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Home Front: Culture Wars
Veteran Berates Chris Mathews
2007-06-30
VETERAN: No, no, no, no, no, I want to know why politicians are off limits, but US troops are not. People who actually put on the uniform, go out and fight and die. Okay, she is calling in and complaining about one person that said something in a book. Ann Coulter is not elected to the senate, okay, John Kerry is, Dick Durbin is. Ok, and if we want apologies and personal attacks to stop.

MATHEWS: Wait, who has been attacking the soldiers?

VETERAN: Okay, letÂ’s see, Dick Durbin has compared them to the Nazis, "Abu Ghraib is now open under new management." Okay, but our soldiers are not out there blowing them damn selves up, and I as a veteran take a genuine--
Posted by:Thrinens Ulairt3305

#11  I frequently find myself wondering if today's troopies have spent any time introducing MSM pukes they encounter to great old military traditions like the "blanket party".
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo)   2007-06-30 18:41  

#10  Matthews changed the subject because he really doesn't think about the troops in any of this. Everything's a hammer to nail Bush; the troops are inconsequential to him.

The strategypage article about the troops comparing our press to Tokyo Rose is a revealing thing. I'd say "I wonder if the press will ever reflect on the comparison", but I know they won't.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-06-30 15:30  

#9  An additional point after watching again: notice how Mathews doesn't address the main point raised by the vet (politicians attacking our troops) and changes the subject to how he balieves Abu Ghraib was authorized at the top. Sleaze worthy of the slimiest politician.
Posted by: xbalanke   2007-06-30 14:47  

#8  MATHEWS: Wait, who has been attacking the soldiers?

What a slimy bastard. I think my hatred for MSM tools is even deeper than for those politicians - the politicians were at least elected by those who thus share the blame.
Posted by: xbalanke   2007-06-30 14:37  

#7  By the way Chris, where's John Kerry's military record he promised to release on your program? You could at least run that video regularly at about the same rate the NYT keeps bring up Abu Ghrab.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-06-30 13:26  

#6  Sounds like Chris got a little "hardball" coming back at him.
Posted by: Mike   2007-06-30 12:36  

#5  I'm seriously thinking of fashioning a pitchfork as a piece of jewelry and selling it to the pitchfork brigade - this guy is one of them, Hissy looks shell-shocked.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2007-06-30 11:51  

#4  Wow, the the video of this veteran verbally working over Mathew is far more impacting than the transcript.

This vet is angry and is not afraid of let this big time MSM tv dude know it...
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Chusoling1715   2007-06-30 11:44  

#3  "How do wage a war against a radicalideological movement whose promoters receive a free hand and operate out in the open, including right here in the USA?"

-imho, it will take us in the voting electorate hammering on our congresscritters that the no.1 issue along w/illegal immigration is snuffing out radical or fundamentalist islam (actually that's fairly p.c. on my part - it's really just islam itself that needs to go). Start w/denying visas to all muslim countries - I know - S.Arabia is not going to like it & I'm sure our cowards in office will be sweating about that.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2007-06-30 11:04  

#2  Our problems will continue as long as the two-faced Mordors of radicalized, Jihadi-driven Islam remain unscathed: Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Wanna bet the failed London carbombers are British-born of Pakistani origins? Wanna bet they received radical literature, audio-and-video tapes, CDs, pamphlets, books, and the Wahabbist version of the Qu'ran (yes Virginia, there actually a Wahabbi version)from Deobandist, Takfiri sponsors whose materials in turn are produced, paid for, and shipped by the Saudis?

How do wage a war against a radicalideological movement whose promoters receive a free hand and operate out in the open, including right here in the USA?
Posted by: Sigmund Freud   2007-06-30 10:45  

#1  The pundits never ask why democratic intervention worked in Panama, Grenada, and Nicaragua, while liberation troops face suicide killers in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's Islam, stupid.

Maybe we should want of Afghanis and Iraqis exactly what President Reagan wanted from the peoples of Latin America: friendly relations, mutually beneficial trade, mutual disdain for totalitarian ideologies. Two days ago, al-Qaeda in Iraq held a huge rally in Mosul, without a single counter from the nearby US base. Aren't those the same people who perpetrated the 9-11 atrocities and imposed hundreds of millions of dollars in military spending by American taxpayers?
Posted by: McZoid   2007-06-30 09:02  

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