In Case You are Wondering Whether We Hate the Media Enough…NOPE! (posted 2/13/26)

Because I don’t want to write yet another column about the events in Minnesota right now, I thought I’d hit some of the stories I’ve noticed but haven’t commented on during my deep dive on the legal issues and vigilantism in the frozen north.

Under the heading of, “We Don’t Hate the Media Enough,” three stories jumped out at me.

Two of them came from the same source – Axios – and appeared within 24 hours of each other.   To produce two such transparently biased and dishonest stories in one day is quite an accomplishment, so congrats, you weasels.

The first story is about the SAVE Act, which requires people to prove that they’re citizens when they register to vote, and to present a photo ID to prove their identity when they vote. 

I know: the horror!   

Just for fun, I tried to find another country that doesn’t require their citizens to provide ID when voting, and I couldn’t do it.  Mexico requires voter ID.  So does El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.  So does the Congo.  Every country from Algeria to Zimbabwe requires voter ID.   

Guess who else?  Freaking Somalia! 

That’s right, the nation where the two leading occupations are “Pirate” and “Learing Center Fraudster” requires Voter ID.

But American Democrats say that doing what all other nations do – including those who can’t feed their people or provide a modern sewer system, and who burn dung for warmth – cannot be required in America, because their voters could not handle it. 

Speaking of burning dung, Chuck Schumer.

Oh sorry.  Let me finish that sentence. 

Speaking of burning dung, Chuck Schumer says requiring voter ID would be “Jim Crow 2.0.”  And as one of the leaders of the party who invented “Jim Crow1.0” (they call it “Classic Jim Crow”), Chuckie should know. 

Let’s play a quick round of Adam Carolla’s “Stupid or Liar” game, in which we have to guess whether a politician saying something ridiculous is one or the other.  But for this round, I think we need to modify that to “Racist or Liar.”

Because anybody who claims that black people are such mouth-breathing dullards that they couldn’t secure an ID are either bald-faced liars, or the kind of Democrat racists who would make even the old school Democrat racists in the KKK say, “Damn, them boys are RACIST!”

Full disclosure: I do believe that Joy Reid, Whoopi Goldberg, Jasmine Crockett, Hank Johnson and Ketanji Brown-Jackson might actually be too imbecilic to get an ID for themselves.  But that is because they each have a ten-cent head.  It has nothing to do with the color of their skin.  

Anyway, the Axios story in question adds a big ol’ helping of sexism to the Dems’ usual racism stew, because it argues that it’s not only black people who can’t manage to get an ID.  It’s ladies too.

Axios puts it this way:  If the SAVE Act passes, “millions of women whose married names aren’t on their birth certificates or passports” will face extra barriers to voting. 

And that’s why, every time you get on a plane you can always stretch out over several empty seats, because of all those gals who would otherwise be flying here and there, except that they got married several decades ago, and they’ve been trapped at home ever since.  Foiled by the insurmountable task of updating their ID.   

How does Axios try to get away with saying something so outlandishly sexist and racist?  By going to one of the favorite tricks that profs in J-school teach their students: always attribute your own bigotry and propaganda to unnamed experts.

The tagline for the story says, “President Trump’s push to “nationalize” elections including his backing of a bill that could be a “nightmare” for voters, election experts told Axios.      

Yes.  Those dastardly “election experts.”  The entire story is full of them.  They attribute the “women can’t overcome the married-name conundrum” to “researchers.” When they do cite somebody claiming that “21 million Americans lack ready access” to ID, it’s a “Brennan Center analysis.”

If you don’t know them, the Brennan Center is the kind of hard-core leftist advocacy group that puts the “anal” in “analysis.”  Every “finding” by their “analysts” just happens to be one of the talking points of the DNC.

Unexpectedly!  

Immediately after posting the “women and minorities are too incompetent and dumb to get an ID” story, the crack staff at Axios went to work on their next scoop.  This one demonstrated another trick right out of the J-School 101 Playbook: AMCE (Always Misunderstand Cause & Effect).

A famous example of this technique was a story from decades ago claiming that “despite a record number of Americans in prison, crime continues to drop.” 

Axios is reporting on a similarly mysterious drop, and they start out so promisingly: “Violent crime dropped sharply across America’s biggest cities in 2025, according to new data.”  They even show a chart that documents crime rates dropping in many cities between 25 to 58%.

Now you don’t have to be Einstein – or Sherlock Holmes, or me – to deduce a blindingly obvious cause that might explain this effect.  Trump came to office at the beginning of 2025 promising to close our borders and start mass deportation of millions of unvetted illegal aliens.  Over the course of the year, nearly 2 million people either self-deported, were caught and deported, or were caught and detained pending deportation.

Some insightful types might anticipate that removing several million illegal renters from the competition for rental housing might decrease rents.   (Because: supply and demand.)  And that removing many competing illegal workers might cause wages to rise. (Because: ditto.)  And that removing several million criminals might result in a drop in crime.  (Because: duh.)

So a restless nation sat on the edge of their seats, having read the Axios tagline, and having seen their chart documenting the drop in crime over the last year.  The anticipation was killing us!  Would Axios actually stumble into the obviously right conclusion?

Annnndddd…they titled their chart, “Crime plunges in major cities despite Trump’s crackdown rhetoric.”

Despite!   Trump promised a crackdown, then he implemented a crackdown.  But crime went down ANYWAY?!

Good lord.  With brains like these, is it any wonder that they are continually surprised when raising taxes on the rich makes the rich move to a lower-tax state, or when hateful, dimwit celebrities tell their audience that they hate their guts and then 14 people watch the Grammys?

My final item today isn’t about a story written by journalists, but a story about them.  Specifically the fired journalists at the Washington Post.  (“Where Democracy gets beaten to death with tire irons in the Darkness.”) 

Jeff Bezos bought the struggling WAPO a while ago, but he kept nearly all of the same journalists who had been doing the kind of work that resulted in a paper that was struggling. 

Annndddd… it lost nearly 90% of its readers in the past 4 years.  Last year alone it lost $100 million.   

Now most sentient mammals, when confronted those facts, might say something like, “Yikes! This can’t go on!” 

But the lefty genius reporters at WAPO said, “This can go on forever!”

I’m not making that up. One retired journalist said that with all of Bezos’ billions, he could afford to lose $100 mil a year “indefinitely.”  Veteran WAPO writer Sally Quinn was shocked at the layoffs Bezos just announced, reflecting that when Bezos first bought the paper, he was great.  “He was wonderful.  He was smart and funny and kind and interested.  He was joyful.  He was a person of integrity and conscience….And now I don’t know who this person is.” 

I’ll tell you who he is: a guy who has been taking giant financial groin kicks for years.  He bought the paper in 2013 for $250 million, and he’s lost $274 million on it in just the last three years!

You know what’s consistently pretty close to the top of a list of “Things Billionaires Don’t Do With Money?”

Continue to drop $100 Mil Per Annum on a Failing Freaking Business!!  OH! OHHHHHH! (Surprise Billionaire Kinison Insert)

But do you know what the schadenfreude cherry on top of the “learn to code” sundae is?

On Monday, a bunch of WAPO workers threw a tantrum – er, held a protest – at the WAPO building.  Led by a guy in a Where’s Waldo hat, the protest was meant to, “Show management that they can’t trample our rights.”  He said that even though “today is a scary day,” the fired WAPO workers were going to “demonstrate our collective power” and “to show our right to work.”

He finished with a stirring statement that, “Management has locked us out.  Let us show them that they can’t just do that.”

And then, several dozen fired workers walked inside and up to the glass-partitions in the lobby that function like subway turnstiles.  And one by one, each worker slid his or her employee badge over the scanner.

Annnnnddddd…nothing happened.  Each worker swiped, then frowned, then turned dejectedly away.  Followed by another worker, and another worker.  Some of them seemed to be surprised when their badges didn’t work, stepping confidently forward, then swiping the badge several more times.   

Afterwards, Waldo said that the workers deserve to work at the Post and have a right to work at the post.  Then they all went outside and waved at the building, engaged in the saddest little chant I’ve ever heard: “We’ll be back.  We’ll be back.”

Um.  You just “demonstrated your collective power,” and were defeated by a piece of glass.  I don’t think that failing, and then chanting that you’ll be back at some point in the future to fail again, is quite the blood-curdling message that you think it is. 

I know that it’s a tough thing to lose your job, especially when you’re in a grim, declining business like newspapers, where finding a new gig is going to be hard.  And I know that a lot of the workers – especially the non-journalist staff – are suffering because of forces beyond their control. 

But the journalists at WAPO have been lying – continually, consistently, and without remorse – for many decades.  You could fill a book with the many outrageous smears they’ve pushed, from the Russia Hoax to the healthy Biden hoax to the “America is horrible” slanders. 

And when blue collar folks – from the workers on the Keystone Pipeline to farmers to everybody fired because they wouldn’t take the experimental covid vax – lost their jobs, the WAPO elitists sneered, “Learn to code,” and went on to the next attack on conservatives.  

I generally hate to see anybody lose their jobs.

But for the “journalists” at the WAPO, I can make an exception.

I won’t have a column on Monday, because we’re going up to Tennessee this weekend, and my mom’s funeral is Monday.  Have a great weekend, and I’ll be back next week.   

Hamas (and Trantifa) delenda est!

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