Soldier porn

By Michael J. Smith on Thursday August 2, 2007 03:50 PM

I got some flak a few days ago for dissing the late Pat Tillman. In fact, now that I've actually done a little reading on the subject, he appears to have been a more complicated case than I realized.

What set me off, I think, was dribble like the following -- especially the crudely montaged soft-core image that accompanies it:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/27/82034/6929

heroism (36+ / 0-)

I don't know Mary Tillman but for some reason she has captivated my attention since her son signed up. Her eyes - same as her son's eyes - have an intensity.... she's got the fire in her belly. Having a beautiful son killed will do that to a person, I guess....

by kck on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 07:22:22 AM PDT

. . .

I'll second kck (8+ / 0-)

Yes, please let Pat's mom know that there are patriots out there who admire her immensely. I just read in this diary for the first time that she's a teacher, so now I get why Pat was so well read. He was a real man and a patriot....

Clark '08

by DrReason on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 11:21:53 AM PDT

. . .

Just Imagine If (2+ / 0-)

an anti-Iraq War, NFL Star, Al-Qaeda hunting, Chomsky-reading, opinionated modern real-life super-hero ran for congress as a democrat.

by BlueGenes on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 12:36:35 PM PDT

The Kosnik who contributed the last little ejaculation above gives the game away, I think, as far as the pwoggie version of the Tillman cult is concerned. Liberal soldier-worship is such a creepy subject that I feel a certain squeamishness even thinking about it -- but it really does get to the heart of what's the matter with these people.

The Democrat -- at least the Kosnik variety of liberal Democrat -- is a person completely credulous of common wisdom, conventional ideas, and the verities of the high-school civics classroom. Yet he also feels that's he's made of finer metal than the average bear. His moral sense is keener, his heart kinder, his intellect more penetrating. This Pharisaical sense of apartness from the common herd is what makes him a liberal. It is a source of pride to him, and yet, at the same time, a burden. There is something within him that wants to lay the burden down and become one again with the mass. He feels distinguished by his high-minded yes-buttery, and yet shivers in the chilly winds of exile; he craves the heavy moist breath of the herd, and hungers for the warmth of his fellow-critters' huddled flanks.

The poor soul is like some unstable chemical mixture, always ready to decompose into something less complex, and emit a fetid burp of methane in the process. Give him a suitably ginned-up humane opportunity to wrap himself with a clear conscience in the flag, or weep big fat bathetic tears over a dead soldier boy, or drool over a football players' iron thighs, and he'll make a revolting spectacle of himself every time.

* * *

The Tillman story, like a Rohrschach blot, is random enough that you can read into it whatever you like. That's what I was doing too, of course. The Kosnik sees in Tillman the pwoggie's version of the Hidden Imam, the Man On A Hummer who can lead America's liberals rejoicing into the promised land. I would rather see a gung-ho oaf so fond of attitudinizing and role-playing that he gave up a lucrative career and landed his ass in Afghanistan, and made himself so odious to his colleagues that one of 'em finally shot him.

Who knows, really. Tillman wanting to meet with Chomsky is certainly an interesting data point. But it's hard for me to imagine that somebody so addled he could sign up in the first place would ever have been a very valuable asset to our side.

Still, de mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that. Maybe I should stop being mean about the guy now.

Comments (16)

Scruggs:

MJS, have you seen the Kosnikim t-shirts?

http://www.astropitch.com/dkos/img/pooties_tee.gif

They offer strong support for your assessment.

bobw:

Even I quailed a bit at your first post, Michael, just as I felt I shouldnt jump up and shout when Nixon or John Mitchel died. From what I've read, though, and from these pictures you've shown, he looks more like he'd get Chomsky in a hammer lock and bang his head on the table, than ask him a respectful question.
Your description above of the liberal Democrat goes in my permanent scrapbook of contemporary wisdom. I'd make one slight change: instead of yearning to actually be one of them, he wants to pass as one of them.

God damn, Smiff.

That's some of the most wretched, oozing -- well, dribble -- or, perhaps, drivel -- is too kind a word for it. This crap helps me understand what a stack of pancakes feels like when they ladle the Aunt Jemima on.

Serious, man...makes me want to take a shower. The one thing these days that makes me sicker than a fascist flag-kisser is a Liberal flag-kisser -- because you can tell right away that they suck at it, and their hearts just aren't in it, and they're really just trying to avoid being beaten up or something.

Oh, and for the record, I did the happy dance when Nixon cashed in. Just a day or two later, Howard Stern did one of his most memorable bits ever involving a mash-up of politicians' remarks from the telecast of the Nixon funeral.

MJS:

Mike F --

I think their hearts really are in it. What their hearts aren't really in, malgre all the posturing, is getting any real distance from it. Saying fuck the army, fuck the empire is one thing -- but that's not at all what the liberal says. He wants a nice, moral, rule-governed army and empire. Except when he gets mad at some recalcitrant, resisting the benefits of civilization, and then it's bombs away -- but smart bombs, please, always the smart bomb and the surgical strike.

They suck at it because they want to have it both ways. They want their blood and guts a la carte. A cup of blood, please -- just a cup, not a bowl -- and hold the guts. Or no -- are the guts fresh? Well, maybe just a tasting. For the good of humankind, naturally.

As for Nixon -- I mourned him bitterly. Loved the guy. The last interesting American politician.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but when Republicans so publicly and enthusiastically suck military dick it's because, well, it's reflexive for them. It's their natural position, as it were.

Democrats are much more delicate creatures. Oh, they'll suck military dick just as enthusiastically to be sure, but it's not their default mode since they get so few military votes anyway. So they're not as practiced as the kneeling-mouth-open Republicans and really, experience does count even for an organization as undiscriminating as the Pentagon.

Pwoggies, as you noted above, are disgusting pigs about it. They're the eager bukkake center of the military cultist set. I strongly suspect this is because the hardcore Koswack doesn't really care what circle their they're the center of, so long as they're the center of a circle.

op:

i'm no whitey basher by far

but the carlin line comes to mind

white folks don't get the blues
they give the blues

all this horst weesellingering
i see
not so much the leery slobbering
but
the collective insulation

oh we suffer
oh how we suffer

one drop washes away
the guilt of the oceans of
"colored" misery
"we" produce ...else where on earth
even in new orleans

Talk about pigs -- now that you've got me going...

...Just recently, while culling out the good stuff from my massive piles of VHS off-air tapes, I stumbled across a little gem which I'd had the good sense to save to miniDV, and which I burned to DVD immediately on its discovery -- and that's Her Nancyship's interview on NBC Today, as the top story of the show, on the occasion of her election as House Minority Leader in November 2002.

Besides the fact that throughout this short segment The Nancy crams more empty jabbering into less time than I could possibly imagine, there's about ten or fifteen seconds of some of the most spectacularly drooling, sloppy, audibly-slurping-and-gulping fellatio ever of the current Imperial Administration by an "opposition" legislator. The context is especially important to consider these days: war in Iraq still looming ahead, Emperor Chimp already busted once lying about WMDs iirc, the economy doing its imitation of STS Columbia, and the Democrats openly and publicly falling all over each other trying to be first in line to guzzle the Imperial Kool-Aid, immediately after a mid-term election -- the Most Important Election Since The First Troop Of Hominids Appeared At Olduvai Gorge, as I recall -- in which we were supposed to find out "what the Democrats are about" which, as it turns out, was nothing, and at which point I began calling them the Seinfeld Party (and urging my friends to do the same).

...but aaaa-aanyway, yes, I'd be more than glad to crunch this classic down to a handy 320x240 mpeg4 and post it to my Web site for your smoking, smirking and giggling pleasure. It's fairly short, 03:46 total, and packed full of fun. I'll not directly quote The Speaker here as it's just not as fun as hearing it come from her own face, but I will say when the segment ends, the jabbering subsides and they cut back to Lauer for him to hand it off to the news anchor, the look on Lauer's face as he does the handoff is priceless, obviously the look of a man desperately fighting to suppress laughter.

op:

"the pwoggie's version of the Hidden Imam, the Man On A Hummer who can lead America's liberals rejoicing into the promised land."

that's one face of the pwoggie for sure
but indeed he/she be
a highly unstable compound mixture
so much so external straight jackets
like kosville
are quite reassuring
to sing in a holy chorus
helps
calm the inner soul
hold it together
keep it's aquisitive ego
from sensing its
decomposing
worthlessness

ps i like the notion
of rejoining the steaming herdof we americans as one big over hearted folklery

but then there's the identification
with the white shoe leader of the herd

get out
the benito-meter

op:

there's a continuum of these slobber fests

from the summit of the twin towers
to such over kills
as this bridge collapse in the twin cities
a nation turning its lonely bully boy
eyes to tears over that yesterday ....

ought to think

fuck we do twenty.... sometimes sixty
such deeds
to the iraqis
on any given day

op:

i notice an unstable
class line criss crossing in my comments

the herd of nascar weepers
the equally collegial kos-hive
and Father's
dread scumble of self importance
tower thinkers and solitary grove pacers....
the meritoid Pharisayzzzzzacs

op:

btw
my once and future
favorite ball of
cookie dough

michael moore

shit he's always in danger
of falling into this abyss

slobbering horde syndrome
may take him away yet
i suggest
his latest filmic effort
has those markings

its mr moore's keen
sense of the incongruous
sweeping to the rescue
that most often saves him

i hope he doesn't mutate further
....no better ....petra-fy
into a stone hengey
cult site
for the pop liberal conscience

ahh the morbidity !!!!

action plan

lets not
leave his shameless
simple simon
fellow feeling to run amok

nb:
his early clark romance
bares serious recollection

Y'know, when, after eight years of the Clintonoids, a bunch of pissed-off people got fed up with the Democrats and supported Nader's insurgent candidacy (as opposed to Kucinich's "insurgent" candidacy), Michael Moore was one of them, which tickled the living shit out of me after having seen "Roger & Me" and faithfully watched and taped a boatload of his "TV Nation" episodes -- more tickled, in fact, than when Phil Donahue came out for Nader.

So, we all remember the reactions of most Democraps and Liberals then -- looking back, much like the reaction of the USA at large right after 9/11 -- a reaction I could only describe as a sort of mass delusion, or mass psychosis, or just plain raw fear, or just a big mash-up of all three. You'd confront any Democrap or Liberal with your support for Nader and the Greens, citing planks from a platform that pretty much sounded like any decent DP platform from 25, 30 years before, and their faces would damn near contort, almost as if they'd seen a ghost, while they shrieked at you about abortion rights and the Supreme Court and womens' college sports and how the Greens were "stealing votes" from the Democraps...you know, like they were friggin' psychotic, man, like Pod People or something.

So, anyway...that November, last thing before the DW and I voted for Nader and scooted to Jamaica (we'd assumed the election circus would be over either way and we'd have some peace by then), I shot the Nader/Green "super rally" at DC's MCI/Verizon/Whatever Arena (renamed Emma Goldman Arena for the event) for a newsreel at the IMC -- and I recall Moore belting out a fabulous pile of speechifying about choices and democracy and courage and all that shit in his introduction of Nader to the rally. I also recall Moore about three, three and a half years later publishing his apology to the Democratic Party. Yeah, that's right, he friggin' apologized to that bunch of whiners -- remember that bullshit?

But, yeah...if, after his apology to the DP, I wasn't certain enough that Michael Moore himself had been seized by the mass delusion/psychosis/
fear/Kool-Aid/whatever, there came the endorsement of Wesley Goddamn' Clark, f'crissakes...yeah, that Wesley Clark, General Wesley "Maximum Violence" Clark, of Jugoslavian civilian ass-stomping fame. General Wesley Clark, old Bubba Clinton flunkie. What really set my jaw to plummeting, though, was Moore's reasoning behind it -- something about our needing a General of better integrity than the Generals running the war in Iraq, who could beat Bush...I mean, really, really, really fucked up, desperate kind of reasoning, so totally wrapped up in Beating Bush that he didn't understand what the real problem was.

I think F911 was a helluva picture, one that needed to be made, and I'm glad he's doing what he's doing and that it's hugely popular and that he's making the fascist punditocracy fume and sputter and all, but I just don't feel like I can trust the sonofabitch anymore...it's like he talks a tough game about the DP, but you know that when shit gets really rough, he's going to run back to them.

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