One can’t accuse the PBS News Hour of ignoring the Anthony Fauci hearings. The first 12-plus minutes of Wednesday’s show were devoted to the hearings, and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee chairman Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) ongoing tangle with the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who headed up America’s COVID response under President Trump and then President Biden.
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This week, the “Big Three” Networks and News Apps shielded fellow elitist liberal, Dr. Tony Fauci, largely ignoring bombshell revelations from his pandemic-era diaries released Saturday by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) before Wednesday’s Senate hearing and, following the proceedings, promulgating Fauci’s preferred framing of a “deep, partisan,” and “fiery” affair foisted upon him by Republicans.
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The plot thickens? In an update to the on-going struggle of Navy veteran and former CIA Officer Zachary Young to publish his tell all book about his successful defamation trial against CNN, Young alleges the Central Intelligence Agency has issued contradictory letters while still refusing to give him permission to write about what was already broadcasted to a global audience.
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper and NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers finally acknowledged the existence of the Fauci Hearings on their Thursday shows and eagerly stepped up to defend him. According to Klepper, the hearings featured Republicans trying to reduce a complicated topic to “a performative partisan filter," while Meyers blamed President Trump for any of the federal government’s public health apparatus's trust problems.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who have defeated several Democrat incumbents this election cycle, will be hosting their “Socialists Summit” this weekend, July 31-August 2, in Chicago. At this summit, the DSA will offer socialist organizing training to its participants, including on “Governing as Socialists” and on “Building to a General Strike.” This event will include a surprise keynote speaker, and all those who attend will have to submit a negative COVID test.
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Thursday’s CNN This Morning was forced to cover the aftermath of Dr. Anthony Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment in a Senate hearing focused on Fauci’s actions during the pandemic and diaries released by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). But the network continued to minimize the diaries and the hearing overall, as Democratic CNN commentator Maria Cardona called it a politicized “sham” and fill-in host Erica Hill called the diaries “a choose-your-own-adventure of 1,100 pages.”
You’ve heard of Optimist International, the global service organization. If there were a “Pessimist International,” MS NOW military analyst Barry McCaffrey could be kicked out of it — for being too darn negative.
Caution is warranted when predicting U.S. success in foreign military operations. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq remain sobering reminders.
On Thursday Hillary Clinton testified before the House Oversight Committee as part of their investigation of the Epstein files, where she claimed in her opening statement that she had never met Jeffrey Epstein, and accused the committee of using her testimony to "distract" from and "cover up" Donald Trump's involvement with Epstein. This is a theme that the leftist media had been pushing, and later, on CNN's The Arena, Hillary's words seemed to serve as a shot in the arm for them to ratchet up the anti-Trump rhetoric.
In the wake of Iranian Supreme Leader Aylatollah Khamenei coming down with a killer headache after getting a U.S. warhead on his forehead, on Saturday, The Washington Post published one of their infamous glowing remembrances of Islamic terrorists. The paper fondly remembered the brutal Islamic dictator as a “avuncular figure” with an “easy smile” and love for “Persian poetry.”
After being deprived of its federal funding by Republicans, it's only natural that NPR is going to sound especially bitter about President Trump engaging in what they claim is "media censorship." The ruse here is that Stephen Colbert was somehow unable to put leftist Democrat James Talarico on his Late Show because of Trump. But the Trump administration didn't stop it. CBS's lawyers warned him it could be an "equal time" violation.
As NewsBusters was first to report last November, Navy veteran Zachary Young filed an appeal for his $453 million defamation suit against the Associated Press. Three months later and both sides have submitted their arguments to Florida’s First District Court of Appeals as they await a date for their oral arguments.
Appearing as a guest on Thursday's The Last Word on MS NOW, veteran actor Morgan Freeman compared America under Donald Trump to Nazi Germany.
As Freeman appeared to promote the series The Gray House about a group of Southern women who spied for the Union during the American Civil War, host Lawrence O'Donnell brought up the time Freeman read the final message of civil rights icon John Lewis for O'Donnell's show, leading the actor to remark, "The world today is not the world he left."
