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CNN Allows a Dem Candidate to Defy Her Autobiography, and 60 Minutes Attacks Disaster Relief Workers?!

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  May 04, 2026
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Democratic Custodial Services – CNN

  • This was like watching a tennis match where neither player wants to score.

Manu Raju brought on the currently embattled Senate candidate for Michigan, Mallory McMorrow. She has recently been the focus of news for having deleted a series of social media posts that could impact her chances, as she was rather insulting to Midwesterners while pining for her days in California. There have also been reports about her boasting of having voted in California elections when she was living in Michigan.

So McMorrow was on to clarify things to her benefit, and Raju delivered a masterclass in feigning tough journalism by seemingly asking her the tough questions, but in reality, it was a prescribed Q&A where she was given the chance to spin all the uncomfortable revelations.

Here is where the ploy is exposed. Note, she explains that a two-year timeframe needed to move is something millennials do these days. Manu allows that to stand, as if it is an accepted reality.

But when she tries to say it was wrong to say she was a Michigan resident, this is in defiance of herself. She wrote in her biography that she was a permanent resident in Michigan, yet two years later, she was still voting in California.

Anti-Social Media – CBS NEWS / 60 Minutes

  • Help thy neighbor, unless the press does not like you.

In a desperate effort at deflection, on 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl delivered a broadside on the supposedly nefarious groups that go to disaster locations to assist in cleanup and aid the locals impacted, all for the intention of recruitment and exposure. She dubs these groups “disaster tourists” and uses very weak evidence to castigate those coming in to help out communities.

Stahl featured one individual with very weak signs of being problematic, and shows him having done nothing wrong. But this is used to call into question any groups that come in to volunteer their work for these communities. What is revealing is what is not reported on.

They do not highlight the problems seen from FEMA in recent years, which underscore the need for these groups to fill in the gaps on relief efforts. And, if the topic is about hate groups, do we not find it revealing that the network chose to go in this direction, instead of say a piece on the huge story that came out about the Southern Poverty Law Center funding these dastardly hate groups?!

News Avoidance Syndrome – ASSOCIATED PRESS

  • Giving the details of the failure…just not all of the details.

Late on Friday came the sudden announcement that Spirit Airlines was shutting down immediately. The budget air carrier has been in financial straits for some years now, and it was deeply impacted by the recent spikes in fuel.

The Associated Press gave a rundown of many of the problems the airline faced, but curiously left off one pertinent detail. For some reason, the news syndicate did not think it was important to include that a couple of years ago, the merger with JetBlue, which was looked at as a lifeline that could have saved the company and jobs, was denied by the Biden administration.

Anti-Social Media – LOS ANGELES TIMES

  • He sounds like an austere potential killer

You really need to wonder what goes through the minds of the journalists who pull these sympathetic stunts. And their editors. And the publishers who allow this degrading crap to stand.

While most journalists with a sense of decorum would cover last week’s attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and avoid using the attacker’s name, to avoid giving him the desired publicity, the LA Times not only named him, but it gave him all the PR he could hope for.

The profile the paper made of the gunman sounds positively warm and treacly at times, as it describes him as a “young athlete and CalTech grad.” Here are just some of the perplexing highlights:

A quiet, respected tutor and engineer from Southern California with a “godly” upbringing. Those who knew Allen — former teammates, colleagues, and parents of his students — describe him as polite and apolitical, struggling to reconcile the man they knew with the shocking accusations against him.

Clearly, The Times is attempting to strike the same vein that CNN attempted when it drew up a romanticized version of events for the pair of idiots following their failed attempt to deliver bombs in New York City.

Legalized Press-titution – MS NOW

  • Well, you are stuck with the Nazi sympathizer, you gotta just ride that horse…

With Graham Platner, the de facto Democrat running for the Senate seat in Maine, the press is stuck with having to support the man with a deeply problematic past of Nazi support.

Dutifully, there was Morning Joe, bringing on the guy for a gushing interview, and mostly avoiding any mention of his Nazi tattoo. Or his appearance on the white supremacist podcast. Or his prior comments supporting communism. Or his deleted posts in favor of a neo-Nazi.

No, the closest they came to any of his problems was Willie Geist sort of bringing up those topics – in the form of those being “attacks” that Platner is receiving from Republicans.