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There was a story in the news.

This is a really, really disingenuous story about Pete Hegeseth.

And this is the kind of stuff that makes people hate the quote-unquote mainstream media

or what Rush called the drive-by media.

Let's see if I can find this.

It was a claim that Pete Hegseth was eating steak and lobster every night.

And that's the way it was pitched.

Here we go.

The story is that Pete Hagseth blew millions of dollars on steak and lobster.

Well, actually, the truth is that members of our military, I'm told,

have been served surf and turf steak and and lobsters, for decades, shortly before or shortly after a combat deployment.

You know, the kamikazis, the Japanese government when they instituted the kamikaze attacks because that man was

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