The Ghoul
By Mitch Berg
Overheard on NPR; smug lefty exploits the fallen troops:
Anti-War T-Shirts featuring the names of 3,734 troops who died in Iraq
…and wraps self as potential “victim”hood…
These shirts are illegal in five states and could soon be illegal nationwide. As seen on CNN, NPR, USA Today, and of course, FOX-News.
And while he ignores the requests of families of some of the fallen who disagree with his anti-war stance (it’d dilute the message) by wrapping himself in the First Amendment…
…the “auteur” also points out – as obliquely as possible – that he’s turning a $4-5 profit per shirt.
No, you can listen for yourself, courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer.
It’d be a shame if his business accidentally fell off the table and broke.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:34 am
The attacks on the troops are attacks on all of us. That means we can use ’em for whatever political purpose we choose.
Or at least that’s the justification you wingnuts use when you come to town and pose for snapshots in front of Ground Zero.
Love the foam Statue of Liberty crowns you’re wearing, though. A tip: if the little light on top of the cab is off, don’t stand in the middle of the street waving at it like an idiot, ‘kay?
October 31st, 2007 at 8:57 am
I think if the left can sell these shirts, then the right should be able to obtain the names of all Womyn who have had abortions. We can name there mass of cells and put those names on shirts. Not sure how to get 1.5M names one one shirt for the last 12 months of choices, but we can print small.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:06 am
The attacks on the troops are attacks on all of us. That means we can use ‘em for whatever political purpose we choose.
I know! Remember – unlike liberals, I actually defend the First Amendment for everyone.
But I have the right to say “he’s wrong”.
Or at least that’s the justification you wingnuts use when you come to town and pose for snapshots in front of Ground Zero.
Skin-crawly though that might be, I somehow doubt you know any more about their politics than RickDFL knows about military history.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:22 am
Except for all those Repubican candidates and convention delegates in the summer of ’04, in which case Angryclown had a pretty good idea.
“Stand close together and say `Cheney!'”
October 31st, 2007 at 9:43 am
Except for all those Repubican candidates
OK, so how many of them were wrapping ghoulish tackiness in the First Amendment on public radio?
October 31st, 2007 at 10:27 am
A t-shirt with the names of the victims would be a lot more tasteful than the vicious attacks on 9/11 families by scumbags like Ann Coulter, dontcha think?
October 31st, 2007 at 11:44 am
beats me. Link to that vicious attack so we can judge. Was that all families? Some families? What sort of context are we talking about? And what victims are you talking about? I thought these were the names of soldiers who died in Iraq? Also, does this include the names of every soldier who died since the beginning of the war, no matter where or of what? I noticed the leftys like to get that number up just as high as possible.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
A t-shirt with the names of the victims would be a lot more tasteful than the vicious attacks on 9/11 families by scumbags like Ann Coulter, dontcha think?
a) No.
b) If Coulter had done any such thing – which, given the context of the original remark, happens not to be the case.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Please, buzzkill, surely you’ve seen the Today Show clip. If not, you are hopelessly out of it. If so and you don’t have a problem with it, you are a moral idiot. But Angryclown will play along. Here’s a YouTube clip of vicious wingnut harpie Ann Coulter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YyjrhvmDM8
October 31st, 2007 at 1:25 pm
You go ahead and defend Coulter, Mitch. Doesn’t do a lot for your credibility with fair-minded people, but your Mitchketeers will eat it up.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Right, angryclown. Because it’s everyone else that is fixated on Ann Coulter.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Fixated? Beats me. You wingnuts do seem to be a little hard up for pin-up girls – once you drop below the Coulter/Malkin level you’re trolling in Condoleeza/Lynndie England territory. And Angryclown doesn’t recall seeing any ladies in Minneapolis or St. Paul with pretty blonde hair, under 200 pounds anyway. But I’ll take your word for it, Trojan Man. You’re not “fixated.” Coulter merely expresses your hateful worldview.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:21 pm
OK, so which “horrible” person do I pick to merely express “your hateful worldview”?
You can stick to putting “worldviews”, words, and motives into your own mouth, thank you much. 🙂
October 31st, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Coulter merely expresses your hateful worldview.
Sure!
For accuracy’s sake, I’ll tweak it: “Coulter, when context is carefully removed, expresses the left’s projection of their own worst traits upon the right”.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Yeah, Mitch, Coulter’s pretty nuanced.
The only context in which she’s not completely offensive is under 20 feet of cement.
October 31st, 2007 at 5:33 pm
You can stick to putting “worldviews”, words, and motives into your own mouth, thank you much.
Mangy Clown wouldn’t have room given those oversized cigars the jesters like to indulge in.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:43 pm
“The only context in which she’s not completely offensive is under 20 feet of cement.”
Oh, I don’t know. With the volume off she’s fine.
She does get in a zinger or two that are pretty funny (far more often than the clown, but that’s beside the point), but by and large she’s the Micheal Savage of print. She make a good living off causing clowns apoplexy. Too bad Franken couldn’t do the same with wingnuts, eh?
November 1st, 2007 at 5:07 am
Yet somehow you wingnuts consistently put Coulter on the best-seller list and she wins recognition from established conservative groups. Face it, wingnuts of the world, Ann Coulter says publicly what you believe but are too afraid to say.
And judging from the level of whining hereabouts, you knuckleheads are pretty obsessed with Al Franken.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:29 am
Ann Coulter says publicly what you believe but are too afraid to say.
Ann Coulter “says” what the rest of us aren’t big enough to have taken out of context.
And judging from the level of whining hereabouts, you knuckleheads are pretty obsessed with Al Franken.
Where “obsessed” = “dying to see him endorsed so we can give him the death of 1000 cuts”
November 1st, 2007 at 8:26 am
“under 20 feet of cement”?
Yeah, SHE is pretty hateful, isn’t she angryclown. 😉