It's been clear from day one of this disastrous administration: Team Biden thinks you're stupid, America.

Let me clarify that. As the late George Carlin said, never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. That said, the Biden administration — along with congressional Democrats — knows that rank-and-file Democrat voters tend to believe, without question, everything they're fed by Democrat politicians.

On Friday's episode of CNN's "The Lead," Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh all but proved the assertion with her responses to host Jake Tapper's questions about why Joe Biden was initially uninformed that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was MIA — and hospitalized in intensive care due to complications from prostate cancer surgery.

Tapper asked:

Is it not common practice for the President to speak with the Secretary of Defense daily, while two consequential wars rage?

Of course, it's beyond common; it's critical. Yet, here's Singh's incredulous response (emphasis, mine):

They do speak quite often. Again, we’re coming off of a holiday period. They are in touch frequently. Our staffs, I can tell you, are in touch almost on an hourly basis. Again, there was no lapse in command of [sic] control. Our national security was never at risk, and I would, again, reiterate the fact that the Secretary did, not only apologize but take responsibility for not notifying the White House of his own procedure that did occur.

Hang on. Setting aside the absurdity of the "holiday period" excuse, I have several questions.

How did Singh know that there was no lapse in command and control? How did she know the nation's security was never at risk? And, what difference does it make that Austin apologized — and took responsibility? I mean, this wasn't like a grade-school kid stealing his buddy's candy bar and getting caught.

Singh then tried to paper over the potentially disastrous breakdown in command.

Again — and also, I’ll stress that we are doing a 30-day review to examine our own processes here, to examine what worked and what did not work. And when we have those results, of course, we will be previewing those as well.

In other words, "We're trying our best to do damage control."

Even Tapper was far from assured:

It just seems odd to me, I just have to say, this is not the director of the Bureau of Weights and Measurements. This is the Secretary of Defense, and there are two major wars that the U.S. is involved in, one way or another in Ukraine and Gaza with Israel, and President Biden and Secretary Austin don’t talk every day?

Singh re-babbled:

Again, they do have frequent communications. I will tell you and I can reassure you, our staffs, our teams are in constant communication with each other, and the Secretary is — you will not meet someone that works harder than the Secretary of Defense.

Uh-huh. Except while "coming off a holiday period." She continued:

Again, he has had a short, 40 years [of] service here in the military. He prides himself on the fact that he has been able to serve his country. He is in touch with his team here at the Pentagon, with the White House, monitoring everything that’s going on around the world, and, right now, he’s focused on getting better, focused on returning to work, but is able to keep in touch with the White House, just like we saw last night.

I'm sorry, Ms. Singh, the only thing you're interested in now is saving Austin's job. 

Watch the full CNN segment, here.

The Bottom Line

If DefSec Lloyd Austin truly works as hard as Sabrina Singh claims — and is just as diligent — why wasn't his very first thought, before he even underwent prostate cancer surgery, to notify his commander in chief? 

There was zero excuse for Austin to keep his hospitalization on the down low — and there is zero excuse now to try to minimize it.