The Daily Show’s host-of-the-week Desi Lydic welcomed former U.S. Women’s National Team soccer player-turned progressive culture warrior Megan Rapinoe to Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show to help her promote her new podcast, Why Are You Like This? During their conversation Lydic and Rapinoe would smear the country as a bunch of sexists, while Rapinoe would claim that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is her dream guest.Lydic began by wondering, “So, we, the U.S. just hosted the World Cup. What do you think is harder? Getting Americans to care about soccer or getting Americans to care about women?” The Daily Show's Desi Lydic asks Megan Rapinoe, "So, the U.S. Just hosted the World Cup. What do you think is harder? Getting Americans to care about soccer or getting Americans to care about women?"Rapinoe answered "We seem super into the World Cup. We nailed that" and… pic.twitter.com/g2RbblQgkK— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 22, 2026 For Rapinoe, the answer was the former, “We seem super into the World Cup. We nailed that.” That led Lydic to wonder, “When’s the rest going to follow?”Rapinoe claimed that Americans will care about soccer outside of the context of the World Cup before they care about women, “Yeah, probably soccer.”As the two bantered back and forth, Lydic responded, “Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so far. So far” and Rapinoe added, “It feels like that's changing, but, you know, slowly?”Later, Lydic turned to the podcast and asked, “Who’s your dream guest?”Rapinoe tried to court Mamdani, “Well, I have been on a—look at the camera: Zohran Mamdani, hey girl! I’m here. I’m in New York. You’re doing a great job. We've got the soccer connection. I would love to do it. I feel like he is doing stuff very differently.” Rapinoe was on to promote her new podcast, because everyone has a podcast, so Lydic asked her "Who’s your dream guest?" Rapinoe began with "Zohran Mamdani, hey girl! I’m here, I’m in New York. You’re doing a great job." She also mentioned Michelle Obama pic.twitter.com/8Y4iFfKLUi— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 22, 2026 After citing basketball players Jalen Brunson and A’ja Wilson, Rapinoe added, “Michelle Obama would be great.”Lydic wrapped things up by thanking Rapinoe, “I appreciate all that you do, all of your advocacy, and I've got to tell you, I like that you're like this. So, thank you for being like this!”It is ironic, but not necessarily surprising, that Lydic and Rapinoe joke about the country caring more about soccer than women. Soccer is what made Rapinoe famous, but now she spends her time advocating for the erosion of competitive integrity in women’s sports by endorsing letting men who think they are women compete in them, and it is that advocacy that makes her a wanted guest for The Daily Show.Here is a transcript for the July 21 show:Comedy Central The Daily Show7/21/202611:25 PM ETDESI LYDIC: So, we, the U.S. Just hosted the World Cup. What do you think is harder? Getting Americans to care about soccer or getting Americans to care about women?MEGAN RAPINOE: We seem super into the World Cup.LYDIC: Yeah. Yeah.RAPINOE: We nailed that.LYDIC: When’s the rest going to follow?RAPINOE: Yeah, hello! Yeah, probably soccer.LYDIC: Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so far. So far.RAPINOE: It feels like that's changing, but, you know, slowly?LYDIC: I sure hope so?RAPINOE: Yeah, it is.…LYDIC: Who’s your dream guest?RAPINOE: Well, I have been on a—look at the camera: Zohran Mamdani, hey girl! I’m here, I’m in New York. You’re doing a great job.LYDIC: Make it happen!RAPINOE: We've got the soccer connection. I would love to do it. I feel like he is doing stuff very differently.LYDIC: Yes.RAPINOE: Jalen Brunson over here in New York, that would be interesting.LYDIC: Yeah. Get a Knick in there.RAPINOE: A'ja Wilson would be awesome. Michelle Obama would be great.LYDIC: Yeah. Excellent List.RAPINOE: You can come on the pod any time you want.LYDIC: Well, okay, now you mention me, sure! Sure!RAPINOE: Save the best for last.LYDIC: After Michelle Obama, okay! I appreciate all that you do, all of your advocacy and I've got to tell you, I like that you're like this. So, thank you for being like this!RAPINOE: Thank you. Thank you. 

Sexual abuse of minors is a serious crime. But when it comes to the national media, the crime is only serious if it can make Republicans look bad. Recently, Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center found that ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 1,627 minutes of airtime on their morning, evening, and Sunday shows over the last year to the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, which was overwhelmingly concentrated on Donald Trump.On July 2, The New York Times reported on the front page that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and two other officials pardoned Tou Lue Vang -- a man convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl -- so he could avoid deportation by the Trump administration. Vang’s original order of removal came in 2006.Where were ABC, CBS, and NBC on this scandal? We couldn’t find any broadcast coverage. PBS and NPR didn’t show up on this story, either. Walz was almost vice president, and they still couldn’t find it.They skipped it again on July 10, when ICE deported Vang, about twenty years too late. Laos was not accepting the return of Laotians back in the George W. Bush era, but they are now.Walz only came up on MS NOW in recounting the ICE shootings in Minnesota earlier in the year. On CNN, we could only find one mention of Walz’s pardon, on Abby Phillip’s NewsNight show, when former Trump press aide Caroline Sunshine briefly brought it up on July 10, but Phillip smothered it down, asking what that had to do with the man shot in Houston by ICE, who had no criminal record.Three nights later, Phillip was more interested in discussing “far right” people who were supposed to seek a pardon for the rapper named “Boosie Badazz.”The local media were pro-Walz. On July 17, the Minnesota Star Tribune, the biggest newspaper in the Gopher State, featured a “Cheers & Jeers” column by opinion writer Rochelle Olson. She offered “Cheers” to Walz for pardoning the pedophile! "Vang’s actions 20 years ago were awful, but so were the violent protests at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and those folks received presidential pardons,” Olson wrote.Please recall that hundreds of people pardoned in the January 6 prosecutions were convicted of “parading,” or the crime of being present in the Capitol for a few minutes and taking photographs for their Facebook page. To compare those offenders to pedophiles is ludicrous. Even people convicted of assaulting cops don’t compare with repeatedly raping a ten-year-old girl. This demonstrates how much knee-jerk liberals transform criminal migrants into automatic heroes or victims in their anti-Trump narrative.Not every Democrat in Minnesota agreed with the Walz folks. The New York Times reported the attorney’s office in Ramsey County (that includes St. Paul), which handled Vang’s prosecution long ago, opposed this pardon. Tami McConkey, an official there, wrote that Vang had received a lenient sentence of 30 years’ probation in part because the victim in the case, who was then 12, “was experiencing pressure from her family to not cooperate.” Vang’s victim supported the Walz pardon, saying she forgave Vang for his crimes. These networks display a dramatic double standard on pedophilia. It all depends on which party is facing a pedophile scandal. They dramatically overplayed the Epstein conspiracies, but Tim Walz was handed a security blanket of omission. Walz can side with a convicted pedophile over the Evil President and what he called Trump’s “personal Gestapo,” and they’ll stick to covering big summer stories like a bear stealing golf clubs.

That thing that everyone insists never happens has happened again, in New Jersey and with documented evidence exposed by the governor herself. The major networks covered it on the Elitist Media evening news, with one of the newscasts mitigating a damaging counternarrative story with “But Trump” filler.Watch as ABC World News Tonight counterprogrammed news of the discovery with whataboutism on President Trump. Watch the full report as aired on Tuesday, July 21st, 2026: WATCH: ABC mitigates 58 seconds on New Jersey's discovery of 6000+ illegal aliens on the voter rolls with 48 seconds of "But Trump". A story so damning it needs "seasoning" in order to air.DAVID MUIR: Now to the election error revealed here in the Northeast, New Jersey's… pic.twitter.com/g715ZCtHhT— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 22, 2026 DAVID MUIR: Now to the election error revealed here in the Northeast, New Jersey's governor tonight revealing more than 6000 noncitizens were mistakenly added to the voter rolls in that state. So how did this happen and how many actually voted? Here's Mary Bruce tonight.MARY BRUCE: Tonight, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill revealing that because of a computer error, about 6600 noncitizens applying for a driver's license were also improperly registered to vote.MIKIE SHERRILL: In the case of this error, some individuals indicated that they weren't citizens and weren't eligible to vote, but the software registered them anyway.BRUCE: The governor says about 400 of those noncitizens actually voted, but that there's no evidence their votes swayed any elections. She says officials became aware of the issue last week, and that all 6600 people are being scrubbed from the voter rolls.SHERRILL: We don't deflect, deny or exploit problems for our own gain. We find them and we fix them.BRUCE: The White House says the episode, quote, “underscores the absolute necessity of the SAVE America Act, President Trump's bill requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship. The President has been amping up his unproven claims of widespread election fraud, pointing a finger at China.DONALD TRUMP: …of China's sinister election meddling.BRUCE: Just three months ago, Trump heaped praise on China's longtime leader Xi Jinping.TRUMP: You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader. Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it's true.BRUCE: Today, asked if China will now face consequences for their alleged election meddling. Trump brushing it off.TRUMP: Well, we're going to talk to them about it. It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then.BRUCE: And David, back to New Jersey, the governor there says they are now scrubbing their voter rolls. And she vows this will never happen again, saying when they find problems, they fix them. David.MUIR: Mary Bruce live at The White House tonight. Mary, thanks.It is interesting that ABC keeps wanting to relitigate the President Trump speech on election security that they refused to air. Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce, at her Mary Bruciest, conjures up a mishmash of the election security speech, President Trump’s trip to China, and the SAVE America Act in order to deflect from the fact that a blue state (albeit in error, as we are told) registered ineligible noncitizens to vote. The story is too damaging to the prevailing narrative and therefore can’t just be allowed to run alone on ABC. Hence Bruce, the most overtly partisan of the White House chiefs, ran mitigation. Bruce, true to form, concludes her report by parroting Gov. Sherrill’s line on finding and fixing problems almost verbatim. And that really sums up Bruce’s reporting. Sherrill gets fluff, Trump gets “unproven claims” and “Xi-lover.”CBS, on the other hand, ran the cleanest story of all. Here is Weijia Jiang’s brief at the end of her Iran roundup, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, July 21st, 2026: WATCH: In contrast to ABC, CBS offered a clean brief on NJ's discovery of 6600+ noncitizen voters TONY DOKOUPIL: Weijia, in other news, New Jersey's Democratic governor today announced that some noncitizens were indeed able to vote in recent elections. What can you tell us… pic.twitter.com/50BUPj2tm2— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 22, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: Weijia, in other news, New Jersey's Democratic governor today announced that some noncitizens were indeed able to vote in recent elections. What can you tell us about that?WEIJIA JIANG: Tony, that's right. Governor Mikie Sherrill revealed about 6600 noncitizens were accidentally added to New Jersey's voter rolls. And about 400 of them cast improper ballots in recent elections. Sherrill said it was a serious software error in the state's motor vehicle system that led to the mistake. When these people were applying for driver's license, they answered no when asked if they were U.S. citizens but they were registered to vote, anyway. Sherrill says she is taking action to prevent anything like that from happening again. Tony.DOKOUPIL: Weijia, thank you.There is none of the fluff or mitigation included in the ABC report. Jiang performs a straightforward recitation of the story and allows viewers to assess the presented facts for themselves. A rare occurrence on the Elitist Media evening news.The same can almost be said for NBC Nightly News: WATCH: NBC' s brief on NJ discovery of 6000+ noncitizens on the voter rolls. No "But Trump" mitigation like ABC, non-specific description of the SAVE America Act without describing it by name.TOM LLAMAS: And tonight we are learning hundreds of noncitizens in New Jersey were… pic.twitter.com/jVnRML5G1M— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 22, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: And tonight we are learning hundreds of noncitizens in New Jersey were able to cast ballots because of a software glitch. Ryan Nobles joins us now live. And Ryan, the governor came out today and revealed this herself.RYAN NOBLES: Yeah, that's right, Tom. New Jersey's Governor Mikie Sherrill said that a DMV software error led to more than 6,000 noncitizens being registered to vote when they signed up for driver's licenses or identification cards. 400 of those noncitizens actually cast ballots in New Jersey elections between 2023 and 2024, though it’s unclear which elections. The governor said they were registered as Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and there's no evidence that any elections were swayed as a result. The state is now in the process of removing all of those names from the voter rolls. The number of noncitizens accidentally registered to vote were a tiny percentage of the overall New Jersey electorate. Now, President Trump, of course, putting pressure on Congress to pass new laws that would require all voters to demonstrate proof of citizenship before being eligible to vote. Tom.LLAMAS: Ryan Nobles for us.The difference between this report and CBS’s is that Congressional Correspondent Ryan Nobles did a bit of mitigation by stating that “there’s no evidence any elections were swayed as a result” of the 400 ineligible noncitizen voters. There isn’t any evidence that they didn’t sway an election, either. Nobles doesn’t say that. Nobles also goes on to mention the SAVE America Act in a weird, non-specific way, without actually saying its name.The good news in all this is that the Elitist Media evening news DIDN’T suppress a counternarrative story that bolsters President Trump’s arguments in favor of election security laws. On the other, the most Trump-deranged network reported the story in the most Trump-deranged way.

Snapstream Recently, the Democratic Party has found itself divided between the establishment wing of the party and a new, much more radical gang of socialists calling for revolutionary changes to party policy. After welcoming the socialist faction into the Democratic Party with open arms the previous day, on Tuesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough did a complete 180, attacking “socialist Republicans” for being the real communists in a bizarre and hypocritical rant.Irate that Republicans were calling out the Democrats were embracing the socialist faction that openly embraces Communist figures like Mao Zedong and Karl Marx, Scarborough shouted about how Republicans were somehow the real socialists:This president is seizing control of private companies. That is socialism! That is communism! And our debt, our debt is so massive, Social Security is running out of money. Our debt is so massive that we are now spending- you talk about socialists, these socialist Republicans in Washington DC, now have us for the first time spending more money paying the interest on their debt than we spend on defending our country with money to the armed services. Yesterday, Scarborough was supporting socialists in the Democratic party. Today he's suddenly blaming the "socialist Republicans" for the US debt crisis. Last I checked, the Dems (actually socialist!) are the ones going gung-ho for big spending. The cognitive dissonance is clear. pic.twitter.com/KlU8sltbV4— James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) July 21, 2026 In his ridiculous attack against President Trump’s “socialist” policies, Scarborough appears to have forgotten his freakout about Trump’s cuts to government spending. In fact, everything he accuses Trump of is really just a projection of his own positions. Scarborough himself was terrified by Republican spending cuts back during the Biden administration, yet now he claims to care about the U.S. debt?Scarborough also pretends to care about the armed forces, emphasizing that U.S. debt interest spending has exceeded defense spending. This coming from the guy who has repeatedly endorsed cuts to the military budget and defended radical DEI policies in the military. The only kind of military spending he seems to want is the kind that funds sex-change surgeries for soldiers!Oblivious to his hypocrisy, Scarborough continues his attacks on the “socialist” Republicans, digging deeper into them “seizing control of private companies”:I mean, it's- these people are not spending money like drunken sailors. They're spending money like drunken socialists, and they have the nerve, after seizing tech companies - they have the nerve, after spending us into massive debt, to point fingers at anybody else and say, “Oh look at them! They're the socialists! They're the communists!” No they're not. They need to just look in the mirror if they want to see who the real socialists are.When Scarborough referenced the administration “seizing tech companies,”  he was likely referring to the government’s move to buy minority stakes in a number of U.S. tech giants. Is investing in the stock market is socialist now?On the other hand, he has also argued for the government to break up major tech companies by force, a move that’s much more in line with socialist policy. So which is it, Scarborough? If Trump’s a socialist, are you one too?The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read.MS NOW’s Morning JoeJuly 21, 202607:18:06 a.m. Eastern(...)JOE SCARBOROUGH: And I would just say if I were in that position, you know, you've got the Speaker of the House and Donald Trump talking about communists, talking about socialists.Jon Lemire, I've never seen in my time a president spending more money, blowing more money, centralizing power, seizing the means of production from some of our most powerful tech companies, than this president. This president is seizing control of private companies! That is socialism! That is communism!And our debt, our debt is so massive, Social Security is running out of money. Our debt is so massive that we are now spending- you talk about socialists, these socialist Republicans in Washington DC, now have us for the first time spending more money paying the interest on their debt than we spend on defending our country with money to the armed services.I mean, it's- these people are not spending money like drunken sailors. They're spending money like drunken socialists, and they have the nerve, after seizing tech companies - they have the nerve, after spending us into massive debt, to point fingers at anybody else and say, “Oh look at them! They're the socialists! They're the communists!” No they're not. They need to just look in the mirror if they want to see who the real socialists are.JONATHAN LEMIRE: The call is coming from inside the house, comrade Trump.SCARBOROUGH: Yes.LEMIRE: This is the attack line they've settled on as we head into the midterms. And at least so far, polls suggest it's just not working.(…)

Image YouTube Screenshot  Kirchick's obvious attempt to placate liberals with the absurd DSA/MAGA comparison appeared in "The DSA Is Only Using the Democratic Party." The subtitle made clear the low opinion Kirchick held of the DSA, "The left-wing faction is a parasite."Following a long-winded treatise on how Neil Kinnock, whom Joe Biden notoriously plagiarized, saved the British Labour Party by severely denouncing a far-left group that attempted to take it over, Kirchick finally gets around to his own slapdown of the DSA for similarly trying to take over the Democrat Party:...The DSA’s agenda is alien to mainstream Democrats—or at least it should be. The organization’s draft platform calls for “fully abolishing the police and prison system,” drafting a “new constitution,” extending voting rights to noncitizens, and creating a “democratic socialist republic.” The group holds the U.S. and NATO responsible for Russia’s war against Ukraine, defends the Communist dictatorship in Cuba, and pledges to shut down the Department of Defense and all overseas American military bases.To gain leverage within the Democratic Party, the DSA is employing a tactic that Trotsky dubbed “entryism”—the willful effort by a small, disciplined cadre of radicals to infiltrate a more moderate organization and subvert it from within. It’s the same tactic that, throughout history, far-left organizations such as the Militant Tendency have routinely used to amass power. Unless the Democrats respond forcefully to the DSA’s entryism, they risk being overrun by extremists who will poison the party’s national brand and sap its capacity to compete with an already radicalized GOP.And here we see the first glimmering of Kirchick's shtick, namely the pretense that the GOP has somehow gotten as "radicalized" to the far right as what is happening to the Democrats being pushed to the loony left by the DSA.After several more paragraphs of DSA slamming for trying to take over his beloved Democrats, Kirchick goes to the theme of MAGA as DSA.One of the less remarked upon adverse effects of the Trump presidency is the way in which it has radicalized the left, giving license to bad actors and bad ideas. Fearful of appearing weak in the eyes of their base, most elected Democrats have adopted a “no enemies on the left” approach to dealing with the DSA and other radical forces. If such pusillanimity continues, Democrats risk losing their party to a band of true believers no less destructive than the furthest extremes of the MAGA movement....Democrats can look across the aisle to see what a vigorous contest for the soul of a major political party looks like. Given how slavishly the GOP has fallen into line behind Trump, it’s hard to remember the ferocity of the ideological battles that took place within the conservative movement while he was attempting a hostile takeover of that party in 2015 and 2016. The conservative-activist-and-intellectual space was galvanized by debates over Trump and what he represented, and a whopping 16 other candidates competed against Trump for the party’s nomination.Notice what was missing from Kirchick's critique of a GOP influenced by MAGA: Any specifics even remotely approaching his charges against the leftists attempting a Democrat Party takeover with such policies as abolishing the police and the prison system along with ditching the U.S. Constitution. Basically, Kirchick wants us to believe that the GOP and MAGA is just as "destructive" as the DSA without providing the least bit of evidence as to why this is so.