On Thursday, Politico announced that Huffington Post would be taking its readers on a voyage of discovery to strange, uncharted lands.

Like Vasco da Gama, venturing out into new territories, Huffington Post will be packing a few of its staffers onto a leaky bus

and taking them on a cross-country seven-week tour through the dark, mysterious, Middle America.

The cost, $1 million.

Yes, I am not joking. This is the story. Quote, starting in September, a traveling party of rotating Huff Post staff members

led by editor-in-chief Lydia Polbrein will visit more than 20 cities, issuing the coasts for the

likes of Fort Worth, Indiana, Oxford, Mississippi, and Odessa, Texas. At each city, the site will host

events, roll out planned stories with local media outlets, send out reporters to write about the communities and collect stories from residents in their own words. This would be identity defining for a Huff Post, said Paul Green in an interview. We are in a moment for determining our own identity and the role we play in the overall news ecosystem and what the next iteration of that looks like. And this felt like a great way to go out and report out the story of who we should be in the world. Don't worry, gang, the leftist media isn't out of touch or anything. This does show that so-called flyover country is new to the media. They're disconnect with people who live in Texas, in Oklahoma, and Alabama, and Michigan and Wisconsin. It's quite real. They don't understand their values, They don't understand their lifestyles. This is why CNN's Aaron Burnett mocks Christian pastors for laying hands on President Trump. They did the same for Obama, but nobody cared. And why the entire media was shocked that anybody would vote for Trump in the first place. But it won't just suffice to visit these places. Until the media begins hiring in these areas, they won't have boots on the ground or perspective into the places they seek to cover. Jet setting through Odessa isn't exactly going to provide the sort of empathetic analysis the left lacks about people outside of New York and L.A. And so the Huffington Post tour is much more likely to be a sort of Jeff Corwin experience for city folk than a real educational experience. Look, Bill, what is that lady doing going into that building with the cross on top? It's a Sunday. Doesn't she know it's time for brunch at the local coffee house? I mean, they serve avocado toast and the avocados from whole foods on Sundays. Good luck, Huffington Post. May God, well, Planned Parenthood, be with you. I'm Ben Shapiro.

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We'll also get to the latest on Trump care.

The Senate has now unveiled its new package.

The details are just starting to come out.

Some good stuff, some bad stuff.

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