Here come the super-patriots again, and you can smell 'em coming from a mile off. Their scent is store-bought outrage, plus a faint hint of desperation. These days, it seems, if they can't paint someone as anti-American or komminust or daggone liberal scum, they just make it up.
And boy have they made up a doozy this time.
Ever hear of a guy named Pete DuPre?
Well, he's a 98-year-old World War II vet, and he's become something of a hit around the country for playing the National Anthem on a harmonica at sporting events. And the other day, he played it before a game featuring soccer's U.S. Women's National Team, a favorite target of the super-patriots and other hard-right loonies because they're a bunch of uppity women who won't shut up about equal pay and who have that awful Megan Rapinoe, who's a komminust/soshilust/America hater because she kneels quietly during the anthem.
Well, now the super-patriots have a new reason to despise them all, because according to them, some of the USWNT members turned their backs on ol' Pete when he started playing the anthem. Such disrespect! Such hatred for the greatest nation in the history of nations! How dare they be allowed to represent the United States of America!
Except ...
Well, except, as usual, it's all a pile of twaddle.
Turns out the women weren't turning their backs on ol' Pete, whom they've actually met before and positively adore. They were turning to face the American flag.
Yeah, but ... but ... a couple of 'em DIDN'T turn to face the flag! How dare they!
That's because they were facing the video screen, which also had a giant American flag on it. And which was the direction ol' Pete himself was facing.
Yeesh. Try again, schmuckos.
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