The Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View were like the dumb man’s Tyrion Lannister in that they drink and just say things. During Tuesday’s episode, revisionist history was on the menu as pretend-independent Sara Haines laughably claimed that former President Biden never repeatedly blamed Republicans for anything. Additionally, co-host Sunny Hosting seemed to suggest that presidents didn’t lie before President Trump came into office. Amid back-to-back segments decrying Trump for calling out Democrats for trying to make the Epstein files about him and whining about Trump calling out the Biden economy, Haines chimed in and claimed she couldn’t remember a time when Biden had blamed Republicans for things that went wrong during his administration: The other thing I am so sick of hearing from Donald Trump is – Once you become the president – I don't remember an administration – and I could be standing to be corrected on this – that constantly talks about the left and the Democrats. Once you're president – You know, I don't remember Biden constantly saying Republicans, Republican, Republicans. She went on to insist that all “[Biden] talked about [was] what we need to do.” Hostin agreed, adding: “This is a different kind of guy.”   Sara Haines claims Biden never blamed Republicans for anything: "The other thing I am so sick of hearing from Donald Trump is, once you become the president I don't remember an administration - and I could be standing to be corrected on this - that constantly talks about the… pic.twitter.com/ctp2Xe0xyR — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 18, 2025   In reality, the Biden White House blamed Trump and Republicans for everything from Bidenomics to Biden’s open borders to Biden’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan to Biden calling Republicans an existential threat to the country. The View even blamed Trump for the rain during Biden’s presidency. Of course, faux conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin was an empty suit and didn’t point out any of that. The only pushback Haines received was from fill-in moderator Joy Behar, who was trying to go to a commercial before Haines interrupted. “I got to go. No more talking. We'll be right back,” she demanded. Earlier in the segment, Hostin tried her hand at revisionist history. Hers was almost equally as laughable in that she tried to suggest it was not “normal” for president to lie, as if it didn’t happen before Trump. Even her co-hosts found her suggestion questionable: HOSTIN: I just can't believe he just lies like that. He just lies. BEHAR: Everything that comes out of his mouth seems to be a lie. ANA NAVARRO: After ten years of Donald Trump you can't believe he lies? HOSTIN: It's still shocking to see someone – But it's still shocking to me. It is. You know why, Ana? It is shocking to me to see someone that holds the office of the presidency of the United States lie to the American people over and over and over. It should not be normal! BEHAR: Politicians tend to lie. We agree on that. This is over the top. HOSTIN: Like that? BEHAR: No. This is pathological lying. It's different.   Sunny Hostin suggests no president has ever lied before Trump: Sunny: I can't believe he just lies like that. Joy: Everything that comes out of his mouth seems to be a lie. Ana: After ten years of Donald Trump you can't believe he lies? Sunny: It's still shocking to see… pic.twitter.com/7P8n2cBiLf — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 18, 2025   Again, in reality, Biden constantly lied about how good the economy was, that the border was closed, that his brain was fine. All of which The View defended him on. Hostin followed up that lie with a seemingly tall tale about her struggle with high prices. Despite being a multimillionaire, and previously boasting she paid others to grocery shop for her, Hostin asserted that she “literally decided not to buy salmon because of the price.” “If I can't buy it, think about the average American,” she proclaimed. “You can afford the salmon,” Behar scoffed. “But I chose not to because I thought it was too expensive,” Hostin argued in her defense. “But the point is, if I think it's too expensive, someone who has the means, imagine.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View November 18, 2025 11:16:44 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: I just can't believe he just lies like that. He just lies. JOY BEHAR: Everything that comes out of his mouth seems to be a lie. ANA NAVARRO: After ten years of Donald Trump you can't believe he lies? HOSTIN: It's still shocking to see someone – But it's still shocking to me. [Applause] It is. You know why, Ana? It is shocking to me to see someone that holds the office of the presidency of the United States lie to the American people over and over and over. It should not be normal! BEHAR: Politicians tend to lie. We agree on that. This is over the top. HOSTIN: Like that? BEHAR: No. This is pathological lying. It's different. HOSTIN: He says prices are going down. When’s the last time Donald Trump, you think, went to the supermarket? BEHAR: Orange juice is up 29 percent. HOSTIN: I was at the supermarket yesterday and I literally decided not to buy salmon because of the price. NAVARRO: And one of the things -- HOSTIN: If I can't buy it, think about the average American. BEHAR: You can afford the salmon. [Laughter] HOSTIN: But I chose not to because I thought it was too expensive. [Laughter] [Crosstalk] But the point is, if I think it's too expensive, someone who has the means, imagine. [Crosstalk] (…) 11:19:00 a.m. Eastern SARA HAINES: But the other thing is – BEHAR: We got to go. HAINES: Wait, one second. The other thing I am so sick of hearing from Donald Trump is – Once you become the president – I don't remember an administration – and I could be standing to be corrected on this – that constantly talks about the left and the Democrats. Once you're president – You know, I don't remember Biden constantly saying Republicans, Republican, Republicans. He talked about what we need to do. HOSTIN: This is a different kind of guy. BEHAR: I got to go. No more talking. We'll be right back.

Since Republican-run states are far more affordable than those led by Democrats, the GOP should never have lost the messaging battle on the issue in the recent elections in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, host Mark Levin explained on his show Life, Liberty & Levin on Saturday night.  “It’s amazing to me that blue states governors and mayors are able to talk about affordability” and “that Republicans are failing on this front,” Levin said, noting that costs are lower in virtually every Republican state. While elections are about much more than affordability, Levin said he found it unbelievable that Democrats campaigned on the issue and that “Republicans are failing on this front.”  “If the battle is over affordability, you should be cleaning their clocks,” Levin said in a message to Republicans.  Levin then compared the cost of living in the three states and California, where Governor Gavin Newsom is the leading Democrat Presidential hopeful for 2028, to that in comparable Republican-run states in six product categories: Groceries Transportation Childcare Restaurants Housing Clothing Citing data from mylifeelsewhere.com, Levin showed how Republican states are more affordable overall and in practically every category.  New York Costs:  16.5% higher than in Florida  17.9% higher than in Texas 19.4% higher than in Tennessee 25.7% higher than in Ohio New Jersey Costs: 24.8% higher than in Florida 26.3% higher than in Texas 28.1% higher than in Tennessee 35.1% higher than in Ohio Virginia Costs: 13.9% higher than in Florida 15.9% higher than in Texas 16.2% higher than in Tennessee 23.3% higher than in Ohio California Costs: 21.8% higher than in Florida 24.5% higher than in Texas 24.5% higher than in Tennessee 34.0% higher than in Ohio “We have to learn how to speak and make the case,” Levin said, noting that “state by state by state” Republicans should be campaigning on the affordability issue." My opening statement on last night’s Life, Liberty & Levinhttps://t.co/rh8L9GBjBo — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 16, 2025 MRC's Jack Skilton contributed to this story.

HBO’s John Oliver rehashed many of the old and familiar arguments in defense of public broadcasting on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, but because Oliver views himself as a man of action, he announced an auction to help save public media because otherwise “people would die.” Things Oliver put up for sale included, but were not limited to, actor Russell Crowe’s jockstrap, his cabbage wife, and a giant replica of President Lyndon Johnson’s man parts. During his lament at public media’s defunding, Oliver lamented that it has been hit with accusations of liberal bias. In a clip package, former Speaker Newt Gingrich was shown in 1995 questioning, “Why is there this small elite group at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that gets to spend money they didn't earn? What right do they have to dole out your money?” After the montage, Oliver tried to rebut Gingrich by retorting, “First, 'What right do they have to spend money they didn't earn?' Applies to literally any use of taxpayer money, and also, congratulations to Newt and Callista Gingrich on their documentary, Journey to America, released this year, on—guess what? PBS.”     It should be noted that Journey to America is about “inspiring immigrant stories,” such as that of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It is not a puff piece about the Gingriches. A bit later, Oliver added another reason to mourn the demise of public media, “It can also be crucial during an emergency like a hurricane. Remember that station where one guy's the only full-time news employee? If it goes away, a lot goes with it.” In a clip of July 19’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Karen Hua claimed that “About 19 percent of Louisiana lives in poverty, and 15 percent don't have internet access, according to the U.S. Census.” Similarly, KDAQ’s Jeff Ferrell claimed that public media is some people’s only option, “You can't afford satellite TV. You can't buy cable. And they're alone. And so it is a lifeline. And what's great about this, is that they feel connected. They stay connected to the world.” He also claimed without it, Louisianans would die, “Public radio saves lives. The emergency broadcast system. Without it, people would die." Oliver echoed the idea, " Right. Without their emergency broadcast system, people would die. If you take one thing away from this piece, it really should be that.” Ferrell and Oliver are trying to portray 2025 as if it were 1955. Even poor households have access to TV, so the idea that poor people cannot afford basic satellite coverage is ridiculous. Nevertheless, Oliver thought that public media was such a noble cause that he later proclaimed that, “I am proud to announce Last Week Tonight’s first-ever auction in aid of public media. This is real. It will be running through November 24th, and you can bid at the website johnoliversjunk.com, which was inexplicably available.”     Oliver then rattled off several possible items, including “Russell Crowe's jockstrap from Cinderella Man when he held a, quote, ‘Art of divorce auction.’ He then used the proceeds to fund a koala chlamydia ward in Australia in my name. Well, I'm now happy to say this life-saving jockstrap can be yours. He also flashed back to “season 9, you may remember that I married a cabbage in a beautiful non-denominational ceremony officiated by Steve Buscemi. Well, and there's no good way to say this, my cabbage wife is available for sale to the highest bidder, no questions asked. As much as it hurts for us to split, we're doing it for the greater good. Bidding for her is now open.” There was also “LBJ’s giant balls. Just look at these glorious monstrosities! If LBJ’s presidential library doesn't have a home for them, maybe you do. Because these things could be a real conversation piece for your living room, bedroom, studio apartment, or indeed, nursery.” Ironically, throwing down $10,000 for a three-year old cabbage, $20,100 for a jockstrap, or $25,025 for a sculpture of the male anatomy—all at the time of the publishing of this article—is just making the conservative point that if liberals want to fund PBS and NPR, they can do so themselves. Here is a transcript for the November 16 show: HBO Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 11/16/2025 11:27 PM ET JOHN OLIVER: But while public media's funding was saved on that day, it's been threatened consistently ever since, usually with complaints about its so-called liberal bias. NEWT GINGRICH [1995]: Why is there this small elite group at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that gets to spend money they didn't earn? What right do they have to dole out your money? ROBERT KNIGHT [6/24/2005]: I think the people at PBS see themselves as social agents. They see themselves as having this great forum, this great platform to push what they think will be the good society. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE [2025]: It is brainwashing the American people and, more significantly, American children with un-American, anti-family, pro-crime, fake news. OLIVER: Okay, so, a few things, in order. First, "What right do they have to spend money they didn't earn?" Applies to literally any use of taxpayer money, and also, congratulations to Newt and Callista Gingrich on their documentary, Journey to America, released this year, on — guess what? PBS. Second, if you're curious why this guy was speaking on behalf of a group called "Concerned Women for America," so am I! And, finally, as for Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments, I think we all know what she means by "Anti-family," but I'd love to know what PBS programming is being interpreted as "Pro-crime." Is it the episode of Arthur where The Brain gets himself into a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation? … OLIVER: It can also be crucial during an emergency like a hurricane. Remember that station where one guy's the only full-time news employee? If it goes away, a lot goes with it. KAREN HUA: About 19 percent of Louisiana lives in poverty, and 15 percent don't have internet access, according to the U.S. Census. JEFF FERRELL: You can't afford satellite TV. You can't buy cable. And they're alone. And so it is a lifeline. And what's great about this, is that they feel connected. They stay connected to the world. HUA: These radio emergency alerts are vital during hurricane season, warning folks where and when storms will hit.  FERRELL: Public radio saves lives. The emergency broadcast system. Without it, people would die. OLIVER: Right. Without their emergency broadcast system, people would die. If you take one thing away from this piece, it really should be that. … OLIVER: I am proud to announce Last Week Tonight’s first-ever auction in aid of public media. This is real. It will be running through November 24th, and you can bid at the website johnoliversjunk.com, which was inexplicably available. We have lots of fantastic items up for sale. Here's just a selected few. Now, our first item's actually been auctioned off before because, you may remember, we once bought Russell Crowe's jockstrap from Cinderella Man when he held a, quote, "Art of divorce auction." He then used the proceeds to fund a koala chlamydia ward in Australia in my name. Well, I'm now happy to say this life-saving jockstrap can be yours. Here it is. It's a priceless piece of cinematic history, and it has saved countless koalas. Moving on to item number two: Back in season 9, you may remember that I married a cabbage in a beautiful non-denominational ceremony officiated by Steve Buscemi. Well, and there's no good way to say this, my cabbage wife is available for sale to the highest bidder, no questions asked. As much as it hurts for us to split, we're doing it for the greater good. Bidding for her is now open. Moving on to item number three. And, as I mentioned earlier, these were featured on our show pretty recently. LBJ’s giant balls. Just look at these glorious monstrosities! If LBJ’s presidential library doesn't have a home for them, maybe you do. Because these things could be a real conversation piece for your living room, bedroom, studio apartment, or indeed, nursery. And, in keeping with the presidential theme, we're also auctioning off our wax presidents, which we bought at an auction in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and put in movie parodies with, among others, Laura Linney and Tom Hanks.  

David Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, is joining the growing chorus of voices calling for greater transparency from the government into Thomas Crooks, the Pennsylvania man who attempted to assassinate President Trump in a July 2024 campaign rally. On the Jenny Beth Show Monday, Bozell told Jenny Beth Martin, an original organizer of the Tea Party movement and the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, that the media seems to lack any curiosity about Crooks. I'm frustrated at the lack of information coming from the FBI about this case. There should have been more information released. And I'm not the only one. Eric Trump has gone viral saying that he's not satisfied with the pace of information being released about Thomas Crooks and other types of crimes.  Maybe there's a long game being played, maybe there's an investigation they can't talk about, but I don't think they've done a very good job of being as transparent as necessary. At this moment, the candidate that tens of millions of people voted for three times nearly had his face blown off on national television. That would sort of demand some curiosity out of the media and demand some information out of the FBI. Read more here OMISSION: Elitist News Media HIDE Shocking New Trump Shooter Details. Watch full interview here.  

Since a July 7 Justice Department memo declared an “exhaustive review” of the Jeffrey Epstein case found he died by suicide and there was no evidence of a “client list,” ABC, CBS, and NBC have treated the so-called “Epstein Files” as the new Russiagate, submerging President Trump with a stunning 821 minutes of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC. A Media Research Center analysis examined all mentions of Epstein (and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell) starting July 7 on ABC, CBS, and NBC across their flagship morning and evening newscasts and the Sunday political talk shows. Through Tuesday morning, ABC accounted for roughly 358 minutes of the overall total, which was nearly double CBS at 187 minutes. In between, NBC clocked in at almost 276 minutes. ABC also had the most time on all three sets of newscasts. ABC’s World News Tonight accounted for nearly 119 minutes of the combined evening total (118:52), which came out to 274 minutes with the addition of the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News. “We do begin tonight with the extraordinary scene playing out on Capitol Hill today. Survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein standing by the Capitol, some coming before the cameras for the first time...The group of women sharing their stories, what they say they survived, saying there should be a vote...to make these files public,” declared anchor David Muir on the September 3 World News Tonight. NBC Nightly News had almost 101 minutes (100:37) of declarations of doom, buoyed by multiple interviews with victims and the siblings of Virginia Giuffre by Sunday anchor Hallie Jackson. On July 27, Jackson refused to budge from this obsession with tying Trump to a notorious sex criminal, implying Trump’s landmark trade deal with the European Union was a distraction from Epstein. Even though there’s no evidence Trump had any role in Epstein unspeakable acts, anchor Tom Llamas boasted on November 12 that Epstein’s sex crimes have “haunted President Trump’s second term” with the breaking news having been the release of “20,000 pages of documents...including e-mails from Epstein that mentioned Donald Trump” and thus “shin[ed] a renewed light on the pair’s history.” Llamas again framed the Epstein case on November 17 as perilous for Trump: It has been one of the biggest pressure points of President Trump's second term, the Epstein files. For months, the President fought the full release of what the Department of Justice had gathered on the case, but today, facing growing pressure from within his own party, he changed his mind....The DOJ has long said they found no basis for charging anyone else in the Epstein conspiracy, but now those who fought so hard for the release believe they are on the brink of finally getting the answers they've been searching for. The CBS Evening News was well behind and just shy of 55 minutes (54:42). Co-anchor John Dickerson giddily led off the July 16 show by telling viewers President Trump’s “frustrations were boiling over” with “ang[er] at fellow Republicans he believes are obsessed with the Jeffrey Epstein case.” Two days later, Dickerson touted Epstein’s crimes as dogging Trump: President Trump has been trying to for it and make desperate to get the Jeffrey Epstein case off the front pages, but he just put it back on by taking steps to file a libel suit against one of the largest newspapers in America, The Wall Street Journal. This for reporting Mr. Trump once sent a bawdy birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein, which the President denies.  The Epstein scandal has a long way to go to meet the original Russiagate tally of 2,284 minutes on these same newscasts, but 274 minutes in only five months is a serviceable start. Given the salacious nature of Epstein’s vile crimes and his massive wealth, this story was tailor-made for morning TV. That was reflected as our analysis found 398 minutes with a tight battle as ABC’s Good Morning America (141 minutes) edged out CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today, which were both at 128 minutes (128:35 and 128:40, respctively). On July 14, Good Morning America co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos celebrated the scandal’s eruption as “a political crisis for President Trump” and predicted this was “not” going “to be going away.” ABC Capitol Hill correspondent Jay O’Brien declared on September 9 the Epstein case has been “a controversy that has consumed Capitol Hill and even some of the President’s most loyal supporters.” As it turned out, those e-mails the left had hoped would prove Trump was an accessory to Epstein’s evils showed the opposite and ran in contradiction to the late Virginia Giuffre’s insistence Trump never did anything wrong. During the November 12 show, GMA scrapped a few blocks of fluff — think celebrity interviews, cooking segments, a Disney promo, or shopping infomercials — that define the back end of morning TV so O’Brien could deliver a full report (likely thanks to an embargo agreement) on new files released by House Democrats. As for NBC, chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander boasted to Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker on the July 24 Today that “President Trump is no stranger to scandal” with “a series of them since his first run for office...but this one is sticking to him unlike any of the others before.” That same day on CBS Mornings, senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe declared “[t]he case of Jeffrey Epstein...is a political headache for President Trump that won't go away.” NBC’s Alexander said a week later on July 30 that “the uproar, the headlines really about Jeffrey Epstein are not going away” for Trump despite being “frustrated by his administration’s handling of the anger around the Justice Department’s decision not to release the files.” Finally, the Sunday morning political talk shows were not immune from viewing this scandal as a way to somehow sully the President. Our review yielded just over 148 minutes with ABC’s This Week responsible for the lion’s share at nearly 98 minutes (97:58). NBC’s Meet the Press was plenty interested as well with 46 minutes (46:19), but CBS’s Face the Nation with moderator Margaret Brennan showed remarkable restrain as it only mentioned on six out of a possible 19 shows for a total of three minutes and 45 seconds. Leaving aside the fact they showed little interest in the Epstein case during the Biden administration, the networks have spent this week spotlighting a new ad featuring a number of Epstein victims, arguing they should not be ignored and deserve to see justice even though the main perpetrator is long dead. And this push came following the history-making, 44-day-long government shutdown that brought havoc to the economy and ruin to millions. Despite that, the networks combined for 80 minutes and 25 seconds — the third highest total and largest since the last full week of July — on the week the shutdown came to an end. As for why, our Jorge Bonilla wrote this about the November 12 evening newscasts, alluding to Epstein: “The Elitist Media were desperate to find an offramp as the government shutdown drew to a close. And they did, pivoting back to an old favorite but with a new, salacious angle.” Another thought came via CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings, who said on the November 12 The Source that the goal of the left’s focus on Epstein is a “thinly veiled” implication “that Donald Trump did something untoward, unethical or worse” with Epstein despite there never having been “a shred of evidence that Donald Trump has done anything wrong.”