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Top Stories:
- Avalanche: Networks Keep Tying Trump to Epstein as Coverage Soars Past 1,000 Minutes
- 2025: The View Chatted Politics with 128 Lib Guests, 2 Conservatives*
- Late Night Comedy Shows Go Six Months With 99% Liberal Guests, Again
- No Laughing Matter: Comedy Shows Tell 92% Of Their Jokes About Conservatives
- FAMILY FEUD: '60 Minutes' Leftists Wage Internal War on Bari Weiss Applying Brakes
- The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year
Massive Media Avalanche Linking Trump to Epstein: Major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC) aired over 200 segments in 2025 explicitly tying Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein—more than double the coverage of any other Epstein-related figure—despite no new evidence of wrongdoing by Trump, turning old associations into a relentless political weapon.
Trump Coverage Dwarfs All Other Epstein Connections: Trump received far more airtime than Bill Clinton (mentioned in only 47 segments), Prince Andrew, or even Ghislaine Maxwell herself, revealing a clear double standard: networks obsess over Trump’s past social ties while downplaying or ignoring deeper documented links involving prominent Democrats and elites.
Networks Ignore Exculpatory Facts: Despite flight logs showing Trump flew on Epstein’s plane only once (with his family, not to the island), and court documents confirming he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after learning of his behavior, the media repeatedly omits these key details to maintain the misleading narrative of a close, ongoing relationship.
Partisan Timing and Intensity Spike: The flood of Trump-Epstein stories surged dramatically after the 2024 election and during Trump’s second term transition, with MSNBC and CNN alone accounting for nearly 60% of the segments—proving the coverage is less about journalism and more about weaponizing old associations to undermine the incoming administration.
Overwhelming Liberal Guest Dominance: In 2025, ABC's The View featured a staggering 128 liberal guests—including Democratic politicians like Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Chuck Schumer—compared to just 2 conservatives, highlighting a blatant partisan imbalance out of 348 total guests.
Controversial Conservative Appearances and Rejections: The show's only conservative guests, Cheryl Hines and Marjorie Taylor Greene, faced hostility, with hosts like Joy Behar dismissing potential right-leaning invitees as not meeting a "certain caliber" or fearing pushback, while evidence shows ignored requests from conservatives like Vivek Ramaswamy and rejected bookings.
Platform for Democratic Promotion: The View served as a promotional echo chamber for liberals, allowing figures like Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to hawk books and GLAAD's Sarah Kate Ellis to present awards, with a mid-year 75% drop in liberal guests following a NewsBusters study exposing the bias.
Near-Total Liberal Dominance in Guests: From July to December 2025, major late-night shows (Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers, Fallon, and The Daily Show) booked 90 liberal/Democratic guests versus just 1 conservative (Greg Gutfeld on Fallon), making 99% of appearances partisanly one-sided—repeating the exact 99% liberal skew from the first half of 2025 and continuing a pattern of extreme bias.
Complete Shutout of Republican Officials: Not a single Republican politician appeared across the five shows in six months, while 31 Democratic officials were hosted—including multiple appearances by Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris, and Sen. Mark Kelly—turning these "comedy" programs into unchecked platforms for Democratic promotion and messaging.
Persistent Echo Chamber Despite Turmoil: Even amid host controversies—like Stephen Colbert's show cancellation announcement and Jimmy Kimmel's suspension for spreading conspiracy theories—the shows maintained their liberal guest monopoly, underscoring a deep-seated ideological bias that has resulted in 604 liberals vs. only 15 conservatives booked since September 2022 (97% liberal).
Escalating Anti-Conservative Bias in Jokes: In 2025, late-night shows directed 92% of political jokes at conservatives and Trump—a 10% increase from the prior year—with over 7,000 jokes targeting Trump alone (up from 5,980), turning comedy into a one-sided assault on the right.
Extreme Guest Imbalance as Echo Chamber: Liberal guests outnumbered conservatives nearly 100-to-1 (197 to 2 across major shows like Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, and The Daily Show), reinforcing an elitist media bubble that excludes dissenting voices and fuels partisan division.
Radical Hosts Leading the Charge: Jimmy Kimmel stood out as the most partisan, with 97% of his political jokes mocking the right (including vicious personal attacks on Trump's cabinet), while shows actively campaigned for left-wing figures like NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, abandoning any pretense of neutral entertainment.
Internal Leftist Rebellion at CBS: 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi leaked a fiery internal memo accusing Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of making a "political" decision to spike a critical segment on El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison—where the Trump administration deported illegal migrants—claiming it was fully vetted and factually sound, exposing deep divisions among CBS leftists over anti-Trump reporting.
Hypocrisy in Journalistic Standards: Alfonsi decried Weiss's requirement for a Trump administration response as handing them a "kill switch" for inconvenient stories, turning journalists into "stenographers for the state"—yet the post highlights 60 Minutes' history of one-sided hit pieces (like on Ron DeSantis) and soft profiles (like David Hogg), while boasting no interference when it suits their narrative.
Setback for Anti-Trump Crusade: The feud, discussed openly on CBS Mornings and amplified by a deleted teaser, marks an embarrassing brake on 60 Minutes' aggressive anti-Trump efforts, with Weiss's intervention preventing what was framed as an exposé on a "torture prison," revealing how even internal "brakes" disrupt the network's partisan momentum.
Liberal media figures exploit tragedy to blame victims: Just hours after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, former MS Now contributor Matthew Dowd suggested on air that Kirk's own "hateful words" and "divisive" rhetoric likely provoked the attack, even floating the idea that the shooter could have been a supporter "celebrating,” a vile insinuation that led to Dowd's firing and exemplifies how left-leaning pundits rush to smear conservatives rather than condemn violence.
Mainstream hosts politicize assassinations without backlash: First runner-up Jimmy Kimmel accused "MAGA" supporters of desperately trying to distance themselves from Kirk's killer and scoring "political points," ignoring facts while framing conservatives as the real villains in the tragedy, highlighting the unchecked bias where late-night "comedians" freely demonize one side without professional consequences.
Left-wing commentators openly disdain America's founding documents: Runners-up like Elie Mystal, The Nation justice correspondent, (calling the U.S. Constitution "a piece of crap" compared to South Africa's post-apartheid version) and Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, (equating the potential cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show to the "dismantling of our democracy and Constitution") reveal a deep-seated contempt among liberal elites for America's core principles, treating them as obsolete or threats when they conflict with progressive agendas.
