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Hoover Institution Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg completely flipped the script on the climate activists in the media and academia who were predicting hurricane catastrophe for the U.S. this year. Here’s a hint: the climate Armageddon never happened. Lomborg unleashed a pretty spicy take in a December 3 Wall Street Journal op-ed that’s sure to make heads explode in the leftist press: “Climate Change Might Have Spared America From Hurricanes.” Say what? Lomborg’s core argument was that “Scientific and media bias promote the illusion that global warming produces nothing but bad results.” Talk about a plot twist. MRC Business drafted a roundup November 24 of outlets like The New York Times and CBS News that were all clamoring to make readers and viewers believe that the end was nigh before hurricane season kicked in. CNN meteorologist Briana Waxman, for example, scare-mongered August 4 that “Primetime hurricane season is here, and the Atlantic is a powder keg.”  For all the climate brouhaha, the final tally for this year’s hurricane season amounted to just 13 tropical storms and five hurricanes with no U.S. landfall, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  Watch CBS Evening News Co-Anchor John Dickerson's initial doom reporting on hurricane season from May below   Lomborg took note of the extreme bias media types continue to look through whenever they’re trying to make a changing climate out to be the boogeyman adults should be seeing in their nightmares: These analyses typically run climate models simulating the world as it is today, with elevated sea-surface temperatures, and compare them with a hypothetical preindustrial world with cooler oceans. If a hurricane is more likely in the former scenario than in the latter, the conclusion is that climate change made the hurricane more likely … But notice what’s missing from the coverage. A New York Times article in October highlighted hurricanes ‘turning away from the East Coast,’ noting 12 named storms so far but only one minor tropical storm brushing the U.S. This was framed as welcome relief, with the misses attributed to atmospheric steering patterns like the Bermuda high-pressure system. Not once did the piece invoke climate change. The journalists seem to believe that climate change can cause only bad outcomes. Did you catch that? Climate change, as a concept, is practically always framed dubiously to be some kind of death knell, when the opposite could also be true, if journalists and reporters even attempted to be logically consistent. As Lomborg concluded: “If warmer oceans energize storms, couldn’t they also influence other meteorological phenomena that diverted this year’s hurricanes harmlessly out to sea? No one ran the models to check. No professors lined up for quotes.”  This isn’t an “anomaly,” Lomborg wrote. In fact, it’s reflective of a “pattern” that’s been going on in media coverage for years. “Dig into past coverage, and you’ll find climate framing in hurricane coverage dating back to the mid-2000s—tying intense storms and active seasons again and again to global warming,” Lomborg recounted. As was the case then, Lomborg rebuked that “[t]hese stories overflow with experts declaring each event a harbinger of climate doom, backed by fresh attribution studies. Yet when reality bucks this narrative, no one makes the connection.” Oof. Put some ice, er, climate change on that burn.

Sylvester Stallone is a living legend. Full stop.

The same goes for George Strait, a country music icon with few peers.

Cynics can quibble with Gloria Gaynor, KISS and Michael Crawford, but no Kennedy Center Honors lineup is perfect.

What’s undoubtable, though, is the news value of the event honoring these venerable artists. This year, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and Variety all deemed the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors unnewsworthy as of Sunday morning.

Yet Variety managed to uncork an entire story based on a “Saturday Night Live” gag. The Hollywood Reporter weighed in on Timothée Chalamet’s latest marketing effort for “Marty Supreme.”

Can you guess why outlets dedicated to covering the entertainment world stood down? 

President Donald Trump overhauled The Kennedy Center earlier this year. He also has taken a hands-on approach to this year’s KenCen gala, hosting the festivities and weighing in on the winners.

That’s the only logical explanation for the media treatment given to the august event.

Yes, other news outlets covered Saturday’s ceremonies. Some, like The Washington Post, put a negative spin on the events.

Donald Trump’s Kennedy Center is showier, emptier and more political

At least the far-Left outlet covered it. What excuse do the others have?

None. Except they are now unofficially part of “The Resistance,” a childish attempt to shape the news rather than report on it. It’s why you get farcical “hot takes” on culture from the assembled scribes, like how “One Battle After Another” isn’t the hard-Left screed you saw with your own eyes.

Deadline.com did report on this year’s Honorees, but the bulk of the story focused on President Trump, not the winners.

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Shortly after noon on Friday, at the draw for the 2026 World Cup, President Donald Trump was presented with the first ever "FIFA Peace Prize" by FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) President Gianni Infantino at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. The draw is a huge deal, as it determines which countries will play each other and where, as they open the competition next summer. Both CNN and Fox News carried part of it live, but it didn't take long for CNN to dump out of their coverage, once Trump received his award, and that wasn't the worst part. Dana Bash, hosting CNN's Inside Politics in the noon hour, not only cut out of the event early as mentioned, but she and a panel member each had an apparent chuckle over what they had just seen. Bash took a backhanded shot at President Trump, during the introduction, while explaining to her viewers what they were about to see, as he took the stage. "This is the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw. Billions of people around the world are going to tune in to see what happens, not necessarily with president Trump's speech, but with the actual draw." This is obvious to sports fans, but she had to diminish Trump, as CNN viewers expect.   The FIFA President presented Trump with a medal and then read from the certificate that went along with it. INFANTINO:.. So the FIFA Peace Prize is presented annually on behalf of the billions of football loving people from around the world to a distinguished individual who exemplifies an unwavering commitment to advancing peace and unity throughout the world through their notable leadership and action. And therefore, FIFA... awards the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize, Football unites the world to Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, in recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world... Infantino continued, but it became too much for Bash (and CNN's small audience) to bear. INFANTINO: Before giving you the floor, Mr. President, if I may say two words... Like everyone here in the room, we see images of war all over the world. BASH: Okay, we're going to continue to monitor this ceremony at the Kennedy Center. And let me just explain what just happened.  At this point Bash paused, a female panel member could be heard giggling, and then Bash herself tried to suppress a giggle. Bash went on to diminish the significance and legitimacy of the award as a lame attempt to butter up Trump before turning to panelist Amy Walter, who continued to delegitimize the whole thing. BASH: ..Now, it was only created a few weeks ago after President Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. And here's the way FIFA explains what this prize is. This is in their official explanation, "In an increasingly unsettled and divided world, it's fundamental to recognize the outstanding contribution of those who work hard to end conflicts and bring people together in the spirit of peace". Amy. WALTER: Well there is no better way to the President's heart then giving him -- BASH: Flattering. WALTER: --  something gold, and giving him literally something that sparkles and then the flattery that goes along with it. Disrespectful not only to our President but to FIFA and their President, too. Compare this with how Fox News's Outnumbered handled it. They did not take a dig at Trump when he took the stage, they did not cut away seconds after Trump received the award. Isn't it something that a so-called "news" network cuts out before the President speaks live?  Fox stayed an extra 3 minutes and 45 seconds until President Trump left the stage, and then Harris Faulkner treated what we just saw with the respect and gravitas it deserved. Liberals all think hailing Trump as a peacemaker is preposterous, because he's so aggressive in attacking them that they can't acknowledge his administration as helped peace break out anywhere.  FAULKNER: But what we just saw there was the very first, and that is FIFA getting into a mission, if you will, of recognizing on behalf of all of their sports fans and those sports fans around the world of soccer, who love peace breaking out. And who are the peacemakers on the globe? And can they give something out on behalf of FIFA and its sports fans to show their appreciation for those people who bring about peace. And you heard the president after Infantino listed all of the areas, the Abraham accords, the Cambodia and Thailand peace that broke out and the Congo, saving millions of lives by brokering a peace deal there, in Gaza. Respectful, dignified, thoughtful, fair analysis, and no giggling or chuckling. The antithesis of what we witnessed on CNN. Par for the course.

GOOD AND HARD: Mamdani Announces Plan to Give Homeless Free Rein Over NYC – His Base Is Already Turning on Him. You were warned, folks.

“ELECTED.”

The European Union is not the "good guy" in this fight.

The side that supports censorship and arresting people who publicly disagree with their elected leaders … historically those are the bad guys.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attacks anyone who insults him online. pic.twitter.com/GRqgL9Q0jy

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 6, 2025

Oh you do? How many votes did Van de Leyen win?

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) December 6, 2025