Tom Tancredo storms off show after called out as a chickenhawk
John Manning
~Tom Tancredo walks off the set of The Ed Show after Markos calls him
out as a chickenhawk~
It all started when Tancredo started trash-talking the Veterans
Administration, at which point Markos Moulitsas [DailyKos] brought up
his chickenhawk past. He got angry and tried the standard conservative
whine, realized he was better quitting while he was behind, and then
stormed off. The truth hurts, right Tom?
As a Republican student activist, Tancredo spoke out in favor of the
Vietnam War. After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado
in June 1969, he became eligible to serve in Vietnam. Tancredo said he
went for his physical, telling doctors he'd been treated for
depression, and eventually got a "1-Y" deferment.
WATCH VIDEO: http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002322/
Too many of these cowards discuss our troops when they themselves
refused to serve when they had the chance. Here's Jed Lewison:
A few minutes ago on The Ed Show, Tom Tancredo tried to make the
case against government health care by claiming that the Veterans
Administration is unpopular with U.S. military veterans. The only
problem for him was that he was up against Markos...who is one of those
veterans, unlike Tancredo, a pro-Vietnam War chickenhawk who got a 1-Y
deferment.
When Markos pointed out that Tancredo was (a) wrong about the
Veterans Administration and (b) not qualified to speak for veterans,
Tancredo exploded in anger, demanding an apology. Markos did not
oblige, and Tancredo stormed off the set.
Funny, too, how the most thin-skinned of the wingnuts are the same
people most prone to making vicious, uncivil, frequently racist and
xenophobic remarks.
Tancredo, after all, is a guy who claimed the National Council of La
Raza was just like the Ku Klux Klan, and called Sonia Sotomayor a
racist, and told the people of Brownsville, Texas, that they should
build the border fence on the northern side of their city.
And then goes whimpering and whining off the stage when he gets a clean
shot to the gut with hard facts. There's a street name for that, but
this is a family blog.
Links here:
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/tom-tancredo-walks-site-ed-show-because
Eris
I was in the worst fighting Viet Nam Mekong delta 68-69, don't
remember any overtly religious people in combat.
We were in Viet Nam to serve the greedy and the pious.