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PRIORITIES: CBS Evening News Mourns Pride Flag Removed from Stonewall
It is interesting what the Elitist Media evening news networks choose to report, and what they choose to omit. The CBS Evening News completely omitted, for example, the deaths of four Indiana Amish at the hands of an illegal alien truck driver. But taking down a rainbow flag? That’s just a bridge too far.
Watch the report on the removal of a Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, February 10th, 2026:
If only the 4 Indiana Amish killed by an illegal alien truck driver were rainbow flags, they might garner coverage on the CBS Evening News pic.twitter.com/OgH42Pz6Jp
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026
TONY DOKOUPIL: The Stonewall National Monument in New York City marks what is widely considered to be the birthplace of the LGBTQ rights movement, but it can no longer fly this Pride flag under a new directive from the Trump administration, part of a wider rolling back of diversity initiatives nationwide. Here is what it looked like today after the flag that flew for years was quietly removed. City lawmakers have condemned the removal, one posting on social media, quote: “they can not erase our history.”
I will remind you, again: not a second to spare for another fatal accident caused by an illegal alien truck driver with yet another non-domiciled license that entered into the country during the Biden years. But they found time for the Stonewall flag.
It wasn’t that long ago that removing monuments was all the rage. The city of Boston removed a statute of a freed slave rising from his bondage. Likewise, a statue of Thomas Jefferson was removed from City Hall in New York City. You didn’t see such uproar coming from the media.
Five years later, the media are more dismayed at the removal of a Pride flag than at the removal of historic monuments, treating it as a moral calamity more deserving of coverage than the aforementioned deadly illegal alien-induced truck accident. Decline is a choice.