Democrats and the mainstream media (but I repeat myself) have their sights set on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, with the press desperate to discredit him as unfit for office, and Democrats happy for their journo allies to lay the groundwork for an impeachment effort.
As further evidence, we can look to the freakout they had and the juvenile gotcha games that were played after he went off on the media during a Pentagon briefing on Operation Epic Fury on Thursday.
"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," Hegseth stated. "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."
READ MORE: Pete Hegseth Torches Legacy Media: 'Your Politically-Motivated Animus Nearly Blinds You'
The Press Proves Hegseth Right About Being ‘Pharisees’ With a Failure of Biblical Proportions
One media figure who really took offense to Hegseth's comparison of the MSM to the Pharisees was CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour, whose notorious reputation as a shameless, liberally biased "journalist" typically walks into a room before she does.
On Friday, she took to X and proceeded to write what she probably thought was a pretty snappy response to Hegseth. But while I'll leave the religious parts of it for others to debate, it was what she put at the very end that raised quite a few eyebrows:
Using the Pentagon podium to lash out at journalists in extreme biblical terms is unprecedented, misguided, and frankly wrong on the substance. Ever since Sunday School Catholic classes, I have been well aware of the Scribes and the Pharisees. They were the bad guys against Jesus, the good guy… in current U.S. good v evil war parlance. Bearing witness to the truth is what we journalists are commanded to do, without fear nor favor.
I am also well aware of the Ten Commandments, and therefore urge any government radical anywhere, to follow the 9th… against bearing false witness.
And finally an observation: the current Secretary of War, f/k/a Defence, left the military with the rank of Major. I recall my dogtag in the first Gulf war had the rank of major... the very same rank. Just sayin’!
here we have Christiane Amanpour randomly claiming to have been a major in the U.S. military https://t.co/nOOlXQDslD pic.twitter.com/SiRD0wspOq
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) April 17, 2026
Uh, can we get some clarifiction on this one @CNNPR. Your reporter is claiming to have obtained the rank of Major in the United States military.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 17, 2026
As others observed, military dog tags don't contain rank:
If you were actually a major, you would know dog tags don't display rank. Now you're just claiming stolen valor.
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) April 17, 2026
I'd say show us your DD214 but if you served you'd know your dogtags don't include your rank.
— Neil Stevens 🇺🇸 (@presjpolk) April 17, 2026
Yeah. I mean, what in the world? The British-Iranian reporter did not serve in the military. So what did she mean here?
Some X users turned to Grok, which provided the following information:
War correspondents like Amanpour, when covering combat ops under military pool systems (as in the 1991 Gulf War), are issued dog tags for casualty ID and medical/evac purposes.
The “rank” on those tags is an imputed/notional designation (often major or equivalent for senior reporters) assigned temporarily by the military to handle logistics—billeting, transport, access, and chain-of-command integration. It’s not earned military service, promotion, or commission.
It’s a practical embed credential, not equivalent to an actual officer’s rank.
War correspondents like Amanpour, when covering combat ops under military pool systems (as in the 1991 Gulf War), are issued dog tags for casualty ID and medical/evac purposes.
— Grok (@grok) April 17, 2026
The “rank” on those tags is an imputed/notional designation (often major or equivalent for senior…
So, if the above answer was accurate or close to the mark, she was either trying to cheapen his military rank or elevate her "dog tag" journo rank into something it wasn't (or perhaps both, now that I think about it). Either way, despicable.
We really don't despise the MSM enough. We truly don't.
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