Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the weekly report. House Democrats attack

messengers in the politicization of government's hearing. I often joke that I survived Washington

because I had low expectations, but last week's hearing of the House Rebellionization of the

Federal Government Subcommittee would have tested the lowest of my low expectations. The purpose

of the subcommittee is to look into the politicization of U.S. government agencies and its effect

on our civil liberties. But last week's inaugural hearings of the committee was not at all a good

look for the Democrats who brought nothing but insults for the witnesses. Things got off on the

wrong foot very quickly as Democrat committee members seemed less interested in what witnesses

Matt Taibe and Michael Schellenberger had to say than attacking the messengers.

Ranking committee members Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat from the Virgin Islands, began by calling

Taibe a so-called journalist who posed as a direct threat to people who disagree with the work

he has done on the Twitter files. Taibe, who to the likely dismay of the Democrats on the subcommittee

is hardly a right-wing Republican. Corrected Plaskett's smear pointing out to her that I'm not a

so-called journalist, I've won the National Magazine Award, the I.F. Stone Award for Independent

Journalism, and I've written 10 books including four New York Times bestsellers. In addition,

Taibe pointed out that most of his journalism career was spent at Rolling Stone magazine,

which is hardly a conservative political outlet. The Democrat decision to make this hearing a

partisan political issue and attack the journalists who brought us the truth about the secret U.S.

government censorship by proxy of Americans who hold views unacceptable to government elites

is extremely unfortunate. The Democrat decision to attack honest liberals like Taibe for bringing us

the truth is baffling. Taibe and Shellenberger and the other journalists involved in exposing government

malfeasance in the Twitter files have done a great service to all Americans concerned about the

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