Rieckhoff finds a nut
Let today be forever remembered as a day of blind squirrels finding nuts. We celebrate Paul Rieckhoff, our Lex Luther, the Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America who invariably writes unadulterated crap at the Huffington Post, but today, completely out of character, actually does a good job tearing apart Headline News’ Dr Drew’s treatment of the SSG Bales issue;
On Monday night, Dr. Drew did us all a big favor. He covered the Kandahar shooting incident on his HLN cable show in such a sensationalized way, that it should serve as a powerful example for how the media should NOT cover an issue — particularly one as devastating as this.
And Rieckhoff just gets better from there;
For 20 minutes, Dr. Drew continued to push the narrative of Bales as a victim, a baseless one that many in the media have latched onto this past week. This does Bales a ton of good for his defense, but it does 2.4 million troops who have served honorably, and not gone on murderous rampages, a total disservice. It’s also pretty damn dismissive of the real victims, the 16 Afghan civilians killed. Of course, the segment got worse. Next, Dr. Drew brought on Dr. Paul Ragan. Ragan, an associate professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, suggested “a combination of Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD” was responsible for the Kandahar shooting.
You sure about that one, Doc? Were you there?
I didn’t see the show, because I don’t know where the channel is on my TV set, but I’m glad to see that someone from the Left recognized it for what it was – tripe. But you should read the whole thing, just to get pissed off at the Turner networks.
Because I don’t think my blog platform will support two blog posts which are not critical of IAVA, I’ll mention for those of you who are college-bound veterans, IAVA has made a new Post-9/11 GI Bill calculator so you can compute the benefit that DVA will send you late, if at all.
And, Paul, because I know you read this blog and you’re on our Twitter list, enjoy this one – it only goes downhill fast from here. I guess we all found an issue we can agree upon.
Thanks to Daniel for the link.
Category: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Maybe a few of these ‘experts’ need to get into the line of fire, get blow up once or twice, meet a few of those 2.4 million, THEN they can speak intelligently of the situation and issues.
I would gladly volunteer to escort these ‘doctors’ and see how they handled it.
Re: the tuition calculator, it’s not correct. I ran a couple of calculations using a known school, in state and out of state, included the summer term, and then not. The calc for Fall-Spring only was closest, but still incorrect. If an organization is going to put a tool out there, testing should be done to make sure it’s correct. More bad information, bah!
Holy crap. Jonn in bed with Reickoff.
A sure sign of the End Times!
DaveO; Let’s be clear, I’m rewarding good behavior with my support. The image of me in bed with Paul Rieckhoff will probably result in a restless night for both of us. And I’m prepping for an interview with Politico and you just made me forget all of my intended talking points. So thanks.
I’m surprised you didn’t forget english after that!…….
Jonn,
You’re welcome.
Let’s see Dr. Drew work for 3 hours to no avail trying to put an Iraqi baby back together with nothing but the contents of a Unit 5 bag. All the while having the mother and father cry and beg you in a language you don’t even understand. Screw that arrogant (&#@&^Y)#^& and the horse he rode in on.
Just today, I recieved another email from IAVA (don’t know how they got my email)…after reading this blog for the last Year or so (rarely post, often read) I was VERY quick to have them drop me from their list of names.