Conservative media Benedict Arnold — aka Oliver Darcy, now helming his own website, Status — opened his Thursday night newsletter with a 1,000-word-plus dispatch of Pentagon correspondents melting down about the Pete Hegseth-led department and his chief spokesman, Sean Parnell.
In essence, however, Darcy provided a helpful reminder to those dealing with liberal journalists: You can never fully trust them to abide by their own rules of when something is “off the record.” If it makes for a good story or they view you as the enemy, they’ll stab you in the back.
Darcy blared from the get-go this would be a safe space for the sad journos: “Pressed at the Pentagon; Inside a tense off-the-record meeting, the Pentagon’s new press chief confronted reporters and indicated they will do away with the regular travel pool, doubling down on Pete Hegseth’s…
