'Stars Earn Stripes,' NBC Reality Show, Criticized by Veterans, Military Reporter

[Hissyspit]

Source: Huffington Post

'Stars Earn Stripes,' NBC Reality Show, Criticized By Veterans And Military Reporter

HuffPost Live's Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was joined by military veterans and HuffPost's Pulitzer Prize winning Senior Military Correspondent reporter David Wood Tuesday morning for a discussion on NBC's new reality show, "Stars Earn Stripes." The veterans, including US Army veteran Jennifer Hunt, Afghanistan veteran Matt Zeller, and retired US Army infantry soldier Joshua Flashman, criticized NBC for the show, which puts celebrities into quasi-basic training-like situation and features Todd Palin among its contestants.

"I hope it's canceled, and I hope it's replaced with a nightly review of the casualties lost that day," Zeller said, while Hunt focused her critique on the disservice the show pays to female service members.

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[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. There was also some whining about here last night

I managed to watch it, well some of it, and have no doubt it will be cancelled soon enough.

There are some real issues out there...this one is not worth a speck of poutrage.

[Earth_First]

2. Whining?

These aren't just your keyboard slacktivists calling for the end of this program.

[Hissyspit]

4. "poutrage" "whining"

That term was considered a personal attack on DU2. This garbage was a real issue in it's own way, and believe it or not, most people here can walk and chew gum at the same time.

I suppose those Nobel Peace Prize winners, including Desmond Tutu, were just "whining."

[elleng]

3. Silly.

Did anyone learn anything from the After Action Report? The way the military does business?

[OnyxCollie]

5. It was boring.

"Stars" Earn Stripes is a greater false claim than "Celebrity" Apprentice.