{"id":8930,"date":"2009-03-19T07:38:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T12:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8930"},"modified":"2009-03-19T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T12:46:57","slug":"obscuring-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8930","title":{"rendered":"Obscuring the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering what I&#8217;d write to you about this morning, I opened my inbox and found this little nugget awaiting my attention;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>name = amerifag<br \/>\nemail = amerifag@osamaisgreat.com<br \/>\ncomments = dude you need to devote a homage to Osama on your site&#8230; 9\/11 was FRICKIN SWEET&#8230; i was laughing the whole morning&#8230; fuckin americans jumping to their deaths&#8230;what could be sweeter (and funnier)???<\/p>\n<p>good times, good times&#8230;. cant wait for round 2<\/p>\n<p>have a nice day<br \/>\nREMOTE_HOST: 38.103.144.42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I shrugged and deleted it, because I often get little things like that in the morning from the meth-crazed freaks who can&#8217;t get to sleep. Then, I found more that had been sent to the spam folder &#8211; I deleted them as well, since it&#8217;s a fairly common occurrence, too. Then I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8915#comment-90500\">jeffersonlives<\/a>&#8216; comment. I wondered why the sudden surge, until I looked at incoming links, and I knew right away where the mental midgets were coming from.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I referenced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2532\">Brandon Friedman&#8217;s post at VetsVoice<\/a> in one of my posts about the President&#8217;s attempt to charge vets for their service-connected treatment and Freidman tracked the link back here and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2577\">wrote another Obama tongue bath<\/a> and linked here. The Obama-bots and border-line psychopaths at VetVoice dutifully flocked over here to spam this blog with their immature and vile comments.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1981\">a post TSO did on VoteVets in July<\/a> which includes a debate he had with Friedman and here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4884\">one I did on Soltz and Vote Vets<\/a> after the election when Soltz emailed Melanie Morgan and called her a &#8220;stinky hag&#8221; keeping the debate civil. So now we&#8217;ve established a baseline on what I think about VoteVets, let&#8217;s look at Friedman&#8217;s post.<\/p>\n<p>Right in the title of his post, Friedman lies. &#8220;Administration Listens to Vets; Backs Off VA Insurance Plan&#8221;. Now if it was a timeline, it&#8217;s accurate because the Administration did back off after they listened to veterans &#8211; but they didn&#8217;t back off BECAUSE they they listened to the VSOs. Before the 1PM meeting yesterday, the last time the President had listened to VSOs, the meeting ended with him, in effect, telling the VSOs &#8220;pound sand, I&#8217;m doing it anyway&#8221;. He wasn&#8217;t even at the meeting yesterday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/obama-backs-off-plan-to-alter-vets-care-2009-03-18.html\">The Hill<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim King, the national executive director for American Veterans (AMVETS), said that the meeting with Rahm Emanuel lasted all of 15 minutes and that the health insurance issue was the only topic discussed. The representatives of the 11 veterans organizations told Emanuel they were not willing to back down, and the chief of staff told them that he thought the issue was \u201coff the table,\u201d but that he needed to talk to Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something that had happened between the end of the Monday meeting and the Wednesday meeting changed his mind. Nothing he &#8220;heard&#8221; from VSOs changed his mind &#8211; except that he was facing another Bonus March.<\/p>\n<p>The Administration was dictating to the VSOs what policy was going to be in regards to this issue. I have a theory as to why the Obama Adminsitration thought they could get away with it, and it&#8217;s related to the Salute to Heroes Ball dust up in January, but I can&#8217;t say anything about that. Yet.<\/p>\n<p>The only organization which took immediate action was the American Legion. The Legion had the good sense to make an issue of it, instead of taking the VoteVets approach of bending over for Obama (from here forward referred to as &#8220;BOFO&#8221;) and spreading their cheeks. While VoteVets was telling everyone to not worry, the American Legion mobilized the troops. That&#8217;s what changed minds. It wasn&#8217;t the media, either &#8211; it took two days for for the media to notice, well, except for McClatchy and no one reads them anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So Friedman is just wrong that we should just assume Obama has our best interests in his heart &#8211; the VSOs need to be vigilant, not BOFO like VoteVets. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, I have this picture so I&#8217;m using it;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tv_ad_07021102.jpg\" alt=\"Perry Soltz\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s VV&#8217;s Jon Soltz meeting on a runway somewhere with VFP\/VVAW member and IVAW advisor Bill Perry.<br \/>\nAnd here they are inside the airport with more VFP\/VVAW\/IVAW members;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tv_ad_07021101.jpg\" alt=\"VV IVAW VVAW VFP group hug\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell me you have veterans&#8217; interests in mind when you cavort with the mindless drones of IVAW who care about nothing except where they can score some pot and babe-age. VoteVets is a partisan organization that falls under aegis of MoveOn.org. Even John Bruhns, the former soldier &#8211; turned anti-war activist, left VoteVets because they were too much in the pocket of the Democrat party.<\/p>\n<p>And, Friedman, this isn&#8217;t an anti-Obama blog. I started this blog before Obama started running for President, so it can&#8217;t be an anti-Obama blog. I&#8217;m against his policies but mostly I&#8217;m against buffoons and charlatans who are climbing over the bodies of their former comrades using their motor pool dispatch credentials to lead this country down the road to ruin. <\/p>\n<p>I guess you can say I&#8217;m anti-dipshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering what I&#8217;d write to you about this morning, I opened my inbox and found this &hellip; <a title=\"Obscuring the facts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8930\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obscuring the facts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,28,47,6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-liberals-suck","category-media","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}