Norah O’Donnell of CBS Information is the newest legacy media hack to attempt to smear Trump DoD choose Pete Hegseth with ridiculous allegations. NBC Information has been doing the identical.
If this sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of it’s. This is identical playbook that Democrats and the media used towards Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh throughout his affirmation hearings. They suppose nothing of dragging folks via the mud and ruining lives within the course of.
They merely don’t need the modifications that the American folks voted for they usually’ll do or say something to stop Trump from having the group he needs.
Partial transcript by Curtis Houck on Twitter/X:
“We start with new reporting by CBS Information. The very best precedence of the president of the US is the protection and safety of the American folks. Because the commander-in-chief, presidents depend on their protection secretaries to assist perform that solemn job. President-Elect Donald Trump wished a Fox Information weekend host to carry that publish. The 44-year-old fight veteran, Pete Hegseth.
Tonight, that nomination seems to be on the rocks. Hegseth is going through new allegations of sexual misconduct and extreme consuming. Tonight, CBS Information has realized Hegseth might not have the help of sufficient Republican senators to be confirmed for the job, which means his nomination is in severe jeopardy.”
Right here’s the video:
CBS’s Norah O’Donnell with an INSANE open to the ‘CBS Night Information’ smearing @PeteHegseth prefer it’s the marketing campaign yet again: “We start with new reporting by CBS Information. The very best precedence of the president of the US is the protection and safety of the American folks.… pic.twitter.com/rmaTvMcmUQ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 4, 2024
The Federalist factors out that CBS Information spent the final 12 months turning themselves right into a laughingstock:
In an election the place Individuals lastly started to tune out legacy media, CBS drove the decline.
A brand new Gallup ballot from October discovered Individuals’ belief in mass media hit a brand new low with simply lower than a 3rd sustaining a “nice deal” or a “honest quantity” of confidence in newspapers, tv networks, and radio to report on occasions “totally, precisely and pretty.” The survey outcomes had been printed about two weeks after CBS moderated the vice-presidential debate that gave Individuals good motive to cease believing company media was the suitable medium for facilitating U.S. elections.
If CBS executives believed they might rehabilitate the media’s picture as a trusted avenue of honest and balanced data to information voters in an election 12 months, they’ve been confirmed fallacious by their very own community.
There’s a motive why belief in media is at a historic low. That is it.
