Throughout the post-convention presidential election campaign, Vice President JD Vance calmly and routinely dismantled left-wing media hosts who were in over their biased heads. Call it fighting a battle of wits with no ammunition, leaning into a left-wing hook, or whatever; one thing is abundantly clear:
Vance is way too smart for narrative-driven, left-wing media types to mess with.
Vance did it again on Sunday morning, laying bare CBS “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan’s lack of fundamental understanding of executive orders, energy inputs, food prices, economics in general, and more. It was a beautiful site to behold — unless you’re a Democrat, of course.
Brennan kicked off the festivities by trotting out a thinly-veiled attack against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was confirmed on Friday night when Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Hegseth was sworn into office on Saturday morning.
So, both defense secretaries from President Trump’s last term were confirmed overwhelmingly, 90 percent of the vote. Pete Hegseth, it was a tie, bipartisan opposition, smallest margin since the job was created. You had to break that tie. If the nominee can’t unite your party, how is he going to lead three million people?
Nice try with that assumption close, Margaret.
I’m unaware that Hegseth is incapable of uniting the Republican Party, and I find it amusing that Brennan, based solely on the nay votes of squishy Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), and former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (KY).
Vance calmly responded:
Well, look, I think Pete is a disrupter, and a lot of people don’t like that disruption, but Margaret that disruption is incredibly necessary. If you think about all of those bipartisan, massive votes, we have to ask ourselves, what did they get us? They got us a country where we fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven’t won a war about as long as I’ve been alive.
They’ve got us a military with a major recruitment crisis, a procurement price crisis that’s totally dysfunctional, where we buy airplanes for billions and billions of dollars, terrible cost overruns, the delivery dates are always delayed. So we need a big change.
Now, admittedly, there are people who don’t like that big change, but it is necessary, and it’s explicitly what Donald J. Trump ran on and I think part of the reason why the American people elected him their 47th president.
Memo to Pete: The will of the American people is far less important to the left than their narratives.
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Brennan continued to dig her hole deeper.
So, the main objective is changing all of that? That it’s going to be Pete Hegseth alone?
No presidential cabinet secretary does his or her job “alone,” just as no president does his job alone.
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Here’s Pete’s response:
I’d say the main problem is- or excuse me, the main thing that we want Pete Hegseth to do is to fix the problems at the Department of Defense and unfortunately, there are many. We’ve gotten into way too many wars that we don’t have a plan for winning. We’ve gotten into way too many misadventures that we shouldn’t have got into in the very first place, and our procurement process, Margaret, is incredibly broken. We’re in an era–
Brennan cut him off: “Those are policy decisions.”
Vance didn’t miss a beat.
Well, of course, they’re policy decisions, but they’re also logistical and implementation decisions. If you look at where we are with the rise of artificial intelligence, with the rise of drone technology and drone warfare, we have to really, top to bottom, change the way that we fund the procurement of weapons, the way that we arm our troops.
This is a major period of disruption, and we think Pete Hegseth is the guy to lead the job. Now there’s another element to this Margaret too, which is we believe that military morale, at least until the election of President Trump, was historically low. You had the Army missing recruitment goals by tens of thousands of soldiers, and already recruitment is starting to pick up because
Pete Hegseth is fundamentally a war fighter’s leader at the Department of Defense. He is a guy who sees, not through the perspective of the generals or the bureaucrats; he looks at things through the perspective of the men and women that we send off to fight in our wars.
Brennan threw in the towel on that one, choosing instead to move forward with bashing former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick as the next Director of National Intelligence, the president’s executive orders in general, food prices — as if they were Trump’s fault — and other concocted nonsense, including the price of bacon.
All the things you experience at the grocery store are what people touch and feel. That’s what- you were talking about bacon on the campaign trail.
This exchange was over before it began, as Vance replied:
Well, but Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store? It comes on trucks that are fueled by diesel fuel. If the diesel is way too expensive, the bacon is going to become more expensive. How do we grow the bacon? Our farmers need energy to produce it. So if we lower energy prices, we are going to see lower prices for consumers, and that is what we’re trying to fight for.
The longer the interview went, the clearer it became that Brennan and CBS were in over their heads.
Who knew?
