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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2007
6A
Sally Field doesn't speak to me
Like actress Sally
Field, I am a mom.
Unlike Sally Field,
I do not live in La-La Land.
We breathe a different brand
of oxygen. We hold diametri
cally opposed worldviews.
We have nothing in common
but stretch marks.
Contrary to tongue
tied Sally’s incoherent
Primetime Emmy Awards
diatribe, childbearing and
childrearing experiences do
not bond all women in a uni
versal sorority of non-con
frontation. There are sheep
moms. There are lion moms.
We know which kind Sally
Field is.
“If mothers ruled the, ruled
the world, there would be no
(expletive) wars in the first
place,” Field bleated. In the
Gidget Guide to Parenting,
mothers are appeasers and
hand-holders. Our maternal
instincts supposedly lead us
to shun fights and coddle
bullies instead of disciplin
ing them.
There would be “no
(expletive) wars,” Silly Sally,
because we’d all be conquered
chattel if Field Diplomacy
“ruled the world.”
Motherhood and peace
making are not synonymous.
Motherhood requires feroc
ity, the will and resolve to
protect one’s own children
at all costs, and a life-long
commitment to sacrifice for
a family’s betterment and
survival. Conflict avoidance
is incompatible with good
mothering.
On the playground of
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that will work. Lots of people
ignore the law that says you
have to carry car insurance
and get by with it. Those
same people will do the
same with health insurance.
Illegal aliens don’t have car
insurance, drunks and drug
addicts generally don’t have
car insurance.
How would she handle
those people? Nobody seems
to do anything about it when
you are involved in an acci*
dent, and the offending party
has no insurance.
Why do we have to pay
extra for “uninsured motorists
coverage”? Because these
scofflaws get by with disre
garding the law. Anyone who
is in an accident and has no
coverage should have their
license pulled and should
never be allowed to own a
car again, but no such penal
ties are enforced.
The 47,000,000 that she
keeps talking about who don’t
have medical insurance;
I have to ask if that figure
includes the 20,000,000 ille
gal aliens and all the people
on Medicaid, plus the differ
ent plans most states have
for children.
She and her cronies have
ruined the military health care
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Michelle Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast.net
life, Sally
Field is
the mom
who looks
the other
way when
the brat
on the
elementa
ry school
slide
pushes
your son
to the ground or throws dirt
in your daughter’s face.
She’s the mom who holds
her tongue at the mall when
thugs spew profanities and
make crude gestures in front
of her brood. She’s the mom
who tells her child never to
point out when a teacher
gets her facts wrong.
She’s the mom who buys
her teenager beer, condoms
and a hotel room on prom
night, because she’d rath
er give in than assert her
parental authority and do
battle.
She’s the mom whose
minivan sports insipid bum
per stickers preaching non
intervention at all costs:
“Peace is patriotic.” “War
is not the answer.” “It Will
Be a Great Day When Our
Schools Get All the Money
They Need and the Air Force
Has to Hold a Bake Sale to
Buy a Bomber.”
Hollywood can afford to
indulge Sally Field’s inartic
ulate naivete. America can
not. And the very moms that
Sally Field claims to speak
for know it.
This weekend, I met doz
system with their silly ideas,
and Medicare is an expen
sive joke for a lot of us.
I just don’t trust the govern
ment to be in charge of my
healthcare when I see how
the Tricare system works.
Hilary and Bill decimated our
military, th£ military hospitals
were pretty much done away
with and a very aggravating
system was substituted for
military dependents.
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ens of military mothers
in Washington, D.C., who
fervently oppose the Sally
Field/Cindy Sheehan model
of maternal submission
and immediate surrender.
They were among several
thousand grass-roots activ
ists who tyrned out for the
“Gathering of Eagles” coun
ter-demonstration on the
National Mall.
Deborah Johns,
mother of William, a Marine
who has served three tours
of duty in Iraq, condemned
the Left’s demonization of
Gen. David Petraeus and
urged Congress to oppose
a precipitous withdrawal
from Iraq. “Cindy Sheehan
doesn’t speak for me,” Johns
said. “She has never spoken
for me. And she will never
speak for me. . . . We are
not going to let the domestic
enemies at home defeat us
like they did” during the
Vietnam War.
Debbie Lee, mother of
Mark, the first Navy SEAL
killed in Iraq, rejected the
anti-war movement’s infan
tilization of the troops.
She was galled at the
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to Auburn and he tells me
he’s got his heart set on
Auburn too, so I leave empty
handed and go on to see
some others while I’m down
there.
Two days later, I’m in my
office in Tuscaloosa and the
phone rings and it’s this kid
who just turned me down,
and he says, "Coach, do you
still want me at Alabama ?”
And I said, “Yes I sure do. ”
And he says OK, he’ll come.
And I say, “Well son, what
changed your mind?” And
he said “When my grand
pa found out that I had a
chance to play fqr you and
said no, he pitched a fit
and told me I wasn’t going
nowhere but Alabama, and
wasn’t playing for nobody
but you. He thinks a lot of
you and has ever since y’all
met.” Well, 1 didn’t know
his granddad from Adam’s
housecat so I asked him who
his granddaddy was and he
said, “You probably don’t
remember him, but you ate
in his restaurant your first
year at Alabama and you
sent him a picture that he’s
had hung in that place ever
since. That picture’s his
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pride and joy and he still
tells everybody about the day
thxit Bear Bryant came in
and had chitlins with him. ”
“My grandpa said that
when you left there, he never
expected you to remember
him or to send him that pic
ture, but you kept your word
to him and to Grandpa,
that’s everything. He said
you could teach me more
than football and I had to
play for a man like you, so I
guess I’m going to. ”
I was floored. But I
learned that the lessons
my mama taught me were
always right. It don’t cost
nuthin’ to be nice. It don’t
cost nuthin’ to do the right
thing most of the time, and
it costs a lot to lose your
good name by breakin’your
word to someone. When I
went back to sign that boy,
1 looked up his Grandpa
and he’s still running that
place, but it looks a lot bet
ter now; and he didn’t have
chitlins that day, but he had
some ribs that woulda made
Dreamland proud and I
made sure I posed for a lot
of pictures; and don’t think
I didn’t leave some new ones
for him, too, along with a
signed football.
I made it clear to all my
assistants to keep this story
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and these lessons in mind
when they’re out on the
road. If you remember any
thing else from me, remem
ber this. It really doesn’t
cost anything to be nice, and
the rewards can be unimagi
nable.
- Coach Paul “Bear”
Bryant
Note: Coach Bryant was
in the presence of these few
gentlemen for only min
utes, and he defined him
self for life. Regardless of
our profession, we do define
ourselves by how we treat
others, and how we behave
in the presence of oth
ers, and most of the time,
we have only minutes or
seconds to leave a lasting
impression. We can be rude,
crude, arrogant, cantanker
ous, or we can be nice. Nice
is always a better choice. I
like what Stephen Grellet,
French/American religious
leader (1773-1855) said, “I
expect to pass through the
world but once. Any good
therefore that I can do, or
any kindness I can show
to any creature, let me do
it now. Let me not defer it,
for I shall not pass this way
again.”
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