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What Happened to George Will?
In today’s Democrat & Chronicle is a column by George Will that was printed in larger papers yesterday. I read it and my jaw dropped. When did George Will become Andrew Sullivan? Before Gen. David Petraeus’s report, and to give it a context of optimism, the president visited Iraq’s Anbar province to underscore the success of the surge in making some hitherto anarchic areas less so. More significant, however, was that the president did not visit Baghdad. This underscored the fact that the surge has failed, as measured by the president’s and Petraeus’s standards of success. The President has visited Baghdad several times. How is the success of the surge measured by his visit to Anbar rather than to Baghdad? Anbar is a success story and a place that both Iraqis and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Fiskings, Iraq, Original writing, War on Terror
Hitchens Hates
I tossed Christopher Hitchens out of the pool of those I respect some time ago, for his mean spirited hatchet jobs on Bob Hope and Sister Teresa. He’s done another, on Pope Benedict, whom he can only refer to by his give name and not his religious one. Curiously, he does not follow the same naming convention with regard to Byzantine Emperor Manuel II. First, he cheap shots the title “Pope” by comparing the head of the Roman Catholic Church to that of the Coptic Church. There are well over 1 billion Roman Catholics in the world, and about 225 million Orthodox. In that 220 million are 30 million Copts. Hardly a fair comparison. Of course, Hitchens repeats the lie that the Catholic Church was spread by violence. There would have been no established … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiskings, Original writing
The Loathesome Christopher Hitchens
The worm who mugged Mother Teresa and Bob Hope turns his filthy thoughts to Iraq, and the issue of news being distributed by the military to Iraqi media. Christopher Hitchens climbs on his high horse and pontificates based upon the New York Times story that I’ve already demonstrated is error filled and slanted. But Chrissy proceeds, none the less, since goodness and right are mere concepts in the real world. His first charge is that it discredits Iraqi media at a delicate time in their development. Obviously he hasn’t read any Iraqi papers or any Iraqi bloggers. The beauty of the Iraqi media is that each and every outlet has a perspective. Some are very religious, some not. Some pro-American, some not. The Iraqis understand that it is pure fiction to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Fiskings, Iraq, Media, Old Media, Original writing, War on Terror
Our Government and Our Allies
Just for your information, France, Germany, and the rest of Old Europe: The President of the United States is under no obligation to obtain your approval of any of his appointments. Nor, would we expect you to obtain ours in similar circumstances. So, butt the hell out! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiskings, Original writing, Politics
Gabriel Murray
Hey, let’s get all of Gabriel’s comments today in one place, and make faces at them. In order from last to first: I also wanted to clarify something: Chuck’s claim that liberals don’t care about brown people was based on a Google search. Thank you, anonymous: that was a hilariously inane rebuttal. I felt compelled to praise it at my blog, Public Editor. I’m not surprised that you would turn this into another cheap shot on the UN as a whole. Comparing Egeland to Bundy and Gotti illustrates how extreme your views are, as if it weren’t evident enough from your blog. >Remember, Egeland was talking about all Americans, not> just the right. Actually, he said that most of the citizens of these supposedly stingycountries wanted to give *more* but that … Read entire article »
Filed under: Charity, Fiskings, Original writing, Stingy List, Tsunami relief
Dirtsville, USA
Joanne98, with over a 1,000 posts at Democratic Underground spews this: Democratic Underground Since tomorrow is the anniversary of the “excuse” the cowboy uses to attack anybody he wants to. I’m bracing myself for the ongoing images of people in small red state towns exploiting the victims of 9/11.CNN is already showing people in small town Texas CRYING over New York City’s loses. Well, you know what. You never liked New Yorkers. You hated New Yorkers remember. If you really cared about the victims of 9/11 you would vote for John Kerry because that’s the only thing they want you to do. But NO! Instead you brought the Bush bastard’s convention to ground Zero and thought NYC would be glad to see you.Instead of getting flowers and candy you got protesters, a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiskings, Original writing, September 11, War on Terror
Berger: Incident Was Honest Mistake
BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT This is as simple as you taking a pee in the morning. The wife discovers that you peed in the sink. Honest mistake? Hardly. Sandy Berger has been doing this classified stuff for a long time. He violated the rules on as many as five occasions. There is ZERO chance that this was a mistake. I don’t care if he snuck the notes and documents out in his socks or walked out with them in plain sight. He knew the rules and violated them intentionally. … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Fiskings, Original writing, Politics
Taking a Clue Bat to Molly Ivins
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, eh? Molly Ivins writes for Creators Syndicate. 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Bolded items from here on are my comments. We have been enjoying a lovely little spate of French-bashing here lately. Jonah Goldberg of National Review, who admits that French-bashing is “shtick” (as it is to many American comedians), has popularized the phrase “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” to describe the French. It gets a lot less attractive than that. Or funnier, depending on your point of view George Will saw fit to include in his latest Newsweek column this joke: “How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? No one knows, it’s never been tried.” That was certainly amusing. It’s called satire, Molly, one of the tools a writer uses to convey his point and still make … Read entire article »
Filed under: Fiskings, Original writing
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Andrew Sullivan and the The Tea Tantrum Movement
April 14th, 2009 | Comments Off
Back when Andrew Sullivan was a conservative, he sent lots of traffic this way with a number of links. So, I feel a certain sadness with his change of perspective over the last few years. Andrew wrote a piece titled The Tea Tantrum Movement for The Atlantic. It is his take on the Tea Party protest movement based on an admitted hour or so of on-line research. He professes to have emerged from his rigorous course of research perplexed, bothered and bewildered. He describes the movement as “some kind of amorphous, generalized rage on the part of those who were used to running the country and now don’t feel part of the culture at all”. He calls it “adolescent, unserious hysteria”. Andrew makes the error that most liberals insist upon, that this is a … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Commentary, Fiskings, Original writing, Politics, Pork Busters