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The American news organizations looked like a drunken sailor walking around on deck during a storm this past Sunday.
Carolyn Kaster wrote, "CBS News was a dumpster fire on Sunday. Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan thought the Nazi Holocaust occurred because there was too much freedom of speech and the press in Germany. Then, 60 Minutes decided to produce a segment about Germany waging a total war on freedom of speech, taking offenders away…on a train ride."
Finally, there was a segment on government workers who are lost after getting fired.
Be informed, not misled.
Kaster said, "You’d think these people had witnessed a murder. Also, we don’t care. It’s not because they’re government workers, though I’m also numb to that aspect—anything that sets DC on fire is fine by me. But tens of millions of other workers have endured these hardships and challenges many times over. It’s this ‘we’re special’ nonsense that the liberal media slaps onto these people that’s beyond tone-deaf, and no one wants to hear it."
CBS's 60 Minutes posted this on "X":
“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight,” says Kristina Drye, who was fired in the USAID shutdown.
“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight,” says Kristina Drye, who was fired in the USAID shutdown. https://t.co/cysOqteb8p pic.twitter.com/bUcOAnhMjs
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Joel Engle posted, "The 60,000 people who got cut loose when the Keystone XL pipeline extension was canceled after Biden took office know the feeling. Except they weren't bureaucrats. They were skilled construction workers and engineers."
60 Minutes also tapped into the whole constitutional crisis nonsense regarding President Trump’s spending cuts and the activities of the outstanding Department of Government Efficiency:
"President Trump is making unprecedented cuts at unprecedented rates, but are these actions constitutional? 60 Minutes investigates, tonight."
Trump is popular. His agenda is popular. And the work to shrink government has the support of most voters.
As Curtis Houck at Newsbusters commented, “Americans who lost jobs in 2008-2009 and 2020 would probably like a word with these people who acted as though they're tenured college professors and thus permanent job security, no matter their performance.”
But the press, on behalf of the Left, continues on.
Have you seen what "unprecedented cuts" Trump is making?
How could anyone be mad about DOGE cutting wasteful spending?? pic.twitter.com/JI8x3qNhbH
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 16, 2025
How could anyone be mad about DOGE cutting wasteful spending??
The New York Post published this headline: "Vance reveals DOGE’s ‘most important’ undertaking: ‘I don’t even think it’s the cost savings."
Vice President JD Vance argued Wednesday that the “most important” aspect of the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is the program’s ability to identify bureaucratic hurdles that get in the way of President Trump being responsive to the country’s needs.
“DOGE is going to save money, it has already identified a lot of cost savings,” Vance said of the cost-slashing initiative, headed by Elon Musk, during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
The cost savings DOGE has identified less than two weeks into Trump’s second term, however, is not what has impressed the vice president most about the new department.
“The most important thing that it’s going to do, I don’t even think it’s the cost savings, it’s making the bureaucracy responsive to the elected president,” Vance explained.
“DOGE has identified grants that were going to be made in violation of an executive order, and stopped them right before the money was wired,” he continued. “We’re talking about making the people’s government responsive to the people’s elected president.”
Takeaway
Vance argued that DOGE will “unleash innovation” and “unleash economic prosperity” by removing the “crushing bureaucracy that answers to nobody sitting on top of the American people.”
“We’re going to get it off and we’re going to actually make it responsive to our economic growth needs, to our needs to buy the right weapons for the next generation of warfare,” the vice president said. “And I think that is the most profound thing that DOGE is going to do.”
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.
