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Subject: CNN contributor salutes Marines for urinating on dead Afghans
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Looks like this effort to demonize Marines is
A: Not catching any wind
B: Not gaining any sympathy for the ragheads
http://rt.com/usa/news/cnn-urinating-loesch-marines-731/ (AUDIO AT LINK)
The video of American marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan civilians
has prompted worldwide outrage, condemnation from the White House and the
opening of a federal investigation. CNN's Dana Loesch thinks the whole thing
is pretty cool, though.
Loesch, the 33-year-old CNN contributor hired last year to offer political
analysis for the coming election, is already giving the network their
money's worth. Speaking during her own syndicated radio program on Thursday,
Loesch discussed the just-surfaced video that shows four Marines urinating
on the corpses of slain Afghans, presumed to be civilians.
Her own insight seems to be a bit more harsh than the commentary that others
are offering.
"I'd drop trou and do it too," Loesch told listeners during the January 12
broadcast of The Dana Show.“I want a million cool points for these guys. Is
that harsh to say? she asked.
Loesch, who says she was a liberal until the September 11 terrorist attack,
added that she had no problem with the act of desecration. “Come on people,
this is a war,she said. On the contrary, even those responsible for
continuously waging the deadly operation in Afghanistan have condemned the
act portrayed in the video and all the men involved.
The video was uploaded to the Web earlier this week and by Wednesday had
garnered mainstream coverage across the world. On Thursday, US Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta said from Fort Bliss, Texas, “The danger is that this
kind of video can be misused in many ways to undermine what we are trying to
do in Afghanistan and the possibility of reconciliation.” After more than a
decade of the War on Terror, the Obama administration has only of late
started talks with the Taliban in order to end the operation which has
yielded no major success for any party apart from the execution of former
al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Panetta, who added that the video was
“disgusting, is now worried that the relationship just budding after ten
years of conflict might now come crumbling apart.
Loesch, however, seems to be more upset with the nay-sayers than the
servicemen who might have just extended America’s war with Afghanistan. “Now
we have a bunch of progressives that are talking smack about our military,”
she said. “Can someone explain to me if there’s suppose to be a scandal if
someone pees on the corpse of a Taliban fighter?”
At one point in the broadcast, Loesch is interrupted by another DJ that
announced that, despite what the media is saying, there are no similarities
between this incident and the Abu Ghraib scandal that exposed the
mistreatment of prisoners of war at an Iraq facility. “It’s nothing compared
to what happened at the prison in Iraq,” commented her co-host.
“Completely different story!” responded Loesch.
For a recap, CNN contributor Dana Loesch may or may not have a problem with
American soldiers stripping POWs naked and torturing them for days on end.
When it comes to pissing on the faces of dead Afghans, however, all is fair
in love and war.
CNN has yet to offer a comment on her quip, though should have expected as
much from when they hired her. Despite previously calling the network “the
biggest bunch of idiot blockheads” with a“blatant disregard for
objectivity,” CNN welcomed her aboard in February to offer such genius
insight as the extension of “cool points” to American war criminals.
"I'm excited to be working with CNN and am appreciative of their efforts to
showcase diverse political thought on their airwaves,” Loesch said in a CNN
press release announcing her hiring last year. "I look forward to the
discussions."
Current TV host Keith Olbermann brought Loesch into a discussion of his own
during the September 28, 2011 broadcast of his program Countdown. In it, the
commentator attacked Loesch for saying what he said was “One of the all-time
dumbest things in the history of journalism,” but offered a few words in her
defense: “It is important to remember here that she is not very bright and
thus she has to get a little benefit of the doubt.”
Given her latest gaffe, CNN might want to reconsider their hiring process.
For a “real” news network, we’re not willing to give them the benefit of the
doubt for this one.