THE MORNING RANT: Who Said It - National Review or Brian Stelter?

I’m traveling, so I’m just going to slap up a quick post, noting that the incessant sniping at president Trump from false flag conservatives the polite right sounds little different than Brian Stelter and other far-left partisans in the media right now.

The reason, of course, is that publications such as National Review and the Wall Street Journal now share the politics and the agenda of ABCNNBCBS and the NY Times. The only difference is in how they go about trying to protect the left-wing status quo against a Republican president actually implementing the conservative reforms that “Conservative Inc” once pretended to support.

One of these two quotes is from CNN’s Brian Stelter, the other is from National Review’s Jim Geraghty. Can you guess which one is which?

1) Geraghty or Stelter?

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which disburses funds to PBS and NPR stations, gets $535 million a year in federal funding. So any official who seriously wanted to achieve billions in cost savings would start elsewhere.

2) Geraghty or Stelter?

If you’re going to cut or preserve a particular USAID program, cut it or preserve it on the merits. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re reducing the deficit or controlling the debt in any significant way.

The answers are below the fold…

The first quote belongs to Brian Stelter, the second to Jim Geraghty, but they use the same protect-the-bureaucracy talking point that no individual spending cut or elimination of government agencies would be significant enough to matter, therefore the status quo should remain.

Al least Stelter is being intellectually consistent in his devotion to the leftwing bureaucratic establishment. By contrast, Geraghty is engaging in a dishonest distortion, pretending that the prevailing argument for gutting the corrupt and adversarial bureaucracy is for the purpose of reducing deficit spending.

John Daniel Davidson called Geraghty out on his sophistry.

Sean Davis is a little more blunt, pointing out the simple fact that Jim Geraghty and National Review are on the other team, pretending they are speaking for conservatives while they desperately try to preserve the Obama / Biden legacy.

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posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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