Christiane Amanpour recalls her first Gulf War tag with rank of major
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth hammered the press for their animus against President Trump. Hegseth compared them to the Pharasees who scrutinized Jesus looking for something to accuse the latter. Christiane Amanpour did not take this too well. She took to X, dropped her Roman Catholic credentials, leveraged the ninth commandment against bearing false witness, and followed with a statement about her dog tag. She recalled that the tag listed “major.” Amanpour’s post did not clarify whether this was for press access or if she actually served.
From Christiane Amanpour on X:
Using the Pentagon podium to lash out at journalists in extreme biblical terms is unprecedented, misguided, and frankly wrong on the substance. Ever since Sunday School Catholic classes, I have been well aware of the Scribes and the Pharisees. They were the bad guys against Jesus, the good guy… in current U.S. good v evil war parlance. Bearing witness to the truth is what we journalists are commanded to do, without fear nor favor.
I am also well aware of the Ten Commandments, and therefore urge any government radical anywhere, to follow the 9th… against bearing false witness.
And finally an observation: the current Secretary of War, f/k/a Defence, left the military with the rank of Major. I recall my dogtag in the first Gulf war had the rank of major… the very same rank. Just sayin’!
Additional Reading:
Toldjah, S. (2026, April 17). Hot takes: Stolen valor is alleged after ‘journlaist’ takes her Hegseth derangement syndrome too far. RedState. Link.
Category: Media, Phony soldiers, Society
She’s a Brit and isn’t that stolen valor (or, at least, running her mouth too.much)?
Call blimey love a duck, your right about that..
Maybe she’s claiming it via her relatives – she’s Brit/Iranian, and has some high-ranking Iranian military kin.
You mean formerly high ranking kin?
“Major” is only the first word in a proper description of Ms. Amanpour.
Followed by see you next Tuesday.
Or. Can’t understand normal thinking.
Ten Commandments
I had a silk screened tee shirt with the Chess record label on the front that had The Ten Commandments Of Love and on the back were the 10 lines with the words. I used to wear my 1950s record tees under my work shirt and when I did my Friday night laundry, I forgot to take it out of the washing machine and threw in my white under wear and added bleach. Shirt looked like it came from woodstock..
The Moonglows did the song in 1858 on the Chess Label. Five Satins had an earlier 1956 version.
Chess was founded in 1950. Must be a typo 🙂
Bitch has to go to the Vatican Hotel for a holy wax job just to go to communion… that part was not in The Atlantic.
Without the wax job, she most likely has the uni-brow and the ‘stache, plus a hair-pie that would choke a horse.
I wonder if anyone is going to spoil the surprise and tell her that rank isn’t imprinted on dog tags? Unless they weren’t the military kind and you know “Major” is her “pet name”.
Major Mudd was my hero on TV in the 50’s/60’s.
Fucking poser!
Oh, wow. My dog tag during first Gulf War times said “Specialist”.
My Viet of the Nam dog tag said “A POS”.
Hey, we be blood brothers!
Dog Tag or Military ID? Hack Stone never saw a US military issued dog tag with rank listed.
Speaking of dag togs, when Hack Stone was at Electronic Maintenance Company (ELMACO) 1st Maintenance Battalion in the early 1990’s, he kept his dog’s expired rabies vaccination tag on his dog tag chain. A Gunnery Sergeant was doing a uniform inspection of the ELMACO POGs, and she was quite irate upon discovering.
Gunnery Sergeant: Rabies vaccination?! Do you think that you are funny?
Sergeant Stone: Well, the Battalion Commander does.
Hack Stone made that statement based on the reaction of the Battalion Commander and his wife to Hack Stone’s being President of The Mess during the ELMACO Mess Night. Mrs Battalion Commander said it was the best and funniest one she ever attended.
Sorry Hack, shoulda put the /s tag. 😁
Hack needs to update his Sarcasm Recognition Software.
Doesn’t somebody have a red hat software update available?
I just looked at my dog tags. There is no rank shown…
Meanwhile, liberals are ticked-off about this:
Viet Nam era dog Tag
Last Name, First Initial
SSN
Baptiat (Typo second a should have been an s)
O POS
no rank.
She’s more full of shit then ten million geese, twelve million seagulls and a thousand politicians!
I don’t know about that…I can think of one particular seagull that is more full of shit than all of those avians plus the silly bitch that is the subject of this article. 🤣
I should have scrolled down….
Or Lars?
“ Bearing witness to the truth is what we journalists are commanded to do, without fear nor favor.”
And yet you fail to do so on every level at every opportunity.
She fits right in at CNN. As has been said about many journalists, she wouldn’t know the truth if it kicked her in the ass.
The “War Whore” tells another bullshit story. Dog tags back then were name, SSN, religion (or NRP), and blood type. That’s it.
You forgot Gas Mask size.
Navy ones didn’t have that. But then again, submarine EABs and OBAs were pretty much one size fits all…except the drill monitors, the slackers.
From a reply on her original X post. I have a feeling we’re gonna get a lot of use out of this one.