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You are here: Home / Politics / Media / The Inalienable Right

The Inalienable Right

by Tim F|  January 28, 200711:30 am| 20 Comments

This post is in: Media, General Stupidity

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Chalk one up for Atrios. There is literally nothing that a rightwinger can say that will sever him from the popular media feeding trough.

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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    January 28, 2007 at 12:32 pm

    I watched the Matthews and George Stephangreeknames’ shows this morning and was struck with this revelation–the Republicans are truly digging themselves a grave when they simply refuse to acknowledge the anti-war sentiment.

    I was awestruck how every Republican attempted to paint the non-binding resolution as some pointless, out-of-touch-with-America endeavor. Do they not see the polls, do they not trust them, or do they simply ignore them? I gave enough credit to the R’s to at least know when to capitulate on the Iraq disaster; it turns out (aside from Hagel), they really haven’t broke ranks at all.

    WOW is this going to fuck them in ’08…obscenely obstinate to the bitter end. Darwin in effect, I surmise.

  2. 2.

    jake

    January 28, 2007 at 12:38 pm

    Shorter D’Sousaphone: Waaah! No one understands me.

    How stupid do you have to be to think repeating your “attackers'” accusations is a good defense? “Your honour, my client is not guilty and to prove it I will introduce this tape of his confession!”

    Is special training required or will careful application of a ball peen hammer to the skull do the trick?

    As always, the comments section to his multi-paragraph whingefest provide a lot of good clean fun.

  3. 3.

    Punchy

    January 28, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    As always, the comments section to his multi-paragraph whingefest provide a lot of good clean fun.

    Geez, you’re not kidding. The next time Mr. Cole feels he’s being beaten up by his readers, somebody link to this excoriation for an appropriate baseline. A drubbing par excellence…

  4. 4.

    ThymeZone

    January 28, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    Do they not see the polls, do they not trust them, or do they simply ignore them?

    Punch, they have been playing the war-sniff-our-troops card for so long, they don’t know how to stop.

    They actually think that talking about how this resolution “aids the enemy” is going to work as this kind of bullshit has worked so many times in the past.

    But it’s not. Bob Schieffer said it best today on Face the Nation, I’ll paraphrase for now, no transcript available:

    This is the price you pay for democracy. The thing that encourages the enemy and is bad for the troops is that the American government has squandered the trust it needs to represent the troops and the defense.

    And as Jim Webb said on this same program, the troops aren’t the government, they are people like all other Americans, representing the whole spectrum of thought. You don’t “support the troops” by supporting bad policy that puts troops in harm’s way without a plan, without measures for success, and without any confidence in the management of the adventure.

  5. 5.

    Dug Jay

    January 28, 2007 at 2:58 pm

    Is this the same Jim Webb that said during the so-called Tailgate scandal that “…some women are just asking for a little rape.”

  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    January 28, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    WOW is this going to fuck them in ‘08…obscenely obstinate to the bitter end. Darwin *Darrell* in effect, I surmise.

    Fixed.

    I don’t think Darwin ever invisioned Darrells determined to prove his theory of natural selection wrong through personal examples.

  7. 7.

    Walker

    January 28, 2007 at 3:16 pm

    Is this the same Jim Webb that said during the so-called Tailgate scandal that “…some women are just asking for a little rape.”

    Do you have anything to back up that claim, or is it just slander? A Google on Tailhook and Jim Web (as well as “asking for rape” or “asking for it”) revealed nothing on the kind.

    All I found were out-of-context quotes by political opponents about his concerns that Tailhook started out as a necessary investigation and then turned into a witch hunt.

  8. 8.

    Pooh

    January 28, 2007 at 4:25 pm

    Do you have anything to back up that claim

    No

    SATSQ

  9. 9.

    lard lad

    January 28, 2007 at 7:24 pm

    Shorter D’Sousaphone: Waaah! No one understands me.

    As always, the comments section to his multi-paragraph whingefest provide a lot of good clean fun.

    Jake – Got a link? Seeing that odious little prick D’Sousa making a self-pitying ass of himself and getting called on it would make my day.

    Anyone here catch the Dinesh D’Spanking administered by Stephen Colbert the week before last? Too, too sweet…

  10. 10.

    demkat620

    January 28, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    I was awestruck how every Republican attempted to paint the non-binding resolution as some pointless, out-of-touch-with-America endeavor. Do they not see the polls, do they not trust them, or do they simply ignore them? I gave enough credit to the R’s to at least know when to capitulate on the Iraq disaster; it turns out (aside from Hagel), they really haven’t broke ranks at all.

    WOW is this going to fuck them in ‘08…obscenely obstinate to the bitter end. Darwin in effect, I surmise.

    My sentiments exactly when I watched Lugar today. Thinking back over the last two years they really are extremely slow on the uptake. It took them two weeks to figure out Terri Schiavo was not a good issue for them, two weeks to figure out that blaming Katrina victims wasn’t a good idea and they still haven’t figured out that they tried this exact same play before the election and it didn’t work.

    Have they always been like this and I just failed to notice or are they losing it?

  11. 11.

    jake

    January 28, 2007 at 8:30 pm

    Seeing that odious little prick D’Sousa making a self-pitying ass of himself and getting called on it would make my day.

    Try this. If that doesn’t work, follow the 2nd link Tim F. provides it should take you to the WP article. Scroll all the way down the page and there should be a link: “View all comments.”

    He’s only up to 12 “pages” which is nothing to the 100+ page thrashing Liz Cheney received. Must be that librul sexism at work again.

  12. 12.

    Mike

    January 28, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    Anyone here catch the Dinesh D’Spanking administered by Stephen Colbert the week before last? Too, too sweet…

    My God, that was too priceless watching that. And to think, Dinesh is one of their best. Stephen made him look like an idiot, and he wasn’t even trying.

  13. 13.

    Bruce Moomaw

    January 28, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    D’Souza (or, as I used to think of him during his bright college days on the Dartmouth Review, “D’Sewer”) is NOT “one of their best”. What he really is, is a fascinating indicator of a major fault line running even through the small clump of remaining Bushites. The Christian-Right Bushites tend to agree with him, or at least make excuses for him; the remaining non-Christian-Right Bushites (especially the remaining Neocons) can’t stand him, and say so in print.

    After all, my God, the man is saying that bin Laden is RIGHT to “hate us for our freedom”. (He and Chomsky really ought to start a travelling vaudeville act: “We both like bin Laden, but for completely different reasons!”)

  14. 14.

    Derek

    January 29, 2007 at 2:25 am

    And people on the far left agree with Bin Laden in hating America. Hate from the left, hate from the right. Everything normal here.

  15. 15.

    rbl

    January 29, 2007 at 9:56 am

    He and Chomsky really ought to start a travelling vaudeville act: “We both like bin Laden, but for completely different reasons!

    Any justification for that claim? What has Chomsky said in favor of Bin Laden? Pointing out that AQ doesn’t hate America for its freedoms doesn’t count.

  16. 16.

    Zifnab

    January 29, 2007 at 10:47 am

    My God, that was too priceless watching that. And to think, Dinesh is one of their best. Stephen made him look like an idiot, and he wasn’t even trying.

    He has a magic little way of making Ann Coulter looking intelligent and insightful. When can I expect to see him as a FOX News pundit? Oh, right. He’s a brown person.

  17. 17.

    Bruce Moomaw

    January 30, 2007 at 2:45 am

    Chomsky has certainly made a habit, ever since 9-11, of saying that the moral blame for the 9-11 attack — and for the hatred that Moslem extremists feel toward the US, even when it’s openly based on rabid religious bigotry — lies almost entirely with the Wicked U.S. He’s also been fond of travelling through the Moslem world and actually telling them that their hatred is justified. I used to think of him as the left-wing version of Ezra Pound, until D’Souza popped up as the real thing.

  18. 18.

    rbl

    January 30, 2007 at 3:53 am

    Chomsky has certainly made a habit, ever since 9-11, of saying

    Link? Where/When did he day this?

  19. 19.

    mclaren

    January 30, 2007 at 10:33 pm

    I admit it. I’m a liberal, and D’Souza has got me dead to rights. I have a secret chamber underneath my house in which I have built an altar to Osama bin Laden, and every night I chortle and rub my hands and make BWA-HA-HA! giggling sounds when I hear that another American solider has been killed in Iraq.
    Among my sinister plans for America:

    All old people will be turned into dog food and recycled when they get sick. The same goes double for all conservatives regardless whether they get sick or not.

    I plan to make gay marriage mandatory for everyone — including dogs and cats.

    Not only do I want to abort all foetuses, I want to eat them for breakfast. All liberals do. We can’t help it! That’s the secret function of worchestershire sauce! To keep liberals from gagging when they wolf down those foetuses!

    I keep a secret shortwave radio set in my closet which gives me orders from Al Qaeda every night. Moreover, I plan to require everyone to have one — and us it.

    I support the fluoridation of America’s water, which not only pollutes the purity of our bodily essence, it distorts our DNA and converts us all into Islamofascists.

    On weekends, I spend my time planting artificially aged rocks with phoney radiatioctive dating traces in remote badlands to dupe scientists into thinking the earth is more than 6,000 years old. The fools! If only they knew! It’s a worldwide conspiracy for liberals, and it’s been going on for CENTURIES!!!

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