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First Amendment Strike Force – ABC NETWORK
Not very impressive for a totalitarian regime.
Tuesday night saw Jimmy Kimmel return to the airwaves, and as a result, the narrative that President Trump was censoring his critics was canceled. Kimmel was unapologetic, while sounding weepy, and it all went about as exactly maudlin as expected.
The press tried to boast this was as significant as the Super Bowl, but in due time, Kimmel should recede to his lowly ratings perch, leaving ABC to be stuck with a show sporting eroding audience numbers.
Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air tonight. Here's what the late-night host had to say in response to the backlash he received for saying Charlie Kirk's assassin was part of MAGA:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 24, 2025
"It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man... For those who think I did… pic.twitter.com/MHk4KMhxdk
Pre-Written Field Reports – VARIETY
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It might help in his censorship efforts if Trump had learned this show existed.
The press is dying to find the next example of Trump-inspired censorship. News comes out that Apple+ has decided to shelve the upcoming show “The Savant.” It was set to debut this week, with star Jessica Chastain as an FBI agent who works on battling extremist groups committing violence:
“The Savant” follows Jodi Goodwin (Chastain), a top-secret investigator (and a veteran) who, as an employee of the fictional Anti-Hate Alliance, infiltrates online hate groups in an effort to stop large-scale attacks of domestic terrorism.
According to Variety writer Aramide Tinubu, who watched an advanced issue of the series, the show has a particular focus:
“The Savant” is precisely the type of show America needs right now. It looks at a sector of mostly white male individuals who believe that America belongs to them. Fueled by hate, bigotry, xenophobia and misogyny, they talk cruelly and candidly online about enacting harm and violence toward individuals or “others” who they feel are unworthy of being in “their” country.
For this reason, Tinubu insists that Apple has yanked the show from its release schedule because the platform is “cowering” to President Trump. There is zero evidence to be found that this is the case, and even in the report, we read that “nowhere in the show does it mention Trump’s name.”
Apple TV+ has postponed the premiere of the Jessica Chastain drama series “The Savant,” offering another chilling example of how business giants are running scared of the Trump administration, and bowing to pressure before it even exists.
— Variety (@Variety) September 23, 2025
Read more here: https://t.co/7Q4XnjtPzQ pic.twitter.com/z2tQkbTTbS
Reporting on the Mirror – CNN
Insert punchline → HERE.
In what was a dose of purely unintentional comedy, Kasie Hunt felt the need to come out and give voice to the claim that she is not, in any way, a political animal.
CNN's Kasie Hunt:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 23, 2025
"I'm not in the business of making political statements, obviously." pic.twitter.com/gSILiKbu6s
She was just begging to be lit up for this comment and to have examples delivered of her making political statements on the air.
Hoax & Change – NBC NEWS
Asking for an official statement continues to be beyond their skill set.
The news was awash in the report that those always cruel ICE agents had used a 5-year-old girl with autism as “bait” to draw out her illegal immigrant father to be detained.
@NBCNews why did you delete this? pic.twitter.com/NyhSGdaBhe
— AmErican (@Flipper628) September 24, 2025
As we have become all too familiar with over the past few months, these stories of sympathy almost always have to be augmented with the full story, which the press loves to obfuscate.
In this case, DHS had to come out and correct things. The man was told to pull over, but instead, raced to his home and left his daughter behind in the car as he took refuge in the house. NBC News was called out and had to issue corrections to its report and alter the headline.
Video shows ICE with 5-year-old girl while agents attempt to arrest her father.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 23, 2025
Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video. The article has been updated.https://t.co/7tjdnE8tOU
Pathological Media Amnesia – THE INDEPENDENTS
We always savor it when a journalist is debunked by themselves.
In possibly the quintessential example of the press taking a default position in opposition to President Trump merely because he said something, Chuck Todd shames himself. This is a display of many things: the display of journalistic sloth, a confession of no curiosity, but mostly just outward lying.
Chuckles appeared on Chris Cillizza’s vid-cast, and both were audibly bothered by the announcement that Trump was declaring Antifa to be a domestic terrorist group. Their position? That Antifa is an amorphous, unknown, hazy ideal and not an actual organized group.
🚨NEW: Chuck Todd *PANICS* over Trump designating Antifa terrorist organization🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) September 22, 2025
"I don't even know what Antifa is. I know what the definition of Antifa is. There is no group!"
"But what's dangerous is that by designating it, who's going to define who the group is?"
"And if… pic.twitter.com/vhZsRMSArF
Problem: Chuck has spoken a number of times with the man who has literally written the book on Antifa, on both MSNBC and on “Meet the Press,” establishing what it is and its organized makeup.
Chuck Todd in 2025: "I don't even know what antifa is."
— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) September 22, 2025
Chuck Todd in 2017: *hosts antifa professor who wrote 'The Anti-Fascist Handbook'* pic.twitter.com/hAtCzV3Mcc
