"Me...Hate America???"
Posted on 06/01/2008 11:07:48 AM PDT by rottndog
Three hundred thousand bikers spent Memorial Day weekend roaring around Washington in tribute to our war dead, and I stood on Constitution Avenue Sunday afternoon watching a river of them go by, waiting for a gap in the procession so I could cross over to the Mall and look at pictures. The street had been closed off for them and they motored on by, some flying the Stars and Stripes and the black MIA-POW flag, honking, revving their engines, an endless celebration of internal combustion.
A patriotic bike rally is sort of like a patriotic toilet-papering or patriotic graffiti—the patriotism somehow gets lost in the sheer irritation of the thing. Somehow a person associates Memorial Day with long moments of silence when you summon up mental images of men huddled together on amphibious assault vehicles and pilots revving up B-24s and infantrymen crouched behind piles of rubble steeling themselves for the next push.
You don't quite see the connection between that and these fat men with ponytails on Harleys. After hearing a few thousand bikes go by, you think maybe we could airlift these gentlemen to Baghdad to show their support of the troops in a more tangible way. It took 20 minutes until a gap appeared and then a mob of us pedestrians flooded across the street and the parade of bikes had to stop for us, and on we went to show our patriotism by looking at exhibits at the Smithsonian or, in my case, hiking around the National Gallery, which, after you've watched a few thousand Harleys pass, seems like an outpost of civilization.
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Why does Harvey Korman have to go and not this jerkola?
If I looked like that I’d feel woebegone also.
Ahh,, the nasal self conscious pitch of a voice that mocks, but never offers, the look of rumpled and harried perfected even when there is no hurry at all, the purposefully windsor knotted tie, the look of a long time DC resident this one looks to be the perfect “gollum” to the machismo of Rolling Thunder, the mere whiff of testosterone sends them scurring along in pursuit of the haven of false intellect and gazing at the works of others, never daring to compare...
Ahh,, the nasal self conscious pitch of a voice that mocks, but never offers, the look of rumpled and harried perfected even when there is no hurry at all, the purposefully windsor knotted tie, the look of a long time DC resident this one looks to be the perfect “gollum” to the machismo of Rolling Thunder, the mere whiff of testosterone sends them scurring along in pursuit of the haven of false intellect and gazing at the works of others, never daring to compare...
He's squandered what used to be real talent mocking everything of value.
I'd rather spend the day visiting with those bikers than wasting five minutes with this poseur.
Garrison Keester is piece of hate America filth. Disturbing the Sabbath? Oh please, as if he cares about keeping Sunday holy as he hates Christians too.
Disturbing the Sabbath? Memorial Day has always been on Monday, hasn’t it?
What he doesn’t seem to get is that many of these men are Vets. He does make one good point though. Why not have the military fly some volunteers with bikes over to salute the troops?
ouch. thats gonna leave a mark!
As opposed to the mew of a small, spiteful man?
Most of the comments rip him a new one:
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/chicago-tribune/T3SUMMNT5U0ATVQ06
And don’t forget: This creep gets paid with your taxes.
Can you imagine the cheers as yall came out of the back of one of those planes?
“A work of art can lift you up from the mishmash of life, the weight of the unintelligible world, and the situations where vulgarity squats on you like an enormous toad and won’t get off.”
Garry, you ARE a vulgar enormous toad! A great many of those bikers you so despise are Veterans!
Perhaps he’s more of a vulgar enormous load!
He looks like a toad and sounds like one too.
If you don't like bikers that is your choice but your last staement is just beyond the pale. I know plenty of bikers and without fail they are great people.
Kirby
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