SATURDAY: Important Fox propaganda defeat!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2025

Weekend Friends try to explain: The friends held off as long as they could. This morning, at 6:23 a.m., they finally confessed, if haltingly.

To its credit, Fox News Digital had reported the relevant fact yesterday. The report had appeared right around noon. 

Headline included, here's what the Fox report says:

DC pipe bomb suspect admitted to planting the devices, expressed doubts about 2020 election outcome: source

The accused D.C. pipe bomber has been speaking with investigators for hours, admitting he planted the devices and expressing doubts about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, a source close to the investigation tells Fox News.

The explosive devices were placed near the Republican and Democratic National Committees' headquarters on Capitol Hill just hours before the Jan. 6, 2021 congressional certification that erupted into riots by demonstrators.

The suspect, Brian Cole Jr., is scheduled to make a federal court appearance later Friday for a first appearance before a magistrate as FBI interviews with him continue. He has not yet entered a plea.

And so on from there. That report appeared yesterday, right around noon0--and right there, in the highlighted material, you see a major propaganda win for Blue America's side.

With that, let's state the obvious:

As soon as this arrest was announced, a major propaganda advantage was hanging in the balance. Assuming the actual bomber had been arrested--and reportedly, Coles Jr. has confessed--an obvious, long-standing question awaited resolution:

Had the bomb maker been a MAGA man? Or was he an agent of the Biden-era FBI, as the manifest nutcase Dan Bongino had blared and bruited and bellowed and claimed over the past several years.

Today, the nutcase Bongino is the #2 man inside the Trump-era FBI. To its credit, the FBI now seems to have arrested the person who assembled and then positioned the bombs. But if you work for the Fox News Channel, a messaging problem arises:

Awkwardly, the person in question turns out to be MAGA! He's one of the many millions of people who got conned into believing Donald J. Trump's nut-ball claims about the 2020 election.

Now for a bit of reality:

We Americans are living through a dangerous era which can be characterized in the following way:

Government by the mentally ill. National discourse increasingly shaped by corporate messaging agents.

So "our democracy" now goes, in the dangerous era into which we've all been thrown.

Within that structure, the Fox News Channel has, by far, the largest viewership of our three major "cable news" channels. Every day, and then on into the night, the channel drags out panels reminiscent of The Bar Scene from Star Wars to deliver the crackpot messaging the profit-seeking corporate channel wants this nation to hear.

Yesterday afternoon at 5, there sat a group of these defectives. On the nation's most-watched "cable news" show, a trio of messaging agents--Watters, Gutfeld and Compagno--laughed and clowned and gamboled and played as they generated conspiracy theories as to why the Biden-era FBI hadn't arrested this man.

(To watch this entire slapstick-adjacent segment, you can just click here. There was plenty of outright clowning around on our flailing nation's most-watched "cable news" program.)

In a less forgiving world, the three messenger stooges we've named would be marched off into the countryside for years of re-education activities. Yesterday afternoon, on this edition of The Five, Harold Ford stammered out a minor, halting reference to the fact which had already emerged at Fox itself, roughly five hours earlier:

The suspect was a MAGA man. He's told the FBI that he believed the 2020 election had been stolen.

Yesterday afternoon, on The Five, no one was willing to say it straight out. This morning, at 6:23 a.m., the unrecognizables on Fox & Friends Weekend finally blurted it out.

To its credit, Fox News Digital had been willing to publish the report. Somewhat surprisingly, producers now let the Fox & Friends Weekend Three voice a brief acknowledgment:

The arrested pipe bomb maker was one of theirs. He was one of the millions of people who got conned into a ruinously false belief by the never-ending tsunami of bullshit they themselves spew on the air.

Full disclosure:

If there had been the slightest sign that the bombmaker came from Blue America, that would have been seized upon as a major propaganda win by tribal messengers like these three:

Fox & Friends Weekend: Saturday, 12/6/25
Charlie Hurt: co-host, Fox & Friends Weekend
Rachel Campos-Duffy: co-host, Fox & Friends Weekend
Griff Jenkins: co-host, Fox & Friends Weekend

They would have blared it to the ends of the earth--but that propaganda victory had now been taken away. Tragically, the autistic man they had managed to con turned out to be one of their own.

In truth, there's nothing especially good about what seems to have happened. We can only tell you this--with the revelation in that news report, our flailing American nation (or nations) has been lucky enough to avoid something very bad.

The message mavens at this "cable news" channel had been robbed of an extremely large win. This morning, to someone's credit, they briefly informed their viewers about what the bomb-maker has said he believes. 

After that, they began to thrash about, throwing gorilla dust all around with Charlie Hurt saying that this whole thing still seems to be "completely bonkers." (For link to tape, see below.)

Those friends! They then opened their 7 o'clock hour with a report on this same topic. By now, the news we've cited had apparently slipped their minds.

Viewers in the 7 A.M. hour didn't hear about the way this unfortunate young man had been conned. The friends didn't say that Coles was one of theirs--that he was on many millions who had been conned by a crackpot president's crackpot claims about the 2020 election.

To its credit, Fox News Digital reported what it was told. The weekend gang even told their viewers, if only fleetingly, and with several forms of misdirection quickly added.

America dodged a bullet with this. For those of us in Blue America, it's less a propaganda win than the avoidance of a big major loss.

For partial videotape: We can't yet link you to full videotape of what the three friends said. The invaluable Internet Archive hasn't done any such posting yet.

To watch part of the report which started at 6:23 a.m., you can just click here. "Completely bonkers," a chuckling Charlie Hurt says. In essence:

Please look over here!