Let’s get real: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is catching heat for chatting military shop on Signal—a secure app that your neighbor Todd probably uses to discuss his fantasy football picks or to dodge alimony payments. The media’s reaction? You’d think he leaked launch codes to Putin himself while riding shirtless on a Russian bear.
Let’s rewind a second and remember when Hillary Clinton (and the media’s lack of attention) thought it was cool to stash a decade’s worth of State Department intel on a server hidden in her basement, guarded by about as much security as a cheap gas station condom.
We’re talking classified material so sensitive it would make Edward Snowden blush. We’d all be likely sent to jail for a lesser offense.
Hell, during the Benghazi debacle, she and Patrick Kennedy went full Houdini on evidence that could’ve cleared up exactly why Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in Libya (including my best friend Glen).
*Note: For details, check “Benghazi: The Definitive Report,” trust me, it’s juicier than youth sleepaway camp sponsored by the Catholic church.
So, Hegseth is accused of using Signal from his Pentagon office to spitball some ops against Houthis in Yemen. And yeah, probably not his brightest move. But comparing this to Clinton’s classified server circus is like comparing a bar fight to a nuclear apocalypse.
If Clinton’s server scandal didn’t end with her swapping the pantsuit for prison stripes, why is the mainstream media acting like Hegseth’s Signal app is the apocalypse’s opening act?
How about we focus on something that actually matters—like readiness and morale at the Department of Defense since Hegseth took over? I’m willing to bet a case of whiskey and my favorite rifle that both have gone up, not down.
But the media doesn’t want to talk about that—they want scandal, clicks, and chaos. Classic modern news media move: stir the pot, sell the outrage, rinse and repeat.
Bottom line? Pete Hegseth’s “Signal-Gate” is small potatoes compared to the Clinton email fiasco, and everyone pretending otherwise either has the memory of a goldfish or the agenda of a North Korean propaganda minister.
Chill out, American news media. Let’s pick our battles a little better.