Posted on 05/08/2009 2:36:17 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
CBS announcer: Any U.S. soldier would shoot Pelosi, strangle Reid @ 5:16 pm by Michael O'Brien
CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance.
"From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death," Feherty wrote in an a D Magazine piece welcoming former President George W. Bush back to Dallas.
Feherty, a former professional golfer who now helps call golf events for CBS, said that troops love former President Bush by contrast, and praised the former commander-in-chief for having prevented additional terrorist attacks during his time in office.
Liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America demanded an apology for the remarks Friday.
"Mr. Feherty's violent comments about Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are disgusting," said Media Matters President Eric Burns. "Suggesting that our troops would attack the leaders of the very democracy they've sworn to sacrifice their lives for is an insult to their integrity, honor, and professionalism. CBS Sports should demand its golf analyst apologize to our soldiers."
Bull. It's very stupid of you to believe Media Matters intent to leave you to belive it was delivered in a serious tone.
I was an and atempt @ humor, the kind of humor BHO has a belly laugh over, where death is "jocularly" wished on one's political enemies.
Baldwin is an actor who was on a talk show...THIS WAS A NEwSCASTER...it’s just wrong on so many levels.
I have heard American soldiers do not really like Obama.
Thats funny!!!
Color commentators, regardless the sport, are hardly newscasters. Baldwin is an actor commenting on politics, this man is a sports announcer commenting on politics, the scales are balancing right about the same level.
has this guy be officially fired yet?
The soldier would just be doing his duty. All enemies, foreign and domestic. And domestic, and domestic, and domestic.
>> Do we detect tension and pressure building in the ranks of the radical fringe left???
Yeah, just like inside any other pimple.
eh...well..it was stupid for Baldwin to say and it was stupid for this guy to say it..although we all know it’s true.
David Feherty is more than a golf announcer on CBS and the Golf Channel. He actually supports our troops with his time and his money. He has made numerous treks to Iraq and brought other celebrities with him - Bob Hope style. In January, I sat on a plane with Kelly Tillman on our way to Hawaii. She had just returned from one of Davids “tours” and was still very moved by the experience.
Feherty has earned the right to express an opinion on the side of our troops. He’s been there with them. See related article:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/25/a-week-when-david-feherty-is-thankful-for/
Just saying what all liberals think of our troops.
They project a lot, cause this is probably what they’d do to conservatives given the chance. That’s why they want to disarm us.
It’s a part of the grand scheme; He suggests it, people believe it, and abra cadabra, that list of terrorists includes U.S. soldiers. There’s no evidence for it, only “feelings”. Conjecture by adolescents playing at adult becomes the order of the day.
IMHO
The freedom of saying something stupid is indeed a freedom worth fighting and dying for. We cannot afford to let David Feherty become a victim of the MSM's Gestapo tactics.
That goes both ways. But it’s up to his employer. He won’t go to jail. That’s the first amendment.
He appologized to Pelosi and Reid today.
Only if i drank a lot of very high proof vodka...
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