Crossposted from DemConWatch
This is pretty incredible. CBS golf reporter David Feherty, in an article on former President George W. Bush moving to Dallas in D Magazine, wrote:
"If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with (U.S. House speaker) Nancy Pelosi, (U.S. Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.
And then in a statement he made it worse:
"The passage was a metaphor meant to describe how American troops felt about our 43rd president. In retrospect, it was inappropriate and unacceptable, and has clearly insulted Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid, and for that, I apologize."
How would Feherty have a clue about how Amercian troops felt about Obama? Does he have access to polling data that show that "any U.S. soldier", or "American troops" (not even some American troops) don't approve of Obama? The only survey I've been able to find so far was in January, which asked troops about Obama's upcoming Presidency: 33% were optimistic, 25% pessimistic, and 35% uncertain, which is certainly a divided opinion about a new President. And even if his approval rating among the troops was 0%, it's still no excuse to be writing metaphors about killing the leaders of the House and Senate. Feherty needs to be fired by CBS.
Update: Bush was the 43rd President, so the apology basically said, because the troops liked Bush, Pelosi and Reid should be killed?
Update: From the comments, the survey is unscientific, but it doesn't really matter, as no polling results could justify what Feherty wrote.
Update: Please also see previous diaries:
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and by Shane Hensinger