Pete Hegseth

With the political news having largely died down over the holidays in favor of travel, Jimmy Carter remembrances, and the New Orleans terror attack, talk of the second Trump transition has subsided, leaving Friday’s Good Morning America to bring it back to the forefront as ABC boasted to viewers they still plan to try and sink Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth.

Google’s relentless PR campaign against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees is still ongoing. The Media Research Center has caught the search giant rigging the results for a fifth consecutive week.

While polling demonstrates a majority of Americans approve of President-elect Trump’s handling of the transition process, the coverage by broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC has been almost uniformly negative. In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to cabinet nominees who appeared…

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough says that Pete Hegseth's views on women in the military would take us back to the 11th century. Calling him a "retrograde throwback," MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan says his views would take us back to "the Crusades."

Thursday’s PBS News Hour welcomed back Brad Onishi (host of the podcast "Straight White American Jesus") to warn once again about scary Christian conservatism, this time encapsulated in Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, interviewed by the show’s most biased reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez. Onishi compared Hegseth to mass shooters and to white nationalists…

Comedy Central’s Michael Kosta used The Daily Show’s penultimate episode of 2024 to mock Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth’s pledge not to drink if confirmed and ridiculed any Senate Republican who believes him.

Google stacked search results for Trump nominees with legacy and leftist media sources for the fourth straight week. In fact, the search giant went above and beyond to push outlets that encourage hatred of several of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices.

Reacting to a clip in which accused murderer Luigi Mangione speaks of "lived experience," Joe Scarborough pretends to be unfamiliar with the phrase, saying "What does that mean? It's lived experience?"  He later goes on a rant, criticizing the qualifications of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert may fancy himself as a comedian, but basic journalistic standards such as accuracy still apply to him and his jokes. However, The Late Show host used his Tuesday show to spread fake news about Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth as Hegseth attempted to defend himself against a media that continues to spread disinformation about his views on women in the…

With the notable exceptions of the shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the news cycle appears to be winding down for the holidays. This might explain why CBS is re-running tired narratives on the CBS Evening News.

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth correctly called the media out on Monday for lying about his past comments about women not serving in combat in order to suggest he looks down upon women serving, belittles their service, or that he even opposes their inclusion in the military. However, CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta welcomed Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed to…

The corrupt media’s multifront war against Defense Secretary-Designate Pete Hegseth continues apace. On CNN’s State of the Union, host Jake Tapper tried to air the anonymously-sourced alcohol abuse allegations against Hegseth during his interview with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and got stopped cold.

MRC Free Speech America has caught Google rigging search results for President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent nominees before, and the search engine is at it yet again. 

Vetting the records of Cabinet nominees is a legitimate journalistic function. It is not a legitimate journalistic function to kill a nomination based on hit pieces stuffed with anonymous sources. Someone with responsibility at media outlets should insure that their hit pieces include some sources who are named. Networks who eagerly spread anonymously sourced hit pieces are also illegitimate…