{"id":63971,"date":"2016-01-22T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63971"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:48","slug":"jon-mark-beilue-dumbass-journalist-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63971","title":{"rendered":"Jon Mark Beilue; Dumbass Journalist of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AverageNCO found this article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/amarillo.com\/news\/latest-news\/2016-01-19\/beilue-amarillos-navy-seal-first-among-elite-few\">Amarillo Globe News<\/a> written by Jon Mark Beilue about this guy claiming to be a Navy SEAL &#8211; not just any Navy SEAL &#8211; the FIRST Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>William is not his real name. He said the Veterans Administration asked him not to use his name prior to this interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the VA is the repository of all of the classified stuff in the world, right? But, I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself here. William (not his real name) was called into his commander&#8217;s office to receive a letter from President Kennedy directing him to report for SEAL Training &#8211; the first class. Because SEALs are personally selected by the President, I&#8217;m guessing. By the mid-eighties, SEALs were doing their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23035\">recruiting at the local video arcade<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n<p>The article just goes on from there. Here&#8217;s screen shot of the first few paragraphs, but you should read the whole article. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63973\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"SEAL BS\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS-309x333.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Don Shipley has called BS on William (not his real name) without looking up William (not his real name) in his database. Shipley also called Jon Mark Beilue the &#8220;Dumbass Journalist of the Week&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63972\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63972\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS-2-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"SEAL BS 2\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS-2-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS-2-322x333.jpg 322w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SEAL-BS-2.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve saved a .pdf of the story in case Beilue comes to his senses and takes the story down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AverageNCO found this article in the Amarillo Globe News written by Jon Mark Beilue about this &hellip; <a title=\"Jon Mark Beilue; Dumbass Journalist of the Week\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63971\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jon Mark Beilue; Dumbass Journalist of the Week<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63971","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=63971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}