‘Sick’ By ‘Call of Duty 3′ Commercials?

It looks like John Nolte is upset over a lot more than a series of Tweets from Luke Russert. Right here I need to mention that while I do know who Luke Russert is, I gave up watching cable news a long time ago. Occasionally I watch CNN and check their site along with the other "news" stations but if you read this blog often, it's pretty obvious I have little use for them. The reason is none of them are really paying much attention to the troops or our veterans yet their stories make the news in their hometown newspapers and TV stations news coverage every single day of the year. I guess they don't deserve the same kind of attention as political candidates or celebrities in the minds of producers, but it has been that way for a long time. The beginning of war is worth covering but they end up moving on soon afterwards. They want the two hour Hollywood ending to war, as gory and glorified as it can be. It would be their greatest joy if they could direct the ending of wars making sure they got there to capture it all on film and telling the generals to wait until they got set up. What happens to them is ignored unless something catastrophic happens and many of them die in the same event. What happens to them when they come home is also ignored unless one of them commits some type of crime. This all leaves the general public with the impression that what they see on the news is all there is.

MSNBC’s Luke Russert Is Made ‘Sick’ By ‘Call of Duty 3′ Commercials: ‘Doesn’t Reflect Costs of War’
by John Nolte
This is a good time to bring up something that’s been bothering me for a couple of years now. As someone who has made his way in the world all on my own and without the help of rich parents or family connections, do I resent the fact that Tim Russert’s son Luke has been shot by the cannon of nepotism into a job men twice his age and with ten times his experience only dream of?
Actually, no.
This is how the world works. Relationships matter and that’s life. I do, however, resent the fact that he’s not up to the job and that every time he’s on MSNBC talking about his Congressional beat I get “Bugsy Malone” flashbacks.
And just to keep the movie metaphors flowing, there’s also that whole “Vertigo” vibe, where Luke is Kim Novak and MSNBC is the sad and twisted Jimmy Stewart trying to creepily recreate someone they lost by dressing some wannabe up to look just like them. Whatever’s going on between MSNBC and Luke Russert. it’s not healthy.
And what better proof of that than this series of sanctimonious tweets from Russert where he laments how “sick” a video game commercial makes him feel because it doesn’t “reflect the costs of war”:

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Anyway back to this piece that really got my attention this morning. I have no clue who John Nolte is. Frankly, after reading this, I don't want to know who he is. "Call of Duty" commercials make me sick too just as when this video game first came out. It bothers me because so many people in this country can spend hour after hour playing this game of war but can't seem to spend a couple of minutes paying attention to the real ones going on. They can score points by killing people and then replay to have them alive again, but that isn't real life. They don't know how many real servicemen and women have died or lost limbs anymore than they know about how many committed suicide when they got back home and couldn't stop replaying the real life action in their minds.

The other thing is that the men and women serving in real combat are the same age as most of the people playing these war video games. Most go into the military right out of high school. This is why I am sick of the games played and the commercials for them. John Nolte seems more troubled by the fact that Luke Russert has his job and just used this to attack him instead of the problem stations like MSNBC really have. The fact that they just don't care enough about what is really going on in real life for the men and women serving this country today or the veterans who served it yesterday. I resent the fact that people will take the opportunity to use the military when they want to make a point that has nothing to do with them.