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His name is Scott MacFarlane. For a journalist, he comes right out of central casting. He graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. He was inducted into SU’s radio hall of fame. He won 20 Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards working for several news organizations, most notably and recently CBS News.
But earlier this month, MacFarlane decided to leave CBS after Bari Weiss took over as the head of its news division. On Monday, he announced that the next chapter of his career would be with MeidasTouch, a self-described “pro-democracy” network.
“I’m not an opinionist, not an editorialist,” MacFarlane said in a video posted on X. “I’m far from a politician. I’m an enterprise reporter. Have been for a quarter century. What I’ll do is bring this enterprise reporting to all the components of the MeidasTouch network, all the contributors of the MeidasTouch network.
“It’s important when we underscore how significant this moment is, this moment of unique political toxicity and unique political danger. MeidasTouch and I have long shared this same philosophy — you don’t platform lies. You don’t platform conspiracy theories. And you don’t allow for the whitewashing of history.”
What is MeidasTouch? According to MacFarlane’s portrayal, it’s a down-the-middle, objective, responsible, fearless new outlet seeking to hold the powerful accountable. Impressive words, impressive stuff. Until you peel the onion off of it, that is, where you’ll find quite possibly the most far-left “news outlet” in the country.
MeidasTouch was originally founded as a political action committee in 2020, designed to help Democrats gain or maintain power and to remove Donald Trump from office. It produced and launched dozens of videos in the same vein as the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. Emboldened by Biden’s victory, MeidasTouch eventually decided to call itself a media company. But the mission remains the same: Defeat Trump, defeat conservatives, help Democrats win.
“MeidasTouch is a leader among the numerous digital-first outlets that have been rapidly reshaping the progressive media landscape since Mr. Trump took office,” the New York Times swooned in a glowing 2025 profile. “Tapping into agita among progressives about the new administration’s policies, they are fast becoming power brokers in Democratic politics and — party faithful hope — finally replicating the influential media ecosystem that Republicans have built over the past decade.”
And that’s all well and good. If there’s an audience for such content and a passion for one-party progressive rule, MeidasTouch can pursue that. It’s its right.
But if you’re MacFarlane, a newsman who has shiny Murrow and Emmy awards sitting on his mantel, why would you join such a Democratic super PAC that operates under the guise of a balanced media organization?
It would only make sense if you’ve been one of them all along.
“Going from left wing network to explicit hard-left wing outlet and still pretending to be a straight news guy,” remarked Tom Bevan of RealClearPolitics.
“I support when left-wing activists are finally a tiny bit honest about their left-wing advocacy instead of pretending to do journalism, so congratulations!” snarked the Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway.
Given MacFarlane’s trophy case, it is assumed other legacy media outlets would have been interested in his services. But instead, he went to MeidasTouch, an organization that literally hosted an anti-Trump counterprotest during the president’s State of the Union address last month.
“Donald Trump is lifting his speeches nearly verbatim from Adolf Hitler,” MeidasTouch “reported” in 2023. “This is not merely a coincidence. It is deliberate. We must not sit idly by as fascism rears its ugly head in America.”
This is where MacFarlane will serve as a “chief Washington correspondent and anchor.”
This pattern is beyond revealing. We saw the same movie with then-ABC correspondent Terry Moran, who also pretended to be a journalist before writing a late-night screed against Trump deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller on X last year: “It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater,” Moran wrote. “You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. His hatreds are his spiritual nourishment.”
Moran and ABC parted ways shortly thereafter. Since then, he spends his days doing podcasts from his home, railing against Trump and Republicans as if he were auditioning to guest-host The View.
The same goes for former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who recently joined activists in storming a church in Minneapolis. Lemon, another guy who claims to be a serious journalist, provided coffee and donuts to the agitators, kissed the leader of the group after “interviewing” her, and even instructed his cameraman to stop filming before the raid to avoid giving up the group’s plan beforehand.
Lemon has since been indicted with conspiracy against the rights of religious freedom and an attempt to injure while exercising religious freedom.
Jim Acosta, also formerly of CNN, is no different. He also has a podcast that broadcasts from his home and has since stated he would fire conservative commentator Scott Jennings from the network while hosting the likes of Rosie O’Donnell and Steve Schmidt.
Katie Couric, the only woman to be gainfully employed as an anchor by CBS, ABC, and NBC News, also has exposed herself as a limousine liberal.
“Are you just ridiculously good-looking, as Vogue said? No, seriously. What do you do about that?” she recently asked 2028 presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom. Couric only interviews Democratic politicians because no true conservative would ever entertain appearing on such a biased offering.
Adam Corolla, who hosts a podcast people actually listen to, said it best recently: “Just do the math, everybody. They’re all fair and balanced right down the middle, just calling balls and strikes. I don’t bring my own politics in anything. But the second they retire from whatever news outlet they work for, they’re all hard lefties.”
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Bingo.
Good for MacFarlane. Home is where the heart is.
