Oh how quickly folks in the liberal media forget their own misdeeds when it’s time to fling mud at the other side. That hypocrisy was again on full display during the Friday edition of ABC’s The View, when cloudy co-host Sunny Hostin lashed out at U.S. Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi. Hostin called Bondi an “election denier” when Trump was her client in 2020, that’s despite the fact that for six years, Hostin had maintained that President-elect Trump was an “illegitimate president” after his 2016 victory. “I agree with you, Alyssa [Farah Griffin], [Matt Gaetz] would have been a very dangerous pick for the Department of Justice. But his new pick, Trump's new pick, Pam Bondi. I believe she's a dangerous pick, as well,” Hostin proclaimed. “She supported Trump's false election claims. She was involved the efforts to overturn the results.” Her evidence? Video of Bondi defending Trump’s candidacy the first two days after the election when many states had not finalized their vote counts. “We are thrilled to have won Pennsylvania with 87 percent of the vote in and we're up almost 400,000 votes. So we're thrilled,” Bondi said in a soundbite The View played from November 4, the day after the election. The other soundbite was from November 5. Anti-Trumper Ana Navarro actually stuck up for Bondi, drawing on their years of friendship and nights at the bar: I have known Pam Bondi for many, many, many years. I will tell you, I don't want to ruin her reputation with MAGA people but Pam Bondi and I hung out a lot when she was attorney general of Florida and she would come to Miami. We drank a lot together. I liked her a lot. She's not a kook. What's a lite election denialism between friends when at least – Listen, everything in life is relative. “Election denialism is a very big deal, Ana,” Hostin chided. And that’s where the hypocrisy comes in.     As NewsBusters reported back in September of 2022, Hostin finally apologized for denying the results of the 2016 election, which she suggested was stolen by Trump and Russia, for which she called Trump an “illegitimate president.” In response to her apology at the time, moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-host Joy Behar were up in arms and told her she didn’t have to and that she was in the right from the beginning: HOSTIN: I should not have said that. He was not an illegitimate president. GOLDBERG: But that's how you felt! You had every right to say it! (…) BEHAR: You were not wrong. They said this wall also defending White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s 2016 election denialism. Hostin’s history of election denialism was not brought up by any of the cast members on Friday. It’s [D]ifferent when they do it. “Everything in life is relative. There is no accusation of sexual harassment or assault against her. There’s no accusation of sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old,” Navarro continued to defend Bondi. “She hasn't beheaded a whale. She hasn’t stabbed a dead bear cub. I mean, my God.” Hostin accused Navarro and pretend independent Sara Haines of “minimizing” Bondi’s transgressions because they would take her over Gaetz. “I would take the dead bear cub over Matt Gaetz,” Navarro quipped. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View November 22, 2024 11:09:15 a.m. Eastern (…) SUNNY HOSTIN: Let me say this, we're all thrilled that Matt Gaetz – I agree with you, Alyssa, he would have been a very dangerous pick for the Department of Justice. But his new pick, Trump's new pick, Pam Bondi. I believe she's a dangerous pick, as well, because she is -- during her -- she supported Trump's false election claims. She was involved the efforts to overturn the results. And so, that is now the person that's going to be chief law enforcement – [Crosstalk] JOY BEHAR: But she's on TV, that’s the primary prerequisite [Crosstalk] ANA NAVARRO: I have known Pam Bondi for many, many, many years. I will tell you, I don't want to ruin her reputation with MAGA people but Pam Bondi and I hung out a lot when she was attorney general of Florida and she would come to Miami. We drank a lot together. I liked her a lot. She's not a kook. What's a lite election denialism between friends when at least – Listen, everything in life is relative. HOSTIN: Election denialism is a very big deal, Ana. [Crosstalk] ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Sunny, we have to take the wins where we can find them. NAVARRO: Can I continue saying this? Everything in life is relative. There is no accusation of sexual harassment or assault against her. There’s no accusation of sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old. BEHAR: She is a woman. FARAH GRIFFIN: She’s also qualified. She was a the Florida attorney general. HOSTIN: There’s also accusations – [Crosstalk] BEHAR: One at a time. [Claps her hands to get their attention] NAVARRO: She hasn't beheaded a whale. She hasn’t stabbed a dead bear cub. I mean, my God. HOSTIN: You can't minimize some of the things that she has done and I think we have a clip of some of her former comments. Why don’t we take a look. [Cuts to video] PAM BONDI (as Donald Trump’s lawyer) (November 4, 2020): We are thrilled to have won Pennsylvania with 87 percent of the vote in and we're up almost 400,000 votes. So we're thrilled. [Transition] (November 5, 2020): We do have evidence of cheating. [Transition] We are not going anywhere until they declare that we won Pennsylvania. [Transition] These fake ballots that are coming in late. And back to observation, they're not letting us watch the process STEVE DOOCY: Pam, did you just say fake ballots? BONDI: There could be. That's the problem. [Cuts back to live] [Laughter] HOSTIN: So, I don't want -- I don't think we need to minimize someone like that being who is supposed to be the people's attorney. She's going to be Trump's attorney. [Crosstalk] SARA HAINES: I would still take her over Matt Gaetz. HOSTIN: You can take her over Matt Gaetz, but you cannot minimize – HAINES: I'm not minimizing. NAVARRO: I would take the dead bear cub over Matt Gaetz. BEHAR: Robert Kennedy would also. (…)

Of the television commentators who routinely disparaged, attacked, demeaned, and mocked former President Donald Trump and his supporters, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” belong to the “A” team. Yet, after Trump’s extraordinary victory two weeks ago, including a sweep of all seven swing states and becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote in 20 years, Scarborough and Brzezinski visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, spending a reported 90 minutes with the president-elect. As for why they made the trek, Brzezinski said: “For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, ‘Why wouldn’t we?’ Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him.” Neither Brzezinski nor Scarborough mentioned the most likely reason: ratings. Since Trump’s victory, which several MSNBC hosts predicted would not happen, the channel’s primetime viewership is down a whopping 53%. By contrast, Fox’s ratings are up 38%. The MSNBC pundits largely failed to prepare their viewers for Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat. Host Rachel Maddow, for example, all but predicted a humiliating loss for Trump. Two days before the election, Maddow devoted several minutes to the “gold standard” of polls: an Iowa poll showing Trump down three points in the Hawkeye State, where no Democratic presidential candidate has won since 2012. Gosh, Trump is down even in Iowa! Maddow gushed: “The prototypical example of a gold standard poll is the Iowa poll done by J. Ann Selzer in Iowa. ... (H)er poll has accurately predicted the winner of the Senate and presidential races in Iowa within one or two points every time. ... (Y)ou have seen Ann Selzer basically as a living bullseye.” Trump won Iowa 56% to Harris’ 42.7%. MSNBC News wrote about historian and election predictor Allen Lichtman, who supposedly has correctly predicted eight out of the last nine presidential contests. He uses “13 keys” to determine the result, eight of which he said pointed to Harris. But back to the “Morning Joe” hosts. Roll tape: — May 2017 Scarborough: “And I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that if there are articles of impeachment ever drawn up, the first article of impeachment drawn up against Donald Trump will be the first article of impeachment drawn up against Richard Nixon and that is obstruction of justice, because I could find you 1,000 Republican criminal defense lawyers across America who could say what Donald Trump has admitted already on national television could rise to the level of obstruction of justice.” — May 2017 Scarborough described to me Trump’s visit to Europe with leaders as a “disaster” and said Trump looked like a “thug, goon and an idiot.” — June 2018 Scarborough: “... (W)ho in the world would be so cruel, so hateful, who would be so despicable, who would be so utterly lacking in character, to suggest, to — to make something up about someone having a facelift for the sole purposes of trying to damage or humiliate them. ... You would have to be utterly despicable, a classless man, to say that about a woman.” — May 2020 Scarborough: “But there are these bizarre disconnects and they’re showing up in campaign ads. There are these weird things he’s saying off the cuff. Again, it’s so - it is so ironic that Trump’s campaign team actually go after Joe Biden for non sequiturs, for stumbling, for getting lost halfway through his sentence when —“ Brzezinski: “Or a decline.” Scarborough: “— that’s what Donald Trump has been doing now, in a very public way, for 3 1/2 years.” — April 2024 Scarborough: “They voted for Trump in ‘20, they knew exactly what they were doing. If they vote for Donald Trump in 2024 ... they’re knowingly voting for a fascist, they’re voting for a racist ...” Question: What’s it like spending 90 minutes with a “fascist,” a “thug” and a man who is “utterly despicable”? Did they bring along a food taster? But most importantly, for these Trump-hating hosts turned Mar-a-Lago guests, will their ratings improve? Regarding declining ratings, Joe and Mika know how to turn on a dime — to make a dime.

Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy said the undemocratic appointment of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democrats' 2024 presidential candidate was ultimately what pushed him into voting for Donald Trump.Portnoy said that if broken down, most of his views likely lean liberal, but as Harris' positions and inability to answer questions became clear, he decided to vote for Trump.Portnoy admitted that at one point he considered voting for Harris because he is pro-abortion but added that the Democrats not having a primary for their candidate "really drove me nuts."The Barstool boss also told former ESPN host Sage Steele on her podcast that he found it insulting when mainstream media tried to convince the public that President Joe Biden was not in mental decline. Portnoy said his decision to vote for Trump was cemented when Harris claimed that she was involved in all of Biden's decisions yet also wanted to "turn the page" with her new administration.Despite being registered as an independent and aligning mostly with left-wing values, Portnoy discussed frequent criticisms of him from the left that seemingly stemmed from an interview he did with Trump in 2020."I have been a target of the left." "They hated me, and they'd come after me. ... Trump started doing all his interviews with all media; I was kind of the first one to do it. I did it when he was a sitting president," Portnoy continued. "People came after me. ... People just assume you're a Nazi or whatever, so I really got skewered for that."'You hate me so much I'm going to start hating you.'The CEO said that before his Trump interview, his Barstool Sports outlet was occasionally smeared as "sexist," but the interaction with the president "amped it up."Portnoy said that enduring these constant attacks from liberal outlets made him "hate the left" as a natural reaction to the consistent negativity."You hate me so much I'm going to start hating you," the 47-year-old explained.Portnoy's image with liberals only worsened as he began appearing on Fox News shows with personalities like Tucker Carlson. Even though he was willing to go on almost any program in order to promote his brand, Portnoy claimed he was rarely given the opportunity by left-wing media outlets to state his case.He was able to recall at least one appearance on a liberal program: a spot on CNN with former anchor Chris Cuomo. Portnoy described the interview as "a little bit antagonistic." He concluded that leftists seemingly want no part of real conversations, and even after years of provable lies by outlets across the board, some people are still making up their minds without doing any research."They don't listen to anything you say. It's just appearance, and then their mind is made up."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk hinted at his next media acquisition amid panic over low cable news ratings and a network sell-off. Comcast announced that it would reshuffle its network offerings and sell off some brands, including MSNBC, its far-left progressive cable news outlet. Musk responded to a post by Donald Trump Jr., who suggested that he should purchase the network. "Hey @elonmusk I have the funniest idea ever!!!" Trump Jr. wrote. "How much does it cost?" responded Musk, who is estimated to be worth about $315.7 billion. Musk then posted an oft-quoted joke about the bizarre nature of recent news developments. "The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely," he said, adding a laughing emoji. The reshuffling at Comcast led MSNBC to reportedly renegotiate a contract with "ratings Viagra" host Rachel Maddow and give her a pay cut of $5 million down from $30 million. Critics of Musk have accused him of influencing the election by allowing what they perceive as misinformation to flourish on Twitter, which he purchased and renamed X. While left-wing criticism led to an exodus of advertisers on the platform initially, Musk declared victory when many of them decided to return to the popular application. "Just want to say that we super appreciate major brands resuming advertising on our platform!" Musk replied. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Many on the right are slamming left-leaning outlet MSNBC after one of its legal analysts penned a piece presenting a sympathetic portrayal of Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien who brutally murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.On Friday, MSNBC published on its website an article entitled "Laken Riley's killer never stood a chance" by Danny Cevallos, a legal analyst and a criminal defense attorney who specializes in wrongful convictions and personal injury cases.Though the article makes passing mention of the "overwhelming and horrific" evidence that "likely" prompted Ibarra's team to call for a bench trial as well as the "heartrending testimony of Riley’s loved ones" that helped "justify" Ibarra's sentence of life without parole, it otherwise presents the case as an unfortunate no-win situation for the defense."For the defense, this was a hopeless case," Cevallos wrote, adding, "The verdict was going to be guilty."Cevallos also tipped his cap to Ibarra's attorneys for doing what they could with "bad facts." He even seemingly thanked Ibarra for sparing the state a protracted jury trial when a guilty verdict was all but certain."While you probably won’t see that written in any rules or law books, in my experience as a defense attorney, judges (and prosecutors) appreciate defendants who don’t waste the court’s time," Cevallos said.'This is why Americans stopped watching the liberal media and will never turn it on again. MSNBC is a disgrace.'In contrast to his apparent admiration for the defense team, Cevallos was less complimentary of Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard, lamenting that Haggard "cut" Ibarra "no breaks."For example, though Georgia courts often allow defendants to serve their various sentences concurrently, Haggard instead ordered Ibarra to serve his sentences consecutively, Cevallos noted. This decision — which would have seemingly little practical effect on a sentence of life without the possibility of parole — offered the public a "glimpse into the judge’s opinion of this defendant," Cevallos said in an apparently critical tone.It is worth recalling that despite Cevallos' thinly veiled hand-wringing, Ibarra is an illegal alien who had no right to be in the U.S., he is a member of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and he tried to force himself on an innocent young woman out for a jog. When she refused to submit, he bashed her head with a rock until she died in terror and agony.Additionally, Cevallos implied that the murder of Laken Riley unfairly became a political weapon with which the right hammered Democrats this election season. "Riley’s murder became a political rallying cry at this summer’s Republican National Convention because Ibarra entered the country illegally in 2022," he said.Finally, Cevallos closed his article with one final gesture of thanks to the defense:Sometimes defense counsel just gets handed a truly awful, unwinnable case. The defense’s choice of a bench trial not only saved the state the resources of a wasted jury trial; it also likely avoided unnecessarily prolonging this traumatic experience for the victim’s family.The online backlash against Cevallos' analysis was swift and fierce."You literally can’t make up this level of depravity. These people are sick. The guy is a murderer. He’s an illegal alien that killed an innocent young woman but MSNBC would rather go to bat for him. However, much you hate MSNBC it’s not enough!" wrote Donald Trump Jr."Ask yourself: Why is MSNBC writing sympathetic headlines for an illegal alien monster and killer?" wrote conservative commentator Steve Guest. "Why is MSNBC’s 'legal analyst' Danny Cevallos ok with this headline?"The Federalist contributor Adam Johnston likewise called the article headline "absolutely sickening," while columnist Joe Concha called the entire piece "infuriating garbage."Former finance executive and big bank satirist John LeFevre spoke for many when he called out MSNBC in general for the article: "WTF is wrong with you, @MSNBC[?]"Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, likewise slammed the entire network as "a disgrace" for publishing the article: "This is why Americans stopped watching the liberal media and will never turn it on again. MSNBC is a disgrace."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Brian Williams excoriated the Democratic Party in a scathing assessment he made on a late night talk show Thursday. 'It’s insulting when members of the working class — which the Democratic Party has lost entirely in our lifetimes — to insist the economy’s doing great.' The former NBC News anchor made the comments while appearing on "Late Night with Seth Myers," where he called for a complete change in leadership for the Democrats. "I think it's tough-love time for the Democratic Party. It needs to be stripped down and rebuilt," said Williams. "I think that means a change in leadership. I want to know who thought it was a good idea that Joe Biden stand for another four years at 80 years of age and 37% popularity. So then, that saddled the party with a British-like short campaign season for them," he added. Democrats lost control of the presidency as well as the U.S. Senate, and Republicans were able to maintain control of the House of Representatives, making the election an astounding clean sweep. "I think it’s insulting when members of the working class — which the Democratic Party has lost entirely in our lifetimes — to insist the economy’s doing great. A 12-pack of Bounty is $40. Rich folks don’t feel that. Poor folks already switched to Sparkle during the COVID [pandemic], during the lockdown. And I think telling them that the Nasdaq is gangbusters is further insulting. It’s insulting," Williams continued. “I think the biggest unforced error of the Biden administration, by far, was the border. To tell people it’s not a problem is insulting,” he added. “For the working class to see incoming migrants getting welcome bags, debit cards, and motel rooms is probably insulting as well; so there’s a lot of work to do.”Williams' 28-year career at NBC was brought into disrepute after several exaggerations and outright lies were documented in his reporting. He signed off for the last time in Dec. 2021 with a warning about growing divisiveness in America. "Their party has gone quinoa while the rest of America is eating Cracker Barrel," he concluded. Video of the entire segment can be viewed on the show's YouTube channel. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

November has not been a happy month for leftists. Donald Trump was re-elected president a few weeks ago, resulting in left-wingers shedding actual tears and engaging in ill-advised freak-outs. Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced legislation declaring that biological men shouldn't be allowed to use women's restrooms on Capitol Hill, punctuated with a "Period. Full stop. End of story." Which, of course, raised the ire of transgender-affirming lawmakers.'Jesus, Mary, and everyone in this show should be Palestinian.'Now leftists have something outside of Washington, D.C., to complain about.See, it concerns a Netflix movie releasing Dec. 6 all about Mary, the mother of Christ. The trailer description reads, "In this coming-of-age religious epic, Mary is shunned following a miraculous conception and forced into hiding. When King Herod ignites a murderous pursuit for her newborn baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph flee to save his life."Pretty non-controversial so far, right? Not so fast.Turns out leftists have gotten word that the actress who portrays Mary, Noa Cohen, is from Israel — and leftists are losing their precious minds over it.Some examples from X:"Jesus, Mary, and everyone in this show should be Palestinian," one observer wrote."Palestinians aren’t available for the role?" another user wondered."A movie set in a time when Palestine was occupied played by the people who are colonizing Palestine now is beyond disgusting," another commenter declared."Easy to boycott as zionist Israeli[s] are in it," another user said."If they wanted authenticity they would have picked a Palestinian actress to play her given that all available genetic evidence suggests that modern [Palestinians] are the direct descendants of the inhabitants of the region at the time," another commenter noted."War criminal settlers are the main actors," another user stated. "My family will be boycotting this film @netflix.""First Netflix taking all Palestinian content down and now they stream a movie about Mary with an all-Israeli cast whilst those same people are bombing the birthplace of Christ?" another commenter noted, while adding an accompanying video. "Boycott that s**t.""The casting of an Israeli actress to play Mary, the mother of Jesus, is not just a casting choice—it's a clear political statement that trivializes sacred beliefs," another user exclaimed.Other X commenters complained about what they characterized as the pale complexions of some "Mary" actors.Director D.J. Caruso noted the following to EW last month in regard to the casting decisions: "When we started on this project, I immediately initiated a search for Mary. It was important to us that Mary, along with most of our primary cast, be selected from Israel to ensure authenticity."You can view the "Mary" trailer here.(H/T: Not the Bee)Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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