‘MAGA-Coded’ CBS Evening News Echoes Hysterical Hockey Reporting #Political
The media hall monitors are fond of berating the Bari Weiss-run CBS Evening News as Trump-friendly or “MAGA-coded.” So far, the network has quite easily managed to beat those allegations. Case in point: the former Tiffany network has decided to wade into the fake controversy surrounding the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams.
Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 (click “expand” to view transcript):
The allegedly "MAGA-coded" CBS Evening News has joined the ongoing attempt to gaslight America into thinking there is animosity between our respective Olympic hockey teams pic.twitter.com/KfPHwH5LzT
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 26, 2026
TONY DOKOUPIL: Now to America's gold medal winning USA hockey team. No, not the ones celebrated at the State of the Union last night. The women's team, which also beat Canada, also in overtime, and yet has come home to just a fraction of the glory. Here is CBS News correspondent Jonah Kaplan.
JONAH KAPLAN: Two Olympic gold medal teams. Two very different celebrations. The men's U.S. hockey team received a hero's welcome. [Cheers and applause] Members of the U.S. Women's team, already back on the ice. Practicing for their various professional and college teams. Lee Stecklein and Kelly Panek, decorated women's hockey Olympic players, said their absence was due to logistical challenges.
Do you want your own invite?
KELLY PANEK: You want it to be about how great of an experience it was for us. You know, having two gold medals come out of USA Hockey, something we’ve never done before.
KAPLAN: Their return from the Olympics was met with fallout from this viral men's hockey team call Sunday with the President.
DONALD TRUMP: I must tell you, we’re gonna have to bring the women's team, You do know that. [Laughter]
UNIDENTIFIED USA MEN’S HOCKEY PLAYER: ABSOLUTELY.
KAPLAN: This afternoon, U.S. men's player Jeremy Swayman.
JEREMY SWAYMAN: Yep, we should have reacted differently. We know that. We are so excited for the women's team, we have so much respect for the women's team.
KAPLAN: Mutual admiration. And how about from the men's team? Is it just one family?
PANEK: Yeah, that's how it felt like over there. It really did feel like that, you know. Both team USAs, that's part of the great thing about being at the Olympics.
KAPLAN: And while Olympic gold was nice, the goal is the impact on the next generation.
LEE STECKLEIN: To increase the opportunity for girls to experience that. Would love if that’s in hockey.
KAPLAN: One thing we also asked the girls, how about a repeat in 2030 in France? They said, “we are not thinking about that yet because we have to think about the Paralympic Games happening now”, and they want the U.S. to go 3 for 3 gold medals in hockey. Tony?
Tony: All right, Jonah, put on a pair of skates, send us pictures.
Tony Dokoupil’s playfully telling Jonak Kaplan to put on some skates almost reads like a repudiation of even having to do the report in the first place. But this repudiation is useless after his melodramatic introduction to Jonah Kaplan’s horrid report.
All the credit and respect to Kelly Panek and Lee Stecklein of the gold-medal winning women’s hockey team, who refused to take Kaplan’s bait at every turn. Whether it was the asinine question on potential White House invites or on whether they feel that they are “one family” with the men’s team, Panek and Stecklein held firm and refused to feed the dopey discourse currently infecting what should be celebrated as total victory.
The whole premise of the report gets shot down with the audio of President Trump’s tongue-in-cheek “you know we’re gonna have to bring the women’s team”. Viewers can clearly hear someone on the men’s team saying “Absolutely.” That should’ve killed this stupid cycle at the root.
A joyous story about the return of sporting patriotism has struggled to be told because the media, especially the sports media, is still stuck on litigating microaggressions, and are mad that Trump embraced the winners. Fittingly, it is CBS who chooses to run this slop on the TV side. The media hall monitors who piously decry as “disinformation” anything that deviates from Dem orthodoxy will commit some disinformation of their own as they continue to try to hang the “MAGA-coded” tag on CBS.
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