Posted on 02/05/2003 9:41:47 PM PST by JohnHuang2
I knew the media were up to something with their wall-to-wall coverage of the Columbia space shuttle explosion. The full story is: Shuttle disintegrated during re-entry; all astronauts killed, including some very remarkable people; very sad; NASA picking up the debris to figure out what happened. It was a plane crash story, only a lot more expensive. So why was the shuttle explosion being covered like the 9-11 terrorist attack?
A quick review of the Treason Times laid bare the objective. Monday's New York Times proclaimed: "As Iraq War Looms, a New Sense of Vulnerability." American hubris blunted again! The article went on to quote a series of random Americans saying things like, "Now I'm hearing a lot of people say if we go to war, we're going to endanger a lot more than seven lives." Another classic Times' Man on the Street said that it "reinforces my belief that we should find diplomatic solutions instead of threatening other countries with war."
The Times' Man on the Street always seems to be standing on a street suspiciously close to Central Park West. For one year, I don't believe the Times has managed to interview a single person who supports war with Iraq in a nation ablaze with war fever.
And now the shuttle had presented a new argument for appeasement. Warning, Great Satan: Your money and technology and little gadgets cannot insulate you from disaster! Breathless news accounts of the shuttle blast were merely a more demure version of Islamic terrorists cheering in the street in reaction to the explosion. If it didn't violate the "wall of separation," the Times likely would be exclaiming: "It was the will of Allah!"
The Gettysburg Address of liberal idiocy was a letter to the editor from a Jim Forbes of San Francisco two days after the crash. The Times titled his contribution to Liberalthink: "A Time of Mourning for Shattered Dreams: A Period of Healing." In full-dress sanctimony, Forbes wrote: "The loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven is a national tragedy. Time is needed for Americans to mourn. I hope that President Bush will do the right thing by slowing down his march to war and focusing instead on the healing that such a blow to national pride requires."
Here was the pithiest concentration of the multiple idiotic things liberals were saying about the space shuttle, the insincerity, the audacity, the smarminess – he even worked in "the healing process." How he must have polished that little gem! The idea that liberals feel the shuttle explosion was a tragedy is patent nonsense. They were jumping for joy at this new excuse to denounce the "march to war." The nation is marching to war at such breakneck speed, it will be two years from 9-11 before we attack.
Melancholy that their relentless nay-saying is having no effect on the president's plans for Iraq, New York Times columnists are now positing imaginary scenarios in which war with Iraq leads to a stock market crash and brings the nation to the brink of nuclear war. Nicholas Kristof has gone the Maureen Dowd route of using the op-ed page of the Times for a dream-sequence column. But instead of dreaming about Bush being retarded, Kristof dreams of catastrophe for America.
Kristof fantasized that, within the year, the North Koreans would be running riot through the Far East with their nukes. The column concluded with Bush apologizing to Secretary of State Colin Powell for invading Iraq. The strain of not having a Democrat in the Oval Office to create foreign policy disasters on his own is driving liberals to fevered fantasies of America's defeat someplace in the world.
In other appeasement news, former U.N. arms inspector Scott Ritter has completely vanished from the anti-war scene since news of his sex arrest broke. Three weeks ago, it was revealed that Ritter was caught soliciting sex from underage girls on the Internet in 2001. Until news of his arrest broke, the New York Times had been treating Ritter's reincarnation as a peacenik as the greatest act of patriotism since Justice Souter voted to uphold abortion on demand. It's now Day 17 and counting of the Times' refusal to mention Ritter's arrest. Though the peace movement lost Ritter, it seems to have picked up Jerry Springer. Perhaps Springer is hoping he can get Scott Ritter's wife on the show to confront Ritter and the underage girl.
But Ritter was a free-lance peacenik. At least the Times could count on stability and permanence from John Hartpence Kerry. Poor Kerry was just on the verge of figuring out whether he was for war with Iraq or against war with Iraq when he was told he hadn't figured out his own last name. Kerry was shocked to be told that, despite years of allowing himself to be passed off as an Irish Brahmin, both his paternal grandparents were Jewish and his real name is Kohn. Upon reflection, however, Kerry said there were signs he missed, such as his longtime, recently requited desire to marry a rich shiksa. And now Kerry will need time for the healing process. We must halt the march to war.
This is my problem. I agree with her. I especially agree with her on culture war issues. Unfortunately, sometimes her style actually *makes me want to disagree* just because it's so...annoying, I'm sorry.
I get worried that she'll turn into a Dowd for the libs to kick around. That would stink. That would be absolutely rotten. She needs to go to Rush Limbaugh Affability School. I've replaced her with Michelle Malkin, myself. ROWR! ;-)
Fitting that we talk about communicating views on the birthday of the Great Communicator, eh? God Bless Ya, Ron...
LOL I think that would have been hilarious. Sounds like a reference to Hillary's suggestion that what's his name threatened her when he waved that sheet of paper in her general direction.
The first thing that came to mind on that morning of 9/11 was that Baghdad would be a smoking ruin by week's end, so convinced was I that Saddam was behind the attack. (And as it turns out, he probably was....to a certain degree). I may not have been frightened or devestated by 9/11, but I sure as hell was ticked off. ....But nothing that a 2 hour session firing my .308 Springfield M1A rifle down at the local outdoor gun club couldn't (temporarily) cure :)
As for the people - at least the non-NYC residents who didn't suffer any personal losses - who were too affected by 9/11 to go to work for at least a week afterward, and who still suffer nightmares to this day, all I offer them is contempt. Where is the American fighting spirit? By way of comparison, the response to Pearl Harbor was endless lines at the local military recruiting stations and righteous anger, and was immediate. But 9/11 was all about mourn, mourn, heal, heal, understand, understand.
And you're right, Lee's Ghost, about how lucky we are to be able to express our thoughts on the internet (FR in particular), and that many of us would otherwise think that we're relatively alone with these opinions.
Wow... even Ann Coulter gets misunderstood by conservatives.
To me that seems an obvious slam at Islam's method of evangelism.
Coulter's once again exposes the America-haters.
It was a little confusing - I was saying I got good feedback on the binary joke tag line when I sent it around. :-)
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