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DEL.ICIO.USShoe-tosser hailed as Arab hero
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
BAGHDAD — Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Monday to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, as Arabs across many parts of the Middle East hailed the journalist as a hero and praised his insult as a proper send-off to the unpopular U.S. president….
Journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who was kidnapped by militants last year, was being held by Iraqi security Monday and interrogated about whether anybody paid him to throw his shoes at Bush during a press conference the previous day in Baghdad, said an Iraqi official.
He was also being tested for alcohol and drugs, and his shoes were being held as evidence, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
“Al-Zeidi is the man,” said 42-year-old Jordanian businessman Samer Tabalat. “He did what Arab leaders failed to do.”
Hoping to capitalize on this sentiment, al-Zeidi’s TV station, Al-Baghdadia, repeatedly aired pleas to release the reporter Monday, while showing footage of explosions and playing background music that denounced the U.S. in Iraq.
Al-Jazeera television interviewed Saddam’s former chief lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi, who offered to defend al-Zeidi, calling him a “hero.”
In Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City, thousands of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burned American flags to protest against Bush and called for the release of al-Zeidi.
“Bush, Bush, listen well: Two shoes on your head,” the protesters chanted in unison.
In Najaf, a Shiite holy city, some protesters threw their shoes at an American patrol as it passed by. Witnesses said the American troops did not respond and continued on their patrol.
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Comments
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
Yeah, he’s a tosser alright.
I’m sure thee parties and celebrations of this bold act are raging all through Iran and the caves of Pakistan.
Party like it’s 1399.
Savages.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this
Comments are not allowed on this thread-Urinal/PMS
O.K. so I’ll bring it over here-
NO, YOU WON’T. — Jay
By Soixante huitard
December 15, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this
Yeah, he’s a tosser alright.
One tosser reaching out to another, you might say. :-)
By Richard
December 15, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
I’d give anything to be able to post those shoes on ebay.
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
The overwhelming majority of the Iraqis want the United States military and their corporate paymasters out of their country.( This man was not some lone, isolated nut. Look at the reception he’s getting by the rank and file citizenry.)
And they have felt this way for a LONG time.
Let them have that shiitehole of theirs.
I know the lunatic fringe’s ENORMOUS love for the Iraqi people is only the sixth or seventh reason (I’ve lost count) why we are supposedly there, but losing even one more American life for such ingrates is idiotic and shameful.
One of the innumerable BushCo lies about this bungled invasion/occupation was that Iraqi troops were ready by the tens of thousands to stand up and take on their share of the security.
While year after year, we lost US Marines and GIs by the hundreds and thousands.
And gawd knows how much of our money wasted there.
How Bush/Cheney were never impeached may be the enduring question of this century, vis a vis the entire clusterf&ck called Iraq…
01-20-09 The End of a National Disaster
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this
Geez, one can only imagine what the blog gods are angry over now.
Even God’s Trash is on somewhat good behavior.
By formersds
December 15, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
I would like to see the US pull out of Iraq too. However, Obama will not, can not. Just another campaign promise he will have to break. Think he got a good dose of reality in his recent foreign policy briefings.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
Al-Baghdadia, repeatedly aired pleas to release the reporter Monday, while showing footage of explosions and playing background music that denounced the U.S. in Iraq.
Al-Jazeera television interviewed Saddam’s former chief lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi, who offered to defend al-Zeidi, calling him a “hero.”
In Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City, thousands of supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burned American flags
How about Pravda, where are they at with this?
Could we get an update from Cuba’s state TV station?
Perhaps some Chinese and North Korean commentary?
I know, a press release from the “office” of the president-elect!
We can hear from all of America’s enemies.
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this
While the corporate toadies line their pockets with dirty money and your average garden variety never-served, never-will chicken hawk put a support the troops bumper sticker on their Escalade, the average blue collar working American is trying to take care of those who took care of them.
Take a hint, you yellow chest pounders.
Each holiday season, we at VoteVets.org try to raise support for a cause that directly helps the veterans of this nation. Last year, you came through – big time – by donating over $11,000 to Operation Second Chance, which provides support and goods to patients at Walter Reed Medical Center.
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According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, “The medical center offers inpatient care which include nursing home care and domiciliary. Inpatient services are strongly supported by a host of generalized and specialized outpatient programs which generate approximately 125,000 outpatient visits annually.”
As you know, the VA is overstretched, and almost every VA center is coping with underfunding. We’re hopeful that President-Elect Obama and Secretary-Designate Shinseki will increase the VA budget.
By GreenJeans
December 15, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
After watching Midori’s link downstairs, I think this journalist needs to join Sh!tty-Shot Cheney for target practice.
The alcohol-and/or-drug angle would explain a lot.
For Pete’s sake. He was at close range, the projectile had heft, Maliki only mustered a half-hearted block…and on top of it all he got a re-do. Said picher should have at least shied one off President GW Bush’s right ear.
Pitiful.
I’ll say it—HE THROWS LIKE A GIRL.
Hero that.
By getalife
December 15, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this
Yeah, after I posted this prediction yesterday, crusty the clown attacked me so I threw my shoes at her.
We should do the same here with all politicians and greedy Wall Street.
Let them eat sole.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
There has been some information posted on these blogs contrary to the following-
United States Code, Title 18, Section 4, states:
“Misprision of a Felony: Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
Just wanted to clear that up.
By DB, Gwinnettian
December 15, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this
Jay, for what it’s worth I find the topic of this particular post of yours to be infinitely more interesting than either shoe-flinging or perceived anti-Southern bias but alas, the commenting, she still no workee.
By Joey
December 15, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this
My question to the shoe throwing journalist: During Saddam Hussein’s Rule, did you dare to even look him directly in the eye or to write anything negative about his government?
Now you are free to stand up and shout. And even to throw your shoe.
Freedom, what a concept. And you can thank George Bush and the US Military.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this
the Iraqis can also thank George Bush and the US Military for millions of dead and disabled wives, husbands and children.
ya think that’s why the guy was so p**?
you don’t “liberate” people with the butt of a gun or bombs from the sky.
By Slick
December 15, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this
Jay,
I think the reporter who threw his shoes at Bush should be released. Shoes are not lethal weapons, and it sounds like the act was one of collective frustration and anger at the person who caused so much death and destruction to his country. Apparently no harm was done, and it should be viewed as a protest and nothing more.
Our troops on patrol who had shoes thrown at them displayed the peroper response if they ignored it as you stated.
Bush is obviously on a last minute mission to try to improve the legacy of his failed administration, and he should not have sneaked into Iraq for some photo ops to try to accomplish this. Did he think they would throw rose petals at him?
The consensus of opinion of the group that I had breakfast with this morning was that Bush deserved the treatment.
By RW-(the original)
December 15, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
Andy,
Actually Pravda has this story labeled with the translation of what this “reporter” said with a little twist.
‘This is a farewell kiss, you, d!!!’
I’m not sure why they felt the need to censor the word dog, but that was Pravda not the censors here. My guess is they wanted their readers to think he said something else.
You do have to love the way this guy has been lionized in two of the last four entries here without a peep about how a journalist should comport themselves on the job.
By Morningstar
December 15, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately, Iraq is not the shining example for democracy the Bush administration led many to believe. What country would look at Iraq and wish to be JUST LIKE THEM? The Iraqi people, for the most part, didn’t want us there in the first place, and they still would like to see us gone.
Too bad, there can be no fixed timeline. If you whack a hornet’s nest, best be able to totally disable it immediately. Otherwise, in spite of insect spray (the surge is working), the surviving hornets will still sting you, the family dog and the neighbors.
It is most amazing that so many still think Iraq was involved with 9/11. Now that we’ve stirred up this hornet’s nest, we probably CAN’T have a definite time line to get out.
Wonder what the country would be like now if we hadn’t invaded Iraq based on what??? What if we’d pursued OBL in Afganistan? What message have we given to the world by invading Iraq? Iraq didn’t have WMDS. Other countries (China) do have WMD’s and no word was made of invading them. You betcha there wasn’t. Lucky us. Where does Iran now fit in this picture? What about our damaged relations with the rest of the world?
What would have happened with our economy if we hadn’t made this crazy decision? If only, if only. Hopefully the Obama administration will begin to make changes, but it will not be easy.
By Mrs. Godzilla
December 15, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
Couldn’t we all just UPS him some shoes?
I have a pair of lavender pumps I’ll never wear again…..
By thogwummpy
December 15, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
Keep in mind; journalists like Bookman have been throwing “shoes” at Bush since his election in 2000 (even if they have to fabricate nonsense about the man)—-and have painted Bush as a bloodthirsty tyrant. Well, Jay…had you actually thrown shoes at SADDAM; you’d have been dead before they hit the floor. History isn’t going to play the lying games you have.
By Joey
December 15, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this
Is your Bush total higher than Saddam’s total for dead and disabled wives, husbands and children?
By Mike
December 15, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
Wow! You mean the guy’s lawyer hailed him as a “hero”, so the Arab world hails him as a hero.
I guess by Bookman’s “logic”, because OJ Simpson’s lawyer declared him innocent, the rest of the Western world agrees.
This moronic partisan crap is what defines the AJC these days. No wonder it is dying. I used to be sad about the AJC’s imminent demise, but garbage like this makes me realize that we will all be better off when partisan hacks like Bookman are deprived of their platform for divisiveness.
By TW
December 15, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this
Midori - you have to understand that God did not create the Iraqi civilians. I mean, can you imagine if He had???? Boy, the mere thought’s enough to make a real Christian shudder…
Anybody got the name of the website trying to raise money to send this guy Elvis’ original blue suede shoes?
By And The Beat Goes On!!!
December 15, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this
This was one of the funniest things ever. The look on W’s face is priceless. His reactions were pretty good. On a serious note, Bush does not recognize the insult based on his follow up interviews. There will never be peace if our government continues to be so aloof and ignorant of this part of the world.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this
TW,
Some here like to mix apples and oranges. Two wrongs don’t make a right. In invading Iraq, “we” have become every inch the monster Saddam was.
And since when does it take such overwhelming force via thousands of bombs, bullets and such to kill three men?
By SaveOurRepublic
December 15, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this
Looking at it from the Iraqi’s point of view, I could understand their frustration over the endless Empire building. However, throwing a shoe at “Jorge Boosh” is pointless, as he’s simply a puppet of the Globalist Elite… who no doubt put for the marching orders & green-lighted the entire Empire Building (intentional) quagmire in the Middle East (which was initiated via a false-flag “terror” attack). We should have never adopted a this Machiavellian policy of foreign entanglements, and thus saved thousands of American soldiers lives & billions of U.S. taxpayer’s (fiat) dollars. There’s NO benefit to our Constitutional Republic from the (intentional) debacle in the Middle East…the only benefits derived are for the Globalist Elite & their Zionist allies!
By BeeJay
December 15, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
I’ll bet Jay was grinning with malicious glee as he wrote this. I don’t care much what 2 middle easterners think, and care even less what Jay Bookman thinks. This is an editorial page. Jay did none of that in this post, although his opinion and intent are quite clear. Time to give Jay the boot, uh, shoe.
By Al Bundy
December 15, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this
Cost of Iraq War: 300 Billion and counting
Cost of Bush’s lame “Mission Accomplished” visit: 2 Million
Cost of a pair of men’s shoes: 50 bucks
Cost of seeing Dubya have to bob and weave to avoid smelling Iraqi shoes: Priceless
By Midori
December 15, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
snarf
By rd
December 15, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this
This is a preview of what is to come when the U.S. begins to pullout. Someone wrote “the majority of Iraqiis want us out.” No they don’t. The Shias and the Kurds have benefited greatly, and wanted us to stay as long as possible to maintain the peace with U.S. dollars. The Sunnis wish to return to their heyday. The country is primed for Balkanization. More people in Iraq will die in the first 6 months after the U.S. pulled out than the sum total who have died in the last 8 years of “war”.
p.s. despite claims to the contrary, fewer people died in this “war” than in just about any other “war” in history.
By DB, Gwinnettian
December 15, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this
“I’ll bet Jay was grinning with malicious glee as he wrote this.”
Indeed, I believe he also twirled his waxed mustache and was heard to exclaim “Mwah-ha-ha!!” rather melodramatically.
Everything you imagine about them liberals, BeeJay? We’re actually much, much more sinister than that. Really. Rush, Sean and the Savage Weiner, they’re just sugar coating it.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
Jay, I’m trying to figure out the point you’re trying to make. Are you too hailing the shoe thrower as a hero? Because if you are then that would prove to the people of Georgia that you are indeed on the side of our enemies. What will you write about if Obama has a nuke launched his way? Will you blame that one on Bush or the vast right-wing conspiracy?
By the way, I’d love to throw my size 13 shoe at your face. It might make an improvement to it.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
Dana Perino Reportedly Injured In Bush’s Iraqi Shoe Throwing Incident
Maybe now she will stop lying.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this
Indeed, I believe he also twirled his waxed mustache and was heard to exclaim “Mwah-ha-ha!!” rather melodramatically.
ROFL!!!!!!
By MikeB
December 15, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this
You can disagree with Bush all you want. That is the American way………
To throw shoes at anyone, much less the President of the United States of America is one of the worst acts of disrespect a Muslim can perform.
Did you all who condone this behavior know this????
If you did, you should be ashamed of yourselves and what standards your personal codes of conduct have degenerated too……
No American citizen should condone that level of disrespect towards their President regardless of how you feel about him.
Furthermore, Bush did not make the trip to try and shore up his legacy…….. He cares not what judgement the ill informed and brainwashed offer. he went to genuinely thank our great troops. he went to reassure the leadership in Iraq and AFG, that a transistion in power is a good thing, and if we can do it in a peaceful manner with two people that have much different world views, so can you.
Is that so hard to understand Jay? Or are you one of those liberals who will just continue to beat that dead horse so angrily that you come to loose any relevance and journalistic integrity…… Obama has won…. No need to continue the attacks on Bush.
Remember, we have lost close to 4,500 of America’s finest servicemen/women over there. He had to go thank them. Just think of how many more citizens we would have lost on American soil had Bush not brought the fight to Iraq and AFG………Would have been many more terrorist attacks here in America than just 9/11….
Don’t be shortsighted and ignore 9/11 just because it serves your liberal purpose. The big picture deserves much more critical analysis than the liberal party line. Liberals have sold just as many people down the river as Bush has. They have lied about just as much to achieve their objectives as Bush has……
That is undeniable.
By MikeB
December 15, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
Watch this You Tube clip…. It puts my feelings into proper perspective…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rQzUVQjd8
By Midori
December 15, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this
HEY, MIKEB — INCOMING!!!!
ROFL!!!!
By gatorboy62
December 15, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this
I’m sure Jay is wishing he had thrown the shoe, and Cynthia the other. Jay is a mean spirited little man, who hasn’t amounted to much. I hope this rag, goes the route of the Chicago Tribune, belly UP!
By DB, Gwinnettian
December 15, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this
“Just think of how many more citizens we would have lost on American soil had Bush not brought the fight to Iraq and AFG………Would have been many more terrorist attacks here in America than just 9/11….”
You know this, how?
By reebok
December 15, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this
How many Iraqi civilians have we killed in the process of liberating their country into a military occupation that will soon become a full-blown civil war?
Dubya shows pretty good lateral movement.
By DB, Gwinnettian
December 15, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this
“I hope this rag, goes the route of the Chicago Tribune, belly UP!”
Gator, you do realize “this rag” is owned by a company that (among other things) employs your hero Neal Boortz, owns WSB, AutoTrader and a bunch of other media-ish properties? And that if the AJC were to “go belly up” it’d probably mean that a lot of the rest of those businesses were dying as well?
Why do you hate America?
By mm
December 15, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can’t bomb the world into peace.
By Copyleft
December 15, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this
I agree with the point many Bush backers have made here. If this journalist had attacked Saddam, he would’ve been killed!
And I heartily agree with their conclusion: Bush is, indeed, marginally better than a criminal, murderous dictatorial madman. High praise indeed! Well done.
Really, the only question I have is “Why do you consider this guy a hero, when he missed?”
By Watta Load
December 15, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this
I don’t especially have a high opinion of George Bush, but I’ll give him one thing..he has great reflexes. That shoe was going straight for his head and he ducked it pretty well.
By candide
December 15, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this
It’s about time someone challenged Bush PHYSICALLY. I’d sure throw more than my shoes if I had the chance.
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
Someone wrote “the majority of Iraqiis (sic) want us out.”
That was me, rd.
No they don’t.
I believe your statement refuting so, is empirically challenged.
Would you provide any evidence, data or facts to support your retort.
i have tons to prove my assertion is correct…
By PinkoNeoConLibertarian
December 15, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this
I still say that the USSS should have shot him. That they didn’t shows remarkable training and restraint.
According to the TSA shoes are possible deadly weapons. At least that is the excuse they give for making us take them off to be x-rayed at the airport.
Like him or not, he is still The President of the USA. The Office deserves the Respect if not the man. Only 42 other people in the entire history of the world have accomplished that (soon to be 43).
By Midori
December 15, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
WattaLoad:
the guy has been ducking responsiblity and blame all his life.
color me not impressed.
By And The Beat Goes On!!!
December 15, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
MikeB,
Mr. Bush/shoes has nothing in common with Baxter Black/Love of America. No matter how you see it, the war was a colossal mistake in judgement thus rating two shoes and more.
By DB, Gwinnettian
December 15, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
Watta Load is right!
No, really. Watta Load @ 1.27 is correct. Those were some top-notch reflexes. My presumption (contrary to many of my friends on the left) that the man’s really been sober all these years may have been vindicated.
Or, he was just lucky. Mostly I’m glad to see he wasn’t hurt.
By norman ravitch
December 15, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this
Would you respect Hitler for his office? Eamon DeValera had a Mass said for Hitler in April, 1945! Those crazy IRA types knew a kindred soul.
By Dusty
December 15, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
Dear Mike B @1:01
Thanks for the fine piece you posted. Your understanding of President Bush represents clear thinking and appreciation. Our president has kept us FREE (yes!) from terror attacks during his terms and that has been his primary job. He has advanced freedom to countries without it.
We have disguntled Americans who act somewhat like the defeated schisms of Iraq who seem to prefer a dictator to freedom. They are loud and unreasonable with hate just as our disgruntled American are. Both harm their countries and misrepresent the majority. They show an ugly “face” fired by agitators and enemies acting as enraged citizens.
The “throwing of shoes” represents only a minority of losers in Iraq. The joy by some in America represents another minority of losers, those who cannot reason through hate and long prejudice in politics.
Let us hope that these minorities of misdirection realize the damage they do. They are not winning for their countries, they win for their detrimental desires for selfish prejudicial power. There is nothing admirable about it. They are the losers advocating a retreat in an advancing world.
By DB, Gwinnettian
December 15, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
Coupla food-for-thought grafs from a NYT story on the topic and then I really gotta run:
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…praise for Mr. Zaidi was not universal. His action ran counter to deeply held Iraqi traditions of hospitality toward guests, even if they are enemies. And those who have cooperated or welcomed the American presence in Iraq were far more apt to side with the government in their condemnation.
Ahmad Abu Risha, the head of the Awakening Council in Anbar Province, a group of local tribal leaders that started a wave of popular opposition against Al Qaeda fighters in Iraq, said that he condemned what happened “because the American president is the guest of all Iraqis. The Iraqi government has to choose good journalists to attend such conferences.”
“This is unsuitable action by an Iraqi journalist,’ said Kamal Wahbi, a 49-year-old engineer in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, where pro-American sentiment is strong. “His action served terrorism and radical national extremism. I think he could send the same message by asking Bush embarrassing questions.”
By findog
December 15, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this
He is being checked for drugs and/or alcohol. If he is found to have been under the influence then he is put to death, right? Arab leaders are cowards because they would not throw their own shoes at Bush? Really, really!
If it were not for oil would anyone care?
By impeachable offenses
December 15, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this
I’d like something else throw at Bush …the book!
By making
December 15, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately Bush was trying to save as many Iraq people as possible when we started bombing the country…if he had enough balls in the beginning he would of bombed the heck out of them and got more of the crazies in that country! Boy these people have a very short memory of how they had it under Sadam’s rule…
By And The Beat Goes On!!!
December 15, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
DB, Gwinnettian
Who cares whether the Iraquis want us there or not? We need to get out of there and save the lives of some good Americans and keep $10 billion dollars per month here in America for our own people.
By Watta Load
December 15, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
To Midori,
touché!
By BS Aplenty
December 15, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this
Honestly…the only issue I have with this incident is that it should have been handled by Terrence Moore. This is a sports issue, Jay, not political. You guys should really listen better in homeroom when they divy up the stories.
Now, it’s very evident this hack couldn’t hit a man on a simple “hook” route - at close range. But take a look at Sports Illustrated* (no, no, you have to look past the photos of Marisa Miller) and you see al-Zeidi has a Quarterback Rating of 0.0. And did you see the wobble on those loafers - my twelve year-old coulda thrown a tighter spiral.
Yes, I see this incident as a case of a wanna-be NFL quarterback seeing a guy from Texas and thinking he’s auditioning for Jerry Jones (Cowboys, to you illiterates).
Don’t count on a contract anytime soon, Muntadhar.
By Class of '98
December 15, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
Midori-
You wrote that you “do no liberate people with the butt of a gun or bombs from the sky”.
With what exactly were the prisoners at Auschwitz and Dachau liberated?
By Eric1
December 15, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this
I don’t care for violence, but it’s what dubya understands. So I guess “hero” works.
By mm
December 15, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this
Why was Bush over there grandstanding anyway? Will this guy ever “get it”?
Most of the Arab world despises the US because of him. Did he think they would be throwing rose petals?
I guess his handpicking of reporters for his press conferences finally backfired.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this
Class,
Midori is only answering to grown ups today.
By And The Beat Goes On!!!
December 15, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this
*As the United States prepares for a major expansion of its development and reconstruction programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, government investigators have described the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq as a failure that wasted billions.
Planning and execution of what has become “the largest foreign relief and reconstruction for any one country in U.S. history,” with costs totaling $50 billion and counting, lacked an overall strategy and clear lines of authority and cooperation among U.S. government departments, according to a near-final draft of a 508-page official history of the reconstruction.
Answering whether the program met its goals to rebuild Iraq and modernize its infrastructure, the report concludes, “Generally no.”*
Why is this money going to Iraq and not American citizens? Wake up America.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
For you, mm and Eric
:)
By DB, Gwinnetian
December 15, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
Midoria, I believe Class of ‘98’s question still stands. Midori’s new moniker: Color Me Stupid
By formersds
December 15, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
If Obama pulls out of Iraq we will save $10 billion. But Obama wants to put MORE troops in Afganistan and it costs MORE money to support troops there. Estimates were that Obama would have to spend $25 billion MORE for the additional troops in Afganistan.
By tcoach
December 15, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
Midori, How do you liberate a group of people without violence.
Which liberation in the past 250 years has not came through violence of some type.
I thought death was death, but maybe you are only opposed when it involves artillery.
By AlG
December 15, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this
So I guess if anyone throws shoes or a bag of excrement or whatever at President Obama, people like Jay would consider that an example of legitimate free expression and a heroic gesture.
By MikeB
December 15, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this
To DB Gwinnettian @1:12pm
I don’t know for an absolute fact, but enough military experts agree with this theory. I would rather it be the way it is, then to not go bring the fight to them. That much I do know.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
and color you NOT DB.
Talk to me when you grow up.
I’m sick of you whining candy a*******es.
Tcoach - Liberation, aka change, must come from within.
all we did was destroy a country and its way of life - all without their input, permission, etc.
It would have been nice if someone had conferred with the Iraqis.
perhaps a better way could have been forged.
But I, along with millions of Americans choose not to forget little inconvenient facts - like the first reason given for invading Iraq. That “reason” morphed into several other excuses - ending with the B.S. excuse of “liberation”.
Following your logic, we “liberated” Iraq during the first Gulf War.
By Dusty
December 15, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this
Class of ‘98 and others soon realize:
Liberals don’t have any class.
By StumpMonkey
December 15, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
GOERGE BUSH IS GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAISNT HUMAITY AND SHOULD BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES ALONG WITH DICK CHENEY. BOTH OF THESE CHICKEN !###%$ A HOLES SHOULD BE HELD PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 4,000 SOLIDERS KILLED IN THEIR SENSELESS INVASION OF A COUNTRY THAT HAS NEVER ATTACKED THE U.S.A. THEY HAVE PERSONALLY RUINED THIS COUNTRY AND THANKS TO MINDLESS SHEEP FOLLOWERS WILL WALK AWAY SCOTT FREE.
By Eric1
December 15, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this
Back atcha, Midori!! :)
By And The Beat Goes On!!!
December 15, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
formersds,
You are right. Unfortunately, this is where the perpetrators of 9/11 are located. We should have been here from the beginning instead of wasting American money and lives Iraq. Sounds like someone needs to throw some more shoes.
By Grown-up
December 15, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this
It is easier to understand and respond to grown-ups if you are one.
By GodHatesTrash
December 15, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this
Midori,
you’re on a roll today - still laughing at your last one!
Sir Trash.
By Bosch
December 15, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this
I’m sure someone has already has written this, but I’m sure the reporter thought that Bush needed some shoes to go with his feet that are always in his mouth. I mean, he did fling them at his head.
By formersds
December 15, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
Agreed we should not have gone in Iraq- but Obama campaigned on getting out of Iraq NOW, AND bringing all that $$ home. But reality check means to add troops to Afghanistan AND spend even more $$. Not why we voted for him.
By GreenJeans
December 15, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
Midori at 2:18: LMAO!
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to turn this thing into one of those “lower your interest rate” whack-a-mole sidebar advertisements, but this…this is good.
Irony, anyone?
By Class of '98
December 15, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this
Midori,
I knew you wouldn’t answer the question.
There was nothing you could say.
By tcoach
December 15, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
Midori, I see you did as you always do, which is if you do not know the answer then make one up or go in a different direction all together.
-you don’t “liberate” people with the butt of a gun or bombs from the sky.
those are your words. I simply asked then how do you liberate a people. Claiming change comes from within does not answer my question. How does one invoke the change. Do not feed me they did not want us there line either. Seemed to me there were plenty of IRAQI people helping pull down the statue of Saddam and many more celebrating as our troops rolled into Baghdad.
That is not the point though.
How does one liberate a group of people without the use of violence? When in the last 250 years has a group accomplished a liberation without any violence.
You make claims to be so much smarter than the rest of us surely this will not be too much of a test for the great midori.
I will allow 10 min. for you to google and formulate your idea.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
GreenJeans,
snicker
For Bosch and Sir Trash
By GT
December 15, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this
Bookman, why are comments closed on your other column about no southerners in Obama’s cabinet?
What a waste of cyberspace that story is. What the hell difference does it make in 2008 whether someone is from the North or the South?
Truly, this would only be a “story” in the South. Its an embarrassment to Atlanta that its newspaper is concerned with matters “so important” as that. (But lets be frank, there’s a lot on the AJC.com homepage that Atlanta should be embarrassed its “news”paper prints. I mean, after all, the top story listed under NewsBuzz as I type here is the amount of money Madonna’s ex husband is entitled to. Stop the presses!)
Honestly, I would have expected that column from Wooten, not you Bookman.
By GodHatesTrash
December 15, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
Remember back in the good ol’ days of Mission Accomplished how warm and fuzzy the RightWingnuts felt about the Iraqi citizenry since they were smashing Saddam’s statue with their shoes?
Good photo op - gone very very bad.
This shoe-throwing will symbolize what history remembers about the arrogant criminal stupidity of Bush’s presidency, an ordinary Iraqi being pssed off enough to risk imprisonment and death to tell him what a worthless excuse for a human being he is.*
What about the widows and children, Dumbya?
By Bosch
December 15, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this
Midori,
Al Maliki is just standing there like, whatever. He probably thought it was funny. I know I sure did.
By SaveOurRepublic
December 15, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this
And The Beat Goes On!!! - Good commentaries above. We do indeed need to extract our troops yesterday from that Globalist Empire building scheme. The Neocons leveraged the 9/11 false-flag op as a pretext for the Middle East quagmire & the growing Orwellian police-state (ie - 20K troops to be deployed domestically by 2011). This business of tossing shoes is pointless, as “Skull & Bonesman” Jorge Boosh is a pawn of the Globalist Elite…THEY are the ones truly calling the shots…not the puppets in DC!
http://www.seeloosechange.com
By Dusty
December 15, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
Well, looks like Saturday Night Live has turned into Monday PM Dead here.
Anybody know some good jokes about Blogo? Jefferson’s freezer? Rangel? Frank? Pelosi? Reid? Clinton retreads? The return of Daschle the Defeated ???
Surely all you “grown-ups” can think of some good ones about these jokers. MIght liven up the monotony of “cute” insults.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
By GT December 15, 2008 2:40 PM Bookman, why are comments closed on your other column about no southerners in Obama’s cabinet?
Death threats from the Obalhmi transition team is my guess.
They say jump, he says how high?
By Mike T.
December 15, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this
I just thought he was a Muslim Gator upset that Tebow didn’t win the Heisman.
By dw
December 15, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this
To Midori,
A legitimate question, which obviously you didn’t like or didn’t want to respond to with a valid answer, so you slammed it. Good thing there are still some “kids” out there.
By making
December 15, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this
Even though “W” didn’t turn out to be the type of President we all wanted doesn’t give anyone the right to disgrace the Presidency…you don’t have to like the man, but he is still the President of the US for another month.
By Morningstar
December 15, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this
By CommunistAJC December 15, 2008 12:54 PM Jay, I’m trying to figure out the point you’re trying to make. Are you too hailing the shoe thrower as a hero?
I don’t believe JAY was attempting to hail the shoe thrower as a hero. I believe JAY, as a journalist, was trying to provoke anyone who was inclined to believe, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” is a crock.
Please THINK people. Why are we in Iraq? Are we (USA) better off as a nation. Pleeease, none of that “but, but, but the Iraqis are free.” No they aren’t.
Study history. Pray. See y’all. I’m off to buy groceries etc., and improve the economy.
By bh
December 15, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this
Bosch@2:31 Priceless!
By Really Strange
December 15, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
I have wondered where the 29% who still favor Bush live - now I know. Here in Georgia. Oooo…that’s sad! As for the person who commented about this guy not being able to do this to Saddam…well, he is now, and this Iraqi apparently is fed up with rotten heads of state - as we should be. As for his aim…for those of us who would like to do that to Bush…thank you for taking the chance.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
oh noessssssssss!!!
now I’m given time limits!!!
WHAT WILL WE TELL THE CHILDREN????
Tcoach - thanks, but no thanks. I don’t have time to play today. Especially when you dismiss any reply beforehand.
Bosch - I noted that first off.
That look on his face is priceless!!!
By Anthony
December 15, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
I am totally against suicide attacks but that SHOE-ICDE attack against DUBYA was HILARIOUS, that Arab did something that most of us Americans been think of for the last eight years
By making
December 15, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
Hope everyone has the same sense of humor when someone throws a watermelon or fried chicken at President Obama.
By Kia
December 15, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
They should’ve thrown a book at his head.
By Welcome! Here's your nametag.
December 15, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
Making @ 2:55:
You must have arrived on Earth this morning.
To bring you up to speed, Republicans forever changed the quaint concept of “respect” during the Clinton years.
Big time.
By Anthony
December 15, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this
Note to President -Elect Obama, Please get the names of all those DSS Agents who were there to protect Dubya in Iraq and make sure they are NEVER assigned to your detail. That Arab was able to get off 2 shoes at Dubya plus and additional 5 seconds before even being touched by Security.
By tcoach
December 15, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Midori, Not trying to tell you what to do.
Time limit was a joke.
I am just confused as to why you consistently make comments as to imply you have a better solution.
Then when pressed for how to make things better you clam up or start to make fun of other posters.
I was just calling you on your crap.
You made an assertion, I simply wanted you to defend it. Guess I understand now. You cannot defend it because you do not understand it.
I think that is because you have not have not had an original thought of your own in quite some time. That is the only solution I can come to.
It is you consistently making points then running like a school girl when pressed to defend them, you become silent, belligerent or just wait on Bosch, or one of the more intellectual of your friends to help in the Frey.
Shut us all up, defend your earlier statement or admit to all you just spew information out. Spewing it out without any effort to understand, comprehend or even defend your position.
Where once there was contempt is now just a place of sadness for you. I really mean that, I pity you.
By making
December 15, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this
Bush and Clinton are two very different person…Bush a bad President and Clinton brought on his own problems himself.
By GodHatesTrash
December 15, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this
Now Midori,
You’re supposed to be nice to the “special” kids.
By GodHatesTrash
December 15, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
Dumbya - The Three Stooges rolled into one moron.
By Just Nasty & Mean
December 15, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this
You stupid liberals are so short-sighted and shallow it makes me bust out laughing. You simply LOVE seeing Bush attacked. Does that make it OK if I throw a shoe at Ted Kennedy’s head?
Any chance you liberal dumbos can see where Iraq is a free country free from the rape rooms and torture chambers from Saddam?
Any chance you liberal buffoons can see where free enterprise has legs in the country where the former dictator built more palaces for his family than hospitals for his country??
Any chance you liberal whackos can’t see that if one expressed his opinion of a leader (like the shoe thrower) would have been taken out into the street and shot without trial, and hung in the city square to rot for weeks, and his entire family extinguished?
And is there any chance you liberal buffoons don’t see where the oppression of differing sects of Muslims are no longer enslaved?
And is there any chance you liberal hacks understand that Bin Ladin, Taliban, and Al Queda (the heathens that killed 3,000 Americans on our land) has been on-the-run for 8 years, so-much-so they can hardly even think of another attack on the US?
….didn’t think so….
Go ahead. Blame America. All we have asked from ANY country we have fought and created freedom, is a place to bury our dead.
You shameless pacifist quacks don’t even try to understand the evil in the world that would would cut your and your family’s heads off as let you speak.
So go ahead. Oblablama’s the president soon. Just bend over and spread your cheeks—talk, talk, talk—- and let the Al Queda have their way.
Daniel Pearl’s wife will be glad to let you know how that turns out.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
But even on the left, while Democratic politicians still try to look out for the interests of the U.A.W., there’s not really that much sympathy for the workers. The ascendant environmentalists disdain (to say the least) the internal combustion engine and everyone associated with it. Most of today’s limousine liberals are embarrassed by their political alliance with the workers who built those limousines.-NYTimes
Not around election time, they aren’t.
Then it’s butt kissing, promise making and sucking up votes like a Hoover WindTunnel.
But now, after the votes are counted, no bailout, bwahahahaha, suckers.
By findog
December 15, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
Ok, Here is the question: Did the Arab reporter have a purple thumb?
By GodHatesTrash
December 15, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this
I guess the just stupid don’t know that Daniel Pearl was killed in Pakistan.
Two countries west of Iraq. Hang a right out of Bagdad, head east 700 miles, across all of Iran.
Can’t miss it.
By RealityKing
December 15, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
I too celebrate this brain dead journalist’s newly won right to freedom of speech. The shoe toss however.., is assualt in all other democratic countries and should also be lawfully treated as such in Iraq.
By WhoCares
December 15, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this
This is gonna be funny to watch when Obama takes over turns out to be a mere mortal just like the Presidents before him.
By AJC/DNC Management
December 15, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this
“He used to spend half the day reading [the Times], then suddenly it lost its power, its centrality, and he didn’t renew.” Additionally, when Farber’s own work was criticized in the Times, after initial dismay, she discovered that few in her circle had even read the offending commentary, and “The earth didn’t change its orbit.” When she complained to a friend who was an editor at the Times, he told her, “Don’t worry about it. It’s just fish wrap.”
The New York Times, described by one of its own as “fish wrap.” A decade ago, even detractors wouldn’t say something like that. “Fish wrap,” or the alternate cliché of “lining a birdcage with a newspaper,” was once reserved for tabloids or any print product owned by Rupert Murdoch.-Splice Today
My guess is that treason against your own country set to a backdrop of hysterical whining does not a good business model make.
That’s too bad, ain’t it?
By Bud Wiser
December 15, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
I really do not understand Jay’s purpose for writing something this shallow, except for the fact that the hate that soaks his innards makes him do it.
Of course, all of the liberal left wingnut idiots laugh and hoot about the incident. Let someone throw a KFC chicken bone Obama’s way after inauguration, and he/she would probably be shot so many times by Big O’s posse that you couldn’t find what was left.
Then we would see the hate bubble forth from the left about how some church-burning, neo-nazi, white-robe-wearing, knuckle dragging white man, that obviously is a racist, hating pig, should have his family hunted down and killed so this kind of dastardly deed couldn’t be perpetrated again on His Most High and Holy Blackness, the Prez.
The fact that so many of you leftist idiots out there ( I do not have to name you, but you painfully remind us with your ignorant remarks every day who you are) are having such a sick chuckle over this demonstrates to us all your level of stupidity. Other than the fact that your own genetic makeup will forever keep you from bettering your position in life, apparently you think that The Magic Messiah will start tossing out freebies for you classless and clueless underachievers, so you will protect him with your own life.
We should be so lucky.
Pun intended.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
just for you, Bud
:)
I thought I’d stalk you for a change. :)
By RealityKing
December 15, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
This journalist should be arrested and publically murdered as a vivid reminder of Saddam’s political style..
By jill in clayton county
December 15, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
Bud Wiser
Your post, above all, got to the heart of the matter.
Well said, sir.
By Mrs. Godzilla
December 15, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
“hate that soaks his innards”
is that marin-hateing?
By Mr. KnowItAll
December 15, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this
GodHatesTrash @ 3: 42
Pearl was decapitated by Al Queda, you shallow dolt.
Get back to your nose picking and stay out of conversations way above your pay grade.
By GodHatesTrash
December 15, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this
The New York Times, described by one of its own as “fish wrap.” A decade ago, even detractors wouldn’t say something like that. “Fish wrap,” or the alternate cliché of “lining a birdcage with a newspaper,” was once reserved for tabloids or any print product owned by Rupert Murdoch.-Splice Today
The WSJ - one of Duh’s frequent cut & paste sources, is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
By Hillbilly Deluxe
December 15, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this
A tad off topic but I see where Morgan Stanley (one of the beneficiaries of the Wall Street Bailout) is investing in a Chinese bank. I’m not really happy to see my tax dollars spent in another country in this fashion. Wasn’t the bailout supposed to inject liquidity so these firms could free up money for investment here?
By yankee
December 15, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
They should let Americans line up and sell tickets to throw a shoe at Bush. I know that there would be enough people that would want a throw. Then use the proceeds to help solve our economic crisis!
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
Jay Bookwoman, Who at COX can I talk to about getting a job copy and pasting articles I didn’t write?
Here is a rebuttal to Jay’s ignorance about what the shoe throwing REALLY MEANS.
The Bush Shoe Attack: A Sign of Hope By Roger L. Simon
As the world knows now, a particularly juvenile Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at George Bush in Baghdad Sunday. Bush characteristically made light of the situation. If there’s one thing many can agree on about the president, it’s that he doesn’t take insults too personally, at least in public. Good thing too, considering all the abuse that has been heaped on him in recent years. I can’t imagine I would have behaved the same way. With my temper, I would probably have picked up the shoe and gone after the dopey journo myself.
Well, maybe I wouldn’t have. The clod probably did Bush a favor, making the president look good. And Bush could use it, because I can’t think of a public figure in my lifetime who has been so reviled except Nixon. And Bush never did anything provably wrong. He didn’t cover up an illegal break-in, try to sell a Senate seat or even have oral sex with an intern in the White House (and then claim it wasn’t sex). He just did his job to the best of his ability.
Oh, yes, I forgot, the WMDs. “Bush lied and people died.” Or did he? If he did, then so did those many dozens of Congress people and foreign leaders working off the same information - not to mention that no one has ever proven those WMDs weren’t there. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as the famous “argument from ignorance” goes.
But more importantly and more apposite to today’s event was that other, oft forgotten, reason Bush went to war in Iraq - that the only way to bring true peace to the Middle East would be through democracy. He wanted to spread the democratic system preemptively. A lot of people have sneered at that idea lately, but while they were sneering Iraq has inched forward toward a democracy. It’s even turning into a (somewhat) decent place to live. That buffoon-like shoe chucker - his name is Muntazer al-Zaidi from Al-Baghdadia channel which broadcasts from Cairo - proved it. No matter what happens to al-Zaidi now (and it won’t be much if anything), it will be nothing like what would have happened to him if he had hurled a shoe at the president during the previous Iraqi administration of Saddam Hussein. As we all know, in that case, he would either have had his tongue and scrotum cut out or both, if he would have survived at all.
And that’s the point - something good has happened. Something very good.
What isn’t so clear, yet, is how history will treat George Bush. I have a suspicion it’s going to be better than a lot of people now suspect - or are willing to admit.
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
In the next two weeks there will be plenty of the Year in Review stuff to read, but I thought I’d get a head start by summarizing 2008 from the Reich-wing perspective.
Spring came and the neoliths had the full promise of a slate that was chock full of their favorite boneheads, from Bible-thumping flat-earthers to coiffed flip-floppers to rotund, amazingly lazy actors to corrupt 9/11 fear-mongering opportunists. Sadly for them (and humorously for the rest of America) all were TOTAL embarrassments and completely laughable, save the RINO. (The man who I said from the beginning was the ONLY one on that stage worthy of ANY respect and consideration.)
Apparently the electorate agreed with me.
And as the long, hot summer of neo-con discontent rolled on, all of those Leave It To Beaver wackjobs were quickly dispatched by that man that BushCo and the Rove Master despised. There may well be books written about the loonfest that the once Grand Old party trotted out there this past year!
Chortle…
But it was autumn that signaled the final fall from grace for the sloganeers, frauds and chest pounders. A second consecutive November humiliation. And the clarification that the only GOP strongholds left in the entire country are here in the Moron Belt, with the clodbusters and the Mormons. ONLY they continue to lick BushCo’s boots and pay fealty. Countless lifelong Republicans have had more than enough though and have left that moronically misnamed “big tent”. Many for good, I suppose.
Now, winter is upon us and the blood loss in the neo-con ranks has been so horrific, for so long — thanks in large part to the endless screw ups of the worst administration in US history — that the Old White Guy Party is almost comatose.
What a great year! Better than even I dared to hope for.
Way to go, America!
By WhoCares
December 15, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
Most of the people that would want to throw a shoe at Bush would expect the government to buy the ticket for them.
By demwit
December 15, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
They should let Americans line up and sell tickets to throw a shoe at Obama. I know that there would be enough people that would want a throw. Then use the proceeds to help solve our economic crisis!
By Razmus
December 15, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
So this is what it comes down to Jay. You gloating over somebody dis-respecting the American president. You should feel proud . Whether you like him or hate him he is the leader of the United States in which all of us out here enjoy the benefits of living in, whether we’re smart enough to realize it or not (which many of your small band of leftist worshipers aren’t). As to the ascertion that this has been the worse presidency ever, I will hold my opinion on that one till the next one is over with. That accusation is only made by fools who don’t know anything about American History. If history is any guide, we are all in for a real treat with our future president. Ever heard the term, “run out of town on a rail”?
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
yankee, So could I also stand in line to throw a shoe at Joe Biden, John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and the rest of the democrat party? I mean, they did all sign on to the Iraq War. That way we could pay for the mess that the north got us in to. I mean, the northern unions and northern democrats who got us in this financial mess in the first place.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this
AmVet , I still don’t understand your comment on how the right-wing is part of Nazi Germany? How many Jews have the right-wing exterminated? I just got through reading a book about Fascism and how Hitlers Germany came to power. Hitler hated Christians and Jews. So how do you make the assumption that the right-wing is part of the Nazis? Not trying to start a fight with you or anything. Just curious.
By vuduchld
December 15, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
Like I have mentioned in the past, I don’t want to see Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rummy end up in prison. We, the American people demand that they, along with other neocon monkeys, be shipped to Iraq to clean up the mess. No Green Zone, but out amongst the Iraqi citizens they claimed to have “liberated”. I figure the Iraqis will welcome them with open arms, or they’d be cut to pieces. Let them decide what to do with this trash!!
By Stunpmonkey
December 15, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this
Nasty and Stupid is there any chance you could go drink some CYANIDE?
By WPWW
December 15, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this
CommunistAJC, the NSDAP were Nationalist Socialists, and did not hate Christianity. They adopted a variation called “Positive Christianity” which adhered to the NSDAP tentents & took issue with mainline Catholism & Protestant Christianity.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
December 15, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this
I hope the Iraqis will release this man and put him on a plane to this country. When he gets here, let’s give him a parade. He is very deserving of one because his confrontation of Bush is more than any journalist in this country has done. There’s been no investigative journalism where this maggot is concerned. i applaud the man’s effort and the sensibilities that drove him to his brave act! Perhaps now some of our journalists will gain the courage to look into and expose the criminality of George W. Hitler.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
WPWW , So, where did all of the Jew killings come from? I mean, my church doesnt practice genocide. I don’t know of ANY Christian church that does. And, how does one connect Nazism with the right-wingers?
By Sterling
December 15, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this
I can’t believe some of you (CommunistAJC, Thuggin’ foda City , By demwit , etc.) Obama has done NOTHING to warrant your idiotic comments. But, I forget that GA was one of Bush’s strongholds. That explains a lot. Bush will go down in history as one of the worse presidents ever. Whether you want to worship him or not, that’s a fact. His focus on Hussien diverted the focus of our military away from OBL. Hussien was nothing but a threat to Iran, but Bush helped Iran by sending our troops and money. Those senators that supported the war did so because of the false intelligence that Bush had the CIA use as his “proof”.
Why do you Bush worshippers keep singing his praises? He has (almost) single-handedly made us the most hated nation in the world. It’s so funny that the south is known as the bible belt yet there’s more hatred spwewing forth from there toward Obama than anywhere else in the country. The majority has spoken, and it IS NOT YOU!
By Al Bundy
December 15, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this
I take exception to the blogger who said the Iraqi threw like a girl. If that had been a 3”stiletto it would have been far more lethal, just ask Lionel Ritchie.
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this
Commie, it’s just poetic license.
Right-wing. Reich-wing. Get it.
Kinda like CommunistAJC, which I presume is also just hyperbole.
I’m not inferring any American is a Nazi.
Unyielding and dogmatic, yes. But brutal murderers, no…
By GeezGuys
December 15, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
I really hate Dubya. But I gotta give him high marks for reflexes, he’s pretty fast for an old guy.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this
Sterling, Hussien? Obama Hussein? Is that who you mean? By the way, I said NOTHING about Obama my misguided unintelligent comrade. Get your facts straight before looping someone in with an entire group. This hate you speak of from the south. Um, I’m a bit confused. You are “hating” on Bush yet preach to people who are critical of Obama Hussein as being “haters.” Your double-speak is confusing to me. If I had to figure your brain out I’d say that in your world its okay to bash Bush but not ok to bash your messiah Obama Hussein? Is that a good enough analysis? By the way, I’m pretty sure that you are not a historian so I’ll leave it up to a historian to judge Bush. Not a person with an IQ of a carrot such as yourself.
AMVET, Poetic license? So in that sense I can call all democrats racist members of the KKK. I mean, it was the democrats who hosed down blacks in Selma and the same party that has a member of the KKK as a senator in WV. Right?
By WPWW
December 15, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this
CommunistAJC - The “Positive Christianity” view held Jesus as from Aryan decent (only born a Jew by birth, not by race) & accentuated His victimization by & stance against the Jews (Pharisees in particular). The right-wing similarity is probably drawn from the “right-wing” social policies of the NSDAP. “Positive Christianity” came from beliefs espoused by Emile Burnouf & Houston Chamberlain & eventually embraced by the NSDAP (primarily Alfred Rosenberg…who despite the surname, wasn’t a Jew). The ZOG/Neocons are adhemently pro-Israel, thus making (direct) comparisons with the NSDAP is invalid.
By Just Nasty & Mean
December 15, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this
Stumpmonkey @ 5:24
You are so typical of your leftist whackjobs friends. If you can;t make a logical statement, call them names and wish them personal harm.
Do you see now? You have made it clear to all why right-thinkers believe your type is a pack of nut cases?
Instead of your autonomic reflex of attacking any semblance of alternate views (or wishing them dead), why not loosen your sphincter and make an attempt to learn something from incontrovertible truths and facts you can’t dispute.
There’s a whole world out there that’s not a pack of mean-spirited miserable malcontents that see the world as it is.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this
Sterling , Just who is it that hates us? Iran, China, Cuba, Syria, and Saudi Arabia? I mean, why would we want to be friends with those who hate us? I’m pretty sure that there are people who hate you. What are you doing to solve that problem?
As for Europe: France has a conservative pro-American president. Germany has a pro-American chancellor. I mean, those two countries alone HAD two anti-American leaders who switched over to presidents who love America.
Again, who hates us so much that you would love to see LOVE us? I’d LOVE to read your list.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this
WPWW , To be clear it was liberals who first LABELED Republicans as right-wingers. Hillary made it famous in 1993 with her debacle of Hillary-Care. I’m conservative and have absolutely NOTHING in common with Hitler. I also don’t know anyone else in the Republican party that has any similarities with Hitler. The only people I could say has anything to do with Hitler are muslims. Why? Simple, they hate Jews and Christians and want them exterminated. They also hate America and always have. Hitler hated capitalism and wanted America destroyed. Good enough for you, comrade?
By Al Bundy
December 15, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this
I have never before seen President Bush move with such precision and speed. He was focused, lucid and deliberate in his actions. Too bad Kartrina wasn’t a shurricane.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this
Al Bundy, And what about the idiots who ran LA? Any thoughts on why they did NOTHING? I mean, the state has to declare a state of emergency before the president can step in. Believe me, I lived in Florida and know how it works.
By Stumpmonkey
December 15, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
Nasty and Stupid : My type are not the thinkers [LOL] that have started the Iraq war Afgan war ignored Global warming , done nothing to stop Nuclear poliferation, ignored genocide in Darfur , allowed torture Violated the Geneva conventions, Illegally wiretapped its own people or Destroyed the Global economy.Your type can take all the credit for that.Please do eveyone a favor go back to your think tank and go flush yourself.
By Stumpmonkey
December 15, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
Nasty and Stupid : My type are not the thinkers [LOL] that have started the Iraq war Afgan war ignored Global warming , done nothing to stop Nuclear poliferation, ignored genocide in Darfur , allowed torture Violated the Geneva conventions, Illegally wiretapped its own people or Destroyed the Global economy.Your type can take all the credit for that.Please do eveyone a favor go back to your think tank and go flush yourself.
By Stumpmonkey
December 15, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
Nasty and Stupid : My type are not the thinkers [LOL] that have started the Iraq war Afgan war ignored Global warming , done nothing to stop Nuclear poliferation, ignored genocide in Darfur , allowed torture Violated the Geneva conventions, Illegally wiretapped its own people or Destroyed the Global economy.Your type can take all the credit for that.Please do eveyone a favor go back to your think tank and go flush yourself.
By Stumpmonkey
December 15, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this
Nasty and Stupid : My type are not the thinkers [LOL] that have started the Iraq war Afgan war ignored Global warming , done nothing to stop Nuclear poliferation, ignored genocide in Darfur , allowed torture Violated the Geneva conventions, Illegally wiretapped its own people or Destroyed the Global economy.Your type can take all the credit for that.Please do eveyone a favor go back to your think tank and go flush yourself.
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this
AMVET, Poetic license? So in that sense I can call all democrats racist members of the KKK.
Go ahead, Commie. You can say whatever the hell you please; it doesn’t matter to me. And I will never tell you to stfu because I don’t agree with or like what you are saying.
The best discussions here, IMHO, are between people with differing views. Sometimes radically. Sadly, it is only occasionally that the discourse is both respectful and informative.
My primary purpose for being here is not to persuade or convince. I seek information here that peaks my natural curiosity enough to further research things of interest to me. And in so doing, I have learned a great deal. If I can return the favor to a few others, then I feel I have contributed something.
I’m into that free speech thing. Even when it gets ugly, like it often does here, as you know…
By Sterling
December 15, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this
CommunistAJC you are such a typical righ-wnger. Hate? I never used the word for your God. I simply stated a FACT. He made us the most hated nation in the world. He had his underlings fabricate intelligence (now that’s an oxymoron) so people would thing we had a right to go to war. No where did I mention letting people pay to throw shoes at him, nowhere did I talk about him chasing chicken. You, and the other people like you on the blog here, just can’t accept the facts! I NEVER espoused hate for your God. Only that people like you have turned on Obama and he hasn’t even been sworn in yet. I worked with someone in Macon with a similar attitude as you. When Clinton was elected, he made the statement that our economy would go in the tubes. Our country was headed for economic disaster. Did it? It was in the best shape in many years when he left office. Not until Bush, and a Republican House and Senate, was elected and in control did our economy tank. That’s not hate, just a FACT!
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this
Sterling, Hate? This is what you wrote: It’s so funny that the south is known as the bible belt yet there’s more hatred spwewing forth from there toward Obama than anywhere else in the country.
You grouped me in with whoever it was that was “hating” on Obama. I never wrote anything about Obamalamadingdong, troglodyte. Get your facts straight. If someone is critical of Obama then that does not count as hate. Hate is what you have for Bush. Hate is what most liberals have for anyone who disagrees with them. By the way, SHOW PROOF THAT I HAVE WRITTEN ANYTHING HATEFUL ABOUT OBAMA HUSSEIN!
You’re are a very confused person. I’m pretty sure that the Muslim world hated us LONG before W. Remember all those attacks we had from Muslim terrorist in the 90’s? Remember the Iran hostage crisis in the Carter days? Bush DID NOT make the world hate us. The entire world does not hate us. You need to name specific countries that hate us and then we can talk. If the world hates us so much then why do we have so many people coming to live and work here?
Also, you claim that Bush fabricated the documents for war. REALLY? Because we got our intelligence from Bill Clinton, Great Briton, and the CIA. Bill Clinton said that Saddam was a big threat and should be taken care of. You believe what you want to believe because your mind is warped. I look at the facts. Besides, HILLARY, BILL, BIDEN, EDWARDS, KENNEDY ETC… VOTED FOR THE WAR OR WAS IN FAVOR OF IT.
As far as the economy goes in 1999-2000, it was going south when Clinton was still in office. Ever heard of the dot-com bust? You also state that the Republicans gaining control of the house and senate that caused us the economy to tank. I guess your mind is fuzzy because Clinton had a republican controlled congress for most of his presidency.
By the way, GO SELL STUPID SOMEWHERE ELSE.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this
Bravo, Sterling!!
BRAVO!!
Also Stumpmonkey and AmVET
They wouldn’t know the truth or a fact if it slapped them in the mouth.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this
Midori , What truth, what fact? Can you contribute anything or do you just go around kissing a$$ of other hack bloggers?
By Midori
December 15, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this
Bush dodged those shoes like he dodged the draft.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this
Midori, Clinton dodged condoms just like he dodged the draft.
By fed up
December 15, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this
Hey Sterling think you better research your so called facts on the economy.
By Bud Wiser
December 15, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this
Only a dimwit would think that I, the almighty Bud Wiser, would or could stalk them. It is a sense of self worthlessness and lack of social skills (or any skills for that matter), that lead the dullards to believe they are being ‘pursued’.
You think way too much of yourself to think anyone would ‘stalk’ you.
Join the real world.
Get off the couch from watching all of those Good Times reruns; walk around the block, talk to the living, climb the stairs instead of taking the elevator to the welfare office. In a decade or two of exercise and healthy living habit reformations, you might be able to fit back into that size 40 prom dress!
By Midori
December 15, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this
[SHOE AND AWE!!!(http://media.caglecartoons.com/preview/%7b8d9acf81-c140-4525-bb0d-bcae1fae86da%7d.gif)
By Al Bundy
December 15, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this
So where is the Corporal ready to take a shoe for the Commmander in chief. Can’t you just picture the Slo-mo video of him diving in front of the deadly size 11 bombs? NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO not on my watch…………..
By Midori
December 15, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this
This is how the world sees this lying, war mongering criminal
By fed up
December 15, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this
Still waiting for the answer to tcoach’s question…..guess it’s not coming.
By Algonquin J. Calhoun
December 15, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this
Here’s a fact: You are a complete moron and I’d really love to stick my foot up that colon where so many have gone before. Shut your stupid mouth and use it on your boyfriend b***!
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this
Well, Commie, I tried to engage you civilly, but your anger at your perceived enemies and your penchant for personal animosity precludes you from responding in a mature, cogent manner. You’d likely profit if you didn’t take yourself and your positions so damned seriously.
No matter, somehow I’ll try to console myself and fall asleep tonight…
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 7:12 PM | Link to this
Algonquin J. Calhoun, Trust me, if I came face to face with you in any sort of combat you’d be lying on the ground bleeding. There would be no “sticking” your cankles up my colon. I’m sure you’re used to having large objects shoved up your rectum but as for me, no. Besides, liberals don’t know how to fight. Being that you pansies are all about peace and love. Also, I have a wife and I will keep my mouth on her. So you can take your mouth back to the glory holes of the Atlanta Hartsfield MLK Jackson Monica Kaufman Andrew Young Malcom X airport.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 7:16 PM | Link to this
AmVet, Well Amvet, if you had people calling you nazis and racists all day for not agreeing on their positions then you may get a little upset as well. What if someone challenged your military service? You’d get upset. It’s been a trend for about 6 years with liberals calling conservatives, nazis and members of the klan when their own party is affiliated with the klan.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this
Jay, Here is a lesson in why magazines and newspapers are perceived as BIAS. I do remember hearing you spout off about how the media is not liberal. Me thinks it is.
Time’s Jay Carney will be Biden aid
Jay Carney is leaving Time magazine after 20 years to be Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s communications director in the White House, astonished magazine and gleeful transition sources said.
Carney’s title will be assistant to the vice president and director of communications. TIME.com’s “The Page” first reported his new job.
Carney, the magazine’s Washington bureau chief, is one of Washington’s best-known talking heads, with regular appearances on ABC’s “This Week,” “The McLaughlin Group” and MSNBC’s “Hardball.”
Biden has assembled a team of heavyweights: Ron Klain, who was chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore, as chief of staff; Mike Donilon, one of Washington’s best-connected Democratic consultants, as counselor; and Tony Blinken, a longtime Biden adviser, who is expected to fill a senior role on the National Security Council or on Biden’s staff.
A Democratic official close to the selection process said Carney had already decided to do something different after the election, and Biden advisers believed Carney would bring “a fresh perspective” to their deliberations.
“It’s an adventure,” the official said. “Everybody thought it was an interesting idea and worth the risk. You never know how guys in your business are going to do in politics or the private sector.”
The official added: “There are those on the right who will see this as the embodiment of their assertions about the media and Obama, and this is just making it official.” See Also
* Historians say Obama is no Lincoln * Obama will report gov contacts next week * Caroline Kennedy aims for Senate seatCarney, a Yale graduate, is known as a middle-of-the-road, well-connected journalist with establishment instincts. But back in 2000, he closely covered the guerilla presidential odyssey of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Carney and his wife, Claire Shipman, the senior Washington correspondent for ABC’s “Good Morning America,” have two children — a son, Hugo, and daughter, Della.
This is the second member of the media elite who has signed on with Obama’s administration. ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass joined the campaign as traveling spokeswoman, and now is working for Obama’s Presidential Inaugural Committee.
Officials said the conversations with Carney arose in part from his friendship with Blinken.
Carney telephoned members of his staff individually on Sunday night to tell them he was leaving the magazine.
Managing Editor Richard Stengel announced Carney’s departure in a staff-wide memo on Monday morning, but did not say what he was doing.
Stengel said in the memo, which was obtained by Politico’s Michael Calderone: “After twenty extraordinary years at TIME, Jay Carney is moving on to a new challenge. Jay has been pretty much everywhere for us. He started as Miami bureau chief and then became a correspondent in Moscow before landing in Washington and eventually becoming bureau chief. He was in Havana when Mikhail Gorbachev first visited in 1989; he was on the first plane of journalists into Panama for the U.S. invasion that same year; in 1991, he was at the television tower in Vilnius, Lithuania, when Soviet tanks rolled in, and in Red Square when they rolled again during the failed coup that led to the Soviet Union’s demise. On 9/11, he was aboard Air Force One with President Bush.
“He had two stints covering the White House and excelled in his coverage of the McCain 2000 campaign and of the Clinton impeachment. As a reporter and as bureau chief, he always fought for fairness and balance in our coverage whether it was of the left or the right. He is a superb journalist, an exemplary bureau chief and he also happens to be one of the pleasantest and most decent guys in our business. We wish him well in his new endeavors, which we will hear about shortly.”
Before becoming bureau chief in 2005, Carney was White House correspondent and deputy bureau chief. His byline in the magazine was “James Carney,” in deference to his mother.
From his Time bio: “Before coming to Washington in 1993 to report on the Clinton White House, he served as a correspondent in TIME’s Moscow Bureau for three years, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. Prior to that he was TIME’s Miami bureau chief. Carney has also served as a special correspondent for CNN … A native Virginian, Carney earned a B.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University in 1987.”
By Mr. KnowItAll
December 15, 2008 7:27 PM | Link to this
It never ceases to amaze me as to how discombobulated our minds become when we listen to political spin and rhetoric. Shirley Franklin, Andrew Young and John Lewis should be thoroughly shamed by their inability to remember who were the sponsors of fire hoses, police dogs and vicious brutality against our black citizens.
Was it not Democrat and Birmingham police chief, “Bull” Connor, who employed such tactics against blacks as they marched for their rights?
Was it not Governors, Orville Faubus of Arkansas, George Wallace Of Alabama, and Ross Barnett of Mississippi, all Democrats, who fought to the bitter end to prevent our black citizens from attending the state universities, voting, marching, etc.,? Was it not Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, who originally stood up to Faubus and integrated the schools in Arkansas?
Was it not extremist right wing Democrats, associated with the KKK, who bombed a black church in Birmingham on a Sunday morning and killed a number of black children as they attended bible study? Was not one of those slain girls the close friend of our fine Republican Secretary Of State, Condi Rice? Was not the reason that Condi Rice and her parents joined with the Republicans, the fact that after all of the Democrat inflicted pain on their people, Republican’s came calling and asked them to register and vote?
Was it not South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond, at that time a segregationist Democrat, who fathered a child by his black housekeeper, but willingly relegated his own daughter to the deprived status of those who were subjected to segregation and discrimination? When Thurmond later turned Republican, he had moderated his position and admitted that he had been wrong about segregation and equal rights for black people.
Was it not Democrat President, Lyndon Johnson, and his Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy, two icons of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, who not only permitted, but encouraged the wire tapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s. phone calls. Was it not Johnson who got great pleasure listening to FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, describe King’s activities, especially his secret sexual trysts?
Was it not the Republican members of congress who overwhelmingly supported Democrat Johnson’s civil rights legislative initiatives, while the Democrats fought bitterly against them? Without strong Republican support, Johnson’s civil rights bills would have been DOA.
And even today, lest we forget the last KKK Grand Pooh-Bah leader in Congress is the recently re-elected, 7-term Senator Robert C. Byrd…. *a Democrat. *
I could go on and on turning through the pages of memory but I feel the point is made. People simply could not let an opportunity to affect discombobulated minds go without some race baiting rhetoric. There was a time, they truly had reasons to be outraged at the treatment of blacks.
However, their tormentors were Democrats, not Republicans!
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this
…if you had people calling you nazis and racists all day for not agreeing on their positions then you may get a little upset as well.
Not at all. This is where you and I are very different, Commie. There have been many times where four or five people were hammering on me simultaneously. I loved it. It was a fair fight, if you catch my drift.
When I read stuff like “liberals this and liberals that” I almost always just move on. I mean, what the hell does any of that have to do with me personally?
What if someone challenged your military service? You’d get upset.
Yep, you are right, my friend. Ask Dusty who’s done it more than once. But that is just my weakness in giving her/their words ANY power…
By Midori
December 15, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this
This essay is a few years old, but it is even more pertinent today than when it was first written.
The Myth of the “liberal” media
*Note: This was written before September 11th, so don’t write to explain that Barbara Olson is dead, OK? *
* Let’s do a “what if” so I can make a point. I think it’s a good one.*
I think it’s so good, I’d like to hear from anyone who disagrees.
What if a show like Dateline did a “hatchet job” on George W. Bush?
It wouldn’t have to really be a hatchet job, but any honest appraisal of that idiot’s qualifications would prove he’s a non-thinking rich man’s boy - and that’s all.
But what would happen if Dateline did an unflattering portrait of Bush?
I’ll tell you what would happen:
The vulgar Pigboy would spend at least three hours saying it wasn’t true and he’d offer hours of rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Bill O’Reilly would spend at least an hour on his show saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Sean Hannity would walk all over Alan Colmes for an hour that night, saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Eva Von Zahn would spend at least an hour that night saying it wasn’t true and she’d offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
The Beltway Boys would spend at least an hour that night saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Brit Hume and Tony Snow would spend at least an hour on Sunday saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Juan Williams and Mara Liason would spend their entire allotted time saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
John McLaughlin would spend at least an hour on his syndicated show saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Chris the Screamer would spend at least an hour on his show saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
G. Gordon Liddy would spend at least three hours on his radio show saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Laura the W******* would spend at least an hour on her radio show saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Michael Medved would spend at least an hour on his radio show saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
Sam and Cokie would spend at least an hour on This W******* saying it wasn’t true and offer rebuttal as to why Dateline was lying.
George (Judas Maximus) Steffi and George (dumb as a chimp) Will would spend their entire allotted time swearing that it wasn’t true.
I included the link so that you may read the article in its entirety, and also so that Communist can send him a rebuttal
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 7:40 PM | Link to this
AmVet , Here is why I get upset. I just got through reading a book on Hitlers Nazi Germany. The reason I throw around the word liberals is because the mindset of a liberal reminds me of just how Hitler came to power. Liberals seem brainwashed by their hatred for Bush. They would love to see him killed. Conservatives don’t have that mindset. I don’t want anyone killed unless it is a terrorist hell bent on killing innocent people. Liberals seem to want big government and want the opposition silenced. Hello Marxism. Hello Nazism. Hello Fascism. I am not a big fan of George W Bush. He has destroyed the Republican party. His family has taken what Reagan built and burned it to the ground. With that said, I don’t want him dead. I read all kinds of comments about how Bush made the world hate us when the world hated us long before Bush was in office. It never ceases to amaze me with how easily liberals forget facts when it comes to the democrat party. I just don’t like the word racist and nazi thrown around without some sort of reason or explanation. Just this morning I heard Charles Barkley call Auburn racist for not hiring a black coach. Doesn’t make sense to me because Auburn has had some of the best black athletes and students graduate. I attended Duke where Jesse Jackson called the school racist when the fact was that there was no racism involved. The students were falsely accused by an idiot attorney who has since been disbarred. Sorry to ramble on but I just wanted you to know where I was coming from.
By fed up
December 15, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
I hope you aren’t talking to me alcal but I guess if you are it’s typical no facts just name calling.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 7:47 PM | Link to this
Midori , What you don’t seem to understand is that you named off ONE news channel. I can name plenty. CNN, CBS, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, NY TIMES, LA TIMES, AJC, ETC………All of those are in the tank for the democrats.
By the way, none of the people at FOX have worked for the RNC.
How do you explain Chris Matthews and George Snufalofugus? Both worked for Democrat presidents. How do you explain Dan Rather who made up false documents on W’s NG service?
Midori, You are very easy to predict. I hope that pizza delivery job works out for you because blogging is most certainly NOT your strong suit.
By AmVet
December 15, 2008 7:50 PM | Link to this
How funny that the RINO won’t come out in support of Sister Sarah in 2012.
He put it very tactfully, but if you read between the lines, he appears to be saying,”What the hell was I thinking?”
I’m guessing that in another four years the maverick will not likely have a damned thing to do with the dinosaur wing of the GOP.
Once bitten…
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
Midori, Wow, you posted an essay from some hack website. I really hope that pizza delivery job works out for you because if you ever went to college, which I highly doubt, your professors would be handing you F’s like Clinton handed out cigars.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this
AmVet, In four years Mac will be on life support in one of his 7 mansions. Sister Sarah has a church to rebuild since her’s was burned to the ground.
By Midori
December 15, 2008 7:58 PM | Link to this
Just like an ignorant wingnut - attack the messenger; not the message.
Did you examine the font, point size and ledding as well?
How about something substantive.
Do you agree?
Disagree?
Why or why not?
You numbskulls love to play that “Liberal Media” game.
And it sounds sillier and sillier each and every time you play it.
Put up or shut up.
By DB, Gwinnettian
December 15, 2008 8:00 PM | Link to this
“You are so typical of your leftist whackjobs friends. If you can;t make a logical statement, call them names”
So hilariously incompetent, I needed to post it again.
Later, gators.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this
Midori , I remember asking you similar questions a little while ago. I also remember you making stupid comments and calling me names. I also remember you not being able to answer any of them. When did I attack you? I simply pointed out that posting an essay written by one of your high school dropout buddies does not constitute as fact. It’s an essay. No facts. Nothing substantial about it. And don’t you mean LEADING? I’m not aware of what ledding is.
By Jethro
December 15, 2008 8:04 PM | Link to this
Ok, let me get this straight, the liberals think the conservative posters are Nazis, and the conservative posters think the liberal posters are Satan, and both sides agree that the other side is made up either ignorant, inbred rednecks or stupid, arrogant Yankees. Correct?
IMHO, You can all argue, and argue until you’re blue in the face as to how ‘right’ you are, and how stupid the others are for not thinking as you, but please remember this…in the end, aside from making yourself looking like a complete idiot, you AND your opinion aren’t going to change a thing, and matters to no one but yourself.
And lastly, to all it may concern, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza, and Happy Hanukah. May your New Year be safe for yourself and your families. Even you Jay :-)
By Midori
December 15, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this
LOL - Keith Olbermann is talking about the shoe incident!!
This is so funny!!!
Bush is trying to blow it off, and he has this big dumb look on his face.
I’ll bet Communist has a picture of him hanging over his bed.
By GodHatesTrash
December 15, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this
Now Bush will make his crowds take off their shoes before he lets them in.
Which will be fine for the RightWingnuts - it’ll make it that much easier for them to kneel and grovel.
By CommunistAJC
December 15, 2008 8:16 PM | Link to this
Midori, The only RINO I have hanging in my bedroom are the ones I took in Africa. I also have other photos of my ventures around the world. I bet you have pictures of little boys hanging above your bed in your moms basement.
By WPWW
December 15, 2008 9:04 PM | Link to this
CommunistAJC, I totally agree that the comparison between the GOP & the Nazi Party is invalid…as most in the GOP (like Bush & McCain) are Zionist puppets of AIPAC, who do Israel’s bidding.
By WPWW
December 15, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this
CommunistAJC, I totally agree that the comparison between the GOP & the Nazi Party is invalid…as most in the GOP (like Bush & McCain) are Zionist puppets of AIPAC, who do Israel’s bidding.
By Jethro
December 15, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this
Ok, so it’s let’s blame the Jewish people now, WPWW? ..and they say idiots could never learn to use a computer….
By The Corporal
December 15, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this
I would have given up my best Christmas present (whatever that will be) to have seen President Bush catch that second shoe, throw it back at that ignorant knucklehead and nailed him right between the eyes.
By StumpMonkey
December 16, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this
YES WE CAN YES WE CAN YES WE CAN !
CHANGE WE CAN BELIVE IN!
O BA MA O BA MA O BA MA O BA MA !
I LOVE THE SMALL OF VICTORY IN THE MORNING. HAVE A GREAT DAY.
By Mrs. Godzilla
December 16, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Why did a Secret Service Agent not take a shoe for the President?
By Frederick Douglsaa
December 16, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this
As it turns out, its a win win situation for all parties. Bush’s finally come under fire in a war zone, and the shoe thrower has been offered the 5th starter’s slot for the Braves.