The left blogosphere has gone ape over this video in which Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) talks about his experience in Iraq. He recalls a trip to the gym, where he was denied access by a guard due to a lack of security credentials. He proceeds to say he was annoyed due to the denial of entry by a “two-bit security guard”.

As I said in the beginning of the post, the lefty blogosphere has gone ape over his statement. Think Progress titles its post, “Rep. McHenry calls U.S. soldier in Iraq a ‘two-bit security guard.’”.

During a public appearance on Saturday, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) belittled a U.S. soldier in Iraq who was following orders and wouldn’t let McHenry go to the gym without the proper credentials. McHenry referred to the guard as a “two-bit security guard“:

Which would be interesting, except that McHenry never claimed the guard was a U.S. soldier. In fact, he wasn’t. Michael Goldfarb contacted McHenry’s office for a comment, and learned that the guard was actually a foreign contractor.

It was a poor choice of words to describe the foreign contractor, but anyone who was there knows that I delivered a speech praising the heroism and sacrifice of those who are serving our country in harm’s way.

Calling a foreign contractor a “two-bit security guard” isn’t exactly classy, but the left has the story wrong. They’re not exactly known to jump to the defense of contractors, having called them “mercenaries”. All of a sudden there’s an outrage over calling one a “two bit security guard”?

Update:Something should be added here. Here’s Kos himself after military contractors were killed in Iraq and their corpses hung from a bridge:

That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

Now the left is going to be outraged over someone not having the utmost respect for a contractor?

Via Hot Air.