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Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  May 09, 2025
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Prose & Contradiction – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • Now wait, mixing religion and politics is suddenly acceptable?!

We have long been accustomed to the media eggheads railing about keeping religion out of our government, and barking loudly about faith-based policies. Note how in recent years evangelicals are scorned for voting for Trump, and “Christian Nationalism” has become an ill-defined but firmly declared threat to this country.

(Of course, there are convenient exceptions, such as touting Joe Biden being a “devout” Catholic, and praising Nancy Pelosi lecturing how abortion is part of her faith.)

But now, the “keep your religion out of my politics!” press corps is perfectly comfortable marrying those two concepts – in order to slander President Trump and the Republicans. The newly Christened Pope Leo XIV is seen to be a cudgel against Trump.

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Body Checking the Fact-Checkers – POLITIFACT

  • Just admit it – you wrote this judgment before you even started the article.

In its beautiful trademarked fashion, PolitiFact came out with a fact-check on President Trump about immigration, and managed to declare he was completely FALSE in his comments. Small problem: It managed to prove him entirely correct in the process.

This was all centered on the press obsession with saying “due process” has to apply to deportations, all while they ignore that in most cases, these individuals have been before a magistrate, with most of the time a ruling to deport was in play. This time, we hear that Trump is entirely wrong in saying there are different legal standards for illegals. And in the explanation, there is this clarifying segment:

In immigration, due process generally refers to "appropriate notice (of government action), the opportunity to have a hearing or some sort of screening interview to figure out, are you actually a person who falls within the law that says that you can be deported," Katherine Yon Ebright, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security program, said.

We are not lawyers on immigration law, but this sounds…like an alternate version of due process. But then it gets even better.

After calling the president completely incorrect for saying there is a different process for illegal immigrants, the article has an entire section dedicated to — explaining how illegal immigrants have a DIFFERENT legal process:

  • How do due process rights differ for noncitizens compared with U.S. citizens?

Even though all people in the U.S. have due process rights, for noncitizens, the specifics of the process and the extent of protections vary. The term noncitizen applies to people legally and illegally in the U.S., including people here on visas, with lawful permanent status or without a legal immigration status. There’s a "sliding scale of different protections that people can have depending on what their (immigration) status is," Yon Ebright said.

Unreal…

Both Kinds of Standards – PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE

  • A reminder that they are supposed to recognize journalism excellence.

As we previously covered, on Monday, the committee awarded the Pulitzer Prizes. After it gave the Washington Post the Breaking News honor for saying the Trump assassination attempt was “Loud Noises,” and the biggest honor went to ProPublica for its series of false articles on women dying from the new abortion laws, one of the other awards has been shown to be questionable.

For the Distinguished Commentary category, it awarded Mosab Abu Toha of The New Yorker, “For essays on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza that combine deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir to convey the Palestinian experience of more than a year and a half of war with Israel.“ This has become exposed by Emily Damari, who was a hostage held by Hamas for hundreds of days, and she calls out the committee for praising a reporter who was in abject denial over the Hamas atrocities and has even called into question if Damari was even a hostage:

This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games -  they are outright denials of documented atrocities. You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered.

Hoax & Change – LOS ANGELES TIMES

  • From “Maryland Father” to “LA Gramma.”

It really is getting to the point that when we see certain hysterical stories we just KNOW there is something more going on than the press is giving us. Case in point, we get a weepy tale about the diabolical ICE agents who cravenly arrested a sweet 64 year old grandmother for simply making an errant traffic maneuver.

Then the rest of the details became apparent, and the entire story changed. It is by this point you need to ask why details need to be omitted from these manipulative headlines.