When the Morning show hosts bring up Heath Ledger, Montel gracefully says that he would rather talk about the troops.
Montel had asked the hosts if they knew how many troops fighting in the Iraq war had died since Jan. 1, 2008. The hosts reply with a nonchalant answer of about twenty. Montel retorts back with twenty-eight.
Montel says that he is disgusted with the abundance of media coverage on the “Brokeback Mountain” star’s death, and the lack on the 28 troops who have died since Jan. 1, 2008. When he expressed his opinion they cut him off and went to commercial. Doesn’t that make them look like a network that cares? In real sense, they look like total d-bags
Montel is now off the air after his desperate attempt to talk about a different subject on the Morning show. Seventeen years of the Montel Williams show, with no future because he cared about the troops serving our country.
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Really? Seems to me that the vacuous morning show cut off vacuous daytime talk show host when he started getting political, while he’s supposed to be talking about his stupid book. Who’s the d-bag? Considering that every single one of those soldiers who’ve died were volunteers that knew when they enlisted or re-uped that there was a high likely hood that they’d be sent to Iraq, it seems to me that they must have thought they were doing something worthwhile. For Montel to casually throw out their deaths as a statistic to undermine that work, makes him the d-bag in my mind. There are good arguments to be made against the war, but that’s not one of them.
He was there to talk about a book, but the hosts got him started on an already over-talked topic. Heath Ledgers death was incredibly sad and shocking, but the deaths of the soldiers is just as sad and news worthy in my mind.
I realize that they volunteer their lives for the sake of our country and what we stand for. I also realize that people are for and against the war, but what they should always be for is our troops.
Those men and women fighting in Iraq hardly receive media attention. I just don’t feel that Ledger is more deserving for media attention than the troops.
So before you start calling Montel a d-bag think about how he tried to bring focus to something greater than a movie star.