Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (image via Instagram) Some news items you might have missed: • Back2Stonewall: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg goes all Schroeder and plays “A Charlie Brown Christmas” by Vince Guaraldi. Hit the link to watch him play it out. • Deadline: “I didn’t realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning — until today,” said KWWL-TV sports reporter Mark Woodley doing a live remote in the middle of a blizzard for the channel’s morning show. Woodley was drafted onto the weather team when the storm hit, and he was unusually candid with his feelings about the assignment. https://twitter.com/MarkWoodleyTV/status/1605961457337712640 • The Daily Beast: Before the ‘fake biography’ scandal of out Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY), Fox News presented him as a rising GOP superstar. Since news broke of his reportedly manufactured resume, Fox has devoted less than a minute of airtime to Santos’ alleged fabrications. • MarketWatch: Consumer confidence hits 8-month high as worries about inflation and recession fade. Falling gas prices have helped to bolster the confidence of consumers and ease their worries about inflation. • The Insider: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has had a busy week. During one of the most consequential weeks in Congress this year, Greene skipped Ukraine President Zelenskyy’s address and voted ‘no’ via proxy on today’s omnibus spending bill – because she’s on vacation in Costa Rica. https://twitter.com/tcberman/status/1606365022719836160 • Bloomberg News: Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with Covid-19 on a single day this week, according to estimates from the government’s top health authority, making the country’s outbreak by far the world’s largest. • Only Sky: A federal jury convicted former Kansas state lawmaker Michael Capps (R) of defrauding federal and state agencies by a total of $355,550 in COVIID-19 business recovery funds. He used his time in office to push Christianity on everyone sponsoring a bill to put “In God We Trust” in public buildings. https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1606362642716688408
