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Anti-Social Media – THE INDEPENDENTS
How does this man not grasp the way he would be portrayed?!
We are currently watching play out an impassioned competition between two former CNN figures, straining mightily to concoct anything approaching relevance in their desperate bid for traffic. Don Lemon is in the lead, on the strength of his sheer disregard for anything approaching decency.
But Acosta persists, and in his latest bid to have people looking at him, he got wind that a guerrilla artist installed a lavish marble and golden toilet feature as a form of commentary on the Trump presidency. Abilio raced out and took shots of himself perched on the plated commode, oblivious that comments would emerge that while seated, he was producing more of the quality content we have come to expect from him.
Checking in on ex-CNN anchor's current media endeavors pic.twitter.com/705OMynCVB
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 1, 2026
Blue-Anon – MS NOW
How…HOW?!...do you make this comparison at all???
Here is example #763 of something that is a positive being sold as a negative because President Trump is attached to it.
At the former MSNBC, former Washington Post scribe Catherine Rampell had on Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern to discuss an investigation the government is undertaking at the University of Pennsylvania. As part of the probe, the authorities are drawing up a list of the Jewish students. This set off the fill-in hostess, and she asked Stern if this was considered a problematic move.
I recall your writing a couple of years ago about how your grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. You know, lists and Jews, good thing historically? Bad thing historically? What do you make of this?
This would be where we need to clarify that the U Penn investigation is about instances of Jewish intolerance on campus, and the lists being drawn up were done to compile potential victims. So Catherine is attempting to sell the idea that battling antisemitism on campus is akin to what took place during the Holocaust. Absolutely unreal.
For his part, Stern was no less out of the margins on this.
Well, really, there's very little evidence that this is a legitimate investigation. It looks a lot more like harassment of Penn using Jewish employees and Jewish groups as conduits to get at university administrators who are deemed to be too woke by this government. And I think that this really does raise troubling First Amendment issues.
So there you have it. Battling against antisemitism is apparently the wrong thing to do these days.
On Tuesday night, MS NOW's Catherine Rampell, guest hosting The 11th Hour, and Slate writer Mark Joseph Steyn compared the Trump Administration investigation of antisemitism at UPenn to the Holocaust. pic.twitter.com/R4T9Y5Gp62
— Nick (@nspin310) April 1, 2026
News Avoidance Syndrome – THE ATLANTIC
A reminder - these are members of the national press corps.
On Wednesday, we saw a significant rocket launch, as Artemis II lifted off, sending a crew of four on a mission to circumnavigate the moon, in preparation for our planned return to that supernal rock. Peter Baker shared a column from The Atlantic where both he and writer Ross Anderson were somewhat bemused that more Americans were not following this historic launch.
Let’s grasp the impacted thinking on display here: Two journalists are baffled that more people are not aware of a news event that their industry is not covering with any level of importance at a level that they are expecting.
Dare I suggest, gentlemen, that two factors are in play. First, as noted above, there is a desire to spin or outright avoid any news item that could reflect favorably on President Trump. Second, your industry is so damned focused on tearing down the administration that any other news occurring is eclipsed entirely by that obsession.
On the Florida bridge watching the new mission to the moon take off with @andersen and realizing that much of the nation may not be aware it's happening. https://t.co/8CF9DDviwc
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 2, 2026
Low Octane Gas Lighting – POLITICO
As an expert on the matter, could you explain how you got 100 percent of your claims incorrect??
Ahead of the speech by President Trump Tuesday night, addressing the latest developments on the Epic Fury events, Politico came out with its wise assessment.
A trio of their braintrust - Eli Stokols, Megan Messerly and Dasha Burns - came out with definitive declarations on what it would be that President Trump would say in the speech. They were promptly roasted later in the night, as not a single predicted topic was mentioned by Trump.
🚨POTUS will use his address tonight to declare that the war in Iran is winding down.
— Dasha Burns (@DashaBurns) April 1, 2026
He also intends to harshly scapegoat NATO allies for the biggest unresolved matter of the war, Iran’s ongoing restrictions of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
W/ @EliStokols and…
News Avoidance Syndrome – THE BULWARK
Sonny, you were once a humorous figure.
Back in the day, Sonny Bunch was a fun, irascible figure at the Washington Free Beacon. He left towards the end of Trump’s first term to strike out on his own, and not long into Biden’s run, he landed at The Bulwark. As you might expect, Sonny has morphed towards their collective mindset, having fallen in with the wrong crowd.
Mr. Bunch looked at Trump’s Wednesday night speech and came to this rather daft conclusion:
I know it's pointless to say this, but: "Imagine if Joe Biden had delivered this rambling nonsense."
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) April 2, 2026
Ummm…yeah, we do not need to “imagine” it - we recall President Roomba’s four years of rambling nonsense. So in predictable fashion, Bunch has joined the rest of the crew who believe history began in January 2025.
