On Tuesday, clips went viral on X of former Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA) — who’s running to become governor of California — pitching an utterly bizarre tantrum after CBS News Sacramento’s Julie Watts asked Porter if she had planned to seek to win the votes of Californians who voted for President Trump. Unsurprisingly, the Wednesday flagship morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored this development in the race to become the governor of the country’s largest state and a cartoonish meltdown from someone with a porous record of high staff turnover and abusive behavior, including pouring scalding-hot potatoes on her then-husband’s head. These networks had plenty of time over the last two days for Prime Deal days, of course. First, here’s how it all went down:   Given the love she’s received over the years from shows such as CBS Mornings, ABC’s The View, and late-night comedy shows, the left’s base audience wouldn’t want to impugn her chances. Hence her arrogance and disgust when a local reporter chose to actually do her job. In contrast, the Fox News Channel and Newsmax covered it throughout the day Wednesday, but also NewsNation and even CNN gave it attention. Our friend Bonchie posted a partial transcript at RedState, starting when things went downhill. When Porter whined such a question about reaching out to Trump voters was “unnecessarily argumentative,” Watts noted this was the “same” question she had “asked “ all the candidates running. The conversation circled the drain with Porter digging in and, at one point, attempt to abort the interview as forcefully as she supports actual murder of babies: “I don’t want to keep doing this. I’m going to call it.” Watts replied with exasperation, to which Porter delivered what will inadvertently become an iconic, inside-joke-level quip: “I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation.” Porter insisted follow-ups were too much for her, leaving Watts floored yet again: “You’ve never had to have a conversation with a reporter?” “So you’re not going to answer questions from reporters? Okay, why don’t we go through, I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that’s my job as a journalist, but I will go through and ask these, and if you don’t want to answer, you don’t have to answer,” Watts added. The kicker came at the end of the video with Porter reiterating “I don’t want to have an unhappy experience with you” and leveling a mind-numblingly stupid decree of Watts and the CBS Sacramento team: “I don’t want this all on camera.” As he always does, Bonchie nailed it in reaction to this hoopla: Based on her statements, it seems as if Porter thought she could end the interview and bully the network into not releasing the footage. They did, though, and it's an awful look for a person who's already swamped with a history of anger-related scandals. Throughout the exchange, Porter talks herself in circles while the reporter actually tries to re-center her several times. It was such a softball question, too. All she had to say was that she respects every voter and will not take a single vote for granted. 

What in the Benjamin C. Bradlee is going on with The Washington Post editorial board? After shocking the internet by conceding that Obamacare was really just an expensive mess, the newspaper seems to have red-pilled itself hard again. The Post once again tackled the ongoing political standoff between the GOP and Democrats over the Schumer shutdown, surprisingly chastising liberal lawmakers for being stubborn by continuingly voting down the Republican clean continuing resolution (CR). Then came a jaw-dropping admission from the liberal newspaper: “The government is too big. There is plenty of fat to cut.” But the newspaper even took it a step further: “If the last week has shown anything, it’s that the federal bureaucracy performs too many ‘nonessential’ tasks that do not have a direct bearing on the lives of most citizens.” Can pigs fly? Are we living in a parallel universe? Are chimpanzees dropping in from the cosmos? The Left will cry "state-run media." Finding this kind of hot take within the pages of one of the most anti-Trump newspapers in circulation is like finding a real conservative on the Nicolle Wallace show. Of course, The Post played both sides by caveating its nod to libertarian economics: “At the same time, the government also performs many critical functions.” However, the newspaper’s open rebuke of the Democrats’ incorrigible grandstanding over Obamacare subsidies is a sight worthy of beholding: Democratic leaders need to understand they’re playing a dangerous game. They want to show their restive base that they’re willing to fight Trump, and this is one of the few leverage points they have in the House and Senate minorities. Republicans have offered to reopen the government at Biden-era spending levels, but Democrats keep voting no, holding out for concessions on the Affordable Care Act. “There is a clean funding bill on the table,” the editorial board continued. “Only a handful of Senate Democrats need to vote for it. Then they can get all the lights back on and fight over Obamacare subsidies.”  This comes just after The Post editorial board admitted on the Obamacare issue that “the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable” in a stunning reversal of years worth of propaganda in favor of former President Barack Obama’s “signature achievement.” The architects of the law, wrote the editorial board, “assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.” It appears that Post owner Jeff Bezos’s free market reforms to his newspaper seem to be taking hold. Mazel tov.

Two girls — a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old — were found dead after officials said they tried to subway surf the J train in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Subway surfing is a very dangerous game where young people, mostly boys, climb onto the top of subway trains in order to ride on top for thrills and social media popularity.'We are struggling to process this immense grief, and we are turning to our community for help to give Zemfira the respectful and loving farewell she deserves.'Sadly, the mother of Zemfira Mukhtarov, one of the girls killed, told WABC-TV that she found out her daughter had been killed when she saw a news report and noticed her daughter's skateboard in the report."I was like, 'That's her skateboard, and that's her Coach bag. That's her,'" Mukhtarov's sister said.The bodies of the two girls were found at about 3 a.m. near the Marcy Avenue subway station. They were unconscious and unresponsive. They were declared dead at the scene soon afterward. The family said in a GoFundMe donation page that their daughter was just two weeks away from her 13th birthday."No parent should ever have to face the pain of losing a child, and no child should lose their life in such a tragic way," reads a statement on the GoFundMe page. "We are struggling to process this immense grief, and we are turning to our community for help to give Zemfira the respectful and loving farewell she deserves."Video obtained by the New York Post shows Mukhtarov standing precariously on a narrow beam above a subway racing below her. RELATED: Severed human leg found on subway in the Bronx, NYPD says Her mother said she returned home from work that evening to find that her daughter had snuck out, and her husband and other daughter were still sleeping. The family of Mukhtarov raised over $24K for her funeral costs. They are originally from Ukraine. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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