The Surprising History of American Sniper’s “Wolves, Sheep, and Sheepdogs” Speech

slate ^ | 1-21-2015 | Michael Cummings and Eric Cummings

[Citizen Zed]

Anyone read Grossman’s book? Is this analysis correct?

[Texas Eagle]

In a country where innocent, unarmed, mostly black Americans keep getting killed, it’s a pernicious worldview to hold.

Leave it to Slate to hijack the metaphor.

[Texas Eagle]

It’s proved particularly durable with gun rights groups. With the release of American Sniper, it has reached its largest audience yet.

Hence, all the anti-America sniping from The Left about American Sniper

[MrEdd]

The sheepdog speech was standart when I entered the military under Carter. I imagine that it goes back to at least the first World War.

This is from Slate, and the girbilism there is of the Wikipedia variety. Do not ever expect them to actually read books to research anything.

[ricmc2175]

Infantry men were using this analogy in the 1960s. It is not new with Lt. Col. Grossman. Slate is wrong again, surprisingly.

[allendale]

The Left will endlessly try to understand the wolf, sympathize with the wolf, identify and live vicariously through the wolf, and do all they can to protect the wolf. The task of the sheepdogs is very complex. They must not only defeat the wolf but it is necessary to root out their supporters.

[Twotone]

These guys need to figure out who the ‘wolves’ are in the black community. The answer is other blacks. The sheepdogs are the police, but Slate & their ilk are dead-set on creating enmity between the sheep & the sheep dogs. To whose benefit? The wolves.

[circlecity]

"In a country where innocent, unarmed, mostly black Americans keep getting killed, it’s a pernicious worldview to hold."

wrong. In a country where innocent black and white citizens are butchered on a daily basis by the feral urban predator class the speech is particularly appropriate.

[Texas Eagle]

Slate tries to portray itself as the shepherd while it helps the wolf in sheep's clothing prey on the sheep.

But as long as the sheep are pacified with their free cell phones, food stamps, x-boxes, etc., they'll gladly suffer the loss of a few fellow sheep.

[tet68]

The problem with liberals as
Sheep dogs is that they have developed a taste for lamb...

[skinkinthegrass]

"wolf/sheep/dogs/sheep..it ain't only a metaphor, it's life..unknown, only to Liberals'

[lonestar67]

This line of reasoning cannot be stopped until we are willing to argue that these radicals want young blacks to die in order to further their own power.

[jwalsh07]

You mistake race baiting for analysis. And there is ample evidence that stupid is heritable since the morons that wrote this crap are brothers.

[Abundy]

I was introduced to this analogy in the police academy in 1987.

Leave it to Slate to hijack and mis-represent.

[moovova]

Oh look...the Cummings brothers have formed their own flock of sheep.

[mad_as_he$$]

I first heard it in 1972.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I can remember it from my childhood so I would say it is older then 2004.

Not the speech but the analogy

[old school]

This is a crock of shiite from a pencil-neck, who has likely never been in a schoolyard fight!

[jonno]

He encourages sheepdogs to view their surroundings with fear and paranoia.

This is the constant meme of the left: right-wingers are fearful & paranoid.

There will come a day when we can beat our swords into plowshares; but that day has not yet come...

[Blood of Tyrants]

The sheep cannot tell the sheepdogs from the wolves. Witness the fellow attacked at the Walmart last week when a person simply spotted him carrying a holstered firearm.