Bryan Fischer: Nithing of the Week
This award works from a target rich environment, and it is not always easy to choose a candidate. My front-runner right now is Bryan Fischer, the “Director of Issues Analysis” for the hate group called the American Family Association, who whined, er, um…I mean, “opined”that he didn’t like that President Obama awarded the medal of honor to a soldier who saved lives.
Apparently, saving lives is feminine. Taking lives is masculine, an soldiers should be killing, not saving. We’ll remember that if Mr. Fischer ever finds himself on a battlefield trying to hold his intestines in. “Sorry, it wouldn’t be manly to save you. You understand.”
Given the dearth of women in U.S. combat units (conservatives like Fischer don’t want them there) it is to be wondered who Mr. Fischer thinks would save him. No self respecting man would. Fischer certainly wouldn’t respect any man who stopped to pull him to safety. “You girlie man!” he would cry, outraged.
What is it, exactly, that this brave soldier did that upset this week’s hatemonger so much?
Sgt. Giunta is awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama
From his Medal of Honor Citation:
While under heavy enemy fire, Specialist Giunta immediately sprinted towards cover and engaged the enemy. Seeing that his squad leader had fallen and believing that he had been injured, Specialist Giunta exposed himself to withering enemy fire and raced towards his squad leader, helped him to cover, and administered medical aid. While administering first aid, enemy fire struck Specialist Giunta’s body armor and his secondary weapon. Without regard to the ongoing fire, Specialist Giunta engaged the enemy before prepping and throwing grenades, using the explosions for cover in order to conceal his position. Attempting to reach additional wounded fellow soldiers who were separated from the squad, Specialist Giunta and his team encountered a barrage of enemy fire that forced them to the ground. The team continued forward and upon reaching the wounded soldiers, Specialist Giunta realized that another soldier was still separated from the element. Specialist Giunta then advanced forward on his own initiative. As he crested the top of a hill, he observed two insurgents carrying away an American soldier. He immediately engaged the enemy, killing one and wounding the other. Upon reaching the wounded soldier, he began to provide medical aid, as his squad caught up and provided security.
What’s the logic behind all this? According to Fischer, “So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?”
Saving people, getting shot and killed, none of that helps Mr. Fischer sleep soundly at night. He wants to know that the enemy is being eviscerated.
Naturally, there was some outrage over Fischer’s remarks but that doesn’t phase the old hater. Nossir. Fischer defended himself with the following words:
“The bottom line here is that the God of the Bible clearly honors those who show valor and gallantry in waging aggressive war in a just cause against the enemies of freedom, even while inflicting massive casualties in the process.”
“What I’m saying is that it’s time we started imitating God’s example again.” You tell ‘em Mr. Fischer.
“What I am saying is that I am observing a trend in which we single out bravery in self-defense and yet seem hesitant to single out bravery in launching aggressive attacks that result in the deaths of enemy soldiers.”
I name before all people Bryan Fischer and the American Family Association, nithings. Let them stand shamed and condemned before all for their vile and reprehensible behavior.
A different version of this article appears at PoliticusUSA, Bryan Fischer Wants You to Leave Him on the Battlefield
Hrafnkell Haraldsson is the author of A Heathen’s Day, which since 2005 has addressed the life and thoughts of a modern day Heathen. He is also the founder of the Mos Maiorum Foundation (www.mosmaiorum.org) which is dedicated to the study and support of Paganism as ethnic religion and writes for PoliticusUSA (www.politicususa.com) 
When I first read of Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta and what he did to receive the Medal of Honor, I was in awe of what he did.
Fischer’s remarks baffle and disgust me. In addition to his inability to properly honor Giunta’s actions, he drags out the tired gender roles bit that’s all too common in his version of Christianity (I realize that Christians don’t have Freyja, or Skadi, or Valkyries, or vengeful Disir, but surely some female in the Bible does something besides stay at home being submissive to various men?). He obviously has no sense of honor himself, and his actions are contemptible, so your declaration of him as nithing is quite accurate. What a troll-wife of a man.
I agree, Sorn. And what man worth anything is going to leave his men, or his comrades, or his leader, to die? Just leave the wounded to die? I think “troll wife” is a good and accurate assessment.
I think calling him a “troll-wife” is an insult to trolls and their wives everywhere.
Well okay, you have a point. We need to dig deeper into our bags of insults. But then, that’s why he’s a nithing.
Agree about overinsulting trolls – is there a nice short term for “festering, bilious, pestilential puddle of rancid pig swill”?
I think the best thing to do with Fischer is lock him in a room with the mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters of the soldiers Giunta saved, and let them explain “feminine” to him. They can do it in the name of Deborah The Judge, or Jael, the housewife who trapped Sisera and hammered a tent nail through his head if they wanna keep it Christian.