Military

For Friday’s CBS Mornings, guest host Natalie Morales shared a recent interview she did with California Rep. and Senate candidate Barbara Lee. The segment covered everything from Lee’s views on race to abortion to the war in Afghanistan, but one thing that remained constant throughout was Morales’s cheerleading of the far-left Lee.

Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt is not the first GOP congressman to call out a CNN anchor for going to bat for the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy, but on Monday’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins he became the latest as the eponymous host battled him on which party is injecting politics in the military.

Bianna Golodryga hosted Wednesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. (airing on CNN International and tax-funded PBS) and commiserated with William Cohen, former “Republican” Defense Secretary to Democratic president Bill Clinton, about the awful state of the Republican Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s third indictment: "So given what you have just laid out, on top of news,…

Monday’s Morning Joe opened with fill-in host Jonathan Lemire and his panel weighing in on the controversy surrounding Republican amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act. They argued that the military should pay for travel expenses for women in the military looking to travel out of state to circumvent state laws prohibiting abortion.

Lemire discussed clips shown…

Three recent stories by newly minted New York Times congressional correspondent Karoun Demirjian on the fight to pass the National Defense Authorization Act demonized Republicans for opposing radical social agendas Democrats are pushing on the military. She also appeared on tax-funded PBS to rant against alleged GOP racism. 

PBS NewHour host Geoff Bennett, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart came together on Friday to discuss multiple-defense related controversies from the past week and accuse Republicans of “screwing up” the military for the sake of their “culture wars.”

CNN This Morning bashed Republicans for a military spending bill that excluded payments for abortion, diversity promotion, and transgender care to military personnel on Friday. Its reporters exaggerated the past bipartisanism of the bill, claimed Republicans were throwing a fit and using the military as a political pawn, and seemingly compared the cut benefits to rolling back racial…

On Friday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough defended the Biden administration’s liberal takeover of the US military by attacking the efforts of House Republicans to amend a military spending bill to remove so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, abortion funding, and funding for transgender treatments in the military.

Scarborough framed the effort as an…

On Friday morning’s CNN News Central, anchor Kate Bolduan hosted National Security Council spokesman John Kirby to discuss the situation in Ukraine, as well as the recently Republican-amended National Defense Authorization Act. The latter of these two subjects was apparently so important to CNN that Bolduan brought it up first and spent a good portion of their time on the subject…

The liberal media were in lockstep Thursday reacting to President Biden’s trip to the Balkans this week, playing up the laudatory successes of NATO but downplaying/ignoring his gaffes and working in concert to frame Republicans as extreme. Thanks to a softball from Biden fangirl Arlette Saenz of CNN and a pat on the back hours later from chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander on …