As the left-wing media wallowed in their self-absorbed censorship fantasy, MSNBC continued to reaffirm its commitment to being the worst offender. At the end of an exhaustingly boring week, Ana Cabrera Reports decided to add a little pizzazz to Friday morning by blatantly lying about what “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel’s possibly famous last words on ABC actually meant. In what should have been an easy whine session about the FCC and President Trump, former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy boldly spoke the opposite of the truth: “Look at what Jimmy Kimmel just—we haven’t even talked about what he said. He didn’t say anything incorrect.” This is what Kimmel said verbatim: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” One didn’t even need a single citation to prove how just how fallacious and moronic Darcy’s defense of the late night comedian was. But here’s one anyways. Host Ana Cabrera interjected by playing stupid: “Well, it was hard to understand exactly what he meant when he was talking about the ‘MAGA gang’ and ‘one of their own.’”     What, exactly, was so hard to understand about what Kimmel said? There was no way to twist what Kimmel said other than brazenly lying. Kimmel portrayed suspect Tyler Robinson as part of the right wing, which, as everyone knew, was not true. Why would a Trump fan shoot Kirk? If there was another way to interpret it, surely ABC and Kimmel’s army of lefty sympathizers would point that out. Instead, they had to resort to calling the suspension an attack on the First Amendment. Darcy doubled-down on the unfortunate and completely unnecessary pit-stop at liar town: “Sure. But he didn’t say anything incorrect.” The unrelenting right-wing critic then shifted towards bashing on Fox News, his usual hate object: DARCY: I mean, just last week we had a Fox host call for the euthanization of millions of homeless people, and that person’s still on the air and apologized for about, like, 10 seconds on a weekend show. CABRERA: Yeah, there's been no blowback from this administration. This was in reference to Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade. On September 10, in a discussion about the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska and how people on buses and trains have to deal with potentially violent mentally ill people who refuse any treatment, he blurted out "involuntary lethal injection...Just kill 'em."  His subsequent apology for what he confessed were "extremely callous" remarks seems to have satiated the right, but not the left. But Darcy had to admit, in terms of FCC action, “I mean, that's a cable channel, so it's a little different.” Trump may hate liberal cable news just as much as those on the three letter networks, but they can’t simply be pulled off the air because he doesn’t like them. Darcy recounted Fox’s defamation suit of Dominion and the FCC dismissing a license case as proof that’s not what’s happening now. He finished with a total killer: “These free speech absolutists are actually, at the end of the day, censorship tyrants.” The true irony was that Cabrera and Darcy acted out in real time the reasons why Trump hated the left-wing media so much: dishonesty and constant complaining about the right. Maybe it’s time to switch it up a bit, MSNBC. The transcript is below.  MSNBC’S Ana Cabrera Reports September 19, 2025 10:13:54 a.m. Eastern ANA CABRERA: Oliver, [FCC chairman Brendan] Carr keeps citing public interest and news distortion as justification for some of these moves and the pressure that they’re putting on. Your thoughts about that. OLIVER DARCY: It’s ridiculous. I mean, it’s patently ridiculous. Look at what Jimmy Kimmel just—we haven’t even talked about what he said. He didn’t say anything incorrect. He might have— CABRERA: Well, it was hard to understand exactly what he meant when he was talking about the “MAGA gang” and “one of their own.” DARCY: Sure. But he didn’t say anything incorrect. I mean, just last week we had a Fox host call for the euthanization of millions of homeless people, and that person’s still on the air and apologized for about, like, 10 seconds on a weekend show. CABRERA: Yeah, there's been no blowback from this administration. DARCY: Yeah, no blowback from the administration, no blowback from these people that talk about the public interest. I mean, that's a cable channel, so it's a little different. But the broader point is, this is all targeting Donald Trump's critics. That's exactly what they're doing. In fact, one of the cases with the FCC was about a Fox station and whether they should have been allowed to have that license, given all the lies that Rupert Murdoch aired during the 2020 election. And that's—we know about this because the Dominion case. These senior executives at Fox willfully misled their audience. And, you know, there was no interest in this case from Brendon Carr. And actually, the previous FCC chairman dismissed that case. And so that was actually an interesting case, because maybe you could say, “Should Rupert Murdoch have a station, given it's supposed to be in the public interest, if he's willfully lying to his audience and using a company to lie and mislead the American people?” There's nothing like that in this case. And there's nothing like that in all the cases, really, that Brendon Carr is pursuing against media companies. He’s going after Donald Trump’s critics to silence them. And I think we should be very clear about that. These free speech absolutists are actually, at the end of the day, censorship tyrants.

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… is from page 27 of the 2015 Matthew Dale translation of Weiying Zhang’s superb 2010 book, The Logic of the Market:

How do enterprises create more surplus value? They rely on creativity. Market competition is not simply price competition. Instead, it is a competition to see who has the ability to produce new products, or uses new ways to produce products at a lower cost. It is a competition to see who can find new markets, discover new raw materials, and use new forms of organization to create higher value for the consumer. Whoever can do so will receive a larger market share.

DBx: Yes.

The image above is taken from this paper of mine from the 1980s.

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An explosive new report exposed the extent to which leftist billionaire George Soros has kept the gravy train for the pro-terrorism movement going for years.  Are we shocked? Not one bit! Capital Research Center Investigative Researcher Ryan Mauro released a devastating investigation September 17 exposing how Soros gave “over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence.” As Mauro concluded, “The evidence is stark: Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in ‘direct actions’ that the FBI defines as domestic terrorism.” This pool included groups that helped train activists in “property destruction and sabotage” during the 2020 Marxist Black Lives Matter riots, and the climate change-obsessed Sunrise Movement, which Mauro wrote “endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments.” What’s even more damning is that this brand of dangerous, radicalized organizations that Soros funds isn’t just limited to American streets, but even stretches across the globe right into the heart of Islamist terrorist conflict in the Middle East. For example, per Mauro, the Soros machine “funneled more than $2.3 million into Al-Haq, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the West Bank and long accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union and the United States designate as a foreign terrorist organization.” On September 4, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioned Al-Haq and two other organizations for engaging in “efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent.” In effect, as Mauro wrote, “Soros’s foundation has not only financed extremist groups within the United States but also funneled millions abroad to entities now formally sanctioned by Washington.” Mauro builds extensively on MRC Business research conducted in 2023 following terrorist group Hamas’s genocidal attack on Israel on October 7. Soros-funded groups like Al-Shabaka and the Middle East Children’s Alliance, which openly celebrated the wanton murder, rape and pillaging the terrorists inflicted on Israeli civilians. Around the same time, MRC Business was also the first to resurface a disturbing 2007 op-ed buried in the Soros website archives, where the billionaire demanded for the United States and Israel to “open the door” to Hamas in negotiations.  Then-MRC President Brent Bozell and MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider wrote an October 12, 2023, letter to the Open Society Foundations (OSF) calling on both George and his "more political" son Alex Soros to disclose all of their pro-Hamas grantees, publicly disavow them and terminate all funding to those groups. “Given that your donations have gone straight into the bloodstream of those who seek to exterminate Jews and push Israel into the sea, it is clear that you have an even greater duty to purge yourselves of your transgressions,” Bozell and Schneider wrote. More recently, OSF President Binaifer Nowrojee outlandishly smeared Israel in a powerful Soros-financed publication as supposedly committing “genocide” against the Palestininan people by weaponizing starvation, completely ignoring the over 183,000 tons of aid the Israel Defense Forces let into Gaza since May 2025 alone. But in the face of Mauro’s latest investigation into Soros’s pro-terror funding, Nowrojee’s anti-Israel kvetching makes sense. Mauro’s corresponding, 90-page report effectively proves what the MRC had been saying all along: the Soros empire despises America and Israel so much that it holds no qualms about financing pro-terror organizations dedicated to unraveling both nations connected by a common Judeo-Christian heritage. As MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider told One America News in an October 19, 2023, interview: George Soros and now his son Alex — who has taken over the evil empire — have defined the enemy and the enemy is Israel.  They have, in word and deed, they have consistently supported Hamas and Hezbollah against the Jewish state.  And I know that they claim to be Jewish, but their actions reject the whole idea of a Jewish state. Read Ryan Mauro's entire 90-page investigation below!

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