The Hugh Hewitt Show

We've been following the story of FEMA's use of political considerations in dispensing aid in Florida after Milton. Yesterday, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell gave congressional testimony on the issue. Coverage from FOX and Washington Times . She insists this was an isolated incident but agreed to an IG investigation. Meanwhile, the fired FEMA employee did some media and insists it is widespread . There is commentary from one of the better bloggers and the Washington Times

Yesterday we looked at the gross discrimination practiced by FEMA in its “responses” (more accurately, “lack thereof”) to hurricanes Helene and Milton. We analyzed that said discrimination was born, in part, by DEI – an effort to end discrimination. There is something very, very wrong when efforts to fight discrimination result in different discrimination. But it is actually worse than in FEMA's very discriminatory dispensing of post disaster benefits.

Quite the news day yesterday. The headlines have been dominated by the Gaetz withdrawal and the Bondi nomination. But there is a lot more.

This article appeared in USA Today Friday and is pure hokum: Tap water for about 1 in 3 Americans could contain a byproduct from the decontamination process that may be toxic, according to a study published Thursday….

An art exhibit at East Tennessee State University's Reece Museum is generating controversy.

We have beaten on FEMA severely about its political discrimination , deservedly so. But setting that to the side, they just are not doing the job. In North Carolina hotel vouchers have run out and people are living in privately donated tents as winter weather sets in . Where the heck is the outrage? Remember Katrina? All the outrage, some overwrought, some not, but here similar failures are producing virtually no such outrage. What's the deal? Could it be that New Orleans stranded primarily African-Americans but Helene has left mostly Caucasians in a pickle? But that's a media deal – what is clear and shared in both cases is FEMA – failing.

The Democratic strongholds are positioning themselves as anti-Trump, yet again. We have already covered that Gavin Newsom wants to “Trump-proof” California . In new news, Los Angeles has joined the ranks of “sanctuary cities .” And Fox is busy telling us that all the Democrat AGs are prepping to sue the administration over and over . This paints a picture of a nation approaching the verge of civil war – states defying the duly elected federal government. But things are different this time. Trump won an overwhelming victory, inclusive of the popular vote. Democratic policy has been soundly rejected. The picture may not be nearly as grim as it, at first, appears.

Maine's Senator Susan Collins joined me this AM to discuss he role in the new Congress as Chair of the Appropriations Committee:

Last week we looked at how a focus on identity resulted in more discrimination, not less. Well, now there are studies proving my point

Thanksgiving. a day we set aside to enumerate our blessings, the things we are grateful for – the subjects of our gratitude. But too often we forget that our thanks need to be directed somewhere. What, or better, who is the object of our gratitude? We offer thanks as if the universe blindly and randomly gave us this bounty. Yet we talk about an “attitude of gratitude” as if we are supposed to always be grateful, but how can we be when what makes us grateful is so capricious? Times are not always bountiful. That is why the object of our gratitude is so important. If that object is worthy, we can be grateful even in the absence of bounty because that object has blessed us with enough.