Elite Acela journalist Jon Karl showed his true colors during an exchange with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over the reshoring of American industry. In response to Lutnick’s remarks on the national security component of the tariffs levied against China, Karl questioned whether America would go back to being “a nation of cobblers.”
Ironically, this comes some time after Karl tried to bait Lutnick into responding to this quote from Vice President JD Vance:
Lutnick refused to take the bait, deferring any direct response to Vance while defending the substance of his remarks, framed as expressive of the need to reshore American industry. But you see the double standard at work here: on the one hand, Karl rends his garments over the “peasants” remark, wielding it as an attempted gotcha against Lutnick. Karl then turns around and swipes the entire manufacturing sector as…
