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What is it with Right Wing Conservatives and the Military?
You hear alot of gaudy praise for all things military the further you go toward the rightward end of the political spectrum. Which is liable to confuse any observer with good faith whenever individual military personnel are passionately flamed by these self-renowned mega-patriots. Most recently we find Fox News celebrity pundit Tucker Carlson railing at Illinois Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth as a “coward,” “fraud,” “moron” and “callous hack” who “hates the country.”
What did this Purple Heart combat veteran who had her legs shot out from under her helicopter by a rocket propelled grenade in Iraq do to deserve such a scolding by the Swanson Frozen Dinner heir from his lofty primetime perch at Fox News? Duckworth drew Tucker’s outrage by stating her opinion that a national debate on the removal of statues of historical figures was a reasonable approach to our current landscape of social unrest. “I think we should listen to everybody. I think we should listen to the argument there,” Duckworth said, right out loud, on CNN, for all the world to hear.
We may gather something from coincidence here by noting that Sen. Duckworth left her legs in Iraq in 2004, the same year that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry was on the receiving end of what would enter our political vocabulary as a “Swift Boating.” As Kerry…