I reported how Pope Leo XIV greeted Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the Pope's inaugural Mass on Sunday. It was also interesting to see the Pope's brother sitting right next to Vance and his wife in the American delegation during the mass. Lou Prevost is a big Trump supporter and a fan of Vance, so that must have been fun. //

But the media was at it again, spinning away about the greeting. Check out this headline from The Daily Beast, painting the greeting as a "snub" on Sunday. //

Catholic Sat @CatholicSat
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I love how Louis Prevost, the Pope’s brother, is now part of the US government delegation headed up by VP JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, having an audience with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV
7:50 AM · May 19, 2025. //

Retired Professor
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Vance and Rubio sitting in front of the Pope's desk: "Boys, Sister Mary Oliphant has advised me that you two were running in the halls again."

This is what Qatar produces.
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Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza for a ‘gender reveal’, having rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.

Welker: In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court directed your administration to facilitate the return, you've talked about this in the past, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, from a prison in El Salvador, whose deportation your administration called an "administrative error." You said in a recent interview you could bring him back but you won't. Are you defying the Supreme Court, sir?

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I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.

What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation. //

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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.@POTUS: "It helps when you know that borders are not racist, speech is not violence, America is good, terrorists are bad, men can never become women, police are not criminals, and criminals are not victims." 🔥

1:07 PM · May 2, 2025. //

Certainly, it’s fair game to disagree with Trump and his policies, but their constant effort to misrepresent his statements highlights what is so very wrong with corporate media.

Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke
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The fact that this piece got through the Times's editorial process without anyone saying, "um . . . guys?" shows exactly why the press always seems so clueless about the country it is supposed to cover. https://x.com/mkhammer/status/1917386705264312688

Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer
This is real. People wear crosses and the NYT is ON IT.
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9:49 AM · Apr 30, 2025 //

Tom Bevan, co-founder and CEO of RealClearPolitics, made an excellent point:

The author probably doesn't know a single person who wears one, which is why it's treated as a novelty.

Exactly. Why else would not only the author, but New York Times editors as well, think that the absurd article fell into the "all the news that's fit to print" category?

Finally, Charles C. Camosy, an associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, put the cherry atop the laughable sundae.

In certain bizarrely isolated contexts, public displays of religiosity (even something as common as cross necklaces) are so uncommon that they become successful pitches for New York Times stories.

Which is more plausible: the lying media has suddenly discovered accurate polling data? Or Trump supporters are not being polled?

Let me tell you something you already know.

The MSM/Democrats are trying to BS you at the 100-day mark of President Trump’s second term. They are desperate to show that the new Trump administration is sinking fast in the polls, and that the American people are waking up to his (supposed) authoritarianism and overreach.

Here is how they are doing it. //

The polls are inevitably from ABC News, or NBC News, or CBS News, or CNN, or NPR, or the NYTs, or even FOX. What all these sources have in common is that these polling organizations largely did not get the 2024 election correct. Many underestimated the Trump vote, sometimes substantially, and many produced Harris leads that, in the words of her political advisor, “showed us with leads we never saw" in Harris internal polls. //

These websites almost never have a news article detailing the new polls from the polling firms that got the 2024 presidential election mostly right, such as Atlas, Rasmussen, Quantus, RMG, etc.

Some people on the right are getting very angry about this. Others are getting distraught or dispirited. Some are demanding that the MSM curb their bias.

But the MSM are Democrats, and they won’t change their spots. They have a vested interest in doing what they are doing. They want to undermine the Trump administration and cause Republicans to lose hope and cave in substantial ways to the Democrats. //

anon-exgv
3 hours ago
Well, did they by any chance plaster the mugshot of DJT all over their network? Why yes, yes they did. //

cupera1 anon-exgv
2 hours ago
So the same MSNBC was behind all of these….
• Russia Collusion Hoax
• Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax
• Jussie Smollett Hoax
• Covington KKKids Hoax
• Very Fine People Hoax
• Seven-Hour Gap Hoax
• Russian Bounties Hoax
• Trump Trashes Troops Hoax
• Policemen Killed at Mostly Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax
• Rittenhouse Hoax
• Trump removed the MLK bust from the oval office hoax
• Eating While Black Hoax
• Russians are behind the DNC leaked emails hoax
• Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax
• NASCAR Noose Hoax
• The Georgia Jim Crow 2.0 Hoax
• Trump Assaulted Secret Service Agents and Grabbed Steering Wheel of Beast Hoax
• MAGA Assaulted Paul Pelosi Hoax
• COVID Lab Leak Theory Is Racist Hoax
• Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Russian Disinformation Hoax
• Joe Biden Will Never Ban Gas Stoves Hoax
• COVID Deaths are Over-Counted Is a Conspiracy Theory Hoax
• Mass Graves of Native Children in Canada Hoax
• The Trump Killed All the Fish Hoax
• Trump Told People to Drink Bleach Hoax
• Hamas Hospital Hoax
• Trumps Mar-A-Lago home is only worth 18 million hoax.
• If Reelected, Trump Will Execute People Hoax
• The 900,000 Kids Hospitalized with Coronavirus Hoax
• Dozens of Environmental Hoaxes
• The Alfa Bank Hoax
• Libs of TikTok Murdered Non-Binary Teen Hoax
• The Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax
• The ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax
• Politico did not get one dime of government money Hoax
• Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax
• The All-White Trump Party Hoax
• Springfield Bomb Threat Hoax
• Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax
• Violent Crime Down Under Biden/Harris Hoax
• Arlington Cemetery Hoax
• Kamala Was Never America’s Border Czar Hoax
• Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax
• Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax
• Aaron Rodgers Sandy Hook-Truther Hoax
• ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax
• Biden ‘Sharp-as-a-Tack’ Hoax
• Iowa Poll Hoax
• Signal chat had classified information Hoax
• US astronauts were not abandoned Hoax
• Trump insider trading hoax
• Innocent Maryland man deported hoax.
• Trump is deporting US citizens Hoax.
• Trump is deporting little kids that are US citizens hoax

They now what to be takes as a serious news organization???

You know what you don't see in those headlines? Any mention of God. On the contrary, if the words "pope" and "Church" weren't included, one could assume a CEO or politician had passed.

What does that tell you? It tells you exactly how the press views Christians and what their hopes for Francis were. The proliferation of the Gospel, you know, the entire purpose of Christianity as a religion, doesn't even register with these people. Instead, the Church only exists to serve left-wing secular wants. In that context, "reform" is simply code for secularization.

The press truly wanted Francis to use his role to change church doctrine on things like homosexuality, gay marriage, and sin as a whole. It never crossed the average journalist's mind what the Bible says about those things, nor why Church doctrine is what it is. Everything is a political game to them, and if that meant perverting an institution like the Catholic Church to achieve their ends, that was just fine with them.

That's not how any of this is supposed to work. Christians are not supposed to bend their viewpoints to the world's hedonistic views, and though I disagreed with Francis on several issues, I likewise disagreed with those who saw him as a vehicle for their political wants. The Church, no matter what denomination, is not supposed to be a plaything for left-wingers. It's not supposed to "reform" so that people can feel better about their sin. It is supposed to preach the unvarnished, unchanging Gospel of Jesus Christ.

What do you do most mornings at 2:17 a.m.?

Safe to say, I am almost always sound asleep in deep darkness and brisk mountain air.

But nights are quite a bit different for the current commander in chief and leader of the free world. //

Four to five hours of sleep a night is said to be the norm for the 78-year-old Trump. And his doctor says Trump handles such little sleep quite well.

This is ridiculous.

The non-stop No. 47 president has now been caught doing game-film study in the wee hours of the morning. He was watching reruns of the day's political events on C-SPAN. In the middle of the night. It's true.

The world discovered this by accident.

During last week's Cabinet meeting in the White House, Trump was overheard telling U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer that he had watched his testimony to Congress. And that he had come across it two nights in a row.

Well, actually, two very early mornings in a row.

"You were on every night, at 3 o’clock in the morning!” the president said, sounding impressed. //

For a very long time, almost from its beginning 46 years ago last month, I have regarded nonprofit C-SPAN as a national treasure, especially since I am an admitted political junkie. And someone who was often writing for work about events that the network carried without advertising or pontificating.

It's as if the network thinks that, given access to events and facts free of shading, Americans can think for themselves. //

C-SPAN's video archives and transcripts now contain almost 300,000 hours of its event coverage from today, yesterday, last weekend, and all the way back comprehensively to 1987.

The archives are even searchable.

The New York Times continues to cover up government corruption, on April 11 hitting FBI Director Kash Patel for suspending analyst Brian Auten nearly a decade after Auten helped Democrats frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset. The NYT headline reads, “F.B.I. Suspends Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies List,” not something accurate such as “FBI Suspends Employee Who Illegally Abused Government Power To Protect Democrat Presidential Candidates.”

This is a prime example of the press exposing its activist nature. When these select judges ruled on Trump’s activities, it was hyperactive coverage and banner headlines. Judge James Boasberg has become something of a media darling for imposing injunctions and TROs on deportation efforts. Yet when these cases rise to the Supreme Court and get reversed, you might see some pat reporting and solitary articles.

Logic would dictate that if these were in fact serious cases, the coverage would match on either side of a ruling. But as we have become conditioned to for some time, the press is largely dictated by emotion and partisanship. When these judges came out with rulings opposing Trump’s policies, it was blaring headlines, round-the-clock coverage, and every exploration made into how the president was defying the Constitution and burning down our democracy.

Now we get solitary news items and a calming of the waters. Primetime pundits are not delving into the prospect of rogue judges threatening our democracy by attempting to override the president. No “experts” are brought on camera to criticize courts trying to step in and wrest Executive Branch control from the Chief Executive. Outlets are not sharing op-eds about the meaning of it all concerning SCOTUS.

This is a clear sign of an activist media complex. The coverage of the initial judgements were not merely sober presentations of the facts; they were promoting an agenda and encouraging these actions by the judges. Once the rulings come in, then the media makes proclamations and charges Trump with “defying the courts” accusations and interpreting worst-case scenarios.

This is a major advance in the moves by the partisan press. This is not merely farming a narrative anymore; this is a blatant attempt to influence governance. There is a clear anti-administration agenda and they're not even attempting to hide it. They begin from the standpoint that Trump is wrong, regardless of the issue, and then strain to manipulate details to suit that accusation.

Look at one of the impotent arguments made about the use of the Alien Enemies Act when it was said to be invalid because it is an old law from the 1700s. Somehow, this was supposed to suggest that the AEA no longer counts. But for this logic to stand, then you have to question the legitimacy of the very Constitution itself, given that the document predates the law they do not like.

BILL MAHER: "Why do we need to subsidize? We're so polarized. These outlets became popular at a time when Republicans and Democrats didn't hate each other and weren't at each other's throats and didn't think each other was an existential threat. In that world, you can't have places like this, I think, anymore. They have to be private.". //

COUltraMAGA
6 hours ago
I hate that equivocation of Maher’s. “We all hate each other”.

It’s like the Paly’s and Israelis. If the Paly’s let down their arms, there would be peace. If the Israelis did, they would cease to exist.

If the Dems stopped being insane and terrorist sympathizers…we could have a great country. If the Republicans stopped trying to g to fight their insanity, we would cease to be a country.

Our fight matters, and it’s not because we ”hate each other”, Maher.

The question is, why can't it? Why is it continuing to fail at every turn? Moreover, why aren't leftist influencers online like Hasan Piker or Sam Cedar not able to keep up with people like Joe Rogan or even Ben Shapiro?

It's actually pretty easy to answer.

As many of my readers know, the legacy media was in power for a very long time. Decades, in fact. It was the chief narrative creator in the Western world due to it owning the major news platforms.

But as it did all this, it became an exclusive club. Only those with the right beliefs and values could be in it. This power, plus this exclusivity, created an ideological bubble that would never pop thanks to the legacy media's information supremacy. //

Where Limbaugh and Fox News could be framed as outliers from which lies and hate flow, Twitter (now X) opened the door for everyone to speak up, creating millions and millions of problems that the legacy media couldn't compete against. It was no longer a single man or business, it was the very people they were trying to mislead. Attacking X as a platform of hate didn't work because it was the people taking part, and they knew they weren't hateful.

And this created a massive problem for the legacy media, because without its hold on the narrative and censorship to keep that illusion going, the media was revealed for what it is really was: a cabal of elitist liars with little interest in reality.

The shift from being the power in the room to being obsolete happened almost overnight. The media lost its hold on the minds of the populace at large. What's worse, the online influencers of the left couldn't keep up, as they were effectively parroting talking points made by the legacy media. Not that they don't have their followings. As I pointed out in a video, Hasan Piker's audience is large, but rabid, radicalized, and diminishing. //

You could point to a variety of reasons the right is thriving.

For one, we're far happier warriors. We stick to the facts, but we're prone to joke just as much as we are to debate. Moreover, with the censorship lifted thanks to Musk's X, the right's take is far more novel and refreshing than the left's.

But, ultimately, even if it was none of that, the leftwing media would still be in a heap of trouble because what it's delivering isn't news, it's just flat-out propaganda. A lot of the pushback on it isn't even coming from the right. Internet meme-lords who would just as easily mock the right as they do the left are probably doing more damage to the legacy media than one might actually believe.

justpaul
3 hours ago
Taken as a whole, Behar's commentary is that she lied, she knew was lying, then she tried to deny that she was lying before addmitting that she was lying and asking that she not be held accountable for doing so.

Musk needs to sue not Behar, but ABC, who know full well what kind of person it is that they have employed to tell lies on air. And when they have to pay out $100,000,000 for the malicious libel and slander their employee peddles on their behalf, maybe then Joy will find that she has all the time in the world to work on that important memoir of hers.

Political-Paige
2 hours ago
So anyone born in Germany is a Nazi. And anyone born in Columbia is a cartel thug. And anyone born in Borneo is a cannibal.
That's how unregenerate racists see the world.
And she is a racist.

And as each one of these details emerges it's only drawing more attention to the network, to the documentary, and to the problems behind BBC’s stance on the war.

With all of these controversies emerging, Israel is getting involved and has called for action. All of these developments have the network completely off balance now and internal reviews are taking place. This becomes a very interesting aspect because the BBC has a history of proclaiming how much editorial rigor they possess at the network. Questions are emerging now on whether or not this documentary passed through the proper editorial channels and legal assessments seen in the past at the BBC. //

What is fairly apparent is that this is a fiasco that has been generated from the network’s longstanding position of backing for Palestine and, by extension, Hamas. The BBC has held the approach towards this conflict of not labeling Hamas as a terrorist outfit, nor willing to call its violent actions acts of terrorism. The BBC has shown to be more than willing to run with claims and outright propaganda from Hamas with little journalistic skepticism.

When the group turned over the bodies of some of the murdered hostages, the BBC was sure to include the statement from Hamas that they did everything in their power to save their lives. It has been shown the family had been murdered by their captors. Over the weekend one of BBC’s prominent voices commented (in a now-deleted post) that Hamas celebrating over the bodies of hostages and Israeli emotional reactions to getting its people back were equally nauseating displays.

MSNBC is set to write a large check after the network chose to settle a $30 million defamation lawsuit. Multiple hosts were caught up in the scandal, including Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Nicolle Wallace, all of which repeated the lie that a doctor was performing "mass hysterectomies" at an ICE facility under the Trump administration.

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec
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More fake news from the @AP

1. DOGE doesn’t even have a Facebook page

2. No air traffic controllers nor any professionals who perform safety critical functions were terminated

Tara Copp @TaraCopp
.@FAANews: FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67. One employee said they were harassed on Facebook by @DOGE…
10:21 PM · Feb 17, 2025. //

Chuck Todd @chucktodd
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Replying to @PressSec @GNHarben and @AP
The report never says DOGE had a facebook page nor does the report say there were air traffic controllers fired. So you are denying facts or accusations that were not reported or made.

Sister Toldjah 💙 @sistertoldjah
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Classic "our sources told us" trick. But the report never noted that DOGE doesn't have a Facebook group, which is kinda critical information to put in a story where a source is alleging DOGE's Facebook group (which doesn't exist) targeted him. #Journalism
11:43 PM · Feb 17, 2025

By spotlighting AP, Trump is amplifying Republican and conservative criticisms that the AP Stylebook, a first reference for most U.S. news organizations, shapes political dialogue by favoring liberal words and phrases concerning gender, immigration, race and law enforcement.

Taylor Budowich, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, elaborated on their position:

"This isn't just about the Gulf of America," White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich told Axios. "This is about AP weaponizing language through their stylebook to push a partisan worldview in contrast with the traditional and deeply held beliefs of many Americans and many people around the world."

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio defends @JDVance's "historic" speech last week in Munich, leaves ABC's Margaret Brennan speechless after she tries to claim that free speech was "weaponized" by the Nazis. Incredible exchange: 👇

3:56 PM · Feb 16, 2025. //

To start, the "investigative news program" did an entire segment on why free speech is bad, fawning over German laws that throw people in jail for posting "disinformation," and be sure to stick around because that comes back into play later in the episode. Here's the CEO of an NGO called "HateAid," an ironic name if I've ever seen one, explaining how free speech must have "boundaries" lest people rely on it to "say anything they want.". //

I wonder why half of Germans might be scared to post their political opinions online. What could possibly cause so many people to live in fear of what they say? Could it be because Germany throws people in jail for speech its officials deem to be "disinformation?". //

In broad terms, I don't think trying to make overpaid government bureaucrats who spent their time dolling out taxpayer money to foreign entities into victims is going to be very effective. Did "60 Minutes" run segments shedding tears for the people who lost their jobs when the same bureaucratic state pushed for the shutting down of the country for COVID-19? Or what about the workers who were left hanging when former President Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline? I could spend all day listing examples.

Now, are you ready for the big twist? In the same episode "60 Minutes" lauded anti-free speech laws in Germany under the guise of policing "disinformation," it turns out they lied about who Drye and Dubard were. It turns out both were not actual USAID employees by contracted consultants, with one being a speechwriter for Samantha Power, the politically appointed head of the agency during the Biden administration. //

So a major news outlet promoted laws that punish the spreading of "disinformation" and then proceeded to spread disinformation for partisan gain. You can't make this stuff up. Truly, CBS News is on another level right now.

But if you were hoping to listen to it, and you were watching MSNBC as the swearing-in happened, you would have been out of luck. Here's host Katy Tur saying they're going to be listening to the event and what Trump has to say, and then cut to an "expert" for commentary about the event. But then, suddenly, she shifts and essentially says, "Oops, we're not going to be listening. Sorry, folks! We're just going to 'watch'" — without letting the people hear the ceremony or any of the important things they might have to say.