He believes her recent on-the-air correctives indicate how important she considers the issues involved. Much of her work reporting for her employer is done behind the scenes, Lapan said. Griffin, who is based at the Pentagon and had stints in Moscow and Jerusalem for Fox, has a reputation for being knowledgeable and a straight-shooter, said David Lapan, a former Pentagon spokesman who dealt with her professionally in several national security capacities. Griffin also didn't respond to a message seeking comment. He hasn't been afraid to take on colleagues in the past Carlson and Shepard Smith had a memorable tiff before Smith left the network in 2019. Was that a shot at Griffin? Carlson did not specify what reporters he was referring to, and Fox News did not offer a clarification. “Unlike so many of the so-called reporters you see on television, he is not acting secretly as a flack for (Defense Secretary) Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon,” Carlson said in his introduction. Carlson's show is usually the most-watched program on Fox. Two days after his appearance on Gowdy's show, Macgregor was brought on as lead guest by Tucker Carlson in prime time. He called it a “tired trope" that had nothing to do with the people and events of today. Macgregor, in a subsequent radio appearance, criticized Griffin for offering a “standard neo-con narrative” of drawing comparison to 1930s appeasement of Adolf Hitler. "That kind of projection of withdrawal and weakness is what made Putin think he could move into a sovereign country,” she said. When Griffin followed him, she said she needed to correct some of what Macgregor had said, “and I'm not sure 10 minutes is enough time because there are so many distortions.” She said that Macgregor sounded like an apologist for Putin. He said the Russians should be allowed to annex the portion of Ukraine they are most interested in. Doug Macgregor, who urged the United States to stay out of Ukraine and not ship it any weapons. would put indirect fire or special operations or CIA on the ground to give Putin any sort of excuse to broaden this conflict is extremely dangerous talk at a time like this,” Griffin said.Įarlier that day, she was interviewed by Trey Gowdy after an appearance by retired U.S. Griffin said Bolduc was a politician, not a student of history. Army brigadier general, Don Bolduc, after he said that it “boggles my mind” that the United States hadn’t already gone “all in” on Ukraine. This past Sunday, she took on a retired U.S. She said it was “not some wag-the-dog situation” when Gutfeld suggested on “The Five” that the Ukraine crisis had been manufactured. When Faulkner similarly questioned whether sanctions were a sufficient step, Griffin said that sending troops to the area would have given Putin an excuse to invade. Doocy argued on “Fox & Friends” that sanctions haven’t worked against Russia Griffin said it was too soon to say that. After Hannity criticized President Joe Biden on Ukraine policy, Griffin noted that every president since the fall of the Soviet Union has made mistakes there. Griffin has pushed back on comments made by Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, Harris Faulkner and Greg Gutfeld during appearances on their own shows. Griffin knows her beat as much as anyone in journalism and her real-time fact-checks are a valuable public service, as long as she doesn’t get caught in the muck of partisan debating, he said on Thursday. “I think you want your experts, in today's media environment, to be passionate about what they know and what they feel about the facts,” said Steve Krakauer, author of The Fourth Watch, a media newsletter with a conservative viewpoint. Griffin says her efforts are consistent with what she's always tried to do for 25 years, both on the air and behind the scenes at Fox News. Meanwhile, former Fox host Bill O'Reilly singled Griffin out as a gutsy reporter unafraid to challenge others.
And it wasn’t for the first time or the last time.
Army colonel on the air recently, saying she barely had time to correct all of his “distortions.” Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin couldn't hold back when following a retired U.S.