» McHenry Refers to Soldier as “Two Bit Security Guard”
It’s interesting that, according to Memeorandum, this story is drawing a lot of attention from lefty websites, denouncing the guy, but there seems to be nary a peep about this prick’s “Do you know who I am?” attitude coming from the ‘right of the aisle’ bloggers.
Denouncing this putz, for me, should be a non-partisan thing. But currently, no one from the usual righty suspects seems to care.
UPDATE: A couple of ‘righties’ are finally weighing in.
UPDATE: I‘m loving this slapdown:
Last week Think Progress blogger Amanda accused John McCain of plagiarizing a speech from Admiral Timothy Ziemer only to retract the story hours later. Amanda, last name unknown, had failed to check with McCain’s office before running her “exclusive,” and she failed even to check McCain’s website to see if he had used similar language in the past. In fact, he had. In a 1995 speech to the VFW, a speech predating Ziemer’s, McCain had uttered the same phrases he was now alleged to have plagiarized. Amanda apologized for her sloppy reporting, but apparently she didn’t learn much from the episode.
Today she runs a story about North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry under the headline: “Rep. McHenry calls U.S. soldier in Iraq a ‘two-bit security guard.’”
Well, it isn’t true. Think Progress provides the video, but at no point does McHenry indicate that the “security guard” is an American soldier. In fact, if Amanda had bothered to call McHenry’s office, she would have learned that the security guard was one of the foreign contractors so reviled by the left–an individual who in any other circumstance Amanda would likely label a “mercenary.” I did call McHenry’s office and the congressman’s press secretary offered this statement from his boss:
It was a poor choice of words to describe the foreign contractor, but anyone who was there knows that I delivered a speech praising the heroism and sacrifice of those who are serving our country in harm’s way.
UPDATE II: McHenry clarifies his “two-bit security guard” comment;
Update: Nutroots sourcing, a case study
UPDATE: “WAIT! I didn’t say that.”
Why? I can’t even understand why anyone on my side even bothers to mention it.
The “twoops”, contractors or not, are not fighting on OUR behalf.
They are doing nothing to protect us. They hate us.
We just have to pay for them.
Why should we stick up for them, when they’ve shown us who they are?
Hey, hash? That “twoop” shit has officially run its course, you dig?
Don’t be a moron. Douche? of course, that’s your decision. Just don’t go douchey.
Uh, no, sorry. Why WOULD I support them?
It was a whole different story in the World Wars, when there was a draft and some desirables got sucked into the maelstrom.
Now the military is just a clearing house, a military reform school, and a frat house for anyone who can’t find a place anywhere else.
And, years ago, the grunts didn’t get political. They didn’t try to subvert the political will of the nation by restricting the flow of information and using undue authority for power plays.
No, this is a whole different story we have going on nowadays, and I don’t have to rubber-stamp it with my silence and some dumbass bumper sticker.
I didn’t say anything about “support.” Just shitcan the “twoops” crap or I’ll edit anything containing it.
And I mean EDIT: “change!”