At Big Journalism, Michael Walsh writes:
Jack Murtha, one of the most corrupt congressmen in modern history, has died. The obits will start appearing shortly.
Until the media frames his colorful but checkered past to depict him as one of the lions of the Democrat Party, let’s remember him as he was:
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A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 77.
No word yet if the funeral will be held in Okinawa, or perhaps the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure.
Update: As Jim Hoft adds, “The antiwar democrat was famous for his cold-blooded attack on innocent US Marines in Haditha, Iraq.”
Flashback: “Welcome to the Airport for Nobody” — and Real Congressman of Genius:
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I certainly hope that his family doesn’t continue his dishonoring of the Corps and the U.S. military in general by requesting a USMC honor guard for this corrupt person who worked overtime to dishonor both the Marines in particular and the U.S. in general.
Overdue 20 years!
I’ll repeat myself,
To his family and friends, my deepest sympathies,
For his service to our country as a Marine, I am humbly in his debt.
That is all.
John Murtha, a true Marine Corpseman!
He’d probably stil be alive today if he hed Gov’t. HealthCare. Oh, wait….
Two proverbs:
1. Speak no ill of the dead.
2. Where there is death, there is hope.
Wasn’t this the ” jack” that said he would take the Gitmo prisioners into his district. No one ever took him up on that.
Emil
As Roseanne Barr once put it.
“My mother told me never to say anything about the the dead but good.
He’s dead.
Good.”
What a truly useless, corrupt piece of sh*t.
PA, you just moved ahead by about 50 years.
I’m sure there are those among his family and friends who mourn his death, and for them I have sympathy. For Murtha himself, however, I have none. He was as corrupt as they come, and his efforts to convict the Haditha Marines before they’d even had a trial was an absolute disgrace and a betrayal of the Corps he once proudly served in. With John Murtha’s death, the health of the republic improved, even if just a little bit.
Murtha was many things, all of them bad. But the worst was calling himself a Marine. He did not deserve the title. Good riddance to this enemy of America.