Thread by @JewhadiTM

.@BRhodes's tweets about Trump's military cemetery visit cancellation didn't age well

(And coming from the party that regularly despises and mocks our military, no less) #VirtueSignalingAssholes americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/b… via @AmericanThinker

https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1061269550107250688

Note the smarminess. The smugness. The sophomoric claims to knowing how the job is really done, compared to Team Trump. Note the willingness to compare Trump unfavorably to others. Oh, and the tweets go on and on here, this is just a short curation, they can all be read here.

It went together with a collective tone of condemnation from the press about Trump cancelling the cemetery visit due to rain, as if he did that because he didn't want to honor the troops.

Now we get this:

“In a story Nov. 10 about President Donald Trump canceling a planned visit to a cemetery for Americans killed in World War I, The @AP reported that the Secret Service determines when it's safe to fly Marine One, the president's helicopter.” @DonteStallworth

“The story should have made clear that the Marine Corps and White House Military Office make the determination to ground the president's helicopter due to bad weather. The military office then presents the recommendation to the WH in collaboration with the Secret Service”

So it turns out Trump never made the decision at all about whether he could travel or not due to the rain, the military and the Secret Service decided what was safe and feasible.

And Rhodes either didn't know that, which makes him an ignorant boob, or else did know that but wanted to score some political points. Now the correction exposes him and his icky little scolding shaming act for the phony show it was.

Stand up and take a bow, @BRhodes. You've beclowned yourself. Again.
(As does @TVietor08 @davidnakamura @codykeenan @davidfrum etc)

And, as I said, liberals continuously mock and denigrate our soldiers, yet act like they honestly give a shit about them:

25 Quotes That Show You How Much Liberals Hate Soldiers (Like Chris Kyle) townhall.com/columnists/joh…

2) “I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.” – Max Blumenthal

3) “Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as ‘heroes.’”

“... sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, nearly impossible….” -- David Masciotra @Salon

“American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation...”

“On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.” —James Carrollin the Boston Globe

"Forget bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II.”

“Can anybody tell me why, in 2009, we still have more than sixty thousand troops in Germany and thirty thousand in Japan? At some point, these people are going to have to learn to rape themselves." – @BillMaher

“My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren’t heroes. And invaders r worse.”— @MMFlint

8) “What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there’s not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq….”

“They target and kill journalists … uh, from other countries, particularly Arab countries like Al -, like Arab news services like Al-Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios with impunity….” — Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley

“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.)” —Stan Goff at Huffington Post

1) “THE United States now has a mercenary army. To be sure, our soldiers are hired from within the citizenry, unlike the hated Hessians whom George III recruited to fight against the American Revolutionaries.”

“But like those Hessians, today’s volunteers sign up for some mighty dangerous work largely for wages and benefits….” —David M. Kennedy in the New York Times

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.” —@JohnKerry

13) “If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.” —Charles Rangel

For one who was responsible for a certain amount of death of innocent people as John McCain was, the time spent in a North Vietnamese prison where he claims to have been tortured was probably time spent that a Catholic priest, for example, would find completely understandable”

“It’s called doing penance, John. You don’t bomb and kill people for no reason, even when corporate America or your daddy, who was the supreme commander of Southeast Asian forces, South Pacific forces, orders you to do it.”

“You can’t just take orders, we decided that at Nuremberg. So, if you suffered, I am sorry for your suffering, I truly am, in and of itself, but John-John-John, did you think about the suffering of the people you bombed and strafed? They were civilians, you know.” —Mike Malloy

“(It’s) very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words ‘heroes.’ I feel … uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.” @ChrisLHayes

“Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood.” —John Murtha smears the troops on Haditha

“I don’t want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got, the Army, Iraq, something like that. It’s, it’s not as bright. So, that’s my little commercial for that.” —Stephen King

“Through every Abu aib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform….”

“We pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way...”

“and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?”

“T]he recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary — oops sorry, volunteer — force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.” —Washington Post blogger, William Arkin

“I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero – I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.” – Bill Ayers

“Do our government’s poorly paid contract killers deserve our ‘support’ for blindly following orders?” —Ted Rall

“For those of you who do, as a matter of principle, oppose war in any form, the idea of supporting a conscientious objector who’s already been inducted [and] in his combat service in Iraq might have a certain appeal.”

“But let me ask you this: Would you render the same support to someone who hadn’t conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit?”

Later, in a question-and-answer period, Churchill was asked whether the trauma “fragging” inflicts on that officer’s family back home should be considered, he responded: “How do you feel about Adolf Eichmann’s family?” — From Ward Churchill