Chickenhawks --
They're Everywhere

These chickenhawks should be called "The Jabbering Platoon" -- because that's what they do best.  Each of the chickenhawks listed below has a serious case of diarrhea of the mouth.  And they jabber on and on and on whether or not they know what they are talking about -- which they usually do not.

Name: William "Bill" Bennett
Born: 1943
Employer: Empower America
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam

Bill's occupation used to be "public scold"  -- his books on "virtue" are best-sellers.  Of course, as with most rightwingers, he does not practice what he preaches.  Turns out that Mr. Virtues has a major gambling habit -- to the tune of losing several million dollars, rushing to Atlantic City casinos.  He has been in low profile since his gambling addiction was exposed, but, he's still a chickenhawk and a hypocrite. 

Name: Frank Gaffney
Born: 1953
Employer: Indeterminate
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam

Frank here is a very clever boy. Built a thing called the Center for Security Policy, which apparently keeps him in nice suits so he will look good in front of the TV cameras, which can't seem to get enough of him. As far as we can tell, Frank is a freelance salesman for the defense industry who is paid by an elaborately circuitous process. For all his obsession with the military, it's funny he never served.

Name: Rep. Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich (R-GA)
Born: June 17, 1943
Employer: Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam

A virtuoso in the art of hypocrisy, the former Speaker of the House now claims the Vietnam War was a splendid idea, but at the time he opposed going himself. Newtie also speaks highly of morality, but as a serial adulterer he doesn’t want to get too close to it himself.

Name: Sean Hannity
Born: December, 1961
Employer: Rupert Murdoch
Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm

Name: Rush Limbaugh
Born: 1951
Employer: Yack Radio
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam

Where to begin ... a joke about the Hindenburg? No, let's go right to the reason Rush gives for dodging the draft and avoiding military service in Vietnam -- Rush had an "anal cyst."  That's right, Rush avoided military service because of a pimple on his ass.  Well, with an ass that broad, I can see how the pimple would be a real problem. He's denied it, but www.snopes.com, the Urban Legends Reference Pages, has the goods on him.

Name: William "Bill" O'Reilly
Born: 1949
Employer: Rupert Murdoch
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam

 Bill O’Reilly loves to come off as a straight-talking, blue-collar kind of guy. Funny, a lot of guys who fit that description and graduated high school the same year he did - 1967 - went straight to Vietnam. Not our Bill - he went to college. And he didn’t just go to college, he spent his junior year, 1969-1970, in London. He graduated in 1971, briefly exposing him to the draft again, but Bill was miraculously spared.   Of course, there's another Bill -- Bill Clinton -- who did much the same thing -- stayed in school and avoided the draft -- but no one mentions that Bill O'Reilly did the same thing Bill Clinton is excoriated for doing.

Name: Michael Savage
Born: Unk.
Employer: UNK.
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam

Savage -- that's not his real name -- is a lunatic who has never had a real thought.  He's the chief screamer, accuser, and general wacko.

Name: Rep. Joseph "Joe" Scarborough (R-FL)
Born: April 9, 1963
Employer: MSNBC
Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm

A former Republican congressman (1995-2002) turned MSNBC motormouth, Joe qualifies as a politician and a barking head. Where were you during Desert Storm, pal?

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