Have you noticed the predictable pattern of Republicans like Sen. Tom Cotton (AR) and Sen. Josh Hawley (MO), and President Donald Trump’s cabinet members and nominees Pam Bondi (AG), Pete Hegseth (DefSec), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS), Marco Rubio (SecState), and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem appearing on “mainstream” (left-wing) outlets, and promptly — but calmly and factually — dismantling would-be “gotcha” hosts who desperately try to trip them up over Trump’s policies?
Of course you have; I just wanted to revisit the enjoyment of watching it happen.
Welp, such was the case on Sunday’s predictable episode of CNN’s “State of Union,” when always-snappy host Dana Bash did her biased best to do battle with Kristi Noem. Any guesses? Spoiler: It wasn’t even a contest.
In one predictable exchange, Bash, always a cheerleader for “undocumented immigrants,” tried to grill Noem about Trump shipping illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay.
BASH: Undocumented immigrants, detained in the United States … have a right to legal counsel and due process, but one of the questions is about whether or not Guantanamo — if whether or not you actually have the law on your side to use Guantanamo for this purpose…
We also know that when someone is trying to get into the United States illegally is interdicted at sea, they’ve been brought to Guantanamo. I don’t believe that people who are already on U.S. soil have been brought to Guantanamo.
Whew, right? Noem finally broke in:
NOEM: Guantanamo Bay has been used for migrants in the past when they’ve been coming to the United States—
Bash rudely cut Noem off, mid-sentence.
BASH: Are you comfortable that it is legal to bring people who are already on U.S. soil to Guantanamo?
“I am, Noem replied, adding:
And the president’s comfortable with that … as his legal scholars are. And obviously there will be people who are critics of that but we are standing up the operations, believing we have all legal authority to do so. And that facility has been used for migrants in the past, the directions that they’re flowing, and the agreements we have with their home countries, will continue to keep that population changing.
Bash tried again, which is irrelevant, but what is relevant is here was CNN — smugly self-declared “The Most Trusted Name in News” — yet again being more concerned about legal or constitutional technicalities than the blatantly illegal presence of millions of illegal aliens on American soil, a growing number of whom have committed brutal murder and rape of American citizens.
Even worse, hacks like Bash are oblivious to the way they’re seen by a strong majority of decent Americans.
Amid questions over the legality of moving migrants to Guantanamo, @Sec_Noem tells @DanaBashCNN, “The president is comfortable with that… Obviously, there will be people that will be critics of that. But we are standing up the operations believing we have all legal right and… pic.twitter.com/HXWbe3aGtb
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) February 9, 2025
Incidentally, one — a rational, logical one, that is — would easily connect the dots with what I wrote before the above video and the speed at which CNN’s ratings continue to swirl down the toilet.
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Anyway, my favorite exchange was when Bash tried to corner Noem with a direct question about Trump previously suggesting “maybe getting rid of FEMA” (Federal Emergency Management Agency), adding: “I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly.” Here’s Bash:
If the president came to you and said, ‘You’re my DHS secretary, do you think I should get rid of FEMA? … What would you say?
What Noem would say — and say it directly — was likely not what Bash expected.
NOEM: I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today. We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California, but you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how that is deployed, so it can be deployed much quicker.
As Secretary Noem knew before she answered Bash’s question, Trump’s assessment of FEMA is correct, and tragically, residents of North Carolina, devastated by Helene, and California, where out-of-control wildfires turned Los Angeles County into what looks like a scorched-earth war zone, experienced first-hand the epic failure of FEMA.
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) February 9, 2025
It’s almost befuddling how simps like Dana Bash and her ilk continue to subject themselves to humiliation, week after week, when yet another member of Team Trump drops by one of their ridiculous shows, doesn’t break, and destroys them and their biased nonsense.
Thankfully, they do.
