ED MORRISSEY: Of Course: Media Freaks Out Over Normal Secret Service Provision for Kamala.

So the actual story is that the Biden administration gave Harris a stealth extension of taxpayer-funded benefits to which she was not entitled. If Congress wants to extend those benefits for former VPs, then let Congress propose and pass those into statute as amendments to the pension system for former presidents and VPs. Otherwise, Harris is no longer a public servant, and she can use her own resources for personal protection rather than sponge off the taxpayers. Trump simply canceled the illegitimate extension and restored the normal post-office benefit limitations to which all VPs are subject.

The Protection Racket Media clearly wants to push another narrative. They want to paint Trump as a revenge-driven authoritarian using his authority to punish his political opponents, oddly enough after spending four years missing the real authoritarians in the White House actually doing that to Trump and his allies. If they wanted to do their jobs as reporters, they’d be asking questions as to why Biden — or whoever ran the autopen — expanded those benefits in the first place. The PRM’s mission isn’t to report as much as it is to amplify progressive-elite propaganda messaging. And that’s exactly what they attempted this morning. Again.

Still though, think of the myriad potential dangers for secret agent Double Oh Kackle: