“It’s hardly surprising that Mayor Giuliani is running the first negative ad of the ’08 campaign, given his inability to justify his unqualified support for President Bush’s failed Iraq strategy.”
About the way the press treats the back-and-forth of politics, especially the way they ignore it when Dems say something ridiculous or disingenuous, Rush Limbaugh used to say that a Democrat senator could call a press conference to announce that the sky was green, and instead of questioning that, the press would rush over to the Republican side and say, “Senator Bilgewater says the sky is green!! What do you think of that??”
Someone named Andrew Kirtzman has a story at the WCBS website that’s slugged “Hillary Slams Giuliani Over Political Ad” that’s a classic of the genre. The Hillary! campaign’s response to Giuliani’s statement the other day about her slur of Petraeus could have been written by Carville and Begala in 1992. Following their time-honored tradition, it’s just a snarky comeback that not only doesn’t deny the substance of the original accusation, it says nothing about it. Kirtzman then proceeds to knock down a straw man by quoting someone from Baruch College(??) saying that Rudy’s effort to paint her as a pawn of Moveon is “very dubious,” when Rudy, of course, did nothing of the sort.
Not only does Kirtzman treat this as a legitimate response, he implies in the last sentence of the piece that it was an effective putdown. So, take that, Rudy. If you persist in your crazy efforts to capture the Republican nomination, you’re gonna be getting plenty more of this, pal.
I cold have gone all day with the words “Carville” and “Begala.”
Ick.
It’s kind of amazing that Republicans ever get elected, when just about the entire MSM is campaigning for Democrats.
Makes ya feel special, it does.
But it’s the lying about the bias that really hurts.
But it’s the lying about the bias that really hurts.
– Yes, and who it hurts in the long run, is Them. Which is the first clue to understanding the amazing technicolored election victory record of the Reps. Live by the lie, die by the lie.
– The Dembulbs absolutely cling to, and desperately depend on, the myth of “teh stupid” electorate. This self serving warped viewpoint of whats really going on, namely that in reality that a large number of the citizenry simply “don’t give a fuck”, is a bad thing when your entire platform depends on politisizing every issue tree on the landscape. When 97 out of 100 New Yorkers think that Nancy Pelosi is a famous Italian dress designer, and your crazy aunts in the attic wing of your party thinks thats a “raise the glasses” moment, or something to go lay down naked on a glacier for, the fall is just an election cycle away.
– If the more experienced heads in the LunarBat ranks ever figure out the importance of style and substance then we’ll have something to worry about
“(AIPAC) is “the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning. I don’t think they represent the mainstream of American Jewish thinking at all, but because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful — most of them are quite wealthy — they have been able to exert power.””
Is this a falsehood? Then detail the errors. Otherwise;
“Methinks, Thou dost protest too much”.
sorry, wrong thread. But I’m sure you’ll be charitable.
Should always be evil incarnate Carville.
I mean, just look at him. I think I saw a woodcut of him in an antique bible once.
omment by Semanticleo on 9/15 @ 11:39 am #
“(AIPAC) is “the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning. I don’t think they represent the mainstream of American Jewish thinking at all, but because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful  most of them are quite wealthy  they have been able to exert power.—
Is this a falsehood? Then detail the errors. Otherwise;
“Methinks, Thou dost protest too muchâ€Â.
AARP is the country’s most powerful lobby. Mein Herr.
“…I’m sure you’ll be charitable.”
– We closeted gays with mancrushes on fascists are nothing if not “teh charitable”.
This is like when Israel gets slammed for breaking a cease fire by shooting back, right?
Pretty much exactly like that, Patrick. And by the same people, what a coinquidink!
AIPAC a major power, compared to the Wahhabi (Saudi) lobby. Right. Does
AIPAC have former secretaries of state,(powell, kissinger) national security advisers,(scowcroft, brizinski) CIA station chiefs,(Close, shares in the major Television network (Fox & CNN)
major banks (Chase Manhattan, Citicorp)Major hotel chains, (the
Four Seasons,) et aL
Yeah narisco, but does AIPAC own the Social Security Administration? I think not!
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