[doug from upland]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

[johniegrad]

There's gotta be a song in there somewhere.

[Thrusher]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

I have to agree with you in principle... but I would still sure love to buy that guy a couple of beers.

[rabidralph]

Or in the words of Chris Rock: I don't condone it, but I understand it.

[Bahbah]

but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff.

Ditto.

[SlowBoat407]

Let's not be like them.

I am with you 100% on that. Spitting, shouting, hurling feces, etc. is the recourse of people who have no legitimate argument. Better to simply stand there with a picture of her at the AA gun.

[Hildy]

It's a symbolic geture, as Vietnam Vets were spat at when they returned hom.

[xJones]

but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

Agreed completely. That was disgusting on his part.

[TigersEye]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff.

Why paint him as being on "our" side? I'm sure it was very personal for him. Political ideologies probably pale in comparison to what's bugging him about Hanoi Jane.

[Valin]

WELL PUT!

[CFC__VRWC]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

The media will give this saturation coverage, and probably tie it into Tom DeLay's "threatening" of judges, and parade her around as an example of how poor helpless liberals are under assault by right-wing thugs for daring to "speak truth to power."

Compare this to the media blackouts, chuckles and titters and sneering about how conservatives can't take what they dish out that results when people like Coulter, Horowitz and Kristol are hit with pies and salad dressing by members of the "tolerant" left.

[kabar]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

Jane Fonda should have been tried and convicted as a traitor. Spitting on her is a mild rebuke for what she did. A little spittle consitutes an appropriate and warranted response.

I don't know what "side" you are talking about, but many Americans, regardless of political party, despise her. The Holzers' book, "Aid and Comfort," makes a detailed and compelling case that Fonda should be in jail rather than on an obscene book tour making money and revising history.

I applaud Mr. Smith for his restraint and pithy response. I would hazard a guess that he is a Vietnam vet, like myself. Your tut-tut response doesn't sit well with me. Fonda deserves to be shunned and reviled for her actions along with her words. It is not a matter of civil discourse.

[stumpy]

Sorry Doug, I have every intention of urinating on her grave DURING her funeral. That will be for all the guys I left behind in Viet Nam, because they can't.

[OXENinFLA]

but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff.

This guy could be a Dem for all we know. I don't think this is a our side their side case but rather pent up anger from a 'NAM vet.

[Samwise]

I don't condone it. I don't encourage it. But I can sure as heck laugh about it.

ROTFLMAO

[RightWingAtheist]

Agree. Let's not lower ourselves down to the level of the pie-throwers and salad-tossers...er, I mean salad DRESSING tossers.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

Agreed. We must hold ourselves to--as in the old Hebrew National hot dog commercials--a Higher Standard...

...it's a job that Liberals just won't do....

[Frapster]

you know - i bet the man wasn't operating in context of conservatives vs liberals. I wonder if he instead was operating in context of being a vietnam veteran who has a long memory?

[gakrak]

I agree one hundred percent. Amen.

[DennisR]

"...I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff."

I do not consider this "man" on our side, do you? He might not like Fonda, but this behavior is just as disgusting as the pie-throwing lefties.

[ariamne]

I understand the man's feelings and share them 100%, but pie throwing and salad dressing spritzing is for the DUers and the left.

Yes, unbidden is a feeling of glee about the incident, but I'm with you Doug.

[Calpernia]

>>>>I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

Prove to me that it was OUR side. I smell a publicity stunt.

OPINION

She isn't selling books like she needs to and needs to promote a movie. A big bad man spitting at her will get her press releases and an interview here and there in hopes of drawing out more people to the next signing.

IF this man spat in her face, why? Was he just a jerk? Probably. Was he a VET? If he was, the media would have made that the lead story as if every member of the MIL were evil.

I don't know, that is just my opinion that it was staged.

[JoeSixPack1]

Yeah well, I ain't always the good guy. I'd spit in her face too!

[Osage Orange]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff

Who said, he was on our side? He could be just a nut.

Not saying there aren't nuts on both sides...although IMO, there's more lefty nuts than righty...(vbg)

FRegards,

[monday]

"I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them."

lol... you are claiming this guy for your team?

[fish hawk]

How do you know the man was on "our side"? The article doesn't say if he was a liberal or a conservative. Most any Viet Nam vet might spit on her for what she did. Hell, he was probably spit on when he came home from Nam. I wouldn't do that but then I wasn't in Viet Nam when the traitor did her thing.

[BykrBayb]

Killjoy!

[Peach]

I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them.

Ditto. I'd rather she was shunned.

[crz]

Sorry Doug. Cant agree with you on this one. She got less than what we got when we hit the ground and headed down the way at the airport. Try pee and S$%t, thats what was chucked at us.

[securityMama]

Agree. We should take the "high road" - "do unto others as we would have them do unto us". Enough said.

[Kimmers]

I would agree....

[MoochPooch]

"I understand why he did it, but I really don't want our side doing that kind of stuff. I want to be able to criticize the other side. Let's not be like them."


True. For some reason, though, I think spitting has more poetic force than throwing a pie at somebody. Maybe because spitting has been a symbolic ritual for centuries; pie-throwing not.