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On Thursday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tried and largely failed to clean up his Tuesday remarks, where he declared Markwayne Mullin is not qualified to be secretary of Homeland Security because he used to be a plumber. Kimmel’s damage control effort would fail because he tried to have it both ways as he tried to double down on the original comments while also implying his criticism of Mullin is just about ideas.

Kimmel began by observing how “the president and his pals in the MAGA media are not happy with me right now. Trump even called in to Fox to complain about me tonight. His apple polishers are all in a tizzy because I made light of the fact that his new head of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, before he was a senator, was a plumber. And now he’s the head of Homeland Security. Which is not necessarily the kind of resume you might hope for, for the person in charge of protecting us from terrorism.”

Once again, Kimmel omitted the management experience Mullin gained in that as he turned the family plumbing business into the largest in Oklahoma. Nevertheless, Kimmel continued, “Of course, they decided to twist that to say it was an insult to plumbers, which it was not. I wouldn’t put a plumber in charge of Homeland Security for the same reason I wouldn’t call a five-star general to pull a rat out of my toilet, okay? It has—we all have our areas of expertise. They went nuts about this. They went nuts on every channel. But I think that my favorite part—bit of performative outrage came from a person named Rob Finnerty of Newsmax.”

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The House Ethics Committee held their scheduled adjudicatory hearing, more commonly referred to as a “trial”, against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). Sadly, none of the main broadcast network newscasts saw fit to carry the story.

The networks continue their ongoing blackout of this story. Not a second of it aired on ABC, CBS or ABC’s evening newscasts. This major omission joins their omission of the IOC’s ban on “trans women” during the 2028 Games and onward thereafter.

The PBS item is not perfect, though. Viewers never once heard any detail of the egregious charges filed against Cherfilus-McCormick.

UPDAE: House Panel Finds 25 Violations by Congresswoman  Ever notice how black women try to make themselves look like white women as much as possible?

UPDATE: House Ethics Panel Finds Florida Democrat Congresswoman Committed 25 Violations

Trump’s TV-Warped Brain Is Putting the World in Danger (Chris Lehmann/The Nation)

The Republican Collapse Has Begun — And Trump Is Leading It (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)

How Trump is complicating TSA funding (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Trump housing chief Bill Pulte seeks new DOJ probe of New York AG Letitia James (Vaughn Hillyard/MS NOW)

ICE Lied About Its Authority to Make Courthouse Arrests (Whitney Curry Wimbish/American Prospect)

Senate locked in staring contest on DHS as insults fly (Hans Nichols/Axios)

Jack Smith memo includes ‘damning evidence’ about Trump’s handling of classified documents, top Democrat says (NBC News)

Trump Draws Bipartisan Backlash for Easing Oil Sanctions on Russia and Iran (Robert Jimison/New York Times)

California Sues Trump Administration Over Offshore Drilling Order (Chevron Warns California Facing Historic Fuel Crisis As Diesel Hits Record $7)

Trump Says GOP Is the ‘Hot Party’ Despite Midterm Headwinds (Bloomberg)

Trump says Justices Barrett, Gorsuch ‘sicken me’ after Supreme Court tariff ruling (Dan Mangan/CNBC)

More US Counties See Population Drops Under Trump’s Immigration Crackdown (Bloomberg)  How many are Blue counties? Place your bets….

Trump’s Threats to Europe Put Its Leaders in a Double Bind Over Iran (Mark Landler/New York Times)

Russia plays chicken with Trump (Megan Messerly/Politico)

The Thug of War — Pete Hegseth’s colleagues at the Pentagon are calling him ‘Dumb McNamara … (Zeteo)

Stewart Claims Iran War Violence Is ‘Almost Sexual’ For Hegseth

‘I’m a military expert and Donald Trump ‘wilfully ignorant’ on conflict with Iran’

Exclusive: Trump’s approval hits new 36% low as fuel prices surge amid Iran war, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters) Sure,  I believe that. (EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base)(Heartland Polling: Iran War Is Unpopular, But Not Hurting Trump)

NPR’s Mueller Tribute Includes Replay of ‘Impeach Trump’ Commercial. But that trick never works.

US Troops Are Being Told to ‘Get Ready’ to Invade Iran (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)

How Jack Smith connected the dots between GOP lawmakers, Trump aides in 2020 election probe (Politico)  Mostly by making it up.

Trump appeared to have business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds (Carol Leonnig/MS NOW)  Oh, gee, how did that happen….,

Raskin says he has “damning” memo on Trump classified docs case (Andrew Solender/Axios)

Collusion between judges and Jack Smith?

Trump administration’s $1B deal to stop offshore wind shows an evolution in its anti-wind strategy (Jennifer McDermott/Associated Press)

Trump Picks ‘Alpha Male’ Influencer to Be Tourism Envoy (Chris Cameron/New York Times)

Trump breaks military recruitment vows as he arrests and deports veterans (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)

Terrorists Give Up After Three Hours In TSA Line (Babylon Bee)

Airport Wait Times Eliminated After TSA Checkpoints Taken Over By Chick-Fil-A (Babylon Bee)

Kari Lake’s dismantling of VOA is a full-blown fiasco (Liz Dye/Public Notice) Blown by heavy breathing in the Narrative Media.

Trump Loses the Home Front (William A. Galston/Wall Street Journal)  Or so they would have you believe.

Trump Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus in Surprise Show of Panic (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Pentagon has no plan to stop Trump sons profiting from defense contracts: Warren, Blumenthal (Garrett Downs/CNBC)  Perhaps because they aren’t doing anything illegal.

Amanpour Spews on PBS: ‘White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House’

A Dunning-Kruger War, Courtesy of the Dunning-Kruger President (Paul Waldman/The Cross Section)  Reported by a Gell-Mann Narrative Media.

Trump’s ‘absurdly incoherent’ Iran pleas leave allies befuddled (Politico)  Politico thinks that everybody is as stupid as they are.

‘Trump is Sending Masked ICE Agents to Murder US Citizens,’ Dem Seeking Md. House Seat Claims  Find. Give us a lit.

Newsbusters.

Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the legislation required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote.

That’s false. In the legislation, voters would need a passport or birth certificate to register. One can find ways to buy birth certificates from their local government offices. For example, a simple internet search for birth certificates in a person’s county will bring up links, like this from Fairfax, VA, and give options to obtaining a copy of a birth certificate.

The topic came up in an opening discussion on the SAVE ACT. Scarborough referenced Brzezinski not knowing where she was born since her mother, apparently, did not remember.

The Trump Administration Turns a Blind Eye to White-Collar Crime (Marie Gottschalk/Bloomberg)

Democrats launch new inquiry into Corey Lewandowski (NBC News)

Conservation groups sue to block Trump efforts to ‘hastily gut’ the Kennedy Center (NBC News)

Bill Kristol: Trump Is in Way over His Head (The Bulwark)

The Crazy Bill for ICE Barbie’s Cowboy Cosplay Is Revealed (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)

ICE Agents Are Now Patrolling U.S. Airports. Here’s What to Know. (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)  Come get your Narrative, right here.

Voice of America journalists allege Trump wants to make outlet a propaganda source (David Bauder/Associated Press)  VOA was established to be a propaganda source, one in favor of America and against Communism. The problem with VOA is that it morphed under the Deep State into a vehicle for promoting Wokeness.

ICE heads to the airport (Cameron Peters/Vox)

Jason Stanley on Fascism (Michael Podhorzer/Weekend Reading)

ICE Agents Deployed To Nation’s Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing (Barry Petchesky/Defector)

Margaret Brennan Warns of U.S. War Crimes, Tries to Drive Wedge with NATO Leader

Watson v RNC: The Supreme Court’s Conspiracy-Brained Justices Are Ready to Limit Mail-In Voting (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)

Folks, We’ve Got Yet Another Right-Wing Media Payola Scandal (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  Will Sommer loses his shit.

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method ‘cheating’ (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)  When cheating is allowed, non-cheaters are at a disadvantage. There is no inconsistency here.

Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail (Erica L. Green/New York Times) See above comment.

Trump casts Florida mail ballot as he pushes Congress to severely limit that voting option (Bill Barrow/Associated Press)  See above comment.

When Trump Wants Something Done, He Dispatches ICE to Do It (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)  So what?

Trump’s suspiciously timed announcements on Iran (Aaron Blake/CNN)  Suspiciously!

The ugly history behind Trump’s birthright citizenship case in the Supreme Court (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  Ugly, of course, because it’s contrary to the Narrative.

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story (Public Notice) More Proglodyte Projection.

Airports on ICE — Federal immigration agents popped up around the country on Monday to do seemingly nothing. (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)  Except, perhaps, to yank the chains of the hand-wringers in the Narrative Media.

Trump in His Elvis-in-Vegas Era (The Bulwark)  The best of American high-school journalism.

The unraveling of the war in Iran (Popular Information)

PrinceHarming: 20 Short Quotes About Jared Kushner (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)

US’s new ‘brand ambassador’: A Hooters-loving, ‘Alpha Male’ Trump nominee (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)

Trump’s Threat to Iran Crosses a Line, Rights Experts Say (New York Times)  Really? And what might a ‘rights expert’ have in the way of qualifications?

Newsbusters.

As the DHS-only government shutdown rages on, the Elitist Media’s broadcast network newscasts continue to work overtime to shield the Democrats from accountability over their role in creating the shutdown in the first place. This dirty work is being performed as security lines worsen across the nation’s airports.

Newsbusters.

In not-so-shocking turn of events, former CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane — a man with seemingly zero hobbies in life outside of January 6 — announced Monday morning he was joining the far-left Meidas Touch Network as a host and correspondent, cartoonishly insisting without a shred of irony he’s “not an opinionist” or “editorialist” but would nonetheless refuse to “platform conspiracy theories” or allow “whitewashing of history” in “such a critical moment.”

The pedantic partisan boasted to followers that, less than ten days after leaving CBS, he would become, “[e]ffective immediately,” the “chief Washington correspondent for the MeidasTouch Network” and an eponymous daily show will launch in “two or three weeks,” bringing together those who “share the same north star of communicating that when you have news to break or something important to explain, just get to it, straight to the point.”

CNN’s Bash Sets Up Hakeem Jeffries to Tell Trump To ‘Keep His Reckless Mouth Shut’

jTrump issues his most bizarre endorsement yet (David Nir/The Downballot)

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids (ProPublica)  They say that like it was a bad thing.

‘No practical use’: TSA experts say Trump’s ICE deployments won’t help with airport security (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)  It’s not intended to be ‘of practical use’. It’s intended to put pressure on Democrats in Congress by pointing out that their attempt to pressure Republicans by inconveniencing the American people will have the effect of inconveniencing the Democrat base of pro-illegal-immigrant activists. Let’s see who blinks first. I’m betting that Trump wins this one.

Pete Hegseth is promoting a nihilist cult of death (Jan-Werner Müller/The Guardian)  Oh, is Pete a Muslim?

Jeffries tells Trump to ‘keep his reckless mouth shut’ (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico) Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of doing what they are doing 

March 22, 2026 — President Donald J. Trump’s behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes … (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters …)

To Trump, America’s judges are either minions or traitors (Svante Myrick/The Hill)

Adventures in Fantasy Diplomacy (Paul Krugman)  The vacuum speaks.

Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.’s architectural splendor since War of 1812 (Philip Kennicott/Washington Post)

It’s three times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump (Thomas Frank/Politico)  Not surprising, considering how much Democrats steal.

ICE Invades Airports Across the US (Wired)

How Trump Killed Conservatism (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

There’s no way to redeem Trump’s dismal second presidency (John Kenneth White/The Hill)  Trump must be doing something right,  all the right people are his enemies.

Trump Blows Up DHS Deal, Chooses ICE Airport Chaos Instead (Ed Kilgore/New York Magazine)

Trump’s shambolic policy-making by Fox segment hits the airports (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)

The Supreme Court seems alarmingly willing to trash thousands of ballots (Ian Millhiser/Vox)  More accurately, thousands of ILLEGAL ballots.

GOP Grows More Unpopular, More Desperate (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)  And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Newsbusters.

Early Thursday, 18-year-old Loyola University of Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was murdered by a lone gunman on a Lake Michigan pier as she strolled with classmates hoping to catch the Northern Lights. Two days later, Fox’s Matt Finn revealed police detained a violent, 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela as suspect. Of course, he reportedly arrived in the U.S. during the Biden border crisis.

Of course, this heinous killing — which Finn’s colleague Bill Melugin dubbed “Laken Riley 2.0” — has been of zero interest to the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC and CBS with zero mentions on Sunday or Monday.

In NBC’s case, they had the gall to cover it for 98 seconds on Sunday’s Nightly News, but hid from viewers the crucial details about the suspect.

Newsbusteres.

No matter which party was in charge nor which party had publicly announced they were withholding their votes, the liberal media would always blame the Republicans, especially in an election year. The effort to manipulate the facts in that way was nakedly apparent during Monday’s episode of The View when the ABC co-hosts openly admitted it was Democrats who were “holding up funding” to the government and TSA, but still insisted it was “a Republican problem.”

Amid their conversation about the long lines at airports, and TSA workers not getting paid, co-host Ana Navarro admitted Democrats were behind it but suggested it was for the just and noble cause of sticking it to ICE.

Amid their conversation about the long lines at airports, and TSA workers not getting paid, co-host Ana Navarro admitted Democrats were behind it but suggested it was for the just and noble cause of sticking it to ICE.

Newsbusters.

he New York Times Magazine is clearly inflating Don Lemon’s already massive ego with a story titled: “‘I Am the News’: The Absurd Drama (and High Stakes) of the Don Lemon Affair.”

Times writer Matt Flegenheimer implies that Lemon isn’t exactly the best example of journalism and that he’s remarkably stuck on himself. The absurd drama seems to be how both sides of the Trump wars have made Lemon’s post-CNN career.

Trump Is Finally Eyeing an Exit From Iran. But Will He Take It? (David E. Sanger/New York Times)  Despite their pretenses of being able to mind-read “what Trump is really thinking”, they have no clue as to what Trump is thinking.

Democrats pile on Trump for post celebrating Mueller’s death (Politico)

State Dept. fumes after insiders reveal who ‘motivated’ Trump to launch Iran war: report (Alexander Willis/Raw Story)  The Narrative Media will believe anything that fits in with their delusions.

Donald Trump Is Nothing Like Robert Mueller (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic) And thank God for that.

Haters at NPR Hype Swedes Claiming Trump’s ‘Dismantling Democracy’ at Alarming Speed

Trump’s Reaction to Mueller’s Death: ‘Good, I’m Glad.’ (Erica L. Green/New York Times)  Me, too.

Dump Trump: MS NOW’s Capehart Calls for 25th Amendment Talk After Trump’s Pearl Harbor JOKE

CNN’s “100% MAGA Trump approval” segment omits key nuance for virality (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers) Oh—say it ain’t so….

Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran (Phil Klay/New York Times)  After all, Phil Klay is The Expert! (Phil who…?)

Washington ignores America’s fiscal cliff (Neil Irwin/Axios)  Have you ever noticed that the Narrative Media only care about “America’s fiscal cliff” when a Republican is President?

Trump Destroyed the EV Industry, Just When We Need It Most (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)  Uh, no, economics destroyed the ‘EV industry’.

‘Nobody else is responsible’: Trump to blame for Iran crisis, ex-CIA chief says (David Smith/The Guardian)

Gov. Pritzker Says Trump Has Dementia, CNN’s Erin Burnett Doesn’t Push Back a Bit

Trump’s changing course on Strait of Hormuz strategy raises questions about US war preparation (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)  Grasping at straws much?

Newsbusters.

If you have been watching the media coverage of the war with Iran, you can not help but be aware of the leftist agenda being driven home day after day, report after report. You hear that there was no imminent threat from Iran, Trump has no exit strategy, etc. And of course the one they really love to push is Israel as an evil player, whether it’s how they somehow made the U.S. start the war, or as a recent CNN report implied, how they are bombing Lebanon for no reason, and are responsible for the deaths of children.

On Thursday’s Erin Burnett OutFront, the CNN host began her segment by talking over a video of an RT reporter in Lebanon, who just managed to avoid an Israeli air attack, while giving his report. She would then play it with sound, as she made her feelings known.

Burnett failed to mention that Israel has said that it issued explicit warnings the day before, citing Hezbollah’s use of the area for moving fighters and weapons. She then threw it to a report from inside Lebanon by Correspondent Isobel Yeung, who first showed us the funeral of what she says were four young siblings and a cousin killed in Israeli airstrikes.

The Narrative Media also wring their hands a lot when hospitals, mosques, and orphanages get targeted, without bothering to report that Islamic terrorists (like Hamas and Hezbollah) regularly use such places as command posts and staging areas with the “innocent” denizens as their human shields.

Iran Believes It’s Winning–and Wants a Steep Price to End the War (Yaroslav Trofimov/Wall Street Journal)

Trump’s unshackled presidency puts him at the center of the economy (Matt Peterson/CNBC)

Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran (New York Times)

Capehart Tries To Cast Doubt On Claims Of Success In Iran

Three weeks in, Iran war escalates beyond Trump’s control (Reuters)

The Energy Supply Shock of the Iran War Changes Everything (Matthew Zeitlin/Heatmap News)  Everything?

On CNN, Democrat Discovers $200 Billion Is Too Much Money—When Trump Spends It

Iran war’s economic shocks could reverberate for a while (Courtenay Brown/Axios)

‘This is about attention’: Mike Lee’s MAGA crusade is driving his colleagues crazy (Jordain Carney/Politico)  MAGA is the New Nigger.

Chicago Transit Authority sues to restore billions in federal funding (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)  Because, as we all know, funding local transportation is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer.

Trump Erupts in Fury Over His War Failures–and Exposes a Big Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Gred Sargent loses his shit.

Trump Thinks Cuba is Another Venezuela. Here’s Why He’s Wrong (Achy Obejas/Politico)

Trump’s Iran War Drive Exposes Limits of ‘Yes Sir’ Cabinet (Bloomberg)

Newsbusters.

When a military expert’s opinion is different than a politician’s, how are fact-checkers like PolitiFact supposed to adjudicate the politician’s claim? If a Friday article by Zoe Weyand is anything to go by, the answer is not at all, or at least if the politician is Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, Weyand’s standard for giving Warren a “true” rating for a recent claim she made about President Trump is different than the one PolitiFact has traditionally applied to Republicans.

Warren claimed that Trump has dropped more bombs on more countries than any president in the modern era, which was defined as since 9/11. In the “If your time is short” summary, Weyand wrote, “From the start of his first term to now, Trump has authorized military strikes in 10 countries, more than any other president in the 21st century. He has also authorized a higher number of military strikes than any other modern president.”

However, she also observed how “An expert said the use of ground troops is a better way to analyze military activity. Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deployed a far greater number of American troops during their tenures.”

That expert was Mark Cancian, who Weyand described as “a senior adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Defense and Security Department.” Cancian’s opinion that ground forces are a better way to measure military activity did not dissuade Weyand from giving Warren a straight-up true rating, but historically, Republicans have not been given that benefit.

Newsbusters.

As the military uses up expensive weapons in the war with Iran, it naturally seeks to replenish them. However, CNN’s Saturday host of First of All, Victor Blackwell, suggested that the money being used to protect our troops means that the government isn’t concerned with “you” as he rattled off several welfare programs he claimed the money should go to instead.

 

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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a case study in liberal media hypocrisy regarding intervention in the Middle East. His opinions on the Iraq War (led by Republican president George W. Bush) were hateful, but when Democratic president Barack Obama invaded Libya (also without congressional approval), a newly war-mongering Kristof beamed that we were (yes) greeted as liberators. Now with Donald Trump in charge, going to war in the Middle East is once again dangerous and bad.

Kristof’s March 18 column, “How Trump Should Extricate Himself From His Iran Quagmire,” opened “The ongoing debate about whether the Iran war will become a quagmire misses the point. President Trump and America are already in one.”

In his March 14 column, “Does Trump Risk Turning America Into a Rogue State?” he lamented (after forward United Nation’s lies about Israel targeting children in Gaza): “Now in Iran, I fear we may be retreating even further from the principles we once proclaimed, loosening the shackles that civilized nations place on themselves to protect our shared humanity.”

Newsbusters.

The media’s love for Republicans who become Democrats is not confined to the Trump era. Before the Trump era there was former GOP senator-turned Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and he joined CNN International/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company to discuss current Secretary Pete Hegseth’s record as a wartime leader. As Amanpour invented a non-existent scandal about executing prisoners of war, Hagel alleged the U.S. is “manufacturing a whole new generation of young terrorists in the Middle East.”

No, Islam is manufacturing a whole new generation of terrorists in the Middle East. It does so automatically.

Newsbusters.

On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW co-host Catherine Rampell made a stunning admission, recalling that 90 percent of the anti-Semitic hate mail she receives comes from the left. This revelation came as she made an unusual effort to provide balance during a segment focused on anti-Semitism within the Republican party.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

As left-leaning New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg appeared to discuss her recent article on the subject, she accused President Donald Trump of causing a surge in anti-Semitism in young Republicans:

Proglodyte Projection: When the Left accuses you of doing they they do … and when they accuse you of planning to do what they’re planning to do.

The Telegraph (UK).

Dozens gathered outside The Guardian’s glass-fronted headquarters on Wednesday, holding up banners and placards showing Nazis persecuting Jews and calling for an end to what they called “the new hate movement”.

Many also had a more unlikely symbol of protest: coffee cups and bags from Gail’s bakery.

The Guardian has been plunged into a fresh anti-Semitism storm amid claims the newspaper is minimising racism against Jews.

Newsbusters.

Note to the British socialists at The Guardian: Smashing up the windows of Jewish-linked establishments does not have a glorious history.

Jonathan Liew’s offensive column in the often-offensive far-left U.K. newspaper The Guardian is introduced this way: “A corner of north London where food has become a battleground in the Israel-Gaza war — A smashed window here, a provocative sticker there. In an age when protest feels increasingly meaningless, it’s no wonder that acts of petty symbolism are on the rise.”

The “smashed window” subhead refers to the violent vandalism suffered by a newly opened branch of Gail’s, an upscale bakery chain in the United Kingdom. Liew, who has a pattern of anti-Jewish columns, casually passed along why Gail’s windows had been shattered in the name of Palestine. The column’s timing makes it even nastier, in the wake of attacks on Jewish schools in Europe and a synagogue in the United States.

But first came a self-conscious, densely detailed description of a meal at the nearby sainted Palestinian café, which comes off like a Pete Wells food review suffering indigestion.

Newsbusters.

Monday’s PBS News Hour fell into the footsteps of its fellow public media outlet NPR, raising alarm over purported “hateful rhetoric” by the Republican Party against Muslims. The online title: “Anti-Islamic rhetoric from GOP politicians sparks concerns over religious hatred.”

The opening graphic behind co-anchor Geoff Bennett read “Islamophobia in America.” Yes, after weeks of attacks on Jews and others by Muslims, “Islamophobia” remains the thing the elitist press wants to discuss.

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Ayman Mohamad Ghazali tried to kill Jewish kids after ramming his truck into a synagogue, but ended up burning inside his own truck before shooting himself.

The media went out in full force to explain away Ghazali’s actions by letting the public know that Israeli had killed some of his family members in an airstrike.

They made sure to include that fact that two children were reportedly killed in that airstrike.

Curiously missing from such headlines, however, was the fact that Ghazali’s brothers who were killed served with designated terror group Hezbollah.

Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Imagine how much you would know if the Narrative Media reported actual news.

‘New York Times’ Retracts Story Due To Several Accuracies (Babylon Bee)

The Atlantic, a Voice of the Crust.

The window for Donald Trump to end the Iran war by simply declaring victory and walking away is rapidly closing. Soon he will face a stark choice: He can take greater risks in pursuit of a decisive tactical success, prepare the country for a prolonged conflict that could last for many months, or seek a negotiated settlement that involves a real compromise with Tehran.

There is no ‘compromise with Tehran’ because Tehran has proven repeatedly that they can’t be trusted. Iran cannot support terrorism surrogates like Hamas and Hezbollah without money, real money, Western hard currency, and that requires them to sell oil. Once Israel and the U.S. have destroyed their armed forces, their security forces, any portion of their government that crawls out of its holes, and their ability to extract and refine oil, they will have no capability to support terrorism or (more important) build nuclear weapons. That destruction is now underway.

We have ben at war with Iran since they invaded our embassy 47 years ago; the problem has always been that they have been fighting that war and we haven’t. Trump decided to start fighting back, and the Muslim-appeasers and hand-wringers in the Narrative Media keep hoping that their long faces and wagging fingers will get him to quit. That never worked before, and it won’t work now.

Newsbusters.

On Sunday’s The Weekend, MS NOW co-host Jonathan Capehart stretched to link anti-Muslim comments by Republicans to recent terrorist attacks at a Michigan synagogue and at Old Dominion University, even though Muslims were the perpetrators and not the victims in both cases.

Co-host Eugene Daniels began the segment by reading from a couple of recent statements by Republican members of Congress that were critical of Muslims, and then complained about how House Speaker Mike Johnson responded as the MS NOW host recalled: “And I think the thing that is like concerning — frustrating all the words is that like the leadership of the party has said nothing.” When co-host Jackie Alemany noted Johnson said something, Daniels said “he added to it!”

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Without mentioning that the perpetrators of recent terrorist attacks were Muslims, Capehart concluded: “But we just saw this week incidents — the synagogue in Michigan, a shooting at Old Dominion. Like, these words, this moment that we’re in can have very real consequences for people.”

Newsbusters.

Someone should do a wellness check on The New York Times. Looks like its journos read the portents wrong — AGAIN — on another one of its apocalyptic prognostications on the economic consequences of President Donald Trump taking out the Islamist regime in Iran.

Times business reporter Emmett Lindner nonsensically tried to dig up the corpse of the 1970s oil price shock following the Yom Kippur War as a comparative case study to what is transpiring around the Persian Gulf as Israel and the U.S. decimate Iran’s war machine. “Echoes of the ’70s in What’s Now the Largest Oil Shock Ever,” read Lindner’s overdramatic March 13 headline.

Lindner even had the temerity to suggest that the Iran War of 2026 was “worse” than the 1973-74 energy crisis, which was marked by a plethora of factors, which included the following: Bad domestic policy, dollar devaluation, and an oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC).

“Certainly, oil and gasoline prices are soaring,” cried Lindner like a soothsayer throwing fits as he pours over the portents. “The 1973 embargoed oil accounted for about 7 percent of global oil consumption, and targeted only a handful of nations … Now, closer to 20 percent of the world’s supply is threatened, and the disruption is caused by a war that has no end in sight.”

Lindner’s scareporn had a shelf life of about 3 days, as U.S. oil prices (WTI crude) would plummet over five percent back under $100 to $93.54, leading Wall Street toward having its best day since the war began, as the Associated Press reported March 16. As popular trading account NoLimitGains posted on X the same day, “Traders are betting this [war] ends soon.”

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he White House has responded to former CNN host Don Lemon’s suggestion that President Donald Trump opposes the First Amendment and should be disinvited to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“President Trump is the most transparent and accessible President in American history to the media and his return to the White House saved the legacy media from going out of business,” White House spokesman Davis Ingle told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday.

“There has never been a greater champion of the First Amendment than Donald J. Trump who has implemented an unprecedented expansion of press access to cover him,” Ingle added. “Don Lemon is a low ratings loser that no one takes seriously.”

That about sums it up.

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On today’s installment of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, a preferred media narrative was laid waste in real time. A retired Navy admiral exposed the ridiculousness of the notion, pushed heavily across the Elitist Media, that military planners somehow failed to plan for contingencies along the Strait of Hormuz.

Watch as former Fifth Fleet Commander Kevin Donegan (VADM, USN-RET) tells ABC’s Martha Raddatz that such contingencies were “built into it from the beginning”.

The New York Times, paper of record of the Crust.

Jon Feldhammer, like many Californians, often passes canvassers holding clipboards at the grocery store or on his commute to work. They’re part of an effort to collect the nearly 900,000 signatures required to put a proposed state billionaire tax on the ballot in November.

But Feldhammer isn’t tempted to add his name to the list: He’s on the other side of the fight.

A partner at the law firm Baker Botts, Feldhammer is one of the many high-powered lawyers, lobbyists and business leaders working against the initiative, which would place a one-time 5 percent levy on Californians with a net worth north of 1 billion dollars.

Needless to say, this article merely repeats the same old tropes: Wealth inequality is a Bad Thing per se and somehow (never specified) being wealthy is oppressing the non-wealthy; wealthy people, no matter how much they do pay, are never paying their ‘fair share’ (said fair share never specified); if the wealthy pay a lesser percentage of their income in tax, they are somehow ‘cheating’, whether or not that payment complies with the tax laws.

Some people are just congenitally butt-hurt if someone else has something that they don’t. There is a reason that Envy is one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Case in point: It’s Good to Be a Billionaire, Even at Tax Time (also New York Times), which rings the changes on the Fair Share smear. His other assertion, that The Rich ‘play by a different set of rules’ and take advantage of ‘loopholes that aren’t available to the rest of us’, is just a bare-faced lie—the Tax Code is the Tax Code, and the same Tax Code applies to everybody—what he calls ‘loopholes’ were deliberately put in the Tax Code (by people smarter than him) so as to encourage the sort of investment that leads to productivity, economic growth, and (oh, by the way) more jobs.

Newsbusters.

National “Public” Radio can NOT find the story of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji putting “Likes” on pages celebrating the October 7 massacre in Israel. But it CAN find stories where Mamdani is the victim of cruel Republican social media posts. GOP ‘Islamophobia’ is hot news, and Muslim Democrat antisemitism is not.

And that’s why we call it ‘Narrative Media’. They have a point of view and they push it continuously.

Newsbusters.

As the war in the Middle East rages, let’s take a pause and a walk back through some history of the media and America at war.

Let’s start specifically with the war in Vietnam.

As someone (ahem!) old enough to recall the media coverage of the Vietnam War there is plenty to remember. And specifically to remember the slow and then rapid change of pace with the media of the day going from supportive to questioning to an outright anti-war coverage that was televised nightly into American living rooms.

So much did the media coverage of the war become a hot and then hotter topic in the day that it has even earned its own space in places like the Encyclopedia Britannica.

• “Verified by NBC News” = Trust me, bro.
• “Adding evidence, experts say, that an American missile likely hit…” = We have no actual proof.
• “…hit a compound once home to a military base” = This is a buried lede, please don’t pay attention to it.
• “Weapons expert Jeffrey Lewis” = Here’s a left-leaning DC thinktank nerd to make our scant evidence seem more concrete than it is.
• “4 other weapons experts, who agree” = Trust me bro, Part Dos.
• “NBC News spoke on the phone with a father who said his 8-year-old daughter, Zahra, was killed…” = Let’s end with a sad story of a random Iranian man so the audience really hates Trump.

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The scientific community has seriously betrayed the American public, and their reliability and reputation are in jeopardy as a result of the deceptions and fraudulent acts they have perpetrated. After the poor guidance and literal lies that the members of medicine and science have told us over the last few years, we have to ponder: where do we go for the truth?

There are many reasons for science taking a deceptive approach to their research, and by exploring them, we may learn how to overcome their compulsion to misrepresent their results.

Newsbusters.

The hits just kept coming for CNN this week. Amid criticism of the network’s biased reporting from Iran, bias about the conflict, and how they got access to the country, two high-ranking CNN officials were caught at the Iranian Embassy in London attending a celebration for the founding of the Islamic regime. Additionally, the daytime edition of CNN News Central on Thursday aired four-uninterrupted minutes of Iranian state television delivering a purported written statement from the latest ayatollah, who’s in a coma.

On March 12, the U.K.-based newspaper The Telegraph published an article about the unfolding scandal engulfing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government where his Foreign Ministry attended a February 12 celebration at the Iranian Embassy to mark the founding of the Islamic Republic. The party was happening at the same time they were slaughtering thousands of their own citizens in the streets. The newspaper reported:

UPDATE: In the hours since NewsBusters put a spotlight on the imagine of CNN officials at the Iranian Embassy shared by The Telegraph, the newspaper has removed the image from the story. You can still see the image below.

Newsbusters.

ABC News, already the worst among the Elitist Media broadcast network evening newscasts, may have plumbed a new low. A story subject’s murderous, transgender father was hit with Disney pixie dust and spun into the more anodyne “former family member.”

Newsbusters.

Only a handful of right-leaning stories slipped through Google News’s iron grip on information domination. While the tech giant pushed 314 left-leaning stories, its gatekeepers only permitted 11 right-leaning articles to make the occasional appearance in the platform’s morning editions last month.

MRC uncovered that just 2% of Google News’s top morning stories in February came from sources rated right-leaning by media ratings firm AllSides. Google’s leftist bias is only further underscored by the fact that it completely shut out right-leaning outlets for over half the month.

Why Voters Might Finally Blame Trump for Rising Costs (New York Times) They hope, they hope, they hope….

The White House isn’t panicking about oil prices. That may change in a few weeks. (Politico)  They hope, they hope, they hope….

The contracting mess Noem’s leaving behind at DHS (Brittany Gibson/Axios)

3/11/26?? AM: … Dragged by President Donald Trump into another war in the Middle East … (Punchbowl News)

The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector (Jaclyn Diaz/NPR)

Democrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library (Washington Post)  As if it were any of their business.

Bondi Moves to Military Housing Amid Threats From Cartels, Critics

Behind the Curtain: America’s big lie (Axios)  Well, nobody would know better than Axios about Big Lies.

Trump Is the Anti-Trump ??? There is an alternate universe in which Donald Trump is the popular … (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)

Iran Sleeper Cells ‘Activated’; Threaten To “Eliminate” Trump

How Trump’s War on Iran Is Hastening the Coming MAGA Crack-Up (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Meyers, Wallace Claim Iran War Is ‘A Stab In The Back’ To MAGA  As if they had any clue.

Iran war flummoxes some Trump media allies (Jared Gans/The Hill)  Not to mention most of the Narrative Media.

Trump’s Delusions Come at Americans’ Expense (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

The Obvious Is Taking Its Revenge on Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)  More accurately, the oblivious, in the form of the hand-wringers in the Narrative Media.

The media is structurally pro-Trump (Elias Isquith/The Necessary Fictions)  An obvious looney.

FURIOUS SPIN: OK, Trump Tariffs Didn’t Cause Inflation Doom We Forecast, but Iran War!

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  Will Bunch loses his shit, but not his admiration for Obama.

Another U.S. Military Service Member Dies in Iran Operations, Bringing Total to 7  Fewer than the number who died in the terrorist bombing of U.S.S. Cole in 2000.

Wisconsin Man Who Killed Parents To Fund ‘Satanic’ Trump Assassination Attempt Sentenced

NO SURPRISE: ABC Sunday Panel Unanimously Dumps on Operation Epic Fury

Trump told us who he was in 2012. Will we finally believe him today? (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)

RINO Alert: Defense: Murkowski savages GOP over Iran (Punchbowl News)

NYT’s Sanger, Deep State’s Bertrand Wildly Insist Iran Was Not an Imminent Threat

Schumer: Release Oil Reserves to Counter Rising Gas Prices

Conscientious Objector Group: Phone ‘Ringing Off Hook’ As Huge Mobilization Underway

ABC’s Unscientific Attack on Trump and CO2

Are Latinos Staying at Home Out of Fear of Trump?

The German Elite’s Anti-Americanism

Trump Sons Back New Drone Company Targeting Pentagon Sales (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)  Unlike Biden’s sons, Trump’s sons actually have business skills.

Sen. Chris Murphy Says Democrats Need to Block Legislation Until There’s an Iran War Authorization Vote (Nora Toscano/NOTUS)  Let’s see: Less legislation => Less Democrat porkbarrel spending => Less waste, fraud and abuse. Yeah, I’m good with that.

Dem Leaders Can’t Explain Past Support For Unilateral Presidential War Powers

Trump Cabinet Members Allegedly Buying Nuclear Bunkers  Always a good idea, with the Democrats run by cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

Trump’s Weird Fetish for Discount Dress Shoes Revealed (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)  The very best of American high-school ‘journalism’.

Trump’s Venezuela strategy has failed in Iran (Gideon Rachman/Financial Times)  Looks pretty successful so far.

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The BBC has been caught yet again manipulating comments from the Trump administration to radically alter their meaning.

During a March 2 press conference about the war in Iran, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the United States is bringing death to the same regime that chanted “death to America.”

BBC Persia, however, substituted the word ‘people’ for ‘regime’ – fundamentally changing Hegseth’s meaning to sound like America was targeting all Iranians vs. the regime.

No doubt the BBC considers the two words synonymous.

Democrats join legal challenge to Trump’s planned 250-foot arch (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)

House Democrat seeks to bar Trump from closing Kennedy Center for renovations (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)

With Healthcare Fueling U.S. Jobs, More Trouble Ahead Due To Trump Cuts (Bruce Japsen/Forbes)  Because, as we all know, funding health care is TOTALLY the responsibility of the Federal government—and the Federal taxpayer. (The question no ‘journalist’ asks: Hey, maybe if we reduced taxes people would be able to pay for their own health care?)

As Trump Focuses on Cuba, DOJ Seeks Charges Against Its Leaders (New York Times)

Pam Bondi’s Ludicrous New Scheme to Protect Lying DOJ Lawyers (Slate)

Mills: Trump Admin “Reveling In The Carnage” As Tehran Burns

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump (Miami Herald) Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!

Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran (NBC News)  We have no proof, so we’ll just insinuate….

Newsbusters.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s presidential campaign trial run masquerading as a book tour took him to Katie Couric’s Next Question podcast on Thursday, where she expressed concern over Newsom’s reputation as “slick.” During that portion of the episode, the former CBS and NBC anchor would ask such difficult questions as “Are you just ridiculously good-looking?” and wonder if that plays into concerns about his authenticity.

He’s a Democrat. No Democrat has ‘authenticity’, they are all The Joker in Clever Plastic Disguises.

Newsbusters.

During an interview on Wednesday’s Ana Cabrera Reports, the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister confirmed key details of a Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s interview on FOX News where he stated the Iranians claimed to have enough material for eleven nuclear bombs, a statement that MS NOW rushed to report was false based on an “anonymous Gulf diplomat.”

On Monday, Witkoff said “the Iranian negotiators said to us, directly, with, you know, no shame that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60 percent, and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.”

MS NOW’s senior national security reporter David Rohde reported last night that Witkoff’s claims were false and went on Morning Joe the next morning to parrot the anonymous diplomat’s claims.

Newsbusters.

CNN’s Erin Burnett displayed some bizarre and problematic moral equivalency on Wednesday as she hosted OutFront from Tel Aviv, Israel. Recapping the days’ events, she sought to compare an American submarine sinking an Iranian destroyer to Iran bombing neutral countries as proof the conflict is “escalating.”

Burnett began, “This as the war is escalating tonight, as I speak, 10 countries across northern Europe, northern Europe, you heard me right, are preparing a plan right now to evacuate civilians across borders amid this war with Iran that is now spreading thousands of miles from where it began, in Khamenei’s compound in the center of Tehran Saturday morning.”

Newsbusters.

As the U.S. and Israel war against Iran enters Day 4, the PBS News Hour continues to rely on coverage sympathetic to the murderous regime pro-regime from “special correspondent” Reza Sayah.

Judge: Trump Effort to End NYC Congestion Pricing Unlawful

Smoothie King fires employees who refused to serve couple with Trump merchandise (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)

Trump’s MAGA base wrestles with Iran strikes launched by an ‘America First’ president (Matt Dixon/NBC News)  No, they don’t. They’re behind him. Narrative Media sock-puppets just don’t want to believe it. (Why didn’t we do this to Iran long ago?)

New Jersey Faces Structural Deficit Crisis And Democrats Blame Trump

The Trump administration still can’t decide why it’s doing this (Cameron Peters/Vox)  Sure they did, you just can’t admit it.

Trump is running out of time to sell his rationale for Iran war (Politico)  He’s got three years left.

House Dems fume at Trump admin’s “bullsh*t” Iran briefing (Andrew Solender/Axios)  Fuming is about all they’re good for.

Jeffrey Sachs: ‘Trump Is An Utter Disgrace To Our Nation – He Lied To Us’

O’Donnell Suggests Trump’s Military Operates like Hitler’s WW2 Forces

Texas primary shows that MAGA loves a villain (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)  Amanda Marcotte loses her shit. No, MAGA doesn’t so much love a villain as hate a RINO. Amanda, of course, hasn’t the wit to perceive that.

So much for affordability: Trump’s war with Iran exposes the deceit of ‘America First’ (Max Burns/The Hill)

Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)  Sounds like a plan.

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers (Molly Taft/Wired)  As if anybody who writes for WIRED knows shit about farming.

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Indeed, they are not.

Iran is not Venezuela as much as Trump wants it to be (Politico)

Death toll rises in Trump’s ‘Epic Fury’ military campaign (Ellen Mitchell/Associated Press)  Soon they may match the typical transgender or Muslim mass shooting.

Trump: Dems Would Back Iran Strike If Not Done By Me Of course they would; who doesn’t know that?

Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square (Drop Site News)  You’d think they would jihadist terrorists or something.

Doctors Sound Alarm on White House ‘Secrecy’ Over Trump’s Neck Rash (Laura Esposito/The Daily Beast)  Maybe they ought to worry about him getting athlete’s foot, too. I mean, all that golf….

Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)  Yes.

MAGA Already Hates Trump’s Iran War (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)  As if anyone writing for the Bullshitwark has a clue as to what MAGA hates. (Hint: The Bullshitwark.)

MS NOW Itches for High Casualties to Hurt Trump, All Operation Plans

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus (Jonathan Larsen/Jonathan Larsen’s …)  Ah, ah, ah, ah, yankin’ their chains, yankin’ their chains….

Box-Cutter Thug Gets 16.5 Years In Prison After Framing Immigrant With Fake Trump Death Threats

‘Pretty Bad for Vance’: The VP’s Silence on Iran Peeves Allies (Ian Ward/Politico)  Boy, this molehill sure looks like a mountain if you squint properly.

Clinton says Trump told him of ‘some great times’ with Jeffrey Epstein (Andy Sullivan/Reuters)  Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!

Is America sliding into autocracy | FT #shorts

Rubio’s war remarks blow open MAGA’s Israel divide (Axios)

Trump’s Iran War and the Article One crisis (Lisa Needham/Public Notice) What crisis?

Minnesota Sues Trump Admin Over $243M Medicaid Freeze

Donald Trump’s dangerous ‘war of whim’ (Edward Luce/Financial Times)  The Financial Times is what the Wall Street Journal would be if it were run by the staff of Mother Jones.

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Greg Sargent loses his shit.

We’re witnessing the birth of the Trump Doctrine (Marc A. Thiessen/Washington Post)  At least that’s what we’re going to tell you.

In Plunging Into a Mideast Conflict, Trump Gambles His Presidency (Tyler Pager/New York Times)  A gamble that no Democrat would risk, even one that was compos mentis, as Joe Biden notoriously was not.

On MS NOW, Reza Aslan Compares ‘Authoritarian’ Trump to Iran Regime

In Anti-Trump Rant, Politico Finally Admits Biden Administration Was ‘Dysfunctional’

Comedy Shows Claim Iran War Is a Distraction From Epstein  EpsteinQ Epstein! Epstein!

What Is the Point of This War? ??? A vignette from the end of the U.S.-led global order, per Reuters: (William Kristol/The Bulwark)  Wonder of wonders: Bill Krisol has found a war he doesn’t like. History is being made.

FAKE NEWS: ABC’s Bruce Falsely Claims Rubio Said Israel Dragged U.S. into Iran War

Chris Hayes Compares Trump Bombing Iran to 9/11 Terrorists

Trump has cornered himself with his war in Iran (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)  Didn’t know that Sid Vicious was still alive. He and Robert Reich must have a lot to talk about.

TechDirt.

You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of promises about how they were somehow going to revolutionize U.S. media. In reality most of their promises were relatively inane, and it didn’t take long before the outlet demonstrated it was primarily interested in propping up the status quo.

Case in point: one of the very first things the outlet did is start hosting “Restoring Trust In Media” annual conferences. Except each year they make it a priority to unironically validate, normalize and platform a lot of the people actively working to undermine trust in news. Like former Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson the first year, and overt bigot Megyn Kelly last year.

Semafor keeps being criticized for not only not helping to “restore trust in media,” but for actively making the problem worse. But they keep doubling down. This year’s event, for example, is a who’s who of people that have made U.S. media immeasurably less trustworthy over the last year

Newsbusters.

Did you know that a historic and symbolic landmark of the nation’s capital was recently vandalized by an individual currently sought after by the FBI? If the story escaped your attention, thank the Big Four News Apps — Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News — which largely ignored the attack, only featuring one article on the story over four days.

On Feb. 20, Fox News exclusively reported that the Trump-Kennedy Center had been subjected to an alleged act of vandalism after a suspect poured a “toxic,” dark substance onto an outdoor ice rink earlier that morning. The attack marked a major escalation of violence on a federal property, particularly one that holds national significance.

The Media Research Center examined the Big Four News Apps to determine whether they featured the vandalism story among their top 20 headlines during the mornings of Feb. 21 through Feb. 24. The results were telling.