Sally Sounding Like A War Hero?
Sally Field opines, “If mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamned wars…” Well, a couple of other moms have their own take on what Gidgit had to say!
“I’ve actually become a more violent person since I became a mother, If someone came between me and my kids, they’d be dead meat. So I didn’t agree with that particular statement.”
-Everybody Loves Raymond star Patricia Heaton
Motherhood and peacemaking are not synonymous. Motherhood requires ferocity, the will and resolve to protect one’s own children at all costs, and a lifelong commitment to sacrifice for a family’s betterment and survival. Conflict avoidance is incompatible with good mothering.
On the playground of life, Sally Field is the mom who looks the other way when the brat on the elementary-school slide pushes your son to the ground or throws dirt in your daughter’s face.
She’s the mom who holds her tongue at the mall when thugs spew profanities and make crude gestures in front of her brood. She’s the mom who tells her child never to point out when a teacher gets her facts wrong.
She’s the mom who buys her teenager beer, condoms, and a hotel room on prom night, because she’d rather give in than assert her parental authority and do battle.
She’s the mom whose minivan sports insipid bumper stickers preaching non-intervention at all costs: “Peace is patriotic.” “War is not the answer.” “It Will Be a Great Day When Our Schools Get All the Money They Need and the Air Force Has to Hold a Bake Sale to Buy a Bomber.”
Hollywood can afford to indulge Sally Field’s inarticulate naivete. America cannot. And the very moms that Sally Field claims to speak for know it.
-Michelle Malkin
My personal take is that mothers should not be taking the Lord’s name in vain where children of all ages are watching. But, I actually find some amusement in Mrs. Field’s choice of words, for a second there (with all those G-Bombs being dropped) I could have sworn that that was General George Patton receiving that Emmy!
Here is some more backhanded support from Hollywood:
Nick Broomfield, on his movie ‘Battle for Haditha.’
“I realized that these soldiers were very, very poor kids, who had all left school unbelievably early. It was the first time they had all been out of the United States . . . They had no idea what they were doing in Iraq, and they felt let down by the Marine Corps. It was hard to condemn them out of hand as cold-blooded killers.”
Woody Harrelson:
“This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House (you call them “hawks”, but I would never disparage such a fine bird) have hijacked a nation’s grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.”
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders:
“Have we gone to war yet? We f****** deserve to get bombed. Bring it on. Let’s get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!”
Jake Gyllenhaal about the Gulf War:
“The US soldiers were sent to the desert for 122 days and they sat in the same tent and did nothing, except a little too much masturbating.”
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