Real reporters left the Pentagon. A new partisan crew just took their seats.

You might remember that in October, every credentialed newsroom with an office inside the Pentagon had to pack up and move out. That’s because they refused to sign a new press policy that prohibits journalists from accessing or soliciting information that the Defense Department doesn’t make available to them, including even unclassified information.

Reporters from places such as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and even Fox News, just to name a few, did the right thing. They refused to be told what they could and could not report on.

So they turned in their badges, put their stuff in boxes and left.

In their place, a motley crew of right-wing sycophants from places such as One America News, The Federalist and LindellTV — as in Mike Lindell, the conspiracy theorist pillow guy.