Lookie, how the GOP dead-enders support the (injured and so stupid) troops!
By Mona
.
Vote Vets has been running a radio and TV ad blasting Rush Limbaugh for his “phony soldiers” commentary. The ad features Brian McGough, an Iraq war veteran who received the Purple Heart for a traumatic brain injury he suffered from shrapnel. Says McGough:
Rush, the shrapnel I took to my head was real. My traumatic brain injury was real. And, my belief that we are on the wrong course in Iraq is real. Until you have the guts to call me a “phony soldier” to my face, stop telling lies about my service.
Vote Vets member Brandon Friedman, posting at Kos, shares some of the Dittoheads’ filthy emails his organization has received, and which he also just read on Keith Olbermann’s show (video of that along with the ad all available at Vote Vets link above):
Aside from the fact that you have misquoted Rush, you are a pussy! You get a brain damaged soldier to spout your tripe. A sane soldier would kick you butt.
And:
Remember, Liberalism is a disease.
Maybe that metal in your head is making you stupid. NO wait “An Ass Hole”
But it is all truly putrid and foul, including one Rush drone who sounds the alarm: True Patriots must commence a Civil War and go after soldiers such as the anti-war vets, for they are the Enemy. Gird your gag reflex, and wade through it all.
Comment by Gary Farber —
October 10, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
“Gird your gag reflex, and wade through it all.”
Why would I want to do that? Am I not supposed to believe people would say these things unless I see them all with my own eyes?
Because I assure you, I already know that lots of people say these sorts of things. I don’t need to masochistically soak in it, thanks.
Comment by Mona —
October 10, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
Gary, I understand, I do. But the dominant CV still remains that it is “the angry left” that preponderantly traffics in the most grotesque and rancid commentary. You are clearly one who does not need educating otherwise, but I assure you, there are those who read here who are not yet convinced the CV is wrong.
Comment by Gary Farber —
October 10, 2007 @ 7:54 pm
“…but I assure you, there are those who read here who are not yet convinced the CV is wrong.”
I believe you. I was just replying to your perhaps unintentionally phrased universal imperative.
I’ve actually been a trifle cheered to see that even a few of the usual suspects had acid reflux on the attacks on the S-CHIP kid’s family, like A. J. Strata. Just a trifle, but seeing any of these lunatics taking a breath and step back is a pleasant sight, no matter how late and minor.
Comment by Mona —
October 10, 2007 @ 8:11 pm
Yes, I’ve done a lot of email on that subject, and Jim posted about it, but I cannot. Regardless of whether one thinks the SChip program is well put-together, the attacks on a family with six kids, two of whom have brain damage from a horrible car accident, make the proverbial head explode. I’d have to go “so blue” to post about it, I declined.
Comment by bystander —
October 10, 2007 @ 8:40 pm
I am at an absolute loss to understand these folks. The rage, the vitriol, the loss of humanity – never mind civility. As Ezra Klein said about the Malkin meltdown, “This is the politics of hate. Screaming, sobbing, inchoate, hate. … This is, in symbolism and emotion, a violent group ritual.” http://tinyurl.com/2nofwy I see it as nothing less than a total loss of self-control.
Shankar Vedantam wrote a piece in the Washington Post, “Iraq and the Danger of Psychological Entrapment.” http://tinyurl.com/yshxmd
A take-away quote:
That’s as close as I can come to understanding these folks. They are trapped in a belief, to which they cling with a white knuckled grip, because if it dissipates on them – if it’s all smoke, and they find themselves to be wrong, they risk going right over the edge. Of course, a more rational sort might argue they are dangerously close to the edge now. How else to reconcile their absolute sense of certainty with evidence to the contrary? It pains me to think I live among folks whose tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity is so woefully inadequate. And, it must be dreadfully painful for them, too.
Comment by KCinDC —
October 10, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
Mona, I think you’ve ingested a bit of bad information that’s been floating around in the right-wing blogs. The Frosts have four children, making them a six-person family. Somewhere along the line that got garbled into six children.
Comment by Mona —
October 10, 2007 @ 9:06 pm
Could be I was wrong, but I didn’t pick it up from a right-wing blog.
Comment by wade —
October 11, 2007 @ 2:51 am
Did this sort of sh%t exist before talk radio and email came along?
Comment by ajay —
October 11, 2007 @ 4:06 am
True Patriots must commence a Civil War and go after soldiers such as the anti-war vets, for they are the Enemy
Hmm. I think that would probably be one of the shorter wars in recent history.
Comment by BigHank53 —
October 11, 2007 @ 10:44 am
Wade, it most certainly did exist. I ran into some vile anti-semitic literature in a Texas gun shop back in the early nineties. It looked to be third or forth generation photocopies of stuff that had been typed up (!) back in the eighties.
As Dave Neiwert would say, the hate has just gotten mainstream lately.