CBS News becomes official propaganda arm of the Trump movement
By: Steve Schmidt
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The president of the United States is a fascist degenerate. He is surrounded by sycophants that could fill Noah's Ark two by two, with every known psychiatric disorder, despicable character trait, and selfish ambition known to man from the first sin through this very second.
Trump's cabinet meetings are a farce wrapped in stupidity, coated with insanity, and painted by malice.
Each imitates a children's museum's experiential programming, except there are no stingrays to touch — only the leathered face and plumped lips of Kristi Noem. She is a constant reminder and vivid exposition about the wisdom of Lord Acton's admonition that "absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Trump's political rallies are rotten and despicable affairs lacking any patriotic virtue. They are un-American tributes to cruelty, corruption, scapegoating and racism.
They are living and breathing refutations to Elie Wiesel's soaring valedictory at the end of the 20th century, delivered from the White House on April 12, 1999:
Soon "America First" and MAGA will launch its first war. When they do, there will be hysterical shrieking that can be heard in space — where no scream can be heard —about the need to censor all and any seditious criticism against the genius of the MAGA war lords.
This is the face of a child with measles:
This is what a child's coffin looks like:
These are real headlines in the United States of America in 2025:
This death is the cost of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Each little coffin that goes into the ground was helped on its journey by some of America's most powerful newsrooms, infatuated by celebrity, clicks, sneering arrogance, casual disregard and deep disrespect for the dignity of everyday Americans.
They deserved the truth about serious dangers from vile Americans who dropped the mask a long time ago.
Instead, they get this type of reporting from the "paper of record:"
Ethical and moral collapse has brought tremendous danger forward in the United States. That will be on clear display this evening when CBS News becomes the official propaganda arm of the Trump movement, and specifically the custodians of the Christian nationalist wing's public outreach efforts.
Christian nationalism is evil and dangerous.
It is antithetical to Christianity. It is profoundly dangerous.
It is on the ballot all across America.
Christian nationalism is incompatible with American democracy and pluralism. It is a form of totalitarianism, rooted in the authoritarianism of the American Confederacy and the planter class that tried to destroy the nation in the name of God to own other human beings.
In fact, it is the "cornerstone," and was called so in the speech describing slavery as both the cornerstone of the Confederacy, the reason for the Civil War, and a statement of devotion to by the Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens:
Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature.
Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with the negro.
Subordination is his place.
He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system.
The architect, in the construction of buildings, lays the foundation with the proper material-the granite; then comes the brick or the marble.
The substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it, and by experience we know that it is best, not only for the superior, but for the inferior race, that it should be so.
It is, indeed, in conformity with the ordinance of the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His ordinances, or to question them.
For His own purposes, He has made one race to differ from another, as He has made "one star to differ from another star in glory."
The great objects of humanity are best attained when there is conformity to His laws and decrees, in the
formation of governments as well as in all things else. Our confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. This stone which was rejected by the first builders "is become the chief of the corner" the real "corner-stone" in our new edifice.
When political extremists take power in the name of God there is always death.
Always.
The separation of church and state and religious freedom are profoundly important foundational achievements of the American republic.
The extremists who seek power in God's name are not benign men and women.
Erica Kirk is not a benign woman.
She is a leader in an awful movement that degrades women, bullies minorities, assails the truth and insults decency. It is an affront to the face of God because, in the end, what Charlie Kirk believed in wasn't goodness, decency, justice, peace, debate or mercy.
It was power, fame, money, domination, supremacy, control and subjugation.
He believed in Trump, and so does Erica Kirk. So does Bari Weiss, so does Little Larry Ellison, so does Field Marshall Little Marco and the Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth, so does the man Erica seems to have a particular attachment towards — JD Vance.
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain the Christian virtue of smearing a community of Haitians with calumnies, including the dehumanizing slur that they are household pets like predators.
This is not reconcilable with the "Sermon on the Mount" and the teachings of Jesus Christ.
It is evil, and Erica Kirk abides it.
Personally, I'm sick and tired of having this filth jammed down my throat by people like Bari Weiss under the banner of "news." I also don't want to be told that Charlie Kirk —and now Erica — are alternately political and faith leaders, patriots and vessels of hope.
It's nonsense. It's poison. It's propaganda.
The reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk from the highest levels of the Trump regime ranks among the greatest disgraces in American history.
Even the most cynical and jaded could not help but stare slack-jawed at the threats, malevolence and rage directed at ordinary Americans by the vice president of the United States, attorney general of the United States and the White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller at Kirk's memorial service.
The threats have been ceaseless, unrelenting, and deeply ominous.
Of course, they have no basis in reality, and are fundamentally about one thing: political power.
Every American should understand that there is a tyrant and a deviant in the White House, surrounded by people who are advising him to kill millions of Americans because justice requires the massacre so that we can be "great again."
Does that sound sick to you?
It is.
These words were spoken by an attorney general of the United States, who has no credibility whatsoever, and should be disbarred when this era of corruption, malevolence and indecency ends — which it will:
There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.
These words were spoken by Stephen Miller, a little Eichmann turning deadly, about left-wing political organizations:
It is a vast domestic terror movement.
With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people. It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie's name.Bari Weiss seems deeply enamored of her judgement that she has found MAGA's Joan of Ark, and that it is her destiny to cast her on CBS so that Larry may have CNN in the name of Trump.
Tonight is Bari's big network TV debut. It will be a strange, depressing and ridiculous affair, estranged from any vestiges of American normalcy.
Please know that it's all a con. It's a grift.
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Bari Weiss is interviewing Erika Kirk right now on prime time CBS network programming.
CBS has sunk lower than low.
If this sort of thing gets legs America is fucked.
How in the world can you possibly be offended by this?
Charlie Kirk was an extreme bigot. His wife is delusional or lying about him.
How many Charlie Kirk clips have you seen ?
We all remember left wing media literally making up quotes to try and demonize him after he was murdered in an act of stochastic terrorism by a deranged leftist.
I've yet to see one that justifies his murder or that makes his wife a non person who isn't fit for the public airwaves. .
I have seen many clips of Charlie Kirk's daily You Tube show. He was a racist , xenophobe, homophobe, and misogynist. He didnt deserve to die for it, but neither does he merit being glorified on a network news program.
Who the fuck is Erika Kirk to merit this platform?
Someone made a widow of the victim by the most famous American political assassination in decades. News channels have platformed victims of tragedies since the news was invented.
What Mark Kelly do to deserve a platform on CBS after his wife was shot by a guy who didn't think she took grammar seriously?
Gabby Gifford was not a bigot.
You are arguing that because Charlie Kirk was popular he should be memorialized as a great man.
CBS was once the gold standard on network news. Now it is in the ditch.
Last time you and others tried to prove Charlie Kirk was you relied on clips that were either brazenly edited or deliberately taken out of context.
are arguing that because Charlie Kirk was popular he should be memorialized as a great man.
No, I'm arguing that giving the spouse of a man who was assassinated for his political views an interview on a Saturday night is not a big deal, at all.
Is there something political or wrong about the CBS article I just posted about the Brown University shooting in Rhode Island?
CBS News is run by moderate leftist and therefore not acceptable to the hard left. Between her ethnicity and propensity to actually seek out facts, she's hated by those who demand all propaganda, all the time.
I dont know what you are talking about. This article is about CBS giving an hour of air time to a woman who no one ever heard of a few months ago. Now she is the "leader" of a "respectable" movement. It is bizarre, offensive and ridiculous.
This would be like giving an hour prime time network interview to David Hogg and the interviewer puffing him up. If you dont know who David Hogg is you can google it.
Now she's a victim because she is white? LOL.
Erika Kirk is preaching. I will ask you again , who the fuck is she to get this platform? CBS has become a lost cause in a matter of weeks.
I'm not talking about Kirk. I'm talking about Weiss and why the left hates her.
I dont care if shes white or purple.
This is the way CBS promoted this show
and you are contradicting your own narrative...
This show was pure propaganda for the far right Turning Points organization.
CBS is no longer a news organization.
@ Sean and John
Sorry I started this whole brouhaha.
propensity to seek out facts? She wouldn't know a fact if it bit her in the ass
Charlie Kirk, an obvious racist, xenophobe, and misogynist is being lionized on mainstream network television tonight.
CBS has disgraced itself beyond description.
Please know that it's all a con. It's a grift.
This is Steve Schmidt saying that?
Chef's kiss.
As we can see, the far right will say anything, perpetuate any lie, distort reality to the Nth degree in support of their neo-fascist agenda. Steve Schmidt is 100% correct.
Can you post some actual examples of this made up "neo-fascist agenda"? Please keep out feelings and dreams.
We have learned over the past couple of decades that what the left is accusing the right of, they themselves are actually doing it.
Alexander Stephens was a Democrat. The Stephens quote embodies the political convention of the Democratic Party before and during the Civil War. The Democratic Party utilized racial justifications to hold political power. Democrats wielded self-serving power over government and society by controlling the minority Black population.
Despite the Steve Schmidt's Lincoln Project propaganda, Abraham Lincoln was a nationalist (remember trying to save the Union?) and Lincoln incorporated Protestant morality into political advocacy. Abraham Lincoln was a Protestant nationalist.
Abolition was not a Fascist movement. The Temperance and Suffrage movements were not Fascist. Abolition, Temperance, and Suffrage were aligned with the idea of Protestant nationalism practiced by Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln Republicans really did believe that Protestant morality could be the guidance for law and governance. Abolition, Temperance, and Suffrage proved that there was a place in politics and government for Protestant civil morality.
Protestant nationalism is not the same thing as Christian nationalism. The Protestant nationalism's "Priesthood of All Believers" is a form of republican democracy deriving power from the congregation (body politic). Christian nationalism advocates for power of a mediator priesthood with authority to reinterpret and redefine morality in a authoritarian or totalitarian manner. That's why a Protestant (congregational) moral authority serves as a bulwark against Fascism. Protestant nationalism serves as a defense against populist social appeals made by self serving special interests.
So is CBS going to host a town hall from the far left?