(August 2, 2016 at 12:05 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(August 2, 2016 at 11:58 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: What is up with people and their overreaction to what Trump says? Trump said that McCain wasn't a war hero for being shot down. His total 'insult' to POWs was saying 'I like people who weren't captured' which was still being directed to McCain specifically. Full quote:
So he said that he's not a war hero, well maybe he is, but he's been shit talking me.
Yet the media runs with the story, which supposedly rational Atheist forum people believe "Trump insults POWs" or "Trump viciously attacks Khan family" If you go back to the source, which you would think Atheists would do, you find out that it's barely anything.
There are plenty of reasons to not like Trump, I'm not voting for him because he's not qualified to be president. There is no reason to totally make up stuff that he said to not like him.
It wasn't just 'the media' that 'ran away' with this story. Plenty of other Republican senators and governors condemned Trump for attacking McCain and insulting POWs (they used the word 'attack', I use 'shit-talking,' because then Trump went on to tweet about how McCain is a "loser").
I mean, it's fine if you personally didn't consider it an insult, but plenty of people, many of whom are veterans or parents of veterans, did.
If it's an insult, it's a pretty minor one and obviously he was talking about McCain, who he said might be a war hero two seconds later. Considering that veterans and active military prefer Trump over Clinton by wide margins, (https://morningconsult.com/2016/05/26/po...p-clinton/) You can say that plenty of people didn't consider it an insult either.