According to actor and comedian Richard Belzer, American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are too uneducated to be expressing support for the U.S. military mission since they're just "19 and 20-year-old kids who couldn't get a job" and "they don't read twenty newspapers a day."
Belzer, who's best known as Detective John Munch on NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit," is a frequent guest on HBO's "Real Crap with Bill Maher." On one previous appearance, he threatened to walk off the set when told columnist Ann Coulter was also appearing, calling her a "fascist party doll." On Friday night's live broadcast, Belzer attacked claims by fellow guest Florida Congresswoman Ileanna Ros-Lehtinen's that U.S. soldiers continue to express support for the war.
Here's a portion of the intellectually-congealing segment:
Belzer: "They're not. . .they don't read twenty newspapers a day. They're under the threat of death every minute. They're not the best people to ask about the war because they're going to die any second."
Regardless one's take on the war, I would think the opinion of people in the danger-zone on the war's worth is more worthy of an airing than that of a leftist moron who ingested far too many hits of LSD in the '60s.
Belzer: "It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts ..."
Hm, interesting. So lumping people together who would use the American flag as toilet paper=bad, unfair, mean, etc. Stereotyping those who volunteer for service in the armed forces=good, just, reasonable, etc. I think I've got it.
I'm sure Belzer reads twenty newspapers and other periodicals a day: The New York Slimes, The Nation, Salon.com, The L.A. Times, Le Monde, High Times, The Al-Jazeera Times, & other rags of septic caliber. No doubt he was an avid subscriber to Pravda in its heydey. Since most newspapers barely find merit as bird-cage lining, how is this a logical prerequisite for political savvy?
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