Posted on 07/26/2010 7:30:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Get a bunch of lefties together, mix liberally with wine, and the bombs start exploding.
Public Citizen, the consumer group founded by Ralph Nader, gave its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award to Phil Donahue on Thursday night at the National Press Club. There were plenty of tributes for the talk show host, but it was impossible for the room full of pumped-up progressives to get through the evening without finding plenty of people to criticize -- including Barack Obama.
"We have a president that many of us, particularly here on the left, we really want to cheer," investigative journalist Seymour Hersh told the crowd. "But the reality is -- and it's a horrible reality -- we're probably in more dangerous times now than we even were under Bush and Cheney in terms of this insane war . . . nobody serious thinks we have a chance."
More baddies: MSNBC, which, according to Rep. John Conyers, bounced Donahue from the air for opposing the Iraq war: "He became dangerous to the establishment." Oil companies, big corporations, reporters ("The complicity and the passivity of the of the media today knows no boundaries," Nader said), the Bush administration and the Supreme Court. "This is the most activist court in history and every decision one-sided," Sen. Al Franken told the crowd. "They put not just their thumb on the scales of justice on behalf of corporations, but their fists, with brass knuckles."
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
Lineup of criminals.
I read the comments after the article. Most of those people still like Obama.
So many leftist aholes; so little toilet paper.
Or in a real war world, “So many targets” - WHere the hell are the JDAMS?
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