{"id":31680,"date":"2012-08-20T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31680"},"modified":"2012-08-20T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:56:11","slug":"jon-soltz-swiftboats-opsec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31680","title":{"rendered":"Jon Soltz swiftboats OPSEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really dislike Jon Soltz of VoteVets and if you don’t dislike him, you won’t not dislike him after watching this video from MSNBC in which he faces off with Navy Seal, Gabriel Gomez, from the OPSEC folks<\/a>. Gomez actually gives credit to President Obama for making the decision to go after bin Laden at about 2:45 into the video. <\/p>\n

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It took 10 seconds into Soltz’ diatribe to mention that he was in Iraq. After Gomez tries to be gracious and says that VoteVets is non-partisan (they are not, VV has never supported a Republican for any political office in their six year history), Soltz just plows ahead and without saying why, he calls the whole video a lie. He calls Gomez a liar without explaining what he thinks Gomez is lying about.<\/p>\n

The VoteVets Facebook page says about the video; “Swiftboating of Obama Smacked Down by VoteVets.org Chairman Jon Soltz on Hardball on MSNBC.” Yeah, it wasn’t smacked down, Gomez tried to be polite while Soltz played the bully and leaned on the grade school playground tactic of calling Gomez names. Soltz might not have so brave if he’d been in the same room as Gomez, though.<\/p>\n

Trolling through the Facebook page, you can see countless examples of whoever is running that POS page (disksmith went to Veterans’ Affairs with the rest of the VV crew, so I know it’s not him) of VV taking cheap shots at veterans who were in the video. They accuse Scott Taylor of releasing SEAL secrets on a Discovery Channel program “The Secrets of SEAL Team Six<\/a>” because the Discovery Channel is the best place to release classified information, I suppose.<\/p>\n

They also link to a Business Insider article<\/a> that claims that another member of OPSEC, Fred Rustmann, had defended Scooter Libby’s outing of Valerie Plame on *gasp* Fox News’ Hannity Show, although Scooter Libby had nothing to do with outing Plame, who was out years before she was outed, anyway. I mean, the cover of Vanity Fair is a strange place to be announcing you’re a CIA agent if you’re trying to be covert, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Anyway, so much for VoteVets’ non-partisan support of issues that matter to veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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