Fox News’ Brit Hume garners a lot of respect even from the left, so it’s even more satisfying to see him go after one of his Twitter trolls and destroy his argument.
The troll employed a liberal narrative coalescing to defend Obama in the Bergdahl terrorist swap deal, saying that conservatives advocate for the soldier to have been abandoned and left to die. Here it is being utilized by serial logic abuser Chris Hayes of MSNBC:
Am I correct that the American right-wing has spent the day arguing we should have left an American soldier behind?
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 2, 2014
Now, no one is saying that. It’s an attempt to conflate criticizing a terrible deal with not wanting to save Bergdahl at all. Hume dismantles it with ease:
Who said that?“@Alphatxs: totally disgusting news narrative to say is OK to allow an alleged AWOL US soldier to die and rot at enemy's hands
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 3, 2014
Name 1 @DemsForPeople: @Alphatxs republicans are saying it – how vile – repubs hate soldiers, USA, President of USA – embarrass this country
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 3, 2014
@Alphatxs @BretBaier Not good enough buddy. You can't name one person who said what you claimed. Now you switch to subjective term "suggest"
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 3, 2014
@Alphatxs @BretBaier Did a single one of them say what you claimed — that it's "OK to let an AWOL soldier rote & die?" Supply quote please
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 3, 2014
@brithume @BretBaier Brit the answer to your question is No. No one said those words as quoted
— Independent Voter (@Alphatxs) June 3, 2014
I have a feeling this narrative will be pushed by liberals more and more, and it’s utterly devoid of logic. You can dislike the circumstances of a deal while advocating for one of the outcomes. In this case the timing of the terrorist swap makes it appear that Obama is trying to distract from the Veterans’ Affairs scandal. Even worse, he broke the law to do it, and seems to have put America in danger in order to garner political praise.
But it’s much easier to dishonestly accuse conservatives of wishing a soldier would die.