Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Veterans Day Special, Cont'd.
From Billmon:
posted by Blicero : 11/11/2003 02:36:00 PM
So now Private Lynch has to be lynched, a job which the vast right-wing conspiracy has taken up with gusto. A reader wrote in yesterday to tell me that attacking Lynch has suddenly become the topic de jour on conservative talk radio:
One guy just called in and said "Lynch is a disgrace and proof that women shouldn't be in the military."
One caller says he "wanted to punch her teeth out."
Caller just said "She ain't no hero."
It seems our true-blue hawks, who only a few months ago were insisting Jessica Lynch was an American hero, and that anyone who doubted her story was a stinking terrorist lover, are now telling us that Lynch is a national disgrace, and that anyone who believes her is a stinking terrorist lover.
If, as Marx once said, anti-semitism is the socialism of idiots, then clearly, talk radio is the fascism of idiots. (I know, I know -- what other kind is there? But even for idiots these people are idiots.)
This all would have all been a lot cleaner, I suppose, if Lynch had been an entirely fictional character from the very start -- like "Old Shoe," the mythical prisoner of war who becomes an equally mythical war hero in the movie "Wag the Dog." But as long as Lynch remained incommunicado in her West Virginia hills, it was easy enough for the Pentagon's propagandists to treat her like a fictional character -- or at least, like a simple, uneducated girl who could be molded to the fictional image they had created for her.
posted by Blicero : 11/11/2003 02:36:00 PM
