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CBS will probably issue an apology to the public for his remarks, fire or suspend Feherty, or remove him from his current position at CBS.
Remember back in 1988 when Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder singlehandedly broke up [i]The NFL Today[i] team by making comments about the breeding of African American athletes? Or over a decade ago when another CBS golf commentator - Ben Wright - said to the Wilmington (DE) News Journal that members of the LPGA Tour were lesbians on the wee of their championship?
CBS will definately sack Fehrety in three...two...one...
You are all a bunch of hypocrites, and our country as a whole is getting further divided each day which is the real problem.
MissDee says "blah blah blah Liberal, bla blah blah bad, blah blah blah"
MissDee when you actually have something insightful to add or want to make a point with some examples/evidence get back to us...
And, During the Democratic Primaries, didn't Olbermann mention that someone "should take Hilary Clinton into a room and only one person should walk out," Meaning that someone should beat her so she wouldn't be able to continue running against Obama?
Or what about the "Screw Them" comments from Kos?
I mean, if Feherty gets canned, that's not a big deal, but when a person who has openly called for the physical harm of those with whom he disagrees now criticizes somebody else's words, that might be a bit much.
Olbermann didn't call for Cheney to be shot; he merely played a clip of John Edwards and Jon Stewarts giggling over it.
There you are folks. Wingnut defense #1 when caught spouting violent rhetoric. "Nothing to see here. It's all a joke. Ha. Ha. Let's shoot Pelosi and Reid. Ha. Ha."
It's not a joke. It's not funny. Imagine the roar of disdain from the right if this clown had said this about Bush/Cheney. That's right dee, you'd be asking for his head on a platter.
Depending or wishing for that magical silver bullet to make it all better? No thanks.
Hypocrites are those that speak and do one thing and continue to do the other.
Thinking people try to learn or "listen" to their past mistakes and make corrections and understand that what they did in the past may have been wrong or just stupid and improve.
Guys like this Fehrety, Joe The Plumber, and you know who are the dividers. Matter of fact they would rather anyone who is not lined up with them ideologically to just leave the country all together.
even garafolo's dumb "redneck" comment made eyes roll instead of laughter. however, coulter makes a stupid tasteless comment every other week and when someone complains the right says, "aw, where's your sense of humor?"
And you are suffering memory loss if you don't remember many on the Left joking about violence toward Bush and Cheney without censorship from the Left. Of course the difference is that many haven't been joking but advocating violence in general enough terms to get just under the Secret Service's radar.
>>>A joke to be a joke should be funny or at least try to be -- as opposed to Rush Limbaugh style 'jokes'. ANY remark that's anti-Democrat can be seen as a joke now? Hey maybe you're on to something after all.
"However if someone had replaced the names pelosi and reid with bush and cheney everyone on here would be giggling and laughing.
" - frankq2722
>>>Bush and Cheney are out of power and so aren't comparable.
"You are all a bunch of hypocrites, and our country as a whole is getting further divided each day which is the real problem." -frankq2722
>>>That's EXACTLY what you're doing here defending a remark like that!
why is everyone on the left trying to hang Cheney and Bush by their balls if they are "out of power" (2)
I wasn't defending the reamrk, however how thin skinned the party of "free speech" has become since they have attained power. Isn't the left the party of:
Anti War
Womens Rights
Abortion Rights
Global Warming
Free Speech
ETC ETC ETC.
However where was your outrage at the lies spewed about the teabaggers as all being ignorant racists, was there any outcry then for the decent people that protest bigger govt and higher taxes? NO, becuse as stated earlier you are mostly all hypocrites.
One perfect example: Bill Ayers recently spoke at a nearby college(a confirmed terrorist and murderer), while at the same time Tom Tancredo was not allowed to speak at a local college due to protests.
I understand the whole power thing, however do not say the far left are not hypocrites that suppress free speech
Cite one instance where a national reporter, or someone that has national audience, said Bush/Cheney should be shot and someone (in your deranged mind, far left) was cheering.
If not, shut up and see a doctor for having fun imagining people shot and killed.
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion from the November 15 Countdown show:
Keith Olbermann: "But first, here are Countdown's 'Top Three Sound Bites' of this day."
Jon Stewart: "Senator Edwards, if you had been fortunate enough to be elected Vice President in 2004, who would you have accidentally shot in the face?"
[audience laughter and applause]
John Edwards: "Um, Dick Cheney."
[audience laughter and applause]
What does this transcript have to do with the topic at hand? Desperate? Obtuse? Pathetic? You're all of the above. Fail.
"I wasn't defending the reamrk [sic]..."
If you're saying it was just a joke, then you're defending the remark. That's magnified by saying that the joke was funny as well.
"Screw Them".
And being out of power is beside the point, if when in power, crimes were committed. Last time I checked it was still a crime to violate the Geneva conventions.
If you think the joke was "funny", then you've never served in the military. If you have, you've insulted those who served with you and disgraced yourself.
The argument of the geneva conventions is totally inappropriate, just keep using the argument that the world will like us more if we are nicer to our enemies. That argument at least can be disputed by some on the far left.
Where was your outrage at the lies spewed about the anti-war protesters during the Bush years? Your original statement was that we were "all" hypocrites; I noticed you went back and inserted the word "mostly" to make it look like your original statement was somehow more nuanced.
I don't think the teabaggers were all (or even 'mostly') racists, though I do find it funny that these people suddenly took to the street to protest 'big government' as soon as a Democrat enters the White House.
"One perfect example: Bill Ayers recently spoke at a nearby college(a confirmed terrorist and murderer), while at the same time Tom Tancredo was not allowed to speak at a local college due to protests."
Are you talking about Tancredo's speech at Chapel Hill, NC? If so, he was allowed to speak, but his speech was interrupted by student protesters who, in my opinion, behaved badly. The university rightly apologized to him. In any event, I disapprove of anyone, left or right, who tries to silence the free speech rights of another.
I am no particular fan of Bill Ayers but: Should Bill Ayers not be allowed to speak? Who did Bill Ayers murder?
A leader in the weatherman group that killed people in a brinks robbery.
Had planned the bombing of an army base, that the bomb accidently went off killing his girlfriend and another member of his group.
And if you read any of HIS books, he clearly states that he would do it again, some of his quotes included "kill all rich people".
Although I think he is a nut, I do support his right to free speech I just wish Tancredo in this case was given the same respect.
Bill Ayers was not convicted of any murders or attempted murders. His charges were dismissed over an issue of illegal wire-tapping. The group had been infiltrated by the FBI, however. The former infiltrator has written about his time with the Weather Underground and reports that Ayers was indifferent to the lives of those he planned to kill. At one point another member of the group is alleged to have objected to the planned placement of a bomb intended to blow up a dance being held for police cadets and their wives and girlfriends. The bomb might also destroy a cafe next door in which people not associated with the targets were likely to be. Ayers reportedly dismissed their lives as acceptable colateral damage and ordered the attack to proceed. (It did not, however, proceed. If I recall itr was cancelled when another cell was broken and Ayers cell feared they might have been exposed.)
The US signed the Geneva Convention and ratified it. Americans must follow it, if for no other reason than doing so makes them morally better than their enemies.
It will be easier to get allies if you treat enemies as human beings.
Note also: The Geneva Conventions are RULES not guidelines.
The Geneva Convention covers our behavior. We can't control other countries or other individual's bahavior, other than with war crimes tribunals and trials for captured suspected terrorists and detention facilities.
The Geneva Convention guidelines sure as hell do apply to how we treat all people we fight with, whether they are soldiers of a country or terrorists or independent operators. It doesn't matter a bit if they wouldn't honor the guidelines. That doesn't relieve us of our responsibilities.
We don't adhere to the Geneva conventions when and if an enemy does or doesn't. We agreed on how we would behave.
Generations of Americans have proudly served and took an oath to treat those captured on any battlefield humanely.
Sorry, but I took that oath.
Does that even give you a clue about the use of violent metaphor?
Eric Burns needs to get his facts straight . . . no sailor, soldier, airman or marine vows to "sacrifice his life." We do, however, swear to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC . . ." I can tell you for a fact there are plenty of service men and women who believe Pelosi, Reid and many others currently serving themselves are in fact the enemy. Disgraceful is way too nice a word to use on the likes of them.
There are plenty of other vets who disagree with you.
Prove it.
For something to qualify as "humor", it should be funny. Claiming our soldiers are no better than terrorist by wanting to murder US citizens....that's not funny....at all.
IMO, this is being way overblown, and not much different than Kerry calling calling the troops terrorists in 04. I know the R's made a big deal out of it, but I don't think Keith awarded him WPITW. If Feherty had said this during a CBS golf touney, I could see the calls for his firing from them, but since he wrote it for another media outlet not associated with CBS, I think its just getting way too much airplay from the left, some of which have never heard of him until now.
No negative comment regarding Pelosi...
(and Olberman for that matter)
...could ever be construed as overly insulting.
Kerry was speaking about innocent people being terrorized in their homes, not that our troops were terrorists.
Feherty is still a riot, and if CBS fires him, its because of PR reasons. Free market, I guess.
I just called homeland security and turned in the bully who stole my lunch in sixth grade.
Incidentally, any name that ends in "o" is probably male. Female names in romantic languages would be more likely to end in "a".
To help you decide, here is Kerry's much maligned quote from a discussion in which he was pushing for security responsibilities to be shifted from American to Iraqi hands...
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not..."
And here are just a few exemplars of the night time raids, and disrespect for customs, that Kerry was speaking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4pyG6fGB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc_CM1J-mIU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AXN3H3BPQU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcJTzU5DFg&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F8KuLFtD1Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJV8K4_Os0k&feature=related
I do not put this list here as an indictment of American soldiers (who I believe are on average better behaved than the ones we see here), but these videos show the sort of activity Kerry was describing. These soldiers are clearly terrorizing people, disrespecting the local citizenry, and generally not winning hearts and minds. Does that make them terrorists? If not, then why do you claim that this is what Kerry said?
Please provide proof.
By the way, our troops do raid houses with women and children. That's a fact.
If you need help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact
Except that Mr. Kerry never called our troops "terrorist", teabagging hick. Can't you scum on the reich-wing ever tell the truth?
regardless of who's in the elevator the joke isn't funny. the threatening of anyone's life is not funny. If I put the soldier in the elevator with feherty and bin laden and limbaugh. the idea of killing any of them is reprehensible. taking someone's life in practice is never a laughing matter. If you disagree then how about you step on the wrong side of that gun and tell me how freaking funny it is then.
The CBS Pres., and the Secret Service, do not work on weekends. Feherty is packing for his new, higher paying, job at Fox News Sports! Later Suckers! One step closer to an anchor job, on his own show, and conservative ultra-right-wing stardom.