Atari Hangman....what great graphics.
Posted on 05/09/2006 7:51:18 AM PDT by tlb
Kapow! Within a day, I got more than 2,000 e-mails. A day later, I got 1,000 more. By the fourth day, the number had reached 3,499 -- a figure that does not include the usual offers of nubile Russian women or loot from African dictators. The Colbert messages began with Patrick Manley ("You wouldn't know funny if it slapped you in the face") and ended with Ron ("Colbert ROCKS, you MURDER") who was so proud of his thought that he copied countless others. Ron, you're a genius.
The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon.
...war critics who are so hyped on their own sanctimony that they will obliterate distinctions, punishing their friends for apostasy and, by so doing, aiding their enemies. If that's going to be the case, then Iraq is a war its critics will lose twice -- once because they couldn't stop it and once more at the polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Maybe you can tunnel out, Richard.
Bless Cohen's heart/s He has met the rabid hatred personally now!
The libs freaked when Colbert wasn't written about (LOL yeah, right), but those reports were written to hide the fact that their boy wasn't funny. At all. (I think I grunted at one line, sat in silence at the others.)
Is this true? I don't exactly remember Hubert H. Humphrey (Johnson's VP) running on a peace platform? Nixon, on the other hand promissed to end the war? Did Humphrey promise the same to appease the antiwar wing of the Democratic party? I remember the choice being between the party that had escalated the war and the Republican party that promissed "Peace with honor".
Colbert was NOT funny. The audience didn't laugh at all. Of course, South Park IS the only thing worth watching on Cowardly Central (proudly mocking rural southerners and cowering to Islam).
I called for a hook..He bombed.
Atari Hangman....what great graphics.
Cohen becomes lucid and sees the world clearly about once every 4-6 weeks. But it never lasts.
>... who are so hyped on their own sanctimony that they will obliterate distinctions, punishing their friends for apostasy.
Hmmmm. Sounds like he could be describing the hard-core Bush apologists here on FR.
>... who are so hyped on their own sanctimony that they will obliterate distinctions, punishing their friends for apostasy.
Hmmmm. Sounds like he could be describing the hard-core Bush apologists here on FR.
Reminds me a little of Ginsburg’s poem “Howl”:
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix”
And God forbid that the Iraqis actually get it together and make their country work. That would be a third loss.
And if Iraq begins to influence other countries in the area to change their behavior? Well. Such things are better left unsaid.
That would imply someone had a broader and better strategic vision than the 'critics'. Someone the 'critics' are sure lacks intelligence.
Truth spoken!!!
mark
Dead from the neck up.
The last paragraph of Cohen's article -
The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations. I can appreciate some of it. Institution after institution failed America -- the presidency, Congress and the press. They all endorsed a war to rid Iraq of what it did not have. Now, though, that gullibility is being matched by war critics who are so hyped on their own sanctimony that they will obliterate distinctions, punishing their friends for apostasy and, by so doing, aiding their enemies. If that's going to be the case, then Iraq is a war its critics will lose twice -- once because they couldn't stop it and once more at the polls.
The extreme right wing and the extreme left wing share so many characteristics...
They could start their own party, the Perpetually Pissed Party
Sounds like he could be describing the hard-core Bush apologists here on FR.
Kettle meet pot.
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