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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Lauer gets a lesson on troop morale
You will absolutely love this! Click below to see/hear what one Captain serving in Iraq had to say about Matt Lauer’s question on troop morale:
When the Today show sprung a surprise this morning — an unannounced trip to Iraq by Matt Lauer — one US soldier had a little surprise of his own for Today and the media at large.
Lauer interviewed a group of soldiers at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, and at one point asked about the state of morale. After getting two responses to the effect that morale was good, Lauer had this to say:
“Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re probably telling the truth, but there might be a lot of people at home wondering how that could be possible with the conditions you’re facing and with the insurgent attacks you’re facing. ” (video available: Windows Media and Real Media)
If Lauer was the advocate for the anti-war case, he then made the cardinal mistake that no advocate should make: asking a question to which you don’t know the answer.
Asked Lauer: “What would you say to those people who are doubtful that morale could be that high?”
Captain Sherman Powell nailed Lauer, the MSM and the anti-war crowd with this beauty:
“Well sir, I’d tell you, if I got my news from the newspapers also I’d be pretty depressed as well!”
Bada-bing!
Powell went on to add that, while acknowledging the difficulties the media face in getting out into the field in Iraq,
“For those of us who have actually had a chance to get out and meet the Iraqi Army and Iraqi police and go on patrols with them, we are very satisfied with the way things are going here and we are confident that if we are allowed to finish the job we started we’ll be very proud of it and our country will be proud of us for doing it!”
Amen! We’re already proud of ya now 
Hat tip: Blackfive
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Lauer is a babe, but he’s an idiot and a tool of the liberal left. I also heard he’s a cocaine addict.
So ummm…I guess Senator Hagel from Nebraska has it wrong?
On Tuesday in the central Nebraska town of Lexington, after a meeting with law enforcement officials on drug problems, three sheriffs expressed serious doubts about what the United States was doing in Iraq and whether it could succeed.
Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, acknowledged the U.S. military presence was becoming harder and harder to justify. He believes Iraq faces a serious danger of civil war that would threaten Middle East stability, and said there is little Washington can do to avert this.
“We are seen as occupiers, we are targets. We have got to get out. I don’t think we can sustain our current policy, nor do I think we should,” he said at one stop.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050818/ts_nm/iraq_heartland_dc)
Is Senator Hagel serving in Iraq right now?
I think Hagel is serving the Islamist insurgents. If he thinks he’s going to be president someday then he should think again. But from the sounds of his statements lately it appears that he’s not doing much thinking.
Hagel is a perfect example of the left’s pontificating opinion that “just because you’re there and living the reality right now doesn’t mean you could possibly know more than we do about it.”
Do I have that right, confused?
Can you imagine a reporter during WWII–say, several days after the Normandy Invasion–going around to the troops and trying to stir up morale problems with comments like “How can you possibly say that there is good morale in view of the heavy casualties your unit just suffered, and in view of the obstacle provided by the bocage which you are now facing?”
Anything different about Lauer’s comments? I don’t think so.
Sen. Hagel is getting face time for a run at the presidency. To be heard and “taken seriously” by the MSM, he must act like John McCain, the real MSM darling. To be adored by the lefties he needs, he must out-McCain McCain. The senator gets my thanks for having served his nation in the military, but that won’t be the only criterion I look at to determine who gets my vote. In fact, what he is now spouting is more likely to make me not vote for him regardless what else he spouts as a candidate wannabe.
- ST – you didn’t mention in the post… Did the leftwing MSM run the piece uncut or burry it, leaving it to others to expose the real scene?….
Can anyone actually imagine what our nation would be now if the media; as it exists today, had existed prior to WWII? I love instant communitcation and being in touch with the world at large, but for all the advances that the media has brought, it has it’s drawbacks. There used to be a time when we elected our officials, they made their decisions and the nation stood by them. Those times are past and I’m more than a little afraid of what that means.
- Fear not Independent, the advent of high-speed communications was the kiss of death for the Marxist rabble that used the fourth estate to gain what they could not through the ballot box. Yes they try mightily to do the same with the blogshere, but its a losing battle. The three legs of the communist, left-wing attack was: MSM, colleges, and an activist court. The first is all but fish wrapping now. The second is coming more and more to the publics attention, and will be delt with in time. The days of legislating from the bench will soon come to an end. The left has pretty well burried itself with the majority of Americans for the foreseeable future, and thats why they mount such frenetic, ill-concieved attacks these days. I’m loving it. Bring it on. All they’ll accomplish is to continue to alienate the American public and trash the Democrates chances in 2006 and 2008. Please don’t discourage the “elitist blockheads” too much. We’re depending on the anti-American rhetoric and hate speech of the Deans, and Pollosi’s, and Kennedy’s, and Reids, and Fonda’s, and Moores, and Frankens, and wonderful left winggroups like code pinko and moveon.morons, to insure another Republican sweep.
Cpt Powell”s words would sure be appropriate on a monument in the near future marking the demise of the liberal MSM.
Big Bang Hunter” comment is right on target.
David & Independent: I’ve thought about those hypothetical scenarios too …. and come to the conclusion that if we had today’s media and today’s Washington Democrats in DC during WWII, we might not have won it.
Bang: Re: the media running with this story, are you kiddin’ me?
Tom: Can’t remember if you’ve posted here or not, but if it’s your first time, welcome to the ST blog
For a “time-travel” experiment with today’s media in WWII, see my post
Bismarck Sunk, Britain Doomed
Isn’t the question Matt Lauer asked relevant. I am proud of our soldiers but I also have sympathy or empathy for the horror they face everyday. And in a general sense I would say it would be tough to keep a high morale when you see you friends and fellow soldiers dying. I think Capt. Sherman Powell had a great answer but why is Lauer now the anti-christ for asking the question.
Why doesn’t everyone get their heads out of their ***** and see things with an open mind.
Edited out “a” word. Let’s clean it up, please, for the young impressionables who may visit
–ST
That’s a strawman argument. 1) No one has claimed Matt Lauer is the anti-Christ and 2) no one’s head is buried in the, ahem, sand (I’ll use that word rather than the one originally used). People just get tired of the standard media line about morale and those who were tired of it appreciated Captain Powell’s response.
Welcome to the ST blog, BTW.