{"id":75467,"date":"2017-10-19T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75467"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:48:41","slug":"beeker-on-bergdahl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75467","title":{"rendered":"Beeker on Bergdahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/beeker-brandon-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/beeker-brandon-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/beeker-brandon.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Friedman, known around TAH as Beeker, has been trying to besmirch the reputation of Bowe Bergdahl&#8217;s platoon mates at least since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49843\">2014, when we first noticed him doing that<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/06\/05\/obama-administration-official-brandon-friedman-hey-maybe-bergdahls-platoon-was-a-bunch-of-psycopaths\/?utm_source=site-share\">Daily Caller<\/a> noticed that he&#8217;s back at it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership? (1\/5)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BFriedmanDC\/status\/474396432305504256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Friedman probably isn&#8217;t the best judge of military leadership &#8211; he worked for Jon Solz at Move On&#8217;s VoteVets, then when VoteVets board member, Tammy Duckworth went to Shinseki&#8217;s Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs, she took Friedman along with a bunch of other VoteVets writers, at the moment that their blog crashed, with a little shove from TAH. Then, as the Shinseki ship crashed on the rocks, Friedman and Duckworth jumped ship ahead of the other rats.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s not hard for Friedman to defend Bergdahl&#8217;s walkabout, seein&#8217;s how Friedman went on a walkabout to get away from the impending leadership failures at VoteVets and at Shineki&#8217;s VA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Friedman, known around TAH as Beeker, has been trying to besmirch the reputation of Bowe &hellip; <a title=\"Beeker on Bergdahl\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75467\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beeker on Bergdahl<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75467","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=75467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}