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Top Stories:
1) ‘Not Yet’: ABC, NBC Downplay ‘Extremist’ Motive in Anti-Semitic Terror Down Under
2) Look in a Mirror: The View Wonders Where All the Hate Comes From, Lie About Trump
3) Tiniest Trump Scandal of All Time? New State Department FONT Policy!
4) Media Wield Lefty Anti-Trump Group Propaganda, Claim Holiday Gift Prices Are Up 26%
5) 'The Grinch Has It Right'? When The Media Hate Christmas
6) DC Police Chief Forced Staff to Underreport Crime Counts, Subordinates Testify to House Oversight
Avoidance of Specific Motive: ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today were criticized for allegedly downplaying the motive in the anti-Semitic terror attack, describing the perpetrators only as being "motivated by extremist ideology" while repeatedly stating that the motive was "not yet revealed" by authorities, despite the attack explicitly targeting the Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah.
Contrast with "Moral Clarity" from CBS: CBS Mornings as a contrast, praising it for offering "moral clarity." CBS reportedly emphasized that the gunmen "picked this site deliberately because they were targeting Jews" and allowed survivors and community leaders to articulate their deep-seated fears about the rise of anti-Semitism in Australia.
Narrative Diversion and Focus Shift: The networks were accused of diverting the narrative away from anti-Semitic extremism. NBC's report allegedly ended by focusing on the need for stricter gun control laws, while ABC's coverage maintained that the motive was unknown even while discussing the need for beefed-up security for Jewish celebrations in New York City.
Allegations of Hypocrisy and "Hate-Fueled" Commentary: The blog post argues that hosts on The View displayed "hypocrisy" by "wondering where all the hate in the world came from" while simultaneously being described as "hate-fueled talking heads" themselves. The author cites past controversial statements by host Sunny Hostin (fearing white neighbors, excusing assassination) and Sara Haines (proclaiming pro-lifers should die of cancer) to support the claim that the show is a "purveyor of hate."
False Accusation Against Donald Trump: Whoopi Goldberg was criticized for making a false claim that President Trump did not offer condolences for the victims of the shootings in Australia and at Brown University, stating, "You don't find the time to say, as Americans, 'we hate what's happening?'" She was later forced to issue a "correction," which the author notes was delivered with bitterness and a refusal to say Trump's name ("You Know Who").
Misrepresentation of Conservative Support for Extremist Figures: The author claims that co-host Sara Haines falsely attempted to link the anti-Semitic attack in Australia to American conservatives by claiming there was a "divide on the right" over whether to "embrace figures like Nick Fuentes," asserting that "most prominent conservative influencers had denounced him."
Media manufactures outrage over trivia: Major outlets like NBC News breathlessly framed Secretary Marco Rubio's return to the traditional Times New Roman font as "the latest casualty in the Trump administration's war on diversity and inclusion," inflating a minor administrative tweak into a supposed assault on accessibility—despite the Biden-era switch to Calibri achieving no meaningful improvements.
Absurd historical comparisons reveal bias: Journalists escalated the "scandal" to ridiculous extremes, with one former Voice of America reporter likening the preference for serif fonts to the Nazis banning Fraktur in 1941 because it was "too Jewish," exposing how anti-Trump hysteria turns routine policy reversals into Godwin's Law violations.
Hyping non-issues distracts from real governance: By treating a font memo titled "Return to Tradition"—which restores formality and dignity to official correspondence—as front-page controversy, the press underscores its obsession with symbolic "wars on woke" while ignoring substantive issues, proving nothing Trump does escapes exaggerated liberal scorn.
Media's Soros-Fueled Propaganda Pipeline: Major outlets like Politico, the New York Post, and NPR affiliates blindly amplified a "26% holiday gift price surge" claim from the Groundwork Collaborative—a leftist group fiscally sponsored by the George Soros-backed New Venture Fund, which received over $88 million from Open Society Foundations—without disclosing its deep anti-Trump ties or the $410 million Soros network spent to defeat him in 2020, turning economic reporting into unchecked propaganda.
Flawed Study Exposed: Cherry-Picked Fear Over Facts: The Groundwork report's alarmist 26% hike on 70 New York Magazine gift picks ignores Amazon's dynamic pricing that fluctuates up to 20% daily, relies on a tiny sample ignoring broader trends like the Bureau of Labor Statistics' -0.1% year-over-year apparel price drop, and contradicts expert analysis showing Trump's tariffs haven't driven inflation—yet media swallowed it whole to bash his agenda.
Holiday Boom Buries the Narrative: Despite lefty fearmongering, the National Retail Federation projects $1.01–1.02 trillion in U.S. holiday sales—a 3.7–4.2% jump from 2024—with average spending hitting $890.49 (second-highest in 23 years), proving consumers aren't pinched by tariffs as claimed; this media-driven doom loop only distracts from a resilient economy under Trump.
The Media's Annual "Hate Christmas" Cavalcade: Media outlets have an aggressive, annual trend of publishing numerous negative stories about Christmas (e.g., "25 reasons why Christmas can be the worst time of year," "Why I Hate Christmas") immediately following Thanksgiving, suggesting this content is primarily used as "clickbait."
Normalization of Anti-Christmas Sentiment: The constant flow of "I hate Christmas" media stories risks influencing younger generations to believe that a negative or Grinch-like view of the holiday is not only acceptable but should be their reality.
Contribution to Secularization: The media negativity is connected to the holiday's religious meaning "beginning to fade," implying that the constant focus on the holiday's downsides is helping to transform Christmas into a secular "winter festival" rather than a celebration of the birth of Christ.
Systematic Downgrading of Serious Crimes: DC Police Chief Pamela A. Smith allegedly ordered and coerced subordinates to deliberately falsify publicly reported crime data by downgrading serious felony offenses—like assault with a dangerous weapon and burglary—to intermediate offenses. This manipulation was done to prevent them from being included in the public-facing daily crime report, thereby artificially lowering the perception of crime severity in Washington, D.C.
Creation of a Culture of Fear and Retaliation: Subordinates testified that Chief Smith punished staff who refused to dishonestly manipulate statistics. The chief reportedly engaged in retribution, including retaliatory transfers and demotions, against MPD officials who did not present "favorable crime statistics" or who questioned her actions.
Motive to Undermine Federal Response: The pressure to manipulate crime statistics reportedly intensified around August 2023, coinciding with President Trump's declaration of a crime emergency in D.C. and the deployment of federal law enforcement. The report suggests critics of the federal surge used the deliberately lowered crime statistics to argue the intervention was unnecessary or "misguided."
