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Karoline Leavitt’s recent showdown in the briefing room was a breath of fresh air for anyone tired of watching career reporters masquerade as activists while lecturing the rest of us. When The Hill’s Niall Stanage pressed her about Kristi Noem’s claim that ICE is “doing everything correctly” in the wake of the tragic Renee Good shooting, Leavitt didn’t mince words and called out the obvious bias in the room.
The reporter trotted out raw statistics — “32 people died in ICE custody last year” and claims that 170 U.S. citizens were detained — and suggested the agent who shot Good acted “recklessly,” forcing Leavitt to defend facts and the reputations of hardworking federal officers. Leavitt’s response was unapologetic: if you come into that room wearing the garb of activism instead of journalism, don’t be surprised when you get called on it.
What Americans deserve is honest reporting on all victims, not a one-sided narrative designed to inflame. Leavitt rightly reminded the room of Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray — innocent Americans whose lives were stolen — and demanded reporters do the grim work of covering those stories before casting judgments. If the mainstream press wants to be taken seriously, it should start treating every life equally, not weaponizing tragedies for ideological points.
The shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis is a tragic and complicated event that has rightly triggered investigations and fierce debate, and federal officials have defended the ICE officer’s account that he was struck by the vehicle. There is video and reporting that have fueled controversy, and the nation will expect a full accounting as legal processes proceed. Conservatives can mourn the loss while still insisting on due process and support for law enforcement doing a dangerous job.
What Leavitt exposed in that exchange was the rot at the heart of credentialed journalism: too many in the press rush to moralize before they’ve done the homework. The instinct to collapse every complex law-enforcement encounter into a sound bite is what drives division and undermines trust in institutions that protect our communities. Americans should be suspicious of journalists who trade nuance for outrage and demand accountability from them.
This administration has made clear it will back its agents who face life-and-death threats while enforcing our laws, and Leavitt’s defense reflects that commitment to law and order. Conservatives know that enforcing our borders and removing dangerous individuals is not cruelty — it is protection for families and neighborhoods, and it deserves robust, unapologetic defense in the court of public opinion as well as in the field.
If the press wants to regain any credibility, it should stop auditioning for activist roles and start reporting facts without partisan scorekeeping. Karoline Leavitt stood up for ICE and for the principle that public servants deserve fair treatment; patriots should stand with her in calling out biased reporting and insisting that justice — not headlines — guide the country forward.
