To my face

Thanks to Mr Wolf for sending a link to my interview with Columbia Journalism Review.

Not all veterans are in agreement. Jonn Lilyeah blogged about Scott Olsen on his This Ain’t Hell page:

Now, the hippies get to hide behind Olsen’s broken body and make a martyr of him…someone they would have spit on a few weeks ago and called a baby-killer. Scott, if you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Lilyea says he “feels bad that Olsen was injured,” but is ambivalent about who was responsible for his injury: “He was standing between people throwing rocks and the cops.” But the real issue is that Olsen is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace. “Those groups represent the opposite of what I believe in,” says Lilyea, “The focus of my blog is to try and give people a better view of what veterans are, rather than people like Scott Olsen.”

What I really said was TAH is about calling peole idiots, because I don’t think they know they’re idiots, and I’m the only one doing it. I said that IVAW and VFP were only using Olsen’s bloody shirt to reise money. But apparently she didn’t want to say that outloud.

I also asked where the concern was for Jose Guerena when Dupnik’s SWAT Association murdered the Marine Iraq veteran, Of course, she didn’t know what I was talking about nor did she look it up.

Iguess I’ll never learn to that the media isn’t going to gt the story that no one else is doing, only the story that makes them feel good about themselves. I keep hoping that they’ll keep quoting what I say instead of what they want to hear.

Not bad for a guy with just one eye, huh?

Category: I hate hippies, Media, Occupy