Flyboy GW giving the victory salute has long been a part of our blog, over there in the left column with the caption "Because of, not in spite of, stupid!" (left). We were delighted to see that Lucianne's crew has been paying attention to sisu, having lifted the image with our signature Photoshopped enhancements intact, for their picture of the day (right).
Looky here. Lucianne has lifted our photoshop-enhanced image of GW in flyboy mode from his much maligned "Mission Accomplished" moment giving the victory salute after a tailhook landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln May 1, 2003. It isn't just a generic image picked up from the internet. Note exact cropping, together with our signature thin black outline and "outer glow" shadow around the image. We couldn't agree with her more, though, that "It's time for one of these!" Lots of fun stuff out there this weekend re potential backfiring of the Democrats' "Big Lie" tactics designed to fool some of the people some of the time. A delicious Sunday dinner's worth of mind nourishment from the usual suspects, including our special blogfriend TigerHawk, who blesses the blogosphere with one of his awesome tours de force, this time an extended cogitation on "the difference between moral and immoral dissent in a limited war," cast in terms of cost/benefit analysis:
Dissenters whose primary objective is to change American policy concerning the war are, by and large, dissenting legitimately. They are appropriately balancing the costs of the dissent -- the promotion of the enemy's victory conditions -- with its function in our system.
However, there is a lot of anti-war dissent that is primarily motivated by other objectives, or which uses methods that are designed not to persuade Americans that policy should be changed, but to interfere with the fighting of the war. Dissenters who are actually furthering some unrelated political objective or simply working out their personal rage may be acting lawfully -- the First Amendment is very powerful mojo -- but they are not acting legitimately. It is not legitimate to damage our war effort and undermine our soldiers because you hate George Bush, want to protect Roe v. Wade, are ideologically opposed to all war, believe that the United States needs to be cut down to size, want to bolster the fortunes of a particular Democratic candidate or Democrats in general, believe that the State Department has been disrespected, believe that the Pentagon is inept and corrupt, or want to discredit Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
Be sure to go over and join the thousands of InstaPundit readers who have followed Glenn Reynolds's advice, and read the whole thing.
Update: Iterations rule. A lovely TigerHawkLanche.
Thank you most kindly!
And congratulations (I think) on the Lucianne bust. Heh.
Posted by: TigerHawk | November 13, 2005 at 08:19 PM
Does this fall under "imitation is the best form of flattery" or is it just a lazy theft of a great picture? Well, either way, I guess it will all work out in the long run.
Yea, we need another "great moment" or maybe one a month to counter the treasonous media.
Health to you.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
Posted by: Papa Ray | November 14, 2005 at 12:13 AM