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'He went full beta': MS NOW hosts single out Hegseth's 'really weird' Pentagon pitch
What happened
RawStory reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a Wednesday “State of the Force” speech to declare that the Pentagon was no longer “woke” or “weak,” while deriding categories of people he considered physically or culturally unacceptable. On Friday, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist mocked the presentation as insecure and “really weird,” answering the headline’s teaser by calling Hegseth’s performance “full beta.”
The hosts focused particularly on Hegseth’s repeated interest in testosterone and his aggressive stage manner. Their segment established a spectacle…
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