Increasingly an internet meme, CBS’s Face the Nation host denied late Thursday a report by Fox News Digital media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn that she was one of the CBS News staffers who delivered pushback to editor-in-chief Bari Weiss urging the team to dig further into the Alaska Senate scandal with state and national Democrats alleged to have worked with a man named Dan J. Sullivan to run to siphon votes from Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan.
Wulfsohn reported that “Weiss faced ‘significant resistance’ from staff at Thursday's 9 a.m. meeting about the growing Alaska ballot controversy, network insiders told Fox News Digital,” and the story was indeed “a scandal.”
He added that, “[a]ccording to multiple sources on the call, several CBS News staffers pushed back at Weiss’ enthusiasm over the bombshell New York Times report” with “[m]any on the call shrugged it off as routine politics and said Republicans have also engaged in similar scheming.”
Explaining Brennan was one of the offenders, Wulfsohn said she “pointed to New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu, suggesting that midterm voters might confuse him with his brother, former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.” He said Brennan was backed up by White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe.
Thankfully, Weiss and other CBS News journalists didn’t back away from covering the Decoy Dan scandal. In fact, she sent a CBS correspondent to the spoiler candidate’s hometown:
The one national TV reporter in Petersburg, Alaska searching for Dan J. Sullivan -- CBS’s @JonahPKaplan pic.twitter.com/myD32xj0MJ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2026
In addition to a source arguing the two were, in Wulfsohn’s summation, “providing context,” Brennan herself took to X to complain:
Fox is wrong. That is not what happened in the meeting at all. No one who spoke at the network meeting opposed covering the campaign or story but rather exchanged ideas on how to do it. All of the AK candidates also know they have an open invitation (repeatedly offered) to join Face the Nation. So does the NH GOP candidate who has also been repeatedly invited. I look forward to seeing my colleagues cover it too.
Brennan’s trying to cover her tracks with a logical fallacy to explain away the problem her party has before it with less than a week until Election Day.
Having someone seek to regain their Senate seat while being from the same family as the state’s famous political dynasty is not anywhere close to the same as a party seeking out random people who happen to have the same first and last name as the opposition.
Needless to say, no did or should believe Brennan she was merely “exchang[ing] ideas on how to” cover the Alaska Senate race. Does Margaret think we’re stupid? Answer: Yes.
Along with a litany of “I don’t really care, Margaret” posts in reference to Vice President JD Vance’s famous tour de force against her, others piled on.
“No one believes you and you've done this to yourself,” tweeted our pal and Daily Signal host Tony Kinnett.
The great Western Lensman was also on Brennan’s case: “Margaret's non-denial denial here conflates two non-related stories with entirely different fact patterns, giving her game away. She wants to make this a ‘both sides are doing it!’ story because her party bias simply won’t allow her to do otherwise. So, right on brand.”
New Hampshire Republican senatorial candidate John Sununu responded himself: “Does Margaret actually believe that six members of my family serving NH at the local, state and federal level is an effort to confuse? (We call it public service). I think what voters are actually confused about is whether Margaret Brennan works for CBS News or as spokeswoman for the Democratic Party. Lazy, dumb AND biased - all at once!”
Brennan responded, but in the third person.
2026 MRC Bulldog Award winner Stephen L. Miller had the dagger:
The Margaret Brennan who behaves like this? pic.twitter.com/xSYQpg0i2v https://t.co/Ni1Qz1BAmg
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 30, 2026
