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(42,633 posts)3. 7 Opinions That Cost Former SEAL Carl Higbie a High-Powered DC Gig
https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/01/24/7-opinions-cost-former-seal-carl-higbie-his-high-powered-dc-gig.html
Just one year ago, Navy veteran and former SEAL Carl Higbie interviewed to be and was under serious consideration as President Trumps press secretary before he lost that job to fellow Navy man Sean Spicer. Higbie did land a high-profile gig as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS, the Corporation for National & Community Service. Thats the agency that oversees public service projects like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps. But he resigned from that position last week amid a furor over recently unearthed comments he made in recent years. After he completed his military service, Higbie ran for Congress in Connecticut in 2014 and was an active commentator on conservative media. It was that career that came back to cause him trouble. On Friday, a CNN KFile story compiled a few of the statements he made during his commenting appearances and Highbie promptly resigned from his CNCS post. He then took to Twitter for a public apology.
Heres a question: if those words dont represent who he is or what he stands for, was Higbie just clowning for a paycheck, saying outrageous things to build the brand in conservative media? Or did he believe these things when he said them and now hes sorry that everyone knows what he thinks? Here are a few things that U.S. Navy veteran Carl Higbie said:
1. On PTSD
On Sound of Freedom radio in February 2013, he embraced some surprising opinions about military veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress as he talked about a military member named Brandon: "Yeah I'm a gonna go out on limb here and say, a lot of people are going to disagree with this comment. But severe PTSD, where guys are bugging out and doing violent acts, is a trait of a weak mind. Now things like Brandon, where he was legitimately blown up and a loud noise makes him on edge -- completely understandable, but when someone performs an act of violence that is a, it is a weak mind. That is a crazy person, and the fact that they're trying to hide it behind PTSD makes me want to vomit." On the Women Patriots Blog Talk Radio show in August 2014, he followed up by saying this: "I'd say 75% of people with PTSD don't actually have it, and they're either milking something for a little extra money in disability or they're just, they honestly are just lying. Twenty-five percent legitimately do have problems. They have bad dreams. They can't cope. They have problems with noises and things like that. And I really think there are people that cannot deal with the stress of combat and some people can."
2. On Undocumented Immigrants
In a February 2013 episode of "Sound of Freedom," Higbie asserted 2nd amendment rights for U.S. citizens confronting undocumented immigrants. "What's so wrong with wanting to put up a fence and saying, 'hey, everybody with a gun, if you want to go shoot people coming across our border illegally, you can do it fo' free? And you can do it on your own, and you'll be under the command of the, you know, National Guard unit or a Border Patrol, I think stick a fence six feet high with signs on it in both English and Spanish and it says 'if you cross this border, this is the American border, you cross it, we're going to shoot you.'"
3. On Gay Americans..........
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Just one year ago, Navy veteran and former SEAL Carl Higbie interviewed to be and was under serious consideration as President Trumps press secretary before he lost that job to fellow Navy man Sean Spicer. Higbie did land a high-profile gig as Chief of External Affairs at CNCS, the Corporation for National & Community Service. Thats the agency that oversees public service projects like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps. But he resigned from that position last week amid a furor over recently unearthed comments he made in recent years. After he completed his military service, Higbie ran for Congress in Connecticut in 2014 and was an active commentator on conservative media. It was that career that came back to cause him trouble. On Friday, a CNN KFile story compiled a few of the statements he made during his commenting appearances and Highbie promptly resigned from his CNCS post. He then took to Twitter for a public apology.
Link to tweet
Heres a question: if those words dont represent who he is or what he stands for, was Higbie just clowning for a paycheck, saying outrageous things to build the brand in conservative media? Or did he believe these things when he said them and now hes sorry that everyone knows what he thinks? Here are a few things that U.S. Navy veteran Carl Higbie said:
1. On PTSD
On Sound of Freedom radio in February 2013, he embraced some surprising opinions about military veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress as he talked about a military member named Brandon: "Yeah I'm a gonna go out on limb here and say, a lot of people are going to disagree with this comment. But severe PTSD, where guys are bugging out and doing violent acts, is a trait of a weak mind. Now things like Brandon, where he was legitimately blown up and a loud noise makes him on edge -- completely understandable, but when someone performs an act of violence that is a, it is a weak mind. That is a crazy person, and the fact that they're trying to hide it behind PTSD makes me want to vomit." On the Women Patriots Blog Talk Radio show in August 2014, he followed up by saying this: "I'd say 75% of people with PTSD don't actually have it, and they're either milking something for a little extra money in disability or they're just, they honestly are just lying. Twenty-five percent legitimately do have problems. They have bad dreams. They can't cope. They have problems with noises and things like that. And I really think there are people that cannot deal with the stress of combat and some people can."
2. On Undocumented Immigrants
In a February 2013 episode of "Sound of Freedom," Higbie asserted 2nd amendment rights for U.S. citizens confronting undocumented immigrants. "What's so wrong with wanting to put up a fence and saying, 'hey, everybody with a gun, if you want to go shoot people coming across our border illegally, you can do it fo' free? And you can do it on your own, and you'll be under the command of the, you know, National Guard unit or a Border Patrol, I think stick a fence six feet high with signs on it in both English and Spanish and it says 'if you cross this border, this is the American border, you cross it, we're going to shoot you.'"
3. On Gay Americans..........
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TLDR since Newsmax, but responding to the heading: That IS 1 way to look at it?
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