“Denying a child a life-saving transplant over a COVID-19 vaccine is not science, it’s cruelty,” Houchin said. “Hospitals exist to save lives, not impose medical mandates on vulnerable patients. Families deserve the freedom to make the best medical decisions for their loved ones, without fear of being blacklisted from life-saving care. This bill will put an end to this unjust practice.”
"Vice President JD Vance is stepping in to help his 12-year-old relative who needs a heart transplantbut was denied the lifesaving operation in Ohio because she’s not vaccinated against COVID-19 or the flu, according to a report.
"Adaline Deal — who was born in China and adopted when she was four — was diagnosed at birth with two rare heart conditions, Ebstein’s anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.
"Trump’s running mate toldthe Daily Mailhe recently learned about Adaline Deal’s medical situation and is looking into ways to help out his family member.
"Most weeks there is a level of competition for this dis-honor, but this week, there was a far-and-away winner right from the start. That is not to say there weren't those vying for recognition with their own levels of dysfunction on display.
"We are in the Trump 2.0 era, after all, so there is no short supply of media dysphoria to go around. Let’s just get into the carnage seen in the press over the past week.
THE CONTENDERS
NBC NEWS - Tom Costello was desperate enough to blame Donald Trump for the Toronto plane crash, even as he admitted it was a Canadian-controlled landing. Kelly O’Donnell gave a lengthy segment on all of the dangers to Trump’s staffing cuts, then at the end of her piece, she meekly admitted the administration is actually in the process of hiring more air traffic controllers. Peter Alexander was once again shamed by WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
ABC NEWS - The outlet speculated who is actually running the administration, something they never asked when they covered Jill Biden running a Cabinet meeting. They tried to claim Trump’s deportations are causing anxiety inside schools, even though they are not being targeted with raids and news reports are generating the anxiety. The network complained that some people rounded up in deportation raids should not be sent to Gitmo because it claims illegal immigrants breaking the law were not actually criminals. It gave the tired claim that marginalized groups were hardest hit by the California wildfires.
ASSOCIATED PRESS - The beleaguered news syndicate proved getting disinvited at the White House was a wise move. A report on firings in the FAA was so bad the article had to be edited and the headline altered - all without an editor’s note alerting the changes. This outlet reported that the bodies of Israeli hostages were those who “died” while they were “in captivity” rather than “executed” after being “kidnapped.”
The Winner: . . ."From the outset, CBS News locked down this week’s prize. It began with Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” when she was speaking with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and declared that free speech was the cause of the Nazi genocide. On “60 Minutes,” meanwhile, they followed suit by delivering a segment on efforts in Germany to police free speech, and it was presented in supportive fashion." . . .
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"She’d be bounced out of that role in anything resembling a meritocracy for the damage she’d already done before Rubio took her to the woodshed over the idiotic contention that too much free speech led to the Holocaust."
“I Don’t Really Care, Margaret”
"It should have been something of a signal that trouble was afoot at CBS News when the network unloaded Norah O’Donnell, the lead anchor of its evening news broadcast. O’Donnell’s reputation wasn’t particularly shiny, and the ratings reflected that.
"But getting rid of O’Donnell changed absolutely nothing, and in the past week, CBS has gone completely over the falls.
"Now that O’Donnell is out of the way we’re getting a fuller dose of Margaret Brennan, whoseAWFLsensibilities appear to be advanced beyond what mainstream America could be expected to tolerate.
"But tolerate it we must, apparently. Because Brennan is now CBS’s assigned interrogator of the Trump administration. Regardless of how badly that’s going.
"You’ve almost certainly ingested the brilliance of the “I Don’t Really Care, Margaret” meme, which came from her disqualifying performance attempting to interview Vice President JD Vance on the network’s “Face The Nation” Sunday show. Brennan was arguing with Vance over the obviously poor results we’ve received from inviting in unvetted migrants from some of the world’s worst places, and she objected to his noticing that one of those, an Afghan who had conducted a stabbing spree in Oklahoma, had provided a shining example of his point. That led to this… As I’ve written before, that should have been the end of Margaret Brennan as a major figure at CBS News. When you’re the butt of one of the most viral memes in American political history, you no longer have a viable journalistic brand — or, at minimum, what’s left of you must be rebuilt either at the local level or in a different venue, like for example as a fashion correspondent or as a sideline reporter during coverage of women’s college basketball." . . .
Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher of theHayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. " . . .
"He gets his point across, which is all that counts. But there comes a time for something more formal, and that time has now arrived."
"In the span of a few weeks, Donald Trump has carried out one of the most sweeping political revolutions in modern history. Using DOGE as his battering ram, he has crippled the Democrats, exposed machinery of corruption that would have beggared the imaginations of Boss Tweed and Ted Pendergast, and effectively ended a political era going back a century or more. He—along with Elon Musk and his merry band of nerds—has uncovered a system of public theft and money laundering that, in the end, may account for trillions of dollars over the last eighty years. And it has just started. Wait until the DoJ and Congress enter the field.
"It will likely be years before we grasp the full magnitude of the DOGE revolution. The Democrats already have—and they’re running like rabbits. The D.C. housing market has collapsed, with more than 14,000 houses listed over the past two weeks. You won’t find many Republicans selling. Google Analytics reveals that the most common search terms in D.C. over the past week have included “defense attorneys,” “statute of limitations,” and “overseas accounts.”
"The impact of this has been muted, largely by the media, which instead has spent its time bleating about “constitutional crisis” and “President Musk.” So, the public at large has not quite grasped the import of what has occurred, appearing to look at it as a Beltway uproar that sensible people should pay no attention to.
"Which is why Donald Trump needs to make a speech." . . .
"The 7 p.m. program hosted by ardent Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders." . . .
No one is more upset with this development than conservative commentators. Reid was a goldmine of material, having produced countless deranged rants over the years. She infamously claimed Kamala Harris ran a "flawless" campaign on election night in November, citing an endorsement by Queen Latifa as her proof.
. . ."So why did I say this was surprising at the beginning of this piece given Reid's low ratings and delusional, hateful demeanor? Because I didn't think MSNBC would ever have the guts to pull the plug given her position on the left's intersectional hierarchy. Let's be honest, if she were a white male, she'd have been fired many years ago based on the scandals she suffered and the lunacy she's spewed while costing her network. It was starting to look like her intersectional armor was impenetrable.
"I suppose MSNBC deserves some credit for finally making the necessary move, but only a little. They let Reid fester and spread her mouth-breathing hate for far longer than they should have, and it shouldn't have taken an over 50 percent drop in ratings to get to this point. I'm also less than convinced that replacing her with a panel of similar, if not slightly more self-controlled left-wingers is going to turn the network's fortunes around. At the end of the day, MSNBC's problems relate to the systemic bias of the network. They don't revolve around just a few hosts, as deserving of the boot as they were."
