Some Vets Condemn 'Wedding Crashers' Site

[tuvor]

DENVER - Some military veterans and law enforcement officials are angry about a Web site promoting Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's comedy "Wedding Crashers."

To win the affections of attractive bridesmaids in the movie, two fun-loving partiers pretend to be Purple Heart recipients.

New Line Cinema's movie Web site includes a fake, paper Purple Heart to cut out, with the spoof: "Carrying a Purple Heart in your jacket guarantees you attention, admiration and plenty of free booze."

"I challenge the producer of that movie to go to Walter Reed Hospital and walk through the ward and see if he still wants to print out a fake Purple Heart," said Thomas Cottone, Jr., a special agent with the FBI who enforces a federal law that prohibits wearing, manufacturing, buying, selling or trading a Medal of Honor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/people_wedding_crashers

ON EDIT: FYI, the headline says "Some Vets" but only one is cited.

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[sakabatou]

10. OH GOD! MY EYES!!

[Ian David]

14. OK, who photoshopped the Hitler button on her hat?

Good job.

Almost subliminal.

Just make her teeth more brown and add a nasty grayish outline along the gums.

[bahrbearian]

2. Why aren't they complaining about a Resident pretending to be

a fighter jockey.

[tjdee]

3. Wonder if he thinks John Kerry shot himself

or whatever stupid asshat thing the "swiftboat vets" were spewing.

They didn't respect war medals too tough then, did they.

[Joey Liberal]

4. Talk to the republicans

Talk to the republicans that wore fake Purple Hearts at the GOP convention.

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Soldiers are dying in Iraq for a lie, Veterans' benefits are being cut.

Work on those issues, and THEN worry about a feeakin' movie.

[dbeach]

6. Sensitive subject..

many Vets have respect for medals, flags,rank..

25 million vets in USA

WHY any would vote for a bunch of chickenhawk traitors is simply appalling..support the chimp in chief is like supporting the agent orange when it turns to cancer

let the pols kids fight all the wars.. and the CEOs kids and the big brass at the pentagon kids.

let their kids go fight.

WATCH how fast war becomes extinct.

Veteran for Peace and the removal of all foreign agents ,submursive to the US constitution and Bill of RTs and any govt officials involved witht the police state crisis..

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. They're complaining about the wrong people...Wilson and Vaughn....

...are in a comedy production, while Bush and Cheney have produced a never-ending horror show.

Hey, Special Agent Cottone, Jr., don't you have anything more important to do, like assisting with Fitzgerald's investigation?

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Gee I wonder how these guys felt about

all those purple bandaids at the RNC last summer?

[ET Awful]

9. I challenge this guy to give the same amount of attention to the

Republican Convention attendees who belittled the award itself with their band-aid stunt.

[SpiralHawk]

11. What the hell, the commander in chief pretends to have served honorably

When in fact Bush was disgracefully AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard.

The movie is just following the Bush example

[dbeach]

13. AWOL and worse..

AWOL being the tip of the bush military problems..Deserter..most likely more accurate

and of course forging records and erasing records which are all part of the bush MO.. then the folks who help family bush..jeoprodize ther own careers then..kinda a disappear if ya catch my drift??

how does anyone not have complete NG records.??
.the military has a record on ya even when your records get lost..that is a fact..

[Rebellious Republican]

12. Oh and it is ok for Karl Rove and the the swiftboat vets to distribute

Purple Heart Band-Aids at the RNC....



>Hopefully, none of the troops over there were able to watch the coverage of the Republican convention on Monday night. Salted through the audience were a number of conventioneers wearing band-aids with little purple hearts on them. This was, of course, an extension of the gutter war being waged against Democratic candidate John Kerry’s Vietnam record.

Some 3,700 Purple Heart medals have been awarded to soldiers fighting in Operation Iraqi Freedom, with more than 3,000 still wending through the process before they can be pinned to the breasts of soldiers missing a chunk of their body. The message emanating from Madison Square Garden is obvious: Not only is the President blitheringly unclear on what is supposedly the central mission of his administration, but his own supporters have nothing but disdain for anyone wounded in combat.

If you think Bush and his White House have nothing to do with that disgusting display on the convention floor on Monday night, and have nothing to do with the Swift Boat Veterans group that appears to have made insulting combat veterans the new hip style among Republicans, think again.

A GOP staffer told Newsweek reporter Elanor Clift this past week that the Swift Boat strategy “came straight from the West Wing,” specifically from Bush hatchet-man Karl Rove. “Nobody,” he said, “should be confused.” The GOP staffer called those who have done this “political terrorists,” stating, “They know what to do - it’s like sleeper cells that get activated.”

In other words, nauseating activities like the Swift Boat smears and the Purple Heart Band-Aid-wearing cretins do not bubble up from the slime of their own accord. This is standard-issue East Texas political assassination, and the smell of it trails all the way from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to the doorstep of this Republican convention. This is leadership from the top down, Bush-style.<
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/22/6034/printer

:nuke:

[Toucano]

15. OMG! A character in a work of fiction is doing something I don't like!!!

Characters in works of fiction are only allowed to do good things!

I better start a boycott.

[DawgHouse]

18. Maybe we should start a grass roots campaign

and lobby for Truth In Fiction!

[Toucano]

19. I like that name!

People don't care about truth in life, but truth in fiction really gets 'em going.

You've finally figured out what I've been misunderstanding all this time. Thanks.

[Vickers]

16. Is Special Agent Thomas Cottone, Jr. a veteran? Or is he just

another fucking chickenhawk getting his hackles raised about military matters when he never actually served himself?

[CoffeeCat]

17. Last time I checked...

"The Wedding Crashers" was a work of FICTION.

It's a joke, son! They're not REALLY making fake Purple Hearts!

Geez...I hope to God this guy doesn't see "War of the Worlds". I'd hate to see the man hysterical and adrenaline poisoned as he tears out of the theater screaming, "Save me from the giant pods!!!!!"

The magic of Hollywood is obviously too much for some people.