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After a Shooting the Press Fired Blanks As They Aim for Gun Control; MS NOW Legal Expert Slanders Trump

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Dec 15, 2025
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Artisanally-Crafted Narratives – CNN

  • Well, at least he was not pushing gun control…

Dana Bash brought on Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) to address the aftermath of the shooting at Brown University, and the inappropriate nature of things was in the red zone. Murphy boldly declared that President Trump was entirely to blame for this, due to rather opaque explanations. The president has supposedly lowered criminal charges against criminals, allowed more people banned from owning weapons to have their rights reinstated, and defunded some mental health assistance programs.

This is the nadir of straw-grasping, given that the authorities do not have a suspect in custody, let alone having anything approaching a motive. Yet as far out of bounds as Murphy goes, the hostess encourages him to go off with an accusatory lecture.

Low-Octane Gaslighting – CNN

  • So…this item that is found in toy stores needs to be banned?

Despite the above interview going elsewhere on the shooting, this is not to say the network completely abandoned gun control as a talking point. In a live report from the area of the Brown University shooting, they brought on John Miller, the news network's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, to talk about the issue at hand.

Miller homed in on one detail: that at least one of the guns had a laser sight. In a move that sounds like he wants to make these the next bump-stock controversy, he then helpfully explains the purpose of these items:

A red dot goes where you want to target, and if you fire at that point, the bullet goes where the dot is. 

Yes. And guess what, John? That is how a conventional gunsight works. It is how a rifle scope works. Yet we are supposed to recoil at the thought of one of these being used? He goes on to describe a laser sight as something normally seen only by those in professional or military circles.

Not to shame Mr. Miller entirely, but there is another arena where laser sights are found: On children's toy firearms.

Hoax & Change – MS NOW 

  • Are the facts something nobody is even interested in anymore?!

Not to be outdone in the hysterical inaccuracy department, at MS NOW, Alex Witt had on her own hyperbolic Democrat to inaccurately detail the Brown U shooting details.

The hostess teed things up for Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-6), first by inaccurately stating the murderer had used a rifle. (Again, reports have him using handguns.) But this exaggerated lie was further ramped up as Moulton went ahead and took things to a higher level of hysterics:

We just have an idea that you don't need weapons of war on our streets or in our schools, and that should be common sense to all Americans.

Gilded Reframe – The Lincoln Project (formerly)

  • Could we have this lecture delivered by someone without a checkered history on the subject?

On her independent vid-cast, Tara Palmeri was addressing the issue of the Republican Party and its dismissive attitude toward women. You know, the party that is currently in the White House and has about one-third of the administration positions filled by women, including President Trump's Chief of Staff, Attorney General, and White House spokesperson.

But best of all, leading this accusatory charge against the "sexist" GOP is none other than one of the founders of The Lincoln Project, Steve Schmidt. This is the same guy who was still in charge over there when it was rocked with scandal and exposed as having a workplace that was hostile to the females on staff.

Low-Octane Gaslighting – MS NOW

  • If anyone should be aware of what constitutes slander…

For the better part of a week now, there has been media excitement over the latest batch of "proof" regarding President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. This most recent leaked piece of "evidence" involved a photo of Trump surrounded by a passel of women. Their faces were all blacked out, intending to convey the message that they were having their images protected for legal reasons.

The first note here would be that if you were so concerned with the well-being of these females, you would not have released the photo in the first place.

But in a case of either taking the bait of the House Democrats or lying in concert with their supposed expose, MS NOW had its Senior Legal Correspondent, Lisa Rubin, declaring definitively that this was a photo of Trump with underage girls or victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

That the picture is actually a previously published image of a pageant event held at Mar-a-Lago years ago, involving adult women, is the kind of easily-researched detail a legal reporter should be able to obtain.