{"id":31353,"date":"2012-08-06T15:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31353"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T20:33:13","slug":"that-sikh-shooter-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31353","title":{"rendered":"That Sikh shooter thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t want to dwell on this whole Sikh shooter thing like the media seems to be, but on my way out the door at work today, I heard Shepard Smith on Fox News make a stupid crack about Page just being just a psy-ops guy but that he worked around the best trained troops in the Army, referring to Special Forces, of course. How does that even rate a comment?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if Smith was saying that Page became a killer through osmosis or if he was infested with Special Forces cooties that jumped on him while he was at Bragg.<\/p>\n

How have any of these John Rambo fantasies played out for the media? How many Special Forces guys have gone on a rampage like this? None. They called Jeffery MacDonald the “Green Beret” doctor who killed his family at Fort Bragg decades ago, but he wasn’t special forces, he was a doctor assigned to the unit.<\/p>\n

My favorite was Benjamin Colton Barnes<\/a> (notice the scary three names) who was supposed to have been trained in awesome survival skills and was on the run after he murdered a Park Ranger in Mount Rainier National Park earlier this year. We warned how legendary his skillz were and they found him dead shirtless in the frozen northwest face down in a creek. Those are mad survival skillz.<\/p>\n

John Muhammed, the DC sniper, was characterized as an Army trained marksman, but he was a mechanic who saw an M16 once every year when he had to go through marksmanship training and qualify.<\/p>\n

Then there’s Tim McVeigh, their favorite. He was a Bradley gunner, and nothing he did that day in Oklahoma had anything to do with what he learned in the military, unless I missed the class on making a truck bomb sometime in my 11 years in a Bradley.<\/p>\n

Shepard Smith, along with the rest of the media, were probably disappointed when they found out that Page wasn’t an unleashed Jason Bourne-like killer running the streets like a mad man, kickin’ ass and shooting everyone, but reality doesn’t fit their fantasies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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