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Morning Joe: Pete Hegseth's a 'Retrograde Throwback' to 'The Crusades'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/16/2024 11:41:39 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Presumably, even Morning Joe's fierce feminist warriors wouldn't have ordered female soldiers to storm the beaches and scale the cliffs of Normandy on D-Day.

But that didn't stop today's panel from hammering Pete Hegseth for his views on women in the military. Retired Admiral James Stavridis, Joe Scarborough, and "MSNBC Republican" Elise Jordan misrepresented Hegseth's position. They suggested that he opposes allowing women in the military, full stop. That's entirely false.

In his very first statements on the subject as Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Hegseth praised the important role that women play in the military.

But Hegseth draws the line at women in direct combat. As he put it in during a recent podcast:

“I’m not talking about pilots. I’m talking about physical, labor-intensive type jobs. Seals, Rangers, Green Berets, MARSOC, infantry battalions, armor, artillery.”

For holding those views, Jordan branded Hegseth a "retrogade throwback."

And when an agitated Joe Scarborough screamed that Hegseth would be taking us back not to the 1950s, but to "the 11th century," Jordan specified, "to the Crusades!"

Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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1 posted on 12/16/2024 11:41:39 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 12/16/2024 11:42:10 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Crusades are necessarily compelled by the inexorable creeping cancer of jihad.

Been that way since the 8th century.


3 posted on 12/16/2024 11:43:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m good with that.


4 posted on 12/16/2024 11:44:21 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey, Joe Scared-Bird: I already support Pete, you don’t have to convince me!


5 posted on 12/16/2024 11:45:16 AM PST by Greg123456
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To: BenLurkin

Agreed. We should thank God every day for the Crusades to keep us from being the goat humping, FGM-ing, pork avoiding, pedo-sodomizing, bath avoiding, craphole society that Muslims made just about everywhere they took over.


6 posted on 12/16/2024 11:45:48 AM PST 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

Hey, Morning Joe: Pete doesn’t wear a pu$$y hat like you do.


7 posted on 12/16/2024 11:45:54 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The good news: Everyone knows Joe is no longer relevant to anyone with at least one neuron still firing.


8 posted on 12/16/2024 11:47:00 AM PST by econjack
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, so what....?


9 posted on 12/16/2024 11:47:11 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What are these people? Third-graders?


10 posted on 12/16/2024 11:48:15 AM PST by Migraine ( )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He has my vote you don’t have to keep giving me reasons.


11 posted on 12/16/2024 11:49:27 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The more the object the better I like him


12 posted on 12/16/2024 11:49:35 AM PST by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As Rush Limbaugh used to say: “The purpose of Armies is to kill people, and break things.”


13 posted on 12/16/2024 11:54:18 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: econjack

I have 2 theories about what happened to Morning Joe.
1. Joe has been brainwashed.
2. Joe’s Communist wife must be very, very good.


14 posted on 12/16/2024 11:55:40 AM PST by Sam Clements
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

When I was in artillery I would lift the 220 pound or so spade and carry it back and hold it for the pinning on the spade, by myself, that freed up a man to speed up the digging or some other duty to speed up the process, which was especially important when quickly trying to get the first round in the air.

How many times can a female haul the 95 pound rounds before tiring, and eventually damaging her her young female body and collecting a pension the rest of her life.


15 posted on 12/16/2024 11:59:07 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: BenLurkin

After 9/11 I had t-shirts made saying.

“Crusade Against the Mohammedan Death cult.”


16 posted on 12/16/2024 12:02:01 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Newsbusters and Breitbart must have a high turnover for the poor bastards who are forced to watch that evil network.


17 posted on 12/16/2024 12:06:04 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Today’s panel would rather see the women raped to death than shot.


18 posted on 12/16/2024 12:06:15 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: Sam Clements
I have 2 theories about what happened to Morning Joe.

1. Joe has been brainwashed and it was thrown out along with the rinse water.

2. Joe’s Communist wife must be very, very good.

There...fixed.

19 posted on 12/16/2024 12:17:51 PM PST by econjack
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What was wrong with the Crusades?


20 posted on 12/16/2024 12:23:56 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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