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08.12.2005 Greg Gutfeld

CHIEF BRODY SLAPBLOG!

No one sent me the email about it being ALL-CINDY FRIDAY, and now I feel like a wallflower at an orgy. A BIG FAT HAIRY WALLFLOWER. It’s like showing up at a costume party, and everyone but me came dressed as a blood-sucking ghoul!

But I will give it a shot:

GREG’S OBLIGATORY CINDY SHEEHAN POST !

Sitting here with my can of beer online shopping for a new gardening hat, I can’t help but think: what do the thoughtful Huffposters really want out of this media-inflated standoff with President Bush?
It must be:

The CHIEF BRODY SLAP.

THE CHIEF BRODY SLAP is based on the infamous scene in Jaws when a distraught mom slaps Roy Scheider across the face. Her son was eaten by a shark, but she blames the sheriff. Because he didn’t do enough. It’s not the shark, it’s the sheriff. It’s like me blaming Arianna for Christine Lahti’s post. But unjustified. And with a shark.

THE CHIEF BRODY SLAP (CBS) is a chief staple in an any liberal diet: a fiery mix of outrage, self-rightious indignation and condemnation delivered from a moral highground so lofty it gives you a nosebleed. The Brody Slap is predicated on the idea that you don’t need a solution, only blame. Who needs a real alternative when you’re already outraged? It’s easy!

Where do lefty celebs learn to deliver the Brody slap with such blinding speed and conviction?
YOGA SCHOOL? PILATES? THE PRIUS DRIVING MANUAL?

NO. The Chief Brody Slap comes naturally. To actors. It’s really pantomime.
It’s all symbolism, no action. And, like a seaweed wrap, it makes you feel good all over. While the rest of us do the heavy lifting, all you have to do is emote, when the going gets rough.

SOME FAMOUS BRODY-SLAPS THROUGHOUT HISTORY: Nero shoots the messenger. Smokers sue big tobacco. Johnny Depp moves to France. And just about any incident involving Sean Penn.

For the Brody Slap to work, the Huffpo will want Cindy Sheehan to talk to the President about her son in the same way Michael Moore wanted to talk to Roger Smith about Michigan poverty…not because something constructive will come out of the encounter, but because it will feel good making somebody else look evil.

And then, of course, haul off and whack the commander in chief so hard that even Roy Scheider feels it (in the Hamptons).

THAT’S THE CHIEF BRODY SLAP.

So while the Huff-posters pretend to feel sympathy for the mother, who no doubt deserves it, it’s an act. They are using her, and that makes them stink of tripe. And not the good kind you can use to make haggis.

(Ok Huffies, - i made my Shaheen post. Does that mean i can go to the office party? Scott will make brownies. You know, the kind that make even Cenk and Sirota seem almost tolerable!!)

PS: everyone have a nice weekend! 🙂
 
The thing that bothers me about this whole thing is that her son joined the forces of his own free will, and she says the president killed him. He chose his career, just like a policeman does, just like a firefighter does. He knew the dangers. I’m so tired of these kids who join the armed forces so they get their college paid for, then howl when they are actually called to do their job.
News flash…if you don’t want to go to war, don’t join the ARMED services.
I’m so sorry she lost her son. I’m so sorry her son lost his life. War stinks…it’s always stunk, and always will stink. However, I’ll always be grateful for these brave young men and women who walk the walk while the rest of us sit around and talk the talk.
 
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tcay584:
The thing that bothers me about this whole thing is that **her son joined the forces **of his own free will, and she says the president killed him. He chose his career, just like a policeman does, just like a firefighter does. He knew the dangers. I’m so tired of these kids who join the armed forces so they get their college paid for, then howl when they are actually called to do their job.
News flash…if you don’t want to go to war, don’t join the ARMED services.
I’m so sorry she lost her son. I’m so sorry her son lost his life. War stinks…it’s always stunk, and always will stink. However, I’ll always be grateful for these brave young men and women who walk the walk while the rest of us sit around and talk the talk.
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I understand he re-enlisted during the war. He lost his life in service to our country, and I believe everyone appreciates his sacrifice. I heard a relative call in to a local talk show (Vacaville is not far from me) who explained that his Mom has always been on the far left, so it’s not surprising that she is taking her course of action. In the relative’s opinion, her son would not agree with her sentiments.

Here’s how Mrs. Sheehan reacted after her meeting with the President last year ( thereporter.com/republished ):
The meeting didn’t last long, but in their time with Bush, Cindy spoke about Casey and asked the president to make her son’s sacrifice count for something. They also spoke of their faith.
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For a moment, life returned to the way it was before Casey died. They laughed, joked and bickered playfully as they briefly toured Seattle.

For the first time in 11 weeks, they felt whole again. “That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,” Cindy said.
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God Bless,

Robert
 
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tcay584:
I’m so tired of these kids who join the armed forces so they get their college paid for, then howl when they are actually called to do their job.
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??? howling?

I don’t know if her son was in ROTC or not, but that is neither here nor there in this argument. When someone joins ROTC they are prepared for 4 long years and they know that they are going to defend their country. Perhaps you are referring to reservists that don’t ever think they will go to war. Most rational people know what the military is and what it does, and most don’t whine or howl about it.

However is there is even one unhappy person, then the left media finds that one, and they exploint them. Mrs. Sheehan is being exploited in my opinion. She is grieving for sure and I will pray for her. I pray that I never am in her shoes. I will excuse what she does, but I don’t excuse the media. They are calculating and uncaring in my opinion.

My daughter went through ROTC and the military did pay for her college years. She has more than paid them back with service and she continues to serve. Every one of her friends that did so really did know what they were getting into, and they are serving honorably and willingly. They do not blame President Bush for the war. Most of her friends have served one deployment to the Middle East and will be returning again this year. For the record, my daughter has asked me never to talk to the media if anything ever happened to her.
 
Fitz said:
??? howling?

I don’t know if her son was in ROTC or not, but that is neither here nor there in this argument. When someone joins ROTC they are prepared for 4 long years and they know that they are going to defend their country. Perhaps you are referring to reservists that don’t ever think they will go to war. Most rational people know what the military is and what it does, and most don’t whine or howl about it.

However is there is even one unhappy person, then the left media finds that one, and they exploint them. Mrs. Sheehan is being exploited in my opinion. She is grieving for sure and I will pray for her. I pray that I never am in her shoes. I will excuse what she does, but I don’t excuse the media. They are calculating and uncaring in my opinion.

My daughter went through ROTC and the military did pay for her college years. She has more than paid them back with service and she continues to serve. Every one of her friends that did so really did know what they were getting into, and they are serving honorably and willingly. They do not blame President Bush for the war. Most of her friends have served one deployment to the Middle East and will be returning again this year. For the record, my daughter has asked me never to talk to the media if anything ever happened to her.
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Fitz, you have to be so proud of her. Every time I see a military person I want to cry. They are truly my heros. I saw a young Marine today, what a beautiful site… He was in a car in front of me in his complete uniform down to the hat on his head. They make me proud to be American.
 
From an Iraqi:

**A message to Cindy Sheehan
I realize how tragic your loss is and I know how much pain there is crushing your heart and I know the darkness that suddenly came to wrap your life and wipe away your dreams and I do feel the heat of your tears that won’t dry until you find the answers to your question; why you lost your loved one?

I have heard your story and I understand that you have the full right to ask people to stand by your side and support your cause. At the beginning I told myself, this is yet another woman who lost a piece of her heart and the questions of war, peace and why are killing her everyday. To be frank to you the first thing I thought of was like "why should I listen or care to answer when there are thousands of other women in America, Iraq and Afghanistan who lost a son or a husband or a brother…”

But today I was looking at your picture and I saw in your eyes a persistence, a great pain and a torturing question; why?

I know how you feel Cindy, I lived among the same pains for 35 years but worse than that was the fear from losing our loved ones at any moment. Even while I’m writing these words to you there are feelings of fear, stress, and sadness that interrupt our lives all the time but in spite of all that I’m sticking hard to hope which if I didn’t have I would have died years ago.

Ma’am, we asked for your nation’s help and we asked you to stand with us in our war and your nation’s act was (and still is) an act of ultimate courage and unmatched sense of humanity.
Our request is justified, death was our daily bread and a million Iraqi mothers were expecting death to knock on their doors at any second to claim someone from their families.
Your face doesn’t look strange to me at all; I see it everyday on endless numbers of Iraqi women who were struck by losses like yours.

Our fellow country men and women were buried alive, cut to pieces and thrown in acid pools and some were fed to the wild dogs while those who were lucky enough ran away to live like strangers and the Iraqi mother was left to grieve one son buried in an unfound grave and another one living far away who she might not get to see again.

We did nothing to deserve all that suffering, well except for a dream we had; a dream of living like normal people do.

We cried out of joy the day your son and his comrades freed us from the hands of the devil and we went to the streets not believing that the nightmare is over.
We practiced our freedom first by kicking and burning the statues and portraits of the hateful idol who stole 35 years from the life of a nation.
For the first time air smelled that beautiful, that was the smell of freedom.

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You are free to go and leave us alone but what am I going to tell your million sisters in Iraq? Should I ask them to leave Iraq too? Should I leave too? And what about the eight millions who walked through bombs to practice their freedom and vote? Should they leave this land too?
Is it a cursed land that no one should live in? Why is it that we were chosen to live in all this pain, why me, why my people, why you?

But I am not leaving this land because the bad guys are not going to leave us or you to live in peace. They are the same ones who flew the planes to kill your people in New York.
I ask you in the name of God or whatever you believe in; do not waste your son’s blood.
We here have decided to avenge humanity, you and all the women who lost their loved ones.
Take a look at our enemy Cindy, look closely at the hooded man holding the sword and if you think he’s right then I will back off and support your call.

We live in pain and grief everyday, every hour, every minute; all the horrors of the powers of darkness have been directed at us and I don’t know exactly when am I going to feel safe again, maybe in a year, maybe two or even ten; I frankly don’t know but I don’t want to lose hope and faith.

We are in need for every hand that can offer some help. Please pray for us, I know that God listens to mothers’ prayers and I call all the women on earth to pray with you for peace in this world.

Your son sacrificed his life for a very noble cause…No, he sacrificed himself for the most precious value in this existence; that is freedom.

His blood didn’t go in vain; your son and our brethren are drawing a great example of selflessness.
God bless his free soul and God bless the souls of his comrades who are fighting evil.
God bless the souls of Iraqis who suffered and died for the sake of freedom.
God bless all the freedom lovers on earth.

Excerpt: read it all:

iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2005/08/message-to-cindy-sheehan.html
 
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gilliam:
I spend more time talking people who are in ROTC out of volunteering for enlistment before their college is finished than the other way around. You guys need to know that this generation is different. They know what is at stake and they are willing to defend us.
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Not only that but people need to realize that those serving, while young, are all adults and should be treated as such. Specialist Sheehan was a grown man who followed his convictions in choosing to honorably serve his country. And while I know she is saddened, I think it best if his Mother respect the choice that he made as a man and stop with the drama

If I had lost my life over there, I wouldn’t want my mother or wife to carry on like Mrs Sheehan.
 
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gnjsdad:
I’d like to know more about this “Iraqi”. "Mohammed"s English syntax is quite good.
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He is real. He and his brother have been posting for a while. They came over and visited some congressmen last year.

Believe it or not, many Iraqis are educated.
 
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gnjsdad:
I’d like to know more about this “Iraqi”. "Mohammed"s English syntax is quite good.
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Are you stereotyping Iraqis as non-proficient in English?

Iraqi universities have plenty of intelligent, foreign-trained faculty members. Many have attended the best British and American colleges.
 
Fidei Defensor:
Are you stereotyping Iraqis as non-proficient in English?
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A bit off the topic, but “proficient in English” reminded me of something President Bush did a while back.

After meeting with Mexican President Fox, a reporter asked President Bush what some of the main differences between him and President Fox were. President Bush replied “Well, he speaks fluent English.”

Even a Bush-hating friend of mine laughed pretty hard over that one.

:tiphat:
 
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Jay74:
A bit off the topic, but “proficient in English” reminded me of something President Bush did a while back.

After meeting with Mexican President Fox, a reporter asked President Bush what some of the main differences between him and President Fox were. President Bush replied “Well, he speaks fluent English.”

Even a Bush-hating friend of mine laughed pretty hard over that one.

:tiphat:
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A bit off topic again: when introducing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bush said something like this: “The Governor and I have a lot in common; we both have trouble with the English language.”
 
I won’t criticize Cindy Sheehan personally. She has suffered great loss, and I’m certain her sincere intentions are to spare other mothers her grief.

I’m entertaining two conflicting emotions over this: grief for the mother and contempt for the exploitation of her grief. Anyone with a heart must extend the deepest condolences and sympathy to Cindy Sheehan and her family.

However, my conscience compells me for contempt to those exploiting it.

We are all in debt to her son–*a brave man who courageously sacrificed his life for Liberty. *If those using Cindy Sheehan’s grief to convince us that this war is mistake succeed, then we’ll have to change my previous sentence to *“a mislead man who foolishly sacrified his life in the coalition of the bribed and coerced for the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.”

*That truly would dishonor her son’s memory. I think his family sees that, and that is why they have asked her to stop (I believe they also feel she is being exploited).

Regardless of our sides on this war, I hope we can agree to pray for Cindy Sheehan, our troops, and their families.

Blessings.
 
By Matthias Gafni/Times-Herald, Vallejo

Jim Krause, 53, of Fairfield, lost his younger brother, Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, in April 2004, when his vehicle was ambushed by Iraqi insurgents. Sheehan’s son, Casey, was killed in combat in Iraq, also in 2004.

Elmer Krause was born and raised in Vallejo before moving out of state. Jim Krause, soft-spoken, said he was praying for Sheehan to drop her anger and worried that she will become a poster person for the far left.

“I know she’s a grieving mom and she has a lot of issues with anger,” Krause said. “I’m in the same company as her, as far as grief. I deal with it my way, but anger is not coming out.”

Sheehan, 48, has camped out along a road near Bush’s Crawford, Texas, ranch since Saturday,… She has said she was offended when Bush didn’t know her son’s name.

“I wouldn’t expect him to have all the soldiers’ names on the top of his head,” Krause said. “He didn’t know Elmer’s name.”

Krause said his two sisters, who went with him on the visit, spoke to Sheehan before they met the president. “My sister did say that Sheehan was hurting at the time,” Krause said.

Overall, Krause said his visit with the president was positive.

“When the president met with us he was very genuine, very real, very sincere,” Krause said.

“As the president walked into the room that day,” Krause said, Bush saw his sister crying and came over and gave her a hug. “I proceeded to tell him about Elmer and what happened.”

Krause described to the president how his brother’s body was found in a shallow grave with four other men and how his remains had to be identified using DNA. “His eyes watered up and started to tear when I told him that and he said, ‘I’m so sorry,’ and that Elmer was in a better place,” Krause said.

read the rest:

thereporter.com/news/ci_2936045
 
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Stu:
Not only that but people need to realize that those serving, while young, are all adults and should be treated as such. Specialist Sheehan was a grown man who followed his convictions in choosing to honorably serve his country. And while I know she is saddened, I think it best if his Mother respect the choice that he made as a man and stop with the drama

If I had lost my life over there, I wouldn’t want my mother or wife to carry on like Mrs Sheehan.
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The drama of burying a child that you have known within you is not a false drama, whether the child is short of birth or eighty years old. I think that if your mother really did lose you, you would look down on her from Heaven in all compassion. We cannot possibly imagine what she is going through.

She deserves to be heard and she deserves to be listened to. Mothers whose children serve our country don’t have a right to dictate our politics any more than they deserve to dictate their children’s lives, but they deserve to have their words heard, no matter whose political boat gets rocked. That is the least we can do.

Mr. Bush, I would like to think, imagined that he would have this to face. He must have. And no smart cracks about imagining that the Iraqis would be greeting us… the wails of bereaved mothers have been the reality of war, since the days before we had speech. It may have been one of the things that allowed us to survive. It is one of the many reasons that few if any ever leave the Oval Office looking younger. Whether Mr. Bush chooses to meet with her or not, it is his lot as Commander-in-Chief to rise and to face this. I would let those in the military decide if his response has been appropriate. I know I’m a voter, but this is something that is too deep for me to judge him on, let alone presume to judge her.
 
It´s a dilemma, US must end the the iraqui trainment and retires, I was agree with this war, now, I don´t know what to think, well, I would like that iraquis helped much more in these post-war. But I would like to say something, in Europe and in Japan, many americans were killed in IIWW much more than in Iraq but mass media were agree with that war. In Dresden or japanese cities, there were killed many civil and innocent people, now, the terrorist victims in Iraq, the guilty, seem the US forces. This is very hypocritical.
 
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