Glenn said, "That he is no longer active military doesn't at all distinguish the condemnations against the MoveOn ad."

Ah, but in the mind of the typical right-wing authoritarian, to question the man in charge is the ultimate sin against the Father. One must never question the Leader. The Fuhrer is always right.

Don't turn around, uh-oh

Der Kommissar's in town, uh-oh

And if he talks to you

And you don't know why

You say your life

Is gonna make you die

The Fool said, "One must never question the Leader."

Well, unless he's a Democrat, that is...

touche

Joan:

Call me extremely unimpressed with your pathetic attempts to have your cake and eat it too on the issue of the MoveOn ad.

Let me just say right now that all of you who have a problem with the MoveOn ad are a big bunch of pussies. There are more diplomatic ways to phrase it, but I'm not afraid of the pussified wing of the Democratic party so I'll just say what I think and what is the truth: you're all a bunch of pathetic pussies -- and that is exactly how the people you are trying to impress perceive you.

You think you're currying favor with someone, getting some kind of credit for kissing someone's ass, but you're not. That's what makes this whole episode so freaking pathetic on your part. The war hawks look at you scurrying for cover and what do they think? Do they think, "oh, there's that Joan Walsh. She's a lefty but I have basic respect for her because she has basic respect for the military."

Bwahahahahahahaha. No, Joan, they DON'T think that. They think, "God those lefties are such a bunch of pussies. They're afraid to stand up for their own beliefs. I love fucking with these pathetic losers and I'm going to fuck with them even more the next time."

Joan, your whole column this morning reeks of fear. You go our of your way to make sure that everyone knows you are on the record "in multiple places" expressing your doubts about the ad. Very lame, Joan. Your "multiple" places turns out to be exactly 2 places -- and one of those simply repeats the same kind of trope about being on the record somewhere else, while essentially defending the MoveOn ad. When you click the link to the one other place where Joan is on the record all she says is that it was a p.r. win for the war. LOLOLOL.

There is nothing wrong with the MoveOn ad. They successfully predicted Petraeus' betrayal. They went out on a limb to predict it, but they turned out to be right so no one has a right o complain.

Petraeus allowed himself to be used as a propaganda tool and attempted to commit a premeditated act of misleading the democratic populace on a grave matter of war and peace. And when you put that act in its proper context of an illegal, immoral war, launched on a hoax, leading to war crimes, huge financial cost, a million dead Iraqis, thousands of dead Americans, lie after lie after lie after lie, the fact that you are out there defending yet another lie about the war is utterly fucking pathetic.

What is wrong here is that Petraeus' little performance is yet another in along train of government officials getting up and lying to our faces abot the war. We don't have to put up with that. No self-respecting citizen has any patience with that kind of crap. Attacking MoveOn is a classic ase of attacking the messenger. And those who attack the messenger are those who can't handle the truth.

But there is more context which underscores how utterly pathetic the pussified wing of the Democratic party is. The Republicans have been calling us traitors and terrorist synpathizers 24-7-365 since 9-11. They called John Kerry and Max Cleland traitors. But WE have to watch what WE say!!!!!!

You know there is a lot of interesting analysis going around the blogosphere in recent years about the right wing authoritarian personality complex. I'm thinking more and more we need a complementary analysis of the left wing submissive personality complex.

Joan: they're telling you to sit down and shut up and you're saying, "Please sir, can I have another?"

All of you MoveOn haters: Get off your knees. Stop acting like punks. All the basic principles of your country are being perverted right before your very eyes. Get some guts for goddsakes.

Petraeus said violence was down. Every other independent analysis says it is not.

Petraeus denied that we are arming the Sunnis. We are.

The burden of proof is on YOU, motherfucker. You people have lied over and over again. Youand your kind have zero credibility.

Prove he didn't lie, asshole -- and make sure you take into account all the evidence available on the lefty blogopshere and deal with that evidence honestly.

You won't because you can't.