Band-Aid Lady photo

[ThatsMyBarack]

I've been curious about where that photo came from, and who is that lady exactly--you know, the Dubya fan with the purple-heart Band-Aid on her chin.

[hippiechick]

1. It was some idiot at the GOP convention in 2004 ...

... mocking Kerry's Purple Heart from Viet Nam.

Google is your friend. :Hi:

[Stephanie]

14. It wasn't just her, either

They were all wearing them. Hers just looked the stupidest, maybe because her looks are below average.

[babylonsister]

2. She appeared in all her glory at the RNC in 04. nt

[Debi]

3. Here ya go.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/09/07_purple.html

[Beaverhausen]

7. Wow! You're good!

Did you have that bookmarked?

[Debi]

10. No...it's the power of the internest

all those tubes and such!

(Okay, actually I just put Purple Heart Band Aid lady in my search engine and the DU link was the third one listed...figured it would have the most credibility here...at DU!!)

[BlueStorm]

33. The internest? n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

8. Thanks for sharing.

That lady seems like an evil person! :grr:

[Debi]

11. Trying to be kind during the holidays I think she was niave...foolish

maybe even stupid and definitely caught up in the moment of a national convention. :eyes:

Still, it was a dumb national move that she will never be able to live down.

[JanusAscending]

4. I'm not sure about that particular pic,

but they were all wearing them at the Republican National Convention. Didn't you watch it??? It always pays to keep your eyes on the enemy!!

[ThatsMyBarack]

6. No, I can't stomach that GOP stuff.

:puke:

[Rex]

5. You mean this scum monkey?

She supports the troops with her patriotic, purple band-aid. Go get em boys!

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. NICE PIC! Did you take it at a cattle auction?

She looks so republican.

[achtung_circus]

12. One of those buttons is Photoshopped. nt

[KansDem]

31. Yeah, but which one?

:shrug:

[achtung_circus]

32. Can't tell

they are all in character.

[LTR]

13. It's a man, baby!

[Warpy]

16. No, just an overprivileged suburban hog with

a lifetime of selfishness written all over her face.

[Bunny]

15. What a monster. n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. As a Purple Heart recipient, I am still

deeply offended by that woman, and indeed, the entire GOP.

[calimary]

23. As a civilian who never could have won a Purple Heart, I am still

equally offended by that woman. She thought she was SOOOOOO funny, that pat peale. What a disgrace. SO adorably funny besmirching an actual Vietnam War veteran who, despite his own connections and elite status still decided to go over there and wear his country's uniform into combat. What she actually did was besmirch YOU, WJMS, and everybody else like you who did the same thing - wear your country's uniform into combat and shed blood, come home with scars, maybe come home with shrapnel impossible to remove surgically, and that's if you're "lucky." So anxious to smack a real patriot, John Kerry, around so she has to shit on YOU, and everyone else who made the sacrifice you did, AND the Purple Heart itself.

Rot in HELL, pat peale. Same thing for all the other human excrement like her.

An ABSOLUTE disgrace. I am utterly disgusted by this - abomination, all over again. It doesn't even rate membership in the human race.

I'm sorry you even have to see shit like this, WannaJump. What a disease.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

25. And then on the other hand,

As much as I loathe her display, I have to admit it is, or it seems to me, to be protected speech just like flag burning, or effigy burning, and as such, I defend it.

I have defended it.

I even bled for it. I would do it again.

I guess I am conflicted.

[calimary]

26. Well, that IS a conflict, alright.

I guess when I'm not seething with anger remembering this, I regain some coherence and remember THAT, too.

But if I were to have to draw the line, it'd go straight through there.

BTW - thank you for your sacrifice. At least those of us HERE respect it.

[MH1]

29. It is protected speech, that is correct. PROTECTED BY

the very people she is insulting.

Yep, she has a right to do it.

As we have a right to call her out as the loathsome, selfish, ungrateful, veteran-hating scum that she is.

[Cheap_Trick]

18. what's the only thing shorter than a neo-con's dick?

the list of neo-con war heroes

[HughBeaumont]

19. That's Fat Pat Peale!!!

And yes, this pile of ass DESERVES the weight crack. Peale is a Texas Delegate who's been deep in Repuke politics for decades; I think she hosted a young Karl Rove for dinner once.

Wearing that thing insults EVERY combat veteran, who volunteered (and some who didn't) to be human targets.

It insults people like my grandfather, who spent his 19th year on Earth getting blown out of his bunk and down a flight of stairs at Pearl Harbor. Had he been in the wrong place at the wrong time, like thousands of others were that day, I wouldn't be sitting here typing this.

And you know what makes me SICK to my fucking stomach above all?

THEY. WON.

Karma needs to be kicking people like Fat Peale, Dick Cheney and that bloodthirsty shitheel running this country dead in their asses right now, but it isn't. He's going to last his term, and we're going to sit and take it, because any call for impeachment will result in the "partisan!" cry; any storm-and-torch revolution would result in the military firing on it's own citizens to protect corporate interests.

This shit mentality runs the country.

And this blob NEVER apologized or saw the inappropriateness of her actions.

[lumpy]

22. I hear ya' Hugh. Great passionate post.

What better description of Peale as simply, a blob.

[calimary]

24. I remember reading about It. It was one of those party operatives

who made sandwiches for the Texas republi-CON delegation as it was chasing and harassing and persecuting the Democrats who'd gone AWOL in an organized protest. The word "repulsive" doesn't even begin to describe It.

[HughBeaumont]

20. Here's a better photo of this pile of steershit . . .

[aaronbees]

21. That's just flippin' hideous

Ugly person, inside and out.

[ThatsMyBarack]

27. Butt-Ugly Fat Cow!

:puke: nuffsaid

[Javaman]

28. I would love to know her opinion of moron* now?

Wonder if she's still a part of the 25% brigade?

Some how I think she's pissed off and just wants to hide at any mention or showing of her dumb ass mug with that equally embarrassing piece of propaganda stuck to her face.

read my tag line...

[MH1]

30. Recommended, because as certain photos make the rounds, let's remember

who REALLY disrespects the troops.

And this veteran would eat lunch any day with John Kerry, but this woman I wouldn't have anything to do with.