3-2-1 Daily Kos blames Limbaugh for Afghanistan shootings
The only thing that really surprises me about this is that took almost a whole day for the Left to make the connection;
Yeah, the reason the American Staff Sergeant in Afghanistan went and killed those 16 people is because he was forced by AFN to listen to Rush Limbaugh;
I lived in Asia several years ago and the only English-language station on the radio dial was Armed Forces Radio. I was homesick and had to listen to Rush Limbaugh’s daily rants out of desperation to hear my beloved English being spoken.
I guess the radios in Asia don’t have off switches. If she wanted to hear her “beloved English”, she could have gone out made some friends, the stupid cow, instead of using this vacuous excuse for listening to Rush Limbaugh.
The Rush Limbaugh Show is being broadcast to troops on bases all over the world. However, America has too much at stake, to allow this seedy, ugly-spirited man to roll around in the minds of vulnerable young men. These soldiers are thousands of miles from home, getting shot at by an enemy indistinguishable from our Afghan allies, for a war whose rationale nobody even remembers any more. They need something better than an education in anti-Muslim hatred.
Of course, the commenters all knew this before Hillard made her intellectually vacant knee jerk connection;
Well, how many domestic shooting sprees can we indirectly connect to right-wing hate radio?
True, if we weren’t in Afghanistan those Afghan people would still be alive, but would this person have gone off on an American school somewhere?
Hate radio in a gun-crazed society is just a bad combination either way you look at it. Consider that as all the vets suffering possible PTSD come home to stay.
I think we were damned lucky that during the Vietnam war era hate radio wasn’t as prevalent or successful as it is today.
Maybe if we could just disarm the Wing Nuts;
Hate Speech and Men with Guns is a bad combination. You’d think these Westpoint [sic] grads doing military planning would know this shit is bound to happen when you feed armed troops a steady diet of hate speech.
Yeah, cuz Limbaugh is immediately followed by an hour of that fuzzy, reasoned bunny, Ed Schultz on AFN.
Category: Shitbags
Did the various Occupy rapists receive their diplomas from Daily Kos?
Hate radio in a gun-crazed society is just a bad combination either way you look at it. Consider that as all the vets suffering possible PTSD come home to stay.”
Hell, the sow hit the triple play of knee jerk liberalism.
You know I am a supporter of really late term abortion when it comes to asshats like these…
AFwhat? The only time I ever saw or heard AFN during both my deployments to Iraq was at the chow hall. Every f’ing time it was Olbierman on. The point is, between going out on patrols and sleeping, entertainment rarely came in the form of AFN. Most in my generation feel AFN is a boring, outdated entertainment medium. Who the hell watches it anyway?
I’m wondering how long it will be before this latest incident gets blamed on Bush by some of our “liberal brethren”. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
I’ve been in “Asia” for 25+ years, and the number of English speaking radio stations is astounding. AFN is certainly the “station of choice” when inside a government facility that has radio on, but you would be hard pressed to find anyone outside work listening to it.
AFN DJ’s suck, as does the programming in general.
Hondo #5: I’m beginning to lean towards just letting it happen.
A day or so ago some young folks in Iraq got whacked for expressing themselves.
Think of it as evolution in action. I would like to live just long enough to see the look on a few faces when the axe falls. After that you are on your own.
Wait wait wait….did a liberal just say she wanted to hear english?
how culturally insensitive of her. She should have had mandarin or whatever language of her host nation broadcast loudly all day long. It would have been the least she could have done. OH no her arrogant American heritage raised to want…nay…desire to hear english.
phffttt….that writer has done nothing, served nothing and has no idea what true service is. She has never put it on the line, never sacrificed and risked her own neck for others. Nope. She sits comfortably with her laptop, mocha, and twinkie yapping about how nice it is that everyone else is being so nice. Yeah. It’s real easy when you just sit there on your biscuit. Get out. Put on a uniform and stand a post. Maybe then you will know what real service is.
Until then….STFU.
I find Limbaugh to be a pathetic blow-hard, but this is beyond the pale. What’s worse, the woman who wrote that is apparently a college professor at the University of North Texas, Denton, with a doctorate from Harvard in Middle East/African History:
http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/AuthorDetail.aspx?id=15673
She also somehow gave foreign policy advice to the late Senator John Tower (R).
What bothers me, no what scares me, is there are idiots out there who will lap up this crap like a kittens laps up milk from a saucer. They’ll swallow this drivel as gospel without doing any type of research on their own.
As for Bossie the cow, her leaps of logic, in her pitiful attempts to tie this to Rush Limbaugh are as laughable as they are pathetic. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised if she couldn’t figure out any other means of hearing her “beloved English being spoken” or wasn’t smart enough to turn off the radio for an hour…
Screw it, she’s not worth the effort. Is it too early for a beer?
Yat Yas: nah, it’s not too early. It’s after 5PM in AZ now. (smile)
Yat–hell no, just finished my second and final one of the night.
Also just transferred the oatmeal stout to the secondary fermenter. Couple of weeks there, then to the bottling stage.
NHS – make the switch to kegging. It’s way easier, and ready in three days.
kos needs to pay for his celebrating the deaths if the four contractors in Iraq. When he’s squared that circle, he may considered for admission back into humanity.
[…] The SSG in question could have climbed over the HESCO barriers and through the wire to get off the COP. The guards on duty may have saw him run off but it was too late to stop him. There are other ways he could have gotten off the COP but it is not impossible for someone determined to get out of one of these small bases. Really though how he got off the base is irrelevant to why he committed the massacre in the first place. It is pretty clear now that a lone soldier committed the shooting considering there is video now of him walking back to the US base and surrendering. The media has been off and running with the Vietnam War era “crazy vet” stereotype due to multiple deployments. It is also being reported that he had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from an accident in 2010 while deployed to Iraq. Right now we have no evidence on the severity of the TBI and whether he was mentally disturbed from multiple deployments. There has been a lot of people saying that this type of thing should be expected when someone is deployed multiple times. Well if that is true than why isn’t there a whole bunch more servicemembers going on crazy shooting sprees? This is clearly an isolated incident committed for unknown reasons. People should let the investigation play out before making definitive claims of why this happened especially ridiculous claims such as Rush Limbaugh caused the massacre. […]
Dave, agreed, but Kos should never, ever be considered human.
If she heard Rush via AFN, then what about the remaining 22 hours he wasn’t on the radio? Whoever was conspiring against her in the scheduling department her must have stuck around and decided to fuck with me when I got to Japan, because somehow Ed the Red managed to be the only talk radio on whenever I was driving somewhere. The best way I found to counter it was to switch over to the Japanese radio station that taught English phrases.
I guess it isn’t surprising though…scratch a leftist and find a totalitarian underneath.