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Prose & Contradiction – CNN
Just run with “mostly peaceful bloodshed” and be done with it.
At CNN, they continue to insist that the concept of the President of the United States wanting to curtail crime is a wrongheaded policy. The latest street fight involving this topic concerns the city of Chicago, and hostess Briana Keilar is here to explain why his effort is not needed there.
Sure, there were literally dozens of people shot in that city during the holiday weekend, but that in no way serves as proof that something needs to be done!
🚨CNN's Brianna Keilar downplays a BLOODY Labor Day Weekend:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 2, 2025
"Chicago did experience a particularly brutal Labor Day Weekend...but across the board, crime is still down!" pic.twitter.com/CcvO2uTaVE
Newseum Art Installation – POLITICO
Do you have a secondary source you can cite to confirm this report?!
The Labor Day weekend was also filled with asinine speculation that President Trump was experiencing grave health conditions. Thankfully, after a holiday weekend filled with rumors of the president’s demise, Politico has sources inside the White House they can turn to for corroboration.
Great work by @Politico, except they did not get a second corroborating source.#Newseum pic.twitter.com/KTkrUuCLph
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) September 3, 2025
Both Kinds of Standards – MSNBC
So, Jenny, you say the possibility of hiding the presidential health condition is problematic?!
Following that ridiculous weekend of Trump-is-dead nonsense, Jen Psaki arrives with a follow-up in which she expresses critical concern about potentially hidden health concerns.
Yes, THAT Jen Psaki…
Watch as a woman who helped cover the mental slide of President Silveralert, who would frequently call a lid as the media shrugged, and was revealed to have an unreported cancer diagnosis only after he left office, is today concerned about presidential wellness and transparency. pic.twitter.com/7lkHAcLb9s
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) September 3, 2025
Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – CNN
She’s like an attorney who realizes the witness is smarter than she is.
Kaitlan Collins was interviewing Vice President Vance, and in the course of their discussion, you can see that she really felt she had trapped VP J.D. After getting him to say he was in favor of prosecuting those who break in and vandalize a location, she invoked January 6, convinced she had him pegged.
Watch her smirk crawl out as she asked the accusatory question.
KAITLAN COLLINS: So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) September 1, 2025
JD VANCE: Yes
COLLINS: Ok, I'm just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6. (May 2024) @atrupar
pic.twitter.com/vUMBgvTMmr
Vance, to no surprise, was ready for her ‘gotcha’ moment, and deftly walked her through the specifics of what she had been convinced was a damning moment.
Reporting on the Mirror – NEW YORK TIMES
That the Paper of Record would tout him as a paragon of excellence explains quite a bit.
The Times delivers a burnishing piece on Dan Rather, insisting that he is still a vital source of journalism in this day. We see that he is working with acolytes producing a newsletter – one with over 1,000 words! (For perspective, we here at RFTH hit that mark, or exceed it, nearly every column, so we are thrilled!!!)
The best, however, is that when writer Jacques Steinberg gets around to mentioning the reporting that blasted Rather’s career into confetti, he polishes that fecal matter on behalf of the heroic Rather. When mentioning the infamous hoax letter that was designed to bring down the Bush presidential run and ultimately exposed Rather as a partisan hack, Steinberg recalibrates the details.
In a final report in January 2005, the panel cited a breakdown in standards by CBS in rushing the Bush segment onto the air. But it found no evidence of liberal bias — a frequent knock against Mr. Rather by his conservative critics — in the show’s preparation of the segment.
Oh, so Dan going two decades now without a serious journalism job has nothing to do with his reputation of being a disgraced newsman
Dan Rather is 93, and 20 years removed from signing off as a CBS anchor. But he’s still tapping out stories and chasing the news. “I’m one of those people who love to work, and I love the work that became my life’s work.” https://t.co/NJYpVyIuSc
— DealBook (@dealbook) September 1, 2025
