Media Exposed with Adam Weiss - February 22, 2026

Summary

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Real America’s Voice — Media Exposed with Adam Weiss

Episode Date: February 22, 2026
Hosts: Adam Weiss, with guest Tiffany Brannon
Guest Host: Emily (select segments)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Media Exposed dives deep into recent media controversies, emphasizing perceived double standards in media coverage of conservative figures, late-night TV scandals, cultural debates on health norms, and hot-button topics like transgender issues and border security. Host Adam Weiss, joined by political strategist and podcaster Tiffany Brannon, critically analyzes mainstream media narratives, accuses legacy outlets of bias, and defends public figures facing what they see as unfair attacks. Throughout, the tone is assertive, confrontational, and deeply skeptical of media institutions.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Media Questions for Caroline Levitt

Timestamp: 03:12–05:57

• Adam Weiss and Tiffany Brannon react to CBS’s Ed O’Keefe questioning Caroline Levitt about Trump being called a racist.
• Both hosts view the question as absurd, highlighting what they see as a media obsession with smearing conservatives.
• Tiffany passionately describes her own experiences being called names, tying it to a broader "war of words" launched by the media.

"If someone like me can't go a single day without being called one of these names because I am outwardly and vocally conservative, I cannot even begin to tally the number of times President Trump has been called racist since 2016, since 2015."
— Tiffany Brannon (05:02)

Notable Moment

• Discussion of how terms like "racist" have lost meaning due to overuse, and how media activism has normalized these accusations, making people afraid to express their conservative viewpoints.

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2. Media Coverage of Bobby Kennedy Jr. & Kid Rock

Timestamp: 05:57–11:43

• Segment showcases media reactions to a viral video of Bobby Kennedy Jr. exercising shirtless with Kid Rock.
• Adam criticizes outlets (Daily Beast, The Telegraph) for mocking Kennedy’s health and appearance, contrasting it with past “body positivity” narratives.
• Tiffany launches into broader cultural criticism—obesity, unhealthy food policies in America, and media hypocrisy.

"But yet a 70-something year-old guy that looks in amazing shape is talking about eating healthy, working out and they put him down. They're so deranged."
— Adam Weiss (08:33)

"Over 50% of America are on statins because we're so fat... We have an obese nation that is wildly unhealthy... our food is poisonous... filled with dyes that are not even allowed anywhere else in the world."
— Tiffany Brannon (09:35)

Notable Moment

• Comparison of how liberal public figures are celebrated while conservative ones are mocked; discussion of health crises facing America.

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3. Attacks on Erica Kirk

Timestamp: 11:43–13:21, 14:47–17:26

• Weiss and Brannon discuss media outlets targeting Erica Kirk over her reality TV past.
• Emphasis on the hypocrisy of the media — lauding liberal figures’ personal choices but shaming conservatives for similar behavior.
• Tiffany highlights the personal pain Kirk endures as a young widow, spotlighting insensitivity toward her grief.

"At the end of the day, she goes to bed alone... comes home to a house with two children who have no father... And for these people to... berate her because in her 20s, she auditioned for a reality TV show... that's vile."
— Tiffany Brannon (16:07)

Notable Moment

• Adam frames attacks on Kirk as part of a broader pattern of double standards in cultural coverage.

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4. Transgender Shooters and Media Narratives

Timestamp: 17:26–24:40

• Adam and Tiffany pivot to recent shootings allegedly involving transgender individuals, particularly an incident in Canada and a hockey game shooting in Rhode Island.
• Critique of the Associated Press and other outlets for not foregrounding the transgender identity of suspects.
• Extended debate about mental health, with Tiffany and Adam asserting that “gender dysphoria and transgenderism is a sickness.”
• Discussion of media reluctance to address transgender-related violence and to ascribe mental health issues in such cases.

"Gender dysphoria and transgenderism is a sickness... that's the reality and facts don't care about your feelings, friends."
— Tiffany Brannon (21:41)

"If psychiatrists don't want to touch it because they're afraid of cancel culture, who's touching it? You and I."
— Adam Weiss (23:18)

Notable Moments

• References to high-profile Biden administration appointees, linking “wokeness” to “mentally wrong” behavior.
• Critique of media for “normalizing” what Weiss and Brannon see as deviant or unhealthy behavior.

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5. Stephen Colbert, CBS, and the FCC Scandal

Timestamp: 27:49–38:52; 44:47–51:29

• Deep dive into the dust-up involving Stephen Colbert, CBS network lawyers, the FCC, and Senate candidate James Talarico.
• Both hosts argue that Colbert manufactured outrage over supposed censorship to drum up attention and boost ratings.
• Emphasis on how Colbert and the media create a false narrative about government intervention.
• Focus on the lack of ideological diversity among late-night guests.

"Only in the media business, they're in this bubble. They think who the hell they are and go after their own network, their own people that pay their own salary."
— Adam Weiss (30:23)

"Stephen Colbert is a narcissist who needs attention all the time... this was a publicity stunt... to act like censorship is happening from the Trump administration."
— Tiffany Brannon (30:58)

"98% of all late-night talk show host guests are liberal."
— Tiffany Brannon (33:33)

Notable Moment

• Jen Psaki’s commentary mocked for making the story about Trump, illustrating the hosts’ overriding point that media collusion exists to bash conservatives.

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6. CNN’s Christian Nationalism Documentary & Border Coverage

Timestamp: 40:52–44:55

• Emily and Adam discuss lack of mainstream media coverage on missing migrant children, highlighting Tom Holman’s work at DHS.
• Criticism of media for their silence on issues of child trafficking compared to exhaustive coverage of other topics.
• Preview and critique of an upcoming CNN documentary on “Christian nationalism,” which Adam and Emily see as a deliberate attempt to paint Christian conservatives as radical extremists.

"This is a Christian country. Our founding fathers were Christians. We are one nation under God. Christian nationalism... I'm not seeing how this is a threat."
— Emily (45:38)

Notable Moment

• Adam recalls being filmed outside a Melania Trump premiere and describes liberal comedy shows as determined to make conservatives look foolish.

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7. Media Business and Collusion

Timestamp: 49:48–51:29

• Discussion on why networks like MSNBC and CBS break norm to unite only when bashing conservatives or Trump.
• Critique of media’s financial incentives to favor anti-Trump/progressive narratives instead of focusing on objective competition.
• Adam and Emily agree that the “lamestream media” business model is premised on attacking conservatives for ratings.

"It's a great point, Adam, because literally we are getting a view into the business model of the lamestream media that is more beneficial financially for them to attack conservatives and attack Trump as opposed to just being better than their competitors."
— Emily (51:29)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I've been doing this since I was 18. I've had hit jobs done against me. I've been attacked by media reporters. Am I afraid? No. Truth will prevail. Fake news media, we're here to call you out.”
  — Adam Weiss (02:32)

• “They've put those words and other words on the public thought so much that people are scared to even come out. I asked a therapist friend... to talk about some issues. ‘Oh, no, I can't. I'm going to be attacked too much.’”
  — Adam Weiss (05:57)

• “We need to bring back insane asylums... Gender dysphoria and transgenderism is a sickness. Facts don’t care about your feelings, friends.”
  — Tiffany Brannon (21:41)

• “What other business in America, Emily, you're bashing your own boss on national TV with a smile. It's so ridiculous that they, and then they complain that they were abused.”
  — Adam Weiss (48:20)

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Key Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------------|-----------------------------------------------------| | 03:12–05:57 | Caroline Levitt / Trump “racism” media questions | | 05:57–11:43 | Bobby Kennedy Jr., health, media double standards | | 11:43–13:21 | Initial Erica Kirk discussion | | 14:47–17:26 | Extended Erica Kirk & media attacks | | 17:26–24:40 | Trans shooters & media coverage | | 27:49–38:52 | Colbert-FCC/CBS scandal & late-night bias | | 40:52–44:55 | Border children / CNN’s “Christian nationalism” doc | | 44:47–51:29 | Colbert hoax, Psaki commentary, media collusion |

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Thematic Summary

The episode weaves together disparate stories—media treatment of conservative personalities, cultural health debates, high-profile TV controversies, and coverage of social issues—into a narrative arguing that the mainstream press is unrelentingly biased, fundamentally activist, and hostile to American conservative values. Weiss and Brannon frequently reference their own media experiences and buttress arguments with cultural anecdotes, aiming to rally listeners to question and resist “legacy media” narratives, especially in the leadup to the 2026 midterm elections.

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For listeners seeking a passionate, media-critical, and unapologetically conservative viewpoint, this episode delivers a barrage of “media exposed” moments, challenging mainstream consensus on several cultural and political flashpoints.

Transcript

[Adam Weiss]

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[Adam Weiss]

See Terms welcome to Media Exposed. This week we're going to take a look at Carolyn Levitt. She had some amazing moments at the podium. What did they ask her and why? Also we'll take a look at Stephen Colbert, the late night talk show. He caused some stir. We're going to get to the bottom and see who was telling the truth in this one. We'll take a look at some border stories. We're also going to get Bobby Kennedy. He was out there doing some exercises with Kid Rock and man they went after him. Also, Erica Kirk is being gone after by the media. I wonder why. That and more coming up on Media Exposed.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Do you dare to follow me down?

[Adam Weiss]

What they do say is Fake news.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Head into the unknown.

[Adam Weiss]

That's how devious the media's become. They're full force activists now. They colluded.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Trump folks were in on it.

[Adam Weiss]

Sways elections, sways policy. We need to expose them. Republicans trash the country. I've been doing this since I was 18. I've had hit jobs done against me. I've been attacked by media reporters. Am I afraid no truth will prevail. Fake news media, we're here to call you out.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Head into the unknown.

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Media Exposed with Adam Wise starts now.

[Adam Weiss]

Welcome back to Media exposed. I recover the media on a daily, on a weekly basis here. But one of the most astonishing, dumbfounding questions I've ever seen was earlier this week, CBS's Ed O' Keefe ask Caroline Levitt. Such a unusual question, such a if you've been covering Trump for 10 years, 11 years, you're like, where has he been to sleep? I want to make him my guest. We're going to look over this. Tiffany Murray Brannon, she's a podcaster, political strategist. Tiffany, thanks for joining us as always.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Adam. Yeah, this is a crazy story.

[Adam Weiss]

Yeah. I want to, let's, let's show the audience and I'll show you the clip. Let's go to cut one. Watch this question to Carolyn Levitt. Yesterday in his statement about Jesse Jackson,

[Tiffany Brannon]

the president said, despite the fact that

[Adam Weiss]

I'm falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left Democrats all, it was always

[Tiffany Brannon]

my pleasure to help Jesse along the way.

[Adam Weiss]

Where or when does the president believe he's been falsely called racist?

[Tiffany Brannon]

You're kidding, right? I will pull you plethora of examples. I'm going to get my team in that room to start going through the Internet of radical Democrats throughout the year, Ed. Who have accused this president falsely of being a racist. And I'm sure there's many people in this room and on network television across

[Reporter/News Anchor]

the country who have accused him of racist.

[Adam Weiss]

There was a show once in a lifetime, I Dream of Jeannie. She used to go back in time. If you went back, I love that show.

[Tiffany Brannon]

I was raised on a good night.

[Adam Weiss]

Yeah. Okay. If we went back in time, if you called someone a racist back in the day, that the career would be ending. Right. Well, after, after they did it so many times to Donald Trump and maga, people we became numb to it. Right. This question, give me your thoughts on that question.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Oh, it's absurd. And it really does prove the point at how far legacy media has gone in Their insanity. I mean, we cannot go a single day, I can't go a single day without being called racist or xenophobic or a bigot or a fascist or a Nazi or whatever. And if someone like me can not go a single day of being called one of these names because I am outwardly and vocally consuming conservative, I cannot even begin to tally the number of times President Trump has been called racist. Since 2016, since 2015. And the reality is, is that this is a war of words. And for someone to ask such an obtuse question of someone so brilliant like Caroline Levitt, it just really shows, you know, how monkey hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. They become, and they are willfully ignorant of their own ignorance and lack of knowledge.

[Adam Weiss]

It's like, where do you start? Right? We'd have to have a mile of pages from the media, from influences from Hollywood, from celebrities, the whole entertainment industry combined with the media, you know, normalized such a bad word. It was terrible what they did. They do, and they're doing it now again. But like I. And they've. They've put those words and other words on the public thought so much that people are scared to even come out. I asked a therapist friend of mine, psychologist, psychiatrist, friends of 15 years was a client. And you come on the show this week to talk about some issues. Oh, no, I can't. I'm going to be attacked too much. So what they've done is they've scared people to death. I'm glad people like you have moral fiber. They're not, not afraid. You know, you're going to be attacked. And I've taught people over the years, don't worry about it. The loonies going to be the loonies. Most of them are paid for it. Don't worry about that. So that's what I say. I want to go to the cut 2 here and show you this story. It's about hit rock and Bobby Kennedy Jr. And the media went after him about. Watch. I mean, this should be praised. Instead, they went after him. Watch this. The midnight glancers and the topless dancers the gander freaks Cars packed with speakers the GS with the 40s and the chicks with beepers the northern lights in the Southern comfort and it don't even matter Where's Ken? All the crackheads, the critics, the cynics and all my heroes at the methadone clinics all you bastards at the IRS for the crooked cops and the cluttered desks for the shots of Jack Hit the caps of Meth half minds of love and the FS of stress for the hookers all tricking out in Hollywood and for my hood so the world misunderstood. I said it's all good and it's all in fun. They get in the pit and try to love sort run.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Yeah.

[Adam Weiss]

You know Tiffany, somewhere along the line they look great. But remember, I want to read you something from the Telegraph here. Telegraph says the coverage frames it as head scratching. A head scratching public health flex that pulls the conversation toward a spectacle over substance. Daily Beast calls that America make America shirtless again and zeroes in on the optics. The outlet highlights the shirtless workout beats on a bike and makes him look silly at the ending with a whole milk toast flashes on screen and you remember there's a moment in time when the media started uplifting and they called it body positivity and they threw Lizzo on the COVID I mean I used to go to swim week, right, and they would ruin swim week by throwing a few women that are plus two or three hundred pounds into the Runway. But somewhere they celebrate that. But yet a 70 something year old guy that looks in amazing shape is talking about eating healthy, working out and they put him down. They're so deranged to me to give me. But that's my thoughts. I mean, who are your thoughts?

[Tiffany Brannon]

Oh, it is completely deranged. I absolutely agree with you. You know, the reality is, is that if this were any other celebrity or even the Democrat. Wait, let's, let's remember, you know that Georgia runoff a few years ago for Senate, we had John Ossoff. He went viral on TikTok. TikTok doing this dance called dance your ass off like a pun on words. And it went viral and it got him a lot of votes because you had these young girls on TikTok that were following him that thought it was cool to hop on the trend. You see it time and time again with a lot of Democratic candidates and a lot of liberal policies like you mentioned. You know what happened to the Victoria's secret models back in the day? They all became woke and genderless and obese. And finally now this year they realize that that doesn't sell. And that's not anything that anyone wants to see. They're trying to bring it back to the old, you know, old school angels. But the reality is that over 50% of America are on statins because we're so fat that we all have high cholesterol. And I think statins are a whole nother problem with art, which RK is fighting Back on. But we have an obese nation that is wildly unhealthy. We are more medicated, more overweight, we have lower testosterone levels. You know, every part. Like we have erectile dysfunction, we have high blood pressure problems, we have a lot of dementia that's increasing, a lot of cancer that's coming into our are especially the younger generation, millennials. And our food is poisonous. It's filled with dyes that are not even allowed anywhere else in the world. I have a friend that works at Pepsi in the UK and she said when the US executives come over and said, hey, what about this drink? She's like, that's illegal to put in a beverage here. That's something you get from a pharmacy. And so what this video is is them trying to have fun and actually have some kind of fun influence on pop culture and do something that should be very normal and should be received with open arms as us like having a little fun with the health. You know that the secretary of HHS is doing these videos that never happened in the last administration, although let's not forget, it was a very large, transgender overweight man. So I think that the pushback really just continues to show the bias of the media.

[Adam Weiss]

Look at Michelle Obama. I think she's on 20 something covers. I'm talking about covers of the biggest.

[Tiffany Brannon]

What about Melania, Adam? Melania's not. Yeah, nowhere.

[Adam Weiss]

And I, and I went and I went to the Melania premiere and it was star studded. It was fab, it was a great movie. And Melania amount of covers, zero. Michelle Obama over 20. I'm talking vanity Fair, Vogue, all the big publications. And that's the way they think of conservatives. That's the way they treat us. And look at Bob, what a healthy looking guy. He's ripped the shreds. I wish I was that rip. I need to call him up and get his secrets here. So it was unbelievable. But like it was. There was a little clip here. I want to play cut 3 real fast. About Erica Kirk. Yeah, let me just show you this quick. With my girlfriend.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Hi, I'm Erica Franz Bay. I'm 25 years old from Scottsdale, Arizona and I currently live in Venice, California.

[Adam Weiss]

So March 1st we went on our first date. Well, I got it wrong because I

[Tiffany Brannon]

thought it was the day before Tiffany.

[Adam Weiss]

I just noticed over the last week. Give me your final thoughts. The media, ok Mags, other people going after Erica Kirk. She doesn't have. Can't even be grieved. They're digging, they're digging up little things when she was on a reality show. Gimme your final thoughts. Quick 10 seconds.

[Tiffany Brannon]

I've known Erica for over 20 years and back in that day you have to remember this is when reality television was just starting. So all of us were randomly applying to do these cool things and we were all just young 20 something year old kids and that was the trend thing to do. If you were dating someone or if you had any interest in performing or you applied to be on a reality show and a lot of my friends made it, that was just the era and for someone to try to troll her, that's just awful.

[Adam Weiss]

If thanks for joining us come out next, we're going to look at these trans shootings that are all across America and in Canada that More coming up.

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[Adam Weiss]

Welcome back to Media Exposed. I bring Tiffany back in. Tiffany, thanks for staying with us here.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Yes, of course.

[Adam Weiss]

As we say before, I've noticed the last week or so there's a constant barrage as the clip we just saw that was okay magazine but I've noticed other sites of a grieving, still grieving widow. What's it been four or five months over there? And there are. Yeah, just five months when almost the last segment we did the debauchery. When there's a debauchery on the left, it's justified. It's fine. It's called being yourself when a woman. Yeah, I Remember a show called Girls? Remember the show back in hbo, back in the day? So much debauchery for them. And they. And they didn't even get that many viewers, but the media loved them. They were celebrated in New York. They were on covers of the New York Times and all sorts of magazines because they were, you know, they were promiscuous. They were out there going around. They. They were promoting, you know, let's say, drug use and lifestyle and sex and all this stuff that. But when Erica was in a reality show, she's getting attacked because you said you didn't have a boyfriend, but you did. Like, she was in a. You know, it's so ridiculous, the double standard. They do. And actually, they don't even care that she's a grieving. Grieving, you know, widow now. Right. What do you think of that?

[Tiffany Brannon]

Yeah, they don't care that she's a grieving riddle. They don't care that it doesn't matter. Here. Here's the reality. It doesn't matter how many millions of people love her or might feel bad for her or grieving with her or how many friends she has. At the end of the day, she goes to bed alone. She comes home to a house with two children who have no father, and she comes home to a house without her husband. And every morning she has to get up by herself and take care of those two kids as a single mom whose husband was murdered. And there's nothing that can fix that. And there's nothing that can take that kind of pain away. And this was just Valentine's Day this last weekend. So I cannot imagine, you know, every holiday, every birthday, to wake up in the morning to know that your husband's not bringing you home flowers. There's never going to be another kiss goodbye in the morning or a kiss good night at the end of the day. That is horrific. And for the. These people to go on, you know, whether it's print media or broadcast media, and to berate her because in her 20s, she auditioned for a reality television show while we're promoting abortion and pornography and all kinds of casual sex hookups and now everything from polyamory to who knows what, that is vile. And it really shows where we've come as a society and culture and why we need to fight back.

[Adam Weiss]

It really is vile. Nobody in American society was gunned down in a way, in a manner, in a society that we have now in a cult where we have social media and everybody saw it and they're going after a woman because she's in her early 20s, mid-20s and flirting with somebody or just reality. It's so pathetic what they're doing. God, it makes us so upset about it. But like I want to see this other story because it almost pours into what we're talking about, but a different sickness in our culture. There was two trans shootings in the last week, one in Canada. Canada has tough gun laws, right. And so they're embarrassing the politicians because no guns, let's face it, they're always blaming guns. But a gun sitting here, what does a gun do? Nothing. It's a person, right, that does it. And somehow they always blame guns. So it's like they blame Gus. I remember a couple of times there's this extreme ideological, you know, Muslims and they go the bus ran into somebody. The bus, not a bus. Somebody drove the bus. They can't admit it when it's there, when they're the protected identity, you know,

[Tiffany Brannon]

that's it's a magical bus that drives itself.

[Adam Weiss]

Right. So the suspect, this is the way the AP did about the Canada. The suspect in a Canada school shooting was an 18 year old who had a history of police to her home again see say the way home, her home to check on her mental health authority. So when the day after the attack police said Jesse was found dead in apparent self inflicted wound. And then AP also a woman who police believe was a shooter was found dead, wasn't a woman anyway. So another stupid thing they do the media, right? I want to go to cut. Let's go to cut. Oh, let's go to cut four. I want to show you this, the whole clip. CBS doesn't mention Transkilla but NBC does. I want to show how they covered it.

[Emily]

We have new details tonight about how that deadly shooting at a high school hockey game in Rhode island came to an end. Authorities praising those heroes who took the shooter down. Emily Ikeda reports tonight from Rhode Island.

[Reporter/News Anchor]

Tonight, video of the deadly shooting at a high school hockey game in Rhode island showing players rushing off the ice and this angle capturing the critical moments as it unfolded. You can see a person putting someone who appears to be the suspected shooter in a chokehold.

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Their courage and Donnelly prevented further loss

[Adam Weiss]

and injury and we thank them for that.

[Reporter/News Anchor]

Police say 56 year old Robert Dorgan, who also went by Roberta, shot and killed ex wife Rhonda Dorgan and son Aiden in the stands before pulling out a second gun and dying by suicide. One of the suspect's daughters, Amanda, speaking to NBC affiliate wjar.

[Tiffany Brannon]

His whole adulthood she's struggled with mental health issues.

[Adam Weiss]

But when somebody doesn't want to get help, they won't.

[Reporter/News Anchor]

Court documents show Rhonda Dorgan filed for divorce From Robert in 2020, citing gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic and personality disorder traits which was crossed out and replaced with irreconcilable differences. Hours after witnessing her loved ones get shot. Amanda writing on GoFundMe. Our family has been forever changed. Adding her younger siblings, including one playing in yesterday's game, are facing the future without their parents and older brother. Teams seen returning to the arena to collect equipment. A day after the shooting.

[Tiffany Brannon]

I was on the ice and I

[Adam Weiss]

thought it was balloons at first.

[Reporter/News Anchor]

While people in the community show their support, placing hockey sticks on doorsteps and outside the arena, police do not think there was a confrontation right before the shooting that also critically injured three people, identified as the ex wife's parents and a family friend.

[Adam Weiss]

Tom that was so sensitive. Society wants to be so sensitive towards this. Instead of calling somebody mentally deranged to be in therapy for this and we have to play these footsie games with these people that are totally out there, right? I can't. It's. Enough's enough. There's people dying over this and there's nothing shootings happening throughout the country, but the media wants to protect them constantly. Why do you think the media is so vested in protecting the trans lunatics when they end up being lunatics? Why is the media dig so deep into this, you think?

[Tiffany Brannon]

Tiffany I think that they have all gone so far over the edge that there is no way back for them at this point. If they ever break their united front, they're all going to look like the fools they actually are. I mean, the reality is we need to bring back insane asylums. Adam when we used to have insane asylums back when the US population was much lower than it is now, we had thousands and thousands of people with mental health issues that were confined and not able to harm others. Now we have called mental health issues. You know, we've, we've validated them and we've even not allowed people to use them. Apparently, according to this Canadian, you know, divorce document as legitimate reason to divorce a spouse. Now it has to be irreconcilable differences because heaven forbid you actually call a spade a spade and acknowledge that this is a mental health disease. Gender dysphoria and transgenderism is a sickness. I'm sorry for anyone that might be offended by that, but that's the reality and facts don't care about your feelings, friends. So you Know, until we are willing to, to stand up for truth despite maybe getting hated on or maybe feeling uncomfortable as a, as a nation, as a culture, until we are willing to stand on truth before all else, we are going to continue to see transgender shooters in these horrific situations. Because every single mass shooting in the last few years has been by a transgender person, including Charlie Kirks, who was dating a transgender person. So, you know, you gotta follow the evidence and math doesn't lie.

[Adam Weiss]

Like I said earlier, I had a psychiatrist who I wanted, I asked them to. Can you speak, can we do this topic together? Oh, I don't want to touch it. Right. So for psychiatrists don't want to touch it because they're afraid of. Cancel culture. Who's touching it? You and I. So you can't. Yeah, we don't even have the right mental health people because they're afraid to touch it when they're the ones that should be touching it because they know the truth. But you know what? You know why? They're afraid to even, they're afraid to even get deep into it and discuss it. If they're afraid to discuss it, what kind of society is that? Mental health professionals at the highest level, psychiatric, are afraid to discuss it. Yet not only have we normalized it, we hired people. Remember the Biden administration? He hired some dude with like, he was bald headed, dressed in women's clothes. I think he had nails like, like Nicki Minaj maybe. Long, super long nails. And the craziest thing, he worked in the nuclear. Nuclear department of the Energy Department. Nuclear code department, the Energy. And the guy was a kleptomaniac. He was stealing luggages at, at the airport. Not only he wasn't stealing his own luggage, he was stealing other people's luggages. Like, this is, like you said, that's something mentally wrong with you, but that wasn't even covered that much by the media. He was in the Energy Department, hired, looked totally in drag and he's stealing luggage. Got caught. How was that a big story? Did you hear about that story?

[Tiffany Brannon]

I did, but only because, you know, I follow like a crazy person. But that's, that's someone with high security clearance wearing drag, wearing dresses, dressing up as an animal at one point with the leather straps and stealing women's clothing from the airport. I mean, that's crazy. And yet we gave this man security clearance and access to nuclear facilities.

[Adam Weiss]

Right. Why is he stealing the clothes? You got a high level job, you can't afford to go on Amazon, right?

[Tiffany Brannon]

I think it was the thrill of the chase appeal.

[Adam Weiss]

Right? Yeah. That's the thrill of stealing something from the airport. That's so bizarre. But he's probably hired he's probably hired in some crazy city as a guidance counselor knowing the woke left, right. They probably using them in Oregon somewhere teaching children had teaching children how to be dress in drag. But like we're going to.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Yeah. San Francisco probably has one 10 years.

[Adam Weiss]

Tiffany, I'm going to. Yeah, Tiffany, we're going to. I'm going to see. After the break we're going to discuss Colbert and this whole breakup early in the week and this whole. It was over a Senate candidate and was he telling the truth? Missy at the break. Coming up on me exposure. They feed you headlines, cut the frame, say it loud enough, call it fact, change the words, dodge the blame, sell the lies and double back.

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[Adam Weiss]

Welcome back to Media Exposed. CNBC jumped in the fray and Said Colberto. State Senator Telo's interview triggered FCC scrutiny. This whole story has so many moving parts. It's one of the biggest fraud stories I can imagine from the media. From late night talk shows. CBS and the parent copy parent found themselves under pressure. I'm reading what CNBC wrote. Pressure. After Stephen Colbert's interview with Texas state Rep. James prompted questions from FCC chair Brendan Carr. The moment quickly escalated from late night commentary to a regulatory flashing point involving Trump, the media oversight and broadcast standards. The Atlantic framed it as a free speech inflection point coverage warrants of a broader climate where political pressure and regulatory power could collide with media independence. He positions the incident as part of a larger national conversation about censorship, government influence and who gets to draw the lines in broadcast television. I want to welcome back Tiffany Brandon. Tiffany, thanks for staying with us on the show today.

[Tiffany Brannon]

My pleasure.

[Adam Weiss]

And the Hill spotlight the FCC Brendan Carr's response. Carr pushed back against the claims of central arguing the FC role is oversight, not political retaliation. The exchange highlights a growing tension between the network television, federal regulators and a polarized political so what happened? Colbert was booking this guest on Monday. A state senator running in a primary Palo Rico against Jasmine Crockett. Supposed to get equal time if you're in a primary. And then FCC wasn't involved at all. So CBS sent a letter saying, hey, if you're going to do this, maybe you should do that. The lawyers and Stephen Colbert said, I think he said to himself, you know what, let me make a big splash of this, let me make a big hurrah of this. And said, no, I'm bringing him on. And then never brought him on, but brought him onto YouTube and told the media. So let's go to cut five. I want to show you what happened here.

[Tiffany Brannon]

So.

[Emily]

So we obeyed our network and put the interview on YouTube where it's gotten millions of views. And I can see why. Talarico is an interesting guy. I don't know if he should be the senator, but it was a good discussion. I wish we could have put it on the show where no one would have watched it. But here's where I do want to tell the lawyers how to do their jobs.

[Adam Weiss]

That was actually after that was the day after. And I wanted to point that out because in what business can you go on disobey your bosses, the network, parent network, and then criticize them the next day? Only in the media business, they're in this bubble. They think who the hell they are and go after their own network, their own people that pay Their own salary. That was the day after. Give me your thoughts on that. Because I think the whole thing was a scam basically just to get this guy more publicity and get Stephen Colbert publicity. Because at first I was like, why is the FCC getting involved in here? They shouldn't. But give me your thoughts.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Yeah, Stephen Colbert is a narcissist who needs attention all the time. And in my opinion, and you know, his show isn't doing well. A lot of liberal late night talk show hosts are dwindling in their numbers and in their ratings. And you know, the FCC does have the law that requires you to have equal airtime. That is a law. However, this specifically was not FCC regulated. And even Jasmine Crockett, who we all know is not my favorite person in the world, but who is running against Talarico, she even publicly said that this was not an FCC issue, but a network decision and a decision by Colbert's producers and Colbert himself. So again, to your point, I completely agree that this was a publicity stunt. This is a way to get more views, to act like set. Like censorship is happening from the Trump administration and from, you know, the Trump controlled FCC at this point. And it's really just a lie. Brendan Carr is doing his job and was not involved at this.

[Adam Weiss]

I wanna show you in the audience a little more of him. Cuz it just shocks me how a guy could sit here and criticize his bosses, the network. Let's go to cut six.

[Emily]

I had to go backstage. I got called backstage to get more notes from these lawyers, something that had never ever happened before. And they told us the language they wanted me to use to describe that equal time exception. And I used that language. So I don't know what this is about. For the record, I'm not even mad. I really don't want an adversarial relationship with the network. I've never had one. As I said last night in my interview with James Tallerico. Check it out, it's on YouTube. It's pretty good. I said, I said to him, I am great to have worked for CBS for the last 11 years and worked with George and David and Amy and everyone at the network. The Sheldons of every age, the Matlocks of every sex. I'm just so surprised that this giant global corporation would not stand up to these bullies. Come on, you're Paramount. No, no, no, you're more than that, you're Paramount.

[Adam Weiss]

Plus.

[Emily]

Plus what? I guess we're all gonna find out pretty soon.

[Adam Weiss]

Of course they stand that they let you spout anti Trump hatred every night, anti conservative hatred. I'd like to line up the guests, Tiffany. And how many Republican guests? How many conservative liberal. You know, it's like 99% or 90. Might be 90.

[Tiffany Brannon]

That's an actual statistic. It's about. But 98% of liberals, that's, that's a real statistic. 98% of all late night talk show host guests are liberal. But you know, really what this is is Stephen Colbert trying to start a fight with Paramount because of David Ellison's takeover because he does not like, you know, what was going on. The Ellison family has been very vocally and very, you know, outwardly pro Trump and pro the Trump administration. They were, you know, sitting next to the president at the Kennedy center honors just last two months ago. And so I'm guessing that Colbert doesn't like that. You know, his boss, who is younger than him and better than him and more successful than him, is saying, hey, no more. No more free, free lunches. You, you cannot keep violating FCC rules because you want to, because your last boss let you do whatever you want without any, you know, consequences. We're going to start playing by the rules and we're going to do it so that we have fair media. Because the American public has lost faith in the giant media houses and corporations. And that's not for no reason. That's not without cause. It's because of people like Stephen Colbert who espoused their own ideologies and beliefs and will promote and platform only one side of the argument and one side of the political spectrum while completely ignoring, mocking and diminishing the other. And Paramount is saying, no more. This will not abide. We will play by the rules and we are going to let the American people have the opportunity to believe in the news and in media again.

[Adam Weiss]

You know, they can't stand up ideologically against, you know, the values that we share, the values that they have. So this whole thing is complete lie. The only way they can come up and start forcing their persuasion, their ideology, their hatred is lie. The whole thing is a falsehood. And not only that, he gets on again and blasts his own network over this. And while he's blasting his own network and saying, oh, I just want to be fair, I just want fairness in there. How much fairness is this? Let's go to cut seven and see who you bring on again, one of the other guests. Let's go to cut 7.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Say to the survivors who feel like

[Adam Weiss]

they haven't gotten justice, the worst reporter no one to see CNN has no rating because of people like you. You know, she's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Well, I'm asking you about survivors of

[Adam Weiss]

different states because, you know, you're not telling the truth and you're, you're a very dishonest organization and they should be ashamed of you.

[Emily]

Now, you have covered the president, you've covered the president for 10 years, as you said. So you, you, you expect what he's like, you know, did that one surprise you?

[Tiffany Brannon]

I don't think it surprised me. In the moment of the attack, I mean, the President has called me a lot of names. He's gone after me and tried to deflect from the questions that we're asking. But in that moment, you know, he is someone who is often politically savvy or tied in with what his base wants. In that moment, I was thinking, you know, if he had said that to, in response to a different question, I think it would have had a different reaction. I mean, I don't think any woman, I think a lot of women can identify with that moment and that feeling.

[Emily]

Yes.

[Emily (Guest Host)]

But I think it was actually the

[Tiffany Brannon]

question that is what generated so many headlines out of that. Because my question was about sexual assault survivors and it wasn't even accusatory of the President. It was what these women, many of whom I've interviewed and had on my show, often have said to me, and I don't think it's a controversial opinion, that you shouldn't smile when you're asking questions about a sex trafficker and sexual assault victims.

[Adam Weiss]

That's reasonable. That's reasonable. I'm just curious. I will say, though, that only in the liberal news business, Tiffany, can1Network, CBS, bring on CNN. You don't bring on other network. You're not supposed to bring on other talent from other networks. But the whole point of them bringing him on is to bash Trump, bash conservatism, and maybe why he called you out. He's holding a press conference on a total different subject and you have to be totally obnoxious. Let's tell the truth here, but only in the media business. Each network celebrate each other when she's just supposed to be a reporter. Give me your thoughts on that clip.

[Tiffany Brannon]

Yeah, Again, this is legacy liberal media showing the united front that has kept them in power for so long and which really is, is, and continues to be the danger to the right, especially as we enter the 2026 midterms. You know, we're, we're really going to need to step up because no matter how crazy the left might be with all their ideologies, whether it's like all the crazy Epstein stuff or the transgender stuff or the hating ICE stuff or, you know, all these horrible things that they've clung on to, the dei, the fraud, the illegal sanctuary cities, they stick together. They stick together no matter what. And this is just more evident that, you know, having someone from CNN on another liberal network as a guest. But we should learn a lesson here and we should really start on the right and in conservative media. You know, I think as you are really wonderful at doing and as Rav is wonderful at doing, joining together and platforming other conservatives and trying to fight back against the divisiveness and the fracturing that the left is really trying to inflict on us before the midterms. But you're right, it's a cabal at the end of the day.

[Adam Weiss]

Well, Tivity, thanks for joining us. We'll see you soon. Thank you. Coming up next, thanks for having me. CNN was doing a documentary nationalism. Let's see how they covered that. Also, we'll look at Tom Holman. How's he being covered? We're going to dig into a little more of his Colbert with a special guest. That and more coming up on Media Exposed. Foreign.

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[Emily (Guest Host)]

I'M Emily filling in for Adam in our RAV West Palm beach studio. Up last year on media exposed. Media narratives are colliding as commentary, documentaries and late night clash. NewsBusters is calling out lack of coverage on missing immigrant children. A recent column argues there is no space in major newsrooms for reporting on Tom Holman's efforts to locate missing migrant children. Claiming that legacy media prioritizes political storylines over follow through on border enforcement and child safety. The piece frames it as a selective silence. Let's bring in our host Adam Weiss to discuss a bit further here. You know, Adam, this is so outrageous because what Tom Holman is doing is trying to track down where these missing children are. That should be something that regardless of party, every American should be getting behind. We have to protect the children.

[Adam Weiss]

Emily, thanks for taking the hot seat there at in West Palm Beach. Thanks for hosting over there. It's amazing that thousands upon thousands of children. You're being saved, trafficked, were trafficked under the Biden administration and not a whisker from the media. If I didn't see the story, if we didn't see the story from news busters, I wouldn't even know about this. Can you imagine? We're drowned in stories of Epstein over and over again the news cycle non stop. To try to put it. We didn't hear much of a whisker during the Biden administration about Epstein. He had the attorney general. They could have released the files then they could have released the files under Obama. But yet this nonstop barrage and yet quiet with thousands and thousands of trafficked children. But yet they wanted to flood into America and change the pattern of America and change the demographics of America, but they don't care that they were trafficked and that Tom Holman and DHS are actually saving lives at the moment.

[Emily (Guest Host)]

Absolutely saving lives and saving at the very least perhaps innocence of these young children. It's certainly selective silence, Adam. And we see this in so many different things, not just in terms of immigration or the Epstein files as you brought up, but let's think about this for a second. When Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the left wing media was silent about all of the praise, all of the people that were celebrating that this happened to him. You know, CNN in fact actually is coming out with a documentary recently that's coming out here soon about Charlie Kirk, about that assassination and how they're framing this, they're teasing the documentary as about Christian nationalism. According to another NewsBusters report, the network plans to promote the film portraying Christian nationalism as a growing radical threat. Critics say that the network is amplifying a political label while blurring the line between documentary storytelling and and ideological framing. Adam, I want to watch a quick preview of this documentary and then we'll chat about it on the other side.

[Reporter/News Anchor]

Well, for the past several months I've been working on a special project examining the growing influence of Christian nationalism in America. If you're not familiar, Christian nationalism is an ideology rooted in the belief that our country was founded as a Christian nation and that our laws and institutions should reflect Christian values. In the lead up to my hour long documentary this weekend, we're going to bring you a pretty preview of what you'll see starting off with the assassination of Charlie Kirk last year. Experts say it was a pivotal moment for the movement and an occasion where the tragedy of his loss unified Christian nationalists and the Trump administration as they honored him. September 21, 2025.

[Emily (Guest Host)]

That young man,

[Emily]

I forgive him.

[Reporter/News Anchor]

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and prominent Christian nationalist, was assassinated. It became a rallying call for those who believed in his message.

[Adam Weiss]

Our greatest evangelist for American liberty became

[Reporter/News Anchor]

immortal and it was a call to action.

[Emily]

My charge to all of you, put

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Christ at the center of your life

[Emily]

as he advocated for giving his

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memorial service was one of the most potent examples of this shift in our culture that we're experiencing right now where a large segment of American Christians are being activated by these ideas, radicalized by these

[Adam Weiss]

ideas that say that they are the

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persecuted ones and that they need to

[Emily (Guest Host)]

stand up for Christians rights, radicalized by these ideas. Adam, I do want to remind you that this is a Christian country. Our founding fathers were Christians. We are one nation under God. Christian nationalism. I'm not seeing how this is a threat. I don't know how CNN is trying to frame this as necessarily a bad thing, that it's radical. Your thoughts?

[Adam Weiss]

I don't even know why they have to add the word nationalism to next to it instead of just saying it's Christian. You know, they were a forgiving nation. We're today, I like to say today a Christian nation. But we're founded on those values together. And the whole premise of this documentary before we even watch it, Emily, we know what they're going to do. They're going to make it look spooky and the rise of this and the rise of anti Semitism towards other groups and make them all look weird. It's a typical thing that they do against the values that made America great and some and it's almost similar to what I was walking into the Melania premiere Right. And there was this crew outside in the hotel. I was staying next door at the Watergate Hotel. And they were big camera crew. I said, what are you, what are you guys filming for? And they said, paramount Plus. I said, I didn't know. Paramount plus is a news station. Later on we go, we're walking into there and it's Jordan Clapper, the comedian for, you know, for the Daily show. And actually Paramount plus owns it. So he was. They were kind of telling the truth, but they did this big skit while they were getting people walking in, trying to make them look foolish, trying to make them look stupid. And I talked the most out of our crew. You know what? They didn't use any of my clips because they probably didn't. We didn't want to. Yeah, probably Nothing said was foolish, so. And if you Google it now, there's a big skit in front of the Melania premiere making fun of MAGA people. Maha people. But that's the way they look at our group. That's the way they look at the, the, you know, our coalition. They look down on us, Hollywood and the media and the comedy shows.

[Emily (Guest Host)]

In fact, this just seems to be the state of the lame stream media right now. They're just so desperate, Adam, they're trying to stir up controversy. I do want to get your take on this as well. FCC chairman Brendan Carr, he's calling the recent Colbert controversy a hoax. Mediaite is reporting that Carr is now pushing back against claims that the FCC is targeting CBS over the Colbert interview with Texas Democratic U.S. senate candidate James Talarico, saying the media outrage is a manufactured narrative. Colbert claims that he was forced to, quote, shut down the interview after conversations with the network's legal team. But the back and forth is adding fuel to the broader debate over regulation and press freedom. Adam, what's your take on all of this? It does seem like Colbert is stretching the truth in an attempt to increase his ratings here. What do you think played out?

[Adam Weiss]

You know, even myself that studies media nonstop. I was confused. I was lost in this story because I was about to call out the Trump administration. Why are you getting involved in late night talk shows? Because then if we're pitching another candidate that happens to be conservative, then station can say we don't want him on because he's running for office. But I found out the whole story is kind of a hoax. The Trump administration wasn't involved at all. CBS just sent a little letter saying maybe you should do this and that if you're going to bring on Martin and He just looked at it and said, how do I move this story forward? How do I make it a bigger, you know, a story to go after the Trump administration and go after my own bosses? Because the next night he brought on Tellarico's running for Senate against Jasmine Green Porter on that night on YouTube. YouTube. And it took off from there because all his allies in the mainstream media wrote about it. And while they're writing about attack administration attacked the fcc, attacked Brendan Carr, attacked cbs. Again, this is barrage of assault against CBS ever since Barry Weiss took over. So the media loves hitting on, you know, sending potshots at cbs. I think the whole story was a hoax just to get this Senate candidate more publicity, get Colbert more publicity. And the next day he's out there bashing his own network on his show. What other business in America, Emily, you're bashing your own boss on national TV with a smile. It's so ridiculous that they, and then they complain that they were abused. And yet what other business do you know they're allowed to do that?

[Emily (Guest Host)]

It's absolutely absurd. And of course they make it all about Trump. Everything always leads back to Trump. Somehow, as you mentioned, allies in the, in the lamestream media, the left wing media, Jen Psaki, she was one of

[Adam Weiss]

them, is worried about a Senate primary. You know, he's sitting at world peace, he's running the country and he's worried about, you know, a Senate primary candidate going on Colbert. Give me a break.

[Emily (Guest Host)]

Give me a break. Is right. And hearing Jen Psaki taunting the president about all of this, about this, this segment drawing strong viewership, it was absolutely ridiculous. It's like, why do we need to make everything about Trump, Trump? Let's take a look at this clip really quick, Adam.

[Tiffany Brannon]

I mean, given all of that, it's no wonder that CBS made the decision

[Adam Weiss]

to bow to Trump's FCC and basically

[Tiffany Brannon]

blocked Stephen Colbert from airing his interview with a Texas Democratic candidate. But here's the thing. Like so many of Trump's censorship efforts, this one is also backfiring spectacularly. I mean, Stephen Colbert decided to post his entire interview with James Talarico online.

[Emily (Guest Host)]

Emily, that's firing. I mean, come on.

[Adam Weiss]

Not only what I described earlier, it's a big hoax. But think about it. MSNBC is playing, is defending CBS in the network business. If we're teaching a class in journalism and pr, the media, we gotta say networks don't promote other networks. But only when it comes to bashing conservatives, bashing Trumps, no problem. We'll talk about CBS on msnbc the stranger situation, the strange dilemmas that only happen on the under when it's a Trump administration. Right.

[Emily (Guest Host)]

It's a great point, Adam, because literally we are getting a view into the business model of the lamestream media that is more beneficial financially for them to attack conservatives and attack Trump as opposed to just being better than their competitors. We'll have to circle back with Jen Psaki when this moment dies down for Colbert and his ratings start to tank again. Adam, thank you so much for the conversations today. Always appreciate being on your show. Thanks for joining us on Media Exposed. We'll see you next week. Let's toss it over to Adam Weiss.

[Adam Weiss]

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