Speculation can be the opposite of information, but any breaking news event is going to be wallowing in it. A plane-helicopter crash that kills 67 over the nation's capital is going to dominate many news cycles. The victims and their loved ones left behind deserve a nonpartisan, fact-based investigation of what happened. Our political system makes that difficult.
It would be nice if any blame games could be postponed until more information is known. Some Democrats on social media were blaming President Trump early on. The Democrats in the media were furious that Trump would hint that the Federal Aviation Administration's crusade to water down hiring standards for air traffic controllers for DEI reasons "could have been" part of the problem.
The networks announced Trump claimed "without evidence" that DEI could be to blame. CNN's Kaitlan Collins questioned him at the White House and then attacked him on her show. Jim Acosta would have loved to have his own primetime show to display his battles with Trump. This can leave the impression that it's false to say the FAA was all about DEI -- not just for race or gender, but to hire controllers who had a speech impediment or PTSD. The evidence there is voluminous. But ABC and CBS and CNN and the rest are fond of DEI, so that's triggering.
Jorge Bonilla not only reported all the "without evidence" charges, he tweeted a clip from a 2014 hearing where liberal Democrat Sen. Patty Murray expressed concerns that the hiring process at FAA seemed to be devaluing training and focusing on a diverse labor force.
NBC reporter Courtney Kube suggested Trump and Pete Hegseth were committing a military offense known as :undue command influence” in which an authority pressures a military investigation into the results he or she wants. Sometimes we just have to push back on the Kubes and the Ken Dilanians when it comes to doing investigations that absolutely have to end with Trump impeached or in jail or at least defeated at the polls. These are NOT your ideal advocates of nonpartisan investigations.
We also delve briefly into the latest from CNN's Boris Sanchez, MSNBC's Joy Reid, and the news snobs at NPR and PBS who don't want to treat conservatives as newsworthy.
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