Yawn. Salon raised a few hackles last fall by tweeting the edict to “Stop worshiping men in uniform,” just in time for Veterans Day. That was Salon’s 2014 observation of the day, which the magazine solemnly celebrated in 2013 with a piece called, “Don’t thank the troops for me.”
Remarkably, Salon keeps tracking down different writers in an attempt to drive home the same anti-military message. The site’s latest salvo? A call to abolish West Point. “Our military academies aren’t filled with best and brightest. They are a boondoggle, on your dime, and serve no one,” reads the subhead.
The occasion? The swearing in of the new Republican-dominated House and Senate, which has writer Bruce Fleming calling the service academies “poster boys of the out-of-control entitlement programs Republicans say they hate.” So let’s forget about repealing Obamacare and focus on the real problem, OK?
And if anyone's an expert on not being best & brightest…. #LookinAtYouSalon RT @freddoso: Salon gonna Salon pic.twitter.com/b445ICclDu
— ??Island Of Mushfit Toys?? (@MushKat) January 5, 2015
@MushKat @freddoso These days I think @Salon is just trying to one-up @Salondotcom.
— Chris McKeever (@TheRealMcKeever) January 5, 2015
@freddoso the folks at Salon sit around thinking of how to punk America. Much like their Dear Leader.
— Shawn Hairston (@JetJacket) January 5, 2015
@freddoso @Slublog Sounds a lot like Columbia and Harvard Law…
— phreshoneTX (@phreshoneTX) January 5, 2015
@freddoso We'd be much better of by abolishing Harvard
— Dillon (@000Dillon000) January 5, 2015
@freddoso @Slublog @Salon Let's wish for rainbow cloud farting Unicorns, Salon. Both are equally likely . . .
— The Left Ruins Everything (@R_Optimist) January 5, 2015
@freddoso @Slublog As much as I despise officers, I think the military should have a mix of Academy grads, ROTC and 90 day wonders.
— Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) January 5, 2015
@freddoso @salon coulda just said, "too many white men, yucky." Hate troops but occupation protected by bill of rights protected by troops?
— RtWngXtremist (@RtWngXtremist) January 5, 2015
@Salon takes foolish aim @USNA and its 7 Attributes http://t.co/cE792kTW8Q Part of my response @ http://t.co/gR4549aT6i @USNavy @USMC #Navy
— MartinEdwinAndersen (@InsightCaptain) January 6, 2015
@freddoso didn't read Salon on principle, but there IS a conservative case for doing this, made by Edward Luttwak, ca. 1980
— Victor Morton (@vjmfilms) January 5, 2015
We’ll check that out, and while we’re doing that, the editors at Salon can consider this proposal.
“@freddoso: Salon gonna Salon pic.twitter.com/9aXLNjaOIw” Let's abolish Salon.
— Gail Abramson (@GailAbramson) January 5, 2015
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