{"id":59573,"date":"2015-04-30T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59573"},"modified":"2015-04-30T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T15:50:43","slug":"brooke-baldwin-apologizes-to-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59573","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Baldwin apologizes to veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, media critic, Eric Wemple, reports in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2015\/04\/29\/cnns-brooke-baldwin-shows-rest-of-media-how-to-apologize\/\">Washington Post<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59545\">Brook Baldwin<\/a>, the CNN reporter who accused veterans of being the cause for the riots in Baltimore, apologized yesterday morning;<\/p>\n<div class='snappytv-embed' style='position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;padding-bottom:37px;'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.snappytv.com\/tc\/573025' width='100%' height='100%' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='position:absolute;top:0;' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Wemple says that Baldwin &#8220;shows the rest of the media how to apologize&#8221;, and I&#8217;ll admit that it is a good apology, it was better than many and certainly puts Brian William apologies to shame. I have no doubt that Baldwin is contrite and I can tell that she is contrite by her words, but that&#8217;s not the problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I made a mistake yesterday. We were in the middle of live TV, I was talking to a member of Congress, and I was recounting a story, a conversation I had had recently just referring to police. And I absolutely misspoke, I inartfully chose my words 100 percent and I just wish speaking to all of you this morning: I wholeheartedly retract what I said. And I\u2019ve thought tremendously about this, and to our nation\u2019s veterans, to you \u2014 this is just who I want to speak with this morning \u2014 I have the utmost respect for our men and women in uniform. And I wanted you to know that this morning, so to all of you, I owe a tremendous apology. I am truly sorry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If, for example, I had made the statement that all Black people are savages who would act like the looters and pillagers in Baltimore if given the chance, how many apologies would I have to make? Would an apology ever make that statement go away? OK, so what if I mitigated the completely racist and unsupported statement by telling you, that it is OK that I said that because members of my family and some of my best friends are Black &#8211; would you accept that as an excuse? Of course not, and you shouldn&#8217;t. My friends and family members who are Black, probably wouldn&#8217;t forgive me either.<\/p>\n<p>But that is what Baldwin said essentially in her first Tweet on her insensitive statement;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Folks. Please don&#39;t misunderstand me. Dear friends\/family of mine are veterans. I was repeating a concern vocalized to me lately. That&#39;s it.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBCNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrookeBCNN\/status\/593156366170255360\">April 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And then, the great defender of veterans&#8217; reputations, Paul Reickhoff rode to her defense with some nebulous friendship that Baldwin has with veterans that only Reickhoff knows about, because, aside from being a valor thief, he&#8217;s a selfish little twit and this is how he feathers his nest by sucking up to the media;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrookeBCNN\" rel=\"nofollow\">@BrookeBCNN<\/a>&#39;s been a friend to vets always&#8211;and covered our issues when few others would. Enough already. Let&#39;s move on to real problems.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul (PJ) Rieckhoff (@PaulRieckhoff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulRieckhoff\/status\/593272809612120064\" rel=\"nofollow\">April 29, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the whole problem in a nutshell &#8211; Baldwin should not have said that veterans are ticking time bombs just waiting to explode on their communities. The culture in many news organizations makes it OK to disparage veterans and the veteran culture by blaming that which they don&#8217;t understand for all of society&#8217;s problems. <\/p>\n<p>Millions of veterans don&#8217;t commit violent crime every day, thousands of veterans in police uniforms act honorably every day while saving the world from itself. But the Brooke Baldwins of many of the media outlets don&#8217;t find that sexy enough to report &#8211; it&#8217;s easier to make veterans out to be monsters and to blame those monsters for all of society&#8217;s ills &#8211; instead of looking at the real problems, the problems that are politically incorrect to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that was a nice apology, probably the best I&#8217;ve heard, but the problem is that the statement she made can&#8217;t be apologized away. That statement is indicative of a larger problem that the media has with reporting about veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, media critic, Eric Wemple, reports in the Washington Post that Brook Baldwin, the CNN &hellip; <a title=\"Brooke Baldwin apologizes to veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59573\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brooke Baldwin apologizes to veterans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}