Report: Legacy Media ‘Journalist’ Caught Giving Marco Rubio the Finger During Press Conference
– The piece argues that mainstream journalists often act as propagandists for elite liberal bosses, portraying themselves as objective while suppressing hostility toward conservatives.
– It centers on an incident at a Budapest press conference where Bloomberg reporter Thomas Escritt was photographed making middle-finger gestures toward Secretary of State Marco Rubio; townhall is cited as the source, and a clip circulated on X.
– Conservatives on social media are described as praising or defending Escritt’s behaviour,labeling him an activist rather than a journalist,with several tweets mocking him or calling him deranged.
– The article contrasts this with past norms in which even disliked reporters (e.g., Sam Donaldson toward Reagan) would face repercussions from bosses for such behavior, arguing that today’s journalists feel freer to act provocatively and are celebrated by some newsroom colleagues as “resistance” heroes.
– it suggests a broader pattern of liberal media bias and declining audience engagement for establishment outlets, implying that such conduct could undermine credibility, while also including familiar site elements like correction forms and advertisements.
Every honest person knows that establishment “journalists” have one job: sell the propaganda that their elite liberal bosses want sold.
Of course, to preserve the long-shattered illusion of “objective journalism,” those propagandists often try to suppress their hostility toward conservatives.
Earlier this week, a camera caught propagandist Thomas Escritt of Bloomberg repeatedly flipping his middle fingers at Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The incident occurred at a Monday press conference in Budapest with Rubio and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, according to Townhall.
In a clip posted Tuesday to the social media platform X, Escritt, in a failed attempt at subtlety, kept his arms down and, while seated, raised the middle finger on both hands as he casually twirled and pointed them in Rubio’s direction.
Bloomberg reporter caught making middle-finger gestures during Marco Rubio and Viktor Orbán joint conference pic.twitter.com/s9hkQ9SYyn
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) February 17, 2026
On Saturday at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Rubio delivered an epic, America-first speech.
Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 2028 presidential hopeful, repeatedly embarrassed herself on an international stage.
No wonder propagandists like Escritt were in such a foul mood.
Conservatives on X, one of the world’s few remaining bastions of truth and sanity, rightly compared Escritt to an activist, a child, a psycho, and even a doctor practicing medicine without a license.
They’re not reporters, they’re activists.
— HarryLegend (@harrylegend33) February 17, 2026
Peak legacy media meltdown—can’t handle adults actually defending the West so he resorts to finger-wagging like a soyboy on TikTok
— The Dark Knight (@Andrew35487355) February 17, 2026
This is how children act when adults are in charge.
— America1sT (@SSSOCACO) February 17, 2026
Who does that? Only an unhinged, ideologically driven psycho
— JohnnyB (@Beefcurtains_13) February 17, 2026
I love when “journalists” expose themselves. Now can we treat this like a doctor getting caught practicing medicine without being certified? This clown used the Bloomberg name to pose as unbiased, so this is clearly malpractice.
— Truthy Truth (@TruthyTruth) February 17, 2026
To conservative readers, of course, liberal media bias hardly constitutes news.
There is something relatively novel, however, in Escritt’s apparent lack of self-control.
To illustrate, at least for readers of a certain age, imagine cameras had caught former ABC News White House correspondent Sam Donaldson surreptitiously giving then-President Ronald Reagan the finger. No one ever mistook Donaldson for a Reagan voter. But that kind of disrespect, even from a liberal journalist with an annoying smirk, would not have gone over well. Donaldson’s bosses, for one, would not have liked it.
Today, on the other hand, propagandists like Escritt seem not to care about perception. They understand, for instance, that back in their newsrooms, their equally deranged colleagues will welcome them as “resistance” heroes.
Of course, as establishment outlets continue to hemorrhage readers and viewers, the propagandists may soon reap what they have sown.
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