Fox News and the GOP have lost their minds in attacking military tradition and ethics.

[Fred Sanders]

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“There’s something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say be nonviolent toward Jim Clark, but will curse and damn you when you say be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children. There is something wrong with that."

Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at the height of the racial and Vietnam wars of the '60's.

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Bengazhi two weeks ago and since forever, then the VA thing, now the prisoner swap thing, nothing seems to stick. The incredible quick pivot to the latest, greatest nouveau outrage is an overplayed hand.

GOP operatives seemed to have two ex army guys at the ready to offer their opinions that Bergdahl was a deserter, they must have known from someone this was about to happen, and their pathetic denials that they are not is a story unto itself. Not to mention soldiers attacking other soldiers for personal profit and gain is going to win them few friends in the public and fewer in the military.

The thing is, Bergdahl is an American soldier, the last in enemy captivity, at the end of a WAR. He is part of a prisoner swap with the enemy, a POW swap. Just ask Israel which routinely swaps dozens of prisoners for a single soldier. How outraged are the GOP with America's greatest ally?

It is Fox and the GOP versus the military and military codes and ethics, that is what this is boiling down to. And when the GOP votes against VA benefits increases this week (again), will America finally wake up to the evil they represent?

The GOP have followed Roger Ailes right off a propaganda cliff this time, because if there is one thing the American military does very well it is counter-propaganda.

Just posted: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025044161

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Post posted thought:

Is it the same guys who scream that First Amendment rights include unlimited, un-disclosable cash to any and all unlimited candidates in a fair democratic election process the same guys screaming a soldier has no free speech rights at all in critiquing government war policy, even while speaking in private? Because that is one big hypocrisy booger right there.

[enough]

1. They do not respect the military or its traditions any more than they respect anything else.

Nothing has any meaning to them except as fuel for perpetual vicious propaganda.

[yeoman6987]

2. GOP operatives seemed to have two ex army guys at the ready to offer their opinions that Bergdahl wa

I actually was amazed that I saw it on Diane Sawyer and Brian Williams shows last night. I watch DS at 6:30 and then BW at 7 and was actually surprised when the fellow soldiers were speaking about Bergdahl.

[FSogol]

3. Leave no troop behind! Unless you can use that troop to criticize that black President!

The RW is beyond despicable. I'll never understand why anyone supports them.

[Fred Sanders]

4. But how the media coddles the GOP by ignoring all the incredible hypocrisy, look how

they jump in on the smearing of America's only POW for their own personal gains....it is the media that makes the disgusting propaganda of the GOP viable.

[FSogol]

5. True. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

6. You can't lose what you never had.

Thanks for the thread, Fred Sanders.