THAT DOES SEEM TO BE HOW IT WORKS:

DNC-MSM BIG MAD AT PENTAGON: Defense Department Orders ‘Unique’ Move Against Media Establishment Entrenched In Halls Of Pentagon.

The Pentagon announced Friday it will rotate legacy media outlets’ physical presence in its press corps, in line with President Donald Trump’s plan to challenge tradition and bring in new media, CNN reported.

CNN’s Pentagon producer, Haley Britzky, shared an internal memo by acting Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot to the Pentagon Press Association announcing the “annual media rotation program.” The program will see One America News Network replace NBC News, Breitbart replace National Public Radio (NPR), the New York Post replace The New York Times and HuffPost replace Politico in the coveted “Correspondents’ Corridor” effective Feb. 14, 2025. (RELATED: NPR Editor Who Exposed Newsroom’s Left-Wing Bias Resigns.)

The year-by-year rotation program will “broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents’ Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon,” Ullyot wrote.

Ullyot also noted that while the outlets were only to give up their office spaces in the Pentagon, they “will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps,” enjoying the same access to the Pentagon and its briefings and retaining the privilege of being considered for travel with the Pentagon’s leaders.

As Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics wrote on Wednesday, “there’s just a monumental shift in attitude in dealing with unfriendly institutions on the Right, and I think in all the trees sprouting up everywhere it’s really easy to lose sight of the forest being built.”

And Mark Hemingway asks, “Serious question — after years of reporting on Trump, and half the country generally, with lies and overt hostility, did these media outlets think there would never be repercussions?”

UPDATE:

Couric is the last person to argue about news becoming propaganda:

Katie Couric and Gun Rights: A Study in Dishonesty.

Katie Couric: Ruth Bader Ginsburg disparaged activists who kneel during the anthem — and I cut the quotes from our interview.

Katie Couric Uses Christmas Poem To Campaign For ObamaCare.

Woody Allen, Katie Couric, and George Stephanopolous Attended Post-Sentence Epstein Party.

Katie Couric: Obama Owes Me a ‘Big-Ass Bouquet’ for 2008 Palin Attack Interview.

FAA REPORT: Staffing At Reagan Control Tower Was Below Normal Standards.

The tragic plane crash at Reagan International Airport in Washington D.C. has people searching for answers while others play political gotcha games. But the fact is, mistakes were made. The FAA staffing at the Reagan control tower is one such issue.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has the busiest runaway in the US, with an average of 819 takeoffs per day – which experts say likely contributed to Wednesday’s air disaster.

The airport – also known as DCA – also has two other runways, launching 62 flights an hour, according to a 2023 report by the Alexandria Times.

It is in proximity to two other airports, including international Washington Dulles, and various military bases which also launch large volumes of aircraft, making for crowded airspace where precision is key.

“DCA is one of the most demanding airports in the world. It also has what’s known as ‘helicopter alley’ with hundreds of police, military, news and rescue helicopters criss-crossing the Potomac River – it’s crazy out there,” Captain Ross “Rusty” Aimer, a retired United Airlines pilot and aviation expert, told The Post.

Nearly 900 takeoffs a day is a LOT, and leads one to believe that there are nearly that same number of landings!

Which creates a high stress environment for the folks manning the control tower and herding airplanes through the landing and takeoff process. So one would assume that a very significant airport in Washington D.C. would be fully manned at all times, right? The FAA report says otherwise. 

Related:

THIS TOP SENATE DEMOCRAT IS NOW UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION:

Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. has made a bold move, dismissing about 30 federal prosecutors involved in the Capitol riot cases. This decision, announced on Friday, signals a significant housecleaning of the top prosecutor’s office in Washington, D.C., as Martin gears up to purge partisans who weaponized the Justice Department against Joe Biden’s political enemies, including Trump, pro-life activists, and others.

But he’s also taken another bold step, effectively launching an investigation into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over comments he made back in March 2020 during a #MyRightMyDecision rally outside the Supreme Court. During the rally, Schumer blatantly threatened Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch over their potential votes in the first abortion case before the Supreme Court with the new conservative majority.

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer said to a chorus of cheers. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Exit quote: “‘We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation,’ Martin wrote Schumer in a letter obtained by the Washington Post.”

Well done (which is very different from how Schumer grills his hamburgers).

CONTRARIANS, ASSEMBLE! Chuck Todd’s Exit From NBC Fuels Speculation of Resistance ‘Dream Team.’

Todd is the latest self-righteous media figure this week to quit his job at a mainstream establishment. Obnoxious anchor Jim Acosta resigned from CNN on Tuesday, the same day crotchety columnist Paul Krugman announced his departure from the New York Times. Krugman and Acosta immediately sought solace in the arms of the Contrarian, a new Substack website founded by former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin and former CNN analyst Norm Eisen. Krugman published an article explaining his resignation on the Contrarian, and Acosta did a bizarre webcast with Eisen.

A handful of mentally ill wine moms are tremendously excited about the #Resistance “Dream Team” starting to take shape on Substack, a platform many mainstream journalist have denounced for eschewing fact-checkers and promoting “misinformation.” The addition of Todd would give the Contrarian a formidable starting five akin to the 1992 USA basketball team that featured Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, and Patrick Ewing. Alleged humor columnist Andy Borowitz, author of “Inauguration to be Held Inside Cybertruck” and other knee-slappers, would also join the rotation.

Related: The 12 Worst Fails Of Media Propagandist And Toilet Paper Bandit Chuck Todd’s Career.

More: How the legacy media became powerless.

It was nearly 2 a.m. on the East Coast in the middle of election night when CNN’s Jake Tapper stood across from professional virtual-map operator John King and asked a simple question: “Are there any places where Kamala Harris overperformed from where Biden did?”

Tapping away from a view of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, King zoomed out to a view of the entire United States and hit a key to show a comparison to the 2020 election. The map instantly turned a solid dark gray, without a single county highlighted.

“Holy smokes,” Tapper gasped. “Literally nothing? Literally not one county?”

“Literally nothing,” was King’s somber reply.

The video, shared widely and instantly on X, has been viewed more than 13 million times. In the final tally, of course, Harris did outperform Biden in a handful of counties — but Tapper’s stunned response in the moment serves as an authentic expression of the media reaction to the 2024 election: utter shock.

And quite well-earned:

THE LAMPS ARE GOING OUT ALL OVER EUROPE. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime:

MATT WALSH: This New York Magazine Cover Goes Viral For All The Right Reasons (Video).

Related: Astonishingly, New York magazine cropped out yet another well known partygoer from its cover!

IT DOES SEEM THAT WAY:

MATT TAIBBI: About Those Onesies: A brief note to Senator Bernie Sanders. “Many who (like you) who opposed mandates lost jobs, were removed from the Internet, or denounced as ‘anti-vax.’ Others lost services, like the protesting truckers who had online fundraisers blocked. You did not speak in defense of these people. Many concluded that there were no defenders of free speech left in the Democratic caucus.”

Bernie always falls in line with the party’s demands when the chips are down.

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THE END OF JANUARY IS A HARD TIME [VIP]: Heavy History on Sky Candy Today.

I usually concentrate Sky Candy on astronomy and space photographs with a little bit of space history. But all of NASA’s major losses of astronauts happened in the last part of January or the first of February.