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CBS announcer: Any U.S. soldier would shoot Pelosi, strangle Reid
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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."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; antiamerican; antimilitary; feherty; lamestreammedia; libtard; mediamatters; obama; pelosi; presbush; reid; troopslovew
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To: rjp2005
Seems like Media Matters know it was an attempt at humor yet they intentionally leave that context out. List night BHO was having a belly laugh over Wanda Sykes "joke" that Rush was the 20th hijacker and should be waterboarded and killed.
341 posted on 05/10/2009 7:00:41 AM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (Barack Benito Obama heads the most shocking "end justifies the means" gang of thugs/ administration)
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To: freekitty
It was a very stupid remark made to incite.

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.

342 posted on 05/10/2009 7:05:51 AM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (Barack Benito Obama heads the most shocking "end justifies the means" gang of thugs/ administration)
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To: txnuke

Baldwin is an actor who was on a talk show...THIS WAS A NEwSCASTER...it’s just wrong on so many levels.


343 posted on 05/10/2009 7:23:07 AM PDT by Hildy (A man searching for God is like a fish searching for water....)
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To: Sub-Driver
the worst part of it is, most US soldiers would actually probably defend Pelosi & Reid with their own lives.
344 posted on 05/10/2009 10:32:00 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: Sub-Driver

I have heard American soldiers do not really like Obama.


345 posted on 05/10/2009 11:19:02 AM PDT by Ptarmigan (God Hates Bunnies. God Loves Ptarmigans)
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To: driftdiver
Wouldn’t need to shoot them. Let BO errr OBL kill them and then you can kill him.

Why would OBL kill his best allies in US Gov't.?
346 posted on 05/10/2009 12:18:24 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thats funny!!!


347 posted on 05/10/2009 12:38:36 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: Hildy
Baldwin is an actor who was on a talk show...THIS WAS A NEwSCASTER...it’s just wrong on so many levels.

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.

348 posted on 05/10/2009 1:16:28 PM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: Sub-Driver

has this guy be officially fired yet?


349 posted on 05/10/2009 3:13:34 PM PDT by TV Dinners (Hope is not a Strategy)
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To: Sub-Driver

The soldier would just be doing his duty. All enemies, foreign and domestic. And domestic, and domestic, and domestic.


350 posted on 05/10/2009 3:50:17 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: EagleUSA

>> Do we detect tension and pressure building in the ranks of the radical fringe left???

Yeah, just like inside any other pimple.


351 posted on 05/10/2009 3:57:53 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Party? I don't have one anymore.)
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To: MozarkDawg

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.


352 posted on 05/10/2009 5:25:38 PM PDT by Hildy (A man searching for God is like a fish searching for water....)
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To: Paul Heinzman

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/


353 posted on 05/10/2009 6:03:33 PM PDT by REPANDPROUDOFIT
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


354 posted on 05/10/2009 6:29:03 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


355 posted on 05/11/2009 4:46:41 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Hildy
it was stupid for this guy to say it..although we all know it’s true

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.

356 posted on 05/11/2009 4:57:41 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Dixie Yooper

That goes both ways. But it’s up to his employer. He won’t go to jail. That’s the first amendment.


357 posted on 05/11/2009 7:02:20 AM PDT by Hildy (A man searching for God is like a fish searching for water....)
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To: Sub-Driver

He appologized to Pelosi and Reid today.


358 posted on 05/11/2009 9:45:03 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Only if i drank a lot of very high proof vodka...


359 posted on 05/12/2009 1:42:31 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: meyer
Ditto, I would do the same if my 0 worshipping eco-wacko neighbors assumed room temp.
360 posted on 05/12/2009 12:56:25 PM PDT by wally_bert (John Galt's Oath Is Now My Background)
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