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Hegseth lifts suspension for Army pilots who did fly-by at Kid Rock’s estate

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday announced that the Army crew that flew two AH‑64 Apache helicopters near singer Kid Rock’s Nashville, Tenn., estate over the weekend will not face disciplinary measures or an investigation.

The military personnel had been suspended for their actions, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday, but that suspension was lifted later in the day by Hegseth.

“Thank you @KidRock. @USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots,” Hegseth said in a post Tuesday on the social platform X.

The helicopters, which were from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, flew in the Nashville area Saturday, including near the home of Robert James Ritchie, known as Kid Rock, near a residence he owns and has dubbed “The Southern White House.”

“The personnel involved have been suspended from flight duties while the Army reviews the circumstances surrounding the mission, including compliance with relevant FAA regulations, aviation safety protocol and approval requirements,” Maj. Montrell Russell, an Army spokesperson, said in a statement earlier Tuesday before Hegseth’s announcement.

Russell said that because there was an active investigation, which Hegseth has since lifted, it would have been “inappropriate to discuss specific findings at this time,” adding that the Army “takes any allegations of unauthorized or unsafe flight operations very seriously and is committed to enforcing standards and holding personnel accountable.”

Rock posted a video of the encounter on the X with the caption, “This is a level of respect that s‑‑‑ for brains Governor of California will never know. God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her.”

The singer, who earlier this year performed at an alternate halftime performance in protest of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show, is an ally of Trump.

https://thehill.com/homenews/5810348-kid-rock-army-helicopter-flyover/

He slammed Newsom so that makes all of this okay. Murica!

I could buy that if we hadn't witnessed what we all saw. The QB we had over the past few years that actually had the arm to throw the deep ball was Flacco. When Flacco was here Stefanski called plays allowing him to air it out. From that it appeared to me that Stefanski's play calling was dependent on the talent of his QB's and not a set in stone system that was never adjusted according to who was playing the QB position. If anything sometimes I got the feeling that he let QB's throw too much. I'm not sure how that would impede a QB's ability to perform.

The part that was so funny is he made it sound like these two QB's just went rogue and ignored Stenfanski's play calling and did what they wanted. That's hilarious.

I agree it deserves at least a chuckle, but maybe not a full out roll on the floor. Some systems don't fit a player and it's possible that Kevin's system and Watson were like oil and vinegar.

I gotta be honest I love Kit-Kat bars. You guys get Coffee Crisp down the USA?

Accuracy of Berry’s statement: 100%

Probability of it an extension occurring: 0%

It is the silly season for football.

For me, worst case scenario has Watson playing just well enough to get another big contract
So we pass on next years Qb class that ends up producing 5 hall of fame Qb's taken in round
Watson then returns to playing like crap and an inept watson ends up being the face of our franchise for the next 10 years
Then he gets brought up on new sexual predator charges

No one knows for sure, but I could see your scenario playing out. It may be the worst possible of all possibilities. Slightly less than average season, not bad enough to benefit us, not good enough to enjoy even mild success.

Plan to assist replacement refs among approved NFL rules changes

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48358865/plan-assist-replacement-refs-five-approved-nfl-rules

PHOENIX -- NFL owners approved two significant changes to the league's replay review system Tuesday, one that is contingent on the NFL using replacement officials this season and one that will take effect whether or not there is an officiating work stoppage.

The NFL and NFL Referees Association broke off collective bargaining last week as a May 31 expiration of their contract looms. The league has already begun collecting names of college officials who could serve as replacements during the preseason and possibly the regular season, if needed.

The first set of Tuesday's approved changes will create a massive expansion of authority for staffers in the league's officiating command center in New York City, allowing them to consult with the on-field referee on a wide variety of called and uncalled penalties and other administrative procedures.

Rich McKay, co-chairman of the NFL's competition committee, said the league would reallocate existing gameday employees to ensure appropriate staffing levels to cover each game if a work stoppage activates these rule changes. NFL owners are "alarmed" about the state of negotiations, sources said over the weekend, and NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller said Tuesday that owners are "insistent upon" a new CBA that provides avenues to improve the state of NFL officiating.

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"That's where we are in these negotiations," Miller said, "and that's exactly where we're going to stay."

According to verbiage in the rule, staff members in New York could alert a replacement referee if they see clear and obvious evidence of an uncalled foul for roughing the passer, intentional grounding or an act that would normally lead to disqualification.

Those staff members would also be permitted to alert replacement referees that a flag shouldn't have been thrown if there is clear and obvious video evidence that "at least one element of the foul called is not present," according to the verbiage.

Fouls eligible for this alert include: twisting, pulling or turning the face mask; roughing the passer; intentional grounding; horse-collar tackles; illegal contact; pass interference; and disqualification.

In 2019, the NFL conducted a one-year experiment that subjected pass interference to replay review. The effort bogged down amid a muddled standard for overturning an on-field decision. In Tuesday's approved rule, the competition committee limited league staff members' involvement to only circumstances where "there was inadvertent tangling of feet when both players were playing the ball or neither player was playing the ball."

In addition, after the two-minute warning or in overtime, the list of called or uncalled penalties that league staff members could provide referees with would expand to include unsportsmanlike conduct based on punching or kicking at an opponent. During kicks, league staff members could also consult on the leverage and leaping rules.

Finally, throughout a game, league staff members could assist on discerning whether a foul should be classified as roughing or running into the kicker.

NFL team employees received a memo over the weekend prohibiting public discussion of the NFLRA negotiations.

On Tuesday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said, "the negotiations haven't progressed the way hoped from a timing standpoint."

Dallas Cowboys owner and CEO and co-chair of the competition committee Stephen Jones declined to talk about the contingency plan Monday, "out of respect for the process and ongoing negotiations." Multiple head coaches also declined to comment on officiating throughout the meetings.

New England Patriots coach and competition committee member Mike Vrabel said in jest, "I think we should just have coaches call fouls."

"I trust the league," San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York told ESPN on Monday. "I don't deal with that piece of the NFL. I'm not on any committees that deal with it, so whatever they're going to do, I trust the league's operations."

Another club owner who requested anonymity told ESPN: "We have to be prepared for everything."

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Tuesday he viewed the contingency plan as a first step to having more input from New York overall even with the regular officials.

"I think we're in for some great future days of getting better all the way around, and we all think we can do a great job of zeroing in and training and looking for nuances to help the decision making regarding the calls on the field. We all think that," he said. "Everybody's been striving, that's nothing new, to try to get better. But it's our job to put the incentives in place and demands in place to get better. Fans deserve that."

Meanwhile, the second change to replay review will represent a notable shift for owners who have previously sought to limit its scope. For the first time, replay officials in New York will have the authority to both disqualify a player and direct that a penalty be enforced even if on-field officials had not thrown a flag, in the case of either a flagrant football act or non-football act. It takes effect independent of negotiations with the NFLRA.

Previously, owners have not wanted replay officials to throw a flag because they wanted to preserve that for the discretion of on-field officials. The original wording of Tuesday's rule change did not allow replay officials to throw a flag. But McKay said it was amended when multiple coaches said there should be an on-field impact if the act is flagrant enough to merit disqualification.

"They said, 'Hey, if we're going to do this, we have to put a flag on, because we cannot have a fourth-and-2 show up, they disqualified a player from the previous play for a non-football act -- he's punched somebody, he's done whatever -- and the team still has to punt,'" McKay said.

McKay said he foresees a continued effort to expand replay review and assist in the near future but said: "We've stayed true to the idea that we want replay assist, and we want New York to be able to help, and we just don't want to move too fast. We don't want to add too much to it."

In other changes, owners approved:

• A rule that eliminates a team's incentive to kick the ball out of bounds on kickoffs from the 50-yard line.

• Allowing teams to declare an onside kick at any point in a game. This change arose because teams wanted to be able to use an onside kick if a penalty enforcement led to them kicking off from the 50.


• A modification of alignment requirements on the kickoff for members of the receiving team in the setup zone, aligning the kickoff rule with the original intent of special teams coaches who developed it in 2024. The NFL thinks it could address an increase in the concussion rate on kickoffs.

• Approved an expansion of its mental health coverage to require each team to employ a full-time clinician or offer full-time coverage. Eight of the 32 teams already are in compliance. It is subject to approval by the NFL Players Association because it's part of the collective bargaining agreement. The policy will also provide more support for players on injured reserve.

• A rule that permit players on the reserve/physically unable to perform list to begin a 21-day practice period after the team's second game of the regular season.

ESPN's Todd Archer contributed to this report.

NFL owners have approved four rules changes, per source:

🏈 By Competition Committee; to permit the kicking team to declare an onside kick at any time during the game.

🏈 By Competition Committee; to eliminate the kicking team’s incentive to intentionally kick the ball out of bounds when kicking off from the 50-yard line.

🏈 By Competition Committee; to modify the kickoff alignment requirements for the receiving team players in the setup zone.

🏈 By Competition Committee; for one year only, to allow the NFL Officiating Department to correct clear and obvious misses made by on-field officials that impact the game, in
the event that there is a work stoppage involving the game officials represented by the NFL Referees Association.

I agree with Purp. Our QB room saw a stiff range of defenses. Gabriel held up well against tough defenses behind a lousy line. DW should be able to win it, but king of the hill in this room doesn't mean good enough. Good enough to start doesn't suggest good enough to win. Seems that some here are committed to awarding the starter job to SS. Hope Monken doesn't explain this to death. Just too much of a leap to say I see starter in SS. We need more than these there have shown.

Yes, but, they need 713 innings which is an out over 79 games. The qualifying states, they count the innings towards the position they use the most, so it is nearly impossible. He would have to have the same amount of innings at both positions AND have the minimum number of innings played at each position. It would be an anomaly that would never be repeated if he did it.

Edit: Never mind, I just saw you said either position, not both positions. That is a little more likely actually.

Ohhhh - I think that's a brave statement. I think the worst of DW was as bad or worse than the worst we saw of Sanders (not including Pre-season). The best we saw of DW was far better that the best we saw from Sanders. If you take the whole and average it ... DW was really really sucky for about 1/3 of the games. Bad for 1/3. Average for most of the other 1/3 and had from what I remember maybe 1 1/2 games of good. There was nothing I saw from DW that indicated he was just slightly off - for whatever reason - it looked a mess. If it is at all close I'd roll with SS or Gabriel. I don't think Gabriel is going to suit Monken's scheme but I would not throw him out of the mix yet either. He faced by far the superior defenses.

If Kwan starts 81 games in LF, and 81 games in CF, would he be eligible for a gold glove at either position?

Watson would have to regress even more than he has in his time here for him to lose out to Shedeur.
That does not mean he will be good, though, only that he'll be the best of a fairly bad bunch.

You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud Donald...........

'They Call It A War': Trump Reveals Real Reason He Keeps Calling Iran War Something Else

The president made an apparent slip of the tongue followed by a stunning explanation.

President Donald Trump on Friday admitted during his keynote address at the Future Investment Initiative Priority Summit in Miami that there are “legal reasons” for his minimizing rhetoric on the Iran War, stating, “We call it a military operation. We don’t call it a war.”

Minutes later, however, Trump referred to it as a “war” himself, before making a correction.

“See, I get into a war — of course, they call it a war, I call it a military conflict,” Trump said Friday. “But there’s a legal reason for that.”

He delved into more detail about the terminology later in his speech.

“I said, ‘Look, you know, we have a thing called a war,’ or as they would rather say, a military operation. It’s for legal reasons,” said Trump. “I say ‘military’ because as a military operation, I don’t need any approvals. As a war, you’re supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that.”

In his address, the MAGA leader slammed his “friends,” including French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, for wavering on assisting the U.S. or helping secure the Strait of Hormuz before the bombing has ended.

He also admitted being “very disappointed” that NATO “didn’t come to our aid,” only to claim he didn’t “try too hard” to get its help because he wanted to “prove a point.”

Trump went on to thank “the entire Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” for jumping onboard the “military conflict,” which has already killed at least 13 U.S. military service members and more than 1,400 Iranians.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-trump-wont-call-it-a-war_n_69c7da7fe4b06be0a3086c0a

Not quite down the rabbit hole that can happen on youtube ... but this popped up 3 or 4 videos on from the one above.

Interesting take on the war in Iran and the impact of drones.

https://youtube.com/shorts/CBEeW-cKyvM?si=BEFc6JT4Fl4bxUux

There is a nice 2 minute clip that speaks to your point on Youtube Short.

https://youtube.com/shorts/oR31HvpctM8?si=MEWWNVvX95BrrcHn

I think the person speaking is Joy Reid - I hated her if I ever caught her on MSNBC. But she's calm and talks well on this one subject.

Kid Rock gets visit from Apache Helicopters.



And why were military helicopters sent to fly over a No Kings rally? Murica!

Man, I didn't realize all these rooks were doing so well!


The six MLB rookies off to the hottest starts in 2026

Buster Olney
Mar 31, 2026, 07:00 AM ET


To say MLB's touted 2026 rookies are thriving would be an understatement.

The Cleveland Guardians' Chase DeLauter, with his quick, powerful swing, has more home runs (four) than 12 teams in the majors. The Detroit Tigers' Kevin McGonigle has batted in as many runs (four) as the entire San Francisco Giants team has scored. JJ Wetherholt already has a curtain call and walk-off for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Carson Benge, who played just a handful of games above Double-A before the New York Mets' opener, is already being feted in Citi Field. The Cincinnati Reds' Sal Stewart compiled your basic .769 on-base percentage through the first weekend. Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox homered in each of his first three major league games, joining DeLauter as only the third and fourth rookies in history to do so.

The common denominator between these six -- and some of the other young players in the sport -- seems to be this unusual poise.

"Watching them, you can tell they believe they belong," one high-ranked MLB executive said. "They are not surprised. They are not in awe. They expect to do well."

Said another: "I don't know what to attribute it to, but you don't see the kind of anxiety that you would expect with guys so young."

These six rookies, with their early offense and poise at the plate, have made immediate impacts on their teams days into the new season. Here's a breakdown of what each has done so far -- and how they got to this point.


Chase DeLauter, RF, Cleveland Guardians
The Guardians opened the season with a series in Seattle, and DeLauter hit two homers in the opener, another in the second game and a fourth in the third. He hit those home runs off starters Logan Gilbert and George Kirby and closer Andres Munoz -- and DeLauter is the only player to homer off all three of those pitchers, ESPN researcher Paul Hembekides noted.

Despite being listed at 6-foot-3 and 235 pounds, DeLauter has never been a prolific home run hitter -- he never reached double-digit homer totals in any season in college and accumulated 20 total in his first three professional seasons. He does not like to strike out, Guardians hitting coach Grant Fink noted, and at each level DeLauter has played at, he has typically had more walks than strikeouts. He's served well in this aspect by his swing, which is short and quick, with his hands close to his body, a little like former Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley's swing.

"When you watch it, it looks at times like he doesn't finish it," said Fink. "But it has unbelievable force in it."

There's an ease and comfort to DeLauter's game that first appeared last October. He had lost a lot of time to foot and core injuries after the Guardians drafted him with the No. 16 pick in 2022, accumulating just 138 games in the minors over the past three years. But Cleveland, desperate for hitters to complement Jose Ramirez in its lineup, promoted DeLauter to make his major league debut in last year's wild-card series against Detroit. Grant Fink, the Guardians' hitting coach, remembers watching DeLauter and how calm he was under highly unusual circumstances.

"There are not a lot of people he gets intimidated by," Fink said.

Following his performance over the weekend, DeLauter was named American League Player of the Week on Monday.


Sal Stewart, 3B, Cincinnati Reds
The Reds drafted Stewart 16 picks after DeLauter was selected. Stewart had 58 plate appearances for Cincinnati late last season and was sent into the winter with this advice: Work on becoming more athletic. And he took that seriously. When the team asked him about playing winter ball, Stewart declined, saying he wanted to focus on improving his body by working out in his hometown of Miami. He arrived at camp 22 pounds lighter, moving better and showing more of the athleticism that the Reds' staff knew he possessed. In fact, Stewart ended up winning a free throwing shooting contest the Reds held during spring training.

Through Cincinnati's first four games, he is 8-for-12 with five walks and one strikeout, never looking more comfortable than when he's in the batter's box, focused and making adjustments from pitch to pitch.

"He knows how to hit with two strikes," Nick Krall, the Reds' head of baseball operations, said.


Kevin McGonigle, SS, Detroit Tigers
McGonigle, 21, had four hits in the Tigers' opener in San Diego, becoming the third-youngest player with four or more hits on Opening Day in the past 100 major league seasons. Then, in the second game, he came to the plate with the bases loaded in the eighth inning against Wandy Peralta, the veteran lefty who has made a career of cutting down left-handed hitters like McGonigle in the late innings. But McGonigle kept fighting off tough pitches against Peralta. The pitcher turned his head in some frustration at one point, after McGonigle fouled off a pitch that Peralta thought would finish off the rookie.

"He was locked in," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch wrote in a text, "and just competing. He didn't look overmatched and he didn't look overwhelmed."

On the 10th pitch of the plate appearance against Peralta, McGonigle ripped a two-run single into right field, driving in two runs. "This young man," Tigers broadcaster Jason Benetti exclaimed, "is totally unfazed by these lights in the show!"

McGonigle's manager agreed with that sentiment: "One of the takeaways was he doesn't overthink at the plate, and trusts himself. It was an epic at-bat at the perfect time," Hinch added.


Munetaka Murakami, 3B, Chicago White Sox
MLB teams had a lot of questions about Murakami -- surrounding his swing and his defense -- despite the big power he showed in Japan's NPB. Some evaluators wondered privately if he would be overwhelmed by high velocity. In the end, he signed a two-year, $34 million contract with the White Sox -- far, far below some media expectations.

"He is super determined," White Sox head of baseball operation Chris Getz said of Murakami. "It's very clear he wants to prove to someone that he's real. He's very serious."

And very dangerous for pitchers: Murakami homered in each of Chicago's three games against the Milwaukee Brewers. "Put the home runs aside -- the quality of his at-bats really stood out," Getz said, mentioning how his rookie faced some of the Brewers' hard throwers, such as Jacob Misiorowski.

It's clear to Getz that Murakami is not just an all-or-nothing slugger, with how he adapts throughout the ball-strike count, and Getz expects that as the 26-year-old faces more major league pitching he'll continue to make adjustments.


Carson Benge, RF, New York Mets
Of these six rookies, Benge might have been the closest to starting the season in the minors, due to his relatively short tenure as a professional. The No. 19 pick in 2024, Benge reached Double-A by the end of that year, and he had just 24 games in Triple-A at the end of 2025. He was told at the outset of camp this year that he'd be given a chance to make the Mets, and he did everything they asked. He turned out to be everything they had hoped for, too, with an .874 OPS in spring training, and eventually won the right-field job to appear in New York's Opening Day lineup.

"What stands out right away is how composed and calm he is," Mets manager Carlos Mendoza wrote in a text following Benge's opening weekend. "Nothing really seems to speed him up. He's got a really mature approach for a player his age, especially in big moments. You can see the confidence, but it's not forced."

Benge, who also drew two walks and stole one base on Opening Day, connected for his first career home run in his fourth at-bat in the seventh inning. He drove the ball 385 feet, jumping for joy after seeing the ball disappear over the right-field wall.

"Physically," Mendoza wrote, "the tools are there. He's got the arm, the athleticism. But it's the instincts that have really jumped out to me. He reads the game well, and makes smart decisions."


JJ Wetherholt, SS, St. Louis Cardinals
In his major league debut, Wetherholt smashed a ball into the grass beyond the center-field wall in St. Louis, 425 feet from home plate. The next day, he hit the walk-off single to beat Tampa 6-5, before getting buckets of ice water thrown on him from teammates.

"Calm demeanor," Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol wrote in a text. "Not phased [sic] by anything, and a gamer. The guys love him."

Randy Mazey -- who coached Wetherholt in his last year at the University of West Virginia, before Wetherholt was drafted and Mazey retired -- relished the replays of Wetherholt's home run, walk-off hit and toothy grin, as well as how the other Cardinals reacted to him. Mazey coached for decades and has seen the evolution and steady improvement in young players climbing through amateur baseball, so he's not at all surprised to see Wetherholt, as well as all the other rookies, excelling.

"The kids these days are so talented," Mazey said. "I think you're going to see more of that. This is going to start being a trend."


https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...herhold-benge-mcgonigle-stewart-murakami

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets prison sentence for possessing 'enormous child pornography collection'

Daniel Tocci's attorney had previously argued that the case should be dismissed because “all the evidence" stemmed from his Capitol siege case.

A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his actions on Jan. 6 has been sentenced for possessing more than 100,000 child sexual abuse images and videos discovered in connection with his Capitol riot case.

Daniel Tocci was sentenced to four years in prison by U.S. District Judge Mark G. Mastroianni of the District of Massachusetts after he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, according to a Justice Department news release Monday that made no mention of the Jan. 6 link. Tocci had been set to go to trial in the Jan. 6 case early last year, but it was dismissed after Trump granted mass clemency to roughly 1,500 defendants tied to the attack on the Capitol.

Federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo in the child pornography case that, in addition to the child sex abuse material, Tocci's laptop "contained extremely disturbing images of violent acts, such as a cat being killed by being put in a blender, a male shooting a female in the head, a dog being beaten to death, and severed heads and limbs, as well as images and videos of bestiality.”

Before he pleaded guilty in September, Tocci's attorney had argued for the dismissal of the child sexual abuse material case because “all the evidence" stemmed from the pardoned Jan. 6 case.

"The case against Mr. Tocci must be dismissed because the entirety of the evidence stems from a warrant that, according to President Trump, should never have issued," Tocci's attorney wrote in July. "President Trump recognized the ongoing nature of the injustice against Mr. Tocci, as the investigation took place over the course of four years, and the instant case is still being prosecuted."

The Justice Department did not respond to the motion before Tocci's attorney withdrew it ahead of a plea hearing.

During Trump's second term, the Justice Department has taken different approaches to whether evidence seized in the course of Jan. 6 investigations can be used to prosecute other crimes, arguing that gun crime cases should be dismissed but not child pornography cases like Tocci's. Last year, Trump re-pardoned Jan. 6 defendant Dan Wilson over a gun case that stemmed from his Capitol siege case.

The Justice Department also contended that Trump's sweeping Jan. 6 pardons did not apply to a Capitol rioter's plot to kill members of the FBI for investigating him, resulting in a life sentence.

Brian Cole Jr., who has been charged in connection with the pipe bombs left outside the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack, has also argued that Trump's sweeping pardon should apply to the charged conduct. Justice Department attorneys this week asked for more time to respond to Cole's argument about Trump's pardon.

Former Jan. 6 defendant Andrew Paul Johnson was sentenced this month to life in prison after he was convicted of child sex crimes. Law enforcement officials alleged Johnson used the promise of money he claimed he would receive from a Jan. 6 settlement with the Justice Department — one that has not materialized — to silence one of his victims. Trump has floated the idea of compensating Jan. 6 rioters, but no one has received any payments.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...-child-pornography-collection-rcna265963

An all out admission that this administration is at war with and thinks that using the power of the government through the FCC and official government websites to silence anything negative about them is somehow not against the costutution. History has seen this movie before.............

FCC’s Brendan Carr: Trump is ‘winning’ against ‘fake news media’

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr on Friday said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that President Trump is “winning” his feud against the “fake news media.”

Carr told the audience that other politicians “gave way to the legacy national media,” unlike Trump, who the FCC chief said “smashed the façade.”

“President Trump took on the fake news media and President Trump is winning,” he continued. “Look at the results so far. PBS defunded. NPR defunded. Joy Reid, gone from MSNBC. Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, gone. Jim Acosta, gone. John Dickerson, gone. [Stephen] Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN is going to have new ownership as well.”

Paramount Skydance is helmed by David Ellison, the son of Trump ally and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. The company purchased CBS News last year and tapped conservative writer Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief. The parent company also won its bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, which oversees CNN, in February.

David Ellison has said the CNN’s editorial strategy will serve a more politically “diverse” audience; similar remarks were made previously about CBS News.

Carr added on Friday that “we’re not at the point yet –– you know, waving the ‘mission accomplished’ flag,” but repeated that the president is “winning.”

In December, Carr suggested that the FCC was not independent from the administration, despite the website previously labeling it as an “independent government agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.” The word “independent” was removed after the agency’s chief testified before lawmakers.

He recently threatened to crack down on broadcasters over their coverage of the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. He wrote earlier this month that broadcasters could have problems renewing their licenses due to their coverage, accusing them of “running hoaxes and news distortions.”

Trump’s war on the news media goes back several years, first amplified during his first campaign for the presidency in 2016. The president has accused much of legacy news media as being “fake news” and has preferred conservative media with reporting favorable toward him and both of his administrations.

Following his return to the White House last year, Trump warned mainstream media outlets that they were “on notice” after ABC and Paramount Global, before it merged with Skydance, settled lawsuits with the administration.

The White House also released a “media bias” tracker on its website in November to accuse news reports of omitting context and claim that they include lies, mischaracterization, bias or malpractice. It features an “offender hall of shame” headlined by The Washington Post, MS Now, CBS News, CNN, The New York Times, Politico and the Wall Street Journal.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5805710-brendan-carr-fcc-donald-trump-media-feud-cpac/

In an effort to pwn the libs he didn't pay attention to that part. You know how that works.

The ball is in Shedeur's court.

No excuses sink or swim.

He has so much available to him with the tech tools of today and the resources open for him to use.

Virtual tools. Advanced physical training knowledge on diet and exercise.

He can get the best people in the business to help him become better.

The job has his name on it. If he shows up and takes command.

I want him to succeed. At the same time I want to know one way or the other. Can he be a quarterback capable of winning a Super Bowl?

If Shedeur wins the job and has a good season. DW should be done in Cleveland.

If DW beats out Shedeur. It opens up a whole different chapter in the DW story.