Sorry, but I'd rather punch myself in the balls than watch that crap.
Sorry, but I'd rather punch myself in the balls than watch that crap.
Okay..I guess I'm way off base. I thought this show was a tribute to the troops...but I haven't served so I don't have your perception (not sure if that's the right word). Why do you (and the other Vets who have replied) think it's crap? Is this something that I shouldn't be supporting? I don't want to support anything that's insulting to our troops...
Okay..I guess I'm way off base. I thought this show was a tribute to the troops...but I haven't served so I don't have your perception (not sure if that's the right word). Why do you (and the other Vets who have replied) think it's crap? Is this something that I shouldn't be supporting? I don't want to support anything that's insulting to our troops...
Okay..I guess I'm way off base. I thought this show was a tribute to the troops...but I haven't served so I don't have your perception (not sure if that's the right word). Why do you (and the other Vets who have replied) think it's crap? Is this something that I shouldn't be supporting? I don't want to support anything that's insulting to our troops...
Nobel Peace Prize winners protest NBC's 'Stars Earn Stripes'Idiots (http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/14/nobel-peace-prize-winners-protest-nbcs-stars-earn-stripes/)
Yet another one of NBC's programming decisions is being criticized, but this one doesn't have anything to do with the Olympics.
The network's new reality series featuring celebrities competing in military-esque challenges, "Stars Earn Stripes," is receiving backlash from nine Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
In an open letter to the Chairman of NBC Entertainment, Robert Greenblatt, as well as members of the "Stars Earn Stripes" production team, the nine laureates accuse NBC of "glorifying" war and military combat by presenting military training in the same fashion as one would present an athletic competition.
In addition to Tutu, those signing off on Monday's call for the program's cancellation include Jody Williams; Mairead Maguire; Dr. Shirin Ebadi; President José Ramos-Horta; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; President Oscar Arias Sanchez; Rigoberta Menchú Tum; and Betty Williams.
Citing the website for "Stars Earn Stripes," the letter quotes promotional copy that states "the fast-paced competition" intends to “pay ... homage to the men and women who serve in the U.S. Armed Forces and our first-responder services."
"It is our belief that this program pays homage to no one anywhere and continues and expands on an inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence. Military training is not to be compared, subtly or otherwise, with athletic competition by showing commercials throughout the Olympics. Preparing for war is neither amusing nor entertaining."
Okay..I guess I'm way off base. I thought this show was a tribute to the troops...but I haven't served so I don't have your perception (not sure if that's the right word). Why do you (and the other Vets who have replied) think it's crap? Is this something that I shouldn't be supporting? I don't want to support anything that's insulting to our troops...
Yeah, put me in the same camp as Thundley (just in a different tent down on the other side -- the dude SNORES!). :rotf:
Anyway...
Wesley Clark is a former presidential candy-date (in 2004) who is a world-class Democrat (meaning putz), and and asskisser extraordinaire, who ****ed up his gig as supreme allied commander of NATO so badly that he was cashiered and forced to retire. (Of course, at 4 stars, there was nowhere else for him to go except retirement.)
In short, Wesley Clark is an asswipe and not worthy to clean the gear of the lowest-ranking private in Afghanistan.
Did I say I don't watch that "talent" show bullshit like American Idol or whatever it's called these days?
Did they interview the Magic Negro inaction figure ? By Mattel.[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQgddDS-jbE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Didn't watch. Don't have much use for posers.
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The show itself isn't the problem because to the average person they don't get to see what it is the Military does unless they are invited on the base to see something put on like the "101st Airborne Week of the Eagles" where it is a week long celebration of who and what the 101st is. The same with Air shows at Air Force and Navy Bases. What I and some others have a problem with is Wesley Clark being the host. For a General in the US Army his record isn't the most sterling and the fact that NBC thought he was the best person to get to host their show to me smells of their contempt for the troops. He was never know to care about the troops and IF I'm correct he was directly responsible for ending a few careers over petty things as well as the thing I mentioned above about how he was responsible for almost starting a war with the Russians while in Yugoslavia.