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President Donald Trump ended federal DEI programs.

Even before, companies were having second thoughts.

Victoria’s Secret changed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.”

Now, even woke Disney, despite squandering 270 million shareholder dollars on a moronic new version of “Snow White,” joined the mob of companies dropping DEI programs.

Why? Diversity, equity and inclusion sound good.

The problem is that DEI programs were captured by activists who obsess about victimhood. They divide people more than they empower.

“Diversity, equity and inclusion,” says activist Robby Starbuck in my newest video, “don’t mean what they pretend to mean.”

Before Trump ended federal DEI programs by executive order, Starbuck ended them at some companies merely by using the power of speech. His strategy: warn companies that he’ll tell his social media followers what stupid things they do.

Remarkably, that worked!

After he criticized John Deere on Twitter for encouraging “preferred pronouns” and holding woke diversity trainings, John Deere quickly dropped those policies.

Toyota, Target and Harley Davidson did, too.

“Why did they listen to you?” I ask.

“We go to them like any other investigative journalist and we say, ‘Hey, we have a story we’re working on.’”

Then, if they don’t change their policies, he goes public — posting the policies and his criticism on YouTube, Twitter, etc.

One week after he posted that Toyota sponsored pride parades and divided workers into identity-based groups such as LGBT, Black and Christian, Toyota stopped sponsoring LGBTQ events and opened employee groups to all workers.

Coors has been requiring DEI trainings and donating to pride events. All it took was Starbuck looking into the company, and they stopped.

So did Jack Daniels, McDonald’s, Walmart, AT&T, Lowe’s and Ford.

“I like diversity,” I tell him, suggesting DEI programs were good.

“They sound warm and fuzzy,” says Starbuck. “It’s why at the beginning, it got a lot of buy-in … I want to include everybody. I don’t want to be mean. What it actually turned out to be in reality looked more like crazy trainings, overtly racist hiring practices, diametrically opposed to the very warm, fuzzy sounding words they try to sell.”

I think private companies should be able to have whatever policies they want. Customers and workers can buy other products or work someplace else.

But over the past few years, DEI mandates became so prevalent, you couldn’t avoid them.

I’m a Chase Bank customer. The bank is run by a very smart guy, Jamie Dimon.

Just last year, Dimon said DEI is “good for business; it’s morally right; we’re quite good at it.”

But after Starbuck revealed JPMorgan’s policies, Dimon quickly changed his mind.

“I saw how we were spending money on some of this stupid s–t,” Dimon said, “and it really pissed me off … I’m just going to cancel them. I don’t like wasted money in bureaucracy.”

In my years of reporting, I’ve never seen changes this fast.

DEI activists are angry about it.

The president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation says, “We will not be erased!”

“What existed before DEI?” replies Starbuck. “Did black people not exist before that?”

On “The View,” host Sunny Hostin claims, “This will specifically harm women … African Americans and Latinos.”

“What she’s actually saying is that minorities are not going to be able to get jobs if the sole thing you’re looking at is merit. The way I was raised, you call that racism,” replies Starbuck. “She’s being racist.”

I push back:

“They’re just saying, ‘We have a history of disadvantage. We were slaves in this country.’”

“None of them were,” he points out. “I’m Cuban. I could say my family went through this and that. I didn’t go through it. I’m not going to claim their disadvantage as my own.”

“We’re not going to fall for the same stupid stuff anymore. We’re going to judge people based on merit.”

Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

PBS and NPR each faced the difficulty on Wednesday night of covering their own bosses taking tough questions from Republicans at the Capitol in a hearing on Wednesday. PBS actually aired a Republican citing us — just as a “conservative media watchdog group.” NPR didn’t want to seriously engage in anything….

PBS correspondent William Brangham included plenty of Republican and Democrat soundbites from the hearing. He also aired PBS boss Paula Kerger claiming that the drag queen singing to children “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish” were never broadcast on TV. Subcommittee chairman challenged that, saying WNET in New York aired it on April 20, 2021. The video is available across the country at the PBS website.

Here’s where the studies on PBS tilt were mentioned: 

Rep. PAT FALLON (R-TX): Propaganda wing of the Democratic Party.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The PBS News Hour was criticized as well. Representative Pat Fallon, Republican of Texas, cited a conservative media watchdog group that says it analyzed the News Hour’s coverage of the 2024 presidential conventions.

FALLON: Seventy-two percent of the coverage of the GOP convention was negative; 88 percent of the coverage of Democratic Convention was positive.

Rep. ROBERT GARCIA (D-CA): A large majority of Americans say they trust PBS. And that’s exactly why extremists are trying to tear it down.

As usual, Brangham claimed their funding was a tiny percentage of the enormous federal budget, and cost about $1.50 a day per American…as if the issue was merely fiscal, and not about all their horrendous daily “news” product. 

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik always arrives with the disclaimer that no NPR executive has reviewed his copy, but it still sounds like tinny self-defense. Online, he huffed: 

The hearing, entitled “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” appears arranged more to score points than to find facts. 

He’s not looking in the mirror to see if this applies to NPR “news.” On All Things Considered, notes. 

Barely a year after it was launched, CBS has canceled After Midnight hosted by Taylor Tomlinson. According to Variety, CBS has no plans to replace the show with original programming, as many Paramount executives are worried about running “up more costs.”

Still, executive producer and fellow CBS late night host Stephen Colbert said in a statement the decision was Tomlinson’s, “While we were excited and grateful for our third season to start in the fall, we respect Taylor’s decision to return to stand-up full time.”

Last month Tomlinson had told SXSW that taking the job was a difficult one because it would mean less time on tour.

After Midnight was supposed to be a different kind of late night comedy show. For diversity-conscious liberals and industry insiders, that was seen in Tomlinson being the only woman among the permanent septet. For people who just want jokes, After Midnight was a reboot of Comedy Central’s @Midnight where improv games replaced the traditional talk show format. At one point in her career, Tomlinson even claimed to stay away from politics because she was not qualified to speak about them, “I’m just very like — what’s going on in my life right now? What, in my experience and personally, do I feel like I have some authority to talk about?”

However, about halfway through 2024, After Midnight started employing a traditional monologue at the beginning of the show, and Tomlinson got more political.

Her most common bit has been trying to help turn alleged terrorist and CEO assassin Luigi Mangione into a sex symbol. One time she referred to his victim, Brian Thompson, as “whose name was—he’s not hot, so I don’t remember.”

Speaking of sex, another Tomlinson moment came after the VP debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz. The rules of the debate stipulated the moderators would not fact-check the candidates, but CBS colleague Margaret Brennan ignored those rules to issue a questionable fact-check of Vance’s take on the CBP One app. Brennan also tried to dunk on Vance by claiming she couldn’t hear him because they cut his mic. Tomlinson reacted, “And before anyone asks, yes, I masturbated to this. A woman, silencing men? Yeah, that’s going in the spank bank.”

 

 

Tomlinson has also seemingly displayed an urge to move beyond her conservative Christian upbringing. While her career started with church performances, she has since sought to leave that form of comedy behind. At CBS, she would encourage contestants to belittle Jesus and the Catholic Church.

After Trump won in November, Tomlinson mourned, “A lot of people want solutions, so they’re posting today about what we can do to move forward. And I think that’s valuable. But also, let’s have a [bleep] second to be sad. It’s all right. You know. If your friend dies, you go to the funeral and say, ‘I really miss my friend.’ You don’t go to the funeral and immediately scream, ‘Volunteer at the library!’ Like yes, okay, I’ll volunteer at the library, but let me bury democracy first.”

In the final quarter of 2024, Tomlinson got an average of 300,000 fewer viewers than fellow 12:37 slot host, NBC’s Seth Meyers. After Midnight’s series finale will take place sometime in June.

Publicly funded National Public Radio continues to defy basic biology by muddling the facts of life. 

On Tuesday, Kristen Schorsch took the emotional approach to the gender identity topic in “What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens.”

He’s 17 and lives in the Chicago suburbs. He loves theater and recently helped direct a play at his high school. He takes competitive AP courses and is working on his Eagle Scout project. And he’s been on a journey for four years. Once a week, the transgender teen injects testosterone into his body. He’s already frozen his eggs in case he wants to have his own biological children one day….

Yes, “he” has frozen his eggs. Schorsch hyped up the melodrama over the Trump administration’s funding pressure. America is so backwards the star of the story has to remain anonymous.

NPR is not identifying the teen by name — or using his mother’s last name — because they are concerned he could be targeted for being transgender.

Reading the text of these stories is like stepping into Wonderland: A boy due for a mastectomy.

Another patient, a 16-year-old boy from Chicago, had a surgery date for a double mastectomy procedure — until Lurie canceled it. NPR is not identifying him because he fears for his personal safety.

The teen felt betrayed by the cancellation, he said. He has been binding his chest for more than five years, but doing that causes rib and back pain.

There are two sexes, male and female, determined by whether their bodies are primed to produce sperm or eggs. It took NPR four reporters to pretend otherwise in the recent long investigation “How is sex determined? Scientists say it’s complicated.”

From the text version of the report for the NPR podcast Short Wave:

Between the presidential executive order affecting passport policy, moving transgender inmates between prisons and regulating women’s sports, appeals to “the biological reality of sex” are constant.

The truth is that biological sex, like a lot of scientific categories, is nuanced.

It’s defined by multiple criteria – including chromosomal, chemical, and physical factors – that can, and do, change over a person’s lifetime. And it’s a reality that’s definitely not limited to male and female.

The NPR report treats a person’s sexual identity is an unsolvable mystery, not an easily observed fact.

Medical experts often determine sex by observing internal genitalia like ovaries or external genitalia like penises and testes. They also look at secondary sexual characteristics. These don’t usually develop until puberty and include traits like breasts or facial hair. A person’s voice, height, fat distribution and muscle mass are other hormone-influenced characteristics that are often used to determine sex.

But these traits don’t always fall on a strict binary.

There are tall women and short men, women with flatter chests and men without facial hair; people’s appearances can vary widely.

NPR continued to muddle undeniable biological facts.

Why not define human sex by reproductive capacity?

This is, in part, what President Trump’s recent executive order suggests: two distinct sexes — one that produces large reproductive cells (i.e. eggs) and one that produces small reproductive cells (i.e. sperm). The issue is that all humans’ reproductive capacity changes throughout their lifespan – children and menopausal adults, for example, cannot reproduce, but that doesn’t mean their biological sex is invalid. Plus, there are rare cases of people born with both ovarian and testicular tissue.

In short, science has documented humans who produce eggs, sperm, both, or neither. There’s a wide range of possibilities!

Are there really? Next up, the hyped-up condition “intersex.”

How common are intersex conditions?

A lot more common than you might think!

NPR pushed activist propaganda that “intersex conditions overall affect 1-2 in every 100 people. That would make being intersex about as common as having red hair – and more common than being an identical twin.” Using actual scientific definitions, that figure is about 100 times less.

NPR had to run a later clarification: “This story has been revised to clarify that while there are documented examples of people who produce sperm and viable eggs, there are no documented examples of people who produce both viable eggs and viable sperm.”

So much for scientific expertise at NPR.

The “legacy” media have been considered to be a nihilistic institution, especially lately. Tonight’s report on ABC World News Tonight puts any and all doubt to rest, as they prop up a liberal favorite by promoting a movie they had no business promoting. 

Watch the full report on the release for the trailer of Rust, starring Alec Baldwin, as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Wednesday, March 26th, 2025: 

The Regime takes care of their own: ABC promotes the upcoming release of Rust, the Alec Baldwin vehicle made infamous after he shot the cinematographer pic.twitter.com/MOwH5hgfa0
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 27, 2025

WHIT JOHNSON: A first look at the trailer for the movie “Rust” ahead of its release in May.

ALEC BALDWIN: Some things in this life you can’t get back, I reckon.

JOHNSON: The movie, starring Alec Baldwin, became infamous before it was even completed, after the 2021 on-set tragedy that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza. Charges against Baldwin were eventually dropped. 

One is left wondering what pirouettes were performed by Alec Baldwin’s publicity team in order to score this “story”. One thing is for certain and it is that Rust would have drawn scant to no coverage at all had Balwin not accidentally shot and killed the movie’s cinematographer.

This tragedy garnered significant attention across the network dial. From the shooting, to the investigation and through the trial. It seems unsavory to now reward Baldwin with free media and exposure for the film.

But Baldwin, of course, is a notorious liberal celebrity who made his bones berating conservatives and by manifesting extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome. The Regime, perhaps saw fit to throw Baldwin a bone- especially after being brutally and publicly humiliated by his wife with the phony Spaniard accent. Unless the surviving loved ones of the shooting victim are getting a cut of the film’s profits, there was no real reason to promote it on valuable network news air time.

 

In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Republicans pressed the bosses of PBS and NPR on the blatant leftist bias of their news shows, and both leaders claimed these networks are unbiased and nonpartisan. No one believes this.

PBS leader Paula Kerger and NPR leader Katherine Maher were supposedly preparing for this, reported The New York Times: “Ms. Kerger said she was preparing for the hearing by reviewing her testimony with legal counsel. Ms. Maher told staff members last month that she was preparing with so-called murder boards, rigorous question-and-answer sessions that aim to expose potential weaknesses.”

These ladies were terrible about specifics. They offered no evidence that they were acquainted with any of the examples of bias they were given by the Republicans. Maher told Rep. Jim Jordan: “I have never seen any political bias.”

When Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) cited our NewsBusters study finding PBS used “far right” or its variants 162 times to just six for “far left” terms, Kerger replied, “I don’t know the study that you’re referring to, and I’d love — I’d be very interested in seeing it and understanding how they came up with those numbers.” Should we believe she never reads studies by conservative critics of her network? It’s possible, since they demonstrate they don’t really think liberal bias is a problem. (It’s more of a privilege.) Or that could be the answer the lawyers told her to use.

The Democrats were ridiculous. Many of them just made effusive remarks about the children’s programming on PBS, or joked about how the conservatives are suspicious of the pinkish tilt of the puppets. 

Rep. Greg Casar inaccurately placed Miss Piggy on Sesame Street. Rep. Ro Khanna pestered witness Mike Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation about how well he knew the show Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and gushed over how it evolved out of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. No Republicans are opposed to the kiddie shows, they’re opposed to the aggressively biased “news” shows and documentaries. 

There was Jasmine Crockett, who had her hair over half of her face bizarrely suggesting that conservatives want to end all opposition media: “the idea that you wanna shut down everybody that is not Fox News is [BS]!” Defunding PBS and NPR isn’t shutting them down. It’s just a spending cut that leftists will probably rush to fill. 

Gonzalez of Heritage summarized the game: “What we have today is a circular, undemocratic relationship. Democrats unanimously vote for more and more money for public media. In exchange, public media heavily tips the scale in their favor. It is a nice arrangement for them, but it must end.”

Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Before Wednesday’s congressional testimony from the heads of PBS and NPR in front of the House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE), PBS’s flagship news show News Hour offered up some gaslighting on Tuesday evening in defense of the program’s political objectivity and balance — a laughable proposition to anyone who has watched an episode.

Co-anchor Geoff Bennett: President Trump today voiced his support for defunding America’s public broadcasters. It comes a day before the heads of PBS and NPR testify in front of the House Subcommittee on Delivering Government Efficiency, or DOGE. The hearing will examine alleged bias in public media, with calls for federal funding cuts growing louder. That funding in part helps support the work of PBS News. We wanted to take a moment to explain exactly how public media is funded and more broadly how we got to this point. William Brangham is back with that.

After a montage of House members Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) accusing PBS and NPR of liberal bias, Brangham purported to take viewers on a deep dive into the history of public media, with two professors as subject experts: Victor Pickard of the University of Pennsylvania and Allison Perlman of the University of California, Irvine.

Brangham emphasized popular PBS children’s programming as well as The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, which grew out of the Watergate hearings in Congress and would evolve into today’s more partisan PBS News Hour.

Allison Perlman: In the 1990s, what we see are social conservatives who have anxiety about the political direction of some public television programming joining forces with economic conservatives who think that the transformations in the media landscape that had taken place from 1967 to the present no longer required federal support….

After Brangham acknowledged that “Every Republican administration except Gerald Ford’s has tried to cut public media funding,” he aired a soundbite from Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), arguing “Government doesn’t need to subsidize the media anymore because the world’s changed” and that PBS and NPR are also not fair or balanced.

Brangham stood up for his employers, using both a ridiculous defense of PBS and NPR’s objectivity and a familiar tactic that underplays federal support for the networks.

Brangham: We should note here, independent analyses have found both PBS and NPR to be among the most objective and reliable news sources in America. But back to the question of funding. For 2025, Congress appropriated $535 million to CPB. That’s less than 1/100th of a percent out of the total federal budget. It costs, on average, per American, a little over $1.50 a year….

The segment ended with a graphic of selected poll findings from “A YouGov poll obtained by Axios” (full Axios report from February here) that claimed 

82% of voters, including 72% of Trump voters, said they valued PBS for its children’s programming and educational tools.
 65% of Trump voters think the public broadcaster is either underfunded or adequately funded.
Meanwhile, a Brian Steinberg puff piece on Variety Tuesday about the promotion of News Hour co-anchors Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz to co-managing editors gave more space to push pro-PBS propaganda. Yet neither PBS nor Variety are prepared to call liberals “liberal,” using the euphemism “progressive” instead Meanwhile, conservatives are just plain conservative.

“I don’t think enough people know that our viewership is evenly split among conservatives, independents, progressives,” says Geoff Bennett, one of the co-anchors of the long-running program that was once known as “The McNeil-Lehrer News Hour.”

The gaslighting got really hot when PBS tried not only to pass off liberal MSNBC host and Washington Post writer Jonathan Capehart as a “progressive,” but to term Trump-hating David Brooks a “conservative,” as if their regular appearances on the News Hour provide a rough balance of political opinions (in fact, they agree with each other most of the time): “And the show’s regular exchanges between Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks — one progressive and one conservative — are proving popular online….”

On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) held a hearing featuring the CEOs of National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS amid a new push to achieve a decades-old effort to defund the far-left propaganda outlets that annually see hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars.

With their federal dollars on the line, NPR’s Katherine Maher and PBS’s Paula Kerger refused to admit to the error of their ways, cartoonishly insisting their outlets deliver “essential,” “fact-based,” “non-partisan,” “trusted,” and “unbiased” reporting.

Committee Democrats rallied to their defense with Chicken Little claims about the lives of rural Americans somehow having no access to vital information, no local news, and a GOP that’s out to engage in “bullshit…to shutdown everybody that is not Fox News.”

Republicans came prepared with the facts about broadband internet, an endless menu of outlets Americans lacked in the past, hard-hitting examples of anti-American propaganda on NPR and PBS, and even NewsBusters research.

Let’s walk through the highlights and lowlights from the nearly two-hour-and-26-minute hearing.

Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) led off with an opening statement many of these themes, starting with the archaic view of the news landscape:

Thus, she explained, “NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical left-wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy white, urban liberals and progressives who generally looked down on and judge rural America.”

In PBS’s case, she cited two disturbing examples that openly advocated and glorified transgenderism and then how they too falsely claimed Elon Musk did a Nazi salute on Inauguration Day.

Ranking Member Stephen Lynch (D-MA) had other ideas, falsely claiming the GOP held the hearing to distract from Signal-gate and were targeting “the likes of Elmo and Cookie Monster and Arthur the Aardvark.”

Maher’s opening statement was comical from the start:

Along with insisting they’re great stewards of tax dollars, she spoke glowingly of their ethics and respect for all Americans:

As for Kerger, she too struck a weirdly romantic tone, suggesting they’re the one network looking out for the American people:

Our friends from the Heritage Foundation had Mike Gonzalez also on hand to testify, which he credited the work of our own Tim Graham:

Greene kicked off the Q&A by calling Maher on the carpet over her history of divisive, radical comments and that she’s supposed to work for all Americans, not hate half of them:

Maher’s response? She had the gall to claim she’s “a very strong believer in free speech” and believes in “more speech.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) picked up on Greene’s two points about NPR being far less valuable than it used to be and that its alleged journalism is disinformation to the point it meddles in elections:

Following a ridiculous bit of chicanery by Congressman Robert Garcia (D-CA), Congressman Michael Cloud (R-TX) blasted Maher’s “lack of reverence for truth” and NPR’s failure on major news stories in the last five years:

On this, Maher claimed her past comments about censorship were “really referencing the way that people use truth to refer to belief as opposed to facts, and my encouragement was that we focus on the facts.”

The word “focus” wouldn’t befit whatever this was from Texas Democrats Greg Casar and the new, unofficial face of the party, Jasmine Crockett.

In the latter’s case, she dropped the expletive and, in her newfound rhetoric from the ‘hood, she falsely claimed those wanting to defund NPR and PBS don’t care about “the safety of the American people”:

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) brought the hearing back to reality, asking Maher if NPR is “biased,” to which she laughably said she had “never seen any instance of political bias determining editorial decisions” and that “I do not believe we are politically biased” and instead “a nonpartisan organization.”

Jordan also methodically exposed the racket that is the wider agency, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB):

After Congresswoman Emily Randall (D-WA) defended NPR and PBS because rural areas like northern Washington state depend on them because they lack high-speed internet, Congressman Tim Burchett (R-TN) exposed PBS and the left for still using Sesame Street as a crutch:

He then grilled Maher about her progressive ideology and how one NPR affiliate in New York state railed against God Bless America:

Burchett’s GOP colleague Pat Fallon (TX) was loaded for bear, first drawing these claims out from Maher (and then Kerger to concur https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1904934481112293587):

Fallon then cited two NewsBusters studies from our Clay Waters on the rancorous bias at PBS on labeling “far-left” vs. “far-right” and then last year comparing the two party conventions:

Moments after Maher admitted to Fallon that NPR journalists “work to be” fair “every day,” Fallon closed with a rousing rant outlining the reason the left defends funding NPR and PBS as well as the only sort of ideological diversity they actually support:

Congressman Brendan Gill’s (R-TX) five minutes were nothing short of a masterclass in asking questions, taking the same approach Fox’s Peter Doocy has perfected in the White House Briefing Room.

In the first half, Gill confronted Maher on a slew of past statements, all of which Maher acted surprised and even denied she said on issues like Marxism, reparations, and white privilege. Thankfully, Gill informed her she did, in fact, say them in tweets:

Part two consisted of content aired and published by NPR, ranging from defending looting to “queer dinosaur enthusiasts” to glorifying obesity to civility being racist:

Speaking of effective questioning, Congressman Brian Jack (R-GA) closed out the Q&A with a series of questions to Maher about how much federal funding makes up NPR’s revenue:

Greene and Lynch wrapped the hearing with closing statements and, in Greene’s case, she dropped the hammer with even more examples of bias, such as PBS claiming in 2010 there are Christian bombings on a daily basis and even video of a drag queen on a show aimed at children from ages three to eight:

To see the relevant transcript from the March 26 hearing, click here.

In the wake of far-left radical Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) again mocking Republican Governor Greg Abbott (TX) because of his wheelchair, the loony liberal ladies of ABC’s The View did their best to clean up the mess. On Wednesday, the cast tried to argue that Crockett was taken out of context, that it was only a “mistake,” and she only needed to apologize. But according to ABC News co-host Joy Behar, Abbott’s disability deserved to be mocked because he supported President Trump.

At the top of the segment, moderator Whoopi Goldberg parroted Crockett’s ridiculous excuse for calling the wheelchair-bound Governor “Governor Hot Wheels”: “Now, Congresswoman Crockett denies she was mocking Abbott’s disability. She says she was referring to his use of train, planes, and automobiles to transfer migrants around the country.”

Behar immediately jumped in and defended Crockett and scoff at the fact that there was genuine outrage at her. She argued that Abbott’s disability deserved to be mocked because he supported Trump and Trump once mocked a reporter:

BEHAR: Where was the outrage from Abbott when Trump was doing this?

[Cuts to video]

TRUMP: Written by a nice reporter. Now the poor guy, you got to see this guy, “Oh, I don’t know what I said. I don’t remember.” He’s going like, I don’t remember. Maybe that’s what I said.

[Cuts back to live]

BEHAR: Well, that was about a reporter named Serge Kovaleski that suffers from a condition that restricts joint movement. And he had interviewed Trump many times in the 80s. So, he was basically making fun of the guy’s disability and I didn’t hear the “OUTRAGE” then! [Used air quotes]

“Not that [Crockett]’s right or wrong,” Behar proclaimed, proceeding to further downplay Crockett’s use of “Governor Hot Wheels” to mock Abbott. “I mean, the thing about her, she was looking for a way to say ‘hot mess’ and ‘hot wheels’ and, you know, you should leave that stuff to the comedians,” she said.

 

 

Behar later tried to suggest that the reporting about Crockett mocking Abbott’s disability was just “another lie.” But co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out that there were several examples of Crockett mocking Abbott’s disability dating back years:

BEHAR: How about sometimes we have a headline about Whoopi and Joy, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh and when you read the article ‘they love each other. They love each other.’ So, that’s another lie.

FARAH GRIFFIN: I should note though, she’d made a joke before about him, hot wheels numerous times.

BEHAR: And what did she say that time?

FARAH GRIFFIN: There was like three or four examples. Referred to him as “Governor Hot Wheels,” said he was ‘rolling up to the White House.’

Our friend Peter Hasson at The Washington Free Beacon, broke a story on Tuesday exposing the fact Crockett was liking Facebook posts calling Abbott “Governor Hot Wheels” dating back to 2021.

Much of the rest of The View cast wanted this scandal to go away as quickly as possible and lamented that Crockett had to go through this. Pretend independent Sara Haines praised Crockett as “a very talented politician” and “a very talented communicator” to whom which “people gravitate towards.”

Haines used it as an opportunity to attack a GOP congresswoman: “This was beneath her, because Marjorie Taylor Greene, we expect that. That’s the only way she can get a headline is by saying crazy stuff and then everyone looks. Representative Crockett is so much better than this.”

It was another example of hypocrisy from Haines. During an interview with Crockett back in February, Haines lauded her guest for insulting Rep. Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) body and looks. “Well Congresswoman, you’ve earned a reputation for calling out certain Republican antics. We all remember the ‘bleach blonde bad built butch body’ moment with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene,” she touted.

Haines herself also once attacked Abbott for his wheelchair. Following the Uvalde School Shooting, Haines went after the Governor for sitting during the press conference. “Many people can’t even peel themselves off the floor in grief in those communities and yet he’s sitting there holding some kind of press conference,” she chided.

 

 

Co-host Sunny Hostin said she “admire[s] Jasmine Crockett” because “she is an effective messenger.” Hostin tried to downplay the comments as a “mistake” and advised Crockett to “own it.” “You have to do that because it gives you a lot more credibility when you do that,” she added.

Hostin also claimed she was only just finding out that Abbott was in a wheelchair, but noted that, as a representative from Texas, Crockett had likely known about it:

I did not know that governor Abbott was a paraplegic. I had no idea that he went around — the people in the audience are also shaking their heads. I didn’t know that. I didn’t know a tree fell on him when he was 26. A lot of his photos are taken from the waist up. But she is the representative from Texas, so she very much so must have known that he is in a wheelchair. And so, I hope that she does the right thing.

For her part, Goldberg suggested that maybe people were misinterpreting what Crockett meant by calling the wheelchair-bound Governor “Governor Hot Wheels”:

You have to be so careful with what you say because your intentions may have been absolutely what you said. But once people hear you say something, it is not about what you said, it’s about what they think your intentions are. So, everybody has got to be really careful.

Goldberg and Hostin teamed up to denounce calls from Republicans to censure Crockett. Seemingly under the impression that the GOP and Congress had to do whatever she personally ordered them to, Goldberg decreed: “[S]he made a mistake, and we’re going to move on. We’re not censuring people. We’re not going to do it. We’re going to say to people, just don’t do it.”

The transcript is below, click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
March 26, 2025
11:16:09 a.m. Eastern

(…)

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now, Congresswoman Crockett denies she was mocking Abbott’s disability. She says she was referring to his use of train, planes, and automobiles to transfer migrants around the country. She should not have made the comment at all, but, Joy.

JOY BEHAR: Well, I was just thinking when I saw this about – Where was the outrage from Abbott when Trump was doing this?

[Cuts to video]

DONALD TRUMP: Written by a nice reporter. Now the poor guy, you got to see this guy, “Oh, I don’t know what I said. I don’t remember.” He’s going like, I don’t remember. Maybe that’s what I said.

[Cuts back to live]

BEHAR: Well, that was about a reporter named Serge Kovaleski that suffers from a condition that restricts joint movement. And he had interviewed Trump many times in the 80s. So, he was basically making fun of the guy’s disability and I didn’t hear the “OUTRAGE” then! Not that she’s right or wrong. I mean, the thing about her, she was looking for a way to say hot mess and hot wheels and, you know, you should leave that stuff to the comedians.

SARA HAINES: I think she should just own it because Jasmine Crockett is a very talented politician. Crockett, sorry. Is a very talented communicator, politician, she’s effective, people gravitate towards her.

This was beneath her, because Marjorie Taylor Greene, we expect that. That’s the only way she can get a headline is by saying crazy stuff and then everyone looks. Representative Crockett is so much better than this.

So, I think it would have been really relatable because the rest of that speech, if you watch it, she’s really impassioned. She says, ‘I’m going off script.’ What I love a politician to do, is say, “I said that, I shouldn’t have said that” and then move on because then everyone would move on with her. She’s just too good for this.

(…)

11:18:49 a.m. Eastern

GOLDBERG: You have to be so careful with what you say because your intentions may have been absolutely what you said. But once people hear you say something, it is not about what you said, it’s about what they think your intentions are. So, everybody has got to be really careful. I’m sorry.

BEHAR: How about sometimes we have a headline about Whoopi and Joy, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh and when you read the article ‘they love each other. They love each other.’ So, that’s another lie.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: I should note though, she’d made a joke before about him, hot wheels numerous times.

BEHAR: And what did she say that time?

FARAH GRIFFIN: There was like three or four examples. Referred to him as “Governor Hot Wheels,” said he was ‘rolling up to the White House.’ Said — it’s —

SUNNY HOSTIN: I think — I think that.

BEHAR: Not a good idea.

HOSTIN: You just don’t mock people with disabilities.

GOLDBERG: You don’t mock people.

HOSTIN: You don’t mock people. I was just going to say, you don’t mock people at all.

And I admire Jasmine Crockett. I do think she is an effective messenger. I think this was a mistake and I think when you make a mistake you have to own it. You have to do that because it gives you a lot more credibility when you do that.

I did not know that governor Abbott was a paraplegic. I had no idea that he went around — the people in the audience are also shaking their heads. I didn’t know that. I didn’t know a tree fell on him when he was 26. A lot of his photos are taken from the waist up. But she is the representative from Texas, so she very much so must have known that he is in a wheelchair. And so, I hope that she does the right thing — they want to censure her for it.

[Crosstalk]

HOSTIN: That’s not appropriate but it is appropriate for her to apologize.

GOLDBERG: You can’t – If you want me to take everything you say when he talks about different people – You said, ‘No, no, he was just joking.’ Okay, then let’s all do that right now and say, she made a mistake, and we’re going to move on. We’re not censuring people. We’re not going to do it. We’re going to say to people, just don’t do it. Don’t make jokes. As Joy says – what is it?

BEHAR: Leave it to the comedians.

GOLDBERG: That’s right. We’ll be right back.

As expected, Snow White’s remake and its lecturing leading lady’s career blew up like a Hezbollah pager this week. 

It turns out, nobody wants to line up to be yelled at by a princess-turned two-dimensional boss lady whose kingdom of comrades waged a cultural revolution on their childhood classics. 

Will our self-appointed entertainment overlords get a clue when they take a look at their movie’s whopping IMDB rating of 1.3 out of 10 this week? Or when their wallets suddenly feel light after losing millions? 

Of course not.

In a way, the mousy main character syndrome disaster of Snow Woke perfectly encapsulates the outdated and out-of-touch progressives who still believe they have their thumb on our culture. 

The self-congratulating actress, her meager fanbase of adult children and their faceless internet mob have convinced themselves for years that their Marxist agenda places them above everyone as the moral authority. When the rest of the world tunes out, they blame society, of course!

It seems the Left needs to take a sobering look at the Magic Mirror, most of all. 

Tune into this episode of “Woke of the Weak!”