Rob Finnerty did what real reporters should do: he called out a glaring double standard on Thursday’s Finnerty, pointing out that Democrats who spend years preaching panic over “rising sea levels” are perfectly comfortable buying oceanfront mansions for themselves. The segment highlighted how the coastal real estate habits of the political class don’t square with the doom-and-gloom they sell to working Americans.
The most recent example is impossible to ignore — former vice president Kamala Harris and her husband reportedly closed on an $8.15 million home in Malibu’s exclusive Point Dume neighborhood, a cliffside property with sweeping ocean views and private beach access. For folks who have used climate fear to justify massive spending and regulation, this purchase looks less like faith in the science and more like elite risk management.
If you buy the media narrative about imminent coastal devastation, this behavior doesn’t add up. A Climate Central analysis cited by weather outlets warns that hundreds of thousands of U.S. oceanfront properties face significant flood risk by mid-century, yet you rarely hear Democrats urging their donor-class neighbors to stop building on the shoreline. That contradiction is exactly what Finnerty and others are exposing — a disconnect between policy prescriptions for the masses and private choices for the few.
This isn’t a one-off. The political elite from both parties have long kept seaside retreats while lecturing the rest of the country about scarcity and sacrifice, and Democratic figures have their own roster of beachfront properties and insider land deals. The Obamas, among others, maintain high-end coastal holdings, which only fuels the perception that climate alarmism is selective and weaponized against ordinary Americans.
Conservatives should be blunt: hypocrisy matters because it reveals motive. When politicians call for higher taxes, draconian regulations, and investigations into energy companies while quietly insulating themselves with multimillion-dollar real estate, it’s not stewardship — it’s a power play that treats the public as a resource to be tapped. The question voters should ask is simple: are we trying to preserve the country or just to control who gets what?
Journalists and watchdogs who still care about accountability must dig into how these purchases are funded and why coastal elites aren’t practicing what they preach. Rob Finnerty did his job by bringing the contradiction to light, and patriots who love this country should demand answers and consistent standards for everyone in public life.
Hardworking Americans who pay the bills and care about the future don’t need sermons from coastal billionaires who act differently than they preach. It’s time to stop letting the ruling class lecture while quietly buying the very properties they claim will disappear, and it’s time to hold them to the same rules they impose on the rest of us.
