Bill O'Rielly - Nam - DonT up

DonT wrote:
"HeH. I have been wondering about O'reily for a while now. Tonight he
finally said something that jelled my opinion of him. He said that
what
Kerry did after the war didn't matter. It might not matter to him
because he
was a student and not a soldier. He and his kind (media wonkers
without any
military experience) can never understand just how silly they look
when they
go into a feeding frenzy about National Guard practises and not having
a
clue how it feels to have been labeled by fonda and crew as baby
killing
barbarian savages with no redeeming qualities at all. If he didn't
feel that
betrayal then to him it doesn't matter. Too bad. I like a lot of the
things
he says."

Don,

Yeah, I too like a lot of what Bill O'Rielly says, but when the
subject of Vietnam comes up he skirts like mad. O'Rielly is vulnerable
about military service in time of war and he dismisses our youthful
decisions as irrelevant. O'Rielly age is close to ours and he pursued
the education program in his youth. Forever hanging over their pursuit
of knowledge is that conflagration in SE Asia. The endless, nagging
questions and doubts about whether their decisions were motivated by
genuine intellectual pursuit of higher education or was it that
damnable war? Questions about their personal courage, duty to nation
and on and on.

Bill O'Rielly is very uncomfortable with Vietnam. And it's fun to
watch these guys squirm. The younger guys like Hannity & Colmes charge
right in (they were too young for Nam).

Damn good thing we all went to Nam. The trip answered a ton of
questions about things related to character and integrity. Watch
O'Rielly steer clear of Nam, if he dwells on it too much, the audience
will turn the question on him and Bill doesn't want to answer the
tough questions about why he didn't go.

Best Regards

Greg

Yeah I know. I have seen him squirm around the question a couple of times
now. He got an e-mail from one of his viewers a while back questioning his
qualification to make judgments about war and he fell back on his
correspondent days. He did "cover" a few brushfire wars but fuck a duck man
that ain't EVEN the same. If he felt like staying home one day he did. Not
at all like the poor dumb bastards out there in the weeds fighting that war.
The only way out for a hell of a lot of them was to be killed or wounded so
badly that they became combat ineffective.

--

Don Thompson

"The only stupid questions are those that should have been asked, but
weren't, or those that have been asked and answered over and over, but the
answers not listened to." Peter Rowe


"Greg Linscott" wrote in message
news:1854be55.0402130952.442396c9@posting.google.c om...
> DonT wrote:
> "HeH. I have been wondering about O'reily for a while now. Tonight he
> finally said something that jelled my opinion of him. He said that
> what
> Kerry did after the war didn't matter. It might not matter to him
> because he
> was a student and not a soldier. He and his kind (media wonkers
> without any
> military experience) can never understand just how silly they look
> when they
> go into a feeding frenzy about National Guard practises and not having
> a
> clue how it feels to have been labeled by fonda and crew as baby
> killing
> barbarian savages with no redeeming qualities at all. If he didn't
> feel that
> betrayal then to him it doesn't matter. Too bad. I like a lot of the
> things
> he says."
>
> Don,
>
> Yeah, I too like a lot of what Bill O'Rielly says, but when the
> subject of Vietnam comes up he skirts like mad. O'Rielly is vulnerable
> about military service in time of war and he dismisses our youthful
> decisions as irrelevant. O'Rielly age is close to ours and he pursued
> the education program in his youth. Forever hanging over their pursuit
> of knowledge is that conflagration in SE Asia. The endless, nagging
> questions and doubts about whether their decisions were motivated by
> genuine intellectual pursuit of higher education or was it that
> damnable war? Questions about their personal courage, duty to nation
> and on and on.
>
> Bill O'Rielly is very uncomfortable with Vietnam. And it's fun to
> watch these guys squirm. The younger guys like Hannity & Colmes charge
> right in (they were too young for Nam).
>
> Damn good thing we all went to Nam. The trip answered a ton of
> questions about things related to character and integrity. Watch
> O'Rielly steer clear of Nam, if he dwells on it too much, the audience
> will turn the question on him and Bill doesn't want to answer the
> tough questions about why he didn't go.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Greg