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Yes.
Yes, it is.
It doesn't matter what he meant to say.
That's what he said.
Saying 'I don't mean to be disrespectful' doesn't prevent you from being disrespectful.
At the very least he chose his words poorly.
Here's one of life's little lessons: Don't chose your words poorly when you are speaking with a former SEAL about his dead brothers.
And another thing - Has this author or TheDC got some kind of thing going on against The Blaze? I'm not a huge fan of The Blaze but what's the point of this article?
Tapper never said that they died for nothing, but Darcy’s headline makes it appear that he did.
The message of the movie is both heroic and tragic, which is the point I think Tapper was trying to make.
Jake, we had not lost the war in Afghanistan, until, dumBO took over. From then on you can take about senseless.
My favorite thing about the interview was the fear in Tapper’s eyes once he realized that this SEAL was pissed. His fear was palpable and understandable. I was amazed at Luttrell’s self-control.
jake “turd” tapper... I never liked him and I never will.
I saw it. Tapper insulted the dead SEALS, the US military, and every American. Then he tried to weasel out of it like a typical leftist.
They have precedent they can cite: Barack Obama.
2010: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Period. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period. Nobody's gonna take that from you."
2012: "I never said that."
Luttrel was hypersensitive? He is guilty only of not being a dummy. He is guilty of having an early eye for the impending ambush, an asset sharpened more quickly by watching what passes for US journalism than by his rough treatment at the hands of the Taliban.
Only a FOOL is surprised if the Spidey senses of an American fighting man kick up a notch when around the likes of a presstitute.
Basically we saw a sound and forceful ambush response. And we all should follow his example.
Am I allowed to say war is senseless anymore? Or will people think I said war is for nothing?
Obama “Bengazi was about a video...”
Crowly “Obama said Bengazi was about TERRORISM..!”
THIS OLD PATH HAS LONG BEEN CLEARLY MARKED.
Actually, Tapper is on to something here, but doesn't know how to discuss it without doing exactly what he did (step into a minefield).
Liberals do have a disconnect with the military because they look down on that "warrior" mindset instead of marveling at and regarding the patriotism that motivates it as a precious human attribute.
They will utterly wreck the military with their PC swill and then wail when there is no one to defend the walls when the city gets sacked by the barbarians.
That day is coming.
The Daily Caller ridiculously crafts biased headline,
Words don’t mean much anymore. What I saw in that exchange was the fantasy world of the self-aggrandizing media that thinks the world revolves around their fantasy coming face-to-face with the cold harsh reality of what it means to be in harms way and seeing your brothers die in war.
I saw fear in Jake Tapper. I despise the media for thinking they are even worthy of asking these men questions.
I stopped reading when this ahole nobody Betsy Rothstein referred to Glenn Beck as a “world renowned dingbat.”
Video of the interview and Tapper’s after-comments. I found his follow-up comments despicable as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GyROs67Sxc
Betsy Rothstein is morally revolting, and not nearly as good at lying as she thinks she is. But like the rest of Hillary’s Thugs, she’s been taught that brazen, aggressive hypocrisy is “skill.”
And that she is invisible.
Beck has no right to “scold” anyone.
That was not a question designed to develop facts “Who, what, when , where” or even “why?” It was a question designed to coerce a cheap submission to Tapper’s own point of view through exploitation of Lutrell’s sense of guilt, that is survivor guilt. I haven’t read the book or seen the movie but I’m certain that the theme is there and the offense is that Tapper wanted to exploit it either for personal or political reasons. The anger was a justifiable and intellectually legitimate response.