This Makes Me Sick
You know, there are a lot of stupid arrogant people out there in this world and sometimes their stories just make me sick to my stomach. It was because of these people that I shake my head at everyday that I decided to use the phrase "If Only Stupidity Was Painful" at the top of my page.
Ok, we all know the miraculous story of Jessica Lynch by now. You know, the 19 year old female soldier who was captured by Iraqi troops and hospitalized only to be rescued by a group of heroic American soldiers. The media clamped onto this like a bunch of barnacles and wouldn't let go. Jessica turned into an icon for America... a symbol of all that is wonderful about the troops even being there in the first place and I swear CNN started to sound like it was owned by Walt Disney. Sure I have to admit, many brave people risked their lives to rescue Jessica and I am not trying to take away from that at all. What pisses me off is that after all the effort was taken place to get her home safely she snubs the people that helped her.
It was recently reported on the TV news that one of the "main" soldiers that rescued Jessica from that hospital was now infact back in America himself. He was eager to see her again and wanted to arrange a time for them to meet, however, a statement released by her spokesperson said that Jessica was too busy to meet him but hoped to do so in the near future. Too busy?? Too busy to spend 10 minutes with a man who was partly responsible for saving your dumb ass? If it weren't for him she'd be too busy pushing daisies out in the middle of some foreign wasteland and nothing more than a statistic but she has the nerve to say she's too busy??
What really tops all this off is that TV is promoting an upcoming episode of "Dateline" as the first time Jessica talks about what REALLY happened in Iraq. Now, you know damn well that her and her publicists went to every damn network trying to sell this interview to the highest bidder and to do all that while making the guy who saved her sorry carcass speak with "her people" just turns the stomach for me.
This story had such a huge potential for a fairy tale ending of a great American story, and for some I'm sure it still does but for me, I could care less about her.
Ok, we all know the miraculous story of Jessica Lynch by now. You know, the 19 year old female soldier who was captured by Iraqi troops and hospitalized only to be rescued by a group of heroic American soldiers. The media clamped onto this like a bunch of barnacles and wouldn't let go. Jessica turned into an icon for America... a symbol of all that is wonderful about the troops even being there in the first place and I swear CNN started to sound like it was owned by Walt Disney. Sure I have to admit, many brave people risked their lives to rescue Jessica and I am not trying to take away from that at all. What pisses me off is that after all the effort was taken place to get her home safely she snubs the people that helped her.
It was recently reported on the TV news that one of the "main" soldiers that rescued Jessica from that hospital was now infact back in America himself. He was eager to see her again and wanted to arrange a time for them to meet, however, a statement released by her spokesperson said that Jessica was too busy to meet him but hoped to do so in the near future. Too busy?? Too busy to spend 10 minutes with a man who was partly responsible for saving your dumb ass? If it weren't for him she'd be too busy pushing daisies out in the middle of some foreign wasteland and nothing more than a statistic but she has the nerve to say she's too busy??
What really tops all this off is that TV is promoting an upcoming episode of "Dateline" as the first time Jessica talks about what REALLY happened in Iraq. Now, you know damn well that her and her publicists went to every damn network trying to sell this interview to the highest bidder and to do all that while making the guy who saved her sorry carcass speak with "her people" just turns the stomach for me.
This story had such a huge potential for a fairy tale ending of a great American story, and for some I'm sure it still does but for me, I could care less about her.
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