Cable news ratings; Collins puts Rick Scott in the hot seat; Carville mocks MTG as 'white trash'

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins grilled Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Medicare and Social Security funding in a stellar interview Thursday morning.
Collin sat down with Scott days after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, which featured outbursts and heckling from Republican representatives. At one point, representatives screamed "LIAR" at the president when he claimed, "some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset."
During the Thursday interview with Scott, Collins grilled the senator over the plan, picking apart Scott’s latest defense.
In one bizarre moment, Scott fixated on something CNN's Jake Tapper said in order to argue that when Democrats legislated savings for Medicare on prescription drugs, they enacted a “cut.”
Collins pointed out that Tapper wasn't referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, and instead was discussing different savings proposals from Democrats.
"If you’ve budgeted and you’ve got $15,000 and you go and buy a car, and it it now costs $12,000," she reasoned. "That doesn’t mean you only have $12,000. It means you just did not spend all $15,000. Right?
Collins went on to note, "Reducing drug spending is not cutting benefits to Medicare."
Props for the throughout and fact-heavy interview on such a hot topic -- it even got Maggie Haberman's attention and praise.

Democratic strategist James Carville claimed to have “a Ph.D. in White trashology,” during an interview Wednesday, which he later used in a crude mocking of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
“Let me tell you something about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene – she dresses like White trash," Carville said to MSNBC's Ari Melber.
"She really needs a fashion consultant. I recommend George Santos. He could do a good job of dressing up where she doesn’t announce her own White trashdom," added Carville, who is nicknamed the "Ragin Cajun" for his often colorful commentary.
The comments were made while discussing President Joe Biden's State of the Union address -- which some GOP representatives heckled throughout.
Melber tried to pivot at one point, asking Carville about how divisions in the nations politics can impact actual policy.
Still, Carville circled back to the GOP hecklers, saying, “The level of White trashdom in the Republican Party is staggering. I mean, for somebody that has observed it for a long time like I have, I’ve never seen it manifest itself on a level that it’s manifesting itself.”
Mocking a woman for the clothes she is wearing, or by making tasteless comments about someone's alleged socioeconomic status is pretty awful punditry -- especially when there is so much to legitimately criticize.