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Jim Acosta Is Standing Vigil at the Kennedy Center Signage; The Press Shows Mixed Issues With Wealth

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Jun 14, 2026
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Prose & Contradiction – GLOBE & MAIL

  • So those rich people are a drain on society, is what you are saying?

With SpaceX going public, Elon Musk was launched into being the world’s first trillionaire. This has, of course, brought out its share of people squawking about how unfair this is, how capitalism is a rigged game, and all other blather. What is worse is when the media gets in on this bitterness.

What is unacceptable is when an outlet does so with the most severe case of obliviousness. At the Globe & Mail, Chris Gay suggests this windfall is the reason for anyone to rise and hate Musk.

Making this proclamation so stunted and asinine is that the Globe & Mail is a property of the Woodbridge Company, an entity owned by the Thomson family, with a net worth of over $100 billion.


Low Octane Gas Lighting – THE INDEPENDENTS

  • Your inability to conduct basic research speaks to everything, Johnny.

At the polar opposite end of the economic condemnation spectrum, we have John Harwood coming out with his version of vocational elitism. In response to a presser where Markwayne Mullin was speaking about ICE disagreements in New York City with Mayor Zohran Mamdani, John Harwood tried to insult Mullin by calling him merely a plumber.

This is the same city that celebrates electing a bartender to Congress, and a party currently selling us on the idea that a trust fund Nazi in Maine is a blue-collar oyster farmer.

Mullin, meanwhile, took over a family business and built it into a multi-entity corporation, while also owning restaurants and a sprawling cattle ranch.


Legalized Press-titution – THE INDEPENDENTS

  • Say, Abilio? The lack of a crowd of thousands witnessing this should be a tip-off for you.

Following a judge’s order, the Kennedy Center is removing President Trump’s name from the building. For a sector of this country, this is a landmark moment. For most rational thinkers, getting worked up over this issue — regardless of which you support – seems mystifying. Yet, we see many feel deeply invested in this development and are even complaining that tarps are raised to prevent them from seeing the physical removal.

Among those are Jim Acosta, who is quite literally standing vigil on site, delivering live video feeds of workers…doing stuff. There is no desperation whatsoever in Abilio declaring that this event is right up there in importance with the fall of the Berlin Wall.


Pre-Written Field Reports – NEW YORK TIMES

  • There is positive news as well, rather than printing this layup article.

With the World Cup kicking off (not proud of that), there has been plenty of disdain seen from soccer fans across the globe towards the U.S. Our calling it “soccer” itself is a point of contention. (Fun fact to throw in the faces of Brits making the complaint: It is a term they concocted for the sport.)

As we had previously covered here at Townhall, there are several Europeans on social media who are posting videos of themselves marveling at America as they travel through the country chasing games, raving about our culture, and the pleasant treatment they are getting from Americans. Yet the NY Times needed to lapse into the negative and detail how much scorn we are receiving abroad, regarding a game that has never had much traction in this nation.


Border-line Obsession – ABC NEWS

  • Sounds like you were convinced the riots were horrific.

In the wake of an immigrant in Belfast, Ireland, attempting to kill a disabled individual, there was an outbreak of rioting. ABC News reported on the aftermath, and while using rather direct language concerning the outburst (“intense protests”), the attack that sparked the rioting gets soft-peddled, as they seemed intent on shielding the attacker.

Beyond using “alleged” for the attack that was captured on video, the illegal immigrant is described as an “asylum seeker”, and as he was striving to behead his victim, before being stopped by locals, it is described passively as “a knife attack”.