After Tim Walz, Never Trust Media ‘Vetting’ Again
Posted By: RockyTCB, 1/8/2026 9:46:28 AM
When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided not to run for reelection amid the massive Minnesota fraud scandal, Fox News said that his political demise “puts the Harris campaign judgment under scrutiny.” But that misses the bigger and more troubling issue. Namely, the media’s culpability in letting Walz get so close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency. Instead of due diligence, the press went into spasms of joy about Walz’s supposed appeal to Middle America. He was an “authentic guy,” “folksy,” with a “great record.” He had “psyched up the Democratic base,” and has “been inundated with supporters professing their love for him.”
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When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided not to run for reelection amid the massive Minnesota fraud scandal, Fox News said that his political demise “puts the Harris campaign judgment under scrutiny.”
But that misses the bigger and more troubling issue. Namely, the media’s culpability in letting Walz get so close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Instead of due diligence, the press went into spasms of joy about Walz’s supposed appeal to Middle America. He was an “authentic guy,” “folksy,” with a “great record.” He had “psyched up the Democratic base,” and has “been inundated with supporters professing their love for him.”
The Great Divorce Continues
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When U-Haul released its latest “Growth Index” this week, it made us wonder if blue states will ever get a clue.
Once again, the index found a strong migration out of blue states and into red states.
“Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee follow Texas as prime destinations. It’s the same top five from 2024 and 2023, although in a different order,” the company said.
The biggest losers: California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York.
Of the top 10 growth states, nine voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 and seven currently have Republican governors.
Lack Of Trust In Media Continues As Perceived
Bias, Ideology Divide Readers: I&I/TIPP Poll 5 replies
Bias, Ideology Divide Readers: I&I/TIPP Poll 5 replies
Last year may have been good for most Americans, but not so much for big media groups. Confidence in the media hit a recent low in November, and bounced back only slightly in December, as the final I&I/TIPP Poll of 2025 indicates. Can the media ever regain their lost luster?
I&I/TIPP asks Americans each month two questions about the media. The first: “Generally speaking, how much trust do you have in the traditional or established news media (Example: Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, CBS News, etc.) to report the news accurately and fairly?”
Yes, Cry for Venezuela
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It’s an excruciating economic lesson for the ages.
How can one of the most resource-rich countries on the planet, with trillions of dollars of energy and mineral reserves, beautiful beaches, and beautiful people, become impoverished in just 25 years?
It should have per capita wealth equal to Saudi Arabia and tourism like Bermuda. Yet half of its citizens now live in “extreme poverty.”
The simplest explanation? Venezuelan communist leaders Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro abandoned free markets and “rugged individualism” in favor of the “warm embrace of collectivism.”
Some are estimating that more than half of federal income tax revenues are devoured by fraud. This should not come as a shock. A massive government that funds everything from small businesses to health care to child care to housing is a rich target for thieves. Sharply reducing its size would limit the opportunities to steal from taxpayers.
Bandits have been defrauding of the U.S. government on such a colossal scale that even the legacy media has had to cover it, at least somewhat. The Minnesota Somalis looting the public fisc blew the lid so high that now smart folks are finding institutionalized fraud far, wide, high and low.
You have to marvel at the sequence of events we just experienced. On Jan. 1, a socialist was sworn in as mayor of New York, promising the “warm embrace of collectivism.” On Jan. 3, President Donald Trump announced that he’d forcibly removed Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela, ending the country’s 23-year embrace of socialism.
We will leave it to the pundits, the lawyers, politicians, and various other “experts” to debate the merits of Trump’s action.
But what we can’t let happen is for the left and the mainstream media to ignore or downplay just how tragic Venezuela’s embrace of collectivism has been.
Politico Should Fire Josh Gerstein
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Just how corrupt are journalists these days? Consider this example from earlier in the week involving the explosive Minnesota fraud scandal – the one the mainstream media covered up for years and is now busy trying to downplay.
On Tuesday, Josh Gerstein, a “senior legal affairs reporter” for Politico, weighed in in response to the Nick Shirley video, in which the amateur journalist took his camera to various empty taxpayer-supported “day care centers” that were obvious fronts.
Instead of expressing outrage that fraudsters were stealing massive amounts of money meant to support poor families – and his
California’s ‘Get Out Now’ Tax
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It might seem that public policy insanity has reached an end in California. After all, what more could the state’s malevolent progressive politics concoct to make it more hostile to business, innovation, enterprise, and hard work than it already is? How about a tax on those who drive the economy? Yes, that should do it.
The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West and St. John’s Community Health in Los Angeles have teamed up to concoct the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, a citizen-initiated statute that might appear on the ballot next November. Should it pass, it would levy a “one-time 5% tax on California billionaires in this emergency
Nick Shirley’s 42-minute YouTube video on daycare fraud in Minnesota is shocking not just because of the scale of abuse he uncovered in a day. It’s shocking because it took a young kid to expose this years-long scheme. Where was the mainstream media all this time?
In the must-see video, Shirley teams up with a citizen investigator and goes door-to-door visiting various “daycare” facilities in Minneapolis that got millions in taxpayer money through a Child Care Assistance Program.
The first two “daycare centers” are both located at the same address in an industrial park,
Scrooge Was A Liberal
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Just about every year at this time, “A Christmas Carol” shows up somewhere on TV, as do headlines about how one Republican or another is the modern equivalent of the tale’s greedy miser, Ebenezer Scrooge.
“The GOP’s sad Scrooge agenda.” “GOP Protecting Ebenezer Scrooge.” “Maher Likens Republicans to Ebenezer Scrooge.” “Republicans play the role of the stingy Scrooge.”
You have to wonder if these folks have actually read “A Christmas Carol” or spent any time pondering what Scrooge actually says and does. Because if you do, you come to realize that Scrooge more closely resembles a modern liberal than a conservative.
Timing is everything in humor, and in politics. So, it was particularly amusing to read a piece in MS NOW on Monday quoting Democrats who were all singing from the same hymnal – namely that President Donald Trump “owns the economy.”
‘When you take office, you take ownership,’ Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told MS NOW. ‘That’s what leadership is about.’
‘It became Trump’s economy a long time ago,’ Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., said.
Obviously, these Democrats meant it in a bad way.
But then, on Tuesday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its estimate for GDP growth
The Eco-Zealots Were Wrong Again
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Remember the bratty but fabulously worshipped Greta Thunberg thundering “How dare you” in front of the United Nations, in a screeching speech in which she claimed “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction”? The adults swooned at her feet, not just at the U.N. but at every stop she has made on her never-ending, neurotic speaking tour. But did anyone fact-check her? They should have. She was wrong.
Then 16, several years before she caught the next trend and became a Palestinian justice warrior, Thunberg told the General Assembly in 2019 that “People are suffering. People are dying.
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“Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings appeared to take a swipe at President Donald Trump and his administration, saying he’d support a candidate who vows to prosecute the current “regime.”
Jennings took to the liberal social media platform Bluesky Wednesday during a news cycle dominated by the ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis.
“The ‘prosecute the former regime at every level’ candidate has my vote in 2028,” Jennings wrote.
On Tuesday, he appeared to knock Trump’s policy on Venezuela, writing on Bluesky, “America is always like ‘ok but the NEXT regime change will work,’ like when I ‘cut out carbs’ briefly every January.”
“I've issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed, if necessary," Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz threatened Wednesday, denouncing the federal government’s efforts to enforce U.S. immigration law in his state.
Gov. Walz made the apparent threat during a press conference following the death of a Minnesota anti-immigration enforcement protester who was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent as she, according to video of the incident, drove her vehicle into the agent.
“[O]fficers tugged at the driver's side door handle and the woman began
Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE
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Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to
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MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post
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Gov. Kathy Hochul rolled out broad strokes of a multi-billion-dollar plan Thursday to offer “free” child care for all two-year-olds in New York City, while expanding pre-K and early child care programs in the rest of the Empire State — with no tax increases, at least this year. The Big Apple already has universal Pre-K and 3K programs, and Hochul said she will partner with new Mayor Zohran Mamdani to age down and fully fund the program to cover 2-year-olds. “This is getting on a roadmap to continue what has already started in the city with four-year-olds and three-year-olds,” Hochul said on MS-NOW Thursday morning previewing the proposal.
It’s the story dominating headlines across America Wednesday night: an anti-ICE activist refused to heed law enforcement personnel’s orders to exit her vehicle — which was blocking the road in an attempt to impede a federal operation — and instead jammed the accelerator and struck an officer. He fired back, killing her.
The opposing views on what went down are stark: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the deceased driver, now identified as 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good, a “domestic terrorist” and said ICE agents were entirely justified in their actions. Meanwhile, leftists like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz
When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz decided not to run for reelection amid the massive Minnesota fraud scandal, Fox News said that his political demise “puts the Harris campaign judgment under scrutiny.”
But that misses the bigger and more troubling issue. Namely, the media’s culpability in letting Walz get so close to being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Instead of due diligence, the press went into spasms of joy about Walz’s supposed appeal to Middle America. He was an “authentic guy,” “folksy,” with a “great record.” He had “psyched up the Democratic base,” and has “been inundated with supporters professing their love for him.”
Forget January 6. It turns out January 7 might go down as the date when insurrection really arrived in America — not from the MAGA right, but from the anti-Trump left.
In the aftermath of the fatal shooting Wednesday in Minneapolis of a woman who appears to have tried to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced at a press conference that he had issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard to mobilize to “protect Minnesotans” from “rogue ICE agents.”
When asked if the National Guard would be deployed against federal agents, or if anything like that has ever happened before, Walz said,
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Assassination Plot 15 replies
His Mom and Stepdad to Fund His Trump
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A deeply unsettling story from Waukesha, Wisconsin, reveals that a teen murdered his parents — with a greater goal of killing President Donald Trump.
According to local Fox station WITI-TV, 18-year-old Nikita Casap admitted and pleaded guilty to murdering his own mother and stepfather in their home.
That alone is horrific, but Casap’s reason for the monstrous act is raising even more eyebrows. The Associated Press reported that Casap killed his parents with an intent to steal their money to help fund a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump.
“The killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means
A Democrat lawmaker contended during a hearing on Wednesday about alleged widespread fraud in Minnesota that her colleagues should focus on crimes perpetrated by “white men” and American citizens instead of demonizing Somalis.
During the U.S. House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Emily Randall (D-WA) used her time during the questioning of Republican Minnesota state Rep. Kristan Robbins to launch off on a tirade about white men and Jan. 6 “insurrectionists,” Fox News reported.
“What percentage of sexual assaults in the United States are committed by White men?” Randall asked Robbins. “Fifty-seven percent.”
Randall went on to cite dozens of people she described as “Jan. 6 insurrectionists”
This is factually a much bigger deal, a bigger win, than most will initially appreciate.
As many deep political followers well understand, the 66 organizations that President Trump has just withdrawn from represent a large network of sanctioned government organizations that structurally support the globalist agenda.
President Trump has issued an executive order [SEE HERE] “Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States.” These institutions, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, are mechanisms that exist to underpin globalist objectives.
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is retiring from Congress after serving 45 years in the lower chamber.
“I did not want to be one of those members who clearly stayed, outstayed his or her ability to do the job,” Hoyer, 86, told The Washington Post in an interview published late Wednesday. The Maryland Democrat said on social platform X he would be making an announcement on Thursday morning on the House floor, which is anticipated to be when he’ll officially announce his retirement.
Hoyer is the latest House Democrat to announce he’ll be forgoing reelection and his announcement is notable—
The ICE agent who opened fire Wednesday in Minneapolis was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, the Post can reveal. (snip) The suspect then sped away with the ICE agent's arm caught between the seat and the door frame, according to the Justice Department. Prosecutors said he was violently dragged 100 yards as the suspect weaved back and forth in an attempt to shake him loose from the car. The agent was hospitalized with significant injuries to his arm and hand but made a full recovery (snip.)