At the Capitol grilling of the PBS and NPR
CEOs on March 26, Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, asked PBS boss Paula Kerger, “Would you believe that PBS is fair and objective and nonpartisan?”
Kerger said, “Yes.”
Fallon then noted that on “Washington Week with The Atlantic” in 2023, host and Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg pronounced President Joe Biden
as mentally “quite acute.” Fallon asked Kerger if there were “any dissenting opinions” on that episode. Kerger professed ignorance. Fallon assured her there was not. So, when Biden failed on the debate stage in 2024, Fallon said the world found out who was lying: “the Democrats, Jeffrey Goldberg and PBS.”
Hours after this hearing, “PBS News Hour” put on Jeffrey Goldberg for almost seven unchallenged minutes to toot his own horn for having the fortune of Team Trump messing up and including him in a chat on the private encrypted app Signal as officials discussed bombing the Iran-backed Houthis
in Yemen.
But that segment was nothing compared to two nights later, when Goldberg hosted a very special, self-glorifying 30-minute episode of “Washington Week with The Atlantic.” As usual, his supporting cast was unanimously left-wing Democrat
journalists: the husband-and-wife team of New York Times reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker writer Susan Glasser, the very biased PBS White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez, and Shane Harris of … The Atlantic. No dissenting opinions on Goldberg’s heroic journalistic stance. Super cozy.
The crew then echoed each other that this Signalgate scandal was enormous and unprecedented, and of course, as Goldberg said, “a dumb mistake.” Yes, don’t include an editor whose magazine endorsed President Donald Trump’s opponents in the last three election cycles. That’s profoundly dumb.
You could tell you were observing a liberal bubble when the name “Biden” never came up, so no mention of Team Biden using Signal on their phones before Team Trump did. No one would confuse a successful strike on the Houthis with Biden’s deadly Afghan withdrawal fiasco.
After the energetic claim that the details of this conversation must be considered “classified information”—to dissent from this is “farcical”—they turned to lashing the Trump team for pushing back on the press. They were supposed to apologize sheepishly, and the story would vanish within 48 hours. Assuming there would be a brief episode in anti-Trump bias is “farcical.”
An apology to Trump supporters would be in order. But it should be recognized that PBS and Team Goldberg are out to destroy Trump and empower the Democrats. They are not going to go gently away after an “oops” message.
Barron-Lopez proclaimed Trump’s people base their actions on lies and attempt to discredit stories attacking them. She cued up Goldberg: “Do you think there’s a lesson for the press?”
Goldberg broke out the old “just continue to do your job” line, when we know he feels his job is to destroy Trump. “You have to be willing to be intimidated in order to have an effective bully, right?” Then he said, “I don’t want to be self-righteous or anything (heaven forbid!), but if you have the truth and you’re aligned with the truth … ultimately, the voters, the citizens will recognize reality.”
This leaves the impression: “And vote for Democrats next time.”
This is the reality of what PBS is—an arrogant, unanimous left-wing channel. For Paula Kerger to lie to Pat Fallon and say their objective and nonpartisan oozes contempt for the public who funds their partisan propaganda.
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Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., is a fighter. The week after 9/11, he dropped out of the University of Arizona to join the Navy and accomplished his goal of becoming a Navy SEAL. In 2023, he brought that fighting spirit to Congress, where he’s been proven prescient on major issues such as America’s actual role in the Ukraine war and the need to rein in out-of-control government spending from agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development
.
Crane joined this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown”
on the heels of a bombshell report
from The New York Times about the extent of U.S. involvement in Ukraine and in the midst of major negotiations between Republicans in the House and Senate on cuts to government spending.
The Arizona congressman was onto the U.S. Agency for International Development before the Department of Government Efficiency drew attention to it this year.
After Crane co-sponsored a piece of legislation from former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz in August 2023 to abolish USAID, he brought an amendment to the House floor to slash USAID funding in half.
“Democrats stopped it and Republicans stopped it,” Crane recalled. The amendment failed, with 102 in favor to 326 opposed. A majority of House Republicans—114 of them to be exact—voted against Crane’s amendment.
“I only knew the tip of the iceberg of what was going on at USAID,” Crane said. “Now that Elon [Musk] has come in and been able to look behind the scenes and bring his computers and his team in there to actually evaluate what’s going on there, … we’ve learned more and more and more.”
“It’s kind of like Ukraine
,” Crane said of the GOP shift against USAID. “Republicans are starting, I think, to wake up a little bit to the situation.”
With Donald Trump out of office, Republicans in Washington reverted to the status quo. Despite protestation from conservatives, Congress kept sending American taxpayer dollars overseas to foreign countries like Ukraine.
“When I look at this whole situation as a former warfighter myself, I’ve just been concerned about it the entire time,” Crane said of America’s involvement in foreign conflicts. “It seems like we just go from never-ending war to never-ending war, and after five, 10, 20 years … we have to ask ourselves a couple hard questions. Was this worth the blood and treasure that we spent?”
“When you’re up here [in Washington, D.C.,] you realize how many people who have never been to war, never buried a buddy, never had to go console a Gold Star Mother,” nonetheless make military decisions, Crane said. It’s no surprise, then, that these members of Congress keep voting for war. “It’s almost as if they’ve never seen a war that they didn’t want us to be involved in.”
Trump’s return has caused Republicans to come back to their senses, especially on matters of U.S. foreign policy, he argued.
“I’m grateful for the president in trying to bring peace in the Middle East, trying to broker peace talks between Russia and Ukraine,” Crane added. The House Republican
sees ending the wars as part of Trump’s larger effort “to realign us geopolitically.”
“I think a lot of what he’s doing is kinda like Monroe Doctrine 2.0 and trying to lock down the Western Hemisphere, and at the same time trying to prevent us from this idea that we should be some world police force,” he said.
Pulling off this pivot will require the Trump administration to purge the military of woke ideologies that not only undercut its lethality but push the U.S. into foreign wars.
During his military career, Crane said he ”watched the military become what it’s become and just completely inundated with DEI
.” At one point in the discussion, Crane recalled a meeting in a Capitol intelligence facility where Navy admirals repeated leftist slogans when Republicans asked simple questions about military funding for DEI.
“I’m very concerned for many of the people that I know within the military just because we’ve gone from having a military that was focused on lethality to, in many ways, a military that’s often distracted by many of these woke cultural agendas like diversity, equity, and inclusion,” Crane added.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is the change agent the military badly needed, Crane suggested. “He’s really, in my opinion, changing the culture, not only with eliminating a lot of the DEI and woke programs,” but by “showing our troops that he’s willing to get down and dirty and work out with them and hang out.”
“That’s not something you see a lot,” Crane confided. “That’s not something you see a lot from generals or admirals, let alone the secretary of defense.”
Conan O’Brien is one of our generation’s greatest comedians. His self-deprecating humor legitimately spans cultures
and connects with audiences around the globe in a way that no one else really can.
One of O’Brien’s attributes is his ability to not go far-left
in his political commentary. It’s strange to call that an attribute, but every single late-night host or comedian of his stature seems to have caught a debilitating case of Trump derangement syndrome—he’s the exception.
O’Brien was rightfully honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this year At the Kennedy Center—and his acceptance speech pushed the boundaries of his nonpolitical nature, sounding more like a pseudo-intellectual NPR lecture on the dangers of President Donald Trump
rather than his typical fun-loving humor.
Here’s one excerpt, and I would encourage you to either watch or read his entire speech
for context:
Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money-obsessed mania of the Gilded Age, and any expression of mindless American might or self-importance. Above all, Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word. He loved America but knew it was deeply flawed. Twain wrote, “Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”
This statement was met with a round of loud applause from the Kennedy Center’s leftist audience—and was the perfect dog whistle to them.
In the first sentence, O’Brien claims that Mark Twain wouldn’t like Trump
, capitalism, or nationalism. He casts a broad net to capture the hearts of an audience angry that Kamala Harris lost the presidential election just five short months ago.
Translated, he was saying, “Do you hate Trump’s populism
as well as America’s free market economy, strength, and love for itself? Then you’re just like Mark Twain … and that makes you a patriot.”
O’Brien then added the famous Twain quote that basically calls for everyone in the audience to protest their government: “Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it.”
It’s to be expected that his speech and the entire event would be anti-Trump, so I’m not personally angered by it—I’m just exhausted by the whole thing.
I’ve reached my Laura Ingraham “shut up and dribble” moment.
We get it. You don’t like Trump—basically no one in Hollywood does. I, like more than half of this country, would just like to be entertained without a political lecture for once.
And yes, I understand your belief that you must, “speak truth to power,” but when literally everyone else is doing it, that base is covered.
Have you ever boarded a flight and seemingly everyone is in the “special” Group 1 when they board? If everyone is in Group 1, no one is special.
If everyone in entertainment is speaking “truth to power,” then it just becomes part of the modus operandi of entertainment—and even more people tune out.
I’m not trying to control what Conan O’Brien says or does, nor should anyone—but this speech made me sigh and roll my eyes.
The 2024 election proved that a majority of Americans are tired of liberalism—and even more so, the failing film and entertainment industry. This should be a lesson to those who hold the microphone: Just be entertaining and give the same, tired political lectures a rest.
After more than two years, Nashville, Tennessee, police on Wednesday finally released their report into the transgender shooter
who targeted The Covenant School, and it plays into the Left’s biased narrative on “right-wing extremism.”
While police tend to release the manifestos of mass shooters shortly after their attacks—especially in cases that ostensibly reveal “right-wing extremism
“—police refused to release the manifesto of Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, who shot and killed three children and three adults just over three years ago on March 27, 2023, at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school in Nashville. Police fatally shot her in the attack.
The police report, released Wednesday, finally gave an explanation for this perplexing decision.
According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, authorities didn’t release the manifesto … because there wasn’t one.
“Early in the investigation, it was suggested Hale left behind a ‘manifesto’
detailing her motives and intentions,” the police report noted. “This has elicited a great deal of interest from the public and had led to repeated demands this manifesto be released for public study and comment.”
“In this case, a manifesto didn’t exist,” the report claimed.
Oh, really?
Police were at pains to define the word “manifesto” to justify their refusal to produce the documents Hale did leave behind.
“By definition, a manifesto is a mission statement or other document written and disseminated by an individual or group to enumerate or expound upon the guiding principles and beliefs that inform their actions,” the report noted. “Regardless of length, a manifesto is a single document that outlines all the factors, intentions, and objectives of an individual act or a series of actions.”
“Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack,” the report added.
Yet police did discover a treasure trove of information about Hale, her motivations, and her mental state.
Police found 16 notebooks; “assorted folders and loose documents”; seven sketchbooks and composition books; a yearbook; three VHS cassette tapes; eight memory storage devices with a combined 379.6 GB of data; six cellphones; three laptops; two Google Drive data cloud accounts; and more.
The report notes that the seven composition books and sketchbooks included 520 pages of content Hale wrote between 2009 and 2022.
In other words, the police had far more than enough evidence to determine the shooter’s motivations. Yet they would not release those materials because they “required a careful review of the material to understand Hale’s motive.”
Conservative commentator Stephen Crowder released
some of those pages in November 2023, causing a stir because they suggested a more left-leaning motivation for the Nashville shooting.
“Kill those kids!!! Those crackers. Going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis and sports backpacks with their daddies mustangs and convertibles. F— you little s—s,” Hale allegedly wrote. “I wish to shoot your weak ass d—s with your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots with your white privileges. F— you faggots.”
In June 2024, more than a year after the shooting, The Daily Wire released more pages from the composition books. In those pages, Hale wrote scathingly about Christians
.
The shooter repotedly condemned her parents. “F—ing parents like them who think of themselves first and their preference of conservative religion-gay s— make them believe that the child they are given should stay” in distress about identifying with the opposite sex.
“I’d kill to have parents who would let their child be happy no matter how different it is to their viewpoints or don’t agree, or scared of it,” she added. “I’d kill to have had those resources; 2007 was the birth of puberty blockers and a newfound discovery for treatment of non-conforming transgender children.”
“Aren’t parents manipulative? It’s total ignorance when parents step in + try to change their child’s environment,” the shooter wrote in another passage published by The Daily Wire. “Make them go to youth group + force Christian friends
in their life because the old ones were a ‘bad’ influence. … Parents actually believe religion can change nature. That could explain why I don’t practice religion anymore. Let kids think for themselves … .“
Despite these and other references, the police report claimed that Hale was not motivated by hatred toward Christianity or Christians, but merely by her desire for “notoriety.”
“Regarding why she selected The Covenant, many have speculated Hale selected this location for racial, religious, or economic motives,” the report noted. “It is certainly true she raged over these topics at times in her writings. But none of those motives impacted her decision to attack The Covenant.”
According to the police report, Hale chose the school for three reasons: It provided a sense of infamy so great that she would be remembered; the targets would not put up much of a fight; and she had a close personal connection to the school.
Yet even in this analysis, the police report noted that Hale chose the school in part because of its Christian faith.
“She believed the Christian faith of those within would make them meek and afraid, which further assuaged Hale’s self-doubts,” the police wrote.
Hale does not represent the Left any more than Timothy McVeigh represented the Right, but her story does highlight some of the horrifying trends on the Left—the hatred of Christians and the prioritizing of an internal sense of gender above all else.
The police report seems to follow the same trend Americans have seen from the “experts” time and again. Whenever a mass shooter can conceivably be connected to a conservative cause, be it anger at illegal immigration or a hatred of certain types of people, the manifesto appears almost immediately, and the Left pounces on evidence of “right-wing extremism.”
Yet, when a shooter motivated by gender ideology or hatred against Christians carries out an act of evil, the “true motives” remain a mystery.
The Anti-Defamation League, for instance, seized on Hale’s use of the word “faggot” to claim that she was not a left-wing extremist
. The ADL cited this “hateful epithet directed against … LGBTQ+ people” in order to avoid the comprehensive picture.
Meanwhile, the ADL had no such qualms in describing as “right-wing” extremists motivated by hatreds that the conservative media loudly denounces. Contrary to the Left’s rhetoric, conservatives are not racist, yet racist mass shooters get branded “right-wing” in an effort to justify crackdowns on conservative dissent from the Left’s worldview.
Unfortunately, this police report gives the ADL more fodder to continue the charade.
Some college administrators have “repurposed DEI under a different banner” and “think they can get away with it” despite anti-diversity, equity and inclusion laws Florida passed in May 2023
, Gov. Ron DeSantis
said Wednesday.
“We’re making sure, yes, we don’t have DEI
, but you can’t just rename it and do it,” DeSantis told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “We actually had a professor at University of South Florida that was shown the door because they violated Florida law.”
DeSantis took swift action in March after the medical advocacy group Do No Harm posted audio of former USF administrator Dr. Haywood Brown talking about circumventing state DEI laws. Brown resigned
after his comments were made public.
“We no longer have a person who’s dedicated to [DEI], we have a council that’s dedicated to it,” Brown said. “Isn’t that slippery? As long as it works, that’s what we do.”
? BREAKING – In explosive leaked audio, top @USFHealth
official Haywood Brown, MD, reveals how he is evading anti-DEI laws – and teaches doctors how to evade them as well.
“We no longer have a person who’s dedicated to [diversity]. We have a council that’s dedicated to it.… pic.twitter.com/oydHZfqVQd
Brown served as USF Health’s senior associate vice president for academic and faculty affairs and vice dean of faculty affairs for the Morsani College of Medicine. Before that, Brown acted as the vice president for diversity, inclusion, and equity at USF until the office’s closure in 2023.
“With the details of Mr. Brown’s actions and public commitments to violating state law and academic standards surfacing to our attention, our office has immediately ensured his relationship with our university system has ended,” DeSantis Communications Director Bryan Griffin told Fox News Digital
following the incident.
DeSantis Applauds Trump Targeting Ivy League Schools
DeSantis also backed the Trump administration’s
ongoing crackdowns on Ivy League schools, calling it “absolutely right.”
The Trump administration announced Monday that it is reviewing nearly $9 billion in federal grants and contracts awarded to Harvard. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon
called out the school’s “failure to protect students on campus from antisemitic discrimination,” as reported by The Daily Signal
.
Harvard president Alan Graber warned in an email to the Harvard community that potential funding cuts “will halt life-saving research and imperil important scientific research and innovation.”
ICYMI: @POTUS
is launching a review of @Harvard
’s grants over concerns about antisemitism on campus and its promotion of “divisive ideologies.” pic.twitter.com/cHspzTWyk6
However, DeSantis said he believes the country will be positively affected if Trump can hold colleges such as Harvard and Columbia University accountable.
“Why are we underwriting indoctrination centers that these universities have become?” he told Fox News. “They have deviated from the core mission of a university which is classical education and preparing students to be citizens of the Republic.”
