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Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Right-wing blogs discover massive conspiracy to hide WMDs in Iraq

The embrace by leading neoconservatives and other war supporters of the most bizarre and deranged conspiracy theories speaks volumes about their credibility and judgment.

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Monday, August 13, 2007 01:28 PM

Liberalism & How It's Destroying America

There's a hilarious new book that really sticks it to libs. Everything from the war on terror - illegal immigration - global warming and more. Hillary, Teddy, Algore, Michael Moore and Rosie are really taken to task. Hard facts mixed with irreverant humor.

It's on Amazon - Liberalism & How It's Destroying America

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:05 AM

Down the SINK-hole with the Neocon(spirator)s

The neocons need a better handle on this whole GWOT thing that they’ve created. Clearly their attempt to spin it as the new WWII (all that talk about an “Axis” of Evil and islamo-”fascists” and Saddam the Most Evil Dictator of All Time Since Adolph, and the whole undercurrent of Arabs vs Israel, therefore Islamic anti-semitism, etc etc) … it’s just not cutting it anymore. I mean, even Fox “News” won’t play those cards; that’s how dead the are.

But, luckily for the neconspirators, Ms Melanie Phillips may have stumbled on a way out: The S.I.N.K-hole. (S.I.N.K.=Syria, Iran, North Korea. Get it?) And to make it even more sinister, drop the Axis thing altogether and bring in Da Roooskies! So, it’s less like WWII and more like the Cold War. And then put China in there too, ‘cos they’re Crazy Commies pretending to be Capitalists so they can get their hands on Our Oil and Natural Gas and … See? It’s all coming together now. Why didn’t we see this before? So, the AmeriBrits conjured up the WMD, and Da Roooskies spirited them away. To Syria. Which is in cahoots with Iran. Which is mean to captured British sailors. Who can point to North Korea on a map. Unlike the US. Which is run by incompetent unBritish people who let bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people and are then too embarrassed to ‘fess up! Which explains Everything.

Why, if it weren’t for the glories of the British intellect, we’d probably all stumble about in the Dark blaming … ourselves? I do hope Ms Phillips has a chance to talk to Our Tony before he leaves Number Ten this summer. I’m sure it’ll brighten his day to know that there's still at least one Brit out there who's is so benighted she STILL believes his claim thar Iraq had WMDs and he had the proof right from the start!

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PS -- Note that Ms Phillips distances herself from her source by reporting that he “says X” and “he says Y.” But, what does he ACTUALLY say? NOT that he found WMD … but that “he found the sites where he is certain they were stored.” Hmmm. So, his certainty trumps every other source of information?

WE didn’t find any WMD.

HE didn’t find any WMD.

But, he found the bunkers that “must” have contained them.

So, therefore, they "must" have been there.

And if they’re gone now, it can only be because they were … (gasp) … moved by someone.

And that someone can only be … (gasp) … Da Rooskie SINK-hole!

See how everything fits if you use Logic?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:17 AM

Is Congress now a seat of investigative journalism and analysis?

Anonymous wrote, "The problem is -- how do we fix it? How we get out of this place where we as a society have become naked and defenseless against government manipulation of the press?"

I'm heartened to learn that Rep. Waxman, Chair of the House Oversight Committee, has a hearing scheduled today to investigate the military’s false statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch in Iraq, and whether the misinformation was a part of a deliberate strategy to mislead the public.

Maybe Waxman can get two birds with this stone, and nab not only the government but the mainstream media's unquestioning complicitness in the disinformation campaign. Is real investigative journalism going to happen in the House now, since it doesn't happen in the MSM? Pardon me if I'm getting confused! Since the traditional press has abdicated its responsibilities (and Congress itself has been - as Lindsay Graham put it - AWOL for too long) - is Waxman the new Woodward?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 08:17 AM

Or maybe, kdw,

it's all that Vogon poetry they read to you as a kid. Ask Mr. Gonzales, he knows.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 07:03 AM

@timberman

I'm xenophobic because I like Calcutta? Speaking of things I don't get .... Must be a homophone. Or something.

Monday, April 23, 2007 10:17 PM

Projection

I don't get creating new spellings for proper nouns for which we already have good spellings. -- kdwmson

No, of course you don't. You don't get a lot of things.

Whatever your itch is, you won't get it scratched here. Casting me as a character in your own little xenophobic passion play says more about you than about me. Ask anyone.

Monday, April 23, 2007 09:38 PM

@timberman

It's not really a homophone if it's not a word; it's just misspelled.

I don't get creating new spellings for proper nouns for which we already have good spellings. Everybody knows where Calcutta is. Kolkata? I don't think so. Spelling it with a "K" doesn't make it more Bengali — or "more Bangla," which I'm sure you'd prefer. And even if it did, India (Hindustan? Bharat? Which?) has 22 other official languages, one of which, English, predominates.

And it's just silly to be walking around Mumbai in your "Chennai" plaid shorts looking for Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Station when the taxi drivers live in Bombay and drop you off at Victoria Terminus.

It's almost as bad as those insufferable campus leftist types who pronounce words like "Nicaragua" with extravagent Spanish accents — Nee har AHH kWhaa! — as though speaking English with silly pseudo-Spanish inflections were the same as speaking Spanish. I don't know that there's a Bengali equivalent to doing the full Speedy Gonzales, but writing "Kolkata" comes close, especially when it comes from some squishy American anticapitalist trying to intimate that he's down with the Third World.

Monday, April 23, 2007 09:16 PM

it's taboo at Redstate.com to bring shine reality on a "WMD found" story

I enjoy being a troll at RedState.com from time to time, though it's tricky to post there given their constant hunt for mobys, purity trolls, and all the other things I might want to be. Anyway, recently there was an article there about the latest WMDs found in Iraq (such stories come to RedState.com with some regularity. This time the offending substance was nitric acid, a common industrial chemical that any civilized nation is going to have in abundance. But because it can be used to "make explosives" and because it "can burn the skin" - all these meathead armchair chemists were touting it as conclusive proof that finally the WMDs had been found! I pointed out that nitric acid was a common industrial chemical and was immediately shouted down. Nobody wanted to learn any chemistry if it meant they'd have to reassess their latest proof of the rightness of Bush's invasion.

Read it all for yourself, it's a hoot:

http://www.redstate.com/stories/war/more_chemical_weapons_found_in_iraq

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