Dennis the Menace
I love Dennis the Peasant. Loved him in the movie ("Come see the violence inherent in the system!"), love his blog.
He actually can dive into the deep end of the Net's extreme left cesspools, and come up smiling. Better him than me! He revels in Ward Churchill's prose like my parents' dog rolls in dead rat. I'd be puking in 15 minutes.
But it pays off because he comes back with gem after gem, and his presentation of them is deadly funny.
Here, he's learned that Churchill credits his activism against all things America to his experience pulling the trigger in Vietnam. It's all his bid to make good, you see, on the horrible things he participated in as a paratrooper in Nam.
Trouble is, his claims about his war record are, well, a tad exaggerated. What did he do in the war? Dennis will tell you:
He actually can dive into the deep end of the Net's extreme left cesspools, and come up smiling. Better him than me! He revels in Ward Churchill's prose like my parents' dog rolls in dead rat. I'd be puking in 15 minutes.
But it pays off because he comes back with gem after gem, and his presentation of them is deadly funny.
Here, he's learned that Churchill credits his activism against all things America to his experience pulling the trigger in Vietnam. It's all his bid to make good, you see, on the horrible things he participated in as a paratrooper in Nam.
Trouble is, his claims about his war record are, well, a tad exaggerated. What did he do in the war? Dennis will tell you:
About the only thing the Wardmeister could come up to reconcile actual training as a projectionist and claimed training as a paratrooper would be to insist that he was parachuted behind enemy lines to show hygiene films to selected units of the Viet Cong. I’m not sure even John Kerry could get that one out without laughing. Not that he wouldn’t try, though, if he thought it’d get him 140,000 additional votes in Ohio.
So now we find the key to Ward Churchill: The fake trauma of his fake combat record in Vietnam. It’s the “foundational” (foundational?) reason for him trying to make the world a better place by being a fake Indian, fake professor, fake scholar and fake revolutionary while pulling down a six-figure salary provided by the "little Eichmanns" of the world.
In an odd way, it seems to make sense.
