How dare a U.S. senator defend American sovereignty over, er, American land! That about sums up former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy’s latest meltdown.
Darcy got his panties in a bunch over Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ripping Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Warner Bros. Discovery chief revenue officer Bruce Campbell during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust hearing for fumbling over their answers to his question of whether or not the U.S. as a country was built on stolen land.
Cruz was addressing spoiled brat pop star Billie Eilish’s anti-ICE comments at the Grammy Awards where she proclaimed, “No one is illegal on stolen land … And f*** ICE, that's all I'm gonna say. Sorry!” Darcy was livid in his February 4 Status newsletter, decrying Cruz’s so-called “bizarre line of questioning” even though both Sarandos and Campbell are literally part of the entire Hollywood/lefty media entertainment cesspool.
“Cruz smugly declared that their non-answers spoke ‘volumes’ and showcased that Hollywood is rife with liberal executives,” Darcy whined. Uhm, where exactly is the lie Darcy? Netflix Executive Chairman Reed Hastings literally funneled $7 million into Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign! Is any more explicit evidence needed?
Cruz’s main point was that Hollywood’s promotion of the idea that America is illegitimate conveys “that the entertainment industry is corrupt,” of which soft kiddie-porn promoter Netflix and CNN-owner Warner Bros. Discovery are prime culprits in that trend. Darcy also threw a fit over Cruz’s “smearing CNN, one of Campbell’s own networks, calling it a ‘propaganda’ outlet and claiming it no longer practices journalism.” Again, no lie detected. It’s like getting ticked off over someone who just eats veggies getting called a “vegan.” Just a brief glance at MRC’s in-depth studies on the extremist slant of CNN’s coverage against Trump and conservatives and love affair with the left make it anything but a propaganda machine, proving Cruz’s point.
.@SenTedCruz: "Are we right now on stolen land?"
— CSPAN (@cspan) February 3, 2026
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos: "I have no idea of the history of this land."
Warner Bros. Discovery exec Bruce Campbell: "Nor do I."
Cruz: "That speaks volumes...that neither of you are willing to say 'hell, no.'" pic.twitter.com/EWwYYUIHZH
But get this: It was Darcy himself who admitted in 2021 that Biden White House officials were holding ‘briefings with major newsrooms’ to pressure the media to add more positive spin to their economic coverage of the president, which undoubtedly included CNN. News flash, Darcy: That’s the textbook case of what defines “propaganda.”
But Darcy was miffed that neither Sarandos nor Campbell exploded in rage like he would on what was clearly a solid takedown by Cruz:
Sarandos and Campbell knew that much of the attacks they were facing were B.S., yet they were obviously determined not to offend Republican lawmakers. In that sense, the hearing offered something of a snapshot of how major media companies are navigating Trump’s Washington. Instead of aggressively defending their companies, they have opted to absorb bad-faith attacks and keep their heads down when they can—all out of fear that the levers of government will be weaponized against them if they dare speak up in a real way.
But Cruz was in fact spot-on in bringing attention to the gross sense of entitlement lefties in the media and Hollywood exhibit when they bark woke platitudes over microphones but don’t live by any of their words. In fact, following Eilish’s Grammy-award winning woke statement of the night, she then got skewered by members of the Tongva tribe for living in a $3 million Los Angeles mansion it claims was built on their native homeland. Oh the irony!
National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry broke down further why Eilish’s commentary was emblematic of a gross anti-American distortion of history that is running rampant throughout the media ecosphere in his February 3 syndicated column. “The sentiment is a distortion of the history of North America, and more than a shot at President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, an attempt to delegitimize the American project at its root,” wrote Lowry. “The misapprehension of the simplistic ‘stolen land’ narrative, though, is that, prior to Europeans showing up, peoples in North America had clearly delineated territory with a provenance stretching back into the mists of time. In fact, all was conflict and flux.” he continued.
Take a seat, Darcy.
