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Kayyem Claims Duffy Asking For ATC Funding Sounded Like 'A Shakedown'
CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem joined CNN This Morning Weekend host Victor Blackwell on Saturday to recap the previous night’s press conference featuring Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on the FAA’s ground stop order. According to Kayyem, Duffy’s request that Congress provide $50 billion for air traffic control modernization…
The Left's Loathing of Hegseth Fits a Long Tradition
As if there aren’t enough problems in the world, the American media has decided they need to zero in on….Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
PBS Warns Presidential Election Proves 'Autocracy' Is Still a Threat
PBS’s eponymous host of Amanpour & Company, Christiane Amanpour, and New York Times columnist M. Gessen joined forces on Friday to claim that despite Democrats’ midterm victories, the fact that the U.S. will have a presidential election in two years means the threat of “autocracy” is still very real.
Politico's Dasha Burns Blames DOGE, Duffy For Nationwide Flight Halt
Politico’s Playbook co-author Dasha Burns joined HBO’s Bill Maher on Friday’s episode of Real Time to discuss the FAA issuing a nationwide ground stop order and placed the blame for the incident at the feet of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, despite him spending the last two years urging Congress to fund air traffic control modernization efforts.
MS NOW's Sanders-Townsend & Russert Set Up Rep. McIver To Cry Racism
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) won reelection despite her indictment on federal charges of assaulting, resisting, impeding and interfering with federal officers at an ICE immigration detention facility in May 2025, and faces possible trial. But Tuesday on MS NOW's The Weeknight, she was presented as innocent, and a victim of sexism and racism.
CNN Explained Duffy’s ATC Revamp Push Before Nighttime Briefing
Before the nighttime press briefing after the FAA ground stoppage crossed all American airspace on Friday, CNN analysts actually, perhaps unknowingly, predicted a major topic of the briefing by Secretary Sean Duffy and Secretary Markwayne Mullin. CNN’s aviation correspondent Pete Muntean first noted Duffy’s push for a revamped ATC system, before CNN Business anchor Richard Quest mentioned the…
NBC Reporter's Claim About Trump ATC Funding Disproven by Own Network
Friday evening’s news coverage was dominated by the historic FAA ground stoppage of all nationwide flights amid communication issues, leading to speculation throughout the night until a press conference by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and DHS Secretary Maryanne Mullin in the 8 PM hour.
The press conference had its moment, with Duffy pleading for Congress to fund a revamped Air…
Whoopi Wants Democrats Quiet, Maddow Wants Them to ‘Have a Big Fight’
MS Now’s Rachel Maddow was all for Democratic Party infighting on Wednesday’s edition of ABC’s The View. She was offering a very different message from moderator Whoopi Goldberg, who had complained just one day earlier about Democrats airing their leadership disputes in public.
The View Thinks the Show Is ‘Harder to Do’ Than Special Forces Fitness
If there’s one thing you’ll learn from watching The View every day, it’s that the cast are detached from reality. During Friday’s episode, former conservative co-host Candace Cameron Bure returned to reminisce and promote her victory in latest season of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test. But in hearing about some of the physically demanding activists Bure was put though,…
It's Real: NPR’s Code Switch Podcast on ‘Why Fascists Love ‘Fitness’’
The headline above is not exaggerated for effect; it’s how NPR’s “Code Switch” podcast introduced the episode: "Why fascists love “fitness." The online introduction to the October 16 episode read: “Right-wing ideology has crept into gyms across the country. Is this a new phenomenon, or is the very idea of "fitness" ripe for politicization? Is our idea of fitness inherently fascist? We find out…
ICYMI: Big Changes Coming to CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ (Except the Host)
Status’s Oliver Darcy published a special edition of his newsletter Wednesday afternoon, revealing that CBS’s Face the Nation, hosted by Margaret Brennan, who’s become a meme on the right in the last two years, is losing both its senior executive producer and executive producer, but keeping Brennan. It honestly comes off like rearranging the deck chairs, as conservatives have come to…
CAIR Hour? Muslim PBS Anchor Coddles Abdul El-Sayed on Facing Hate
The PBS News Hour brought on Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed on Thursday night for the DEI occasion of the first Muslim PBS anchor to interview the first Muslim elected to the Senate. Amna Nawaz was just as pliant a Democrat talking point-enabler here as she was to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. Plus extra points for lamenting all the "Islamophobia."
Kimmel Welcomes Jesse Welles To Sing 'The Nerd Reich'
Back on Tuesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed far-left protest singer Jesse Welles to close out the show by singing his new song “The Nerd Reich," and it was about as bad as you would think.
The Ratchet Only Ever Tightens
Every three years, the committees that write America’s model building codes sit down and rewrite them. Every three years, the codes get longer. I have yet to find the cycle in which they took out more than they put in. Regulation works like a ratchet. Each click tightens. Nothing ever gets loosened up. Every individual requirement sounds reasonable on its own, e.g., thicker insulation, another…
