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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 14, 2019, 03:29:42 pm
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Wounded SEAL Dan Crenshaw mocked by left as ‘captain shithead,' Nazi, 'eyeless f--k'
by Alana Goodman
| April 13, 2019 03:30 PM
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who was wounded in Afghanistan, was derided the left and accused of "playing the wounded victim" after he called for “deference†in discussions of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Crenshaw, 35, who wears an eye patch after losing his right eye in Afghanistan, has received two Bronze Stars, including one with valor, the Purple Heart, and the Navy Commendation Medal with Valor.
He criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar this week for appearing to downplay the Sept. 11 attacks in a recent speech. “It’s terrorists who killed almost 3,000 Americans, we should talk about it that way. We should talk about it with deference,†said the Texas Republican, who
The freshman congressman posted a video of his comments to NBC on Twitter, drawing attacks from numerous critics on Twitter on Saturday.
Talia Lavin, a New York University journalism professor who resigned from the New Yorker last year after she incorrectly identified a U.S. immigration agent as a Nazi sympathizer, slammed Crenshaw as “captain shithead†on Twitter. “The real victim, captain shithead, speaks,†wrote Lavin, linking to Crenshaw’s video.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/wounded-seal-dan-crenshaw-mocked-by-left-as-captain-shithead-and-eyeless-f-k (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/wounded-seal-dan-crenshaw-mocked-by-left-as-captain-shithead-and-eyeless-f-k)
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The leftist Tweets are in line with the ones that pollute the President's Tweets (hat tip to @Right_in_Virginia for her running Twitter thread!).
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Yet not a single one of those has been shadowbanned.