Leftists Revile Tillman, 'Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan'

NewsMax ^ | Tuesday April 27, 2004 | Carl Limbacher

[Kaslin]

If anyone still doubts the America-hating bent of the far left, this item is for you.

Something that calls itself Independent Media Center, which OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto calls "one of the most virulent Angry Left Web sites around," has hit rock bottom. Its branch in P.C.-crazed Portland, Ore., has a page devoted to the death in combat of Pat Tillman, which it summarizes as "Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan."

Among the comments posted by those "tolerant liberals":

• "Tillman chose to go to Afghanistan. He's partially reponsible for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands of Afghan civilians. No need to feel sorry for him, other than feeling bad that he was brainwashed into serving as a grunt."

• "it's amazing the kind of attention this insignificant incident is going to cause. well, he was rich, white, and an american. 10,000 (brown) iraqis get killed, and it barely merits a mention in the american news. how utterly f---ing sad."

• "if he 'sacrificed' anything it was his common sense. He had a good American thing going and blew it." Are these the same leftists who ridiculed war hero Bob Dole in favor of draft dodger Bill Clinton but say John Kerry's four-month stint in Vietnam was so great?

Taranto noted that a few posters dared to disagree with the party line. One wrote: "Brave American sacrifices friends, family and fortune in defense of his country. Pigs on IndyMedia can now continue to exercise free speech, sacrifice nothing and spew hate."

[Izzy Dunne]

Nader will go bonkers...

How can we tell when THAT happens?

[Roscoe Karns]

I am ready to see hard hats Vs. hippies, ala 1970, all over again

[Gator113]

Should our country actually engage in another civil war....it will be stuff like this, that will make it far easier to pull squeeze the trigger.

[eyespysomething]

bump

[TheGrimReaper]

More dementia from the party who still thinks that the word "is" has multiple meanings.

[GarySpFc]

"Tillman chose to go to Afghanistan. He's partially reponsible for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands of Afghan civilians. Many on the Left are so obsessed with power their logic has flown out the window. Simply put they are DEPRAVED MONSTERS.

[Kaslin]

I am certain I read that exact same comment on DU.

That would not surprise me

[wtc911]

Hard Hats v. Hippies 1970 NYC....in 1970 I was a hard hat who looked like a hippie, in NYC...I was putting myself through school. I worked with a bunch of WW2 guys who were then in their 40s, younger than I am now. I took a lot of crap but gave it back too, and I did my own work. Finally I ran into a guy who knew my family and me. He smoothed the waters and the older guys kind of adopted me. It was a weird time to say the least.

[Kaslin]

Many on the Left are so obsessed with power their logic has flown out the window. Simply put they are DEPRAVED MONSTERS.

Bingo

[wtc911]

Peter Boyle, ex-seminarian, was one of the mainstays of the Fonda/Kerry FTA program for years.

[b4its2late]

Liberals are good examples of why some animals eat their young.

[visualops]

""True colors revealed. Personally, I am ready to see hard hats Vs. hippies, ala 1970, all over again. My patience is wearing thin""

Screw that, give me 1776 and put those scumbags in red.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

[tioga]

I tracked this down to their website, they are sickos there. Read below the article for their comments....DUers would be proud.

Pat Tillman, American hero, may he RIP.

[an amused spectator]

Nah - the Posties have to spread their collaboration with the Left around.

It was Fred Barbash, another Washington Post Staff Writer.

[BadAndy]

""True colors revealed. Personally, I am ready to see hard hats Vs. hippies, ala 1970, all over again. My patience is wearing thin""

I fought (literally) these VC flag carrying, POS in the 70's. They are the ones who spit on the returning troops, called them baby killers (largely based on Kerry's accusations). I'm ready to do it again. These people are disgusting traitors.

[Wheee The People]

Liberal scum....

That said, anyone can post to Indy Media, somewhat like FreeRepublic. We can't be sure it isn't a troll trying to make them look bad.

[orionblamblam]

Just for completeness... the original source of all this is:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/04/286523.shtml

Go there, and You Too can read such glittering gems as:
"Citizen of empire allows ignorance to cause him to die for imperialism"
"Capitalist chooses to kill innocents instead of cashing check"
"He's partially reponsible for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands of Afghan civilians. No need to feel sorry for him, other than feeling bad that he was brainwashed into serving as a grunt. "
"hero fetishism and white supremacy"
"--"brave"???? for going over to Afghanistan completely uninvited and slaughtering brown-skinned people with advanced weaponry?"
"he was still DUMB enough to volunteer for a corporate-sponsored genocide campaign which is founded on thousands of publicly documented lies"

And further blah, blah, blah...

But then, there are also numerous surpises:
"Reading all this makes me sad to be American and liberal"
"May you and all your sons and daughters, wives and husbands, be safe so that you can continue to have the luxurious ignorance of real experience to be able to mock a soldier's death. "

[Noumenon]

See my tagline

[Sender]

I'm really amazed how hateful the left has become against every value that once was cherished in America. Even the slightest mention of conservative ideas or honorable thoughts, which might once have generated a civil debate, now bring spitting, shrieking cries of 'pigs' and 'Nazis' etc. Whatever happened to civility?

Also is it wrong to use the words 'liberal', 'duct tape' and 'fire ants' in the same thought? Just asking.