"Marijuana-smelling, Beetle hair-styled, dirty-faced wild zombies..."

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"The tipping point as to why we can lose the war in another way, is self-explanatory, to wit -- when we let a bunch of marijuana-smelling, Beetle hair-styled, dirty-faced wild guitar-playing zombies, capsule-upper-downer-dependent brush artists from the dark side of art for art’s sake, heroin-sniffing metallic rockers and their Woodstock, cheering drug-addict teenage fans and followers, politically drunk Hollywood activists, school drop-outs, alcohol-soaked bike-riding beatniks, moonstruck religious freaks, urban drifters and their kind, lord our streets and win the war for the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese army."

Complete article:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2673

[phantom power]

1. Sign him up! Ship him out! Put an M16 in his hand!

[cyberpj]

3. LOL! Way too L! Best response I've seen all day. nt.

[phantom power]

8. In case you haven't seen this...

Operation Yellow Elephant!

http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Who is this

blathering douchebag? He's not just an idiot; he's a crappy writer.

[evlbstrd]

9. This guy.

Edwin A. Sumcad


Author -- has written published, unpublished academic papers; has long years of newspaper experience, writing daily and magazine editorials, essays, feature articles, columns, novelettes, short stories. Academic, other works -- has degrees in literature and jornalism, masters in development economics, and in civil law; journalist, practicing lawyer, Finance Attache, ASEAN specialist, retired diplomat, and former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations.

[TrogL]

14. How strange none of that shows up on Google

Just page after page of his "Chronicle" writing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Oh, such a distinguished resume.

Since he doesn't identify the schools he went to or the publications he worked for,may we assume he has degrees from Bob's Bait & Tackle Shop and Junior College; he was a former assistant attache to Tannu Tuva; and a part time stringer for the South Bumfuck Weekly Shopper?

[evlbstrd]

17. And a divinity degree from the back pages of Guns & Ammo.

[tjdee]

4. "alcohol-soaked bike-riding..."--well there's George W. Bush!

Oh, but he's not a beatnik.

Dang.

[wovenpaint]

22. Oh, but he does have a guitar......

now.

:evilgrin:

[louis-t]

5. Pat? Pat Buchanan? Zat you?

[Sandpiper]

6. Mr. Sumcad wasn't content with only 59,000 names on the Black Wall

How many more did he think should die for our unworthy cause in SE Asia.

How many does he think should die for our unworthy cause in the Middle East?

[cyberpj]

7. It's a BEATLE hair cut, idiot. nt.

[TomPainesBones]

11. Thank you n/t

[deutsey]

24. What cyberpj said.

[davepc]

10. Right wingers blame the hippies for Vietnam the way Hitler blamed the Jews

for causing Germany to lose World War I.

The argument is really almost identical.

Germany was never militarily defeated on the battlefield
Communists and their allies in the news media undermined the peoples confidence in the Kaiser and the war

etc etc etc


There is not one Republican myth about Vietnam that doesn't have a corollary in Mein Kampf where Hitler talks about the reasons why Germany lost the 1st world war.

[Sandpiper]

13. Right Wingers still cling to the delusion that Vietnam was noble and just

Rather than a 10 year murderous rampage to force our way of life on people that never asked for it.

[BlueJac]

12. What were we fightin' for?

[liberalitch]

26. To keep vietnam from nationalizing the communal society....

... (you can call it communism if you want) that they had lived under for thousands of years.

Ho chi minh was a big advocate of "appropriate development"

[hobbit709]

15. After reading the article and his bio

I had to do something. So I sent his name and particulars to the New Hampshire Gazette for inclusion in their chickenhawk database. I also suggested that he be put into the stark-raving lunatic division.

[mcscajun]

23. The 'stark-raving lunatic division'

Isn't their arm patch an image of a wild turkey dive-bombing an outhouse?

:rofl:

[Maccagirl]

18. This is really from the Onion, right?

Maybe John Gibson, or Hannity should search for this outdated twit and bring into the bright light. He's obviously been living in a closet for the last four decades.

[Ferret Annica]

28. Beatnik?

This idiot groups the Beat generation in with counter-culture Hippies from the late 60s. That in and of itself shows he knows nothing but how to pander to radical rightwing wingnutz.

[troubleinwinter]

32. Last time I saw a 'beatnik' was 1965. 40 years ago.

[stevedeshazer]

19. This dickhead couldn't GROW "Beetle" hair if his life depended on it

Pasty-faced illiterate freeper favorite ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473361/posts ) dumbassed comma-abusing Flavor-Aide drinking idiot who isn't even old enough to remember the Viet Nam War.

[edbermac]

20. We should all smoke some good shit in his honor.

I've got Sgt Pepper and the White Album all queued up; anyone interested in forming an orgy?:hippie:

[Ron Green]

21. Just reading his turgid prose made my soul hurt.

[hobbit709]

35. I say we submit

his prose to the annual Bulwer-Lytton writing contest.

[Ksec]

25. Corporate whoring, grit eatin, negro hatin, up tight, sex starved, latent

Homo, corruption mongerin, habitual lyin, God usin', cheap beer guzzlin, drug abusin',

feel free to add

[VOX]

29. SUV drivin', Halliburton-dealin', war-mongerin', Jesus-fish sticker usin',

Ann Coulter photo masturbatin', Fox News watchin', Hannity lovin', corporate criminalin', Dunkin Donuts eatin'....

*pause for breath* :)

[VOX]

27. Wow -- I'm, like, a BEATNIK, daddy-o! What a gas! Make the scene, man!

Pass me some muggles and put Diz's laest wax on the turntable. And where are my bongos, man? Yeah....*snaps fingers*

Edwin A. Sumcad -- such a learned, literary scribe of the political right.
:rotf:

[Lisa]

30. the funny thing is, the people the right truly freaks out about ...

... don't fit the slacker/hippie stereotype at all! The ex-Marine, the buttoned-down accountants and professors, the priest or minister, the quiet little librarian, the "soccer moms" ... right-wingers get all frothy and hysterical when they see that there are people advocating peace who LOOK JUST LIKE the capitalist/pro-war/Moral Majority ideal. It really seems to frighten them.

[troubleinwinter]

31. Check the last paragraph:

"It is unbelievable that we have this stupid repeat of Vietnam. If we do not learn the lesson of Vietnam, the consequence will not only be costly but also horribly fatal."

Uhmmm... isn't that the fucking point?

[northzax]

33. this guy was deputy permanent representative to the UN?

obviously not for his writing or logical thinking skills.

[OnionPatch]

34. They WISH!!!

Don't they WISH we were all a bunch of "dirty" hippies.

The truth is, we are main-stream Americans from all walks of life. And funny, a whole lot of the "hippies" I knew from the 60's are right wingers now, so maybe they should claim their own.

And lastly, I knew plenty of hippies in the 60's and not a single one of them was "dirty."

[Rex]

36. Beetle?

Wow, turned out to be a moran by the third word! Saved me a lot of time.