In case You Missed This... And YOU SHOULD NOT... Laura Ingraham: ‘Sob stories’ from injured veterans

[WillyT]

Laura Ingraham: ‘Sob stories’ from injured veterans will make GOP cave on shutdown
By David Ferguson - RawStory
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 11:55 EDT



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Fox News contributor and sometime “O’Reilly Factor” host Laura Ingraham predicted on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning that the government shutdown will end when the media starts pushing “sob stories” about injured veterans who can’t get care because of the federal closure.

Republicans in Congress, she said, will inevitably cave in to demands to reopen the government when people try to force them feel guilty for shutting down programs to help people who were hurt or traumatized serving the country in combat.

After briefly rejoicing that the shutdown will make it so much easier to drive during the day in Washington, D.C., Ingraham announced that the whole shutdown debacle should be called the “Countdown to Cave-In” because she knows that establishment Republicans will be too cowardly to hold the line.

“It’s only a matter of time, in my mind,” she opined, “before the Republicans say ‘We can’t keep doing this’ because the sob stories are going to start coming out. You’re gonna have camera crews on veterans’ counseling centers where you’re gonna interview, ‘Yeah, your appointment’s been canceled today, who do you blame?’”

She continued...

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More (w/Video): http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/01/laura-ingraham-sob-stories-from-injured-veterans-will-make-gop-cave-on-shutdown/

[Uncle Joe]

1. She's just trying to shift or narrow down the debate,

hoping that the Democrats will bite.

Thanks for the thread, WillyT.

[anneboleyn]

2. She is heartless. Every vet should listen to her exact words

If he/she has any question about Ingraham's views. According to Ingraham, vet's stories about their injuries, suffering, etc. --after being in WAR FOR THIS COUNTRY -- are "sob stories." That says it all.

[Fumesucker]

3. Your support the troops sticker won't get you into heaven any more n/t

[HereSince1628]

6. And the link to your reference...

[SomethingFishy]

12. Awesome!

That song is going into my set list...

Although I will take a bit of the country twang out of it

[pinboy3niner]

4. "Sob stories"???

FUCK laura Ingraham!

[WillyT]

13. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

Thank You !!!

[pinboy3niner]

15. This strikes me like the Purple Heart Bandaids all over again

These fucking people exploit the troops and vets every chance they get with their insincere, phony lip service. It's only in moments like these that what they really think of us (and our "sob stories&quot is revealed in all its ugly splendor.

She's talking about people who--for whatever reason and however right or wrong the cause--served our country and at one time lay bleeding on the battlefield in a faraway jungle or the desert from AK-47 rounds or a leg blown away by an RPG.

And they style THEMSELVES as the patriots.

[11 Bravo]

38. Those fucking band-aids had me almost incoherent with rage. I will never forget my sons ...

ages and 12 at the time, asking me, "Why are you crying, Daddy?" It fell to my wife to explain that Dad wasn't sad so much as speechless with fury. Even now, the remembrance of seeing those Repig "patriots" mocking the decoration which I earned twice, and paid a steeper price than they can imagine; causes my gut to clench right along with my fists.
That night in 2004, for the first time in 33 years, I wanted to kill someone.

[vankuria]

43. I felt the same way

The disrespect those fools showed with their "purpleheart bandaids", enraged me also. What made it even worse, was the veteran's organizations that remained silent. This should never be forgotten.

[noiretextatique]

14. they are all for war

but they bury their ignorant heads in the sand when the human costs of their wars is revealed traitors, lies, and assholes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Of course

To people like her your Purple Heart is just a nice thing you pin to your shirt. Oh you mean you were actually shot? You are a spent round to her and a tit sucker!

[JI7]

24. i guess they will bring out the purple heart bandaids again

[pinboy3niner]

25. See #15

We had the same idea.

[TheDebbieDee]

5. As a vet (Army, 1982 - 1991), I'm disgusted and humiliated that I was willing to

put my life on the line for the likes of her.......

[WillyT]

9. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

And Thank You.

[Supersedeas]

35. you can see how much she cares--but, she does like to fill'er up

[Puzzledtraveller]

39. As an Air Force vet 1991-1997 I could care less.

But that's just me.

[City Lights]

7. Another "compassionate" conservative.

They sicken me.

[cui bono]

27. Remember the bumper stickers that said: "The Moral Majority is Neither"?

We need to get some that say "Compassionate Conservatives are Neither".

[pinboy3niner]

28. Better than bumper stickers--put your slogan on a sign and march in the streets

[cui bono]

29. That's what I do. Check my journal for my reports and pics.

I get bumper stickers too, but I don't put them on my car.

[pinboy3niner]

30. Way to go!

I've posted protest reports and pics here, too. Mainly because I think I'm not the only one here who appreciates reports on events from our members.

My one conceit is to post a pic of me--with a protest sign in front of my face.

[BlueToTheBone]

8. And small children crying because they are hungry and sick

and they are being denied heathcare for their cancers. Yeah, Laura, call yourself a human. I call you loathsome.

[SomethingFishy]

10. "Sob stories"?

Really? So much for "supporting the troops". I guess it's "fuck them too".

I do like the "It's only a matter of time, in my mind".
What "mind" is that? The one that tells you that you should be angry at the Democrats because the Republicans shutdown the government and fucked over some soldiers? That mind?

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Ah, Laura "Shut Up And Sing" Ingraham.

What a fine specimen of human compassion.

[pinboy3niner]

16. Compassion and Empathy are not words that can be associated with these cretins

They have no fucking clue about other people.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. I always thought that bit about professional bloviators telling rock stars not to opine about

politics, was pretty funny.

It's like, yeah, what sort of fucking entrance exam does one need to take to become a professional bloviator, Laura? At least Bruce Springsteen can do something productive.

[etherealtruth]

17. Vile

I expect nothing less from her. she is a vile woman.

[TeeYiYi]

19. I fucking hate that Laura Ingraham bish with the white hot heat of a thousand suns. ..nt

TYY

[pinboy3niner]

20. Only a thousand?

I'd go with a brazillion.

[TeeYiYi]

22. Can't argue. Who could say no to a brazillion...

TYY

[Supersedeas]

21. Another phony Support the Troops Repig shows true Blood for Corporate Oil colors

[Half-Century Man]

26. Bitch

just...............bitch.

Text and drive you skank

[Supersedeas]

36. that's harsh

[grantcart]

41. no its crude. if anything it is somewhat understated but you can

make that point without the crude vocabulary.

[Half-Century Man]

44. I'm an ex-sailor

I swear very well in English, fairly well in Japanese, and in decreasing levels of skill in Italian, German, French, Russian, Yiddish, Spanish, and Tagalog.

With such a large tool box available to me, the word which could adequately express my contempt for the life-form masquerading as a human news show host was that old American classic "bitch".

I do however want to retract the "text and drive" portion, that would needlessly endanger other drivers.

[grantcart]

45. I understand but women feel that it has a sexist impact that communicates more than you intended.

For example if you call someone a bastard (closest male equivalent I can think of) it is not particularly damning and even humorous.


Bitch doesn't just mean a disagreeable person but, for many, projects an image of a person who has an aggressive countenance, is not physically attractive and someone that should not be spreading genes in the gene pool.

[Half-Century Man]

47. I was recognizing her gender.

By observing the use of the word for over fifty years, I had defined B***h as pompous, unempathetic, elitist, hate filled female human. I have never called a man bi**h, for that matter I have never called a man a lady.

Bastard is a unisex term, it means child of unmarried parents. I can't think of as curse which is exclusively male (other than slang words for male genitalia). I did not and would not reduce her to a being merely a sexual organ. That would be going too far.

I do feel sorry that other people have a different definition for the word than the one I am familiar with and therefore were offended. I do see Laura Ingraham as a cold blooded manipulative, opportunistic, elitist, working for an organization which harms society by fear mongering and race baiting via direct falsehoods. My choice of word stands.

[Jamastiene]

31. Family members and friends of veterans (and veterans too) should

raise hell and protest her AND FoxNews for that shit.



What a disrespectful asshole.

She needs to hear "what for?"

BIG TIME!

[Supersedeas]

34. if they do, which they won't, Missy Ingram will spin like hell

she is so misunderstood you know

[Orsino]

32. When they're truly desperate, even their contempt for vets peeks out.

They're running a little short of people to throw under the bus.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. Instead of a predator drone...

Couldn't we just launch Laura Ingraham at the Taliban? Or any random, active volcano?

[Octafish]

37. Sob stories due to the SOB who sent them to fight in an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war...

...for profit that has proven disastrous, except for the world's financial elite.

"Money trumps peace." -- Faithful Toad of the Have-Mores

[Initech]

40. So if we extrapolate this, Laura Ingraham officially hates the troops.

[B Calm]

42. The only sob story here is the republican congress!

[mnmoderatedem]

46. once again, a patriotic conservative who supports the troops

right up until the time they throw them under the bus the minute it's convenient.

I'll bet she wore John Kerry purple heart band aids...