As the Regime Media focus their attention on the Trump cabinet picks, it becomes essential to establish new narratives. The anchors and reporters will often do this themselves, but sometimes they will look the other way as politicians do so. 

In the case of Pete Hegseth, nominated to be the next Secretary of Defense, watch for the emergence of a “politicization of the military” narrative. Watch as Senator Elect Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) lays this out on ABC This Week:

ABC THIS WEEK

11/17/24

9:16 AM

MARTHA RADDATZ: (SECDEF Nominee Pete Hegseth) has also said that any general that was involved in any of the “DEI woke crap” has got to go. Do you expect Donald Trump to fire top generals who he considers woke, or those close to former Chairman Mark Milley?

ELISSA SLOTKIN: I mean, I don't think you have to interpret…

RADDATZ: Fire or arrest?

SLOTKIN: I don't think you have to interpret anything. I think they’ve been very clear that they're putting together some sort of panel that's going to look at generals, people who have served their nation their entire lives over multiple administrations, Democrat and Republican, in combat. They are now openly talking about dismissing them like some sort of kangaroo court. You can imagine the stress in the Pentagon about that, but also on the future of who we are as a military, right? Our military and the role of the military is in the Constitution for a reason, and I think we're really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can't put the genie back in the bottle.

RADDATZ: But- but there have been issues with recruiting of late, and Hegseth talks about that.

SLOTKIN: Sure. I mean, there's issues with recruiting. I think you talk to any business leader, there's issues with recruiting as well. There's just a high demand signal, but I don't think that showing that you can be summarily fired in the system is a way to increase recruiting and I will just take note that--

RADDATZ: He said it would attract normal males if we-

SLOTKIN: Well- his idea of normal may be different. I just- we want a diverse force. Right now, the military is one of the most diverse institutions in the world. So the officer corps should reflect that diversity. That's not just me saying it. That's the Supreme Court of the United States. When they went after diversity issues in our campuses, they excluded our service academies. West Point. The Naval Academy. So that- they understood that a diverse workforce, a diverse officer corps is a national security issue in the United States.

Of course, this is major league projection. The United States military is politicized and everyone knows it. That the United States military is deeply invested in “woke” business is a matter of public record. There are now drag influencers serving in the armed forces that routinely make social media videos and are celebrated for it which, in the Before Times, was grounds for immediate discharge. 

There are countless reported instances of soldiers compelled to take diversity training. There were the vaccine discharges. There is the complete lack of accountability over the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. There are the Pentagon's repeated failures to pass an audit. As a result of the emphasis on diversity training and other woke nonsense, there is an alarming lack of military readiness and training. For example, there is the catastrophic fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard, and the Air Force’s struggles to maintain the F-35’s readiness. Any one of these instances on their own warrant full-scale reviews of how the military is being run. Combined, they demand complete and total overhaul of the military establishment by civilian leadership. They also stand as an indictment of the Regime Media, which has relegated these stories so as not to embarrass the Biden Administration.

That Martha Raddatz said nothing as Slotkin proceeded to falsely project politicization upon the incoming Trump Administration, instead of depoliticization, is also noteworthy- but not surprising. Her failure to push back or fact-check Slotkin’s claims of politicization are in their own way an instance of commissive bias, and the enabling of a wrap-up smear against what Hegseth sets out to accomplish if confirmed. Something to watch for as this confirmation process unfolds.