Norah O’Donnell of CBS Information is the most recent legacy media hack to attempt to smear Trump DoD decide Pete Hegseth with ridiculous allegations. NBC News has been doing the same.
If this sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of it’s. This is identical playbook that Democrats and the media used in opposition to Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh throughout his affirmation hearings. They suppose nothing of dragging individuals by means of the mud and ruining lives within the course of.
They merely don’t need the modifications that the American individuals voted for and so they’ll do or say something to forestall Trump from having the staff he desires.
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 security and safety of the American individuals. Because the commander-in-chief, presidents depend on their protection secretaries to assist perform that solemn activity. President-Elect Donald Trump needed 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 ingesting. Tonight, CBS Information has discovered Hegseth could not have the assist 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 over again: “We start with new reporting by CBS Information. The very best precedence of the president of the US is the security and safety of the American individuals.… pic.twitter.com/rmaTvMcmUQ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 4, 2024
The Federalist factors out that CBS Information spent the final yr 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 have 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 info to information voters in an election yr, 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.
