Jon Soltz swiftboats OPSEC
I really dislike Jon Soltz of VoteVets and if you don’t dislike him, you won’t not dislike him after watching this video from MSNBC in which he faces off with Navy Seal, Gabriel Gomez, from the OPSEC folks. Gomez actually gives credit to President Obama for making the decision to go after bin Laden at about 2:45 into the video.
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It took 10 seconds into Soltz’ diatribe to mention that he was in Iraq. After Gomez tries to be gracious and says that VoteVets is non-partisan (they are not, VV has never supported a Republican for any political office in their six year history), Soltz just plows ahead and without saying why, he calls the whole video a lie. He calls Gomez a liar without explaining what he thinks Gomez is lying about.
The VoteVets Facebook page says about the video; “Swiftboating of Obama Smacked Down by VoteVets.org Chairman Jon Soltz on Hardball on MSNBC.” Yeah, it wasn’t smacked down, Gomez tried to be polite while Soltz played the bully and leaned on the grade school playground tactic of calling Gomez names. Soltz might not have so brave if he’d been in the same room as Gomez, though.
Trolling through the Facebook page, you can see countless examples of whoever is running that POS page (disksmith went to Veterans’ Affairs with the rest of the VV crew, so I know it’s not him) of VV taking cheap shots at veterans who were in the video. They accuse Scott Taylor of releasing SEAL secrets on a Discovery Channel program “The Secrets of SEAL Team Six” because the Discovery Channel is the best place to release classified information, I suppose.
They also link to a Business Insider article that claims that another member of OPSEC, Fred Rustmann, had defended Scooter Libby’s outing of Valerie Plame on *gasp* Fox News’ Hannity Show, although Scooter Libby had nothing to do with outing Plame, who was out years before she was outed, anyway. I mean, the cover of Vanity Fair is a strange place to be announcing you’re a CIA agent if you’re trying to be covert, isn’t it?
Anyway, so much for VoteVets’ non-partisan support of issues that matter to veterans.
Category: 2012 election, Barack Obama/Joe Biden
I can almost guarantee Soltz won’t be over here any time soon since he’s busy receiving approximately 3.7 dozen cyber blowjobs over on the VV page.
Fuck Soltz. Seriously…fuck him in the ass with a box of dicks.
Turd.
Soltz has proven himself a partisan hack time and time again.
VoteVets is quickly on the road to irrelevancy if it isn’t there already.
Stop whining and crying. Major Jon Soltz is the authoritative voice on all things military. Wasn’t he first in with a HALO jump into Baghdad and last out of Iraq with the last convoy to cross the Kuwaiti border?
Come on, Fred. Soltz gives a bad name to being a partisan hack.
I heard that Soltz was the door gunner on the space shuttle, the architect of Obama’s drones above all else military strategery, and he actually witnessed Scott Olson getting beaned with a clear bottle, er, a police projectile.
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I don’t give a flying fig if he has a CMH, he’s a fast talking, left wing political hack.
#7 I was being sarcastic. Soltz talks tough but I bet he rarely, if ever, stepped outside the wire.
Soltz is one of those officers. I know them well.
Votevets boasts membership Over 200k. Who are these veterans? I don’t believe it. Maybe there was interest when Iraq was the big issue but no one likes a veteran that tries to put their service above others. The fact is that Soltz doesn’t speak for other veterans. He speaks for the money behind him – whoever that is. Certainly ain’t veteran money.
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Sorry guys, I’d love to agree with you all out of spite however OPSEC did edit the crap out of the POTUS’s statement on the OP. He gave proper credit and did not shine the light on himself as their video depicts. The slant (personal agenda) and edits demeans themselves through the false deception.
I do agree however the POTUS was trying to get political credit by showing Brian Williams the Sit. Room and playing up the photo of himself. Honestly though comparing him to Bush/Cheney’s leaks and leaking for politics its not even close. Perhaps I see the apple differently because I think Romney is a total moron and bigger phony and I think all this stuff is about putting out dirt to affect the election which is WRONG from either side.