Leftist Media Weep Over Potential USAID Cuts - Avoid Covering Bribery Case of USAID Official

P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 16, 2025
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Mainstream media’s dominant leftist ideology, and their selective lenses -- their awkward, brutish, ignorant attempts to hide information that damns big government -- are obvious and inseparable.

Case in point: the dominant left-wing television networks’ hand-wringing over Congress possibly turning off the decades-long money spigot to United States Agency for International Development (USAID), even as a major USAID official prepared to plead guilty to one of the most egregious acts of bribery in US history.

Thursday, June 12, saw USAID Contracting Officer Roderick Watson plead guilty to participating in a $550 million bribery scheme involving two consulting companies and a subcontractor, and the New York Post, a right-leaning new source, covered the big, breaking story.

“Roderick Watson, of Maryland, is alleged to have received bribes valued in excess of $1 million while working at USAID in exchange for using his position as a trusted overseer of taxpayer money to direct 14 prime federal contracts to two consulting companies, Apprio and Vistant.

Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official and faces up to 15 years in prison. He’s scheduled to be sentenced in October. 

As part of the elaborate scheme, Walter Barnes, owner of Vistant, and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, used Paul Young, the president of a subcontractor used by both Vistant and Apprio, as a middleman to conceal some of the bribes destined for Watson, according to the Justice Department.”

But you won’t find coverage of it on the dinosaur television networks. A phenomenon that MRCTV and others noticed.

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