The Daily Show threw Pete Hegseth a bone on Wednesday by “agreeing” to sign up to his new Pentagon press policy after every single major news network rejected it. “After serious consideration, The Daily Show has agreed to the Pentagon’s new demands regarding press access,” the show wrote on its official Instagram page. “We were going to refuse, but everyone else rejected it so hard that it honestly made us feel kinda bad for Pete Hegseth. The poor guy couldn’t even get Fox News to sign on, and he WORKED for them a few months ago. Even Newsmax refused! Brutal. So we’re gonna join in, just so One America isn’t the only signature on this thing. It’s all just too humiliating.” Ultra-conservative outlet One America News was the only network to agree to the new press rules, which state that any reporter who travels through the Pentagon without an escort or reports information that the administration has not approved would be labeled a “security risk” and have their press credentials revoked. The rules were rejected by the Pentagon Press Network, which said the move was “without precedent” and “conveys an unprecedented message of intimidation to everyone within the DoD.”
