Posted on 08/11/2007 12:26:34 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
A lot of liberals like to suggest that the New York Times was asleep at the wheel when the war in Iraq began. Some of the more rabid leftists complain that the newspaper was actually complicit in shaping public opinion that was, as many Americans seem to forget, overwhelmingly in favor of dropping bombs on Baghdad. Continues ...
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Seung-Hui Cho. Remember him? He's the chap who shot up Virginia Tech back in April and left 32 people dead in two separate attacks, then offed himself. Want to know how the libbie wingnuts really felt about the gunman? Nothing more to see here, old news, move on. No -- hold on. Some quotes:
"My heart aches. Of course I mourn the passing of the thirty-two Virginia Polytechnic University students, as do we all throughout the globe. Nevertheless, I cannot forget how my heart hurts for the thirty-third victim, the one the media never seems to count among those killed, (gunman) Seung-Hui Cho . . . Cho longed for comfort and company. All he received is chiding. Even in death, (gunman) Seung-Hui Cho is scorn. I am forlorn. . . Cho lived in shadows, deep and dark. He attended classes at a prestigious University. He was a scholar, a writer. Yet, he was shunned. . . As a child Seung-Hui Cho was ridiculed and bullyed. As an adult he hid; he hoped to avoid the taunts and teasing. . . Cho (the gunman) was a tormented soul . . . long-suffering spirit . . neglected man . . . This is not a time to teach fear. It is an occasion, an opportunity to reflect. Perhaps, we might learn to love every being, even those that appear to be different or distant. Seung-Hui Cho My Sadness for yours."That's straight from DailyKos. Not some stray comment on a thread, but THE featured Kos thread itself, titled, Seung-Hui Cho. I Mourn Your Life and Loss, by Kos 'diarist' Bcgntn. This is the same DailyKos that Democrats running for president paid homage to over the weekend at the site's "Yearly Kos" convention in Chicago.
While we're on the subject of caring and compassion, Kos diarist WinSmith, several weeks before the Cho thread, posted a featured 'Diary' subtly titled, Why I Don't Care About Tony Snow, after Snow's announcement in March that his cancer was back:
. . . why do I have to pretend I'm "praying" for Tony Snow? . . . Why do I have to pretend I care about Tony Snow? . . . That I send out my thoughts to his family? I don't. I don't care about Tony Snow. At all. . . He's not in my thoughts. I have no empathy for him."WinSmith then went on to denounce the "other side" because of it's "raging, irrational hatred" and because "there is no logic in their universe. No empathy." But. WinSmith wants you to know he isn't saying he's glad Snow has cancer. He just doesn't care that Snow has cancer because Snow doesn't agree with WinSmith on foreign policy, taxes, gay rights, gun control, etc.
"I never said that Tony Snow 'should' die of cancer," protested DailyKos's Jon Stafford in his featured 'diary', posted on July 18, 2007. "Nor did I say that I wanted him to die of cancer." All he said was that "I really didn't care if [Snow] died" of cancer. But in his April 9Th Kos diary titled, Tony Snow's Illness: A Medical Prospective, this was Jon Stafford's medical prospective: "My first thought is: F--- Tony Snow. As the Bush regime's propaganda minister and apologist he deserves whatever he gets, and worse." In an 'update', Stafford now admits he forgot he had wished death on Tony Snow. Jon Stafford is a Registered Nurse.
DailyKos's OCdem writes: "Why is everyone afraid to say the obvious? Joe (Lieberman) is very religious and arguably cares more about Israel than the US. I think it's that simple."
"Lieberman is an AIPAC shill," replied Sonoftherepublic. "Lieberman formerly [sic] a Democrat and now an Independent representing the state of Israel in the US Senate should be recalled by the voters he is failing to represent . . . the only two Dem candidates not already bought and paid for by AIPAC are Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel."
Explaining why liberals loved Saddam so much, Kos poster Scottsdale Jack notes that, "To Lieberman and the rest of the Israel lobby," Saddam had to be removed because "he dared to launch missiles at Israel during the first Iraq war."
"Send (Lieberman) Burgers, matza ball soup, and Camels and maybe he'll keel over of heartdisease [sic] before the clock expires," wrote rrheard.
"Cheney's a big lizard that won't die," wrote another Koster after crushing news the Taliban failed to whack Dick Cheney in Afghanistan earlier this year. "Personally I've always thought a heart attack would be far too good for this career criminal," thoughtfully replied another Koster.
There was a time when the Democrats' press chums reliably could conceal all of this stuff simply by not reporting it, but no more, thanks to Al Gore's inventing the blog! Libbies can now let it all hang out, give their candidates a helpful push over the cliff, force them to pander to DailyKos and the rest of the 'Only-One-Square-Tissue-Per-Restroom-Visit' set with promises to make America safe by teaching sex in Kindergarten, bombing allies, planting white flags in Baghdad, making nice with Iran, Syria, Castro, Chavez et al and impeaching or censuring moron Bush for sinking the Maine and staging the Gulf of Tonkin to launch an attack on Saddam! That's a helluva winning platform.
If you're one of the oppo research boys for, say, Fred Thompson and you want to flush out Hillary down the road when she discovers she's a 'centrist' again, just a click of the mouse and your toughest call to fill the latest 30-second spot is whether to go with Herself's YouTube Kos convention macaca or her bragging to some other nut crowd about her vote to stop the Dictatortot from listening in on phone chats between some al-Qaeda type in Pakistan and some al-Qaeda type in Pakistan without a warrant.
If you want to know why libbie hangouts like DailyKos are adorned copiously with four-letter words and cheer-leading for the Taliban and al-Qaeda, the poor little darlings are just frustrated. "It's a force that's defeated. It's a force that is frustrated. It's a force that is acting in cowardice," said Afghan's Hamid Karzai about the enemy in his country, which sounds like the enemy in this country. American troop levels in Iraq are higher nine months after Pelosi & co. boasted they'd stop the war, they can't even get a non-binding resolution on Iraq through and Congress's approval rate is 14%, but Democrats are shooting for 3% or less. And blogs are all that libbies have to show for. Poor, poor libbies.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Have a great weekend, y’all.
I feel like Mike Rowe every time I read something from the Daily Kos.
The comments are particularly silly because I don't think there was any evidence that Cho was actually bullied or ridiculed to any great extent. Cho perceived that he was bullied and ridiculed, but that just indicates that he was disconnected from reality.
The writer goes on to imply that the shootings wouldn't have occurred if someone had befriended Cho. This is a ridiculous line of reasoning. Cho had no friends because his mental problems prevented him from forming normal relationships, not because people didn't try to befriend him.
I don't think "contrarian" quite covers it. The more I apply Evan Sayet's "judgementalism" theory to what I observe coming from the liberal camp, the more I become convinced of he has the right of it.
His excellent speech can be found on the Heritage Foundation website. I believe its formal title is "Regurgitating the Apple."
In short, Sayet says liberals are so committed to diversity, they can not allow any judgement, even rational ones, to pass unchallenged.
Their philosophy compels them to adopt positions, the possibilities of which may be only theoretical, that have the single virtue (in their minds) of not drawing a conclusion.
Of course, every thinking person knows even not making a choice is itself a choice. Their effort isn't so much aimed at preventing judgements. It's aimed at preventing YOU from making judgements.
That's why they so consistantly show "sympathy for the devil," while showing contempt for the suffering.
These posters, etc at the Daily Kos are an example of the truly immature and uninformed. They are followers just chanting the same tired junk because they have no original ideas or thoughts; only hatred.
It matters to the security of people here at home if we don’t work to change the conditions that cause 19 kids to be lured onto airplanes to come and murder our citizens.
Got it? They were just kids, lured onto planes, not evildoers.
Ugh. Makes "religion of peace" sound rational.
Great Post, it’s no secret Liberals, Democrats and their mouth foaming followers suck big time.
One wonder if America falls what would these whiners be doing?
I believe if we fall many liberals will be hoeing the peas with a chain around their necks wondering what happened to their dream of America.
Even bad circumstances could have pleasant outcomes.
What scares me is how many of my intelligent friends refuse to discuss politics with me. The division is huge and has led to a chill on the relationships.
They haven’t come to liberalism through their own reasoning. It just too easy to kick back and let the media do their thinking for them. I hear the same talking points stated the same way the media has spewed them and my friends think their (implanted) ideas are so profound, logical and superior to conservative ideas.
The cure for liberalism is to look at history and see how their ideas implemented in the past have been such absolute disasters. They won’t do it though.
Everything you write is superb. I hope you are a syndicated columnist somewhere reaping the $ rewards of your talent. Kudos for sure!
In partial defense of the President, at some point in time those 19 were kids. They grew up under conditions which at least contributed to their developing into the evildoers that attacked us. The emphasis being on the conditions, not their being kids. You may have noticed that those attacking us have a pretty uniform profile.
I suspect that is what GW was trying to say. As we all know, he isn’t always the most articulate feller around. :)
Before passing judgment on a couple of presidential sentences, I’d like to read them in context. Do you have a link?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070809-1.html
Here’s a link to the President’s remarks. Take a lunch, it’s a long page and the comment is toward the end.
You can say that again! I've got friends that are so darn apoplectic over the re-election of President Bush they have excluded their conservative friends from their lives. I knew things were getting bad for them when I started seeing the absurd bumperstickers appearing on the backs of their cars. They are more concerned about so-called abuse at Abu Ghraib than they are about the lives of our brave servicemen and servicewomen. Their priorities are distorted.
I tell some of them they might want to start studying law. Sharia law that is.
It goes right over their heads.
Thank you so much for the excellent wrap-up!
Nice job outting the kos kiddies for what they are.
I’m having a hard time deciding if they are mentally deficient,
or simply heartless and cruel.
Maybe they are both...
Always good to read your great writings.
They are some of the very best that FR has to offer.
Thank you, my FRiend!
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