We have long chronicled the descent of West Point from 1.) bastion of American values and producer of American heroes such as Ulysses S. Grant (class of 1843) and George S. Patton (class of 1909), to 2.) embracer of DEI, CRT, and all things woke:
At this point, it is pretty much undisputed that West Point considers race in its admissions process, a situation the legality of which is being litigated at this very moment in federal court in the Southern District of New York. See our latest report here: Supreme Court Denies Emergency Injunction To Stop West Point Racial Discrimination In Admissions Pending Appeal
And there isn’t much dispute anymore that West Point is teaching CRT and DEI to its cadets:
So I was not shocked to find out that West Point when asked by left-wing website ProPublica, twice falsely reported that Pete Hegseth, the next Secretary of Defense, not only was not admitted to be a cadet at West Point, but he never even applied.
If you scroll down in this post to posts 2 and 3 in the thread, you will see where West Point was asked by ProPublica twice whether Pete Hegseth applied and was admitted:
Both false statements.
Fortunately ProPublica asked Pete Hegseth for his take on the situation and he provided ironclad documentation showing that he had indeed applied to West Point and was admitted to the West Point Class of 2003!
Incidentally, this looks legit to me since it is almost identical to the letter I received from the United States Naval Academy (USNA) informing me of my admission to the USNA Class of 1981.
ProPublica, for its part, claimed innocence in the whole process:
That’s a dodge, because as numerous members of the X brigade pointed out, “journalism” would be doing a story on how West Point falsely reported (twice) that Pete Hegseth was not admitted:
And, of course, West Point then “apologized” for the “error”. You can find the apology at the end of ProPublica editor Jesse Eisinger’s X post about the event (requires lots of scrolling, etc.), or as seen here by X Poster Techno Fog:
Note: Techno Fog got one thing wrong: Pete Hegseth was not offered admission into the Classes of 1999 and 2003 – he applied in 1999 and was offered admission to the Class of 2003.
In any case, West Point has a lot of explaining to do and Republican Senator from Arkansas Tom Cotton is on the case:
Twenty years ago I would not have believed that West Point was intentionally trying to sabotage the nomination of the, or any, President-elect’s choice for Secretary of Defense.
Today, West Point will have to convince me that this was an innocent mistake.
My official (i.e. X) position on this scandal:
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