Another weekend rolled through, with the elitist media doing their level best to actively avoid covering the biggest political scandal since Watergate: the weaponization of the federal government against Republicans and conservatives known as Operation Arctic Frost. Instead, the Sunday shows ran their clocks out with a mix of off-year election previews and shutdown apologia.
All discussion of the ongoing government shutdown continues to be Democrat-coded, with no mention of the government workers’ union that called for Democrats to end the shutdown by voting for the House-passed continuing resolution. The closest thing to pressure on the Democrats came, again, via Margaret Brennan of CBS’s Face the Nation, asking Democrat Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey whether Democrats bore responsibility for “some of this pain”:
WATCH: CBS’s Margaret Brennan flips the onus for ending the shutdown back on the Democrats pic.twitter.com/vbCeSn2O75
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 2, 2025
On the campaign front there was CNN’s Jake Tapper, on State of the Union, asking Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries whether Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party, followed by an extensive and non-responsive word salad:
JAKE TAPPER: Is Zohran Mamdani the future of the Democratic Party?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: [EVADES IN POL-SPEAK] pic.twitter.com/vb2ePAuTbD— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
On NBC’s Meet the Press, moderator Kristen Welker devoted the bulk of the show to a lengthy interview with Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom. Most representative of this interview is this exchange on Newsom’s continued defense of Joe Biden despite his very obvious cognitive decline.
WATCH: Gavin Newsom gives a lengthy word salad in justification of his role in gaslighting the American people with regard to Joe Biden’s cognitive decline pic.twitter.com/iIZrxkQNEc
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 2, 2025
ABC’s This Week ran an off-year election special. Host Martha Raddatz opened by doing her very best to frame the off-year as a midterm bellwether, and tried to downplay the fact that President Trump’s right track/wrong track numbers are improved over this time last year:
ABC’s This Week tries really hard to frame the upcoming off-year election as a bellwether for the 2026 midterms pic.twitter.com/mn2aUGcZjJ
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2025
The respective Acela Media panels did Acela Media things and talked about what the chattering classes would like to chatter about over the course of the next week. So, naturally, the panels focused on the off-year election more so than they did the politics of the government shutdown.
There was no discussion, at any time and on any of the Sunday shows, about the use of the extraordinary powers of federal law enforcement against those perceived to be in support of President Donald Trump ahead of a potential 2024 presidential run.
There was no discussion about the subpoenas, obtained in secret, against 197 individuals- including multiple Members of Congress. There was no mention of the slew of subpoenas against nonpartisan organizations perceived to be in support of the former president. There was no mention of the secretive nature of the subpoenas issued to banks and Big Tech organizations which came with their own gag order, which may well constitute an impeachable offense for the judges that issued such orders.
There was no justice correspondent reporting that this scheme was sanctioned by the top echelons of the Biden Department of Justice. Had any of this happened under a Trump administration, you’d have everyone across the dial howling bloody murder.
Do bank all this and consign these grotesque omissions to memory, because the Elitist Media WILL spring to action the second someone is held accountable for these violations of civil rights in service of weaponized government. They’ll frame these accountabilities as “retribution” and “vengeance”, while glossing over the underlying offenses.
It turns out that the abuses of power and retribution already happened. That it continues to go unreported by the Elitist Media is proof evident of complicity, and shows why their trust numbers continue to crater.
