Oprah troop support

“We support our troops”

As is often our custom MoSup played her TiVO'd Oprah while we supped. Today's theme was real life heroes. A mom who threw herself over her two kids while a tornado ripped through their home. A guy who saved a woman from drowning. At the end a bunch of our guys fresh home from Iraq. Her introduction was "no matter what you think about the war, we support our troops." Those words raise dander every time I hear them. It's meaningless horse crap. No, it's not meaningless, come to think. What Oprah said, even though she may have been mindlessly sincere, is Left-speak for "we think President Bush stole his office and we hate his guts and hope everything he does goes bad, but we learned from Vietnam to pretend to appreciate your efforts even though we stump for Democrats who are even now betraying you by playing the Jesse Jackson game of diplomacy with our sworn enemy in return for small favors that put the Administration in a bad light, and using your funding in a game of chicken." That's the code. That's their level of support. "Wow, you're all so clean," she gushed. "We keep hearing about how deprived of soap and stuff y'all are over there." I prayed that one of them would pipe up, "Oprah, everything you learn from your media pals is put through a spin cycle. You don't know squat." Pass the spaghetti. Grrrr.