Letters to the Editor
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Hate to open with a possible typo
But is this:
That is really very responsible journalism
sarcastic or an oversight?
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That's definately sarcasm.
I can't say I've ever listened to Alan Colmes tonight, but I'm going to have to find a way to tune in tonight. This ought to be interesting.
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At War With Iran
I suppose their eventual aim is for Congress to declare war on every nation in perpetuity and allow the executive to self-allocate funding for the pursuit of this war-on-everything-forever.
Every act congress passes somehow works out to be more powers for the president than written, and declares wars on more than just the targets. The AUMF somehow justified domestic wiretapping, as well as war on Iran or Syria.
You just know if they ever feel like strikes on North Korea, they'll use the fact that the Korean War never officially ended, it's just in a prolonged cease-fire.
But now that Pyongyang has nukes, suddenly diplomacy became the solution (and lo and behold, it works!). So we can't talk to Iran to stop them from building nukes until they build the nukes, so we then have to talk to them.
Makes perfect sense.
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My comment, on the other hand,
was definately a typo.
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Suicide Mission
Bless you, Glenn, for being willing to take on these psychopaths in person.
I can't even watch or listen to them anymore - I genuinely fear a stroke, or just my head imploding from the insanity.
And doesn't their writing make you wonder what kind of physicial violence they are capable of? I don't mean the obvious attention whores like Limbaugh and Coulter and O'Reilly and Malkin who are just playing to an audience. I mean the crazies like Gaffney who seem to actually believe the dangerous nonsense they spout.
Be careful.
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Don Young (R-AK) just used the bogus Lincoln quote on the House Floor
He led off his statement with it.
Unreal.
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Don Young (R-AK)
Representative Don Young, Republican-Alaska, just invoked the fake Abraham Lincoln quote on the floor of the House to argue against the Iraq resolution. Unbelievable.
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Rep Don Young
Don Young, GOP from Alaska just used the same fraudulent "qoute" on the house floor. Priceless.
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Dan young fans
The republicans are trying to stifle video publication of their statements.
Oh well
They are desperate not to be on the record on this war.
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Preview preview preview
I forgot about no link support. Just go to Dkos for the relevant info.
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mission accomplished
That is really very responsible journalism by The Washington Times -- leaving up a "quote" from a former President calling for the execution of anti-war Senators even though they know full well that the quote is a total fake.
Yes, but for them, what purpose would taking that quote down serve?
Leaving it up assures that we’ll be seeing that quote again and again (Don Young got the party started). And another benefit is that any correction, when given, will be considered out of context, like it was some sort of typo. Oops, says Frank, what was that column about anyway? That’s like such old news, and I’ve got a new column I want to talk about.
Moreover, do you really think Washington Times readers want accuracy? Please. That’s why they read it – they want affirmation of their view of the world – and they want to hear that it’s okay to not only hate, but to hang those who disagree with them.
And it gives them such great comfort to wrap up this gift of hatred in a bow tied by Abraham Lincoln.
It doesn’t matter if this quote isn’t true, it served its purpose. And now we’ve got the video on C-span to prove it.
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Glenn, once more I am in awe..
that you have no qualms about jumping into the steel cage kabuki that passes for Fox punditry.
Expect a combination of:
1. I was misquoted.
2. You're taking what I said out of context.
3. Lincoln really did say it. Everyone else is lying.
Lather
Rinse
Repeat
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Glenn,
What do you think about this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070215/pl_nm/iran_usa_dc.
It seems it is little talked about, at least to me: the fact that Iran made a significant proposal for peace, all to our advantage, that was dropped like a hot potato. Whether or not it was in good faith, dropping it without investigation, seems, well, criminal. And the fact that the implications of this aren't the top blog story, the top news story, the top everything, seems incredible.
This is way bigger than WMD lies, the British memos, etc, and so on. I can't think of a way to explain this in any way that makes the slightest sense. Before it was at least arguable that the Administration believed, in some twisted way, that they were working in the national interest.
But here's a smoking gun that they are intentionally provoking war, a war that runs the risk of destabilizing the entire ME, of leading into a global depression, of leading to the deaths of untold numbers of Americans (in addition to Iranians and Arabs across the ME). And no one seems to put it at the top of their radar.
Why? What the hell is going on?
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I've said it a thousand times...
A lie repeated often enough eventually becomes a "point of view."
As Glenn predicted, this false quote will become an example, as is Intelligent Design, Iraq + Saddam = 9/11, and supply side economics.
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Inauthenticism
GG: The hallmark of an inauthentic belief is a refusal to sacrifice for it.
This is lovely, and I am going to use it many, many times. Thanks!
UPDATE: Republican Rep. Don Young of Alaska just cited the "Abraham Lincoln quote" as part of his remarks on the Iraq Surge Resolution being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Amazing. Staffers who don't surf the web. Representative Young needs to hire a couple of savvy bloggers to work for him!
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Don Young
I can't decide if it's a good thing that Young opened mouth A and inserted foot B on this one, or a bad thing (or both?).
Good, insofar as further on-record evidence of neoconservative devotion to deceit as modus operandi, or bad insofar as there's a chance that people will start to believe the quote to be true.
For a long time I've had a hard time believing that there continued to be a significantly measurable portion of the population that falls for the falsehoods, but then I was traveling via air over the holidays in December, and had a layover in Kansas City.
(An aside about the Kansas City airport: most ridiculous security screening system set up I've seen in an airport. If you've been there, you know what I'm talking about, with separate screening zones every four gates or so, so if you land at one gate, and have a connection a few gates away, you have to leave security, then go back through security, sans liquids, shoes off, etc., on the same concourse)
I was in line to board my connecting flight behind a chatty gentleman, and we discussed the weather, and other social pleasantries for a bit, as the line slowly processed. I'm not sure how it came up, because I didn't raise the issue, but he somehow mentioned Iraq, in the context of "Not sure why they're called Iraq (he pronounced it Eye-rock) - they're not very solid, flying planes into buildings." He chuckled, as though enjoying his folksy insight into present geopolitical circumstances.
I couldn't let that one go. I'm not very confrontational (in fact, I suck at it), but I said, "Wait, what do you mean airplanes into buildings?" He responded, "9/11." To which I said, "Ah, can you tell me how many Iraqis were among the terrorists aboard the aircraft involved in that tragedy?" When he couldn't answer, I said, "None. Many were from Saudi Arabia. So why are we in Iraq again, and not invading Saudi Arabia?" He couldn't, or wouldn't, answer that, either.
His chattiness diminished, and we passed the rest of the line in silence.
No kings,
Robert