The Tribute They Didn't Make at the Oscars

With George Clooney's faux bravery, there apparently wasn't time to focus on real bravery, as noted by Ben Stein:

Now for a few humble thoughts about the Oscars.

I did not see every second of it, but my wife did, and she joins me in noting that there was not one word of tribute, not one breath, to our fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan or to their families or their widows or orphans. There were pitifully dishonest calls for peace -- as if the people we are fighting were interested in any peace for us but the peace of the grave. But not one word for the hundreds of thousands who have served and are serving, not one prayer or moment of silence for the dead and maimed.

Read the whole thing, and be thankful there's at least one man in Hollywood with his priorities straight.