During a discussion that took place in January that was aired on Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “Firing Line,” New York Times national political reporter Adam Nagourney stated that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s nomination likely should have been brought down and there is an “attempt to sort of delegitimize The New York Times and other press.” And people assume he and the Times have “a liberal bias.”
Nagourney said, “The New Yorker magazine wrote a devastating story, in my opinion, about the now-Defense Secretary, with some of the original allegations about — as I recall…sexual assault, drinking. I read that story, I remember thinking…when I read it, if this was ten years ago — or let’s just mention John Tower, right? He would have been dead…but I thought, you know what? I bet this isn’t going to bring him down. It probably should have…
