dc koop

I've seen Marine hats on sale in surplus military stores. Anyone can wear one and bullshit the rest of us that he was Semper Fidelis. This guy was a fake. The beer belly gives him away. Ha ha ha

dc koop

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Giantaxe

List of journalistic prizes won by The Washington Post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ashington_Post

List of journalistic prizes won by Fox News:

kimilseung

one wonders at how it is relevant , whether he is/was a marine at all, or any other job.

dc koop

There is no major press publication or national news channel that is politically neutral in America. All subscribe either to the left wing philosophy or the right wing philosophy although sometimes they occasionally make feeble attempts to pose as neutral.

dc koop

The fat old guy thought for some reason it was relevant to mention to Graham that he was a (??) former Marine.

Giantaxe

So you keep saying. However, some actually have responsible journalistic standards for which they have been repeatedly recognized for over decades whereas some are just propaganda (i.e. Fox News).

kimilseung

you're doing it again. why does his claim to be a Marine affect anything? Why do you think it important to discredit that claim? I ask you, as you yourself have told us of your soldiering days as a way to bolster your claim to authority, during a chat when it seemed tangential.

kimilseung

One also has to ask why you continue to make presuppositions, falsely claiming that Jeff Key, an LGBT former Marine who served in Iraq, is stealing valor. I think it is irrelevant to his question, but you have in the past spoken out against stolen valor. So it is a little shocking to see you falsely throw that claim at someone.

Giantaxe

Going to presume that Graham walked away because he was being filmed.

Really, Graham has truly lost it since his buddy McCain died. Very sad to see how he is now so firmly up Trump's ass:

Leslie

In a way, maybe this time, because Graham has cried and clutched his pearls for decades over how much he loves the troops and about how all he cares about is taking care of our vets. Meanwhile, Graham turns a blind eye to Trump stealing money from the military budget, treating war heroes like garbage and genuflecting with regard to Syria.

dc koop

And MSNBC ? Their whole news coverage 24/7 is about Trump...... negative. Unlike MSNBC however Fox News does occasionally cover other items of news even (gasp) from overseas

Jerseygirl

A new Dem. candidate who may just win...


https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/24/polit...ion/index.html

dc koop

Trump had the decency to grant a pardon to Army 1st Lieutenant Clint Lawrence who spent years in Leavenworth for allegedly shooting two Afghanis who were it was said at the time of his court martial not known members of any terrorist group but as it now turns out were actually engaged in the manufacture of bombs.

If Presidents send troops to fight in god awful wars that any fool would know are unwinnable and Afghanistan is a prime example (since neither the military might of the British Empire nor that of the Soviet Union were capable of bringing about any order in that perennially backwards tribal country) then soldiers who find themselves in ****ed up situations in ****ed up places on earth are themselves in difficult situations too often and decisions have to be made on the spot without time to consult some fossilized two star general in the Pentagon whose been shuffling papers at a desk for the past decade and a half. The Pentagon has occasionally itself been sadly guilty of failure to support it's troops in the field

dc koop

In that case I thank Jeff Key for his service but one has to be careful of these videos and suspect that they may be the work of politically motivated mischief makers with agendas to place supporters of a democratically elected President in embarrassing and awkward situations.