Pete Hegseth Torches Legacy Media: 'Your Politically-Motivated Animus Nearly Blinds You'

Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

"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

Virtual Tour of the Titanic "2024 Version" Complete Tour; more than you thought you would see

 Felloutislife   "In this video, we go through a virtual tour of the White Star Line Titanic from Belfast. RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making the sinking one of modern history's deadliest peacetime commercial marine disasters. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. Thomas Andrews, chief naval architect of the shipyard at the time, died in the disaster.

"The wreck of Titanic was discovered in 1985 (more than 70 years after the disaster) during a US military mission,[10] and it remains on the seabed. The ship was split in two and is gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (2,069.2 fathoms; 3,784 m). Thousands of artefacts have been recovered and displayed at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history, depicted in numerous works of popular culture, including books, folk songs, films, exhibits, and memorials. Titanic is the second largest ocean liner wreck in the world, only beaten by her sister HMHS Britannic, the largest ever sunk; however, she is the largest sunk while in service as a liner as Britannic was in use as a hospital ship at the time of her sinking. The final survivor of the sinking, Millvina Dean, aged two months at the time, died in 2009 at the age of 97."

Titanic: Honor and Glory

110 Year Old Titanic Photo Found — And Experts Turn Pale When They Zoom In!

Stephen Colbert Exits Stage Left In an Orgy of Self-worship

John Nolte: Breitbart  

"Tonight is Colbert’s final show. No guests have been announced. Who knows what he has planned? What I do know is that 99 percent of America doesn’t care and that while he might not literally drop his pants and masturbate to a statue of himself, in the figurative sense we should expect nothing less."

"The reason Stephen Colbert has never been funny is that he is incapable of making fun of himself. Even during his tenure on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, he only mocked people on the right, specifically Fox News hosts.

"Colbert not only lacks a true sense of humor, any hint of warmth, or the appeal of a guy you’d want to have a beer with (I’d have a beer with Jon Stewart), but also is void of anything approaching humility.

"There is no one Stephen Colbert loves more than Stephen Colbert, and the orgy of self-worship he’s putting his tiny audience through during his final week hosting The Late Show is more proof of that and more proof of why CBS lost tens of millions per year on this insufferable dick.

"Colbert is so poisoned and sick with pride that he cannot even begin to acknowledge that he turned the Late Show into a failed money pit. Instead, his self-worship demands he pretend to be a political martyr at the hands of President Trump, when there is zero evidence that Trump caused his show to lose some $40 million per year and get itself canceled.

Wednesday night was Colbert’s second-to-last show, and the self-worship was off the charts. “[D]uring the second-to-last episode of the CBS late-night talk show, the host finally revealed his answers to his iconic ‘Colbert Questionert.’”

"Now get a load of this look-at-me guest list, per the Hollywood Reporter:

Former CBS Evening News anchor John Dickerson also stepped in to administer the segment, introducing each of the famous guests. Billy Crystal, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Josh Brolin, Martha Stewart, Mark Hamill, Jim Gaffigan, Jeff Daniels, Tiffany Haddish, Evie McGee Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Aubrey Plaza, James Taylor, Robert De Niro and Dickerson then each took a turn sitting behind Colbert’s desk, diving “into the depths of Stephen Colbert,” Dickerson said." . . .   More...

At least we didn't have to watch Seth Meyers' performative entry including kissing Colbert on his head

On eve of Colbert's final show, Variety suddenly wonders if host's left-wing politics went too far

What's next for Trump and Baby Ayatollah?

 

Gen Jack Keane: Iran is trying to BREAK OUR WILL (Video)

"Fox News senior strategic analyst Ret. Gen. Jack Keane assesses President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran and highlights the strategic leverage the United States holds on ‘The Story.’ "

Baby Trump Reviews Iran Strike Options! 203 Dead

Bad Ideas Never Die; Price Controls Lead to Shortages ; "Capping prices would reduce incentives to continue or restore production."

 Power Line 

"The ignorance on display is enough to make you want to cry. Or maybe to require a test of basic economic literacy as a qualification to serve in government. Or, better yet, to vote."

                      If you believe in price controls, you will not understand this chart: 

price controls graph - Search Images

"Price controls are in the Hall of Fame of bad ideas. They have an unbroken record of failure, stretching back literally thousands of years. And yet, they remain alluring to people with no knowledge of either history or economics, or–probably more relevant–to failing governments.

"There was a time when Britain’s government was known for a certain level of financial sophistication. No longer:

[British Chancellor] Rachel Reeves is pressuring supermarkets to cap food prices in an attempt to limit inflation unleashed by the Iran war.

"The Iran war has nothing to do with it. The inflation rate on grocery prices in the U.K. is lower than in mid-2025, and the world has plenty of oil. A temporary disruption of a single channel of transportation will have no impact on gas prices beyond a couple of months:. . . "

Only a Fool or a Politician Would Cap Food Prices - FEE  . . . "Indeed, large supermarkets are a marvel of the modern age, on a par with wonders such as the Internet. We have a cornucopia of goods available, allowing us to buy almost anything we could want in multiple variants, from around the world. These are provided to us via the automatic responses of thousands of economic agents to thousands upon thousands of prices, in a web of interactions far beyond the ability of any human mind or machine to duplicate. Tampering with that process is so obviously potentially harmful that only a fool, or a desperate politician, would contemplate it.

"If the government caps the prices of supermarket products, that will make those products unprofitable for the supermarket to stock and also mean that consumers have to pay less for them than their economic value, the consequence being that they will sell out and not be available. Why would I, as a consumer, want key products to be unavailable in supermarkets?"

Disgraced Jew-baiter Thomas Massie Humiliated by 10 Point Loss

 Nolte: 

At the same time, never did I believe I would live to see the day when a sitting congressman could say something straight out of the Jew-baiting Ku Klux Klan handbook and not be roundly condemned. Hopefully, the House of Representatives will censure him before he prances out of office in a Stephen Colbert-style cloud of self-celebration.

"After losing his primary to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, incumbent U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is about to have a lot more time on his hands to hate Jews and pretend he cares about Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.

"While it’s glorious that this self-regarding narcissist lost, even more glorious is that he got himself humiliated by a ten-point margin — ten points — 55 to 45 percent, with 99 percent of the vote counted.

"Wait, there’s more…

"If you want to understand President Trump’s ability to deliver votes, the math is pretty remarkable." . . .

. . . "Personally, I want to thank Massie for making his defeat all the sweeter with these opening lines from his despicable concession speech: 

Massie: "I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv"

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Mosque Shooting Revives Scrutiny Over 9/11 Ties, Imam’s Pro‑Oct. 7 Remarks

 Breitbart To post more on this would be to make a case for the actions of the murderous shooters which must be condemned. They were no better than Hamas was that Oct 7th except they had no chance to rape their victims and cook infants alive. We must believe the worshippers at the mosque hated those atrocities. TD

"Lallia Allali, wife of Imam Taha Hassane of the Islamic Center of San Diego, post this horrific image to her Facebook profile. The graphic shows a Jewish star murdering babies with “the devil is killing” at the bottom."

. . . "The Union-Tribune later described the post as “a graphic and deplorable antisemitic image,” writing that after confirming the repost, “we accepted her resignation and removed her from the list of board members and contributors on our website.”

"The University of San Diego similarly announced that Allali had stepped away from teaching, stating: “While individuals have the right to express their views on their personal accounts, they do not reflect the views of USD leadership nor any official position of the university.”

"Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and global social action director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, sharply condemned the post at the time, calling it a modern “blood libel” and describing the imagery as “despicable and deplorable.”

Part I: The Politicization of the Federal Courts During the Second Trump Presidency

 American Greatness   

The ideological concentration of injunctions in five jurisdictions is not accidental. Activist legal organizations deliberately file in districts where they know sympathetic Obama or Biden appointees sit. The ACLU, SPLC-affiliated groups, and the network of progressive legal nonprofits have essentially mapped the federal judiciary for political opportunity, identifying which judges will reliably deliver the results their donors demand. 

"Many rank-and-file Republicans and political commentators have expressed shock at the unprecedented lawfare being employed by the Democrat Party and its political allies against President Trump during his second term. Over 700 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump administration, and the number of executive orders impeded/blocked by Democrat/left-wing activist judges currently exceeds 200 (full and partial).

"This is Part I of a two-part series that examines the politicization of the federal judiciary by the Democrat left and the crisis it presents for our constitutional republic.

A Constitutional Crisis Unlike Any Before

"When President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, carrying one of the most decisive electoral mandates in modern American history—winning the popular vote, the Electoral College, and commanding congressional majorities—the American people had spoken with clarity. They voted for border security, executive accountability, bureaucratic reform, and a rollback of the radical progressive agenda that had reshaped federal policy during the Biden years.

"What greeted that mandate was not the loyal opposition of a democratic republic but something increasingly difficult to characterize as anything other than a judicial insurrection: a coordinated, systematic campaign by Democrat-appointed federal judges to nullify the results of a free election through the mechanisms of the courtroom. The scale, speed, audacity, and ideological uniformity of the resistance was—and remains—without precedent in American constitutional history.

"This analysis examines that resistance from a traditionalist constitutional conservative perspective: one grounded in the original understanding of the separation of powers, the proper role of Article III courts, the democratic legitimacy of the executive branch, and the republican principle that elections must mean something." . . .

Case Studies in Judicial Overreach:

1. Judge James Boasberg and the Alien Enemies Act Contempt Trap
2. Judge Brian Murphy and the Vaccine Schedule Takeover
3. Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Immigration Court Reform
4. The Forum Shopping Ecosystem

"Concluding Thoughts:  Part I ends here. Part II will cover Democrat lawfare coordination, the Democrats’ deployment of foreign judges and the associated cultural disconnect, the issue of democratic (small d) legitimacy, the Sotomayor problem, and remedies for the problem."Full article...

A Democrat Called for Imprisoning American Zionists – Her Party Blamed the GOP

The Federalist Papers 

 "She did not emerge from nowhere. She emerged from a political ecosystem that has made anti-Zionist rhetoric increasingly normalized within Democratic coalition politics. Jeffries knows this. His statement does not engage it."

Would AOC fake-cry for Jews who are locked up by Democrats?

"A Democratic candidate for Congress proposed turning a Texas immigration detention facility into a prison for Americans targeted by their religious identity. She is still in the runoff. Her party condemned the words and moved on to blaming someone else. "This is not a fringe story. It happened in a real primary, in a real congressional district, and the candidate is still on the ballot. Key Facts

 • Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist and housing activist, is the Democratic primary runoff candidate in Texas’ 35th Congressional District.

 • Galindo posted on Instagram that she would convert the Karnes ICE Detention Center “into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.” 

 • Her post continued: “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.” 

• House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stated: “This vile language by her is disqualifying and has no place in American politics, and certainly not in the Democratic Party.”

• Jeffries and DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) issued a joint condemnation, but in the same statement blamed Lead Left PAC, a group whose metadata PunchBowl News linked to a Republican fundraising platform. Who controls the PAC has not been independently confirmed. 

 • As of publication, Galindo has not withdrawn from the runoff. 

She Made the Ballot

"Galindo is not a protest candidate who filed to make a point and lost. She competed in a Democratic primary in a real congressional district and advanced to a runoff. That process has filters. Party structures, endorsements, voter engagement, candidate vetting. Every one of those filters passed her through.

 "The runoff means Democratic primary voters in Texas’ 35th chose her as one of the top finishers. That is not a fringe outcome. That is the system working as designed, and the system chose her. 

The PAC Deflection

"Jeffries and DelBene’s joint statement condemned Galindo’s words, but pivoted immediately to Lead Left PAC. The PAC is described as having metadata linked to a Republican fundraising platform, though who controls it has not been confirmed. The implication was that Republican money had amplified or manufactured this candidacy. 

"But Galindo posted those words on her own Instagram account. No PAC authored them. The question of who funds her campaign is legitimate and worth investigating separately. It does not explain the post, and it does not answer how she advanced in a Democratic primary. "What Accountability Actually Looks Like Jeffries called the language “disqualifying,” but Galindo remains qualified to run. Words have meaning only when they carry consequences. The DCCC has tools at its disposal. It can withhold support, coordinate with district party organizations, and communicate clearly that the condemnation is not performative. "None of that is on the public record as of this writing. The condemnation was issued. The race continues." . . . – The Federalist Papers Source: Just The News, May 2026 — Source: Just The News, May 2026

Democrats are embracing genocidal antisemitism - Andrea Widburg

Around the world, and especially here at home in the Democrat party, the Islamo-leftists’ fanatic hatred for Jews is creating a very scary 1938 vibe

. . . "I was born 16 years after WWII ended. Growing up, I naively thought that the worst of antisemitism had been permanently purged from the Western world, and certainly would never take root in America. I’m stunned by how wrong I was." . . .