Today’s dose of liberal insanity comes from Kathleen Keane, a freedom-hating AINO.
Tuesday I went to the Post Office to purchase a stamp. I was stunned when the postmistress slapped a stamp bearing an image of Charleston Heston on the envelope.
Whatever Mr. Heston might have accomplished as a movie star is tarnished forever to me and millions like me, who will forever equate him as the face of the National Rifle Association.
The name “Charleston Heston” does not bring to my mind his film characters like Moses or Ben Hur. By far, his most memorable moment was as he stood before an NRA convention, rifle raised high, defiantly shouting “over my cold dead body.” Shame on the United States Postal Service for honoring such an individual.
Kathleen Keane
Wilmington
Source: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/readers/2014/04/30/honor-gun-happy-charleston-heston-stamp/8525797/
Poor Kathleen, she doesn’t realize that Charleston Heston marched for civil rights, which was extremely controversial for white people in those days, or that the Post Office likes to honor celebrities to get people to buy more stamps, or that Charleston didn’t say “cold dead body” but “cold dead hands.”
Ironically, not all liberals are as closed minded as she is. When Charleston Heston died a columnist from The Guardian wrote Should we boycott Charleston Heston’s movies? And to his credit, he concluded this:
Is there a case for boycotting films featuring actors whose views we find obnoxious? If that were so, I would not be going to see any films starring John Malkovich, who supports the policies of George W Bush, the war in Iraq, and is a supporter of the death penalty, nor those with Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone. But that would be no great loss.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2008/apr/07/shouldweboycottcharltonhes
Talk about irony, the British hate our guts but they’ll watch our movies while the AINO’s can’t stand seeing one of us in a stamp.
Kathleen, there’s a simple solution to your conundrum, just buy another stamp! Maybe you could get a Martin Luther King, Jr. stamp, although I’m afraid to tell you that MLK was surrounded by men with guns and applied to get an Alabama concealed carry license, he was denied.