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By Joe Concha

Suffice it to say that much of our increasingly irrelevant media believes its new mission, after failing to defeat Donald Trump, is to take out as many of his Cabinet picks as possible.

But is it working?

Take the case of Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence-designate.

She is former military, having served on the front lines in Iraq. She also served several terms in Congress.

She ran for president as a Democrat in 2020 — and even earned more delegates than Kamala Harris in that contest. But when her party left her by embracing wars and all-things-woke, Gabbard joined Team Trump on the campaign trail.

As if on cue, the attacks flowed in once Trump named her to his Cabinet.

USA Today: “Syria is now free from Assad. And this Trump nominee has some explaining to do”

The Bulwark: “The Curious Case of Tulsi Gabbard: Is She a Russian Asset or a Dupe?”

Washington Post: “Gabbard, Trump Intel pick who visited Assad, meets with senators after dictator’s fall”

What’s that you say? Gabbard, as a US congresswoman on the House Armed Services Committee, met with a foreign leader more than seven years ago?

You know who else met with Assad years ago? Nancy Pelosi. Is she a Russian asset or a dupe too?

Or how about Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth? The smear campaign against himbegan as soon as the decision was announced back in November.

In one report, NBC News claimed 10 former and current Fox News employees said Hegseth showed up to co-host a weekend morning show with alcohol on his breath.

But the “sources” were all anonymous — just like those in other anti-Hegseth accounts.

The only co-workers who have gone on the record say these allegations are 100% not true, including Will Cain and Rachel Campos-Duffy, his two most recent co-hosts — who noted that NBC never reached out to them for comment.

If you’re a journalist looking to confirm this story, wouldn’t those closest to Hegseth at the network be the first place you’d go?

Then there’s FBI Director-designate Kash Patel. Several media outlets called him a dangerous conspiracy theorist from the outset, simply because Patel has argued that agencies like the FBI have been politicized and weaponized — especially in the past eight years, and especially against one person: Donald Trump.

Who did CNN call on for analysis? Andrew McCabe, the former FBI official who got fired during the first Trump administration for leaking to the press and later lying about it.

“It’s a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on a highly functioning professional independent Federal Bureau of Investigation,” McCabe declared. “The fact that Kash Patel is profoundly unqualified for this job is not even, like, a matter for debate.”

McCabe’s job performance was anything but “professional” and “independent.” Yet there he was opining about ethics on national television.

If legacy media had the influence they once did, one would expect these nominees to have zero shot at being confirmed.

But here’s the disconnect: Not one Republican senator is on record saying he or she opposes Gabbard or Hegseth or Patel. Not one.

Let’s not forget what just happened in this presidential election. As Kamala Harris ran arguably the worst campaign of our lifetimes, she received overwhelming support from the press.

Of the first 100 stories on the Harris campaign over at ABC’s World News Tonight, for instance, every last one of them was positive, a Media Research Center analysis found.

Overall, the MRC reported, Harris got 78% positive coverage across the three major networks, while Trump’s coverage was just 15% positive.

Yet Trump won the popular vote and every swing state despite these hurricane-force media headwinds.

The legacy media’s influence is obviously almost nonexistent, while podcasts, streaming and free speech platforms like Elon Musk’s X rule the landscape now.

“The mainstream has become fringe and the fringe has become mainstream,” CNN’s Van Jones recently lamented. “There are platforms, there are people out there that are getting 14 million streams and we’re on cable news getting one to two million.”

Actually, CNN is only averaging about 530,000 viewers just now, but you get his point.

Legacy media tried to push Kamala over the finish line. They fell far short.

Now they want to smear Trump’s Cabinet picks into rejection. If recent history tells us anything, they’ll fail on this front too.

Because after all the bias and all the lies, almost no one is listening anymore.

Joe Concha is the author of “Progressively Worse: Why Today’s Democrats Ain’t Your Daddy’s Donkeys.”