Hours after an Oliver Darcy underling screeched Sunday about CBS News’s social media platforms as having gone full MAGA for covering unsavory stories such as a Jewish Insider investigation into the radical social media history of New York City’s first lady, Monday’s CBS Mornings showed the liberal media are unsurprisingly not living in reality as the newscast welcomed far-left Texas senatorial candidate James Talarico (D) for an embarrassingly soft interview.
In just over six minutes, the co-hosts never offered an adversarial question to Talarico and strayed from the network’s own role in arguably endorsing Talarico’s primary campaign or any mention of the litany of radical statements over the course of his young life, such as these compiled in one convenient mash-up by our friends at Conservative War Machine:
SUPERCUT: Some of Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico’s most radical views:
“You can’t call yourself a Christian and destroy God’s creation with greenhouse gases.”
“I love … the trans children.”
“No need to sit and cry over your whiteness or your masculinity. Use… pic.twitter.com/JXMrz7spRz
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) March 9, 2026
“Coming up, fresh off his huge victory in the Texas Democratic primary, James Talarico joins us here in studio. Why he thinks he can finally turn Texas blue,” beamed featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers in a tease.
Duthiers further was ebullient with Talarico sitting next to him, boasting Talarico “defeated Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in a race that captured national attention” and now “looking forward to a general election where he will face the winner of a Republican runoff between incumbent Senator John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton.”
What a complete ass-kissing of Texas Democrat James Talarico on Monday’s ‘CBS Mornings’
Absolutely useless. David French would have been proud of this. pic.twitter.com/GOoCOVUqsF
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 9, 2026
Duthiers also had the first question, which was wildly predictable in strategizing with him about how they’ll finally take down those damn Republicans:
So, it seems as if we’ve been hearing about Texas turning blue for years. I’m old enough to remember a governor who’s still who looms very large in the state of Texas, Ann Richards. Explain to us what the strategy is in terms of how the congressional makeup of Texas means that it’s been red for the last couple of years and how you hope to turn it blue.
Talarico went on for 78 seconds with boilerplate progressive, faux-Christian jargon about his campaign revolving around “lov[ing] my neighbor as myself, not just my neighbor who looks like me or prays like me or votes like me” and ensuring everyone has quality schools, a safe home, and stable job because Texans possess “deep hunger for a different kind of politics, not one that’s rooted in fear or hate or division, but one that’s rooted in love,” not a “blood sport.”
The panel was mesmerized by this love-without-justice, one-sided God that’s malleable to our biological delusions.
Duthiers continued to embarrass himself by asking Talarico to explain a second time how he’ll turn Texas blue even though “the combatant-in-chief has yet to weigh in” (click “expand”):
DUTHIERS: You mentioned politics is a blood sport, the combatant-in-chief has yet to weigh in, but he is expected the way in on the Republican runoff race. How do you think that will impact the race?
TALARICO: Well, no matter —
DUTHIERS: We’re talking about Donald Trump, of course.
TALARICO: — you know, no matter what happens in this Republican runoff, we already know who we’re running against. It’s the billionaire mega donors and their corrupt political system. It’s — you’re seeing it already, the billionaires who run the algorithms, who run the cable news networks, who run the — the — so much of the politics in our state and our country. They try to divide us. They divide us on an hourly basis by party, by race, by gender, by religion. And so, we don’t notice that they are picking our pockets, that they are closing our schools in Texas. They’re gutting our health care, they’re raising taxes on working people while they cut taxes for themselves. So, this is the — it’s the oldest strategy in the world.
DUTHIERS: Mmmm.
TALARICO: Divide and conquer. And what we’re trying to do in Texas is bringing working people together across all those divides, so that we can take power away from those at the very top and bring it back into our community.
Saturday co-host Adriana Diaz had the next two questions that were also unoriginal:
So, representative, going into this race, it was really unclear who was going to win. What does your win signal you think about what Democrats in Texas voters want?
(….)
But what do you think it was about you in particular that appealed to so many?
Talarcio enamored them with more slick talk about how “people, again, not just Democrats, but independents and Republicans too, they’re really sick of this politics that we’ve had for the last 10 years” and so he’s “building” a movement “across partisan, racial, cultural, or religious divides” to “take power back for ourselves” and “the American Dream.”
Co-host Nate Burleson asked his only question, which was a softball on Iran. Following another unchallenged mouthfull, Duthiers had the final question wondering if congressional Democratic leaders Hakeem Jeffries (NY) and Chuck Schumer (NY) are on the same wavelength as him (click “expand”):
BURLESON: Let’s talk about the war on Iran. What are you hearing from your constituents in Texas about how they feel about this war that’s happening right now?
TALARICO: Well, you know, as a millennial, I saw how military disasters like the Iraq War robbed this nation of young lives, of billions of dollars of our moral standing in the world, and I worry that our current leaders are repeating those same mistakes. I was in San Branch, Texas, which is a community south of Dallas that doesn’t have running water. It doesn’t have basic sewer infrastructure, so every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is a dollar we’re not spending in San Branch, Texas, or in our communities here at home. We’re — we’re always told that we don’t have enough money for schools or for health care or for our veterans, but there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world. And so, we can support the democracy movement in Iran. We can prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, all without bombing innocent schoolchildren or sending our American troops off to die on the other side of the world.
DUTHIERS: Representative, but are the leaders in your party, specifically Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, bringing that message home to the Republicans to the President?
TALARICO: I don’t know. All I know is what’s happening in Texas and people across the political spectrum are deeply worried about another forever war in the Middle East, and especially young people who are seeing not only gas prices rise, but they’re seeing this affordability crisis that continues to go unaddressed by our leaders in Washington. And so I — I think a lot of us are mystified that we’re starting another forever war instead of focusing on lowering costs for working people.
This would have been an embarrassing supposed interview for CBS even before the Skydance/Bari Weiss takeover, but Monday’s canoodling masquerading as journalism was all the more embarrassing considering Weiss is at helm.
To see the relevant CBS transcript from March 9, click here.
