The media corridor screens are keen on berating the Bari Weiss-run CBS Night Information as Trump-friendly or “MAGA-coded.” To this point, the community has fairly simply managed to beat these allegations. Working example: the previous Tiffany community has determined to wade into the faux controversy surrounding the U.S. males’s and ladies’s Olympic hockey groups.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Night Information on Wednesday, February twenty fifth, 2026 (click on “broaden” to view transcript):
The allegedly “MAGA-coded” CBS Night Information has joined the continued try and gaslight America into pondering there’s animosity between our respective Olympic hockey groups pic.twitter.com/KfPHwH5LzT
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 26, 2026
TONY DOKOUPIL: Now to America’s gold medal profitable USA hockey group. No, not those celebrated on the State of the Union final evening. The ladies’s group, which additionally beat Canada, additionally in time beyond regulation, and but has come residence to only a fraction of the glory. Right here is CBS Information correspondent Jonah Kaplan.
JONAH KAPLAN: Two Olympic gold medal groups. Two very completely different celebrations. The boys’s U.S. hockey group acquired a hero’s welcome. [Cheers and applause] Members of the U.S. Ladies’s group, already again on the ice. Practising for his or her numerous skilled and faculty groups. Lee Stecklein and Kelly Panek, adorned ladies’s hockey Olympic gamers, stated their absence was as a consequence of logistical challenges.
Would you like your individual invite?
KELLY PANEK: You need it to be about how nice of an expertise it was for us. , having two gold medals come out of USA Hockey, one thing we’ve by no means achieved earlier than.
KAPLAN: Their return from the Olympics was met with fallout from this viral males’s hockey group name Sunday with the President.
DONALD TRUMP: I have to let you know, we’re gonna need to convey the ladies’s group, You do know that. [Laughter]
UNIDENTIFIED USA MEN’S HOCKEY PLAYER: ABSOLUTELY.
KAPLAN: This afternoon, U.S. males’s participant Jeremy Swayman.
JEREMY SWAYMAN: Yep, we should always have reacted in a different way. We all know that. We’re so excited for the ladies’s group, we now have a lot respect for the ladies’s group.
KAPLAN: Mutual admiration. And the way about from the lads’s group? Is it only one household?
PANEK: Yeah, that is the way it felt like over there. It actually did really feel like that, . Each group USAs, that is a part of the wonderful thing about being on the Olympics.
KAPLAN: And whereas Olympic gold was good, the aim is the affect on the following technology.
LEE STECKLEIN: To extend the chance for ladies to expertise that. Would love if that’s in hockey.
KAPLAN: One factor we additionally requested the women, how a few repeat in 2030 in France? They stated, “we aren’t interested by that but as a result of we now have to consider the Paralympic Video games occurring now”, they usually need the U.S. to go 3 for 3 gold medals in hockey. Tony?
Tony: All proper, Jonah, placed on a pair of skates, ship us footage.
Tony Dokoupil’s playfully telling Jonak Kaplan to placed on some skates nearly reads like a repudiation of even having to do the report within the first place. However this repudiation is ineffective after his melodramatic introduction to Jonah Kaplan’s horrid report.
All of the credit score and respect to Kelly Panek and Lee Stecklein of the gold-medal profitable ladies’s hockey group, who refused to take Kaplan’s bait at each flip. Whether or not it was the asinine query on potential White Home invitations or on whether or not they really feel that they’re “one household” with the lads’s group, Panek and Stecklein held agency and refused to feed the dopey discourse presently infecting what needs to be celebrated as complete victory.
The entire premise of the report will get shot down with the audio of President Trump’s tongue-in-cheek “ we’re gonna need to convey the ladies’s group”. Viewers can clearly hear somebody on the lads’s group saying “Completely.” That ought to’ve killed this silly cycle on the root.
A joyous story concerning the return of sporting patriotism has struggled to be advised as a result of the media, particularly the sports activities media, continues to be caught on litigating microaggressions, and are mad that Trump embraced the winners. Fittingly, it’s CBS who chooses to run this slop on the TV facet. The media corridor screens who piously decry as “disinformation” something that deviates from Dem orthodoxy will commit some disinformation of their very own as they proceed to attempt to grasp the “MAGA-coded” tag on CBS.
