Senate Democrats brought out the slime buckets for the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing on Tuesday. The journalists call it "tense," but we might call the Democrats "unglued." Trump's nominees are receiving much harsher media treatment than Biden's nominees four years ago. Bill D'Agostino marvels at the sight.  

CNN touted a former CNN producer from the "fact-checking" site Lead Stories saying Facebook cutting them is like "disbanding your fire department." That's wrong, and deeply insensitive. The media are now crying "disinformation" when anyone seeks to blame Democrats for their preparedness before the Los Angeles wildfires.

NewsBusters reported that five late-night comedy shows uncorked almost 6,000 jokes against Trump to about 1,110 about Joe Biden (and only 92 about Kamala Harris). All this allegedly hilarious hostility failed to prevent Trump from getting re-elected. Our comedy analyst Alex Christy has crunched all the late-night numbers and analysis of the Keystone Cops of comedy.

Mark Zuckerberg fired the so-called "independent fact-checkers" from the Meta websites. He said they're so biased they "destroyed more trust than they created." Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider says this is a big victory.

Surprisingly, the networks weren't riveted by President Biden awarding a presidential medal to Liz Cheney (and Democrat Bennie Thompson) for their work on the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6. One newspaper preposterously said the medals were part of Biden's "push for bipartisanship and decency in politics." This is pure publicity, claiming that Biden's been decent and bipartisan to the Republicans.

Filmmaker Adam McKay -- best known for making films like "Anchorman" with Will Ferrell -- comes unglued on Twitter, suggesting the movie musical "Wicked" is all about radicalization and fascism, so "If America keeps going on the track it is I wouldn’t be surprised to see the movie banned in 3-5 years." Which movies were banned under Trump in the first term?

Is CNN toast in 2025? Is MSNBC going to flounder? They're nervous on the Left about the legacy media being replaced by podcasters and the like. But if the usual pattern holds, the leftist base of these networks will return once Trump is inaugurated. We can hope they'll have a small audience in the long run if they're sticking to leftist propaganda.

Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan "High Priestex" at the Winter Solstice.

How will the latest shutdown showdown end? The media always use the threat of shutdowns to paint Republicans as heartless budget slashers, and that's especially fun for them at Christmas time. They paint federal employees as too broke to buy a Christmas tree.  Paul Teller of Advancing American Freedom talks about hopes for restricting federal spending in 2025 and beyond.

How will Team Trump revise the seating chart or the questioner list at the White House briefing when new press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes the podium in January? Would they dare to put conservative media in the front row? Managing editor Curtis Houck brings all his daily monitoring of the briefings to the table.