James Carville: The Real Scandal on the USS Abraham Lincoln

Note: This segment contains strong, uncensored language throughout.

James Carville delivers a raw, profanity-laced Outrage of the Week, and this time the target isn't a politician — it's the press. While reporters fume over a seating mix-up on a plane in Turkey, 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have been deployed in the Arabian Sea for eight months straight, running brutal watch rotations, and — according to a Military Times report — reportedly attempting to jump overboard from sheer exhaustion and despair. James contrasts the media's self-absorbed outrage with the actual crisis: an overextended, underfed, undercared-for crew serving on a ship named for the president most Americans rank as the nation's best, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stays silent. His demand: pull the ship out of a war he calls already lost, get it into port, resupply it, take care of the sailors — and save real deployments for real threats.

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The Military Times report on sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln reportedly attempting to jump overboard

Eight months of overdeployment in the Arabian Sea and brutal watch rotations

James's contrast: media outrage over a Turkey travel mix-up versus a real military crisis

Criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's silence on sailor welfare

James's read on the broader war effort: "not losing it, we already lost it"

His demand: bring the ship home, resupply, care for the crew, then redeploy where it matters

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