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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Kurtz is certainly a blockhead, but that still doesn't explain his recent (and tightening) embrace of Mad Mad Mad Mad Malkin.
Has anyone considered the possibility that this is linked to Howie's alternate identity as Mr. Sheri Annis? Perhaps the two lovely, gentle ladies have established a mutually beneficial relationship and Klutz -- I mean, Kurtz -- is just lending a hand to his wife's burgeoning business.
Read the US military version of what happened in Afghanistan. According to the generals in charge, the bomb was nowhere near Cheney, not even inside the base. The US military does not believe the bomb was intended for Cheney; they do not believe the bombers knew Cheney was in-country.
Pay attention to the details. Cheney's overnight presence on the base was the result of a last-minute change of plans, a sudden change in schedule. Cheney was supposed to be gone already. If the bombers were planning to hit Cheney, then they would have been a day late, had his plans not suddenly changed.
According to those in charge in Afghanistan, the Taliban/Al-Qaeda does not possess the capability to respond so quickly to such a change of plans. So even if "the terrorists" knew Cheney was planning to visit Afghanistan, they would have planned the bombing earlier, according to the schedule they would have possessed. They do not possess the ability to suddenly arm a suicide bomber and get him to such a target, on less than 24 hours notice.
That's all according to the military and other officials in Afghanistan. You know, the people with their feet on the ground. I guess much of America would rather listen to the pundits. You know - the people with their feet in their mouths.
Inappropirate blog comments aren't news. They're all too common on political blogs that allow comments. So how come Glenn knew that this everyday occurance would be immediately siezed on by Kurtz? Because Kurtz is biased and does his job in a shoddy and predictible way.
The other thing I hear a lot is "liberals hate Bush solely because he won the election in 2000 and they're sore losers."
Only someone who is intentionally trying to ignore the facts would be unable to recognize that there are legitimate reasons for finding Bush and his cronies despicable or, at least, incompetent. Instead, they've created their own reality where Bush is the Greatest President Ever, by all objective standards, and if anyone doesn't like him, they are just irrational moonbats who hate him just because he's a Republican.
Their hatred of Clinton and liberals in general never seems to factor into this equation. Convenient, no?
To extend Holy Moses' list, and second Bullsmith's observation, the reason Kurtz can be so easily predicted is that he's been mailing it in for years. (With apologies to the troll who posts that comment every Monday about the Tom Tomorrow cartoon.)
BTW, I must confess that I briefly thought that Cheney's death at the hands of a suicide bomber would be poetic justice, as well as a lucky break for the nation. But then, being a liberal, I was immediately ashamed of myself.
If he is, he's Window$ ME.
Except when they do:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/777306/posts
Of course many of the people said nice things about Wellstone but it would have been easy enough for Kurtz to cherry pick the wackos- if he hadn't been too distracted with the 'controversial memorial service'.
Michelle Malkin is an embodiment of civility?
Seriously - at what point do stop letting these people lower the discourse?
They think WE are "sore losers?"
I would submit that, as conservatives go, Timothy McVeigh was a "sore loser."
That Freeper thread is very interesting. I'd love to see how the right would spin that. It's not that those comments anymore represent the right than the Huffington Post comments represent the left. But, according to the logic employed by Malkin, et al., they both represent both. They can't have it both ways.
Anyone want to make that into a pdf and send it to Malkin? ;)
Anything by Glenn thinking the comments over at HuffPost are acceptable.
The point isn't whether or not the comments were ugly and disgusting -- as much as I detest Cheney, even I thought the comments were out of line.
The point is that there is an intellectually dishonest double standard when it comes to our nation's political discourse.
A few anonymous comments on a liberal site that wished Cheney was dead = THE LEFT IS UNHINGED!!!111oner!!!! It makes the front page of the papers and op-eds keep it going.
A rightwing talking head, or blogger, or author, or pundit calls for the death of millions of people (liberals, Muslims, etc.) = It's just a joke/I was taken out of context. Completely ignored by the media, except for when they invite the talking head, or blogger, or author, or pundit back to share his/her views.
Anyone who denies this double standard exists -- and is played out damn near every day -- is either clinically stupid or willfully obtuse. Perhaps both.
On the software program side, there's the old GIGO adage: garbage in, garbage out.
On the sock puppet side, Kurtz seems to violate GIGO, with him its more like: anything in, garbage out.
The Right Wing Mentality goes thusly: Even if 199 of the 200 comments WERE written by right wing blog interns, dirty trick practioners, and sundry other agent provocateurs, and ONE of the comments were actually written by an actual liberal person, it proves the point that the precious few conservative commentators that have SOMEHOW been briefly unmuzzled on The Hopelessly Liberal Mainstream Media®--- Liberals Hate America™! And hundreds more Angry Liberals© were probably thinking the same thing anyway! This story writes itself!
Frankly Glenn,
We can go to any right wing site and find reams and reams of fascist knee jerk bile, calls for assassination and or torture of left wing figures, elected politicians, media personalities, judges on up to the supreme court. I think when the right tries to pull the "blog" comments card, we should just cite the endless stream of right wing hate by the commentators and media bobbleheads. The right-wing machine current "outrage" tact almost always is based in internal projection of internal faults onto the opposition. They pre-emptively accuse the left of "the crime of the day" so that they can get us to defend rather than bring the overwhelming charges to their front door. The correct response here and ever other situation like this in the last 6 years is overwhelming counter attack rather than defense.
There should be a branch of people at media matters that keep a database of all the unhinged froth that the right pundits and commentators spew to be used as a bottomless barrel of ammunition for all talk show, blog and other media appearances, when the right tries to play the "outrage" card.
Is projection endemic on the right? You betcha.
Nothing shows their lack of real morality on the political level by lionizing Rudy Gulliani, who makes Clinton look like a choir boy. Or Newt Gingrich trying to project his own ruthlessness onto Hillary recently.
I think we need to openly acknowledge the deep movement neurosis of the right in projecting their own internal faults as the attack issue of the day. I have yet to see one of these attacks in the last 8 years not materialize fully formed out of their internal closets. We should all just counter knowing full well that with enough investigation it will become apparent the right wing accusers are guilty of exactly what they are projecting but of dramatically greater degree in scope.
The irony is they have no defense against this. Other than to turn up the volume on the paucity of specifics they have based their charge on. The left blogsphere can go wide and deep on a moments notice, while the right can only go narrow intermittently at the risk of continually and totally undermining themselves.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
