Posted on 12/09/2004 9:22:17 AM PST by Nascardude
Edited on 12/09/2004 10:05:10 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rush is sounding just like a whining, crying baby. Blaming this entire thing on this stupid a$$ reporter.
This is beyond sad.
Quote: The National Guard should pay for their bitching. They have the NERVE to complain when the Marines and ARMY are doing the heavy lifting with any public complaints?
The neighbor kid is in a hospital with major leg and back wounds from a IED. He will be able to walk again..with a limp. He was in the RESERVES.
Joe, you can play MSM all you want. But some of us actually saw the event on tv and know you overstate the "erupting in cheers" part.
In addition, I never criticized the question. I criticized the media misrepresentation of Rumsfeld's answer.
Whatever point you think you may have, it is a stupid one.
If you note in the article .. that problem started in the 90's
Do you have an allergic reaction when confronted with facts and truth or what?
I'm a journalist and as I said in an earlier post, my brother was an embedded reporter during the Iraq war for a weekly magazine and this is just clearly breaking the rules. I have never heard of anyone working with an interview subject to think up questions. It's the most bizarre thing I've ever heard. The journalist and the subjects are supposed to stay on different teams - only in this case they didn't. I showed the Drudge report to my journalist colleagues at work and they couldn't believe it. No one here has heard of anyone doing this.
Really.
Please take us line by line through his entire response and demonstrate your absurd assertion.
This stunt wasn't anti-military, and the soldiers cheered the question. The people under fire are the ones who cheered, not Rummy. And they are understandably impatient, I don't blame them a bit.
They erupted in cheers because every soldier in every unit wants the latest and greatest gear right the f**k now.
Several months ago it was all about the 'shortage' of M-4s, followed by a 'shortage' of small arms ammo. Before that, it was the 'shortage' of Interceptor body armor. In a few months, it will be a 'shortage' of something else. And people like you will pile on, saying "It's all Rumsfeld's and Bush's fault!" Get a clue.
Your name most applies to YOU. This is a superbly equipped military by far the best in history. Its causalties have been few comparatively speaking. Any assisting the RATmedia's attempts to destroy the President are reprehensible.
Rather than discussing the remarkable job that military has done and the fantastic leadership Rummy has provided it quibbles about relatively small problems. It must be remembered that this is the same source of the predictions there would be tens of thousands of soldiers killed in the invasion and getting to Baghdad would take months followed by urban warfare on a massive scale as the entire country rose against us.
It is hard to find any source of "information" which could be more wrong about as many things or more damaging to our cause. This is another example of an attempted RATherization of the President by these sick f#cks. And you fall for it.
Now, I see absolutely nothing wrong with troops wishing to have this problem addressed conferring with a professional wordsmith to best put together their question prior to the Q&A.
In other words, the soldiers involved knew that asking their embedded reporter how best to compose the question maximized the chances of it being publicized. They perceive a problem, they want to get the word out, they want results.
What in the world is wrong with any of this? Judging by the transcript, the question was posed tactfully, the answer given fully and honestly.
This is not "insubordination", it's an honest plea that, I'd imagine, these soldiers have been making for months on end. The journalist did not "plant" these soldiers, only helped them better refine their question; to suggest otherwise is to suggest this reporter acted as some sort of puppetmaster, pulling the strings of some idiot soldier who can't think for himself.
Many of you Dittoheads get angry when liberals accuse you of being "mind-numbed robots"; suggesting this soldier was just some patsy incapable of independent thought is no less insulting.
Here's a hint for you, Lee. It ain't your regiment, especially not now.
cyn, I've been with the President all along on this war. But there is no excuse for the greatest and wealthiest country in the world to send its men and women off to war ill-equipped and ill-supplied.
I watched the whole conference on TV. I don't take my opinion from the edited media reports.
That room BURST INTO CHEERS when the question was asked.
Reservists and Guard should not be treated like some second-class force. They lay their lives on the line every day in Iraq, just like the regulars.
The question was honest and heartfelt, as could be seen from the reaction of the troops, and Rumsfeld's answers were shit-poor.
If it were such a concern to the troops, why did they need to be coached by a non-combatant?
You don't wonder these things?
Dan
He can take it. That's why he makes the big bucks. He's where the attacks should be, not on the troop asking the question.
Also agree about Rush. I just about stopped listening to him. He always leaves out just little bit to make his point. The other day he thought it was nuts that the park service would fine a guy for dumping dirt in a national park from his garage. What he did not tell was that dirt was probaly full of junk or contaminated with oil.
I've seen the quality of dirt that people. My neighbor wanted to fill up a ditch and put up a sign asking for free fill dirt. 60% dirt, rest broken up concrete etc.
Sorry for the rant.
The soldiers I have talked to see the media as another face of the enemy.
Embedded reporters have been a bad idea from the beginning.
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