Brian Williams Just Insulted the USMC!

[C Broad Arrow]

The easiest way to express your opinion it to just stop watching NBC.
No viewers = poor ratings = loss of revenue = ultimate banckruptcy. Economics is a powerful tool. Always vote with your money. You can do it more often than you can at the ballot box...well at least in most states.

 

[Cooter Brown]

Rule3. He IS still on page one....

You buzzkillers are raining on a perfectly good media bash by insisting on accuracy.

You'd prolly take the pinata stick away from a kid on his birthday!

I might have to start a thread about Rosie O'Donnell just so's everbody can have some real fun.

 

[Texas Star]

Everyone should make his own determination, but I felt that he was expressing a sentiment frequently seen in his social class and inferring that increased tax base and the Marine issue were the primary or sole justifications generally perceived for increased Hispanic citizenship. He is the only commentator whom I've heard express the Marine thing. I don't doubt that he's heard it from parents who have that sentiment.

Of course, increased Hispanic citizenship will also result in an advantage to a certain political party, but we can't discuss that here, although I feel it is of critical interest to those who'd benefit. Still, that may evolve as more Hispanics achieve more to lose if socialism preys on them as it does on others.

I don't want to argue this endlessly. If one watches the video, he can determine whether the basic attitude was expressed, and if the commentator infers that it is why most wanting added citizenship think it should happen.

I do think that if a conservative commentator had said anything like that, it would be expoited to present him in a bad light. The liberal news establishment would not say to put it in context or that it was not his own attitude.

 

[M3Stuart]

I don't watch TV news anymore.

Thanks for reminding me why.

 

[Alnamvet68]

How about just getting over the minor details of what the real truth is and just accept the fact that Williams is from the same elitist school of thought that believes if you're not smart enough to go to college, you go to Iraq, or words to that affect, and said by that five and dime war hero who bought his medals from an Army-Navy store and threw them away in protest of the Vietnam war. Said war hero claims to have been knee deep in blood during his manly escapade in SE Asia, but what he doesn't tell you it was really ketchup, Heinz Ketchup to be exact.

 

[MrJT]

You also did not read my first post carefully. Go look again. Where did I say I heard him say it? NOT in that full interview!

Actually you didn't say that. You simply said that Mr. Williams said .......

Actually I'm not even going to bother reading all the original post since you went back tonight to edit it.

And hmm... During the full interview he didn't say what you think you heard, but in some edited non-full interview he did.

Hmmm.... Interesting.

Until I hear him say it I still call BS. Provide a link to him saying and I'd GLADLY jump on board and start complaining about him.

 

[Rule3]

Actually you didn't say that. You simply said that Mr. Williams said .......

Actually I'm not even going to bother reading all the original post since you went back tonight to edit it.

And hmm... During the full interview he didn't say what you think you heard, but in some edited non-full interview he did.

Hmmm.... Interesting.

Until I hear him say it I still call BS. Provide a link to him saying and I'd GLADLY jump on board and start complaining about him.

Gee a bunch of Spin Doctor on post #63 and then a edit on the first post?? What's up with that.

If it makes anybody happy Mr Williams came from a middle class ,did not graduate from College and likes NASCAR so maybe he should not be making his Millions.

 

[Texas Star]

Actually you didn't say that. You simply said that Mr. Williams said .......

Actually I'm not even going to bother reading all the original post since you went back tonight to edit it.

And hmm... During the full interview he didn't say what you think you heard, but in some edited non-full interview he did.

Hmmm.... Interesting.

Until I hear him say it I still call BS. Provide a link to him saying and I'd GLADLY jump on board and start complaining about him.

Rule 3 has provided that link. Go click on it. Interpret it as you will. The editing in the first post was very minor and intended only to clarify the post without changing its meaning.

 

[ggp0049]

Totally agree with gm272gs...the family of Marines from our heritage of sharpshooters in the sails of the Revolution of America's fight for independence in the 1770's, to Devil Dogs in the Ardennes, Iwo Jima sands, and in Iraqi Freedom to Afghanistan we spilled our blood willingly to ensure the ability of the likes of Brian Williams to regurgitate his bilge. We will do it again when called as that is what we do. Semper Fidelis my brothers.

 

[Freeway]

Even though I have been "out" for quite some time, I still consider myself a Marine, and believe it was one of the greatest things I have done in life.

 

[Muley Gil]

If not mistaken, entry to any of the U.S. armed forces, is not dependent on citizenship. In fact, it's a path to citizenship. I believe you have to have a "green card". If you have a "green card", you can legally get a SSN. Service gets you to the "front of the line".

When I served in the Navy in the late 60's-early 70's, I knew several Filipinos who were serving, and they weren't U.S. citizens. A lot of them made up the rating of Steward, officers' servants. That was one of the few ratings for which they were qualified.

However, I worked with one Filipino who had a degree in accounting from a Filipino college, but couldn't enter as a Seaman recruit. After getting in, he managed to cross over to Seaman, from Stewardsman, and eventually was promoted to Disbursing Clerk 3c. Shortly after he got out, he was granted U.S. citizenship. I know this is only anecdotal, but I'm sure there are others out there.

Yeah, a lot of Filipinos had been guerillas during WW II and then joined the US Navy. They were assigned as stewards.

Read about this man whose father had been a Navy steward and had earned the Bronze Star for saving a number of sailors during the war. While going to school at the University of South Carolina on a Navy ROTC scholarship in the '60s, he had planned on becoming a line officer until his advisor told him that the Navy wasn't ready yet for a Filipino-Amercian line officer. This advisor steered him to the Marine Corps. He did OK there.

Defense.gov News Article: Navy Steward's Son Spurns Custom, Rises as Marine Officer

BTW, though we haven't seen each other in almost 50 years, I still am proud of the fact that Ray is a distant cousin.