Mark Morford Today: WOW!!! Just....Just...Well, Just WOW!!!

[Beetwasher]

One of his best, read the whole thing, but here's the end:

Downing Street Is For Liars
Why isn't the media screaming about the latest proofs of Bush's war scams? Don't you know?

--snip--

Let's just say it outright: Of course Bush deserves to be impeached. But of course Bush will not be impeached, because impeachment requires a massive federal investigation and an act of Congress and the support of countless senators and representatives, and right now the GOP controls Congress with a little iron penis, and therefore any sort of uprising or scandal or suggestion of punishment gets immediately slammed down or scoffed away or buried under an avalanche of shrugs and yawns and neoconservative smugness. Isn't that right, Mr. Gannon? Mr. DeLay? Abu Ghraib? Gitmo? Saddam? Et al.

BushCo survived the illegal sanctioning of inhumane torture. They survived a gay male prostitute acting as a journalist. They survived Enron and Diebold and the rigging of the first election and they will survive Downing Street simply because all the people who should be on the attack about these atrocities all work for the guys who committed them.

So then, the question is not merely when will the stack of lies, of abuses become so high, so unstable, so inexcusable that the entire nation finally takes notice and the whole house of cards comes crashing to the ground in a big nasty soul-jarring spirit-cleansing patriotism-redefining whoomp and smothers the whole lot of them, but rather, can it be soon enough?

And to that question, we all know the answer.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/06/22/notes062205.DTL&nl=fix

[Fleshdancer]

1. wow!

More good stuff from the article:

Look at it this way: The majority of the nation knows Bush lied like a dog to drive us into an unwinnable (but, for his cronies, incredibly profitable) war. The rest either refuse to believe it, or they claim, with equal parts ignorance and blind jingoism, that the ends (ousting a pip-squeak dictator who was no real threat to anyone and who had been successfully contained for 20 years) justify the means ($200 billion, 1,700 dead Americans, over 10,000 wounded and disabled U.S. soldiers, countless tens of thousands of dead innocent Iraqis, staggering economic debt, the open disrespect -- if not outright contempt -- of the entire international community).

Here is the American cynic's view: It is almost too late to care about the lies. It is almost pointless to scream and rant and point fingers of blame. We all know who is to blame, and it ain't Saddam, and it ain't Osama, and it ain't "terror," and it ain't our "freedoms." Bush has driven us so deep into the Iraq hellhole it serves almost no purpose to whine about the obvious deceptions and blatant whorelike pre-9/11 machinations that got us here.

[AllyCat]

5. Well, I don't know about 20 years of containment

At least since 1991...but the rest of the article is great!!

[kliljedahl]

13. That line caught my attention too

Be that as it may Mark Morford, as usual, was brilliant & hit this one out of the park.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Al-CIAda]

44. obvious deceptions and blatant whorelike pre-9/11 machinations that got us

"obvious deceptions and blatant whorelike pre-9/11 machinations that got us here. "

Would that be the PNAC you are referring to?


Treason against the US and its people has almost certainly been committed.

[realFedUp]

2. He's the headliner on buzzflash.com today

yyeeeeaahhhhhh!

[Mandate My Ass]

3. I love that man

Mark Morford for president! :patriot:

Thanks for posting.

[seabeyond]

4. bushco.......i like that he uses that term

yes his conclusion is excellent. i like

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Great article, but I disagree that this is just OLD NEWS....IT'S THE PROOF

we needed. It gives the Deomcrats the ammo to get out of voting for the IWR.

from the article:
But oh, you might cry (and this column might regularly wail), shouldn't Bush be held accountable? Shouldn't he be made to answer for these lies, these obvious abuses of power?

Answer: You're goddamn right he should. He should also be strapped to an incredibly uncomfortable chair and made to look at the smoking bones of ten thousand dead Iraqi children. But that's just me.

ME TOO, MARK!

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. ME TOO! n/t

[Clark2008]

30. Problem is that Bush probably would enjoy looking at

the smoking bones of 10,000 dead Iraqi children.

He might have a problem with the uncomfortable chair, however. :grr:

[FizzFuzz]

50. you're right about that. He'd also like a nice little appetizer to enjoy

before watching the main course...
like frogsNfirecrackers, to whet the palate.

please please let his show be over soon, and goddammit I want to see him recieve his karmic retribution.

[myrna minx]

7. Whoa-I'm nominating this. Wow. n/t

[MountainLaurel]

8. Strong points as usual

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[understandinglife]

9. It's the LAW, Stupid. --- File charges, America, NOW.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm


WE THE PEOPLE .... WILL NEVER FORGET

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - WE THE PEOPLE .... MUST FILE CHARGES, INDICT AND PROSECUTE BUSH AND ALL THE OTHER NEOCONSTER WAR CRIMINALS. IT'S THE LAW, STUPID

[NewJeffCT]

10. Nominated

Good article

[Poiuyt]

11. Wow is right!

[Jack The Tab]

12. Am I the only Liberal that can't stand his writing style?

Although I know he's on our side and god bless him, I just can't read his writing. It's usually just one long run-on sentence, too full of redundant descriptive adjectives and too much sexual innuendo.

[Don Claybrook]

15. Probably

I lvoe his writing style, personally.

[Beetwasher]

17. Different Strokes

I enjoy his style actually...

[donco6]

19. It's unusual - but I like it.

I call it "think-style". He's putting into words a continuous stream of conciousness - which, when you think about it, is sorta like a long run-on sentence.

A style I have trouble with is the one-sentence choppy paragraph:

"I saw my old friend today."

"He said, "Hi".

"I said Hi back."

"Then we talked about blah blah"

That style makes me crazy.

[shockra]

25. Have you read his self-description?

Mark Morford is a columnist for sfgate.com. He is also a yoga teacher and fiction writer and an outstanding parallel parker and fervent wine devotee and former smoker and former LA rock-god wannabe and careful insinuator and occasional unfair mudslinger and frequent skeptic and sporadic true believer and paradoxical contrarian and tattooed love-monkey and vehement non-conservative and casual coffee drinker and ardent dog lover and medium sleeper and comparison shopper and funky subtle prurient neo-pagan gleaner of screaming delicious naked nuances.

http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/archive/#about

[ebayfool]

48. I like it! n/t

[Lugnut]

27. You might be

I like the way he writes. He never pussyfoots around an issue either.

[Daphne08]

38. It's called "Stream of Consciousness" RAGE

[TaleWgnDg]

53. Uuummm, no. It's poor English thus poor writing. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Good article, but as I read it, my heart dropped again. The task

of bringing down the 'whole house of cards' seems so impossible. I've had that 'sinking feeling' since 2001, and can't shake it.

[peekaloo]

16. I feel the same way. Halliburton has fortified this particular "house"

to withstand the weight of their own bullshit.

[Tesla]

20. Thy won't ever act as if they are wrong

they won't ever admit to defeat, they will just keep on killing and ravaging the country until there are no more Iraqis left.
Rename the country "The Green Zone"

[grace0418]

39. Well-written but the last thing we need is more naysayers.

Defeatism isn't going to solve anything. We have to keep shouting until we're fucking heard. We can't say, "OH WELL, the GOP controls Congress so there's nothing we can do". Fuck that.

Imagine if a few certain individuals had been that easily defeated in the 1700s. We'd all still have Queen Elizabeth on our money. Of course, given the alternative we currently have...

[G_j]

18. Morford

rocks again!

nominated

:yourock:

[FrannyD]

22. Always readable

His style and of course his point of view are appreciated.

one of my favorites by him:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/06/03/notes060305.DTL

[cilla4progress]

54. Agreed!

Yes, that was really something!

[Hamlette]

23. kick n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. Yep, the only coherent thought I have right now is "Wow!"

[LynnTheDem]

26. ....now I need a cigarette...

:smoke:

[lyonn]

42. Why'd you mention those d-mn things

Now I gotta lite up.

The guy is good.

[LynnTheDem]

49. Heh.

:D

[fooj]

28. Kinda reminds me of the bully in the neighborhood...

INTIMIDATES AND FRIGHTENS EVERYONE...until someone "strips" him from his title. You know "The emperor has NO clothes." Expose the truth and expose the lies. We just need to keep peeling the layers off until we get to the "exposed nerve" which I fondly refer to as TRUTH!!! Truth is our most powerful weapon!


NGU!

peace.

[B Calm]

29. No one writes as cool as Mark Morford!

[FrannyD]

31. Molly Ivins

Molly also has need read about DSM

http://www.alternet.org/story/22282/

Molly/Morford 2208

[unhappycamper]

32. I already e-mailed him this morning congratulating him on

a great story. I bet he would get a kick out of the reception his story got here at DU. One of you guys (non-gender specific) want to send him an email with a link to this thread?

His e-mail addr: [e-mail]

[Zinfandel]

33. Excellent, Mark Morford is ALWAYS excellent. More power per word than..

even, the always good, sometimes great, Paul Krugman.

Only Consortiumnews.com Robert Parry, is consistently in the same ballpark of excellence as Morford!

[July]

35. I'm throwing in Bob Herbert, too.

I like him even better than Krugman, and I love Krugman.

[Beetwasher]

36. I Love Herbert, But I Find His Style A Bit "Dry" Sometimes

Morford is "juicier".

Krugaman rocks because he's quite frankly a genius and puts complicated ideas/issues into easily digestible form.

[lyonn]

43. Oh Yeah, Robert Parry, great read n/t

[Burried News]

34. The democratic reconquista started on the day Durbin apologized

[HR_Pufnstuf]

37. Fall of Rome

http://killeenroos.com/1/Romefall.htm

[WillyT]

40. Excellent !!! - Nominated !!!

Thanks for posting that!

:bounce::nuke::bounce:

[Burried News]

41. Over there. Over there. We ain't coming home till its over over there.

Great picture. Different war same victim.

[earth mom]

45. Whoa-he nailed it! eom

[donheld]

46. Our country better wake up

It's almost too late to recover from this disaster.

[bpilgrim]

47. the DLC all think we should CONTINUE occupying Iraq ILLEGALLY ie Biden

and all the rest of'm :puke:

how can we rid our party of these freaks :shrug:

peace

[Poiuyt]

51. Kick for the night crowd

Is the SFgate a major newspaper?

[nicknameless]

52. I very much disagree with his conclusion.

<snip>

It's true. There is, unfortunately, nothing here that not already been trumpeted to death by the Left, and therefore to try to trumpet it all again as some sort of irrefutable revelation that should change the face and temperament of the nation is sort of like beating a dead horse we all knew was already dead but that is only now taking on a new dimension of stink.

<snip>

WTF?!!!

On one hand, he says that the Memos are new, but on the other hand, he says that Lefties have been screaming that the war was based on lies for a long time.

So what?!!! The fact is, Progressives have long known that the war was based on lies, BUT the Downing Street Minutes ARE irrefutable evidence that we were correct. Before, we were told that we were wrong, we were codling terrorists, we must hate Murika.

Sorry, this IS news, Morford!!!

[NightOwwl]

55. "the GOP controls Congress with a little iron penis"

Classic. :headbang: