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Dana Loesch Responds: "Progressives Felt As Though That These Marines Should Be Bowing To The Taliban"
January 13, 2012 5:57 pm ET by Jeremy Holden
CNN's Dana Loesch responded to the growing controversy surrounding her comments dismissing outrage over video apparently showing U.S. Marines urinating on dead bodies by saying that her critics "felt as though these Marines should be bowing to the Taliban ... just like this administration does."
Earlier this week, after video emerged that appeared to show members of the United States Marine Corps urinating on dead bodies that early reports have identified as Afghans Loesch complained that "we have a bunch of progressives that are talking smack about our military because there were Marines caught urinating on corpses -- Taliban corpses." Military and national security experts from across the political spectrum have condemned the video and have pointed out that the actions depicted in it likely violate U.S. and international law.
Loesch tried to explain her comments:
The reaction to what these Marines did is disproportionate to the actual offense: beyond disproportionate. They'll be dealt with it. Get over it. And that was my entire point.
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I think the progressives felt as though that these Marines should be bowing to the Taliban, and every other combatant, and every other foreign entity just like this administration does. So my whole point was to say that your whole reaction was ridiculous.
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rfranklin
(13,200 posts)who is this skank?
Spazito
(50,338 posts)talk show host. How Fox of CNN to have her on their network. It sounds to me like she is the female equivalent of a Glen Beck.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)People who haven't talked to or even encountered a progressive seem to know all about how they think.
Gman
(24,780 posts)chowder66
(9,068 posts)I'd like to know if she would think that the taliban pissing on u.s. soldiers would be cool enough to "drop trou". I wonder if any old dead body would do.
She deserves to be ignored completely. Any credibility she may have had has vanished. And what is with the penis envy on steroids?
I will commence ignoring in 3...2...1
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)I don't think that would go over very well with Americans - especially the murder part.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...NO idea how ignorant she is....
Any of you Guys want the perfect Woman?
Find one who is the opposite of Dana...you'll be a happy man.
God, I despise this woman..
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)I think I may have an idea what you mean even though I don't know, know her.
She rude and condescending and arrogant as well. I HATE when she comes on. I usually change the channel now, because she aggravates me so. She talks over everyone, interrupting constantly and of course, CNN enables her rude interrupting by never calling her on it. She just outshouts the next person and has that smug look on her face, that look that says, "I'm not only smart, I'm AWESOME."
ugh, she just rubs me the wrong way. She's creepy too - there has to be something wrong with her (I mean other than being a teabagger).
Now I have to go have a bleach bath.