In an email blast to subscribers Code Pink plays an April Fool’s joke and doesn’t mind using the fact that Sarah Palin’s son is currently serving his country overseas as their punchline:
Dear Matt,
We never thought it would happen, but Sarah Palin has joined forces with CODEPINK! “My eyes have been opened, goshdarnit,” she told us. “As a mother, it suddenly hit me that war is bad for children all around the world, you know what I mean? I want my son, Track, to come home from Iraq, and I don’t want him to be sent to Afghanistan, either, doggonit.” We asked if she would come to Washington, DC for our Mother’s Day peace vigil and she winked and said “You betcha-I still have a pretty snazzy pink suit, thanks to the RNC!” She even cancelled a moose hunting trip just to join us!
APRIL FOOLS!
But we have invited comedy writer, actor and mother Tina Fey, who played Sarah Palin so brilliantly on Saturday Night Live, to stand with us in front of the White House on Mother’s Day weekend, May 9 and 10. Won’t you join us, too? Check out our rockin’ Mother’s Day page for more info!
Sweet, right? But no, Code Pink isn’t partisan, you know.
You’d never know that Obama and the Democrats are in power now and that they’re the ones keeping troops in Iraq and actually putting more troops in Afghanistan. I’ll wait for the email that mocks Michelle Obama and her daughters.
As Code Pink thinks it’s OK to use the troops as part of a joke, CMR will delve into its quote vault and respond with the words of Col. Jessup from “A Few Good Men”:
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have more responsibility here than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. I know deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you don’t want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then question the manner in which I provide it. I prefer you said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand to post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
‘Nuff said.
I’ll be over here waiting for the email from Code Pink that mocks Obama and his family.
April 1, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Um, sport – you do realize your quote is from the bad guy in that movie? The one who was willing to send two of the men in his command to life in prison rather than tarnish his own career? The evil one.
April 1, 2009 at 8:51 pm
SD- I was just thinking before I read your quote (while doing my best Jack Nicholson impression including the flying spittle at words like “grotesque”) that it is WAY too unfortunate that that speech was given by the bad guy.
April 1, 2009 at 9:15 pm
And I’d better wipe the spittle off the screen.
April 1, 2009 at 9:39 pm
It’s “You WANT me on that wall,” not “you don’t want me on that wall.”
Just sayin’.
April 1, 2009 at 10:05 pm
As a wife of a soldier headed to Afghanistan this fall, I’m just completely disgusted.
My husband would love you using that quote even if it was from the bad guy.
April 1, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Marines still love the quote. In context, Nicholson’s character was a bad guy- willing to let his Marines take the hit for him, willing to let a Marine get killed and cover it up -in a word, scum. But the speech nails it.
Semper Fi!
S. Murphy
April 1, 2009 at 10:39 pm
There’s always the (attributed) George Orwell quotation:
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
April 1, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Code Pink–just what I would expect from these people: http://digihairshirt.blogspot.com/2009/04/bras-not-guns.html
April 2, 2009 at 12:28 am
Gary is right on the quote edit btw, but otherwise I LOVE that quote.
April 2, 2009 at 1:15 am
I know it’s a bad guy but in movies bad guys often have the best quotes.
And the quote is awesome.
April 2, 2009 at 3:30 pm
One of the stupidest things about movies in general (and that movie in particular) is that Jessup turns out to be the bad guy, and the Leaping Mini-Clam Tom Snooze is the smug, simpering hero. Yelling at battle-hardened Marines breaks them down! Behold the righteousness of my speechifying! URRRGH. (And don’t forget Captain Keifer Sutherland – who eventually escaped from Kevin Bacon and became Jack Bauer.)
I like to edit that movie in my head, and at the end Jessup says, “Of course I didn’t order the ‘Code Red,’ you nitwit. It was that cowardly second-in-command you called to give false evidence against me, who killed himself rather than clear my name and absolve these two brave young men you’re defending. I took those unlogged flights while conducting my own investigation into matters on my base. Had you bothered to ask instead of assuming your own moral superiority, we could have saved ourselves a lot of useless posturing. If the court will excuse me, I have a wall to defend, and I need my two Marines back.”