{"id":64277,"date":"2024-12-13T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64277"},"modified":"2024-12-13T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:33:19","slug":"brave-sir-hegseth-trumps-pick-to-run-the-pentagon-runs-away-from-his-own-hateful-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64277","title":{"rendered":"Brave Sir Hegseth, Trump&#8217;s Pick to Run the Pentagon, Runs Away From His Own Hateful Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons to oppose Donald Trump&#8217;s nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense are impossible to refute by any rational standard. Which may be why neither Trump, nor any of those purporting to support him, have offered any coherent argument for confirming him. All they can muster is their blindly obedient opinion that it is what Dear Leader Trump wants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Brave Sir Hegseth, Trump's Pick to Run the Pentagon, Runs Away From His Own Hateful Opinions%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64277\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-hegseth-cleared.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Pete Hegseth, Cleared\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63965\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, Hegseth has absolutely zero experience relevant to running the biggest bureaucracy in the United States federal government. His past work record contains nothing that would demonstrate the management, financial, legal, personnel, or international diplomacy skills required of a defense secretary. In addition to Hegseth&#8217;s lack of work experience, he is also lacking the moral and ethical character to perform at the high standards necessary for a top national security post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64154\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth\u2019s Mommy Steps Up to Shield Him From His Life of Alcoholic and Sexual Debauchery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Hegseth strolls the halls of Congress to meet with the Senators who must confirm him, he has been questioned by the press about his fitness for the job. In one such incident he engaged in the following exchange with a reporter seeking his response to recent revelations about his objection to gay soldiers&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Reporter:<\/strong> Do you believe that gay people should be allowed to serve in the military?<br \/>\n<strong>Hegseth:<\/strong> Yes.<br \/>\n<strong>Reporter:<\/strong> Can you just respond to the CNN report this morning highlighting some of you previous comments?<br \/>\n<strong>Hegseth:<\/strong> I don\u2019t feel the need to respond to CNN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI don\u2019t feel the need to respond to CNN.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteHegseth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PeteHegseth<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The evolution of a legacy brand from biased\u2026to agenda\u2026to propaganda\u2026to embarrassment\u2026to irrelevant. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3yQhmrKF7R\">pic.twitter.com\/3yQhmrKF7R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Will Cain (@willcain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willcain\/status\/1867328221156393019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That brief exchange revealed two glaring examples of Hegseth&#8217;s cowardice. First of all, his response that he believes that gays should be allowed to serve contradicts his previous comments on that subject. He is clearly afraid to be honest about his opinions. And it isn&#8217;t the first time that he&#8217;s reversed himself due to his fear of public backlash. He has also tried to walk back his statement that <em>&#8220;we should not have women in combat roles.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Secondly, his dismissal of the follow up question that sought his clarification of his past remarks exhibits his fear of CNN, or any other media that he disapproves of.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, contrary to Hegseth&#8217;s flippant dismissal, the question wasn&#8217;t asking him to respond to CNN. It was asking him to respond to himself, and what he said in the past. CNN&#8217;s reporting was not their opinion. It was about what Hegseth wrote concerning gays in the military. According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/12\/politics\/pete-hegseth-gay-trans-troops-marxist-agenda\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the CNN report<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In his 2024 book &#8216;The War on Warriors&#8217; and in subsequent media promotions this year, Hegseth described both the original &#8216;don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell&#8217; (DADT) policy and its repeal in 2011 as a &#8216;gateway&#8217; and a &#8216;camouflage&#8217; for broader cultural changes that he claims have undermined military cohesion and effectiveness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the prospect of a Cabinet member refusing to address a serious matter by asserting that he doesn&#8217;t <em>&#8220;feel the need to respond&#8221;<\/em> to a particular news network is a flashing red light alarm. He&#8217;s saying that he doesn&#8217;t feel that he has any obligation to be accountable to the citizens he is supposed to be serving. That is not acceptable behavior in a democratic society. Which, of course, is something that Trump hopes to dispense with.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth&#8217;s nomination has been in trouble from the start. And comments like these aren&#8217;t going to help him gain favor with the senators whose votes he needs. And it surely doesn&#8217;t help that he is also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/yikes-just-17-of-americans-approve-of-pete-hegseth-pick\/\" target=\"_blank\">unpopular with the public<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A new survey from the Associated Press and National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago suggests that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Defense, has almost no popular support. According to the poll, only 17% of those surveyed said that they approved of Hegseth\u2019s nomination.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In general, just 27% of the public is confident in Trump\u2019s \u201cability to appoint well-qualified individuals to his cabinet and other high-level positions,\u201d while 55% say they are not confident.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a side issue, the video above was posted by Will Cain, a co-host of the Fox News morning program, <em>&#8220;Fox and Friends Weekend.&#8221;<\/em> Which is the same program that Hegseth co-hosted prior to his nomination. Cain&#8217;s comment with the video is especially ironic. He apparently doesn&#8217;t see that it is his own network that has gone <em>&#8220;from biased&#8230;to agenda&#8230;to propaganda&#8230;to embarrassment.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64194\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth\u2019s Fox News Co-Host Admits He Had a Drinking Problem, But It\u2019s Now \u2018Under Control\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64138\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Buries Reports of Trump\u2019s Unsavory, Unqualified Defense Secretary Pick, Pete Hegseth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63964\" target=\"_blank\">One Down: The Demise of Matt Gaetz\u2019 AG Aspirations Spells Trouble for Pete Hegseth at Defense<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons to oppose Donald Trump&#8217;s nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense are impossible to refute by any rational standard. Which may be why neither Trump, nor any of those purporting to support him, have offered any coherent argument for confirming him. All they can muster is their blindly obedient opinion that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[42,554,33,1130],"class_list":["post-64277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-pete-hegseth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-hegseth-cleared.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-gIJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":69048,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69048","url_meta":{"origin":64277,"position":0},"title":"Pete Hegseth, Trump&#8217;s Secretary of &#8216;Wah&#8217; is a Crybaby Who Bans &#8216;Unflattering&#8217; Photos of Himself","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/11\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Ten days into the war that Donald Trump launched against Iran to destroy their nuclear capabilities (that he obliterated a few months ago), or to effect regime change (to a younger Ayatollah Khamenei), or to free up the oil market (that is now more constrained, raising gas prices to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Censorship&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Censorship","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=56"},"img":{"alt_text":"Donald Trump baby and Pete Hegseth","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-hegseth-baby.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-hegseth-baby.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-hegseth-baby.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":66824,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66824","url_meta":{"origin":64277,"position":1},"title":"Pentagon IG: Pete Hegseth Disclosed Classified Info During His Signal Chat &#8211; Fox News Buries It","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/25\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The fate of the Defense Secretary that Donald Trump plucked from Fox News is becoming more untenable with every day that he is tainting that noble office. 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