I just had to try - didn't work for me either.
Odd. I got nothing when I right clicked it, but I managed to copy and paste by highlighting the text, hitting CTL + C, and then hitting CTL + V into the FR Reply Box. But it added some strange characters, and in any case I thought I’d refrain from actually posting it on this thread, since if they go to that much trouble they probably don’t want people copying their stuff.
The way things work in this country never ceases to amaze me. Just last week in Israel, President Bush committed what much of our media and all of our leading Democrats considered a great offense; comparing people who seek a rational dialog with irrational Islamists to Neville Chamberlain and others who sought conciliation with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. To liberals, this is the ultimate insult and one that cannot be taken lying down.
This is most interesting coming from a party whose backers from day one have compared Bush to Hitler himself, and one that spawned a presidential candidate who compared American soldiers to Pol Pot, the purveyors of the Soviet Gulags and naturally, Hitler. But perhaps the latest and greatest of these accusations comes from another erstwhile presidential candidate, Gary Hart, who warns that ìradical forces, usually called neoconservatives, [have] perverted language as recommended by the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany.î
He claims that the rightís strategy is: ìContinue to demonize liberals, blame them for all social and economic problems, and soon enough no one will be willing to admit to being a liberal. Claim that liberals and Democrats are too soft to combat terrorists and soon enough a majority, even in the oldest democracy on earth, will believe it.î Would that this truth were so easy to convey!
If Hartís charges werenít so pompously humorless, youíd have to laugh at his calling conservatives ìradical perverters of language;î coming as it does from the former darling of a party whose most recent president had us scrambling to define the meaning of the word, ìis.î Itís no wonder that their current darling; a great speechifier we are told, has had trouble refuting what he perceived as Bushís attack on his foreign policy, particularly his promise to conduct unconditional talks with Iran.
Although his name was never mentionedmany think that the presidentís real target was the ever-delusional Jimmy CarterBarack Obama seems to be developing a bad case of what my father used to call ìrabbit ears.î In a classic demonstration of, ëif the shoe fits, wear ití, he snarled that Bush ìaccused me and other Democrats of wanting to negotiate with terrorists, and said we were no different from the people who appeased Adolf Hitler.î
Of course, thatís not what the president said, although youíd be hard-pressed to discover that by watching your network news, especially if your flavor of preference is of the NBC variety. The White House took NBC News to task in a letter which points out the networkís deception in an interview graciously granted them by President Bush on this subject. When asked by NBCís Richard Engel if he was referring to Obama in his remarks to the Israeli Knesset, Bush said:
People need to read the speech. You didn't get it exactly right, either. What I said was is that we need to take the words of people seriously. And when, you know, a leader of Iran says that they want to destroy Israel, you've got to take those words seriously. And if you don't take them seriously, then it harkens back to a day when we didn't take other words seriously. It was fitting that I talked about not taking the words of Adolph Hitler seriously on the floor of the Knesset. But I also talked about the need to defend Israel, the need to not negotiate with the likes of al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas. And the need to make sure Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon.
All but one sentence of this response was edited out of the televised interview as was the presidentís answer to Engelís follow-up question in which he stated that ìAnd I have made it clear to the Iranians that there is a seat at the table for them if they would verifiably suspend their enrichment.î
Obamaís shrill and angry reaction to a perceived slight and NBCís gross bias in distorting President Bushís message, only serve to highlight Obamaís weakness in foreign policy matters and the fact that the media realize this as well. And we right-wing radical forces didnít even need to pervert any language to do it.
Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from Connecticut. You may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.
Lisa Fabrizio
May 27, 2008
The way things work in this country never ceases to amaze me. Just last week in Israel, President Bush committed what much of our media and all of our leading Democrats considered a great offense; comparing people who seek a rational dialog with irrational Islamists to Neville Chamberlain and others who sought conciliation with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. To liberals, this is the ultimate insult and one that cannot be taken lying down.
This is most interesting coming from a party whose backers from day one have compared Bush to Hitler himself, and one that spawned a presidential candidate who compared American soldiers to Pol Pot, the purveyors of the Soviet Gulags and naturally, Hitler. But perhaps the latest and greatest of these accusations comes from another erstwhile presidential candidate, Gary Hart, who warns that ìradical forces, usually called neoconservatives, [have] perverted language as recommended by the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany.
He claims that the rightís strategy is: ìContinue to demonize liberals, blame them for all social and economic problems, and soon enough no one will be willing to admit to being a liberal. Claim that liberals and Democrats are too soft to combat terrorists and soon enough a majority, even in the oldest democracy on earth, will believe it.î Would that this truth were so easy to convey! </snip>
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Do it like this:
Right click and drag down column to copy what you want.
Then use CNTL+C to copy
To post right click again and select paste.
As someone else quoted Huckabee: “When you throw a rock over the fence, it’s the hit dog that yelps.”
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The "onContextMenu="return false;"" tag is what disables the right click menu.
I think I like Lisa Fabrizio ... a lot.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.