Military

The Trump Effect: Winning Hearts and Minds
Democrat strategist James Carville advises his party to simply wait for President Donald Trump to fail: “I’m telling the Democrats, just sit there, play possum. Let them go, let them go, let them go. Poll numbers have declined, and the collapse is already underway. ... Just let the ball come to you. We don’t need to be aggressive now.”

MSNBC Admits Border Crossings Down, But Denies There Was a Crisis
On The Sunday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart admitted that illegal border crossings are now at a record low, but seemed to do so only so he could scoff at President Donald Trump for wanting to send more troops to the border.

Colbert, Buttigieg Fear For 'Soul of our Nation' After Trump Speech
CBS’s Stephen Colbert stayed up for a live show on what turned out to be Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Colbert spent his monologue praising Rep. Al Green for getting kicked out of the House chamber and attacking Trump on everything from transgender issues to shipbuilding. Later, he would welcome former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to wonder, “…

CNN's Smerconish Slams 'Disgraceful' Ban on Transgenders in Military
Appearing as a guest on Friday's CNN This Morning, CNN weekend anchor Michael Smerconish lamented the Donald Trump administration's ban on transgenders in the military, calling it "disgraceful."

More Liberal Media Meltdowns: Pentagon Press Go Crying to Oliver Darcy
Conservative media Benedict Arnold — aka Oliver Darcy, now helming his own website, Status — opened his Thursday night newsletter with a 1,000-word-plus dispatch of Pentagon correspondents melting down about the Pete Hegseth-led department and his chief spokesman, Sean Parnell. In essence, however, Darcy provided a helpful reminder to those dealing with liberal journalists: You can never fully…

Leavitt RIPS Lefty Media Double Standard, Grilled by NBC & RCP on Gaza
On Wednesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s third press briefing mostly centered around two wildly different issues of transgenderism and the future of the Gaza Strip (especially in light of President Trump’s Tuesday claim the U.S. would take it over). And, as she’s done, called on a wide swath of reporters from legacy liberal networks to our friends in conservative…

NBC’s Engel: Trump Taking Over Gaza Would Be ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Reacting Wednesday on NBC’s Today to President Trump’s bombshell proposition Tuesday that the United States should take over the Gaza Strip to make it the Riviera of the Middle East, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel decried this as having elicited “shock and horror” from Middle East leaders and argued a Trump administration rebuilding the terrorist state “would be the —…

Editor’s Pick: RedState Nukes Couric for Meltdown Over Pentagon Press
Nick Arama with our friends at RedState took a blowtorch Sunday to longtime liberal journalist Katie Couric’s hissy fit last week over liberal legacy media outlets losing permanent office space at the Pentagon, noting saner corners of the internet weren’t falling for her “ridiculous hyperventilation.”

World War Z Author Imagines Xi Blackmailing Trump With Plane Crashes
World War Z author Max Brooks went off on a nonsensical hypothetical tangent on HBO’s Friday episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. In the context of a larger conversation about the need to keep Chinese fingerprints off of critical infrastructure, Brooks mused that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping could blackmail President Donald Trump over Taiwan in order to avoid more plane crashes like…

Karoline Leavitt Bowls Over ABC’s Michael Strahan on Govt Spending
For her first broadcast network interview since officially taking office as White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt ventured into the far-left yet superficial lair of ABC’s Good Morning America, but drew the easiest choice of co-host in former NFL player Michael Strahan as opposed to George Stephanopoulos, who served in her position during the Clinton administration.

Kimmel Tries and Fails To Dunk On Trump's Missile Defense Plan
During his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tried to mock President Trump’s recent executive order regarding the creation of an “Iron Dome”-like missile defense system by claiming Trump has no idea what he is talking about. However, it was Kimmel who showed his ignorance not just on missile defense but also in insisting that viewers take the scientists at the Doomsday Clock seriously when they…

Biden Aide Bedingfield Says Hegseth Sounds Like An Old Segregationist!
CNN This Morning plays a clip of Pete Hegseth saying that the racial integration of the military was a "huge success." But Kate Bedingfield, Biden's ex-communications director and a CNN commentator, says Hegseth sounds like a segregationist in 1940 opposing integration.

CHUTZPAH: Biden Flack Remakes Her Boss AWOL Austin in Trashing Hegseth
On MSNBC's The Weekend, Biden's deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, Sabrina Singh makes repeated mention of the job requiring 24/7 availability--an unsubtle allusion to allegations about Hegseth's drinking history. Hegseth has pledged not to drink if confirmed. What about her boss, AWOL Austin?

Reid Thinks You're Dumb, Says DEI Is About Helping 'Disabled Veterans'
MSNBC’s Joy Reid and her Wednesday guest, National President of the American Federation of Government Employees Everett Kelley, think you are stupid. On The ReidOut, the duo reacted to President Donald Trump ordering the end of DEI offices across the federal government by claiming such moves represent an attack on “disabled veterans.”