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Again with my obsessive reading of the Sunday NY Times OpEd pages now that they are once again free, I was delighted to discover that Stephen Colbert replaces MoDo!
Stephen forgot to mention that Gitmo Gonzales is as bad as any Nazi war criminal, but Frank doesn't. Borrowing from Andrew Sullivan, he reminds us that the Gestapo also had a quaint euphemism, like "enhanced interrogation,"
Irony is dead when Armenian Christian women can be gunned down with impunity on the streets of Baghdad the same week our Congress, against inexplicable opposition from the White House, declares the Turks killing 1.5 million Armenians was genocide -- the same Turkey that is threatening an invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan. I didn't know the added insult to injury of their lineage until I read Rich's column.
No, Stephen didn't get it completely right. It's not all Bush's fault. It's all of our fault according to Rich, because our very humanity has been compromised. It's not enough merely to express our regrets, but to take action to end the madness.
And as painful as it may be to read the slow-motion epiphany that has brought Tom Friedman to the light of reason, it's finally dawning on him that there really are evil/bad/just-plain-horrible men that have no business being President, like the one he led cheers for until a Friedman Unit ago, and there are men destined for glory and leadership that can have the presidency stolen from them and still show their true colors, leading the world where America won't follow.
Stephen could have written Friedman's column too . . . "Boy did we doom the world when we let Bush take Al Gore's job away from him, or what?"
I think Stephen better make a trip to the Washington Post, since their OpEd staff is depressingly still excelling in the stupidity department. For example, their main editorial mirrors the Times in covering the FISA debate, but instead of urging the Democrats to finally stand up to Bush, they advise a compromise. They would at a bare minimum give a pass to the telephone conglomerates who were complicit in "patriotically" abolishing the 4th amendment protections for their customers, well before 9/11,
You see, even though they don't know what the companies did or did not do because the White House refuses to tell the Congress, the WaPs says it seems they still were "acting as patriotic corporate citizens in a difficult and uncharted environment." That has about the same logical consistency as saying, gee, how did such a nice looking, clean cut young man, like (Timothy McVeigh? Jeffery Dalmer?) turn out so wrong.
[Note to Washington Post editorial board. Not all sociopaths look like Charlie Manson or the Unibomgber. Sometimes they even wear an American Flag Pins on their lapels.]
I mean, come on. These people are cheering the "Better Numbers" of deaths in Iraq because we didn't break another record for killing. The crassness of their equating dead bodies with statisics is breathtaking -- just so they can rub it in Hillary Clinton's face. This is the kind of out of touch search for balance that is destroying the very fabric of our nation. It eats our soul. Since the war started, we've averaged somewhere between two and three causalties a day. We still are. We've dipped a bit from the very worst we've seen (which occured a couple of months ago and we shot the average up to 4/day) to about average.
Yippie! Can we bring them home now? Do the statistics leave you cold when you consider that the Iraqi's deaths the US and Washington Post doesn't seem to count total 1,085,134 as of today, making an average of 650 people dead daily. That's gone down a lot since this thing started if you look at the trends, where a mere 58 dead and 22 wounded is seen as average today since a lot of the carnage took place during major combat operations.
See, with the 58 dead Iraqi body count Saturday, only 38 Friday, 118 Thursday, 131 Wednesday, 76 Tuesday, 54 Monday and a mere 23 last Sunday, it wasn't that bad a week, was it. Only 798 graves had to be dug this week. Great News! Soon, there won't be any Iraqis to occupy anyway.
It really is aweful at the Post. That dottering old fool David Broder discovered what America figured out two decades ago, that we have to change from employer-based health care to something with a government subsidy. Actually, Broder only notices that there's growing support for such a move.
Growing David. really? According to your own paper's polling, we wanted government sponsored universal health care by a 2 to 1 margin back in 2005. Is it now something you will take notice of because today even a majority of Republicans believe health care should be a right? I guess it's okay, then, to talk of such things in polite company.
Here's a quarter David. Buy a clue. In fact, here's two. Give one to your collegue David Crane who just carbon emmissions and didn't need Al Gore to tell him it's bad. What? Crane isn't a regular you say, but a guest who's actually one of those energy company executives. You don't think his realization that pollution and greenhouse gasses are bad have anything to do with the fact he wants to build a couple new nuclear power plants, do you? That kind of lobby/spin stuff isn't allowed on the sacred pages of the Washington Post's OpEd section. If that were what Crane was up to, he'd have to buy space in the paper for that, right?
He sounds so "green" for a corporate mega-polluter, he symbolizes the nadir of balance.
[ugh!]
Rounding out the trail of bird-cage liner at WaPo, David (yes another one) Ignatius, an Armeinian American who somehow manages to make excuses for the Turks' reluctance to acknowleged their own history of genocide. Talk about an unassisted reach-around in the interests of the elusive balance one must display in order to write for the Post. Amazing.
He even recommends that Condi Rice take some of Brzezinski's ideas to heart, to see both sides, to be more balanced in her approach to the Middle East, even though he thinks she's a fool.
And then there's George Will. Frankly, I haven't a clue what he's pissed about today, but he's sick of paying for it. But in his unbalanced way, he at least takes a stand -- against training social workers? After I had to look up the word "traduced" in the first paragraph, I was pretty lost on how he got from saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school to opposing abortion and homosexual foster homes.
I think he needs sensitivity training, but he never would subject himself to such socialist propaganda.
Bad things are happening in countries you shouldn’t have to think about. It’s all George Bush’s fault, the vice president is Satan, and God is gay.In fact, he could pretty much replace their entire editorial staff, who've completely gone off the reservation.
There. Now I’ve written Frank Rich’s column too.
Ever since 9/11, we have watched Republican lawmakers help Mr. Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism. We have seen Democrats acquiesce or retreat in fear. It is time for that to stop.No, that wasn't some form of comic relief. The editorial board of the New York (Freaking) Times is imploring the Democratic Party to take a stand against George Bush's lawlessness. Not even Colbert could come up with such a ludicrously impossible idea. That sort of pipedream is "off the table."
Stephen forgot to mention that Gitmo Gonzales is as bad as any Nazi war criminal, but Frank doesn't. Borrowing from Andrew Sullivan, he reminds us that the Gestapo also had a quaint euphemism, like "enhanced interrogation,"
'Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the ‘third degree.’ It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation."He connects the ongoing torture we've been engaged in since we first saw the pictures of Abu Ghraib with the privatization of war crimes by our hired mercenaries that I blogged about Tuesday (consistent with the anti-government policies of our government).
Irony is dead when Armenian Christian women can be gunned down with impunity on the streets of Baghdad the same week our Congress, against inexplicable opposition from the White House, declares the Turks killing 1.5 million Armenians was genocide -- the same Turkey that is threatening an invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan. I didn't know the added insult to injury of their lineage until I read Rich's column.
No, Stephen didn't get it completely right. It's not all Bush's fault. It's all of our fault according to Rich, because our very humanity has been compromised. It's not enough merely to express our regrets, but to take action to end the madness.
And as painful as it may be to read the slow-motion epiphany that has brought Tom Friedman to the light of reason, it's finally dawning on him that there really are evil/bad/just-plain-horrible men that have no business being President, like the one he led cheers for until a Friedman Unit ago, and there are men destined for glory and leadership that can have the presidency stolen from them and still show their true colors, leading the world where America won't follow.
Stephen could have written Friedman's column too . . . "Boy did we doom the world when we let Bush take Al Gore's job away from him, or what?"
I think Stephen better make a trip to the Washington Post, since their OpEd staff is depressingly still excelling in the stupidity department. For example, their main editorial mirrors the Times in covering the FISA debate, but instead of urging the Democrats to finally stand up to Bush, they advise a compromise. They would at a bare minimum give a pass to the telephone conglomerates who were complicit in "patriotically" abolishing the 4th amendment protections for their customers, well before 9/11,
You see, even though they don't know what the companies did or did not do because the White House refuses to tell the Congress, the WaPs says it seems they still were "acting as patriotic corporate citizens in a difficult and uncharted environment." That has about the same logical consistency as saying, gee, how did such a nice looking, clean cut young man, like (Timothy McVeigh? Jeffery Dalmer?) turn out so wrong.
[Note to Washington Post editorial board. Not all sociopaths look like Charlie Manson or the Unibomgber. Sometimes they even wear an American Flag Pins on their lapels.]
I mean, come on. These people are cheering the "Better Numbers" of deaths in Iraq because we didn't break another record for killing. The crassness of their equating dead bodies with statisics is breathtaking -- just so they can rub it in Hillary Clinton's face. This is the kind of out of touch search for balance that is destroying the very fabric of our nation. It eats our soul. Since the war started, we've averaged somewhere between two and three causalties a day. We still are. We've dipped a bit from the very worst we've seen (which occured a couple of months ago and we shot the average up to 4/day) to about average.
Yippie! Can we bring them home now? Do the statistics leave you cold when you consider that the Iraqi's deaths the US and Washington Post doesn't seem to count total 1,085,134 as of today, making an average of 650 people dead daily. That's gone down a lot since this thing started if you look at the trends, where a mere 58 dead and 22 wounded is seen as average today since a lot of the carnage took place during major combat operations.
See, with the 58 dead Iraqi body count Saturday, only 38 Friday, 118 Thursday, 131 Wednesday, 76 Tuesday, 54 Monday and a mere 23 last Sunday, it wasn't that bad a week, was it. Only 798 graves had to be dug this week. Great News! Soon, there won't be any Iraqis to occupy anyway.
It really is aweful at the Post. That dottering old fool David Broder discovered what America figured out two decades ago, that we have to change from employer-based health care to something with a government subsidy. Actually, Broder only notices that there's growing support for such a move.
Growing David. really? According to your own paper's polling, we wanted government sponsored universal health care by a 2 to 1 margin back in 2005. Is it now something you will take notice of because today even a majority of Republicans believe health care should be a right? I guess it's okay, then, to talk of such things in polite company.
Here's a quarter David. Buy a clue. In fact, here's two. Give one to your collegue David Crane who just carbon emmissions and didn't need Al Gore to tell him it's bad. What? Crane isn't a regular you say, but a guest who's actually one of those energy company executives. You don't think his realization that pollution and greenhouse gasses are bad have anything to do with the fact he wants to build a couple new nuclear power plants, do you? That kind of lobby/spin stuff isn't allowed on the sacred pages of the Washington Post's OpEd section. If that were what Crane was up to, he'd have to buy space in the paper for that, right?
He sounds so "green" for a corporate mega-polluter, he symbolizes the nadir of balance.
[ugh!]
Rounding out the trail of bird-cage liner at WaPo, David (yes another one) Ignatius, an Armeinian American who somehow manages to make excuses for the Turks' reluctance to acknowleged their own history of genocide. Talk about an unassisted reach-around in the interests of the elusive balance one must display in order to write for the Post. Amazing.
He even recommends that Condi Rice take some of Brzezinski's ideas to heart, to see both sides, to be more balanced in her approach to the Middle East, even though he thinks she's a fool.
And then there's George Will. Frankly, I haven't a clue what he's pissed about today, but he's sick of paying for it. But in his unbalanced way, he at least takes a stand -- against training social workers? After I had to look up the word "traduced" in the first paragraph, I was pretty lost on how he got from saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school to opposing abortion and homosexual foster homes.
I think he needs sensitivity training, but he never would subject himself to such socialist propaganda.
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