#pete hesgeth

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(Source)

Signal is not an approved app for state-secret conversations — it appears that the Trump Administration figures were trying to use the "disappearing messages" feature to get around public records laws.

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Source

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breaking news: Pete Hesgeth sends war plans to the 15 year old he’s talking to on Kik

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GOP can't defend Hegseth's Signal use, says Rep. Adam Smith : NPR

So I guess they're just going with the "we're not gonna talk about this" strategy?

[darkmaga-returns]

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth welcomed back unvaccinated service members the US military during a wide-ranging speech at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Wednesday morning.

The secretary’s helicopter touched down around 9 a.m. Half an hour later, he spoke to students, family and faculty at the college about DEI, gender-neutral standards, and the “heroic” soldiers who refused the experimental COVID vaccine and were mistreated under the Biden administration.

“More than 8,700 service members were involuntarily separated for not taking an experimental COVID-19 vaccine,” said Hesgeth.

“Others were more informally pushed our or decided to get out. We are welcoming actively back those warriors. We have sent letters out, we are seeking them out, we want them back. They never should have been forced.

“Personnel department is working in real time to make that process more and more efficient, more and more direct, every single day,” said Hesgeth.

[mariacallous]

In the five weeks since the Trump administration stepped up attacks on the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, a few big problems have become apparent, underscoring just how hard it is for U.S. President Donald Trump to turn muscular rhetoric into real-world results.

The operation, famously debated in a Signal chat that mistakenly included a journalist, has failed so far to achieve either of its two stated goals: restoring freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and reestablishing deterrence. 

Shipping through the Red Sea and the adjacent Suez Canal remains as depressed as ever despite a more than $1 billion U.S. onslaught against the Houthis. And the militants remain as defiant as ever, warning over the weekend that Trump has waded into a “quagmire” and intensifying their own attacks on Israel and U.S. warships in the region.

There has also been a glaring lack of transparency about the operation, the biggest exercise of U.S. military power in Trump’s second term. The Defense Department does not hold briefings on the ongoing war, and U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, merely posts snazzy videos of flight-deck operations on social media, accompanied by the hashtag “#HouthisAreTerrorists.”

More alarmingly, the tempo of U.S. operations, including around-the-clock strikes by two entire U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups, is burning through finite precision munitions that many defense experts say would be best husbanded for any future conflict with China. That’s especially important when it comes to the limited stock of stand-off, air-launched missiles that would be critical to any fight over Taiwan.

“If this is about freedom of navigation, it isn’t working,” said Alessio Patalano, a naval expert at King’s College London. He added: “How can you support the idea that the Indo-Pacific is the priority, and yet absolutely critical components to the Indo-Pacific fight are being pulled for operations in the Middle East?”

The good news, such as it is, is that there is less urgency now to reopen the Red Sea and the Suez Canal to commercial shipping than at any time since the Houthis essentially closed it in November 2023 with a wave of missile and drone attacks on commercial vessels, nominally done in support of Palestinians under Israeli assault. Trump’s trade war has so depressed the outlook for global shipping that rates for container ships are plummeting, and there is little reason for shippers to worry about rerouting their goods the long way around the bottom of Africa. 

When the Houthis first opted to use their strategic position on the shores of one of the world’s critical chokepoints, the Bab el-Mandeb strait, to bring pressure on Israel and the West, the West responded. The United States and the United Kingdom sent naval forces to hammer the Houthis, while the European Union sent its own naval task force to help shepherd commercial ships through what was quickly becoming a no-go zone.

Though the U.S.-U.K. and European missions had slightly different aims—the Anglo-Americans sought to “degrade” Houthi capabilities on land to interdict commercial traffic, while Europe’s operation hewed closer to a traditional freedom-of-navigation operation—both were of little avail. Insurance rates remained sky-high, and traffic through the Suez Canal plunged. 

Enter the new Trump administration, determined to prevail where the outgoing Biden administration had failed. 

“This [is] not about the Houthis,” embattled U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hesgeth wrote in the now-infamous Signal chat he and his colleagues shared with a journalist in the days and hours before and during the March attacks on the Houthis. “I see it as two things: 1) Restoring Freedom of Navigation, a core national interest; and 2) Reestablish deterrence, which [President Joe] Biden cratered,” Hesgeth wrote.

The idea that freedom of navigation was a core U.S. national interest got pushback from Vice President J.D. Vance during the Signal conversation. And everybody on the Trump national security team wanted to ensure that Europe would somehow pay for the unrequested U.S. military adventure. Centcom certainly believes that it is all about the Houthis. 

But the underlying contradictions in U.S. policies and priorities shone through the clumsy text messages. Most especially: What happened to the pivot to Asia?

“The United States Navy is very good at striking targets ashore. But the operational and tactical success cannot hide the fact that the strategic effect remains elusive, if not ill-defined altogether,” Patalano said. “If this is meant to deter the Chinese leadership vis-à-vis Taiwan, I am not sure it is doing it.”

The United States since the days of Thomas Jefferson has fought for freedom of navigation, sometimes in waters not far from the current fight. What is hard to understand right now is why it is spending treasure in a futile attempt to open a sea lane that doesn’t need opening, when there are other, more pressing challenges. Worse yet, the misapplication of sea power could rebound badly—it takes a lot of time and effort to convince democracies to pay vast sums for advanced warships that are needed and that do have great utility, just not this one.

“What I find most troubling is that they are undermining the ultimate utility of sea power,” Patalano said. “In the future, when people say, ‘Why do we need a Navy? We did nothing against the Houthis.’ And they will be right.”

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Obstructive

I just read an article about how that judge in Wisconsin was arrested by the Feds over obstruction. I don’t think the charges are going to stick, but the act is the point. Trump is out here using the Feds as his personal police force. Specifically, to intimidate other people into conforming with these illegal deportations. Judge Hannah Dugan was shackled up and dragged out of her courtroom this morning because she supposedly directed Federal officers away from someone flagged as an illegal immigrant, but just an immigrant in the same USA Today article, by directing the suspect out a side door as ICE barged into her office. Dugan has been a Circuit Court Judge since 2016. She has been working in law for at least three decades. You want me to believe that the guy ICE was there to arrest is illegal, when they’ve already deported an innocent man who was here as ab asylum seeker, right back to the country where the gang who wanted to kill him has a strong presence? After he married a US citizen? After they had children? After a full-on decade he’s been in this country? Come the f*ck on.

Y’all actually think I’m going to believe what ICE says, what this administration decides to [present on that day, over a judge whose job it is to, you know, make judgments? Get the f*ck out of here. Trump is out here attacking colleges because they let their students speak out over the Israeli genocide campaign against Gazans. Apparently, according to her orange idiot, that’s antisemitic and you deserve to be defunded, persecuted, or in the case of one activist, literally black bagged. ICE picked this chick up and then lost her. No one knows where she is being held, if she’s even still in the country, or alive. Ma just got disappeared like a fart in the wind. ICE out here lying about people being gang members because of Virgin Mary tattoos and snatching innocent students off campus because of wrong think. That sh*t is very Gestapo and SS of them but, you know, “terrorism”. It’s ridiculous to see happen on US soil and a STRONG portion of this country really seems to be okay with this sh*t, not knowing that if they can do it with these people, it’s only a matter of time they do it to you, too.

What is it going to take to get this marmalade moron and his drunken, sexist, rapist, cohorts out of office? How much more of this fascist nonsense does he have to actively commit, before the idiotic holdouts see him for who he is, for what he’s trying to do? This ICE sh*t is just the beginning. RFK is out here making lists of Autistics using data stolen from their private medical files, because he seems to think they’re all potatoes, even though he’s the one with the actual brain worms. Before the Nazis did a Hebrew Holocaust, they did another one with the handicapped and it started with these kinds of lists. Motherf*cker gets on TV and says sh*t that is easily debunked. Eggs are the cheapest they’ve ever been. No, f*ck-o, they are not. They are the most expensive they’ve ever been. China is negotiating with us over these tariffs. The CCP said that was fake news. Dude is trying he hardest to give Ukraine away to Russia under the guise of a peace deal, only for Putin to turn around and shell said country, racking up the deadliest day of this invasion since it started. While all of this nonsense is going on, he’s out here trying to repeal ECOA, which guarantees women’s financial independence bu Executive Order. He’s already reinstated Jim Crow among the Feds with one of those f*cking things, all the while Pete Hesgeth is drunkenly leaking war strategy over f*cking Signal and Musk is shilling Teslas on the White House lawn. These are the people I’m, supposed to trust? Their word is supposed to be bond and not propaganda? Word?

The wildest thing about this entire arrest, other than it absolutely wreaks of fascist bullsh*ttery, is the fact that Trump has been ordered by a myriad of courts to pause these “deportations” and he’s just ignored them. The Supreme Court told this man to take a break and he was just like, “Nah”. Bro, that’s the highest court in the land. You’re supposed to listen to what the f*ck they say. It’s part of the Constitution. It’ the checks and balance in order to stop sh*t like this from happened, that the Founding Fathers put in place. For him to outright ignore a court order is nasty work. Treasonous, even. Like, this umber asshole is literally committing a treasonous act ignoring these constitutional decrees, and no one is doing anything about it. Either side. Left or Right. I mean, the youngsters are. The reps my age have been screaming at the top of our lings about this nonsense sine the first term, but the older Gen Xers a, Boomers, and the Silent generation before us? Yeah, crickets. I see a lot of tacit acknowledgments and toothless decries but no real effort to hold this retard and his cabal of cronies accountable. Dude is disappearing innocent people, lying to the American public, and tanking the economy with a game of tariff chicken we are losing our shirts on, and no one is doing anything to stop him. Motherf*cker is out her arresting judges now and still, not a word. From anyone. And you wonder how the Nazis were able to Nazi for so long.

[smokeybrand]

Obstructive

I just read an article about how that judge in Wisconsin was arrested by the Feds over obstruction. I don’t think the charges are going to stick, but the act is the point. Trump is out here using the Feds as his personal police force. Specifically, to intimidate other people into conforming with these illegal deportations. Judge Hannah Dugan was shackled up and dragged out of her courtroom this morning because she supposedly directed Federal officers away from someone flagged as an illegal immigrant, but just an immigrant in the same USA Today article, by directing the suspect out a side door as ICE barged into her office. Dugan has been a Circuit Court Judge since 2016. She has been working in law for at least three decades. You want me to believe that the guy ICE was there to arrest is illegal, when they’ve already deported an innocent man who was here as ab asylum seeker, right back to the country where the gang who wanted to kill him has a strong presence? After he married a US citizen? After they had children? After a full-on decade he’s been in this country? Come the f*ck on.

Y’all actually think I’m going to believe what ICE says, what this administration decides to [present on that day, over a judge whose job it is to, you know, make judgments? Get the f*ck out of here. Trump is out here attacking colleges because they let their students speak out over the Israeli genocide campaign against Gazans. Apparently, according to her orange idiot, that’s antisemitic and you deserve to be defunded, persecuted, or in the case of one activist, literally black bagged. ICE picked this chick up and then lost her. No one knows where she is being held, if she’s even still in the country, or alive. Ma just got disappeared like a fart in the wind. ICE out here lying about people being gang members because of Virgin Mary tattoos and snatching innocent students off campus because of wrong think. That sh*t is very Gestapo and SS of them but, you know, “terrorism”. It’s ridiculous to see happen on US soil and a STRONG portion of this country really seems to be okay with this sh*t, not knowing that if they can do it with these people, it’s only a matter of time they do it to you, too.

What is it going to take to get this marmalade moron and his drunken, sexist, rapist, cohorts out of office? How much more of this fascist nonsense does he have to actively commit, before the idiotic holdouts see him for who he is, for what he’s trying to do? This ICE sh*t is just the beginning. RFK is out here making lists of Autistics using data stolen from their private medical files, because he seems to think they’re all potatoes, even though he’s the one with the actual brain worms. Before the Nazis did a Hebrew Holocaust, they did another one with the handicapped and it started with these kinds of lists. Motherf*cker gets on TV and says sh*t that is easily debunked. Eggs are the cheapest they’ve ever been. No, f*ck-o, they are not. They are the most expensive they’ve ever been. China is negotiating with us over these tariffs. The CCP said that was fake news. Dude is trying he hardest to give Ukraine away to Russia under the guise of a peace deal, only for Putin to turn around and shell said country, racking up the deadliest day of this invasion since it started. While all of this nonsense is going on, he’s out here trying to repeal ECOA, which guarantees women’s financial independence bu Executive Order. He’s already reinstated Jim Crow among the Feds with one of those f*cking things, all the while Pete Hesgeth is drunkenly leaking war strategy over f*cking Signal and Musk is shilling Teslas on the White House lawn. These are the people I’m, supposed to trust? Their word is supposed to be bond and not propaganda? Word?

The wildest thing about this entire arrest, other than it absolutely wreaks of fascist bullsh*ttery, is the fact that Trump has been ordered by a myriad of courts to pause these “deportations” and he’s just ignored them. The Supreme Court told this man to take a break and he was just like, “Nah”. Bro, that’s the highest court in the land. You’re supposed to listen to what the f*ck they say. It’s part of the Constitution. It’ the checks and balance in order to stop sh*t like this from happened, that the Founding Fathers put in place. For him to outright ignore a court order is nasty work. Treasonous, even. Like, this umber asshole is literally committing a treasonous act ignoring these constitutional decrees, and no one is doing anything about it. Either side. Left or Right. I mean, the youngsters are. The reps my age have been screaming at the top of our lings about this nonsense sine the first term, but the older Gen Xers a, Boomers, and the Silent generation before us? Yeah, crickets. I see a lot of tacit acknowledgments and toothless decries but no real effort to hold this retard and his cabal of cronies accountable. Dude is disappearing innocent people, lying to the American public, and tanking the economy with a game of tariff chicken we are losing our shirts on, and no one is doing anything to stop him. Motherf*cker is out her arresting judges now and still, not a word. From anyone. And you wonder how the Nazis were able to Nazi for so long.

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26 / 01 / 2025

Pete Hesgeth

Pete Hesgeth is very handsome, such a dilf 😍. Does anyone have read his book? Even the cover is worthy to buy the book 🤤

Pete Hegseth: a true American patriot!

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Fox News Presenter, Pete Hesgeth Says He Hasn't Washed His Hands For 10 Years https://www.emmanuelsblog.com.ng/2019/02/fox-news-presenter-pete-hesgeth-says-he.html

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Fox News Host Lectures Muslims: 'Don't Burn People Alive And Set Off Bombs'

The host of a Fox News show on Sunday told the “Muslim community” not to “burn people alive and set off bombs” if they want a better portrayal in the media.

“Fox & Friends Weekend” was discussing comments made by actor Mandy Patinkin, who said his show “Homeland” would try to be “part of the cure” by offering a more positive portrayal of Muslims. In an MSNBC interview, Patinkin noted that this season’s storyline would show “that maybe it’s the... white men in the government and the military establishment that are the bad guys, not the Muslim community.”

In a clip posted online by Media Matters, Fox News host Pete Hegseth complained that “Homeland” was trying to “ram political agendas down our throat.”

“Do we remember who the bombers of the Boston Marathon were?” cohost Jon Scott asked. “I mean, just an aside to the Muslim community, if you don’t want to be portrayed in a negative light, maybe don’t burn people alive and set off bombs and things like that.”

Hesgeth added: “Yeah, and point out the radicalism, and say that’s not me.” 

The comments didn’t sit well with many on Twitter: 

@yashar @JonScottFNC Jon please I have not burned anyone alive and neither has my mother. You ought to read and educate yourself: https://t.co/UdlJRcahqf

— Monis Khan (@monisismissing) April 16, 2017

FYI for Muslims from idiots: Fox News If Muslim Community Doesn’t Like Negative Media Portrayal Don’t Set Off Bombs https://t.co/Z8doAArGeN

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@Deanofcomedy) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Amazing how incredibly tone deaf your statement to the Muslim community is. https://t.co/2eMyauN3tr

— Mr. Lucky (@mrluckydj) April 17, 2017

Yeah "Muslim community." Knock it off already. https://t.co/0WtEyN8fke

— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) April 16, 2017

I mean ... https://t.co/WH3YR3zE2Y

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) April 17, 2017

I'm a @foxnews contributor. This is embarrassing. https://t.co/4mHHyRABhR

— Mo Elleithee (@MoElleithee) April 16, 2017

@DonCheadle I'm sure terrorists abide Fox News' words like law. I'm also sure the muslim community strongly identifies with terrorism. Bloody hell.

— cider (@cider44) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Do you blame all Christians for massacres by IRA, or abuse of children! Don't insult the entire Muslim 'community.' What would Jesus say?

— Dilma Arends Geerman (@wilderoosje) April 16, 2017

@rezaaslan Can't you guys just send an email to the Muslim Community listserv?

— Globalist Cuck (@VoteEquality) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Being condescending fails when the statement betrays the ignorance of the speaker. Are all men on FOX sexual abusers because of O'Reilly?

— Sarah O'Connell (@eatmoreart) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Oh FFS, is there a constant gas leak on the set of @foxandfriends?

— Marci ‍♀️ (@marcifromCO) April 16, 2017

What a great message for the entire non-bomb throwing/non-burning people alive billion strong Muslim community: it's all your own fault. https://t.co/H37GKeke5C

— emigre80 (@emigre80) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC So then we should look at ALL white males as racists, serial killers and mass shooters? Don't want the label, don't do it right? http://pic.twitter.com/Q2GEoETBJo

— Corey Reynolds (@coreyreynoldsLA) April 16, 2017

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Fox News Host Lectures Muslims: 'Don't Burn People Alive And Set Off Bombs'

The host of a Fox News show on Sunday told the “Muslim community” not to “burn people alive and set off bombs” if they want a better portrayal in the media.

“Fox & Friends Weekend” was discussing comments made by actor Mandy Patinkin, who said his show “Homeland” would try to be “part of the cure” by offering a more positive portrayal of Muslims. In an MSNBC interview, Patinkin noted that this season’s storyline would show “that maybe it’s the... white men in the government and the military establishment that are the bad guys, not the Muslim community.”

In a clip posted online by Media Matters, Fox News host Pete Hegseth complained that “Homeland” was trying to “ram political agendas down our throat.”

“Do we remember who the bombers of the Boston Marathon were?” cohost Jon Scott asked. “I mean, just an aside to the Muslim community, if you don’t want to be portrayed in a negative light, maybe don’t burn people alive and set off bombs and things like that.”

Hesgeth added: “Yeah, and point out the radicalism, and say that’s not me.” 

The comments didn’t sit well with many on Twitter: 

@yashar @JonScottFNC Jon please I have not burned anyone alive and neither has my mother. You ought to read and educate yourself: https://t.co/UdlJRcahqf

— Monis Khan (@monisismissing) April 16, 2017

FYI for Muslims from idiots: Fox News If Muslim Community Doesn’t Like Negative Media Portrayal Don’t Set Off Bombs https://t.co/Z8doAArGeN

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@Deanofcomedy) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Amazing how incredibly tone deaf your statement to the Muslim community is. https://t.co/2eMyauN3tr

— Mr. Lucky (@mrluckydj) April 17, 2017

Yeah "Muslim community." Knock it off already. https://t.co/0WtEyN8fke

— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) April 16, 2017

I mean ... https://t.co/WH3YR3zE2Y

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) April 17, 2017

I'm a @foxnews contributor. This is embarrassing. https://t.co/4mHHyRABhR

— Mo Elleithee (@MoElleithee) April 16, 2017

@DonCheadle I'm sure terrorists abide Fox News' words like law. I'm also sure the muslim community strongly identifies with terrorism. Bloody hell.

— cider (@cider44) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Do you blame all Christians for massacres by IRA, or abuse of children! Don't insult the entire Muslim 'community.' What would Jesus say?

— Dilma Arends Geerman (@wilderoosje) April 16, 2017

@rezaaslan Can't you guys just send an email to the Muslim Community listserv?

— Globalist Cuck (@VoteEquality) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Being condescending fails when the statement betrays the ignorance of the speaker. Are all men on FOX sexual abusers because of O'Reilly?

— Sarah O'Connell (@eatmoreart) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Oh FFS, is there a constant gas leak on the set of @foxandfriends?

— Marci ‍♀️ (@marcifromCO) April 16, 2017

What a great message for the entire non-bomb throwing/non-burning people alive billion strong Muslim community: it's all your own fault. https://t.co/H37GKeke5C

— emigre80 (@emigre80) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC So then we should look at ALL white males as racists, serial killers and mass shooters? Don't want the label, don't do it right? http://pic.twitter.com/Q2GEoETBJo

— Corey Reynolds (@coreyreynoldsLA) April 16, 2017

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By Michael Tracey / Substack

Politicians frequently “change their minds.” In principle, willingness to change one’s mind is a laudable trait, whether you’re a politician or any other type of person. To absorb new information, and then adjust one’s outlook in accordance with that information, is a prudent habit to cultivate for anyone who wants to engage constructively with the world. However, the propensity of political figures to “change their minds” usually requires an extra layer of critical examination, unless you’re inclined to just credulously accept their self-serving bulls**t.

When a political figure resolutely declares that they have an unflinching ethical or policy conviction, and then go on to abandon that conviction, at minimum this should obligate some explanation for the shift. If the explanation reflects a sincere and transparent reevaluation of certain facts or premises, that’s one thing to consider. If the explanation reflects naked expediency and opportunism, that’s another thing. If no real explanation is provided at all, that’s something else entirely. “Mind-changing,” thus, is not a virtue unto itself — nor is it necessarily a defect. The crucial factor is the accompanying explanation (or lack thereof), and how much soundness one ascribes to it.

For instance, if Bernie Sanders suddenly announced tomorrow that he was no longer in favor of imposing higher taxes on billionaires, that would certainly raise doubts as to the veracity and coherence of his life-long political project. If Thomas Massie declared he was suddenly in favor of the state controlling key economic sectors, that too would make one wonder about the fundamental reliability and consistency of his long-articulated worldview. So, while political figures are certainly free to “change their mind” about things, the rest of us are also free to make judgments about whether those “mind-changes” are credible.

How, then, to evaluate the claimed “mind-change” of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense? In the recent past, Hegseth wasn’t just a casual supporter of the Iraq War — he was a full-blown professional pro-war activist and lobbyist, whose entire career was conjoined with his strident pro-war advocacy. Hegseth ran a group called “Veterans for Freedom,” whose explicit purpose was to pressure Congress to support the Iraq War and galvanize public opinion behind George W. Bush’s foreign policy, including by appearing in the media to make robust pro-war arguments — a role which Hegseth eventually marshaled into a gig on Fox News. As Hegseth fondly recounted in his 2020 book, American Crusade, one of the group’s primary tasks was to tour around the United States exhorting fellow citizens to join their pro-war cause. “We gave speeches aimed at building support for the war,” Hegseth recalled. “I believed in the mission we had in Iraq.”

But nowadays, Hegseth appears to be singing a different tune. In a podcast appearance last month, host Shawn Ryan asked: “Should we have been in Iraq?” To which Hesgeth replied: “I was a huge proponent of it at the time, but in retrospect, absolutely not,” adding, “I’ve been a recovering neocon for six years now.”

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Fox News Host Lectures Muslims: 'Don't Burn People Alive And Set Off Bombs'

The host of a Fox News show on Sunday told the “Muslim community” not to “burn people alive and set off bombs” if they want a better portrayal in the media.

“Fox & Friends Weekend” was discussing comments made by actor Mandy Patinkin, who said his show “Homeland” would try to be “part of the cure” by offering a more positive portrayal of Muslims. In an MSNBC interview, Patinkin noted that this season’s storyline would show “that maybe it’s the... white men in the government and the military establishment that are the bad guys, not the Muslim community.”

In a clip posted online by Media Matters, Fox News host Pete Hegseth complained that “Homeland” was trying to “ram political agendas down our throat.”

“Do we remember who the bombers of the Boston Marathon were?” cohost Jon Scott asked. “I mean, just an aside to the Muslim community, if you don’t want to be portrayed in a negative light, maybe don’t burn people alive and set off bombs and things like that.”

Hesgeth added: “Yeah, and point out the radicalism, and say that’s not me.” 

The comments didn’t sit well with many on Twitter: 

@yashar @JonScottFNC Jon please I have not burned anyone alive and neither has my mother. You ought to read and educate yourself: https://t.co/UdlJRcahqf

— Monis Khan (@monisismissing) April 16, 2017

FYI for Muslims from idiots: Fox News If Muslim Community Doesn’t Like Negative Media Portrayal Don’t Set Off Bombs https://t.co/Z8doAArGeN

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@Deanofcomedy) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Amazing how incredibly tone deaf your statement to the Muslim community is. https://t.co/2eMyauN3tr

— Mr. Lucky (@mrluckydj) April 17, 2017

Yeah "Muslim community." Knock it off already. https://t.co/0WtEyN8fke

— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) April 16, 2017

I mean ... https://t.co/WH3YR3zE2Y

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) April 17, 2017

I'm a @foxnews contributor. This is embarrassing. https://t.co/4mHHyRABhR

— Mo Elleithee (@MoElleithee) April 16, 2017

@DonCheadle I'm sure terrorists abide Fox News' words like law. I'm also sure the muslim community strongly identifies with terrorism. Bloody hell.

— cider (@cider44) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Do you blame all Christians for massacres by IRA, or abuse of children! Don't insult the entire Muslim 'community.' What would Jesus say?

— Dilma Arends Geerman (@wilderoosje) April 16, 2017

@rezaaslan Can't you guys just send an email to the Muslim Community listserv?

— Globalist Cuck (@VoteEquality) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Being condescending fails when the statement betrays the ignorance of the speaker. Are all men on FOX sexual abusers because of O'Reilly?

— Sarah O'Connell (@eatmoreart) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Oh FFS, is there a constant gas leak on the set of @foxandfriends?

— Marci ‍♀️ (@marcifromCO) April 16, 2017

What a great message for the entire non-bomb throwing/non-burning people alive billion strong Muslim community: it's all your own fault. https://t.co/H37GKeke5C

— emigre80 (@emigre80) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC So then we should look at ALL white males as racists, serial killers and mass shooters? Don't want the label, don't do it right? http://pic.twitter.com/Q2GEoETBJo

— Corey Reynolds (@coreyreynoldsLA) April 16, 2017

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Fox News Host Lectures Muslims: 'Don't Burn People Alive And Set Off Bombs'

The host of a Fox News show on Sunday told the “Muslim community” not to “burn people alive and set off bombs” if they want a better portrayal in the media.

“Fox & Friends Weekend” was discussing comments made by actor Mandy Patinkin, who said his show “Homeland” would try to be “part of the cure” by offering a more positive portrayal of Muslims. In an MSNBC interview, Patinkin noted that this season’s storyline would show “that maybe it’s the... white men in the government and the military establishment that are the bad guys, not the Muslim community.”

In a clip posted online by Media Matters, Fox News host Pete Hegseth complained that “Homeland” was trying to “ram political agendas down our throat.”

“Do we remember who the bombers of the Boston Marathon were?” cohost Jon Scott asked. “I mean, just an aside to the Muslim community, if you don’t want to be portrayed in a negative light, maybe don’t burn people alive and set off bombs and things like that.”

Hesgeth added: “Yeah, and point out the radicalism, and say that’s not me.” 

The comments didn’t sit well with many on Twitter: 

@yashar @JonScottFNC Jon please I have not burned anyone alive and neither has my mother. You ought to read and educate yourself: https://t.co/UdlJRcahqf

— Monis Khan (@monisismissing) April 16, 2017

FYI for Muslims from idiots: Fox News If Muslim Community Doesn’t Like Negative Media Portrayal Don’t Set Off Bombs https://t.co/Z8doAArGeN

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@Deanofcomedy) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Amazing how incredibly tone deaf your statement to the Muslim community is. https://t.co/2eMyauN3tr

— Mr. Lucky (@mrluckydj) April 17, 2017

Yeah "Muslim community." Knock it off already. https://t.co/0WtEyN8fke

— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) April 16, 2017

I mean ... https://t.co/WH3YR3zE2Y

— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) April 17, 2017

I'm a @foxnews contributor. This is embarrassing. https://t.co/4mHHyRABhR

— Mo Elleithee (@MoElleithee) April 16, 2017

@DonCheadle I'm sure terrorists abide Fox News' words like law. I'm also sure the muslim community strongly identifies with terrorism. Bloody hell.

— cider (@cider44) April 17, 2017

@JonScottFNC Do you blame all Christians for massacres by IRA, or abuse of children! Don't insult the entire Muslim 'community.' What would Jesus say?

— Dilma Arends Geerman (@wilderoosje) April 16, 2017

@rezaaslan Can't you guys just send an email to the Muslim Community listserv?

— Globalist Cuck (@VoteEquality) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Being condescending fails when the statement betrays the ignorance of the speaker. Are all men on FOX sexual abusers because of O'Reilly?

— Sarah O'Connell (@eatmoreart) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC Oh FFS, is there a constant gas leak on the set of @foxandfriends?

— Marci ‍♀️ (@marcifromCO) April 16, 2017

What a great message for the entire non-bomb throwing/non-burning people alive billion strong Muslim community: it's all your own fault. https://t.co/H37GKeke5C

— emigre80 (@emigre80) April 16, 2017

@yashar @JonScottFNC So then we should look at ALL white males as racists, serial killers and mass shooters? Don't want the label, don't do it right? http://pic.twitter.com/Q2GEoETBJo

— Corey Reynolds (@coreyreynoldsLA) April 16, 2017

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