In the days since his dramatic release from the Taliban, the Pentagon, fellow soldiers, and Afghans have presented two vastly contradictory portraits of Bo Bergdahl.

Deserter or good soldier?

The prisoner exchange that became a partisan issue.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Slender Man, an image born on a horror fan site, is said to have inspired at least two attacks. Slender Man's inventor surveys his

monster. Some people had joked in the thread that, oh, wouldn't it be funny if someone said,

oh, these pictures look real, they must be real. But I don't think anyone really expected that to happen.

And turns out last weekend's headlining AI breakthrough is not all it's cracked up to be.

Right at the beginning of the press release, it actually says a supercomputer passed the Turing test.

It's not a supercomputer at all. It's a chatbot. Plus other stuff after this. From WNYNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

I am glad that we got our guy back.

However, I do not feel it is right that we subject ourselves to these acts of terrorism.

I do agree with our guy being back, but however, I do not think we should subject ourselves.

Miss Louisiana, in her confusion, is nevertheless more consistent than many of the more practiced critics now outraged that five Taliban

commanders in Guantanamo have been swapped for USPOW Bo Bergdahl. The Pew Research Center has

found that public reactions to the Bergdahl case are deeply partisan. Fully 71 percent of Republicans think that the prisoner exchange was the wrong thing to do,

while just 16% say it was right.

Democrats, by more than 2 to 1, 55% to 24, have a positive opinion of the deal.

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