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."
I guess Harry and Nancy won’t be visiting the troops anytime soon.
..............What he said is not any different than what the liberals in this country said about our former President. I don’t condemn anything that he said. I approve.....”
well you got a point, Hollywood did make a movie with Bush getting killed which I thought was really tacky
I would, just to clear the smoke
Don’t worry. Their “Civilian Defense Force” guards will protect them.
Leaders of the Fifth Column, if anything. Reid and Pelosi are traitorous filth whose words and actions have done untold damage to our country.
Irresponsible, yet true
I would not call his article a 'welcome'.
Domestic marxist enemies
Who are we to judge? He’s simply expressing his artistic freedom.
Well, what he meant to say was...they are very very very unpopular.
Even Hussein is, despite the fake photo ops his “people” create for him.
They wouldn’t shoot them, obviously.
Yes, he’ll lose his job. But if anyone had said that about Bush last year, they would have been cheered and promoted.
Maybe he can give as his excuse that he’s just repeating what Homeland Security has officially declared under Janet Napolitano. Those crazy, extremist right wing veterans, don’t you know.
Sad part is that too many people will take it to mean that soldiers are crazy murderers.... not that soldiers are perceptive...
I think I'd lean slightly toward Osama. At least he is honest about his intentions. Nancy and Harry have absolutely no character at all.
“Suggesting that our troops would attack the leaders of the very democracy they’ve sworn to sacrifice their lives for...”
Uh, no. To start with, to my knowledge, no person in our armed forces has sworn to sacrifice their life for anything.
And certainly not to defend “The leaders of our democracy”, that insipid group of mouth-breathing, sidewindin’, bushwackin’, hornswagglin’, cracker croakers that currently despoil our government.
This is not to say that the vast majority of the personnel in our armed forces would do anything more harmful to Pelosi and Reid in an elevator than produce a copious amount of noxious greenhouse gases from their intestines before wishing “You two [expletive] Copperhead traitors” a nice day.
Did Media Matters get their pink panties in a wad over that? (You don't have to answer).
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