Berman and New Day hit home runs. Kirk strikes out. Sarandon has words for AOC.

CNN’s John Berman pressed CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on the recently updated mask guidelines, questioning “why the hell” vaccinated people are stuck paying the price for those avoiding the shot.

“With prior variants, when people had these rare breakthrough infections, we didn’t see the capacity of them to spread the virus to others,” Walensky said on Wednesday’s New Day. “But with the delta variant, we now see in our outbreak investigations that have been occurring over the last couple of weeks, in those outbreak investigations, we have been seeing that if you happen to have one of those breakthrough infections, that you can actually now pass it to somebody else.”

Berman then questioned why those who have taken their shots need to mask up, asking, “You can understand the frustration in those of us who are vaccinated saying, ‘Why the hell do I have to pay the price for this?'”

Dr. Walenksy answered, and Berman continued to question her at length, asking things that people actually want to know the answer to. CNN's Kaitlan Collins did the same during Tuesday's briefing when asking about masks in schools.
One of the tasks for a journalist - a frequently overlooked task - is to ask questions that people want to hear answered by officials, not just the questions that the interviewer believes makes them look savvy or informed.

This was a good job by Berman.

Charlie Kirk, the pro-Trump activist, is under fire after calling Olympic champion Simone Biles a “sociopath” for withdrawing from the gymnastics team finals.

In her final vault at the Tokyo games, Biles stumbled. Former US gymnastics Olympian Laurie Hernandez said it looked like she “got lost in the air.” She received a low score for the vault.

“I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job and I didn’t want to risk the team a medal,” she said, “because they’ve worked way too hard for that.”

“I’ll usually persevere and push through things, but not to cost the team a medal.”

Kirk, apparently under the belief that Biles could have mailed it in and still earned Team USA a gold medal, focused on a different part of her explanation: “This Olympic Games I wanted to do it for myself, and I was still doing it for other people, so that just hurts my heart badly, that doing what I love has been taken away from me to please other people.”

“Yeah that’s the point Simone Biles,” Kirk said. “You’re representing your nation you selfish sociopath. Are you kidding me?”

Believe it or not, the insane rant actually went on from there.

And while other bad takes from folks like Daily Wire's Matt Walsh and perennial bad take-ist Piers Morgan drew their share of outrage, it was Kirk who really took it to the top of the bottom.

He gets the gold medal in the Loser Olympics.