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‘WEIRDO LIBERAL BOOMERS’: Scott Jennings CLOWNS the ‘No Kings’ Rallies
OMISSION: Sunday Shows Mostly Ignore Dem Congresswoman’s Ethics Trial
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr at CPAC: Trump's 'Winning' Against the 'Fake News Media'
‘WEIRDO LIBERAL BOOMERS’: Scott Jennings CLOWNS the ‘No Kings’ Rallies
Scott Jennings exposes the “No Kings” rallies as the true face of the Democratic coalition: On CNN’s State of the Union, Jennings mocked the protests as “pretty representative” of today’s Democrats, “weirdo liberal boomers,” hammer-and-sickle flags, Hezbollah and Hamas symbols, Palestinian flags, and trans signs all on full display. He pointed out that this is exactly “who funds it as well,” turning the media’s hyped “organic outrage” into an unflattering mirror for the left.
The rallies aren’t grassroots — they’re astroturfed by radical socialist and communist groups bankrolled by a CCP-linked billionaire: Key organizers include the People’s Forum, Party for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition, and CodePink, all financed by Neville Roy Singham, an avowed communist living in China. These same networks pushed revolutionary socialist politics and even ran the lavish Cuba flotilla. The “No Kings” message is just rebranded extremism, not spontaneous public anger.
Liberal media is desperately selling fringe protests as a “primal scream” while ignoring the communist funding and radical symbols: Sunday shows and outlets like The New York Times tried to frame the rallies as massive, mainstream resistance, but Jennings and Fox News cut through the narrative: these events expose the Democratic left’s coalition, not broad American discontent. The public sees the flags, the funders, and the hypocrisy and it’s not winning hearts and minds.
OMISSION: Sunday Shows Mostly Ignore Dem Congresswoman’s Ethics Trial
Major media Sunday shows largely buried a serious Democratic ethics scandal: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) was found guilty by the House Ethics Committee of 25 ethics violations involving the alleged theft of millions in COVID/FEMA relief funds, some of which were reportedly funneled to her congressional campaign. Yet, on March 29, 2026, ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, and CNN’s State of the Union completely ignored the story in their panels and interviews.
Only a single throwaway mention on CBS’s Face the Nation: Host Margaret Brennan briefly asked Democrat Rep. Jim Himes about whether Cherfilus-McCormick should resign or be expelled. Himes suggested she should step down to avoid hypocrisy — noting Republicans had defended George Santos, but emphasized consistency in punishing ethical lapses. This minimal, end-of-segment question stood as the lone exception amid near-total omission by the other major Sunday programs.
Clear double standard in media coverage: While Democrats have made “corruption” a central campaign theme against Republicans, the elite media showed little interest in aggressively covering or questioning Democrats about one of their own members’ ethics conviction. This fits a pattern of selective outrage and omission when the scandal doesn’t fit the preferred narrative, exposing hypocrisy in how ethical misconduct is treated depending on party affiliation.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr at CPAC: Trump's 'Winning' Against the 'Fake News Media'
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr declares Trump is directly confronting and beating the “fake news media”: At CPAC, Carr praised President Trump for boldly challenging legacy media instead of surrendering to their narrative control. He stated that Trump “smashed the façade” by refusing to let media dictate what people think, say, or vote, and concluded: “President Trump took on the fake news media, and President Trump is winning.”
Concrete results show Trump’s success against biased outlets: Carr pointed to major shifts including the defunding of PBS and NPR, the departures of prominent figures like Joy Reid from MSNBC, “Sleepy-eyed” Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, and John Dickerson, Colbert leaving his show, CBS moving under new ownership (Larry Ellison and son), and CNN soon facing the same. These changes mark a clear break from past Republican administrations that allowed media dominance.
Leftist media reacts with alarm while conservatives celebrate a long-overdue pushback: Outlets like Mediaite expressed concern over Carr’s comments, framing them as troubling alignment between the FCC and Trump. This as a welcome correction after years of taxpayer-funded opposition media (PBS/NPR) and relentless negative coverage, even as he cautions that full victory isn’t declared and bias still lingers in many newsrooms.
Big Four news apps maintained six days of total silence on the brutal murder of 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman: From March 20–25, 2026, Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN, and Yahoo News featured zero articles about Gorman’s killing in their top 20 morning stories, despite the story being widely covered elsewhere. Gorman was shot execution-style in a Chicago park by a masked suspect identified as Venezuelan national Jose Medina-Medina, believed to be an illegal alien.
The same apps aggressively amplified anti-ICE and negative immigration enforcement stories while ignoring this innocent American victim: During the exact six-day blackout period, the platforms promoted dozens of pieces portraying ICE in a bad light (including stories about deaths in detention) and covered 29 other murders or death, but not the killing of an 18-year-old college freshman who did nothing wrong. The omission stands out sharply against their eagerness to push narratives critical of border enforcement.
Clear evidence of gatekeeping and narrative-driven bias by dominant digital news aggregators: Even as the suspect’s immigration status became known, the Big Four apps chose not to surface the story to millions of users who rely on them for news. This pattern of selective omission shields audiences from stories inconvenient to certain political viewpoints on immigration, while actively boosting aligned content.
