If there is one group we should all be able to agree to admire, it’s the Blue Angels. The combination of grace, power, expertise, and raw guts displayed by this legendary team will make any sane citizen proud to be American. From the Official Blue Angels Site:
The Blue Angels’ mission is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting and to represent the naval service to the United States, its elected leadership and foreign nations. The Blue Angels serve as positive role models and goodwill ambassadors for the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps. A Blue Angels flight demonstration exhibits the choreographed refinements of Navy trained flying skills. It includes the graceful aerobatic maneuvers of the four-plane Diamond Formation, in concert with the fast-paced, high-performance maneuvers of its two solo pilots. Finally, the team illustrates the pinnacle of precision flying, performing maneuvers locked as a unit in the renowned, six-jet Delta Formation. Stationed during the show season at Forrest Sherman Field, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, the squadron spends the winter (January through March) training pilots and new team members at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California. The Blue Angels are scheduled to fly nearly 70 air shows at 34 locations in the United States and Canada during the 2004 season. Last season brought out more than 17 million spectators. Since its inception in 1946, the Blue Angels have performed for more than 381 million fans.
Awesome, am I right?
But today I learned on a tip from The MaryHunter that a cave full of kooks known as Veterans for Peace — Maine Chapter actually plans to protest against them on September 10 in Brunswick, Maine. These vermin are pleased to announce that they will be joined by the MSM’s beloved Anti-American of the Year, Mother Moonbat herself, Cindy Sheehan. Militant America-basher Kathy Kelly is also slated to participate in this righteous protest against “the false god idolatry of the Blue Angels Air Show.”
Congratulations, Blue Angels. With enemies like these, you have yet another reason to be proud.
Actually, this isn’t the first time the Blue Angels have met with the displeasure of moonbats. They aren’t very popular with Ann Pelo, author of a leftist propaganda manual for guidance in brainwashing preschool children entitled “That’s Not Fair!: A Teacher’s Guide to Activism with Young Children.”
Bernard Goldberg, in his highly recommended “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America,” ranks Pelo #51. He describes the section in what he calls her “Michael Moore for Toddlers” where she tells how she spun the Blue Angels to her class. Evidently she managed to convince the little kids that the Blue Angels might drop bombs on them.
Instead of the pride and awe healthy children would feel on seeing the Blue Angels, Pelo’s kids were taught to cringe in fear. This is moonbattery in a nutshell. The educrats at the National Association for the Education of Young Children have described her book as a resource “to change the world for the better.”
Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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So whats next, the Boy Scouts? Oh…um…Nevermind.
Comment by Morg173 — 8/30/2005 @ 7:21 pm
This is getting ridiculous. I grew up a couple of miles from a small airport that hosted an air show every year. I loved the Blue Angels. Eventually, however, the BAs stopped coming, something about the runway not being long enough at the airport. Hopefully the protest will backfire.
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Comment by Kris — 8/31/2005 @ 8:08 am
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