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Top Stories:
- Media’s 20 Worst Anti-Trump Quotes From His First Year Back In Office
- FINALLY: ‘60 Minutes’ Airs CECOT Story. Cue the Elitist Media Meltdown
- Sunday Shows Mostly Enable Jacob Frey’s ‘Love’ and ‘Resistance’ Shtick
- Only 4 of 840 Stories: Google News’s Six-Week Blockade of Minn Fraud
Media Hysteria Equates Trump to Fascists and Dictators from Day One: Outlets like ABC's The View and MSNBC immediately compared Trump's inauguration and early actions to Hitler's rise, rating his first week as "peak fascism," and labeled him an authoritarian consolidating a dictatorship, framing routine policies as existential threats to democracy.
Accusations of Racism, Ethnic Cleansing, and Retribution Fuel Division: Commentators on PBS, podcasts, and CNN accused Trump of scapegoating non-whites, promoting "remigration" as ethnic cleansing, embodying America's "sins" like greed, and pursuing a "retribution campaign" against enemies, while blaming him for violence and human rights abuses.
Calls for Impeachment and Skepticism of U.S. Survival Under Trump: Figures on SiriusXM, ABC, and MSNBC urged weekly impeachments starting "one minute" into his term, predicted he would rig elections or refuse to leave power, warned of deaths from policy changes, and expressed doubt the country would "survive" his leadership, portraying his supporters as "blood-lusting psychotics."
Bari Weiss Was Right to Pull and Fix the Biased Original Report — The initial 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador's CECOT megaprison — where the Trump administration deported 252 Venezuelan men suspected of gang ties — was heavily slanted, relying on sympathetic detainee interviews, far-left human rights sources like Human Rights Watch, false claims of no administration response, and even Berkeley students, while ignoring provided White House, State Department, and DHS comments. Weiss correctly demanded balance and additional reporting, preventing a one-sided hit piece from airing prematurely.
Revisions Added Crucial Context Without Destroying the Story — After the controversy and leak, the finally aired January 18, 2026, version included a reworked opening tying into Nicolás Maduro's capture, a closing addendum with DHS intelligence on deportees' criminal backgrounds (Tren de Aragua and MS-13 links), administration statements defending the policy as removing threats to Americans, and refusals to share sensitive intel. This proved the original lacked fairness, and the fixes enhanced viewer understanding rather than censoring the report.
Elitist Media Howls Over Basic Journalism Standards — Despite the improvements and no collapse of free speech or the Republic, expect ongoing outrage from "media morality clerics" who cried censorship when Weiss held the piece (sparking internal backlash, including a "whiny" all-hands email from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi). This exposes ongoing partisan hackery at CBS/60 Minutes, where demanding balance from anti-Trump stories triggers meltdowns, highlighting how legacy media resents accountability under new leadership.
Sunday Shows Mostly Let Frey's "Love and Resistance" Narrative Slide Hosts on CNN, ABC, and NBC gave Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey free rein to frame ICE operations as an "invading force" and sanctuary defiance as acts of "love," with soft questions that reinforced his "siege" storyline and rarely challenged his inflammatory rhetoric.
Only CBS's Brennan Provided Any Real Pushback Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation called Frey's "occupying force" label "a bit much," questioned sanctuary policies, and pressed on risks from AG Ellison's transparency demands—making her the lone host who even mildly scrutinized his narrative.
Media Protects Frey's Shtick Over Holding Obstruction Accountable With scant exceptions, legacy outlets showed little interest in confronting Frey's dangerous language or the unrest it fuels, preferring to amplify "resistance" talking points rather than demand answers on legal obstruction or potential violence in Minnesota
Extreme Blackout on Major Scandal Over six weeks (Nov. 28–Jan. 9), Google News featured just 4 stories on the exploding Minnesota fraud scandal out of 840 total in its top 20 morning editions—less than 0.5% coverage—effectively burying widespread allegations of fraud tied to Gov. Tim Walz's administration.
Ideological Gatekeeping Exposed None of the four stories came from right-leaning sources; three instead vilified Trump administration enforcement actions, while Google delayed coverage (e.g., four-day lag after a New York Times exposé) and placed pieces on low-traffic days like Dec. 30 and Jan. 1 to minimize visibility.
Digital Suppression with Real-World Impact Despite escalating developments—including dozens of arrests, federal probes, viral videos, 2,000+ agent deployments, and Walz suspending his re-election bid—Google News acted as a "digital gatekeeper," throttling information that could have informed millions and potentially influenced political outcomes.
