Chip Roy honors heroes saving kids in deadly Texas flood and exposes media lies on 'The Glenn Beck Program'



Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) joined "The Glenn Beck Program" on Monday morning to provide an update on the devastating flash flood that killed at least 82 people, including 28 children, in Kerr County.

Roy highlighted the community's heroism and torched the legacy media for sharing baseless falsehoods about the government's response in the wake of the natural disaster.

'This is just the kind of hateful rhetoric that comes out of people that want to politicize everything, demean everything.'

The congressman noted that he typically spends each Fourth of July with his family in Kerrville to attend a concert, but he spent it in Washington, D.C., this year after President Donald Trump's team requested he stay for the signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

"I've spent most of the last three days [in Kerrville]," Roy told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck. "There's long waiting lines for people to volunteer."

He called the community's support "a great testimony to the strength, resolve, [and] compassion of not just people at Kerrville but across Texas and the whole country."

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Roy blasted legacy media for "politicizing" the tragedy and spreading false information to criticize the Trump administration.

"The finger-pointing, generally, is just offensive," he told Beck. "We're down on the ground with first responders, trying to find people, and we're trying to clean up debris, and we're trying to help a community heal."

He shared stories of "tremendous acts of heroism," including Jane Ragsdale, a longtime camp director, and Dick Eastland, a Christian summer camp owner, who both died while trying to save children from the flash flood.

"You got a camp director, who died trying to save little girls, and I'm there with his daughter, who is now there with the families of the people who lost their little girls at this camp, and she was there because she loves them. Do you know how hard that was?" Roy stated. "And then you got these people like [CNN's] Dana [Bash], who were out there making this conjecture about budget cuts or the Trump administration didn't have people there, which, first of all, is false. It's just not true."

"My observation of all this is, the president, the federal government was doing what they normally do and more," he said.

Roy further slammed the media for "tracking down the family members" and publishing photographs of the children from families' social media posts.

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He also addressed comments from Sade Perkins, a former member of the Houston Food Insecurity Board, who claimed that Camp Mystic was a "white-only, conservative [and] Christian" program.

Roy called Perkins' claims "totally false" and "absolutely ridiculous," adding that the camp "welcomes anybody and everybody."

He told Beck, "This is just the kind of hateful rhetoric that comes out of people that want to politicize everything, demean everything. Everything has to be woke, everything has to be this [diversity, equity, and inclusion] ideology that's destroying our country."

"The fact is, these are really, really good people who are dedicated to the mission of advancing the Kingdom of Christ and doing so with these historic camps that have been multigenerational along a great and beautiful part of the rivers in Texas," Roy added.

Roy emphasized his commitment to working with local, state, and federal officials to prevent future "extraordinary" tragedies, stressing that installing warning sirens may be an urgent first step.

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CNN's fake news fumble: Shaky anonymous sources backfire as Trump's Iran strike proves devastating



Following President Donald Trump's strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, CNN hastily seized an opportunity to criticize the administration by reporting a leaked early assessment, leaning on several anonymous sources who incorrectly claimed the attack caused minimal damage. Subsequent findings of widespread destruction revealed CNN's misstep and further highlighted legacy media's over-reliance on shaky insiders, desperate to downplay conservative wins.

On June 25, CNN published an "exclusive" article from correspondent Natasha Bertrand and two other network reporters questioning Trump's claims that the strike "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's sites, citing "seven people briefed" on a top-secret early Defense Intelligence Agency assessment.

'Why did you hire someone so patently averse to the facts, considering she claimed Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation?'

One source told CNN, "So the (DIA) assessment is that the U.S. set them back maybe a few months, tops."

Two unnamed individuals told the news outlet that the strike did not destroy Iran's enriched uranium stockpile, one claimed that the centrifuges were still "largely 'intact,'" and another alleged that the uranium was moved before the attack.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN that the initial assessment was "flat-out wrong" and torched "an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community" for leaking the top-secret report to the network.

Still, after later assessments confirmed the administration's claims that the facilities were significantly damaged, CNN clung to its initial narrative and defended its journalists.

"We stand 100% behind Natasha Bertrand's journalism and specifically her and her colleagues' reporting of the early intelligence assessment of the U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities," CNN stated. "CNN's reporting made clear that this was an initial finding that could change with additional intelligence. We have extensively covered President Trump's own deep skepticism about it."

"However, we do not believe it is reasonable to criticize CNN reporters for accurately reporting the existence of the assessment and accurately characterizing its findings, which are in the public interest," CNN's statement added.

Conservative media critics slammed CNN's strike coverage, blasting the network and other legacy media outlets for their pattern of leaning on dubious, left-leaning sources who consistently miss the mark, as seen during the COVID-era alarmism, the suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop story, and the downplaying of former President Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline.

'They should be prosecuted!'

Curtis Houck, managing editor of Media Research Center's NewsBusters, responded to CNN's statement.

"Why did you hire someone so patently averse to the facts, considering she claimed Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation?" Houck wrote, referring to Bertrand. "Or perhaps it's because you know she's a partisan who will take whatever the Deep State hands her and run with it?"

Chad Prather, host of "The Chad Prather Show," asked CNN, "How bout all the other things you've lied about?"

Conservative commentator Vince Dao wrote, "Firstly, you blatantly misrepresented what that report even said. Secondly, [you're] literally spreading Pentagon propaganda to justify a war. How does it feel to abandon everything the 'free press' stood for 20 years ago? Pathetic."

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As recently as Monday, CNN was still trying to push the narrative that the Trump administration's attack on Iran was largely unsuccessful.

The outlet published a report stating that Rafael Grossi, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog chief, claimed it would take Iran only "a matter of months" to restart enriching uranium.

The article reads, "Rafael Grossi's comments appear to support an early assessment from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, first reported on by CNN, which suggests the United States' strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites last week did not destroy the core components of its nuclear program, and likely only set it back by months."

The article cited Grossi's comments to CBS' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," during which he explained that the strikes caused "severe" but "not total damage."

"They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that. But as I said, frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there," Grossi said.

On Friday, a CNN spokesperson told the New York Post that the outlet had received a letter from Alejandro Brito, Trump's attorney, accusing it of defamation and demanding a retraction. CNN defended its reporting.

Trump called for those who leaked the assessment to be prosecuted.

Last week, in a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted!"

A CNN spokesperson confirmed to Blaze News that the outlet received a letter from Trump's lawyer, responded to it, and rejected the claims made.

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Glenn Beck announces a ‘new chapter’ for the next season of his life



About a year ago, Glenn Beck began feeling an unease creep in when he prayed.

“I looked at everything that I was doing; I looked at my business; I looked at how we were doing things. … I looked at everything,” he says. But try as he might, he “couldn’t make sense” of this growing sensation that something “[wasn’t] right.”

One day, it suddenly became clear to him: “It’s not just one thing that you're looking for, it's everything — everything is wrong.”

“Not meaning that we're doing something wrong,” he clarifies. “It just means the time is over for many things. … Everything is going to change.”

“I’ve been soul-searching now for a long time,” he says. “Today, I’m announcing a new chapter for me.”

  

“When I first formulated what would become TheBlaze, it was 2009-2010, and Barack Obama was surrounding himself with the Marxist radicals — people who were former revolutionaries, people that were Islamicists,” he reflects.

Glenn warned back then that in the coming days we would see “the socialist, the communist, the Islamist, and the anarchist … work together — not because they love each other but because they share a common enemy: the West.”

He cautioned his audience about the order in which violence would come: “Israel would be the first target, then Europe, and then the violence would cascade and come here to America.”

Although few took his warnings seriously, we’re now living out Glenn’s exact predictions.

But it’s not all bad news. We’re also living in a time when the mainstream media has become the legacy media — replaced by independent journalists and bold podcasters who tell the truth the establishment tries to hide. Following his departure from Fox News, Glenn became one of the pioneers who sparked this new media movement — a movement that heavily impacted the last election and has forever changed the news landscape.

He looks at Blaze Media today, which was in many ways built and maintained by his faithful audience, and says “mission accomplished.”

But that doesn’t mean that Blaze Media has peaked. “I know what they're working on, and the Blaze is going to continue to grow and expand,” says Glenn.

However, Glenn’s personal focus is shifting.

But not to worry — "The Glenn Beck Program" will continue, "stronger than ever."

This is “not a departure from the mission at the Blaze but an expansion of it, because while we have cracked the back, I think, of the corporate media, there's another system that is just as broken, just as corrupted, just as dangerous, and that is education,” he says.

“It is my mission now, I believe, in the next chapter of my life to do for American education what we did to legacy media,” he explains. “What I'm building is something new — an expansion. It is a mission designed to spark a renaissance in how we teach and understand American history and civics and faith and service.”

To hear more about what’s on the horizon, watch the clip above.

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How the liberal media twists 'church and state' to hide what it truly fears



The legacy media wants you to believe a lie.

For months, the corporate media has claimed the Trump administration is blurring the lines between government and the Christian faith. Framing the actions as eroding the "separation of church and state" — a phrase, of course, that appears nowhere in the Constitution — the media wants you to believe that President Donald Trump is violating the First Amendment.

'It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.'

The latest example of media fearmongering is just two weeks old.

On May 21, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth held a (voluntary, brief) Christian prayer service at the Pentagon. Like clockwork, media outlets like the New York Times and CNN rushed to suggest the event was unconstitutional and, in the case of MSNBC, "so problematic."

But that couldn't be further from the truth.

The First Amendment contains two legal precedents related to religion and government: the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause. The Founding Fathers dictated that the federal government shall neither establish a national religion nor prohibit the free exercise of religion.

It's really that simple. And clearly, Hegseth violated neither.

"The media is not outraged because they are neutral observers who genuinely believe we rode roughshod over the Constitution — we did not. I assure you, Congress did not establish a national religion during those 26 minutes of a voluntary prayer service," Brooks Potteiger, a Tennessee pastor who spoke at the Pentagon service, told Blaze Media.

Perhaps, then, the media isn't actually worried about constitutional law. On the contrary: It uses fearmongering about "church and state" as a smokescreen to hide its true offense, Potteiger said.

"Their outrage stems from something deeper: The offense of the gospel itself," he told Blaze Media. "And they expect their indignation to stick because they assume the average American is ignorant of her own history."

It's true.

The corporate media must believe the average American is ignorant about the origins of our great country because it clearly thinks its fearmongering will resonate. But the truth is that many of the Founding Fathers were deeply religious, and their concerns about government and religion are not what the media and progressives claim today.

Read some of the Founding Fathers in their own words:

  • George Washington: "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor."
  • Samuel Adams: "May every citizen in the army and in the country have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind, and an impression of that declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth me I will honor.'"
  • John Witherspoon: "God grant that in America true religion and civil liberty may be inseparable, and that the unjust attempts to destroy the one may, in the issue, tend to the support and establishment of both."

"Make no mistake, this was not some vague or generic deity in the minds of the founders. It was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is what’s true of our history," Potteiger said.

Regarding the "separation of church and state," Potteiger told Blaze News why the media's trite accusation "betrays a misunderstanding of the historical context."

"The phrase was not drawn from the Constitution but from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association," he explained. "It referred to a prohibition against the federal government establishing a national church, in response to the Church of England, not a ban on public officials exercising or expressing religious faith."

That's why, Potteiger explained, he will make no apologies for attending or speaking at Hegseth's Pentagon service.

"I stand firmly behind the service," he told Blaze Media. "I’m proud of the secretary of defense for initiating it, and I’m comforted knowing that the service members were encouraged in the gospel and that heaven heard our prayers — for we came in the name of Jesus Christ."

For his part, Hegseth refuses to cave to the media outrage.

"Appealing to heaven, to God, is a long-standing tradition in our military," he said last week. "We appeal to God. I appeal to Jesus Christ for [His] protection. We’re going to speak that, and we’re going to be open and willing to talk about that at the Pentagon. If they want to criticize that, they’re on the wrong side of a very important issue."

Amen.

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Mark Levin TORCHES Jake Tapper for sham exposé — ‘He was a co-conspirator!’



CNN’s Jake Tapper is currently on a book tour following the release of his new bestseller that he co-authored with Axios’ Alex Thompson — “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”

The book centers on the narrative that Joe Biden’s mental and physical decline was downplayed and kept hidden by his inner circle and parts of the media when he was president.

The glaring irony, of course, is that Tapper was a central part of the media cover-up. This so-called “exposé,” which reveals nothing we couldn’t already see with our own eyes, is a pathetic case of self-incrimination.

“Jake Tapper more than any other so-called journalist knew Joe Biden, knew the people around Joe Biden, grew up near where Joe Biden was senator, was well familiar with him,” says Mark Levin.

“For him to come out with a book now and act like this is a terrible cover-up ... like he's an observer when he was a participant, more than that, when he was a co-conspirator, is so outrageous and unethical,” he condemns.

 

The mainstream media, Jake Tapper concluded, “undertook the greatest political cover-up and scandal in American history” when they pretended like Biden was sharp as a tack while the rest of us could see “how he was walking, how he was talking, his reactions, his staring into the sky.”

But instead of doing their duty as journalists by finding and reporting the truth, “They fought us every step of the way,” says Levin.

“If that debate had not occurred and made it impossible for the media to continue to cover up the fact that Joe Biden was unqualified to be president of the United States, he would have been their nominee. They would have taken it right to the very end.”

But as soon as the “secret” was out, Tapper, seeing an opportunity to play the victim (and make a lot of money doing it), jumped on writing his fake exposé.

“Jake Tapper dares to try and get you to buy his book when he was part of the problem, involved in the cover-up,” Levin fumes. He’s trying to “rewrite [his] history" and “save [his] profession.”

These mainstream journalists are “not professionals. They're propagandists; they're demagogues for the left, for the Democrat Party, for the government bureaucracy, for the rogue judges,” he continues. Jake Tapper “is a complete fraud.”

To hear more of Levin’s epic roast, watch the clip above.

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