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Odd couple: How a Republican senator and Biden’s defense secretary became friends downrange (Only link can be posted for this publication)

President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin when referring to him during a televised speech Monday. The president was announcing the nomination of two female generals — Air Force Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost and Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson — to a fourth star and important military commands when he appeared to forget his own defense secretary. “It’s my great honor to serve as your commander-in-chief,” Biden said. “I look forward to hearing your active duty and recommendations of how we will work together to keep the American people safe, meet every challenge...

President Biden on Monday seemed to forget Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s name at a White House event — calling the Pentagon chief “the guy who runs that outfit over there.” Biden was announcing the nomination of two female generals to lead US military combatant commands. “And I want to thank the sec — the, the, ah former general. I keep calling him general, but my, my — the guy who runs that outfit over there,” Biden said.

He tried so hard and that was honestly sad to watch. Translation: "The guy" Biden spent 15 seconds trying to name before giving up = U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin "That outfit over there" = the Pentagon In all seriousness, pray for this man, because regardless of his radical policies, he's the Commander in Chief of the U.S. and he clearly isn't doing well.

MSBNC's Brewer introduces Jackson as Sharpton Wednesday, October 21, 2009 NEW YORK, (AP) MSNBC's Contessa Brewer has apologized for mixing up civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. She made the slip-up Wednesday while introducing Jackson during a segment on homelessness. After the introduction, Jackson stared at the camera from a studio in Burbank, Calif., and said, "I'm Rev. Jesse Jackson." Brewer explained that her script read that she was to introduce "the Rev. Al Sharpton." She continued, "We all know who you are, Rev. Jackson. I'm so sorry."

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams told The Hill that he wrote Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) letters of apology last week after he confused the two men at the State of the Union address. During NBC’s broadcast, Williams noticed Obama on the House floor and identified him to the viewing audience. Unfortunately, it was actually Ford. “I made a silly and honest mistake, and knowing both men I knew instantly what I had done,” a contrite and gracious Williams said in a phone call. “I obviously should have corrected it, but the proper time...

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave a speech last week to the National Association of Black Journalists, and she likened the struggle for freedom in Iraq and elsewhere with the struggle for freedom here in America: We must never, ever indulge in the condescending voices who allege that some people in Africa or in the Middle East are just not interested in freedom, they're culturally just not ready for freedom, or they just aren't ready for freedom's responsibilities. We've heard that argument before, and we, more than any, as a people should be ready to reject it. The view was...