After her Wednesday morning tweet correcting her misreporting on Saturday’s terror attack made matters worse, CNN NewsNight Anchor Abby Phillip delivering an on-air admission of her false narrative. On Tuesday – well after the facts of the incident had been documented – Phillip went on-air and falsely claimed that the failed bomb attack had targeted New York City’s Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Her outlandishly false claim prompted harsh condemnation and correction, especially on social media. In response, Phillip posted a correction on social media, drawing even more criticism for being nuanced, half-hearted and, especially, for not being on her television program (where she made the false claim). As NewsBusters Jorge Bonilla reported: “One common theme in these reactions is the call for an on-air correction to match the one issued on social media, in the interest of proportionality and fairness. There are those who will question whether the correction is authentic, or a pre-Paramount act of pre-emptive hygiene. Nonetheless, we welcome the correction and call on Phillip to follow up with one on the air.” By Wednesday evening, the backlash had become so severe that Phillip acquiesced to calls for an on-air correction on her television program – a rarity for today’s biased, agenda-driven legacy media. In it, Phillip set the record straight and took “full responsibility” for her false claim: “This morning I issued a correction, first thing in the morning, on X for mistakes that I made in last night's show, but I also wanted to do so on-air as well. I incorrectly said that the bombs that were thrown by ISIS-inspired suspects in New York over the weekend were directed at Mayor Mamdani. They were not. “I failed to catch and correct that mistake in real time, and I take full responsibility for that. And while we do make mistakes, it is important to acknowledge and correct those errors when they happen.” CNN has been forced to issue multiple corrections on the attack since Monday for repeatedly misrepresenting the terrorist act on social media, television and its website. WATCH: @abbydphillip issues an on-air correction, complementary of the one published this morning on X, for stating the Gracie Mansion bombers targeted Mayor Mandani. We seldom see on-air corrections for on-air botches but here it is. The right thing. On A-block. ABBY PHILLIP:… pic.twitter.com/u4Cxurrv5g — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 12, 2026  

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough invoked the 1963 bombing of a black church in Birmingham as he compared the change in public opinion after recent ICE killings to the change in the opinions of "moderate whites" in the 1960s to be more supportive of civil rights for blacks. His comments came during a discussion of recent surveys suggesting that the public has turned against President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies. Scarborough prefaced his remarks by claiming that he was "drawing no parallels between the two events" before then proceeding to do just that. Turning to show regular Mike Barnicle, Scarborough declared: I'm drawing no parallels between the two events, though they have had a significant impact on where the American people go. You are old enough -- and I mean this with the greatest of respect -- you're old enough to remember what happened after the church bombing in Birmingham -- the 16th Street church bombing in Birmingham -- that motivated, quote, "moderate whites," to get up off their ass and start supporting civil rights in a way that black people were not treated like third-class citizens. He then referred to the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis as "execution-style killings" and lamented that he does not yet feel comfortable using the worst "murder" as he added: Same thing with the Freedom Riders. Selma. Those things awakened a nation. Here you just got a sense that the combination of Renee Good and Alex Pretti would awaken a sleeping nation -- and I say that not melodramatically at all -- awaken a sleeping nation. And the combination of those two killings and the execution-style -- what to me looked like an execution-style killing -- I would like to use a stronger word, but I'll wait for a jury in the future to make that determination -- awaken this nation. Even though some American citizens have received rough treatment from federal agents largely because they chose to harass those agents, co-host Mika Brezinski described such agitators as having been "sucked into" violent interactions: I mean, it is true that U.S. citizens got sucked into this and were treated terribly and murdered, and the investigations taken away from the state where it happened so that accountability isn't even real either. And that is frustrating, and everyone can see that with their eyes. But it's also what's happening to undocumented people, People here on American soil all get treated the same way, and they are given due process, and they have rights. She then called ICE agents "thugs" and accused them of "murder,"  leading Scarborough to nudge her to be more careful with her wording. Here's Brzezinski: And these ICE thugs just ran over everything that law enforcement is about. And nobody liked what they saw, whether it was undocumented or doc -- there may be a few very, you know, very hard liners on the right who think this is the right thing. But Donald Trump promised mass deportations like you've never seen them before. And he delivered. So now they want to take back on that word. Good luck. This was his campaign line. You're going to get mass deportations like you've never seen them before. And he was right. The two then went back and forth: SCARBOROUGH: Let me just say a couple of things. First of all, whether it was a murder or not -- you said "murdered" --whether it's a murder or not will be determined of course by a jury. BRZEZINSKI: I would say, "execution-style killing." Is that a safer way of putting it? SCARBOROUGH: That's what I said, that it looked like that, and a jury -- and that's why I said a jury will determine what -- if there's criminal connection to this. I suspect we will see that at some point. Transcript follows: MS NOW's Morning Joe March 11, 2026 6:46 a.m. Eastern JOE SCARBOROUGH: And, John, yesterday we get the news out of Doral that the White House is -- and, by the way, there's a smart political move. I've been looking at the TV camera for months saying they need to do this, so I'm not criticizing them for doing this. They did it like six months, nine months late, telling the Republicans, "Hey, don't use the term 'mass deportation'," which is interesting. You had told me earlier that the White House was telling the President several months ago, "Stop talking about mass deportation on the campaign trail -- it's killing us in the polls." Now, the White House is telling the Republicans, "Stop talking about mass deportation -- it's killing us in the polls." JONATHAN LEMIRE:  Yeah, a slow pivot, to be sure, but they seemingly -- seemingly got there. SCARBOROUGH: That's an understatement. Yeah. LEMIRE: The -- of course, this was such a staple of all of President Trump's remarks last year. And when they were focusing on deporting the so-called worst of the worst, it was still relatively popular. And certainly Americans like the idea of a closed Southern border, poll suggests. But as this got, you know, as the moves got more aggressive -- if it moved into like, your neighbors, your friends, you know, moms waiting to pick up their kids from school, it was all -- the American public was already souring on this last year -- the end of last year. And then we add to it what happened in Minnesota -- the confrontations, the violence, the two American deaths. It has become politically toxic. The President's well underwater on this. There's finally been a realization from the White House: stop talking about it. He has largely stopped talking about it, at least for now. And now there's word to Congress, "Do the same as the midterms approach." SCARBOROUGH: So, Mike, I'm drawing no parallels between the two events, though they have had a significant impact on where the American people go. You are old enough -- and I mean this with the greatest of respect -- you're old enough to remember what happened after the church bombing in Birmingham -- the 16th Street church bombing in Birmingham -- that motivated, quote, "moderate whites," to get up off their ass and start supporting civil rights in a way that black people were not treated like third-class citizens. Same thing with the Freedom Riders. Selma. Those things awakened a nation. Here you just got a sense that the combination of Renee Good and Alex Pretti would awaken a sleeping nation -- and I say that not melodramatically at all -- awaken a sleeping nation. And the combination of those two killings and the execution-style -- what to me looked like an execution-style killing -- I would like to use a stronger word, but I'll wait for a jury in the future to make that determination -- awaken this nation. MIKE BARNICLE, MS NOW CONTRIBUTOR: There's no doubt about that, and we came into this segment with a clip from Joe Rogan, who has clearly been awakened by a series of events, and I would attribute Joe Rogan's insight -- and I do believe it's insight -- into his sidewalk sense of what's going on in this country. Sure, he's making a lot of money. He's very popular. He's got millions of listeners and viewers and everything like that. But he has a sidewalk sense speaking to directly what you were just talking about. People don't like certain things, like a guy on the ground, his weapon taken away that he never displayed, I mean, shot eight times in the back. SCARBOROUGH: Right. BARNICLE: And the worst of the worst, you know, little kid, you know, with a five-year-old kid being shipped out, you know, to Mexico or wherever they sent him. People don't like this. And then you take the the fact that gas prices are up, groceries are up, health insurance costs are through the roof -- if you can get health insurance. It's all right there. SCARBOROUGH: Shipped to Texas, and then the little boy was shipped back. But, yeah, it's all too much. And, you know, by the end of this, Mika, seven percent, CATO said that by the end of -- of -- of all of these things and they're still going on, only seven percent of the people that were being detained were the worst of the worst. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: And that's the point. I mean, it is true that U.S. citizens got sucked into this and were treated terribly and murdered, and the investigations taken away from the state where it happened so that accountability isn't even real either. And that is frustrating, and everyone can see that with their eyes. But it's also what's happening to undocumented people, People here on American soil all get treated the same way, and they are given due process, and they have rights. And these ICE thugs just ran over everything that law enforcement is about. And nobody liked what they saw, whether it was undocumented or doc -- there may be a few very, you know, very hard liners on the right who think this is the right thing. But Donald Trump promised mass deportations like you've never seen them before. And he delivered. So now they want to take back on that word. Good luck. This was his campaign line. You're going to get mass deportations like you've never seen them before. And he was right. SCARBOROUGH: Let me just say -- BRZEZINSKI: And now they're building deportation centers. SCARBOROUGH: Let me just say a couple of things. First of all, whether it was a murder or not -- you said "murdered" --whether it's a murder or not will be determined of course by a jury. BRZEZINSKI: I would say, "execution-style killing." Is that a safer way of putting it? SCARBOROUGH: That's what I said, that it looked like that, and a jury -- and that's why I said a jury will determine what -- if there's criminal connection to this. I suspect we will see that at some point.

Former longtime ABC correspondent-turned-Substack poster Terry Moran brought out frequent MS NOW guest Anand Giridharadas — yes, the guy with the crazy Jimmy Neutron hair — on Wednesday to chat about the war on Iran and the Epstein Files when Giridharadas asserted President Trump is worse than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong because Trump, along with being “a weak man pretending to be a strong man,” has been “selling merch.” Giridharadas insisted the press have come to run “the risk of...warning” so much about the threats of Trump they’ve “inflat[ed] his strength beyond what it actually is” because “[h]e is not invincible,” “indomitable,” or “particularly popular.” In turn, he declared, the President is a “highly incompetent” “weak man pretending to be a strong man” and thus “not up there with like the great historical dictators” despite “trying to do that.” WATCH: Far-left pundit Anand Giridharadas (the guy with the hair) argues Trump is worse than Hitler because “I don’t think Hitler was selling merch” along with “Stalin and Mao” b/c they were “very serious”... Giridharadas: “[H]e’s a weak man pretending to be a strong man. He's… pic.twitter.com/mGGbL9i0kb — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 11, 2026 Then came the deranged hot take that, despite Hitler’s “awful project” or the atrocities committed by Mao and Stalin, they “serious” in achieving their aims and not weren’t “selling merch”: I think he’s...trying to do an authoritarian attempt and trying to barnacle the authoritarian attempt with so much personal stealing or whatever which, by the way, a lot of these authoritarians have the discipline to not do. I don’t know. Someone’s going to call me on. Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t think Hitler was selling merch. Hitler was very serious on his awful project or Stalin, and Mao and all these people were — had, like, were trying to do, like, other things. Like, serious other things in addition to the thing that looked — right? So, he’s, like, an unserious authoritarian who’s — it’s — he’s like a part-time side hustle authoritarian, which I think has limited the power of the attempt. Moran chose to tweak the idea supposedly modern authoritarians are all that cogent or singularly focused on their agenda: I would say that modern authoritarians — Putin became the richest man in the world without a paycheck from private enterprises and tire life. He’s arguably the richest man in the world. One of them certainly, Erdogan and Orban, they all combine their authoritarianism with — Chavez, too, with a kind of, you know, with thievery, basically, with that kind of corruption. Moran — whose views are almost certainly commonplace if not universal inside his former employer, ABC News — then declared Trump’s “incompetence...a gift” although “he is going to make an attempt to steal the [midterm] election” in November. Giridharadas zoomed out with a vile smear of the entire Trump administration and its tens of millions of supporters, arguing conservative, reformed Christianity is akin to the Islamic laws carried out by the brutal Iranian regime (click “expand”): OFFENSIVE: Anand Giridharadas says Christian nationalism and conservative-leaning Christianity aren’t really that different than the radical Islam coming from the Iranian regime.. “So, it sounds like if I’m taking [the Trump administration] seriously, it sounds like they’re… pic.twitter.com/fOoM7spswi — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 11, 2026 So, it sounds like if I’m taking them seriously, it sounds like they’re really offended by institutionalized misogyny from what I hear about their — their motivation for going into Iran. It sounds like they don’t like women being treated as second-class citizens and kept in the shadows and deprived of their rights, okay? Take — take that seriously. It sounds like they don’t like religious nationalism. That, you know — that kind of, you know, single — single religion kind of being given an elevated position in, in the country. It sounds like that kind of church and state thing feels, I guess, important to them. It sounds like they don’t like, you know, this kind of — this idea of like a singular leader, like a supreme kind of leader, just deciding things arbitrarily. It sounds like they don’t like now that the bombing happened, they don’t like, you know, the son just being anointed as like a successor, just because of birth, okay? So, I’m going to — I’m going to take — I’m going to take them at their word. If it turns out we have hundreds of millions of dollars a day, which I’ve heard, you probably know better than me, hundreds of millions of dollars a day to do what we’re doing in Iran. We have that money around. It turns out, and we are suddenly interested as a policy matter in fighting institutionalized misogyny, religious nationalism, authoritarianism, and kind of this like, filial succession kind of vibes. Why don’t we just spend that money in America to fight those things? And why don’t the people who are fighting those things in Iran — who are also doing those things to America — why don’t they just not do them? It’s actually just so much cheaper to just not do those things here than to fight other people doing them somewhere else. Just don’t do them here. It’s free. You could just for free stop doing them here. Before spending the rest of their time obsessing over the Epstein Files, Moran insisted Trump is “actually an idiot” and “megalomaniac”: Former ABC correspondent Terry Moran: “[Trump’s] a megalomaniac...He’s got Alexander the Great notions that he's going to change the world. And it will have a Trump sign on everything in the world. I'm serious. I actually think part of that is the mechanism. I also think that in… pic.twitter.com/Ednitx5pyk — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 11, 2026 To see the relevant transcript from March 11, click here.

Is it any real surprise that the crown prince of the most notorious left-wing empires in American politics is getting all bent out of shape because President Donald Trump decided to finally dismantle the murderous Islamist regime of Iran?  Alex Soros got his panties in a bunch after the United States launched coordinated strikes on Iran with Israel, and praised the leftist-run Spain for grandstanding against the attacks in a March 2 X post that got ratioed into oblivion. “Why aren’t more Europeans standing up to an illegal war! Same with Canada! They make nice speeches at conferences, but do little. Spain is becoming the leader of the free world,” Soros whined, as if the world would have been better off with a bloodthirsty “Death to America” cult wreaking havoc across the Middle East. Why aren’t more Europeans standing up to an illegal war! Same with Canada! They make nice speeches at conferences, but do little. Spain is becoming the leader of the free world! https://t.co/8OBAEjwtkX — Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) March 2, 2026 Alex doesn't see the absolute incoherence of angrily opposing action against the Islamists in Iran while he reposts the Open Society Foundations tweet for International Women's Day that reads "This International Women’s Day, and every day, we are called to show moral clarity and stand up for the rights of every person on this planet." But a deep dive into his daddy’s history gives a clue into why Alex has come out full froth against the U.S. and making himself a useful idiot for the floundering Islamic extremists seeking to cling onto power like a barnacle in Tehran. The Jewish News Syndicate reported on September 3, 2018, that “Iran admitted on Sunday that it had worked closely” with George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, “which has often been accused of promoting an anti-Israeli agenda through left-wing NGOs.” MRC Business has documented how Soros poured small fortunes into a litany of groups that celebrated terrorist group Hamas’s October 7 genocide against the Jewish people as some sort of a Palestinian liberation effort. Then-Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tried to downplay this connection by saying during a question-and-answer session before the Iranian parliament that Tehran’s work with Soros “predated his term and boast[ed] ‘regulating’ it.”  Oh, but there’s more! Soros also dumped $50 million into a “network” of Iran-sympathizer groups connected to disgraced former U.S. Special Envoy to Iran under the Biden administration Robert Malley, according to a December 9, 2023, New York Post report. The irony was that Alex had been appointed as chair of the OSF board just a year earlier. Malley, who was one of the core architects behind the infamous Iranian Nuclear Deal under President Barack Obama, had his security clearance suspended amidst an investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified materials concerning “his dealings with his Iranian interlocutors,” according to Commentary Magazine. The members of the Soros-funded groups tied to Malley, wrote Post reporters Rich Calder and Mary Kay Linge, “gained significant sway within the Biden White House — pushing to defang US sanctions on Tehran while advocating for a renewed nuclear deal.” The problem is that there’s anecdotes like this showcasing some kind of hidden affinity by the Soros empire for the Iranian regime all over cyberspace if you look under enough proverbial rocks.  When MRC Business published its January 2023 deep dive investigation into Soros’s connections and influence over global media — George Soros: Propaganda Powerhouse — one of the more alarming examples of connections to the Iranian regime involved his bankrolling and deep ties to powerful lefty opinion clearinghouse Project Syndicate, which boasted having its commentaries published 18,700 times in 2025 alone, being active in 156 countries, working with 573 media outlets, having its columns published in 66 languages, and having at least 140 heads of states as contributors. George Soros, who dumped at least over $1.5 million into Project Syndicate’s coffers between 2016 and 2020, had contributed at least 115 columns to the organization at the time. One notable Project Syndicate contributor was none other than the anti-American and anti-Israel former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Project Syndicate allowed Rouhani to push propaganda in 2014 threatening conflict with the U.S. if an agreement on his country’s notorious nuclear program wasn’t reached. “By diminishing the prospects for a permanent negotiated agreement on our nuclear program, such behavior increases the likelihood that the Iran-US standoff will continue,” Rouhani wrote. Rouhani also reportedly denounced Israel in 2021 as “‘the enemy’ of the Middle East in comments leading up to World Al Quds Day, which Iran inaugurated after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to protest the existence of the Jewish state,” according to i24News. Rouhani proclaimed: “‘The Zionists are the enemies of the region and of the security of the Palestinian people.’”  Need we say more? Well, we may not need to, but George Soros himself does. In a 2014 interview that celebrated the Obama administration’s ongoing work with Rouhani on the feckless nuclear deal, suggested that “a new order would emerge in the Middle East” if the Palestinian, Iran and Syria conflicts were resolved. He took a potshot at Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, sneering that he was “dead set against a deal with Iran” simply “because peace with Palestine would end his political career in Israel.” It couldn’t possibly be because the Iranian regime under now-deceased Ayatollah Khamenei had made the destruction of Israel its inherent obsession, right? For goodness' sake! Even German publication DW ran this Captain Obvious! March 1 headline following Khamenei's recent assassination: " Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: The man who wanted to destroy Israel." This was never hidden knowledge. But for Soros, Netanyahu’s retrospectively judicious warnings against dealing with Iran were inconsequential because “the broad outlines of a potential new order can already be discerned,” one of which being that “Iran may emerge as America’s closest ally, second only to Israel.”  Holy crud. No wonder Alex is throwing a fit now. The twisted dreams of Daddy Dearest are getting blown to bits in real time!

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel resorted to what one can only hope was reverse psychology to dissuade Iran from striking the West Coast because if it wasn’t, then the only other explanation for his Wednesday monologue is that he really believes, “Donald Trump wants you to bomb us. For him that would be a win-win. He might even bomb us himself and blame it on you, okay?” Kimmel began by declaring, “The mood around the Oscars is a little bit tense this year. You know, they beefed up security after the FBI warned law enforcement here in California that Iran is aspiring to launch a drone strike on the West Coast, which is where we all are right now, so that’s—isn't this how Iron Man 3 started, the movie?”   Jimmy Kimmel does some weird reverse psychology thing about the idea that Iran wants to drone strike the West Coast or at least you hope it is reverse psychology because otherwise it was pretty nasty, "The mood around the Oscars is a little bit tense this year. You know, they… pic.twitter.com/padkjWik6x — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 12, 2026   He continued, “We can't handle a drone strike. We barely survived the writers' strike here, okay? And I hope these Iranians realize Donald Trump wants you to bomb us. For him that would be a win-win. He might even bomb us himself and blame it on you, okay? Just keep that in mind.” Even if Kimmel was trying to do reverse psychology, the idea that Trump would want to bomb Hollywood is, of course, ridiculous. As Kimmel himself noted, the FBI has been in touch with California. As for other Jimmy Kimmel Live! news, there was, not surprisingly, no correction about the previous day’s wildly misleading monologue about Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon spending millions of dollars on fancy food. Here is a transcript for the March 11 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 3/11/2026 11:37 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: The mood around the Oscars is a little bit tense this year. You know, they beefed up security after the FBI warned law enforcement here in California that Iran is aspiring to launch a drone strike on the West Coast, which is where we all are right now, so that’s—isn't this how Iron Man 3 started, the movie? We can't handle a drone strike. We barely survived the writers' strike here, okay? And I hope these Iranians realize Donald Trump wants you to bomb us. For him that would be a win-win. He might even bomb us himself and blame it on you, okay? Just keep that in mind.