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Top Stories:
- FLASHBACK: Media Elitists Despised Trump’s Addresses to Congress
- ABC LOSES IT Over Patel in Milan, Cites Iran, Guthrie for Why He Shouldn’t Have Gone
- Viral MRC Tweet: (CBS News Old School Immigration Reporting)
- Promoting NYT, Google News Blocks Right-Leaning Media During Scathing Trial
FLASHBACK: Media Elitists Despised Trump’s Addresses to Congress
2017, CNN Tonight, Don Lemon: “The way President Trump speaks extemporaneously is not the same as what he said tonight. It sounded, to me, and this is just — I mean, I thought it was — he sounded very presidential. This was a speech written by a college student for someone else trying to use big words to impress that the person who is reciting it did not know the meaning of the words. That’s how it sounded.”
2018, MSNBC Host Chris Matthews: “It almost got ugly. Very tough about saying immigrants are basically killers. MS-13. Beginning a discussion about immigration in a country of immigrants with crime. And that was his way of opening up the discussion like I’m protecting us from criminal elements. I thought that got very ugly about that point.”...
2019, CNN's Van Jones: “I saw this as a psychotically incoherent speech with cookies and dog poop. He tries to put together in the same speech these warm kind things about humanitarianism and caring about children. At the same time, he is demonizing people who are immigrants in a way that was appalling.”
2019, MSNBC Host Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe: “How can anyone see this as a good speech? How can anyone see this as unifying when he is spewing out lies to the American people?...This is an angry, racist platform that has been surrounded by sweet stories and World War II veterans....but the bottom line is his platform is based on hate and lies, bottom line.”
ABC LOSES IT Over Patel in Milan, Cites Iran, Guthrie for Why He Shouldn’t Have Gone
ABC Stands Alone in Its Outrage While every other major network ignored the story, ABC’s Good Morning America was the only one to pitch a fit over Patel attending the U.S. men’s hockey gold-medal game and celebrating with Team USA in the locker room — turning a feel-good American victory into “controversy.”
Desperate Guilt-by-Irrelevant-Association ABC’s Pierre Thomas bizarrely tied Patel’s previously scheduled trip to the “elevated threat environment,” the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, and tensions with Iran — claiming these were reasons he “shouldn’t have gone.” This is textbook media desperation to smear a Trump appointee.
Fake “Taxpayer Boondoggle” Smear Debunked FBI officials confirmed the Milan trip was planned months in advance, combined official security business with the games, and that Patel personally reimbursed any non-official expenses. ABC ignored these facts and instead parroted Democratic complaints about agency-jet use, exposing their blatant double-standard and bias.
Viral MRC Tweet: (CBS News Old School Immigration Reporting)
Bill D'Agostino, MRC Senior Research Analyst, uncovered a CBS News clip from 1995 in which Dan Rather exposes the “national anxiety” over illegal immigration
Transcript from 48 Hours Trailer: “The American people are having a national anxiety attack over large scale immigration, illegal immigration. [America] can’t take care of the world.
“Anger over immigration. People who are here illegally will be deported. I feel hurt and let down and replaced by foreigners. It is outrageous. Schools and hospitals strained to the limit. Criminal aliens on our streets, burglaries, robberies. He's got 20 different aliases. I just can't believe this really happened. Should America slam the door?”
Elon Musk commented: Those days are long gone.
White House Advisor Stephen Miller commented: For discredited legacy media to regain public confidence (and audience) they need to pursue real journalism like this once again.
Promoting NYT, Google News Blocks Right-Leaning Media During Scathing Trial
Total Blackout on Right-Leaning Media Over four consecutive days (Feb 17–20, 2026), Google News featured ZERO articles from right-leaning outlets in its top 20 morning stories each day — that's 80 articles with not a single conservative or right-leaning perspective included, effectively censoring diverse viewpoints and forcing users into a one-sided news bubble.
Overwhelming Leftist Dominance More than half (44 out of 80) of the promoted top stories came from outlets rated "left" or "lean left" by AllSides, with The New York Times (rated "lean left") as Google's clear favorite, appearing in eight stories across the period — this isn't neutral curation; it's active promotion of leftist narratives on everything from Jesse Jackson's death to Prince Andrew's arrest.
Stunning Hypocrisy Amid YouTube Trial While Google faces a massive lawsuit from over 1,500 families accusing YouTube of addictive, harmful design targeting children, its Google News platform simultaneously pushes "harmfully one-sided narratives" by boosting leftist media and suppressing right-leaning sources — proving Big Tech's double standard: lecture others on content harms while engineering biased information flows.
