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PBS’s Woodruff Lectures Gates, Asks Him If He’s Worried About Hurting Troop Morale
NewsBusters.org ^ | January 16, 2014 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 01/16/2014 12:00:29 PM PST by Kaslin

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been facing criticism and scorn from some media members for having the audacity to mildly criticize President Obama and some administration officials while Obama is still in office. On Tuesday, Gates appeared on the PBS NewsHour to face another round of questioning about his newly released memoir.

Midway through the interview, anchor Judy Woodruff suggested that the former defense secretary could lower morale among troops on the ground overseas:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: gates; woodruff
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To: Kaslin

Hey...Judy...I got yer “troop morale” hangin’ right heah, sweetheart.


21 posted on 01/16/2014 12:39:24 PM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Why do I have to help pay her salary ?

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Because Republicans failed to stop the subsidies when they had the chance.


22 posted on 01/16/2014 12:39:33 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Kaslin

The fact that the regime’s policies have put Al Qaeda back in charge of Fallujah did a hell of a lot more to demoralize our troops. When I think about the movie Lone Survivor all I can think about is was that sacrifice worth it knowing the regime is going to turn Afghanistan back over to the Taliban?


23 posted on 01/16/2014 12:42:03 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: F15Eagle

Thanks for refreshing my failing memory.


24 posted on 01/16/2014 12:53:39 PM PST by upchuck (Stop this abuse now! Get behind Convention of States: http://bit.ly/1ak1Iz9)
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To: F15Eagle

That questions was from one of the LIBERAL conference calls leftist freaks get their marching orders from each morning. The left hates this country and loves their COMMUNIST DEMOCRATIC REGIME.


26 posted on 01/16/2014 1:10:34 PM PST by spawn44 ( moo)
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To: F15Eagle

I honestly didn’t know Woodruff was still around. Hasn’t her sainted husband, Al Hunt, fully retired? Gawd, I hope so. May they blissfully spend their remaining days on the Chablis and brie circuit at Cleveland Park.


27 posted on 01/16/2014 1:16:22 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Kaslin

Could the military’s morale get lower than it already is under Obama? Not by the revelations of Robert Gates?


29 posted on 01/16/2014 1:29:56 PM PST by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: 98ZJ USMC
There is just no sense at all in repeating the obvious hypocrisy of these people. Utterly disgusting. Protect the (D)Emperor, at all costs.

Like these people give two craps about "troop morale". How about asking Ambassador Stevens about his morale?

"The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution."
--Unknown SDS leader, quoted by David Horowitz

30 posted on 01/16/2014 1:38:11 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Steely Tom

31 posted on 01/16/2014 1:44:35 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve never liked Judy Woodruff. I like her even less now.


32 posted on 01/16/2014 1:47:11 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: F15Eagle

“All PBS liberals make me want to puke.”

Turn it off. I quit the “MSM” altogether. Even gave up cable a couple of years ago. It’s done wonders for my blood pressure!


33 posted on 01/16/2014 1:51:59 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: SMARTY

” - - - SHE cares about troop morale... who knew!? - - - “

MUSLIM troop morale must be more fragile than I thought - - - .


35 posted on 01/16/2014 2:02:06 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: F15Eagle

I think that was Andrea Mitchell who struggled with the balloons.


36 posted on 01/16/2014 9:09:20 PM PST by what's up
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