“Beginning very soon after the attacks of 9/11, President Bush made a decision to start mentioning Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the same breath in a cynical mantra designed to fuse them together as one in the public’s mind,” Gore said in a speech at Georgetown University Law Center.
[…] He said Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney continue to argue for a connection between bin Laden’s al Qaeda network and the deposed Iraqi regime because it supports their push for war in Iraq and justifies “some of the new power they’ve picked up from the Congress and the courts” since the 2001 hijack attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
“As a result, President Bush is now intentionally misleading the American people,” Gore said. “Indeed, Bush’s consistent and careful artifice is itself evidence that he knew full well that he was telling an artful and important lie — visibly circumnavigating the truth over and over again as if he had practiced how to avoid encountering the truth.”
In related news, Al Gore is still not president. Thank the fucking lord.
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update: Oliver Willis misuses the words “exposes” “more” and “lies,” but manages to employ the proper nouns “Gore” and “Bush” without incident. Which is something, I guess.
Look, you lunatic, you clearly don’t understand: If Gore were president, nothing bad would have happened ever.
— Our planet would be signficantly cooler
— We would have talked al Qaeda into hitting something less critical like Camden Yards or the Space Needle
— Not only would we not have to be recovering from a recession, we’d un unrecovering from the Clinton boom and places like FurryEssentials.com would still be in business
— France, Germany and the US would have already issued at least 10 strongly worded recriminations for the Sudanese govenment
— There would be no reason at all for the previous two Michael Moore films or several Al Franken books, or indeed, even Air America
Think about it.
“Powerline blog up steps up to the plate…..hitting over .400 this year with 42 RBI’s and 19 HR’s….
Here comes the pitch by Gore……..
[crakkkk!!]
Deep fly ball to left field, and that ball is Gone!
Jim, I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a bal hit with such power like that. It must have been that deranged delivery.”
My top reason Al Gore was a worthless VP: He never had the good sense to tell Pat Leahy to f@#k off.
How can you pick on Oliver?
Oliver Willis is a ”writer.”
He’s been profiled by PBS, don’tcha know!
I don’t care how much he writes and eats, I knew Michael Moore and Oliver is no Michael Moore.
I popped in on Mr. Willis’s blog and left a comment just to see what I could stir up. This is what I stirred up.
“He is talking about Al Gore, a highly intelligent rational man who is telling the truth about the most lying corrupt fascist regime in American history. That Al Gore.
Posted by Mike at June 24, 2004 08:42 PM”
Why did I bother? “Mike”, poor bastard, needs more help than Al.
After months of patient effort, I’ve managed to train my brain to recognize the sound of a liberal saying the words “lies” or “lied” as “cornmeal.”
“Bush cornmeal!” “Republicans are all cornmeal!”
It has dropped my blood pressure considerably. Of course, I live in San Francisco. YMMV.
(MMM…fresh, hot cornmeal muffins, made with bacon drippings and slathered in butter….)
“Beginning very soon after the attacks of 9/11, President Bush made a decision to start mentioning Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the same breath in a cynical mantra designed to fuse them together as one in the public’s mind , , , “
As Senator Byrd remarked, “See, those negroes over there have camels.”
The American Spectator has a nice bit on the other Rev. Al.
Chris Muir’s cartoon today pretty much covers it. Big Al’s becoming more and more like a junkyard dog gone rabid. I think he should start wearing a spittle bib all the time (you know, like the one they give you for lobster), and not just for hygenic reasons, but as a warning: this could happen to you, too, moonbat.
Al Gore talking about someone else being misleading, isn’t that a laugh. The guy that suggested he was responsible for inventing the internet. Well, we know he didn’t, and he has acknowledged as much, but those were misleading statements, to say the least as to many details regarding his involvement. Talk about taking credit for everything that happens when you’re in office. Then there was that short period when he and Tipper (a good name for a dog, nontheless) were the model for the main characters in Love Story. Talk about misleading.
Jeff, just like your reaction to the mention of Jesse Jackson, when someone mentions Al Gore, we could just respond by saying, “so how is his therapy working out?”