Minnesota Red Star Defends Birdbrain Durbin On Gitmo Bay! (MSM Editorial Howler Alert)

Minnesota Star ("Red Star") Trinbune ^ | 06/21/05 | Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial

[goldstategop]

Talk about an MSM editorial howler come true. Finally one of our nation's newspapers' came to the defense of Dick "Birdbrain" Durbin and savaged our military. The Left is ripping off its mask folks, and showing us who they really are. Heck, defending a scumbag politician like Durbin is not beneath the editors of the Red Star.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[SkyPilot]

He talked at some length about mistakes American presidents made in previous wars (repealing habeas corpus during the Civil War, interning Americans of Japanese descent during World War II, taking over the steel industry during the Korean War).... ....

The Red Star has got to joking. They bring up some obscure "taking over the steel industry during the Korean War" jibe as a warcrime to try to pad their feeble defense of what Durbin did?

Yup. The Red Star must be right. Turning off the air conditioner and "taking over the steel industry" (hey I thought Socialists liked that sort of thing?) is akin to the Holocaust, the Killing Fields, and the Soviet Gulag!

[goldstategop]

They've lost it. They can't cover up things like they did in the old days and bloggers are making life miserable for the old legacy media. So they let lose with a torrent of Bush-hatred. What can I say, life is beautiful - cause we sure are getting under their skin.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Morgan's Raider]

In all the descriptions of interrogation techniques ai Gitmo, I haven't heard anything about acid baths, tongues being cut out, fingernails pulled out and hot cigarette butts stuck to the quick, beatings, hanging from meathooks, superheated iron rods applied to the flesh, or any of those other crippling, deforming methods used by the Gestapo and KGB. For Dachau Dick to even compare the treatment these animals at Gitmo receive to the real tortures used by Nazis and Communists is reprehenhible, inexcusable, and beyond the pale.

Coupled with the aid and comfort Durbin has given to the enemy, the only acceptable action regarding Dachau Dick is either resignation or expulsion from the Senate.

[OXENinFLA]

Major newspaper proclaims: Durbin right about 'hellhole' Minneapolis Star Tribune backing No. 2 Democrat on Guantanamo

WorldNetDaily story.

PING...

[goldstategop]

It won't happen. My idea of what's to be done to enemies of America is feed them to the sharks at Gitmo Bay. I know the Left will go raving bonkers over that one.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[OXENinFLA]

Major newspaper proclaims: Durbin right about 'hellhole' Minneapolis Star Tribune backing No. 2 Democrat on Guantanamo

WorldNetDaily story.

PING...

[Carry_Okie]

Watch Hillary co-sponsor a move to censure Durbin. ;-)

[rhema]

Clearly the Strib hasn't had enough obloquy for one lifetime. May it continue to earn well-deserved ignominy.

[defconw]

FNC is talking about it again and they just said there is an article on Powerline blog! Go Team!

[Valin]

The Red Star has got to joking

No they aren't! Remember this is a paper that the NY Times called "looney left" (their quote) a couple of years ago.

[mewzilla]

I hope the local folks get in touch with this paper's advertisers.

[rhema]

Hugh Hewitt rightly wonders about the Strib:

What world do these people live in? Sayeth the nutters at the Strib:

"Durbin was spot on in his assessment of Guantanamo. That's why he was so roundly attacked. He told the truth."

He told the truth? "[Y]ou would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings." Dick Durbin on Gitmo, JUne 14, 2005. The Strib says he told the truth.

So, the paper believes the Gitmo = Pol Pot's killing fields, eh? That air conditioning levels equate with the Holocaust, and a single FBI report with Solzehnitsyn's witness to the millions of lives lost in the Gulag. What moral ciphers. Good to remember that in the future as they endorse candidates.

How does any supporter of the United States military subscribe to this paper? Who is willing to advertise in it?

[defconw]

Powerline Blog Headline " The Star Tribune is Fonda Durbin"

[mewzilla]

SSDD.

Paging the paper's advertisers...

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I just can't believe this. I am stunned. i had to keep going back to the link, I couldn't believe this is the Minneapolis newspaper.

[listenhillary]

Military Chaplain at Gitmo: Seek Truth (Contradicts Media)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1426527/posts

[listenhillary]

What's hard to believe?

They didn't get the "Red-Star" nick on Free Republic for being on America's side.

[prairiebreeze]

From the article:

The vitriol being heaped on Durbin would be almost funny if it weren't so mean," Cohen writes. "The man, after all, is the virtually invisible Dick Durbin. And yet he is being tarred and feathered for saying something that has occurred to many of us: Guantanamo makes the United States look bad."

Aww,danged those mean old Republicans for being mean to poor little Dickie. And Gitmo doesn't make the US look bad you idiot, it makes us look tough.

[Coldwater Creek]

Our mistake was to TAKE ANY PRISIONERS!!!!!!!!