Friday, March 12, 2004

Looking back

A year ago one of the most talked about sports and political stories of the day was Manhattanville basketball player Toni Smith's protest - which consisted of her turning her back on the US flag during the playing of the anthem. Somehow this non-story got discussed in every newspaper in the country.

What got me thinking about this was a reminder in Instapundit of the girls protesting in Spain who only a year ago dressed up as belly-dancing suicide bombers. There is no need to wonder how that type of nonsense would go over in Spain today. The sadness and anger in Spain today would not permit such idiocy. I hope that the memory of the Spanish is longer than the memory of people like Toni Smith who would rather believe in "bake sales not bombers" even though she went to school in what should have been the shadow of the Twin Towers.

A year ago I compared Toni Smith to Forrest Gump - you can find that column here.

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