— I saw the writing on the wall early on. I remember talking about some of the issues that were going on that helped to decide the election. Let's remember here, you know, one of the main things that Chair Ken Martin ran on releasing was an autopsy report that would bring real accountability to the DNC, and that was totally fumbled where there was no mention of Gaza, there was no mention of inflation. There was no mention of the president's age or any actual issues that decided the election. And they couldn’t even be bothered to include a conclusion in that. Then you add on top of that that it's now been 18 months and they had to put the building up as collateral, and they are $2 million in debt. And then you juxtapose that with the progressive movement and what's going on out there. It's incredibly sad to see the DNC and the committee at this point, and it could not be more clear that he's unfit to lead. We need somebody who can actually raise money and also not throw his phone at staff.(...) 11:43:47 a.m.HOGG: Voters want an affirmative vision for the future of this country. And that's part of why Ken Martin is having these fundraising woes. There is no vision for the future of the party. That's what voters are really craving.(...)11:45:10 a.m.HOGG: Ultimately, we got to focus on winning Michigan regardless of, you know, what's happening in these primaries. Whoever wins here, we need to consolidate behind and make sure we get them across the finish line.As you can imagine, my politics are much more aligned with Abdul's because I, I don't want to support people who are taking corporate PAC money like Stevens is, but ultimately we need to win Michigan. And this is part of why primaries are so important, so that people in our party are held to the highest standard possible. And we have these debates and ensure that whether it's somebody going out there and saying that they're not taking corporate money when they quite obviously are, like Stevens said last night in her debate, saying that she wasn't taking money from a private utility when she literally took, I think it was $5,000 last year or different past comments that other people have made. There was a reason why we have a primary process in our party, and I'm thankful that people still care enough to actually engage in the process so that we have the best Democrats possible out there to get elected. And to the broader point that - I believe that Abdul is probably getting at there – I'm just seeing that comment now – is we need to have a competitive primary process to ensure that Democrats are the best, have the best representation possible. And I think the overall idea that it's unacceptable to challenge anybody because they're just a sitting incumbent is ridiculous and hurts us as a party.Imagine where we would be right now if we didn't have AOC. Look at how she was treated when she was first brought into the House. But that is because when incumbents are successfully defeated, far more often than not, it's because they weren't really doing their job. And a lot of people in the Democratic base and the American people, generally speaking, are hungry for something new from Democrats that they're not getting from the establishment.

The Elitist Media Evening News are continuing to do their level best to ignore the explosive details of both the Fauci Files and the Biden Tapes. None of the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS devoted any coverage to these two crucial and grossly undercovered stories.The consensus national story on tonight’s evening news appears to be…the squirrel that disrupted play at Detroit’s Comerica Park between the hometown Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles. Here is that report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, July 28th, 2026: WATCH: @ABCWorldNews had no time for the Fauci Diaries or Biden tapes tonight, but DID close the newscast out with the squirrel that disrupted play at Comerica Park pic.twitter.com/XfQ2RzQNNm— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 28, 2026 WHIT JOHNSON: Finally, tonight, baseball fans cheering for Major League's newest star, the squirrel in the outfield. Bottom of the sixth inning in Detroit. Tigers versus Orioles when suddenly a surprise visitor.JASON BENETTI: Well.ANDY DIRKS: Uh oh.BENETTI: A squirrel. JOHNSON: A squirrel scampering through the outfield. BENETTI: Squirrel! Look out! JOHNSON: The announcers delivering the play-by-play.BENETTI: Down the stretch he comes. The squirrel getting to the finish line…JOHNSON: The grounds crew striking out.BENETTI: The squirrel is on the move. The door is open. The standoff is on. I'm not leaving. I'm staying for the stunning conclusion of this game.JOHNSON: And then a bird joining the chaos.BENETTI: Oh boy. Now we just have Wild Kingdom. This game’s been a zoo.JOHNSON: Next inning, the squirrel getting close to the players, watching the batter running past the pitcher's mound. Finally, during the seventh inning stretch, more than a dozen groundskeepers in hot pursuit.BENETTI: The chase for the squirrel is on and the squirrel is in the corner, and the squirrel is still eluding an entire horde of grounds crew members and the squirrel’s free once again. Hemmed in? No, I won't be hemmed in!JOHNSON: The squirrel evading them all.BENETTI: Trying to go between the legs. And eventually… he gets away again! And hops through the towel! And hops through another towel!JOHNSON: Fans joking online, “the squirrel has signed a ten year deal with the Lions…no one can catch him!” And, “stop showing the squirrel…my dog is going nuts!” Eventually, the crew using a towel to catch the critter. The Tigers’ team mascot holding up a sign: “Free the squirrel!” Later, to the relief of many, the team reporting the squirrel was released in fine health.ABC closed out the newscast with this story, as did the CBS Evening News, which appears to be one-and-done with Biden-Fauci. NBC ran the squirrel in the next-to-last block of the Nightly News, closing out with Tom Llamas’ tour of the grounds at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo, in service of his upcoming interview with Pope Leo XIV and the Concert for Peace airing on NBC. PBS did neither the squirrel nor Biden-Fauci.The Comerica squirrel wasn’t the only filler story stuffing the channels on the broadcast network evening news. ABC showered viewers with items such as the San Diego man arrested after joyriding on a stolen backhoe, and the tale of coyotes taking over an abandoned West Hollywood construction site. In an inadvertent snapshot of California decline, we are told that there is a municipal “management and coexistence plan” that has been in place for several years. WATCH: @ABCWorldNews has still found no time to cover the Fauci Diaries or Biden Tapes, but did make time for the coyote invasion of an abandoned WeHo construction site pic.twitter.com/r8V838lfdN— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 28, 2026 CBS featured a nonlethal aviation mishap (small aircraft making a California beach landing) and a nonlethal traffic mishap (the fabricated home falling on top of a car as the result of a traffic accident in Georgia). NBC ran the squirrel and the prefab house crash but ran two unique Pope-related items as their filler. The only political story that ran across the board was the funeral for Senator Lindsey Graham, with its attendees and focus on President Trump’s eulogy. Nothing on the impending confirmation of Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence (vis-a-vis ample coverage of his contentious confirmation hearing), and definitely nothing on the Biden Tapes or Fauci Files. The Elitist Media want you to see what they want you to see- and nothing more. And when the news cycle is inconvenient, they reliably shout “SQUIRREL!”Exit question: How will they cover, if at all, Anthony Fauci's hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs? We'll be watching.

Morning Joe 7-28-26 Joe Scarborough donned his Democrat-strategist sombrero on Tuesday's Morning Joe and pleaded with his party of choice to reject DSA lunacy now, or suffer the consequences in the fall.Scarborough opened by cueing up Shannon Bream’s exchange on Fox News Sunday with DSA national co-chair Megan Romer in which she enthusiastically embraced these items in the DSA platform:  Abolishing the Senate.Replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court.Abolishing ICE.Abolishing borders and giving amnesty to anyone currently in the US illegally.Defunding the Pentagon.Abolishing prisons, at least in large part.Government or public ownership of most large corporations.Although items like abolishing borders and defunding the Pentagon might stand out, let's focus on the plan for the government to seize most large corporations. That's not democratic socialism. Government ownership of the means of production is the essence of Marxism. So don't tell us the democratic socialists don't have a communist tint -- it's right there in their platform.Scarborough then reached for a very tired liberal trope — Maya Angelou's line about believing people when they show you who they are. He summarized the Fox quiz: "All questions answered with complete conviction, and all those responses completely disqualifying for a party that likes to tell people they're really just about health care and tax reform."  Joe Scarborough dons his strategist sombrero and pleads with Democrats: reject DSA lunacy now, or be punished with it in November! pic.twitter.com/eEuSRxpsjO— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) July 28, 2026 Scarborough praised progressives for bringing all the energy to the party, but insisted Democrats can still put the issue behind them — but only if they act now:If you're for what she said, and she's the head of your party, so you can't dismiss it. Are you for what the head of your party said? This is a very simple question, and the reason I'm talking about it today is because Democrats can put it behind them today, or we can still be talking about this in early November. ... Don't brush this off. Take care of it in July, get rid of the issue in July, or you're still going to be dealing with it through late October and early November. Don't be a Democrat, don't do that. Take care of it now. Don't make the same mistakes you made in 2024. Nip this one in the bud.For a host who spent yesterday screaming for DNC Chair Ken Martin's head over the party's empty bank account, today's performance was pure strategist mode: identify the vulnerability, demand the party confront it before Republicans turn it into a cudgel, and hope the base listens.Will the Democrats heed Scarborough's warning? Or, come fall, will we be relaxing in our Barcaloungers, munching the proverbial popcorn, as we watch Dem candidates and leaders squirm in explaining away the communists in their midst?Here's the transcript.MS NOWMorning Joe7/28/266:04 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: We got a ton to talk, talk to him about, but I just got to start with something that was, all over, social media and the news yesterday. And before we got all the big events in Washington, across the world, I wanted to show everybody a notable clip from one of the Sunday shows. A national co-chair for the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA, was on Fox News Sunday, and here was one of her exchanges with host Shannon Bream.SHANNON BREAM: Okay, so we're gonna put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform, and I wanna ask you, just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate.MEGAN ROMER: True.BREAM: Okay. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them.ROMER: Yep.BREAM: Abolish ICE.ROMER: Absolutely.BREAM: Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US ROMER: As a long term plan, yep.BREAM: Defund the PentagonROMER: Absolutely.BREAM: Abolish prisons, at least in large part.ROMER: Yeah, again, that as part of a long term program, yeah.BREAM: Okay, so no prisons. Government or public ownership of most large corporations.ROMER: Yeah, absolutely.SCARBOROUGH: Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Oh my God.JOE SCARBOROUGH: Let those with ears hear. Maya Angelou said, "When somebody shows you who they are, believe 'em the first time." People know themselves much better than you do, and well, what's true of people is also true of political parties. And as you just saw, the national co-chair of the DSA went on television and showed us exactly who she is and what her party believes. Abolish the US Senate, the presidency as we know it, the Supreme Court as we know it? True. Abolish ICE? Absolutely. Open the borders? Defund the Pentagon? Empty the prisons? Have the government seize private companies? Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, absolutely! All questions answered with complete conviction, and all those responses completely disqualifying for a party that likes to tell people they're really just about health care and tax reform.. . . JONATHAN LEMIRE: And then Mika, the other part of this, of course, is that even if there actually aren't many Democrats who believe this, it's a gift to Republicans. Talking like that allows Republicans to label the entire party, the GOP, like, on their heels right now, and this is a, a life preserver, they can hang onto. And then turn it into a cudgel.MIKA: Exactly. Exactly. They'll use it.SCARBOROUGH: But, but, but here, here's the thing though, again, For those candidates out there that identified themselves as DSA, this is the head of their party. Right? So this isn't just about Democratic energy. Yes, I, I think Democratic energy is great. I've always said, it's the progressives not the centrists, it's the progressives who knock on doors, it's the progressives who do phone banks, it's the progressives that get out and march, it's the progressives that provide the energy to the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party's big enough to have progressives, to have moderates, to have members of the DSA party. But those members of the DSA party have to tell us, are you for affordable health care, are you for this, are you for what she said? 'Cause if you're for what she said, and she's the head of your party, so you can't dismiss it. Are you for what the head of your party said? This is a very simple question, and the reason I'm talking about it today is because Democrats can put it behind them today, or we can still be talking about this in early November. Did you hear what I just said? Don't brush this off. Take care of it in July, get rid of the issue in July, or you're still going to be dealing with it through late October and early November. Don't be a Democrat, don't do that. Take care of it now. Don't make the same mistakes you made in 2024. Nip this one in the bud.

The Democratic Socialists of America don’t like being called Communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, “I don’t have an issue with an end goal of communism.”Yet however the group self-identifies, its agenda is openly revolutionary.Its plans call for, among other things, abolishing the United States Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of Representatives.Like many a revolutionary organ, the DSA acts as a party within a party, and it increasingly represents the youth wing of the Democrats.Elected officials aligned with the group, like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, look to be the future of the party.Yet DSA’s ideas are remarkably old-fashioned — so old, in fact, they were refuted by John Adams in 1787.That was the year he began publishing a multivolume work called “A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America.”It was so long ago Americans still spelled “defence” with a “c.”The book refers to “constitutions,” plural, because Adams hadn’t seen the new U.S. Constitution drawn up in Philadelphia that year.He was actually defending the state constitutions against French intellectuals who insisted they should be more radical.That was just two years before the outbreak of the French Revolution, with all the murder and mayhem it would bring.The old French versions of today’s DSA schemers condemned bicameral legislatures for the same reason Mamdani’s and AOC’s fans do now: their idea of “democracy” called for centralizing power in a single body.No checks, no balances, and certainly no federalism — the whole nation was to be personified in an omnipotent unitary legislature.Adams, who had been one of the first American revolutionary leaders to call for independence from Britain, was no enemy of popular self-government.But pure democracy would be as bad as any other kind of centralized despotism — so he defended the “mixed” constitutions of the states, almost all of which had separate upper and lower legislative chambers and divided legislative, executive and judicial power.The federal Constitution was drawn up on the same principles — and combined them with a division of powers between the states and national government. A glance at how the Constitution has performed for the last 239 years, compared to the chaos and bloodshed that engulfed revolutionary France once the proto-DSA types started getting their way there, shows who was right.But DSA, not content with dreaming of an end to capitalism, wants to end constitutionalism as well.Revolutionary parties, like Russia’s Bolsheviks, have often had such farfetched goals — the point isn’t to achieve them so much as it is to wreck whatever already exists.DSA’s first step is to radicalize the Democratic Party, making previously outrageous ideas like packing the Supreme Court seem mild by comparison to the Democratic Socialist program.Abolishing the Senate may be politically impossible, but de-legitimizing it is a way to de-legitimize obstacles to centralized power — not just the Senate itself, with its equal representation for all states, large or small, but the very principle of federalism.Why should North Dakota have a government of its own?What gives the people of Idaho a right to govern their own territory?California has the largest absolute number of Republicans in the country, but because they live in what operates as a massive one-party state, they not only lack adequate representation, but what representation they have can be snatched away by the Democratic majority — as is happening now thanks to the congressional gerrymandering championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.DSA wants to make the whole country like California, only worse. That’s their idea of democracy — the socialist version. It’s the revolutionary French version as well, and it’s as un-American as anything can be. Yet it’s a magnet pulling the Democratic Party hard to the left.Notoriously, DSA has a disproportionate number of members who are highly educated but low-paid or unemployed.Like the Marxists of the last century or the French philosophes of the century before that, they’re sophisticated enough to seem like they know what they’re talking about, if you haven’t learned how disastrous their ideas have proved to be in practice.But American education doesn’t teach much about the horrors of Communism or France’s Reign of Terror.Radicals occupied the educational establishment early on, and now they’re reaping political rewards for the ignorance they’ve fostered in the public.According to recent Cato Institute polling, Generation Z — Americans between ages 14 and 29 — favors socialism over capitalism by 53% to 45%, though the “Democratic Socialist” label polls less well.Despite having “democratic” in their name, however, DSA doesn’t need majority support to bring about revolutionary change for the worse: a motivated minority is enough when the majority is unaware of its danger.Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. 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