MONDAY: Welker asked and asked and asked and asked!

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2025

Biden Biden Biden, Noem said: It was an exciting 6 o'clock hour on today's Morning Joe.

Good lord! This morning, MS NOW's new regime gave Morning Joe its first hour back! The new regime's substantially longer ad breaks were vastly postponed as a group of highly competent analysts discussed the report that Secretary of Bluster Pete Hegseth may have ordered a war crime, or perhaps a murder, in the case of the September 2 double bombing of the alleged narco-terrorist boat.

The first ad break came at 6:46. The participants had spoken without interruption up to then!

The first hour of Morning Joe has long been the most intelligent hour in all of American cable news—the most intelligent hour by far. (The discussions are often re-aired during the 8 o'clock hour.) 

In response, the flyweights at the Fox News Channel will often subject some short clip from the show to distortion and ridicule. With apologies, the Gutfeld! gang—or was it the gang on The Five?—may even yuk it up about how awful it must be to have to sleep with Mika

This is who and what the Fox News flyweights are willing to be on TV. This morning, Joe Scarborough even referred to that channel by name as he discussed this savage essay about what Hegseth is reported to have done.

The essay was penned by legal analyst Andy McCarthy for The National Review. In a break from tradition, Scarborough was even allowed to describe McCarthy as "a [major] Fox News contributor."

The time has come for Blue America to learn how to discuss the role of the Fox News Channel in our poisoned national discourse. Concerning the monster dumbness of that discourse, consider what happened when the terminally disingenuous Kristi Noem appeared on yesterday's Meet the Press.

Kristin Welker had a question for Noem—a question she asked five times! Below, we'll paraphrase the repetitive non-answer answers Noem kept sending Welker's way. 

We'll paraphrase what Noem said. But after a pair of preliminary softballs, these were the five questions which followed. Welker was asking about the alleged assailant in last week's murder of Sarah Beckstrom, the young woman from the West Virginia National Guard. 

These are the questions Welker asked. For videotape, click here:

WELKER (11/30/15): I want to follow up with you. I mean, you say something very notable. You say he was radicalized here. This suspect, we should note, was a member of the CIA-trained strike force, according to former intelligence and military officials, he would've undergone extensive vetting during his tenure there. And afterwards, it is worth noting that Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency which is a part of DHS, approved the suspect's asylum application in April of this year. Why did the Trump administration grant the suspect asylum in April? Did you know then that he was moving toward radicalization?

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WELKER: Well, but just to be very clear, I want to go back to what happened on the Trump administration's watch. He was extensively vetted in order to serve alongside U.S. service members as a part of the CIA-trained strike force. But in terms of what happened on the Trump administration's watch, just to be very clear, what vetting did the Trump administration do before giving this suspect asylum?

[...]

WELKER: And we are going to talk about some of the steps the president's taking. But I just want to be very clear about this because his asylum was approved in April of this year, on the Trump administration's watch. So just to be very clear, was there a vetting process in place to approve that asylum request?

[...]

WELKER: But was he vetted when he was granted asylum?

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WELKER: Are you saying he wasn't vetted when he was granted asylum?

Welker asked and asked and asked and asked. She asked her question five times in all. This is what she asked:

Was the alleged assailant actually vetted in April? At that time, he was granted asylum by agents of the Trump administration. Was he vetted back then?

As you can probably guess, Welker never got an answer to that simple question. That's because this is what Noem chose to say in response to every question:

Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden!

Noem spoke about Biden Biden Biden, making claims about a lack of vetting under Biden which may or may not be accurate. But no matter how many times Welker asked, Noem never answered the question—a question about whether the assailant was vetted in April, under Trump.

Personally, we think Welker should have asked one more time, directly demanding an answer. But this was Noem's non-answer answer each time Welker asked:

Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden!

As you've probably noted by now, this is all an official like Noem is able to say at this time. This verbal tic is also dominant on the Fox News Channel.

The same is true of President Trump, who can barely launch a simple accusation of treason without saying Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Sleepy Joe. This is who and what these people are—and, to a large extent, it's also who our Blue elites were at one time.

You may recall our prior complaint at this site—our complaint about the cable news stars pf Blue America during the Biden years. At that time, the only thing we Blues knew how to say tended to go like this:

Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Jail!

Our cable stars said it and said it and said it and said it, ignoring almost everything else while signing on to legal complaints which were often notably shaky. In the process, we almost surely helped Candidate Trump get elected again. 

Now, Noem is out there behaving this way—and the New York Times will be politely averting its gaze.

Polling suggests that the sheer inanity of the Trump regime is becoming increasingly visible to a chunk of American voters. Regarding Secretary Hegseth, it begins to sound like his serial furies have even started driving major Republican senators away.

Regarding Hegseth, this:

In the past, he has written about his return from military service—from war—in ways which suggested that he found himself battling depression and alcohol abuse. Many people are damaged in war in such ways. 

Stating the obvious, that doesn't mean that they're bad people. Indeed, it may mean just the opposite. It also may mean that they need help, and we're going to say that such help is deserved and that it has been earned.

We think our Blue elites made key mistakes during the last campaign. We human beings simply aren't perfect, it has long been said.

Meanwhile, was the assailant vetted in April?

Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden, she said!