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What is WRONG with these blubber yuckers!!!!
arrrrrgh!
And how can McCain, a on-time prisoner himself, turn on another soldier who suffered a similar circumstance? What a complete piece of trash!
All of FOX, Jake Tapper, anyone who repeated the "he left a note so we know he deserted" false meme (also known as a LIE), is responsible, as are the guys spreading it. That includes any "journalist" who repeated it without doing five minutes of independent research.
The "platoon" members who betray and turned their backs on another soldier for a free trip to NYC Faux studios to be treated as celebrities ("Woo woo I met Megyn Kelly!"
make me sick.
A few conservatives kindly pointed out that the entry about the Republican Clown College was not fair and balanced. So, in the interest of fairness and balance, here's a little light hearted conservative-made humor poking fun at liberals -- a "Liberal Hunting Permit."
No Bag Limit - Tagging Not Required. May be used while under the influence of alcohol. May be used to Hunt Liberals at Gay Pride Parades, Democrat Conventions, Union Rallys, Handgun Control Meetings, News Media Association, Lesbian Luncheons, and Hollywood Functions. MAY HUNT DAY OR NIGHT WITH OR WITHOUT DOGS
http://boingboing.net/2009/05/05/liberal-hunting-perm.html
Having seen these on bumpers for over twenty years in several states, the joke is a bit stale with me.
Because rather than uplifting men and giving them solutions to better their situation, they focus on controlling women in the most extreme manner, as if that is going to empower them.
It does not really do so, leaving them to be more discontented and get more radical in thier focus, no more than Fox and the other conservative media empower their listeners or viewers in the case of radio pundits.
Blaming a group, deflecting the effect of one's own actions in making one unhappy, or in this case, endlessly demonizing, is irresponsible and it serves to allow an unjust status quo to go unchallenged instead.
I think the GOP or some of its branches should be designated a hate group for their attacks on gays women, minorities, immigrants, the poor, elderly and disabled as well as the working people of America.
Just sayin'
Sorry, that is a horrendous run-on sentence, but I have to do some other things. Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Deborah Weiss
Bergdahl showed all the symptoms of having an actual, living conscience, poor kid--a fatal flaw in the cartoon version of America we're obliged to inhabit nowadays. Certainly, his devout Presbyterian father has behaved the way one would expect a Christian of the Calvinist persuasion to behave (I used to teach adult Sunday School at a Presbyterian church in rural Illinois, so believe me, I know Presbyterians): attempting to act with integrity, kindness, self-effacement and decency, living the imitation of Christ which is the challenge Christian souls are supposed to at least try to meet.
Which leads to this observation: one of the ways in which we can confirm that Republicans don't actually believe in God is that after lynching this boy, none of them has publicly resigned from office, weeping and contrite and praying for mercy from the Almighty. None of them has given up his riches and gone to work in a soup kitchen in the desperate hope that there's still time for redemption after what he's done to the Bergdahl family. None of them is gazing in terror at the clear summer sky, anticipating the thunderbolt that a wrathful Christian God might reasonably decide to wield.
On the contrary: they're all clearly enjoying the hell out of this soul murder, which has played out just the way their operatives (those experts at working the refs and rolling the press) said it would. Moreover, they're all doubling down, including--or perhaps especially--the vile McCain, who has now issued a deranged statement accusing some members of the press (not his friends, mind you, but some of the outliers, like Tapper) of lying by reporting things he said in the past that aren't the same as the things he's saying now.
These awful, hateful, horrid men destroyed the kid and his family without so much as a twitch of Christian conscience. And what makes it worst is they did it all for a mind-blowingly trivial reason: to deprive the president of what would have been a pretty nice photo-op in an election year.
That's all. That's it. That's what was worth taking this boy and his mother and father and flaying them in public, humiliating them, exposing them to death threats and to the monstrous raw id (with its insatiable capacity for scalding rage) that is the Republican base. It's an election year, and that Rose Garden photo op might have played well in the boonies. It might even have been good for a fraction of a point or two in the polls. And so they unleashed their hate machine and ruined the kid's life.
It's beyond anything. I've rarely been so disgusted. I'll certainly remember it from now on, whenever I see one of these so-and-so's putting on that pious jowly Republican holy face and Gawd-blessing America.
I don't know if that is a real person's name, but it's a comment from a piece by Esquire's Charles Pierce.
to DUer DonViego:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5065070
Oh. My. God. So true
