Fox News loves the troops, protects the troops, and will stand in the way of anyone who would hurt the troops and national security and the heartland and troop families, and such. Just last year, when New York’s gay carnival blog Gawker tried to guess the name of the CIA’s “Bin Laden Hunter,” the outlet was trashed and condemned on both the Fox News website and teevee channels forever and ever. That would be putting that HERO’s life in danger! That was a year ago. Now did you hear that there’s a member of SEAL Team 6 writing a Bin Laden raid tell-all, under a pseudonym? Fox News would like to tell you his name!
From the big fat EXCLUSIVE:
The book, “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden,” is set to hit shelves on Sept 11. It is penned under the pseudonym “Mark Owen,” according to the publisher, but multiple sources told Fox News his name is in fact Matt Bissonnette, 36, of Wrangell, Alaska. Bissonnette could be exposing himself to legal trouble, as the Pentagon has not vetted the account.
The author of the Fox News piece, Justin Fishel, wrote this just last year (via Mother Jones):
Members of Navy SEAL team 6, the Special Operations unit responsible for killing Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden in Pakistan last Sunday, have expressed concerns about their safety and the safety of their families now that details of the mission have been made public.
…Rather than keeping the details secret, intelligence officials and senior administration officials briefed members of the press. It quickly leaked out that the mission was performed by 24 members of the elite and classified counterterrorism SEAL squadron, known as SEAL team 6. Despite that leak, Gates says the government continues to protect their identities.
How might Fishel justify this sudden Fox News editorial shift to “naming those involved in the Bin Laden raid is fantastic”? It’s a scoop, for one. But this paragraph from today’s EXCLUSIVE comes awfully close to shaming the author for putting others at risk:
The tell-all book also has apparently upset a large population of former and current SEAL members who worry about releasing information that could compromise future missions. One Navy SEAL told Fox News, “How do we tell our guys to stay quiet when this guy won’t?” Other SEALs are expressing anger, with some going so far as to call him a “traitor.”
Also, we’d say there’s a not-insignifcant chance that Fox News just picked a random guy and has no idea who’s writing the book.
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Thus the swift boating begins, as the book is probably favorable to Obama.
Quick like a bunny. My thoughts exactly..
Any book on the subject that did not involve Presidential readings of My Pet Goat would be favorable to Obama.
Even reading My Pet Goat right-side-up would be favorable to Obama.
Oh, wouldn't that be delicious!? What if the penultimate scene in the book has the Seals pausing on the stairs, facing Bin Laden, hesitating. "Perhaps we should take him alive" they're thinking. Then through their ear-pieces they hear the voice of the President who is monitoring their progress live via satellite: "Shoot that mother fucker now! Shoot him!"
Geraldo?
This is a job for……………..
JUDGE HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Few know that Judge Head is (Beavis &) Butthead's father, but the former won't admit it because he's shamed by the brilliance and liberalism of his son.
My name is JUDGE!!!!
You mean the guy who used to hang around with Archie?
If Hannity didn't write it, then I don't really give a flying fuck. Cuz that guy is awesome with Fiction.
True, but you can't beat O'Reilly for history. His book on Lincoln was…extremely interesting from every point of view.
Did this author by any chance say something nice about President Obama? I mean that could be the reason, he was thrown to the wolves by the Patriots at Faux Nudes.
Because he wouldn't talk to Dinesh D'Souza or whatever about how what really happened was that bin Laden had been dead for years and they put him in the compound so they could immediately extract him, and cause an international scene that would make Preznit Obammar look good.
Plus it was all done on the same sound stage where they faked the moon landing
Silly, the moon landing wasnt faked! But a lot of other crazy shit was. Film at 11.
I fucking hate Dinesh D'Souza. He's what passes for an intellectual in wingnut circles. His work starts with a conclusion and ignores all evident that might question that conclusion. That would get you an F in most colleges but Dinesh manages to earn a nice living feeding bullshit to right wing fanatics. After the revolution, he'll be sent back for re-education and maybe, if he's lucky, end up working the graveyard shift at a 7-11.
Ahh you are the first person I have seen that actually has mentioned the possibility that bin Laden has been dead for many years. Cool stuff. Ignore the right wing tea-bagger side of this, there are other circles of thought that suggest bin Laden was already dead, all the big-wigs knew about it but wanted to get the "kill" anyways, and that Obama was actually AGAINST the staged attack but give in, for some really interesting reasons. Also, we will find out the truth shorty. Ok crazy time over, now back to snark.
Cause the best way to improve national security is to reveal the details of our secret operations abroad, especially the names of those involved, but only the patriots at Fox News *get it*
Wait a minute… sombody at Fox News knows what a book is?
Looks like those Friday night book burning parties have helped a great deal.
They thought he said "crook" and got interested.
"Also, we’d say there’s a not-insignifcant chance that Fox News just picked a random guy and has no idea who’s writing the book. "
I'd go with this.
The simplest explanation is most likely the correct one.
Occam's razor, fersure.
Consider this: Bissonette was the name of the WC Fields character in the movie It's a Gift. Coincidence?
So let me understand this correctly – these Seals are leaking???
I'm sure some, if not all, have been blown at some point. But they're still good.
<groan>
The one is leaking. The others are barking.
Oooh, will this blow the lid off the hidden truth that Obama and Osama are secretly gay-married* and what couple name will the MuslimKenyanAnticolonialSocialist bone smokers have?
*I googled the internet and found ZERO denials, so you decide.
One Navy SEAL told Fox News, “How do we tell our guys to stay quiet when this guy won’t?”
I should think just flat ripping his head off will do the trick.
I notice Bin Laden has been awful quiet lately.
I love Seals. Especially the performing ones. But, I find it hard to believe that Seals could track down and kill Osama.
Lassie, maybe. Seals, no.
I was sad when he and Heidi Klum split up.
Silly me. I thought it was "Kiss from a Rose and/or an M-16" Seal….
I always give money to the Seals at Easter.
You are charitable. I always use that money to go clubbing.
But they were Seals with frickin lasers.
Fuck Focks. That is all.
Hey Fox! Ecuador is nice this time of the year.
I hesitate to accept at face value what FOX News says.
On the contrary, if anybody knows, it'd be FOX News. They've got everyone's phones tapped.
When you become a SEAL, the Navy should give you a cute name, like the Ninja Turtles, and then we would not have this problem.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
There … all better now.
Is Fox now being edited by J. Jonah Jameson?
DEATH TO TO THE SPIDER MENACE
SEALS called to rescue GOP convention from flooding!!!!!
there’s a not-insignifcant chance that Fox News just picked a random guy and has no idea
You could have stopped there, and summed up FOX in these words alone.
Page 1, Chapter 1:
That's good! Keep going!
Better than the standard: Dear Penthouse………..
Are there any heaving bosoms in this?
Where's the part where his eyes bugged out comically like two boiled eggs..?
Get to the sexy part already!
Before I left, I turned to Hussein Sotero one more time and said, "And you better return that bicycle you stole by the time I get back!"
The first rule of Fox News is: you don't talk about how Osama Bin Laden died. This guy broke that rule, so they are going to Valerie Plame THE SHIT out of him.
I expect by October, Fox will be doing running feature stories with experts raising credible evidence that Bin Laden killed himself.
"Ha ha, payback's a bitch." ~ Valerie Plame
So it's okay over at Fox News to release the identity of our secret operatives and to therefore put their lives and the lives of their families at risk? We really ought to pass some sort of legislation proscribing such behavior. We could, perhaps, call it "Treason" or something.
It's OK if you're a Refoxican.
What could possibly go wrong with telling Al Qaeda the name of the guy who killed their Eternal Leader?
For that matter, what could possibly go wrong with a gaggle of effete pixel-pushers endangering the life of a SEAL and his family? Is it possible that Mr. Bissonette is not the ideal person to piss off?
In the Fox News version of "Logic 101" the foundatioinal principle is expediency.
Wake me when Michelle Malkin finds out how expensive his kitchen countertops are.
And no, those wusses at FOX are *not* allowing people to make comments on this story. Figures.
Because Constitution. And Jesus.
And they are pussies.
LOL. I checked that too, just to see.
Somebody please arrange for Kilmeade to be embedded with the Seals right away, so we can get to the bottom of this.
So has that OPSEC bunch of birther yahoos denounced FOX News yet? Because the safety of our troops is the first concern of these non-partisan folks who just happen to all be Republicans and share an address with several Republican backers. Just asking.
I love Swiftboating Season. What's next? Finding someone in the 'community' that Obama supposedly 'organized' and have them say Obama was really an asshole and just told them all to 'go fuck yourselves' while he sat on the street corner smoking a bowl?
And that he was secretly a gay atheist Muslim commie-Nazi.
Who rapes virtuous white wimmen.
I am sure as the election looms someone will say if Obama had let GM or Chrysler go away, their beloved one would be alive because Chevy's and Mopars would not have been on the roads to….kill said beloved one.
I can't believe that they think they can find dirt now that they (and Hilary) couldn't find 4 years ago.
I kinds thought if he used a pseudonym that nobody would know who he was, at least until Fox outed him. Hell, Stephen King used one for years before anyone knew he was writing shit under both his and the Bachman name (not Marcus or Michelle, those would be too horrific).
Wait, I don't get it. How is this Obama's fault? I mean, it must be if Fox News is reporting it.
I absolutely LOVE how Fux scrambles to pretend capping Bin Ladin was like no big deal. If it had happened under a Repuglican administration, they'd have that fact tattooed on their low CroMagnon foreheads.
also. also in their anuses.
I'll withhold judgement until we hear what Dr. Jerome Corsi has to say.
I'm just relieved he's from Wrangell, a thousand miles from Wasilla.
The Snowbilly wouldn't be caught dead in Wrangell, unless it was a short event that brought her lots of money. First, no Taco Bell in Wrangell. Second, no tv studios.
Do ex-Navy SEALS have freedom of speech? No, no service member has freedom of speech when it comes to classified information. This is not a new rule enacted by the Muslim Kenyan Near in the White House. They never have and they never will.
Just ask Bradley Manning about freedom of speech.
Yeah, only VPs who out CIA agents do.
If this info is released, for the protection of the military members and family, SEAL 6 should show up at Roger Aisles house. Root him out by depleting his food supply.
If your book has anything to do with knowledge you gained while serving in the military, it has to be reviewed by somebody at the Pentagon. It takes time and delays publication, but it's better than the alternative. I know people to have to do these things and it delays the paychecks they know they're due for the year or so spent writing. Everybody in the publishing business knows this fact. This has to be a political move by FOX since the timing of the publication's release is 9/11/12. It's a hit piece to fuck the book up. But since the Right in this country is A-OK with outing CIA operatives to get even with their husband's outspoken bashing of masturbatory fantasies involving Iraq, what the hell…
I find it funny the suggestion that Faux News watchers can read.
They must at least know their alphabet, and understand the meaning of that "(D)" thrown around whenever a Republican has non-kosher sex.
According to Amazon's political book map they read a lot more than we do.
OT – Gawker just published these huge bunch of leaked files from Bain. It looks like GOP convention bounce is going towards Dems.
Was it Glenn Beck?
I'm guessing Clifford Irving. Because nostalgia.
Fox News reveling in journalistic hypocrisy? THE HELL YOU SAY
Cool now all his new Pakistani friends can look up to congratulate him, most likely in person with a spiffy shiny, ticking vest.
DYKE!!!!!!
I know a SEAL named Owen! Well, an ex-Seal anyway. He'll be pissed that his real name is Matt Bissonnette and he looks closer to 60 than his stated age of 36. The guberment really does a great job of constructing false identities for those guys!
Chapter One
As the helicopter dropped in, I gave one last thumbs up to my team. Sergeant Romney, Lieutenant Akin, Corporal Bachmann and Private Ryan. We checked the survey marks on our maps. We were in the right place.
Corporal Bachmann seemed nervous. He hadn't wanted to go on the mission. All day he had tried to gay away the play by dancing, combing his hair, talking about his "wife" a little too much, singing Village People songs. He told me he hoped we'd have to hunker down in a foxhole.
Sergeant Romney stood by the left door, ready to rappel in. Suddenly he switched to the right door. Then back to the left. His fire team followed him back and forth. A few collapsed from exhaustion.
Private Ryan was calm almost as if he knew the rest of the squad would die so he could live.
Then at the last moment, Akin pointed to another flight of helicopters. "Obama sent the SEALs. We don't have to go." I breathed a sigh of relief.
Sergeant Romney was facing the wrong direction and didn't see the other helicopters. He rappelled out into the Pakistani darkness. We never saw him again. But I heard he survived and converted to Islam.
The SEAL writes an unauthorized book under a pen name and FoxNews leaks his name.
Why am I laughing so hard?
This book needz more sexy vampires!
Seals don't sparkle!!!
i understand why fox is trashing the book.
my connections at the publisher tell me the book will reveal that the guy in the white house that night was an obama double. turns out the president actually led the raid and smoked osama himself!
so fuck you mitt romney.
The author protected his fellow SEAL Team 6 members by changing their names in the book, but gee thanks, Faux News!
This is the danger of books going audio. Now even Fox News gang knows what's in 'em.
Justin Fishel, say hello to your new cell mate, Bradley Manning. The Department of Justice should seize Fishel's computers and find out the identity of
those who corroborated the identity leak. There is plenty of room for them at Gitmo.
Maybe Fishel can get asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy if he moves fast.
So, a nameless guy in superb physical condition, with awesome training — quite literally the best in the world — travels ten thousand miles on a perilous mission to the heavily guarded lair of the revered leader of a global terrorist cult and the world's foremost evil mastermind, storms the lair, kills the evil mastermind dead, and flies off without leaving a single drop of friendly blood behind, praised and thanked by a grateful nation, 9/11 widows, and Western Civilization in general.
A year later, a few state-side civilian weenies on a political kick decide it'd be to their political benefit to unmask this nameless man.
I think I've seen this movie before, and, after the brutally efficient elimination of a few score minions, I'm pretty sure it ends with Matt Damon's steely gaze framing an out-of-focus gun barrel, a cold quip and Roger Ailes's viscera decorating his office wallpaper.
Eye roll. Everybody knows Tim (T-POW!™) Pawlenty parachuted down from the moon, burst buck nekkid into the compound, ripped bin Laden's heart from his chest and crammed it down his throat, all the while whistling "Dixie."
They may give up this guy's name, but they'll never tell you who ordered the mission.
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I hate it when they want to guess your dick size…
SEALS are well-oiled killing machines, unfazed by hunger, fatigue, self-doubt or fear; none of which makes their political judgement better than the average couch-potato's.
Let this be a lesson to anyone left that thinks Fox is a "new" outlet with journalistic standards. Oh fuck it; no one who truly needs this lesson is going to hear it or digest it.
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