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To: FlipWilson

Exactly! What's so ironic about all of this is that it was the MSM that originally carried the ball on all these claims...long before Bush even came into office. Yet, they not only have the nerve to call Bush a liar, they've completely exonerated themselves in the role they played in promoting these stories.

Their bias and hatred is so deep, that they can't even accept that they may have been right, right from the start. There is some sick pathology at work here that the MSM would rather continue to destroy Bush...with a lie, than rehabilitate their own image, which is even in worse shape than Bush's. This is the same media that will rely on the most suspect of sources when it resolves to the detriment of Bush...yet, will blindly discard any source that exculpates him. These people are some sick individuals were bias is the least of their problems.


80 posted on 03/17/2006 9:36:46 AM PST by cwb (Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
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To: cwb
There is a book,:

Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

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And a review:

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Communism is dead. Long live Islam!, September 30, 2004

Reviewer: Kevin Beckman (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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It sounds absurd: why would Leftists make common cause with a religion that is diametrically opposed to everything the Left stands for? David Horowitz explains that it is really quite logical given the Left's first principle: America is evil and anything or anyone opposed to America is good.

Part I of the book is a brief history of 9/11 through the end of major combat operations in Iraq, and the Left's behavior during this time. Horowitz includes the reaction of Katha Pollitt of The Nation magazine: "The flag stands for vengeance, and jingoism, and war." Anthropology Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University said he hoped for "a million Mogadishus." His colleagues objected, not to the despicable sentiment, but because of the bad publicity it brought their "teach-in." Our tax dollars at work!

Part II is the heart of the book: a history of the American and international Left. Horowitz calls them Neo-Communists or Neocoms. The Neocoms of old believed in the Soviet Union the way religious people believe in God. Those who spied for the USSR didn't see themselves as traitors to their country, but rather loyalists to humanity and an ideal of America that's never existed. When the Soviet Union fell, a few of them stopped for some introspection but most pressed on as if nothing happened. Communist historian Eric Hobsbawm put it nicely: "Without the Revolution, my life and my work are meaningless."

Now that they no longer have to defend an indefensible regime, modern Neocoms are simply nihilists. They know what they oppose but they have no plans for the aftermath of the revolution which they still believe will happen. They don't know what they want, but they know what they hate: the United States, capitalism personified.

So why are they allying with radical Islam? Horowitz says that the Neocoms still believe in Marx's dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." Once private property is abolished, the need for religion will vanish, and Islamic radicals will stop being Islamic and radical. The only thing standing in the way is the United States.

Sound insane? It is. They are. I highly recommend this book. Horowitz makes the insanity understandable.

87 posted on 03/17/2006 12:03:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: cwb
These people are some sick individuals were bias is the least of their problems.

This is a HOly War on 2 fronts - for real.

The jihadists against the rest of the world - (we do this every few hundred years!) and the other arch enemy is within - which will prove to be the more evil, in the end, remains to be seen. (The enemy who is an upfront enemy or the traitor who would help take our country down for the sake of power?)

98 posted on 03/17/2006 5:30:34 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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