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Legalized Press-titution – THE NEW YORK TIMES
Assigning bravery for being defiant against a non-existent force.
The codger rocker Bruce Springsteen has been drawing headlines and media attention for bravely standing up to Donald Trump…while in Europe. For some reason, the press behaves as if a rock star coming out against a Republican president is somehow newsworthy. In an op-ed, The Times declares boldly that this singer who claims to be the voice of the working man – despite being a multi-millionaire who is dubbed “The Boss” – will “never surrender” to Donald Trump, even though he has never been targeted in any fashion by Trump.
Resistance 2.0 has somehow become even more cringe than the original Resistance. Just brutal optics. Boomers really having a tough time. pic.twitter.com/hV1oOOawQH
— Lomez (@L0m3z) May 25, 2025
DNC PR Firm – POLITICO
Perhaps the editorial team could use some training regarding the timing of features.
Considering the press is currently in a whirlwind over revelations in the Jake Tapper book about how checked out Joe Biden had been in his term, the swirling intrigue is over who was part of the inner circle serving as Biden’s protective shell, and who was actually running the country. It is a slowly building scandal of major proportions.
Which makes this release from Politico all the more mystifying. The outlet not only says that it is a splendid idea to have a cabal of unelected officials who would operate agencies, like Secretary of State, Attorney General, and others. They also provide a list of suggestions and it is composed almost entirely of names who have various levels of controversy attached to them.
And Politico states this would be a grand idea for the Democrats to retake the White House.
Democrats could use a shadow cabinet. Here are my nominees, for @politico https://t.co/W6LYlNyio7
— Bill Scher (@billscher) May 27, 2025
Both Kinds of Standards – CNN
It is not at all similar to your past position, which…makes this worse?!
Brian Stelter has been supremely focused on the mounting challenge for public broadcasters facing the pulling of public funding by President Trump. Brian has been on a regular kick of proclaiming this is a supreme violation of the First Amendment, despite no aspect of this plan involving altering what they broadcast or silencing their voices.
What makes this even more insipid is that Stelter was the very voice who years ago was pushing to have Fox News removed from cable television providers. The amazement is that back then, he was trying to say that having a news network de-platformed was not somehow limiting free expression, but today simply saying, “We don’t want the people to pay for this,” is akin to censorship.
Reminder when "free speech warrior" @BrianStelter wanted FoxNews taken off cable TV systems.
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) May 27, 2025
He pushed it as only limiting their reach.
All the same arguments are made with NPR: opposition president, misinformation, public good - yet NPR is not being blocked in any fashion.
1/2 https://t.co/a5MLH8QaGP pic.twitter.com/zbQxjbrfn6
Reporting on the Mirror – WASHINGTON POST
The hysterics behind this years-old melodrama are – well, hysterical.
Surely you were not aware, but Jonathan Capehart has a book out about his career.
(We’ll pause until your yawns subside.)
In his tome, he details a harrowing experience he endured during his career at the Washington Post. It turns out that while a member of the paper’s editorial board, he quit in dramatic fashion because other members agreed with him on a political matter…but they did not agree with the proper amount of hyperbolic outrage.
This was over the new Georgia election laws, and while members of the board all agreed that they opposed the proposed voting changes, they did not follow along with President Biden’s exaggerated claims that this was a throwback to the supremacist era of Bull Connor and calling it “Jim Crow 2.0.” Capehart was not properly consulted on the decision to not resort to the outlandish conclusions, and he concluded that this was “robbing me of my humanity,” according to Capehart:
“She either couldn’t or wouldn’t see that I was black, that I came to the conversation with knowledge and history she could never have, that my worldview, albeit different from hers, was equally valid.”
This would be where we point out that Capehart was born after Bull Connor and the Jim Crow laws. It also needs to be reminded that after Georgia passed the law, voter turnout surged and minority voter participation was at record levels. Capehart’s memoir is undramatically titled “Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home.”
Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capeheart quits editorial board over dispute with white colleague: ‘Robbing me of my humanity’ https://t.co/PfQYrtV5v9 pic.twitter.com/SJrrd50U3P
— New York Post (@nypost) May 27, 2025
Stealth Story Evolution – MSNBC
Same holiday, same babbling redhead – yet completely opposite positions on the matter.
On her MSNBC program, Jen Psaki was railing about Donald Trump being away from the White House, pretending that he was abandoning his duty as president – as if he did not have full access to all communications and could easily conduct needed business while away. We know this because we had been told this very thing by the White House press secretary. We are referring to Jen Psaki, circa 2021, who answered in this fashion to Peter Doocy regarding President Biden being away on Memorial Day. The difference was Doocy was asking this of her at the time because of how Biden’s ability to traverse and enjoy frivolity conflicted with the call to have people remain distant due to COVID concerns.
Jen Psaki in 2021: “Biden can work from anywhere.”
— The Briefing Room (@BriefingRoom_) May 27, 2025
Jen Psaki in 2025: “There’s no time off for a president.”
Same holiday. Same job. Different treatment.
The internet doesn’t forget.#Trump #Psaki #Hypocrisy #Democrats #MediaBias #TheBriefingRoom pic.twitter.com/0rEEgRfVBy
