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A new low in Bush hatred
Boston Globe ^ | 09/10/06 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 09/10/2006 1:17:58 PM PDT by raccoonradio

SIX YEARS into the Bush administration, are there any new lows to which the Bush-haters can sink?

George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable. He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler. His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden. Of presiding over an American gulag. Of being a latter-day Mussolini. Howard Dean has proffered the ``interesting theory" that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. One US senator (Ted Kennedy) has called the war in Iraq a ``fraud" that Bush ``cooked up in Texas" for political gain; another ( Vermont independent James Jeffords) has charged him with planning a war in Iran as a strategy to put his brother in the White House. Cindy Sheehan has called him a ``lying bastard," a ``filth spewer," an ``evil maniac," a ``fuehrer," and a ``terrorist" guilty of ``blatant genocide" -- and been rewarded for her invective with oceans of media attention.

What else can they say about Bush? That they want him killed?

They already say it.

On Air America, talk show host Randi Rhodes recommended doing to Bush what Michael Corleone, in ``The Godfather, Part II," does to his brother. ``Like Fredo," she said, ``somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw!" -- then imitated the sound of a gunshot. In the Guardian, a leading British daily, columnist Charlie Brooker issued a plea: ``John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you? (snip)Which brings us to ``Death of a President," a new movie about the assassination of George W. Bush.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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KEYWORDS: airamerica; bds; bostonglobe; bush; deathofapresident; hate; jeffjacoby; liberals; randirhodes
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1 posted on 09/10/2006 1:18:00 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

"This is Bush-hatred as a snuff film. The fantasies it feeds are grotesque and obscene; to pander to such fantasies is to rip at boundary-markers that are indispensable to civilized society. That such a movie could not only be made but lionized at an international film festival is a mark not of sophistication, but of a sickness in modern life that should alarm conservatives and liberals alike."


2 posted on 09/10/2006 1:19:46 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

This was in the Globe?


3 posted on 09/10/2006 1:22:07 PM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
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To: raccoonradio

I suspect dear ol' Randi will be getting a visit from the US Secret Service over this one. Preferably around 2 am and preceded with a CS grenade.


4 posted on 09/10/2006 1:22:17 PM PDT by stm (Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
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To: raccoonradio

Can they sink any lower?

Of course. Just wait.


5 posted on 09/10/2006 1:22:49 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: raccoonradio
Randi Rhodes gets her wish, sorta of.

"Path to 9-11" should be canceled and "Death to a President" an award winner per liberals, democrats and ex-presidents.

6 posted on 09/10/2006 1:23:07 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: cardinal4
Jeff Jacoby is the Globe's token conservative columnist.

He's a very lonely man.

7 posted on 09/10/2006 1:24:55 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: raccoonradio

Mega Barf alert warning needed here.


8 posted on 09/10/2006 1:25:49 PM PDT by oxcart (Journalism [Sic])
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To: raccoonradio
Hotair.com has a clip from Bill Maher's show where, surprisingly, David Gregory defends our President.

The conversation turned to torture methods used on terrorists. Maher ended it by saying to Gregory (paraphrasing a bit here), "If it's so kosher, let's use it (the torture) on Bush."

9 posted on 09/10/2006 1:26:46 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly (Liberals lie.)
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To: cardinal4
This was in the Globe? Jacoby is the token conservative.
10 posted on 09/10/2006 1:27:08 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
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To: cardinal4
Also, they manufactured an excuse to suspend him, and silence his voice as the 2000 elections approached.

Typical Stalinist Globe stuff.

An Open Letter from Jeff Jacoby to His Friends

11 posted on 09/10/2006 1:28:53 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: stm
I suspect dear ol' Randi will be getting a visit from the US Secret Service over this one.

I think this happened quite awhile back and nothing happened.

12 posted on 09/10/2006 1:36:33 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: raccoonradio

Like Rush says, the left has lost their sanity. The ironic thing is that Bussh's worst fault is his willingness to try to work with them only to be slapped in the face over and over.


13 posted on 09/10/2006 1:37:46 PM PDT by KyHammer (Where's Zarquawi ? ......Blowed up sir!)
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To: Cicero
As the Dems letter to ABC shows, they're not kidding: they are willing to use force to create a one-party state and to intimidate their political opponents.

I'm afraid if they win control of the Federal government, we'll have another civil war.

How long would it take them to define the 'real terrorist threat' as right wing 'militias' (the NRA)? To criminalize right-wing political speech as hate speech? To use the 'fairness' doctrine to squelch right-wing talk radio? To use the tax code and regulations to coerce the business class into supporting only the Democratic Party and to use the IRS to harass their political adversaries? To fill he military with left-wing JAG political commissars and to further demoralize it by giving our enemies a victory through plitics that they could not eran on the battlefield? To use the 'supremacy' clause of the Constitution to impose un-Constitutional restrictions on America via foreign treaties that concede our sovereignty to an unelected, trans-national elite?

The only way these measurs could be oposed would be for one or more state governments to take a stand and to refuse to obey and to arrest Federal officials attempting to enforce these measures. They would have to dare the Dems to call out the Army. It would get real ugly, real fast.

14 posted on 09/10/2006 1:41:19 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Charles Martel: past and future of France)
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To: KyHammer
It's one thing to embrace 'turning the other cheek' as a matter of personal ethics; but quite another to try to make it political policy, in which case you are failing to fulfill your official duties.

President Bush, for all of his strengths, sometimes has way too much of his father in him.

15 posted on 09/10/2006 1:43:53 PM PDT by pierrem15 (Charles Martel: past and future of France)
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To: raccoonradio
SIX YEARS into the Bush administration, are there any new lows to which the Bush-haters can sink

. . .their hatred is 'bottomless'. . .endless. . .forever nurtured by a timeless hate.

These people only source the noxious depths here.

We cannot but be both amazed and repulsed by what they come up with.

16 posted on 09/10/2006 1:44:34 PM PDT by cricket (Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .)
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To: cardinal4

Indeed it was in the Globe, as was this letter to the editor. Even they have to acknowledge the other side
on occasion.
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YOU PUBLISHED two letters Friday concerning the ``Path to 9/11" miniseries. Both authors seem to have had an advance reading of the script and have decided that ABC has somehow morphed into the media arm of the Republican Party. I would like to urge folks to actually see the movie before making such judgments.

For the Globe to publish not one but two of these letters is preposterous. The history of the rise of Islamic terrorism is far longer than the presidencies of George Bush or Bill Clinton .

To suggest that any mention of this is somehow a political hatchet job is intellectually dishonest at the least.

I would offer a suggestion often given to me when I complain about the content of some television programming. If the subject matter offends you, change the channel. No one is forcing you to watch.

Or is that advice only offered when it is my ox that is being gored?

MIKE MORRIS
Ashland


17 posted on 09/10/2006 1:44:40 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Too bad we can't make snuff films about Clinton or Gore...


18 posted on 09/10/2006 1:47:28 PM PDT by x_plus_one (Muslim immigration breaks democracy into a self-defeating system .)
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To: raccoonradio
This is Bush-hatred as a snuff film. The fantasies it feeds are grotesque and obscene; to pander to such fantasies is to rip at boundary-markers that are indispensable to civilized society. That such a movie could not only be made but lionized at an international film festival is a mark not of sophistication, but of a sickness in modern life that should alarm conservatives and liberals alike."

Unfortunately, until the bulk of America starts caring about something other than being first in line at the local breakfast bar, this sort of thing is going to continue and the left is going to get increasingly bolder until one day they will take control. Then ordering the execution of President Bush won't seem so far fetched.

19 posted on 09/10/2006 1:48:30 PM PDT by beckysueb (KOmmies are really nothing but DUmmies with better PR.)
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To: pierrem15

The implosion of the left is history unfolding before our eyes.

Watch and learn what happens to those without a moral compass.


20 posted on 09/10/2006 1:48:32 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party will not exist in a few years....we are watching history unfold before us.)
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