.Lara Does the Special Forces
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My morning email contained a heads up from Mullah John, who is home on R&R. 60 Minutes had broadcast a show on the American Special Forces last night and the segment was “disheartening,” to quote the good Mullah. After watching it I was left speechless – it was worse than “disheartening,” it was awful, and I mean everything about it was awful – from the questions asked by reporter Lara Logan, to the conduct of the “Quiet Professionals” both in training and in battle, the entire segment was awful and the story line non existent. It is hard to know what to say when you see stuff like this, but not knowing what to say has never stopped me before, so here it goes….
The segment was called “The Quiet Professionals” which of course is a great name for an organization which invites 60 Minutes along for a two month embed. Hit the link above to see the piece, because I doubt anyone reading this blog caught it when it aired last night on CBS, famous for journalistic fraud from the good old days of Dan Rather. But there was no fraud in this segment, unless you count the whole segment as financial fraud… I mean two months of embedding and this is the result? Thirteen minutes of Lara flirting with SF dudes? As a commenter on the CBS website noted about Lara’s performance, “It’s like listening to a child explain black holes.”"
FRI
My morning email contained a heads up from Mullah John, who is home on R&R. 60 Minutes had broadcast a show on the American Special Forces last night and the segment was “disheartening,” to quote the good Mullah. After watching it I was left speechless – it was worse than “disheartening,” it was awful, and I mean everything about it was awful – from the questions asked by reporter Lara Logan, to the conduct of the “Quiet Professionals” both in training and in battle, the entire segment was awful and the story line non existent. It is hard to know what to say when you see stuff like this, but not knowing what to say has never stopped me before, so here it goes….
The segment was called “The Quiet Professionals” which of course is a great name for an organization which invites 60 Minutes along for a two month embed. Hit the link above to see the piece, because I doubt anyone reading this blog caught it when it aired last night on CBS, famous for journalistic fraud from the good old days of Dan Rather. But there was no fraud in this segment, unless you count the whole segment as financial fraud… I mean two months of embedding and this is the result? Thirteen minutes of Lara flirting with SF dudes? As a commenter on the CBS website noted about Lara’s performance, “It’s like listening to a child explain black holes.”"
FRI
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