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Matching Media Memorandum – VARIOUS OUTLETS
When you are obsessed with a topic but nobody notices.
For a month now, the press has been entirely focused on the Jeffrey Epstein list coming out. Or, not coming out. But they have pressed the throttle on this story for weeks — at The New York Times, they pushed out nearly 200 stories on Epstein in the month of July.
And the voting public has not been swayed — at all. Nate Silver crunched the numbers from dozens of polls, from before July and then after, and found that the needle did not budge regardless of party affiliation, and even with Independents.
Nate Silver Says Polls Show Journalists Are the Only Ones Moved by Obsessive Epstein Files Reportinghttps://t.co/bmjgMYbQuW
— RedState (@RedState) August 4, 2025
Pre-Written Field Reports – CNN
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Kassie should not have asked that; or should not have had on a Republican.
In bringing on Lee Zeldin, Kasie Hunt opened with the tired canard of greenhouse gases driving “man-made climate change,” challenging him to “accept the overwhelming scientific consensus.” Zeldin did not waver, and after correcting the network on coverage of the issue he came on to discuss, Zeldin then did something the climate devout journalists rarely do — he relied on actual data:
Now, going back to 2009, the science that they were reviewing included both optimistic to pessimistic scenarios. To reach the 2009 endangerment finding, they relied on the most pessimistic views of the science. The great news is that a lot of the pessimistic views of the science in 2009 that was being assumed ended up not panning out. Hey, that's great, we can rely on 2025 facts as opposed to 2009 bad assumptions.
WATCH: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just completely OBLITERATED CNN's running propaganda. 😂
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) August 3, 2025
CNN: "Thank you so much for being here....Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man made climate change?"… pic.twitter.com/S6y8uecwN7
BlueAnon – ROLLING STONE
Sooo… Russia predicted that the Democrats would provoke an investigation and the FBI would join in… months before the election took place?
In light of the Russian collusion documents being released by Tulsi Gabbard, Rolling Stone has come up with a sound explanation for the revelations. Yeah, see — Russia planted emails that claim it was all a false flag investigation, so the collusion conspiracy is NOT disproven, based on the conspiracy that Russia created emails inside a U.S. foundation run by George Soros that claim to be creating the Russian collusion conspiracy.
And if that all makes sense, please explain to us how these emails were planted in July 2016, before any investigation by the Democrats and the FBI took place.
Rolling Stone Commits Conspiracy Inception: Evidence Russian Collusion Was False Was Made Up By Russia?!https://t.co/ZEEJEfSvR9
— RedState (@RedState) August 3, 2025
DNC PR Firm – ABC NEWS
We assume this was a partisan plea made in unbiased fashion.
The fact that in Texas they are redistricting is leading to some hilarity from the Democrats, who need to feign innocence about their own wild redistricting efforts in states to cry with outrage over Governor Greg Abbot doing…well, what they have always done.
But it becomes intolerable when an alleged newsman like George Stephanopoulos is actively gameplanning with Eric Holder on how Texas Democrats can do something about this effort, in a completely neutral fashion.
“Is there any way to stop it?” George Stephanopoulos to @EricHolder, his only guest on @ThisWeekABC to discuss congressional redistricting by Texas. pic.twitter.com/41j9stGZqO
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) August 3, 2025
Hardest Hitting News – THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Won’t somebody think of the fatties?!”
The news that President Trump has reinstituted the Presidential Physical Fitness Test in schools has to be regarded as bad news by the press. The Times delivered an editorial that brought up the horrors some kids experienced by not earning a blue patch when in school.
President Trump will bring back the presidential fitness test, which pushed children to do 40 push-ups, 10 pull-ups and a 6.5-minute mile.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 31, 2025
It was disbanded by the Obama administration in 2012. https://t.co/VusIKjrRnx
Gilded Reframe – ABC NEWS
You make it sound like a career veteran has no experience.
Recall back when Pete Hegseth was nominated as Secretary of Defense, the press loved to deride him as only a Fox News host. It was preciously inane that he was deemed unqualified as a mere TV pundit…by the TV pundits. But they did this to ignore that he had two decades of decorated military service. Now, they are doing the same with the recently appointed District Attorney of the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro.
ABC News and NPR reduced her to a “former Fox News host,” ignoring her 30-year career as a lawyer, a DA, and a judge.
The Senate has voted 50-45 to confirm the nomination of former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
— ABC News (@ABC) August 3, 2025
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