Posted on 07/01/2005 5:01:13 PM PDT by Libloather
Margaret Carlson: Do You know Where Your Flag Is?
Margaret Carlson
Fri Jul 1,11:45 AM ET
Do you know where your flag is? It's being waved in the House of Representatives in lieu of doing any work on, say, gas prices, stem cell research, global warming (fossil fuel emissions still voluntary). Health care reform? Why bother with a doctor when you can have Bill First diagnose your illness from the floor of the Senate.
Members so fearful of being called unpatriotic get closer and closer to passing the amendment to protect the flag from desecration. It takes guts to protect the constitution from being desecrated by a frivolous amendment.
It's not frivolous to worry about casting a vote against the amendment. Bush I and II used flag burning successfully against those two well-known squishy soft, pro-flag desecrating Massachusetts Democrats who both served in the military. It's the vote the right wing loves to force, knowing a member who votes against it will have to spend a lot of time and money pushing back against the inevitable ad which suggests a lack of patriotism. You can just hear Hillary Clinton to upstate New Yorkers: "I do TOO love my country."
No one could call the soldiers at Fort Bragg unpatriotic which allows them to behave appropriately. It's why they didn't do their "hooahs" when the president repeated things we all know to be untrue. Dragging up 9/11 to justify the war in Iraq is an insult to everyone's intelligence. Congress would have given the same speech 10 standing ovations. Not so the corporals in that gymnasium. They know the insurgency is alive and thriving. It's killing their buddies.
You can see why conservative might like a break from their regular red meat diet of railing against the morning after pill, gay marriage and lesbian puppets on public TV. But dredging up this old chestnut is shameful.
Even Newt Gingrich thinks the Republican majority has lost its way warning them that when "you're in the minority, you fight. When you're in the majority, you have to govern." If congress wants to celebrate the 4th with something patriotic, they should try doing their jobs.
I kinda like that war for oil idea...
Margaret Carlson and Hillary -- separated by a pillow, maybe.
There's nothing wrong with Margaret that a few years at Gitmo couldn't fix. She's just swell! Or was that swill?
She could be Al Franken's sister in that picture.
Just another beyond tiresome libbie.
wanger? I like it, I'm going to start using it.
Ms. Carlson, it is you who is an insult to our intelligence.
"...when the president repeated things we all know to be untrue." You haven't been listening to the members of yoiur own party, have you? Many of them thought at one time that what President Bush said was true. The difference is, this isn't your boy Clinton in office, it's a Republican president instead.
Shut up, and go away.
Does anybody read Time any more? The last time I saw one was in the dentist's office.
While liberals rail against conservatives....
Dentist's office? A well-deserved reputation for inflicting pain....
Nice picture, commie.
I haven't seen the speech, but I think the lack of 'hooahs' had to be more a matter of decorum than of disagreement with the president. I hardly think that would be an appropriate response when 9/11 is mentioned. But I suspect that from Ms. Carlson's point of view, the military is full of animals who should be celebrating any reason at all to go and kill brown-skinned Muslims. It's hard to believe that people actually pay her to write this stuff.
These libs all carry the same disease....so they all look, speak, and write the same way about the same things. It's that sameness that causes you to experience almost instantaneous boredom when you get two sentences into their work.
I agree. Even if our tag lines are totally opposed :)
yes, the soldiers at Ft Bragg were ordered not to erupt in applause , etc during Prez's speech. perhaps if ms Carlson had done her homework as a reporter, she might have know that and not "repeated things we all know to be untrue."
When Frist has some time, I'd suggest he do an autopsy on her, preferably by vivisection.
I also agree.
I wouldn't expect someone who could eat corn-on-the-cob through a picket fence to know where anybody's flag is.
No, thinking you can persuade readers into believing an argument that sounds like "just because you bought and paid for something doesn't mean you own it" insults everyone's intelligence.
Margaret,
My flag will drape over my coffin when I pass away. I earned on by serving my country. Margaret, please take this opprutunity and serve your country, by leaving it permanently.
You bitch. You either don't what you are talking about or you are intentionally lying. Which is it?
They were instructed to remain quiet. So, what is it? Lies or stupidity??
My roommate reads Time all of the time (!!) but he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. I will say, though, that he doesn't give his old mags to doctor's waiting rooms, a point in his favor, I guess.
Margaret Carlson...
is she still around?
Where?
I know of one personally; the warm springs at the south end of Owhyee Reservior in E. Oregon. Unless Rome know has one.
know=now
She is looking for the flag? Last I heard, Howard Dean said Rush Limbaugh took it and Dean was going to take it back. Maybe Howard has it. Yeeeaaaaaaggggghhhh.
In a word, yes.
I do, do you Ms. Carlson? Have you ever even displayed one on your home?
This is the same woman that days after the Florida attemted-theft was in bloom lamented on "Imus" that the difference may be made by active-military voters abroad who were "tax-dodgers" because they were registered in Florida where there is no state income tax. She has zippo credibility in regards to patriotism.
She's a hog.
How is this any different then the Dems using race-baiting or any of their tactics?
Poor little Margaret. Nothing to say but the latest DNC drivel. Standard routine for her.
I always loved watching Kate O'Beirne slam her down on Capital Gang. Anyone else see that? The women on our side are awesome.
bump
She is the female Howard Dean....
I love how she said that troops that didn't clap on Tuesday night, didn't clap, because they are mad at him because of the WAR??!!!!
Oooooh - Maggie!! I thought it was you liberals who said members of the military were all closet rightwingers whose right of public political expression should be totally suppressed in the name of `neutral competence' and `civilian control of the military'. So now you insist that lack of applause at W's speech was a STATEMENT?
Nice try, Ms. Carlson. Now please go live in Cuba.
Heh heh heh...
Margaret can't fathom anyone showing respect to Bush. It's beyond her comprehension. She is also incapable of understanding that the military is proud of the job they are doing in Iraq, and want more than anything to win.
In her underpowered engine room, everyone in Iraq is forced to be there. Nevermind that record numbers of people are re-enlisting.
Who hires these dolts that know less than nothing?
Even Newt Gingrich thinks the Republican majority has lost its way warning them that when "you're in the minority, you fight. When you're in the majority, you have to govern." If congress wants to celebrate the 4th with something patriotic, they should try doing their jobs."
She's right about that - but not for the reasons she thinks.
And I'll bet you don't even own a flag. But, if you do, I'd give odds it would be a red one adorned with the hammer and sickle.
>>can just hear Hillary Clinton to upstate New Yorkers: "I do TOO love my country." <<
She would be lying.
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