• Bill Maher is getting huzzahs from conservative pundits for tricking Sen. Adam Schiff into condemning an Obama statement because Maher implied that Trump said it. In addition, Maher told his clapping seals audience that he supported the attack on Iran. All of this is Maher, as usual, tacking with the wind, and calculating what will get him the most publicity and eyeballs on his HBO show. He is smart enough to realize the Axis is losing its grip, so he is positioning himself to move right if that becomes the most profitable source of popularity and income. There are few things more unethical than a self-proclaimed truth-teller who lies for his own profit. That’s Maher, even if he did demonstrated Schiff’s rotten character.
• Adam Schiff. But we knew that, didn’t we? Regarding this awful human being as worthy of a vote to enter the U.S. Senate is all by itself proof of Trump Derangement.
• Kristi Noem. In 2024, EA ruled that the woman shooting a puppy and boasting about it was signature significance for an untrustworthy public servant, and Trump appointed her anyway. Not only that, but he appointed this ethically tone-deaf, self-promoting Ethics Villain to be in charge of a crucial and sensitive policy, the ugly removal of millions of illegal immigrants. That was an Ethics Dunce move by the President, and he’s paid the price. At least the President had the sense to get rid of her. He also has the sense to keep her employed, because she would be candidate to turn on Trump like the equally unethical Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• Megyn Kelly. Kelly is another media character who has shown herself immune to integrity. Her take that U.S. servicemen are dying for Israel is so ignorant and vile—aligning with the “the Jews control the government” anti-Semites—that it should disqualify her from being considered a serious participant in public discourse, much like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. Moreover, soldiers enlist to put their lives on the line for the national interest. Freaking out over military casualties of legitimate military operations, and this is certainly one, is hippie, weenie, pacifist, girlie-stuff that is an appeal to emotion rather than logic. There have been 8 U.S. deaths and 18 military personnel wounded so far in “Epic Fury.” At this rate, it will stand as the most lopsided U.S. military operation of all time, surpassing Andrew Jackson’s rout of the Redcoats at the Battle of New Orleans. (2000 British casualties, 71 U.S. killed or wounded.)
• Tim Walz. The disgraced Minnesota governor huminahumina-ed through a hearing in which he had no answers, rebuttal or defense for his administration’s deliberate failure to stop the Somali fraud operations that cost his taxpayers billions. “Testimony obtained by the Committee reveals that Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were aware of widespread fraud in social service programs, lied about their knowledge of the fraud, and retaliated against employees who dared to raise concerns,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said in a statement. “Instead of protecting vulnerable Americans, they handed over billions in taxpayer dollars to fraudsters and threw their own state employees under the bus,” Comer added. After being caught at that abdication of duty, Walz then incited violence against the federal government with his inflammatory statements about I.C.E.
• Anyone who still defends voting for the Harris-Walz ticket. That guy a breath or a bullet away from the White House? How do they look in the mirror?
• Joe Biden. Remember him? He had the bad taste (or the crumbling brain) to deliver a speech at Jesse Jackson’s funeral and make it about him, complaining that his “stutter” was used to claim he was demented.
• President Trump. All the living U.S. Presidents were invited to Jesse’s funeral. Only the Democrats showed up. Yes, yes, I know Trump’s excuse for skipping it: there’s a war on. It doesn’t matter. Having Republicans absent from the funeral of a civil rights icon, whatever his flaws, feeds the “Trump and his party are racists” Big Lie, and exacerbates the racial division that the Axis wants widened. I’m sure Trump’s advisors were worried that he would be booed or embarrassed by the doubtlessly hostile crowd. So what? That shouldn’t have stopped him from attending. He isn’t responsible for the polarized political climate, but as President, he is still duty-bound to try to fix it.
• The BBC. BBC Persian, which broadcasts to audiences inside Iran, mistranslated remarks by the US Secretary of War, telling viewers the U.S. was bringing death to the Iranian “people”. Hegseth had said the Iranian “regime” was being targeted. The BBC carried Hegseth’s Pentagon address live, and mistranslated the word “regime” as “mardom”, the Persian word for “people.” Again, the metaphor of “the Dishonest Waiter” comes to mind. I would be willing to accept the BBC’s claim that this was just a mistake if only such “mistakes” by the news media didn’t always seem to benefit the political Left while impugning the Right.
• CNN. The slightly-less biased than MSNOW news network has revealed that its reporting from Iraq  in 1993 and 2003 was censored and influenced by threats to its reporters there. That means that CNN was delivering enemy propaganda. CNN counters that its reporters embedded with U.S. troops were also constrained, but the two situations are not analogous. If CNN’s only choices are to withhold facts from the American public and the world while pretending to be journalists, or to forego the opportunity to report at all, the former is the ethical choice unless every censored report is accompanied by the disclaimer: “We cannot tell you everything because X has forbidden us to.” When X is the U.S. government, it means “We are doing our best not to harm U.S. interests.” When X is the enemy, it means, “We are aiding and abetting the enemy.”
• Stephen Colbert. It should be clear now that the uproar over the “equal time” rule being used against the late night show’s attempt to interview now-Democratic Senator nominee James Talerico was because the CBS “comic” was trying to influence the Texas election. Democrats knew they had a chance to flip the U.S. Senate seat as long as the offensive Jasmine Crockett wasn’t the nominee. Colbert, who has made it clear he is an active Axis member, was determined to do his part by pimping for Talerico, who is as radical as Crockett but more subtle about it. This is exactly the kind of election manipulation the equal time rule exists to prevent.
• Virginia Democrats. HB 333, drafted by Del. Dan I. Helmer (D-Fairfax)  mandates “a program of instruction on or relating to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol.” More: The bill..

“prohibits any such program of instruction, any accompanying curriculum or instructional materials, or any instruction provided by a teacher as a part of such program of instruction from (i) describing, portraying, or presenting as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest or (ii) stating, suggesting, or presenting as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election. The bill requires any such program of instruction, any accompanying curriculum or instructional materials, or any instruction provided by a teacher as a part of such program of instruction to describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on U.S. democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

This is government indoctrination.