Just a week after Drudge highlighted an article about celebrities refusing to entertain the troops, Al Franken is spending the holidays in the Middle East with the USO entertaining the troops.
Franken’s visit, his third so far, has received hardly any coverage. If O’Reilly or Limbaugh took the trip, the “liberal media” would be all over it.
The only story I could find about Franken’s visit is from Army Public Affairs:
Tour participants included comedian Al Franken; actress Traylor Howard; Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders Misty Cleveland and Lynlee Allen; hip-hop band Soul Jahz; and country singers Keni Thomas, Craig Morgan and Mark Wills.
The USO celebrities also toured other areas of military operations. Franken was especially moved by a hospital visit he made while on the tour.
“I liked going to the hospital in the Green Zone because I’m very interested in some of the lives that have been saved,” Franken said. “It amazes me how quickly (medical personnel) respond and seeing the medical techniques they apply.”
Franken said he is very happy to be part of the USO and the show is just one way to say thank you.
“We did meet and greets at Abu Ghraib, but we ended up doing an impromptu show for those Soldiers, Marines and Airmen,” Franken said. “The tour has been great; I have a great group of people I am traveling with and it’s always good to see our Soldiers. It is always fun, moving, gratifying and humbling.”
The USO is in need of phone cards. To donate, visit USO Operation Phone Home.
re O’Loofah and O’Rush not going.
Sure they’re scared!
why on EARTH would the general public have to donate so the troops could call home? This just drives me nuts. Why don’t they have calling privileges? From some trunk lines established by the military?
Why?
Keep ’em as isolated as possible.
They are slaves put to military use.
Let them know that they are under slave discipline.
Give them as little as possible.
Remind them at every turn that they mean nothing, that they have no power and no privileges.
An ancient ploy.
Betcha the overseers…errr, higher officers…can phone home.
Betcha…
AG
Same reason they or their families have to buy their body armor, should they be lucky enough to have any.
The DOD and certainly the Executive Branch could care less about these soldiers. We can’t get them the things they need to do the job they were sent to do, but we can give Haliburton and Root Brown et al Billion$ $$$ that they don’t and can’t account for. Simple, you go to war with the “slaves” you have, and you pad the bank accounts of your friends in the Industry.
have to use so that their phone calls can be monitored, they have to pay to use them too.
the troops as a whole like Al Franken does. He has spent a lot of time with all of them, from the jarhead who is sure he will eat bullets and survive and swears he loves war to the sage warrior who everything has stopped making sense to and just wants to go home.