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.”
So who cares what some ranting butchcut bull dyke thinks?
If Ratchet Madcow is Obama’s media `A’ team, he’s in trouble.
Yep, that is what they are paid to do no matter how ignorant they are. For the MSNBC crowd the typical Dem is not too bright and easily fooled.
I know a man who served with Lynch. He has little respect for her. Bergdahl? He’s questioning his role in the military. This situation is completely rocking his world.
I’m enjoying the various trial balloons they’re sending up. Each one more insulting to either the military or ordinary Americans. Keepin’ it classy those libs!
Libs seek moral relativism. Merely by creating a comparison, factual or not, she can claim to “See both sides”, “Agree to disagree”, “Nothing to see here - next topic”. This gives her the voice of reason and thus, can conclude the debate. She thinks she wins when we call her an idiot and walk away. But she is an idiot.
Yeah, right RM...and the Marine held in Mexico was on the right road but did not turn. See how your bow-boy works to get him free. Certainly a lot of turns in ‘news’ at the moment.
How absolutely MSNBC of her.
He's more than a deserter. He's an enemy combatant. Bergdahl should be shipped straight to GITMO. Or hanging him by the neck until dead works for me too.
Well there's taking wrong turns as part of an entire convoy of vehicles...
...and then there's removing your weapons and ammo and deliberately leaving your post and walking into enemy territory without telling your own forces what you are doing.
Yeah, bitch, identical.
Bookmark to irritate a liberal.
Benedict Bergdahl should have been captured and brought back home for court martial. I haven’t heard anyone say he should have been left there. Not that I haven’t thought it.
Harpy Clinton should be worried he may beat her for the nomination. He already proved his hatred of America which is key to winning.
Pray America wakes up
Maybe she should be comparing the Jessica Lynch situation to the Marine in the Mexican Jail. He made a wrong turn too.
The Deserter, not so much.
“How absolutely MSNBC of her.”
You mean “him”... “he” is the “husband” or “boyfriend”
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She is not ignorant. Her followers are and she knows it.
The sad part is that there is a portion of Americans ready and willing to swallow what Maddow and the rest of League Obama are selling. Regardless, OBAMA DOESN'T CARE and is moving on to the next task of destroying America.
I heard the other lady was driving, not Lynch. No word on if she panicked and wrecked the first sign of combat? Nobody will know.
Madcow...Big difference between a vehicular and a moral wrong turn. Man these delusional libs are reaching.
This is interesting story in that night...
Real Story Of Jessica Lynch's Convoy
http://www.jessica-lynch.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=743
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