David Frum on Pete Hegseth: ‘If You’re Too Drunk for Fox News, You’re Very, Very Drunk Indeed’
‘You don’t want to think that our moral standards have declined so much that you can say let’s take all the drinking, all the sex pesting, subtract any knowledge of defense … and there is your next secretary of defense for the 21st century’
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FRUM: "Well, just given what one sees on camera, if you're too drunk for Fox News, you're very, very drunk indeed. So that's alarming. In 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominated John Tower, senator from Texas, for Secretary of Defense. Now, Tower was a very considerable person, a real defense intellectual, someone who deeply understood defense, unlike the current nominee. And it emerged that Tower had a drinking problem, and when he was drinking too much, he would make himself a nuisance or worse to the women around him. And for that reason, his nomination collapsed in 1989. You don't want to think that our moral standards have declined so much that you can say, 'Let's take all the drinking, all the sex-pesting, subtract any knowledge of defense, subtract any leadership, and there's your next Secretary of Defense for the 21st century.'"
