It would have led to every hour on cable.
Captain America, bleeding from the ribs, torn costume flapping like a flag in the wind, guiding a crippled jetliner through black smoke and missile trails. Onboard: over 200 civilians. Americans. Wounded. Shaking. Crying.
He grits his teeth, pushes the stick forward, and levels it out. Landing gear shot to pieces. Right engine dead. No nav system. Barely enough runway. Still, he lands it. The cabin erupts in sobs of relief. Children cling to strangers. Soldiers weep. Cap slumps over the controls, breath shallow, blood pooling. Alive. Everyone’s alive.
If that scene had been in a Marvel movie, it would be the trailer. The climax. The Oscar clip.
If it had happened under a Democrat administration, it would be the banner headline. There’d be specials. Op-eds. Don Lemon sits in front of his green screen with tears in his eyes. George Stephanopoulos bringing in generals to pontificate on bravery. MSNBC digging into the backgrounds of those rescued to see if any were transgender heroes or climate activists.
But this rescue? This one?
ABC and NBC didn’t say a word.
When Truth Becomes Inconvenient
Let’s not beat around it. The metaphor might be fiction, but the silence is real.
In the past week, Americans were rescued from foreign war zones and failed states by a direct order from a Republican governor. Not a vague policy. Not a roundtable. A decision. A jet. Wheels up.
He didn’t wait for UN clearance. He didn’t consult a blue-ribbon panel. He saw Americans in danger and launched a rescue. Think about that: citizens left in hostile territory while Washington stumbled over its shoelaces, and one man took action.
Cap-style.
And the press?
Nothing from ABC. Nothing from NBC. Nothing but the soft whir of newsroom crickets and another puff piece on Hunter Biden’s watercolor hobby.
They Wouldn’t Ignore This If It Were Newsom
Picture Gavin Newsom in Cap’s place, landing that jet.
Or Kamala Harris parachuting in and walking out of the smoke with babies under each arm.
Think CNN would’ve missed that? Think ABC’s morning show would’ve skipped it for another hot take on Taylor Swift’s political leanings?
They would’ve run wall-to-wall coverage. “Heroic. Presidential. A New Era of Leadership.”
There would’ve been profiles in Vanity Fair. Vogue shoots. Netflix specials in development before the evacuees cleared customs.
But because the real-world counterpart to our fictional Cap doesn’t carry a (D) behind his name, he carries guts, grit, and a Florida zip code. It got buried.
No, worse. It got erased.
Omission Is the New Propaganda
Propaganda isn’t always a lie. Sometimes, it’s a deliberate silence. A story strangled before it breathes. A truth omitted until no one remembers it happened.
This is how legacy media works now. They don’t argue anymore. They erase.
ABC and NBC didn’t even mount a defense. They didn’t push back and say, “That wasn’t significant.” They just ignored it. Why?
Because acknowledging it would mean admitting that a conservative can be competent. That someone from the political right can lead with moral clarity. That action, real, physical, bleeding-fingernail action, was taken while the administration dithered.
Can’t have that.
So instead, they vanished it.
The Narrative is the Boss, and Journalism is Just the Intern
When newsrooms abandon journalism to serve a political narrative, it looks like this.
It looks like a bloodied Captain America saving Americans from a war zone and two major networks looking the other way, hoping their audience never finds out.
It looks like years of Trump achievements minimized, twisted, or ignored, while every Biden fumble was repackaged as “a moment of empathetic leadership.”
It looks like a border crisis framed as an “immigration challenge.” A riot framed as a “mostly peaceful protest.” A media blackout on Capitol Hill pipe bombs, Epstein client lists, and whistleblower testimonies that don’t fit the agenda.
And now, a rescue flight ignored.
Why? Because it doesn't fit the script.
How Many Planes Do You Have to Land Before It Matters?
Let’s suspend disbelief and assume the average American is watching. They see a Republican, maybe Trump, maybe DeSantis, perhaps someone else, do something good.
Not tweet. Not grandstand. Not issue statements.
Just act.
And the response from the establishment media is not to fact-check it. Not to critique it. Just to delete it.
This isn’t new. It’s a pattern.
Oct. 2023: After the Hamas attacks, Americans were trapped in Israel. President Biden did nothing for days. Florida’s governor chartered flights and brought them home. Did NBC cover it?
April 2024: Haiti descends into lawlessness. Gangs take over the streets. Who sends planes to rescue missionaries and vacationers alike? Not the State Department.
Again, silence.
The truth is that it doesn’t matter how many planes you land. If you're wearing the wrong jersey, they won’t cover you. Because they’re not journalists. They’re referees rigging the game.
ABC, NBC, and the Unwritten Rule of Modern Media
There’s an unspoken rule in corporate media now:
If a conservative saves the day, shut up and move on.
That’s not journalism. That’s manipulation. That’s the kind of selective information control that belongs in a Cold War intelligence file, not in a country that boasts about press freedom.
There are school districts with more intellectual honesty than these networks. There are fantasy football leagues with more transparency. It’s embarrassing.
And Americans see it. Maybe not all. But enough.
You can fool the distracted. You can pacify the detached. But not forever. Eventually, even the background noise gets noticed. The absence of certain headlines becomes the story. The omission becomes louder than the coverage.
Final Thoughts
So here we are.
Captain America just saved a planeload of people.
He’s limping down the tarmac. He’s got a busted arm, one eye swollen shut, and jet fuel on his boots. But he’s walking. And those people are alive because he flew through hell to reach them.
But your screen doesn’t flicker. Your phone doesn’t ping. Your favorite anchor doesn’t even glance up from the prompter.
Because this Cap didn’t come from central casting, he wasn’t endorsed by Hollywood. He wasn’t smiling next to Whoopi Goldberg. He didn’t cry on command or apologize for believing in the flag.
He just acted.
And that’s the greatest threat to the media’s chosen narrative: men and women who don’t wait for permission to do good.
That’s why you didn’t hear about it.
But you will now.
Because some of us still write. Some of us still watch. Some of us still believe that truth isn’t determined by votes in a newsroom. It either happened or it didn’t.
And this one? Oh, it happened.
Captain America saved the day.
Too bad ABC and NBC were too busy covering TikTok trends to notice.
