In today’s DOGE-deranged news environment, stories seeking to spotlighting the adversity endured by federal workers often draw top billing. A new CBS Evening News report goes to that well again, and manufactures a link between the DOGE buyouts and Musk’s purchase of Twitter, in an attempt to imply malfeasance.
CBS goes so far as to revive the witness protection gimmick made famous in the early days of the Second Trump Administration (click “expand”):
ED O’KEEFE: Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan represents more than 2,000 cautionary tales, former employees of Twitter, now X, owned by Musk. When you first saw him offer a fork in the road to federal employees, after everything that went on at X, what did you think?
SHANNON LISS-RIORDAN: Oh, my god, he couldn’t even come up with a new subject line?
O’KEEFE: Musk offered an early exit to Twitter…
