Lauer Challenges Uncle's Call for $100 Million Ransom for Kidnapped Soldiers

Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Surtur]

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

WOW, was Henley prescient or not re Katie Couric sitting in cBS's big chair.

[OldFriend]

I agreed with your approval of Lauer, I disagree with your praise of the uncle.

We will have to agree to disagree.

Sorry if you now consider yourself one of the UNCRITICIZABLE.

LOL who knew you were part of the people on Ann Coulter's list of those who dare not be criticized.

Get over yourself already.

[Republican Red]

I think the U.S. government was too slow to react to this, they should have had a plan in place. Because the U.S. government did not have a plan in place, my nephew has paid for it with his life."

I didn't see the interview but from reading the above statement it sounds like the guy is critisizzing the plan on getting his nephew back - not critisizing the war.

This still makes me livid. Doesn't this man realize that troops were injured and one soldier died in trying to find/rescue his nephew. He just spit on those soldiers and another soldiers family going through the same pain of loss.

[daybreakcoming]

Stage magicians use one hand to misdirect you (Lauer challenging the uncle) while their other hand pulls off the trick (the MSM giving a raving nut a microphone, a camera, and centerstage to undermine the War on Terror).

Exactly. They do it all the time in order to pull all the response they can. The Houston local abc channel 13 was aware of this man's slightly incoherent opinions and offered him up to GMA for this "interview".

[governsleastgovernsbest]

You seem incapable of understanding that I was did not offer 'praise' of the uncle, I was simply stating the irrefutable fact that he was well-spoken and well-informed. Obviously I disagreed with the SUBSTANCE of what the uncle said.

I pointed out that he was well-spoken for purposes of refuting the suggestion by some that he was a distraught relative being exploited by Today.

The entire essence of my thread was to praise Lauer for having challenged him. If you had read the article carefully in the first place you would have understood that, and this unpleasant exchange would have been averted.

For you to place me in the same category in which Ann Coulter places the Jersey Girls and Cindy Sheehan is as absurd as it is insulting. Do you really think I'm a liberal shill?

[daybreakcoming]

Whoops - my bad on the GMA and Today - wrote it on the run and I haven't watched either show in years anyway but the rest of my statement stands.

[Coldwater Creek]

Thank you!!!!!

[RedRover]

Maybe Lauer was influenced by Ann Coulter's views on "moral authority".

[RedRover]

Maybe Lauer was influenced by Ann Coulter's views on "moral authority".

[mewzilla]

Mr. McKenzie, what in God's name do you think they'd've done with the money?

[AmeriBrit]

This was not the bereaved wife/mother, this was a highly articulate, composed, well-informed uncle being given a chance to make his case.

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And being paid to do it too.

Looks like we've just possibly witnessed the birth of another Cindy Sheehan.

[LibertarianInExile]

"They need to give these guys tracking devices."

I was thinking the same thing, but then what happens when the terrorists figure out how to use them?

[starfish923]

No.