Posted on 06/04/2014 7:19:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow made a startling comparison while attempting to justify her unequivocal support of the trade of five dangerous Taliban prisoners for likely Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, equating his dishonorable behavior with Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch’s wrong turn during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Maddow opened her show Tuesday night with a rambling segment missed by almost all other media outlets, in which the liberal television host made the argument that Lynch’s wrong turn into an Iraqi ambush made her a “bad” soldier not so different from Bergdahl and still, certainly, deserving of rescue — something soldiers who served with Bergdahl have claimed he was not worthy of.
“Jessica Lynch did not go down shooting,” Maddow explained. “There was not a bloody firefight and stabbing. She was not ‘fighting to the death’ . . . It turns out that the group of vehicles that Jessica Lynch and her company were in, they were supposed to take a detour around the city of Nasiriyah.”
“But they didn’t,” she continued. “They took a wrong turn, or a few wrong turns. And they ended up right in the city center. They were supposed to go around the city and not go through it at all. They ended up wrong turn after wrong turn, right in the city center, undefended, in territory where the U.S. Army knew there were likely to be attacks or ambushes. And they just drove right into it.”
“Should that rescue not have happened? Should Jessica Lynch have been left there?” Maddow asked, addressing critics of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s trade by directly equating an honest mistake — not even made by Pvt. Lynch — to the deliberate desertion and possible enemy collaboration of Bergdahl.
“Seriously, is that what we think about these things now?” she continued, noting that the “heroics that the Pentagon made up didn’t really happen.”
“Maybe the U.S. special forces who rescued her and the other Americans held in that hospital, maybe shouldn’t have bothered,” she continued. “After all, maybe it was sort of their own screw-up that got them ambushed and hurt and captured in the first place.”
“Is that how we think about these things now?” Maddow continued. “Because that kind of a case — that obscenity of a case that maybe some Americans might deserve to be left behind — that is the new cause celebre on the American Right right now.”
Clueless, as usual...
What an ignorant idiot.
Wow. It took the crack researchers of the MSNBC-DNC axis more than 48 hours to come up with this angle.
This is the best they’ve got, boys and girls.
Why must she always be willfully ignorant of the facts?
This is the first time that I’ve heard the wrong turn was Lynch’s mistake. Is Maddow just making that up?
Oh, when this idea goes down in flames, they’ll come up with an equally stupid idea.
To the libs, committing treason against this country is like taking a wrong turn or putting your right foot into your left shoe.
Yeah, but isn't it fun knowing that their best and brightest are burning the midnight oil, trying to come up with a wormhole out of this.
Is an E-3 normally in charge of a large convoy of trucks?
Maddow is not seeking truth. Maddow is seeking advantage.
Sorry Rachel,NO SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MSNBC should go back to Flight 370 coverage, diversion would be a more effective strategy. Maddow could sit on the back of a scow in the Sea of Thailand, lick a clam and at least maintain some credibility.
I had forgotten that Private Jessica Lynch was the commander of her unit.
Yeah, you should’ve seen the battalion I commanded as a PFC.
Because it's MSNBCs job to stand by Obama ALL THE TIME, NO MATTER WHAT!
I don't think I'll buy another Post until I have some more shelves to paint.
“Seriously, is that what we think about these things now?”
Does MSNBC really want to follow this equivalency argument? For one thing, I don’t recall trading five of Saddam’s top generals for Lynch besides the fact she was honorably serving.
These obama groupies are clueless
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