You may have already noticed, but recent developments confirm that America’s liberal elites are a bunch of overpaid degenerates who rarely interact with normal Americans but despise them nonetheless. The stories about them often seem made up—right-wing fever dreams concocted in the pages of a MAGA Mad Libs booklet. Rest assured, the following is all true.
Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen, the super yacht, and the scorned male stripper
CBS News is looking to cut costs amid reports that the network is losing between $35–$50 million per year. The network’s parent company, Paramount, insists the news division is still profitable, which is bogus. Puck media reporter Dylan Byers looked into it and found that the claim of profitability is based on a blatant accounting gimmick that allocates roughly $50 million to the news division that it doesn’t actually earn.
An easy way to save some money would be to fire Gayle King, who (for reasons that defy explanation) earns an annual salary of $10 million. King is a co-host of CBS Mornings, the lowest-rated network morning show on television. She is also a “close friend” of Oprah Winfrey, the celebrity billionaire and guest speaker at the 2024 Democratic convention. King made headlines earlier this year by going to space with Jeff Bezos’s buxom gal pal, Lauren Sanchez. “I’m so proud of me!” she squealed upon returning to Earth.
King’s liberal bias is widely known. Why else would she have been a top contender to land the first interview with Kamala Harris after Joe Biden dropped out of the race? It didn’t hurt that King donated to Harris’s campaign for California attorney general, praised the VP (without evidence) as “uniquely qualified to be president,” and said watching her political career “gives me goosebumps.”
Even the creative accountants at CBS will be hard pressed to justify King’s exorbitant salary. Her reputation for making a spectacle of herself in the news far exceeds her reputation for serious journalism—to the extent she ever had one. In 2017, for example, King reportedly enraged her colleagues at CBS by taking a star-studded yacht vacation to Tahiti while other, poorer Democrats were still mourning Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump. She joined Oprah, Barack and Michelle Obama, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Hanks aboard the Rising Sun, a 454-foot luxury yacht owned by Democratic billionaire David Geffen.
King and Oprah made another trip on Geffen’s yacht last month to decompress after attending Bezos and Sanchez’s $50 million wedding in Italy. In photos shared on King’s Instagram account, the happy couple posed in chic caftans alongside Kris Jenner, the celebrity housewife. Geffen, a prolific donor to Democratic candidates and liberal causes, was also there. His name appears on buildings at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA, home of the David Geffen School of Medicine, which was sued for racial discrimination in May.
Geffen was widely condemned in 2020 for flaunting his wealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. He enjoyed a relaxing vacation on his massive yacht while normal Americans were suffering under state lockdowns imposed by politicians he supported. That same year, Geffen donated $500,000 to the Lincoln Project. In 2022, he was implicated in what appeared to be a blatant insider-trading scheme along with Barry Diller, another Democratic billionaire whose fashionista wife, Diane von Fürstenberg, makes dresses for Michelle Obama. They stood to make more than $100 million after making a bullish bet on Activision stock just days before it was acquired by Microsoft. The Biden administration dropped the case in 2024.
These days Geffen, 82, is embroiled in a nasty divorce battle with his estranged husband, David Armstrong, a 32-year-old former exotic dancer he met on a “sugar daddy” website. Armstrong filed a lawsuit last month accusing Geffen of abusive and demeaning behavior such as requiring Armstrong to have all his body hair removed with “painful laser treatments.” The suit alleges that Geffen cut off financial support for Armstrong and kicked him out of his New York residence around the same time Geffen was partying with King and Oprah on his super yacht, which Armstrong says was often used for parties involving “hard drugs.”
Geffen’s marital spat brings to mind the case of Ed Buck, the wealthy Democratic donor who is serving a 30-year prison sentence after being convicted of luring young black men to his home, injecting them with drugs, and sexually assaulting them.
Ladies and gentlemen, your liberal elites.
Gavin Newsom and the climate fraudster
Here’s another fun Mad Libs story involving rich Democrats. Joe Sanberg, a donor and ally of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.), recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud investors out of $250 million by artificially inflating the value of his “green” banking firm, Aspiration. The company was at the forefront of the Environmental, Social, and Governance investing trend, allowing customers to offset their carbon footprints by rounding up transactions to the nearest dollar to fund a tree planting initiative. Aspiration’s co-founder, Andrei Cherny, was the former chair of the Arizona Democratic Party.
Sanberg, a Harvard graduate who considered running for president in the 2020 Democratic primary, fashioned himself as a “progressive” anti-poverty activist who backed Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. He received a glowing profile in the Atlantic, which raved about his “financial-services company that specializes in socially conscious investments.” Sanberg had recently announced a partnership with celebrity activist Leonardo DiCaprio on an initiative to prohibit customer funds from being loaned out to oil companies. (Orlando Bloom and Robert Downey Jr. were also investors.)
In 2021, ProPublica reported that Aspiration’s “sustainable” investment fund was a massive scam. The fund owned a higher percentage of Southwest Airlines shares than it did of shares in sustainable energy firms, and was administered by the banking giant UBS, which Aspiration’s own website denounced for funding fossil fuels. That same year, Aspiration signed a $300 million sponsorship deal with the Los Angeles Clippers, the NBA franchise owned by Democratic billionaire Steve Ballmer.
Last year, Sanberg spent $11 million promoting a California ballot measure to raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour. Voters narrowly rejected the initiative, but California legislators approved a $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers that went into effect earlier this year that has resulted in a loss of roughly 20,000 fast-food jobs.
Ladies and gentlemen, your liberal elites.
You don’t hate them enough.
