Apparently the organizers of the Million Vet March on Washington over the weekend are none too amused by the Tea Party goons, led by the trio of charlatans Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee, hijacking their cause and their event and transforming it in to a right wing freak show/photo op.
From the Vet's Facebook page:
Official Stance of the Million Vet March on the Memorials:
The political agenda put forth by a local organizer in Washington DC yesterday was not in alignment with our message. We feel disheartened that some would seek to hijack the narrative for political gain. The core principle was and remains about all Americans honoring Veterans in a peaceful and apolitical manner. Our love for and our dedication to remains with Veterans, regardless of party affiliation or political leanings.https://www.facebook.com/pages/Million-Vet-March-on-the-Memorials/539097822833735
The Gadfly saw a few video snippets on the intertoobz of the Teabaggers preening and speechifying in front of a handful of like-brained sympathizers outside the Memorials, Among those followers were a few who thought it would be just a dandy idea to fly the seditious Confederate flag alongside old Glory. The sight of the flag of people who fought to defend the horror of state-sanctioned human slavery fluttering alongside the flag representing the freedom and democracy that Americans fought and died for in two world wars, became the crossed line in the sand and lit a fire under Esquire Magazine's Charles Pierce, whose enraged response to the whole degenerate display is worthy of printing in it's entirety:
My father died in 1989, a victim of Alzheimer's Disease. In his younger days, he was a combat Naval veteran of World War II. Because of that, he was able to take advantage of a big-government program called the GI Bill of Rights. Because of that, he was eligible for a comfortable big-government pension when he retired from his career in a big-government program called the public schools. His politics were very conservative, almost radically so. (It was he who suggested I spend a rainy weekend reading None Dare Call It Treason, a sort of ur-text for Birchite winguttia.) He is not here to speak for himself, so I will do so. It is not merely unseemly, but positively obscene for people like Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee, and the unspeakable Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods to use surviving World War II veterans to advance a political agenda that would make the lives of those veterans immeasurably worse. It is obscene for them to use old, brave men as camouflage for bigotry and nonsense. It is obscene for them to borrow courage that they never would find in themselves and to gussy it up in Confederate flags and trot it out as an an audience for crackpots like Larry Klayman. It is obscene for them to claim for themselves the dead of Normandy, and the Bulge, and Okinawa, and Saipan. It is obscene for them to try to purify their own vandalism in worthier blood than flows in their veins.
How dare these idiots? Tailgunner Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee, the constitooshunal skolar from Utah, and Ms. Palin. How dare they traffick in this manner of grave-robbing? They would all throw these veterans off Medicare, close the VA hospitals, bury the brave old men and women in substandard nursing homes rather than give an inch away of their indomitable ideology of entitled selfishness. Ted Cruz doesn't think the government has a role in making the lives of these veterans easier. Mike Lee thinks the Founders wanted vets to starve. Sarah Palin doesn't think, period, and is proud of it.
The American Right has never looked as fundamentally reckless and inhumane as it did when it attempted to burglarize heroism over the weekend. All the chickenhawks came home to roost, for sure. To see Princess Dumbass there, one hand on her heart while the other one very likely was picking pockets, attempting to wrap herself in the sacrifice of so many people, living and dead, when the hardest thing she's ever done in her life is quit her job halfway through doing it, is to see a kind of ghastly kind of historical vampirism. It takes a special lack of conscience to grift the graves of the honored dead. It's enough to make you root very hard for the Curse Of The Pharaohs. My father doesn't need the intercession of these delusional creatures. On his behalf, I say, in god's name, walk away from decent people in shame.http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/republicans-using-wwii-vets-for-political-agenda-101413
Amen Mr. Pierce. Amen.
The Gadfly would strongly urge his fellow Americans to pay heed to the title of this post which has been universally interpreted to be Matthew's biblical warning against falling under the spell of corrupt piety from the mouths of false prophets.
And that is about all of the religiosity you are going to get out of this unreformed heathen.
----TFG
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