Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary — aka “Mr. Wonderful” — took a blowtorch to CNN and other lefties experiencing a mental collapse over emails from Elon Musk’s DOGE to federal workers asking them to give an account of their work progress.
CNN Host Laura Coates tried to box O’Leary into a corner by drumming up controversy over Musk sending an initial email to workers that allegedly required only a voluntary response followed by a second mandatory email that included a threat of termination.
O’Leary’s response during the tense segment during the February 24 edition of CNN’s Laura Coates Live could be summed up by his one-liner: “Get over it.” \
“First of all, if they’re not answering after two times requested, are they dead,” O’Leary snarked. “What’s wrong with that? The rational person would say, ‘Yeah it’s not okay.’”
Coates kept trying to interject but O’Leary wouldn’t let up, “You’ve got billions of dollars going out to hundreds of people — thousands, tens of thousands of people — and nobody knows if they’re A: alive. B: working. Where are they? What are they doing? There’s nothing wrong with this request.” O’Leary then utilized his own experience in the private sector, noting that he does these sorts of inquiries with his workers “every day.” “This is not unreasonable. The average person doesn’t think this is unreasonable,” O’Leary concluded, before quipping that Musk is generating furor because DOGE is “electric and controversial, got it.”
Coates, obviously triggered by O’Leary, then objected to the notion that CNN is only covering Musk because the conflict is "sexy." She proclaimed CNN and the rest have an "appropriate emphasis" on Musk. They're just supposedly looking to report the truth on the government, which would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetically ironic considering the network she works for:
I must say though: It bothers me when I hear people suggest that the only reason to cover what’s going on with DOGE is somehow it’s ‘electric’ or somehow ‘sexy to the media.’ These are consequential steps that are being made. And so we’re not focusing just for the sake of focusing. There’s appropriate emphasis on what’s so important in the federal government.
“Appropriate emphasis” Coates? Really? Like when your colleagues at CNN and other media talking heads spent a ridiculous amount of airtime obsessing over “Big Balls?”
There are two types of journalists:
— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) February 7, 2025
1) People who spent all day yesterday saying "Big Balls" on national television.
2) Actual journalists.
Yesterday was weird. pic.twitter.com/IiITHKklhU