My passenger is passionate about politics, in a way that is, unfortunately, a little naive. Anyone who still says that Bush being elected is "good" because it will energize the left needs a slap upside the head. But yes, I've read it. David Brock, who wrote many slanderous articles and books for the GOP hate machine, finally wrote a book repudiating what he had done, saying his conscience could no longer allow him to continue.
I agree with the passenger that Brock's book was overall a pretty good thing, shedding some light on the underbelly of the right-wing "conspiracy" that really does exist, even though they laughed at Hillary when she said so. "Still, you can't believe everything you read, even, or maybe especially, when it tells you something you want to hear."
My passenger asks me to elaborate.
"I'm from D.C., so I was fed political rhetoric with my breast milk. I was only 3 when Watergate happened, but remember my parents talking about it. I later worked on Capitol Hill. And I was friends with someone Brock slandered in that book as a crude, misogynist homophobe. I can assure you, he was nothing of the sort. Not at all."
"Why did he do it then?"
"Well, to admit that there are actually some kind, intelligent, thoughtful people on the 'wrong' side doesn't fit with the thesis of the book, does it? I suggest you remember that." Perhaps all of us should.
Try looking up a concept called 'intellectual consistency' and you may find that when someone has demonstrated themselves to be a self-serving, untruthful, biased hack....it generally follows that when they find it expedient to switch sides....you shouldn't put too much stock into what they say now.
BTW, of course the 'VRW' exists. I started it. I grew it from nothing. I will watch it devour all that is good and kind about our country.
Please.
The awe-inspiring conspiracy theories from the left in this country are great entertainment....here in Little Beirut on the Willamette....they are a way of life.
Complete with Tinfoil Hats. And deep thinking cabbies.
Just finished a book by a real Conservative and it goes into great detail about how our current coward-in-chief really isn't one. Another book goes into how America has become a nation of cheats, top to bottom but the top seems to be cheating a bit more (funny how many bible thumpers are in there, all those guys leading those big companies, cheating their workers, their country and their government but worried how being CAUGHT would effect their "testimony" to Christ. Maybe they should have read the Bible and thought about it rather than waving it around? Yet we say we are the moral compass of the world?
VRW might also consider if people don't change then Brock was scum when he was lying for the Republicans and died scum. Of course you can always fall back on the Republican mantra...."Wah, Wah, Wah...It is all Clinton's fault!!"
I can remember back in Goldwater days...how all us conservatives were picked on and if only we could have some power! Oh, and the Reds after us, the Russians and the Chinese, unleash Chaing... A Red under every bed and in almost all judge seats, classrooms and on and on, yes Conservatives know conspiracy theories, they still believe in them. Black choppers, the Russian Army waiting in Canada, Trilateral Commision, Bildburgers.
They (no longer "we") have had two terms with Ronnie (okay he had Alzheimers the whole second term) and the Chicken in Charge has had six years with Congress and the Senate and now most the Judges and things are more messed up! National debt is up, poor and middle class getting screwed, richer getting much richer and Congress spending money worse than a drunken sailor. Two wars that have caused more problems than they will ever solve and notice the two first "Dizzballs" are no where near the military. F.D.R.'s four sons all served, one was wounded,three served in combat and one was on the way to the war zone when the war ended. This mess is just like Korea and Vietnam in one important respect...it ahowa it really isn't an important war if the people at the top of the heap are NOT sending their kids.
Meanwhile Neo-Cons tease the Christian Right whackos, not going to pay up on Abortion and their other stuff cause then the whackos will go back to church and drop politics, going to keep stealing us blind and selling their honor to the highest bidder while wrapping themselves in the flag and setting us up to join the Third World. But there is hope, if Diebold does not steal this election I feel there will be such a foul stench from this administration that in three years it will be as hard to find someone that voted for Bushleague as it was to find someone that was a Nazi Party Member in Germany in '47.
Hey Vote Republican...the party of cowards, drunks, thieves, child molesters and their protectors, un-faithful spouses, draft dodgers, junkies, fraudulent voters, vote sellers, and lying pond scum.
Who was it that said that Patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel?
Regards,
Michael Hudson
Colton, OR
Yeah, Colin Powell is a great guy, tried to derail the My Lai Massacre investigation, felt that guys that used their connections to skip out on Vietnam were scum.... then goes to work for two of them, lies to the U.N. to sell a war that was pre-planned and still messed up, close run thing going in, and NO planning on the afterwards, they boasted about the NO post invasion planning. Totally messed up afterwards. We must not teach history in schools since we don't seem to learn from past mistakes or think how past history effects present day actions.
Yeah, Powell is indeed 100% Republican. Cheats, lies and has no moral compass but claims one! No, I am not for Mrs. Clinton. But Powell isn't any sort of an answer to any real question. Unless you are wondering about a man that sold his reputation for garbage...but giving his actions about My Lai he should not have had the reputation he had a few years ago. After all as VMR said...you don't change, once scum...ALWAYS SCUM!
Try sprinkling the Prozaq over your oatmeal in the morning....and maybe The Voices will leave you alone.
VRW