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CNN Host Sets Up Clyburn to Slam GOP's 'Reverse Robin Hood' Tax Cuts
On Thursday morning, CNN host John Berman gave no pushback as Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) appeared as a guest to complain about the Republican proposal for tax and budget cuts, calling it "reverse Robin Hood."

PBS: Trump Capping NIH Payments ‘Sent Chills' in Scientific Community
Amanpour & Co. was guest hosted on Tuesday by Paula Newton, last seen here in January fretting over the disturbing coincidence of Martin Luther King Jr. Day coinciding with the inauguration of Donald Trump. Tuesday she was talking to the architect of Obamacare to warn about the Trump Administration’s “drastic cuts” to the National Institute of Health, part of the cost-cutting…

Cooper Tells Former GOP Governor 'Don't Be a D***,' Later Apologizes
Tuesday’s installment of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 was a little spicier than usual as Cooper implored former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu not to “be a dick” as he defended DOGE’s efforts to cut government waste. Cooper would later apologize, and Sununu, being a good sport, played it off as not a big deal.

BAD FAITH: ABC’s Rachel Scott Accuses Elon Musk of Corruption, Misinfo
In the early days of the Second Trump Administration, it appeared that ABC World News Tonight had taken time to reflect and reconsider their ways, toning things down from their wild subservience to Joe Biden. Well, the time for reflection has ended. And based on the network’s hysterical coverage of all things DOGE and Elon Musk, it appears that they’re back to their old ways.

DOGE-Deranged ABC World News Tonight Running Crisis Comms for the CFPB
The early successes of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in exposing rampant waste, fraud and abuse throughout the federal government have left the left scrambling- including their allies in the media. The resulting derangement rendered ABC News a crisis spokesperson for the beleaguered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

CBS Evening News Slinks to Evidence-Free Fearmongering on DOGE
So desperate are the media to discredit the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and by extension that of Elon Musk, that they are willing to resort to rank fear mongering. As Major Garrett’s report for the CBS Evening News proves, they also seem to believe that their viewers are morons.

Ending the Taxpayer-Funded Blue Pipeline
This week, a massive firefight broke out between Democrats and Team Trump over the White House takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The USAID managed approximately $40 billion in fiscal year 2023; its original mandate, established under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, was to spread American influence across the globe through aid to various governmental and non-…

Rewarding Their Lapdog Media with Millions of Our Money
The scandal of the week might be called Subscription-gate. It was unveiled that the currently shuttered U.S. Agency for International Development was spending millions of dollars in lavishly priced subscriptions to "Politico Pro," one of those government-insider news products no one outside the bureaucracy reads.

Capehart Gets Triggered At Suggestion Biden Abused Executive Power
Against the backdrop of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting initiatives, Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart got triggered on Friday’s PBS News Hour when the American Enterprise Institute’s Matthew Continetti reminded him that former President Joe Biden abused executive power on his student loan order. Capehart argued that comparisons were “apples and…

Charlamagne Demands Dems 'Donkey Punch These Mother*******'
Radio host Charlamagne Tha God stopped by Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Thursday for one of his irregularly scheduled “In My Opinion” rants. In a wild diatribe, Charlamagne said CEOs are the happiest they’ve been since Luigi Mangione was caught, played the Nazi card multiple times on Elon Musk, demanded he “go back to Africa,” and that Democrats “donkey punch these mother[bleep…

Musk vs. The Swamp: Will He and Trump Make Real Cuts?
The Department of Government Efficiency has started making moves. The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies. But I take Elon Musk’s side. More efficient government has been promised often. It’s never happened. Instead, government just grew. Sen. Rand Paul showcases stupid government “investments” like the $118,000 study of finger snapping, which the National…

CBS Tugs at Heartstrings, Uses Hungry Kids in Sudan to Defend USAID
Instead of considering why Americans voted for Trump and his campaign promise to task Elon Musk with creating a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to attack government spending, Wednesday’s CBS Evening News and Thursday’s CBS Mornings chose to tug at one’s emotional heartstrings by holding up food sent through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to…

Tomlinson Demands Democrats 'Man Up' And Fight 'With Bigger Balls'
Over the past several days, Democrats have run around with their hair on fire over Elon Musk and his DOGE team’s effort to find wasteful government spending, but on her Wednesday show, CBS’s Taylor Tomlinson demanded they “man up” because “sometimes you gotta fight Big Balls with bigger balls.”

BRUTAL: Dem Anti-Musk Protest Gets Laughed Off of CNN’s ‘Thunderdome’
When you as a liberal Democrat have lost CNN’s Abby Phillip and your protest gets LITERALLY laughed at live on CNN air, it may be a sign that your ability to influence coverage of the day’s events is waning. This was the reaction garnered by Congressional Democrats’ protest outside the headquarters of the dying United States Agency for International Development (USAID).