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I don’t write about politics here so much and I’m not really dipping into it now as much as playing media critic. That said, last night I was appalled when MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews described West Point cadets as the “enemy camp.” Matthews was commenting on the polite, but uncheering response President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan speech received, which is exactly what you would expect from late-teen/20somethings who are supposed to be apolitical regardless of who the President is.

Here’s Matthews:

He needs to apologize for this. Maybe I’m PO’d because my grandfather was a Naval Academy graduate and died for this country and I just consider Matthews to be hugely disrespectful to young people willing to do the same as he. Like so many of my colleagues in the media, Matthews doesn’t get what “ultimate sacrifice” means. I do. It’s not a pleasant thing to have to get.

Matthews also might want to consider that many of the young men and women whom the President was speaking to will wind up being Second Lieutenants leading troops into combat. Matthews expects them to smile about that?

For what my opinion is worth, I support the President’s policy in Afghanistan.

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