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CNN Produces a Romance Thriller for the NYC Bombers, and David French Backs the False Prophet in Texas

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Mar 10, 2026
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Stealth Story Evolution – CNN

  • Could we meet those editors who allowed what did not meet their standards?

In the ongoing news industry desire to recast the pair of ISIS-inspired men who threw IEDs during the New York City protest over the weekend, CNN is attempting to distinguish itself. In a cloying, supportive dose of fiction on the matter, that reads like the synopsis of a romantic thriller you come across on Netflix, the outlet posted an entry promoting the article on the attackers.

After this had been posted, the news site was flooded with outrage over the sympathetic approach to these would-be bombers, and as a result, the post has been taken down. The explanation given is rather obtuse.

CNN attempts to dodge culpability here by suggesting that the social media post was the error. Except that the original post used the very language seen in the article it was promoting.

So the question becomes: If this content did not meet the editorial rigor of CNN, how did it become published? Were the editors somehow bypassed?

Reporting on the Mirror – CNN

  • This is what it looks like when you only use a mop without a bucket of cleaner.

Brian Stelter, CNN media analyst, attempted to address CNN’s foul-up with that article. This may come as a surprise, but the guy who has a partisan agenda in his news coverage was partisan when covering what his own network had done.

Stelter attempts to say this was all just a grave error by the social media team. “The story itself was solid,” he tries to sell to us.

Except, as can be seen, it was not solid at all. As we said, the promotional post used the text from that article. And, Brian may be surprised to learn that the “solid” news report has been edited, carries a correction note, and the same language that caused the post to be taken down has been removed.

That article has since been edited, removing the passage that appeared in the promotional posting.

EDITOR’S NOTE:  A previous version of this story included a summary that does not reflect the gravity of the incident, thereby breaching the editorial standards we require for all our reporting. It therefore has been changed.

This is a Grade-A screwup, to be certain.

Legalized Press-titution – CNN

  • This becomes the opposite of unbiased coverage of the Operation Epic Fury events.

Recall recently that CNN was granted exclusive access inside Iran with the permission of the government? The site has been catching flak for this puppet master use, and Brian Stelter has been attempting to explain away the slanted coverage that was inevitable. Frederick Pleitgen is that lone reporter embedded in Tehran, and his recent dispatch tells a different story.

Rather than live feeds or at least filed reports from the street, he has a sit-down interview with Foreign Policy Adviser to the Supreme Leader, Kamal Kharazi, offering up mostly whiffle ball questions.

News Avoidance Syndrome – ABC NEWS

  • Say, David, any curiosity over the cause of those delays, or…nah?

Remember back last Fall when the press could not get enough about the Democrats shutting down the government and straining to blame the GOP, who voted unanimously to OPEN the government?

Well, there is a partial shutdown taking place again, where only the security agencies are affected, yet we do not seem to see much coverage over this defunding effort that is, again, brought to you by the Democrats.

On ABC World News Tonight, David Muir details how travelers are enduring long, sometimes hours-long, wait times at airports. Yet, in covering this displeasure for anyone flying right now, he had nothing to say about the direct cause, which is a shortage of TSA agents, as their agency is one of those directly impacted by the current lack of funding and missing paychecks.

BlueAnon – THE NEW YORK TIMES

  • And here we thought that journalists were a fact-based workforce…

Nicholas Kristof long ago exposed his partisan positions. But even so, one would think that he might still attempt to portray a modicum of ethical adherence, even if it were just for appearances.

Yet here he is, proposing a theory – daft in nature – that the reason there has been a drop off in Iranian missile launches has nothing to do with our air superiority. Instead, he floats as the cause a cagey effort by Iran to first take out our radar capabilities in the region, and THEN they will launch a fusillade of their air strikes.

That this fever-dream scenario was cooked up by Iranian officials seems to cause no sense of exploratory curiosity to well up for Nick.

Pathological Media Amnesia – THE NEW YORK TIMES

  • Just try to imagine Dave’s response if a MAGA influencer were saying these things.

As James Talarico has become a media darling, since he poses some alleged threat to GOP strangleholds in Texas, supposed upright Christian thought leader David French has not castigated the kid for his warped impressions of Christianity. Nope, Davie has instead lapsed into that swooning posture of the rest of the media cement-heads.

Here, he is not calling out the various false-prophet positions Talarico has proposed, but rather is paving the path for excuse-making to justify this theological grifter.

Just try to wrap your head around French lending support for a “reverend” who suggests that Mary’s immaculate conception is on biblical grounds to justify abortion.