When leaders start blaming the media instead of answering questions, pay attention.

You've got Pete Higseth going after American media for negative coverage of this war,

and at the same time, gas prices are sky high.

People are feeling it every day, and more folks are starting to openly question

Donald Trump's mental sharpness.

And overseas, even countries like Hungary are pushing back against strong man policies tied to

Victor Orban, but just the extreme right-wing authoritarian.

So where does that leave us?

Let's get into it.

Speaking of choosing wisely, a note to the press, the press corps, to the American media.

As I just can't help but notice the endless stream of garbage, the relentlessly negative

coverage, you cannot resist pedaling, despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops.

Sometimes it's hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on.

It's incredibly unpatriotic.

This same press corps, not this exact same press corps, but at least an older press corps bent over backwards

during the Biden administration to explain away, you explained away the disastrous and disgraceful

Afghanistan withdrawal. You called it the greatest airlift in American history.

Okay, pause that please.

It's almost like now all I can remember because I was in corporate history. Okay, pause that, please. It's almost like... Now, all I can remember, because I was in corporate media when that happened, is people

roundly criticizing Joe Biden and the media for the withdrawal in Afghanistan, saying it was

time that we got out, but it wasn't the most graceful exit.

Remember people hanging on the planes and falling off of the airplane?

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