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By David Edwards
Sunday, June 8, 2014 15:26 EDT
Fox News media analyst Lauren Ashburn on Sunday suggested that former prisoner of war Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could be a Taliban sympathizer because he was released after five years of captivity wearing a Muslim smock.
During a discussion on Media Buzz, host Howard Kurtz asked Ashburn if it had been fair for the media to spend so much time focusing on a Taliban-produced propaganda video of Bergdahl being handed back over to American troops.
Why did it get so much attention? I mean, heres this central figure of this entire story, and we only have one picture of him in a military uniform? Ashburn explained. And now, we get to look into his blinking eyes, and imagine what happened to him or try to discern what the relationship was with his captors.
You see him in a Pashtun smock, she added. You think, Okay, maybe hes sympathetic to them, maybe hes not. Is he cognizant of whats happening? Has he been tortured? I mean, you have to see that video to understand the story.
Following a commercial break, Ashburn went on to defend Bergdahls father against Fox News hosts who had accused him of looking like a Muslim or a member of the Taliban because he had grown out his beard to mark the time that his son had been held captive.
Its inappropriate that (Fox News host Bill O'Reilly) as well as Joe Scarborough from MSNBC are attacking a man whose son has been held in captivity for five years, she insisted. You dont know what that father has been going through unless you have been in that situation.
How can you even say or even question the motives of this father? You just dont know.
Watch the video below from Fox News Media Buzz, broadcast June 8, 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/08/fox-analyst-bergdahl-was-freed-in-a-muslim-smock-so-he-might-be-a-taliban-sympathizer/
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madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)What an idiot this woman must be.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Do they even know how stupid they sound?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)these peeps are dumb
Cha
(297,196 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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Cha
(297,196 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)and gave it back to him before releasing him. It was Bergdahl's choice to wear those traitory, Muslimy clothes because he's a deserter and a communist who probably voted for Obama and hates Jesus.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)wearing the latest Abercrombie & Fitch? I've been wondering that too. Surely there are malls in Afghanistan, right?
gollygee
(22,336 posts)he should have asked for something else!
alsame
(7,784 posts)according to a Time magazine Taliban source.
"And those closest to Bergdahl commissioned a local tailor to make him a set of the local tunic and trousers in white, which, given as a gift, denotes a gesture of respect."
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The tunic set, along with the woven scarf that can also be worn as a turban, but is draped across Bergdahls shoulders in the Taliban video documenting his release, was a parting gift designed to demonstrate no personal ill will, says the commander: We wanted him to return home with good memories.
http://time.com/2826534/bowe-bergdahl-taliban-captors/
rickford66
(5,523 posts)This was shown to be true in studies for long term space travel. It takes a lot less than 5 years.
frylock
(34,825 posts)How rude.