Monday, September 29, 2008

"I'm Melting! Melting!"


Once again, heinous right-wing eye-roller Michelle Malkin is wrong.

Big shock, huh?

Here's her headline:

Uhhhhh: Family doesn’t want Obama wearing troop bracelet Updated

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 28, 2008 10:57 AM
Malkin, who wouldn't know responsible journalism if it crawled up her leg and bit her in the ass, added the red "Updated" wording after Tracy Jopek acknowledged the thrill surrounding Obama's wearing of her son's military bracelet , and the truth was reported. 
The disingenuous half-baked blogger and FOX News nostril-flarer accused the Associated Press of being "Obama water-carriers" for doing their job by covering a story that people like her helped demagogue in the first place, and merely for reporting the truth.
So, here is that truth:










From the
AP:

The mother of a Wisconsin soldier who died in Iraq says she was "ecstatic" when Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama mentioned during Friday's debate the bracelet she gave him in honor of her son.

Tracy Jopek of Merrill told The Associated Press on Sunday she was honored that Obama remembered Sgt. Ryan David Jopek, who was killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb.

Jopek criticized Internet reports suggesting Obama, D-Ill., exploited her son for political purposes.

"I don't understand how people can take that and turn it into some garbage on the Internet," she said.

Jopek acknowledged e-mailing the Obama campaign in February asking that the presidential candidate not mention her son in speeches or debates. But she said Obama's mention on Friday was appropriate because he was responding after Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, said a soldier's mother gave him a bracelet.

"I've got a bracelet, too, from Sergeant — from the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek, given to me in Green Bay," Obama said during the debate. "She asked me, 'Can you please make sure another mother is not going through what I'm going through?' No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided."

Jopek says Obama's comment rightfully suggested there's more than one viewpoint on the war.

But, hey, Michelle, what would a military Mom know about that?

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