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Legacy Media Reluctantly Cover SCOTUS’ Defunding of Planned Parenthood
With the current Supreme Court term winding down there remain several big opinions on the docket, including on whether district courts will continue to be able to issue national injunctions. One of those opinions came down today, allowing states to ban Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.

ABC Shows Footage of ICE Arrest, Omits Clip Showing Attack on Agents
On Tuesday, ABC World News Tonight defended the arrest of an illegal immigrant who attacked ICE agents with a weed whacker while running through the streets of southern California. Despite a video showing the illegal alien chasing agents with the weed whacker and attempting to break into a car at a stop light, they criticized the use of what they dubbed a “violent Border Patrol…

ABC and NBC Ignore 11 Iranians Arrested by ICE
Bias by omission was highlighted Monday and Tuesday as CBS Evening News Plus and Fox News’s Hannity covered the 11 Iranians arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week, while ABC and NBC did not touch the subject on their lead morning and evening shows.

GPS REDUX? Legacy Newscasts Tout Leaked DIA Bombing Damage Assessment
The leaked and Natasha Bertrand-laundered Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of the aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, Esfahan and Fordow, quickly made it to the top of the legacy media evening news. Its promise of a minor setback for Iran’s nuclear program, as opposed to total destruction, was uniformly parroted, touted and…

Networks Trumpet NYC’s ‘Charismatic Socialist’ With ‘Powerful’ Views
The “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC were ebullient Wednesday morning in celebrating far-left, “young, charismatic, socialist” New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani emerging as the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor as a “seismic...possible harbinger” for America’s future because of his “populist” views “meeting people where they are” with “solutions.”

Haines, Hostin Gush About NYC Dems Nominating 'Democratic Socialist'
In the Wednesday wake of far-left Democratic extremist Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic Party’s mayoral primary in New York City, some of the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View shared their praise. Far-left co-host Sunny Hostin was excited that Mamdani was a “democratic socialist,” and pretend independent Sara Haines let the mask slip as she hyped how he wanted to jack up taxes on…

Actor Diego Luna Claims It Is 'Very Unfair' To Deport Illegal Aliens
Star Wars actor and Jimmy Kimmel Live! guest host Diego Luna ditched the jokes on Monday’s ABC show in favor of a solemn monologue that attacked President Trump for deporting illegal immigrants, seemed to conflate illegal and legal immigration, denigrated native-born Americans, and spread some fake news.

ABC News Rushes to Give Mahmoud Khalil His Prime-Time Tongue Bath
A federal judge ordered the release of Columbia student agitator and protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention. Naturally, it was a matter of time before the legacy media fell over themselves to score that exclusive interview. ABC News ended up scoring the interview, and it was as disgusting as you’d expect.

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On the Rails: ABC Has Jon Karl Babysit The View During Iran Discussion
After The View made embarrassing headlines last week with moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-host Sunny Hostin suggesting that it was worse to be black in America than live in Iran, ABC News seemingly appointed chief Washington correspondent Jon Karl to be their babysitter during Monday’s discussion of the U.S.’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Karl kept the cast on the rails as…

ABC/CBS/NBC: 0 Seconds on Biden Autopen, 229 Minutes on Karen Read
MRC analysts looked at ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening, morning and magazine news programs, from June 18 (the day of the hearing) through the morning of June 23, and found there was NO coverage of the “autopen” hearings.

SUPPRESSION: Legacy News Omits Mahmoud Khalil’s Return Protest
Over the course of this second Trump administration, the legacy media selected several poster children for immigration before settling on alleged MS-13 ganbanger and accused human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The first of these, though, was Columbia student agitator Mahmoud Khalil- who spent the past several months in ICE custody and was turned into a cause celébre. Now that he’s…

Legacy Media Reax to U.S. Bombing Iran Nuke Sites: SHOCK AND SQUAWK
Media reaction to news of the U.S. bombing of critical Iranian nuclear sites was mixed at best, as evidenced by initial Saturday night coverage. Below is a compendium of some of those reactions, which ranged from plain goofy to outright awful.