You'd be hard pressed to find a group of Americans who have a higher opinion of themselves than journalists. They think they're brave firefighters, defending us against the BAD ORANGE MAN.
Unless they risked being ostracized by their fellow journalists for reporting the truth, that is.
We knew months ago that 'NBC Nightly News' host Lester Holt was leaving the network, and on May 30, he signed off for the final time.
"Facts Matter": Lester Holt Signs Off As 'NBC Nightly News' Anchor https://t.co/EsilZoB7jV
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) May 30, 2025
“It has been an honor to lead this program and an honor to be welcomed into your homes,” Lester Holt said Friday, signing off for the final time as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. “I’m so grateful for your trust around here. Facts matter, words matter, journalism matters, and you matter.”
In a news-packed show leading with tornados in the South, Elon Musk‘s DOGE exit and drug use reports, Sean “Diddy” Combs sex-trafficking trial, wildfires in Canada, and Taylor Swift finally buying back her music, Holt’s departure was one of the biggest stories of all.
And here are Holt's final words:
Before we go tonight, a word about me. You may recall the announcement back some months ago that I would be leaving my post here at Nightly News in order to expand my role as host of Dateline. Well, today is that day. After 10 years, this is my last Nightly News broadcast as anchor.
It has been an honor to lead this program and an honor to be welcomed into your homes.
I’m so grateful for your trust around here. Facts matter, words matter, journalism matters, and you matter. Over the last decade, we have shared some dark and harrowing days and nights from our country, the pandemic, mass shootings, natural disasters, each testing our resilience and our compassion. That’s why I often like to leave you with something to smile about, moments that reassure and connect us. I’ll miss our evenings together, and I will miss the team that puts it all together, my dear friends and my colleagues. But for now, I just want to say thank you to my incredibly supportive and patient family and all of you. NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas premieres Monday, and I wish Tom great success.
I’ll see you on Dateline. In the meantime, please continue to take care of yourself, and each other. And I’ll do the same.
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Yes. Facts and words matter.
Which is why we'd like to remind you, Lester Holt implied Trump deserved the second assassination attempt for his 'baseless claims' about Haitians in Ohio.
After the July assassination attempt, Holt interviewed President Biden and Biden was ... not well. Holt didn't bother digging into why Biden thought the Secret Service Director was a man.
Holt also interviewed Biden following the disastrous June debate, and Biden claimed he didn't use the kind of rhetoric Donald Trump did, including the 'bloodbath' remark. Holt didn't bother correcting Biden nor did he point out that Biden himself once called MAGA an 'extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.'
But facts and words matter, we guess.
For 4 years, @LesterHoltNBC ignored Joe Biden's cognitive decline while spreading lies, and disinformation created by the DNC and the Soros Group. He won't be missed.
— Feisty Renegade 🗣🙀🙏⚓ (@MsRobotoFL) May 31, 2025
Bingo.
"Facts matter, unless those facts make the Democrats look bad." --@LesterHoltNBC
— Shane McKee (@shaner5000) May 31, 2025
Nailed it.
One almost thinks these fake news anchors believed their own BS
— MAGA.com (@realmagadotcom) May 31, 2025
They sure do.
All of these guys are F students, yet never stop lecturing others on “facts and truth.”
— Biff McTannen (@biffmctannen) May 31, 2025
The projection is strong.
Funny how facts never seem to matter when you disagree with them. That’s not journalism, that’s propaganda. You were terrible, but your replacement, @LlamasNBC, is worse. https://t.co/RwmPR1dcX7
— By the numbers 🔴📈✌️😎🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@TheRealFixNow) May 31, 2025
They never learn.
GorT: Holy demonstrates the pure hubris of so called journalists today. They can listen to 1 side and decide if it is the truth. For example, let's take Joe Biden's mental accuity. https://t.co/HUIwDYZi7V
— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) May 31, 2025
And Brian Stelter chimed in, too.
"I’m so grateful for your trust around here. Facts matter, words matter, journalism matters, and you matter." https://t.co/bemg3FZYrv
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 31, 2025
Tater talking about facts is also peak irony.
Facts do matter, just not to you or @LesterHoltNBC
— Pacheco the Ghost (@PMtalking) May 31, 2025
Where's the lie?
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