FIRST they backed Saddam against his victims. Now our cultural elite backs terrorists against Douglas Wood, the Australian they kidnapped.
You say I exaggerate?
I reply: Andrew Jaspan.
Jaspan is editor-in-chief of The Age, Australia's most Left-wing daily newspaper, and on ABC radio on Wednesday said how "boorish" and "coarse" Wood was at his press conference this week when he called his captors "a---holes".
You might wonder whether Jaspan, the Englishman whose paper on that same day published a big picture on page one of naked girls from Big Brother, has the right to call anyone else "coarse".
But far more shocking was his apparent demand that Wood be more grateful to the men who'd snatched him, kicked him in the head, kept him blindfolded and bound for 47 days, shaved him bald, killed two of his colleagues, made him beg for his life, and -- says a fellow hostage from Sweden -- shot several other prisoners in front of him.
Let's run the tape.
Said Jaspan: "I was, I have to say, shocked by Douglas Wood's use of the a---hole word, if I can put it like that, which I just thought was coarse and very ill-thought through and I think demeans the man and is one of the reasons why people are slightly sceptical of his motives and everything else.
"The issue really is largely, speaking as I understand it, he was treated well there. He says he was fed every day, and as such to turn around and use that kind of language I think is just insensitive." The ingrate.
The terrorists in Iraq are murderous cowards. They kidnap people and hold them hostage while seeking to extort a ransom from that person's home government. A ransom that will fund their global jihad aimed at putting the entire world under extreme Islamic rule. This in addition to the fact that they sometimes chop the heads off of victims and launch terror attacks that kill thousands of innocent civilians each year not the least of which were the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in this country.
Yet, despite all that, one of the hostages taken by these villains can't call his captors an asshole because its insensitive? No wonder these people are so willing to believe Gitmo/gulag and Republican/Nazi comparisons. They have no sense of perspective.
And, frankly, some of them are clearly playing for the other side.
(via Protein Wisdom)