Don't be shocked, but MSNBC doesn't like the former Fox News host running the Pentagon. He can't possibly be qualified.
On Monday's edition of MSNBC's Deadline White House, Democrat Claire McCaskill, the ex-senator from Missouri turned MSNBC contributor, said:
"Pete Hegseth thinks that a cleft chin and push-ups is all he needs to lead America's military."
Drop and give us 10, Claire!
That came after show host Nicolle Wallace called Hegseth a "peacocking ding-dong."
I rarely watch Wallace's execrable emission, but tuned in today to see how she would react to the decision of a French court not only to convict Marine Le Pen for using government employees to work on her political matters, but to bar her from running for office for five years.
Le Pen, head of the National Rally party, whose key issue is addressing the wave of immigration that has threatened French culture and security, is the leading candidate in the upcoming presidential election. The court's decision effectively prevents her from running against incumbent President Emmanuel Macron in 2027.
Wallace buried the shocking news until her show's last minute. But when she finally got around to it, Wallace, predictably, rather than condemning this blatant political move to remove Macron's main rival, hailed the decision:
"A lesson for us here in America for holding leaders accountable."
Imagine the outraged reaction of Wallace and the rest of the liberal media if a Republican administration somehow barred the leading Democrat presidential candidate from running for office!
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Deadline White House
3/31/25
4:15 am EDTNICOLLE WALLACE: Claire, let's deal with the Pete Hegseth of it all. You read the messages because it is, you know, the service that the journalists did here is showing us how the folks at the highest level of our government communicate privately. And that was interesting.
But even privately, when he's not sort of peacocking for the cameras, Pete Hegseth sounds like a ding-dong.
And his whole denial, which, again, I caught, was sort of a lie wrapped in an embarrassing performance. I mean, this is not cable television. And I wonder and I hate asking this question on television. I'm embarrassed that I still ask it. But is there a breaking point for any Republicans that at one time cared very much about the military?
CLAIRE MCCASKILL: Yeah, I mean, Pete Hegseth thinks that a cleft chin and push-ups is all he needs to lead the people of America's military. And you need more than that.
