The Regime Media made it their focus to controversialize the Trump cabinet picks on their Sunday Political affairs shows, with results that are mixed at best. Over on NBC’s Meet the Depressed, host Kristen Welker tried that approach and failed badly.

Watch as Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) takes Welker to school over the Regime Media’s coverage of controversial picks made by President Joe Biden:

NBC MEET THE PRESS

11/17/24

10:16 AM

KRISTEN WELKER: Let's talk about President Elect Trump's pick for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Of course, he has said he believes that no vaccine is safe and effective. You have been on the record defending the efficacy of vaccines. Are RFK's views on vaccines a deal breaker for you, Senator?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No. I absolutely -- appreciate Bobby Kennedy taking a hard look at the vaccine. There's some questions that have to be made. And I appreciate some of the scrutiny that's going through there. I think Bobby can answer all those. I’ve had multiple conversations with him- I have sat down and had -- long conversations with him and I actually find the guy extremely intelligent when it comes to this stuff. And some of the stuff does raise a lot of questions but I do got a question for you. The Democrats are spending so much time talking about the scrutiny of President Trump's picks and yet, we didn't spend -- spend this amount of time scrutinizing Biden's pick? I mean, we can talk about Rachel, the Assistant Secretary of HHS. I think that's a pretty controversial pick from whatever pronoun he or she decides to use. We talk about Sam, the assistant secretary for -- or executive underneath Energy of -- the Secretary of Energy and the individual was -- was arrested multiple times for stealing luggage off of conveyor belts inside airports. ANd I didn't see this same type of scrutiny the Democrats used on these individuals' picks. There's been a lot of picks. I mean, we can talk about Pete Buttigieg. 

WELKER: Wait. Hold on. Senator, let’s  

MULLIN: Is he really qualified to lead the Department of Transportation? But I don’t see the same people giving the scrutiny here. 

WELKER: Let’s- we…we scrutinized all of those picks robustly. 

One of the narratives around the Trump Cabinet picks, certainly the unconventional ones, centers around qualifications and experience. Welker tried to run this play while discussing the Kennedy nomination to HHS. Mullin, the former MMA fighter, stuffed it like it was a single-leg takedown.

Welker was left sputtering after Mullin cited the examples of Assistant HHS Secretary Rachel Levine and Sam Brinton, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy. Contrary to her claims, there was no scrutiny of these administration picks, certainly none equivalent to what we are seeing with these Trump picks.

It is worth noting that media scrutiny of Kennedy is focused on his stances on vaccines, while completely ignoring his positions on food safety, which are the centerpiece of the Make America Healthy Again campaign. Time spent trying to gotcha GOP members of Congress on vaccines is time spent away from FD&C Yellow #5, Red #40, and seed oils. 

Mullin caught this, exposed this, and turned the tables on Welker. Allowing the media to impose its narrative is a choice. Now, more than ever.