All Things Considered Behold the Golden Moutza
By John Kass
Sunday April 6, 2025
The history of the Golden Moutza reaches back to the Byzantine empire, to the streets of the glorious walled Christian city of Constantinople.
Condemned murderers were taken by donkey cart to meet their just punishments.
The people—outraged at the crimes of the guilty—would often run to the cage on wheels and fling street cinders and horse dung at their faces. With an open palm, fingers extended, accompanied with a hearty “Nah!” (here take it) “Parta!” (take them).
It is an insult that can still get you killed.
The Moutza was born.
But what of the condemned?
No one cared to record their reactions to the insults. You might say they just lost their heads and were tossed onto the dustheap of history.
These days, we don’t lop heads to seed fear and “encourage the others” as did the Jacobin French, the forerunners of today’s Democrats.
With so many idiots milling about, including MSNBC’s Morning Joe clenching tiny fists of rage, demanding political power and Teslas to burn, many of you have been overwhelmed, unable to choose.
But Marilou Wilschke, she of the iron will and spine of steel, did her duty to all of you. She is a leader.
“Jasmine Crockett, for a plethora of nonsense, but will single out her nasty mocking of Gov. Abbott’s wheelchair,” wrote Wilschke. “Let’s face it, that’s atrocious, even for a Democrat. Nah to you, Jasmine. Let’s hope your 15 minutes are almost up.
Kasso sez: But Marilou, isn’t Congressman Crockett the main thought leader of the Democrats?
You know how this works. Readers find me on social media before the end of the month and make their nominations.
David Addison:
“I’d like to start up “the Acme Mega Moutza Delivery System” for every leftist / Democrat. For believing everything the media tells them, normalizing radical behavior, and suddenly, now demanding accountability and responsibility after the past four years of the Biden Administration. (Here it goes!) Nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah! nah!
Robert Javor:
“ABC, CBS, NBC, WGN, and WFLD Chicago local television newscasts who basically ignored the entire four-year Biden (or whoever) presidency but now devote major air time to critiquing every step of the Trump presidency, often even leading their newscasts with it, while at the same time ignoring local stories and giving Pritzker a free pass. Feesah Etho to their obvious bias. They are not even attempting to hide it anymore.”
All I have to say to that is: SJKN. Subscribe to John Kass News.
Bill Isaacson:
“So many. Torn between Jasmine or Brandon. Can only nominate one, so Mayor Brandon Johnson it is. The New World’s Champion of using the word Racist to hide his pathetic display of inadequacy at the job of Mayor of Chicago. Coverup not working, Champ – Feesah Etho Nah! you earned it!!!
Frank Poggio:
“Someone here nominated themselves some months ago because they would forward your columns to family members expecting a different result. I’d like to 2nd that motion. Sent Huntley’s excellent column about Trump comparisons to Hitler to a family member. Received this response: “Agree, he’s not Hitler, but he’s like Putin or Maduro.” Ugh. So many legacy media consuming chumbolones out there.”
That’s why Kasso says “tell them to subscribe to John Kass News. America’s No-Chumbolone Zone!”
Dave Wanders
Ms. Kathrine Maher (National Public Radio CEO) for not remembering reading any of the books she previously claimed to have read.
Who believes that liar? But she presents herself and snooty NPR (with Chicago affiliate WBEZ) as a neutral observer. And that too is a lie. A lie that crawls.
NPR suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, and suppressed the story of COVID being hatched in a laboratory in Wuhan China. These two spins benefitted the greasy Biden crime family, which carted away tens of millions of dollars from China and Ukraine.
Jonathan Turley, the law professor, wrote an excellent essay about it all in The Hill:
“NPR’s CEO just made the best case yet for defunding NPR.”
Turley, columnist and pundit is author of the indispensable book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Kelly Ames Smith:
Terra Costa Howard for wanting to place homeschooled children into foster care if they aren’t “properly registered”. She doesn’t even deserve a d*mn moutza. Her initial campaign against Peter Breen was so crooked that she makes Brandon Johnson look clean.
Kasso sez: Illinois homeschool parents don’t want their kids sexually assaulted in government schools. Every day another news story that Gov. Pritzker ignores. And they don’t want their kids indoctrinated by the Pritzker trans activists.
Jimmie John Caperna
I hate this time when the Moutza nominations come out. Way too many leading candidates. I have suggested to Kass many times he needs categories like they do for the Oscars.
Jimmie? This isn’t a democracy.
Brandon Gorte:
Federal Judge James Boasberg for creating a constitutional crisis by trying usurp the duties of the executive branch.
Kasso sez: A jacobin for a federal judge? WWJMD? What would James Madison do? Boasberg was not elected yet he thinks to shape the people’s will as if he were elected president. Here’s the thing. He is not the president.
Becky Carroll:
You seem to have missed the biggest news story of the week here John there are a few folks there who are most deserving of your award.
My friend Becky, the stern left-leaning mistress of Democrat politics in Illinois, just might be asking me to give the Golden Mooutza to Trump administration officials who were involved in the bloated timewasting Signal chat.
It was an embarrassing blunder that is all. But Democrats had nothing to say when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton—the baba yaga of the Democrat Party—kept 30,000 sensitive government emails on her basement server.
The FBI and former FBI director, the Deep State rat James Comey covered it up. The Deep State ran a political op against the American people. Don’t you realize what they’ve done?
Crickets from all the lefties who want heads to roll. There might be some that should roll. But we don’t know that yet. I won’t forget. Remember the Democrat silence about the dead in Benghazi, the dead at Abbey Gate, the Democrat silence about the Hunter Biden laptop, the Democrat silence when Joe Biden was obviously incapable to function, yet the Democrats and the corrupt legacy media covered for him. So spare me your concerns for the republic.
John Pronos
Interesting that most Hegseth nominations have disappeared John. You have become Hannity, Ingraham, Carlson, Watters and Gutfeld. Can we not follow your column and respect, but voice a differing opinion and be not relevant? I can’t stand Johnson and Paul G. Vallas should be the Mayor, but Hegseth, Gabbard, Patel, Waltz among others are lying about this issue and it’s a serious breach of trust, and should be treated with the same contempt as Pelosi, Schumer, Hillary and other Democrats. You are an amazingly talented journalist and a proud Greek American like myself, but you need to be open minded to both sides as you used to be. Just my opinion.
You mean I need to be on the left, like you? No
George Nickas
Katherine Maher hands down. Nah! Feesah etho.
Ruth Glazewski
Sen. Kelly of Arizona. Giving up his much-touted EV for a gas guzzler. What a jerk. His hatred for Elon is unreal!
Evangelos Axartis
I nominate all of them and here is their bonus…Parta!! (He put two hands to work, giving all of them all he had. A double moutza.)
Ok Evan.
But you know there can be only one.
And yes, there are many worthy idiots trying to win the gold. They’ve hurt our nation. They’re betrayers, like Judas, like Ephialtis.
Some of the main contenders are the members of the broken legacy media now trying to cash in on their Biden Was Senile books, but all that is meant to roil the muddy waters so they can escape. They’re covering their behinds, and Obama’s.
And what about those pro-Obama White House bureaucrats who organized a “death pool” of friendly federal judges to swear Kamala Harris in as president because Joe was in diapers unable to function?
But the White House was saying he was sharp as a tack and the fool Morning Joe stepped into idiot immorality with this one:
“F. U. if you can’t handle the truth,” said Joe Scarborough. “This version of Biden—intellectually, analytically, is the Best Biden.”
Do you kiss Mika with that filthy mouth?
But my friends, there can be only one.
And NPR’s chief executive Katherine Mather made a Scarborough of herself in a Congressional hearing. And as Turley and many others said, she made the best case for defunding NPR.
She reminds me of a mighty wind. She ignored the Hunter Biden laptop; she ignored the China virus came from a lab in China. She ignored old Joe’s clear and obvious decline.
Maher did not do her job. And she was arrogant about not doing her job at the very time that Americans needed information they could rely on—not the oily neo-marxist jacobin horse poop spread by news from NPR and Public television and the rest of corrupt legacy media that I spent 40 years working for.
It makes me sick. I see her lecturing Americans on the First Amendment and it just makes me sick.
Maher? Lift your chin and take them Parta! NAH and NAH again.
You win the Golden Moutza of the Month?
Happy now? Put it in your trophy case and send out your clowns at WBEZ to beg for more cash. Before you do, blow on it. Feesah Etho. You win the Golden Moutza of the Month. Nah!
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Comments 36
Why do we need public radio and public TV anyway? Privatize both and let the idiots that watch these outlets subscribe and pay for their drivel. Then you will see public TV and radio die, just like the legacy media is dying, because nobody will pay to watch that crap.
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State run media? We don’t need it. This isn’t old Russia.
Perfect. Wilmette Talking To Winnetka. Perhaps they put the entire operation at New Trier HS. I’d bet they have a first class radio station and TV studio paid for with tax dollars already. NPR and legacy press in general are in the toilet. The rest of the left can subscribe if they wish. Let it die. JKN Forever.
Why so we need ANY radio and tv . It’s all worthless. Go to library. READ!
Mr. Rudd: A great idea. The only catch with that is that the vast majority of people now are products of the garbage current education system and cannot read worth a damn. The only use they would have for a book is put on the table to put their feet on so they wouldn’t have to remove their shoes when they sit back and put their feet up.
Good morning John. It does not matter what we think. The Press is owned by the Left, and they are all spewing hatred and people listen to garbage. Best to stay away trust in the Lord and let them go.
They were never friends or true Americans anyway. Good Luck to all. Forgiveness said the Lord and walk away. Our young have been brainwashed because they never needed or wanted for anything the Parents that worked so hard raised them with cars and top schools and left them with lots of money so they do not seem to care. That Crocket woman walked in the office said I want the job because I am black and she got it. My on my. We worked very hard to have what we have no one gave it to us. We earned it and the Politicians stole the Country we are broke and the young do not seem to care. Ridiculous. God is in charge. We will all see judgement someday.
“That Crocket woman walked in the office said I want the job because I am black and she got it.”
I couldn’t agree with you more. Few years ago, I called IRS about a claim they had made on my tax filing and luck would have it, a black women answered my call and after listening to me couple minutes she asked for my name and social and put me on a hold only to return after a minute to tell me she couldn’t find my name or social any where and that was that! Chances are that she was gossiping with other women at work and was told by them to get rid of me like that!
These days there are plenty of people from my home country and other South Asian countries “working” for IRS and other federal offices. At least the South East Asians are sincere but you could not understand them. I only wish they put white people for public relations so anyone can call and resolve what they wanted. Btw, I salute Elon Musk for what he’s doing to get rid of a lot of federal workers who are simply sitting on their behinds to draw a salary!
It couldn’t have gone to a better pick and at this point she’s earned the Golden Moutza of the Year!
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Lifetime Gold for Katherine
To quote the blessed Auda abu Tayi of Howitat, ” This is honoarble!”
Katherine Maher!
That broad has the conscience of a drunk locked in Binny’s over a holiday weekend.
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like wading waste deep in that river up north without waders.
If Victor Frankenstein were to go into his laboratory to create a AWFUL he would produce Katherine Mather. Condescending, angry, insufferable, mendacious, vile, she has it all. Great Choice!
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imagine this strigla after a couple glasses of wine, waxing on about her life experience at her woman’s only book club. like some comanche woman hell bent on revenge
Great and deserving choice… “NAH to you, Maher!”
Great job as always, and you are still making your Greek ancestors proud.
The best take-away from today’s column: “You are an amazingly talented journalist and a proud Greek American like myself, but you need to be open minded to both sides as you used to be. Just my opinion”.
You mean I need to be on the left, like you? No
It is amazing to me that the left will be tolerant of anyone’s opinion, as long as it mirrors their own. Being “open minded” apparently only works if you agree with me? Little hypocrisy there?
Yes, the leftists I know don’t want to listen to the other side. Never have and never will. They are content digesting all the lies that the MSM spews at them daily. We won’t miss NPR or the blonde bimbo who “ran it.” She’s one of those white females with a four year college degree, so she knows it all, right?
GREAT CHOICE, JOHN!
Maher wholeheartedly earned it – excellent choice!
I’m replying here as I agree with the opinion that we need to be open minded.
I’m not here for an opposing echo chamber view to the hard-left echo chamber but for an intelligent, honest discussion on paths to a better, more perfect union. Politicians on both sides of the aisle spew partisan venom to incite anger, fear, and anxiety that take us on a divisive path away from a more perfect union. Let’s not devolve their level.
Lieing is never good, but Katherine Maher should be given some credit for having the brains to not read The Case for Reparations.
‘Lying’
Thanks John, excellent choice. Isn’t ironic, to repeat a very tired current phrase, that the leader of the government radio pack is a not bad looking brassy blond Irish clown while government radio is mostly hosted and inhabited by homely horn-rimmed “bent” female announcers who have the distinctive NPR drone as they spew their woke nonsense. Again, great pick.
Remember the worst teacher you had in grade school? She picked favorites, the kids who were smarmy and arrogant as she was. She was lousy at teaching but great at scolding. She lied without consequence. And she expected to be overpaid for being a dummy making everything in her orbit a bit dumber.
That teacher was Katherine Maher. Oh, and the school principal was Joe Scarborough.
Got this from WBEZ in one of the interminable fundraising drives…
‘Public media’s vital role in our nation is being questioned, and the funding that supports WBEZ and other stations is at risk.’
To which I replied
‘Wait, are we not allowed to question “Public Media”? Why not? Has there been some change in the Bill of Rights?’
They really are that arrogant.
Yes, Maher wins hands down, she’s a complete fool and as my Dad would say in a nice way, she is a real piece of work.
John, the left losers are increasing by the day, do we dare go to the weekly Moutza?
Brilliant choice. An icon and totem of the Left’s disfigurement of honest American political discourse.
She cares as much about journalitic ethics as an alley cat does about a marriage license.
Robert Javor:
“ABC, CBS, NBC, WGN, and WFLD Chicago local television newscasts who basically ignored the entire four-year Biden (or whoever) presidency but now devote major air time to critiquing every step of the Trump presidency, often even leading their newscasts with it, while at the same time ignoring local stories and giving Pritzker a free pass. Feesah Etho to their obvious bias. They are not even attempting to hide it anymore.”
All I have to say to that is: SJKN. Subscribe to John Kass News.
This guy, Robert Javor, has said it all about Chiraque area news outlets. They are so funny to watch as they try to market the news. I hope that they don’t consider themselves journalists, because the couldn’t make a pimple on your Butt John!
ATTACK, ATTACK! The Trump policies offer nothing in terms of journalism. Prompter readers is all they are. I think that ABC7 is the worst. They suck up to BJ & Zanax Brandon like nothing ever seen before. They are a joke, just like Disney David Muir.
I am especially happy to see that Disney lost their asses on the Snow White debacle. Bwahaha, what a joke.
Stay healthy, John, and keep us rolling. Enjoy the Lamb!
Most excellent choice John. Just her pompous-arrogancy makes Maher the weekly Moutza winner,…hands down. Which makes me wonder,…when will my federal tax dollars stop paying her personal income?
Thank you for your nomination,Kelly Ames Smith. Great choice.
Hi John, great pick per usual.
As for President Trump (who I voted for), I”m pretty sure he laid down a whole bunch of Feesah Ethos on Hegseth and Waltz. Hope they get their stuff together.
John Panos, I think you had a legitimate point and I’m guessing you are not a lefty.
Excellent as always JK.
Old girl Jasmine was my first choice, regardless of your politics, the handicapped person is out of bounds. The man is an inspiration to any one severely paralyzed or suffering from a catastrophic injury.
His politics not, fair game.
Then Commie the Rat and his top five people at the Bureau. Conspirator’s against Democracy. All allowed to slither away like snakes and collect their government pensions.
So many worthy candidates, JK, please make a Moutza committee with so many vialable nominees I do not want your health to suffer as you vette these great examples of human beings.
A great selection and certainly a deserving winner. Let’s not forget our federal judges who demand we now re-import our illegal foreign thugs back into our country legally since they were imported illegally to begin with. Makes sense doesn’t it? Lewis Carrol couldn’t make this up. A media that lied and told the public that the economy was doing great even as Americans watched their paychecks disappear at the grocery checkouts. I grew up in the East Side of Chicago and watched the destruction of the manufacturing industry as all of the factories closed and are now vacant lots. It started with the steel mills and spread to the other factories that employed people with a living wage. Your education level didn’t matter. Maybe you made a mistake and did some jail time. Maybe you needed a little time to find yourself. The only thing you was needed a desire to work and no fear of hard work. All gone now. The change was gradual so most didn’t notice it. People need to work so they took the jobs that were available. Gradually we seen adults adapt to working jobs that were once taken by teenagers and retirees. Able bodied men and women working two or three jobs to support families in a minimum wage
labor force. That bastard UAW union president thanked Trump for his actions even as he and his union endorsed Biden for president. The reason the Left screams about controlling ” misinformation ” is because they no longer control the flow of information. There was a saying from the sixties ” ..the airwaves are free…”. Not if these guys get their way. Thanks John. You keep fighting the good fight and we’ll keep fighting with you.
The Babylon Bee had one of the best fake headlines in months:
Trump quits Presidency for a more powerful position as a district judge.
Appalling horsefaced..sorry, two faced Coastal
I watched the senate hearing of Maher by the Republican Senator where she conceded guilty, ignorance, and memory lapse, etc. Then this ass of a Democratic senator comes up and says the Republican Senator is making a big fuss while the government funding is only 1% for NPR and 15% for Public Television. My question is – then why ask for a Government funding at all and call it Public Broadcasting? The thing that bothers me is: Why these clowns are called “Honorable Senator”, so and so? It’s irritable to see the plate sign “Hon. Sen Dick Ass” in front of them while these guys speak at the congress. You really don’t see any honor in their speeches.
I was a supporter of WBEZ for a number of years in the 90’s, chicagos jazz station. That all changed in 2005 when Tori Malatea took over as station manager and changed the format to a commentary format, totally liberal. I immediately stopped my monthly contribution. Ever since I switched to WDCB, now Chicago station for Jazz. Although still a NOR affiliate, their commentary is limited and not extreme, tune in you might enjoy it.
Watching her I believe she studied under Hillary;
“I can’t recall”
“I don’t believe I ever said that”
“I’m not sure about that”
“My point of view has evolved”
Who among us has never had a change of view? Gandhi often said to his critics of his many changes of opinion, “I am wiser today than I was yesterday.” But he never denied his earlier opinion.