Letters to the Editor
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Heh, heh, heh
Maybe you can submit these cheers to the WH and the Cheerleader in Chief can take them on the road with him. They make as much sense as any plan he and his crew has come up with. Let's put his college education to work.
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Surrender is not a solution...
... but it is still an option, right?
Surrender, heh. You have to laugh at the terms they try to pin on the Left. Of course, it has worked on the past, but somehow I think the mood in the country won't let it this time.
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O. M. G.
Like, gag me with a spoon.
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That's not a fair comparison
It's not fair to compare the We-Win-They-Losers to Junior High cheerleaders.
After all, when the school cheerleaders are cheering for a victory, you can be certain that the team they're cheering for has such prerequisits for victory as: a game plan, competent coaching, players chosen from the best athletes at school, and victory is clearly defined.
Meanwhile, the current administration has no plan, an incompetent leader, advisors chosen from the worst of neocon pundits, and no definition of victory.
You do those young girls a dis-service, Glenn.
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Cheer Up!
It's only fitting that a country lead by a former cheerleader should have this sort of foreign policy. And so, in the spirit of patriotism, I'm humbly submitting my own offering:
Winning is good!
Losing is bad!
We're got the best president
We've ever had!
Oh, and speaking of plagiarism. Didn't NBC's Heroes already use the promo line, "Save the cheerleader, save the world"?
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If anybody had the ability to discuss these matters seriously
we might actually get somewhere toward a solution, but nobody can amid the all the catcalling and cheerleading.
You're right -- and very insightful -- to note the parallels between the Victory-defenders and cheerleaders. It doesn't matter what's going on, in other words, there is a ritual to be performed, and so long as that ritual is undertaken properly, the game goes on. The catastrophe that's under way is all but irrelevant. Just keep chanting and cheering.
You ask, "What does 'winning' mean?" And it is obvious to me that the cheerleaders see "winning" in terms of the Wogs' abject submission to their Overlords. They want to own their subject peoples, to see them cringe and grovel, and they want to order them about in any way they desire. What we saw at Abu Ghraib is what "winning" looks like to these people. The entirety of Wogopotamia and Wogistan submitting.
You ask who "they" are, and the answer is equally obvious: all Wogs whatever, with an equal measure of Brown People in general. Any one who is opposed in any way to the March of Empire -- by fiat can be declared Brown or Wog and thus be consigned to the category of They, to be forced to Submit, so that the Victory Believers can Win.
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All I have to say is
"Ouch." Once more, Glenn, your biting wit causes me to wince, and then to chuckle, as you excoriate our media culture. Keep up the good work!
On a side note, since you've been writing a fair bit about how the media isn't talking about important things, you might be interested in this story from CounterPunch yesterday: "The Livni-Rice Plan for the Middle East: a Just Peace or Apartheid?" by Jeff Halper (http://www.counterpunch.org/halper05032007.html). Halper alleges that Rice and Livni are working on putting the Palestinians into limbo, creating a one-state solution that doesn't include any meaningful Palestinian population.
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Did you intend
To spell Frist incorrectly in the headline? Otherwise, great post as usual, Glenn.
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GOP Cheers
Here's a few I came up with (annotated, where necessary, for the acronym-challenged):
No abortin'!
Start deportin'!
No more married queers!
Terrorism! Terrorism!
Fear! Fear!! FEAR!!!
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Lean to the right!
Lean to the right!
IN-vade EYE-ran!
Fight! Fight!! FIGHT!!!
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Two bits, four bits,
Six bits, a dollar!
That should be the minimum wage!
Stand up and holler!!
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Don't tax the wealthy, that's our plan!
Put that back on the common man!
Capital gains and dividends FREE!
But AMT that UMC!!
(AMT - Alternative Minimum Tax)
(UMC - Upper Middle Class)
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Jesus! Jesus! He's our Saviour!
Controls those pesky voters' behavior!
They cast their votes for the GOP,
While we send their jobs to the PRC!!
(PRC - Peoples Republic of China)
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Four ambiguous words
I was going to comment that in the slogan, "We win, they lose," at least the meaning of "We" is pretty clear. Then I thought a little more.
When the strange-thinking people who support the war say "We," I think they're talking about more than just the United States or our military. They think "we" are fighting on behalf of the Forces of all that is Good. In their minds, they've let all the causes they support get wrapped up in this silly war. Some of them probably expect Jesus to come again, to lead our army, in what they expect will become the battle at Armageddon. Maybe that's why George W. Bush is in no hurry to finish the war -- maybe he wants to keep our army in place, waiting for some higher power to take command of it.
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Devolution
We've gone from strategy papers to talking points.
Debates to quiz shows.
Sound bites to sound bits.
Do they start grunting, next?
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@ jpmillertx -- BRILLIANT CHEERS!
AMT the UMC" or "No abortin'!/Start deportin'!/No more married queers!" ?
Honestly, I can't choose a favorite.
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This is actually frightening
This seems to be serious. They really think that shouting slogans is all that's necessary. It's like the Bush administration's approach cubed--just say how you wish the world would be, and then that's what it will be.
Win? What in heavens name does that mean in this context? In practice, it means an indefinite occupation with sovereignty retained by the US, unending sectarian strife and thousands of Iraqis killed every month. It's unfortunate that there is no opportunity to ask these people what they mean by "winning."
But I suppose that's intentional.
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Oh no...you didn't....!!!
You couldn't possibly have typed "Ben Domenech" and plagiarism in the same paragraph!!!!
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Despite not knowing the meaning of "Win." "Lose" or "They"
I can't help wanting to go over and vote for "Lose" because no matter how the Republic Party frames it, no matter what they call it, that's still what I want to happen: our troops to come home and an end to this illegal war based on lies.