Comedy Central’s host of the week of The Daily Show, Jordan Klepper, unleashed two clunkers on Tuesday as he reacted to Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing. First, Klepper chopped off one of Hegseth’s answers mid-sentence to falsely claim Hegseth has flip-flopped and gone woke on women in combat. Second, Klepper claimed that Hegseth’s obsession with meritocracy is “damning” because Hegseth himself is just a TV host.
Klepper introduced a clip of Hegseth and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst by sarcastically observing, “Maybe he’s not good at leadership, or management, or money, or vows, or driving home past 10:00 a.m., but the one thing he does is stand his ground. Tell ’em, Pete, no women in combat roles.”
In the clip, Ernst asked, “Let’s make it very clear for everyone here today. As Secretary of…
