Strange Embedded Fellows
As seen on Drudge, the Pioneer Press reports on some recent observations by KSTP-TV’s embedded reporter, Dean Staley. He’s with the 101st Airborne, the same unit which, until recently, also had Geraldo Rivera along for the ride. According to Staley, some of the "heartfelt" goodbyes offered to Geraldo by the troops may have also involved another organ or two:
“He was not remorseful. He seemed tired. (He said he had spent several weeks in Afghanistan before coming to Iraq, where he had been for a week.) "He said he felt scolded but that infantry troops he had been embedded with wanted him to stay." As Staley and Caffrey showed in their filmed report, Rivera signed a few autographs, exchanged a few soul hugs and headed off for the flight back to professional exile in Kuwait. He could have been the drummer for some aging rock band choppering out of the Arizona State Fairgrounds show.
Staley went on to say, "A handful of troops here wanted pictures with [Geraldo] and autographs. A few shook his hand. Others here wanted to harm him, were disgusted with him, thought he should have been sent home in a Humvee (a 40-hour drive south through the desert).
"We later found out a few who shook his hand had put those hands in unmentionable places prior. Army justice?"
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