“Do you think you’re going to Hell?” This is apparently considered a highly newsworthy question by the Bari Weiss-led CBS Evening News. The theological questioner was radical Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who wants to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. The target was acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. CBS not only aired McIver’s soundbite, but anchor Tony Dokoupil quoted it in his introduction to correspondent Nicole Sganga’s very one-sided story. The Republicans hold majorities in the House and the Senate, but if you watch how hearings are covered by the TV networks, they imply the Democrats are the gavel-wielders controlling the proceedings. Sganga loaded up four angry Democrat soundbites, to one Republican. Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) yelled: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime or secret police, then stop acting like one.” By contrast, Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) accurately described the Democrats: “It seems like one side of the aisle is in favor of open borders and wants to abolish ICE.” Since Republicans praised the Trump deportations, that was somehow not news. Bari Weiss's 'CBS Evening News' covers a "GOP-led" House hearing by airing 4 obnoxious Democrat soundbites to just 1 from the GOP. Rep. McIver asking the ICE Director "Do you think you're going to Hell?" was aired (and ALSO quoted by host Tony Dokoupil). So uncivil & divisive! pic.twitter.com/JWOMt2YCZW — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 11, 2026 ABC’s World News Tonight covered the hearing, promoting two Democrat soundbites and two Republicans. But one Republican was chewing out ICE, and the other was granted just six words. So that’s three to one, at best. Or consider the House hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi. The CBS Evening News piece on that was three Democrats to two Republicans, if you count Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) who demonizes Trump on the Epstein matter. ABC’s Rachel Scott featured two soundbites of Pramila Jayapal, two from Becca Balint, and one from Deborah Ross – and one from Trump-hating Republican Massie. NBC Nightly News and Hallie Jackson brought four soundbites to zero – and one angry Epstein survivor. On NBC’s Today, Ryan Nobles repeated the unanimous tilt, with three Democrats and Massie and two angry Epstein survivors. The theater in these reports was exactly as the Democrats constructed it, with Jayapal telling the Epstein survivors in the hearing room to rise so Bondi could apologize to them for the Trump Justice Department messing up in its Epstein files release. At the same time, the networks skip hearings that didn’t please the Democrat narrative, like the House Ways & Means Committee hearing on "Foreign Influence In American Non-Profits,” specifically leftist non-profits who fund anti-ICE and pro-Hamas protesters. They can’t abide any discussion of the notion that the protest organizers they use in their stories are paid to make “news.” These same networks clearly enjoyed the completely one-sided approach of the Pelosi-Picked Panel on the January 6 riot, which only included two House Republicans that Pelosi appointed. Almost every minute of hearings was aired live on all these networks, and no one on that committee ever spoke a word against the Democrats. It was perfectly partisan, often presented  with carefully edited testimony clips to make all the DNC points. No Republican could criticize Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s failure to protect the Capitol, or change the subject to the race riots of 2020, which caused up to $2 billion in property damage and at least 25 deaths. Those, apparently, were the “good” riots, described as a “rebellion” or a “racial reckoning.” In this Congress, Democrats have not been removed from the hearing rooms, and all of their screechy rants are promoted by their supportive media outlets, while Republican arguments that Trump has accomplished something are largely left on the cutting-room floor. Anyone arguing that hearings are too combative and aren’t substantive should consult exactly what the networks choose to broadcast on television, and what kind of behavior they have rewarded with national attention. 

On Wednesday the House passed the Save America Act which would require those registering to vote to present proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a birth certificate or a passport. Those already registered would need to show up to vote with a valid photo ID like a drivers license. As Craig Bannister noted recently, even CNN pointed out that requiring voter ID is overwhelmingly popular, even with minorities. But it hasn't stopped the leftist media, CNN included, from trying to twist the requirement into an act of racism. That spectacle was in full swing Wednesday night on CNN's NewsNight With Abby Phillip, where panelist Scott Jennings went at it with both the Host, and fellow panelist Alencia Johnson, who accused President Trump of racism, for among other things, "championing a bill that actually would take voting rights away from a lot of Black people in this country."  Jennings wasted little time responding, and he repeatedly pressed Johnson for specifics, but all he got was the Chuck Schumer talking point. The way he just asks questions and expects a logical answer really underlines weak arguments.  JENNINGS: Wait. What voting rights is he taking away from Black voters? JOHNSON: Oh, we look at The Save Act, that's exactly what we're talking about. That is actually going to continue to disenfranchise overwhelmingly a lot of people of color. JENNINGS: How? JOHNSON: There are so many civil rights organizations that have run the data. If we look at the way that it is going to disenfranchise Black voters, it's the same reason why Chuck Schumer called Jim Crow 2.0. JENNINGS: So, how?.. You haven't said how yet. JOHNSON: I am talking about it. JENNINGS: How? Unable to answer Jennings, Johnson switched gears a bit. JOHNSON: It's the way that we're putting new poll taxes on this.. JENNINGS: Poll taxes? JOHNSON: ..That's what we can call them now. It's kind of an idiom, right? If you want to say that people have to prove that they are citizens, that they have to prove with a voter ID. The reality is you're layering what is a constitutional right for the American people and making it harder for people to vote in this country, and it's going to disenfranchise Black voters. JENNINGS: ..Does it concern you that you're making all these claims, you've yet to layout how it's hurting anyone but 76 percent of black voters think we should show an ID to vote 80 percent of Hispanic voters, 83 percent of the American people? Are you saying that Black voters are too dumb to know what's good for them? I mean it sounds pretty condescending. Johnson denied saying that, and then Phillips took up her cause, with more leftist talking points, as she and Jennings would talk over each other a lot. PHILLIP: Most Americans don't have a passport. Many Americans don't have access to their birth certificate. Many women, a majority of women who change their names for marriage have to provide additional proof that they've changed their names in order to register to vote. JENNINGS: ..You're saying married women, Black voters and rural people are too stupid to figure out how to register to vote? PHILLIP: ..I'm just saying a fact that a majority of Americans do not have passports. Many Americans, including white people, okay, do not have their original birth certificate or access to it.... JENNINGS: I guess I have little more faith in rural America and married women than you do. PHILLIP: ...I don't know why you're making this about whether you're smart or not. JENNINGS: You're saying that they can't vote, that they can't figure out how to document to register to vote? PHILLIP: ...I mean, there are elderly people in this country who are 80 years old and they haven't seen their original birth certificate in decades. They would need to provide proof of citizenship -- JENNINGS: This is fear mongering, this is scare tactics. It is indeed both. Unless an 80 year old is registering to vote, they do not need a birth certificate to vote. And any American who does, can simply click here to get it. And they can click here to get a passport. It doesn't sound like Jim Crow to me.

Outside of Donald Trump, there is perhaps no single person or entity the elite liberal media hate more than Fox News and its founder, Rupert Murdoch. And, whenever they’ve wanted to obsess over him, they’ve sucked up to Murdoch stalker Gabe Sherman. So, when he came out with the book Bonfire of the Murdochs on February 3, he was welcome on CNBC and MS NOW with nearly 30 minutes of interviews (29:41). Despite all that, Bookscan results showed a pathetic 1,118 copies were sold in its first week. The book sales are even more embarrassing when considering its opening week was worse than Olivia Nuzzi’s cartoonishly bad memoir, American Canto. On the other end of the spectrum, Bookscan scored the leading book as self-help author Mel Robbins’s latest The Let Them Theory at 40,130 copies sold. Sherman’s woeful opening unsurprisingly didn’t crack the top 200 books of this young year thus far and even pulled behind books such as Comfy Buddies: A Creepy Sweet Coloring Book and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. On the February 2 Morning Joe, MS NOW Mika Brzezinski fawned over Sherman as having “been covering the Murdochs for nearly 20 years and interviewed more than 150 sources for the new book”. “Wow. Congratulations…That’s a lot,” she exclaimed at the start of a five-minute-plus chat. Sherman lamented the Murdochs are “a family that puts its pathology into the business and now we're all living the consequences.” Ah, yes, “consequences” as in Americans having more diversity of thought in television news. The horror. MS NOW loved it so much they ran a condensed version of the interview on February 7’s Morning Joe Weekend. Sherman resurfaced hours later on MS NOW’s The Beat for the longest TV interview at seven minutes and seven seconds. Host Ari Melber huffed: “[Rupert] Murdoch, of course, wrote the global business playbook, which many copy now trotting into different countries, deploying media assets quite blatantly as political leverage, not independent journalism. He oversees companies that break all kinds of rules.” The creep then asserted to Melber that the patriarch “is spending the final years of his life feeling powerless” having become “hostage not only to the trump Maga base, but also became hostage to his own children, who were fighting each other for control of the empire.” Following nearly eight minutes the next day (February 3) on CNBC’s Squawk Box, he was welcome back on MS NOW with The 11th Hour as host Stephanie Ruhle breathlessly hyped an excerpt that Fox News and the New York Post are a “propaganda machine” that’s “monetized outrage, spread conspiracy theories, and shaped the minds of millions across three continents.”

Today, President Trump repealed the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding, which constituted the basis for a slew of regulations that impacted every aspect of daily life and imposed enormous costs on the American people. ABC World News Tonight went into a full meltdown. This is how anchor David Muir introduced the report: Thus @ABCWorldNews sums up President Trump's repeal of the EPA endangerment finding: Trump gave up the power to regulate climate, he has rejected the science, and he will kill you pic.twitter.com/rX2iuMk0Lp — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 13, 2026 DAVID MUIR: Tonight, President Trump has repealed U.S. power to regulate climate in this country. The president officially rejecting the science. And what this now clears the way for. Critics tonight arguing this is not only dangerous for the environment but for your health. “The power to regulate climate”, says Muir. We always knew that the presidential power Donald Trump wields is tremendous, we just didn’t know it was god-like. Does Trump regulate the climate with a thermostat? Does he speak to it? Muir doesn’t specify, further adding that Trump has rejected The Science™. In fairness, The Science™ said that the East Coast should’ve been underwater by now. The Germans seppukued their nuclear program based on, you guessed it: The Science ™. For the final kicker, Muir bleats that the repeal of the endangerment finding will harm your health. He then kicks it over to Mary Bruce, who rehashes these points but with Mary Brucean flair- saying that Trump “wiped out” then “erased” the government science. No pure air and clean skies for you! Why did ABC get so worked up over the repeal? First of all, there is the general Trump derangement that is baked into everything they do. Second, the blunt rejection of a critical component of the leftwing policy pupu platter, as is the idea of anthropogenic climate change. And finally, the perceived erasure of yet another signature Obama legacy item. They can’t contain themselves. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, February 12th, 2025: DAVID MUIR: Tonight, President Trump has repealed U.S. power to regulate climate in this country. The president officially rejecting the science. And what this now clears the way for. Critics tonight arguing this is not only dangerous for the environment but for your health. Here's Mary Bruce now. MARY BRUCE: Tonight, in the blink of an eye, President Trump wiping out the government science that was the foundation of the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to fight climate change, to keep the air pure and the skies clean. DONALD TRUMP: This is a big one, if you're into environment. This is about as big as it gets, they tell me. BRUCE: Trump has labeled climate change a hoax. And today, he erased the scientific conclusion that greenhouse gases, pollution from cars and factories, endanger human health. TRUMP: A disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers. BRUCE: Is this a decision based on science? MATTHEW DAVIS: No. This is definitely not a decision based on science. BRUCE: Scientist Matthew Davis, who worked at the EPA under Democrats and Republicans, says Trump's move will have deadly consequences. DAVIS: As there's more air pollution, smog and soot in the air, we see more heart attacks, strokes, asthma attacks. All these things. BRUCE: The president was asked what he would say to Americans who worry about that. TRUMP: I tell them don't worry about it because it has nothing to do with public health. This is all a scam. A giant scam. BRUCE: The White House is touting this as the largest deregulation in U.S. history. Clearing the way for major changes to cars, power plants, and oil and gas production. David. MUIR: Mary Bruce at The White House tonight. Mary, thank you.  

Late Wednesday, New York Times media reporter Benjamin Mullin shared that CBS Evening News producer Alicia Hastey had not only taken one of the offered buyouts to employees of the flagship newscast who weren’t onboard with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s vision, but that she penned a tirade about dismay over the network’s “heartbreaking” “ideological” changes and what she claimed was a culture in which staff wouldn’t be able to properly engage in the journalism of St. Walter Cronkite. Simply put, this had all the trappings of a liberal theatre kid who thinks their life must be like The West Wing. But not only was it nauseatingly dramatic, Hastey completely ignored what’s been happening on her own network with stories just this week that were no different than past newscasts helmed by John Dickerson, Norah O’Donnell, or Scott Pelley. Hastey’s 442-word rant said she was writing to her colleagues “with sadness” that she was leaving after four years that stared “with gratitude and optimism” and was now, well, not. “I want to leave you with these thoughts only as a reminder of things I know you already know,” she declared with the kind of arrogance that current anchor Tony Dokoupil and Weiss have railed against. She insisted she’s focused on “underrepresented perspectives,” “challeng[ing] conventional wisdom,” and “more responsive” reporting. Lacking the courage to trash Dokoupil and/or Weiss by name, she then described the future of CBS News as no longer committed to telling the truth but instead considering stories based on “ideological expectations”: But, there has been a sweeping new vision prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has been described as “heterodox” journalism. The truth is that commitment to those people and the stories they have to tell is increasingly becoming impossible. Stories may instead be evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations — a dynamic that pressures producers and reporters to self-censor or avoid challenging narratives that might trigger backlash or unfavorable headlines. Pausing for a second, if those things are true and happening at CBS, why then did this piece air on Thursday’s CBS Mornings: WATCH: Thursday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ had a full story expressing disgust that the Trump administration has detained and seeking to deport a man from Ireland who’s been here illegally for almost 20 years and touted as fact his claims that DHS holding facilities are like a “modern-day… pic.twitter.com/3Jgffhr6uM — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 12, 2026 Or, how about this one a few segments later about climate change ruining the Winter Olympics: Incredible. Thursday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ had a full story warning climate change is slowly killing the Winter Olympics and cheering a petition by former Olympians to bully the International Olympic Committee into banning fossil fuel sponsorships pic.twitter.com/2ccO59qHE1 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 12, 2026 How about one more from the same show? In its “USA to Z” series for America’s 250th birthday, the show spotlighted Miami’s Freedom Tower as a beacon for Cuban refugees, but never used the c-word (communism) or even an l-word (left, liberal) to describe the Castro regime: Why did Cuban refugees flee to the U.S.? Thursday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ couldn’t use the c-word of “communism” or an ideological label to describe the Cuban dictatorship of Fidel Castro in a piece spotlighting Miami’s Freedom Tower. pic.twitter.com/YAgGLJvTq7 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 12, 2026 Okay, that’s the morning show and she worked at the CBS Evening News. But how about this story from Tuesday’s Evening News: Bari Weiss's 'CBS Evening News' covers a "GOP-led" House hearing by airing 4 obnoxious Democrat soundbites to just 1 from the GOP. Rep. McIver asking the ICE Director "Do you think you're going to Hell?" was aired (and ALSO quoted by host Tony Dokoupil). So uncivil & divisive! pic.twitter.com/JWOMt2YCZW — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) February 11, 2026 If that wasn’t enough, how about this attempt to find new victims of ICE by partnering with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): The thing about immigration as a hot-button issue is that it requires fresh victims in order to remain on the front-page. Watch as CBS News goes fishing in Idaho: pic.twitter.com/e1UTtEUSeg — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026 How could we forget this doozy from correspondent Nicole Sganga back on January 12: CBS's Nicole Sganga insists on fomenting civil unrest, referring to the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent as a "murder" pic.twitter.com/HNFH1RSPul — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 13, 2026 But who can forget this insane CBSNews.com item scoffing at illegal immigrants arrested with “non-violent” offenses that ran on both newscasts and featured a boost from Weiss herself on social media. You, dear readers, get the point. Back to the theatre kid’s attempt at playing Spartacus. She explained she wasn’t attacking those “who remain at CBS News” and insisted they’re still “produc[ing] thoughtful and important work, even under difficult circumstances” and that, in turn, was “what makes this moment so heartbreaking: the very excellence we seek to sustain is hindered by fear and uncertainty.” She even quoted Cronkite, who allegedly once defended the news business as being biased liberals, saying “[h]e understood that labels are inevitable, but standards are what matter” and “journalism” is whatever we determine it to be as per their own standards, “not what critics call it.” The concluding thoughts were the kind of haughtiness that remind us too many liberal national journalists think they’re the First Amendment in the same way Emperor Palpatine told the Jedi he was the Senate: I’ve always taken comfort in the belief that if we hold fast to those first ideals, trust follows. But those ideals cannot stand on their own. They require vigilance. They require courage. I know that you all will continue to show that courage — offering news, guidance and respect to the millions who come to us every night. Don’t let anyone diminish the incredible impact you can and do have. None of this is to say CBS News won’t improve or that Dokoupil and Weiss were selling the public a bill of goods they didn’t intend to deliver. Indeed there have been some signs of progress (see here, here, here, and here). Rather, it has, at a minimum, laid bare the deep, ingrained levels of liberal, geographically-slanted bias that remains.