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Home Front: Politix
Pentagon slams Fox News' Tucker Carlson for segment on 'feminine' US military
2021-03-12
[RT] The Pentagon and multiple senior military officials have targeted Fox News host Tucker Carlson over a controversial segment criticizing the US armed forces becoming "more feminine."

In a segment highlighting the potential threat of China’s military to the US, Carlson pointed to comments made by President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
 about "updating" certain requirements like hairstyles to change the "culture and habits" that cause women to "leave the US military."

"So we’ve got new hairstyles, maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars," Carlson then said as he showed an image of an Air Force officer wearing a still-in-development maternity flight suit. The military has changed its rules so women can fly non-combat aircraft into their second trimester of pregnancy.

"It’s a mockery of the US military," Carlson said, noting the move towards a more "feminine" military in the US as opposed to a more masculine force in China.

Carlson’s comments quickly caught fire on Thursday, as critics accused him of disparaging women who serve.

The most surprising reaction, however, came from the Pentagon itself, which somehow found time to respond to Carlson.

"What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military," Pentagon front man John Kirby told news hounds on Thursday.

Kirby added that he hopes Carlson realizes he made a "mistake" and expresses "some regret about the manner in which he essentially demeaned the entire US military and how we defend and how we serve this country."

Kirby also said that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "shares the revulsion of so many others to what Mr. Carlson said."

While many critics shared the Pentagon’s criticism with glee, others questioned why a "talk show host" would even be a priority for them.
"Ex-PFC Wintergreen, write a scathing response to that Tucker fellow!"
"Yes, sir, Mister Deputy Assistant Undersecretary, sir!"
Posted by:Fred

#7  I guess it kind of begs the questions, why is it personal advice instead of military advice, and just who do you take orders from?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-12 16:06  

#6  John Kirby (Left Nut) and Lloyd Austin (Right Nut).

President* Biden (Dick in the Middle) has 2 throne-sniffers at the 5-Sided Nut...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2021-03-12 14:17  

#5  better a Tucker than a Cucker
Posted by: Alistaire Omolugum9971   2021-03-12 13:03  

#4  /\ Yes, the Pentagon (Five-Sided Nut). A lovely collection of highly paid feather merchants, at one time numbering as many as 20,000.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-03-12 12:41  

#3  Is this the same Pentagon who is offering to lopp off your pecker for free? (Assuming you have one);
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-03-12 12:39  

#2  "What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military,"

You sure about that hot shot?
China Ties Raise Questions for Biden’s Pick for Top Defense Post
Joe Biden's pick for a top Pentagon post works at a research center partnered with China's Peking University, a school that has long been eyed as a security risk by western intelligence.

Colin Kahl, whom Biden tapped for undersecretary of defense for policy, has served as a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University since the beginning of 2018. The institute oversees the Stanford Center at Peking University in northern Beijing, which opened in 2012.

Kahl is not the first Biden nominee whose employer has business entanglements in China. Biden's pick for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, cofounded the consulting firm WestExec, which helped U.S. universities raise money from China without running afoul of Pentagon grant requirements, the Washington Free Beacon reported last month. WestExec scrubbed the details of this work from its website over the summer.

Kahl, a longtime Biden national-security adviser and DJ, was closely involved in crafting the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal and reportedly played a key role in removing language identifying Jerusalem as Israel's capital from the 2012 Democratic National Convention platform.

"The closer you are to Biden world the more likely it is that you ended up in a ChiCom orbit," one GOP official told the Free Beacon.

Coit Blacker, a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, said his employer agreed to open its Beijing outpost after receiving "an intriguing offer from the leadership" at Peking University in 2007, according to the Stanford Daily. "The way things work in China is nothing like this comes about accidentally," he added, suggesting that the proposal emerged from upper levels of the Chinese government.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a national-security think tank founded by the Australian government, has warned of a "high risk" for groups partnering with Peking University, because of its collaborations with the Chinese military.
Posted by: Slusoting Crans9404   2021-03-12 12:36  

#1  or the Chinese military

Whoah, where'd that come from?, sounding like a little emotional tizzy there.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-12 12:11  

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