Seymour Hersh: military hates Obama because they're racists and he's black (the guy is nutz!)

Mudville Gazette ^ | 10-20-09 | Greyhawk

[STARWISE]

Also missing from the vague accusations leveled at the general is some sort of motive for his behavior. No one has accused him of racism yet...

Here's why I said "yet":

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The army is also "in a war against the White House -- and they feel they have [President] Obama boxed in," Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several hundred people in Duke University's Page Auditorium on Tuesday night. "They think he's weak and the wrong color. Yes, there's racism in the Pentagon. We may not like to think that, but it's true and we all know it."

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Hersh is so far off the mark here it would be astounding - if this were anyone other than Seymour Hersh.

Given that much of the "rift" he's squawking about is a well-choreographed show for one man's consumption (not that "the Pentagon" enjoys its part in the play - they understand the additional consequences, but ultimately they do follow orders) the remainder of his ravings - racist and otherwise - appear all the more clueless. But again, that's typical Seymour Hersh.

But is there anyone out there ignorant and gullible enough to unquestioningly swallow whatever junk Seymour spews? Yes.

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So many of the saner people were driven out of the military during the Bush administration, it doesn't surprise me that the people left include a lot of the right-wing, racist fringe elements.

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Update - in case you think Hersh hates anyone more than he does American soldiers, here's a blast from the past:

*** If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said.

"In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation," he said. "It isn't happening now, but I will tell you - there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq."

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Hersh also has accused American soldiers of committing atrocities in the 1991 Gulf War. He's one of those guys who imagines those big bullies that used to flush his head in the high school toilet every day all grew up and joined the army.

More:

It should also be noted that typical follow-up statements from Hersh on stories like this include: "I actually didn't quite say what I wanted to say correctly. It wasn't that inaccurate, but it was misstated. The next thing I know, it was all over the blogs."

And "Vice president Cheney does not have a death squad. This is another example of blogs going bonkers with misleading and fabricated stories and professional journalists repeating such rumours without doing their job - and that is to verify such rumours."

And "oh God of God please stop hitting me and tell Senator Kennedy I swear I won't do it again."

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[STARWISE]

What a piece of garbage .. Hersh, drawn like a fly to filth, fabricating evil everywhere.

[GeronL]

Hersh “is not a real journalist”.

[STARWISE]

[massgopguy]

Obama isn’t weak. He’s actually above average for a dickless accordion player.

[GoCards]

Why does this guy do this?

[OldDeckHand]

In 25 years as a US Naval officer, I've never seen nor heard any racist remark made to or about anyone. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but in all of America's great institutions, it exists least in the US military, IMHO.

Hersh is a D-Bag, and is given to embellishment, in the extreme.

[GeronL]

Leftists hate the military. So the military “hates” them right back. Since a half-black guy is in the WH, that means “racism”.

Its just another stupid liberal rhetorical crap stunt

[tgusa]

Seymour, you are a PUTZ.

[Billthedrill]

There is a certain level of prejudice in the Pentagon (and elsewhere in the military) but it isn't racial. It's against know-it-all amateurs who send good men and women into harm's way thinking it's all a political game. It's against people who never served a day imagining that they understand the whole thing from reading Sergeant Rock comic books and their equivalent on the left, Noam Chomsky. It's against ideological nitwits who consider the U.S. so evil that dead servicemembers is social justice. And yes, Mr. Hersh, it's against journalists who make a career out of sensationalizing the inevitable mistakes and when even these are insufficient, making them up out of whole cloth. I have a good deal of that sort of prejudice myself.

[cranked]

Godwin’s Law should be appleid to any and all uses of the race card. This is utter ridiculous. The military is pissed at Barry for the simple fact that Barry is playing politivs with the Afghanistan issue, which is costing LIVES!

If Hersh can’t figure that out, he should feel free to make any all of his arguments excuses Barry utilizing the bogus race card....null and void.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Whoa, hold on now, I thought the military was filled with blacks because they were all disenfranchised and couldn’t find any other form of employment?

So which is it? Unemployed blacks forced to become cannon fodder or wild eyed crackers looking to learn how to kill?

I’m so confused...

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[lady lawyer]

Obama hates the military. Every time a soldier dies, odds are that’s one less Republican. Soldiers love their country, and want it to be strong. Obama hates this country, and wants to bring it down a peg or two.

[DarthVader]

“in a war against the White House — and they know they have [President] Obama boxed in,” (fixed it)

There maybe some truth to this but it is not racist.

[tumblindice]

“Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh”
Awarded to the pinko for his shocking expose of high school football: “Under The Grandstands,” written under his nom de plume `Seymour Butts.’

[manonCANAL]

Hope all our military are oathkeepers.
join oathkeepers today
oathkeepers.org

[Carley]

I had no idea Obama was black.

I also think I heard that Kerry served in Viet Nam.

Not proven tho.

[kabar]

It was a good thing that Colin Powell wasn’t black.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

No one ever calculates a batting average for Hersh.

He published a lot of stuff in The New Yorker during the Bush administration that all but guaranteed things that never happened.

His use of vaguely identified sources - sometimes leads to the distinct impression that he talked to one or two people in evaluating the basis for his "scoop", but refers to them obliquely in different ways (attaches different labels) to suggest that the sources are some multitude of people "in the know". When in fact they are often one or two sources (during the Bush administration - Democrats out of power and hating every minute of it). By masking his sources to such a degree he is asking us to take on faith that he has found an accurate source of insight, and when you look back at his reportage, it just isn't true.

[STARWISE]

I know ... shocking, isn’t it ? ... /S

As someone in guatemala suggests:

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Education alone causes damage in a case like this. Don’t let them get away with this. This guy has the nuclear triggers. Scary huh? If people accuse you of being racist for picking on Obama because he is black this is what you say:

If you do not call him black I will not call him white. That’s should shut that down. Remind everyone that Obama is just as much white as he is black

http://www.panamalaw.org/federal_court_case_to_make_obama_prove_eligibility_marches_on.html