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When Dean Cain stood on The Chris Salcedo Show and called out the left for piling on Phil Mickelson, he did what too few in conservative media will do: name the double standard and refuse to bow. Cain reminded listeners that the elite commentary class loves to wield moral outrage like a cudgel — until it’s a conservative or a nonconformist who dares to speak plainly about immigration and national sovereignty.
Phil Mickelson isn’t some fringe crank; he’s a respected figure in a sport that worships tradition, and he’s paid a steep price before for telling uncomfortable truths — remember the row over his candid remarks about the Saudi-backed LIV movement that blew up into a full-blown controversy. Conservatives don’t celebrate everything Mickelson has said, but we respect the American right to speak freely without being consigned to the cancel pile by journalists and pundits who live in a different universe.
The clip calls out prominent media figures like Tim Miller and Sam Stein — reliable fixtures of the commentariat who posture as the guardians of civility while flinging personal insults at those who disagree. These are not anonymous trolls; they are credentialed media professionals who set the tone in Washington and on cable, and their sneering dismissal of anyone challenging open-borders orthodoxy is the very definition of elite hypocrisy.
What Cain did on the air was expose a pattern: left-leaning gatekeepers demand tolerance when the target is their tribe, and intolerance when the target is a patriot or a plain-speaking American. That’s not debate; it’s ritual shaming from an intellectual caste that has forgotten the dignity of honest disagreement and lost touch with the working Americans who keep this country running.
If you’re tired of seeing accomplished Americans smeared for daring to protect the rule of law and the borders that keep our communities safe, you’re not alone. Hardworking patriots want leaders and public figures who call out the problem instead of covering for it, and they want a media that treats ideas with fair, not performative, scrutiny.
Note on reporting: I searched available coverage and network clips for a verbatim instance of Tim Miller and Sam Stein calling Phil Mickelson a “disturbed dude” and could not locate that exact quote in primary sources; however, the Newsmax segment frames Cain’s criticism around leftist mockery of Mickelson’s immigration remarks and the broader pattern of media double standards, which is what this column addresses.
