Hilarious: White House accuses Bergdahl's fellow soldiers of "Swiftboating"!!!

[Clementine]

"Swiftboating", in case you've forgotten, is the practice used when a soldier tells a lie or comes up with dubious claims. People who don't like such duplicity, then consult all the soldiers who were around him during the incident(s) in question, and ask them publicly what they saw and what happened, thoroughly debunking the lies and dubious claims.

The term came from John Kerry's campaign for President a long time ago. He made several highly dubious claims about his own service in Vietnam, when he was a member of a team of patrol boats called the "Swift Boats". So a large number of his own shipmates, and others who were on nearby boats with Kerry, formed a group called "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth", and to a man told a very different story, discrediting Kerry's version of events.

Democrats, naturally, have been ranting ever since that a hundred or more U.S. Navy sailors were all liars, while Kerry was alone in telling the truth.

Now, as more and more of Bowe Bergdahl's fellow soldiers come forward to tell the truth about Bergdahl's questionable "hero" status, the same Democrats are starting the same ranting. Some things never change.

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Report: White House Accuses Soldiers Who Served with Bergdahl of 'Swift Boating' | The Weekly Standard

Report: White House Accuses Soldiers Who Served with Bergdahl of 'Swift Boating'

9:24 AM, Jun 4, 2014• By MARK HEMINGWAY

Appearing on the Today Show this morning, Chuck Todd reports that, in response to allegations of possible desertion by Bowe Bergdahl, White House sources are accusing the soldiers that served with him of "swift boating." Prior to the allegations made by those who served with Bergdahl, National Security Advisor Susan Rice had said Bergdahl served with "Honor and distinction." From the transcript of the Today Show:

Every [White House] aide I've talked to said they expected there to be controversy involving the decision to release five members of the taliban from gitmo, and the fact that this would then escalate that debate, which has been simmering for a good five years, which is what to do with those detainees, how do you release them, where do you release them. They did not expect this backlash on bergdahl himself. I've had a few aides describe it to me as we didn't know that they were going to swift boat Bergdahl. And that's a reference to that political fight back in 2004 over john kerry's military service, so there's some fighting words there.

I think most probably expected this as the WH tries to cover Obama's ass. Bergdahl's anti-American, pro-jihadist tweets were removed so they can now pretend those never existed. Now they'll claim all those soldiers are lying so they can dismiss all their comments. And the sheeple will buy it hook, line and sinker like they always do.

Obama seems surprised that people are upset about this. Is he really that out of touch?

 

[Vigilante]

An Obama administration official has floated the idea that Bowe Bergdahl was justified in deserting his platoon in Afghanistan and joining the Taliban over disagreements with the platoon's leadership. Brandon Friedman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the Department of Housing and Urban Development posted a series of tweets Wednesday evening in which he speculated that Bergdahl deserted over bad leadership of his platoon and that is why his fellow soldiers were smearing him."Here's the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership? (1/5)"" What if he grew...

 

[theHawk]

Chris Matthews Slams White House For Saying Soldiers Are ‘Swift-Boating’ Bergdahl

The Daily Caller ^

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)Liberal MSNBC host Chris Matthews continued his attacks on the Obama administration for the trade of five dangerous Taliban prisoners for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, slamming the White House’s claim that soldiers who served with Bergdahl are “swift-boating” him and asking “where is the dishonesty in the portrayal?” of Bergdahl as a deserter. Matthews, who strongly questioned the trade even while facts continued to pour in on Monday, has been the only host on his network so far to even remotely challenge the Obama administration’s narrative on the prisoner trade and Bergdahl’s history of service. And on Wednesday, he angrily...

Wow, Chris Matthews of all people is questioning this?

LOL, I guess Chris Matthews is part of the right wing propaganda machine.

 

[Synthaholic]

Hilarious: White House accuses Bergdahl's fellow soldiers of Swiftboating"!!!


They were put up to it by Republican strategists, just like the swiftboat liars.







http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-of-idaho-pow-vanished-angered-his-unit.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry81%23%2FBowe+Bergdahls+Vanishing+Before+Capture+Angered+his+Unit&_r=0


Now, why are Republican strategists arranging these interviews?

 

[rightwinger]

I remember them getting spit at when they got back from Vietnam, maybe you weren't alive back then.

Name a single POW that was spat on .....you fucking liar

Disrespect for Vietnam vets is fact, not fiction | Star Tribune

But Lembcke is refuted by many other sources, including Jim Lindgren, a Northwestern University law professor who cited news accounts that documented many spitting incidents. One example: A 1967 Bucks County Courier Times article reporting that two sailors were spat on outside a high school football game by a gang of about 10 young men. One of the sailors was stabbed.

Others:

• In October 1967, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Reston's front page article in the New York Times described his eyewitness account of protest behavior so vulgar that spitting was the least of the transgressions.

• Even Medal of Honor recipients were abused and "spat upon as 'monsters'," according to the head of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, WWII medalist Thomas J. Kelly. Kelly recounted how about 200 anti-war protesters showed up one year to harass the Medal of Honor recipients at their annual dinner. WWII Medalist James Conners was unable to avoid a particularly obnoxious man yelling, "Killer, killer, killer." Conners decked him.

• Other spitting incidents were reported by Pulitzer Prize winners Max Frankel in the New York Times (November 1969) and Carl Bernstein in the Washington Post (May 1970).

You fail to provide a single incident of a POW being spat on

 

[theHawk]

Hilarious: White House accuses Bergdahl's fellow soldiers of Swiftboating"!!!


They were put up to it by Republican strategists, just like the swiftboat liars.







http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-of-idaho-pow-vanished-angered-his-unit.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry81%23%2FBowe+Bergdahls+Vanishing+Before+Capture+Angered+his+Unit&_r=0


Now, why are Republican strategists arranging these interviews?

Why aren't Democrat strategists getting interviews from his fellow soldiers?

Gee, could it be because they want to ignore the truth?

 

[CaféAuLait]

Hilarious: White House accuses Bergdahl's fellow soldiers of Swiftboating"!!!


They were put up to it by Republican strategists, just like the swiftboat liars.







http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-of-idaho-pow-vanished-angered-his-unit.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry81%23%2FBowe+Bergdahls+Vanishing+Before+Capture+Angered+his+Unit&_r=0


Now, why are Republican strategists arranging these interviews?

Why aren't Democrat strategists getting interviews from his fellow soldiers?

Gee, could it be because they want to ignore the truth?

That's because now democrats are saying these men have been paid to tell these stories, since this deal reflects poorly on Obama. Forget they were the SAME stories told to investigators in 2009. Forget he was in Afghanistan for barley 5 weeks before he followed through on his pre-deployment promise of going AWOL.

Forget his parents provided proof he sent his military belongings home two weeks into his deployment and stated he would no longer need them. Forget the emails which stated he hated the US, and the ARMY. Forget about reports in 2012 which stated he was going to go AWOL BEFORE arriving in Afghanistan. And lastly forget the military decided in their 2010 report there would be NO extraordinary efforts to find him because he walked away on his own accord.



Everybody is lying now. GMAB.

 

[FA_Q2]

Hilarious: White House accuses Bergdahl's fellow soldiers of Swiftboating"!!!


They were put up to it by Republican strategists, just like the swiftboat liars.







http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-of-idaho-pow-vanished-angered-his-unit.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry81%23%2FBowe+Bergdahls+Vanishing+Before+Capture+Angered+his+Unit&_r=0


Now, why are Republican strategists arranging these interviews?

Why aren't Democrat strategists getting interviews from his fellow soldiers?

Gee, could it be because they want to ignore the truth?

That's because now democrats are saying these men have been paid to tell these stories, since this deal reflects poorly on Obama. Forget they were the SAME stories told to investigators in 2009. Forget he was in Afghanistan for barley 5 weeks before he followed through on his pre-deployment promise of going AWOL.

Forget his parents provided proof he sent his military belongings home two weeks into his deployment and stated he would no longer need them. Forget the emails which stated he hated the US, and the ARMY. Forget about reports in 2012 which stated he was going to go AWOL BEFORE arriving in Afghanistan. And lastly forget the military decided in their 2010 report there would be NO extraordinary efforts to find him because he walked away on his own accord.



Everybody is lying now. GMAB.

Partisan hacks will be partisan hacks

 

[Little-Acorn]

That's because now democrats are saying these men have been paid to tell these stories, since this deal reflects poorly on Obama. Forget they were the SAME stories told to investigators in 2009. Forget he was in Afghanistan for barley 5 weeks before he followed through on his pre-deployment promise of going AWOL.

Forget his parents provided proof he sent his military belongings home two weeks into his deployment and stated he would no longer need them. Forget the emails which stated he hated the US, and the ARMY. Forget about reports in 2012 which stated he was going to go AWOL BEFORE arriving in Afghanistan. And lastly forget the military decided in their 2010 report there would be NO extraordinary efforts to find him because he walked away on his own accord.

This is a standard liberal tactic. When their claims get disproven, suddenly everybody is lying except them, doesn't matter if they can prove they're telling the truth. They're still lying, according to the liberals. That's their story and they're sticking to it.

For a typical example, see this thread in this very forum: http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/357851-take-the-civics-test-and-don-t-cheat.html

A liberal found a quiz and asked people to take it. When conservatives started scoring better than he did, suddenly he announced they were all lying about their scores. No evidence needed, he simply made the announcement.

Then when the conservatives started proving they had indeed gotten those scores, the liberal's story abruptly changed. They had cheated some other way. When they disproved that, his story changed yet again. And so it went on and on. Never the slightest evidence, but the liberal simply kept spewing accusation after accusation.

It's their standard method for pretending the truth isn't there.

So it doesn't surprise me that the White House is treating the deserting soldier's squadmates the same way. The Democrats don't like what the soldiers who were actually there, are saying. So automatically they are all liars. One Obama official even called them psychopaths.

Some day we may yet be free of these chronic dissemblers and hysterical accusers.

 

[Little-Acorn]

They were put up to it by Republican strategists, just like the swiftboat liars.

Why aren't Democrat strategists getting interviews from his fellow soldiers?

Gee, could it be because they want to ignore the truth?

The freedom to make remarks like this ("Everybody except my fellow liberals is lying!") is one of the attractions of being a liberal.

Liberalism is a philosophy that feels that everyone else is incompetent and unable to survive without massive "help"... from liberals, inevitably. It couples that with a belief that their opponents are not just wrong, but unutterably evil. And to top it off, most Americans find their agenda unappealing, understandably. So the liberals have gotten into the habit of lying about their agenda, lying about their opponents, and twisting the truth wherever they can, since telling the truth would only get them voted out of power. Lying becomes a normal, ingrained habit with them.

So it tends to attract people who are slavering to denigrate and assassinate the character of conservatives, or even Republicans - ANYONE who opposes them, regardless of their actual characteristics. And saying "You're all lying, you're all cheating" as little synthaholic frantically does here, is all in a day's work - just another part of what they must do to be successful liberals.

In a nutshell, liberalism attracts the worst among us. Some people who genuinely want to help others, don't last long in the liberal camp as they discover the platitudes of "helping the poor" etc. were fibs, and discover the true nature of the ones who have remained and risen through the ranks. The ones who remain, are the ones whom the agenda and tactics fit to a "T": Those seething with hate, people happy to lie and distort their way through life, etc.

Why else do they constantly spend their time spewing lies about conservatives such as "poisoning the air", "stealing from children", "dispossessing seniors", "throwing granny off the cliff", and now "everyone who disagrees with me is a liar"?

It's not a disturbing exception. Among liberals, it's the rule. It's the only way they can advance their agenda... and in most cases, the only way they want to.

And the dregs of humanity - warped individuals seething with hate, desiring to hurt and destroy others - find an accommodating home among their fellow travelers in the Democrat and other extreme-left big-government parties that regard the majority as needing help, unable to function well without "guidance", and generally inferior to the leftists. Not just now, but throughout history - England's "Labor" party, South Africa's white minority, Germany in the 1930s, etc.

The Obama administration, and their sycophants in this forum, are falling into the same predictable pattern that all those other leftist parties did. All are using the same tactics... and for the same goals.

 

[Little-Acorn]

Why aren't Democrat strategists getting interviews from his fellow soldiers?

Gee, could it be because they want to ignore the truth?

Well?

Have any leftist commentators done ANY interviews of the soldiers who were actually there?

 

[Siete]

Why aren't Democrat strategists getting interviews from his fellow soldiers?

Gee, could it be because they want to ignore the truth?

Well?

Have any leftist commentators done ANY interviews of the soldiers who were actually there?

maybe they're waiting for our Military to accuse him first. ya know, something other than speculation

 

[Little-Acorn]

Why aren't Democrat strategists getting interviews from his fellow soldiers?

Gee, could it be because they want to ignore the truth?

Well?

Have any leftist commentators done ANY interviews of the soldiers who were actually there?

maybe they're waiting for our Military to accuse him first. ya know, something other than speculation

In other words, the leftist newsreaders have dropped altogether any pretense of being "journalists"? And investigating things themselves?

Nice to hear it admitted openly at last.