Paging Jessica Tarlov Re: Astroturfed Anger at DOGE
26th February 2025
Jessica Tarlov is the token Democrat talking head often appearing on the Fox News program The Five surrounded by four more level-headed center-right and conservative commentators including Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, Judge Jeanine Pirro, and often Dana Perino. It’s a thankless job but someone must do it. Typically, when Tarlov is unavailable, Harold Ford, Jr., a calmer and much saner thinker, takes the Democrat seat at the table.
Tarlov, the other day, made the point that even Republicans in red districts were not happy with Elon Musk and the DOGE effort to root out waste, fraud, and corruption in various government departments and agencies, and were raising their voices to object to the way that DOGE is going about its work. This seemed to be a Democrat talking point because other leftist commentators were aping this same story on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc. (not that identical, unified messaging has ever <cough, choke> been spewed on these networks).
There’s just one problem with the claim. According to The Washington Free Beacon:
Red-District DOGE Protests, Cited As Proof of Broad Musk ‘Backlash,’ Were Organized By Left-Wing Groups
Huh. Go figure. Who woulda thunk?