Joe Kovacs complained in a Feb. 23 WorldNetDaily article:
FBI Director Kash Patel’s celebration with Team USA’s hockey champions after winning the men’s gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, on Sunday is not sitting well with some in the news media.
Carol Leonnig, a reporter for MSNOW, shared video sent to her of Patel chugging beer and singing along with the victors, saying: “Multiple sources have sent me and @KDilanianMSNOW this video *appearing to show* @FBIDirectorKash Patel guzzling from a beer and partying in locker room w US men’s hockey team. His office insisted this was strictly a business trip. We at @MSNOWNews will share what we learn.”
Leonnig is now facing the wrath of top figures online.
[…]Outkick founder Clay Travis was very direct, saying: “We have learned, Carol, that you and your colleagues are all total and complete p*ssies.”
“Democrats attacking Kash Patel for having a beer and celebrating in the locker room with the gold medal winning US hockey team – after they invited him in and he called the freaking president to congratulate them – are demonstrating why no normal men vote for them,” Travis added.
Other leftists were critical of Patel, with the New York Times reporting: “The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, criticized for blurring the lines between personal recreation and professional responsibility, spent Sunday celebrating the American hockey team’s Olympic victory in Milan as the bureau grappled with multiple, fast-developing crises at home.”
Funny that Kovacs thinks only “leftists” were critical of Patel. Even funnier: Kovacs had the opposite take on another law enforcement official engaging in off-duty activities. He wrote in a Feb. 8 article:
As NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie and her siblings posted another plea for the safe return of their mother Nancy on Saturday evening, the Arizona sheriff handling the case was spotted attending a college basketball game, prompting public outrage at both him as well as Fox News.
The network posted still images and video of Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos sitting near the front row of the game between the University of Arizona and Oklahoma State.
“The source of the photos, who requested anonymity, slammed Nanos for attending the game while the search continues,” reported Peter D’Abrosca of Fox News Digital.
Kovacs did concede much later in the article that “many others were sympathetic toward the sheriff, instead attacking Fox News.” Nor did he explain why Patel shouldn’t be held to the same standard to which he’s holding Nanos.