[lbo-talk] Marc Cooper and the myths that vets make up about being spat on

[Stephen E Philion]

An interesting phenomenon over at Marc Cooper's blog comments section.
In a comments section for a post on the Swift Boat Vets controversy, I
made a quip about Oneill likely claiming to have been spat on at some
point down the road. A rightwinger then angrily claimed to have been a
vet and proceeded to recount his own tale of being 'spat on'. I picked
apart his bogus story and Cooper went ballistic, insisting that if the
guy said he was spat on, then by golly he was spat on!  Then another
rightwing prowar fella shows up and makes up an even goofier story about
being spat on by a girl in the New Orleans Airport!!  I took that
bizarre tale apart and then Cooper chimed in again about the big
'divisions' in the antiwar movement with one side [the good guys]
sympathizing with the vets and the other sides [the bad guys] hating the
'baby killers'...He then thanked the two vets for their service and
apologized for their being jeered back when.  

I would like everyone to know that I have just remembered being spat on
as a vet back in the vietnam war, i was spat on by a flower girl when I
met with General Westmoreland in 1969 on the front lawn of the
whitehouse, and the marines and secret service were afraid to do
anything for fear that they might get beat up by her. Days of rage.