Ted Who ?
Until I read Michele's Rall Rant and others around the blogosphere, I didn't really think about who this "Ted Rall" person was. Just another asshat... This morning I looked him up out of curiosity. I recognized the "cartoon" as one I have seen and which always left me slightly to moderately nauseous. So I ignored it. I followed the linkage and found that Rall has a "blog," trendsetter that he is, and there I found his response to the furor over his Tillman "cartoon." Parts of which are quoted below:Rall: First of all, the media's decision to genuflect to a cult of death is terrifyingly similar to the cult of Palestinian suicide bombers in the Middle East and the glorious coverage given by the Japanese during World War II to fallen kamikaze fighters.
"Cult of death," "cult of death" . . . "worshiping" . . . Flipping through my Liberal-to-English Dictionary here . . . [it reads from Left to Right, yanno] Ah! Here it is: "Cult of Death": (n.) 1] Armed Forces of any kind; in particular Special Forces, Rangers, etc. 2] Person who believes that force must be met with force, not with rolling over and peeing 3] Person who believes that freedom is not free and must be fought for Alrighty, then . . .
Second, Mr. Tillman served an evil president and an evil cause.
That's right, Rall. Should'a just let them little brown fuckers rot over there in Saddam's prisons and mass graves. You betcha! Grabbing Saddam, and particularly those nice boys Qsay and Uday, holding Iraq's perimeters 'til they can get themselves up and running again, advocating Democracy and free speech?!?! O. M. G. Why, anyone could say any damn dumb, vile, small, vicious thing! And what about that "Cult of Death" policy of putting our own people in harm's way rather than taking out resistance from the air thus saving Iraqi civilian lives. Evil! Evil President!! [*smack*smack smack*]
Finally, it's time for troops who signed up post-9/11 to take a little personal responsibility.
Yeah, you fat, lazy lie-abouts. What the hell's wrong with you?!? Signing up to defend your country after an attack by a foreign power?!? Flagrant irresponsibility! I imagine you're planning to get jobs when you come home, too, instead of hitting the streets and the congressional hearing rooms?!? Have you learned nothing from your elders?? Get out there and protest the evil treatment of those poor suicide-bombers who are not being allowed to blow themselves up where they want to!
...the "president" is an illegal usurper occupying the White House, he's an out-of-control warmonger using the deaths in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania to promote a partisan political agenda and his wars are nothing more than grabs for control of oil and gas resources and pipeline routes
I don't care if Ted Kennedy counted those votes -- Bush is illegal! Using the deaths of those poor airline-hijackers to start illegal wars! Look! Just look how the price of fuel has plummeted since BushCo stole all of Iraq's and Afghanistan's oil! Can't you see?!?
Liberals tend to let volunteer soldiers off the hook, but let's not forget the hard, cold truth: If no one had enlisted after 9/11, we wouldn't be fighting these immoral wars based on lies and greed now.
We'd be speaking Arabic while sponging American body-parts off of Cleveland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Fargo, Miami, Charlotte, Bangor, Racine . . . like we were meant to! /sarcasm . . . now where's that coffee? as ol' Teddy sez:
If you can't judge someone based on their decisions, what can you judge them on?
A most brilliant post.
Posted by Jared on 05/06/04 at 05:25 AM
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