Great Comeback!!

54warrior · 02-20-2008, 12:45 PM

This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of ABC interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military headquarters.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL COSGROVE: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn’t it?

GENERAL COSGROVE: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL COSGROVE: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you're equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL COSGROVE: Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you’re not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended.

harrolldean · 02-20-2008, 01:21 PM

that's awesome!

StuntDriver06 · 02-20-2008, 01:26 PM

we need more Americans like this.... the General that is

rholland · 02-20-2008, 01:34 PM

Good story, but fake

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/cosgrove-...erviewer.shtml
This message supposedly includes a transcript of an interview featuring General Peter Cosgrove broadcast on an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio program. When taken to task by the female interviewer for plans to allow a group of visiting Scouts to participate in a shooting exercise, General Cosgrove supposedly delivers a caustically sexist comeback line that silences her criticism and terminates the interview.

In reality, no such interview ever took place nor did Cosgrove ever make such a remark.
General Peter Cosgrove
The story is an Australianized version of an earlier US based story that had a certain "General Reinwald" of the US Marines as the one delivering the killer line. The US version (example included below) claimed that General Reinwald made the remark during an interview with a female reporter broadcast on NPR (National Public Radio). However, NPR has denied that any such interview was ever broadcast and there are no records of a General Reinwald serving in the US armed forces. "General Reinwald" is nothing more than a fictional character invented to give an American orientation to an even older version of the story

TitanBlue · 02-20-2008, 03:34 PM

How about the real story (???) about a American Snaiper in Iraq being interviewed. The Female reporter eventually asked him what he felt when he shot someone (meaning emotionally).....and he replied "A little recoil."

dut · 02-20-2008, 03:39 PM

Tee hee...

nissan72 · 02-20-2008, 04:06 PM

"Very Niiiiicccaa"....Borat

bgbdwlf2500 · 02-20-2008, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TitanBlue

How about the real story (???) about a American Snaiper in Iraq being interviewed. The Female reporter eventually asked him what he felt when he shot someone (meaning emotionally).....and he replied "A little recoil."

kind of like apocalypse now where one guy was asked "how can you shoot women and children" and the answer was "its easy you just dont lead as much"

AppleJacks · 02-22-2008, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by bgbdwlf2500

kind of like apocalypse now where one guy was asked "how can you shoot women and children" and the answer was "its easy you just dont lead as much"

That would actually be from Full Metal Jacket.