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You are here: Home / Politics / Media / Let The Red State/Malkin/Hewitt Freak Out Begin

Let The Red State/Malkin/Hewitt Freak Out Begin

by John Cole|  September 21, 20079:23 am| 132 Comments

This post is in: Media, Republican Stupidity

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Maclean’s:

Liberal journalists, AND they are Canadian. Probably French-Canadian at that. It’s a twofer.

Someone better get a Senate Resolution fired up!

*** Update ***

You ask, Malkin delivers:

When your left-wing magazine is in need of some quick buzz and a cheap circulation boost, what do you do? Go for the easy Bush-bashing photoshop, of course.

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  1. 1.

    Zifnab

    September 21, 2007 at 9:28 am

    *Craps pants*
    *Creams jeans*
    *Snorts cocaine*

    Hate-gasm!

  2. 2.

    JoeTx

    September 21, 2007 at 9:32 am

    If the shoe fits….

  3. 3.

    scav

    September 21, 2007 at 9:32 am

    MoveOver MoveOn!

  4. 4.

    Dave in ME

    September 21, 2007 at 9:36 am

    Fucking Canucks – going all superior and shit on us because the looney is reaching parity with the dollar.

    Cue planning for Canadian invasion in 3….2…..1

  5. 5.

    canuckistani

    September 21, 2007 at 9:37 am

    And our dollar is passing yours…
    Booyah!

  6. 6.

    The Other Steve

    September 21, 2007 at 9:38 am

    All Hat, no Horse

    Bush is terrified of horses.

    President Bush may like to be seen as a swaggering tough guy with a penchant for manly outdoor pursuits, but in a new book one of his closest allies has said he is afraid of horses.

    Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, derided his political friend as a “windshield cowboy” – a cowboy who prefers to drive – and “the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life”.

    He recalled a meeting in Mexico shortly after both men had been elected when Mr Fox offered Mr Bush a ride on a “big palomino” horse.

    Mr Fox, who left office in December, recalled Mr Bush “backing away” from the animal.

    Hell, even I’ve ridden a horse. Just like two months ago we went horseback riding. Granted, it was a nice slow horse, and we did single file behind the leader.

  7. 7.

    chopper

    September 21, 2007 at 9:38 am

    plus, they’re named after a crappy reduced-fat mcdonalds hamburger.

    and zif, you forgot ‘taps foot’.

  8. 8.

    28 Percent

    September 21, 2007 at 9:43 am

    That is an OUTRAGE but do not believe them Macleans if that is their real name only wants to sell books. They do not care if we win or lose they only care about theyre own political gains they do not understand that REAL AMERICANS SUPPORT THE TROOPS and that is why they are so unpoppular. They think that if they make us lose by making more Americans believe that we can not win that they will score political points it is all politics with them. They will give up and make our brave men and women in uniform have died for nothing by not staying the course until it is won. They say that more will soldiers will die – of course they will duh they are not called LEFTARDS for nothing – but that does not matter that is why they signed up you forget it is a VOLUNTEER ARMY. That means that they WANT TO FIGHT. It is SHAMEFUL that Maclean’s does this to try to break the spirits of our troops but theyre plan to help the terrorists will not work becaue nobody I know reads theyre magazine anyway.

  9. 9.

    canuckistani

    September 21, 2007 at 9:50 am

    Macleans is a Canadian news amagazine, kinda the equivalent of Time or Newsweek up here. So 28% ought to be saying “They are ANTI_AMERICAN and hate MMERICA and love gayness and drugs and ISLAM”.
    We don’t actually have to support your troops.

  10. 10.

    kchiker

    September 21, 2007 at 9:50 am

    President Bush may like to be seen as a swaggering tough guy with a penchant for manly outdoor pursuits, but in a new book one of his closest allies has said he is afraid of horses.

    THIS one is just way too good. Maybe it should be the subject of the next moveon.org ad.

  11. 11.

    Andrew

    September 21, 2007 at 9:50 am

    Time to implement plan Canadian Bacon!

  12. 12.

    Keith

    September 21, 2007 at 9:55 am

    Isn’t it wrong to insult a military leader (Saddam) during wartime?

  13. 13.

    RSA

    September 21, 2007 at 9:56 am

    I have to say that Bush looks better in blue than olive green. But that mustache is a definite improvement in the manliness department.

  14. 14.

    Jim Henley

    September 21, 2007 at 9:57 am

    Fuck that, man. What’s the DORM DRAMA story? Sounds HOT!

  15. 15.

    mightygodking

    September 21, 2007 at 10:07 am

    What’s really funny is that Maclean’s is a distinctly right-wing, pro-business newsmagazine. (Mark Steyn has a column in it, for crissake.)

  16. 16.

    mightygodking

    September 21, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Oh, and the “dorm drama” story refers to a multiple rapist who was stalking the residences of York University in north Toronto. They arrested a suspect in that just this past week.

  17. 17.

    demimondian

    September 21, 2007 at 10:11 am

    Hey, Jim, McClean’s is even available down here. If you’re interested in the story, you could just buy a copy.

    Of course, if you do, the next HUAC will no doubt try to blacklist you.

  18. 18.

    call_me_ishmael

    September 21, 2007 at 10:13 am

    President Bush may like to be seen as a swaggering tough guy with a penchant for manly outdoor pursuits, but in a new book one of his closest allies has said he is afraid of horses.

    THIS one is just way too good. Maybe it should be the subject of the next moveon.org ad

    This horse thing has been around for a while, I think. Check this out, Will Ferrell channels W (a little long, but worth it).

    It’s hard to keep the various character flaws straight, what with all of the scandal, malfeasance and just barefaced incompetence about.

  19. 19.

    David

    September 21, 2007 at 10:15 am

    President Bush may like to be seen as a swaggering tough guy with a penchant for manly outdoor pursuits, but in a new book one of his closest allies has said he is afraid of horses.

    Didn’t one of the Will Farrell parodies have Bush getting attacked by a horse? Prophetic.

  20. 20.

    Evinfuilt

    September 21, 2007 at 10:17 am

    Between the cover, and the horse bit.

    My day is saved, thank you so much.

    I want protesters on horse back now, really get Bush scared.

  21. 21.

    Zifnab

    September 21, 2007 at 10:21 am

    Is it just me, or does George Bush really look like Bruce Campbell in that picture?

  22. 22.

    OxyCon

    September 21, 2007 at 10:26 am

    Maple Leaves will forever be known as “Freedom leaves”!
    Canadian bacon – “Freedom Bacon”!

  23. 23.

    Krista

    September 21, 2007 at 10:26 am

    “How Bush Became the New Saddam…and suffered debilitating acid reflux as a result.”

  24. 24.

    Sstarr

    September 21, 2007 at 10:31 am

    I hate to say it, but I’m totally with Bush on the horses. I’m probably biased, since I’ve ridden more than a few and have been thrown from two of the beasties. They’re big, clumsy and insanely stupid. I have no idea how they survive in the wild.

    But I would ride one in a protest….

  25. 25.

    John Cole

    September 21, 2007 at 10:43 am

    What’s really funny is that Maclean’s is a distinctly right-wing, pro-business newsmagazine. (Mark Steyn has a column in it, for crissake.)

    You are new to this game, aren’t you? It does not matter if they are actually liberal or not, because it is just a known fact that all media has a liberal bias. Just like USC’s decision to not allow Larry Summers to visit is tied in with Ahjmanalphabet’s visit to Columbia- sure, they are separate institutions who do their own thing, they are part of the liberal academy and those two separate actions show what the liberal elite opinion really is.

    Sheesh, moonbat.

  26. 26.

    LITBMueller

    September 21, 2007 at 10:47 am

    Too bad that cover will become a patented Right Wing Distraction from the truly awesome work inside the article. Especially when the author points out stuff like this:

    The old tyrant [Saddam] would have had one of his characteristic chest-heaving guffaws watching Petraeus as he intoned the old Baathist mantra about the dangers to Iraq: Iran, Iran, Iran. Bush took up Gen. Petraeus’s views a few days later in a nationally televised speech about Iraq, in which he talked about the threat Tehran posed. It seems that Petraeus and Bush have come to the same conclusion as Saddam: the main enemy is Iran, and you can’t govern Iraq without the Sunni Arab tribes, even as you encourage anti-Iranian nationalism among the Shia. This is what Saddam did during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and what Washington is trying to do now. One of the main problems with this strategy is that both the Sunni tribes and Shia nationalists are profoundly anti-American and don’t trust each other—a potential recipe for further disaster.

  27. 27.

    ghost of Christopher Reeve

    September 21, 2007 at 10:51 am

    I hate to say it, but I’m totally with Bush on the horses

    Me too.

  28. 28.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    September 21, 2007 at 10:58 am

    Sstarr Says:

    I hate to say it, but I’m totally with Bush on the horses. I’m probably biased, since I’ve ridden more than a few and have been thrown from two of the beasties. They’re big, clumsy and insanely stupid. I have no idea how they survive in the wild.

    But I would ride one in a protest….

    September 21st, 2007 at 10:31 am

    My fireman/paramedic father used to refer to those as “unscheduled dismounts”.

    I rode a motorcycle for 10 years but I would never get on a horse.

  29. 29.

    Dreggas

    September 21, 2007 at 11:06 am

    BLAME CANADA!

    Sheila: Times have changed
    Our kids are getting worse
    They won’t obey their parents
    They just want to fart and curse!
    Sharon: Should we blame the government?
    Liane: Or blame society?
    Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
    Sheila: No, blame Canada
    Everyone: Blame Canada
    Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
    And flapping heads so full of lies
    Everyone: Blame Canada
    Blame Canada
    Sheila: We need to form a full assault
    Everyone: It’s Canada’s fault!
    Sharon: Don’t blame me
    For my son Stan
    He saw the damn cartoon
    And now he’s off to join the Klan!
    Liane: And my boy Eric once
    Had my picture on his shelf
    But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
    Sheila: Well, blame Canada
    Everyone: Blame Canada
    Sheila: It seems that everything’s gone wrong
    Since Canada came along
    Everyone: Blame Canada
    Blame Canada
    Copy Guy: They’re not even a real country anyway
    Ms. McCormick: My son could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true,
    Instead he burned up like a piggy on the barbecue
    Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
    Should we blame the fire?
    Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
    Sheila: heck no!
    Everyone: Blame Canada
    Blame Canada
    Sheila: With all their hockey hullabaloo
    Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
    Everyone: Blame Canada
    Shame on Canada
    For…
    The smut we must stop
    The trash we must bash
    The Laughter and fun
    Must all be undone
    We must blame them and cause a fuss
    Before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!

    SABAZZ!

  30. 30.

    ThymeZone

    September 21, 2007 at 11:10 am

    Canada has it right, Bush is the perfect Saddam.

    But mouch more dangerous. Unlike RealSaddam, BushSaddam has WMDs and is ready to use them outside of his territory. Unlike RealSaddam, BushSaddam has an insane penchant for world domination; RealSaddam was just a thief.

    The world might be slightly better off without Saddam, but it is not better off with what it got from us after Saddam. And, for sure, the world will be better off without George Fucking Bush. And by that I mean, really really better off.

  31. 31.

    capelza

    September 21, 2007 at 11:12 am

    A mass protest against Bush on horseback…I love that idea!

    I love horses, they love me, too. When I walk into a group of them, they come over to me. Love to ride them, too. My mother does not like horses (60 years after a riding accident when she was a very small girl), when my stepdad was raising Missouri Fox Trotters she’d make jokes about horse meat, but now that they have the big draft horses, Belgians and Percherons she adores them…go figure.

    I await McCain calling for Macleans to be kicked out of the country! And Mark Steyn’s comments as well.

  32. 32.

    Fe E

    September 21, 2007 at 11:19 am

    Maple Leaves will forever be known as “Freedom leaves”!
    Canadian bacon – “Freedom Bacon”!

    Could we just call Canadian Bacon what it really is–weird ham?”

  33. 33.

    Davebo

    September 21, 2007 at 11:22 am

    I suppose this website will see a traffic increase in the coming days.

    Why invade Canada?

    ——————————————————————————–

    It’s been done before
    (And we’re not just talking about those South Park kids or John Candy.)

    You know if it wasn’t for Benedict Arnold (Yup, the traitor of later) losing a key battle in the Revolutionary War, Canada would probably be a part of the U.S. (But much like New Jersey, we probably wouldn’t want it).

    Canada Has Stuff!
    First off, let’s make Alaska actually connected to the U.S. again! Those Alaskan folks are always getting screwed by not being part of the “continental 48 states”. Let’s give them a nice little bridge downstairs. A little bit of farmland never hurt anything either, but forget the permafrost part. Canada is the second largest country in the world, let’s fix that.

    If Christmas ever fails to come, the Canucks did it
    The magnetic north pole is within the Canadian border. We must protect Santa Claus!

    They’re just a little too proud
    Perhaps if they didn’t think it was so cool to live in “Diet America” we wouldn’t need to invade them, but with people like this guy and these people thinking that Canada is the coolest thing since sliced bread, we need to do our part to keep them in their place. There’s a reason the continent is called “North America” and not “North Canada”.

    They stole our basketball teams
    Since when does the “N.B.A.” stand for “Canadians Can Play Too”. We need to get Vancouver and Toronto annexed into America to preserve the “N”.

    They don’t play nicely with each other
    There has been a secessionist movement for years. Quebec doesn’t like other Canadians, and the feeling is pretty much mutual. We don’t have that in the U.S… you know, there aren’t any (Texas) big states (Texas) that think that they’re better (Texas) than the rest of the Union (Texas).

    It’s possible
    Why go to the moon? Because it’s there. Same with Canada, it’s just colder than the moon.

  34. 34.

    Krista

    September 21, 2007 at 11:32 am

    It’s this attitude that burns my ass…

    Exactly right. This is more sophomronic nonsense from people who refuse to understand the world as it exists. They prefer to sit in Canada, who is kept free by the USA by the way, and moan and whine about America the Fourth Reich, the new Empire and all that.

    That’s right. The only reason why we haven’t been invaded by Al-Qaeda’s forces and made to wear burkas is because of the U.S. The President of the United States is the only reason that any of us here have our freedom, so how dare we question or criticize the foreign policies that affect the entire world? We should just sit down, shut the fuck up, and let Daddy U.S.A. tell us what’s good for us and for everybody.

  35. 35.

    The Other Steve

    September 21, 2007 at 11:38 am

    That’s right. The only reason why we haven’t been invaded by Al-Qaeda’s forces and made to wear burkas is because of the U.S. The President of the United States is the only reason that any of us here have our freedom, so how dare we question or criticize the foreign policies that affect the entire world? We should just sit down, shut the fuck up, and let Daddy U.S.A. tell us what’s good for us and for everybody.

    Look, you made me hit you. It wasn’t my fault.

  36. 36.

    Librarian

    September 21, 2007 at 11:40 am

    Why invade Canada?
    ————————————————————————————————————————
    It’s been done before

    Yes, not only by Arnold, but also several times during the War of 1812, especially on Lake Champlain and the Niagara and Detroit areas.

  37. 37.

    yet another jeff

    September 21, 2007 at 11:40 am

    Macleans if that is their real name only wants to sell books.

    Yes, the magazine isn’t trying to sell magazines, it’s trying to sell books. Malkin’s right, though…it does take some work these days to find new angles on how awful Bush is…but then I’ve been at it since 1992…running around Denton saying “he can’t run a baseball team…so he can’t run a state!”

    I’ve yet to be proven wrong on that point.

  38. 38.

    The Mechanical Eye

    September 21, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Wow.

    That’s some balls.

    Probably the weakest point of today’s conservatism is its propensity to spend all its time in Outrage Mode. Everything offends it, from Bush jokes to anything besmirching General Petreaus Maximus.

    Usually its meant to cause action in the ranks, but I wonder by now if the entire political machine is exhausting itself. Outrage fatigue might finally be setting in.

    DU

  39. 39.

    Jake

    September 21, 2007 at 12:01 pm

    Clearly this article is the tragic, yet inevitable result of the Canadian health care system.

    The only reason why we haven’t been invaded by Al-Qaeda’s forces and made to wear burkas is because of the U.S.

    Nah, the weather keeps the IslamoHordes at bay.

    Seriously, this makes the Betray Us ad seem like child’s play, especially if you believe – or pretend to believe – that Saddam was Hitler, Vlad the Impaler and Leona Helmsley all rolled into one. I wonder if Congress will issue a new resolution. MO.O turned the Resolution o’ Finger Wagging into a contribution drive, maybe magazines will want one for their subscription drives.

    But rather than come up with an intelligent counter-insurgency policy, reach out to traditional tribal social structures and try to understand why American soldiers were getting killed, U.S. military leaders did what Americans have gotten very good at doing in the last few years. They made up a story, which they repeated on the news for U.S. domestic consumption—and then started to believe themselves. In this story, evil foreign terrorists led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a chubby Jordanian freelance terrorist, were setting upon the popular U.S. Army.

    Yeowch.

  40. 40.

    Evinfuilt

    September 21, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    “he can’t run a baseball team…so he can’t run a state!”

    Come on, if there’s one thing Bush is good at doing, its failure.

    He’s mastered it. The Republicans wanted to show how government doesn’t work, so they put the greatest failure in charge of it.

    Sadly, this is the one time daddy couldn’t bail him out.

  41. 41.

    John S.

    September 21, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    Sadly, this is the one time daddy couldn’t bail him out.

    Daddy has tried to bail him out over and over again (the Baker led ISG is an example), but junior is just too fucking stupid to take a hint.

  42. 42.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    September 21, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    Krista Says:

    …That’s right. The only reason why we haven’t been invaded by Al-Qaeda’s forces and made to wear burkas is because of the U.S. The President of the United States is the only reason that any of us here have our freedom, so how dare we question or criticize the foreign policies that affect the entire world? We should just sit down, shut the fuck up, and let Daddy U.S.A. tell us what’s good for us and for everybody.

    September 21st, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Despite the ridiculousness of the claim that if it weren’t for the U.S. we’d all be Muslims, I think it serves an example of judge how terrified the Right is of their own fearmongering and how disconnected from reality they really are.

  43. 43.

    canuckistani

    September 21, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    They prefer to sit in Canada, who is kept free by the USA by the way, and moan and whine about America the Fourth Reich, the new Empire and all that.

    Thanks, America, for protecting is from Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuala, Laos, Iran, Guatamala, lebanon, Cambodia, Libya, Haiti, Colombia and all those other threats to our snow-bound way of life.
    And an extra thanks for defending us from the USSR by threatening to destroy the world. The bit where you planned to detonate atomic weapons over Canada to shoot down Soviet missiles has always made us feel special and loved.

  44. 44.

    John

    September 21, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    I think we should rename Canada Dry ginger ale as Freedom Dry ginger ale. Or maybe Canada Dry ginger ale-quaeda.

  45. 45.

    Pb

    September 21, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    The President doesn’t need further authorization from Congress or the UN. _Saddam_ was in league with al-Qaeda, with the people who attacked us on September 11th. _McLean’s_ is providing aid and comfort to the enemy. In the wake of September 11th, our President made it clear who the enemy is:

    Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. (Applause.) From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

    This supports the terrorists. _Canada_ is a hostile regime. In the past, _Canada_ has enriched uranium, and has a had successful nuclear weapons program. We cannot allow this smoking gun to become a mushroom cloud. We must combat terrorist _Canada_, to ensure the safety of the Western world.

    — Brought to you by Bush Administration Mad Libs

  46. 46.

    BFR

    September 21, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    If it makes you Candians feel better – front-page headline today on the Seattle Times:

    “Canadian-U.S. currencies equal for first time since ’76”

    along with a picture of happy Canadians buying vacation homes in Washington state.

    We’re in ur country, buying ur g00dz and servicez

  47. 47.

    PK

    September 21, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    TZ
    “the world might be slightly better off without Saddam”
    I think the world was better off with Saddam. Saddam kept the Iranians in check. He had control over the country! He gave them electicity and water and a sanitation system. How can we possibly say that the region is better off without Saddam. Its not! Iraq is being torn apart. Are the Iraqis better off today than they were 5 yrs ago. More Iraqis have died due to the war than under Saddam’s regime! They are starting to see the first cases of cholera in Bagdad. The Iraqis were tortured for 30 yrs by a brutal dictator then they were destroyed by the Americans!

  48. 48.

    Punchy

    September 21, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    “MacClean’s”?

    Sounds like some high-fiber burger from McDonalds….

  49. 49.

    Jake

    September 21, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    When your left right-wing magazine blog is in need of some quick buzz and a cheap circulation hit boost, what do you do? Go for the easy Bush-bashing photoshop Dress up like a sickly cheerleader and leap about like the ground is covered with molten lava, of course.

    Fixed.

  50. 50.

    Libby Spencer

    September 21, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    Sweet Bejus. If we let them get away with this outrageous photoshop the next thing you know Harper will be threatening our national security by asking to lay a wreath at ground zero.

  51. 51.

    Krista

    September 21, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    We’re in ur country, buying ur g00dz and servicez

    True dat. The high dollar isn’t doing our tourism industry nor our exporting industry any good.

    On the other hand, I’ll get to do some GREAT shopping when in NYC next month for my honeymoon.

    So I suppose it’s a pretty fair trade-off, really. ;)

  52. 52.

    BFR

    September 21, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    So I suppose it’s a pretty fair trade-off, really.

    Only trouble is that DHS is frantically trying to make US/CA border crossing as difficult as possible – to keep out the terrists.

    I guess they figure if we can’t have our stuff (because we can’t afford it anymore) then you can’t either.

  53. 53.

    Andrew

    September 21, 2007 at 1:05 pm

    I think we should rename Canada Dry ginger ale as Freedom Dry ginger ale. Or maybe Canada Dry ginger ale-quaeda.

    POTD.

  54. 54.

    Punchy

    September 21, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Or maybe Canada Dry ginger ale-quaeda.

    Brilliant.

  55. 55.

    Bubblegum Tate

    September 21, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    Is it just me, or does Bush look vaguely Trebekian on that cover? (No offense to Trebek, of course.)

  56. 56.

    montysano

    September 21, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    Look……. Sean Hannity’s gonna be on the radio in 45 minutes, and he’s gonna be demanding some Disavowal. John Cole: can you quickly disavow this outrage?

    Is the Senate in session today? Could they possibly drop what they’re doing and Disavow?

    Only 39 minutes left… Sean’s gonna be pissed… The ’08 election hangs in the balance…

  57. 57.

    Evinfuilt

    September 21, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    I think the world was better off with Saddam. Saddam kept the Iranians in check. He had control over the country! He gave them electicity and water and a sanitation system. How can we possibly say that the region is better off without Saddam. Its not! Iraq is being torn apart. Are the Iraqis better off today than they were 5 yrs ago. More Iraqis have died due to the war than under Saddam’s regime! They are starting to see the first cases of cholera in Bagdad. The Iraqis were tortured for 30 yrs by a brutal dictator then they were destroyed by the Americans!

    The saddest truth there is. Of course, the US is shopping around for a good brutal dictator to replace Saddam, its their last hope :(

    But otherwise, this post is just full up beat win!

  58. 58.

    Dennis-SGMM

    September 21, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Well, I’m getting my old Hobie Cat ready to launch. I figure that the incipient gale of harrumphing should get me from California to Hawaii in less than twenty-four hours.

  59. 59.

    r4d20

    September 21, 2007 at 1:31 pm

    Just as one is accused of being a pro-Saddam, Baathist sympathizer if you crit­icize the government in Baghdad, so one is accused of being a neo-con if you point out how deeply in­­volved Iran has become in Iraq. The role Iran plays is as complex and shady as can be expected in a situation that is so murky on so many different levels, from neighbourhood turf wars to world oil strate­­gies and a proxy war with America. But the U.S. government is right to be concerned, al­though it’s not clear they can do much except protest, threaten loudly, and fight a secret, dirty war.

    Iraq, Iran’s neighbour to the west, is Tehran’s self-declared security zone. Iran has already been attacked once from Iraq—by a then-American ally, Saddam—and won’t let it happen again. Nor do the Iranians want, as the West does, a secular Iraqi government that could destabilize their own theocracy. For them, Iraq is a survival issue. U.S.-led invasions have conquered not only Iraq but Afghanistan on Iran’s eastern flank. The U.S. Navy is floating off Iranian shores. Every few weeks, Washington debates whether to bomb Iran. How could Iran afford not to be involved in Iraq? Following the American example, the Iranians have learned that it’s bet­­­ter to fight the U.S. on the streets of Baghdad than the streets of Tehran.

    ah….realism. something that is in short supply these days.

  60. 60.

    Libby Spencer

    September 21, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    BTW, did I miss it in comments or did everybody but me miss the money quote in the skeered of horsies story?

    “Donald Rumsfeld, his defence secretary until last November, asked recently if he missed the president, said flatly: “No.”

    Not to worry though. Bush’s feelings are not hurt.

  61. 61.

    montysano

    September 21, 2007 at 1:33 pm

    Or maybe Canada Dry ginger ale-quaeda.

    Well, I’m getting my old Hobie Cat ready to launch. I figure that the incipient gale of harrumphing should get me from California to Hawaii in less than twenty-four hours.

    Balloon Juice: the new Sadly No.

  62. 62.

    Jake

    September 21, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Canada Dry ginger ale-quaeda.

    T-Shirt Hell called, they want to offer you a job.

  63. 63.

    Don

    September 21, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Are you kidding? Macleans is not a liberal magazine. It is a mainstream conservative establishment magazine. It is like the Economist.

    Macleans was very pro American during the Reagan/Bush1/Clinton years. It is still pro American. They just don’t like Bush. There is a difference. Bush has 11% approval rating in Canada.

  64. 64.

    Gus

    September 21, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    I don’t get the Canadians buying vacation homes in the U.S. Anybody in Vancouver or Toronto want to trade with me?

  65. 65.

    scarshapedstar

    September 21, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    I’ll tell you how he did it:

    He shook hands with Don Rumsfeld and the Saddamy was passed unto him. It’s kinda like a bishop laying on hands.

  66. 66.

    BFR

    September 21, 2007 at 2:05 pm

    I don’t get the Canadians buying vacation homes in the U.S. Anybody in Vancouver or Toronto want to trade with me?

    I know folks in BC do come down into WA not infrequently – golf is somewhat cheaper down here and the outlet malls are quite popular. It’s not surprising that there is demand – after all, I suspect a fair amount of the homes in Whistler are owned by Americans. The falling dollar just means the tables have turned a bit.

  67. 67.

    scarshapedstar

    September 21, 2007 at 2:06 pm

    Hell, even I’ve ridden a horse. Just like two months ago we went horseback riding. Granted, it was a nice slow horse, and we did single file behind the leader.

    Whenever Bush’s bitch-ass horse phobia (or, for the Lambchops out there, his super manly love of pickup trucks) comes up, I like to remind people that when I was a kid at summer camp even the little girls loved to ride horses.

    A seven-year-old girl can ride a horse. The “leader of the free world” and the second coming of Jesus Churchhill cannot.

  68. 68.

    Evinfuilt

    September 21, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    ah….realism. something that is in short supply these days.

    You didn’t expect to find a well thought out and put together piece of journalism produced in the US did you.

    Iran is a problem (of course us occupying their neighbor and having tons of ships off their shore isn’t making them feel warm and fuzy), but Bush isn’t the answer.

  69. 69.

    fecapult

    September 21, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    Canada’s finally done it – the NeoCons have their causus belli finally, and we can invade. Canada was the only real roadblock to their plans… Soon Greenland and Central America will fall, and unless Icelanders cross the bridge in a surprise invasion, we’ll get an extra 5 armies per turn to place in the Middle East. Watch out world!

  70. 70.

    Tsulagi

    September 21, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    That cover photo is funny. Like the hand over the heart too. Shows he’s a real compassionate fiscal conservative like when he threatens vetoes on 3.5% pay raises for those serving and healthcare for children.

    That cover just exposes the Canadian evildoers who refuse to accept that 9/11 changed everything. When our valiant, horse-fearing Deciderator was there trying to sell our missile defense system that has so benefited from his magical touch, wasn’t there some Canadian MP who said Canada shouldn’t join a “Coalition of the Idiots”?

    How dare they insinuate our president is stupid and a warmonger. Didn’t he say “I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.” See, while those fish deserve to be freedomized, he doesn’t declare war on everything. Canadians just don’t see the big picture.

  71. 71.

    Rick Taylor

    September 21, 2007 at 2:22 pm

    Yes, the right wing is crazy, they’re fixated and they talk on and on about things that don’t matter, looking for stuff to be offended by, but then so do we. After all, we spend far too much time talking about them. What does it matter? Yeah they’re crazy, I got it. If they start making sense about something let me know, that would be important. But otherwise there are other things to talk about.

    It’s probably too much to hope for, but maybe they’ll come to the same conclusion about us. Yeah, we all hate the troops, we want to loose in Iraq, and we torture kittens when we think no one’s watching. Maybe we should all just admit it, so they can have their victory dance and go on and maybe talk about something important, like, uh, oh I don’t know, what the hell should we be doing in this country we invaded?

    It’s easier to talk about the crazy opposition than to talk about what we should do, because it’s a tough problem. Most of the things I think we ought to be doing, we simply can’t do until there’s a new President. For example, we ought to be furiously engaging in diplomacy with all of Iraq’s neighbors, including ones we hate like Iran. Yeah, Iran’s a nasty place, they repress their people and fund terrorists. On the other hand, we’re no angels either; we started a war under false pretenses against the wishes of most of the world and in the process transformed a country into hell on earth. And besides, even if Iran is nasty, and our interests don’t coincide with theirs, there’s going to be some overlap, and there’s certainly room for negotiation. And even if that’s not possible and we need to use sticks and carrot, well, we need to talk to them to do that. We should at least be trying.

    But anyway, none of that matters until 2008, because the current administration won’t do it, and that’s not something the congress can do on its own. One thing we should be pressing for is at least planning for withdrawal. Score another point for Hilary Clinton, she did press the military for their contingency plans for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Maybe there’s something to all the claims she’d make a good President because of her experience.

    Regardless, making contingeny plans for withdrawal even if we’re not going to do it is simple sanity. We have contingency plans for using nukes in Iraq after all, which is completely insane, so we should have cotingency plans for things we might actually need to do some day. If the Shia ever turn against us en masse, it won’t be a matter of Republicans and Democrats debating whether we should leave; we’ll have to. Of course the under secretary replied, that even the discussion of such maters was irresponsible because it emboldened the enemy.

    The under secretary’s disrespectful and unseemly response to a sitting senator make me thing there probably are no such contingency plans. We’re probably planning as well for our exit as we did for the occupation. If that’s true, it’s bad, because it’s not a simple matter to withdraw a hundred thousand troops and massive amounts of equipment out of a country wracked by civil war. We really ought to be making sure we have roads to the airport, secure supply lines, and maybe alternate routes and supply lines should the unexpected happen and the ones we have now fail.

    So this is something we should be pressing for.

  72. 72.

    ThymeZone

    September 21, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    Canada Dry ginger ale-quaeda

    It’s my new beverage of choice.

    Excellent work.

  73. 73.

    ThymeZone

    September 21, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    The man who promised the world a pony, can’t get near a pony?

    MY BRAIN! MY BRAIN! OWWWWWWWW!

  74. 74.

    Tom Hilton

    September 21, 2007 at 2:31 pm

    When your left-wing magazine is in need of some quick buzz and a cheap circulation boost, what do you do? Go for the easy Bush-bashing photoshop, of course.

    She’s right, that’s so tacky. What they should have done is put on a cheerleader’s uniform and flail around yelling some sophomoric schoolyard-level taunt.

  75. 75.

    RSA

    September 21, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    What they should have done is put on a cheerleader’s uniform and flail around yelling some sophomoric schoolyard-level taunt.

    No photoshopping needed, just adding a caption.

  76. 76.

    jaime

    September 21, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    Only 39 minutes left… Sean’s gonna be pissed… The ‘08 election hangs in the balance…

    Didn’t the ’06 elections hinge on John Kerry disavowing his troop hating comments? The America-hating Americans seemed to vote for Democrats regardless.

  77. 77.

    Zifnab

    September 21, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    This is why magazines are dying.
    ~ Malkin

    Malkin says magazines are dying because they hate Bush! What a world?! What a world?!

    And of course, this gem.

    Speaking of magazine obituaries, Bob Owens marks TNR’s Scott Thomas Beauchamp disgrace.

    Damn you Beauchamp!

    Thank you, John. That was a hilarious read.

  78. 78.

    Dennis-SGMM

    September 21, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    Has Malkin stopped to wonder why lampooning Bush is good for a circulation boost?

  79. 79.

    Soliton

    September 21, 2007 at 3:32 pm

    Hello all,

    I found this on “The Best of Craigslist” in the Bay Area. It’s from a Iraq veteran, and I thought it was worth a re-post here.

    It goes right along with the topic du jour..

    Soliton

    —————————–

    http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/309485032.html

    I’m having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I’m going to write this while I’m pissed off enough to do it right.

    I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-fucking-lutely sick to death of it. What the fuck do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you’re all such fucking experts that you can scream at each other like five year olds about whether you’re right or not. Let me tell you something: unless you’ve been there, you don’t know a god damn thing about it. It you haven’t been shot at in that fucking hell hole, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

    How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are “Supporting our Troops” and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit? I’ll tell you why. I’m a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that fucking festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he’s coming home in a box.

    You fuckers and that god-damn lying sack of shit they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad.

    And you know what the most fucked up thing about this Iraq shit is? They don’t want us there. They’re not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We fucked up their lives even worse than they already were and they’re pissed off. We didn’t help them and we’re not helping them now. That’s what our soldiers are dying for.

    Oh while I’m good and worked up, the government doesn’t even have the decency to help out the soldiers whos lives they ruined. If you really believe the military and the government had no idea the veterans’ hospitals were so fucked up, you are a god-damn retard. They don’t care about us. We’re disposable. We’re numbers on a page and they’d rather forget we exist so they don’t have to be reminded about the families and lives they ruined while they’re sipping their cocktails at another fund raiser dinner. If they were really concerned about supporting the troops, they’d bring them home so their families wouldn’t have to cry at a graveside and explain to their children why mommy or daddy isn’t coming home. Because you can’t explain it. We’re not fighting for our country, we’re not fighting for the good of Iraq’s people, we’re fighting for Bush’s personal agenda. Patriotism my ass. You know what? My dad served in Vietnam and NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

    So I’m pissed. I’m beyond pissed. And I’m going to go to my husband’s funeral and receive that flag and hang it up on the wall for my baby to see when he’s older. But I’m not going to tell him that his father died for the stupidity of the American government. I’m going to tell him that his father was a hero and the best man I ever met and that he loved his country enough to die for it, because that’s all true and nothing will be solved by telling my son that his father was sent to die by people who didn’t care about him at all.

    Fuck you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother fuckers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.

  80. 80.

    Punchy

    September 21, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    I would love to see that woman interviewed on George Snuffalupagous on his Sunday gab-fest. If she could keep the f-bombs to single digits, she’d be pretty damn soundbite-worthy….

  81. 81.

    Rick Taylor

    September 21, 2007 at 4:02 pm

    “I believe the United States and our allies should deliver a very clear message to Iran, very clear, very sober, very serious: They will not be allowed to become a nuclear power. It’s just not going to happen,” Giuliani said at a midday campaign fundraising lunch.

    “If they get to the point that they’re going to become a nuclear power, we will prevent it, or we will set them back five or 10 years,” he added.

    “It isn’t a threat, it’s just a reality. And I think if that reality sinks in, there is a better chance that we will never have to use a military option to deal with them,” he said.

    He’s also caling for Israel to join Nato.

    This is currently the leader for the nomination for the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

    We have to win the next election. We have to.

  82. 82.

    Pug

    September 21, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    Usually its meant to cause action in the ranks, but I wonder by now if the entire political machine is exhausting itself. Outrage fatigue might finally be setting in.

    I think this is right. For all the blasts of hot air regarding the Betray Us ad, I haven’t heard one person mention it at work or anywhere else. Despite the best efforts of Fox News, et al, people are not that outraged about an ad in a newspaper they don’t even read about a guy they realize is being used by the administration. And I think most people think Petraeus is a decent guy, in a Colin Powell kind of way. We’ve been here before.

    This is exactly like the John Kerry flubbed joke. The wingers think they’ve struck gold. The Beltway types are apoplectic and the country doesn’t care. And as soon as there is another election they are going to kick the living shit out of Republicans. Nothing has changed.

  83. 83.

    whippoorwill

    September 21, 2007 at 4:11 pm

    It goes right along with the topic du jour..

    Thank you for posting this ladies letter, Soliton. Reading it took the starch right out of my own detached anger sitting here in the States. God damn this war and may the Angels be with this woman’s husband and all the others who have lost their lives, limbs and sanity.

  84. 84.

    John S.

    September 21, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    Also from “The Best of Craigslist”, some good advice:

    Don’t be a Republican. They are self-dealing crooks with no sense of honor or patriotism to their fellow citizens. If you must be a Republican, don’t be a “conservative.” They are whining, bitching, complaining, simple-minded self-righteous idiots who think they’re perpetual victims. Listen to talk radio for a while, you’ll see what I mean.

  85. 85.

    Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop

    September 21, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Fuck you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother fuckers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.

    Spoof!

  86. 86.

    John S.

    September 21, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    The Beltway types are apoplectic and the country doesn’t care. And as soon as there is another election they are going to kick the living shit out of Republicans. Nothing has changed.

    So true.

    This morning on the Diane Rehm Show, the entirely conservative panel (not sure how the fuck that happened) made up of Clarence Page, Byron York and John Harwood were all true to form regarding the MoveOn ad.

    The emails and callers all pretty much had the same thing to say about the situation – to paraphrase:

    Why the fuck is congress wasting their time on a goddamn AD when we are losing people and money everyday in Iraq? When the fuck is congress going to get down to the actual business of getting us the hell out of there?

    An emailer also wondered why the media kept saying that MoveOn accused Patraeus of treason when the ad clearly asked “General Betray Us?” Byron York said he couldn’t be bothered by the “rhetorical flair” of the punctuation and that the ad pretty much accused him of treason, in his opinion. The other panelists said the emailer had a point, but they were too busy patting each other on the back to disagree with York.

    After that, I had to turn the radio off.

  87. 87.

    John S.

    September 21, 2007 at 4:24 pm

    Spoof!

    You would know!

  88. 88.

    BFR

    September 21, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    This is currently the leader for the nomination for the Republican candidate for President of the United States.

    You forgot:
    “If they get to the point that they become a nuclear
    power, then we will set them back five years. That is
    not a threat, that is a promise…”

    Nice – just what we need.

  89. 89.

    whippoorwill

    September 21, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    Spoof!

    Lambchop, you are an empty vessel sinking in a sea of personal torment. You deserve pity. Naw…

  90. 90.

    Punchy

    September 21, 2007 at 4:56 pm

    1) Does Iran sell oil to the US?
    2) What would happen if they just stopped selling it for 3 months?
    3) Has Bush thought of this?

  91. 91.

    Snark Based Reality

    September 21, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Apparently getting the US Senate to slap your hand is good for fundraising according to the email I just got from MoveOn:

    “By midnight, over 12,000 people had donated $500,000—more than we’ve raised any day this year—for our new ad calling out the Republicans who blocked adequate rest for troops headed back to Iraq.

    The message from MoveOn members was loud and clear: Don’t back down. Take the fight back to the issues that matter.

    So today we’re shooting for a very ambitious goal: Reach $1 million so we can dramatically expand the campaign we launched yesterday going after politicians who support this awful war.”

    Gee, the adults in the Senate don’t seem to know how to properly discipline their base eh? MoveOn has every encouragement to make the next ad as vicious as possible.

  92. 92.

    Rick Taylor

    September 21, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    1) Does Iran sell oil to the US?
    2) What would happen if they just stopped selling it for 3 months?
    3) Has Bush thought of this

    Iran doesn’t sell oil to us but it hardly matters; it’s a world market, not to mention the mischief they could cause in the strait of Hormuz. I suspect he has thought of this, and I suspect (hope!) we’re not going to start a war with Iran. Predictions of war with Iran have been making the rounds of liberal blog sites for years, and nothing has happened yet. The last I heard, there was going to be a big push for war after labor day, but I certainly haven’t seen any signs of it.

    That doesn’t mean the Democrats shouldn’t be pushing hard to rescind the AUMF; I’d like to have more to depend on than the sanity of this administration. Still, at this point (*knock wood and rub my lucky horse shoe*) I don’t think it’s going to happen.

  93. 93.

    BFR

    September 21, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    The Beltway types are apoplectic and the country doesn’t care. And as soon as there is another election they are going to kick the living shit out of Republicans. Nothing has changed.

    I asked yesterday (what does the GOP think it can gain by these attacks). I think Rick took a stab at it but I just am baffled at what they think the endgame is (apart from Bush & candidates for the GOP nomination).

    If you are a blue-state Senator or Representative participating in these attacks means that you are helping to direct attention and credibility towards an organization that is commited to removing you from office. These attacks aren’t going to directly persuade anyone one way or the other, but they will help MoveOn’s fundraising efforts nationally, which will help unseat more blue state GOPers.

  94. 94.

    BFR

    September 21, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    Predictions of war with Iran have been making the rounds of liberal blog sites for years, and nothing has happened yet.

    Is my history wrong, or didn’t Nixon try to convince the world he was nuts (and about to use nukes on Hanoi) to try to force North Vietnam back to the bargaining table?

    And wasn’t Dick Cheney a member of that administration?

    I’m just not ready to take all the Iran war stuff at face value yet.

  95. 95.

    The Other Steve

    September 21, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    Is my history wrong, or didn’t Nixon try to convince the world he was nuts (and about to use nukes on Hanoi) to try to force North Vietnam back to the bargaining table?

    And wasn’t Dick Cheney a member of that administration?

    I’m just not ready to take all the Iran war stuff at face value yet.

    True. Mutual Assured Destruction and all that jazz.

    But 9/11 changed everything.

  96. 96.

    VidaLoca

    September 21, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Apparently getting the US Senate to slap your hand is good for fundraising according to the email I just got from MoveOn:

    I saw that one about half an hour ago — so I scraped the loose change and lint out of my pants pocket and sent it to ’em. And it’s the first time I’ve done anything like that; I’m not a big MoveOn fan.

    But if MoveOn wants to play hardball then fine, let’s have some hardball; it’s long past time somebody started it.

  97. 97.

    BFR

    September 21, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    But 9/11 changed everything.

    Kudso – that’s the scariest use of that hackneyed expression I’ve seen to date.

  98. 98.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 21, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Bush has 11% approval rating in Canada

    Mark Steyn
    Adam Yoshida
    Ralph Klein
    Stephen Harper, maybe

    Who are the others? I realize 11% of a fairly small country isn’t going to be a long list, but it’s got to be longer than this.

  99. 99.

    TR

    September 21, 2007 at 6:23 pm

    On a related note, ever see the interview Ann Coulter did with the CBC? She insisted that Canada had sent troops to Vietnam, so why not Iraq? Even after the interviewer pointed out she was wrong — something the US media rarely does — she still kept at it. Repeatedly.

    You can watch it here. Priceless.

  100. 100.

    Ted

    September 21, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop Says:

    Spoof!

    Whatever helps you block it out.

  101. 101.

    OniHanzo

    September 21, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    Has anyone else seen this?

    Gathering of Eagles found a father of a fallen Marine to beat up along the route: Carlos Arredondo, who marches in anti-war demonstrations pulling a flag-draped coffin adorned with a picture of his son.

    Verify the photos and the he-deserved-it rhetoric of the GoE forum.

    So these are Malkin’s boys in action.

  102. 102.

    Cain

    September 21, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    1) Does Iran sell oil to the US?
    2) What would happen if they just stopped selling it for 3 months?
    3) Has Bush thought of this?

    Stop selling oil to US? Better idea, stop selling oil to the Russians. Those guys will get their panties in such a twist that they’ll be making all kinds of fun threats state side.

    cain

  103. 103.

    Xenos

    September 21, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    “Eagles’ Nest” is the name of their message board?

    These guys defy satire. They Godwin themselves.

    Unless they are deadly serious. Isn’t that what they keep demanding, that we take fascists at their word?

  104. 104.

    TR

    September 21, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    Good Lord, that Gathering of Eagles incident is insane. A father marching in a rally with a photo of his son, a deceased Marine, and these total strangers decide that the photo was “being held hostage” by “captors” and “needed rescue.”

    A mourning father with a photo of his slain son is a “captor” holding his own dead son “hostage”? I knew these idiots were infantile, but it looks like they’ve regressed to an even more childish and pathetic level, if possible.

    Dammit, this pisses me off.

  105. 105.

    Incertus (Brian)

    September 21, 2007 at 8:03 pm

    Gathering of Eagles found a father of a fallen Marine to beat up along the route: Carlos Arredondo, who marches in anti-war demonstrations pulling a flag-draped coffin adorned with a picture of his son.

    If that’s an accurate rendering of the account, that’s beyond fucked up.

  106. 106.

    Ryan

    September 21, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    Photos of the attack here.

  107. 107.

    Patriot

    September 21, 2007 at 8:59 pm

    Every one of those Gathering of Eagles goons should be summarily executed with a bullet to the back of the head.

  108. 108.

    Rick Taylor

    September 21, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    Gathering of Eagles found a father of a fallen Marine to beat up along the route: Carlos Arredondo, who marches in anti-war demonstrations pulling a flag-draped coffin adorned with a picture of his son.

    Oh, this is painful. Back in 2004, the father of the marine when he found his son had died in Iraq poured gasoline on a van and lit it on fire while he was inside.

    In protests he pulls a coffin with pictures of his son on it.

    The member of the gathering of eagles, according to his own post on their forum, took one of the pictures and walked away with it. He wrote:

    gatheringofeagles.org/forum?forum=3&topic=1002&page=1

    My teams broke up at the Capitol,
    mission accomplished, and I was walking alone back to the Mall when I saw
    the photo-image of a proud young Marine in dress blues being held hostage in
    company not of his own choosing and affixed to a coffin not his own.
    The
    insult to his honor and disrespect to his Corps and cause by his captors was
    immediately obvious and intended.
    These same peddlers of provocation are
    paid to push their coffin-prop all over the country they revile. They subvert
    a common will and undermine the cause and country for which this hostage-Marine
    had sacrificed his very life.
    The captive Marine was not among his
    own. He was surrounded and outnumbered by those who shamelessly exploit his
    image and memory, disgrace his uniform, his brothers in arms, and his
    willing sacrifice.
    He would never choose such company.
    He needed a
    rescue…
    I liberated his image from the midst of the hostile crowd,
    intending to replace it in a position of honor Arlington, where he would rest
    with heroes and among his own …I respectfully carried the image of the
    fallen Marine and was not opposed nor confronted in any way until I has walked
    perhaps 25 yards down the sidewalk.
    There, I was attacked without warning and
    tackled from behind by a demonstrator who crashed into my back at a full run.
    I went down forward, tearing pants knees and shirt sleeve and five separate
    wounds requiring hospital attention.
    The Marine’s image, along with camera
    and sunglasses were smashed into the pavement. Before I could respond, six
    or so Eagles-vets were immediately pulling me away from the anti-war attacker.

    The whole thing is so fucked up. Even giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming their account of what happened is entirely accurate, the Gathering of Eagles’ people are so painfully self-righeously arrogant, it’s unbelievable. At the same time, as grotesque as it may have been to remove the man’s son’s picture from the casket, it doesn’t look like they initiated the physical attack, and it’s not clear yet how violent their response was. Given how the father reacted when his son died, I could easily imagine him over-reacting when of these jerks walked up and just took the picture of his son away.

    The whole thing is just excruciating, though. And what I’m really afraid of is both sides in the debate over the war are going to use this to make political hay and stir up more hatred towards the other, as though there isn’t enough already. Our side is going to go on about how these people are representative of all war supporters, and the right wing is going to go on about nutball protesters and how the the man who took the picture was attacked. I can see it already.

    Can we head it off at the pass? Maybe our side could admit that while the Gathering of Eagles people were first class jerks, they don’t represent the right wing in general? And maybe the right wing could forebear accusing liberals of making up stories about liberals being victims or being responsible for the father’s actions? And maybe we could all admit we don’t know everything that happened, and that regardless it really doesn’t have much to do with what we should be doing about Iraq? Maybe each side could avoid using this painful event to demonize the other?

  109. 109.

    whippoorwill

    September 21, 2007 at 10:01 pm

    And maybe the right wing could forebear accusing liberals of making up stories about liberals being victims or being responsible for the father’s actions?

    When pigs fly.

  110. 110.

    Punchy

    September 22, 2007 at 1:39 am

    Gathering of Eagles

    So Don Henley and Joe Walsh are pummeling anti-war protestors?

  111. 111.

    Anne Laurie

    September 22, 2007 at 2:46 am

    They’re big, clumsy and insanely stupid. I have no idea how they survive in the wild.

    For a second there, I thought you were talking about the Bush family!

    But, as far as horses “surviving” in the wild… mostly, they don’t. Habitat destruction has effectively destroyed the Asian rootstock from which our domestic animals are descended. The *original* wild horses evolved in America, but that bloodline disappeared at the same time as the cave lions and American mastodons. What we know as “wild horses” in the modern American Southwest are the descendants of feral domestic horses; that’s why they can be rounded up for “adoption” as pets. (A “wild horse” that’s ten generations away from its domestic roots can be trained to accept a human rider; a zoo-bred zebra that’s ten generations away from its African “homeland”, not so much.)

    Basically, horses survived by becoming parasites — okay, symbionts — to the burgeoning human population. Any parallels with Republicans, well…

  112. 112.

    Xenos

    September 22, 2007 at 4:48 am

    Can we head it off at the pass? Maybe our side could admit that while the Gathering of Eagles people were first class jerks, they don’t represent the right wing in general?

    Um, no. Maybe if the right wing spin machinists would denounce these creeps… I think ‘pigs flying’ is right.

    We have been taken way beyond the Marquess of Queensbury rules here. It is an eye-gouging, ear-pulling, nose-biting fight, so fight it, already.

    ‘Let us not speak of the Dreyfus Affair‘? We should always be disgusted, and ready to fight, about the Dreyfus Affair. Or we may end up with our own Vichy government some day. Stay pissed of about Sacco and Vanzetti. Read that lefty Felix Frankfurter’s March, 1927 essay in The Atlantic, and if that does not make you mad, and keep you angry, please stay out of this fight. (sorry, the capitalist bastards put the essay behind a subscription wall)

  113. 113.

    VidaLoca

    September 22, 2007 at 7:56 am

    Rick,

    Given how the father reacted when his son died, I could easily imagine him over-reacting when of these jerks walked up and just took the picture of his son away.

    I don’t agree. To me, an “over-reaction” would have involved lethal violence. Anything less and you’re in the terrain of “appropriate reaction”.

    Our side is going to go on about how these people are representative of all war supporters, and the right wing is going to go on about nutball protesters and how the the man who took the picture was attacked. I can see it already.

    I agree somewhat, but play out the implications. Our side may go on to some degree about how these people are representative of all war supporters but it/we will overall continue to focus on the main job of ending the war through peaceful, legitimate, non-violent means. Meanwhile the right will indeed go on about nutball protesters, and wrap themselves in the flag as they organize attacks on the protesters because their only hope of maintaining the flagging support for the war is to attack its opponents.

    Can we head it off at the pass?

    Probably not. The space for compromise and equivocation is disappearing pretty rapidly.

    Maybe our side could admit that while the Gathering of Eagles people were first class jerks, they don’t represent the right wing in general?

    Problem is, they actually do represent a lot of the right wing in general. There are a lot of conservative people (from people like Andrew Sullivan, Greg Djerejian, Pat Lang, John Cole, to a number of commenters here) who they don’t represent, but the right wing pro-war, pro-Bush movement per se? If there’s any distance there I’m not seeing it.

    And maybe the right wing could forebear accusing liberals of making up stories about liberals being victims or being responsible for the father’s actions? And maybe we could all admit we don’t know everything that happened, and that regardless it really doesn’t have much to do with what we should be doing about Iraq?

    Since I don’t in fact know everything that happened, I’m willing to file it all away as data and move on. Just watch, though: the people around GOE are going to bleat about it endlessly for about a week and a half (that is, until their next faux cause for outrage bursts upon the scene) because that’s how they build their organizations. For the left, it’s just a terrible incident; for the right it’s both an end and a means.

  114. 114.

    jenniebee

    September 22, 2007 at 8:38 am

    I know, I know, Godwin’s Law and all that, but these guys are brownshirts, to a T.

    Also:

    Canada’s finally done it – the NeoCons have their causus belli finally, and we can invade. Canada was the only real roadblock to their plans… Soon Greenland and Central America will fall, and unless Icelanders cross the bridge in a surprise invasion, we’ll get an extra 5 armies per turn to place in the Middle East. Watch out world!

    ROFLMAO. Granted, it’s a RISK, but I don’t doubt Our Busto Pres would be willing to give it a try.

  115. 115.

    DougJ

    September 22, 2007 at 9:19 am

    When your left-wing magazine is in need of some quick buzz and a cheap circulation boost, what do you do? Go for the easy Bush-bashing photoshop, of course.

    You know, though, she’s probably right. That sure does look like a cheap stunt to get attention.

  116. 116.

    VidaLoca

    September 22, 2007 at 9:23 am

    I know, I know, Godwin’s Law and all that, but these guys are brownshirts, to a T.

    Actually it’s not a Godwin violation if you don’t invoke Germany. But the good news is, you don’t need to! Out of the ashes of the failure of their Lost Cause, out of the loss of their sense of entitlement and their own personal rage, they’ll ride on to rebuild on a national scale the heady days of the South in the years after Reconstruction!
    Dissent is treason! Who lost China? Who lost the Mideast? Who lost our oil? The South will never die! Onward Christian soldiers!

    I can almost hear ’em whistling “Dixie”.

  117. 117.

    Ryan

    September 22, 2007 at 9:46 am

    To me, an “over-reaction” would have involved lethal violence. Anything less and you’re in the terrain of “appropriate reaction”.

    Agreed. Some total stranger comes over and brazenly steals a framed picture of my dead son, and he’s going to have a lot more to show for it than a skinned elbow.

  118. 118.

    VidaLoca

    September 22, 2007 at 9:52 am

    You know, though, she’s probably right. That sure does look like a cheap stunt to get attention.

    [/golf clap] Nicely played, sir. A reverse double-twist on a troll spoof.

    Actually it’s really depressing. Underneath the photoshop job on the cover is a very troubling article. Malkin’s yelling about the cover to whip her base into another rage-gasm; she has neither the ability nor the interest to confront the points the article makes.

  119. 119.

    Andrew

    September 22, 2007 at 10:04 am

    Actually it’s not a Godwin violation if you don’t invoke Germany

    There is no such thing as a “violation” of Godwin’s Law, besides an infinite long internet conversation that never mentions the Nazis.

    Mentioning Hitler and Nazis is a SATISFACTION of Godwin’s Law.

  120. 120.

    louisms

    September 22, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    I never before realized how much Bush with a moustache looks like Inspector Clouseau.

  121. 121.

    cain

    September 22, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    I never before realized how much Bush with a moustache looks like Inspector Clouseau.

    Sounds like the title should be “How Bush became the new Inspector Closeau”

    He’s just missing the spot of bird shit on his shoulder and hte picture would be complete.

    cain

  122. 122.

    JWW

    September 22, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    John,

    Are you on duty, will you deny my reponses again, as you did last night or will you wait another 24hrs, that way nobody will look or read your post and all replies? You are a liar, a cheat, and will do anything too keep your merry band together.

  123. 123.

    Redleg

    September 22, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    It’s apparent that douchebags like Malkin think it’s only ok when you compare Democrats to Middle-eastern tyrants and terrorists.

  124. 124.

    Andrew

    September 22, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    JWWWWWWW says:

    WHO WANTS TO SEX MUTOMBO?

    Check with Mark Foley.

  125. 125.

    Jess

    September 22, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    John Darling,

    Are you on duty, will you deny my reponses advances again, as you did last night or will you wait another 24hrs, that way nobody will look or read your post and all replies know our secret? You are a liar, a cheat, and will do anything too keep your merry band us from being together again, yet still I burn for your attention!

    Fixed.

  126. 126.

    TenguPhule

    September 22, 2007 at 10:59 pm

    Basically, horses survived by becoming parasites—okay, symbionts—to the burgeoning human population. Any parallels with Republicans, well…

    Don’t insult horses, at least you can eat them…or you could until some idiot dipshits made it illegal.

  127. 127.

    BIRDZILLA

    September 23, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    New potential journalists for the NEW YORK SLIMES and WASHINGTON COMPOST

  128. 128.

    Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop

    September 24, 2007 at 9:41 am

    Canada has it right, Bush is the perfect Saddam.

    If Republicans don’t “morph” a Democrat candidate into Saddam, the Donks lie about it for seven years anyway, and pretend that it was the biggest disgrace in political history.

    But Bush being portrayed as Hitler or Saddam…PERFECT!

    IOKIYAD.

  129. 129.

    Cyrus

    September 24, 2007 at 10:12 am

    Punchy Says:
    1) Does Iran sell oil to the US?
    2) What would happen if they just stopped selling it for 3 months?
    3) Has Bush thought of this?

    1) I don’t know myself, but if Rick says no, I’ll assume he’s right for now.
    2) World oil production would go down, but if (1) is true, America’s supply would not be affected. Therefore the price of oil by the barrel would go up (and the price at the pump in America would go up somewhat but maybe not as much as elsewhere). So oil companies would rake in the cash, but Americans would only get somewhat pissed off rather than furious.
    3) Massive profits for oil companies, and the only downsides are slight recession and electoral harm to the Republican Party, and come on, it’s not like anyone in the administration is running for anything? I doubt this scenario is likely, because however much it would hurt the rest of the world, it would hurt Iran even more to go without that revenue, so they probably wouldn’t do it. But still, let’s hope to God that Bush hasn’t thought of it. Fortunately, that’s usually a safe bet.

  130. 130.

    OniHanzo

    September 24, 2007 at 10:18 am

    If Republicans don’t “morph” a Democrat candidate into Saddam, the Donks lie about it for seven years anyway, and pretend that it was the biggest disgrace in political history.

    Can anyone else make sense of what the hell he’s saying?

  131. 131.

    Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop

    September 24, 2007 at 1:00 pm

    Can anyone else make sense of what the hell he’s saying?

    Just referring to the old Democrat lie about how the mean old Republicans morphed Max Cleeland into Saddam or Osama or both (depending on which version of the lie is told) in a campaign commercial in 2000.

  132. 132.

    chopper

    September 25, 2007 at 7:35 am

    awww, is the party that coined the term ‘hitlery’ getting pissed that someone is unfavorably comparing their guy to a dictator? poor babies. let me get you a hanky, EEEL.

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