The other night driving home from work, I heard something which made my blood boil. I flicked the radio on and punched the AM button in the hope of finding some talk radio station interesting enough to keep me awake on the trip home from a long day at the dealership.
Because of crappy reception and poor timing, the only thing I was able to pick up was Michael Savage. Ordinarily I can't handle listening to him because he comes across as an obnoxious know-it-all whiner. That and his tendency to ramble on and on about how everyone he disagrees with are vermin, rats, rodents, pests, psychos, etc all the while griping at his studio engineer to throw on some oldies rock.
Being familiar with his schtick, I more or less ignored him for the bulk of my trip until he started talking about the British seamen who'd been captured by Iranians. He went on for several minutes about how they were traitors, losers, sissies, and every other name his venomous, crotchety old mind could cook up.
He worked himself into a near orgasmic frenzy of hate, criticizing them for appearing in videos released by the Iranians, cooperating with their captors, and every other act imaginable except, quite possibly, breathing.
I'd like to see that whining SOB in a similar situation and see exactly how he responds. Let's see him, blindfolded and thinking he's about to be shot, tell his captors to go to hell. That'd never happen in a million years. His snivelling ass would be in the fetal position begging for his miserable life the second he heard a bolt being drawn back. It's easy to talk smack when you've got a million braindead radio listeners ready to kiss your ass no matter what you say. It's also easy to talk smack about people with guns to their heads...until you have a gun to yours.
So what if they cooperated. They were in a hopeless situation. Resistance would have meant death, and they knew that. They lived to fight another day.
Maybe Savage can turn off his emotions as easily as he's able to turn off his brain cells, but these young people did what I suspect most anyone would do. They survived, and in the military, isn't that considered a desirable outcome?
