The Washington Weenie

August 13, I posted at this site “The truth about supporting our troops.” The subtitle to today’s post, “The Washington Weenie”, could be “The REAL truth about supporting our troops.”

My earlier piece linked to the www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil site, for the September 11, 2005 Freedom March in Washington, D.C. honoring the victims of 9/11, America’s military, and to celebrate freedom. The Washington Post signed on to support the march through free public service announcements, rejecting criticism from the left by saying, “Our interest in the event is consistent with our past support of causes related to victims of September 11 and the veterans of wars past and present.”

Yesterday, the Washington Post withdrew its support for the Freedom March. Its Newspaper Guild union leaders(the same whose union president Linda Foley slandered America and its troops in Iraq of targeting journalists, then refused to back up her charge or to withdraw it), echoing the far-left opposition, attacked their employer for backing a “political event.” The Washington Post caved, with a circular excuse that in effect says it doesn’t want to offend those on the left who see the Freedom March as a “political event”, saying, “it appears that this event could become politicized.”

So, celebrating the United States’ mission in Iraq, its troops in harms way, the celebration of freedom, is a “political event”!? In what country’s capital does the Washington Post reside? Much of America’s academic, media and political elites seem to have forgotten where they live, and the benefits thereof, as they focus on finding every reason possible to undermine America and to support our sworn enemies. To their perspective, supporting America and Americans in war is a mere "political event" with a worthy opposing party they, directly or by opposing America indirectly, support.

Contrast Hollywood’s eminence Frank Capra in World War II to today’s Hollywood and Congressional Democrat darling Michael Moore. “The care taken by our people to avoid crude caricatures of the enemy’s culture is worthy of praise. It sets this war apart from World War II – ironically, the ‘Good War’ – when even Dr. Seuss got into the Jap-bashing act. But how sad that we’ve turned instead to making crude caricatures bashing ourselves.”

A friend recently sent me the words on the message from President Roosevelt that has hung on their wall since her husband’s two brothers were killed during the Normandy invasion. One, George King, was an MP who asked for infantry duty. His brother, Harold King, was 4F but had an operation so that he could serve. President Roosevelt wrote to the grieving family: “He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die so that freedom could live and grow and increase its blessings. Freedom lives and through it he lives – in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men.” And, certainly of those WP Washington Weenies.