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Stealth Story Evolution – PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
Are we allowed to ask what the past few years of melodrama had been about, then?
With the passage of the rescission bill that clips the funding of public broadcasters, the fallout has been relatively muted. That is, in balance against all of the promised maladies that would ensue if NPR and PBS were to lose their cherished federal largesse. But now, we get a dose of fresh perspective.
PBS comes out with a rather curious announcement for its audience. The network states that nothing will change for the broadcaster and the viewers can rest easy knowing their programming will be the same.
So…all of the talk of murdering Elmo and people in the hinterlands dying from natural calamities was…what then…?
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PBS News is not going anywhere.
— PBS News (@NewsHour) July 22, 2025
We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.
We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support. pic.twitter.com/9c4iOhhQpj
News Avoidance Syndrome – ABC NEWS
So we’re just taking the words of a recidivist coke fiend at face value, huh, Karl?
This week has been fun thanks to a lengthy interview with Hunter Biden where he peppered his use of the f-bombs with the occasional subject nugget. One of those was his attempt to explain away his father’s debate meltdown one year ago, chalking it up to having completed a global plane trip, and even using a sleep drug.
Jonathan Karl hears Hunter’s words and accepts them without pause, ignoring the fact that Joe Biden had returned to Delaware 11 days before that fateful night and had been engaged in a week of comfortable debate prep. Mr. Karl also glossed over breezily the detail of the president of this country possibly under the influence of Ambien.
Hunter Biden takes on father's critics over his debate performance and lashes out at Democrats he feels betrayed the former president.@jonkarl reports on his comments. pic.twitter.com/xmdmBE8ie1
— Good Morning America (@GMA) July 22, 2025
Prose & Contradiction – POD SAVE AMERICA
Now where have I spoken these very words before…
The gaggle of Obama bros on this podcast were lashing out at Hunter for lashing out at so many Democratic party figures. This is expected, such as they are married to the DNC power brokers, but the manner they responded to him was quite striking.
The guys went on a personal attack, invoking Burisma, saying Hunter was a liability for his father, and that he is not someone worthy to be listened to.
Funny thing – many of us on the right were saying these EXACT same things some four years ago, and the crowd on this show were attacking these comments as lies and partisan attacks.
Hunter Biden takes on father's critics over his debate performance and lashes out at Democrats he feels betrayed the former president.@jonkarl reports on his comments. pic.twitter.com/xmdmBE8ie1
— Good Morning America (@GMA) July 22, 2025
Gilded Reframe – POLITICO
We don’t like this new intrigue, we prefer the old intrigue.
As Tulsi Gabbard and the DOJ are dropping all manner of documents exposing new details on how the Obama administration was manipulating the Russian collusion story, the gang at Politico are bothered that they are doing so. Yes, it is another instance of supposedly truth-seeking journalists becoming upset that tangible proof and facts are arriving.
Making this more obtuse is the claim that the Trump administration is doing this to deflect away from (what is clearly Politico’s preferred scandal du jour) the swirling controversy of the Epstein Files.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday attempted to shift the public’s focus away from the building crisis around the release of sealed documents detailing the Jeffrey Epstein case by urging his Justice Department to go after his predecessors.
Not only is this a news outlet preferring to focus on a much older and already kicked-around story, but the best is the reality that Politico is complaining the administration is not releasing a set of documents on a scandal and is clearly perturbed that the administration is instead releasing a set of documents on a scandal.
President Trump is attempting to shift the public’s focus away from the building crisis around the release of sealed documents detailing the Jeffrey Epstein case by urging his Justice Department to go after former President Obama. https://t.co/ipQ3xVXAfe
— POLITICO (@politico) July 22, 2025
Stolen Validity – CNN
Please explain how you exclusively found this detail that has been on social media – for years.
Based on Politico’s reasoning, we can say that CNN is “deflecting” from the DOJ Russia scandal by focusing on the Epstein scandal. It has come out with exclusive images that Andrew Kaczynski states they “uncovered,” showing Jeffrey Epstein was in attendance of the marriage of Donald Trump to Marla Maples.
Via @KFILE, @emsteck https://t.co/Qh1Sju7Dxn
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewBatesNC) July 22, 2025
Ummmm…
This has been known for years already, gang. The guest list of the wedding has been public knowledge, and the photo of Epstein at the gathering has been on Reddit and other social media sites for years now. But sure, BREAKING news means you can avoid discussing the details in all of the declassified DOJ docs.
never would’ve suspected a buzzfeed alum would lift content from reddit
— Nino (@baldingschemer) July 23, 2025
Reporting on the Mirror – WASHINGTON POST
If a career falls, and nobody notices, does it make a sound?
It occurred to us that we have not seen Philip Bump making notably off-balanced proclamations in quite a while, and then we noticed that few even noticed the big announcement he made. On Monday, we mentioned how Jonathan Capehart was exiting the Washington Post, and then we just stumbled across another piece on his departure and caught this nugget. It stated how his departure FOLLOWED that of the esteemed Mr. Bump!
Yep, we missed that he made the announcement on Bluesky that he was also accepting the buyout offer from the paper’s new management.
It would seem that the big news that Philip Bump is exiting the Washington Post is eclipsed by the bigger news that he announced this last week with very few people even noticing. pic.twitter.com/zv5rozA4HV
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) July 23, 2025
