{"id":47590,"date":"2014-05-16T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T20:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=47590"},"modified":"2014-05-16T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T20:50:39","slug":"brandon-freidman-lectures-on-non-partisan-vsos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=47590","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Freidman lectures on non-partisan VSOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=47591\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47591\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/beaker-300x296.jpg?resize=300%2C296\" alt=\"beaker\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/beaker.jpg?resize=300%2C296&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/beaker.jpg?w=329&amp;ssl=1 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Freidman, pictured above, former VoteVets officer, former Veterans&#8217; Affairs official has decided that he wants to defend Ric Shinseki from the countless attacks from VSOs by questioning their politics. I know, ironic isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=47592\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47592\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beeker-Tweet-300x203.jpg?resize=300%2C203\" alt=\"Beeker Tweet\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beeker-Tweet.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beeker-Tweet.jpg?resize=490%2C333&amp;ssl=1 490w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beeker-Tweet.jpg?w=655&amp;ssl=1 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Somehow, an American Legion post hosting a Concerned Veterans for America event touting patriotism and &#8220;defending freedom&#8221; is partisan. You know, this coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9172\">the guy who started a blog war with us<\/a> because we reported that newly-minted President Obama didn&#8217;t attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7224\">Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball<\/a> back in 2008. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how &#8220;defending freedom&#8221; and patriotism is partisan, how those two concepts are political. But, Beeker&#8230;er, Freidman, says that VSOs should be non-partisan, you know speaking as a former officer of the most partisan organization in the country, VoteVets. VoteVets &#8211; those guys who think that green fuel is more important than the way veterans are treated by their country. <\/p>\n<p>And, oh, yeah, Brandon, if you want to play that BS, I know stuff and you know I know stuff. Remember how <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20004\">that blog war ended<\/a>? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Freidman, pictured above, former VoteVets officer, former Veterans&#8217; Affairs official has decided that he wants to defend Ric Shinseki from the countless attacks from VSOs by questioning their politics. I know, ironic isn&#8217;t it? Somehow, an American Legion post hosting a Concerned Veterans for America event touting patriotism and &#8220;defending freedom&#8221; is partisan. 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