Even In Battle, Blondes Get All The Attention

Independent (UK) ^ | 4-4-2003 | Deborah Orr

[blam]

One Brits view.

[Tomalak]

If a Hollywood screenwriter made up Ms Lynch's story, it would be condemned as cheesy, clichéd and racist.

Ain't it the truth? =/

[Paul Atreides]

Some people always see the glass as half-empty.

[linear]

Not to worry. When Hollywood does her story, she will be a black liberal who befriends her captors, then weeps when they are killed during her rescue.

[Paul Atreides]

As America's leaders pursue their latest dream of glorious liberation, we can only hope that this misty-eyed idealisation is as recognisable to the Iraqis, and the rest of the world, as Private Lynch was. The hope seems somewhat forlorn. Because it is also recognisable that America does have a hierarchy of life, with pretty blondes at the top, black Americans and Native Americans further down and the rest of the world trailing hopelessly. Which might help explain the unseemly rush to war.

What an idiot.

[pickemuphere]

I can't understand why all these women with pretty blonde hair insist on dyeing their roots dark brown...

[Shermy]

But a crucial aspect of Saving Private Jessica is that Iraqis were able to instantly recognise this girl, so typical of the American ideal, as being from the US, and to respond sympathetically to this recognition.

Or maybe she was the only one alive.

[Paul Atreides]

From what I have seen, there have been a lot of pictures shown of white guys who were killed in America's supposedly all-minority military.

[Mister Magoo]

Oh Lord, Stop The Insanity ! Can't left-wing nuts accept a simple, heroic story without introducing latent racism and prejudice? This is beyond the pale.

[k2blader]

I saw an article on Shoshana Johnson but have heard next to nothing about Lori Piestewa...

[Paul Atreides]

I don't suppose that she can bear to even entertain the idea that those Iraqis were just simply helping an American. She just can't stand that a pretty young woman is shown as something other than a empty-headed bimbo.

[Boundless]

> If a Hollywood screenwriter made up Ms Lynch's story ...

She was shot.
No she's not.
She was stabbed.
No she wasn't.

Well, somebody is making up something in this tale.

I wonder if the legend will take on a life of its own before
the simple truth (whatever it is) is confirmed.

I doubt we'll hear anything from the special ops folks, and
even the heroine may not be at complete liberty to speak
freely until her discharge.

[dagnabbit]

There was speculation on another thread about how long it would take the Leftist loons to get around to some sort of racists-rescue-white-blonde bull sh*t. Now we know. A day and a half.

[Revolting cat!]

These Leftists oughta stick to what they know - the protests!

[GSWarrior]

Some of the more repugnant denizens of Democratic Underground were claiming that she was rescued only because she is white.

[moyden2000]

Every liberal is a racist.

[niteowl77]

What a condescending ass! I wonder if some of these people could actually produce good work had the PC virus not burrowed into their gray matter.

Oh, pardon me... I meant grey matter.

[fhayek]

Stockholm Syndrome

[Polybius]

The hope seems somewhat forlorn. Because it is also recognisable that America does have a hierarchy of life, with pretty blondes at the top, black Americans and Native Americans further down and the rest of the world trailing hopelessly.

Which is why tens of thousands of Americans died to try to save all those blonde South Koreans and South Vietnamese from Communist oppression.

[ladyinred]

I can't understand why all these women with pretty blonde hair insist on dyeing their roots dark brown...

They have to, that is until, as is my own case, that dark brown turns gray! :-)