[aruanan]

Rush had a good take on this. He said that since obviously no one in the military could have initiated the cruise missile attack on Afghanistan without the order from the president himself and since Clinton was the one who did it and since Maher was loath to directly blame Clinton, he used "we" and that is what landed him in all the trouble. If he had just said "Clinton was a coward for sitting in his office thousands of miles away and ordering the cruise missile strike without having to personally put anything on the line in order to distract attention from the sex scandal his ungovernable libido and unwillingness to tell the truth put him in" there would have been little disagreement; certainly none from the people now doing all the bitching about Maher's remark.

There are entirely too many people of the Left and the Right who seem to think that entering a state of high dudgeon over someone else's lack of patriotism or spirituality is itself a positive exercise of morality. It's only an exercise in emotional masturbation and accomplishes nothing except for confirming their sense of self-righteousness.

Now, it's true that some people are more righteous or patriotic or intelligent than other people, but it's not their sense of being so that effects that state. Unfortunately, too many people are too ready to let the sense substitute for the hard work required to bring into being the actual state. Why go through all that hassle to be superior when you can just feel superior by relying on the dereliction of others to make oneself seem relatively better?

[Eagle Eye]

They hate Mahr so badly that all they had to hear was what they wanted to hear. Your post went over most of their heads.

Me? Mahr and Dennis Miller both make be barf. But I wouldn't sit still and let either go down under false accusations. Many here would and will...