"There are plenty of targets"

After seeing recent pictures such as the one on the right of NBC Nightly News "anchorman" Brian Williams, some Founding Fathers claim he was one of their detractors when they were compared to modern terrorists. To the left, a photo of one of the reputation-besmirchers who bears some resemblance to Williams. (MSNBC photo of Brian Williams, right, and Photoshopped image combining MSNBC photos of Williams and Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left)

"I am certain that there is a dark mood coming over our guys in country right now, Allah will not be able to save our enemies from the wrath that will soon befall them," writes former Navy SEAL Scott King of Froggy Ruminations [via Hugh Hewitt] in the aftermath of that deadly crash by enemy fire of a helicopter full of Special Operations troops sent in to rescue four SEALS in a mountainous area in Afghanistan's Kunar province last Tuesday:

This episode reminds me of how I felt in December of 1989, when SEAL Team 4 lost four men in an assault at Paitilla Airfield. Afterwards, a former platoon-mate . . . recounted to me his reaction to the loss of our friends -- he was angry . . . he did not feel sorrow, grief, or pain, just raw anger, the consuming kind. He looked for targets, found them and killed them -- with great satisfaction, and no remorse . . .

There is one major difference between the situations in Panama and Afghanistan. You see, after the relatively quick invasion of Panama, there were no targets upon which to channel the anger, but there are plenty of targets in the GWOT, and they will pay.

"After seeing recent pictures such as the one on the right of Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, some Americans claim he was one of their captors when they were taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979. To the left, a photo of one of the hostage-takers who bears some resemblance to Ahmadinejad," reports MSNBC. (Nightly News video images)

We wonder if Allah will be able to protect Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw's successor at NBC Nightly News, who's probably regretting he typed the following words into his website yesterday:

Many Americans woke up to a curious story this morning: several of the former Iran Hostages have decided there is a strong resemblance between Iran's new president and one of their captors more than 25 years ago. The White House and most official branches of government are ducking any substantive comment on this story, and photo analysis is going on at this and other news organizations. It is a story that will be at or near the top of our broadcast and certainly made for a robust debate in our afternoon editorial meeting, when several of us raised the point (I'll leave it to others to decide germaneness) that several U.S. presidents were at minimum revolutionaries, and probably were considered terrorists of their time by the Crown in England.

Michelle Malkin, who's all over the story, notes that Williams apparently tried to distance himself from his rash website words during last night's broadcast:

In his blog post, it was "several of us" who came up with the morally equivalent notion. According to the above transcription, the "several" was reduced to a lone "someone" by air time. Who brought it up, Brian? Who? Do tell. Is it your own fabulously ill-informed thought? Or can you blame one or two or several low-level staffers?

"I said it. Well, someone said it"? Careful, Brian. You're treading dangerously close to fake but accurate territory.

Comments

[goomp]

Is Brian another member of the 'IM' generation?

[Mr.Kurtz]

Williams indefensible insinuation on 09/11/01, that President Bush is a coward; "underground bunker, underground bunker, underground bunker..." stands as what it is, but I think this is a false meme.

After all, how else would George III's government view the colonists?

And no, I have no illusions as to how he uses his "Bulls**it pulpit.

[Barry Johnson]

Hi Sissy,

Brian Williams is with NBC News, not CBS. But with all the news surrounding Mr. Williams of late, I can understand why you would link him with CBS.

It does make one consider that all MSM news organizations should just change their titles/call letters to "MSM" and simply be done with it.

- Barry

[Sissy Willis]

Egad. Thanks, Barry ('have corrected it and am now madly washing my paw). GREAT idea re changing 'em all to MSM. :)

[Mr.Kurtz]

Oh, and very funny picture pairing. I've never seen them together.