During his Pentagon briefing yesterday,self-styled “ Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth compared reporters writing unfavorable stories about Trump’s Iran adventure to the Pharisees persecuting Jesus Christ. During his opening remarks, Hegseth invoked a Sunday sermon about how the Pharisees sought to undermine Jesus even after watching him perform a miracle. “You see, the Pharisees, the so-called and self-appointed elites of their time, they were there to witness to write everything down, to report,” Hegseth said. “But their hearts were hardened. Even though they witnessed a literal miracle, it didn’t matter. They were only there to explain away the goodness in pursuit of their agenda. As the passage ends, the Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel against him how to destroy him.”
“I sat there in church and I thought, our press are just like these Pharisees,” Hegseth told the assembled reporters, adding he wasn’t referring to everyone, just “the legacy, Trump-hating press.”
“The Pharisees scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation. Only looking for the negative. The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn.”
Hegseth’s implication seems to be that the U.S. campaign against Iran which he prosecutes with “no mercy” and giving “no quarter” to the enemy is producing “miracles” comparable to those of Jesus Christ but that one would never know it from reading the corporate news media which seeks only to “impugn” the president.
