Posted on 03/15/2025 8:05:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
DOGE isn't popular in many government quarters, but there's one where it is: The Voice of America, whose parent company, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, is led by President Trump's appointee, Kari Lake, a former television journalist, of Arizona.
Lake's title is actually senior advisor to USAGM, but she's obviously calling the shots there -- and she's doing it in a DOGE-ian way.
She put out these tweets, prompting texts of delight from my sources at Voice of America:
I've been in fact-finding mode at the USAGM, & boy, am I finding a lot of nonsense that the American taxpayer shouldn't be paying for.
Today, I started the process of terminating the agency's contracts with the Associated Press, Reuters, & the Agence France-Presse. This will save taxpayers about 53 million dollars.
The purpose of our agency is to tell the American story. We don't need to outsource that responsibility to anyone else.
https://x.com/KariLake/status/1900359216713605512
Those contracts to other, larger news agencies famous for their loyalty to Democrats, were sold to VOA employees as necessary budget cuts to their agency. The reporters watched in horror as boilerplate stories from the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse replaced their original reporting from the field that, as a federal agency, had been specially tailored towards promoting U.S. interests abroad.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Rock it Kari!
Good for her!
Awesome!
I don’t see a need to pay for propaganda. Most “news” outlets do it for free.
JFK had Edward R. Murrow leading the Voice of America in his day and Lyndon Johnson used the famous NBC News anchor and reporter John Chancellor to direct VOA in the mid 1960’s.
It’s a new day and Kari Lake is in those shoes today.
Outstanding—AP has been a horror show—Agitation and Propaganda.
Starve them out!
Cool. We have diplomatic staff all over the world. I’m sure we can find one person in each embassy and consulate that can write up a local news story when one breaks.
Sounds very good...
I have to hand it to Trump to find the perfect role for a talented woman whose future in Arizona was stalled by the state’s deep electoral and judicial corruption.
All these years we’ve been using VOA to tell the world of our higher qualities, regard for fairness and respect for individual rights, to counter the Soviet Bloc’s efforts along the same line.
Perhaps we should alter VOA’s message and make it part of our new border security by broadcasting (mostly in Spanish) how terrible conditions are with man-from-the-dungeon vignettes highlighting the torture and degradation immigrants endure in the United States.
I understand there’s a few uniquely qualified media people who can do that well currently unemployed from CNN and MSNBC.
Winning!
I doubt that, Dem govt surely has sneaky ways to pay them with your tax dollars!
“I have to hand it to Trump to find the perfect role for a talented woman whose future in Arizona was stalled by the state’s deep electoral and judicial corruption.”
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Kari Lake underperformed Trump by 280,000 votes in the 2024 election, in the process allowing the stooge Gallego to waltz into the Senate. Over two election cycles, she demonstrated an ability to win a GOP primary, and then blowing the general election by turning off mainstream Republicans and independents. Telling Mccain voters to go to hell is not a smart way to build a winning coalition.
There is no reason for AZ to be represented by two leftist Democrats in the Senate, not to mention the loon in the Governor’s chair. At least Lake is finished in AZ electoral politics.
Kari Lake:
- “Lost” the governorship of Arizona by 0.6% in 2022, sued, judge gave the win to Kartel Katie even when confronted with a mountain of evidence about .
- “Lost” the Senate seat to a violent, foul mouthed professional Mexican by 2.2%, strangely the exact percentage that went to a totally unknown Mexican crank running as the Green party candidate.
Twice the Hensley-McCain-Robson gangsters teamed up with Cartel Sinaloa to screw her and got away with it.
Twice.
Bondi should have a permanent investigation team on the ground there NOW.
You fail to mention she was given no money by Mitch McConnell from his NRSSC fund, while dumping millions into other races in the East that were lost.
Even her signs in Arizona were smaller then Gallego’s because she had to economize.
In 2022 her polling was up by 8% going into the election and the actual result was a shock to all. Hobbs wasn’t even close before election day. Then the famous “oops your ballots don’t work” scam was pulled in Maricopa county, conveniently in Republican places like Tempe, Chandler and Scottsdale, not South Phoenix and Litchfield Park which are basically Mexico Norte now.
You know NOTHING about Arizona.
Journalism on sale: How USAID doled out millions to buy journalists, media groups
Are you even really paying attention at all?
I said we don’t need to pay for propaganda, it is everywhere.
The McCainiacs decided it was better to rule in Hell than it was to serve in Heaven.
Eff them with a rusty chainsaw.
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