[af_vet_rr]

Hideously evil? Hardly! Wrong and insensitive, yes.

I consider exploiting somebody else's tragedy to be evil, especially the young wife of a soldier, and especailly for profit or personal gain, but I can see we will just end up arguing semantics.

That is essentially what you did when you wished him to be put into the hands of the Muslim terrorists.

Actually, I didn't say that I wished him to be kidnapped, and I even told you flat out in post 456 that I wouldn't really wish that upon anybody, and maybe you missed it (easy to do in fast-moving threads, so no need to apologize).

Being that hindsight is 20/20 and that I wanted to see how I confused you in this matter, I went back and checked my posts, and I can easily see how you got the impression I said that - I mentioned that others had said it either here on another thread or on IRC, and that his attitude towards victims needed some adjustment and/or perspective, and that some reporters are prone to put themselves and their crews in more danger than they should (ala Geraldo in Afghanistan, the various reporters running around Iraq during the invasion, etc.).

I do apologize for confusing you. As I said, I really wouldn't wish that upon anybody, regardless of how much of an evil little scumbag they are.

[Blogger]

Maybe it is just conditioning, but I think what Shep does is just "TYPICAL" Journalism these days. If Greta were interviewing the lady whose husband is kidnapped, it may have had a less agressive tone but the same pressing questions would have been asked.