April 23, 2004

Spitting on Tillman's Grave

With all the hard work I've been doing following the Dean and Kerry campaigns (stop snickering) Paleowatch has suffered dearly. That changed today when PunchtheBag led me to this LewRockwell.com Blog post that's mildly sympathetic to Pat Tillman's death. It's in response to this vile post almost cheering Tillman's death. The writer, Karen De Coster, stays on her vicious streak by claiming the ex-NFL player was practically brainwashed into becoming an Army Ranger. According to De Coster, who has the superpower of reading people's minds, anyone of some notariety who backs the war is just a "war-worshiper" who sells death:

Yes, he [Tillman] got up from his Lazy-Boy and put his life on the line, however, this just goes to show that the picture that has been painted, of military/war worshipping, has worked, and it has lured young men like Tillman into believing that, yes, war and military and conquest is a good and necesssary thing, and that fighting for The Regime is the right thing to do. As a reader reminded me, look at Tiger Woods, who just recently spent "spring camp" at a military base, playing soldier for a few days, posing beside military armaments and the like. Someone posted that on the LRC blog I believe? This is the image that is being conveyed. This is how a government sells a bloody, murderous war, not unlike the old, pre-media days, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope hawking war bonds as the "patriotic" thing to do.