Reporting on the Mirror – MSNBC
What happened to the brave firefighters who stormed the Normandy beaches, Larry?
In an announcement that baffles us on two fronts, Lawrence O’Donnell was speaking with Rachel Maddow and announced he is about to take a week long break from his arduous one hour of work a day. (Okay, sure, he does research and interviews and such — fine!) But here is what has us scratching both sides of our head.
He says he needs a break from the onslaught of Trump coverage because he is exhausted by it all. A staunch, stalwart newsman comes out and declares that he can’t even. Secondly, he said this live on the air. Just amazing to behold.
After making this confession, he then went on to describe President Trump as someone whose brain does not work and is severely damaged. He said this after lauding the mentally incapacitated Joe Biden as one of the best presidents ever.
You know what, Larry? Maybe more than a week of personal health remedy is needed.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell reveals he’s taking a week off — citing exhaustion from Trump’s presidency https://t.co/6a6WTtWbeH pic.twitter.com/UzryOv2mo0
— New York Post (@nypost) March 14, 2025
Prose & Contradiction – VANITY FAIR
Having a piece go south this quickly is quite the achievement.
On March 10, Molly Jong-Fast delivered what she felt was a scathing report on how Donald Trump had not delivered on his promises. Keep in mind, he has not been in office two full months, yet she was claiming that Trump was focusing on items that were unpopular while ignoring his campaign pledges about the economy; specifically lowering prices, especially eggs, and dealing with inflation.
What is it that has him so distracted?
His call to eliminate taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security benefits—once again, costly ideas that would almost certainly never jell with the Republican Party he leads.
Yeah, you know those Republicans, ALWAYS opposing tax cuts. (Seriously, what the hell, Molly?!)
But the best, of course, is that in just a matter of days of her column being published, we saw reports of gas prices taking a dive, inflation came in at a lower rate than projected, and egg prices (something the Democrats have harped on for weeks) plunged to a price below where it had been when Trump took office.
Otherwise, solid column there, Molly.
Donald Trump’s empty promises are catching up to him.
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) March 10, 2025
Read the latest column from @MollyJongFast: https://t.co/MZMYOiqMlk
Theory Over Activity – POLITICO
We guess that anxiety is enough to stand as a news item.
In a rather desperate bid to undermine Trump’s popular deportation efforts, Politico tries to paint the picture of the president sending away the very people who supported him. The outlet focuses on the Doral area near Miami, where there is a large Venezuelan community, and makes the implication that Trump is focusing deportation efforts on the residents.
Except he is not.
Tom Homan’s focus, we know, has been on serious criminals here illegally. BUT, part of the sweeps has been Tren de Aragua, which is a Venezuelan gang, so this is supposedly a justified report.
As Trump targets Venezuelans, South Florida Republicans are scrambling to prevent 300,000 immigrants from losing temporary protected status — which would open them up to deportation — in April. https://t.co/tKor2L2ARa
— POLITICO (@politico) March 13, 2025
Legalized Press-titution – NBC NEWS
Have you folks never seen workers laid off before?
What has been really amazing to see from the press is the desire to paint government workers getting laid off as an oppressed class dealing with the effects no other workforce has had to endure. This is made more stunning considering the media have been going through repeated layoffs for years, and they have not tried crafting the level of sympathy seen getting applied to former feds.
NBC News takes this to a new level of desperation by highlighting one such worker getting laid off and somehow working this into his experience with his daughter committing suicide. Which occurred 11 years ago.
One thing never addressed in these “Now whatever will they do?!?!” weepy tales is the unspoken reality that there is apparently little demand for the skills of a government employee in the private sector.
In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers share stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more amid job cuts and a barrage of messages that federal workers have no value. https://t.co/Juwf6pSCd0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 14, 2025
Hardest Hitting News – CNN / PBS
We may consider this condition if you ever get around to explaining just what the DOE actually accomplished.
In another dose of running protection for government agencies, we see PBS leftist Laura Barron-Lopez appearing on CNN to decry the end of the Department of Education. Considering that most if not all public schools are operated on the local level, ending the DOE will bring us back to the days of when there was not a government agency — and schools operated just the same. But here is Barron-Lopez insisting that if Trump shutters the DOE: “Who ultimately suffers from that: poor and people of color.”
Of…course.
PBS's Laura Barron-Lopez tells CNN that Trump's desire to downsize or get rid of the Education Department are part of a trend "to turn to private corporations...And yes, the vast majority of that is decided by state and local governments, but they see the federal government doing… pic.twitter.com/onb6ed6p7H
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 12, 2025
Both Kinds of Standards – NBC NEWS
If this is the cause, care to explain why it is not a more widespread problem?
In Connecticut, there is the odd court case of a woman accused of imprisoning her stepson for two decades. NBC News, in covering the unique tale, comes to a daft conclusion: home schooling is to blame:
Education advocates said the state’s largely unregulated homeschooling system could allow abusive parents to keep their children from public view with no protective oversight.
We here at RFTH would hate to imply that the network is operating with an agenda – instead, we’ll show you that they are doing so.
Note that whenever we get treated to the far more frequent stories of a school teacher caught sexually abusing underage students, we never manage to hear from education “advocates” warning of the inherent dangers of sending kids to public school systems.
After a Connecticut woman was accused of holding her stepson captive for 2 decades, advocates say the state’s largely unregulated homeschooling system could allow abusive parents to keep their children from public view with no protective oversight. https://t.co/Yjs1OZ2Z4t
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 14, 2025
