Posted on 10/08/2004 1:21:29 PM PDT by big_wannabe
Those guys were real deal American warriors and this arrogant blowhard says this:
CMD SGT MAJ ERIC HANEY: "There is a tremendous number of wantabes."
O'REILLY (Cuts in): "Look at the guys who got strung up in Falluja. Ya know? I mean, right, I mean, you get these guys, and then they think that they're macho men, and all of a sudden they're hanging from a bridge."
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_vets_040204,00.html
"Two Army veterans and a former Navy SEAL were among four American contractors killed in Iraq, their bodies mutilated and dragged through the streets...Jerko 'Jerry' Zovko, 32, Michael Teague, 38, and Scott Helvenston, 38, died with another civilian Wednesday after they were hit by rocket-propelled grenades in a rebel ambush. The victims worked for Blackwater Security Consulting, one of five subsidiaries of Blackwater USA based in North Carolina."
A SEAL and three Army Rangers!!!
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation_world/blackwater/series/story/1464229p-7604536c.html
O'Reilly should apologise.
Fox should post the transcript WITH the apology.
O'Reilly's constant attempts to appear objective belie the fact that he gets it so wrong.
He called Kerry "A big gun guy" (totally incorrect, Kerry is the most anti-gun Candidate in history).
He pooh poohed the swift boat vets even after the Kerry campaign conceded Christmas in Cambodia.
And now he calls a Navy Seal and 3 Army Rangers "wannabes".
O'Reilly just lost another viewer.
Will Myers
Remember, We made him and we can break him.Stop watching him! When the viewership is gone HE WILL BE GONE.
I need a link - O'Reilly isn't even on television.
Welcome to Free Republic.
O'Reilly is a calculating self promoter. He has already ditched the ones who brought him to the dance. He is not to be relied on to tell the truth... anymore. When Laura Ingraham was on his program, she put it to him: "Who are you going to vote for in this election?" And that shameless liar, O'Rielly, told her he was still 'undecided.' By any measure, for O'Reilly to be undecided in the face of so much access to information, puts him in one of two categories: 1. He is merely a manipulator seeking even more ratings at the expense of America or 2. He is one of the stupidest people in America. Either way, he has lost my viewership.
Mr. Haney needs to understand that THE CONTRACTORS ARE FORBIDDEN FROM CARRYING THEIR OWN FIREARMS!! So, yes, I believe the bluff is required to make sure you stay alive.
What a putz!
He lied.
He was trying to get an interview with Kerry, and from what I hear, Kerry is going to sit for him.
It appears to me that Sgt. Maj Haney is the one that calls them "wannabes." O'Reilly never uses the term.
Your hatred for O'Reilly causes you to misstate the truth in the very article you post.
"Your hatred for O'Reilly causes you to misstate the truth in the very article you post."
Does this one work better?
O'REILLY (Cuts in): "Look at the guys who got strung up in Falluja. Ya know? I mean, right, I mean, you get these guys, and then they think that they're macho men, and all of a sudden they're hanging from a bridge."
He's a commentator on FOXNEWS. You know FOX, the network that your nationalized TV system keeps trying to ban.
Also, he has a few zealots that like to trash him because he is not the right-wing mouthpiece they want him to be. Never mind that he considers we need to elect Bush/Cheney to win the war on terrorism.
Notice that the author of this thread falsified O'Reilly's statement.
I've posted this info on two other o'reilly threads, so apologize for the repeat, however, for those of you who didn't see the 60 minutes interview of o'reilly.. He told Mike Wallace he has been friends w/kerry for twenty five years. That explains his attitude regarding the Swiftee's, and tells me everything I need to know about o'reilly's real agenda.
that was the last straw
I think we have to be careful around here . . .
'Thank you for providing the transcript which shows that your O'Reilly hatred got in the way of truth. It was CMD SGT MAJ HANEY that said that.
CMD SGT MAJ ERIC HANEY: "There is a tremendous number of wantabes." '
READING COMPREHENSION NEEDED?
Only O'Reilly get's trashed as being anti-military for remarks that his guest, a CMD SGT MAJ, makes.
Is that your apology? If so, then please ask the AM to pull your thread.
"Notice that the author of this thread falsified O'Reilly's statement."
You are a liar. I accurately transcribed what was said in context.
Haney mentioned "wantabes" in general and O'Reilly cut in agreeing with him, specifically mentioning the Blackwater contractors as EXAMPLES of "wantabes".
Just how STUPID, DELUDED, and BIASED must one be to not be able to understand that?
Do tell.
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