{"id":29236,"date":"2012-03-22T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29236"},"modified":"2012-03-22T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:13:19","slug":"rieckhoff-finds-a-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29236","title":{"rendered":"Rieckhoff finds a nut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let today be forever remembered as a day of blind squirrels finding nuts. We celebrate Paul Rieckhoff, our Lex Luther, the Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America who invariably writes unadulterated crap at the Huffington Post<\/a>, but today, completely out of character, actually does a good job tearing apart Headline News’ Dr Drew’s treatment of the SSG Bales issue;<\/p>\n

On Monday night, Dr. Drew did us all a big favor. He covered the Kandahar shooting incident on his HLN cable show in such a sensationalized way, that it should serve as a powerful example for how the media should NOT cover an issue — particularly one as devastating as this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Rieckhoff just gets better from there;<\/p>\n

For 20 minutes, Dr. Drew continued to push the narrative of Bales as a victim, a baseless one that many in the media have latched onto this past week. This does Bales a ton of good for his defense, but it does 2.4 million troops who have served honorably, and not gone on murderous rampages, a total disservice. It’s also pretty damn dismissive of the real victims, the 16 Afghan civilians killed. Of course, the segment got worse. Next, Dr. Drew brought on Dr. Paul Ragan. Ragan, an associate professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, suggested “a combination of Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD” was responsible for the Kandahar shooting.<\/p>\n

You sure about that one, Doc? Were you there?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t see the show, because I don’t know where the channel is on my TV set, but I’m glad to see that someone from the Left recognized it for what it was – tripe. But you should read the whole thing, just to get pissed off at the Turner networks.<\/p>\n

Because I don’t think my blog platform will support two blog posts which are not critical of IAVA, I’ll mention for those of you who are college-bound veterans, IAVA has made a new Post-9\/11 GI Bill calculator<\/a> so you can compute the benefit that DVA will send you late, if at all.<\/p>\n

And, Paul, because I know you read this blog and you’re on our Twitter list, enjoy this one – it only goes downhill fast from here. I guess we all found an issue we can agree upon.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Daniel for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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