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Stealth Story Evolution – MS NOW
Fabricating the charge while ignoring the official statements is a two-fold screwup.
The press's desire to bring down FBI Director Kash Patel continues unabated – as does the perpetual failure of that effort.
In the latest, Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig come out with a scathing report that Director Patel ordered FBI agents on more than one occasion to escort home the drunk friend of Patel’s girlfriend – “according to three people with knowledge of the incidents.”
Scoop: FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered that the security detail protecting his girlfriend escort one of her allegedly inebriated friends home after a night of partying in Nashville, per to three people with knowledge. With @CarolLeonnig https://t.co/xjqotS9lde
— Ken Dilanian (@KDilanianMSNOW) December 5, 2025
Of note is that this is not even said to be based on people inside the Bureau. The only citation comes from “people.” (Does this mean bartenders? Men who may have been shot down in the bars?)
But adding to this mess of a report is that there was actually official word given to the reporters.
According to Ben Williamson, the FBI’s Director of Public Affairs, he not only looked extensively into this incident and was incapable of finding anyone in the Bureau to corroborate this happened, he told the reporters flatly that this was the case.
Then, in their original reporting, they claimed that Williamson had refused to give answers to their questions. When he went on social media and exposed this discrepancy, their report was altered to remove the denial, without any indication the alteration had taken place.
As an aside, this article also incorrectly claimed I did not answer questions about the allegations when asked - when I did. It has since been removed. pic.twitter.com/N7VvyVrJYX
— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) December 5, 2025
Race to the Bottom – CNN
Jake was full of official details, yet dropped the ball on the biggest unofficial one.
With news blossoming around the announcement that the long-unknown January 6 pipe bomb suspect had been tracked down, there was a flurry of excitable reporting. Jake Tapper seemed rather eager to spit out as much detail about the arrest, yet, he bizarrely dropped the ball on a basic data point.
One would expect a seasoned newsman to have the facts before he states the race of the suspect, yet he confidently declared that Brian Cole was a white man, when all appearances say otherwise.
Jake Tapper mocked after CNN star refers to black DC pipe bomb suspect as a 'white man' https://t.co/KYzFnqlXpU
— Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) December 5, 2025
Border-line Obsessive – MS NOW
What gets overlooked by this journalist speaks to the problem.
Many reporters were worked up about the story of a co-ed who had been detained at the airport last week when she was about to fly home and surprise her parents for Thanksgiving.
Jacob Soboroff scored an interview with the deported lady from Honduras, and sympathetically covered her travails. What he failed to address is that this woman has been legally processed and went through due process, given she had a deportation order that was a decade old.
"[Trump] says all of us are criminals -- he's extremely wrong," Any told me after being deported to Honduras when traveling home from Babson College to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. pic.twitter.com/X9gTh5p9Fh
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) December 4, 2025
News Avoidance Syndrome – BBC
Give them a few more decades, and they will surely assimilate by then.
Ever since President Trump dared to make critical comments of the Somali community, there has been a reflexive defense offered up in the media. There is an insistence in the press to completely defend the Somali community in Minnesota and not even begin to explore the mounting fraud scandal enveloping Democrats. One of the efforts is to paint those in that community as vital components to America’s greatness.
Then in their zeal, the Brits give us all the reason to discount these pleas, when we get an expert quoted saying this ridiculousness.
“'The people that are getting caught up in this are people who don't speak that great of English, but who have been citizens for decades,' he said. 'Just because you have an accent does not make you less American.'”
'Not becoming of a president': Somali-Americans respond to Trump's 'garbage' remarks https://t.co/wFZGeZKPFu
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 4, 2025
