Here Are the WORST Early TV News Hot Takes After the National Guard Ambush

Curtis Houck
November 26th, 2025 5:15 PM

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On Wednesday afternoon, a suspect opened fire outside the Washington D.C. subway system’s Farragut West station on members of the National Guard who were deployed as part of President Trump’s focus on crushing crime in major cities.

We learned less than an hour after news first broke that a male and female from the West Virginia guard were shot and in grave condition (although Republican Governor Patrick Morrissey had claimed at one point they died).

The legacy media were quick to respond as, in many cases, their D.C. bureaus were blocks away from the scene. While there were thoughtful and sober coverage (such as here and here from ABC), there were sadly a number of predictably idiotic hot takes.

MS NOW host Katy Tur was most emblematic of the compassion needed as she nearly broke down crying over the shooting having supposedly taken a deadly turn. Thankfully, word would take another turn an hour later as Morrissey said they were not, in fact, dead:

 

That said, below are some of the worst compiled from the first hour of coverage.

First up, we have MS NOW making absolute fools of themselves. Justice reporter and Deep State tool Ken Dilanian blamed Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) for what we would learn was the murder of two U.S. soldiers:

 

Before the conflicting announcement about the state of the soldiers, Tur and her assembled analysts repeatedly scoffed at the President’s deployment of the Guard and wondered if it served any real purpose:

Going over to CNN, senior law enforcement analyst and liberal toadie Andrew McCabe wondered if the National Guard on scene really knew what they were doing in terms of responding to a hostile actor:

 

CNN News Central fill-in co-host Omar Jimenez went down this same rabbit hole:

 

ABC chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky surmised on ABC News Live if the suspect’s motivation stemmed from anger over the President’s agenda, including his “immigration policies”:

Katersky had help in peddling this tone-deaf narrative as, on CBS’s streaming channel CBS News 24/7, senior coordinating producer for crime and public safety Anna Schechter cited the “explosive rhetoric around the administration’s policy in terms of deploying the National Guard to cities” and “the immigration policy”:

 

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