Journal Profane MuthaFucka's Journal: Moral value example: Man Coulter 9
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Anyway, the next moral example to be discussed is from Man Coulter. This one comes up because our favorite numbskull, smitty_one_each, doesn't seem to understand the conservative moral value of physical strength.
http://www.uexpress.com/anncoulter/index.html?uc_full_date=20041229
Tillman was an American original: virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be. The stunningly handsome athlete walked away from a three-year, $3.6 million NFL contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the U.S. military and fight in Afghanistan, where he was killed in April.
Just so there is no confusion, this is a photo of Pat Tillman, a picture of physical strength. No wonder Man Coulter was getting all wet over him. He's beautiful, is he not?
http://www.gerrymay.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/pat_tillman.gif
Ann describes links Tillman twice to the adjective "American." Before she knew that he was a flaming liberal, Tillman to her represented an ideal of manhood, a personification of what it means to be a good American. And the photograph shows almost nothing of Tillman but his physical strength. That aspect of him even overshadows his handsomeness.
Conservatives value physical strength because it directly supports winning a physical struggle.
"our favorite numbskull" (Score:2)
I won.
Consider the opposite (Score:2)
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was 'shopped
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I'm sure there's some good rhetorical examples from Jabba the Hut which we could look at...
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Checkmate!
Tillman was targeted by McChrystal's (Score:1)
Special Deltas.
McChrystal was instrumental in the cover-up.
Assassins run your Praetorians, now...
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Lied SEVENTY TIMES!
"Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
"The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described," a doctor who examined Tillman's body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003617692 [editorandpublisher.com]
"McChrystal acknowledged the problem Tuesday, calling it a mistake. He said the Silver Star citation was "not well-written" but denied any intent to mislead.
"I didn't see any activity by anyone to deceive," he said.
Mary Tillman said McChrystal knew at the memorial service that her son died from friendly fire.
"McChrystal was lying," she said of his comments Tuesday."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/02/tillman.mcchrystal.hearing/index.html [cnn.com]
For five years he commanded the Pentagon's super-secret Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which, among other things, ran what Seymour Hersh has described as an "executive assassination wing" out of Vice President Cheney's office. (Cheney just returned the favor by giving the newly appointed general a ringing endorsement: "I think you'd be hard put to find anyone better than Stan McChrystal.") ...In the Bush years, McChrystal was reputedly extremely close to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The super-secret force he commanded was, in fact, part of Rumsfeld's effort to seize control of, and Pentagonize, the covert, on-the-ground activities that were once the purview of the CIA.
Behind McChrystal lies a string of targeted executions that may run into the hundreds, as well as accusations of torture and abuse by troops under his command (and a role in the cover-up of the circumstances surrounding the death of Army Ranger and former National Football League player Pat Tillman).
http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/10262-six-ways-the-af-pak-war-is-expanding-.html [daily.pk]