John Hawkins at Right Wing News makes a great catch. He notes that even when the HuffPo tries to pose as a defender of the troops, they can’t help impugning them:
This quote from Huffington Post columnist Stan Goff is so ironic that it’s almost funny (emphasis mine), “Right-wing buffoon Rush Limbaugh takes a swipe at Iraq veterans who oppose the war… who can defend themselves quite nicely, if they even feel inclined to respond to this kind of schoolyard boy-baiting. “Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny. (And you can gasp as theatrically as you want… I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform… that is exactly what it is.) “So Goff thinks that the military is an, ‘imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.'”
Goff can’t even claim to be taken out of context, or misinterpreted. He graciously removes doubt about his intent by asserting ‘that is exactly what it is, but he ‘supports the troops,’ right? How fortunate our troops are, to have veterans like Goff ‘defending’ them from folks like Limbaugh! Update: I see Scott Johnson and the team at Power Line are assembling a ‘greatest hits’ list of some of the wonderful testimonials of support our troops have gotten from elected Democrats. With friends like this…
