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People around the world were shocked and outraged by the terror ist bombings in London last week. But for the talking heads over at the Fox News Channel, this terrible human tragedy was an opportunity for som e truly idiotic spin. Brit Hume saw the bombings as a chance make a little extra cash. Brian Kilmeade thought they would somehow "work t o our advantage." And while we're on the subject of morons in the media, don't miss wh at Paul Harvey had to say.
July 2003 "Either we take the war to the terrorists and fight them where they are at this moment in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere or at some point we will have to fight them here at home."
September 2 004 "The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than triple d last year, according to US government figures, a sharp upswing in de adly attacks that the State Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on terrorism due to Congress this week."
Dick Cheney, May 2005 "In total, for the year from the handover of sovereignty on June 28, 2004 , until June 23, 2005, there were at least 479 car bombs, killing 2,174 people and wounding 5,520. Last month was the most violent for Iraqi civilians since the US-led invasion to remove Saddam Hussein from pow er in March 2003."
the Iraq insurgency poses an international threat and may produce bet ter-trained Islamic terrorists than the 1980s Afghanistan war that gave rise to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda."
July 20 05 "There were nearly 3,200 terrorist attacks worldwide last year, the Bush Administration said yesterday, using a broader definition that increased fivefold the number of incidents that Washington had previously tallied for 2004."
July 2005 Somebody wake me up when these people figure out what the hell they're do ing. Fox News anchors could barely contain the ir glee as news of the destruction filtered in.
"First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, wher e their topic Number 1 - believe it or not - was global warming, the sec ond was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they sh ould know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1" Well certainly, Brian, terrorism is a very important issue. But what's yo ur personal opinion of the London attacks? "I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage, f or people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles fro m where the attacks have happened." Perhaps Brian and Brit should get toge ther and form Enormous Assholes Anonymous.
according to News Hounds, that "he wished Paris would have got ten the 2012 Olympics because it would have been a treat to watch them d eal with terrorist threats." It always warms my heart to see a news anchor wishing a terrorist attack on someone. So did Gibson feel any remorse for his prescient remarks when London was attacked just one day later?
s aid he, "it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. By the way John, there's a new organizati on you might be interested in called "Enormous Assholes Anonymous."
Jane's Defense security expert Tim Ripley said, "You have to ask: what ar e they doing compromising a deep mole within al Qaeda, when it's so diff icult to get these guys in there in the first place? It goes against all the rules of counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, running agents and s o forth. It's not exactly cloak and dagger undercover work if it's on th e front pages every time there's a development, is it?"
noted that "The announcement of Khan's name fo rced the British to arrest 12 members of an al-Qaeda cell prematurely, b efore they had finished gathering the necessary evidence against them vi a Khan." At least one of those people was subsequently released due to l ack of evidence. Like I said, wake me u p when they figure out what the hell they're doing. Fortunately Our Great Leader has at least got the fall ing off a bicycle part down pat.
Oh, I'm sorry - I forgot that if I even dare to suggest that George W Bu sh is an inept buffoon, the terrorists have won. What we need is good men like Paul Harvey in charge, then we'd see some results.
"We're standing t here dying, daring to do nothing decisive because we've declared ourselv es to be better than our terrorist enemies - more moral, more civilized, " said he. So Paul has the perfect solution - be worse than our terroris t enemies. "We sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq and kept our best weap ons in their silos," he continued, presumably referring to nuclear missi les, before winding up with this wholesome rant: "We didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy. Once upon a t ime, we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving smallpo x-infected blankets to Native Americans. An d we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. So it goes with most great nation-states, which - feeling guilty about their savage pasts - eventually civilize themselves out of busine ss and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry up-a nd-coming who are not made of sugar candy."
criticized for holding a Republican f undraiser at an all-white country club: his response? Ehrlich also played the usual catch-all get-out-of-jail free card, compla ining of a "double standard" because there was no outcry when Democrats held fundraisers there, although curiously he declined to name any actua l Democrats because, he said, he didn't want to embarrass them. He was not aware of the country club's membership compositi on, and as the leader of a diverse county, he appreciates that it has be en brought to his attention. Clearly he will not have future campaign ev ents hosted at this location." That certainly seems like a more appropriate response than "it's not my b usiness." The incident occurred when Schelenski, in his car, blocked the path of a bicyclist and refused to move.
Schelenski then got back in his car and drove off, but was arrested when he returned to the scene to apologize. Except it wasn't much of an apolo gy - he told police that all he tried to do was shake Hall's bike and sh e was the one who fell over. Congratulations Mr Schelenski - you're a conservative idiot! Last w eek it was revealed that when Harris was Florida's secretary of state, s he spent six months advocating "Celestial Drops" as a solution to the ca nker problem.
In August 2001, Harris herself jotted a note to Hardoon. Unfortunately it turns out that even with an "impro ved fractal design" and "high energy and low entropy," the Celestial Dro p solution didn't work because, well, it was just water. Although to be fair, the Sentinel does note that it was "possibly, mystically blessed w ater."
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