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Arrest of Las Vegas Tesla Arsonist Draws Mixed Evening News Coverage
After a brief investigation, there was an arrest made in the firebombing of a Las Vegas Tesla service center. The evening network newscasts provided this arrest with coverage that could most charitably be described as “mixed”.

Here Are the Top Moments from the DOGE Hearing on Defunding NPR & PBS
On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) held a hearing featuring the CEOs of National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS amid a new push to achieve a decades-old effort to defund the far-left propaganda outlets that annually see hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars.With their federal dollars on the line, NPR’s Katherine Maher and PBS’s Paula Kerger…

NBC’s Social Security Fearmongering Pushes Grandma Off a Cliff
Tonight’s NBC Nightly News reporting on the Senate hearing to confirm business executive Frank Bisignano as head of the Social Security Administration had a familiar sound to it. If you listen closely enough, you’ll hear the kind of fearmongering that was a staple of a bygone era.

‘I’d Be Honored’; Trump Gives Support to Efforts to Defund NPR, PBS
On Tuesday during a White House press pool Q&A ahead of a meeting with prospective U.S. Ambassadors, President Donald Trump gave his support to the House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee as it prepares to hold a hearing Wednesday with the heads of taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS, adding “I’d be honored” if he were the president to finally defund…

Smerconish Calls Out Leftist Amusement Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’
If vandalism, arson, and domestic terrorism were your idea of a good laugh, then you would have got a kick out of The Daily Show Sunday. On his CNN show Smerconish on Monday morning, Michael Smerconish defied the media’s obsessive demonization of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and called attention to how the anti-Musk fixation had, in…

INCENDIARY BUT ‘MOSTLY PEACEFUL’: Nets Still Awful on Tesla Protests
The “legacy media” network newscasts continue their shameful reporting on the campaign of violence currently unfolding against Tesla, in protest of founder Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration. Today’s stories included the rehashing of a familiar trope.

'Democracy Is Teetering': Brooks, Capehart Decry 'Extortionist' Trump
The weekly gathering of Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS News Hour was extra animated this Friday as the duo decried DOGE’s “cruelty,” claimed “democracy is teetering,” and labeled President Trump an “extortionist.”

Springtime At CNN? Cornish Has An Actual Conservative On Her Show!
Audie Cornish, the new host of CNN This Morning, has stocked her panels with left-leaning voices. But today, she had an actual conservative on the show in the person of Rob Bluey, the President and Executive Editor of The Daily Signal. Bluey is a former reporter at Cybercast News Service, where he broke the story of Dan Rather's fake typewriter font in the phony Bush draft-evasion story.

CBS Fears DOGE Will Cripple Search for Cures to Alzheimer’s, Cancer
Ahead of his pompous closing commentary implicitly blaming President Trump and Elon Musk for ruining springtime, CBS Evening News Plus anchor John Dickerson created a new entry in the liberal media’s ever-expanding slate of reasons why Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the Trump administration’s wider push to shrink the size of government is bad: funding for public…

On CNN, Audie's All Anti-Trump Panel Assails Dept. of Education End
Keeping her habit alive of assembling conservative-free panels, CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish's guests this morning were CNN's oh-so-serious Stephen Collinson, Washington Post reporter Sabrina Rodriguez, and Cari Champion, a CNN contributor who's also the host of the "Naked Sports" podcast. The target was Trump's moves to shut down the Department of Education, and after clips of a union…

CNN, MSNBC Morning Shows Rush to Celebrate Far-Left Mobs at Town Halls
If you tuned into CNN and/or MSNBC on Thursday morning, the message was clear based on their coverage of supposed “anger” at congressional Republicans over the Trump agenda and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and hits from the left at Democratic town halls: Blue wave incoming! Nevermind these protests at GOP town halls — including one Wednesday night they were warm and…

'Can't Handle the Consequences': Klepper Tries To Explain Tesla Arsons
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper tried to rationalize all the anti-Elon Musk vandalism going on throughout the country. Kimmel insisted that arson and vandalism is bad but still portrayed them as what happens when you “celebrate firing thousands of people” and do “one, maybe two Nazi salutes.” Meanwhile, Klepper was less reasonable…

NBC: DOGE Cuts Will Ruin VA Care for Veterans
As the media furor over the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) dies down, so, too, does the frequency of DOGE-related reports across the evening news. Nonetheless, those reports are still coming out. The latest such report, via NBC Nightly News, suggests that DOGE will ruin VA care for veterans in Wyoming

Not Hard, Libs: Conservative Media Push Leavitt on DOGE, Gangs, Tesla
For only the second time since the week of January 26, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt held a second briefing of a week. Along with our friend Katie Pavlich of Townhall having the chance to sit in the “new media seat,” she and other conservative reporters showed the liberal reporters it’s not that hard to ask real questions of your own “side” on issues ranging from crime to the…