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Border-line Obsession – WASHINGTON POST
It is such an obvious problem that they are petitioning for examples.
The press has been deeply invested in the coverage of the plight of illegals in the country – they just have not been overly concerned with the facts. This has led to a wave of sympathetic stories of aggressive ICE agents and an avoidance of the rap sheets of many of those detained.
Now the Washington Post is ramping up this coverage by asking for submissions of deportation stories and the effects of these tactics. It just leads to us asking, if this is such a widespread and commonly seen issue, why do you need to ask for examples to be sent in?
Do you know someone who has been deported since President Trump took office?
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 12, 2025
Our reporters are looking to speak with people who know someone who has been deported and can share what it means that they are no longer in the country.
Share your story: https://t.co/iz5Stk4z0w
Glossary Over Things – PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
Do you folks really think you have redefined this situation???
Another example of the press shielding the reality of illegal immigrants was seen on “The PBS News Hour”, where they decided it was needed to reclassify these people.
No longer are they to be called “illegals;" they have become transformed to “People Without Legal Status”.
President Trump's call to exclude those without legal status from the census would mean millions of people living in America go uncounted, reshaping the contours of the country’s congressional districts.
— PBS News (@NewsHour) August 8, 2025
Opponents argue that it would violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement… pic.twitter.com/qCDGIuEC1k
Presentation Paradox – ROLLING STONE
Apparently, the whole staff did not get the memo on the new terminology.
For reasons that only make sense to the activists, there has been a need to alter the use of “homeless” to describe people living on the streets. The new preferred term is the “Unhoused”. The difference seems to be an attempt to turn attention away from the individual’s factors and instead lean on the national issue of a housing shortage.
Rolling Stone is seen going along with this new usage…at least in the headline. In the body of their coverage, they lapsed into the old, apparently offensive, “homeless” designation.
"It’s terrifying.”
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 10, 2025
The executive order Trump signed last month, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” attacks homeless people by allowing law enforcement to displace and institutionalize them, with little to no guardrails.
More: https://t.co/MpDAsHb20S https://t.co/uGMuqy2cxT pic.twitter.com/0iB9fRKTN6
Anti-Social Media – VARIOUS OUTLETS
Why on earth would he have Gutfeld on?! Well, apart from being successful…
When it was announced that Greg Gutfeld would be making a guest appearance on “The Tonight Show,” many in the media spectrum expressed outrage, and some more after Greg sat with Jimmy Fallon. But they will only be more bothered by the data.
It has now been measured that Gutfeld’s episode ranks as the highest-rated in 2025 for Fallon. And THAT is why he invited the Fox News host.
No Surprise - the Detested Greg Gutfeld Delivered the Big Audience for Jimmy Fallonhttps://t.co/7jSnAe9TPR
— RedState (@RedState) August 13, 2025
News Avoidance Syndrome – VARIOUS OUTLETS
Over the years, it never dawned on someone to reach out to this couple…EVER?!
In a revelation that has us bordering on shock, John Oliver on his HBO weekly show has exposed Chuck Schumer for having engaged in a lie that spans decades. Chuckles has constantly referred to a Long Island couple - the Baileys - who have influenced him and molded his policy-making during his career. He has cited them across countless interviews and featured them extensively in his 2007 book release, “Positively American”. One small issue: John Oliver and his team have discovered that the Baileys do not exist. At all.
Nobody in the journalism atmosphere ever thought of looking in on this couple, doing a profile on the influential couple, or simply interviewing them for a puff piece. Watch this segment on Oliver and marvel at the psychotic levels Schumer went in crafting this fictional couple, and then realize he has been doing so for DECADES – without nary a dose of curiosity from anyone in the press. Astounding.
If you don't watch anything else today, take 7 mins & behold that Chuck Schumer has invented fictional New Yorkers named "the Baileys," developed an entire back story for them over several years, & based his entire worldview on them. Does he belong in the Senate or an asylum? https://t.co/9QwflpJVsm
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 12, 2025
Demo-lition Project – CNN
When this reaches the level of an entire day, we will have achieved something magnificent.
There are many ways the ratings plight at CNN has been shown; how they trail SpongeBob in nightly broadcasts, the fact that for entire hours on the schedule each show loses it audience, or that the whole primetime lineup cannot achieve half a million viewers.
One other metric has been how one Fox News program - “The Five” - has better numbers than the combined audience figures of a collection of CNN shows. For the latest, Joe Concha shows how much this comparison has stretched out, now with “The Five” doing better than eight shows combined. That spans the CNN schedule from 4:00 pm until midnight.
Always a fun exercise: You could combine the audiences of every program on CNN starting at 4:00pm and ending at midnight, and The Five still beats all of them… pic.twitter.com/4avhYVjjo1
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 13, 2025
