Another wingnut vomits the contents of someone else's stomach

Guess who's blogging. Lieutenant Chickenhawk himself, WTIC's Jim Vicevich.

I guess it proves a few things:
- Vicevich doesn't have an original idea in his head
- Blogs are like assholes, everyone seems to have one
- Assholes are like blogs, it doesn't take an expert to create a pile of shit
- Like most right wingnuts, Vicevich deals in innuendo already proven false
- Like most right wingnuts, his sources are beyond ridiculous (Drudge, Powerline, the NY Post, the Washington Times)
- Like most wingnuts, he's willing to go with the innuendo, go with the unsubstantiated rumor, go with the White House press release
- That Vicevich is as dense as cyprus and as shallow as skim ice
- That this Chickenhawk is chickenshit - he doesn't allow comments on his site, not even moderated comments
- That he likely doesn't understand the irony in his blog title: Radio Vice Online (or that the term "online" is sooooo 1990's)
- That Vicevich has bought into the biggest myths of the Bush administration ("Love him or hate him, President Bush did not lie ... Read the following articles.")
- That he needs a little help with the resume, e.g. "With 6 Emmy nominations.." means the same thing as "never won an Emmy," doesn't it?
- That as a Christian, a smoker, a zealot, and one of the very few right-wing radio hosts, Vicevich feels persecuted in a blue state
- That he is "with it" on the whole "internets" thing

Good luck Jim. Pinocchio made it, though I can't cite a ventriloquist's dummy who ever found his own voice.

They just want to do the job?

Two Connecticut chickenhawks, Creepy Joe Lieberman, and conservative radio stammerer, Jim Vicevich have been saying for weeks, "The surge has just begun. Give the troops the chance to do the job. They just want to accomplish their mission."

Well, boys, I think you got it wrong, again.

They not only do not want to stay, in large numbers, their families are dropping support for this endless war, and the warriors themselves are weary.

"Give the American soldier a break...."

Yes, that's exactly what Senator Creepy Joe Lieberman said yesterday. Though he didn't mean it in the way you and I might expect. He was saying something like: Give them a break. Let them do the job they were sent there to do. Let them be blown to bits by roadside bombs. Let them suffer through extended deployments. Let them be wounded and maimed for life. Look, as long as it isn't me.

I heard chickenhawk blowhard Jim Vicevich at the end of his WTIC radio show yesterday saying the same kind of thing. Both of these cowards never served, but are willing to offer up the blood of these sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, who volunteer out of a sense of duty.

Both of these cowards maintains that they are the voice of the soldier. Both claim that the soldiers want to do their job.

Here's what troubles me.

First of all, both of these know-it-alls, bases his understanding of what a soldier wants by talking to a handful of military men and women. That's anecdotal, and certainly not conclusive. No single soldier, nor small group, speaks for the entirety of those in the military on any side of the issue.

Secondly, it's already been demonstrated that military personnel do not feel they can be forthcoming to a visiting Senator.

Third, our radio show host seeks out military personnel who agree with his point of view. He has often disconnected veterans who disagree with him. In the case of our senator, there are several Iraq veterans who say that the cause is futile. He just can't bear to hear them.

Fourth, what do both of these geniuses expect. In training, military recruits are trained to forgo individuality for the sake of his/her comrades and their mission. I would expect that most soldiers would support the mission, or suffer the consequences.

Fifth, much documented information has shown that many military, and their families are fed up. And this isn't something that just started happening yesterday. Many service men and women have lost faith in their leaders because these leaders have not supported them with the right equipment, the right medical and mental health care, nor the right mission.

Sixth, the re-enlistment rate is apparently high. But I've heard that many soldiers re-up because they feel they are abandoning their brothers-in-arms, if they don't. It's a commitment to their friends at risk, and not to the mission or their commander-in-chief. Lieberman also doesn't mention the huge financial incentives offered by the military to re-up.

These two bloodthirsty, delusional chickenhawks need to give it a rest, and really give the American soldier a break.

You cannot lead where you will not go

I was on my way to Paul Higgins funeral, and god help me, I had Jim Vicevich on the radio talking to Republican lobbyist Ron Kaufman about the recent defection of Republican congressmen from the Bush Iraq policy.

Let's set aside all the inaccuracies, all the bellicose posturings, all the peculiar innuendo and all the lies that were being spewed, and focus on Vicevich's mock horror.

"How could they do this?" Vicevich howled in dismay. "Is this courage?" He was distraught because the troops would not be "allowed" to finish the job they were sent to do. He went on to say that he would never enlist to fight in a war that he wasn't given the opportunity to finish.

Truth is, he never enlisted at all, ever, even when he had the opportunity to do so. Vicevich is a chickenhawk of the purebread variety. Ready to send young men and women to fight for his "philosophy" as long as they are not related to him. (His own grown children are not in the military either). He stands behind his "friends" the soldiers, whom he exploits to get ratings on his pitiful methane-fest of a radio show.

Imagine the temerity of such a chickenhawk to question someone else's courage. Remind you of a certain commander-in-chief?

When I got to the funeral, I looked up at a banner which read: "You cannot lead where you will not go," and all I could think of was Vicevich and Bush (okay, Creepy Joe Lieberman came to mind too). It's ironically very similar to a campaign speech Bush gave during the last election campaign (read in its entirety it is ironical to the core), but the point was completely different.

These guys are the kind of leaders who stand at the rear lines and yell, "Charge!"

A man's life is at stake

A few days ago I had another of those, "almost drove off the road" moments when I heard WTIC's official local chickenhawk Jim Vicevich fretting over Scooter Libby's sentence and declaring, "A man's life is at stake."

Why did this not occur to any of these conservative scriptreaders when the thought of "a man's life being at risk" might have been enough to cause second thoughts about invading Iraq.

Bill Moyers has an appropriate answer, and he tips his hat to the Hartford Courant's editorial board, who after all endorsed George Bush twice, and Joe Lieberman frequently.

Who you calling a redneck?

Conservative radio ranter Jim Vicevich at WTIC AM has made it a practice of chastising Northern Liberals of looking down at Southerners. In one of his typical straw man generalizations he has spouted that elite educated East Coast yankees see Southerners as stupid hicks.

Strange then, when at the end of his show yesterday, he was talking about the sentencing of Mary Winkler by Tennessee Judge Weber McGraw and he lapsed into a simpleton's Southern drawl when speaking in the "voices" of Winkler and McGraw. You see, Vicevich disagrees with the jury's conviction on voluntary manslaughter, and the judge's reduced sentence because, Winkler based her defense on spousal abuse.

I guess when Buddy Vicevich disagrees with Southerners, they're stupid Rednecks. How delightfully inconsistent.

Brawwwwwk! Let's not forget Creepy Joe, Chris "Shameless" Shays and WTIC's Jim Devisive-ich

Lieberman, Shays and Vicevich are Connecticut's most noteworthy chickenhawks. Shall we sing along. Call Vicevich and dare to call him on his non-existent service record and you'll hear him sputter twice as much as he usually does.