Bodling"It is a truth generally acknowledged that Pete Hegseth is a muttonhead."
~~~Maureen Dowd's opening sentence in her NY Times opinion piece in today's paper, titled "Fraidy-Cat at the Pentagon."
She continues: "He is going to spur some superlative Pentagon coverage. Because nothing gets a bunch of reporters going like being forced out of the building where they work and being told they aren’t allowed to do their jobs."
[He] "does not like how the media covered him as he ascended — utterly unqualified and looking like the third lead of a cheesy spring-break movie."
"Knowing he’s in over his head, Hegseth has grown more paranoid and resentful — qualities we need in the supervisor of a nearly trillion-dollar budget, supervising troops and weapons all over the world."
"Hegseth, immature and unconfident, cannot accept that a free press is integral to democracy."