Butt-insky: Snyderman Wants To Snatch Smokes From Soldiers

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

You might say smoke was coming out of my ears . . .

There was NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman this morning, arguing that the Pentagon should prohibit soldiers in combat zones from smoking.

Snyderman was a guest on Morning Joe for purposes of reporting on her interview of Pres. Obama yesterday on his health care plans. But along the way, she weighed in on the proposal that had been floated, then quickly snuffed, by the Defense Department to deny combat soldiers the right to light up.

Mika Brzezinski was grateful for an ally in the fight against letting warriors make their own choices. Joe Scarborough mocked the two Big Mommy Government-types, touting a tongue-in-cheek "cigarette drive" to provide soldiers with free packs of their favorite smokes.

View video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Go tell it to the Marines, Nancy. Ping to Today show list.

[fortunate sun]

vinegar and water for me, beer for m’horse

[Recon Dad]

Dr. Nancy Snyderman this morning, arguing that the Pentagon should prohibit soldiers in combat zones from smoking.

Since she made the suggestion I believe she should be required to go to Afghanistan and enforce it.

She would be a statistic within 24 hours.

[PIF]

24 hrs? You think it would take that long really?

[Jemian]

Now that is my thought. How in the world is she ever going enforce that silly rule?

Some people just don ... she’s a lib. That explains it all.

[billhilly]

Somehow I just can’t see John Wayne sucking on a carrot stick and firing a BAR. We don’t need wimps in war.

[billhilly]

Somehow I just can’t see John Wayne sucking on a carrot stick and firing a BAR. We don’t need wimps in war.

[MarkL]

I can understand this... The last thing that any liberal would want to do is allow a soldier in a war zone to do anything that might be detrimental to his health... Of course, everything that liberal policies do is detrimental to the lives of soldiers in the first place...

Mark

[MarkL]

Somehow I just can’t see John Wayne sucking on a carrot stick and firing a BAR. We don’t need wimps in war.

Well, that's next on the list... After banning cigs, the liberals want to ban guns and explosives from war zones, because someone, especially the enemy, might get hurt, and our evil, nasty soldiers must be forced to "fight fairly," without hurting the so called "bad guys" or damaging their property. But every solder will be issued multiple "miranda cards" so that they can read captured enemy combatants their rights when the soldiers arrest them on the battlefield.

Mark

[clamper1797]

After the revolution, people like this will be assigned the job of cleaning the tar and feather off each otrher

[AlaskaErik]

I don’t think three on a match is an issue anymore.

[MarkL]

Hey Nancy and Mika,

Tell THIS guy he isn't allowed to smoke!

Mark

[libertarian27]

Snyderman and Brzezinski should enlist and be a role model for the troops./s

[Carley]

So they’ll allow them to keep their buts, and add homsexual butts as a bonus.

[Texas resident]

You beat me to it. I was thinking, these goofs ought to go to a firebase after the guys get back after a week on the road and try to tell them to give over their smokes or their chew. What a bunch of control freaks. Useless people.

[GoldenPup]

Pentagon should prohibit soldiers in combat zones from smoking.

What are they going to do?...arrest soldiers who smoke? What absolutely assanine nanny-state Bull$hit. Unbelievable!

[Bulldawg Fan]

The actions of King Hussien have emboldened all the radical nanny statists to bring out the dumbest damned ideas, all because they believe government can take care of us far better thanwe can take care of ourselves. The left wing idiots running this country know this is their time so they bring it on........no matter how assinine.

[Bulldawg Fan]

You would think that since leftists hate soldiers anyway, they would encourage smoking........