{"id":5498,"date":"2025-06-22T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5498\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:17:09","slug":"ny-times-dragged-for-trying-to-fact-check-hegseths-praise-of-our-boys-flying-b-2-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/5498\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times dragged for trying to fact-check Hegseth&#8217;s praise of &#8216;our boys&#8217; flying B-2 bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has officially joined Israel in its battle against nuclear power Iran, and the New York Times was ready and waiting to wag a woke finger in the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/22\/us-news\/hegseth-says-trumps-iran-strike-shows-american-deterrence-is-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choice of words <\/a>in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>In a Sunday news conference, Hegseth heaped praise on President Trump and the military campaign that saw six \u201cbunker buster\u201d bombs dropped on key nuclear sites in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/22\/us-news\/inside-operation-midnight-hammer-us-dropped-14-bunker-buster-bombs-on-irans-fordow-nuke-site-in-biggest-ever-b-2-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The operation President Trump planned\u00a0<\/a>was bold and it was brilliant, showing the world that American deterrence is back,\u201d he said, warning, \u201cwhen this president speaks, the world should listen \u2014 and the US military, we can back it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth praised President Trump on the six \u201cbunker buster\u201d bombs dropped on key nuclear sites in Iran, referring to the B-2 pilots as \u201cour boys on those bombers,\u201d leading to the news outlet responding to the word choice. AP<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Hegseth casually called the B-2 pilots who dropped the 15-ton bombs on targets in Iran \u201cour boys on those bombers,\u201d which instantly got the Gray Lady in high dudgeon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the briefing, Hegseth referred to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/21\/world-news\/us-launches-strikes-on-iran-joining-forces-with-israel-days-after-trumps-tehran-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B-2 pilots <\/a>as \u2018our boys on those bombers,\u2019 yet both men and women have been trained to fly them,\u201d NYT Pentagon reporter John Ismay corrected the record on the outlet\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date on the latest developments in the U.S.  airstrike on Iran<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth men and women have been trained to fly them,\u201d NYT Pentagon reporter John Ismay corrected the record on the outlet\u2019s blog. US Air Force<\/p>\n<p>The posting drew hundreds of scornful comments on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why people use the New York Times to line their bird cages,\u201d one poster mused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why people use the New York Times to line their bird cages,\u201d one poster said as the post drew in scornful comments on social media. NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, let\u2019s make sure to be politically correct at this serious time,\u201d another sarcastically quipped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat an idiot. We women know exactly what Secretary Hegseth meant,\u201d said an X user.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear whether any women took part in the 37-hour B-2 bomber raid, which saw the stealth planes take off from and return to Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US has officially joined Israel in its battle against nuclear power Iran, and the New York Times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,396,6984,83,398,405,403,6985,5226,5225,5228,5227,6986,6987,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-5498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bombings","10":"tag-bombs","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-times","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-pete-hegseth","21":"tag-pilots","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114727684940299521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}