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Legalized Press-titution – MS NOW
This is Larry choosing the side of terrorists, for the record.
Lawrence O’Donnell made it clear he is deeply suspicious and opposed to President Trump. (We could have included “years ago”, but let’s just go with it.) He introduces a segment on the Iran war developments, and essentially declares he does not believe a single thing the president says on the matter.
The Iranian dictatorship…has never dealt with a more clownish person anywhere in the world than Donald Trump. That's what we're dealing with in the presidency during wartime. That's what Iran is watching every day. That's the clown on the other side of the negotiations that Iran might or might not be engaging in with the United States.
So, Larry has clearly chosen to side with the terror regime. Take into account that even if Larry wanted to place the deaths of two Minnesota protesters onto the lap of the president, this year alone, Iran has exterminated about 40,000, or so, protesters. Yet that is who he is totally comfortable relying upon for reasoned information on the war.
The Chyron Game – MS NOW
Seriously - what was the purpose of that???
During Lawrence’s ranting, the production posted onscreen the message from Seyed Abbas Araghchi, the current leader of Iran…we think. Honestly, we cannot keep up with who is running the show over there; more names are switched out in Iran than the NCAA during the portal transfer season!
But in doing so there is a curious move they made. The account of Araghchi is not verified on Xitter, yet in Larry’s graphic on camera, there is the non-existent blue check showing on his post.
Now just what was the purpose of doing that?!?!
Say @Lawreence, and/or the team over at @TheLastWord:
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) June 11, 2026
Any explanation why you felt a need to place a verification blue check on the account of the Iranian leader? His account does not have one, so this is an odd decision for your show to make.
#1 - Broadcast
#2 Actual account pic.twitter.com/ZGT4D8T9iH
Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – THE BULWARK
He really makes out to be a dastardly effort!
We have not brought up Bill Kristol in some time, and it is largely because the man has devolved into a meandering crank who just spews anti-Trump dogma by rote. But every so often, he manages to drop a nugget that just cannot be ignored.
As an example, Billy here has a complaint that might sound valid to whoever it is still hanging on his words, but it withers into nothing with just the barest of analysis.
“We all should be ‘really, really freaked out.’ Trump’s power grab over the executive branch is intensifying. Trump is less popular…But it’s as if he doesn’t expect elections to matter because he’s going to do everything he can for them not to matter.”https://t.co/1ZgfbREaMb
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 7, 2026
While getting “freaked out” is the default setting over at Kristol’s site, we here at RFTH do not think this is the issue to lose composure over.
See, given that the Executive Branch is the realm of the president, we are not sure how it is Trump is making a power grab over the sector he already presides over.
Anti-Social Media – THE BULWARK
When you are backing the man, you void all rights to a lecture.
The crew at the bad ship The Bulwark continues to mire themselves in devotion to Graham Platner. The latest comes from Sarah Longwell, who strains mightily to justify backing Der Oysterfuhrer and does so in the most pathetic fashion.
See, Trump’s existence means nobody has a right to criticize Platner, nor anyone supporting him. Her point (we think) is that Trump backers are being hypocritical.
But not her, nor her swabs at the site. Apparently, after a decade of barking about Trump’s issues and using them as justification for their whole mission, the fact that they now back a guy displaying just as many issues — and some worse — is not hypocritical. Convenient.
What is on display here is that they are not the righteous minds they love to posture as, but simply are unwound by one man – and will back a corrupted candidate to defeat their villain.
"A party that squandered its moral authority to support the most immoral president of our time as he undermines our entire governing system has no standing to give lectures about political ethics to everyone else."
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) June 10, 2026
NEW from @SarahLongwell25:https://t.co/ZsLNVQPG8G
Pounce Of Prevention – ABC NEWS
Unreal, a politician in an election is using negative news against an opponent?!?!?
It is still damned amusing that so many journalists think they lord over the gentry with some level of divine wisdom, when they constantly display impaired thinking.
Case in point: How is it that these cerebral journos have yet to realize that they dissolve into a punchline whenever they drop the cliched “Republicans pounce!” trope?! Yet, it continues to happen, with ABC’s Mary Bruce being the latest to use it while trying to make it sound novel that Susan Collins in Maine would dare use the ever-unspooling bad news involving Graham Platner.
ABC’s Mary Bruce frets on Wednesday’s ‘World News Tonight’ that “Republican Senator Susan Collins [is] pouncing” on the series of scandals against “oyster farmer” Democrat Graham Platner, including “the tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol” pic.twitter.com/cw5PzeLP2O
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 10, 2026
Low Octane Gas Lighting – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
By debunking what was not said, you have not disproven…anything.
After the typical post-election vote-count debacle unraveling in California, there has been much talk of the state’s corrupted and fraud-friendly election system. After all, this is the state that boasts Silicon Valley and claims it is on the cutting edge of tech, yet cannot seem to get ballots counted in any timeframe less than a fortnight.
Amid this head-shaking, there was a post from Virginia resident Leigh Wolfe, where he showed he had a ballot sent to his family’s address in California, despite not having lived there for a decade.
The CA ballot saga just got worse!
— 🐺 (@LeighWolf) June 9, 2026
I laid a trap and a Contra Costa County government official named Helen Nolan, along with journalists @sara_dinatale + @demianbulwa, walked right into it.
When they put together their hit piece on me in the @sfchronicle (link in replies), they… https://t.co/NL9BOvZE3K pic.twitter.com/2VWNL8G5Oh
Sara DiNatale seems to be working on behalf of the California elections division, as she goes to work “debunking” Leigh’s claim that he could have voted, had he chosen to do so. She first says, “Except, there is something stopping him: Federal law.” Right, because no one ever breaks laws once those are written.
She also tries debunking Wolfe by saying, “It’s also important to note the ballot was sent to a Lafayette, Calif. address — not a Virginia address.” Her gotcha moment falls apart however, as he never said he received the ballot in Virginia. Also, a problem is that another ballot is sent to that family address for a person none of them have ever heard of, and who has never lived at the location.
But according to the article, the problem with these ballots rests with the voter.
You can show libs objective evidence of a deeply flawed election system in CA and lib journos will still act like you’re a conspiracy theorist.
— 🐺 (@LeighWolf) June 4, 2026
I have a ballot to vote in the California primary, but I’ve lived in Virginia for years.
The state has been notified (twice) over… https://t.co/rmMKDmV6SS pic.twitter.com/njCefquKbA
Deadline Gambit – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
It looks like the idea of speaking to the person at the center of your article came to you as an afterthought.
In the same piece from Sara DiNatale, she wrote that she tried contacting Wolfe, but never heard back from him. This was because she sent him a message for comment less than three hours before the piece went live. This was after spending days with the election officials on the details of these ballots. The writer even had a copy of an address correction letter sent to Wolfe, before it was received at his family’s residence.
🧵3/5
— 🐺 (@LeighWolf) June 9, 2026
Also worth noting…this was a hit job, here’s how I know:
The journo, @sara_dinatale, first contacted me at 7:46p ET on Thursday night. I saw her message at 11p.
She admitted when questioned that her article already went live at 10:30p ET…just 2 hours and 45 minutes… pic.twitter.com/FbSACLWxK7
