Of course, this smear job got clo's panties all moist and she had to dutifully spread the innuendo ...
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I personally don't know one way or the other, but isn't it interesting that the lickspittles at NBC, who didn't have a care in the world about Hunter Biden's escapades and Doug Emhoff's abuse of women, are so terribly desperate to smear Pete Hegseth with the alleged claims of TEN ANONYMOUS former and current Fox employees when NINETEEN Fox employees who worked directly with Hegseth are GOING ON THE RECORD saying that these claims are total horsesh!t.
David Axelrod Applauds 'Intrepid Journos' for Anonymously Sourced Hegseth Hits (Yeah, About That...)
http://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/12/04/david-axelrod-media-pete-hegseth-n2404649
This week NBC News put out a hit piece on Donald Trump's Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth that featured claims from ... well, we have no idea. The story contained no names, only "anonymous sources." CBS News followed suit with making that the lead story on Evening News last night.
Yashar Ali (@yashar) ~ NEW
Ten current and former Fox employees say that Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his co-workers.
Two of those people said that on more than a dozen occasions during Hegseth’s time as a co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” which began in 2017, they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air.
Three current employees said that his drinking remained a concern up until Trump announced him as his choice to run the Pentagon, at which point Hegseth left Fox.
A Trump transition team spokesperson called the claims "completely unfounded and false."
On the other side of the coin we have Fox News personalities who worked with Hegseth quite a bit who have called BS on the entire hit piece. Will Cain and Rachel Campos-Duffy said they were never even contacted for comment (probably out of fear that her comments would ruin the desired narrative):
Will Cain (@willcain) ~ Bullshit. 100 percent bullshit. Actually ... horseshit.
Will Cain (@willcain) ~ Your story is horseshit @NBCNews. Put my name on it. On the record. It’ll be your only on the record source. Signed, The guy who sat next to him for 8 hours every week for five years starting at 6am.
Rachel Campos-Duffy (@RCamposDuffy) ~ The losers at @NBCNews never reached out to me either. @willcain is right - your story IS horseshit. You now have 2 people who sat next to him 8+ hours a week on the record. Will you retract or correct your story?
There were many more people who have worked with Hegseth calling BS on those reports. At this point there are more people going on the record to refute the "anonymously sourced" stories than there are anonymous sources in the hit pieces:
Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) ~ So, for the record, there are now about half a dozen of @PeteHegseth's co-workers at Fox News on the record rebutting the anonymous allegations against him published by NBC News.
Mollie (@MZHemingway) ~ {Replying to @TomBevanRCP} More like two dozen.
But Democrats, including David Axelrod, seem to think that the true "journalism" is coming from the outlets pushing anonymously sourced claims, when the real story is the people who worked with Hegseth going on the record to dispute those reports.
David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) ~ For all the yammering about "Fake News" and "enemies of the people," how much would we know about Pete Hegseth's mistreatment of women and his apparent problem with alcohol if not for probing by intrepid journalists, who have done the vetting Trump did not? This is why a free media is essential to a working democracy--to shine a bright light in dark corners.
Nah, Dave ... it's you Democrats and your shills in the lamestream media who are operating in dark corners. This kind of sleazy crap is a big part of why you dumbasses got your clocks cleaned in last month's election - and why the Democrat-controlled propaganda outlets (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, New York Times, etc.) are so roundly despised by the American people. But, please do continue in your infantile quest to give the American people even more reasons to hate you and your minions in the media. Bravo!
Churning out stories with zero named sources making claims people on the record are disputing doesn't seem like "intrepid journalism" to us.
NBC and the rest of the DNC's propaganda outlets don't practice journalism of any kind.
The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) ~ David MEANT to say, 'THIS is why a Democrat-owned media is essential.' Nineteen people went on the record denying the claims 10 conveniently anonymous sources made. We are the media now, deal with it. 
The Left lost control of the narrative and it shows.
GayPatriot (@GayPatriot) ~ Why did these same intrepid journalists cover up Hunter Biden’s laptop story. And Doug Emhoff’s abuse of women. I guess that’s (D)ifferent?
Ah yes, the glory days of "intrepid journalism."
.💀.Badaisè (@_A_Badaise) ~ Media bias at its finest: Doug Emhoff's allegations of slapping a girlfriend and office misogyny barely make a ripple, yet similar stories about conservatives would flood headlines.
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~ {Replying to @davidaxelrod} Every story published I've seen has used anonymous uncorroborated sources. If you think that's journalism, buddy I don't know what to tell you.
The legacy media can't fully go down the drain fast enough.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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