Many of us join Secretary Gates in condemning the Associated Press for its heartless and selfish decision to turn its back on the wishes of a grieving family in order to exploit the tragic death of a true American hero.
Lance Corporal Joshua 'Bernie' Bernard was a selfless young American who sacrificed everything for our freedom.
Shame on the AP for purposely adding to the grieving family's pain. Ignoring the family's wishes by publishing a sacred image of their loved one proved a despicable and heartless act by the AP. The family said they didn't want the photo published. AP, you did it anyway, and you know it was an evil thing to do.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Bernard family. Words can not adequately express our sorrow and appreciation for your sacrifice. We will never forget your Marine or his fallen comrades.
May God bless the Bernard family.
-Sarah Palin
I have to admit this sounds more like her than the health care notes did.
I know she is back in the state, is it inconceivable that she now feels ready to take back control of her life as well?
FOX News published the picture, is she going to condemn them?
ReplyDeleteNo it's not her. Whoever is writing this is tapping into a vein of discourse currently prevalent in the art world (by way of example, google "Fotomuseum Winterthur" for details of a highly controversial photography exhibition currently showing in Switzerland). Reality, unfortunately, is far more brutal than any photo, no matter how harrowing. And showing what war really means, painful as it may be, is ultimately the only way to make people realise that violence is not the way to solve a conflict.
ReplyDeleteWhoever it is, take note: you are redundant even in this short piece. Look for synonyms; buy a thesaurus. Take Comp 101.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason that you this this was written by Sarah is because she attacks AP and the media.
ReplyDeleteThe reason Sarah did not write it is because there are complete sentences that start with a capital letter and end with a period.
To the poster who got the closest to the truth, anon 5:23 from the Max Blumenthal blog, please tell us more!
I'm sorry, Sarah Palin -- and all your ilk: the death of a young soldier is NOT correctly or appropriately represented by television footage of a finely wrought wooden coffin draped with the American flag being lowered from the belly of a magnificent plane to the sound of heart-rending taps, while comrades stand to attention in neat rows. The truth is far messier: young Joshua Bernard, horribly mutilated, his friends and comrades struggling in vain to save him amidst the mud and the dust and the chaos. When will we ever learn?
ReplyDelete"We will never forget your Marine" - I'll bet ten bucks she wouldn't remember his name if asked today
ReplyDeleteMy response to Sarah:
ReplyDeleteMany of us parents of special needs children find the actions you took just immediately prior to giving birth to your son Trig despicable, by flying with ruptured membranes and without seeking the medical care that Trig deserved.
Sarah, you did it anyway, and you know it was an evil thing to do.
May God bless Trig.
Shame on ignoring the wishes of all the grieving families that didn't want a news black out when their loved ones bodies were returned in caskets.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Track Palin also back in the state of Alaska?
The military angle works for her. She could write on Facebook, with a little help, about military family situations. That will help bring in donations.
Bless the Bernard family and all.
Truth can be brutal. We'll be a better planet when the sacrifices of the fighting young men and women are known.
More press
ReplyDeleteYou're right. This is so classic Sarah. I wonder what Rupert is going to think with her trotting off the range and doin' her own things.
ReplyDeleteWords like - evil, heartless- 2x, despicable, grieving 2x, sacrifice 2x, tragic, selfish, sacred.
It's Sarah all right. The only thing that's tragic at this point is the fact that people who know the truth continue to be silent (not talking ab you Gryphen). I'm talking about John, Cindy, Meghan McCain, Steve Schmidt and everyone else who worked with her on the presidential campaign. She's not fit for being ANYWHERE NEAR HIGH OFFICE. When will they have a run-in with their conscience and SAY THE TRUTH.
John has to win his reelection to the Senate before anyone on the McCain camp speaks, I suppose.
She just loves to call people evil...must be nice to be the one who judges.
ReplyDeleteHopefully she will piss off the AP with this statement and they will start reporting the damn truth about this crazy witch.
ReplyDeleteI’ve read this letter very closely three times. The grammar is perfect, the sentence structure is perfect, and the punctuation is perfect. If I was an English teacher, I’d give this letter an A+.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin did not write this letter, also, too, position flexible.
Here is a note to Sarah: you have an incredible amount of nerve to call anyone "evil." you continually use emotionally laden words that have religious connotations on purpose to fire up your demented, delusional and mean base of support. Is anyone is evil, it is you Sarah Palin. I have NEVER encountered such a greedy,selfish,hypocritical, nasty, narcisstic and yes EVIL poltician, woman and mother. You WILL be exposed and brought down for the evil fraud that you are.
ReplyDeleteYou are a pathological and evil liar who would do anything, step on anyone and use anyone to meet your objectives. You pretend that you chose to give birth to a Downs baby. This is a fraud and we know it, McCain and other polticians know it as to some in the media. This evil charade of yours will be exposed to the public. Other evil things you have done will be exposed too. Many of us will not rest until you have been exposed as the evil fraud you are.
I feel sorry for your childern-for the ways you use and manipulate them for your own selfish purposes. I also feel for your fans even though many are rabid, stupid, vindictive racists. But you are duping them, lying to them, using them and stealing from them! How many of the comandments have you broken Sarah? Should we count them? We will. We are going to expose you so that you are completely finished as a politician. I don't care what you do in private although I pray for your family and followers. But you will be exposed and you will be done in politics.
You are an evil evil person Sarah Palun.
Sarah hates the AP because of stories they have done. She criticizes all media but Fox. What a phony!
ReplyDeleteRemember this? This is how the real Sarah Palin structures sentences. NOTE: there are no typos here. This is an exact quote.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin interview on FAUX News back on October 4, 2008.
Q: One of the things you talked about last night was the flexibility the vice president has.
PALIN: Yeah.
Q: Uh. What did you mean by that?
PALIN: Uh. That thankfully our founders were wise enough to say we have this position and it's constitutional -- vice president will be able to be not only the position flexible, but it's gonna be those other duties as assigned by the president. A simple thing.
"evil"? Oh, hi, W. Nice to see ya' again.
ReplyDeleteJesus these people are simpletons.
I htought the family WANTED the picture shown, so I don't get SP's outrage, but then, without drama and paranoia, she'd have nothing to say about anything.
God she's boring.
11:09am Anonymous said... Wow!! I hope you are right.
ReplyDeleteHow do you know she's back? DO TELL.
ReplyDeleteAt ceepeeers, I just read the letter to Pres Obama which Sarah has signed (along with others) regarding increasing military in Afghanistan. Now that one is definitely not written by her. Zero word salad. Simple, clear sentences and meaning (simplistic actually). No nasty mean-girl putdowns. Agree or not with the content, at least she has some friends who can write a civil letter expressing an opinion.
ReplyDeleteWHY do you have a SarahPac donation advertisment on your website??????????????????
ReplyDeleteI think she wrote it, maybe someone "cleaned it up" for her...why...?
ReplyDeleteWell the grade level is at 8th (typical for her 6-8th grade)
and readability is 44% (typical for her is 51-58%)
Plus the "Sacred image" pure ice queen dropping turds out of her mouth...
And did the Family really object? I found this:
A retired Marine himself, John Bernard asked that the image of his son dying on the battlefield be released after seeing the photographs by representatives from the AP.
The criticism and debate that has ensued since the release of the Bernard's dying photo has actually overshadowed the real story behind the photograph. The story of a brave Marine and of his comrades that tried to save him and it is a story that is similar to many of our military heroes.
http://www.huliq.com/7504/85901/real-story-behind-lance-cpl-joshua-bernie-bernard-dying-photo
One of her worshipers put it best: She wants to create a media stir to drown out PO's speech tomorrow.
Of course stupid sara and her minions miss the point completely! Hero's are dying everyday, for the right of idiots like her & them to flap their hateful mouth's!
I HOPE THE MSM COMPLETELY IGNORES her FB!
Sadly enough - that statement sounds like Palin. Written at about a 5th grade level, no deep thoughts or emotional connection, other than calling the AP "evil". She's NOT writing about Lance Corporal Bernard - she's merely bitchin' about the AP - that darn, evil liberal media again.
ReplyDeleteIf she were truly concerned, she should have started her comment expressing sorrow and concern for the family and offering her support, rather than jumpin' in with her jackboots to stomp the AP. Typical Palin. She's not letting sorrow get in the way of complaining about somethin'. Pathetic.
Erer notice that pictures are always sacred to Sarah?
ReplyDeleteWhat a phony.
Nah, not written by her. The FB posts continue on in sock-puppet style.
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, I entirely agree with the stance. The AP photgraphers actually travelled to Maine personally to meet with the parents, showed them a NUMBER of photographs of the incident (put your self in those parents' shoes) and then the parents did NOT give permission to have any of them used.
They were used anyway.
Sorry, not right. Would the photographer in question, had she a son who, say, was killed in a gory automobile accident covered by a press photographer, been OK with such intimate an image being paraded before her eyes by her local newspaper. . .you know, to 'illustrate' the dangers of driving, or road conditions or use of cell phone or whatever the current politically correct issue running??? Especially if she had expressly NOT given her permission for them to be published?
I'm sorry, but the son belongs to the family before the son belongs to the country. Family wishes should be respected.
I can't think of anything much more sadisticand self-serving than to personally meet the parents of this guy, look them in the eye, parade a number of pictures of his death before them, hear them say 'NO' and then print them anyway.
Gryphen - Frank Schaeffer wrote about Max Blumenthal's Republican Gomorrah--Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party!
ReplyDeleteRead it here: http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2009/09/at-last-dobson-is-done-in-by-truth.html
I was stunned by the Sarah Pac thing on your website too. What's THAT all about?
ReplyDeleteAs a SE Asia vet and former MedEvac pilot, I am outraged by the sanitized coverage of our last three wars. They were/are sanitized to prevent the coverage of war's reality because it's bad for Public Relations. War is brutal. It's bloody. And people lose legs and arms and faces and more. And people die. It's not a video game, and there's no Restart to restore what has been lost.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is not evil, and presenting the truth of war is not an evil act. War is an evil act. As for the AP's release of a "sacred image" - remember that very dismissive F*K-you Jon Stewart gave you for your "real America" BS, Palin? I'm giving you another one. F*K-you. The news is supposed to be about truth - even when the news is about war. The reality that such truths have become political fodder is incredibly sad. Truth does not belong to politicians or their PR firms, nor does it belong just to the families most effected by it.
My condolences to the Bernard family, and the thousands of other families who have suffered from loss. And to the as yet uncountable more families who will.
I thought it sounded like her. I guess she likes those opportunities to appear protective of a young soldier. So... when do we find out what her higher calling is? And when will she "start fighting hard for Alaska"? Meanwhile, is pretending that you gave birth to your daughter's son illeagal? I mean I know it's tacky and white trashy, but is it against the law?
ReplyDeleteI believe that the SarahPac ad is one of many ads that rotates through. If I understand correctly, every time someone clicks on it, Gryphen's site makes money and SarahPac loses money. Did I get that right? If we want to click multiple times, can we just go back and click again, or do we have to leave the website and come back?
ReplyDeleteGryphen, Love ya, but it seems like your throwing out lots of posts, to detract from the Palin issues. Lots of frustration in your readers. I know it's tough, we don't understand, please say whatever you can, thanks.
ReplyDelete12:32 PM Anon; I had a child that was in a fatal accident. No one asked if the large photo could be on the front page.
ReplyDeleteMy child was hit by a federal employee on the job. I won't go into it here. The fed employee was not drug tested. He was known to do drugs and there was a bust where he worked. The newspaper photo served no purpose, except kids on motorcycles can be a menace, which wasn't actually the case. The fed employee was rushing.
I'd like for families to be given respect, but when your son is in a war zone for his country there is more than family respect to consider. When people are aware of the reality of war there are better chances to prevent going to war. Especially, if it is a bogus war.
Hoken; that was beautifully said.
12:45 Anonymous
ReplyDeleteI'd be afraid to click it for fear of viruses and spyware. Looks like a por.no site to me!
My opinion is that unless she's found someone else who writes as poorly as she does, it's her.
ReplyDeleteBut the BIG mystery is why Mrs Warmonger is sooooo late with her finger-pointing .... this was a hot news item two or three days ago.
Gryphen you have email.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we can click on the ad and you get money right? We don't need to go further and you can't tell us to do it.
I clicked on SarahPac 5 times so hopefully you'll start seeing some ad dollars. I didn't go beyond the first click then closed it immediately.
Hoken@ 12:42 Thank you! You are totally right! These idiots think its their video games or stupid war movies, its like you say...blown off faces, legs,heads...everything!
ReplyDeleteThank you for you post, I hope the creepeers see it. (Ha, to one of you said ceepeer's I thought creepers)
Thanks Hoken!
Anon aka Sock puppet: we know you are a creeper...I posted above the link where the Brave soldier's Dad authorized the use of the photo, so all you mouthpieces can flap your useless gums....! And yes dipshit it was wrote by her, in her juvenile vitriolic divisive way....
go back to creeper town where you can kiss her a$$!
This may be the first time I agree with Palin on anything. The wishes of the family should come first. That being said, the quickest way to end the war would be to show the American public these types of photos every day.
ReplyDeleteThis facebook message is an opportunity to USE a story of a grieving family, USE the event of a tragic military death, USE the image and names of the deceased and their family for the writer's benefit. Shame on anyone who would do that. Shame on anyone who would post a conflicting story like this on one's facebook page. Shame on the one who has the gall, lack of sensitivity, lack of decency to even USE this story as a means to get supporters attention. To USE this tragic story as a tool to reap monetary benefits by hoping facebook friends will push the donate key.
ReplyDeleteIs there anything more evil than that?
"A retired Marine himself, John Bernard asked that the image of his son dying on the battlefield be released after seeing the photographs by representatives from the AP."
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that you found this comment. My heart goes out to the Bernard Family.
By publishing the photo, it will show that their Son did not die in vain. War is horrible and tragic. With the Bush/Cheney Department of Defense news blackout, not being able to even show the caskets of the fallen soldiers, people don't think of the horrors of war. The MSM needs to show more of these types of photos, no matter how painful. We must share other peoples misery and be there to help and comfort them.
The photos of war will bring the attention it needs. Remember Viet Nam? All of the photos and news were shown every single night on teevee. This brought the people together to protest, protests that helped to end useless, illegal war. It also helped bring to an end a disgraced president. Maybe if this had been done sooner, it would have helped to bring Bush/Cheney to an end.
"One of her worshipers put it best: She wants to create a media stir to drown out PO's speech tomorrow."
ReplyDeleteAnd on that note, Scarah is famous for coming out with bizarre statements on Fridays or holiday weekends. You are right, she needs to stir up a faux controversy to take away the attention going toward Obama. Palin declared war on our President. What won't she do to steal away the spotlight? (although, I don't think Obama relishes the spotlight. Scarah is just projecting like all rethugs, once again.)
"First, my condolences to the family of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard. Although I believe strongly in the release of this image, noting that a month had passed since his death (and the release of more heroic images), and that Joshua had since been buried and the family informed in advance that the photo would be published, I also recognize the family's opposition and the additional pain it has caused.
ReplyDelete... http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/09/photo-of-a-dying-marine-the-larger-view.html
That said, I have a few takes on the controversy surrounding the release of this"
What is not censored from our view are the propagandists that promote wars. Time after time I have watched celebrities raise money to help the wounded. It is good to help the wounded warriors. What happens too often is the exploitation and neglect or abuse of wounded warriors.
You should read a few of the articles written about DOD/IG Report on America Supports You Irregularities.
ASY is often attached to Conservative charities.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4217
http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4187
"In addition, Stars and Stripes officials lost [control] of about $4.1 million of appropriated funds transferred to ASY to promote America Supports You.mil. DOD/IG also calculated that the Stars and Stripes nonappropriated fund account has subsidized ASY expenses by about $1.9 million [in Base Exchange, Commissary, Theater and related on-base rasied subsidies] through FY 2007 (finding D)."
Fleecing of America: America Supports You.mil Uses Tax Payer Money Tree for Special Events
http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4260
DOD Inspector General finds that America Supports You.mil paid celebrites for their support
http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4250
"The more I read the DOD/IG report the less I could stomach. It is THAT BAD."
Fox News, Sarah Palin, charity auction, wounded veterans.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/04/dinner-palin-auctioned-ebay/
"The ex-Republican vice presidential candidate is offering the dinner as part of a charity auction on eBay for the Ride 2 Recovery program, which supports wounded veterans through cycling programs".
mary b said...
ReplyDelete"One of her worshipers put it best: She wants to create a media stir to drown out PO's speech tomorrow."
Exactly my thoughts Mary. She is like a little kid going me to, me to.
Anonymous @ 11.30 Oh I love your note to SP. How good would it feel to be able to say those words to her face to face. You have captured just how I feel about her too.
ReplyDeleteWith respect to her Facebook rant about AP - this is just a joke. This was picked up by the first person here Anonymous at 9.53. Just let me say my husband works in the media in Australia. The Murdoch owned press here is vile in it's pursuit of private individuals - ie getting photos of deceased persons in order to sensationalise or "beat-up" a story for their "rag". How dare she do Murchoch's bidding and criticize AP for something her boss would himself insist that his journalists do every day of the week in order to sell papers. Aaahhhhhh this is just infuriating.
Isent Palin using this fallen solider in the same way the AP is? For her own gain?
ReplyDeleteJust my two bits.
FYI. Track is supposed to be home now. He never saw 'action' as no commander in his right mind would put his stars and stipes on the line for a loose cannon like Palin. Imagaine if he would have gotten wounded - even a papercut - the he would have been used by his mommydearest even worse than he alreaday has been.
Anon@2:37 Thanks for the informative links...
ReplyDeleteand that's it! I heard about ebay, but I didn't know it was going to help the wounded soliers...of course this little charade using the soldiers pic is a little infomercial by dumb as rocks palin!
Plus divert attention from President Obama.
What a Bitch! She is accusing AP of using this "sacred image" yet she is using it for her ebay thing tomorrow! And... LETS NOT FORGET TOMORROW VANITY FAIR HITS THE STANDS EVERYWHERE!!
She could be trying to divert attention from that also...!
As the former English prof said, the letter was poorly written. I agree. The third paragraph is especially bad. If not written by Sarah, then by the same word spinners she has been using. She desperately needs a handler and a press secretary.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, I think my post about Obama's speech might have ended up here--I had two ImmM pages open at once! Can you move it? :-)
ReplyDeleteThe Pentagon likes to help Conservatives that do their bidding.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to believe the they would so blatantly cover for some punk because their parent is a Conservative.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Has_Deryk_Schlessinger_been_charged_yet
If you don't think the military won't help out Conservatives propagandists, you need to look into this...
DEPT. OF AMERICA: Dr. Laura's Cretin Son Mon May 21 2007
http://wonkette.com/262247/dr-lauras-cretin-son-having-fun-torturing-people-in-afghanistan
"The 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan shuttered the pages on Friday. The Pentagon managed to immediately cleanse all evidence of the MySpace pages, including whatever copies and cached versions were kept by Google and the Internet Archive."
McCain likes to shutter, too.
Anon@6:38pm-I am mystified at your post? You are talking the previous administration, about dr. Laura's son, who you claim is a cretin? In case you don't know a "cretin" is a person who has a cogential hypothyroid condition... I don't see where it applies here...Perhaps your at the wrong blog? I don't want to be a "wet blanket" but...
ReplyDeleteDr. Laura's kid doesn't belong here...?
The Hulig link that states the father approved release of the photo appears to be false.
ReplyDeleteOther stories are saying the AP showed the photo to the family and decided to release it over their strong objections. Secretary Gates has written a scathing letter to the AP regarding the harm to the family.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1211504/The-image-dying-U-S-soldier-sparked-furious-debate-Afghan-war-divided-America.html
I like the note written to Scarah too! I'd say many of the same things!
ReplyDeleteI think we should have a thread Gryphen where each of us writes Palin and tells her what we think of her.
I'd love to see her answer direct questions from all of us. And when she lies, we can confront her. And if she still lies. We throw water balloons at her. How's that?I really dream of calling her an uptight, plastic bitch and slapping hwe in the face but it seemed a bit harsh! :). I can fantasize about it though!!
!#*% Sarah Palin. Yes that was 4 letters. This womans derelict, drug addicted son who almost caused the deaths of many Alaskan schoolchildren with his reckless behavior, but went off to "war" to finish out his sentence but... was never in harms way because he probably received "special" treatment. Give me a $#@%^& break. How dare she even speak to the grief this family has. How dare she. Shut the %$#@ up Sarah and go away.
ReplyDeletec.a.c.
ReplyDeleteThe kid doesn't belong except he is another "special treatment." What Ken Layne wrote of the Pentagon does:
The Pentagon managed to immediately cleanse all evidence of the MySpace pages, including whatever copies and cached versions were kept by Google and the Internet Archive
Layne wrote cretin.
6:38
Kids who do not excel in school are readily accepted into service by the military industrial complex. The are fodder for the military machine. Dropouts and those who are C students always have a place and in fact, the recruiters welcome them with open arms because they are easily recruited and brainwashed and sent off as fresh meat to be blown to bits in whatever silly unjust war the great country has gotten itself involved in. Sad but true and I think the more photos we see of the realities of war and it's brutalities the more people might stand up and say, enough.
ReplyDeleteHoken,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you man.
If you read Charlie Wilson's War, the author George Crile details the Russians in Afghanistan, and how the Russian politburo kept secret the return of their wounded and fallen soldiers. In fact, they were so humiliated the red army couldn't bowl-over these Afghan cave men in a short time, they kept secret the whole war effort from the public for 10 years. Because of this, the Russian army had no will to fight and just got drunk.
During Bush's War, It was so apparent that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld was acting just like the Russian politburo. They wanted to keep the tragedy secret, and told the public to just go shopping. They were going to lose the fvckin war in the same way the Russians did.
Every soldier that returned from Iraq should have been given a hero's return. Instead, we celebrated their return by calling out their names, rank, ages, and home town as they silently scrolled on the screen "In Memoriam" on PBS News Hour.
The Bush War was, and is, a sad and tragic time in the history of the US that our government would treat returning soldiers with such disdain. That our government acted the way the Russian government did, and we allowed it.
Fvck you Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld you fvckin commies.
Thank you Hoken. You said it all.
ReplyDeletecrystalwolf/caligirl - I am presuming you meant me, Anonymous 'Sock Puppet' when addressing your vitriol. Your take couldnot be further from the truth as I am a stone Palin critic. I assume that at some level, Gryph takes note of the actual email addresses accompanying all Anonymous entries (could be wrong).
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I live in Maine, where this story has been extensively covered, and the family DID NOT give their permission.
It's interesting that someone like me who generally criticizes Palin, but is moved to post something independent minded is immediately, and voraciously, jumped on by some one like you. . .you remind me of many of the posters I encounter at the pro-Palin site I inhabit, trying to make a difference there.
Man, any sort of deviance from the jack-boot march and calls of Troll! Troll! come forth.
I'd like to think our side is different.
Curiouser: the Huliq story was from 9/5 perhaps the father thought it over b/c yesterday he said this:
ReplyDeleteam Lcpl Joshua Bernard’s Father. I deeply appreciate your intense concern over this immoral act and believe these folks are working without a functional conscience as described in Romans chapter 1. Having said that; I will make the same point here that I have now made repeatedly in interviews. We cannot let this ‘distraction’ change the important elements of the greater story and that is the implimentation of the new ROE. There aren’t 1000 Afghan lives that are worth a single Marine’s life. I say this because I am first an American and Marine – not a world citizen. We have a right and responsibility to export violence to defend these shores and our citizenry. Anything less and we will be judged ‘found wanting’ as the Bible describes those who fail to do what they know to be right. It is time for us to hold our elected officials accountable and renind them that they are Americans and for the attrocities against our Warriors that they are complicit in. Keep fighting the fight guys, here in your blog as I am with this small window of opportunity I have been given through the shed blood of my only son.
John Bernard
1stsgt USMC ret.
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2009/09/08/concerning-lance-corporal-joshua-bernard/
A good Christian he is...talking about a "immoral act" (publishing a picture?) and the lives of 1000 Afghans not worth 1 single Marine.
He also home schooled his Son until he went in the Marines...I'm sorry I don't understand these "good christians" I really think its immoral of them to think they are better than 1000 other people. I am sorry his Son had to pay the highest price in war, but I am also sorry that others have had to too.
anon@4:10Pehaps you are hanging around the "site you inhabit" picking up their little buzz words like "sock puppet", it just raises red flags with me, just sayin'
ReplyDeleteWhere you choose to blog is of no concern to me.
I know where the creepers are you can't blog anon. Why do you do it here? Just askin'.
crystalwolf, i blog anon BECAUSE of the creepers. Calm down and let's let everyone speak, UNlike the creepers!
ReplyDeleteGood question, caligirl. Being a critic of Palin (and a sometimes miner of tidbits to forward to the anti-Palin blogs)I can't afford to have my cover blown. I actually hate the Anonymous tag as I am accustomed to speaking under my own name, fearlessly, but to achieve my own goals (which are complex), that's the way it has to be right now.
ReplyDeleteNot to aggravate the tone of this thread, as I do understand where you are coming from, my only query to you is exactly what did I say in my post that deserved such profanity and outrage on your part? Just asking you to think about that.
I agree that Sarah is 'mining' the issue for her own aggrandizement, but I am in agreement that the photo should not have been published. Not after these people went to a grieving family, sat down in their own living room to 'ask permission' with a straight face. . .when clearly they had already made up their minds, and this was just an empty, and in my opinion, rather heartless, nasty exercise.
Yes, that offends me. If they had no intention of following through, they should have just printed it (I do get the counter arguments for this), not faked out the family like they did.
Anon@11:35
ReplyDeleteAs far as I know its still a free country here, AP was trying to show the family what they were going to publish. I don't know that they were "asking permission"
I don't know b/c I'm reading watered down propagandized version from the Queen Quitter and the creepers and they are all screaming.
If you choose to blog anon and use words like sock puppet don't be surprised if someone thinks your a creeper or whatever. How dare you accuse me on not letting you speak?
Although there are certain people who blog here who will tell people not to say this or that I am not one of them, however being a free country, last I heard I am free to express myself.
Oh and a FYI she has another FB and she signed it Governor Sarah Palin!
GINO the queen quitter. The nerve of her.
Glad to see you are still here, as surely you and I are the last standing on this thread!
ReplyDeleteCome on, drinks all around, did I ever accuse you of not letting me speak? Or not allowing you?
(Those who know me would find such a notion to be oxymoronic in the extreme.) S'OK you don't know me, because I decided to write 'Anonymous.' A lot is lost hiding behind the veil, and one must accept that. Looking forward to future back and forth with you on this thread.
I'm not surprised, or shocked, or even care much if you decide me to be, in the end, a creeper. Just glad you are talking to me.
But really, you might find your self better airborn if you tuck your feathers in a bit.
Sorry, I'm a mother of four and I am in the habit of talking to people that way. My bad.