Hegseth about to fire a speechwriter.

I’d wager that was 100% him and completely intentional because he thought it would be cool

Basically everything he does or says is a contrived attempt to look like a badass, but it almost always just makes him look like a frickin dork

The combination of "we're bombing them to smithereens" with prayer is not the greatest thing in the first place.

On second thought, I doubt a speechwriter had much to do with that.

From the Book of Jules 25: 1-15 while we are talking contrived and non existent Bible verses and prayers

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I’d wager that was 100% him and completely intentional because he thought it would be cool

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He was probably too drunk to notice.

Like the pope he can be fallible in his choice of words.

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Yikes. Y'all think CSAR 25:17 is in the bible?

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You mean it isn't? Next you'll try to tell me Hegseth didn't write it.

If he stuck more to running the military and less to seeking an Influencer tag, we’d all be better off.

I’m all for using social media to further the mission, efficiency, and effectiveness of necessary government operations.

Not so much for our leaders to stop just short of ducklipping in selfies.

ETA: Apologists will rationalize this with claims of it being “in fun”, a troll to distract, or some other bullshite. I don’t want any of it. I want people to take these jobs seriously and not as platforms for their brand.

ETA2: And just like that, thread is anchored. This crap is getting old fast.

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Bad look from the folks who want to keep things biblically pure.

Unforced errors.

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Don't listen to stupid MSM stories and their faux outrage and indignation... as if these people even care about what the Bible says. Listen to the relevant portion of your speech itself. It's just over a minute and a half.



In the first 50 or so seconds he explicitly explains:

1) that this prayer was handed to him by the lead mission planner of "Sandy 1" (part of the A10 group that supported the recent daylight rescue op). Whether or not Hegseth even used a speechwriter, the explicit explanation of the source of the prayer completely eliminates the possibility of either Hegseth or a speechwriter ignorantly trying to incorporate actual scripture out of Ezekiel by just taking the fictionalized Pulp Fiction version. So your thread title is a complete miss.

2) that the Sandies play an important and dangerous role. And he pays them a lot of respect.

3) that this specific variation of the prayer is recited by Sandy 1 for all Sandy / A10 missions.

From the 0:50 to the 1:00 mark, he chuckles that they call it CSAR 25:17 and says "which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17."

From my perspective, an amused acknowledgement of what Sandy 1 calls the prayer to a quick aside that "he thinks" it "reflects" Ezekiel (allowing for an appropriate and sincere amount of uncertainty of the inspiration for the name) is very efficient word economy. He does not claim authority or that this is verbatim. And if you understand that the Pulp Fiction version of the Eziekel verse, which is in part inspired by some 70s movie, also does contain some of the actual Ezekiel verse... it is reasonable to say to say CSAR 25:17 "reflects" Eziekel. It does.

The only people who would be offended are those looking to make something out of nothing. He was efficient. Because others believe and are spreading this stupid MSM narrative (whether you really believe it or are just lazily making this thread without thinking), it feels regrettably necessary for me to over-explain this.

The fact that Hegseth goes on to invite the audience to join him in reciting the verbatim prayer as a show of respect for the Sandy / CSAR units-- and the verbatim prayer includes obviously modern words like "aviator" and "call sign" that are not biblical-- makes it all the more appropriate for Hegseth to quickly point to the biblical inspiration of the prayer and not to the Pulp Fiction part.

The only unforced error is your thread. Think before you post.

Yep. The homos on DU are dancing their pliant little buttholes off.

What a bimbo.