For those of us who are interested in the restoration of our country, the task goes beyond demographics and strategy. We have a culture that is rotting from within. This girl is part of the “trophy for showing up” generation that was taught to worship at the altar of their own self esteem. Thus, the notion of shame is a foreign one. Conversely, the value of the dignity of making your own way is also a foreign one, which is why people voted for Obama simply because they got a free govt phone out of the deal.

We’ve chained ourselves by our own narcissism, and until we can learn to value the intangibles again, including the recognition that our freedoms come from God, I don’t see how our country can be restored. Those intangibles are the glue that holds our liberties together.

A fine piece of writing – though somewhat restrained considering the subject matter. Unfortunately, Lindsey is not likely to grasp your subtlety.

Interesting, Stacy.

You found time to write all this. Yet, this past August when my oldest brother, a decorated Vietnam veteran, passed away you never found the time while gallivanting about with Ali Akbar to so much as express condolences.

Guess doing so wouldn’t generate as much blog traffic as piling on this story.

She is really disgusting.

Jerry, you idiot, what you call “gallivanting about with Ali Akbar” was, in fact, me doing my job — covering the Republican National Convention. And the time at which you decided to go all apeshit on me just happened to be while my car was breaking down on my way out of Tampa. It took me three days to get back home. I never even saw the message about your brother’s death before you began denouncing me for having failed to acknowledge it.

I was hurt and mystified by your hateful rage toward me, but chose to ignore it, figuring your grief and other personal frustrations had gotten the better of you. But for you to come here, three months later, and insult me all over again? To denigrate my arduous campaign travels as “gallivanting,” as though it were all one big whoop-di-do undertaken for my own amusement?
Here’s a clue, Jerry: I work real hard to make it look like I’m just goofing around. Put on a fun show. Laugh at my misfortunes. Post pictures of myself partying down with celebrities.
People enjoy it. Makes ‘em smile. Gives them a reason to click on their computers: “What the hell has that crazy guy gotten himself into today?”
Long time ago, when I was fighting The Great LGF War, some people criticized my methods, and I said, “Just because you don’t know what I’m doing, don’t assume that I don’t know what I’m doing.”
It’s not my habit to explain myself. I just do what I do, and if people like it, great. If not, so what? Lots of other sites out there on the Internet. It makes no sense for somebody to sit around brooding about what I write (or don’t write) on this blog. So why are you brooding about me having “gallivanted” three months ago? Lots of people were gallivanting in Tampa that week.
While I was gallivanting — actually, sweating in the sun waiting to go through the metal detectors — I had a very interesting conversation with Guy Benson about the unfortunate controversy regarding Tina Korbe’s skirt. Some people still haven’t forgiven me for that one. But we can’t live our lives trapped in the past, in a place of regret and blame, or else we’ll never be able to move forward.
I’m willing to forgive you, but you seem to feel that I’m the one in need of a forgiveness that you are unwilling to give. And then, as soon as you posted your insuling comment, you got in my face on Twitter, practically daring me to to delete it.
Damn, Jerry. Just … damn.

Your monthly supply of Boudreaux’s Butt Paste run out early, Stacy?

Here, let me explain what I was looking for. All I was looking for. All.

“Jerry, I’m sorry for your loss, and I thank your brother for his service to our country.”

That was it, Stacy. Nothing more.

Instead, I got silence from you and Ali Akbar calling me a “shitty family member.”

And YOU’RE complaining about me being harsh? Really?

Yes, I’m angry and bitter. I’m also the one who has no brother to call on Thanksgiving. No brother to talk sports or politics or faith with anymore.

And your sole response is bellowing how you’re being put on by mean old me.

Again – really, Stacy? Really?

Who was it who called you and did his damnedest to talk you out of pulling the plug when Tabitha Hale was pulling her petty little shit? Oh yeah, that’s right. Me.

All I wanted from you then and now is a simple “I’m sorry about your brother.” That’s all.

Apparently I’m asking far too much of you.

To repeat: You publicly denounced me before I ever knew why you were denouncing me, at a time when I was rather desperately trying to figure out if my broken-down car could make it home. It was Labor Day weekend, we couldn’t find a car-rental place, and the mechanic wasn’t sure whether the KIA would go another 10 miles, much less 700.
At some point during that nightmarish weekend — I forget when — I logged on and saw you jumping all in my shit on Twitter. I was stunned: “What the hell is this? Why is Jerry mad at me?”

There were more immediate problems at hand, and by the time I finally got back home, you’d already accused me of heinous selfishness — denounced me to the whole world as an egotistical ingrate — and I figured, “What’s the point? He hates me.”
ME, butt-hurt?
One or the other of us is having psychological issues here, Jerry. If it pleases you to think I’m the one that’s crazy, don’t let me interfere with your pleasure.

I would guess she voted 6-7 times

Tell me, Jerry, were you born a gaping asshole or did you go to special schools? I’m betting both….

Indeed.

Very, very well done, Stacy. Thank you for doing it.

I’m serious, Jerry: Suck it up. We all loose loved ones that are real close. I’ve lost two of my best friends over the past decade – and I’ve never had a lot of people I would label ‘best’ friends. My grandmother died in my damn arms as I was giving her CPR and I let it effect me for a lot of years – wasted ones. Get help, if necessary, or work it out – for your own sake.

Your brother sounds like he was a wonderful man. I am sorry for your loss. I thank you for his service to his country.

RSM summed it up

‘They gave “the last full measure of devotion,” and all we are asked to give them in return are “silence and respect.”’

He could have just posted that with the picture, and the whole point is clear.

We have a terrible cultural disease.

Cooler heads everyone; even conservatives need to understand what freedom of speech means. She should *not* be fired from her job because she made a public ass of herself. I suspect she is very typical of the silly airheads our governmental propaganda centers (know as public schools) are churning out. The girl was just responding to the sign. She was reacting to authority like she was taught in school. I suspect that this was a veteran’s cemetery or the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier never even crossed her mind. Really, the rage should be directed at those who educated this silly girl.

Calling her place of employment is wrong and reeks of stalking and McCarthyism. She got what she deserved public humiliation. Freedom of speech means people should be FREE to express ideas that others find repulsive.

“I’m Lindsey Stone and I vote…” and thus, America.

Yes, contacting her employer is over the line — unless you’re an investor or a customer, in which case you’re funding this moron. But I don’t have a problem with calling for her firing — not for revenge or for ideological impurity, as is common among the Left, but rather for showing such a stunning lapse in judgment as to call her competency into question.

She should be fired if that was a company sponsored trip. Whether they fire her or not for her own time stupidity is up to the company (I would fire her, but that is me).

Posting the photo was extremely *stupid*. I’m always shocked at what people expose about themselves on Facebook. So if she gets public ridicule for posting a such a picture then it is well deserved. What I have a problem is the fact the both Conservative and Liberal feel it is OK to get people fired if they are offended. That is wrong. It is the new Gulag for improper thoughts. conservatives especially should know better.

That is exactly what liberals say when they get someone fired for expressing their faith. Please review what is meant by freedom of speech. You are advocating soviet style repression just as the liberals are doing.

Please do not go into moral equivocation.

I concede that revenge is likely a motive for many people here. But if someone was cold sober, and deliberately publicly urinated on your foot to show they could, just how cool would your head be, hmmmm?

Note the not-so-fine difference between the objective of the left to shut someone up versus the obvious but simple human anger at seeing a beloved national monument getting publicly dissed by a clown.

I’ll accept the latter any day. It’s how I roll. I may not want her fired, but I am not going to question the anger of others. They’ll get cooler heads in time. Lindsey will just have to weather the storm.

And as dwduck noted, it’s not as much as revenge, but questioning her competency and judgement. Would YOU want Lindsey working for you? A national embarrassment? Or at least go unpunished for thrusting your company into a very unflattering spotlight?

Her employer has already put her on unpaid leave. That loss of income may be enough to teach the child that actions have consequences. We’ll have to wait and see what happens there.

But if she does get fired, she will get no sympathy from me.

Jerry is wrong to attack RSM like this. But I am sorry about his brother.

She was on the company dime. She should have behaved.

Freedom doesn’t mean license; it doesn’t mean your acts have no consequences. Hell, if your actions have no consequences, you’re not free — you’re a pet.

She was on a company trip; on the company dime. She should be fired.

It’s not “McCarthyism” to say someone should act like a professional when they’re on the clock. If this was her personal trip, paid for from her pocket, that would be one thing (though I still wouldn’t blame her employer for firing her; freedom of association cuts both ways).

Part of the problem with our society is that offensive, culturally destructive acts have no consequences.

It was shocking to the left when the Dixie Chicks’ fans repudiated the group — but it wasn’t censorship, it was reacting to their provocation.