Despite tough questions from fill-in co-hosts Kelly O’Grady and Ed O’Keefe, Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus chose to dedicate the “By the Way” segment — a block meant to do a deeper dive on one of the major headlines but often becomes a free block for liberal narratives — to a supposedly viral guest column from a rural Virginia factory worker lamenting the rise in cost of living and the erosion of the American dream.
Unsurprisingly, that wasn’t all he said and what made it viral was its excoriation of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill as cruel to the working class and only meant to puff up the rich. And sure enough, the obscure outlet this column was originally published on — The Daily Yonder — has billed itself as a rural news site, but is just a blog for hardened rural Democrats.
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