Media Matters' Eric Boehlert tweeted that "Navy SEALs don't have guts to admit they're running a GOP, anti-Obama campaign." His tweet was in response to a campaign started by a group, called the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, which describes itself as nonpartisan team of former special ops and CIA officers to implore the Obama Administration to stop leaks.
#kindalame former Navy SEALs don't have guts to admit they're running a GOP, anti-Obama campaign; nyti.ms/N2nYYj
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 16, 2012
The fierce warrior Boehlert does not care so much about the leaks that put American men and women at risk, but instead prefers to call the Navy SEALS gutless. As noted by the NY Times, "Security officials and members of both parties in Congress have sharply criticized leaks about classified operations under Mr. Obama." Is Boehlert so blinded by ideology that he can dismiss the very real threat posed by these leaks?
Watch the video that is getting Media Matters and the Obama Campaign in a frenzy:
Not surprisingly, "The Obama campaign immediately compared the effort to the 'Swift Boat' advertisements..." Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said, "The Republicans are resorting to 'Swift Boat' tactics." Of course LaBolt doesn't address the leaks.
The Daily Caller spoke with Scott Taylor, a former Navy SEAL, and now a member of the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund. He stated,
"Everything's out there. It's interesting how the left is trying to frame this as a partisan issue. I don't care what party people are from within our group," Taylor said. "This issue is about national security leaks."
OPSEC spokesman Chad Coulton disputed the comparison to Swiftboat ads, "This campaign doesn't have to do with criticizing the president's military service or anyone else's."
Hey Boehlert, this author would LOVE to see you call Scott Taylor "gutless"...to his face.
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Comments: 57
He would've gotten more if he had replaced guts with cahones.
I heard a rumor that you have no cahones, MS. Nal. The True?
Um, are you asking if I am a man? Or are you asking if I am brave?
Shirley, you can do better than that.
Don't let him call you Shirley.
The truth hurts. Had Mr. Boehlert said this face-to-face with a SEAL, it would probably have hurt a great deal.
Eric B. <-------Sniveling little twerp
You have no cahones!
The rumors are now intensifying AND conflicting. Have you no comment whatsoever?!
So, why are you wasting so much time on stuff you obviously disagree with? Are you a plant here whose only job is to troll and disrupt? Are you getting paid to troll? If not, WHY are you so interested in something so uninteresting to you?
That pesky old national security, secret intelligence, covert ops - what a laugh.
Hell just release it all in the papers!
WE don neeed no steenkin seecrets!
Are you actually a descendant of Benedict Arnold?
Or maybe the Rosenbergs?
Just curious.
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Chuck, are you freaking kidding? 'faux outrage'? C'mon! My anger at this isn't fake. I AM mad. I have been mad for a long time...(warning: conspiracy theory alert) since our gov't killed all the SEALs in the 'crash'. I have two personal friends from school that are SEALs and they have been angry as hell. My husband, because of his work, is quite close to several special ops, SEALs, etc. and they are angry, too. You can't imagine how real the anger is, Chuck.
...a careless comment.
...coincidence? I think not
...theory backed up with real suspicions.
...ah, what do I know
Chuck <--------- Case in point
Up to that point in 1980 we had successfully and with out any media coverage and not one word from any British Government to anyone had done three operations just like that one abroad we even managed to get an agreement from the Governments of those country's to keep it all secret because that's the secret of success, to keep your enemy in the dark of the tactics that are used.
And now in just one week on home soil everything that we had worked so hard to do was now out in the open. The political masters were beaming with pride as they all got on the bandwagon they could not stop slapping the lads on the back and filling their whiskey glasses up. And then it suddenly hit them of what they had done and they quickly had to put out a broadcast saying that if anyone else tried to do the same in the UK then this same fate would await them.
It was never the same again after that, whole tactics that we used had to be changed some for the better as you never stand still and in any case you always try to find better ways to do things. but that episode put all our lives at risk, and one more thing happened as well that had never happened before. SAS Troopers started to write books of the exploits that they had done giving out even more secrets that could be read by the enemy. Some good men left because of it and then they wrote books, until when a new person joined they had to sign an agreement not to divulge anything that they were doing or who they were.
And all for what? So that a person or Government could look good to the people and win the next election, bastards everyone of them.
It disrupted our training because not all our training was done in that barracks and we used to travel by car and never in uniform and those cars were unmarked but they were all the same make, so when we went out in convoy as we used to do the media watching used to automatically think we were on a job and follow us. It never crossed their minds that when ever a proper job was on we had police outriders and police cars to escort us.
We used old blocks of flats that were empty and were due to be demolished in any part of the country to help us train in entry and hostage rescue and some of the explosive techniques that we used were highly secret so out of the eye of the public we used blow exact round holes in the side of the concrete buildings so that in any event we could gain entry that way if needed.
How could we do that with the media watching our every move? it was impossible so for at least six months all movement and all training like that was banned losing valuable training time.
Governments no matter who they are always like taking the praise just like your President has done on that video. what he should have done was to keep out of it, there was no need for him to say anything all he needed to do was to give a slight smug smile and say I told you we would get him, just that nothing more nothing less. But no he or his advisers could not wait to take all the glory and in doing so put everyone in immediate danger. Like I said bastards everyone.
Governments no matter who they are always like taking the praise just like your President has done on that video. what he should have done was to keep out of it, there was no need for him to say anything all he needed to do was to give a slight smug smile and say I told you we would get him, just that nothing more nothing less. But no he or his advisers could not wait to take all the glory and in doing so put everyone in immediate danger. Well said.
I don't know how these guys deal with the dummies in the media and in the government. They really are heroes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-zq3Erxr5E&feature=player_embedded
They actually believe that he led the mission. Its as if it was come on lads follow me up an at em, me first.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our American dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Americans.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in America , show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, America , and Saint Obama!'
...but I'll bet he'll say that Muslim terrorists do.