Corporate Journalists Have Earned Our Mockery

They are liars who encourage leftwing violence.

J.B. Shurk | July 27, 2026

On Friday, President Trump attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner after an uninvited gunman brought the original April gala to a premature conclusion.  Even though the would-be assassin had left a confession explaining his intention to murder the president and as many members of his administration as possible, the assembled “journalists” spent the next few days pretending that they were the intended targets.  In breathless interviews with obsequious colleagues, the “heroic journalists” in attendance told dwindling viewers what it was like to have been so near death.  Suffice it to say, combat veterans and beat cops found it difficult not to roll their eyes at the pampered prima donnas who playact at being reporters while obsessing about their hair and makeup. 

There was also a noticeable suggestion in the April air that President Trump had somehow put the “journalists” in danger, rather than the other way around.  In fact, had the failed assassin not left an explanation for his crimes, it seems likely that corporate news talking heads would have spent weeks speculating, without evidence, that the gunman was a MAGA fanatic incited to violence by the president’s condemnation of “fake news.”  

This was how corporate media handled the September 10, 2025, assassination of Charlie Kirk.  Commentators immediately covered up the fact that a leftwing zealot murdered Kirk.  After the assassination, Jimmy Kimmel (who plays a “comedian” on TV but is actually a modern-day broadcast news anchor for American leftists) told viewers, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”  

With that glib statement, Kimmel disseminated multiple layers of propaganda.  First, he called the murderer a “kid” in an effort to minimize the barbarity of the leftwing assassin’s crime (which included stealing a husband from his wife, a father from his children, and a natural........

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