Kaitlan Collins Gets Spanked by Karoline Leavitt

To say that Pravda Media is more hostile to Trump than to Biden is accurate in the same way as claiming that an atomic bomb makes a bigger explosion than a firecracker. 

It’s technically accurate, but it hardly conveys the scale of the disparity. 

My favorite example is the coverage of President Trump’s stamina and President Biden’s. You continually see stories implying that Donald Trump is getting slow and senile, while Joe Biden was portrayed as vital and sharp. Any clip of Biden looking like a zombie was a “cheap fake,” yet Donald Trump, who never seems to sleep, is subjected to endless speculation about his vitality. 

But the disparity in coverage can be seen anywhere, and there is something incredibly satisfying about President Trump, his appointees, and especially his Press Secretary firing back at the absurdity of the coverage. 

🔥POW POW — @PressSec ROCKS Kaitlan Collins for FAILING to grill Biden’s Press Secretaries about his failed economy.

“NOBODY reported [inflation] being high under Biden…My predecessor stood up at this podium and said inflation doesn’t exist! She said the border was secure!… pic.twitter.com/MQAAcAalJE

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 11, 2025

Ten years ago, you would never have seen a Republican get right in the face of a reporter and accuse them of being ridiculous shills, but now it happens on every day ending in “y.” 

When I was first dealing with the press, back in my activist days, we were taught never to get into spats with people who buy ink by the barrel or who control the airwaves. At the time, it seemed like good advice, and perhaps before social media became a thing, it was. After all, if you didn’t stroke the egos of the press, you would be shut down and incapable of saying anything through the media they didn’t want out there. 

🚨@PressSec has to remind the fake news WHY ObamaCare subsidies are expiring:

DEMS wrote ObamaCare
DEMS passed it without a single GOP vote
DEMS ballooned it with EXPENSIVE Covid subsidies
DEMS DISTORTED health insurance markets
DEMS doubled down & set an expiration date for ’25… pic.twitter.com/OlFJlyXyeC

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 11, 2025

That’s no longer true, and firing back is the smartest thing you can do unless you are on their side to begin with. Almost everybody who is prominent in the media is a partisan—the way to get ahead is to build a personal brand—and every interaction with them is either a tongue bath for their friends or a hostile exchange with their adversaries. 

That may be all wrong when it comes to the political health of the country. But that is the way it is. In this case, Kaitlan Collins is a shill for the Democrats, and she should be given no more deference than Adam Schiff because she is no more honest or objective than he is. 

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