(New Republic) -- The dumb thing in the news today is that President Obama saluted a marine on Tuesday while holding a cup of coffee. It was probably filled with tea, because Obama doesn’t drink much coffee, but conservatives are calling it a latte, because they think latte is a French word (it's Italian) and that only effeminate liberals drink lattes (they're wrong).
Liberals got dragged into the ensuing fake outrage pageant, and dug up a 2001 picture (there are many) of George W. Bush saluting while holding his terrier, Barney. Nobody cared back then, though, because everyone knows that Republicans always “respect the troops.”
