JAG Officer Tom Kenniff gets totalled pwned by Iraq Prisoner of War Shoshana Johnson. He really steps in it when he expects to trump her with, "I spent a year in Iraq, ma’m. Have you ever been to Iraq?"
Look at her expression when she responds: "I’m a P.O.W.!"





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holy shit!!! nice catch teddy
Smug white yuppy has the gall to tall a wounded vet, POW, woman of color what it feels like to be in the military.
Ouch
Teh stoopid really is a contagious disease it appears. This JAG looks like he spent w-a-y too much time watching the TV show JAG.
Thanks for this, Teddy. Why did that guy make me think of Tucker Carlson?
I’m wondering if he even knew who was going to be the other guests on the show. If not before hand, they would have sat together in a green room before their turn. Maybe he assumed she had some welfare crybaby story or something. She sure had the goods on him, though.
Yes, nice catch. Boy, talk about context. Silly man.
Ms. Johnson’s loathing showed through plainly. I bet his troops loathed him too.
I’m sending this out widely.
“You were in Iraq as a JAG officer and you stayed in the Green Zone.”
Gotcha there, putz.
How can she be a POW if she’s on TV? Does she mean she was captured by the Iraqi army briefly during the invasion?
Google is your friend Dave…
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana_Johnson
Catch of the Day – She makes chum out of him.
She should run for office.
Oh, my Gawd. (worth spelling out)
What an ignoramus. He ought to have recognized her name! Guess he wasn’t paying that much attention back when there was actual fighting going on.
And he tried to keep arguing with her!
Some of us actually remember Shoshana Johnson, from while she was a prisoner and after she was released. And I must say, she has become much more sophisticated since then. Good for her!
I may just watch this again. *g*
Nice catch, Teddy.
I have Brandon Friedman’s late-night Twitter to thank for the heads-up on this. And while the split-screen may indicate they didn’t share a green room, both Kenniff and Johnson were apparently introduced while both were on-air, including Johnson’s status as a P.O.W. early in the Iraq War.
Somehow, the vehemence and resignation she brings to her statment “I am a P.O.W!” make me think this isn’t the first chucklehead she’s needed to remind exactly who she is and what her service to this country entailed.
And yes, she should run for office. Preferably against a warmongering chickenhawk GOP.
I laughed and laughed and laughed at this last night when pointed to it, and I simply had to post it immediately for you all to see. Her points are very good ones, too — just because he went to college, he doesn’t feel the horror of war, exposed to it every day in his patients’ reports?
She knew more about the shooter than Kenniff bothered to learn (”he *hadn’t been* deployed”) and seemed to take a special delight in repeating the phrase “JAG-officer” in an elided way that made me wonder if she was thinking something quite different.
Rather a bizarre thing to brag about.
She wasn’t bragging about it. She was correcting the other panelist, who asked her if she’d ever been in Iraq. Did you even watch the clip?
She is an AMERICAN HERO just like John McCain.
DavidByron has been banned from many sites for his ridiculous comments. Perhaps he’s trying to set a record? Or maybe he’s just a lonely guy who begs for responses until he finally gets canned&banned. Whatever. Some people are just so sad.
Did anybody just see Tom Trancrado get chased off by Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas when he took a shot at him for dodging Vietnam?
Sure Did!!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/6/801495/-Chickenhawk-Tancredo-storms-off-set-after-Markos-confronts-him-on-veterans-health-care
And Kenniff was just named today’s Worst Person In The World
My guess is that David Byron is a troll.
LINDSEY GRAHM is a JAG OFFICER, and You see what HE is. Another name for a donkey.