[STARWISE]

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

[GeronL]

Hersh “is not a real journalist”.

[STARWISE]

[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.

[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...

[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.’

[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.

[JimRed]

Yes, there's racism in the Pentagon. We may not like to think that, but it's true and we all know it."

Yeah, just like all queers are child molesters, all Italians are mafiosi, all Irish are drunks, all conservatives are racist sexist homophobic bigots, all Jews are greedy...and a hundred others: it's true and we all know it. < /sarc >

[Terry Mross]

Ask any O supporter and they’ll tell you that everyone who diagrees with him is a racist. Had a guy I knew long ago call everyone a racist on facebook. I posted back that I’d like to see him call me a racist to my face. He responded that he didn’t call me a racist. He was simply posting to someone else that was supposed to be a private post. What a whimp!

[NTHockey]

That’s it! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH. From now on, anybody attacks the military is a Communist. Anybody who calls me a racist is a child molester. Any wacko enviros out there are now tree huggers.

Let’s see how they like being called names. The nerve of Hersh attacking the military. Were it not for the military, the freedom of speech he abuses would be non-existent. But then, perhaps he would enjoy being in a gulag (Masochism, no doubt).

[andy58-in-nh]

The Left is certainly playing fast and loose these days with the old accusation privilege, aren't they?

"RacistSexistBigotHomophobe"

Any member of an Accredited Victim Class may make such a charge at any time against any member of an Oppressor Class. No proof is required; the charge itself is equal to guilt, however, any protestation to the contrary will be treated as definitive proof of culpability.

The tactic accomplishes two things: it immediately places its targets on the defensive, and relieves the accuser of any responsibility for having to support their argument with facts.

For those of you who are interested, I have posted an extended description of how this scam works here.

[chris_bdba]

HMMMM? So which is it? 2006’s meme from the dems was that more minorities were enlisting because of Bush’s polices that left them no way out of the ghetto nut now they are all racists? I’m confused?

[chris_bdba]

HMMMM? So which is it? 2006’s meme from the dems was that more minorities were enlisting because of Bush’s polices that left them no way out of the ghetto but now they are all racists? I’m confused?

[texmexis best]

Is this possibly a trial balloon for Obama?