A media temper tantrum, British style

This has been a hectic week for me. My husband fueled up his Tiger Grumman airplane with aviation gas and soared off into the skies for his first cross-country solo flight. He landed in Kitty Hawk, N.C., and spent a couple of days re-acquainting himself with the Wright Brothers and their dazzling accomplishment of first-ever flight and American can-do spirit.

Simultaneously, my teenage son, his best friend and my niece left for Nicaragua on a mission by our church to help build a youth center in the mosquito-infested town of San Ramon.

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So I was minding my own business when the far-left British Guardian newspaper blindsided me and my work as chairman of Move America Forward, the largest pro-troop grass-roots organization in the country.

Damien Benson and his editor, Daniel McDonald, have a new piece focusing on our group called "Bush's useful idiots – The making of a new Nazi party."

Me? A Nazi? Award-winning journalist, radiotalk-show host, churchgoing wife, mother and conservative activist – a card-carrying member of a new Nazi party?

I've had a run-around with these lefties before when I criticized Benson for editorializing his socialist agenda instead of working as an objective reporter. This must have hurt his feelings. He worked himself into an appeasement-stupor and decided, "I know how I shall attack the ugly American! I'll call her a Nazi! That's bloody right!"

Benson apparently comes from the Neville Chamberlain strain of cowards. A simple statement from our executive director, Robert Dixon, offended him: "Move America Forward is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting our troops. We take it one step further than most 'support your troops' organizations in that we not only support our troops but their mission as well. … We don't care what side of the political spectrum you sit on – if you undermine the mission of our troops overseas we will take you to task for it."

Benson went on to call my dedicated colleagues at Move America Forward and me racist, huffed about the fact we correctly identified the Guardian as "far left," and accused me of being a fascist mad woman.

I get mad all right, especially when limp-minded men posing as journalists can't get their facts straight. But fascist? It is clear Benson needs to go back to grade school and learn what the word means. He also should look up Hitler and Nazi.

Benson's careless use of the word Nazi is a horrific affront to any true Briton.

Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party tried to bomb Britain into the Stone Age during World War II.

Hitler's planes relentlessly pounded London in a campaign of terror. Families left their homes at night and huddled in shelters or parks to protect themselves from the Nazi regime's fire bombing. The poorest people lived in the East End near docks, which were hit hard. They had nowhere to go and suffered the consequences.

Not unlike the Muslim jihadists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001, and Britain more recently, the Nazis knew how to use terror for their benefit. Hitler's raids roared at night when they more easily could terrorize women and children.

Most folks who survived didn't allow Hitler's terrorism to beat them down. They developed what was called "war-time spirit" as a survival mechanism.

Still, Hitler's reign of terror during the Blitz killed 43,000 people and made homeless another 1.4 million.

These basic facts about Hitler's attack on Britain should help Benson understand how ludicrous his name-calling is to people with a pittance of historical knowledge. It also insults the people who lived through the Blitz and their families.

But what have we at Move America Forward done to deserve Benson's maniacal rants? We have sent 27 tons of Gatorade, beef jerky and cookies to American and Coalition troops. We took parents whose sons gave their lives in Iraq to the country so they could see why we are fighting this war on radical jihadists. We have stood against apologists for Saddam Hussein and other terrorists.

Benson and his ilk are a stain on the proud Britons who stood against Hitler's Nazis. Like Neville Chamberlain, he never got the "war-time spirit" that helped Britain beat back the Nazis in the Battle of Britain.

When Britain won that battle, Winston Churchill reminded the world that brave men and women will stand guard against tyranny, terrorism and totalitarianism.

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," Churchill said.

That is still true today. Benson should be thankful for allied troops and honor them as Move America Forward does. We'll be waiting for his donation.