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Generals (WACO) Clark and MacArthur (Good Clark Bashing Editorial)
NY SUn ^
| 9/25/03
| R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
Posted on 09/25/2003 6:00:44 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The nations pundits are surmising in their whiz-kid way that General Clarks candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination has been instigated by some mysterious stratagem devised by the Clintons. I suppose the thing is possible. Yet a more plausible explanation for this glamorous candidacy is that the telegenic general has been inspired by the California gubernatorial campaign of Arianna Huffington. She is an inspiration to all such luminaries of the Kultursmog. Watch for the general to come down hard on SUVs, as Ms. Huffington has, and to sniff at big money in politics, as Ms. Huffington has from her Hollywood redoubt.
When it was discovered a short while back that Ms. Huffington had only paid $771 in federal taxes over the past two years, despite having taken her former husband for millions in divorce court, I had expected her to plead that such was the plight of a single-parent mom under kapitalism and she did. In his first week as a Democratic candidate, General Clark has shown himself to be a ham on the same sublime plain as his model Ms. Huffington. Out there in California when Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy, Ms. Huffington, then already a candidate, wandered dreamily up to him and knocked his microphones over. My guess is that it is only a matter of time before Howard Dean is similarly accosted by the drop-dead beautiful General Clark. On cable news the other day one of New York magazines taste potentates confided that one of General Clarks imperishable political assets is that in small groups he is funny. It is an indication of the essential frivolousness of the Kultursmog that its intellectualoids recommend a general who is funny for the presidency. Did anyone ever say General Grant was funny, or General Eisenhauer, who, by the way, was the rare general who proved to be a tolerably good politician?
The Kultursmog is the media culture that dominates American politics and tastes except when elections are held. It is polluted by liberal politics and values. It allows for such politically negligible figures as General Clark to become persons of moment. Come to think of it, Ms. Huffingtons eminence owes much to the Kultursmog.
My guess is that the air is going to go out of the generals candidacy rather soon. Perhaps it will be reported that the handsome general served briefly after his retirement from the army as an underwear model for Calvin Klein. Or he will bomb on the Bill Maher television show trying to match his exemplar Ms. Huffingtons hairstyle.
Seriously, General Clark, like most generals, has a low opinion of politicians, which he has already demonstrated to the peril of his brief campaign. Generals are usually impatient with the tug and pull of politics. General Clark, who reportedly once voted for President Nixon and President Reagan, has had a fleeting friendship with President Clinton. Now he seems to think all politicians are liars. He has taken the measure of the Democratic field (which has a large number of liars) and concluded that he can compete with it easily in terms of posturing and mendacity. Within a matter of weeks he has told at least three lies and been caught out every time. Mr. Clinton can get by with that kind of a record, but not a retired general.
There was his false claim that the White House importuned on him to link the September 11 terrorists to Iraq. Then he revised his assertion, claiming that it was a Canadian think tank that importuned on him. The think tank could not be identified. Then he told supporters that he would have voted for entering the Iraq war. When that upset some of them he reversed himself saying he never would have voted for the war. Finally there is the flap over Karl Rove. General Clark claims that after September 11, Mr. Rove repeatedly failed to return calls to him from the general. Mr. Rove has no record of such calls.
What are we to make of the fantasy that is the presidential campaign of General Clark? My suggestion is that the liberals have finally found their very own General Douglas MacArthur. That old soldier who told us that such venerable figures never die; they just fade away aroused derision and horror from the liberals in the early 1950s.This one wanted to put massive numbers of troops in Kosovo in the 1990s and to fire on a Russian contingent a decade after the Cold War had ended. Now he tells us we have acted imprudently in liberating Iraq and sobering up the Middle East where terrorists not long ago thought they could attack America with impunity. He would have us act there today as President Clinton acted in the 1990s, setting the stage for more fury against America in the future. He will in time fade away, but his mighty rise in the liberals esteem demonstrates their desperation.
TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; electionpresident; maryhelp; wesleyclark
To: areafiftyone
Clark used the military against civilians, including innocent men, women, and children.
The fact that the left has no problem with this shows how corrupt they are.
To: At _War_With_Liberals
General Shelton when ask if he would vote for Clark said:"Clark left Europe early because of problems of character and integrity.No,I won't vote for him."
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:13:56 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: At _War_With_Liberals
STOP!! right there!
In the first place, this "guy" is NOT a REAL GENERAL.
He is an product of a Bill Clinton bowel movement that emerged during said socialist emperor's reign of terror over the United States military (approximately EIGHT LONG YEARS).
This GENERAL PAIN IN THE ASS was nothing more than an instrument in the hands of Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party to impliment SOCIAL ENGINEERING beginning on the "captured" audience of our military.
Their plan didn't work then, and if anybody knows squat about our military, General Pain Clark, Bill Clinton, or the Democraps, they know this much.
Who is Genral Clark?
This is the very sam SOB who sat silent during the (attempted) raping, stealing, and plundering of our U.S. Servicemen and Women's ABSENTEE BALLOT RIGHT TO VOTE!!
The Military Have A VOTE!?? I Diddunt Know Dat!!
Gore Confers With Gen. Clark
Democrap Military Ballot Box
Democrats See Gen Clark As A Prize
Wesley Clark: General Issues (The Weasel)
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:16:47 AM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(LIBERTY has arrived in Iraq - Now we can concentrate on HOLLYWEED!)
To: At _War_With_Liberals
To: MEG33
I read that when the military had his retirement party, 4 major US mil leaders simply never showed up. Without notice. To give him a final salute!
To: areafiftyone
Clark, The Man Who Isn't There.
To: Happy2BMe
So.....do you have any strong opinions on the subject?
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:40:23 AM PDT
by
tbpiper
To: Happy2BMe
He also provided the coordinates to Clinton that resulted in the bombing of the Chinese embassy, which resulted in them having a motive to ground our plane.
To: At _War_With_Liberals
How is it that someone didn't know he might just have a problem to contend with if he ran for office?Wait til he's been in this race for awhile..the bloom will go off the rose.One of those Dem candidates is bound to do a bit of opposition research!
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posted on
09/25/2003 6:42:55 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: MEG33
Clinton proved that the leftist media, in collusion with the DNC, can propagandize away almost any problem and glorify any candidate.
To: areafiftyone
SPOTREP
To: At _War_With_Liberals
I'm not sure Ashley can bite his bottom lip and make it all better like Clinton could!
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posted on
09/25/2003 8:07:55 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: areafiftyone
"MArrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
09/25/2003 1:56:14 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(!)
To: areafiftyone
You may be interested to know that this statement from Mr. Tyrell:
"There was his false claim that the White House importuned on him to link the September 11 terrorists to Iraq. Then he revised his assertion, claiming that it was a Canadian think tank that importuned on him. The think tank could not be identified."
Is a falsehood. In the most charitable terms, it can be said that the assertion was "borrowed" by editorialist Tyrell from his obvious superior, George Will, who in turn (again, charitably) "mistakenly" created the original lie... I mean "error on the side of conservatism" through creative editing.
According to the transcript of Meet the Press, as reprinted in
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh092303.shtml , this was the dialogue between Clark and his interviewer, Tim Russert:
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CLARK: I think there was an immediate determination right after 9/11 that Saddam Hussein was one of the keys to winning the war on terror. Whether it was the need just to strike out or whether he was a linchpin in this, there was a concerted effort during the fall of 2001 starting immediately after 9/11 to pin 9/11 and the terrorism problem on Saddam Hussein.
RUSSERT: By who? Who did that?
CLARK: Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein. I said, ButIm willing to say it but whats your evidence? And I never got any evidence. And these were people who hadMiddle East think tanks and people like this, and it was a lot of pressure to connect this and there were a lot of assumptions made. But I never personally saw the evidence and didnt talk to anybody who had the evidence to make that connection.
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George Will chose to categorize the conversation in these terms:
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WILL (8/31/03): As Clark crisscrosses the country listening for a clamor for him
he compounds the confusion that began when he said on June 15 that on 9/11 I got a call at my home saying that when he was to appear on CNN, Youve got to say this is connected to Iraq. It came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. But who exactly called Clark?
July 1: A fellow in Canada who is part of a Middle Eastern think tank. There is no such Canadian institution.
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(Good luck finding Will's editorial on www.washingtonpost.com . I'm sure it's there, somewhere. But you can find it apparently plagiarized here:
http://www.daily-journal.com/content/?id=33838 )
Clark didn't say he got a call from the White House. When people with poor reading and listening skills (none of whom read this board, I am sure) reported that he did, he clarified it, saying that the call came from a Middle East think tank in Canada.
That did not stop George Will or William Safire from unequivocably stating that there is no such think tank in Canada. And in a piss-poor journalistic sense, there isn't, since the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies of Montreal doesn't have a presence on the Internet. Possibly as a result, Will's so-called researchers weren't inclined to check with its the Centre's founder, Thomas Hecht, who told the Toronto Star that he placed the call to Clark himself. See:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1063836611999 That, by the way, was a full week before your glorified blogger Mr. Tyrell wrote his misinformed opinion piece.
In keeping with the tradition of selling untruth as fact for the purpose of discrediting its enemies, the conservatives have sought to paint General Clark as a liar. In doing so, they themselves have--perhaps willingly--passed on lies. And so the conservative wing of America remains inextricably linked with the decidedly un-Christian practices of lies, deceit, and manipulation.
I defy any honest person to categorize this latest snipe against Clark as anything but poor journalism. And lest one is inclined to take the "American people are simple, so you have to put it in the simplest of terms" argument, I look forward to seeing you wriggle through the coil of deceit through repetition which continues to perpetuate after this particular allegation was definitively put to bed.
Shake it off, ignorant political mudslingers, or you just might wind up in yet another hell, one run by yet another plastic politician from Arkansas.
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: clark04
No Blood Boiling, just can't imagine anyone with as much hatred for one person as you have for W. We have a true leader not someone who is a puppet for the clinton/McAwful mafia. Have we gotten out of Kosovo yet? Some great victory! Did they ever find those mass graves of "genocide"?? Who cares who you throw at W, he is going to win in a landslide anyway.
Pray for W and The Truth
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posted on
01/09/2004 1:01:43 PM PST
by
bray
(The Wicked Witch of NY and Her 9 Flying Monkeys are Burning!)
To: clark04
No Blood Boiling, just can't imagine anyone with as much hatred for one person as you have for W. We have a true leader not someone who is a puppet for the clinton/McAwful mafia. Have we gotten out of Kosovo yet? Some great victory! Did they ever find those mass graves of "genocide"?? Who cares who you throw at W, he is going to win in a landslide anyway.
Pray for W and The Truth
18
posted on
01/09/2004 1:01:48 PM PST
by
bray
(The Wicked Witch of NY and Her 9 Flying Monkeys are Burning!)
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