Edward R. Murrow, part deux
Nov. 13th, 2005 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richBoy, oh boy, I haven't had this much fun watching a news program in a long time. This little Repuglican toady (actually, the chair of the Repuglican National Committee) is on "Meet the Press" on NBC to try to defend Bush and the war, and basically saying anyone who vocally opposes it ought to be shut up because it sends the "wrong message" to the rest of the world. (Well, I'd say invading a country without just cause sends the wrong message too, but what do I know?)
Tim Russert (the editor and host) is ripping this guy a new one - and he's doing it with recorded comments from Bush and Cheney (and Powell, admitting he was wrong about the WMDs, and deliberately so!), written comments from other Repuglican sympathizers, etc. etc. The litle toady keeps sitting there with this pouty look on his face while Russert's talking - and each time he has an opening, he just repeats the same damn party line. (My favorite comment so far is that we were justified in going to war because Saddam could've struck at some indefinable point in the future.)
Russert read really horrid results from a poll showing Repuglicans are not faring well these days among the American constituency. Toady's response? He'd fire the person who took that poll. (Said with a chuckle, of course. Hahaha. Sure, it's a joke. I suspect it's more true than most people realize and why Fearful Leader has absolutely no idea why he's being attacked from all sides by the peasants.)
"(Repuglican) is the party of change, this is the party that is transforming government ..." Well, it certainly is. Can't argue that. Hitler was, too, throughout most of Europe for a few years.
"Iraq should not be about domestic politics." You mean other than the fact everything domestic has suffered as a direct result of our invasion?
Perhaps politics shouldn't play so strongly into all of this. But, politics - within the Supreme Court! - is what garnered us this utterly useless sack of water and flesh (and his advisory sacks, as well) occupying the White House in the first place. Gee, I suppose politics shouldn't matter when it's inconvenient ... eh?
Tim Russert (the editor and host) is ripping this guy a new one - and he's doing it with recorded comments from Bush and Cheney (and Powell, admitting he was wrong about the WMDs, and deliberately so!), written comments from other Repuglican sympathizers, etc. etc. The litle toady keeps sitting there with this pouty look on his face while Russert's talking - and each time he has an opening, he just repeats the same damn party line. (My favorite comment so far is that we were justified in going to war because Saddam could've struck at some indefinable point in the future.)
Russert read really horrid results from a poll showing Repuglicans are not faring well these days among the American constituency. Toady's response? He'd fire the person who took that poll. (Said with a chuckle, of course. Hahaha. Sure, it's a joke. I suspect it's more true than most people realize and why Fearful Leader has absolutely no idea why he's being attacked from all sides by the peasants.)
"(Repuglican) is the party of change, this is the party that is transforming government ..." Well, it certainly is. Can't argue that. Hitler was, too, throughout most of Europe for a few years.
"Iraq should not be about domestic politics." You mean other than the fact everything domestic has suffered as a direct result of our invasion?
Perhaps politics shouldn't play so strongly into all of this. But, politics - within the Supreme Court! - is what garnered us this utterly useless sack of water and flesh (and his advisory sacks, as well) occupying the White House in the first place. Gee, I suppose politics shouldn't matter when it's inconvenient ... eh?
