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The spectacle on The View this week was exactly what conservatives have long warned about: a sanctimonious daytime panel lecturing a guest for defending a popular, populist health agenda while refusing to reckon with facts. Actress Cheryl Hines, appearing to promote her memoir, was repeatedly pressed about her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s role as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and co-host Sunny Hostin bluntly called him “the least qualified” person ever to head HHS. The exchange grew heated as Hines pushed back against that blanket dismissal and tried to explain his decades of environmental and public-health litigation.
Hines did more than defend her husband’s honor—she pointed out an inconvenient truth for the View crowd: most HHS secretaries historically have not been medical doctors, and some, like Sylvia Burwell, came from economics and policy backgrounds. That reality undercuts the media’s shrill insistence that the only legitimate voices in health policy are credentialed elites who never question the status quo. The attempt to reduce a lifetime of public-interest lawwork—suing polluters and exposing corporate harms—to “unqualified” chatter is a cowardly shortcut that avoids debating policy on its merits.
What stung in that studio, and what should sting every American who still values honest discourse, was the patronizing tone from hosts who reflexively label dissenters “dangerous” while insisting their own preferred experts be treated as unimpeachable. Hostin’s charge that RFK Jr. spread “misinformation” was trotted out like a moral ironclad, yet the same elite media that weaponizes that word ignores its own failures and corrections. Americans weary of one-sided enforcement of orthodoxy have watched too many experts get things wrong, and they instinctively resent being shamed for asking questions about Big Pharma, food policy, and environmental toxins.
Conservatives should celebrate that Hines didn’t flinch when the show tried to make her a convenient foil; she defended MAHA—the Make America Healthy Again agenda—because it speaks to parents who are tired of processed-food industries, overprescription, and bureaucratic arrogance. MAHA isn’t a fringe fad; it’s a populist push to bring common-sense scrutiny back to schools, food supply chains, and pharmaceutical influence, and millions of Americans are hungry for leaders willing to hold powerful interests accountable. The mainstream press will scream “misinformation” when you question prevailing orthodoxies, but millions of Americans aren’t going to be bullied into silence about their children’s health.
Don’t let the media narrative fool you: polls show MAHA’s appeal is real and concentrated where it matters most for political change—among voters who have been ignored by the coastal elites. That’s why the establishment spends so much energy discrediting it instead of engaging with its proposals; fear and contempt of the grassroots is the only argument the elites have left. If Washington continues to treat grassroots concern as a scandal rather than an opportunity to address real problems, the divide between governors, parents, and the federal bureaucracy will only widen.
Cheryl Hines walking into that studio and refusing to be gaslit should be a lesson for every patriotic American: don’t cower when the talking heads try to silence you with smears. The real threat to public discourse is not people who question power, it’s a media-industrial complex that flings labels to shut down debate and protect vested interests. Stand with commonsense reforms, demand accountability from both bureaucrats and big industry, and never accept the lie that only credentialed elites get a say in the health and future of our children.
