Sen. Tuberville says 'woke' military has 'people doing poems on aircraft carriers'

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s war on military readiness continues as he refuses to back down from his one-man blockade of top-level military promotions and confirmations. All because the military provides access to completely legal medical procedures for military members in need. Top military brass have launched a public relations counteroffensive, taking their growing anger directly to the media. Recent polling shows Alabama’s voters want Tuberville’s stunt to end as much as military leaders do.  

On the defensive now, Tuberville is going on a PR tour of his own to defend his position in the face of growing criticism. On Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Tuberville was asked about the op-ed written by the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, who lambasted Tuberville’s “dangerous hold on senior officers.” Tuberville’s response was “anti-woke” nonsense:

There's no second place in war, okay? We have to have the best. And right now, we are so woke in the military. We're losing recruits right and left. Secretary Del Toro of the Navy, he needs to get to building ships, he needs to get to recruiting, and he needs to get wokeness out of our Navy. We've got people doing poems on aircraft carriers over the loudspeaker. It is absolutely insane, the direction that we're headed in our military. And we're headed downhill, not uphill.

For a man who ran a campaign that was jingoistically pro-veteran, even though evidence of his charity work for veterans was dubious, this is still quite a wow defense.

@acyn, who monitors right-wing media, posted on X, the platform formally known as Twitter, and the responses were in kind.

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