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The 'Unbiased' Jon Karl Has Another Anti-Trump Book Coming Out, and Trump's Tearing Down the White House

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Oct 23, 2025
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Legalized Press-titution – ABC NEWS

  • That term does not mean what you think it means.

It is forever vexing that journalists and outlets will cling to the notion that they are completely neutral and unbiased voices of the facts. Take Jonathan Karl, a known partisan who has made it known he has opposed President Trump for years.

Now, we have a journalistic figure, Bob Woodward, coming out with this quote:

“One of the best, toughest, non-partisan reporters the United States is fortunate to have.”

Woodward wrote this as a blurb on Karl's upcoming book release, the FOURTH anti-Trump title the "non-partisan" reporter has written.

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News Avoidance Syndrome – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • It's deeply inconvenient when these disapproved outlets scoop the conventional media!

We covered how the press has been trying to sidestep the issue of Graham Platner running for office in Maine with his Nazi tattoo. As a sign of how uncomfortable this is making the big outlets, we now see there is an effort to discredit the tiny source that broke this story.

The account that originated the Platner tattoo story is relatively new, has only a few dozen followers, and is not even situated in Maine.

Soooo…are we to then operate that the story does not count?! The tattoo has been confirmed as real, Platner himself admitted to having it, and he has gone to the length of having it altered since this came to light.

Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – MSNBC

  • A renovation of this scale is tantamount to an insurrection.

The current outrage-of-the-week (seriously, do these leftists EVER tire of the pearl-clutching?!) is the renovations underway at the White House property. President Trump has commissioned that a sprawling ballroom be installed in the East Wing, and the leftists are losing their collective minds. Claims that Trump is "destroying the White House!" are countered by reality.

This is an area far away from the main residence and was created in the 1940s. It is primarily offices, a reception hall, and a movie theater. So we are supposed to be enraged that entertainment spaces are being taken down to make room for…an entertainment space.

Historian Jon Meacham came on to declare that Trump unilaterally making this decision is something that could constitute a revolution taking place:

Do this with some sensitivity to the fact that you’re not a king. You can’t just do what you want to do when you want to do it. That’s an adolescent response—actually, that’s not fair to adolescents. It’s infantile. To do something simply because you can is, in some ways, the definition of why we had the American Revolution.

Low-Octane Gaslighting – MEIDAS TOUCH

  • That open floor plan is EXACTLY what the Russians did!

Also losing their minds over this project are the fever-dream geniuses at MeidasTouch. They looked at the proposed images for this White House ballroom and concluded that it is designed after the ballroom in Saint Petersburg, which is…supposed to mean something; we have to guess.

If you are looking at those images and thinking, "It looks like a ballroom," that is for a simple reason – it looks like just about any ballroom across the globe.

Prose & Contradiction – ESPN

  • We would wager someone did not think this through as a result of not having their coffee yet.

There is currently a mounting scandal concerning the NBA and a collection of players and officials involved with betting and some mafia crime families. Allegedly, the FBI broke up a betting ring that may have involved insider information and even manipulated game results.

As the ESPN morning show was covering this issue, onscreen, you could see the graphics encouraging the audience to sign up for the network's gambling platform, ESPN Bet.