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I can't find the article, but something along the lines of what senseandsensibility posted did happen. What senseandsensibility doesn't know and his/her source probably would not include is that Griffin was trying to troll Hegseth with Dem/MSM equine feces minimizing the significance of the Iran bombing. Whether Griffin is Lib/Prog or trying to endear herself with MSM, Hegseth handed her tail to her.

Found it:

Sparks Fly at Press Conference As Pete Hegseth Slams Fox News' Jennifer Griffin for Biased Reporting

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/06/26/sparks-fly-at-press-conference-as-pete-hegseth-slams-fox-news-jennifer-griffin-for-biased-reporting-n2190921

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth openly criticized Fox News Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin, calling her "about the worst" when it comes to coverage of the Pentagon and their recent mission in taking out Iran's nuclear program.

The tense exchange took place during a press conference, in which Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined Hegseth to brief reporters on the success of the airstrikes against Iran.

Hegseth, who had absolutely excoriated the media early on in the presser, now took a shot at Griffin.

The Fox News reporter asked the Defense Secretary how he could be sure "that all the highly enriched uranium was in the Fordow mountain" when the bombing took place, noting satellite imagery purportedly showing trucks moving out before the onslaught.

"Are you certain none of that highly enriched uranium was moved?” she asked.

Hegseth was not in the mood.

“Of course, we’re watching every single aspect, but Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most intentionally what the president says," Hegseth fired back.

Note, BTW, that "RedState" is a conservative news/commentary site, not MSM or ProgMedia.

And libs accuse conservatives of not being able to accept election results. Cuomo and Adams both lose and will now run as independents.

Naturally, your typical legacy leftists are continuing to trot out the usual garbage about Islamophobia when any criticism of Mamdani is spoken.

Here's one example:

As Mamdani Rises, Anti-Muslim Attacks Roll In From the Right

Even before Zohran Mamdani claimed victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, he had become a target of racist attacks from the far right. Those attacks have only intensified in the wake of his commanding performance on Tuesday, with Republican elected officials and right-wing media figures accusing him of promoting Islamic law, supporting terrorism and posing a threat to the safety of New Yorkers, especially Jews.

There has been nothing subtle about it: Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, called Mr. Mamdani’s apparent win “the clearest warning yet of what happens to a society when it fails to control migration.” Representative Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, accused Mr. Mamdani of supporting terrorists and asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to strip him of his citizenship and deport him.

Representative Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, shared a photo of Mr. Mamdani preparing for an Eid service while dressed in a kurta, writing, “we sadly have forgotten” the Sept. 11 attacks, which occurred when Mr. Mamdani was 9 years old and living in Manhattan. And Charlie Kirk, the head of Turning Point USA, a leading group for conservative youth, sought to connect him to those attacks even more directly.

“24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11,” he wrote. “Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.”

The attacks on Mr. Mamdani, who would be the first Muslim mayor of New York City if elected, deal in well-worn Islamophobic and anti-immigrant tropes. To some, they carry echoes of the “birther” conspiracy theory Donald J. Trump stoked for years before he was elected president, when he falsely claimed that President Barack Obama was Muslim and born in Kenya.

Mr. Obama is Christian and was born in Hawaii; Mr. Mamdani is Muslim and was born to Indian parents in Uganda. But like the “birther” attacks, the vitriolic barbs being aimed at Mr. Mamdani seek to paint him as a shadowy, dangerous figure who bears no resemblance to the candidate himself.

The dark vision of Mr. Mamdani’s New York that his opponents describe is also deeply out of step with the coalition that powered his rise, which is young and multiethnic. He prevailed in neighborhoods with more higher-income and middle-income residents, more college graduates and more white, Asian and Hispanic residents.

No link, NY Slimes...

My criticism of this clown has zero to do with his faith: He is a socialist/communist and hates the Jews. Enough to for me to dislike him.

1WorldHope (1,362 posts)

What it is to be an American
The 4th of July

This is really long, but I spent 2 hours writing it yesterday. I got 2 comments and one was my sister, so I'm going to try again. 😩

The 4th of July
America's Good Bye Tour

As We The People get ready to “celebrate” the 4th of July, also known as Independence Day, we've got to ask ourselves what it means to be an American. We went to great lengths to get our “freedom”. We fled to another continent, killed or imprisoned all the people that already lived here. We're talking full on genocide. Then we stole a whole lot of African people, threw them in the bottom of ships like they were not sentient beings, just things, property, like we have always treated animals. We brought them to our newly stolen lands and enslaved them. Pretty cool so far. Then we fought some more wars so we could steal more land from Mexico.

We fought the British, we fought the French, we fought the Spaniards, and in the end “We won our Independence”. We went about making rich white men richer, a theme in our great country, women were of course just chattel, (white chattel had it better than brown or black chattel) we fought each other in the civil war, which never ended. Then we patted ourselves on the back, begged for poor white people to immigrate here from all over Europe and become wage slaves. We continued to go about our purpose of making white men richer and telling ourselves that we were a great country. More free and better in any way you could imagine. The concept of false pride comes to mind.

Eventually, we got to see the horrors of WWI, then Hitler came to power. We were like, oh hell no, we aren't getting involved in that business. Help the Jews fleeing from Germany? Oh hell no, again. Eventually, Japan said, “watch this”. So, we had no choice. Young men, including my father and his brothers and every able bodied boy joined the fight. By now I wonder if we can even count the number of lives lost in horrible violent wars. So, we developed a way to kill more people all at once without killing anymore of “our” people. We dropped nuclear bombs on big cities in Japan, when all was said and done, almost 300,000 Japanese citizens were killed. Are we great yet?

Then we went back to making white men richer again. We accidentally created a middle class of people. Now we were great, right? Well, a middle class for white people anyway. Then came the 1960's. Black people had had enough of this BS and started to revolt. Peacefully. So, we just beat the living hell out of them some more, until television came along and the whole world could see our greatness. Some of us didn't feel so great about this when we saw what this really looked like. There were some major battles won for black people in America, women, and for LGBTQ+ people.

So, we got into another war, put these newly freed black boys on the front line to fight for their country, put all the boys we could draft right behind them, and we got to watch live every evening with Walter Cronkite how many of these boys died each day. Every evening at dinner we watched the flag draped coffins unloaded from the planes. Finally, there were witnesses and our youth rose up and said, Oh Hell No! Our government killed a few of us, but there was that nasty journalism thing there again, to show the whole world our greatness. To show us what we looked like being great. The children woke up the whole nation. We started to pass laws for equality, we started to notice that we were ravaging our planet and needed to stop. Truly good things started to be the norm, for most of us, at least we thought that Good was the new norm and this naive youth thought it would just keep getting better. America's enlightenment, if you will. I mean once you see the light who would want to return to darkness?

So, America, as most of us just try to get on with our lives and act like nothing is wrong with deputizing proud boys and pardoned January 6 violent criminals and having them terrorize, beat and disappear our neighbors, friends, relatives and fellow citizens. We have elected a mad man who already tried to overthrow the country once, has never made an honest penny in his life, has raped countless women and pubescent girls over the years, broken every law a president could break, and now bombed Iran, (hardly an exhaustive list of his sins) Well, lets celebrate by spending our hard earned wages on pretend bombs, that terrorize those soldiers (who survived the wars they fought for more money for rich white men), and our pets and the dwindling wildlife, who apparently just don't count anyway. Let's creep back into the darkness with all our freedom, independence and false pride. It was a nice story we told ourselves. Now turn off the lights so we can go back to sleep and dream of being great again.

It's early in the 4th of July celebration season so no doubt there will be many more DU threads discussing how much they hate this country.  But this one was special in that it seems this DUmmy couldn't even come up with one positive thing to say about this country.  And, hilariously, it took them 2 hours to compile their hateful message, and they posted it twice because their first attempt only garnered two responses.  They act like they are the only ones to notice that the history of the US is full of bad choices, but they can't seem to recognize the things we should actually be proud of.  I wonder how many of them believe that any other country in the world has no negative history.  And of course, why are they not actively looking to emigrate to this magical land.  The responses are typical.

Omnipresent (6,958 posts)
4. The 4th symbolized the struggle of greedy, white, landowners in the colonies, telling greedy, white..

Landowners and their king to shove it.
Poor whites and slaves weren’t really part of the equation.

Yep, all the colonists were greedy rich white men.  Poor whites and slaves weren't involved at all in the Revolutionary War.  Where did these idiots learn their history?

But after only 21 responses a little reality kills the thread.

Abolishinist (2,609 posts)
22. And we wonder why we lose elections.

JFC.

We'll have to see if they decide to post this a third time trying to generate a little more hatred for the US.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220434086

senseandsensibility (22,655 posts)

So I have to admit to being surprised


Pleasantly surprised at that. Because I have a weak stomach and low tolerance for bad acting, I did not watch Hegseth's press conference. But I did see this exchange transcribed by Aaron Rupar, and it appears that even FAUX News has had enough

Fox News's Jennifer Griffin: Are you certain that none of the highly enriched uranium was moved?
Hegseth: Jennifer, you've been the worst. The one who misrepresents the most intentionally.
Giffin: I take issue with that

The next step, of course, would be for the next reporter to ask the same question, and the next UNTIL IT IS ANSWERED. Even if it is never answered, the refusal to answer repeatedly tells its own story. Don't know if the press corps will ever learn to do this, but it would be very powerful if they did.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220434308

Uh huh

soy boi harry sissy is quite the insufferable ****