I think, at this point, Defense Secretary Hegseth is accepted by government observers to be profoundly incompetent to his job. He may have been great as a Fox News host, but anything else?
So this report from Steve Benen (because I don’t have NYTimes access) isn’t surprising:
Among those joining [AG] Bondi for the inaugural meeting of the [anti-Christian bias task] group was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who, it turns out, held a related event one month later. The New York Times reported:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader. The event, billed as the “Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer & Worship Service,” was standing room only and ran for about 30 minutes, with Brooks Potteiger, the pastor of Mr. Hegseth’s church in Tennessee, as the main speaker.
Bold mine, added in case my reader is skimming.
When it comes to being incompetent, it’s vital to legitimize your occupancy of your important and prestigious position, and what better way than to have your boss be divinely appointed?
The light generated by that appointment, or at least the propaganda megaphones, will reflect on their incompetent minions, such as Hegseth, Noem, Luttnick, and so many others, and distract casual observers from the basic shortcomings of these minions by enticing them into casting about for any hints of divine favor for these incompetent.
Never mind how these chronic incompetents subtract all that divine glory stuff from the divine. You can’t tell because, well, God doesn’t make appearances.
So this anti-Constitutional meeting isn’t really about spreading Christianity so much as excusing Mr Hegseth’s vast and profound incompetency. He can impress himself by how much God favors him. Why, God said so during his last appearance.
Didn’t he?
