The best my friend has ever been on tv. This is the Marcus the world should know and j. Tapper never met. http://t.co/EuHL31w8cZ
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) January 11, 2014
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/421898513333493760
CNN’s Jake Tapper took to Twitter early Saturday morning to defend himself following a tense interview with Marcus Luttrell, the former Navy SEAL at the center of the film “Lone Survivor.” In particular, Tapper took issue with a headline at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze: “They Died for Nothing?: Marcus Luttrell hits back at CNN host in tense interview.”
Luttrell was visibly upset when Tapper said that one of the emotions he felt watching the film “is first of all the hopelessness of the situation — how horrific it was and also just all that loss of life of these brave American men. And I was torn about the message of the film in the same way that I think I am about the war in Afghanistan itself. I don’t want any more senseless American death. And at the same time I know that there were bad people there and good people that need help.”
Shaken, Luttrell countered that “hopelessness really never came into it…. Because there was never a point where we just felt like we were hopelessly lost or anything like that. We never gave up. We never felt like we were losing until we were actually dead.”
Was Tapper’s description of the deaths as “senseless” bad form, or, as he explained, a difference in perspective between civilian and soldier?
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Just watched the video of @jaketapper and Marcus Lutrell. I give Tapper credit for running that segment. Would have be easy to bury it.
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) January 11, 2014
"Senseless" wasn't a great choice of words & can see why it got Lutrell upset but @jaketapper's work shows it wasn't meant disrespectfully.
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) January 11, 2014
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Reading the Tapper interview in @TheBlaze I get what he's saying. I get what the SEAL is saying. #Nontroversy. http://t.co/l4WwulDmH0
— Area Man (@lheal) January 11, 2014
Please note that @jaketapper was one of the few people that has consistently told stories about the military when others have ignored them.
— Kim (@mrskimcam) January 11, 2014
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OBVIOUS @JakeTapper never said/meant troops die for nothing. Dishonest game of GOTCHA targeting career-troop supporter. Just stop.
— The Curve Is Bent. Time to Free Us! (@NolteNC) January 11, 2014
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@magnetion @DLoesch Having lived the life as mil wife, I've oft felt as @jaketapper I also U/S Mr. Latrell. Both are valid & fair.
— Merry Christmas Bunny ? (@millie_landin) January 11, 2014
@jaketapper asked a question I hear all the time from civilians. @MarcusLuttrell answered like a true warrior should. #BridgetheGap
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) January 11, 2014
@SeanParnellUSA @MarcusLuttrell that's why I aired it, though I knew it was uncomfortable – to shine a light on that disconnect
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 11, 2014
@jaketapper Convos like that need to happen a thousand times a day, everyday until America understands what our warriors have been through.
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellUSA) January 11, 2014
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