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-Short Attention Span Theater-
REPOST - Strib Op-Ed by Fifth Columnist
2005-01-20
I posted this late yesterday. The hatred of this piece is not to be believed. The Powerline guys compared it to Goebbels, and with good reason. (Link here: http://powerlineblog.com/archives/009249.php)
It's time to party.
As the families of bomb-flattened Fallujah huddle in make-shift refugee camps, drinking from sewage-filled streams, Iraqi policy mastermind Paul Wolfowitz fastens the last stud into his starched collar.

As prisoners charged with no crimes, and given no recourse, languish in the hellhole of Guantanamo Bay, torture apologist Alberto Gonzales clicks his cufflinks into place.

As Dan Rather retires in disgrace over forged documents, former CIA Director George Tenet, proponent of forged documents about Iraq's nonexistent nuclear program, adjusts the Medal of Freedom around his neck.

As Pfc. Francis Obaji, oldest son of an immigrant Nigerian family, is zipped into a body bag for the sad journey home, Laura Bush zips up her Oscar de la Renta gown.
The original post is here: http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=1/19/2005&ID=54128
Posted by:Tibor

#9  Fred, Tom Wolfe is the best.
He should be required reading.
Posted by: buwaya   2005-01-20 3:25:11 PM  

#8  You don't have to make lists of names, if they keep putting it in print themselves. The assumption of such tripe is that the environment will not change and will continue to provide protection to their bile. One bomb, one shot by the wrong person, one stupid act, can change that environment overnight.
Posted by: Snoluck Throlusing8634   2005-01-20 1:51:25 PM  

#7  I believe it was RC that revealed the relationship between outbursts of moonbattery and good news.

Oh, yeah! I hadn't connected the inauguration as being a trigger, but that makes sense.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-01-20 1:49:40 PM  

#6  Oh crap, it's Not a Damn Dime Day! I've gotta go shopping.
Posted by: Tom   2005-01-20 1:42:02 PM  

#5  Hey, you hypocrite bitch! What are you doing working on Not a Damn Dime Day!
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-20 1:38:35 PM  

#4  Wow, indeed. I thought Tom Wolfe had driven a stake through the heart of that kind of cheapjack juxtaposition 30 years ago.

Maybe she didn't get the memo?
Posted by: Fred   2005-01-20 1:34:52 PM  

#3  Lileks carpet-fisking in 5..4..3..2..
Posted by: BH   2005-01-20 1:30:06 PM  

#2  I believe it was RC that revealed the relationship between outbursts of moonbattery and good news.

The inauguration of Bush for 4 more years. Yep, that'll do it, heh.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-20 1:11:24 PM  

#1  WOW..... Did Susan Estragen (from Fox News) get married or something?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-01-20 12:28:32 PM  

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