Four of the five liberal late night comedy shows focused a lot of energy on their Thursday episodes on the situation in Minneapolis. According to them, the administration is lying about the female driver being a threat to the ICE agent who shot her, people who agree with the administration are fascists, and Trump plans to use the situation to further his goal of governing without elections. After playing a clip of DHS chief Kristi Noem claiming the driver rammed the agents, The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert quipped on CBS, “I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you lying over your hat. Yesterday, Minnesota governor Tim Walz tweeted, ‘I've seen the video. Don't believe this propaganda machine.’"     For months, blue states and cities have refused to cooperate with the feds, but now that the shoe is on the other foot, Colbert smelled a conspiracy afoot, “And not only are they trying to spin this without presenting the evidence, today Minnesota investigators said that the FBI has blocked them from accessing the evidence. So, the message from this administration is clear: Only they determine the truth, and when our forces come to your city, obey or die, and if you die, you clearly didn't obey.” He further warned that, “This should be an alarm bell for the entire country, whether you live in a red state or a blue state. Because if we let this go on, regardless of who your state voted for, one day you'll have unaccountable armed government agents acting with impunity in your town. So, peacefully, and non-violently, please let your leaders know you don't want that.” Over on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel asked MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow, “I'm sure you've been following that [Minneapolis] closely. And I know, besides doing the show, you are a student of American history. You know a lot about what's going on. Have we seen anything like this before? Anything that you can think of?” Maddow could not, “There are parallels to all sorts of different slices of what we are seeing right now, but we've never had a president who thinks he should rule without being subject to elections.”     She further claimed, “So, that means he plans on staying after we want him to go, and he is essentially invading U.S. cities and using military-style force against the American people. And that is—that combination of things, being deeply unpopular. Nobody's ever been this unpopular at this point in their presidency except for Richard Nixon. And at this point in Richard Nixon's presidency, he was less than a year away from resigning. I mean, Trump is really unpopular. And the violence that he is using against the American people while telling us he doesn't care what we think is pretty unique, and it's pretty radical. And that's why you're seeing so many people protest against him.” Fact-check: Trump’s RCP average approval rating is currently 44.3 percent while George W. Bush’s RCP average on January 9, 2006, was 42.9. On NBC’s Late Night, host Seth Meyers echoed Colbert and accused Noem of lying, “So, the Trump administration lied about their deportation plan, and now they're lying about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. The Trump team knows that what we can all see with our own eyes is indefensible, which is why they have to lie about it.     After the same clip of Noem that Colbert played, Meyers repeated himself, “Two things. First of all, that's a blatant lie contradicted by the video evidence we can all see clearly with our own eyes, probably because we're not wearing oversized cowboy hats.” The second big takeaway, according to Meyers, is that the administration is being hypocritical, “You guys, these days suck. Trying to find a way to talk about the world we live in with levity sucks so much. But I do think it's important to finish with this: A 37-year-old mother in a Honda Pilot was shot dead on a residential street, and they're calling her a terrorist. The same people who called those who stormed a federal building heroes, the same people who supported pardoning those who beat Capitol police officers while ignoring their orders to stop, are telling us that a woman shot dead in her own car, in her own community, is a domestic terrorist and when they do that, they’re also telling us who they are.” Back on Comedy Central, The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week, Ronny Chieng, declared there to be only one legitimate way to view the video, “people have been watching the videos over and over, breaking them down frame by frame until they end up with resting Kash Patel face. And it's already become just one more political Rorschach test in America: Some people see a peaceful protestor getting murdered, and other people are fascists.”     Later, he added: And look, if you're thinking they don't need to enforce the law this violently, you're correct, they don't need to be this violent. The violence and showing the violence is the point. This is why just breaking down these videos frame by frame doesn't tell the whole story of what happened here. Okay, people keep saying this ICE agent feared for his safety. Maybe so, but we also have to acknowledge that this woman probably feared for her safety too, and for good reason. And telling someone to "just comply with law enforcement" isn't helpful when ICE has spent the past year acting less like law enforcement and more like a lawless militia. So, unfortunately, we can expect this to keep happening, not because ICE is going into dangerous situations, but because they keep going into safe situations and then making them more dangerous than they need to be. The real truth is the agent in question isn’t some inexperienced, trigger-happy wannabe cowboy. He’s got experience with people using vehicles as a weapon, as he was hospitalized in June after being dragged 100 yards by an illegal immigrant driver.  Here are transcripts for the January 8-taped shows: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 1/8/2026 11:39 PM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you lying over your hat. Yesterday, Minnesota governor Tim Walz tweeted, "I've seen the video. Don't believe this propaganda machine." And he does mean machine. I'm pretty sure Kristi Noem was the original prototype for M3GAN. And this is not, to be clear, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. Yesterday's deadly encounter is the ninth ICE Shooting since September. So, this feels less like an anomaly and more like a trend. You don't watch the ninth Fast and Furious movie and say: "You know, I'm beginning to get the sense that Vin Diesel really cares about family." And not only are they trying to spin this without presenting the evidence, today Minnesota investigators said that the FBI has blocked them from accessing the evidence. So, the message from this administration is clear: Only they determine the truth, and when our forces come to your city, obey or die, and if you die, you clearly didn't obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country, whether you live in a red state or a blue state. Because if we let this go on, regardless of who your state voted for, one day you'll have unaccountable armed government agents acting with impunity in your town. So, peacefully, and non-violently, please let your leaders know you don't want that. *** ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1/9/2026 12:23 AM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Transitioning to a very serious topic, Minneapolis, what's happening there right now and, I don't know, something I just saw on the news coming down, something may have happened in Portland as well. I did not get to see the details on that. RACHEL MADDOW: Yeah. KIMMEL: I'm sure you've been following that closely. And I know, besides doing the show, you are a student of American history. You know a lot about what's going on. Have we seen anything like this before? Anything that you can think of? MADDOW: There are parallels to all sorts of different slices of what we are seeing right now, but we've never had a president who thinks he should rule without being subject to elections. And this presidency is not offering this country very much right now, especially in terms of the earnest reasons that people may have voted for him. If you thought he was going to do something about inflation, he hasn't. And his tariffs made it worse. And if you thought he was going to fix health care, whatever. Everybody's health care premiums are going through the roof. And that's specifically because of something that he did. He's invaded Venezuela. Maybe you thought he wasn't going to start foreign wars. All this stuff that you maybe thought was on offer from him, is not. And instead, what we've got is a guy who is saying he doesn't really believe he's subject to election results if he loses. So, that means he plans on staying after we want him to go, and he is essentially invading U.S. cities and using military-style force against the American people. And that is — that combination of things, being deeply unpopular. Nobody's ever been this unpopular at this point in their presidency except for Richard Nixon. And at this point in Richard Nixon's presidency, he was less than a year away from resigning. I mean, Trump is really unpopular. And the violence that he is using against the American people while telling us he doesn't care what we think is pretty unique, and it's pretty radical. And that's why you're seeing so many people protest against him. KIMMEL: Yeah. MADDOW: And I think that's why he is so worried about the protests. *** NBC Late Night with Seth Meyers 1/9/2026 12:50 AM ET SETH MEYERS: So, the Trump administration lied about their deportation plan, and now they're lying about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. The Trump team knows that what we can all see with our own eyes is indefensible, which is why they have to lie about it. KRISTI NOEM: It was an act of domestic terrorism. What happened was our ICE officers were out in enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle, and a woman attacked them, and those surrounding them, and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. MEYERS: Two things. First of all, that's a blatant lie contradicted by the video evidence we can all see clearly with our own eyes, probably because we're not wearing oversized cowboy hats. Why is Kristi Noem always in some sort of cosplay outfit. Seriously, look at all these different fits she's tried on for her stupid photo ops. She loves camouflage so much she even uses it on her lectern. Why are you disguising the lectern? "Whoa, Kristi Noem can make a microphone float."  You guys, these days suck. Trying to find a way to talk about the world we live in with levity sucks so much. But I do think it's important to finish with this: A 37-year-old mother in a Honda Pilot was shot dead on a residential street, and they're calling her a terrorist. The same people who called those who stormed a federal building heroes, the same people who supported pardoning those who beat Capitol police officers while ignoring their orders to stop, are telling us that a woman shot dead in her own car, in her own community, is a domestic terrorist and when they do that, they’re also telling us who they are. *** Comedy Central The Daily Show 1/8/2026 11:02 PM ET RONNY CHIENG: Now look, people have been watching the videos over and over, breaking them down frame by frame until they end up with resting Kash Patel face. And it's already become just one more political Rorschach test in America: Some people see a peaceful protestor getting murdered, and other people are fascists … And look, if you're thinking they don't need to enforce the law this violently, you're correct, they don't need to be this violent. The violence and showing the violence is the point. This is why just breaking down these videos frame by frame doesn't tell the whole story of what happened here. Okay, people keep saying this ICE agent feared for his safety. Maybe so, but we also have to acknowledge that this woman probably feared for her safety too, and for good reason. And telling someone to "just comply with law enforcement" isn't helpful when ICE has spent the past year acting less like law enforcement and more like a lawless militia. So, unfortunately, we can expect this to keep happening, not because ICE is going into dangerous situations, but because they keep going into safe situations and then making them more dangerous than they need to be.

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Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: The Views Claims Trump 'Dictatorship' Can and Will KILL Their Audience UPDATED: ABC Continues To Hide Minnesota Fraud, NBC Plays Defense for Somalis  ABC Analyst Smears ICE Agent in Minneapolis, Suggests He Didn’t Know What He Was Doing NBC Only Newscast to Report Vehicular Obstruction in Minneapolis ICE Shooting   The Views Claims Trump 'Dictatorship' Can and Will KILL Their Audience The View's Dangerous Escalation to Death Threats: In a shocking ramp-up from their 2025 rhetoric falsely labeling Trump a dictator, the hosts of The View now explicitly warn their audience that under Trump's "fascist America" and "dictatorship," anyone—including viewers—could be killed by law enforcement on a whim, with Whoopi Goldberg stating the victim "could have been anybody in this audience" and urging protesters to "be smart" because "anything can happen now." Ignoring Facts to Push Anti-ICE Propaganda: The panel baselessly framed the Minneapolis ICE shooting as an "unlawful killing" in a fascist state, dismissing exculpatory evidence that the woman obstructed agents and used her vehicle as a weapon—while hosts like Joy Behar smeared ICE agents as underqualified bonus-chasers and Sara Haines falsely claimed rapid hiring attracted "the wrong type of people" via videogame-style recruitment, despite the involved agent's decade of experience. Inciting Fear and Radicalization Through Misinformation: By tying unrelated claims—like fabricated stories of an illegal war in Venezuela or threats against Greenland—to the shooting, the hosts (including Sunny Hostin demanding viewers "believe what your eyes see" over facts) spread Orwellian propaganda that radicalizes audiences, implies violence as a response to a supposed dictatorship, and endangers public discourse without any substantive pushback. UPDATED: ABC Continues To Hide Minnesota Fraud, NBC Plays Defense for Somalis  ABC's Journalistic Malpractice in Burying the Minnesota Fraud Scandal: ABC's World News Tonight has devoted a mere 35 seconds to the massive Somali-linked social-services fraud—potentially up to $19 billion—while spending over three times as much airtime (122 seconds) framing Somalis as victims of ICE and the Trump administration, effectively hiding the story and Governor Walz's resignation from viewers. NBC's Biased Defense of the Somali Community Over Fraud Facts: Despite surging coverage to 364 seconds after a conservative YouTuber's viral video exposed sham daycares, NBC initially gave more than twice as much airtime to sympathetic portrayals of Somalis (148 seconds) than to the fraud itself (65 seconds), only shifting focus later while downplaying denials from Walz's administration. CBS Outshines Peers with Actual Investigative Journalism: In stark contrast to ABC's near-silence and NBC's defensive spin, CBS Evening News delivered robust coverage with 766 seconds across multiple reports—focusing primarily on the fraud allegations (496 seconds)—thanks to strong on-the-ground reporting that uncovered new details in a scandal the other networks downplayed.   ABC Analyst Smears ICE Agent in Minneapolis, Suggests He Didn’t Know What He Was Doing Baseless Smearing of ICE Agents by Media Analysts: ABC analyst Elizabeth Neumann recklessly accused an ICE officer of being undertrained and clueless in a deadly Minneapolis shooting, speculating that rapid hiring under the administration led to incompetent agents—despite admitting no knowledge of the officer's background or facts. Ignoring Facts in Favor of Anti-ICE Narratives: Media outlets like ABC downplayed the woman's use of her vehicle as a deadly weapon, labeling her "unarmed" and echoing far-left Mayor Jacob Frey's profane demands for ICE to leave Minneapolis, while fellow analyst Robert Boyce fact-checked these claims and urged waiting for evidence. Provocative Speculation Fuels Division: Neumann doubled down by blaming the incident on the administration's "provocative" anti-migrant playbook, claiming it endangers both officers and the public through hasty expansions—exemplifying premature judgments that undermine law enforcement without substantiation.   NBC Only Newscast to Report Vehicular Obstruction in Minneapolis ICE Shooting NBC Stands Alone in Honest Reporting: While ABC and CBS buried or ignored key facts in the Minneapolis ICE shooting, NBC Nightly News was the only legacy evening newscast to clearly report that the woman was actively obstructing federal agents by blocking traffic with her vehicle—providing crucial context that justifies the officer's use of force. Rare Media Praise for Defying the Anti-ICE Narrative: In a refreshing break from the usual bias-by-omission, NBC's Tom Llamas and Tom Winter delivered nuanced, fact-based coverage, highlighting the vehicle's role in blocking law enforcement and the potential imminent threat, rather than defaulting to the media's typical impulse to paint ICE in the worst possible light. Context Matters—NBC Proves It: By noting the police chief's statement about the vehicle blocking agents, the activated lights identifying law enforcement, and the split-second decision facing an officer in front of a moving car, NBC gave viewers the full picture and a "dose of context and nuance" that exposes how other networks deliberately omit exculpatory details to fuel outrage against immigration enforcement.  

The network news can hardly notice the massive welfare fraud perpetrated by Somalis in Minnesota, and the media find nothing offensive about local Democrats telling ICE to 'get the f--k out of Minneapolis' (Mayor Jacob Frey) and threatening to deploy the National Guard against ICE (Gov. Tim Walz).  The latest numbers on NewsBusters from Bill D'Agostino showed that from December 1 through January 7, CBS Evening News offered almost 13 minutes on the largely Somali effort to defraud the federal government, while ABC's World News Tonight offered only 35 seconds.  NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and MRC External Affairs Manager Jerris Jackson joined the show to discuss the narratives coming out of Minneapolis. On their ABC News Live streaming channel, weekday afternoon host Kyra Phillips touted far-left Mayor Jacob Frey’s (D)  lecture about ICE getting the “F” out of Minneapolis, calling it “powerful words...after ICE agents killed a woman” who was “unarmed.” ABC News contributor Elizabeth Neumann recklessly speculated this officer likely had no clue what he was doing when he shot the woman dead. It's become apparent that our elitist media hate ICE, and don't find anything offensive about attempting to harm them while they perform their duties. Is it implausible that activist Renee Good was going to run over an ICE agent? It's not if you looked at a Justice Department press release from January 5 (hat tip: Power Line blog): Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero…has been charged by indictment with two counts of Assault on a Federal Officer with a Dangerous Weapon and one count of Assault on a Federal Officer, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. On the morning of December 21, 2025, ICE deportation officers attempted to arrest Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rodriguez Romero is a citizen of Cuba and subject to removal. Uniformed ICE agents initiated a traffic stop of Rodriguez. Rodriguez refused to obey commands and attempted to flee in his car. While fleeing, Rodriguez accelerated his car towards ICE officers who were on foot. Rodriguez sped away but soon hit two parked cars and lost control of his vehicle. ICE officers attempted to apprehend Rodriguez Romero a second time. Rodriguez Romero again accelerated his car towards officers, one of whom fired his weapon towards Rodriguez Romero. Rodriguez Romero struck one officer while trying to flee during this second attempt. When ICE officers apprehended Rodriguez Romero, he bit one of the officers, drawing blood. Two ICE officers were transported to the hospital, suffering from bruised ribs, a dislocated finger, and a bite wound. In Chicago in September, an illegal alien ran over an ICE agent and dragged him on the road until he was shot. Then and now, that's described as an ICE use-of-force scandal, not as an attack on ICE. Enjoy our video podcast below, or the audio is here. 

In the case of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, there is a congealing media narrative of a wife, mother, and good neighbor being gunned down in cold blood by the evil fed. There were other, less convenient details to this story that became public today. However, the legacy media evening newscasts have not yet reported them. There is more to Good’s story. Per this reporting, Good was more than an innocent bystander. She was, in fact, “an anti-ICE warrior:” Per The New York Post: Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal. Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said. “She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday. None of the evening newscasts mentioned these details, which would inevitably alter public perception of the story. There is certainly the matter of timeliness, but this is no excuse. The story was published, then updated shortly before the evening newscasts went on the air. Time was tight, but the networks have demonstrated time and again that they will get late-breaking news into the newscast when they want to. The details of Good’s advocacy are not convenient to the narrative of a terrified mother seeking to get away from the scary immigration agents. None of the evening network newscasts, despite there being time to squeak something in, included this vital detail. Nothing on ABC, CBS or NBC. Good’s advocacy clarifies both her presence at the scene, and a potential motive for the actions she undertook which, sadly, ended with death. The media’s refusal to cover these details (so far) betrays the ongoing disconnect between them and their viewership.

What is going on in The People’s Republic of Minnesota? The Democrat establishment in the Gopher State is nothing like it was back in the Reagan years, with ex-vice president Walter Mondale or Gov. Rudy Perpich. The insurrectionist echoes of their language about immigration-enforcement cops is eyebrow-raising in the same week the elitist media somberly mourned the attack on police at the January 6 riot. On January 7, activist Renee Nicole Good used her car to try and block traffic to resist ICE agents. When she refused requests to step out of the car and instead drove her car into an ICE agent, he shot her. That’s a terrible thing. But so was the shooting of activist Ashli Babbitt by a policeman on January 6. How is running over ICE agents not like threatening the Capitol Police on January 6? If you don’t believe ICE agents were in danger, then maybe you should read about how Cuban illegal alien Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero “interacted” with ICE agents last December 21. On January 5, a Justice Department press release noted when ICE agents initiated a traffic stop with Romero in St. Paul, he “refused to obey commands and attempted to flee in his car.” He accelerated his car toward ICE officers who were on foot. He then lost control of his car, and ICE tried to apprehend him a second time. Romero again accelerated his car and struck one officer. When ICE officers actually apprehended him, he “bit one of the officers, drawing blood. Two ICE officers were transported to the hospital, suffering from bruised ribs, a dislocated finger, and a bite wound.” Last September, an illegal alien ran over and dragged an ICE agent in Chicago until ICE shot him dead. But there was no sympathy for the dragged agent. CNN and the rest of the press treated that as ICE brutality, absolving the violent cop-dragging. WBEZ, the Chicago NPR station, openly promoted assisting the ICE resisters: “Here’s how you can help us track where ICE agents are being deployed in Chicago.” The Democrats align themselves with violent leftists resisting ICE. “Get the f—k out of Minneapolis,” proclaimed Mayor Jacob Frey after Renee Good was killed. Gov. Tim Walz suggested he’d deploy the National Guard: "I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary.” Minnesota Democrats openly allied themselves with Somali-Americans who defrauded the federal government of billions of dollars. When Team Trump drew attention to this massive fraud, Walz called it “white supremacy.” These radical stances underline the wokeness, or the “anti-racism” of Democrats and their affiliated media outlets, who see everything through a lens of oppressive “white privilege.” It’s precisely this wokeness that enabled the massive fraud in the first place, and which now seeks to disable any attempt at deportations.   Will these stances hurt the Democrats statewide in Minnesota? They already caused Walz to drop out, and Sen. Tina Smith is retiring, so there's open seats, and Kamala Harris only won the state by four points. Will it hurt Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in the Senate race? She recently demonstrated her wokeness by donning a hijab in a video released on Christmas and proclaiming solidarity with our Somali “immigrant neighbors.” Wokeness damaged Kamala Harris in 2024, but Democrats can’t seem to curb their pandering to illegal immigrants and Somali fraudsters. The “mainstream” media stand with the Democrat extreme on these issues, promoting Frey and Walz and Ellison, but biased media -- hailing their rants as "powerful" -- doesn’t always bring victory.