Watching the latest left-wing spectacle, any patriot should be furious — not surprised — that The View’s Sunny Hostin loudly accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of war crimes while admitting on camera she didn’t actually know the law she was denouncing. Conservative commentator Dave Rubin highlighted this moment by sharing a direct-message clip and commentary that exposed how quickly elite pundits leap to judgements without bothering to check facts or legal basics.
On air The View’s hosts screamed “murder” and waved the war-crimes banner, yet Hostin herself said, “I can’t speak to the law of it. I don’t know. I’m not a geopolitical expert,” before proceeding to lecture the country about prosecutions. The televised spectacle was less about truth than about performative outrage, a theater of leftist moralizing that treats gut feelings as evidence.
Let’s be clear about the underlying story: the incident began with a U.S. strike on a suspected Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessel that reportedly included a second follow-on strike in which survivors were killed, a development that rightly raised legal and moral questions. Major outlets and investigative reports have traced the timeline and attributed responsibility for authorization to senior officials, sparking the controversy playing out on cable TV and in Congress.
Even as the media runs hot with courtroom-by-tabloid headlines, the White House and Defense Department have defended the operation’s legality and emphasized the fog of war — and Hegseth himself has cited uncertainty about whether survivors remained a threat at the time of the second strike. This is a complex military and legal situation that demands sober investigation, not virtue-signaling declarations on daytime television.
Anyone who cares about our troops should be alarmed by how quickly the media and celebrity pundits throw our servicemen under the bus while pretending to be the arbiters of international law. Democrats on TV posture about “court-martial” and “war crimes” while admitting they lack the expertise to make those calls — and yet they expect the military to be stripped of due process and political protection overnight.
Dave Rubin did the public a service by airing the clip and forcing viewers to see the glaring disconnect between the hosts’ certainty and their ignorance. Conservatives have long warned about a ruling-class media that weaponizes outrage to score political points; here is another example of that playbook in action, aimed at undermining public confidence in national defense.
The right answer is simple: support a thorough, bipartisan congressional probe, protect the rights and reputations of service members until facts are established, and stop allowing cable commentators to act as judge, jury, and executioner from the comfort of their makeup chairs. Hardworking Americans deserve sober governance and responsible media, not the shrill grandstanding that seeks to tank morale and score clicks.
