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First Amendment Strike Force – YOUTUBE / GOOGLE
Just as everyone is screaming about censorship…
Google has made a curious announcement about its YouTube property: Accounts previously deplatformed on the site over COVID positions or political content will be reinstated automatically.
The reason for this is that the site has declared that it had been pressured by the Joe Biden administration on which accounts needed to be silenced. The crude amusement is how this detail emerges just as the press complex whines about Trump’s alleged pressuring of ABC regarding Jimmy Kimmel.
While the Left scream about Trump and censorship, Google admits the Biden Admin pressured them to censor conservatives for years.
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) September 23, 2025
Literally everything they say Trump does, Democrats are guilty of doing. pic.twitter.com/EoCimk5wgG
News Avoidance Syndrome – CNN
And right on cue, Jake Tapper rides in to deliver his obliviousness…
Late last night, CNN’s Jake Tapper sat in with Seth Meyers to discuss the Kimmel situation and his return. He was asked to weigh in on the situation, and he was typically obtuse in looking at things from a solitary perspective:
I thought it was pretty much the most direct infringement by the government on free speech that I've seen in my lifetime. Because we all saw what happened with our friend Stephen Colbert and Shari Redstone at Paramount with a different merger and a different pressure point that the government has.
Jake, as expected, overlooks the blatant examples seen from the Biden years. Apart from the new information about Google, the Twitter Files showed the Biden administration also leaned on social media to silence accounts, the New York Post was completely muted for its (100% accurate) Hunter Biden reporting, and the Biden DOJ even arrested journalist Steven Baker.
Of course, Tapper also ignores that if this is supposed to be a government silencing tactic, it was rather easily ignored by the network.
.@jaketapper makes the case for why The White House should not interfere with news organizations pic.twitter.com/riHe5c2pAV
— Late Night with Seth Meyers (@LateNightSeth) September 23, 2025
Prose & Contradiction – ROLLING STONE
We seem to never stop hearing from people claiming to be silenced.
As the mewling over Jimmy Kimmel continues, we have the famed music magazine delivering a lecture from comedian/actor Billy Eichner.
This serves as just the latest entry of a famed individual having an audience by using a media platform most Americans do not have access to, bemoaning the concept of being silenced.
It is tiresome.
“If it can happen to someone as wealthy and powerful and visible as Jimmy Kimmel, think about what they’re willing and able to do to any average American."
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 22, 2025
Commentary from Billy Eichner: https://t.co/SsS906daYf pic.twitter.com/s1W5J193Vn
Both Kinds of Standards – MSNBC
Seems like a stance we do not expect Rachel to allow to slide by were this a Republican.
Kamala Harris is out promoting her how-to-lose-an-election book and appeared on Rachel Maddow’s program.The amazement is the exchange we saw regarding the recently released jarring detail that Harris admitted she did not choose Pete Buttigieg as her running mate primarily because he is openly gay.
Maddow addressed this controversy. Uh, well…let’s say Maddow brought it up. She asked Kamala about the decision, and we got the predictable word salad response by the former vice president. To summarize her answer as to why:
“I didn’t leave him off the ticket for being gay, but as a black candidate with a gay running mate, it would be a real risk. He’s a phenomenal politician and America is ready, but that’s the decision I made.”
So…everyone was okay with Secretary Pete – except Harris herself.
And the openly gay Rachel Maddow seems perfectly fine with this response, when she would NEVER accept that from anyone on the right.
Kamala "Cackles" Harris said she could not pick Pete Buttigieg as her VP because he is gay with 107 days to go.
— Cash Loren (@CashLorenShow) September 23, 2025
When Rachel Maddow asks her about it, Kamala denies the allegation. Then goes on to explain how she couldn't pick Pete Buttigieg as her VP because he is gay and there… pic.twitter.com/lqs9Od1e8C
News Avoidance Syndrome – THE NEW YORK TIMES
Now, would there be any reason for anyone to oppose her appearance?
The New York Times covered the issue of a pro-Palestinian book author whose appearance at a bookstore in New Jersey was canceled after some public outcry. They mentioned that a Rabbi was leading the protest, and that this was the controversy, but somehow managed to avoid the specifics of what had people upset. The Times alluded to social media posts, but chose not to detail the pretty offensive content therein:
She called Jews and Israel “Nazis.”
Declares this country is under Zionist occupation.
Celebrated the October 7 slaughter that took place in Israel.
Explain to me how the NYT published this post insinuating that a Palestinian author was unfairly being targeted for her views without detailing the actual posts that led to the concerns?
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 22, 2025
Why would "journalists" intentionally omit central information from a story? pic.twitter.com/yqofIrYtLQ
Prose & Contradiction – MSNBC
If they did not do that, then it would not happen!
Katy Tur was trying to cover the news that California tried to pass a law that requires ICE agents to show their faces during immigration sweeps. ICE has basically laughed at the state after this impotent legislation was passed.
Ms. Tur was talking with the network’s homeland security correspondent, and Julia Ainsley had a curious impression of the controversy:
What ICE says, Katy, about why they need to wear these masks in the first place is because assaults on ICE officers, they say, are up 1,000 percent. But if you talk to some of these state legislators or people who have been arrested by ICE, they say that assaults are up because of the masks, that they feel that they don't know who it is, who is apprehending them, pulling them off the street exactly as the Governor just described there. And so they feel that they need to fight back in some cases.
Sooo…the ICE agents would be safer if they exposed themselves?! Uh…huh…
