The awful truth: arrogant America got it right (Aussie lib on Iraq, "I was wrong")

The Age (Australia) ^ | 11 May 2003 | Joanna Murray-Smith

[SkyPilot]

With the exception of her last line, the rest of the article is a hit piece, wrapped around a DNC-Clintionian admission that:

"Mistakes were made."

[HHFi]

I noticed that line, too. First, she attacks those silly Americans for mixing showbiz with politics, then she admits that her entire view of the world was shaped by movies. A bit contradictory, wouldn't you say?

She also spends most of the article running down Bush as a braindead moron, then admits at the end that he was right and she was wrong, which makes me wonder how anyone could be so much stupider than a braindead moron and still remember to breathe.

I also concur with the earlier poster who noted the vapidity of self-proclaimed leftist "intellectuals." In my job, I have to read news all day long, and I see the focus group-tested buzz words and tortured arguments of the left as they are faxed out from the DNC in press release form, then wind their predictable way into news stories, filter down into NY Times and Washington Post op-eds, and eventually get regurgitated back from the public in the form of letters to the editors and calls to talk radio. And all those people who are repeating all those silly notions and phrases that were spoon-fed into their empty noggins think that they are great thinkers, so much deeper intellectually than that moronic Harvard MBA we have in the Oval Office. My pet peeve has always been the combination of ignorance and arrogance, and that seems to be all the ingredients you need to create an "intellectual" these days.

[Stultis]

"...not that I intend to be gracious about it or anything, mind you..."

LOL! Many a lefty is moody. It's a good thing.