Sunday, July 25, 2004
It's amazing the depths to which the media will sink in lionizing anti-American "protesters." In next month's Republican Convention, the protesters will be the only ones who escape having their luggage searched. Interesting that the people most likely to be a security threat are the ones who escape security checks. The whole convention should just show up as protesters.
The latest celebrity is Toronto Blue Jays' "slugger" Carlos Delgado, who refused to stand for "God Bless America." It's his right of course but why does the media make it into a story when the Yankees buried his team both nights that he did this? It's simply another way to make a hero out of a moron. Delgado claims the Iraq war was "the stupidest war ever", apparently never explaining what he meant, and that's all the media needs to know. Sorry, Carlos. The stupidest war ever was when 600,000 Americans died to make people like you free so you can bad mouth your country. That's right: I'm saying the Civil War was stupid, if this is what it led us to. The Iraq War was fought for the same reason as the Civil War: to end tyranny of one group over another. Or one might say Lincoln fought the Civil War to make his power absolute, to avoid losing control of valuable cotton supplies, and to take people's minds off a failing economy. That could be argued, possibly with equal validity. It's all a matter of perspective. One thing I am sure of: you wouldn't be a baseball player without it.
The latest celebrity is Toronto Blue Jays' "slugger" Carlos Delgado, who refused to stand for "God Bless America." It's his right of course but why does the media make it into a story when the Yankees buried his team both nights that he did this? It's simply another way to make a hero out of a moron. Delgado claims the Iraq war was "the stupidest war ever", apparently never explaining what he meant, and that's all the media needs to know. Sorry, Carlos. The stupidest war ever was when 600,000 Americans died to make people like you free so you can bad mouth your country. That's right: I'm saying the Civil War was stupid, if this is what it led us to. The Iraq War was fought for the same reason as the Civil War: to end tyranny of one group over another. Or one might say Lincoln fought the Civil War to make his power absolute, to avoid losing control of valuable cotton supplies, and to take people's minds off a failing economy. That could be argued, possibly with equal validity. It's all a matter of perspective. One thing I am sure of: you wouldn't be a baseball player without it.
// posted by The Pendragon @ 2:31 PM 
