We all expected the Democrat/corporate media alliance to come up with some bogus reason to hate the Trump administration for slashing government waste, but some of the programs these journalists are mourning are beyond parody.
It’s starting to feel like there’s an ongoing bet in the “mainstream” press to see who can find the dumbest possible waste of taxpayer money to defend in earnest.
Consider this petulant complaint thinly disguised as a headline by CBS News 24/7 host Lindsey Reiser on February 20: “President Trump is back at the White House today, where he will mark Black History Month, despite his administration’s moves to gut diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.”
There was actually quite a bit of DEI shilling last week. Take this February 15 segment teaser by CNN’s Victor Blackwell: “PBS is having to deal with the purge of DEI offices and initiatives. The Sesame Street icon who played Maria for decades is here to share why she’s so concerned.”
Yes, imagine having to deal with a purge of DEI initiatives; how dreadful! Thank goodness there was a Sesame Street icon available to break that disturbing development down for everyone.
That wasn’t even the only mention of Sesame Street. This past Sunday, CNN’s Michael Smerconish took an ambitious shot at defending a taxpayer-funded Iraqi spinoff of the children’s show: “Those soft power exercises make for great sound bites, but when you drill down, for example on Sesame Street in Iraq, they often make sense.”
His argument was that funding western entertainment in countries like Iraq might somehow reduce the threat of terrorism in those nations: “You know, you’d rather spend on that than bullets,” (unfortunately, as guest James Fishback pointed out, there was a terror attack in Iraq just last month which killed at least 40 individuals).
Of course, there’s also been a lot of media handwringing about the recent spate of executive branch layoffs. But even if the majority of Americans were bought into the media’s bogus premise that government layoffs are always bad — there’s no such thing as a redundant or underachieving government employee in the eyes of the press — were they really expecting anybody who’s ever paid taxes in this country to be sad about firings at the IRS?
Evidently yes, because quite a few news briefs last week took great pains to emphasize that these IRS workers had been laid off “at the height of tax season!” Among the talking heads deploying that hyperbolic terminology were veteran NBC News anchor Kristen Welker, newly-anointed CBS Evening News co-host John Dickerson, and MSNBC host Ana Cabrera.
We’ve really only scratched the surface of all the stupid excuses the media have come up with for hating Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts. See the video below for a more complete (but still far from comprehensive) display of their antics:
If this whole DOGE saga has taught us anything, it’s that there is no government program too stupid or wasteful for corporate journalists to defend.
