CNN devoted multiple segments on Thursday to coverage of a Washington Post report about President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, criticizing him for drinking beer during a “Fox & Friends” segment about St. Patrick’s Day.
The story comes just as NBC News ran a hit piece — citing a number of anonymous sources, but apparently not bothering to speak to his former cohosts and colleagues at Fox News — accusing Hegseth of drinking to excess on a regular basis.
Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck shared some of the coverage via X:
The Washington Post story about Hegseth also came up on CNN in the 9am Eastern hour, touting the anonymous sources claiming to have worked at Fox News, but left out the fact that the incident in question in which they saw him drink beer….was on St. Patrick’s Day pic.twitter.com/LOPkxEDCi0
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck)
