Jim Acosta’s Shame Deficiency Matches His Irrelevance

 The American Spectator

"Half the country doesn’t like Trump, but the only people in that group becoming emotional wrecks over the president are generally CNN or MSNBC viewers. The vast majority of the country gave up on legacy corporate media outlets who push the narratives Jim Acosta pushes years ago."

 "He isn’t relevant anymore, as he’s gone from CNN’s White House correspondent and primetime host to a Substack blogger over the past six months, but Jim Acosta still managed to irritate a large number of Americans 

by casting folks in rural flyover territory as mindless rubes hoodwinked by the Trumpian far-right:

Former CNN host Jim Acosta claimed on Tuesday that farmers are being “led astray” and voting for “far-right” candidates in U.S. elections.

Acosta stated during a Center For American Progress discussion that the “far-right” has figured out how to “infiltrate the heartland” and get farmers to side with the political right. While name dropping the late conservative host Rush Limbaugh, Acosta argued that many Americans are not getting their information from reliable news.

“The far-right in this country has kind of figured out a way to infiltrate the heartland and to basically to pull Ma and Pa from the farm to their point of view,” Acosta said. “And as it turns out, a lot of these folks vote in these elections and a lot of those folks have been completely led astray. I hate to say it, but they’ve just been completely led astray. And we’ve all just let this happen on our watch with essentially a business model for delivering the news in this country that just does not work anymore.” . . .

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. . ."You’ve probably heard that CNN’s parent company, Time Warner Discovery, is jettisoning the “news” network, along with a collection of other cable channels nobody watches, into a spinoff company they’re calling “Global Networks,” or something. That’s destined to become a penny-stock outfit, and in preparation for the move, there are lots of reports that the higher-priced “talent” still left at CNN — including the $18 million Anderson Cooper, who costs CNN something like $27 per viewer based on his average audience — is getting packed off to the glue factory.

"Acosta is right that the mass media business model that made him rich and “elite” is broken. "What he doesn’t understand is he’s one of the people who broke it." . . .

 

Hackers Just Took Over Iran’s State TV — Here’s What They Had to Say

Jeff Charles    " Hackers have reportedly infiltrated Iran’s state-run media outlets and are using the airwaves to encourage Iranians to rise up against their government.

Footage circulating on social media appears to show Iran’s TV broadcasts being hijacked. The television screen shows images of the recent protests against the regime’s onerous laws against women. “Rise up! This is your moment! Go out into the streets! Take control of your future,” the subtitles read.

The text further notes that “the regime has failed to protect Iran’s airspace, it has failed in its offensive efforts. It has failed to protect your money.”

The hackers also took the regime to task for funneling their money into its military endeavors instead of taking care of its citizens.

"This is not the first time hackers have targeted Iranian state television. Back in 2022, hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali took over a live broadcast. They displayed a picture of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the words “The Blood of Our Youths Is on Your Hands” emblazoned on the screen. It showed images of women’s rights activist Mahsa Amini and three other girls murdered by the regime during the protests.

NBC News reported on Wednesday that hackers also made their way into Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Nobitex. They drained the exchange of more than $90 million. 

Jeff Charles is a seasoned journalist and News Editor for Townhall.com. He is known for his pro-liberty advocacy." . . . "A passionate writer with a knack for challenging narratives, Jeff's work has been featured on platforms like RedState, Daily Caller, and his Substack, Chasing Liberty."

Zohran Mamdani, candidate for NY Mayor

Israeli–Palestinian conflict  

"Mamdani walked down a Harlem street with former mayoral candidate Maya Wiley to announce her support for his campaign. However, the endorsement was quickly overshadowed by questions about comments Mamdani made on a podcast in which Jewish groups say he was equating the Holocaust with intifada." CBS 

NY Post

"Mamdani supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He describes Israel's actions during the Gaza war as genocide.^[49]

"Early in 2023, Mamdani introduced a bill called the "Not on our dime!: Ending New York Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act", which would prohibit registered charities from donating to organizations that support illegal Israeli settlers.^[50][30] In November 2023, he joined Cynthia Nixon in a five-day hunger strike outside Washington, D.C. in support of an immediate ceasefire and in opposition to President Biden's support of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.^[51][52][53] In 2024, he held an iftar for a ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan.^[54]

"In 2025, Mamdani declined to sign on to the annual Assembly resolution celebrating the anniversary of Israel's founding.^[55] His campaign spokesperson Andrew Epstein said Mamdani opposed the measure because it contained the wording that Israel "continues to strive for peace with security and dignity for itself, its neighbors and throughout the world in order to fulfill the prophecy of becoming a light unto the nations", which Epstein said "is belied by the conduct of the right-wing government over the past 18 months".^[55] His decision drew criticism from Assembly member Sam Berger, who criticized Mamdani's condemnation of Israel after the October 7 attacks during the Gaza war.^[55] In response to the criticism, Mamdani said he abhorred antisemitism and believed in a right for Israel to exist.^[49] He has said that Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights.^[56] On May 16, 2025, Politico ran an article alleging that Mamdani declined to support Holocaust remembrance resolutions.^[57] Mamdani released a video through social media claiming that the article was misleading and that he signed these resolutions but that he didn’t allow staffers to list his name as sponsor on bills without his review.^[58]

"Social issues

"Mamdani supported Proposal 1, a 2024 amendment to the Constitution of New York that made it unconstitutional to engage in discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), pregnancy and pregnancy-related outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.^[59][60][61]

"In February 2025, Mamdani appeared at a rally in Union Square to protest an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that threatened to "withhold federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming treatments to trans youth".^{[62][63]" . . .}

^{Exclusive | Zohran Mamdani urged Ben & Jerry to boycott Israeli settlements}