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Lemire Hits Hegseth For Using 'Explicitly Christian' Psalm. It's Actually Jewish
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/02/2026 3:50:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Jonathan Lemire has made a stunning theological discovery!

On Thursday's Morning Joe, Lemire played a clip of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Quantico in which he said, "As Psalm 33:12 extols us, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."

Lemire's verdict: "Yet again, another moment where Secretary Hegseth uses explicitly Christian rhetoric to describe the military."

Just one problem. It's not "explicitly Christian rhetoric." It is a line from the Psalms, written long before the Christian church emerged.

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1 posted on 10/02/2026 3:50:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Delivering his lecture with a classic pursed-lip, “Church Lady” look makes the fact that Lemire completely flunked Old Testament 101 so much better.
“Isn’t that special?” 😇👇

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 10/02/2026 3:52:23 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There should be a statute regarding separation of press and state.


3 posted on 10/02/2026 3:54:20 AM PDT by Kudsman (Killing and raping infidels, it's a cultural thing. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh look, another ignorant twink on TV.


4 posted on 10/02/2026 3:59:23 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In before the posters say it means the Jews are running our military.


5 posted on 10/02/2026 4:05:37 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Lemire (who claims to be Catholic) clearly didn’t pay attention in Catechism class.

What an idiot.


6 posted on 10/02/2026 4:12:00 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What if it were a “Pete al-Hegseth” as SecWar that quoted from the Koran?

Point: They go after Pete for…anything. Ilhan Omar is treated like a rock star for saying things like she represents Somalia in Congress.


7 posted on 10/02/2026 4:23:23 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is that Lamire’s “Isn’t that special?” Church Lady face?


8 posted on 10/02/2026 4:25:44 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Lemire is reaching pretty badly. And I am being charitable.


9 posted on 10/02/2026 4:31:32 AM PDT by sauropod ("They eventually succomb to the dollar" - President Donald J. Trump Ne supra crepidam)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This is an excellent example.
For democrats... jews and christians...

They all look the same.

That’s why it’s said, first they come for the jews...


10 posted on 10/02/2026 4:48:49 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Does he think saying “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” is “explicitly Christian rhetoric”? Actually maybe he does.


11 posted on 10/02/2026 4:49:03 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: TheThirdRuffian

So true....


12 posted on 10/02/2026 5:18:11 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***h)
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To: Kudsman

You cannot separate ignorance from stupidity since Lemire is both.


13 posted on 10/02/2026 5:20:42 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Using scripture to get demons expose themselves is a brilliant move and this is a great example.

Jesus did it so basically it’s biblical.


14 posted on 10/02/2026 5:35:03 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t like that guy.


15 posted on 10/02/2026 5:36:56 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Thank you, Dr. Fauci!" /s)
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To: BradyLS

>> Point: They go after Pete for…anything.

Yep. That’s why I ignore them for... everything. 😉


16 posted on 10/02/2026 5:38:26 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Never heard of this Lemire guy. But he never saw a Bible before, either. That’s the trouble with these modern experts they put in front of cameras today. They are, as you say, idiots.

No wonder they all fell for Fauci so bad.


17 posted on 10/02/2026 5:57:52 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He would have been fine with it if it was from another book from the religion “of peace”


18 posted on 10/02/2026 5:58:32 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I'm no fan of the US military bureaucracy but its pretty clear that Pete Hegseth is in way over his head as Defense Sec. and his use of scripture in this context, while cringe inducing, is the least of his problems.

I'm guessing he'll be fired by Trump soon after the mid-term elections or impeached by the next democrat majority Congress.

19 posted on 10/02/2026 5:59:35 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aiera)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
Lemire (who claims to be Catholic) clearly didn’t pay attention in Catechism class. What an idiot.

Lemire thinks King David was the man who wouldn't let Mary stay at the Ritz in Bethlehem ... and that her husband Joseph had a coat of many colors - a coat that was overpriced because of Trump.

20 posted on 10/02/2026 6:18:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (Whatever Soros and Iran are paying Mika & Joe and her suck-ups, double it. Toyko Rose is blushing.)
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