Mona Charen hates:
at The Corner, she has a piece entitled Lennonism at Bloomies:
Bloomingdale's is advertising jewelry with a political message. A necklace by designer Georgianna Koulianos is fashioned to look like military dog tags. But the tags read "Imagine" "Peace" and "Love."
So trendy ladies in Chevy Chase and Manhattan are going to wear these accessories to advertise their moral superiority to the guys who wear the real ones? The guys who wear these so that their bodies can be identified if they should be killed or maimed by our enemies? The guys who voluntarily endure terrible heat, bad food, separation from their families, and sickening boredom punctuated by shattering fear?
What a symbol of the disconnect between the two cultures.
Reading The Corner often makes you feel soiled - like swimming in an ocean of putrid venom. Where does she come up with any implication of moral superiority? It's a necklace with the word peace on it. Period.
Say Anything also sees an insult where there's none. He also gets the history of Iraq wrong -both of the"genocide" that occurred during the last ten years of his Saddam's reign, as well as seeming to buy into a fantasy explanation of why we are in Iraq. The way "supporters of the troops" on the right like to use the soldiers as a tool to try to divide America remains a pretty despicable thing to do.
alicublog has a great link, but errs in suggesting that no one show it to Charen. She should be forced to watch the video repeatedly until she cracks a smile.
(h/t memeorandum)
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