I wouldn’t have even bothered with this subject had my jaw not dropped two feet as I heard a guest on FOX NEWS grunting about the families of the mentally disabled being upset over the movie Tropic Thunder. The R word is used 17 times in the flick, while the N word is spoken only once. What made me stop in my tracks was that the speaker (sorry, I was flipping channels and didn’t catch who it was) brought up General Wesley Clark. Remember, a few weeks ago the General said that just being shot down doesn’t automatically qualify a person to be Commander-in-Chief.

Where was the outrage? Well, my guess is that these folks had better things to do than worry about what one politician said about another. My guess is that these two situations don’t really have a hell of a lot in common in the first place. My guess is that the only people who were outraged were McCain supporters who had to realise that General Clark was right.

Take the Russian invasion of Georgia, McCain’s perfect “three o’clock phone-call” moment. John McCain is going off half-cocked in full sabre-rattle mode, even though we don’t have troops to send over there thanks to the Surge, even though we need Russia’s help to cope with Iran’s nuclear program, and even though we have no moral authority since we invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq five years ago, with John McCain’s blessing.

I think what the guy on FOX NEWS was trying to get at was that we have free speech, and if you don’t want to see a movie where the mentally-challenged, or to be more exact, the actors who play the mentally-challenged, are satirized pretty harshly, don’t see it. Bringing Wesley Clark’s comments might not have been the smartest thing to do. Then again, Robert Downey Jr. in black-face was probably not a great idea either…