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Monday, April 6, 2026

The Dysfunctional Media Nominations: Murderer Apologies, Political Salads, and a Capable Cornhole Killer

The Dysfunctional Media Nominations: Murderer Apologies, Political Salads, and a Capable Cornhole Killer

*The Remmys. (Credit: Brad Slager/ChatGPT)*

It is time for a new round of nominations of nefarious news nonsense! In recognizing the unprofessional press, journalistic sloth, and the deserved media mockery, we nominate these efforts in a variety of categories for end-of-the-year honors. To commemorate the legacy of muckraking reporting and shoe-leather investigation, we have created The Golden Remington Awards.

ALSO SEE: The 2025 Golden Remington Awards — Celebrating the Year in Fractured Journalism: Part 3, The Major Honors

Our trophy honors the olden days when hard-scrabble hacks committed actual journalism and hammered out dispatches on those hefty word-smith devices. We compile some of the most fractured examples of journalism, nominating them for the un-coveted dishonor of our un-distinguished trophy, The Remmys.

Here is the latest batch of nominees for consideration, gathered for the end of the calendar when we will be handing out trophies to the most un-impressive acts of journalism throughout the past year!

Distinguished Investigative Journalism

Donie O’Sullivan - CNN

There has been an imbalanced amount of attention paid to Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback. The press has been intent on making the alleged supremacist the face of Republicans, despite the fact that he is polling below the margin of error.

In one cagey effort on this front, CNN’s O’Sullivan latched onto one of Fishback’s policy positions: He wants to tax OnlyFans accounts at a 50 percent rate. This has allowed Donie to then spend time interviewing the tarts on that platform to get their opinions on this proposal…to conduct journalism, you see.

Distinguished Explanatory Reporting

Adam Wren - Politico

There is usually every effort made in the press to boost the prospects of Democrats who have designs on higher office. Gavin Newsom has already had his share of throne-sniffing profiles, but there appears to be another name with hopes of joining the 2028 presidential field, and Politico is on the case.

Mr. Wren has decided that Democratic reptile Rahm Emanuel is primed for the White House. He makes this assessment based on…how the former Chicago Mayor eats a to-go salad. We cannot throw our support behind the man based solely on his positions on croutons!

Distinguished Local Reporting

The Loyola Phoenix

There was the harsh news out recently of the killing of Sheridan Gorman, the 18-year-old co-ed from Loyola University. The man charged with her murder is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela with a criminal history. Despite that residency status, after accurately reporting on the killing, the campus newspaper felt a need to come out with a public apology and a correction for referring to the alleged murderer as an illegal alien.

Distinguished Breaking News

Jacob Soboroff – MS NOW

We just knew that when the third iteration of the No Kings protests was held, MS NOW’s Soboroff would be gushing shamelessly over the demonstration. This is the guy, after all, who last fall was at the second protest and excitedly ran up to interview…a pink unicorn, with his microphone jammed into their inflatable snout.

For the latest monarchal meddling event, he was walking among the throngs, beaming and desperate to get people on camera with him, as a stream of people declined. And of those he did speak to, he would have preferred silence. One guy admitted he was a community organizer for a labor union, and one woman he badgered into coming on camera had to sheepishly admit she was protesting the government while being a government worker.

Distinguished Feature Writing

Emily Badger, Junho Lee, Larry Buchanan - New York Times

The plans for the White House ballroom have been revealed, and the New York Times is rather upset that they were not brought in for the planning stage. The paper gathered an architect, a fine arts expert, and an urban planner to look over the design and lend their critiques.

One is that the roof is “unnecessarily big” (huh?), and the facade of the planned build is “very tall.”

Well, there you have it — this build is an entire boondoggle!

The Golden Courdoroy Pillow (for Best Headline Writing, sponsored by the New York Post)

ABC News

This one has to be the leader in the clubhouse for the top honor.

Distinguished Cultural Criticism

William Earl - Variety

After the passing of Chuck Norris, everybody was affected by this and looked back on his career with deep fondness. Except for one person.

William Earl was memorializing the action star and world icon, and he felt the need to inject politics into the obituary process. He idiotically tried to suggest that Chuck Norris’ political views would overshadow his memory. This is the act of a stunted writer who lets politics dominate his job duty of reporting facts.

Distinguished Cultural Commentary

Emma Fitzsimmons, Anna Watts - New York Times

In a series on how New Yorkers are surviving in the city, the paper profiles a family that is struggling to get by on $500,000 annually. Among their monthly expenses is $500 eating out and $370 for dog grooming.

They are pushing to have government-funded daycare for their son.

Former Climate Activist Perfectly Explains Why Net-Zero Leads to Disaster

Former Climate Activist Perfectly Explains Why Net-Zero Leads to Disaster

Rick Moran

"Road to Damascus" moments are rare in these times. Social media strongly discourages changing one's mind about anything; otherwise, you risk being branded a hypocrite or worse.

That's why it was refreshing to read a climate activist's revelations about the absolute necessity for fossil fuels.

Lucy Biggers spent 10 years as a self-described "climate journalist and influencer." "I believed I was on the right side of history, fighting against the climate crisis, and for a more just and equitable world," she writes in The Free Press.

"Now as I watch Cuba suffer from its lack of Venezuelan oil, and see the panic over the Strait of Hormuz, I’m reminded of the importance of oil and why, despite spending trillions of dollars in an attempt to transition to renewables, oil, coal, and natural gas still produce 86 percent of the energy consumed around the world," Biggers writes.

Perhaps the Cuban catastrophe and the threat to the Strait have clarified her thinking about fossil fuels. In much the same way, many liberals in the 1970s saw the radicalism that was taking over the left and gravitated toward conservatism.

The Free Press:

Among the climate activists, there’s a deep belief in a kind of net-zero utopia. A vision where we can rapidly eliminate fossil fuels without serious trade-offs. In this worldview, the moral clarity of the goal far outweighs the inconvenience of reality. That was the world I lived in for six years.
I got pulled in around 2016, watching social media footage of Native American tribes protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline. I had seen documentaries like An Inconvenient Truth, Before the Flood, and Gasland, and I believed fossil fuel companies were villains destroying the planet. The climate movement gave me a sense of purpose and a way to feel virtuous.
But over time, I started to question it. In the first year of the pandemic, with our freedom of movement heavily curtailed, small businesses shuttered, and children attending school on Zoom, global carbon emissions fell by only about 5.8 percent. Given that, what would net-zero require of us?

Many liberals my age in the 1970s became disillusioned with the left's refusal to see where their policies would lead the United States, and despite opposition to the lies told by the government about the Vietnam War, they began to rethink their politics. Their journey from left to right was chronicled in David Horowitz's Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the 60s.

Today's climate activists are just as close-minded, just as impervious to logic and reason as their grandparents were in the 1970s.

Biggers "covered pipeline protests, pushed the Green New Deal, and repeated slogans like “Just stop oil” and “Keep it in the ground," she writes in The Free Press. "I believed I was on the right side of history, fighting against the climate crisis, and for a more just and equitable world."

In fact, she and her fellow climate radicals were refusing to face the simple reality that any Econ 101 student could have pointed out to her.

Critics will say if we just transitioned to renewables we could get off fossil fuels. But physics begs to differ. Solar and wind production just aren’t as energy-dense or reliable as oil and gas. They’re intermittent, meaning the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. This means our energy systems have to build out twice as much to get less reliable energy. In Europe, which has most zealously chased the net-zero mirage, energy prices have gone up and their manufacturing economy has suffered. Batteries are also not a practical solution. They have serious downsides, including a supply chain reliant on China, environmentally destructive mining, and an expensive price tag. Germany has invested tens of billions of euros to build out its battery capacity to 24–25.5 gigawatt hours. Sounds impressive, but that amount of storage could not even meet an hour of the country’s energy demand.

"Instead of a utopia, you get what’s happening in Cuba: a country in which many neighborhoods have power for only a few hours a day, the people are desperate, and daily life has ground to a halt," she writes.

"It turns out you can’t 'just stop oil' without consequences," she concludes.

The fact is, Gen Z and Gen X don't do consequences. That's why they can sublimely advocate for the end of fossil fuels and still imagine a "utopia" and see themselves saving the Earth from climate change.

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/04/03/former-climate-activist-perfectly-explains-why-the-goal-of-net-zero-carbon-emissions-leads-to-disaster-n4951409?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Elon: ‘We Are Making Some Progress’

Elon: ‘We Are Making Some Progress’

Mark Lewis

Elon: ‘We Are Making Some Progress’ — *AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File*

I think Elon Musk is a good man, not perfect, but then, the guy I look at in the mirror every morning isn’t perfect, either, so I’m not going to knock Elon about that. I don’t know any perfect people. Well, that’s not true. Leftists are perfect, of course. If you don’t think they are perfect, just ask them. There are reasons leftists consider themselves perfect. When you are allowed to set up your own standard of “right” and “wrong” (which leftists do), and you judge yourself by your own standard of “right” and “wrong,” then how can you do anything wrong? If you violate your own standard, you just change the standard and add the “wrong” thing you did to the “right” side of the column. Voila! Perfection! They do it all the time, individually and collectively.

But Elon Musk doesn’t do that (I don’t think), and I certainly don’t. And I believe most Townhall readers and thinking Americans understand that the unAmerican, “woke” mind has been devastating to the country, absolutely horrendous. It might end up destroying America. Elon is optimistic. We are making some progress, he believes.

He recently wrote the following in an X post: “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus. We are making some progress.” I certainly applaud his “vow” to destroy the “woke mind virus.” Every American needs to make that same “vow.” Unfortunately, about half the country hasn’t done that yet. But Elon does see “progress” in that regard.

For all his high intelligence, it’s not impossible that Elon is totally wrong here and completely misreading current America. I confess, I personally don’t see much progress being made—just the opposite, in fact—but I do believe that Elon is a smart feller, and he gets around a lot more than I do. So, I grant the possibility that he is reading the situation more accurately than I, and that “progress” is being made in destroying the “woke mind virus.” I certainly hope he is right. But I haven’t noticed it yet.

I also think that what Elon is possibly attempting here is to try to encourage us in this battle against wokeism. If we have confidence in Elon, and we think he is on the right track, then that might inspire us to strengthen our efforts to destroy this moronic demon that is tearing our country apart.

I do think Elon, in one sense, however, is definitely on the right path. We—patriotic, God-fearing Americans—are awake now and perceive what is going on in the nation, after doing a Rip Van Winkle for several decades. For years, we slept, naively thinking “it” couldn’t happen in America, and we let the Left have their way in nearly every area, with hardly a whimper of protest. Now we are fighting back. The problem is, the rot is so deep and widespread that it will take years to clean it out. And, of course, about half of America doesn’t want it cleaned out. That’s a major part of the Left’s success. They have unalterably converted countless numbers of Americans to their cause, and these Americans appear irredeemably lost. Is it too late?

And the problem is serious, folks. Not only are we fighting to save the people who have already succumbed to godless leftism, and to get them to see its decadent errors and what it is doing to the country, we are fighting those who continue to perpetuate leftist horrors and want them increased and spread. And that’s why, in a response I wrote to Elon’s post, I replied that it took a long time for America to get into this sewer, and it will take a long time to rise out of it.

Elon calls it a “virus” (an accurate term) while I usually refer to it as a cancer, and will do so now. Serious cancer in the human body requires desperate, often invasive, measures to save the patient. And it isn’t an easy, or speedy, process. Sadly, sometimes it doesn’t work and the patient dies. We have a grave cancer in the American body politic today—leftism as embodied in the Democratic Party. It’s been growing for quite a while, and we are trying to kill it. But the cancer in our body fights back and keeps trying to grow; and the cancer in America is certainly fighting back and continuing its efforts to extend through our entire country. If we don’t get rid of the cancer in our body, it will kill us. And if we don’t get rid of the cancer in America, the country will die. Elon thinks “we are making some progress” in ridding America’s body of the cancer (virus) that is trying to destroy us. But again, I ask the question, is it already too late?

I do have great respect for Elon Musk and his post encouraged me some. I’m in Thailand looking at the forest from afar and can’t see the individual “trees” as well as people living in America. There are advantages to both perspectives, but Elon talks to many more Americans than I do, and he is positive. At least his post indicated he was. I certainly hope he is right. I do believe we’ll get a little better idea of whether he is correct or not in the midterm elections this year. A Democratic Party victory will not be a truly “progressive” step for America. But, either way, the rot in America is very deep, and won’t be eliminated quickly or easily, if at all.

https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/04/04/elon-we-are-making-some-progress-n2673911?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-nf8JM3UDFC&utm_term=&_nlid=nf8JM3UDFC&_nhids=nc6QLInWtqbEls

Sunday, April 5, 2026

And in Other News, an Islamic Terrorist Attacks in… Utah

And in Other News, an Islamic Terrorist Attacks in… Utah

Robert Spencer

While the attention of most Americans is focused on the war with Iran, the state of the economy, and another possible return of the McRib, the Islamic jihad quietly and inexorably continues to advance. Last Friday, it came to Sandy, Utah, where it had appeared before, courtesy of the same jihad terrorist on both occasions.

And so the inevitable question arises: Why was a jihad terrorist running around loose in Sandy, Utah, after he had been charged with terrorism in Oct. 2024? No answer, however, is yet forthcoming.

Salt Lake City’s KSL reported Friday that Sayed Mousavi, who was “previously charged for making terrorism threats against the Sandy police department was shot and killed by a Utah Highway Patrol trooper last Friday afternoon on I-15.” Why was he out roaming around on I-15 after making terrorism threats against the Sandy police department?

The latest incident began when Mousavi, who lives in Sandy, “hit the trooper’s vehicle about 5 p.m. near 4500 South on I-15, and kept going, before coming to a stop near 3500 South, according to the Utah Department of Public Safety.” The trooper in the wounded vehicle then approached Mousavi in his car, but found him in no mood to offer either excuses or apologies.

Instead, Mousavi “got out of his car on the freeway” and “allegedly pulled out a knife, ‘leading to the trooper discharging their firearm,’” according to the Utah Department of Public Safety. Mousavi was killed.

All this followed the Oct. 2024 incident, after which Mousavi was “charged with terrorism, failure to respond to an officer’s signal to stop and driving on a suspended or revoked license after fleeing from police.” As if that weren’t enough, “after he was arrested, Mousavi allegedly said he was going to shoot up the Sandy Police Department and stated several times that as soon as he was released, he would kill Americans.”

Salt Lake City’s KUTV reported in Nov. 2024 that Mousavi actually threatened not only to "kill Americans,” but to “kill the U.S.A." He declared that he was going to "buy guns and shoot up the Sandy Police Department." That incident started when Sandy police officers “noticed Mousavi was in a car that had been reported as stolen.” There is a certain Keystone Kops aspect to all this: “They tried to stop him three times, but he drove off all three times and gave officers ‘the middle finger,’ the DA's Office said.”

Mousavi wasn’t able to elude the cops indefinitely: “An officer eventually disabled the car and took Mousavi into custody.” When they did, they searched his car and found a paper on which was written: "Pressure Israel to cease fire with killing significant jews in Gaza. And lets take non hostage. Only soldiers/male government. Conduct assignation of leaders. Attack Military sites with most expensive bombs. Plant bombs inside Z-jets."

The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office noted that a Sandy City police officer identified only as Biggs carted Mousavi off to jail, and while they were on the way, “the defendant told Officer Biggs that he was going to kill Americans and kill the U.S.A., and to watch the news in two weeks to a month if the officer did not believe him.”

After that, the media trail goes cold until Sayed Mousavi shows up in the news again for attacking the cop on I-15 and getting himself killed. It is clear from that fact, however, that despite his threats to kill Americans as soon as he was released, he was released anyway, and given ample opportunity to make good on his threats.

There is no indication of what Sayed Mousavi was doing between Nov. 2024 and March 2026, but it’s clear that when he had his fatal encounter with a police officer on I-15, he had been itching for a confrontation. Otherwise, he would not have hit the police vehicle and driven away, or pulled a knife when approached.

So why was he loose and able to provoke that confrontation? If he was not a U.S. citizen, he should have been deported. If he was a citizen, his terrorist threats should have been taken more seriously. It is likely, however, that the still prevalent fantasy that Islam is a religion of peace and that those who contend otherwise are contemptible purveyors of “Islamophobia” played a significant role. Sayed Mousavi was treated as if he were a man who simply lost his temper, rather than one on a mission for a malevolent god. The longer the denial and willful ignorance of Americans continue, the more Sayed Mousavis there will be.

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/04/03/and-in-other-news-an-islamic-terrorist-attacks-in-utah-n4951428?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

The Reactions to Justice Jackson's Questions During Birthright Citizenship Argument Were Gold

The Reactions to Justice Jackson's Questions During Birthright Citizenship Argument Were Gold

Matt Vespa

The Reactions to Justice Jackson's Questions During Birthright Citizenship Argument Were Gold — *AP Photo/Alex Brandon*

Things don’t look good for the Trump administration on the birthright citizenship case. There seems to be a strong majority skeptical of their challenge to the legal idea, even though one might argue that the Founders never envisioned millions of people crossing our border without wanting to assimilate, breeding like rabbits to claim many benefits paid for by us taxpayers.

How can someone, for example, meet the domicile benchmark when existing law states that those entering the US illegally can be deported if caught by the police?

When Justice Gorsuch questioned if the government was citing Roman law, it was not the best start, but at least that wing of the court was going off precedent or inquiring about it through the Constitution. Yet Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s example was, well, incoherent. It did provide some grade-A reactions, though:

I mean, what is happening, folks?

No doubt the other eight jurists were second-hand embarrassed by this.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/02/the-reactions-to-justice-jacksons-questions-during-birthright-citizenship-argument-were-gold-n2673831?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-xp6c9JZGhj&utm_term=&_nlid=xp6c9JZGhj&_nhids=ncXyxhj9TGgols