Revisionists without a clue

Tribune-Review ^ | March 26, 2006 | L. Brent Bozell III

[ncountylee]

To mark the third anniversary of launching the war to depose Saddam Hussein, the manufacturers of the "news" have established their usual template, Realistic Media vs. Pollyanna Bush. It's not pessimism versus optimism, but hallucination versus reality.

How, then, do we greet the bleats of liberals as they wildly overstate the alleged utter awfulness of the war situation? On CNN, Time writer Joe Klein, one of the nation's leading worshippers of Bill Clinton, declared to Anderson Cooper, "Rumsfeld ran the most criminally incompetent military campaign, you know, in the last 100 years, perhaps in American history."

Was Klein making a display of chutzpah or just of his own historical incompetence? How many bungled military campaigns can we assign, just for starters, to Klein's hero Clinton? The bombing of the El Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan? The "Black Hawk Down" fiasco and withdrawal in Somalia? What about Jimmy Carter's failed hostage rescue that fell apart in the desert and humiliated an entire nation in the eyes of the world?

Klein might protest that the number of deaths from those campaigns doesn't compete with the scale of Iraq war losses. Fine. What about Vietnam? Klein looks especially silly in rewinding back 100 years, 200 years in his emphasis on unparalleled military incompetence. Has he never read about the Civil War?

[ncountylee]

Paul Begala, who bows toward Chappaqua on a prayer mat about as often as Klein

Says a lot about MSM.

[Horatio Gates]

Klein, the same guy who suggested Ken Starr was to blame for 9/11, is a liberal elitist punk a** bitch. I'm not sure how the joke goes but Joe Klein is the punchline.

[Jaysun]

This is how liberals debate every issue. They lie...about damned near everything.

[Daaave]

"How many bungled military campaigns can we assign, just for starters, to Klein's hero Clinton?"

Clinton's war with Serbia is on my list.
"B-2 "Spirit" stealth bomber dropped a precision MK84-2000lb JDAM bomb on the Chinese Embassy."

I think socialists like Klein define "incompetent" differently than everyone else.

[Crackingham]

Awww shoot, I thought this was gonna be another Civil War thread. lol

[LZ_Bayonet]

"This is how liberals debate every issue. They lie...about damned near everything."

They don't just lie, they "over the top" lie. This "over the top" talk is a sure sign of lying, because, as long as you are lying, why bother placing limits on how outrageous you are.

[FreeKeys]

BTTT

[Jaysun]

".......as long as you are lying, why bother placing limits on how outrageous you are."

That's a beautiful observation, I shall make it my Tagline at once.

[LZ_Bayonet]

Glad you liked it - I kinda' impressed myself when I came up with it. I could tell you I was more impressed with it than any other thing I'd ever done in my entire life and that nothing else even came close...but then you'd know I was lying.

[Jaysun]

Glad you liked it - I kinda' impressed myself when I came up with it. I could tell you I was more impressed with it than any other thing I'd ever done in my entire life and that nothing else even came close...but then you'd know I was lying.

I wouldn't have thought you were lying. The day I come up with something that brilliant will be the day I die, because there will be nothing left to achieve on this earth.