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Race to the Bottom – MS NOW
“Don’t you DARE celebrate this great nation on the 250th Anniversary!”
With the U.S.A. poised to celebrate its Semiquincentennial, Joe Scarborough is here to admonish us not to be filled with pride and wonderment because we are a racist nation with a racist past, and…presumably a racist future, too.
Scar-Joe was clearly pandering to his guests Eugene Robinson and the ever racially enraged Eddie Glaude (who has a new book out about…you guessed it…). The amusement is that, as Joe is blathering away about how we as a nation always regress, he details how his was the first integrated class in school, mentions Barack Obama becoming president, and other advancements that basically dispel all of his emotional hectoring.
But we should not go out this summer and express pride in our nation because of racial reasons.
MS NOW looks forward to America 250 with Joe Scarborough trying to say the current Trump era is akin to the era of Klan or something "all of those victories, we have had this nasty habit of resetting as a nation. We did it after the Civil War. We did it after Reconstruction. We… pic.twitter.com/5QhlAfQF5e
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) May 26, 2026
Pre-Written Field Reports – CBS NEWS
They really did just instruct you, Maggie.
On Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan closed out a segment with a pair of Medal of Honor winners, Will Swenson and Matt Williams, and appeared to try steering the discussion toward more negative feelings toward our nation:
What specifically makes you optimistic? Because this country, at times, can feel dark, these days, there's a lot of darkness. What makes you feel optimistic?
What she received as an answer was a great object lesson that not everything in this country is predicated on what is taking place in D.C. What she heard back was essentially a polite way of coaxing Margaret to start thinking of things beyond her bubble. Said Swenson:
Because we're in Washington, D.C., and everything revolves around politics, we have to remember that politics aren't everything. American lives continue on. Children are born, children go to school. Lives are achieved. Dreams are achieved. This country is a great place. It's not politics. It's not just what's the news bites coming off of media.
WATCH: CBS's Margaret Brennan tries to goad two Medal of Honor recipients into bashing America, gets rebuffed
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 24, 2026
MARGARET BRENNAN: And before I let you go, we are coming up on this 250th anniversary of the American experience. I know I can't ask you a question like, are you… pic.twitter.com/X24S8YWmmc
News Avoidance Syndrome – THE BULWARK
Was he playing frisbee in the park while he was attacked?
Sam Stein delivers some grievous news – a sitting U.S. senator was harshly attacked by ICE agents.
ICE pepper sprayed a US Senator today (@AndyKimNJ) https://t.co/6K1Ov14HVU
— Sam Stein (@samstein) May 26, 2026
The rather static presentation of this development appears intentional to deliver either sympathy toward the politician, hostility toward the federal agents, or probably a combination of both.
Of course, left out of Stein’s truncated reporting is that Senator Andy Kim (NJ) was part of a protest at an ICE facility, and the pepper spray was deployed as unrest was taking place after consecutive days of demonstrations.
Border-line Obsessions – THE DENVER POST
Imagine now if they had arrived here legally.
We get a weepy rendition of what an immigrant family has been enduring, leading to the decision of a mother and her children choosing to be sent back to their home country. Cecilia was seeking to be returned to Venezuela after her husband had been picked up previously and deported months earlier.
She and her three children, ages 12 and younger, came into the country illegally to meet up with her husband, who had previously entered the country illegally. Now pregnant with a third child, she was hoping for an expedited deportation for her family.
In echoing her experience, the paper describes what is “an unprecedented number” of illegal aliens and those detained looking to return to their home nation.
With no options left, a Venezuelan family living in Colorado walks into ICE custody, seeking to go back home https://t.co/LMjrYLMdw1
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) May 25, 2026
Stealth Story Evolution – VARIOUS OUTLETS
Funny, few complaints are heard about this “mistreatment.”
So last week, there was all manner of melodrama with yet another debacle of a “rescue mission” for Palestinians. Greta Thunberg was part of yet another Gaza Flotilla, an alleged rescue mission to help the oppressed people in that region. The fiascos were plentiful.
There were accusations that Israeli forces stormed the boat and were abusing the passengers. Funny enough, none of this was managed to be recorded, even though these same “victims” had recorded how Israel jammed their frequency and was playing Britney Spears over the onboard radios.
Another dose of idiocy was the practice of the activists of “delivering” chocolate and other supplies to Gaza by hurling plastic bottles overboard in the hopes they would float to the area. Again, environmental activist Greta Thunberg was part of this genius planning.
For reasons we at RFTH are too apathetic to explore further, these activists ended up in Spain, where their disruptive protesting was faced down by the authorities, and they were treated with the level of “abuse” alleged to have been delivered by the Israelis.
David Attenborough narrates the Gaza Flotilla activists getting absolutely humbled at a Spanish airport ✈️🦍🇪🇸
— Aɴᴛ (@AntSpeaks) May 24, 2026
Entitled rodents meet Spanish security mammals.
Nature is healing.
Enjoy the documentary. 📺 pic.twitter.com/A6WRSbXO1v
Hardest Hitting News – ABC NEWS
Somehow, your unintended consequences do not measure up to the intended consequences.
As Congo is becoming a hot zone for the reemergence of the Ebola virus, the U.S. government is putting in place travel restrictions as a precautionary measure. This seems more than a precautionary move.
With cases breaking out in that region, the stories are hardly encouraging. After one victim perished, friends wanted to retrieve the body, but health officials, for obvious reasons, restricted them from doing so. So, in response, the Ebola treatment center was firebombed. In one case, seven infected people fled a treatment facility, and that was the third such instance of losing containment of the infected individuals. But ABC News is concerned that attempting to prevent those possibly carrying the highly transmissible and fatal virus from entering the country could have other impacts of a racial variety.
"A broad travel ban does not make sense based on what we know so far," Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, a Dallas-based infectious disease physician who specializes in emerging infections, told ABC News. "If the goal is truly to reduce risk, policies need to be grounded in epidemiology and exposure risk, not nationality."
As the U.S. restricts some travelers from entering the country amid an Ebola outbreak, experts warn that broader bans can have unintended consequences. https://t.co/9vdcCK3ESc
— ABC News (@ABC) May 23, 2026
