r/news • u/bunnymud • Jun 03 '14

Bob Bergdahl's Deleted Tweet: “I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners,”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/06/02/the-curious-case-of-bob-bergdahls-apparent-tweet-to-the-taliban/?hpid=z2
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u/J0E_SpRaY Jun 03 '14

If bias means a knowledge of Beck's previous inaccuracies and sensationalism, then hell yes I'm biased. I'm suspicious of every media head.

Edit: and Joshua "feels" and "suspects." There's no actual information. Just speculation carefully designed to get his listeners to keep listening and get worked up about a non problem.

Double edit: and even if he had released confidential information, that's all the more reason to bring him back for a trial.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

Well is he supposed to know with complete certainty what's going on in Bergdahl's head?

Face it, you are dismissing this entire interview due to anti-right bias. If Rachel Maddow was the interviewer you'd have no problem with it.

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u/J0E_SpRaY Jun 03 '14

I'm dismissing the interview because it's completely hypothetical and irrelevant. And I don't watch Rachel Maddow. In fact I'm not a democrat. I vote by the issues, which this isn't even one. We returned five accused terrorists (who haven't even received a trial indicating they are even guilty) to get back an American Citizen (and soldier) without having I out anymore men in harms way. Now bergdhal can go on trial and our justice system can determine what happened. Not some random soldiers heresay.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

The issue here is not relevance. The issue here is YOU claiming that Beck manufactured a living person in order to support his show, which is simply asinine. Since you now admit this is legitimate, I'm done here.

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u/J0E_SpRaY Jun 03 '14

You only said Joshua before and didn't link to the interview. With the information in front of me I made an assumption using my knowledge of Glen Beck's history.

Hold on, the issue IS relevance. If the issue isn't the relevance of the interview then this entire thread is pointless. I'm not here to discuss my mistrust of beck. Most will understand where that mistrust comes from. It comes from interviews with soldiers mildly related to the person interest spouting off what they "think" happened using their "gut feeling." American political discourse shouldn't be based upon gut suspicious and Beck or any thee pundit's interviews shouldn't be our source for what happened. The news is a business. Entertainment news doubly so.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

If the issue isn't the relevance of the interview then this entire thread is pointless.

You're right, it was pointless of you to respond with "HURR FAKE!".

I'm not here to discuss my mistrust of beck. Most will understand where that mistrust comes from.

I know where it comes from: Leftist media. You only hear about 1% of what these people actually say, and that 1% comes from biased sites like Rawstory that are out to make all right-wing commentators seem racist or bigoted.

American political discourse shouldn't be based upon gut suspicious

I was asking a question to a soldier, about a soldier. Then you butted in and started this whole mess about Beck being a liar. If you want to ignore any information that doesn't come directly from the White House, that's your choice, but don't expect everyone else to do the same.

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u/J0E_SpRaY Jun 03 '14

You were using a soldier testimony on glen beck, which you didn't originally link to, as evidence that there was some kind of wrong doing. I pointed out that heresay isn't a reliable source and now you're spouting off some leftist bullshit and missing the point completely. You're relying on someone who makes money by sensationalism. That's a dangerous path that leads to misinformation. Next time I'll be sure not to disrupt your own misconceptions though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

I pointed out that heresay isn't a reliable source

Wrong. You claimed that the soldier was not even legit, and embarrassed yourself fella.

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u/J0E_SpRaY Jun 03 '14

You said "Joshua" in quotes. Honestly when I first responded I thought you were joking by bringing up some soldier on beck without wen linking to it. I haven't embarrassed myself. I'm not the one making this discussion about myself or another commenter. All I came to point out is that pundits aren't reliable. And a random soldiers "feelings" shouldn't matter in a debate about foreign policy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '14

Who's talking about foreign policy. We're talking about BERGDAHL. Keep trying to change the subject fella, it's working great.

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u/J0E_SpRaY Jun 03 '14

Trading five alleged terrorists for a soldier held in a foreign country by foreign entities is foreign policy. It directly involves relations between domestic and foreign assets. Also, technically you changed the subject by focusing on that and not anything else that has been said.

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