Compassionate Liberals(antiwar protestor spits on Iraq war vet)

COMPASSIONATE LIBERALS:(antiwar protestor spits on Iraq war vet)
Newsradio 620 WTMJ ^ | FRIDAY, Oct. 22, 2004, 2:51 p.m. | Charlie Sykes



Note: On Thursday night, an antiwar protestor in Milwaukee spit on a returned Iraqi war veteran, Marine Major Jerry Boyle. Boyle is a Republican candidate for Congress in Milwaukee. Boyle served in Operation Iraqi freedom and was posted to Baghdad shortly after the invasion. Although he is an underdog in the race, he has shown up for every campaign forum, where he's won high marks for his civility and willing to face hostile audiences...

On my show this morning, Boyle described himself as "livid" over the incident, but had restrained himself from responding in any way...

Here's the story as relayed to me by one of his campaign aides:

Charlie:

I would like to relay to you a disturbing and unsettling incident which happened tonight at the Alverno College debate between Gwen Moore and Jerry Boyle.

Boyle has attended every debate and forum he has been invited to, even ones where it has not been the friendliest of audiences receptive to his Republican message.

Last night's debate at Alverno College was one attended by mostly people which will not vote for him in next month's election, but was a well run and fair debate none the less.

The questions were pointed and thoughtful and the answers were equally to the point. The topics ranged from foreign policy to the economy. The stark contrast between Moore and Boyle was pretty clear to those in the audience. Boyle was to the point and made it evident that although his was not the most popular opinion in the room, this is what he believed in.

Many people approached him following the debate to discuss the topics and their views and several said although they did not agree with his stance, commended him on making great arguments and being forthright in his presentation.

One man, unfortunately took the opportunity to ruin the evening.

As Boyle was walking from the stage to the reception, a graduate student from UWM spit on Boyle as he passed by.

Boyle, restraining himself, went to the restroom to clean up let this incident go.

I, however, did not.

After seeing Jerry wipe the spit from his jacket, I asked him what was going on and asked the young man why he spit on him.

Although it was witnessed by several people (at least five) he denied it and approached me looking for a confrontation. He walked up to me and got right in my face.

I asked him why he spit on Jerry and he said he didn't but should have because Jerry didn't answer his question to his satisfaction.

He called me an imperialistic pig and said that I was a puppet for an imperialistic regime. I asked him if that was a new term he had just learned in school and that I was very proud of him for using it in a complete sentence.

To make a long story short, after a little more verbal back and forth, he was ushered away by his teacher and escorted from the building.

My point is this. Are we now at a time when, even at a debate with dissenting views have the right to spit on each other?

Will he go home and brag to his friends that he spit on an Iraqi War veteran?

Is that the culture we live in now? This is not Kerry vs. Bush, its a small debate at Alverno College on the south side of Milwaukee.

He liked that fact that Gwen Moore is against bunker busting bombs (which she repeated) but will spit in the face of someone who helped liberate a country of 25 million people from a homicidal madman and made the world a safer place in the process.

To their credit, the people at Alverno apologized, but the damage was done.

If there are any liberals listening to your show, please ask them to take a step back and think before they act like this. Political discourse is what our country was formed on, but actions like this are all too common and its time to rein it in.

This was indeed a sad day for Milwaukee and America as a whole.

Sincerely yours,

Matt Lambert

:mad: Ah yes..the "compassionate liberal"..whose hearts only bleed for themselves and their twisted agenda of socialism and appeasement..if they think they can start spitting on soldiers again--they got another thing coming..it's called opening a big ol can of Whup-Ass !! :mad:

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Originally Posted by Torog

:mad: Ah yes..the "compassionate liberal"..whose hearts only bleed for themselves and their twisted agenda of socialism and appeasement..if they think they can start spitting on soldiers again--they got another thing coming..it's called opening a big ol can of Whup-Ass !! :mad:

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That was one person, you can't say that all of us Liberals would behave the same way. You're judging a group of ppl by one person's behavior. I believe the men and women who went to Iraq are some of the bravest ppl on Earth. I would never judge Conservatives based on one "bad apple's" stupid act. My husband is a strong Bush supporter. I said I wanted to put a Kerry/Edwards sign in the yard and he said if he saw it he would throw it in the wood stove. Who's only thinking of himself?

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Originally Posted by maryjanemama

That was one person, you can't say that all of us Liberals would behave the same way. You're judging a group of ppl by one person's behavior. I believe the men and women who went to Iraq are some of the bravest ppl on Earth. I would never judge Conservatives based on one "bad apple's" stupid act. My husband is a strong Bush supporter. I said I wanted to put a Kerry/Edwards sign in the yard and he said if he saw it he would throw it in the wood stove. Who's only thinking of himself?

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Howdy maryjanemama,

You're right..I shouldn't judge all liberals by the act of 'one bad apple'..I apologize for that-it's a bad habit of mine:o -however,when or if,reports start rolling in from all across the country,especially after Kerry loses and the Left is in the grips of anger and depression,what will you say,when there's a whole bushel of 'bad apples' ?

Have a good one ... Torog

Anyone that votes for Bush is either just as uneducated as Bush seems to be, or a rich low tax payer. I feel like im in a communist country with Bush in office. Dummy cant even pick a fight with the right terrorist group. I vote for mafia.....screw all these commie pigs that want us to live in a now UNFREE country.

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Originally Posted by Rooisme1

Anyone that votes for Bush is either just as uneducated as Bush seems to be, or a rich low tax payer. I feel like im in a communist country with Bush in office. Dummy cant even pick a fight with the right terrorist group. I vote for mafia.....screw all these commie pigs that want us to live in a now UNFREE country.

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Just how uneducated do ya have to be,to be able to fly a fighter jet and graduate from one of the toughest colleges in the country ?

As for terrorists,they're all bad,no matter which 'group',they belong to...if you're so 'unfree',might I suggest,that you denounce your citizenship-and move to Canada or France - maybe Saudia Arabia(you'll have to convert to Islam first)-if ya don't love America..then by all means-leave Her.;)

either way we all(in the U.S.A.) will lose!!!

The fasci'crats of both the major parties are nothing but FASCISTS. Who am I voting for? DUH. Michael Badnarik. The only Presidential Candidate aligned with the Constitution. I am voting for people rights. No other man has the right to tell me what to do with the life granted to me by God, Nature and Evolution. He is nothing more than me and I am nothing more than him. No other man has the right to take God's, Nature's and Evolution's Rights from me. So throw my vote away?, you say. ROFL, Roll on the Floor Laughing, I will vote for Right, Rights, Peace, Property and Prosperity. To do other is to promote the current tyranny in cowardice. I'd rather 'poop' on my vote, eat it and die, than vote for either of those 2 fascists.

Ed Ward, MD

You'd think if you respected the source so much, you'd link to their site. :confused:

It was easy enough to find though -

http://www.wtmj.com/620programs/charliesykes/weblog.asp

Maybe, it's because the rest of the page would have shown the source to be obviously biased. ;)

Or maybe it's that at the bottom of the page it says -

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Below which is a link to this page -

http://www.wtmj.com/620misc/copyright.asp

Where at the bottom it clearly says -

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Guess you don't really respect that site, or this one, since it is possible that one of the many right winggers whose material you steal might love to bring down a pro marijuana site for violating their copyright.
:eek:

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Originally Posted by Rooisme1

Anyone that votes for Bush is either just as uneducated as Bush seems to be, or a rich low tax payer. I feel like im in a communist country with Bush in office. Dummy cant even pick a fight with the right terrorist group. I vote for mafia.....screw all these commie pigs that want us to live in a now UNFREE country.

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I'm voting for bush and I would have in 2002 if I woulda been the age of the majortiy. Take a nice look back through our history and gaze at the horror that the democrats have forced upon our people, from slavery right on through to paying for illegal immigrants to break our laws. It disgust me that anyone would want to be like those people, but hey, it gives me and people like me something to FIGHT! And fight I will. Hoorah motherf :mad: ker. goddamn pinko commie liberal scum.

we, as a country, need to seriously leave the rest of the world alone and focus on our own internal dysfunctions. Someday, I hope to be apart of the political machine.

anyhow...... if there where a better candidate than Bush he/she would get my vote, but there aint! the poor people that didnt get to debate don't have a chance in hell so I'm voting for the parties sake.

since the election was in 2000.
:p

And there weren't any Dems, Reps, or even a US when slavery started in the British colonies of North America.
:D

Looks like you studied real hard.
:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Bro DZ

from slavery right on through to paying for illegal immigrants to break our laws.

Ummmm, what are you talking about?

we, as a country, need to seriously leave the rest of the world alone

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Tell that to the guy you're voting for. Some where in Texas there's a village missing an idiot..he's living in Washington DC. I read that on a bumper sticker and I'm still laughing... :D

whoops, i meant 2000 but i was stoned, gimme a break LoL

and i know where the slave trade originated, but lets take a look see at the good ole civil war and what political parties had what to say about what shall we?

HAhaha, everyone was voting the obvious choice...off the beaten path I go
~007~

Lincoln said, he would keep slavery, abolish slavery, or do a half way measure, if it preserved the Union.

Keeping the U.S. whole was his objective, and fortunately the abolition of slavery was the result.

However, the Democrats led the fight for full civil rights for the decendants of slaves, as well as other persecuted segments of the population, while the Republicans resisted such efforts.

Both parties, though, continue to support the last of the Jim Crow Laws, namely the prohibition of marijuana.