On MSNBC's Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains why right-wing media virtually ignored Kristi Noem's House hearing
Carusone: “What it says is that means Democrats probably were at least over the target, that they did something different and probably right”
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From the May 14, 2025, edition of MSNBC's Deadline: White House
NICOLLE WALLACE (HOST): Angelo, this was an important step. I felt the aggressive nature of the questioning does mark a new moment in Congress, the Democrats posture toward the Trump cabinet.
ANGELO CARUSONE (GUEST): Yeah, and there's a lot of ways to sort of measure these things and assess it. One thing that I'm always curious about is how does the rest of the right-wing media landscape respond to these types of hearings because there's a standard way that they respond, which is to hype it, to celebrate the performance of the secretary or the official that's there, and to use it as a chance to make Democrats look ridiculous or to diminish them or to smear them. And the thing that I find really notable is that the right-wing media barely talked about it.
And that's always the first tell, which is that, oh, there's something there. And that's to your point that maybe this is significant, that there's a moment, that there's a turning point, or that there's something different here that we should unpack, because whenever they go out of their way to ignore something like this, what it says is that means Democrats probably were at least over the target, that they did something different and probably right -- because they wouldn't want -- the right-wing knows not to draw attention to these things, especially because so many of the issues that came up are on shaky ground for their audiences.
We know how popular or at least how uncomfortable some of these infringement on due process or basic protections are, on infringing -- on suspending habeas corpus, so that's notable. Literally, the only takeaway from the right-wing that you hear about the hearing today is that Congressman Goldman got a little mad. That was it. But that's so different than how they standard respond to these things. I think that should tell us all that maybe this is an example where we should hit the gas a little bit and highlight more from the hearing, not less, so I'm really glad you're talking about it.
WALLACE: Alright, well, you know, I always take your notes.