If you’re unfamiliar with the Twitter rantings of journalist Buzz Bissinger, well-known author of Friday Night Lights and a Pulitzer Prize winner for an investigative series on the Philadelphia Court System, you might be taken aback at the first line of this recent tweet as it read, “Next time fuck Navy Seals.” But Bissinger, who’s no stranger to heated exchanges (including with Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban) was simply drawing us in, as the full tweet reads, “Next time fuck Navy Seals. Go in with a team of legal scholars and international law lawyers. Then the human shields will really come out.”
Bissinger, a self-professed misanthrope, writes a regular column for The Daily Beast and says in another tweet this morning, “Rant tomorrow. Promise. Writing column for tomorrow on fucked up media—coverage of Osama pathetic. Turning him into fucking victim.”
He added, “So fucking tired of mainstream media looking for every red herring to stir up pseudo controversy. Osama dead—we did it right.”
And he added, “Fuck taking him alive. Fuck release of pictures. Fuck burial at sea. Fuck non-controversy over interrogation methods. Osama dead.”
We look forward to the full column, though it will probably contain fewer f-bombs.
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