CBS Announcer Says Any US Soldier Would be Glad to Assassinate Reid and Pelosi

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A CBS sports announcer/professional golfer appointed himself to speak for US soldiers.  And according to him -- David Feherty -- US soldiers would all love to murder Reid and Pelosi  (The Hill)  And no, he wasn't speaking metaphorically.  On the other hand, the troops luuuuuuurve President George W. Bush, whom Feherty was welcoming back to Texas. 

From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death," Feherty wrote in an a D Magazine piece....

You can imagine the reaction, but let's have it anyway.  My first thought was this:  why are right wingers so damn mean?  How many liberals do you know who would use such a statement to point up a compliment?  None. 

No liberal would ever suggest such a thing.  I don't have much use for Pelosi or Reid, but it's never occurred to me to wish for, or indeed ponder, ways in which either might die violently at the hands of a fellow citizen.  I don't wish that for anyone, which is tantamount to what this awful person was saying. 

No, it's just pure meanness.  They are angry and scared all the time, which makes them mean like junkyard dogs are mean.

Atrios:

I never presume to speak for members of the US military, and certainly would never see them as part of some monolithic entity with a singular viewpoint on anything. Nor would I suggest that all of them, given the chance, would assassinate leading members of Congress whose views I imagine they disagree with. But I'm not CBS Sports' David Feherty.

Charles Lemos, who -- unlike I -- has actually read the piece.

By his own admission, he is a "F-list" celebrity though that didn't stop the D Magazine from inviting Mr. Feherty to write an article welcoming George and Laura Bush to his Preston Hallow neighborhood in Dallas. If his column is meant to be satire, it widely missed that mark. It's offensive if not treasonous. He starts off bemoaning the difficulties faced by the former President by noting that his "two terms must have felt like the rest of the world had inserted the Washington Monument into him and it was his job to heave it out." Sodomizing former Presidents, what a nice touch....

CBS Sports should relieve Mr. Feherty of his duties immediately. An apology does not suffice. Mr. Feherty is also the author of a book, A Idiot for All Seasons, which I am guessing must be an autobiography..

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Comments

[flowerplough]

RE: Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice.

Not sure they're using their idiocy to "point up a compliment," but I can think of a few liberals who would use such a statement.

I can remember when a random liberal made "Snipers Wanted" appear over video of candidate George W. Bush on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. And I can remember how Gabriel Range's 2006 fictional documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush, "Death of a President", was defended and lauded as cutting-edge, and provocative, while "The Path to 9/11" enraged liberals so much you all tried to get it censored, pulled, and yanked because, as a docudrama, it “wasn’t accurate…” And, it wasn't Bush, but I can even remember how a local radio lib, Kevin Lynn, upon hearing that columnist Bob Novak would be visiting a nearby university, asked, “Will he have a target on him so we know which one to shoot?”

Oh, yeah, and Wanda Dykes wants Rush Limbaugh's kidneys dead, and Julianne Malveaux (November 4, 1994) hoped Supreme Court Justice Thomas' wife "feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease..."

FP

[Robbins Mitchell]

Well,I don't know about shooting Pelosi and Reid....personally I think the electorate would be better served if they were both butt fucked with a cattle prod.....more entertaining,too

[Mark Dixon]

So, when Wanda Sykes wished Rush Limbaugh's kidneys would fail a couple of days ago, that was what...compassion? Or the plays, books, opinion pieces, blogs and movies that were made during the Bush administration that ranged from speculating about the effect of assassinating him would be to wondering how to do it to wishing that it would happen to openly hoping for it, what were those? Love letters?

Or how about when Alex Baldwin told David Letterman's audience he'd like to stone Henry Hyde and his family to death or when Air America hosts like Randy Rhodes suggested on a number of occasions that dead Conservatives are a good thing or the movie "The Last Supper" where a group of Liberals off Conservatives to prevent "the next Hitler." Finally, when they do spare a Conservative, he goes on to ominously run for office...moral of the story: when you have a chance to kill a Conservative, do it.

I'm sure there's no meanness in any of those samples. Naaaaah, Liberals are above such things; just read their press releases. And given that you have ruled out the "ha, ha, just joking" excuse for this guy from CBS, it would be more than weak if you tried to turn around and now claim that this cavalcade of death wishes and threats were just Liberals trying to be funny. That would be more than a little dishonest. "No liberal would ever suggest such a thing," my foot.