Retired US generals call Pentagon's planned execution livestream barbaric; inside the defense secretary's church, it's a biblical mandate.

Clive Public. I read my stanza aloud in the kitchen on Tuesdays, which is the only broadcast this house has ever licensed.

Gary Licensed. Three people heard it last Tuesday, and two left before the rhyme, which is the ratings Clive won't print.

The same day, the United Nations' human rights office said the livestreaming "is tantamount to a public execution" and breaches "the absolute prohibition of torture," and a Republican senator told the Washington Examiner it was "beyond disgusting."

Rob Ratings. It was always going to come down to ratings, same as the meter, and the lentils got the usual one word of thanks.

Keith Thanks. There's the angle: license the meter reading as the Positivity Ratio and have it on the shelf by Thursday.

Six days later, on October 15, 72 former officers wrote to the Pentagon that the livestream "will taint the honor of the military that employs it, and a nation that allows it." The same day, YouGov found 71 percent of Americans opposed to broadcasting executions live, 18 percent in favor, and 13 percent unsure. Inside Secretary Hegseth's own church, NPR found, a public execution fitting a biblical mandate is not an outlier for some Christians there.

Clive Mandate. I've had a standing mandate from this kitchen for verse since March, same as Keith's had one for angles.

Gary Standing. The only thing standing since March is the damp patch, and the landlord's mandate on that one is silence.

You will be looking for the law that stops a government showing this on a screen.

The BBC, which is what they have here, printed it as retired generals urging the Pentagon to cancel a "barbaric" execution livestream. At home, the secretary's own word for the same broadcast was public.

Take the Pentagon by both ends: a department that announced a punishment on Thursday before it had settled on a form, and only settled on livestreamed once the first word made the papers.

This serves Secretary Hegseth's own congregation, who already have doctrine for it. The Pentagon pays for the camera, running December 3 whether the generals, the UN or the 71 percent get their way.

Keith Camera rights. If they're filming it anyway, someone should find out whether the feed carries adverts, because that's a slot this house could use on rent day.