Irate Pete Hegseth claims Iran's leaders are 'rats' in hiding and demands a 'patriotic press' rewrite headlines
Source: The Independent
A visibly irate Pete Hegseth has compared Irans leaders to rats in hiding and urged a "patriotic press to rewrite headlines about the deadly, costly and escalating war.
The U.S. is decimating the radical Iranian regimes military in a way the world has never seen before, the defense secretary boasted at a Friday morning press briefing. We said it would not be a fair fight, and it has not been.
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Hegseth began the Friday morning briefing by berating the press, specifically targeting ABC News and CNN, and maintained a tone of barely concealed contempt throughout.
Another example of a fake headline I saw yesterday: war widening, he said. Heres a real headline for you, for an actual patriotic press: Iran shrinking, going underground.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegesth-iran-plane-crash-b2937931.html
littlemissmartypants
(32,863 posts)gab13by13
(32,039 posts)from a pro-Russian news outlet. It claimed that Russia warned Iran about the military strike but Khamenei chose not to hide but chose to be a martyr.
Remember, it was a pro-Russian reporter.
orangecrush
(30,012 posts)Timewas
(2,726 posts)Every one of the so called leaders here would be in deep bunkers shaking in their boots under the same circumstances...
Baitball Blogger
(52,225 posts)The Playbook use to be simple. There were some things that Americans were brainwashed to believe. Like, you couldn't criticize a president when he was outside of the country; or, America comes together in the face of a common enemy, which is what they used against us when Bush II decided to attack Iraq. They managed to hit us over the head with a shovel claiming we had a lack of patriotism. But, it doesn't seem to be working for them, now. Does it?
So Pete is confused and demanding automatic respect because, in his mind, we are at war. But what he forgot is that the MAGAs were clear. They were weary of a long term war. Especially when one was started without substance, other than to disguise the fact that the president is a pedophile.
GenThePerservering
(3,267 posts)Exp
(908 posts)cstanleytech
(28,432 posts)twodogsbarking
(18,475 posts)intheflow
(30,152 posts)Why is this regime so ignorant of the First Amendment?
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,187 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 13, 2026, 05:52 PM - Edit history (1)
Why aren't you the tip of the spear? Or doesn't you makeup room travel well?
twodogsbarking
(18,475 posts)LudwigPastorius
(14,602 posts)Go back to being a blathering FOX shithead.
Otherwise shut up, because we still have a 1st Amendment.