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Brian Williams Refuses to Apologize for Comparing Army Rangers and Seals to Terrorists
Free Republic | August 13, 2006 | Westpole

Posted on 08/13/2006 11:34:57 AM PDT by Westpole

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1 posted on 08/13/2006 11:35:00 AM PDT by Westpole
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WELL said Westpole! Bravo!

As for Brian Williams, I think that picture of the GI and the coffee cup with the caption "How about rooting for OUR side for a change, you liberal moron!?!?" says it all!


2 posted on 08/13/2006 11:37:28 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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Comparing American patriots willing to fight and die for their country and Islamic terrorists who intentionally target innocent civilians in hopes of hanging out with virgins in the afterlife is vile beyond description. Williams is a moral relativist piece of excrement.


3 posted on 08/13/2006 11:38:10 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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He did the same thing right after 9-11. He has some queer need to find some sort of moral equivilence between us and them.

Real easy Mr Williams to see the difference. Our guys fight them that shoot back. Terrorirists try to avoid those guys and attack the defenseless and the weak

4 posted on 08/13/2006 11:38:37 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (History shows us that if you are not willing to fight, you better be prepared to die)
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The false moral equivalence is one of the mainstays of liberal thought. Of couse a moral leper like Brian Williams would say such a thing.

The shame is that we allow him to remain in his job.


5 posted on 08/13/2006 11:38:40 AM PDT by dsc
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I'm not sure he directly made the comparison but stated his point rather unartful. News Readers should not deviate from prepared completely vetted scripts.


6 posted on 08/13/2006 11:40:38 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (I'll have the duck with mango salsa.)
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Someone just needs to take Williams outside and give him a good spanking.


7 posted on 08/13/2006 11:40:55 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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"The shame is that we allow him to remain in his job."

Maybe for this month.


8 posted on 08/13/2006 11:41:11 AM PDT by jdm
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A fax to them might be nice.


NBC: 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112,
Phone: 212-664-4444, Fax: 212-664-4426,

NBC's Washington Bureau, 4001 Nebraska Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-885-4200, Fax: 202-362-2009


9 posted on 08/13/2006 11:41:45 AM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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From now on, just read the cue-cards, Ken-doll.


10 posted on 08/13/2006 11:42:18 AM PDT by tumblindice
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He may not have made himself very clear, but it's obvious from context that he was NOT implying some sort of moral equivalence between terrorists and American military & emergency workers. This is a molehill.


11 posted on 08/13/2006 11:43:06 AM PDT by Sloth ('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
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Brian Williams is about as dumb as a person can become. But he is not dumber then the executives at NBC that leave this moron to run loose. Get rid of him. He belongs in the black hole of obscurity with the rest of the Democrat liberal, scum and vermin of humanity.


13 posted on 08/13/2006 11:43:54 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Westpole
A related thread from 2005 on the subject of Brian Williams...

BRIAN WILLIAMS SAID WHAT?

14 posted on 08/13/2006 11:43:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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Cutting off the end of his statement made it appear that he was saying something different from what he actually said. What he said was awkward but not worse than that.


15 posted on 08/13/2006 11:44:47 AM PDT by 1955Ford
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Excellent, Westpole!

Hey I'd like to have one of those cups...


16 posted on 08/13/2006 11:47:08 AM PDT by aimee5291
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Hard to believe people aren't hurling stones at these fools whenever they show up.
17 posted on 08/13/2006 11:47:15 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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When you say we have guys like that "too", willing to "take" their lives

Exactly...Many Americans are willing to "give" their life in defense of our freedoms but it is the terrorist who is willing to "take" his life for their fanatical beliefs.

Williams is not willing to take responsibility for his statement.

18 posted on 08/13/2006 11:47:37 AM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Our Declaration of Independence separates us from terrorists.

We believe man, in fact all mankind, has an expectation, a right, to life. We believe this is an “unalienable right,” in fact a sacred right not granted by man but by a higher power, our Creator and incapable of repudiation. The right to life cannot be taken by another man.

The terrorists don’t believe we, or any man, apparently, has an expectation to life. The terrorist have shown that they can commit, intend to commit and are committed to intentional, indiscriminate killing of innocent strangers.

What greater disparity could there be in the beliefs between the terrorists and ourselves?

Not sure where the news media or Mr. Williams fit in....


19 posted on 08/13/2006 11:48:00 AM PDT by John Carey
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Brian Williams has yet to explain why his first thought to the question was to equate US soldiers to terrorists. I don't understand why he would make that kind of comparison unless he thinks there is a moral equivalency.
20 posted on 08/13/2006 11:48:17 AM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Forth Century)
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