CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, and, even by CNN’s standards, it was quite the softball session. Not only did both men take advantage of fact-checker Daniel Dale apparently having better things to do with his time by accusing President Trump of “whitewashing American history,” but Cooper even invited the president of American University’s College Republican chapter to use the word “softball” in his question.
There were other lowlights as well, such as when Cooper wondered if there was anything at all in the federal budget that could be cut, “There’s a lot of talk—from the DOGE team about, or from Elon Musk, about waste, fraud, and abuse and what they’re finding. Have you seen much evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse? Because what they put on their wall of receipts, some of the top…
