As expected, the relationship between the Trump White House and the media resumed where it ended in the first term in outright warfare. The mutual disdain has become open contempt as was evident this week when, reportedly for the first time in its 140-year history, the Gridiron Club journalism dinner omitted the toast to the U.S. president. This follows the selection of a comedian for the White House Correspondent’s Dinner who promptly declared that no one wants Trump to come because no one wants to be in the same room with him. The media is doubling down on its identity as part of “the resistance.” In the meantime, the public is rushing to new and alternative media for their information.
I have criticized President Trump over some of his statements and actions toward the media over the years, including the recent exclusion of the Associated Press over a disagreement with its standards guide. However, the media has also been wrong in its unrelenting attacks and hostile stance toward the Trump Administration.
The press moved into hyperdrive after the inauguration. This was an impressive pivot after four years of the press running interference for the Biden Administration and echoing the narratives put out by the Democrats. The press had little real interest in the millions of dollars acquired by the Bidens through alleged influence peddling or the obvious deterioration of the President mentally and physically. Many reporters were content to cover Biden’s runs for ice cream rather than delve into controversies like the massive censorship system coordinated and funded through the Administration.
Ironically, the Biden team still kept an enabling media at bay. It could not risk even brief, unscripted moments, and Biden set modern records for his unavailability to media in press conferences and interviews. They confined his appearances to softball interviews with CNN or MSNBC or the hosts of far-left influencers.
The press’s hostility has only grown despite Trump’s unprecedented access to reporters. He has allowed the greatest level of access to the media in decades, giving long interviews and press conferences.
Indeed, everyone in D.C. seems exhausted after only 50 days. Trump’s election was like being gifted a golden retriever puppy by a friend. After two days, you are left staring at him at 3 in the morning and screaming “why won’t you sleep?”
One would think that this change in access would at least produce some interest in covering the White House with neutrality and objectivity. However, both neutrality and objectivity were discarded years ago by many in journalism schools.
The gratuitous insults on both sides do not bode well for the future relations. However, there is a difference in yielding to such impulses. Trump is a politician. The press is an institution. Regardless of how the subject of coverage may treat the media, there remains a professional and ethical obligation to report on stories fairly and objectively.
Moreover, there are legitimate gripes against the media for its fostering false conspiracy theories and over-wrought rhetoric against Trump. Again, that does not mean that Trump is right to call the media the enemy of the people or recently to suggest that coverage should be treated as a crime. Trump only undermines his own case with such extreme positions. Yet, the media has far more to lose in engaging in tit-for-tat insults.
At two dinners used historically to build bridges with presidents, the media decided to use the events as a way of slapping back at Trump like hurt school children.
Eugene Daniels, the president of WHCA’s board and a Politico correspondent, selected an anti-Trump comedian in a virtual withdrawal of the invitation for the president to attend. Why should he appear at a dinner that has been weaponized by the WHCA?
Notably, the prior year, the dinner (which I attended) featured Colin Jost. The comedian (before the election) gave a tearful comparison of Biden to his late Irish fire-fighting grandfather. It was nothing short of a public campaign endorsement.
Now, one year later, Daniels and the WHCA brought in a vehemently anti-Trump comedian who promptly said that Trump was not welcome.
Then the media pulled the stunt with the toast at the Gridiron dinner.
Ironically, in a letter to the White House, Daniels used his position to defend Associated Press and other outlets in the name of the free press. Yet, he is viewed as the embodiment of the advocacy journalism that has alienated not just Trump but many citizens.
The press remains at record lows in trust with the public. This is hardly going to help. It is a virtual invitation for the public, like Trump, to go elsewhere. The media is increasingly writing for each other rather than an increasingly disengaged public.
In the end, these juvenile antics will only further erode trust in the media and push many readers and viewers to new media. These media figures have bulldozed any high ground in the conflicts with the White House. The Daniels letter is again an example of what is lost when you engage in highly political conduct and then seek to speak in favor of the traditions of a neutral and objective independent press.
After showing the traditional toast in past years to sitting presidents at the Gridiron dinner, Judy Woodruff, president of the Gridiron Club, declared that this year they would only offer “a toast to the First Amendment.” Woodruff has been repeatedly challenged for alleged anti-Trump sentiments and even spreading false claims against Trump.
In the end, many may have gotten what they wanted — the effective disinviting of the president and his staff from these traditional dinners. Even Trump Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt now says that she will not attend the White House Correspondent’s Association dinner.
Problem solved. The dinners can become just new echo chambers maintained by the media and largely ignored by the public.
Looks like Trump got Chief Justice Robert’s attention with his threats of impeaching the judge who stoppoed him from illegally deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador using a law that gives him no authority.
The law in question can only be invoked when congress declares war. Congress has not declared war on Venezuela. Trump is in a heap of trouble. He defied a court order, tried to illegally deport Venezuelans who cannot be confirmed if they are indeed gang members, and he has not said that we are at war with Venezuela.
wrong wrong and wrong again
A review is post facto and defined as: Again, view.
Judicial review occurs post facto.
Self-Appointed Dictator Boasberg is usurping and exercising executive power in real time to politically interdict the executive branch, which is fulfilling its official duties.
Dictator Boasberg must be impeached for egregious acts including abuse of power, usurpation, subversion, bias, lack of impartiality, dereliction, conspiracy of lawfare et al.
“Looks like Trump got Chief Justice Robert’s attention with his threats of impeaching the judge”. And here we go again: George’s well known lack of even child level reading comprehension gelds his comments right here in a public forum.
Earth to George and the other slimy denizens of the Democrat Marxist Borg: presidents can’t impeach anybody. Nor did Trump threaten to impeach anybody – that’s just another Democrat lie.
You actors in the Democrat Three Stooges, riding in your clown car, claim that Trump can’t fire ANY of his employees who work under him in the Executive Branch – rather than in the Legislative or Judicial branch.
Why is it so hard for you to understand?
George – please read the actual law. I have. I am not a fan of broad interpretations of the law.
But the actual 1798 enemy aliens act not only does not require a war, it does not require and invasion, it just requires hostile acts by a foreign power. Further the law passed immediately before and after it give the president even broader powers to deport, but both of those were time limited. Regardless from the legislative history – and the actual text of the law, it is clear this is NOT just about War.
The 1798 Alien Enemies act IS specifically driven by openly hostile acts by foreign countries. It DOES Apply to Venezuela where Prisons were opened and prisoners specifically sent to the US – that is a sufficiently hostile act by a foreign govenrment to allow the use of the Alien Enemies act.
Trump can use the 1798 Enemy Aliens act to remove Tren De Argua with little doubt. That has both legal and popular support.
It is probably iffier if he uses it to deport Venezeulans generally.
And I do not think it can be made to apply to any other country.
It is arguable that the judge in this case did not have the basis for a TRO – although that is a close call. There are enough questions to allow judicial review. But he did not have the authority to order transports that were already outside of US airspace to return.
This particular judge has been notably partisan. But his actions on this are within his legitimate powers.
That said Trump is likely to win on the use of the Alien Enemies act.
There are further legal issues – such as Who has standing to challenge Trump’s use of the alien enemies Act to deport Tren De argua members ?
While Tren De Aragua could potentially go to court – random NGO’s do not have standing.
Finally this is another Trump Win-Win.
Here you are ranting about Trump purportedly illegally deporting Tren De Argua members.
That is like you fighting to stop the US from extraditing Dr. Mengele – even if you win you lose.
John Say,
Well said. It is fun to watch leftist Democrats defend terrorists and violent criminals. Tells us all what we need to know about them.
John, you’re wrong.
“ Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies”
The law clearly states there must be a declared war. An invasion in this case means an armed invasion from a foreign military. The very definition of an invasion requires there be armed invaders.
The whole law is about a foreign government. Tren de Aragua is NOT a foreign government.
“ The 1798 Alien Enemies act IS specifically driven by openly hostile acts by foreign countries.”
No, foreign governemnts. Tren De Aragua is not in any way affiliated or part of the Venezuelan government. Claiming that they deliberately released these gang members to come here is pure BS. You have zero evidence to back up that claim.
“ It is probably iffier if he uses it to deport Venezeulans generally.”
That IS what he is doing. There is no way know if he is just deporting Venezuelans who are NOT gang members and he’s not allowing the judge or anyone else to verify who the deportees really are. That sort of secrecy is fueling the judge’s skepticism and rightly so when Trump is openly ignoring his orders.
Trump openly calling for the judge’s impeachment because he is styming his illegal deportation scheme using a law that is only used during wartime. The judge is doing his job, Trump is deliberately and illegallly denying Venezuelans their right to due process because he doesn’t have the patience to let the legal process play out. Trump is already upset because the deportation numbers are not high enough and he’s running into the problem of processing according to the law. He wants to sidestep all these processes and the law so he can deport people faster. That’s what’s happening.
Now the Chief justice is rebuking Tump for threatening judges and calling for impeachments because he’s being forced to follow the law.
“ Here you are ranting about Trump purportedly illegally deporting Tren De Argua members.“
You have no idea that these are Tren de Aragua members. Nodody knows who the deportees are really. You’re only assuming because Trump is saying they are but Trump is not letting anyone, not even the courts to determine if they are indeed gang members. He’s very likely hiding the fact that he’s deporting Venezuelans who are not gang members to El Salvador prisons where they face torture and abuse at the hands of a dictator who has just been paid $6 million to take them in.
The only times the Alien Enemies act has been used is when congress has declared war. You’re wrong and Trump is wrong here. That’s why the judge is ordering a halt to deportations using the act. So the Trump administration can explain why using the act to deport Venezuelans should be valid.
John, you’re wrong… The only times the Alien Enemies act has been used is when congress has declared war.
George, you’re an incompetent and fraudulent liar; both Warren Wilson and Harry Truman were using the Act YEARS after WWI and WWII were over. And your fraudulent Internet Law Degree doesn’t make you look any better:
Ludecke v. Watkins, 335 U.S. 160 (1948)
As Congress explicitly recognized in the recent Administrative Procedure Act, some statutes “preclude judicial review.” Act of June 11, 1946,§ 10, 60 Stat. 237, 243. Barring questions of interpretation and constitutionality, the Alien Enemy Act of 1798 is such a statute. Its terms, purpose, and construction leave no doubt. The language employed by the Fifth Congress could hardly be made clearer, or be rendered doubtful, by the incomplete and not always dependable accounts we have of debates in the early years of Congress.
“The act concerning alien enemies, which confers on the president very great discretionary powers respecting their persons,” Marshall, C.J., in Brown v. United States, 8 Cranch 110, 12 U. S. 126 (1814), “appears to me to be as unlimited as the legislature could make it.” Washington, J., in Lockington v. Smith, 15 Fed. Cas. No. 8448 at p. 760 (1813).
The very nature of the President’s power to order the removal of all enemy aliens rejects the notion that courts may pass judgment upon the exercise of his discretion. This view was expressed by Mr. Justice Iredell shortly after the Act was passed, Case of Fries, 9 Fed. Cas. No. 5126 (1799), and every judge before whom the question has since come has held that the statute barred judicial review.
If you want to make your living as a professional liar George, you really ought to try and get better than Bribery Biden at lying.
Johh Say, you not a fan of broad interpretation of the law when it poses an inconvenient truth. You have said it many times before. Narrow interpretation is the correct way to interpret law. You WANT to interpret it as broadly as possible so it fits Trump’s poor excuse to use it.
The Alien Enemies act was specifically created to be used during war. Invasions occur during war and that’s what they meant when they use invasion. An invasion in the original intent of the law back then meant literally an armed invasion. Not gang members crossing legally or illegally and runnign business or commit crimes. None of that constitutes an attack on the U.S. Government either. That’s why you don’t want to use a narrow interpretation of the law which is, according to you, the correct way to interpret it.
Also, if you did read the act you must have also read that judges DO have the power to review removals.
“ After any such proclamation has been made, the several courts of the United States, having criminal jurisdiction, and the several justices and judges of the courts of the United States, are authorized and it shall be their duty, upon complaint against any alien enemy resident and at large within such jurisdiction or district, to the danger of the public peace or safety, and contrary to the tenor or intent of such proclamation, or other regulations which the President may have established, to cause such alien to be duly apprehended and conveyed before such court, judge, or justice; and after a full examination and hearing on such complaint, and sufficient cause appearing, to order such alien to be removed out of the territory of the United States, or to give sureties for his good behavior, or to be otherwise restrained, conformably to the proclamation or regulations established as aforesaid, and to imprison, or otherwise secure such alien, until the order which may be so made shall be performed.”
The ac also gives judges discretion on who gets to be deported which means deportees still have a limited right to due process. Trump is deliberately circumventing the courts to deport Venezuelans who may not be gang members and illegally denying them their due processs rights.
The judge knows this and that’s why he’s rightly upset that Trump is intentionally ignoring his orders because Trump wants his deportations to have the numbers that he can boast about. The law is getting in his way and wants to ignore it because it’s hampering his goals.
Trump directly calling for the judge to be impeached without cause is what Turley adamantly opposes and I expect Turley to write about Trump’s open declaration since he is clearly opposed to impeaching judges because you don’t like their rulings. That’s what dictators want.
Trump is using the term “invasion” very loosely and that’s not what the act in question means by “invasion”. Even in the constitution which mentions “invasion” they clearly mean an act of organized armed attack. Immigrants crossing the border illegally is not an invasion under any legal definition.
Venezuela did not release prisoners just so they could come here and “invade.” It’s a baseless excuse to justify the harsh tactics being pushed by the Trump administration.
John Say, you say we should always stick to narrow interpretation fo the law and quite clearly the law means “invasion” in the context of an armed organized military attacking our borders. Not gang members who crossed over legally or illegally and setup shop to do business or commite crimes. That is not saying they have a right to remain, they should be deported according to the law and that is using our immigration laws, not a law intended to be used only when we are at war with another nation or being invaded by an organized armed group.
John Say posted: This particular judge has been notably partisan. But his actions on this are within his legitimate powers.
Hardly legitimate when the canons of judicial conduct order him to recuse himself when a family member – his daughter grifting by getting rich being paid to fight any and all deportation – stands to be affected by the decisions he makes.
Kind of reminds you of Judge Merchan and his daughter – or it should.
The Bidens really were trendsetters when it came to grifting off the positions they held, with money flowing into the family booty through the kids.
Shameful and ridiculous. I look at our modern dems and literally see clowns from an MTV reality show circa 1992. The echo chambers grow smaller, and smaller, and it is hilarious to me that so many of these ‘liberals’ happily fled to the corporation, fully invested in making gobs of money, that runs Blue Sky, thinking they were doing something demonstrative or grassroots. There is no taking the modern left seriously, and thank the gods for our laws that still allow us to thwart them. Other countries, particularly Western european ones, are not so lucky, and they are currently learning the price of their various capitulations.
I haven’t personally paid any attention to the MSM since the 90s; glad it’s a bonafie trend at this point in America, let’s keep it going. These aristocratic fools’ heads would explode if even a modicum of self-awareness or critical thought ever crept into their goose step. It’s absurd in the extreme.
I look at our modern Repubs and I see a bunch of morons. Trump lies like a used car salesman spewing verbal diarrhea and his followers lap up every drop.
@Anonmi
I look at paid trolls like you, and think, ‘Welcome to the 21st Century.’.
Really; this doesn’t work in free America anymore, try your luck overseas where globalists still pull the strings. Over here, we are done. For good.
And… another one of President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers acolytes from the Bolshevik Birthing Boyz comes here to bleat in fear now that he can no longer go into little girls’ change rooms to put his miniscule wedding tackle on display.
Don’t change a single thing, Bolshevik Birthing Boy – keep doing exactly the same thing all the way through the midterms and the next presidential election. Get your DEI Hire Border Czar to be your candidate again – or go into the bullpen and pull out Hillary Clinton to run again.
James: Our constitutional republic is being torn apart by evil clowns and you call it “hilarious”.
“Aristocratic fools”? That is so eighteenth century. And please, lose the “self-awareness” meme.
@Ananinny
Uh-huh. Sure. Scream to the sky, maybe it’ll eventually care, because I sure don’t. And enjoy your paycheck. Imagine getting paid for something that actually, demonstrably improves people’s lives. If you aren’t under 35 espousing this nonsense, you are the saddest shack of s***. Stop pretending you don’t know better, unless you are willing to admit you are an idiot child that the rest of us will have to take care of to our dying days.
#74. It appears to be psychiatric. I’m not a psychiatrist but the defiance and obstinacy must have a diagnosis and the need to be annoying and noticed constantly must have a diagnosis. Yes, dems are ill. The MSM appears to be run by LGBTQ group.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/18/us/trump-president-news?smid=nytcore-android-share
Democrats have perfected echo chambers where they parade their groomed little boys (nutless) and girls (breast-less) and act shocked anyone objects to their depravity. Democrats are living in a time warp
Speaking of the media….Trump’s threats against Columbia University have chilled speech of student journalists, especially those with student visas. They have been told to delete social media posts and any commentary critical of Trump or Israel for fear of getting the attention of ICE or DHS.
This is exactly what infringement of free speech looks like. What censorship looks like. Threatening retaliation, deportation, and punishement to silence dissent. Even FIRE Turleys favorite free speech college news outlet has been very critical of Trump’s attacks on free speech lately and Turley has been ignoring them too. Turley usually cites their columns and articles when free speech issues crop up in colleges and Universities. FIRE is even condemning Khalil’s arrest as an infringement of free speech. Turley remains dead quiet for one reason only. He’s too scared to legitimately criticize Trump. He doesn’t want to be ostracized by MAGA. That would spell certain doom to his credibility lending business in the conservative world. That’s wild. Even FIRE is calling out the Trump administration’s attacks on free speech.
.. Jonathan Turley absolutely calls out Trump. Your narrative regading Khalil’s arrest being censorship is nothing more than your own narrative
From “The New Republic”:
“Pro-Palestine activist and legal U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil wasn’t arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for committing an actual crime, but because Secretary of State Marco Rubio had personally determined that he had to go.
Khalil, who is a green card holder, was arrested by ICE last week under the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act, or INA, two officials at the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security told Zeteo News Tuesday.
Section 237(a)(4)(C)(i) of INA says that any “alien” is “deportable” if the secretary of state “has a reasonable ground” to believe their presence could result in “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences” for the United States.
Separately, a White House official told conservative rag The Free Press Monday that the government did not believe Khalil had committed an actual crime. “The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law,” the official said.
The White House official alleged that Khalil was “mobilizing support for Hamas and spreading antisemitism in a way that is contrary to the foreign policy of the US,” a claim that Khalil has denied and that the government has released no evidence to support.
The INA was originally used to oust those suspected of being Soviet spies. But it has never been used to punish speech, and it’s unclear what evidence Rubio would need to provide to justify superseding Khalil’s First Amendment rights.
Despite the shaky constitutional grounds, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday that the Trump administration fully intended to move forward with more arrests like Khalil’s, meaning that its crackdown on the free speech of Palestinians and their advocates will likely continue.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Council for Immigration, posted on X that the application of the INA presented “very significant” problems with free speech and that “the law may well be unconstitutional.””
So if Khalil wasn’t committing any crime and if he has a First Amendmet right to advocate for the Palestinian people: WHY WAS HE ARRESTED?
Why would anyone pick on such a sweet, kind guy?
When did he call him out directly? For what?
Khalil’s arrest was censorship. Trump wanted him arrested because he didn’t like his political views. Khalil didn’t commit any crime, or violate any provision of his green card. He was taken on the basis of a vague delclaration.
Negotiating isn’t a crime, handing out flyers? How does that seriously affect national foreign policy? Khalil never engaged in violence, or provide material support to Hamas. Rubio and the DHS have zero proof. Now they are lying about why he was not kept in the New Jersey holding facility. The government is claiming there was a bedbug infestation. But the facility is still processing detainees. The more they lie the more they are showing they don’t have evidence against him.
Nothing says “peaceful assembly” like trashing buildings, demanding a university change its policies, vandalizing, disrupting institution and harassing Jewish students and threatening their lives like the “rent a thug” professional disrupters.
The students are passing through. They have zero ownership or say about policy. Second, what legitimate student has this much time? The answer is none. They are guests.
These are not legitimate protests. They are staged propaganda events that incur vandalism and hateful behavior.
If they don’t want to follow the rules of our nation then they should go home. One of my travel companions in the 1970s was arrested and pulled off the ferry by the Greek police. He had participated in a demonstration some months earlier. Boom! He was out of there.
I have zero sympathy for a foreigner being deported or denied a visa for such behavior. Have you ever traveled in the Mideast? They have zero tolerance for such actions.
That’s ignorant whataboutitsm. So other nations strip the god given right of free expression so we should too? Charge a person with a crime, go through the justice system, apply appropriate legal remedies, or admit you love totalitarianism. You might not like the flip side.
E.M.
The Free Press interviewed one of the janitors who was taken hostage by those pro-Hamas, antisemites as they occupied that building.
George, it’s not the speech as much as the threats, harassment, vandalism, and riots.
Then what’s the charge? There is none.
“Trump’s threats against Columbia University have chilled speech of student journalists, especially those with student visas. “
Good! They should not be writing “Kill the Jew” or anything similar to that. They also shouldn’t write, “kill the trans.” Good law protects you as well.
“told to delete social media posts and any commentary critical of Trump or Israel “
That is a lie. Maybe we should write “Kill the liar.” If someone did that, it would end George-Svelaz, but we are civilized and never would support such a thing, but GS is an ignorant barbarian.
George-Svelaz’s understanding of free speech is null; a more stupid person cannot be found.
S. Meyer,
” a more stupid person cannot be found.”
You got that right!
S. Meyer, so you support censorship by intimidation. I’m not surprised. Your 5th grade antics are still as hilarious as ever.
“so you support censorship by intimidation.”
I support the law, but since you are an idiot, you haven’t figured that out.
You should stop lying and pretending you are smart. You are dumber than a brick yet are afflicted with the Dunning-Kruger effect. Try quoting what I say rather than using your idiotic interpretations.
On another subject, do you realize that sentient people on this blog all conclude you to be an idiot?
George is terrified that his fellow neo-Nazis engaged in criminal activity – NOT First Amendment speech – can no longer continue that at Columbia University. And all the rioting, threats and violence towards Jewish students, prohibiting them from attending classes they paid for?
Well, that was just more of what George would prefer we call “Mostly Peaceful Protests”.
JT – “Trump is a politician. The press is an institution.” The press may be an institution but Trump is anything but a politician; a ‘moderator,’ a ‘negotiator,’ a ‘peacemaker.’ He’s a bully, a businessman, a dictator and my personal original favorite, an “unfunny clown unfit to be President.” If JT is going to fault the media for bias and prejudice he ought to practice what he preaches: “Regardless of how the subject of coverage may treat the media, there remains a professional and ethical obligation to report on stories fairly and objectively.”
More importantly, however, if Trump really new how to help “Make America Great Again,” instead of just stirring up Biden’s recently abandoned cesspool, he could probably be saving Americans more than half on our now $5 Trillion annual national healthcare bill by directing RFK, Jr. to have the FDA reverse a few of its most toxic food additive approvals and permanently ban them; soy (late 1960s), TBHQ (1972) and MSG (1980), minimally. While statistics are not generally accepted as proof of cause and effect, after two and a half generations of growing epidemics of female breast cancer (1979/ACS/NCI), obesity (1990/CDC), diabetes (1994/CDC), mass/school shootings and dementia, minimally, any reasonably prudent American adult would at least seriously question the coincidence of so much costly, disabling and deadly tragedy with such consistent timelines.
You should become a member of the WH media. Drank the kool-aid, indeed!
Despite forty-three years and counting of FDA approved food poisoning (for Big Food/Pharma profits), at eighty-one years of age in early 2025 I’m again/still free of any regular prescription treatments, based upon my self-determined ‘experience-based’ (as opposed to fatally flawed “evidence-based”) lay findings and practices. How are you doing?
They’re pushing tallow now? What’s up with that? No thanks
It may very well be this quote by Saul Alinsky that explains much about the strategy of the main stream media today. They’ve become the media version of today’s Leftist protestors. “News” about the “Cause” is what they hope to make, not report. It doesn’t take a 6th sense to recognize the MSM are dead to anyone living in reality. But just like Bruce Willis, the MSM will be the last to know.
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Judy Woodruff? I didn’t know that she was still alive!
I guess if Martha Raddatz is still hanging around, I guess Judy can too.
Why not? Trump is an insolent rapist, whiner & blamer, and completely incompetent. In his first go round as POTUS it was all about the wall. The wall. Big beautiful wall. That was the pocketwatch he used to hypnotize 30 million morons to inflate a moderate problem into an existential one. He had a Republican House and Senate and failed. In his 2nd go round, what happened to the wall??? That was the old pocketwatch. The new pocketwatch is transgender. Run for the hills, they’re giving sex changes to your children. I’ve got family members who became Trumptards. They were tards before Trump. Trump told them what to be outraged by.
Trump is an insolent rapist, whiner & blamer, and completely incompetent.
Versus President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers, now remembered as The Oval Office House Plant who pays for your opinions to be posted here.?
As the mental genius directing the campaigns of the Soviet Democrat Marxist Useful Idiots in the last election…
DON’T CHANGE A SINGLE THING YOU’RE SAYING OR POSTING, EITHER IN THE UPCOMING MIDTERMS OR THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!
(And change the sex you claim to belong in at least once a week between now and then to ensure we recognize your intellect!)
The AP had reported , yesterday, I believe that Tulsi Gabbard had said the Putin and Trump were good friends. Circled the world a few times but now the AP has apparently retracted the newsflash and it no longer appears on their website. Don’t think this will get the AP back in the press pool any time soon.
Main Stream Media in action.
GEB,
Of course the AP would make such a false report. That is what they do. Just like the NYT who stealth edits their reports when they turn out wrong or caught in an outright lie. They would gaslight the American people, the fools who read their crap with baited breath then run around crying it is true. Then when the AP deletes the article, those same fools keep repeating the lie as if it were true. Just look at the lie they keep spreading that Trump is going to cut SS or Medicare. Something does need to be done about SS. We have known that for decades. I can recall former SS comptroller David Walker going on speaking tours back in the early 2000s trying to get peoples attention on the situation. Unfortunately the solutions are not easy and will cause pain. The wife and I are planning our retirement as if SS will not be there at all. And we are better off for it.
Yes
The Albuquerque (NM) Journal is dependent on AP and publishes opinion parading as “news.” I saw the headline about the 2 being “friends,” and cringed! Now … I need to research and send the local rag a tsk-tsk for swallowing one more piece of intentional or careless stuff.
“‘Indeed, everyone in D.C. seems exhausted after only 50 days. Trump’s election was like being gifted a golden retriever puppy by a friend. After two days, you are left staring at him at 3 in the morning and screaming “why won’t you sleep?”” Hilarious. As a golden retriever owner I approve this message
OT – Federal Judge Orders Astronauts Be Returned To Space Station
https://babylonbee.com/news/judge-orders-astronauts-be-returned-to-space-station
U.S. — A district judge has issued a ruling saying Trump lacked the Constitutional authority to pick up two astronauts who have been stranded at the International Space Station for several months. SpaceX has been ordered to return the astronauts immediately. “I will not stand by while Donald Trump abuses his power like a dictator,” said Judge Earl Flanders in his ruling. “Trump has no authority to pick up these astronauts, and I can say that because I’m a federal judge, and no one is allowed to argue with me, and everyone has to do what I say.” Eyewitnesses say the judge then donned a Keffiyeh and spray painted a Cybertruck while screaming “Black Lives Matter.”
Sources in Washington say Trump plans to brazenly ignore the lawful order and bring the astronauts home anyway. “This is just the kind of wanton lawlessness we should expect from a dictator who is literally Hitler,” said one legal analyst. The SpaceX craft docked at the ISS on Sunday and was preparing for the return journey to Earth when the orders stopped the process short. “Please bring us home, I just want a cheeseburger and a nap in a horizontal bed,” said one of the crew. At publishing time, Trump was polling at 100% approval among the stranded astronaut demographic.
Hilarious!! 🙂
🤣 The convicted felon known as Trump should have his fat butt shot into orbit along with a supply of Big Macs and porn downloads, accompanied by Elon Musk. Let them play with each other.
Any thoughts on what we should do with the unindicted felon known as The Oval Office House Plant, still on probation for 40+ years of serial felonies on the Democrat Politician Work Release Program?
Separation of powers should create a more stable, self-correcting government. Likewise, the separation of news and editorializing is necessary to have an actually free press.
Instead what we have is a press that uses the power of modern media to further the interests of those in power.
Other voices must be silenced.
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/printing-ordinance-of-1643/
IIRC the Ottoman’s shut down presses.
Leftists shut down contrary Covid era, gender stupidity, and green new scam voices.
Same as it ever was.
Which brings to mind a recent favorite meme: “They’re going to do it again because you didn’t hang them last time”
Dear Mr. Turley, I gave up on the legacy media when Dan Rather was rude to Pres. George H.W. Bush. Turned the t.v. off. There was no need for him to treat the man in such a terrible way. The rest of the legacy media will end up just like him; out in the wilderness with only a few people listening to what they may have to say.
I gave up on the leftwing press when I realized they were using the exact same phrases in their reporting. One could literally hear them say exactly the same jingoes when you played them back-to-back. This wasn’t rare; it was a daily occurrence. They were literally reading from the same fax. That explained why they were so predictable in their opinions. The DNC literally tells them what to say, and the DNC never departs from the same, tired party line. Whatever the DNC wanted reported, that got reported.
I read some on the Left from time-to-time (like Doug Schoen or Ruy Teixeira). They’re sober commentators, but they’re rare and the rest are a total loss.
“This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy.”
That’s when my eyes were truly opened to this sham.
That is what occurs all the time on tv broadcasts. Occasionally, FOX News puts the clips together and runs them so viewers can hear the word or phrase of the day. It would be hilarious, but I know there are FOOLish voters who lap up the blah-blah-blahs of these high paid brainwashers.
Here’s something never accurately reported by many (not all) free press organizations:
According to the “Tea Party” movement itself. It was formed primarily to support fiscal-conservatism. Supporting balanced budgets annually at the federal level (living within our means), reducing the nation’s longterm debt and restoring fiscal-conservatism.
Bill Clinton was the last president to leave office with a balanced budget (nation spending less than it earned in revenue). Clinton was socially-liberal but fiscally-conservative.
George W. Bush inherited this balanced-budget from Clinton. Bush and his allies in Congress spent money like drunken sailors. The difference was most drunken sailors pay out of pocket for their liberal spending spree. Bush Republicans went on an ultra-liberal spending spree but paid for it with the nation’s credit card. Republicans paid for their party by borrowing the money on credit. This spending spree was outrageous even if we deduct wartime spending.
Obama inherited this cluster from Bush Republicans. In 2008, Republican fiscal-liberals almost collapsed the stock market and created a Great Recession (almost a Great Depression).
When Obama left office, he brought the annual budget deficit lower (better) than the cluster he inherited from Bush Republicans. If Obama had inherited the balanced budget that Bush received, Obama too would have had a balanced budget.
As of 2025, the biggest liberal spender per year in office, is Donald Trump during his first term. Trump spent $8.2 trillion in tax dollars in just 4 years.
Now Trump wants to give the richest billionaires $4 trillion in additional tax cuts (not working class folks). Like liberal spender Bush, Trump wants to borrow the money and not pay for it.
The bigger story here that most free press organizations aren’t reporting is that the “Tea Party” movement was created in response to Bush Republicans. Obama was just the convenient scapegoat. Bearing false-witness against Obama was only about “Team Sports” and had nothing to do with fiscal-conservatism!
The Tea Party was organic. It represented a populist political movement that, if allowed to flourish, could become a threat to the gravy train schedule.
IIRC, the way the Tea Party was largely neutered was by big money guys(Koch brothers???) donating money and directing the creation of a bureaucracy to manage it… thus derailing it. Just my possibly faulty recollection.
It’s kind of the same way that vulture capitalists invest in a startup desperate for capital, install their own guy as a CFO with his own accounting system and within a short period force out the founders.
Now DoGE has potential to move us in the direction the Tea Party intended but it remains to be seen whether it will actually play out that way.
Can Congress embrace fiscal responsibility? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say: ROTFL🤣
Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming to a balanced budget by Newt Gingrich. He was a big government Democrat lying and cheating like no other before him except perhaps Lyndon Johnson. His failures in actions led directly to Osama Bin Laden and 9/11, his cuts to foreign intelligence services left a gaping hole for the formation of Al Queda.
He was not fiscally conservative and would have mired us in debt and wars if he could have. He’s a criminal fraudster of legitimizing book deal and speaking engagement bribes, a swell guy…ask Juanita Brodderick or Jennifer Flowers. A stain on the Presidency in more ways than one!
re: Traveler
Presidents have VETO power to stop any spending bill. Yes most presidents would love to have unlimited spending but it’s the an action that counts!
Ronald Reagan chose NOT to veto 11 tax increases during his administration. Reagan’s words and actions didn’t always align.
As far as 9/11 and OBL, you might want to watch the true story movie “Charlie Wilson’s War”. Member of Congress, Charlie Wilson warned Congress about ignoring Afghanistan in the 1990’s.
Hindsight is 20/20 but Congress could have prevented 9/11 altogether if they had listened to Congressman Charlie Wilson in the 1990’s.
The FBI headquarters also had ample intelligence in early 2001 to prevent some or all of the 9/11 attacks. An FBI field office reported foreign men taking flying lessons but only wanting to learn how to take-off and not land a plane. FBI headquarters ignored the warning from their own FBI field office.
Congressman Charlie Wilson wanted Congress to continue educating Afghanistan children so they didn’t become radicalized by extreme religious beliefs. Congress said “No”. At that time we were allies with Afghanistan against the Russians.
You can read about it, I lived it. Clinton had the opportunity and advice to exterminate Bin Laden during a hunting expedition and he failed to do so. He was completely aware of Bin Laden’s radical intentions and drifting off from the US backed Mujahideen. He didn’t want to offend the Royal Saudi family, the Clinton’s are despicable people, they should be held accountable.
Traveler, your post matches my recollection of the period. Also, I cannot remember where I read it but apparently the “balanced” budget hid some deficits elsewhere.
Old Fish, nothing like self witnessed reality. I say this regularly, “history is written by those in control, it’s distorted to fit their narrative.”
Old Fish, if you’re referring to Clinton’s balanced budget, it wasn’t truly balanced, as it relied on using that year’s Social Security surplus to make it appear balanced.
S. Meyer,
You are correct. I recall seeing a political cartoon in USA Today, back when it was decent, with Bill Clinton with his head in a hole and proclaiming he found money. The hole around it had the words, “Social Security Fund.”
Go look at the Treasury records for those years; funds collected versus funds spent.
Clinton never had a single year of balanced budget. Both sides hoped to profit from the claim of balanced budgets.
OBAMA ADDED 9TRILLION TO THE NATIONAL DEBT! DUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRUMP added 7.8 TRILLION BIDEN 8.4 TRILLION and OBAMA 9 TRILLION. THE 2 DEMS added 17.4 TRILLION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kirk
Obama had two terms and two unfunded wars handed to him and the results of Clinton’s repeal of the Glass-Stegall Act. A collapse of the housing market mortgage bubble led to years of “quantitative easing “ aka printing money. This was all the Democrats continuance of the Cloward-Piven cookbook plan on how to collapse the financial system to land on their Socialist framework. The debt trap was set and now every President since has had to print and spend to prevent the inevitable financial disaster. This is the only time you will ever see me throw shade at Barry O the fraud, but make no mistake IMO; Clinton, Bush, Obama and perhaps even Trump all serve the global cabal monsters above them. What Trump does in the ME with Iran will tell the future of the US.
Traveler: I was replying to ANON- they stated it was ALL Republicans fault! Fault goes to BOTH!
Yes it does! Neither side serves the people.
The question of whether Biden or Trump ran the debt up more is apparently not straightforward, and the answer may depend on whether you’re reading a liberal or conservative source. Here’s one analysis by a conservative organization that says Biden’s cumulative deficits were higher even before the end of his term. I remember during the last year or 18 months of the Biden administration even msm was reporting that an additional $1T was being added to the debt every 100 days.
https://www.heritage.org/debt/commentary/the-lefts-7-trillion-lie-biden-far-outpaces-trump-racking-the-national-debt
#74. The budget is created by the bureaucrats and they’ll spend endlessly if a true clown , clowns are elected. 2 MILLION permanent federal employees are the budget people and the government. SCOTUS is overloaded with unconstitutional bunk and accepts 80 cases per session.
FUBAR
Republicans did not crash the stock market. The housing crisis was caused by Democrats. Andrew Cuomo was HUD secretary under Bill Clinton, lower the home loan standards aka, sub-prime, getting more people into homes. Sounds great, right? Except these people borrowed more money than they could afford. Then the banks got cute, put these loans into Structured Investment Vehicles aka. SIVs to sell as investments. Moody’s gave these SIVs AAA credit ratings not knowing that just one of of the loans in a SIV traunch went bad, the whole SIV was bad. Then the banks then would use these SIVs as collateral on Collateral Debt Obligations to each other and other hedge funds. When SIVs went bad, banks called in the CBOs. Obviously if the SIV went bad, the CBO was worthless. This set off a domino effect as everyone were trying to get their money back before the SIV went bad. Then Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, said the crisis was contained to the housing market only. He was not just wrong but grossly wrong as the SIVs, CBO spread to the rest of the economy, to include globally. The fix, TARPA, was in, but Obama won the election and Democrats delayed signing it till Obama was sworn in so he and the could take credit.
OT but related,
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act could end up costing taxpayers nearly $5 trillion, study says
“Originally estimated to only cost about $370 billion, a new study by the Cato Institute finds that the structure of subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act means taxpayers could be on the hook for trillions of dollars over the next 25 years.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/bidens-inflation-reduction-act-could-end-costing-taxpayers-nearly-5-trillion
There’s a small amount of amusement at a communist claiming that he was once a Republican. And then hoping you’ll accept their communist version of the Tea Party, Bush, et al.
It might be a kiddy – I do remember the pervert Democrat Senator Barney Frank (long before the Tea Party), while Democrats were forcing banks and other financial institutions to give unqualified borrowers no-money-down, chase-me-around no interest loans telling the world and those financial corporations it was okay to hand them out like candy because they were guaranteed by “the full faith and credit of the USA”.
That was started by Carter, doubled down on by Clinton (who never actually had a balanced budget when you look at treasury records for those years) – and suddenly it’s Bush’s fault.
Not Barney Franks, Not Clinton’s, and definitely not the racist anti-Semitic Jimmy Carter’s fault.
Trump did willingly sign every bloated porkulous budget bill put in front of him, either by Republicans or then by Democrats. He owns the fact he willingly did that rather than vetoing those bills.
But the BS about the bloat and waste that Clinton created as being from Bush is like Gigi telling you that you’ll actually like her polishing your dick.
Professor Turley writes, “In the meantime, the public is rushing to new and alternative media for their information.”
Indeed. I get most of my news from Professor Turley’s blog and Bill O’Rielly. Professor Turley has become a morning ritual for me for the last several years.
I admire these men because they have agency. Their opinions are genuine (unlike some million-dollar talking heads) and well-reasoned (unlike some pseudointellectual parrots of the journo schools).
I also follow Sabina Hossenfelder on science news, which often turns political. There is no doubt, she has full possession of her own intellect, unlike Professor Dave and Rebecca (who are stridently locked into the usual faculty-lounge cant.)
I can admire anybody who’s nobody’s fool. I don’t always agree with my favorite sources, but I listen carefully, especially when I disagree.
As for the Gridiron Club, they can stick a fork in themselves because they are done. I never listen to 100%-predictable opinions. I’ve lived long enough to know what they think before they think it.
Correction: “Bill O’Reilly.” Gosh, I’ve made a pinhead of myself 🙁
Go to Twitchy, it is an awesome site for news and very funny too.
Thanks, hullbobby 🙂
I took the paper for facades. Then gradually, little by little the quality of writing and the truthfulness of reporting declined. This was replaced with one-side AP articles and eventually the quality went down the drain. I cancelled my subscription and buy at the most a Sunday paper a handful of times. The same goes for the traditional news sources.
Now, I seek out at least a couple dozen sources and piece together a semblance of truth.
Sad day for the press and for the citizens of this nation and around the world.
Decades
Hey, Legacy media, Freedom of the Press has never meant freedom from consequences for what you say. I know, I know. Who cares about those things, right?
If we are being Fair & Balanced on criticizing the free press, shouldn’t we mention that a former leader of one of the two major political parties created his own news network to show “one-sided” news coverage. To only benefit his political party.
That was Roger Ailes of Fox News!
Fox does a great job showing one side of the news, but you have to watch other networks (in addition to Fox) to get the full picture.
For example: to the best of my knowledge, Fox never warned voters that allowing any president to enact unconstitutional Executive Orders (EOs) also allows any future president to illegally amend 2nd Amendment gun rights. If Trump can amend the 14th Amendment through unconstitutional EOs, that same standard applies to 2nd Amendment gun rights.
Fox is great at one-sided news coverage, but maybe check out other news shows to see all sides of any issue?
I would assume that the well-informed, more sane adults on this site already source various vantage points of an argument. While it is true that “gung-ho” types on both sides tend to ignore data that conflicts with their ideal, most tend to view suspicious over reach of opinion as just that. The middle had always been where to find the germ of the truth. Alas, the middle has disappeared and we are left to search for it ourselves. That is an excellent way to improve your knowledge. Unfortunately, many are not broadly educated these days as to how to separate this wheat from the chaff and fall victim to bloviating. It is a shame that a well-rounded, liberal arts education is no longer de rigueur with specialty a la carte degrees offered that insulate many from a broader vision of life.
Whimsicalmamma,
Excellent post!
“And sùbject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
I’m sorry but I don’t get it. How was this article an invitation to dump on FoxNews? Particularly since you are lying about them?
Keep going, media guys. You’re on the right track. More is less and no one’s hungry.
Why doesn’t the alternative media get together and have their own gala?