Don Lemon gets called out hard for still shilling for vaccines and COVID regulations

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Don Lemon has stayed true to his colors and is still shilling for the media and the government — despite losing his coveted gig on CNN.

He made this clear in an interview on "The Full Send Podcast," where the Nelk boys confronted him with some basic facts about the government’s disastrous COVID policies.

“There’s a certain set of people that no matter what evidence is put in front of them as it pertains to COVID or as it pertains to the border or the economy or anything else — they will still run defense for the system,” Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" explains, before showing the embarrassing clip.

One of the Nelk boys accused Lemon of being like Cuomo, very pro- “take the thing, do it,” about vaccines.

“This whole argument about vaccines is a little weird to me because I think people are Monday-morning quarterbacking the idea of vaccines,” Lemon responded sheepishly, adding he thought that “instead of being selfish” people should have been “doing what was best for our fellow man.”

“So, I think that the people who are questioning the use of masks, even in the moment, were being a bit selfish,” Lemon said, before repeating the commonly heard line that “there was no medical evidence that ivermectin could help save people from getting COVID, or prevent them from getting COVID, or had any effect on the COVID-19 vaccine.”

“I believe in medicine, I believe in science, and I believe that my government is looking out for me and trying to do the best for me,” Lemon continued.

“Shouldn’t other people have the right to not take the vaccine and not forced to put something in their body that they didn’t want?” the other Nelk boy asks, adding, “It seemed at the time like media was really shaming people if you didn’t get a vaccine, like it’s your fault.”

“Well, I don’t know if the media was shaming people,” Lemon responded. “If you don’t get the vaccine, then don’t get the vaccine, but don’t expect to be able to do and go places,” he continued before being cut off.

“Like make a living, right?” one of the boys asked.

“I’ve watched that clip a couple of times, and it gets worse each time. I mean, he is on his knees blowing a system that literally fired him,” Rubin comments, shocked.


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Democrat economist gets honest about the inflation crisis and why that's not good for Biden's narrative

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Economist Gary Cohn, a Democrat, is refusing to let President Joe Biden pull the wool over Americans' eyes.

To help Biden win re-election, the Biden administration is promoting a narrative about the economy that is more bark than bite. For example, at his State of the Union address last week, Biden minimized inflation, claimed to have created "15 million new jobs," and blamed corporations for the high prices of goods, which he calls "shrinkflation."

But the truth is not the rosy picture that Biden painted, Cohn said Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation" — especially when it comes to inflation.

"Inflation has a compounding effect. Meaning, as you look at inflation year over year, you're adding up those numbers. You're not starting at a zero every year," Cohn explained. "If we had 6% inflation last year and now we have 4% inflation, that's 10% inflation."

Because "there's a huge cumulative effect to inflation," Cohn said that in his scenario of 10% inflation, that means a basket of groceries that once cost just $100 now costs over $125 because inflation increases "add up."

"So, when people are being told, 'Consumers, you're wrong, inflation's heading [down]—' no, they're right, it is actually more expensive?" host Margaret Brennan followed up.

"They're completely right. They're completely right," Cohn responded.

Not only is inflation cumulative, but what Biden doesn't tell you is that shrinking inflation does not mean prices of goods also decrease. Instead, prices continue to increase, but at a smaller rate. This is an important distinction, and it's where Biden's positive message about inflation gets lost in reality. Prices aren't going down, and the purchasing power of the dollar has been diminished.

For all of Biden's talk about inflation decreasing, groceries cost Americans 25% more today than in January 2020.

This is why poll after poll shows that Americans are dissatisfied with Biden's economic record. Combine inflation with high interest rates, which the Federal Reserve justifies to control inflation, and you get a bad recipe for re-election.

"People were losing purchasing power, and that's why people were angry," Cohn said of the inflation crisis. "And then take on top of that the high interest rate environment where, if you thought you might have been in a position to buy a house because you saved money, you go out to get a mortgage at 7% or 8%, you can't afford a house.

"People got very frustrated because the costs of their everyday lives got very expensive and the cost of investing in their future by buying a home got nearly impossible," he explained

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Embarrassing: Watch this ATF agent struggle to disassemble a gun

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While the Biden administration has made it clear the government doesn’t want anyone to own guns but it — its agents don’t seem to know how to handle guns themselves.

This was made obvious on a recent segment of CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

In it, the ATF’s acting chief of the Firearms Ammunition Technology Division, Chris Bort, failed to disassemble a Glock slide after multiple tries.

“They don’t know anything about the guns that they’re presenting,” Pat Gray says, shocked.

Bort went on to claim that with just 20 minutes of work, one could convert the gun that he was unable to disassemble.

“Unless you're him,” Gray jokes, “then it might take you two to three weeks.”

When the camera panned to the CBS host, the audio picked up Bort fidgeting with the weapon, still unable to disassemble it.

The point of the segment was to show how easy it would be for illegal weapons to be created, but Bort essentially disproved the entire reason he was there.

“These are the people that are regulating your life,” Keith Malinak exclaims, dumbfounded.

“I mean, we laugh because it’s hysterical, but it’s also terrifying,” he adds.

To see the footage of Bort's embarrassing struggle, watch the clip below.


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CBS anchor confronts Biden's attorney with important question that crumbles his narrative about the special counsel report

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President Joe Biden's personal attorney repeatedly attacked special counsel Robert Hur's report on Sunday but did not immediately support releasing the transcripts of Biden's interviews with Hur.

Democrats are outraged that Hur described Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory" in his report. Specifically, Hur's critics assert that the special counsel included superfluous and gratuitous details in the report, such as Biden forgetting when his son Beau died and forgetting when he was vice president.

On CBS' "Face the Nation," Biden's personal attorney, Bob Bauer — whose wife is senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn — attacked Hur's report as a "shabby work product" that contains "factual misstatements" and "pejorative comments" that Bauer claimed "are inconsistent with DOJ policy and norms."

The strong comments may be compelling because Bauer attended Biden's interviews with Hur. But his commentary immediately began to crumble when host Margaret Brennan started asking questions.

At first, Brennan asked Bauer if the president had "problems recalling details" in the interviews with Hur. Bauer, however, did not directly answer the question, instead saying that Biden "gave his best recollection" to the questions.

After Bauer then confirmed that transcripts of Biden's interviews do exist, Brennan asked an important question that undercut Bauer's narrative.

"Do you favor releasing them?" she asked of the transcripts.

"Well, it's really a decision that has to take place within the government. It's a classified document," Bauer responded.

"Would you recommend that these be made public if they indeed back up your personal recollection?" Brennan followed up.

"Again, there's a process under way. I'm not a specialist in that process. And so I really have to defer to those who have to work through those issues," Bauer deflected.

If, as the president's defenders claim, the details about Biden's memory were unfair and unethical, why not demand that the transcripts be released?

It's true that the interviews contain classified information. But those details can easily be redacted from the transcripts.

Appealing to classified information within the transcripts, then, is a deflection. Either the transcripts show that Biden could not recall basic details about his life or they don't. And if the transcripts confirm what Hur reported, then his report is not a "shabby work product," as Bauer claimed, but a truth-telling document that shows Hur refused to bow to political pressure.

In fact, Bauer does not dispute the truthfulness of Hur's report. Rather, he is upset that Hur included details about Biden's memory in the report. That's an important distinction.

But as former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg explained, details about Biden's memory were critical to Hur's report because the special counsel needed to explain why he is not prosecuting Biden despite finding ample evidence that Biden broke the law.

"It doesn't make sense to me that if I'm telling the attorney general of the United States why someone ought not to be prosecuted that I wouldn't also tell him exactly why I came to that conclusion," Rosenberg said last Friday.

White House spokesman Ian Sams said on Friday that officials would consider seeking the release of a redacted version of the Biden transcripts.

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CBS talking head floats the possibility of a 'black swan event' in 2024

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CBS News' "Face the Nation" held a roundtable on Christmas Eve, affording various talking heads an opportunity to make predictions for 2024. While most of the predictions were relatively banal, one among them stood out, prompting critics to puzzle over its possible significance.

Network correspondent Catherine Herridge, the wife of a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, suggested that "2024 may be the year of a black swan event. This is a national security event with high impact that's very hard to predict."

Statistician and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized the term "black swan event" in his 2007 book "The Black Swan."

Taleb defined the term thusly: "First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable."

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the rise of the internet, the personal computer, the breakdown of the Soviet Union, and the Pacific tsunami of December 2004 apparently qualify as black swan events. According to Taleb, the term is not, however, a catch-all term for "any bad thing that surprises us."

For instance, the statistician told the New Yorker that the COVID-19 pandemic was not a black swan event because it had been wholly predictable.

Herridge told the other CBS News panelists Sunday there were a number of concerns that factored into her "dark" prediction, including that "this sort of enduring heightened threat level that we're facing, the wars in Israel, also Ukraine, and we're so divided in this country in ways that we haven't seen before. And I think that just creates fertile ground for our adversaries like North Korea and China and Iran."

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The three regimes Herridge referenced have all expressed anti-U.S. sentiment in recent months and evidenced the wherewithal to adversely impact American interests.

China, which continues to deepen its ties with Russia and seeks to displace the U.S. on the world stage by 2049, has grown increasingly antagonistic toward the United States in recent years. The communist regime has subjected Americans to intimidation and coercion campaigns on U.S. soil; aerial threats by People's Liberation Army fighter jets; bombastic threats over political visits to Taiwan; espionage and political destabilization efforts by communist agents; a deadly influx of fentanyl via its informal Mexican cartel partners; and hacking campaigns.

North Korea's communist regime threatened to pre-emptively launch a nuclear strike on rivals after conducting an intercontinental ballistic missile test earlier this month, reported the Associated Press.

Iran threatened last week to seal off the Mediterranean Sea if the U.S. and Israel continue to commit so-called "crimes" in Gaza.

Instigation of a negative impactful event by one or more of the hostile nations identified by Herridge would not be wholly unpredictable, meaning — according to Taleb's definition — such would not qualify as a black swan event.

Despite Herridge's allusions to the anti-American triad, some critics on X suggested that the CBS correspondent was simply priming the pump regarding a predictable election-year event that might preclude former President Donald Trump from possibly retaking office.

CBS News correspondent Robert Costa, also on the panel, left little up to the imagination, following Herridge's prediction with the suggestion that the GOP might face a crisis if Trump is convicted of a federal crime. Another panelist piled on by suggesting the Supreme Court "is not going to save Donald Trump from the criminal trial."

The moderator for the CBS panel, Margaret Brennan, wrapped up the roundtable conjectures by stating, "Anyone who tells you what is going to happen with this election and how it's going to play out over the next year is selling you something because there are just so many different variables that all of us are tracking, and all of us are weighing. … But it's also why none of us will sleep very much in the next few months."

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CBS anchor ends interview when GOP lawmaker gives perfect reason Biden should face 'consequences' for classified docs scandal

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CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan ended an interview with Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) on Sunday when he explained why President Joe Biden should face consequences for retaining classified documents.

Several news outlets reported last week that special counsel Robert Hur, appointed to investigate Biden's retention of classified documents at his post-vice presidential office in Washington and his personal residence in Delaware, will conclude his investigation giving the president nothing more than a public scolding for violating laws prohibiting the improper retention of classified documents.

On "Face the Nation," Brennan asked what signal not charging Biden sends to the "national security world." Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made clear it's not a good one.

"This will be certainly devastating, continuing to be devastating, for the Department of Justice and to the Biden administration with their two-tier system of justice," he said.

"Biden has been found to be a serial classified document hoarder. Over a 10-year period, he's been taking classified documents — some of the most sensitive that threaten our national security — home without any protection, and certainly able for others to be able to access them," Turner explained.

If Biden is let off scot-free, Turner said it will be clear that leaders of only one party face consequences for improper retention and storage of classified information.

"There needs to be consequences," he said. "The fact that Hillary Clinton, who had over 100 classified documents at home when she was secretary of state, and Vice President Biden, both under Obama at the same time, were taking classified documents home and certainly had them be vulnerable, with no consequences, shows the Department of Justice is not pursuing Democrats."

It was at that point that Brennan attempted to defend Biden, suggesting that Donald Trump did worse and therefore the double standard is justified.

"As you know, there is a difference with the case against President Trump, who refused to hand over documents fully and violated the Espionage Act — that's the charge against him — because he didn't work with the government to hand those over," the anchor said.

But Turner made it clear that Trump's alleged wrongdoing does not absolve Biden's.

"As you know, Margaret, Biden had these documents for over 10 years," Turner snapped back.

"You can't hoard documents in your home for a decade-long period, concealing them, taking them home as a senator, vice president, and then suddenly say, 'Hey, two weeks while I was president, I cooperated and, therefore, it doesn't count that I spent 10 years as a serial classified document hoarder,'" he added.

And with that, Brennan ended the interview.

Rep. Mike Turner (OH-10) | CBS Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan www.youtube.com

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Uh-oh … Mitch McConnell is BACK, claiming he’s 'completely recovered'

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81-year-old Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell is apparently “completely recovered” after having two freeze-up episodes, or at least that’s what he told "Face the Nation."

“I’m fine. I’m completely recovered and, uh, just fine,” he said when asked how he was feeling.

According to Capitol physician Dr. Monahan, there is “no evidence of Parkinson's disease or a stroke or a seizure,” which raises the question: Then WHAT happened? People don’t just randomly go into a state of paralysis during press conferences.

The only semi-answer McConnell gave was that he was “dehydrated,” but Pat Gray doesn’t buy it and calls McConnell’s explanation “BS.”

“Is there anything the public should know that wasn’t disclosed?” a "Face the Nation" reporter asked McConnell.

“I'm in good shape, completely recovered, and back on the job,” was his non-response.

“So does that mean that you think you are able to continue serving and you want to continue serving here at a time when we are talking about incredible dysfunction in Washington?” she pressed.

“I think we ought to be talking about what we were talking about earlier rather than my health,” he obstinately fired back.

Keith Malinak is dissatisfied with this refusal to answer and thinks McConnell not only owes the people an explanation for the “two times that [he] stared off into nothingness,” but also for the times he “fell on the plane” and “fell down the stairs.”

“You're the Senate majority leader,” says Pat. “You can't act like that was dehydration.”

“Explain to us why your wife didn't want you to come home and sent you to a care facility. … You were that bad off with dehydration that she didn't want you home” and instead “sent you to the rehab center?” questions Jeffy.

While we may never get the answers we desire, one thing is clear: We need term limits.


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