A Head Coach, the FBI Director, and a Media Party: The Press Just Poured Out Their Hit-Job on Kash Patel

But in the wake of this calamitous interruption of their self-celebration, some interesting details emerged. At the same time as the party was ramping up last week, in the NFL, there was a telenovela-level storyline playing out. And what is striking is that these events tie together with the attempted hit on FBI Director Kash Patel, as seen in The Atlantic recently.

READ MORE: The Press Serves Up ‘New’ Evidence That Patel Has a Drinking Problem, but It's Low in Proof 

Allow me to step up to my conspiracy wall and connect the red twine to the elements. The backstory is that the piece published in The Atlantic, written by Sarah Fitzpatrick and Jonathan Lemire, claimed that over two dozen people have detailed problems with Patel and his purported voracious imbibing of alcohol. In one melodramatic scene, it was said the director was passed out in his office, and a battering ram needed to be employed to get to the Bureau’s blacked-out leader.

Fitzpatrick buttresses her claims and melodrama by using people allegedly giving accounts from numerous sectors of D.C. society. Everyone from lobbyists, staff at other agencies, and even those in the service industry were supposedly detailing that they have seen Patel in various stages of inebriation. The writer has since come out to say more people have flooded her inbox with additional testimonials…albeit also in anonymous fashion.

Here is where the departure from reality begins. We are now up to what, three, four dozen witnesses, or more? claiming to have observed this condition in Patel, yet nothing that can be called tangible evidence has emerged. As I wrote last week on this reality:

So, we are allegedly now up to dozens of people reporting on Patel’s drinking being a blatant problem, and not a single piece of verifiable evidence has been shown that amounts to anything concrete. Nobody has put their name on a report? No documented incidents have been logged? With all the claims of Patel supposedly partying to excess while off-hours, there have been no cellphone images captured anywhere? 

It is telling in what they are not showing. Which brings us to Patriots Coach Mike Vrabel and his dalliance with sports reporter Diana Russini. Initial reports placed the pair at an Arizona resort, the two married figures cavorting in an extracurricular fashion. Amid denials, whispers from other sources emerged that this was a known affair. Then, more images came out to support that their coupling was probably the case. 

Dianna Russini and married Mike Vrabel caught kissing at NYC bar in bombshell new photos — taken 6 years before scandal https://t.co/WIPOoGKAWF pic.twitter.com/4j1UpviNuy

— New York Post (@nypost) April 23, 2026

Now let’s cut over to Saturday’s bacchanal debacle. After the shooting took place and the all-clear signal was given, it was instantly apparent that the event would be canceled for the night. Those in attendance took action upon their egress and were seen snapping up the wine bottles and other potables from the assorted tables at the event.

I’m the last one to criticize nabbing bottles on the way out from a doomed function. Go at it.

But didn’t these hypocritical lushes just spend the week slamming Kash over drinking, as well as Hegseth for the past year???@ComfortablySmug@MichaelDuncan@JohnAshbrook@HolmesJosh https://t.co/oVi6qZYHNc pic.twitter.com/rAB6xloiMI

— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) April 27, 2026

Within hours, these journalists had images of them imbibing and poaching Pinot Noir from Saturday’s event. Yet in the nearly two weeks since the break of that article in The Atlantic, we have not seen anything of the sort involving Kash Patel. In some of the follow-up coverage, the only image ever provided was the months-old visual of him tossing back a beer in the Olympic hockey team locker room. (To support how the supply of drinking evidence does not meet the demand, during the Olympics, MS NOW reporter Carole Leonnig claimed she obtained a video of that beer “controversy,” when Patel himself had posted those images on his social media account.)

Adding to this divergence of imbibing evidence, Patel was in attendance at the WHCA dinner Saturday night. The people desperate to hang him like a garnish on the rim of a glass were the ones seen swilling freely in pictures, yet not a single shot was taken of him doing the same – all while surrounded by those desperate for that exact image.

This should explain everything. Hypocrisy aside (and honestly, I am not judging; I’d have been plucking the already paid-for bottles myself on the way out, especially after being shafted on the surf & turf entrees), the telling aspect is in how there is a hunger by these folks to capture Patel in the act, and they have been unable to provide the very thing they are desperate to prove.

Nobody was circling Mike Vrabel like sharks off the stern of a fishing trawler, the way they are hounding Kash. And the reporters at the awards gala were caught on camera in the blink of a shutter, with no prior intention of doing so. That shows the ease with which this evidence is obtained. Yet somehow, with a severe intent at play, Patel has no condemning evidence emerging.

This is how the press is unwound in the course of pushing out their narratives. They want us to listen to their pleas and react in the fashion they deem appropriate, yet they refuse to give the needed foundation to do so. And all the while, there they are, on display, engaged in the very behavior they are trying to tell us is inappropriate. 

Apparently, it is (D)ifferent when they are seen (D)rinking.