Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 5:39 PM
Subject: Fw: Please remember....
Forwarded from the father of a Marine....
Whitney Houston was 48 and her story is all over the news because she was an
alcoholic drug addict and she basically killed herself.
Charlie Sheen is 45 and his story is all over the news because he is a
substance abuser, an adulterer, sexually promiscuous and obnoxious.
Lindsay Lohan is 24 and her story is all over the news because she is a
celebrity drug addict and thief.
Something as frivolous as Kim Kardashian’s stupid wedding [and short-lived
marriage] was shoved down our throats.
While........
Justin Allen 23
Brett Linley 29
Matthew Weikert 29
Justus Bartett 27
Dave Santos 21
Jesse Reed 26
Matthew Johnson 21
Zachary Fisher 24
Brandon King 23
Christopher Goeke 23
and Sheldon Tate 27...
Are all Marines that gave their lives last month for you. There is no media
for them; not even a mention of their names.
Honor THEM by sending this on. I did, will you?
Rest In Peace
alcoholic drug addict and she basically killed herself.
Charlie Sheen is 45 and his story is all over the news because he is a
substance abuser, an adulterer, sexually promiscuous and obnoxious.
Lindsay Lohan is 24 and her story is all over the news because she is a
celebrity drug addict and thief.
Something as frivolous as Kim Kardashian’s stupid wedding [and short-lived
marriage] was shoved down our throats.
While........
Justin Allen 23
Brett Linley 29
Matthew Weikert 29
Justus Bartett 27
Dave Santos 21
Jesse Reed 26
Matthew Johnson 21
Zachary Fisher 24
Brandon King 23
Christopher Goeke 23
and Sheldon Tate 27...
Are all Marines that gave their lives last month for you. There is no media
for them; not even a mention of their names.
Honor THEM by sending this on. I did, will you?
Rest In Peace
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Something as frivolous as Kim Kardashian’s stupid wedding [and short-lived
marriage] was shoved down our throats
Interesting, they must have run out of stuff to shove before they got to me. I managed to live my life without watching a single minute of it.
There is no media
for them; not even a mention of their names.
Pretty sure the news makes mention of casualties every week. Not nearly to the extent they ought to, but they do report them.
And I know for a fact the very liberal blog Crooksandliars.com makes a point to note every casualty announced every week. Which is amazing because, according to Repubblicans, liberals are a bunch of troop hating hippie freaks.
Does anyone know if Fox News runs a full story and bio for every casualty reported? It would seem only logical given their supposed pro-military stance, right?
Are all Marines that gave their lives last month for you. There is no media
for them; not even a mention of their names.
Honor THEM by sending this on. I did, will you?
Yes, nothing says "honor" and "not frivolous" quite like a chain e-mail forward...
1. Dreaded LIEbrul PBS - which has never been particularly liberal & these days is totally run by major corporations, so they spout the corp line - has long had a weekly spot announcing troop deaths with a moment of silence to honor them & their service to Team USA.
I guess conservatives are just too busy watching reality tv shows about the Kardashians & Charlie Sheen to be *bothered* to notice this happening right now on PBS & has been going on since the beginning of WAR Inc. But then again, it's so much fun for conservatives to *victimize* themselves to the Kardashians, I guess.
2. I believe one of the major network tv stations (ABC?) got in hot water during the reign of W for having the nerve to announce the deaths of troops. I can't find the info on the 'net, but I think it may have been done around some Memorial Day. And conservatives reliably got totally *enraged* that the tv station had the *nerve* to mention that, uh, troops were, like, dying in the WAR, Inc that US citizens were lied to in the first place.
I guess now it's *fashionable* and permissable to acknowledge that, you know, troops die every day so that Dick Cheney can get filthy RICH... or something.
3. During the reign of W, it was not permitted to show the dead troops being brought "home" on coffins at Dover, DE airforce base. When Obama went to pay honor to the dead troops coming "home," wingnuts got *reliably* pissed off that the "N" word in the White House had, you know, the *nerve* to honor the troops in that particular fashion.
Which proves my point that conservatives who forward dumb chain emails like this are a bunch of brainwashed morans who'll say pretty much whatever some rightwing think tank tells them to say... and then feel *insanely* smug and superior. And I guess it's that sense of smug superiority that makes conservatives continue to be blind to factual reality and keep voting against their own interests whilst living in a world ruled by abject denial, hatred and FEAR FEAR FEAR.
I've never watched one nanosecond of anything about the Kardasians, but sadly I am *aware* that they exist.
P.S. I meant to add this to my comment, above:
While I watch NO reality tv and have little knowledge about the likes of Charlie Sheen (and could care less), I, personally, have watched PBS's honoring of dead troops quite a few times, plus I did personally watch the program (think it was ABC) where they read off the list of dead troops (which enraged conservatives) back in the earlier days of the Iraq/Afghanistan WAR, Inc.
Funny, that? Here I am a dreaded disgusting lazy LIEbrul, but somehow I've watched tv shows that honor the troops & read out their names quite a number of times.
Yet these conservatives who piously and self-righteously forward tripe like this apparently know nothing about such shows that honor the troops in this way.
Guess Fox & Rush Limbaugh & Glenn Beck & Pat Roberson don't bother to read out the names of dead troops???
What does that indicate about Fox, Rush, etc???
Reporting troop casualties was one of those uncomfortable truths of war that got nixed after a few months by everyone except PBS's News Hour.
It was also made extremely difficult by the Bush administration, who were flying the bodies home at night and preventing the press from seeing them.
Googling the Marine's names revealed that they died in summer 2010; not last month. If right-wingers are going to recycle their hatemail, updating it with the latest news like Whitney's death, I wish they would update all of it.
Come to think of it, these emails are the only thing out right-wing friends seem to recycle.
They didn't give their lives for us.
And I think that's the worst part of all.
I thought the right loooooved the free market? Because that's basically what this is.
Newsflash: "The media" -at least the ones this forward is referring to, as I doubt that The Nation spend much time on celebrity deaths - are giant for-profit businesses. They will show whatever "content" they think will grab the most viewers, whose eyeballs they can then sell to advertisers - who (with the rare exception of an occasional PSA) are also for-profit businesses promoting products to make a profit.
Obviously, the media cover celebrity deaths because that makes money. Soldiers deaths do not. Simple free market economics!
So, what's the problem, wing-nuts? I thought the Almighty Market could do no wrong!
Of course, there were easily ten times that number of innocent Afghans who died last month at US hands.
Their names will not be recorded, and if the wingnuts think of them, they will be dismissed as "terrorists".
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