April 27, 2007
Michelle Malkin: Profiles in Courage
It's pretty obvious that Michelle Malkin has never watched the movie that she's referring to. In the movie The Four Feathers, the main character was scheduled to go to the front, but didn't. He was sent four white feathers to symbolise his cowardice, each of which he ended up redeeming through an act of personal courage and heroism.
The point is that the white feather represented a personal act of cowardice and could be redeemed through a personal act of bravery.
So in Malkin's alternative universe, the Dems are showing "cowardice" by trying to end a brutal and pointless war. How are the white feathers redeemed? By sending another poor grunt off to get killed or maimed. The right-wingers always seem to be full of courage when it comes to putting somebody else in the line of fire, but that's approximately the exact opposite of what The Four Feathers was about.
(via) Posted by dave at April 27, 2007 05:12 AM