bleeding purple heart

Today we learned that the Military Order of the Purple Heart is upset at how the movie The Wedding Crashers treated their medal. Seems Vince & Owen's characters use fake Purple Hearts as a tool in their caddish repertoire to bed the sweet young things they meet at the weddings they crash. The Order is supporting Congressman John Salazar's bill that would let us prosecute people falsely claiming to have Purple Hearts.

Dudes -- it's a movie. I do respect recipients of Purple Hearts -- unlike the Republicans, who trashed two-time recipient John Kerry during the recent presidential campaign. The movie isn't dissing the Purple Heart -- it's just showing how low these two guys will go to score with the chicks, and demonstrating that many of us are impressed by people who hold the medal. There is NOT an epidemic of disrespect towards the Purple Heart and other medals that requires a freedom-of-speech restricting special-purpose law like the one Salazar (Salazar is, I'm ashamed to report, a Colorado Democrat) is pushing. Lighten up.