Kerry's Dance

The Nation ^ | June 3, 2004 | Eric Alterman

[Carthago delenda est]

You'll notice how Alturdman's opening lines ("Rarely in the modern era...unchecked power exercised so ignorantly, arrogantly...profoundly counterproductive results...bait-and-switch"...blah, blah) bear a remarkable resemblance to the hysterical anti-Bush attitudes that a recent poll of historians unearthed.

That may not be a coincidence: Alturdman received a doctorate in history not too long ago. In a recent article, he berated a documentary filmmaker for disagreeing with him regarding some particular point, noting that his trained historical mind allowed him to ferret out highly nuanced snippets of information from documentary source material that other people, with their one-sided historical agendas, may have missed.

After all, we need fair-minded historians such as Alturdman to offer us thoughts such as these:

[...]Ronald Reagan was many things, but most undeniably he was a pathological liar [...] [H]e also gave every impression of being an unbelievable moron [...]

Not only did Reagan make things up, he also forgot some things that most of us consider pretty important. [Edmund] Morris, for instance, lets us in on the astonishing fact that the President not only did not know his own Secretary of Housing and Urban Development--no big whoop, as the guy was, after all, black [...]

But another, more significant, little-mentioned tendency of the ex-President was his fondness for genocidal murderers. [...]

How did this childlike fantasist and friend of genocide convince a nation of reasonably intelligent, God-fearing and generally decent citizens to avert its eyes from the heart of darkness that beat beneath Ronald Reagan's congenial smile?

Hey Alturdman, enjoy November 2nd. There's a storm comin' your way.

[Carthago delenda est]

Oh man, sorry I forgot the...

BARF ALERT!!!

PS Does anybody have one of those "Barf Alert" signs I can steal?

[Batrachian]

To say that the New York Times is in thrall to the Bush administration tells you all you need to know about the veracity of this article.

If this where in print I would consign it to the parrot cage right now.

[Mustangcountry]

Why the hell did someone on earth decide to post Eric ALterman's Bullshi*?

[Fintan]

 

[Mustangcountry]

Alterman's in his own thrall.

Let's remember this idiot ignores leftist bias in the media while pretending Conservatives have the "numbers" in the op-ed voice at the NYT.

Safire is a centrist, Dowd is a leftist, Rall is a totalitarian Bolshievick, R.W. Apple is a redux lefty, Kristoff is a Maoist psycho, etc. etc.

Safire is the only one whose sane. That is not saying much

[Question_Assumptions]

What three-fifths of Americans think isn't important. What three-fifths of voters think is.

[marlon]

"Gore noted, has reported that the Iraq conflict "has arguably focused the energies and resources of Al Qaeda and its followers while diluting those of the global counterterrorism coalition." Al Qaeda now boasts an army of more than 18,000 potential terrorists, with the Iraqi war "swelling its ranks."

And one can arguably say that it did not!

[GailA]

Page the Admins and tell them to put the EXTREME BARF ALERT on this article.

[MikeA]

I see "the Nation" is still deluding itself into thinking Saddam wasn't such a bad guy. I guess the Iraqi terrorists just lucked in to the 2 last remaining poison gas shells Saddam had left, missed by oversight no doubt when Saddam rushed to destroy his WMD because of his deeply-held respect for UN mandates and his own sense of honor in living up to his word given in ceasefire agreements. And of course Saddam destroyed all those WMD without breathing a word of it to the UN or proving it to the world to head off sanctions that ravaged his country for 12 years due to his non-compliance with his 1991 ceasefire obligations or to head off a war. I'm sure Saddam refused to ever prove the elimination of these weapons because he didn't want to seem to be bragging or patting himself on the back.

This is the Alice in Wonderland "logic" of the left, and the stooges at "The Nation," these days. Oh, and all those emerging connections between Saddam and Al Qaeda as shown in the new book published by Harper Collins "The Connection : How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America" by Stephen F. Hayes is just more of the "vast, right wing conspiracy" trying to defame the poor, charming rogue Saddam, just like it did Bill Clinton, right?

All I want to know is why ending the slaughter of innocents was sufficient reason for Democrats and leftists to demand war against Serbia, but to have ended a far greater slaughter in Iraq by Saddam is now labeled as a "war crime" by the hypocrites on the left? Milosevic on his worst day couldn't begin to match Saddam on his best in terms of brutality and bloodshed. But when Clinton was president, Democrats and their media allies all but begged him to go to war to stop Milosevic, not to mention passed a regime change resolution against Iraq in the Congress which apparently the Democrats had no intention of ever actually bringing about.

When will America wake up to the utter evil and mendacity of the Democratic party and their American-hating hangers-on like the liars at "The Nation?"

[proxy_user]

These guys are REAL leftists, not phoney-baloney cocktail-party leftists.

[TC Rider]

Bush & Co. fooled Kerry into voting to give them the authority to go to war back in 2002 on the basis of falsified evidence and meaningless promises, and Kerry has found himself in a straitjacket ever since.

LOL, according to Alteredstatesman, Kerry got snookered by a 'moron'. This is the intellect that little Eric wants in the White House?

..if Kerry could only admit to the entire country what he told me and a bunch of other reporters back in December in Al Franken's living room..

Any politician having any kind of meeting or making any pronouncements in Al Franken's living room should be barred from office. (In fact, it should be noted as a 'jump the shark' moment)

[TC Rider]

I guess the Iraqi terrorists just lucked in to the 2 last remaining poison gas shells Saddam had left, missed by oversight no doubt when Saddam rushed to destroy his WMD because of his deeply-held respect for UN mandates and his own sense of honor in living up to his word given in ceasefire agreements.

Yet if the contents of those two insigificant shells had been released in NYC's Grand Central Station, does anyone doubt the left would have been calling for W's head?

[Carthago delenda est]

When will America wake up to the utter evil and mendacity of the Democratic party and their American-hating hangers-on like the liars at "The Nation?"

I wouldn't hold your breath: "The Nation" was an anti-American, Stalinist rag way back in the 1930s, and it ran an article denouncing Holocaust reports as pro-American propaganda in 1945 (I believe the author of that piece was James Agee, who now has a chair in Social Ethics named after him at some Ivy League university).

Since 1865, "The Nation" has always been the home of radical socialists and associated America-haters, leftist revolutionaries, and sansculottes. On the plus side, the unique texture of its pages feel unusually smooth when placed against the skin, making it a fitting companion to the outhouse.

[LongsforReagan]

I enjoy seeing Alterman on TV when confronted by competent interviewers like Dennis Miller. He absolutely gets destroyed and falls to pieces.

He really should go on TV more for our sake.

I cant wait to see the horror and devastation little punks like Alterman will suffer on Election Day!!!!!!

[dirtboy]

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Gore noted, has reported that the Iraq conflict "has arguably focused the energies and resources of Al Qaeda and its followers while diluting those of the global counterterrorism coalition." Al Qaeda now boasts an army of more than 18,000 potential terrorists, with the Iraqi war "swelling its ranks."

So a leftist think tank makes the claim, a leftist politician who has become completely unhinged repeats the claim, and a leftist journalist annoits the claim as the truth. And another acoustic tile is added to the liberal echo chamber.

[r9etb]

Cripes -- I literally couldn't get past "Al Gore said." I can't believe you were able to wade around in this raw sewage long enough to pick out quotes....

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Does anybody have one of those "Barf Alert" signs I can steal?

Here you go.......

[Ann Archy]

Eric Alterman was Bryan's guest so often that I quit watching C-Span!!!

[dirtboy]

But when Clinton was president, Democrats and their media allies all but begged him to go to war to stop Milosevic, not to mention passed a regime change resolution against Iraq in the Congress which apparently the Democrats had no intention of ever actually bringing about.

In the warped minds of the leftists, the only proper use of American military power is in situations where we have no security interests, lest such "taint" the nobility of our actions. Of course, when we have no compelling national interest, we also tend not to have much staying power in the conflict nor the desire to commit any serious resources, which is why such interventions typically result in disasters such as Somalia and Kosovo.