Blitzer a Moron
Jason at Countercolumn discusses Cluelessness on CNN
That’s right. The explosion flipped a 31-ton APC. And what is Wolf Blitzer’s argument? That the military didn’t provide good vehicles in the Al Anbar Province. And that — and I quote verbatim, — “an up-armored Humvee would have stood a better chance.” Do the math. If the explosion flipped vehicle weight 31 tons (plus another ton and a half or so of marines and gear), then what are the survivability chances of a 4-ton uparmored Humvee? I’ll tell you:Anything left of the Humvee would have been parked in Syria, dumbass. The retired general was being too diplomatic to tell Blitzer he was being a moron, but Blitzer kept pressing the point. “I’m very disappointed that we don’t have the good vehicles in the Al Anbar province,” he says. “It’s a very sensitive issue for me, because I was there in March.Yeah, Wolf. How was the ride to the hotel? This is the kind of dimwittery posing as military analysis in the media.
It’s heard to trust the media on a lot of analysis, really. Whenever I see a mainstream report on networking, computing, hacking or programming, I usually cringe. I’m willing to bet that most professionals have the same problem. You have to keep that sort of thing in mind whenever you watch the so-called experts on cable.
