CBS News correspondent Ed O'Keefe just learned what happens when Trump Derangement Syndrome meets cold, hard facts – and it's not pretty for the legacy media hack.
During Wednesday's White House press briefing, O'Keefe tried to challenge Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt over President Trump's social media post honoring civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. The CBS reporter demanded examples of Trump being "falsely called racist," apparently expecting to trap the young press secretary.
What happened next was pure gold.
Leavitt didn't miss a beat, methodically dismantling the racist narrative that the mainstream media has peddled for nearly a decade. She reminded O'Keefe – and the room full of reporters – that Trump received awards alongside Jesse Jackson and Muhammad Ali from the Rainbow Coalition. She pointed out Trump's record funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She highlighted his criminal justice reform that freed thousands of Black Americans from prison.
"The facts speak for themselves," Leavitt said, as nervous laughter rippled through the press corps.
But here's the kicker – even O'Keefe's own colleagues in the press room couldn't help but chuckle at his obvious desperation. When your anti-Trump bias is so transparent that other liberal reporters are laughing AT you, maybe it's time for some self-reflection.
This is what happens when the propaganda machine meets the Trump administration's commitment to actual facts. For years, these media hacks got away with lazy character assassination because they faced zero pushback from the swamp creatures in Washington.
The Media's Racist Lie Crumbles
Those days are over. Karoline Leavitt represents a new generation of conservative communicators who won't let the legacy media get away with their tired playbook of smears and lies.
The Trump-is-racist narrative was always a desperate political weapon, and watching it crumble in real-time during a White House briefing was absolutely beautiful. O'Keefe walked right into a factual buzzsaw, and Patriots across America loved every second of it.
How many more times will these media dinosaurs embarrass themselves before they realize the American people see right through their propaganda?