Craig Bannister complained in a July 17 CNSNews.com article:
Walter Cole, aka “Darcelle,” says that not even the coronavirus and Black Lives Matter riots in his city can force his Darcelle XV Showplace theater to close after 53 years in business – thanks to the coronavirus relief loan he got from the government.
“We’ll never close,” Cole, thought to be the world’s oldest drag queen, told The Oregonian on Thursday, responding to local news reports that his Portland, Oregon theater might have to shut its doors:
[…]But, thanks to the federal pandemic relief loan, Cole says he’ll be able to continue to pay his staff, which has been cut by nearly two-thirds, and keep his nightly drag show going.
What Bannister didn’t tell his readers: His employer, the Media Research Center, took more than $1 million in Paycheck Protection Program money — the same program, apparently, that Cole took advantage of.
That means the same federal funding that’s keeping Cole’s theater alive is also keeping Bannister employed. It also means that Bannister has no moral standing to attack Cole. And it also means that CNS’ frequent complaints of excessive government spending ring increasingly hollow since it’s now on the record as directly benefiting from that very same spending.