"The hardened hearts of our press are calibrated only to impugn. I would ask you to open your eyes to the goodness: the historic success of our troops, the courage of this president, and this historic moment for a deal that could end the Iranian nuclear threat."
"At the Department of War's Thursday update on Operation Epic Fury, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth compared the legacy media to Pharisees. Hegseth received this illuminating comparison while listening to his pastor preach on Sunday, and explained it thusly:
"This past Sunday, I was sitting in church with my family. And our minister preached from the Book of Mark, the third chapter. And in the passage, Jesus entered a synagogue and healed a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees came to watch, and as scripture reads, they came to see whether he, Jesus, would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. 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. 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."
"Hegseth drew a parallel between the Pharisees' agenda in finding fault in Christ Jesus' actions and the legacy press' fault-finding with the American soldier as they work to execute the aims of Operation Epic Fury.
"I sat there in church and I thought: Our press are just like these Pharisees. Not all of you. Not all of you. But the legacy, Trump-hating press. Your politically-motivated animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors. The Pharisees scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation. Only looking for the negative."
"Hegseth couched the animus of the press as being only toward President Donald Trump, but as this week has shown, there is an equal, if not more deranged form of animus lodged at Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of War. This, despite the fact that Hegseth and his generals have waged multiple campaigns that have fulfilled intended goals and that were executed with precision. " . . . More...
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell (As the Girl Turns) is a contributor at Redstate and other publications. Jennifer writes on Politics, Pop Culture, and the American story, with occasional detours into Reinvention, Yoga, and Food. You can read more about Jennifer's world at her As the Girl Turns website
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