New CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil rode into town this week with a promise: less expertise, more idiots:

“We’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American,” Dokoupil announced. “We put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites.”

Academics and elites. You know, the people who know a thing or two.

Larry Sabato’s response was perfect:

You wouldn’t want academics and elites who have actually studied a subject to outweigh the off-the-cuff opinions of village idiots. This is how we’re seeing the resurgence of measles.

This is the Authentic Frontier Gibberish scene from Blazing Saddles, delivered with such conviction that everyone nods solemnly while the nonsense washes over them.

Dokoupil listed the stories he believes Americans think media “missed“: NAFTA, Iraq, Russiagate, COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden’s laptop, “the president’s fitness for office.”

That’s a Fox News grievance bingo card dressed in CBS garb. It’s not even journalism.

The Iraq War failure was media being TOO deferential to government claims, not too skeptical. Dokoupil’s got the lesson exactly backward.

What a village idiot.

Of course, accuracy isn’t the point in state-directed disinformation platforms. North Korean news isn’t smart, it’s rehearsed not researched. The point is: your unacademic unsuccessful uncle’s Thanksgiving rant in Arkansas about killing the Jews is now editorial policy for DC.

Bari Weiss, the infamously unqualified CBS editor-in-chief abruptly installed, built her brand claiming she was a victim of elite media. Now she is the elite media. So “we’re finally listening to regular Americans instead of elites” is being announced by Billionaire puppets, presumably over very expensive coffee served in faux gold-plated Trump mugs.

Dokoupil will be fine, since he’s clearly the elite, cashing those fat elite checks, while saying the enemy is elites.

Elon Musk on January 1, 2026 decided to attack himself and warn America he should be deported:

The man warning about a “flood” of illegal immigration didn’t have legal authorization to work when he started companies entangled in charges of fraud. His own brother told an audience they “were illegal immigrants.” Musk admitted it was “a gray area” they exploited.

In 2005, he wrote in an email that he applied to Stanford because he had “no legal right to stay in the country.” He never attended a single class. He just used the acceptance letter for fraud, claim a visa status that he was actively violating anyway by running a business.

This African prince of fraud, warning about fraud, settled SEC securities fraud charges for $40 million and was stripped of his chairmanship at Tesla. He tweeted “funding secured” for a deal that didn’t exist, to spike stock prices, and paid the fine with his illegal windfall rather than contest the evidence.

There’s a word for when someone accuses others of exactly what they’ve done.

But projection doesn’t quite capture this. Projection implies unconscious displacement—you can’t face the thing in yourself, so you see it everywhere else.

This is something more sinister.

When Musk says illegal immigration and fraud will mean “won’t be America anymore,” he’s speaking from direct experience. His America—the one where he became the world’s richest man—was built on working without authorization and settling fraud charges. That America worked out fine for him.

The cruel part is “anymore.”

The open floodgates he welcomed are supposed to close behind him. The fraud provisions he settled are supposed to sharpen for others. The rules exist not to govern behavior but to determine who gets to break them.

This is aristocracy. This is white nationalism. This is apartheid. This is how prejudice always functioned. The laws apply downward. Visa violations matter when non-whites commit them. Fraud matters when it’s thousands instead of billions at stake.

Musk isn’t actually warning about illegal immigration and fraud. He’s warning about his abject fear of competition. About a world where the ladders he climbed might remain in place for others.

He knows he doesn’t stand a chance against others. His cars are the most obvious example, the worst engineering on the road. They are a safety tragedy, already seen as the lawn dart of automotive history. SpaceX was setup for failure to extend contracts, so of course they celebrate “rapid disassembly” and being years late and billions over budget. The incentive structure rewards not delivering. Tesla ships cars that need constant software patches and “driverless” settlements out of court. The business model is getting paid to fix disasters created by their own fraud. SpaceX just put one of their investors in charge of NASA, to remove competition. Tesla started an AI company and used DOGE to install it in the Pentagon by removing competition.

“Won’t be America anymore” means: won’t be an America where the white men get the spoils and everyone else gets their assets seized on the way to deportation.

He’s not looking in a mirror. He is the mirror. And he’s telling you exactly why his illegal and fraudulent existence is so bad for America.

It’s a pattern hard to miss. This one happened today.

…collision happened shortly after 11 a.m. Friday on West Pontiac Trail near Huntley Drive involving a 2022 Tesla and a 2010 Honda Odyssey, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.

A preliminary investigation indicates that the Tesla driver, a 24-year-old Dearborn resident, crossed the center yellow line and crashed into the Honda, driven by a 73-year-old Walled Lake resident, the sheriff’s office said. Both drivers were transported to Henry Ford Providence Novi Hospital…

If only more people read this blog instead of believing whatever nonsense Elon Musk says… just think of the lives saved.

“Based on representations the Blaines heard made by Musk and Tesla… [they] believed [it] was a safer driver than a human driver of convention[al] vehicles,” the complaint states.

However, it contends, the deadly wreck was brought about by the car’s allegedly inadequate “Autosteer” function, a next-gen form of cruise control the company says “detects lane markings, road edges, and the presence of vehicles and objects to intelligently keep your vehicle in its driving lane.” The complaint also assigns blame to the Model X’s “Lane Departure Warning,” “Lane Keeping Assist,” “Lane Centering Assistance,” and “Emergency Lane Departure Avoidance” systems, contending they “defectively failed” to work as advertised.