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A GREAT ANSWER TO A [ Katie Couric ] DUMB QUESTION
Robert Drobot | 11 January 2007 Anno Domini | Robert Drobot

Posted on 01/12/2007 12:52:17 AM PST by Robert Drobot

A GREAT ANSWER TO A DUMB QUESTION:

Katie Couric, while interviewing a Marine sniper, asked:

"What do you feel when you shoot a terrorist?"

The Marine shrugged and replied:

"Recoil."

(Hard to fault a Marine that eloquent)

Semper Fi!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: marine; recoil; sniper; terrorist; urbanlegend
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1 posted on 01/12/2007 12:52:19 AM PST by Robert Drobot
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To: Robert Drobot
The dumb look on Katie's face should have been worth a least a month of leave.
2 posted on 01/12/2007 1:37:51 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Robert Drobot

Ping-a-ding-ding!!!


3 posted on 01/12/2007 1:57:17 AM PST by paulat
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To: Robert Drobot

If this is a true story it is hilarious!


4 posted on 01/12/2007 2:00:56 AM PST by BunnySlippers (SAY YES TO RUDY !!!)
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To: Robert Drobot

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/recoil.asp

Debunked


5 posted on 01/12/2007 2:13:23 AM PST by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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To: Robert Drobot

Not true.

Of course I wish such an incident had happened.


6 posted on 01/12/2007 2:21:22 AM PST by indcons
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To: Robert Drobot

OUTSTANDING


7 posted on 01/12/2007 3:26:03 AM PST by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: flying Elvis

However, I DID hear her ask if Captain O'grady ejected before or after his aircraft crashed!

The Col in command of the MEU graciously paused, and said, "Katie, we're reasonably certain he ejected before the crash."


8 posted on 01/12/2007 4:11:32 AM PST by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: Robert Drobot

I have to thank this young Marine for my first good laugh of the morning. [Katie's desired answers: regret, guilt]


9 posted on 01/12/2007 4:20:59 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Robert Drobot
"Fee-lings, nothing more than fee-lings..."
10 posted on 01/12/2007 4:21:36 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: flying Elvis

Well, if it didn't happen, it should have! It's still a good story.


11 posted on 01/12/2007 4:21:39 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou

"False but accurate."


12 posted on 01/12/2007 4:46:05 AM PST by Procyon (the lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.)
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To: Procyon

"False but Funny-as-hell."


13 posted on 01/12/2007 5:02:21 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Robert Drobot

My first clue that this was false was that dear Ms KC would have referred to a sniper target as a "terrorist". I don't know that she has ever referred to anyone other than the 09/11 attackers as such. Should this interview ever had taken place, I'm quite sure that the term would have been something like "local resistance victim" or some other pejorative description.


14 posted on 01/12/2007 7:30:36 AM PST by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: Robert Drobot
Fake but accurate.;^)

But this one isn't

REPORTER: What are you trying to do with those bunker busters?

RUMSFELD: Kill people.

REPORTER: I meant what do you hope to find when you go to the place you dropped the bombs?

RUMSFELD: Dead people.

15 posted on 01/12/2007 10:18:54 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Fake but Accurate": NY Times)
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To: opbuzz

It's difficult to eject AFTER the crash, and you just might eject downward! Of course, she wasn't given the job because of her intellect.


16 posted on 01/12/2007 3:09:32 PM PST by Martian
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To: Robert Drobot

You gotta love it!


17 posted on 01/12/2007 3:37:06 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: flying Elvis

Aim low. Thev'e got kids with them.


18 posted on 01/13/2007 8:46:45 AM PST by csmusaret (Mnimum wage today; maximum wage tomorrow. It's the Socialist way.)
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To: Robert Drobot

LOL! Dat be funny!


19 posted on 01/13/2007 9:14:05 AM PST by semaj (Just shoot the bastards!)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

Did that really happen?

Sounds just like Rummy- he should start a school for liberals on how to be a real man.


20 posted on 01/16/2007 7:31:29 AM PST by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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