Williams: We Have Guys on Our Team Like Terrorists - Special Forces, First Responders

Hardball/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Howlin]

"they want to kill themselves to hurt us... there are guys on our team like that, too"

He didn't say that first part, Matthews did.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

treasonous

[Mo1]

He wasn't trashing the Rangers and the Seals.

Maybe I'm missing something .. but I took Williams comments as tough he was comparing the two

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Precisely.

[MHGinTN]

The liberal mind cannot get past the zeal, to see the motives behind the behaviors. Willimas is a typical blind liberal. Their abject blindness is why they impute motives to Bush that are irrational yet precisely what a liberal would do if roles were reversed.

[Mo1]

He misspoke

Maybe ... but he should known better then to say a thing like that

[jackv]

I know that!!
He was directly responding to that comment tho.
Good grief. Not the end of the world.
His words were very poorly chosen is all we're saying.
This isn't the first time he sounds like a dunce!

[Howlin]

His words were very poorly chosen is all we're saying.

I said that on the other thread and the poster said I must agree with Williams and think the Rangers and Seals were like terrorist.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

He did NOT say it with malice.

I tried to make that point in the first sentence of the post.

[Howlin]

You had to see how it happened; he was in London, he was on first, and it was the end of his segment and Chris asked him one more question.

[jackv]

Oh brother!!

[Diogenesis]

[freekitty]

That's it. Now they are grasping at straws and not to well either. I can't believe dumb can get dumber. There is a big difference between our special forces who know the value of life and a culture that doesn't or isn't allowed to.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

This whole thing is a tempest in a teapot.

[Mo1]

You had to see how it happened

Ok ... that is true

But putting our guys in the same category of the terrorists is way out of line

[no dems]

I'm no friend of Brian Williams and definitely not a friend of the MSM but I really think he meant this as an accolade rather than a smear.

[Albertafriend]

I understand what you are saying but Williams is being paid millions of dollars to not make such mistakes. This is not the first time he has been so reckless.

[Howlin]

Everybody says things out of context; that's no need for us to take up arms for what appears to have been a slip of the tongue, i.e., not either having or taking the time to DIFFERENTIATE between why ours are better.

[TChad]

Where is the transcript? Without a full transcript to establish context it is impossible to tell if these remarks were just ambiguous and clumsy, or were as offensive as many here seem to believe.

[Howlin]

You mean like this:

To: spectre; Howlin

As much as I hate to bring it up, even our beloved Brit Hume once made a statement that got him into trouble. He was talking about the number of our brave servicepeople who had been killed in Iraq, and said that there were less battle casualties than people who had been murdered in California during the same time period.

It was an unfortunate statement that he obviously regretted making, and he certainly was not trying to be dismissive of our troop losses. Needless to say, he was hammered mercilessly by the left.

337 posted on 08/10/2006 10:19:13 PM EDT by Inspectorette

[Inspectorette]

As much as I hate to bring it up, even our beloved Brit Hume once made a statement that got him into trouble. He was talking about the number of our brave servicepeople who had been killed in Iraq, and said that there were less battle casualties than people who had been murdered in California during the same time period.