Letters to the Editor
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Re: Luis Posada Carriles
Anonymous said:
Yesterday a convicted terrorist was released from a federal prison in New Mexico on 350,000 bail to await an immigration trial, his name is Luis Carrilles and he worked for the CIA when daddy bush was the director of the CIA in 1975 and the same time he blew up a cuban national airplane killing many people.
We usually refer to people that blow up planes with bombs, killing hundreds of civilians, as "terrorists".
Both Cuba and Venezueala have requested that Posada be turned over for trial there.
But a U.S. judge to deport him, because .... <*wait for it*> ... we don't turn over accused terrorists to countries where they may be tortured.
You'd think this was an poorly written, far-fetched Onion article....
Cheers,
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@ Jack
I don't need to speak for Krauthammer. Here's a quote Glenn didn't highlight in his post:
"But it is simply dismaying that a serious presidential candidate should use it as the ideological frame for his set-piece issues."
CK isn't running for President. He's not even a politician.
Ahhhh. Only politicians (indeed, "serious presidential candidates") need obey. More "ex post facto law" from Jack/Hammer. Calvinball's the game today.
We did away with "ex post facto" a couple centuries ago. Tell you what, Jack, enlist for Iraq (as I suggested) and maybe you'll catch the tail end of it over there....
Cheers,
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@DC law
I couldn't agree with you more. Excellent point.
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Jack
I wonder what you will say when this administration drags all the FOXNews yakkers, radio dittoheads, and RW pundits down the drain along with it. Your guys are tethering themselves to a regime that America now sees to be not only utterly incompetent, but completely lacking in any moral values whatsoever. It is on its way down, and already more than 2/3 of Americans are demanding the Dems investigate and prosecute these crinimals. Keep defending them. You deserve the same fate they do.
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@ Arne
Again, timeline, Arne. Same day is not equal to 48 hours later. Stop eating retard sandwiches and try to focus.
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Again
The timeline is red-herring bullshit. It doesn't matter if CK wrote his piece ten minutes after the shooting, or 100 years. It's still the ravings of a hypcritical lunatic.
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jackyboy
Me: So you're saying Krauthammer knew he had used the tragedy as poltical fodder 48 hours after the fact, and he'd admit it but he'd just claim he meant it's not OK to do so only a few hours afterwards?
Jack; I don't need to speak for Krauthammer. Here's a quote Glenn didn't highlight in his post:
But you have been trying to speak for Krauthammer all along. You're trying to convince us he meant it's ok to use a tragedy as fodder after 48 hours, just not sooner. So of course you're saying that Krauthammer would acknowledge this fact. In other words, he'd admit he used the tragedy as fodder, but he waited the requisite hours so he's not a hypocrite.
But of course you can't say that because it brings into stark relief the absurdity of what you're saying. So you avoid that and instead try to change the subject.
I understand that you're desperate to avoid admitting error, but you're contention in this case would get you laughed out of high school class.
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To me...
in the backwards cap, the vest and black Tee Shirt he looked more like one of those Black Water "contractors" you see surrounding VIPs in Iraq than a suicide bomber.
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Missing the point
My take on CK's piece is that it was too soon to reduce Cho to an icon of woe in the world. Obama lumps him in with outsourcing, Feinstein equates Cho with global warming. Doing so reduces this shooting to a mnemonic way too quickly.
It is the easy categorization that is the problem. It avoids the discussion that this should bring up. Gun control is one as is the consequence of not being "judgemental", the girlification of the males at VT, and the apparent liberal talking points of his "manifesto".
PS. to the twit upthread that thinks one conservative comment to four or five liberal ones is DOS.... what a truly insular life you lead.
PPS. Jack, good on you.
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Arne
This Jack guy is an idjit. A complete drooling imbecile. It's a dirty job to keep these wacknuts in line, but it's fun to see you do it.
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@ Jack
[Hobbes]: Timeline!, timeline!, Calvin. Same day is not equal to 48 hours later!
[Calvin, placing thumb in his mouth]: Stop eating retard sandwiches and try to focus.
OK?
Cheers,
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@armagdnoutofhere
I wonder what you will say when this administration drags all the FOXNews yakkers, radio dittoheads, and RW pundits down the drain along with it. Your guys are tethering themselves to a regime that America now sees to be not only utterly incompetent, but completely lacking in any moral values whatsoever. It is on its way down, and already more than 2/3 of Americans are demanding the Dems investigate and prosecute these crinimals. Keep defending them. You deserve the same fate they do.
That's completely off-topic, but why do I deserve the same fate they do? You want me, a private US citizen, to be investigated and prosecuted for holding an opinion different from your own? They've got a word for that, you know. This administration are not 'my guys'. I just can't stand hypocrites, and in my book Glenn Greenwald is a hypocrite.
This is what Glenn Greenwald wrote to me:
Do you think you can come here and just distort what he said so you can defend him and that nobody will realize you're doing that?
This is after he himself distorted the meaning of CK's words so that he could attack him for saying something he clearly isn't saying. Do not focus on the actual words CK used, focus on what GG tells you CK meant. That's completely dishonest editorializing, it's biased beyond reason and it's exactly what he's crucifying Krauthammer for doing.
If Charles Krauthammer is a hypocrite, then Glenn Greenwald is Charles Krauthammer with a different political philosophy.
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Scooter
My take on CK's piece is that it was too soon (for anybody but rightwingers) to reduce Cho to an icon of woe in the world.
I think you're exactly right, scoots.