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RUSH: Well, Mr. Snerdley just brought me something. I wish I could say I was surprised by it, but I\u2019m not. It\u2019s from Salon.com. It ran this past Sunday. And here is the headline: “You Don\u2019t Protect My Freedom: Our Childish Insistence on Calling Soldiers Heroes Deadens Real Democracy — It\u2019s been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must end.”<\/p>\n

<\/a>“You Don\u2019t Protect My Freedom: Our Childish Insistence on Calling Soldiers Heroes Deadens Real Democracy.” And here\u2019s how this piece begins by David Masciotra<\/a>, or Masciotra, not sure how he pronounces it. “Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man –” because Salon is one of the most racial publications I think I know. They can\u2019t write a paragraph without some racial reference in it, I don\u2019t care what the story\u2019s about. <\/p>\n

“Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as \u00c2\u201cheroes.\u00c2\u201d The rhetorical sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, but it also makes honest and serious conversations necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of a fragile democracy nearly impossible.”<\/p>\n

Meaning this reverence for the military makes serious conversation about how to really enhance democracy nearly impossible, \u2019cause everybody\u2019s being so irrational in supporting these pretenders who really don\u2019t have a thing to do with our freedom. Put a white man in a uniform and he\u2019s automatically a hero. Now, here comes a leftist publication assigning that culture to totalitarianism? The man has it a little backwards here. <\/p>\n

“It is equally challenging for anyone reasonable, and not drowning in the syrup of patriotic sentimentality, to stop saluting, and look at the servicemen of the American military with criticism and skepticism. There is a sexual assault epidemic in the military. In 2003, a Department of Defense study found that one-third of women seeking medical care in the VA system reported experiencing rape or sexual violence while in the military. Internal and external studies demonstrate that since the official study, numbers of sexual assaults within the military have only increased, especially with male victims.”<\/line><\/p>\n

And it goes on. This is the kind of stuff that was being talked about all over TV with John Kerry and Jack Murtha agreeing that American Marines in Iraq were terrorizing women and children. And this is why I wanted to go, and did for the longest time, do what\u2019s called a troop visit. Anyway, it\u2019s a long piece. That\u2019s all the time I\u2019m gonna take with it, but pretty much sums it up. Military people are not heroes just \u2019cause they have guns and wear uniforms, especially white ones. They don\u2019t protect our freedom. It\u2019s a childlike culture that pretends all of this is happening. <\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t read far enough to find out who he thinks really is protecting our freedom. (interruption) Well, I\u2019m not surprised it\u2019s all vile. Did you read the whole thing? (interruption) Okay, well, who is protecting our freedom then? If the US military is not doing it, who is it in this guy\u2019s opinion? (interruption) He doesn\u2019t even say? So the whole point of the piece is cops and military are bad and suspect and we\u2019re misplacing reverence in them? (interruption) All right. Yeah. <\/p>\n

I guess this guy\u2019s putting his life on the line writing this, huh? So he\u2019s guaranteeing our freedom and taking such a brave, brave stance. Anyway, just to show you the American left in all its glory, there they are. Salon.com. Joan Walsh is the editor. Sad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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