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August 30, 2005
Moonbats Target Blue Angels
If there is one group we should all be able to agree to admire, it's the Blue Angels. The combination of grace, power, expertise, and raw guts displayed by this legendary team will make any sane citizen proud to be American. From the Official Blue Angels Site:
The Blue Angels' mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting and to represent the naval service to the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations. The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill ambassadors for the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps. A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits the choreographed refinements of Navy trained flying skills. It includes the graceful aerobatic maneuvers of the four-plane Diamond Formation, in concert with the fast-paced, high-performance maneuvers of its two solo pilots. Finally, the team illustrates the pinnacle of precision flying, performing maneuvers locked as a unit in the renowned, six-jet Delta Formation. Stationed during the show season at Forrest Sherman Field, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, the squadron spends the winter (January through March) training pilots and new team members at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California. The Blue Angels are scheduled to fly nearly 70 air shows at 34 locations in the United States and Canada during the 2004 season. Last season brought out more than 17 million spectators. Since its inception in 1946, the Blue Angels have performed for more than 381 million fans.
Awesome, am I right?
But today I learned on a tip from The MaryHunter that a cave full of kooks known as Veterans for Peace — Maine Chapter actually plans to protest against them on September 10 in Brunswick, Maine. These vermin are pleased to announce that they will be joined by the MSM's beloved Anti-American of the Year, Mother Moonbat herself, Cindy Sheehan. Militant America-basher Kathy Kelly is also slated to participate in this righteous protest against "the false god idolatry of the Blue Angels Air Show."
Congratulations, Blue Angels. With enemies like these, you have yet another reason to be proud.
Actually, this isn't the first time the Blue Angels have met with the displeasure of moonbats. They aren't very popular with Ann Pelo, author of a leftist propaganda manual for guidance in brainwashing preschool children entitled "That's Not Fair!: A Teacher's Guide to Activism with Young Children."
Bernard Goldberg, in his highly recommended "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America," ranks Pelo #51. He describes the section in what he calls her "Michael Moore for Toddlers" where she tells how she spun the Blue Angels to her class. Evidently she managed to convince the little kids that the Blue Angels might drop bombs on them.
Instead of the pride and awe healthy children would feel on seeing the Blue Angels, Pelo's kids were taught to cringe in fear. This is moonbattery in a nutshell. The educrats at the National Association for the Education of Young Children have described her book as a resource "to change the world for the better."
Cross-posted at The Wide Awakes.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 30, 2005 5:28 PM
Comments
If Cindy Sheehan is against the Blue Angels, then I know my like of the Blue Angels is a good thing.
I always enjoy seeing the Blues whenever I get a chance. They have graced the Gary Airshow and numerous Chicago Air-Water Shows.
Cindy Sheehan's 15 minutes of fame is at about 14.5 minutes. If she starts protesting everything military, including the Blue Angels, people will see her for the crazy person she is.
I feel sorry for her loss, but feel that she needs to go home and get some quality grief therapy instead of trying to be some D list celebrity of the minute.
Chris
http://d-chaos.blogspot.com
BA~~32
Posted by: Chris @ Deliberate Chaos at August 30, 2005 6:04 PM
I want Cindy Sheehan to come over tonight and explain this all to my 6 year old daughter, who absolutely LOVES the Blue Angels... we see 'em a few times a year or more around Annapolis, for ceremonies and the occasional Navy game. Heck, she may even be flying the things one day.
Indeed, this whole thing made me think of Pelo from Goldberg's rowdy romp through moonbattery. If I ever see any of those books in my kids' school, they'll be outta there in an instant.
Pelo and Sheehan should both make Goldberg's second edition easily, but surely Sheehan is aiming for even higher ranks.
Posted by: The MaryHunter at August 30, 2005 8:39 PM
Even Susan Estrich is saying that Mother Moonbat is an anti-semitic nutjob. Do you think the left maybe wishes they had done more vetting on the figurehead for their 'Support American Defeat' movement? Or, is it even worse than we think if a jew-bashing, America-hating, attention-whore whackjob is the most publically presentable face in the movement?
Posted by: V the K at August 30, 2005 8:44 PM
One word that does not come to mind when I think of Veterans for Peace and Code Pinko is "sane."
Posted by: Mike on Hilton Head Island at August 30, 2005 10:25 PM
You may (or may not) be interested in the fact that one of the organizers of VfP, Bruce Gagnon, has his own blog.
He is, of course, hyping it with hyperbole, calling them the "Hell's Angels" and suchlike.
Posted by: Vic Jacobs at August 31, 2005 9:45 PM
Ok... I'm saying this now for the 4th time here. The best thing to happen for a long time has been Cindy Sheehan. I can't think of a better way of pursuading more and more people that the Left, and it's official national media, have really lost it. Go Cindy Go! A hundred Sheehan republicans must be born everyday.
Posted by: Debris Trail at September 1, 2005 1:12 PM
