Max Blumenthal of The Nation is my new hero. In fact, anyone who exposes College Republicans as smarmy warmongers who mysteriously can’t enlist because of "asthma" or "bad knees," is my hero. But Blumenthal has taken it to a new level with a video he produced and released yesterday on Huffington Post.
The video depicts his covert infiltration of the recent College Republican convention in Arlington, Virginia. In it, he goes around engaging College Republicans about the War on Terror. He first has them explain why it’s so important to fight, before going on to ask them why they’re not serving overseas themselves.
This is some top-notch video entertainment. If it weren’t so clearly terrifying that people actually think like this, it would be hilarious. Only it’s real.
And what I find totally ironic is this: While the corrupt and bellicose coward Tom DeLay was invited to speak before the College Republicans, the Young Democrats of America (this very weekend) had General Wesley Clark and VoteVets chairman Jon Soltz address cheering crowds. Weird, huh?
Here’s Blumenthal’s video: